A Podcast Featuring Sri Aurobindo Studies
Feb. 6, 2023

Cultivating Inner Peace as the Basis of Spiritual Sadhana

Cultivating Inner Peace as the Basis of Spiritual Sadhana
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/02/04/cultivating-inner-peace-as-the-basis-of-spiritual-sadhana/
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Given the reactive nature of the
external.

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Being the mind, the vital, the
physical body.

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There is generally a lack of
peace and we are driven from one

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response to another as
circumstances events sense,

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Impressions, Etc.
Impinge upon us, Development of

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an awareness that is separated
from this external being is an

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enormous Aid to creating a
platform for cultivating.

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Peace in the nature.
The separation of the witness

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Consciousness.
From the act of nature is one

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such technique that is
recommended by SRI aurobindo the

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initial object.
In this case is to develop a

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space within oneself and an
inner awareness.

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That is able to observe the
actions and reactions that take

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place in the external being
without engagement or desire of

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any kind.
It has been likened to watching

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action on a motion picture or
television screen one.

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Sees and understands what is
taking place, but is not

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directly involved in the action.
This standpoint can develop a

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strong and unshakable peace,
which eventually can be utilized

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to extend into the external
being and bring about a calming

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and quieting influence in the
outer being SRI aurobindo

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observes quote.
It is true that through whatever

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is strongest in him, asada can
most easily open to the Divine.

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But peace is necessary for all
without peace and an increasing

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Purity.
Even if one opens one cannot

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receive perfectly.
All the comes down through the

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opening light to is necessary
for all All without light one

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cannot take full advantage of
all that comes down.

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It is in the piece behind and
that something truer in you that

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you must learn to live and feel
it to be yourself.

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You must regard.
The rest is not your real self,

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but only a flux of changing or
recurring movements on the

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surface which are sure to go as
the true self emerges.

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When the piece is deep or wide,
it is usually in the inner being

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the outer parts, do not
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Go beyond a certain measure of
quietude.

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They get deep peace only when
they are flooded with it from

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the inner being They peace and
patience Go Together by having

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patients under.
All kinds of pressure, you lay

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the foundations of peace and
quote reference SRI aurobindo,

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and the mother growing within
the psychology of inner

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development, chapter for growth
of Consciousness.

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First steps on Foundation page,
73 to 74.