Discovering One’s Role or Mission in Life

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When we are fixed in the
external personality, we take

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our cues about our role in life,
from our family, our friends,

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the social, and economic
environment.

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And with that framing our
particular interests and

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aptitudes.
As a child, we may want to

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emulate people in uniforms and
thus may want to be a pilot or a

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service technician or any of a
number of uniform professions.

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As we mature, we begin to hear
advice about what education we

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should receive and what career
path we should follow much of

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this revolves around income
potential and status in his

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novel Bleak House Charles,
Dickens, Trays one character as

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uncertain about what direction
to take.

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And he's excessively tries to go
into the medical field, followed

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by equally failed, forays into
the military and the legal

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field.
All of these were attempts to

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navigate the societal demand for
a productive and lucrative

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Direction in the external life.
Although he was unable to match

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up these demands with his own
inner self, which frankly he was

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never able to discover in his
short life, people fixate on

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their outer position and status
as a measure of who they are.

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Yet frequently, they find that
the life they are leading is

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empty, meaningless and
frustrating to any deeper

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aspirations.
They may secretly have arising

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within them.
In the book called to heal

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African shamanic, healers the
author.

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Susan Schuster Campbell relate
to tale of a shamanic healer,

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who tries to avoid the calling
that kept pressing on her from

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within and who tried to develop
a more outwardly acceptable

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career and life pattern.
She continued to have setbacks

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obstacles and illnesses.
And finally, she was told by

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someone who was counseling her
that she was.

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Avoiding her true calling as a
Healer as soon as she dropped

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her resistance to that inner
pressure, her life turned around

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and she felt fulfilled on what
turned out to be her true path.

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The mother notes quote, the
first thing to do then is to

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find out what it is that you are
meant to realize what is the

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role you have to play your
particular mission?

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And the capacity or quality, you
have to express, you have to

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discover that.
And also the thing or things

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that oppose and do not allow it
to flower or come to full

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manifestation.
In other words, you have to know

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yourself, recognize your soul or
a psychic being for that.

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You must be absolutely sincere.
And impartial you must observe

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yourself as if you were Irving
and criticizing a third person.

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You must not start with an idea
that this is your life's

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Mission.
This is your particular

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capacity.
This you are to do or that you

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are to do in this.
Lies, your talent or genius,

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Etc.
That will carry you away from

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the right track.
It is not the liking or

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disliking of your external being
your mental, or vital or

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physical choice, that determines
the true line of your growth.

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Nor should you take up the
opposite attitude and say I am

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good for nothing in this matter.
I am useless in that one.

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It is not for me, neither,
vanity and arrogance nor

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self-depreciation and false
modesty should move you.

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As I said, you must be
absolutely impartial.

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And unconcerned you should be
like a mirror that reflects the

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truth and does not judge.
If you are able to keep such an

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attitude, if you have this
Repose and quiet trust in your

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being and wait for what may be
revealed to you, then something

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like this happens.
You are as it were in a wood

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darkened noiseless.
You see in front of you, merely

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a sheet of water dark and still
hardly visible a bit of a pond

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embedded in the obscurity and
slowly upon it.

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A Moonbeam is cast and in the
cool dim light emerges the calm

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liquid surface.
That is how your secret truth of

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being.
Will appear and present itself

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to you at your first contact
with it.

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There you will see gradually,
reflected the true qualities of

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your being the traits of your
Divine personality, what you

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really are, and what you are
really meant to be.

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One who has thus known himself
and possessed himself.

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Conquering, all opposition
within himself, has by that very

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fact, extended himself.
And his Conquest making it

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easier for others to make the
same or a similar Conquest.

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These are the Pioneers or the
elite, who by a Victorious

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campaign within themselves, help
others towards their victory.

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And quote, reference SRI
aurobindo in the mother growing

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within the psychology of inner
development.

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Chapter 8, the psychic being an
inner growth Pages, 153 to 154.