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June 3, 2025

How to Deal With the Feeling of Unfitness for Spiritual Progress When…

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pg..96 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/06/01/how-to-deal-with...

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June 2, 2025

Depression and Spiritual Progress

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pp..94-95This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/31/depression-and...

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June 1, 2025

Keep Hold On Your Aspiration Through All Difficulties and Circumstanc…

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pg..94This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/30/keep-hold-on-your...

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May 31, 2025

The Spiritual Seeker and the Challenges of Spiritual Growth and Devel…

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pp.93-94This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/29/the-spiritual-s...

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May 30, 2025

The Individual Sadhak and His Relation to the Movement of Universal F…

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pp.92-93 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/28/the-individual...

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May 28, 2025

How to Deal With Hostile Forces

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pp.91-92This episode is also available as a blog post at How To Deal With Hostile Forces | Sri Aurobindo Studies Video presen...

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May 28, 2025

Overcoming the Obstruction of Universal Adverse Forces

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pp.90-91 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/26/overcoming-the...

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May 27, 2025

Coming Face to Face With, and Overcoming, the Failures, Limitations a…

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pp.89-90This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/25/coming-face-to-...

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May 26, 2025

The Complex Nature of Our Being Impacts Our Ability to Change and Tra…

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pp.88-89This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/24/the-complex-nat...

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May 25, 2025

Transitioning From Mental Consciousness to Spiritual Consciousness Wh…

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pp.87-88 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/23/transitioning-...

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May 24, 2025

Resisting and Overcoming the Negative Universal Forces That Try to Co…

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pp.86-87 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/22/resisting-and-...

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May 23, 2025

The Difference Between Suppression and Removal of a Vital Reaction, P…

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pp.85-86This episode is also available as a blog post at The Difference Between Suppression and Removal of a Vital Reaction, ...

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May 22, 2025

The Difference Between Suppression and Removal of a Vital Reaction, P…

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pp.83-85This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/20/the-difference-...

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May 21, 2025

The Need to Employ the Searchlight on Every Aspect of One's Being

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pp.81-83 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/19/the-need-to-em...

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May 20, 2025

Developing a Strong Power of Knowledge and Will to Manage and Control…

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pp.80-81 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/18/developing-a-s...

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May 19, 2025

Restraining the Response to the Impulses Attractive to the Vital Natu…

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pp.78-80This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/restraining-the...

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May 18, 2025

The Excuses We Make to Justify Indulgence

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pg.78This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/16/the-excuses-we-mak...

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May 17, 2025

Dealing With the Reactive Impulses of the Vital Nature of the Externa…

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pg. 77This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/15/dealing-with-the-...

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May 16, 2025

Difficulties Provide the Possibility of Progress

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pp. 76-77This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/14/difficulties-p...

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May 15, 2025

The Spiritual Aspirant Marches to the Beat of a Different Drummer Tha…

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pg. 76 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/13/the-spiritual-as...

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May 14, 2025

Difficulties Are Blessings If We Know How to Face Them

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pp. 75-76This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/12/difficulties-a...

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May 13, 2025

Receiving Spiritual Shocks and Trials With Humility Through a Shift o…

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pg. 75This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/11/receiving-spiritu...

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May 12, 2025

Facing Difficulties and Transforming Them at Their Source Is the Path…

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pp. 74-75This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/10/facing-difficu...

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May 11, 2025

Understanding and Persevering Through the Darkness and the Delays in …

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pp. 73-74This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/09/understanding-...

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