Focusing on the Signal While Eliminating the Noise: Concentration and Purification

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Consider briefly that you have a
television set that receives all

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the available channels but you
cannot tune the set.

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So that all picture and sound
from the entire frequency range

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come in at the same time and mix
up with each other, along with

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the static that occurs between
various stations signals.

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Obviously such a system is
chaotic and does not function

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properly.
In order to receive understand

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and utilize whichever Channel
you want to watch, you need to

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be able to tune to that specific
frequency and exclude all the

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others, whether you are looking
for Spiritual instruction,

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religious channels, educational
teachings, dramas comedies, or

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cooking channels or those
catering to other desires.

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The ability to focus and tune
and maintain.

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The setting is essential.
Our conscious awareness

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functions in a similar manner.
We have the ability of receiving

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vibrations across a wide range
of frequencies, but we tend to

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have a stream of confusing and
mixed up incoming perceptions

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and the responses they provoked
unless we have the ability to

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concentrate and focus on a
particular signal and eliminate

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the static and the conflicting
signals.

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He's at the same time.
We need to focus on the desired

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signal and eliminate the noise
from our interaction, thus

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concentration, and purification,
go hand-in-hand for us to

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successfully interact with the
manifestation of which we are a

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part.
The Seekers role is to

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systematically work, tuned
toward the desired, frequency

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that supports the spiritual
aspiration and growth, and then

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to systematically reduce and
eventually eliminate the

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interference from competing
signals that distract or take us

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away from the focus SRI
aurobindo notes quote along with

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Purity and as a help to bring it
about concentration.

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Purity and concentration are
indeed, two aspects, feminine,

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and masculine passive, and
active of the same status of

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being Purity is the condition in
which concentration becomes

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entire rightly effective
omnipotent by concentration

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Purity.
Does its work and without it

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would only lead to a state of
peaceful.

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Quiet, Essence and eternal
repose The fault of our nature

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is first and inert subjection to
the impact of things as they

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communicate on the Mind
pell-mell without order or

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control.
And then a haphazard imperfect

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concentration, managed fitfully,
it regularly with a more or less

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chance emphasis on this or on
that object.

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According as they happen to
interest, not the higher Soul

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where the judging and Discerning
intellect.

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But the Restless Leaping fickle
easily tired, easily distracted,

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lower mind, which is the chief
enemy of our progress.

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In such a condition Purity, the
right working of the functions,

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the clear unstained and luminous
order of the being is an

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impossibility.
The various workings given over

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to the chances of the
environment and external,

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influences must necessarily run
into each other and clogged

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divert distract pervert.
Equally without Purity, the

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complete Equal flexible
concentration of the being in

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right thought, right, will,
right?

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Feeling or secure, status of
spiritual experiences, not

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possible.
Therefore, the two must proceed

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together, each helping the
victory of the other until we

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arrive at that Eternal column,
from which may proceed.

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Some partial image in the human
being of the Eternal omnipotent

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and omniscient.
Shiva tea and quote reference

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SRI aurobindo, and the mother
growing within the psychology of

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inner development, chapter for
growth of Consciousness.

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