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Nov. 16, 2022

Following the Right Path to Divine Realisation

Following the Right Path to Divine Realisation
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2022/11/14/following-the-right-path-to-divine-realisation/
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we're very easily fall into the
mistaken idea that the path we

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follow, is the best way to
approach the Divine or achieve

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spiritual realization and that
other paths are either less

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effective or do not provide the
complete Liberation from the ego

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personality, We also tend to
accept the idea that whichever

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form our lead capabilities, take
represents the best way to

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approach the Divine, thus
someone who follows The Path of

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Knowledge, May believe that
devotion or selfless work are

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lesser paths while someone who
opens his heart joyfully in

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adoration or self-surrender.
May feel like the individual

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following the path of knowledge
is simply trying to escape life.

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Without the fruits of true
realization, the Divine singer

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Nara, one day passed, a yogi who
was engaged in deep

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concentration and to Prussia the
yogi, took the opportunity to

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ask Nara when he would achieve
Liberation in Arad replied that

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it would be for more lifetimes
at which the yogi lamented, how

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long it would take and how much
effort he had to make to get

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there.
NORAD continued on his journey

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and came across an individual
singing and praising the name of

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God while dancing ecstatically.
This individual to ask nirad,

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whose reply, was that as many
leaves as there are on this tree

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represents the number of
lifetime's before you will be

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liberated.
The Seeker wept with joy and

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exclaimed how joyful he was that
the Divine would bestow his

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grace upon him in such a Short
span of time, he was liberated

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immediately.
Each path of Spiritual

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Development relies on one or
another of the powers of human

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existence and each path can lead
the secret to fulfillment.

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If he follows it conscientiously
and with the necessary patience

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and persistence each path has
its difficulties and obstacles

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and each one has its own
advantages.

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Thus, an individual need not
shop around for a path, he

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assumes his best, but follow the
path that carries through with

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the unique development of his
own life and Direction.

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Those with a devotional nature,
should naturally grow with that

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capacity.
Those were called to Dedicated

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work, should seek to carry out
the tasks before him.

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Thus each one eventually reaches
the divine.

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It is commonly said that the
paths are many, the truths are

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one showing the unity of the
goal despite different methods

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of approach yet.
It is also true that depending

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on the character and type of the
focus, the Seeker may experience

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the unifying truth through
different aspects.

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Each one goes where his Focus
attention and concentration

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takes him Dr. Dalal notes,
quote, the form in which one

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experiences and realizes the
truth, depends on the nature of

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the path.
One follows, thus the paths of

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the Ed White and and the
Buddhist lead to the experience

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of Nirvana and the realization
of the truth.

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As impersonal principle and
impersonal absolute existence at

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whiter or an impersonal.
Absolute non-existence Buddhism

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On the other hand, the path
based on self, consecration,

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through works and action such as
the path of the Gita and the

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path of devotion and prayer,
such as that of the Christian

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Mystics lead to the experience
of the truth.

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As a personal being ishwara, the
Lord The an integral approach

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stage for your window leads to
the realization of the truth, as

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both personal and impersonal.
SRI aurobindo writes, quote, if

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we carry up our heart as well as
our reasoning mind to the

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highest, we shall find that we
can reach it through the

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absolute person, as well as
through an absolute

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impersonality. in the Universal
aspect to we meet him in various

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forms of divine personality, in
formulations of quality, which

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variously expression to us in
his nature in infinite quality,

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the ananta Guna in the Divine
person who expresses himself

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through infinite quality in
absolute impersonality, and

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absolute existence or an
absolute non-existence, which is

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yet all the time, the
unexpressed absolute of this

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Divine person, this conscious
being who manifests himself

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through us and Through the
Universe and quote, reference

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SRI, aurobindo, and the mother
growing within the psychology of

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inner development introduction
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