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Oct. 25, 2022

Following the Unique Path of One’s Deepest Aspiration to Spiritual Realisation

Following the Unique Path of One’s Deepest Aspiration to Spiritual Realisation
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2022/10/20/following-the-unique-path-of-ones-deepest-aspiration-to-spiritual-realisation/
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It is a somewhat difficult
concept.

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For most people to accept that.
Each individual has his own

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spiritual path and realization
before him, and that it is.

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Therefore neither appropriate.
Nor fruitful to spend time

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trying to either criticize or
convert.

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Others to one's own path review
or to attempt to adopt or copy

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the methods or focus of another
individual.

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Each individual comes into the
world with a set of issues and

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difficulties that represent, the
challenges that individual is to

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face in this lifetime.
The idea of uniqueness is at the

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same time, combined with the
complexity of what we call

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synchronicity, which brings
together each of the Unique

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Individuals, and circumstances
into a web of interaction.

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Which help us to understand our
own role and our relation to the

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wider collectivities by
reflecting back to us exactly

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what it is.
Our energy and Direction call

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for a specific set of practices
or a specific mindset.

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May be helpful to one individual
while at the same time, being

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counterproductive to another
There may be certain elements

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that correspond between
individuals with similar

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affinity and thus we can learn
from others while maintaining

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our clear Insight internally to
the uniqueness of our own path.

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What we can learn from
observing, others may be

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positive steps, we can
incorporate into our own

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Spiritual Development or may
even represent examples that

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should not be followed
understanding, which things to

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adopt and which things to avoid
requires an inner awareness and

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Awakening to our souls
aspiration and a recognition of

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this uniqueness and
responsibility to carry out the

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deepest.
Radiation within us.

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It is much easier in a certain
sense to Simply avoid this type

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of deep inner review and follow
along with others who seem to

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have a way or path that we find
to be either successful or which

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seems to engender happiness.
Yet in the end, this may prove

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to be an illusion and a setback.
The deeper questions of how to

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find and stick to one's own path
and Direction and how to avoid

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the potential for misdirection
that results from taking a

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unique approach are of
tremendous relevance as we

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Aspire and grow spiritually.
The mother observes quote, you

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stopped short at the Perfection
that others should realize and

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you are seldom conscious of the
goal.

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You should be pursuing yourself.
If you are conscious of it,

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well, then begin with the work,
which is given to you.

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That is to say, realize what you
have to do, and do not concern

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yourself with what others do
because after all it is not your

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business.
And the best way to the true

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attitude is simply to say all
those around me all the

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circumstances of my life.
All the people near me are a

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mirror held up to me by the
Divine.

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Consciousness to show me the
progress, I must make everything

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that shocks, me, and others
means a work, I have to do in

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myself.
And perhaps if one carried True

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Perfection in oneself one would
discover it more often in

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others. and quote, reference SRI
aurobindo in the mother living

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within the yoga approach to
psychological health and growth

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exercises for growth and Mastery
using Life as a mirror Pages,

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