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May 30, 2023

Growing Within: the Psychology of Inner Development: Summary and Conclusions

Growing Within: the Psychology of Inner Development: Summary and Conclusions
Growing Within: the Psychology of Inner Development: Summary and Conclusions
Sri Aurobindo Studies
Growing Within: the Psychology of Inner Development: Summary and Conclusions

This episode also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/05/28/growing-within-the-psychology-of-inner-development-summary-and-conclusions/


Reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Growing Within: The Psychology of Inner Development, Summary and Conclusions

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Humanity is facing an
existential crisis.

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Scientists report the changes
brought about by human

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civilization, have created the
conditions that are causing what

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is now being called the sixth
planetary, die-off of species,

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the land Water, and Air are all
being polluted.

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Toxic chemicals are poisoning.
The planet climate change is

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wreaking havoc with the entire
planetary environment.

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The ocean is seeing its food
chain.

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Decimated, the central species,
required for food, production

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such as honey, bees are dying
off in record numbers,

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threatening the world's food
supply.

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And the issues continue to
compound with no end in sight,

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the problems we see are based on
the application of the Mind in

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an attempt to satisfy the
desire, soul of the vital ego.

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Mental Solutions tend to be
linear Limited in scope and

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generally failed to take into
account the complexity

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interactions of a complete
organic system such as the

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interdependent relationship of
all beings in existence.

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The result is the kind of
imbalance that is driving this

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crisis to the potential for
enormous Devastation of the

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planet and Humanity.
When we seek for a solution to

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this crisis, we find that as
long as we remain locked into

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the mines framework and method
of reaching its conclusions,

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there seems to be no solution
some factor or factors simply

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Elm the best plans and given the
nature of the Mind disputes

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arise between those who want to
approach the situation in one

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way.
And those who see a different

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line of development.
We eventually reach a state of

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gridlock where nothing can be
done.

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While the pressures continue to
mount, we are then forced under

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this intense pressure to find a
way to adapt or die.

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In such a circumstance.
What is the nature of

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adaptation?
SRI aurobindo is response?

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Is that the entire development
of life on Earth shows the theme

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of an evolution of Interesting.
This man is not this final stage

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of that Evolution but what he
calls the transitional being

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Nature's process is to set forth
some kind of intense pressure

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such as an evolutionary crisis
to create the intensity required

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for the manifestation of the
next term of consciousness.

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This process is what we are
experiencing today.

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The next term of Consciousness
is what SRI aurobindo calls the

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super mental Consciousness to
signify that it is a Power Of

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Consciousness that exceeds the
mental Level under the intensity

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of the pressure individuals are
moved to shift their focus

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toward the conscious development
and active participation in the

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Canary process SRI aurobindo
indicates that man, the mental

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being has the capacity to
consciously.

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Take part in and thereby
dramatically speed up the long

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slow, and arduous developmental
process of nature.

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SRI aurobindo in the mother as
Pathfinders were able to

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determine how a shift from the
ordinary human mentality under

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the control of the external ego
personality and driven.

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By the Divine desire soul of the
vital nature to a spiritual

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consciousness could take place
This involved a process of

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growth where by the individual
gains contact with the psychic

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being the sole and shifts the
direction of his life.

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Toward the contact with and
development, of a constant

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relation of the individual soul,
with the Divine reality, which

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is the actual driver of the
universal manifestation.

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The being must first be prepared
and the instruments developed

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the aspiration for the change
awakened and cherished.

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And then the being begins to
turn its attention to the

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Fulfillment of the spiritual
Quest.

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This inner process is what
growing within the psychology of

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inner development has
systematically developed an

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outlined.
Reference SRI aurobindo and the

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mother growing within the
psychology of inner development,

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summary and conclusions.
Reference SRI aurobindo and the

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mother growing within the
psychology of inner development,

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summary and conclusions.