How Do We Determine Our Destined Role in the World? -- Part 4

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It is only in still waters that
we can see our reflection.

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Swami Vivekananda in his
lectures on Raja Yoga describes

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the mind stuff, Chitta and how
impressions, desires,

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observations and thoughts all
disturb the stillness of the

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mind stuff.
He also describes methods of

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bringing it to a status of
stillness in which the

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individual can step away from
the call of the vital desire

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nature or the mental processes
and thus be receptive to higher

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forces and levels of interfacing
with the universal reality.

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Our inability to see and
understand our destined role in

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the manifestation and in our
lives is very much due to the

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turbulence caused by desire,
ambition and other vital and

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mental perturbations.
As we learn how to shift

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ourselves to a different
standpoint, separate from the

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ego personality, it becomes much
easier to understand our role

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and focus as our lives develop
before us.

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This involves giving up
excessive self importance, the

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basis of vanity, as well as
excessive artificial humility,

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which can actually be another
form of vanity or else a type of

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face saving device in our
dealings with the world around

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us.
A simple and receptive positive

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expression of our being with the
sincerity and based on the

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deeper aspiration can provide us
with the best guidance.

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The mother writes quote, but we
have a sure pointer to guide us.

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Above all, whatever we undertake
should not be done for the

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purpose of self assertion.
If we are attached to fame and

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glory to the esteem of our
peers, we are soon led to make

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concessions to them.
And if we seek any opportunity

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to admire ourselves, it becomes
easy to make ourselves out to be

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what we are not.
And nothing more obscures the

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ideal within us.
We should never tell ourselves

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openly or indirectly.
I want to be great.

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What vocation can I find for
myself in order to become great?

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On the contrary, we should tell
ourselves.

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There must certainly be
something I can do better than

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anyone else, since each one of
us is a special mode of

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manifestation of the Divine
Power, which in its essence is 1

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in all, however humble and
modest it may be.

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This is precisely the thing to
which I should devote myself,

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and in order to find it, I shall
observe and analyze my tastes,

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tendencies and preferences, and
I shall do it without pride or

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excessive humility, Whatever
others may think.

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I shall do it just as I breathe,
just as the flower smells sweet,

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quite simply, quite naturally,
because I cannot do otherwise.

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As soon as we have abolished
within us, even for a moment,

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all egoistic desires, all
personal and selfish aims, we

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can surrender to this inner
spontaneity, this deep

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inspiration which will enable us
to commune with the living and

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progressive forces of the
universe.

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The conception of our work will
inevitably grow more perfect as

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we grow more perfect ourselves,
and to realize this growing

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perfection, no effort to exceed
ourselves should be neglected,

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but the work we perform must
become always more and more

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joyful and spontaneous, like
water welling from a pure

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spring.
End Quote.

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Reference.
Srioro Bindu and the Mother.

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Looking from within.
Chapter 3, Action and Work,

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pages 58 to 61.