Introduction to Growing Within: The Psychology of Inner Development

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Charles Darwin in his book, The
Origin of Species summarizes his

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observations about the evolution
of forms and how this Evolution

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came about.
He explains that there is a

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pressure in nature, which
eventually leads to the survival

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of the fittest who then go on to
reproduce and thereby pass on

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whatever qualities.
Help them survive, the

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challenges of life.
While there is much to applaud

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in this book, it is not without
its detractors, and it's

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obvious, internal weaknesses,
one, glaring.

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Weakness is the lack of what our
scene is.

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Transitional links in the fossil
record that show the steps of

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this evolution of forms.
Another weakness is the

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inability to address any purpose
or significance to this vast.

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Machinery of nature SRI
aurobindo addresses, both For

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these apparent issues.
First, he describes not as

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smooth and slow, evolution of
forms, but what he calls an

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evolutionary psaltis at a
certain stage, when the

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underlying causative factors are
prepared.

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Second he identifies the
causative factors as

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Consciousness and the evolution
of Consciousness in ever more

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powerful and complex,
formations.

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It is this evolution of
Consciousness, which creates the

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needed development of forms to
embody that consciousness.

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By reframing, the question of
evolution away from a purely

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mechanical activity of physical
nature to one of the development

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of Consciousness.
He also puts before us the

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proposition, that man is not the
final stage of evolution, but in

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fact, is a transitional, being
further evolutionary

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developments are anticipated.
And in fact, signs can be seen

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in the human aspiration.
That such developments are in

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fact taking place within the
scope of human existence.

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This provides a purpose and a
focus for each individual beyond

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the mere acts required for
existence and survival, and of

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more significance than simple
enjoyment were entertainment.

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Those who are awake to a deeper
aspect of life are called

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therefore to what SRI aurobindo
terms in adventure of

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consciousness.
SRI aurobindo writes in the

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Life, Divine quote, to become
ourselves is the one thing to be

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done.
But the true ourselves is that

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which is within us.
And to exceed our outer self of

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body.
Life in mind is the condition

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for this highest being, which is
our true and divine being to

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become self revealed and active.
It is only by growing within and

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living within that we can find
it.

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And quote, the mother observes
quote, everything turns around

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the Consciousness, the fact of
being or not being conscious and

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it is only in the Supreme
Consciousness that you can

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attain the perfect expression of
yourself for the true

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Consciousness is the Divine
consciousness If you cut

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yourself off from the Divine
Consciousness, you become

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absolutely unconscious.
That is exactly what has

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happened.
And so everything, there is the

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world as it is your
Consciousness, as it is things

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in the state, they are in.
Are the result of this

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separation of the Consciousness
and its immediate obscuration

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The minute, the individual
Consciousness is separated from

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the Divine Consciousness.
It enters what we call the in

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Contents and it is this
incontinence that is the cause

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of all miseries.
And the conclusion of this.

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That the true transformation is
the transformation of

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Consciousness.
All the rest will follow

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automatically in the quote SRI,
aurobindo notes further quote,

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it is by a constant inner growth
that one can find a constant

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newness and unfailing interest
in life.

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There is no other satisfying way
and quote, reference, SRI

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aurobindo in the mother growing
Within The psychology of inner

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development.
The psychology of inner

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development.