Obtaining a Clear Perception and Understanding of Life Purpose and Significance

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If we examine closely our mental
state, when we undertake

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activities, with which we are
familiar, experienced and

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educated, we see that our minds
are sharp.

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Our perceptions are detailed.
And our understanding is

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precise, we find it easiest to
achieve this status with

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external things, although some
with the developed intellect can

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apply this to abstract matter,
such as mathematical.

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Malai or complex games such as
chess.

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Contrast this, with the way we
generally experience our sense

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of our mission in life are past
development and the trend of

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that development into the
future.

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For most of us, we get vague
intimations some who practice

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past life regression or various
forms of hypnosis in an attempt

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to unlock the hidden areas of
our subconscious being except

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that they are getting clear
insights into their past lives.

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In some cases, of course, there
is a very clear perception.

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But in others we find again some
vague intimations and possibly

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the working of unconscious
suggestion or desire to create

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these past lives in the image of
what.

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We want them to be, what is
missing is the kind of sharp

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clear, distinct perception that
we obtain.

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When we look at specific fields
of endeavor in our surface lives

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How then can we actually
understand the significance and

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purpose of Our Lives?
If all we generally obtain are

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these amorphous, feelings or
intimations?

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It is possible to enter into a
status of Consciousness where

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when actually sees clearly why
one has been born into this life

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and into these circumstances and
one understands what one has to

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do?
This comes about when the soul

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the psychic being comes forward
and takes over active guidance

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of the life from in front, not
just as intimations from behind.

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Sometimes an event occurs which
dramatically provides an opening

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to the deeper being dannion,
Brinkley reported that he was

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struck by lightning, was
clinically dead for 28 minutes

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and when he returned to life, he
was aware of the purpose of his

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life and his mission, which he
described in his

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autobiographical work Saved By
the Light near-death.

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Experiences seem to frequently
bring an opening for people to

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understand their Lives in a
deeper and more precise Manner

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and in some cases, they
reorient.

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The entire direction that the
Des life had taken heretofore

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Intense spiritual experiences
may have a similar result.

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The transformative impact of
such an experience is

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Illustrated in the story in the
Bible about Saul on the road to

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Damascus.
And his subsequent conversion to

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become Paul, the Apostle of
Jesus He recognized his mission

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in life, through that
experience, such events

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underlie, many of the stories of
Awakening to the deeper sense of

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life, that permeate Human
Experience Through the Ages.

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The mother writes quote, there
is such a great difference

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between feeling vaguely, having
a hesitant impression of

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something of a force, a
movement, an impulse and

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attraction of something, which
drives you in life.

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It is still so vague so
uncertain, it is hazy.

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There is such a difference
between this and having a Clear

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Vision and exact perception, a
total understanding of the

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meaning of one's life.
And only then does one begin to

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see things as they are not
before.

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Only then can one follow the
thread of one's Destiny.

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And clearly see the goal in the
way to reach it.

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But that happens only through
successive.

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Inner Awakenings like doors
opening suddenly on New

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Horizons, truly a new birth,
into a truer deeper more lasting

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Consciousness, until then you
live in a cloud gropingly, under

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the weight of a destiny which
had times crushes.

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You gives you the feeling of
having been made in a certain

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way and being unable to do
anything about it.

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You are under the burden of an
existence, which weighs you down

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makes you crawl on the ground
instead of rising above and

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seeing all the threads, The
Guiding threads, the threads,

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which bind different things into
a single movement of

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progression.
Towards a realization that grows

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clear When my spring up out of
this half Consciousness, which

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is usually considered quite
natural, this is your normal way

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of being and you did not even
draw back from it.

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Sufficiently to be able to see
and wonder at this in certitude,

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this lack of precision.
While on the contrary to know

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that one is seeking and to seek
consciously deliberately

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steadfastly and methodically
this indeed is the exceptional

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almost abnormal condition and
yet only in this way.

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Does one begin to truly live and
quote reference SRI aurobindo in

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the mother growing within the
psychology of inner development

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chapter 1 emergence from
Consciousness Pages, 12 to 13.