Opening the Door to Our Latent Capacities

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For the most part, we live
within a framework set for us by

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our parents, community, society,
education and the individual

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choices we make as a result of
these things.

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To some extent, these things
determine where we will

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concentrate our focus, what
capacities we will practice and

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develop, and where we will
direct our lives going forward.

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Once we get onto a specific Rd.
in life, we tend to stay on that

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road, for better or worse.
While initially we may have had

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a wide number of potential
choices about direction in life,

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as evidenced by how young
children and adolescents

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fantasize about what they will
be when they grow up, eventually

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these potentialities are
narrowed down until they all

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collapse into a specific chosen
career or life direction.

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Once chosen, we tend to stay
with the direction based on,

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first and foremost, the law of
inertia.

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In other words, we've made our
decision.

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We've focused our training,
education, and line of action on

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the choice made, and it is then
the path of least resistance.

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If we contemplate going outside
the chosen path, we experience

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feelings of fear and uncertainty
and likely feelings of

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inadequacy due to lack of
experience, training, education

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or aptitude outside the narrow
focus we have developed.

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Occasionally we are motivated to
reach out beyond the

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self-imposed boundaries we have
set for our lives.

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It may be a collapse or failure
of a business, unemployment,

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difficulties in a marriage, some
experience of grief or sorrow, a

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near death experience, influence
of a friend or significant

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other, some change in the
environment, a health concern,

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or an opening through a
spiritual experience of some

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sort.
Whatever the cause may be, we

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have a chance to try new things,
take new chances, discover and

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develop new capabilities.
Of all of these powerful

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causative forces, the opening to
a spiritual direction provides

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perhaps the most impetus, as it
speaks to the force of growth

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and development secretly at work
within each individual to make

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the life they are leading, one
that can help them achieve their

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deepest aspirations and make
their lives the most meaningful

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for themselves and others.
It also has the potential to

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reorient one's entire way of
looking at life and thus

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provides the widest menu of
options for future direction we

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can look at.
An illustrative tale told by an

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elder from the West as he
reflected back on his journey

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and his lifetime.
He was attending college when he

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experienced something of an
epiphany that changed his life.

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He had a near death experience
in fact, and when he survived,

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he suddenly knew that there was
a divine intention in the world,

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something he had not reflected
on or internalized prior to that

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time.
He quickly determined that

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following his career path of
college and a job in the society

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was not going to work and thus
he left college to take up the

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study and practice of yoga.
Thereafter, he devoted his

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entire adult life to the new
direction he had identified, far

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outside any possible realm of
development he had considered

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prior to the experience.
Along the way he was tasked with

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numerous activities which he had
to understand and deal with,

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including business development
and management, publishing,

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importing, regulatory matters,
accounting, personnel training

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and management, sales and
marketing, modern technology and

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its applications to the various
project he was working on, legal

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battles, family life and a broad
field of study and reflection,

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writing and public speaking, all
without formal education,

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training or qualifications.
Each new challenge wound up

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expanding his range of action
and the development of abilities

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he had never reflected on in his
earlier dreams about college and

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career.
The central motivating factor

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was the spiritual opening he had
as a result of the near death

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experience and its redirection
of his life and focus.

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He cited a proverb that says
that the the divine can make the

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dumb to speak and the lame to
stride over the hills.

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So felt this individual as he
looked back at his life,

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integrating spirituality into
daily life, the mother notes

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quote.
Everyone has countless

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possibilities within him of
which he is unaware and which

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develop only if he does what is
to be done in the way it should

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be done.
But there are two types of

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progress, not only one.
There is the progress that

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consists in perfecting more and
more the capacities,

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possibilities, faculties and
qualities you have.

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This is what is normally
obtained by education.

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But if you go in for a little
more thorough development by

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approaching a deeper truth, you
can add to the qualities you

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already have other new ones
which seem to be asleep in your

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being.
You can multiply your

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possibilities, enlarge and
increase them.

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You can suddenly bring up
something you did not think you

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had.
I have already explained this to

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you several times.
When one discovers one's psychic

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being within at the same time,
there develop and manifest quite

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unexpectedly things one could
not do at all before and which

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one didn't think we're in one's
nature of this too.

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I've had numerous examples.
I've given you this one, but I

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am repeating it to you once more
to make myself understood.

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I used to know a young girl who
was born in a very ordinary

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environment, who had not
received much education and

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wrote rather clumsy French, who
had not developed her

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imagination and had absolutely
no literary sense.

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That seemed to be among the
possibilities she did not have.

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Well, when she had the inner
experience of contact with her

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psychic being, and as long as
the contact was living and very

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present, she wrote admirable
things.

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When she fell back from that
state into an ordinary one, she

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could not even put two sentences
together correctly.

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And I saw examples of both kinds
of her writing.

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There is a genius within every
one of us.

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We don't know it.
We must find the way to make it

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come out.
But it is there sleeping.

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It asks for nothing better than
to manifest.

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We must open the door to it.
End Quote Reference Srioro Bindu

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and the Mother Powers within
Chapter One, Latent Powers,

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pages 5:00 to 6:00.