A Podcast Featuring Sri Aurobindo Studies
Feb. 7, 2023

Purification of the Nature: Negative and Positive Approaches

Purification of the Nature: Negative and Positive Approaches
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/02/05/purification-of-the-nature-negative-and-positive-approaches/
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Ordinarily, when we reflect on
addressing impurities in the

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nature, whether in the mind, the
emotions, the vital nature, or

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the physical body, we tend to
fixate upon the weakness or

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limitation, we have identified
and work to directly control

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change or suppress.
It, this is what may be termed a

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negative approach to
purification A positive approach

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consists of building up the
psychological force of Peace,

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which in and of itself, prevents
many of the disruptions that we,

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otherwise would want to change,
or remove from our nature.

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The deeper, the piece, the less,
the outer impulses can disturb

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and disrupt it all cultivating.
Peace in.

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The being is a progressive
process over time, there can be

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a conscious effort to not react
to the impulses that ordinarily,

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would create a disturbance.
And this may Aid in the opening

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to the higher Force as it
descends, from above, and fills,

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the being with the true peace,
that resides.

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Those higher planes.
Fewer open do notes quote, it

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Purity is more a condition than
a substance piece helps to

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purify since in peace.
Disturbing influences, cease and

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the essence of Purity is to
respond only to the Divine

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influence and not to have an
affinity with other movement.

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If you get peace, then to clean
the vital becomes easy.

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If you simply clean and clean
and do nothing else, you go very

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slowly for the vital gets dirty
again, and has to be cleaned a

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hundred times.
The piece is something that is

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clean in itself.
So to get it is a positive way

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of securing your object to look
for dirt only and clean is the

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negative way in quote, reference
SRI aurobindo and the mother

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growing within the psychology of
inner development, chapter for

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growth of Consciousness.
First steps and Foundation page

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74.