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May 15, 2023

The Awakened Psychic Being Attracts What It Needs for Its Growth and Development

The Awakened Psychic Being Attracts What It Needs for Its Growth and Development
The Awakened Psychic Being Attracts What It Needs for Its Growth and Development
Sri Aurobindo Studies
The Awakened Psychic Being Attracts What It Needs for Its Growth and Development

Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Growing Within: The Psychology of Inner Development, Chapter VIII The Psychic Being and Inner Growth, pp. 161-162 This podcast is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/05/13/the-awakened-psychic-being-attracts-what-it-needs-for-its-growth-and-development/

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There's been a lot of publicity
about what is generally called

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The Law of Attraction.
This holds that an individual

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can focus on something and
thereby cause it to be attracted

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to him.
People have used it to try to

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attract wealth romance and other
things they desired to

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themselves.
There is of course an occult

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truth behind the connection
between subject and object that

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takes place when the focus or
concentration of the subject

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shift to the object, and thereby
can cause some attraction.

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The real problem with the way
this is formulated in the Buhler

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imagination.
Is that an individual's mental

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emotional and vital focus of
energies is sufficient to draw

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together, Universal forces and
results.

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For most people with a limited
power of concentration and a

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limited power of persistence in
that concentration.

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This is for the most part.
Very illusory and results are

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limited at Best in his lectures
on Raja yoga.

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Swami Vivekananda describes, the
power of yoga concentration,

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some Jama to bring knowledge by
identity to the practitioner of

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whatever is being Focused on and
with it, the powers of the

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object of concentration.
This, of course requires a

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substantial ability to practice
Raja yoga in order to obtain the

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results.
There may, of course be

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individuals who have a natural
capacity based on past lifetime

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development to effectuate, such
a form of concentration.

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But this capacity is actually
rooted in the psychic being

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which is the actual carrier of
experience and growth from Life

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To Life.
When we look at the mechanism of

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the psychic being the entire
Focus from life to life is the

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growth of the soul and the
increasing awareness and

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purposeful adherence to the
universal manifestation and the

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Divine intention. the soul does
not focus on fulfilling the

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objects of Desire, but rather on
circumstances and capacities

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that will enhance the souls
Awakening and growth These may

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be circumstances that the ego
personality would judge as

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highly negative or painful.
The pain and struggle may push

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the soul along, its path more
effectively than wonderful

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satisfying circumstances in
life.

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The mother writes quote, if you
have within you a psychic being

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sufficiently awake to watch over
you to prepare your path, it can

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draw towards you things, which
help you draw people, books,

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circumstances, all sorts of
little coincidences, which come

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to you as though, brought by
some benevolent will and give

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you an indication the help of
support to take decisions.

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And turn you in the right
direction.

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But once you have taken this
direction, once you have decided

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to find the truth of your being,
once you start sincerely on the

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road then everything seems to
conspire to help you to advance.

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And quote reference SRI
aurobindo in the mother growing

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within the psychology of inner
development, chapter 8, the

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psychic being and inner growth
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