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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/

0:02 There's been a lot of publicity about what is generally called The Law of Attraction. This holds that an individual can focus on something and thereby cause it to be attracted to him. People have used it to try to attract wealth romance and other things they desired to themselves. There is of course an occult truth behind the connection between subject and object that takes place when the focus or concentration of the subject shift to the object, and thereby can cause some attraction. The real problem with the way this is formulated in the Buhler imagination. Is that an individual's mental emotional and vital focus of energies is sufficient to draw together, Universal forces and results.

0:58 For most people with a limited power of concentration and a limited power of persistence in that concentration. This is for the most part. Very illusory and results are limited at Best in his lectures on Raja yoga. Swami Vivekananda describes, the power of yoga concentration, some Jama to bring knowledge by identity to the practitioner of whatever is being Focused on and with it, the powers of the object of concentration. This, of course requires a substantial ability to practice Raja yoga in order to obtain the results. There may, of course be individuals who have a natural capacity based on past lifetime development to effectuate, such a form of concentration.

1:55 But this capacity is actually rooted in the psychic being which is the actual carrier of experience and growth from Life To Life. When we look at the mechanism of the psychic being the entire Focus from life to life is the growth of the soul and the increasing awareness and purposeful adherence to the universal manifestation and the Divine intention. the soul does not focus on fulfilling the objects of Desire, but rather on circumstances and capacities that will enhance the souls Awakening and growth These may be circumstances that the ego personality would judge as highly negative or painful. The pain and struggle may push the soul along, its path more effectively than wonderful satisfying circumstances in life.

2:55 The mother writes quote, if you have within you a psychic being sufficiently awake to watch over you to prepare your path, it can draw towards you things, which help you draw people, books, circumstances, all sorts of little coincidences, which come to you as though, brought by some benevolent will and give you an indication the help of support to take decisions. And turn you in the right direction. But once you have taken this direction, once you have decided to find the truth of your being, once you start sincerely on the road then everything seems to conspire to help you to advance.

3:43 And quote reference SRI aurobindo in the mother growing within the psychology of inner development, chapter 8, the psychic being and inner growth Pages. 161 2162