The Benefit of Obstacles and Difficulties for the Development of Conscious Awareness

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It is a quality of human nature.
When things are going well, we

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are happy and contented, we tend
not to make extraordinary

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efforts or focus on change.
We feel like things are where

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they should be in our lives and
we move into enjoyment mode

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rather than change mode.
In some cases, we believe that

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things going well as some kind
of karmic reward for our good

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behavior.
And thus we try to justify the

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enjoyment and the lack of effort
when we are facing difficulties

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of some sort, either externally
in our lives, our relationships,

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our ability to meet our needs,
Or internally as we struggle

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with issues of spiritual growth
and overcoming the limitations

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of human nature.
We tend to focus our energy and

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take steps to implement positive
changes, that will hopefully,

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resolve the issues we are facing
When milarepa the Great Tibetan

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Yogi was a youth, he observed,
his aunt, and uncle taking

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advantage of his mother and
himself.

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After the death of his father,
he became upset and determined,

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he would not stand for what had
happened.

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He left his village to find a
teacher of black magic and used

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what he learned to bring about
Devastation and destruction on

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the culprits afterwards upon
reflection.

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Ian he suffered remorse and
decided to dedicate his life to

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the effort to achieve Liberation
and thus when seeking out his

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Guru and undertaking hit the
arduous task for which he is

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rightly renowned and revered.
His impetus, was the suffering

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and difficulties.
He experienced.

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It is that way, with all of us.
Those who make music understand

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clearly, the need for just the
right amount of tension to

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ensure the beauty of the sound.
Too little tension on the

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strings of the violin and there
will not be any music too much

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tension and the strings will
snap again.

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Resulting in no music those who
believe a life without any

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tension, a life of relaxed.
He's we yield to Optimum

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results.
Tend to overlook this point.

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The mother writes quote.
And in fact, this perhaps is the

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reason why things don't always
go.

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Well, for if they went according
to a normal usual Rhythm, when

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would never be conscious of what
one is doing, when would do it

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by habit automatically
spontaneously without thinking

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and would not watch what one is
doing.

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And so one would never be able
to acquire self-mastery.

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It would be something a vague
Consciousness in the background

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expressing itself without your,
even watching what you are doing

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and which would make you act.
And then if they're came along

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some strange or unknown current
of force, it could make you do

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anything at all without your
even noticing the process by

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which it makes you act.
And in fact, that is what does

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happen.
It is only when one is fully

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conscious of the process.
When one knows how life works,

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the movement of life, and the
process of life, that one can

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begin to have control.
Otherwise, it first one doesn't

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even think it all of having any
control.

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But if unpleasant things occur,
if for instance you do something

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which has unfortunate
consequences, and you tell

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yourself, oh but I should stop
doing that.

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Then at that moment, you realize
that there is a whole technique

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of how to live which is
necessary to be able to control

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your life.
Otherwise one is a kind of more

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or less coordinated medley of
actions and reactions of

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movements and impulses, and one
doesn't know at all how things

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happen.
This is what is developed in the

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being by shocks frictions, all
the apparent, disorders of life.

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And what forms the Consciousness
in very small children, a small

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child is altogether unconscious
and only gradually very

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gradually, does he begin to grow
aware of things?

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But unless they take special
care, people live almost their

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whole life without even knowing
how they do it, they are not

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aware of it.
So anything at all can happen.

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But that is the very first
little step towards becoming

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conscious of oneself in the
material world.

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You have vague thoughts and
feelings, don't you?

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Which develop more or less
logically in the being rather,

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less than more, then you have a
faint impression of that and

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again, when you get burned, you
realize that something is wrong.

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When you fall and hurt yourself,
you realize that something is

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wrong.
It begins to make you reflect

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that, you must pay attention to
this and that.

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So as not to fall, not to burn.
Burn yourself, not to cut

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yourself, it Dawns on you
gradually with external

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experience, external contacts.
But otherwise one is a half

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conscious Mass, which moves
without even knowing.

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Why or how?
This is the very small beginning

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of the emergence from the
primary state of unconsciousness

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and quote.
Reference SRI aurobindo and the

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mother growing within the
psychology of inner development.

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