The Best Way to Help Others and the World

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When we want to help alleviate
the suffering in the world, or

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help solve the general concerns
or the more specific individual

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needs and wants, we come up with
an endless number of ideas about

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how to help.
From an outward perspective,

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these may be highly valuable and
useful activities.

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Spiritual and religious
organizations in particular tend

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to focus on feeding the hungry,
healing and caring for the sick,

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providing shelter.
These things help to mitigate

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some of the worst dislocations
and imbalances in the world and

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how society functions.
Others may be moved to work on

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the larger issues of climate
change, pollution, fresh water

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supply, food to sustain large
numbers of people residing in

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the world, as well as looking
for ways to adapt the work and

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living environments to be more
supportive of people and their

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needs and interests.
Still others may be moved to

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tackle technological questions
to help solve the issues we are

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all facing.
Some may work on how to bring

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peace and understanding in the
world, and others may work on

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bringing beauty and harmony
through art, music, dance,

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writing, and entertainment media
of various sorts.

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People obviously need to follow
their passion and vision and

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carry out these and other
worthwhile projects in the

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interests of supporting all of
humanity.

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Yet none of these things
actually solves the underlying

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issues.
Rather, they act as a sort of

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bandage over the wounds that we
create through our interactions

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with each other and our
environment.

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The real solutions only come
when we move beyond simply

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ameliorating harm already being
caused to resolving the root

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causes.
It is at this level that the

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mother counsels that the true
help is a change of

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consciousness.
This is not carried out through

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dogmatic expressions, argument,
mental ideas, or any form of

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outward control, but through
inward growth and change that

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works on the energetic levels of
being.

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Many seekers have experienced
the atmosphere of someone who is

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immersed in the spiritual
consciousness.

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Legends across many cultures
speak of souls who touched

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others simply by their presence,
the energetic vibration they

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created in their surroundings.
On an individual level, we can

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appreciate the power of the
spiritual consciousness.

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The Mother indicates that for
the spiritual seeker, the

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development of the spiritual
consciousness and the natural

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effect it has on others is
actually the best approach to

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aiding human development, as it
creates a contagion effect and

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helps to transform life.
At the level of root causes, we

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have heard about the 100th
monkey phenomenon.

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We have had the concept of the
nuosphere explained as a reason

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why the same invention tends to
pop up in widely diverse places

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around the same time.
We are clear that vibrations of

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consciousness are universal,
traverse the entire planet, and

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can impact people from a
distance, particularly as they

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move away from purely physical
and vital vibrations to the more

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subtle, powerful levels of mind
and eventually the spiritual

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consciousness.
Thus, it is clearly reasonable

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to accept that as individuals
begin to vibrate under the force

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of the spiritual consciousness,
they are helping to raise up the

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vibratory level and energetic
responsiveness of all of

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humanity.
It is this type of change,

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similar to what the mental force
did to the physical and vital

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planes, that we can expect from
the full advent and

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manifestation of the spiritual
consciousness as we mature and

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begin to experience that level
with more completeness and

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intensity.
The Mother notes quote.

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It is these people the mental
being does not understand.

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So long as one is in the mental
consciousness, even the Highest,

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and sees the spiritual life from
outside, one judges with one's

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mental faculties, with the habit
of seeking, erring, correcting,

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progressing and seeking once
again.

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And one thinks that those who
are in the spiritual life suffer

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from the same incapacity.
But that is a very gross

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mistake.
When the reversal of the being

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has taken place, all that is
finished.

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One no longer seeks, one sees,
one no longer deduces, one

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knows, one no longer gropes, one
walks straight to the goal.

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And when one has gone farther,
only a little farther, one

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knows, feels, lives.
The supreme Truth.

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That the Supreme Truth alone
acts, the Supreme Lord alone

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wills, knows, and does through
human being.

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How could there be any
possibility of error there?

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What He does, He does because He
wills to do it for our mistaken

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vision.
These are perhaps

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incomprehensible actions, but
they have a meaning and a name,

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and lead where they ought to
lead.

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Silence.
If one sincerely wants to help

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others and the world, the best
thing one can do is to be

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oneself, what one wants others
to be.

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Not only as an example, but
because one becomes a center of

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radiating power which, by the
very fact that it exists,

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compels the rest of the world to
transform itself.

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End Quote.
Reference Sri Aurobindo and the

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Mother Powers Within, Chapter
22, Spirit, pages 168 to 169.