The Call to the Spiritual Path

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If we look at the individual
life as separate from the rest

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of the creation and claimed that
it starts at Birth and ends at

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death, there seems to be no
rationale or meaning for that

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life.
Nor can we explain the

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evolutionary progression of
awareness understanding growth

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and development that we see
before us?

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We see a baby come into the
world with very little outward

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capabilities without a developed
language.

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And over time we see the child
grow and go through phases or

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stages of development such that
the physical body.

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The nervous envelope, the
emotional being and the mind

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systematically develop as this
occurs, the child changes, its

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focus and attention from its
childish Pursuits.

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And moves into activities more
suited to its current stage of

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development when the child
reaches the onset of puberty

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sexual energies become active,
which were latent previously.

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Then the individual turns in a
majority of cases, to the

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development of family and
career.

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At a certain stage, many people
find that the interest in outer

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activities, begins to wane.
The Indian tradition of the four

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stages of Life developed from
this type of observation when

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the interest in the outer life,
recedes the individual was

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encouraged to take up the life
of a renunciate and turn towards

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spiritual seeking.
The stages are Cycles at work

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here.
However, begin in past lifetimes

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and develop over many lifetimes.
Some individuals are born into

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their current life with highly
developed capabilities and

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Spiritual Development already.
Evident The Reincarnation of The

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Dalai Lama and the ability of
the chosen.

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Monks to seek out and find the
right Incarnation through

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unmistakable signs of
recognition of items used in the

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prior lifetime.
Is one such illustration.

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This process explains why some
people move through the stages

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of development of Consciousness
faster or slower in a particular

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lifetime.
We also see the process of

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preparation in the way birth,
take place that chicken will sit

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on an egg to keep it warm for a
period of time until the chick

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inside is ready to break out and
manifest itself in the world.

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Similarly, mammals including
human beings.

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Nurture the fetus in the womb
until it is ready to be born at

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the right time the birth process
begins.

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The manifestation of the
spiritual aspiration and the

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Turning of the attention to
spiritual things is similar in

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many ways to these Cycles.
It occurs.

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When there is a Readiness in the
being and then there is

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sometimes a specific factor that
breaks open the concealment and

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allows the soul to come forward.
Thus, there is a combination of

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the Readiness of the soul and
the pressure from the outside.

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So that creates the conditions
for the spiritual aspiration to

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take hold in the individual for
some this is simply a natural

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growth process for others.
It may need a force applied such

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as some great sorrow or
disillusionment in the

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accomplishments possible in the
world 3 aurobindo observes

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quote, the greater and greater
Awakening of Consciousness and

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it's climb to a higher and
higher level.

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And a wider extent of its vision
and action is the condition of

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our progress towards that
Supreme and total Perfection,

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which is the aim of our
existence.

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All yoga is in its nature and
New Birth.

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It is a birth out of the
ordinary, the mentalize material

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life of ma'am into a higher
spiritual consciousness, and a

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greater and diviner being, no,
yoga can be successfully,

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undertaken, and followed.
Unless there is a strong

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Awakening to the necessity of
that larger spiritual existence,

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the soul that is called to this
deep and vast change.

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May arrive in different ways to
the initial, ER, it may come to

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it by its own natural
development, which has been

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leading it unconsciously towards
the Awakening.

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It may reach it through the
influence of a religion or the

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attraction of a philosophy.
It may approach it by a slow

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illumination or leap to it by a
sudden touch or shock.

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It may be pushed or LED to it by
the pressure of outward

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circumstances or by an inward
necessity bias.

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Single word that breaks the
seals of the mind or by long

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Reflection by the distant
example of one who has trod the

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path or by contact and daily
influence, according to the

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nature and the circumstances the
call will come in quote

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reference SRI aurobindo and the
mother growing within the

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psychology of inner development.
Chapter 2 Awakening of

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consciousness.
Ages. 16 to 17.