The Change in Standpoint That Puts the Seeker in Harmony With the Divine and Its Intention in the Universal Manifestation

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We frequently hear people
complaining about how they are

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locked into and trapped in the
lives they are leading.

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They feel like there's nothing
they can do and nothing can

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change it.
This was exemplified in a motion

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picture called Groundhog Day,
which told the story of an

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individual who continually
repeated the events of life on

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the same day.
Each day he woke up and it was

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once again the prior day that he
had just finished before he fell

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asleep.
The story line works through his

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different ways of trying to deal
with the apparent

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meaninglessness of his life and
the endless repetition of it.

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While he aspired to have a
romantic relationship with

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someone who is employed by the
same news station where he

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worked as a meteorologist, he
tries a number of strategies

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including crime, suicide, and
various attempts to gain

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information about his target.
As he experiences these

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innumerable lives, all based on
the surface being and the ego

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personality, eventually he
understands and embraces the

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process and learns how to change
within himself and at that

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moment everything changes and he
is released from the repetitive

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pattern and gains the true love
he had been aspiring towards.

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If we put aside the top level
storyline, we can see the deeper

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meaning that we all can relate
to.

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We seem to repeat everything
time and again.

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We have limited knowledge, try
to steer our lives by that

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limited knowledge and experience
success and failure in our

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endeavours along the way.
Once we find the key and

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understand the need to change
our standpoint to identify with

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the Divine Presence, everything
changes and our lives take on

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new meaning and direction.
The change in standpoint

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represents a shift from the ego
personality and its focus on the

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external circumstances to the
psychic being and its focus on

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its oneness with the Divine, the
Mother observes.

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Quote, Thou art perfect
knowledge, absolute

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consciousness.
He who unites with Thee is

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omniscient while the union
lasts.

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But even before attaining this
stage, He who has given Himself

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to Thee in all the sincerity of
His being, with all His

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conscious will, He who has
resolved to make every effort to

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help in the manifestation and
triumph of Thy Divine Law of

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Love in Himself and the whole
field of His influence, sees all

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things in His life change, and
all circumstances begin to

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express Thy Law and assist His
consecration.

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For Him it is the best, the very
best that always happens.

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And if in his intelligence there
is still some obscurity, some

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ignorant desire, which at times
prevents him from becoming aware

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of it, immediately, he
recognizes sooner or later that

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a beneficent power seemed to
protect him even from himself

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and secure for him conditions
most favorable to his blossoming

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and transfiguration, his
integral conversion and

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utilization.
As soon as one becomes conscious

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and convinced of this, one can
no longer worry about future

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circumstances or the turn events
take.

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It is with perfect serenity that
one does at every moment what

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one thinks best, convinced that
the best 2 is sure to come from

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it, even if it is not the
results which we, with our

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limited reasoning, expected from
it.

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That is why, Lord, our heart is
light, our thought in repose.

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That is why we turn to Thee in
all confidence and say

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peacefully, may Thy will be
done.

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In it true harmony is realized.
End Quote.

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Reference Sri Aurobindo and the
Mother, Looking from Within,

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Chapter 1, Looking at Life and
Circumstances, pages 32 to 33.