The Complementary Aspects of Aspiration and Prayer

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Just as there is a debate
between science and religion,

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there is a corollary argument
that encompasses aspiration

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versus prayer.
Aspiration for growth

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development, knowledge progress,
expansion is acceptable to those

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in the science camp.
Prayer is relegated by these

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individuals to the religion
Camp.

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Similarly, those who believe
ardently in the power of prayer.

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Do not fully believe in the
efficacy of an inner

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aspirational own.
The relation of these two

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Powers.
However, is not so simply

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delineated, nor can either one
be dismissed.

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Out of hand.
They can indeed complement one

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another.
For those who do not believe in

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any greater being in the
universe, of course, prayer does

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not factor into the equation.
For those already accepting such

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a greater being Creator or God
prayer is central for the vast

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majority of people, however, who
are somewhere between these two

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extremes.
Another Viewpoint can harmonize

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them aspiration can be seen as
the directing force and impetus

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for the growth and development
of the individuals powers and

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the expansion of the individuals
basis of knowledge.

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Prayer can be seen as the outer
body providing concrete form in

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the external existence to what
the aspiration is developing

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inwardly.
The artist, the writer, the

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composer all developed their
Concepts inwardly, but Express

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them in the world to impact
others and have their influence

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in the world through the outer
form, they give to these

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Concepts.
Similarly prayer provides such

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an outer framework to embody the
aspiration and bring it to life

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in the world.
The mother notes quote.

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So the more intellectual people
admit aspiration and say, that

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prayer is something inferior.
The mystics tell you, that

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aspiration is all very well, but
if you want to be really heard

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and want the Divine to listen to
you, you must pray and pray with

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the Simplicity of a child, a
perfect Candor, that is a

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perfect Trust.
I need this or that whether it

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be a moral need, or a physical,
or material need.

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Well, I asked you for it.
Give it to me to Aspire.

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It is not necessary to direct
the aspiration to someone

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towards.
Someone one has an aspiration

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for a certain state of being,
for knowledge for a realization

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that State of Consciousness, one
aspires for something, but it is

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not necessarily A Prayer.
Prayer is something additional

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and quote reference SRI
aurobindo and the mother growing

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within the psychology of inner
development.

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Chapter 3 growth of
Consciousness basic requisites

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pages, 37 to 38,