The Development of the Spiritual Focus Over Time

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We tend to measure success or
failure in terms of specific

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results.
We see in our relatively short

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individual lifetime based on our
preconceived or societally.

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Sanctioned ideas about what
constitutes success or failure

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when it comes to progress in
Spiritual Development.

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However, this is not necessarily
either the correct judgment term

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the timeframe within which Which
something can be evaluated, nor

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the correct criteria for
deciding what constitutes

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success.
Sometimes what appears to be a

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life of constant struggle and
difficulty, may actually be a

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blessing that shifts us out of
some comfortable but not

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inwardly.
Beneficial situation in life and

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moves our Focus towards some
deeper sense of being and a

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realization based on the deeper
truth of our existence

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Similarly, in an evolutionary
progression that occurs over

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many lifetimes, it is virtually
impossible to either measure

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one's own progress against that
of others were even some

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independent yardstick or to
determine the actual status of

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one Spiritual Development.
Much of the inner growth

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actually takes place, unseen and
unnoticed until such time as it

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is ready to manifest.
Whether this occurs in the

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current life, or in some future,
lifetime is very much irrelevant

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to the developing Soul.
Even if the surface being is

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impatient for results.
In the bhagwad Gita Arjuna

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propound, a question to Shri
Krishna about whether effort

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undertaken in the life to
achieve spiritual realization,

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can lead to failure, both in the
outer life and in the spiritual

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attempt, if it does not come to
fruition Shri Krishna encourages

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Arjuna, by pointing out that no
effort is ever lost.

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And that all spiritual focus and
aspiration has its effect.

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Even if not recognized by the
practitioner thus there is no

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need for despondency SRI,
aurobindo observes quote, but

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this is not always the manner of
the commencement.

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The Sadiq is often LED gradually
and there is a long space

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between the first turning of the
mind and the full Ascent of the

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nature to the thing towards
which it turns There may at

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first be, only a vivid
intellectual interest of

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forcible attraction towards the
idea and some imperfect form of

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practice or perhaps, there is an
effort, not favored by the whole

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nature, a decision or a turn
imposed by an intellectual

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influence or dictated by
personal affection and

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admiration for someone who is
himself consecrated and devoted

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to the highest.
In such cases.

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A long period of preparation may
be necessary before.

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There comes the irrevocable,
Consecration, and in some

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instances, it may not come.
There may be some Advanced.

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There may be a strong effort
even much purification and many

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experiences other than those
that are Central or supreme.

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But the life will either be
spent in preparation or a

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certain stage.
Having been reached the Mind

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pushed by an insufficient
driving force May rest content

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at the limit of the effort
possible to it.

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Or there may even be a recoil to
the lower life.

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What is called in the ordinary
parlance of yoga a fall from the

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path.
This lapse happens because there

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is a defect at the very center,
the intellect has been

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interested.
The heart attracted the will is

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strong itself to the effort but
the whole Nature has not been

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taken captive by the Divine.
It is only acquiesced in the

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interest, the attraction or the
Endeavour.

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There's been an experiment.
Perhaps, even an eager

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experiment but not the total
self-giving to an imperative

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need of the Soul or to an
unforeseen, a couple ideal even

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such imperfect yoga.
Has not been wasted for no

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upward.
Effort is made in vain, even if

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it fails in the present were
arrives, only at some

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Preparatory stage or preliminary
realization. has yet determined

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the souls future but if we
desire to make the most of the

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opportunity that this life gives
us, if we wish to respond

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adequately to the call we have
received and to attain to the

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goal, we have glimpsed not
merely Advanced a little towards

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it, it is essential that there
should be an entire self giving

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The Secret of success in yoga is
to regard.

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It not as one of the aims to be
pursued in life, but as the

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whole of life and quote,
reference SRI aurobindo, and the

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mother growing within the
psychology of inner development.

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Chapter 2, Awakening of
Consciousness Pages, 18 to 20,