The Human Power of Discontentedness Helps Open the Door to the Inner Consciousness

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The drive in the human
individual to find out who he

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is, what he is here for, and how
he can grow and become what he

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is intended to be in the
creation sets him apart from the

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animal.
Even in the midst of an almost

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complete immersion in the
external life and its lures,

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somewhere deep inside the person
knows that this is not all, that

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this is not enough.
And eventually this brings about

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a sense of dissatisfaction or
discontentedness which pushes

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him beyond the limits set by the
body, life force and mind.

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Fiora Window begins the Life
Divine with the following quote.

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The earliest preoccupation of
man in his awakened thoughts,

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and, as it seems, his inevitable
and ultimate preoccupation, for

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it survives the longest periods
of scepticism and returns after

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every banishment, is also the
highest which his thought can

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envisage.
It manifests itself in the

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divination of Godhead, the
impulse towards perfection, the

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search after pure truth and
unmixed bliss, the sense of a

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secret immortality.
Ancient dawns of human knowledge

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have left us their witness to
this constant aspiration.

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Today you see a humanity
satiated but not satisfied by

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victorious analysis of the
externalities of nature,

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preparing to return to its
primeval longings.

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The earliest formula of wisdom
promises to be its last God,

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Light, freedom, immortality.
These persistent ideals of the

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race are at once the
contradiction of its normal

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experience and the affirmation
of higher and deeper experiences

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which are abnormal to humanity
and only to be attained in their

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organized entirety by a
revolutionary individual effort

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or an evolutionary general
progression.

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To know, possess and be the
divine being in an animal and

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egoistic consciousness.
To convert our twilight or

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obscure physical mentality into
the plenary supermental

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illumination.
To build peace and the self

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existent bliss where there is
only a stress of transitory

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satisfactions besieged by
physical pain and emotional

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suffering.
To establish an infinite freedom

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in a world which presents itself
as a group of mechanical

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necessities.
To discover and realize the

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immortal life in a body
subjected to death and constant

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mutation.
This is offered to us as the

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manifestation of God in matter
and the goal of nature in her

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terrestrial evolution.
To the ordinary material

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intellect, which takes its
present organization of

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consciousness for the limit of
its possibilities, the direct

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contradiction of the unrealized
ideals with the realized fact is

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a final argument against their
validity.

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But if we take a more deliberate
view of the world's workings,

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that direct opposition appears
rather as a part of nature's

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profoundest method and the seal
of her completest sanction.

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For all problems of existence
are essentially problems of

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harmony.
They arise from the perception

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of an unsolved discord and the
instinct of an undiscovered

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agreement or unity to rest.
Content with an unsolved discord

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is possible for the practical
and more animal part of man, but

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impossible for his fully
awakened mind.

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And usually even his practical
parts only escape from the

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general necessity, either by
shutting out the problem or by

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accepting a rough, utilitarian
and unillumined compromise.

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For essentially all nature seeks
a harmony, life, and matter in

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their own sphere as much as mind
in the arrangement of its

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perceptions.
The greater the apparent

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disorder of the materials
offered, or the apparent

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disparateness, even to
irreconcilable opposition of the

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elements that have to be
utilized, the stronger is the

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spur, and it drives towards a
more subtle and poison order

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than can normally be the result
of a less difficult endeavor.

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End Quote.
Doctor de Lal writes quote.

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A purely animal existence
governed by the vital

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consciousness represents, in
Meninger's terms, the stage of

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striving popularly described as
the animals struggle for

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existence.
Though human beings are endowed

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with mental consciousness and
have therefore learned to some

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extent to cope with the problems
of life, most human beings are

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still primarily ruled by the
vital consciousness and

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therefore lead a life largely
characterized by striving and

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struggling very similar to that
of the animal.

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But unlike the animal, the human
being, as previously stated, is

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a discontented creature, for he
knows in the recesses of his

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inmost being that he has the
power to free himself from the

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bonds of animal existence and
become master of his destiny.

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As the Mother remarks, quote,
the vast majority of men are

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like prisoners with all the
doors and windows closed, so

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they suffocate, which is quite
natural, but they have with them

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the key that opens the doors and
windows, End Quote.

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This book offers help for using
the key, End Quote.

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Reference Sri Aurobindo and the
Mother, Looking from Within,

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Introduction by Doctor Delal,
pages 12 to 13.