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The Inner Spiritual Light Exists in the Entire Creation and Maintains the Balance of Existence

The Inner Spiritual Light Exists in the Entire Creation and Maintains the Balance of Existence

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, The Hidden Forces of Life, Ch.7 Spiritual Forces of Help and Succour, pp.167-168 This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2024/07/28/the-inner-spiritual-light-exists-in-the-entire-creation-and-maintains-the-balance-of-existence/

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Our normal human view of things
is based in the framing of the

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mental process, which relies on
distinguishing differences

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between one thing and another,
between one being and another,

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between one event and another.
This fragmentation leads us to

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focus primarily on the
separation we have rather than

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on the underlying unity, the
oneness of all creation.

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Our reliance on this standpoint
leads us into sometimes quite

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tragic consequences.
Despite this viewpoint, however,

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there remains the fact of the
unity of the entire creation,

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and this unity is what maintains
existence despite differences on

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the surface.
The Vedic Rishis understood this

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issue in Mandela tense.
Up to 129 quote When universal

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being was concealed by
fragmentation, then by the

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greatness of its energy, that
one was born.

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End Quote.
When we begin to appreciate the

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oneness of the entire creation,
we can also begin to see the

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spiritual radiance in all
things.

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It is thus not just evolve human
beings who have that effulgence

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of the spirit, but all beings,
all plants, even the very stones

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and rocks that make up the earth
that we live on.

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While the light is more visible
in the higher evolutionary

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beings, it nevertheless operates
to create what we see as an

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interdependent and symbiotic
reality for all life, woven

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together into the warp and woof
of creation in a way that relies

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on the harmony of Oneness to
ensure that the creation does

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not simply rip itself apart or
destroy itself through

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opposition.
The dynamic tension we see at

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the level of the external
reality is contained within the

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greater Oneness and represents
the balancing of the forces.

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The ancient symbol of the Yin
Yang epitomizes this balance

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perfectly.
Regardless of short term

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imbalances or disharmonies,
somehow the evolution of

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consciousness and the
development of the external life

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find a way to proceed and
continue.

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For the most part, this is a
subconscious or unconscious

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harmony and balance.
Yet as individuals reach further

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stages of conscious development,
they can actually consciously

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participate in the process,
aligning themselves with the

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harmonizing and balancing forces
rather than with the forces of

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disintegration, division, and
fragmentation.

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The mother notes quote in
everyone, even at the very

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beginning, this spiritual
presence, this inner light, is

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there.
In fact, it is everywhere.

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I have seen it many a time in
certain animals.

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It is like a shining point which
is the basis of a certain

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control and protection,
something which even in half

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consciousness makes possible a
certain harmony with the rest of

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creation, so that irreparable
catastrophes may not be

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constant.
In general, with the Without

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this presence, the disorder
created by the violences and

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passions of the vital would be
so great that at any moment they

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could bring about a general
catastrophe, a sort of total

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destruction which would prevent
the progress of nature.

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That presence, that spiritual
light which could almost be

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called a spiritual
consciousness, is within each

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being and all things.
And because of it, in spite of

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all discordance, all passion,
all violence, there is a minimum

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of general harmony which allows
nature's work to be

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accomplished.
And this presence becomes quite

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obvious in the human being, even
the most rudimentary, even in

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the most monstrous human being,
in one who gives the impression

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of being an incarnation of a
devil or a monster, there is

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something within exercising a
sort of irresistible control.

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Even in the worst, some things
are impossible.

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And without this presence, if
the being were controlled

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exclusively by the adverse
forces, the forces of the vital,

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this impossibility would not
exist.

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Each time a wave of these
monstrous adverse forces sweeps

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over the earth, one feels that
nothing can ever stop the

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disorder and horror from
spreading.

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And always at a certain time,
unexpectedly and inexplicably, a

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control intervenes and the wave
is arrested.

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The catastrophe is not total,
and this is because of the

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Presence, the Supreme Presence
in matter.

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But only in a few exceptional
beings, and after a long, very

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long work of preparation
extending over many, many lives,

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does this presence change into a
conscious, independent, fully

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organized being, all powerful
master of his dwelling place.

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Conscious enough, powerful
enough to be able to control not

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only this dwelling, but what
surrounds it, and in a field of

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radiation and action that is
more and more extensive and

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effective.
End Quote Reference Srioro Bindu

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and the Mother, The Hidden
Forces of Life, Chapter 7,

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Spiritual Forces of Help and
Succor, pages 167 to 168.