The Limits of Mental, Vital and Physical Efforts to Change Human Nature and the Need for a Shift of Consciousness to a New Evolutionary Principle

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In his epic poem.
Savitri, a legend and a symbol

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SRI aurobindo rights.
Heavy unchanged ways still the

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imperfect World.
The Splendid youth of time has

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passed and failed.
Heavy and long are the years,

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our labor counts and still the
seals are firm upon man's soul

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and weary is the ancient
mother's heart.

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Pages 344. 2345.
All serious practitioners of

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spiritual disciplines all
Seekers trying to exceed the

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current human limitations of the
Mind, the vital energies, and

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the physical body.
At some point, come to

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appreciate that.
The progress they can make

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within the framework of the
Mind.

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Life body complex and the normal
human capacities.

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Is both limited and subject to
dilution or weakening.

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The reasons are numerous, but
one of the primary causes is the

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fact that we are not distinct
individuals separate and

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protected from other outside
influences, rather, we

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constantly are bombarded with
ideas, energies, emotions

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feelings that are circulating in
our environment and from the

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people with whom we interact.
And thus the vibration patterns

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arrive Rise in us and we
occasionally or frequently

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succumb to those patterns.
Another major cause is the

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limitations of the frame within,
which we attempt to resolve

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issues or effectuate change.
As long as we are bound within

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the capacity levels of Mind life
and body, we do not truly either

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fully understand nor have the
leverage to create radical

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change in human nature.
We remain fixed within the ego

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personality.
Even when we are most focused on

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effectuating change, we must
find a standpoint outside.

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This framework shift to a
platform of Consciousness that

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has new powers of understanding
and action in order to truly

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change Human Nature.
This is why SRI aurobindo refers

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to the evolution of
Consciousness as the key to the

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needed changes.
Just as life, effectuated

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radical changes in material
nature.

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And just as the Advent of the
Mind, effectuated radical

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changes in material nature, and
vital nature.

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It requires a shift to a new
form of Consciousness to

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effectuate.
The changes needed in physical

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nature, vital nature, and the
mental nature.

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This is what tree, aurobindo
calls, the Advent of the super

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mental Consciousness that next
evolutionary level beyond the

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mental level.
Until that time, we can Aspire,

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we can prepare we can work on
change, but we also have to

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recognize the limits of this
effort and the need for a total

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shift away from the normal,
human to a new standpoint from

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which understanding and action
can flow.

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SRI aurobindo in the thoughts
and glimpses and tenor e-library

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volume 16 page 379 States.
We have only accomplished

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weakness and effort and a
defeated victory.

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The mother notes quote through a
very assiduous labor.

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One succeeds in overcoming a
weakness, a limitation, a bad

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habit.
And One Believes this is a

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definitive Victory but after
some time or at times

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immediately when realize that
nothing is completely done.

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Nothing is definitive that what
one thought to have accomplished

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has to be done again.
For only a total change of

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Consciousness and the
intervention of a new force, a

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reversal of Consciousness can
make the victory.

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Complete And the old child and
tradition.

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Very often, the young novices
were given an image when they

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were invested with the white
robe.

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They were told do not try to
remove the stains one by one.

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The whole robe must be purified.
Do not try to correct your fault

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one by one to overcome your
weaknesses.

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One by one, it does not take you
very far.

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The entire Consciousness must be
changed.

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A reversal of Consciousness must
be achieved a springing up out

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of the state in which one is
towards a higher state?

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From which one dominates all the
weaknesses.

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One wants to heal.
And from which one has a full

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vision of the work to be
accomplished.

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I believe SRI aurobindo has
said, this things are such that

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it may be said that nothing is
done until everything is done.

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One step ahead is not enough, he
total conversion is necessary.

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How many times have I heard
people who were making an

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effort, say I try.
But what's the use of my trying

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every time?
I think I have gained something,

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I find that I must begin all
over again.

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This happens because they are
trying to go forward while

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standing still, they are trying
to progress without changing

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their Consciousness.
It is the entire point of view,

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which must be shifted, the whole
Consciousness must get out of

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the rut in which it lies.
So as to rise up and see things

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from above, it is only thus that
victories will not be changed

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into defeats.
In quote, reference SRI,

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aurobindo in the mother growing
within the psychology of inner

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development, chapter 9 reversal
of Consciousness.

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The new birth Pages, 166 to 167