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Dec. 19, 2022

The Need for Intense Aspiration for the Divine Realisation

The Need for Intense Aspiration for the Divine Realisation
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2022/12/17/the-need-for-intense-aspiration-for-the-divine-realisation/
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The time and effort needed to
overcome.

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The numerous impediment along
the way for those seeking, the

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Divine realization imply that
the Seeker must have an intense

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inner drive to carry on through
all difficulties and delays

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encountered.
This inner Drive is known as

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aspiration.
It is called the flame of

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aspiration because of the sense
of a burning need deep within

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the being.
And because obstacles are burned

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up through the intensity of the
seeking imagery that attempts to

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describe the experience of the
Divine seeking frequently refers

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to the Mystic fire in spiritual
Traditions, throughout the

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world.
The rishi's of the rigveda

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understood the Central and
essential role, Role of

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aspiration, the rig Veda has
hundreds of hymns to ugly.

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The Mystic fire which focused on
the ability of the flame of

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aspiration to bring forth the
experiences, the powers of

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knowledge, and action, and the
eventual breakthrough in

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Consciousness to a new status of
spiritual realization.

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SRI aurobindo is translation of
the first Hymn of the rig Veda,

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illustrates the importance of
the flame of aspiration quote, I

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adore the flame, the vicar, the
Divine route, Vic of the

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sacrifice, the Summoner, who
most found the Ecstasy, The

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flame adorable.
By the ancient sages is adorable

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to buy the new.
He brings here the Gods.

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By the flame.
One enjoys.

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A treasure that verily increases
day by day.

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Glorious.
Most full of hero power.

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Oh, Flame the pilgrim, sacrifice
on every side of which thou art

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with the environment.
Being that truly goes among the

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gods, the flame, the Summoner,
the sphere will true and most

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full of richly, varied
listenings may he come a god

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with the Gods.
Oh, Flame.

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The happy good.
Which Thou shalt create for The

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Giver.
Is that truth and verily?

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Thy no.
Enjolras.

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To the O flame.
We day by day in the night.

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And in the light come carrying
by our thought, the obeisance to

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the who Reign is over.
Our Pilgrim, sacrifices luminous

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guardian of the truth increasing
in thy own home, Therefore, the

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easy of access to us as a father
unto his son cling to us for our

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happy State.
And quote, the central role of

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the flame of aspiration is
reinforced in the final verse of

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the Isha.
Open shot translated by SRI

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aurobindo quote.
Oh God acne knowing all things

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that are manifested lead us by
the good path to the Felicity.

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I moved from us.
The devious attraction of sin to

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the completest speech of
submission.

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We would dispose and quote, SRI
aurobindo writes, quote, the

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development of the experience in
its rapidity, its amplitude, the

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intensity, and power of its
result.

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Depends primarily in the
beginning of the path and long

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after on the aspiration and
personal effort of the Sadiq.

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The process of yoga is a turning
of the human soul.

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From the egoistic State of
Consciousness, absorbed in the

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outer appearances, and
attractions of things to a

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higher state in which the
Transcendent and Universal can

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pour itself into the individual
mold and transform it.

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The first determining element of
the city is therefore, the

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intensity of the turning the
force which directs the sole

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inward.
The power of aspiration of the

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heart, the force of the will,
the concentration of the Mind,

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the perseverance and
determination of the Applied

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Energy are the measure of that
intensity.

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The ideal saw deck should be
able to say in the biblical

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phrase.
My Zeal for the Lord has eaten

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me up?
It is this Zeal for the Lord

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Hoots, aha, the Zeal of the
whole nature for its Divine

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results.
The oculata, the hearts

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eagerness for the attainment of
the Divine. it devours the ego

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and breaks up the limitations of
its Petty and narrow mold for

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the full and wide reception of
that, which it seeks that which

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being Universal exceeds and
being Transcendent, surpasses,

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even the largest and highest
individual self and nature and

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quote, reference SRI, aurobindo,
and the mother growing Within in

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the psychology of inner
development, chapter 3 growth of

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Consciousness basic requisites
page, 33, and hymns to the

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Mystic fire pages 39 to