The Need for Spiritual Discrimination, the Ability to Distinguish the Pure from the Impure

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As the spiritual Seeker
develops.

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The sodden over time eventually,
he is confronted with lights

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voices and energies that come to
him.

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It is not sufficient for him to
Simply accept that.

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Whatever comes is to be seen as
valid and supportive of his

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spiritual aspiration.
Spiritual discrimination, the

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ability to distinguish between
the pure and the impure, the

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higher and the lower the light,
and the dark Forces is

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essential, SRI aurobindo
recommend several possible ways

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to accomplish.
This one, way is to work toward

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the attainment of the witness
Consciousness separate from the

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external nature.
This witness uninvolved separate

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and free can You all the
reactions of body life and mind

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with an impartial View and can
thereby See Clearly the source

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and intention of whatever comes
before.

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It's view, the other method is
to have the soul to psychic

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being come forward and use its
sense of Purity as a spiritual

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Compass to distinguish the
differences.

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This is not the same as
conscience.

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Which is generally based in
moral principles, trained into

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an individual and enforced by a
mental understanding, but rather

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a deeper knowing of the source
and energy of what one is

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experiencing or perceiving.
SRI aurobindo writes, quote

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lights are of all kinds.
Super mental, mental vital,

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physical Divine, or a Sorak.
One has to watch grow, and

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experience and learn to no one
from another.

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The true lights however are by
their Clarity and Beauty not

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difficult to recognize.
The current from above and the

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current From Below are familiar
features of yogic experience.

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It is the energy of the higher
nature and the energy of the

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lower nature that becomes active
and turn towards each other and

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move to meet one descending.
The other are sending what

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happens when they meet depends
on the Sadiq.

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If is constant, will is for the
purification of the lower, by

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the higher consciousness.
Then the meeting results in

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that, and in spiritual progress,
if his mind and vital are turbid

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and clouded, there is a clash
and imp your mixture and much

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disturbance.
And quote, reference SRI

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aurobindo in the mother growing
within the psychology of inner

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development.
Chapter 7, growth of

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Consciousness.
Inner experiences Pages. 142

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141.