The Path to the Attainment of Integral Self-Knowledge

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In the Life, Divine SRI
aurobindo describes at some

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length, what he calls the
refusal of the ascetic.

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This refusal is caused by the
focus on the attainment of the

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Supreme by disregarding, or even
eliminating the relationship of

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the Seeker to the life of the
external world and Society.

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He has choose all objectives or
goals that do not lie.

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Lead directly to the Supreme in.
So doing, he necessarily treats

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the material world, the vital
powers, and the Mind as a form

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of distraction an illusion or at
Best of being of lesser

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importance.
SRI, aurobindo takes issue with

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this approach and its underlying
implied recognition of a duality

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of Truth Versus illusion.
He maintains that Oneness of all

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Consciousness and the forms
created by that Consciousness

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mandates that we understand and
respect the Divine meaning and

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significance of the
manifestation and carry out that

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meaning in our search for the
Divine and our adherence to the

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Divine intention.
Dr. Dalal notes, quote, the

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traditional Path of Knowledge,
jnana, yoga in India, aims at

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eliminating successively, the
body, the life, and the mind,

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and taking a straight plunge, by
merging into the Supra, Cosmic

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reality of such eat Ananda
However, for an integral

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self-knowledge, says SRI
aurobindo it is necessary to

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ascend through each of the
supercontinent planes including

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the super mind in the passage to
set.

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Cheer Ananda SRI aurobindo
continues, quote, the method of

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the traditional way of
knowledge, eliminating all these

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things body life mind arrives at
the conception and realization

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of a pure conscious existence
self-aware, self Blissful

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unconditioned by mind and life
and body and to its ultimate

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positive experience that is
Atman.

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The self the original and
essential nature of our

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existence.
Here at last, there is something

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centrally true, but any taste to
arrive at it.

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This knowledge assumes that
there is nothing between the

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thinking mind and the highest
Buddha hey parrot us to Saha

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that which is Supreme Over booty
is he and shutting its eyes in

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sumati tries to rush through all
that actually intervenes without

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even seeing these Great and
luminous kingdoms of the spirit.

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Perhaps it arrives at its object
but only to fall asleep in the

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infinite or if it remains awake,
it is in the highest experience

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of the Supreme into which the
self and nulling mind can enter

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but not in the Supreme of the
Supreme para para.

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The mind can only be aware of
the self in a mental life.

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Spiritual thinness, only of the
Mind reflected such E de nada.

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The highest truth.
The integral self-knowledge is

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not to be gained by this self
blinded leap into the absolute.

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But by a patient Transit beyond
the Mind into the truth

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Consciousness, where the
infinite can be known felt seen

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experienced in all the fullness
of its unending riches and

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quote.
Reference SRI aurobindo and the

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mother, our many shelves,
practical, yogic psychology

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introduction, SRI aurobindo on
our mini selves planes and parts

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of the being Pages.
Roman 32 to 33, Reference SRI

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aurobindo and the mother, our
many shelves, practical, yogic

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psychology introduction, SRI
aurobindo on our mini selves

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planes and parts of the being
Pages.

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Roman 32 to 33,