The Power of the Spiritual Consciousness Is Needed to Overcome the Limitations of the Mental Approach to Existence

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As the mental consciousness
awakens, particularly if there's

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an influence coming from the
psychic being or from the

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spiritual planes pressing down
on the mental being, we become

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aware of virtually endless
problems, issues, difficulties,

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imbalances, disharmonies, and
outright conflicts in the world

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and how we interact with each
other and our environment.

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Those with a positive attitude
and energy naturally want to do

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something to help straighten
this out.

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They try many things.
This is how humanity comes up

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with solutions based on
technology or economic system

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adjustments, scientific
advancements that are supposed

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to solve some issue or other
political systems, religious

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doctrines or sociological
improvements, as well as

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enhancements in education,
lawmaking, et cetera.

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Eventually competing ideas are
held by competing factions and a

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form of gridlock occurs and
nothing can be done.

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When we become frustrated at
slow progress, we try

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authoritarian rule.
This has its own serious

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drawbacks, with a reliance on
one sided short term solutions

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provided generally more focused
on keeping the authoritarians in

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power than on actually solving
any of humanity's issues.

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And thus we struggle, suffer and
face ever increasing

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dislocations, disharmonies,
obstacles and existential

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threats.
This process occurs due to the

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limitations of the mental power
and its intermixture with the

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vital force based in desire and
the actual difficulties of

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managing physical nature.
The natural forces that tend to

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bring about balance in the
physical environment and then as

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the vital force evolves in the
interaction between the physical

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and vital, are disrupted with
the evolution of mind.

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Which by nature has a somewhat
linear approach to things and

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does not see or take into
account all the myriad aspects

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that go into making a
comprehensive and complete

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understanding that can act to
create a New Balance and a new

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harmony.
Each mental intervention is

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intended to bring a progress,
and it generally does in One

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Direction or another, but it
also has a wide variety of

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unintended consequences.
Once the developed mental

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consciousness becomes aware of
this dynamic, it begins to

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realize that the solution does
not lie in mental planning or

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processes, but in the evolution
and development of a next stage

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of consciousness in the
evolutionary scale.

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A stage which can comprehend the
entirety of the issues and

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forces at work and which can
know the harmonious balance that

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needs to be achieved and
maintained.

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This is then the place where the
spiritual consciousness as

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manifested in what tree or a
window and the Mother call the

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Super mental consciousness comes
into play.

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The spiritual consciousness does
not rely on mental argument, but

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on the force of its
consciousness in and of itself

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in creating an atmosphere and
spiritual pressure that helps

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all beings respond in effective
and harmonious ways.

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The Mother observes quote, and
as soon as one is turned towards

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the spiritual life and reality,
one touches the Infinite, the

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eternal, and there can no longer
be any question of a greater or

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smaller number of capacities or
possibilities.

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It is the mental conception of
spiritual life which may say

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that one has more or less
capacity to live spiritually,

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but this is not at all an
adequate statement.

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What may be said is that one is
more or less ready for the

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decisive and total reversal.
In reality.

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It is the mental capacity to
withdraw from ordinary

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activities and to set out in
search of the spiritual life

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which can be measured.
But so long as one is in the

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mental field, in this state as
it were, on this plane of

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consciousness, 1 can't do much
for others, either for life in

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general or for particular
individuals, because one doesn't

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have the certitude oneself, 1
doesn't have the definitive

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experience.
The consciousness has not been

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established in the spiritual
world.

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And all that can be said is that
they are mental activities which

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have their good and bad sides,
but not much power, and in any

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case not this power of spiritual
contagion, which is the only

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true effective power.
The only thing that is truly

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effective is the possibility of
transferring to others, the

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state of consciousness in which
one lives oneself.

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But this power cannot be
invented, 1 cannot imitate it,

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cannot seem to have it.
It only comes spontaneously when

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one is established in that state
oneself, when one lives within

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it and not when one is trying to
live within it, when one is

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there.
And that is why all those who

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truly have a spiritual life
cannot be deceived.

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An imitation of spiritual life
may delude people who still live

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in the mind, but those who have
realized this reversal of

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consciousness in themselves,
whose relation with the outer

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being is completely different,
cannot be deceived and cannot

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make a mistake.
End Quote.

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Reference Sri Orovindo and the
Mother Powers Within, Chapter

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22, Spirit, pages 167 to 168.