The Reality of Being Born Into the Spirit

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People commonly believe that
espousing a particular religion

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or religious doctrine, reading
scriptural texts, singing

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devotional songs, practicing
yoga or meditation, or any of

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the numerous other practices
often called spiritual makes

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them spiritual.
While these practices may help

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to turn their minds, their
hearts, their life energy and

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even their bodies towards
spiritual realization, they do

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not in and of themselves
constitute living in the spirit,

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or as the Mother puts it, being
born into the spirit.

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In the Bhagwad Gita, Arjuna asks
Sri Krishna a related question.

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How to recognize the realized
man?

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What is the sign of the man in
samadhi whose intelligence is

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firmly fixed in wisdom?
How does the sage of settled

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understanding speak?
How sit, How walk?

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Bhagwad Gita Chapter 2, verse 54
translated by Sri Aurobindo in

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Bhagwad Gita and its Message.
Sri Krishna's response makes it

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clear that none of the outward
acts of the individual are

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relevant to the question of the
inward realization of the

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individual.
The true sign, as Sri Arrobindo

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explains in his comment on this
verse, is quote.

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No such signs can be given, nor
does the teacher attempt to

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supply them, for the only
possible test of its possession

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is inward, and that there are
plenty of hostile psychological

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forces to apply.
Equality is the great stamp of

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the liberated soul, and of that
equality even the most

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discernible signs are still
subjective.

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End Quote.
Being born into the spirit,

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then, is not something one can
declare by simply espousing a

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specific doctrine or marching
under the banner of some

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religion or other.
It is not something that comes

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automatically by any of the
practices generally attributed

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to the spiritual life.
It is a transformation of the

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consciousness such that the
individual lives in an

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atmosphere of oneness with the
entire creation, breathes in the

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awareness of the spirit and
moves under its impulsion.

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At that point the Spirit rules
1's life and actions when

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becomes liberated from
attachment to the desires and

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fulfilments of the ego
personality and acts under the

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direction and force of the
spiritual purpose in the

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manifested universe.
The Mother observes.

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Quote.
For the moment the Spirit plays

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the part of a helper and guide,
but it is not the all powerful

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Master of the material
manifestation.

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When the Super Mind is organized
into a new world, the Spirit

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will become the Master and
govern nature in a clear and

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visible way.
What is called new birth is the

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birth into the spiritual life,
the spiritual consciousness.

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It is to carry in oneself
something of the spirit, which

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individually, through the soul,
can begin to rule the life and

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be the master of existence.
But in the Super mental world,

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the spirit will be the master of
this entire world and all its

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manifestations, all its
expressions, consciously,

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spontaneously, naturally, in the
individual existence.

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That is what makes all the
difference, so long as one just

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speaks of the spirit and it is
something one is read about

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whose existence 1 vaguely knows
about, but not a very concrete

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reality for the consciousness.
This means that one is not born

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into the spirit, and when one is
born into the spirit, it becomes

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something much more concrete,
much more living, much more

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real, much more tangible than
the whole material world.

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And this is what makes the
essential difference between

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beings.
When that becomes spontaneously

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real, the true concrete
existence, the atmosphere 1 can

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freely breathe, then one knows
one has crossed over to the

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other side.
But so long as it is something

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rather vague and hazy, you've
heard about it.

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You know that it exists, but it
has no concrete reality.

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Well, this means that the new
birth has not yet taken place.

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As long as you tell yourself
yes, this I can see this, I can

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touch the pain I suffer from,
the hunger that torments me, the

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sleep that makes me feel heavy.
This is real.

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This is concrete, Mother laughs.
That means you have not yet

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crossed over to the other side.
You are not born into the

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spirit.
End Quote.

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Reference Sri Aurobindo and the
Mother Powers Within, Chapter

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22, Spirit, pages 164 to 165.