The True Condition of Progress in the Spiritual Path

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Shri Krishna taught Arjuna the
lessons of the bhagwad.

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Gita on a battlefield.
The setting is an important

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aspect of the teaching itself.
The inner growth is not

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dependent on outer events or
circumstances conditions will

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always be imperfect.
If not absolutely terrible SRI

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aurobindo in the mother
developed their work during a

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period that spanned two world
wars a world.

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Shaking influenza epidemic and a
massive economic meltdown in the

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world as well as having ushered
in massive changes in

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colonialism and the eventual
departure of the British from

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their colonial control of India.
But not before the provocation

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of Divisions between Hindus and
Muslims and the partition of

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India into Pakistan and India
The conditions in the world were

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anything but peaceful harmonious
and supportive of spiritual

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practice.
Many people speak about how they

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would practice.
More would meditate more If Only

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They had the time or if they had
a peaceful environment or if

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they were not pressured to work
and earn a living or or or SRI

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aurobindo emphasizes that it is
not the outer circumstances that

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count nor can they be
controlled, it is up to the

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individual to To find the inner
peace, the Inner Strength, the

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inner commitment, the inner
aspiration, and the inner Focus

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to carry out the spiritual
practice and progress along the

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path.
No excuses about the outer

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difficulties can get in the way
of the spiritual, aspirant who

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is dedicated to spiritual
realization SRI aurobindo,

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observes, quote, the inner
spiritual progress, does not

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depend on outer conditions, as
much as in the way we react to

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them from within that has always
been the ultimate verdict of

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spiritual experience.
It is why we insist on taking

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the right attitude and
persisting in it, on an

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interstate not dependent on
outer circumstances, a state of

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equality and calm.
If it cannot be at.

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Once of inner happiness, on
going more and more within and

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looking from, within out words,
instead of living in the surface

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mind, which is always at the
mercy of the shocks and blows of

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life.
It is only from that inner

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state, that one can be stronger
than life and it's disturbing

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forces and hope to conquer to
remain quiet within firm and the

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will to go through refusing to
be disturbed or discourage by

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difficulties or fluctuations.
That is one of the first things

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to be learned in the path to do.
Otherwise is to encourage the

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Instability of Consciousness.
The difficulty of keeping

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experience of which you
complain, it is only if you keep

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quiet and steady within that the
lines of experience can go on

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with some steadiness.
Though, they are never without

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periods of interruption and
fluctuation. but these if

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properly treated can then become
periods of assimilation and

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exhaustion of difficulty, rather
than denials of sadhna, The

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spiritual atmosphere is more
important than outer conditions,

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if one can get that and also
create one's own spiritual air

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to breathe in and live in it.
That is the true condition of

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progress and quote.
Reference SRI aurobindo and the

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mother growing within the
psychology of inner development.

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Chapter 3 growth of
Consciousness basic requisites

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