The Way to Make Steady and Lasting Progress in Spiritual Growth

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When we begin to observe
ourselves the thoughts, we

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entertain the emotions, we
express the feelings we have and

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accept the physical reactions
that occur within ourselves.

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It soon becomes clear that we
are more reactive than active.

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We respond to energies,
vibrations pressures, from

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outside ourselves.
We are conditioned educated and

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manipulated through external,
stimuli social, media,

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advertising campaigns and social
pressures to think a certain way

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to believe certain things.
To respond in approved wave.

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What of all of this can we truly
say belongs to our own self our

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own individuality and has not
been simply created or shaped by

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these external forces acting
upon us.

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Even the shaping pressure does
not build a totally constant and

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consistent individuality, we
tend to change our reactions

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based on the situations we face.
Even if we have a generally

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consistent personality complex,
this to is dependent on the

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fluctuation of the gunas as well
as differences of time and

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Circumstance.
So that what we consider to be

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our normal mode of response, may
undergo a radical alteration.

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When we are confronted with some
new force acting upon us, we

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take on the appearance of a
radio receiver, the changes its

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station based on whatever the
loudest signal from outside

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happens to be at the moment, the
underlying issue is that the

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Mind life body complex that
makes up what we consider to be

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our personality, our ego
personality, if you will, Is not

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a fixed formation and does not
in the end.

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Constitute our true selves.
The famous dictum know thyself

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is intended to take us deeper
than the surface personality.

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Just as Ramana maharshi's famous
question, who am I is meant to

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take us beyond the shape of the
ego that we represent normally

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as ourselves from the world.
The mother observes quote till

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the self-giving is firmly
psychic.

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There will be disturbances, the
interval of dark moments between

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bright ones.
It is only the psychic that

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keeps on progressing in an
unbroken line, its movement a

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continuous Ascension.
All other movements are broken

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and discontinuous and it is not
till the psychic is felt as

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yourself that you can be an
individual even for it.

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Is the true self in you before
the true self is known.

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You are a public place, not a
being.

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There are so many clashing
forces working in you, hence if

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you wish to make real progress,
no, your own being You must

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learn to unite, what you call
your individual self with your

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true psychic.
Individuality your present

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individuality is a very mixed
thing, a series of changes which

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yet preserves a certain
continuity, a certain sameness

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or identity of vibration in the
midst of all flux.

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It is almost like a river, which
is never the same and yet has a

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certain definiteness and
Persistence of its own Your

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normal self is merely a shadow
of your true individuality,

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which you will realize only,
when this normal individual,

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which is differently poised at
different times.

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Now, in the mental, then in the
vital at other times, in the

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physical gets into contact with
the psychic and feels it, as

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it's real being, then you will
be one, nothing will shake or

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disturb you, you will.
I'll make steady and Lasting

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progress and quote reference SRI
aurobindo in the mother growing

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within the psychology of inner
development.

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Chapter 8, the psychic being and
inner growth page 162.