Understanding the Mechanism of the External Nature and the Way to Overcome Its Limitations

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As the secret attempts to follow
a spiritual path, he frequently

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finds that he struggles with old
habits, desires, feelings,

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Cravings, emotions and ideas.
He believes these are part of

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who he is and he thus cannot
find a way to overcome them in

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some cases, he is deeply
attached to some of these things

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as expressing his unique
personality.

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He does not have any key as to
how to go about a self exceeding

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in this circumstance.
SRI aurobindo provides Insight.

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That Aid.
The Seeker in first distancing

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himself from all of these things
and second gaining Mastery.

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Over them with the leverage
provided by knowledge and

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Detachment.
The clue is the separation of

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the witness Consciousness from
the active nature.

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The Seeker becomes the Observer
of all these forces energies and

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impulsions as they act upon his
external nature.

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He begins to recognize that
these things are not himself but

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are based on a habit of
acceptance and responds to

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forces and energies that come
from outside.

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The individual is something of a
radio receiver rather than the

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originator of the content.
At some point when he recognizes

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that these things therefore are
not essential parts of himself.

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He is able to begin to reject
their action within himself and

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change the focus.
SRI aurobindo observes quote,

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men do not know themselves and
have not learned to distinguish

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the different parts of their
being for these are usually

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lumped together by them as mind
because it is through a mental

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lived, perception and
understanding that they know or

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feel them.
Therefore, they do not

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understand their own States and
actions or if at all, then only

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on the surface.
It is part of the foundation of

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yoga to become conscious of the
great complexity of our nature.

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See the different forces, that
move it and get over it.

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A control of directing
knowledge.

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We are composed of many parts,
Each of which contributes

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something to the total movement
of our Consciousness, our

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thought will sensation feeling
action, but we do not see the

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origination.
Or the course of these

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impulsions, we are aware only of
they're confused and pell-mell

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results on the surface upon,
which we can at best impose

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nothing better than a precarious
shifting order, man is not made

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up of one piece, but of many
pieces, and each part of him has

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a personality of its own.
That is a thing, which people

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yet have not sufficiently
realized the psychologists.

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Have begun to Glimpse it.
But recognized only when there

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is a Mark Case of double or
multiple personality but all men

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are like that in reality and
quote, Reference SRI aurobindo

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in the mother.
Our many selves practical yogic

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psychology chapter one, our
manifold being Pages for 25.