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June 30, 2023

Unifying the Entire Being Around the Aspiration for the Divine

Unifying the Entire Being Around the Aspiration for the Divine

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Chapter 1, Our Manifold Being, pg. 6


This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/06/28/unifying-the-entire-being-around-the-aspiration-for-the-divine/

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A spiritual Seeker identifies
with his aspiration and the

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focus and actions that come
about as a result of that

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aspiration.
It may be acts of prayer acts of

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giving acts of consecration acts
of meditation or dedicated

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works.
During the moments that he is

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engaged in these acts, he feels
like the spiritual purpose of

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his life is being carried out.
Yet when he turned to the other

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times of his life, the times
when devotion and consecration

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are not at the very Forefront
and he is asked to carry out the

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needs of living in the world of
responding to the opportunities,

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pressures concerns and
temptations of the external

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life.
He often finds that he is

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carried away by desires.
He experiences greed or

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jealousy?
Or anger or lust, or any number

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of other feelings that reside in
his untransformed and not yet

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transformed physical vital, or
mental nature.

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There are Tales of Yogi's who
spend years in silent meditation

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in a cave or forest retreat who
come into the world.

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At some point, they believe they
have achieved Liberation and

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then they see an object of
desire and give in to that

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Force.
There are Tales of yogic

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practitioners who are enticed at
some point by money wealth, fame

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or sex.
The verdict is, that they are

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outright Hypocrites, but that
may not be.

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In fact, the actual case
somewhere within them there is a

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true aspiration, a true
consecration, But they have not

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done the work of identifying
modifying and unifying their

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entire nature around that
aspiration.

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So when the circumstances arise,
the seeds of Desire Sprout and

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grow the mother writes quote,
your being is full of

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innumerable, Tendencies at war
with one another almost

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different personalities.
We may say, When one of them

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gives itself to the Divine, the
others come up and refuse their

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allegiance, we have not given
ourselves.

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They cry and start clamoring for
their independence and

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expression, then you bid them,
be quiet and show them the truth

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patiently who have to go around
your whole being exploring each

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Nook and Corner facing.
All those anarchic elements in

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U, which are waiting for their
Psychological moment to come up

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and it is only when you have
made the entire round of your

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mental, vital and physical
nature, persuaded everything to

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give itself to the Divine and
thus achieved an absolute

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unified.
Consecration that you put an end

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to your difficulties then
indeed.

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Yours is a glorious.
Walk towards transformation for

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you.
No longer go from Darkness to

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now. knowledge, but from
knowledge to knowledge, light to

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light, happiness to happiness
and quote, reference SRI

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aurobindo, and the mother, our
many selves practical yogic

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psychology chapter one, our
manifold being paid six