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April 16, 2025

Weakness of Limitation or the Power of Omnipotence Depends on the Status of Consciousness

Weakness of Limitation or the Power of Omnipotence Depends on the Status of Consciousness

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within, Chapter 2, Looking at Oneself and Others, pg. 52This episode is also available as a blog post https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/04/14/weakness-of-limitation-or-the-power-of-omnipotence-depends-on-the-status-of-consciousness/

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When we are feeling weak or
limited, we become unhappy.

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We react with frustration and
are discontented with our lot.

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We feel, in many cases,
oppressed by circumstances.

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We can become depressed if
things are not going the way we

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expect or want them to go.
We can become angry with

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ourselves, with others, with
circumstances, with a general

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lack of what we desire to see or
achieve.

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A shift of our standpoint to the
divine standpoint, while it does

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not imply a change in what
actually takes place in the

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world, is able to provide us the
wider context and the peace that

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comes with understanding how the
ego, personality and its

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existence fits into that larger
picture.

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And it is certainly possible
that with this new viewpoint and

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understanding, the individual
can actually mitigate what

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otherwise would have happened
while he was immersed in the ego

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standpoint and thus unable to
conceptualize the bigger picture

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and understand the larger forces
at play, their momentum,

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trajectory, and potential
impact.

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The 1st result is thus a sense
of contentment or peace, knowing

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that the struggles of the
individual, ego personality are

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part of a larger universal
movement of which one is a

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participant.
The 2nd result is one that

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focuses on how to use the Nexus
of the individual to aid in the

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changes needed and the possible
transformation of energies.

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This can provide the individual
with a sense of purpose and at

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the same time and understanding
from a wider perspective of the

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complexity, time and necessary
steps involved, so that the

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individual can act with a sense
of strength and not become

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discouraged or upset by the
steps along the way, any

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obstacles or temporary setbacks,
the mother writes.

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Quote basically.
Disgust, revolt, anger.

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All these movements of violence
are necessary movements of

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ignorance and limitation, with
all the weakness that limitation

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represents.
Revolt is a weakness.

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It is the feeling of an impotent
will.

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You will, or you think you will.
You feel, you see that things

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are not as they should be, and
you revolt against whatever does

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not agree with what you see.
But if you were all powerful, if

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your will and your vision were
all powerful, there would be no

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occasion for you to revolt.
You would always see that all

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things are as they should be.
If we go to the highest level

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and unite with the consciousness
of the Supreme Will, we see at

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every second, at every moment of
the universe, that all is

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exactly as it should be, exactly
as the Supreme wills it.

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This is omnipotence, and all
movements of violence become not

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only unnecessary but utterly
ridiculous.

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Therefore, there is only one
solution to unite ourselves by

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aspiration, concentration,
interiorization and

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identification with the Supreme
Will, and that is both

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omnipotence and perfect freedom
at the same time.

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And that is the only omnipotence
and the only freedom.

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Everything else is an
approximation.

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You may be on the way, but it is
not the entire thing.

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So if you experience this, you
realize that with this supreme

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freedom and supreme power, there
is also a total peace and a

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serenity that never fails.
Therefore, if you feel something

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which is not that, a revolt, A
disgust, something which you

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cannot accept, it means that in
you there is a part which has

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not been touched by the
transformation, something which

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has kept the old consciousness,
something which is still on the

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path, That is all.
End Quote.

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Reference Srioro Bindu and the
Mother, Looking from Within,

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Chapter 2.
Looking at Oneself and Others,

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page 52.