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RE: Basic Humanity - 7/8/2008 12:31:20 AM

bernie

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Peace is the true remedy; distraction by hard work is only a temporary relief - although a certain amount of work is necessary for the proper balance of the different parts of the being. To feel the peace above and about your head is a first step; you have to get connected with it and it must descend into you and fill your mind and life and body and surround you so that you live in it - for this peace is the one sign of the Divine's presence with you, and once you have it all the rest will begin to come.

If the consciousness awakens and there is devotion and intensity of aspiration, it will be possible for the mind, provided it learns quietude and peace, to grow in knowledge...There is a place in the inner being where one can always remain calm and from there look with poise and judgment on the perturbations of the surface consciousness and act upon it to change it. If you learn to live in that calm of the inner being, you will have found your stable basis.

It is only from that inner state that one can be stronger than life and its disturbing forces and hope to conquer...A spiritual atmosphere is more important than outer conditions; if one can get that and also create one's own spiritual air to breathe in and live in it, that is the true condition of progress.

- (Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga)

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RE: Basic Humanity - 7/12/2008 3:52:37 AM

bernie

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The action of the subconscient (id) is irrational, mechanical, repetitive. It does not listen to reason or the mental will. It is only by bringing the higher Lignt and Force into it that it can change...The subconscient is the main cause why all things repeat themselves (perseverate ad nauseam) and nothing ever gets changed except in appearance. It is the cause why people say character cannot be changed, the cause also of the constant return of things one hoped to have got rid of forever. All seeds are there and all Samskaras (formed habits and associations) of the mind, vital (life-force), and body - it is the main support of death and disease and the last fortress (seemingly impregnable) of the Ignorance (Avidya, Maya, absence of Light). All, too, that is suppressed without being wholly got rid of sinks down there, and remains as seed, ready to surge or sprout up at any moment.

- (Ibid.)