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The physical consciousness is always in everybody in its own
nature a little inert and in it a constant strong aspiration is
not natural, it has to be created. But first there must be the
opening, a purification, a fixed quietude, otherwise the physical
vital will turn the strong aspiration into over-eagerness and
impatience or rather it will try to give it that turn. Do not there-
fore be troubled if the state of the nature seems to you to be
too neutral and quiet, not enough aspiration and movement
in it. This is a passage necessary for the progress and the rest
will come.
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Aspiration and Conversion
Those who come here have an aspiration and a possibility
— something in their psychic being pushes and if they follow
it, they will arrive; but that is not conversion. Conversion is a
definite turning of the being away from lower things towards
the Divine.
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Aspiration can lead hereafter to conversion; but aspiration is
not conversion.
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Conversion is a spontaneous movement of the consciousness,
a turning of it away from external things towards the Divine. It
comes usually as the result of a touch from within and above.
Self-consecration may help to open one to the touch or the
touch may come of itself. But conversion may also come as the
culmination of a long process of aspiration and tapasya. There
is no fixed rule in these things.
If the psychic being comes to the front, then conversion
becomes easy or may come instantaneously or the conversion
may bring the psychic being to the front. Here again there is
no rule.
CWSA 29: 55-63 Sri Aurobindo

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