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THE NOTION OF GROWTH
The sutra mentions three elements. Yet this does not mean that each element would constitute a path all by itself. The text clarifies that only the combined application of all three factors: - the intuitive notion how to find the one path that will optimally unfold higher insight and experience within us, - our conscious understanding of the mechanisms that
cause this unfolding of consciousness and - our consequent application of all the abilities and
knowledge we gained by this process in action will open the dormant levels of consciousness that far exceed all Western imagination.
SUTRA 2 तत्त्वार्थश्रद्धानं सम्यग्दर्शनम् ॥ २ ॥ Tattvarthashraddhana samyagdarshanam (2) Confidence in the purpose of reality is the origin of our notion of growth (samyag darshana). (2)
The striving for fulfillment (manifestation, realization) of all the values and ideas we feel deep inside us, is one of the fundamental characteristics of our existence.
It is the purpose of reality to enable the realization of all these ideas, ideals, values and concepts. The purpose of reality is a growth-process in which our inner striving for these values becomes physical experience.
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