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Understanding Difficulties and Obstacles That Arise During the Yogic Process · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  SRI aurobindo is able to illustrate the different ways
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  that Seekers wind up facing and dealing with difficulties or
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  obstacles that arise during the yogic process.
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  This is not a one-size-fits-all process due to the differing
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  backgrounds starting points capacity and social environment,
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  governing each separate individual, no matter how
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  advanced a particular Sadiq, or practitioner me.
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  Maybe the difficulties are there whether overt on the surface of
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  the being or hidden within and constituting an inner struggle.
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  We learn of difficulties faced by great, spiritual leaders of
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  the past to show us the universality of this truth.
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  Jesus struggled with the devil. Buddha was confronted, by Mara
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  each of them had to live with extreme hardships.
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  Having abandoned either for a time or completely direct
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  involvement in the social, and economic life of the society, in
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  some cases, living in the desert, with privations, or in
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  the forest with privations, Miller a was tasked with hard,
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  physical labor by his Guru for an extended period of time
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  during which he was not allowed to participate in any teachings
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  or meditation practices and thereafter.
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  He lived a life of extreme austerity meditating in caves
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  naked with Nettles for sustenance.
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  SRI aurobindo himself. Spent time in the olive for a
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  jail, as a guest of the British Raj under extreme circumstances.
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  Until he was exonerated at trial, yet in these notably
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  extreme cases. The spiritual process continued.
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  And yielded results that resonate even today from those
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  examples, as illustrations of the difficulties that attend
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  spiritual practice. What we are not fully seeing
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  here are the intense inner struggles.
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  As sincere Seekers grapple with the weaknesses difficulties and
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  limitations of the human instrument, the physical vital,
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  emotional, and mental elements, and the impacts on these that
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  come from external sources. All while trying to overcome
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  habits, develop new directions, and powers of action and refine.
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  And redirect the focus and action of the individual, under
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  the guidance of the psychic being SRI aurobindo notes,
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  quote, yoga has always its difficulties, whatever yoga it
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  be. Moreover it acts in a different
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  way on different speakers. Some have to overcome the
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  difficulties of their nature first, before they get any
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  experiences to speak of others, get a splendid beginning and all
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  the difficulties afterwards. Others.
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  Go on for a long time. Having alternate risings to the
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  top of the wave, and then a descent into the gulf's.
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  And so on, until the difficulty is worked out, Others have a
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  smooth path, which does not mean that they have no difficulties.
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  They have plenty, but they do not care.
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  A straw for them because they feel that the Divine will help
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  them to the goal or that he is with them.
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  Even when they do not feel him, their faith makes them
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  imperturbable. And quote, reference SRI,
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  aurobindo in the mother growing within the psychology of
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  Development chapter 6 growth of Consciousness difficulties and
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  pitfalls page 111.