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The Sunlit Path of Yoga · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  For many people, the religious life or the spiritual path is
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  considered to be extremely serious and cheerfulness is
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  considered to be some kind of frivolity.
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  Not be coming to the serious nature of the Endeavor, they
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  make spiritual practice into a harsh discipline and struggle
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  with difficulties and in many cases fight with their nature.
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  As they feel it responding to things differently than they
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  want in extreme cases, they undertake mortification of the
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  body and may use self-flagellation or the Solis
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  in their attempt to punish the body for its sinful ways.
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  They suffer from bouts of self-doubt and depression and
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  wallow in the failures to control their Wayward impulses,
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  many turn their attention to judging others and trying to
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  enforce on others. Those things which they
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  themselves struggle to control. It is a harsh and painful World.
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  They create for themselves and for others with little or no,
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  joy and a considerable amount of suffering.
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  This approach is, however, not the only way to proceed.
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  SRI aurobindo and the mother recommend what they call the
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  sunlit path. This is a path that accepts the
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  difficulties that arise while trying to grow adapt and even
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  change human nature. As part of the work to be done
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  and they can take the Long View, understand the need for patients
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  to carefully work through the habits, actions and reactions of
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  a nature that has been formed through.
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  Countless millennia, Zhenya. They approached the situation
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  with a calm cheerfulness that evidence has their faith in the
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  eventual resolution of all these difficulties as The evolutionary
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  process develops and manifests. The mother notes quote to
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  realize anything. One must be patient and the
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  vaster and more important. The realization, the greater,
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  the patients must be in quote, SRI aurobindo adds quote.
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  Progressive sapna is enormously helped by an assured faith and
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  confidence. Such a confidence helps to
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  realize for it is dynamic and tends to fulfill itself.
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  There is nothing spiritually wrong and being glad and
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  cheerful on the contrary. It is the right thing.
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  There is a sunlit path as well as a gloomy one.
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  And it is the better of the two and quote reference SRI
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  aurobindo in the mother growing within the psychology of inner
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  development. Chapter 3 growth of
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  Consciousness basic requisites page, 60.