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Spiritual Sadhana Varies by Individual Based on Temperament and Situation of the Sadhak. · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Not everyone can achieve spiritual progress using exactly
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  the same methods or disciplines the one-size-fits-all approach
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  Tried by Many religious or spiritual communities of the
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  past only works. If their members are all
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  basically similar in temperament and their Spiritual Development,
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  we have, of course heard the stories of individuals who enter
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  a monastery and who seemed to be always Always getting in trouble
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  because they cannot maintain silence all the time or are not
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  serious enough in their demeanor for the rest of the community.
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  We've heard also, the stories of young energetic individuals
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  being forced to Tamp down their vital enthusiasm artificial to
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  fit in. SRI aurobindo makes an effort to
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  ensure that individual sadhaks not be artificially judgmental
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  about the spiritual practice or discipline followed by another
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  individual, which differs from that of someone else.
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  There was an individual residing, a tree or window
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  ashram during most of 1973 an early 1974 who for a period of
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  time, followed an inner discipline of managing speech.
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  His method was to speak, not socially, but to write on a pad
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  in response to questions, however, he agreed to speak,
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  when it came to the work. He was assigned.
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  So, as to ensure good communication, he did not
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  participate. In the normal discussions, were
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  banter at the dining hall or even in the samadhi, courtyard.
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  But he did not appear. To be hostile to anyone and did
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  not take exception to anyone who wanted to speak or socialize in
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  any way he was considered to be somewhat different but no one
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  interfered with the direction of his sadhna.
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  During that period. SRI aurobindo, observes quote.
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  I think no rule can be laid down applicable to all.
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  There are some who have the expansive tendency of the vital
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  others who have the concentrative.
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  The latter are absorbed in their own intensity of endeavor and
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  certainly they gather from that, a great force for progress and
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  are saved the expense and loss of energy, which frequently
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  comes to the more communicative and also make themselves Less
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  open to reactions from others. Though, this cannot be
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  altogether avoided, the others need to communicate.
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  What is in them? And cannot wait for the fullness
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  before they use what they have. Even they may need to give out
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  as well as to take in in order to progress.
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  The only thing is that they must balance the two Tendencies
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  concentrating to receive from above as much or more than they
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  open side ways to distribute. That mixing with people laughing
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  and joking etcetera, is it kind of vital expensiveness?
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  It is not vital strength. This expansiveness is also
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  expensive for when there is this mixing the vitally strong, get
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  strength from it, but the vitally week expand what
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  strength, they have, and become weaker and quote, reference, SRI
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  aurobindo, integral yoga, SRI aurobindo teaching In method of
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  practice, chapter 11, human relationships, in yoga, mixing
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  with others Pages, 332 2335.