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Dealing with the Physical Mind in the Integral Yoga · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Practitioners of spiritual and religious disciplines.
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  Inevitably are confronted with the habits and expectations of
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  the physical mind in day-to-day life.
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  There is a constant pressure to provide regular meals.
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  That suit. The tastes of the individual
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  comfortable surroundings to support the day-to-day life and
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  provide a safe and secure shelter.
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  There is the inevitable pressure for regularity in the regiment.
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  Owen and the physical demands for acquisition of the food
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  clothing, shelter, sexual satisfaction Etc.
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  That come with life in the world.
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  This does not speak to the added demands of the vital nature that
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  can lead to Greed lust, excessive hunger, Etc, but to
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  the basic needs and habits of the physical nature
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  practitioners have tried through the centuries.
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  Many strategies to address these needs.
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  Some try to suppress them forcefully and even use self
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  torture or extreme fasting or privation in the desert as ways
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  to school, the physical nature, to not put attention on these
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  things and to thereby allow the focus on the spiritual or
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  religious Quest. These methods, however,
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  frequently tend to accentuate the focus and difficulty and
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  rather than solving the problem they tend to actually Embed them
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  deeply in the day-to-day undertakings of the Seeker.
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  Suppression has been compared to coiling a spring.
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  Putting it under extreme pressure.
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  Such that when it finds an outlet, it explodes with an
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  increased force of action. Others try to solve these issues
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  by simplifying the life in some cases, by adopting the begging
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  bowl and relying on what is received from one day to the
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  next as the sustenance for the body again, much time and effort
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  tends. To be devoted to this activity.
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  SRI aurobindo acknowledges that suppression tends not to work.
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  And he does counsels that the impulses and habitual thoughts,
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  be observed, but not focused on or accentuated.
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  Rather to keep the focus and aspiration fixed on the
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  spiritual dedication and bring a state of quiet and peaceful
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  acceptance that does not get bothered by the actions of the
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  physical nature. Eventually, with the Advent of
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  the higher super, mental Force into the physical mind, and
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  physical body, the power to modify, or remove, these
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  habitual patterns, will come. But in the interim, it is best
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  to focus on the path forward and minimize the attention, given to
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  the habits of the physical mind and nature.
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  SRI aurobindo writes, quote. What you have now seen and
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  described in your letter is the ordinary activity of the
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  physical mind, which is full of ordinary habitual and constantly
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  recurrent thoughts. And is always busy with external
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  objects and activities. What used to trouble you before?
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  Was the vital mind, which is different for that is always
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  occupied with emotions, passions desires, reactions of all kinds
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  to the context of Life and the behavior of others.
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  The physical mind also can be responsive with these things,
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  but in a different way, its nature is less that of Desire
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  than of Habitual activity, small common interests, pains and
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  Pleasures. If one tries to control or
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  suppress it, it becomes more active to deal.
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  With this mind. Two things are necessary.
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  One not so, So much to try to control or fight with, or
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  suppress it as to stand back from it.
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  One looks at it and sees what it is but refuses to follow, its
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  thoughts or run about among the objects.
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  It pursues remaining at the back of the Mind, quiet and separate
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  into two, practice quietude and concentration in this.
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  Separateness until the habit of quiet takes, hold of the
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  physical mind. And and replaces the habit of
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  these small activities. This of course, takes time and
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  can only come by practice. It is the nature of the physical
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  mind, not to believe, or accept anything that is super physical
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  unless it is enlightened and compelled by the Light to do it.
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  Do not identify yourself with this mind.
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  Do not consider it as yourself but only as an obscure
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  functioning of nature, call down the light into it until it is
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  compelled to believe. And quote, reference, SRI
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  aurobindo, integral yoga, SRI aurobindo teaching and method of
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  practice, chapter 9, transformation of the nature
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  transformation of the Mind pages to 42 to 45.
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  And quote, reference, SRI aurobindo, integral yoga, SRI
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  aurobindo teaching and method of practice, chapter 9,
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  transformation of the nature transformation of the Mind pages
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  to 42 to 45.