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Equality: the State of Inner Peace in the Face of Provocation · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  How do we typically respond to the situations that we need in
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  the world? We want to fulfill our desires,
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  have our wishes and ideas carried out and have a modicum
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  of control in our lives. When things do not go.
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  As we wish, we become frustrated angry, resentful or otherwise
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  upset on the other side when we get what we are seeking.
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  We experience, Happiness, joy and enthusiastic participation
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  many have pointed out that neither Joy nor sorrow positive,
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  or negative events or circumstances.
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  Are always present. but that they tend to ebb and flow and
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  interchange with one another so that every life meets with its
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  ups and it's Downs in the course of life, In a world of
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  uncertainty, our comfortable lives can be easily upset by War
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  storms, economic disruptions or hostile acts perpetrated upon us
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  where those with whom we are connected.
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  To borrow from the author, Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two
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  Cities. It was the best of times, it was
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  the worst of times. The same holds true for the
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  yogic practitioner who sometimes has outstanding experiences and
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  at other times meets with intense opposition and conflict.
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  There is such a high level of violence in the world, because
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  Humanity has not learned how to deal with the issues that
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  confront us everyday. Domestic violence.
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  Road, rage temper tantrums and angry outbursts are all part of
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  the daily life for many people and hardly given a second
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  thought when things we perceive as positive happen ecstatic
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  Outburst of Joy can occur. Philosophers throughout history,
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  have raised the issue and some such as the stoics, have
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  counseled maintaining an even temper in all circumstances.
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  Others tell us to hold back. Our outbursts and restrain our
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  desires and our anger. Those who attempt this approach
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  frequently find that they are not solving the reaction but
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  bottling it up. Suppressing it with sometimes
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  negative impacts on their health and well-being including high,
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  blood pressure, ulcers, Etc, SRI aurobindo and the mother counsel
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  that the needed poised. For the yogi name is to maintain
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  a state of inner peace and equality to all the touches
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  positive and negative. Give that one experiences in
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  life. This is not an outward
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  suppression of reactions that are then allowed to boil
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  inwardly, but a true solving of the reactive nature such that
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  there is neither an external Outburst nor an inner seething
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  that builds up. Anyone who has attempted, this
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  will easily recognize the difficulty involved in this
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  accomplishment. It is a first foundation for
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  yoga growth and development and require substantial inner
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  awareness to maintain. Calm people generally tend to
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  see strength in the use of Brute Force, both physically, and
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  psychologically. Yet in many cases, this comes as
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  a result of the inner weakness. True strength lies in the
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  ability to not let the touches of Life.
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  Negatively impact the psychological balance of the
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  nature. You are distract from the focus
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  of life. SRI, aurobindo observes, quote.
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  Equality means a quiet and unmoved mind and vital, it means
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  not to be touched or disturbed by things that happen or things
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  said or done to you. But to look at them with a
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  straight, look free from the distortions, created by personal
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  feeling and to try to understand what is behind them.
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  Why they happen, what is to be learned from them, what is it in
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  oneself, which they are Are cast against and what inner profit or
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  progress when can make out of them.
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  It means self Mastery over the vital movements.
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  Anger and sensitiveness and pride, as well as desire on the
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  rest. Not to let them get hold of the
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  emotional being and disturb the inner peace not to speak and act
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  in the rush and impulsion of these things always to act and
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  speak out of a calm in her Poise of the spirit.
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  It is not easy to have this equality in any full perfect
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  measure. But one should always try more
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  and more to make it the basis of one's inner State and outer
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  movement and quote, Reference SRI aurobindo and the mother
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  growing within the psychology of inner development, chapter for
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  growth of Consciousness. First steps and Foundation page.
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  72.