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The Three Gunas, Their Role in the Difficulties and Obstacles in the Yogic Development, and the Certainty of Success When the Divine Call is Present · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The importance of the rule of the three gunas, the qualities
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  of nature cannot be overemphasized.
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  Each of these qualities has both its positive aspects and its
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  downsides. And they are functional in all
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  life. They're continually in
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  fluctuation and intermix with one another to create the events
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  and circumstances that play out in our lives.
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  This remains true. Even for those who take up the
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  spiritual life, the focus quality, and process of the
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  spiritual practice are all conditioned by the gunas and
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  their action. There seems to be considerable
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  misunderstanding about the action of the gunas as people
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  indicate that they are becoming such a quick with the idea that
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  the qualities of light Harmony and calm, understanding that
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  accompany this Guna. You are the total requirement.
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  What is overlooked here? Is that even software has its
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  difficulties and can pose obstacles to spiritual progress
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  at a certain stage as well as the fact that Rodgers is needed
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  to provide energy in the Life action and that Thomas has its
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  role in providing a stable foundational platform.
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  What is required is a detailed insight to the actions of the
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  three gunas. The application of their
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  positive benefits for the spiritual practice, and the need
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  to overcome the obstacles. Each one puts in the way of the
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  progress. Another issue is the frequently
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  held idea that once one takes up spiritual practice, the action
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  of the gunas is no longer to be regarded.
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  And that somehow the Divine operates through some miraculous
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  mechanism that overturns and overrides the gunas.
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  This creates a duality of the Divine creation, being built
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  upon the basis of the gunas, and the Seeker somehow being
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  extracted from this foundation and basis of the entire Fire
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  Creation, The Divine appears to favor The evolutionary and
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  systematic growth and development.
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  Within the overarching framework that has been set up, SRI,
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  aurobindo observes, quote, the spiritual change, which yoga
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  demands from Human Nature, and individual character is
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  therefore full of difficulties. When may almost say that it's
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  the most difficult of all human. Crimson efforts in so far as it
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  can get this up quick, and the reg Asik kinetic elements to
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  assist it. Its path is made easier.
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  But even this up, which element can resist by attachment to Old
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  ideas to preconceived, notions to mental preferences, and
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  partial, judgments to opinions, and reasonings, which come in
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  the way of higher truth, and to which it is attached.
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  The kinetic element resist by its egoism, its passions desires
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  and strong attachments. It's vanity and self-esteem.
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  It's constant habit of demand and many other obstacles.
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  The resistance of the vital has, a more violent character than
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  the others and it brings to the aid of the others.
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  Its own violent, and passion and that is a source of all the
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  acute difficulty Revolt up. Evils and disorders, which Mar
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  the course of the yoga. The Divine is there, but he does
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  not ignore the conditions, the laws, the circumstances of
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  nature. It is under these conditions
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  that he does. All his work.
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  His work in the world and in man, and consequently also in
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  the Sadiq, the aspirant, even in the God.
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  No, her. And God lover, even the saint.
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  And the sage continue to have difficulties and to be limited
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  by their human. Nature.
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  A complete Liberation and a complete Perfection, or the
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  complete possession of the Divine and possession by the
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  Divine is possible. But it does not usually happen
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  by an easy Miracle or a series of Miracles, the miracle can and
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  does happen. But only when there is the full
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  call and complete self-giving of the Soul, And the entire widest
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  opening of the nature still, if the call of the soul is there,
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  although not yet, full, however, great and obstinate, the
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  difficulties, there can be no final and irretrievably failure.
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  Even when the thread is broken, it is taken up again and
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  reunited and carried to its end. There is a working in the nature
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  itself in response to the inner need, which however slowly
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  brings about the result and quote reference SRI aurobindo in
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  the mother growing within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 6 growth of consciousness.
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  These difficulties and pitfalls Pages, 110 to 111.