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Two Necessary Things in the Practice of the Integral Yoga · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  There's a considerable amount of confusion about objectives and
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  methods related to the practice of the integral Yoga, primarily
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  due to a widely spread ideas about spirituality in general
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  and well known paths and disciplines that have their own
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  fixed methodologies. Integral Yoga has a different
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  objective from traditional spiritual paths, as the goal is
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  not to escape from life but to bring down the next stage of
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  evolutionary expression of consciousness and thereby to
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  transform the actions of mind, life and body and the
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  relationship to the external world within which we live.
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  Essentially, there are two primary needs the Triorubinda
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  sets forth. The practitioner needs to become
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  aware of the psychic being, the sole entity within, that is the
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  spark of the divine presence in the individual.
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  This awareness creates and maintains a direct contact with
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  the divine and has the aspiration and receptivity
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  needed to bring the divine force to bear on the individual's
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  external being. The seeker also needs to find a
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  way to abstract himself from total immersion and involvement
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  in the external ego personality. This is best done through a
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  process of shifting the awareness away from the surface
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  being to the witness consciousness, the Purusha,
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  which is not involved in the actions of the external nature
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  Prakruti. By undertaking these two
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  critical steps, the secret gains the needed perspective and power
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  to effectuate transformative change in the nature over time,
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  Sri Aurobindo observes quote. It is not an undesirable thing
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  for the mind to fall silent, to be free from thoughts and still.
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  For it is oftenest, when the mind falls silent, that there is
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  the full descent of a wide peace from above, and in that wide
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  tranquillity the realization of the silent self above the mind
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  spread out in its vastness everywhere.
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  Only when there is the peace and the mental silence, the vital
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  mind tries to rush in and occupy the place, or else the
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  mechanical mind tries to raise up for the same purpose its
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  round of trivial habitual thoughts.
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  What the sodic has to do is to be careful to reject and hush
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  these outsiders so that during the meditation at least the
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  peace and quietude of the mind and vital may be complete.
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  This can be done best if you keep a strong and silent will.
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  That will is the will of the Purusha behind the mind.
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  When the mind is at peace, when it is silent, one can become
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  aware of the Purusha. Silent also separate from the
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  action of the nature, to be calm, steady, fixed in the
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  spirit. Dhira, Stira.
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  This quietude of the mind, this separation of the inner Purusha
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  from the outer procrity, is very helpful, almost indispensable.
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  So long as the being is subject to the whirl of thoughts or the
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  turmoil of the vital movements. 1 cannot be thus calm and fixed
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  in the spirit. To detach oneself, to stand back
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  from them, to feel them separate from oneself, is indispensable.
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  For this, the discovery of the true individuality and building
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  up of it in the nature, two things are necessary, First, to
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  be conscious of 1's psychic being behind the heart, and
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  next, this separation of the Purusha from the procrity for
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  the true individual is behind veiled by the activities of the
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  outer nature. End Quote.
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  Reference Sri Aurobindo, Bases of Yoga, Chapter 1, Calm, Peace
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  and Equality, pages 3 to 4.