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The Origin of Joy · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  There's a difference between joy and enjoyment, enjoyment is a
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  more or less passive State such as when we enjoy some form of
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  entertainment. Joy, on the other hand is an
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  active status, which Rises spontaneously through
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  involvement and action. If we observe children we see
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  that they experience a true state of Joy.
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  When they are able to do something, whether it is
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  learning how to jump for the first time we're helping their
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  mother in some activity, or simply running playing and
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  experiencing life actively. Those who have this spontaneous
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  ability to Simply participate and act have a welling up of Joy
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  internally. Similarly, when we set out to
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  work on some project achieve or accomplish some action, we have
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  the joy of the action which is much more real and intense than
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  the enjoyment of adulation or success that follows when
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  others, appreciate the result. The mother writes quote, it is
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  only effort in whatever domain it be material effort, moral
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  effort, intellectual effort, which creates in the being
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  certain, vibrations, which enable you to get connected with
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  universal vibrations. And it is this, which gives Joy.
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  It is effort which pulls you out of inertia.
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  It is effort. Which makes you receptive to the
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  universal forces. And the one thing above all,
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  which spontaneously gives Joy. Even to those who do not
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  practice yoga, who have no spiritual aspiration who lead
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  quite an ordinary life is the exchange of forces with
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  universal forces. People do not know this, they
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  would not be able to tell you that it is due to this, but so
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  it is, there are people who are just like beautiful animals, all
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  their movements are harmonious. Their energies are spent
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  harmoniously their uncalculated efforts call in energies all the
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  time, and they are always happy. But sometimes they have no
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  thoughts in their head. Sometimes they have no feelings
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  in their heart. They live in altogether,
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  anomalous. Schleif I have known people like
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  that, beautiful animals, they were handsome.
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  Their gestures were harmonious, their forces quite balanced.
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  And they spent without Reckoning and received without measure,
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  they were in harmony with the material Universal forces and
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  they lived in Joy. They could not perhaps of told
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  you that they were happy joy with them was so spontaneous
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  that it was natural. And they would have been still
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  less able to tell you why. For their intelligence was not
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  very developed. I have known such people who are
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  capable of, making the necessary effort, not a prudent and
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  calculated effort, but a spontaneous one in, no matter
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  what, field material, vital intellectual Etc.
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  And in this effort there was always Joy.
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  For example, a man sits down to write a book, he makes an
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  effort, which sets vibrating something in his brain to
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  attract ideas will suddenly this man experiences Joy.
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  It is quite certain that whatever you do even the most
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  material work, like sweeping a room or cooking.
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  If you make the necessary effort to do this work to the maximum
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  of your ability, you will feel Joy.
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  Even if what you do is again, Your nature.
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  When you want to realize something, you make quite
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  spontaneously the necessary effort this, concentrate your
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  energies on the thing to be realized and that gives a
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  meaning to your life. This compels you to a sort of
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  organization of yourself, a sort of concentration of your
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  energies because it is this that you wish to do and not 50 other
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  things which contradicted and it is.
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  In this concentration, this intensity of the, will that lies
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  the origin of Joy? This gives you the power to
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  receive energies in exchange for those you spend. and quote,
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  reference SRI aurobindo in the mother living within the yoga
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  approach to psychological health and growth, disturbances of the
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  vital boredom, and lack of energy Pages 53 to 56,