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Endurance and Persistence Is Essential for the Change of Consciousness Aimed for in the Yogic Practice · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Many people have the mistaken idea that taking up a spiritual
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  practice is somehow due to weakness or inability to deal
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  with the tough conditions of the outer World.
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  They Envision Secrets retreating from the world and living in a
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  Monastery. Cloister or ashram being
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  sheltered. From the worst things, the world
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  can throw at them getting regular meals and a peaceful
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  environment to live out their lives.
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  This is however, not the reality of spiritual practice or
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  development. Spirituality particularly if it
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  is focused on transformation of life, rather than on Liberation
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  that abandons life is not easy, not instant and not without its
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  serious challenges. The struggles may take place
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  inwardly but they represent the attempt to effectuate True.
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  Change in human nature to move beyond the control of the ego
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  personality, and the external being, and to act from a new
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  standpoint, with a new understanding of the
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  significance of life. Along the way therefore there
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  are many setbacks many inner pressures to withstand and
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  eventually many attacks from the forces that do not want to see
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  the change. Take place which gravitate to
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  those undertaking, the effort to try to discourage deter, or
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  destroy them. So, as to preserve the status
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  quo, Seekers also find that the same issue May reoccur with a
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  new energy, when another part of the being is taken up for review
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  and change. So it seems like the same ground
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  has to be fought and we fought time.
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  And again, the main qualities needed to succeed in the
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  spiritual path, are the basic aspiration to change and the
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  endurance to stay the course, no matter how difficult things get
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  Or how long it takes to take the next or the successive steps.
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  Along the way, if you are open to observes quote, everything
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  once gained is there and can be regained, yoga is not a thing
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  that goes by one decisive Rush. One way or the other is a
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  building up of a new Consciousness and is full of ups
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  and downs. But if one keeps to it, the UPS
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  have a habit of resulting by accumulation in a decisive
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  change. Therefore the one thing to do is
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  to keep at it after a fall don't well and say I'm done for but
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  get up dust yourself and proceed farther on the right path
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  reference SRI aurobindo in the mother growing within the
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  psychology of inner development. Chapter 6 growth of
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  Consciousness difficulties and pitfalls page 124.
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  SRI aurobindo in the mother growing within the psychology of
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  inner development. Chapter 6 growth of
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  Consciousness difficulties and pitfalls page 124.