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Methods for Quieting the Activity of the Mechanical Mind · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The mind seems always to be busy and we seem to have a constant
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  inner commentary about Sensations, perceptions
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  memories. Anticipated activities, hopes
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  and dreams and worries about situations.
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  We need to address. Then there are the drives and
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  Cravings such as hunger thirst or sensations of discomfort pain
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  or desire. The Mind remains constantly busy
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  and there seems to be no way out.
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  When we sit for meditation, we find it almost impossible to get
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  rid of all of this activity. And in fact, simply because we
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  are sitting quietly and trying to still the mind, we become
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  much more aware of the activity, and when we are involved in our
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  constant round of activities externally, SRI aurobindo treats
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  this as a more or less mechanical action of the mind
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  and provides us various tools to address this.
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  The primary Aid is the separation of the witness
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  Consciousness from the active nature.
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  As we shift to this new standpoint, we begin to
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  experience the mechanical action of the Mind as something
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  external to our awareness and thus, it becomes easier to
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  either disregard it or even reject it.
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  It is important. However to exercise patience any
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  impatience represents the stirring of fridge Asik desire,
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  which has the opposite effect and tends to disturb the Mind
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  rather than quiet it. The long habit of the mechanical
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  mind is not something that is resolved in a day.
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  SRI aurobindo notes, quote the mind is always an activity but
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  we do not observe fully what it is doing but allow ourselves to
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  be carried away in the Stream of continual thinking.
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  When we try to concentrate this stream of self-made mechanical
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  thinking becomes prominent to our observation, it is the first
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  normal obstacle. The other is sleep during
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  meditation to Effort for yoga. The best thing to do is to
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  realize that the thought flow is not yourself.
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  It is not you who are thinking, but thought that is going on.
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  In the mind, it is prakrit e with its thought energy.
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  That is Raising all this world of thought in.
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  You imposing it on the purusa, you as the purusa must stand
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  back as the witness, observing the action, but refusing to
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  identify yourself with it. The next thing is to exercise a
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  control and reject the thoughts Though, sometimes by the very
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  Act of Detachment, the thought, habit Falls away or diminishes
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  during the meditation. And there is a sufficient
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  silence or at any rate of quietude, which makes it easy to
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  reject, the thoughts that come and fix oneself on the object of
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  meditation. If one becomes aware of the
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  thoughts, as coming from outside from the universal nature, then
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  one can throw them out before they reach the mind in that way,
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  the Mind finally fall silent. If neither of these things
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  happens, a persistent practice of rejection becomes necessary.
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  There should be no struggle or wrestling with the thought.
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  But only a quiet self separation and refusal.
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  Success does not come at first, but if consent is constantly
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  withheld, the mechanical World eventually ceases and begins to
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  die away and one can then have it.
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  Will an inner quietude or silence. it should be noted that
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  the result of the yogic processes is not except in rare
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  cases, immediate and one must apply, the will patience till
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  they give a result, which is sometimes long in coming if
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  there is much resistance in the outer nature, And quote,
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  reference SRI aurobindo in the mother growing within the
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  psychology of inner development. Chapter 5 growth of
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  Consciousness means and methods Pages 92 to 93,