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The Individual Seeker and the Best Path Forward in the Practice of the Yoga · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  As each individual tries to understand his life and purpose,
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  he begins a process of observation review, and
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  experimentation. At this stage, many Seekers have
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  little clue about the path. That is best suited for them and
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  they may try to find out different approaches.
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  Once a path has been identified, they believe in many cases, this
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  is the best path and they begin to recommend it to others.
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  It is however frequently the case that what suits one
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  individual will not suit the next one.
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  Either there is a temperamental difference, a developmental
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  difference, or a different starting point where life,
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  circumstance, that requires each to find his own unique Way
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  Forward. And follow his own path to
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  realization and transformation of the nature.
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  Thus, there is no one absolute Way Forward and each path has
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  its own obstacles and difficulties along the way and
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  relies on different aspects of the being To progress along the
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  way, the common theme is the need to overcome the basic
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  limitations of the human individual as presently
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  constituted with the drag of the physical limitations, the
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  workings of desire and the vital nature and the limits of the
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  mentality. And it's narrow and very limited
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  view as well as its openness to the influence of the desire,
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  soul to bias the decisions, it makes worse.
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  Supports the mother writes quote.
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  Everyone must follow his path in accordance with his own nature.
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  And there is always a preference for one way rather than another
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  For one who follows the path of action, it is much more
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  difficult to feel that the human personality does not exist.
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  And that only the Divine Force works For one who follows The
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  Path of Knowledge, it is relatively very easy.
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  It is something one, discovers almost immediately for one who
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  follows the path of love, it is Elementary since it is by giving
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  himself that he progresses. But for one who follows the path
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  of action, it is much more difficult and consequently for
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  him, the first step is to do what is said, here in the
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  passage of the synthesis of yoga, which we have just read To
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  create and himself this complete Detachment from the fruit of
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  action to act because this is what must be done to do it in
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  the best possible way and not to be anxious about the
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  consequences to leave the consequences to a will higher
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  than his own. SRI aurobindo writes in the
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  synthesis of yoga. It is then by a transformation
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  of life and it's very principled not by an external manipulation
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  of its phenomena that the integral yoga proposes to change
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  it from a troubled and ignorant into a luminous and harmonious
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  movement of nature. There are three conditions which
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  are indispensable for the achievement of this Central.
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  Inner Revolution and a new formation, none of them is
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  altogether. Sufficient in itself.
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  But by their United threefold Power.
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  The uplifting can be done. The conversion made and
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  completely made for first life as it is is a movement of desire
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  and it has built-in us as its Center.
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  A desire Soul? Which refers to itself all the
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  Motions of life and puts in them.
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  Its own troubled Hue and pain of an ignorant half-lit baffled
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  endeavor. For a Divine living, desire must
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  be abolished and replaced by a pure and firmer Motive Power.
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  The tormented soul of Desire dissolved and in its stead,
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  there must emerge. The calm strength happiness of a
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  true vital being now, concealed within us.
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  Next life as it is, is driven or LED partly by the impulse of the
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  life-force partly, by a mind, which is mostly a servant and a
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  better of the ignorant life impulse.
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  But in part also it's uneasy and not to luminous or competent
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  guide and Mentor for Divine Life.
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  The mind and the life impulse must cease to be anything but
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  instruments and the inmost psychic being must take their
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  place. As the leader on the path and
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  the indicator of a Divine guidance.
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  Last life as it is, is turn towards the satisfaction of the
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  separate of ego, ego must disappear and be replaced by the
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  true spiritual person. The central being and life
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  itself must be turned towards the Fulfillment of the Divine in
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  terrestrial existence. It must feel a Divine Force
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  awaken within it and become an obedient instrumentation of its
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  purpose. The mother continues quote.
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  One can't make a general rule for the order of importance of
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  the paths. It is an exclusively personal
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  Affair and there is a time when one understands very well it is
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  apparent that no two paths are alike.
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  No two paths can be alike. And that every man follows his
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  own path and that this is the truth of his being one can.
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  If one looks from a sufficient height, see a difference in the
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  speed of advance. But it does not always conform
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  to the external signs and one could say a little humorously
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  that it is not always the wisest who goes fastest and quote
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  reference SRI aurobindo, and 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 103 to 105