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Dealing with Mental Resistance to Attempts to Silence the Mind · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  It is quite natural for an individual particularly a Seeker
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  attempting to make progress in the yogic process to internalize
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  the difficulties and blame them on his own weakness.
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  Incapacity or lack of willpower. The reality however is that this
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  is a continuation of the egocentric Viewpoint and does
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  not represent the complete facts of the situation.
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  Since thought is universal, the resistance arises in Universal
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  nature and attaches itself to the individual through affinity
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  and receptivity. To the vibration that is taking
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  place. Whenever an individual focus is
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  on something positively or negatively, he creates an
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  affinity to those vibrations. And thus the opportunity for the
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  force. In this instance, one of
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  resistance to enter the being there is a type of filtering
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  process that occurs based on the inner focus and the general
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  vibrational receptivity as an individual develops, new focus
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  and interests. Old preoccupations tend to
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  gradually be reduced or eliminated.
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  We see this with children as they grow out of the things that
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  kept them occupied at each stage of their development.
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  For an active Seeker, the separation of the Consciousness.
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  So as to be able to observe these activities in the mind
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  becomes a great Aid in, not getting caught up in the ego
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  struggles, and then being able to understand the process, This
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  as it gradually develops. The mother observes quote.
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  Now, if it so happens that you have decided to progress and if
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  you enter the path of yoga, then a new Factor intervenes As soon
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  as you want to progress, you immediately meet the resistance
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  of everything that does not want to progress both in you and
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  around you. And this resistance naturally,
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  expresses itself in all the thoughts that correspond to it.
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  suppose that you want to make a progress regarding attachment to
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  food, for example, will almost constantly they will come to.
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  You thoughts particularly interested in food about what
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  should be taken, what should not be taken, how it should be
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  taken, how it should not be taken.
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  And these ideas will come to you, they will seem quite
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  natural to you. And the more you say within
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  yourself, oh, how I would like to be free from all that, what a
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  hindrance to my progress are all these preoccupations.
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  The more will they come quietly? Until the progress is truly made
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  within and you have risen to a level of Consciousness where you
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  can see all these things from above and put them in their
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  place, which is not a very big place in the universe and so on,
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  for all things, Therefore your occupations and affinities are
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  going to put you almost contradictorily into contact.
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  Not only with ideas having an affinity.
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  Relation with your way of being, but with the opposite.
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  And if you don't take care from the beginning to keep an
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  attitude of discernment, you will be turned into a mental
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  battle field and quote, reference SRI aurobindo in the
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  mother living within the yoga approach to psychological health
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  and growth, disturbances of Mind unruly and perturbing thoughts
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