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How to Make Progress in the Practice of Karma Yoga · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We tend to be carried away by the external focus in the work
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  we're doing and thus the presence of Mind needed to
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  remember and offer is set in the background of our awareness.
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  If we reflect on the State of Consciousness, we experience
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  when focused on some external work.
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  We soon find that we can be almost totally absorbed and in
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  fact, that work is generally best accomplished through what
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  may be called, a one pointed concentration.
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  So, how do we convert this work into Karma Yoga?
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  When we are not paying attention at the time of the work to the
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  spiritual Focus, Patience perseverance and time vital
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  nature particularly in the mode of rajas wants and expects
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  instant results and visible progress.
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  The type of changes that are envisioned in the practice of
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  Karma Yoga. However are not easily and
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  completely implemented. They tend to develop over time
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  with persistent, quiet effort, SRI aurobindo describes several
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  ways to phase in the required standpoint, for the individual
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  practicing Karma Yoga, after some time with repeated
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  practice, the resulting status may appear to be almost
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  effortless as it simply occurs to reach that stage.
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  However, the Sadiq needs to be prepared to keep Crying, without
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  any sense of discouragement. SRI aurobindo writes quote, it
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  is easy for one comparatively to remember and be conscious when
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  one sits quiet in meditation. It is difficult when one has to
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  be busy with work. The remembrance and
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  Consciousness in work, have to come by degrees.
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  You must not expect to have it all at once, nobody can get it
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  all at once. It comes in two ways.
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  First, if one practices remembering the mother and
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  offering the work to her. Each time one does something not
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  all the time one is doing, but at the beginning or whenever one
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  can remember, Then that slowly becomes easy and habitual.
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  To the nature. Secondly, by The Meditation and
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  inner Consciousness begins to develop, which after a time not
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  at once, or suddenly becomes more and more, automatically
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  permanent one feels this as a separate Consciousness from that
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  outer which works at first, this separate Consciousness is not
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  felt when one is working. But as soon as the work stops
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  one feels, it was there all the time watching from behind
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  afterwards. It begins to be felt during the
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  work itself as if there were two parts of oneself.
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  One watching and supporting from behind and remembering the
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  mother and offering to her and the other doing the work.
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  When this happens, then to work with the true Consciousness
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  becomes more and more easy, A time comes for the Sadiq in the
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  end, when the Consciousness and the deeper experience, go on
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  happening, even in full were corn sleep, while speaking or in
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  any kind of activity in quote, reference SRI, aurobindo in the
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  mother growing within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 5 growth of Consciousness means and methods
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  page.