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A Settled Peace in the Being and a Fixed Resolution in the Mind Aid in the Transformation of the Vital · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  In ancient Greek mythology, there is the tale of the twelve
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  labors of Hercules, one of, which was cleaning out the
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  augean Stables. He needed to accomplish this
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  task in one day, but there were so many cattle that it was
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  considered an impossible task. And every day, the mess was
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  renewed after the cattle return from pasture in the evening.
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  Hercules was undaunted, as he had the help of Athena the
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  goddess of wisdom. He made a hole in each end of
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  the stables and dug trenches, that allowed a river to flow
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  into and out of the stable, he used the flow of clean water to
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  clear out the muck and succeeded in his task.
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  It is easy to be fixated on the difficulty of the task of
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  sorting out and cleaning up the various vital energies of the
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  being. But the more we fixate on
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  dealing with them, on their own level, the less chance we have
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  of success. This is where the power of the
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  receptive mind can Aid. The Seeker by bringing new wide,
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  understanding and insight. And thereby also supporting The
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  Descent of Peace, rather than agitation, in the work to be
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  done at the vital level. SRI aurobindo observes quote.
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  The one thing necessary is to arrive at a fixed and definite
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  choice in the mind. Which one can always opposed to
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  the vital disturbance. Disturbance in the vital will
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  always come so long. As the full piece has not
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  descended there. But with a fixed resolution, in
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  the mine kept always to the front, the acuteness of the
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  disturbance can disappear and the road become shorter.
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  If you get peace, then to clean the vital becomes easy.
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  If you simply clean and clean and do nothing else, you go very
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  slowly for the vital gets dirty again, and has to be cleaned.
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  A hundred times. The peace is something that is
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  clean and itself. So to get it as a positive way
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  of securing your object to look for dirt only and clean is the
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  negative way. End quote, reference SRI
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  aurobindo, integral yoga. SRI aurobindo is teaching method
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  of practice, chapter 9, transformation of the nature
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  transformation of the vital Pages. 246, 2259