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The Greatest Difficulties Signal the Greatest Strength for the Yogic Practitioner · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  When an individual is called to The Yoga of transformation, he
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  comes with all his strengths weaknesses developed, and latent
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  capacities, and habitual ways of dealing with things, as well as
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  his familial social economic, and educational background,
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  these frame. The starting point for the
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  individuals, yogic practice, As he begins to shift to the
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  standpoint of the witness of the nature, he begins to identify
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  issues, patterns, concerns, and obstacles to the practice.
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  Some of these may be physical limitations nervous,
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  disturbances were emotional or mental blockages.
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  Some may be Perkin, preconceived ideas or emotional relations
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  that shut him off in some way from a wider View and a more
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  powerful action. Eventually, he may come to
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  recognize that in actual fact. There are deep and very specific
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  issues that confront him and hinder his progress.
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  For some, it is Vanity or ambition for others, Greed, for
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  still others, sexual pressures. For others, a form of laziness,
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  or lack of dedication and concentration.
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  It turns out that these things can be seen as the greatest
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  opportunity for the individual and represent the unique set of
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  circumstances that individual is called to work out.
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  As the road to the full realization.
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  The mother notes, quote, the nature of your difficulty,
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  indicates the nature of the victory, you will gain the
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  victory. You will exemplify in yoga.
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  Thus, if there is a persistent selfishness, it points to a
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  realization of universality as your most prominent achievement
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  in the future. And when selfishness is there,
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  you have also the power to reverse this very difficulty
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  into its Opposite of victory of utter wideness.
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  When you have something to realize you will have in you
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  just to characteristic which is the contradiction of that
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  something. Face to face with the defect the
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  difficulty you say oh I am like that how awful it is but you
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  ought to see the truth of the situation.
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  Say to yourself, my difficulty shows me clearly what I have
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  ultimately to represent to reach the absolute negation of it
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  quality at the other pole. This is my mission Even in
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  ordinary life, we have sometimes the experience of contraries, he
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  who is very timid and has no courage in front of
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  circumstances, proves capable of bearing the most to one who has
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  the aspiration for the Divine, the difficulty, which is always,
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  before him is the door, by which he will attain God in his own
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  individual manner, it is his particular path towards the
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  Divine realization. There is also the fact that if
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  somebody has 100 difficulties, it means he will have a
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  tremendous realization provided. Of course, there are in him,
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  patience and endurance and he keeps the aspiring flame of
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  ogni. Burning against those defects.
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  And remember, the grace of the Divine is generally proportioned
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  to your difficulties and quote reference SRI aurobindo in the
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  mother growing within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 6 growth of Consciousness difficulties and
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  pitfalls Pages 116 to 117.