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Risks and Difficulties Attendant on the Practice of a Yoga of Transformation · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  People tend to underestimate the risks and difficulties attendant
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  on the practice of yoga with a focus on the growth of
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  Consciousness and transformation of human nature.
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  Once the secret begins to try to make changes in long-standing
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  habits of action and reaction mental, predilections, vital
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  responses, and physical expectations.
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  All kinds of imbalances can arise And long stable situations
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  can suddenly erupt in new and unexpected ways and in some
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  cases with enormous Force, taking the Seeker by surprise if
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  there has not been sufficient, preparation purification, and
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  separation of the witness Consciousness to avoid being
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  sucked in and overwhelmed. A case that has not been widely
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  mooted illustrates one of the extreme reactions that can
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  occur. The Seeker studies and does
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  intensive sadhna and develop certain powers and insights
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  which he then determines will make him a teacher or Guru.
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  He goes to the west from India and with his developed Powers,
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  he begins to attract young people to join his ashram.
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  He has not however done the purifications needed the
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  necessary yamas and niyamas has and begins to believe in his own
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  superiority. And the Confluence of his own
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  Superior status and the teaching he is putting forward leads him
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  to believe that anything he does in furtherance of the end result
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  of disseminating. The teaching is acceptable.
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  He begins to entice young women into his bed.
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  And then after he has gained psychological control, over
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  them, he deploys them to entice and control young men to work
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  hard and bring money and carry out his Borders, He Cheats
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  suppliers to the organization on the basis that he is doing Noble
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  work and they would just waste the money if it was in their
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  hands. And he cuts off family and
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  friends. From The Seekers in order to
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  create further controls, he sends people from one country to
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  his locations and other countries, and then takes
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  control of their passports and money, effectively and slaving
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  them. He engages in rape of certain
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  women who were not willing to consent eventually.
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  He enters into sexual abuse of young children sometimes in the
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  presence of the child's mother who is asked to encourage and
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  support it. At a certain point, his
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  misdeeds, come to the notice of the authorities and he is
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  charged and convicted of the crimes of sexually.
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  Assaulting children is imprisoned in Germany for some
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  years before being forcibly returned to India.
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  The country of his birth. This individual may very well,
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  have been a sincere Seeker in his Youth and undertaken, very
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  serious sadhna. Yeah, when the pressures and
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  temptations arose as the power is Unleashed by the yogic
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  practices increased, he was unable to withstand them and had
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  what may be considered to be a major fall?
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  SRI aurobindo provides the solution and antidote.
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  Everyone has to face difficulties.
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  Everyone will make mistakes. Everyone will fall occasionally
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  with the right protections, the right devotion and focus.
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  These can be overcome through your window.
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  Writes quote, I have never said that yoga or that this yoga is a
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  safe and easy path. What I say is that anyone who
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  has the will to go through, can go through for the rest.
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  If you aim high, there is always the danger of a steep fall.
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  If you misconduct your airplane, But the danger is for those who
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  allow themselves to enter a double being Aiming High, but
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  also indulging, their lower Outlook.
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  And hankerings what else can you expect?
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  When people do that, you must become single-minded, then the
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  difficulties of the mind and vital will be overcome.
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  Otherwise, those who oscillate between their height and their
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  abysses will always be in danger till they have.
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  Become single-minded that applies to the advanced as well
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  as the beginner. These are facts of nature.
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  I can't pretend for anybody's comfort that they are otherwise,
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  but there is the fact also that nobody need keep himself in this
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  Danger. One, mindedness surrender to the
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  Divine Faith. True love for the Divine
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  complete sincerity in the will spiritual humility.
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  Real. Not formal There are so many
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  things that can be a safeguard against any chance of eventual
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  downfall. Slips, stumbles difficulties
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  upsetting. Everyone has one can't be
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  assured against these things, but if one has the safeguards,
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  they are transitory help the nature to learn and are followed
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  by a better progress. In quote, reference SRI
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  aurobindo and the mother growing within the psychology of inner
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  development. Chapter 6 growth of
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  Consciousness difficulties and pitfalls Pages 111 to 112