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The Principal Thing in the Practice of Integral Yoga · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  In his book The Mother, Sri Robindo provides a detailed road
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  map for understanding the relatively simple idea that one
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  must have the will to overcome all attachments etcetera.
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  In order to do this, we need to be able to appreciate what is
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  meant by attachments. Most people would associate this
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  with external things or with external relationships, and they
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  of course need to be looked at. But Tria Robindo goes much
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  deeper into the psychological web of the mind, the emotions,
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  the vital being and even the physical body as he describes
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  the issue of what needs to be rejected to create the needed
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  psychological framework for the higher force to be received and
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  to act with power in the being. Quote rejection of the movements
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  of the lower nature. Rejection of the mind's ideas,
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  opinions, preferences, habits, constructions, so that the true
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  knowledge may find free room in a silent mind.
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  Rejection of the vital nature's desires, demands, cravings,
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  sensations, passions, selfishness, pride, arrogance,
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  lust, greed, jealousy, envy, hostility to the truth, so that
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  the true power and joy may pour from above into a calm, large,
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  strong, and consecrated vital being.
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  Rejection of the physical nature.
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  Stupidity, doubt, disbelief, obscurity, obstinacy, pettiness,
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  laziness, unwillingness to change Thomas so that the truth,
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  stability of light power Ananda may establish itself in a body
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  growing always more divine. End Quote.
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  Eventually, through tuning of the being, through aspiration,
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  the removal of the static from the connection that is thus
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  formed, through rejection of those things with which distract
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  and create static, and the subsequent acceptance of the
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  higher power as it begins to act, there comes a time when the
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  experience of that higher force working within the being and
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  carrying out the practice takes over from the sense of the
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  limited individual struggling to make the needed changes.
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  Sriora Bindu notes quote to practice yoga implies the will
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  to overcome all attachments and turn to the divine alone.
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  The principal thing in the yoga is to trust in the divine grace
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  at every step, to direct the thought continually to the
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  divine and to offer oneself till the being opens and the Mother's
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  force can be felt working in the adhar.
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  End Quote. Srioro Bindo Bases of Yoga
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  Chapter 2. Faith, Aspiration, Surrender,
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  page 32.