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Understanding and Addressing the Difficulties of Gaining Control of the Ordinary Human Nature and Life, Part 2 · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  SRI aurobindo provided advice to an individual who was trying to
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  sort out the direction for his life and how to face the
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  difficulties. That confronted him.
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  Particularly with respect to certain vital weaknesses, to
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  which he was prone. SRI aurobindo analyzed the
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  condition of this individual in great detail and provided both
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  General and specific advice for addressing the situation.
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  He determined that certain ideas are Upton by the individual
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  stood, in the way of resolving the issues.
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  The step-by-step specific advice is here.
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  SRI aurobindo writes, quote but you must get rid of the ideas
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  which have stood in the way of affecting the self-conquest.
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  One realize that these things in you do not come from any true
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  moral depravity for that can exist.
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  Only? When the Mind itself is
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  corrupted and supports the perverse vital impulses, where
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  the mind and the will reject them, the moral being is sound
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  and it is a Only of a weakness or malady of the vital parts for
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  the nervous system. To do not brood on the past, but
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  turn your face with a patient hope and confidence toward the
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  future. To brood on past failure will
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  prevent you from recovering, your health and will weaken your
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  mind and we'll hampering them in the work of self-conquest and
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  rebuilding of the character. Three, do not yield to
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  discouragement if success does not come at once, but continue
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  patiently and steadfastly until the thing is done for, do not
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  torture. Your mind by always dwelling on
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  your weaknesses. Do not imagine that they unfit
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  you for life, or for the Fulfillment of the human ideal.
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  Once having recognized that they are there seek for your sources
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  of strength and Well, rather on them and the certainty of
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  Conquest. Your first business is to
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  recover your health of mind and body and that needs quietness of
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  mine. And for some time, a quiet way
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  of living, do not RAC. Your mind with questions, which
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  does not yet ready to solve, do not brood.
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  Always on the one thing occupy your mind as much as you can
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  with healthy and normal suggestions and give it as much
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  rest as possible. Afterwards, when you have your
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  right mental condition and balance, then you can with a
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  clear judgment decide how you will shape your life and what
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  you have to do in the future. I have given you the best advice
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  I can and told you what seems to me the most important for you at
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  present as for your coming to pondicherry.
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  It is better not to do. So just now I could say to you
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  nothing more than what I have written, it is best for you.
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  So long as you were ill, not to leave your father's care and
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  above all it is the safe rule in illnesses, like yours, not to
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  return to the place and saw Hauntings where you had to break
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  down until you are perfectly recovered and the memories and
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  associations connected with it. Have faded in intensity lost
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  their hold on the mind and can no longer produce upon it, a
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  violent or disturbing impression in quote Reference SRI aurobindo
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  in the mother living within the yoga approach to psychological
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  health and growth, disturbances of the body and physical
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  Consciousness. Healing the nerves Pages 101 to
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  107.