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Transforming the Vital Nature, Part 2: Overcoming Difficulties and Obstacles on the Path · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The primary initial difficulties faced by the Sadiq and
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  overcoming. The vital nature are related to
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  the gunas of Rogers and Thomas. Rogers is nor naturally
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  energetic and somewhat aggressive and thus it tackles
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  issues with vehemence when it becomes frustrated or suffers a
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  setback, it tends to recoil into Thomas with its depression and
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  feelings of failure or weakness. While there are also at some
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  point obstacles caused by excess of supper, at least initially it
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  is the quality of Supply that can Aid.
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  The Sadek in overcoming the difficulties associated with the
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  other two gunas by developing peace and calm, patients and
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  long-standing perseverance. The mother writes quote
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  depression unless one has a strong will suggest this is not
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  worth while one may have to wait a lifetime and through Z as mm,
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  it expects to see the vital transformed overnight.
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  I am not going to have any difficulty henceforth.
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  I'm going to advance rapidly on the path of yoga.
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  I am going to gain the Divine Consciousness without any
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  difficulty. There are some other
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  difficulties when needs a little time, much perseverance.
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  So the vital after a few hours, perhaps a few days.
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  Perhaps a few months says to itself, we haven't gone very far
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  with our enthusiasm. Has anything been really done?
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  Doesn't this movement? Leave us?
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  Just where we were perhaps worse than we were a little troubled.
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  A little Disturbed. Things are no longer what they
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  were. They are not yet.
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  What they ought to be is very tiresome what I'm what I am
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  doing and then if one pushes a little more, here's this
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  gentleman saying on know I have had enough of it.
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  Leave me alone, I don't want to move.
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  I shall stay in my corner. I won't trouble you, but don't
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  bother me. And so one has not gone very
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  much farther than before this is One of the big obstacles which
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  must be carefully avoided as soon as there is the least sign
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  of discontentment of annoyance, the vital must be spoken to.
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  In this way. My friend, you are going to keep
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  calm, you're going to do what you're asked to do, otherwise
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  you will have to deal with me and to the other, the Enthusiast
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  who says, everything must be done now, immediately.
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  Your reply is calm yourself. A little your energy is
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  excellent but it must not be spent in five minutes.
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  We shall need it for a long time.
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  Keep it carefully. And as it is wanted, I should
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  call upon your good. Will you will show that you are
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  full of good. Will you will obey?
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  You won't crumble? You will not protest.
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  You will not Revolt. You will say yes.
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  Yes, you will make a little sacrifice when asks you will say
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  yes, wholeheartedly So we get started on the path, but the
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  road is very long, many things happen on the way.
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  Suddenly, one thinks one has overcome an obstacle.
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  I say things because though, one has overcome, it is not totally
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  overcome. I'm going to take a very obvious
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  instance of a very simple observation.
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  Someone is found that his vital is uncontrollable and
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  uncontrolled that it gets Furious for nothing and about
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  nothing. He starts working to teach it,
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  not to get carried away. Not to flare up to remain calm
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  and bear the shocks of life without reacting violently.
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  If one does this cheerfully? It goes quite quickly note.
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  This well, it is very important when you have to deal with your
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  vital, take care to keep your good humor, otherwise you will
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  get into trouble. One keeps one's good humor.
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  That is when one sees the fury rise.
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  When begins to laugh. Instead of being depressed and
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  saying, I'm spite of all my effort, it is.
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  Beginning all over again. One begins to laugh and says,
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  well, well, one hasn't yet. Seen the end of it.
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  Look now, aren't you? Ridiculous, you know, quite well
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  that you are being ridiculous. Is it worthwhile getting angry?
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  One gives it this lesson good-humouredly and really after
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  a while it doesn't get angry again.
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  It is quiet. And when relaxes one's
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  attention, one thinks the difficulty has been overcome,
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  when things are result, as it lasts been reached, my vital
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  does not trouble me any longer. It does not get angry.
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  Now, everything is going fine. And the next day.
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  One. Loses one's temper.
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  It is then one must be careful. It is.
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  Then one must not say. Here we are.
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  It is no use. I shall never achieve anything.
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  All my efforts are futile. All this is an illusion.
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  It is impossible on the contrary.
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  One must say I wasn't Vigilant enough.
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  One must wait. Long very long.
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  Before one can say it is done in.
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  Shushed sometimes one must wait for years, many years.
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  And quote, reference SRI aurobindo in the mother living
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  within the yoga approached. A psychological health and
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  growth, disturbances of the vital transforming the vital
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