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The Spirit of the Yoga of Works · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  While we live and act from the standpoint of the individual ego
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  personality, we measure and respond to everything based on
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  how it impacts us personally and directly, and judge things based
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  on that impact. This leads us to treat as
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  positive those events and interactions that satisfy our
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  desires, meet our physical needs, or support our ambitions.
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  Conversely, those things which create obstacles to what we
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  desire, or which undermine our ambitions or create physical or
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  vital difficulties as we navigate our way through our
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  lives, we treat as negative events.
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  When these things occur, we either try to stay fixed in the
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  positive and either try to avoid or wallow in the suffering we
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  are experiencing due to the negative situations.
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  It is all about me, me, me. There is no way out of this
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  fixation as long as we maintain the ego standpoint as the basis
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  of our reactions and motivations to action.
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  If we shift our standpoint out of the ego, however, we can
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  begin to receive and respond to the larger actions and forces of
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  the world, which give us both a different perspective about what
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  is positive or negative, and which allows us to act free of
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  egoistic limitations. The more constantly we can
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  assume this new standpoint, the more we are able to carry out
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  our true role in the world manifestation, Srioro Bindo
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  writes quote to be free from all egoistic motive.
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  Careful of truth in speech and action, void of self will and
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  self assertion, watchful in all things is the condition for
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  being a flawless servant. Get the spirit of the Yoga of
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  Works as it is indicated in the Gita.
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  Forget yourself and your miseries in the aspiration to a
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  larger consciousness. Feel the greater force working
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  in the world and make yourself an instrument for a work to be
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  done, however small it may be. But whatever the way may be, you
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  must accept it wholly and put your whole will into it with a
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  divided and wavering will. You cannot hope for success in
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  anything, neither in life nor in yoga.
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  End Quote reference. Srioro Bindu and the Mother,
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  looking from within, Chapter 3. Action and Work, page 66.