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The Difference Between Indulgence, Suppression and Rejection of the Movement of Desire · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Yoga practitioners have a number of different methods.
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  They have utilized to try to gain control over the movement
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  of vital desire. The disturbances caused by
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  desire, and the distractions that result are clearly inimical
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  to success. In the yogic sadhna, some like,
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  those who practice various forms of tantric tradition, believe
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  that the hero yogging can conquer desire through conscious
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  Indulgence. For most people.
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  However, this becomes an excuse that the vital uses to convince
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  the mind to play along. Indulgent need not be through
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  outward action. Inward Indulgence is every bit
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  as distracting and disturbing to the practice as outward
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  Indulgence. Inward Indulgence occurs when
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  one abstains from the outer action.
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  Prompted by the rising desire. But nevertheless dwells on it in
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  the mind and the inner senses former president of the United
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  States. Jimmy Carter famously, admitted
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  that he had committed adultery in his heart, although not in
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  any outer action. He recognized what many people
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  fail to understand, namely that the inner Is every bit the same
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  in Practical effect on the inner being, as the outer Indulgence.
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  If not Indulgence, then there are those who attempt to
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  suppress desire through force of will or in some cases, through
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  exercise of physical torture. The monks who practice
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  self-flagellation or use the Solis to oppress the body and
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  there by train it, not to give in to desire, eventually find
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  that they're not only harming the physical instrument, but in
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  fact are dwelling on the force of Desire far more than they
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  likely would otherwise thus the mission fails.
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  This leaves them, the method of rejection of the desire, the
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  vibration as it is entering from outside.
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  Can simply be refused the channel, tuned elsewhere.
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  Just as a child outgrows, childish, toys and games.
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  As he matures turning his attention elsewhere, we can tune
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  our awareness and focus to vibrations.
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  Other than those that raise up desire in the vital being One
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  method is to bring forward the psychic being and focus on the
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  aspiration that resides there. Another is to shift the
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  attention to the spiritual consciousness and simply
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  concentrate the being in that direction.
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  SRI aurobindo writes, quote. It is true that the mirror
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  suppression are holding down of Desire is not enough, not by
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  itself, truly effective, but that does not mean that desires
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  are to be indulged. It means that desires have not
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  merely to be suppressed, but to be rejected from the nature.
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  Your theory is a mistaken. One, the free expression of a
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  passion may relieve the vital for a Time.
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  But at the same time, it gives you the right to return, always
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  it is not reduced at all. Suppression with inner
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  Indulgence in subtle forms is not a cure but expression and
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  outer Indulgence is still less secure.
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  It is perfectly possible to go on without manifestation.
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  If one is Resolute to arrive at a complete control, to control
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  being not a mere suppression, but an inner and outer
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  rejection. You do not seem to have a
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  correct idea of the nature of idol desire.
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  Vital desired Grows by being indulged.
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  It does not become satisfied. If your desire were indulged, it
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  would begin to grow more and more and ask for more and more
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  that has been our constant experience with the sadhaks.
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  And it confirms, what has always been known about desire, desire
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  and envy have to be thrown out of the Consciousness.
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  There is no other way to deal with them end quote.
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  Reference SRI aurobindo in the mother living within yoga.
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  Proach, the psychological health and growth, disturbances of the
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  vital transforming, the vital Pages, 69 to 85,