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Desire and True Need for a Yogic Practitioner · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Today's civilization is fixated on possession and ownership of
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  material things. And people are generally
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  respected and honored for their ability to accumulate resources.
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  This has led to extreme inequality in terms of the
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  resources available for use by people on the planet as a very
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  small number of Highly Successful in a material sense.
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  People control ever larger resource, Versus while vast
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  numbers of people, go hungry were live a life of privation
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  and suffering from physical wand.
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  The entire culture is permeated with suggestions images and
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  pressure to acquire and own more and more.
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  For a practitioner of yoga living in the world today it is
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  therefore quite easy to be misdirected by the acculturation
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  and expectations of society and thereby to be misled into both
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  attachment to material objects and their accumulation and a
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  confusion about what things are necessities and what things are
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  artificially, constructed needs based on suggestion and
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  pressure. SRI, aurobindo is guidance in
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  this area is clear and helps the practitioner of yoga, see
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  through the confusing and conflicting ideas about material
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  life at the same time, while not directed towards a more general
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  population, this advice can be very helpful for people at all,
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  stages of development in their lives.
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  There is no doubt that the society has become highly
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  distorted. In the way it allocates and
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  utilizes, the precious Bounty of the planet.
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  And there is no doubt that something needs to change.
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  In this regard to restore some sense of balance to the relation
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  between people and the world we share.
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  Those not practicing. Yoga actively may find that a
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  new relation to their use and possession of material.
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  Things will help them achieve a level of peace and happiness.
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  That is so frequently absent when they are caught up in this
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  cycle of accumulation use and Disposal.
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  That comes with the acquisitive impulses of today's society.
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  SRI aurobindo notes, quote. Desire is a psychological
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  movement and it can attach itself to a true need as well as
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  to things that are not true needs.
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  One must approach even true needs without desire.
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  If one does not get them, one must feel.
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  Nothing the necessities of a Sadiq should be as few as
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  possible. For there are only a very few
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  things that are real Necessities in life.
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  The rest are either utilities or things decorative to lie for
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  luxuries. These a yogin has a right to
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  possess or enjoy only on one of two conditions, one, if he uses
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  them during his sadhna, solely to train himself in possessing
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  things without attachment or desire and learn to use them,
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  rightly in harmony with the Divine will, Will with a proper
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  handling, adjust organization Arrangement and measure or two.
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  If he is already attained to True, Freedom From Desire and
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  attachment and not is in the least moved or affected in any
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  way by loss or withholding or deprival if he has any greed,
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  desire, demand claim for possession or enjoyment, any
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  anxiety. Grief anger, or vest Sation.
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  When denied or deprived, he is not free and spirit and his use
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  of the things. He possesses is contrary to the
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  spirit of sadhna. Even if he is free and spirit,
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  he will not be fit for possession.
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  If he has not learned to use things, not for himself, but for
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  the Divine will As an instrument with the right knowledge and
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  action in the use, for the proper equipment of a life
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  lived, not for oneself. But for and in the Divine as for
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  the inconveniences, you should take them as a training in
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  Summit, ah, to be able to Bear inconveniences is one of the
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  most Elementary Necessities. If one wants to enter into the
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  true Spirit of yoga. And quote reference SRI
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  aurobindo, integral yoga, SRI aurobindo teaching and method of
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  practice chapter 10 difficulties in transforming the nature
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  desire Pages. 291 to 293 6.