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The Nature and Power of Equality in the Practice of the Integral Yoga · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We usually think about the term equality in relation to society,
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  or the economy SRI, aurobindo uses the term to describe an
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  inner psychological state, that keeps the practitioner of the
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  yoga focused on the inner being, and it's spiritual practices,
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  rather than having the attention drawn out to react to people
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  events and circumstances outside.
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  This is part of the tuning and focusing process that aligns the
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  Seeker with the higher force that is manifesting and is
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  therefore an essential part of the practice of yoga.
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  We are usually easily provoked into a reaction that gets the
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  mind turning the emotion stirred up and the vital energies in
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  action. This process occurs virtually
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  automatically for most people. We then see eruptions of anger
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  or fear or depression arising as the being reacts to the
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  situations. The attention in this case is
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  fixated on these outer events and thus not focused on the
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  inner truth. or the spiritual aspiration through observation
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  and practice, the secret can begin to distance from these
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  automatic reactions and maintain the connection to the higher
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  force, and remain receptive to its operation, through the being
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  Equality in this sense is not necessarily acquiescence in
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  whatever happens. It is not a passive weakness or
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  any kind of a withdrawal or inability to respond.
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  Rather, it is a status that allows a more complete and
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  Powerful response according to the Divine intention.
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  By allowing the higher Force to manifest and accomplish what it
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  needs to do in each situation. SRI aurobindo writes, quote
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  equality is the chief support of the true spiritual consciousness
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  and is it, is this from which a Sadiq deviates?
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  When he allows a vital movement to carry him away in feeling, or
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  speech or action? Equality is not the same thing
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  as forbearance though. Undoubtedly a settled equality,
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  immensely extends, even illimitably.
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  Man's power of endurance and forbearance.
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  Equality means a quiet and unmoved mind and vital, it means
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  not to be touched or disturbed by things that happen or things
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  said or done to you. But to look at them with a
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  straight, look free from the distortions, created by personal
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  feeling and to try to understand what is behind them.
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  Why they happen, what is to be learned from them, what is it in
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  oneself, which they are It against and what inner profit or
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  progress one can make out of them.
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  It means self Mastery over the vital movements anger and
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  sensitiveness and pride, as well as desire and the rest.
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  Not to let them get hold of the emotional being, and disturb the
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  inner peace not to speak and act in the rush and impulsion of
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  these things always to act and speak out of a calm inner poise.
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  As of the spirit, it is not easy to have this equality in any
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  full perfect measure. But one should always try more
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  and more to make it the basis of one's inner State and outer
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  movements. Equality means another thing to
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  have an equal view of men and their nature and acts and the
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  forces that move them. It helps one to see the truth
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  about them by pushing away from the mind, all personal feeling
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  in one seeing and judgment and even all the mental bias.
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  Personal feeling always, distorts and makes one see and
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  men's actions, not only the actions themselves.
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  But things behind them, which more often than not are not
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  their misunderstanding, Miss judgment, which could have been
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  avoided are the result. Things of small, consequence,
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  assume larger proportions. I have seen that more than half
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  of the untoward happenings of this kind in life are due to
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  this cause But in ordinary life, personal feeling and
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  sensitiveness are a constant part of human nature and may be
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  needed there for self-defense. Although I think even they're a
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  strong large and equal attitude towards men and things would be
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  a much better line of defense but for a Sadiq, to surmount
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  them and live rather in the calm strength of the spirit.
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  Is an essential part of his progress and quote, reference
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  SRI aurobindo, integral yoga. SRI aurobindo is teaching and
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  method of practice, chapter 5 basis of yoga equality Pages,
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  124 and 127. Is an essential part of his
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  progress and quote, reference SRI aurobindo, integral yoga.
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  SRI aurobindo is teaching and method of practice, chapter 5
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  basis of yoga equality Pages, 124 and 127.