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How to Tread the Sunlit Path of Yoga · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  There are no exemptions from the issues obstacles and
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  difficulties that attend the work of bringing forth a new
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  evolutionary principle and thereby impacting changing, and
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  vastly reorganizing the existing status quo of the Mind.
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  Life body complex in the world, the issues must be addressed.
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  The individual, however, May deal with these issues
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  differently, based on how embedded he is in the existing,
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  ego personality versus his ability to separate himself and
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  shift his standpoint towards the Divine standpoint.
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  There is a general test about optimism versus pessimism where
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  someone is asked to determine whether he sees the glass half
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  full or half empty. Some people, of course, see the
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  glasses refillable and they tend not to worry about the exact
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  current state of liquid in the glass.
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  Similarly, one can view the difficulties of the spiritual
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  path with a negative perspective and identify with the suffering
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  that they entail or else with a positive perspective and
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  recognize that all things will and must change as the Spiritual
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  Development takes place. And in the meantime, these are
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  just the factors that have to be dealt with and addressed The
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  separation of the awareness between the witness
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  Consciousness and the act of being can be an enormous Aid in
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  not being beaten down by the obstacles that come up to the
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  extent that the quality of Rogers is active and ambition is
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  present. There is always the impetus to
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  succeed and the fall back into a depressive state of Thomas when
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  things go awry. The Seeker May moderate these
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  reactions through applying sattva and maintaining a calm
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  collected overarching view of everything that occurs.
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  SRI aurobindo writes, quote, the sunlit path can only be followed
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  if the psychic is constantly or usually in front or if one has a
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  natural Spirit of faith and surrender or a face turned to
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  bitch ually towards the Sun or psychic predisposition, for
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  example, of faith in one spiritual Destiny or if one has
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  acquired the site Psychic turn that does not mean that the
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  sunlit man has no difficulties. He may have many, but he regards
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  them cheerfully as all in a day's work.
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  If he gets a bad beating, he is capable of saying, well that was
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  a queer go. But the Divine is evidently in a
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  queer mood. And if that is his way of doing
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  things, it must be the right one.
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  I am surely still a queer fellow myself and that I suppose was
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  the only means of putting me, right?
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  But everybody can't be of that turn and surrender.
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  Which would put everything right is, as you say difficult, at
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  least it is difficult to do completely.
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  That is why we do not insist on total surrender at once, but are
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  satisfied with the little to begin with the rest to grow as
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  it can. And quote reference, SRI,
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  aurobindo, integral yoga, SRI aurobindo Stitch, Aging and
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  method of practice, chapter 10 difficulties in transforming the
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  nature, the sunlit path Pages 275 2277.