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Controlling One’s Thoughts · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The mind is always active jumping from one input source to
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  another depending on the senses and their objects, the various
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  forms of media. We are consuming including radio
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  television music, reading social media Etc.
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  But also on a variety of internal factors including
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  nutritional factors preoccupations with various
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  concerns Emotions, fatigue, almonds hormonal activity,
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  mental training and level of focus or inspiration.
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  The individual is experiencing generally, thoughts arise in a
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  scattered and chaotic manner as each of these potential factors
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  presents, its energetic input, those who have undergone forms
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  of mental training, whether through education or through
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  self-development. May be able to to develop
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  periods of coherence in the operations of the mind and
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  experience periods of deep concentration or Focus that
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  effectively shuts out, or at least reduces the attention to
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  the normal chaotic sensory input, and the subsequent
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  thoughts that arise Most people do not think about controlling
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  the processes of the Mind, rather, they take this chaotic
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  mix of thoughts, arising as the Natural State and do not reflect
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  on the idea that there could be a different relationship to the
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  operations of the Mind than this natural process.
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  Some try to simplify their mental process by relying on
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  another individual or group to determine what thoughts or ideas
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  are acceptable. And they try to imbibe these
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  patterns and make them The Gatekeepers for the ideas.
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  They will let in this of course has led to unfortunate
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  manipulation on the part of those who have an agenda of
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  gaining and holding power and has led to dogmatism Art
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  arianism and other very limited outcomes.
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  The power to control. One's thoughts can however be of
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  significant value in developing one's life and achieving ones
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  goals. this power comes through the systematic development of an
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  observational standpoint of the witness who stands back and
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  reviews. The thoughts their sources
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  impetus amplitude and power as they enter into the mental space
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  and then begins to Monitor and control the flow of the thought
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  process in the mind. This can bring about very
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  powerful results 3 aurobindo notes.
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  Quote to reject doubt means control of one's thoughts very
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  certainly so But the control of one's thought is as necessary as
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  the control of one's vital desires, and passions or the
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  control of the movements of one's body.
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  For the yoga and not for the yoga only.
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  One cannot be a fully developed mental being even if one has not
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  a control of the thoughts, is not their Observer judge Master.
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  The mental purusa my no Maya purusa sakshi uh no Monta
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  ishwara. It is no more proper for the
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  mental being to be the tennis ball of unruly and
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  uncontrollable thoughts. Then to be a rudderless ship in
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  the storm of the desires. And passions were slave of
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  either the inertia or the impulses of the body.
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  I know it is more difficult because man being primarily a
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  creature of mental, prakruti identifies himself with the
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  movements of his mind. And cannot it once dissociate
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  himself and stand free from the swirl, and Eddie's of the Mind,
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  whirlpool. It is comparatively easy for him
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  to put a control on his body. At least on a certain part of
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  its movements. It is less easy but still very
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  possible after a struggle to put a mental control on his vital,
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  impulsions and desires. But to sit like the tantric
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  Yogi, on the river above the whirlpool of his thoughts is
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  less facile. Nevertheless, it can be done.
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  All developmental men, those who get the on the average have in
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  one way or another, or at least at certain times.
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  And for certain purposes to separate the two parts of the
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  Mind, the active part, which is a factory of thoughts and the
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  quiet masterful part which is at once a witness and a will
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  observing them judging rejecting eliminating excess.
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  Doing ordering Corrections and changes the master, in the house
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  of Mind capable of self Empire. Some Raja detach yourself from
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  it, the habitual movements of thoughts, make your mind
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  external to it, something that you can observe As You observe
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  things occurring in the street. so long, as you do not do that,
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  it is difficult to be the mines master and quote, reference SRI
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  aurobindo, and the mother living within the yoga approach to
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  psychological health and growth, disturbances of Mind unruly and
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  perturbing thoughts Pages 35 to 40 3,