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Yoga as Applied Psychology to Understand and Address the Complexity Inherent in the Evolution of Consciousness · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The evolution of Consciousness involves an increasing level of
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  complexity as successive levels of consciousness are layered and
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  then interact with each other with each layer attempting to
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  not only express its own native way of seeing and acting, but
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  also needing to accommodate the demands and different
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  considerations of the other levels.
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  Thus we may think of something with the mind, but when we try
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  to express it in the body or the vital level of our being, we
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  find that it does not translate exactly as conceived are vital.
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  Being is able to infiltrate the mental process and bias the
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  mines actions to justify its desires.
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  And we also can see that when the vital interacts with the
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  physical body, it can lead to strain and injury.
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  If the body is unable to manage the intensity of the effort
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  called for or the force deployed, Things become even
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  more complex. When we realize that the mind,
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  the vital, and the physical are not unified within themselves,
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  but also have different drives directions habits needs And
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  predilections that make each evolutionary stage complex in
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  and of itself. For those who seek Liberation
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  from the external life, who seek spiritual realization through
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  one pointed focus on the absolute.
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  These issues may, but not necessarily do have very little
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  relevance, as they can simply withdraw.
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  Avoid the issues to a great degree and Escape what they
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  believe to be the illusory nature of the life in the world.
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  It is, of course, not absolutely true.
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  Simply because achieving such a one pointed focus without
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  dealing with the distractions caused by the body, the Life
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  Energy and the mind is not as simple of feet as some may
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  assume. For those, however, who
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  recognize the omnipresent reality of the universal
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  manifestation, and who accept the need for unification with
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  the wider purpose and implementation of the
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  significance of that manifestation, it is clear that
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  there is no way to Simply cut the knot of the problem, rather.
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  Each element needs to be carefully untied and redirected.
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  This leads to the enormous task of Applied psychology, the tree
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  aurobindo and the mother have described.
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  SRI aurobindo writes, quote, the practice of yoga brings us face
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  to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own, being the
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  stimulating, but also embarrassing multiplicity of our
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  personality. The rich endless confusion of
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  nature to the ordinary man who lives upon his own waking
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  surface, ignorant or the self depths, and vastness has behind
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  the veil, his psychological This is fairly simple, a small but
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  clamorous company of desires, some imperative, intellectual
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  and aesthetic Cravings. Some tastes a few ruling or
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  prominent ideas amid a great current of unconnected or ill
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  connected, and mostly trivial thoughts, a number of more or
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  less imperative vital needs, alternations of physical health,
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  and disease a scattered. And in consequence, Succession
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  of Joys and griefs. frequent minor, disturbances and
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  vicissitudes and rarer, strong searchings and upheavals of mind
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  or body and through it all nature, partly with the aid of
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  his thought and will partly without or in spite of it,
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  arranging these things in some rough practical fashion, some
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  tolerable disorderly order, this is the material of his
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  existence, the average human being even Even now is in his
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  inward existence as crude and undeveloped as was the bygone
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  primitive man in his outward life.
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  But as soon as we go deep within ourselves, and yoga means a
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  plunge into all the multiple Pro funded, he's of the Soul.
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  We find ourselves suggest subjectively as man in his
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  growth as found himself object of lie.
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  Surrounded by a whole complex World, which we have to know.
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  And to conquer the most disconcerting Discovery is to
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  find that every part of us intellect will sense, mind
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  nervous or desire self, the heart.
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  The body has each as it were its own complex, individuality and
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  natural formation independent of the rest.
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  It neither agrees with itself, nor with the others, nor with
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  the representative ego, which is the shadow cast by some Central
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  and centralizing. Self on our superficial
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  ignorance. We find that we are composed not
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  of one, but many personalities and each has its own demand.
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  And differing nature are being is a roughly constituted chaos
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  into which we have to. introduced the principle of a
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  divine order and quote reference SRI aurobindo, and the mother,
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  our many shelves, practical yogic psychology chapter 1, our
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  manifold being Pages 8 to 9,