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The Necessity of Receptivity to the Force of the Divine Shakti to Accomplish the Sadhana of the Integral Yoga · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  For the practitioner of the Integral Yoga, it becomes
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  evident that the transformation of human nature is not something
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  that can be done by his own capacity alone.
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  His mental ideas, the willpower, vital drives, and physical
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  powers have their limitations and remain relatively fixed
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  within the framework of the untransformed human nature as we
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  recognize it. Some progress can be made, but
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  it reaches a point where the change cannot progress any
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  farther, and a new power needs to be brought into the picture
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  to work through the subsequent steps.
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  Once this need is recognized, the most important thing the
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  seeker can do is to focus on the spiritual force, also known as
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  the Divine Shakti and as the Mother's Force and open oneself
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  to it constantly to bring its power into the mind, the will,
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  the emotions, the life energy and the physical body to carry
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  out the needed changes. In his book the Mother Sri
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  Aurobindo states quote, there are two powers that alone can
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  affect in their conjunction the great and difficult thing which
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  is the aim of our endeavour, a fixed and unfailing aspiration
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  that calls from below and a supreme grace from above that
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  answers End Quote. He goes on to note quote, in all
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  that is done in the universe, the Divine through His Shakti is
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  behind all action, but He is veiled by His Yoga Maya and
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  works through the ego of the Jiva in the lower nature.
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  In Yoga also it is the Divine who is the sadak and the
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  sadhana. It is his Shakti with her light,
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  power, knowledge, consciousness, Ananda acting upon the adhar and
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  when it is open to her, pouring into it with these divine forces
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  that makes the sadhana possible. End Quote.
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  Srioro Bindo writes quote, Let nothing and nobody come between
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  you and Mother's force. It is on your admitting and
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  keeping that force and responding to the true
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  inspiration, and not on any ideas the mind may form that
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  success will depend. Even ideas or plans which might
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  otherwise be useful will fail if there is not behind them the
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  true spirit and the true force and influence.
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  End Quote Reference Sri Aurobindo, Basis of Yoga,
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  Chapter 3 in difficulty, pages 58 to 59.