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The Need to Balance Meditation and Work in the Practice of the Integral Yoga · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  In an ancient who punished product, ale our youth approach
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  to Sage requesting to become a disciple and Achieve spiritual
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  realization. The sage indicated that he
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  should take to cattle into the forest and when they numbered
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  1000, he should return and would undertake to teach the youth.
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  The young man made sincere efforts and learned all there
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  was to know about raising and breeding cattle protecting them
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  from predators and surviving in the forest for himself and his
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  charges. He learned to be observant
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  patient, protective of those for whom he had taken on the
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  responsibility while at the same time, learning about the seasons
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  powers and timings of Nature and how to live in harmony with the
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  beings, who resided in the forest, eventually he attained
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  the goal and returned to the teacher.
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  The teacher saw the glow of realization and bowed down to
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  the student. Saying that the student was now
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  the teacher and he was the student as the youth had
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  attained spiritual realization. This should punish otic tale
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  illustrates the potential of attaining Liberation through
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  Works combined for a spiritual aspirant.
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  Those who believe that internal meditation is the only way maybe
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  Grudge the time and external focus of works in the outer
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  World. In some cases, they become
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  extremely withdrawn and uncomfortable acting in the
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  world. In other cases, when they do
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  undertake to act in the world, they may be Brusque angry, or
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  unable to handle the feelings emotions and thoughts that arise
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  in the external circumstances. Oz.
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  One way or the other. There are dangers of becoming
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  too entrenched in a narrow Focus which leads away from life and
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  the world. The integral yoga of Sri
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  aurobindo and the mother aims not solely for Liberation from
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  the life of the world. But for the act of
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  transformation of that life, this implies that the Seeker
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  must not only achieve a liberated state, but must be
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  able to do so while interacting with the world and updating the
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  way he relates to that world. Used to become an instrument of
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  the Divine manifestation, in evolution.
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  Not an escapee from the tasks set by the Divine, in creating
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  this Universal manifestation. SRI aurobindo observes quote to
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  keep up work helps to keep up the balance between the internal
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  experience and the external development.
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  Otherwise one-sidedness and want of measure and balance.
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  May develop more over. It is necessary to keep the
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  sadhna of work for the Divine because in the end that enables
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  the Sadiq to bring out the inner progress into the external
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  nature and life. Life and helps the integrality
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  of the sadhna. It may be necessary for an
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  individual here and there to plunge into meditation for a
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  time and suspend work for that time or make it subordinate.
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  But that can only be an individual case and a temporary
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  retirement. Moreover, a complete cessation
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  of work. An entire withdrawal into
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  oneself is seldom advisable. It may encourage a to one-sided
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  and Visionary condition in which one lives in a sort of mid world
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  of purely subjective experiences without a firm.
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  Hold on either external reality or on the highest reality.
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  And without the right use of the subjective experience to create
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  a firm link and then a unification between the highest
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  reality and the external realization in life.
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  And quote, preference SRI aurobindo and the mother growing
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  within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 5 growth of Consciousness means and methods
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