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Relationship Among Sadhaks in an Ashram Community · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The history of spiritual and religious communities has
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  witnessed numerous approaches to interpersonal relationships. for
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  the most part, monasteries, Cloisters or ashrams, have tried
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  to focus the attention of their members by maintaining strict
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  rules In many cases, including vows of Silence celibacy and
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  prayers individuals who were tasked with being in charge,
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  would frequently enforce these rules through harsh discipline.
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  And the atmosphere would be one of austerity and somewhat
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  Frosty, or in some cases, even hostile interpersonal
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  relationships. As a result, the goal was
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  generally set as individual salvation.
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  Or the dissolution of the bondage to Earthly life and
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  thus, no great. Importance was placed on the
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  idea of creating the truly harmonious relationship among
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  the members other experiments of occurred where individuals were
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  encouraged to create an atmosphere of open, freedom, and
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  interpersonal relationships, including free.
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  Love in some cases, those in Authority, would try to manage
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  the relationships between the members In order to maintain
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  control and manipulate their feelings and actions going so
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  far as to direct the relations of men and women to bind and
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  bond than and offer. These vital relations, as
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  rewards for obedience to the authority structures.
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  Wishes this approach accepted the vital desires and urges, but
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  often led to disruptions jealousy and outbursts that tend
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  to accompany the Indulgence In vital relationships in the SRI
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  aurobindo ashram the focus has been centered on achievement of
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  the Divine realization, without the abandonment of life, and the
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  world. A balance between this focus on
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  realization in the yogic pursuit and creating a transformative
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  approach to living in the world is the approach that has
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  developed this approach has to examine the way the individual
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  members act in relation, Can do one another, to ensure a
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  harmonious atmosphere for the collective.
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  Endeavor, as well, as a suitable concentration, that supports the
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  individual progress, neither are too strict and narrow,
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  interpretation Nora to relax. Relationship can accomplish
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  these Mutual objectives, SRI aurobindo, observes, quote, the
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  idea that all sadhaks must be aloof from each.
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  Other and at daggers drawn is itself.
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  A preconceived idea that must be abandoned Harmony and not Strife
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  is the law of yogic living. This preconceived idea arrives
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  as perhaps from the old notion of Nirvana as the aim, but
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  Nirvana is not the aim here, the aim here is the Fulfillment of
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  the Divine in life and for that Union and solidarity are
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  indispensable. The ideal of the yoga is that
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  all should be centered in and around the Divine and the life
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  of the sadhaks, must be founded on that Firm Foundation, their
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  personal relations also should have the Divine for their
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  Center. Moreover, all relationship pass
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  from the vital to the spiritual basis with the vital only as a
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  form, an instrument of the spiritual, This means that from
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  whatever relations they have with each other while, jealousy,
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  Strife, hatred or version Rancor and other evil, vital feeling
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  should be abandoned for, they can be no part of the spiritual
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  life. So, also all egoistic love and
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  attachment will have to disappear.
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  The love. That loves only for the ego
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  sake. And as soon as the ego is hurt
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  and dissatisfied csis to love or even cherishes Rancor and heat,
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  there must be a real living and Lasting Unity behind the love.
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  It is understood of course that such things as sexual impurity
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  must disappear. Also, that is the ideal.
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  But as for the way of attainment, it may differ for
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  different people. One way, is that in which one
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  leaves everything else? Follow the Divine alone.
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  This does not mean an aversion for anybody anymore than it
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  means a version for the world in life.
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  It only means an absorption in one Central.
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  Aim with the idea that once that is attained, it will be easy to
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  found all relations on the true basis to become truly United
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  with others in the heart and the spirit, and the life United in
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  the spiritual truth, and in the divine, The other way is to go
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  forward from where one is seeking the Divine centrally and
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  subordinating all else to that, but not putting everything else
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  aside rather seeking to transform gradually and
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  progressively. Whatever is capable of such
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  transformation. All the things that are not
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  wanted in the relation sex impurity, jealousy anger.
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  Egoistic demand. Drop away as the inner being
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  grows pure and is replaced by the unity of Soul with soul.
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  And The Binding Together, the social life in the who of the
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  Divine and quote, reference SRI aurobindo, integral yoga, SRI
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  aurobindo teaching and method of Chapter 11 human relationships
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  in yoga friendship, affection, and love Pages 323 2328.
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  Chapter 11 human relationships in yoga friendship, affection,
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  and love Pages 323 2328.