Aligning the Inner Being With the Psychic Aspiration Overcomes the Pressure of Despondency and Depression in the Course of the Spiritual Sadhana

0:01 Taking the right attitude when feelings of failure or depression arise in the course of the spiritual practice is essential to navigate through these moods with the least disruption. Srioro Bindo implies that the standpoint should be in the separate witness consciousness, which he distinguishes from the external being. The external being is subject to the changes brought about by the three Gunas and thus will from time to time see an uprising of vital disturbance or feelings of weakness, failure, incompetence, etcetera. Regardless of how the external being responds, the witness consciousness needs to make the choice to adhere to the aspiration of the true Self, the psychic being and its connection to the Divine.

0:52 The psychic being knows that the divine relationship is constant and unshakable, Sri Aurobindo writes quote. Do not allow yourself to admit any movement of vital depression, still less a depressed condition. As for the external being, it is always not only in you, but in everyone, a difficult animal to handle. It has to be dealt with by patients and a quiet and cheerful perseverance. Never get depressed by its resistance, for that only makes it sensitive and aggrieved and difficult, or else discouraged. Give it rather the encouragement of sunlight and a quiet pressure, and one day you will find it opening entirely to the grace.

1:43 One must learn to go forward on the path of yoga, as the Gita insists, with a consciousness free from despondency on near Vina Chetasa. Even if one slips, one must rectify the posture. Even if one falls, one has to rise and go undiscouraged on the Divine way. The attitude must be. The Divine has promised himself to me, if I cleave to him always, that I will never cease to do whatever may come. End Quote. Reference. Fioro, Bindu and the Mother Looking from Within, Chapter 4 were Deals and Difficulties, pages 96 to 97.