May 14, 2025
Difficulties Are Blessings If We Know How to Face Them
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YouTube reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Looking from Within , Chapter 4, Ordeals and Difficulties, pp. 75-76This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2025/05/12/difficulties-are-blessings-if-we-know-how-to-face-them/
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Whether we term it Divine will,
synchronicity, coherence,
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quantum entanglement, cause and
effect dependent origination,
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karma or the Law of Attraction,
or any other terminology, there
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remains a truth that the
specific time, place and
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circumstance we occupy in the
world is due to a stream of
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energy interacting with other
streams in a coordinated pattern
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that carries out the intention
of the Universal Manifestation.
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For the practitioner of Integral
Yoga, who by definition is
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focused on receiving the higher
spiritual forces and
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transforming his life and his
expression in the outer world to
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the divine intention, the
intensity and one pointedness of
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the focus creates a link that
allows these higher forces to
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manifest.
The individual becomes a Nexus
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for that transformative action.
Thus, as the evolutionary
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process requires old patterns
and habits to either be thrown
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off or modified, they will
necessarily be put before the
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individual to the extent and in
the way that he can begin to
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address them.
Not every individual gets the
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same set of tasks or has the
same activity.
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The Nexus brings the right
issues to the person who is
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meant to act upon them.
This implies that each such
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individual has, in principle,
the necessary capacity to
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address those very difficulties
or concerns with which he is
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faced, the mother observes.
Quote Be absolutely convinced
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that everything that happens,
happens in order to give us
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precisely the lesson we needed,
and if we are sincere in the
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Sadhna, the lesson should be
accepted with joy and gratitude.
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Difficulties are always
blessings if we know how to face
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them.
End Quote Reference Srioro Bindu
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and the Mother Looking from
Within, Chapter 4, Ordeals and
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00:02:23,400 --> 00:02:27,360
Difficulties, pages 75 to 76.
00:00:01,680 --> 00:00:07,240
Whether we term it Divine will,
synchronicity, coherence,
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00:00:08,080 --> 00:00:13,120
quantum entanglement, cause and
effect dependent origination,
3
00:00:13,560 --> 00:00:20,120
karma or the Law of Attraction,
or any other terminology, there
4
00:00:20,120 --> 00:00:23,720
remains a truth that the
specific time, place and
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00:00:23,720 --> 00:00:28,040
circumstance we occupy in the
world is due to a stream of
6
00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:31,920
energy interacting with other
streams in a coordinated pattern
7
00:00:32,360 --> 00:00:36,840
that carries out the intention
of the Universal Manifestation.
8
00:00:38,560 --> 00:00:42,680
For the practitioner of Integral
Yoga, who by definition is
9
00:00:42,680 --> 00:00:46,280
focused on receiving the higher
spiritual forces and
10
00:00:46,280 --> 00:00:49,800
transforming his life and his
expression in the outer world to
11
00:00:49,800 --> 00:00:54,840
the divine intention, the
intensity and one pointedness of
12
00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:59,480
the focus creates a link that
allows these higher forces to
13
00:00:59,480 --> 00:01:03,400
manifest.
The individual becomes a Nexus
14
00:01:03,720 --> 00:01:08,640
for that transformative action.
Thus, as the evolutionary
15
00:01:08,640 --> 00:01:12,760
process requires old patterns
and habits to either be thrown
16
00:01:12,760 --> 00:01:17,120
off or modified, they will
necessarily be put before the
17
00:01:17,160 --> 00:01:21,680
individual to the extent and in
the way that he can begin to
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00:01:21,720 --> 00:01:25,520
address them.
Not every individual gets the
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00:01:25,520 --> 00:01:29,320
same set of tasks or has the
same activity.
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00:01:30,200 --> 00:01:33,680
The Nexus brings the right
issues to the person who is
21
00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:37,720
meant to act upon them.
This implies that each such
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00:01:37,720 --> 00:01:42,840
individual has, in principle,
the necessary capacity to
23
00:01:42,840 --> 00:01:47,320
address those very difficulties
or concerns with which he is
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00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:53,960
faced, the mother observes.
Quote Be absolutely convinced
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that everything that happens,
happens in order to give us
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00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:02,840
precisely the lesson we needed,
and if we are sincere in the
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00:02:02,840 --> 00:02:07,760
Sadhna, the lesson should be
accepted with joy and gratitude.
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00:02:09,000 --> 00:02:13,440
Difficulties are always
blessings if we know how to face
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00:02:13,440 --> 00:02:18,520
them.
End Quote Reference Srioro Bindu
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and the Mother Looking from
Within, Chapter 4, Ordeals and
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Difficulties, pages 75 to 76.