Endurance and Persistence Is Essential for the Change of Consciousness Aimed for in the Yogic Practice

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Many people have the mistaken
idea that taking up a spiritual

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practice is somehow due to
weakness or inability to deal

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with the tough conditions of the
outer World.

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They Envision Secrets retreating
from the world and living in a

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Monastery.
Cloister or ashram being

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sheltered.
From the worst things, the world

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can throw at them getting
regular meals and a peaceful

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environment to live out their
lives.

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This is however, not the reality
of spiritual practice or

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development.
Spirituality particularly if it

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is focused on transformation of
life, rather than on Liberation

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that abandons life is not easy,
not instant and not without its

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serious challenges.
The struggles may take place

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inwardly but they represent the
attempt to effectuate True.

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Change in human nature to move
beyond the control of the ego

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personality, and the external
being, and to act from a new

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standpoint, with a new
understanding of the

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significance of life.
Along the way therefore there

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are many setbacks many inner
pressures to withstand and

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eventually many attacks from the
forces that do not want to see

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the change.
Take place which gravitate to

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those undertaking, the effort to
try to discourage deter, or

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destroy them.
So, as to preserve the status

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quo, Seekers also find that the
same issue May reoccur with a

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new energy, when another part of
the being is taken up for review

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and change.
So it seems like the same ground

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has to be fought and we fought
time.

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And again, the main qualities
needed to succeed in the

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spiritual path, are the basic
aspiration to change and the

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endurance to stay the course, no
matter how difficult things get

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Or how long it takes to take the
next or the successive steps.

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Along the way, if you are open
to observes quote, everything

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once gained is there and can be
regained, yoga is not a thing

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that goes by one decisive Rush.
One way or the other is a

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building up of a new
Consciousness and is full of ups

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and downs.
But if one keeps to it, the UPS

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have a habit of resulting by
accumulation in a decisive

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change.
Therefore the one thing to do is

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to keep at it after a fall don't
well and say I'm done for but

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get up dust yourself and proceed
farther on the right path

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reference SRI aurobindo in the
mother growing within the

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psychology of inner development.
Chapter 6 growth of

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Consciousness difficulties and
pitfalls page 124.

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SRI aurobindo in the mother
growing within the psychology of

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inner development.
Chapter 6 growth of

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Consciousness difficulties and
pitfalls page 124.