Equality: the State of Inner Peace in the Face of Provocation

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How do we typically respond to
the situations that we need in

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the world?
We want to fulfill our desires,

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have our wishes and ideas
carried out and have a modicum

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of control in our lives.
When things do not go.

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As we wish, we become frustrated
angry, resentful or otherwise

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upset on the other side when we
get what we are seeking.

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We experience, Happiness, joy
and enthusiastic participation

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many have pointed out that
neither Joy nor sorrow positive,

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or negative events or
circumstances.

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Are always present. but that
they tend to ebb and flow and

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interchange with one another so
that every life meets with its

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ups and it's Downs in the course
of life, In a world of

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uncertainty, our comfortable
lives can be easily upset by War

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storms, economic disruptions or
hostile acts perpetrated upon us

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where those with whom we are
connected.

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To borrow from the author,
Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two

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Cities.
It was the best of times, it was

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the worst of times.
The same holds true for the

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yogic practitioner who sometimes
has outstanding experiences and

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at other times meets with
intense opposition and conflict.

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There is such a high level of
violence in the world, because

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Humanity has not learned how to
deal with the issues that

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confront us everyday.
Domestic violence.

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Road, rage temper tantrums and
angry outbursts are all part of

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the daily life for many people
and hardly given a second

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thought when things we perceive
as positive happen ecstatic

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Outburst of Joy can occur.
Philosophers throughout history,

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have raised the issue and some
such as the stoics, have

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counseled maintaining an even
temper in all circumstances.

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Others tell us to hold back.
Our outbursts and restrain our

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desires and our anger.
Those who attempt this approach

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frequently find that they are
not solving the reaction but

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bottling it up.
Suppressing it with sometimes

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negative impacts on their health
and well-being including high,

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blood pressure, ulcers, Etc, SRI
aurobindo and the mother counsel

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that the needed poised.
For the yogi name is to maintain

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a state of inner peace and
equality to all the touches

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positive and negative.
Give that one experiences in

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life.
This is not an outward

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suppression of reactions that
are then allowed to boil

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inwardly, but a true solving of
the reactive nature such that

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there is neither an external
Outburst nor an inner seething

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that builds up.
Anyone who has attempted, this

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will easily recognize the
difficulty involved in this

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accomplishment.
It is a first foundation for

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yoga growth and development and
require substantial inner

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awareness to maintain.
Calm people generally tend to

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see strength in the use of Brute
Force, both physically, and

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psychologically.
Yet in many cases, this comes as

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a result of the inner weakness.
True strength lies in the

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ability to not let the touches
of Life.

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Negatively impact the
psychological balance of the

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nature.
You are distract from the focus

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of life.
SRI, aurobindo observes, quote.

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Equality means a quiet and
unmoved mind and vital, it means

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not to be touched or disturbed
by things that happen or things

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said or done to you.
But to look at them with a

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straight, look free from the
distortions, created by personal

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feeling and to try to understand
what is behind them.

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Why they happen, what is to be
learned from them, what is it in

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oneself, which they are Are cast
against and what inner profit or

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progress when can make out of
them.

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It means self Mastery over the
vital movements.

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Anger and sensitiveness and
pride, as well as desire on the

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rest.
Not to let them get hold of the

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emotional being and disturb the
inner peace not to speak and act

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in the rush and impulsion of
these things always to act and

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speak out of a calm in her Poise
of the spirit.

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It is not easy to have this
equality in any full perfect

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measure.
But one should always try more

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and more to make it the basis of
one's inner State and outer

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movement and quote, Reference
SRI aurobindo and the mother

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growing within the psychology of
inner development, chapter for

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growth of Consciousness.
First steps and Foundation page.

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72.