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April 12, 2023

Every Yogic Practitioner Must Develop Along His Own Path and Face His Own Difficulties

Every Yogic Practitioner Must Develop Along His Own Path and Face His Own Difficulties
Every Yogic Practitioner Must Develop Along His Own Path and Face His Own Difficulties
Sri Aurobindo Studies
Every Yogic Practitioner Must Develop Along His Own Path and Face His Own Difficulties
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We like to have certainty safety
and a fixed map.

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That provides us directions
steps Milestone markers and,

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which will lead us to the goal
of our seeking Spiritual

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Development.
However, is not quite the same

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as an automobile or train trip
from one city to another.

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The complex Nexus that is
created for each individual

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implies that everyone starts
from a somewhat different.

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Psychological place with
different opportunities.

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Different limitations and
difficulties, different

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developed capacities, and indeed
different solutions to attain to

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somewhat varying results.
With this amount of complexity

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and variance it is not feasible
to set up one rule, that

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addresses the circumstances of
all individuals and thus a fixed

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and detailed step-by-step
approach to yoga and Spiritual

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Development, is not actually
possible, even in the more

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precise.
Physical awesome has advanced in

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how to yoga.
Not, everyone can simply follow

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a fixed routine and achieve the
same result.

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When we look at the
psychological aspects of

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Spiritual Development, it
becomes even less possible to

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dictate one specific series of
actions to achieve one specific

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plan result.
SRI aurobindo and the mother

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recognize this complexity and
thus refrain from giving out

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specific and detailed
instructions that would apply

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equally to all they focused on
sadhaks.

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Growing in Consciousness.
Gaining situational awareness,

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to understand what was occurring
in their own development and

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applying any number of a variety
of methodologies, depending on

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the specific.
Ocean within which they found

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themselves.
This wide variability in the

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development of the various
practitioners of the yoga

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implied that there would be
variances in the timing manner

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type and depth of experiences
that would arise for the Seeker.

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For those who are eager for
experiences, a delay in their

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occurrence, became a source of
anxiety, worry and

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dissatisfaction and despair, in
some cases.

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SRI aurobindo, advisors that
experiences that come too soon

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for a seeker can themselves
create issues risks and problems

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and thus, an individual, who
undertook the processes to

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extirpate the influence of
desire and the vital ego from

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the nature, would be able to
follow a much safer path of

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development.
SRI aurobindo writes, quote

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experiences come to many before.
The nature is ready to make full

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profit from them to others, a
more or less prolonged period of

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purification and preparation of
the stuff of the nature or the

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instruments.
Comes first, while experiences

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are held up till this process is
largely or wholly over the

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ladder method is the safe and
founder of the two.

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In quote, reference SRI
aurobindo and the mother growing

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within the psychology of inner
development.

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Chapter 7, growth of
Consciousness.

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Inner experiences Pages 134 to
135.