General Limitations and Options for Methods and Applications for Spiritual Development

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In any technical field.
There are both a general

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statement of goals and
principles as well as specific

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steps that should be applied to
achieve those results in many

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Endeavors.
Particularly those involved in

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dealing with the physical world
and the science that operates in

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that world.
The process is relatively

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straightforward and consistent
and anyone applying those steps

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would expect to achieve the
stated end result.

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Thus we rely on airplanes using
principles enunciated by

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mechanical physics and
aerodynamics to be able to take

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off and fly around the world.
The methodology is set.

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And as long as the steps are
fulfilled, the airplane does

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what it is expected to do?
There are any number of

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cookbooks that provide specifics
as to ingredients quantities

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manner of preparation.
Time of cooking Etc, to achieve

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the desired meal baked goods
were dessert.

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Anyone following the precise
instructions can be expected to

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wind up with the end result
described.

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Although, even here some
variation does, in fact, occur

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due to specific individual or
local factors?

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Similarly, although not
identically, the yogic Sciences

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have been reduced to specific
steps and principles for

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achieving of stated objectives.
It is anticipated that just

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about anyone.
Following the steps outlined can

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get to the result.
The difference here is that each

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individual is starting from a
different place in their

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evolutionary cycle.
Each one has a different set of

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factors in their own lives.
And in their environment, and

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each one is subjected to Unique
pressures.

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This makes it difficult, if not
impossible to lay down specific

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steps for everyone to follow
yoga is not quite the same as

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following a recipe and baking a
cake.

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What can be done is that the
basic objectives and principles

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of action can be set forth and
specific options outline so that

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the secret can apply them at the
right time in the right

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circumstances and in the right
sequence to meet their specific

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needs rules, therefore are
insufficient without an

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understanding of the need for
flexibility and a certain degree

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of individual.
As long as the basic principles

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are kept before one's eyes.
SRI aurobindo notes, quote.

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Another kind of shastra is not
scripture, but a statement of

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the science and methods, the
effective principals and way of

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working of the path of yoga,
which the Sonic elects to follow

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each path, has its shastra.
Either written or traditional,

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passing from mouth to mouth
through a long line of teachers

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in India, a great Authority, a
high reverence Even is

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ordinarily attached to the
written or traditional teaching

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all the lines of the yoga are
supposed to be fixed and the

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teacher who has received the
shastra by tradition and

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realized it.
In practice guides the disciple,

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along the immemorial tracks.
When often even hears the

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objection urged against a new
practice, a new yogic teaching,

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the adoption of a new formula.
It is not according Adding to

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shastra.
But neither in fact, nor in the

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actual practice of the yoga
means, is there really any such

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entire rigidity of an iron door
shut against new?

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Truth, fresh Revelation, widened
experience.

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The written or traditional
teaching expresses the knowledge

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and experiences of many
centuries.

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Systematize organized made
attainable to the beginner its

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importance and utility are,
therefore immense but a great

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freedom of variation and
development is always

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practicable.
Even so, highly scientific

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assistant, as Raja yoga can be
practiced on other lines than

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the organized method of
patanjali.

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Each of the three paths tree.
Marga the triple Path of

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Knowledge devotion and works
breaks into many by paths, which

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meet again, at the goal, the
general knowledge on, which the

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yoga depends is fixed.
But the order the succession,

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the devices, the forms must be
allowed to vary for the needs

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and particular, impulsions of
the individual nature have to be

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satisfied.
Satisfied.

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Even while the general truths
remain firm and constant in

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quote, reference SRI, aurobindo
and the mother growing within

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the psychology of inner
development.

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Chapter 3 growth of
Consciousness basic requisites

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