How to Make Progress in the Practice of Karma Yoga

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We tend to be carried away by
the external focus in the work

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we're doing and thus the
presence of Mind needed to

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remember and offer is set in the
background of our awareness.

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If we reflect on the State of
Consciousness, we experience

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when focused on some external
work.

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We soon find that we can be
almost totally absorbed and in

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fact, that work is generally
best accomplished through what

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may be called, a one pointed
concentration.

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So, how do we convert this work
into Karma Yoga?

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When we are not paying attention
at the time of the work to the

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spiritual Focus, Patience
perseverance and time vital

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nature particularly in the mode
of rajas wants and expects

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instant results and visible
progress.

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The type of changes that are
envisioned in the practice of

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Karma Yoga.
However are not easily and

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completely implemented.
They tend to develop over time

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with persistent, quiet effort,
SRI aurobindo describes several

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ways to phase in the required
standpoint, for the individual

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practicing Karma Yoga, after
some time with repeated

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practice, the resulting status
may appear to be almost

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effortless as it simply occurs
to reach that stage.

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However, the Sadiq needs to be
prepared to keep Crying, without

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any sense of discouragement.
SRI aurobindo writes quote, it

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is easy for one comparatively to
remember and be conscious when

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one sits quiet in meditation.
It is difficult when one has to

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be busy with work.
The remembrance and

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Consciousness in work, have to
come by degrees.

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You must not expect to have it
all at once, nobody can get it

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all at once.
It comes in two ways.

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First, if one practices
remembering the mother and

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offering the work to her.
Each time one does something not

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all the time one is doing, but
at the beginning or whenever one

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can remember, Then that slowly
becomes easy and habitual.

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To the nature.
Secondly, by The Meditation and

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inner Consciousness begins to
develop, which after a time not

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at once, or suddenly becomes
more and more, automatically

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permanent one feels this as a
separate Consciousness from that

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outer which works at first, this
separate Consciousness is not

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felt when one is working.
But as soon as the work stops

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one feels, it was there all the
time watching from behind

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afterwards.
It begins to be felt during the

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work itself as if there were two
parts of oneself.

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One watching and supporting from
behind and remembering the

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mother and offering to her and
the other doing the work.

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When this happens, then to work
with the true Consciousness

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becomes more and more easy, A
time comes for the Sadiq in the

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end, when the Consciousness and
the deeper experience, go on

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happening, even in full were
corn sleep, while speaking or in

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any kind of activity in quote,
reference SRI, aurobindo in the

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mother growing within the
psychology of inner development.

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Chapter 5 growth of
Consciousness means and methods

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page.