Overcoming Vital Reactions of Attraction and Repulsion in Action

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There are numerous activities we
undertake in our lives.

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That engage us with more or less
interest some, we treat as

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purely, mechanical some, we
detest, but do them because we

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have to some illicit, very
positive and focused interest in

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US.
And we tend to like those

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activities are vital, nature
creates an it's normal action, a

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response of liking or disliking
and we then tend to be attracted

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to those things we like and
repulsed by those.

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We do not In the practice of
Karma, Yoga these vital

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reactions need to be resolved so
that we can undertake any action

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called for with, at least a
measure of equanimity and

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without the attraction,
repulsion Force operative.

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There are several methods to
achieve.

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This one is to actively
cultivate the Equanimity

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throughout the being and trained
ourselves to keep our minds

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quiet and our Vital energy.
Focused on carrying out whatever

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the task, maybe another is to
work on the separation of the

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witness Consciousness from the
active outer nature.

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And thus not, let the desires
and the avoidances of the vital,

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affect our deeper consciousness.
Yet another is to find a way to

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accept, whatever action as a
means of gaining deeper

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knowledge, about the nature and
how to manage it.

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In other words, make, even the
most mundane acts part of the

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psychological evaluation and
yogic development process, and

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there is a method of focusing on
each action as a sort of

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mindfulness or awareness
exercise.

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And finding out how to enjoy
each thing without impatience or

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disturbance.
SRI aurobindo observes quote.

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It is not that you have to do
what you dislike but that you

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have to cease to dislike to do,
only what you'd like is to

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indulge the vital and maintain
its domination over the nature.

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For that is the very principle
of the un-- transform nature to

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be governed by its likes and
dislikes to be able to do

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anything with Equanimity is the
principle of Karma Yoga. it

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depends on a certain extension
and intensifying of the

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Consciousness by which all
activity becomes, interesting,

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not for itself, but because of
the Consciousness put into it

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and through the intensity of the
energy, there is a pleasure in

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the exercise of the energy and
in the perfect doing of the

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work, whatever the work maybe In
quote, reference SRI, aurobindo

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and the mother growing within
the psychology of inner

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development.
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Consciousness means and methods
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