Risks and Difficulties Attendant on the Practice of a Yoga of Transformation

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People tend to underestimate the
risks and difficulties attendant

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on the practice of yoga with a
focus on the growth of

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Consciousness and transformation
of human nature.

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Once the secret begins to try to
make changes in long-standing

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habits of action and reaction
mental, predilections, vital

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responses, and physical
expectations.

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All kinds of imbalances can
arise And long stable situations

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can suddenly erupt in new and
unexpected ways and in some

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cases with enormous Force,
taking the Seeker by surprise if

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there has not been sufficient,
preparation purification, and

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separation of the witness
Consciousness to avoid being

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sucked in and overwhelmed.
A case that has not been widely

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mooted illustrates one of the
extreme reactions that can

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occur.
The Seeker studies and does

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intensive sadhna and develop
certain powers and insights

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which he then determines will
make him a teacher or Guru.

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He goes to the west from India
and with his developed Powers,

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he begins to attract young
people to join his ashram.

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He has not however done the
purifications needed the

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necessary yamas and niyamas has
and begins to believe in his own

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superiority.
And the Confluence of his own

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Superior status and the teaching
he is putting forward leads him

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to believe that anything he does
in furtherance of the end result

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of disseminating.
The teaching is acceptable.

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He begins to entice young women
into his bed.

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And then after he has gained
psychological control, over

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them, he deploys them to entice
and control young men to work

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hard and bring money and carry
out his Borders, He Cheats

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suppliers to the organization on
the basis that he is doing Noble

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work and they would just waste
the money if it was in their

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hands.
And he cuts off family and

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friends.
From The Seekers in order to

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create further controls, he
sends people from one country to

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his locations and other
countries, and then takes

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control of their passports and
money, effectively and slaving

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them.
He engages in rape of certain

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women who were not willing to
consent eventually.

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He enters into sexual abuse of
young children sometimes in the

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presence of the child's mother
who is asked to encourage and

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support it.
At a certain point, his

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misdeeds, come to the notice of
the authorities and he is

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charged and convicted of the
crimes of sexually.

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Assaulting children is
imprisoned in Germany for some

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years before being forcibly
returned to India.

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The country of his birth.
This individual may very well,

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have been a sincere Seeker in
his Youth and undertaken, very

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serious sadhna.
Yeah, when the pressures and

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temptations arose as the power
is Unleashed by the yogic

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practices increased, he was
unable to withstand them and had

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what may be considered to be a
major fall?

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SRI aurobindo provides the
solution and antidote.

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Everyone has to face
difficulties.

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Everyone will make mistakes.
Everyone will fall occasionally

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with the right protections, the
right devotion and focus.

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These can be overcome through
your window.

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Writes quote, I have never said
that yoga or that this yoga is a

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safe and easy path.
What I say is that anyone who

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has the will to go through, can
go through for the rest.

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If you aim high, there is always
the danger of a steep fall.

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If you misconduct your airplane,
But the danger is for those who

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allow themselves to enter a
double being Aiming High, but

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also indulging, their lower
Outlook.

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And hankerings what else can you
expect?

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When people do that, you must
become single-minded, then the

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difficulties of the mind and
vital will be overcome.

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Otherwise, those who oscillate
between their height and their

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abysses will always be in danger
till they have.

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Become single-minded that
applies to the advanced as well

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as the beginner.
These are facts of nature.

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I can't pretend for anybody's
comfort that they are otherwise,

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but there is the fact also that
nobody need keep himself in this

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Danger.
One, mindedness surrender to the

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Divine Faith.
True love for the Divine

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complete sincerity in the will
spiritual humility.

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Real.
Not formal There are so many

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things that can be a safeguard
against any chance of eventual

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downfall.
Slips, stumbles difficulties

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upsetting.
Everyone has one can't be

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assured against these things,
but if one has the safeguards,

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they are transitory help the
nature to learn and are followed

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by a better progress.
In quote, reference SRI

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aurobindo and the mother growing
within the psychology of inner

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development.
Chapter 6 growth of

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Consciousness difficulties and
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