Sustaining the Yogic Endeavour in the Unique Challenges Posed by the Integral Yoga

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For those individuals called to
take up the integral Yoga, there

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is a unique opportunity and a
unique set of concerns that

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arise.
Those paths of yoga which aim at

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liberation have their own
difficulties.

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It is not simple to escape the
lures of the external life or

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even to undertake 1 pointed
concentration to the exclusion

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of anything else.
Yet there are methods and there

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are defined results, and at the
end, with sufficient

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determination and practice, the
seeker in the traditional paths

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of yoga can reach his objective.
The integral yoga, however, does

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not seek escape from the
external world, but rather the

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integration of new powers of
consciousness that are involved

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but not yet expressed in order
to uplift and transform the

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outer existence.
This implies that escape from

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that existence, avoidance of its
various pressures, is not the

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method for this yoga.
When an individual chooses the

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solitary path of focusing on
liberation from the world, he

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does not present a risk or
challenge to the established

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order, the powers that be, in
terms of the physical, vital and

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mental forces and their
objectives at work in the world.

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Things go on as normal.
When an individual accepts the

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idea that the entire current
existence needs to be observed,

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changed, and infused with a new
force that will change the

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status quo, he is suddenly
confronted with the opposition,

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internally and externally to
everything he is attempting to

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do.
Even without active opposition,

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any attempt to address embedded
instincts, habits, and trained

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responses is a complex and
extraordinarily difficult

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endeavour.
When the conscious forces behind

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the existing organization of
life are brought into the

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picture, they add active
opposition to the issues.

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They raise up desires.
They push to expose flaws.

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They raise up doubts about the
objective, the path, the

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guidance and the individual's
own capacity.

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The integral Yoga is this one
that requires an extraordinary

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measure of persistence, an
incredible amount of patience,

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and an immovable faith and
willingness to work for long

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periods of time without even in
many cases any clear sign of

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forward movement and a devotion
to the long term objective that

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will only be fully realized by
humanity many generations in the

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future, Sri Aurobindo observes.
Quote Whatever method is used,

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persistence and perseverance are
essential.

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For whatever method is used, the
complexity of the natural

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resistance will be there to
combat it.

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The difficulties have to be
faced, and the more cheerfully

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they are faced, the sooner they
will be overcome.

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The one thing to do is to keep
the mantra of success, the

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determination of victory, the
fixed resolve.

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Have it I must, and have it I
will.

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Impossible.
There is no such thing as

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impossibility.
There are difficulties and

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things of Long Alain, but no
impossibilities.

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What 1 is determined fixedly to
do will get done now or later.

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It becomes possible.
Drive out dark despair and go

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bravely on with your yoga.
As the darkness disappears, the

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inner doors will open.
End Quote Reference.

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Srioro Bindu and the Mother
looking from within, Chapter 5.

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Attitudes on the Path, page 137.