The First Necessary Step in Preparation for the Practice of the Integral Yoga

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When can clearly appreciate the
unique nature of the integral

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yoga.
When one reflects on the

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preparation needed for the
practice, when compared to the

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preparations required for
numerous other Paths of yoga,

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the eighth, step set forth, and
patanjali, yoga, sutras include

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to prepare ettore stages called
yamas and niyamas house.

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These set forth purifications of
the physical, vital, and mental

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being so that the further
practices can bear fruit and not

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wind up harming.
The practitioner similar

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requirements are set forth for
many paths of spiritual

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discipline, one way, or the
other to ensure, the individual

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can focus.
Not become distracted and hold

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the energy without spilling it
or breaking down the body life,

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mine complex. some individuals
like Miller Epi required

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extensive preparation, through
hard, physical labor, Others are

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asked to practice silence or
devotional prayers to quiet, the

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mind and open the heart.
Some require extensive

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preparation of the physical
body.

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So as to have it acquire a
perfect seat Asana, that is

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steady firm, and which can be
maintained for long periods of

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time as meditation develops.
Every yogic path, every

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spiritual discipline, ask the
practitioner to First undertake

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exercises of this sort.
So as to ready the being for the

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arduous efforts and tests that
arise along the way, For the

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integral yoga, all of these
preparations are subsumed under

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a more General prescription of
becoming conscious, the process,

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and the result of becoming
conscious inevitably leads to

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the type of purifications asked
for in the numerous other Paths

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of spirituality the other day.
A Seeker asks, what role Hunter

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yoga, or Raja yoga play for a
practitioner of the integral

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yoga?
neither of these are necessarily

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required for the integral yoga
but may become part of the

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process at some stage, or
another, as the conscious

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speaker, addresses issues that
arise in the course of the

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sapna, every science, every
branch of human knowledge, human

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activity and human Energy, may
be called to play a role at a

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certain stage, the conscious
individual learns to wield these

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two Rules to address
difficulties, or to support

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progress in the mind, Life
Energy or the body to the extent

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that he finds.
They will Aid the process and

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without being attached to them
as permanent stages.

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For instance, the disciplines of
Hatha, Yoga may help to train

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the body Aid in the increasing
awareness and consciousness of

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the body and make it strong
flexible and resilient.

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The disciplines of Raja yoga may
do something similar for the

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nervous envelope and the mind
yet in the end, once the need

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has been dealt with the
practitioner can and should put

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aside the tools in order to
continue to progress into the

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next phase or stage of yogic
development, it must be

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remembered.
That the goal of integral yoga

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is not to become a perfect
hunting Yogi, nor Raja Logan.

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But to open the Consciousness to
Oneness with the Divine force,

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and to support that Force, as it
carries out the evolutionary

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Transformations that take place
in the world.

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A disciple asks, what is one to
do to prepare oneself for the

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yoga?
The mother observes quote to be

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conscious.
First of all, we are conscious

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of only an insignificant portion
of our being for the most part.

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We are unconscious.
It is this unconsciousness that

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keeps us down to our
unregenerate nature and prevents

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change and transformation in it.
It is through unconsciousness

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that the unde Divine forces
enter into us and make us their

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slaves.
You are to be conscious of

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yourself, you must awake to your
nature and movements.

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You must know why and how you do
things or feel or think them.

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You must understand your motives
and impulses the forces hidden

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and apparent that move you.
In fact you must as it were Take

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two pieces, the entire Machinery
of your being.

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Once you are conscious, it means
that you can distinguish and

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sift things.
You can see, which are the

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forces that pull you down, and
which help you on and quote

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reference SRI aurobindo on the
mother growing within the

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psychology of inner development.
Chapter 1 emergence from

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unconsciousness page, 13.