The Law of Attraction and Its Application to Spiritual Sadhana

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It is interesting that people
are willing to believe the

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secret of the Law of Attraction,
spend time, energy and money

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trying to learn it for the
purpose of manifesting wealth,

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enjoyment and the powers
available in the world.

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But they do not tend to apply
the principle behind this Law of

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attraction to the focus and
actions that take place in their

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inner lives.
This, of course, is the real

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truth behind the Law of
Attraction.

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Not that one can attract money,
sexual partners, material

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things, but that what we focus
on, what we think, how we focus

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our energy internally guides the
being to the energetic

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vibrations that resonate with
that inner focus.

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Once an individual takes the
standpoint of the witness of the

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nature, he can begin to refocus
attention away from the external

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pursuits and enjoyments to the
process and objectives of the

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spiritual practice.
This may be liberation from an

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abandonment of the external
nature, or it may be a linking

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of the consciousness to the
divine consciousness and thereby

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integrating spirit and matter
into one holistic existence.

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Even before he is able to shift
entirely to the witness

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standpoint, a strong aspiration
or inner drive towards spiritual

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realization can help the process
of reorienting the energy,

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although particularly initially
the individual has issues with

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forgetting.
As outer energies press for

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attention and the normal habits
and drives of the external

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nature continue to hold the
predominant focus for the being

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in this transitional period,
there's an alternation, a

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continual process of bringing
back the concentration to the

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spiritual practice.
No matter how many times one

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simply forgets or goes about
under the impulsion of the

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habitual nature, the main thing
is to tune oneself, to the

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extent possible, to the higher
vibration. 1 is seeking to

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realize in the nature rather
than emphasizing and focusing on

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obstacles, difficulties, and
failures.

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Over time, as the individual
grows and matures at this new

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level of vibration, the
obstacles fall away of

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themselves or at least become
much lessened in their intensity

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and thus easier to disregard.
This approach of refocusing can

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also be used for very specific
types of changes in human

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nature.
For instance, if one is

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experiencing a pull of desire
from the vital being, one can

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consciously undertake to
redirect the awareness and focus

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toward the spiritual
realization.

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To accomplish this, initially,
many people rely on specific

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techniques such as meditation,
concentration, contemplation,

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pranayam, the use of mantras,
asanas, including the use of

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mudras, bandas, and specific
alignments of the body to shift

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energy and focus away from
whatever the outer nature was

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seeking aspiration, prayer,
budgens or devotional music,

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devotional feelings, Karma yoga.
A feeling of service and

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surrender.
A widening of the attention

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toward the infinite or a call to
the guru or the divine presence

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in some form.
Entering into a state of unity

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with a particular divine form,
whether through a Morty or

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through inner practices
including things like

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visualization etcetera.
There are countless techniques

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that can be applied under 1
circumstance or another

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depending on the specific
circumstance that the seeker is

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working on changing, Shrioro
Bindo writes.

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Quote.
Difficulties and perplexities

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can never be got rid of by the
mind brooding on them and trying

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in that way to get out of them.
This habit of the mind only

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makes them recur without a
solution, and keeps up by

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brooding the persistent tangle.
It is from something above and

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outside the perplexities that
the solution must come.

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The difficulty of the physical
mind, not the true thinking

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intelligence, is that it does
not want to believe in this

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larger consciousness outside
itself, because it is not aware

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of it, and it remains shut like
a box in itself, not admitting

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the light that is all round it
and pressing to get in.

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It is a subtle law of the action
of consciousness that if you

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stress difficulties, you have to
observe them, of course, but not

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stress them.
They will quite sufficiently do

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that for themselves.
The difficulties tend to stick

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or even increase.
On the contrary, if you put your

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whole stress on faith and
aspiration and concentrate

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steadily on what you aspire to,
that will sooner or later tend

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towards realization.
It is this change of stress, a

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change in the poise and attitude
of the mind that will be the

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most helpful process.
End Quote reference.

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Sri Auro Bindu and the Mother,
Looking from Within, Chapter 4,

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Ordeals and Difficulties, pages
101 to 102.