The Need to Balance Meditation and Work in the Practice of the Integral Yoga

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In an ancient who punished
product, ale our youth approach

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to Sage requesting to become a
disciple and Achieve spiritual

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realization.
The sage indicated that he

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should take to cattle into the
forest and when they numbered

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1000, he should return and would
undertake to teach the youth.

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The young man made sincere
efforts and learned all there

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was to know about raising and
breeding cattle protecting them

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from predators and surviving in
the forest for himself and his

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charges.
He learned to be observant

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patient, protective of those for
whom he had taken on the

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responsibility while at the same
time, learning about the seasons

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powers and timings of Nature and
how to live in harmony with the

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beings, who resided in the
forest, eventually he attained

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the goal and returned to the
teacher.

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The teacher saw the glow of
realization and bowed down to

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the student.
Saying that the student was now

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the teacher and he was the
student as the youth had

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attained spiritual realization.
This should punish otic tale

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illustrates the potential of
attaining Liberation through

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Works combined for a spiritual
aspirant.

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Those who believe that internal
meditation is the only way maybe

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Grudge the time and external
focus of works in the outer

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World.
In some cases, they become

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extremely withdrawn and
uncomfortable acting in the

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world.
In other cases, when they do

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undertake to act in the world,
they may be Brusque angry, or

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unable to handle the feelings
emotions and thoughts that arise

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in the external circumstances.
Oz.

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One way or the other.
There are dangers of becoming

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too entrenched in a narrow Focus
which leads away from life and

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the world.
The integral yoga of Sri

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aurobindo and the mother aims
not solely for Liberation from

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the life of the world.
But for the act of

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transformation of that life,
this implies that the Seeker

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must not only achieve a
liberated state, but must be

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able to do so while interacting
with the world and updating the

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way he relates to that world.
Used to become an instrument of

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the Divine manifestation, in
evolution.

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Not an escapee from the tasks
set by the Divine, in creating

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this Universal manifestation.
SRI aurobindo observes quote to

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keep up work helps to keep up
the balance between the internal

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experience and the external
development.

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Otherwise one-sidedness and want
of measure and balance.

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May develop more over.
It is necessary to keep the

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sadhna of work for the Divine
because in the end that enables

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the Sadiq to bring out the inner
progress into the external

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nature and life.
Life and helps the integrality

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of the sadhna.
It may be necessary for an

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individual here and there to
plunge into meditation for a

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time and suspend work for that
time or make it subordinate.

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But that can only be an
individual case and a temporary

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retirement.
Moreover, a complete cessation

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of work.
An entire withdrawal into

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oneself is seldom advisable.
It may encourage a to one-sided

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and Visionary condition in which
one lives in a sort of mid world

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of purely subjective experiences
without a firm.

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Hold on either external reality
or on the highest reality.

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And without the right use of the
subjective experience to create

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a firm link and then a
unification between the highest

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reality and the external
realization in life.

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And quote, preference SRI
aurobindo and the mother growing

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within the psychology of inner
development.

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Chapter 5 growth of
Consciousness means and methods

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