The Subconscient Is the Repository of Habits and Atavistic Behaviour That Must Be Cleared During the Yogic Process

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We bring into this life many
propensities as well as genetic

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tendencies which are compounded
and accentuated by early

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learning that takes place in the
family and in the society.

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Prenatal influences, as well as
learning that takes place after

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the birth process and in the
very early childhood years, all

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help form the individual and his
actions and reactions.

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Many traits are locked in during
this period that reverberate

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throughout the life of the
individual as they are stored in

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the subcontinent waiting for
their opportunity to spring up

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and present themselves.
We find, therefore, that certain

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tendencies tend to carry through
from one generation to the next,

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such as tendency toward
addiction, bullying behavior,

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attitudes towards others that
lead to prejudice or misogyny,

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et cetera.
Much of this is not a conscious

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process, but simply impressions
that are imbibed and stored.

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For most people, these things
represent the legacy of the past

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and bring continuity from one
generation to the next.

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It can go much further back,
however, as there are inbred,

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atavistic behaviors that stretch
back into the evolution of the

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animal consciousness in nature.
Fight or flight reactions are an

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example.
As the individual takes up the

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practice of yoga, he begins to
confront these deeply embedded

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tendencies and behaviors and
finds that suppression does not

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eliminate them.
They must be painstakingly

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examined, understood, and the
knot of the complex unravelled

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in order to truly free the being
from these things.

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This is why simply rooting
around in the subconscient and

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allowing these things to rise up
is not effective.

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There must be a controlling and
understanding light of

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consciousness that can master
these impulses and apply

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appropriate means to dissolve or
transform them, the mother

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writes.
Quote One is born with a slew to

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clean before 1 begins to live,
and once you have made a good

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start on the way to the inner
transformation and you go down

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to the subconcient root of the
being that exactly which comes

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from parents, from atavism,
well, you do see what it is and

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all.
Almost all difficulties are

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there.
There are very few things added

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to existence after the first
years of life.

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This happens at any odd moment.
If you keep bad company or read

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bad books, the poison may enter
you.

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But there are all the imprints
deep rooted in the subconscious,

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The Dirty habits you have and
against which you struggle.

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For instance, there are people
who can't open their mouth

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without telling a lie, and they
don't always do this

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deliberately, that is the worst
of it.

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Or people who can't come in
touch with others without

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quarrelling all sorts of
stupidities.

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They are there in the
subconscient, deeply rooted.

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Now, when you have a goodwill
externally, you do your best to

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avoid all that, to correct it if
possible.

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You work, you fight, then become
aware that this thing always

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keeps coming up.
It comes up from some part which

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escapes your control.
But if you enter this

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subconscious, if you let your
consciousness infiltrate it and

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look carefully, gradually you
will discover all the sources,

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all the origins of all your
difficulties.

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Then you will begin to
understand what your father's

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and mothers, grandfathers and
grandmothers were.

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And if at a certain moment you
are unable to control yourself,

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you will understand.
I am like that because they were

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like that.
End Quote Reference Sri

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Aurobindo and the Mother, The
Hidden Forces of Life, Chapter

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2.
Hidden Forces within pages 40 to

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41.