The Three Gunas, Their Role in the Difficulties and Obstacles in the Yogic Development, and the Certainty of Success When the Divine Call is Present

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The importance of the rule of
the three gunas, the qualities

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of nature cannot be
overemphasized.

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Each of these qualities has both
its positive aspects and its

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downsides.
And they are functional in all

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life.
They're continually in

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fluctuation and intermix with
one another to create the events

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and circumstances that play out
in our lives.

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This remains true.
Even for those who take up the

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spiritual life, the focus
quality, and process of the

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spiritual practice are all
conditioned by the gunas and

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their action.
There seems to be considerable

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misunderstanding about the
action of the gunas as people

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indicate that they are becoming
such a quick with the idea that

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the qualities of light Harmony
and calm, understanding that

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accompany this Guna.
You are the total requirement.

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What is overlooked here?
Is that even software has its

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difficulties and can pose
obstacles to spiritual progress

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at a certain stage as well as
the fact that Rodgers is needed

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to provide energy in the Life
action and that Thomas has its

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role in providing a stable
foundational platform.

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What is required is a detailed
insight to the actions of the

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three gunas.
The application of their

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positive benefits for the
spiritual practice, and the need

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to overcome the obstacles.
Each one puts in the way of the

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progress.
Another issue is the frequently

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held idea that once one takes up
spiritual practice, the action

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of the gunas is no longer to be
regarded.

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And that somehow the Divine
operates through some miraculous

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mechanism that overturns and
overrides the gunas.

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This creates a duality of the
Divine creation, being built

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upon the basis of the gunas, and
the Seeker somehow being

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extracted from this foundation
and basis of the entire Fire

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Creation, The Divine appears to
favor The evolutionary and

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systematic growth and
development.

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Within the overarching framework
that has been set up, SRI,

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aurobindo observes, quote, the
spiritual change, which yoga

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demands from Human Nature, and
individual character is

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therefore full of difficulties.
When may almost say that it's

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the most difficult of all human.
Crimson efforts in so far as it

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can get this up quick, and the
reg Asik kinetic elements to

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assist it.
Its path is made easier.

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But even this up, which element
can resist by attachment to Old

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ideas to preconceived, notions
to mental preferences, and

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partial, judgments to opinions,
and reasonings, which come in

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the way of higher truth, and to
which it is attached.

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The kinetic element resist by
its egoism, its passions desires

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and strong attachments.
It's vanity and self-esteem.

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It's constant habit of demand
and many other obstacles.

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The resistance of the vital has,
a more violent character than

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the others and it brings to the
aid of the others.

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Its own violent, and passion and
that is a source of all the

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acute difficulty Revolt up.
Evils and disorders, which Mar

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the course of the yoga.
The Divine is there, but he does

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not ignore the conditions, the
laws, the circumstances of

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nature.
It is under these conditions

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that he does.
All his work.

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His work in the world and in
man, and consequently also in

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the Sadiq, the aspirant, even in
the God.

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No, her.
And God lover, even the saint.

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And the sage continue to have
difficulties and to be limited

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by their human.
Nature.

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A complete Liberation and a
complete Perfection, or the

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complete possession of the
Divine and possession by the

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Divine is possible.
But it does not usually happen

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by an easy Miracle or a series
of Miracles, the miracle can and

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does happen.
But only when there is the full

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call and complete self-giving of
the Soul, And the entire widest

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opening of the nature still, if
the call of the soul is there,

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although not yet, full, however,
great and obstinate, the

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difficulties, there can be no
final and irretrievably failure.

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Even when the thread is broken,
it is taken up again and

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reunited and carried to its end.
There is a working in the nature

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itself in response to the inner
need, which however slowly

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brings about the result and
quote reference SRI aurobindo in

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the mother growing within the
psychology of inner development.

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Chapter 6 growth of
consciousness.

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These difficulties and pitfalls
Pages, 110 to 111.