The Yogic Practitioner and the External World

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We generally live under an
illusion of separateness from

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other beings and the rest of the
world.

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We believe our individual
personality individual body life

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mind are independent from
everyone and everything else.

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This fixed idea, however, is
part of the confusion, we

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experience that misleads us
about the true nature of

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existence.
In fact, everything is

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intimately connected.
And we breathe in oxygen in

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order to live.
Which is produced by the plant

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life of the planet.
Similarly, the plant life breeds

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in carbon dioxide which we
produce.

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We are the symbiotic or even
closer part of one existence

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that cannot exist in isolation
or separation from the other

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parts.
We can recognize, if we observe

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closely that our feelings
emotions, thoughts, all come

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from our environment.
Whether from other people with

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whom we associate or from
General factors, The collective

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experience is understood to be
contagious.

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Such that a mob that has been
whipped up will act out of a

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sense of rage and this can catch
even individuals who are

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normally quite easygoing
similarly situations that

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provoke Fear.
Can infect individuals who

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themselves are not directly
affected.

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We talked about sympathy
empathy, love compassion,

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Goodwill.
All of these are expressions of

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relationship to others and
express the sense that feelings

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can be and are communicated back
and forth.

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The question then arises as to
whether we experience these

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things only when we are
consciously brought to our

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attention or whether our senses
respond to subtle energetic

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experiences.
There is no doubt that we can

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pick up energies that are moving
in our environment.

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And in many cases, we also
recognize that we can pick up

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thoughts that are active in our
environment.

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Thus, there is this subtle inner
change constantly taking place

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where we share the vibrations of
those around us and respond to

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them.
Just as they share in the

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vibrations, we emanate for the
practitioner of yoga it is

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essential that he becomes aware
of this interchange and the

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impact of it as it is impossible
to change his own responses and

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reactions purely based on the
internal experience.

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When all sorts of thoughts
ideas, emotions feelings

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perceptions are constantly
entering from outside and

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provoking a response that is in
many cases.

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Has the result of long habit of
human nature until such time.

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As the Sadiq, has the power to
actually effectuate change in

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the general nature, he needs to
at least be conscious of and

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take steps to protect himself,
from the continued.

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Reinfection of these energies
that pour into him at all times.

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This is one of the reasons that
spiritual aspirants have

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frequently been guided to avoid
crowded circumstances and

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ordinary interchanges and to
seclude themselves in caves, or

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forests or deserts or high on a
mountain somewhere.

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They are then able to focus on
the immediate issues within

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themselves without as much
stimulation from outside with

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its corresponding energetic
impacts to distract or even post

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potentially disrupt the inner
process.

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Eventually, however, these
protective measures must give

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way to a wider effort, that
seeks to maintain the yogic

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Poise even in the midst of all
pressures.

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From what we perceive as outside
ourselves, The mother observes

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quote, the whole purpose of the
yoga is to gather all the

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Divergent Parts together and
Forge them into an undivided

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Unity.
Till then, you cannot hope to be

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without difficulties
difficulties for example, like

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doubt or depression, or
hesitation, the whole world is

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full of the poison.
You take it in with every breath

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if you exchange a few words with
an undesirable man or even if

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Countryman merely passes by you.
You may catch the contagion from

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him.
It is sufficient for you to come

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near a place where there is
plague in order to be infected

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with its poison.
You need not know at all that it

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is.
There you can lose in a few

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minutes, what it is taking you
months, to gain so long as you

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belong to humanity and so long
as you lead the ordinary life,

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It does not matter much if you
mix with the people of the world

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but if you want the Divine Life,
you will have to be exceedingly.

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Careful about your company and
your environment and quote.

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Reference SRI aurobindo in the
mother growing within the

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psychology of inner development.
Chapter 6 growth of

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Consciousness difficulties and
pitfalls page 119.