Understanding Difficulties and Obstacles That Arise During the Yogic Process

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SRI aurobindo is able to
illustrate the different ways

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that Seekers wind up facing and
dealing with difficulties or

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obstacles that arise during the
yogic process.

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This is not a one-size-fits-all
process due to the differing

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backgrounds starting points
capacity and social environment,

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governing each separate
individual, no matter how

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advanced a particular Sadiq, or
practitioner me.

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Maybe the difficulties are there
whether overt on the surface of

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the being or hidden within and
constituting an inner struggle.

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We learn of difficulties faced
by great, spiritual leaders of

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the past to show us the
universality of this truth.

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Jesus struggled with the devil.
Buddha was confronted, by Mara

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each of them had to live with
extreme hardships.

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Having abandoned either for a
time or completely direct

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involvement in the social, and
economic life of the society, in

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some cases, living in the
desert, with privations, or in

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the forest with privations,
Miller a was tasked with hard,

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physical labor by his Guru for
an extended period of time

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during which he was not allowed
to participate in any teachings

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or meditation practices and
thereafter.

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He lived a life of extreme
austerity meditating in caves

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naked with Nettles for
sustenance.

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SRI aurobindo himself.
Spent time in the olive for a

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jail, as a guest of the British
Raj under extreme circumstances.

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Until he was exonerated at
trial, yet in these notably

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extreme cases.
The spiritual process continued.

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And yielded results that
resonate even today from those

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examples, as illustrations of
the difficulties that attend

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spiritual practice.
What we are not fully seeing

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here are the intense inner
struggles.

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As sincere Seekers grapple with
the weaknesses difficulties and

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limitations of the human
instrument, the physical vital,

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emotional, and mental elements,
and the impacts on these that

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come from external sources.
All while trying to overcome

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habits, develop new directions,
and powers of action and refine.

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And redirect the focus and
action of the individual, under

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the guidance of the psychic
being SRI aurobindo notes,

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quote, yoga has always its
difficulties, whatever yoga it

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be.
Moreover it acts in a different

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way on different speakers.
Some have to overcome the

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difficulties of their nature
first, before they get any

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experiences to speak of others,
get a splendid beginning and all

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the difficulties afterwards.
Others.

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Go on for a long time.
Having alternate risings to the

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top of the wave, and then a
descent into the gulf's.

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And so on, until the difficulty
is worked out, Others have a

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smooth path, which does not mean
that they have no difficulties.

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They have plenty, but they do
not care.

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A straw for them because they
feel that the Divine will help

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them to the goal or that he is
with them.

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Even when they do not feel him,
their faith makes them

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imperturbable.
And quote, reference SRI,

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aurobindo in the mother growing
within the psychology of

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Development chapter 6 growth of
Consciousness difficulties and

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pitfalls page 111.