Yoga as Applied Psychology to Understand and Address the Complexity Inherent in the Evolution of Consciousness

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The evolution of Consciousness
involves an increasing level of

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complexity as successive levels
of consciousness are layered and

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then interact with each other
with each layer attempting to

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not only express its own native
way of seeing and acting, but

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also needing to accommodate the
demands and different

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considerations of the other
levels.

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Thus we may think of something
with the mind, but when we try

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to express it in the body or the
vital level of our being, we

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find that it does not translate
exactly as conceived are vital.

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Being is able to infiltrate the
mental process and bias the

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mines actions to justify its
desires.

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And we also can see that when
the vital interacts with the

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physical body, it can lead to
strain and injury.

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If the body is unable to manage
the intensity of the effort

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called for or the force
deployed, Things become even

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more complex.
When we realize that the mind,

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the vital, and the physical are
not unified within themselves,

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but also have different drives
directions habits needs And

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predilections that make each
evolutionary stage complex in

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and of itself.
For those who seek Liberation

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from the external life, who seek
spiritual realization through

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one pointed focus on the
absolute.

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These issues may, but not
necessarily do have very little

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relevance, as they can simply
withdraw.

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Avoid the issues to a great
degree and Escape what they

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believe to be the illusory
nature of the life in the world.

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It is, of course, not absolutely
true.

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Simply because achieving such a
one pointed focus without

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dealing with the distractions
caused by the body, the Life

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Energy and the mind is not as
simple of feet as some may

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assume.
For those, however, who

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recognize the omnipresent
reality of the universal

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manifestation, and who accept
the need for unification with

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the wider purpose and
implementation of the

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significance of that
manifestation, it is clear that

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there is no way to Simply cut
the knot of the problem, rather.

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Each element needs to be
carefully untied and redirected.

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This leads to the enormous task
of Applied psychology, the tree

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aurobindo and the mother have
described.

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SRI aurobindo writes, quote, the
practice of yoga brings us face

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to face with the extraordinary
complexity of our own, being the

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stimulating, but also
embarrassing multiplicity of our

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personality.
The rich endless confusion of

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nature to the ordinary man who
lives upon his own waking

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surface, ignorant or the self
depths, and vastness has behind

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the veil, his psychological This
is fairly simple, a small but

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clamorous company of desires,
some imperative, intellectual

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and aesthetic Cravings.
Some tastes a few ruling or

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prominent ideas amid a great
current of unconnected or ill

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connected, and mostly trivial
thoughts, a number of more or

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less imperative vital needs,
alternations of physical health,

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and disease a scattered.
And in consequence, Succession

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of Joys and griefs. frequent
minor, disturbances and

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vicissitudes and rarer, strong
searchings and upheavals of mind

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or body and through it all
nature, partly with the aid of

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his thought and will partly
without or in spite of it,

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arranging these things in some
rough practical fashion, some

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tolerable disorderly order, this
is the material of his

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existence, the average human
being even Even now is in his

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inward existence as crude and
undeveloped as was the bygone

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primitive man in his outward
life.

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But as soon as we go deep within
ourselves, and yoga means a

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plunge into all the multiple Pro
funded, he's of the Soul.

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We find ourselves suggest
subjectively as man in his

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growth as found himself object
of lie.

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Surrounded by a whole complex
World, which we have to know.

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And to conquer the most
disconcerting Discovery is to

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find that every part of us
intellect will sense, mind

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nervous or desire self, the
heart.

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The body has each as it were its
own complex, individuality and

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natural formation independent of
the rest.

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It neither agrees with itself,
nor with the others, nor with

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the representative ego, which is
the shadow cast by some Central

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and centralizing.
Self on our superficial

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ignorance.
We find that we are composed not

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of one, but many personalities
and each has its own demand.

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And differing nature are being
is a roughly constituted chaos

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into which we have to.
introduced the principle of a

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divine order and quote reference
SRI aurobindo, and the mother,

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our many shelves, practical
yogic psychology chapter 1, our

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manifold being Pages 8 to 9,