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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Sources of Disturbance and the Process of Detachment

We tend to internalize and “own” our weaknesses or internal struggles. This is the ego-consciousness at work. We also fail to recognise that there are multiple different sources of pressures on us, some of which are ingrained habits we have accepted into our surface being, others are seeds we have dormant in our subconscient levels, and yet still others are pressures from the exte al environment that attempt to gain entry and acceptance within our being.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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The Subconscient Basis of Our Individual Being, Part 3

There are realms that operate under different rules, or laws, than what we have come to expect here. Our earthly life is a complex amalgam of physical, vital, mental and psychic consciousness, and this mixture implies that none of these are able to express themselves in the purest sense of their own terms of existence and action. There are however realms where these powers are native and thus, have their complete expression without compromise. The physical body acts as a barrier, a restraint, and a protection from the direct operation of any of these other levels.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Understanding the Causes and Prevention of Illness

There are many ideas about the causes of illness, as well as ways to prevent or cure illness. In the West, the prevalent idea is related to what may be called the “germ invasion” theory, namely, that illness is caused by specific physical ‘germs’ (bacteria or viruses) which invade and overpower our physical body and cause disease, which our immune system then needs to be able to withstand and overcome.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Avatars and Vibhutis Focus Their Attention and Action on the Work to Be Done

The mind creates a number of illusions and misconceptions about Avatars and Vibhutis. Many of these ideas assume, wrongly, that a conscious manifestation of the Divine in the world must be likewise all-knowing and all-powerful, and they thus attribute miraculous powers and actions to those who have been identified as such. It would of course not be logical to assume that every divine manifestation must carry all-knowledge active within himself, when the focus is restricted to a specific time, place and circumstance.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

An Integral Repose — the Ideal State of Sleep

Usually when most people go to sleep, they simply ‘let it happen’. This carries with it all of the mental, emotional, vital-nervous, and physical energy pent up in the being at the time, into the sleep state. Add to this mix the state of fatigue that prevails, and it can lead to restless, or dull sleep, chaotic dreams and confused awareness at the times of light sleep or waking.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Psychoanalysis and Yoga Don’t Mix

Without the power to control and purify, an individual faces great risk in dredging up all kinds of subconscious energies, fears, experiences, dreams and desires. Psychoanalysis focuses on tapping into this subconscious level, but it does not start with any process to arm the individual with the necessary insight, and tools, to manage what comes up. Thus, it tends to create great confusion, in some cases leading to years of ongoing ‘therapy’ without any positive result.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Nature of the Resistance of the Mind-Life-Body to the Pressure of the Divine Force

Each aspect of the human instrumentality provides its own characteristic forms of resistance when a new, higher evolutionary force tries to engage them and redirect them along the lines it proposes. The underlying issues relate to the action of Tamas in the physical level, Rajas in the vital level, and Tamas again in the mental level. It is also likely that the mind is influenced by the vital to create mental arguments that support the vital desires.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Play of the Gunas in the Spiritual Path

The Bhagavad Gita places considerable emphasis on the need to understand the play of the Gunas, Sattwa, Rajas and Tamas, in all things. Yogic practice is not exempted from this play. Each of the Gunas has a specific set of characteristics, and they are not stable. The Gunas are always in motion. Doubt, fear, darkness, lack of effort, despondency or depression, all are signs of the predominance of Tamas. Ambition, energetic action, desire, grasping are all signs of the action of Rajas. Light, balance, harmony and understanding, steady, calm effort are the signs of Sattwa.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Understanding and Attaining the Right Attitude Toward Food for the Yogic Practitioner

Shifting the awareness away from the ego-consciousness to the divine standpoint takes place as a ‘tuning’ process which Sri Aurobindo designates as ‘aspiration’. This represents a focus of the attention of the being on the higher consciousness and away from the normal fixation on the outer life of the normal human consciousness. Food is one area that occupies an enormous role and significance in the human sphere, whether it is obtaining food, preparing food, enjoying food or talking or thinking about food.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Evolution of Consciousness and the Need for Rebirth as a Mechanism of that Evolution

We observe an outer fact of existence, but we do not see the motive force behind it, nor the intention behind the motive force. Thus, Darwin identified an evolution of species, and researchers have identified families of species, development of specific characteristics within those families and the sequential development of new powers of awareness, consciousness and action as the forms evolved.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Example of Great Souls Facing the Difficulties and Issues of Human Spiritual Development

People tend to assume that great beings such as Buddha or Christ are exempt from the issues that the “rest of us” have to face in the world, and in the practice of spiritual sadhana. They simply assume that these great souls somehow fly above the ground-level obstacles that plague us. In fact, the opposite is quite likely to be true. These great souls, who seek out paths for liberation and human advancement, and evolutionary progress, take on tasks that we many times cannot even imagine, and suffer all the ‘slings and arrows of outrageous fortune’ as Hamlet phrased it!

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Nature and Power of Sincerity in the Practice of the Integral Yoga

For spiritual practices that seek a solution outside the life in the world, it is possible to try to “cut the knot” and simply abandon, or at least minimize, the active engagement of mind, life and body in the world. For a spiritual practice such as the integral yoga, however, which aims at a taking up and transforming of human existence and activity in the world, such a step is not feasible, and the “knot” must be “untied” rather than “cut”.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Role of the Inner Standpoint in Overcoming Depression and Ambition in the Practice of Yoga

Many people, not just those who practice yoga, experience times when they feel like their lives are meaningless, they are helpless to change, and the round of daily life, with its little wants and needs, and fulfillment of desires, is empty and distasteful. They experience in some cases a sense of what is known in yogic terminology as vairagya, renunciation, even if it is for them a fleeting emotion.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Reconciling the Opposites

If we recognize that the two extremes, matter and spirit, despite their apparent and irreconcilable opposition, both speak to some deep seated truth within the human sense, then we can begin to accept the idea that this is not a matter of one being “true” and the other being “false”, but rather, that each of these extremes actually manifests an important principle of existence and its significance.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Qualities of Food and Spiritual Practice

When people take up spiritual practices, they are exposed to many different ideas about the proper diet. With the idea that ‘you are what you eat’, there is a long list of foods that are considered suitable for spiritual practitioners to eat, what are called in the ancient traditions of India, ‘sattwic’ foods. Foods that are considered rajasic, or tamasic are to be avoided. This has led to some very strict dietary regiments which pick out certain foods as helpful and others as detrimental to spiritual growth.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Source and Nature of the Thoughts an Individual Receives

If we ask almost anyone where thoughts come from, they will say that they are produced in the brain. The brain is some kind of thought-factory. They don’t know how. They don’t know why. They don’t know what causes certain thoughts to develop. They recognise that sense perceptions influence the thoughts; in other words, that the vibrations that we receive from outside our individuality through our senses provoke some process in the brain and this leads to the creation of various forms of thought.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Overcoming the Impulse of Anger

There is an illustrative tale in the Mahabharata. The Pandava and Kaurava princes were being instructed by their noted teacher Dronacharya. Today’s lesson was ‘not to become angry’. The 100 Kaurava princes were asked if they had learned the lesson and they all replied in the affirmative. The 4 youngest Pandavas replied similarly. When Dronacharya came to the eldest, Yudhisthira, who was being groomed as the next king of Hastinapur, he received an unexpected reply, namely, that he had not learned the lesson. The next day the scene repeated, with the same result.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Becoming Aware of the Existence of the Environmental Consciousness

When we see someone struggling, or when we ourselves are struggling, with some feeling, emotion, thought, idea, force of illness, or just feeling some pressure, we usually associate these with our internal experience of reality, but nevertheless, the fact that forces and influences come from outside, from our social environment, for example, does not escape us. People will frequently get advice to avoid certain places, people or circumstances as being a ‘bad influence’ on them. Some of this influence is overt, directed pressure, whether we call it the press of circumstances or peer pressure.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Fasting and the Practice of the Integral Yoga

At some point in their spiritual quest, seekers are generally confronted with the question of ‘fasting’. Some paths recommend fasting as a method to lighten the heaviness of the ‘earth consciousness’ and make the being more receptive to higher vibrational energies. Some point out that fasting aids in achieving a ‘vision quest’. Some practice fasting to habituate the body to become less reliant on the material energy and switch its source of energy to higher vital and eventually spiritual realms.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Overcoming the Reaction of Jealousy

Jealousy is one of those deeply rooted vital reactions that are not amenable to being “convinced” to change by mental logic. Highly educated, refined individuals are also subject to jealousy when appropriate circumstances arise, and as with other such deeply rooted reactions, the vital overpowers the mental will.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Power of Peace

As human beings, we are enamored of dynamic power. We want “action” and the powers of the body, the life energy and the mind are prized when they can accomplish visible results. We have proverbs such as “might makes right” which make it seem like strength in action is the most positive attribute. We carry this viewpoint into everyday interactions. If we feel challenged, we tend to respond with an aggressive, active response. The Old Testament of the Bible sets forth the idea of “an eye for an eye” as a way to respond to actions of others.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Need and Method for Observing One’s Thoughts

Avoidance of suffering may be considered as a ‘negative’ status. Achievement of happiness is the positive pole of this continuum. Both states are rooted in the mind and the standpoint that the individual takes. When the scriptures speak of “evil thoughts” or “purified thoughts” this is not directly intended to be a moral judgment; rather it is a statement of the energetic source and impact of the thoughts that are entertained and held in the mind. Those that are based in the ego-personality and the desire-soul, that bring disturbance, enhance suffering and cause pain are ‘evil’ thoughts.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Understanding and Respecting the Body’s Need for Rest

When an illness strikes the body, its energy must go to recuperation and rebuilding its basic strength. For a practitioner of yoga, as well as for those who have a developed mental or emotional consciousness, or an aesthetic sense, the recuperation and rebuilding phase can be irksome, as there is a desire to continue the normal activities and progress in whatever the individuals’ focus normally tends to be. We tend to begrudge the time needed for the body’s recuperation and we exhibit impatience and in some cases, we overdo the activity at too early a stage.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Preparing the Body, Vital and Mind for Restful, Conscious Sleep

We spend as much as one third of our lifetime asleep. Many questions arise when one reflects on this fact. What happens during sleep? Where does the consciousness go? What does it do? Can we become conscious, or at least more conscious, of that part of our lives? Are there ways to prepare for sleep that help us to optimize the sleep state for the yogic practice?

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Circumstances and Need of a Temporary Withdrawal and Quiet of the Being

There are occasions where the practice of silence and a temporary withdrawal from the hustle and bustle of the outer life, to the degree feasible, becomes a necessary part of the sadhana for the practitioner of yoga. Yoga is, by definition, a change of consciousness, and it involves an inward and upward movement of awareness off of the surface interactions of the physical, vital and mental planes, to the psychic and spiritual levels of existence.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

An Exercise to Overcome the Mental Bias to Facilitate the Ability to “Know Thyself”

Once we recognise that we cannot trust the mental faculty to keep the vital desire-soul in check, the question arises as to how it is then possible to truly examine the underlying motives and wellsprings of our thoughts, feelings and actions without falling victim to the kind of bias that the vital influence on the mind creates. Without such a mechanism, we have little hope of effectuating any real and lasting change in human nature.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Role of Sex in the Integral Yoga

When Sri Aurobindo states “all life is yoga”, he is speaking generally about the long, slow ‘yoga of nature’ which is taking place in the universe, leading to ever-greater stages of consciousness manifesting and transforming, successively, the previously manifested planes of awareness. This enormous process implies that all life is, indeed, part of that process and thus ‘all life is yoga’.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Detachment from and Mastery of the Surface Nature

When we are first confronted with the concept of detachment from our exte al nature, we tend to approach it from a mental standpoint and thus, try to shut down our emotions and mental reactions with various types of response such as forms of stoicism, renunciation, or a show of non-caring, or some kind of overpowering of reactions including the use of self-torture to train the body-life-mind complex not to react. This is however, not a methodology that can succeed over the long term, and leads to abandonment or submission of the exte al being, rather than true mastery.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Development of the Witness Consciousness Separate from the Analytical Mind Is Needed to Truly Understand the Springs of Action in Mind, Life and Body

The ability to perceive, understand and modify the actions of the body, life and mind requires the development of a new standpoint outside of the body-life-mind complex. For this reason, the attempt to undertake this process with the analytical power of the mind is bound to fail.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

How to Distinguish The Divine Force from the Habitual Action of the Lower as well as from the Hostile Forces

Trying to change human nature, the basic physical-vital-mental makeup that we accept as the predominant mode of being in the world today, is hard. The actions and reactions of the body, the senses, the vital energy, the organ systems, the emotional system, the hormonal responses, and the mental habits are deeply embedded. When someone tries to change any of these elements, he runs up against walls, obstacles and resistance.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Overcoming Negative Suggestions Through Faith in One’s Spiritual Destiny

How many times in the course of an individual’s practice of yoga do thoughts of failure and lack of capacity or ability to succeed intervene and work to create doubt and despair? If allowed to dominate the being, the quest fails, at least for the time being, or for the rest of the current lifetime, as it requires the willing and persevering dedication of the individual to stay the course. What brings these thoughts and feelings into prominence?

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Spiritual Experiences and Spiritual Realisations

Our vital nature crazes ‘excitement’ and to gather ‘experiences’. It is no different for the spiritual aspirant than for the rest of humanity in this regard. Spiritual experiences tend to be extraordinary in the sense that they go beyond the everyday perceptions or sensations and tend to have a power and immediacy that demands the attention of the seeker. In many cases, the seeker describes the experience as more real than their normal state of awareness, and in some cases even as ‘life-changing’.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Steps Toward Achieving a Calm Mind

Everything comes to the seeker based on his ability to tune his focus and maintain that focus in an unwavering manner over time. Sri Aurobindo, in his book The Mother, sets forth the methodology as “aspiration, rejection, surrender”. Aspiration is the will from the depth of the being to achieve the divine connection. This represents the tuning of the consciousness. Rejection is the process whereby the focus remains fixed on the intended result, eliminating all distractions and static.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Nature and Role of the Ego

The development of the ego-consciousness is part of the evolutionary cycle of increasing manifestation of conscious awareness in Nature. As consciousness develops it moves from a generalized sense of existence to a more specific recognition of one’s own life and awareness. In animals we see this progression as an individual instinct for survival, as well as the development of hierarchies of power and control, and the perks that come with attaining a higher place in the societal structure.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Various Forms of Meditation and Their Potential Benefits

Most people are confused about what meditation is. One of the causes of this confusion is the variety of forms of meditation that are recommended and practiced by various traditions. Some forms of meditation require strenuous efforts and considerable time to bear fruit. The Mother provides insight into meditation and proposes a method she finds most suitable.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Beginning the Process of Bringing Meditation into One’s Life

If we shift to the standpoint of the observer of the mind, we will notice that as conditions vary, the ‘mind-stuff’ (citta) takes on different characteristics based on our state of reactivity and interaction with perceptions, feelings, events or exte al circumstances. We may consider an image of a lake that can either appear perfectly still and have a glass-like and reflective consistency, or when whipped up by wind or other exte al factors sends up waves, whether steady and of measured amplitude, or extremely agitated.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Experience of the New Higher and Wider Consciousness

The experience and descent of a higher consciousness is not a matter of philosophical argument but one of psycho-physical effects seen and noted by the individual, as well as palpable impacts in the basis of knowledge, action and implementation in the outer world. The seeker actually can feel the force entering and permeating his being. He can experience the widening of his awareness from a place above the mind. He begins to see and understand things from a new viewpoint which provides in some cases radically new insights and ways of doing things.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Westerners and Indian Yoga, Part 5: the Yogic Path Is Not Limited by Race, Origin or Religious or Cultural Background

The objective of the integral yoga is to support the evolutionary process of the development and integration of the next stage of consciousness, beyond the mental consciousness. This step is necessary to overcome the limitations of the current mental framework which have helped create the existential crisis we are facing in the world today. This is not a yoga intended solely for individual salvation. As it is working to support an evolutionary process, it necessarily involves all of humanity in some way or another.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Depression and the Influence of the Gunas in Spiritual Development

There is a strong inclination for those spiritual practitioners who particularly follow a way of devotion, regardless of religious tradition around the world, to cry out for the presence of the Divine and to lament any feeling of separation. Depending on the play of the Gunas, this can take either a tamasic, a rajasic or a sattwic form, and does so at different times and circumstances for each seeker, as the Gunas keep changing their balance and expression.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Evolutionary Change and the Process of Time

Evolutionary changes take place in what we may call “evolutionary time”, which measures major changes over millennia, certainly far beyond the span of any individual human lifetime. Thus, when we look at any attempt to modify human nature, not to speak of physical characteristics that are embedded in the DNA, or even the long and deeply embedded habits in our vital nature that are part of the subconscious inheritance we have that frame our way of reacting to circumstances, we cannot expect to see radical change in the course of a few years’ time.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

How to Change Human Nature

Many people are skeptical about the possibility of true change to human nature. This skepticism is supported by the long experience humanity has had in trying various ways of changing and overcoming habits, atavisms and what are considered to be the ‘natural’ forms of expression and action of the body, the life-force and the mind. Humanity has tried suppression, self-torture, extreme pressure exerted from outside or inwardly, as well as attempts at isolation and abandonment of active involvement in the exte al life.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Characteristics of the Physical Nature and the Way Toward Transformation

At some point everyone experiences periods where the physical body and its corresponding physical mind seem dull, tired, lacking in enthusiasm, and interested only in sleeping, eating and the most basic things that occupy our physical life on earth. During these periods there is an absence of energy and inspiration, the spiritual effort is seemingly missing, and the individual feels lost and helpless.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Inconscient and the Need for Its Transformation

When we look around at the world today, as well as at the thoughts, feelings and moods of people, both ourselves, and others, we find that Sri Aurobindo has perfectly described the situation. He defines this as the underlying Inconscient ‘bed-rock’ of being. The basic material resistance that is filled with Tamas and is slow to respond and adapt to either the need for change, or the change itself.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Nature and Power of Equality in the Practice of the Integral Yoga

We usually think about the term ‘equality’ in relation to society or the economy. Sri Aurobindo uses the term to describe an inner psychological state that keeps the practitioner of the yoga focused on the inner being and its spiritual practices, rather than having the attention drawn out to react to people, events and circumstances outside. This is part of the tuning and focusing process that aligns the seeker with the higher force that is manifesting, and is therefore an essential part of the practice of yoga.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

Habits, Human Life and Achieving Individuality … and Beyond

As the seeker begins to examine his life, he quickly finds that virtually all his thoughts, emotions, feelings and actions are based on habitual patterns, either ingrained in the human encoding as a species, or developed through socialisation in a society or civilisation, through family influence, peer influence, educational influence or through interaction through communication and media, including advertising, internet, and the subtle expectation of things built into each society.

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Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Force of Habit and the Physical Consciousness

For the physical consciousness, repetition and the building of habit is the centerpiece of harnessing physical, material nature. The “laws of physics” are essentially habits at the level of Matter that function to create an order and system in Nature that maintains the cohesion and operation of the universe. Our minds can envision other universes that operate under different “laws” and of course, as we lack complete knowledge, we recognise that over time our understanding of the “laws” of Nature will deepen and encompass the actual functionality more completely.

Primary topic: Spiritual Growth

Spiritual Growth

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By santosh krinskyRecently published1 topic

The Need and Method to Become Conscious and Change the Nature

We identify something about ourselves that we would like to change — it could be a physical transformation we seek, or a way to address an imbalance in our feelings or emotions, or it could be a change to our mind-set to overcome ideas of weakness, failure, incapacity, etc. We then try to find a way to create this change. We may try a new diet, we may take up a new exercise routine. We may change our wardrobe, or take up travel or a course of study and self-development. We may go to therapy to heal our relationships with others.

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Spiritual Growth

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Transformation of the Vital Nature of Man: Background and Introduction

A primary characteristic of human life on earth at this time is the power of the vital force in shaping not just our day-to-day responses to life situations, but to also impact our mental processes, such that for most people, the mind is under the control of the vital and its desires and egoistic motivations. Those who take up the challenge of the integral yoga begin to understand the subtle (and not so subtle) influence and control exerted by the vital and the way it bends the mind and will towards fulfillment of its wishes.

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Spiritual Growth

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How to Prepare Oneself for the Practice of the Integral Yoga

In the biblical story of Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden, we find human beings innocent and acting out of their natural instincts, predilections, and their basic intelligence as human beings. They have no social setting or training to which they need to conform. They are essentially ignorant about the forces at work in the world, their potential role in adopting or furthering any of those forces or their agenda.

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Spiritual Growth

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Major Subdivisions of the Primary Parts of the Being

The more one examines the play of awareness and activity internally, the more one begins to recognise the subtle interactions that take place between the various parts of the being. There are not clear borderlines but rather influences and actions that are based primarily in one part of the being, but have characteristics from one of the other parts. As one begins to recognise this level of detail of the internal landscape, there is an increasing power of understanding and modification that comes with it.

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Spiritual Growth

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