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The sense of free will that we have is a needed instrument designed by nature to facilitate our progress.
At the Feet of The Mother
Essays on Yoga
Essays and Letters by Dr Alok Pandey on Yoga
Speaking of Lord's ability to avoid the complexities of progressive manifestation in creating His worlds - yes He can and indeed He does. All the typal planes of gods etc are created directly by Him.
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Social groupings can be centred around the vital physical, largely surface life of man. This life caters primarily to the bodily existence and vital pleasures and comforts.
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The important question is not whether one is meant for this path or not; the right question would be whether this path is consistent with one's core aspiration and demands from God.
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One has to also shift the motive from satisfying one’s ambition and desires to making action as a means to serve Her and grow in union with Her.
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Karma is essentially about learning and growth that the soul in Ignorance must go through as its primary schooling. But the soul is never alone.
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Ordinarily, motivation comes from the Desire-self and takes various forms in our thought and feelings such as ambition, lust, greed, wishes for various objects and hungers of various kinds.
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... whatever you decide do it as an offering to God to whom alone the results belong.
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... every fall leaves us somewhat stronger and wiser and if we keep the will for progress intact then one day we rise never to fall again.
We are not saying whether man has no right to complain. We are only saying that it doesn't help us one bit.
The relation between Sri Aurobindo and the Mother is an earthly representation of the truth of Ishwara (The Lord) and Shakti (His Eternal Power).
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Central Sincerity refers to the fundamental reason or purpose for which the yoga is being undertaken.
Another year has arrived, hopefully on the wings of change. In a certain sense, New Year is a convention hiding within it the truth of the cyclic movement of Time.
Unlike in ordinary life where the stress is on modifying outer behaviour to suit our vested interests, yoga insists first on an inner change.
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Even as we step into the New Year, it will be good to remember that this Light that we take for granted, has been prepared by those who kept a vigil while we slept peacefully in our comfort zones.
There are three main reasons that negative thoughts and patterns repeat themselves even though something within us recognises them as such and feels the need to get rid of them.
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The return of the Light, though seemingly a repetition, is yet, like the changing of the seasons through blossoming in spring time, toil and effort during summer and the cleansing rains during the monsoons before the slow withdrawal during winters, also a forward movement.
A time comes when the surrender enters its perfection and it becomes impossible for us to act from any personal motive. All we think and feel and will and do becomes a constant flow of Her Light and Love and Harmony and Bliss.