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HOW DO I PROCEED Key to Sadhana
A sequel to the earlier How Do I Begin?, This book presents a working outline of the scope, the practice and the goal of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo. The treatment is more on the practical side of the Yoga than its philosophical content.
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First published January 1, 1982
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July 31, 2023
In continuation to his book How Do I Begin, M.P. Pandit elaborates the three steps of Integral Yoga – Aspiration, Rejection and Surrender, in his next book, How Do I Proceed. Along with the detailed, yet easily comprehensible, description of Integral Yoga, M P Pandit also sheds light on the way to practice Integral Yoga and move ahead in our sadhana.
Here, are some of the key lessons I learnt from this book.
•What is learnt from the shastra, has to be lived. Unless the knowledge is translated into practice it remains a dry mental acquisition, becomes sterile.
•He also learns how, as long as the effort is egoistic, time fronts itself as a barrier and when one is surrendered, time becomes an instrument and a medium for the realisation.
•Doubt is the enemy of faith and of aspiration based upon faith. Doubt has to be rejected at its first appearance.
•Aspiration is to be distinguished from desire...Desire involves, binds. Aspiration originates from the soul…It is an inner drive towards Truth, the Reality, on whichever level.
•Rejection is different from suppression.
•In short, all negative movements of the mind must be checked and positive ones encouraged.
•In offering his works to the Divine, he lays no claim to the fruit of works. The results he leaves to the Divine Will. He takes them as coming from the Divine and learns to accept them with an attitude of equality.
•From being a servant of God he develops into an instrument of God.
•It (Overmind) comprehends the multiplicity of creation but is always aware of an underlying Unity.
Here, are some of the key lessons I learnt from this book.
•What is learnt from the shastra, has to be lived. Unless the knowledge is translated into practice it remains a dry mental acquisition, becomes sterile.
•He also learns how, as long as the effort is egoistic, time fronts itself as a barrier and when one is surrendered, time becomes an instrument and a medium for the realisation.
•Doubt is the enemy of faith and of aspiration based upon faith. Doubt has to be rejected at its first appearance.
•Aspiration is to be distinguished from desire...Desire involves, binds. Aspiration originates from the soul…It is an inner drive towards Truth, the Reality, on whichever level.
•Rejection is different from suppression.
•In short, all negative movements of the mind must be checked and positive ones encouraged.
•In offering his works to the Divine, he lays no claim to the fruit of works. The results he leaves to the Divine Will. He takes them as coming from the Divine and learns to accept them with an attitude of equality.
•From being a servant of God he develops into an instrument of God.
•It (Overmind) comprehends the multiplicity of creation but is always aware of an underlying Unity.
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