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EIGHT AND NINE</font><o:p></o:p></b></p>
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<b><i><font size="4">Choosing To Do Yoga</font><o:p></o:p></i></b></p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>To <span
style='font-size:10.0pt'>DO</span> Sri Aurobindo's Yoga means to seek to
transform <span class=GramE>oneself</span> integrally, to have this single aim
in one's life: that alone exists, nothing else. You feel it in yourself whether
you want it or not. If you do not, you can live a life of goodwill, service,
understanding; you can work in many other ways. But between that and doing
Yoga there is a great difference.</p>

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do Yoga you must want it consciously, you must know first of all what it is, – know
what it is and then take the resolution. And once the resolution is taken you
must waver no more. When you go to it, you must take it up fully conscious of
what you are doing. When you say &quot;I want to do Yoga,&quot; you must know
what you are deciding about. That is why when I have spoken to you I have not
laid much stress upon this aspect of the thing. I have surely spoken about it
and even perhaps a good deal – I am here to speak, and you to listen; but what
I mean is that whatever I may have said generally, it is only when individually
one comes to me and says that he wants to do Yoga, that I say &quot;yes&quot;
(or &quot;no&quot;, if necessary). For such <span class=GramE>persons</span>
things become different, the conditions of life become different, particularly
inner things and conditions.<o:p></o:p></p>

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11.75pt;mso-pagination:none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; line-height:150%; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'>Always
there is a Consciousness here and it acts constantly to rectify your position:
all the while it puts you in the face of obstacles that prevent you from
progressing; it makes you dash your nose against your own errors and
blindnesses. But this happens only in the case of those who have decided to do
Yoga. For others the Consciousness acts as a light, <span class=GramE>a
knowledge</span>, a force for progress, so that you may reach the maximum of
your capacities, develop yourself as far as possible in an atmosphere as favourable
as it may be, leaving you, however, completely free to choose.<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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decision must come from within. All who come consciously for Yoga, knowing
what Yoga is, have to accept conditions of life very different from those that
others enjoy – externally perhaps there may not be any difference, but
internally there is a wide gulf. There is a kind of absoluteness in the Consciousness
that does not allow any deviation from the Path: errors committed become
immediately visible with such consequences that one cannot deceive oneself any
longer and things take a very serious aspect.<o:p></o:p></p>

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all, my children, I may tell you, – I have already told you many times and I
still repeat, you live in an uncommon freedom. Externally there are a few small
restrictions, for, as we are many, and have not the whole earth at our
disposal, we have to submit ourselves to some discipline to a certain extent,
so that there may not be too much disorder; but internally you live in
wonderful liberty, no social restraint, no moral restraint, no intellectual
restraint, no fixed principle, nothing is there, save and except a light. If
you wish to profit by it, you get the profit; if you do not want, you are free
not to profit by it.<o:p></o:p></p>

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the day you make a choice, and when you do it with all<span
style='mso-spacerun:yes'>&nbsp; </span>sincerity and you feel within you a radical
decision, things become, as I say, quite different. There is the light and
there is the way to follow, straight on, one must not turn aside. It deceives
none and none can deceive it. Yoga, you must know, is not just a play. When you
choose, you must know what you have done. And when you have chosen your way,
you must stick to it. You have no more the right to hesitate. You have to go
ahead. That is all.<o:p></o:p></p>

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least, however, that I expect from you is the will to do things well, an effort
towards progress, the desire to be in life something better than ordinary
humanity. You are brought <span class=GramE>up,</span> you have grown up under
conditions that are unusually luminous, conscious, harmonious, full of
goodwill. And in answer to that it is proper that you should be upon earth in
some way an expression of that light and harmony and goodwill. That would be
something fair.<span style='mso-tab-count:1'>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>.<o:p></o:p></p>

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can do the Yoga, the Yoga of Transformation – of all things the most difficult
– only when one feels that one is here, upon earth, for this alone and has
nothing else to do, that this is the sole reason of one's existence. Even if
you have to toil hard,<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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none;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none; margin-top:0; margin-bottom:0'><span class=GramE>suffer</span>,
struggle, it is of no consequence: &quot;This alone and nothing else,&quot; – then
it is a different matter. Otherwise I tell you: Be always happy, be always
good; be good, meaning, be more understanding, know that you are growing up
under exceptional conditions, try to live a life higher, nobler and truer than
the ordinary life and let a little of this Consciousness, this light and this
benevolence express itself in the world.<o:p></o:p></p>

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is not for a personal and egoistic aim that you seek perfection, it is for the
sake of manifesting the Divine, <span class=GramE>it</span> is to put all at
the service of the Divine. You do not do Yoga with the intention of perfecting
yourself personally, for your own sake, but for the divine work that has to be
done, for the fulfilment of the Divine Will.<o:p></o:p></p>

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long as a personal aspiration is there, a personal desire, an egoistic <span
class=GramE>will</span>, it is a mixture, it is not the exact expression of the
Divine Will. The only thing that counts is the Divine, His Will, His
manifestation, His expression. You are for that, you are that, and nothing
else. If there happens to be a feeling of <span class=GramE><span
style='mso-bidi-font-weight:bold'>I</span><b>, </b>of ego, of the
individual person, it means that you are not yet what you ought to be. I do not
say that the thing can be done forthwith, but that this is the truth of the
matter.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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on this level, on the spiritual level, too many people, – in fact, the majority
of those who take up the spiritual life – do Yoga for personal reasons, all
kinds of personal reasons : some because they are disgusted with life, others
because they are unhappy, some others because they wish to have more
knowledge, others again because they want to be spiritually great, yet others
because they want to learn things so that they may teach them to others, and so
On, there are a thousand personal reasons for doing the Yoga. But there are not
many for doing the simple act of giving oneself to the Divine – this act in all
its purity and consistency – so that the Divine may take one up and do with One
what He wants. With that you go straight to your goal and never run the risk of
making a mistake. But all the other motives are mixed up, tainted with ego and
they can lead, you hither and thither and far away from the goal.<o:p></o:p></p>

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feeling that there is for you only one reason for existence, one single motive,
the total complete perfect consecration to the<o:p>&nbsp;</o:p></p>

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that you are unable to distinguish between <span class=SpellE>yourself
<span style="background-color: #FFFFFF">and</span></span><span style="background-color: #FFFFFF">
</span>the Divine, you become the Divine wholly, absolutely, without any personal
reaction whatsoever intervening: this is the ideal attitude. And that is the
only one with which you can progress safely in life, protected from everything,
protected even from yourself-for of all dangers the greatest is that which
comes from one's own self, one's egoistic self.<span style="font-size:10pt;">&nbsp;</span></p>
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