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The Role of Will in Sadhana
Dr. A.S. Dalal
Abstract
True Will is free from all mental or vital interference. As long as they are involved, there
has to be effort. Effort is necessary in opening to the psychic influence and, as that gradually
happens, effort is replaced by surrender and the true Will emerges in our sadhana.
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‘Will’ commonly implies the power by which a wider and deeper meaning than merely a
person can direct his thoughts and actions or mental power. Sri Aurobindo defines will
influence those of others. More particularly, as a force of the being or the consciousness.
it implies the mental control that one can There are, he states, many parts in an
use in controlling one’s own impulses. In individual being, and corresponding planes
Sri Aurobindo’s yoga, the term has a much of cosmic consciousness, of which mental
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