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Why Speaking About One’s Spiritual Experiences Can Be Counter-Productive to the Sadhana · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  It is a quite natural, impulse, an individual has an
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  extraordinary unusual and in some cases inexplicable
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  experience outside of his normal realm of experiences.
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  Either through vital enthusiasm, a feeling of ego aggrandizement
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  due to the extraordinary nature of the experience or through a
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  sense of fear or concern about what the experience is and what
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  significance it has, he wants to communicate it to others.
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  There is a very strong ego driver that can motivate this
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  need to describe explain and otherwise take credit for having
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  had the experience. The individual is also
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  frequently being encouraged by others to talk about it.
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  And there is a type of vital and emotional validation that can
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  accompany a discussion about an experience.
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  The Seeker who does this however, often finds that the
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  inner power that was acting seems to have dissipated or
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  withdrawn at that time. There's a mechanism at work
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  here. The spiritual Force Works in,
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  its native element, and is most effective when it is not being
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  watered down through interpretation transcription or
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  some kind of mental process, One can almost see it as a high
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  power electrical line going through a Step Down Transformer.
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  In this case, the mind and the emotional vital relation of the
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  event means that it has been filtered, analyzed and otherwise
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  subjected to the mines process, it moves the experience from a
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  spiritual energy, into a mental memory or explanation.
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  In. So, doing the Seeker, has
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  short-circuited the action of the force.
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  SRI aurobindo notes quote, the usual rule given by Yogi's is
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  that one should not speak of one's experience to others.
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  Except of course the guru while the sodden is going on because
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  it wastes The Experience there is what they call Chaya of the
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  te pasa. It is only long past experiences
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  that they speak of and even that not to freely the light left.
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  Because you spoke of it to someone who was not an addict re
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  it is safe, if not to speak of these experiences except to a
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  guru or to one who can help you the passing away of an
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  experience. As soon as it is, spoken of is a
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  frequent happening. And for that reason, many Yogi's
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  make it a rule, never to speak of what happens within them.
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  Unless it is a thing of the past or a settled realization.
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  That nothing can take away and quote reference SRI aurobindo
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  and the mother growing within the psychology of inner
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  development. Chapter 7 growth of
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  Consciousness. Inner experiences Pages, 141 and
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