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How To Change One’s Consciousness, Part 1: The Initial Experience · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Through long habit. And through a process of
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  socialization, we desire and expect that a specific path of
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  development, can be placed in front of us.
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  To guide us systematically along a predetermined track and that
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  this path is suitable for everyone.
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  We therefore believe that our accepted form of worship are
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  preferred religion, our systems of governance and economic
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  management are the best and are suitable for everyone.
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  This of course has led to countless disputes and wars in
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  human history. When it comes to Inner
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  development, the development of Consciousness.
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  We apply these same somewhat faulty ideas to how this should
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  occur with us. Expect everyone to have the same
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  experience or else. We tend to treat other results
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  as somehow either invalid or at least lesser results or method.
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  The mother counters, this notion with a clear statement about the
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  uniqueness of the experience, that brings an individual out of
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  the surface Consciousness and opens up the Realms of the
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  spirit to him, whatever the specific experience, If It Moves
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  the individual away from the limitations of the body life,
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  mine complex and the ego personality to seek for and
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  internalized, the spiritual consciousness.
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  It should be recognized as a valid and useful experience for
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  the individual and not discount. It denigrated, or denied by
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  those, who have a different entry to the spiritual realms.
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  A disciple inquires mother, how to change one's consciousness.
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  The mother responds, quote, naturally there are many ways
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  but each person must do it by the means accessible to him and
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  the indication of the way. Usually comes spontaneously
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  through something like an unexpected experience and for
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  each one it appears a little differently.
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  For instance, one may have the perception of the ordinary
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  Consciousness, which is extended on the surface horizontally and
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  works on a plane, which is simultaneously, the surface of
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  things, and has a contact with the superficial outer side of
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  things, people circumstances. And then suddenly for some
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  reason, or other, as I say, for each one, it is different.
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  There is a shifting upwards and instead of seeing things
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  horizontally of being at the same level as they are, you
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  suddenly dominate them and see them from above in their
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  totality instead of seeing a small number of things
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  immediately next to yourself. It is as though something were
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  drawing you above and making UCS from a Mountaintop or an
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  aeroplane. And instead of seeing each
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  detail and seeing it on its own level, you see, the whole is one
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  unity and from far above There are many ways of having this
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  experience, but it usually comes to you as if by chance One Fine
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  Day. Or else.
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  One may have an experience which is almost it's very opposite but
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  which comes to the same thing suddenly one plunges into a
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  depth when moves away from the thing.
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  One perceived it seems distant, superficial unimportant.
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  When enters an inner silence or an inner calm, or an inward
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  vision of things, a profound feeling a more intimate.
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  Emmett perception of circumstances and things in,
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  which all values change. And one becomes aware of a sort
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  of unity, a deep identity, which is one in spite of the diverse
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  appearances. Or else suddenly.
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  Also the sense of limitation disappears and one enters the
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  perception of a kind of indefinite duration,
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  beginningless and endless of something, which is always been
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  and always will be In quote, reference SRI aurobindo and the
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  mother growing within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 2, Awakening of Consciousness Pages, 24, and 25.