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The Unified Field of All Consciousness and Existence · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  A powerful technique for inner growth and understanding is to
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  sit quietly and simply observe one's thoughts and feelings as
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  they arise, then trace back any of them to where and how it
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  arose, What triggered it, where did it come from?
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  Initially, it is difficult to successfully carry out this
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  practice as the next thought comes along and we tend to jump
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  to that one. However, with time and patience,
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  one can begin to isolate any specific thought or feeling and
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  track it backwards. Invariably, one finds that
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  something from outside triggered it, even if it seems to arise
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  from inside oneself. Some incident, some observation,
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  some suggestion raises a response, a vibration within
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  oneself that takes that specific form.
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  We tend to think of ourselves as separate and isolated from
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  everyone and everything else. That is the essence of the ego
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  perspective. In reality, however, the ego
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  perspective is simply a device for creating a multiple of
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  standpoints and Nexus connections to carry out the
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  intention of the manifesting consciousness.
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  The sense of separation is essentially an illusion.
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  The process of the mind enhances us through the use of a power of
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  analysis, the fragmentation into separate parts, the unity of
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  experience so that it can act upon specific details.
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  This power of fragmentation is a powerful device, but it must be
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  seen purely as a device and not a definition of the unified
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  field that is the reality of our existence, the Mother writes.
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  Quote. When the Buddha wanted to make
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  his disciples understand these things, he used to tell them.
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  Every time you send out a vibration, a desire, for
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  example, the desire for some particular thing, your desire
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  starts circulating from one person to another, from one to
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  another across the universe, and we'll go right round and come
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  back to you. And as it is not only one thing,
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  but a world of things, and as you are not the only
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  transmitting centre, all individuals are transmitting
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  centres, it is such a confusion that you lose your bearings in
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  there. But these vibrations move about
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  in a single absolutely identical field.
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  It is only the complication and interception of the vibrations
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  which give you the impression of something independent or
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  separate. But there's nothing separate or
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  independent. There is only one substance, 1
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  force, one consciousness, one will, which moves in countless
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  ways of being, and it is so complicated that one is no
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  longer aware of it. But if one steps back and
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  follows the movement, no matter which line of movement, one can
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  see very clearly that the vibrations propagate themselves,
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  one following another, one following another, one following
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  another, and that in fact there is only one unity, unity of
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  substance, unity of consciousness, unity of will,
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  and that is the only reality. Outwardly there is a kind of
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  illusion, the illusion of separation and the illusion of
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  difference. A disciple asks desire and all
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  those things also. This is not personal, not at all
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  personal, and that is very easy to find out.
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  Of all things, this is the easiest to discern because 90
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  times out of 100 it comes to you from someone else, or from a
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  certain circumstance or a set of circumstances, or from a
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  vibration coming from another person or several other people.
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  It is very easy to discern. It is the first thing one can
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  discern. It is a vibration which suddenly
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  awakens something similar in you.
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  You know something makes an impact on you and this impact
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  brings up a response as when you play a note Well, this vibration
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  of desire comes and strikes you in a certain way and you
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  respond. End Quote Reference Shriorovindo
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  and the Mother. The Hidden Forces of Life,
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  Chapter Eight Life a Vibrant Massive Vibrations, pages 181 to
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  182.