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The Advent of Inner Experiences and the Unpurified Vital Nature; or Be Careful What You Wish For, Because You May Get It! · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The ego personality, particularly the vital ego feeds
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  upon feelings of being special, having new and exciting
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  experiences that are not part of the ordinary external
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  consciousness. Spiritual Seekers are allured by
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  Tales of meeting Spiritual Beings on subtle planes
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  traveling without the physical body through astral planes.
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  Obtaining guidance from Masters who speak to one in one's own
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  head. We're being shown visions that
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  make the secret. Believe he is specially chosen
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  for particular lines of action or leadership.
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  Thus spiritual Seekers will frequently focus on the
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  experiences. Rather than the slower arduous
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  and less exciting process of transformation of human nature,
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  the shift from the mental to the spiritual standpoint.
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  Does not happen in a strictly orderly step-by-step
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  progression. The complexity of the human
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  nature combined with the souls preparation, and past lives, the
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  challenges and difficulties of the current lifetime.
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  And the pressures of the Divine manifestation as it evolves.
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  The next stage of the evolution of Consciousness, all together
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  create a very flexible and unforeseen, able set of
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  circumstances for each individual, in some cases,
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  openings to what are called. Spiritual experiences.
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  Take place for individuals who are not actively seeking the
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  spiritual life. Some of these so-called
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  spiritual experiences are actually openings to various
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  vital planes, subtle, physical Realms, or even mental planes of
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  existence that have their own laws of action, unbounded by the
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  laws of nature we see in our external lives.
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  In this mixed World, thus, we find the text books on
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  psychology filled with case studies of things, such as
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  multiple personality disorder. Or schizophrenia hearing of
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  voices, hallucinations delusions of grandeur, guidance, or
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  pressure to carry out certain actions, Etc, many of these
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  cases are actually those of individuals who have had a
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  breakthrough to one of these other planes frequently, vital
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  planes of existence, without the necessary, background training
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  Insight, or Preparation to deal with these things.
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  Those who take up the spiritual life are not immune to such
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  things either. By virtue of the fact that they
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  are shifting their awareness away from the external world and
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  its activities. And towards an interview, they
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  may be more susceptible to such experiences along the way and
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  thus they require the needed understanding When they first
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  experience, the conscious Ness, moving inwards and leaving the
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  external Consciousness behind they may experience fear of
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  dying or they may have an out-of-body experience or a
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  near-death experience that disorient them while.
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  Not strictly spiritual experiences, they occur along
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  the way for many people. True spiritual experiences,
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  which Break Down The Walls of separation between the seeker
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  and the world, or which take one into deep states of meditation,
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  and Liberate the Seeker from the external nature are potentially
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  equally disorienting, for the unprepared individuals.
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  If people are not prepared, they tend to react from the vital ego
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  and either experienced fear or uncertainty or else.
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  Get a sense of self aggrandizement.
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  How many people have had a taste of a new level of insight or
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  conscious awareness and believed they are the next great world
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  teacher, or leader, The Reincarnation of Jesus, or
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  empowered to take charge of the lives of others.
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  And at the same time satisfy their deepest desires This is
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  the reason that serious spiritual disciplines have
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  called for an initial process of purification, taking one form or
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  another. To ensure that when the
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  experience is come, they do not create psychological imbalances
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  for the Seeker. Or if they do, they are quickly
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  able to be understood and remedied.
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  If your window, writes quote, even before the tranquilizing
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  purification of the outer Nature has been affected or before it
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  is sufficient. When can still break down the
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  wall, screening our inner being from our outer awareness, by a
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  strong force of call, and aspiration of them and will or
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  violent effort, or an effective discipline or process.
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  But this may be a premature movement and is not without its
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  serious dangers in entering within one.
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  May find oneself amidst a chaos of unfamiliar and supernormal
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  experiences to which one has not the key or oppressive
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  subliminal, or Cosmic forces subcontinent, mental vital,
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  subtle, physical, which may unduly sway or chaotically,
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  drive the being Circle it in a cave of Darkness or keep it
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  wandering in a Wilderness of Glamour allurement, deception,
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  or push it into an obscure battlefield full of secret and
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  treacherous and misleading, or open and violent, opposition's
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  beings and voices, and influences, may appear to the
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  inner sense and vision and hearing claiming to be the
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  Divine being or his Messengers were powers and God, heads of
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  the light or guides with. The path to realization while in
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  truth. They are of a very different
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  character. if there's too much egoism in the nature of the
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  Seeker or a strong passion, or an excessive ambition vanity or
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  other dominating weakness or in obscurity of the mind, or a
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  vacillating will, or a weakness of the life force or an
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  unsteadiness in it or want of balance, he is likely to be
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  seized on through these deficiencies and to be
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  frustrated, or to deviate mislead from the true way of the
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  A life and seeking into false paths or to be left wondering
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  about in an intermediate. Chaos of experiences and failed
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  to find his way out into the true realization.
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  These perils were well-known to app a spiritual experience and
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  have been met by imposing. The necessity of initiation of
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  discipline of methods of purification and testing by
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  ordeal of an higher submission to the directions of the
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  Pathfinder or path leader. One who has realized the truth
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  and himself possesses and is able to communicate the light.
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  The experience a guide who is strong to take by the hand and
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  carry over difficult passages as well as to instruct and point
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  out the way. But even so, the dangers will be
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  there, and can only be surmounted if there is, or there
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  grows up a complete sincerity, a will for purity of Readiness for
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  obedience to the truth for surrender to the highest a
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  Readiness to lose or to subject to a Divine Yoke.
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  The limiting and self-affirming ego.
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  These things are the sign that the true will for realization
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  for Version of the Consciousness.
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  For transformation. Is there the necessary stage of
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  the evolution has been reached in that condition?
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  The defects of nature, which belonged to the human being
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  cannot be a permanent obstacle to the change from the mental,
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  to the spiritual status. The process may never be
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  entirely easy. But the way we'll have been made
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  open and practicable and quote, reference SRI aurobindo in the
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  mother growing within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 6 growth of Consciousness difficulties and
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  pitfalls Pages. 122 124.