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The Shift from Ego-Personality to Divine Standpoint · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We generally tend to believe that if we focus intensely
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  enough, if we undertake serious spiritual disciplines, we will
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  achieve the goal of spiritual Liberation or realizations that
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  we may be seeking. There are no doubt, many
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  benefits from practicing spiritual disciplines
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  undertaking to Prussia and building the aspiration within
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  the being. These steps can help to remove
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  covering obstacles that would otherwise prevent or impede the
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  development of the spiritual forces that need to manifest
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  within us to effectuate the changes for which we aspire.
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  They can also help us systematically begin to tune the
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  being to become receptive, and responsive to these forces, when
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  we come into contact with them. As the discipline proceeds, we
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  get various experiences that represent the touch of the
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  higher Consciousness but eventually it recedes as our
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  normal pattern of life reasserts itself, we continue to
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  experience everything from the standpoint of the ego
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  Consciousness. And we feel like we are in the
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  center and see the world other individuals and beings and the
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  forces at work. As external and separate from
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  us. Seekers throughout human history
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  of had such experiences. Some of them arising
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  spontaneously through some pressure or event.
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  Some are rising along the way as the spiritual discipline
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  proceeds, some from undertaking actions that put the being under
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  intense stress such as fasting or some kind of Vision Quest in
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  the desert or the mountains. Some people grow into a
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  vibrational pattern that prepares them for The Descent of
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  a higher Force. Human history.
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  Also relates numerous experiences sought through use
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  of various antigenic substances. Such as psilocybin, mescaline,
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  peyote LSD, DMT Ayahuasca, ganja Etc.
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  Whereby, they are able to temporarily release The hold of
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  the ego Consciousness and The Limited framework of the mental
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  Matrix. Many of these individuals report
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  and experience whereby, they no longer identify themselves with
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  a small fragmented separated individuality but see the entire
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  world as a living breathing interactive Oneness.
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  They report seeing vibrational patterns in various colors and
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  Entities that illuminate, the relational status between the
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  various objects, which are themselves participating in the
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  Oneness of the universal creation.
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  Of course, use of substances. While it may provide an
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  individual with an experience that represents a different
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  reality, does not effectuate. Any permanent shift of
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  standpoint and frequently. Has their own disruptive
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  effects. On the operation of the nervous
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  system and the brain that may not be conducive to the
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  long-term spiritual purpose of a Seeker.
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  However, such an experience, arises it is patent and obvious,
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  not requiring any mental, ideation that they are
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  participating in a different order of Consciousness and
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  relation to the reality of the universal creation.
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  This is the difference between knowing about something through
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  a mental framework and knowing something through the actual
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  experience of it, the transformation of the
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  Consciousness occurs, when there is an actual shift to the new
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  standpoint of the Divine consciousness.
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  In such an instance, the speaker no longer identifies with the
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  ego personality, which may remain a Nexus of energy flowing
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  in and out, but which is clearly not separate or Central to the
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  Divine process in the universe. At some point, this shift
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  actually can elicit fear from the ego Consciousness as it
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  reaches a barrier and knows that if it goes beyond that barrier,
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  it will lose its ego. Centrality, this is an
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  existential fear of death that the ego can experience as an
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  experience or a complete shift occurs. when's the shift occurs,
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  the individual sees the world, its energies its forces, its
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  individuals, the whole creation, from this new, embracing and
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  wide standpoint and the ego personality essentially
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  dissolves, everything has a different meaning when seen from
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  this other wider perspective and thus, those who have that
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  experience referred to a reversal of consciousness, Or
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  the flip of day and night between the ordinary awareness
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  and the new standpoint of realization.
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  The mother notes quote and one can't say that one experiences
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  this reversal. There is no feeling it is almost
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  a mechanical. Fact, it is extraordinaire Ali.
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  Mechanical mother takes an object from the table beside her
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  and turns it upside down. They would be some very
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  interesting things to say about the difference, between the
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  moment of realization of city like this, reversal of
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  Consciousness, for example, and all the work of development that
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  took pasilla to say how it comes about.
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  For the sadhna, to Prussia is one thing in the city.
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  Another quite a different thing you may do.
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  Te pasa for centuries and you will always go as a tangent
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  closer and closer to the realization nearer and nearer.
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  But it is only. When the city is given to you,
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  then everything is changed. Everything is reversed.
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  And this is inexpressible for, as soon as it is, put in words
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  it escapes. But there is a difference, a
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  real difference, essential total between aspiration, the mental
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  tension, even the tension of the highest most luminous mind and
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  realization. Something, which has been
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  decided from above from all time and is absolutely independent of
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  all personal effort of all gradation.
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  Don't you see? It is not bit by bit that one
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  reaches. It, it is not by a small,
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  constant regular effort. It is not that it is something
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  that comes suddenly. It is established without ones
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  knowing how or why, but all is changed and it will be like that
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  for everybody for the whole universe.
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  It goes on and on it, moves forward very slowly.
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  And then one moment all of a sudden it will be done finished,
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  not finished. It's the beginning.
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  And quote, reference SRI aurobindo in the mother growing
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  within the psychology of inner development, chapter 9 reversal
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  of Consciousness. The new birth Pages 169 to 170.