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The Light Is Needed to Clear the Subconscient of Undesired Responses · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  In the Rig Veda there is a legend about a cave of the
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  Panis, which Sri Aurobindo has explained as a description of
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  how the subconscient captures and holds the higher divine
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  light and encloses it away in the darkness.
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  The illumined mind and the higher powers of awareness break
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  open this subconscient level and free the light from that
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  encompassing darkness. In The Secret of the Veda, Sri
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  Robindo describes the meaning of Indra Sarama, the cows
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  representing the rays of light, the battle of light against the
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  darkness, and the significance of freeing these ray cows from
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  the subconscious. With this context, we can then
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  appreciate the need for the spiritual aspirant to bring down
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  the light, to transform the subconscient and overcome the
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  powers that reside there and pull down the consciousness
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  toward darkness and dullness. Forces and directions no longer
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  accepted by the conscious waking mind may still act through vital
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  acceptance. When the vital no longer accepts
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  these forces, they go down into the physical and the
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  subconscient, where they are embedded and ready to spring up
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  whenever something triggers their release, potentially
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  overpowering the conscious mind and focused vital nature.
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  If the uprising is extremely intense and abrupt, the seeds
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  described by Sri Robindo represent the potential, the
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  latent tendencies, the embedded or encapsulated force that can
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  be triggered by some circumstance, perception,
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  sensation, event or person. Until these seeds are removed or
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  sterilized, they can sprout up just about any time.
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  Once they are neutralized one way or the other, the
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  subconscious is cleared and the forces that had a foothold in
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  the external nature through the subconscious are relegated to
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  the environmental consciousness and if push away from there they
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  reside in general nature waiting to act upon any who remain
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  receptive to them, Sriorvinda writes Quote.
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  You do not realize how much of the ordinary natural being lives
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  in the subconscious physical. It is there that habitual
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  movements, mental and vital, are stored, and from there they come
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  up into the waking mind, driven out of the upper consciousness.
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  It is in this cavern of the Panis that they take refuge.
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  No longer allowed to emerge freely in the waking state, they
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  come up in sleep as dreams. It is when they are cleared out
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  of the subconscient, their very seeds killed by the enlightening
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  of these hidden layers, that they cease for good.
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  As your consciousness deepens inwardly and the higher light
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  comes down into those inferior covered parts, the things that
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  now recur in this way will disappear.
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  End Quote. Reference Sri Robindo, Bases of
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  Yoga, Chapter 5. Physical consciousness,
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  subconscious sleep and dream illness.
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  Page 91.