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A New Birth Into a Spiritual Life · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  There is a considerable amount of talk about being born again
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  in the modern-day Christian tradition.
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  When we explore, what is meant? It seems like it is a matter of
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  accepting in one's heart. A certain belief set Central to
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  the denomination that espouses. This idea there does not seem to
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  be any experiential activity required other than an
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  acceptance of faith in the belief system.
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  There is however, a different understanding and interpretation
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  of an individual undergoing, a new birth.
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  And that is based on the individual making a definitive
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  shift to the Divine standpoint from the egoistic human
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  standpoint. Once that shift occurs it
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  dominates the way one sees thinks and acts it is not a
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  matter of mental, belief, or vital adherence, but a matter of
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  a true alternative Duration in the very way when lives and
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  breathes. when various country sent astronauts were sometimes
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  called cosmonauts into outer space, the participants
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  experienced a profound and life-altering change of
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  standpoint, which may help us understand something of the type
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  of change that a true shift of awareness and Consciousness can
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  bring about Astronauts reported that just seeing the Earth from
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  outside as a fragile ecosystem, shared by all beings that
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  inhabit, the planet made them profoundly awake to the Oneness
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  of all life on Earth, the interdependence of every being
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  and the environment, and the need to protect and preserve the
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  earth. And its beings rather than carry
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  out wanton unthinking, destruction.
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  Some of these individuals took up spiritual research and
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  practices explored the need for an evolution of Consciousness
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  and began teaching along these lines.
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  All of which represented a major change in their thought process
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  and career path marked by the experience of seeing the Earth
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  from outside. Even the photographic images
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  taken from that perspective have had a profound effect on many
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  individuals around the world. Since they were published a
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  standpoint shift, all be at one, that still relies on the mental
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  development, can be seen here. A new birth would involve a
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  shift to a new form and Power Of Consciousness.
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  The next evolutionary stage beyond the mental stage, this
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  comes about through the soul, taking charge of the life, and
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  directing it to the development of a spiritual purpose and
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  understanding of the life, one leads.
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  Some people report a major change in their lives based on
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  some extremely traumatic experience.
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  Such as a near-death experience, they begin to try to grasp and
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  embody the spiritual principles and take up spiritual practices.
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  Some people are simply ready, possibly based on past lifetime
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  development and open in what seems to be an almost effortless
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  way to the promptings and Hands of the soul and the called the
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  spirit. The mother writes quote.
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  What is called New Birth, is the birth into the spiritual life,
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  the spiritual consciousness, it is to carry in oneself,
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  something of the spirit, which individually through the soul,
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  can begin to rule the life and be the master of existence.
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  In the individual existence that that is what makes all the
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  difference so long as when just speaks of the spirit.
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  And it is something one has read about whose existence when
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  vaguely knows about, but not a very concrete reality for the
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  Consciousness. This means that one is not born
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  into the spirit. And when one is Born Into the
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  spirit, it becomes something much more concrete.
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  Much more living much more. Real much more tangible than the
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  whole material world and this is what makes the essential
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  difference between beings when that becomes spontaneously Real.
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  The true concrete existence, the atmosphere one can freely
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  breathe. Then one knows one is crossed
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  over to the other side, but so long as it is something rather
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  vague and hazy. You have heard about it, you
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  know that it exists but it has no concrete reality.
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  Well, this means that the New Birth has not yet taken place.
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  As long as you tell yourself, yes, this, I can see this.
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  I can touch the pain. I suffer from the Hunger that
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  torments me the sleep. That makes me feel heavy.
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  This is real, this is concrete. Mother, laughs, that means that
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  you have not yet crossed over to the other side.
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  You are not born into the spirit.
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  In quote reference SRI, aurobindo in the mother growing
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  within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 9 reversal of Consciousness.
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  The new birth Pages 171 to 172