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The Breakthrough to the Reversal of Consciousness · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  SRI Ramana maharshi to point the secret towards the truth of his
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  existence asked, who am I With persistent inquiry, the
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  individual soon finds that this external personality ego self
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  that we normally treat as who we are, is in reality, a front, a
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  shell, an illusion. And that the truth of our
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  existence lies deep within held his knowledge, within the sole,
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  and only released into the Forefront of our consciousness.
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  When the being is ready, the Readiness may be prepared over
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  many lifetimes. And at the right moment, the
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  realization occurs as if by a miracle.
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  The realization involves a shift of the Consciousness away from
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  the ego personality, to the Divine consciousness.
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  The individuality is recognized as a Nexus of energy one, among
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  an infinite number of such nodes, and simply a tool to be
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  utilized for Action, from that particular View and location in
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  time, space and Circumstance, without recognizing it.
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  We experience from time to time modest shifts of standpoint
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  which represent in their own limited way, A reversal of
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  Consciousness. For instance, a person goes to
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  work in a company and works in a particular Department.
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  Imbibing, the process methods and focus of that department.
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  The department works to optimize its results in order to achieve
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  the objective set before it. The person then may work for
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  another department and go through a similar process of
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  acculturation. In that department, he may eyes
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  that some processes in the first Department, may actually
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  interfere with the actions of the second department, but he is
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  involved in his own work and the result of his own department so
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  he can disregard this at some point.
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  He obtains a position in management and now gets to
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  oversee and view, not just one department or another, but the
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  entire functioning of the company's apparatus and
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  departments Initially, he may remain in his Department Centric
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  view, but eventually a day comes, when he can actually see
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  the entire workings of the company as a coordinated
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  integrated process across all departments.
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  And he sees how the Departments are actually interfering with
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  one another, and with modest adjustments and interfaces.
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  Everything could operate much more smoothly efficiently.
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  Italy and effectively for the overall goal, he has experienced
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  a shift in standpoint from employee to manager at this
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  point. Similarly, many people report, a
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  near-death experience that involves an out-of-body
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  experience, they report sitting up at the ceiling of a room or
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  along a wall and observing the medical workers trying to revive
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  their own body. They can then recognize that
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  they are not the body, but some other Consciousness that
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  inhabits and uses the body, they bring this new awareness back
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  with them when they are revived. Well, these experiences may not
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  lead to the type of permanent shift or even to the full shift
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  to the Divine Consciousness. They help the individual to
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  understand the radical change of viewpoint that occurs when such
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  a shift occurs. A disciple.
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  Inquires, is it possible to change this at once?
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  Change this Consciousness? One feels that it will be a
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  revolution to change that the mother observes quote.
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  Yes. But a revolution can occur in
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  half a second. It can also take years, even
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  centuries and even many lives. It can be done in a second one
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  can do it. Precisely when one has this
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  inner reversal of Consciousness in one second, Everything,
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  Everything Changes precisely this bewilderment of being able
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  to think that what one is, what one considers as oneself is not
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  true. And that what is the truth of
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  ones being is something one. Doesn't know, you see.
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  This should have been the normal reaction, the one she had of
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  saying, but then what is Myself. If what I feel is myself is an
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  illusory formation and not the truth of my being then, what is
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  myself for that? She does not know and so when
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  when asked the question like that, There is a moment because
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  it is a question which becomes more and more intense and more
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  and more acute. When you have even the feeling
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  precisely, that things are strange.
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  That is, they are not real. A moment comes when this
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  Sensation that you have of yourself of being yourself,
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  become strange, a kind of sense of unreality, and the question
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  continues coming up. But then, what is myself?
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  Well, there is a moment when it comes up with so much
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  concentration and such intensity that with this intensity of
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  concentration, suddenly there occurs a reversal, and then
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  instead of being on this side, you are on that side.
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  And when you are on that side, everything is very simple, you
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  understand? You know, you are you live?
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  And then you see clearly the unreality of the rest and this
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  is enough and quote reference SRI aurobindo in the mother
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  growing within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 9 reversal of Consciousness.
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