Latest / Sri Aurobindo Studies / Becoming Aware of the Illusion of the External Life

Transcript

Becoming Aware of the Illusion of the External Life · Sri Aurobindo Studies

• 0:01
  Many people are beginning to reflect and even entertain the
• 0:05
  notion that the world we experience on a day-to-day basis
• 0:10
  is somehow unreal or illusory. Films, such as the dystopian
• 0:16
  story, set forth in The Matrix and vision that uman beings are
• 0:21
  fettered and their brains wired. So they experience a form of
• 0:26
  reality while their actual bodies and lives are turned into
• 0:30
  an energy, farming activity when they are disconnected, from The
• 0:35
  Matrix. They wake up to a bleak reality
• 0:38
  and an enormous struggle to free Humanity from subjection to this
• 0:42
  terrible illusion. Some find however that the
• 0:47
  illusion is so much more appealing than the real life,
• 0:50
  they wake up to. So they want to get hooked up
• 0:53
  again. This is not of course the first
• 0:57
  time that the thought has been entertained about the illusion,
• 1:01
  going back to Plato's, parable of the cave.
• 1:05
  There is a thought that what we perceive may not be the reality
• 1:10
  or at least not all of the reality.
• 1:14
  SRI shankaracharya, of course, became a leading philosophical.
• 1:18
  Proponent of the illusion, the Maya of the life in the external
• 1:23
  world. Modern writers such as Harriman.
• 1:27
  Hesa wrote tales about the illusory nature of life in
• 1:30
  society and the dream like Wade can be experienced.
• 1:36
  Modern-day scientists are now speculating about whether we
• 1:39
  live in a hole of G. If so, we are not in touch with
• 1:44
  our reality, to the extent, we involve ourselves in the drama
• 1:48
  of the holographic World, others extrapolate, either.
• 1:53
  Multiple worlds, that work out all possible, variations in
• 1:57
  life. Or the coexistence of the past
• 2:02
  present and future through the implications of the theory of
• 2:06
  relativity, all of these things point to an increasing Readiness
• 2:12
  for Humanity to recognize that the traditional objects of our
• 2:17
  lives were limited and prepare a Tori.
• 2:21
  And that there is a greater Destiny and greater life
• 2:24
  possible and that at some point, As we awaken to that, we
• 2:30
  undertake a reversal of Consciousness, the shift to a
• 2:34
  new standpoint and status of awareness, and begin the next
• 2:40
  phase of the evolution of Consciousness, that we see as a
• 2:44
  central thread in the development of life on Earth to
• 2:48
  date. whether one uses the analogy of the caterpillar
• 2:52
  living to eat, then secluding itself into a sheltered location
• 2:58
  and later emerging as a butterfly, Or the story, the
• 3:02
  mother describes about the development and Awakening into
• 3:05
  the outer world of a chick there examples.
• 3:09
  We can see of dramatic Transformations taking place
• 3:13
  that do not show any evidence of the result until after it is
• 3:18
  ready and actually occurs. The mother observes quote.
• 3:25
  These are not words, it is altogether, true that everything
• 3:29
  changes its appearance totally that life and things are
• 3:34
  completely different from what they appear to be.
• 3:39
  All this contact, this ordinary perception of the world loses.
• 3:43
  Its reality completely. This is what appears unreal.
• 3:49
  Fantastic illusory. Non-existent There is something
• 3:56
  something very material, very concrete, very physical, which
• 4:02
  becomes the reality of the being and which has nothing in common
• 4:06
  with the ordinary way of seeing. When one has this perception,
• 4:12
  the perception of the work of the Divine force of the
• 4:16
  movement, being worked out behind the appearance in the
• 4:20
  appearance through the appearance.
• 4:23
  One begins to be ready to live, something truer than the
• 4:27
  ordinary human falsehood, but not before there is no
• 4:33
  compromise. You see?
• 4:35
  It is not like a convalescence after an illness.
• 4:38
  You must change world's so long as your mind is real for you
• 4:44
  your way of thinking something. True for you real concrete, it
• 4:50
  proves that you are not there yet.
• 4:53
  You must first pass through to the other side afterwards.
• 4:59
  You will be able to understand what I am telling you.
• 5:03
  Pass through to the other side. It is not true that one can
• 5:09
  understand little by little. It is not like that.
• 5:13
  This kind of progress is different.
• 5:16
  What is more true? Is that one is, shut up in a
• 5:19
  shell and inside it, something is happening like the chick in
• 5:24
  the egg, it is getting ready in there.
• 5:28
  It is in there. One doesn't see it.
• 5:32
  Something is happening in the Shell, but outside one sees
• 5:37
  nothing. And it is only when all is
• 5:40
  ready, that there comes the capacity to pierce the shell.
• 5:45
  And to be born into the light of day.
• 5:50
  It is not that one becomes more and more perceptible or visible
• 5:54
  when he's shut in shut-in. And for sensitive people, there
• 6:00
  is even that terrible sensation of being compressed of trying to
• 6:05
  pass through, and then coming up against a wall, and then one,
• 6:11
  knocks and knocks, and knocks, and one can't go through.
• 6:16
  End quote, reference SRI aurobindo in the mother growing
• 6:22
  within the psychology of inner development, chapter 9 reversal
• 6:27
  of Consciousness. The new birth Pages 175 to 176,
• 6:16
  End quote, reference SRI aurobindo in the mother growing
• 6:22
  within the psychology of inner development, chapter 9 reversal
• 6:27
  of Consciousness. The new birth Pages 175 to 176,