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An Exercise to Experience the Nature of Consciousness · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The quest to understand the nature of Consciousness.
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  And who am I spams back through the past history of mankind?
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  Some of the exercises undertaken by the ancient sages remain
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  relevant in to the current day, as the mother illustrates in her
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  example below which derives in its original form, from the
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  wriggle Valley of the tight area upanishad, the general
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  proposition put before the disciple was to seek thou to
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  know that from which these creatures are born where by
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  being born they live and to, which they go.
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  Hands and enter again for that is the Eternal as the teaching
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  progressed. The master also provided the
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  Insight that concentration and thought or concentration of
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  force is the Eternal. The Seeker first tried to
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  understand by focusing on the body but soon realize this did
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  not explain everything he continued and focused on the
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  Life Energy but again it was insufficient.
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  Next, he turned to mind and unlike Descartes he was not
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  satisfied to stop there. This brought him to the
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  knowledge Consciousness beyond the individual manifestation of
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  mind and eventually to the Bliss of the Eternal, which transcends
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  all Experiences of out of body, awareness of near-death
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  experiences and the phenomenon known as quantum.
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  Entanglement in physics cannot be explained by the idea that
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  Consciousness is limited to individual bodies or forms and
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  somehow is the result of random chemical interactions as some
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  Western scientists of the past of held the mother observes
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  quote. But first of all, one must know
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  what ones. Is that is become conscious of
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  one's Consciousness, localized it.
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  And for this, there are many exercises, but one of them is
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  very well known. It is to observe oneself and
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  watch oneself living and then see whether it is really the
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  body, which is the consciousness of the being, what one calls
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  myself. And then when one has realized
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  that it is not at all the body that the body expresses,
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  something else than one. Searches in his impulses
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  emotions to see whether it's that.
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  And again, when finds out that it is not that and then one
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  seeks in his thoughts, whether the thought is truly himself
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  what he calls myself. And at the end of a very short
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  time, one becomes aware. No, I am thinking there for
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  myself is different from my thoughts.
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  And so by Progressive eliminations, one succeeds in
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  entering into contact with something something which gives
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  you the impression of being. Yes, that's myself and this
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  something I can move around. I can move it from my body to my
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  vital to my mind. I can even if I am very how to
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  put it very practiced in moving it, I can move it into other
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  people. And it's in this way that I can
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  identify myself with things and people I can with the help of my
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  aspiration, make it come out of my human form, rise above
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  towards regions, which are no longer this little body at all
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  and what it contains. And so one begins to understand
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  what one's Consciousness is, And it's after that, that one can
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  say good. I show you night my
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  Consciousness with my psychic being and shall leave it there
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  so that it may be in harmony with the Divine and be able to
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  surrender entirely to the divine Or else if by this exercise of
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  rising above my faculties of thinking.
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  And my intellect, I can enter a region of pure light, pure
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  knowledge. Then one can put his
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  Consciousness there and live like that.
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  And a luminous Splendor which is above the physical form.
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  End quote, reference SRI aurobindo, and the mother living
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  within the yoga approach to psychological health and growth
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  exercises for growth and Mastery becoming aware of oneself Pages.
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