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Spiritual Realisations and Experiences · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  There's an interesting Tale in the Mahabharata.
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  When the preceptor drona was teaching, the sons of
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  dhritarashtra and pandu, the Royal princes of the Kingdom,
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  the lesson of the day, which was not to become angry, he asked
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  each of the printers. If they had learned the lesson
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  and each one dutifully responded.
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  Yes, not to become angry. Until he reached the eldest, the
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  Crown Prince and heir to the throne yudhisthira who indicated
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  that he had. Not learned the lesson the next
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  day and that following the same lesson was repeated with the
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  same responses. Dronacharya was not used to such
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  stubbornness and in a fit of temper.
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  He struck yudhishthira this was in the rules that governed at
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  that time, a capital offense. Yudhisthira responded.
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  However, I now have learned the lesson instead of becoming angry
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  with this affront. He internalized the lesson and
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  recognized that he had the inner power and control to not become
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  angry. When provoked, the importance of
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  this tale is that a mental recognition of something is not
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  actually the same as the realization of it in the being
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  In the west, the well-known illustration is that one can
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  read all the books about swimming, but until one gets in
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  the water and Masters, the principles one has read about
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  one does not know how to swim. Many who take up a spiritual
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  discipline. Initially confuse mental
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  conceptualization with realization.
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  They read a text or scripture that says that there is one
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  universal World Consciousness or some other principle and because
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  they can repeat the words, they believe they know something
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  about it. Eventually as they mature in
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  their practice and understanding, they understand
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  that there is a vast difference between mental knowledge and
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  spiritual realization. This comes about when they first
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  begin to have experiences and eventually solid persistent
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  realizations that are not mental constructs but arise from a holy
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  other order of experience, And are known in a different manner
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  than just. With the mind they may feel a
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  Descent of a vast peace that Embraces and fills the being.
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  They may see and feel the Oneness and unity of all
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  existence, they may in some instances have an out-of-body
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  experience and traveled through what are known as astral planes.
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  Or any number of other experiences, which do not fit
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  the neat framework of their mental understanding.
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  SRI aurobindo notes, quote. There are two classes of things
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  that happen in yoga realizations and experiences.
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  Realizations are the reception in the Consciousness and the
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  establishment, they're of the fundamental truths of the Divine
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  of the higher, or divine nature of the world Consciousness, and
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  the play of its forces of One's Own Self and real nature.
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  And the inner nature of things, the power of these things
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  growing in one till they are a part of one's inner.
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  A life and existence. As for instance, the realization
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  of the divine presence, the dissent and settling of the
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  higher peace, light Force Ananda in the Consciousness, their
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  workings, there, the realization of the Divine or spiritual love
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  the perception of One's Own psychic.
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  Be the discovery of One's Own True mental, being true, vital
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  being true. Physical being the The overmind
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  or the super mental Consciousness, the clear
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  perception of the relation of all these things to our present
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  inferior nature and their action on it, to change their lower
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  nature. The list, of course, might be
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  infinitely longer. These things also are often
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  called experiences when they only come in flashes, snatches
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  or rare visitations, they are spoken out as full realizations
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  only when they become very positive or frequent or
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  continuous or normal, Experiences and defense are very
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  good for Preparation but change of Consciousness is the thing
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  wanted? It is the proof that the
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  experiences and descents have had an effect and quote
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  reference SRI aurobindo in the mother growing within the
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  psychology of inner development. Chapter 7 growth of
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  Consciousness inner experiences page 126.
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  Yes. Yes.