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Overcoming the Static, Self-Satisfied Rigidity of the Mental Consciousness Is a Precondition to Development of a New Mode of Being · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  As long as we are Blinded By the Light of the mental
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  Consciousness, we fail to recognize the greater
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  Consciousness and power of the spiritual consciousness.
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  We look upon human existence as static.
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  The stories and myths held by large numbers of people in the
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  world place, the human being at the top tier of Consciousness
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  and we applaud human achievements as the summit of
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  what is possible. While we recognize the ability
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  to increase the power of the mind, we fail to recognize that
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  there are greater Powers yet to be revealed that lie beyond the
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  mind today. Humanity is beginning to
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  recognize the serious limitations and failures
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  inherent in the mental Consciousness.
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  We have an analytical intelligence, which is most
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  effective in classifying, codifying and fragmenting.
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  Things into compartments, the creative ability to exceed, the
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  mental limits and synthesize. New directions is rare and
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  frequently misunderstood, or even blamed for upsetting the
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  established order of things. The mental Consciousness,
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  through its limitations has led us to a point where the entire
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  survival of the human race is in question, where everyone
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  analyzes the problems and their Solutions.
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  Oceans differently and where we achieve not progress in solving
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  these issues, but a form of fixed intransigence, or
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  gridlock, through adherence, to competing ideas.
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  That each represent a partial View and partial solution.
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  It is also self-satisfied in its rigidity and unwilling to
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  recognize that human mental. Consciousness is not the Apex of
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  existence. This view of things is static
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  in. What is in reality a dynamic
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  reality. If we observe the development of
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  Consciousness through the lens of time, we see that life
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  evolved out of matter and that mind has evolved out of life.
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  We also can recognize that there are individuals who have
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  embodied new forms of understanding, and awareness.
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  As the mental Consciousness has matured developed and reached
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  its apex And we can even recognize that more and more
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  people are experiencing the development of a new form of
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  awareness, which we may call the spiritual consciousness, this
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  Consciousness focuses on the unity of all existence, the
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  pervasive nature of Consciousness and works to show
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  us how the fragmented view. We accept in the mental realm,
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  is really just a partial and highly, specialized, Of
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  Consciousness, not the Supreme awareness that lies beyond the
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  mind. Interestingly, the rishi's of
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  the rigveda had an understanding of the various planes of
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  Consciousness that lie both below and above the mental
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  development in the Life. Divine SRI, aurobindo provides a
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  translation of verses from mandala tensor do 129 quote in
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  the beginning. Darkness was hidden by Darkness.
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  All this was a notion of incontinence.
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  When Universal being was concealed by fragmentation, then
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  by the greatness of its energy, that one was born that moved at
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  first as desire within which was the Primal seed of mind, this
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  year's of Truth discovered the building of being and non-being
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  by Will in the heart. And by the thought There re was
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  extended horizontally. But what was their below?
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  What was their above? Their work Afters of the seed.
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  There were greatness has there was self law below.
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  There was Will above and quote. The rishi's here, describe the
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  development of the mental Consciousness as a stage in the
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  development, which extends its view horizontally.
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  They also point out that there are stages both below and above
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  the mental level instinct or sell flaw lies in a level below,
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  while will the power of conscious intention manifested
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  into form lies above The mother writes quote, as long as the
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  mind is convinced that it is the summit of human consciousness
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  that there is nothing Beyond and above it.
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  It takes its own functioning to be a perfect one and is fully
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  satisfied with the progress. It can make within the limits of
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  this functioning and with an increase of clarity Precision
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  complexity suppleness plasticity in its movements.
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  It always has a spontaneous tendency to feel very satisfied
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  with itself and with what it can do, and if there were no greater
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  force than its own a higher power, which irrefutably shows
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  it its own limitations, it's poverty.
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  It would never make any effort to find its way out of all that
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  by the right door Liberation into a higher and truer mode of
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  being and quote, reference SRI aurobindo, and the mother
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  growing within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 2, Awakening of Consciousness Pages, 28 to 29,