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Escaping the Little Ego-Consciousness Through Concentration on Infinite Space and Eternal Time · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We were usually, so busy focusing on the day-to-day
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  lives. We are living that we rarely
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  take the time to reflect on the larger significance of the
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  universal manifestation. And what role we as individuals
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  play on this development the concept of Maya, the cosmic
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  illusion is based on our entanglement in this day-to-day
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  activity without recognizing the larger reality.
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  We become attached, we are passionate about the small
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  things that occupy us and fail to see the big picture of the
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  universe. When we do take the opportunity
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  to reflect on these things we begin to appreciate how small
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  and actually infinitesimally. We are in the larger scope and
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  through this process we widen the Consciousness and loosen the
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  attachments. The mother notes quote, there
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  are lots of intellectual ways of widening, the Consciousness.
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  These, I have explained fully in my book, but in any case, when
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  you are bored by something, when something is painful to you or
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  very unpleasant, if you begin to think of the eternity of time
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  and the immensity of space, if you think of all that has gone
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  before and all that will come afterwards And that this second
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  in eternity, is truly just a passing breath and that, it
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  seems. So utterly ridiculous to be
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  upset by something, which in The Eternity of time is one doesn't
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  even have the time to become aware of it.
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  It has no place no important because what indeed is a second
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  in eternity, if one can manage to realize that to how to put it
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  visualize picture. Little person, one is in the
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  little Earth where one is and the tiny second of
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  Consciousness, which for the moment is hurting you or is
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  unpleasant for you, just this, which in itself is only a second
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  of your existence and that you yourself have been many things
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  before and will be many more things afterwards.
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  That what affects you? Now, you will have probably
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  completely forgotten in ten years.
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  Or if you remember it you will say how did I happen to attach
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  any importance to that? If you can realize that first
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  and then realize your little person, which is a second in
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  eternity, not even a second, you know, imperceptible, a fragment
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  of the second in eternity that the whole world has unrolled
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  before this and will unroll, yet indefinitely before behind and
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  that. Well then suddenly you sense the
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  utter ridiculousness. Of the importance.
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  You attach to what happened to you.
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  Truly, you feel to what an extent, it is absurd to attach
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  any importance to one's life to oneself and to what happens to
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  you. And in the space of three
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  minutes, if you do this properly, all unpleasantness is
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  swept away. Even a very deep pain, can be
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  swept away, simply a concentration, like this, and to
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  place oneself in infinity and Eternity.
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  Everything goes away. One comes out of it, cleansed
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  one can get rid of all attachments.
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  And even I say of the deepest sorrows of everything in this
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  way, if one knows how to do it in the right way, it immediately
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  takes you out of your little ego.
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  And quote, reference SRI aurobindo, and the mother living
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  within the yoga approached, a psychological health and growth
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  exercises for growth and Mastery widening.
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  The Consciousness Pages 150 to 155,