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Recognizing and Understanding Spiritual Experiences · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  When we live primarily on the external surface of our being
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  anchored, to the physical world, the vital energy, and mental
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  status of living in the world. We try to judge everything that
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  occurs within us by the standards of what we expect and
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  understand from our outward existence experience and
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  education. We tend to put a primary focus
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  on things that are palpable. Oh, that appear to our outer
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  senses as real and substantial and that our mind can grasp in
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  its ordinary way of seeing things. naturally as spiritual
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  experiences arise from an entirely different order of our
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  reality and are based in a different View and understanding
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  of the nature of reality, we find a mismatch between what our
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  external being seized and what may actually be taking place in
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  the depths of our being Unless we can suspend judgement by the
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  outer mind. We tend to either dismiss or
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  undervalue the spiritual experience and thus may very
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  well be making progress, but fail to recognize it as such the
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  essential Point here is that the Mind cannot judge things that
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  are Beyond its frame of reference and must learn to
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  know. And grasp, the spiritual
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  experience with a Achoo Outlook vision and standpoint SRI
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  aurobindo observes quote, you speak of your experiences as
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  vague and dreamlike in the first place.
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  The scorn of small experiences in the inner life is no part of
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  wisdom reason or common sense. It is in the beginning of the
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  sadhna and for a long time the small experiences that come on
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  each other and if given their full value.
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  Prepare the field build up a preparatory Consciousness and
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  one day break, open the walls to Big experiences but if you
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  despise them with the ambitious idea, that you must have either
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  the big experiences or nothing, it is not surprising that they
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  come once in a blue moon and cannot do their work.
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  Moreover, all your experiences were not small.
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  There were some like The stilling Descent of a power, and
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  the body, what you used to call numbness, which anyone with
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  spiritual knowledge would have recognized as a first strong
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  step towards the opening of the Consciousness, to the higher,
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  peace and light. But it was not in the line of
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  your expectations and you gave it, no special value.
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  As for vague and dream like you feel it?
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  So because you are looking at them and at everything that
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  happens in you from the standpoint of the outward,
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  physical mind and intellect, which can take only physical
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  things, as real, and important, and Vivid and to it inward
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  phenomena are something unreal, vague and truthless The
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  spiritual experience does not even despise dreams and Visions.
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  It is known to it that many of these things are not dreams at
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  all, but experiences on an inner plane and if the experiences of
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  the inner planes which lead to the opening of the inner self
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  into the outer. So as to influence and change,
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  it are not accepted the experiences of the subtle
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  Consciousness and the trance consciousness. how is the
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  weekend Consciousness to expand out of the narrow prison of the
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  body and body mind and the senses For to the physical mind,
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  Untouched by the inner awakened Consciousness, even the
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  experience of the cosmic Consciousness, or the Eternal
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  self, might very well seem merely subjective and
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  unconvincing. It would think curious, no
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  doubt, rather interesting, but very subjective.
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  Don't you think hallucinations? Yes.
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  The first business of the spiritual secrets to get away
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  from the outward mines Outlook and to look at inward Phenomenon
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  with an inward mind to which they soon become powerful and
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  stimulating realities. If one does that, then one
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  begins to see that there is here a wide field of Truth and
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  knowledge in which one can move from Discovery to Discovery to
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  reach the Supreme discovery of all. and quote, reference SRI
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  aurobindo on the mother growing within the psychology of inner
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  development, chapter 7, growth of Consciousness, inner
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  experiences Pages, 132 to 133,