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The Shift or Reversal of Consciousness Happens All At Once, Not Gradually · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We are used to the idea that if we practice something, if we
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  undertake a course of study, we will gradually increase our
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  ability and our level of understanding.
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  So that eventually we move in the academic field, for example,
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  from primary school to high school, to college, potentially
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  to graduate school. And at each stage, we become
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  more accomplished in our chosen. Field of endeavor, the shift of
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  Consciousness does not appear to work under that mode of
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  development. However, the preparation takes
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  place unseen in the secret heart deep within the being an until
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  it comes forward to manifest at best.
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  It throws up hints and glimpses of what is possible.
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  The shift is thus more akin to what is known as the
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  all-or-nothing phenomenon Vision, functions like that
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  until there are sufficient number of photons, to trigger
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  awareness, we believe everything is dark.
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  The mother uses the example of the chick maturing inside the
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  egg outside. There is no visible sign.
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  Once ready, the chick breaks, the egg and appears and can
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  immediately begin to interact with the outer environment.
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  The mother notes quote and so long as one, is there inside,
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  one is in the falsehood and only on the day, when by the divine,
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  grace one can break the shell and come out into.
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  The light is one free. This may happen suddenly
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  spontaneously quite unexpectedly.
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  I don't think one can go through gradually.
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  I don't think it is something which slowly wears and wears
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  away until one can see through it.
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  I haven't had an instance with this so far, there is rather a
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  kind of accumulation of power inside and intensification of
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  the need and an endurance in the effort, which becomes free from
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  all fear. All anxiety, all calculation.
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  I need so imperative that one. No longer cares for the
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  consequences. One is like an explosive, that
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  nothing can resist. And when bursts out from one to
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  prison in a blaze of light, after that one can no longer
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  fall back again, it is truly a new birth.
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  End quote, reference SRI aurobindo, and the mother
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  growing within the psychology of inner development, chapter 9
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  reversal of Consciousness. The new birth page 176, End
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  quote, reference SRI aurobindo, and the mother growing within
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  the psychology of inner development, chapter 9 reversal
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  of Consciousness. The new birth page 176,