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The Beginning of Liberation from the Limitations of the Mental Consciousness · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  As long as the mental Consciousness remains insulated
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  within its own range of awareness, it believes it has a
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  power of knowledge and action that can be made practically
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  infallible, even when its shortcomings are made patently,
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  obvious it believes that an improvement in its processes or
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  the input of new facts available to it now, or in the future will
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  lead to the desired result. All it does is believes itself
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  to be self-sufficient and thus is self-satisfied.
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  It has not caused to look outside of its own functionality
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  to resolve any pending concerns. There are several ways that this
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  walled Fortress of the mental, Consciousness can be breached
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  and a path of growth and Consciousness affected.
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  One of these ways is a more or less complete breakdown of the
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  mental arrogance through overwhelming pressure, the chose
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  it simply is unable to find an Implement, any meaningful
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  Solutions. We appear to be reaching such a
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  Tipping Point today in the world as we Face existential problems
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  and End up unable to act because different people see, various
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  aspects and differing ways of addressing the problems and all
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  are unwilling, or unable to see things in a more comprehensive
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  manner, that would address the different views and provide real
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  solutions. Another way is for the
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  individual to actually experience a new Consciousness,
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  which takes him out of the mental framework and shows a way
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  for solution to the intractable issues faced at the mental
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  level. The spiritual consciousness is
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  itself so clear and self-evident that it makes the mental
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  Consciousness, understand the incontrovertible truth.
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  If it is confronted with when the experience occurs, The
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  mother observes quote. When the spiritual force is able
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  to act when it begins to have an influence, it jolts the Mind
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  self satisfaction. And by continuous pressure,
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  begins to make it feel that Beyond it.
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  There is something higher and truer, then a little of its
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  characteristic. Vanity gives way under this
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  influenced. And as soon as it realizes that
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  it is limited ignorant incapable of reaching the true truth.
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  Liberation begins with the possibility of opening to
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  something Beyond. But it must feel the power, the
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  beauty, the force of this Beyond, to be able to surrender,
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  it must be able to perceive its in capacity and its limitations
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  in the presence of something higher than itself.
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  Otherwise, how could it ever feel its own weakness?
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  Sometimes one single contact is enough.
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  Something that makes a little rent in that self-satisfaction.
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  Then the yearning to go beyond the need for a pure light
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  awakened. And with this, Awakening comes
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  the aspiration to win them. And with the aspiration
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  Liberation begins and one day. Breaking all limits one blossoms
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  in the infinite light. If there were not, this constant
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  pressure simultaneously from within, and without from above,
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  and from the profoundest, depths nothing would ever change.
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  Even with that, how much time is required for things to change,
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  what obstinate, resistance in this lower nature, what blind
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  and stupid attachment to the animal waves of the being what a
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  refusal to liberate oneself. When you open to the spirit
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  within you, it brings you a first for taste of that higher
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  life which alone is worth living.
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  Then comes the will to rise to that the hope of reaching it.
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  The certitude that this is possible and finally, the
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  strength to make the necessary effort and the resolution to go
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  to the very end for one must wake up.
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  Then one can conquer and quote reference SRI aurobindo and the
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  mother growing within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 2, Awakening of Consciousness Pages, 29 to 30
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  Then one can conquer and quote reference SRI aurobindo and the
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  mother growing within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 2, Awakening of Consciousness Pages, 29 to 30