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Gaining Mental Understanding Through Quieting and Widening the Mental Consciousness · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Many people over the years have told me that reading SRI
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  aurobindo, his writings is difficult due to the complexity
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  and wideness of the concepts. He presents.
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  I have heard or experienced, similar issues, reading Kant,
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  leibnitz Kierkegaard, Sartre, Joyce and others.
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  For those engaged in technical Fields involving mathematics
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  physics astronomy, some of the writing, even with their
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  background, in the field, can be daunting.
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  And with advances, in quantum mechanics, which seems to be
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  based on a totally different structure of logic, than what we
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  have, normally held in our general human understanding.
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  We find much that is seemingly incomprehensible.
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  The mother provides a methodology for gaining, an
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  understanding of what is, otherwise, obscure, or confusing
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  on first read, what is required is the sense of receptivity and
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  a willingness to not try to struggle with the understanding,
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  but to let it percolate and build neural Pathways of
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  understanding over time. As the understanding matures
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  within us, we find that things we could not understand,
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  previously are suddenly quite clear.
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  This also provides a methodology for the learning we experience
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  as children and into adulthood children are receptive
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  generally, and their minds mature as they consider new
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  information and new thoughts. We do not expect a young child
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  to fully appreciate, or understand.
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  All the complexity of any field of study or Endeavor, but
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  recognize that in the fullness of time, they will gain the
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  power of comprehension needed if they remain receptive patient
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  and persistent in their efforts. The mother notes quote in
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  thought also for instance, you are reading something and come
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  across a thought, you don't understand.
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  It is beyond you, you understand nothing.
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  And so in your head it lies like a brick and if you try to
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  understand it becomes more and more like a brick, a stiffening.
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  And if you persist it gives you a headache.
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  There is, but one thing to do, not to struggle with the words,
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  remain just like this gesture stretched out in Mobile.
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  Create a relaxation, simply widen widen, and don't try to
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  understand above all, don't try to understand, let it enter.
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  Like that quite gently and relax, relax, and in this
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  relaxing, your headache goes away.
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  You no longer think of anything you wait for a few days.
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  And after some days, you see from inside, oh, how clear it
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  is, I Understand what I had not understood.
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  It is as easy as that when you read a book which is beyond you,
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  when you come across sentences, which you cannot understand.
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  One feels that there is no correspondence in the head.
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  Well, you must do this when reads the thing once twice,
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  Thrice, then remains calm and makes the Mind.
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  Silent a fortnight later one takes up the same passage again,
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  and it is clear as daylight, everything has been organized in
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  the head, the elements of the brain which were wanted for the
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  understanding had been formed. Everything has been done
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  gradually and one understands in quote, reference SRI, aurobindo,
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  and the mother living within the yoga approach to psychological
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  health and growth exercises for growth and Mastery.
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  Widening, the Consciousness Pages 150 to 155,