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Spiritual Realisation Through Concentration in the Heart Centre · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  SRI aurobindo distinguishes between a mental seeking and a
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  living spiritual experience while those who are
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  intellectually minded frequently, confused.
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  Knowing with knowing there is actually a clear distinction
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  between the ability to read here, memorize and repeat back a
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  teaching, which occurs in the mind.
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  There is a famous proverb that one can read all the books about
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  swimming and know how to swim in a lecture Ali.
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  But that does not mean when will actually be able to swim when
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  thrown into the water, the story from the Mahabharata illustrates
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  this clearly, when the famous teacher dronacharya was
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  educating the princes of the Kingdom, he one day stated that,
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  the lesson of the day was not to become angry.
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  The first hundred and four Prince's hundred Cordova's.
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  And for of the pond of has said they understood the lesson but
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  the eldest, the Future King Emperor, yudhisthira demurred
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  and said he had not yet understood This went on for
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  several days until finally a frustrated dronacharya struck
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  yudhisthira. Note that striking the Future
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  King was considered to be punished by Death.
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  At that moment. However, yudhisthira indicated
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  he had now understood the lesson for him.
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  It was not just an intellectual exercise, he needed the
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  opportunity to put the lesson into practice and make it a
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  living spiritual experience active in his being SRI
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  aurobindo notes. Quote, you have asked, what is
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  the discipline to be followed in order to convert the mental
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  seeking into a Spiritual experience.
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  The first necessity is the practice of concentration of
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  your Consciousness within yourself.
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  The ordinary human mind has an activity on the surface, which
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  veils the real self. But there is another the hidden
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  Consciousness within behind the surface one in which we can
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  become aware of the real self and of a larger deeper.
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  Truth of nature, can realize the self and Eight and transform the
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  nature. To quiet, the surface mind and
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  begin to live within is the object of this concentration.
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  Of this true Consciousness. Other than the superficial,
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  there are two main centers one in the heart.
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  Not the physical heart, but the cardiac center in the middle of
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  the chest, one in the head, the concentration in the heart opens
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  within and by following this inward opening and going deep,
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  one becomes aware of the Soul or psychic being the Divine element
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  in the individual. This being unveiled begins to
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  come forward to govern the nature, to turn it and all its
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  movements towards the truth, towards the Divine and to call
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  down into it all. That is above, it brings the
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  consciousness of the presence, the dedication of the, being to
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  the highest and invites, The Descent into our nature of a
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  greater force and Consciousness, which is waiting above us.
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  To concentrate in the Heart Center with the offering of
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  oneself, to the Divine and the aspiration for this inward
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  opening. And for the presence in the
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  heart is the first way. And if it can be done, the
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  natural beginning for its result, once obtained makes the
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  spiritual path, far more easy and safe.
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  And if one begins the other way and quote, reference SRI
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  aurobindo, and the mother Living within the yoga approach to
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  psychological health and growth exercises for growth and
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  Mastery. Awakening the inner
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  Consciousness Pages 134 to 138.