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Becoming Aware of the Central Will of the Being · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The decisive spiritual experiences and individual has
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  stay with him throughout his life, those who are anchored in
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  their external lives, undergo countless experiences.
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  But these tend to fade become jumbled, were simply blend into
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  one, another, who can after all, remember what they ate for
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  breakfast, 10 days ago, much less, 25 years ago.
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  We remember high points in our lives, whether they are external
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  events such as a wedding day, were the death of a loved one,
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  or the birth of a child. Spiritual experiences are
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  remembered as they like the external events, we tend to
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  remember our high points in our awareness.
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  This happens naturally without any prompting.
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  In some cases these experiences come upon one suddenly
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  unannounced on asked for and yet we remember them this
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  illustrates the importance of the experiences.
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  The imprint of the spiritual experience on the psyche of the
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  individual is indelible and we frequently observed that an
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  individual who has had such an experience tries to repeat and
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  prolong the experience whenever possible.
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  These experiences are important because they disclosed a deeper
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  hidden truth of existence and speak to our true in ourselves.
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  The soul, the psychic being they lead the individual beyond the
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  domination of the body, the life force, and the mind.
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  And open up the Realms of the Soul and Spirit, which is the
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  origin, and source of the central will in the beam, this
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  leads eventually to the aspiration and seeking for a
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  constant experience of these deeper truths of existence.
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  It is a known fact that memory is encapsulated and can be
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  released through re-creation of the site.
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  The sound, the sent the environment, the mental and
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  emotional state, during which it was experienced.
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  The triggering effect of these things, can either reopen the
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  relation to the source of the experience.
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  Or at the very least, put the body in a receptive state that
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  takes on the qualities of the experience.
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  This is a secret behind visiting shrines or sacred Groves or
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  temples behind the burning of incense behind practices of
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  visualization or chanting of mantras behind sitting for
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  meditation in a space. That is dedicated to the
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  practice and doing so, at the same time, on a consistent
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  basis, assuming one is not doing this by rote or by some
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  mechanical process. But focusing, the energy with
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  awareness when is putting oneself into a frame of
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  reference that is related to the experience.
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  When is seeking to reproduce or extend a devotee asks how can
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  one become aware of the central will?
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  A mother responds. First of all, one must become
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  aware of what is highest most true, most universal and eternal
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  in one's Consciousness. This is learned gradually when
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  learned to discern among ones ordinary, external movements and
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  the different gradations of the movements of one's inner
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  Consciousness. And if one continues to do this
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  with a certain persistence, when realize what it is, that puts
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  this high as part of Ones being into motion which represents the
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  ideal of the being there is no other way.
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  Sometimes this awakens through reading something, sometimes
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  through a conversation, sometimes through a more or less
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  dramatic that is unexpected event, which gives you a shock
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  shakes. You up, brings you out of your
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  usual little run. Sometimes when you are in very
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  great danger, suddenly you feel as though you are above yourself
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  and beyond your small habitual weakness, having within you
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  something higher, which can hold out against circumstances.
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  Such occasions make you enter first into contact with that
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  afterwards by a methodical discipline.
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  You can make the contact continuous.
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  But usually this takes time. But first you get it like that
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  suddenly for one reason or another long silence.
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  This may come with a very strong emotion with a very great
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  sorrow, a very great enthusiasm. When one is called to perform a
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  fairly exceptional action in circumstances which are a little
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  exceptional, all of us that one feels something as though
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  breaking or opening within him and one feels as though, he were
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  dominating himself as though, he had climbed up a higher rung.
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  And from there was looking at his own existence with the
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  habitual senses. Once one has experienced, this
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  one does not forget, even if only once it has happened, when
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  does not forget it and one can buy concentration, reproduced
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  the state at will later. This is the first step to
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  cultivate it. Afterwards.
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  One can very easily call up the state.
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  Each time a decision is to be taken and then one takes it in
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  full awareness of the implications and for seeing
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  everything that's going to happen.
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  I don't think there's one individual in the world who
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  hasn't experienced it. In any case, one cultured
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  individual at least once in his life, something that breaks and
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  opens and one understands And quote, reference SRI aurobindo
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  in the mother growing within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 2, Awakening of Consciousness Pages 21 to 22.