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A Technique for Shifting the Focus of Consciousness Into a Status of Complete Identification · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Patanjali in his yoga, sutras describes the practice of
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  samyama which is a power of identification that results from
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  the systematic development of dhaarana.
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  Holding the mind on to some particular object, Tiana and
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  unbroken flow of knowledge, in that object and sumati
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  reflecting on the meaning, not the form of the object.
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  Wherever the power of some Yama is directed upon whichever
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  object or focus a state of identification, with that object
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  takes place and direct knowledge, occurs for the
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  practitioner. Note the description and meaning
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  courtesy of Swami Vivekananda in his lectures on Raja yoga.
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  Many techniques utilized to focus.
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  The attention had been developed by yogic practitioners overtime,
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  Tibetan Buddhist practitioners, develop the science of inner
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  visualization, as a means of focus.
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  Shutting out all extraneous thoughts, emotions, or feelings
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  certain yogic paths, recommend the use of prophetic, focusing,
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  intensely and solely on a light such as other candle until the
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  Consciousness shifts to a new Spective and the West certain
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  forms of athletic activity are enhanced when the athlete
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  happens to enter into the Zone. A status of awareness that
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  blocks out effortlessly, all extraneous focus and one becomes
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  the action solely and completely religious speakers have been
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  known to enter into states of ecstatic trance through intense
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  focused devotional exercises. There's an interesting story
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  from the Mahabharata as the princes were being instructed in
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  the science of archery. They were asked to focus on a
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  particular bird in a tree at some distance and then to aim
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  their Arrow at the eye of the bird.
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  The teacher then asked each one, what he saw and they variously
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  described the sky, the tree, the leaves, the bird, and the, I
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  along with the beak when he came to Arjuna.
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  However, who was to be the preeminent Archer of the age
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  Arjuna replied. He saw only a dark spot.
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  The intensity of focus was so great that he was not able to
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  see and report on anything other than the actual eye of the bird.
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  The mother notes one can learn how to identify oneself.
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  One must learn. It is indispensable if one wants
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  to get out of one's ego for so long, as one is shut up in one's
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  ego. When can't make any progress,
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  how can it be done? There are many processes.
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  I'll tell you one, when I was in Paris.
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  I used to go to many places where there were Gatherings of
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  all kinds people, making all sorts of research has spiritual,
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  so-called spiritual a cult, researchers, Etc.
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  And once I was invited to meet a young lady, I believe she was
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  Swedish who had found a process of knowledge, exactly.
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  A process for Learning. And so she explained it to us.
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  It's like this, you take an object or make a sign on a
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  Blackboard, or take a drawing? That's not important.
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  Take whatever is most convenient for you.
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  Suppose, for instance, that I draw for you, she had a
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  Blackboard. I draw a design.
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  She drew a kind of half geometric design.
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  Now, you sit in front of the design and concentrate all your
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  attention upon it on that design, which is there you
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  concentrate, concentrate. Tree without letting anything
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  else, enter your Consciousness except that Your Eyes Are Fixed
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  On the drawing and don't move at all.
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  You are as it were hypnotized by the drawing you look.
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  And so she sat there looking, you look, look, look, I don't
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  know. It takes more or less time but
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  still for one who is used to it it goes pretty fast.
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  You look, look look you become that drawing, you are looking at
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  nothing else exists in the world any longer accept the drawing
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  and then suddenly you pass to the other side.
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  And when you pass to the other side, you enter a new
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  Consciousness. And you know, We had a good
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  laugh for it was amusing but it is quite true.
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  It's an excellent method to practice naturally.
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  Instead of taking a drawing or any object, you may take, for
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  instance, an idea, a few words, you have a problem preoccupying.
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  You you don't know the solution of the problem.
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  Well, you objectify your problem in your mind, put it in the most
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  precise exact succinctly terms possible.
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  And then concentrate make an effort, you concentrate only on
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  the words and if possible on the idea they represent that is upon
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  your problem. You concentrate, concentrate,
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  concentrate until nothing else exists but that and it is true
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  that all of a sudden you have the feeling of something opening
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  and one is on the other side. The other side of what it means
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  that you have opened a door of your Consciousness and
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  instantaneously, you have the solution of your problem.
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  It is an excellent method of learning how to identify oneself
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  and quote, reference SRI aurobindo and the mother living
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  within the yoga approached, a psychological health and growth
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  exercises for growth and Mastery identification pages.
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  Is 144 to 149.