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Becoming Aware of Consciousness Independent of the Body, Life and Mind · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  what is consciousness, how can we understand Consciousness
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  separate from what we believe to be ourselves the body, vital
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  force, and mental framework that we identify with Philosophers,
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  scientists, and religious leaders have all tried to
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  develop a definition of consciousness.
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  Rainy, Descartes, famously declared.
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  I think therefore I am subsequent researchers in the
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  field of consciousness of challenge, the statement, and
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  spiritual practitioners experience, pure awareness.
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  Without the movement of thought. In the mental field, exploration
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  of Consciousness now has recognized that Consciousness
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  cannot be defined or limited. By mental conception, it must be
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  experienced. Sears and rishi's have described
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  an experience of pure undifferentiated awareness,
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  unified with pure existence and pure Bliss and have termed as
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  such it on under The mother proposes a method to Aid, the
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  seeker, and experiencing pure Consciousness as separate from
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  the ego personality, the mind, the Life Energy were the body.
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  The mother writes quote. It's one of the most
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  indispensable things to do, if one wants to succeed in having
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  self-control and even a limited self knowledge to be able to
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  localize one's Consciousness, and move it about in the
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  different parts are ones being in, such a way as to distinguish
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  between one's Consciousness. And once thought, feelings,
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  impulses become aware of what the Consciousness is in itself.
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  An This way one can learn how to shift it.
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  One can put one's Consciousness in the body, put it in the
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  vital, put it in the psychic. That's the best place to put it.
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  One can put one's Consciousness in the mind, can raise it above
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  the mind, and with one's Consciousness.
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  One can go into all the regions of the universe.
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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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  Both exercises for growth and Mastery becoming aware of
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  oneself Pages, 124 to 126.