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Intensity of an Experience Does Not Guarantee Its Veracity · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  There are occasions when an individual experience is
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  something that is so powerful. So intense that it causes him to
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  trust the experience. Spiritual experiences in
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  particular can have a force that overwhelms, the normal mental
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  standpoint of the individual and impose themselves upon the
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  Seeker in a way that goes far beyond the normal action
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  reaction processes of the Mind. I'd life body complex.
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  It is easy in such an instance to believe that such a powerful
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  experience. Represents a truth that cannot
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  be denied. There is however, a caveat to be
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  appreciated. When the barrier between the
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  external mind life body complex and the inner Realms is
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  breached, it can bring all manner of new experiences.
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  Many of them quite intense. This implies that some
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  experiences may represent spiritual forces, While others
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  arise from mental, vital or subtle physical Realms, another
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  issue is the interpretation and filtering done as the outer
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  being receives and transcribe. The experience in this case, any
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  impurity weakness or simply a lack of complete background and
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  understanding can cause the external being to apply its own
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  interpretation, that can clearly misconstrue what is actually
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  occurring? SRI aurobindo notes quote, I do
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  not question it all the personal intensity or concreteness of
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  your internal experiences but experiences can be intense and
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  yet be very mixed in their truth and their character in your
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  experience, your own subjectivity.
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  Sometimes your ego pushes, interfere, very much, and give
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  them their form, and the impression they create on you,
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  It is only if there is a pure psychic response that the form
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  given to the experience, is likely to be the right one and
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  the mental and vital movements will then present themselves in
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  their true nature. Otherwise the mind the vital,
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  the ego give their own color to what happens their own term,
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  very usually their own deformation.
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  Intensity is not a guarantee of entire truth and correctness in
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  an experience. It is only purity of the
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  Consciousness that can give an entire truth and correctness and
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  quote reference SRI aurobindo and the mother growing within
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  the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 7, growth of Consciousness.
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  Inner experiences Pages, 137 to 138