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The Fourfold Power of Intuition and Its Action in the Human Instruments of Mind, Life and Body · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  A major concern for those who are desirous of shifting from
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  the mental to the intuitional consciousness definitely lies in
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  the transition. How that is going to work, what
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  the role of the mind, if any, is in this transition, and how the
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  consciousness will function as it shifts to reliance on the
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  intuitional capacities. There is a definite anxiety
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  about discontinuing reliance on the mental power which is built
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  up and carried the individual through their development.
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  In the beginning, then, it is not uncommon to see something of
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  a hybrid approach, where the intuition begins to flow but
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  gets commandeered, modified by, and adjusted to fit into the
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  forms of mental consciousness and exercise of the mental will.
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  If the seeker is able to move beyond this interim approach and
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  begin to rely more completely on the intuition, he may find, as
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  Sri Orobindo describes, that the intuitional power can actually
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  replicate, but at an advanced and more powerful level, the
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  mental functionality. In fairness, it is a totally
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  different type of activity that the seeker must become
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  accustomed to by quieting the mind, receiving the intuitive
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  understanding and not garbling or watering it down.
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  All this without creating distortions or
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  misinterpretations through the mental translation that can
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  dramatically change what is being received.
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  The intuition itself also, as Sri Aurobindo notes, is capable
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  of this type of discrimination and understanding, so it can be
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  a self correcting mechanism once it becomes operative.
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  Sriorbindo observes quote. Intuition has a fourfold power,
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  A power of revelatory truth seeing, a power of inspiration
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  or truth hearing. A power of truth, touch or
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  immediate seizing of significance which is akin to
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  the ordinary nature of its intervention in our mental
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  intelligence. A power of true and automatic
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  discrimination, of the orderly and exact relation of truth to
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  truth. These are the fourfold potencies
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  of intuition. Intuition can therefore perform
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  all the action of reason, including the function of
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  logical intelligence, which is to work out the right relation
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  of things and the right relation of idea with idea.
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  But by its own superior process and with steps that do not fail
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  or falter, it takes up also and transforms into its own
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  substance not only the mind of thought, but the heart and life
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  and the sense and physical consciousness.
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  Already all these have their own peculiar powers of intuition,
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  derivative from the hidden light.
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  The pure power descending from above can assume them all into
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  itself, and impart to these deeper heart perceptions and
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  life perceptions and the divinations of the body a
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  greater integrality and perfection.
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  It can thus change the whole consciousness into the stuff of
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  intuition, for it brings its own greater radiant movement into
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  the will, into the feelings and emotions, the life impulses, the
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  action of sense and sensation, the very workings of the body
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  consciousness. It recasts them into the light
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  and power of truth and illumines their knowledge and their
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  ignorance. End Quote.
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  Reference Srioro Bindu and the Mother Powers within, Chapter
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  21. Intuition, page 162.