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A Technique to Shift to Another Domain of Consciousness · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  It is a well recognized phenomena that when an
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  individual focuses his concentration down to a single
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  point and fixes it there long enough, he suddenly can shift to
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  a new domain of consciousness and everything becomes wide,
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  clear and known from that new standpoint.
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  There is a yogic practice called Trotek which has the individual
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  fixes focus on a flame, a candle or some other bright object
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  until he passes out of the external consciousness into that
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  new domain. This can also occur through
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  focus on a mantra or through concentration of conscious force
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  tapasia on a single subject. The 3rd chapter of the Tituria
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  Upanishad has the seeker practicing Tapasia in order to
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  realize the truth of existence. He systematically increases his
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  concentration until he transcends the ordinary external
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  viewpoint and reaches a stage of enlightenment.
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  The mother observes quote. One can learn how to identify
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  oneself. One must learn.
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  It is indispensable if one wants to get out of one's ego.
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  For so long as one is shut up in one's ego, 1 can't make any
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  progress. How can it be done?
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  There are many processes. I'll tell you one.
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  When I was in Paris, I used to go to many places where there
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  were gatherings of all kinds, people making all sorts of
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  researches, spiritual, so-called spiritual, occult researches,
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  etcetera. And once I was invited to meet a
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  young lady, I believe she was Swedish, who had found a process
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  of knowledge, exactly a process for learning.
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  And so she explained it to us. We were 3 or 4.
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  Her French was not very good, but she was quite sure of
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  herself. She said it's like this.
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  You take an object or make a sign on a blackboard or take a
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  drawing that's not important. Take whatever is most convenient
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  for you. Suppose, for instance, that I
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  draw for you. She had a blackboard.
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  I draw a design. She drew a kind of half
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  geometric design. Now you sit in front of that
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  design and concentrate all your attention upon it.
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  Upon that design which is there, you concentrate.
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  Concentrate without letting anything else into your
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  consciousness except that your eyes are fixed on the drawing
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  and don't move at all. You are as if we're hypnotized
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  by the drawing. You look.
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  And so she sat there looking. You look, look, look.
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  I don't 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
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  looking at. Nothing else exists in the world
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  any longer except the drawing. And then suddenly you pass to
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  the other side. And when you pass to the other
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  side you enter a new consciousness.
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  And you know, we had a good laugh, for it was amusing.
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  But it is quite true. It is an excellent method to
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  practice. Naturally, instead of taking a
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  drawing or any object, you may take, for instance, an idea, a
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  few words. You have a problem preoccupying
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  you. You don't know the solution of
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  the problem well, you objectify your problem in your mind, put
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  it in the most precise, exact, succinct terms possible, and
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  then concentrate, make an effort.
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  You concentrate only on the words and, if possible, on the
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  idea they represent. That is, upon your problem.
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  You concentrate, concentrate, concentrate until nothing else
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  exists but that. And it is true that all of a
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  sudden you have a feeling of something opening and one is on
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  the other side, the other side of what it means that you have
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  opened the 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
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  oneself. End Quote reference Sri ro Bindu
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  and the Mother Powers within Chapter 13.
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  Power of identification pages one O 4 to one O 5.