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Preparation for the Definitive Shift of the Consciousness to a New Standpoint · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  when a speaker has an unusual experience when the
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  Consciousness shifts to a different standpoint, When new
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  forms of understanding inspiration and response
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  suddenly arise there can be a feeling of intense
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  disorientation concern, fear or anxiety.
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  What is happening to me? Given the predominant mindset of
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  the modern world. There may be concern about
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  whether one is having some kind of psychological breakdown, an
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  outbreak of Madness of some sort, family and friends, May
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  observe when acting in a new and strange way and may even suggest
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  psychological help or counseling Needless to say there are
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  substantial adjustments necessary.
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  The mother in advance provides a context for understanding to the
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  spiritual aspirant. So that when eventually the
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  shift of Consciousness occurs either temporarily, as an
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  experience or definitively as a positive realization, that is
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  embedded in the being The individual will have enough
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  assurances and information to understand that this is actually
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  the normal process when a reversal of Consciousness takes
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  place. And rather than being a source
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  of anxiety or fear the experience, or realization
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  should be embraced as the Seeker becomes acclimatized to the
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  change or shift of Consciousness.
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  He is able to build up his interface with the external
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  World from a new Viewpoint and is able to make necessary
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  adjustments. The mother notes quote.
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  You see what may have to wait for days months years?
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  Centuries lives before this moment comes.
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  But if one intensifies, his aspiration, there is a moment
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  when the pressure is so great and the intensity of the
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  question. So strong, that something turns
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  over in the consciousness. And then this is absolutely what
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  one feels instead of being here. When is there instead of seeing
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  from outside and seeking to see within when is inside, and the
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  minute one is within absolutely everything changes completely
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  and all that seemed to him, true natural, normal real tangible.
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  All that immediately. Yes, it seems to him very
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  grotesque, very queer, very unreal, quite absurd, but one is
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  touch something. Which is supremely true and
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  eternally, beautiful. And this one never loses again.
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  Once the reversal is taken place, you can glide into an
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  external Consciousness, not lose the ordinary contact with the
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  things of life, but that remains and it never moves.
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  You may and your dealings with others fall back a little into
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  their ignorance and blindness. But there is always something
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  there. Living standing up within which
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  does not move anymore, until it manages to penetrate everything
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  to the point where it is over, where the blindness disappears
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  forever. And this is an absolutely
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  tangible experience. Something more concrete than the
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  most concrete object, more concrete than a blow on your
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  head, something more real than anything, whatever.
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  In quote, reference SRI aurobindo and the mother growing
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  within the psychology of inner development, chapter 9 reversal
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  of Consciousness. The new birth Pages 173 2174