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The Yogic Practitioner Experiences a Reversal of Consciousness Compared to Most of Humanity · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  It is said that for the yogic practitioner day and night are
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  reversed when compared to the vast majority of human beings.
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  This statement has many possible implications that can be
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  explored day and night are representative of opposite
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  Concepts different ways of seeing and reacting to
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  situations and different viewpoints as to what is the
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  real significance and purpose of life with all the consequences
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  that result from these opposite viewpoints On the simplest and
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  most external level, we frequently find that the yogic
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  practitioner prefers quietude akan template of atmosphere and
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  inward Focus. While most people seek external
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  stimulation entertainment outward forms of enjoyment.
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  Again, most people accept their beliefs about life, from their
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  religions teachings, without necessarily trying to gain a
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  direct experience of the Divine. While the yogic practitioner
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  this choose external Dogma in favor of experience, The yogi
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  sees a pattern and meaning to the universal creation and the
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  life that abounds in the world and recognizes the Oneness of
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  this entire manifestation. Most people on the other hand
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  experience their lives as separate and fragmented from the
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  larger creation and look upon life as something of a battle to
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  survive in a potentially hostile world.
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  There are of course, many different ways that the yogi
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  sees things in an opposite way to that of the vast majority of
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  humanity, which can be explored systematically forthwith.
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  SRI aurobindo writes in his epic poem savitri, a legend and a
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  symbol. Quote a vision lightened on the
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  viewless heights, a wisdom elumen.
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  From the voiceless depths the deeper interpretation, great and
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  Truth, a grand reversal of the night and day.
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  All the world's values changed heightening, life, same, a wiser
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  word, a larger thought came in, then what the slow labor of
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  human mind can bring A secret sense, awoke that could perceive
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  a presence and a greatness everywhere.
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  The universe was not. Now, this senseless were all
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  born round inert on an immense machine, it Castaway its
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  grandiose lifeless front a mechanism.
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  No more or work of chance. But a living movement of the
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  body of God. And quote.
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  Reference SRI aurobindo in the mother growing within the
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  psychology of inner development. Chapter 9 reversal of
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  Consciousness. The new birth page 164,