Latest / Sri Aurobindo Studies / The Nature of the Reversal of Consciousness Cannot Be Fully Grasped by the Ordinary Human Externalized Consciousness

Transcript

The Nature of the Reversal of Consciousness Cannot Be Fully Grasped by the Ordinary Human Externalized Consciousness · Sri Aurobindo Studies

• 0:02
  If we reflect for a moment that a being who does not have a
• 0:05
  highly developed abstract mental capacity, perhaps a fish or a
• 0:10
  honey bee, or even a cat or dog is unable to truly appreciate
• 0:16
  and understand the functioning of the higher reasoning and
• 0:20
  logical capabilities that human beings consider to be their
• 0:25
  exclusive province. There is no doubt that the human
• 0:29
  being interacts with these other beings.
• 0:32
  And in some cases is able to train them up to a certain
• 0:36
  degree to understand certain simple ideas concept or
• 0:41
  commands. But thus far, we have been
• 0:44
  unable to identify the development of such a higher
• 0:48
  mental capacity in the animal or insect Kingdom even under the
• 0:53
  direct influence of evolved human individuals.
• 0:57
  Yes. If we now transpose this
• 1:00
  reflection to the ability of the higher mental capacity to truly
• 1:06
  appreciate and understand and evolutionary stage beyond the
• 1:10
  mind, it becomes possible to appreciate that.
• 1:14
  There are statuses of being, which cannot be fully understood
• 1:19
  or properly interpreted by even the most highly developmental
• 1:23
  intelligence When someone has a spiritual experience or
• 1:29
  undergoes, a shift of Consciousness, which enables him
• 1:33
  to see and understand things from a totally different
• 1:36
  standpoint, there is clearly no Pathway to communicate the
• 1:41
  actual experience to the mental substance.
• 1:45
  The best that can be done is to create imagery, develop
• 1:50
  analogies or other transcription tools to point the way.
• 1:55
  Even if they cannot fully Express the experience to a mind
• 2:00
  that is not prepared for it. We see a similar situation when
• 2:05
  a profound deep thinking individual tries to explain an
• 2:09
  esoteric concept, he winds up using language that has little,
• 2:13
  or no meaning to the ordinary individual.
• 2:17
  And as the saying goes, the concept goes right over the head
• 2:22
  of the individual, who does not have that capacity.
• 2:25
  Actively developed within him. Mother observes quote.
• 2:31
  Those who have experienced this reversal know what I am speaking
• 2:34
  about, but if one hasn't on can't understand, one may have a
• 2:40
  kind of idea by analogy people who have tried to describe yoga
• 2:45
  compare it with the reversal of a prism.
• 2:48
  When you put it at a certain angle, the light is white when
• 2:52
  you turn it over it is broken up.
• 2:55
  Well this is exactly what happens that is how to SAU
• 2:59
  restore the white in the ordinary Consciousness.
• 3:03
  There is decomposition and you restore the white.
• 3:07
  However, this is only an image. It is not really that.
• 3:12
  This is an analogy. But the phenomenon is extremely
• 3:16
  concrete. It is almost as though you were
• 3:20
  to put what is inside out and what is outside in?
• 3:25
  And it isn't that either. But if you could turn a ball
• 3:29
  inside out where a balloon you can't, can you, if you could put
• 3:34
  the inside out and the outside in It would be something like
• 3:38
  what I mean. In quote reference SRI aurobindo
• 3:44
  and the mother growing within the psychology of inner
• 3:48
  development, chapter 9 reversal of Consciousness.
• 3:52
  The new birth Pages 169 to 170.