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Experiencing the Wideness of the Consciousness · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The Vedic rishi's sought the truth, the right the vast septum
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  Rhythm Bree had they understood that the awareness limited to
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  the ego personality, the individual body life.
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  Mind complex was incomplete and could not comprehend the truth
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  or meaning of existence. They sought to identify with the
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  larger reality that manifested, our existence as part of its
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  own, not simply as separate beings.
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  But many do not recognize is that this is not some concept of
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  pure philosophy, but an actual experience of Consciousness.
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  Occasionally under a variety of circumstances, individuals,
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  actually shift out of their focus on the personal
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  individuality and experience something of a wider
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  Consciousness. Sometimes in the case of high
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  fever, the individual can experience.
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  Into loosening of the body to the body, awareness and feels a
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  wider Consciousness yet. This is not the state envisioned
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  by the rishi's. This widening while nevertheless
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  exceeding, the immediate boundary of the body
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  Consciousness remains limited and appears to be more of an
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  awareness of the energy body around the physical body.
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  A truer experience of wideness tends to occur in various places
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  that are naturally conducive such as along the ocean or under
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  a star-filled sky or looking across a plane from a large Hill
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  or Mountain. We hear see here, the principle
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  of samyama the process of self-identification as the
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  vision and mood focuses on the wide horizon or endless, vast of
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  space. The mother writes quote, there
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  are many ways of doing this, making the Consciousness vast.
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  The easiest way is to identify yourself with something vast.
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  For instance, when you feel that you are shut up in a completely
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  narrow and limited thought will Consciousness.
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  When you feel as though you were in a shell, then if you begin
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  thinking about something very vast as for example the To the
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  of the Waters of an ocean. And if really you can think of
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  this ocean and if far far, far far in all directions, like this
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  stretches out her arms. How compared with you?
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  It is so far so far that you cannot see the other Shore.
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  You cannot reach its end anywhere neither behind or in
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  front nor to the right or left it is wide.
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  Wide wide wide, you think of this, and then you feel that you
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  are floating on this, see like that and that there are no
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  limits, this is very easy. Then you can widen your
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  Consciousness, a little other people.
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  For example, begin looking at the sky, And then they imagine
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  all those spaces between all those stars and all that kind of
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  Infinity of spaces in which the Earth is a tiny point and you
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  two are just a very tiny Point smaller than an ant on the
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  earth. And so you look at the sky and
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  feel that you are floating in these infinite spaces between
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  the planets and that you are growing vaster and vaster to go.
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  Farther and farther. Some people succeed with this
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  and quote, reference SRI aurobindo in the mother living
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  within the yoga approach to psychological health and growth
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  exercises for growth and Mastery.
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  Widening, the Consciousness Pages 150 to 155,