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The Necessity of a Reversal of Consciousness for Living the Spiritual Life · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Whether we described it as a shift of standpoint or a
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  reversal of Consciousness, it is an essential turning point in
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  the development of a spiritual life.
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  That the individual adjust both his focus and his interpretation
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  of the life experience to conform.
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  Not with the outer view on the surface which is immersed in
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  family enjoyment, work and organization of the outer life.
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  But with an interview that sees the deeper purpose of life and
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  the Oneness of the entire creation that develops,
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  according to the designs of the Divine rather than from some
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  standpoint of satisfaction of the individual ego personality,
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  this shift or reversal moves, the Consciousness in words makes
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  it more reflective and connects it to the larger Universal
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  awareness. The mother observes quote to
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  live the spiritual life. A reversal of Consciousness is
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  needed to live. The spiritual life, is to open
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  to another world within oneself. It is to reverse one's
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  Consciousness, as it were the ordinary human consciousness.
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  Even in the most developed, even in Man of great talent and great
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  realization is a movement, turned outwards.
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  All the energies are directed It's the whole Consciousness is
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  spread outwards, and if anything is turned inwards, it is very
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  little, very rare, very fragmentary, it happens only
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  under the pressure of very special circumstances.
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  Violent shocks, the shocks life gives precisely with the
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  intention of slightly reversing this movement of exterior
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  ization of the consciousness. But all who have lived, a
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  spiritual life have had the same experience, all of a sudden,
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  something in there being has been reversed, so to speak has
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  been turned suddenly and sometimes completely inwards and
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  also at the same time upwards from within upwards.
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  But it is not an external above, it is within deep, something
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  other than the height, as they are physically conceived.
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  Something has literally been turned over.
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  There has been a decisive experience and the standpoint in
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  life the way of looking at life. the attitude one takes in
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  relation to it has suddenly changed and in some cases quite
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  definitively irrevocably so long as one is in the mental
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  Consciousness, even the highest and sees the spiritual life from
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  outside one judges with one's mental, faculties with the habit
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  of seeking airing correcting progressing and seeking once
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  again and one thinks that those who are are in the spiritual
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  life suffer from the same incapacity, but that is a very
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  gross mistake. When the reversal of the being
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  has taken place. All that is finished.
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  When no longer seeks. One sees one no longer deduces.
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  One knows when no longer gropes, one walk straight to the goal
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  and quote, reference SRI aurobindo in 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, 165 to 166,