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One Should Be Greater Than One’s Experience · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Whenever an individual has any kind of powerful emotion or
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  experience. He tends to lose himself in that
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  experience, he becomes angry or lustful or ecstatic or joyful
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  and the feeling takes over his entire being.
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  And for a time he is that Force the same thing can and does tend
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  to happen with spiritual experiences or particularly
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  those that are intense and which demand attention when they occur
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  The Experience fills the body life, mind of the external being
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  as the spiritual Seeker cultivates, the growth of
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  Consciousness, beyond the limits of the body life, mine complex.
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  However, he becomes aware of a separation between the true
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  inner, being the psychic being or Soul nature and the external
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  being Or else he finds that he takes a separate standpoint as a
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  witness of the nature either way, he is able to observe the
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  action without losing himself entirely in the experience.
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  It is through this shift of standpoint that when also
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  realizes that there are always further Heights to scale,
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  greater experiences and larger opportunities as the
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  Consciousness continues to grow and evolve.
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  It is also helpful if the secret is able to hold this separation
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  of awareness so that he does not become imbalanced and lose all
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  sense of proportion and the varying needs that are Rise to
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  interact with the world and deal with time place and
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  circumstances in a realistic and practical way, something that
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  may not occur. If the Seeker becomes too
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  attached to a particular experience and what he believes
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  it signifies for instance, there are individuals who experience
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  the Oneness of all existence and therefore say, I am God.
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  As long as they recognize that everyone else and each event and
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  circumstances. Also God They can find a way to
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  maintain balance. However, if they fail to
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  maintain that balanced view, they may put themselves or
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  others In Harm's Way or otherwise, do things, which are
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  not in keeping with the harmony in their surroundings.
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  The mother comments on the statement.
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  Quote, one must always be greater than one's experience
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  and quote. The mother, observes quote,
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  whatever, maybe the nature, the strength and wonder of an
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  experience. You must not be dominated by it
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  to such an extent that it governs, your entire being and
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  you lose your balance and your contact with a reasonable and
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  calm. Attitude.
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  That is to say when you enter in some way into contact with the
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  force or Consciousness, which surpasses yours instead of Being
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  entirely dominated by this Consciousness or force.
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  You must always be able to remind yourself that.
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  It is only one experience among thousands and thousands of
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  others and that consequently its nature is not absolute.
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  It is relative, no matter how beautiful it, maybe you can and
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  ought to have better ones. However, exceptional it, maybe
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  there are Other still more marvelous and however, High it
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  may be, you can always rise still higher in future.
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  So instead of losing one's head, one place is the experience in
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  the chain of development and keeps a healthy physical
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  balance. So as not to lose the sense or
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  relativity with ordinary life in this way, there is no risk.
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  The means one, who knows how to do this, will always find it
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  very easy but for one who doesn't know it is perhaps a
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  little a little trouble. So there is a means, it is never
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  to lose the idea of the total self-giving to the grace, which
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  is the expression of the Supreme, when when gives
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  oneself, when one surrenders, and Trust oneself entirely to
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  that, which is Above beyond all creation.
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  And when instead of seeking any personal Advantage from the
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  experience when makes an offering of it to the divine
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  grace and knows that it is from this, that the experience comes
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  and that is it is to this, that the result of the experience
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  must be given back. Then one is quite safe.
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  In other words? No ambition no vanity.
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  No pride of sincere self giving a sincere humility and one is
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  sheltered from all Danger. There you are.
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  This is what I call being greater than one's experience.
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  In quote, reference SRI aurobindo and the mother growing
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  within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 7, growth of Consciousness, inner experiences
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  Pages, 143 to 144