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The Spiritual Experience Gets Watered-Down or Lost As It is Transcribed into the Mental Framework · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Human beings are essentially dependent on their mental
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  perception. In order to function in the
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  world. This mental perception frames,
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  what we see how we experience it, and our interpretation.
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  We'd us try to transcribe anything provided to us by our
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  senses or provided directly to the mind without Reliance on the
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  senses into a mental framework. It is similar to the idea that
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  we try to translate one language into another, where the one
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  language has heavy inflection inference and subtle meanings
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  that are not truly captured in the language into which it has
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  been translated. Something is lost in the
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  translation. Similarly, there is a Divergence
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  between the mental framework of The Logical, sequential,
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  analytical intelligence and the creative comprehensive and
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  combining intelligence thus, it is virtually impossible for The
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  Logical intellect to understand and pick up all.
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  That is being communicated, through a work of art.
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  Or a piece of music, for instance.
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  This provides a background for understanding.
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  The difficulty, the mind has in perceiving understanding
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  interpreting and communicating the truth and essence of
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  spiritual experiences which require a different type or form
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  of understanding, then that provided by the mind.
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  For this reason, many people have deep spiritual experiences,
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  wind up, having them in a state of deep inward Focus.
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  A trance state of samadhi or else.
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  They may describe what they can as a type of dream state.
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  In these cases, there are simply no bridge between the spiritual
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  experience and the mental framework, which provides the
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  everyday, understanding of the individual.
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  And thus, the experience cannot be explained or held by the
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  mind. Additionally, the attempt to
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  transcribe the experience into a mental framework, winds up
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  Shifting, the focus from the spiritual where the experience
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  actually occurs to the mental, where it is, simplified and
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  stored, as memory without the power of the original
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  experience. The mother writes quote, for
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  most people, an experience exists, only when they can
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  explain it to themselves. The experience in itself,
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  contact with a certain force, a widening of Consciousness
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  communion with an aspect of the Divine, no matter what
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  experience. And opening of the being the
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  breaking down of an obstacle crossing over a stage opening,
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  new doors, all these experiences, if people cannot
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  explain them to themselves in so many words and materialize them
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  and precise thoughts. It is as though these did not
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  exist, And it is just this need for expression.
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  This need for translation, which causes the greater part of the
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  experience to lose its power of action on the individual
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  consciousness. How is it that you have a
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  decisive definitive experience that for instance, you have
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  opened the door of your psychic being you have been in communion
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  with it, you know what this means and then it does not stay
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  it is because it does not have a sufficiently tangible power,
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  unless you can express it to yourself.
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  The Experience Begins for, you only when you are able to
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  describe it. Well, when you are able to
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  describe it, the greater part of its intensity and its capacity
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  of action for the inner and outer transformation has already
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  evaporated there, it may be said that expression.
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  Explanation is always a coming down.
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  The experience itself is on a much higher plane.
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  And quote, reference SRI aurobindo, and the mother
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  growing within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 7 growth of Consciousness, inner experiences
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  page 142.