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How to Change One’s Consciousness, Part 3: Observing and Being Attentive · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Spirituality is not about having an intellectual understanding.
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  There are methods described in various Paths of spiritual
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  growth in books or in other forms of instruction which have
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  their potential benefit. But they are not a replacement
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  for an actual inward experience that changes.
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  The texture of Consciousness for the individual This experience
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  may occur through pure Serendipity.
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  It may come upon one. When one is least expecting it
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  or it may show up in various ways, through dream, through
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  Visions through a feeling or sense of compassion, Goodwill,
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  empathy Joy or even through a recoil from a blower obstacle.
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  Once one has an actual experience of the spiritual
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  consciousness, The Wider reality, within which we live
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  breathe in act, it is much easier to both understand and
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  Orient oneself towards integrating that experience into
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  the rest of one's life. The Experience opens the door.
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  It also gives the individual a real sense of what the spiritual
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  consciousness is so that he can tune himself to respond to that
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  and aligned with its vibratory pattern.
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  The mother writes quote, many ways have always been given, but
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  a way you have been taught a way you have read about in books or
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  heard from a teacher. Does not have the effective
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  value of a spontaneous experience, which has come
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  without any apparent reason. And, which is simply the
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  blossoming of the souls, Awakening, one, second of
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  contact with your psychic being, which shows you the best way for
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  you. The one most within your reach,
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  which you will then have to follow with perseverance to
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  reach the goal. One second, which shows you how
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  to start the beginning. Some have this in dreams at
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  night some have it, at any odd time.
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  Something one sees, which awakens in one, this new
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  Consciousness, something one, here's a beautiful landscape
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  beautiful music or I'll simply a few words, one reads or else.
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  The intensity of concentration in some effort.
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  Anything at all. There are a thousand reasons and
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  thousands of ways of having it, but I repeat, all those who are
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  destined to realize have had this at least once in their
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  life, it may be very fleeting. It may have come when they were
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  very young but always at least once in one's life, one has the
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  experience of what true Consciousness is Well, that is
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  the best indication of the path to be followed.
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  When may seek within oneself, when may remember May, observe
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  one must notice, what is going on.
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  One must pay attention. That's all sometimes.
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  When one sees a generous act, here's of something exceptional.
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  When Witnesses heroism, or generosity or greatness of Soul.
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  Meet someone who shows a special talent.
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  Aunt or acts in an exceptional and beautiful way.
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  There's a kind of enthusiasm or admiration or gratitude, which
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  suddenly awakens in the being and opens the door to a state, a
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  new State of Consciousness, a light a warmth of Joy.
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  When did not know before that too, is a way of catching the
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  guiding thread. There are a thousand ways.
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  Has only to be awake and to watch.
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  First of all, you must feel the necessity for this change of
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  Consciousness. Accept the idea that it is this
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  the path which must lead to the goal and once you admit the
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  principal, You Must Be watchful and you will find you do find
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  it. And once you have found it, you
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  must start walking without any hesitation.
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  Indeed. The starting point is to observe
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  oneself. Not to live in a Perpetual
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  nonchalance a Perpetual. Apathy one must be attentive and
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  quote reference SRI aurobindo in the mother growing within the
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  psychology of inner development. Chapter 2, Awakening of
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  Consciousness ages, 25 to 27. Not to live in a Perpetual
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  nonchalance a Perpetual. Apathy one must be attentive and
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  quote reference SRI aurobindo in the mother growing within the
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  psychology of inner development. Chapter 2, Awakening of
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  Consciousness ages, 25 to 27.