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Progressively Becoming Conscious · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Everyone believes they are conscious spiritual Seekers
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  especially having awakened from the purely mechanical habitual
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  processes of the external life. Certainly believe they are
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  conscious. Those who believe in various
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  religious Traditions by virtue of that belief, except that they
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  are conscious this belief. However does not change the
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  facts of their lives or the numerous areas where their lives
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  are purely based inhabit and a form of dull sleepwalking.
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  Sometimes an individual has an experience that shocks him out
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  of the comfort zone of his daily beliefs acts and perceptions and
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  intense spiritual experience, can do that based on this
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  experience, the secret. Now, believes that he is
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  conscious in some religious Traditions, he will understand
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  that he has been born again into the spirit.
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  However, the experience is a momentary phenomena.
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  Generally the secret quickly revert to established patterns
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  habits and ways of seeing thinking acting and interacting
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  it is possible also to be relatively conscious in one
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  aspect or part of the being while remaining unconscious in
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  other parts of the being, the human being is a complex amalgam
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  of physical, vital, mental and psycho-spiritual.
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  Ants and they do not all progress in the same way or at
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  the same time, we're at the same speed.
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  The mother was asked the question.
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  When can that one say, one is conscious.
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  The mother responds that is always a relative question.
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  One is never all together, unconscious and one is never
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  completely conscious. It is a progressive state but a
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  time comes when instead of doing things automatically impelled by
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  a Consciousness and force of which one is quite unaware.
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  The time comes when one can observe.
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  What goes on in one self-study one's movements.
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  Find their causes. And at the same time, begin to
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  exercise. A control first over, what goes
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  on within us. Then on the influence cast on us
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  from outside, which makes us act in the beginning, altogether,
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  unconsciously, and almost involuntarily but gradually more
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  and more consciously and then we'll can wake up and react.
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  Then at that moment, the moment there is a conscious will
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  capable of reacting. When may say, I have become
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  conscious, this does not mean that it is a total imperfect
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  Consciousness. It means that it is a beginning.
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  For example, when one is able to observe all the reactions in
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  ones being and to have a certain control over them.
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  To let those one approves of have play and to control, stop
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  annul. Those one doesn't approve of
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  besides, you must become aware within of something, like a goal
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  or a purpose or an ideal. You want to realize something
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  other than the mere instinct, which impels you to live without
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  your knowing, why, or how, At that time, you may say you are
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  conscious but it doesn't mean you are perfectly conscious and
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  moreover, this Perfection is so Progressive that I believe
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  nobody can say. He is perfectly conscious.
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  He is on the way to becoming perfectly conscious, but he
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  isn't yet and quote reference SRI aurobindo in the mother
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  growing within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 1 emergence from unconsciousness Pages, 8 to 9.