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Widening the Consciousness Through Identification with Galactic Space · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The principal patanjali set forth for the practice of
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  samyama. Provided that one would be
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  identified with and gain complete knowledge with the
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  object of the practice of concentration.
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  Those who choose to identify with the vast Galactic, Panorama
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  of stars and space would find their Consciousness widened and
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  they would loosen the bonds with a narrow ego personality.
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  Since the ego personality is the not of what the spiritual
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  disciplines called bondage to the world of Illusions.
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  Maya, this practice provides a useful opportunity, to shift the
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  Consciousness to a wider and more disinterested.
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  Fear. The mother writes quote one.
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  Must if one can widen one's Consciousness.
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  I knew somebody who wanted to widen his Consciousness.
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  He said he had found a way it was to lie flat on his back at
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  Night Out of Doors and look at the stars and try to identify
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  himself with them and go away. Deep into an immense world and
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  so lose completely all sense of proportion.
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  Of the order of the earth and all its little things and become
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  vast as the sky, you couldn't say as vast as the universe for.
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  We see only a tiny bit of it, but vast is the sky with all its
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  stars. And so, you know, the little
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  impurities fall off for the time being and one understands things
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  on a very vast scale. It's a good exercise and quote,
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  reference SRI aurobindo and the mother living within the yoga
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  approach to psychological health and growth exercises for growth
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  and Mastery. Widening, the Consciousness
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  Pages 150 to 155,