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What’s the Use of Seeking to Have Spiritual Experiences? · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Putting aside the allurement factor of having some kind of
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  special unusual extraordinary type of experience which is
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  clearly a way to feed the ego personality.
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  We come to the actual benefits of such experiences.
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  There are cases where an individual is leading, a
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  perfectly ordinary life in the world and something
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  extraordinary happens to him which changes the entire future
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  Direction and focus of his life. We can look at the experience of
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  Saul on the road to Damascus. Recounted in the Bible.
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  We also see some individuals have what is called a near-death
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  experience, which transforms their view of life and they come
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  back with a new focus and Mission such as the case of
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  dannion Brinkley who are struck by lightning and who returned to
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  life to become the author of Saved By the Light and
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  subsequently founder of an organization called compassion
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  in action. His prior life was radically
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  different from what he subsequently took up.
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  In the book called to heal, one of the chapters deals with an
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  African healer who tried to avoid taking up the role of
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  shamanic healer and tried to live an ordinary life.
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  But continued experiences in signs made it clear to her that
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  she was intended for the healing path.
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  So eventually began to follow. Thus an extraordinary experience
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  can bring an individual to consciously take up.
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  Up the spiritual life. It is, of course, not something
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  that occurs without precedent such as prior life development
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  of the spiritual interest or practice.
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  As the Divine Force Works within the framework of his own
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  manifestation process. Even if we cannot always see, or
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  understand the background or the links to past development, due,
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  to our mental framework and ignorance of the movement of the
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  Soul through. Then death and The evolutionary
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  development through time. Additionally spiritual
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  experiences, may come while one is treading the path perhaps to
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  open up a new capacity to work on the transformation of the
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  nature. Perhaps to encourage and support
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  the faith of the individual to help him endure and persevere.
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  Sometimes these experiences May provide an Insight that helps
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  them work through particular inner or outer limitations or
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  obstacles. They are facing A disciple
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  inquires then what's the use of having experiences?
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  The mother writes quote. It is not a question of use.
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  Not everything in the world is utilitarian.
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  It's like that because it's like that.
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  Yes, you can say, what's the use to someone, who is exclusively
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  preoccupied with having experiences, who has no inner
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  intellectual and spiritual preparation, and who threw some
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  sort of fantasy would like to have experiences.
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  You could say to him? Yes.
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  What's the use? It is not this that will lead
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  you to the spiritual life. It can help you.
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  If you have taken up The Path and if you have taken up The
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  Path and all sincerity, well they will come to the extent
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  that they are useful for to seek experience.
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  For experiences. Sake is altogether useless and
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  you can tell people what's the good.
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  It's a fantasy, a fantasy on another plane.
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  It is another kind of Desire, but it is a desire and quote.
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  Reference SRI aurobindo and the mother growing within the
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  psychology of inner development. Chapter 7, growth of
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  Consciousness. Inner experiences Pages, 127, 2
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  1228, Reference SRI aurobindo and the mother growing within
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  the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 7, growth of Consciousness.
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  Inner experiences Pages, 127, 2 1228,