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Comparing Current General State of Human Consciousness With More Evolved States, Part 5 Identification With the External Nature Versus Poise of Detachment · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We generally experience ourselves as our body life and
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  mind. When we injure our body.
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  We say that we have heard ourselves when their hunger
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  pangs. We say that we are hungry.
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  When we experience an emotion, we say that we have become angry
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  or are in love, or are feeling lonely or depressed.
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  Rene Descartes, famously stated. I think therefore, I am showing
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  his sense that he was identified with his mental consciousness.
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  When the body dies, we believe that we die.
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  The tight area opening shot goes through an exercise to show us
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  that we are not solely, the body, the life force or the
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  mind. But the that these are stages in
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  our self-awareness, that lead us eventually with concentration to
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  the true causative levels of knowledge and Bliss.
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  The keynote punish odd makes it clear that the powers of body
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  life and mind represented by ugly, vile and Indra.
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  Are not Supreme and that their powers are nullified.
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  When faced with the Supreme yoga, text speak about the
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  separation of purusa and prakruti, the witness
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  Consciousness and the active nature.
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  Other upanishads speak of two birds on a common tree one,
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  observing. While the other eats of the
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  fruit, all of these observations are confirmed in the actual
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  experience. When an Dividual slips into the
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  status of the witness himself and experiences that he can view
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  his body, his life, and his mind, as something separate and
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  external to him. As if watching a motion picture,
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  the power of Detachment from Total immersion in the outer
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  external being represents a stage of the development of
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  Consciousness As It prepares to break out of the limits, imposed
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  by the ego Consciousness time. To the body life.
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  Mine complex. Dr. Dalal observes, quote, in
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  the normal State Consciousness is involved and identified with
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  its instruments, the body, the vital nature.
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  And the mind, one feels oneself to be the body thoughts and
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  feelings as Consciousness. Evolved it experiences itself,
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  more and more as detached and separate from the outer
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  physical, vital, and mental nature.
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  Instead of being identified with the movements of the outer
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  nature, it observes them as a detached witness suck.
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  She to use a term of the Gita. SRI aurobindo writes quote, it
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  Consciousness can be detached, it can be involved in the human
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  consciousness. It is as a rule always involved
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  but it has developed the power of detaching itself.
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  A thing which the lower creation seems unable to do as the
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  Consciousness develops. This power of Detachment also
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  develops And quote, reference SRI aurobindo in the mother
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  growing with him, the psychology of inner development
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  introduction page, Roman 8.