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The Power of Visualisation Can Aid in Overcoming the Limits of the Logic-Bound Mental Consciousness in Achieving Realisation in the Spiritual Endeavour and the External World · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  The mental being tends to accept that.
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  If it has an intellectual understanding of something that
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  it has accomplished that thing, it does not tend to concern
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  itself with the vital or physical world per se and thus,
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  if it knows that it is one with the rest of the universal
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  creation or if it knows that it has had an experience of
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  Liberation from the ego Consciousness, it accepts That
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  hid, it has accomplished the task at hand, even though the
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  external nature and particularly the physical, and the vital
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  Consciousness remain mired in Duality and the sense of being
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  ensnared in the material world. The Mind tends to work using the
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  logical thought process and thus process its its activities.
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  Most of the time in a linear sequential fashion based in
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  language. When a Seeker recognizes these
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  limitations and tries to shift the mental Paradigm, a number of
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  Paths of recommended and described a process of
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  visualization as a mechanism to Aid in making the Consciousness
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  take hold of external forms. More precisely and powerfully.
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  The Tibetan Buddhist path in particular has highly detailed.
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  Visualization exercises using mandalas or tacos or detailed
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  constructs that the mind has to build to visualize certain forms
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  forces, deities and specific locations within oneself
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  specified colors and shapes, Etc.
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  Some people have determined that the power of visualization also
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  AIDS in the realization of actions in the external World.
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  Modern-day science has applied this concept in particular to
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  various Sports where the participant is asked to
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  visualize the steps, The Strokes, the development of the
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  process and thereby to create a formation for the eventual
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  action to be realized. Others have recognized this
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  power and use visualization to achieve success in many fields
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  of outer Endeavor. Even though the best use of this
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  power is to apply it to the spiritual activity to use it to,
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  for instance, move, the awareness to the psychic being
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  were to visualize the rising of the coiled Force at the base of
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  the spine through the various chakras, to join the individual
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  human consciousness. With the Divine Consciousness,
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  residing above the head, in the Thousand peddled, chakra, that
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  can be experienced there. The mother notes, quote, some
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  people are just intellectuals for them.
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  Everything is expressed by ideas and not by images, but if they
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  were to go down into a more material domain, well, they risk
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  not touching things in their concrete reality.
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  And remaining only in the domain of ideas remaining in the mind.
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  And remaining there indefinitely, then one thinks
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  one is making progress and mentally one has done.
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  So though it is something altogether indefinite.
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  The mines progress may take thousands of years for it is a
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  very fast and very indefinite field, which is constantly
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  renewed. But if one wants to progress in
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  the vital and physical, well, this image representation
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  becomes very useful for fixing the action, making it more
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  concrete naturally. It doesn't happen completely at
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  will, it depends on each one's nature.
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  But those who have the power of concentrating with images.
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  Well, they have one more facility and quote, reference
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  SRI aurobindo in the mother living within the yoga
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  approached, a psychological health and growth exercises for
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  growth and Mastery visualization for discovering ones, being
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