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Comparing Current General State of Human Consciousness With More Evolved States, Part 3 Dispersed Versus Gathered Consciousness · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Distraction is actually a symptom of another
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  characteristic that of dispersion of the Consciousness.
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  If we take the time to observe our own sense of awareness, we
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  find that it seems to be primarily on the surface of our
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  being receiving sense, Impressions, reacting to people
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  things, events and circumstances, and otherwise
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  busying itself, with all the details of The external life
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  from time to time. We may experience a centered in
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  drawn state of awareness, where we feel ourselves to be
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  self-contained so to speak and thus at peace.
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  We may also meet people from time to time who seem to have a
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  powerful presence without, however, any overt action on
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  their part. We feel the concentrated nature
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  of their being This is different from those who actively assert
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  their power and situations and who try to control or overwhelm
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  others through active intervention in the
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  relationship. On the contrary those who are
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  simply present with a powerful sense of a Consciousness that is
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  alert gathered and grounded, exert a subtle influence on
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  their surroundings without trying Dr. Dalal observes, quote
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  associated with distraction is another characteristic of the
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  normal State of Consciousness. Alluded to, in the passage, just
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  quoted above namely dispersion. In the normal State
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  Consciousness is scattered. So to speak in The Superficial
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  parts and movements of the being physical vital, and mental, As
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  the mother observes quote, one throws oneself out all the time
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  all the time, when lives as it were outside oneself in such a
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  superficial Sensation that it is almost as though, one were
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  outside oneself. As soon as one wants even to
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  observe oneself a little control oneself, a little simply know
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  what is happening. When is always obliged to draw
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  back or pull towards oneself. To pull inward something, which
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  is constantly like that on the surface.
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  And it is this surface thing which meets all external
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  contacts puts you in touch with similar vibrations coming from
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  others. That happens almost outside you.
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  That is the constant dispersal of the ordinary Consciousness
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  and quote Doctrine Dalal concludes quote, the dispersed
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  nature of the normally pervading Consciousness stands in sharp
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  contrast to the in gathered and collected nature.
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  The deeper Consciousness and quote reference SRI aurobindo
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  and the mother growing within the psychology of inner
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  development. Introduction Pages Romans 6 to
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