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Self-Identification with Others — Loosening the Bonds of the Ego-Consciousness · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  With Focus over time and with dedicated effort the power of
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  concentrated attention some Jama eventually bears fruit and one
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  can escape the boundaries of the ego Consciousness and enter into
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  an identification with others. As this occurs, we understand
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  their motivations and the direction of their thoughts and
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  actions. The mother points out that this
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  can even occur while reading a book as the concentration
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  deepens. It is possible to enter into the
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  mind of the author. This is not an intellectual
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  exercise based in the mind and some kind of process of logic or
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  memory. But rather comes about when when
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  read With the quiet or silent mind, and allows the force of
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  the writing to enter and transform the view.
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  The mother has described elsewhere how she recommends,
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  the writings of Sri aurobindo, be read and her description
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  mirrors. The process of allowing the
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  Consciousness to shift away from The Logical intellect and the
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  hold of the ego Consciousness to one in which the force and
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  standpoint of Sri. Aurobindo is writing, is Simply
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  absorbed and begins to transform the awareness.
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  Many have reported an experience breakthrough of the
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  Consciousness outside the bounds of the ego, while reading
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  various books of free aurobindo with sabitri, a legend and a
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  symbol being the predominant vehicle.
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  The mother notes quote, at first, you won't succeed very
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  well. But if you persist, you will end
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  up by succeeding admirably. This adds a lot of interest to
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  life and besides it is a work which really makes you progress
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  for it, makes you come out of that little armor of yours in
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  which you are nicely, shut up, in which you knock against
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  everything, you have seen moths knocking against the light,
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  haven't you? Everyone's Consciousness is like
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  that. It goes along knocking here,
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  knocking there for these are things for into it, but instead
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  of knocking about on enters within then, it begins to become
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  a part of oneself. When widens oneself, breathe
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  freely, has enough space to move in one doesn't knock against
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  anything one. Enters penetrates understands
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  And one lives in many places at the same time, it is very
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  interesting. One, does it automatically?
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  For instance, when you are reading a book that interests
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  you very much a wonderful novel, full of exciting Adventures,
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  when you are completely absorbed in the story at times, you
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  forget your class hour or even dinner time or your bedtime.
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  You are completely absorbed in what you are reading.
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  Well, this is a phenomenon of self-identification.
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  And if you do it with a certain Perfection, you succeed in
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  understanding ahead, what is going to happen.
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  There is a moment when being fully absorbed in the story, you
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  come to know without trying to look for it towards.
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  What end? The author is leading you, how
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  is going to unfold historian? Come to his conclusion for you
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  of identified yourself with the creative thought of the author.
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  You do it more or less perfectly without knowing that you are
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  doing it. But these are phenomena of
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  self-identification in quote, reference SRI aurobindo on the
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  mother living within the yoga approached, a psychological
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  health and growth exercises for growth and Mastery
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  identification Pages 144 to 149