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The Essential Process of Ascent and Integration of Spiritual Progress · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  By putting emphasis on Headline spiritual experiences and
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  attempting to hold onto them or repeat them.
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  The secret, potentially losing sight of the larger process that
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  is taking place to affect the transformation of the nature.
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  All progress represents what may be called a vertical Ascent to a
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  higher level of conscious awareness.
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  This A come through an experience.
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  That either takes the secret to that higher plane for a time or
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  else brings the force of that plane down into his normal
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  awareness for a Time. The experience is intended to
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  create a connection to that higher energetic force and to
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  bring the individual into an awareness of it and prepare him
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  for its action. It comes does its intended work
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  and then recedes so that the Seeker may allow that forced to
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  work within him, open up new Pathways of understanding.
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  Change should be actual patterns of action, Etc.
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  This process is one that is called integration of the
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  experience. Or as the mother terms, it
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  horizontal progress to consolidate, what has occurred
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  with the vertical progress? The two, go together and both
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  are necessary for any true change of human nature to take
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  place. What people also lose sight of
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  frequently is the fact that each experience when it comes is
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  manifesting in a particular time place and Circumstance in The
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  Seekers sadhna and even if a similar experience comes at a
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  future time, it must be somewhat different as it meets the Seeker
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  under different circumstances after the earlier experience,
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  has done whatever it was supposed to do.
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  The point of spiritual experience is not to attach
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  one's ego to it, but to allow it to open up and change the
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  nature. Prepare it for further progress,
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  and allow the contact and opening to create opportunities
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  for further greater experiences and realizations.
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  The mother writes quote now, at a particular time, the set of
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  circumstances inner and outer has caused one to be receptive
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  to a certain vibration. For example, as you say, while
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  looking at the stars or contemplating a landscape, or
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  reading a page or hearing a lecture one, has suddenly an
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  inner Revelation and experience, something that strikes him And
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  gives him the impression of being open to something new.
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  But if you want to hold onto this tightly like that, you will
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  lose everything. Because when can't keep the past
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  one must always go forward and Vance Advance, this illumination
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  must prepare you so that you can organize your whole being on
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  this new level in order to be able suddenly one day to LEAP up
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  again to a higher step. There's a horizontal Advanced
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  between abrupt descent. It is the moment of the abrupt
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  descent which gives you an impression of something like a
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  revelation, a great inner Joy. But once you have climbed the
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  step, if you want to climb it once more, you would have to go
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  down again, you must go on preparing yourself at this level
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  in order to climb another higher step.
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  These things which suddenly give you a great.
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  Joy are always a sense, but these ascents are prepared by a
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  slow work of horizontal progress.
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  That is one must become more and more conscious, establish more
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  and more perfectly. What one is draw from it, all
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  the inner psychological consequences and inaction, also,
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  it is a long utilization of an Abrupt leap.
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  And as I say, there are two kinds of progress, but the
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  horizontal progress is indispensable, you must not
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  stop. You must not cling in this way
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  to your vertical progress and not want to move because it has
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  brought you a revelation, you must know how to leave it in
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  order to prepare for another In quote, reference SRI aurobindo
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  and the mother growing within the psychology of inner
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  development. Chapter 7, growth of
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  Consciousness, inner experiences Pages, 145 to 146,