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What Are Spiritual Experiences? · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  In our normal human lives, we live in an externally focused
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  standpoint and we create a distinction between objective
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  reality and subjective reality because we are so dependent on
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  the body. Life, mind complex and its
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  relation to the outer World. We tend to assign a greater
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  truth and reality to the external World.
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  Western science has made the ability to measure and reproduce
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  results in the the external world as the Touchstone of what
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  is real subjective. Experiences subjective views are
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  treated as something less real and thereby denigrated in our
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  understanding As the Seeker shifts.
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  However, to a more inward Consciousness, it becomes clear
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  that the normal judgements of objective and subjective can no
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  longer apply. We also begin to recognize that
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  the inner life and the outer life are intimately tied to one
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  another influence one another and in fact depend on one
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  another The wall we have set up between objective and subjective
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  begins to disappear. We recognize the power of
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  thought to create external activities and events.
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  We begin to understand the power of emotions to drive our
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  external life. We also recognize that thoughts
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  and emotions have power to influence others and the
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  environment around us. At a certain point, we therefore
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  need to recognize that the spiritual awareness based in an
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  inward Consciousness is real powerful and despite a lack of
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  external validation needs to be appreciated for what in truth is
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  the manifestation of the spiritual power that creates and
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  drives Our Lives. The subtle is seen to be more
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  powerful, more effective and more real than the gross
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  physical world, which is seen as the effect of this subtler
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  action. Not the cause this is just the
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  reverse of the way. Western science has historically
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  looked at things yet. How can we say that physical
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  elements can manifest mind? Music, art emotion etcetera.
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  If these things were not already, How involved in the
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  physical reality. This involvement is based on the
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  subtle energies, the Unseen powers of Consciousness, which
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  create the infused Consciousness into the most external forms of
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  existence. This provides for us, a basis
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  for understanding, the need to shift to an appreciation of how
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  thoughts dreams, Visions, moods emotions.
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  Ins feelings and intimations actually arise from whence, they
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  come. What their importance and impact
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  is and how they create our external reality for us.
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  SRI aurobindo notes quote. There is no law that a feeling
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  cannot be an experience experiences are of all kinds and
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  take all forms in the Consciousness.
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  When the Consciousness undergoes sees or feels anything spiritual
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  or psychic or even a cult that is an experience in the
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  technical yogic sense for there are, of course all sorts of
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  experiences that are not of that.
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  The feeling's themselves are of many kinds.
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  The word feeling is often used for an emotion and there can be
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  psychic or spiritual emotions which are numbered among yogic
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  experiences such as a wave of should have bhakti or the rising
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  of Love towards the Divine. A feeling also means a
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  perception of something felt a perception in the vital or
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  psychic. Or in the essential substance of
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  the consciousness. I find even often a mental
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  perception when it is very Vivid described as a Feeling.
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  If you, exclude all these feelings and Kindred ones and
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  say that they are feelings, not experiences.
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  Then there is very little room left for experiences, at all,
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  feeling and vision, are the main forms of spiritual experience.
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  One sees and feels the Brahmin everywhere.
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  One feels of for Center or go out from one.
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  One feels worse. He's the presence of the divine
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  within or around 11 feels or sees.
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  The Descent of light one feels The Descent of Peace were on
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  under kick out all that on the ground that it is only a feeling
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  and you make a clean sweep of most of the things that we call
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  experience again. We feel a change in the
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  substance of the Consciousness or the State of Consciousness.
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  We feel ourselves spreading in wideness and the body has a
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  small thing in the wideness. This can be seen also, we feel
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  the heart Consciousness being wide instead of narrow soft,
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  instead of hard illumined, instead of obscured the head
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  Consciousness, also, the vital, even the physical.
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  We feel thousands of things of all kinds and why are we not to
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  call them experiences? Of course it is an inner sight
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  in inner feeling, subtle, feeling not Material.
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  Like the feeling of a cold wind or a stone or any other object,
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  but as the inner Consciousness deepens it is not less Vivid or
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  concrete, it is even more. So in quote reference SRI
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  aurobindo and the mother growing within the psychology of inner
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  development. Chapter 7, growth of
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