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How to Change One’s Consciousness, Part 2: Following the Clues to Spiritual Awakening Within · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  We rightly recognized that memory is not the same as a
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  living experience, yet the power of memory holds a key for those
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  who wish to undertake Spiritual Development.
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  We see this in the context of religious and spiritual
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  Pursuits, that rely on the power of memory in some form to renew
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  and actualize experiences. The simplest process is to
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  recall and reflect on the peak spiritual experiences that one
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  has had, it may help to visualize the circumstances as
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  one recalls the memory. It may help to recreate the
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  surroundings or the environment within which the event occurred
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  although this is frequently not possible.
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  But for instance, if one had a special opening in a Forest
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  Grove, OR on a hill or in an isolated meditation cave,
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  returning to that Locale can trigger in many cases, a renewal
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  of the feeling the awareness and even the experience itself or a
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  similar one, at the very least, many times, an individual will
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  follow a practice routine to enter into a state of
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  meditation. And this routine may include a
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  specific scent of incense specific triggering sounds such
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  as a teen shot or Bell being rung, a specific piece of music
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  or a recitation. In other cases in individual,
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  May simply remember the circumstances and call up the
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  memory for instance if one had a particularly intense experience
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  in a temple or a mushroom Without physically visiting the
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  evocation of the memory may suffice to recreate the mood
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  feeling and receptivity needed for a new spiritual experience
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  to emerge note that chasing past spiritual experiences.
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  And expecting them to reoccur is not often fruitful the important
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  point is to create the mood of Readiness and receptivity and
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  the Turning of the awareness Restored.
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  The spiritual reality that occurs when one does.
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  So once one is focused on the spiritual experience, the next
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  step is to understand the implications of that experience.
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  Find out what it is providing as guidance for one's life, actions
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  and Direction and then work to bring those things to life.
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  The mother notes quote. These experiences come to you
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  suddenly in a Flash for a second, a moment in your life.
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  You don't know why or how there are other things other
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  experiences they are innumerable, they vary according
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  to people. But with this with 1 minute 1,
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  second of such an existence, one catches, the tail of the thing.
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  So, one must remember that try to relive it.
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  You go to the depths of the experience recall, it Aspire
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  concentrate. This is the starting point, the
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  end of The Guiding thread, the clue for all those who are
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  destined to find their, inner being the truth of their being.
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  There's always at least one moment in life when they were no
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  longer the same, perhaps just like a lightning flash.
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  But that is enough. It indicates the road one.
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  Take it is the door that opens on this path and so you must
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  pass through the door and with perseverance and an unfailing
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  steadfastness seek to renew the state which will lead you to
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  something more real and more total in quote preference SRI
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  aurobindo and the mother growing within the psychology of inner
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  development. Chapter 2 Awakening of
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  Consciousness page. T5.