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Self-Consciousness of the Ego-Personality Is Not the Same as Observing from the Witness Consciousness · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  There is a phenomenon that is called entering the Zone.
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  This is a state of consciousness where one essentially acts
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  without the involvement of the ego and identifies with the
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  action. One is undertaking amazing
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  results. Or performance has come about
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  through entry into the zone. There's a one pointed
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  concentration on the focused action or event.
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  If one becomes self-conscious, the status dissolves and the
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  individual falls back into their ordinary level of ability with
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  all its limitations obstacles and difficulties.
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  For those who seek to follow the yogic path, confusion may arise
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  with the apparent conflict between being totally immersed.
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  In the action of the nature versus the prescription, to step
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  back, and become the witness Consciousness.
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  Observing the nature The sense of observing oneself with a
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  critical eye and the midst of action breaks.
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  The type of one pointed concentration needed for
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  successful action in the world. This is the opposite of being in
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  the zone. It is also still rooted in the
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  ego with all the worry fear and insecurity that comes with the
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  limitations of any human individual who is trying to
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  compare himself to others. To some imaginary concept about
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  who he is, what the result should be and how things should
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  be understood and appreciated by others.
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  Once when shifts to the standpoint of the purusa, the
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  witness Consciousness there, occurs a true separation between
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  the soul as witness and the nature as actor.
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  The sole witness does not interfere in the action of the
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  nature, allowing, the complete concentration needed, without
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  involvement of the ego personality or the desire soul
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  in weighing evaluating or judging the action.
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  Or the result. The mother observes well.
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  If you want to do something well whatever it may be any kind of
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  work. The least thing play a game,
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  write a book, do painting or music, or run a race, anything
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  at all. If you want to do it.
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  Well, you must become what you were doing and not remain.
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  A small person. Looking at himself doing it for
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  if one looks at oneself acting one is one is still in
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  complicity with the Ego. If in oneself one succeeds in
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  becoming what one does? It is a great progress in the
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  least little details. One must learn this.
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  Take a very amusing instance. You want to fill a bottle from
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  another bottle. You concentrate, you may try it
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  as a discipline as a gymnastic. Well, as long as you are, the
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  bottle to be filled the bottle from which one pores and the
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  movement of pouring, as long as you were only this all goes
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  well. But if unfortunately, you think
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  at a given moment, ah, it's getting on.
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  Well, I'm managing. Well, the next minute its bills
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  over it is the same for everything.
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  For everything that is why work is a good means of discipline.
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  For if you want to do the work properly, you must become the
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  work. Instead of being someone who
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  works, otherwise you will never do it.
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  Well, if you remain someone who works, and besides, if your
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  thoughts go vagabonding, then you may be sure that if you are
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  handling, fragile things, they will break.
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  If you are cooking, you will burn something, or if you are
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  playing a game, you will miss all the balls.
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  It is here in this, that work is a great discipline.
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  We're truly. You want to do it?
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  Well this is the only way of doing it.
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  Take someone who is writing a book for instance, if you looks
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  at himself writing the book you can't imagine how dull the book
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  will become it. Smells immediately of the small
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  human personality, which is there and it loses all its
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  value. When a painter, paints a
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  picture, if he observes himself painting the picture, the
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  picture will never be good. It will always be a kind of
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  projection of the painters personality.
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  It will be without life without Force Without Beauty.
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  But if all of a sudden he becomes the thing, he wants to
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  express. If he becomes the brushes, the
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  painting, the canvas, the subject, the image that colors
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  the value though. All thing and is entirely inside
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  it and lives. It he will make something
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  magnificent for everything, everything it is, the same.
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  There is the nothing, which cannot be a yogic discipline, if
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  one does it properly and if it is not done properly, even to
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  pasilla will be of no use and will lead you nowhere for it is
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  the same thing. If you do your depression all
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  the time, observing yourself doing it and telling yourself,
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  Am I making any progress? Is this going to be better?
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  Am I going to succeed? Then it is your ego, you know,
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  which becomes more and more enormous and occupies the whole
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  place and there is no room for anything else.
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  What gives most the feeling of inferiority of limitation
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  smallness? Impotence is always this turning
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  back upon oneself. This shutting oneself up in the
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  bounds of a microscopic ego. One must widen oneself, open the
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  doors. And the best way is to be able
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  to concentrate upon what one is doing.
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  Instead of concentrating upon oneself, End quote, reference
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  SRI aurobindo, and the mother living within the yoga
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  approached. A psychological health and
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  growth, disturbances of the vital feelings of inferiority
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