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Glimpses and Experiences of the Inner Being, and the Shift of the Consciousness from the Outer to the Inner · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  If we focus on the experience of our normal daily lives, we will
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  find that. It can be characterized by a
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  specific feeling or quality that we know as our usual experience.
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  While each individual may have a different characterization of
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  this experience, some happy, some sad, some joyful, some
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  filled with pain the preoccupation with the external
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  body Life Energy. And Find the perceptions of the
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  sentence. The relationships we have with
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  others and our experience of the environment, within which we
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  live, are the primary factors for virtually everyone.
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  There are times when we may have an experience which we recognize
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  is not part of our usual daily routine.
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  We tend to try to minimize or dismiss these experiences as
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  something abnormal or unimportant.
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  Yet they may have a subtle impact that stays with us.
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  The tendency to dismiss them comes from our lack of
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  familiarity or comfort with such experiences or our inability to
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  understand what they are. And what significance, they may
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  hold an example is provided by dr.
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  De la, when he describes the difference between ordinary
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  dreams and those that may hold some deeper sense to them, when
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  we wake from a dream that holds some real meaning, we know,
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  intuitively that it is not something usual or ordinary and
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  we tend to dwell on the dream, try to understand it, explain it
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  or seek help and Standing it yet.
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  It is not just in a dream state that we can experience something
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  different. How many times do we enter a
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  place that suddenly makes us feel reverence or deep sense of
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  peace? Or a prayerful feeling?
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  We do not necessarily know how or why such an experience arises
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  in that place where time, But we sense it.
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  Nevertheless, if we are embedded deeply into our external
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  Consciousness, we try to explain it away with some superficial
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  sense of its meaning, but if we are receptive, we begin to
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  appreciate that. This is the influence of the
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  deeper inner being the sole beginning to make itself known
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  and provide us with an opening to our greater possibilities
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  beyond what we Day-to-day. It is said that the experience
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  of the sage is the opposite of what we normally understand to
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  be the nature of our experience. There is a reversal of day and
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  night, such that what is day or an awakened State.
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  For the sage is dark and close to our ordinary Consciousness.
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  While what is day wherein, awakened state for our normal
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  external being is like night to the phage.
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  The difference is the predominant, standpoint of
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  living, either in the surface being or living in the inner
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  being Dr. Dalal writes, quote, in the normal State of
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  Consciousness in which we are identified with the outer being
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  the body, impulses and feelings. And the mind we are almost
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  totally unconscious of the inner being and of its constant
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  actions on the surface consciousness. we sometimes
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  awaken into the consciousness of the inner being during the sleep
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  of the body and occasionally bring back to the normal waking
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  consciousness, some of our experiences of the inner
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  Consciousness during sleep in the form of lucid symbolic or
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  premonitory dreams though, most of our dreams, which are
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  confused or incoherent pertain not to the inner Consciousness,
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  but to the subconscient The subconsciousness called the
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  unconscious in modern psychology.
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  We also get glimpses of the inner Consciousness, through
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  certain images, perceived either spontaneously or during the
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  practice of visualization and in rare cases through Visions or
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  inner voices. In the state of meditation to.
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  We sometimes become aware of the inner being, as detached calm
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  and observing consciousness. Apart from these occasional
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  momentary and fragmentary experiences.
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  The inner being is shut out from the outer by the thick wall or
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  veil of the normal surface Consciousness.
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  The process of inner growth. Consists in the gradual breaking
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  down of the wall or the lifting of the veil and Awakening to the
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  consciousness of the inner being in quote, as SRI, aurobindo
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  writes quote. There are always two different
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  Consciousness has in the human being one outward in which he
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  ordinarily lives, the other Inward and concealed of which he
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  knows nothing. When one does sadhna, the inner
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  Consciousness begins to open in one, is able to go inside and
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  have all kinds of experiences there.
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  As the sadhna, progresses one begins to live more and more in
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  this inner being and the outer becomes more and more
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  superficial at first. The inner Consciousness seems to
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  be the dream and the outer the waking reality afterwards.
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  The inner Consciousness becomes the reality and the outer is
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  felt by many as a dream or delusion or else a something
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  superficial and external in quote.
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  Reference SRI aurobindo and the mother growing within the
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  psychology of inner development, introduction Pages, Roman 12 to
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  13.