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Three Rules for the Spiritual Practitioner with Respect to Experiences · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  What to do about spiritual experiences, when they come.
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  When we have a revelation of some sort, when we hear a
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  communication that provides us, Insight or guidance, how are we
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  to know whether it is truthful or misleading?
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  Can we determine the source of The Clairvoyant or clairaudient
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  communication to be able to know with certainty that it is
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  guidance? We can trust and rely on.
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  Not only spiritual forces, can exert their pressure on the
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  Mind, life body complex. In particular, we note that
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  vital powers and beings can and do try to gain some level of
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  control over the Seeker. Once the protective walls of the
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  external being have been lowered or breached as the Seeker
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  becomes more aware of the inner existence, and with that, the
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  energies powers and forces of the subtle, physical vital, and
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  mental planes, as well as the Virtual.
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  SRI aurobindo provides some succinctly rules for the secret
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  that can help him. Avoid the type of harm that can
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  occur by following guidance that is flawed or Worse.
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  The first is basically to not allow the enjoyment of the
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  experience to take hold of the vital nature and build a desire
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  for a repeat or an enhancement. This can lead to a lot of
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  distraction as well as error. The second is to accept the
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  experience without attachment so that one remains free and can
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  act as a witness without taking ownership of it.
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  The third is basically to recognize that everything in
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  this world is of a mixed nature that our reception and our
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  interpretation, the filter we apply can lead to enormous
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  distortions that can corrupt. What the experience is actually
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  intending to bring and can lead the secret to accept those
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  experiences Visions voices, the tend to inflate the ego and
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  Brandeis the vital nature. SRI aurobindo notes quote.
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  There are three rules of the sadhna, which are very necessary
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  in an earlier stage, and which you should remember first open
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  yourself to experience. But do not take the Boga of the
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  experiences do not attach yourself to any particular kind
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  of experience. Do not take all ideas and
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  suggestions as true and do not take any knowledge Voice or
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  thought message as lutely final and definitive.
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  These voices are sometimes one's own mental.
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  Formations sometimes suggestions from outside, good or bad,
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  depends on what they say and on the quarter from which they
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  come. Anybody can get voices.
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  There are first, the movements of One's Own nature that take
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  upon themselves a voice. Then there are all sorts of
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  beings, who either for a joke or for a serious purpose, invade
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  with their voices and quote, reference SRI aurobindo, and the
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  mother growing within the psychology of inner development.
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  Chapter 7 growth of Consciousness in Experiences
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  Pages 139 to 140.