A New Birth Into a Spiritual Life

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There is a considerable amount
of talk about being born again

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in the modern-day Christian
tradition.

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When we explore, what is meant?
It seems like it is a matter of

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accepting in one's heart.
A certain belief set Central to

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the denomination that espouses.
This idea there does not seem to

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be any experiential activity
required other than an

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acceptance of faith in the
belief system.

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There is however, a different
understanding and interpretation

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of an individual undergoing, a
new birth.

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And that is based on the
individual making a definitive

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shift to the Divine standpoint
from the egoistic human

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standpoint.
Once that shift occurs it

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dominates the way one sees
thinks and acts it is not a

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matter of mental, belief, or
vital adherence, but a matter of

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a true alternative Duration in
the very way when lives and

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breathes. when various country
sent astronauts were sometimes

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called cosmonauts into outer
space, the participants

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experienced a profound and
life-altering change of

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standpoint, which may help us
understand something of the type

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of change that a true shift of
awareness and Consciousness can

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bring about Astronauts reported
that just seeing the Earth from

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outside as a fragile ecosystem,
shared by all beings that

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inhabit, the planet made them
profoundly awake to the Oneness

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of all life on Earth, the
interdependence of every being

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and the environment, and the
need to protect and preserve the

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earth.
And its beings rather than carry

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out wanton unthinking,
destruction.

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Some of these individuals took
up spiritual research and

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practices explored the need for
an evolution of Consciousness

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and began teaching along these
lines.

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All of which represented a major
change in their thought process

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and career path marked by the
experience of seeing the Earth

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from outside.
Even the photographic images

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taken from that perspective have
had a profound effect on many

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individuals around the world.
Since they were published a

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standpoint shift, all be at one,
that still relies on the mental

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development, can be seen here.
A new birth would involve a

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shift to a new form and Power Of
Consciousness.

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The next evolutionary stage
beyond the mental stage, this

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comes about through the soul,
taking charge of the life, and

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directing it to the development
of a spiritual purpose and

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understanding of the life, one
leads.

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Some people report a major
change in their lives based on

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some extremely traumatic
experience.

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Such as a near-death experience,
they begin to try to grasp and

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embody the spiritual principles
and take up spiritual practices.

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Some people are simply ready,
possibly based on past lifetime

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development and open in what
seems to be an almost effortless

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way to the promptings and Hands
of the soul and the called the

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spirit.
The mother writes quote.

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What is called New Birth, is the
birth into the spiritual life,

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the spiritual consciousness, it
is to carry in oneself,

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something of the spirit, which
individually through the soul,

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can begin to rule the life and
be the master of existence.

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In the individual existence that
that is what makes all the

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difference so long as when just
speaks of the spirit.

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And it is something one has read
about whose existence when

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vaguely knows about, but not a
very concrete reality for the

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Consciousness.
This means that one is not born

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into the spirit.
And when one is Born Into the

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spirit, it becomes something
much more concrete.

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Much more living much more.
Real much more tangible than the

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whole material world and this is
what makes the essential

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difference between beings when
that becomes spontaneously Real.

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The true concrete existence, the
atmosphere one can freely

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breathe.
Then one knows one is crossed

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over to the other side, but so
long as it is something rather

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vague and hazy.
You have heard about it, you

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know that it exists but it has
no concrete reality.

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Well, this means that the New
Birth has not yet taken place.

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As long as you tell yourself,
yes, this, I can see this.

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I can touch the pain.
I suffer from the Hunger that

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torments me the sleep.
That makes me feel heavy.

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This is real, this is concrete.
Mother, laughs, that means that

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you have not yet crossed over to
the other side.

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You are not born into the
spirit.

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In quote reference SRI,
aurobindo in the mother growing

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within the psychology of inner
development.

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Chapter 9 reversal of
Consciousness.

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