A Podcast Featuring Sri Aurobindo Studies
May 24, 2023

A New Birth Into a Spiritual Life

A New Birth Into a Spiritual Life
A New Birth Into a Spiritual Life
Sri Aurobindo Studies
A New Birth Into a Spiritual Life

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0:01 There is a considerable amount of talk about being born again in the modern-day Christian tradition. When we explore, what is meant? It seems like it is a matter of accepting in one's heart. A certain belief set Central to the denomination that espouses. This idea there does not seem to be any experiential activity required other than an acceptance of faith in the belief system. There is however, a different understanding and interpretation of an individual undergoing, a new birth. And that is based on the individual making a definitive shift to the Divine standpoint from the egoistic human standpoint. Once that shift occurs it dominates the way one sees thinks and acts it is not a matter of mental, belief, or vital adherence, but a matter of a true alternative Duration in the very way when lives and breathes. when various country sent astronauts were sometimes called cosmonauts into outer space, the participants experienced a profound and life-altering change of standpoint, which may help us understand something of the type of change that a true shift of awareness and Consciousness can bring about Astronauts reported that just seeing the Earth from outside as a fragile ecosystem, shared by all beings that

1:35 inhabit, the planet made them profoundly awake to the Oneness of all life on Earth, the interdependence of every being and the environment, and the need to protect and preserve the earth. And its beings rather than carry out wanton unthinking, destruction. Some of these individuals took up spiritual research and practices explored the need for an evolution of Consciousness and began teaching along these lines. All of which represented a major change in their thought process and career path marked by the experience of seeing the Earth from outside. Even the photographic images taken from that perspective have had a profound effect on many individuals around the world. Since they were published a standpoint shift, all be at one, that still relies on the mental development, can be seen here. A new birth would involve a shift to a new form and Power Of Consciousness.

2:43 The next evolutionary stage beyond the mental stage, this comes about through the soul, taking charge of the life, and directing it to the development of a spiritual purpose and understanding of the life, one leads. Some people report a major change in their lives based on some extremely traumatic experience. Such as a near-death experience, they begin to try to grasp and embody the spiritual principles and take up spiritual practices. Some people are simply ready, possibly based on past lifetime development and open in what seems to be an almost effortless way to the promptings and Hands of the soul and the called the spirit. The mother writes quote.

3:38 What is called New Birth, is the birth into the spiritual life, the spiritual consciousness, it is to carry in oneself, something of the spirit, which individually through the soul, can begin to rule the life and be the master of existence. In the individual existence that that is what makes all the difference so long as when just speaks of the spirit. And it is something one has read about whose existence when vaguely knows about, but not a very concrete reality for the Consciousness. This means that one is not born into the spirit. And when one is Born Into the spirit, it becomes something much more concrete.

4:24 Much more living much more. Real much more tangible than the whole material world and this is what makes the essential difference between beings when that becomes spontaneously Real. The true concrete existence, the atmosphere one can freely breathe. Then one knows one is crossed over to the other side, but so long as it is something rather vague and hazy. You have heard about it, you know that it exists but it has no concrete reality. Well, this means that the New Birth has not yet taken place.

5:05 As long as you tell yourself, yes, this, I can see this. I can touch the pain. I suffer from the Hunger that torments me the sleep. That makes me feel heavy. This is real, this is concrete. Mother, laughs, that means that you have not yet crossed over to the other side. You are not born into the spirit. In quote reference SRI, aurobindo in the mother growing within the psychology of inner development. Chapter 9 reversal of Consciousness. The new birth Pages 171 to 172