A Technique to Shift to Another Domain of Consciousness

0:01 It is a well recognized phenomena that when an individual focuses his concentration down to a single point and fixes it there long enough, he suddenly can shift to a new domain of consciousness and everything becomes wide, clear and known from that new standpoint. There is a yogic practice called Trotek which has the individual fixes focus on a flame, a candle or some other bright object until he passes out of the external consciousness into that new domain. This can also occur through focus on a mantra or through concentration of conscious force tapasia on a single subject. The 3rd chapter of the Tituria Upanishad has the seeker practicing Tapasia in order to realize the truth of existence. He systematically increases his concentration until he transcends the ordinary external viewpoint and reaches a stage of enlightenment.

1:10 The mother observes quote. One can learn how to identify oneself. One must learn. It is indispensable if one wants to get out of one's ego. For so long as one is shut up in one's ego, 1 can't make any progress. How can it be done? There are many processes. I'll tell you one. When I was in Paris, I used to go to many places where there were gatherings of all kinds, people making all sorts of researches, spiritual, so-called spiritual, occult researches, etcetera. And once I was invited to meet a young lady, I believe she was Swedish, who had found a process of knowledge, exactly a process for learning.

1:59 And so she explained it to us. We were 3 or 4. Her French was not very good, but she was quite sure of herself. She said it's like this. You take an object or make a sign on a blackboard or take a drawing that's not important. Take whatever is most convenient for you. Suppose, for instance, that I draw for you. She had a blackboard. I draw a design. She drew a kind of half geometric design. Now you sit in front of that design and concentrate all your attention upon it. Upon that design which is there, you concentrate.

2:41 Concentrate without letting anything else into your consciousness except that your eyes are fixed on the drawing and don't move at all. You are as if we're hypnotized by the drawing. You look. And so she sat there looking. You look, look, look. I don't know. It takes more or less time, but still, for one who is used to it, it goes pretty fast. You look, look, look. You become that drawing you are looking at. Nothing else exists in the world any longer except the drawing. And then suddenly you pass to the other side. And when you pass to the other side you enter a new consciousness.

3:34 And you know, we had a good laugh, for it was amusing. But it is quite true. It is an excellent method to practice. Naturally, instead of taking a drawing or any object, you may take, for instance, an idea, a few words. You have a problem preoccupying you. You don't know the solution of the problem well, you objectify your problem in your mind, put it in the most precise, exact, succinct terms possible, and then concentrate, make an effort. You concentrate only on the words and, if possible, on the idea they represent. That is, upon your problem.

4:18 You concentrate, concentrate, concentrate until nothing else exists but that. And it is true that all of a sudden you have a feeling of something opening and one is on the other side, the other side of what it means that you have opened the door of your consciousness and instantaneously you have the solution of your problem. It is an excellent method of learning how to identify oneself. End Quote reference Sri ro Bindu and the Mother Powers within Chapter 13.

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