May 27, 2023
Attaining Certainty About the Actuality of the Reversal of Consciousness
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Growing Within: The Psychology of Inner Development, Chapter IX Reversal of Consciousness: The New Birth, pp. 174-175 This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/05/25/attaining-certainty-about-the-actuality-of-the-reversal-of-consciousness/
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Secrets wonder how they can be
sure that the true shift of
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Consciousness to the Divine
standpoint, or even the soul
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Centric standpoint has occurred.
The status is so real that it
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permits, no doubt, whatever.
When one combines the sense of
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reality, with the way in which
one, reacts totally differently
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00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:31,300
than the ego personality prior
to this shift, it becomes
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obvious.
And there need be no doubt
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whatsoever at that point.
The mother writes quote.
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So long as there is any doubt or
hesitation so long.
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00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:48,200
As one asks oneself, the
question of whether one has or
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00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:52,000
hasn't realize this Eternal Soul
in oneself.
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It proves that the true contact
has not taken place for when the
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00:00:58,100 --> 00:01:03,800
phenomenon occurs it brings with
it an inexpressible, something
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00:01:04,500 --> 00:01:08,700
so new.
And so Of the doubt and
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questioning are no longer
possible.
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It is truly in the absolute
sense of the phrase, a new
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birth.
You become a new person and
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whatever may be the path or the
difficulties of the path
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afterwards that feeling never
leaves you.
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It is not even something like
many other experiences, which
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00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:38,800
withdraws passes into the
background leaving you
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00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:43,200
externally with a kind of vague
memory to which it is difficult
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to cling.
Whose remembrance grows faint
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blurred it.
It is not that.
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You are a new person and
definitively that whatever
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00:01:55,400 --> 00:02:01,200
happens and even all the
incapacity of the mind, all the
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00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:05,800
difficulties of the vital.
All the inertia of the physical
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00:02:06,500 --> 00:02:12,100
are unable to change this new
state, a new state, which makes
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00:02:12,100 --> 00:02:16,000
a decisive break in the life of
the consciousness.
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00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:22,300
The being one was before and the
being one is after are no longer
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00:02:22,300 --> 00:02:27,200
the same, the position one has
in the universe and in relation
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00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:33,800
to it in life, and in relation
to it in understanding, and in
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00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:37,200
relation to it is no longer the
same.
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It is a true reversal, which can
never be undone again.
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00:02:43,500 --> 00:02:48,700
And quote, reference SRI
aurobindo in the mother growing
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00:02:48,700 --> 00:02:54,300
within the psychology of inner
development, chapter 9 reversal
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00:02:54,300 --> 00:02:59,900
of Consciousness.
The new birth Pages 174 to 175
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00:02:43,500 --> 00:02:48,700
And quote, reference SRI
aurobindo in the mother growing
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00:02:48,700 --> 00:02:54,300
within the psychology of inner
development, chapter 9 reversal
40
00:02:54,300 --> 00:02:59,900
of Consciousness.
The new birth Pages 174 to 175
00:00:02,100 --> 00:00:06,000
Secrets wonder how they can be
sure that the true shift of
2
00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:11,100
Consciousness to the Divine
standpoint, or even the soul
3
00:00:11,100 --> 00:00:17,200
Centric standpoint has occurred.
The status is so real that it
4
00:00:17,200 --> 00:00:22,700
permits, no doubt, whatever.
When one combines the sense of
5
00:00:22,700 --> 00:00:26,800
reality, with the way in which
one, reacts totally differently
6
00:00:26,800 --> 00:00:31,300
than the ego personality prior
to this shift, it becomes
7
00:00:31,300 --> 00:00:34,100
obvious.
And there need be no doubt
8
00:00:34,100 --> 00:00:40,000
whatsoever at that point.
The mother writes quote.
9
00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:45,000
So long as there is any doubt or
hesitation so long.
10
00:00:45,000 --> 00:00:48,200
As one asks oneself, the
question of whether one has or
11
00:00:48,200 --> 00:00:52,000
hasn't realize this Eternal Soul
in oneself.
12
00:00:53,000 --> 00:00:58,100
It proves that the true contact
has not taken place for when the
13
00:00:58,100 --> 00:01:03,800
phenomenon occurs it brings with
it an inexpressible, something
14
00:01:04,500 --> 00:01:08,700
so new.
And so Of the doubt and
15
00:01:08,700 --> 00:01:11,100
questioning are no longer
possible.
16
00:01:12,100 --> 00:01:17,100
It is truly in the absolute
sense of the phrase, a new
17
00:01:17,100 --> 00:01:21,600
birth.
You become a new person and
18
00:01:21,600 --> 00:01:25,000
whatever may be the path or the
difficulties of the path
19
00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:28,400
afterwards that feeling never
leaves you.
20
00:01:29,800 --> 00:01:34,400
It is not even something like
many other experiences, which
21
00:01:34,400 --> 00:01:38,800
withdraws passes into the
background leaving you
22
00:01:38,800 --> 00:01:43,200
externally with a kind of vague
memory to which it is difficult
23
00:01:43,200 --> 00:01:46,800
to cling.
Whose remembrance grows faint
24
00:01:47,200 --> 00:01:50,000
blurred it.
It is not that.
25
00:01:51,200 --> 00:01:55,400
You are a new person and
definitively that whatever
26
00:01:55,400 --> 00:02:01,200
happens and even all the
incapacity of the mind, all the
27
00:02:01,200 --> 00:02:05,800
difficulties of the vital.
All the inertia of the physical
28
00:02:06,500 --> 00:02:12,100
are unable to change this new
state, a new state, which makes
29
00:02:12,100 --> 00:02:16,000
a decisive break in the life of
the consciousness.
30
00:02:17,400 --> 00:02:22,300
The being one was before and the
being one is after are no longer
31
00:02:22,300 --> 00:02:27,200
the same, the position one has
in the universe and in relation
32
00:02:27,200 --> 00:02:33,800
to it in life, and in relation
to it in understanding, and in
33
00:02:33,800 --> 00:02:37,200
relation to it is no longer the
same.
34
00:02:38,000 --> 00:02:42,200
It is a true reversal, which can
never be undone again.
35
00:02:43,500 --> 00:02:48,700
And quote, reference SRI
aurobindo in the mother growing
36
00:02:48,700 --> 00:02:54,300
within the psychology of inner
development, chapter 9 reversal
37
00:02:54,300 --> 00:02:59,900
of Consciousness.
The new birth Pages 174 to 175
38
00:02:43,500 --> 00:02:48,700
And quote, reference SRI
aurobindo in the mother growing
39
00:02:48,700 --> 00:02:54,300
within the psychology of inner
development, chapter 9 reversal
40
00:02:54,300 --> 00:02:59,900
of Consciousness.
The new birth Pages 174 to 175
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