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May 27, 2023

Attaining Certainty About the Actuality of the Reversal of Consciousness

Attaining Certainty About the Actuality of the Reversal of Consciousness
Attaining Certainty About the Actuality of the Reversal of Consciousness
Sri Aurobindo Studies
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/


0:02 Secrets wonder how they can be sure that the true shift of Consciousness to the Divine standpoint, or even the soul Centric standpoint has occurred. The status is so real that it permits, no doubt, whatever. When one combines the sense of reality, with the way in which one, reacts totally differently than the ego personality prior to this shift, it becomes obvious. And there need be no doubt whatsoever at that point. The mother writes quote. So long as there is any doubt or hesitation so long.

0:45 As one asks oneself, the question of whether one has or hasn't realize this Eternal Soul in oneself. It proves that the true contact has not taken place for when the phenomenon occurs it brings with it an inexpressible, something so new. And so Of the doubt and questioning are no longer possible. It is truly in the absolute sense of the phrase, a new birth. You become a new person and whatever may be the path or the difficulties of the path afterwards that feeling never leaves you.

1:29 It is not even something like many other experiences, which withdraws passes into the background leaving you externally with a kind of vague memory to which it is difficult to cling. Whose remembrance grows faint blurred it. It is not that. You are a new person and definitively that whatever happens and even all the incapacity of the mind, all the difficulties of the vital. All the inertia of the physical are unable to change this new state, a new state, which makes a decisive break in the life of the consciousness.

2:17 The being one was before and the being one is after are no longer the same, the position one has in the universe and in relation to it in life, and in relation to it in understanding, and in relation to it is no longer the same. It is a true reversal, which can never be undone again. And quote, reference SRI aurobindo in the mother growing within the psychology of inner development, chapter 9 reversal of Consciousness. The new birth Pages 174 to 175 And quote, reference SRI aurobindo in the mother growing within the psychology of inner development, chapter 9 reversal of Consciousness. The new birth Pages 174 to 175