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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/


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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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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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As one asks oneself, the
question of whether one has or

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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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phenomenon occurs it brings with
it an inexpressible, something

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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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withdraws passes into the
background leaving you

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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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happens and even all the
incapacity of the mind, all the

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difficulties of the vital.
All the inertia of the physical

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are unable to change this new
state, a new state, which makes

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a decisive break in the life of
the consciousness.

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The being one was before and the
being one is after are no longer

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the same, the position one has
in the universe and in relation

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to it in life, and in relation
to it in understanding, and in

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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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And quote, reference SRI
aurobindo in the mother growing

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within the psychology of inner
development, chapter 9 reversal

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of Consciousness.
The new birth Pages 174 to 175

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And quote, reference SRI
aurobindo in the mother growing

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within the psychology of inner
development, chapter 9 reversal

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of Consciousness.
The new birth Pages 174 to 175