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May 28, 2023

Becoming Aware of the Illusion of the External Life

Becoming Aware of the Illusion of the External Life
Becoming Aware of the Illusion of the External Life
Sri Aurobindo Studies
Becoming Aware of the Illusion of the External Life

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Growing Within: The Psychology of Inner Development, Chapter IX Reversal of Consciousness: The New Birth, pp. 175-176 This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/05/26/becoming-aware-of-the-illusion-of-the-external-life/?fbclid=IwAR3MuNi4a0fgEV8L3yT7ws3qJ5NimkKCrkEYyaBrNn50TCcxUfxGgEyv0gM


0:01 Many people are beginning to reflect and even entertain the notion that the world we experience on a day-to-day basis is somehow unreal or illusory. Films, such as the dystopian story, set forth in The Matrix and vision that uman beings are fettered and their brains wired. So they experience a form of reality while their actual bodies and lives are turned into an energy, farming activity when they are disconnected, from The Matrix. They wake up to a bleak reality and an enormous struggle to free Humanity from subjection to this terrible illusion. Some find however that the illusion is so much more appealing than the real life, they wake up to. So they want to get hooked up again. This is not of course the first time that the thought has been entertained about the illusion, going back to Plato's, parable of the cave.

1:05 There is a thought that what we perceive may not be the reality or at least not all of the reality. SRI shankaracharya, of course, became a leading philosophical. Proponent of the illusion, the Maya of the life in the external world. Modern writers such as Harriman. Hesa wrote tales about the illusory nature of life in society and the dream like Wade can be experienced. Modern-day scientists are now speculating about whether we live in a hole of G. If so, we are not in touch with our reality, to the extent, we involve ourselves in the drama of the holographic World, others extrapolate, either.

1:53 Multiple worlds, that work out all possible, variations in life. Or the coexistence of the past present and future through the implications of the theory of relativity, all of these things point to an increasing Readiness for Humanity to recognize that the traditional objects of our lives were limited and prepare a Tori. And that there is a greater Destiny and greater life possible and that at some point, As we awaken to that, we undertake a reversal of Consciousness, the shift to a new standpoint and status of awareness, and begin the next phase of the evolution of Consciousness, that we see as a central thread in the development of life on Earth to date. whether one uses the analogy of the caterpillar living to eat, then secluding itself into a sheltered location and later emerging as a butterfly, Or the story, the mother describes about the development and Awakening into the outer world of a chick there examples.

3:09 We can see of dramatic Transformations taking place that do not show any evidence of the result until after it is ready and actually occurs. The mother observes quote. These are not words, it is altogether, true that everything changes its appearance totally that life and things are completely different from what they appear to be. All this contact, this ordinary perception of the world loses. Its reality completely. This is what appears unreal. Fantastic illusory. Non-existent There is something something very material, very concrete, very physical, which becomes the reality of the being and which has nothing in common with the ordinary way of seeing. When one has this perception, the perception of the work of the Divine force of the movement, being worked out behind the appearance in the appearance through the appearance.

4:23 One begins to be ready to live, something truer than the ordinary human falsehood, but not before there is no compromise. You see? It is not like a convalescence after an illness. You must change world's so long as your mind is real for you your way of thinking something. True for you real concrete, it proves that you are not there yet. You must first pass through to the other side afterwards. You will be able to understand what I am telling you. Pass through to the other side. It is not true that one can understand little by little. It is not like that.

5:13 This kind of progress is different. What is more true? Is that one is, shut up in a shell and inside it, something is happening like the chick in the egg, it is getting ready in there. It is in there. One doesn't see it. Something is happening in the Shell, but outside one sees nothing. And it is only when all is ready, that there comes the capacity to pierce the shell. And to be born into the light of day. It is not that one becomes more and more perceptible or visible when he's shut in shut-in. And for sensitive people, there is even that terrible sensation of being compressed of trying to pass through, and then coming up against a wall, and then one, knocks and knocks, and knocks, and one can't go through.

6:16 End quote, reference SRI aurobindo in the mother growing within the psychology of inner development, chapter 9 reversal of Consciousness. The new birth Pages 175 to 176, End quote, reference SRI aurobindo in the mother growing within the psychology of inner development, chapter 9 reversal of Consciousness. The new birth Pages 175 to 176,