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Sept. 29, 2022

Concentration in the Mental Centre Is the Second Major Method to Achieve Liberation

Concentration in the Mental Centre Is the Second Major Method to Achieve Liberation
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2022/09/25/concentration-in-the-mental-centre-is-the-second-major-method-to-achieve-liberation/
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Some people, especially those
with a naturally devotional

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nature will gravitate toward
concentration.

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That is centered in the region
of the heart.

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Others will have a more
intellectual term, will find it

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easier in most instances to
experience the concentration in

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the mental Center.
This approach actually can

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itself takes several different
forums classically.

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The secret is instructed to
concentrate on the air.

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Area between the eyebrows.
The ajna chakra also, termed the

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third eye by many, this is a
center of concentration and

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mental will.
It is also possible.

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However, to shift the
concentration upwards to the top

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of the head region at the point,
where the mental Consciousness

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reaches its higher levels, and
through which higher forces,

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sometimes descend into the mind.
Many who have experienced what

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is called the mothers Force.
While meditating at the SRI

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aurobindo ashram have reported a
pressure or a dripping of force

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of Consciousness or a powerful
descent through this higher

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mental Center.
The issue punish odd points out

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the face of Truth is covered by
a brilliant golden lid.

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It is possible for the secret to
experience.

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What seems to be such a lid at
the higher reaches of the mental

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level?
At some point when this lid is

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breached upwards, or through
Descent of the force downwards,

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it can open up the secret to get
higher Realms of Mind.

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Those in, which intuition,
illumination, Etc, become

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active, and overtake.
The plotting action of the

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mental Center, in its native
state, SRI aurobindo writes

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quote, that other way is the
concentration in the head in the

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mental Center.
This if it brings about The

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Silence of the surface mind
opens up an inner larger deeper

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mind within which is more
capable of receiving, spiritual

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experience, and spiritual
knowledge.

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But once concentrated here, one
must open the silent mental

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Consciousness upward to all that
is above mind.

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After a time, when feels the
Consciousness Rising upward and

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in the end it rises beyond the
lid which is so long.

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Kept it tied in the body and
finds a center above the head

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where it is liberated into the
infinite there.

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It begins to come into contact
with the universal self.

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The Divine peace, light, power,
knowledge, Bliss, To enter into

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that and become that to feel The
Descent of these things into the

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nature.
To concentrate in the head with

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the aspiration for quietude in
the mind and the realization of

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the self.
And divine above is the second

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way of concentration.
It is important.

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However, to remember that the
concentration of the

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Consciousness in the head is
only a preparation for its

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rising to the center above,
otherwise when may get shut up

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in one's own mind, and it's
experiences or at best attain

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only to a reflection of the
truth above instead of rising

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into the spiritual,
Transcendence to live there.

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For some, the mental
concentration is easier for some

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the concentration in the Heart
Center, some are capable of

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doing both alternately but to
begin with the heart center, if

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one can do it is the more
desirable end quote, reference

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SRI aurobindo, and the mother
living within the yoga approach

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to psychological health and
growth exercises for growth and

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Mastery Awakening.
The inner Consciousness Pages,

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134 and 138.