Experiencing the Wideness of the Consciousness

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The Vedic rishi's sought the
truth, the right the vast septum

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Rhythm Bree had they understood
that the awareness limited to

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the ego personality, the
individual body life.

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Mind complex was incomplete and
could not comprehend the truth

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or meaning of existence.
They sought to identify with the

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larger reality that manifested,
our existence as part of its

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own, not simply as separate
beings.

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But many do not recognize is
that this is not some concept of

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pure philosophy, but an actual
experience of Consciousness.

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Occasionally under a variety of
circumstances, individuals,

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actually shift out of their
focus on the personal

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individuality and experience
something of a wider

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Consciousness.
Sometimes in the case of high

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fever, the individual can
experience.

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Into loosening of the body to
the body, awareness and feels a

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wider Consciousness yet.
This is not the state envisioned

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by the rishi's.
This widening while nevertheless

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exceeding, the immediate
boundary of the body

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Consciousness remains limited
and appears to be more of an

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awareness of the energy body
around the physical body.

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A truer experience of wideness
tends to occur in various places

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that are naturally conducive
such as along the ocean or under

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a star-filled sky or looking
across a plane from a large Hill

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or Mountain.
We hear see here, the principle

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of samyama the process of
self-identification as the

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vision and mood focuses on the
wide horizon or endless, vast of

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space.
The mother writes quote, there

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are many ways of doing this,
making the Consciousness vast.

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The easiest way is to identify
yourself with something vast.

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For instance, when you feel that
you are shut up in a completely

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narrow and limited thought will
Consciousness.

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When you feel as though you were
in a shell, then if you begin

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thinking about something very
vast as for example the To the

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of the Waters of an ocean.
And if really you can think of

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this ocean and if far far, far
far in all directions, like this

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stretches out her arms.
How compared with you?

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It is so far so far that you
cannot see the other Shore.

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You cannot reach its end
anywhere neither behind or in

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front nor to the right or left
it is wide.

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Wide wide wide, you think of
this, and then you feel that you

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are floating on this, see like
that and that there are no

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limits, this is very easy.
Then you can widen your

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Consciousness, a little other
people.

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For example, begin looking at
the sky, And then they imagine

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all those spaces between all
those stars and all that kind of

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Infinity of spaces in which the
Earth is a tiny point and you

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two are just a very tiny Point
smaller than an ant on the

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earth.
And so you look at the sky and

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feel that you are floating in
these infinite spaces between

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the planets and that you are
growing vaster and vaster to go.

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Farther and farther.
Some people succeed with this

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and quote, reference SRI
aurobindo in the mother living

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within the yoga approach to
psychological health and growth

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exercises for growth and
Mastery.

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Widening, the Consciousness
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