Gaining Mental Understanding Through Quieting and Widening the Mental Consciousness

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Many people over the years have
told me that reading SRI

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aurobindo, his writings is
difficult due to the complexity

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and wideness of the concepts.
He presents.

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I have heard or experienced,
similar issues, reading Kant,

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leibnitz Kierkegaard, Sartre,
Joyce and others.

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For those engaged in technical
Fields involving mathematics

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physics astronomy, some of the
writing, even with their

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background, in the field, can be
daunting.

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And with advances, in quantum
mechanics, which seems to be

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based on a totally different
structure of logic, than what we

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have, normally held in our
general human understanding.

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We find much that is seemingly
incomprehensible.

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The mother provides a
methodology for gaining, an

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understanding of what is,
otherwise, obscure, or confusing

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on first read, what is required
is the sense of receptivity and

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a willingness to not try to
struggle with the understanding,

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but to let it percolate and
build neural Pathways of

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understanding over time.
As the understanding matures

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within us, we find that things
we could not understand,

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previously are suddenly quite
clear.

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This also provides a methodology
for the learning we experience

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as children and into adulthood
children are receptive

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generally, and their minds
mature as they consider new

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information and new thoughts.
We do not expect a young child

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to fully appreciate, or
understand.

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All the complexity of any field
of study or Endeavor, but

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recognize that in the fullness
of time, they will gain the

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power of comprehension needed if
they remain receptive patient

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and persistent in their efforts.
The mother notes quote in

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thought also for instance, you
are reading something and come

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across a thought, you don't
understand.

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It is beyond you, you understand
nothing.

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And so in your head it lies like
a brick and if you try to

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understand it becomes more and
more like a brick, a stiffening.

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And if you persist it gives you
a headache.

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There is, but one thing to do,
not to struggle with the words,

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remain just like this gesture
stretched out in Mobile.

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Create a relaxation, simply
widen widen, and don't try to

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understand above all, don't try
to understand, let it enter.

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Like that quite gently and
relax, relax, and in this

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relaxing, your headache goes
away.

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You no longer think of anything
you wait for a few days.

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And after some days, you see
from inside, oh, how clear it

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is, I Understand what I had not
understood.

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It is as easy as that when you
read a book which is beyond you,

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when you come across sentences,
which you cannot understand.

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One feels that there is no
correspondence in the head.

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Well, you must do this when
reads the thing once twice,

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Thrice, then remains calm and
makes the Mind.

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Silent a fortnight later one
takes up the same passage again,

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and it is clear as daylight,
everything has been organized in

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the head, the elements of the
brain which were wanted for the

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understanding had been formed.
Everything has been done

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gradually and one understands in
quote, reference SRI, aurobindo,

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and the mother living within the
yoga approach to psychological

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health and growth exercises for
growth and Mastery.

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Widening, the Consciousness
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