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Dec. 11, 2022

How to Change One’s Consciousness, Part 3: Observing and Being Attentive

How to Change One’s Consciousness, Part 3: Observing and Being Attentive
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2022/12/09/how-to-change-ones-consciousness-part-3-observing-and-being-attentive/
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Spirituality is not about having
an intellectual understanding.

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There are methods described in
various Paths of spiritual

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growth in books or in other
forms of instruction which have

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their potential benefit.
But they are not a replacement

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for an actual inward experience
that changes.

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The texture of Consciousness for
the individual This experience

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may occur through pure
Serendipity.

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It may come upon one.
When one is least expecting it

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or it may show up in various
ways, through dream, through

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Visions through a feeling or
sense of compassion, Goodwill,

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empathy Joy or even through a
recoil from a blower obstacle.

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Once one has an actual
experience of the spiritual

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consciousness, The Wider
reality, within which we live

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breathe in act, it is much
easier to both understand and

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Orient oneself towards
integrating that experience into

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the rest of one's life.
The Experience opens the door.

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It also gives the individual a
real sense of what the spiritual

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consciousness is so that he can
tune himself to respond to that

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and aligned with its vibratory
pattern.

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The mother writes quote, many
ways have always been given, but

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a way you have been taught a way
you have read about in books or

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heard from a teacher.
Does not have the effective

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value of a spontaneous
experience, which has come

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without any apparent reason.
And, which is simply the

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blossoming of the souls,
Awakening, one, second of

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contact with your psychic being,
which shows you the best way for

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you.
The one most within your reach,

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which you will then have to
follow with perseverance to

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reach the goal.
One second, which shows you how

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to start the beginning.
Some have this in dreams at

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night some have it, at any odd
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Something one sees, which
awakens in one, this new

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Consciousness, something one,
here's a beautiful landscape

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beautiful music or I'll simply a
few words, one reads or else.

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The intensity of concentration
in some effort.

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Anything at all.
There are a thousand reasons and

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thousands of ways of having it,
but I repeat, all those who are

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destined to realize have had
this at least once in their

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life, it may be very fleeting.
It may have come when they were

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very young but always at least
once in one's life, one has the

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experience of what true
Consciousness is Well, that is

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the best indication of the path
to be followed.

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When may seek within oneself,
when may remember May, observe

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one must notice, what is going
on.

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One must pay attention.
That's all sometimes.

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When one sees a generous act,
here's of something exceptional.

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When Witnesses heroism, or
generosity or greatness of Soul.

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Meet someone who shows a special
talent.

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Aunt or acts in an exceptional
and beautiful way.

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There's a kind of enthusiasm or
admiration or gratitude, which

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suddenly awakens in the being
and opens the door to a state, a

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new State of Consciousness, a
light a warmth of Joy.

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When did not know before that
too, is a way of catching the

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guiding thread.
There are a thousand ways.

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Has only to be awake and to
watch.

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First of all, you must feel the
necessity for this change of

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Consciousness.
Accept the idea that it is this

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the path which must lead to the
goal and once you admit the

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principal, You Must Be watchful
and you will find you do find

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it.
And once you have found it, you

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must start walking without any
hesitation.

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Indeed.
The starting point is to observe

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oneself.
Not to live in a Perpetual

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nonchalance a Perpetual.
Apathy one must be attentive and

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quote reference SRI aurobindo in
the mother growing within the

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psychology of inner development.
Chapter 2, Awakening of

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Consciousness ages, 25 to 27.
Not to live in a Perpetual

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nonchalance a Perpetual.
Apathy one must be attentive and

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quote reference SRI aurobindo in
the mother growing within the

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psychology of inner development.
Chapter 2, Awakening of

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Consciousness ages, 25 to 27.