How to Convert Mental Seeking into Living Spiritual Experience

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SRI aurobindo describes the
first step to move from a mental

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seeking to a living spiritual
experience as the practice of

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concentration of your
Consciousness within yourself.

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We asked what this means.
Exactly.

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Some observation of our mental
state discloses, what we

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normally consider to be
concentration We focus on

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solving some issue or problem in
our lives or we focus on some

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experience.
Some opportunity, some

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relationship some event.
In each case, we turn our

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concentration outwards towards
the external world and attach

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our Focus to those external
objects.

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If we are not concentrated on
some specific outer

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circumstance, we are for the
most part, receiving sense,

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perceptions, and moving more or
less randomly through, whatever

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presents itself to our senses or
Rises up as a result of past

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impressions.
We may experience hunger or

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thirst, desire, or ambition of
some sort or we may simply

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distract our attention, through,
various forms of entertainment.

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We may be caught up in the idea
of accumulating clothes, or

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technology or cars or jewelry.
These distractions do not

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involve much in the way of
concentration generally.

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And the mind jumps from one
object to another when

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concentration is lacking.
None of this however represents

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the concentration within
oneself, SRI, aurobindo

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references.
When the Seeker first attempts

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to understand and experience an
inner concentration, he is

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immediately confronted with the
almost endless distracting.

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Forces of sent perceptions
feelings thoughts ideas, and

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emotions there is no settled
peace in the mind and may he may

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feel like it is an impossible
task.

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Yogic science provides various
guiding techniques to

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systematically prepare for an
inward concentration, regardless

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of the specific method chosen
with regular practice.

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And patience the Mind eventually
comes to a status of questions

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which is the basis for inward
concentration.

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Some paths advise following the
breath in and out to attain this

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initial stage others use Is the
combination of a mantra with the

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breath to drive out thoughts or
perceptions, which can act as

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disturbances still others
recommend putting the whole

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attention on creation of a mood.
That one becomes such as deep

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aspiration, where nothing else
can intervene.

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And the entire being is focused
on this aspiration, Focusing on

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a visualization or even on a
single point of light can move.

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One away from the surface being
and eventually a point comes

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where one can lose track of
time, space and Circumstance and

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simply dwell in an inner space
of light and calm the

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experience.
When it first arises may occur

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without warning.
And without any form of

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expectation, as the
Consciousness simply shifts away

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From All Surface distractions.
it may be helpful to create a

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space and a specific time to
quiet the mind and undertake the

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practice as the regular process
sets up a rhythm in the being,

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Once the n-word awareness
becomes quite regular the

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Seeker.
No longer need depend on such a

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formal practice or discipline to
recreate the Inner Space of

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awareness, SRI, aurobindo notes.
Quote, you have asked, what is

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the discipline to be followed in
order to convert the mental

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seeking into a living spiritual
experience?

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The first necessity is the
practice of concentration.

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Of your Consciousness within
yourself.

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The ordinary human mind has an
activity on the surface, which

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veils the real self.
But there is another a hidden

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Consciousness within behind the
surface one in which we can

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become aware of the real self
and of a larger deeper.

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Truth of nature, can realize the
self and liberate and transform

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the nature to quiet.
The surface mind and begin to

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live within This is the object
of this concentration.

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And quote, reference SRI
aurobindo, and the mother

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growing within the psychology of
inner development, chapter for

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growth of Consciousness.
First Steps in Foundation ages,

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70 to 71.