A Podcast Featuring Sri Aurobindo Studies
June 18, 2023

Illumined Mind

Illumined Mind

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Introduction, Sri Aurobindo on Our Many Selves, Planes and Parts of the Being, pg. xxviii-xxix This podcast also available as a blog post https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/06/16/illumined-mind/



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When we study the functioning of
the mind, we see that the

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essential nature is one that can
receive sense perceptions

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analyze organized and then
subject, the object.

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So developed to a process of
reasoning, using systematic

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application of rules of logic.
We can also see a process of

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recall of memory and a process
of projection. extrapolation or

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imagination that moves the
understanding from the current

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status and tries to appreciate
probable lines of development

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based on our past experience and
the direction momentum and

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amplitude of the development we
can observe The mind is

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generally limited by its
framework of the language

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whether verbal or symbolic that
it applies in this thought

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process.
When the mind is receptive, when

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it falls quiet or reflective, it
is possible for it to receive

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intimations from a higher order
of Consciousness, which it then

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tries to codify organize, and
explain using the powers native

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to the mind.
This then is the higher mind

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that tree aurobindo has
described.

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How do you get higher stage of
development?

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The actual process of the Mind
gives way to an entirely New

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Order of working a new way of
seeing and understanding and it

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shifts from the use of reason
and logic and stepwise

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development to one that is based
to some degree on the spiritual

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Power Of Consciousness.
This is the first transitional

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phase from the purely.
A mental to a spiritual

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consciousness and SRI aurobindo
terms.

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This the illumined mine SRI
aurobindo observes quote, am I

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no longer of higher thought but
of spiritual light gear.

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The clarity of the spiritual
intelligence, its tranquil

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daylight gives place where
subordinates itself to an

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intense luster A splendor and
illumination of the spirit of

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play of lightnings of spiritual
truth, and power brakes, from

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above, into the Consciousness,
and adds to the calm and widen

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it Enlightenment, and the vast
Descent of Peace, which

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characterize, or accompany the
action of the larger conceptual,

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spiritual principle.
A fiery ardour of realization

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and a rapturous Ecstasy of
knowledge.

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And quote, preference, SRI
aurobindo in the mother, our

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many selves practical yogic
psychology introduction.

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SRI aurobindo on our many selves
planes and parts of the being

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paid Roman 28,