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June 19, 2023

Intuition

Intuition

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, pp. xxix-xxx This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/06/17/intuition-2/


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The popular idea about intuition
is tied to some kind of

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unexplainable process of knowing
that people go through.

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If it is purely based in the
type of extrapolation from past

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experience or some sense that
drive the decision without

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careful and logical analysis, it
is still based in the normal

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activity of the Mind life and
body using memory, Instinct and

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trained responses as a
foundation for fast and

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unthinking response yet.
We also see The creative genius

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has described a different
process of intuition one that

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obtains its knowledge through an
entirely separate process that

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starts outside.
The normal operations, we are

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used to Sri, aurobindo provides
insight to the basis for a

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larger and higher sense for the
power of intuition, as a form of

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the process of knowledge by
identity.

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And a connection to the
spiritual levels of

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consciousness.
Where knowledge by identity, is

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the standard not the exception,
dr.

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Dalal notes, quote, ordinarily
intuition means, the power of

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understanding things immediately
without the need for conscious

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reasoning.
In this ordinary sense intuition

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may be based on a Feeling, or it
may be a rapid subconscious.

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learning based on subtle cues,
which are not consciously

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apprehended But as employed by
SRI aurobindo to refer to the

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supercontinent plane above the
aluminum mind.

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The term has a much deeper
connotation.

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And quote in the secret of the
Veda, SRI aurobindo describes

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how the powers of intuition were
symbolically represented by The

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Vedic rishi's quote.
At this time, there began to

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arrive in my mind and
arrangement of symbolic names

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attached to certain
psychological experiences, which

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had begun to regularize
themselves.

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And among them there came the
figures of three female energies

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Ela, sorta sweaty seroma,
representing severally three,

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out of the four faculties of the
intuitive reason, Revelation

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inspiration, and intuition, when
Once the clue is found the clue

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of the physical light Imaging,
the subjective, it is easy to

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see that the Hound of Heaven,
maybe the intuition entering

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into the dark caverns of the
subconscious mind to prepare the

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The delivery and out flashing of
the bright illuminations of

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knowledge which have there been
imprisoned, these are the two

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essential characteristics of
saaremaa, the knowledge comes to

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her beforehand before Vision
Springs up instinctively at the

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least indication.
And with that knowledge, she

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guides the rest of the faculties
and divine powers that seek And

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she leads to that seat sudden
um, the home of the Destroyers,

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which is at the other pole of
existence to the seed of the

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truth.
Sudden amrutasya in the cave

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where secret place of Darkness,
gu Hai mm, just as the home of

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the Gods is in the cave or
secrecy of light.

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In other words, she is a powered
descended from the

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supercontinent truth which leads
us to the light that is hidden

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in ourselves in the
subcontinent.

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All these characteristics apply
exactly to the intuition and

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quote, three organ do writes,
quote intuition is a Power Of

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Consciousness nearer and more
intimate to the original

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knowledge by identity for it is
Always something that leaps out,

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direct from a concealed
identity.

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It is when the consciousness of
the subject meets with the

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Consciousness in the object
penetrates it and sees feels or

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vibrates with the truth of what
it contacts that the intuition

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leaps out like a spark or
lightning Flash from the shock

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of the meeting.
Or when the Consciousness, even

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without any such meeting looks
into itself and feels directly

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and intimately the truth or the
truths that are there or so

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contacts, the hidden forces
behind appearances.

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Then also, there is the outbreak
of an intuitive light or again

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when the Consciousness meets the
Supreme reality or the spiritual

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reality of things and Things and
has a contextual Union with it.

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Then the spark the flash or the
blaze of intimate truth,

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perception is lit and its depths
and quote reference SRI

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aurobindo, and the mother, our
many selves practical yogic

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psychology introduction SRI
aurobindo on our mini selves

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planes and parts of the beam
page.

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Has Roman 29 to 30.