One Should Be Greater Than One’s Experience

0:01 Whenever an individual has any kind of powerful emotion or experience. He tends to lose himself in that experience, he becomes angry or lustful or ecstatic or joyful and the feeling takes over his entire being. And for a time he is that Force the same thing can and does tend to happen with spiritual experiences or particularly those that are intense and which demand attention when they occur The Experience fills the body life, mind of the external being as the spiritual Seeker cultivates, the growth of Consciousness, beyond the limits of the body life, mine complex.

0:50 However, he becomes aware of a separation between the true inner, being the psychic being or Soul nature and the external being Or else he finds that he takes a separate standpoint as a witness of the nature either way, he is able to observe the action without losing himself entirely in the experience. It is through this shift of standpoint that when also realizes that there are always further Heights to scale, greater experiences and larger opportunities as the Consciousness continues to grow and evolve.

1:32 It is also helpful if the secret is able to hold this separation of awareness so that he does not become imbalanced and lose all sense of proportion and the varying needs that are Rise to interact with the world and deal with time place and circumstances in a realistic and practical way, something that may not occur. If the Seeker becomes too attached to a particular experience and what he believes it signifies for instance, there are individuals who experience the Oneness of all existence and therefore say, I am God.

2:15 As long as they recognize that everyone else and each event and circumstances. Also God They can find a way to maintain balance. However, if they fail to maintain that balanced view, they may put themselves or others In Harm's Way or otherwise, do things, which are not in keeping with the harmony in their surroundings. The mother comments on the statement. Quote, one must always be greater than one's experience and quote. The mother, observes quote, whatever, maybe the nature, the strength and wonder of an experience. You must not be dominated by it to such an extent that it governs, your entire being and you lose your balance and your contact with a reasonable and calm. Attitude.

3:12 That is to say when you enter in some way into contact with the force or Consciousness, which surpasses yours instead of Being entirely dominated by this Consciousness or force. You must always be able to remind yourself that. It is only one experience among thousands and thousands of others and that consequently its nature is not absolute. It is relative, no matter how beautiful it, maybe you can and ought to have better ones. However, exceptional it, maybe there are Other still more marvelous and however, High it may be, you can always rise still higher in future.

4:02 So instead of losing one's head, one place is the experience in the chain of development and keeps a healthy physical balance. So as not to lose the sense or relativity with ordinary life in this way, there is no risk. The means one, who knows how to do this, will always find it very easy but for one who doesn't know it is perhaps a little a little trouble. So there is a means, it is never to lose the idea of the total self-giving to the grace, which is the expression of the Supreme, when when gives oneself, when one surrenders, and Trust oneself entirely to that, which is Above beyond all creation.

4:54 And when instead of seeking any personal Advantage from the experience when makes an offering of it to the divine grace and knows that it is from this, that the experience comes and that is it is to this, that the result of the experience must be given back. Then one is quite safe. In other words? No ambition no vanity. No pride of sincere self giving a sincere humility and one is sheltered from all Danger. There you are.

5:35 This is what I call being greater than one's experience. In quote, reference SRI aurobindo and the mother growing within the psychology of inner development. Chapter 7, growth of Consciousness, inner experiences Pages, 143 to 144