One Should Be Greater Than One’s Experience

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Whenever an individual has any
kind of powerful emotion or

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experience.
He tends to lose himself in that

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experience, he becomes angry or
lustful or ecstatic or joyful

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and the feeling takes over his
entire being.

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And for a time he is that Force
the same thing can and does tend

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to happen with spiritual
experiences or particularly

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those that are intense and which
demand attention when they occur

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The Experience fills the body
life, mind of the external being

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as the spiritual Seeker
cultivates, the growth of

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Consciousness, beyond the limits
of the body life, mine complex.

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However, he becomes aware of a
separation between the true

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inner, being the psychic being
or Soul nature and the external

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being Or else he finds that he
takes a separate standpoint as a

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witness of the nature either
way, he is able to observe the

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action without losing himself
entirely in the experience.

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It is through this shift of
standpoint that when also

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realizes that there are always
further Heights to scale,

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greater experiences and larger
opportunities as the

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Consciousness continues to grow
and evolve.

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It is also helpful if the secret
is able to hold this separation

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of awareness so that he does not
become imbalanced and lose all

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sense of proportion and the
varying needs that are Rise to

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interact with the world and deal
with time place and

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circumstances in a realistic and
practical way, something that

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may not occur.
If the Seeker becomes too

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attached to a particular
experience and what he believes

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it signifies for instance, there
are individuals who experience

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the Oneness of all existence and
therefore say, I am God.

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As long as they recognize that
everyone else and each event and

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circumstances.
Also God They can find a way to

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maintain balance.
However, if they fail to

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maintain that balanced view,
they may put themselves or

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others In Harm's Way or
otherwise, do things, which are

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not in keeping with the harmony
in their surroundings.

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The mother comments on the
statement.

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Quote, one must always be
greater than one's experience

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and quote.
The mother, observes quote,

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whatever, maybe the nature, the
strength and wonder of an

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experience.
You must not be dominated by it

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to such an extent that it
governs, your entire being and

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you lose your balance and your
contact with a reasonable and

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calm.
Attitude.

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That is to say when you enter in
some way into contact with the

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force or Consciousness, which
surpasses yours instead of Being

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entirely dominated by this
Consciousness or force.

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You must always be able to
remind yourself that.

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It is only one experience among
thousands and thousands of

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others and that consequently its
nature is not absolute.

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It is relative, no matter how
beautiful it, maybe you can and

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ought to have better ones.
However, exceptional it, maybe

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there are Other still more
marvelous and however, High it

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may be, you can always rise
still higher in future.

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So instead of losing one's head,
one place is the experience in

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the chain of development and
keeps a healthy physical

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balance.
So as not to lose the sense or

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relativity with ordinary life in
this way, there is no risk.

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The means one, who knows how to
do this, will always find it

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very easy but for one who
doesn't know it is perhaps a

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little a little trouble.
So there is a means, it is never

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to lose the idea of the total
self-giving to the grace, which

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is the expression of the
Supreme, when when gives

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oneself, when one surrenders,
and Trust oneself entirely to

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that, which is Above beyond all
creation.

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And when instead of seeking any
personal Advantage from the

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experience when makes an
offering of it to the divine

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grace and knows that it is from
this, that the experience comes

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and that is it is to this, that
the result of the experience

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must be given back.
Then one is quite safe.

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In other words?
No ambition no vanity.

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No pride of sincere self giving
a sincere humility and one is

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sheltered from all Danger.
There you are.

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This is what I call being
greater than one's experience.

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In quote, reference SRI
aurobindo and the mother growing

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within the psychology of inner
development.

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Chapter 7, growth of
Consciousness, inner experiences

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