A Podcast Featuring Sri Aurobindo Studies
Jan. 3, 2023

Opening to a New Consciousness Through the Revealed Word

Opening to a New Consciousness Through the Revealed Word
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/01/01/opening-to-a-new-consciousness-through-the-revealed-word/
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A seed in the plant kingdom
remains inert and non

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developing, until such time as
it is placed in the proper

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conditions and pressure from
outside in the form of heat or

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moisture primarily is exerted
upon it.

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A corollary process takes place
in the animal kingdom, of

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course.
Once the encoding contained

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within the seed is activated by
the external needs and assuming

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it is located in a suitable
environment for its development,

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including both ambient
conditions and suitable

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nourishment, the involved
pattern manifests and takes on

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its predetermined form.
The Awakening of a new deeper

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Consciousness, follows a similar
process.

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The fertile ground is the
prepared, human being receptive

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and ready to open up in new
ways.

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The word is, the vibration that
energizes the process and opens

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the Consciousness to new
insights patterns and forces SRI

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aurobindo notes.
Quote, the usual agency of this

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revealing is the word.
The thing heard through to--,

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The word may come to us from
within it may come to us from

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without.
But in either case, it is only

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an agency for setting, the
hidden knowledge to work.

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The word within maybe the
utterance of the inmost soul in

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us which is always open to the
divine.

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Or it may be the word of the
secret and Universal teacher,

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who is seated in the hearts of
all their rare cases in which

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none other is needed for all the
rest of the yoga is an unfolding

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under that constant touch and
guidance.

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The Lotus of the knowledge
discloses itself from within by

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the power of your radiating
effulgence, which proceeds from

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the dweller in the Lotus of the
heart.

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Great indeed.
But few are those to whom

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self-knowledge from within is
the sufficient and who do not

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need to pass under the dominant
influence of a written book or a

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living teacher and quote,
reference SRI aurobindo, and the

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mother growing within the
psychology of inner development.

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Chapter 3 growth of
Consciousness basic requisites

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pages 46 to 47.