Overcoming the Static, Self-Satisfied Rigidity of the Mental Consciousness Is a Precondition to Development of a New Mode of Being

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As long as we are Blinded By the
Light of the mental

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Consciousness, we fail to
recognize the greater

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Consciousness and power of the
spiritual consciousness.

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We look upon human existence as
static.

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The stories and myths held by
large numbers of people in the

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world place, the human being at
the top tier of Consciousness

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and we applaud human
achievements as the summit of

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what is possible.
While we recognize the ability

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to increase the power of the
mind, we fail to recognize that

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there are greater Powers yet to
be revealed that lie beyond the

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mind today.
Humanity is beginning to

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recognize the serious
limitations and failures

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inherent in the mental
Consciousness.

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We have an analytical
intelligence, which is most

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effective in classifying,
codifying and fragmenting.

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Things into compartments, the
creative ability to exceed, the

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mental limits and synthesize.
New directions is rare and

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frequently misunderstood, or
even blamed for upsetting the

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established order of things.
The mental Consciousness,

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through its limitations has led
us to a point where the entire

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survival of the human race is in
question, where everyone

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analyzes the problems and their
Solutions.

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Oceans differently and where we
achieve not progress in solving

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these issues, but a form of
fixed intransigence, or

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gridlock, through adherence, to
competing ideas.

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That each represent a partial
View and partial solution.

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It is also self-satisfied in its
rigidity and unwilling to

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recognize that human mental.
Consciousness is not the Apex of

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existence.
This view of things is static

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in.
What is in reality a dynamic

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reality.
If we observe the development of

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Consciousness through the lens
of time, we see that life

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evolved out of matter and that
mind has evolved out of life.

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We also can recognize that there
are individuals who have

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embodied new forms of
understanding, and awareness.

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As the mental Consciousness has
matured developed and reached

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its apex And we can even
recognize that more and more

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people are experiencing the
development of a new form of

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awareness, which we may call the
spiritual consciousness, this

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Consciousness focuses on the
unity of all existence, the

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pervasive nature of
Consciousness and works to show

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us how the fragmented view.
We accept in the mental realm,

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is really just a partial and
highly, specialized, Of

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Consciousness, not the Supreme
awareness that lies beyond the

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mind.
Interestingly, the rishi's of

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the rigveda had an understanding
of the various planes of

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Consciousness that lie both
below and above the mental

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development in the Life.
Divine SRI, aurobindo provides a

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translation of verses from
mandala tensor do 129 quote in

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the beginning.
Darkness was hidden by Darkness.

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All this was a notion of
incontinence.

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When Universal being was
concealed by fragmentation, then

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by the greatness of its energy,
that one was born that moved at

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first as desire within which was
the Primal seed of mind, this

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year's of Truth discovered the
building of being and non-being

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by Will in the heart.
And by the thought There re was

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extended horizontally.
But what was their below?

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What was their above?
Their work Afters of the seed.

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There were greatness has there
was self law below.

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There was Will above and quote.
The rishi's here, describe the

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development of the mental
Consciousness as a stage in the

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development, which extends its
view horizontally.

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They also point out that there
are stages both below and above

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the mental level instinct or
sell flaw lies in a level below,

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while will the power of
conscious intention manifested

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into form lies above The mother
writes quote, as long as the

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mind is convinced that it is the
summit of human consciousness

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that there is nothing Beyond and
above it.

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It takes its own functioning to
be a perfect one and is fully

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satisfied with the progress.
It can make within the limits of

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this functioning and with an
increase of clarity Precision

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complexity suppleness plasticity
in its movements.

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It always has a spontaneous
tendency to feel very satisfied

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with itself and with what it can
do, and if there were no greater

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force than its own a higher
power, which irrefutably shows

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it its own limitations, it's
poverty.

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It would never make any effort
to find its way out of all that

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by the right door Liberation
into a higher and truer mode of

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being and quote, reference SRI
aurobindo, and the mother

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growing within the psychology of
inner development.

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Chapter 2, Awakening of
Consciousness Pages, 28 to 29,