Preparation for the Definitive Shift of the Consciousness to a New Standpoint
This episode also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/05/24/preparation-for-the-definitive-shift-of-the-consciousness-to-a-new-standpoint/
Reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Growing Within: The Psychology of Inner Development, Chapter IX Reversal of Consciousness: The New Birth, pp. 173-174
0:01 when a speaker has an unusual experience when the Consciousness shifts to a different standpoint, When new forms of understanding inspiration and response suddenly arise there can be a feeling of intense disorientation concern, fear or anxiety. What is happening to me? Given the predominant mindset of the modern world. There may be concern about whether one is having some kind of psychological breakdown, an outbreak of Madness of some sort, family and friends, May observe when acting in a new and strange way and may even suggest psychological help or counseling Needless to say there are substantial adjustments necessary.
0:55 The mother in advance provides a context for understanding to the spiritual aspirant. So that when eventually the shift of Consciousness occurs either temporarily, as an experience or definitively as a positive realization, that is embedded in the being The individual will have enough assurances and information to understand that this is actually the normal process when a reversal of Consciousness takes place. And rather than being a source of anxiety or fear the experience, or realization should be embraced as the Seeker becomes acclimatized to the change or shift of Consciousness.
1:42 He is able to build up his interface with the external World from a new Viewpoint and is able to make necessary adjustments. The mother notes quote. You see what may have to wait for days months years? Centuries lives before this moment comes. But if one intensifies, his aspiration, there is a moment when the pressure is so great and the intensity of the question. So strong, that something turns over in the consciousness. And then this is absolutely what one feels instead of being here. When is there instead of seeing from outside and seeking to see within when is inside, and the minute one is within absolutely everything changes completely and all that seemed to him, true natural, normal real tangible.
2:53 All that immediately. Yes, it seems to him very grotesque, very queer, very unreal, quite absurd, but one is touch something. Which is supremely true and eternally, beautiful. And this one never loses again. Once the reversal is taken place, you can glide into an external Consciousness, not lose the ordinary contact with the things of life, but that remains and it never moves. You may and your dealings with others fall back a little into their ignorance and blindness. But there is always something there. Living standing up within which does not move anymore, until it manages to penetrate everything to the point where it is over, where the blindness disappears forever. And this is an absolutely tangible experience. Something more concrete than the most concrete object, more concrete than a blow on your head, something more real than anything, whatever.
4:15 In quote, reference SRI aurobindo and the mother growing within the psychology of inner development, chapter 9 reversal of Consciousness. The new birth Pages 173 2174
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