Recognizing and Understanding Spiritual Experiences

0:01 When we live primarily on the external surface of our being anchored, to the physical world, the vital energy, and mental status of living in the world. We try to judge everything that occurs within us by the standards of what we expect and understand from our outward existence experience and education. We tend to put a primary focus on things that are palpable. Oh, that appear to our outer senses as real and substantial and that our mind can grasp in its ordinary way of seeing things. naturally as spiritual experiences arise from an entirely different order of our reality and are based in a different View and understanding of the nature of reality, we find a mismatch between what our external being seized and what may actually be taking place in the depths of our being Unless we can suspend judgement by the outer mind. We tend to either dismiss or undervalue the spiritual experience and thus may very well be making progress, but fail to recognize it as such the essential Point here is that the Mind cannot judge things that are Beyond its frame of reference and must learn to know. And grasp, the spiritual

1:32 experience with a Achoo Outlook vision and standpoint SRI aurobindo observes quote, you speak of your experiences as vague and dreamlike in the first place. The scorn of small experiences in the inner life is no part of wisdom reason or common sense. It is in the beginning of the sadhna and for a long time the small experiences that come on each other and if given their full value. Prepare the field build up a preparatory Consciousness and one day break, open the walls to Big experiences but if you despise them with the ambitious idea, that you must have either the big experiences or nothing, it is not surprising that they come once in a blue moon and cannot do their work.

2:29 Moreover, all your experiences were not small. There were some like The stilling Descent of a power, and the body, what you used to call numbness, which anyone with spiritual knowledge would have recognized as a first strong step towards the opening of the Consciousness, to the higher, peace and light. But it was not in the line of your expectations and you gave it, no special value. As for vague and dream like you feel it? So because you are looking at them and at everything that happens in you from the standpoint of the outward, physical mind and intellect, which can take only physical things, as real, and important, and Vivid and to it inward phenomena are something unreal, vague and truthless The spiritual experience does not even despise dreams and Visions.

3:27 It is known to it that many of these things are not dreams at all, but experiences on an inner plane and if the experiences of the inner planes which lead to the opening of the inner self into the outer. So as to influence and change, it are not accepted the experiences of the subtle Consciousness and the trance consciousness. how is the weekend Consciousness to expand out of the narrow prison of the body and body mind and the senses For to the physical mind, Untouched by the inner awakened Consciousness, even the experience of the cosmic Consciousness, or the Eternal self, might very well seem merely subjective and unconvincing. It would think curious, no doubt, rather interesting, but very subjective.

4:22 Don't you think hallucinations? Yes. The first business of the spiritual secrets to get away from the outward mines Outlook and to look at inward Phenomenon with an inward mind to which they soon become powerful and stimulating realities. If one does that, then one begins to see that there is here a wide field of Truth and knowledge in which one can move from Discovery to Discovery to reach the Supreme discovery of all. and quote, reference SRI aurobindo on the mother growing within the psychology of inner development, chapter 7, growth of Consciousness, inner experiences Pages, 132 to 133,