Recognizing and Understanding Spiritual Experiences

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When we live primarily on the
external surface of our being

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anchored, to the physical world,
the vital energy, and mental

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status of living in the world.
We try to judge everything that

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occurs within us by the
standards of what we expect and

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understand from our outward
existence experience and

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education.
We tend to put a primary focus

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on things that are palpable.
Oh, that appear to our outer

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senses as real and substantial
and that our mind can grasp in

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its ordinary way of seeing
things. naturally as spiritual

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experiences arise from an
entirely different order of our

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reality and are based in a
different View and understanding

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of the nature of reality, we
find a mismatch between what our

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external being seized and what
may actually be taking place in

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the depths of our being Unless
we can suspend judgement by the

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outer mind.
We tend to either dismiss or

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undervalue the spiritual
experience and thus may very

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well be making progress, but
fail to recognize it as such the

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essential Point here is that the
Mind cannot judge things that

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are Beyond its frame of
reference and must learn to

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know.
And grasp, the spiritual

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experience with a Achoo Outlook
vision and standpoint SRI

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aurobindo observes quote, you
speak of your experiences as

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vague and dreamlike in the first
place.

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The scorn of small experiences
in the inner life is no part of

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wisdom reason or common sense.
It is in the beginning of the

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sadhna and for a long time the
small experiences that come on

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each other and if given their
full value.

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Prepare the field build up a
preparatory Consciousness and

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one day break, open the walls to
Big experiences but if you

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despise them with the ambitious
idea, that you must have either

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the big experiences or nothing,
it is not surprising that they

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come once in a blue moon and
cannot do their work.

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Moreover, all your experiences
were not small.

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There were some like The
stilling Descent of a power, and

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the body, what you used to call
numbness, which anyone with

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spiritual knowledge would have
recognized as a first strong

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step towards the opening of the
Consciousness, to the higher,

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peace and light.
But it was not in the line of

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your expectations and you gave
it, no special value.

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As for vague and dream like you
feel it?

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So because you are looking at
them and at everything that

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happens in you from the
standpoint of the outward,

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physical mind and intellect,
which can take only physical

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things, as real, and important,
and Vivid and to it inward

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phenomena are something unreal,
vague and truthless The

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spiritual experience does not
even despise dreams and Visions.

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It is known to it that many of
these things are not dreams at

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all, but experiences on an inner
plane and if the experiences of

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the inner planes which lead to
the opening of the inner self

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into the outer.
So as to influence and change,

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it are not accepted the
experiences of the subtle

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Consciousness and the trance
consciousness. how is the

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weekend Consciousness to expand
out of the narrow prison of the

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body and body mind and the
senses For to the physical mind,

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Untouched by the inner awakened
Consciousness, even the

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experience of the cosmic
Consciousness, or the Eternal

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self, might very well seem
merely subjective and

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unconvincing.
It would think curious, no

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doubt, rather interesting, but
very subjective.

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Don't you think hallucinations?
Yes.

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The first business of the
spiritual secrets to get away

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from the outward mines Outlook
and to look at inward Phenomenon

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with an inward mind to which
they soon become powerful and

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stimulating realities.
If one does that, then one

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begins to see that there is here
a wide field of Truth and

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knowledge in which one can move
from Discovery to Discovery to

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reach the Supreme discovery of
all. and quote, reference SRI

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aurobindo on the mother growing
within the psychology of inner

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development, chapter 7, growth
of Consciousness, inner

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experiences Pages, 132 to 133,