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June 22, 2023

Sachchidananda (Existence-Consciousness-Bliss)

Sachchidananda (Existence-Consciousness-Bliss)

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Our Many Selves: Practical Yogic Psychology, Introduction, Sri Aurobindo on Our Many Selves, Planes and Parts of the Being, pg. xxxii This episode is also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/06/20/sachchidananda-existence-consciousness-bliss/


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In our mental view of the world.
We see everything separated and

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fragmented and we identify
separate objects beings and

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forces.
As interacting with one another

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We can intellectually conceive
of the concept that all these

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separate.
Entities, and forces are part of

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a coordinated and combined
universe that contains and

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supports them all yet.
In our daily day-to-day view, we

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see an act upon the differences
and not the Oneness.

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That is implied.
We also fail to see the larger

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motive Springs of the universal
manifestation.

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Oh, and tend to fixate on The
Limited objectives place before

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our own separate identity.
As we begin to understand the

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larger reality as something to
be sought after in order to

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attain true knowledge and
Achieve Oneness with that larger

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reality, we tend to create in
our minds and hearts the sense

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of a duality, the illusion of
the life in the world and its

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focus on the multiplicity and
the fragmentation versus the

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reality of the undifferentiated.
Oneness, that stands behind it

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all.
Then the seeking generally turns

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towards abandonment of the life
in the world, to focus on

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achieving, the experience and
realization of that unity and

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Oneness.
The Oneness is represented as

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the highest plane of
Consciousness.

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The core level that includes
pure existence total

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Consciousness and absolute
Bliss, set.

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G Ananda In the Life Divine SRI
aurobindo describes an

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omnipresent reality for your
window.

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Makes it clear that the attempt
to divide existence into real

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and illusion itself creates an
artificial Division.

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And that the universal
manifestation of such eat Ananda

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encompasses, both the continent
and the contained, the infinite,

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and the finite, the transitory,
and the A permanent and thus, it

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is both possible and necessary
eventually to be able to realize

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the ultimate truth of such eat
Ananda in all existence in all

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actions in all experience.
SRI aurobindo observes quote.

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It such eat Ananda is one
Eternal existence that we then

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are one Eternal Consciousness
which sees its own Works in us

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and others.
One Eternal will or force of

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that Consciousness which
displays itself in infinite

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workings one Eternal Delight,
which has the joy of itself and

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all its workings.
It's Shelf-stable immutable

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Timeless spaceless Supreme and
itself.

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Still in the Infinity of its
workings not changed by their

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variations.
Not broken up by their

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multiplicity, not increased or
diminished by their ebbing and

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flowing Xin.
The Seas of time and space not

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confused by their apparent.
Contrary deities.

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Were limited by their divinely
willed limitations.

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Such eat Ananda is the unity of
the many sidedness of manifested

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things.
The Eternal Harmony of all their

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variations and opposition's the
infinite Perfection which

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justifies their limitations and
is the goal of their

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imperfections, in quote
reference SRI aurobindo and the

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mother, our many selves
practical yogic psychology.

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Introduction.
SRI aurobindo on our many selves

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planes and parts of the being
paid, Roman 32.