Spiritual Experience Comes and Goes Until the Nature Becomes Ready for a Total Shift of Standpoint

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Most people who take up
spiritual practices, are deeply

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involved in some kind of regular
practice and as with everything

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else in the normal life, they
look for signs and signals that

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show they are making progress in
their chosen path of

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development.
And experience comes some new

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revelatory insight takes hold of
them and they rejoice in the

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obvious signs of progress.
Only these experiences and

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insights with their intensity
and authenticity, tend to recede

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fade and become a thing of
memory, rather than a living

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constant experience.
This can bring disappointment

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concern.
And even depression to the

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Seeker, this phenomenon is known
to spiritual and religious

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aspirants throughout history.
The famous Christian work of

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Pilgrim's Progress, describes
the difficulty, the Seeker

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experiences in the slough of
despond where seemingly, all the

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spiritual illumination has
disappeared and the individual

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is struggling with the pressures
of life and Human Nature.

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In actuality, it is important to
consider the complexity of the

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changes being sought, the
multiple layers of the human

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instrument and the need to
appreciate the time Dimension,

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SRI aurobindo describes a
process of assent and

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integration where the Seeker
opens up to a higher force or

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level of Consciousness is
touched by that.

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And then there is needed a
period of time to A simile, and

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adjust the rest of the nature to
the new seeing and way of acting

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until the nature is fully ready
to switch it standpoint.

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And basis entirely, it will
naturally modulate back and

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forth between the two states, an
integral transformation of the

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external being and nature
actually requires this kind of

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process-oriented cannot be any
cutting of the not of human

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nature.
To escape into some form of

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Nirvana or permanently Blissful
experience.

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While disregarding downplaying
or simply abandoning the

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external nature and the life and
the world, the mother writes

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quote, there is one phenomenon,
which obviously seems

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indispensable.
If one wants to realization to

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become stable experiences, come
touch the Consciousness.

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Sometimes bring Great
illuminations then get blurred

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Retreat into the background and
outwardly in your ordinary

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Consciousness.
You don't feel that there is a

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great change, a great difference
and this phenomenon may occur,

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very often may repeat itself for
many years, suddenly you get a

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sort of Revelation like an
illumination, you were in the

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true Consciousness and have the
feeling of having got hold of

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the real thing.
And then slowly or suddenly, it

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seems to recede behind you and
you seek, but do not find that

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there is any great change in
you.

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These things seem to come as
Harold's or as promises see, it

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will happen or to tell you,
well, have faith.

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It will be like that.
And this may recur, very often

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there is progress obviously, but
it is very slow and hardly a

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parent.
But then suddenly perhaps

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because when is sufficiently
prepared, perhaps simply because

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the time has come and it has
been.

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So decreed suddenly when such an
experience occurs, its result in

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the part of the being where it
takes place is a complete

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reversal of Consciousness.
It is a very clear, very

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concrete phenomenon, the best
way of describing it as this a

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complete reversal.
And then, the relation of the

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Consciousness, with the other
parts of the being and with the

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outer world is, as if complete
changed, absolutely, like an

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overturning and that reversal,
no longer comes back to the same

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old place, the Consciousness.
No longer returns to its former

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position.
SRI aurobindo would say status

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Once this has happened in any
part of the being this part of

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the being is stabilized.
And until that happens, it comes

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and goes comes and goes one
advances, and then has the

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impression of marking time.
And when advances again, and

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then marks time again, and
sometimes one feels as though,

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one were going backwards and it
is interminable and indeed, it

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is interminable it.
May last for years and years and

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years. but when this reversal of
Consciousness takes place

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whether in the mind or a part of
the Mind, whether in the vital

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or a part of the vital or even
in the physical Consciousness

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itself, And in the body
Consciousness.

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Once this is established, it is
over you.

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No longer go back, you don't do
not ever return to what you were

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before.
And this is the true indication

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that you have taken a step
forward to finit of lie.

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And before this, there are only
preparations and quote reference

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SRI aurobindo in the mother
growing within the G of inner

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development, chapter 9 reversal
of Consciousness.

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The new birth Pages 167 to 169.