A Podcast Featuring Sri Aurobindo Studies
May 23, 2023

Spiritual Experiences Manifest When They Are Ready and When the Seeker Can Perceive Them

Spiritual Experiences Manifest When They Are Ready and When the Seeker Can Perceive Them
Spiritual Experiences Manifest When They Are Ready and When the Seeker Can Perceive Them
Sri Aurobindo Studies
Spiritual Experiences Manifest When They Are Ready and When the Seeker Can Perceive Them

reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Growing Within: The Psychology of Inner Development, Chapter IX Reversal of Consciousness: The New Birth, pp. 170-171


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0:02 Our ability to perceive is limited by the scale within which we are able to perceive as well as the operation of the all-or-nothing phenomenon. Thus events are occurring activities are underway at wavelength below. Those, we can perceive and above those, we can perceive at some point the impact of those events that occur outside our frame. May have consequences within our frame, but until that occurs, we remain blissfully ignorant of the changes that are in preparation. Similarly, our sense organs have a threshold of perception, the eyes will perceive only Darkness until a sufficient. Number of photons are firing to exceed. The minimum Threshold at which point we suddenly perceive the existence of light, scientific instruments can measure the existence of photons firing even when we cannot perceive them. Thus helping us understand this principle. This principle operates with respect to spiritual experiences, which elude us until such time, as they are ready to manifest and can exceed the minimum limits of perception.

1:28 We also tend to live in a three-dimensional world and do not perceive the process of change as our existence passes from past into the present and then moves into the future. When we begin to see the process of time, what scientists call the fourth dimension, the entire picture changes as we are no longer limited to the snapshot that stands right before us but can see the movement of time. I'm itself and the changes that occur. Intellectually. We can appreciate the changes of the seasons. The changes within a single day, the aging process.

2:10 But nevertheless, we remain fixated on a very limited present set of circumstances. We cannot actually utilize this intellectual knowledge for our experience of life until such time as the standpoint can shift to the Divine standpoint. And the three times are incorporated as an integral part of our experience, beyond the fourth dimension. There are also further Dimensions. Scientists are now for instance, beginning to discover Quantum phenomena that seem to not be subject to the universal laws and limitations that we have created as a rule book for our universe. They are now beginning therefore to entertain the concept that a Fifth Dimension, that of Consciousness is operative and thus, our understanding of existence now can move in five Dimensions.

3:11 This is not to say that this is the limit of the number of possible Dimensions, but certainly for Humanity, which lives primarily in a three-dimensional world. This represents a major breakthrough. Or as the mother indicates a reversal of consciousness. The mother notes quote, this change of Consciousness and its preparation' have often been compared with the formation of the chicken in the egg. Till the very last second the egg Remains the Same. There is no change and it is only. When the chicken is completely formed, absolutely alive. That it itself makes with a little beak, a hole in the shell and comes out something similar takes Place at the moment of the change of Consciousness, for a long time, you have the impression that nothing is happening, that your Consciousness is the same as usual. And if you have an intense aspiration, you even feel a resistance as though, you were knocking against a wall, which does not yield.

4:23 But when you are ready within a last effort, the pecking and the shell of the being and everything opens and you are projected into another Consciousness. I said that it was a revolution of the basic equilibrium. That is a total reversal of Consciousness comparable with what happens to light when it passes through a prism or it is as though you were turning a ball inside out. Out which cannot be done. Except in the fourth dimension, one comes out of the ordinary three dimensional Consciousness to enter the higher four, dimensional Consciousness, and into an infinite number of Dimensions.

5:08 This is the indispensable starting point, unless your Consciousness changes its Dimension, it will remain. Just what it is with the superficial vision of things. And all the profundities will escape you in quote reference SRI, aurobindo in the mother growing within the psychology of inner development. Chapter 9 reversal of Consciousness. The new birth Pages 172 171