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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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Our ability to perceive is
limited by the scale within

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which we are able to perceive as
well as the operation of the

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all-or-nothing phenomenon.
Thus events are occurring

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activities are underway at
wavelength below.

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Those, we can perceive and above
those, we can perceive at some

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point the impact of those events
that occur outside our frame.

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May have consequences within our
frame, but until that occurs, we

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remain blissfully ignorant of
the changes that are in

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preparation.
Similarly, our sense organs have

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a threshold of perception, the
eyes will perceive only Darkness

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until a sufficient.
Number of photons are firing to

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exceed.
The minimum Threshold at which

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point we suddenly perceive the
existence of light, scientific

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instruments can measure the
existence of photons firing even

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when we cannot perceive them.
Thus helping us understand this

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principle.
This principle operates with

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respect to spiritual
experiences, which elude us

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until such time, as they are
ready to manifest and can exceed

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the minimum limits of
perception.

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We also tend to live in a
three-dimensional world and do

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not perceive the process of
change as our existence passes

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from past into the present and
then moves into the future.

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When we begin to see the process
of time, what scientists call

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the fourth dimension, the entire
picture changes as we are no

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longer limited to the snapshot
that stands right before us but

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can see the movement of time.
I'm itself and the changes that

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occur.
Intellectually.

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We can appreciate the changes of
the seasons.

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The changes within a single day,
the aging process.

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But nevertheless, we remain
fixated on a very limited

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present set of circumstances.
We cannot actually utilize this

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intellectual knowledge for our
experience of life until such

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time as the standpoint can shift
to the Divine standpoint.

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And the three times are
incorporated as an integral part

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of our experience, beyond the
fourth dimension.

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There are also further
Dimensions.

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Scientists are now for instance,
beginning to discover Quantum

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phenomena that seem to not be
subject to the universal laws

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and limitations that we have
created as a rule book for our

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universe.
They are now beginning therefore

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to entertain the concept that a
Fifth Dimension, that of

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Consciousness is operative and
thus, our understanding of

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existence now can move in five
Dimensions.

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This is not to say that this is
the limit of the number of

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possible Dimensions, but
certainly for Humanity, which

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lives primarily in a
three-dimensional world.

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This represents a major
breakthrough.

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Or as the mother indicates a
reversal of consciousness.

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The mother notes quote, this
change of Consciousness and its

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preparation' have often been
compared with the formation of

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the chicken in the egg.
Till the very last second the

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egg Remains the Same.
There is no change and it is

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only.
When the chicken is completely

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formed, absolutely alive.
That it itself makes with a

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little beak, a hole in the shell
and comes out something similar

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takes Place at the moment of the
change of Consciousness, for a

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long time, you have the
impression that nothing is

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happening, that your
Consciousness is the same as

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usual.
And if you have an intense

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aspiration, you even feel a
resistance as though, you were

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knocking against a wall, which
does not yield.

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But when you are ready within a
last effort, the pecking and the

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shell of the being and
everything opens and you are

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projected into another
Consciousness.

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I said that it was a revolution
of the basic equilibrium.

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That is a total reversal of
Consciousness comparable with

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what happens to light when it
passes through a prism or it is

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as though you were turning a
ball inside out.

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Out which cannot be done.
Except in the fourth dimension,

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one comes out of the ordinary
three dimensional Consciousness

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to enter the higher four,
dimensional Consciousness, and

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into an infinite number of
Dimensions.

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This is the indispensable
starting point, unless your

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Consciousness changes its
Dimension, it will remain.

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Just what it is with the
superficial vision of things.

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And all the profundities will
escape you in quote reference

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SRI, aurobindo in the mother
growing within the psychology of

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inner development.
Chapter 9 reversal of

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Consciousness.
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