Spiritual Realisation Through Concentration in the Heart Centre

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SRI aurobindo distinguishes
between a mental seeking and a

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living spiritual experience
while those who are

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intellectually minded
frequently, confused.

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Knowing with knowing there is
actually a clear distinction

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between the ability to read
here, memorize and repeat back a

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teaching, which occurs in the
mind.

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There is a famous proverb that
one can read all the books about

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swimming and know how to swim in
a lecture Ali.

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But that does not mean when will
actually be able to swim when

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thrown into the water, the story
from the Mahabharata illustrates

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this clearly, when the famous
teacher dronacharya was

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educating the princes of the
Kingdom, he one day stated that,

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the lesson of the day was not to
become angry.

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The first hundred and four
Prince's hundred Cordova's.

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And for of the pond of has said
they understood the lesson but

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the eldest, the Future King
Emperor, yudhisthira demurred

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and said he had not yet
understood This went on for

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several days until finally a
frustrated dronacharya struck

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yudhisthira.
Note that striking the Future

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King was considered to be
punished by Death.

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At that moment.
However, yudhisthira indicated

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he had now understood the lesson
for him.

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It was not just an intellectual
exercise, he needed the

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opportunity to put the lesson
into practice and make it a

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living spiritual experience
active in his being SRI

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aurobindo notes.
Quote, you have asked, what is

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the discipline to be followed in
order to convert the mental

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seeking into a Spiritual
experience.

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The first necessity is the
practice of concentration of

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your Consciousness within
yourself.

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The ordinary human mind has an
activity on the surface, which

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veils the real self.
But there is another the hidden

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Consciousness within behind the
surface one in which we can

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become aware of the real self
and of a larger deeper.

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Truth of nature, can realize the
self and Eight and transform the

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nature.
To quiet, the surface mind and

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begin to live within is the
object of this concentration.

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Of this true Consciousness.
Other than the superficial,

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there are two main centers one
in the heart.

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Not the physical heart, but the
cardiac center in the middle of

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the chest, one in the head, the
concentration in the heart opens

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within and by following this
inward opening and going deep,

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one becomes aware of the Soul or
psychic being the Divine element

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in the individual.
This being unveiled begins to

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come forward to govern the
nature, to turn it and all its

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movements towards the truth,
towards the Divine and to call

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down into it all.
That is above, it brings the

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consciousness of the presence,
the dedication of the, being to

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the highest and invites, The
Descent into our nature of a

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greater force and Consciousness,
which is waiting above us.

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To concentrate in the Heart
Center with the offering of

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oneself, to the Divine and the
aspiration for this inward

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opening.
And for the presence in the

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heart is the first way.
And if it can be done, the

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natural beginning for its
result, once obtained makes the

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spiritual path, far more easy
and safe.

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And if one begins the other way
and quote, reference SRI

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aurobindo, and the mother Living
within the yoga approach to

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psychological health and growth
exercises for growth and

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Mastery.
Awakening the inner

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Consciousness Pages 134 to 138.