Spiritual Realisations and Experiences

0:01 There's an interesting Tale in the Mahabharata. When the preceptor drona was teaching, the sons of dhritarashtra and pandu, the Royal princes of the Kingdom, the lesson of the day, which was not to become angry, he asked each of the printers. If they had learned the lesson and each one dutifully responded. Yes, not to become angry. Until he reached the eldest, the Crown Prince and heir to the throne yudhisthira who indicated that he had. Not learned the lesson the next day and that following the same lesson was repeated with the same responses. Dronacharya was not used to such stubbornness and in a fit of temper.

0:51 He struck yudhishthira this was in the rules that governed at that time, a capital offense. Yudhisthira responded. However, I now have learned the lesson instead of becoming angry with this affront. He internalized the lesson and recognized that he had the inner power and control to not become angry. When provoked, the importance of this tale is that a mental recognition of something is not actually the same as the realization of it in the being In the west, the well-known illustration is that one can read all the books about swimming, but until one gets in the water and Masters, the principles one has read about one does not know how to swim. Many who take up a spiritual discipline. Initially confuse mental conceptualization with realization.

1:51 They read a text or scripture that says that there is one universal World Consciousness or some other principle and because they can repeat the words, they believe they know something about it. Eventually as they mature in their practice and understanding, they understand that there is a vast difference between mental knowledge and spiritual realization. This comes about when they first begin to have experiences and eventually solid persistent realizations that are not mental constructs but arise from a holy other order of experience, And are known in a different manner than just. With the mind they may feel a Descent of a vast peace that Embraces and fills the being.

2:43 They may see and feel the Oneness and unity of all existence, they may in some instances have an out-of-body experience and traveled through what are known as astral planes. Or any number of other experiences, which do not fit the neat framework of their mental understanding. SRI aurobindo notes, quote. There are two classes of things that happen in yoga realizations and experiences. Realizations are the reception in the Consciousness and the establishment, they're of the fundamental truths of the Divine of the higher, or divine nature of the world Consciousness, and the play of its forces of One's Own Self and real nature.

3:31 And the inner nature of things, the power of these things growing in one till they are a part of one's inner. A life and existence. As for instance, the realization of the divine presence, the dissent and settling of the higher peace, light Force Ananda in the Consciousness, their workings, there, the realization of the Divine or spiritual love the perception of One's Own psychic. Be the discovery of One's Own True mental, being true, vital being true. Physical being the The overmind or the super mental Consciousness, the clear perception of the relation of all these things to our present inferior nature and their action on it, to change their lower nature. The list, of course, might be infinitely longer. These things also are often called experiences when they only come in flashes, snatches or rare visitations, they are spoken out as full realizations only when they become very positive or frequent or continuous or normal, Experiences and defense are very good for Preparation but change of Consciousness is the thing wanted? It is the proof that the experiences and descents have had an effect and quote

5:03 reference SRI aurobindo in the mother growing within the psychology of inner development. Chapter 7 growth of Consciousness inner experiences page 126. Yes. Yes.