Spiritual Realisations and Experiences

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There's an interesting Tale in
the Mahabharata.

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When the preceptor drona was
teaching, the sons of

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dhritarashtra and pandu, the
Royal princes of the Kingdom,

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the lesson of the day, which was
not to become angry, he asked

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each of the printers.
If they had learned the lesson

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and each one dutifully
responded.

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Yes, not to become angry.
Until he reached the eldest, the

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Crown Prince and heir to the
throne yudhisthira who indicated

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that he had.
Not learned the lesson the next

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day and that following the same
lesson was repeated with the

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same responses.
Dronacharya was not used to such

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stubbornness and in a fit of
temper.

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He struck yudhishthira this was
in the rules that governed at

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that time, a capital offense.
Yudhisthira responded.

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However, I now have learned the
lesson instead of becoming angry

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with this affront.
He internalized the lesson and

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recognized that he had the inner
power and control to not become

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angry.
When provoked, the importance of

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this tale is that a mental
recognition of something is not

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actually the same as the
realization of it in the being

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In the west, the well-known
illustration is that one can

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read all the books about
swimming, but until one gets in

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the water and Masters, the
principles one has read about

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one does not know how to swim.
Many who take up a spiritual

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discipline.
Initially confuse mental

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conceptualization with
realization.

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They read a text or scripture
that says that there is one

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universal World Consciousness or
some other principle and because

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they can repeat the words, they
believe they know something

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about it.
Eventually as they mature in

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their practice and
understanding, they understand

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that there is a vast difference
between mental knowledge and

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spiritual realization.
This comes about when they first

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begin to have experiences and
eventually solid persistent

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realizations that are not mental
constructs but arise from a holy

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other order of experience, And
are known in a different manner

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than just.
With the mind they may feel a

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Descent of a vast peace that
Embraces and fills the being.

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They may see and feel the
Oneness and unity of all

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existence, they may in some
instances have an out-of-body

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experience and traveled through
what are known as astral planes.

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Or any number of other
experiences, which do not fit

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the neat framework of their
mental understanding.

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SRI aurobindo notes, quote.
There are two classes of things

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that happen in yoga realizations
and experiences.

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Realizations are the reception
in the Consciousness and the

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establishment, they're of the
fundamental truths of the Divine

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of the higher, or divine nature
of the world Consciousness, and

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the play of its forces of One's
Own Self and real nature.

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And the inner nature of things,
the power of these things

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growing in one till they are a
part of one's inner.

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A life and existence.
As for instance, the realization

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of the divine presence, the
dissent and settling of the

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higher peace, light Force Ananda
in the Consciousness, their

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workings, there, the realization
of the Divine or spiritual love

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the perception of One's Own
psychic.

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Be the discovery of One's Own
True mental, being true, vital

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being true.
Physical being the The overmind

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or the super mental
Consciousness, the clear

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perception of the relation of
all these things to our present

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inferior nature and their action
on it, to change their lower

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nature.
The list, of course, might be

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infinitely longer.
These things also are often

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called experiences when they
only come in flashes, snatches

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or rare visitations, they are
spoken out as full realizations

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only when they become very
positive or frequent or

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continuous or normal,
Experiences and defense are very

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good for Preparation but change
of Consciousness is the thing

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wanted?
It is the proof that the

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experiences and descents have
had an effect and quote

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reference SRI aurobindo in the
mother growing within the

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psychology of inner development.
Chapter 7 growth of

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Consciousness inner experiences
page 126.

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Yes.
Yes.