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April 1, 2023

The Advent of Inner Experiences and the Unpurified Vital Nature; or Be Careful What You Wish For, Because You May Get It!

The Advent of Inner Experiences and the Unpurified Vital Nature; or Be Careful What You Wish For, Because You May Get It!
The Advent of Inner Experiences and the Unpurified Vital Nature; or Be Careful What You Wish For, Because You May Get It!
Sri Aurobindo Studies
The Advent of Inner Experiences and the Unpurified Vital Nature; or Be Careful What You Wish For, Because You May Get It!
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The ego personality,
particularly the vital ego feeds

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upon feelings of being special,
having new and exciting

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experiences that are not part of
the ordinary external

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consciousness.
Spiritual Seekers are allured by

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Tales of meeting Spiritual
Beings on subtle planes

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traveling without the physical
body through astral planes.

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Obtaining guidance from Masters
who speak to one in one's own

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head.
We're being shown visions that

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make the secret.
Believe he is specially chosen

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for particular lines of action
or leadership.

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Thus spiritual Seekers will
frequently focus on the

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experiences.
Rather than the slower arduous

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and less exciting process of
transformation of human nature,

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the shift from the mental to the
spiritual standpoint.

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Does not happen in a strictly
orderly step-by-step

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progression.
The complexity of the human

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nature combined with the souls
preparation, and past lives, the

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challenges and difficulties of
the current lifetime.

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And the pressures of the Divine
manifestation as it evolves.

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The next stage of the evolution
of Consciousness, all together

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create a very flexible and
unforeseen, able set of

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circumstances for each
individual, in some cases,

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openings to what are called.
Spiritual experiences.

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Take place for individuals who
are not actively seeking the

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spiritual life.
Some of these so-called

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spiritual experiences are
actually openings to various

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vital planes, subtle, physical
Realms, or even mental planes of

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existence that have their own
laws of action, unbounded by the

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laws of nature we see in our
external lives.

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In this mixed World, thus, we
find the text books on

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psychology filled with case
studies of things, such as

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multiple personality disorder.
Or schizophrenia hearing of

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voices, hallucinations delusions
of grandeur, guidance, or

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pressure to carry out certain
actions, Etc, many of these

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cases are actually those of
individuals who have had a

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breakthrough to one of these
other planes frequently, vital

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planes of existence, without the
necessary, background training

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Insight, or Preparation to deal
with these things.

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Those who take up the spiritual
life are not immune to such

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things either.
By virtue of the fact that they

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are shifting their awareness
away from the external world and

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its activities.
And towards an interview, they

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may be more susceptible to such
experiences along the way and

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thus they require the needed
understanding When they first

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experience, the conscious Ness,
moving inwards and leaving the

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external Consciousness behind
they may experience fear of

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dying or they may have an
out-of-body experience or a

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near-death experience that
disorient them while.

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Not strictly spiritual
experiences, they occur along

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the way for many people.
True spiritual experiences,

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which Break Down The Walls of
separation between the seeker

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and the world, or which take one
into deep states of meditation,

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and Liberate the Seeker from the
external nature are potentially

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equally disorienting, for the
unprepared individuals.

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If people are not prepared, they
tend to react from the vital ego

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and either experienced fear or
uncertainty or else.

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Get a sense of self
aggrandizement.

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How many people have had a taste
of a new level of insight or

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conscious awareness and believed
they are the next great world

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teacher, or leader, The
Reincarnation of Jesus, or

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empowered to take charge of the
lives of others.

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And at the same time satisfy
their deepest desires This is

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the reason that serious
spiritual disciplines have

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called for an initial process of
purification, taking one form or

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another.
To ensure that when the

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experience is come, they do not
create psychological imbalances

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for the Seeker.
Or if they do, they are quickly

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able to be understood and
remedied.

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If your window, writes quote,
even before the tranquilizing

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purification of the outer Nature
has been affected or before it

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is sufficient.
When can still break down the

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wall, screening our inner being
from our outer awareness, by a

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strong force of call, and
aspiration of them and will or

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violent effort, or an effective
discipline or process.

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But this may be a premature
movement and is not without its

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serious dangers in entering
within one.

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May find oneself amidst a chaos
of unfamiliar and supernormal

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experiences to which one has not
the key or oppressive

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subliminal, or Cosmic forces
subcontinent, mental vital,

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subtle, physical, which may
unduly sway or chaotically,

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drive the being Circle it in a
cave of Darkness or keep it

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wandering in a Wilderness of
Glamour allurement, deception,

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or push it into an obscure
battlefield full of secret and

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treacherous and misleading, or
open and violent, opposition's

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beings and voices, and
influences, may appear to the

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inner sense and vision and
hearing claiming to be the

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Divine being or his Messengers
were powers and God, heads of

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the light or guides with.
The path to realization while in

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truth.
They are of a very different

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character. if there's too much
egoism in the nature of the

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Seeker or a strong passion, or
an excessive ambition vanity or

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other dominating weakness or in
obscurity of the mind, or a

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vacillating will, or a weakness
of the life force or an

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unsteadiness in it or want of
balance, he is likely to be

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seized on through these
deficiencies and to be

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frustrated, or to deviate
mislead from the true way of the

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A life and seeking into false
paths or to be left wondering

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about in an intermediate.
Chaos of experiences and failed

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to find his way out into the
true realization.

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These perils were well-known to
app a spiritual experience and

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have been met by imposing.
The necessity of initiation of

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discipline of methods of
purification and testing by

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ordeal of an higher submission
to the directions of the

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Pathfinder or path leader.
One who has realized the truth

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and himself possesses and is
able to communicate the light.

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The experience a guide who is
strong to take by the hand and

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carry over difficult passages as
well as to instruct and point

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out the way.
But even so, the dangers will be

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there, and can only be
surmounted if there is, or there

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grows up a complete sincerity, a
will for purity of Readiness for

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obedience to the truth for
surrender to the highest a

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Readiness to lose or to subject
to a Divine Yoke.

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The limiting and self-affirming
ego.

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These things are the sign that
the true will for realization

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for Version of the
Consciousness.

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For transformation.
Is there the necessary stage of

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the evolution has been reached
in that condition?

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The defects of nature, which
belonged to the human being

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cannot be a permanent obstacle
to the change from the mental,

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to the spiritual status.
The process may never be

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entirely easy.
But the way we'll have been made

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open and practicable and quote,
reference SRI aurobindo in the

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mother growing within the
psychology of inner development.

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Chapter 6 growth of
Consciousness difficulties and

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pitfalls Pages. 122 124.