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Dec. 15, 2022

The Beginning of Liberation from the Limitations of the Mental Consciousness

The Beginning of Liberation from the Limitations of the Mental Consciousness
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2022/12/13/the-beginning-of-liberation-from-the-limitations-of-the-mental-consciousness/
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As long as the mental
Consciousness remains insulated

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within its own range of
awareness, it believes it has a

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power of knowledge and action
that can be made practically

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infallible, even when its
shortcomings are made patently,

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obvious it believes that an
improvement in its processes or

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the input of new facts available
to it now, or in the future will

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lead to the desired result.
All it does is believes itself

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to be self-sufficient and thus
is self-satisfied.

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It has not caused to look
outside of its own functionality

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to resolve any pending concerns.
There are several ways that this

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walled Fortress of the mental,
Consciousness can be breached

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and a path of growth and
Consciousness affected.

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One of these ways is a more or
less complete breakdown of the

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mental arrogance through
overwhelming pressure, the chose

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it simply is unable to find an
Implement, any meaningful

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Solutions.
We appear to be reaching such a

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Tipping Point today in the world
as we Face existential problems

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and End up unable to act because
different people see, various

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aspects and differing ways of
addressing the problems and all

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are unwilling, or unable to see
things in a more comprehensive

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manner, that would address the
different views and provide real

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solutions.
Another way is for the

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individual to actually
experience a new Consciousness,

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which takes him out of the
mental framework and shows a way

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for solution to the intractable
issues faced at the mental

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level.
The spiritual consciousness is

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itself so clear and self-evident
that it makes the mental

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Consciousness, understand the
incontrovertible truth.

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If it is confronted with when
the experience occurs, The

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mother observes quote.
When the spiritual force is able

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to act when it begins to have an
influence, it jolts the Mind

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self satisfaction.
And by continuous pressure,

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begins to make it feel that
Beyond it.

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There is something higher and
truer, then a little of its

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characteristic.
Vanity gives way under this

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influenced.
And as soon as it realizes that

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it is limited ignorant incapable
of reaching the true truth.

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Liberation begins with the
possibility of opening to

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something Beyond.
But it must feel the power, the

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beauty, the force of this
Beyond, to be able to surrender,

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it must be able to perceive its
in capacity and its limitations

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in the presence of something
higher than itself.

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Otherwise, how could it ever
feel its own weakness?

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Sometimes one single contact is
enough.

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Something that makes a little
rent in that self-satisfaction.

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Then the yearning to go beyond
the need for a pure light

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awakened.
And with this, Awakening comes

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the aspiration to win them.
And with the aspiration

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Liberation begins and one day.
Breaking all limits one blossoms

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in the infinite light.
If there were not, this constant

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pressure simultaneously from
within, and without from above,

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and from the profoundest, depths
nothing would ever change.

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Even with that, how much time is
required for things to change,

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what obstinate, resistance in
this lower nature, what blind

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and stupid attachment to the
animal waves of the being what a

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refusal to liberate oneself.
When you open to the spirit

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within you, it brings you a
first for taste of that higher

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life which alone is worth
living.

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Then comes the will to rise to
that the hope of reaching it.

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The certitude that this is
possible and finally, the

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strength to make the necessary
effort and the resolution to go

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to the very end for one must
wake up.

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Then one can conquer and quote
reference SRI aurobindo and the

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mother growing within the
psychology of inner development.

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Chapter 2, Awakening of
Consciousness Pages, 29 to 30

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Then one can conquer and quote
reference SRI aurobindo and the

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mother growing within the
psychology of inner development.

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Chapter 2, Awakening of
Consciousness Pages, 29 to 30