The Breakthrough to the Reversal of Consciousness
reference: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, Growing Within: The Psychology of Inner Development, Chapter IX Reversal of Consciousness: The New Birth, pp. 172-173
Also available as a blog post at https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/05/23/the-breakthrough-to-the-reversal-of-consciousness/
0:02 SRI Ramana maharshi to point the secret towards the truth of his existence asked, who am I With persistent inquiry, the individual soon finds that this external personality ego self that we normally treat as who we are, is in reality, a front, a shell, an illusion. And that the truth of our existence lies deep within held his knowledge, within the sole, and only released into the Forefront of our consciousness. When the being is ready, the Readiness may be prepared over many lifetimes. And at the right moment, the realization occurs as if by a miracle.
0:53 The realization involves a shift of the Consciousness away from the ego personality, to the Divine consciousness. The individuality is recognized as a Nexus of energy one, among an infinite number of such nodes, and simply a tool to be utilized for Action, from that particular View and location in time, space and Circumstance, without recognizing it. We experience from time to time modest shifts of standpoint which represent in their own limited way, A reversal of Consciousness. For instance, a person goes to work in a company and works in a particular Department.
1:39 Imbibing, the process methods and focus of that department. The department works to optimize its results in order to achieve the objective set before it. The person then may work for another department and go through a similar process of acculturation. In that department, he may eyes that some processes in the first Department, may actually interfere with the actions of the second department, but he is involved in his own work and the result of his own department so he can disregard this at some point. He obtains a position in management and now gets to oversee and view, not just one department or another, but the entire functioning of the company's apparatus and departments Initially, he may remain in his Department Centric view, but eventually a day comes, when he can actually see the entire workings of the company as a coordinated integrated process across all departments.
2:48 And he sees how the Departments are actually interfering with one another, and with modest adjustments and interfaces. Everything could operate much more smoothly efficiently. Italy and effectively for the overall goal, he has experienced a shift in standpoint from employee to manager at this point. Similarly, many people report, a near-death experience that involves an out-of-body experience, they report sitting up at the ceiling of a room or along a wall and observing the medical workers trying to revive their own body. They can then recognize that they are not the body, but some other Consciousness that inhabits and uses the body, they bring this new awareness back with them when they are revived. Well, these experiences may not lead to the type of permanent shift or even to the full shift to the Divine Consciousness. They help the individual to understand the radical change of viewpoint that occurs when such a shift occurs. A disciple.
4:04 Inquires, is it possible to change this at once? Change this Consciousness? One feels that it will be a revolution to change that the mother observes quote. Yes. But a revolution can occur in half a second. It can also take years, even centuries and even many lives. It can be done in a second one can do it. Precisely when one has this inner reversal of Consciousness in one second, Everything, Everything Changes precisely this bewilderment of being able to think that what one is, what one considers as oneself is not true. And that what is the truth of ones being is something one. Doesn't know, you see.
4:56 This should have been the normal reaction, the one she had of saying, but then what is Myself. If what I feel is myself is an illusory formation and not the truth of my being then, what is myself for that? She does not know and so when when asked the question like that, There is a moment because it is a question which becomes more and more intense and more and more acute. When you have even the feeling precisely, that things are strange. That is, they are not real. A moment comes when this Sensation that you have of yourself of being yourself, become strange, a kind of sense of unreality, and the question continues coming up. But then, what is myself?
5:53 Well, there is a moment when it comes up with so much concentration and such intensity that with this intensity of concentration, suddenly there occurs a reversal, and then instead of being on this side, you are on that side. And when you are on that side, everything is very simple, you understand? You know, you are you live? And then you see clearly the unreality of the rest and this is enough and quote reference SRI aurobindo in the mother growing within the psychology of inner development.
6:35 Chapter 9 reversal of Consciousness. The new birth Pages 172 173
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