The Essential Process of Ascent and Integration of Spiritual Progress

0:02 By putting emphasis on Headline spiritual experiences and attempting to hold onto them or repeat them. The secret, potentially losing sight of the larger process that is taking place to affect the transformation of the nature. All progress represents what may be called a vertical Ascent to a higher level of conscious awareness. This A come through an experience. That either takes the secret to that higher plane for a time or else brings the force of that plane down into his normal awareness for a Time. The experience is intended to create a connection to that higher energetic force and to bring the individual into an awareness of it and prepare him for its action. It comes does its intended work and then recedes so that the Seeker may allow that forced to work within him, open up new Pathways of understanding.

1:08 Change should be actual patterns of action, Etc. This process is one that is called integration of the experience. Or as the mother terms, it horizontal progress to consolidate, what has occurred with the vertical progress? The two, go together and both are necessary for any true change of human nature to take place. What people also lose sight of frequently is the fact that each experience when it comes is manifesting in a particular time place and Circumstance in The Seekers sadhna and even if a similar experience comes at a future time, it must be somewhat different as it meets the Seeker under different circumstances after the earlier experience, has done whatever it was supposed to do.

2:08 The point of spiritual experience is not to attach one's ego to it, but to allow it to open up and change the nature. Prepare it for further progress, and allow the contact and opening to create opportunities for further greater experiences and realizations. The mother writes quote now, at a particular time, the set of circumstances inner and outer has caused one to be receptive to a certain vibration. For example, as you say, while looking at the stars or contemplating a landscape, or reading a page or hearing a lecture one, has suddenly an inner Revelation and experience, something that strikes him And gives him the impression of being open to something new.

3:04 But if you want to hold onto this tightly like that, you will lose everything. Because when can't keep the past one must always go forward and Vance Advance, this illumination must prepare you so that you can organize your whole being on this new level in order to be able suddenly one day to LEAP up again to a higher step. There's a horizontal Advanced between abrupt descent. It is the moment of the abrupt descent which gives you an impression of something like a revelation, a great inner Joy. But once you have climbed the step, if you want to climb it once more, you would have to go down again, you must go on preparing yourself at this level in order to climb another higher step.

4:00 These things which suddenly give you a great. Joy are always a sense, but these ascents are prepared by a slow work of horizontal progress. That is one must become more and more conscious, establish more and more perfectly. What one is draw from it, all the inner psychological consequences and inaction, also, it is a long utilization of an Abrupt leap. And as I say, there are two kinds of progress, but the horizontal progress is indispensable, you must not stop. You must not cling in this way to your vertical progress and not want to move because it has brought you a revelation, you must know how to leave it in order to prepare for another In quote, reference SRI aurobindo and the mother growing within the psychology of inner development. Chapter 7, growth of Consciousness, inner experiences Pages, 145 to 146,