The Essential Process of Ascent and Integration of Spiritual Progress

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By putting emphasis on Headline
spiritual experiences and

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attempting to hold onto them or
repeat them.

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The secret, potentially losing
sight of the larger process that

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is taking place to affect the
transformation of the nature.

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All progress represents what may
be called a vertical Ascent to a

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higher level of conscious
awareness.

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This A come through an
experience.

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That either takes the secret to
that higher plane for a time or

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else brings the force of that
plane down into his normal

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awareness for a Time.
The experience is intended to

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create a connection to that
higher energetic force and to

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bring the individual into an
awareness of it and prepare him

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for its action.
It comes does its intended work

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and then recedes so that the
Seeker may allow that forced to

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work within him, open up new
Pathways of understanding.

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Change should be actual patterns
of action, Etc.

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This process is one that is
called integration of the

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experience.
Or as the mother terms, it

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horizontal progress to
consolidate, what has occurred

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with the vertical progress?
The two, go together and both

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are necessary for any true
change of human nature to take

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place.
What people also lose sight of

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frequently is the fact that each
experience when it comes is

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manifesting in a particular time
place and Circumstance in The

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Seekers sadhna and even if a
similar experience comes at a

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future time, it must be somewhat
different as it meets the Seeker

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under different circumstances
after the earlier experience,

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has done whatever it was
supposed to do.

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The point of spiritual
experience is not to attach

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one's ego to it, but to allow it
to open up and change the

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nature.
Prepare it for further progress,

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and allow the contact and
opening to create opportunities

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for further greater experiences
and realizations.

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The mother writes quote now, at
a particular time, the set of

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circumstances inner and outer
has caused one to be receptive

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to a certain vibration.
For example, as you say, while

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looking at the stars or
contemplating a landscape, or

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reading a page or hearing a
lecture one, has suddenly an

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inner Revelation and experience,
something that strikes him And

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gives him the impression of
being open to something new.

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But if you want to hold onto
this tightly like that, you will

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lose everything.
Because when can't keep the past

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one must always go forward and
Vance Advance, this illumination

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must prepare you so that you can
organize your whole being on

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this new level in order to be
able suddenly one day to LEAP up

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again to a higher step.
There's a horizontal Advanced

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between abrupt descent.
It is the moment of the abrupt

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descent which gives you an
impression of something like a

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revelation, a great inner Joy.
But once you have climbed the

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step, if you want to climb it
once more, you would have to go

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down again, you must go on
preparing yourself at this level

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in order to climb another higher
step.

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These things which suddenly give
you a great.

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Joy are always a sense, but
these ascents are prepared by a

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slow work of horizontal
progress.

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That is one must become more and
more conscious, establish more

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and more perfectly.
What one is draw from it, all

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the inner psychological
consequences and inaction, also,

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it is a long utilization of an
Abrupt leap.

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And as I say, there are two
kinds of progress, but the

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horizontal progress is
indispensable, you must not

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stop.
You must not cling in this way

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to your vertical progress and
not want to move because it has

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brought you a revelation, you
must know how to leave it in

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order to prepare for another In
quote, reference SRI aurobindo

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and the mother growing within
the psychology of inner

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development.
Chapter 7, growth of

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Consciousness, inner experiences
Pages, 145 to 146,