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Nov. 11, 2022

The Influence of Inner Planes of Consciousness on the Outer Life of the Individual

The Influence of Inner Planes of Consciousness on the Outer Life of the Individual
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2022/11/09/the-influence-of-inner-planes-of-consciousness-on-the-outer-life-of-the-individual/
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In the Life.
Divine SRI aurobindo devotes a

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chapter to the Sevenfold
ignorance.

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While we are fixated on our
external mind, life and body and

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the life we lead in the external
world.

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We remain ignorant of the forces
at work behind the scenes, to

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create what we call, our being
and personality and to bring

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about the circumstances that we
require in the external life to

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realize the purpose of our
existence. even if we fail to

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recognize or acknowledge that
purpose, overtly Our surface

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personality is like the tip of
the iceberg with the scope and

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mass of that Iceberg hidden from
our view.

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Sometimes through dream, we get
a glimpse of the Greater Life we

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lead in some cases, we meet
people and others we receive

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teachings and explore Avenues of
existence concealed from our

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outer person.
When instances occur that break

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us free even momentarily from
the fixation.

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Action on the outer life, we can
experience something of the

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greater truth of our existence
and we can recognize that what

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we think do and feel in our
outer being is caused by forces

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and circumstances at work on
other planes or in other

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dimensions.
There are linkages between the

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inner life, the other planes and
dimensions of existence and our

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outer life.
The modality of the chakras act

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as a mechanism for the energy of
physical, vital, and mental

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worlds, and forces to directly
act upon an impact, our external

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lives.
To the extent that various

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chakras open.
They bring energy for

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realization and action into our
lives.

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Even a small amount of energy
coming through one or another

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chakra.
Can have a dramatic impact on

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our lives.
Dr. Dalal observes.

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Quote regarding the influence of
the inner planes of

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Consciousness on the outer life
of the individual SRI aurobindo

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States quote.
It is a mistake to think that we

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live physically, only with the
outer mind, and life.

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We are all the time living and
acting on other planes of

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Consciousness meeting others
there and acting upon them, and

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what we do and feel and think
they're the forces, We Gather

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the results.
Prepare, have an incalculable

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importance and effect unknown to
us Upon Our outer life, not all

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of it comes through and what
comes through takes another form

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in the physical though,
sometimes there is an exact

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correspondence.
But this little is at the basis

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of our outward.
Existence all that we become in

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do and bear in the physical life
is prepared behind the veil

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within us.
If the inner being is according

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to our psychology connected,
with the small outer

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personality, by certain centers
of consciousness, of which we

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become aware by yoga.
Only a little of the inner being

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escapes through these centers
into the outer life.

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But that little is the best part
of ourselves and responsible for

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our art, poetry philosophy
ideals religious aspirations

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efforts at knowledge.
And Perfection and quote dr.

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Dalal continues quote to sum up
the inner growth of the

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individual.
Like the evolution of the

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universe is the process by which
the Supreme Consciousness, the

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truth of existence or the
reality of being immersed in the

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incontinence of matter, through
a prior process of involution

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manifest itself.
In progressively, higher States

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of It's being due to the
evolutionary thrust inherent in

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it and quote reference SRI
aurobindo in the mother growing

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within the psychology of inner
development and production

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Pages.
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