The Necessity of a Reversal of Consciousness for Living the Spiritual Life

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Whether we described it as a
shift of standpoint or a

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reversal of Consciousness, it is
an essential turning point in

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the development of a spiritual
life.

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That the individual adjust both
his focus and his interpretation

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of the life experience to
conform.

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Not with the outer view on the
surface which is immersed in

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family enjoyment, work and
organization of the outer life.

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But with an interview that sees
the deeper purpose of life and

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the Oneness of the entire
creation that develops,

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according to the designs of the
Divine rather than from some

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standpoint of satisfaction of
the individual ego personality,

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this shift or reversal moves,
the Consciousness in words makes

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it more reflective and connects
it to the larger Universal

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awareness.
The mother observes quote to

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live the spiritual life.
A reversal of Consciousness is

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needed to live.
The spiritual life, is to open

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to another world within oneself.
It is to reverse one's

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Consciousness, as it were the
ordinary human consciousness.

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Even in the most developed, even
in Man of great talent and great

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realization is a movement,
turned outwards.

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All the energies are directed
It's the whole Consciousness is

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spread outwards, and if anything
is turned inwards, it is very

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little, very rare, very
fragmentary, it happens only

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under the pressure of very
special circumstances.

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Violent shocks, the shocks life
gives precisely with the

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intention of slightly reversing
this movement of exterior

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ization of the consciousness.
But all who have lived, a

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spiritual life have had the same
experience, all of a sudden,

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something in there being has
been reversed, so to speak has

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been turned suddenly and
sometimes completely inwards and

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also at the same time upwards
from within upwards.

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But it is not an external above,
it is within deep, something

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other than the height, as they
are physically conceived.

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Something has literally been
turned over.

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There has been a decisive
experience and the standpoint in

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life the way of looking at life.
the attitude one takes in

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relation to it has suddenly
changed and in some cases quite

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definitively irrevocably so long
as one is in the mental

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Consciousness, even the highest
and sees the spiritual life from

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outside one judges with one's
mental, faculties with the habit

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of seeking airing correcting
progressing and seeking once

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again and one thinks that those
who are are in the spiritual

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life suffer from the same
incapacity, but that is a very

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gross mistake.
When the reversal of the being

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has taken place.
All that is finished.

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When no longer seeks.
One sees one no longer deduces.

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One knows when no longer gropes,
one walk straight to the goal

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and quote, reference SRI
aurobindo in the mother growing

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within the Psychology of inner
development, chapter 9 reversal

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of Consciousness.
The new birth Pages, 165 to 166,