The Need for Spiritual Discrimination, the Ability to Distinguish the Pure from the Impure

0:01 As the spiritual Seeker develops. The sodden over time eventually, he is confronted with lights voices and energies that come to him. It is not sufficient for him to Simply accept that. Whatever comes is to be seen as valid and supportive of his spiritual aspiration. Spiritual discrimination, the ability to distinguish between the pure and the impure, the higher and the lower the light, and the dark Forces is essential, SRI aurobindo recommend several possible ways to accomplish. This one, way is to work toward the attainment of the witness Consciousness separate from the external nature. This witness uninvolved separate and free can You all the reactions of body life and mind with an impartial View and can thereby See Clearly the source and intention of whatever comes before.

1:05 It's view, the other method is to have the soul to psychic being come forward and use its sense of Purity as a spiritual Compass to distinguish the differences. This is not the same as conscience. Which is generally based in moral principles, trained into an individual and enforced by a mental understanding, but rather a deeper knowing of the source and energy of what one is experiencing or perceiving. SRI aurobindo writes, quote lights are of all kinds. Super mental, mental vital, physical Divine, or a Sorak. One has to watch grow, and experience and learn to no one from another.

1:58 The true lights however are by their Clarity and Beauty not difficult to recognize. The current from above and the current From Below are familiar features of yogic experience. It is the energy of the higher nature and the energy of the lower nature that becomes active and turn towards each other and move to meet one descending. The other are sending what happens when they meet depends on the Sadiq. If is constant, will is for the purification of the lower, by the higher consciousness. Then the meeting results in that, and in spiritual progress, if his mind and vital are turbid and clouded, there is a clash and imp your mixture and much disturbance. And quote, reference SRI aurobindo in the mother growing within the psychology of inner development. Chapter 7, growth of Consciousness. Inner experiences Pages. 142 141.