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Sept. 25, 2022

The Power of Visualisation Can Aid in Overcoming the Limits of the Logic-Bound Mental Consciousness in Achieving Realisation in the Spiritual Endeavour and the External World

The Power of Visualisation Can Aid in Overcoming the Limits of the Logic-Bound Mental Consciousness in Achieving Realisation in the Spiritual Endeavour and the External World
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2022/09/21/the-power-of-visualisation-can-aid-in-overcoming-the-limits-of-the-logic-bound-mental-consciousness-in-achieving-realisation-in-the-spiritual-endeavour-and-the-external-world/
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The mental being tends to accept
that.

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If it has an intellectual
understanding of something that

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it has accomplished that thing,
it does not tend to concern

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itself with the vital or
physical world per se and thus,

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if it knows that it is one with
the rest of the universal

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creation or if it knows that it
has had an experience of

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Liberation from the ego
Consciousness, it accepts That

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hid, it has accomplished the
task at hand, even though the

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external nature and particularly
the physical, and the vital

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Consciousness remain mired in
Duality and the sense of being

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ensnared in the material world.
The Mind tends to work using the

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logical thought process and thus
process its its activities.

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Most of the time in a linear
sequential fashion based in

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language.
When a Seeker recognizes these

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limitations and tries to shift
the mental Paradigm, a number of

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Paths of recommended and
described a process of

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visualization as a mechanism to
Aid in making the Consciousness

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take hold of external forms.
More precisely and powerfully.

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The Tibetan Buddhist path in
particular has highly detailed.

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Visualization exercises using
mandalas or tacos or detailed

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constructs that the mind has to
build to visualize certain forms

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forces, deities and specific
locations within oneself

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specified colors and shapes,
Etc.

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Some people have determined that
the power of visualization also

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AIDS in the realization of
actions in the external World.

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Modern-day science has applied
this concept in particular to

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various Sports where the
participant is asked to

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visualize the steps, The
Strokes, the development of the

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process and thereby to create a
formation for the eventual

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action to be realized.
Others have recognized this

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power and use visualization to
achieve success in many fields

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of outer Endeavor.
Even though the best use of this

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power is to apply it to the
spiritual activity to use it to,

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for instance, move, the
awareness to the psychic being

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were to visualize the rising of
the coiled Force at the base of

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the spine through the various
chakras, to join the individual

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human consciousness.
With the Divine Consciousness,

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residing above the head, in the
Thousand peddled, chakra, that

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can be experienced there.
The mother notes, quote, some

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people are just intellectuals
for them.

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Everything is expressed by ideas
and not by images, but if they

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were to go down into a more
material domain, well, they risk

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not touching things in their
concrete reality.

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And remaining only in the domain
of ideas remaining in the mind.

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And remaining there
indefinitely, then one thinks

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one is making progress and
mentally one has done.

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So though it is something
altogether indefinite.

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The mines progress may take
thousands of years for it is a

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very fast and very indefinite
field, which is constantly

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renewed.
But if one wants to progress in

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the vital and physical, well,
this image representation

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becomes very useful for fixing
the action, making it more

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concrete naturally.
It doesn't happen completely at

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will, it depends on each one's
nature.

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But those who have the power of
concentrating with images.

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Well, they have one more
facility and quote, reference

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SRI aurobindo in the mother
living within the yoga

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approached, a psychological
health and growth exercises for

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growth and Mastery visualization
for discovering ones, being

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