The Shift or Reversal of Consciousness Happens All At Once, Not Gradually

0:02 We are used to the idea that if we practice something, if we undertake a course of study, we will gradually increase our ability and our level of understanding. So that eventually we move in the academic field, for example, from primary school to high school, to college, potentially to graduate school. And at each stage, we become more accomplished in our chosen. Field of endeavor, the shift of Consciousness does not appear to work under that mode of development. However, the preparation takes place unseen in the secret heart deep within the being an until it comes forward to manifest at best.

0:49 It throws up hints and glimpses of what is possible. The shift is thus more akin to what is known as the all-or-nothing phenomenon Vision, functions like that until there are sufficient number of photons, to trigger awareness, we believe everything is dark. The mother uses the example of the chick maturing inside the egg outside. There is no visible sign. Once ready, the chick breaks, the egg and appears and can immediately begin to interact with the outer environment.

1:33 The mother notes quote and so long as one, is there inside, one is in the falsehood and only on the day, when by the divine, grace one can break the shell and come out into. The light is one free. This may happen suddenly spontaneously quite unexpectedly. I don't think one can go through gradually. I don't think it is something which slowly wears and wears away until one can see through it. I haven't had an instance with this so far, there is rather a kind of accumulation of power inside and intensification of the need and an endurance in the effort, which becomes free from all fear. All anxiety, all calculation.

2:27 I need so imperative that one. No longer cares for the consequences. One is like an explosive, that nothing can resist. And when bursts out from one to prison in a blaze of light, after that one can no longer fall back again, it is truly a new birth. End quote, reference SRI aurobindo, and the mother growing within the psychology of inner development, chapter 9 reversal of Consciousness. The new birth page 176, End quote, reference SRI aurobindo, and the mother growing within the psychology of inner development, chapter 9 reversal of Consciousness. The new birth page 176,