A Podcast Featuring Sri Aurobindo Studies
April 20, 2023

Three Rules for the Spiritual Practitioner with Respect to Experiences

Three Rules for the Spiritual Practitioner with Respect to Experiences
Three Rules for the Spiritual Practitioner with Respect to Experiences
Sri Aurobindo Studies
Three Rules for the Spiritual Practitioner with Respect to Experiences
This episode is also available as a blog post: https://sriaurobindostudies.wordpress.com/2023/04/18/three-rules-for-the-spiritual-practitioner-with-respect-to-experiences/

0:02 What to do about spiritual experiences, when they come. When we have a revelation of some sort, when we hear a communication that provides us, Insight or guidance, how are we to know whether it is truthful or misleading? Can we determine the source of The Clairvoyant or clairaudient communication to be able to know with certainty that it is guidance? We can trust and rely on. Not only spiritual forces, can exert their pressure on the Mind, life body complex. In particular, we note that vital powers and beings can and do try to gain some level of control over the Seeker. Once the protective walls of the external being have been lowered or breached as the Seeker becomes more aware of the inner existence, and with that, the energies powers and forces of the subtle, physical vital, and mental planes, as well as the Virtual.

1:09 SRI aurobindo provides some succinctly rules for the secret that can help him. Avoid the type of harm that can occur by following guidance that is flawed or Worse. The first is basically to not allow the enjoyment of the experience to take hold of the vital nature and build a desire for a repeat or an enhancement. This can lead to a lot of distraction as well as error. The second is to accept the experience without attachment so that one remains free and can act as a witness without taking ownership of it. The third is basically to recognize that everything in this world is of a mixed nature that our reception and our interpretation, the filter we apply can lead to enormous distortions that can corrupt. What the experience is actually intending to bring and can lead the secret to accept those experiences Visions voices, the tend to inflate the ego and Brandeis the vital nature. SRI aurobindo notes quote.

2:25 There are three rules of the sadhna, which are very necessary in an earlier stage, and which you should remember first open yourself to experience. But do not take the Boga of the experiences do not attach yourself to any particular kind of experience. Do not take all ideas and suggestions as true and do not take any knowledge Voice or thought message as lutely final and definitive. These voices are sometimes one's own mental. Formations sometimes suggestions from outside, good or bad, depends on what they say and on the quarter from which they come. Anybody can get voices.

3:11 There are first, the movements of One's Own nature that take upon themselves a voice. Then there are all sorts of beings, who either for a joke or for a serious purpose, invade with their voices and quote, reference SRI aurobindo, and the mother growing within the psychology of inner development. Chapter 7 growth of Consciousness in Experiences Pages 139 to 140.