What’s the Use of Seeking to Have Spiritual Experiences?

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Putting aside the allurement
factor of having some kind of

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special unusual extraordinary
type of experience which is

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clearly a way to feed the ego
personality.

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We come to the actual benefits
of such experiences.

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There are cases where an
individual is leading, a

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perfectly ordinary life in the
world and something

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extraordinary happens to him
which changes the entire future

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Direction and focus of his life.
We can look at the experience of

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Saul on the road to Damascus.
Recounted in the Bible.

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We also see some individuals
have what is called a near-death

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experience, which transforms
their view of life and they come

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back with a new focus and
Mission such as the case of

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dannion Brinkley who are struck
by lightning and who returned to

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life to become the author of
Saved By the Light and

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subsequently founder of an
organization called compassion

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in action.
His prior life was radically

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different from what he
subsequently took up.

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In the book called to heal, one
of the chapters deals with an

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African healer who tried to
avoid taking up the role of

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shamanic healer and tried to
live an ordinary life.

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But continued experiences in
signs made it clear to her that

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she was intended for the healing
path.

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So eventually began to follow.
Thus an extraordinary experience

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can bring an individual to
consciously take up.

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Up the spiritual life.
It is, of course, not something

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that occurs without precedent
such as prior life development

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of the spiritual interest or
practice.

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As the Divine Force Works within
the framework of his own

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manifestation process.
Even if we cannot always see, or

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understand the background or the
links to past development, due,

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to our mental framework and
ignorance of the movement of the

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Soul through.
Then death and The evolutionary

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development through time.
Additionally spiritual

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experiences, may come while one
is treading the path perhaps to

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open up a new capacity to work
on the transformation of the

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nature.
Perhaps to encourage and support

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the faith of the individual to
help him endure and persevere.

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Sometimes these experiences May
provide an Insight that helps

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them work through particular
inner or outer limitations or

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obstacles.
They are facing A disciple

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inquires then what's the use of
having experiences?

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The mother writes quote.
It is not a question of use.

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Not everything in the world is
utilitarian.

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It's like that because it's like
that.

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Yes, you can say, what's the use
to someone, who is exclusively

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preoccupied with having
experiences, who has no inner

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intellectual and spiritual
preparation, and who threw some

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sort of fantasy would like to
have experiences.

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You could say to him?
Yes.

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What's the use?
It is not this that will lead

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you to the spiritual life.
It can help you.

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If you have taken up The Path
and if you have taken up The

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Path and all sincerity, well
they will come to the extent

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that they are useful for to seek
experience.

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For experiences.
Sake is altogether useless and

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you can tell people what's the
good.

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It's a fantasy, a fantasy on
another plane.

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It is another kind of Desire,
but it is a desire and quote.

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Reference SRI aurobindo and the
mother growing within the

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psychology of inner development.
Chapter 7, growth of

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Consciousness.
Inner experiences Pages, 127, 2

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1228, Reference SRI aurobindo
and the mother growing within

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the psychology of inner
development.

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Chapter 7, growth of
Consciousness.

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Inner experiences Pages, 127, 2
1228,