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Disciple : What happens when the human consciousness is replaced by the Divine Consciousness?
Sri Aurobindo : One feels perpetual calm, perpetual strength, – one is aware of Infinity, lives not only in Infinity but in Eternity. One feels the immortality and does not care about the death of the body, and one has the consciousness of the One in all. Everything becomes the manifestation of the Brahman. For instance, as I look around the room I see everything as the Brahman – it is not thinking, it is a concrete experience, – even the wall, the book is Brahman. I see you not as X. but as a divine being in the Divine. It is a wonderful experience.
[A. B. Purani, Evening Talks with Sri Aurobindo]
In my view, a man’s value does not depend on what he learns, or his position or fame, or what he does, but on what he is and inwardly becomes.
-Sri Aurobindo
Ordinarily, the human consciousness is shut in the body like a bottle filled with muddy water. With the practice of Yoga, subtle centers (Chakras) within the body become activated. The passage at the top of the head known as Brahmarandhara opens bringing access to the Superconscient realms. The powers which are awakened by these movements of consciousness cause changes in the human consciousness. During these changes, one may see various symbols and have Visions, Experiences and Realizations. The action of the higher planes upon the body consciousness occurs due to the Ascent and Descent experiences.
The three Gunas(modes of Nature) which constitute the consciousness become purified and change into their divine equivalents:
- sattva(purity) becomes jyoti, the authentic spiritual light;
- rajas(kineticism) becomes tapas, the tranquilly intense divine force;
- tamas(inertia) becomes sama, the divine quiet, rest, peace.
The end result is the psychic transformation, spiritual transformation and perhaps even the supramental transformation. All three are described at Triple transformation.
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The satirical newspaper “The Onion” offers a comical take on journey of self-discovery.
Journey Of Self-Discovery Leads Man To Realization He Doesn’t Care
FLAGSTAFF, AZ—Three months after setting off down a long spiritual path to find himself, 38-year-old Corey Larson arrived at the conclusion Tuesday that he does not care. “I spent many long hours meditating, studying the works of great thinkers and spiritual leaders, and delving deep within myself for some kind of answer, and then it hit me: I couldn’t care less,” Larson said of his soul-searching journey. Larson briefly considered writing a self-help book to make the journey easier for others, but decided that he also didn’t give two shits about whether other people arrived at the same conclusion he did.
http://www.theonion.com/articles/journey-of-selfdiscovery-leads-man-to-realization,19100/
Accepting life, he [the seeker of the integral yoga] has to bear not only his own burden, but a great part of the world’s burden too along with it, as a continuation of his own sufficiently heavy load. Therefore his Yoga has much more the nature of a battle than others’; but this is not only an individual battle, it is a collective war waged over a considerable country. He has not only to conquer in himself the forces of egoistic falsehood and disorder, but to conquer them as representatives of the same adverse and inexhaustible forces in the world. Their representative character gives them a much more obstinate capacity of resistance, an almost endless right to recurrence. Often he finds that even after he has won persistently his own personal battle, he has still to win it over and over again in a seemingly interminable war, because his inner existence has already been so much enlarged that not only it contains his own being with its well-defined needs and experiences, but is in solidarity with the being of others, because in himself he contains the universe.381
source: Satprem The Adventure of Consciousness
http://www.aurobindo.ru/workings/satprem/adventure_of_consciousness_e.htm#013
” Often he finds that even after he has won persistently his own personal battle, he has still to win it over and over again in a seemingly interminable war, because his inner existence has already been so much enlarged that not only it contains his own being with its well-defined needs and experiences, but is in solidarity with the being of others, because in himself he contains the universe.381″
Yes, it is a constant battle, at least in my experience. Perhaps, l don’t have the right Psychic attitude. l do know that the other day l had a battle with something very dark, l managed to conquer [possibly transform it] with the Divine Love – it just dispersed it so easily. At least, l believe it was the Divine Love. l could see it as a purple Light. lt took a lot of strength on my part.
Now l realise Divine Love can change anything.
l think ‘corey larson’ has probably lost his aspiration – if the Psychic push isn’t there behind, l think we get those moments. l’m not sure if he has the right attitude, but it sounds like he just burnt himself out. lt also goes to show how difficult it can be with the aid of a Guru [doesn't sound like he had a teacher]. He could also have achieved Detachment, l suppose.
l’ve had a lot of times when l wanted to give up, but perseverance is a great help in Yoga.
> l think ‘corey larson’ has probably lost his aspiration
LOL. Corey Larson is a fictional individual. The story is from the satirical Onion newspaper.
OH right LOLOL
Plenty of factual ppl like that around, though. l’ve met a few.