The Three Times - Part three of three

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Antoine,

 

Very beautiful, thank you for sharing this.

 

Annette

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THE THIRD CONDITION OF CONSCIOUSNESS by Shri Aurobindo

 

"The third state of consciousness is that of the mind of knowledge in which all

things and all truths are perceived and experienced as already present and known

and immediately available by merely turning the inner light upon it, as when one

turns the eye upon things in a room already known and familiar,- though not

always present to the vision because that is not attentive , - and notes them as

object of pre-existent knowledge. The difference from the second self-forgetful

state of consciousness is that there is here no effort or seeking needed but

simply a turning or opening of the inner light on whatever field of knowledge,

and therefore it is not a recalling of things forgotten and self-hidden from the

mind, but a luminous presentation of things already present, ready and

available. This last condition is only possible by a partial supramentalising of

the intuitive mentality and its full openness to any and every communication

from the supramental ranges. This mind of knowledge is in its essentially a

power of potential omnipotence, but in its actual working on the level of mind

it is limited in its range and province. The character of limitation applies to

the supermind itself when it descends into the mental level and works in the

lesser substance of mentality, though in its own manner and body of power and

light, and it persists even in the action of the supramental reason. It is only

the higher supramental Shakti acting on its own ranges whose will and knowledge

work always in a boundless light or with a free capacity of illimitable

extension of knowledge subject only to such limitations as are self-imposed for

its own purpose and its own will by the spirit."

 

http://pages.infinit.net/carrea/tree/other/3times.htm

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Thank you for your time,

Antoine