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− | <h1>Expansion and Widening</h1> | + | <h1>Expansion and Widening Summary</h1> |
− | <div style="color:#000000;">''Widen your consciousness to the dimension of the earth and you will have a place for everything.''</div> | + | <div style="color:#000000;">''Widen your consciousness to the dimension of the earth and you will have a place for everything.'' <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/aims-and-principles#p331</ref></div> |
<span style="color:#000000;">(The Mother, 20 September 1971) </span> | <span style="color:#000000;">(The Mother, 20 September 1971) </span> | ||
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= Why Expand and Widen? = | = Why Expand and Widen? = | ||
− | <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The very nature of mind, life and body is to evolve. The One Consciousness divides itself into innumerable fragments for the need of expansion. </span><span style="color:#000000;">Life itself seeks for the perfection which it is eternally capable of</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The pressure from the spiritual worlds prepares a field to manifest the indwelling spirit. There is a constant labour of nature to ascend into a higher principle of being. It takes up all that is lower into the higher values.</span> | + | <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The very nature of mind, life and body is to evolve. The One Consciousness divides itself into innumerable fragments for the need of expansion. </span><span style="color:#000000;">Life itself seeks for the perfection which it is eternally capable of <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-ascent-of-life#p1</ref></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">The pressure from the spiritual worlds prepares a field to manifest the indwelling spirit. There is a constant labour of nature to ascend into a higher principle of being. It takes up all that is lower into the higher values.</span> |
<span style="color:#000000;">In the growth of our being lies our true happiness. It creates a new sense of beauty and a thirst for truth and light. </span> | <span style="color:#000000;">In the growth of our being lies our true happiness. It creates a new sense of beauty and a thirst for truth and light. </span> | ||
− | <div style="color:#000000;">We are at a decisive hour in the history of the earth. It is preparing for the coming of the superman and because of this the old way of life is losing its value. We must strike out boldly on the path of the future despite its new demands. The pettinesses once tolerable, are tolerable no longer. We must widen ourselves to receive what is going to come.</div> | + | <div style="color:#000000;">We are at a decisive hour in the history of the earth. It is preparing for the coming of the superman and because of this the old way of life is losing its value. We must strike out boldly on the path of the future despite its new demands. The pettinesses once tolerable, are tolerable no longer. We must widen ourselves to receive what is going to come. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/29-december-1971#p1</ref></div> |
= How to Expand one’s Consciousness? = | = How to Expand one’s Consciousness? = | ||
− | <span style="color:#000000;">We start with the will to expand from the ignorant consciousness to a boundless finite</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">We engage in new range of activities. We work with the sense of unity with the Divine. We feel the Divine moving, thinking and feeling in us. To feel the body in the wide free self and not attached to the limitations of the body.</span> | + | <span style="color:#000000;">We start with the will to expand from the ignorant consciousness to a boundless finite <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-origin-and-remedy-of-falsehood-error-wrong-and-evil#p29</ref></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">We engage in new range of activities. We work with the sense of unity with the Divine. We feel the Divine moving, thinking and feeling in us. To feel the body in the wide free self and not attached to the limitations of the body.</span> |
− | <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Make all activities an outpouring of </span><span style="color:#000000;">love for the One in All who is the Highest</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Love for all forms and creatures around us, we break free from the shell of ego.</span> | + | <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Make all activities an outpouring of </span><span style="color:#000000;">love for the One in All who is the Highest <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p1</ref></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">.</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Love for all forms and creatures around us, we break free from the shell of ego.</span> |
− | <span style="color:#000000;">Surrender</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">of our little selves - our personal ideas, desires and attachments so that the Divine may take up everything. If we insist on our own ideas and reasonings, greater Light and Knowledge cannot come.</span> | + | <span style="color:#000000;">Surrender</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">of our little selves - our personal ideas, desires and attachments so that the Divine may take up everything. If we insist on our own ideas and reasonings, greater Light and Knowledge cannot come. |
+ | <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/science-and-yoga#p9</ref></span> | ||
<div style="color:#000000;">To have an intense aspiration to expand. We must shift the stress of consciousness from external being to the inner being or still deeper to the psychic being. Be like a transmitting and receiving station, the wider the range , the more force it can hold. </div> | <div style="color:#000000;">To have an intense aspiration to expand. We must shift the stress of consciousness from external being to the inner being or still deeper to the psychic being. Be like a transmitting and receiving station, the wider the range , the more force it can hold. </div> | ||
− | <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">By becoming more </span><span style="color:#000000;">quieter and calmer</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">without getting excited and agitated, we put ourselves in a capacity to receive from the higher forces.</span> | + | <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">By becoming more </span><span style="color:#000000;">quieter and calmer <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/12-february-1951#p5</ref></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">without getting excited and agitated, we put ourselves in a capacity to receive from the higher forces.</span> |
= Outcomes of Expansion of Consciousness = | = Outcomes of Expansion of Consciousness = | ||
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− | <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Widening and expansion gives a great joy of being, a clearer sense of truth and things and an inner silence. We see things in a larger light and detect the origin and law of our feelings, emotions and sensations. The thick layer of </span><span style="color:#000000;">ego gets thinned</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">and we see ourselves reduced to a point of working of the universal force. We are not carried away by the shocks and injuries, we deal with it in a </span><span style="color:#000000;">calm equality</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">. </span> | + | <span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">Widening and expansion gives a great joy of being, a clearer sense of truth and things and an inner silence. We see things in a larger light and detect the origin and law of our feelings, emotions and sensations. The thick layer of </span><span style="color:#000000;">ego gets thinned <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/out-of-the-sevenfold-ignorance-towards-the-sevenfold-knowledge#p16 |
+ | </ref></span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;"> </span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">and we see ourselves reduced to a point of working of the universal force. We are not carried away by the shocks and injuries, we deal with it in a </span><span style="color:#000000;">calm equality</span><span style="background-color:transparent;color:#000000;">. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-gnostic-being#p25</ref> </span> | ||
= What Prevents Expansion of Consciousness? = | = What Prevents Expansion of Consciousness? = | ||
− | *<div style="color:#000000;"><span style="background-color:transparent;">The </span><span>submental, subconscient, inconscient influence on nature</span><span style="background-color:transparent;">. Disrupts the mind’s natural tendency to reach beyond the mind by laying down its impulses and instincts.</span></div> | + | *<div style="color:#000000;"><span style="background-color:transparent;">The </span><span>submental, subconscient, inconscient influence on nature</span><span style="background-color:transparent;">. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-ascent-towards-supermind#p16</ref>Disrupts the mind’s natural tendency to reach beyond the mind by laying down its impulses and instincts.</span></div> |
− | * <div style="color:#000000;">Fear, distrust and skepticism</div> | + | * <div style="color:#000000;">Fear, distrust and skepticism <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/26-october-1955#p3</ref></div> |
− | * <div style="color:#000000;"><span style="background-color:transparent;">Volatile vital with its </span><span>desires, restlessness and unstability.</span></div> | + | * <div style="color:#000000;"><span style="background-color:transparent;">Volatile vital with its </span><span>desires, restlessness and unstability. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/wrong-movements-of-the-vital#p54</ref></span></div> |
= Methods and Practices to Expand One’s Consciousness = | = Methods and Practices to Expand One’s Consciousness = | ||
− | * <div style="color:#000000;"><span style="background-color:transparent;">Connection with the vastness of nature - </span><span>gazing at the sky/stars/water body and expand into it.</span></div> | + | * <div style="color:#000000;"><span style="background-color:transparent;">Connection with the vastness of nature - </span><span>gazing at the sky/stars/water body and expand into it. |
+ | <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/29-september-1954#p35</ref></span></div> | ||
* <div style="color:#000000;">Do many different things - music, painting, reading varied subjects, learning languages, explore/travel.</div> | * <div style="color:#000000;">Do many different things - music, painting, reading varied subjects, learning languages, explore/travel.</div> | ||
− | * <div style="color:#000000;"><span style="background-color:transparent;">When bored or troubled - thinking of the </span><span>immensity and eternity of space</span><span style="background-color:transparent;"> and time before us. </span></div> | + | * <div style="color:#000000;"><span style="background-color:transparent;">When bored or troubled - thinking of the </span><span>immensity and eternity of space</span><span style="background-color:transparent;"> and time before us. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/29-september-1954#p38</ref> </span></div> |
* <span style="color:#000000;">Participating in some work everyday as an expression of goodwill for all.</span> | * <span style="color:#000000;">Participating in some work everyday as an expression of goodwill for all.</span> | ||
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Revision as of 14:23, 1 October 2018
Contents
Expansion and Widening Summary
(The Mother, 20 September 1971)
What is Expansion and Wideness?
Signs of Wideness
Why Expand and Widen?
The very nature of mind, life and body is to evolve. The One Consciousness divides itself into innumerable fragments for the need of expansion. Life itself seeks for the perfection which it is eternally capable of [2]. The pressure from the spiritual worlds prepares a field to manifest the indwelling spirit. There is a constant labour of nature to ascend into a higher principle of being. It takes up all that is lower into the higher values.
In the growth of our being lies our true happiness. It creates a new sense of beauty and a thirst for truth and light.
How to Expand one’s Consciousness?
We start with the will to expand from the ignorant consciousness to a boundless finite [4]. We engage in new range of activities. We work with the sense of unity with the Divine. We feel the Divine moving, thinking and feeling in us. To feel the body in the wide free self and not attached to the limitations of the body.
Make all activities an outpouring of love for the One in All who is the Highest [5]. Love for all forms and creatures around us, we break free from the shell of ego.
Surrender of our little selves - our personal ideas, desires and attachments so that the Divine may take up everything. If we insist on our own ideas and reasonings, greater Light and Knowledge cannot come.
[6]
By becoming more quieter and calmer [7] without getting excited and agitated, we put ourselves in a capacity to receive from the higher forces.
Outcomes of Expansion of Consciousness
Widening and expansion gives a great joy of being, a clearer sense of truth and things and an inner silence. We see things in a larger light and detect the origin and law of our feelings, emotions and sensations. The thick layer of ego gets thinned [8] and we see ourselves reduced to a point of working of the universal force. We are not carried away by the shocks and injuries, we deal with it in a calm equality. [9]
What Prevents Expansion of Consciousness?
- The submental, subconscient, inconscient influence on nature. [10]Disrupts the mind’s natural tendency to reach beyond the mind by laying down its impulses and instincts.
- Fear, distrust and skepticism [11]
- Volatile vital with its desires, restlessness and unstability. [12]
Methods and Practices to Expand One’s Consciousness
- Connection with the vastness of nature - gazing at the sky/stars/water body and expand into it.
- Do many different things - music, painting, reading varied subjects, learning languages, explore/travel.
- Participating in some work everyday as an expression of goodwill for all.
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Expansion and Widening Compilation
References
- ↑ http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/aims-and-principles#p331
- ↑ http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-ascent-of-life#p1
- ↑ http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/29-december-1971#p1
- ↑ http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/the-origin-and-remedy-of-falsehood-error-wrong-and-evil#p29
- ↑ http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-ii#p1
- ↑ http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/science-and-yoga#p9
- ↑ http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/12-february-1951#p5
- ↑ http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/out-of-the-sevenfold-ignorance-towards-the-sevenfold-knowledge#p16
- ↑ http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-gnostic-being#p25
- ↑ http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-ascent-towards-supermind#p16
- ↑ http://incarnateword.in/cwm/07/26-october-1955#p3
- ↑ http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/wrong-movements-of-the-vital#p54
- ↑ http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/29-september-1954#p35
- ↑ http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/29-september-1954#p38