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 [[File:EandW 1.png{|center|1000px]]   [[Fileclass="wikitable" style= "background-color:EandW 2.png|center|1000px]]   [[File#efefff; width:EandW 3.png|center|1000px]]  100%;"[[File:EandW 4.png|center|1000px]]   Read more about '''[[File:EandW 5.png|center|1000px]]   [[File:EandW 6.png|center|1000px]]   [[File:EandW 7.png|center|1000px]]   [[File:MEandW 8.png|center|1000px]]   [[File:EandW 9.png|center|1000px]]   [[File:EandW 10.png|center|1000px]]   [[File:EandW 11.png|center|1000px]]   [[File:EandW 12.pngExpansion and Widening Compilation|center|1000px]]   [[File:EandW 13.png|center|1000px]]   [[File:EandW 14.png|center|1000px]]   [[File:EandW 15.png|center|1000px]]   [[File:EandW 16.png|center|1000px]]   [[File:EandW 17.png|center|1000px]] <h1>Expansion and Widening Summary</h1> ]]'''Widen your consciousness to from the dimension works of the earth Mother and you will have a place for everythingSri Aurobindo.'' <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/aims-and-principles#p331</ref>|}(The Mother, 20 September 1971)__NOTOC__

Expansion and widening is becoming more and more a universal being who is not limited by the the narrow mental, vital and physical walls of existence. Man is there to affirm himself in the universe, that is his first business, but also to evolve and finally to exceed himself: he has to enlarge his partial being into a complete being, his partial consciousness into an integral consciousness; he has to achieve mastery of his environment but also world-union and world-harmony; he has to realise his individuality but also to enlarge it into a cosmic self and a universal and spiritual delight of existence.<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2005). The progress to knowledge -god,man and nature. In The life divine II.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-progress-to-knowledge-god-man-and-nature#p2</ref>

Expansion and Widening can be viewed from two angles - a growth into a full mental being by expanding the capacities of the mind and universalisation of consciousness.That growth into the full mental being is the first transitional movement towards human perfection and freedom; it does not actually perfect, it does not liberate the soul, but it lifts us one step out of the material and vital absorption and prepares the loosening of the hold of the Ignorance.<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2005). Out of the sevenfold ignorance towards the sevenfold knowledge. In The life divine II.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/out-of-the-sevenfold-ignorance-towards-the-sevenfold-knowledge#p4</ref>

As the individual has a consciousness of his own, so too there is a universal consciousness, a cosmic Being, a universal Mind, a universal Life, a universal physical conscious Nature. We are unaware of it because we are shut up in our outer physical selves. By the inner awakening and the opening above we become aware of this cosmic consciousness, cosmic Nature and cosmic Self and its movements; our consciousness can widen and become one with it. The forces of universal Nature are always working on us without our knowing how they act or being able to get any general control over their action on us. By becoming conscious of the universal we are able to detect this working and control it.<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2012). Sachchidananda:existence,consciousness-force and bliss. In Letters on yoga I. http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/sachchidananda-existence-consciousness-force-and-bliss#p23</ref>

= Why Expand and Widenis it Important? =

The reasons for developing oneself into a full mental being is for enriching the faculties. This growth of the conscious being, an expansion, an increasing self-expression, a more and more harmonised development of his constituent members is the whole meaning and all the pith of human existence. It is for this meaningful development of consciousness by thought, will, emotion, desire, action and experience, leading in the end to a supreme divine self-discovery, that Man, the mental being, has entered into the material body.<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (1999). Self-surrender in works - the way of the gita. In synthesis of yoga I.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/self-surrender-in-works-the-way-of-the-gita#p2</ref>

In the process one experiences a delight of existence which is latent in oneself. It is the pressure of the supramental and spiritual worlds which is preparing to develop here the manifest power of the spirit and by it open our being on the physical plane into the freedom and infinity of the super conscient Divine <ref> Sri Aurobindo. (2005). The order of the worlds. In The life divine II. http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/the-order-of-the-worlds#p21</ref> 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>

The reasons for universalisation is for developing receptivity, equality and calmness. One can also take a step to be free from ego and ignorance. Absolved in the cosmic wideness, released from ego, his personality reduced to a point of working of the universal Force, himself calm, liberated, deathless in universality, motionless in the Witness Self even while outspread without limit in unending Space and Time, he can enjoy in the world the freedom of the Timeless.<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (1999). The master of the work. In The synthesis of yoga I.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-master-of-the-work#p24</ref>

A larger psychic and emotional relation with God and the world, more deep and plastic in its essence, more wide and embracing in its movements, more capable of taking up in its sweep the whole of life, is imperative.<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (1999). The ascent of the sacrifice II. In The synthesis of yoga I.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/23/the-ascent-of-the-sacrifice-i#p18</ref>

Wideness and calmness are the foundation of the Yogic consciousness and the best condition for inner growth and experience. If a wide calm can be established in the physical consciousness, occupying and filling the very body and all its cells, that can become the basis for its transformation; in fact, without this wideness and calmness the transformation is hardly possible.<ref>Sri Aurobindo. (2013). Peace - the basis of the sadhana. In Letters on yoga II.http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/peace-the-basis-of-the-sadhana#p18</ref>

= How Widen your consciousness to Expand one’s Consciousness? =the dimension of the earth and you will have a place for everything. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/13/aims-and-principles#p331</ref>

We start with the will = How 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> 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.Expand or Widen? =

Make all activities an outpouring For the growth of love the mind one can adopt various methods like - identifying oneself with something vast, doing many different things, unfolding oneself etc. The easiest way is to identify yourself with something vast. For instance, when you feel that you are shut up in a completely narrow and limited thought, will, consciousness, when you feel as though you were in a shell, then if you begin thinking about something very vast, as for example, the One immensity of the waters of an ocean, and if really you can think of this ocean and how it stretches out far, far, far, far, in All who all directions, it is so far, so far that one cannot see the Highest other shore, you cannot reach its end anywhere, neither behind nor in front nor to the right or left... it is wide, wide, wide, wide... one thinks of this and then you feel that you are floating on this sea, like that, and that there are no limits.Then you can widen your consciousness a little. <ref>The Mother. (2003). 29 September 1954. In Questions and answers (1954). http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2306/the-ascent-of-the29-sacrificeseptember-ii1954#p1p35</ref> Love for all forms and creatures around us, we break free from the shell of ego.

Surrender of our little selves - our personal By studying different subjects, learning different languages and traveling can help to expand and widen. It is like the people who cultivate their intelligence, who learn, read, think, compare, study. These people's minds widen and they are much vaster and more understanding than those who live without mental education, with a few petty ideas which sometimes are even contradictory in their consciousness and govern them totally because these are the only ones they have and they think these are unique ideaswhich should guide their life; these people are altogether narrow and limited whereas those who are trained and have studied—this at least widens their minds and they can see, desires compare ideas and attachments so see that all possible ideas are there in the Divine may take up everything. If we insist on our own ideas world and reasoningsthat it is a pettiness, greater Light an absurdity to be attached to a limited number of ideas and Knowledge cannot comeconsider them the exclusive expression of truth. <ref>The Mother. (2003). 23 February 1955. In Questions and answers (1955).http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/2807/science23-andfebruary-yoga1955#p9p6</ref>

To have an intense aspiration to expand. We must shift the stress of consciousness from external being to the inner being When one is hurt or still deeper to the psychic being. Be like a transmitting and receiving stationfaces something unpleasant, just visualising the wider the range , the more force it can hold.  By becoming more quieter and calmer without getting excited and agitated, we put ourselves tiny person one is in a capacity to receive from the higher forcesthis tiny earth; all unpleasantness is swept away. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/12-february-1951#p5</ref> = Outcomes of Expansion of Consciousness = Widening and expansion gives One realises that our little person which is a great joy of being, a clearer sense of truth and things and an inner silence. We see things second in a larger light and detect the origin and law of our feelings, emotions and sensationseternity. The thick layer of ego gets thinned and we Then suddenly you see ourselves reduced to a point of working of the universal force.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/22/out-utter ridiculousness of-the-sevenfold-ignorance-towards-the-sevenfold-knowledge#p16</ref> We are not carried away by the shocks and injuries, we deal with it in a calm equality. <ref>http://incarnatewordimportance attached to what happened to you.And in/cwsa/22/the-gnostic-being#p25</ref> = What Prevents Expansion space of Consciousness? = *The submentalthree minutes, subconscientif done properly, inconscient influence on natureall unpleasantness is swept away. <ref>http://incarnatewordEven a very deep pain can be swept away.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.* FearSimply a concentration like this, distrust and skepticism <ref>http://incarnateword.to place oneself in/cwm/07/26-october-1955#p3</ref>* Volatile vital with its desires, restlessness infinity and unstabilityeternity. <ref>http://incarnatewordEverything goes away.in/cwsa/31/wrong-movements-One comes out of-the-vital#p54</ref> = Methods and Practices to Expand One’s Consciousness = * Connection with the vastness it cleansed. It immediately takes you out of nature - gazing at the sky/stars/water body and expand into ityour little ego. <ref>http://incarnatewordThe Mother. (2003).in/cwm/06/29-september-September 1954#p35</ref>* Do many different things - music, painting, reading varied subjects, learning languages, explore/travel.* When bored or troubled - thinking of the immensity In Questions and eternity of space and time before usanswers (1954). <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/29-september-1954#p38</ref> * Participating in some work everyday as an expression of goodwill for all.

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