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<h1>=Why is Self -Observation Summary</h1>Important?=

{|class="wikitable" style= "background-color: #efefff; width: 100%;"|To Overcome Ignorance==

=What is SelfIn our everyday life, we always look outwards into the appearance of things and get trapped into the surface ignorance and rarely turn inwards. Amongst other things, this comes with ignorance, unconsciousness, egoism. If we wish to overcome these limitations and discover & utilise our potentialities beyond the surface appearances, we need to observe ourselves. <ref> http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/18-Observation?=june-1958#p3</ref>

Man must know himself and discover and utilise all his potentialities: but to know himself and the world completely he must go behind his own and its exterior, he must dive deep below his own mental surface and the physical surface of Nature. This he can only do by knowing his inner mental, vital, physical and psychic being and its powers and movements and the universal laws and processes of the occult Mind and Life which stand behind the material front of the universe.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/18==Self-june-1958#p3</ref> awareness==

Your consciousness becomes a screen or mirror; but this is when you are in a state of contemplationThrough self-observation, a mere observer; when you are active, it is like a searchlight. You have only one learns to turn it ondistinguish different parts one from another, if you want to see luminously and examine penetratingly anything in any place. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/30-june-1929#p7</ref>...we discover and can know so that one may become clearly aware of the origin of the inner being movements that secretly thinks and perceives occur in usoneself, the vital being that secretly feels many impulses, reactions and acts upon life through us, the subtle-physical being conflicting wills that secretly receives and responds to the contacts of things through our body and its organs. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/21/knowledge-by-identity-and-separative-knowledge#p12</ref>By Observing one’s dreams, drive one can come to understand them and their significance to our inner lifeaction.<ref>h http://incarnateword.in/cwsacwm/3012/threethe-experiencesscience-of-the-inner-beingliving#p6p5</ref>

=Why is Self-Observation Important ?=In our everyday life, we always look outwards into the appearance of things and get trapped into the surface ignorance and rarely turn inwards to seek self and discover and utilize our potentials. ...if each element which comes with its ignorance, its unconsciousness, its egoism, is put before the will to change and one remains awake, compares, observes, studies and slowly acts, that becomes infinitely interesting, one makes marvellous and quite unexpected discoveries.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/19-april-1951#p14</ref>To Utilise One’s Full Potential==

To work for your perfection, the first step is Man must know himself and discover and utilise all his potentialities: but to become conscious of yourself, of know himself and the different parts of your being world completely he must go behind his own and their respective activities. You its exterior, he must learn to distinguish these different parts one from another, so that you may become clearly aware of dive deep below his own mental surface and the origin physical surface of the movements that occur in you, the many impulses, reactions and conflicting wills that drive you to actionNature. This he can only do by observing oneself.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1209/the18-science-ofjune-living1958#p5p3</ref>

'''==By Vigilance'''Cultivating the Inner Attitude of Witness== To observe oneself, first & foremost is cultivating an inner attitude of witnessing. Witness attitude is not the same as introspection. In introspection, one looks with one part of the surface mind at what happens in another part of the same surface mind. Whereas when we have the witness attitude, our consciousness frees itself from habitual entanglements in thoughts, feelings and sense-perceptions and becomes peaceful, silent, and capable of watching whatever happens in nature as a pure witness, sakshi, without bias, reaction or involvement. However, in the beginning, it helps to use the introspective mind, especially if a human has a well-development introspective mind. It helps in not getting carried away by thoughts and feelings. A man with a very developed with very identifies with this part of his mind and observes his own thoughts and studies their nature. That is a beginning which makes it easy for the full detachment to come.  Further, to develop the witness attitude it helps to Project oneself on a screen and then observe and see all that is moving there and how it moves and what happens.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/13-october-1954#p2</ref> Look at oneself objectively as a third person engaging in the surface level activities. One need not like or dislike the activity but sincerely observe the movements of nature. ==By Developing the Contact with the Psychic Being== The mental being within watches, observes and passes judgment on all that happens in you. The psychic does not watch and observe in this way like a witness, but it feels and knows spontaneously in a much more direct and luminous way by the very purity of its own nature and the divine instinct within it, and so, whenever it comes to the front it reveals at once what are the right and what the wrong movements in one’s nature. <ref>h http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/work-and-yoga#p45</ref>

'''By Developing Secondly, vigilance helps in self-observation. If one remains vigilant, not fearful, then with the increase of the Force upholding oneself, a Quiet Mind'''power of seeing and self-observation comes. The power of seeing is accompanied by the power of self-control and the power to reject the wrong turn or the wrong reaction when it comes. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/fear#p12</ref>

If the whole mind remains quiet and detached observing the vital movement, but not giving its assent, then to reject it becomes more easy. This established quietude and detachment of the mind marks always ==By Developing a great step forward made in the sadhana. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-vital-and-other-levels-of-being#p45</ref>Quiet Mind==

'''By Developing Thirdly, quietude and detachment of the Witness Attitude'''mind helps in self-observation. If the whole mind remains quiet and detached, then to observe the vital movement without giving assent and rejecting it becomes more easy. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/the-vital-and-other-levels-of-being#p45</ref>

In order to become conscious, one needs to develop within a part with a witness attitude that observes and is not carried away by thoughts and feelings. A man with a very developed with very developed introspective mind identifies with this part of his mind and observes his own thoughts and studies their nature. That is a beginning which makes it easy for ==By Exercising the full detachment Will to come. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/30/inner-detachment-and-the-witness-attitude#p</ref>Change==

The process of By putting each element that enters our consciousness before the will to change while remaining awake, comparing, observing, studying and slowly acting, we are able to hone our ability at self-observation should be objective and one should look at make interesting discoveries within oneself as a third person engaging in the surface level activities. One need not like or dislike the activity but sincerely observe the movements of nature.

'''==By Education of Educating the Senses'''==

By the education of the senses the growth of one's general education is aided.In factThe senses can, they should in particular, be used for this, as instruments of observation, control and knowledge. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/31-march-1954#p13</ref>ConsequentlyFor instance, all life the way one keeps one’s room is an education pursued more or less consciously, more or less willinglyoften a reflection of where one is in one’s consciousness. In certain cases Taking this education will encourage feedback, and consciously trying to use the movements that express sense of colour and form, order and organisation helps develop the lightability to use one’s senses a logical, in othersrational, on the contraryuseful way. Going further, those that express it also helps discover who one is in the shadowconscious way of designing one’s room. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/1206/vital31-educationmarch-1954#p6p13</ref>

==Difficulties in Self-Observation==

There Man always rushes into external action and looks for reasons to not have time to observe himself and turn inward, thus it is “danger important to be wary of ego” in observing the movements and attaching the sense of ‘I’’to the process of self-observing and not going behind the surface level I“escape attitude” within oneself.

The mental being within watches, observes and passes judgment Instead it is important to focus on all that happens in you. The psychic does not watch and observe in this way like a witness, but it feels and knows spontaneously in a much more direct and luminous way by the very purity of its own nature good part and the divine instinct within give itstrength, and so, whenever it comes to whilst not denying the front it reveals at once what are the right limitations and what the wrong movements in your nature. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/28/the-jivatman-in-the-integral-yoga#p40</ref>