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Stop Trashing

Explore how the true self wants to express through you

The impostor, the false self, is often very critical. Sri Aurobindo taught that the key is to replace this false self with the joy and fulfillment found in the true self. He emphasized the descent — going up into higher consciousness and then bringing it down thoroughly into daily life. Discover how the descent enables you to live in the peace, power, knowledge and joy of the true self.

First Steps, Sri Aurobindo

The Descent

Great blessings and grace develop as you dwell more in your true being. Sri Aurobindo called it the descent — going up into higher consciousness and bringing it down thoroughly. The descent is bringing spiritual awareness into the mind, heart, life force, body and senses. Higher consciousness comes over your whole being with peace, power, knowledge, love and spiritual joy.

  • Patanjali:  Yoga is releasing the counterfeit self and living in, and from, the true self.
  • Sri Aurobindo:  Yoga is replacing the impostor with the soul.
  • Sense how the true self would like to express
  • Aurobindo emphasized the descent. After experiencing higher consciousness, we bring it down joyfully and attentively into daily life
  • A full and true descent transforms, bringing profound and sustained change

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