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whole consciousness. No, because the contact All knowledge rushes on him like a sea:
now would be in a different denouement Transmuted by the white spiritual ray
through a growth in consciousness. The He walks in naked heavens of joy and calm,
infant is in undifferentiated contact with Sees the God-face and hears transcendent
the primordial base. The aspirant who has speech… (9)”
embarked on a scheme of personal growth
has progressed through differentiation to References
first identify with the cosmic consciousness
and then to experience the transcendental 1. Rogers C. Freedom to Learn. Columbus, OH:
consciousness. Charles E. Merrill; 1969.
2. Levin DM. The Listening Self. Personal Growth,
Of course, during that ascent, the aspirant could Social Change and the Closure of Metaphysics.
get stalled or fall back to the primordial stage of Abingdon UK: Routledge; 1989, p. 45.
infancy. That would be a good example of
spiritual emergency where the one who has 3. Ibid., p. 46.
fallen could exhibit regressive or psychotic-like
symptoms with an undecipherable language 4. Ibid., p. 47.
— a surrealistic neologism that would puzzle
everyone! 5. Ibid.

But the one who has succeeded to reach 6. Ibid., p. 84.
the higher echelons of consciousness could
hear the sound at its origin, the mantra that 7. Ibid., p. 48.
revivifies and beyond it the AUM, the primal
sound of creation that symbolises the final 8. Enright, DJ. The Oxford Book of Death. Oxford:
transfiguration: Oxford University Press; 1987, p. 331.

“This word was seed of all the things to be… 9. Sri Aurobindo. The Complete Works of Sri Aurobindo,
As when the mantra sinks in Yoga’s ear, Volume 33. Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram
Its message enters stirring the blind brain Trust; 1997, p. 375.
And keeps in the dim ignorant cells its sound;
The hearer understands a form of words — Dr. Soumitra Basu
And, musing on the index thought it holds,
He strives to read it with the labouring mind,
But finds bright hints, not the embodied truth:
Then, falling silent in himself to know
He meets the deeper listening of his soul:
The Word repeats itself in rhythmic strains:
Thought, vision, feeling, sense, the body’s self
Are seized unutterably and he endures
An ecstasy and an immortal change;
He feels a Wideness and becomes a Power,

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