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positively as well as negatively - to old concepts and thereby prevent our orientation towards something new.
We never proceed to new levels of insight if we expect or demand that these new levels conform to old concepts we are familiar with.
Even if we feel uncomfortable or even embarrassed while confronting these emotionally charged concepts, this unfailingly leads to the discovery of new and superior levels. Exploring these new levels then makes the same fascination bubble up within us that in our early days inspired the discovery of our world with such enthusiasm.
When presented with new ideas, it pays not to remain on the level of sense-perception, but to make the effort to consciously advance these impulses to the far more intense comprehension the channel of external knowledge (sruti) offers.
This conscious effort to comprehend dissolves karmic blocks which we experience in form of prejudices and limiting ideas. A neutral or positive attitude towards anything new therefore is an essential prerequisite if we want to move on to more intense insights. Any formal learning or mere intellectual understanding of external knowledge does not produce this access - even if it is taken from scriptures that describe the expansion of consciousness.
It is irrelevant which sense we use to perceive external knowledge. As the means of transportation does not transfer its characteristics to the transported goods, so also external knowledge does not become influenced by the particular sense through which it reaches our consciousness.
Knowledge that makes us recognize and comprehend the unfoldment of our consciousness (samyag jnana), is a special variation of this type of knowledge. It arises if we allow our insights to be intuitively guided towards growth.
We experience this as a sudden upsurge of intense joy, - accompanied by dynamic insights that cause an intuitive re-arrangement of thoughts and emotions on levels previously unknown. We realize
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