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THE NOTION OF GROWTH
Even if confronting these emotionally loaded concepts might initially feel uncomfortable or even embarrassing, it unfailingly leads us to discover new and more comprehensive levels. Exploring these new levels then causes the same fascination bubble up within us that in our early days infused our discovery of the world with such enthusiasm.
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When new ideas confront us, 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 that the channel of external knowledge (sruti) offers.
This conscious effort dissolves karmic blocks that we experience as prejudices and limiting concepts. A neutral or positive attitude towards anything new is therefore an essential prerequisite if we want to move on to more intense insights. Any formal learning or purely intellectual understanding of external knowledge does not produce this access - even if it is taken from scriptures describing the expansion of consciousness.
Through which one of our senses we perceive external knowledge is irrelevant for the insights we gain. 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 guided by our notion of growth.
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We experience this as a sudden upsurge of intense joy, - accompanied by dynamic insights that cause an intuitive rearrangement of thoughts and emotions on levels previously
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