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Spiritual progress means a great many different things to different people -- to be of service to others, pray, meditate, acquire healing powers, read and understand philosophic and religious texts. Others want direct spiritual experience -- to expand their consciousness, feel the reality of God, commune with the universe, discover their soul or realize a higher state of knowledge and bliss.

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  • Spiritual progress means a great many different things to different people -- to be of service to others, pray, meditate, acquire healing powers, read and understand philosophic and religious texts. Others want direct spiritual experience -- to expand their consciousness, feel the reality of God, commune with the universe, discover their soul or realize a higher state of knowledge and bliss.
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  • Spiritual progress means a great many different things to different people -- to be of service to others, pray, meditate, acquire healing powers, read and understand philosophic and religious texts. Others want direct spiritual experience -- to expand their consciousness, feel the reality of God, commune with the universe, discover their soul or realize a higher state of knowledge and bliss. Human Science is based on the premise that there is a spiritual dimension to reality which is the foundation and creative source of all that exists and that a progressive evolution in consciousness makes it possible for human beings to experience and give expression to this spiritual dimension in their personal lives. The varieties of spiritual experience are very great. They vary in form, direction, depth, height, intensity and permanency. They include such experiences as cosmic consciousness, a concrete sense of oneness with other beings, awareness of an infinite emptiness or void beyond the manifest universe, discovery of one’s soul or psychic being, realization of a transcendent Spirit or Conscious Being, contact with godheads from what Sri Aurobindo refers to as the Overmental plane, etc. Spiritual progress is the ultimate goal which any individual can choose to pursue. It is also the most difficult, because it requires us to give up our normal and habitual way of functioning and acquire a higher way of functioning which is supra-normal. In the words of The Mother, those who want to seriously pursue spiritual progress should make it not just one of the aims of their life, but the only aim.
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