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VARIOUS ASPECTS OF SPIRITUAL TRAINING
of Aurobindo and Aurobindanian system to see whether they got it or not. But we talk about the consciousness which is far above that of the supra- mental consciousness and which is the same as that of the Ultimate.
The Ultimate consciousness or the zero consciousness or nothing consciousness or nirvana consciousness as Buddha talked about and much more than that is what we are talking about. Now will we be coming to the borders of Buddhism when we talk about Nirvana. The meditational exercises of Buddism are as follows. In their system of sadhana they give various logics, first thing is one has to be conscious of his being a man, meditate on this particular thing, develop the qualities of man. This process takes about 15-16 years of practice, then one starts the meditations connected with the Metha meditation. Metha meditation is superior, Karuna is called as compassion and Mytri is called as Metha. Meditation on metha is for 8 years, then a man is permitted to meditate upon the Nirguna. Nirgunopasana is not something that is permitted in our tradition. To start with they said one has to go through all these things, understand the uselessness of all these things then come to this system of
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