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Sep 10, 2026 · 5 min · 4 segments
In this talk Dayanandi covers the first of the five great stages of spiritual experience that develop and unfold as we progress on the Path to…
So we're going to talk a bit more about integration.
And Sangharaksha, he describes two different types of integration, which he calls one horizontal integration and one vertical type of integration.
And the horizontal integration seems to be an integration on a sort of level of the conscious mind.
It's drawing, well, in our conscious waking day, we seem to be sometimes different people.
Like we wake up with one person and one mood and then maybe by evening we're a different person, a different mood.
We're a different person maybe in different roles and activities, like we're the mother or we're the student.
We're a musician, we're an artist, we're a teacher.
We're maybe more rational sometimes and more emotional other times.
They're all sort of conscious.
They don't always talk to each other, but we do sort of know about them, although we forget about one when we're involved in the other often.
We can get quite surprised, can't we, by... how they crop up and yeah sometimes we can see these operating when we're a different person in different situations it can be a bit alarming sometimes can't it with a different with different friends maybe different things come out so we can become more integrated on that level by just gradually getting to know ourselves and getting to know all these different aspects of our being not getting taken by surprise as it were and that's the sort of horizontal level of integration And we have sort of blind spots, don't we? Not really knowing ourselves.
Yeah, so I think it's very valuable just to get to know ourselves on that sort of level.
And I think the more we do that, I guess the more we're freed up from conflict.
If these aspects of ourselves get into conflict with each other or don't agree, then in a way we're sort of, you know, butting ourselves up against a brick wall, losing a lot of energy, and we haven't got this sort of feeling of all the...
I suppose what we're aiming for is all our energies.
They may be different, different colours, different shapes, etc., but they're going in generally the same sort of direction, and there's a feeling of momentum and energy.
And I think it's a lot easier to be ethical if all those sides of us are talking to each other and they're on the same page and we're not getting taken by surprise by them.
So we're going to talk a bit more about integration.
And Sangharaksha, he describes two different types of integration, which he calls one horizontal integration and one vertical type of integration.
And the horizontal integration seems to be an integration on a sort of level of the conscious mind.
It's drawing, well, in our conscious waking day, we seem to be sometimes different people.
Like we wake up with one person and one mood and then maybe by evening we're a different person, a different mood.
We're a different person maybe in different roles and activities, like we're the mother or we're the student.
We're a musician, we're an artist, we're a teacher.
We're maybe more rational sometimes and more emotional other times.
They're all sort of conscious.
They don't always talk to each other, but we do sort of know about them, although we forget about one when we're involved in the other often.
We can get quite surprised, can't we, by... how they crop up and yeah sometimes we can see these operating when we're a different person in different situations it can be a bit alarming sometimes can't it with a different with different friends maybe different things come out so we can become more integrated on that level by just gradually getting to know ourselves and getting to know all these different aspects of our being not getting taken by surprise as it were and that's the sort of horizontal level of integration And we have sort of blind spots, don't we? Not really knowing ourselves.
Yeah, so I think it's very valuable just to get to know ourselves on that sort of level.
And I think the more we do that, I guess the more we're freed up from conflict.
If these aspects of ourselves get into conflict with each other or don't agree, then in a way we're sort of, you know, butting ourselves up against a brick wall, losing a lot of energy, and we haven't got this sort of feeling of all the...
I suppose what we're aiming for is all our energies.
They may be different, different colours, different shapes, etc., but they're going in generally the same sort of direction, and there's a feeling of momentum and energy.
And I think it's a lot easier to be ethical if all those sides of us are talking to each other and they're on the same page and we're not getting taken by surprise by them.
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