... Sweet Mother, "later" means when? When will you explain? Explain when? I don't know, my children! I did not understand very well "the real meaning of activity and passivity in sadhana". You don't know what activity and passivity are? Do you know what the two words mean? Page 111 Yes. Yes! So, when you are active, what does it mean? When I work. Work ? Good! And ...
... cannot be many. Then you say, let me put one and many together; where the two meet without contradicting is the realm of the Truth. Take activity and passivity which cannot be conceived together by the mind; a plane of consciousness on which activity and passivity can be together. That is the realm of the truth. The mind divides, the truth unites and reconciles. Now there, is pure mind substance, pure ...
... special value. But unless one is practising yoga, a regular discipline, usually one does not often contact this source; one draws from the same level or from below. Source Activity and Passivity in Sadhana An active movement is one in which you throw your force out, that is, when something comes out from you—in a movement, a thought, a feeling—something which goes out from you ...
... the Lord in whom we have to live, the supreme Self in us and in all. The Immutable is the silent, actionless, equal, unchanging self which Page 378 we reach when we draw back from activity to passivity, from the play of consciousness and force and the seeking of delight to the pure and constant basis of consciousness and force and delight through which the Highest, free, secure and unattached... semi-Sankhya theory which saw only the Quiescent and nothing else in the world except a constant combination of the five elements and the three modes of inconscient Energy lighting up their false activity by the consciousness of the Quiescent in which it is reflected, is not the whole truth of the Brahman. We are not a mere mass of changing mind-stuff, life-stuff, body-stuff taking different forms... personality, and this we have to know and preserve in order that the Infinite may manifest Himself through it according to His will in whatever range and for whatever purpose of His eternal cosmic activity. And if we regard existence from the standpoint of the possible eternal and infinite relations of this One from whom all things proceed, these Many of whom the One is the essence and the origin ...
... the second part shed light on the first and have its effect. Allowing the Lord to do everything is an act expected from you: it is you who have to allow Him -activity and not passivity is demanded of you at the start. Later too, the activity has to go on in order to make you passively lie in His wonder-working hands. This amounts to Sri Aurobindo's reminder of "the false notion that the divine Power... reality and so may be considered "illusory". Sri Aurobindo's addition to the ancient formula is the word tapas. He speaks not simply of chit but of chit-tapas, "consciousness-force", suggesting "activity" and therefore "creativity" as inherent in "consciousness". Thus the creation of worlds by the Divine out of Himself is a natural act and automatically confers reality - however phenomenal and secondary... Divine Mother incarnate. Page 212 Such intimate knowledge of the world-process, such illumined understanding of human nature, such evocation of the inmost soul to suffuse the commonest activity, such invocation of a supreme Light and Love from a transcendent Reality to awaken that Reality's own hidden counterpart in ignorant mind and stumbling life-energy and imperfect material existence ...
... organization of great passivity and low physical and mental sensibility creates the characteristic of a quiet unimpassioned cruelty,—the savage is, as a rule, calmly cruel. The Red-Indian's stoicism, impassivity, immobility, quiet endurance of pain are merely the inertia of the tamasic mind and body systematized and become part of his tribal morality. But the height of passivity is reached in his in... emotional reactions are also weak and primitive; in their predominantly physical character and in the helpless spontaneousness of their response to impressions they reveal the domination of tamasic passivity. The centres of individuality, a characteristically sattwo-rajasic function, are too weak as yet to control, regulate and rationalize the response. Hence the emotional nature shows itself on one side... multifold activity; they are present as much in psychic and spiritual evolution as in the physical; and so all-important are they that all activity of any kind whatsoever, all life mental, vital, physical are said to be merely the natural operation of the three gunas interacting upon each other. These three gunas are called in the Sankhya terminology sattwa, rajas, tamas ; comprehension, activity, passivity ...
... comes only in the inertia of the mechanical mentality. This mechanical passivity has to be got rid of, all has to become an ideal ҫamamaya activity. Passivity of the mind has now served its purpose, the mind has become a silent channel; only the obstruction of the physical brain atmosphere preserves the dull habit of this passivity, a tamasic persistence in an inert misrepresentation of the old ҫanti... recovering force and coherent ideality, though with difficulty, yet rapidly. 28 June 1919 Today, a rapid progress in T² is intended. Incertitude must be largely replaced by certitude, the activities taken up which are still left to the relics of the [intellectuality]; 2 all universalised in the blaze of the ideality. Page 1101 The foundation of continuity in K.A is now securely... jyoti involved in it), emitting the jyoti, the other the intellectual reflection. The suryamandala is the symbol of the vijnana. The ideality was of this character. From the shama enveloping the mind activity came the initial blaze of the ideality in the trikaldrishti tapas. The rest,—thought-speech, perceptive thought—acted with the same anandamaya shama emitting jyoti. Torpor of the kamananda in the ...
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