... writing he called "script". As explained above, this was similar to automatic writing in that it came as a communication from another source, but differed from automatic writing in coming from a source that he considered to be higher and more reliable. It should be noted, however, that the distinction of "script" from ordinary automatic writing was not always strictly maintained. Some writings from a lower... A UTOMATIC W RITING Sri Aurobindo first tried automatic writing—defined by him as writing not "dictated or guided by the writer's conscious mind"—towards the end of his stay in Baroda (that is, around 1904). He took it up "as an experiment as well as an amusement" after observing "some very extraordinary automatic writing" done by his brother Barin; "very much struck and interested"... political career (1906-10) and afterwards. In this part are published one example from 1907, an entire book received as automatic writing in 1910, and a number of examples from two years during which he also kept the Record: 1914 and 1920. His "final conclusion" about automatic writing was that though there are sometimes phenomena which point to the intervention of beings of another plane ...
... to experiment with these phenomena, he began to practise the planchette and automatic writing. I too would Page 102 sometimes join him in these sessions. Some of the results were truly startling." "Yesterday I mentioned the planchette and automatic writing, didn't I? In Baroda, we practised automatic writing a good deal. A few of us would sit around a table, silently. One person would... an English which should normally be beyond the reach of one who had studied only up to matriculation." "But how are such things possible? Is it the souls of these great beings who help in automatic writing?" "Souls? Certainly not, because souls do not linger so many years in the earth-atmosphere. Actually those early experiments with occultism roused my interest sufficiently for me to try them... beings of the supra-physical planes, who may pass under the old names. It is rare for the being to return clothed in its own sheaths which it had cast off earlier. The phenomenon that occurs in automatic writing does not concern merely these subtle sheaths of human beings. In some cases its source or inspiration is directly from beings of various non-physical though usually not very elevated planes. Most ...
... political follower, and next as a disciple of his, relates the following in his reminiscences, published in the Mother India: "All know what is automatic writing. Sri Aurobindo showed us, rather made us hear specimens not of automatic writing, but of automatic speech. At about eight in the evening, we used to sit around him in a room. The lights would be turned off. A sudden hush would fall... sister, Sarojini, and his wife, Mrinalini, were staying with him at Baroda. Comfortable and care-free in the family of his brother, Barindra now turned his romantic mind to Planchette and automatic writing. In those days these spiritualistic séances were almost a universal hobby. We know that the great poet, Yeats, took keen interest in them, and Rabindranath tells us in his autobiography that... general psychical research in the West, we reproduce a few words from Sri Aurobindo which, we hope, the readers will find enlightening: "Sri Aurobindo totally denies that he used the automatic writing for any kind of moral or other edification of those around him; that would have meant that it was spurious and a sort of a trick, for no writing can be automatic if it is dictated or guided ...
... convincing. Because we often write without noticing what we are writing, mechanically, therefore, says this profound thinker, automatic writing must be the same kind of mental process. The one little objection to this sublimely felicitous argument is that automatic writing has no resemblance whatever to mechanical writing. When a an writes mechanically, he does not notice what he is writing; when he... unintentionally to write the date of the last year even in this year's letters. In one case it is the revival, in the other the persistence of an old habit. What has this to do with the phenomena of automatic writing which are of an entirely different class and not attended by absent-mindedness at all? Mr. Maskelyne makes no attempt to explain the writing of facts in their nature unknowable to the medium,... remarkable prophecy was obviously neither a successful inference nor a fortunate guess, nor even a surprising coincidence. It is a convincing and indisputable prophecy. Its appearance in the automatic writing can only be explained either by the assumption that Mr. Stead has a subliminal self, calling Page 45 itself Julia, gifted with an absolute and exact power of prophecy denied to the ...
... room—and of the younger group one or two sat on the same bed and the rest sat on the floor. The older person had a pencil in his hand and a sheet of paper in front. He had been doing some automatic writing and reading it aloud. The youths listened intently as he spoke and were bothering with their endless questions the spirits who came presumably from the other worlds. Page 131 ... and potatoes and halwa obtained from a corner shop in Grey Street. He would be busy for sometime with his work connected with the papers. Then he would come and chat with us and there was automatic writing almost every day... About this period Sri Aurobindo had been studying Tamil. A South Indian gentleman used to come to this Shyampukur house and gave him his Tamil lessons in one of the office... Now to return to my story. One day, in the month of February, in the year 1910, in a room upstairs at No. 4 Shyampukur Lane, at about eight in the evening, Sri Aurobindo was doing some automatic writing and reading it Page 134 aloud to some of us young people. If anyone were to suppose that this being the writing of spirits, the thing was entirely serious from the beginning ...
... Once begun it caught hold of everyone, and they would sit daily for two to three hours. Barin says that among all those who sat for it, the automatic writing came mostly or more easily to him and to Sejda. Sri Aurobindo himself practised automatic writing for a time at Calcutta and at Pondicherry. The book Yogic Sadhan was written at Pondicherry in that fashion —the 'spirit' was Raja Rammohan... an experiment as well as an amusement and nothing else," stated Sri Aurobindo. "I may mention here the circumstances under which it was first taken up. Barin had done some very extraordinary automatic writing at Baroda in a very brilliant and beautiful English style and remarkable for certain predictions which came true and statements of Page 247 fact which also proved to be true... lecture on politics...." Years later, during a talk with the attendant disciples, Sri Aurobindo gave several additional details of sittings at Baroda. "Barin at that time was trying some automatic writing," he recollected. "Once a spirit purporting to be that of my father came and made some prophecies. He said that he had once given a golden watch to Barin. Barin tried hard to remember and at last ...
... that’s all. The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 8 February 1951 What kind of forces can be called up by using the planchette, and how is it done? Oh! Oh!… Do you mean automatic writing? Yes, Mother. That depends on the people who do it. Sometimes there are no forces at all! It is the mental and vital vibrations of the people who use the planchette, and it is their own... most people do not see what is going on in this vital atmosphere, for it is not especially pleasant; but if they have the presumption to want to come into contact with it and set about trying automatic writing or table-turning or… indeed, anything of this kind, out of an unhealthy curiosity, well, what happens is that one of these small entities or several of them have fun at their expense and collect... to people that what they were evoking was nothing but themselves; so I had a little fun, simply with a concentration of the will, tapping the furniture, making tables walk and, well!… As for automatic writing, you only have to withdraw your conscious will into yourself, to let your hand go—just like this (gesture)—and leave it free, and then the hand will begin to make movements; but there is a little ...
... 30 July 1958 Sweet Mother, what kind of forces can be called up by using the planchette, and how is it done? Oh! Oh!... Do you mean automatic writing? Yes, Mother. That depends on the people who do it. Sometimes there are no forces at all! It is the mental and vital vibrations of the people who use the planchette, and it is their own... most people do not see what is going on in this vital atmosphere, for it is not especially pleasant; but if they have the presumption to want to come into contact with it and set about trying automatic writing or table-turning or... indeed, anything of this kind, out of an unhealthy curiosity, well, what happens is that one of these small entities or several of them have fun at their expense and collect... to people that what they were evoking was nothing but themselves; so I had a little fun, simply with a concentration of the will, tapping the furniture, making tables walk and, well!... As for automatic writing, you only have to withdraw your conscious will into yourself, to let your hand go—just like this ( gesture )—and leave it free, and then the hand will begin to make movements; but there is a little ...
... the office; often four or five people would sit together and try automatic writing. One has, in that experiment, to sit with a blank mind, pen in hand, and allow a free action to some force that may intend to write through one. When Sri Aurobindo went to Pondicherry he spent some time there as well experimenting with automatic writing. He discovered that what one receives in this way is not necessarily... forces. Sometimes Sri Aurobindo was so late at the automatic writing sittings in Calcutta that the trams stopped plying and a horse carriage had to be hired for him to take him to his uncle's house in College Square. This is how he describes the circumstance of his going to Chandernagore: "I was in the Karmayogin office [trying some automatic writing] and we knew about the search that was going to ...
... spiritual), occult, and so on.’ 6 This was a world in the shadows of public life, as it were, but the object of widespread interest and busily frequented. It was the world of mediums, spiritism, automatic writing, poltergeist phenomena, alchemy, astrology, channelling, white and black magic, Satanism. As Peter Washington writes: ‘Churches were in decline. Atheists and materialists attacked them from without... lower vital world and who find their amusement in making fools of the by-and-large ignorant and defenceless human beings. ‘Those who indulge in this kind of practice [e.g. table-turning or automatic writing], which derives from an unhealthy curiosity, get what they deserve. You should know that the atmosphere we live in is full of a great number of small vital entities which are born of unsatisfied... people do not see what is going on in this vital atmosphere, for it is not exactly pleasant. But if out of presumption they want to come into contact with [that atmosphere] and set about trying automatic writing or table-turning, or anything else of that kind, out of an unhealthy curiosity, well, what happens is that one or several of those small entities have fun at their expense. They gather all the ...
... have to be mentioned to show how little reliance can be placed on the details of Ramchandra's narrative. His statement about the automatic writing is only an imaginative inference and in fact quite groundless. Sri Aurobindo totally denies that he used the automatic writing for any kind of moral or other edification of those around him; that would have meant that it was spurious and a sort of trick,... The writing was done as an experiment as well as an amusement and nothing else. I may mention here the circumstances under which it was first taken up. Barin had done some very extraordinary automatic writing at Baroda in a very brilliant and beautiful English style and remarkable for certain predictions which came true and statements of fact which also proved to be true although unknown to the persons ...
... Vivekananda was explaining to him. I have spoken of automatic writing; there is a parallel phenomenon, automatic speech. That is also possible. .When you speak, it happens personally you do not speak, in other words, you make no effort, do not exercise your brain or your mind, all remains still, even your tongue, like the pencil in automatic writing. Sri Aurobindo explained how he arrived at this achievement... forces and influences and know them and even guide their action. Sri Aurobindo has spoken of this mystery and I think I have referred to it in my Reminiscences. Sri Aurobindo himself used to do automatic writing, as perhaps many of you , the older ones particularly, know it. I will explain. Sri Aurobindo used to allow these other-worldly forces and invisible beings to enter into his physical personality ...
... 20 The Gambler and the Spirit "Oh, I could write you a book with all the examples I've had of those things," said Mother talking about the forces one contacts through automatic writing or other kindred means. And as was her wont, she first cleared the decks. "It all depends on the person practising it." But to be frank, she viewed all this spiritism with a rather scornful... that vital atmosphere, for it's not too pleasant." But there are some very cocksure people about who would, at any cost, come into contact with that atmosphere. So "they set about trying automatic writing or table-turning or . . . well, any similar kind of thing, just out of unhealthy curiosity." In case they do manage to get in contact with those small entities then what happens is that the... passed in Monte Carlo gambling at roulette and the other part he lived in the South of France, and speculated on the Stock Exchange. "Now, there really was someone using him —it was through automatic writing —using him and, for years together, giving him absolutely precise, exact information. His relation with his 'spirit' was of a very practical nature. When he played roulette it would tell him, ...
... her and in her planchette. SRI AUROBINDO: There may be something as she goes into trance, which means that she becomes a medium. SATYENDRA: She does automatic writing—just like your book, Yogic Sadhan. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, in automatic writing one becomes a medium of some power. I don't think that whatever is written in that way is necessarily correct or right. At least I haven't seen it to be ...
... requests and answer questions. Apart from these mediums, one can, it is said, use "planchettes" to establish communication Page 56 with the disembodied souls through what is called "automatic writing". Now the question is: How much truth is there in these claims of the "psychical" researchers? Do the "disembodied" beings really exist and come and communicate? Or, who knows, there is... connection the sadhana-opuscule, Yogic Sadhan, of Sri Aurobindo. The Mahayogi has publicly stated that he himself was not the author of this precious book; rather, he received the whole thing in "automatic writing". There is no use multiplying instances here. But this is a well-attested fact that all those who seriously deal with psychical research have often found that a plank of their doors or ...
... feels in his experience as if he were grasped and held by a superior power. He points out that this latter peculiarity connects mystical states with certain phenomena such as prophetic speech, automatic writing, or the mediumistic trance. 6 William James has provided in his book extremely Page 87 illuminating examples of mysticism. These include those of Malwida von Meysenbug, Walt... yogic experience, a distinction is made between subliminal experience and spiritual experience, — a distinction which William James does not offer in his book. Strictly speaking, experience of automatic writing, or mediumistic trance are experiences related the subliminal consciousness consisting of the inner mind, inner vital force and certain physical consciousness. Spiritual experiences relate to ...
... home. Here in Shyampukur and about the same time, there began for us another kind of education, another type of experience, a rather strange experience I should say. Everybody knows about automatic writing, that is, where the hand of the writer goes on automatically writing without any kind of impulsion, desire or direction on his own part; he remains neutral and lets himself go. It is said... Page 394 mind then abdicates. But that is a matter for argument. Let me here describe what actually happened. Sri Aurobindo showed to us, or rather made us hear, not examples of automatic writing but of automatic speech. About eight in the evening, we would take our seats around him. The lights were put out and all was silent. We kept still for a while. Then slowly there came a voice from ...
... home. Here in Shyampukur and about the same time, there began for us another kind of education, another type of experience, a rather strange experience I should say. Everybody knows about automatic writing, that is, where the hand of the writer goes on automatically writing without any kind of impulsion, desire or direction on his own part; he remains neutral and lets himself go. It is said... nt mind as the waking mind then abdicates. But that is a matter for argument. Let me here describe what actually happened. Sri Aurobindo showed us, or rather made us hear, not examples of automatic writing but of automatic speech. About eight in the evening, we would take our seats around him. The lights were put out and all was silent. We kept still for a while. Then slowly there came a voice ...
... and then what is called "automatic writing", that is to say, writing by spirits, as they are named. I am not sure whether the persons mentioned were the only ones present, there might have been a few others too. I gathered different versions from different people on the matter. It is said that Bharati also used to be in those meetings. Now, what does automatic writing mean? It is usually done ...
... activities was spent in the house of Raja Subodh Malick or at the Grey Street house. In the Karma Yogin office he used to sit after the office hours till late chatting with a few persons or trying automatic writing. Strange dictations used to be received sometimes : one of them was the following : "Moni (Suresh Chakarvarty) will bomb Sir Edward Grey when he will come as the Viceroy of India." In later... Chandranagore he entered upon an intense period of spiritual sadhana and for a few months he refused to receive anyone. After a time he used to sit down to talk in the evening and on some days tried automatic writing. Yogic Sadhana – a small book – was the result. In 1913 Sri Aurobindo removed to Rue Francois Martin No. 41 where he used to receive persons at fixed times. This was generally in the morning ...
... hear their stories: "I was this, I was that, I did this", or in séances the so-called spirits come and speak to you. A large number of people indulge in this playing with "spirits", practising automatic writing and particularly in communicating with spirits. Now, there are garrulous spirits. They come to many places at the same time, especially people like Napoleon (I do not know why they have a partiality... that have remained coagulated and try to manifest and reappear. Sometimes they are small beings of the vital world, not very well-disposed; as soon as they see people playing at such things—automatic writing, spirit-communication—they come and play. And as they are in a domain from where it is easy to read human thought, they tell you very well what you have in your head. They respond to what you ...
... now and then what is called “automatic writing”, that is to say, writing by spirits, as they are named. I am not sure whether the persons mentioned were the only ones present, there might have been a few others too. I gathered different versions from different people on the matter. It is said that Bharati also used to be in those meetings. Now, what does automatic writing mean? It is usually done at ...
... now and then what is called "automatic writing", that is to say, writing by spirits, as they are named. I am not sure whether the persons mentioned were the only ones present, there might have been a few others too. I gathered different versions from different people on the matter. It is said that Bharati also used to be in those meetings. Now, what does automatic writing mean? It is usually done at ...
... then what is called "automatic writing", that is to say, writing by spirits, as they are named. I am not sure whether the persons mentioned were the only ones present, there might have been a few others too. I gathered different versions from different people on the matter. It is said that Bharati also used to be in those meetings. Now, what does automatic writing mean? It is usually ...
... phenomena such as prophetic speech, automatic writing, or the mediumistic trance. It may be remarked that in the strict path of yogic experience, a distinction is made between subliminal experience or experience proper to occultism, and spiritual experience, — a distinction, which William James does not offer in his book. Strictly speaking, experiences of automatic writing or mediumistic trance are experiences ...
... utterances as the mark by which this Yogi could be recognised and all these were found in the letters to my wife.' At Shankara Chettiar's house Sri Aurobindo made some further experiments with automatic writing which he had tried out occasionally at Baroda and Calcutta. He did not use a planchette but generally just held a pen and, in his own words, 'a disembodied being wrote off what he wished, using... for its views. Although it ran into several editions Sri Aurobindo did not want it to remain in print and around 1927 it was withdrawn from circulation. Sri Aurobindo's final 'conclusion' about automatic writing was that 'though there are sometimes phenomena which point to the intervention of beings of another plane, not always or often of a high order, the mass of such writings comes from a dramatizing ...
... was spent in the house of Raja Subodh Mallick or at the Grey Street house. In the Karma login office he used to sit after the office hours till late chatting with a few persons or trying automatic writing. Strange dictations used to be received sometimes: one of them was the following: "Moni (Suresh Chakravarty) will bomb Sir Edward Grey when he will come as the Viceroy of India." In later years... ore he entered upon, a period of intense spiritual sadhana and for a few months he refused to receive anyone. After a time he used to sit down to talk in the evening and on some days tried automatic writing. Yogie Sadhana— a small book—was the result. In 1913 Sri Aurobindo removed to No. 41 ..Rue Francois Martin where In used to receive persons at fixed times. This was generally in ...
... activities was spent in the house of Raja Subodh Mallick or at the Grey Street house. In the Karma login office he used to sit after the office hours till late chatting with a few persons or trying automatic writing. Strange dictations used to be received sometimes: one of them was the following: "Moni (Suresh Chakravarty) will bomb Sir Edward Grey when he will come as the Viceroy of India." In later years... Chandernagore he entered upon, a period of intense spiritual sadhana and for a few months he refused to receive anyone. After a time he used to sit down to talk in the evening and on some days tried automatic writing. Yogie Sadhana— a small book—was the result. In 1913 Sri Aurobindo removed to No. 41 ..Rue Francois Martin where Page 10 In used to receive persons at fixed times. This was ...
... exploded superstition of the rationalist mind; psychology in its recent inquiries has shown that this supposed impersonal observation of pure objective facts and impartial conclusion from them, an automatic writing of truth on the blank paper of the pure mind is a myth; it has shown that the personal factor is inevitable; we think according to what we are. (2.) Russell is not, I believe, a great scientist ...
... a single group of facts. Modern speculation and research have brought in this doubt to overhang all psychical theory and generalisation. We know for instance that in the phenomena, say, of automatic writing or of communication from the dead, it is disputed whether the phenomena proceed from outside, from disembodied minds, or from within, from the subliminal consciousness, Page 261 or ...
... Record of Yoga Automatic Writing, c. 1920 Manek. Manek is the name of the old introducer of the writing. Let us get rid of him at once. My name does not greatly matter. I am a spirit of the higher realms not present on the earth, but communicating from above. First, let me tell the purpose of the script. It is to open a first means of embodied ...
... also more irresistibly than the others." (Sri Aurobindo) × Yogic Sadhana , a book written in automatic writing by Sri Aurobindo. ...
... power for revolutionary activities. He gave me a violent Mantra of Kali, with "Jahi Jahi" to repeat. I did so, but, as I had expected, it came to nothing. Barin at that time was trying some automatic writing. Once a spirit purporting to be that of my father came and made some prophecies. He said that he had once given a golden watch to Barin. Barin tried hard to remember and at last found that it ...
... by a. superior power. This latter Peculiarity connects mystical states with certain definite Phenomena of secondary or alternative personality, such Page 129 as prophetic speech, automatic writing, or the mediumistic trance. When these latter conditions are well pronounced, however, there may be no recollection whatever of the phenomenon, and it may have no significance for the subject's ...
... itself—had totally dissolved, the voice of the Supreme Divine was heard and His impulsion recorded. The Prayers and Meditations hereafter were written through such an impulsion; it was truly automatic writing—the instrument did not know what it was writing and even did not understand the meaning of the recorded words, it was merely a copyist, it looked at the writing as a third person would. ...
... the great figures of the world could not have been after a chimera and if there was such a Power Page 94 why not use it for the freedom of the country? Barin used to do automatic writing at Baroda. Once the spirit of my father appeared on being called. He gave some remarkable prophecies. When asked to give proof about his identity he mentioned the fact of having given a golden ...
... 232-33. ² Cf. A. B. Purani, Evening Talks , Third Series (Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram,. 1966), pp. 88-89. Page 143 used to be séances in the evening in which automatic writing was done. The book Yogic Sadhan was written in this way. At the rate of one chapter per day, the book was finished in a week or eight days. On the last day it seemed to Sri Aurobindo that a ...
... during the Alipur Trial. 6 Besides rendering some financial assistance, Rangaswami Iyenger also bore the cost of publication of Yogic Sadhan, which Sri Aurobindo had composed in a spell of automatic writing under the immediate influence of Rammohan Roy. Sri Aurobindo disclaimed personal responsibility for the views given in the book, and in fact it was withdrawn from circulation after 1927. ...
... compelling eminence after the first suppression of the nationalist movement and his solitary confinement at Mandalay. In after-years, Sri Aurobindo testified to Barin's "very extraordinary automatic writing at Baroda in a very brilliant and beautiful English style and remarkable for certain predictions which came true and statements of fact which also proved to be true although unknown to the persons ...
... dinner, we used to go up on the terrace overlooking the sea front. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother stood aside for a talk and we stood by ourselves. Sometimes we would request Sri Aurobindo for some automatic writing after dinner. The writings that came through his hand in those days were frightfully interesting. I remember somebody came and began to give an analysis of the character of each one of us. 9 ...
... people who were there, of the circumstances, of the events.... 17 But psychic memories are beyond the ken of the vital entities that respond during sessions of spirit-communication or automatic writing. And since these entities "are in a domain from where it is easy to read human thought, they tell you very well what you have in your head. They respond to what you expect." 18 The talk ...
... 8 7. A.B. Purani: Evening Talks, 2nd series. 8. For the first three months of their stay at Shankar Chetty's house, they used to have Seances of an evening, in which automatic writing was done both as an experiment and an amusement. The book, Yogic Sadhan, was written during some of these Seances. Sri Aurobindo said in one of his evening talks, "When I was writing it, every ...
... visitor. Biren Ghosh, Saurin Bose and Ramchandra Majumdar turned up almost daily. Amar Chatterji, Hem Sen and several others came once in a while. Almost every evening Sri Aurobindo would do some automatic writing—or, as Nolini puts it, automatic speech. Then by nine-thirty or ten he would leave for College Square. The young men would see him off at the Grey Street corner Page 503 where ...
... এইগুলি থাকলে সে জ্যোতি মহাজ্যোতিও হবে না, স্থায়ীও হবে না ৷ যত সাধু মহাপুরুষদের কথা লিখেছ, ওসব আমার কেমন কেমন ঠেকে, যেন যা চাই, এর মধ্যে তা পাচ্ছি না ৷ দয়ানন্দের অদ্ভুত সব সিদ্ধি আছে, আশ্চৰ্য্য automatic writing হয় তার নিরক্ষর শিষ্যদের ৷ ভাল কথা, কিন্তু এটী হচ্ছে psychic faculty মাত্র ৷ তাদের মধ্যে আসল বস্তু কি ও কতদূর এগিয়েছে, তাই জানতে চাই ৷ আর একজন লােককে স্পর্শ করে মাতিয়ে দেয় ৷ বেশ কথা, কিন্তু ...
... the highest office bearers, including the Viceroy Lord Minto. On the evening of 15 February 1910 Aurobindo went to his office as usual and, at the request of his young companions, did some automatic writing. ‘The atmosphere was filled with fun and laughter’ when a staff member of the Karmayogin suddenly entered and informed Aurobindo that he had come to know from a high police official that a warrant ...
... Who is the Mother?" are puerile at the stage where you are; they are Page 330 just due to the itch to scribble. Letting your pen run loose is dangerously akin to automatic writing, giving charge of yourself to some imp within you or haunting you. This indulgence is likely to cover up your awareness of the Divine Presence in you. Attend to your studies and your medical work ...
... flesh or stone can drape.' In 1901, Sri Aurobindo witnessed some occult phenomena during his younger brother Barin's experiments with the planchette. There were also some experiments of automatic writing. A direct proof of the power of Yoga came to him when a Naga sadhu cured Barin of mountain fever by mantra. The sadhu took a glass full of water and cut the water crosswise with a knife while ...
... flesh or stone can drape. In 1901, Sri Aurobindo witnessed some occult phenomena during his younger brother Barin's experiments with the planchette. There were also some experiments of automatic writing. A direct proof of the power of Yoga came to him when a Naga sadhu cured Barin of mountain fever by mantra. The sadhu took a glass full of water and cut the water crosswise with a knife while ...
... attend to editorial work. One evening around the middle of February 1910, probably on the 15th, Sri Aurobindo went to the office as usual. Work over, he sat down with a few young associates in an automatic writing seance. Suresh Chakravarty (Moni) was one of the young men who was present on the occasion and I will now quote a passage in translation from his Bengali book of reminiscences which tells us of ...
... we used to go up on the terrace overlooking the sea front. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother stood aside for a talk and we stood by ourselves. Sometimes we would request Sri Aurobindo for some automatic writing 103 after dinner. The writings that came through his hand in those days were frightfully interesting. I remember somebody came and began to give an analysis of the character of each one of ...
... dinner, we used to go up on the terrace overlooking the sea-front. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother stood aside for a chat and we stood by ourselves. Sometimes we would request Sri Aurobindo for some automatic writing after the dinner. The writings that came through his hand in those days were frightfully interesting. I remember somebody came and began to give an analysis of the character of each one of us; ...
... we used to go up on the terrace overlooking the sea front. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother stood aside for a talk and we stood by ourselves. Sometimes we would request Sri Aurobindo for some automatic writing after dinner. The writings that came through his hand in those days were frightfully interesting. I remember somebody came and began to give an analysis of the character of each one of us; ...
... the acceptance of the laws of the physical being as final, the mistake of accepting the vital powers as the true gods. For example, the people who do psychic research, mediumistic experiments, automatic writing, spirit communication etc. are the people. Disciple : Do you mean to say that the physical laws also will be changed ? Sri Aurobindo : What do you mean by a law ? What are called ...
... was not a failure because it was never started. I knew that it wouldn't work out. It was not meant to be a success. NIRODBARAN: Barin got the conception of the Mandir. SRI AUROBINDO: In automatic writing. NIRODBARAN: No, in trance, Dutt says. SRI AUROBINDO: Trance? I never knew that Barin went into trance. And if he had got it in trance he would have told me. NIRODBARAN: Dutt says it ...
... the voice of the Supreme Divine was heard and His impulsion recorded. The Prayers and Meditations hereafter were written through such an impulsion; Page 266 it was truly automatic writing – the instrument did not know what it was writing and even did not understand the meaning of the recorded words, it was merely a copyist, it looked at the writing as a third person would. The ...
... Suhrawardy, of Amal, of Dilip, of Armando, Menezes, of Auden, of Spender, of Hopkins, of Bharati Sarabhai, of Harindranath, of Arjava, of D.H. Lawrence: Planck and the Quantum Theory: Ouspensky: automatic writing: spiritism, ghosts, popular superstitions: Cheiro and Astrology:... indeed, there is no end to the subjects that figure in the letters. There is not space here to bring out fully through ...
... Mother of Dreams, 330; at his uncle's place, 331; C. R. Das on, 331; letter to Bengalee, 332; Uttarpara Speech, 333ff, 385; Divine odes in jail, 334; Karmayogin and Dharma, 335, 343ff; automatic writing, 336; on spirituality, 337; 'Conversations of the Dead', 338; on ideals & idealism, 338; the marvellous "change", 339; on right of association, 339; on conciliation doubled with repression, 340; ...
... Bejoy must have enjoyed the most were the seances or sessions of 'automatic writings.' They could be exhilarating. Yes, for some years at Pondicherry, Sri Aurobindo continued the practice of automatic writing until he found out fully what was behind it. For the first three months, it seems, the seances were regularly held. Apart from Moni and Bejoy, both Bharati and Srinivasachari were regulars ...
... Automatic Writing Automatic Writing Record of Yoga "The Scribblings", c. 1907 Manik Spirits are without body—Linga sharir is not body but mind. No shape visible to mortal eyes—They are the thoughts of the spirit which are shaped so as to present a visible scene—many of the scenes are not only thoughts but actual visions— Perhaps not real or ...
... Automatic Writing Automatic Writing Record of Yoga Automatic Writings, c. 1914 (First Set) First Set - I Nothing is new in the world—What do you mean by new—New, in a sort of way, in relation to what is expressed within your knowledge—Let it go—All is well—That is too rigid a way of putting it—Why—Of all—That is a delicate question—I don't... impersonal? All is personal, yet impersonal. Everywhere—Not even that. I can, but I do not. No, surely not—That is different, from above. It is difficult to conduct this writing if one descends into a mixture of forces. That is why the writing is so often stupid—Not in the same way. It is not that I despise the physical world or physical means—Do that in your physical body. Yes—try to have it as far as possible ...
... Automatic Writing Automatic Writing Record of Yoga Automatic Writings, c. 1914 (Second Set) Second Set - I My dear friends, I am eager to join you, but I am terribly opposed by all sorts of obstacles. Pray send me your strength— He is gone—I am willing to talk about Agrippa or anything you like—I don't know Agrippa, but I know about... probable.—Yes—It's a way of saying—I regret not—I came in answer to your past desire—There is something opposing the writing, but that does not matter—only there is a distracting force somewhere which prevents the nervous part of the medium from concentrating. Second Set - II My writing will be of another kind. I am here to speak of the things that interest myself and my friends—In the heavens of... white. No another day— Page 1408 It is a force of Rudra who destroys—I find a difficulty in writing—I should not begin it apparently at least not now. If he can speak let him do so—Which is which? How, you have seen, it is you who must say—Is there any symbolism in your variations of writing? That is why I called him a nice little spirit. I got an impression of the child in him—O it is only ...
... Automatic Writing Automatic Writing Record of Yoga Yogic Sadhan Aum Yogic Sadhan - I The proper course of the Sadhan is just the opposite of the thing most people do and you have also done. People begin with the body and the prana, go on to the chitta and the manas, and finish up with the buddhi and the will. The real course is to start with... being applied; the third the development of self-knowledge in the use of the Will. It will be found that by this process of educating the Will, âtmânam âtmanâ , purity of the adhar will also be automatically prepared and knowledge will begin to develop and act. Yogic Sadhan - IV What is knowledge? In what does it consist? We must distinguish between knowledge in itself and the means of knowledge... purity of the body, a liberated mind for liberation of the body, a perfected mind for perfection of the body, and to a certain extent as you go on with the yoga in the Antahkarana, the body will automatically begin to respond to the new influences. But you should not consciously meddle with the body until you have finished with the mind. Let nature do its work. Detach yourself as much as possible from ...
... Automatic Writing Automatic Writing Record of Yoga Automatic Writings, c. 1920 Writings, c. 1920 - I One of the guests of the future.. Millions of men are waiting for the day that comes but it comes not till the light has descended. And who shall make the light descend? Half lights will not do, they prepare and pass and fade. The whole light... after the writing was communicated.—Ed. × Written above "got rid", which was cancelled; an "of" after "got rid" remained uncancelled in the MS.—Ed. × Cancelled in the MS, perhaps when the writing was reread... you are doing is intimately connected with my destiny and therefore I am attracted towards those who embody the influences that are in operation to bring about its form and exterior movement. This writing is a means of direct communication and by it I can bring myself nearer to the earth where I shall have to descend. It is more useful to us than to you, but it is one of the means which the world behind ...
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