... longer existed, there were no more limits, I was no longer here—what was here was THE PERSON. An hour and a half was needed to return to the body-consciousness (not the physical consciousness but the body-consciousness), to the individual body-consciousness. The first sign of the return to individuality was a prick of pain, a tiny point (Mother holds between her fingers a minuscule point in... once: those abrupt experiences that do not settle in but are first contacts ²). After the lesson was drawn from this story, suddenly something arose in the body consciousness—which isn't ONE body's consciousness but a general body consciousness—an aspiration, something so pure, so sweet... so sweet... something like an entreaty that Truth and Light may at last be manifested here, in this. Not 'here... neared the head, I thought I would burst and that the experience would have to be stopped. But then, I very clearly received the indication to make the Calm and Peace descend, to widen all this body-consciousness and all these cells, so that they could contain the supramental light. So I widened, and as the light was ascending, I brought down the vastness and an unshakable peace. And suddenly, there was ...
... in the mind; if the mind accepts it, it becomes clouded and confused and has to struggle back into harmony and clearness. It is so with the body consciousness and illness. You must not accept but reject it with your physical mind and so help the body consciousness to throw off the suggestion. If necessary, make a counter-suggestion, "No, I shall be well; I am and shall be all right." And in any case... (adverse suggestions) in the mind, vital, body consciousness. Where all this is completely done or with some completeness, the effects can be very remarkable. In much the same way as Coué's suggestion system cured most of his patients, [ so an ordinary doctor would cure his patients, ] only by a physical instead of a mental means. The body consciousness responds to the suggestion or the medicine... mental and inferior planes and Supramental Nature. What is acquired and held by the Yoga Force in the mind and body consciousness is in the supramental inherent and exists not by achievement but by nature—it is self-existent and absolute. What I meant was that the body consciousness through old habit of consciousness admits the force of illness and goes through the experiences which are associated ...
... by it. The Material Consciousness or Body Consciousness By material is meant the body consciousness, the consciousness of Matter etc. Physical is a wider term. There is for instance a physical mind (which cannot be called material) dealing with outside earthly things. A great part of the body consciousness is subconscient and the body consciousness and the subconscient are closely bound... whether the mind and vital do not come in the way as well as the physical. Yes, but when I speak of the physical consciousness, I mean the physical mind and the physical vital as well as the body consciousness proper. This physical mind and physical vital are concerned with the small ordinary movements of life and are governed by a very external view of things and by habitual small reactions and do... has its own consciousness and acts from it, even without any conscious Page 201 mental will of our own or even against that will, and our surface mind knows very little about this body consciousness, feels it only in an imperfect way, sees only its results and has the greatest difficulty in finding out their causes. It is part of the Yoga to become aware of this separate consciousness of ...
... back you had said that it was the subconscient that was mostly dealt with. Well? A great part of the body consciousness is subconscient and the body-consciousness and the subconscient are closely bound together. The body and the physical do not coincide — the body-consciousness is only part of the whole physical consciousness. 1 If the inner being keeps separate then it... was with great difficulty that I could maintain the aspiration. Then suddenly the body consciousness emerged from the darkness and took the lead. Would you believe me, it even instigated and directed my mind and vital! It made them stir up from their stupor — their long sleep of inertia. I wonder how the body consciousness can act like this. It is very possible when one reaches a certain... more to be accepted than the inertia itself. I heard a voice: "In spite of your efforts you find no fruit. The inertia will either disappear or change only when your whole body consciousness not only rejects it but also remains unaffected." That is the truth. The voice also said: "The more you make efforts the sooner the physical will be capable of ...
... you read attentively the next issue of the Bulletin … you will see that it has begun.” 12 In the issue referred to, the Mother published Some Experiences of the Body Consciousness and New Experiences of the Body Consciousness. Without the titles these experiences would read just like other “psychological” yogic experiences. The difference, nevertheless, is enormous. This was no longer a Yoga... an idea of the enormous gap to be bridged and of the necessity of a step in between the human and the supramental being – which is what the Mother was working at. In the Experiences of the Body Consciousness 13 we read: “When we speak of transformation, the word still has for us a vague meaning. It gives us the impression that something is going to happen and all will be well as a consequence... body is infirm and incapable, the infirmities and incapacities will be removed; and so on. But as I have said, it is all very vague, it is only an impression. Now a remarkable thing about the body consciousness is that it is unable to know a thing with precision and in full detail except when it is on the point of accomplishing it. So, when the process of transformation becomes clear, when one is able ...
... s of the Body Consciousness and New Experiences of the Body Consciousness. As most of these notes appeared familiar in her and Sri Aurobindo’s writings, they were not accorded the importance they deserved, in spite of the Mother drawing special attention to them. Yes, these were experiences one had read or heard about before, but now they were the experiences of the body consciousness, of formerly... the mental outlook on things.’ And she commented: ‘Yes, but there is something which remains unchanged unless you take care of it and persist in your effort. What is it? The body consciousness.’ 50 What is the body consciousness? ‘… The physical consciousness as a whole. But in this physical consciousness as a whole there is the physical mind – a mind that is occupied with all the ordinary things... is also the vital consciousness, which is the awareness of sensations, impulses, enthusiasms and desires. Finally, there is the physical consciousness itself, the material consciousness, the body consciousness, and this is the [consciousness] which so far has never been entirely transformed. The global, overall consciousness of the body has been transformed; one can throw off the bondage of thought ...
... transition it's not that one abruptly takes the place of the other, but there is a state of fluidity between the two which is difficult.... And I can see that for years the body and the whole body consciousness used to rush back into the old way to seek safety, to escape; but now, the body has been persuaded not to do it anymore and on the contrary to accept: “Well, if it's dissolution, it's dissolution... of THE body — it may be anyone's body! I am conscious of those vibrations of disorder which most often come in the form of suggestions of disorder: for example a suggestion of haemorrhage. The body consciousness rejects it. Then the battle begins (all this takes place all the way down in the cells and the material consciousness), between what we could call the “will for haemorrhage” and the reaction... balance, nor on an almost general disorganization — none of that is proof. All of a sudden, we gad about in a body that no longer resembles anything we know — yet this is the true body. The true body consciousness. A mysterious stranger beneath its fourfold web ... illusory web. 62.1610 Each time I ask my body what IT would like, all the cells say, “No, no, we are immortal, we want to be immortal ...
... sadhana with your constant assent as the one necessity. The only difficulty in the way of health is a certain obscurity in the body consciousness itself which makes it consent readily to habitual touches of the force that makes for illness; otherwise if the body consciousness as well as the mind and vital were open any illness that came would immediately be dissipated. Keep a quiet and steady will for... The body consciousness is there and cannot be ignored, so that one can neither transform the higher parts completely leaving the body for later dealing nor make each stage complete in all its parts before going to the next. I tried that method but it never worked. A predominant overmentalisation of mind and vital is the first step, for instance, when overmentalising, but the body consciousness retains... retains all the lower movements unovermentalised and until these can be pulled up to the overmental standard, there is no overmental perfection, always the body consciousness brings in flaws and limitations. To perfect the overmind one has to call in the supramental force and it is only when the overmind has been partially supramentalised that the body begins to be more and more overmental. I do not see ...
... human constitution, man's surface consciousness, derived from the three universal principles just mentioned, is composed of mind, life (generally referred to by Sri Aurobindo as the vital) and body-consciousness. Sri Page 32 Aurobindo states that the term "mind", which has been used indiscriminately to cover the whole surface consciousness, connotes in the language of his yoga that part... cognitive elements and functions, such as ideas and thoughts, intelligence, thinking and reasoning. He distinguishes mind from the other two elements of the surface nature, namely, the vital and the body-consciousness, which are mixed up with mind on the surface. The vital is the Life-Nature made up of sensations, energies of action, instincts, impulses, desires, feelings and emotions. The body, says Sri Aurobindo... at the same time, the vehicle of expression of an overt Consciousness that has emerged and is self-aware in our physical energy-substance." 16 Regarding the confounding of the vital and the body-consciousness with mind, Sri Aurobindo explains: "Mind identifies itself to a certain extent with the movements proper to physical life and body and annexes them to its mentality, so that all consciousness ...
... the body consciousness moved (usually it's in the head, in the brain). The body consciousness, the cellular consciousness, the one that responds to the workings of Nature and governs the whole functioning—suddenly it moved, it went out of the body. I had the experience (I knew what it was, but I didn't know the consequences or how to express it), I had the experience of my body consciousness going... was nothing. Well, this time, it was the same thing for the body consciousness: before, it was everywhere like something holding everything together (to such a point that when there was a difficulty, I only had to stop bothering about it all and let that act, and the difficulty would automatically be sorted out by that body consciousness, which knows far better than our active thought what the body... little less strong; the third day... But there is something that has changed and isn't coming back. And that something gives the sense of a distance (it's the word aloofness ) from the natural body consciousness that makes the body automatically do all it has to do. It is as if that consciousness were now at a distance, had almost lost interest in what's happening—not "lost interest," because it's laughing ...
... given to me; it was only afterwards that I found certain confirmatory revelations in the Upanishad and Veda. Transforming the Body Consciousness That [ stopping at each stage of transformation in order to deal with the body ] is hardly possible. The body consciousness is there and cannot be ignored, so that one can neither transform the higher parts completely leaving the body for later dealing... predominant overmentalisation of mind and vital is the first step, for instance, when overmentalising, but the body consciousness retains all the lower movements unovermentalised and until these can be pulled up to the overmental standard, there is no overmental perfection, always the body consciousness brings in flaws and limitations. To perfect the overmind one has to call in the supramental force and it... darkness in the same being and body is not possible. It is precisely for that reason that the supramentalisation of the body consciousness is laid down as the condition of the successful transformation. If attacks continue and can come in successfully, it means that the body consciousness is not yet supramentalised. Page 309 Death and the Supramental Transformation The change of the consciousness ...
... of aspiration, of the will to progress, which one does not usually even realise. The body-consciousness would have to be completely warped by the action of the mind and vital for it not to have an immediate will to re-establish the equilibrium. When this will is not there, it means that the entire body-consciousness has been spoilt by the intervention of the mind and vital. In people who cherish their... 1951 The body… has its own consciousness and acts from it, even without any conscious mental will of our own or even against that will, and our surface mind knows very little about this body consciousness, feels it only in an imperfect way, sees only its results and has the greatest difficulty in finding out their causes. It is part of the Yoga to become aware of this separate consciousness of... see and feel its movements and the forces that act upon it from inside or outside and to learn how to control and direct it even in its most hidden and (to us) subconscient processes. But the body consciousness itself is only part of the individualised physical consciousness in us which we gather and build out of the secretly conscious forces of universal physical Nature. Sri Aurobindo Letters ...
... somehow either above or outside the body consciousness. Page 436 This sometimes happens by the vital being rising up above the head or, more rarely, by its projecting itself into its own sheath (part of the subtle body) out of the physical attachment. But it also comes by a sudden even if momentary liberation from the identification with the body consciousness, and this liberation may become... That can be a condition of the Yogin in the waking state—he does not feel himself to be in the body but he feels the body to be in his wide free self, he is delivered from limitation in the body consciousness. There are two different experiences which from your account would seem to have happened together. (1) An exteriorisation of the consciousness out of the body. Part of the consciousness... a liberation from the physical limitation, a wideness which no longer allows an identification with the body. In this experience there is not usually the fear you had, unless it is in the body consciousness, as it were, which is alarmed by the unfamiliarity of the movement and fears to be abandoned or cast off. But this occurs rarely and does not usually repeat itself. It is therefore likely that ...
... acceptance, which is the first normal necessity of the spiritual consciousness for its liberation, is no longer imperative. To cease to be identified with the body, to separate oneself from the body-consciousness, is a recognised and necessary step whether towards spiritual liberation or towards spiritual perfection and mastery over Nature. But, this redemption once effected, the descent of the spiritual... , perfection and fulfilment of the physical being; it will do for the body as for the mind and life. Apart from the obscurity, frailties and limitations, which this change will overcome, the body-consciousness is a patient servant and can be in its large reserve of possibilities a potent instrument of the individual life, and it asks for little on its own account: what it craves for is duration, health... being, but it is disguised by the separation of our parts of nature and their differing urge and obscured by their inability to conceive or seize anything more than a superficial pleasure. In the body consciousness this demand takes shape as a need of bodily happiness, in our life parts as a yearning for life happiness, a keen vibrant response to joy and rapture of many kinds and to all surprise of sat ...
... in a constant flood throughout the universe. These experiences are always absolute, as long as they last; then, through certain signs that I know (I am accustomed to it), I notice that the body consciousness begins closing up again. Or rather, 'something'—evidently a Supreme Wisdom—decides it's sufficient for this time and that the body has had enough. It ought not to break, which is why certain... approximately three hours, the consciousness was completely, completely different. It was here, however; it was not outside the earth, it was on earth, but it was completely different—even the body consciousness was different. And what remained was very mechanical; it was a body, but it could just as well have been anything. All this power of consciousness that for more than seventy years I've gradually... problem of the Force in its most material form. And during the time my experience lasted, I had no feeling of anything exceptional, but rather simply the fact that after all its preparation, the body consciousness was ready for a total identification with That—in my consciousness it's always the same, a perpetual, constant and eternal state in that it never leaves me. It's like that, and it never varies ...
... this ( Mother clenches her fists ), keeping hold of this body and body-consciousness. And the whole time the Force was at work there (it was like kneading a very resistant dough), something was saying to me, "Look, you can't deny miracles any longer." It was being said to this consciousness (not to me, of course), this body-consciousness: "Now you can't deny it miracles do happen." It was forced to see;... itself has to be conquered; I mean, the state in itself represents something to be conquered. Because... you remember, I told you the other day about having such a tremendous experience in the body-consciousness 1 —this... this dull consciousness in the material world, which really gives the feeling of something inert, unchanging, incapable of responding; you could wait millions and millions of years... under its nose—there was no escaping it, it had to be admitted. But you know what, mon petit, as soon as I let up on the pressure—forgotten! I remember the whole experience, of course, but the body-consciousness forgot. The slightest difficulty, even the shadow or the recollection of a difficulty, was enough for it to start up all over again: "Oh... oh! Now what's going to happen?" The same old anxieties ...
... experiences that do not settle in but are first contacts 2 ). After the lesson was drawn from this story, suddenly something Page 110 arose in the body consciousness—which isn't ONE body's consciousness but a general body consciousness—an aspiration, something so pure, so sweet... so sweet... something like an entreaty that Truth and Light may at last be manifested here, in this. Not "here... have an effect. Let's take the example of a suggestion of hemorrhage, or some such suggestion (I mention hemorrhage because it will soon come into the picture). Under the higher Influence, the body consciousness rejects it. Then begins the battle (all this takes place all the way down in the cells, in the material consciousness) between what we could call the "will for hemorrhage," for example, and the... See conversation of March 16 × Gesture of junction between the Supreme and this general body consciousness. × The experience of the Presence. ...
... outer being and the inner being have three corresponding parts — mental, vital, physical. Thus "There are, we might say, two beings in us, one on the surface, our ordinary exterior mind, life, body consciousness, another behind the veil, an inner mind, an inner life, an inner physical consciousness constituting another or inner self." 6 Figure 1. The Concentric System ... together. The body, for instance, has its own consciousness and acts from it, even without any mental will of our own or even against that will, and our surface mind knows very little about this body-consciousness, feels it only in an imperfect way, sees only its results and has the greatest difficulty in finding out their causes. 9 One of the first distinctions that one learns to make as... line or to play music, it can't do it and won't do it. It has to be schooled, trained, taught and afterwards it does automatically what is required of it. All this proves that there is a body-consciousness which can do things at the mind's order, but has to be awakened, trained, made a good and conscious instrument. 13 Though separate, the three principal parts of the outer being — ...
... fundamental reality and our existence an inconsequential freak of Matter itself or of some energy building up Matter, there cannot be any individual personal existence outside of the material body. Consciousness having no independent non-material source or support but being only an operation of material energy acting in and upon a particular structural pattern of Matter, must perforce cease to exist... discipline and order, obedience and the habit of team-work, so necessary for a successful living but in no way inconsistent with individual freedom and initiative. (iii) Awakening of the body-consciousness: A careful observation 1 2 Sri Aurobindo, op. cit., p. 4. Page 35 would reveal to us the fact that the human body possesses a consciousness of its own, independent... Now, an all-round total perfection of the body should imply, not merely the building up of health and strength, but also the awakening and education of this "essential and instinctive body-consciousness...which is equivalent in the body to swift insight in the mind and spontaneous and rapid decision in the will. What is awake in it we have to make fully conscious; what is asleep we have to ...
... vast as the earth, but not... not round, not flat.... Something giving a great sense of infinity but moving in waves. And this wave movement is the movement of life. And the consciousness (the body-consciousness, I suppose) floats along in this, with a sensation of eternal peace.... But it's not an expanse—that's not the word for it. It is a limitless movement, with a very harmonious and very tranquil... understand. It is difficult to express. But that's my experience. Yesterday I observed it with special care, to be able to tell you about it. But are you making a distinction between the body-consciousness and the physical consciousness?... Oh yes! The physical consciousness is something very complex; it includes the whole physical, conscious world. My physical consciousness has been un... for a long, long time, it encompasses all terrestrial movements 3 ; but the body is limited solely to this small concentration of substance ( Mother touches her body )—that's what I call the body-consciousness. And when I said, "I have left the body," 4 it certainly didn't mean I have left the physical consciousness—my overall contact with the terrestrial world has remained the same. It concerns ...
... no longer existed, there were no more limits, I was no longer here—what was here was THE PERSON. An hour and a half was needed to return to the body-consciousness (not the physical consciousness but the body-consciousness), to the individual body-consciousness. The first sign of the return to individuality was a prick of pain, a tiny point ( Mother holds between her fingers a minuscule point in the... 139 nothing else, there was really nothing but THAT. So to speak of high, low, descent won't do at all. If you like, we could put "the process of return".... Of return to the body-consciousness. Or of materialization. ( A bit later, regarding the Talk of August 22, 1956, to be published in the next Bulletin, in which Mother says: "When you are in a condition to receive it ...
... thoughts and the mental outlook on things. Yes, but there is something which remains unchanged unless you take care and persist in your effort. What is it? The body Page 292 consciousness. What is the body consciousness? The vital consciousness, of course—the physical consciousness as a whole. But then, in this physical consciousness as a whole, there is the physical mind—a mind that... is also the vital consciousness, which is the awareness of sensations, impulses, enthusiasms and desires. Finally, there is the physical consciousness itself, the material consciousness, the body consciousness, and that is the one which has so far never been entirely transformed. The global, overall consciousness of the body has been transformed, that is, one can throw off the bondage of thought, of... considers inevitable. That can change, it has been changed. But what remains to be changed is the consciousness of the cells. There is a consciousness in the cells: it is what we call the "body consciousness" and it is wholly bound up with the body. This consciousness has much difficulty in changing, because it is under the influence of the collective suggestion which is absolutely opposed to the ...
... Education, revolutionary experiments in, 94 Baroda, 1, 5, 6, 9 Ego, 9,10,86,208-9,251,253,261 Bengal, 1 Equality, 269-70 Body consciousness, impersonalisation of, 160-3 Equilibrium, age of, 202 Body consciousness, individualised, 189 Evolutionary process, 69 Body and supramental work, 97-9 Body, transformed, 199 Food, 164-5, 210, 217-8... 1916-20 (Stay in Japan), 57-64 Japan, 41, 57-62, 64 1920 (Return to Pondicherry), 64 Jiva or Jivatman, 261-2 1926(Overmental creation), 84,86-7 Junction (of body consciousness with supreme consciousness),138 1926 (Organization of Sri Aurobindo Ashram, beginning of), 87 1950 (Departure of Sri Aurobindo), 101 Krishna, 12-3, 85... to her room),130 Leaders of the way, difficulties of, 69 1959 (Discovery of Sri Aurobindo in his abode in the subtle physical), 131 Lele, 8-9 1961(Junction of body consciousness with the supreme consciousness), 134-44 Letters of Sri Aurobindo, 87 1962 (Manifestation of the supreme love), 144-56 Levitation, 13 1968 (Auroville, inauguration ...
... with the result of overstrain afterwards. It is only when the body itself is changed and has the direct energy from above that one can do it safely. Page 28 13.9.35 As the body consciousness becomes more open to the Force (it is always the most difficult and the last to open up entirely) this frequent stress' of illness will diminish and disappear. 3.5.36 What might... right itself, you must keep me informed from time to time. It looks as if this time it was a purely physical attack based on nothing psychological except the tendency of the material (body) consciousness to respond to the insomnia vibrations. We must try this time to get it out of this last refuge for its recurrence. You can certainly sing J's song to her and N. 25.4.37 About... tradional form of the past with the greater living Truth that he is seeking. No date I do not feel as if the difficulty were anything psycho-logical, it is some difficulty in the body consciousness or the body itself (physical nerves). It is a question of opening the body entirely to the force; then these things would disappear. But this can only come gradually by a habit of relaxation ...
... Silence need not bring lassitude; there is all possible strength in silence. But it is possible that in your trend towards silence there is a tendency to draw back the energy from the body consciousness. That would bring physical inertia. If the calm and silence are perfectly established in the physical, then if inertia comes it is itself something quiet and unaggressive, not bringing... also the physical consciousness (if it is complete). The restlessness of the physical is probably due to the peace and silence having touched the physical but not yet penetrated the material or body consciousness. The old restlessness is there in the body struggling to remain, although it cannot invade either mind or vital or even in a general way the physical consciousness as a whole. If the peace descends... use being here is another. Of course they are all false. When one listens to the suggestions, then things begin to appear like that. These suggestions are natural to the ignorant physical or body consciousness in human nature, just as suggestions of vital passion and disturbance are natural to the ignorant vital consciousness in human nature. You had vital reactions but you did not allow them to overcome ...
... however, was an experience of the body, the supramental Power had taken possession of her body, the result of which was that the Mother got access to the supramental world by means of the body consciousness. There she found Sri Aurobindo present in a supramental body — in the body that during his lifetime he had built up with his supramentalized consciousness. She was surprised to discover that... was supported by the Flame of a total surrender — for that really is a Flame, which knows, which can do things, and which grants the needed force. The first few times she crossed over in the body consciousness from one room into the other, from one world into the other, the experience was so utterly new that it had traumatic effects. (Is not every evolutionary mutation traumatic for the evolving being... world — and she was universalizing herself. Both processes of transformation went hand in hand. She found that the axis of the physical I, the referential axis in her body, was dissolving. Her body consciousness grew less and less restricted to her physical body; it was expanding, it was present in other things and in other persons. This was possible only by a transformation of the cells, which in their ...
... consciousness which presides over the body. The Life Divine, pp. 305-306 A great part of the body-consciousness is subconscient and the body-consciousness and the subconscient are closely bound together. The body and the physical do not coincide — the body consciousness is only part of the whole physical consciousness. Letters on Yoga, p. 1445 [Defects of the physical ...
... say that there is no "over there" to go to, no forest to go through: it is all here, in each point. The "forest"... What is it? It is something in the body that puts up a veil: something in the body consciousness. The "path" is to find that which veils—but the veiling takes place at any point at all; the Supermind is always everywhere beneath that green wall, it does not have to be won, or created. And... neared the head, I thought I would burst and that the experience would have to be stopped. But then, I very clearly received the indication to make the Calm and Peace descend, to widen all this body consciousness and all these cells, so that they could contain the supramental light. So I widened, and as the light was ascending, I brought down the vastness and an unshakable peace. And suddenly, there was... differently perceived? In other words, She spent those nine years building the missing link (or letting it be built) in the perception or the material substance. When it was clarified, She saw: her body consciousness saw. And things were already less "distant" than in the visions of line Al, A2, etc., they were more physical, almost as substantial as the physical world. 17 But if they were able to "come ...
... its obstinate memory and habit of repetition of whatever has impressed itself upon the body-consciousness. Letters on Yoga, p. 353 The subconscient in the ordinary man includes the larger part of Page 33 the vital being and the physical mind and also the secret body-consciousness. Letters on Yoga, p. 898 The subconscient is universal as well as individual... Page 34 activities. Just as what we call the superconscient is really a higher consciousness above from which things descend into the being, so the subconscient is below the body-consciousness and things come up into the physical, the vital and the mind-nature from there. Just as the higher consciousness is superconscient to us and supports all our spiritual possibilities ...
... and will finally cease. Page 378 The Body Consciousness The sense of being only the body belongs to the physical consciousness while the confusion came from the vital. The confusion must disappear because it makes a turmoil in the consciousness and stands in the way of the Force acting on the surface. The obstacle of the body consciousness is tedious, but it does not prevent the Force from... time. It is a question of the Force, Peace, Light entering into the body and giving it the sense of not being only a body but the receptacle of a higher consciousness. It is indeed the body consciousness that is still offering difficulties—but when the restlessness and confusion come, you must immediately offer it up and call for the opening of the part that resists. In this way it is possible ...
... if there are physical shortcomings, these will disappear, and so on. But it is all very hazy, it's just an impression. There is something quite remarkable: the physical consciousness, the body-consciousness, cannot know a thing with precision, in all its details, except when it is on the point of being realised. And this will be a sure indication when, for instance, one can understand the process:... you see a detail with exactitude, it means that it is on the point of being realised. One can have the vision of the whole. For instance, it is quite certain that the transformation of the body-consciousness will take place first, that a progress in the mastery and control of all the movements of the body will come next, that this mastery will gradually change (here it becomes more vague), gradually... discovers gradually as the body becomes ready for transformation. It is quite a remarkable instrument in the sense that it can experience two contraries at the same time. There is a certain state of body-consciousness which brings things together, totalises things that in other states of consciousness alternate or even in certain others oppose each other. But if one has reached up there, in the vital and the ...
... body. Yesterday, the table leg bumped my foot; so there was the ordinary outward reaction (it operates automatically and in a curious way—the body jumped), and then the body-consciousness—now I am speaking of the body-consciousness—saw that an unexpected and involuntary collision of two objects had taken place INSIDE ITSELF. And it also saw that if it made a certain movement of concentration at that... leg bumped into my foot. But where?... I can't say; I couldn't have said even five minutes after the incident—it had utterly disappeared, and disappeared through a VOLUNTARY movement. This body-consciousness has a will; it is constantly, constantly calling upon the Lord's will: "Lord, take possession of this, take possession of that, take...." There's no question of taking possession of the will ...
... Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960 August 1954 ( Further experiences of the body consciousness ) [The following texts were written by Mother in French.] When we look back upon our lives, we almost always feel that in some circumstance or other we could have done better, even though at each minute the action was dictated by the inner truth; this is because... infirmities or incapacities, the infirmities or incapacities will fade away, and so forth... But as I have said, it is very vague, it is only an impression. Now, what is quite remarkable about the body consciousness is that it is unable to know a thing with precision and in all its details except when it is just about to be realized. Thus, when the process of transformation becomes clear, when we are able... you are ready to carry it out. In the meantime, one can have an overall view. For example, it is quite certain that under the influence of the supramental light, the transformation of the body consciousness will take place first; then will come a progress in the mastery and control of all the movements and workings of all the body's organs; afterwards this Page 35 mastery will gradually ...
... as they can, with an aspiration not only for union but for fusion: let there remain nothing but the Divine. It's regular, every day, every single day. And for some time, these cells or this body consciousness (but it isn't organized as a consciousness: it's like a collective consciousness of the cells), it seemed to be complaining a little, to be saying, "But we don't feel much. We do feel" (they... didn't move from the bed till about two in the morning. At two in the morning I got up, and I suddenly noticed that all the cells, the whole body (but it really is a cellular consciousness, not a body consciousness; it isn't the consciousness of this or that person: there's no person, it's the consciousness of a cellular aggregate), that consciousness felt bathed in and at the same time shot through by... was so... awesome. And at the same time with a sensation of power, a power that nothing, nothing whatsoever can resist in any way. So I had been pulled out of my bed (I noticed it) so that the BODY consciousness (mark the difference: it wasn't the cells' consciousness, it was the body's consciousness) would teach the cells how to surrender and tell them, "There is only one way: a total surrender ...
... Experiences of the Mother Words of the Mother - III New Experiences of the Body Consciousness When one looks back on one's life, one almost always has the feeling that in such and such a circumstance, one could have done better, even though at every minute one was acting as dictated by the inner truth. This is because the universe is perpetually in motion... body is infirm and incapable, the infirmities and incapacities will be removed; and so on. But as I have said, it is all very vague, it is only an impression. Now a remarkable thing about the body consciousness is that it is unable to know a thing with precision and in full detail except when it is on the point Page 280 of accomplishing it.So, when the process of transformation becomes clear... ready to accomplish it. For the moment, one can have a vision of the whole. For example, it is entirely certain that under the influence of the supramental light, the transformation of the body consciousness will take place first; then will follow a progress in the mastery and control of all the movements and functions of all the organs of the body; afterwards this mastery will change little by little ...
... as a mentor—it teaches the body loads of things. Really interesting. Things that the mind didn't know, it teaches the body That way, the body is becoming a little clever! ( silence ) The body consciousness has become individualized and at the same time independent, which means it can enter other bodies and feel quite at ease there. I made the experiment one day ("I made," it wasn't the body that... contradictory. That completely changes the body's attitude with regard to solutions: there's no more attachment or sense of extinction, you understand, since the consciousness... it's the body consciousness that has become independent. And that's very interesting. In other words, in any physical substance sufficiently developed to receive it, it can manifest. That's interesting. These last... and immediately saw the resulting effect and the response. It was someone (I forget who, the memory is deliberately taken away), it had to do with something that had happened to someone; this body consciousness reacted with a sort of moved pity, and that multiplied the power TENFOLD—the effect of the power on the cure—because it was completely impersonal. It was the Power using that [emotion] as a means ...
... course: there might be some consciousness lingering in the body... I thought it was better to wait till this afternoon, not to shut him up with something in his body. It has brought to the body consciousness a sort of sense of satisfaction: the appeasement that satisfaction gives. That's there quite concretely. Did he know it from a previous life, or...? I don't know. Or else, he just didn't talk... it was the first time—I had heard about it very often (it's often mentioned), that knowledge the great yogis had: they would go like that deliberately. And it has ADDED something to the body consciousness. In the body's spontaneous attitude, its way of being, I have noticed a slight change; it has added a sort of... stability in the body: a satisfied stability, like that. It's not like something... speak of individuality, there's always a sort of... Page 184 at least a background of separation, that is, something that exists independently and has its own destiny Now, as the body consciousness knows it, it's almost like a pulsation of "something" which MOMENTARILY has a separate action, but which, deeply, essentially, is always ONE. Like something projected like this ( gesture of expansion ...
... but somehow either above or outside the body consciousness. This sometimes happens by the vital being rising up above the head or, more rarely, by its projecting itself into its own sheath (part of the subtle body) out of the physical attachment. But it also comes by a sudden even if momentary liberation from the identification with the body consciousness, and this liberation may become frequent and... what Yogic Force can do? There is a difference between Yogic Force on the mental and inferior planes and the Supramental Nature. What is acquired and held by the Yoga-Force in the mind-and-body consciousness is in the supramental inherent and exists not by achievement but by nature—it is self-existent and absolute. 82 Not now. I am too busy trying to get things done to spend time in getting ...
... straight line or to play music, it can't do it and won't do it. It has to be schooled, trained, taught, and afterwards it does automatically what is required of it. All this proves that there is a body consciousness which can do things at the mind's order, but has to be awakened, trained, made a good and conscious instrument. It can even be so trained that a mental will or suggestion can cure the illness... Page 136 end and is least fruitful of all-for psychology is not primarily a thing of mechanism and measure, it opens to a vast field beyond the physical instrumentalities of the body- consciousness. In biology one can get a glimpse of something beyond mechanism, because there is from the beginning a stir of consciousness progressing and organising itself more and more for self-expression... responsible for our illnesses; chronic or repeated illnesses are indeed mainly due to the subconscient and its obstinate memory and habit of repetition of whatever has impressed itself upon the body-consciousness. But this subconscient must be clearly distinguished from the subliminal parts of our being such as the inner or subtle physical consciousness, the inner vital or inner mental; for these are ...
... the whole being in an immense oval of living light. Then slowly the consciousness came down again, stage by stage, halting in each world, until the body-consciousness returned. The recovery of the Page 111 body-consciousness was, if the memory is correct. the ninth stage. At that moment the body was still quite stiff and immobile. 12 "All things I then forgot. ... All ceased... vivid and precise. Like Sri Aurobindo in poems like "Trance of Waiting" and "Descent", Mirra too is able to turn the experience of illumination into creative communion. She had leapt out of the body-consciousness, and there were stages of the ascent of consciousness, and corresponding stages of descent, and a general circulation and diffusion of the new light "enveloping the whole being in an immense ...
... vast as the earth, but not... not round, not flat.... Something giving a great sense of infinity but moving in waves. And this wave movement is the movement of life. And the consciousness (the body-consciousness, I suppose) floats along in this, with a sensation of eternal peace.... But it's not an "expanse"—that's not the word for it. It is a limitless movement, with a very harmonious and very tranquil... they are accepted and have an effect. Let's take the example of a suggestion of hemorrhage, (I mention hemorrhage because it will soon come into the picture). Under the higher Influence, the body consciousness rejects it. Then begins the battle (all this takes place all the way down in the cells, in the material consciousness) between what we could call the "will for hemorrhage," for example, and the... . Through the old painful Matter of her body, it was beginning to twinkle in the body of the world. After the lesson was drawn from this story, suddenly something arose in the general body consciousness: an aspiration, something so pure, so sweet... so sweet... something like an entreaty that Truth and Light may at last be manifested here, in this. Not "here in this" (Mother touches her own ...
... control by itself cannot eradicate anything entirely out of the being. The subconscient in the ordinary man includes the larger part of the vital being and the physical mind and also the secret body-consciousness. In order to make a true and complete change, one has to make all these conscious, to see clearly what is still there and to reject them from one layer after another till they have been entirely... assent refused until they weaken and fade away. Not only the Chitta and Buddhi must refuse consent but also the lower parts of the being, the vital and physico-vital, the physical mind and the body consciousness. 5) The defects of the receiving mind and the discriminating Buddhi spoken of are general defects of the intellect and cannot be entirely got rid of so long as the intellectual action is not ...
... ly, enveloping the whole being in an immense oval of living light. Then slowly the consciousness came down again, stage by stage, halting in each world, until the body-consciousness returned. The recovery of the body-consciousness was, if the memory is correct, the ninth stage. At that moment the body was still quite stiff and immobile. Page 207 ...
... mind ancl will and therefore in our concept of the total perfection of the body. There are two conditions for this perfection, an awakening in as great an entirety as possible of the body consciousness and an education, an evocation of its potentialities, also as entire and fully developed and, it may be, as many-sided as possible. The form or body is, no doubt, in its origin a creation of... latent: what is awake in it we have to make fully conscious; what is asleep we have to arouse and set to its work; what is latent we have to evoke and educate. Here there are two aspects of the body consciousness, one which seems to be a kind of automatism carrying on its work in the physical plane without any intervention of the mind and in parts even beyond any possibility of direct observation by the ...
... responsible for our illnesses; chronic or repeated illnesses are indeed mainly due to the subconscient and its obstinate memory and habit of repetition of whatever has impressed itself upon the body consciousness. But this subconscient must be clearly distinguished from the subliminal parts of our being such as the inner or subtle physical consciousness, the inner vital or inner mental; for these are... all our conscious physical activities. Just as what we call the superconscient is really a higher consciousness above from which things descend into the being, so the subconscient is below the body consciousness and things come up into the physical, the vital and the mind-nature from there. Just as the higher consciousness is superconscient to us and supports all our spiritual possibilities and nature ...
... went inside and lost consciousness of the outer world, it would be called a kind of samadhi—but this experience can Page 222 be got in the waking state also. It is a liberation from body consciousness and an awakening into the spiritual wideness. At first it is usually felt as a void of all other things but consciousness alone or existence alone. The feeling [ in meditation ] of having... outer consciousness is not ready to receive it. Formerly her sadhana was mainly on the vital plane which is Page 236 often the first to open and the connection of that plane with the body consciousness is easy to establish because they are nearer to each other. Even then however her body was suffering because of attacks from the hostile elements in the vital plane. Now the sadhana seems to ...
... may diminish or cease, it is necessary first to have complete brahmacharya, kāyamanovākyena —not only to banish sexuality from the bodily action, but also sexual impulses from the vital and body consciousness and sexual thoughts and imaginations from the mind and speech—and not talk or like to talk about sexual things. The dreams arise from the subconscient where all impressions and instincts are... dream or prohibiting the discharge. All this is perfectly possible, it is a matter of habit and a little persistence. It is also often found very effective to put a will or force upon the body consciousness before going to sleep that it should not happen—especially when you feel the predisposing condition of heaviness or inertia, it should be done. This will is not always immediately successful ...
... recurred only in sharp and keen prolonged and frequent touches of great but narrow intensity which caused a spasm in the body and brought back the lighter state and then outer body consciousness. The samadhistha body consciousness is frequent, but of short duration. The more massed continuous Ananda occurred finally in all but the deepest supta swapna, but at a low power and remained half-involved, involved ...
... illnesses in the Ashram would be pushed aside, and there would be sounder health. May the body consciousness awake, give itself completely to the Divine and allow the Divine Force to work out its Will. Yes, what you say is quite right. It is of the greatest importance that the body consciousness should open to the Divine; that alone can put an end to all these illnesses rising in the Ashram ...
... mental power freed from the limitations and obscurities of the physical consciousness. × The body-consciousness. × Later, Mother added: 'All the experiences took place one after the other, but the new experience... Kundalini, suggests that it is the supramental consciousness concealed in the depths of the cells, that somehow emerges and traverses all the layers until the junction is made with the most material body-consciousness. × Later, Mother added: 'The Power that was acting was no longer the power that had been acting ...
... said it had gone completely, 1 and that was true, it had gone completely in order to leave the body absolutely to itself, for its conversion, we could say; but once there had been in this body consciousness the same aspiration and the same ardour of consciousness (with a far greater steadiness than in any other part of the being; there are no fluctuations as there are Page 247 in the... at each stage of that return, all the old difficulties appear to be waking up again, 2 they seem to spring up again (they had completely fallen asleep, you understand), and each time, this body consciousness feels a sort of surprise, at once astonished and distressed that the presence of the divine Power, the divine Consciousness, the Truth-Consciousness, should give rise to all those difficulties ...
... question I am asking myself is whether the cells have an autonomous existence or whether they must remain aggregated in the way they are, obeying a collective consciousness. 2 I do not mean the body consciousness, which is an entity; I mean: does the cell, as an individuality, have the will to remain in its present collectivity? Just as an individual willingly collaborates with a society, with an aggregate... The transcription of this last sentence is uncertain. × When the center of the body consciousness moved. ...
... control by itself cannot eradicate anything entirely out of the being. The subconscient in the ordinary man includes the larger part of the vital being and the physical mind and also the secret body-consciousness. In order to make a true and complete change, one has to make all these conscious, to see clearly what is still there and to reject them from one layer after another till they have been entirely... assent refused until they weaken and fade away. Not only the Chitta and Buddhi must refuse consent but also the lower parts of the being, the vital and the physico-vital, physical mind and the body consciousness. (5) The defect of the receiving mind and the discriminating Buddhi spoken of are general defects of the intellect and cannot be entirely be got rid of so long as the intellectual action is ...
... few open clues to the unfailing character of the power brought by the Supramental Avatar. A question was put to him in 1933: "It seems to me that if the Supermind is not established in Mother's body-consciousness, it is not because she is not ready for it like us, but because in order to establish it she has first to prepare the physical of the sadhaks and of the earth to a certain extent. But some people... "Certainly" to the correspondent Sri Aurobindo has concurred with the latter's opinion that there never was any question of the Mother's not being ready for the Supermind's establishment in her body-consciousness or of her body not attaining the perfection necessary for the establishment of the Supermind in it. This means that complete success in their present lives was always within the reach of the ...
... they descended into the physical they were met with a strong resistance. The present excess of inertia is the result of that resistance. This is what happens regularly at every descent into the body consciousness. Is this not true? Yes. Page 173 PEACE AND SILENCE After two days of the higher state, inertia comes, covering up my consciousness... much use - it is the waking consciousness of the Brahman everywhere that is needed - and for that the physical consciousness must be there. During today's experience, even my body consciousness was so much submerged in peace and silence that had it not been for the last vestiges of my sense of the mind, it would have been a complete trance. Trance would be not sufficient ...
... could I have a few lines on this subject, from Sri Aurobindo? In much the same way as Coué's suggestion system cured most of his patients, only by a physical instead of a mental means. he body consciousness responds to the suggestion or the medicine and one gets cured for the time being or it doesn't respond and there is no cure. How is it that the same medicine for the same illness succeeds with... with another or succeeds at one time with a man and afterwards doesn't succeed at all? Absolute cure of an illness so that it cannot return again depends on clearing the mind, the vital and the body consciousness and the subconscient of the psychological response to the Force bringing the illness. Sometimes this is done by a sort of order from above (when the consciousness is ready, but it cannot always ...
... It is necessary for the wide Atman realisation, the liberation from the body consciousness and other things that must come. Page 159 I do not understand what has happened at pranam this morning. It seems something strange when I see myself neither in the body consciousness nor in any definite centre. It is the usual condition when one has formed ...
... Path of the Fathers concerns itself with man as a mental being and seeks so to ordain and accomplish its duties and ideals as to lead him on to the Path of the Gods; the mind, the life, and the body consciousness should be so disciplined, educated, purified, they should develop along such a line and gradually rise to such a stage as to make them fit to receive the light which belongs to the higher level... discover the secret flame that. is in them too—each has his own portion of the Soul's Fire—and mount on its ardent tongue towards the heights of the Spirit. Garhapatya is the Fire in the body-consciousness, the fire of Earth, as it is sometimes called; Dakshina is the Fire of the moon or mind, and, Ahavaniya that of life. 2 The earthly fire is also the fire of the sun; the sun is the source of ...
... the lesson that the Mother was trying to impart in the Playground education. So long as you are in the normal consciousness, embedded in your body-consciousness, and view things from there, your life will be built in the pattern created by the body-consciousness. Life in that pattern can proceed only through difference and distinction, contrast and contradiction, conflict and battle. So long as you stick ...
... health, hygiene, physical exercise, preventive and curative medicine. 6. Growth of the body consciousness - the special role of physical education leading to gradual control, mastery and transformation of the body. 7. Physical education can help a lot in developing body consciousness. The body must be kept in a perfectly balanced state - Physical Sat-Chit-Ananda. Page ...
... body-fulfilment (kayasiddhi), a spiritual consummation in and through the body; the body-consciousness, according to this view, is the greatest reality. And whatever is achieved must have its final and definitive expression and manifestation there, in that concrete reality. The body, the body-consciousness, our poet says here, is to be a confluence, where all the streams of consciousness, all ...
... bring down Peace from above. What would be the activity of the transformed mechanical mind? It would be no longer mechanical, but a basis of permanent illumination in the body consciousness. Some friend said: "One feels the inner touch gone because one may not be quite ready to retain the Divine's pressure. Probably it might be the Divine Himself who takes it away, for... It would really be interesting to know what is going on in the parts between my head and neck? It is a preparation of the body for the mental transformation. My body-consciousness does not resist as before. Page 61 and allows itself to be used by me. Evidently there has been much progress there. When the Mother's Force ...
... knowledge of health, hygiene, physical exercise, preventive and curative medicine. 6.Growth of the body consciousness - the special role of physical education leading to gradual control, mastery and transformation of the body. 7.Physical education can help a lot in developing body consciousness. The body must be kept in a perfectly balanced state - Physical Sat-Chit-Ananda. 8.Integral progress ...
... is happening. Afterwards, we attribute, or try to attribute a meaning to it, but at the time it does not make any sense: you are immersed in a bath that produces various modifications of the body consciousness, which are quite puzzling until they are repeated a thousand times over. So it is very simple: A2 + V4 +... produces X0. And at X0, a new curve branches off. But you can never be sure of anything... cosmogonies in our heads without our life changing an iota. To know, for the body, is to be able to do. Each time you perceive a detail with precision, it means it is about to be realized.... The body consciousness can know a thing with precision and in every detail only when it is ON THE VERGE of being realized. And that will be the sure indication. 4 Indeed, the body does not speculate, it feels it ...
... of absolute felicity. And Sri Aurobindo was with me the whole time, the whole time—when I walked, He walked with me, when I sat down, He sat next to me.. 1 It was not a dream, it was the body consciousness that experienced it, the one that feels heat and cold, sees what is opaque, touches what is hard. A veil had been removed. For two full days She walked in another world, which was nevertheless... bear any hurricane without a quiver of reaction—it flows without obstruction. The obstruction is precisely what creates the veil. Clarification and universalization go together. The body—the body-consciousness—must first learn to widen itself It is indispensable, for otherwise all the cells become a kind of boiling porridge under the pressure of the supramental light. 5 And Mother looked at me ...
... ible. It has nothing to do with a will, it's not... I don't know... a something... a way of being. 14 A universal way of being. And I can see that for years the body and the whole body consciousness used to rush back into the old way to seek safety, it used to find its safety in flight [indeed it was "like" fainting]; but now, the body has been persuaded not to do it any longer and on the... constantly like this, night and day. Yet it's the consciousness OF THIS BODY. Instead of the consciousness being inside the body, it is the body which is inside the consciousness, yet it is still the body consciousness. 17 It would appear that the body—what we call the body, this thin and hard crust on the surface—is carried by, enveloped or contained in that boundless cellular body that goes and feels and ...
... Mother made this very revealing remark: For the body consciousness that remains conscious when the body is asleep, the world as it is (externally or superficially) is dark and muddy—always. That is, it’s always a half-darkness—you can hardly see—and mud. And that isn’t an opinion or a feeling: it’s a material FACT. Consequently, this body consciousness is already conscious of a world ... that would ...
... nervous disturbance. An inner quiet and peace came and the body too felt a soothing effect. SRI AUROBINDO: I am glad to know the disturbance was expelled last night — now the receptivity of the body consciousness has to be kept so that it may not at all return or, if it tries, may immediately be expelled. You must always try to keep the quietude, not allow depressing or disturbing thoughts or feelings... that should be allowed to lapse and these things enter. And if the mind keeps the quietude and receptivity to higher forces only, it can then easily pass on that quietude and receptivity to the body consciousness and even to the material cells of the body. (2.4.35) ...
... human mind and will, and therefore in our concept of the total perfection of the body. There are two conditions for this perfection, an awakening in as great an entirety as possible of the body consciousness and an education, an evocation of its potentialities, also as entire and fully developed and, it may be, as many-sided as possible. The form or body is, no doubt, in its origin a creation of... latent: what is awake in it we have to make fully conscious; what is asleep we have to arouse and set to its work; what is latent we have to evoke and educate. Here there are two aspects of the body consciousness, one which seems to be a kind of automatism carrying on its work in the physical plane without any intervention of the mind and in parts even beyond any possibility of direct observation by the ...
... control by itself cannot eradicate anything entirely out of the being. The subconscient in the ordinary man includes the larger part of the vital being and the physical mind and also the secret body-consciousness. In order to make a true and complete change, one has to make all these conscious, to see clearly what is still there and to reject them from one layer after another till they have been entirely... assent refused until they weaken and fade away. Not only the Chitta and Buddhi must refuse consent but also the lower parts of the being, the vital and the physicovital, physical mind and the body consciousness. (5) The defect of the receiving mind and the discriminating Buddhi spoken of are general defects of the intellect and cannot be entirely got rid of so long as the intellectual action is not ...
... and simultaneously. I am not limited by what people call time and space. You understand, I am doing many things at the same time without anybody seeing it or being aware of it.’ 30 Her body consciousness, the consciousness of the cells of her body, was present everywhere, not by way of speaking, not abstractly, but concretely, in physical reality. This does not mean that she registered in her... And thinking had nothing to do with it. I could not even describe it. How could one describe it? One can only begin to describe when one begins thinking.’ 38 She was in everything with her body consciousness, which must have been more and more supramentalized as otherwise it would not have been able to participate in a supramental world. She had also noted: ‘Mighty and long-lasting penetration ...
... Mother, Tomorrow I am finishing the medicine for boils. May this be the last medicine for me. O body consciousness, open yourself to the dear Mother and get yourself filled with Her Love. Yes, there comes a time when medicines are no more needed, but that means that the body consciousness is quite opened to the force from above and that a strong unwavering will is established in the material ...
... equanimity in the body consciousness. Not only the body but the entire consciousness gets clouded and veiled; there is no remembrance of the Divine in the physical consciousness and it is this that catches the illness and prolongs it. Yes, this is quite rightly observed—but to have become conscious of it is a big step towards a successful transformation of the body consciousness and the victory over ...
... April 1934 But after all, without putting forth eighteen visible arms, (perhaps, since it is a symbol, by putting them forth internally) I hope to become one day so divine even in the body consciousness that I shall be able to satisfy everybody! But you can't hurry a transformation like that. I must ask for time. Why do you always insist on cherishing the idea that I refuse all human love... straight line or to play music, it can't do it and won't do it. It has to be schooled, trained, taught, and afterwards it does automatically what is required of it. All this proves that there is a body-consciousness which can do things at the mind's order, but has to be awakened, trained, made a good and conscious instrument. It can even be so trained that a mental will or suggestion can cure the illness ...
... stuff of intuition; for it brings its own greater radiant movement into the will, into the feelings and emotions, the life-impulses, the action of sense and sensation, the very workings of the body consciousness; it recasts them in the light and power of truth and illumines their knowledge and their ignorance. A certain integration can thus take place, but whether it is a total integration must depend... must be an emergent supramental Consciousness-Force liberated and active within the terrestrial whole and an organised supramental instrumentation of the Spirit in the life and the body,—for the body consciousness also must become sufficiently awake to be a fit instrument of the workings of the new supramental Force and its new order. Till then any inter mediate change could be only partial or insecure; ...
... This does not cut one off from the cosmic consciousness, but one sees it without being involved in it. It [ the correspondent's experience ] is the release from the limitations by the body consciousness and the opening into the wider being which is universal although it has an individual centre. As this develops one becomes aware of the true Self silent and illimitable and the cosmic consciousness... limited to the body but widens to meet the cosmic consciousness. The widening of the consciousness beyond the body means that there is a preparation to pass out of the limitation by the body consciousness and feel oneself either in the cosmic consciousness or in contact with it. If one has this feeling of enlargement or wideness above the head one is in contact with the universal Self; below it ...
... on the bodily needs; but it should not be accepted. If it is rejected, it is likely to disappear. When I spoke about the inability to eat being a suggestion, I meant a suggestion to the body consciousness itself, not to your mind. When such suggestions come, they produce physical effects of this kind, instead of the idea of not eating there comes a sort of inability to eat. The absence... the physical passions and is still very much subject to the body nature and the things that affect it, free indulgence in onions is not advisable. It is only for those who have risen above the body consciousness and mastered it and are not affected by these things that it does not at all matter; for them the use of this or that food or its disuse makes no difference. At the same time I must say that ...
... in. There should be no apprehension, for these things are quite normal in the transforming process. Probably the sense of unsureness is due to the part of the nature which founds itself on the body consciousness and feels nothing sure or solid except the body. In the new consciousness on the contrary what will be felt as sure and solid is the wide spiritual consciousness not limited by the body, in which... are recorded in the body and seem to be the body's experiences, 1 but one has to distinguish between the reflection of the experiences there and the experiences that belong to the physical body consciousness itself. It is a matter of consciousness and fine discernment. There is no absolute law about the time. It can be a rushing of Force into the subtle body which the physical records and ...
... of aspiration, of the will to progress, which one does not usually even realise. The body-consciousness would have to be completely warped by the action of the mind and vital for it not to have an immediate will to re-establish the equilibrium. When this will is not there, it means that the entire body-consciousness has been spoilt by the intervention of the mind and vital. In people who cherish their ...
... it can speak clearly (sufficiently clearly) for one to understand. And yet the mind and vital may have gone out altogether, may be completely outside. There is a body-consciousness. And so, when one has developed this body-consciousness, one can have a very clear perception of the opposition between the different kinds of consciousness. When the body needs something and is aware that this is what ...
... al transformation.' This passage confirmed and made me understand many experiences I had after that Page 257 experience of the body's ascent [January 24, 1961] (the ascent of the body-consciousness, followed by the descent of the supramental force into the body); immediately afterwards, everything (how to put it?)... outwardly, according to ordinary consciousness, I fell ill; but it's stupid... am being attacked in the same relentless fashion. Actually, it springs from everything in material consciousness that can still be touched by the adverse forces; that is, not exactly the body-consciousness itself but, one could say, material substance as it has been organized by the mind—the initial mentalization of matter, the first stirrings of mind in life making the passage from animal to human ...
... any revolt or wrong attitude was the cause of the pain in his fingers. The wrong attitude can be in the body consciousness itself (lack of faith or of receptivity) and then it is very difficult to detect as it does not correspond to any wrong thought or feeling , the body consciousness being most often and in almost everybody subconscious . Is it good to talk about one's experiences ...
... consciousness OF THE BODY was absolutely indifferent to external, physical signs, whether they were like this or like that (the BODY'S consciousness was what had experienced the identity). And this body-consciousness had the perception of the EXTREME RELATIVITY of the most material expression. I am translating it to make myself understood—it wasn't like that at the time of the experience. Suppose, for... Mother pinches the skin of her hand ). This experience has been like a stage—an indispensable stage for establishing this complete detachment; an indispensable stage so that the harmony of the body-consciousness (which came with the body's experience of the Divine) might have its effect upon the most external, superficial part of the body. ( silence ) This is the logical consequence of the research ...
... utterly calm... and I woke up in Sri Aurobindo's house in the subtle physical—a very material sensation, with everything Page 378 quite concrete. So I arrived, or rather not I but the body-consciousness arrived 2 and started explaining to Sri Aurobindo what had happened—it was very excited, talking and talking. The response was a sort of inscrutable smile and then... nothing. He simply looked... Sri Aurobindo's old cook, round as a barrel. × It is quite remarkable that it was the body-consciousness that discovered—nine years after his passing—Sri Aurobindo's abode (experience of July 24-25, 1959 ). The world where Mother went is thus a material world, not an "inner" world. The other Matter ...
... ( gesture above ), very vast—very vast and supple—but constantly like this, night and day. Yet it's the consciousness of this ( Mother touches her body ), of the instrument. It's what was the body consciousness; now it's the same consciousness but it has become something very vast, very strong, and like this ( same gesture above ), as if at a Page 36 distance from the body; it acts on the... sends him this note: ) This is what I tried to say this morning: Instead of the consciousness being inside the body, it is the body which is inside the consciousness, yet it is still the body consciousness. Page 37 ...
... Yes! ( Mother goes into a contemplation ) For the body consciousness that remains conscious when the body is asleep, the world as it is is dark and muddy—always. That is, it's always a half-darkness—you can hardly see—and mud. And that isn't an opinion or a thought: it's a material FACT. Consequently, this [body] consciousness is already conscious of a world... that would no longer be subject ...
... human mind and will and therefore in our concept of the total perfection of the body. There are two conditions for this perfection, an awakening in as great an entirety as possible of the body consciousness and an education, an evocation of its potentialities, also as entire and fully developed and, it may be, as many-sided as possible. The form or body is, no doubt, in its origin a creation of... latent: what is awake in it we have to make fully conscious; what is asleep we have to arouse and set to its work; what is latent we have to evoke and educate. Here there are two aspects of the body consciousness, one which seems to be a kind of automatism carrying on its work in the physical plane without any intervention of the mind and in parts even beyond any possibility of direct observation by the ...
... death of the body. That is to say, you may have attained liberation in consciousness and yet something in the nature continues in the old bondage and this ignorance is usually supported by the body-consciousness. When the body drops off, the man becomes entirely free or liberated. The other kind of liberation is Jivanmukti: one realises liberation while remaining in the body and in life and action... higher consciousness; the dynamic presence of the Divine is needed. Or else, if without the dynamic realisation you can establish, as I have already said, equanimity and calm right down to your body-consciousness so that nothing stirs whatever happens, then also you can be free from them. After I had the Nirvanic experience at Baroda and came to Calcutta for work, I thought I had no ambition—I mean ...
... centres are recorded in the body and seem to be the body's experiences, but one has to distinguish between the reflection of the experiences there and the experiences that belong to the physical body consciousness itself. It is a matter of consciousness and fine discernment. There is no absolute law about the time. If one feels a fountain of Force rushing into the body, can it be a mere ... put my widened self on the Mother's lap. 2 Was my fear a true one? The feeling of the body enlarging and widening itself is of course an indication of widening out of the physical (body) consciousness and is a subtle material rendering in the body of the self-realisation. One has not to be afraid of it, but to keep the idea of the ego out of it, for it is not the personality that is in question ...
... stuff of Intuition; for it brings it own greater radiant movement into the will, into the feelings and emotions, the life-impulses, the action of sense and sensation, the very working of the body-consciousness; it recasts them in the light and power of truth and illumines their knowledge and their ignorance. A certain integration can thus take place, but whether it is a total integration must depend... vital-physical is the vital at the service of the physical. It is the nervous being, and it governs all the small daily reactions to outward things. It governs also reactions of the nerves and the body consciousness and reflects emotions and sensations; it motivates much of the ordinary actions of man and joins with the lower parts of the vital proper in producing lust, jealousy, anger, violence, etc. In ...
... An irreversible stage was reached. The whole work, the real work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, was to open up the consciousness of the cells by fixing the supramental consciousness in the body-consciousness. This work was done; the rest was a secondary consequence. As Mother said: 'It must be "worked out" as one says, it has to be realised in all details, but the change IS DONE—the change is done... discoveries. Page 199 Let us begin with Mother's experience of 19th November, 1969, where she gives us the essential equations of the supramental consciousness as experienced by her body-consciousness. 19 November 1969 This morning at about eight o'clock, I would have been able to tell you a number of things.... Because there was a day when a number of problems were posed ...
... possible even to achieve a perfect self-knowledge and union or unity with the being, the consciousness and the bliss of the Supreme except in moments of total withdrawal from all trace of body-consciousness. Thus it is held that only the cataleptic state of Samadhi can offer itself as the most natural status of divine consciousness that an embodied soul can aspire after. This so-claimed... keep it there very long. I shall keep it on the next lower note" ? 3 This supposed incapacity of our waking physical consciousness coupled with the gravitational pull exerted by the body-consciousness tending to bring down the embodied soul from its status of perfect union and illumination, often creates a sense of repugnance for the bodily existence. The aforesaid oscillation of con ...
... Path of the Fathers concerns itself with man as a mental being and seeks so to ordain and accomplish its duties and ideals as to lead him on to the Path of the Gods; the mind, the life, and the body consciousness should be so disciplined, educated, purified, they should develop along such a line and gradually rise to such a stage as to make them fit to receive the light which belongs to the higher level... discover the secret flame that is in them too – each has his own portion of the Soul's Fire – and mount on its ardent tongue towards the heights of the Spirit. Garhapatya is the Fire in the body-consciousness, the fire of Earth, as it is sometimes called; Dakshina is the Fire of the moon or mind, and Ahavaniya that of life.² The earthly fire is also the fire of the sun; the sun is the source of all ...
... uplift these inferior workings, yet, imperfection remains in the dynamic parts. Even if we realize the Master of Works in a spiritualized mind, a spiritualized life-movement, a spiritualized body-consciousness, there is a stumbling response to the Supreme Power. Page 48 This stumbling response can be remedied, according to Sri Aurobindo, when we open to the Divine Shakti in the truth... stuff of Intuition; for it brings its own greater radiant movement into the will, into the feelings and emotions, the life-impulses, the action of sense and sensation, the very workings of the body-consciousness; it recasts them in the light and power of truth and illumines their knowledge and their ignorance." 49 But even then, the total integration is hampered, and the intuitive mind cannot ...
... the lesson that the Mother was trying to impart in the playground education. So long as you are in the normal consciousness imbedded in your body-consciousness and view things from there, your life also will be built in the pattern created by the body-consciousness. Life in that pattern can proceed only through difference and distinction, contrast and contradiction, conflict and battle. So long as you ...
... human mind and will and therefore in our concept of the total perfection of the body. There are two conditions for this perfection, an awakening in as great an entirety as possible of the body consciousness and an education, an evocation of its potentialities, also as entire and fully developed and, it may be, as many sided as possible. The form or body is, no doubt, in its origin a creation of... latent: what is awake in it we have to make fully conscious, what is asleep we have to arouse and set to its work, what is latent we have to evoke and educate. Here there are two aspects of the body consciousness, one which seems to be a kind of automatism carrying on its work in the physical plane without any intervention of the mind and in parts even beyond any possibility of direct observation by the ...
... bodyfulfilment (kāyā siddhi) , a spiritual consummation in and through the body; the body-consciousness, according to this view, is the greatest reality. And whatever is achieved must have its final and definitive expression and manifestation there, in that concrete reality. The body, the body-consciousness, our poet says here, is to be a confluence, where all the streams of consciousness ...
... things. Think of the great thing, the great chance. Have a real Prayer in your heart, widen your small horizon and rise to the occasion. You know, we are here to tread a new path in our own body-consciousness. We are here to open our small humanity to a new experiment. It is not a matter of creed and dogma and philosophy and policies; it transcends all ideologies whether capitalistic or socialistic... beliefs. So Mother has given me an overwhelming and almost fabulous proof of what can be done and how it can be done. (...) Now the path is clearer and it is a drastic change in my body consciousness. More I cannot tell at present. Let us see how things develop. I am deeply engrossed in volume XIII, with all its wrenching and sometimes horrifying content. I relive all this with a deeper ...
... Egyptians. It is not a new phenomenon. The new phenomenon (new to me), now beginning to be outlined in my uncertain geography where I was treading step after blind step, is that this material body consciousness, Page 86 therefore the most destructible, the most mortal, the one we leave behind in a box with our bones, is the one that sees, the one that has access to what is on the other side... ill-treated, almost always covered up by our ratiocinations, our mental hubbub, our emotive fog, our social or medical or other imperatives and the whole peremptory bag of tricks of our science, this body consciousness buried under the weight of all that it has been taught about “the right way of living,” is the very consciousness that not only sees and touches the other side of its death, but sees the “dead” ...
... vase, a large vase, opening and receiving all that comes down. 12 Returning to the theme of the talk, the Mother contributed two essays - "Some Experiences of the Body Consciousness" and "New Experiences of the Body Consciousness" - to the Bulletin of April and August 1954 respectively. Surely, the Divine had come down in various incarnations in the past, always with the intention of "transforming ...
... possibility of going right to the end of the transformation... 2 When everything is in utter confusion, at times I ask for an Assurance—and I see very well, very well that if my body's cells, the body consciousness were told, "You are immortal; all these difficulties are experiences; the pain you feel has no importance; this apparent decomposition has no importance; all these things are necessary experiences... limit, like a demonstration, with at the same time the state (not a perception—the state) that prevents the break in the equilibrium and allows progress to go on without break. The result, in the body consciousness, is the simultaneous perception (so to speak simultaneous) of what we might describe as the extreme anguish of dissolution and the extreme Ananda of union—the two simultaneously. So if you translate ...
... leaving any trace… 27 Nonetheless, She would spend one whole night, eight hours, in the body of a dying disciple with all his agony, and not "as if": She was the dying person. The body, the body consciousness was the consciousness of a dying body, with all the anguish, all the suffering.... And it lasted a long time: it lasted all night. I saw her afterwards, and She was still shaken by it—understandably... not exceptional powers but the normal, ordinary perception, as we now breathe or feel. It is not a superconsciousness up there looking at Matter from its luminous height; it is here, in the body consciousness. It would almost seem that without the web, the body lives in another world, which is nevertheless physical and material, because after all, that body lives by the clock, sensibly goes to bed ...
... with the things he speaks of. It is a Yoga whose aim is to bring down a supramental consciousness and its Light, Power, Peace, Knowledge and Ananda for the transformation of the mind, life and body consciousness into an instrument of the Divine Consciousness. It does not follow any of the old ways though it takes something from all of them—but it is in essence the finding of a new way and is therefore ...
... For instance, the physical consciousness may have this experience even for years before the cells change. There is a great difference between the physical consciousness (the Page 57 body consciousness) and the material body. This takes a long time, because it is a thing that has never been done. That state, as I have already told you, is a commonly known state which has been realised by some ...
... say, the help is reciprocal. The psychic, when it has an influence on the outer life, brings to it light, order and quietude and the joy of the divine contact. But also the physical being, the body-consciousness—if it is identified with the psychic consciousness, and through that learns what kind of experience the psychic being wants to have—can help it to have Page 447 these experiences ...
... of climate when necessary suggest themselves; but at bottom the difficulty is a difficulty experienced by us all—the disharmony between the light and power that is coming down and the obscure body consciousness which is accustomed to respond to disharmonious forces. It is precisely this point at which we are labouring here—and, as always happens, the difficulties to be met become immediately acute. ...
... experiences related in the letter were quite sound and very good. There is no delusion about the Force working in the body, but there are evidently points where there is still much resistance. The body consciousness has many parts and many different movements and all do not open or change together. Also the body is very dependent on the subconscient which has to be cleared and illumined before the body can ...
... spoke of it first, people stared and thought I was talking nonsense. Wideness must have been felt in the old Yogas because otherwise one could not feel the universe in oneself or be free from the body consciousness or unite with the Anantam Brahman. But generally as in Tantrik Yoga one spoke of the consciousness rising to the Brahmarandhra, top of the head, as the summit. Rajayoga of course lays stress ...
... enough or at least not enough for a rapid or total effect, the instrumentation (treatment or medicine) is needed. It is especially where the resistance of the body or the forces acting on the body-consciousness is strong that the medicine comes in as an aid. But if the doctor is non-psychic or the medicine the wrong one or the treatment unplastic, then they become an added resistance which the Force ...
... from being a dead form or a corrupted and corrupting magic; it alone can preserve for the act its power with its significance. All the other members of our being, mind, life-force, physical or body consciousness are too much under the control of the Ignorance to be a sure instrumentation and much less can they be a guide or the source of an unerring impulse. Always the greater part of the motive and ...
... etc.—the vital physical is the nervous being; they are closely connected together. The vital physical governs all the small daily reactions to out ward things—reactions of the nerves and the body consciousness and the reflex reactions and sensations; it motives much of the ordinary actions of man and joins with the lower parts of the vital proper in producing lust, jealousy, anger, violence etc. In ...
... body (Prana) is an aspect of the vital. The body too has its own distinct consciousness which operates in the involuntary functionings of the various bodily organs and physiological systems. Body-consciousness is only part of the physical consciousness. The latter includes also the physical mind and the physical vital which will be presently explained. Though separate and distinct, the three main ...
... - whatever it may be, all the things that come to you on the path and which precisely are your difficulties - if physically, Page 82 that is to say, in your body-consciousness, you can have the feeling of widening yourself, one could say of unfolding yourself - you feel as it were all folded up, one fold on another like a piece of cloth which is folded and refolded ...
... and that you can get with it any experience you like, whether good or bad, of the ordinary or of the spiritual life, - and that also is why, when this energy comes, you feel power pervading the body-consciousness and its matter. As for the contact with the Page 11 Mother in the vital and your sense of the fine, the magnificent experience it was, --that too is natural and right; ...
... rapid decision and action, the perception of what is to be done in an emergency and dexterity in doing it. One development of the utmost value is the awakening of the essential and instinctive body consciousness which can see and do what is necessary without any indication from mental thought and which is equivalent in the body to swift insight in the mind and spontaneous and Page 64 ...
... and which need not fade away. How aloof, repellent and undesirable! The supramental love means an intense unity of soul with soul, mind with mind, life with life, and an entire flooding of the body consciousness with the physical experience of oneness, the presence of the Beloved in every part, in every cell of the body. Is that too something aloof and grand but undesirable? With the supramental change ...
... thing by the blind end and is the least fruitful of all—for psychology is not primarily a thing of mechanism and measure, it opens to a vast field beyond the physical instrumentalities of the body consciousness. In biology one can get a glimpse of something beyond mechanism, because there is from the beginning a stir of consciousness progressing and organising itself more and more for self-expression ...
... necessity for the seeker if he wishes to arrive at his goal. It is true that many supraphysical or supernormal powers come with the expansion of the consciousness in Yoga; to rise out of the body consciousness, to act by subtle means on the supraphysical planes etc. are natural activities for the Yogi. But these powers are not sought after, they come naturally, and they have not the astral character ...
... unwillingness may often take the form of depression and dejection accompanied by a resistance in the physical mind which supports the repetition of old ideas, habits, movements or actions which the body consciousness suffers from an apprehension or fear of the called for change, a drawing back from it or a dullness which does not receive the call. It is these things you have to get rid of. But a sorrowful ...
... and that you can get with it any experience you like, whether good or bad, of the ordinary or of the spiritual life,—and that also is why, when this energy comes, you feel power pervading the body-consciousness and its matter. As for the contact with the Mother in the vital and your sense of the fine, the magnificent experience it was,—that too is natural and right; for the vital, no less than the psychic ...
... vital centres, physical centre and fills the whole body with the higher existence and consciousness. The ascent is the liberation (mukti) and when once this ascends, one is liberated from the body consciousness, one no longer feels the body as a form, no longer feels contained in the body, but widens out into the formless Vastness of the Divine. Or sometimes the body is felt as something very small ...
... frequent obstacle in the Yoga. The main difficulty in the sadhana consists in the movements of the lower nature, ideas of the mind, desires and attractions of the vital, habits of the body consciousness that stand in the Page 638 way of the growth of the higher consciousness—there are other difficulties, but these make the bulk of the opposition. Each part of the nature wants ...
... s to become aware of your inner being which was veiled, as in most, by the outer waking self. There are, we might say, two beings in us, one on the surface, our ordinary exterior mind, life, body consciousness, another behind the veil, an inner mind, an inner life, an inner physical consciousness constituting another or inner self. This inner self once awake opens in its turn to our true real and eternal ...
... return, to contact happenings distant in space and time, to see what is in the supraconscient and to enter into what is supraconscient to our mental status. What she speaks of as losing the body consciousness is probably a tendency of the consciousness to go inside—into Samadhi of some kind. Samadhi means a state in which one is not awake and aware of outward things, but also one is not asleep, one ...
... unwillingness may often take the form of depression and dejection, accompanied by a resistance in the physical mind which supports the repetition of old ideas, habits, movements or actions while the body consciousness suffers from an apprehension or fear of the called-for change, a drawing back from it or a dullness which does not receive the call. It is these things you have to get rid of. But a sorrowful ...
... the sleep is more awake, so to say, then one has dreams of all kinds; when there is no such awareness of dreams, it is because the sleep of the body is more deep,—the dreams are there but the body consciousness does not note them or remember that it had them. The consciousness goes into another plane of existence [ during sleep ] and, as the physical consciousness is not connected with or takes ...
... are met by it and unable to remain because of its automatic pressure. The Physical Sadhana The physical sadhana is to bring down the higher light and power and peace and Ananda into the body consciousness, to get rid of the inertia of the physical, the doubts, limitations, external tendency of the physical mind, the defective energies of the vital physical (nerves) and bring in instead the true ...
... physically or even vitally brave; yet by force of mind they pushed themselves into all sorts of battle and danger. Henry IV of France, a great fighter and victor, was an example. Just because his body consciousness was in a panic, he forced it to go where the danger was thickest. Page 280 ...
... feel a universal peace, light, power, bliss without limits—that is her svarūpa . One meets this more often by rising in consciousness above the head where one is liberated from this limited body consciousness and feels oneself also as something wide, calm, one self with all beings—free from passion and disturbance in an eternal peace. But it can be felt through the heart also—then the heart too feels ...
... earth-consciousness down to Matter itself, so it can't be for the physical of myself or the Mother alone. 15 September 1935 It seems to me that if the Supermind has not descended into Mother's body-consciousness, it is not because she is not ready for it, but because she has first to prepare the physical of the sadhaks and of the earth to a certain extent. But some people here take it in the wrong way; ...
... self-affirmation that wrong and evil first arise: wrong consciousness engenders wrong will in the members, in the thinking mind, in the heart, in the life-mind and the sensational being, in the very body-consciousness; wrong will engenders wrong action of all these instruments, a multiple error and many-branching crookedness of thought and will and sense and feeling. Nor can we deal rightly with others so ...
... becoming a dead form or a corrupted and corrupting magic; it alone can preserve for the act its power with its significance. All the other members of our being, mind, life-force, physical or body consciousness are too much under the control of the Ignorance to be a sure instrumentation and much less can they be a guide or the source of an unerring impulse. Always the greater part of the motive and ...
... that we can get out of this obscurity and tangle. For a larger mental being is there within us, a larger inner vital being, even a larger inner subtle-physical being other than our surface body-consciousness, and by entering into this or becoming it, identifying ourselves with it, we can observe the springs of our thoughts and feelings, the sources and motives of our action, the operative energies ...
... undergo by this embodiment a change from the normal constitution of its nature, a change certainly of its mental and emotional and sensational constitution and also to a great extent of the body-consciousness and the physical conditioning of our life and energies; but the change of consciousness will be the chief factor, the initial movement, the physical modification will be a subordinate factor ...
... something of their true character or descend from above and uplift these inferior workings, yet, even if we realise the One in a spiritualised mind, a spiritualised life-movement, a spiritualised body-consciousness, an imperfection remains in the dynamic parts. There is a stumbling response to the Supreme Power, a veil over the face of the Divine, a constant mixture of the Ignorance. It is only when we ...
... this is blurred, as it were, imprecise, it's like... something taking place in a nebula, which is not this and not yet that. ( silence ) It's no longer, no longer... visibly no longer the body consciousness as it was. No longer: the relationships are no longer the same, the way of hearing, of speaking... (speaking is very difficult, it takes a considerable effort). And it isn't yet... oh, it's on ...
... transforming their own bodies in isolation from common humanity. In 1933 a sadhak asked Sri Aurobindo whether he was right in believing that if the Supermind was not established in the Mother's body-consciousness, it was not because she was not ready for it like us, but because in order to establish it she had first to prepare the physical of the sadhaks and of the earth to a certain extent. Sri Aurobindo ...
... stanza and equally splendid is the fourteen-lined fusion of the several pictures. And what an achievement is that closing couplet with its deep defunctive music — its echo of a grand ebbing of the body-consciousness, with the soul entering no domain of common death but a realm of trance where the human gets absorbed into the deific. Nirodbaran's poetry is full of the passing of the outer being into ...
... more complex and subtle consciousness serving the ends of Life. This consciousness is a temporary phenomenon beginning in each form with birth and ending with Page 231 death of the body. Consciousness then is a circumstance of body and incapable of survival of the body. There is no such thing per se as consciousness. A consciousness not dependent on the body, expressing itself in it as its ...
... stage of imbecility where you say, "Why are these things like this?"—It sees clearly, sees very well why they are like this. But things are so vast, so general that... It's difficult for the body consciousness to remain in that state of universality all the time. ( silence ) Page 88 To make a sentence (because all this looks like sentences), it's knowing that one lives in a falsehood ...
... social conventions of good manners, good upbringing, so of course, all those who don't have very deep roots behave like ill-mannered children (!) ( silence ) In the body (in the cells, the body consciousness), there is constantly a great battle between all the materialistic ideas and the true consciousness, and the result... ( grating gesture ). In the space of a quarter of an hour, everything starts ...
... (minutes, it doesn't last), minutes when the body feels it has escaped that law [of death]. But it doesn't last; it's for one minute, then it passes and things are back as they were. But the body consciousness is beginning to wonder why it's like that: Why, why isn't there... a growth in light and in consciousness, an indefinite growth? Why? The body itself wonders why. Also, it's constantly assailed ...
... into its aspect of light. 1 Not to reject it: to transform it. ( silence ) It's very, very true [one step up, one step down], very true, because it's true even for the most material body-consciousness. And you realize the difficulties that represents.... As soon as the body becomes more conscious of the divine Presence and Light, it's immediately as though you touched the dregs of unconsciousness ...
... n, of rejection, movements (for a second) of transformation, and also movements of construction—it seems the time has come to step into the movement of construction. Page 425 The body consciousness is still very timid, very timid in the sense that it doesn't have confidence in itself. It feels that if it isn't constantly vigilant, watching, watching, observing, discerning, some things ( ...
... ( silence ) Probably it's necessary because at times, when everything is in utter confusion, at times I ask for an Assurance—and I see very well, very well that if my body's cells, the body consciousness were told, "You are immortal; all those difficulties are experiences; the pain you feel has no importance; this apparent decomposition has no importance; all those things are necessary experiences ...
... her hands ) every minute a discovery. So describing it would be endless, and also uninteresting. Well, I'm not so sure about that! I'm not so sure! Therefore.... ( silence ) The body consciousness is beginning to be wise, it too is saying with a great, great... more than sincerity, "Let Your Will be done." People and their opinions and their way of seeing things seem so very ridiculous ...
... different ways and not invariably as a synonym for what he calls "the Reasoning Power in Man" which, properly speaking, is his Urizen. Luvah represents the Feeling à la Jung. Tharmas is Blake's body-consciousness or bodily instincts and impulses, and corresponds to Jung's Sensation. But let us remember that to Blake his Zoas were no mental constructs of his own, personifying psychological faculties ...
... and equally splendid is the fourteen-lined fusion of the several pictures. And what an achievement is that closing couplet with its deep defunctive music — its echo of a grand ebbing of the body-consciousness, with the soul entering no domain of common death but a realm of trance where the human gets absorbed into the deific. Nirodbaran's poetry is full of the passing of the outer being ...
... express states of consciousness not mentalized. Visions constantly. Landscapes. Buildings. Cities. Everything vast and greatly varied, covering the entire visual field and translating states of the body consciousness. Many, many construction sites, huge cities being built …” Yes, the world that is being built, the future world that is being built. I didn’t hear any more, I didn’t see any more, I didn’t speak ...
... es that human consciousness can function independently of brain activity. Many NDE-accounts seem to include elements which, according to several theorists, can only be explained by an out-of-body consciousness. For example, Michael Sabom states that one of his contacts accurately described a surgical instrument [used after she was clinically dead] which she had not seen previously.” In other cases ...
... But it goes without saying that this high achievement can surely not come from a mere intellectual recognition: we have to seize the truth in a dynamic living experience in which even our body consciousness and its very constituent cells should fully participate. In no other wise can we expect to dissolve the Hunger-Death wedlock, for by the very definition of the term anna ('Food') , "it ...
... value, the other three signify undesirable imperfections that must be remedied if we would establish a mastery over our dream-world. Especially so is the last one, the abysmal plunge of the body-consciousness into the torpid depths of the subconscience, and along with it its allied manifestation, the dream-wanderings of our inner sleep-consciousness in the dark and dangerous regions of our being ...
... (Correspondence with Dyuman) Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother 15 May 1935 My dear Mother, Unless the body consciousness opens and receives the Divine Light, Peace and Consciousness, nothing of permanence is achieved. The body is the base, and upon that base the Divine has to work and construct a building. However much the vital and the mental ...
... Mother’s Agenda 1951-1960 April 1954 ( A few experiences of the body consciousness ) [The following texts were written by Mother in French.] With the same accuracy, one can say that all is divine or that nothing is divine. Everything depends upon the angle from which one looks at the problem. Likewise, it can be said that the divine is a perpetual ...
... tear (different organs wearing out, losing their endurance, their power of reaction, and certain movements, for instance, becoming less easy to make). That's what the body felt, although the body-consciousness never sensed any aging, never, none—that simply didn't exist. But in actual material fact, there was some difficulty.... And now, looking at it in the ordinary way, externally, superficially ...
... looking after me. Not that it was separate, but I couldn't even say, "it's a body"—it wasn't anything any more! Something.... Having undergone so much preparation, the universalization of the body-consciousness and all that, the experience didn't even seem Page 149 strange to me (in fact, it was certainly the result of all that preparation). The body was... "something" like a mass of substance ...
... That, more than anything else, may be why I needed a bit of solitude: to reactivate that part of the psychic being which was the individual intermediary between true Consciousness and the body-consciousness: the part which had lived THAT, was aware of THAT, knew THAT—knew that wondrous miracle. ( silence ) What's really almost miraculous is that I can speak of it even now. So here we ...
... with, at the same time, the state (not the perception but the state) preventing this rupture of equilibrium and permitting the continuity of the progress without rupture. And this gives in the body consciousness the simultaneous (so to say, simultaneous) perception of what one might call the extreme agony of dissolution (although it is not quite that, but still) and then the extreme Ananda of union—the ...
... neared the head, I thought I would burst and that the experience would have to be stopped. But then, I very clearly received the indication to make the Calm and Peace descend, to widen all this body-consciousness and all these cells, so that they could contain the supramental light. So I widened, and as the light was ascending, I brought down the vastness and an unshakable peace. And suddenly, there was ...
... know. We shall see. ( silence ) To realize what one has to realize, it is absolutely indispensable to be TOTALLY free of all ties with the ordinary, false consciousness common to material body-consciousness—the consciousness of the body-substance—deriving from the subconscient and the inconscient. This must not only be mastered (it has been mastered for a long time)—but there must be complete i ...
... intensity of concrete reality, occurs not only daily, but several times a day. At times it's very severe, that is, like a mass; at other times, it's only like something that touches; then, in the body consciousness, it's expressed like this, with a sort of thanksgiving: one more progress made over Unconsciousness. But those aren't thunderous events, the human neighbour isn't even aware of them; he may note ...
... responsible for our illnesses; chronic or repeated illnesses are indeed mainly due to the subconscient and its obstinate memory and habit of repetition of whatever has impressed itself upon the body-consciousness. But this subconscient must be clearly distinguished from the subliminal parts of our being such as the inner or subtle physical consciousness, the inner vital or inner mental; for these are ...
... attempt to harmonize men?... It's presented to us the other way round, but I have wondered if it wasn't that. We'll see. Now there is integrally, even for the most material consciousness, the body consciousness, this: to leave the entire responsibility to the Lord—what He wants will be, and that's all. When He wants us to do something, we do it, but after all ... We do it simply because He tells us ...
... (for hours, you know), and quite acutely. But it's new—new in its ASPECT; it's the continuation of all that preceded, but in the aspect it has taken on, it's completely new. In other words, the body consciousness may be Page 358 becoming aware of it in a new way. All that is an approximation. After some time, maybe it will be more precise. It's the quality of time that's changing. ...
... people will break down! ( Mother laughs ) That's how it is: when they're here I feel as if... ( gesture ) That so-called "accident" of last Wednesday has had a very considerable effect on the body consciousness: it's now very different. The perception of a Power limited only by... the prudence of an infinite Patience. Like that. And at the same time... well, what we might call "remnants of personality ...
... your eyes, you plunge into trance (you are perfectly conscious, but you go into trance and the body is absolutely stilled). That's what Théon had taught me: you free Page 113 the body consciousness and train it in such a way that it can act on its own, so that while you are deep in trance, you can get up, write, speak, do anything—you are outside the body, there's just a link left. But ...
... January 15, 1964 ( after a long silence ) There is a curious transitional state in the most material consciousness, the body consciousness. A transition from the state of subjugation, of helplessness, in which one is constantly at the mercy of forces, vibrations, unexpected movements, all sorts of impulses—to the Power. The Power ...
... new way. It was... it was extremely painful, difficult and absolutely grotesque all at once. And then, this body found itself to be a sort of battlefield, and that wasn't pleasant. And the body consciousness (which is now taking form more and more clearly), even the one that is subject to the old habit, is conscious of the divine existence, I might say (the existence of the Divine and almost the ...
... comparison with HERE. This is truly why the world was created: it's to add to that essential Consciousness something so concrete and so solid, so real, and with such tremendous power! Only, to the body consciousness it seems long. Up above, of course, there is a smile, but for the body... And strangely enough, there isn't in the body that joy of the memory of the experience. You have the joy of the memory ...
... s, even then the consciousness is flung out of the cells violently—it took twelve days to form again. It wasn't his soul (it had already left) but the spirit of his body that came to me, the body consciousness gathered in a well-dressed, neat Benjamin with his hair neatly brushed. He was quite trim when he came to me, just as he would have been in life: he always wanted to be well-groomed and impeccable ...
... and dry. It was so strong that the body felt like this ( wavering gesture, as if Mother were losing her footing ). That's how the BODY felt, it's not the consciousness; I am talking about the body-consciousness. The room seemed so hollow and empty that the body felt drained, as if all its force and consciousness had to spread out everywhere in order to fill up that emptiness. The next day it wasn't ...
... in the mountains—often. And now, I feel we are turning the corner; but we are beginning to turn it, in the sense that we are beginning to see the other side, and the consciousness (always the body consciousness) is on the verge of a bedazzlement, like the first glimpses of something marvelous—not positively unexpected because that is what we wanted, but truly marvelous. And at the same time, there is ...
... in the wick, it was carbonized, and yesterday it refused to burn. We lighted it—lighted it twice just before—and it went out just at the start of the meditation when they rang the gong. So the body consciousness said, "O Lord, we are so impure that we cannot even burn in front of You!" It was full of spontaneous simplicity: "O Lord, we are so impure..." And immediately, the answer ( gesture of massive ...
... has to be seen as multi-poised: Sri Aurobindo ever aware far beyond this level, "pinnacled high in the intense inane", and at the same time Sri Aurobindo here below with the brain-mind and body-consciousness catching the radiance of the extreme altitude and drawing it increasingly into the stuff of mortality - a glorious whole of interconnected luminosities, labouring to render every part an ...
... we can get out of this obscurity and tangle. For a larger mental being is there within us, a larger inner vital being, even a larger inner subtle-physical being other than our surface body-consciousness, and by entering into this or becoming it, identifying ourselves with it, we can observe the springs of our thoughts and feelings, the sources and motives of our action, the operative energies ...
... Outer being parts and planes, 336-337, 348-49 physical, see physical, the psychic, see Psychic being structure and organisation of, 336-60 true, 91 vital, see Vital, the Body-consciousness, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 164, 339-41 Brahman, 96, 170-71, 296, 374, 375,378, 379 and the Self, 121 cf. Divine, the Bucke, R.M., 371 Buddha, 225, 228, 375, 399 ...
... French". Please, write inside something if Thy will is there. When I sit in the meditation, I feel sometimes that my whole body from inside became vacant and foggy. That time I don't feel the body consciousness except from neck to head I feel that. Explain it to me. You are probably becoming aware of a suitable consciousness wider than the physical and when one is in this consciousness the body ...
... eternal divine fullness of the cosmic powers; the highest point of realisation was the manifestation of the supramental truth-consciousness in the physical consciousness up to a point where the body consciousness of the individual could become universalised This synthesis of yoga was later on broken into specialised processes of Jnana Yoga, Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Mantra Yoga and several other specialised ...
... occult knowledge, there is in the inner realms of consciousness, a larger inner mental being, a larger inner vital being, even a larger inner subtle physical being distinguishable from surface body consciousness. Occultists in different traditions have developed varieties of methods by which one can enter into inner consciousness. If one succeeds in entering into these domains of inner consciousness ...
... city as a collective field for the material and spiritual researches required for realizing human unity as a part of the supramental action on the earth. The Mother's exploration into the body-consciousness and her discovery of a 'cellular mind' capable of restructuring the nature of the body is contained in a document of more than six thousand pages, published in Thirteen Volumes. This is L'Agenda ...
... necessarily undergo by this embodiment a change of the normal constitution of its nature, a change certainly of its mental and emotional and sensational constitution and also to a great extent of the body consciousness and the physical conditioning of our life and energies; but the change of consciousness will be the chief factor, the initial movement; the physical modification will Page 51 be ...
... rapid decision and action, the perception of what is to be done in an emergency and dexterity in doing it. One development of the utmost value is the awakening of the essential and instinctive body consciousness which can see and do what is necessary without any indication from mental thought and which is equivalent in the body to swift insight in the mind and spontaneous and rapid decision in the will ...
... nature. What is still more unsettling is the fact that not only does the vital remain itself impure and unregenerate, it constantly invades the functioning of the mind, the heart, and the body consciousness of man making them in their turbid and resistant. it becomes thus absolutely necessary that the sadhaka success fully tackle the problem of his vital part, sooner or later, sooner the better ...
... come about a dynamic descent of the higher consciousness in to our physical nature and, at the same time or subsequent to it, a luminous awakening from with in evoked in the very bosom of the body-consciousness itself. Now, it so happens that it is only the supramental Force, the original and final self-determining Truth-Force of the self-existent Infinite, that possesses the necessary potency ...
... which need not fade away. How aloof, repellent and undesirable! "The Supramental love means an intense unity of soul with soul, mind with mind, life with life, and an entire flooding of the body-consciousness with the physical experience of oneness, the presence of the Beloved in every part, in every cell of the body. Is that too something aloof and grand and undesirable? "With the supramental ...
... that movement would be difficult to get rid of. The outer parts of my being that were protesting and resisting all the time have now started to help me on the path. Even the body consciousness observed a silence during the whole morning. The same must happen with the subconscient. The subconscient is still very active and takes more space in my con ...
... have a greater experience or consciousness than the Mother, they should not stay here but go and save the world with it. If the Supermind has not been established in Mother's body-consciousness, it is not because she is not ready for it like us, but because in order to establish it she has to prepare first the physical of the Ashram people, and of the earth, to a certain extent. But ...
... Force. But even an inner silence cannot be maintained during mental work. It is only because it is more difficult to separate from the active mind than from the body consciousness. During study I have to set aside my response to the spiritual pressure and externalise myself in order to comprehend what I read. You have to do that until you ...
... that this condition was of the inner being and its silence, the separation of Purusha from Prakriti. Yes, but it seems also to be the beginning of liberation from identification with the body consciousness. That easily comes with the Purusha-consciousness in the inner being. Is this inner being or the Purusha the same as the psychic being? No, not necessarily—the inner being is composed ...
... is the power of the body's upward endeavour. It is as if a coiled-up force, kundalini . When this coiled-up force opens itself out and moves upward in a spiral curve, it goes on opening the body consciousness wider and wider in a clockwise or right-handed motion: that is the Fire of the Right, the fire of aspiration, in the inner consciousness of which mid-air is the symbol here. It is a right-handed ...
... picture of the great truth that extremes meet, the head bends round and catches the tail. Psychologically this means that if one rises higher and higher in consciousness, starting from the body consciousness, traversing Life and Mind and Overmind and reaches the very source, the head and front of consciousness, then, curious to Page 15 say, one finds oneself all on a sudden landed ...
... sublimated human level. The ground had already been prepared, we may note, by the descent of November 24, 1926, the descent of the Over-mind or Krishna-consciousness into Sri Aurobindo's body-consciousness and thence generally into the earth-atmosphere Page 36 and becoming its natural and permanent possession. But at one point Sri Aurobindo happened to make an observation ...
... You have within you the rare thing hardly found elsewhere, the spark of the spirit of which I was speaking—it is a particle of the Mother's own consciousness, her own life and her own subtle body-consciousness. You have imbibed it in you with your breath and are still imbibing it. Page 69 It is there; you have to be conscious of it and realise the full benefit of it. You have to be ...
... the power of the body's upward endeavour. It is as if a coiled-up force, kuṇḍalinī. When this coiled-up force opens itself out and moves upward in a spiral curve, it goes on opening the body consciousness wider and wider in a clockwise or right-handed motion: that is the Fire of the Right, the fire of aspiration, in the inner consciousness of which mid-air is the symbol here. It is a right-handed ...
... the vital, very easily can choose the right kind of food and the right quantity and even vary them according to the varying conditions of the body. Common sense is an inherent attribute of the body consciousness; it never errs on the side of excess and immoderation or perversity. The vital is dramatic, the mind is imaginative, but the body is sanity itself. And that is not a sign of its inconscience ...
... This last quality is what characterises rhythm or style. It' is said that the style is the man. It is really something that belongs to the inner man; in a game, it is a quality of the inner body-consciousness. It needs a harmony between the consciousness of the body and the inner vital being, it implies a natural sense of measure and rhythm. - In our days, we did not know anything of all this. We ...
... experience and utilise it for its own purposes; it is enjoyed as a tasty food, made to serve the vital's ambition or vanity, some lower ignorant egoistic urge. Or again, the physical, the body consciousness, may not at all participate in the experience; it may remain indifferent, listless, lethargic with no impulse or enthusiasm to carry out in practice the experience of the inner consciousness ...
... The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 7 THE FORCE OF BODY-CONSCIOUSNESS There is a state of consciousness in which you perceive that the effect of things, circumstances, movements, all the activities of life upon yourself depends almost exclusively upon your attitude towards them. You become then conscious, conscious to the extent of realising that things in ...
... Page 20 dynamically. Man's true individual being starts on its career of evolution as a tiny focus of consciousness totally submerged under the huge surface surge of mind and life and body consciousness. It stores up in itself and assimilates the essence of the various experiences that the mind and life and body bring to it in its unending series of incarnations; as it enriches itself thus, ...
... consciousness —it has been strained and purified, uplifted and redeemed. He has anointed, it and given it a place in Heaven even by the side of the Father. Again, Mary—symbolising the earth or body consciousness, as Christian mystics themselves declare—was herself taken up bodily into the heavenly abode. The body celestial is this very physical human body cleared of its dross and filled with the divine ...
... a figure of his own. Just in the same way as when one is in the body, one has to live a particualr life framed by the body, even the mind as well as the life are canalised in the mould of the body consciousness, and yet at the same time one can live in and through the inner consciousness immeasurably innumerably in other bodies, in the unbarred expanse of the cosmic and the transcendent. The two experiences ...
... the outlook becomes somewhat different. According to this view, human civilisation is seen as moving through progressive stages: man at the outset was centrally lodged in and occupied with his body consciousness, he was an annamaya purusa; then he raised himself and centred in the vital consciousness and so became fundamentally a pranamaya purusa; next he climbed into the mental consciousness and ...
... the outlook becomes somewhat different. According to this view, human civilisation is seen as moving through progressive stages: man at the outset was centrally lodged in and occupied with his body consciousness, he was an annamaya purusa ; then he raised himself and centred in the vital consciousness and so became fundamentally a pranamaya purusa; next he climbed into the mental consciousness and ...
... a figure of his own. Just in the same way as when one is in the body, one has to live a particular life framed by the body, even the mind as well as the life are canalised in the mould of the body consciousness, and yet at the same time one can live in and through the inner consciousness immeasurably, innumerably in other bodies, in the unbarred expanse of the cosmic and the transcendent. The two e ...
... pursuit, acquires the urgency of living and doing and achieving. Finally, the vital sincerity, when it reaches its climax, calls for the ultimate sincerity – sincerity in the body. When the body consciousness becomes sincere then we cannot but be and act as decided and guided by the divine consciousness; we live and move and have our being wholly in the divine manner. Then what the inmost being, the ...
... the movements and activities of the apparent vehicle consisting of the triple nexus of Body (Matter) and Life and Mind. The extreme root of the psychic growth extends perhaps right into the body, consciousness of Matter, but its real physical basis and tenement is found only with the growth and formation of the physical heart. And yet the psychic individuality behind the animal organisation is very ...
... consciousness – it has been strained and purified, uplifted and redeemed. He has anointed it and given it a place in Heaven even by the side of the Father. Again, Mary – symbolising the earth or body consciousness, as Christian mystics themselves declare – was herself taken up bodily into the heavenly abode. The body celestial is this very physical human body cleared of its dross and filled with the divine ...
... vital, can very easily choose the right kind of food and the right quantity and even vary them according to the varying conditions of the body. Common sense is an inherent attribute of the body consciousness; it never errs on the side of excess and immoderation or perversity. The vital is dramatic, the mind is imaginative, but the body is sanity itself. And that is not a sign of its inconscience ...
... derives from there. A nation or people then possesses or is composed of several souls or several layers of an oversoul. Even like the individual it has a physical soul, that is to say, a body consciousness, a vital soul, a mental soul and finally the true or inmost soul, the oversoul. When one lives in any of the inferior souls, one has precarious and disintegrated life – whether it is a nation ...
... the outlook becomes somewhat different. According to this view, human civilisation is seen as moving through progressive stages: man at the outset was centrally lodged in and occupied with his body consciousness, he was an annamaya purusa; then he raised himself and was centred in the vital consciousness and so became fundamentally a pr āņ amaya purusa; next he climbed into the mental consciousness ...
... exact cause that starts the labour pain: why should it start at the end of a particular month? The doctors can't find any scientific reason. SRI AUROBINDO: There may be two reasons. Either the body consciousness of the mother feels by some subconscient instinct that it is time for the foetus to be expelled or the foetus feels that it has reached the last stage of its development and must now come out ...
... to keep it at all. SRI AUROBINDO: But Something in you may want it. Otherwise why should it come? DR. MANILAL: Which part of me wants it, Sir? I myself don't know. SRI AUROBINDO: The body consciousness may respond to the habit and the vital consciousness may want to accept the law of pain. PURANI: The Pudgals (material elements), perhaps. (Laughter) SRI AUROBINDO: The Pudgals are hard ...
... asleep; human energy, too, at this level is obscure and mechanical, extremely limited. The whole energy potential, the consciousness-force is Page 384 locked up in the physical body consciousness. Now the serpent does not remain asleep forever. It has to wake up, it wakes up. That is to say, man's consciousness awakes, grows and rises upward. The serpent one day shakes its head, lifts ...
... still endures. You have within you the rare thing hardly found elsewhere, the spark of which I was speaking – it is a particle of the Mother's own consciousness, her own life and her own subtle body-consciousness. You have imbibed it in you with your breath and are still imbibing. ¹ A talk to young children given on 12 August 1974 . Page 98 ...
... it whenever its still incomplete evolution has made it ready for self-fulfilment. Even the body, if it can bear the touch of Supermind, will become more aware of its own truth, for there is a body consciousness that has its own instinctive truth and power of right condition and action, even a kind of unexpressed occult knowledge in the constitution of its cells and tissues which may one day become conscious ...
... rapid decision and action, the perception of what is to be done in an emergency and dexterity in doing it. One development of the utmost value is the awakening of the essential and instinctive body consciousness which can see and do what is necessary Page 118 without any indication from mental thought and which. is equivalent in the body to swift insight in the mind and spontaneous and ...
... Matter, which sees for itself and does what it sees. A fantastic simplification of everything. The great Exactness. Really another life. Perhaps the life. In short, a mutation of and in the body consciousness. But the word "mutation" is again the mental adaptation of a phenomenon that we do not really explain in the least, it is a pseudo-scientific label to exorcise something which eludes us—and that ...
... possible. Replace the desire for success by the yearning for progress. Replace the eagerness for fame by the aspiration for perfection. Physical Education is meant to bring into the body, consciousness and control, discipline and mastery, all things necessary for a higher and better life. Keep all that in mind, practise sincerely and you will become a good athlete; this is the first step on ...
... to thought, unknowable to mind, unknowable to senses, unknowable to speech. It is consciousness that must make the effort, because consciousness is not only mind, consciousness is not only body, consciousness is not only senses. Consciousness is that which uses the mind, the life, the nervous system, it uses the body. Now, if that consciousness makes an effort then that which to the mind, to the ...
... and controlled physical consciousness may reflect to a certain extent the light and bliss of the soul, but, as the experience of many of the greatest Yogis testifies, inherent egoism of the body-consciousness remains or recurs, and the subconscient welter is always there to surprise the a by its sporadic surges. In Sri Chaitanya's case we find a victorious humility beating the veils of the ego to ...
... the Mother's experience is one of ascent. "I came out of my body and rose straight up above the house, then above the town, very high.” It signifies, I suppose, first, transcendence of the body-consciousness, then of the habitual environmental consciousness and, last, of the universal human consciousness. This transcendence of all human formulæ and ascent "very high" gives the Mother a secure station ...
... help you! But it is still more surprising that you should have taken Mother’s smile at Pranam for sarcasm! The only thing she put in it was an insistence for the cloud that she saw covering the body-consciousness and interfering with its receptivity to lift. You must not allow this clouding attack to come between your mind and the Mother. Reject these distorting suggestions and keep its openness so that ...
... triple evolution. We have also seen that Supermind is working behind the veil in Mind which is its derivative. Man is the epitome of evolutionary process already accomplished having in him the Body-consciousness which is based on Matter,—Vital-consciousness which is based on the Life-principle and Mental consciousness of which he is the special representative. But Mind is not the end of the process of ...
... it is . .. it’s something else. It’s something else. But extraordinary. New, completely new.... It is truly the beginning of a new state in Matter. It’s no longer ... visibly NO LONGER the body consciousness as it was. No longer: the relationships are no longer the same, the way of hearing, of speaking.... And it isn’t yet oh, it’s on the way to something, but it’s not there yet. But the presence ...
... almost insurmountable: There are minutes when the body feels it has escaped that law of death . But it doesn’t last; it’s for one minute, then it passes and things are back as they were. But the body consciousness is beginning to wonder why it’s like that: why, why?... Then, people come with all their thoughts Some come, sit down in front of me, and start thinking, “Maybe it’s the last time I am seeing ...
... depression and dark condition has been lifted. I think now that the first thing is indeed to restore your nervous and physical strength by sleep and food — it was largely through the depressed body consciousness and nerves that the bad condition was able to hold and to prevent the return of mental clarity and the psychic to give its balance. For the sadhana simply keep the consciousness open to us and ...
... also the physical consciousness (if it is complete). The restlessness of the physical is probably due to the peace and silence having touched the physical but not yet penetrated the material or body consciousness. The old restlessness is there in the body struggling to remain, although it cannot invade either mind or vital or even in a general way the physical consciousness as a whole. If the peace descends ...
... it whenever its still incomplete evolution has made it ready for self-fulfilment. Even the body, if it can bear the touch of Supermind, will become more aware of its own truth,—for there is a body consciousness Page 564 that has its own instinctive truth and power of right condition and action, even a kind of unexpressed occult knowledge in the constitution of its cells and tissues which ...
... Aurobindo replied “Alright, continue.” Rajangam went home in an elated mood, and he had an experience. He felt himself a bird flying to distant places. It was all light and delight. He had lost all body consciousness. He recounted this to Sri Aurobindo, who said “Good, it is symbolic. The bird represents the soul, and promise of light to come.” Rajangam was over-elated — just then Sri Aurobindo quietly remarked ...
... lives, the other inward and concealed of which he knows nothing. 43 Page 92 There are, we might say, two beings in us, one on the surface, our ordinary exterior mind, life, body consciousness, another behind the veil, an inner mind, an inner life, an inner physical consciousness constituting another or inner self. 44 It is the inner mind just mentioned—which is perhaps what ...
... integral progress conquer the vital enemies . 22.12.1929 By vital stability , by purified life-energy and by the supramental influence in the cells it will be possible for the body consciousness to undergo the supramental transformation which will fix the ananda in the sex centre . 23.12.1929 Be completely obedient to the Divine's Love . This will transform your being ...
... part of the being which is below the level of the mental, vital and physical consciousness; in the average person, it includes the larger part of the physical mind, the vital being and the body-consciousness. Subconscious mind — the inner or subliminal mind. the Subliminal —comprises the inner being, taken in its entirety of inner mind, inner life, inner physical with the soul ...
... stuff of Intuition; for it brings its own greater radiant movement into the will, into the feelings and emotions, the life-impulses, the action of sense and sensation, the very workings of the body-consciousness; it recasts them in the light and power of truth and illumines their knowledge and their ignorance. A certain integration can thus take place, but whether it is a total integration must depend ...
... sleep is more awake, so to say, then one has dreams of all kinds; when there is no such awareness of dreams, it is because the sleep of the body is more deep, — the dreams are there but the body consciousness does not note them or remember that it had them. Letters on Yoga, p. 1493 [Q: Sometimes one remembers the dreams, sometimes one does not. Why is it so?] It depends ...
... together. The body, for instance, has its own consciousness and acts from it, even without any mental will of our own or even against that will, and our surface mind knows very little about this body-consciousness, feels it only in an imperfect way, sees only its results and has the greatest difficulty in finding out their causes." 5 Some of the chief characteristics of physical consciousness are ...
... inmost parts of the being are spoken of in the following extract which alludes to mastery: "There are, we might say, two beings in us, one on the surface, our ordinary exterior mind, life, body consciousness, another behind the veil, an inner mind, an inner life, an inner physical consciousness constituting another or inner self. This inner self once awake opens in its turn to our true real eternal ...
... use being here is another. Of course they are all false. When one listens to the suggestions, then things begin to appear like that. These suggestions are natural to the ignorant physical or body consciousness in human nature, just as suggestions of vital passion and disturbance are natural to the ignorant vital consciousness in human nature. You had vital reactions but you did not allow them to overcome ...
... and which need not fade away. How aloof, repellent and undesirable! The Supramental love means an intense unity of soul with soul, mind with mind, life with life, and an entire flooding of the body-consciousness with the physical experience of oneness, the presence of the Beloved in every part, in every cell of the body. Is that too something aloof and grand and undesirable? With the supramental change ...
... its fabulous complexity is coordinated and which is strongly influenced by heredity, environment and education, as it is by elements from former lives. Character is partially determined by this body-consciousness (the truth behind the saying that ‘physiology is destiny’). And the organs have their own consciousness, very important for the way in which they function in illness and health. And the molecules ...
... which need not fade away. How aloof, repellent and undesirable! The supramental love means an intense unity of soul with soul, mind with mind, life with life, and an entire flooding of the body consciousness with the physical experience of oneness, the presence of the Beloved in every part, in every cell of the body. Is that too something aloof and grand, but undesirable? With the supramental change ...
... Undated But after all, without putting forth eighteen visible arms, (perhaps, since it is a symbol, by putting them forth internally) I hope to become one day so divine even on the body consciousness that I shall be able to satisfy everybody! But you can’t hurry a transformation like that. I must ask for time. Why do you always insist on cherishing the idea that I refuse all human ...
... sacrifice", though now there was a faint hesitation at times to speak with absolute certitude. It appears that with the Mother's penetration further and further into the unexplored depths of the body-consciousness the work of physical transformation, which meant a radical reversal of the organism's habitual functions, took the shape of a constant play with death—a sort of spiritual "brinkmanship", a coming ...
... substance tangible only to subtle sense, a supraphysical form-matter.’ 25 The Mother had perceived this new substance as early as 1954, for in that year she wrote her ‘New Experiences of the Body Consciousness,’ and one of these experiences was: ‘In this intensity the aspiration grows formidable, and in answer to it Thy Presence becomes evident in the cells themselves, giving to the body the appearance ...
... within to form a new body with a higher matter than the usual one.’ ‘It was so interesting that I have been considering that this morning in every detail.’ Some days before, she had said: ‘The body-consciousness has become at once individualized and independent, which means that it can enter into other bodies and there feel absolutely at ease … This changes altogether the attitude of the body towards ...
... not linear but global; it is not successive but simultaneous. Therefore it cannot be expressed in words; it has to be lived . The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: Some Experiences of the Body Consciousness This passage by the Mother is very appropriate: Sri Aurobindo came to tell us, "One need not leave the earth to find the Truth, one need not leave life to find his soul, one need not ...
... straight line or to play music, it can't do it and won't do it. It has to be schooled, trained, taught, and afterwards it does automatically what is required of it. All this proves that there is a body consciousness different from the mind consciousness which can do things at the mind's order but has to be awakened, trained, made a good and conscious instrument. It can even be so trained that a mental will ...
... begin to meet. Page 236 The brain is only a centre of the physical consciousness. One feels stationed there so long as one dwells in the physical mind or is identified with the body consciousness, then one receives through the sahasradala into the brain. When one ceases to be stationed in the body, then the brain is not a station but only a passive and silent transmitting channel. ...
... psychological nature-stuff or a freeing of the vital force in the body is not enough; all this is not enough. Through all these together it must be done and by a change of our very sense and body consciousness even to the material inconscience which must become aware of the Divine and luminous with the Divine. To be one with the Divine, to live in and with the Divine, to be of one nature with the ...
... between human mentality and the Supermind. The moon here [ in a vision ] is the symbol of spirituality in the mental planes. The world of the Higher Mind is above those directly connected with the body consciousness. The higher consciousness on any of its levels is seen usually as a sky or ether, but when felt through the vital it is often perceived as a sea. Sat, Chit, Ananda, Supermind, Mind ...
... consciousness due to the pressure for the change. The wideness of light you saw was the wideness of the true consciousness liberated from the narrow limits of the human mind, human vital, human body consciousness. It is true that the mind is narrow, not only yours, but all human minds even the most developed,—compared with the wideness of the true consciousness which has no limits. It is precisely this ...
... responsible for our illnesses; chronic or repeated illnesses are indeed mainly due to the subconscient and its obstinate memory and habit of repetition of whatever has impressed itself upon the body consciousness. But this subconscient must be clearly distinguished from the subliminal parts of our being such as the inner or subtle physical consciousness, the inner vital or inner mental; for these are ...
... and felt simply as a physical sensation in the cells, not accepted by the thought (even in the physical mind), not shared in by the emotional being—a wave brought from outside into the material body consciousness. These small things of the physical mind [ such as being disturbed by the defects of others ] are such as everybody has and they will fall off when the truer wider consciousness comes ...
... that works in you, so that there is no fatigue. You felt the fatigue formerly after the work was over because your vital was open and the vital energy was the instrument of the work, but the body consciousness was not quite open and had some strain. This time the physical seems to have opened also. 1932 In the ordinary condition of the body if you oblige the body to do too much work, it can do ...
... Examples (1) But after all, without putting forth eighteen visible arms (perhaps, since it is a symbol, by putting them forth internally) I hope to become one day so divine even in the body consciousness that I shall be able to satisfy everybody! But you can't hurry a transformation like that. I must ask for time. Why do you always insist on cherishing the idea that I refuse all human love ...
... your being at night as you have in the day, perhaps even more. For at night you are free, at least partially, from slavery to the mechanism of the body. The control over the processes of the body-consciousness is more difficult, since they are more rigid, less amenable to change than are the mental or the vital processes. In the night the mental and vital, especially the vital, are very active. ...
... the constant presence. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: The Physical Consciousness There are, we might say, two beings in us, one on the surface, our ordinary exterior mind, life, body consciousness, another behind the veil, an inner mind, an inner life, an inner physical consciousness constituting another or inner self. This inner self once awake opens in its turn to our true real and eternal ...
... physical mind; for in the physical consciousness itself there is a mental activity, a vital activity and a purely material activity, and all that takes place in your physical consciousness, in your body consciousness and bodily activity, penetrates first in the form of vibrations of a mental nature, and so in the form of suggestions. Most of the time these suggestions enter you without your being in the least ...
... suffering, revolt, pain or a feeling of helplessness—whatever it may be, all the things that come to you on the path and which precisely are your difficulties—if physically, that is to say, in your body-consciousness, you can have the feeling of widening yourself, one could say of unfolding yourself—you feel as it were all folded up, one fold on another like a piece of cloth which is folded and refolded and ...
... when this reversal of consciousness takes place, whether in the mind or a part of the mind, whether in the vital or a part of the vital, or even in the physical consciousness itself and in the body-consciousness, once this is established, it is over; you no longer go back, you do not ever return to what you were before. And this is the true indication that you have taken a step forward definitively. ...
... influence and receives the divine forces. For example, you see, there's a moment when the divine forces come and penetrate all the cells. To begin with, it is the physical consciousness, the body consciousness which opens first to the influence of the Divine and understands and wants nothing else but this , the divine Presence, the divine influence. There are also the body's feelings, and the very ...
... it can come out of that; it is not at all necessary to accept them. Only, one must know that they are suggestions. One must be able to separate oneself from the purely human consciousness, the body consciousness. And once you can look at it from above, you can free yourself from these suggestions quite well. You can free yourself from all suggestions, but for that you must rise above them. If that were ...
... say, the help is reciprocal. The psychic, when it has an influence on the outer life, brings to it light, order and quietude and the joy of the divine contact. But also the physical being, the body-consciousness, if it is identified with the psychic consciousness, and through that learns what kind of experience the psychic being wants to have, it can help it to have these experiences in a very brief ...
... persistent habitual movements can surge up into dream or into the waking state. In the ordinary man the subconscient includes the larger part of the vital being and the physical mind and the secret body-consciousness. It is not to be confused with the subliminal: the subconscient is a nether diminished consciousness, the subliminal is an inner consciousness larger than our surface existence. the ...
... say, the help is reciprocal. The psychic, when it has an influence on the outer life, brings to it light, order and quietude and the joy of the divine contact. But also the physical being, the body-consciousness—if it is identified with the psychic consciousness, and through that learns what kind of experience the psychic being wants to have—can help it to have these experiences in a very brief time ...
... Replace the desire for success by the yearning for progress. Page 273 Replace the eagerness for fame by the aspiration for perfection. Physical Education is meant to bring into the body, consciousness and control, discipline and mastery, all things necessary for a higher and better life. Keep all that in mind, practise sincerely and you will become a good athlete; this is the first step ...
... body. So I asked the Lord what He does when He wants to transform the physical body, and last night He gave me two visions in answer. Page 352 One concerned the liberation of the body consciousness from all the conventions regarding death; and in the other He showed me what the supramental body will be. You see that I did well to ask Him! 9 May 1970 ...
... did not see you, because I knew that it was quite useless, as our respective outlooks upon life and action are actually much too different. What can you do against me? You live in your body-consciousness and your body is perishable. I live in my spirit-consciousness and my spirit is immortal. There we are, Lord, it is those very people to whom you have shown most love who make you responsible ...
... "Visions constantly. "Landscapes. "Buildings. "Towns. "Everything vast and greatly varied, covering the Page 117 entire visual field and translating the states of body consciousness. "Many, many buildings, huge towns being built..." Yes, the world is being built, the future world is being built. I was no longer hearing, I was no longer seeing, I was no longer speaking: ...
... forward thrust towards the new instead of collapsing backwards into death, and redone in a constant aspiration to follow the progressive movement of the divine Truth. But for that, the body—the body-consciousness—must first learn to widen itself. It is indispensable, for otherwise all the cells become a kind of boiling porridge under the pressure of the supramental light. What usually happens is that ...
... this or that—but now, how laughable it all seems! And not only the head, but the body too finds it laughable! ( silence ) ...but it is so deeply rooted: all the reactions of the body- Page 157 consciousness are like that, with a kind of shrinking at the idea of allowing a higher power to intervene. ( silence ) From the positive point of view, I am convinced that we agree upon the ...
... moving (it was Theon who gave me this training). The body managed to get up and move. And yet, everything had gone out of it! Once everything had gone out, it naturally became cold, but the body consciousness manages to draw a little energy from the air, from this or that... And I spoke in that state. I spoke—I spoke very well, and besides, I recounted all I was seeing elsewhere. So I don't like ...
... difficulty, one after another, one after another—sometimes all together—with relentless violence! It has been good for it (not externally, but inwardly, for its state of consciousness: the body-consciousness), it has done the body some good, but.... Now it's like this ( Mother opens her hands in a gesture of total surrender ). For each blow it receives (it's a bludgeoning, my child!), for each blow ...
... Sadhana has undergone a great change, because it is now in the physical itself that you have to do it. Concentrate on the physical transformation; by physical I mean the mental, vital and body consciousness. You are trying to get the experience in your mind, but it is not the mind that can get it. Come out of your mind and you will understand what I mean. Man must understand that in spite ...
... Experiences of the Mother Words of the Mother - III Some Experiences of the Body Consciousness One can say with equal exactitude that all is divine and that nothing is divine. Everything depends upon the angle from which one looks at the problem. Similarly one can say that the Divine is perpetually becoming and also that he is immutable for all eternity ...
... increasing OPPOSITION. Soon afterwards: We're really going through such a dull period! Dull, dull. ( silence ) There is a sort of review going on of all the elements of the body consciousness, with a sample of the circumstances of their various manifestations or expressions. All this is passed before me as if to show me all the points in the body's cells that were contrary to or ...
... movements, ordinary ways of being, ordinary habits, which are pushed back and which come back again, and try to engulf and are pushed back again. And I can see that for years the body and the whole body consciousness used to rush back into the old way to seek safety, as a measure of safety, in order to elude; but now, the body has been persuaded not to do it any more and on the contrary to accept, "Well, ...
... What can you achieve in thirty years?! The way things are moving, oh!... When Sri Aurobindo said three hundred years, I think he gave the minimum figure. We'll see. ( silence ) In the body consciousness, there are two attitudes which are both... No, one is becoming much more natural: it is a sort of... (what's the word in French?) everlasting attitude, everlasting, there is no reason why it ...
... is an absolute state that can be attained at any moment. And then, the conclusion is very interesting ( Mother looks for another scrap of paper ).... You remember, I told you that for the body consciousness, the problem that remains hard to solve is that notion (to me, it has become just a notion, it isn't a truth), of the preexistence of all things: of the state in which each thing IS, even in ...
... limit, like a demonstration, with at the same time the state (not a perception—the state) that prevents the break in the equilibrium and allows progress to go on without break. The result, in the body consciousness, is the simultaneous perception (so to speak simultaneous) of what we might describe as the extreme anguish of dissolution (though it's not quite that, but anyway) and the extreme Ananda of union—the ...
... grave. ) You look grave? I am all right. But I can't speak. Things are fine, it's... what could I call it? ( Mother remains silent )... The universalization Page 90 of the body consciousness—high-sounding words! But that's what it is. Very interesting. But I'd rather not speak. But things are fine. This morning again, it was very, VERY interesting. But I can't talk about it ...
... " That's death. As for me, I'll tell them this ( Mother reads with difficulty ): "Death is the phenomenon of decentralization and scattering of the cells making up the physical body. "Consciousness is, in its very nature, immortal, and in order to manifest in the physical world, it clothes itself in material forms that are durable to a greater or lesser degree. "The material substance ...
... consequences and explanations. You spend one day or two days like that over a tiny little discovery. And you see that after that, after that day or those hours of work, there is a change in the body consciousness: the light is there, it's changed—changed, the reactions are not the same. But ... ( Mother gestures to express a world of toil ). And the Presence—the Presence becomes more and more intimate ...
... × "Instead of the consciousness being inside the body, it is the body which is inside the consciousness, yet it is still the body consciousness." × Satprem notes that it is not anguish, but rather a sensation that the life of aspiration ...
... tremendous. ( silence ) It was a rather peculiar night.... An old friend of Amrita's died in the night: Ganeshan. I didn't know. And it was... How can I really explain?... The body, the body consciousness was the consciousness of a dying body, and at the same time with the perfect knowledge that it wasn't dying. But it was the consciousness of a dying body, with all the anguish, all the suffering ...
... you last time that when I was at the piano, I noticed that my hands were very conscious, that is to say, extremely receptive, they found it perfectly natural—there was no connection with the body consciousness, they were moved by the higher Consciousness.... The hands have had a special education. But you understand... And there is a part, the part of the body most in contact with outside ( Mother ...
... the physical body. So I asked the Lord what He does when He wants to transform the physical body, and last night He answered me by giving me two visions. The one was about the liberation of the body consciousness from all conventions regarding death; and in the other, He showed me what the supramental body will be. As you can see, I did well to ask Him!" ...
... sort of demonstration of all that remains mixed in the body: old influences, old vibrations, old... and in the new way. So then, when the new way is pure, without mixture, there is still in the body consciousness... ( Mother shows surprise ) a sense of marvel at something that still appears impossible. It gives the distance between what is and what must be.... But at times, all, all consequences ...
... absolutely personal. Some things are quite indifferent, but now and then there will be an interesting answer. I'll ask him. ( Satprem lays his head on Mother's knees ) The body, the body consciousness is changing very rapidly. And its attitude is completely different, it's universalizing very well; it no longer has... ( Mother touches her hands to point to the body's separation ). That's becoming ...
... it's rather when one is physically away, then one feels one is more with something impersonal. I don't know if that's correct. It may have become impersonal. My impression is that even the body consciousness is as little personal as possible. At times I no longer feel my body's limits.... (I don't know how to put it....) Yes, that's right, it's almost as if it had become fluid. And there must be ...
... do? No, Mother... except if you want to go on with the translation of "Savitri".... But what about you, Mother, you don't say anything? Me, I have nothing to say. ( silence ) The body consciousness is slowly changing, in such a way that its whole former life seems foreign to it. That seems to be someone else's consciousness, someone else's life. Its "situation," if you like, in the world ...
... day—it seems to have fallen on you. I don't know... a gigantic tidal wave. ( after a silence ) At night, I don't sleep, you know, but I go into a deep rest, and there remains only the body consciousness. Twice, last night, the body saw all sorts of images and activities showing a widespread incomprehension in people. The body was in certain situations.... One was taking place here and the ...
... physical transformation; for this to be possible there must occur a dynamic descent of the higher consciousness into our physical nature and a luminous awakening evoked therein in the very body-consciousness itself. Now, it is only the supramental Force, the original and final self-determining Truth-Force of the self-existent Infinite' that has got the potency to overcome entirely the iron ...
... parts of the being. For example, the Vedic Rishis42 attempted the manifestation of the highest Supramental Consciousness in the body, and although they succeeded in widening and universalizing body consciousness, they came to the conclusion that one cannot enter into the Supramental consciousness fully in the physical body. There is also a mention in the Upanishads43 that if one enters into the Supramental ...
... sir, the Presence not finding an entrance into your waking mind easy, tried to take advantage of half sleep to do it. (Half sleep is always a favourable condition for these things). But your body consciousness, not being familiar with such spiritual penetrations, got into a stew—and as a stew is accompanied by heat and steam,—so your body got hot and perspired. Naturally, when it found so much ...
... physically or even vitally brave; yet by force of need they pushed themselves into all sorts of battle and danger. Henry IV of France, a great fighter and victor, was an example. Just because his body consciousness was in a panic, he forced it to go where the danger was thickest. On Saturday I had a dream that my complexion had become absolutely golden. Y cried, "Oh, how beautiful you have become!" ...
... in my dreams, there is an accident or a dangerous happening. Its shock is felt even when I wake up. It comes sometimes in dreams - there is an effect of some inner shock or alarm on the body consciousness, which lasts after the dream state is over. At noon there is an urge to sleep. During the sleep I pass through ordinary or sometimes even lower dreams. And yet when I wake up I feel ...
... NIRODBARAN: Sisir Mitra asks if there is any difference in quality between a vegetarian diet and a meat and fish diet. SRI AUROBINDO: A meat and fish diet is good for fighters. But it makes the body-consciousness heavy—I mean the psychological stuff of that consciousness. NIRODBARAN: You have said before that the nature of food doesn't matter much in Yoga and that people here used to eat everything ...
... NIRODBARAN: Is there anything here? ; SRI AUROBINDO (smiling) : Nothing much, except that he speaks of some light in the first poem. NIRODBARAN: In the rest he speaks of losing the body-consciousness and of the world-memory getting fainter and fainter. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, but that means death. NIRODBARAN: Doesn't it mean that he is getting into another world? He speaks of stars, etc ...
... worldly life. He established a living and dynamic contact with the soul, the inner person in man, the person that is behind but still rules the external personality made of mind and life and body consciousness. The Christ revelation was also characteristic in the sense that it came as a large, almost a mass movement – this approach of the soul personality to earthly life. The movement faded or got ...
... ever new degrees of realisation. The individual human consciousness has to recognise that progressive flux and march along with it. Human consciousness, the complex of external mind and life and body consciousness, has the habit of halting, clinging to the forms, experiences and gains of the past, storing them in memory, agreeing to a minimum change only just to be able to pour the new into the old. But ...
... city as a collective field for the material and spiritual researches required for realising human unity as a part of the supramental action on the earth. Mother's exploration into the body-consciousness and her discovery of a 'cellular mind' capable of restructuring the nature of the body is contained in a document of more than 6000 pages, published in 13 volumes. This is L’Agenda de Mere ...
... prayers to you. Is there anything that you consider necessary? Surely the action of the force is far more effective than any medicine. But sometimes in the physical consciousness, or rather the body consciousness, the faith is not sufficient to secure a sufficient receptivity and in that case, to help this receptivity, some treatment or some medicine may be required. 13 September 1946 ...
... physical transformation; for that to be possible there must come about a dynamic descent of the higher consciousness into our physical nature and a luminous awakening evoked in the very bosom of body-consciousness itself. Now, it is only the supramental Force, the 'original and final self-determining Truth-Force of the self-existent Infinite' that has got the necessary potency to entirely overcome ...
... consciousness of man. But even if this state of cosmic Ignorance is subjectively abrogated, that will not suffice to confer upon the body the boon of immortality. For that to happen, the body consciousness itself, even to its subconscient foundation, has to be totally illumined and the bodily instrument made infinitely receptive and pliable to the demands of the indwelling Spirit, with a capacity ...
... characteristic difference between the death of ordinary unspiritual persons and that of a spiritually "realised" Yogi, one scripture has this to say: "An ordinary death and extinction of the body-consciousness culminates in an atmosphere of blind darkness. Now, when a great Yogi approaches his moment of departure from the body, he puts out all the lights of normal consciousness and takes a plunge in ...
... strands of consciousness and each of these strands has the possibility of having a characteristic sight of its own. The intellect, the will, the sense-mind, the desire-self, the heart, even the body-consciousness, all "see" in different ways. All these and other similar parts of the being are "like fields into which forces from the same planes of consciousness in the universal Nature are constantly ...
... since all parts, which consist of matter, are ultimately enfolded in the implicate order, and thus consist of an indivisible whole. 7. The focus of health care is on the physical body. Consciousness is a secondary and irrelevant factor 7. Both matter and consciousness are enfolded in the implicate order, where all things are one. Thus, all matter is to some degree conscious. Health ...
... international city as a collective field for the material and spiritual researches required for realising human unity as a part of the supramental action on the earth. Mother's exploration into the body-consciousness and her discovery of a 'cellular mind' capable of restructuring the nature of the body is contained in a document of more than 6000 pages, published in 13 volumes. This is L'Agenda de Mère (Mother's ...
... al city as a collective field for the material and spiritual researches required for realising human unity as a part of the supramental action on the earth. Mother's exploration into the body-consciousness and her discovery of a 'cellular mind' capable of restructuring the nature of the body is contained in a document of more than 6000 pages, published in 13 volumes. This is L'Agenda de Mere (Mother's ...
... necessarily undergo by this embodiment a change of the normal constitution of its nature, a change certainly of its mental and emotional and sensational constitution and also to a great extent of the body consciousness and the physical conditioning of our life and energies; but the change of consciousness will be the chief factor, the initial movement; the physical modification will be a subordinate factor ...
... Have you observed that the bodies of sadhaks and sadhikas have become abnormally sensitive? Even a small dose of medicine produces reactions. Good or bad? It shows a more sensitive body consciousness—good, if it becomes more sensitive also to the Force. Last evening's curry of potato and tomato didn't keep well, I am afraid. I took it at about 8.30 p.m. and found a bad smell. Mother ...
... g toe of my foot. Is it not rather interesting? Yes. but that kind of experience should not be pushed too far. At times I watch the Mother's Force lifting my body-consciousness to a higher level. I become unaware of the contents of the body — like the bones, flesh, etc. Then any trace of illness, even of a violent pain, vanishes! To be able to do that ...
... a stage of detachment and separation which is necessary in Yoga. It is only so that freedom in the work can come. In the midst of work I feel myself at full rest. Even the body consciousness does not feel that it is working. That is right. It is so that it must be felt. I am afraid I wrote yesterday rather too much about my feeling separate from ...
... worldly life. He established a living and dynamic contact with the soul, the inner person in man, the person that is behind but still rules the external personality made of mind and life and body consciousness. The Christ revelation was also characteristic in the sense that it came as ' a large, almost a mass movement—this approach of the soul personality to earthly life. The movement faded or got ...
... up, narrow, ignorant, asleep; human energy, too, at this level is obscure and mechanical, extremely limited. The whole energy potential, the consciousness-force is locked up in the physical body consciousness. Now the serpent does not remain asleep forever. It has to wake up, it wakes up. That is to say, man's consciousness awakes, grows and rises upward. The serpent one day shakes its head, lifts ...
... the movements and activities of the apparent vehicle consisting of the triple nexus of Body (Matter) and Life and Mind. The extreme root of the psychic growth extends perhaps right into the body, consciousness of Matter but its real physical basis and tenement is found only with the growth and formation of the physical heart. And yet the psychic individuality behind the animal organisation is very ...
... al pursuit, acquires the urgency of living and doing and achieving. Finally, the vital sincerity, when it reaches its climax, calls for the ultimate sincerity—sincerity in the body. When the body consciousness becomes sincere then we cannot but be and act as decided and guided by the divine consciousness; we live and move and have our being wholly in the divine manner. Then what the inmost being, the ...
... picture of the great truth that the extremes meet, the head bends round and catches the tail. Psychologically this means that if one rises higher and higher in consciousness, starting from the body consciousness, traversing Life and Mind and Overmind and reaches the very source, the head and front of consciousness, then, curious to say, one finds oneself all on a sudden landed in the heart of matter ...
... front visibly and dynamically. Man's true individual being starts on its career of evolution as a tiny focus of consciousness totally submerged under the huge surface surge of mind and life and body consciousness. It stores up in itself and assimilates the essence of the various experiences that the mind and life and body bring to it in its unending series of incarnations; as it enriches itself thus, ...
... level. The ground had already been prepared, we may note, by the descent of the 24th November 1926 – the descent of the Overmind or Krishna-consciousness into Sri Aurobindo's body-consciousness and thence generally into the earth-atmosphere and becoming its natural and permanent possession. But arrived at one point, Sri Aurobindo happened to make an observation which meant halt ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 3 The Force of Body-Consciousness THERE is a state of consciousness in which you perceive that the effect of things, circumstances, movements, all the activities of life upon yourself depends almost exclusively upon your attitude towards them. You become then conscious, conscious to the extent of realising ...
... limb, What should it know of death ?¹ ¹ Wordsworth: "We Are Seven" Page 195 Age sets in precisely when there is a fall in this self-confidence and assurance of the body consciousness, when the body begins to fear, becomes too cautious and apprehensive. A wound, a cut, even a broken limb would not stop a child normally to go forward with the same dash and carelessness. And ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 3 The Expanding Body-Consciousness THE field of our physical activity is very limited. If you look at it closely you will find it indeed extremely narrow and our capacities confined within a small circle. Weare bound by the outline of our material body. I cannot, for instance, be sitting in my room and ...
... the experience and utilise it for its own purposes; it is enjoyed as a tasty food, made to serve the vital's ambition or vanity, some lower ignorant egoistic urge. Or again, the physical, the body consciousness may not at all participate in the experience; it may remain indifferent, listless, lethargic with no impulse or enthusiasm to carry out in practice the experience of the inner consciousness. ...
... supramental Consciousness- Page 73 Force liberated and active within the terrestrial whole and an organized supramental instrumentation of the Spirit in the life and the body, — for the body-consciousness also must become sufficiently awake to be a fit instrument of the workings of the new supramental Force and its new order. ...On this basis the principle of a divine life in terrestrial Nature ...
... vital-physical is the vital at the service of the physical. It is the nervous being, and it governs all the small daily reactions to outward things. It governs also reactions of the nerves and the body consciousness and reflects emotions and sensations; it motivates much of the ordinary actions of the human being and joins with the lower parts of the vital proper in producing lust, jealousy, anger, violence ...
... vital-physical is the vital at the service of the physical. It is the nervous being, and it governs all the small daily reactions to outward things. It governs also reactions of the nerves and the body consciousness and reflects emotions and sensations; it motivates much of the ordinary actions of man and joins with the lower parts of the vital proper in producing lust, jealousy, anger, violence, etc. In ...
... poet says: A simple child That feels its life in every limb What should it know of death? Age sets in precisely when there is a fall in this self-confidence and assurance of the body consciousness, when the body begins to fear, becomes too cautious and apprehensive. A Page 52 wound, a cut, even a broken limb would not stop a child normally to go forward with the same dash ...
... The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 6 THE EXPANDING BODY-CONSCIOUSNESS The field of our physical activity is very limited. If you look at it closely you will find it indeed extremely narrow and our capacities confined within a small circle. We are bound by the outline of our material body. I cannot, for instance, be sitting in my room and at the same time ...
... the outlook becomes somewhat different. According to this view, human civihsation is seen as moving through progressive stages: man at the outset was centrally lodged in and occupied with his body consciousness, he was an annamaya purusha; then he raised himself and centred in the vital consciousness and so became fundamentally a pranamaya purusha; next he climbed into the mental consciousness and ...
... This last quality is what characterises rhythm or style. It is said that the style is the man. It is really something that belongs to the inner man; in a game, it is a quality of the inner body-consciousness. It needs a harmony between the consciousness of the body and the inner vital being, it implies a natural sense of measure and rhythm. In our days, we did not know anything of all this. We ...
... consciousness and ascend to the Higher consciousness and take a permanent station in it. Earth-consciousness would begin to solve its problem when man who is the embodiment of mind, life and body consciousness,—the lower triplicity— consciously embodies within himself the higher working of the Truth-Consciousness which is a first projection of the world from the Infinite, from the One, from Satchidananda ...
... of the physical being for the "earthly transfiguration." This work of physical transformation is no morbid obsession with the body. It is, in fact, only when one rises far above the body-consciousness that one gains the power to transform the body. Deploring the engrossing care for the preservation of the body, which is almost universal in men, the Mother says, "Nothing can be more humiliating ...
... . Disciple : Is there anything here? Sri Aurobindo : Nothing much, except that he speaks of the Light in the first poem. Disciple : In the rest he speaks of losing the body-consciousness and the world-memory getting fainter and fainter. Sri Aurobindo : Yes, that means death. What next? Disciple : Does it not mean that he is getting into another world? Sri ...
... you drop the body, that is to say, you may have attained liberation in consciousness yet something in the nature continues in the old bondage and that ignorance is usually supported by the body-consciousness. When the body drops the man becomes entirely free or liberated. Page 158 Another kind of liberation is what is called "Jivan-Mukti”;one realizes the liberation even while ...
... of the habit of team-work and the flair for leadership, the two chiming in concert as in splendid orchestration. The main thrust of physical education would of course be the awakening of the body consciousness and the growth of the sporting spirit: That includes good humour and tolerance and consideration for all, a right attitude and friendliness to competitors and rivals, self-control and scrupulous ...
... because I am being attacked in the same relentless fashion. Actually, it springs from everything in material consciousness that can still be touched by the adverse forces; that is, not exactly the body-consciousness itself but, one could say, MATERIAL SUBSTANCE AS IT HAS BEEN ORGANIZED BY THE MIND- the first stirrings of Mind in life making the passage from animal to human.... Well, something in there protests ...
... and perceives it little by little. We are now walking through this same Amazon with our head, which is why we do not see it (or see it in another way). The "evolutionary bridge" is truly the body consciousness, that is, what opens the passage in its own substance, what gradually becomes conscious of the other way and builds the "missing link" between an obsolete, fossilized perception and the other ...
... veins, capillaries and pyramidal cells which burst like bubbles. Hence the very functionings of the material substance must expand to bear the charge. A corporeal change has to take place. The body consciousness itself must try hard to widen (or clarify, which comes to the same thing), the physiological counterpart of the mental expansion that differentiates Neolithic man from present-day man in front ...
... weakness. For such things or the liver attacks treatment can always be taken when necessary. But it is always the right inner poise, quietude inward and outward, faith, the opening of the body consciousness to the Mother and her Force that are the true means of recovery — other things can only be minor aids and devices. (7.3.37) ...
... vital centre, physical centre and fills the whole body with the higher existence and consciousness. The ascent is the liberation (Mukti), and when one thus ascends, one is liberated from the body consciousness, one no longer feels the body as a form, no longer feels contained in the body, but widens out into the formless Vastness of the Divine. Or sometimes the body is felt as something very small ...
... exist? There is no pollen on it nor a pretty shimmering of fresh waters. Our eyes are awfully functional, and if it is no longer our function, be it but an aesthetic one, then what is it? The body consciousness is slowly changing, in such a way that its whole former life seems foreign to it. That seems to be someone else’s consciousness, someone else’s life. Its “situation,” if you like, in the world ...
... even move. The body managed to get up and Page 200 move about. And yet everything had gone out of it. When everything goes out, the body becomes cold, of course, but there's a body-consciousness which manages to draw a little energy from the air, from this and that. And I would speak in that state; I spoke —I could speak very well and would recount all that I was seeing elsewhere." ...
... reproach. Not even art exclamation of annoyance. "Sri Aurobindo got up, and calmly began cleaning up the ejected matter." Sri Aurobindo had established equanimity and calm right down to his body-consciousness so that nothing stirred Page 430 whatever happened. It was this quality in him to which Tilak referred when he used the word sthitaprajna. Or, like 'the Yogi on the Whirlpool ...
... since it's taking place in the body, the very constitution of the body must change—it will have to change. How? That I don't know yet. It's in the direction of Matter's perfect obedience to the Consciousness (the higher Consciousness); to the present experience, it's the divine consciousness, but it's very probably what Sri Aurobindo called the supramental consciousness. Because there must be... (... ( silence ) I've had this experience for several months now (especially since the start of the year) that the "shift" of the consciousness—instead of the consciousness being in the ordinary state, if you shift it (I am referring to the body's consciousness), if it's directly tuned to the Divine, in a few... sometimes seconds, sometimes minutes, but in a few minutes, the disease absolutely... you go back even a little, it instantly comes back. But if you keep your consciousness at the right place, it's gone. That's an experiment I've made more than a hundred times, even with something like toothache (which is hard to cure), even sharp pains at one spot or another. That's the experiment made by the BODY. The body knows. ( long silence ) It's very interesting because it's an experiment ...
... is to teach the body to have the true consciousness. That, it is... wonderful. ( Mother goes within herself. ) The problem seems to have been to create a physical capable of bearing the Power that wants to manifest itself. All ordinary body consciousnesses are too thin and too fragile to bear the Page 269 tremendous Power which must manifest itself. And so the body is in the process... 1 September 1971 As for the body, it is being trained to live only through the Divine, on the Divine, for everything—everything, everything, everything without exception. It is only when the consciousness is linked as much as it can be with the Divine Consciousness that there comes the sense of existence. It has now an extraordinary intensity. When... near you; she had said, "When one is near you it is as though that made the body pray." Well, it is that; what I feel is a power which seems to take up all the parts of the body and... I do not know, fill them with an intense aspiration. Yes. But that is what my body feels. Yes, it makes the body pray, it fills the body with a Power that... I do not know, is like glowing gold that lifts up everything ...
... something that must change in the body’s vibration for the Consciousness to manifest without distortion. The very body, the physical consciousness, is full of all those falsehoods and all those illusions and all those preconceived ideas, and when that is gone, then the Lord can manifest in there. Distortion is what creates ... a misery, you know, which now the body finds frightful. When that disappears... state, without death, in a body. Just a small vibration which distorts. Which veils. A false time in the body’s consciousness. Transformation means a change in the physical consciousness of time. Then the world will be exactly the same, but it will be lived differently altogether⎯without heaven and without tombs. As great a difference as between the consciousness of the mineral and that... things ... which are aggravated by a consciousness which shouldn't be there anymore. You see, my body is full of pains, but as soon as I go into that state everything is done—time doesn't exist anymore. Time is endless in the old consciousness, while it doesn't exist in this one. I don’t know how to describe it. Being flowery, I would say: the old consciousness is like ... it's death, it's as if you ...
... The Mother - Past-Present-Future A Message by Nolini* Mother once told me—"If ever I leave my body my Consciousness will remain with you." Mother is present amongst us and Her work continues. Let us once more dedicate ourselves for Her work of transformation with utmost sincerity and faithfulness. 21-11-1973 * Mother India, December 5 ...
... then? We enter our “body of consciousness,” as one could say, the very one that is lining us and is our reality, our body of reality, the one that Mother saw more clearly than the fakers’ skin and bones, and which shone or faded depending on the quality of consciousness. It is an old story, we have always had a body of consciousness⎯we even come back life after life to make this body grow, to develop... are not many people who do their true job in the cage, but a few of them do it. Fakers vanish, they have no body on the “other side,” they are only aggregated Matter, which dissolves. But what happens to the others at the end of the growth cycle, when the true body, the body of consciousness is fully shaped, developed, conscious and loving?… Does one drop the animal rag and disappear, disencumbered... created the wall of not-knowing. Then, to begin with, all schools collapse. There only remains the immense School of the Game of Life, and also, perhaps, training schools for the body, or rather for the consciousness of the body. There is no more cramming, because there is no more fortress to cram: it is the great manor of the world. And everyone is what they are, which makes for many different types ...
... because naturally... And in the night it's the same thing, it goes on. It's like a supereducation of the body, of the body's CONSCIOUSNESS, with illustrations. This story I've told of Bluebeard, it's like an illustration to make the body understand clearly, because it then FELT the state of consciousness it was in at the time. And having felt that, it understood—it was as if put in front of an abyss. It... different viewpoint, or a different occasion. So the angle is changed. Soon afterwards This atmosphere or consciousness [of the superman] seems to have an educative activity, because since it came, it has been looking after the education of the body—of the body's CONSCIOUSNESS—and that's quite interesting. And this education isn't something personal at all: it's the vision of the earth's evolution... intensity that the body's whole attention is turned towards that, but it can't communicate yet.... Unless it comes quite naturally with this [superman] consciousness acting—acting in others, for some detail or other, for one thing or other (that is to say, people themselves don't know, everyone isn't aware of the whole action, he is aware only according to the development of his consciousness). The consciousness ...
... why do You take away from me the power of expression because this has lived too long?" It was a sort of revolution in the body's consciousness. Things have been much better since, much better. There has been a decisive change. You see, it was the exact description of the body's present state, yet it constantly feels fragile, in a precarious balance. And then, with all its aspiration, it said, "But... of the things most contrary to the divine Glory. The spinelessness that accepts illness, you know. And I am saying this to my body, not to anyone else—others, that's not my business, it's their work, not mine; I mean, I am present [in them] only as the divine Consciousness, and then it's very easy, a very easy work; but the work here, the sadhana in here... But sick people... when I tell them, "Be... Then finds herself back in her body—that's where it begins. A chapter without a title [ VII.VII ]. I'll find it some other time. ( Mother puts aside the book ) It has been a revolution in the atmosphere, that's why I am telling you about it. Because all the experiences described [in Savitri ] are precisely the experiences I have. So then, suddenly, in the body.. I was over there in the music ...
... feels to be the Divine.... An aspiration... as sincere an aspiration as possible. And to cling to that. ( Silence ) You know, one thing I have already told you, it is that now the body, the consciousness of the body, knows in advance what is going to happen, it knows beforehand what people are going to tell it. But it does not know... (how to say it?) exactly how it happens materially, but the spirit... 1971 1971 Notes on the Way 17 July 1971 I have understood that if the Supreme Consciousness had for one single minute the kind of consciousness that men have, the world would be dissolved.... Quite spontaneously, for us, our reaction, our spontaneous reaction to things, to what seems to us bad, is to destroy what is false. The spontaneous reactions... is spontaneous, this idea of doing away—doing away with falsehood. But if for a single second the supreme Lord were to have that movement, there would be no world any more!... And this, I believe the body has understood. I believe it has understood, it was extraordinary.... What are we! What are men! They believe, God ( Mother pretends to put on airs ), they believe... oh!... If they have a little u ...
... pioneering educationists of Gujarat, India and the other parts of the world. 2.Ideal of nationalism which is in harmony with the ideal of internationalism; 3.Education of the body, vital consciousness, mind as also psychic consciousness and spirituality should be placed in the focus of the research and educational activities of the university; 4.Education should not only impart knowledge but should also... research; 9.Education of the child should aim at the development of sterling character filled with patriotism and dedicated to self - reliance and dignity of labour and harmonious development of the body, life, mind and spirit, capable of meeting successfully the challenges of contemporary times and capable of commitment to our country and the highest values of culture, as also to Fundamental Duties... at all levels of education concerns for the development of the child, in particular reference to: 38 a)Harmonious growth of health, strength, agility and health of the body, mind and spirit; b)Qualities of quest of truth and knowledge, courage, heroism, adventure, enterprise, initiative, enthusiasm and dynamism of active life; c)Qualities of sympathy, friendliness, fairness ...
... instance, and something complains (all this is in the BODY's consciousness), the body says, "Oh, I haven't got beyond that, what a wretched shame!" So immediately, there is an answer, and an answer which... It's odd, it doesn't come from one place, it comes from everywhere; and the body's protest also doesn't come from one place: it isn't ONE thing or ONE body that protests, it's a way of being; a terrestrial... time. ( silence ) Sri Aurobindo wrote somewhere, I don't remember where (I am translating, it's not the exact sentence): "The body's cells must burn with the divine Flame." Page 421 It's obviously somewhere where he explains transformation. The body's cells must burn with the divine Flame. And you feel it—you FEEL it. It's when they begin to be aflame, to burn with a flame that is... part that LOVES to feel it loves, that LOVES to feel its own emotions, and because of it there remains a faint personal coloration. And when there occurs a somewhat darker or backward movement, the body is indignant and doesn't understand that it's part of the whole, that the whole must go forward together and you can't separate a piece of it to perfect it—it can't be done! It's impossible. It's not ...
... that—something of very little importance. ( silence ) The education of the physical consciousness (not the body's global consciousness, but the consciousness of the cells) consists in teaching them... First of all it's a choice (it looks like one): it's choosing the divine Presence—the divine Consciousness, the divine Presence, the divine Power (all that wordlessly), the "something" we define as... it obeys the influence of the supreme Consciousness, then a strange phenomenon takes place... it's not like something getting "cured"—I might rather say, like an unreality fading away. And that's the life of every second, for the smallest thing, the whole bodily functioning: sleep, food, washing, activities, everything, everything—every second. And the body is learning. There are naturally hesitations... more precise, more and more interesting—but absorbing. 1 And a consciousness—a perception, rather—a growing perception of a state which... I don't know how to explain it. There are two simultaneous states: the state of uninterrupted, almost endless continuity, and the state of... toppling over into decomposition (for the body); the two are constantly like this ( Mother places one hand closely ...
... its consciousness, its action, its power all depended on it. And no questions—it didn't question. For the body, it was absolutely IMPOSSIBLE that things could be otherwise. The very idea that Sri Aurobindo might leave his body, that that particular way of being might no longer exist for the body, was absolutely unthinkable. They had to put him in a box and put the box in the Samadhi for the body to... it, but the body.... It had been told about it and believed in it, but it didn't have the experience in such a concrete, total and absolute manner that it can't be forgotten for a single second. At that moment, the physical being and the individual, personal body had the experience once and for all. The body always used to let itself be carried along. It was one in consciousness with Sri Aurobindo's... Aurobindo left his body: ) I don't quite understand. Didn't you have the experience of the Supreme before Sri Aurobindo's departure? Spiritually, you have that experience as soon as you come into contact with the Divine within; mentally, you have the experience as soon as the mind is purified; vitally, you have it as soon as you get out of the ego. But it's the consciousness of the BODY—the consciousness ...
... Mother holds out the text of a note: "Through the widening of its consciousness, this body is more or less identified with those around it. "Every effort made towards the purification of one's physical consciousness is so much less work for this body." If everyone made an effort... ( Mother nods her head ) I saw P.L. yesterday. He is still... ahead—which in fact is why this body was born there. ( silence ) The newspapers speak of a strike by several million people there (that's what those children wrote). It doesn't look like a strike at all, it looks like a revolution. I know that. I don't know if I have ever told you, but there has been—there has always been—an identification of this body's consciousness with all revolutionary movements... violent attack.... It's mostly P.L. who has been the victim, and me in part: it touched this body. But you know, even from the most ordinary, outward point of view, the healing was miraculous. Those things [the swelling] generally last for eight to ten days—it was over in two days. That was... Even my body, though it's used to being in contact with the forces, was wonderstruck. It was miraculous. ...
... means this Consciousness is working and working... working and teaching—night and day it's teaching the body From that point of view, it's marvelous. And it goes about like that ( gesture everywhere ). So naturally, some people imagine that all their fancies are the result of this Consciousness.... One day, I received someone here (it was R., in fact), and the body asked this Consciousness, like that... I wholly understood what it meant: "When you stand in the light of the Supreme Consciousness, you must not make a shadow." It was an experience given TO THE BODY—L tell you, my eyes were open. I felt the consciousness... ( same gesture in a circle ). It can't be described, can't be expressed. Since then, the body has been full of an intensity of vibration, of aspiration, of... And a tremendous... "To be able to receive the new consciousness without deforming it... Then the text: "...One must be able to stand in the light of the Supreme Consciousness without casting a shadow." Words... if one hasn't had the experience, words are... They don't have what the experience gave—that power. It was so intense, you know! Since then, the body has been constantly "thinking" Page ...
... of the Inner Consciousness and the Cosmic Consciousness Experiences of the Inner Consciousness and the Cosmic Consciousness Experiences on the Inner Planes Letters on Yoga - III Chapter II Exteriorisation or Going Out of the Body The Experience of Exteriorisation The experience you had was that of exteriorisation or going out of the body. The consciousness... remained above the body for a time. The feeling or vision of oneself in the form of an egg is frequent in such cases. It is not always so, for many go out in an individualised consciousness with an awareness of a subtle body, subtle thought, subtle sensation etc. and move about in the vital or even in the physical world till they come back to the body. But when one begins, the vital body is at first a little... falling down comes to many when the consciousness for a moment or a longer time exteriorises itself (goes up out of the body); the shock comes from the going up of the consciousness or from the return into the body. The Mother used to have that hundreds of times. It is not anything physical (the Doctor, as you say, found nothing). When this movement of the consciousness is more normal, the feeling will ...
... everything the idea was there." Thus, Mother was imbibing their thoughts of death: she was GOING to die. And for her this was no "thought": things had become "concrete" for her. Her body, the consciousness of her body felt itself in the grip of death. As in all tragedies in human History, there is not a particular person to blame. Humans only incarnate certain types of force or character—they... can send you over to the other side. Then, with the other formation, there's a feeling that... (how can I put it?) the body's frailty is due to a need for the consciousness to change so it can manifest the Supramental. And I am like this ( gesture between the two ). But the body has learned to remain quiet in either case. ( silence ) Why, but why am I not told what will happen? I don't know... were constantly throwing upon Her. But more the failing body I hold responsible for what happened. Often I have seen that She was trying to counteract these forces but when She saw that She could not concentrate much, She could not talk much, She could not write much, She could not see people, She could not do as She wanted, because the body was failing, and the dirt and dust that we were throwing ...
... always taught—but Sri Aurobindo rejected it! Sri Aurobindo told us precisely that the Truth could be lived IN material life.... Of course, there must be a change of consciousness, but I thought.... ( silence ) My body's consciousness has changed—that much I know. Not totally, of course, but enough to feel that there's no separation, that vibrations are unpartitioned—there are no partitions! And... experience—when the BODY had that experience of January 24, 1961 —well, it has increased to such an extent that it now applies to anything and everything linked with action on earth. This detachment was probably necessary. It began with something like... things dissolving ( Mother makes a gesture of crumbling something between her fingers ); certain kinds of links between my consciousness and the Work were... were dissolving (not links with me, because I don't have any, but with the body; the whole physical consciousness, all that attaches it to the things in its environment, to the Work and to the entourage—I spoke to you about that in regard to physical immortality; well, that's what is happening now). It's like things dissolving—dissolving, dissolving, dissolving. And it's more and more pronounced. During ...
... done with the necessary inner consciousness in which the outer vital and physical must also share. A lazy body is certainly not a proper instrument for Yoga, it must stop being lazy. But a fatigued and unwilling body also cannot receive properly or be a good instrument. The proper thing is to avoid either extreme. The higher consciousness keeps contact only through my... work. But how to attend to work without cutting off the higher pressure? You can do it by not identifying yourself with your head or any part of your body. My consciousness does not need to come down as before for doing any physical work. That is very good. I see that the Mother is carrying me now to an ultimate Silence in which... because their bodies could not bear it. The second reason: I was told that there is always a tendency to inertia in my external being and therefore I decided that the only way to get rid of it was by making the body work more and more for the Mother. Overstraining only increases the inertia — the mental and vital will may force the body, but the body feels more ...
... the only reality is the divine Reality, and all the cells of this body are a more or less deformed expression of this divine Reality―there is only one Reality, the Divine, and our body is a more or less deformed expression of this sole Reality―if by my aspiration, my concentration, I can bring into the cells of the body the consciousness of this sole Reality, all disorder must necessarily cease. ... experiment. Exactly this. The moment the star was sing, at that very moment there sprang up from the consciousness: "To realise the divine union, for my body." That very moment. And before the end of the year, it was done. But it was not because of the star! It was because that dominated my whole consciousness and I was thinking of nothing but that, I wanted only that, thought only of that, acted only... have already explained to you several times, but perhaps it will be good to explain it yet once again. It is this: "When there is a clearly localised illness in the body, what is the best way of opening the physical consciousness to receive the healing Force?" For this―as for everything else in this domain which may be called the "outposts" of occultism or the threshold of occultism―each one ...
... like that—I am sure, because I observed it in myself for a very long time, because of the subconscious formation of childhood, environment, education, etc. You must be able to press into this body the consciousness of Oneness, the absolute exclusive Oneness of the Divine—exclusive in the sense that nothing exists except in this Oneness, even the things we find most repulsive. And this is what Sri Aurobindo... attribute to God everything you consider to be best and most beautiful and, above all, everything you want to attain, to realise. Naturally, each one changes the content of his God according to his own consciousness, but it is always what he considers to be best. And that is also why instinctively and spontaneously, subconsciously, you are shocked by the idea that God can be things that you do not like, that... "involved", not really absolutely in the play. Yes, yes, He is! He is totally in it. He himself is the Play. We speak of God, but we should remember that there are all these gradations of consciousness; and when we speak of God and His Play, we mean God in His transcendent state, beyond all the levels of matter, and when we speak of the Play we speak of God in his material state. So we say: T ...
... accomplished. Its descent into the physical body is necessarily a descent into darkness, ignorance, unconsciousness; and for a very long time it must labour simply to bring a little consciousness into the material substance of the body, before it can make use Page 29 of it for the experience it has come for. So, if we cultivate the body by a clear-sighted and rational method, at the... process of infusing consciousness into the cells of the body. One may or may not know it, but it is a fact. When we concentrate to make our muscles move according to our will, when we endeavour to make our limbs more supple, to give them an agility, or a force, or a resistance, or a plasticity which they do not naturally possess, we infuse into the cells of the body a consciousness which was not there... activities. This is the primary importance of physical culture. Of course, that is not the only thing that brings consciousness into the body, but it is something which acts in an overall way, and this is rare. I have already told you several times that the artist infuses a very great consciousness into his hands, as the intellectual does into his brain. But these are, as it were, local phenomena, whereas ...
... it started, but I was very ill, seriously ill, and my body wasn't asleep, yet wasn't awake (that's a fairly normal state now: I'll be absorbed in a consciousness, which I think is the consciousness of the subtle physical; at least I was there last night). So then, I was very ill, but I knew it wasn't this body (but it was this body's consciousness), it was a family at the Ashram, and the father was seeking... it began in sleep for her and the action [of Mother] was enough to cure her without her realizing it. It's possible. You understand, it's the kind of consciousness that says, "My body is suffering," but it wasn't my body, it was someone else's body. It said, "I am suffering, but I know it's not me, it's the suffering of one member of this family" (I didn't try to find out which), "and that's why—it's... appearance—of the material world, but in which people were conscious. I'm not recounting all the details, but my body FELT the battle of the illness. And at the same time it knew it wasn't its own body, you understand? It was like that, a very complex, very precise consciousness, with a great force. And all of it going on at the same time—I wasn't asleep. This morning I expected to be told that ...
... understood in an absolute way what having the divine consciousness in the body means. And then, this body, that body, that other body [gesture here and there, all around Mother, showing bodies of this or that one] , it doesn’t matter: it moved about from one body to another, quite free and independent, aware of the limitations or the possibilities of each body—absolutely wonderful, I had never, ever had this... conscious, individualized, that spins out its own, pure body, with the very substance it started from, back in the first amorphous ages. A son of the cells. For, let’s not be mistaken, it is not the Mind that weaves that body, it is not the heart or feelings or spiritual concentrations that build up that body—we all have a body of consciousness, it is an old story, even if we are sufficiently blind... moment one is slightly formed, conscious, developed in one’s mental consciousness, when these are no longer mere “ideas” that one juggles by the dozen, but a mental force, an emotional force or a spiritual one that one concentrates around oneself and handles, a subtle body starts forming itself: a mental body, a body of consciousness, of energy, one could say, formed of all our agglomerated vibrations ...
... told you, that although the Mother's physical body is not there, she has left her consciousness with us: the consciousness is still living, it is still working. She herself said even while she was in her body that if ever she left her body, her consciousness will be always there with us. But I will add something more here. Apart from the consciousness what she has left with us, what remains with us... fragrance of the Mother's Presence. It is a collective life in which you all are not only brothers and sisters but one body and soul unified in the Mother's loving and living substance. Page 107 That inner life you have to bring out into your body and all the external activities. It is however the very nature of that inner organisation to express itself outwardJy... ashram atmosphere and when they come back, they are coated with a thick layer of the mud of the ordinary world, and it took her a lot of time and trouble to rub and scrub and clean the dross upon the body, to made it shine as before. You may remember here in this connection a Rama-krishna story about the sinners who went to the Ganges for a bath to purify themselves; they leave their sins on the shore ...
... petit! Not pictures. And I know what it is. And then, the state of consciousness of Eternity, oh!... As if above all circumstances. There were UNIQUE things, but how to tell them?... Impossible. Impossible: not even enough consciousness to be able to write. The note goes on: "The seat and field of its [the body's] Consciousness as well as the quality of its activity change and vary according... living godheads. Each thing with a precise reason and purpose, to express nonmentalized states of consciousness. "Constant visions. "Landscapes. "Constructions. "Cities. "The whole thing immense and very diverse, covering the entire visual field and expressing states of consciousness of the body. "Many, a great many constructions, immense cities being built.... Yes, the world being built... poke fun at people!), then with all this you could prepare the "Notes." There are a few more notes here, which I haven't read to you. You say: "For man, in most cases, consciousness begins with sensation. For the body, all sensations had as if lessened, or rather dimmed: eyesight and hearing as if behind a veil. But an extremely clear perception of the degree of harmony or disharmony. Pictorial ...
... like that. It is still a semi-collective consciousness, it is not an individual consciousness of the cells. Does decentralisation always occur after death, or can it start before? It often starts before. Do the cells disperse in space or in the body itself? If they disperse in space, the body must surely disappear with the cells? Naturally, the body dissolves after death, but that takes... lives to stop the process of death? The method is to detach one's consciousness from the body and to concentrate it on the deeper life, so as to bring this deeper consciousness into the body. If the sense of "self" has identified itself more with the mind in life, is this the same sense of "self" that has all the experiences after death, that is, that retains at the same time the memories of... cells which make up the physical body. Page 340 The consciousness is, by its very nature, immortal, and in order to manifest in the physical world, it assumes more or less lasting material forms. The material substance is in course of transformation in order to become a multiform and increasingly perfect and lasting mode of expression for this consciousness. 18 May 1968 ( This ...
... told you, that although the Mother's physical body is not here, she has left her consciousness with us: her consciousness is still living, it is still working. She herself said, even while she was in her body, that if ever she left her body, her consciousness would be always here with us. But I will add something more here. Apart from her consciousness what she has left with us, what remains with us... say, filled with the fragrance of the Mother's Presence. It is a collective life in which you all are not only brothers and sisters but one body and soul unified in the Mother's loving and living substance. That inner life you have to bring out in your body and all the external activities. It is the very nature of that inner organisation to express itself outwardly; its spontaneous drive is towards... ashram atmosphere, and when they come back they are coated with a thick layer of the mud of the ordinary world, and it took her a lot of time and trouble to rub and scrub and clean the dross upon the body, to make it shine as before. You may remember here in this connection the Ramakrishna story about the sinners who go to the Ganges for a bath to purify themselves; they leave their sins on the shore ...
... everyone-everything, everything is like this ( gesture of twisting ) oh!... And so my body, the body, said, "But I am like that too!" It saw its.... Oh, my God... ( Mother clasps her hands together ) I understood Page 196 that if for a single minute the Supreme Consciousness had the kind of consciousness men have, the world would be dissolved. Quite spontaneously, our reaction, our spontaneous... before she came back, a rather long time before.) Yes, I remember, you even told me about it. It's curious. You know, something I would have told you already is that now the body—the consciousness of the body—knows in advance what's going to happen, it knows in advance what people are going to say. It doesn't know it... (how shall I put it?) exactly as it happens in Page 198 reality... fortunately there isn't any mind here, it's quiet, it's absent. Only, when I am told things, when I am informed of things, nothing surprises this body anymore, it seems to know. It's strange. A kind of universalization. And if you knew how stupid the body feels—both things at the same time. × A disciple who went to ...
... vibration of Truth. And it was very interesting, for as soon as the consciousness was informed Page 177 of the cause of the disturbance in the functioning of the body—the consciousness saw where it came from, what it was—immediately, the observation began with the idea, "Let us see what is happening." First, put the body in a state of perfect rest with the certitude—which is always there—that... few days: the study of medical and scientific conceptions of the structure of the body, its needs, what is good or bad for it; and that, reduced to its essence, comes down to the same question of vibrations. It was rather interesting: there was an appearance—for all things as they are seen by the ordinary consciousness are pure appearances—there was an appearance of food-poisoning and it became the... Lord, and that therefore one should be completely quiet; so the body is completely quiet, untroubled, it is not restless, not vibrating, nothing—completely quiet. And then, to what extent are the effects inevitable? As a certain amount of matter containing an element unfavourable to the elements of the body and to the life of the body has been absorbed, what is the proportion of favourable and unfavourable ...
... first be ONE body in which this Consciousness was expressed, or must everything, but everything be transformed?... That I don't know. It would happen if the play—the play of separateness—came to Page 326 an end. That would be the solution of the transformation. A phenomenon of consciousness. But it's so concrete, you see! ( silence ) Only, the other consciousness is still there... translation.) So then, the body spontaneously replied, We are ALL insane, we can't get more insane than we are!" And things instantly calmed down. ( long silence ) It's here that this consciousness is ( Mother touches Satprem's chest ). This ( gesture pointing to the mind and above ) is just light, light... ( immense gesture ). But in this body, this consciousness Page 328 is here... And the whole night was like that—everything. Even now the two things are there: a little of the ordinary consciousness, as if mechanically, but I just have to remain still or concentrated for a second and it's there. And it's the BODY'S experience, you understand, physical, material, the body's experience: everything, absolutely everything is full, full, there's NOTHING but That, and we are like.. ...
... it in myself for a VERY long time, and I had to.... Due to the whole subconscious formation of childhood—environment, education, and so forth—we have to DRUM into this ( Mother touches her body ) the consciousness of Unity : the absolute, EXCLUSIVE unity of the Divine—exclusive in the sense that nothing exists apart from this Unity, even the things which seem most repulsive. Sri Aurobindo also had... here in the body. When the body catches on to this, nothing is either disagreeable or agreeable to it—it takes no pleasure, feels no disgust, no uneasiness, no anything. It's in a state, ah! ... ( same gesture of a becalmed sea ) It's very interesting. This happens quite often on the balcony, because there I am concentrated on... the descending Light. Then, very often, the body becomes completely... Yes—the explanation of his yoga and of what he wants us to realize. After reading it yesterday evening I said to him, 'How do you expect it to be done in this!'( Mother laughingly indicates her own body. ) 'No, no, no!' he replied, 'That's not it! What is needed now is to learn how to last. We'll speak of this again,' he told me, 'in two or three hundred years.' Ah! ( laughing ) 'Very well!' I said ...
... here that consciousness begins to unfold itself out of its chrysalis or matrix of inconscience and a half conscious first working and reveal its true nature. Here consciousness acts in its own right, in its own field and not as a product of the body. To see how the body uses consciousness may be within limits a fruitful science, but it is more important to see how consciousness uses the body and still... powers. The physiological study of the phenomenon of consciousness is only a side-issue; the psychological study of it independent of all reference to the body except as an instrument is the fruitful line of inquiry. A body using consciousness is the first outward physical fact of our existence, the first step of our evolution; a consciousness using a body is its inner spiritual reality, it is what we have... upon the body and its functionings, on the brain, nerves, gland-action, right physiological working, for its own firm state and action. It uses them as its instruments and, if they are injured or unable to act, the action of the consciousness may also be in part or whole impaired, impeded or suspended. But this does not prove that the action of consciousness is an action of the body and nothing else. ...
... then suddenly... the Consciousness—the bodily consciousness of the Vibration of Love, which is the very essence of the creation, just one second: everything lights up, pfft! gone, it's all gone. Then you look at yourself amazed—it's all gone. You were in considerable discomfort—it's all gone. 22 One has crossed the web. But the old body, or the old habit of the body, keeps its stupid habit... the things one shouldn't be! Everything comes to me in that form: as if it took place within me. I'll catch myself being like that.... 1 Then something complains (all this is in the body's consciousness), the body says, "Oh, I haven't got beyond that, what a wretched shame I" And the immediate answer: "But don't you see, don't you see the usefulness of it?" Then I am shown a whole tangled web of... the meaning has to be undone in the body, this sort of hypnotism of the physical Mind that imprisons the free and clear consciousness of the cellular Mind for which all this simply does not exist. One goes into the other room, and it no longer exists. Another life in life. We must be aware of what is. There is an "I wish" to be discovered in the body. Then, truly, it will be a "new ...
... —it is a spiritual rebirth of the whole being, a remoulding of the entire apparatus of the surface and the subconscient human personality, and, above all, a radical transfiguration of the body, its consciousness and its mode of working, leading to an untrembling dynamic poise in the Divine and a constant union and communion with Him in active life. "So long as one element of the being, one movement... the entire universe.”¹ That is why there is an intense, unceasing aspiration in the Mother's body—it is not a mental or vital aspiration imposed upon the body, but the body's own separate, individual, unquenchable aspiration—for a dynamic union with the Supreme through service... "This body whose will is to become Thy docile instrument and Thy faithful servant.”² "...This substance ... the physical being of man for the perfect Union and the eventual Manifestation. The Mother so much insists on service, because : 1) Union with the Divine cannot be integral if the body is excluded from it; for, the body, as much as the heart or the mind, has a birthright to a constant and complete union with the Divine and a perfection in the expression of that union; and it is only when all the ...
... —it is a spiritual rebirth of the whole being, a remoulding of the entire apparatus of the surface and the subconscient human personality, and, above all, a radical transfiguration of the body, its consciousness and its mode of working, leading to an untrembling dynamic poise in the Divine and a constant union and communion with Him in active life. "So long as one element of the being, one... within a restricted field of consciousness and barren of any enduring and transforming effect upon life in the world. It can initiate the Godward turn, but cannot by itself consummate and fulfil it in an integral union. "Even he who might have arrived at perfect contemplation in silence and solitude, could only have done so by extracting himself from his body, by making an abstraction of... the entire universe." 1 That is why there is an intense, unceasing aspiration in the Mother's body—it is not a mental or vital aspiration imposed upon the body, but the body's own separate, individual, unquenchable aspiration—for a dynamic union with the Supreme through service...."This body whose will is to become Thy docile instrument and Thy faithful servant." 2 "...This substance which ...
... a few men, a handful of men and women on a plateau of red earth, who accepted to make the experiment of the new Consciousness in their bodies and in their lives—this Consciousness of the terrestrial body's material oneness. How is it materialized in a collective life? How will human bodies bear the infiltration of this true Vibration, let themselves be molded by it, and thus organize their lives according... intelligence by the government of a spiritualized consciousness. 5 It is that "de-certification" of the Mind that must come down into the body. That is the ultimate experience of Auroville. Not a new society: a new type. That's what this body is now learning—to replace the mental government of intelligence by the spiritual government of Consciousness. And it makes (it looks like nothing, one may... serious illness" Mother spoke of. Each instant her body was learning to choose between life and death, the real and the unreal, the little twinkling of iridescent light and the old habit. Everything is the same, and everything is mortal, or marvelous. It isn't necessary to move, or to move anything, for this Truth-Consciousness to replace the consciousness of deformation or distortion. In other words, ...
... possibility. The same consciousness which was the monopoly of the vital and the mind has become that of the body: the consciousness is working in the cells of the body. The cells of the body are becoming something conscious, wholly conscious. A consciousness that is independent, not depending at all upon the vital or the mental consciousness: it is a bodily consciousness. ( Silence ) And... mental will... But no! It is the body that ends by saying the mantra! Spontaneously, so spontaneously that even if you by chance think of other things, your body will be saying the mantra. You do not have this experience? No. And it is the body that aspires, the body that says the mantra, the body that wants the light, the body that wants the consciousness—you, you can think of other things... hold me so that the body would not fall down. But as for me, I did not lose consciousness for a single minute. I fainted, but I was conscious, I saw my body, I knew that I had fainted, I did not lose consciousness, and the body also did not lose consciousness. So now I understand: it was cut off from the vital and the mental and left to its own resources; it was simply the body: all that it knew, all ...
... ... To see how the body uses consciousness may be within limits a fruitful science, but it is more important to see how consciousness uses the body and still more important to see how it evolves and uses its own powers. The physiological study of the phenomenon of consciousness is only a side-issue; the psychological study of it independent of all reference to the body except as an instrument... of such an epiphenomenal view of consciousness is the attempt to study consciousness — or mind, as it is generally called in Western psychology, — by studying solely its manifestations in the body and its expression in behaviour. However, if consciousness is not an epiphenomenon but the essential reality — as maintained by yoga and as some recent consciousness research 10 and emerging thought... possible action of body and Matter on mind and life, but explored all the possible action of mind too on life and body; that opens undreamed vistas. And there is always the vast field of the action of mind in itself and on itself, which needs for its elucidation another, a mental, a psychic science. 14 The second prerequisite for the study of consciousness is an appropriate m ...
... The Truth-consciousness, like every other plane, founds itself upon that particular principle which is naturally the key of all its motions; but it is not limited by it, it contains all the other powers of existence. Only the character and working of these other powers is modified and moulded into conformity with its own original and dominant law; intelligence, life, body, will, consciousness, bliss are... some intelligent interpreting consciousness of the forces of the super-self above and around him. All changes when we pass from mind to gnosis; for there a direct inherent knowledge is the central principle. The gnostic ( vijñānamaya ) being is in its character a truth-consciousness, a centre and circumference of the truth-vision of things, a massed movement or subtle body of gnosis. Its action is a... and action, even the original force of our sensations and emotions rise out of the body and mind and take a free station above them. No longer have we the sensation of living in the body, but Page 490 are above it as its lord, possessor or Ishwara and at the same time encompass it with a wider consciousness than that of the imprisoned physical sense. Now we come to realise with a very living ...
... like that—I am sure, because I observed it in myself for a very long time, because of the subconscious formation of childhood, environment, education, etc. You must be able to press into this body the consciousness of Oneness, the absolute exclusive Oneness of the Divine—exclusive in the sense that nothing exists except in this Oneness, even the things we find most repulsive... But it is Him. There... And it is the only thing valid in every case: when you want to do a thing, when you cannot do a thing, when you move, when the body is no more able to move... in every , every case, that only, only that: to come in conscious contact with the Supreme Consciousness, to be united with it; and... to wait. There! It is then that you receive the exact indication of what you ought to do at each minute—to... you have to do only one thing, to enter into the consciousness where you see only one Being, one Consciousness, one Power—there is only a single Unity—and all this is taking place within this Unity. And all our insignificant visions and knowings and judgments and... all that is mere nothing, it is microscopic in comparison with the Consciousness presiding over All. Therefore, if one had the least ...
... subconscient, on the inconscient, on matter, on the body's cells—it takes time, but by persistently repeating it, in the long run it has an effect. It is the same principle as doing daily exercises on the piano, for example. You keep mechanically repeating them, and in the end your hands are filled with consciousness—it fills the body with consciousness. I have a hard time making X understand that... 'Listen, this is quite fine, you're very nice, but I can't spend all my time like this! We shall Page 423 see what to do later'—for it absorbed my whole consciousness. They kept coming and coming (you understand what that means to a body?!). So at 10:30 I told them, 'Listen, my little ones, be quiet now, that's enough for today ...' At 10:30, the machine broke down! I found out, of course,... as He knew, naturally I followed. Later on, when Sri Aurobindo left his body, I said to myself, 'If only I knew what he had known, it would be easier!' So when Swami and later X came, I thought, 'I am going to take advantage of this opportunity.' I had written to Swami that I was working on transforming the cells of the body and that I had noticed the work was going faster with X's influence. So it ...
... written as regards your yoga. We shall have better occasion when we meet. To look upon the body as a corpse is a sign of Sannyasa, of the path of Nirvana. You cannot be of the world with this idea. You Page 273 must have delight in all things—in the Spirit as well as in the body. The body has consciousness, it is God's form. When you see God in everything that is in the world, when you have... to the Ananda. One attains a firm foundation in the condition of the indivisible and infinite Ananda, not only in the timeless Parabrahman [Absolute] but in the body, in life, in the world. The integral being, the integral consciousness, the integral Ananda blossoms out and takes form in life. This is the central clue of my yoga, its fundamental principle. This is no easy change to make. After... Sarvamidam Brahma , that Vasudeva is all this— Vasudevah sarvamiti —then you have the universal delight. The flow of that delight precipitates and courses even through the body. When you are in such a state, full of the spiritual consciousness, you can lead a married life, a life in the world. In all your works you find the expression of God's delight. So far I have been transforming all the objects and p ...
... longer opacity or hardness. It is the compact density or "thickness," so to speak, of the vibration of consciousness. And it went out about this far [Mother made a gesture to show that her vibratory body extended rather far beyond the limits of her apparent body]. Sometimes, even, the entire apparent body seemed to dissolve [when Mother would faint]: Like molten gold- molten and luminous. It was very thick... There's a power in the sound itself and by forcing the body to repeat the sound, you force it to receive the vibration at the same time. 12 It is the same principle as doing daily exercises on the piano, for example. You keep mechanically repeating them, and in the end your hands are filled with consciousness—it fills the body with consciousness. 13 She had found her mantra. It was the first... squashed, gone. A total consciousness. A total movement, a total power. A totality one is. Without a screen. The next consciousness. Another species which is no longer humanity or superhumanity, not an improvement upon the animal: something else. Something that obeys another law which has no longer anything to do with universal gravity. And yet it takes place in a physical, material body. A divine, material ...
... Spitsbergen just next door, is not at all the perception of a "psychic," but the perception of the body. It is the body that sees, the cellular consciousness, not the mental or psychic consciousness. You cannot even call it "seeing": it lives, it is, it touches. It is a material perception. The body understands nothing of our tales of visions and psychics and all the rest of our mental theatrics,... appearance! It's very interesting, you know! People are so accustomed to... travestying everything—all that is gone; there, it's gone. It’s the BODY'S activity; it's interesting: it's the body's inner life. 20 It is the body, the consciousness of the body that discovers the secret of the earth. Matter discovering the secret of Matter. The other side is right here—it is we who are totally beside... laws of the Mind—dehypnotized. The true earth, free at last. True Matter, light at last. The only law, that of consciousness. The only density, that of consciousness. The only existing bodies: conscious bodies. The end of the phantoms. At the cellular border, the body, freed from the enveloping spell of the physical Mind, forgets about heaviness, thickness, powerlessness, separation and ...
... of Matter. Conscious Sleep To extend one’s consciousness is a first step; to be independent of the physical instruments is another; and to be independent of the body, the final step. The body is a “relay station," Sri Aurobindo would say, but what does it relay? Mirra had been independent from her body for quite some time, “naturally,” without trying or seeking anything. It was a sort of removable... eyes, and send out my consciousness little by little, little by little. 4 You concentrate your consciousness and then extend it, as it were (almost as if you extended it materially), you cover the whole distance and you arrive in the studio. If you do it correctly, you can see what is in the studio and hear what is happening, though you are not in the studio yourself—your body is lying on a bed in... or Louis de Broglies wave-particles—this body dies, but why does it die? For everything else went on living before her eyes, with or without a body, and quite supplely. She was not concerned in philosophy or in any ism whatever: I believed only what I saw, what I touched. She saw all kinds of things; first, all those worlds or planes of consciousness ranging continuously from the most material ...
... microscopic habits covering our cellular substance – our body – if we start interfering with that, well, it causes a revolt in the body, a panic in the body, a fear. And finally we reach bottom: a wish, a CALL for death. As if deep down in the consciousness (almost touching the body; I am not saying in the body, for we aren't yet in the body itself) there were something YEARNING for death – something... – not illusorily at the summit of consciousness, but in the very depths of the body – once we pierce through all those layers of conditioning, we really, MATERIALLY, PHYSIOLOGICALLY emerge into another... POSSIBILITY OF BEING – IN A BODY. Towarnicki: And we reach, as Mother said, what is called "the cellular consciousness." Yes – the cellular consciousness, which is a cellular "power" and... When we come into contact with that cellular consciousness deep inside the body, there's no longer "one body"; all at once... the whole world is there. So Mother used to have fantastic experiences. There were things happening in New York, in Paris, in New Delhi and everywhere, and she was THERE – she was there PHYSICALLY. The consciousness OF HER BODY (it wasn't the vision of a psychic, experienced ...
... to hold me so that the body would not fall down. But as to me, I did not lose consciousness for a single minute. I fainted but I was conscious, I saw my body, I knew that it had fainted. I didn’t lose consciousness and the body didn’t lose consciousness either. So now I understand: it was cut off from the Vital and the Mental and left to its own resources. It was simply the body. All it knew, all the... this, it is not only this body,’ she said. ‘I am not sure yet whether the physical person is not the whole Earth – for certain things it is the whole Earth – or whether the physical person is the whole of all bodies with which I am in contact.’ 14 She did not feel the reactions in her body as more intimate than the reactions in other bodies. The consciousness of her body was no longer individual... elements leave the gross material body. ‘And that was the reason: it is precisely because the Vital and the Mental were gone that the impression was given of a very serious illness. And then, in the body left to itself, little by little the cells began to wake up to the Consciousness [gesture of rising aspiration]. Formerly this Consciousness was infused into the body by the Vital – from the Mental ...
... to the level of the Divine: You must have delight in all things - in the Spirit as well as in the body. The body has consciousness, it is God's form.... The flow of that delight precipitates and courses through this body. When you are in such a state, full of spiritual consciousness, you can lead a married life, a life in the world. In all your works you find the expression of God's delight... life is the spiritual: that is to say, a new consciousness to be developed only by Yoga. But what precisely was the nature of the dynamic power of this greater consciousness? What was the condition of its effective truth? How could it be brought down, mobilised, organised, turned upon life? How could our present instruments - intellect, mind, life, body - be made true and perfect channels for this... expect me to go to the Bengal Council and work there." 53 The Supermind was a power of consciousness, and if brought down, it would sensitise and make perfect the instruments of mind, life and body. There could thus be no sublimer objective than the endeavour to bring the supramental force into the earth consciousness, and all temporary limitations, all necessary exclusions, would be permissible if they ...
... coma,—a body which for the moment is in agony, unresponsive, labouring hard for breath suddenly becomes quiet; a consciousness enters the body, He is awake and normal. He finishes the drink, then, as the consciousness withdraws, the body lapses back into the grip of agony. Sri Aurobindo was suffering from uraemia, and he was having this peculiar coma, a coma controlled by yogic consciousness! ... personal body had the experience once and for all. The body always used to let itself be carried along. It was one in consciousness with Sri Aurobindo presence, and depended on it without the least worry; it felt that its life depended on it, its progress depended on it, its consciousness, its action, its power all depended on it. And no questions—it didn't question. For the body, it was absolutely... might leave his body, that that particular way of being might no longer exist for the body, was absolutely unthinkable. They had to put him in a box and put the box in the Samadhi for the body to be convinced that it had really happened. And that's when it had that experience. This body is very conscious, it was BORN conscious, and throughout those years its consciousness went on growing ...
... the body of the awakened consciousness was the terrestrial globe moving harmoniously in ethereal space. And the consciousness knew that its global body was thus moving in the arms of the universal Personality, and it gave itself, it abandoned itself to Her in an ecstasy of peaceful bliss. Then it felt that its body was absorbed in the body of the universe and one with it; the consciousness became... have written as regards your yoga. We shall have better occasion when we meet. To look upon the body as a corpse is a sign of Sannyasa, of the path of Nirvana. You cannot be of the world with this idea. You must have delight in all things - in the Spirit as well as in the body. The body has consciousness, it is God's form. When you see God in everything that is in the world, when you have this vision... mind or body whether to seek the Highest or to serve it. He avoids no difficulty, he accepts no cessation from fatigue. Always he fights for the coming of that kingdom within himself and in the world. "The Aryan perfected is the Arhat. There is a transcendent Consciousness which surpasses the universe and of which all these worlds are only a side-issue and a by-play. To that consciousness he aspires ...
... the Universal – that cage scarcely held anything more than a body: in his consciousness, he was everywhere at will. But perhaps he was recalling an individual named Aurobindo, who since Cambridge and his years in the West had continuously accumulated consciousness in that body, and now the infinite Consciousness was a reality, but that body remained the same as millions of others, subject to the same... mental and vital consciousness, must learn to expand and to universalize itself. Cosmic consciousness must be introduced there also. In mental silence, the mental consciousness universalizes itself; in vital peace, the vital consciousness universalizes itself; in the stillness of the body, the physical consciousness universalizes itself. Stillness, receptivity, and cellular expansion seem to be among... longer a small constricted person, but a consciousness overflowing the limits of its body. Like the silent mind, the quieted vital universalizes itself spontaneously: In yoga experience the consciousness widens in every direction, around, below, above, in each direction stretching to infinity. When the consciousness of the yogi becomes liberated, it is not in the body but in this infinite height, depth ...
... before me: to incarnate, to bring into my own body what they prevented her from doing while she was alive. Doubtless, it was what “to pull her out of there” meant, to release her from that unacceptable tomb, for this step-by-step into the unknown of the Earth to be thrown into the terrestrial consciousness, through a simple human body giving itself body and soul to a mysterious Future and a species... human consciousness and to Beauty, through my writings. As you may know, I have been for 17 years the single and personal confidant of the Mother in Pondicherry. She was Page 209 surrounded not by “disciples” as one might think, but by various samples of human consciousness through which She tried, after Sri Aurobindo, to work out a new Species of consciousness in Her own body, and... this coffin again and again, until Her cells hear us — or realize that She is here. It is in our own bodies that we must become aware of the Thing. The cells are the bridge. Whenever a vibration is pure in our consciousness, in our heart and our body, it goes and directly touches Mother’s body, there, in that tomb, and prepares Her waking up, or our awakening. Mother does not want to be flashing ...
... of its world, as much as our body knows the least quiver of its cells, and the passing fly, and the rhythm of its heart. With eyes wide open, the seeker begins to enter an innumerable wonder. The world is a single body, the earth, a single consciousness in motion. But not a body whose consciousness is centered in a few gray cells upstairs: an innumerable consciousness centered everywhere and as... out everywhere, in every country, every consciousness, every atom of the great earthly body – this is a merciless revolution, a relentless transmutation – and yet, here and there, in each human consciousness, each country, each fragment of the great torn body, the catastrophe is avoided at the last minute, the best slowly comes out of the worst, consciousness awakens, and our stumbling steps take... worlds, and our body the symbol of the great earthly body. There will be no more false note in us, no more personal screen, no more distorting glass, no more egoistic will, but the one Will that moves the worlds and the one note that makes the spheres sing. The Harmony will then be able to flow at all the levels of our body, directly, mightily, purely. The little centers of consciousness, 54 the ...
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