... also as in the larger Cosmos each spiritual State lives in and uses its corresponding medium of matter and out of that matter shapes for itself its own body or material case. He has therefore a causal body for his Sleep-State or causal self, a subtle body for his Dream-State or psychical self and a gross body for his Waking-State or physical self. When he dies, what happens is simply the disintegration... Even the disintegration of the subtle body and the return of the Dream-State into the Sleep-State from which it was projected, would not imply a release from all restrictions of matter; for the causal body would still remain. It is only when the Sleep-State is also transcended, that phenomenal existence with its necessary duality of Spirit-Matter is left behind and transcended. Then spirit & body are... mind and intelligence are ultimately operations of material energy ordained by the Will. Self manifesting as Will or Bliss is, spiritually, the Sleep-State and operates absolutely & directly in the Causal body as the creative force behind Nature, but indirectly & under limitations in the subtle & gross bodies as the cause of all thought, action and feeling. The next evolutionary form of Will, put forth ...
... Even history, as it is written, is a crippled explorer of its past, and a blind guide to its future. Who, then, can see the causal body of a nation, and know its mission and destiny? The question can be answered by a counter-question: Who can see the causal body of an individual and know his destiny? It will be readily conceded by those who have even a rudimentary knowledge of the human soul... - also its sūksma or subtle body, and the kārana or causal. It goes without saying that all of us do not possess this vision. It is only the intuitive vision, by inner identity, of the causal body that can reveal the truth of the soul of a nation and its mission and destiny. A mere ardently patriotic or economic, political or moral approach to its characteristic mores and behaviour patterns... enables him to know its essential reality and its evolving forms. Nothing can be hidden from that vision, as Yogis and mystics have testified in all ages and countries. 39 What is visualised in the causal body is the truth of the soul, whether of the individual or of the nation, and is irresistible in its self-expressive dynamic. But it may - and often does - take long to manifest on the physical plane ...
... is selected for waking purposes in the material life. The Dream Consciousness Page 104 is itself [surrounded] by a still wider consciousness which we call the Sleep Condition or the Causal Body and from this & by this it is selected for life before birth & after death. This Sleep Condition is again surrounded by Brahman from whom & by whom it is selected for causal purposes,—just as a robe... mortality in the gross body, Swargalok is the condition of bliss in the subtle body, Narak the condition of misery in the subtle body, Brahmalok the condition of being near to Hiranyagarbha in the causal body. Just as the Jivatman like a dreamer sees the Earth & all its features when it is in the condition of mortality, and regards itself as in a particular place, so when it is in a condition of complete ...
... besides the status of our mental being, termed the subtle body and singly composed of the mind sheath or mental vehicle, 5 a third, supreme and divine status of supra-mental being, termed the causal body and composed of a fourth and a fifth vehicle 6 which are described as those of knowledge and bliss. But this knowledge is not a systematised result of mental questionings and reasonings, not a... subjective existence to which our waking consciousness is now alien, but which dwell in us in a superconscious plane and to which, therefore, we may always ascend. For, as is indicated by the name, causal body ( kāraṇa ), as opposed to the two others which are instruments ( karaṇa ), this crowning manifestation is also the source and effective power of all that in the actual evolution has preceded it. ...
... mental stature, if he becomes the knowledge-soul, the Spirit poised in gnosis, vijñānamaya puruṣa , and puts on the nature of its infinite truth and power, if he lives in the knowledge-sheath, the causal body as well as in these subtle mental, interlinking vital and grosser physical sheaths or bodies, then, but then only he will be able to draw down entirely into his terrestrial existence the fullness... consciousness; only then will he avail to raise his total being and even his whole manifested, embodied expressive nature into the spiritual kingdom. But this is difficult in the extreme; for the causal body opens itself readily to the consciousness and capacities of the spiritual planes and belongs in its nature to the higher hemisphere of existence, but it is either not developed at all in man or only ...
... basic reason was that no power, however "divine", was known which could divinise in the most concrete manner embodied existence. In the vision of the Platonic Archetype and much more in that of the Causal Body, kārana sharīra, in the Upanishads a hint was caught of something that could lead to the Supramental Manifestation. Even the secular search for the elixir vitae and the semi-esoteric quest of... (koshas) and Sri Aurobindo has recognised in its vijnanamaya kosha the supramental body which has to manifest in our earthly one. The same holds for the Mandukya Upanishad's karana sharira which is the causal "body of bliss with the mouth (or face) of knowledge". The attempt to bring some of the hidden bodies into action in the physical is a well-known aspect of occult-spiritual practice. But whatever was ...
... (matter), Prana (force), Manas (mind), Vijnana (knowledge) and Ananda (bliss), The first comprises this body of ours, the next three make up the subtle body (suksma Sarira), and the last the causal body (Karana-Sarira). The Atman referred to in this sloka is beyond them all. Page 174 charming splendour, shines like the sun aloft, manifesting this universe through Its own effulgence... body; within this There is the mind or "inner organ'' of which buddhi or intelligence, characterised by determination, is the most developed form; within buddhi again and pervading it, is the causal body known as the Unmanifested. We must seek the Atman within this. The idea is that the Atman transcends all the three bodies, in fact the whole sphere of duality and materiality. The word "Akasa" often ...
... in the depths of our physical being, and what potentialities are involved in its relation with the subtle and the causal body. All spiritual experience testifies to the existence of a subtle body behind our gross physical frame; and a causal body behind the subtle. This causal body is made of the very substance of light and bliss, and contains all the principles of perfection which our earthly ...
... was never even precisely put. But there has been a dream of some elixir vitae, a cry for the kingdom of heaven on earth, a vision of the perfect human form pre-existing as a kârana sharira or causal body in the empyrean of the Supreme Consciousness. What has not been there is the intuition that if all has come from the Divine into an evolutionary universe all must have an inevitable divine consummation... permeating what is below it, but with the Supermind as the head and front and converting into its own terms of truth-consciousness the entire rhythm of man's existence. The kârana sharira, the causal body whose stuff is God's infallible and incorruptible light, is sought to be made one with the sukshma sharira, the subtle body of our psychological activity, and finally with the sthula sharira, ...
... conversation by asking a question on behalf of Dr: Savoor. "What is the connection between the causal body and the psychic being?" We do not quite remember exactly what Sri Aurobindo answered, but he said something like: "The psychic being is what is called the Chaitya Pumsha in the heart; the causal body is part of the Superconscious." Then the talk turned on the Atman or Self and the psychic being ...
... less developed states and on their constituting substances more or less subtle in nature. The Theosophists have named these bodies as: (i) etheric body; (ii) astral body; (iii) mental body; (iv) causal body; and, finally, (v) buddhistic body. This last body is not, however, equally developed in all human beings. In most men it is still in an embryonic stage; only in the case of the great yogis it has... the soul travels"; (5) "The Way of the Fathers" and "The Way of the gods"; (6) "The role of the nāḍis in determining the post-mortem course of the departing spirit"; (7) "The subtle body and the causal body"; (8) "The pañca-kośas or the Five Envelopes of the being"; (9) "Variations in the process of death"; (10) "Karma and its consequences"; (11) "The Way of judgment"; (12) "Different heavens and ...
... To-day a question of a doctor (disciple) was conveyed by one of the disciples. Disciple : What is the connection between the causal body and the psychic being? Sri Aurobindo : The psychic being is what is called Chaitya Purusha in the heart, while the Causal body is at present Superconscious. They are not the same. Disciple : It is the Superconscious existence that later on is called ...
... others are capable of a divine liberation. The ascent of man from the physical to the supramental must open out the possibility of a corresponding ascent in the grades of substance to that ideal or causal body which is proper to our supramental being, and the conquest of the lower principles by supermind and its liberation of them into a divine life and a divine mentality must also render possible a conquest ...
... physical sheath of this materially visible and sensible frame there is subliminally supporting it and discoverable by a finer subtle consciousness a subtle body of the mental being and a spiritual or causal body of the gnostic and bliss soul in which all the perfection of a spiritual embodiment is to be found, a yet unmanifested divine law of the body. Most of the physical siddhis acquired by certain Yogins ...
... remain in the body, in seed-state, as permanent as the atom; they Page 812 are always present there and, being the origin, it is out of them that the future takes shape. This is the causal body of the nation. But this is not enough. According to our scriptures, when we think of a man we think not only of his present condition but also of his past and future. The same is true of a country ...
... through mental dream worlds, and after death we spend some time in it, after having left the vital worlds by discarding our vital body. Then there still is a more subtle sheath, sometimes called the ‘causal body’, in which we may enter the supramental worlds once that body has completely been formed. Seen in this way the human being is, just like the Earth, a condensation or representation of the cosmos ...
... to the subtler life-plane and mind-plane behind.... The sleep state is a consciousness corresponding to the supramental plane proper to the gnosis, which is beyond our experience because our causal body or envelope of gnosis is not developed in us.... The Turiya beyond is the consciousness of our pure self-existence or our absolute being." 2 The sleep state and the dream state are thus ...
... innermost and to echo the uppermost or rather to feel Page 142 something of its own archetype - the innermost's and the uppermost's outermost, so to speak: the "subtle body" and the "causal body" inherently belonging to them and waiting to manifest along with the subliminal self and the self that is superconscient. I know that the archetypal-physical is beyond our capacity to realise in ...
... of vitalised and mentalised matter that is the surface o reality - sukshma sharira, the subtle body of matter, life and mind as they are in reality's depths - karana sharira, the causal Page 304 body of the original and ideal materiality, vitality and mentality that are on reality's heights as modes of the supreme creative and operative Truth, the sovereign dynamism manifested out ...
... mental being, termed the subtle body and singly composed of the mind-sheath or mental vehicle 6 , a third, supreme and divine status of supra-mental being, termed Page 259 the causal body and composed of a fourth and a fifth vehicle 7 which are described as those of knowledge and bliss. But this knowledge is not a systematised result of mental questionings and reasonings, not ...
... transformation would be the result of a descent or manifestation of the archetypal form of man, the divine original "truth-body", known to the ancient Vedanta as the k ā ra ṇ a ś ar ī ra, "the causal body", secretly underlying the s ū k ṣ ma ś ar ī ra, "the subtle body" as well as the sthula ś ar ī ra, "the gross body". Just as the doctrine, in Paradise Lost, of God's literal and ...
... concrete reality as the things of the physical existence. The sleep-state is a consciousness corresponding to the supramental plane proper to the gnosis, which is beyond our experience because our causal body or envelope of gnosis is not developed in us, its faculties not active, and therefore we are in relation to that plane in a condition of dreamless sleep. The Turiya beyond is the consciousness ...
... mortal eyes, yet his shadow-self had rushed from Sylhet to Midnapore and, with his powerful and seditionary nationalist speech he had delighted the eyes and ears of our detective monsieur. But the causal body of Charuchandra Roy of Chandernagore, materialising at Maniktola, had perpetrated even greater mysteries. Two police officers declared on oath that on such and such date at such and such time they ...
... nothing but gas on this earth. Sri Aurobindo : Yes and the earth was volcanic and man could not live upon it. Disciple : Then he became a bag – and remained in his kāran,a sarira – causal body – and from that condition he developed into something like a barrel without hands and feet. Sri Aurobindo : But there are cycles of evolution, not one evolutionary movement. Disciple ...
... the nation. This is as much a part of the Mother's life as the outward existence which is visible to the physical eyes. This subtle life of the nation again springs from a deeper existence in the causal body of the nation, the peculiar temperament which it has developed out of its ages of experience and which makes it distinct from others. These three are the bodies of the Mother, but within them all ...
... hold the master-key to all problems. In what he calls the Supermind he has discovered a dynamism for crowning completely the evolutionary labour. The seers of the Upanishads spoke of a spiritual or causal body — karana Sharira — governing our gross and subtle sheaths from its occult station above in the Spirit's ether. But no total descent, emergence or organisation of it in both the gross and the subtle ...
... birth and death but also to bring into earth-terms the dynamic modes of the widths, the depths and the heights and ultimately the supreme perfection of the Truth-plane - the karana sharira , the causal body - so that Page 441 earth-terms themselves may be fulfilled and not merely serve as bright points of departure into the wide and the deep and the high. In short, the ancients lacked ...
... As Jesus recovered his own original divinity we should understand the manifesting body to be that which Paul describes as exalted in almost the very act of being resurrected: in other words, the causal body in some sense pertinent to the mystical knowledge of the time and not necessarily in the literal Vedantic or Aurobindonian sense. In 2 Corinthians 12:2, Page 245 a context whose ...
... appeared after death. Drawing upon Sri Aurobindo's pronouncements, he identifies this as a subliminal reality, apprehended by the inner vision of mystics like Paul, of a subtle physical substance, a causal body, descending from Paul's "third heaven" (the ideal or spiritual plane, beyond the vital and the mental). It is a remarkable conclusion, unprecedented and calling for serious attention, bringing to ...
... too is that. su ṣ upti, Sushupti — deep sleep; the Sleep-State, a consciousness corresponding to the supramental plane proper to the gnosis, which is beyond our experience because our causal body or envelope of gnosis is not developed in us, its faculties not active, and therefore we are in relation to that plane in a state of dreamless sleep. svabh ā va — "own being", "own ...
... There are a number of sheaths of the human body and these have to be abandoned before that state is reached. Behind the gross physical form, sthula , is the subtle body, sukshma , and then is the causal body, karana . When the evolutionary soul merges into the Eternal these forms have to go away and it is this fact which Jnaneshwar must have intended in the use of tridhatu. The term tridhatu has a ...
... Every great poet need not live on the Aurobindonian level in order to be supreme in his art. What he needs to do is to act intuitively on his own level: this will render his words incarnative of the causal body. Sri Aurobindo himself has instanced dialogue after dialogue from Shakespeare for a sovereign operation of the intuitive mind, creating the ne plus ultra of poetry. And yet, according to Sri Aurobindo ...
... a quest to realise their own substance and shape in the Bliss of an archetypal existence - the karana sarira , the Causal Sheath, revealed by the seers of the Upanishads. The descent of this Causal Body and its merging with our own flesh which is heir to a thousand natural shocks, as Hamlet tells us, would be, to my understanding, the fullest form of what Sri Aurobindo calls physical transformation ...
... it would be unreasonable to limit the present possibilities of the Aurobindonian Yoga. They forget the difference between the immortality founded in a Supramental Consciousness with its divine "causal body" and the immortality due to a medically induced suspension of degenerative processes in the gross body. The suspension could never be one-hundred-percent proof against the forces of degeneration; ...
... vital and material existence. Our conscious spiritual being and our intuitive mind awaken in us as a result of the pressure of these highest worlds on the mental being in life and body. But this causal body is, as we may say, little developed in the majority of men and to live in it or to ascend to the supramental planes, as distinguished from corresponding sub-planes in the mental being, or still more ...
... concrete reality as the things of the physical existence. The sleep-state is a consciousness corresponding to the supramental plane proper to the gnosis, which is beyond our experience because our causal body or envelope of gnosis is not developed in us, its faculties not active, and therefore we are in relation to that plane in a condition of dreamless sleep. The Turiya beyond is the consciousness of ...
... mortality in the gross body; Swargaloka is the condition of bliss in the subtle body; Narak, Hell, the condition of misery in the subtle body; Brahmalok the condition of abiding with God in the causal body. Just as the Jivatman like a dreamer sees the Earth and all it contains when it is in the condition of mortality and regards itself as in a particular region with hills, trees, rivers, plains, so ...
... the light and perpetuity that are proper to the Spirit, is all the time behind our unstable aggregate of elements and waits to manifest itself in it. Indian Yogas have often spoken of a causal body - kāraṇa śarīra - governing the gross and the subtle ones from its occult station above in the Spirit's ether. No complete descent, emergence and organisation of the causal in both ...
... birth and death but also to bring into earth-terms the dynamic modes of the widths, the depths and the heights and ultimately the supreme perfection of the Truth-plane - the kârana sharira, the causal body - so that earth-terms themselves may be fulfilled and not merely serve as bright points of departure into the wide and the deep and the high. In short, the ancients lacked a full and organised possession ...
... needs. As a matter of fact, "the ascent of man from the physical to the supramental must open out the possibility of a corresponding ascent in the grades of substance to that ideal or causal body which is proper to our supramental being, and the conquest of the lower principles by supermind and its liberation of them into a divine life and divine mentality must also render possible a conquest ...
... there. Sri Aurobindo asked: "But why the stomach?" After this, the talk moved on to Meher Baba, the Yogi from Western India. SATYENDRA: What consciousness corresponds to the Karana Sharira, the Causal Body? SRI AUROBINDO: What I call the Superconscient. It belongs to the Vijnana or Supermind. SATYENDRA: Meher Baba declares that one has to go beyond the Karana Sharira and he identifies it with ...
... The physical eye belonging to the physical body is meant only for a limited range of physical sight. But we have bodies other than the physical one: the subtle body {suksma satire) and the causal body (kārana sarìra), and these bodies have their corresponding "eyes". Our total being is not constituted of the gross material sheath (annamaya kosa) alone which is all that is visible and sensible ...
... accident. The last three are special attacks of the hostile forces. The other is the pressure of the lower nature. Page 5 What is the function of the karana sarira , the causal body? It originates from behind the veil. Will the karana sarira ever come forward, tearing the veil? Yes, if the consciousness develops so much that the superconscient ...
... dissolved when the soul arrives at last at the psychic plane of rest where, in a trance sleep, it assimilates its experiences of past lives for a future birth. Now what happens with regard to the causal body—the supramental and bliss vehicles? Perhaps they are not dissolved, but do they detach themselves from the soul to join with it in its next birth or, as a cause, it is always there, even in the psychic ...
... drama with eternity as his theme, still as a concentrated individualisation of the wide and the high, an organised being in whom the Supramental karana sarira or causal divine body has descended into the suksma sarira or subtle body built of mind-stuff, life-stuff and even what we may term subtle-physical as distinguished from gross-material stuff, he stands close to earth with his sacrificed corporeal... their patient to be no mere mortal: they treated his body for what they recognised it to be, a vehicle of supernatural light, and they had to accept the mysterious "No" he had categorically returned to their anxious question which had meant: "Are you not using on yourself the sovereign spiritual force with which you have saved hundreds?" The body that seemed able to live without end by the protection... sign was there of its absolute hold over the body's reactions — save one: Sri Aurobindo, as if by an independence of comatose brain and nerve, could command consciousness again and again, inquire what the time was or ask for water. Unique also was the sequel of the uraemic poisoning. Between the instant when life clinically ended and the instant when the body was laid in a casket and lowered into a special ...
... individual, so with the nation: there were three sheaths or kośas, the sthūla, the sūksma and the kārana śarīra, the gross, subtle and causal bodies respectively. The reality of the soul of the nation was infinitely more important than the body or its apparent life-currents. It needed a Yogi and a Rishi to see this soul-truth about India and embody it in the mantra "Bande Mataram". From... lustre. Page 252 These two aspects were fused into one in Sri Aurobindo as in the third eye of Shiva. 12 Once at a meeting of the college staff, Sri Aurobindo took the chair, "his body framed in august silence"; the meeting discussed whether the Bankim Day should not be included among the "days of national festival", and the support to the proposal that came from Sri Aurobindo... Such a time has now arrived for our Motherland when nothing is dearer than her service, when everything else is to be directed to that end. If you will study, study for her sake; train yourself body and mind and soul for her service. You will earn your living that you may live for her sake. You will go abroad to foreign lands that you may bring back knowledge with which you may do service to ...
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