... whole failure indeed, is that he has not been able to shift upward what we have called the implicit will central to his life, the force and assured faith inherent in its main power of action. His central will of life is still situated in his vital and physical being, its drift is towards vital and physical enjoyment, enlightened indeed and checked to a certain extent in its impulses by the higher powers... be a leap or an ascent even more momentous than that which Nature must at one time have made from the vital mind of the animal to the thinking mind still imperfect in our human intelligence. The central will implicit in life must be no longer the vital will in the life and the body, but the spiritual will of which we have now only rare and dim intimations and glimpses. For now it comes to us hardly... all variations, one but multitudinously infinite. Therefore, too, this perfection cannot come by the mental idea dealing with the Spirit as it deals with life. The idea in mind seizing upon the central will in Spirit and trying to give this higher force a conscious orientation and method in accordance with the ideas of the intellect is too limited, too darkened, too poor a force to work this miracle ...
... this 'central will' in his 'heart-centre'; because, as we have just now mentioned, the D» vine Will becomes operative in the individual's life through the 'central will'. But it is not easy for the extrovert superficial consciousness of the sadhaka to discover this 'central will' in its utter purity and genuineness. For there is a long space of separation between the 'central will' dwelling... not be misled by any impostor alien will? To answer it properly, we have to introduce hen a very important concept which Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have designated as the "central will of the being". This "central will of the being" entirely depends on the Divine Will. It is, in fact, the individualised expression of the Divine's Will. The natural corollary is that the Divine's Will is always... detailed analysis of the situation in page s 893-94 of The Life Divine. The following passage, makes it explicit why it is normally so difficult for a sadhaka to receive the intimations of his 'central will' , the'voice' of his psychic being: "But (his psychic influence or action does not come up to the surface quite pure or does not remain distinct in its purity; if it did, we would be able ...
... between the cell and the central will of the physical being. Physical, yes. But what you've just drawn is the cellular central will. But it's the correspondence between the two. It was to show me how the central will of the physical being was connected to or acted on the cells. He showed me a cell which was like the representation... In other words, the central will, or light, acts on the... refusal to progress, and so, physically, that expresses itself as a refusal to exert oneself against the deterioration that stems from time. And the last question: "Where does the link between the central will of the physical being and the cells take place? How is it made?" ( long silence ) The cells have an internal constitution or structure that corresponds to the structure of the universe. So... supramental vision, in fact. Oh, yes, that was a problem. All right, all right! × Mother had written: "The central will of the physical being abdicates its will to hold all the cells together.... It accepts dissolution for some reason or other. One of the strongest reasons is the sense of irreparable disharmony; ...
... probably—barring the unexpected—only after the heart-experience. Do not allow these wrong ideas and feelings to govern you or your state of depression to dictate your decisions: try to keep a firm central will for the realisation—you can do so if you make up your mind to it—these things are not impossible for you; they are within the scope of your nature which is strong. You will find that the obstinate... burn away if the will to get rid of them is strong, and which it will surely burn away in the end,—though less easily—even if the outer nature clings long to them and justifies them—provided that central will, that deeper impulse is behind all, real and sincere. This conclusion of yours about the incapacity of the non Oriental for Indian Yoga is simply born of a too despondently acute sense of your ...
... should not have once one holds the rope. That's all. Mother, on what does the central will of the being depend? Eh? On what does it depend? That means? What exactly do you want to say? On what does its manifestation depend, or on what does it itself depend for its existence? It itself. The central will? It depends on the divine Will. It is the individualised expression of the divine... divine Will; and the divine Will is the expression of the divine Consciousness seeking to manifest itself, to realise itself. How can one become aware of the central will? Ah, this of course is another side of the problem. First of all one must become aware of what is highest, most true, most universal and eternal in one's consciousness. This is learnt gradually. One learns to discern among ...
... interest? What is the self-interest of a cell! Does the decentralisation occur all at once or by degrees? Everything does not disperse all at once; it takes a long time. The central will of the physical being abdicates its will to hold all the cells together. That is the first phenomenon. It accepts dissolution for one reason or another. One of the strongest reasons is the sense... or mental), an absolute refusal to progress. And so, physically, this is manifested as a refusal to strive against the deterioration which comes with time. Where is the connection between the central will of the physical being and the cells established? And how? The cells have an inner composition or structure which corresponds to the structure of the universe. So the link is established between... intelligent education, above all observation and reasoning. And naturally, for the whole education of the consciousness from the point of view of character, it is yoga. Page 344 Does the central will of the physical being have a particular location in the body? It is the brain. Can one experience death without dying? Certainly. One can experience death yogically; one can even experience ...
... lower, certainly that is not enough and you have to aspire for the peace and purity everywhere. It [ surrender ] cannot be absolutely complete in the beginning, but it can be true—if the central will is sincere and there is the faith and the Bhakti. There may be contrary movements, but these will be unable to stand for long and the imperfection of the surrender in the lower part will not seriously... loosen the other knots, and especially those which are very intimately bound up with the present personality and its most cherished formations may often present great difficulties, even after the central will has been fixed and the first seals put on its resolve in practice. You can get the full surrender only by degrees. Meanwhile you have to go on the straight path not regarding the suggestions ...
... questions. The first is, "Does the decentralization take place all at once or in degrees?..." It takes time. It happens like this: the central will of the physical being abdicates its will to hold all the cells together. That's the first phenomenon. The central will accepts dissolution. But everything doesn't just scatter all at once—it takes a long time. What precedes death is accepting to cease ...
... and brought under ,jie direct sway of the central being. These nether domain of our being have to be made conscious and responsive to the higher Light. The first thing to do is to exert a central will for the opening of the physical nature to the Mother's Light and Force. It will mean, in practice, the projection of a part of our most developed consciousness, and an infusion of its will and ... (the obscure parts) till they change or disappear." The mind of the sâdhaka may not be able to see how the Mother's Force works in the parts of the being which are veiled from it, but the central will, once kindled and concentrated upon a thing, can never fail of its objective. The will, exercised with a quiet persistence, calls down the Mother's Force, which begins to act on the inconscient ...
... rejection that will throw away all mixture. Keep faith in your spiritual destiny, draw back from error and open more the psychic being to the direct guidance of the Mother's light and power. If the central will is sincere, each recognition of a mistake can become a stepping-stone to a truer movement and a higher progress. 24 May 1930 How to recognise that a particular thought, feeling or impulse ...
... which also have a claim to life and activity and which are manifested in their turn, but in an activity that is disorderly and disharmonious relative to the being as a whole, since they elude the central will. On the other hand, to become conscious of ourselves in our smallest details is vain and sterile, even dangerous, if it is not done for the sake of order, so that the Divine Essence can be made ...
... immediately all that stands in the way does rise up—it invariably happens. The thing to be done is to stand back, observe and reject, not to allow these things to get hold of you, to keep your central will separate from them and call in the Mother's Force to meet them. If one does get involved as often happens, then to get disinvolved as soon as possible and go forward again. That is what everybody ...
... in such a way that there is a collection of substance, from the most material to the highest spiritual, all that gathered together into what is called a small individual, but at the disposal of a central Will. And that is yours, your field of work, nobody can take it away from you, it is your own property. And to the extent you can work upon it, you will be able to have an action upon the world. But ...
... Some Answers and Explanations Our Many Selves Becoming Aware of the Highest in Oneself How can one become aware of the central will? Ah, this of course is another side of the problem. First of all one must become aware of what is highest, most true, most universal and eternal in one’s consciousness. This is learnt gradually. One learns to discern ...
... that it shall not be. For knowledge and power are essentially the same thing—that is to say, you must not admit in any part of your being this shadow of bad will which is in contradiction to the central will for progress and which makes you impotent, without courage, without strength in the face of an evil that you must destroy. To sin through ignorance is not a sin; that is part of the general evil ...
... explicable or conscious reasons, one suddenly has an intuition or is possessed by the spirit of intuition; but it is not methodical, not a phenomenon which occurs at will, organised and obeying a central will. But Sri Aurobindo says that if the entire reason is transformed—he speaks of transformation, you know—if the reason is transformed into the very essence, the substance of intuition, then the whole ...
... still needed in the totality, but all has to be perfected. Whatever is necessary for the evolutionary purpose for the increasing, enlarging, heightening of the consciousness, which seems to be its central will and aim here, or the progression of its enabling means and preserving environment, has to be kept and furthered; but what has to be overpassed, whatever has no longer a use or is degraded, what ...
... it can be done if one sticks to it—and it is at that price, by learning to do that that one can have the siddhi in the Yoga. It is a very serious difficulty in one's Yoga—the absence of a central will always superior to the waves of the Prakriti forces, always in touch with the Mother, imposing its central aim and aspiration on the nature. That is because you have not yet learned to live in your ...
... away all mixture. Keep faith in your spiritual destiny, draw back from error and open more the psychic being to the direct guidance of the Page 501 Mother's light and power. If the central will is sincere, each recognition of a mistake can become a stepping stone to a truer movement and a higher progress. I have stated very briefly in my previous letter my position with regard to ...
... character of the obstruction is the whole power of the difficulty in the material nature. (1) The first thing is to reject the idea of helplessness, of impossibility of a successful reaction. The central will must Page 388 assert itself, not violently in a constant struggle, for that brings reaction, fatigue and inertia, but with a quiet pressure and insistence. (2) The mind must learn ...
... (but that's an old experience the body has had for a long time), no limits: there's a sort of capacity to identify with things; but that's a consequence, as it were, of the impelling Will (this "central" Will, if I may say so, Page 159 which impels to action). And the body is like that... ( outspread gesture ). It's become so acute, this impression of... The two things (two absolutely co ...
... body understand what the transformation will be, and, with all their strength, with all the consciousness they contain, they aspire for this transformation. The very cells of the body – not the central will, thought or emotion – the cells of the body open in this way to receive the [supramental] Force.” 16 Within four years, the Mother, supported from behind by the work of Sri Aurobindo in the ...
... Page 23 that's probably why.... But I don't want to curtail this ability in any way, because it is a CELLULAR will, and a cellular endurance too—which is quite intriguing. It's not a central will and central endurance (that's something else altogether)—it's cellular. That's why Sri Aurobindo used to tell me this body had been specially prepared and chosen for the Work—because of its capacity ...
... individual form. For in the normal course of things, what manifests at the center is only realized in the outer form with the awakening and RESPONSE Of the will within the individual form. But if the central Will is constantly, permanently represented in one individual, he can then serve as an intermediary between that Will and all beings, Page 20 and will FOR THEM. Whatever this being perceives ...
... RECEPTIVE to the true Consciousness-Force, that is, when they allow the working of that higher Consciousness. That's the work of transformation.... Not so easy! The other question: "How does the central Will and Light, which is nonmaterial, act on the gross matter of the cells?" It's exactly like asking, "How does the Will act on Matter?..." The whole Life is like that! It should be explained to ...
... probably—barring the unexpected—only after the heart experience. Do not allow these wrong ideas and feelings to govern you or your state of depression to dictate your decisions : try to keep a firm central will for the realisation—you can do so if you make up your mind to it—these things are not impossible for you; they are within the scope of your nature which is strong. You will find that the obstinate ...
... herself; instead of going to get her sandals when she wanted them, she made the sandals come to her. She did this through a capacity to radiate her matter—she exercised a will over that matter—her central will acted upon Matter anywhere, since SHE WAS THERE. With her, then, I saw this Power in a methodical, organized way, not as something accidental or spasmodic (as it is with mediums), but as an ORGANIZATION ...
... energy which is the real motive power of our whole nature, swabhāva, seeking an unhampered play and fulfilment in our life. It is the self-expressive élan of the fire and force of our being—the central will, one yet multiple, and attuned to, or more precisely, an individual self-formation of, the universal divine Will. To destroy the distortions and preserve the will, the real motive power of our ...
... immediately all that stands in the way does rise up — it invariably happens. The thing to be done is to stand back, observe and reject, not to allow these things to get hold of you, to keep your central will separate from them and call on the Mother’s Force to meet them. If one does get involved as often happens then to get disinvolved as soon as possible and go forward again. That is what everybody ...
... objectively. The word Jnâna as a philosophic term has an especial connotation. It is distinguished from samjnâna which is awareness by contact; from âjnâna which is perception by receptive and central Will and implies a command from the brain; from prajnâna which is Wisdom, teleological will or knowledge with a purpose; and from vijnâna or knowledge by discrimination. Jnâna is knowledge direct ...
... body understand what the transformation will be, and with all their strength, with all the consciousness they contain they aspire to that transformation. The cells of the body themselves — not the central will, not the thinking or emotions — the cells of the body open themselves to receive the Force.’ 32 11-12 November. ‘The serene and immobile consciousness watches at the boundaries of the world ...
... understand what the transformation will be, and, with all their strength, with all the consciousness they contain, they aspire for this transformation. The very cells of the body – not the [body’s] central will, thought or emotion – the cells of the body open up in this way to receive the Force.’ 61 Also in 1954, in the April and August issues of the Bulletin, the Mother published Some Experiences ...
... things you did not feel, did not understand, have become clear. If you are resolved, you are sure to succeed. This is the first step towards unifying yourself, becoming a conscious being who has a central will and acts only according to this will, which will be a constant expression of the divine Will. It is worth trying. And I may tell you from my personal experience that there is nothing in the world ...
... they begin to be organised in such a way that your being becomes one unity — a single multiplicity, a multiple unity — complex, but organised and centralised around a fixed point, so well that the central will or central consciousness or central truth has the power to govern all the parts, for they are all in order, organised around this central Presence. It seems to me impossible to escape from ...
... then they begin to be organised in such a way that your being becomes one unity―a single multiplicity, a multiple unity―complex, but organised and centralised around a fixed point, so well that the central will or central consciousness or central truth has the power to govern all the parts, for they are all in order, organised around this central Presence. It seems to me impossible to escape from ...
... understand what the transformation will be, and with all their strength, all the consciousness they contain, they aspire for this transformation. Page 391 The very cells of the body—not the central will, thought or emotion—the cells of the body open in this way to receive the Force. Is the psychic being in the heart? Not in the physical heart, not in the organ. It is in a fourth dimension ...
... must say this with conviction. I don't even mean that you must say it integrally, because if one says it integrally, the work is done. What is necessary is that one part of the being, indeed the central will, says it with conviction: "I want only You." Even once, and it suffices: all that takes more or less long, sometimes it stretches over years, but one reaches the goal. But one has all kinds ...
... way that there is a collection of substance, from the most material to the highest spiritual, all that gathered together into what is called a small individual, but at the disposal of a central Page 302 Will. And that is yours, your field of work, nobody can take it away from you, it is your own property. And to the extent you can work upon it, you will be able to have an action upon the world ...
... because in the normal course of things what manifests at the centre is realised in the external form only with the awakening and the response of the will in the individual form. Whereas if the central Will is represented constantly and permanently in an individual being, this individual being can serve as an intermediary between this Will and all beings, and will for them. Everything this individual ...
... Self-giving Words of the Mother - II Consecration Consecration is the consummation, when the Light has illuminated all the parts of your being, with a central will acting on the feelings, impulses, thoughts, emotions, activities, directing them always towards the Divine and when you move no more from darkness to light or from falsehood to truth or from misery ...
... herself; instead of going to get her sandals when she wanted them, she made the sandals come to her. She did this through a capacity to radiate her matter—she exercised a will over her matter—her central will acted upon matter anywhere, since she WAS THERE. With her, then, I saw this power in a methodical, organized way, not as something accidental or spasmodic (as it is with mediums), but as an organization ...
... Mother, I was waiting for things to be well established in me before writing you again. An important change has occurred: it seems that something in me has 'clicked'—what Sri Aurobindo calls the 'central will,' perhaps—and I am living literally in the obsession of divine realization. This is what I want, nothing else, it is the only goal in life, and at last I have understood (not with the head) that ...
... intelligent education—especially observation and reasoning. And naturally, for the whole education of the consciousness from the standpoint of character, it's yoga. Another question: "Does the central will of the physical being have a particular center in the body?" The psychic being? The physical being. Physical! It's senseless!... It's the brain, that's all. Here it's more interesting: ...
... herself; instead of going to get her sandals when she wanted them, she made the sandals come to her. She did this through a capacity to radiate her matter—she exercised a will over her matter—her central will acted upon matter anywhere, since she WAS THERE. With her, then, I saw this power in a methodical, organized way, not as something accidental or spasmodic (as it is with mediums), but as an or ...
... pass. That is the greater Grace. Only you must say it with conviction—I do not mean that it has to be immediately integral, for if it is integral, the work is already done —but that the central will of the being must say with conviction, "I want nothing but you." Even once would be sufficient. That may take time more or less, sometimes it may extend to years, but you reach your goal. You ...
... in its power and energy to express its own truth. The first effect of freedom after a long subjugation is likely to be a spell of erraticism, but that is sure to die away if there is a corrective central will. Page 39 The body-movements in the animal are more authentic and truthful for they are not subsidised and suborned by the vital and mental injunctions, and they are more ...
... in its power and energy to express its own truth. The first effect of freedom after a long subjugation is likely to be a spell of erraticism, but that is sure to die away if there is a corrective central will. The body-movements in the animal are more authentic and truthful for they are not subsidised and suborned by the vital and mental injunctions, and they are more ordered and controlled, not subject ...
... will pass. That is the greater Grace. Only you must say it with conviction – I do not mean that it has to be immediately integral, for if it is integral, the work is already done but that the central will of the being must say with conviction, "I want nothing but you." Even once would be sufficient. That may take time more or less, sometimes it may extend to years, but you reach your goal. You are ...
... still needed in the totality, but all has to be perfected. Whatever is necessary for the evolutionary purpose for the increasing, enlarging, heightening of the consciousness, which seems to be its central will and aim here, or the progression of its enabling means and preserving environment has to be kept and furthered; but what has to be over passed, whatever has no longer a use or is degraded, what ...
... such a way that there is a collection of substance, from the most material to the highest spiritual, all that gathered together into what is called a small individual, but at the disposal of a central Will. And that is your, your field of work, nobody can take it away from you, it is your own property. Page 562 And to the extent you can work upon it, you will be able to have an action ...
... 1970 Now that the Light does not want to tolerate imperfections, I can have a good hope . . . provided that I collaborate. Page 127 Your collaboration is sure, because the central will is awake, and even if there are resistances because of some old habits, they are sure to yield. 19.2.1970 To be possessed by You, by You alone, O Mother Divine, this is going to be ...
... there is a whole gamut of substance, from the most material substance to the highest spirituality, and all is gathered together within what we call a small individuality, but under the control of a central will. All this is yours; it is your field of work. It’s as if a number of particular vibrations had been carefully selected, collected, and put at your disposal so you can work on them fully—night and ...
... truly like the mind of a child. We can inculcate a TOTALLY DIFFERENT life in it, a totally... different way of being. In terms of evolution, things may take a very long time, but the moment that central will of the cell is open to something else, man can be refashioned... at will. (silence) Actually, Sri Aurobindo said almost nothing about the secret. Because, obviously, talking about it is ...
... aims of his existence. That way lies not victory but the defeat of life and the disintegration of the material basis of all spiritual conquests.¹ All that it asks him to do is to shift upward his central will of life and, discovering and realising the infinite and eternal Reality of his existence, shape his nature and life in Its image. It asks him to recover the Truth, the harmony, the beauty and bliss ...
... and sped up by higher spiritual forces, to achieve its crowning end. Yoga breaks away from the tardy process of Nature and, stringing up all the energies of the individual being and firing his central will, sweeps him on to the inevitable fulfilment of his life—the freedom and immortality of the Eternal and Infinite. The times are full of the promise of a generalisation of Yoga in humanity ...
... of going to fetch them, she made them come to her." Satprem blinked. Mother smiled and went on, "She did this through her ability to radiate her matter —she exercised a will over her matter —her central will acted upon matter anywhere since she was THERE." Sri Aurobindo explains further. "Obviously a layman cannot do these things, unless he has a native 'psychic' (that is, occult) faculty and even ...
... Our Many Selves Jivatman - Central Being The self, Atman, is in its nature either transcendent or universal (Paramatma, Atma); when it individualises and becomes a central being, it is then the Jivatman. The Jivatman feels his oneness with the universal but at the same time his central separateness as a portion of the Divine. Sri Aurobindo Letters... Letters on Yoga - I: The Jivatman in the Integral Yoga The phrase “central being” in our Yoga is usually applied to the portion of the Divine in us which supports all the rest and survives through death and birth. This central being has two forms—above, it is the Jivatman, our true being, of which we become aware when the higher self-knowledge comes,—below, it is the psychic being which stands behind... lives, and that is to him his central being. But the true representative all the time is concealed behind the mind, vital and physical—it is the psychic, our inmost being. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: The Jivatman in the Integral Yoga The true inner being—the true mental, the true vital, the true physical represent each on its plane and answer to the central being, but the whole of the ...
... representative here. The Central Being and the Psychic Being The central being is above the Adhara—most people are not aware of their central being (Jivatma)—they are aware only of the ego. The psychic is the soul—it is a portion of the Divine that supports the mind, life and body in the evolution. The psychic gets the Divine's help directly from the Divine. The central being is that which... of the Central Being The central being is that on which all the others depend. If it makes its surrender, that is, renounces its separate fulfilment in order to be an instrument of the Divine, then it is easier for the mental, vital and physical to surrender. It [ the central being's surrender to the Divine ] has nothing to do with suitable circumstances. If the will of the central being turns... turns towards union with the Divine, then it renounces its separate fulfilment. Page 61 The Central Being after Liberation What will remain [ after liberation ] is the central being—not the ego. The central being will live in the consciousness of the Divine everywhere and in all other beings also; so it will not have the consciousness of a separate ego but of one centre among many of ...
... (powder). 20 March 1934 In the chakra for the central circle you have asked me to use either white or gold—suppose I use gold at the centre, then should I use white at the strap around it? In that case the straps Page 597 around the two bigger circles will have gold and the central strap alone will have white. The central circle need not have a strap—simply a gold disc. 11... The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Mother's Symbol In the chakra which is printed on the book the Mother, what colours are appropriate for the central dot and for the "four powers"? I am thinking of preparing a powder design with a little addition at the circumference. Centre and 4 powers white. The 12 all of different colours, in three groups... 11 April 1934 I have frequently been thinking of the Mother's symbol (chakra) and its significance. I have understood it as follows: Central circle—Transcendental power. Four inner petals—Four powers working from the Supermind to Overmind. Twelve outer petals—Division of four into twelve powers from Overmind to Intuition and mind. Is my conception at all tenable? Essentially ...
... there can be no genuine progress carrying the whole nation forward, unless there is a central force representing either the best thought and energy of the country or else the majority of its citizens and able to enforce the views and decisions of the nation on all its constituent members. Because Japan had such a central authority, she was able in thirty years to face Europe as an equal; because we in... suitable central authority or Government which all will or must accept. The Japanese perceived this at a very early stage and leaving aside all other matters, devoted their first energies to the creation of such an authority in the person of the Mikado and his Government, holding it cheaply purchased even at the price of temporary internal discord and civil slaughter. We also must develop a central authority... only remained to develop the central authority which will execute the national policy and evolve with time into a popular Government. It was for this object that the New party determined not to be satisfied with any further evasion of the constitution question, though they did not press for the adoption of their own particular scheme. It is for this object that a Central National Committee has been ...
... should grow to achieve: (a) health; (b) strength; (c) agility; (d) plasticity; and (e) grace and beauty. But this is not enough. There is in us a central being, who is the ever young traveller. 10-D. The Central Being should grow to achieve: (a) Truth, Beauty and Goodness; and (b) Fourfold personality of Knowledge, Power, Harmony, Skill in Works. Page 35 ... (c) agility (d) plasticity and (e) grace and beauty. Page 49 But this is not enough. There is in us a central being, who is the ever young traveller. Page 50 10-D. The Central Being should grow to achieve: (a) Truth, Beauty and Goodness. (b) Fourfold personality of knowledge, Power, Harmony, Skill in Works. Page ...
... body which is their instrument of expression. But above all is the central being (Jivatman) which uses them all for its manifestation, it is a portion of the divine Self and is hidden from the external man who replaces it by the mental and vital ego. It is only those who have begun to know themselves that become aware of their true central being; but it is there standing behind the action of mind, life... represented by the psychic which is itself a spark of the Divine. It is by the growth of the psychic element in one’s nature that one begins to come into conscious touch with one’s own central being. When that happens and the central being uses a conscious will to control and organise the movements of the nature it is then that one has a real, a spiritual self-mastery. But in the meanwhile it can and often ...
... THE CENTRAL BEING AND THE PSYCHIC Would you please indicate the difference between the psychic being and what is called the central being? Is our psychic a part of this central being and does it receive the Divine's help through it? In Yoga, how does our central being stand in relation to the other parts of our being? The central being is above the ... Adhar—most people are not aware of their central being (Jivatman) —they are aware only of the ego. The psychic is the soul, it is a portion of the Divine that supports the mind and body in the evolution. The psychic gets the Divine's help directly from the Divine. The central being is that on which all the others depend. If it makes its surrender, that is, renounces its separate... and physical to surrender. Is it a fact that when circumstances are suitable the central being renounces its separate fulfilment Page 91 and surrenders itself to the Divine? It has nothing to do with suitable circumstances. If the will of the central being turns towards union with the Divine, then it renounces its separate fulfilment. ...
... manifestation, in the Knowledge and not in the Ignorance. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: Rebirth The phrase "central being" in our yoga is usually applied to the portion of the Divine in us which supports all the rest and survives through death and birth. This central being has two forms—above it is Jivatman, our true being, of which we become aware when the higher self-knowledge comes,... Purusha in the heart; the psychic is the central being in the evolution, it proceeds from and represents the Jivatman, the eternal portion of the Divine. When there is the full consciousness the Jivatman and the psychic being join together. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: The Jivatman in the Integral Yoga The soul, representative of the central being, is a spark of the Divine supporting... Integral Yoga The Spirit is the Atman, Brahman, Essential Divine. When the One Divine manifests its ever inherent multiplicity, this essential Self or Atman becomes for that manifestation the central being who presides from above over the evolution of its personalities and terrestrial lives here, but is itself an eternal portion of the Divine and prior to the terrestrial manifestation— parā prakṛtir ...
... relation of the Hindu and Muslim communities. Four-fifths of the provincial and central legislatures were to be elected on a broad franchise, and half the executive council members, including those of the central executive council, were to be Indians elected by the councils themselves. Except for the provision for the central executive, these proposals were largely embodied in the Government of India Act... forces and work for a common Hindu University at Varanasi. Annie and fellow trustees of the Central Hindu College also agreed to Government of India's precondition that the college should become a part of the new University. The Banaras Hindu University started functioning from 1 October 1917 with the Central Hindu College as its first constituent college. Besant received many tributes during... Page 90 Annie Besant with Henry Olcott (left) and Charles Leadbeater (right) in Adyar in December 1905 Annie set up a new school for boys at Varanasi: the Central Hindu College. Its aim was to build a new leadership for India. The boys lived like monks. They spent 90 minutes a day in prayer and studied the Hindu scriptures, but they also studied modern science ...
... The Indian Spirit and the World's Future The Central Sarojini INDEED we have lost many things with the passing of Sarojini Naidu, but what exactly was her central quality, what constituted the very heart of her genius? It is always desirable to ask such a question, for in answering it we get clear of the plethora of conventional or merely emotional panegyric... panegyric, arrive at the true nature of our loss and, by arriving at it, are best enabled to keep astir in ourselves what the departed greatness had most attempted to evoke. The central Sarojini is summed up in the words: happy visionary. The description must not mislead us. It does not mean a dweller in either the ivory tower or the fool's paradise. Sarojini was always possessed of a finely shrewd... her description of Gandhi: "My Micky Mouse of a Master." There is in it, in a familiar mood, the whole happy visionary that she was. Though the purple of the singing robe is not openly there, the central poetic imagination is in marked play. The sharp seeing eye has taken in the physical appearance with intense originality. There is also the sense of how the earthly form of things is so often a travesty ...
... and spontaneously devoted to the Divine, unequivocally loyal and faithful to the Beloved and the Master. This central sincerity, however, has to be worked out in actual life. For, one may be true in the spirit, but false—weak, that is to say—in the flesh. The light of the central being usually finds its way first into the mind. One becomes then mentally sincere: in other Page 84 ... the body inevitably and automatically executes. There is no gap between the two. The spirit and the flesh—soul and body—are soldered, fused together in one single compact entity. One starts with the central sincerity in the psychic being and progress of sadhana means the extension of this sincerity gradually to all the outlying parts and levels of the being till, when the body is reached, the whole c ...
... welcomed by the Government of India as a "concrete effort at creating international understanding". However, soon after the Mother died in 1973, "unhappy developments overtook this project" and the Central Government was forced to take over temporarily the management of Auroville from the Sri Aurobindo Society and others. The properties relating to Auroville currently owned by Sri Aurobindo Society... the proposed legislation, assets created by Sri Aurobindo Society through donations would become the responsibility of the Foundation. There would be an International Advisory Council to advise the Central Government and the Governing Board of the Foundation on matters concerning development and Management of Auroville. The Management of the Foundation would vest in a governing body constituted by the... autonomous body, in order to secure future development of Auroville in accordance with its original Charter. On the basis of this Act, the Auroville Foundation came into force in February 1991 when the Central Government nominated the members of the Government Board. Auroville Organisation is composed by three important factors: 1) International Advisory Council 2) The Governing Board 3) Working ...
... nothing but the central truth of his being. 1951 A new Light shall break upon the earth, a new world shall be born: the things that were promised shall be fulfilled. 1958 The descending triangle represents Sat-Chit-Ananda. The ascending triangle represents the aspiring answer from matter under the form of life, light and love. The junction of both—the central square—is the ...
... obsession comes from this inner vibration. All these "feelings"—what to call them?—have a mode of vibration, with something very essential at the core, and covering layers, as it were. And the most central vibration is the same, and as it expands to express itself, it becomes distorted. With love, it is quite obvious; it becomes, outwardly, in the vast majority of cases, something whose nature is quite... inner rage, because you cannot obtain, you cannot absorb what you love. And truly speaking ( laughing ), from the standpoint of the deeper truth, there is not much difference! It is only when the central vibration remains pure and expresses itself in its initial purity, which is an unfolding—what to call it?... it is something that radiates, a vibration that spreads out in splendour; and it is a blossoming... materially, this is translated as self-giving, self-forgetfulness, generosity of soul. And that is the Page 214 only true movement. But what is usually called "love" is as far removed from the central vibration of true Love as hatred; only, one withdraws, shrivels up and hardens, and the other strikes. This is what makes all the difference. And it is not seen with ideas, it is seen with vibrations ...
... Nature. These are, however, the branchings of the evolutionary nisus which has a central line of advance running through the .entire gradation of emergents; it is, as it were, the central pillar round which is erected a many-storeyed edifice. The interesting point is this, that at the present stage of emergence, what the central line touches and arrives at is the Deity. Or, again, the thing can be viewed... Matter, but the apex where the narrowing sides converge is what is called the Deity. What is the implication of such a conclusion? It comes. perilously near the Indian conception of Avatarhood! The central line of evolutionary nisus is the line of Avatarhood. At each point of the line, on the level of the newly emerged principle, there is a divine embodiment of that principle. The esoteric significance... humanity. A Krishna appears and human consciousness is lifted, potentially at least, to a still higher level of spiritual possibility. The Avatar following, rather tracing,. in his upward movement the central line of the evolutionary nisus, cuts a path, as it were, in the virgin forest of a realm of consciousness still unknown and foreign to human steps. As the Avatar presses and passes on, the way is cleared ...
... however, the branchings of the evolutionary nisus which has a central line of advance running through the entire gradation of emergents; it is, as it were, the central pillar round which is erected a many-storeyed Page 69 edifice. The interesting point is this, that at the present stage of emergence, what the central line touches and arrives at is the Deity. Or, again, the thing can... but the apex where the narrowing sides converge is what is called the Deity. What is the implication of such a conclusion? It comes perilously near the Indian conception of Avatarhood! The central line of evolutionary nisus is the line of Avatarhood. At each point of the line, on the level of the newly emerged principle, there is a divine embodiment of that principle. The esoteric significance... humanity. A Krishna appears and human consciousness is lifted, potentially at least, to a still higher level of spiritual possibility. The Avatar following, rather tracing, in his upward movement the central line of the evolutionary nisus, cuts a path, as it were, in the virgin forest of a realm of consciousness still unknown and foreign to human steps. As the Avatar presses and passes on, the way is cleared ...
... a beautiful book. Regarding the Mother's symbol, she wrote to me on 2.12.55: My dear little Child, Here is the correct design of the symbol. The central circle represents the Supreme Mother, the Mahashakti. The four central petals are the four aspects of the Mother and the twelve petals, Her twelve attributes . ...
... Satprem got Mother to allow for publication in "Notes on the Way." ) People are going to be dazed! But Mother, if they read with the least understanding, they'll understand it's a central experience. It IS a central experience. It's quite curious.... The body hasn't left that Consciousness—the two are there at the same time, and if the other [ordinary] Page 348 consciousness stops ...
... in me. 2 MOTHER'S SYMBOL The central circle represents the Divine Consciousness. The four petals represent the four powers of the Mother. The twelve petals represent the twelve powers of the Mother manifested for Her work. Page 63 The central circle represents the Supreme Mother, the Mahashakti. The four central petals are the four aspects of the Mother—and ...
... and spontaneously devoted to the Divine, unequivocally loyal and faithful to the Beloved and the Master. This central sincerity, however, has to be worked out in actual life. For, one may be true in the spirit, but false – weak, that is to say – in the flesh. The light of the central being usually finds its way first into the mind. One becomes then mentally sincere: in other words, one has the idea... body inevitably and automatically executes. There is no gap between the two. The spirit and the flesh – soul and body – are soldered, fused together in one single compact entity. One starts with the central sincerity in the psychic being and progress of sadhana means the extension of this sincerity gradually to all the outlying parts and levels of the being till, when the body is reached, the whole c ...
... and self-fulfilled, he is on the summit of his being, in the topmost form of his nature. However fugitive that experience may be, it is the kernel of his being that reveals itself for a moment, the central consciousness that moves, guides, inspires and supports his whole life-and all his other lives too-although till now from behind the veil. That is what we call the Divine in the individual, the Inner... largest, the most intimate and absolute harmony you are capable of and that is demanded of you. The perfect organisation of the individual life can be obtained in and through the harmony inherent in the central reality, in the natural order of its activities. In the scheme or pattern laid out in the inmost consciousness, each element has its own orbit and its own quantum of energy, each force its. allotted... function: the will in each is exactly commensurable with what should be the expression in it of the total reality, each is the whole and rounded articulation of an aspect or figure put forth by the central truth in its self-display. As in a musical theme, each note has a definite pitch, amplitude, tone which give it its perfect form in order to constitute a common pattern – the highest pitch, the largest ...
... left unsaid. But it will surely come! In how many years, I don't know, but the thing has become plain. And to me (as I said the other day), to me it seemed quite a central secret—not the most central of all, no, but fairly central with regard to life on earth. It's... of course, it would mean a new phase for life on earth. ( silence ) It may almost result (later, once modern science has... March 16, 1963 ( Regarding the conversation of March 9 : "A few seconds' experience that gave me the sense that the most central problem was solved." That experience was what Mother called "the death of death." ) Those things are strange.... You don't remember actively, that is, you can't find any thought whatsoever to express... was always the same thing: no longer the same person, you've become someone else. All the relationships with life, with consciousness, with movement—everything changes. Yet Page 85 the central thing is just a vague impression. At the moment of the experience, for a second, it's so clear, so precise—a thunderbolt. But then... probably the cerebral and nervous system is incapable of preserving ...
... self or Atman which is the same in all, is not a portion but an aspect of the Divine. Here what is exactly meant by the 'individual being' — is it the soul or the central being? The central being and the soul are both in different ways portions of the Divine. They are in fact two aspects of the same entity, but one is unevolving above Nature, the other evolves a psychic... Atman is in its nature either transcendent or universal (Paramatma, Atma); when it individualises and Page 267 becomes a central being, then it is the Jivatman. The Jivat-man feels his oneness with the universal but at the same time his central separateness as a portion of the Divine. " What acts on the Self depends on the realisation; it is sometimes Nature, sometimes ...
... COMMITTEE: — 1) Each of the six Provinces, namely, Bengal, Bombay, Madras, United Provinces, The Punjab and the Central Provinces shall return Members to the Subjects Committee as follows:— Bengal & Assam - 20. Bombay - 15. Madras - 15. United Provinces - 15. Punjab - 10. Central Provinces - 10. 2) No subject shall be brought up for discussion at the Congress unless it should have been... delegates of each Province shall elect 170 Representatives distributed among the six Provinces as follows:— Bengal - 40. Bombay - 30. Madras - 30. United Provinces - 30. Punjab - 20. Central Provinces - 20. The method of election shall be the same as in the case of the Members of the Subjects Committee. 4) None but such Representatives shall be entitled to vote on any proposition ...
... Consciousness. As the ideal for the individual is to be conscious of its central inner being and relate all its parts and all its movements to that, central reality, organise itself in perfect harmony around this core of its being, even so a group-centre has to organise itself in perfect harmony Page 50 around the central reality of the Mother: only so can it grow and grow harmoniously ...
... Presence and Consciousness. As the ideal for the individual is to be conscious of its central inner being and relate all its parts and all its movements to that central reality, organise itself in perfect harmony around this core of its being, even so a group-centre has to organise itself in perfect harmony around the central reality of the Mother: only so can it grow and grow harmoniously. Indeed a group ...
... the greatest danger to the Muslims of India was the possible inauguration of the federal scheme in the central Government. We know what machinations were going on. But the Muslim League was stoutly resisting them in every direction. We felt that we could never accept the dangerous scheme of the central federal Government embodied in the Page 189 Government of India Act, 1935. I... life and death. Women can do a great deal within their homes even under purdah. We appointed this committee with a view to enable them to participate in the work of the League. The objects of this central committee were ( 1 ) to organise provincial and district women's sub-committees under the provincial and district Muslim League; ( 2 ) to enlist a larger number of women to the membership of the Muslim... awakened amongst our women, remember your children will not have much to worry about; ( 4 ) to advise and guide them in all such matters as mainly rest on them for the uplift of Muslim society. This central committee, I am glad to say, started its work seriously and earnestly. It has done a great deal of useful work. I have no doubt that when we come to deal with their report of work done we shall really ...
... its decisive movement must be preceded by a voluntary decision on the part of the individual where a choice is made to devote oneself centrally, to begin with, and increasingly, more and more comprehensively to pursue spiritual disciplines not only as a central occupation of life but also in all preoccupations of life. If there is one unique feature that distinguishes spirituality is the necessity... for spiritual development is generalized. The central question, therefore, for spiritual education is as to in what way and to what extent one can provide to the students that kind of preparation which would enable them in due course to arrive at that critical point where they can make a voluntary choice to pursue spiritual disciplines with centrality in their occupations and preoccupations. If anything... important conclusion that follows from these considerations is that while it is salutary and necessary to arrive at distinctive idea of spirituality as also of distinctive and central methods of spiritual education, our central focus should be to discover those avenues of development by opening which and by perfecting which we are able to prepare students to understand what is spirituality, what are ...
... t of a central authority and of a growing uniformity in administration, legislation, social and economic life and culture and the chief means of culture, education and language. In all, the central authority becomes more and more the determining and regulating power. The process culminates by the transformation of this governing sole authority or sovereign power from the rule of the central executive ...
... determined by a fixed legislative authority, the society's organised brain or centre. Page 447 This rational development consists, as we have seen, in the creation of a central authority,—at first a distinct central force but afterwards more and more conterminous with the society itself or directly representing it,—which gradually takes over the specialised and separated parts of the social... Chapter XX The Drive towards Economic Centralisation The objective organisation of a national unity is not yet complete when it has arrived at the possession of a single central authority and the unity and uniformity of its political, military and strictly administrative functions. There is another side of its organic life, the legislative and its corollary, the judicial function... sovereign functions from the one sovereign administrator or the few dominant executive men by the society as a whole organised in the democratic State. In its seizure of the internal functionings the central authority has a more difficult task, because its absorption of them or of their chief control has to reckon with powerful competing or modifying forces and interests and the strength of established ...
... And if you are to make of the totality of your thoughts a dynamic and constructive force, you must take great care as to the choice of the central idea of your mental synthesis; for upon that will depend the value of your synthesis. The higher and larger the central idea and the more universal it is, rising above time and space, the more numerous and the more complex will be the ideas, notions and thoughts... that are accepted for translation into action. Only those that agree with the general trend of the central idea forming the basis of the mental synthesis should be permitted to express themselves in action. This means that every thought entering the mental consciousness should be placed before the central idea; if it finds a right. place among the thoughts already grouped, it will be admitted into the... power of concentration, the capacity of attention. Page 110 (2) Development of the capacities of expansion, wideness complexity and richness. (3) Organisation of ideas around a central idea or a higher ideal or a supremely luminous idea that will serve as a guide in life. (4) Thought control, rejection of undesirable thoughts so that one may, in the end, think only what one wants ...
... nature that one begins to come into conscious touch with one's central being above. When that happens and the central being uses a conscious will to control and organise the movements of the nature, it is then that one has a real, a spiritual as opposed to a partial and merely mental or moral self-mastery. * The phrase "central being" in our Yoga is usually applied to the portion of the Divine... Page 14 above all is the central being (Jivatman) which uses them all for its manifestation: it is a portion of the Divine Self; but this reality of himself is hidden from the external man who replaces this inmost self and soul of him by the mental and vital ego. It is only those who have begun to know themselves that become aware of their true central being; but still it is always there... Divine in us which supports all the rest and survives through death and birth. This central being has two forms - above, it is Jivatman, our true being, of which we become aware when the higher self-knowledge comes, - below, it is the psychic being which stands behind mind, body and life. The Jivatman is above the manifestation in life and presides over it; the psychic being stands behind the manifestation ...
... integration or centrality of any common principle. Even the successive practice of the aims and methods of each of the principal yogic schools would imply a great deal of waste of labour and the resulting process would be cumbrous and would be even injurious. Sri Page 2 Aurobindo's and the Mother's synthesis of yoga or integral yoga is an organic synthesis that seizes on the central principle... particular principles, and on the central dynamic force which is the common secret of their divergent methods and capable, therefore, of organizing a natural selection and combination of their varied energies and different utilities. As a result, this synthesis is able to neglect the forms and outsides of the specific systems of yoga. Apart from the utilization of the central principle of concentration which... effected by the operation of the Purusha consciousness or Brahman consciousness; and with the progression of the yoga, the principle of progressive surrender to the Shakti which is so central in the Tantra, also becomes central, — but with full recognition that the Shakti is the power of and is herself Purushottama. In the Tantra, the initial stress is laid on starting from the bottom, and there is a rise ...
... obsession stems from that inner vibration. All these "feelings" (what can we call them?) have a vibratory mode, with something very essential at their core and kinds of layers covering it; so the most central vibration is identical, and it's as it "inflates" to express itself that it gets distorted. For love it's perfectly obvious; in the vast majority of cases it becomes outwardly something with a wholly... an inner fury because you cannot obtain, you cannot gobble up what you love. ( Laughing ) In actual fact, from the standpoint of the deeper truth, there isn't much difference! It's only when the central vibration remains pure and is expressed in its original purity, which is a spreading out (what can I call it?... It's something radiating out, a vibration spreading out in a glory, a vibration blossoming... And materially it's expressed by self-giving, self-forgetfulness, the generosity of the soul. And that's the only true movement. But what people are used to calling "love" is as removed from the central vibration of true Love as hatred; only, the one turns in on itself, shrivels up and hardens, while the other strikes—that's what makes the whole difference. And this isn't seen with ideas: it's ...
... in it nothing but Thee, our sole real existence. Thus each atom of this aggregate will be awakened to receive Thy sublime influence; the ignorance and the darkness will disappear not only from the central consciousness of the being but also from its most external mode of expression. It is only by the fulfilment, by the perfection of this labour of transfiguration that there can be manifested the plenitude... knowledge of Thy presence and a complete union with it. Let every obstacle disappear, let Thy divine knowledge replace in every part the darkness of the ignorance. Even as Thou hast illumined the central consciousness, the will in the being, enlighten too this outermost substance. And let the whole individuality, from its first origin and essence to its last projection and most material body, be unified ...
... And if you are to make of the totality of your thoughts a dynamic and constructive force, you must take great care as to the choice of the central idea of your mental synthesis; for upon that will depend the value of your synthesis. The higher and larger the central idea and the more universal it is, rising above time and space, the more numerous and the more complex will be the ideas, notions and thoughts... are accepted for translation into action and only those that agree with the general trend of the central idea forming the basis of the mental synthesis should be permitted to express themselves in action. This means that every thought entering the mental consciousness should be placed before the central idea; if it finds a right place among the thoughts already grouped, it will be admitted into the... concentration, the capacity of attention. Page 114 (2) Development of the capacities of expansion, wideness, complexity and richness. (3) Organisation of ideas around a central idea or a higher ideal or a supremely luminous idea that will serve as a guide in life. (4) Thought control, rejection of undesirable thoughts, so that one may, in the end, think only what ...
... just as are Personality and Impersonality, Nirguna and Saguna. * "This central being has two forms - above, it is Jivatman...below, it is the psychic being..." (P. 15) (a)Is it meant that the Jivatman and the psychic being are different forms of the central being? If they are forms of the central being, how can they be beings or selves? (b)Again, when one rises from... from the state below to the Jivatman above, does the psychic being cease to be? And when one rises above the Jivatman does the central being become formless? (a) 'Forms' is not used in a physical sense here. The central being is the being in its original self, the psychic Page 52 being is the same in the becoming. (b) The evolution or becoming continues, so the psychic also continues ...
... educates a child and put it in harmony with the central part. That is the work of sincerity and it is indispensable. And naturally, when there is a unity, an agreement, a harmony among all the wills of the being, your being can become simple, candid and uniform in its action and tendencies. It is only when the whole being is grouped around a single central movement that you can be spontaneous. For if ...
... self, as "I". The mind, however, has a central consciousness which may be called the Witness Mind, the Purusha in the mind. It stands apart and observes whatever is happening in the mind and in other parts as well; it is in fact the observer of the whole adhar. The other parts are the vital and the physical. The vital too has its own central consciousness, its witness Purusha, which observes ...
... want to make the totality of your thoughts into a dynamic and constructive force, you must also take great care as to the choice of the central idea of your mental synthesis; for upon that will depend the value of this synthesis. The higher and larger the central idea and the more universal it is, rising above time and space, the more numerous and the more complex will be the ideas, notions and thoughts... into action should be strictly controlled and only those that agree with the general trend of the central idea forming the basis of the mental synthesis should be permitted to express themselves in action. This means that every thought entering the mental consciousness should be set before the central idea; if it finds a logical place among the thoughts already grouped, it will be admitted into the... Development of the power of concentration, the capacity of attention. (2) Development of the capacities of expansion, widening, complexity and richness. (3) Organisation of one's ideas around a central idea, a higher ideal or a supremely luminous idea that will serve as a guide in life. Page 24 (4) Thought-control, rejection of undesirable thoughts, to become able to think only what one ...
... unify his being, to identify all its parts with the central truth, then naturally he will act with a total absence of egoism, with an understanding of others, an understanding which comes to him from his identification with others—and so he will act like a sage. But that depends on the care he has taken to unify his whole being around the central consciousness. For example, to take the most positively ...
... and the development may become retarded, stationary or even diminished by adverse influences or movements. It is therefore that the necessity exists and is often felt of a return to the place of the central influence in order to fortify or recover the contact or to restore or give a fresh forward impulse to the development. The aspiration for such nearness from time to time is not a vital desire; it becomes... being calm, deep and without clamour in it or perturbing insistence. This is for those who are not called upon or are not yet called upon to live in the Asram under the direct pressure of the central force and Presence. Those who must so live are those called from the beginning or who have become ready or who are for some reason or other given a chance to form part of the work or creation which ...
... something individual—whether each person has a central being. The one is not separate from the other. The one is not separate from the other? In what sense? The central being isn't separate from the Divine, it's one with the Page 293 Divine. But does each person have a particular, individual central being, or is there one central being for everyone? It becomes personal in our... been wondering about: when one speaks of the 'central being,' this central being is not something here in physical life, is it?... It's above.... It is above and within and everywhere! ( Mother laughs ) No, unless you learn to think at all times with the fourth dimension, you will never understand anything. But Sri Aurobindo says that this central being is 'unborn.' I would like to know whether... longer arises: it's plain that it can't be otherwise! Because when one loses his ego and finds this central being, Sri Aurobindo says that an individuality remains—it isn't a dissolution—one retains a personality. Yes, a personality remains. Then this is the personality of the central being, the True Personality. Yes. Then after all, it's an individual, not an impersonal self. ...
... education, which is indispensable for effective primary education in our country, Rs. 350 crores have been allocated. But we all know that mere financial allocations cannot deliver the goods. Central factors that determine the success of educational programmes are related to the quality of teachers, the quality of teaching-learning materials, and the quality of the strategies of addressing varieties... wherever it exists, it is imperative that effective solutions are suggested and effective strategies are evolved and implemented. This is where researches in school effectiveness at primary stage occupy central significance. II It is often argued that our immediate problems are so pressing that we need to take urgent steps to meet them and that in the context of this urgent need we should follow... research. In the ultimate analysis, it seems that we shall have to create a large scheme of non-formal education in the country so that we can meet at least four or five requirements that are central to effectiveness of primary education. One of these requirements is related to wide variations among target-groups, which cannot all be given uniform pattern of curriculum, teaching-learning materials ...
... constantly meeting with the suggestions of the Vedic Asuras, 'You can't do anything, you are bound to fail.' "You have to go on working and working year after year, point after point, till you come to a central point in the subconscient which has to be conquered and it is the crux of the whole problem, hence exceedingly difficult.... This point in the subconscient is the seed and it goes on sprouting and... have cut out the seed." 7 January 1939 ( after a silence ) Then doesn't he say something more... more encouraging? ( laughter ) ( long silence ) What did he say, "a point" ? " A central point in the subconscient... and it is the crux of the whole problem." ( after a long silence ) He didn't say what it was? No, Mother. ( Mother gestures to say she does not know long ...
... and methods that you will obtain the unity of education. Unity is obtained through a constant reference, Page 52 silent or expressed, as the case demands, to the central ideal, the central force or light, the purpose and the goal of our education. The true, the supreme Unity expresses itself in diversity. It is mental logic that demands sameness. In practice, each one... merely a highly efficient academic training which is in view here. Above everything else, how to help the students to grow into consciously aspiring men and women of the future, well, this was the central goal behind its founding. Now, it is quite clear that the full and successful realisation of this noble goal demands the concurrence of three components: the teachers, the students and the proper method ...
... Viveka-nanda), and which involves self-knowledge and self-control, will receive central attention of the proposed Commission; 9.Integral development of personality which will foster capacities of knowledge and wisdom, courage and heroism, universality, mutuality and harmony and skills of various kinds will also receive central attention; 10.The aims of vocational education, professional education... Innovations in Education Educational Innovations (A theme that demands central attention) I We may recall that the great struggle for freedom had, in its early moments of resurgence, placed national education as an essential aspect of its core Programme for achieving India's independence. Under the inspiring leadership of the greatest educationists... measure, and whether they measure up to those visions, standards and ideals which have been put forth by the pioneering educationists of our renascent India. This is not an academic question, but it is central to the development of the road map of educational development of India. We are multiplying schools, colleges, and universities, but all this expansion sub-serves more and more insistently those objectives ...
... our self, as "I". The mind, however, has a central consciousness which may be called the Witness Mind, the Purusha in the mind. It stands apart and observes whatever is happening in the mind and in other parts as well; it is in fact the observer of the whole adhara. The other parts are the vital and the physical. The vital too has its own central consciousness, its witness Purusha, which observes ...
... with me." In the course of your self-offering, you start unifying your being around what has taken the first decision—the central psychic will. All the jarring elements of your nature have to be harmonised, they have to be taken up one after another and unified with the central being. You may offer yourself to the Divine with a spontaneous movement, but it is not possible to give yourself effectively ...
... sadhana—he cannot simply treat it as one of his interests. The spiritual life becomes the foremost concern, with all else playing subsidiary, if not contributory, roles. It is understood that the central aspiration is gradually communicated to all the parts of the being, and the whole complex of the body, vital and mind is made to participate in the effort. The effort must be intense, indeed... been a culture of abhim ā na, offended spirit, a sense of unrequited claim on the Divine. Needless to say, such developments lead the sadhak into blind emotional alleys with no relevance to the central purpose of yoga. Further, as the Mother points out, impatience leads to imitation. This is especially so when we seek an experience; it may be a vision of the Divine, a seeking for the illumination ...
... to other Aryan settlements in contact with the Rigvedic. An interchange of knowledge could occur. In any case a collective immigration from Central Asia is not needed for whatever geographical sense of foreign locales is there. And actually how many Central-Asian names do we have? Basham does not mention a single one. The example he gives of "a display" of "geographical information" is "the... mean much. According to Fairservis himself, phases 4 and 5 of the first period of Mundigak in South Afghānistān, considerably pre-dating the second millennium B.C., and also the Quetta wares of Central Balūchistān, belonging again to an early epoch, have pottery equivalents in the early Hissar culture. 8 These equivalents are not seen to raise any Aryan issue. In fact, it is only the presence of... as he understands it. The latter, to his mind, depicts the Aryan invasion as a martial push into India; the former provides a different picture: "It was probably not an invasion of hordes of Central Asian nomads who in great and overwhelming waves swept from the steppes to the Doab. It is more likely that Indo-European-speaking pastoral tribes of a variety of traditions and probably of a diversity ...
... centres of concentration, for example, one above the crown and another between the eye-brows. Each has its own efficacy and will give you a particular result. But the central being lies in the heart and from the heart proceed all central movements—all dynamism and urge for transformation and power of realisation. Page 1 What is one to do to prepare oneself for the Yoga? To be conscious ...
... between Hindus and Muslims, thinking they will also join. SRI AUROBINDO: All joined against the monument? But his friend Huque arrested him. NIRODBARAN: I thought it was the Central Government. SRI AUROBINDO: The Central Government doesn't care about the monument. When Bose said that he would start Satyagraha, he was arrested by Huque. Huque says he is not going to be compelled by anything or any ...
... ized learning. And it may safely be'said that the central preoccupation of all the modern educational methodology and innovations is to invent a flexible structure of education that would fulfill the demands of individualized learning. 17. And we may at once state the heart of the problem that is related to individualized learning. The central knot lies in the inter-twining of three needs in a... aspects of education, and he finds that this application implies a radical change in the contents, methods and structure of education, and above all, in the very aim of education. 5. This is the central context of innovations in education all over the world. 6. We have begun to look upon the child as the creator of the New Future. And the educationist is, therefore, necessitated to look into the... merely as a happy exercise of imagination or even of direction, but as an object of a serious and scientific study that can be used as a tool for current planning. Indeed, at no time was the Future so central to the present. 7. An important realisation has come to us that the future that the modern age has been labouring to fashion seems possible only on the basis of the fulfilment of one condition ...
... only in its own domain, in its own home, the central psychic behind and within the heart; but it must be found also in each and every part of the being—the soul in the mind, the soul in the vital, the soul in the body—the immortal in the mortalities, as the rishis used to say. This then is the first necessity, one should awake in the central psychic being and then awaken the same psychic ...
... not only in its own domain, in its own home, the central psychic behind and within the heart; but it must be found also in each and every part of the being – the soul in the mind, the soul in the vital, the soul in the body – the immortal in the mortalities, as the rishis used to say. This then is the first necessity, one should awake in the central psychic being and then awaken the same psychic being ...
... vital, the true physical represent each on its plane and answer to the central being, but the whole of the nature and especially the outer nature does not nor the ordinary mental, vital or physical personality. The psychic being is the central being for the purposes of the evolution—it grows and develops; but there is a central being above of which the mind is not aware which presides unseen over the ...
... its own organisation; only, this organisation is the product of the action of a central divine spark. But the day an external being (physical, mental, vital) enters into direct and constant contact with the psychic being, one may say in the same way that the physical being of this person is organised by the central divine consciousness. The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 24 February... life and nature the awakening of the psychic being is indispensable. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Himself and the Ashram: Jivatman, Spark-Soul and Psychic Being The soul, representative of the central being, is a spark of the Divine supporting all individual existence in Nature; the psychic being is a conscious form of that soul growing in the evolution—in the persistent process that develops first... all that the soul or essential psychic existence bears within it; it temporalises and individualises what is eternal in potentiality, transcendent in essence in this projection of the spirit. The central being is the being which presides over the different births one after the other but is itself unborn, for it does not descend into the being but is above it—it holds together the mental, vital and ...
... solution is to effect a synthesis by neglecting the forms and outsides of the yogic disciplines and seizing rather on some central principle common to all which will include and utilise in the right place and proportion their Page 60 particular principles, and on some central dynamic force which is the common secret of their divergent methods and therefore capable of organising a natural selection... respect of the Veda, Upanishad, and the Gita. In Tantra, we have seen a bolder effort to utilise the obstacles which life presents to yoga as gates of higher realisation. But all turns ultimately on the central question. Page 58 as to what the human being is precisely expected to realise and whether human life has a potentiality of sustaining the highest possible realisations and powers. This... yogas because (1) it aims not at a departure out of world and life into Heaven or Nirvana, but at a change of life and existence, not as something subordinate or incidental, but as a distinct and central object; (2) the object sought after is not an individual achievement of divine realisation for the sake of the individual, but something to be gained for the earth consciousness here, a cosmic, not ...
... evident to you. Then from there, gradually, you will go to the more difficult and more central things… The Mother Questions and Answers (1955): 5 January 1955 We are made up of many different parts which have to be unified around the psychic being, if we are conscious of it or at least around the central aspiration. If this unification is not done, we carry this division within us. To do... only be imperfectly done by the surface mental will and reason; it can be perfectly done only if he goes within and finds whatever central being is by its predominant influence at the head of all his expression and action. In inmost truth it is his soul that is this central being, but in outer fact it is often one or other of the part beings in him that rules, and this representative of the soul, this... do this, each thought, each feeling, each sensation, each impulse, each reaction, as it manifests, must be presented in the consciousness to the central being or its aspiration. What is in accord is accepted; what is not in accord is refused, rejected or transformed. It is a long endeavour which may take many years—but once it is done, the unification is achieved and the path becomes easy and swift ...
... 743 Even a faltering faith and a slow and partial surrender have their force and their result, otherwise only the rare few could do sadhana at all. What I mean by the central faith is a faith in the soul or the central being behind, a faith which is there even when the mind doubts and the vital despairs and the physical wants to collapse, and after the attack is over reappears and pushes on... disappointment, difficulty and peril. The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 745 The perfect faith is an assent of the whole being to the truth seen by it or offered to its acceptance, and its central working is a faith of the soul in its own will to be and attain and become and its idea of self and things and its knowledge, of which the belief of the intellect, the heart's consent and the desire... in some form of itself, is indispensable to the action of the being and without it man cannot move a single pace in life, much less take any step forward to a yet unrealised perfection. It is so central and essential a thing that the Gita can justly say of it that whatever is a man's śraddhā, that he is, yo yacchraddhaḥ sa eva saḥ, and, it may be added, whatever he has the faith to see as possible ...
... imperil that slender chance. Now that the die is cast, it is time for us to speak our minds. From the whole course of the Loyalist manoeuvres in Nagpur since the strength of the Nationalist party in the Central Provinces became apparent, it was quite evident that from the first the Loyalists had made up their minds under inspiration from Bombay to prevent the holding of the Congress at Nagpur. To effect this... without the fiery energy and indomitable self-confidence which have always been the characteristics of Nationalism in every country and every age of its emergence. The Nationalists of the Berar and Central Provinces took the work of proselytisation in hand and as the result of several tours undertaken by leading members of the party from town to town and village to village the sleepy hollow awoke to... Page 741 to drive the Extremists out of the Executive Committee and turn it into a convenient instrument for Sir Pherozshah Mehta's masterly manoeuvres or to transfer the Congress to a less central and thoroughly Loyalist locality where the Dictator's will could reign supreme. From this point onward the hand of the great wire-puller behind the scenes can be observed in all the developments ...
... Life Divine . " A spiritual evolution, an evolution of consciousness in Matter in a constant developing self-formation till the form can reveal the indwelling Spirit, is then the key-note, the central significant motive of the terrestrial existence. This significance is concealed at the outset by the involution of the Spirit, the Divine Reality, in a dense material Inconscience; a veil of Inconscience... follow it with any profit. But for our part, we are beginning from where he has shown, from the purely intellectual point of view, what the purpose of existence is, and he formulates it like this: "the central significant motive of the terrestrial existence." For he is not concerned with the entire universe, he has taken terrestrial life, that is, our life here on Earth, as a symbolic and concentrated r... terrestrial existence, but we can understand that it is a symbolic existence, that is, that it represents a universal action. It is a symbolic, concentrated representation. And he says that "the central motive", that is, the purpose of terrestrial existence is to awaken, to develop and finally to reveal in a total manifestation the Spirit which is hidden at the centre of Matter and impels this Matter ...
... ) Did you tell him that I don't speak? (Satprem to A.R.:) Mother doesn't speak. If he has something to say, he can do so. (Satprem:) What is the central question that preoccupies you? (A.R.:) The central question... The central question for me, with regard to past experiences, is to understand the Law—to Page 351 understand it perfectly, not imperfectly, that is, not e ...
... And the other one [Richard] was an incarnation of the Lord of Falsehood—but it was only partial. With Théon too it was partial. But with Satan it was the central being; of course, he had millions of emanations in the world, but this was the central being in person. The others... let's keep that for another time. He agreed to take on a body. Theon wanted to keep him there: "Don't let him go," he ...
... and other public and private organisations in order to determine means by which enhancement of their effectiveness and co-ordination may be facilitated; (b) study of ways and means by which the Central Government, State Governments, and local bodies can more adequately support lifelong learning activities; (c) support research and experimentation, including review of existing major foreign lifelong... there is an equitable distribution of lifelong learning services to all segments of the population, particularly women, handicapped and gifted; (b) assessment of the appropriate roles for the Central, State, and local governments, educational and cultural insti- tutions; Page 94 (c) consideration of the alternative methods of financing and delivering lifelong opportunities; (d) ...
... circumstances had been equally favourable. For Japan lives centrally in her temperament and in her aesthetic sense, and therefore she has always been rapidly assimilative; her strong temperamental persistence has been enough to preserve her national stamp and her artistic vision a sufficient power to keep her soul alive. But India lives centrally in the spirit, with less buoyancy and vivacity and therefore... attitude. They admitted practically, if not in set opinion, the occidental view of our past culture as only a half-civilisation and their governing ideals were borrowed from the West or at least centrally inspired by the purely Western spirit and type of their education. From mediaeval India they drew away in revolt and inclined to discredit and destroy whatever it had created; if they took anything... sentiment, a better insight into the meaning of Indian things and their characteristics, a free acceptance more of their spirit than of their forms and an attempt at new interpretation. At first the central idea still remained very plainly of the modern type and betrayed everywhere the Western inspiration, but it drew to itself willingly the ancient ideas and it coloured itself more and more with their ...
... of your self-offering you start unifying your being around what has taken the first decision Page 22 —the central psychic will. All the jarring elements of your nature have to be harmonised, they have to be taken up one after another and unified with the central being. You may offer yourself to the Divine with a spontaneous movement, but it is not possible to give yourself effectively ...
... personality or character a million times from the beginning of time till its end? The soul comes into birth for experience, for growth, for evolution till it can bring the Divine into Matter. It is the central being that incarnates, not the outer personality - the personality is simply a mould that it creates for its figures of experience in that one life. In another birth it will create for itself a different... in that life. Perhaps before he had been a warrior or ruler doing deeds like Aeneas or Augustus before he sang them. And so on - on this side or that Page 58 the central being develops a new character, a new personality, grows, develops, passes through all kinds of terrestrial experience. As the evolving being ...
... sending you two copies of the symbol. On one symbol I have explained the meaning, My love and blessings. Here is the correct design of the symbol. The central circle represents the Supreme Mother, the Mahashakti. The four central petals are the four aspects of the Mother—and the twelve petals, Her twelve attributes. It was still raining. The dance-drama "The Story of India's Spiritual ...
... The Mother wrote to me on 7-9-65 My dear little child Huta, Roger has just arrived yesterday. I am seeing him this morning to explain to him the plan of Auroville. The Central Park will be the park of Unity containing the Pavilion and its 'annexe' as formerly decided. Love ...
... absolute monarch was never an Indian idea. It was brought from Central Asia by the Mahomedans. The English in accepting this system have disfigured it considerably. They have found ways to put their hand on and grasp all the old organizations, using them merely as channels to establish more thoroughly the authority of the central power. They discouraged every free organization and every attempt... feeling, to express life in a particular form. Each such communal form of life—the village, the town, etc., which formed the unit of national life, was left free in its own internal management. The central authority never interfered with it. There was not the idea of "interest" in India as in Europe, i.e., each community was not fighting for its own interest; but there was the idea of Dharma, the... State. The State recognized the necessity of allowing such various forms of life to develop freely in order to give to the national spirit a richer expression. Then over the two there was the central authority, whose function was not so much to legislate as to harmonize and see that everything was going on all right. It was generally administered by a Raja; in cases it was also an elected head ...
... description of this experience is appended at Appendix II (p. 113). Conversion is a movement as a result of which spiritual life becomes central to the seeker. But this centrality may be only ideative in character, in the sense that what becomes central is a cluster of ideas relating to spiritual life rather than the possession of the substance of the Spirit that makes spiritual life so very ...
... Symbols The descending triangle represents Sat-Chit-Ananda. The ascending triangle represents the answer from matter under the from of life, light and love. The junction of both the central square - is the perfect manifestation having at its centre the Avatar of the Supreme - the lotus. The water - inside the square - represents the multiplicity, the creation. The Mother ...
... The Spirit of Auroville During this time the Mother explained: The Ashram is the central consciousness, Auroville is one of the outward expressions. In both places equally the work is done for the Divine. The people who live in the Ashram have their own work and most of them are too busy to give time to Auroville. Each one must be busy with ...
... explanation we are seeking; and it should be a circumstance common to all these cultures, yet capable of leading to so striking a difference. The one important circumstance common, one might almost say central, to the ideas and practices of the ancient nations was the reverence for the sun and its supreme importance in religious ceremonies. Might not the direction adopted for their writing be determined... towards India, Persia and the Mediterranean countries; if we can suppose that the fathers of the Mesopotamian culture came from the south northwards and that the first Mongolian movement was from Central Asia to the east, we shall have the necessary conditions. We may thus explain also the Sanskrit terms for the four directions; for entering India from the west and following this line in their early ...
... case of double or multiple personality. But all men are like that, in reality. The aim should be in Yoga to develop (if one has it not already) a strong central being and harmonise under it all the rest, changing what has to be changed. If this central being is the psychic, there is no great difficulty. If it is the mental being, Page 80 manomayaḥ puruṣaḥ prāṇa-śarīra-netā , then it is more ...
... instance from Savitri we have an ultra-Homeric simile, a long-drawn-out comparison whose sense, beginning with "As", is completed only when the full comparative picture has been painted and then the central situation which the simile illuminates is stated. If a sentence starts with an "As", it cannot be complete until there is a "so also" or its equivalent in some form at the other end to introduce... 1 [Here is included only an extract, related to Savitri.] Page 118 sentence would assimilate within its vital system only the right amount of detail necessary to unfold the central meaning: a limit is intrinsically imposed upon the length, rendering this length, and no other, vitally significant. Such organicity is different from that of a passage where to enrich the theme ...
... practice. It must therefore be effected by neglecting the forms and outsides of the Yogic disciplines and seizing rather on some central principle common to all which will include and utilise in the right place and proportion their particular principles, and on some central dynamic force which is the common secret of their divergent methods and capable therefore of organising a natural selection and... with the possibility of hazarding some definite solution. We observe, first, that there still exists in India a remarkable Yogic system which is in its nature synthetical and starts from a great central principle of Nature, a great dynamic force of Nature; but it is a Yoga apart, not a synthesis of other schools. This system is the way of the Tantra. Owing to certain of its developments Tantra has... But in both paths there was in the end an obscuration of principles, a deformation of symbols and a fall. If, however, we leave aside, here also, the actual methods and practices and seek for the central principle, we find, first, that Tantra expressly differentiates itself from the Vedic methods of Yoga. In a sense, all the schools we have hitherto examined are Vedantic in their principle; their force ...
... nature. Probably it joins the central being there. What is meant by the psychic being joining the central being? Any part of the being can go upward and meet its source there. The central being is always above; the psychic is its outer part below. If the psychic goes up it may be also to join its source, the central being. On some other ...
... The synthesis must be effected by neglecting the forms and outsides of the Yogic disciplines and seizing rather on some central principle common to all which will include and utilise in the right place and proportion their particular principles, and on some central dynamic force in which is the common secret of their divergent methods and capable therefore of organizing a natural selection and... has to be a multi-pronged approach. Some steps have to be taken both in the political field and some others in the deeper cultural and religious and spiritual fields. In this attempt, the central appeal has to come from the cultural leaders of both the communities. They will have to bring forward the deeper Indian ethos, the characteristic Indian and Hindu spirit, which is intrinsically tolerant... general conversion of the mental consciousness in all its activities. It may be equally accomplished through a great awakening to the universal or transcendent Truth and Bliss by the conversion of the central ego in the mind. And according to the point of the contact that we choose, will be the type of Yoga that we practise. THE SYSTEMS OF YOGA Hatha Yoga dealing with the life ...
... that the Matrimandir will be done according to the Divine’s inspiration. With love and blessings . By this time the Mother had already instructed Roger Anger to make twelve gardens in the central part of Auroville. But.... ...
... the Great Self glows Like a golden cosmic rose, The petals fanning out from one sweet core. No strangeness anywhere Remains for stare and stare Seeking to itself door. The central Eye of eyes Can shut in all-repose, For the Great Flower knows Its perfume of paradise. 9 5.48 Page 228 ...
... Mother, what happens to the central being afterwards? This depends absolutely on the different instances. We said that the central being and the psychic being are the same thing but the part which stays and is in the Divine stays and is in the Divine. The psychic is the delegate of this Divine in the earth life, for the growth on earth. But the part of the central being which is identified with... it is identified with the Divine, it remains identified with the Divine, not separated. It makes no difference to it, whether there is an earthly body or not. Then, Sweet Mother, is everyone's central being the same? No, for we are told that it is identified in multiplicity. It is the eternal truth of each being. From one point of view they are identical, from another they are multiple; because ...
... the initiate, and clothed their language in words and images which had, equally, a spiritual sense for the elect, a concrete sense for the mass of ordinary worshippers... 28 The central conception of the Veda is the conquest of the Truth out of the darkness of Ignorance and by the conquest of the Truth the conquest also of Immortality... 29 Knowledge itself was... was the prize of a final victory. 30 The Vedic myths, then, and the legends in which they are enshrined, have as a general rule both an exoteric sense and an esoteric significance; central to the Vedic scheme is the conception of the Page 266 struggle between Darkness and Light, and the ultimate conquest of Light, which is Truth, which is also Immortality; and ...
... While just a fragile finger Making the sign of the One Can touch through the narrow tunnel The spring of the secret cry With which the lid breaks open The all-seeing central Eye! 9-5-48 Page 3 ...
... personality or character a million times from the beginning of time till its end? The soul comes into birth for experience, for growth, for evolution till it can bring the Divine into Matter. It is the central being that incarnates, not the outer personality—the personality is simply a mould that it creates for its figures of experience in that one life. In another birth it will create for itself a different... was an unrealised trend of his consciousness in that life. Perhaps before he had been a warrior or ruler doing deeds like Aeneas or Augustus before he sang them. And so on—on this side or that the central being develops a new character, a new personality, grows, develops, passes through all kinds of terrestrial experience. As the evolving being develops still more and becomes more rich and complex ...
... Part III: Miscellany Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II Symbols -The Mother’s Symbols The central circle represents the Divine consciousness. The four petals represent the four power of the mother. The twelve petals represents the twelve power of the mother manifested for Her work. The Mother Centre and 4 power white. The 12, all of ...
... Emergence of the Psychic Index Aspiration xx, xxvii-xxviii, 20, 34 Bhakti 86-87, 100, 102 Buddha 10 Central being 4,80,104,105 Concentration 102-103 Consciousness cosmic 99.102,107,111 reversal of xxvi, 59 Consciousness-Force 108,110 Consecration 101 Desire 57 soul of, (desire-soul) 18,90... n three elements of 99 Purification 101 Purusha 5,18,65,82 Self 82,83,84 true 10-11 Soul xv, xvi, xvii, 1,2, 3,4, 5, 19, 30, 82, 85,90,99, 101 central being 80 growth of 63 Soul individuality xvi Soul (psychic) personality xv- xvi, 1,8,81,104 Spirit 83 Spiritual and psychic 22-25, 23 Spiritual change see ...
... then only it can be allowed within a nearer ring. It is in this way that you should arrange and group all the elements of your being, according to the value and quality of each one around the central consciousness. That is how you organise your being. You build up a pattern of concentric rings, the nearer the ring to the centre, the purer must be the elements that compose it and therefore of... significance. If you can arrange in this way all the parts and parcels of your being around the psychic centre, each in its own place according to its role and function and all turned towards the central consciousness and inspired and moved by it and there is no element which sounds a differing note, then you have the perfect homogeneity of your nature. It is a very interesting exercise in ...
... then only can it be allowed a place within a nearer ring. It is in this way that you should arrange and group all the elements of your being, according to the value and quality of each one around the central consciousness. That is how you organise your being. You build up a pattern of concentric rings, the nearer the ring to the centre, the purer must be the elements that compose it and therefore of greater... significance. If you can arrange in this way all the parts and parcels of your being around the psychic centre, each in its own place according to its role and function and all turned towards the central consciousness and inspired and moved by it and there is no element which strikes a discordant note, then you have the perfect homogeneity of your nature. It is a very interesting exercise in which ...
... of people with good will suggested to me: "Huta, since the Mother wished and visioned your guardianship at the Matrimandir, why don't you meet the concerned people and the top officials of the Central Government for your right?" I was very much amused, and answered: "The people concerned and the top officials have not appointed me the guardian of the Matrimandir. It was the Supreme Lord who ...
... a world force began immediately after Mohammed's death in A.D. 632, and soon Page 61 large parts of Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia were conquered. It was only defeats suffered by Mahomedans in Constantinople (717) and in central France (732) that saved Christian Europe from succumbing to the sweeping Islamic wave. In India, it took the Mahomedans four to five centuries and... destructive forces in Nature to aid them in massacre and domination." It's not that the Hindus were in any way militarily inferior to the Mohammedan invader. Quite the contrary. They defeated the Central Asian barbarians so many times. But the Hindus were much too civilized, and that proved to be their undoing. The Kshatriya, the warrior class, was trained in and upheld an honourable 'code of war.' ...
... be imperfectly done by the surface mental will and reason; it can be perfectly done only if he goes within and finds whatever central being is by its predominant influence at the head of all his expression and action. In inmost truth it is his soul that is this central being, but in outer fact it is often one or other Page 16 of the part beings in him that rules, and this representative... too lie a mass of numerous pre-existent personalities which supply the material, the motive-forces, the impulsions of our developing surface existence. For in each one of us here there may be one central person, but also a multitude of subordinate personalities created by the past history of its manifestation or by expressions of it on these inner planes which support its Page 13 present... effected partial harmony, but only a predominance and for the rest an unstable equilibrium of a personality half formed, half in formation, sometimes a disequilibrium or unbalance due to the lack of a central government or the disturbance of a formerly achieved partial poise. All must be transitional until a first, though not a final, true harmonisation is achieved by finding our real centre. The ...
... subjects ranging from the most ordinary to the most serious and sublime things of human life. Hardly any aspect of life is left out of his vast and extensive field of research and finding. But the central theme and core of all his teaching is spiritual and it is a spiritual and supramental solution that he always advocates as the only conclusion of his most intimate study of all human problems. For... automatically find its right place is the creation . The .crea to r , created and the creation are one in essence. For the purpose of the play (Lila), it is diverse in manifestation. This is the central truth arid it has a value as much for today as for tomorrow and the future, for he deals with eternal verities which are not subject to fluctuations caused by time, space and Matter and Spirit ...
... point. The Vedanta overlooked one term of the Truth and missed thereby a whole world of experience and reality. The central term of Vedanta is taken as Consciousness, Consciousness pure and simple. It omitted the fact that Consciousness is also Energy. That Chit is Tapas is the central principle in Tantra. The exclusive stress on Chit, Pure Consciousness, led to the realisation of the Pure Purusha as ...
... ideas that you have on a given subject, as if you were writing out a composition given in your class, will bring to you funny revelations. If you had not already the habit of holding to a central idea, a central immutable truth, if that were possible, around which you arranged all the collateral ideas, organised them in a logical order, if, I say, you did not do anything like that before, you would ...
... Vedanta overlooked one term of the Truth and missed thereby a whole world of experience and reality. The central term of Vedanta is taken Page 9 as Consciousness, Consciousness pure and simple. It omitted the fact that Consciousness is also Energy. That Chit is Tapas is the central principle in Tantra. The exclusive stress on Chit, Pure Consciousness, led to the realisation of the ...
... ideas that you have on a given subject, as if you were writing out a composition given in your class, will bring to you funny revelations. If you did not already have the habit of holding to a central idea, a central immutable truth, if that were possible, around which you arranged all the collateral ideas, organised them in a logical order, if, I say, you did not do anything Page 25 ...
... sun Thy splendour descends upon the earth and Thy rays will illumine the world. All those elements which are pure enough, plastic enough, sufficiently receptive to manifest the very splendour of the central fire-nucleus are grouping themselves together. This grouping is not arbitrary and does not depend on the will or aspiration of one element or another, it depends on what it is, it is independent of ...
... August 1962 × Sri Aurobindo’s birthday. The meditation took place around the Samadhi of Sri Aurobindo in the central courtyard of the Ashram. ...
... copies.—Champaklal. Chinmayi—Usual work wiping in Sri Aurobindo's room. Champaklal—Sweeping the corner room and the toilet room. Rajangam—Sweeping Sri Aurobindo's room. Bansidhar—Sweeping central hall. Cleaning toilet room window and Sri Aurobindo's windows. 21.2.1932 The Mother ...
... environments. One part may enter into another person who has an affinity for it, another may even enter an animal, while that which has been alive to the divine Presence may remain attached to the central psychic being. But if you are fully organised and converted into a single individual, bent on reaching the goal of evolution, then you will be conscious after death and preserve a continuity. As... because they have brought into their exterior consciousness some shadow of the psychic entity which is immortal by its very nature and whose aim is to progressively build up the being around the central Divine Will. Page 146 ...
... vital and physical into the psychic consciousness, then this Yoga can be done...". Why has he said "the inmost soul"? Is there a superficial soul? It is because this inmost soul, that is, the central psychic being, influences the superficial parts of the consciousness (superficial in comparison with it: mental parts, vital parts). The purest mind, the highest vital, the emotive being—the soul... extent where one has the impression of entering into contact with it through these parts of the being. So people take these parts for the soul and that is why he says "the inmost soul", that is, the central soul, the real soul. For very often, when one touches certain parts of the mind which are under the psychic influence and full of light and the joy of that light, or when one touches certain very ...
... environments. One part may enter into another person who has an affinity for it, another may even enter an animal, while that which has been alive to the divine Presence may remain attached to the central psychic being. But if you arc fully organised and converted into a single individual, bent on reaching the goal of evolution. Page 74 then you will be conscious after death and preserve... because they have brought into their exterior consciousness some shadow of the psychic entity which is immortal by its very nature and whose aim is to progressively build up the being around the central Divine Will Page 77 ...
... Book Two Bande Mataram under the Editorship of Sri Aurobindo 28.May-22.Dec.1907 Bande Mataram To Organise Boycott 17-August-1907 That boycott is the central question of Indian politics is now a generally recognised fact, recognised openly or tacitly by its supporters and its opponents alike. The Anglo-Indian papers are busy trying to make out that it is... elaborate machinery would not have been brought into play to crush it. On the contrary it has become a very substantial reality, a very palpable success, and now stands out, as we have said, as the central and all-important question of Indian politics. Those who say that no nation was ever made by boycott, do not know what they are talking about, do not understand what boycott is, do not know the teachings ...
... is not static. There are lessons to be learned from the Divine all the while and at every stage of the soul's experience after its entry there during its sadhana. The Prasad Bhavan stands for the central point of the plane, where the psychic's intrinsic sweetness is most directly and intensely experienced. It is approachable only by those who live in the psychic consciousness. A symbol of the psychic... the sense of the sky which appears like a dome. This evocation would mean the Overhead Consciousness with which the psychic has to link up. Within this dome-shaped building is what I have called the central point of the psychic plane, the Prasad Bhavan where there is, as it were, the quintessence of the Divine. It is a deep core surrounded by a wall (with no door or window) where one may have the experience ...
... , and the shadow of the Greek underworld and Tartarus with the sentiment of life and love and death which hangs about them has got into the legendary framework of the Indian Patala and hells. The central idea of the narrative alone is in the Mahabharata; the meeting with Kama and the descent into Hell were additions necessitated by the poverty of incident in the original story. Page 142 ...
... the Great Self glows Like a golden cosmic rose, The petals fanning out from one sweet core, No strangeness anywhere Remains for stare and stare Seeking to itself a door The central Eye of eyes Can shut in all-repose, For the Great Flower knows Its perfume of paradise. 9-5-48 Page 2 ...
... all those who had a television. There would be the image along with the explanation, or the text or speech. A kind of imposing central building where everything would be gathered. I found it rather attractive. I told her that we would have that in Auroville (not the central office: just a receiving set). She said that instead of teachers who teach poorly what they know, there would be the best teaching... 31st. She stayed for about an hour and told me of her hopes: she sees the possibility of a sort of world television (I don't know how that would be arranged), with a telephone, and there would be a central office with a collection of answers to all possible questions—each question answered by someone eminent or qualified. The result would be the organization of a universal education—well, terrestrial—that ...
... Supramental. II It is not sufficient that the central psychic being comes forward and exercises what is at most a general influence on the other limbs of the being. It should enter into its counter-parts or counter-points – the inherent psychic centres of each part and parcel and make them directly active. The central psychic – self – has its delegated selves everywhere in the global... of action should be lifted and raised to a higher potency of poise – the higher the better – towards the higher mind, towards the overmental – and beyond. The Divine Presence in the heart – the central psychic – should not only be felt constantly there in the heart but in all other parts or levels of the being: it must create or awake its figure or norm everywhere so that it can inspire and control ...
... misery in the nerve coils, disease in the body.... Thy voice replies to me: “By the fivefold powers of surrender in the physical, by the quiet intensity of the psychic urge that is behind you, centrally, increase ever and ever the inherent Ananda and the hidden opulences of your consciousness. First of all, become conscious of what I have willed in you; be, next, that of which you have become conscious ...
... vision may legitimately stand without serious alteration by the Alchemical-Hermetic lore she has disclosed in Blake. Being antithetical, either Miltonism or that lore must be seen as determining the central theme. In my view, a full-fledged hybrid is not feasible. Blake's animal must be, in the main, one thing or the other. Only small secondary interminglings can be admitted. As for "much cutting"... Raine's in the Blakean field would not require any repetition, however skilfully framed, the average Blake-student who too is expected to turn my pages would appreciate some return in brief to the central vision at the end of the lengthy and multi-directioned journey. I am afraid the problems which continue to exist between Miss Raine and me would not be so easily resolved as she thinks by what... ambiguous, leave aside evil. To introduce Jesus into The Tyger in whatever manner and even go so far as to say, as Miss Raine did to Sir Geoffrey (January 21, 1961) at her first contact with my central Jesus-thesis: "I think he has found a profound truth not seen by any of us hitherto" - to incline to grant my fundamental point and then try to adapt it to "the world of Experience" which is integral ...
... health a little more, Robi asked Jaikishan-da what had brought him to the Madras Central Station that day, so early in the morning? Jaikishan-da's answer left Robi nonplussed. He said, "Robi, you know I wake up very early in the morning. That morning, as soon as I woke up, I heard a voice telling me to take the car to the Central Station. At first, I ignored these words, but then I heard the same instruction... instruction again much louder, I could not ignore it this time and drove straight down to the Central Station. At the station, I found you and the difficulty you were in! Arup was very ill!" Robi was so overwhelmed by this, that on arriving in Pondicherry, he went straight to Nolini-da to tell him about Arup's illness and requested him to inform the Mother about Jaikishan-da's experience. "Yes, I know", ...
... The Secret of the Veda. Page 76 when there is equilibrium between all these innumerable points of consciousness and their opposites, the central Consciousness is found." Mother, whose consciousness was one with the central Consciousness, and indwelled equally the innumerable points of consciousness and their opposites — "My centre is everywhere. Be very careful," she once cautioned... s again (Pralaya or Dissolution). 1. The Tantras are the manuals not only of Hindu worship and rituals, but of its occultism. Page 67 Interestingly, ages ago, there in Central America, the Mayan civilization had arrived at a similar idea. Like the Indians the Mayans too believed in the cycles of creation and destruction; according to them four earths have already been destroyed ...
... While just a fragile finger Making the sign of the One Can touch through the narrow tunnel The spring of the secret cry With which the lid breaks open The all-seeing central Eye! 9.5.48 Page 229 ...
... Aryans came from Central Asia? Individual travellers could surely bring names of places abroad. These travellers might themselves be Indian Aryans moving out from India and returning with the information. Also, the places abroad could well belong to other Aryan settlements in contact with the Rigvedic. An interchange of knowledge could occur. In any case a collective immigration from Central Asia is not... not mean much. According to Fairservis himself, phases 4 and 5 of the first period of Mundigak in South Afghanistan, considerably pre-dating the second millennium B.C., and also the Quetta wares of Central Baluchistan, belonging again to an early epoch, have pottery equivalents in the early Hissar culture. 9 These equivalents are not seen to raise any Aryan issue. In fact, it is only the presence of... he understands it. The latter, to his mind, depicts the Aryan invasion as a martial push into India; the former provides a different picture: "It was probably not an invasion of hordes of Central Asian nomads who in great and overwhelming waves swept from the steppes to the Doab. It is more likely that Indo-European-speaking pastoral tribes of a variety of traditions and probably of a diversity ...
... and be on one's guard against these malicious suggestions. As long as there is a single part that does not obey the central being, the work of transformation cannot be done, cannot go on.... All the parts of the being must be purified and they must obey only the central being. To find the Divine Presence which alone can help us, to abandon ourselves in His hands to be guided — this is the only ...
... Brahman Avidya, see Ignorance (the) Barbarism, 259, 271-74 passim and civilisation distinguished, 274-75 and culture, 281 economic, 272-74 cf. Savage Being, central, see Central Being emotional, 63 inner, see Inner being outer, see Outer being parts and planes, 336-337, 348-49 physical, see physical, the psychic, see Psychic being structure and... R.M., 371 Buddha, 225, 228, 375, 399 Buddhi, 47, 49, 50, 51, 82, 279 Buddhism (Buddhist), 136, 216, 303, 368, 373, 375 denial of the self, 126 Capra, Fritjof, 316 Central being, 16, 84, 87 cf. Jivatman Centres (of consciousness), 74 Muladhar, 36 Chakras, see Centres (of consciousness) Chit, 6, 8, 163-65, 325, 330-31, 393 See also Consciousness;... 28, 30 Page 421 dynamics of, 393-96 process of, 396-97 See also Social evolution Faith, and belief, 199-200 "blind faith", 203 central, 205 and doubt, 201 and experience, 202 and knowledge, 203-04 Frager, R., 390 Free will, 102-03 Frontal being, see Outer being Gita, 123fn, 65, 168 ...
... tendencies which have become its inner impelling motives. The effort to discover and system of national education is part of this general effort of self-liberation, of self-finding, but perhaps the most central movement of all, in the end even the most important; for it is this which will give shape to the spirit of the nation at present in a state of rather formless flux. It is in fact no more than a chaotic ...
... In answer to my letter, Nolinida wrote to me on 11.8.74 about the marble lotus: Huta, I have seen André about the matter. Now the Lotus became the central issue. On 11.8.74, I wrote the following letter to M. André. Dear M. André, As regards the brochure, certain people have accused me and remarked that there was absolutely no need for me ...
... pure temperament, spiritual & emotional, of the eastern nations which produced Janaca, Valmekie & Buddha, nor the bold intellectual temperament, heroic, ardent and severe, of the Page 152 Central nations which produced Draupadie, Bhema, Urjouna, Bhishma, Vyasa and Srikrishna; neither were they quite akin to the searchingly logical, philosophic & scholastic temperament of the half Dravidian... insight and profundity, the poetry of Suradasa & Tulsi; its people are still the most sincerely orthodox and the most attached to the old type of thought & character, while the Rajputs, who are only a Central Nation which has drifted westward, preserved longest the heroic & chivalrous tradition of the Bharatas. The Dravidians of the South, though they no longer show that magnificent culture and originality ...
... to be a mixture of Greek and Indian art. More of Greek influence than Indian. SRI AUROBINDO: What Gandhara representations I have seen seem to me to be spoiled by Central Asian influence and then bungled by Indian. It is more Central Asian than Greek—it is an imitation of Greece without its mastery, as is the case with all imitation. ...
... hew a new path. It has been a most dynamic work with the entire earth as its central field. It was in the course of this work that Sri Aurobindo declared that the Supramental is the Truth and that its advent on the earth is inevitable. To bring down the supramental consciousness and power on the earth has been the central work of Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo has explained the nature of this work ...
... as you are at present doing and practise daily meditation. 1) Reply of Sri Aurobindo to Rambhai through Punamchand. In meditation you should concentrate first in an inner aspiration that the central truths of which you read in the Arya should be made real to you in conscious experience; and at the same time you should aspire that your mind may open to the calm wideness, strength, peace, life ...
... that the Matrimandir office had been closed by the police, but still a group of Aurovilians continued their work quietly without intervention of the police. Aurovilians hoped to seek help from the Central Government, Delhi. I heard too about the terrible tussle between Shyamsunder and Aurovilians, so that he could not go to his house near the Matrimandir without escorts, also about the dissatisfaction ...
... expression. But above all is the central being (Jivatma) which uses them all for its manifestation: it is a portion of the Divine Self; but this reality of himself is hidden from the external man who replaces this inmost self and soul of him by the mental and vital ego. It is only those who have begun to know themselves that become aware of their true central being; but still it is always there... by the psychic which is itself a spark of the Divine. It is by the growth of the psychic element in one's nature that one begins to come into conscious touch with one's central being above. When that happens and the central being uses a conscious will to control and organize the movements of the nature, it is then that one has a real, a spiritual as opposed to a partial and merely mental or moral... soul or essential psychic existence bears within it; it temporalises and individualises what is eternal in potentiality, transcendent in essence, in this projection of the spirit. The central being is the being which presides over the different births one after the other, but is itself unborn, for it does not descend into the being but is above it — it holds together the mental, vital ...
... be the processes of widening, heightening and deepening of consciousness, and there will be a central attack on inertia, dualities of pressures of the narrowness of egoism and confusion, errors and half-lights. The process of spiritual education will, therefore, battle against this attack and the central experiences of spirituality will flower and the .soul and the Supreme Divine and Divine Will... constantly emphasized, namely, union with the divine, and psychological change by means of which the faculties of body, life and mind are sought to be perfected. * * * Page 144 The central thrust of the critique of spiritual education is to demand justifiable epistemology and ontology of spirituality, and it rightly questions if formulations such as cultivation of inner space, search... these formulations, do refer to some of the preliminary steps that belong to the realm of spirituality, but we need to go farther so as to arrive at a clear precisions. * * * The central issue in regard to the proposal for spiritual education is that of the truth claim of spiritual knowledge. Is there, it is being asked, a domain of reality distinctly correspondent to spirituality ...
... that what is meant is that the methods which are valid and appropriate in the field of learning in regard to knowledge are not applicable to the field of learning in the field of values which are central in the process of development of character. We may readily accept this contention, and we may insist on the necessity of recognising the fact that corresponding to each domain of learning there are... greater scruple in prescribing the methods which can be considered to be distinctively appropriate to this field. Page 19 One speciality of the domain of character is that it is centrally related to volition and affection rather than to cognition. According to some, education for character development should be exclusively or more or less exclusively limited to certain prescribed acts... idea and to introduce such changes in our examination system whereby the educational process can remain unalterably fixed on the right aims of education, which must place development of character in centrality. A radical change in the examination system is a necessary condition of any meaningful education for character development. It is sometimes argued that values can best be taught through the ...
... be than to seem. We need not appear to be good if our sincerity is perfect. And by perfect sincerity we mean that all our thoughts, feelings, sensations and actions should express nothing but the central Truth of our being. Bulletin, April 1950 Page 268 ...
... is that of a centralised government whose natural function is to create and ensure a uniform administration. A central government is necessary to every aggregate which seeks to arrive at an organic unity of its political and economic life. Although nominally or to begin with this central government may be only an organ created by several States that still claim to be sovereign within their own borders... with the original constitution, or if the American policy of aloofness from foreign affairs and complications had not removed the pressure of those necessities that in other nations have aided the central government to engross all real power and convert itself into the source as well as the head or centre of national activities. The traditional policy of the United States, its pacificism, its anti-... administration. The monarchies which the need of concentration called into being, drove first at a preliminary concentration, a gathering of the main threads of administration into the hands of the central authority. We see this everywhere, but the stages of the process are most clearly indicated in the political history of France; for there the confusion of feudal separatism and feudal jurisdictions ...
... has staked out new and defensible ground with his method and results. His research is scholarly and thorough and follows the best principles of sound scientific methodology. Amal Kiran's central thesis regarding Indian prehistory, stated negatively, is that there was not in or around the mid-second millennium B.C. an invasion or even a migration of a people into northwest India who brought... like civilisations, fairly developed by 4000 B.C.-3000 B.C., spanning the Indian northwest and the Black Sea. He does not claim nor deny that the Rigvedic Indians migrated out and colonised Iran and Central Asia, though he suggests that the civilisation in the Indian northwest was the most advanced one in the fourth millennium B.C., based on available evidence. Page 251 This focused... other archaeologists as well. Among them is H.D. Sankalia who writes of "Rana Ghundai IIIc Culture found under the debris of Harappan and the low level (-32 feet) Mohenjodaro". So we have at the two central sites of the Harappa Culture in the Indus Valley a background of horse-knowledge and horse-use much before 2000 B.C. Once we note this, the reluctance to see the Harappa Culture as post-Rigvedic ...
... need to appear to be good if our sincerity is perfect. And by perfect sincerity we mean that all our thoughts, feelings, Page 16 sensations and actions should express nothing but the central Truth of our being." "Tournaments" , On Education When you are absolutely sincere, you make a constant effort to live in harmony with the highest ideal of your being, the truth of your being... you seem indifferent, cold, distant, proud, all this is of no importance; provided, I repeat this, you are absolutely sincere, that is, you never forget that you live in order to realise your inner, central truth. Does not perfection consist in pleasing the Divine and no one else? Yes, if you like, but when one is not absolutely sincere, one deceives oneself very easily, and if one feels comfortable ...
... A Philosophy of Education for the Contemporary Youth Let us understand the contemporary youth Youth is the central propelling force of the future, the future which promises to be radically different in regard to both content and direction. Whether we acknowledge it or not, this Future is in the making, and the contemporary youth is alive to it, consciously or... the light that education can provide, and the constant theme of education is to kindle the light in the heart of the youth. Youth unrest has, therefore, a meaning and significance which is of central relevance to education. Unfortunately, when we think of youth welfare we usually think merely of what are termed 'extra-curricular' activities. We do not realize sufficiently that the youth's health ...
... vigilant - 'sleepless', as the adepts say; you must always refuse to give any chance whatever to the undivine against the divine." (Ibid., p. 2) (4) "The first necessity is to dissolve that central faith and vision in the mind which concentrate it on its development and satisfaction and interests in the old externalised order of things. It is imperative to exchange this surface orientation for... habit which is to it a law and resists a radical change. And no change can be more radical than the revolution attempted in the integral Yoga. Everything in us has constantly to be called back to the central faith and will and vision. Every thought and impulse has to be reminded in the language of the Upanishad that 'That is the divine Brahman and not this which men here adore.' " (Sri Aurobindo, The ...
... for this real working of the spirit in the mind and body of the individual and the nation. That is the principle on which we must build, that the central motive and the guiding ideal. It must be an education that for the individual will make its one central object the growth of the soul and its powers and possibilities, for the nation will keep first in view the preservation, strengthening and enrichment ...
... which is the eternal soul, and the 'psychic being'; similarly, to avoid using the same word in both cases, Sri Aurobindo speaks in later writings of the 'psychic being' and of the divine center or 'central being'—the essential soul. What if we translate it 'la partie supérieure de l'âme,' [the higher part of the soul], rather than 'âme supérieure?' Then the soul would appear to be divided! ...
... mountains. He is the Truth and He is the Mighty One. Sri Aurobindo, Kena and Other Upanishads: The Katha Upanishad of the Black Yajurveda Swan: Indian symbol of the individual soul, the central being, the divine part which is turned towards the Divine, descending from there and ascending to it. Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: The Animal World Swan is the symbol of the soul ...
... things in question are held together. Mental education is a process, of training the mind of students to arrive at such central conceptions around which the widest and most complex and subtle ideas can be assimilated and integrated. It is again found that even these central conceptions point still to a beyond, to their own essential meaning, which can be glimpsed and conceived by the mind, but... by a developed power of observation and concentration and by a wideness of interest. Care should be taken to see that the central ideas are not imposed upon the growing mind - that would be the dogmatic method, which tends to atrophy the mind. The mind should grow towards central ideas which should come as a discovery of the mind made through rigorous exercise of the rational faculty. Stress should... has seen always in the human being a soul, a portion of the divinity enwrapped in the mind and body, a conscious manifestation in Nature of the universal self and spirit, he concluded that the one central object of the national system of education should be the growth of the soul and its powers and possibilities as also the preservation, strengthening and enrichment of the nation-soul and the normative ...
... take it as a problem of the first importance it will become that and stand in your way again, look at it as a question from the past that has been firmly settled and put in its place and turn to the central aim of your sadhana. For the rest, apart from this, circumstances need change nothing in the inward aim and concentrate your will and endeavour on the one thing to be done — the entire self-giving ...
... framework or scaffolding within which the new edifice shall arise. Next, there must come naturally a period of stringent organisation directed towards unity and centrality of control and perhaps a general levelling and uniformity under that central direction. Last, if the new organism is not to fossilise and stereotype its life, if it is to be still a living and vigorous creation of Nature, there must come... passionate determination of the liberated Italian people to establish its King in Rome was really a symbol of the law that a self-conscious and politically organised nation can have only one supreme and central authority admitted in its midst and that must be the secular power. The nation which has reached or is reaching this stage must either separate the religious and spiritual claim from its common secular... monarchical absolutism and its tendencies. For always this is a movement of concentration, stringency, uniformity, strong control and one-pointed direction; to universalise one law, one rule, one central authority is the need it has to meet, and therefore its spirit must be to enforce and centralise authority, to narrow or quite suppress liberty and free variation. In England the period of the New ...
... doesn't one catch the central truth and come to the path of the supramental Yoga? I don't know what you mean. But there are also many people who believe they are following the yoga of Sri Aurobindo and who don't reach the supramental truth. Page 63 It does not depend so much on the path one follows; it depends on the capacity one has. But I am asking: the central truth of the Gita... Gita is surrender to the Lord—why doesn't one grasp that?... "Its highest mystery of absolute surrender to the Divine Guide, Lord and Inhabitant of our nature, is the central secret." The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 87 But of course, this is what is written in the Gita, that you must give yourself entirely. You know, in the Gita, Krishna is the Guide and inner Master, and you must give yourself ...
... Education" and "A Preface on National Education). (iii) A scheme for the organisation and methods to carry out the task of educating the people. The Scheme There must be a central body consisting of people who have achieved all the qualities mentioned above. They will be engaged in educating the people from four points of view: Page 5 (i) Physical. (ii) ... the unions to villages. In this way there will be educative centres every- where all over the province. Each centre will work for educating the people of that place, always keeping in touch with the central body to which reports on the work will be sent regularly. Physical Education (See Message—by Sri Aurobindo) It has two branches:— a) Health Education. b) Physical... ion will be made on a mass scale. On the 15 th August, all the centres will meet in one centre and each one will give its performance, showing the speciality of the centre, if any. This central meeting will be held by turn in one district every year. See the Mother's writings on physical Education for further details. Vital Education All about Vital Education ...
... ion even when the Mother was there. She was quite in the know of it but she did not consider it an ultimate bar; and she and Sri Aurobindo never thought that to take humanity forward with them - centrally in the shape of the Ashram - rather than to do the Yoga by themselves was a Page 307 mistake. Defects and shortcomings were always expected by the Mother, and Sri Aurobindo has said... equality and both are harmonised by a spontaneous and inherent fraternity. There has, of course, to be a centre around which the divine democracy revolves, but there is no monolithic government and the central one who is infinitely diversified no less than multiplied all around is primus inter pares , a leader of equals. Behind this plane of what we might call archetypal manifestation - Sri Aurobindo's... getting out at the same time a most silly-looking person with an awkward gait and literally "squeaking" voice. I felt so ashamed to know that he was a part of my complex make-up. Surely he was not the central Me but some identification with him must be taking place when a markedly silly impulse rises in me and luckily gets curbed and rejected before I make a fool of myself. You have written of ...
... t of them, nor is it a process of successive practice of these systems of yoga. As noted earlier, the one central principle common to all the systems of yoga is concentration, and this principle is developed integrally and applied integrally to the integral object of realization; that central principle is so utilized that it becomes the basis of organizing a natural selection and combination of the... energies and different utilities or varieties of specialized and Page 75 synthetic systems of yoga. In this synthesis, the forms and outsides of the Yogic disciplines are neglected, and the central principle of concentration is enlarged so as to become a vehicle of the total concentrated utilization and offering or sacrifice of all the human energies to the all-integrating Supreme. The true essence... Light. And yet its secret of dynamic, and not only static, identity with the inner Presence, its highest mystery of absolute surrender to the Divine Guide, Lord and Inhabitant of our nature, is the central secret. This surrender is the indispensable means of the supramental change and, again, it is through the supramental change that the dynamic identity becomes possible." 59 The new synthesis ...
... reject a thing from Page 103 the mind, it comes to the vital. When you reject it from the vital, then it comes to the physical and then you find it in the subconscient. There is a central point in the subconscient that has to be changed. If that is done, then everything is done. It is from there that resistance rises from Nature – that is what Vivekananda meant. To effect complete ... "complete union"? For instance, Ramakrishna asked the Divine Mother not to send him "Kama" – sex-impulse – and he succeeded, but all cases are not like that. It is quite possible to reject something centrally and totally – that is to say, completely – but one can't make general rule about these things. Our yoga is like a new path made out in the jungle and there is no previous road in the region. I ...
... in their entirety, strive to reproduce, insofar as possible, the original Truth. Page 66 If one element of this totality is taken separately and affirmed as the only true one, however central or comprehensive it may be, it necessarily becomes a falsehood, since it denies all the rest of the Total Truth. This is precisely how indisputable dogmas are created and this is why they are the ...
... 1963? THE ALL-INDIA LANGUAGE QUESTION The Mother’s Views The only immediate solution is that each province should keep its own language as official language of the State and that for Central Administration the existing common language of English should continue for the moment. A GIST OF SRI AUROBINDO’S VIEWS ( from Nirodbaran ) If India is to be an international State, English ...
... steadily weeded out. To have this outwardly as well as inwardly is a great progress. It is true that a central sincerity is not enough except as a beginning and a base; the sincerity must spread as you describe through the whole nature. But still unless there is a double nature (without a central harmonising consciousness) the basis is usually sufficient for that to happen. I do not think there ...
... final in July 1991, when the CBI did not want to proceed further. The third case was for alleged criminal breach of trust in respect of more than fifteen lakhs of rupees of Government grants. The Central Government and several States had given more than seventy lakhs as grants for construction of Bharat Nivas (cultural pavilions) at Auroville. The CBI found that all the grant monies had been recorded... while doing so passed strictures against Kireet Joshi and the CBI. The Chief Judicial Magistrate observed in his order of acquittal: "As a matter of fact no governments, either State or Central, have come forward with any allegations of misappropriation of funds or mismanagement... As rightly pointed out by the learned counsel for the defence there are bigger forces behind and the accused ...
... things in question are held together. Mental education is a process of training the mind of students to arrive at such central conceptions around which the widest and most complex and subtle ideas can be assimilated and integrated. It is again found that even these central conceptions point still to a beyond, to their own essential Meaning, which can be glimpsed and conceived by the mind, but... a developed power of observation and concentration and by a wideness of interests. Care should be taken to see that the central ideas are not imposed upon the growing mind -- that would be the dogmatic method, which tends to atrophy the mind. The mind should grow towards central ideas which should come Page 36 as a discovery of the mind made through rigorous exercise of the rational faculty... of the programme: Development of the power of concentration, and attention; Development of the capacities of expansion, wideness, complexity and richness; Organisation of ideas round a central or a higher ideal or a supremely luminous idea that will serve as a guide in life; Thought control, rejection of undesirable thoughts so that one may, in the end, think only what one wants and ...
... brought about by the Divine himself. And this is what Sri Aurobindo has pointed out as the central truth, the supreme secret, of the sadhana of transformation. "By remaining psychically open to the Mother, all that is necessary for work or Sadhana develops progressively, that is one of the chief secrets, the central secret of the Sadhana." (Sri Aurobindo, On the Mother, p. 121) We have by now ... resistant. What to do in such a situation? Here is Sri Aurobindo' s advice to the sadhaka: "The principle of total opening has to be accepted from the beginning. But in practice there must be a central opening in each part and a dominant aspiration and will in each part (not in the mind alone) to admit only the Mother's workings: the rest will then be progressively done." Sri Aurobindo has... of rejection of all that is in him opposed to this opening, then it is absolutely true that perfect opening is bound to come sooner or later. There is no doubt about it. Now we come to the central issue of the present chapter. Is there any specific sadhana procedure by following which a sadhaka initially deficient in his openness can hope to arrive at a state of full opening? What are the conditions ...
... "The unique and sensational event on which the whole of human history turns" - that is how, in an address on April 5, 1972, Pope Paul VI characterised what the doctrine which has been central to Christianity from the very beginning affirms: the Resurrection of Jesus' crucified body. This doctrine is meant to convey the sense of an unparalleled intervention by God in our world's affairs ...
... This book is a translation of a memoir written in Tamil by K. Amrita, an early disciple of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Amrita recounts the story of his childhood and student life, but always his central concern is his relationship with Sri Aurobindo and his efforts to come closer to him. Amrita’s tale, told with honesty and ardour, has all the poignancy of a sensitive young Tamil Brahmin discovering ...
... descent with the diamond light is the sanction of the Supreme Power to the movement in you. (d) The Mother's diamond light is a light of absolute purity and power. (e) The diamond light is the central consciousness and force of the Divine. The Mother's light is white—especially diamond white. The Mahakali form is usually golden, of a very bright and strong golden hue. 12 October 1935 ...
... absolute monarch was never an Indian idea. It was brought from Central Asia by the Madans. The English in accepting this system have disfigured it considerably. They have found ways to put their hand on and grasp all the old organisations, using them merely as channels to establish more thoroughly the authority of the Central Power. They discouraged every free organisation and every attempt... passed into the Page 20 hands of the Turks it became a mere political institution without the fact of it. Disciple : The nationalists seem to be in the majority in the Indian central Assembly. Sri Aurobindo : It does not seem to be certain yet; there is every chance that the budget would be thrown out. Disciple : At last Dr. Gaur has fallen off (from the nationalist... how he felt and how it all touched him ! Disciple : He becomes so much identified with the work in hand that he can hardly have that detached self-view which is necessary to detect the central k mistake. Sri Aurobindo : If the resolutions he has brought forward are defeated, or if a certain resolution is ruled out of order, there is no reason why he should feel hurt and that ...
... direct awakening to the universal or transcendent Truth and Bliss by the conversion of the central ego in the mind. And according to the point of contact that we choose will be the type of the Yoga that we practise. For if, leaving aside the complexities of their particular processes, we fix our regard on the central principle of the chief schools of Yoga still prevalent in India, we find that they arrange... them in our brief survey of the natural evolution, we shall find repeated in the fundamental principles and methods of the different schools of Yoga. And if we seek to combine and harmonise their central practices and their predominant aims, we shall find that the basis provided by Nature is still our natural basis and the condition of their synthesis. In one respect Yoga exceeds the normal operation... Rajayoga leaves unoccupied. It differs from Rajayoga in that it does not occupy itself with the elaborate training of the whole mental system as the condition of perfection, but seizes on certain central principles, the intellect, the heart, the will, and seeks to convert their normal operations by turning them away from their ordinary and external preoccupations and activities and concentrating them ...
... sometimes a quieting and sometimes a return of the disturbances, and always the same defect persisting to the end of the chapter. The one condition for getting rid of these things is an absolute central sincerity in all the parts of the being, and that means an absolute insistence on the Truth and nothing but the Truth. There will then be a readiness for unsparing self-criticism and vigilant openness... more or less common in various degrees in almost every sadhaka, though there are some who are not touched by them. They can be got rid of if the requisite sincerity is there. But if they occupy the central parts of the being and vitiate the attitude, then the sadhaka will give a constant open or covert support to them, his mind will always be ready to give disguises and justifications and try to elude ...
... character of human nature and consciousness, 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... climbed into the mental consciousness and became a manomaya purusha; from that level again he has been attempting to go further beyond. On each plane the normal life is planned according to the central character, the law— dharma—of that plane. One can have the religious or spiritual experience on each of these planes, representing various degrees of growth and evolution according to the plane to ...
... that the fundamental thing in any "seeing operation" is the impression made by an external object on the physical organ of sight and that the only business of our mind which happens to be the present central principle of our consciousness is to receive the physical impression produced and its nervous translation and thus be aware of the object in question. But this account errs on many counts. ...
... Disciple : You said to D that his keeping the attitude that "I am the child of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo – nothing can oppose me" was quite proper. Sri Aurobindo : That is the central faith which one is required to have in this Yoga. If one can make that faith living in all parts of the being then it would be quite alright. But the body says, 'I have pain – I am suffering.' It has ...
... has closed itself in you must open for the help to work quickly as it did before. Otherwise too it can pull you out, but if there is this strong obstruction that has to be undone, time is needed. A central change of attitude in your mind would, I believe, make all the difference — it has done so before. (1.2.37) ...
... Mind, Thought, and Stillness The core of Eckhart's teachings is related to mind, thought, and stillness. The following statements, paraphrased from his writings and talks, encapsulate these central teachings: The ordinary or normal state of the human being is, at the present stage of the evolution of consciousness, a state of identification with mind and thought. In other words, the human ...
... delegates and spectators on the right of the Chair sprang to their feet and shouted without a moment's pause." That is Nevinson giving an eyewitness account. "Over their heads was the label, 'Central Provinces'— Central Provinces where Nagpur stands and the Congress was to have been. Page 415 'Remember Nagpur!' they cried; 'Remember Midnapur!' ... White turbans from Madras joined them.... reached Surat. There were already many delegates who had come and they kept arriving from all over the country. Among them were Ashwini Kumar Dutt from Bengal, G. S. Khaparde and Dr. Munje from the Central Provinces, Lala Lajpat Rai from Punjab, Chidambaram Pillai from the South 1 —in fact, all the leaders worth their salt. And, of course, Tilak from Maharashtra, who had reached Surat a day earlier ...
... instance from Savitri we have an ultra-Homeric simile, a long-drawn-out comparison whose sense, beginning with "As", is completed only when the full comparative picture has been painted and then the central situation which the simile illuminates is stated. If a sentence starts with an "As", it cannot be complete until there is a "so also" or its equivalent in some form at the other end to introduce the... organicity has what we may call a living limita-tiveness which practically ensures that the sentence would assimilate within its vital system only the right amount of detail necessary to unfold the central meaning: a limit is intrinsically imposed upon the length, rendering this length, and no other, vitally significant. Such organicity is different from that of a passage where to enrich the theme one ...
... the red hot tension between Bavaria and the central Government, and the catastrophic state of the finances and the economy with the resulting riots and unemployment, it is no wonder that Sebastian Haffner writes: “In the autumn of 1923 the German Reich was on the verge of political extinction.” 211 Joachim Fest is of the same opinion: “The harassed [central] government might well see the events in Munich ...
... with the rapture-roll of these lines and with the picture they conjure up of a mighty descent from the Superconscient Ether into the human spirit and of a vast receptivity in that spirit's central organ. The central organ experiences at once an expansion and a subdual - its pulsation loses all common excitement and narrow sensation, it comes to know great prolonged gaps of silence between one throb and ...
... is individualised and becomes a central being, it is then the Jivatman. The Jjivatman feels his oneness with the universal but at the same time is centrally experienced as a portion of the Divine. In other words, the Jivatman is the central being which is itself unborn but which presides over the individual evolution. The soul is the representative of the central being. It is a spark of the Divine... soul. The developed soul is properly termed the psychic being. The psychic being is also termed as the central being for the purposes of the evolution, for it grows and develops, and it is that which can effectuate a harmonious integration of the mental, vital and physical personality. The term 'central being' is also used for Jivatman, the individual Self which presides unseen over the evolution and... mental, the vital and the physical. The mind proper is divided into three parts thinking Mind, dynamic Mind and externalising Mind. The vital is divided into three parts, the emotional vital, the central vital and the lower vital. The physical refers to the material or physical consciousness and to the physical body. The thinking Mind is concerned with ideas and knowledge in their own right. It ...
... reason to find out reasons for justifying its own feelings and impulses. 8 In conclusion, my summary statement of the central messages of Eckhart's teachings has also undergone modification. I concluded the first chapter by stating what seemed to be Eckhart's two central messages: dwell in the Now, and surrender to what is. I now see the two messages to be two aspects of a single message that... with the Divine's Will, and the Buddhist practice of living in the present moment, the Now, are essentially two aspects of the same practice. To do either, one has to rise above self-seeking, the central knot that ties us to ordinary consciousness. On the path such as that of yoga, which envisages a distant goal that can be attained only in the more or less remote future, there are two common ...
... depend upon one central issue. Modern science has so far tended to concentrate on the knowledge of Matter or on life and mind as embodied in Matter. It has also tended to develop those methods, which have proved successful in studies where empirical observation and measurement are feasible. It is evident that the domains with which philosophy, religion and Yoga deal with centrally transcend Matter... experiential aspect of religion. Religion of humanism is another aspect, which has developed in recent times, which wants to install man and his holistic search of knowledge and fulfilment as the central concern. Sri Aurobindo has spoken of spiritual religion of humanity as the hope of the future, a religion that is non-dogmatic, that is entirely removed from religionism and devoted to the Yogic pursuit ...
... of their ideas and methods. The new synthesis of yoga has, however, been able to seize on some central principle common to all which includes and utilizes in the right place and proportion the particular principles of the varieties of the yogic disciplines; it has also been able to seize on some central dynamic force which is the common secret of the divergent methods and capable therefore of organizing... transformation of our integral being into the terms of the supramental divine existence that the synthesis of yoga or integral yoga becomes indispensable. The one common principle and the one central dynamic Force in all systems of yoga is that of concentration; in the new synthesis, that common principle and force of concentration is sought to be developed integrally, as a result of which the ...
... Flag for India Pacifism and the Indian Spirit The Significance of the English Language in India Sri Aurobindo - The Poet: Rejoinders to Recent Criticisms The Central Sarojini A Defence of Hinduism The Real Gandhi: An Impartial Estimate of His Greatness Revivalism and Secularism August 15: Its World-Significance The Passing of Sri Aurobindo: ...
... (Nirmal Nahar's collection) 124 A street in Manchester at the end of the last century 128 Manmohan and Benoybhusan in Manchester (courtesy Smt, Lahori Chatterjee) 135 A street in central London late last century 146 A lake in the Lake District early this century 186 King's College , Cambridge, late last century 234 The Thames, London, late last century ...
... beyond their mutual exclusion as regards fundamentals. I leave it to experts to contemplate the strange question: "Could The Tyger by any vii chance yield a double perspective, the central theme allowing two distinct antithetical views, alternatively Christological-Miltonic and Alchemical-Hermetic?" February 21, 1987 viii ...
... poetry. This audience is expected to welcome the cut and thrust of two idealistic friends on a much larger scale covering a greater field of literary reference fanning out essentially from the same central theme as before. This theme is the poetic vision and work of Sri Aurobindo, mostly exemplified in his epic Savitri: A Legend and a Symbol. In the course of the main discussion a diversity ...
... November 30, 1968 For February 21 next, couldn't we broadcast at the Playground the recording of that very important conversation, you know, on the "central experience"? 1 No. Impossible to speak.... The body constantly feels it's learning—learning to live. And learning to be what it must be. Constantly, night and day. And that's all ...
... value of our ancient painting and sculpture. The subjects of the four articles in this number are all of a considerable interest and touch points or raise and answer questions which have either a central importance or a vital though second-plane prominence in Indian art, and each article is a remarkably just, full, efficient and understanding interpretation of its subject. The frontispiece is a panel... spirit into an element of divine harmony and significance. The remaining article by Mr. E. Vredenburg on the continuity of pictorial tradition in the art of India treats a question of the most central importance and brings to it a fine aesthetic instinct even more necessary than historic and archaeological accuracy of information in such a discussion, for one may have the latter and yet miss the ...
... poetryhave filled his poems with honeyed delight. Sethna can coerce us into entering the worlds of the spirit with effortless ease. Would you want to know the saranagati tattva which is the central spring of India's religious thought? Sethna can take us straight to that divine being of fraternal love. Bharata the image of total surrender prayerfully paying his daily homage to the sandals... poets (including Dante): swings of mystic ardour; metaphysical conceits ("a fourscore sun focussing eternity"); psychological probings; aspirations. All of them linked, however tenuously, to the central idea that existence is a unified, seamless whole. Even the Lord of Severance, Death is truly Hiranyagarbha, Lord of Life as the volume takes its title from Sri Aurobindo's epic Savitri where... volume to the author's first venture in the historical field: The Problem of Aryan Origins, published in 1980. It converges on the same goal but by different routes and thus adds strength to the central thesis. What is attempted is a general revision of ancient Indian history. Taking the aid of archaeological discovery, documentary material and linguistic study, the book seeks to bring ...
... in the Gita. The culminating point of this knowledge is, in terms of the Gita, the knowledge of Purushottama and Para-prakriti. 57 A central objective to be fulfilled by the practice of the synthesis of Gita's yoga is that we, as individuals, have a central role, and that we are here to move inwardly towards a greater consciousness and a supreme existence, not by a total exclusion of our cosmic... operation of the Purusha consciousness or Brahman consciousness; and as the yogic processes progress farther, the principle of surrender to the Shakti or Divine Mother which is so central in the Tantra also becomes central; there is, however, full recognition that the shakti is the power of Purushottama and is herself Purushottama. In the Tantra, the initial stress is on starting from the bottom, and... Light. And yet its secret of dynamic, and not only static, identity with the inner Presence, its highest mystery of absolute surrender to the Divine Guide, Lord and Inhabitant of our nature, is the central secret. This surrender is the indispensable means of the supramental change and, again, it is through the supramental change that the dynamic Page 77 identity becomes possible." 65 ...
... the lifeless academic notion that the subject, the acquiring of this or that kind of information is the whole or the central matter. But the acquiring of various kinds of information is only one and not the chief of the means and necessities of Page 420 education: its central aim is the building of the powers of the human mind and spirit, it is the formation or, as I would prefer to view it... for this real working of the spirit in the mind and body of the individual and the nation. That is the principle on which we must build, that the central motive and the guiding ideal. It must be an education that for the individual will make its one central object the growth of the soul and its powers and possibilities, for the nation will keep first in view the preservation, strengthening and enrichment ...
... place upon the lifeless academic notion that the subject, the acquiring of this or that kind of information is the whole or the central matter. But the acquiring of various kinds of information is only one and not the chief of the means and necessities of education: its central aim is the building of the powers of the human mind and spirit, it is the formation or, as I would prefer to view it, the evoking... for this real working of the spirit in the mind and body of the individual and the nation. That is the principle on which we must build, that the central motive and the guiding ideal. It must be an education that for the individual will make its one central object the growth of the soul and its powers and possibilities, for the nation will keep first in view the preservation, strengthening and enrichment ...
... view." 8 The self, Atman is in its nature either transcendent or universal (Paramatma, Atma). When it individualises and becomes a central being, it is then the Jivatman. The Jivatman feels his oneness with the universal but at the same time his central separateness as a portion of the Divine." 9 Page 79 The individual soul is the spiritual being which is sometimes described ...
... Achaeans: They were the Greeks of the Heroic Age, who had become, by the time of the siege of Troy, the most powerful of the Greek tribes. They were probably originally central Europeans who came into Greece around 2000 BC and gradually adopted Greek speech and customs. From this tribe descended the kings of Athens, who brought order and power to that city. Achelous:... became Achilles' slave-concubine when he sacked her town and killed her husband. She was later taken from Achilles by his king Agamemnon. This act set off the quarrel between the two which forms the central unresolved problem in the Iliad. Cassandra: the most beautiful daughter of Priam and Hecuba;She was loved by Apollo, but deceived him. In retaliation he cursed her with the gift of prophecy ...
... ceases, there comes up another cry, "a warped echo naked and shuddering" from the mental Man, man the apologist and would-be practitioner of pure reason: The finite he has made his central field, Its plan dissects, masters its processes,... His knowledge scans bright pebbles on the shore Of the huge ocean of his ignorance. 290 Hasn't the sum of... 291 Matter has been explored, and mind too; the sciences are multiplying, and the techniques of analysis or organisation are getting to be more and more subtle and complicated; yet the central mystery of creation remains, and man doesn't yet know how to pluck the heart of the mystery. Is the phenomenal world but the play of the magic of Maya? Is there a realm of absolutes? But mind-centred ...
... character of human nature and consciousness, 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 became a manomaya purusa; from that level again he has been attempting to go further beyond. On each plane the normal life is planned according to the central character, the law—dharma—of that plane. One can have the religious or spiritual experience on each of these planes, representing various degrees of growth and evolution according to the plane to which ...
... character of human nature and consciousness, 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 became a manomaya purusa; from that level again he has been attempting to go further beyond. On each plane the normal life is planned according to the central character, the law – dharma – of that plane. One can have the religious or spiritual experience on each of these planes, representing various degrees of growth and evolution according to the plane ...
... original and essential nature of our existence; the spiritual being above the mind. In its nature the Atman is transcendent or universal (Paramatma, Atma); when it individualises and becomes a central being, it is then the Jivatman. Avidya — ignorance; the Ignorance of oneness; the consciousness of Multiplicity. avyavahā ryam — the incommunicable. Bhagwan — the Lord... the discerning intelligence and enlightened will; the discriminating principle of mind, at once intelligence and will. caitya puruṣ a — psychic Person; the psychic being. Central Being — the term is generally applied to the portion of the Divine in us which supports all the rest and survives through death and birth. It has two forms: the Jivatman, which is above the man... movements of thought, emotion, sensation, impulse, etc. "Chitta really means the ordinary consciousness including the mind, vital and physical — but practically it can be taken to mean something central in the consciousness." — Sri Aurobindo "Chitta is ordinarily used for the mental consciousness in general, thought, feeling, etc. taken together with a stress now on one side or another, sometimes ...
... not the example of the outward acts nor that of the personal character which is of most importance. These have their place and their utility; but what will most stimulate aspiration in others is the central fact of the divine realisation within him governing his whole life and inner state and all his activities. This is the universal and essential element; the rest belongs to individual person and ci ...
... His father remarried. There were eight children in the family and Sitaram was the eldest. Sitaram later went to his uncle’s (or grandfather’s) at Bangalore for studies. He passed his B. Sc. at the Central College. He had a dear friend, Natesan Iyyer by name. The two friends came to hear of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo from a relative of Sitaram. They first went to Chennai (Madras) and then visited the ...
... exclusive or to persist even when its time is over, then it ceases to be true. Page 197 If any element of this totality is taken separately and affirmed as the sole truth, however central or comprehensive it may be, it necessarily becomes a falsehood, for then it denies all the rest of the total Truth. This is precisely what constitutes an indisputable dogma, and this is why it is the ...
... being. All this, I sweep aside and I see the central being — the soul — which tells me of the possibility that is there, that is trying to express itself and to emerge. When I look, the screen which was covering it opens itself and the soul tells me all that is to be done. And it is this that draws one forward, so that there is a contact with the central being which expresses its will to act directly... gesture ), and of a perfect equanimity. To feel and be united in this perfect and immutable peace… then to enter into that serene beatitude where the consciousness is completely identified with the central being. There, there is no duality anymore, no existence anymore, nothing at all — to be one with this spark of the Immortal Flame, the Immanent Divine, the Unique and the One, the Soul that resides ...
... to convert the whole nation to the idea of independence was a later acquisition in Sri Aurobindo's armoury. He had started out with a secret revolutionary propaganda and organization of which the central object was the preparation of an armed insurrection. "We wanted," he said, "to give battle after awakening the spirit of the race through guerilla warfare.... My idea was for an open armed revolution... existence but all scattered and acting without reference to each other. I tried to unite them under a single organisation with the barrister P. Mitra as the leader of the revolution in Bengal and a central council of five persons, one of them being Nivedita. The work under P. Mitra spread enormously and finally contained tens of thousands of young men and the spirit of revolution spread by Barin's paper... him to organise Maharashtra and the Mahratta States. He himself worked principally upon the army of which he had already won over two or three regiments. Sri Aurobindo took a special journey into Central India to meet and speak with Indian sub-officers and men of one of these regiments," Sri Aurobindo stated explicitly. Sister Nivedita also had links with Rajput Thakurs. "She went about among ...
... asiddhi, which no longer confines itself to this or that particularity, but seeks to cover the whole field. Nevertheless, the nodus of the asiddhi is unfaith based on uncertainty as to whether the central theory of the Yoga, namely the Apas, Tapas & Adesha is not a falsehood and a self-delusion. Much more than the doubt Page 334 about the rapidity, is this the root of the whole disorder... now be entirely confirmed. There is the beginning of the satya tejas & satya tapas, but only as yet the beginning. 6 December 1913 The pressure of the old tejas has been removed from the central system, but it still surrounds the nature. When that is dispelled then the present difficulties will disappear. At present it seems that the intellectuality is justified in certain of its conclusions;... be well-established & increasingly powerful everywhere. It is now being developed & fixed in the tejasic touches, at the side, in the lipi & the telepathy of thought. It is already dominant in the central viveka & the general telepathy. The foundation has been laid for the final transfer of the thought & knowledge from the vijnanabuddhi to the vijnana. The powers of Tapas increase in their dominance ...
... for all the centres are in the middle of the body), but it is deep behind. When one is going away from the vital into the psychic, it is felt as if one is going deep deep down till one reaches that central place of the psychic. The surface of the heart centre is the place of the emotional being; from there one goes deep to find the psychic. The more one goes, the more intense becomes the psychic happiness... motives by Yogic ambition or desire for greatness or get misled by vital desires; but this can always be avoided if your mind knows and holds to it firmly that union with the Divine alone is the true central object of sadhana. Page 343 The Psychic Awakening The psychic being is always there, but is not felt because it is covered up by the mind and vital; when it is no longer covered up,... and in touch with us. Let not mistakes of thought or speech or action disturb you—put them away from you as something superficial which the Power and Light will deal with and remove. Keep to the one central thing—your soul and these higher realities it brings with it. That is good—the awakening of the psychic consciousness and its control over the rest is one of the most indispensable elements ...
... being would break up into small pieces. Instead of going off like a vapour or a liquid, it goes off by little bits. Each of these pieces of vital substance is gathered around the central impulse, the central desire, the central passion of that piece, thus creating little entities which don't have a human form but take at times an indefinite form; at times they resemble the body to which the pieces belonged ...
... mental, vital and the physical. Sri Aurobindo speaks of three parts of the mind, — thinking Mind, dynamic Mind and externalizing Mind. The vital is divided into three parts, the emotional vital, the central vital and the lower vital. The physical refers to the material or physical consciousness or corporeal consciousness and to the physical body. The thinking Mind is concerned with ideas and knowledge... and knowledge and mental forces in life, not only by speech, but by any form it can give. The emotional vital is the seat of various feelings, such as love, joy, sorrow, hatred and the rest. The central vital is the seat of the stronger vital longings and reactions, such as ambition, pride, fear, love of fame, attractions and repulsions, Page 30 desires and passions of various kinds and... distinguished from the dynamic Mind. While the mental-vital is limited by the vital view and feelings of things, the dynamic Mind is not, for it acts by idea and reason. The emotional vital and the central vital are sometimes taken together and referred to as the higher vital, in contrast to the lower vital which is concerned with the bottom movements of action and desire and stretches down into the ...
... being taught. And what is he taught? If anything at all, it will be that some 1500 years before the Christian era, hordes of semi-barbarian, Sanskrit-speaking nomads called 'Aryans' poured from Central Asia or thereabouts into north-west India, where they came upon the highly developed Indus Valley or Harappan civilization, which had been flourishing there for over a millennium and whose inhabitants... this venerated if crumbling pillar of ancient history to figure in our Indian textbooks for some more time, during which the roots of India's civilization and culture will continue to be somewhere in Central Asia, just as the sun kept revolving around the earth for a few centuries after Copernicus, and species remained forbidden to evolve for decades after Darwin. But how did this theory come to be... the Vedic people, who had such a strong bond with the land, its mountains and forests and rivers, would not have carried into their culture the least memory of their supposed ancestral steppes in Central Asia. This is all the more strange if we remember that the Epics and Puranas are regarded as based on historical tradition (itihāsa), considerably embellished, to be sure, but still with a kernel ...
... of Avatar and that two general categories may be distinguished; the central Avatar and the peripheral Avatar — the central expressing the Divine Plenitude directly, the peripheral doing it indirectly — the central conveying a sense of totality in various manners, the peripheral a sense of particular qualities — the central coming in periods of great evolutionary transitions, the peripheral in... from above". She explains: "The evolutionary being is the one that's the continuation of the animals, and the other is a being from higher worlds.... But in the evolutionary being there is that central light which is the origin of the psychic being and which will develop into the psychic being., and when the psychic being is full-formed, there is a moment when it can unite with a being from above... general Page 52 all souls, including the soul meant to be the Avatar, are on a par: all have their corresponding "involutionary" beings. But we have to visualise on every plane a central involutionary self which is the destined Avatar's and around it the other involutionary selves. If there were not a general parity, the Avatar's pioneering life would not be significant for the ...
... Part 3 Part 3 Words of Long Ago The Central Thought Originally an introduction to the talk now known as The Supreme Discovery ( see pp. 38-44 ) We are meeting for the last time this year—at least physically, for I hope we shall always remain united in thought, at all events in the same desire for progress, for perfection. This desire should always ...
... generation, who do not have the advantage of being "close to Mother" or in the circle of "important persons," and who suffer from never seeing Mother. This was in fact—which is why we record it—a very central problem at the Ashram: a sort of dichotomy between the simple elements who washed the dishes, stitched clothes or greased cars, and who were there simply with their love for Mother, and the "leading" ...
... liberation, perfection, fullness too are not to be for our own sake, but for the sake of the Divine. I emphasize this character of the creation, because a constant forgetfulness of this simple and central truth, a conscious, half-conscious or wholly ignorant confusion about it has been at the root of the most of the vital revolts that have spoiled many an individual sadhana here and disturbed the progress ...
... and remain silent and open like this. (Mother opens Her hands like a flower above Her head) Once there — but one must sincerely make a great effort to find it, — you come in contact with the central being; everything else becomes silent, and one has the feeling that "the Divine does everything for me". One is seized by an immutable joy, peace and freedom. And then nothing in the world is interesting ...
... fulfilment of the Divine’s Will by the Divine Power. This attitude is never difficult for the psychic, it is its natural position and feeling, and whenever your psychic was in front you had it in your central consciousness. But there was the outer mind, vital and physical that brought in their mixture of desire and ego and there could be no effective liberation in life and action till these were liberated ...
... of the hill. ( Mother takes a piece of paper and starts drawing ) Here we have (naturally in Nature it's not like this: we'll have to adapt—it's like this up there, in the ideal), here, a central point. This central point is a park I had seen when I was a little girl (perhaps the most beautiful thing in the world with regard to physical, material Nature), a park with water and trees like all parks, and... Truth".... ( laughing ) It's a very nice plan (!) So I will probably put her as keeper of the park, with a little house on the road, at the entrance. But the interesting thing is that around this central point, there are four large sections, like four large petals ( Mother draws ), but the corners of the petals are rounded and there are small intermediate zones: four large sections and four zones.... river. A hill was necessary because Sri Aurobindo's house was on top of the hill. But Sri Aurobindo was there, in the center. It was arranged according to the plan of my symbol, that is to say, a central point with Sri Aurobindo and all that concerns Sri Aurobindo's life, then four large petals (which weren't the same as in this drawing, they were something different), then twelve petals around (the ...
... it is the teacher who possesses the sound knowledge that leads to perfection; but all this constitutes the background so that central concentration falls on the utsaha of the child, enthusiasm of the child. The visible or invisible action of the teacher is connected centrally with the spontaneous process of the students's quest. The teacher's aid is the third aid in the process, and it comes in the... intelligence, qualities of character, values like patriotism and universality, or skills of head, heart and hands. It follows that we need to attend to the problem of goals of education in such a central way that they would shine out glaringly and would oblige the entire process of teaching-learning to be geared into a creative organisation of the lives of students and teachers, and which would vibrantly... or else, attempts are being made to dovetail a few elements in the existing curriculum in an artificial manner. A more important subject, which is not even recognised as a subject, but which was a central subject in the ancient curriculum of India, and of which Veda and Upanishads were the real texts, is not even contemplated. This relates to the knowledge of the self and the method by which this knowledge ...
... to return from the page - 58 darkness of unknowing and locate itself within the domain of a workable human language. Cottingham refers to the Christian reader and points out that the central concept of the Incarnation makes visible to him,in the person of one human being, the icon of the invisible God. He argues that if the Transcendence of God is not to be lost in silence, we need a... Cottingham's Solution and Indian Solution of Conflict of Religions Cottingham has brought out, with penetrating insight, several aspects of the problem of pluralism of religions, which is central to the contemporary world. In presenting the problem and its solution, Cottingham seems to come very close to the problem and solution of pluralism of religions that we find in the Indian experience... hundred shapes, it was precisely because of its emphasis on praxis. It encouraged the pursuit of spiritual praxis, and did not consider intellectual or theological conceptions to be the one thing of central importance. It allowed the development of varieties of conceptions and varieties of forms and emphasized the attainment of spiritual consciousnesses by inner experience. As a result, we find in the ...
... the expansion of knowledge and its organisation around a central idea; and "the higher and larger the central idea and the more universal it is, rising above time and space, the more numerous and the more complex will be the ideas, notions and thoughts which it will be able to organise and harmonise". After such exercises in expansion and central organisation, the next mental discipline would be self-control... phases promoting respectively 1. the power of attention and concentration; 2. the power of expansion, wideness, complexity and richness; 3. the power of organisation of ideas around a central idea or ideal; Page 512 4. the power of thought-control, involving rejection of the false and selection and fostering of the true; and 5. the power of inner calm and mental silence ...
... into the old. But this conservatism, which is another name for tamas is fatal to the living truth within. Even like the é lan vital so gloriously hymned by Bergson, the inmost consciousness, the central truth of being, the soul é lan has always a forward-looking reference. And it is precisely because the normal instrument of the body and life and mind has always a backward reference, because it ...
... are: 1) Development of the power of concentration, the capacity of attention. 2) Development of the capacities of expansion, widening, complexity and richness; 3) Organisation of one's ideas around a central idea, a higher ideal or a supremely luminous idea that will serve as a guide in life. 4) Thought control, rejection of undesirable thoughts, to become able to think only what one wants and when one... These principles of education have a profound bearing on what Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have called psychic and spiritual education. These two domains bring into the picture all that is central to value-oriented education, and to higher and profounder elements of human psychology. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have advocated new methods that are free from those of dogma, rituals, ceremonies... as distinguished from profane. But what then are the methods that are to be employed in education that must be psychic, spiritual and supramental? These important questions were the central core of the momentous experiment that was carried out under the direct guidance of The Mother. There was one view, and it has great force, that there are no special methods, but the teachers must ...
... have still a new synthesis which is effected by negating the forms and outsides of the yogic disciplines and seizing rather on some central principle, common to all which includes and utilises in the right place and proportion their particular principle, and some central dynamic force which is the common secret of the divergent methods and capable of organising a natural selection and combination of... worshippers of light, all these are of immense Page 261 value as a great aid to the quest, and as we recapitulate in a synoptic view what is of utmost value of the past search, we feel that a central study of this subject is not only most fascinating, but something that is indispensable to the further immediate steps of humanity's progress. In the Cartesian psychology, a sharp and radical... so-called miracles that can take place when the subliminal consciousness operates effectively or visibly in the physical. The true yogins have repeatedly denounced this misconception and affirmed that the central occupation of Yoga is the inmost discovery of the soul and of the levels and powers of consciousness that lie behind or above the mind. The subliminal is vast, large, powerful and organised but ...
... truth of our existence, that which can know and manifest this truth." On Education, CWM Vol. 12, p. 4 Oh! the truth of our existence—not just the Truth. The truth of the being, that is, the central raison d'etre of an existence. It is that, indeed, which organises circumstances so that the truth of the being may be expressed or the superficial outer being be led to turn round within not—find... wonderful capacity of adaptation and endurance. It is fit to do so many more things than one can usually imagine. If instead of the ignorant and despotic masters that govern it, it is ruled by the central truth of the being, one will be surprised at what it is capable of doing. Calm and quiet, strong and poised, it will at every minute put forth the effort that is demanded of it, for it will have learnt ...
... the integral Yoga proposes to change it from a troubled and ignorant into a luminous and harmonious movement of Nature. There are three conditions which are indispensable for the achievement of this central inner revolution and a new formation; none of them is altogether sufficient in itself, but by their united threefold power the uplifting can be done, the conversion made and completely made. For, first... the path and the indicator of a divine guidance. Last, life as it is is turned towards the satisfaction of the separative ego; ego must disappear and be replaced by the true spiritual person, the central being, and life itself must be turned towards the fulfilment of the Divine in terrestrial existence; it must feel a Divine Force awaking within it and become an obedient instrumentation of its purpose ...
... character of human nature and consciousness, 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;... climbed into the mental consciousness and became the manomaya purusa; from that level again he has been attempting to go further beyond. On each plane the normal life is planned' according to the central character, the law - dharma – of that plane. One can have the religious or spiritual experience on each of these planes, representing various degrees of grow and evolution according to the plane to ...
... entered the Palace Hotel in Marble Arch for my accommodation. It was reputable and run by two English ladies. Though the name was high sounding, the place in fact was small, cosy and comfortable. It had central heating which suited me fine. The ladies were kind enough to give me a special rate because I was a student. After bidding adios to Mrs. English, Mrs. Snowdon and Miss Jarret at Mercury House, I ...
... being to the level of the highest consciousness and realisation already attained. Sincerity exacts the unification and harmonisation of the whole being in all its parts and movements around the central Divine Will. 21 February 1930 To be sincere, all the parts of the being must be united in their aspiration for the Divine―not that one part wants and others refuse or revolt. To be sincere ...
... its dynamic actors and executors. The new order was envisaged by Krishna and its chief protagonists were the five brothers. The old order meant the supremacy of the family and the clan: that was the central unit round which society grew and was held together. Krishna came to break that mould and evolve a higher and larger unit of collective life. It was not yet the nation, but an intermediary stage something ...
... constitutes the basic premise of all education. What precisely is man? What is the nature of the universe? And what is the secret formula of the equation of man with the universe? These are the central questions that education fosters, and it carries forward the accumulated answers from age to age. But how can they be fostered and by what means can the answers be carried forward at the highest... unless we concentrate on this focal point, we may not find the right key to any problem. For all problems of education, as of every other field, are interrelated, and they all seem to hang upon this central issue. It is the issue of the infusion of a new spirit in our education. We want an education that will provide not merely information, but a deep inspiration. We want the youth to be inspired... creators of the new future, but all these great and noble ends can be realized only if we succeed in evoking among the youth a living spirit and a vibrant light. To kindle that light and spirit is the central issue of education. An answer to this issue is crucial, for that will give us the fundamental direction. There is, indeed, an answer. In recent years, it has been put forward forcefully, and presented ...
... cannot come to the front to enable the sadhak to receive the Mother's Grace? No. The Purusha often holds back and lets the other beings consent or reject in his place. 22 April 1933 Make the central surrender. The Mother's Force will do the rest. 25 October 1933 In this process of the descent from above and the working it is most important not to rely entirely on oneself, but to rely on ...
... habits and inertia and does not allow the Light and Force to enter in it and work, then one is not open. It is not possible to be entirely open all at once in all the movements, but there must be a central opening in each part and a dominant aspiration or will in each part (not in the mind alone) to admit only the Mother's workings, the rest will then be progressively done. 28 October 1934 To remain ...
... Answers A most Difficult Dilemma of Human Life and Gita's Solution The greatest significance of the Gita lies in the fact that it proposes a solution to a central typical problem of human life that presents itself at a certain critical stage of development. We may say that Arjuna to whom the teaching is addressed is a representative man, and the problem that ...
... persistent culture of India. Let us see then what the Indian conception of happiness and culture was. The Indian conception What is the central conception that has governed India's spiritual culture? India's central conception is that at the root of all creation there is a Supreme Consciousness or Spirit. This Consciousness is here incased in matter, involved and immanent in... survival, functioning and growth. And in order that this second condition may fulfill itself in complete force, there must be nothing to depress or destroy 3. the third, a conscious mind, and central governing organ, in its creation or its continuance. Nothing must be done which will have the result of emphasizing disunity in sentiment or perpetuating the feeling of separateness from the totality... representative of the whole nation. In modern times, the race factor is losing its importance due to the phenomenon of globalization and increased communication. However geography, economics, and a central government that is representative of the whole nation play a very important role in bringing about political unity. It must be noted that in the Indian subcontinent, before the Muslim ...
... hidden consciousness, referred to as our inner being, consists of the inner mental, the inner vital and the inner physical, with the psychic (the soul) as the innermost being which, as an aspect of the central being, supports all the different parts in the manifestation and which develops over the course of evolution an individuality which is called the psychic being. The inner being is also sometimes... bhakti (Bhakti) —devotion; love for the Divine. Buddhi —intelligence-will; understanding; intellect; reason; thinking mind; the discriminating principle, at once intelligence and will. central being —the portion of the Divine which supports the individual being and survives from life to life; it has two forms: jivātman, which is above the manifestation in life, presiding over it, and the... otherwise to the emotions, desires, passions, sensations or other movements of the vital being; the emotional vital is the seat of various feelings, such as love, joy, sorrow, hatred and the rest. central vital or vital proper : dynamic, sensational and passionate, it is the seat of the stronger vital longings and reactions, such as ambition, pride, fear, love of fame, attractions and repulsions, ...
... fully and joyously open to the object of the soul's seeking. Nothing in him, not even a cell of his body, must remain complacently entrenched in darkness and inertly indifferent or averse to the central aspiration of his being. It is only when all the Parts of his nature with all their numberless elements have Page 163 become united with the soul in its aspiration for the Divine that... need not be discouraging, for, the Mother says, none can be wholly sincere all at once, the process must needs be progressive. All that is asked for is that there must be a resolute and perspicacious central sincerity steadily spreading to all the parts of the being, and uncompromising in its rejection of all insincerities. It often happens that when there is some persistent insincerity in the... The sun-lit ¹ & ² The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo, Part VII, by Nolini Kanta Gupta. Page 166 path of the psychic direction, the steady infiltration and permeation of the central sincerity is the better way, and much more speedily effective. Sincerity makes it possible for the divine Grace to act directly and sovereignly. And when the Grace intervenes, it stimulates and ...
... .. All that is what I call evolution in the right direction—however slow and imperfect and hesitating it may still be. As for America she has forsworn her past imperialistic policies in regard to Central and South America, she has conceded independence to Cuba and the Philippines.... Is there a similar trend on the side of the Axis? One has to look at things on all sides, to see them steadily and whole... At any rate things could not be one-hundredth part as bad as they would be under Hitler. The ways of the Lord would still be open—to keep them open is what matters. Let us stick to the real, the central fact, the need to remove Page 467 the peril of black servitude and revived barbarism threatening India and the world, and leave for a later time all side-issues and minor issues or hypothetical ...
... ranging from the most ordinary to the most serious and sublime quests of human life. Practically hardly any aspect of life is left out of his vast and extensive field of research and finding. But the central theme and the core of all his teaching is Spiritual and it is a spiritual and supramental solution that he always advocates as the only conclusion of his most intimate study of all human problems.... will automatically find its light place in the .creation. The creator, created and the creation are one in essence. For the purpose of the play (Lila), it is diverse in manifestation. This is the central truth of Sri Aurobindo's teachings and it has a value as much for to-day as for to-morrow and the future for he deals with eternal Verities which are not subject to fluctuations caused by time, space ...
... lathis in the Magistrate's orders forbidding processions. (3) It matters little by what stages the enthronement of the Police Superintendent was prepared. The fact remains that he was given the central chair on the platform to which only a distinguished guest invited by the Committee or a visitor whom the whole country respects is entitled. It is a fact that the President frequently turned to confer ...
... else, but certainly not a mystic or a Yogi by nature or persuasion, as I so often told him categorically? I will try to answer this self-imposed question in my own way, albeit incidentally. For my central theme is going to be his greatness, love and understanding which made him come to me as he did. Page 4 ...
... necessary to present the ideas of the Upanishad in their completeness, underline the suggestions, supply the necessary transitions and bring out the suppressed but always implicit reasoning. The central idea of the Upanishad, which is a reconciliation and harmony of fundamental opposites, is worked out symmetrically in four successive movements of thought. FIRST MOVEMENT In the first, a basis ...
... from the Source and Origin of all things and which, with its helping hand, will lead evolving humanity back to its divine Origin. The arrangement of the rings also has a significance. Black is the central colour upholding all the others, and this is indeed an indication of the black chaos which now governs the world and of the blindness of those who are at present struggling to guide the ship of humanity ...
... Nature and nothing remains of their experiences. Not until they have become united with the psychic so that there arc not two halves but a single consciousness, the whole nature unified round the central Divine Will and this centralised being is connected up with the divine line of consciousness which is above-not until this happens can one receive the knowledge belonging to that consciousness and ...
... Europe." 2 I didn't know he had said that.... I don't know if it's very wise to say it.... But it's very true. We should send it to the government of India. N.S. [a minister in the Central government] is coming, I'll give it to her. But not in the Bulletin . And Indira Gandhi, wouldn't you send it to her? ...... Page 215 ...
... and weaknesses, the same wrong movements. In India, in the bigger field, the government is trying to check and control these movements by external means: to some extent it is necessary and so the Central Authority has been given that strength and capacity. But the Ashram was made to be a conscious collective centre where these things should and must change from within, not under external compulsion ...
... Narad's reading of the future. After the first two cantos that constitute the exordium, there comes a long, long spell of retrospective narration, sketching the personal and cosmic backgrounds to the central action. This has taken thirty-eight cantos in all out of the forty-nine that now make the poem, or a little over 600 pages out of the total 814 in the definitive one-volume edition of the poem. 1 ...
... the action of a central divine spark. But the day an external being (physical, mental, vital) enters into direct and constant contact with the psychic being, one may say in the same way that the physical being of this person is organised by the central divine consciousness. The moment you put yourself in contact with it, submit yourself to it, you are organised by it, by the central divine consciousness;... of the divine spark, I was speaking of the being, Page 139 the psychic consciousness, which is another thing. The psychic being is an entity which has a form; it is organised around a central consciousness and, having a form it has a dimension, but a dimension of another kind than the third dimension of the outer consciousness. It is often said that children enter into possession of ...
... swift graver exaltation, sometimes prolonged and repeating or varying the same note, sometimes linking itself in a sustained succession to other moments that start from it or are suggested by its central motive. It is at first a music of simple melodies coming out of itself to which the spirit listens with pleasure and makes eternal by it the charm of self-discovery or of reminiscence. And the lyrical... lyric intention, sensibly fails to give us the satisfaction of a true lyrical form, because it ignores the truth that what sustains the lyrical spirit is the discovery and consistent following of some central cadence revealing the very spirit of the feeling and not at all the sole pursuit of its more Page 280 outward movements and changes: these can only rightly come in as a modulation of the... the purer ancient method, will not be mistaken for the person, but accepted as only an inner life notation of the spirit: the passions, which have hitherto been prominently brought forward as the central stuff of the drama, will be reduced to their proper place as indicative colour and waves on the stream of spiritual self-revelation. And this greater kind will differ too from the classical tragedy ...
... the irrevocable consecration; and in some instances it may not come. There may be some advance, there may be a strong effort, even much purification and many experiences other than those that are central or supreme; but the life will either be spent in Page 70 preparation or, a certain stage having been reached, the mind pushed by an insufficient driving-force may rest content at the limit... mental man and to create a new centre of vision and a new universe of activities in ourselves which shall constitute a divine humanity or a superhuman nature. The first necessity is to dissolve that central faith and vision in the mind which concentrate it on its development and satisfaction and interests in the old externalised order of things. It is imperative to exchange this surface orientation for... habit which is to it a law and resists a radical change. And no change can be more radical than the revolution attempted in the integral Yoga. Everything in us has constantly to be called back to the central faith and will and vision. Every thought and impulse has to be reminded in the language of the Upanishad that "That is the divine Brahman and not this which men here adore." Every vital fibre has to ...
... The real thing required is the central sincerity. Disciple : Suppose there is the central consent. Page 91 Sri Aurobindo : What do you mean by the central consent ? Disciple : I mean by it the consent of the psychic being. Sri Aurobindo : The psychic being is behind the mental, vital, etc., while what I call the Central Being is generally something above... the Truth, I can wait for it." Disciple : What is central sincerity ? Sri Aurobindo : It is a very big question. You can say it is something in the central being which keeps to the call, There may be deviations from the path and also faults but if the central being is there the man comes back to the path. To have that central sincerity is the necessary condition for getting the Truth... And about the thing that pushes there are two things that generally push : One is the Central Being. The other is destiny. If the Central Being wants to do something it pushes the man. Even when the man goes off the line he is pushed back again to the path. Of course, the Central Being may push through the mind or any other part of the being. Also, if the man is destined he is pushed ...
... gives it the impression of an unreal dream, very remote from it, having almost no further contact with it; all this outer mechanism is now only a machine which it moves, for such is the will of its central Reality, but it is no longer interested in it, perhaps sometimes even less than the neighbouring mechanism or even the unknown mechanism that will be the product Page 300 of the earth of ...
... same defects and weaknesses, the same wrong movements. In India, the government is trying to check and control these movements by external means; to some extent it is necessary and so the central authority has been given that much strength and capacity. But the Ashram was made to be a conscious collective centre where these things must change from within, not under external compulsion, and ...
... influential to your coming to the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo? Non-attachment! I also now realize the Divine hand that was involved in taking a stammering nineteen-year-old to Central Africa who then hitch-hiked through Central East Africa to Kenya and later on to an exploration of India in 1960. How did you learn of Mother and Sri Aurobindo and when did you come to live in the Ashram? I was told... Was it Kali? In the late 1960s I had begun to work with self-hypnosis. I experimented with past life regression and as far back as I could remember. Suddenly I saw that I had been a herdsman in Central Asia (Afghanistan or Mongolia) north of the Himalayas. I had been grazing cattle for the summer and had come back to my village. I had been experimenting with black magic and upon return to my village... not a visionary person. One cannot have all the powers to be had, but my vital being can detach itself and travel off to other levels. Some years ago I flew over the Himalayas. I went to a spot in Central Asia. When I entered a doorway there was a long hall full of men from around the world; bankers, politicians. In an alcove was the leader whom I initially did not see. I came through the door and sat ...
... hope have their primary seat in the heart, so with pity etc. The Central Vital or Vital Proper Above the heart is the vital mind—sense and the rising of Page 193 sensation is lower than the emotion, not higher. Sensation is much nearer the physical than emotion. The place of desire is below the heart in the central vital (navel) and in the lower vital, but it invades the emotion... to the emotions, desires, passions, sensations and other movements of the vital being; the emotional vital which is the seat of various feelings such as love, joy, sorrow, hatred, and the rest; the central vital which is the seat of the stronger vital longings and reactions, e.g. ambition, pride, fear, love of fame, attractions and repulsions, desires and passions of various kinds and the field of many... falls under a wrong influence and even when it wants, finds it difficult to accept anything beyond its own habitual nature. The strong vital when the will is there can do it much more easily—its one central difficulty is the pride of its ego and the attraction of its powers. The chest has more connection with the psychic than the vital. A strong vital may have a good physique, but as often it has not—it ...
... part blind, progressive in some respects and retrogressive in others, a central supra-materiality within a mass of material-seeming behaviour, achieving mostly on a general balance and on the whole a definite purposive advance. But, while we have demonstrated that life and mind are , irreducible to matter and that the central phenomenon of life -organic unity with its two pointers: harmonising purpose... abstractly measurable geometrical structure hire in it and as interpretable in terms like density, velocity,. internal stresses only when the single continuum is divided into space and time: such, in some central aspects, is the state of affairs in relativity physics. Energy which so far had been demonstrated to be wavelike but which in addition has been proved in certain situations to possess over and... electrons, positive or negative, because even a single electron is too big to be Untamed in even the whole nucleus so that what seems bitted during the change is a sudden creation: such, in some central aspects, is the state of affairs in quantum Physics. Further, a cosmos interpreted in terms of complete continuity, unbroken functions in a continuous "field", en "macroscopic events are calculated ...
... provisions. The mere deprivation of judicial functions will not disarm executive tyranny so long as both executive and judiciary are mainly white and subservient to a central authority irresponsible, alien and bureaucratic; for the central authority can always tighten its grip on the judiciary of which it is the controller and paymaster and habituate it to a consistent support of executive action. Nor ...
... centres of life and strength. We in India had our own instruments of life and growth; we had the self-dependent village; we had the Zamindar as the link between the village units and the central governing body and the central governing body itself was one Page 1047 in which the heart of the nation beat. All these have been either destroyed or crippled by the intrusion of the foreign organism ...
... for separate study is, therefore, some part of that which he wrote in his early life, awhile the separate study of his quantitative poetry is kept to his masterful handling of a Greek theme in the central and most difficult of all quantitative patterns inherited from Europe's antiquity, the hexameter. Here probably it will be said: "Sri Aurobindo may be a fine practitioner of blank verse, the... and seek the solution of life's most acute problem — mortal ignorance that is responsible for all our errors, weaknesses, depravities, divisions. Their solution rests on what they recognise as the central fact of the universe — the Divine; and they aim at the flowering of the Divine in the human by a process of Yoga. If we are inclined to look upon their poetry's vision as chimerical and upon its emotion ...
... hesitate to further intensify the confrontation with the Weimar Republic and declared Bavaria “a stronghold of threatened Germanhood”. The Bavarian army had to swear an oath not to the constitutional central government but to the State. The triumvirate justified most of its rebellious actions as measures against the communist threat in adjacent Thuringia, but nobody doubted that they were planning another... Troop Hitler, the veteran Munich SA and the Bund Oberland, with behind them “the motley collection of men”, all together some two to three thousand. Having arrived at the Marienplatz, Munich’s central square with the Gothic Townhall, Hitler proved again incapable of taking a decision and it was again Ludendorff, “in full regimentals”, who continued marching, this time in the direction of the F ...
... organised around the central Divine Presence, the movements are fugitive, although recurrent, and we cannot expect them to have any permanence. Nothing is permanent in a terrestrial being except the psychic. ( A sadhak wrote that after bright periods of sadhana, dark periods returned again and again. ) This is a proof that your whole being is not united around the central psychic Presence ...
... decline and degradation. As Zhivago says "A thing which has been conceived in a lofty ideal manner becomes coarse and material." Page 186 An element of the human tragedy – the very central core perhaps – is the calvary of the individual. Pasternak's third article of faith is human freedom, the freedom of the individual. Indeed if evolution is to mean progress and growth it must base... demands of the collective urge, the progress that society needs and exacts is often a millstone that slowly grinds the individual down to personal frustration and failure. That is, I suppose, the central lesson of Pasternak's autobiography. That is why even when Pasternak speaks of social progress, a better humanity, we are not sure. For what matters is the present. A brave new world in the offing ...
... is also a very fine thing Readings from the Mother, selected for different occasions, individual or collective, are so inspiring and uplifting. Papers written on the Mother will need to reflect the central spiritual truth of her personality, whatever they may otherwise deal with. A purely academic treatment of her orientations on different matters is perfectly possible, but it has its limitations. Of ...
... circumstance which obliged us to discontinue the French edition, will also prevent us from continuing the Wherefore of the Worlds . Happily, we have been able to bring it to a point where the writer's central idea appears, the new creation of our world by redeeming Love,—a fitting point for the faith and reason of man to pause upon at the moment of the terrible ordeal which that world is now undergoing ...
... and elected Mr. Vinoba Bhave as the candidate to start it. PURANI: I read that Gandhi thought of making Vinoba Prime Minister in place of Kher. SRI AUROBINDO: No, not Kher but Dr. Khare from Central Province. PURANI: Good Lord! I would like to see how Vinoba would carry on even for a week. SRI AUROBINDO: He would have advised fasting a week for purification. Purani then gave a description ...
... thinks that it is the psychic fire. If the consciousness feels identified with the psychic fire and becomes conscious that the fire can burn out all impurities, then it is a true experience. The central fire is in the psychic being, but it can be lit in all the parts of the being. The Psychic Fire and Some Inner Visions The fire you saw was the fire of the psychic being, the fire of aspiration... life at all but who have Agni burning in them and are Page 372 intent to keep the fire ablaze—scientists, artists etc. who have the intense will of perfecting what they do and all their central energies are thrown into this flame. The same intense fire should burn in the Yoga. It is the Mother's Force that works in the Agni. Agni and the Psychic Fire If it is in the heart it... own particular experience, because you have only the initial experiences of calm etc. and have not got to the intensities as I have done and others before me have done. It is only when one lives centrally in the psychic with the mental, vital and physical as provinces held under its rule that one knows what psychic intensity is. It is only when the higher consciousness comes down in its floods that ...
... should not be meagre, but commensurate with high standards. IV. Lecture System, Syllabus System and Examination System In this organisation, the lecture system will no more be given the central place. Lectures will be used mainly for (a) introducing a subject; (b) stimulating interest in a subject; (c) presenting a panoramic view of the subject; (d) explaining general... may be ready and fit to reach the higher levels of academic education, but also of a large number of students who may remain in the educational system only for 4 years, 7 years or a little more. The central point is that the educational programme, whatever its duration, should aim at providing to the students a real base for three things: (i) art of self-learning and continuing education, (ii)... details, (d) arriving at a global view of the subjects or works in question, (e) self-evaluation, and (f) gaining self-confidence. Tests will be woven into the learning process, the central thrust of which will be to develop among the students the noble qualities such as those of truthfulness, sincerity, cheerfulness, benevolence, right judgment, sacrifice, cooperation, and friendship ...
... synthesis of yoga follows a central principle by means of which different systems of yoga can be synthesized, even while it can afford to neglect the forms and outsides of various yogic disciplines. The synthesis that Sri Aurobindo has proposed cannot be arrived at either by combination en masse or by successive practices of various systems of yoga. This synthesis seizes on a central principle common to all... hew a new path. It has been a most dynamic work with the entire earth as its central field. It was in the course of this work that Sri Aurobindo declared that the Supramental is the Truth and that its advent on the earth is inevitable. To bring down the supramental consciousness and power on the earth has been the central work of Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo has explained the nature of this work... all which includes and utilizes, in the right place, their particular principles, and on some central dynamic force which is the common secret of their divergent methods and capable therefore of organizing a natural selection and combination of their varied energies and different utilities. 28 Vide., Swami Vivekananda, The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda, Advaita Ashram, 1958, Almora ...
... determinism by the action of another, then the problem becomes comprehensible. It is the same thing for explaining the action of the Divine in the universe. If you take a central creative Force or a central creative Consciousness or a central immobile Witness, and then the universe, only that, nothing between the two, you cannot understand. There are people who have used this in such a naive way! They have ...
... complexity. The point is whether all gaps are of the kind that have been filled. If possible, we must try to get beyond what the organism does, to what the organism is: we must catch hold of something central to the vital phenomenon and ask if that too is reducible to physico-chemical activity. That and nothing else would be the crucial test science would have to pass before it could be called upon to declare... of living stuff in the laboratory is to be gauged from three discoveries. All organic development is founded on the living cell which consists of an outer skin with a fluid mass inside and a central section of nucleus: it is the cell that has to be finally synthetised. Now, the possibility of its synthesis has been greatly encouraged by the discovery of a form of matter midway between the organised... also able to prove that nothing inexplicable in purely physico-chemical terms had appeared. So, once more we return to the problem whether in the phenomenon of life science has struck upon something centrally irreducible to these terms. To sum up the situation: science's materialistic working- method need not feel stuck against a barrier impossible to cross because life has not been artificially s ...
... spiritual ecstasy; the essential principle of delight: a self-delight which is the very nature of the transcendent and infinite existence. Bhakti — devotion, love for the Divine. central being — the portion of the Divine which supports the individual being and survives from life to life; it has two forms: jivātman, which is above the manifestation in life, presiding over it, and... otherwise to the emotions, desires, passions, sensations or other movements of the vital being; the emotional vital is the seat of various feelings, such as love, joy, sorrow, hatred and the rest. central vital or vital proper: dynamic, sensational and passionate, it is the seat of the stronger vital longings and reactions, such as ambition, pride, fear, love of fame, attractions and repulsions, ...
... conduct and that of his Party.” 622 The British historian Ian Kershaw confirms the words of the French ambassador: “For Hitler, whatever the tactical considerations, the aim of destroying the Jews – his central political idea since 1919 – remained unaltered. He revealed his approach to a meeting of party District Leaders at the end of April 1937, in immediate juxtaposition to comments on the Jews: ‘I don’t... sought self-definition, Hitler would not have had the fecund soil in which to grow his organization and to spread its propaganda … “Anti-Semitism was the core of Hitler’s system of beliefs and the central motivation for his policies. He believed himself to be the saviour who would bring redemption to the German people through the annihilation of the Jews, that people who embodied, in his eyes, the Satanic ...
... Nature and nothing remains of their experiences. Not until they have become united with the psychic, so that there are not two halves but a single consciousness, the whole nature unified round the central Divine Will and this centralised being is connected up with the divine line of consciousness which is above—not until this happens can one receive the knowledge belonging to that consciousness and ...
... seems to me to need to be elaborated and elucidated so as to give a more complete and exact idea of the constitution meant for the new territory, the powers reserved for it and those reserved for the central authority and the scope and limits of the rights to be conceded by the India Government to France and French nationals under the agreement. Incidentally, what exactly is meant by the "droits de ...
... put into several classes. First are the mental thought energies (intelligence, dynamic mind, physical perceptive mind); the vital—1st emotional vital with all the emotional movements in it; 2nd the central vital (the larger desires, passions, ambitions, forces of work, possession, conquest); 3rd the lower vital (all the small egoistic movements of desire, enjoyment, lust, greed, jealousy, envy, vanity ...
... and powers which are central to the creative and integral perfection of personality. But a mere learning about Yoga is not Yoga, and even the most catholic book on Yoga cannot be a substitute for the direct yogic practice. Nor can Yoga be practised in a casual way or only as a part-time preoccupation. Yoga to be properly practised must be taken up as a sovereign and central occupation and it must... life-affirming education. If, therefore, Yoga is to be relevant to modern education, it will have to cease to be life-negating. A life-affirming Yoga is a necessity, and a research in this Yoga is centrally relevant to the solution of the modern problems of education. It is also important to note that Education Commission Report have directed that education in India should be science-based and yet... how shall we make and propose a programme of the study and practice of Yoga? In a sense, there cannot be a formal syllabus of Yoga, which is a highly creative process, and which is to be the central and all-permeating thread of all processes of education right from the earliest stages. And yet, Yoga is a Shastra, a Science, and it is possible to study it and practise it with all the rigour ...
... who were already coming back from the Ashram on foot or on cycle, and who looked at me with very serious faces to see if I was aware of the shocking news. A long queue was already winding around the central Ashram building consisting of Ashramites and townspeople of all kinds and standings. The first ones had been allowed into the building a little after four. There was whispering and crying, and the... hall. Those responsible for maintaining the order, photographers and some prominent Ashramites were woken up. A message for All India Radio was drafted. At a quarter past four the doors of the central Ashram building swung open for a last darshan. During two days thousands passed by her from early morning till late in the evening. ‘And then, on 20 November, at a quarter past eight in the morning... sitting more than she was laying down on those white cushions, with her hands on her knees. A ray of light touched her neck. Then the lid was closed — no ray any more, nothing any more.’ 4 The central Ashram building was full of people up to the rooftops. The body of the Mother was let down into the Samadhi, where it still is in a vault above the material remains of Sri Aurobindo — a vault which ...
... towards the land of the occult and the indescribable. The amazing variety of the feelings and revelations the author speaks of, the dreams and visions he has can only be explained in the light of the central objective of Sri Aurobindo's Yoga which aims at an integral union with the Divine and affect a total transformation of the earthly life. In the past the aim of Yoga was salvation. To kindle the fire... g, modifying or maintaining our relation with the society and the world around us, our measure of sleep or of personal effort in sadhana —all should proceed from the Yogic consciousness from the central preoccupations to realize and express the Divine. Whether it be a consideration of the Divine will or of ego or surrender or approach to the Mother; whether it be an understanding of the Chakras or ...
... appeared to be in that age - a representative was he of some hidden essence of the national being, the country very soul in pure power. At one stroke the emergent Nationalism was made to recognise its central meaning and direction. The attractive veil of westernisation fell from the eyes, the feebleness of the country's decadence went out of the limbs and India knew what she was and grasped the essential... s if accretions and superfluities, illusions and delusions, waste matter and foreign matter were to be swept off and prevented from obscuring and obstructing the growth of Indian Nationalism. The central conditio sine qua non stood out the most vividly and acted the most puissantly by getting thus isolated. Page 3 The Four Types of Nationalism in India If it was the ...
... teacher who wants to promote the objectives of peace, cooperation and integral personality. Sooner, rather than later, the intricate problems of teaching-learning process must come to receive central attention, and we shall then see that an important role of the teacher at the present juncture will be that of an innovator or inventor of dynamic methods. Page 29 Self learning... and on the kind of cognitive approach to it. The second phase is governed Page 33 Page 34 principally by reading activities. In the third phase, the central feature is the appraisal of the knowledge acquired and, above all, the judgment of its significance. The area of applicability of this approach, which is sometimes called 'info-bank' approach, is defined ...
... with me.” In the course of your self-offering, you start unifying your being around what has taken the first decision—the central psychic will. All the jarring elements of your nature have to be harmonised, they have to be taken up one after another and unified with the central being. You may offer yourself to the Divine with a spontaneous movement, but it is not possible to give yourself effectively ...
... luminously on a single object of thought, we awaken a response in general Consciousness which proceeds to satisfy the mind by pouring into it knowledge about that object or even reveals to us its central or its essential truth. We awaken also a response of Power which gives us in various ways an increasing mastery over the workings of that on which we meditate or enables us to create it and make it ...
... string—the string is the Mother. I feel that it is our duty to carry out Her wish of the New World. There is no difference between the Ashram and Auroville. For She has written: The Ashram is the central consciousness. Auroville is one of the outward expressions. In both places equally the work is done for the Divine . I remember M. André to have informed me more than once that when the Mother was ...
... the whole, can alone effect a comprehensive and progressive unification, which may have some chance of enduring. And if the synthesis is to be a living thing, the grouping should be done around a central idea as high and wide as possible, and in which all tendencies, even the most contradictory, would find their respective places. That idea is to give man the conditions of life necessary for preparing ...
... The Ascent of Sight in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri Part Three Vision in the "Higher Hemisphere" 1. Beyond the Reach of Sight: The central theme of our essay has been the study of the itinerary of the ascent of sight. Following this course we have travelled from the "sightless sight" of the Inconscient up to the "cosmic gaze" of the Overmind ...
... The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 6 THE CENTRAL CONSCIOUSNESS Very often this was the experience: union with the Supreme is established, but as soon as the consciousness was about to settle and merge in the bliss of the union, it was called back and had to turn to the outside world to the ordinary affairs of ordinary consciousness. As if I was given to ...
... Some Extract from Sri Aurobindo's "Significance of Indian Art" I "Indian architecture, painting, sculpture are not only intimately one in inspiration with the Central things in Indian philosophy, religion, yoga, culture,-but a specially intense expression of their significance". II "The great artistic work proceeds from an act of intuition, ...
... the hill. (Mother takes a piece of paper and starts drawing) Here we have (naturally in Nature it's not like this: we'll have to adapt — it's like this up there, in the ideal), here, a central point. This central point is a park I had seen when I was a little girl (perhaps the most beautiful thing in the world with regard to physical, material Nature), a park with water and trees like all parks, and... Truth".... (laughing) It's a very nice plan(!) So I will probably put her as keeper of the park, with a little house on the road, at the entrance. But the interesting thing is that around this central point, there are four large sections, like four large petals (Mother draws), but the corners of the petals are rounded and there are small intermediate zones: four large sections and four zones.... river. A hill was necessary because Sri Aurobindo's house was on top of the hill. But Sri Aurobindo was there, in the center. It was arranged according to the plan of my symbol, that is to say, a central point with Sri Aurobindo and all that concerns Sri Aurobindo's life, then four large petals (which weren't the same as in this drawing, they were something different), then twelve petals around (the ...
... condemnation as in his approval. In his witty, penetrating and trenchant study of Hugo and Wordsworth, for example, he underscores their common weakness: "It is interesting to note that the central figures of both English and French Romanticisms were very flawed poets, superb on one side, dreary or windbaggy on the other. And the reason why so much of the dreary remains in Wordsworth and... echoes the views expressed by such great Wordsworth critics as Matthew Arnold, A.C. Bradley, Herbert Read, F. R. Leavis and Cleanth Brooks. To Sethna, Wordsworth is undoubtedly the central figure in the Romantic Movement in England, Even Coleridge's claim to this honour is rejected though the Indian critic concedes that The Ancient Mariner included in Lyrical Ballads is as organic... he is decidedly superior to Coleridge for more than one reason: "But Wordsworth was the more powerful, more comprehensive, was more hannonised poet and he is the more central figure and it was his Preface to the second edition of Lyrical Ballads that constituted the first Manifesto of English Romanticism," (p. 72) The unevenness of Wordsworth's poetry ...
... methods of research and Interpretation, as has been done by Sri Aurobindo in his "The Secret of the Veda”, we may find in that ancient record a profound book of wisdom, directly relevant to the central issues of our age, and we may hope to derive from it helpful light and guidance. For Veda is not a mere book of rituals and ceremonies, nor is it a record of primitive or barbaric expression of fear... education but also means and methods of education; they also became themselves teachers and gave example of their conduct by their deeds, by their very life of how to become ideal teachers. The central pillar of the Vedic System of education was the Brahmacharin, the pupil who has resolved to impose on himself or herself the ideal and practice of Brahmacharya, which means not only continence... science with spirituality. In the harmonisation of these two great movements we can hope to find the solution of the difficult problem of how to change human nature, the problem that seems to be so central for human survival and fulfilment. (b) Apart from science, another important possession of our times is individualism. Modern science itself was a consequence of the revolt of individualism against ...
... this evolution is to take place, since it must proceed through a growth of the spirit and the inner consciousness, the initiative can come from India and, although the scope must be universal, the central movement may be hers. Such is the content which I put into this date of India's liberation; whether or how far this hope will be justified depends upon the new and free India . -Sri... self-development. It means simply to keep our centre, our essential way of being, our inborn nature and assimilate to it all we receive, and evolve out of it all we do and create. Religion has been a central preoccupation of the Indian Page 26 mind; some have told us that too much religion ruined India, precisely because we made the whole of life religion or religion the whole of life ...
... to be everywhere at once while at the same time remaining in her room, which was ... well, a bit more than a room—it was a kind of apartment which, above all, had the characteristic of being very central. But she was constantly arguing with her mother. The mother wanted to keep things 'just as they were,' with their usual rhythm, which precisely meant the habit of tearing down one thing to rebuild... The symbolism is quite clear in that all the possibilities are there, all the activities are there, but in disorder and confusion. They are neither coordinated nor centralized nor unified around the central and unique truth and consciousness and will. So this brings us back ... precisely to this question of a collective yoga and of a collectivity capable of realizing it. What should this collectivity ...
... us on any level of awareness the concealed core of actuality; it opens in us eyes other than the physical, the immediately extravert; it brings out a power or a delicacy which is the central stuff of a thing, the central quality of a situation, and which partakes of some intrinsic beauty whose thrill is the true life of the universe. It brings out this miracle by carrying its vision in a word-form and ...
... inevitably a general decline and degradation. As Zhivago says "A thing which has been conceived in a lofty ideal manner becomes coarse and material." An element of the human tragedy—the very central core perhaps—is the calvary of the individual. Pasternak's third article of faith is human freedom, the freedom of the individual. Indeed if evolution is to mean progress and growth it must base... demands of the collective urge, the progress that society needs and exacts is often a millstone that slowly grinds the individual down to personal frustration and failure. That is, I suppose, the central lesson of Pasternak's autobiography. That is why even when Pasternak speaks of social progress, a better humanity, we are not sure. For what matters is the present. A brave new world in the ...
... stop at the math , but the greater part of the year they will spend in work outside. This rule will apply to all except the few necessary for the service of the Temple and those required for the central direction of the work. 7) There will be no gradations of rank among the workers and none must seek for distinction or mere personal fame, but practise strength and self-effacement. Page 90 ...
... general,—the occult sciences. The Hindu Scriptures and books of philosophy do not as a rule handle such questions very directly or in any systematic fashion. They are concerned either with the great and central questions which have always occupied the human mind, the origin and nature of the universe, the why, whence and whither of life, the highest good and the means of attaining it, the nature of man and ...
... Two Letters on Poetry 1 "Poetry is life at a remove of form and meaning." This dictum of R. P. Blackmuir's strikes me as crystallising a very central truth. Let me interpret it to you as best I can. It is a mistake to cut poetry off from life, but it is also a mistake to equate it with life. In poetry we do get life, but not in its crude ...
... assembled at the centre of Auroville. The weather was bright and pleasant. The colourful flags of various countries like France, Czechoslovakia, Nigeria, Ethiopia, America, Hungary, England, Germany, Central Africa, Italy, Costa Rica, Bolivia, Fiji, El Salvador and so on fluttered in a gentle breeze along with the flags of the Mother and Auroville. The youth of 124 member states of UNESCO participated ...
... in order to bind together the constituent parts of a nation in the forming, the first need and claim of that central authority is to have in its hands the means to prevent mortal dissidence and violent strife that would weaken or break up the organic formation. The monarchy or any other central body must effect this end partly by moral force and psychological suggestion. For it stands as the symbol of... conflict. This Page 475 can only be secured to the best possible perfection,—it cannot be done absolutely except by an effective disarmament,—if the whole military authority is centred in the central body and the whole actual or potential military force of the society subjected to its undivided control. In the trend to the formation of the World-State, however subconscient, vague and formless ...
... begin to develop, a new, an independent and overbearing factor comes in, which is not my parents nor my ancestry, nor past mankind, but I, my own self. And this is the really important, crowning, central factor. What matters most in my life, is not my heredity; that only gives me my opportunity or my obstacle, my good or my bad material, and it has not by any means been shown that I draw all from that... lays its direct or its indirect touch on my being. I am invaded, changed, partly recreated by the environing being and action in which I am and act. But here again the individual comes in subtly and centrally as the decisive power. What is supremely important is what I make of all this surrounding and invading present and not what it makes of me. And in the interaction of individual and general Karma in... are causes and produce an effect in my existence and I am a cause and produce an effect on them, I live for others, whether I would have it so or no, and others live for me and for all. Still the central power of my psychology takes its colour from this seeing that I live for my self, and for others or for the world only as an extension of my self, as a thing with which I am bound up in some kind of ...
... development in the way of human nature. The sunlit path can be followed by those who are able to practise surrender, first a central surrender and afterwards a more complete self-giving in all the parts of the being. If they can achieve and preserve the attitude of the central surrender, if they can rely wholly on the Divine and accept cheerfully whatever comes to them from the Divine, then their path... or feeling that all that is done by the Divine is done for the best even when we cannot understand his action. But all have not this nature, most are very far from it, and the complete or even the central surrender is not easy to get and to keep it always is hard enough for our human nature. When these things are not there, the liberty of the soul is not attained and we have instead to undergo the law... through the thinking mind and the heart with the soul, the psychic being behind them that we have to grow into the Spirit, for what the Force first tries to bring about is to fix the mind in the right central idea, faith or mental attitude and the right aspiration and poise of the heart and to make these sufficiently strong and firm to last in spite of other things in the mind and heart which are other ...
... serve as a framework within which the edifice of the nation can arise. The next stage is marked by a period of stringent organisation directed towards unity and centrality of control and perhaps a general levelling and uniformity under that central direction. Finally, there comes about a period of free internal development, which because of the gains of the second stage of development, would no longer bring... calls the discovery of the nation-soul, and with this discovery there arises the question of relationship among nation-souls and their relationship with the universal-soul. And this question is centrally related to the question of internationalism and universality. III It is against this background that we can profitably study the development of India as a nation and its nationalism. The... to a status of a mere province of larger and largest aggregates. At the same time, Sri Aurobindo underlines the fact that humanity Page 105 is turning today towards world unity, and the central problem for the human endeavour in this connection will be as to how the nation will adjust itself to the pressure of the forces that are today creating phenomena which are global, world-wide and planetary ...
... The inner being cannot be "located" above, it can only join with the above, penetrate it and be penetrated by it. If it were located above, then there would be no inner being. There is a central consciousness, I suppose? When the consciousness is centred above, it can be said to be located above. That does not mean that there is no consciousness left in the lower parts. Obviously... the outer and was free from the pressure of its desire and inertia, manifesting at all moments the true consciousness - but it is not so yet. I want to attempt a full stabilising of my central consciousness in the higher nature, so that there will be a complete separation between the lower and the higher nature. This is only possible if the inner being becomes quite awake, open to... the higher and full stabilisation in it was not likely. Page 39 You spoke of a complete separation between the lower nature and the higher, a full stabilising of the central consciousness in the higher nature. That would mean staying above and leaving the lower nature including the inner consciousness to themselves until this had been done. I questioned whether this was ...
... Surat debacle, Sri Aurobindo did not return to Bengal immediately, as he had originally intended; impelled by an inner urge, he undertook a political tour instead in the Bombay presidency and the Central Provinces. There was no tour. Sri Aurobindo went to Poona with Lele and after his return to Bombay went to Calcutta. All the speeches he made were at this time (except those at Bombay and at Baroda) ...
... organise Maharashtra and the Mahratta States. He himself worked principally upon the Indian Army of which he had already won over two or three regiments. Sri Aurobindo took a special journey into Central India to meet and speak with Indian sub-officers and men of one of these regiments. Since 1902 Sri Aurobindo wished to enter the political fray and to contribute his mite to the forces that ...
... years lived in ignorance of the supreme Truth. All kinds of different things are gathered here under the same heading. It is an association of words more than an association of ideas. But the central trend is this, that it is preferable to have one moment of sincerity rather than a long life of apparent devotion and that a psychological and spiritual victory over oneself is more important than ...
... too are seen to observe, criticise, help or oppose and restrain each other; it is as if we were a group-being, each member of the group with its separate place and function, and all directed by a central being who is sometimes in front above the others, sometimes behind the scenes." 18 × Sri Aurobindo, The ...
... inner worlds gives at the same time the capacity to discern the various destinies, their interpenetration and their combined or dominant action. Higher destinies are quite obviously the closest to the central truth of the universe, and if they are allowed to intervene, their action is necessarily beneficent. The art of living would then consist in maintaining oneself in one’s highest state of consciousness ...
... inner worlds gives at the same time the capacity to discern the various destinies, their interpenetration and their combined or dominant action. Higher destinies are quite obviously the closest to the central truth of the universe, and if they are allowed to intervene, their action is necessarily beneficent. The art of living would then consist in maintaining oneself in one's highest state of consciousness ...
... Self-giving Words of the Mother - II Self-giving Self-giving is true prayer. Self-giving: by this the whole being gets progressively unified round the central psychic being. Give yourself up―it is the best way of finding yourself. Page 100 Give yourself, all that you are and what you do, to the Divine, and you will have peace. Give ...
... to build higher things on the sand and mire of the ordinary consciousness is not safe. That does not necessarily exclude friendships or comradeships, but these must be subordinate altogether to the central fire." (Letters on Yoga, p. 818) (4)"Friendship or affection is not excluded from the yoga. Friendship with the Divine is a recognised relation in the sadhana. Friendships between the sadhaks ...
... method is to detach yourself from the thoughts coming from outside, and to try to reject them, saying: "They are not mine, these thoughts, therefore they have no access to me." Ever conscious of the central being, you must reject far from you the thought that comes, not letting it enter into you. Because the thoughts, the impulses, the sensations come from outside and you block them completely: "No, not ...
... destruction of much that lives by the evil," to quote Sri Aurobindo. Page 167 Sir Arthur Conan Doyle presents another terrible point. In The Adventure of the Creeping Man, which has a central plot of the discovery of a rejuvenating serum, Sherlock Holmes muses : "There is danger there —a very real danger to humanity. Consider, Watson, that the material, the sensual, the worldly would all ...
... Aurobindo, therefore, effects synthesis by neglecting the forms and outsides of the Yogic disciplines and seizes rather on some central principle common to all which would include and utilise in the right place and proportion their particular principles. It also seizes on some central dynamic force, which is the common secret of their divergent methods and capable, therefore, of organising a natural selection... yogas: Because it aims not at a departure out of world and life into Heaven or Nirvana, but at a change of life and existence, not as something subordinate or incidental, but as a distinct and central object. If there is a descent in other yogas, yet it is only an incident on the way or resulting from the ascent - the ascent is the real thing. Here the ascent is the first step, but it is a means... themselves. It includes also the high and profound synthesis of the Upanishadic spiritual knowledge. It places the Bhagavadgita's synthesis of the triple path of love, knowledge and works as something central in its processes. It also acknowledges the synthesis of the Tantra and utilises the methods of tantric Yoga for purposes of its new aims. It also acknowledges the Tantric idea of the divine perfectibility ...
... rebuilt in the north, but in another, a Central Asiatic type, the ancient empire. These earlier foreign invasions and their effects have to be seen in their true proportions, which are often disturbed by the exaggerated theories of oriental scholars. The invasion of Alexander was an eastward impulsion of Hellenism that had a work to do in western and central Asia, but no future in India. Immediately... centralising tendency must always be, Page 432 if not actively to destroy, still to wear down and weaken the vigour of the subordinated autonomies. The consequence was that whenever the central authority was weak, the persistent principle of regional autonomy essential to the life of India reasserted itself to the detriment of the artificial unity established and not, as it should have done... great inherent weakness; but the British is the first really continuous foreign rule that has dominated India. The ancient civilisation underwent indeed an eclipse and decline under the weight of a Central Asiatic religion and culture with which it failed to coalesce, but it survived its pressure, put its impact on it in many directions and remained to our own day alive even in decadence and capable ...
... far that these organs might cease to be indispensable and even be felt as too obstructive: the central force might use them less and less and finally throw aside their use altogether: If that happened they might waste by atrophy, be reduced to an insignificant minimum or even disappear. The central force might substitute for them subtle organs of a very different character or, if anything material ...
... continuous youthfulness of the body and immortality of the body. In the context of these conflicting views about mortality and immortality, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have confronted the issue centrally and come to the conclusion that the necessity of the death of the body implies deficiency in the manifestation of the spirit in the body and that the full manifestation of spirit in the body would... become Page 60 finite and limited in the egoistic consciousness was for these seers a matter for experiential and experimental exploration of consciousness. Consciousness was for them a central object of yogic enquiry, and it was through that enquiry that they sought to answer the enigma of the experiences of immortality and mortality or death. In fact, death, they found, is intimately ...
... necessity of a greater scruple in prescribing the methods which can be considered to be distinctively appropriate to this field. One speciality of the domain of values is that it is more centrally related to volition and affection, rather than to cognition. At the same time, it would not be right to assume that value-oriented education should be exclusively related to training of volition... woven into the complex totality of all the other programmes of studies: and this can perhaps be done more easily, if we develop a curriculum for the development of Integral Personality. Here yet the central theme of value-education would not form a mere appendage of all other subjects but would stand out as the overarching and the supervening subject of basic importance. A suitable study of this core ...
... this experience is appended at Appendix II (p.113) Conversion may very often be a movement as a result of which spiritual life becomes central to the seeker. But this centrality may be only ideative in character, in the sense that what becomes central is a cluster of ideas relating to spiritual life rather than the possession of the substance of the Spirit that makes spiritual life so very ... on attaining answers to the deepest questions that all other quests raise in some way or in some degree, and attempt to answer but remain unanswered but which at the same time must be answered. The central questions that impel yogic quest are: (i) if human life has any meaning, and if so, (ii) if that meaning can be consciously seized, (iii) if the relevant knowledge can be possessed with certainty,... transform the workings of the outer instruments of Nature. Nor can Yoga be practised in a casual way or only as a part-time preoccupation. Yoga, to be properly practised, must be taken as a sovereign and central occupation and must govern and permeate every aspect of life and every pursuit. Varieties of Yogic Experience If experience is a means of knowledge, of growth, of ennoblement of character ...
... others to follow—if people do it, it is their own error and their own responsibility. Even B cannot be imitated in everything though he is certainly a very good sadhak. But his not going outside the central compound has been sanctioned by the Mother from early times because it was his spiritual need. X 's one merit as a sadhak is that he is entirely passive to the Mother and receives without question ...
... always—perhaps one ought not to make a too rigid universal rule about these things—a being attached to him, sometimes appearing like a part of him, which is just the contradiction of the thing he centrally represents in the work to be done. Or, if it is not there at first, not bound to his personality, a force of this kind enters into his environment as soon as he begins his movement to realise. Its ...
... it fails to please or satisfy the aesthetic sense. Your true poetic capacity does not lie in that direction; when you indulge it, it seems to be in obedience to some intellectual kink not to the central intuition. Some lines are good but not more than good; the rest is energetic without felicity. The last poem is an ingenuity of sentiment and the expression does not ring quite true. Sorry to be so ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 3 The Central Consciousness VERY often this was the experience: union with the Supreme is established, but as soon as the consciousness was about to settle and merge in the bliss of the union, it was called back and had to turn to the outside world to the ordinary affairs of ordinary consciousness. As if I was ...
... AUROBINDO: Yes! When the Inconscient is in a proper condition of quietude, you are able to receive. DR. MANILAL: That would mean throwing away all disturbances. SRI AUROBINDO: Not all. There is a central quietness—when the stuff of the mind becomes quiet—a condition in which one can receive in spite of all disturbances. DR. MANILAL: Am I receptive, Sir? (Laughter) SRI AUROBINDO: Your mind may ...
... the Samkhya and Yoga, such as the theory of Gunas, theory of elements of Prakriti, and the idea of a subjective practice and inner change for the finding of the Self, is admitted by the Gita. The central concern of the Gita is to expound a practical system of yoga that it teaches and it brings in metaphysical ideas only as explanatory of its practical system; nor does it merely declare Vedantic knowledge... knowledge, their culmination, and informs them with devotion as their very heart and kernel of their spirit. The greatest significance of the Gita lies in the fact that it proposes a solution to a central typical problem of human Page 38 life that presents itself at .a certain critical stage of development. We may say that Arjuna to whom the teaching is addressed is a representative man... fruits of thy works be thy motive, neither let there be in thee any attachment to inactivity". 62 This is practicable means of overcoming the knot of desire in which we are entangled. For desire is centrally fixed in the pursuit of attainment of fruits of action; therefore if fruits of action cease to be the motive of action, the knot of desire can be greatly loosened. Indeed, this is not the mahavakya ...
... stilling and simplification, but the common, ultimate objective is a release of the central being from the complex working of nature, and its union either with the immutable Brahman or with God or with its own unconditioned Self or Status, as the case may be. If the nature has been purified enough to let the central consciousness sink into its depths or soar above the body, the principal spiritual end... spiritual progress, and quietly reject—not repress—the rest. This is the poise of the witness or sākṣī puruṣa who is also the approver and giver of the sanction, anumantā . The calm will of the central being, rejecting the ignorant working of the lower nature, is the most important factor in the process of purification as followed in the Integral Yoga. No wrestling with the impurities, no panicky ...
... corners of the metropolis and questioned about the Unknown that had come like a wind out of nowhere into my life and blown away all my worldly wits. I thus learned a few methods of meditation but the central self in me remained unsatisfied. Then - of all persons - a Theosophist broke the name of Sri Aurobindo to me. That I should bump into a Theosophist * From: The Vision and Work... turn for the worse in Sri Aurobindo's condition the meeting was said to be cancelled. Then suddenly news was brought that she would see me. I rushed to the Ashram courtyard and at the bottom of the central staircase she came and sat in a chair while I sat at her feet. Cool and "translucent" she was as ever and we talked of several things connected with my work. A day or so before fixing my departure ...
... general Indian type of civilisation and culture. India's history throughout has been marked by a tendency, a constant effort to unite all this diversity of elements into a single political whole under a central imperial rule so that India might be politically as well as culturally one. Even after a rift had been created by the irruption of the Mohammedan peoples with their very different religion and social... disappeared. The old Bengal Presidency had already been split up and Orissa, Page 501 Bihar and Assam are now self-governing regional peoples. A merger of the Hindi-speaking part of the Central Provinces and the U.P. would complete the process. An annulment of the partition of India might modify but would not materially alter this result of the general tendency. A union of States and regional ...
... vital and physical into the psychic consciousness, then this Yoga can be done..." Why has he said "the inmost soul"? Is there a superficial soul? It is because this inmost soul, that is, the central psychic being, influences the superficial parts of the consciousness (superficial in comparison with it: mental parts, vital parts). The purest mind, the highest vital, the emotive being—the soul ... extent where one has the impression of entering into contact with it through these parts of the being. So people take these parts for the soul and that is why he says "the inmost soul", that is, the central soul, the real soul. For very often, when one touches certain parts of the mind which are under the psychic influence and full of light and the joy of that light, or when one touches certain very ...
... day before), amusing little details: now the last member of the government of India has been converted, so to speak. All the members of government (the central government—I don't mean the whole country, but of the centre), all the members of the central government are ... (what should I say?) I could almost say "apprentice disciples of Sri Aurobindo," with a great goodwill to serve. And everywhere ...
... religions and conflicts relating to claims regarding truth. It is in this context that the subject of varieties of yogic Page 52 experiences deserves to be brought forth as one of the central subjects that must be pursued by all sincere seekers of truth and of the highest welfare of civilisation. 1. One general statement that can be made is that yogic experience runs everywhere on... by a serious quest in philosophy, science, religion, ethics or aesthetics. But even if this prefatory quest in these fields happens to be necessary in most cases, it has to be underlined that the central field, — the distinctive field, — of yogic experiences is that of the psychic, spiritual and supramental. It is for this reason that many yogins, in order to keep their quest absolutely direct and ...
... impersonal and eternal Calm and Delight. All that is not necessary for those who seek only liberation as end. Page 276 In the same book Brunton has discussed the central teachings of some great Yogis of modern India. I find nothing new in them. They seem like a repetition of the Yogas of ancient India. To leave the world and seek self-realisation is their goal. All... universal; the individualised self is only the universal experienced from an individual centre. If what you have realised is not felt to be one in all, then it is not the "Atman", only it is the central being not yet revealing its universal aspect as Atman. Page 281 ...
... annamaya purusa, in our physical organism; the vital or prānamaya purusa; the mental or manomaya purusa, and the psychic or caitya purusa. All these Purushas, which are projections of the central purusa or jīvātman, are free to accept or reject transformation. If they all aspire for the Divine and surrender to His supramental śakti, then only will that śakti descend Page 423 ... by Sri Aurobindo. ² "...The participation and consent of the Purusha to the transition is not sufficient, there must be also the consent and participation of the Prakriti. It is not only the central thought and will that have to acquiesce, but all the parts of our being must assent and surrender to the law of the spiritual Truth: all have to learn to obey the government of the conscious Divine ...
... vigorous 1 Mahātmā: mahat + atma: great soul. Mahatmas: Kuthumi is the chief of the Mahatmas, who are central to Theosophical teachings. They are stationed "beyond the spheres, above the mighty Gods," as Sri Aurobindo wrote in his poem "The Mahatmas," where he developed the central idea of Mahatma hood. These "souls to death denied" preserve the knowledge that preserves the world. For, when ...
... he is aware of the mental being which controls the life and the body. But more deeply he becomes aware of his soul or psychic being as his true centre, the Purusha in the heart; the psychic is the central being in the evolution, it proceeds from and represents the Jivatman, the eternal portion of the Divine. When there is the full consciousness, the Jivatman and the psychic being join together. The ...
... thought when he said that all knowledge, all true knowledge consists in renriniscence. Page 116 Man, in his terrestrial body, although fallen, because shrouded and diverted from his central being of light and fire, is yet not, as I have said, wholly forsaken and cut adrift. He always carries within him that radiant core through all the peregrinations of earthly sojourn. And though the ...
... in some form or other succeed in bringing into effective existence. But a World-State implies a strong central organ of power that would represent or at least stand for the united will of the nations. A unification of all the necessary powers in the hands of Page 465 this central and common governing body, at least in their source—powers military, administrative, judicial, economic, ... assimilate themselves to the political temperament and ideas of the governing classes. 4 If a World-State were to be established on the present basis of human society, it might well try to develop its central government on this principle. But the present is a moment of transition and a bourgeois World-State is not a probable consummation. In each of the more progressive nations, the dominance of the ...
... northwest. This was the weak point at which the Muslims broke in and rebuilt within a brief period another empire in the north of India; but this empire was not of the Indian type, it was an empire of the Central Asiatic type. This was the beginning of the second phase, which put a tremendous pressure both on the Indian political system and its culture. Indeed, it was the beginning of a very turbulent... great inherent weakness; but the British rule was the first really continuous foreign rule that dominated India. The ancient civilization indeed underwent an eclipse and decline under the weight of a Central Asiatic religion and culture with which it failed to coalesce, but it survived its pressure, put its impact on it in many directions and it remains to this day alive even in decadence and capable of... the lands of North Africa and Persia were converted to Islam. In Persia, Islam replaced the religion of Zoroastrianism. By the middle of the eighth and the beginning of the ninth century, most of Central Asia had come under the influence of Islam. The Saljuk Turks were converted to Islam in around 960 A.D. and they united into one empire the Muslim kingdoms of Western Asia. The Afghans were also converted ...
... position and make my decisions. I will not say more in this letter, though I may have much to say hereafter: you should be able to understand from what I have written why I have reversed my course. Our central object and the real policy of the paper stands, but what steps have to be taken or can be taken in the new circumstances can only be seen in the light of future developments. Meanwhile I await your ...
... Pondicherry for a visit. Mother sent him some money and Manoranjan, an Ashramite, was sent for the renovation of his house at Rameshwaram. Kameshwar, who did long puja regularly along with his Bureau Central work, also stayed at Rameshwaram sometimes. Two other promising Ashramites used to go to Rameshwaram to see Panditji and stay there for some periods. They ostensibly went for spiritual progress ...
... They are the famous 'Ida', 'Pingala' and 'Susumna.' Ida and Pingala are on either side of the spinal cord, the central one being the Susumna. The two on either side are the ascending and the descending lines, (sometimes they are represented as the twins, knowledge and power); the central holds the balance between the two, representing the consciousness of unity or synthesis. These are the triple forces... (Purak, Rechak and Kumbhak); these are described as the means of controlling and matsering the life-force, Prana. The two lines on either side of the central one form a circulatory system, distributing the forces through the body; the central one, as I said, balancing the two, maintains the poise; it has also a special function of its own not only to guide the forces around itself but also to direct... your move.9 NOTES 1. The divine soul or consciousness in man embraces both the sphere of consciousness, the higher and the lower. 2. That central consciousness hoards the delight, keeps it tight bound in the depth of the heart, so that it may not be spilt and spoilt – the material sheath with its teguments and ligaments must be strong and make ...
... Prakriti of Knowledge."¹ It is the Antarâtmâ or Chaitya Purusha, as distinguished from the Jivâtmâ, of which it is an evolving delegate here. As the Jivâtmâ is our central being above manifestation or evolution, so the psychic being is our central being in evolution. In the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo the importance of the psychic being is of an immense practical nature, as we shall presently see. Nothing... evolution, but presides from above over the evolution of the psychic entity, which is its self-projection or Page 158 representative in the material world. The Jivâtmâ is our eternal and central being, untouched by the mutations of our nature and unqualified by the varying forms assumed by our evolving soul here. It also projects a Purusha, a representative of itself on each plane of our ... exercises an ultimate coordinating control, subject to the Will of the Divine, over the various parts and activities of our nature. These Purushas are the instrumental, while the psychic is the central, self- projection of the Jivâtmâ. When the psychic is awake and evolved in our being, it widens its individuality and rises into union with the Jivâtmâ. This union gives the psychic the experience ...
... generally established subject to certain remnants of discomfort or insipidity, nor on vaidyuta, which can however be brought by satapas smarana . Arogya is strong in tapas in all but the two central rogas, which are still insistent in obstruction and relapse; the rest the tapas, if allowed to act, can hold back or cast out the fragments with more or less appearance or reality of difficulty. ... delivered from its barrier of obstruction. IV Kamananda to acquire continuity, overcome its obstacles and bring in the other anandas. Health to increase its tapas and, if possible, found the two central arogyas. The development of the two other physical siddhis is not likely to come as yet to perfection, but the final battle may begin with the physical obstruction. V. Kali to idealise and fix herself... the most physical prana with its sanskara of roga is being pierced and broken up by the light of ideal tapas. The movement is [one] 3 of strong prevalence, not yet of absolute finality. In the central rogas Tapas is resuming its operation, but not yet effective for sensible progress. In the morning drishya of pranic akasha, full of small life; insects, butterflies etc so stable and vivid as ...
... development in the way of human nature. The sunlit path can be followed by those who are able to practise surrender, first a central surrender and afterwards a more complete self-giving in all the parts of the being. If they can achieve and preserve the attitude of the central surrender, if they can rely wholly on the Divine and accept cheerfully whatever comes to them from the Divine, then their... feeling that all that is done by the Divine is done for the best even when we cannot understand his action. But all have not this nature, most are very far from it, and the complete or even the central surrender is not easy to get, and to keep it always is hard enough for our human nature. When these things are not there, the liberty of the soul is not attained and we have instead to undergo the... the thinking mind and the heart with the soul, the psychic being behind them that we have to grow into the Spirit, for what the Force first tries to bring about is to fix the mind in the right central idea, faith or mental attitude and the right aspiration and poise of the heart and to make these sufficiently strong and firm to last in spite of other things in the mind and heart which are other ...
... round. This principle stresses the primary importance of the genes, and is closely related to Francis Crick’s “central dogma”, namely that “DNA makes RNA makes protein,” never inversely. “Genetic information flows in only one direction: from DNA outwards. The statement is called ‘the central dogma’ of molecular genetics. It has been elaborated from a vast array of experimental data and seems unlikely... including mitochondria, ribosomes, and other cytoplasmic components, such as the proteins that enter the nucleus to initiate DNA transcription.” 24 “And yet,” adds Noble, “the central biological dogma of our time [Crick’s central dogma] is that inheritance is solely through DNA.” 25 If this is wrong, what is then the role of the genes, of DNA, in the unfolding event of terrestrial evolution? As Stephen... doubted. ‘I didn’t know it meant that,’ said Crick. ‘I thought it meant a hypothesis, some arbitrary thing which was laid down for no particularly good reason. Otherwise it would have been called the Central Hypothesis …’” (Robert Shapiro: Origins , p. 291) × Edward Larson: Evolution , p. 268. ...
... develop the push, the harmony and resolution of the central being, and how should I wake up the vital enthusiasm for poetry? If there is one workable formula that will be a panacea, so much the better. For the rest there are several formulas which are not panaceas. The first is to get into touch with your central being and get it into action. That central may be the psychic, it may be the Self above with... sorrows himself mixing in everything. Different parts of the mind take different sides and suggest opposite things according as they are pushed by one force or another. As yet no resolution of the central being to put all that into harmony, expel what is to be expelled, change what is to change. I don't know whether you call that mystic or mental answers, but I can't give you any other that would be... that it? You described very admirably the attitude of perfect nirbhar 28 which is the great secret of the most perfect kind of sadhana. You have not said how to get into touch with the central being, and get it into action. There is no how. One decides to do it and one does it. My mental will itself is weak. It can be made strong. I can try to call down the Mother's force ...
... declaring that power would be transferred in India in default of one Central Government, in some areas to the existing Provincial Governments, made it imperative for the League to capture power and to establish its own Government in the Punjab at all costs, so that such a Government should be able to receive power independently of a Central Government of India; (c) The "Victory Day" of Mar. 2, 1947... one-hundredth part as bad as they would be under Hitler. The ways of the Lord would still be Page 47 open-to keep them open is what matters. Let us stick to the real, the central fact, the need to remove the peril of black servitude and revived barbarism threatening India and the world. P.S. Ours is a Sadhana which involves not only devotion or union with the Divine... Council without the approval of the Muslim League stiffened its attitude. It passed a resolution stating that any fresh declaration, which affected the demand for Pakistan or proceeded on the basis of a Central Government with India as one single unit and Mussulmans as an all-India minority would be strongly resented by the Muslims. The Muslim Press rang with cries such as: "Pakistan is our demand and by ...
... folklore, pre-verbal artifacts and in the written word everywhere in the world are a testimony to this human experience of loss, desire and recovery. 'Paradise Lost' and 'Paradise Regained' remain central metaphors of the human experience. At another level, culture is an external thing, a communal (using the term in its positive sense and divesting it of the superfoetation of dust that has... of Badruddin Tyabji, of Pandita Rama Bai, of C.J. Andrews and Maulana Azad to take names at random, clearly speak of a multiplicity of religious traditions at work in our country. This pluralism is central to our culture and it is perhaps the most valuable lesson we have learnt about ourselves - that we are the proud inheritors of a catholic view of life where narrow religious and domestic walls will... identities, our pluralism and diversity. If I choose to speak of a Hindu theistic identity it is because I know that best. I certainly do not claim an exclusive status for it but would assert its centrality to nationalist consciousness. III Having outlined the salient features of India's Renaissance, I shall now undertake a somewhat personalised narrative to dramatise the conflicts ...
... over the minds of the rising generation. To organise the nation means to make all its elements of strength efficient for a single clear and well-understood work under the leadership of a recognised central force. To exclude such important forces as these we have described, means simply to leave the nation unorganised. The country is in need of a statesman, yes: but what kind of statesman? He must ...
... Purusha, imposes its dictates on the nature. He also adds: The psychic being is quite different from the mind or vital; it stands behind them where they meet in the heart. Its central place is there, but behind the heart rather than in the heart; for what men call usually the heart is the seat of emotion, and human emotions are mental-vital impulses, not ordinarily ...
... same a few who know how to meditate, they do come to a sort of union with the Divine. Certainly, this is very good. There are others who can follow the tram of an idea up to a point, even up to the central point of the idea. This is also very good. But most get into a half-sleepy condition, that is to say, very tamasic. The mind is inert, aspiration inert, the whole being is inert. They can remain in ...
... same a few who know how to meditate, they do come to a sort of union with the Divine. Certainly, this is very good. There are others who can follow the train of an idea up to a point, even up to the central point of the idea. This is also very good. But most get into a half-sleepy condition, that is to say, very tamasic. The mind is inert, aspiration inert, the whole being is inert. They can remain in ...
... harness just a modicum of the total stock, the rest is frittered away or locked up, whether it is vital energy or Page 391 mental energy or even physical energy. That is because the central power that drives, the consciousness that controls the whole mechanism is of an inferior quality, of a lower potential. The Yogi views all energy as various forms and gradations of consciousness. So ...
... gṛ hapati , dwelling in the inner heart of the human being, impelling it to rise to purer and larger Truth. But here our modem poet replaces the Heart by the Liver and makes of this organ the central altar of human aspiration and inspiration. We may remember in this connection that the French poet Baudelaire gave a similar high position and —function—to the other collateral organ, the spleen ...
... r I go, Others will punctually come forever and ever. 30 Song of Myself is written in a new kind of verse and it is a new kind of epic; unabashed he announces that he is its central figure; but he derives his meaning and his power from the fact of his location in the universe, in the cosmos. "The end of Song of Myself, writes Roy Harvey Pearce, "the moral object which sy ...
... dark consequence. If above it stands for ever in its perfect Light, Bliss and Peace, it is also here; its Light, Bliss and Peace are secretly here supporting all; in ourselves there is a spirit, a central presence greater than the series of surface personalities which, like the supreme Divine itself, is not overborne by the Page 256 fate they endure. If we find out this Divine within us... 's way of putting it is a trifle too "Vedantic-Theistic"—in my view it is a transaction between the One and the Many. In the beginning it was you (not the human you who is now complaining but the central being) which accepted or even invited the adventure of the Ignorance; sorrow and struggle are a necessary consequence of the plunge into the Inconscience and the evolutionary emergence out of it. The... mind and feelings, I am afraid there is none. No doubt if human beings had made the universe, they would have done much better; but they were not there to be consulted when they were made. Only your central being was there and that was much nearer in its temerarious foolhardiness to Vivekananda's or X 's than to the repining prudence of your murmuring and trembling human mentality of the present mom ...
... formation without a powerful central control could be satisfactory, effective or enduring, even if it were much less loose, much more compact than anything that seems at present likely to evolve in the near future. There must be in the nature of things a second step, a movement towards greater rigidity, constriction of national liberties and the erection of a unique central authority with a uniform control... any security if the armed force of the State is balanced or its sole effectivity diminished by the existence of other armed forces belonging to groups and individuals and free in any degree from the central control or able to use their power against the governing authority. Even so, even with this authority backed by a sole and centralised armed force, Law has not been able to prevent strife of a kind ...
... rhythm of the line. Too many syllables — 12 in fact — are crowded together, creating a dancing wavering rhythm which serves ill the simple straight swift motion of the bird. Again, what stands in central focus now is the flash and not the kingfisher. Many different things may be said to give a flash: a sort of generality is caught through the flashing, a Page 32 less distinct less... technique working through "sudden". Further, the whole last foot in which the adjective stands is what is called an amphibrach: the foot consists of three syllables — "the sudden" — with only the central syllable stressed. Metrically it is like the last foot of the Shakespearean verse already quoted: The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling... Sri Aurobindo 1 has called Shakespeare's last foot... pun, that it is not prose but worse! Poetry must have not only intensity of vision and intensity of word: it must have also intensity of rhythm. And how is rhythm to be intense without having a central cadence in the midst of variations, a base of harmonic recurrences over which modulations play, a base which is never overlaid with too much modulation but rings out its uniformity through the diversity ...
... was no fighting except in black and white — but tempers ran quite as high as on that fateful night in the Paris Theatre, and pretty deep cuts were made by the vigorous play of polemical pens. The central figure in the Romantic Movement in England was William Wordsworth, though Burns and Blake may be consi-dered the pioneers in a general sense. You might think Words-worth was rather a contrast to Hugo... burst: At other times — good Lord! I'd rather be Quite unacquainted with the A B C Than write such hopeless rubbish as thy worst. Page 71 It is interesting to note that the central figures of both English and French Romanticisms were very flawed poets, superb on one side, dreary or windbaggy on the other. And the reason why so much of the dreary remains in Wordsworth and so much... this publication and it was as organic to the new Romanticist Movement as that other of Wordsworth's. But Wordsworth was the more powerful, more comprehensive, more harmonised poet and he is the more central figure and it was his Preface to the second edition of Lyrical Ballads that constituted the first Manifesto of English Roman-ticism. Like Hugo's championship of common words, Wordsworth had his ...
... on and Assessment Council (NAAC) has been established. As a matter of fact, it would have been much better if this Council were made a part of UGC itself, since the objectives of this Council are central to the objectives of UGC. In fact, UGC needs to establish a permanent Academic Council consisting of eminent educationists of the country who can constantly study the problems of reforms in curricula... funds, which are today getting even more and more meagre. The Kulapati of a university should be basically an academic leader, who is also involved in the cultural activities and activities that are central to the development of values of physical, ethical, aesthetic and spiritual education. What applies to the Vice-chancellor applies equally to the principal, since the principal has a large direct contact... not know how we shall be able to furnish the increasing resources, which are needed. In India, the Government has been bearing increasing share of the financial burden. The share of the Government (Central and State) increased from 49% in 1950-51 to 76% in 1986-87. The Government expenditure was of the order of Rs. 42,126 millions in 1996-97, and during the subsequent period this has risen even higher ...
... the spirit behind and the justifying spiritual experience. Indian scriptures and records abound with the statements and descriptions of varieties of spiritual experience. But there are three central spiritual experiences in terms of which all these varieties can be readily understood. The first is that of the individual in a state of complete detachment from all movement, dynamism and activity... has reached a point of criticality, and that this criticality demands a new knowledge, an integral knowledge of Matter and Spirit. This is the task which Free India has begun to perceive as central to her real fulfilment. It is significant that we have in India a most comprehensive statement of this task in the luminous writings of Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950), who has been described by Romain Rolland... mechanisation and of a comfortable search and satisfaction of appetites for pleasure and egoistic domination. What is happening in the West is bound to have a great impact upon India, and the central problem of India is whether India wants to become a province of western culture and whether, even while assimilating the best that the West has to offer, it can find from great resources of Page ...
... has to go very far on the path before one is so secure as that. 4 January 1937 In Conversations the Mother says that if the central being has surrendered, then the chief difficulty is gone [ p. 7 ]. What is this central being? Is it the psychic? The central being is the Purusha. If it is surrendered, then all the other beings can be offered to the Divine and the psychic being brought in ...
... culture, because by the fact of their speech they are and must be mere provinces of England. Whatever peculiarities they may develop in their mental life tend to create a type of provincialism and not a central intellectual, aesthetic, spiritual life of their own with its distinct importance for mankind. For the same reason the whole of America, in spite of its powerfully independent political and economic... again in the culture of the world, first, as a reward in the outer life, arrived at a vital political consciousness and a living political movement not imitative and derivative in its spirit and its central ideal. 3 For so much does language count in the life of a nation; for so much does it count to the advantage of humanity at large that its group-souls should preserve and develop and use with a... independence survived only in form. Nor will even the English colonial system give us any useful suggestion; for there is there local independence and a separate vigour of life, but the brain, heart and central spirit are in the metropolitan country and the rest are at the best only outlying posts of the Anglo-Saxon idea. 4 The Swiss cantonal life offers no fruitful similitude; for apart from the exiguity ...
... one has the will not to do so. Ascent and the Psychic Being Any part of the being can go upward and meet its source there. The central being is always above; the psychic is its counterpart below. If the psychic goes up it may be also to join its source in the central being. The psychic being and other parts can go up to join the higher consciousness there. It is part of the movement of ascent... and all the rest of the nature is unprepared, absorbed in or attached to ordinary life and governed by movements that are not in consonance with the Light. Still the something within is something central in the being and therefore the experience is in a way definitive and decisive. For it comes as a decisive intimation of the spiritual destiny and an indication of what must be reached some time in ...
... were to have Hindu and Muslim members among its ranks. India and Pakistan also agreed to include representatives of the minority community in the cabinet of the two Bengals, and decided to depute two central ministers, one from each government, to remain in the affected areas for such period as might be necessary. Both the leaders emphasized that the loyalty of the minorities should be reserved for the... position and make my decision, I will not say more in this letter, though I may have to say much hereafter. You should be able to understandfrom what I have written why I have reversed my course. Our central object and the real policy of the paper stands, but what steps have to be taken or can be taken in the new circumstances can only be seen in the light of future developments. Meanwhile I await... through the Land Reforms of 1959 was given to military and civil officials. Retired military officers were given plum jobs in public and private sector corporations while others were absorbed into the central and provincial bureaucracies. Faced with several internal problems, and in order to divert attention from what was going on in the country, Ayub Khan decided to confront India first ...
... they occur and recur everywhere; they run through the hymns as two closely connected threads of symbolic imagery, and around them all the rest of the Vedic symbolism is woven. Not that they are its central ideas, but they are two main pillars of this ancient structure. When we determine their sense, we have determined the sense of the whole Rik Sanhita. If Vritra and the waters symbolise the cloud and... We have concluded that the Angiras Rishis are bringers of the Dawn, rescuers of the Sun out of the darkness, but that this Dawn, Sun, Darkness are figures used with a spiritual significance. The central conception of the Veda is the conquest of the Truth out of the darkness of Ignorance and by the conquest of the Truth the conquest also of Immortality. For the Vedic Ritam is a spiritual as well as ...
... Another feature of my poetry in the old days was that a certain basic image would be variously worked out — facet Page 194 after facet but in spite of different reflections the same central vision. Here "a myriad stammer/Of flickering stars" is the heart of the imaginative insight. And everything preceding this expression would in diverse modes and manners anticipate it so that when it... seal in which all the visionary colours would come to rest. Perhaps this feature of the inspiration is what determined the hysteron -vroteron fashion in which the poem took birth. The central image broke forth at the end of the poem and gave the clue to the remainder of the piece to be drawn out. It set the poetic consciousness along a certain track, it provided a guiding light by which ...
... ess. They are full of insights into the problems of transforming one's nature and offer ways to overcome them. Champaklal was interested in reading, writing, painting and music, but always his central aspiration was to serve the Divine. Sincere aspiration, even when not expressed in words, evokes a response from the Divine Grace. Champaklal's life is a standing example of this truth. His aspiration... the vital worlds, "Rakshasi-maya", will be instructive to those who are doing yoga. Sri Aurobindo's answers to the following questions are revealing: Why did I come to Pondicherry? What is the central clue of my yoga? Why have the people of India gone down to ruin? Why do I want a deva-sangha? What should one practise first before taking up this yoga? How does one transform the lower movements ...
... again, constantly meeting with the suggestions of the Vedic Asuras, "You can't do anything, you are bound to fail." You have to go on working year after year, point after point, till you come to a central point in the subconscient which has to be conquered and it is the crux of the whole problem, hence exceedingly difficult. You know what Vivekananda said about the nature of man? That it is like a dog's... nothing stirs under any condition. Till last August I was successful. This accident was perhaps the last test of my equanimity. In that way one has to go on working things out till one reaches the central point in the subconscient which is the seed one has to cut out. It is while working in this way that I came to notice many gaps that had not been filled up. It may be due to those gaps that the ...
... general Indian type of civilisation and culture. India's history throughout has been marked by a tendency, a constant effort to unite all this diversity of elements into a single political whole under a central imperial rule so that India might be politically as well as culturally one. Even after a rift had been created by the irruption of the Mohammedan peoples with their very different religion and social... Bombay would have disappeared. The old Bengal Presidency had already been split up and Orissa, Bihar and Assam are now, self-governing regional peoples. A merger of the Hindi-speaking part of the Central Provinces and the U.P. would complete the process. An annulment of the partition of India might modify but would not materially alter this result of the general tendency. A union of States and regional ...
... that is also what Plato thought when he said that all knowledge, all true knowledge consists in reminiscence. Man, in his terrestrial body, although fallen, because shrouded and diverted from his central being of light and fire, is yet not, as I have said, wholly forsaken and cut adrift. He always carries within him that radiant core through all the peregrinations of earthly sojourn. And though the ...
... consider vaster canvas in which the present crisis and its resolutions are considered to be of central importance, it appears that the theme of value-education along with the theme of knowledge of the superconscient should get related to each other, and the consequent interrelationship should constitute the central pillar on which the new road of education can be designed and built. V Closely... an atheist and nonbeliever can practise Yogic methods and arrive at an impartial perception and experience of the truths of the superconscient knowledge. It is true that Yogic knowledge is central for a genuine pursuit of the supra-rational truth, beauty and goodness, but still the religious and philosophical pursuits can, whenever and wherever needed, also help, and this help can be of great... acosmic, and the cosmic and terrestrial aims are subordinated or neglected, even rejected. Since our aim is to utilise superconscient knowledge in the conquest of the inconscient, we have to assign a central importance to those pursuits of the supra conscient and the supra-rational which deal with the cosmic and terrestrial, right up to our material life and its subconscious and unconscious recesses. In ...
... .… All that is what I call evolution in the right direction-however slow and imperfect and hesitating it may still be. As for America she has forsworn her past imperialistic policies in regard to Central and South America, she has conceded independence to Cuba and the Philippines... Is there a similar trend on the side of the Axis? One has to look at things on all sides, to see them steadily and whole... At any rate things could not be one-hundredth part as bad as they would be under Hitler. The ways of the Lord would still be open-to keep them open is what matters. Let us stick to the real, the central fact, the need to remove the peril of black servitude and revived barbarism threatening India and the world, and leave for a later time all side-issues and minor issues or hypothetical problems that... if this evolution is to take place, since it must come through a growth of the spirit and the inner consciousness, the initiative can come from India and although the scope must be universal, the central movement may be hers. Such is the content which I put into this date of India's liberation; Page 32 whether or how far or. how soon this connection will be fulfilled ...
... sighf perceived its presence. But it does not mean that Sri Aurobindo in his central reality in a subtle form was there. That reality is here in the Ashram, with me." I may add that for many, after both the Mother and Sri Page 271 Aurobindo have withdrawn from the visible physical scene, their central reality, in a subtle yet recognisable form corresponding broadly to their previous ...
... September 1931 The things that are awaited... they alone can remedy the sorry state of affairs you mention in your letter of October 9th; and it is certainly not confined to the small states of central Europe. What you have described is pretty much the state of the whole world: disorder, confusion, wastage and misery. Page 6 It is no use lamenting, however, saying: Where are you headed... August 1936 A small booklet is being published in Geneva, containing a talk I gave in 1912, I think. It is a bit out-of-date, but I did not want to dampen their enthusiasm. I had entitled it "The Central Thought", but they found this a little too philosophical, so it has been changed to "The Supreme Discovery". 4 Rather pompous for my taste, but... 24 April 1937 Speaking of recent events ...
... To turn thought and word into form and expression of the superconscient Truth which is hidden beyond the division and duality of the mental and physical existence was the central idea of the Vedic discipline and the foundation of its mysteries. × The Bull; the thought is symbolised ...
... descending triangle represents Sat-Chit-Ananda. The ascending triangle represents the aspiring answer from matter under the form of life, light and love. Page 28 The junction of both—the central square—is the perfect manifestation having at its centre the Avatar of the Supreme—the lotus. The water—inside the square—represents the multiplicity, the creation. 4 April 1958 His Grace ...
... seeing them in relation to that center of consciousness seems so... You understand, the consciousness is spread out; it's as much there or there as here, and it sees everything in relation to a higher, central Consciousness ( Mother brings her two arms together, joining the tips of her hands above her head in a triangle pointing towards the Supreme ), which is like a kind of Beacon—an immutable, all-powerful ...
... creativity is endless. In Sri Aurobindo's Ilion, there is a continuous hymn of heroism. Every major character manifests some remarkable qualities of heroism, and in the case of Achilles, the central hero, these qualities combine together and rise to a high pitch of accomplishment. He was, indeed, in an earlier phase aggressive and brutal, but his soul-power pushed him to higher grades of a ...
... was the true source and sense of that miraculous movement. It meant the advent of democracy in politics and romanticism in art. The century that followed was a period of great experiment: for the central theme of that experiment was the search for the individual. In honouring the individual and giving it full and free scope the movement went far and even too far: liberty threatened to lead towards ...
... fails to please or satisfy the aesthetic sense. Your true poetic capacity does not lie in that direction; when you indulge it, it seems to be in obedience to some intellectual kink not to the central intuition. Some lines are good but not more than good; the rest is energetic without felicity. The last poem is an ingenuity of sentiment and the expression does not ring quite true. Sorry to ...
... those of a spiritual master, an educationist, an organizer and an administrator and a creator of great vision. She is, besides, a literary person, a painter, a musician. But her spiritual personality central to all these aspects is the most astounding. She aimed at ever higher and higher goals and discovered and revealed endless realms of the Spirit. This gives us the most thrilling possibilities of life ...
... first wife, on December 18, 1969, that she wanted the first design to begin around the Banyan Tree, which is to be the Garden of Unity. She said: I have chosen all the flowers . As for the central garden, which we had once spoken of as "the Garden of Love", the Mother asked for it to be called simply "the Matrimandir Garden" and not "Love". For she said: I dislike this word [Love], for man ...
... Mother—driving her car, accompanying her wherever she went. He was also the Director of the Sri Aurobindo Centre of Education. Moreover he handled foreign correspondence for the Mother. He designed the Central Park in front of the Governor's House. He also supervised its laying out. There is the Botanical Garden in Pondicherry set up by French botanists in 1825-26. The Garden is situated to the South-West ...
... House, grhapati, dwelling in the inner heart of the human being, impelling it to rise to purer and larger Truth. But here our modern poet replaces the Heart by the Liver and makes of this organ the central altar of human aspiration and inspiration. We may remember in this connection that the French poet Baudelaire gave a similar high position – and function – to the other collateral organ, the spleen ...
... Schomberg says that the Chinese are no good as soldiers and the Russians are good only at defensive warfare. The Germans at present are trying to expand in the Ukraine. After that, Hitler will come to Central Europe. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, but that will at once combine Russia, Poland, Roumania and Yugoslavia. The small countries will be afraid about their own safety. PURANI: But I don't understand why ...
... of my method and to a brief statement of the results of my theory. In order to illustrate the method I propose to take the first eleven Suktas of the first Mandala and to show how some of the central ideas of a psychological interpretation arise out of certain important passages or single hymns and how the surrounding context of the passages and the general thought of the hymns assume an entirely... case, the hymns of the son and grandson of Vishwamitra with which the Rig Veda opens strike admirably the first essential notes of the Vedic harmony. The first hymn, addressed to Agni, suggests the central conception of the Truth which is confirmed in the second and third Suktas invoking Indra in company with other gods. In the remaining eight hymns with Indra as the sole deity, except for one which... offering of what Page 68 one has and is by the mortal to the Immortal as the means of the divine consummation. All the rest of Vedic thought in its spiritual aspects is grouped around these central conceptions. Page 69 ...
... intuition and the true impulse to action will come and you will be able to live in conscious communion, to feel her presence and be moved only by her Force. This is your true way in the Yoga. A central love, bhakti, surrender, giving everything, a sight within that sees always clearly what is spiritually right or wrong and automatically rejects the latter—a movement of entire consecration and dedication... in the mind and the perceptions and the mental and vital attitude towards things and happenings and people are becoming more and more of a psychic character. Love and devotion to the Divine is the central feeling of the psychic nature and that is growing in you towards the Mother, pervading your being. A psychic love towards all is also emerging; this love is a thing inward and does not seek to express... can prevent the psychic from coming forward if there is the true will to get rid of these things and live in the psychic and spiritual consciousness. If there is the will to surrender in the central being, then the psychic can come forward. There is absolutely no reason why you should return when you have come with the intention of staying here for a sufficient time and it is better to ...
... that is covertly and overtly the pivot of all endeavour and action, faith, śraddhā . The perfect faith is an assent of the whole being to the truth seen by it or offered to its acceptance, and its central working is a faith of the soul in its own will to be and attain and become and its idea of self and things and its knowledge, of which the belief of the intellect, the heart's consent and the desire... in some form of itself, is indispensable to the action of the being and without it man cannot move a single pace in life, much less take any step forward to a yet unrealised perfection. It is so central and essential a thing that the Gita can justly say of it that whatever is a man's śraddhā , that he is, yo yacchraddhaḥ sa eva saḥ , and, it may be added, whatever he has the faith to see as possible... and her powers and the satisfied assent of all our being to her workings in and around it is the last perfection of faith in the Shakti. And behind her is the Ishwara and faith in him is the most central thing in the śraddhā of the integral Yoga. This faith we must have and develop to perfection that all things are the workings under the universal conditions of a supreme self-knowledge and wisdom ...
... the spirit behind and the justifying spiritual experience. Indian scriptures and records abound with the statements and descriptions of varieties of spiritual experience. But there are three central spiritual experiences in terms of which all these varieties can be readily understood. The first is that of the individual in a state of complete detachment from all movement, dynamism and activity... has reached a point of criticality, and that this criticality demands a new knowledge, an integral knowledge of Matter and Spirit. This is the task which Free India has begun to perceive as central to her real fulfilment. It is significant that we have in India a most comprehensive statement of this task in the luminous writings of Sri Aurobindo (1872-1950), who has been described by Romain Rolland... mechanisation and of a comfortable search and satisfaction of appetites for pleasure and egoistic domination. What is happening in the West is bound to have a great impact upon India, and the central problem of India is whether India wants to become a province of western culture and whether, even while assimilating the best that the West has to offer, it can find from great resources of culture ...
... was that people in general are not capable of or interested in digesting theoretical, abstract thinking; another reason was that the book as a whole was the expression, albeit in a clumsy way, of a central vision in the author, the core of which he kept secret even from the people closest to him; and a third reason was that Mein Kampf , at the time it was written and read, aimed at the politically and ...
... On Quantitative Metre . Sri Aurobindo wrote this essay for inclusion in his Collected Poems and Plays , which was brought out in 1942 by the Sri Aurobindo Ashram and printed at the Government Central Press, Hyderabad. A separate booklet was also printed at that time from the same setting of type. On Quantitative Metre included as examples fifteen poems written in quantitative metres. The fifteenth ...
... Fitness O ne concept that has become quite significant in recent times is that of "fitness". It appears to be the sum total of many factors blended into one central-qualitative condition which is more than mere "well-being". These factors are mostly physical and correspond to precise capabilities of the body such as cardiovascular endurance, 1 muscular strength ...
... priori limited by our mental consciousness, by the mechanisms of division to which this consciousness automatically subjects the One Existence. The Mother in that room on the second floor of the central building of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Rue de la Marine in Pondicherry, was something completely different from and more than that old, frail, stooped body by which all were mesmerized. She was the... Mother, ‘the divine Mahashakti, original Power, supreme Nature, holding in herself infinite existence and creating the wonders of the cosmos,’ 3 as Sri Aurobindo wrote. Of herself, she said: ‘The central Consciousness, here, in the material world, is the Mahashakti.’ 4 And Sri Aurobindo again: ‘All powers of all the planes must be seen and known as self-formulations of the one spiritual Shakti,... supraphysical forms of being in her heart and above her head] is so natural that I do not pay attention to it anymore: it is my way of being.’ 17 ) Or ‘I’ was ‘the high Lady Above,’ or it was the central Supreme Consciousness, or simply a consciousness enabling her to converse with other people. One could fill pages with definitions of that personal pronoun ‘I’ as used by the Mother in later years ...
... shiftings of sex, it is, as a rule, a matter of parts of the personality which are not central." (Ibid., p. 440). "As far as I know, the births follow usually one line or the other and do not alterrnate.... If there is a change of sex, it is only part of the being that associates itself with the change, not the central being." (Ibid., p. 447) Page 159 "But the altervation of sex... evolution till it can bring the Divine into Matter. It is the central being that incarnates, not the outer personality - the personality is simply a mould that it creates for its figures of experience in that one life. In another birth it will create for itself a different personality, different capacities, a different life and career.... the central being develops a new character, a new personality, grows... environments. One part may enter into another person who has an affinity for it, another may even enter an animal, while that which has been alive to the divine Presence, may remain attached to the central psychic being. But if you are fully organised and converted into a single individual, bent on reaching the goal of evolution, then you will be conscious after death and preserve a continuity. (CWM ...
... She was looking for the mechanism. How to overcome this cellular contagion ... without crushing everything around her? How to avoid that the new species be swallowed up by the old one? The Central Experience Now, there is an experience, repeated thousands and tens of thousands of times during those years since the first exit from the web of the physical Mind in 1962, that tended to take... ed: that disorganization is what prevents the cohesion necessary for the cells to constitute an individual body, so then you say, “Ah, it’ll be the end.” Then the cells aspire, there is a sort of central consciousness in the body which aspires intensely, with as complete a surrender as it can make: “Your Will, Lord, Your Will, Your Will ” Then there is a kind of ... not something thunderous, not a... voice: And if you stay LONG ENOUGH in the true consciousness, the appearance, that is, what we call the physical “fact” itself disappears, not just the pain I have the feeling of having touched the central experience. 16 With time the physical fact changes. But it’s a very small beginning, she continued . One would have the impression of having touched the supreme Secret only if the physical ...
... if this evolution is to take place, since it must come through a growth of the spirit and the inner consciousness, the initiative can come from India and although the scope must be universal, the central movement may be hers. Such is the content which I put into this date of India's liberation; whether or how far or how soon this connection will be fulfilled, depends upon this new and free India... this evolution is to take place, since it must proceed through a growth of the spirit and the inner consciousness, the initiative can come from India and, although the scope must be universal, the central movement may be hers. Such is the content which I put into this date of India's liberation; whether or how far this hope will be justified depends upon the new and free India. Page 480 ...
... everyone who wants to work there will be able to do so. And that would really be working on the central idea. And it should be soon. It should have been already. We have been thinking of beginning the Matrimandir for a long time. It is the centre of the town, isn't it? It is like the Force, the central Force of Auroville, the Force of cohesion in Auroville. There will be gardens, everything ...
... so far that these organs might cease to be indispensable and even be felt as too obstructive: the central force might use them less and less and finally throw aside their use altogether. If that happened they might waste by atrophy, be reduced to an insignificant minimum or even disappear. The central force might substitute for them subtle organs of a very different character or, if anything material ...
... universal; the individualised self is only the universal experienced from an individual centre. If what you have realised is not felt to be one in all, then it is not the "Atman"; possibly it is the central being not yet revealing its universal aspect as Atman. The Self is felt as either universal, one in all, or a universalised individual the same in essence as others, extended everywhere from... aware—it becomes possible when one lives in the cosmic consciousness, cosmic Self and cosmic Nature,—of the different beings in oneself, psychic, mental, vital, physical, and then there appears also the central being which stands above all of them and is the source of all the surface personalities. It is only then that one can know the aspect or bhava one is intended to manifest. The Cosmic Spirit ...
... but also the Master's own enfolding movement, that sets the pattern, mixes the colours and constitutes the high-lights of the picture. The enfolding movement of the Master: this is indeed the central revelation of the book and the inspiration of its title: Sri Aurobindo Came To Me. A limitless understanding, compassion, mercy and love flowed out to Roy from the illumined and blissful depths of... ruling is subtle: nowhere the art-form of a narrative that is meant to be no esoteric thesis has been vitiated. The reminiscences and the confessions run along as lightly as the high seriousness of the central theme can permit and, expect perhaps for a somewhat "specialist" though valuable chapter on metrical experiments, they can be enjoyed by every intelligent reader who possesses "the upward-looking face" ...
... Centre of Education, Pondicherry, as equivalent to the First Degree of a recognised Indian University (i.e. B.A. or B.Sc.) for purposes of appointment to services and posts under the Central Government." SAICE would thus have its own autonomy as regards the courses of study and its own specific way of assessment of the academic worth of its students when they completed their studies there... " as issued by other recognised Centres of Learning. Confusion has been unnecessarily created in the minds of people because of the similarity in appellations. Be it noted that the initial Central Governmental notification authorised the employment of SAICE students only in jobs under the Government of India. But the intrinsic worth and competence, smartness and all-round development of these ...
... over (I don't know what word I should use), and there was no center anymore, that center with everything organized around no longer existed at all; that is to say, the divine Consciousness wasn't a central consciousness with everything organized around it—not at all, not at all! It was... something extraordinarily simple and at the same time extraordinarily complex. ( Mother remains silent for a long ...
... The British consul here says that the Chinese are no good as soldiers and the Russians are good in defensive warfare. The Germans are trying to expand in the Ukraine. After that Hitler might come to central Europe. Sri Aurobindo : Yes. But that will at once combine Russia, Poland, Rumania and Yugoslavia. These small minor powers will be afraid of their own safety. Disciple : I don't understand ...
... in the personality and the nature. 5) Usually, a soul follows continuously the same line of sex. If there are shiftings of sex, it is as a rule a matter of parts of the personality which are not central. 6) As regards the stage at which the soul returning for re birth enters the new body no rule can be laid down, for the circumstances vary with the individual. Some psychic beings get into relation... gets a new body, the nature which inhabits it, nature of mind, nature of vital, nature of physical, is made up of many personalities, not one simple personality as is supposed—although there is one central being. This complex personality is formed partly by bringing together personalities of past lives, but also by gathering experiences, tendencies, influences from the earth atmosphere—which are taken... personality or character a million times from the beginning of time till its end! The soul comes into birth for experience, for growth, for evolution till it can bring the Divine into matter. It is the central being that incarnates, not the outer personality—the personality is simply a mould that it creates for its figures of experience in that one life. In another birth it will create for itself a different ...
... is individualised and becomes a central being, it is then the Jivatman. The Jivatman feels his oneness with die universal but at the same time is centrally experienced as a portion of the Divine. In other words, the Jivatman is the central being which is it self unborn but which presides over the individual evolution. The soul is the representative of the central being. It is a spark of the Divine... soul. The soul developed is properly termed the psychic being. The psychic being is also termed as the central being for the purposes of the evolution, for it grows and develops, and it is that which can effectuate a harmonious integration of the mental, vital and physical personality. The term 'central being' is also used for Jivatman, the individual Self which presides unseen above the evolution and... mental, the vital and the physical. The mind proper is divided into three parts—thinking Mind, dynamic Mind and externalising Mind. The vital is divided into three parts, the emotional vital, the central vital and the lower vital. The physical refers to the material or physical consciousness and to the physical body. The thinking Mind is concerned with ideas and knowledge in their _____________ ...
... inward-looking religio-philosophical culture. Everything else in it has derived from that one central and original peculiarity or has been in some way dependent on it or subordinate to it; even external life has been subjected to the inward look of the spirit. Our critic has felt the importance of this central point and directed upon it his most unsparing attack; in other quarters he may make concessions... concessions, allow attenuations, here he will make none. All here must be bad and harmful, or if not deleterious, then ineffective, by the very nature of the central ideas and motives, for any real good. This is a significant attitude. Of course there is the polemical motive. That which is claimed for the Indian mind and its civilisation is a high spirituality, high on all the summits of thought and religion ...
... of an apparent disaster. Then the very difficulty will prove to be Sri Aurobindo crushing our ignorance with his mighty embrace. The soul's benefit, the soul's progress are the Mother's central concern. No doubt, she does not pit the soul against the body in the life of Yoga. It is never her belief that in order to develop spiritually we should neglect physical welfare, as though with... physical welfare is an every-present objective for the follower of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. But it is an objective fundamentally linked to the benefit, the progress of the soul. Apart from that central concern it loses ultimate importance. Simple to save one's skin and ensure corporeal happiness cannot, for all the acceptable common sense of it, be an imperative ideal. Otherwise no risks would... religious and touched by marvellous spell of the spiritual as understood in Yogic India, but he is not the full-fledged spiritual man in the Yogic sense. He does not seem to have taken indefeasibly his central seat in the soul: his seat is till in the ordinary human consciousness though at a great elevation or interiority in that consciousness' domain, so that he mainly dwells close to the soul even if ...
... sufficient opening. Even a faltering faith and a slow and partial surrender have their force and their result, otherwise only the rare few could do sadhana at all. What I mean by the central faith is a faith in the soul or the central being behind, a faith which is there even when the mind doubts and the vital despairs and the physical wants to collapse, and after the attack is over, reappears and pushes on... is spiritually valuable because then one can be centred, no longer in one's personal self, but in the Divine, and that too is the condition of bhakti. The Gospel of Faith I spoke of a strong central and if possible complete faith because your attitude seemed to be that you only cared for the full response—that is, realisation, the Presence, regarding all else as Page 95 quite unsa ...
... S are made up of disparate elements which are not at all in harmony with each other—so are many others, it is a common case. Nothing to be surprised at in that, the man harmonised round something central in him is a rarity. Now about predestination and chance. The ultimate responsibility then lies with this "Something" on which the play of forces is dependent and with those, for instance, who have... 's way of putting it is a trifle too "Vedantic-Theistic"—in my view it is a transaction between the One and the Many. In the beginning it was you (not the human you which is now complaining but the central being) which accepted or even invited the adventure of the Ignorance. Sorrow and struggle are a necessary consequence of the plunge into the Inconscience and the evolutionary emergence out of it. The... mind and feelings, I am afraid there is none. No doubt if human beings had made the universe, they would have done much better, but they were not there to be consulted when they were made. Only your central being was there and that was much nearer in its temerarious foolhardiness to Vivekananda's or A.B.'s than to the repining prudence of your murmuring and trembling human mentality of the present mo ...
... they move according to circumstance and need; and all this is inside them. So when these people, with the help of yoga, the discipline of yoga, succeed in centralising all these beings around the central light of the divine Presence, they become powerful entities, precisely because of their complexity. So long as this is not organised they often give the impression of an incoherence, they are almost... were, its own complex individuality and natural formation independent of the rest; it neither agrees with itself nor with the others nor with the representative ego which is the shadow cast by some central and centralising self on our superficial ignorance. We find that we are composed not of one but many personalities and each has its own demands and differing nature. Our being is a roughly constituted ...
... was with Theon, I called that Being up and asked him if he wanted to come into contact with the earth. It's worth mentioning that it was the first born's central being. Of course, he had millions of emanations in the world, but this was the central being in person. He agreed to be clothed in a body. Théon wanted to keep him there with him: 'Don't let him go,' he told me. I made no reply. This Being ...
... small minority Moderatism wears loyalty more or less loosely as a sort of cloak or garment of respectability than as an essential part of its politics. This tendency is exaggerated in places like the Central Provinces where before the Nationalist upheaval the pulse of political life beat dull and slow. For a Moderate of the Nagpur Rai Bahadur type to be asked to take Surendranath as a substitute for Tilak ...
... flight from hurtful actuality into flashing fantasy, in the case of the Existentialist the morbid isolation from the whole and the constant nausea at the sight of a fragmented world. Because the centrally moving truth is not wide-open to their gaze, their relation with the rest of their fellows is also somewhat falsified. They cannot avoid the relation, but it fails to show the right adjustment: what ...
... short of its goal. Her physical heart was only an outer expression, under self-imposed limits, of a power that was endless in its working. We may well describe it in Sri Aurobindo's words about the central character in his epic Savitri —she who was figured as the incarnation of the Supreme Shakti: A heart of silence in the hands of joy Inhabited with rich creative beats A body like ...
... and Salzburg, to guard the last Russian and French soldiers there before they were sent home. Towards the end of January 1919 Hitler was back in Munich, where he joined a military guard unit at the Central Railway Station. He was also elected Vertrauensmann , i.e. representative, of the lower ranks of his battalion. This is not surprising considering his war record and the impression made by his ...
... universal; the individualised self is only the universal experienced from an individual centre. If what you have realised is not felt to be one in all, then it is not the "Atman"; possibly it is the central being not yet revealing its universal aspect as Atman. The Self is felt as either universal, one in all, or a universalised individual the same in essence as others, extended everywhere from ...
... Ago 28 May 1912 What is the psychological difficulty which I can best study by experience? In each one of us there is a difficulty which is more central than all the others; it is the one which, relative to the part we have to play in the world, is like the shadow of that light, a shadow which gradually dissolves, fades more and more as the light becomes ...
... been in the same painful curve since July. ) What you said last time could perhaps be used for the February Bulletin? It seems very important.... I don't remember at all. You touched the "central experience" of the transformation. Oh, that's right. It's going on.... The body has the impression that it's beginning to understand. For it, naturally, there are no thoughts at all—none at ...
... India to ask for republication in book-form of editorial articles dealing in the main, directly or indirectly, with the bearing of the Aurobindonian vision and experience on such issues - and centrally on those aspects of them that are burning matter in the life of the country in which God-lovers and God-knowers have been most abundant but which today is passing through a dangerous cultural crisis ...
... arrive at an estimate of the epoch in which the Bhārata War was fought and in whose wake the Yuga traditionally designated Kali commenced, essentially marked by the death of Krishna who had been the centrally determinative figure in that critical carnage. We have fastened on the last quarter of the 4th century B.C. for the start of the Imperial Guptas as the sole feature of the old Purānic chronology ...
... portals of serious and profound realms of thought and reflection. The question of existence of God is one of the few important questions that has to be confronted, since this question is related centrally to the aim of life. Page 11 The value that this monograph aims to nourish is that of illumination. This monograph aims to provide to the students those exercises of thought which open ...
... material surrounding that was unready—not that the inner consciousness was unready. Indeed the passing body releases the light and it adds to the growing light in the earth's atmosphere. That is the central creed of the Christian martyr. The blood of the martyr is the cement of the Church. This truth of martyrdom, the sacrifice of the faithful was perhaps a necessity at a time when humanity had not risen ...
... Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4 Love and Death ONE of the earliest poems of Sri Aurobindo – a juvenile work – has the title Love and Death. This is indeed the central theme, the core of the inspiration running through the whole of his poetic world culminating in the grand symphony of Savitri. As a matter of fact his vision and the mission of his life are epitomised ...
... it, he inhales and imbibes the poison which becomes part of his substance and nature. A pure environment is needed for a pure life impulse to shape an develop itself. *** What is the very central character of the child consciousness? It is confidence in life, the surety that nothing can baulk the fulfilment of life's purpose, the trust that overrides all set-backs and stumbles, gaily passes ...
... human being which we have variously described as commiseration, 'caritas', 'karuna', seems to set the limit of divinisation. There is love of course, but it is a dangerous and ambiguous term. The central truth and reality of love is Ananda – ananda in the category of Sat-chit-ananda. But there I am afraid the human element gets dissolved. The tear-drop in the eye of the Divine seems to be the supreme ...
... the poison which becomes part of his substance and nature. A Page 51 pure environment is needed for a pure life impulse to shape and develop. * * * What is the very central character of the child consciousness? It is confidence in life, the surety that nothing can baulk the fulfilment of life's purpose, the trust that overrides all set-backs and stumbles, gaily passes ...
... thinking, seeing, feeling and being into a deep and wide spiritual consciousness and an integrated inner and outer existence and of our ordinary human living into the divine way of life must be its central purpose. The means towards this supreme end is a self-giving of all our nature to the Divine. Everything must be given to the Divine within us, to the universal All and to the transcendent Supreme... Light. And yet its secret of dynamic, and not only static, identity with the inner Presence, its highest mystery of absolute surrender to the Divine Guide, Lord and Inhabitant of our nature, is the central secret. This surrender is the indispensable means of the supramental change and, again, it is through the supramental change that the dynamic identity becomes possible. What then are the lines... the egoistic consciousness, is clearly the key to the consummation we desire. And since in the path of works action is the knot we have first to loosen, we must endeavour to loosen it where it is centrally tied, in desire and in ego; for otherwise we shall cut only stray strands and not the heart of our bondage. These are the two knots of our subjection to this ignorant and Page 101 divided ...
... predominance of one line of development in comparison with others. Of these four, the first three are approaches to the spiritual evolution of the human consciousness and being, but the last is the central avenue of entry. Religion It is difficult to define religion, considering that it is seen to have been manifested in various forms and at various levels. It has been conjectured that some... considering that by knowledge is meant primarily the knowledge of unity or oneness, and by ignorance is meant primarily the preoccupation with multiplicity that ignores unity. If we focus on the central domains of occultism, we shall find that they are particularly centered on the study of Subtle Matter, life-forces and mind-forces, even though they attempt to enter also into the phenomena of the... which fall short of the awareness that is normal to the dwelling in the subliminal consciousness, higher consciousness, and the subconsciousness. The inner or subliminal consciousness, which is the central domain of occultism, consists of the awareness of the subtle physical being, inner vital being and inner mental being, as also the awareness of what is cognized by these inner beings. It is recognized ...
... since it is impossible for me to throw over suddenly my fixed programme and settle at once in British India. These reasons would in any case have come in the way of my accepting your offer. The central reason however is this that I am no longer first and foremost a politician, but have definitely commenced another kind of work with a spiritual basis, a work of spiritual, social, cultural and economic ...
... together. The working on the lower part of the face always indicates an action on the externalising mind (physical mental) whose centre is in the throat. An opening is felt in the central part of the head. What is this part? Is it a centre? It is the Brahmarandhra through which there is the communication between the higher consciousness and the lower in the body. It is a ...
... inexhaustible to meditation.. .Through such mythologies our will is collected, our powers unified, our growth controlled... Without his mythogies man is only a cruel animal without a soul—for a soul is a central part of his governing mythology—he is a congeries of possibilities without order and without aim." 25 Seminal myths are sources of knowledge, not scientific or experimental knowledge but the knowledge ...
... other. We may learn many things from many places, from books, from nature, from persons; intuitions Page 82 and inspirations may come from many quarters, inside and outside, but the central guidance flows from one source only and one must be careful to keep it unmixed, undefiled, clear and pure. When one means nothing more than playing with ideas and persons and places, there is no harm ...
... Sri Krishna alone, none other. We may learn many things from many places, from books, from nature, from persons; intuitions and inspirations may come from many quarters, inside and outside, but the central guidance flows from one source only and one must be careful to keep it unmixed, undefiled, clear and pure. When one means nothing more than playing with ideas and persons and places, there is no harm ...
... paper and begins to draw.) We have here—naturally,it is not like that in Nature, we shall have to adapt ourselves; it is like Page 57 that up there on the ideal plane—here, a central point. This central point is a park which I saw when I was very young—perhaps the most beautiful thing in the world from the point of view of physical, material Nature—a park with water and trees, like all parks... (laughing). It is a very nice plan. So I shall probably put her there as guardian of the park, with a small house on the road at the entrance. But the interesting thing is that around this central point, there are four big sections, like four big petals (Mother draws), but the corners of the petals are rounded and there are small intermediate zones—four big sections and four zones.... Naturally ...
... half formed, half in formation, sometimes a disequilibrium or unbalance due to the lack of a central government or the disturbance of a formerly achieved partial poise. All must be transitional until a first, though not a final, true harmonisation is achieved by finding our real centre. For the true central being is the soul, but this being stands back and in most human natures Page 80 ... is in front one knows it, and there is no possibility of any doubt. Consequently one no longer asks the question. 97 — The Mother * [The signs of the psychic's coming forward:] A central love, bhakti, surrender, giving everything, a sight within that sees always clearly what is spiritually right or wrong and automatically rejects the latter — a movement of entire consecration and ...
... life. For what that crisis stands, what is the significance of the battle of Kurukshetra and its effect on Arjuna's inner being, we have first to determine if we would Page 12 grasp the central drift of the ideas of the Gita. Very obviously a great body of the profoundest teaching cannot be built round an ordinary occurrence which has no gulfs of deep suggestion and hazardous difficulty... not as those who living in their humanity yet feel something of the power or light or love of the divine Gnosis informing and conducting them, but out of that divine Gnosis itself, direct from its central force and plenitude, then we have the manifest Avatar. The inner Divinity is the eternal Avatar in man; the human manifestation is its sign and development in the external world. When we thus ...
... some of "these organs might cease to be indispensable and even be felt as too obstructive: the central force might use them less and less and finally throw aside their use altogether. If that happened they might waste by atrophy, be reduced to an insignificant minimum or even disappear. The central force might substitute for them subtle organs of a very different character or, if anything material ...
... realised. It is this wonderful thing, of this I had the vision at that moment.... And for the beginnings (are they the beginnings?), what is called in English the outskirts, what is farthest from the central realisation, that becomes the multiplicity of things, and the multiplicity also of sensations, of feelings, of all... the multiplicity of consciousness. It is this act of separation that has created... Théon used to say that we were living at the time of "Equilibrium"; that is to say, it is through the equilibrium of all these innumerable points of consciousness and of all these opposites that the central Consciousness is rediscovered. And all that is said is stupid—at the same time as I say this, I see to what degree it is stupid. But one cannot do otherwise. It is something... something so concrete ...
... each embodiment (when there were four). Or else this or that aspect might have been less present in one embodiment and more present in another. Sometimes there was a fairly central presence and then at the same time less central, less important emanations. But that has happened several times—several times. On two occasions it was particularly clear. But I have often sensed that there wasn't merely ...
... physical and psychological purification, and scrupulous practice of truths, harmony, continence and renunciation of desires to covet and possess material or other objects of the world. But the central method of Raja yoga is a method of concentration, several steps of which have been discerned and prescribed for regular practice. Preliminary exercises include a persistent effort at the withdrawal... y, and one is able to withdraw from external pressures and one is able to gather all the energies rapidly and focus them on the preferred point of concentration. But this is the first step of the central process of concentration. This step is technically called Pratyahdra. The next step, which is called Dhdrand, consists of adequate dwelling on the point of concentration, and by regular practice ...
... have also become suddenly fair to us, they have received the sanction of beauty." Thus, "by a singular paradox", we reach God not through the spirit or reason, but "through the senses." The central theme itself of the poem is a symbol of this kind of spiritual search. For Parvati's love is a very sensuous passion, but the very fact that it has for object the Eternal Being makes it into a seeking... with a magnificent description of the divine couple enjoying the pleasures of marriage on the summits of the world while the sun sets below them in a grandiose symphony. Let us turn now to the central event of the epic, the decision of Parvati to undertake tapas. Page 18 ...
... heart. And it is also to be noted that the total psychic realisation is indispensable for a dynamic union with the Divine and the transformation of nature.... "The central being lies in the heart and from the heart proceed all central movements—all dynamism and urge for transformation and power of realisation.” ³ Describing the most concrete and effective way in which the psychic can be ...
... 1920-1921 Collected Poems The Mahatmas Know more > Kuthumi (This poem is purely a play of the imagination, a poetic reconstruction of the central idea only of Mahatmahood.) The seven mountains and the seven seas Surround me. Over me the eightfold sun Blazing with various colours—green and blue, Scarlet and rose, violet and gold and white ...
... teaching and method of practice. It is not his object to develop any one religion or to amalgamate the older religions or to found any new religion, for any of these things would lead away from his central purpose. The one aim of his Yoga is an inner self-development by which each Page 549 one who follows it can in time discover the one Self in all and evolve a higher consciousness than the ...
... in the whole, can alone effect a comprehensive and progressive unification which may have some chance of enduring. And if the synthesis is to be a living thing, the grouping should be done around a central idea as high and wide as possible, and in which all tendencies, even the most contradictory, would find their respective places. That idea is to These are reproduced in the present book. ...
... excitation or sublimation of its forces by which it can become, is almost bound to become an instrument either of divine powers, the powers of the gods, or of Asuric forces. Or, if there is no settled central control in the nature, its action can be a confused mixture of these opposites, or in an inconsequent oscillation serve now one and now the other. It is not enough then to have a great vital energy ...
... Time—the Preserver of the principle of the Universe which he maintains as a seed in himself even in the intervals between one creation and another. Out of that seed in his navel (the navel is the central seat of the Vital, the Life-Principle) Brahma the Creator arises in the Lotus (cosmic consciousness) which grows from it when Vishnu awakens from the inter-cyclic sleep. The Snake Ananta is the Energy ...
... suiting each individual and depending ultimately on the working of the Supramental Godhead, the Will and the Grace of the transcendent Mother who is also universal and individual. The central process of this Yoga, therefore, is a constant aspiration to that Godhead and that Mother, a surrender of the whole self and nature into their hands and a consecration of all activity to them so that ...
... perceiving the world. To have been the cradle of the Aryans was soon denied the brown-skinned, idolatrous Indians and the uncultured Iranians; the birthplace of the Aryans shifted successively to South, Central and finally North Europe, where the northern part of Germany and the south of Sweden became “the womb of the peoples”. Of course, nobody knew what actually had happened there as recently as two or ...
... interest of Germany must be directed via the Ukraine and the Krim towards India’.” The efforts of the German foreign policy should be crowned by using the conquered Russian territories as a bridge with Central Asia. 1156 This was during the First World War. In the Second World War, as early as October 1940, when Yugoslavia had signed a protocol with made it completely dependent on Germany, Sri Aurobindo ...
... practice. It is not his object to develop any one religion or to amalgamate the older religions or to found any new religion—for any of these things would Page 159 lead away from his central purpose. The one aim of his Yoga is an inner self-development by which each one who follows it can in time discover the One Self in all and evolve a higher consciousness than the mental, a spiritual ...
... su-perconscient realms of Spirit's own being. This evolutionary unfolding of Spirit — as it plays out in psychology, anthropology, religion, politics, the arts, and spiritual practice itself—is the central message of Aurobindo's voluminous writings. As such, Aurobindo's message is still far ahead of its time. vii The world remains, to speak in very general terms, divided into two highly ...
... synthesis of yoga will prove to be of direct relevance and momentous significance. page - 126 Total Transformation: The Keyword of the Integral Yoga The one word that brings out centrally the novelty of the objective and method of the new synthesis of yoga is "transformation". The yoga of the new evolution that would lead humanity into superhumanity or the mutation of human species ...
... Philosophy and Yoga of Sri Aurobindo and Other Essays Spirituality, Science and Technology One of the central issue of today is that of the uses and misuses of Science and Technology, of Science and Values, of Science and Spirituality, — in brief, the issue of what Sri Aurobindo has called the denial of the materialist and the refusal of the ascetic. ...
... tumors, for instance, cause no pain at all until the damage done to the body is beyond repair. It is now generally accepted that while pain from the skin, muscles, joints and tendons travel through the central nervous system, pain arising from the viscera (internal organs) is conveyed by the autonomic nervous system, a much less effective system. The viscera have few nerve fibers, and lack access to the ...
... were, its own complex individuality and natural formation independent of the rest; it neither agrees with itself nor with the others nor with the representative ego which is the shadow cast by some central and centralising self on our superficial ignorance. We find that we are composed not of one but many personalities and each has its own demands and differing nature. Our being is a roughly constituted ...
... this evolution is to take place, since it must proceed through a growth of the spirit and the inner consciousness, the initiative can come from India and, although the scope must be universal, the central movement may be hers. Such is the content which I put into this date of India's liberation; whether or how far this hope will be justified depends upon the new and free India. ...
... animating its culture and civilisation and moving it towards higher and higher illuminations and achievements. It is not India alone, but every country upon earth has its consciousness, which is the central core of its life and culture. Not only so, even the earth itself, the earth as a whole, has a consciousness at its centre and is the embodiment of that consciousness: and earth's evolution means ...
... animating its culture and civilisation and moving it towards higher and higher illuminations and achievements. It is not India alone, but every country upon earth has its consciousness, which is the central core of its life and culture. Not only so, even the earth itself, the earth as a whole, has a consciousness at its centre and is the embodiment of that consciousness: and earth's evolution means the ...
... material surrounding that was unready – not that the inner consciousness was unready. Indeed the passing body releases the light and it adds to the growing light in the earth's atmosphere. That is the central creed of the Christian martyr. The blood of the martyr is the cement of the Church. This truth of martyrdom, the sacrifice of the faithful was perhaps a necessity at a time when humanity had not risen ...
... in a variety of metres, and the sequence may be described as a record of the beatings of the poet's heart as it turned more and more in complete surrender to the Divine. What is probably the central insight in the collection is conveyed through these lines: ...man's orb Of vision can never absorb The adventure of the apocalypse - Page 416 Until... poem at its seasoned best. The subtlety of the reasoning notwithstanding, the attentive reader cannot miss the unfolding argument. In the movement from the old poetry to the new. Mallarmé has a centrality following Baudelaire and the earlier Symbolists and preceding the latter day Surrealists. Sethna is not lost in the ramifications of the subject, and shows how, for all its obscurity and ...
... Inspiration from the Truth purifies by getting rid of all falsehood, for all sin according to the Indian idea is merely falsehood, wrongly inspired emotion, wrongly directed will and action. The central idea of life and ourselves from which we start is a falsehood and all else is falsified by it. Truth comes to us as a light, a voice, compelling a change of thought, imposing a new discernment of ourselves... Truth of thought creates truth of vision and truth of vision forms in us truth of being, and out of truth of being ( satyam ) flows naturally truth of emotion, will and action. This is indeed the central notion of the Veda. Saraswati, the inspiration, is full other luminous plenitudes, rich in substance of thought. She upholds the Sacrifice, the offering of the mortal being's activities to the divine ...
... impulse. He is in his central inspiration the instrument of a light and power not his own, and his account of it is usually vitiated, out of focus, an attempt to explain the workings of this impersonal power by motives which were the contribution of his own personal effort, but which are often quite subordinate or even accidental side-lights of the lower brain-mind, not the central moving force. Mr ...
... Nair brings in Hegel and connects him with Sri Aurobindo's "vision of History" and talks of Hegel's "tidy schema, Spirit fulfilling its schedule of progress with no problem whatever", he forgets one central point: whoever posits an Absolute has to attune the world of change to the Permanent and the Eternal in the final reckoning. This does not necessarily mean failure to take stock of the world as it... Nair objects to his adding that the Gita overlooks "the bringing down of the supramental Truth-Consciousness as the means of the complete transformation of earthly life". 7 Nair asserts: "the great central aim of the Gita has in fact been to inspire men to work for the 'complete transformation of earth life,' actually the divinisation of history." 8 Then comes Nair's confession of faith and sight of ...
... faculties, and the methods by which the states of consciousness, which express themselves in virtues can be stabilised. For character development is concerned with what may be called being or the central core of the individuality, which tends to grow into universality and sovereignty of transcendence. Indeed, the concepts of individuality, universality and transcendence can be communicated to some... with this first set of questions is the second set of questions which relate to the aim of life. The moment we raise the question of aim of life, we begin to address ourselves to something that is central in our being, in our potentialities and in what we can become and can be fulfilled. No great character can be built where the aim of life remains a matter of doubt or tends to be neglected or retained ...
... my everything.... it is always one's own sadhana, one's own endeavour, one's own development ,perfection, siddhi." (Letters on Yoga, p. 1372) So long as this unholy "I" occupies the central position in the field of our spiritual effort, it will be difficult for us to receive the bounty of divine Grace in a free and uninterrupted flow nor can we in that case expect to grow in genuine... the vicissitudes of life. He must deny his lower self absolutely, nor seek to gratify his self-love in any way and in any circumstance. The following message of Sri Aurobindo should be the central I Mantra of a sadhaka' s life: "The sadhaka must be free from ego; he should do nothing with reference to himself or for his own sake but only for the Page 188 Divine; ...
... should be asked to return to Madras and complete his programme with additions and Srijut Surendranath Banerji should proceed at once to the North for the same purpose and should take in Gujarat and the Central Provinces in his return journey, and that meanwhile every nerve should be strained to promote and organise the movement in Bengal. The resolution would then have had a meaning and the nation would ...
... from that time forward artificial and sectarian interpretations prevailed and the element of Karmayoga in the Song Celestial was disregarded. His book is intended to restore this natural sense and central idea of the famous Scripture. It will contain a word for word rendering preceded by an introduction of some fifteen chapters in which he discusses the Vedanta and the ethics of the Gita and compares ...
... ोत्कर्षति ह वै ज्ञानसंततिं समानश्च भवति नास्याब्रह्मवित् कुले भवति य एवं वेद ॥१०॥ 10) The Dreamer, Taijasa, the Inhabitant in Luminous Mind, He is U, the second letter, because of Advance and Centrality; he that knoweth Him for such, advanceth the bounds of his knowledge and riseth above difference; nor of his seed is any born that knoweth not the Eternal. सुषुप्तस्थानः प्राज्ञो मकारस्तृतीया ...
... world and human existence will always achieve decisive success when the new ideology has been taught to a whole people, or subsequently forced upon them if necessary, and when, on the other hand, the central organization, the movement itself, is in the hands of only those few men who are absolutely indispensable to form the nerve-centres of the coming State.” 315 The man foresaw all essentials of his future ...
... Mother wrote: The descending triangle represents Sat-Chit-Ananda. The ascending triangle represents the aspiring answer from matter under the form of life, light and love. The junction of both—the central square—is the perfect manifestation having at its centre the Avatar of the Supreme—the lotus. The water—inside the square—represents the multiplicity, the creation. The Mother, Words of the Mother ...
... Conditions of the Yoga I have never said that this Yoga was a safe one—no Yoga is. Each has its dangers as has every great attempt in human life. But it can be carried through if one has a central sincerity and a fidelity to the Divine. These are the two necessary conditions. The first conditions of this Yoga are: (1) A complete sincerity and surrender in the being. The divine life ...
... our text, is a taint in this world as well as in others. In the next verse it is said that there is no greater impurity than ignorance, that is to say, ignorance is considered as the essential, the central fault, which urgently needs to be corrected, and what is called ignorance is not simply not knowing things, not having the superficial knowledge of things, it means forgetting the very reason of our ...
... matter of a month's work. In that case, we could send them the first book, "The Yoga of Divine Works." Yes, the Yoga of Works. I think it's better, yes. Page 33 Yes, it's newer, more central. You see, the other [ The Human Cycle ] discusses things that they've already discussed, and it takes a special disposition to understand that the viewpoint is new. While here, it's wholly new. ...
... is in harmony with Sri Aurobindo's own position. Sri Aurobindo stands for no narrow cult: he kindles a vision and initiates a work that bear on thewhole human situation, meeting its most central and recurrent as well as its most external and diverse issues. Man in every mode and field - the thinker and the scientist no less than the artist and the mystic - man individual and man collective ...
... vigorous trade was established throughout the Mediterranean, even with the tribes of north and west Europe. Weakened by internal strife and wars in Asia Minor, Mycenae was overrun by invaders from central Asia toward the end of the 12th century B.C. After the Mycenaean period, Greece was invaded by IndoEuropean tribes from the north. The distribution of peoples in Greece before the city states ...
... possibilities. In the vital it becomes living and forceful with a definite mould. At last it brings down into the body its material shape. First then the awakening of the psychic Person. When this central being of a man becomes conscious, when it is Page 219 awakened from slumber or trance or from self-absorption, it opens its eyes to the outside world and its manifest organisation ...
... Nature and Man have in view, is not and cannot be kept in cold storage: it is being worked out even here and now, and it has to be worked out here and now. The ideal of the Life Divine embodies a central truth of existence, and however difficult or chimerical it may appear to be to the normal mind, it is the preoccupation of the inner being of man – all other ways or attempts of curing human ills are ...
... the Vedas and preceding the Cabala; and there they speak of immortality on earth, the earth transformed —Sri Aurobindo's idea." This is what Sri Aurobindo wrote: "I had already seen that the central idea of the Vedic Rishis was the transition of the human soul from a state of death to a state of immortality by the exchange of the Falsehood for the Truth, of divided and limited being for integrality ...
... Secret Essays on the Gita XXI Towards the Supreme Secret The teacher has completed all else that he needed to say, he has worked out all the central principles and the supporting suggestions and implications of his message and elucidated the principal doubts and questions that might rise around it, and now all that rests for him to do is to put... And they must therefore be scanned with care, must be read deeply in the light of all that has gone before, because here it is evidently intended to extract what the Gita itself considers to be the central sense of its own teaching. The statement sets out from the original starting-point of the thought in the book, the enigma of human action, the apparently insuperable difficulty of living in the highest... Thus these eight verses carefully read in the light of the knowledge already given by the Teacher are a brief, but still a comprehensive indication of the whole essential idea, the entire central method, all the kernel of the complete Yoga of the Gita. Page 539 ...
... in the whole, can alone effect a comprehensive and progressive unification which may have some chance of enduring. And if the synthesis is to be a living thing, the grouping should be done around a central idea as high and wide as possible, and in which all tendencies, even the most contradictory, would find their respective places. That idea is to give man the conditions of life necessary for preparing... there are some scattered bits of Pondicherrian territory. Plots of land had to be bought. The establishment of the international city had to be discussed with the government of Tamil Nadu and the central government in New Delhi. UNESCO was asked to recognize the project, and it did so. The first constructions arose on the barren soil, candidates for becoming the first Aurovillians wrote letters to... unknowledgeable, and it is hard to deny that some followers of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother take on sectarian attitudes. The Mother herself said, looking down from her room into the courtyard of the central Ashram building where Ashramites and visitors were thronging around Sri Aurobindo’s tomb: ‘They are already making a religion of it.’ And she wrote by way of admonition: ‘Do not take my words for a ...
... that follow we wander in the half darkness created by the strange perversions of Shankara and the commentators. In the remainder of the Upanishad we understand, again with sufficient clearness, the central Vedantic idea conveyed in the phrase, Yo asau purushah so’ham asmi, but, for the rest, nothing. We can attach no clear idea to the golden vessel by which the face of Truth is hid, to the marshalling... can entirely enter into and identify himself with the ideas and images of the second chapter in the Brihad Aranyaka? Yet there are few profounder thoughts in philosophical literature than its great central idea of Ashanaya Mrityu, Hunger who is Death, as the builder of this material world. But who will be our guide in this forest? who can illuminate for us that which is dark in these Upanishads or, ... important ideas of which later metaphysical speculation has allowed itself to lose hold. If the Vedas are dark to us except in their outer ceremonial, the Upanishads are clear to us only in their central ideas and larger suggestions. But how then can writings so obscure or at any rate so imperfectly understood have exercised over the thought of millenniums the vast and pervasive influence of which ...
... intimately related to world-knowledge and God- knowledge. It will be seen that these questions will oblige us to converge upon the profound psychological, ethical and spiritual knowledge which was so central to the ancient India's conception of education. Modern Knowledge; Physical, Supraphysical and Spiritual Knowledge: We realise that modern knowledge is expanding at a tremendous rate... with the admission of the Yogic knowledge, it appears that the entire body of discoveries made by the Vedic and Upanishadic Rishis and by the subsequent numberless Yogic explorers will become the central focus of advancing research. Already some Western scientists are turning to the knowledge that Yoga can provide, and we can foresee that this movement is bound to move forward. And this will enhance... the old Spiritual Knowledge; Need for Developing New Knowledge: This is not to say that all that we need today and tomorrow was already contained in the ancient system; although loftiest and central discoveries of the secrets of the Spirit were made in those ancient times, there is still much more to be done in the coming days. New knowledge of matter and new knowledge of spirit are likely to ...
... path. It has been a most dynamic work with the entire earth as its central field. It was in the course of this work that Sri Aurobindo declared that the Supramental is the Truth and that its advent on the earth is inevitable. To bring down the supramental consciousness and power on the Page 28 earth has been the central work of Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo has explained the nature... supremacy and to sojourn with Apollo. IV Ilion is a continuous hymn of heroism. Every major character manifests some remarkable qualities of heroism, and in the case of Achilles, the central hero, these qualities combine together and rise to a high pitch of accomplishment. In the Book of the Herald, in the Book of Achilles, and in the Book of the Woman, the characterization of Achilles... Mad with the joy of the massacre, seizes on wealth and on women Calling to Fire as it strides and Ilion sinks into ashes. Yield; for your doom is impatient." 11 And then comes the central part of the message: "Princes of Pergama, open your gates to our Peace who would enter Life in her gracious clasp and forgetfulness, grave of earth's passions, Healer of wounds and the ...
... is the aim which, according to Sri Aurobindo, is demanded of us, and it can be fulfilled only by the descent and manifestation of the Supermind. This is the aim Sri Aurobindo puts forward as central to his Yoga. But what is Supermind? What is its nature and character of its action? What is its locus? And why is its descent indispensable for the aim set forth in this Yoga? In the following... desirable, nor needed. Synthesis does not mean a successive practice of the various systems. It is effected by neglecting the forms and outsides of the Yogic disciplines and seizing rather on the central principle common to all which will include and utilise in the right place and proportion their particular principles. Since each system is a specific process of concentration, integral yoga would be... transformation. The word 'transformation' has a special meaning in the yoga of Sri Aurobindo. It does not mean merely what is known as conversion in the psychology of religion, where one becomes centrally occupied with a religious belief, which was previously absent or present only in the periphery. Nor does it mean a conversion that occurs as an inner change into sainthood or ethical perfection. Even ...
... only be imperfectly done by the surface mental will and reason; it can be perfectly done only if he goes within and finds whatever central being is by its predominant influence at the head of all his expression and action. In inmost truth it is his soul that is this central being, but in outer fact it is often one or other of the part beings in him that rules, and this representative of the soul, this... formed, half in formation, sometimes a disequilibrium or unbalance due to the lack of a central government or the disturbance of a formerly achieved partial poise. All must be transitional until a first, though not a final, true harmonisation is achieved by finding our Page 933 real centre. For the true central being is the soul, but this being stands back and in most human natures is only the... rejection of the old mind movements and life movements, rejection of the ego of desire, rejection of false needs and false habits, are all useful aids to this difficult passage: but the strongest, most central way is to found all such or other methods on a self-offering and surrender of ourselves and of our parts of nature to the Divine Being, the Ishwara. A strict obedience to the wise and intuitive ...
... largest, fullest self-giving of the human soul to the Divine Spirit that permits the identity of Soul's law of action with the law of action of the Supreme Will? — these are the questions which receive central and detailed answers in the last six chapters of the Gita. 2. Significance of the Last Six Chapters of the Gita "Dharma" generally means a regulative law relating to the constitution... 3. A New Standpoint for the Yoga of the Gita: Relationship between Purusha and Prakriti, Pnrushottama and Para Prakriti, State of Trigundtita and Sddharmya Mukti The central problem of yoga is to discover how the soul gets entangled into Prakriti, — into Apara Prakriti, to be more precise, — how the three Gunas of Apara Prakriti act on the soul, and why the Gunas happen... the Veda, the quest is as to how Shunahshepa gets tied up in a triple rope. A farther question is to discover various products of Apara Prakriti, particularly desire and ego, which constitute the central knot Page 118 of the bondage of the soul. A still farther point is to discover the role of buddhi, the intelligent-will, which by its power of discrimination, can be utilized in a methodical ...
... begins to become absolute as we open Page 678 to and mount into the gnosis. This is the liberated perfection. The liberation from ego, the liberation from desire together found the central spiritual freedom. The sense, the idea, the experience that I am a separately self-existent being in the universe, and the forming of consciousness and force of being into the mould of that experience... that it can achieve on the basis of ego-consciousness is always limited, insecure, imperfect, transitory. It is at war too with its own self,—first because, since it is no longer in possession of the central harmonising truth of its own being, it cannot properly control its natural members or accord their tendencies, powers and demands; it has not the secret of harmony, because it has not the secret of ...
... this sense is not to answer the whole need of the times. Every country has a presiding genius, whether openly acknowledged or not. But every country has predominant qualities, a typical nature, a central function. We must realise what exactly are the face and form of our presiding genius. What is Mother India? "Mother India is manifold. Art, philosophy, science, politics, industry - all these... over-brooding Mystery that is the All-True, the All-Beautiful, the All-Good." 7 The editor of Mother India kindles a vision that bears on the whole human situation, meeting its most central and re-current as well as its most external and diverse issues, man in every mode and field - the thinker and scientist, the artist and the mystic. Reminiscences, essays, stories, talks on Art and ...
... are by no means the only writings of his which have a bearing on Savitri; there are many more which are a great aid to the student of the poem, although the reference to the epic is not central to these other essays. I would have loved to see at least his essay entitled "Mystic Poetry" (Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta: Vol. II, pp. 64-81) included in this volume, for it clarifies... Soul-Forces". (Book VII, Canto 4) Here Savitri meets the three Madonnas and their asuric perversions that spoil their work. What they signify and how the whole episode reenacts the drama of one of the central themes of Savitri, namely, man's refusal of the Divine Grace, is most brilliantly brought out here. One wonders how much we all lovers of Savitri would have benefited if Nolinida had been persuaded ...
... being inconsistent or contradicting oneself. Everything depends on the way in which you look at it. And even once we have seen everything, from all the points of view accessible to us, around the central Truth, we will still have had only a very small glimpse—the Page 33 Truth will escape us on all sides at once. But what is remarkable is that once we have had the experience of a single ...
... movement of which the world at the present juncture has need, that that movement is the resurgence of Asia and that the resurgence of India is not only a necessary part of the larger movement but its central need, that India is the keystone of the arch, the chief inheritress of the common Asiatic destiny. The Mongolian world, preserving the old strong and reposeful civilisation of early Asia, flanks her ...
... similarly develop from its essence a characteristic voice, cry, mould of speech, natural way of development, habits of structure. The great poets of this earlier endeavour had all to deal with the same central problem of creation and were embarrassed by the same difficulty of a time which was not ready for work of this kind, not prepared for it by any past development, not fitted for it by anything in the ...
... take it as a problem of the first importance it will become that and stand in your way again. Look at it as a question from the past that has been firmly settled and put in its place and turn to the central aim of your sadhana. For the rest, apart from this circumstance, you need change nothing in the inward aim and concentration of your will and endeavour on the one thing to be done—the entire self-giving ...
... our future. Of course, all that is nobly or usefully modern in the world of which we are a part must be accepted with gusto. There is nothing anywhere too foreign for us to allow assimilation of its central truth and purpose. Indeed our own nature is such that we can absorb a host of alien things without losing our typical quality. India is not a drab unity of culture: she is multiform, so much so that ...
... various yogic practices, the characteristic difference between Sri Aurobindo’s yoga and the traditional ones, etc. Amidst such talks Sri Aurobindo would shine as the light of Truth laying bare the central significance of everything. As luck would have it, on the second day of my stay, when the talk was about to terminate, it suddenly turned towards my shikha . The talk was indeed carried on in a ...
... other than the realisation of the Spirit, his influence on those who choose to follow him works primarily to no other end than their spiritual development. But since Sri Aurobindo's acceptance of the central spiritual aim does not imply a complete and unqualified rejection of life and its values, but rather involves their deliverance from their basic insufficiency and a fulfilment of their secret urge ...
... use But what I mean is something more inward. I mean not to be interested in outward things for their own sake, following after them with desire, but at all times to be intent on one's soul, living centrally in the inner being and its progress, taking outward things and action only as a means for the inner progress. The question of food is to some extent within one's control, but what to do with the ...
... achievement has been this that the purpose, the ideal has come to be known, it is now within the range of our, vision; creation has revealed its core of mystery – if not the whole of it, at least the central theme: the key has been found, but in its own home, that is to say, behind and beyond the creation. That, however, is only half Page 315 the battle or even less; the other half ...
... In our hopelessness, he stretches His hand and pulls us out of the difficulties and conflicts. Smilingly, He reassures us to make us feel something like a Presence. It is the inner support of the central being which vibrates in our acts and our thoughts. When it is well established, one perceives something like a hand that guides us more and more. Finally, it is He who establishes Himself more completely ...
... frame of the mental being and the appearance of birth, that is the height of the conditioned manifestation; it is the full and conscious descent of the Godhead, it is the Avatar." And in the central scripture of Avatarhood, the Gita, whose composition all Indologists date to the pre-Christian period, 2 the divine Incarnation Krishna declares: "Many are my lives that are past... Whensoever there... which can grow out of Teilhardism will thus have to be considerably different from the religion to which he tried to conform his intuitions. Understood in the true light, the Cosmic Christ who is central to his thought must lead to an Indianised Christianity giving prominence to Pantheos but holding the transcendent Divine as its prime concept - affirming in the midst of Pantheos the Personal Godhead ...
... graded harmonies of manifested existence. In the mental being mind-sense or intelligence is the original and dominant principle. The mental being in the mind-world where he is native is in his central and determining nature intelligence; he is a centre of intelligence, a massed movement of intelligence, a receptive and radiating action of intelligence. He has the intelligent sense of his own existence... Infinite, 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 ...
... material and egoistic sense of life and prepares himself to rise through the finite to the Infinite. But this is only a long intermediate stage. It is still subject to the law of desire, to the centrality of all things in the conceptions and needs of his ego and to the control of his being as well as his works by Nature, though it is a regulated and governed desire, a clarified ego and a Nature more... returning again to the trouble and madness of life in this transient and sorrowful world, anityam asukham imaṁ lokam . If this were so, the Gita would lose all its meaning; for its first and central object would be defeated. But the Gita insists that the nature of the action does matter and that there is a positive sanction for continuance in works, not only that one quite negative and mechanical ...
... It's a marvelous thing. I had the vision: at the time, there was the vision of THAT.... And the beginnings (is it "beginnings"?), what they call in English the outskirts , what's farthest from the central realization, becomes the multiplicity of things, also the multiplicity of sensations, feelings, everything—the multiplicity of consciousness. And that action of separation is what created, what constantly... used to say that we are at the time of "Equilibrium." That is to say, it's through the equilibrium of all those innumerable points of consciousness and all those opposites that one recaptures the central Consciousness.... All that one can say is stupid—just while I am saying it, I see how stupid it is; but there's no other way It's something... something SO CONCRETE, so true, you understand, so ab ...
... interview in which he was spiritedly asked why he still had not recognized Bangladesh, said, "The central government is studying the question whether recognition should be granted to Bangladesh." Then he added, "Our sympathy is with the people of Bangladesh. It is up to the Prime Minister [Indira] and the central cabinet to decide the question." (P.T.I) ...
... faculties, and the methods by which the states of consciousness which express themselves in virtues can be stabilised. For character development is concerned with what may be called being or the central core of the individuality which tends to grow into universality and sovereignty of transcendence. Indeed, the concepts of individuality, universality and transcendence can be communicated to some extent... with this first set of questions is the second set of questions which relate to the aim of life. The moment we raise the question of aim of life, we begin to address ourselves to something that is central in our being, in our potentialities and in what we can become and can be fulfilled. No great character can be built where the aim of life remains a matter of doubt or tends to be neglected or retained ...
... of consciousness in Matter, in a constant developing self- formulation till the form, even the physical body, can reveal the highest supramental knowledge and power and harmony is the key-note, the central significant motive of terrestrial existence. The theory of spiritual evolution may accept the scientific account of physical evolution as a support or an element, but the support is not indispensable... subtilizing and sublimination. As man ascends from the animal, he looks downward from his plane of will and intelligence and enlarges, subtilizes and elevates his use of those elements which are central to the animal—sensation, sense-emotion, vital desire and pleasure. He does not abandon the animal reactions and enjoyments, but more lucidly, finely and sensitively mentalizes them. But as he develops ...
... been our curse; that is the first and imperative need. As with backward communities, so with backward provinces. It is vitally important to Nationalism that these should awake. Bihar, Orissa, the Central Provinces, Gujerat, Sindh must take their place in the advancing surge of Indian political life, must prepare themselves for a high rank in the future federated strength of India. We welcome any signs ...
... more effective, for all its slowness and interruptedness, because it comes from the utmost profundities and seeks to spread to the utmost widenesses. Here is the process not only of changing your central consciousness but also of changing the whole of your life. Considering all this and considering various other circumstances I think that matters are moving at a not unsatisfying rate, though, ...
... contrary, they bore it out in some respects. Finally, we proceeded to fit our Christological view of the poem into Blake's general mythology of Supernature. In this mythology too Christ is the central figure, but four basic aspects of him are also given prominence and called the Four Zoas. They are named Los (or Urthona), Urizen, Luvah (or Orc) and Tharmas. Among these, Los who is the Spirit of ...
... Discontent brings about a revolution. PURANI: He has also read Arabic in order to understand and make common ties and sympathies with the Muslims. He has written a book making the Charkha the central subject, taking spinning, cotton, etc. as various items, and written about the history, geography and science of it. SRI AUROBINDO: Why the Charkha then? One can write as well on nails! That is ...
... to the human adhara, the fire burns in the earthly or material sheath, the water flushes and cleans the vitals, the radiant energy activises and regulates the cardiac domain – which in fact is the central knot of life – the air or wind, the breath of consciousness inspires the right expression in thought Page 331 And speech and act, and finally, the vast limitless beyond is the ...
... apparent forms of his personality, the divine element, the very Divine in him. It is the outer man, the marginal man, man in his inferior nature that lives and moves in normal circumstances; instead, the central man, man in his higher and highest nature has to come out and take his place in the world. What is needed then is an army of souls: individuals, either separately or in groups, who have contacted ...
... SECTION A THE BOOK OF BIRTH AND QUEST' I 'THE BlRTH AND CHILDHOOD OF THE FLAME' There are two backgrounds to the central drama played in Savitri . There is the cosmic background, sketched already in Books II and III—'The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds' and 'The Book of the Divine Mother', and there is the human ...
... oppressed but is now reviving though not yet in full occupation. On the other hand the new dynamic seer tapas aided by a lower logistic tapas is working strongly for the arogya especially in the two central rogas with some initial effectuality. It is trying also to take hold of the other two members of the physical siddhi, but with no tangible result in the corporeality. Samadhi is half advancing,... powerful in the physical siddhi. There is a revived sensitiveness to cold and an attempt to restore its results in roga. The tapas however is powerful enough to prevent any strong materialisation. In the central rogas there is a relapse, in one due to persistent overstrain on the centre, in the other a mechanical repetition of recrudescence. 29 August 1919 T² this morning has made a large stride forward... off into inactivity. There has been even some relapse of positive roga; the fragmentary (catarrhic) rogas have tried to lay their hold persistently, but are always manageable by the tapas; the two central have prevailed without being severely aggravated. On the other hand Samata is constantly making itself more firm in the Ananda, more massive and imperturbable. It is not yet free from occasional pressure ...
... probably countless number — as one so often reads: a small satellite of an average sun somewhere in the outer end of one of the arms of a common galaxy. It is again awarded a central position in the material cosmos, even the central position from the standpoint of evolution and of everything that is of vital importance to us. ‘The Earth has been formed in a special way by a direct intervention, without... body the planets of our own solar system, and they have done so. But it soon became clear to them that those planetary worlds were of secondary importance to their work when compared to Earth and its central place in the cosmic order. ‘The evolution takes place on the earth and the earth is therefore the right field of progress,’ wrote Sri Aurobindo, and also: ‘I am concerned with the earth, not with worlds ...
... There were three sides to Sri Aurobindo's political ideas and activities. First, there was the action with which he started; a secret revolutionary propaganda and organisation of which the central object was the preparation of an armed insurrection. Secondly, there was a public propaganda intended to convert the whole nation to the ideal of independence, which was regarded by the vast majority... districts. Poet Subramaniam Bharathi and Subramanya Siva too appeared in the court for questioning. A sentence of two life imprisonments (in effect, 40 years) was imposed. He was confined in the Central Prison, Coimbatore (from 9 July 1908 to 1 December 1910). The Court sentence may be seen as a reflection of the fear the British had of VOC and their need to contain the rebellion and be sure that... left to fend for himself. His young wife, Meenakshi Ammal followed him — almost single-handedly organising the logistics of his appeals — from the Tirunelveli sub-jail to the Coimbatore and Kannur central jails, where he spent his term. In those 'pre-Non Cooperation days', when there was no category of political prisoners, he did hard (convict) labour. VOC was even made to work the oil mill, depicted ...
... to them; and how in a third, The Ascent to the Truth, a group of pilgrims go up a mountain till only the Aspirants reach the summit ready to live the New Life. Again, when asked to identify the central aim of the Ashram journal, Mother India, she had said: "Why and How to live for the Future, in the Future." The entire Auroville conception itself was a stupendous offering to the Future, and her... World City", and the City where "money would no more be sovereign lord". How Auroville would grow - how this dream-city would shape itself Page 762 into concrete reality and solve the central human problem of reconciling the need for human unity and harmony with the claims of human variety and teeming multiplicity, the need for order and the need for freedom, the need for Power with the... Auroville was going to find the means of self-growth and self-realisation and to fill the proposed four sectors (industrial, residential, cultural, international) with glowing purpose derived from the central source of Light and Life - the Matrimandir - how sunflower-like all thoughts, all aspirations, all actions, all, all would turn towards the Divine and receive the Light of Divine Truth and the warmth ...
... as a particular Person no less than a general Presence and, in the second place, the company of Angels - of "Gods", as Milton often calls them - in distinction from the one central Godhead. In relation to these Gods the central Divinity Himself grows passive, as it were, and transfers to them a freewill akin to His own, though on a minor and less widely powerful scale. He is still lord over all inasmuch... clearly defined in the first few lines of the epic, when man's disobedience is said to have Brought death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of Eden... 14 "Death" is the central stroke and we find that, Adam's "whole posterity must die" in payment of his sin, and this sentence can be relaxed only if God's Son incarnates himself and by his self-sacrifice pays "death for death"... 25 This passage should be taken in association with what we have concluded from Milton about God's Self. God in His specific Godliness concentrates Himself in supreme transcendence, the central Divinity; but, in an unformed state, all is God, for He is the one infinite being. When He applies His creative will to make form, all existences come forth: they "proceed" from Him, as our quotation ...
... intimately related to world-knowledge and God-knowledge. It will be seen that these questions will oblige us to converge upon the profound psychological, ethical and spiritual knowledge which was so central to the ancient Indian conception of education. Modern Knowledge; Physical, Supraphysical and Spiritual Knowledge We realise that modern knowledge is expanding at a tremendous rate of p... with the admission of the Yogic knowledge, it appears that the entire body of discoveries made by the Vedic and Upanishadic Rishis and by the subsequent numberless Yogic explorers will become the central focus of advancing research. Already some Western scientists are turning to the knowledge that Yoga can provide, and we can foresee that this movement is bound to move forward. And this will enhance... Old Spiritual Knowledge; Need for Developing New Knowledge This is not to say that all that we need today and tomorrow was already contained in the ancient Indian system; although loftiest and central discoveries of the secrets of the Spirit were made in those ancient times, there is still much more to be done in the coming days. New knowledge of matter and new knowledge of spirit are likely to ...
... nalism has grown in humanity and it is at work on our minds and influences from above our actions. It is also pressing itself to be turned into something more than an idea so that it may become a central motive and fixed part of human nature as also of human organisation. It is remarkable that the First Great War gave birth to a League of Nations. It is true that the conception of this League was not... of life, there must be unity of consciousness, unity of knowledge. There must, therefore, be a push towards the next stage of evolution where new powers of consciousness can manifest. This is the central issue. And this is where we need to turn to the new orientations that we require in the field of education. __________________ (•Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine , Centenary Edition, Vol... harmonised were more difficult and more numerous. The mature fruit of the Indian Experiment is to be found in the concept of the four fold personality. It has been pointed out that there are four central values and powers of personality, and, if these are rightly balanced throughout the process of developments, and if an healthy equilibrium of these powers is upheld progressively, then the youth could ...
... concepts, not the cry of the life-force and its desires, not the appeal of the 1 Pp. 458-9. Page 201 body and its instincts. All of them are audible in it, but in tune with a central note beyond them which—as Longinus recognised centuries ago—strangely transports us, a note charged with some ecstatic ideality, a magical intimacy, a mysterious presence, which we can specify only... rhythm of the line. Too many syllables—twelve in fact—are crowded together, creating a dancing wavering rhythm which serves ill the simple straight swift motion of the bird. Again, what stands in central focus now is the flash and not the kingfisher. Many different things may be said to give a flash: a sort of generality is grasped through the flashing, a less distinct less individualised and... enjambed technique working through "sudden". Further, the whole last foot in which the adjective stands is what is called an amphibrach: the foot consists of three syllables—"the sudden"—with only the central syllable stressed. Metrically it is like the last foot of the Shakespearean verse already quoted : The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling... Sri Aurobindo 1 has called Shakespeare's ...
... mind and its concepts, not the cry of the life-force and its desires, not the appeal of the body and its instincts. All of them are audible Page 160 in it, but in tune with a central note beyond them which -as Longinus recognised centuries ago - strangely transports us, a note charged with some ecstatic ideality, a magical intimacy, a mysterious presence, which we can specify... of the line. Too many syllables - twelve in fact - are crowded together, creating a dancing wavering rhythm which serves ill the simple straight swift motion of the bird. Again, what stands in central focus now is the flash and not the kingfisher. Many different things may be said to give a flash: a sort of generality is grasped through the flashing, a less distinct less individualised and hence... technique working through "sudden". Further, the whole last foot in which the adjective stands is what is called an amphibrach: the foot consists of three syllables - "the sudden" - with only the central syllable stressed. Metrically it is like the last foot of the Shakespearean verse already quoted: Page 170 The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling... Sri Aurobindo 1 has ...
... not the exclamation of the mind and its concepts, not the cry of the life-force and its desires, not the appeal of the body and its instincts. All of them are audible in it, but in tune with a central note beyond them which — as Longinus recognised centuries ago — strangely transports us, a note charged with some ecstatic ideality, a magical intimacy, a mysterious presence, which we can specify... rhythm of the line. Too many syllables — twelve in fact — are crowded together, creating a dancing wavering rhythm which serves ill the simple straight swift motion of the bird. Again, what stands in central focus now is the flash and not the kingfisher. Many different things may be said to give a flash: a sort of generality is grasped through the flashing, a less distinct less individualised and hence... technique working through "sudden". Further, the whole last foot in which the adjective stands is what is called an amphibrach: the foot consists of three syllables — "the sudden" — with only the central syllable stressed. Metrically it is like the last foot of the Shakespearean verse already quoted: The poet's eye in a fine frenzy rolling.... Sri Aurobindo has called Shakespeare's ...
... "Learning to be". The Report had become very famous during the seventies, but it has unfortunately receded into the background. To know, to possess and to be -- this is the central demand of life, and, rightly, this ought to be the central demand of education, particularly when, as in the Report, there is a clear and categorical recognition of the need for a fundamental identification of life and education... irrelevant to the interests of the students, and therefore useless. Also, instead of being given a legitimate and rightful place, lectures in the present system are given almost a central place. It has been regarded as the central task of teachers to lecture and to cover the syllabus through their lectures. As a result, teachers are most often uncreative in their lectures; they are in a hurry to pour... keep learning throughout his life. The idea of lifelong education is the keynote of the learning society." 1 2. But, as we begin to seek for the meaning of life long education and its central theme "to be", we are confronted with a number of implications which w their turn centre round the idea of personality and personality development. As M. Edgar Faure, ________________________ ...
... "Learning to be". The Report had become very famous during the seventies, but it has unfortunately receded into the background. To know, to possess and to be this the central demand of life, and, rightly, this ought to be the central demand of education, particularly when, as in the Report, there is a clear and categorical recognition of the need for a fundamental identification of life and education... to the interests of the students and therefore useless. Also, instead of being given a legitimate and rightful place, lectures in the present system are given almost a central place. It has been regarded as the central task of teachers to lecture and to cover the syllabus through their lectures. As a result, teachers are most often uncreative in their lectures; they are in a hurry to pour... position to keep learning throughout his life. The idea of lifelong education is the keynote of the learning society." 1 But, as we begin to seek for the meaning of lifelong education and its central theme "to be", we are confronted with a number of implications which in their turn centre round the idea of personality and personality development. As M. Edgar Faure, the Chairman of the Commission ...
... ultimate origins. But the ultimate origins have never been established so far. It is sheer dogmatism and wishful thinking to speak of "the autochthonous Central-European habitation" of the Aryans. All we can affirm is that they have been found in Central Europe at a particular epoch of antiquity, but nobody can assert that here was their original home. Some linguistic arguments tend to point towards it... the homeland or period of dispersion...." 2 The main query relevant to my book is: Is the Harappa Culture or the Rigveda earlier in time? Here the evidence for the domesticated horse is of central importance. Mr. de Sa thinks that I credit the. Harappā Culture with the horse because of some bones found at Shah Tepe on the Caspian 1."The Early Aryans", A Cultural History of India, edited... of the supposedly non-Aryan nature of the Harappān religion he has completely bypassed. Hence his reader will have no idea how this religion could derive most easily from the Rigvedic. Even so, my central thesis appears to stand unshaken by his assaults - the thesis that the Harappa Culture is posterior to the Rigveda and that the common dichotomy of Aryan and Dravidian Indias is based on a superficial ...
... of their ideas and methods. The new synthesis of yoga has, however, been able to seize on some central principle common to all which includes and utilizes in the right place and proportion the particular principles of the varieties of the yogic disciplines; it has also been able to seize on some central dynamic force which is the common secret of the divergent methods and capable therefore of organizing... religious faith to return from the darkness of unknowing and locate itself within the domain of a workable human language. Cottingham refers to the Christian reader and points out that the central concept of the Incarnation makes visible to him, in the person of one human being, the icon of the invisible God. He argues that if the Transcendence of God is not to be lost in silence, we need a... Cottingham's Solution and Indian Solution of Conflict of Religions Cottingham has brought out, with penetrating insight, several aspects of the problem of pluralism of religions, which is central to the contemporary world. In presenting the problem and its solution, Cottingham seems to come very close to the problem and solution of pluralism of religions that we find in the Indian experience ...
... In Perseus the Deliverer, Polydaon the priest of Poseidon is the central figure; his very sanctity makes him wrong-headedly to assume (like Raghupati the priest in Tagore's play, Sacrifice) a cruel and vengeful role, demanding Andromeda's innocent blood. Page 47 The central action of the play is Andromeda's releasing the prisoners in an act of pure compassion... Changed herself, she effects a like revolution in Eric as well, who now realises that wisdom and power are not enough. Love is the ultimate secret, for it transcends both wisdom and power. In the central scene, she debates the issue between hatred and love: Not hate, O Eric, but the hard necessity Page 50 The gods have sent upon our lives, two ...
... other is a being from higher worlds who, when the earth was formed, materialised itself upon earth—it does not come from below, it has come from above. But in the evolutionary being there is that central light which is the origin of the psychic being, which will develop into the psychic being, and when the psychic being is fully formed, there is a moment Page 323 when it can unite with... from China gone to Japan. So, one enters a Buddhist temple in Japan and sees... There is a temple where there were more than a thousand Buddhas, all sculptured—a thousand figures seated around the central Buddha—they were there all around, the entire back wall of the temple was covered with images: small ones, big ones, fat ones, thin ones, women, men—there was everything, a whole pantheon there, formidable ...
... difficult may be the process. The methods of Jnana yoga, Karma yoga and Bhakti yoga are indeed, useful aids to this difficult passage, but, according to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, "the strongest, most central Page 48 way is to found all such or other methods on self-offering and surrender of ourselves and of our parts of nature to the Divine Being, the Ishwara." 42 The most important aim... It is then that the soul begins to unveil itself and the psychic personality reaches its full stature. At this stage, as Sri Aurobindo points out, the soul, the psychic entity manifests itself as a central being which upholds mind, life and body and supports all the other powers and functions of the Spirit; the soul takes up its greater function as a guide and ruler of the nature. In the words of Sri ...
... The soul is made of love and joy, and it is not by any effort or outer influence, but by an innate, spontaneous urge that it turns to the Divine and offers itself to Him. It is the central being in man, embodying the central truth and purpose of his existence : the union with and the manifestation of the Divine in Matter. But this truth and purpose are realised by love and by nothing else—love which is ...
... Yogas: 1. Because it aims not at a departure out of the world and life into Heaven or Nirvana, but at a change of life and existence, not as something subordinate or incidental, but as a distinct and central object … Even the Tantra and Vaishnavism end in the release from life; here the object is the divine fulfilment of life. 2. Because the object sought after is not an individual achievement of divine... the very nature of the soul or the psychic being to turn towards the Divine Truth as the sunflower to the sun.’ 12 The psychic being is ‘the true evolving individual in our nature.’ It is our central, true being that has taken the plunge into Matter for the joy of participating in the evolution and, in a supreme ecstasy of discovery, to become the divinity that it has been and will be in all eternity... him anew for a diviner existence.’ 14 ‘By remaining psychically open to the Mother, all that is necessary for work or Sadhana develops progressively, that is one of the chief secrets, the central secret of the Sadhana,’ wrote Sri Aurobindo. ‘The object is transformation, and the transformation can only be done by a force infinitely greater than your own; it can only be done by being truly like ...
... peace, British justice and the blessings of British rule on the one side and the clamour for Legislative Councils, Simultaneous Examinations, High Education and similar shams on the other, this one central all-important reality was in danger of being smothered out of sight. It was necessary for the nation but to realise its increasing poverty under British rule; only then could it take the next step ...
... back altogether from the life of humanity; for the sense of unity with all beings, the stress of a universal love and compassion, the will to spend the energies for the good of all creatures, are central to the dynamic outflowering of the spirit: he has turned therefore to help, he has guided as did the ancient Rishis or the prophets, or stooped to create and, where he has done so with something of ...
... the alleged global aspirations of the Jews, propagated by malicious pamphlets like The Protocols of the Wise Man of Zion but never substantiated. “The thesis of a Jewish world conspiration, of a centrally directed, racially determined and systematically executed world conquest [by the Jews] is so absurd that only a narrowed, diseased mind and a consequently calcified psyche could perceive such obvious ...
... system would be imperative. What agency could be found which we could make the means of this all-important liberation and change? Something there is in us or something has to be developed, perhaps a central and still occult part of our being containing forces whose powers in our actual and present make-up are only a fraction of what could be, but if they became complete and dominant would be truly able ...
... life was beset with certain difficulties arising out of the capricious nature and behaviour of some disciples. And this phenomenon was neither fortuitous nor unessential to the fulfilment of the central purpose of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram. Once we understand the occult rationale of this apparently disconcerting phenomenon, we shall be in a position to form a new perspective of vision and not be d ...
... of our Ashram and she saw that "all the possibilities are there, all activities are there, but in disorder and confusion. They are neither coordinated nor centralised nor unified around the single central truth and consciousness and will." (Ibid., p. 140) This was about the state of our group-life. But what about the individuals constituting this special collectivity whose name is Sri Aurobindo ...
... by the citizens of India are not taken over by the State; instead create a body independent of the State, but chosen by the temple authorities themselves, to handle these funds. • Create a Central University and institutions with the purpose of studying, integrating, harmonising and synthesising all religions. If these steps are pursued sincerely and steadfastly, there will inevitably ...
... such an empire; it was a political convenience favoured by the world outside, acquiesced in by some of its constituent elements and maintained by the Page 117 force of the central Germanic element incarnated in the Hapsburg dynasty. As soon as the political convenience of an empire of this kind ceases, that is to say, the constituent elements no longer acquiesce and ...
... , A play and yet no play but the deep scheme Of a transcendent Wisdom... 41 The wrangle of the dualities, the merging and mingling of a thousand aspects in one central unity, the "tangle-dance of passionate contraries /Locking like lovers in a forbidden embrace", all blunder and struggle "towards the one Divine". Perversion of both mind and heart is possible: ...
... experiences and to gather out of them the thread—the skein of qualities and attributes, powers and capacities—for the pattern of life he has to weave. Now, the inmost being, the true personality, the central consciousness of the evolving individual is his psychic being. It is, Page 39 as it were, a very tiny speck of light lying far behind the experiences in normal people. In grown up ...
... fire burns in the earthly or material sheath, the water flushes and cleans the vitals, the radiant energy activises and regulates the cardiac Page 35 domain—which in fact is the central knot of life—the air or wind, the breath of consciousness inspires the right expression in thought and speech and act, and finally, the vast limitless beyond is the ultimate reality embracing the rest ...
... seem to have brains. They have lost about a quarter of their army without holding any position. SATYENDRA: Their Commander-in-Chief has asked them to cease fire. SRI AUROBINDO: That is in the central part. In Zeeland they are still fighting. He has asked them to cease fire because the army was being attacked from the rear. Instead of ceasing fire they could draw back to the Belgian line. SATYENDRA: ...
... s and to gather out of them the thread – the skein of qualities and attributes, powers and capacities – for the pattern of life he has to weave. Now, the inmost being, the true personality, the central consciousness of the evolving individual is his psychic being. It is, as it were, a very tiny speck of light lying far behind the experiences in normal people. In grown Page 239 ...
... spoiled the austere beauty carrying the thrilled insight of his sentence. (14.5.1992) You have raised the question of sincerity. In its essence sincerity means to me to find your central self, your soul, and let its luminous guidance determine every turn of your life. Before the psychic being is discovered, sincerity consists in so ordering your life - its actions and reactions - that... posture, continue with your medication. Go to the psychiatrist and state your symptoms from time to time. The Mother's force can work also through the drugs. The Supreme Grace is many-moded. But the central mode for you is "Patient endurance." Your father is indeed very considerate and he is right in suggesting that you can take your degree 6 months later. Acceptance of his suggestion will take ...
... suffering patients. Some social workers and friends requested me to shift my dispensary to a central and bigger village named Haldharwas of Ghodasar State in Kaira district. I accepted the offer of the social workers and shifted to Haldharwas where they had made good arrangements to open a dispensary at a central place in the market. The dispensary was opened and from the very first day it received a ...
... "sotd". Poetry is primarily a speech of the soul - not the mind's exclamation, not the cry of the life-force, not the lifting of the body's voice. All of them are audible too, but in tune with a central' note that is the soul's, a note charged with some divine Page 22 presence. It is because the soul finds tongue through the poet that there is a light in poetry, a delight in poetry... the passage which I have built up from Sri Aurobindo I am going to read depth suggestions through the surface ones, depth suggestions which are warranted because of the adjective "eternal" which is central to the passage. Page 28 ...
... Pupil Learning is Recollection Introduction What is learning? How do we learn? These and allied questions are central in determining the roles of the teacher and the pupil. There is a view that learning is effected by a stimulus-response process, and that learning manifests in modified behaviour. According to this... stimuli, genuine learning consists of understanding based on the operation of those innate ideas. In Page 103 other words, learning is a gradual process of self-awareness depending centrally on what is within ourselves in the form of inborn or innate ideas or on what can he held within ourselves with the support of the inborn or innate ideas. The practical application of this view in ...
... upon one or two or a few of them at a time, give them an exclusive and exaggerated importance and strive to coerce them into a preconceived pattern. A single principle is sometimes deified as the central truth of life and hammered into a mutilated nature. This narrow rigidity of ethics stands in the way of the flexible? many-sided movement of human nature, and results in a sort of hot-house growth... forms of religion are often darkened and disfigured by the very material with which they have to deal—the abounding impurities of the lower nature of man. A constant renovation and quickening of the central truth and the informing spirit, a constant adaptation and change of forms, and a progressive approximation to the Spirit are the condition of keeping a religion undefiled, undecaying and effective ...
... uparati, etc. or by a progressive renunciation of life and its normal activities, and a detachment of the witness soul from the movements of Nature, so that by an intensive concentration the central consciousness may pass into its own depths or rise to its own heights to realise its divine purity and freedom. For the Integral Yoga this basis of negative calm, acquired by a suppression or a lulling... in its heaving obscurity. The long and uphill discipline of the Integral Yoga cannot be carried to its successful conclusion unless there has already been established a serene calm, at least in the central consciousness, as the first achievement of the aspirant. It is only in peace and calm that one can contemplate the object of one's quest with a steady gaze of devotion, and, at the same time, detect ...
... responsible or not, is doomed. Everybody can feel that if Anukul Mukherji had had more backbone and lied more cleverly in the cross-examination, Srijut Aurobindo Ghose would now be a convict in the Central Jail. Had we thought of putting forward a false defence, we could have done it very effectively by producing an Editor on the spot. There were at least three men on the staff who were anxious to immolate ...
... unity. Wherever a nation has been formed, in the modern sense, it has been at the expense of smaller units. The whole history of national growth is the record of a long struggle to establish a central unity by subduing the tendency of smaller units to live to themselves. The ancient polity of Greece was the self-realisation of the city as an unit sufficient to itself while the deme or village was ...
... Page 28 the book - a hero mostly absent from the foreground of the story but present as a kind of ideal throughout. Perhaps D'Annunzio meant him to compare with Stelio Effrena, the central figure, and to confirm the portrayal of poetic frenzy attempted in the latter. I, however, find that he serves as a touchstone which shows up the rhetorical exuberance of Stelio by his quiet and tremendous ...
... five years had a Janus face, one side turned towards the past, one turned towards the future. In its dealings with the past it was a conflict between two forces, one represented by Germany and the central Powers, the other by America and the western nations of Europe. Outwardly, imperial Germany represented a very nakedly brutal imperialism and militarism satisfied of its own rightful claim and perfection ...
... gather from them the thread—the skein of qualities and attributes, powers and capacities—for the pattern of life he has Page 335 to weave. Now, the inmost being, the true personality, the central consciousness of the evolving individual is his psychic being. It is, as it were, a very tiny spark of light lying in normal people far behind the life-experiences. In grown-up souls this psychic ...
... difficult and everybody has conflicting elements in his nature and it is difficult to make the vital give up its ingrained habits. That is no reason for giving up sadhana. One has to keep up the central aspiration which is always sincere and go on steadily in spite of temporary failures; and it is then inevitable that the change will come. With my love and blessings. 3 May 1939 What ...
... same goal as ours in his own way." Sri Aurobindo wrote these words in the thirties and their full significance can be grasped only when it is understood that the two master-souls were at one in the central purpose of their lives. Also there is a further bond of natural affinity between them centring round the fact that both were poets, in a deeper sense, seer poets—Rabindranath the Poet of the Dawn, ...
... for Uday Singh's wife who was returning to Pondicherry at that very time, it was a nice coincidence for us on the long journey. The Howrah-Madras Mail took more than 36 hours to reach Madras (Central) where we had to take another train for Pondicherry which would leave from the other Madras station, Egmore. Uday Singh had come down to Madras from Pondicherry to receive us and we were first taken ...
... soaked in the gravy. Quietly and feeling ashamed, I ate it. On the first-floor of our building there lived a south Indian family. They used to burn a big coal-stove in the yard. The house had a central courtyard closed in by flats. The smoke from the stove would enter our flat above and caused a lot of discomfort. One day my father told the head of this south Indian family that if he lighted... during his meeting with the south Indian gentleman, Mr. Maitra said: "Just wait. I'll put an end to this whole smokey affair." From then on he began throwing all his garbage from his flat down onto the central courtyard. And it all just piled up there. One Page 186 day this south Indian gentleman went to complain to Mr. Maitra that all the garbage that was being dumped onto the yard should... Hardly a few minutes had passed that an emergency bugle was heard from the neighbouring police-station. On interrogation we found out that the man we had tied up was a policeman from the local central prison. He was in plain clothes like the other 15 or 20 people who had come to attack us with sticks. But we failed to understand why suddenly we were being attacked by the police in plain clothes ...
... body are occasional, sometimes strong, but thrown out by the tapas after a short struggle. Only in the two still chronic ailments is there as yet a permanently successful obstruction; but in the centrality the effective pressure of Arogya-tapas increases with a sort of slow, but always perceptible steadiness. Chitra is showing some tendency to greater stability, but as yet only in the indirect vision... stable, steady in reproduction of continued action, though here with some interruptions and resumptions; combined Page 1128 scene not always complete, but with strong presentation of the central object and action, the accessories being left in a shadowy suggestion. The rupas however were no longer chhayamaya of the underworld, but tejomaya of the pranic world, with great but an unearthly vividness... logistic to the second stair of gnosis, when once the supreme logistis shall have been formulated in its relative entirety. Page 1130 Health stronger again in resistance to cold exposure. The central arogya fluctuates, but is on the whole growing steadily but slowly in an initial preparatory force. There is no improvement in the digestive insufficiency, but rather a constant fluctuation and even ...
... Because that becomes the symbol―the symbol of the future realisation. 10 January 1970 I have a letter from C... I am going to see him this afternoon. I told you that I had seen the central building of Auroville... I have a plan, would you be interested to see it? There are some rolls there. ( Mother unrolls the plan as she explains ) There will be twelve facets. And, at an equal distance... outside, there is only one descent, which comes down to here, at the foot of this spiral staircase. ( Silence ) C had thought of this gallery all around because he said that would make this central carpet stand out more, all white; it would look as if it were floating, detached, instead of being stuck against the wall. I did not think of it as "stuck against the wall"―there was always a passage... black marble, yes. Yes, then? That means that one will not see very clearly in there. Then what is going to happen in there? These underground areas are not in the form of tunnels; it is a central spiral stairway, and when you arrive at the top of the stairway it branches into a series of open stairways, suspended like bridges. It is not enclosed, it is all floating. Page 301 There ...
... shrillest of many hostile voices. This aesthetic side of a people's culture is of the highest importance and demands almost as much scrutiny and carefulness of appreciation as the philosophy, religion and central formative ideas which have been the foundation of Indian life and of which much of the art and literature is a conscious expression in significant aesthetic forms. Fortunately, a considerable amount... themselves at once the creative insight, the technical competence and the seeing critical eye. But everyone who has at all the Indian spirit and feeling, can at least give some account of the main, the central things which constitute for him the appeal of Indian painting, sculpture and architecture. This is all that I shall attempt, for it will be in itself the best defence and justification of Indian culture... character of Indian art and to ignore it is to fall into total incomprehension or into much misunderstanding. Indian architecture, painting, sculpture are not only intimately one in inspiration with the central things in Indian philosophy, religion, Yoga, culture, but a specially intense expression of their significance. There is much in the literature which can be well enough appreciated without any very ...
... clear-seeing, accurately organising idea-force is an important part of the Frenchman's nature side by side with emotional enthusiasm and aesthetic feeling. So Balzac does not answer the whole or even the central need of the Frenchman's being. The typical Englishman in the matter of coolness is not guided by Page 381 intellect but by a commonsense hold on solid earth: his extravert disposition... swift-flashing and concretely effective, it stands in very good relation to the extravert disposition, and even naturally produces it out of itself, so that we may consider the life-instinct the central thing in the Englishman. You must have recognised in the two elements the face of Chaucer and the face of Shakespeare and realised that Shakespeare can take up Chaucer into himself and serve as the... magically thoughtless sweeping together of a multitude of striking separate parts: in short, as Shakespeare himself seems to build up his dramas. So Shakespeare answers almost the whole, at least the central, need of the Englishman's being, and any attack on him is tantamount to an attack on Englishness itself, and on Englishness too as seen in its aspect of Godhead. Naturally, Shaw's "debunking" of ...
... neither know nor care. I cannot tell you what Sri Aurobindo means by "central being". There is that within us which is the ray, or image, of Krishna Himself. It is in the very centre of one's being and in our inmost Self. It is untouched by all sorrow, pain, etc. It is divine in origin because it has no origin. If I spoke of "central Page 153 being", that is what I should mean. What others... to Yogic obligations which are not present in the schemes of other Masters or Mahatmas. I am afraid Krishna Prem has somehow missed these obligations in his reading of Sri Aurobindo — and the central obligation is the integral transformation of human nature. All Yogis talk of transformation or, to employ Krishna Prem's version, "transmutation", but they do not mean what Sri Aurobindo means, and ...
... sacked her town, killed her husband Mynes, king of Lyrnessus, and carried her off. She was later taken from Achilles by Agamemnon. This act set off the quarrel between the two which forms the central "problem" of the Iliad. She was eventually restored to Achilles. Cassandra: The most beautiful daughter of Priam and Hecuba, king and queen of Troy. She was loved by Apollo but deceived... regarded as the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis (twin children of Zeus from Leto or Latona) and was the seat of an oracle of Apollo. Delphi: A rugged spot on the slopes of Mount Parnassus in central Greece, the site of the most important temple of Apollo, where the Pythia delivered the inspired messages of the god. Demeter: Daughter of Cronos and Rhea, sister of Zeus, Demeter was an... name of Troy as the city of Ilus. lonians: A section of the ancient Greek people; they inhabited the south of Greece before the Dorian invasion sent many of them across the Aegean to the central part of Asia minor, which became known as "Ionia". Laocoon: Trojan prince, son of Priam and priest of Apollo. He prophesies that Troy shall triumph and spurs the Trojans on to their destruction ...
... surrounds the cell. Chromosomes and genes In most cells, one will find a great deal of traffic coming and going from a central compartment, the nucleus. Small "messengers" enter and leave, carrying orders that are issued from here. The nucleus serves as a sort of central computer bank where plans for the cell's functioning are more or less encoded on long chains or coils of a protein-like substance... and has helped us to explore its tiniest components. A journey through the cell Any effort toward good nutrition must start with and be organized around an awareness of the cell and its central importance in human nutrition. The clearer the picture we have of cellular function, the better we can provide for its nourishment. The busy world that exists there is as fascinating as it is complex ...
... become possible in this subtler, purer, finer substance; the soul begins to unveil itself, the psychic personality reaches its full stature. The soul, the psychic entity, then manifests itself as the central being which upholds mind and life and body and supports all Page 104 the other powers and functions of the Spirit; it takes up its greater function as the guide and ruler of the... reached in which a state of self-giving of all the being to the Supreme Being and the Supreme Nature can become total and absolute. There has to be a preliminary stage of seeking and effort with a central offering or self-giving of the heart and soul and mind to the Highest and a later mediate stage of total conscious reliance on its greater Power aiding the personal endeavour; that integral reliance ...
... humanity which is already at work upon our minds and has even begun in a very slight degree to influence from above our actions, and turn it into something more than an idea, however strong, to make it a central motive and a fixed part of our nature. Its satisfaction must become a necessity of our psychological being, just as the family idea or the national idea has become each a psychological motive with... world-wide movement which made internationalism and Labour rule its two main principles, had already created the Russian revolution and seemed ready to bring about another great socialistic revolution in central Europe. It was conceivable that this party might everywhere draw together. By a chain of revolutions such as took place in the nineteenth century and of less violent but still rapid evolutions brought ...
... discernment, the richly-bright understanding, dhiyaṁ ghṛtācīm , and the action of the Truth in the work of the sacrifice, apas , introduce certain fresh precisions which throw further light on the central ideas of the Rishis. The word dakṣa , which alone in this passage admits of some real doubt as to its sense, is usually rendered by Sayana strength. It comes from a root which, like most of its... has to be regarded as fortuitous and void of reason or purpose. Page 78 We see then that in the second hymn we find again the same governing ideas as in the first. All is based on the central Vedic conception of the supramental or Truth-consciousness towards which the progressively perfected mentality of the human being labours as towards a consummation and a goal. In the first hymn this ...
... all-importance of the Divine Being there can be no reason to aspire or to consecrate, there can be no power in the aspiration or force behind the consecration. Doubts do not matter, if the faith central and fundamental is there. Doubts may come, but they cannot prevail against [the rock] of faith in the centre of the being. The rock may be covered awhile by surges of doubt and despondency, but the... struggle, his untiring endeavour. At first a consecration, then a surrender and subordination of our human personal will, then its merger in a greater divine or greatest supreme Will is the central secret and core of intention of the Karmayoga. But this cannot be entirely done by our mental consciousness in its little human boundaries. Our Yoga must help us to leave it and enter into a greater ...
... initiates” was not unknown among those close to Hitler, remembers Rauschning, for Alfred Rosenberg had already talked to him about it confidentially after having given a talk at the Marienburg, the central seat of the Teutonic Order. Actually the idea had nothing extraordinary, for whenever in history a really novel and compelling world vision appears, an almost automatic process of segregation takes... Höhne, “now it was to become an Order. Himmler had discovered from history an example on which he proposed to model his Order: the Jesuits … In the Jesuits Himmler had found what he regarded as the central feature of any Order’s mentality: the doctrine of [unconditional] obedience and the cult of organization.” 824 “To have made from this handful of men [280 in 1929] the strongest ideological army ...
... Have confidence, my child; everything will be all right. 5 June 1960 Page 243 Sweet Mother, Sri Aurobindo speaks of a "central knot of desires" which must be cut. How can one do it, where should one start? The central knot of desires is the sense of separate personality; it is the ego. With the disappearance of the ego, the desires disappear. 13 June 1960 ...
... an even temper in relation not only to the various personalities you meet but also to the various personalities in yourself. The central you who has to be poised in peace has to face undisturbed the peripheral entities whom you also accept as parts of your being. The central you is the one who wants to do Yoga as well as to raise to its finest pitch the career you have chosen. Perhaps the vague urge ...
... to signal the start of the items. Oh, you were giving the orders to conduct. And what did the other captains do? Did they help to organise? Yes, Mother. What did they do? Mother, the central theme, it was A who introduced it. That I know well. Then, Mother, basing on this theme or idea, the captains of the different groups collaborating among themselves, taught the movements to the... atmosphere which awakes in us an intense aspiration which strengthens the will to strive till the goal, and the sentiment of devotion and divine love. It penetrates into the hearts and awakes the central being, removes the screen which covers the psychic flame to lead the consciousness towards the Lord of our existence. My voice has an extraordinary power, it spreads a harmony, a peace, a light and ...
... planets of the mental world than of the material solar system; for in the spherical system of the sukshma jagat , even the sun and the moon are planets, each circling in its own sphere round the central, fixed, but revolving earth. But a better term is the Indian word graha, those that have a hold on the earth. There are seven old planets, the Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn, and ...
... Sri Aurobindo says, "A spiritual evolution, an evolution of consciousness in Matter in a constant developing self-formation till the form can reveal the indwelling Spirit, is then the key-note, the central significant motive of the terrestrial existence." The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 19, p. 824 So, from the point of view of form, in what way is man superior to other animals? I think ...
... to meditate on all this. Page 156 × "Something there is in us or something has to be developed, perhaps a central and still occult part of our being containing forces whose powers in our actual and present make-up are only a fraction of what could be, but if they became complete and dominant would be truly able ...
... movement was the direct result of the purely mental instruction given to them under the English system of education. The adoption of the English system under an Indian disguise in institutions like the Central Hindu College is likely to lead to the European result. That it is better than nothing, is all that can be said for it. As in the education of the mind, so in the education of the heart, the ...
... to be trained, enlightened, changed in their habits. That is why the Mother and I always give time for the soul to grow upon the other parts and we do not mind if it takes time, provided there is a central sincerity and will—as certainly there is in you. Do not be impatient or easily discouraged because things do not go fast. Aspire, try to keep yourself in the sunshine of confidence and let the seed ...
... with the hope of complete success in overcoming all obstacles: Page 183 that is, of going right up to the body's total transformation, which will fulfil the Integral Yoga. The central reason is that the Supramental Force which alone can effect the fulfilment cannot be brought into suffi-cient action without an Avatar of the Supermind being in our midst. Certainly we can go a ...
... April 1969 . × See Agenda X of 12 November and 24 December 1969 . We may be touching here the central physical difficulty which was to become Mother's agony. It was not the "problem of the transformation," but the problem of the disciples. ...
... left but nebulous inferences from linguistic affinities for which other historical explanations could just as well be hypothesised. So instead of a gratuitous invasion of the Punjab by untraceable Central Asian nomads in 1500 B.C., what was proposed in The Problem of Aryan Origins was a "belt of ancient Aryanism" extending by the fourth millennium B.C. from the Ukraine to *A review ...
... murdered at Rouen, in the North-West of France, and the Judaic communities in that region sent warnings to their brothers in Germany, for the “crusaders” were expected to follow the Rhine upstream into central Europe. “But the communities in the Rhine Valley, well settled, prosperous and having acquired a special statute, did not heed the warning.” 548 This they would regret. The first German victims ...
... spiritual enjoyment, but at a change of earthly life and existence, at a divine fulfilment of life here upon earth, and that too "not as something subordinate or incidental, but as a distinct and central object". 1 Also, "the object sought after [in this Yoga] is not an individual achievement of divine realisation for the sake of the individual, but something to be gained for the earth-consciousness ...
... 1 2 Life Divine p. 262. 3 Ibid . 189. 4 Ibid., p. 263. Page 397 absolute, untrammelled, inalienably possessed of its own unity and bliss." 1 But the central circumstance of the cosmic process as it is constituted now, in the involution of the triune Reality in the apparent nescience of the material universe and in its slow evolution therefrom, is the ...
... feel that, you have reached the rock-bottom of hopelessness. To lose your health - getting spells of dizziness and weakness, not feeling like eating, etc. - is not what the Mother expects of you. Our central joy is that we are deeply and inalienably related to her. Whether we always experience the relation or not is a secondary matter: the primary truth of our lives is that the Mother has accepted us and ...
... she herself is the author of her pain, a harsh truth to tell to the emotionally involved one, afflicted with the impending tragedy in life made known to her by himself. He tells her that it was her central being happy in the realm of happiness who yet saw another kind of joy, and plunged into the meaningful shadow cast by the Spirit. It sensed a negative infinity and got attracted by the possibility ...
... is much vaster than the one found in the Hatha Yoga. Again, while the methods of Hatha Yoga are accepted as valid methods of the goals of Hatha Yoga itself, these are not insisted upon either as central or peripheral in the Integral Yoga; they are optional. and can be adopted; but they can be also dispensed with altogether and replaced by deeper psychological processes applied to the human body ...
... Pondicherry it was not their "object to develop any one religion or to amalgamate the older religions or to found any new religion - for any of these things would lead away from his [Sri Aurobindo's] central purpose." (Sri Aurobindo in Sri Aurobindo and his Ashram, 1983 edition, p. 34) Sri Aurobindo makes explicit what his Integral Yoga has for its aim: "The one aim of his [Sri Aurobindo's] Yoga ...
... the juxtaposition of adjective and substantive in each case suggestive of the dual significance of the action, the legendary and the symbolic. Sri Aurobindo has remarked that "the central conception of the Veda is the conquest of the Truth out of the darkness of Ignorance and by the conquest of the Truth also of Immortality". 23 Savitri too is a symbolic scripture when viewed from ...
... same goal as ours in his own way." Sri Aurobindo wrote these words in the thirties and their full significance can be grasped only when it is understood that the two master-souls were at one in the central purpose of their lives. Also there is a further bond of natural affinity between them centring round the fact that both were poets, in a deeper sense, seer poets—Rabindranath the Poet of the Dawn ...
... same goal as ours in his own way." Sri Aurobindo wrote these words in the thirties and their full significance can be grasped only when it is understood that the two master-souls were at one in the central purpose of their lives. Also there is a further bond of natural affinity between them centring round the fact that both were poets, in a deeper sense, seer poets-Rabindranath the Poet of the Dawn, ...
... and experience and this was expressed by a later age to the mass in images containing a large philosophical and intellectual meaning of which the Trinity and the Shaktis of Vishnu and Shiva are the central figures: the Puranas carried forward this appeal to the intellect and imagination and made it living to the psychic experience, the emotions, the aesthetic feeling and the senses. A constant attempt... this age is less striking and original except for a certain number of great or famous works. Most of these tongues have felt the cultural necessity of transferring into the popular speech the whole central story of the Mahabharata or certain of its episodes and, still more universally, the story of the Ramayana. In Bengal there is the Mahabharata of Kashiram, the gist of the old epic simply retold in... type of his own human life, telling in the second a romantic love story and in the third a historical incident of the time of Jehangir, all these disparate elements forming the development of the one central motive and presented without any imaginative elevation but with an unsurpassable vividness of description and power of vital and convincing phrase. All this poetry, the epic and the romance, the didactic ...
... the phenomenon of pain and suffering which seems to contradict the fundamental nature of its being. This and this alone is the root-problem. … There is an anandamaya behind the manomaya [the central sense perception], a vast Bliss-Self behind the limited mental self, and the latter is only a shadowy image and disturbed reflection of the former. The truth of ourselves lies within and not on the... Nirodbaran vented one of his bouts of yogic depression and doubt about the meaning of it all. Sri Aurobindo answered him: “In the beginning it was you (not the human you which is now complaining but the central being) who accepted or even invited the adventure of the Ignorance. Sorrow and struggle are a necessary consequence of the plunge into the Inconscience and the evolutionary emergence out of it. The... mind and feelings, I am afraid there is none. No doubt, if human beings had made the universe, they would have done much better, but they were not there to be consulted when they were made. Only your central being was there.” 30 This answer contains in a nutshell, and in the most limpid language, much of what has been considered in this talk. Sri Aurobindo wrote the same in the mantric lines of ...
... climactive fullness of its meaning. But to be a peak-point of centrality between spring and winter is, on the one side, to hold the former's essence raised up and completed and, on the other, to carry the essence of the latter, ready to be unfolded in a sloping down towards its complete manifestation. Summer bears, in its central summing, the actual acme of "fresh spring" and the potential plenitude... autumn or winter can have its touch already in spring. Even for the over-practical intellect, there should be no fundamental difficulty. To return to our analysis of Shelley's line. Summer's centrality in it has also a subtle bearing on the technical stance of the verse. Being a dissyllable, this noun renders the line a little longer than four feet, although still shorter than five. The corresponding ...
... is a step forward towards It and the unravelling of one of the million knots that attach man to ignorance and death. Rejection of action, therefore, is a willful postponement of the solution of the central problem of life, and cannot effect the release of the embodied being of man from Nature's yoke, however high his detached soul may soar in its unclamped freedom. That which binds must unbind, that... explore some of the possibilities of disinterested and consecrated action for a speedy attainment of union with the object of their seeking, whoever and whatever that may be. Once that is done, once the central consciousness has discovered and learned to live in the infinite Reality or the Eternal Being, the object of Yoga is thought to have been achieved, and action is then relegated to a very subordinate... impelled from within or above, it does not carry on it the hall- mark of the divine Will. How to incarnate the divine Will and let it express itself freely and effectively in life ? This is the central problem of a dynamic Yoga, and the Mother gives us an inestimable guidance in it. "In my view the ideal state is that in which, constantly conscious with Thy Consciousness, we know at every ...
... What we have here is the whole physical world vibrating as the Cosmic Christ and therefore every part of it sharing in his existence, without either its own finite character being lost or his central all-animating dominance being annulled. Inasmuch as the cosmic stuff gets subtly deified in Christ, we have Christianity pantheised, while insofar as Christ retains his sovereign personality in spite... encounter" or ask him to "teach" us "to adore" the "universe" by "seeing" him "hidden within it". The operative words render the very cosmos a species of Christ-stuff - no doubt inferior to the central cosmic Christ-being but all the same sharing to some measure the latter's direct divinity: Christ's mystical Body on a cosmic scale is for Teilhard both a natural and a supernatural reality - complete ...
... became in fact the assertion of the free, independent, democratically self-governed nation. That ideal had not at the time of the great war wholly worked itself out even in the occidental world; for central Europe was only partly democratised and Russia had only just begun to turn its face towards the common goal; and even now there are still subject European peoples or fragments of peoples. 1 Nevertheless... nineteenth-century ideal of political freedom; it insists on the equal right of all in the State to choose, judge and change their own governors, but all other liberty it is ready to sacrifice to its own central idea. The progress of the socialistic idea would seem therefore to lead towards the evolution of a perfectly organised national State which would provide for and control the education and training ...
... this thing, this subject?" and you are obliged to make a draft of it—put all the ideas side by side, and you will see, it will be amusing. Unless you are in the habit of having a central idea, if possible a fixed central truth around which you arrange all the ideas, you organise them in a logical order with the right relation between each of them, each one in its place, and you make a kind of monument ...
... really want a higher vision, you must get out of the mental world and see the original wills as they descend to take expression. In this case, you may not have all the details, but the central FACT, the fact in its central truth, is indisputable, undeniable, absolutely correct. Some people also have the faculty of predicting things already existing on earth but at a distance, far from physical eyes—they're ...
... it was as if the Knowledge that constantly comes from above was saying to them, "Why? Why do you wonder? You have had the experience, you know how it is." Then, to the small central cellular consciousness (there is a small central consciousness of the cells, 5 which is now gradually growing and being worked out), this Knowledge said, "Don't you remember? You know how it was." Ah, then the memory of ...
... the concrete touch and presence of the Divine. Further, the help and succour come in another way which is more intimate, more living and appealing to man. A great mystery of existence, its central rub is the presence of Evil. All spiritual, generally all human endeavour has to face and answer this Sphinx. As he answers, so will be his fate. He cannot rise up even if he wishes, earth cannot progress... vital (may be even in the mental): real hell is not the mass of desires or weaknesses of the flesh, not "living flesh", but dead Matter whose other name is Inconscience. In the older disciplines the central or key truth, the heart of reality where the higher and the lower – Brahman and Maya, the Absolute and the Contingency, the One and the Many, God and the World – met and united in harmony was bypassed: ...
... be fulfilled. In the integral yoga, therefore, the process of Jnana yoga, Karma yoga, and Bhakti yoga receives central emphasis, but these processes are inter-woven and perfected by the processes and objectives of what Sri Aurobindo calls the yoga of self-perfection, and the central emphasis in the yoga of self- perfection falls upon the dynamic aspects of yoga and on the detailed processes of ...
... grants to maintain them merely as necessary feeders of the Calcutta institution. But unless a movement of this kind is supported by wise organisation and energetic propagandism emanating from an active central authority, it must soon sink under the weight of unsolved problems, unsurmounted difficulties and unamended defects. The curriculum of the Council is extraordinarily elaborate and expensive, and involves ...
... would be the decisive step on the road to world revolution. The obscure activities of Soviet agents, the continual unrest, the Soviet revolution in Bavaria, the Ruhr uprising of 1920, the revolts in Central Germany during the following year, the risings in Hamburg and later in Saxony and Thuringia, were all too consistent with the Soviet regime’s threat of permanent revolution.” 608 (What Fest does not ...
... some far future day. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were wonder-workers in many respects but they were not miracle-mongers and they were perfectly honest and clear-headed. Moreover, their central job was to bring about a radical change in our inner and outer beings — a drawing forth of the hidden God-lit soul, the widening out of the mind into an infinite peace, the raising of the consciousness ...
... the personality and the nature. (5) Usually, a soul follows continuously the same line of sex. If there are shiftings of sex, it is, as a rule, a matter of parts of the personality which are not central. (6) As regards the stage at which the soul returning for rebirth enters the new body no rule can be laid down, for the circumstances vary with the individual. Some psychic beings get into relation ...
... Sri Aurobindo's Message Section IV: Sri Aurobindo's Message The Glorious Future If the emergence and growth of consciousness is the central motive of the evolution and the key to its secret purpose, then by the very nature of that evolution this growth must involve not only a wider and wider extent of its capacities, but also an ascent to a higher ...
... it's a method that CAN be used, and it has been used in the past. Switching to a new body? Switching to a new body. The method may be used again, IF IT IS FELT TO BE NECESSARY. It wasn't the central idea, it was perfectly incidental—it may happen. And all I said was that the consciousness of these cells having lost the sense of ego (I think they have lost it, though this body was formed without ...
... in several places at the same time that there was no alteration in fundamentals. In her letters Miss Raine elaborated what she had already laid down in her report. On the one hand she had seen my central thesis to contain "illuminating truth" and had even gone on to say to Sir Geoffrey: "I think he has found a profound truth not seen by any of us hitherto." On the other hand she had stoutly disputed ...
... Micawber-like that something will turn up. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, waiting for that and to see who does what. PURANI: Russia has already come into the Balkans. SRI AUROBINDO: No, not quite. Still in central Europe. Her claims on Hungary are understandable. It will be the completion of her Polish campaign. But she has no claim on Bulgarian ports in the Black Sea. It has to be seen now what attitude they ...
... The development of the form and its functioning or the physical organism's fitness to survive in the conditions of the environment, although indispensable, are by no means the whole meaning or the central motive force of evolution. Now, this emergence and growth of consciousness in evolution has by no means ended with the appearance of man on the earth-scene, with his characteristic mental ...
... the words and formulas employed by the Rishis, especially to the key-words which bear as keystones the whole structure of their doctrine. One such word is the great word, Ritam, Truth; Truth was the central object of the seeking of the mystics, a spiritual or inner Truth, a truth of ourselves, a truth of things, a truth of the world and of the gods, a truth behind all we are and all that things are. In... I saw the greatest (best, most glorious) of the embodied gods." 5 Then mark how the seer of the Upanishad translates this thought or this mystic experience into his own later style, keeping the central symbol of the Sun but without any secrecy in the sense. Thus runs the passage in the Upanishad, "The face of the Truth is covered with a golden lid.OPushan, that remove for the vision of the law of... to grow in it, to ascend in spirit into the world of Truth and to live in it. To do so is to unite ourselves with the Godhead and to pass from mortality into immortality. This is the first and the central teaching of the Vedic mystics. The Platonists, developing their doctrine from the early mystics, held that we live in relation to two worlds,—a world of higher truth which might be called the spiritual ...
... for going through,—provided of course it maintains itself. The opposition in certain parts of the being exists in every sadhak and can be very obstinate. Sincerity comes by having first the constant central aspiration or will, next, the honesty to see and avow the refusal in parts of the being, finally, the intention of seeing it through even there, however difficult it may be. You have admitted certain... volcano summit in the abyss. These are extreme examples, but others while they do not go so far, yet are now one thing, now just the opposite. If they can convert the lower fellow or discover the central being in themselves, then a true harmonious whole can be created. There are always two sides to every human being. In Western occultism they call them the good and the evil Persona (personality)... always—perhaps one ought not to make a too rigid universal rule about these things—a being attached to him, sometimes appearing like a part of him, which is just the contradiction of the thing he centrally represents in the work to be done. Or, if it is not there at first, not bound to his personality, a force of this kind enters into his environment as soon as he begins his movement to realise. Its ...
... is the sense and justification of the individual, his consciousness, his feeling of self, his personality? Is our individuality real or apparent, temporary or permanent, a minor circumstance or a central Page 271 secret of the whole? Has it a meaning in the universe or in something beyond the universe? or is it only a chance outburst of Nature with no sense in it or any but a mechanical... is within them. If we can discover these three things, all is known which we fundamentally need to know; the rest is application and process and consequence. The problem of consciousness is the central problem; for it links the other two together and creates their riddle. It is consciousness that raises the problem it has to solve; without it there would be no riddle and no solution. Being and its... as a real world. If consciousness is a creation of the evolution, it is also the one thing by which it receives some value, the one thing by which its values can be reckoned, its [. . .], its one central and essential value. It is not by the development of forms that evolution reaches its height, but by the evolution of consciousness. The degree of consciousness is the degree of evolution; the extent ...
... body's blinded cry — A soul of upright splendour like the noon! Now, this magnificent face of Sri Aurobindo has a profound meaning in the history of evolution. I believe that the central need of the evolutionary world is Avatarhood. Unless the Divine comes down to earth, man has very little hope of becoming Superman. He may ascend to the spiritual skies, and the soul may remain suspended... to humanity, humanity will fail to respond to the Divine's call. And how shall solid and concrete earth know Divine Love unless the Divine Himself becomes solid and concrete to earth? I believe the central truth here has been seized with a fair degree of success by an Ashram poet at almost the commencement of his frail, faltering, fumbling, failing and falling existence at this place. The poem is called... is nearer the mark we are seeking. It is an expression related to Painting: "clair-obscur" — what the Italians call "chiaroscuro" and what in plain English is "light and shade". Poetry must bring a central clarity which with a sure grip upon our minds leads us towards a mystery which is beyond mind. The poet may de-clare his designs upon the "obscur" like the Negro 1 "Clear, again clear ...
... and you may call that the J ī v ā tman, the Central Being of the human individual here whose distortion is the ego. Sri Aurobindo puts it here with logic : the Divine Soul is pure, infinite Self-existence in its being and sense-existence and a free play of immortal life in its becoming. It is there in the Divine; there the true individual, the Central Being, is already contained in the Satchidananda... with the subject of the Supermind. Then the chapters that follow upto chapter 28th may be regarded as applications of the working of the Supermind. The 17th gives the status of the Divine Soul,—the central being, in the Supermind; the 18th deals with Mind and Supermind, while Chapters from 19th to 22nd deal with Life and its nature and the working of the Supermind. Chapter 23 deals with the Double soul ...
... have a higher vision, you must rise above the mental world and see the original wills as they descend to express themselves. In this case, you may not possess all the details, but the central fact , the fact in its central truth, is indisputable, undeniable, absolutely correct. Some people also have the power to predict things which already exist on earth, but at a distance, at a great distance, very ...
... creation and this might lead to a closer confederacy. America seems to be turning dimly towards a better understanding between the increasingly cosmopolitan United States and the Latin republics of Central and South America which may in certain contingencies materialise itself into Page 401 a confederate inter-American State. The idea of a confederate Teutonic empire, if Germany and Austria... × The Nazi Third Reich in Germany seemed for a time to be driving towards the realisation of this possibility in another form, a German empire of central Europe under a totalitarian hegemony. × This hypothetic forecast was fully justified—and tended to ...
... emerging in the form of Rooseveltian Republicanism, and the interference in Mexico, hesitating as it was, yet pointed to the inevitability of a protectorate and a final absorption of the disorderly Central American republics; the union of South America would then have become a defensive necessity. It was only the stupendous cataclysm of the world war which interfered with the progressive march towards... legitimately done, to increase it. The principle of free nationality could only be applied by them in its purity where their own imperial interests were not affected, as against Turkey and the Central Powers, because there the principle was consonant with their own interests and could be supported as against German, Austrian or Turkish interests by the natural force of a successful war which was ...
... this or that to be done, the line once Page 564 taken to be maintained, but what the mind wants is not at all always what is intended in a larger purpose. One has to follow indeed a fixed central aim in the sadhana and not deviate from it, but not to build on outward circumstances, conditions etc. as if they were fundamental things. One can not only receive a force, but an impulse, thought... suggest to their subjects what is in the mind of the sitter or sitters or in the air and it comes to very little. Influences from the other worlds there are of course and any number of them, but the central guidance is not of this kind except in very rare cases. Séances Automatic writings and spiritualistic séances are a very mixed affair. Part comes from the subconscious mind of the medium and ...
... passage from The Revelation we have not only mention of "the power of Christ" come as a result of the war in Heaven: we have also the phrase, "the blood of the Lamb". No doubt, the Lamb here is centrally a symbol of saviour self-sacrifice, Christ's innocent death on the Cross for the redemption of humanity. It is not expressly a symbol of divine gentleness and peacefulness to be set as complementary... vision immediately apt to Blake's purposes. If our interpretation is correct, we should find many affinities of idea and even language. Conversely, if we discover many affinities, our thesis on the central symbolism will get its own confirmation and a new perspective be set up for a critical appreciation of the poem's origin and progression, general vision and pictorial particularities. The most important ...
... oneself. Page 67 Characteristics of Ordinary Identification The chief psychological characteristics of the common forms of identification just described are as follows: (a) The central characteristic of identification is implied in the etymological root of the term: idem, which means 'the same'. Identification therefore implies that the thing or person or trait or part one identifies... "identified with one's ego"; in the other type of identification one "must be able to come out of the limits of one's little ego". The former type is illustrated by the common forms of identification, the central characteristic of which, as stated earlier, is that they are related to the ego. Identifications which partake Page 74 of the nature of the latter type, too, occur in ordinary life, although ...
... In broad terms, it can be stated that Indian spirit and Indian temperament have manifested themselves, broadly speaking, on five lines: Integrality, assimilation, and synthesis, based on centrality of spirituality; Development of exuberance of life and robust and meticulous intellectuality so as to support multisided inquiry and questioning, and experimentation of every major line... records of which are known as Upanishads and they became a perennial reservoir from where numerous fountains sprang up and continue to be rising Page 440 until today. As a result, the central characteristic of Indianness came to be firmly established, and spirituality can unhesitatingly be seen as the distinguishing speciality of the Indian soul and the defining differentia of Indianness ...
... given. But in the Vedantic and Puranic system the seven worlds correspond to seven psychological principles or forms of existence. Sat, Chit, Ananda, Vijnana, Manas, Prana and Anna. Now Vijnana, the central principle, the principle of Mahas, the great world, is the Truth of things, identical with the Vedic ritam which is the principle of brihat , the Vast, and while in the Puranic system Mahas is followed... infinity of the Truth (or the Vedic satyam, ritam brihat, the Truth, the Right and the Vast) as a "great passage" to the divine Bliss or Mayas. Sri Aurobindo states: "I had already seen that the central idea of the Vedic Rishis was the transition of the human soul from a state of death to a state of immortality by the exchange of the Falsehood for the Truth, of divided and limited being for integrality ...
... always on its side in its dealings with the forces of the lower nature. The present essay deals with the preliminary stage of sadhana and with the problems of a sadhaka who has taken the central resolution to be the Divine Mother's child in the completest sense of the term, but who has not yet been able to establish in himself a conscious and direct contact with the Mother nor has he succeeded... the introduction of this single element makes all the difference between a sadhana based on self-reliant tapasya and one that is grounded in śaranāgati ('taking refuge in the Divine'). The central adhesion of the working will and the joyous consent of the vital for its change is what makes up this third element. For it is not sufficient for the sadhaka to know with his mind that something ...
... Forces and Ideas which you can look at from many centres and points of view, each having its own truth in the whole. In the highest overmind all these prepare to meet and reunite themselves in one central Truth which is the Supramental. Page 157 × This expression is a misnomer since overmind cannot be supramental: ...
... did attend who had the inclination and the leisure. But while the old Aryan assembly was actually the mustering of the citizens, the Congress was rather like those early federal assemblies held in a central place in which as many as could attended from distant places and the bulk of the gathering was made up of local citizens. The peculiarity of the Congress has been the failure to provide against the ...
... d, in Germany. It will do so in India. But geographical compactness is also necessary. In other words, the desh or country must be so compact that mutual communication and the organisation of a central government becomes easy or, at least, not prohibitively difficult. The absence of such compactness is the reason why great Empires are sure in the end to fall to pieces; they cannot get the support ...
... evolution. According to him, when physical structure assumes a certain complexity, life 'emerges' as something new. When the physical structure alters in complexity, as it does when it produces a central nervous system, 'mind' emerges, and the gap between life and conscious behaviour is supposed to be covered. Alexander finds explanation of the evolutionary process in a nisus or thirst of the universe ...
... his system, as the culminating conclusion of his philosophy, but it is the basic presupposition, the first principle that inspires his whole outlook, all the rest is woven and extended around this central nucleus. The other perception intimate to this basic original perception and inseparable from it is a synthetic view in which things that are usually supposed to be contraries find their harmony and ...
... being of evolution; he is also an "immergence", a descent into earth from heaven: one part in him is godly, the other asuric. As the divine he is Brahman, as the Asura, Aham. So man occupies a central place in the scheme of the universe. Above him are stationed the gods, the region of the higher mind and the heart, below him upon the earth rule the Asuras, the powers of the lower mind and the vital ...
... don't make sadhana the one thing of their lives. They have two parts, one internal and the other external which goes on with its ordinary movements, social contacts, etc. Sadhana must be made the one central thing. NIRODBARAN: You once spoke of the brilliant period of the Ashram. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, it was when sadhana was going on in the vital level. Then everything was joy, peace, Ananda. And if ...
... his system, as the culminating conclusion of his philosophy, but it is the basic presupposition, the first principle that inspires his whole outlook, all the rest is woven and extended around this central nucleus. The other perception intimate to this basic -original perception and inseparable from it is a synthetic view in which things that are usually supposed to be contraries find their harmony and ...
... light is likely to stop short or to dispense, the fire is apt to act fiercely and decisively with the denser or more refractory objects of existence, strands that are moved, as I have said, from the central control of the brain. Earth enshrines volcanoes; likewise the cells in the material body may be turned into little volcanoes if the Divine Flame is roused there in the intensive process of aspiration ...
... by the ego and the ignorant play of the Prakriti and remains veiled behind as the unseen Witness supporting the play of the Ignorance. When it emerges, you feel it as a consciousness behind, calm, central, unidentified with the play which depends on it. It may be covered over, but it is always there. The emergence of the Purusha is the beginning of liberation. But it can also become slowly the Master... is so important to discover this sovereign consciousness and unite with it in order to put an end to all the incoherencies of life and all the conflicts of Nature." 13 "To be aware of one's central consciousness and to know the action of the forces is the first definite step towards self-mastery." 14 "... the first step is the identification, and then, once you can keep this identification ...
... There is in all that it says in these closing six chapters much of the greatest importance, but it is the last thought with which it closes that is of supreme interest; for in it we shall find the central idea of its teaching, its great word to the soul of man, its highest message. First, the whole of existence must be regarded as a field of the soul's construction and action in the midst of Nature... the individual field; there is a larger, a universal, a world-body, a world-field of the same Knower. For in each embodied creature there is this one Knower: in each existence he uses mainly and centrally this single outward result of the power of his nature which he has formed for his habitation īśā vāsyaṁ sarvaṁ yat kiñca , makes each separate sustained knot of his mobile Energy the first base and ...
... There was no harm in having these experiences there or anywhere, but there should be nothing to draw the attention of others—especially of those who are not in the Yoga or in the atmosphere. The Central Process of the Yoga I have said that the most decisive way for the Peace or the Silence to come is by a descent from above. In fact, in reality Page 323 though not always in appearance... one who is himself by identity or represents the Divine is in this difficult endeavour imperative and indispensable. What I have written may help you to get some clear idea of what I mean by the central process of the Yoga. I have written at some length but, naturally, could cover only the fundamental things. Whatever belongs to circumstance and detail must arise as one works out the method, or rather ...
... difficulty of the control of anger was there—making him say that all that was good in him was his Guru's gift but these things (anger etc.) were his own property. But what could be true is that the central difficulty may disappear by a certain touch between the Guru and the disciple. But what is meant by the kṛpā ? If it is the general compassion and grace of the Guru, that, one would think, is always... between the psychic and Page 195 the emotional vital a quick and decisive movement of surrender to the Guru or the Divine. I have seen that when that is there and there is the conscious central dependence compelling the mind also and the rest of the vital, then the fundamental difficulty disappears. If others remain they are not felt as difficulties, but simply as things that have just to ...
... (1) Because it aims not at a departure out of world and life into a Heaven or a Nirvana, but at a change of life and existence, not as something subordinate or incidental, but as a distinct and central object. If there is a descent in other Yogas, yet it is only an incident on the way or resulting from the ascent—the ascent is the real thing. Here the ascent is indispensable, but what is decisive... n. No metaphysical or logical reasoning in the void as to what the Atman "must" do or can do or needs or needs not to do is relevant here or of any value. I may add that transformation is not the central object of other paths as it is of this Yoga—only so much purification and change is demanded by them as will lead to liberation and the Page 403 beyond-life. The influence of the Atman ...
... the structure of a neuron. The neurons that compose the brain and central nervous sys tem "talk" to one another across gaps called synapses. These gaps separate the tiny branchlike filaments, the dendrites, that grow at the ends of each nerve cell. Everyone possesses billions of these cells, divided between the brain and the central nervous system, and... each one is capable of growing dozens or even ...
... In broad terms, it can be stated that Indian spirit and Indian temperament have manifested themselves, broadly speaking, on five lines: 1)Integrality, assimilation, and synthesis, based on centrality of spirituality; 2)Development of exuberance of life and robust and meticulous intellectuality so as to support multisided inquiry and questioning, and experimentation of every major line of... of realisation, the records of which are known as Upanishads and they became a perennial reservoir from where numerous fountains sprang up and continue to be rising until today. As a result, the central characteristic of Indianness came to be firmly established, and spirituality can unhesitatingly be seen as the distinguishing speciality of the Indian soul and the defining differentia of Indianness ...
... three human beings contrasted with the expression of the faces and the formidable suggestion in the pose of their sworded figures affects us like the silence of murder crouching for his leap. The central figure of Nadir Shah dominates his surroundings. It is from this centre that the suggestion of something terrible coming out of the silent group has started. The strong, proud and regal figure is ...
... amused and takes pleasure in the force which comes with the influence that these things are able to recur and continue. This element in him calls the invading presence back even when it has been centrally rejected. I shall of course try to act directly on him as well as through you, but the instrumentality of one on the spot greatly enforces and is sometimes indispensable to the action. A word about ...
... Inconscient A spiritual evolution, an evolution of consciousness in Matter in a constant developing self-formation till the form can reveal the indwelling Spirit, is ... the key-note, the central significant motive of the terrestrial existence. This significance is concealed at the outset by the involution of the Spirit, the Divine Reality, in a dense material Inconscience; a veil of Inconscience ...
... from thirty to forty), had defiant red posters printed to show that the DAP was taking up the gauntlet against the leftists, and hired ever greater venues for the meetings till they were held in the centrally located Hofbräuhaus and he could fill Circus Krone to capacity. Hitler’s drive inevitably created friction within the DAP, especially between him and Karl Harrer. Harrer had always seen his creation ...
... amused and takes pleasure in the force which comes with the influence that these things are able to recur and continue. This element in him calls the invading presence back even when it has been centrally rejected. I shall of course try to act directly on him Page 376 as well as through you, but the instrumentality of one on the spot greatly enforces and is sometimes indispensable to the ...
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