... athletics, aquatics and games) and took even two classes per week which were attended by children of all ages. After the classes there used to be a collective meditation in order to create collective consciousness and to bring about a collective realisation. *** On 29th February, 1956, during the meditation after her evening class the momentous event which was awaited since long occurred.... Mother was placing individuals more and more into conditions where synthesis, unity and harmony would become increasingly imperative. A greater and greater stress was laid on the creation of collective consciousness. There were deeper imperatives, too. Already we find, in the Agenda of 1961, certain indications of the idea of an ideal city which could be a habitation of a collective life and which could ...
... antiquated tendency of our nature for which there will be no place when we really are able to reach the stars, a science-fiction phantasy, probably with the sole objective of inducing the collective consciousness to acknowledge the existence of other thinking beings. In fact, however, we know nothing about the way of thinking of those beings. We do not know how they view the universe. We readily... hermits, sages of the past, all those beings who, withdrawn from the world to mountains, forests or deserts, continue to work as they formerly did and are still end eavouring to fix in the collective consciousness the elements of its superhuman future. One must imagine a thousand Christs or Buddha's or Krishnas being born on earth at the same time, possessing a more complete Page 22 ... integral part of their daily thoughts, it necessarily follows that the same phenomenon can—and must— be produced on a world scale and that nothing will prevent the future from dawning in the collective consciousness, even though we believe all prospects to be doomed. This is of capital importance, and we must not hesitate to emphasize it and draw the necessary conclusions. It suffices that at this ...
... on excessive proportions. The level of collective consciousness is always lower than the individual level. It is very noticeable, for example, that when men gather in a group or collect in great numbers, the level of consciousness falls a great deal. The consciousness of crowds is much lower than individual consciousness, and the collective consciousness of society is certainly lower than the co ...
... from above. Material energy creates not living groups, but inanimate aggregates. In the insect world you find—in the ant-hill or the beehive, for instance,—a first instinctive beginning of collective consciousness. In the vegetable kingdoms you can divide the whole vegetable kingdom into botanical orders, and each order has common characteristics. Thus the beginning of group-life goes right up to vital... values in collective life. The collective life is being shaken. It has been shaken by these two world wars and it is not finding its right direction. Nature is forcing unity of mankind on this collective consciousness all over the world; and it is by fear and by interest and by many other factors that unity of mankind is being promoted. It leaves out the most important, the psychological, factor: the feeling ...
... the study of human personality is concerned Jung admits that the roots of personality are veiled in mystery. The term "Collective Unconscious" reminds the Indian Student of the terms "Collective Consciousness", and " Cosmic Consciousness" already used in our Ancient Sacred "books. This Cosmic Consciousness and even a supra cosmic-transcendent-Consciousness mentioned in Indian books, are Superconscient... speaks of the ultimate Reality not as _________________ ¹ Sri Aurobindo in his two books - The idea! of human unity and Human Cycle - points out that a slow growth of the dynamic collective consciousness is taking place in humanity. It began with the family, developed through the clan and the tribe and has now reached the nation. This impulse has its roots deep down into the insect and the ...
... in relative proportions, so that one can exist, continue to exist. This then brings much complication, for it is no longer one individual consciousness that has to do the work, it becomes a collective consciousness. And so it is much more difficult still. ( Silence ) If we are not conscious of all that the Divine is doing for us, do we not progress? You progress, but you are not conscious ...
... India where the voice of the Vedic Rishis is still vibrant and "Ever we hear in the heart of the peril a flute go before us" -the flute of Sri Krishna sounding from an eternal Brindavan in the collective consciousness - and the revelatory rhythms of Sri Aurobindo's message, "Sight's sound-waves breaking from the soul's great deeps", are about us stronger than the titan roar of the machine.. 16 ...
... women could be duped with a readiness that now appears both inexplicable and culpable. Yet had not Nazism evolved as it did, and culminated in the horrors that have seared themselves into our collective consciousness, its appeal would have been considerable today, not just to louts and skinheads, but to the literate, the thoughtful, the well-educated, the artistically inclined … A number of the future ...
... experience, that is to say, to the data of other planes of consciousness than the physical, as also on the nature of the relations between the cosmic consciousness and the individual and collective consciousness of man. From the point of view of spiritual and occult Truth, what takes shape in the consciousness of man is a reflection and particular kind of formation, in a difficult medium, of things ...
... its own—which may be expressed by all sorts of things (it depends on the day, on the occasion). I had known for a long time that it was no longer the individual consciousness; it isn't the collective consciousness of mankind: it's a terrestrial consciousness, meaning it also contains the material substance of the earth, including the unconscious substance. Because I have prayed a lot, concentrated a ...
... nce with your own experiences. The question I am asking myself is whether the cells have an autonomous existence or whether they must remain aggregated in the way they are, obeying a collective consciousness. 2 I do not mean the body consciousness, which is an entity; I mean: does the cell, as an individuality, have the will to remain in its present collectivity? Just as an individual willingly ...
... lasted for Page 76 one hour and there it was truly almost miraculous. The same Consciousness as this consciousness I had in what we can call the "material mental" (that is, the collective consciousness of the cells), but this morning it was in the cells themselves, this Consciousness [the eternal Consciousness Mother speaks of in the conversation of March 4 ], the same Consciousness. And ...
... y, we do not speak of human duties and people's duties. It is only when we match rights with duties, and create a new mode of consciousness among learners in which the individual develops collective consciousness and the collectivity develops profound care of the individual that rights and duties come to be fulfilled in a meaningful manner. Ours is a world beset with tensions, injustices and ...
... socialism, but we are not adequately cognisant of the way in which socialism tends to grow into deification of the State. As a result, we are not working consciously for the development of collective consciousness that takes care of the liberties of the individual, nor are we developing the ethos in which the individual and Page 9 the collectivity are prepared to sacrifice their egoisms ...
... elevated to the status of an uncompromising master at whose altar the individual is forced to immolate himself. But in this way, neither the individual nor the society stands to gain. For the collective consciousness is always less evolved than the consciousness of the best individuals forming it, and the collective being can progress and move onward only through the enlightened consciousness of its ...
... elements in the Ashram atmosphere as well as outside it. That is the only solution and the only remedy—to cure the ills individually, personally in ones own consciousness. Then only a conscious collective consciousness can grow and develop in the Ashram with all these living and conscious units or cells and thereby change its own condition as well as the condition of India and also the condition of the world ...
... for one lives and moves through mutual interchange in the midst of others. A collective change takes more time than individual change. So it is no longer an individual consciousness, but the collective consciousness that has to do the work. The world progresses. And being in the world you too must progress. It is a progress, however, which the Divine effects in you without your knowledge or co ...
... to act freely and independently! What is instinct exactly? It is Nature's consciousness. Nature is conscious of her action; it is not an individual consciousness. It is a global or collective consciousness. There is also a consciousness of the species. Each species has its consciousness which is called sometimes the spirit of the species, that is to say, a conscious being presiding over a particular ...
... public places and these are the advanced countries of the West. Even they are not free from this. I believe this is Supramental action, the pressure of a higher Truth from above on the collective consciousness of man. As a result, all the filth and obscurity is coming up because all this must be worked out and transformed. Someone asked: 'Dada, can't this be controlled by a severe rule ...
... which the group is not; the group is more a field and a frame for the individual in spite of a conscious existence of its own. In any case, the revival or renaissance of a nation – a collective consciousness and being – is quite possible, and the normal curve of life – birth and growth and death – is not even for it the ineluctable destiny. For like the individual, the group too has that in it ...
... enriched and multiple Page 280 unity in expression. Furthermore the individual can proceed yet beyond. He has to and now is able to, not only in his individual but in his collective consciousness – turn back and move straight to its original unity: he can establish direct contact, commune and unite with the Divine Himself from whom it I came and drifted away. The ranges of ascent are ...
... mutual interchange in the midst of others. Page 377 A collective change takes more time than individual change. So it is no longer an individual consciousness, but the collective consciousness that has to do the work. The world progresses. And being in the world you too must progress. It is a progress, however, which the Divine effects in you without your knowledge or collaboration ...
... unity. 10 Throughout the ceremony, which took about seventy-five minutes, the words of the charter rumbled in the rhythms of one language or another along the unseen corridors of the collective consciousness of the silently participating congregation comprising tens of thousands of aspiring humanity. In all, 124 Nations of the world and 23 States of the Indian Union - comprising the big and the ...
... Ireland and India launched the movement for political freedom the demand was not based on economic or political rights only but on the need of freedom to express ' the national soul. ' The collective consciousness awoke under the name of ' Bharat-Shakti ' or ' Bharat-Mata 'when the national movement started in India. The collective life of nations has been dominated by the vital-ego of the collectivity ...
... the minimum of initial self-training necessary for those who have yet to cast the whole trend of their thought and feeling into the mould of a higher life and to enlarge the egoistic into a collective consciousness. The Society has its headquarters at Pondicherry with a reading-room and library. A section has been founded at Karikal and others are likely to be opened at Yanaon and Mahe. Page 459 ...
... have the key, that is, of which one doesn't have the threads that can guide and solve the problems. The animal sets itself no problems: it just lives. Its instinct drives it, it relies on a collective consciousness which has an innate knowledge and is higher than itself, but it is automatic, spontaneous, it has no need to will something and make an effort to bring it about, it is quite naturally like ...
... which is the constant cause of man’s “downward gravitation”, and of the diminution and distortion of the ideas, values and standards discovered or acquired by individuals. “In the mass the collective consciousness is near to the inconscient; it has a subconscious, an obscure and mute movement which needs the individual to express it, to bring it to light, to organise it and make it effective. The m ...
... least, in relative proportions, so that one exists and continues to exist. This brings much complication, for it is no more one individual consciousness that has to do the work, it becomes a collective consciousness. And it is much more difficult." 2 Yes, a greater difficulty but nothing beyond that. No impossibility, not even improbability. Failure is not in the least visualised. On the contrary ...
... cats’ made a covenant with her that gave her special powers over the members of his species. Human beings have an individual consciousness, developed in various degrees, but animals have a collective consciousness that is mostly called instinct and centered in the ‘king’ of their species – which goes to show how much truth there actually is in legends and folktales. The ‘king of cats’ is a being from ...
... units and makes them self-expressive and progressive and through him that it raises Nature from the Inconscience to the Superconscience and exalts it to meet the Transcendent. In the mass the collective consciousness is near to the Inconscient; it has a subconscious, an obscure and mute movement which needs the individual to express it, to bring it to light, to organise it and make it effective. The mass ...
... occult experience, that is to say, to the data of other planes of consciousness than the physical, as also on the nature of the relations between the cosmic consciousness and the individual and collective consciousness of man. From the point of view of spiritual and occult Truth, what takes shape in the consciousness of man is a reflection and particular kind of formation, in a difficult medium, of things ...
... me what I asked from him", in another case, "He has refused me." And so, that's that. That is how they understand and it is sheer stupidity. To know how it happens, you must have a general, collective consciousness, at least as wide as the earth. That is the minimum. To understand truly one must have a universal consciousness. Then you can understand. For, I have said it somewhere in what I was reading ...
... or without reason. It is this which inevitably precedes death. Page 341 Must each cell be conscious of its oneness with the centre? It is not like that. It is still a semi-collective consciousness, it is not an individual consciousness of the cells. Does decentralisation always occur after death, or can it start before? It often starts before. Do the cells disperse in space ...
... from courage, from individual heroism, are yet akin to the heroism of bees or ants—almost mechanical gestures, instinctive gestures Page 142 ─induced in an isolated element by the collective consciousness of the genius of the race. Discarding all mental constructions, sensing them to be poor and strengthless compared to the realising, destructive power at their command, they will be invincible ...
... remain nothing but the Divine. It's regular, every day, every single day. And for some time, these cells or this body consciousness (but it isn't organized as a consciousness: it's like a collective consciousness of the cells), it seemed to be complaining a little, to be saying, "But we don't feel much. We do feel" (they can't say they don't feel: they feel protected, supported), "but still..." They ...
... consciousness, it would be rather... rather unpleasant, you can say, but the old consciousness: gone. It's something... something that isn't an individual consciousness, but it is not just a collective consciousness either: there's "something" up there—THAT, up there—which sees, knows, decides.... That, up there, is quite all right, it hasn't moved—it hasn't moved. But this.... ( Mother points to her ...
... sentimental or even ludicrous it may appear to some, is; as we see it, the cry of humanity itself to transcend the modern barriers of nationhood and rise to a higher status of solidarity and collective consciousness. INTERNATIONALISM And yet internationalism is not the one thing needful either. If it means the obliteration of all national values, of all cultural diversity, it will ...
... what we see rampant in India today is the mediaeval spirit. This reversion to an older-an extinct, we ought to have been able to say-type of mentality is certainly a fall, a lowering of the collective consciousness. It bas got to be remedied and set right. Whatever the motive forces that lie at the back of the movement, motives of fear or despair or class interest or parochial loyalty, motives of idealism ...
... is to bind humanity as a single indissoluble indivisible unity in actual life. The aggregates are meant to express, apart from the growing unity, a diversity of achievements in the collective consciousness marking and enriching that unity. The highest, the largest aggregate attained at the present moment is as I have said, that of the nation, the lower and lesser aggregates have been subsumed ...
... purification, the achievement will begin to take on a material form. 2 The scope of this New Year Prayer does not limit itself only to our individual sadhana-it embraces also the collective consciousness which is specially the field of its application. It is the muffled voice of entire humanity in its secret aspiration that is given expression here. It is by the power of this mantra , protected ...
... still individuals who carry in them this need of the eternal and the absolute. It is only little by little, very gradually, through cycles of enlightenment and obscurity that something like a collective consciousness in humanity awakes to the need of such a higher existence. And today this necessity seems evidently very general, cutting across all turmoils and stupidities of mankind: that shows that the ...
... , the achievement will begin to take on a material form. (2) The scope of this New Year Prayer does not limit itself only to our individual sadhana —it embraces also the collective consciousness which is specially the field of its application. It is the muffled voice of entire humanity in Page 6 its secret aspiration that is given expression here. It is by the power ...
... , they have the delight of negation. What is instinct exactly? It is Nature's consciousness. Nature is conscious of her action; it is not an individual consciousness. It is a global or collective consciousness. There is also a consciousness of the species. Each species has its consciousness which is called sometimes the spirit of the species, that is to say, a conscious being presiding over a particular ...
... elements in Ashram-atmosphere as well as outside: that is the only solution and the only remedy – to cure the ills individually, personally in one's own consciousness. Then only a conscious collective consciousness can grow and develop in the Ashram with all these living and conscious units or cells and thereby change its own condition as well as the condition of India and also the condition of the world ...
... the conclusion that lectures are useful under five circumstances, namely, when you want to introduce a subject, when you want to give a bird's eye view of a subject, when you want to create collective consciousness in regard to a particular subject, when the teacher feels greatly inspired to speak and address a small or even a large group of students, and when a teacher has made a recent discovery which ...
... unity at the source but an enriched and multiple unity in expression. Furthermore the individual can proceed yet beyond. He has to and now is able to, not only in his individual but in his collective consciousness—turn back and move straight to its original unity: he can establish direct contact, commune and unite with the Divine Himself from whom it came and strayed away. The ranges of ascent are ...
... what we see rampant in India today is the mediaeval spirit. This reversion to an older—an extinct, we ought to have been able to say-type of mentality is certainly a fall, a lowering of the collective consciousness. It has got to be remedied and set right. Whatever the motive forces that lie at the back of the movement, motives of fear or despair or class interest or parochial loyalty, motives of ...
... Transvaal there was another young leader, named Gandhi, practising with thousands of Hindus the doctrine of passive resistance. Was Aurobindo Ghose to become the leader of another movement of collective consciousness? No, his mission was of a different nature. He was, as Nivedita understood him, the successor to the spiritual Masters of the past, offering the source of his inspiration for all to drink ...
... ludicrous it may appear to Page 127 some, is, as we see it, the cry of humanity itself to transcend the modem barriers of nationhood and rise to a higher status of solidarity and collective consciousness. INTERNATIONALISM And yet internationalism is not the one thing needful either. If it means the obliteration of all national values, of all cultural diversity, it will not certainly ...
... India's culture, a spiritual attitude towards life, a dynamic faith in the guiding Divine Spirit. Culture which is a collective creation is not like a house built of bricks; it is a mould of collective consciousness that organises life round values which it evolves during the course of its history. Culture is, more truly, a living organism that must change according to changing conditions. When a culture ...
... to become a permanent part of the earth-consciousness, then not only should it descend into the lowest plane of physical consciousness – the subconscient – but it must become a part of the collective consciousness on earth too. I asked him many questions about the organisation of a collective life based on spiritual aspiration. On the last day of my stay of eleven days I met Sri Aurobindo ...
... the earth-consciousness, then not only should Page 297 it descend into the lowest plane of physical consciousness – the subconscient – but also must become a part of the collective consciousness on earth. I asked him many questions about the organisation of a collective life based on spiritual aspiration. On the last day of my stay of eleven days I met Sri Aurobindo between ...
... certainly a community made up of sundry individuals with widely different characteristics, the progress of the collectivity was as important as that of the individuals. The need for a deeper collective consciousness and individuality had been felt for some time, not only among the Ashram inmates, but among the Aurobindonians outside as well. This feeling had become stronger after the Supramental Manifestation ...
... the minimum of initial self-training necessary for those who have yet to cast the whole trend of their thought and feeling into the mould of a higher life and to enlarge the egoistic into a collective consciousness. "The Society has its headquarters at Pondicherry with a reading-room and library. A section has been founded at Karaikal and others are likely to be opened at Yanam and Mahe." ...
... material world and the earth-consciousness. But for us who aspire for the deliverance of the entire terrestrial consciousness from falsehood and ignorance, this will not do: we have to accept our burden; we must take part in the collective effort. If one of us makes a progress, he does it for the earth; if one bit of evil is annihilated in one individual consciousness, it produces a corresponding... at bottom they are all maladies of consciousness. In all fields of life and at all levels, one has to face them and to struggle at each step. Take the political field for instance; it is the same story. It is a political sickness, a sickness of the group consciousness in each group or nation, and as in the individual so also in the collectivity the consciousness is centred in the ego and tries only... ing effect in the terrestrial consciousness; if one individual cures a single ill in his nature, the whole world gets the benefit, In fact, unless all is cured, nothing is perfectly cured. This is the secret of collective sadhana. And this is why on our way it is difficult to measure one's own progress or to mark where one stands as one does on other ways of yoga. We all stand together, we are one ...
... psychological terrestrial or human collective (there is a difference: 'human collective' is restricted, while 'terrestrial' includes many animal and even plant vibrations; but in the present case, since the moral notion of guilt, sin and evil belongs exclusively to human consciousness, let us simply say 'human collective psychological consciousness'); when you contact that through identification, you naturally... come into contact with the universal consciousness—not in its limitless essence but on any level of Matter. There is an atomic consciousness, a purely material consciousness and an even more generally prevailing psychological consciousness. When, through interiorization or a sort of withdrawal from the ego you enter into contact with that zone of consciousness we can call Page 23 psychological... whatsoever. To some extent, this constitutes a Truth-Consciousness, or at such times the egoistical sense of what does or doesn't belong to you, of what you can or cannot do, disappears; you realize that the fundamental construction of human consciousness makes any human being capable of doing anything. And since you are in a truth-consciousness, you are aware at the same time that to feel judgmental ...
... objective view of life and existence. We may concentrate on the individual life and consciousness as the self and regard its power, freedom, increasing light and satisfaction and joy as the object of living and thus arrive at a subjective individualism. We may, on the other hand, lay stress on the group consciousness, the collective self; we may see man only as an expression of this group-self necessarily ... freedom of thought involving necessarily the freedom to err and for freedom of action involving necessarily the freedom to stumble and sin may be regarded as an insolence and a chimera. The collective self-consciousness will then have the right to invade at every point the life of the individual, to refuse to it all privacy and apartness, all self-concentration and isolation, all independence and self-guidance... ideal of individual freedom and separate self-fulfilment. This new idea demands of the nation that it shall subordinate, if not merge and sacrifice, its free separateness to the life of a larger collectivity, whether that of an imperialistic group or a continental or cultural unity, as in the idea of a united Europe, or the total united life of the human race. The principle of subjectivism entering ...
... social and collective self-expression. Meanwhile, the nascent subjectivism preparative of the new age has shown itself not so much in the relations of individuals or in the dominant ideas and tendencies of social development, which are still largely rationalistic and materialistic and only vaguely touched by the deeper subjective tendency, but in the new collective self-consciousness of man in that... universe and the economic and sociological conditions of human life as determined by the physical being of man, his environment, his evolutionary history, his physical and vital, his individual and collective need. But after a time it must become apparent that the knowledge of the physical world is not the whole of knowledge; it must appear that man is a mental as well as a physical and vital being and... this process the rationalistic ideal begins to subject itself to the ideal of intuitional knowledge and a deeper self awareness; the utilitarian standard gives way to the aspiration towards self-consciousness and self-realisation; the rule of living according to the manifest laws of physical Nature is replaced by the effort towards living according to the veiled Law and Will and Power active in the life ...
... Vedic Rishis, but there is no record of a collective endeavour for such aa ascent, nor was any systematic descent of the Supermind for the transformation of the earth-consciousness envisaged in their aim. But the most outstanding feature of the aim of the Integral Yoga is that it seeks to raise the collective human consciousness into the divine consciousness of the Supermind, and bring the Light and... the ṛtam jyotiḥ or Truth-Light of the Supermind. If an ascent to a higher consciousness is a new birth, an ascent to the supramental consciousness is a birth into the Supernature, parā prakrti. The ascent has two stages, initial and final. At the initial stage, the most developed part of the consciousness of the Yogi rises to the Higher Mind, which is "a luminous thought-mind, a mind... so in due and inevitable course, the Supermind too must evolve and become the foundation and governing principle of the human consciousness. We shall live in the supramental consciousness and work with the supramental force, even as we now live in the mental consciousness and work with the mental force. The revolutionary nature of the transition from the mind to the Supermind need not paralyse our ...
... through a collectivity and not only through scattered and separate individuals, there is nothing to prevent Him from creating an institution for the purpose. 26 July 1932 This is not an Asram like others—the members are not Sannyasis; it is not mokṣa that is the sole aim of the Yoga here. What is being done here is a preparation for a work—a work which will be founded on Yogic consciousness and ... ourselves to the sole spiritual work of the Asram itself. To do otherwise would be to disperse energy on the ordinary levels instead of concentrating it on the building up of a personal and collective spiritual consciousness and life. 27 October 1938 It is not absolutely necessary to abandon the ordinary life in order to seek after the Light or to practise Yoga. This is usually done by those who want... hardly anything supramental or a sovereign transmutation of the human being. Those in the Asram come from all quarters and are of all kinds; it cannot be otherwise. In the course of the Yoga, collectively—though not for each one necessarily—as each plane is dealt with, all its difficulties arise. That will explain much in the Asram that people do not expect there. When the preliminary work is over ...
... Speaking of Teilhard's view that the "confluence of thought" which terminates in a collective super-consciousness is the prolongation of the "mega-synthesis" which has dominated evolution over its entire course and is the application, at the human thought-level, of the law of higher complexity engendering a higher consciousness, Jan Feys, S.J., 19 writes of that view of Teilhard's: "This permits him to... experiment, the phenomenon of spirit is not a divided mass; it displays a general manner of being, a collective state peculiar to our world. In other words, scientifically speaking, there are no spirits in nature. But there is a spirit, physically defined by a certain tension of consciousness on the surface of the earth. This animated covering of our planet may with advantage be called the... true heart of the religious intuition striving to take shape in the modern consciousness that is charged with the scientific sense of a unitary developing cosmos. Teilhardism is best summed up in the multi-faceted concept of Omega, evolution's Final Term which is really the Prime Mover ahead, drawing to a super-state of collective Uranimity His own aspect of a Spirit in physical evolution. The historical ...
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