... Sri Aurobindo's Life Divine Lecture VI Chap. 10. Conscious Force Chap. 11. Delight of Existence : the Problem We were discussing a universal or an infinite,—existing in its unlimited or infinite power, infinite force,—and the nature of this force. All that exists is surcharged with a force, whether that force is conscious or unconscious... to us the intuition that it must be conscious, or something conscious must be behind it. It could not have been an unconscious force working out according to certain rhythms, and if it is a conscious force, then we can seek for the why, wherefore, purpose, fulfilment. One need not try to find what is good, or right, or true, because these are not relevant to the working of an unconscious force... estation or to hold itself back. Why does it cast itself into this universal rhythm ? Why does the One, the Self, the Purusha, One who watches and is independent of this cosmic movement of conscious force cast Itself into these rhythms ? The freedom to manifest or not, must be inherent in this Being. When It holds Itself back from movement it does not mean that it has lost all the power of movement ...
... terms of that existence, terms of that conscious force, terms of that delight of being. Just as we find all things to be mutable forms of one immutable being, finite results of one infinite force, so we shall find that all things are variable self-expression of one invariable and all-embracing delight of self-existence. In everything that is, dwells the conscious force and it exists and is what it is by... by virtue of that conscious force; so also in everything Page 99 that is there is the delight of existence and it exists and is what it is by virtue of that delight. This ancient Vedantic theory of cosmic origin is immediately confronted in the human mind by two powerful contradictions, the emotional and sensational consciousness of pain and the ethical problem of evil. For if the world... world be an expression of Sachchidananda, not only of existence that is conscious-force,—for that can easily be admitted,—but of existence that is also infinite self-delight, how are we to account for the universal presence of grief, of suffering, of pain? For this world appears to us rather as a world of suffering than as a world of the delight of existence. Certainly, that view of the world is an ...
... where all is immobile. In ourselves we habitually associate our Tapas, our conscious force, with active consciousness, with energy in play and in internal or external act and motion. That which is passive in us produces no action or only an involuntary or mechanical action, and we do not associate it with our will or conscious force; still, since there too there is the possibility of action or the emergence... emergence of an automatic activity, it must have at least a passively responsive or automatic conscious force in it; or there is in it either a secretly positive or a negative and inverse Tapas. It may also be that there is a larger conscious force, power or will in our being unknown to us which is behind this involuntary action,—if not a will, at least a force of some kind which itself initiates action... Tapas means literally heat, afterwards any kind of energism, askesis, austerity of conscious force acting upon itself or its object. The world was created by Tapas in the form, says the ancient image, of an egg, which being broken, again by Tapas, heat of incubation of conscious force, the Purusha emerged, Soul in Nature, like a bird from the egg. It may be observed that the usual ...
... apparent clash, division, and duality which you find rampant in the Page 206 world, which is a projection of the Conscious-Force under the conditions of universal manifestation. Under the constitution of the universe the Infinite, self-existent and self-conscious force of Satchidananda takes up the form of life in the universe. And that life has the aspect of division, separation, conflict... Ananda, Vijnana. Theirs is the realm of Infinity and Knowledge, therefore, it is the world of truth. And in this lower triplicity of manifested or evolved universe, Existence corresponds to Matter, Conscious-Force or Consciousness-Force becomes the two aspects of will and knowledge, manifesting itself as Life. And in this Truth-Consciousness or Supermind becomes Mind and Ananda becomes the Psychic Being... manifested Page 204 universe. There is the principle of being, Sat, which when it is completely covered up, becomes matter, complete inconscience—even apparent non-existence. Chit is conscious-force which is the aspect of knowledge and conscious power. When manifested here it is life. The third principle, Ananda, is manifested here as the psychic being, psychic plane of consciousness, the ...
... are all rolled up into one wave of conscious-force in movement; but in the latter there is a certain rapid analysis of its constituents and the act of self-experience partly detaches itself from the object. Thus by this act of partial detachment we are able not only to experience ourselves dynamically in the becoming, in the process of movement of conscious-force itself, but to stand back, perceive... and force of being beyond the changing forms or arrangements of his conscious force. He is thus the Self that is immutably and at the same time the Self that becomes eternally in the succession of Time. It is evident that there are not really two selves, but one conscious being which throws itself up in the waves of conscious force so as to experience itself in a succession of changing movements of... separate. I do not yet directly become aware of myself apart from my becomings and my perception of them, apart from the forms of active consciousness which I assume in the waves of the sea of conscious force which is the stuff of my mental and life nature. It is when I entirely detach the mental person from his act of self-experience that I become fully aware first, of the sheer ego Page 533 ...
... existence, terms of that conscious force, terms of that delight of being. Just as we find all things to be mutable forms of one immutable being, finite results of one infinite force, so we shall find that all things are variable self-expression of one invariable and all-embracing delight of self-existence. In everything that is, dwells Page 124 the conscious force and it exists and is what... what it is by virtue of that conscious force; so also in everything that is there is the delight of existence and it exists and is what it is by virtue of that delight. This ancient Vedantic theory of cosmic origin is immediately confronted in the human mind by two powerful contradictions, the emotional and sensational consciousness of pain and the ethical problem of evil. For if the world be an... an expression of Sachchidananda, not only of existence that is conscious-force, — for that can easily be admitted, — but of existence that is also infinite self-delight, how are we to account for the universal presence of grief, of suffering, of pain? For this world appears to us rather as a world of suffering than as a world of the delight of existence. Certainly, that view of the world is an exaggeration ...
... striven to arrive at some conception of that supreme infinite being, conscious-force and self-delight of which our world is a creation and our mentality a perverse Page 170 figure; we have tried to give ourselves an idea of what this divine Maya may be, this Truth-consciousness, this Real-Idea by which the conscious force of the transcendent and universal Existence conceives, forms and governs... being; we conceive that He dwells in it as the Enjoyer and Knower, Lord and Self; we have seen that our dual terms of sensation, mind, force, being can only be representations of His delight, His conscious force, His divine existence. But it would seem that they are actually so much the opposite of what He really and supernally is that we cannot while dwelling in the cause of these opposites, cannot while... lower triple term of existence attain to the divine living. We must either exalt this lower being into that higher status or exchange body for that pure existence, life for that pure condition of conscious-force, sensation and mentality for that pure delight and knowledge which live in the truth of the spiritual reality. And must not this mean that we abandon all earthly or limited mental existence for ...
... immediate mystical experience, conceived of the Absolute Reality as Sat-Chit-Ananda (Existence-Consciousness-Bliss). In this concept of the triune Reality, Chit or Consciousness stands for the Conscious Force which as Energy creates the universe. In contrast to this mystical concept of consciousness is the materialistic view which is described by Sri Aurobindo thus: ...consciousness... the materialist looks upon the functionings of consciousness as mechanical phenomena, explicable in mechanistic terms in contrast to the mystical view, according to which consciousness is the Conscious Force, impregnated with and expressive of purpose and meaning at all levels of its manifestation. In recent times, attempts have been made to base the materialistic view of consciousness on... existence of consciousness in all forms of the Force which is at work in the world. Even if there be no conscient or superconscient Purusha inhabiting all forms, yet is there in those forms a conscious force of being of which even their outer parts overtly or inertly partake. Necessarily, in such a view, the word consciousness changes its meaning. It is no longer synonymous with mentality ...
... one conscious Force of Existence. But what right have we to assume consciousness as the just description for this Force? For consciousness implies some kind of intelligence, purposefulness, self-knowledge, even though they may not take the forms habitual to our mentality. Even from this point of view everything supports rather than contradicts the idea of a universal conscious Force. We... existence of consciousness in all forms of the Force which is at work in the world. Even if there be no conscient or superconscient Purusha inhabiting all forms, yet is there in those forms a conscious force of being of which even their outer parts overtly or inertly partake. Necessarily, in such a view, the word consciousness changes its meaning. It is no longer synonymous with mentality... animal mentality and which man himself can only acquire by long culture and education and even then uses with a much less sure rapidity. We are entitled to see in this general fact the proof of a conscious Force at work in the animal Page 6 and the insect which is more intelligent, more purposeful, more aware of its intention, its ends, its means, its conditions than the highest mentality ...
... subliminal mind in the body, as in certain phenomena of samādhi or Yoga trance. It is evident, then, that the difference between plant sensation and our sensation is simply that in the plant the conscious Force manifesting itself in the universe has not yet fully emerged from the sleep of Matter, from the absorption which entirely divides the worker Force from its source of work in the superconscient... the atom because they are present in the Force which builds up and constitutes the atom. That Force is fundamentally the Chit-Tapas or Chit-Shakti of the Vedanta, consciousness-force, inherent conscious force of conscious-being, which manifests itself as nervous energy full of submental sensation in the plant, as desire-sense and desire-will in the primary animal forms, as self-conscious sense and force... containing the subconscious stuff and movement of being which are released into consciousness in the animal, with plant life as a midway stage in the evolution. Life is really a universal operation of Conscious-Force acting subconsciously on and in Matter; it is the operation that creates, maintains, destroys and re-creates forms or bodies and attempts by play of nerve-force, that is to say, by currents of ...
... listen to his words: "The two obstacles that stand in the way of a smooth and harmonious working [of the Conscious Force] in and through the Sadhaks are: (1)the preconceived ideas and mental constructions which block the way to the influence and the working of the Conscious Force; (2)the preferences and impulses of the vital which distort and falsify the expression. Both these things... now we may refer to something special to this Ashram and its functioning, and this will, we hope, help us to see things in a different and deeper perspective. With reference to the working of a Conscious-Force in the Ashram Sri Aurobindo made the following observation: "What seems to me of more importance is to try to explain how things are worked out here. Indeed very few Page 18 ... n decided beforehand. The whole thing has taken birth, grown and developed as a living being by a movement of consciousness (Chit-Tapas) constantly maintained, increased and fortified. As the Conscious-Force descends in matter and radiates, it seeks for fit instruments to express and manifest it." (The Mother, p. 226) A conscious divine Force presiding over the formation, maintenance and ...
... feeling,—this is the basis of universal Sanjnana. This is true both of our internal and external operations. I become anger by a vibration of conscious force acting as nervous emotion and I feel the anger that I have become by another movement of conscious force acting as light of knowledge. I am conscious of my body because I have myself become the body; that same force of conscious being which has... the basis of the essential hearing of which our apprehension of physical sound or the spoken word is only the most outward result; so also its sense of the contact or intermiscence of conscious force with conscious force must be the basis of the Page 59 essential touch; its sense of the definition or form of force must be the basis of the essential sight; its sense of the upflow of essential... or symbols. Essentially all formation, to the most subtle and most beyond our senses such as form of mind, form of character, form of soul, amount when scrutinised to this fivefold operation of conscious-force in movement. All these operations, then, the Sanjnana or essential sense must be able to seize, to make its own by that union in knowledge of knower and object which is peculiar to itself. Its ...
... of one conscious Force of Existence. But what right have we to assume consciousness as the just description for this Force? For consciousness implies some kind of intelligence, purposefulness, self-knowledge, even though they may not take the forms habitual to our mentality. Even from this point of view everything supports rather than contradicts the idea of a universal conscious Force. We see... The Life Divine Chapter X Conscious Force They beheld the self-force of the Divine Being deep hidden by its own conscious modes of working. Swetaswatara Upanishad. (I. 3.) This is he that is awake in those who sleep. Katha Upanishad. (II. 2. 8.) All phenomenal existence resolves itself into Force, into a movement... existence of consciousness in all forms of the Force which is at work in the world. Even if there be no conscient or superconscient Purusha inhabiting all forms, yet is there in those forms a conscious force of being of which even their outer parts overtly or inertly partake. Necessarily, in such a view, the word consciousness changes its meaning. It is no longer synonymous with mentality but indicates ...
... acceptance. And this opens the way for other explanations. The theory of evolution which Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have put forward aims at explaining the world- process as a movement of Conscious-Force that we see being revealed more and more visibly in the evolutionary movement that is emerging in cosmic Inconscience. In his magnum opus. The Life Divine, Sri Aurobindo has expounded this theory... small selection from our entire conscious being. Sri Aurobindo refers to phenomena of a vaster system of psychology, based upon verifiable data of yoga, — the true science of consciousness and Conscious Force, — which demonstrate that (i) behind the surface consciousness in which we are awake in our waking state, there is a subliminal consciousness, (ii) there is, below our waking state, the su... mentality; even man himself can only acquire that kind of knowledge by long culture and education and even then can use it with a much less sure rapidity. We find that even in the insect the conscious Force is at work which manifests greater intelligence, greater purposefulness, greater awareness of its intention, its ends, its means, its conditions than the highest mentality yet manifested in any ...
... of one conscious Force of Existence. But what right have we to assume consciousness as the just description for this Force? For consciousness implies some kind of intelligence, purposefulness, self-knowledge, even though they may not take the forms habitual to our mentality. Even from this point of view everything supports rather than contradicts the idea of a universal conscious Force. We see... Arguments for the Existence of God Appendix II Conscious Force They beheld the self-force of the Divine Being deep hidden by its own conscious modes of working. Swetaswatara Upanishad.* This is he that is awake in those who sleep. Katha Upanishad. All phenomenal existence resolves itself into Force, into a movement of energy... existence of consciousness in all forms of the Force which is at work in the world. Even if there be no conscient or superconscient Purusha inhabiting all forms, yet is there in those forms a conscious force of being of which even their outer parts overtly or inertly partake. Necessarily, in such a view, the word consciousness changes its meaning. It is no longer synonymous with mentality but ...
... primary action of this force is to make for its own consciousness forms or figures of its being. All force is inherently conscious force. Inhabiting and supporting every individual or universal form of being there is and must be some conscious power of being. But conscious force has the faculty of absorbing itself in its works and forms; there is in consciousness the power of self-oblivion. This s... other is both the motive & the executive force of all existence in the universe. 25 The Divine is the eternal Self and Spirit; but Nature too is everlasting power of the Self, eternal conscious-Force of the Spirit. Page 195 Mind, life and Matter are powers of that Power, energies of that Force, substance of that Spirit, Spirit and Matter are not separate and contrary creations,... Existence, Consciousness-Force, Bliss 33 The nature of the Eternal is infinite Being, the nature of Being is Self-Awareness and all-Awareness or Consciousness, the nature of conscious Being is conscious Force aware of its self and its action, the nature of conscious self-awareness is infinite Bliss[.] 34 Identity is the first truth of existence; division is the second truth; all division ...
... transcendent Being. Ignorance is therefore not the natural character of the consciousness of the soul, even of the individual soul; it is the outcome of some particularising action in the executive Conscious-Force when it is absorbed in its works and forgetful of self and of the total reality of the nature. This action cannot be that of the whole being or of the whole force of being,—for the character of... a secret will, a secret intelligence at work, other than the mute self-oblivious form, the Conscient—conscient even in unconscious things—of the Upanishad, without whose presence and informing conscious-force or Tapas no work of Nature could be done. What is inconscient there is the Prakriti, the formal, the motional action of the energy absorbed in the working, identified with it, to such an extent... integral self-being which through its frontal energy does all the work and inhabits all the forms created by the movement. It is to be noted also that in order to remove the veil of the Ignorance the conscious Force of being in us uses a reverse action of its power of exclusive concentration; it quiets the frontal movement of Prakriti in the individual consciousness and concentrates exclusively on the concealed ...
... being does it manifest and fulfil itself in the action of the cosmos as the principle of Conscious-Force manifests and uses Life for its cosmic term and the principle of Supermind manifests and uses Mind? We have distinguished a fourfold principle of divine Being creative of the universe,—Existence, Conscious-Force, Bliss and Supermind. Supermind, we have seen, is omnipresent in the material cosmos, but... the consciousness of Sachchidananda and therefore the thing in which His force must always find and achieve itself is divine Bliss, an omnipresent self-delight. Since Life is an energy of His conscious-force, the secret of all its movements must be a hidden delight inherent in all things which is at once cause, motive and object of its activities; and if by reason of egoistic division that delight... but veiled; it is behind the actual phenomenon of things and occultly expresses itself there, but uses for effectuation its own subordinate term, Mind. The divine Conscious-Force is omnipresent in the material cosmos, but veiled, operative secretly behind the actual phenomenon of things, and it expresses itself there Page 232 characteristically through its own subordinate term, Life. And ...
... Purushottama. It is the Purushottama, who even while retaining eternal immobility, has the capacity of willing and thus originating the manifestation of his conscious force of which all the cosmic manifestations are various activities. That conscious force is given by the Gita a new name, Para Prakriti, since it is higher and distinguishable from the Prakriti which has been described in the Sankhya. The Gita... Veda. (Vide, for instance, the Rigvedic 'aghamarśana mantra' RV X.190.) Tapas means literally heat, but in due course of time, it came to mean every kind of energism, askesis, austerity of conscious-force acting upon itself or its object. As Sri Aurobindo points out, absolute consciousness is in its nature absolute power; the nature of Chit is Shakti: Force or Shakti concentrated and energized for... cosmic manifestation and in it an immanent in each individual; it is further affirmed that there is also a dynamic power of this Omnipresence, a creative or self-manifesting action of its infinite Conscious-Force; finally, it is further affirmed that there is a phase of the movement of the self-manifestation, a phase of descent into an apparent material inconscience, followed by an awakening of the individual ...
... fact Mind measures Time by event and Space by Matter; but it is possible in pure mentality to disregard the movement of event and the disposition of substance and realise the pure movement of Conscious-Force which constitutes Space and Time; these two are then merely two aspects of the universal force of Consciousness which in their intertwined interaction comprehend the warp and woof of its action... see them whole is not possible to the mind; but it is the very nature of the transcendent Supermind. This Supermind in its conscious vision not only contains all the forms of itself which its conscious force creates, but it pervades them as an indwelling Presence and a self-revealing Light. It is present, even though concealed, in every form and force of the universe; it is that which determines s... the seed by the tree; it declares a law of Nature. But it has explained nothing; it has only analysed and recorded the process of a mystery. Supposing even that it comes to perceive a secret conscious force as the soul, the real being of this form and the rest as merely a settled operation and manifestation of that force, still it tends to regard the form as a separate existence with Page 147 ...
... behind it and it is Supermind that creates with Mind only as its final individualising operation, so Life also is not a separate entity or movement, but has all Conscious-Force behind it in every one of its workings and it is that Conscious-Force alone which exists and acts in created things. Life is only its final operation intermediary between Mind and Body. All that we say of Life must therefore be... be subject to the qualifications arising from this dependence. We do not really know Life whether in its nature or its process unless and until we are aware and grow conscious of that Conscious-Force working in it of which it is only the external aspect and instrumentation. Then only can we perceive and execute with knowledge, as individual soul-forms and mental and bodily instruments of the Divine,... the crooked perversions of the Ignorance. Just as Mind has to unite itself consciously with the Supermind from which it is separated by the action of Avidya, so Life has to become aware of the Conscious-Force which operates in it for ends and with a meaning of which the life in us, because it is absorbed in the mere process of living as our mind is absorbed in the mere process of mentalising life and ...
... previously fixed determination of relative movements out of the stuff of infinite possibility. That which thus develops all things must be a Knowledge-Will or Conscious-Force; for all manifestation of universe is a play of the Conscious-Force which is the essential nature of existence. But the developing Knowledge-Will cannot be mental; for mind does not know, possess or govern this Law, but is governed... being also self-force, fulfils or realises itself inevitably in Time and Space. This, then, is the nature of the Divine Consciousness which creates in itself all things by a movement of its conscious-force and governs their development through a self-evolution by inherent knowledge-will of the truth of existence or real-idea which has formed them. The Being that is thus conscient is what we call... the Supermind which founds the inalienable unity of things. It is not the pure unitarian consciousness; for that is a timeless and spaceless concentration of Sachchidananda in itself, in which Conscious Force does not cast itself out into any kind of extension and, if it contains the universe at all, contains it in eternal potentiality and not in temporal actuality. This, on the contrary, is an equal ...
... Part I: Letters of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Champaklal's Treasures - Edition-II Conscious Force But what seems to me of more importance is to try to explain how things are worked out here. Indeed very few are the people who understand it and still fewer those who realize it. There has never been, at any time, a mental plan, a fixed programme or... n decided beforehand. The whole thing has taken birth, grown and developed as a living being by a movement of consciousness (Chit-tapas) constantly maintained, increased and fortified. As the conscious force descends in matter and radiates, it seeks for fit instruments to express and manifest it. It goes without saying that the more the instrument is open, receptive and plastic, the better are the... stand in the way of smooth and harmonious working in and through the sadhaks are: (1) The preconceived ideas and mental constructions which block the way to the influence and the working of the Conscious Force, (2) The preference and impulse of the vital which distort and falsify the expression. Both these things are the natural output of ego. Without the interference of these two elements my physical ...
... cause and result are merely the evocation of a latent and potential shape or condition of things out of the previous condition or status in which it was latent, by some particular movement of a Conscious Force which is progressively passing from status to status and thus manifesting in form all that it holds in itself in being. Cause is only a means of manifestation and not itself a creative power. The... entity, but the executive force of the divine Purusha at once self-revealed and self-concealed in the mechanism of its own workings. Purusha, conscious Soul, is the divine Poet and Maker; Nature, conscious Force, is His poetic faculty; but the material of His works is always Himself and their stage & scene are in His own conscious being. Pre-ordered selection out of infinite possibility is the real... creative Chid Brahman, looking towards cosmos, is aware of in the Sat, is the cosmic delight of self-expression in general & in particular symbols of consciousness, in extension of infinite being & conscious force & in their concentration into determined form of being & determined action of force. When we say that Brahman as Chaitanya, as Consciousness, dwells upon a figure of Itself & brings it out of its ...
... self-delight. As in the apparent inconscience of Matter our soul, growing out of its bondage to its own superficial habit and particular mode of self-conscious existence, discovers that infinite Conscious-Force constant, immobile, brooding, so in the apparent non-sensation of Matter it comes to discover and attune itself to an infinite conscious Delight imperturbable, ecstatic, all-embracing. This delight... that Self-being; its continent, origin and substance are the essential, real Existence, its forms are mutable formations of That to Its own conscious perception, determined by Its own creative conscious-force. They are capable of manifestation, capable of non-manifestation, capable of other-manifestation. We may, if we choose, call them therefore illusions of the infinite consciousness, thus audaciously... universal standpoint of knowledge, the universal detachment from all things and yet sympathy with all in our nervous and emotional being. Since the nature of suffering is a failure of the conscious-force in us to meet the shocks of existence and a consequent shrinking and contraction and its root is an inequality of that receptive and possessing force due to our self-limitation by egoism consequent ...
... spiritual freedom: In this gold dome on a black dragon base, The conscious Force that acts in Nature's breast... Hampered, enveloped by the hoops of Fate Patient trustee of slow eternal Time, Absolves from hour to hour her secret charge. 22 One of the recurring themes in Savitri is the conscious Force that, despite the fierce aggressiveness of the Inconscient, chisels... chisels the human soul. Fate always conspires to retard this process and thwart the efforts of conscious Force. Here "gold dome" suggests the highest superstructure which is pristine and heaven-amorous, whereas the "dragon base" is not a safe foundation for the "gold dome". In spite of this tottering base the Force accepts the anomalous position to execute the command of eternal Time. This image ...
... circumconscient, an environing part of itself, through which it receives the contacts of the world outside us. cittākāś a — mental ether. Consciousness-Force, the Force — the Conscious Force that builds the worlds; a universal Energy that is the power of the Cosmic Spirit working out the cosmic and individual truth of things. Desire-soul — the surface soul in us, which works... from the bondage of Ignorance. n ā styanto vistrarasya me — there is no end to my self-extension. [ Gītā 10.19] Nature, Nature Force — the outer or executive side of the Conscious Force which forms and moves the worlds. The higher, divine Nature (Para Prakriti) is free from Ignorance and its consequences; the lower Nature (Apara Prakriti) is a mechanism of active Force put... sleep (su ṣ upti), the lord and creator of things; the Master of Wisdom and Knowledge. Prakriti — Nature; Nature-Force, the Lord's executive force; the outer or executive side of the Conscious Force which forms and moves the worlds. See also Nature. prāṇa, Prana — life energy; one of the five workings of the life-force. the Psychic — the soul; spark of the Divine before ...
... in the Indefinable and to lose the universe. Arriving through the universe alone, he can sink his individuality either in the impersonality of universal being or in a dynamic self of universal Conscious-Force; he merges into the universal self or he becomes an impersonal channel of the cosmic Energy. Arriving through the equal integrality of both and seizing through them and beyond them on all the aspects... embodies Himself in cosmic Mind and Life and Matter and of whom Nature is the self of energy so that all she seems to create is the Self and Spirit variously manifested in His own being to His own conscious force for the delight of His various existence,—this Page 728 is the truth of being to which man's knowledge of Nature and cosmos is leading him and which he will reach when his Nature knowledge... the world; it is not their denial. It is the Self-Being that has become all these becomings; the Self is the eternal unity of all these existences,—I am He. Cosmic energy is not other than the conscious force of that Self-existent: by that energy It takes through universal nature innumerable forms of itself; through its divine nature It can, embracing the universal but transcendent of it, arrive in ...
... Taittiriya Upanishad. (II. 1.) Life is, we have seen, the putting forth, under certain cosmic circumstances, of a Conscious-Force which is in its own nature infinite, absolute, untrammelled, inalienably possessed of its own unity and bliss, the Conscious-Force of Sachchidananda. The central circumstance of this cosmic process, in so far as it differs in its appearances from the purity... finding of the self that was contained in the seed of its own birth and, with that self-finding, the complete working out of the potentialities deposited Page 222 in the movement of Conscious-Force from which this life took its rise. The potentiality thus contained in our human existence is Sachchidananda realising Himself in a certain harmony and unification of the individual life and the ...
... Purusha, Page 448 individual soul in the individual, universal soul in the cosmos; the principle and the powers of the becoming are what we call Nature or Prakriti. But since Being, conscious force and delight of being are always the three constituent terms of existence, the nature of a world is really determined by the way in which Prakriti is set to deal with these three primary things... of a mental being born into a physical body. First existence has formed itself here, fundamentally, as Matter; it has been objectivised, made sensible and concrete to its own self-experiencing conscious-force in the form of self-dividing material substance, and by the aggregation of this matter there has been built up for man a physical body separate, divided from others and subject to the fixed habits... conceptions strangely variable than in the material world. This life-force is not inconscient material force, not even, except in its lowest movements, an elemental subconscient energy, but a conscious force of being which makes for formation, but much more essentially for enjoyment, possession, satisfaction of its own dynamic impulse. Desire and the satisfaction of impulse are therefore the first ...
... vital activities; one substance constituting all forms and objects as the visible and sensible mould in which mind and life manifest and act just as one pure existence is that ether in which all Conscious-Force and Delight exist unified and find themselves variously. For these are the seven principles of the manifest being of Sachchidananda. The integral Yoga of knowledge has to recognise the double... direct and change all our life-activities until our vitality transfigured ceases in the end to be the limited life-force which now supports mind and body and becomes a figure of the all-blissful conscious-force of Sachchidananda. We have similarly to change our sensational and emotional mentality into a play of the divine Love and universal Delight; and we have to surcharge the intellect which seeks to... realisation, So Aham, I am He, while we arrive also at our identity with all other beings. But at the same time the integral knowledge gives us the awareness of that infinite existence as the conscious-force which creates and governs the worlds and manifests itself in their works; it reveals the Self-existent in his universal conscious-will as the Lord, the Ishwara. It enables us to unite our will ...
... self-delight. As in the apparent inconscience of Matter our soul, growing out of its bondage to its own superficial habit and particular mode of self-conscious existence, discovers that infinite Conscious-Force constant, immobile, brooding, so in the apparent non-sensation of Matter it comes to discover and attune itself to an infinite conscious Delight imperturbable, ecstatic, all-embracing. This delight... that Self-being; its continent, origin and substance are the essential, real Existence, its forms are mutable formations of That to Its own conscious perception, determined by Its own creative conscious-force. They are capable of manifestation, capable of non-manifestation, capable of other-manifestation. We may, if we choose, call them therefore illusions of the infinite consciousness thus audaciously... universal standpoint of knowledge, the universal detachment from all things and yet sympathy with all in our nervous and emotional being. Since the nature of suffering is a failure of the conscious-force in us to meet the shocks of existence and a consequent shrinking and contraction and its root is an inequality of that receptive and possessing force due to our self-limitation by egoism consequent ...
... Life. And the supposed irreconcilables. Matter and Spirit, are not really so irreconcilable, after all; Matter links up with Life and Mind, and Spirit stretches across Sachchidananda (Existence, Conscious-Force, Bliss) towards Mind, and so Matter to Spirit is a whole arc of unity: ...the sharp division which practical experience and long habit of mind have created between Spirit and Matter has... recover its divine light in the all-comprehending Supermind, the soul realise its divine self in the all-possessing all-blissful Ananda, life repossess its divine power in the play of omnipotent Conscious-Force and Matter open to its divine liberty as a form of the divine Existence. And if there be any goal to the evolution... such a luminous and puissant transfiguration and emergence of the Divine in... puts forward his hypothesis (born of his own spiritual experience: The view I am presenting goes farther in idealism; it sees the creative Idea as Real-Idea, that is to say, a power of Conscious-Force expressive of real being, born out of real being and partaking of its nature and neither a child of the Void nor a weaver of fictions. 20 It is beyond the pale and flickering firmament ...
... the Brahman. Agni is the heat and flame of the conscious force in Matter which has built up the universe; it is he who has made life and mind possible and developed them in the material universe where he is the greatest deity. Especially he is the primary impeller of speech of which Vayu is the medium and Indra the lord. This heat of conscious force in Matter is Agni Jatavedas, the knower of all births;... and by the elimination of the vital, mental, physical egoism so that their whole function shall be to reflect the One and Supreme that Brahman can be known by the gods in us and possessed. The conscious force that supports our embodied life must become simply and purely a reflector of that supreme Consciousness and Power of which its highest ordinary action is only a twilight figure; the Life must become ...
... n decided beforehand. The whole thing has taken birth, grown and developed as a living being by a movement of consciousness (Chit-tapas) constantly maintained, increased and fortified. As the Conscious Force descends in matter and radiates, it seeks for fit instruments to express and manifest it. It goes without saying that the more the instrument Page 676 is open, receptive and plastic... in the way of a smooth and harmonious working in and through the sadhaks are: (1) the preconceived ideas and mental constructions which block the way to the influence and the working of the conscious force; (2) the preferences and impulses of the vital which distort and falsify the expression. Both these things are the natural output of the ego. Without the interference of these two elements... most cases things are mixed up and there again I have to intervene to separate the distorted transcription from the pure one. Otherwise a great freedom of action is left to all, because the Conscious Force can express itself in innumerable ways and for the perfection and integrality of the manifestation no ways are to be a priori excluded; a trial is very often given before the selection is made ...
... before us with differing aspects; many are her powers and personalities, many her emanations and Vibhutis that do her work in the universe. The One whom we adore as the Mother is the divine Conscious Force that dominates all existence, one and yet so many-sided that to follow her movement is impossible even for the quickest mind and for the freest and most vast intelligence. The Mother is the co... goddess forms in whom she consents to be manifest to her creatures. There are three ways of being of the Mother of which you can become aware when you enter into touch of oneness with the Conscious Force that upholds us and the universe. Transcendent, the original supreme Shakti, she stands above the worlds and links the creation to the ever unmanifest mystery of the Supreme. Universal, the cosmic... unknown others. All is her play with the Supreme; all is her manifestation of the mysteries of the Eternal, the miracles of the Infinite. All is she, for all are parcel and portion of the divine Conscious-Force. Nothing can be here or elsewhere but what she decides and the Supreme sanctions; nothing can take shape except what she moved by the Supreme perceives and forms after casting it into seed in her ...
... either actively willed or passively permitted by this Lord of her existence. Prakriti herself now seems to be mechanical only in the carefully regulated appearance of her workings, but in fact a conscious Force with a soul within her, a self-aware significance in her turns, a revelation of a secret Will and Knowledge in her steps and figures. This Duality, in aspect separate, is inseparable. Wherever... according to a nobler pattern and the law and rhythm of a greater existence. At a certain spiritual and supramental level the Duality becomes still more perfectly Two-in-one, the Master Soul with the Conscious Force within it, and its potentiality disowns all barriers and breaks through every limit. Thus this once separate, now biune Duality of Purusha-Prakriti is revealed to him in all its truth as the second... akti his closeness to a more intimate and ultimate secret of the divine Transcendence and the Manifestation than that offered to him by any other experience. For the Ishwari Shakti, divine Conscious-Force and World-Mother, becomes a mediatrix between the eternal One and the manifested Many. On one side, by the play of the energies which she brings from the One, she manifests the multiple Divine ...
... 267 indivisibility of Spirit. Between gross substance and pure spirit substance this must be the fundamental antinomy. In Matter Chit or Conscious-Force masses itself more and more to resist and stand out against other masses of the same Conscious-Force; in substance of Spirit pure consciousness images itself freely in its sense of itself with an essential indivisibility and a constant unifying... it is the result of a divine cosmic Will in the material universe which intends to posit here a physical relation between sense and its object, establishes here a material formula and law of Conscious-Force and creates by it physical images of Conscious-Being to serve as the initial, dominating and determining fact of the world in which we live. It is not a fundamental law of being, but a constructive ...
... the play of force and to aggrandise and perfect that delight by whatever means is possible, in whatever direction, through whatever idea of itself may be suggested to it by the Existence, the Conscious-Force, the Delight active within its deepest being. And if there is any goal, any completeness towards which things tend, it can only be the completeness—in the individual and in the whole which the... not yet know the process by which that Reality has turned itself into this phenomenon. We have the key of the riddle, we have still to find the lock in which it will turn. For this Existence, Conscious-Force, Delight does not work directly or with a sovereign irresponsibility like a magician building up worlds and universes by the mere fiat of its word. We perceive a process, we are aware of a Law... front, a relation which is not merely that of an antinomy and opposition. The view I am presenting goes farther in idealism; it sees the creative Idea as Real-Idea, that is to say, a power of Conscious Force expressive of real being, born out of real being and partaking of its nature and neither a child of the Void nor a weaver of fictions. It is conscious Reality throwing itself into mutable forms ...
... Consciousness came to create Matter as the basis of its cosmic workings. We shall understand better if we go back at once to the original principle of things. Existence is in its activity a Conscious-Force which presents the workings of its force to its consciousness as forms of its own being. Since Force is only the action of one sole-existing Conscious-Being, its results can be nothing else but... Spirit assumes to our senses is due to that dividing action of Mind from which we have been able to deduce consistently the whole phenomenon of the universe. We know now that Life is an action of Conscious-Force of which material forms are the result; Life involved in those forms, appearing in them first as inconscient force, evolves and brings back into manifestation as Mind the consciousness which is... in this all-dividing and self-involving action of Mind by which our universe came into being. As Mind is only a final action of Supermind in the descent towards creation and Life an action of Conscious-Force working in the conditions of the Ignorance created by this descent of Mind, so Matter, as we know it, is only the final form taken by conscious-being as the result of that working. Matter is substance ...
... larger conception, a completer truth and a wider experience open to us. We perceive that the immutability of the timeless, spaceless existence is an absolute and an infinite, but that also the conscious-force and the active delight of the divine Being in its all-blissful possession of the outpouring of its powers, qualities, self-creations is an absolute and an infinite,—and indeed the same absolute... the Immutable and by Maya Page 427 the power the Self has of imposing on itself the cosmic illusion, or by the Self the Divine Being and by Maya the nature of conscious-being and the conscious-force by which the Divine embodies himself in soul-forms and forms of things. Others spoke of Ishwara and Shakti, the Lord and His force, His cosmic power. The analytic philosophy of the Sankhyas affirmed... consciousness and force, its knowledge and its will, Chit and Tapas, Chit and its Shakti,—that is Prakriti. Delight of being, Ananda, is the eternal truth of the union of this conscious being and its conscious force whether absorbed in itself or else deployed in the inseparable duality of its two aspects. It unrolls the worlds as Prakriti and views them as Purusha; acts in them and upholds the action; executes ...
... of that existence, terms of that conscious force, terms of that delight of being. Just as we find all things to be mutable forms of one immutable being, finite results of one infinite force, so we shall find that all things are variable self-expression of one invariable and all-embracing delight of self-existence.In everything that is, dwells the conscious force and it exists and is what it is... is by virtue of that conscious force; so also in everything that is, there is the delight of existence and it exists and is what it is by virtue of that delight." 20 Thus, the world is real because of the Reality that secretly sustains it; the world is real because it is in its essence nothing else than the self-manifestation of the supreme Brahman. But by no account can it be described ...
... the supermind in Sri Aurobindo's own words: "It (supermind) is not the pure unitarian consciousness; for that is a timeless and spaceless concentration of Sachchidananda in itself, in which Conscious Force does not cast itself out into any kind of extension and, if it contains the universe at all, contains it in eternal potentiality and not in temporal actuality. This, (the first status of Supermind)... divine omnipotence, for God is Force, Will and Power, and what with us is weakness and incapacity will be the holding back of will in tranquil concentrated force so that certain forms of divine conscious-force may realise themselves brought forward into form of Power. Its relations of love and delight will be the play of the divine ecstasy, for God is Love and Delight, and what with us would be denial... Supermind is not merely the creative Idea but it is far different from and superior to the mental idea. Supermind is, therefore, what Sri Aurobindo calls, the Real-Idea, that is to say, a power of Conscious-Force expressive of real being, born out of real being and partaking of its nature and neither a child of the Void nor a weaver of fictions. Sri Aurobindo has taken the phrase Real-Idea as description ...
... workings and its terms need not be limited to those proper to physical existence. Life is a final operation of divine conscious-force for individualising existence; it is the energy-aspect of Mind when that creates and relates itself to form of substance: it has all the universal conscious-force of existence behind it and is not a separate entity or movement. Life in us must become conscious of this divine ...
... powerful contradictions, the emotional and sensational consciousness of pain and the ethical problem of evil. For if the world be an expression of Sachchidananda, not only of existence that is conscious force – for that can easily be admitted – but of existence that is also infinite self-delight, how are we to account for the universal presence of grief, of suffering, of pain?” asks Sri Aurobindo in... because pain and pleasure themselves are currents, one imperfect, the other perverse, but still currents of the delight of existence. … The nature of suffering is a [provisional] failure of the conscious-force in us to meet the shocks of existence and a consequent shrinking and contraction, and its root is an inequality of that receptive and possessing force due to our self-limitation by egoism consequent ...
... is a constant movement (Prakriti) and a constant silence (Purusha). It is the Purusha and Prakriti sides of the nature—one leading to pure conscious existence, static, the other to pure conscious force, dynamic. The past darkness they have come out of is that of ignorance, the future darkness that is felt above is superconscience. But of course the superconscience is really luminous—only its... which will not be subject to desire but act on another vital principle. Prakriti and Shakti or Chit-Shakti What is meant by Prakriti or Nature is the outer or executive side of the Shakti or Conscious Force which forms and moves the worlds. This outer side appears here to be mechanical, a play of the forces, gunas etc. Behind it is the living Consciousness and Force of the Divine, the divine Shakti ...
... sacrifice is the Will. This Will is not the wish of the heart or Page 289 the demand or preference of the mind to which we often give the name. It is that inmost, dominant and often veiled conscious force of our being and of all being, Tapas, Shakti, Sraddha, that sovereignly determines our orientation and of which the intellect and the heart are more or less blind and automatic servants and instruments... the source, sanction, material, efficient power, master of all activities. All activities proceed from this supreme Self and are determined by it; all are its operations, processes of its own conscious force and not of something alien to Self, some power other than the Spirit. In these activities is expressed the conscious Will or Shakti of the Spirit moved to manifest its being in infinite ways, a ...
... the end coexistence in one Being. Space is the self-conceptive extension of that one Being; it is the one spiritual Existence displaying the field of movement of its Conscious-Force in its own self as Space. Because that Conscious-Force concentrates in manifold bodies, lives, minds and the soul presides over one of them, therefore our mentality is concentrated in this and regards this as itself and ...
... recover its divine light in the all-comprehending supermind, the soul realise its divine self in the all-possessing all-blissful Ananda, life repossess its divine power in the play of omnipotent Conscious-Force and Matter open to its divine liberty as a form of the divine Existence. And if there be any goal to the evolution which finds here its present crown and head in the human being, other than an... essential principles of the descent of Sachchidananda into cosmic existence, which we have already done, but the large plan of its order here and the nature and action of the manifested power of Conscious-Force which reigns over the conditions under which we now exist. At present, what we have first to see is that the seven or the eight principles we have examined are essential to all cosmic creation ...
... And the same rule will apply to the relations of its being, knowledge, will with the being, knowledge and will of others. For all its experience and delight will be the play of a self-blissful conscious force of being in which, by obedience to this truth of unity, will cannot be at strife with knowledge nor either of them with delight. Nor will the knowledge, will and delight of one soul clash with... divine omnipotence, for God is Force, Will and Power, and what with us is weakness and incapacity will be the holding back of will in tranquil concentrated force so that certain forms of divine conscious-force may realise themselves brought forward into form of Power. Its relations of love and delight will be the play of the divine ecstasy, for God is Love and Delight, and what with us would be denial ...
... n of the mental being on its plane of pure existence in which consciousness is at rest in passivity and delight of existence at rest in peace of existence. It has to embrace also its plane of conscious force of existence in which consciousness is active as power and will and delight is active as joy of existence. Here the difficulty is that mind is likely to precipitate itself into the consciousness... the truth of Sachchidananda and extend his realisation of the infinite One into the movement of the infinite multiplicity. He has to concentrate on and realise the one Brahman in all things as conscious force of being as well as pure awareness of conscious being. The Self as the All, not only in the unique essence of things, but in the manifold form of things, not only as containing all in a transcendent ...
... the Rig Veda by Madhuchchhandas' description of him,—"the Will in works of the Seer true and most rich in Page 117 varied inspiration." Agni is the Deva, the All-Seer, manifested as conscious-force or, as it would be called in modern language, Divine or Cosmic Will, first hidden and building up the eternal worlds, then manifest, "born", building up in man the Truth and the Immortality. ... the "knowings of the seers" and by the superconscient Truth thus made conscient in us establishes firmly the Beatitude (vs. 2-3). The rest of the passage describes the ascent of this divine conscious-force, Agni, this Immortal in mortals who in the sacrifice takes the place of the ordinary will and knowledge of man, from the mortal and physical consciousness to the immortality of the Truth and the ...
... eternal quality and power. But energy or power of being in Nature is the Divine himself in his Prakriti; each sense in its purity is therefore that Prakriti, each sense is the Divine in his dynamic conscious force. This we gather better from the other terms of the series. "I am the light of sun and moon, the manhood in man, the intelligence of the intelligent, the energy of the energetic, the strength... searching for and discovering not the pleasure of the lower Prakriti, but the Ananda of its own play and self-fulfilling; it is the desire of the divine Delight of existence unrolling its own conscious force of action in accordance with the law of the swabhava. But what again is meant by saying that the Divine is not in the becomings, the forms and affections of the lower nature, even the sattwic ...
... revelation we may state that there are indeed three stages of a growing spiritual progress by which, first, the personal will is occasionally or frequently enlightened or moved by a supreme Will or conscious Force beyond it, then constantly replaced, and, last, identified and merged in that divine Power-action. In a significant passage of The Synthesis of Yoga, already quoted on pp. 228-29 of this book... noted that these can sometimes take the appearance of a strong 'will-power', when actually they are not so. For the definition of a will as given by Sri Aurobindo is: "will is the pressure of a conscious force on Nature." (Letters on Yoga, p. 566) If that is so, a mere vehemence of the urge or the inflexibility of obstinacy or the unidirectional rush of a passion cannot claim the status of a 'will' ...
... Supermind in an integral harmony. In the affirmation of the Reality of the One without a second, it finds the origin of the many and all. In the One Existent, sat, it finds the sound basis for Conscious-Force (Chit) and also in their union the inalienable delight (ananda). If it finds the rational assurance that God exists not only on the basis of essential truths that lie behind the rationalistic... generates the world and its forms is not the fictional Idea, having no essential relation in real Truth of existence. This philosophy "sees the creative Idea as Real-Idea, that is to say, a power of Conscious-Force expressive of real being, born out of real being and partaking of its nature and neither a child of the Void nor a weaver of fictions. It is conscious Reality throwing itself into mutable forms ...
... a veiled working of the Supermind, what is life ? And we saw that life is not merely a delusion or something that is of the nature of insanity, but it is action of the eternal movement of the Conscious-Force of the Eternal. It is the cosmic power which builds forms and energizes them by stimulation, integrates and disintegrates and renews them. It brings a form into existence and again reduces it to... for man. The 21st chapter takes the subject further in the sense that life itself is the parent of this death, desire and hunger in things, because this life is an expression of infinite Conscious-Force. And because it is infinite, it wants to possess the Infinite. In trying to possess the Infinite it gets an infinite hunger for devouring everything. That becomes its badge of what we feel as ...
... being of man which is half embedded in the Subconscient and the Inconscient—a thing of obscure appetites and mechanical habits, stubborn in its refusal to admit light and order and any higher conscious force into itself, and no individual, however great he may be, is capable of completely transforming his physical being without there being a considerable change and modification in the general physical... recover its divine light in the all-comprehending Supermind, the soul realise its divine self in the all-possessing all- blissful Ananda, life possess its divine power in the play of omnipotent Conscious-Force and Matter open to its divine liberty as a form of the divine Existence. And if there be any goal to the evolution which finds here its present crown and head in the human being, other than an ...
... parts to starve and languish. It seeks union with the Supreme in His eternal and undifferentiated existence (Sat) alone, and not in His Conscious- Force (Chit-tapas), and His immortal Delight (Ananda). Karmayoga envisages union in the Will, the Conscious-Force alone, and Bhaktiyoga in the eternal Delight. An integral turning of the whole human being through will knowledge and love will have the ...
... life, presiding over it, and the psychic being, which stands behind mind, life and body in the manifestation, supporting them and using them as its instruments. Consciousness-Force — the Conscious Force that builds the worlds; a universal Energy that is the power of the Cosmic Spirit working out the cosmic and individual truth of things. Dharma — law; the deepest law of one's nature;... spiritualised mind leading beyond mind to the Supermind. In ascending order they are: Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuition and Overmind. Nature — the outer or executive side of the Conscious Force which forms and moves the worlds. The higher, divine Nature (Para Prakriti) is free from Ignorance and its consequences; the lower Nature (Apara Prakriti) is a mechanism of active Force put forth ...
... Develop the will—the will grows by a steady use, like the muscles, and grows strong. Page 715 The only way to do it [ develop the true will-power ] is (1) to become aware of a conscious Force behind that uses the mind etc. (2) to learn by practice to direct that Force towards its object. I do not suppose you will find it easy to do either of these things at once—one must first learn... the mental will that often prevents a knowledge gained from being put into steady practice. If the will is not strong enough, then the greater Will behind which is the will of the Mother, her conscious Force in which knowledge and will are united, must be called in to strengthen and support it. Very often, however, even if the will as well as the knowledge are there, the habit of the vital nature brings ...
... secret Godhead. By conscious force of the Godhead the worlds have been created and are governed from within by that hidden and inner Control; Agni is the form, the fire, the forceful heat and flaming will of this Divinity. As a flaming Force of knowledge he descends to build up the worlds and seated within them, a secret deity, initiates movement and action. This divine Conscious Force contains all the ...
... Knowledge. This Purusha or supporting Consciousness is therefore the cause, recipient and support of all Nature's works, but he is not himself the doer. Prakriti, Nature-Force, in front and Shakti, Conscious-Force, Soul-Force behind her,—for these two are the inner and outer faces of the universal Mother,—account for all that is done in the universe. The universal Mother, Prakriti-Shakti, is the one and... becomes of this character. We may indeed distinguish three stages of a growing progress by which, first, the personal will is occasionally or frequently enlightened or moved by a supreme Will or conscious Force beyond it, then constantly replaced and, last, identified and merged in that divine Power-action. The first is the stage when we are still governed by the intellect, heart and senses; these have ...
... mental world-formula, a spiritual world-formula, and each can predominate in a world of its own and at the same time all can combine in one world as its constituent powers. The self-formulation of Conscious Force on which our world is based as an apparent Inconscience that conceals in itself a supreme Conscious-Existence and holds all the powers of Being together in its inconscient secrecy, a world of universal... stage of Inconscience has been reached and our world of manifold Ignorance arises out of that tenebrous matrix. These other still conscient stages of the involution are indeed organisations of Conscious Force in which each lives from his own centre, follows out his own possibilities, and the predominant principle itself, whether Mind, Life or Matter, works out things on its own independent basis; but ...
... what would otherwise be the natural law of our development. It brings into the body the law of attraction and repulsion, of defence and attack, of discord and pain. For each body being a limited conscious-force feels itself exposed to the attack, impact, forceful contact of other such limited conscious-forces or of universal forces and, where it feels itself broken in upon or unable to harmonise the ... of the all-embracing Supermind; and he would liberate the life also from the knot of its divided existence and use the individualisation of life as merely a useful subordinate action of the one Conscious-Force fulfilling its being and joy in a diversified unity. Is there any reason why he should not also liberate the bodily existence from the present law of death, division and mutual devouring and use ...
... universal Nature and this transcendent Existence, possessor of the one and cosmic self of the other, is the cosmic consciousness, the universal Purusha of whom all Nature is the Prakriti or active conscious Force. We can arrive at that, become that whether by breaking the walls of the ego laterally, as it were, and identifying oneself with all existences in the One, or else from above by realising the pure... record and accept them, but in the infinity of the Spirit, and Page 413 these we view in their right value and place and purpose in the manifestation, as degrees of the supreme being, conscious-force and delight of Sachchidananda veiling and manifesting Himself in the cosmos. We cease also to judge other men and things by their outward appearances and are delivered from hostile and contradictory ...
... are One. In the powerful prose of his letters about the Mother, afterwards published as a booklet called The Mother, Sri Aurobindo writes: ‘The One whom we adore as the Mother is the divine Conscious Force that dominates all existence, one and yet so many-sided that to follow her movement is impossible even for the quickest mind and for the freest and most vast intelligence. The Mother is the co... consciousness and force of the Supreme and far above all she creates … ‘There are three ways of being of the Mother of which you can become aware when you enter into touch of oneness with the Conscious Force that upholds us and the universe. Transcendent, the original supreme Shakti, she stands above the worlds and links the creation to the ever unmanifest mystery of the Supreme. Universal, the cosmic ...
... Inconscient swung its dragon tail 45 The bounded mind became a boundless light 315 The colonnade's dream grey in the quiet eve 66 Page 372 The conscious Force that acts in Nature's breast284 The conscious Force that acts in Nature's breast284 The darkness failed and slipped like a falling cloak47 The dubious godhead with his torch of pain ...
... the seed by the tree; it declares a law of Nature. But it has explained nothing; it has only analysed and recorded the process of a mystery. Supposing even that it comes to perceive a secret conscious force as the soul, the real being of this form and the rest as merely a settled operation and manifestation of that force, still it tends to regard the form as a separate existence with its separate... containing the subconscious stuff and movement of being which are released in consciousness in the animal, with plant life as a midway stage in the evolution. Life is really a universal operation of Conscious-Force acting subconsciently on and in Matter; it is the operation that creates, maintains, destroys and re-creates forms or bodies and attempts by play of nerve-force, that is to say, by currents ...
... God. So must he learn by failure, must progress by fall, and by suffering discover his deep soul, and by possession grow to his own vasts. Half-way she the half-awakened Nescience, she the half-conscious Force, stopped and found her faith no more. In spite of all her struggle and striving nothing was achieved. It seemed the circle of her force was completed, but she had beaten out only the sparks of... think and not the mind, only the sense could feel and not the soul, only was lit some heat of the flame of Life, some joy to be, a few rapturous leaps of sense. All was simply an impetus of half-conscious Force. However, behind all moved supernal Bliss, now an obscure inhabitant of the world’s blind core, an unborn godhead’s will, a mute desire. Here is the final relevant 1950-text containing the line ...
... ons by the Self the Immutable and by Maya the power the Self has of imposing on itself the cosmic illusion, or by the Self the Divine Being and by Maya the nature of conscious-being and the conscious-force by which the Divine embodies himself in soul-forms and forms of things. Others spoke of Ishwara and Shakti, the Lord and His force, His cosmic power. The analytic philosophy of the Sankhyas... be subject, an īś a, and become lord of its nature, īsvara. The Life Divine, pp. 348-49 What is meant by Prakriti or Nature is the outer or executive side of the Shakti or Conscious Force which forms and moves the worlds. This outer side appears here to be mechanical, a play of the forces, Gunas, etc. Behind it is the living Consciousness and Force of the Divine, the divine Shakti ...
... in all the seven principles of our being. This would mean that the thought of the Truth should become seven-headed thought, —the thought in the planes of the body, life, mind, supermind, bliss, conscious-force and essential being, so that one arrives at the state which was described of Ayasya, when by the power of seven-headed thought he became universal and discovered supramental consciousness, the... supreme existence, which is triple in character, which in a later period came to be called Sat, Chit and Ananda, and the number seven refer to seven planes of Matter, Life, Mind, Supermind, Bliss, Conscious-force, and Essential Being. The prayer is that the thrice seven ecstasies are to be poured, each separately by perfect expressings of them, since each of these and all of them together constitute perfect ...
... has also pointed out long before Plato that God exceeds essence or Pure Existence Page 16 (Sat), both as Conscious Force (Cit), and Delight (Ananda). Sri Aurobindo dwells in these four chapters on the totality of the concept of God as the Pure Existent, Conscious Force and Delight. Sri Aurobindo's logic of rationality conceives a kind of its completeness in itself, just as one's ...
... Divine Force to act — the will is itself a force put forth to act or accomplish or bring about a result. What is the definition of will in the yogic sense? A conscious force that acts with a perception and a purpose. How can we increase the power of our will? By exercising it and by calling down more consciousness and force from... true will belongs to that consciousness. Kindly tell me how to be conscious of and develop that true Will power. The only way to do it is (1) to become aware of a conscious Force behind that uses the mind etc. (2) to learn by practice to direct that Force towards its object. I don't suppose you will find it easy to do either of these things at once — one must first learn ...
... Page 50 half embedded in the Subconscient and the Inconscient —a thing of obscure appetites and mechanical habits, Stubborn in its refusal to admit light and order and any higher conscious force into itself; and no individual, however great he may be, is capable of completely transforming his physical being without there being a considerable change and modification in the general physical... recover its divine light in the all-comprehending Supermind, the soul realise its divine self in the all-possessing all-blissful Ananda, life possess its divine power in the play of omnipotent Conscious-Force and Matter open to its divine liberty as a form of the divine Existence. And if there be any goal to the evolution which finds here its present crown and head in the human being, other than ...
... becomes the ego. There is free identification from moment to moment,—only the self-knowledge of the Divine Soul prevents it from fixing itself in rigid chain of separation. Still a new action of the Conscious-Force is needed to create "a helplessly limited mind as opposed to freely limiting mind". This new power is avidy ā , the self-ignoring faculty, which acts by an exclusive concentration in the... maintenance, propagation, and nourishment from outside as characteristics of life in the body. Even though the individual forms disintegrate there is a tendency in life to form aggregates. Life is the conscious-force acting. "Life as nervous energy carries the force of form as a sensation to modify mind and brings back force of mind to modify Matter." Page 176 ...
... only an appearance of the Reality, a form of its force-action presented to the principle of sense in the universal consciousness. As Mind is only a final dividing action of Supermind and Life of Conscious-Force working in the conditions of the Ignorance, so Matter as we know it is only the final form taken by conscious-being as the result of that same working. Mind precipitating itself into Life to create ...
... becoming, nor of its continuity, nor of the recurrence of the same experience or the same cause and effect in Time. These are circumstances of the movement of the stuff of conscious being and conscious force of being, a movement which is really undivided though only seen by mind in artificial divisions. Memory is a device by which the experiences of the mind-sense are linked together and these artificial ...
... Time is its infinite field of experience.—We are equally ignorant of the world, holding it to be not-self, ignorant of ourselves in Space; for the world is one Self developing the movement of its conscious force in its self-conceptive extension as Space. We confine ourselves in our consciousness to a single knot of the one indivisible Matter, a single eddy of the one indivisible Life, a single station ...
... Chapter XXVI The Ascending Series of Substance Argument The materiality of Matter consists in a concentration of the density of substance and its resistance to the conscious-force of which through sense it becomes the object. An ascending scale of substance from Matter to Spirit must mean a diminution of resistance, division and bondage and an increasing subtlety, flexibility ...
... precision, thus:— Principle World 1) Pure Existence—Sat World of the highest truth of being (Satyaloka) 2) Pure Consciousness—Chit World of infinite Will or conscious force (Tapoloka) 3) Pure Bliss—Ananda World of creative delight of existence (Janaloka) 4) Knowledge or Truth—Vijnana World of the Vastness (Maharloka) 5) Mind World of ...
... Twain, it is the triple world of Sachchidananda which we desire as the goal of this long journey, this great upward movement. It is thither that the many-horned herds of the conscious Thought, the conscious Force are moving—that is the goal, that is their resting-place. There in those worlds, gleaming down on us here, is the vast, full, illimitable shining of the supreme stride, the highest seat of the ...
... vital, mental and supramental will become visible to the sense with the physical only as their last, outermost and smallest result. So too the Life will become a conscious movement of the infinite Conscious-Force; it will be impersonal, unlimited by any particular acts and enjoyment, unbound to their results, untroubled by the dualities or the touch of sin and suffering, grandiose, boundless, immortal. ...
... fundamental truth either of self or of Nature. Prakriti presents itself as an inconscient Energy in the material world, but, as the scale of consciousness rises, she reveals herself more and more as a conscious force and we perceive that even her inconscience concealed a secret consciousness; so too conscious being is many in its individual Page 364 souls, but in its self we can experience it as ...
... the very origin of things: A contradiction founds the base of life: The eternal, the divine Reality Has faced itself with its own contraries; Being became the Void and Conscious-Force Nescience and walk of a blind Energy And Ecstasy took the figure of world-pain. 25 24 . Essays Divine and Human , CWSA, Vol. 12, p. 10. 25. Savitri - A Legend and a ...
... In Savitri's House of Mediation Agni is the blazing will and Swaha is the power and fiery force and they together draw energies from the great Tapas of the Supreme himself. He is the "conscious force or Will instinct with knowledge which pervades the world and is behind all its workings." 30 Savitri first steps into that House where her "silent will" joins the Will of the Divine in the Universe ...
... these apparently opposite tints because of a certain trick of false reception in our divided being — which is not our existence at all but only a fragmentary formulation or discoloured spray of conscious-force tossed up by the infinite sea of our self-existence. In order to realise this we have to get away from our absorption in these surface habits, these petty tricks of our mental being, — and when ...
... containing the subconscious stuff and movement of being which are released in consciousness in the animal, with plant life as a midway stage in the evolution. Life is really a universal operation of Conscious-Force acting subconsciently on and in Matter; it is the operation that creates, maintains, destroys and re-creates forms or bodies and attempts by play of nerve-force, that is to say, by currents of ...
... and omnipresent Consciousness behind it, the cosmos could not exist or would be utter chaos. 42 “This Supermind in its conscious vision not only contains all the forms of itself which its conscious force creates, but it pervades them as an indwelling Presence and a self-revealing Light. It is present, even though concealed, in every form and force of the universe; it is that which determines s ...
... world – to be and supports them in every detail, for without it they would collapse into non-existence. “This Supermind in its conscious vision not only contains all the forms of itself which its conscious force creates, but it pervades them as an indwelling Presence and a self-revealing Light”, writes Sri Aurobindo. “It is present, even though concealed, in every form and force of the universe … It is ...
... lord.’ And she continues: ‘The earth is certainly not yet ready to realise such an ideal, for mankind does not yet possess the necessary knowledge to understand and accept it or the indispensable conscious force to execute it. That is why I call it a dream.’ 4 But the supramental transformation was advancing with giant strides. In the previous chapters we have followed its principal phases up to ...
... expression: the centralization and harmonization of these possible, but also the intensive sole following out of any line of experience are both of them necessary movements of the emerging spiritual Conscious-Force within us. Moreover, the accommodation of kind and life to the spiritual truth, its expression in them, must vary with the mentality of the seeker so long as he has not risen above all need of ...
... relations of real brotherhood. ‘The Earth is certainly not ready to realize such an ideal, for mankind does not yet possess the necessary knowledge to understand and accept it, or the indispensable conscious force to execute it. That is why I call it a dream. ‘Yet, this dream is on the way to becoming a reality …’ 42 There had already been several occasions in the Mother’s life when she had tried ...
... together. ‘The whole thing [i.e. the Ashram] has taken birth, grown and developed as a living being by a movement of consciousness (Chit-Tapas) constantly maintained, increased and fortified. As the Conscious Force descends in matter and radiates, it seeks for fit instruments to express and manifest it.’ 24 (Sri Aurobindo) ‘When people, born scattered over the world at great distances from one another ...
... he gives rein to his profound Indian awareness and understanding of the Spiritual. The Greek theos is not merely a super-splendid form acting from without on human beings; he is also a super-conscious force acting from within — and he is more than a personal entity. Behind the anthropomorphic and the divinely statuesque, behind the impalpable and the divinely psychological, there are vastnesses, pervasive ...
... a past participle passive in the sense of "having been released", a natural English usage, but twice the meaning is Latinised, amounting to variants of "pay off". Thus we read: The conscious Force that acts in Nature's breast... Absolves from hour to hour her secret charge². Here the suggestion is of acquitting oneself of a task or duty assigned to one. In This most ...
... movements have come to a number of people who were at a distance and not connected with us and who understood nothing of what was happening to them.’ 39 And he wrote in a letter from 1939: ‘As the Conscious Force descends in matter and radiates, it seeks for fit instruments to express and manifest it.’ 40 ‘I know that there are people in the whole world,’ the Mother said in 1972, and she meant people ...
... relations of real brotherhood. The earth is certainly not ready to realise such an ideal, for mankind does not yet possess the necessary knowledge to understand and accept it nor the indispensable conscious force to execute it. That is why I call it a dream. Yet, this dream is on the way of becoming a reality. That is exactly what we are seeking to do at the Ashram of Sri Aurobindo on a small scale ...
... comes before us with differing aspects; many are her powers and personalities, many her emanations and Vibhutis that do her work in the universe. The One whom we adore as the Mother is the divine Conscious Force that dominates all existence, one and yet so many-sided that to follow her movement is impossible even for the quickest mind and for the freest and most vast intelligence. The Mother is the co ...
... work is a self-aware spiritual existence in movement, and all its names and forms are a self-conscious play of the spiritual unity. Or it might be an order in which the Spirit's innate power of conscious Force or Will would realise freely and directly its own possibilities in itself and not, as here, through the restricting medium of the Life-Force in matter; that realisation would be at once the first ...
... dependent upon the physical world, and the cosmos which we thus include and are included in is not the physical cosmos, but the harmonically manifest being of God in certain great rhythms of His conscious force and self-delight. Therefore this mutual inclusion is spiritual and psychological; it is a translation of the two forms of the Many, all and individual, into a unifying spiritual experience,—a ...
... of the whole consciousness into its own stuff and power. Still, even in our present state, a participation of a kind is there and our normal intelligence is sufficiently awake for the universal Conscious-Force to work through it and allow the intelligence and will to exercise a certain amount of direction of inner and outer circumstance, fumbling enough and at every moment dogged by error, capable only ...
... Page 907 and imperatively compels into manifestation the truth it sees and dwells on and evolves its play, combinations, sequences, not a limited mental will and power like ours, but a conscious force supramental and illimitable, Tapas, Chit-shakti, not bound to this or that movement and result of energy, but ordering out of the infinite truth of self-existence the movement and result of all ...
... of Nature, we may acquire some distant idea of what realisation is. For, first, we see that he had the vision of something in the world which is the very Self of all things that it contains, a conscious force and presence other than its forms, yet cause of its forms Page 306 and manifested in them. We perceive that he had not only the vision of this and the joy and peace and universality ...
... highest secret entity are powers of this Supermind, born of it, seated in it as in their proper home, are in their knowledge "truth-conscious" and in their action possessed of the "seer-will". Their conscious-force turned towards works and creation is possessed and guided by a perfect and direct knowledge of the thing to be done and its essence and its law,—a knowledge which determines a wholly effective ...
... these apparently opposite tints because of a certain trick of false reception in our divided being—which is not our existence at all but only a fragmentary formulation or discoloured spray of conscious-force tossed up by the infinite sea of our self-existence. In order to realise this we have to get away from our absorption in these surface habits, these petty tricks of our mental being,—and when we ...
... of the Yoga of Works; it is to create a separation between the Prakriti and the Purusha. The Purusha, the soul that knows and commands has got himself involved in the workings of his executive conscious force, so that he mistakes this physical working of it which we call the body for himself; he forgets his own nature as the soul that knows and commands; he believes his mind and soul to be subject to ...
... accepted as an inevitable consequence of the very origin and nature of the soul-life in the body. All is a closely woven web, an evolution and an interaction whose links have been forged by a Conscious-Force following out the truth of its own motives according to a dynamic logic of these finite workings of the Infinite. If this view of rebirth and the soul's temporary passage into other planes ...
... their limitations and from their errors and perversions. For in all things the gnosis is the Truth, the Right, the highest Law, devānām adabdhāni vratāni . Knowledge and Force or Will—for all conscious force is will—are the twin sides of the action of consciousness. In our mentality they are divided. The idea comes first, the will comes stumbling after it or rebels against it or is used as its imperfect ...
... substance; seeking that substance these our abundant energies increase thee, yea, they flow forth as the waters of existence. Notes. सिंधवो न ।। The energies well forth as the seven forms of conscious force typified by the seven rivers. न here is the “as” of identity, not of similitude. It has more the force of एव than of इव, but hovers between the two. This sense is evident from the next Rik—सृजो ...
... called Tapas in the later terminology. The Vedic Agni has two characteristics, knowledge and a blazing power, light and fiery force. This suggests that he is the force of the universal Godhead, a conscious force or Will instinct with knowledge,—that is the nature of Tapas,—which pervades the world and is behind all its workings. Agni then in the psychical and spiritual sense of his functions would be the ...
... cosmic physical flame. It is quite evident from the most literal sense of the Veda that Agni is a godhead characterised by a supreme power of divine knowledge. This can be nothing else than the conscious Force of divine Knowledge which creates (निर्ममे) the worlds. We shall find from other passages that he is the divine Flame also in the thoughts and in the heart of man, अमृतो मर्तेषु, the immortal in ...
... look at them in their inmost psychological and not solely at their more external aspect, we shall see that what constitutes speech and gives it its life and appeal and significance is a subtle conscious force which informs and is the soul of the body of sound: it is a superconscient Nature-Force raising its material out of our subconscience but growingly conscious in its operations in the human mind ...
... Light. The diamond light is the Mother's own light (that of divine Consciousness) at its most intense. White Light with Light of Other Colours The white light is that of the Pure Conscious Force from which all the rest come. The golden light is that of the Divine Truth on the higher planes. The pale blue light is mine—the white light is the Mother's. The world you saw above the ...
... correct so far as it goes. 16 November 1934 In The Mother you write: "There are three ways of being of the Mother of which you can become aware when you enter into touch of oneness with the Conscious Force that upholds us and the universe" [ p. 28 ]. Is it the Cosmic Spirit that is meant or the Overmind? It is the Divine Shakti—who acts on all the planes and has all the aspects. 16 June 1933 ...
... The Divine is not bound by human philosophies - it is free in its play and free in its essence. * What is meant by Prakriti or Nature is the outer or executive side of the Shakti or Conscious Force which forms and moves the worlds. This outer side appears here to be mechanical, a play of the forces, Gunas, etc. Behind it is the living Consciousness and Force of the Divine, the divine Shakti ...
... In ascending order they are: Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuition and Overmind. See gradations between mind and supermind . Nature, Nature Force —the outer or executive side of the Conscious Force which forms and moves the worlds. The higher, divine Nature (Para Prakriti) is free from Ignorance and its consequences; the lower Nature (Apara Prakriti) is a mechanism of active Force put forth ...
... of real brotherhood. The earth is certainly not ready to realise such an ideal, for mankind does not yet possess the necessary knowledge to understand and accept it or the indispensable conscious force to execute it. That is why I call it a dream. Yet, this dream is on the way to becoming a reality. That is exactly what we are seeking to do at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram on a small scale ...
... unknown others. All is her play with the Supreme; all is her manifestation of the mysteries of the Eternal, the miracles of the Infinite. All is she, for all are parcel and portion of the divine Conscious-Force. * Her embodiment is a chance for the earth-consciousness to receive the Supramental into it and to undergo first the transformation necessary for that to be possible. Afterwards ...
... unconscious, although if one observes closely... And now science is discovering that this is only Page 322 an appearance, that all this is only concentrated energy, and of course it is a conscious force which has produced all this. But apparently, when we see a rock, we don't think it is conscious, it does not give the impression of being conscious, it seems to be altogether unconscious. It ...
... If I can remain peaceful in the face of all circumstances, I can be sure that the hostile force is far from me. Yes, on condition that the "peace" is not that of a hardening but of a conscious force. Mother, I do not quite understand what a peace of "hardening" means. I am speaking of the peace experienced by those who are utterly insensible and indifferent to the misfortunes of ...
... best, of collaboration and real brotherhood. The earth is not ready to realize such an ideal, for humanity does not yet possess either the knowledge necessary to understand and adopt it or the conscious force indispensable for its execution. This is why I call it a dream. Yet this dream is on the way to becoming a reality, and it is what we are endeavoring to do at the Sri Aurobindo Ashram, on a ...
... of Vijnana added. Creative Con-scious Force at blissful self-deployment is only the first step towards giving a foundation to the cosmic movement. The second step is the ordering out, by this Conscious Force, of the truths implicit in the Supreme, the organization of these truths in a perfect interrelation and interaction by a faculty of harmonizing unity and multiplicity in a universal self-deployment ...
... but I didn't see anything! ( Mother laughs ) There is a very different quality of vibration, a sort of... Is it twelve?... Are we alone? Yes. The feeling of a very peaceful conscious force, but very strong, which has established itself in you, which has come down—something new. Did you feel it? It took a mental expression a few days ago. Oh... ( in a disappointed tone ) What ...
... perfected human form. Thus even the anthropomorphic con-ceptions of Shiva and Kali are justified as types of the living divine reality which is to be incarnated in us and to whose infinity of essence, conscious force and beatitude we have to ascend. If, therefore, we are to profit by the example of Vivekananda, we must turn from the rigid mental heights of his Shankante meta-physics to the psychic depths of ...
... 114. Page 146 will, Chit and Tapas, Chit and its Shakti, — that is Prakriti. Delight of being, Ananda, is the eternal truth of the union of this conscious being and its conscious force whether absorbed in itself or else deployed in the inseparable duality of its two aspects, unrolling the worlds and viewing them, acting in them and upholding the action, executing works and ...
... pleasant and prosperous. Page 43 For the bulk of humanity there is no choice or will ; they are like the dumb driven cattle. This is the rationale of the working of the Divine Conscious Force which is at work behind all the happenings of this world. If men were always conscious that tunings would not remain fixed and stable, they would not in all probability accept life and withdraw ...
... has hold of a greater and completer, a still more fundamental truth.... "We shall understand better if we go back...to the original principle of things. Existence is in its activity a Conscious-Force which presents the workings of its force to its consciousness as 1 The Mother in Bulletin, Vol. IX, No. 3, p. 125. 2 The Life Divine, p. 251. 3 Ibid., p. 254. ...
... "Smell is the result of form, while here form itself is a result." SRI AUROBINDO: Besides, the flower is not conscious. The Presence is that of the Being and the form is the embodiment of the conscious Force of the Being for some particular purpose on a certain level. Physical form is necessary for work to be done on the physical level. And there are subtler forms for work on other planes than the ...
... Of course, this achievement has got many stages of progress. Thus, at first the personal will of the sadhaka may be occasionally or frequently enlightened or moved by a supreme Will or conscious Force beyond it; then, constantly replaced; and, last, identified and merged in that divine Power-Action. There are two separate passages, one in The Life Divine and the other in The Synthesis of ...
... Principle 1. Pure Existence-Sat World World of the highest truth of being (Satyaloka) 2. Pure Consciousness -Cit World of infinite Will or conscious force (Tapoloka) 3. Pure Bliss-Ananda World of creative delight of existence (Janaloka) 4. Knowledge or Truth- Vijnana World of the vastness (Maharloka) ...
... may acquire some distant idea of what yogic realisation is. First of all, W6 see that Wordsworth had the vision of something in the world which is the very Self of all things that it contains, a conscious force and presence other than its forms, yet cause of its forms and manifested in them. We perceive that he had not only the vision of this and the joy and peace and universality which its Presence brings ...
... , which is distinguishable from even the first and primary poise of the supermind; that unitarian consciousness is a Timeless and Spaceless concentration of Sachchidananda in itself, in which Conscious-Force does not cast itself out into any kind of extension, and if it contains the universe at all contains it in eternal potentiality and not in temporal actuality. If this unitarian consciousness can ...
... question of what the Upanishads describe, as that of the "Brahmavidyā", and the highest concept of God that was arrived at by the Upanishads is that the Sachchidananda (God as Pure Existent, God as Conscious Force and God as Delight). The best and perfect intellectual statement of Sachchidananda is to be found in four chapters of Sri Aurobindo's magnum opus "The Life Divine". These four chapters have been ...
... Principle World 1. Pure Existence — Sat World of the highest truth of being (Satyaloka) 2. Pure Consciousness — Chit World of infinite Will or conscious force (Tapoloka) 3. Pure Bliss — Ananda World of creative delight of existence (Janaloka) 4. Knowledge or Truth — Vijnana World of the Vastness (Maharioka) 5 ...
... the Supermind which founds the inalienable unity of things. It is not the pure unitarian conciousness; for that is a timeless and spaceless concentration of Sachchidananda in itself, in which Conscious Force does not cast itself out into any kind of extension and, if it contains the universe at all, contains it in eternal potentiality and not in temporal actuality. This, on the contrary, is an equal ...
... such things were possible and yet it had happened, at once, without any preparation or notice. As soon as I sat down, as if the thing was ready to catch me. Now mind you, see how things happen. A conscious force had been sent. That is what surprises one. Let me allude to many similar things. All of you perhaps know about His experience in Baroda. It came without any preparation, from nowhere. We ...
... mean here the will not of the vital or mental kind but of the true power. Would you kindly enlighten me as to how to develop it? The only way to do it is (1) to become aware of a conscious Force behind that uses the mind etc. (2) to learn by practice to direct that Force towards its object. I don't suppose you will find it easy to do either of these things at once — one must first learn ...
... and establishment of the supreme state of the Transcendent – the Self or Sachchidananda – here below. And for the manifestation and expression through life and the senses she offers her secret conscious-force, the light-energy to incorporate the supreme Chit-tapas; but the Ananda of the Supreme she realises in a strange and piquant way. The delight that earth offers or embodies is of a special nature ...
... of collaboration and real brotherhood. The earth is certainly not ready to realize such an ideal, for mankind does not yet possess sufficient knowledge to understand and adopt it nor the conscious force that is indispensable in order to execute it; that is why I call it a dream. And yet this dream is in the course of becoming a reality ... ٭ 21 March 1956 The age of Capitalism ...
... thus: Principle world 1 Pure Existence -Sat World of the highest truth of being (Satyaloka) 2 Pure Consciousness Chi World of infinite Will or conscious force (Tapoloka) 3 Pure Bliss -Ananda World of creative delight of existence (Janaloka ) 4 Knowledge or Truth Vijnana World of the Vastness (Maharloka) 5 Mind World ...
... But Fire alone is the Priest of the Call, he is the One who makes the Offering, the Word is no other than He. Fire means freedom, not ordinary freedom but the supreme Liberation. Fire is the Conscious-Force, the Power of Austerity." But there was no end to Asvala's questionings; he went on asking and Yajnavalkya gave due reply. This dialogue – between Yajnavalkya and Asvala forms a chapter in the ...
... seems to be a weak point. Sri Aurobindo's outlook gives you the correct basis of God's place in the universe because God is not anything else but the organisation of that infinite Self-existence, Conscious-force and Delight taking up the role of the Creator or the Truth-Consciousness. That is God. Sri Aurobindo is also a monist in a more correct sense. That is to say, he does not admit a duality ...
... in the essential Reality above. If there is an Omnipresent Reality, it cannot be ignorant of itself, unconscious of itself, it cannot cease to know itself. It may be that in the action of its conscious Force, perhaps in its dynamic movement, it has managed to manipulate an operation which has created, in the flow of Time, what we feel as Ignorance. But now let us see how this Ignorance operates ...
... comes before us with differing aspects; many are her powers and personalities, many her emanations and Vibhutis that do her work in the universe. The One whom we adore as the Mother is the divine Conscious Force that dominates all existence.… Four great Aspects of the Mother, four of her leading Powers and Personalities have stood in front in her guidance of this Universe and in her dealings with the ...
... for pleasure and material enjoyment.... The earth is certainly not ready to realise such an ideal, for mankind does not yet possess sufficient knowledge to understand and adopt it nor the conscious force that is indispensable in order to execute it.... And yet this dream is in the course of becoming a reality; that is what we are striving for in Sri Aurobindo's Ashram, on a very small scale ...
... and between her waking and sleeping states, there were the trance states when she roamed the immensities. As Sri Aurobindo had said: The One whom we adore as the Mother is the divine Conscious Force that dominates all existence, one and yet so many-sided that to follow her movement is impossible even for the quickest mind and for the freest and most vast intelligence. 15 The people around ...
... Non-Being's night could never have been saved If Being had not plunged into the dark Carrying with it its triple mystic cross." Book II, Canto 4. "Being became the Void and Conscious-Force Nescience and walk of blind Energy And Ecstasy took the figure of world-pain." Book II, Canto 4. "A mass phenomenon of visible shapes Supported by the silence of the Void ...
... come when she must stand unhelped On a dangerous brink of the world's doom and hers, * In Sri Aurobindo's symbol, the descending triangle represents Sat-Chit-Ananda (Existence - Conscious-Force - Bliss), the ascending triangle stands for the aspiration from the lower material existence under the form of Life - Light - Love. The junction of both (the central square) is the perfect ...
... Part II by Sri Aurobindo. ² "Even the inconscient and subconscient have to become conscient in us, susceptible to the higher light, no longer obstructive to the fulfilling action of the Conscious-Force, but more and more a mould and lower basis of the Spirit." — The Life Divine by Sri Aurobindo. Page 422 awakened soul imposes its imperial will upon the other parts of the being ...
... s," upahvare yad uparā apinvan madhvarṇaso nadyaś catasraḥ . This is again the honey-streaming well pouring down its many streams together; the four higher rivers of the divine being, divine conscious force, divine delight, divine truth nourishing the two worlds of the mind and body into which they descend with their floods of sweetness. These two, the Rodasi, are normally worlds of crookedness, that ...
... by the trend and spiritual effect of our action; a very great change in the spirit of our works changes the nature of our being and alters the foundation it has taken; it shifts the centre of conscious force from which we act. If life and action were entirely illusory, as some would have it, if the Spirit had nothing to do with works or life, this would not be so; but the soul in us develops itself ...
... powers are manifestations, all forces are forces of the One. The gods behind the workings of Nature are to be seen and adored as powers, names and personalities of the one Godhead. An infinite Conscious-Force, executive Energy, Will or Law, Maya, Prakriti, Shakti or Karma, is behind all happenings, whether to us they seem good or bad, acceptable or inacceptable, fortunate or adverse. The Infinite creates ...
... personalities, living aspects of the one Infinite. Each Godhead is a form or derivation or dependent power of the supreme Trinity, Page 146 each Goddess a form of the universal Energy, Conscious-Force or Shakti. But to the logical European mind monotheism, polytheism, pantheism are irreconcilable warring dogmas; oneness, many-ness, all-ness are not and cannot be different but concordant aspects ...
... The Life Divine Chapter II The Two Negations: The Materialist Denial He energised conscious-force (in the austerity of thought) and came to the knowledge that Matter is the Brahman. For from Matter all existences are born; born, by Matter they increase and enter into Matter in their passing hence. Then he went to Varuna, his father, and said, "Lord ...
... There is an instinct of the species. Some have said that there were even "spirits of the species", conscious beings for each species. Instinct depends on the way Nature works, and Nature is a conscious force which knows what it wants, does it in its own way, knowing where it is going and its roads: it chooses them itself. For man this appears incoherent, for his own consciousness is too narrow (he ...
... accumulate force within it. So it is receptive, otherwise it will not receive it, it could not keep it. You can charge it. As one charges an electric battery, you can charge a stone with force, put conscious force into a stone; it keeps it and can transmit it to someone. Therefore this stone has a receptivity. Otherwise it could not do this. Flowers are extremely receptive. All the flowers to which I ...
... (Rajasic): Full of the quality of rajas, the kinetic principle. rāksī māyā (Rakshasi Maya): Illusions created by the Powers of Darkness. śakti (Shakti): The Divine Power, the Conscious Force of the Divine. ś ama (Shama): Quiet, rest - the principle of calm and peace in the higher or divine Nature. śrāddha (Shraddha):The ceremony of offering oblation tothe dead. ...
... sees a force or energy at work acting for a purpose or with a result, if one looks from the side of being one sees a being possessing, guiding and using or else representative of and used by a conscious force as its instrument of specialised action and expression. You speak of the wave, but in modern science it has been found that if you look at the movement of energy, it appears on one side to be a ...
... what do I mean when I say that perfection is an equilibrium? Page 14 When, in a given circumstance, what is against the realisation, that is to say the opposition, is conquered by a conscious force, the result is the manifestation of the realisation. Yes, it is more or less like that, but I should put it otherwise. The idea of perfection is something which comes to us from the Divine ...
... " Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal. " Transform effort into an even and sovereign over-flowing of the soul-strength; let all thyself be conscious force. This is thy goal. " Transform enjoying into an even and objectless ecstasy; let all thyself be bliss. This is thy goal. " Transform the divided individual into the world-personality; let ...
... that first you conceive and then you do, even on a very small scale. A life which is not the result of a conscious will would be a completely incoherent life. I mean that if Nature were not a conscious force and a conscious will with a conscious aim, nothing could ever have been organised. We have just to observe a little, even in the very small field of observation we have in our individual life, ...
... well, of collaboration and real brotherhood. The earth is certainly not ready to realise such an ideal, for mankind does not yet possess sufficient knowledge to understand and adopt it nor the conscious force that is indispensable in order to execute it; that is why I call it a dream. And yet this dream is in the course of becoming a reality; that is what we are striving for in Sri Aurobindo's Ashram ...
... call the forces. When the forces have answered, there is a natural state of quiet receptivity concentrated but spontaneous. Aspiration is a call to the Divine,—will is the pressure of a conscious force on Nature. Aspiration is a call in the being, it is not opening. The Object of Aspiration The aspiration should be for the full descent of the Truth and the victory over falsehood ...
... existence, to increase, to expand, to possess and to enjoy: its native terms are growth of being, pleasure and power. Life itself here is Being at labour in Matter to express itself in terms of conscious force; human life is the human being at labour to impress himself on the material world with the greatest possible force and intensity and extension. His primary insistent aim must be to live and make ...
... Dasyus and Vritras, who seek to break up, to limit, to withhold and deny. Varuna in the Veda is always characterised as a power of wideness and purity; when, therefore, he is present in man as a conscious force of the Truth, all that limits and hurts the nature by introducing into it fault, sin and evil is destroyed by contact with him. He is riśādas , destroyer of the enemy, of all that seek to injure ...
... corresponding very nearly to the European conception of Will. We have in our philosophy no exact synonym of the English word Will, because Will to us, as opposed to mere wish, ichchhá, is simply Conscious Force; it is Shakti or, more precisely, Chit-shakti, & its nature in action is Tapas or the concentration of consciousness on action & its object or its results. Now the nature of Agni, kratu or active ...
... movement with regard to [each] other. But the movement here contemplated is not, as we see in the fifth verse, tad ejati & the eighth verse, sa paryagat, movement of matter, but of divine being & conscious force of which matter is only an appearance. But for the present, the Rishi is content to envisage the world as a world of motion & multitude. In essence the kshobha or formative movement called active ...
... Infinite Force acts as if it were a mechanical entity, knowledge standing back from it, the other in which Life Force & Knowledge act together & the Infinite Force is an intelligent or at least a conscious force. Hitherto the position of the Tapas has been that when strongly exerted, it has come to produce an effect against resistance, sometimes the full effect, sometimes a partial effect, sometimes ...
... acting—through the power of the inner consciousness, its knowledge, vision and will. The other thing, the coming of what you want to see on the street, is another form of the same action of the inner conscious force. As for the anger it is evidently in process of control and elimination and its recurrences cannot fail to disappear after a time as the new consciousness increases. Living Within There is ...
... really faith in a mental form—act both on the subliminal and the subconscient. In the subliminal they set in action the powers of the inner being, its occult power to make thought, will or simple conscious force effective on the body—in the subconscient they silence or block the suggestions of death and illness (expressed or unexpressed) that prevent the return of health. They help also to combat the same ...
... in them, hold our habitation in heaven. That is the triple world in which the uplifted consciousness of man reflects the three divine principles of being, its infinite existence, its infinite conscious-force, its infinite bliss. 6 "Three earths they hold, three heavens, three workings of these gods in the Knowledge within; by the Truth, O Sons of the Infinite, great is that vastness of yours, O ...
... Knowledge and Delight. He speaks of the splendid souls of knowledge in our humanity who attain to the Truth and Vastness; they are the burning and overpowering flame-rays of this transcendent Conscious-Force of the Divine that is at work in us to climb to divine mastery. Some have become such souls, others are still hampered but growing. He desires the increasing affirmation of Agni so that all may ...
... expression: the centralisation and harmonisation of these possibles, but also the intensive sole following out of any line of experience are both of them necessary movements of the emerging spiritual Conscious-Force within us. Moreover, the accommodation of mind and life to the spiritual truth, its expression in them, must vary with the mentality of the seeker so long as he has not risen above all need of ...
... first conscious self-affirmation has to rely on two sources of knowledge. As it is nescient and helpless, a small modicum of uninformed surface consciousness in a world unknown to it, the secret Conscious-Force sends up to this surface the minimum of intuition necessary for it to maintain its existence and go through the operations indispensable to life and survival. This intuition is not possessed by ...
... sometimes closely similar, sometimes identical in basis but different in detail; all are patterns, and such a variation in patterns with an identical rudimentary basis for all is the sign of a conscious Force playing with its own Idea and developing by it all kinds of possibilities of creation. Animal species in coming into birth may begin with a like rudimentary embryonic or fundamental pattern for ...
... that never Page 484 was in being. The ideation of the gnosis is radiating light-stuff of the consciousness of the eternal Existence; each ray is a truth. The will in the gnosis is a conscious force of eternal knowledge; it throws the consciousness and substance of being into infallible forms of truth-power, forms that embody the idea and make it faultlessly effective, and it works out each ...
... transmute a great part of our intellectual thinking into the luminous truth-conscious vision,—the ideal would be a complete transition,—or at least to increase greatly the frequency, purity and conscious force of the ideal knowledge working behind the intellect. The latter must learn to be subject and passive to the ideal faculty. But for the knowledge of the Self it is necessary to have the power ...
... realisation of the quietistic Monist. Or it will dwell on the aspect of consciousness, Chit, and existence and bliss become then dependent on the experience of an infinite transcendent Power and Conscious-Force, which leads to the realisation of the Tantric worshipper of Energy. Or it will dwell on the aspect of delight, Ananda, and existence and consciousness then seem to disappear into a bliss without ...
... Sri Aurobindo The Mother SOME GENERAL TRUTHS AND PERSONAL FACTS The One whom we call the Supreme is the utter Unmanifest. The creative Conscious Force of the Supreme is the Divine Mother in Her transcendent poise, Aditi, holding the Truths that have to be manifested out of the absolute Mystery. Through the transcendent Mother and by Her ...
... the source, sanction, material, efficient power, master of all activities. All activities proceed from the supreme Self and are determined by it; all are its operations, processes of its own conscious force and not of something alien to Self, some power other than this Spirit." 4 Sri Aurobindo tells us that it is such essence, Self, Spirit, one entirely real existence that the ancient Indian ...
... self-existence of the Spirit. The sense of World-Play comes by experience of a constant sustainment of phenomena by that self-existence as if they emerged from its own being and lived by its conscious force and expressed, overtly or covertly, its boundless delight. But the Supreme, for Sri Aurobindo, is not only the utter freedom above cosmic existence, not only the inalienable divine presence ...
... in herself and bearing it upward into her own universal and trancendent Self. This Self of hers, in terms of luminous coloration, is, in Sri Aurobindo's words, "the white light... of the pure conscious force from which all the rest come" — the shining power productive and transformative which is often visioned by the disciples in the form of diamonds. "Diamonds," in Sri Aurobindo's symbology, "indicate ...
... great fight between the old and new parties was just beginning to pass from the stage of loose occasional skirmishes into a close and prolonged struggle. The emergence of Nationalism as a self-conscious force determined to take shape and fight for the domination of the national mind was indicated by the appearance of the Bande Mataram as the first out-and-out Nationalist daily in the English tongue ...
... infallibly as Tapas (Kriyashakti); for Jnanashakti is only the stable & comprehensive, Kriyashakti only the motional and intensive form of one self-luminous Conscious Being. They are one power of conscious force of God (Chit-Shakti of Sat-Purusha). But in the lower hemisphere, under the conditions of mind, life & body, the luminousness becomes divided & broken up into uneven rays, the freedom trammelled ...
... Yoga must arrive. 129 God is, is the first seed of Yoga. It is Tat Sat of the Vedanta. I am, is the second seed. It is So'ham of the Upanishads. God is infinite self-existence, self-conscious force of existence, self-diffused or self-concentrated delight of existence; I too am that infinite self-existence, self-consciousness, self-force, self-delight; this is the double third seed. It is ...
... bar. Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal. Transform effort into an easy and sovereign overflowing of the soul-strength; let all thyself be conscious force. This is thy goal. Transform enjoying into an even and objectless ecstasy; let all thyself be bliss. This is thy goal. Transform the divided individual into the world-personality; let all ...
... and aggregated relations, but in the original reason of their existence and law of their existence, their primal and total truth; therefore it is the seed Logos, the originative and determinant conscious force working as supreme Intelligence and Will. The Vedic seers called it the Truth-consciousness and believed that men also could become truth-conscious, enter into the divine Reason and Will and by ...
... more irrevocable! The functioning of this 'whole' - in matter - is like a rhythmic action that touches the multiple points of its own fine and complex structuring in a single movement of conscious force. The movement of the entire universe is of this nature. * Today, we have a wide world of a net-working technology that is created from the knowledge of forces and of points of ...
... and published under the title The Mother. In this booklet he says: ‘There are three ways of being of the Mother of which you can become aware when you enter into touch of oneness with the Conscious Force that upholds us and the universe. Transcendent, the original supreme Shakti, she stands above the worlds and links the creation to the ever unmanifest mystery of the Supreme. Universal, the cosmic ...
... the subconscious stuff and movement of being which are released into consciousness in the animal, with plant life as a midway stage in the evolution. Life is really a universal operation of Conscious-Force acting subconsciously on and in Matter; it is the operation that creates, maintains, destroys and re-creates forms or bodies and attempts by play of nerve-force, that is to say, by currents of ...
... secret will, a secret intelligence at work, other than the mute self-oblivious form, the Conscient — conscient even in unconscious things—of the Upanishad, without whose presence and informing conscious-force...no work of Nature could be done. What is inconscient is the Prakriti, the formal, the motional action of the energy absorbed in the working, 1 2 3 4 The Life Divine, p. 706. ...
... which the existence of Sachchidananda assumes when it subjects itself to this phenomenal action of its own consciousness and force." 4 Life is thus seen to be the putting forth of the Conscious-Force, Chit-Shakti of Sachchidananda, which is in its own nature "infinite, 1 2 Life Divine p. 262. 3 Ibid . 189. 4 Ibid., p. 263. Page 397 absolute ...
... ) Oh, how I would like it to be true: when I put my hands here, like this ( Mother lays her hands on Satprem's shoulders ), it would heal! Because I feel such force in these hands! Such CONSCIOUS force—conscious, you understand: it's vibrant with consciousness, light and force. It should heal. It heals me. If I have a pain or something wrong, I put my hand here or there, and it goes away in ...
... mostly as a past participle passive in the sense of "having been released", a natural English usage, but twice the meaning is Latinised, amounting to variants of "pay off". Thus we read: The conscious Force that acts in Nature's breast... Absolves from hour to hour her secret charge. [p. 60] Here the suggestion is of acquitting oneself of a task or duty assigned to one. In ...
... A double work: a work that goes from below upward, and an answer which comes from above downward." Involution, in the Mother's extra sense, implies simply the descending penetration of a conscious force from a plane beyond the earth's formula of evolution in order to manifest there the nature proper to that plane. The Mother has also given, on account of circumstances not visualised in the ...
... entity. Sri Aurobindo says exactly the opposite: Consciousness is not only an entity but the Entity; its various aspects and functions are its self-expressions by the exercise of its own inherent Conscious Force. It may well be asked what the subject of yoga has to do with xi a book on Sri Aurobindo's psychological thought. The answer lies in the fact that Sri Aurobindo was first and ...
... The Mother The Mother* SOME GENERAL TRUTHS AND PERSONAL FACTS The One whom we call the Supreme is the utter Unmanifest. The creative Conscious Force of the Supreme is the Divine Mother in Her transcendent poise, Aditi, holding the Truths that have to be manifested out of the absolute Mystery. Through the transcendent Mother and by Her creativity ...
... Krishna: “I hear you have said about this image that it is very living. What is meant by living?” Sri Aurobindo (laughing): “Living means living. There is some force in it.” C: “Is it a conscious force?” Sri Aurobindo: “Yes, but the consciousness is not in the image but around it.” C: “Would it mean that Sri Krishna has this form?” Sri Aurobindo: “Sri Krishna is not a human being. It ...
... hear you have said about this image of Krishna that it is very much living. What is meant by living? Sri Aurobindo (laughing): Living means living; there is some force in it. C: Is it a conscious force? Sri Aurobindo: Yes, but the consciousness is not in the image but around it. C: Would it mean that Sri Krishna has this form? Sri Aurobindo: Sri Krishna is not a human being. It is a ...
... September 1935 But time, however Einsteinian, is not indefinitely elastic— so how to find time for the necessary except at the cost of the unnecessary. (...) No, I did not put any conscious force for that this time. It was a resultant as you say, of several forces, among which may be counted the one I put upon you for the purpose that other time which you did not then diagnostise. It is ...
... thought, may be regarded as the vast world of swar, which links the lower triple world of Matter, Life and Mind with the highest triple world, the world of delight or sweetness, madhu, of conscious force, urj, and self-existent substance ( vasu ). 38 The Vedic discovery is thus the discovery of the lower triple world, the highest triple world and of the intermediate linking world of swar , ...
... principle of pure existence, sat, corresponds to the world of highest truth of the being (Satyaloka); the principle of pure consciousness, Chit, corresponds to the world of infinite will or conscious force (Tapoloka); the principle of pure bliss ananda, corresponds to the world of creative slight of existence (Jnanaloka); the principle of knowledge or Truth, vijnana, corresponds to the world ...
... Principle World 1 Pure Existence - Sat World of the highest truth of being (Satyaloka) 2 Pure Consciousness - Chit World of infinite Will or conscious-force (Tapoloka) 3 Pure Bliss - Ananda World of creative delight of existence (Janaloka) 4 Knowledge or Truth - Vijnana World of the Vastness ...
... of the veil of Ignorance, — the veil that is created and sustained by exclusive concentration of consciousness. In order that that exclusive concentration of consciousness can be removed, the conscious Force being in us uses the same power of exclusive concentration, but in a reverse direction, and in a growing manner of integrality. And that is the essential process of integral yoga. There is, first ...
... secret entity are powers of this Supermind, born of it, seated in it as in their proper home, are in their knowledge 'truth-conscious' and in their action possessed of the 'seer-will'. Their conscious-force turned towards works and creation is possessed and guided by a perfect and direct knowledge of the thing to be done and its essence and its law,—a knowledge which determines a wholly effective ...
... direct and change all our life-activities until our vitality transfigured ceases in the end to be the limited life-force which now supports mind and body and becomes a figure of the all-blissful conscious force of 1 Sri Sri Ramakrishna Kathasar, p. 296. 2 Yoga-Vāsiṣṭha Rāmāyaṇam, V.9. 3 Ibid., IV. 35. 18. 4 Ibid. 5 Yoga ś ikhopani ṣ ad, 6.60. ...
... ours) 2 The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 389. 3 Ibid., p. 421. Page 103 disappears if along with the plane of pure existence one can embrace the plane of conscious force of existence, the Chit-Tapas, of Sachchidananda, in which "consciousness is active as power and will, and delight is active as joy of existence." 1 And this is possible. Because Brahman ...
... of Nature, we may acquire some distant idea of what realisation is. For, first, we see that he had the vision of something in the world which is the very Self of all things that it contains, a conscious force and presence other than its forms, yet cause of its forms and manifested in them. We perceive that he had not only the vision of this and the joy and peace and universality which its presence brings ...
... this physical universe is the place of Agni, His own abode and field of action. Underlying the gross physical is the Subconscient, and within the Subconscient, this Fire or power of askesis and conscious force keeps HimseIf concealed. It is under that secret Impulse that the creation moves. It is this Fire that gives Nachiketas his ultimate realisation. We may say, in the words of the Isha Upanishad ...
... this physical universe is the place of Agni, His own abode and field of action. Underlying the gross physical is the Sub-conscient, and within the Subconscient, this Fire or power of askesis and conscious force keeps Himself concealed. It is under that secret Impulse that the creation moves. It is this Fire that gives Nachiketas his ultimate realisation. We may say, in the words of the Isha Upanishad ...
... But Fire alone is the Priest of the Gall, he is the One who makes the Offering, the Word is no other than He. Fire means freedom, not ordinary freedom but the supreme Liberation. Fire is the Conscious-Force, the Power of Austerity." But there was no end to Asvala's questionings; he went on asking and Yajnavalkya gave due reply. This dialogue between Yajnavalkya and Asvala forms a chapter in the U ...
... time (along with space) does not give the absolute and fixed frame of reference, as is usually taken for granted, but is a varying background, even if it is not a side-issue or a by-product. The conscious force at work in the world aims at change in the conditions: it is a work primarily of rearrangement and order. The state of Nature, of actuality—of ignorance and inertia —is one of chaos. What the Divine ...
... Reflections Falsehood Falsehood is the agony of the Supreme—so said the Mother. And to cure and dissolve this falsehood, the supreme Lord and His conscious-force, the supreme Mother, descended into the very depths of the abyss of creation. The radiating sparks of that supreme divine Presence are the souls on earth. Man, the human being, is nothing ...
... not the only agent at work, it is not the only assurance of the grand finale envisaged. The Divine himself descends and meets and takes up the evolutionary force: he comes down as a dynamic conscious force in the terrestrial movement carrying the truth that is to be established here and now, acts and drives, first from above and then in and through the level actuality, and thus speeds and fulfils ...
... s not the only agent at work, it is not the only assurance of the grand finale envisaged. The Divine himself descends and meets and takes up the evolutionary force: he comes down as a dynamic conscious force in the terrestrial movement carrying the truth that is to be established here and now, acts and drives, first from above and then in and through the level actuality, and thus speeds up and fulfils ...
... time (along with space) does not give the absolute and fixed frame of reference, as is usually taken for granted, but is a varying background, even if it is not a side-issue or a by-product. The conscious force at work in the world aims at a change in the conditions; it is a work primarily of rearrangement and order. The state of Nature, of actuality – of ignorance and inertia – is one of chaos. What ...
... energy at work acting for a purpose or with a result, if one looks from the side of being one sees a being possessing, guiding and Page 169 using or else representative of and used by a conscious force as its instrument of specialized action and expression.... In modern science it has been found that if you look at the movement of energy, it appears on one side to be a wave and act as a wave ...
... pleasure and material enjoyment. ... The earth is certainly not ready to realise such an ideal, for mankind does not yet possess sufficient knowledge to understand and adopt it nor the conscious force that is indispensable in order to execute it... And yet this dream is in the course of becoming a reality; that is what we are striving for in Sri Aurobindo's Ashram, on a very small ...
... Leaves her body at 7.25 p.m. - Nov 20 The Mother's body is placed in the Samadhi in the Ashram courtyard, in a vault above Sri Aurobindo's, at 8.20 a.m. The Mother is the divine Conscious Force that dominates all existence, one and yet so many-sided that to follow her movement is impossible even for the quickest mind and for the most vast intelligence. Sri Aurobindo Page ...
... arrived at Pondicherry by boat. The historic record of impressions. Publication of The Mother in which Sri Aurobindo says: 'The One whom we adore as the Mother is the divine Conscious Force' 'who comes', says he in a subsequent letter, 'to bring down the Supramental'. 1930-38 Daily correspondence with sadhakas. Heaps of letters; replies giving them personal guidance ...
... Page 251 The whole thing has taken birth, grown and developed as a living being by a movement of consciousness (Chit-Tapas) constantly maintained, increased and fortified. As the conscious Force descends in matter and radiates, it seeks for fit instruments to express and manifest it. It goes without saying that the more the instrument is open, receptive and plastic, the better are ...
... faculties which lie dormant in him, and advance him a step beyond Bergson, where he will perceive the one Elan, not only vital, but also physical, mental and spiritual,— the one, indivisible, conscious Force, deploying its manifoldness and diversity on the basis of its inalienable unity; and, realising that all-creating and all- constituting Force as the universal Mother, surrender himself to Her ...
... We are only concerned with the actuality of the thing. Now, pain and suffering come to man and man cannot understand how suffering happens. Suffering is really due to the failure of this conscious force in man to meet some contact of the universe. It is the shocks of experience or existence. The conscious power in man is not able to meet the shock, and suffering is the result. How to eliminate ...
... volume of his Letters! We need be concerned here only with his definition of two more of these. The higher vital by which the means "that larger movement of the conscious life-force which is concerned with creation, with power and force and conquest, with giving and self-giving... throwing itself out in the wider movements of life, responsive to the greater objects of Nature The lower vital by... Avatar, roughly speaking, is one who is conscious of the Presence and power of the Divine born in him or descended into him and governing from within his will and life and action; he feels identified inwardly with this Divine Power and presence." A Vibhuti is supposed to embody some power of the Divine and is enabled by it to act with great force in the world, but that is all that is necessary... of the divine Presence." Being : The psychic being by which he means the Purusha in the heart which supports by its presence the action of the mind, life and body. It is the conscious form of the soul. "The psychic part of us," he writes in a letter, "is something that comes direct from the Divine and is in touch with divine possibilities that supports the lower triple manifestation ...
... indeterminate inconscient active Force or Prakriti of which even mind and reason are operations,—the Conscious Soul, if any exists, being a quite different and, although conscient, yet inactive entity. The other supposes the conscious soul, the Purusha, to be the material as well as the cause of the universe and Prakriti to be only its Shakti or the Force of its conscious being which operates upon itself... nothing which could explain the emergence of conscious sensation, which could constitute a will towards the evolution of thought or which could impose the necessity of such an evolution on inconscient physical substance. It is not then in the form of Matter itself, but in the Force which is at work in Matter, that we must seek the origin of Mind. That Force must either be itself conscient or contain... the obverse and Page 34 inferior side of a much larger truth. Matter could not develop Mind if in or behind the force that constitutes physical forms there were not already a principle of Mind striving towards self-manifestation. The will to enlighten and consciously govern the life and the form must have been already existent in that which appears to us inconscient; it must have been there ...
... opposes with an invincible force. That is why this transforming force must act with a sustained power till matter feels and is made more conscious of my presence, of the light that is spreading. I force it down until the light penetrates into the very heart of matter. You know, each step that I have placed on the earth, everywhere, everywhere, I have thrust this force and this light of transformation... Yes, my child. It is exactly that; because it is the force of transformation, that is why it is dynamic. There is the light that penetrates to illumine the mass in the Inconscience, the force to stimulate the tamas , and the joy to make it conscious. This force must penetrate this solid, obscure, rigid matter which is obstinate in its perversion and engulfed in falsehood, in order to bring light into... from my feet because this force has to pass through the thick crust of the earth, through a great resistance in order to reach and touch the inconscience. It is for this reason that the force passes directly. Whereas when I bless with my hand, I control the flow of this force and give to each one what he needs when I give my blessings. But Sri Aurobindo had a different way: like this, from far, He could ...
... another classification it is rather the most mentalised part of the vital nature. In the first case, the term higher vital is confined to that larger movement of the conscious life-force which is concerned with creation, with power and force and conquest, with giving and self-giving and gathering from the world for farther action and expenditure of power, throwing itself out in the wider movements of life... Chapter VII The Vital Being and Vital Consciousness The Vital Mind and vital are two different processes of one consciousness. It [ vital ] means prāṇa —it is the life-force and desire-force in a man and the part of the being that responds to desire and is the instrument of the life-forces. The True Vital Being and Consciousness There is behind all the vital nature in man... rejection of the new, we find in it one of the chief obstacles to permeation by the supermind force and the transformation of the functioning of the body. On the other hand, once effectively converted, it will be one of the most precious instruments for the stabilisation of the supramental light and force in material Nature. The Mental Vital or Vital Mind It is the mental part of the vital that ...
... consciousness and force, substance of delight; and the spiritual sense, pure saṁjñāna , is the conscious being's contactual, substantial awareness of its own extended substance of self and in it of all that is of the infinite or universal substance. It is possible for us not only to know by conscious identity, by a spiritual comprehension of self, of principles and aspects, force, play and action,... it may use them as a secondary medium and a recorder. It is possible to open completely this range and, when we do so, we find that its operation is that of the conscious life force individualised in us contacting the universal life force and its operations in things, happenings and persons. The mind becomes aware of the life consciousness in all things, responds to it through our life consciousness... of the supramental knowledge,—the supramental thought, spiritual intelligence and comprehension, conscious identity,—and on its highest plane or at its fullest intensity of action it opens into or contains and at once liberates these things. It is strong with a luminous power that carries in it the force of self-realisation and an intense or infinite effectiveness, and this sense-experience can therefore ...
... made conscious but what is required is that no force should be able to attack the Page 299 physical. Then the second thing is to apply the Imperative Supermind to things within and, thirdly to apply it to things outside. At present, by the Supra-mental Power any force that attacks the body can be thrown aside. But when the process is complete no conscious hostile force -would... knowledge and knowledge-will – say between force and knowledge. Now it is not there. Disciple : When will this work be finished ? Sri Aurobindo : There can be no definite time-limit. Disciple : What was the nature of the attack you got last. Sri Aurobindo : Whenever I am about to finish a definite stage in Sadhana the conscious hostile forces come and first raise up anything... life limited by the material body, – the life-force bound up in matter. It is life moving in the nervous system. It cannot exist apart from the material body. It is quite different from the vital being proper with its relative freedom. It is life subject to the laws of matter. There is a tremendous power in matter also, but that is not life-force. Life-force is quite apart from the material world. It ...
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