... the cosmic Consciousness is a normal part of Yoga. The Cosmic Consciousness and the Overmind The cosmic consciousness does not belong to overmind in especial; it covers all the planes. The overmind is the basis of the total cosmic consciousness, but the cosmic consciousness itself can be felt on any plane, not only above mind, but in mind, life, matter. The Cosmic Consciousness and... into the cosmic consciousness, the whole world is felt in oneself and oneself suffused through the world—it is the cosmic Consciousness, Mind, Life, material Energy that works through the individual function. The separate ego either does not exist or is only a convenience for the universal Spirit Page 268 and its action. This is the complete consummation of the cosmic Consciousness, but in... not only head and heart but the whole body. The Cosmic Consciousness and Self-Realisation Liberation is the first necessity—to live in the peace, silence, purity, freedom of the Self. Along with that or afterwards if one wakens to the cosmic consciousness, then one can be free, yet one with all things. To have the cosmic consciousness without the liberation etc. is possible, but then there ...
... moulding world events. The cosmic consciousness therefore is real and its effects also are real. Thus the world which is a product of cosmic consciousness is also real world. When we say the world is real or the cosmic consciousness is the real we do not mean to say that it is an independent existence. It is real because something greater than the cosmic consciousness is real. It is a dependent... is the fundamental fact of the cosmos and cosmic consciousness of which the individual is only one Page 28 particular application, is a secondary working out of it. Whether this cosmic consciousness is the highest, is a problem. This is one question and in this chapter which we are trying to read we will see that cosmic consciousness is not the whole of the Reality that is at work... work. There is something beyond the cosmic consciousness. There is the Transcendent, if you like to call it, or a supracosmic Reality. It is transcendent to the ego, but it transcends also the cosmos. The cosmic consciousness is far wider than the individual and the Transcendent consciousness is far wider than the cosmic. The cosmic consciousness which is far superior to the individual makes a ...
... them states of "cosmic consciousness", of which he gave fifty instances evidenced by personalities in different epochs, from the Buddha and Christ to Francis Bacon and Walt Whitman. 6 Since Bucke's classic publication, diverse types of mystical states have been more or less loosely described as states of cosmic consciousness. Sri Aurobindo uses the term "cosmic consciousness" in a more specific... him from the cosmic consciousness. But there is a wall of separative ignorance between. Once it breaks down he becomes aware of the cosmic Self, of the consciousness of the cosmic Nature, of the forces playing in it, etc. He feels all that as he now feels physical things and impacts. He finds it all to be one with his larger or universal self. 7 The cosmic consciousness is that in... is found in some theories based on the experience of a state transcending that of cosmic consciousness, termed variously Nirvana (Extinction), Laya (Dissolution), Mukti or Moksha (Liberation). About this transcendent state of liberation, Sri Aurobindo writes: ...on the other side of the cosmic consciousness there is, attainable to us a consciousness yet more transcendent, — transcendent ...
... unimaginable violence." 33 Cosmic Consciousness One of the major experiences on the way to the supramental experience and realization is the experience of the Cosmic Consciousness. Indeed, the Cosmic Consciousness can be had at various levels of the mind, overmind and supermind. The essence of the passage over to the goal of the Cosmic Consciousness is the exceeding of the limits imposed... our egoistic capacity." 34 According to Sri Aurobindo, this cosmic consciousness is real to the seeker who has had contact with it or lives in it; this consciousness is real with a greater than the physical reality; real in itself, real in its effects and works. In the higher experience of the supramental cosmic consciousness, it is perceived that consciousness and being are not different from... by the ego-sense and at least a partaking, at most identification with a self-knowledge which broods secret in all life and in all that seems to us inanimate. Describing the experience of the cosmic consciousness, Sri Aurobindo states: "Entering into that Consciousness, we may continue to dwell, like It, upon universal existence. Then we become aware — for all our terms of consciousness and even ...
... about. They do not allow the experience to get settled. If Dr. Bucke had waited and tried to see how what he calls "cosmic consciousness" comes, what are the conditions of its experience, and what it really is, then he would have found that his generalisation that "the cosmic consciousness must come all of a sudden" is not correct. Then again it is not necessary that it must come to everyone in that... have done is to say to himself : "Let me see whether it can be made normal." It is no use having the cosmic consciousness for a few moments in one's life. And Bucke says that the whole of humanity is going to get it. If humanity is going to have it, it must be a normal cosmic consciousness. In some cases the experience comes back by itself. One must wait and ask for it and see what it is. In... was the main objection of X to myself. He always said that I was unpractical because I used to upset all his plans that were most likely to succeed. 14-4-1926 – 22-5-1926 Cosmic Consciousness by Dr. Richard Maurice Bucke (Madras 1923) Précis of the general points discussed. ["There are three forms or grades of consciousness : 1. Simple consciousness which is possessed ...
... you generally progress. But it may not go regularly in that order. There are many complex movements. Q : Is cosmic consciousness Overmind? A : It is cosmic in the sense that it is cosmic connected with the Light and has not lost contact with the Light. Cosmic consciousness when it becomes mental, becomes a double play of knowledge and ignorance, light and darkness. The mental universe is... comments. He refused to admit bis generalization that the experience of cosmic consciousness must be of one type and that it must be for a short duration only, that it cannot last for long. In fact, it can be made a permanent part of one's consciousness. But it is true that many persons had the experience of cosmic consciousness. But the generalizations which he makes from that are not all right. ... region in which mind comes in contact with the Overmind. It is when mind first opens to this region that it is able to experience Intuition, Inspiration, and impersonal Page 247 Cosmic Consciousness. The phenomenon of genius, people having extraordinary power over subjects, or Revelation, intuitive perception or intuitive discernment and number of such mystical experiences belong to the ...
... seen that the Overmind, even when it is selective and not total in its action, is still a power of cosmic consciousness, a principle of global knowledge which Page 984 carries in it a delegated light from the supramental gnosis. It is, therefore, only by an opening into the cosmic consciousness that the overmind ascent and descent can be made wholly possible: a high and intense individual... consciousness from the outer to the inner self, a firm foundation on this new basis, a habitual action from this inner self and its will and vision and an opening up of the individual into the cosmic consciousness,—is another necessary condition for the supramental change. It would be chimerical to hope that the supreme Truth-consciousness can establish itself in the narrow formulation of our surface... their movements by this entry, but not transformed. But when the spiritualisation begins and, as its greater results manifest themselves,—silence of the mind, the admission of our being into the cosmic consciousness, the Nirvana of the little ego in the Page 971 sense of universal self, the contact with the Divine Reality,—the interventions of the higher dynamis and our openness to them can ...
... of Brahman can be dual in status or action or even manifold, there seems to be no reason why Brahman should be incapable of a dual status or a manifold real self-experience of its being. The cosmic consciousness would then be, not a creative Illusion, but an experience of some truth of the Absolute. This explanation, if Page 470 worked out, might prove to be more comprehensive and spiritually... spiritual experiences are not illusions, including even its absorbed self-experience of the supreme Self which is conceded to us as utterly real? For if cosmos is untrue, our experience of the cosmic consciousness, of the universal Self, of Page 483 Brahman as all these beings or as the self of all these beings, the One in all, all in the One has no secure foundation, since it reposes in one... pretension, it has been claimed that it is possible to travel beyond by a greater negation or a greater affirmation,—to extinguish self in Non-Being or to pass through the double experience of cosmic consciousness and Nirvana of world-consciousness in the One Existence to a greater Divine Union and Unity which holds both these realisations in its vast integral Reality. It is said that beyond the duality ...
... it is said: "Develop the cosmic consciousness." How can we do it? Cosmic? Why, I have been asked this before. Someone asked me, "How can we teach the children to develop the cosmic consciousness?" And so I replied, "Develop it first in yourself." How can you do it? You know what the cosmic consciousness is? You must first begin by knowing that. The cosmic consciousness means that, instead of feeling... are so complex and multiple that we can no longer tell where one begins and another ends. One has exactly the impression of an immense whole moving within itself. It is something like that—the cosmic consciousness. So, first of all, you must think of this; you must first become aware that you are a point in the universal immensity, and not isolated but altogether joined with it. And then you must study... generated in you, which you receive and express. So gradually, by studying, looking, observing, you become aware of that which is not limited. This is how you begin to acquire the universal or cosmic consciousness. Cosmic and universal mean the same thing. Here it is written: "No snatching or clutching at realisation." What does that mean—"snatching and clutching at realisation", Sweet Mother? ...
... wants to know what the relation is between cosmic consciousness and Overmind. SRI AUROBINDO: Relation? What relation? PURANI: I told him that Overmind is an instrument like Supermind. SRI AUROBINDO: Cosmic consciousness has many levels: it can be of mind, vital and matter; of Overmind too. So what does he mean by relation between them? Cosmic consciousness is a term used in contrast to individual... individual consciousness. Through it you get to know about the universe. Overmind is a power of cosmic consciousness just as mind, vital and body are. Only, you can have body, vital and mind without any knowledge of cosmic consciousness, while to go to or know Overmind you must have cosmic consciousness. The cosmic working can be known by entering into Overmind, but for the source you have to go to Supermind ...
... melts into the cosmic Consciousness, the whole world is felt in oneself and oneself suffused through the world — it is the cosmic Consciousness, Mind, Life, material Energy that works through the individual function. The separate ego either does not exist or is only a convenience for the universal Spirit and its action. This is the complete consummation of the cosmic Consciousness, but in its fullness... with the cosmic Consciousness is a normal part of yoga. Letters on Yoga, pp. 1604-05 When one has the cosmic consciousness, one can feel the cosmic Self as one's own self, one can feel one with other beings in the cosmos, one can feel all the forces of Nature as moving in oneself, all selves as one's own self. Letters on Yoga, p. 1071 The cosmic consciousness is that in... the lower nature can't come in or overpower. Page 222 This is the advantage of Self-realisation preceding the cosmic consciousness and supporting it. Letters on Yoga, pp. 1073-74 Now about the cosmic consciousness and Nirvana. Cosmic consciousness is a complex matter. To begin with, there are two sides to it, the experience of the Self free, infinite, silent, inactive ...
... nirvanic dimension. He mounted burning like a cone of fire. 167 But who has realized cosmic consciousness? Not the yogi; the yogi goes on drinking, eating, sleeping, being ill at times like all human animals, and dying. It is not he, but a tiny point of his being that is experiencing cosmic consciousness, the very one on which he so earnestly concentrated to break through his carapace. The rest... yogi can realize cosmic consciousness in any point, or at any level, of his being – in his mind, in his heart, and even in his body – because the cosmic Spirit is everywhere, in every point of the universe. The experience can begin anywhere, at any level, by concentrating on a rock or a sparrow, an idea, a prayer, a feeling, or what people scornfully call an idol. Cosmic consciousness is not the highest... pleasure changes into its painful "opposite": They are conventions of our senses, 74 says Sri Aurobindo. It only takes a slight shift of the needle of consciousness , says the Mother. To cosmic consciousness in its state of complete knowledge and complete experience all touches come as joy, Ananda. 75 It is the narrowness and deficiency of consciousness that cause all our troubles, moral and ...
... featureless, unthinkable, in which all is still. Mandukya Upanishad. (Verse 2) Mandukya Upanishad. (Verses 7) And still there is a beyond. For on the other side of the cosmic consciousness there is, attainable to us, a consciousness yet more transcendent,—transcendent not only of the ego, but of the Cosmos itself,—against which the universe seems to stand out like a petty picture... satisfying, must necessarily be an inner enlargement from the individual into the cosmic existence. For the Witness, if he exists, is not the individual embodied mind born in the world, but that cosmic Consciousness embracing the universe and appearing as an immanent Intelligence in all its works to which either world subsists eternally and really as Its own active existence or else from which it is born... broods equally in the living earth and the living human body and to which mind and senses are dispensable instruments, is the Witness of cosmic existence and its Lord. The possibility of a cosmic consciousness in humanity is coming slowly to be admitted in modern Psychology, like the possibility of more elastic instruments of knowledge, although still classified, even when its value and power are ...
... n"- therapy, which yields conceptions exceeding even the largest and boldest terms of Western psychiatry and seems analogous to the highest Vedantic realisation - the Universal Self and the Cosmic Consciousness - we cannot help seeing that a tremendous breakthrough is made available towards the ultimate of both the subjective and the objective worlds. Here we must keep sharply before us a few... practitioners of Yoga9 are aware that there are many "planes" of existence and on each plane there is a universal consciousness which is not the ultimate Ground - Atman, Brahman - or the total Cosmic Consciousness, but only an immensity of the principle basic or active on that plane - the Life Force or the Mind Force or any other Force intermediate between them and the earth. And what LSD is likely to... we can fly straight into the "transcendental" by chemical reactions in our brain cells. Another point to remember is that, in its true connotation, the "transcendental" is even more than Cosmic Consciousness and the Ground of things. It is the Supra- cosmic, whose emanations are both the mutable universe and its immutable support of Self. And the Supracosmic is not only an Impersonal Absolute but ...
... even when it is selective and not total in its action, is still a power of cosmic consciousness, ________________ ¹ Ibid., pp. 946-7. Page 246 a principle of global knowledge which carries in it a delegated light from the supramental Gnosis. It is, therefore, only by an opening into the cosmic consciousness that the overmind ascent and descent can be made wholly possible: a high and... Sri Aurobindo And The Mother APPENDIX I.1 Cosmic Consciousness I have wrapped the wide world in my wider self And Time and Space my spirit's seeing are. I am the god and demon, ghost and elf, I am the wind's speed and the blazing star. All Nature is the nursling of my care, I am its struggle and the eternal rest; ... In this boundless largeness, not only the separate ego but all sense of individuality, even of a subordinated or instrumental individuality, may entirely disappear; the cosmic existence, the cosmic consciousness, the cosmic delight, the play of cosmic forces are alone left: if the delight or the centre of Force is felt in what was the personal mind, life or body, it is not with a sense of personality ...
... of the deep impression which they make on those who have them. A Canadian psychiatrist, Dr. R. M. Bucke, gives to the more distinctly characterized of these phenomena the name of cosmic consciousness. "Cosmic consciousness in its more striking instances is not," Dr. Bucke says, "simply an expansion or extension of the self-conscious mind with Page 133 which we are all familiar, but the... function as distinct from any possessed by the average man as self- consciousness is distinct from any function, possessed by one of the higher animals." "The prime characteristic of cosmic consciousness is a consciousness of the cosmos, that is, of the life and order of the universe. Along with the consciousness of the . cosmos there occurs an intellectual enlightenment which alone would place... immortality, a consciousness of eternal life, not a conviction that he shall have this, but the consciousness that he has it already."5 It was Dr. Bucke's own experience of a typical onset of cosmic consciousness in his own person which led him to investigate it in others. He has printed his conclusions in a highly interesting volume, from which I take the following account of what occurred to him:— ...
... most important experiences and realisations of Jnana yoga are those of cosmic consciousness and of the consciousness of Oneness. Sri Aurobindo has described these experiences, and we refer to them and give below the descriptions of these two yogic experiences and realisations in Sri Aurobindo's words. Of the cosmic consciousness, Sri Aurobindo states: 'Entering into that Consciousness, we may... at the cosmic consciousness, may know and feel his unity with all beings; but these are only stages or circumstances of his journey, results of the unfolding of his soul as it approaches nearer the ineffable goal. To pass beyond them all is his supreme object. When on the other hand, having attained to the "freedom and the silence and the peace, we resume possession by the cosmic consciousness of the... moral and mental being and on the subjective being of others, but even on the physical world and its events by means nearer to the divine than those possible to our egoistic capacity."¹² Cosmic Consciousness ¹³ I have wrapped the wide world in my wider self And Time and Space my spirit's seeing are. I am the god and demon, ghost and elf, I am the wind's speed and the blazing star ...
... Reality, are awake to the cosmic consciousness. What will be the relation of our individual existence to this cosmic consciousness to which we have attained? For since we have still a mind and body and human life, our individual existence persists even though our separate individual consciousness has been transcended. It is quite possible to realise the cosmic consciousness without becoming that;... Integral Knowledge The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter XV The Cosmic Consciousness To realise and unite oneself with the active Brahman is to exchange, perfectly or imperfectly according as the union is partial or complete, the individual for the cosmic consciousness. The ordinary existence of man is not only an individual but an egoistic consciousness; it is... absolute Non-being, three poises of the same eternal Reality. But between the movement of 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 i ...
... 20 Distinctions need to be made even with regard to experiences of the cosmic consciousness which tend to be regarded as being always the highest spiritual experiences. For, according to yogic psychology, there are different levels of cosmic consciousness. As Sri Aurobindo states: The cosmic consciousness has many levels - the cosmic physical, the cosmic vital, the cosmic Mind, and... the presence of Avidya in the cosmic consciousness that one who breaks the bounds of the personal consciousness and enters the cosmic planes of being has to be on guard. The thing one has to be on guard against in the cosmic consciousness is the play of a magnified ego, the vaster attacks of the hostile forces - for they too are part of the cosmic consciousness - and the attempt of the cosmic... dynamic as well as static, comes with the transcendence. 21 Even the higher planes of the cosmic consciousness mentioned above are part of the Ignorance (Avidya), and therefore have both sides - cosmic Truth and cosmic Ignorance. Sri Aurobindo states: There are in the cosmic consciousness two sides - one the contact with and perception of the ordinary cosmic forces and the beings behind ...
... the Cosmic Consciousness Letters on Yoga - III Chapter II Aspects of the Cosmic Consciousness The Cosmic Ignorance and the Cosmic Truth I think you are speaking of two different sides of the cosmic Consciousness, that which is behind all Cosmos and that which is expressed in the apparent universe. There are in the cosmic consciousness two sides—one... the cosmic consciousness—kept on the spiritualised level, the vision or feeling of the Divine Ananda without seeking for possession or a gross outer enjoyment, it would have established a Yogic consciousness and made a base for knowledge and peace and power and psychic love and surrender to come down. The Cosmic Consciousness and the Physical One cannot be high in the cosmic consciousness unless... separated from the supreme Truth and acting in an inferior motion in which the Truth is perverted, diminished, mixed and clouded with falsehood and error. The cosmic Truth is the view on things of a cosmic Consciousness in which things are seen in their true essence and their true relation to the Divine and to each other. The Yogi's cosmic experiences are spiritual experiences—experience of the play ...
... overture. But... the Overmind, even when it is selective and not total in its action, is still a power of cosmic consciousness, a principle of global knowledge which carries in it a delegated light from the supramental Gnosis. It is, therefore, only by an opening into the cosmic consciousness that the overmind ascent and descent can be made wholly possible: a high and intense individual opening upwards... this boundless largeness, not only the separate ego but all sense of individuality, even of a subordinated or instrumental individuality, may entirely disappear; the cosmic existence, the cosmic consciousness, the cosmic delight, the play of cosmic forces are alone left: if the delight or the centre of Force is felt in what was the personal mind, life or body, it is not with a sense of personality... and pure essential self-consciousness or it is an identification with the All, — the extension or the identification constituting a cosmic being, a universal individual. In one state of the cosmic consciousness there is an individual included in the cosmos but identifying himself with all in it, with the things and beings, with the thought and sense, the joy and grief of others; in another state ...
... which far exceeds the ordinary capacity of the human mind, but which can be and has been acceded to by humans in a spiritual widening called “cosmic consciousness.” We do indeed find in some mystics who have been capable of acquiring the cosmic consciousness the supreme affirmation that all is good or right as it is. It is however in the vision and work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother that we find... from a materialistic viewpoint, but then an understanding of the problem of suffering and evil remains out of the question. If one accepts the reality of the spirit but has not realized the cosmic consciousness, these considerations are not concretely comprehensible. But if the fundamental Vedantic premises and the Vedantic conception of the universe are accepted or experienced as valid, the logical... Ananda not in its initial transcendence but under conditions for which the plunge into the Inconscience was necessary. It is fundamentally a cosmic problem and can be understood only from the cosmic consciousness. If you want a solution which will be agreeable to the human mind and feelings, I am afraid there is none. No doubt, if human beings had made the universe, they would have done much better, ...
... consciousness to expand out of the narrow prison of the body and body-mind and the senses? For, to the physical mind untouched by the inner awakened consciousness, even the experience of the cosmic consciousness or the Eternal Self might very well seem merely subjective and unconvincing. It would think, "Curious, no doubt, rather interesting, but very subjective, don't you think? Hallucinations, yes'... and make them awake and active is one aim of Yoga. As they open, the powers and possibilities of the inner being also are aroused in us; we awake first to a larger consciousness and then to a cosmic consciousness; we are no longer little separate personalities with limited lives but centres of a universal action and in direct contact with cosmic forces. Moreover, instead of being unwilling playthings... even disappears from our consciousness altogether. That is the extinction or Nirvana of the ego. To get into the transcendent self above all makes us capable of transcending altogether even cosmic consciousness and action—it can be the way to that complete liberation from the world-existence which is called also extinction, laya [dissolution], moksha. Nirvana. It must be noted however that the ...
... between the cosmic consciousness and the individual and collective consciousness of man. From the point of view of spiritual and occult Truth, what takes shape in the consciousness of man is a reflection and particular kind of formation, in a difficult medium, of things much greater in their light, power and beauty or in their force and range which come to it from the cosmic consciousness of which man... itself a misleading truth. Man's mind is not an original creator, it is an intermediary; to start creating it must receive an initiating "inspiration", a transmission or a suggestion from the cosmic consciousness, and with that it does what it can. God is, but man's conceptions of God are reflections in his own mentality, sometimes of the Divine, sometimes of other Beings and Powers and they are what... supporting their separate existence and keeping it in being. Such Beings are as real and more permanently real than the men they influence, but they belong to a higher plane, are part of the cosmic consciousness and being and act here on earth by shaping the human consciousness on which they exercise their influence. It is natural for man who only sees his own consciousness individual, national or racial ...
... individual, in the universe, in that which transcends the universe. In order to fulfil God in the individual, we must exceed the individual. The removal of limited ego and the possession of cosmic consciousness is the first aim of our sadhana. In order to fulfil God in the cosmos, individually, we must transcend the universe. The ascension into transcendent consciousness is the second aim of our... shut up in the limitations of an individualised living body. To arrive wholly at the union or the constant communion one must enter the consciousness of the Divine,—whether into its infinite cosmic consciousness or that of its supracosmic eternity. Or else, uniting both these terms, one may add to them that of the individualised Divine in oneself and through this trinity arrive at a perfect union, one... direct and conscious instead of an indirect and unconscious or half conscious contact with the secret cosmic forces that move us; a breaking out from the narrow limited individual into a wide cosmic consciousness; an ascension from mental to spiritual nature; a still farther ascension from the spirit in mind or overspreading mind to the supramental spirit and a descent of that into the embodied being ...
... infinite consciousness. Four Bases of Realisation You know the four things on which the realisation has to be based—(1) on a rising to a station above the mind, (2) on the opening out of the cosmic consciousness, (3) on the psychic opening, (4) on the descent of the higher consciousness with its peace, light, force, knowledge, Ananda etc. into all the planes of the being down to the most physical. All... and make them awake and active is one aim of Yoga. As they open, the powers and possibilities of the inner being also are aroused in us; we awake first to a larger consciousness and then to a cosmic consciousness; we are no longer little separate personalities with limited lives but centres of a universal action and in direct contact with cosmic forces. Moreover, instead of being unwilling playthings... disappears from our consciousness altogether. That is the extinction or nirvāṇa of the ego. To get into the transcendent self above all makes us capable of transcending altogether even the cosmic consciousness and action—it can be the way to that complete liberation from the world-existence which is called also extinction, laya, mokṣa , Nirvana. It must be noted however that the opening upward ...
... consciousness in the individual widens itself into the cosmic consciousness outside and can have any kind of dealing with it, penetrate, know its movements, act upon it or receive from it, even become commensurate with or contain it, which is what was meant in the language of the old Yogas by having the Brahmanda within you. The cosmic consciousness is that of the universe, of the cosmic spirit and... consciousness in which one is no longer limited by the small ego, personal mind, personal Page 9 vital and body but is in union with the supreme Self or with the universal (cosmic) consciousness or with some deeper consciousness within in which one is aware of one's own soul, one's own inner being and of the real truth of existence. In the Yogic consciousness one is not only aware of... is, though in a different way. The consciousness of the individual is part of this, but a part feeling itself as a separate being. Yet all the time most of what he is comes into him from the cosmic consciousness. But there is a wall of separative ignorance between. Once it breaks down he becomes aware of the cosmic Self, of the consciousness of the cosmic Nature, of the forces playing in it, etc. He ...
... some intermediate Power (not always a Power of the Divine) as the Supreme and an intermediate consciousness as the supreme realisation. Very readily they come to think that they are in the full cosmic consciousness when it is only some front or small part of it or some larger Mind, Life-Power or subtle physical ranges with which they have entered into dynamic connection. Or they feel themselves to be in... differently in it and respond sometimes to one class of possibilities, sometimes to another.In this case it seems to have been entered through an at- tempt to call down or force a way into the cosmic consciousness -- it does not matter which way it is put or Page 40 whether one is quite aware of what one... terms, it comes to thatn substance. It is not the Overmind which was entered, fir to go straight into the Overmind is impossible. The Overmind is indeed above and behind the whole action If the cosmic consciousness, but one can at first have only an indirect connection with it; things come do.wn from it through intermediate ranges into a larger mind-plane, life-plane, subtle physical plane and come very ...
... not see anything absurd or excessive in the statement. He is evidently speaking from the cosmic consciousness; otherwise how could he fail to find sorrows, struggles, heartbreaks, hells, perditions gaping everywhere! Not at all. There are plenty of people, not endowed with the cosmic consciousness, who have said and written the same thing. It is no new theory or statement. I have no statistics... Cosmic Something one must see not only the few outward factors observed by the human eye, but the whole working with all its multitudinous details—that one cannot do unless one is oneself in the cosmic consciousness and with some opening at least to the Over-mind. There is no such thing as "free" will, but there is the power of the Purusha to say "yes" or "no" to any particular pressure of Prakriti and... Ananda not in its original transcendence but under conditions for which the plunge into the Inconscience was necessary. It is fundamentally a cosmic problem and can be understood only from the cosmic consciousness. If you want a solution which will be agreeable to the human mind and feelings, I am afraid there is none. No doubt if human beings had made the universe, they would have done much better, but ...
... non-evident to our present mentality, becomes clear and evident when the subliminal inner being breaks its boundaries of individuality and, carrying our surface mind with it, enters into the cosmic consciousness. The subliminal is separated from the cosmic through a limitation by the subtler sheaths of our being, its mental, vital, subtle-physical sheaths, just as the surface nature is separated from... with cosmic being, feel itself universal, one with all existence. In this freedom of entry into cosmic self and cosmic nature there is a great liberation of the individual being; it puts on a cosmic consciousness, becomes the universal individual. Its first result, when it is complete, is the realisation of the cosmic spirit, the one self inhabiting the universe, and this union may even bring about a... of unity with other beings is its natural consequence. It is then that the existence of the cosmic Being becomes a certitude and a reality and is no longer an ideative perception. But the cosmic consciousness of things is founded upon knowledge by identity; for the universal Spirit knows itself as the Self of all, knows all as itself and in itself, knows all nature as part of its nature. It is one ...
... nt Letters on Yoga - I Chapter III The Overmind Overmind and the Cosmic Consciousness Overmind is the highest source of the cosmic consciousness available to the embodied being in the Ignorance. It is part of the cosmic consciousness—but the human individual when he opens into the cosmic usually remains in the cosmic Mind-LifeMatter receiving only... overmind touches if one opens into the cosmic consciousness, still more if one enters freely into that consciousness. Direct overmind experience cannot come unless part of the being at least is seated in the wideness and peace. You cannot do it [ recognise the different planes of the Overmind ] at present. Only those who have got fully into the cosmic consciousness can do it and even they cannot do... influences and experiences can come down from there. It is (sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly) by the power of the Overmind releasing the mind from its close partitions that the cosmic consciousness opens in the seeker and he becomes aware of the cosmic spirit and the play of the cosmic forces. It is from or at least through the overmind plane that the original prearrangement of things ...
... is urgent upon him a dynamic realisation pressing from the Supreme upon this world of beings, and only some encompassing and exceeding of the cosmic consciousness can release into manifestation here that yet unlavished splendour. But the cosmic consciousness too is not sufficient; for it is not all the Divine Reality, not integral. There is a divine secret behind personality that he must discover;... these achievements is enough for one who seeks the wide completeness of an integral Yoga. An individual salvation is not enough for him; for he finds himself opening to Page 258 a cosmic consciousness which far exceeds by its breadth and vastness the narrower intensity of a limited individual fulfilment, and its call is imperative; driven by that immense compulsion, he must break through... discover; there, waiting in it to be delivered here into Time, stands the mystery of the embodiment of the Transcendence. In the cosmic consciousness there remains at the end a hiatus, an unequal equation of a highest Knowledge that can liberate but not effectuate with a Power seeming to use a limited Knowledge or masking itself with a surface Ignorance that can create but creates imperfection or a perfection ...
... there for too long, as we had to come out and go for the general meditation of the 9th morning. During meditation he had put me floating in the Cosmic Consciousness. I was floating in it for a long time, for a long time, in the Cosmic Consciousness. In the evening as there was no general meditation, I could sit in the Ashram and meditate as long as I liked. During this meditation... it will not. Otherwise Page 30 these will get shattered. The spiritual planes must be able to receive it. It has come to the individual-cosmic plane, to the cosmic consciousness. 22:10:1994 My spirit went down, went below to the inconscient. Or was it to the subconscient? I do not know; but it must be the latter. I can't distinguish these, must ...
... into the transcendent self above all makes us capable of transcending altogether even cosmic consciousness and action — it can be the way to that complete liberation from world-existence which is called also extinction, laya, mok ṣ a, nirvāṇa. 15 For on the other side of the cosmic consciousness there is, attainable to us, a consciousness yet more transcendent, — transcendent not... these are the three fundamental terms and none of them can be neglected if we would have the experience of the whole Truth of existence. Out of the individual we wake into a vaster freer cosmic consciousness; but out of the universal too with its complex forms and powers we must emerge by a still greater self-exceeding into a consciousness without limits that is founded on the Absolute. And ...
... temporal appearance. The two terms, Knowledge and Ignorance, belong only to this appearance; in order to reach an absolute superconsciousness both have to be transcended: ego-consciousness and cosmic consciousness are extinguished in that supreme transcendence and there remains only the Absolute. For the absolute Brahman exists only in its own identity and is beyond all other-knowledge; there the very... to the extension of knowledge as the religious obscurantism which opposed in Europe the extension of scientific discovery. The greatest inner discoveries, the experience of self-being, the cosmic consciousness, the inner calm of the liberated spirit, the direct effect of mind upon mind, the knowledge of things by consciousness in direct contact with other consciousness or with its objects, most spiritual... cosmic Page 680 becoming in Time and Space for the whole truth of existence,—that is the second, the cosmic ignorance. We are ignorant of our universal self, the cosmic existence, the cosmic consciousness, our infinite unity with all being and becoming; we take our limited egoistic mentality, vitality, corporeality for our true self and regard everything other than that as not-self,—that is the ...
... himself in the Knowledge. Page 719 For the initiation of the evolutionary emergence from the Inconscient works out by two forces, a secret cosmic consciousness and an individual consciousness manifest on the surface. The secret cosmic consciousness remains secret and subliminal to the surface individual; it organises itself on the surface by the creation of separate objects and beings. But while... constitutional self-ignorance. Discovering self and spirit he discovers God; he finds out that there is a Self beyond the temporal: he comes to the vision of that Page 724 Self in the cosmic consciousness as the divine Reality behind Nature and this world of beings; his mind opens to the thought or the sense of the Absolute of whom self and the individual and the cosmos are so many faces; the ...
... of its belief in the final value or truth of the mind's imperfect representations or constructions would be enough for the higher working to be possible. (7) Now about the cosmic consciousness and Nirvana. Cosmic consciousness is a complex matter. To begin with, there are two sides to it, the experience of the Self free, infinite, silent, inactive, one in all and beyond all and the direct experience... beatitude of the transcendent existence, but an absolute Nirvana would not be indispensable; a beatific union with the Divine offers itself as the way before the seeker. This is the reason why the Cosmic Consciousness is not sufficient and the push away from it is so strong,—it is only if the golden Page 143 lid of the Overmind is overpassed and opened and the dynamic contact with the Supermind ...
... and make them awake and active is one aim of Yoga. As they open, the powers and possibilities of the inner being also are aroused in us; we awake first to a larger consciousness and then to a cosmic consciousness; we are no longer little separate personalities with limited lives but centres of a universal action and in direct contact with cosmic forces. Moreover, instead of being unwillingly playthings... even disappears from our consciousness altogether. That is the extinction or Nirvana of the ego. To get into the transcendent self above all makes us capable of transcending altogether even cosmic consciousness and action - it can be the way to that complete liberation from Page 34 the world-existence which is called also extinction, laya, moksa, nirvāna. It must be noted however... then to the navel and below and through the whole body, or else an inexplicable opening - without any sense of descent-of peace, light, wideness or power, or else a horizontal opening into the cosmic consciousness or in a suddenly widened mind an outburst of knowledge. Whatever comes has to be welcomed - for there is no absolute rule for all -but if the peace has not come first, care must be taken not ...
... so I don't know. This is the last one. You will tell me if it makes sense. He asks, "Does the sense of physical pain disappear in the cosmic consciousness?" So you reply: "Certainly it exists in the cosmic consciousness.... The cosmic consciousness is the universal consciousness, the MATERIAL consciousness; there it exists. I know it, in fact, because it's a consciousness I constantly ...
... if he does not allow the mind to identify with any of them he will know the right source of action and knowledge. You were talking of Cosmic Consciousness. All these ideas are there in the general Prana and have equal validity from the point of Cosmic Consciousness. They may be as much true as his own i.e. when Basanta Chatterji contradicts him there is some truth in what he says. He has to see what... reading also. Disciple : I did not know at all that he has also such difficulties! Sri Aurobindo : You thought he has reached Supreme Siddhi! Disciple : Not so much, but a Cosmic Consciousness. Sri Aurobindo : All-India consciousness. You can tell him that he must not attack or contradict people. When he reads anything he must not allow his mind to run away with any ideas ...
... our time. Sri Aurobindo, a Vedantic revolutionary and poet, Fr. Teilhard, a Roman Catholic and biologist: they were not professional philosophers, philosophy came to them -just as cosmic consciousness came to them suddenly, unexpectedly, overwhelmingly, to Sri Aurobindo in 1908 in the Alipur jail and to Teilhard during the war of 1914-8. Besides, both Sri Aurobindo*and Teilhard saw earth-history... the universe towards increasing complexity-consciousness, and the next evolutionary jump may very well mean the convergence of humanity upon itself and the universal reign of something akin to cosmic consciousness. Hasn't St. Paul said that, in the fullness of time, all things might be gathered in Christ, "both which are in heaven and which are on the earth"? 86 The "fall", then, interpreted in a cosmic... own Aurobindo". As for Buddhism, it represents "the same kind of spirituality as Sankara's Vedanta; it is not primarily interested in this world". There is Zen Buddhism, of course, but "Zen is cosmic consciousness; and would be duly gathered into the integral and * This and the following quotations are taken from the mimeographed copy of the lectures that I have with me. The lectures have since ...
... certitude of victory, even rapid, for the illumination is taking place promptly. 17.5.1970 Page 139 Does the sense of physical suffering not exist in the cosmic consciousness? In the cosmic consciousness it certainly exists. It is in the Supreme Divine Consciousness that it does not exist, that is to say, the nature of the sensation changes and the opposites disappear... also must learn to look at everything with a smile. But we have taken to very bad habits which we now must learn to lose. 9.5.1970 Page 138 This morning it is the need of cosmic consciousness that is felt. The peace of totality. 11.5.1970 I am made of dust, but it is a dust which can change at your contact. . . The whole of the physical world is ...
... speak always of the cosmic consciousness and the necessity of its settling down. I mean by it the living in the sense of the cosmic Self and the experience of the cosmic forces. A certain number here have contact with that, very few have it as a constant realisation, none have it perfected and fixed in all their being. As for going above it there are grades in the cosmic consciousness and one can go above... September 1934 Page 665 Realisations by Sadhaks I have all but made up my mind to give up the sadhana. I find it very humiliating to be reminded every month that I am far from the cosmic consciousness. In the midst of all my troubles, I have lost faith. Do you think it is of any use to keep me here? When you have got out of this attack, you will yourself recognise the emptiness of such... above the cosmic mental and rise as far as the overmind. But that also is still the cosmic consciousness. 15 September 1934 I sometimes wonder whether anyone here is attaining anything at all? Has anyone realised the Divine? Please don't ask me what I mean by the Divine. Why shouldn't I ask? If you mean the Vedantic realisation, several have had it. Bhakti realisation also. If I were to publish ...
... with the cosmic mind, cosmic vital, cosmic physical. The psychic realises the contact with all-existence, the oneness of the Self, the universal love and other realisations which lead to the cosmic consciousness. But all that is a result of the opening to the spiritual above and it comes by an infiltration or reflection of the spiritual light and truth in mind, life and body. The spiritual... adoration, bhakti.... The spiritual change is the established descent of the peace, light, knowledge, power, bliss from above, the awareness of the Self and the Divine and of a higher cosmic consciousness and the change of the whole consciousness to that. 121 * The two feelings are both of them right — they indicate the two necessities of the sadhana. One is to go inward and open... This is the first result, but the second is a free inflow of all kinds of spiritual experience, experience of the Self, experience of the Ishwara and the Divine Shakti, experience of cosmic consciousness, a direct touch with cosmic forces and Page 105 with the occult movements of universal Nature, a psychic sympathy and unity and inner communication and interchanges of all ...
... being into the cosmic consciousness—one feels a wide and infinite being which alone exists, the identification with the body and even the sense of the body disappears, the limited personal consciousness is lost in the Cosmic Existence. You had all this first in the impersonal way, but after the burning up of the psychic fire, you felt the Personal wideness, the cosmic consciousness of the Divine Mother... it means getting into a consciousness in which one is no longer limited by the small ego, personal mind, personal vital and body but is in union with the supreme Self or with the universal (cosmic) consciousness or with some deeper consciousness within in which one is aware of one's own soul, one's own inner being and of the real truth of existence. In the Yogic consciousness one is not only aware of... also. The action from above opens it to the descent of forces from above the Mind and the ascent of consciousness above the lid of the ordinary human mind. The horizontal action opens it to the cosmic consciousness on all its levels. The action from below helps to connect the superconscient with the subconscient. Finally the consciousness instead of being limited in the body becomes infinite, rises infinitely ...
... complete individual is the cosmic individual, since only when we have taken the universe into ourselves—and transcended it—can our individuality be complete. The supramental being in his cosmic consciousness seeing and feeling all as himself would act in that sense; he would act in a universal awareness and a harmony of his individual self with the total self, of his individual will with the total... difficult balance between these two necessities of the relation between the individual personal destiny and the cosmic whole and its hidden purpose. But for the supramental being living in a cosmic consciousness the difficulty would not exist, since he has Page 1009 no ego; his cosmic individuality would know the cosmic forces and their movement and their significance as part of himself... the cosmic relations and the relations of the individual with the universe, determines them freely and sovereignly as a power of the Transcendence. In the mental being even the pressure of the cosmic consciousness overpowering the ego and an awareness of the transcendent Reality might not of themselves bring about a dynamic solution; for there might still be an incompatibility between its liberated spiritual ...
... Brahman has two fundamental states of consciousness, cosmic consciousness and transcendental consciousness. To cosmic consciousness the world is real as a direct first term expressing the inexpressible; to transcendental consciousness the world is only a secondary & indirect term expressing the inexpressible. When I have the cosmic consciousness, I see the world as my Self manifested; in transcendental... this sense an illusion of Maya that it is not an unchanging transcendent and final reality of things but only a symbolical reality; it is a valuation of the reality of Brahman in the terms of cosmic consciousness. All these objects we see or are mentally aware of as objectively existing, are only forms of consciousness. They are the thing-in-itself turned first into terms & ideas born of a movement or... relative to the general consciousness & some to the individual consciousness of the symbol-being. Matter, Mind, Life for instance are general symbols with a fixed general value to God in His cosmic consciousness; but they have a different individual value, make a different impression or represent themselves differently, as we say, to myself, to the ant or to the god and angel. This perception of the ...
... cf. Psychical phenomena Conscience, 89, 91 Conscious Being, 105, 345-46 See also Purusha Consciousness, 3-11, 162-65, 180 and brain, 3, 332-33, 334 cosmic, see Cosmic consciousness a creative energy, 8 environmental, see Environmental Consciousness evolution of, 338-39, 391, 393 Page 420 the fundamental thing in existence, 10-11 ... consciousness reality, 328-29 scientific study of, 315-24 transcendent, 373 universal, 386 vital, 4-5 See also Chit Consciousness-Force, 143, 393,395 See also Shakti Cosmic consciousness, 79, 219-25, 351, 367, 371-72 and the ego, 220-21 levels of, 221-22 and Nirvana, 223-25 and ordinary consciousness, 219-20 and Overmind, 153 and Self-realisation, 222-23 Cosmic... 233-36 passim and the subliminal, 235-36, 240, 242 and visions, 242 symbolic, 235-36 Ego (self), 21, 25, 100, 120, 124-36 passim, 305, 361, 365-67, 374, 380-84, 386-87 in cosmic consciousness, 371-72 and free will, 104 and human development, 398-401 and individuality, 135-36, 348-49, 398-99 liberation from, 366-67, 370-74 passim, 383-84 in ordinary consciousness, 370-71 ...
... Silence. It is in the experience of this pure and inactive Brahman or of the pure Self that the supra-cosmic view takes its stand. It maintains that transcendence of cosmic consciousness means also the rejection of cosmic consciousness. The appeal of this view is that neither the cosmic nor the terrestrial nor the supra-terrestrial life has any ultimate meaning and that renunciation is a sole path... and mind. In the higher or highest stages of spirituality, we find the emergence of the liberated man who has realized the Self and Spirit within him. The liberated man enters into the cosmic consciousness and passes into union with the Eternal and, so far as he still accepts life and action, acts by the light and energy of the Power within him working through his human instruments of Nature.... the one proper business of life in this world of Matter. Finally, in all these theories, the role of the individual and the way in which the individual can relate itself with the cosmic life, cosmic consciousness and even with supra-cosmic reality is underlined. Supra-cosmic Aim of Life But there are theories and even yogic experiences which, even while admitting the relative validity ...
... or force a way into the cosmic consciousness—it does not matter which way it is put or whether one is quite aware of what one is doing or aware of it in these terms, it comes to that in substance. It is not the Overmind which was entered, for to go straight into the Overmind is impossible. The Overmind is indeed above and behind the whole action of the cosmic consciousness, but one can at first have... (not always a Power of the Divine) as the Supreme and an intermediate consciousness as the supreme Page 297 realisation. Very readily they come to think that they are in the full cosmic consciousness when it is only some front or small part of it or some larger Mind, Life-Power or subtle physical ranges with which they have entered into dynamic connection. Or they feel themselves to be in... influence other than one's own should be admitted, the rule of the Divine Shakti over the adhar. Avoiding the Dangers of the Intermediate Zone You are taking the first steps towards the cosmic consciousness in which there are all things good and bad, true and false, the cosmic Truth and the cosmic Ignorance. I was not thinking so much of ego as of these thousand voices, possibilities, suggestions ...
... way is no I at all. The Self and the Cosmic Consciousness One has first to become aware of the Self and its wide silence and eternal peace and acquire the cosmic consciousness in which one is aware of the whole universe as one with oneself and to live in that. One has at the same time to be aware—it becomes possible when one lives in the cosmic consciousness, cosmic Self and cosmic Nature,—of the... replace the old things. They must indeed occupy not only head and heart but the whole body. The Self Experienced on Various Planes It is probably the true Cosmic Self or spirit with its cosmic consciousness and power that you feel on a plane above the ordinary mind or vital or physical—what plane is not as yet clear—for what you describe is common to this Self on whatever plane it manifests; it ...
... foundation for a reconciling practice in the inner life of the individual and his outer existence. We have found already in the cosmic consciousness a Page 29 meeting-place where Matter becomes real to Spirit, Spirit becomes real to Matter. For in the cosmic consciousness Mind and Life are intermediaries and no longer, as they seem in the ordinary egoistic mentality, agents of separation, fomenters... fomenters of an artificial quarrel between the positive and negative principles of the same unknowable Reality. Attaining to the cosmic consciousness Mind, illuminated by a knowledge that perceives at once the truth of Unity and the truth of Multiplicity and seizes on the formulae of their interaction, finds its own discords at once explained and reconciled by the divine Harmony; satisfied, it consents... result of an oblivion and personal withdrawal from a cosmic activity still and always proceeding in the consciousness of the Eternal Being. Thus, after reconciling Spirit and Matter in the cosmic consciousness, we perceive the reconciliation, in the transcendental consciousness, of the final assertion of all and its negation. We discover that all affirmations are assertions of status or activity in ...
... between the cosmic consciousness and the individual and collective consciousness of man. From the point of view of spiritual and occult Truth, what takes shape in the consciousness of man is a reflection and particular kind of formation, in a difficult medium, of things much greater in their light, power and beauty or in their force and range which came to it from the cosmic consciousness of which... a misleading truth. Man’s mind is not an original creator, it is an intermediary; to start creating it must receive an initiating “inspiration “, a transmission or a suggestion from the cosmic consciousness and with that it does what it can. God is, but man’s conceptions of God are reflections in his own mentality, sometimes of the Divine, sometimes of other Beings and Powers and they are what... supporting their separate existence and keeping it in being. Such Beings are as real and more permanently real than the men they influence, but they belong to a higher plane, are part of the cosmic consciousness and being and act here on earth by shaping the human consciousness on which they exercise their influence. Page 188 It is natural for man who sees only his own consciousness ...
... Then can't one transmute? No, this does not suffice. When you come down again from your cosmic consciousness, the same tendencies are there which can always be restored to life. But beyond the immanent aspect of the absolute power, the aspect which you realise in the experience of the cosmic consciousness, there is what may be called the transcendent aspect, which is creative and without limitations... For the moment you are localising it in the brain, but its true seat, which corresponds to the supramental truth, is Sahasrara.** Above, this very consciousness will spread out and become the cosmic consciousness. There are two different points to consider. The first is to empty the active mind of thoughts and leave it motionless. It is a useful faculty. The second is to remain completely detached... Besides, a prolonged sound, for instance, does not raise any thought but it captures my attention which gets riveted there. This is wrong concentration ! Put this aside, simply. In the cosmic consciousness you will have the impression that this sound is occurring somewhere in this consciousness, but it will no longer trouble you. Monday, January 25, 1926 I can at times keep my attention ...
... How? SATYENDRA: When you realise the Divine, you act from the Cosmic Consciousness. SRI AUROBINDO: Who is this "you"? SATYENDRA: I am putting it in that form.. He means the individual consciousness is identified with the Cosmic Consciousness SRI AUROBINDO: Then it is all right. SATYENDRA: But it is the Cosmic Consciousness that acts through the individual. NIRODBARAN: In Europe, during... is queer about Meher Baba. He has never been in want of money. Money has simply flowed in. CHAMPAKLAL: Then he has reached God? SRI AUROBINDO (laughing) : And he surely must be in the Cosmic Consciousness! SATYENDRA: He is so erratic in his behaviour. Today he is going to one place, tomorrow another; he brings lady disciples here from England to go to China; then after they have made tour ...
... world-view based on the theory of evolution, from which the only religion that could be derived was the sense of an infinite and unitary universe moving forward with the drive of an immanent cosmic consciousness or world-soul. But his religious upbringing and discipline would not allow him to take physical reality as the changing and developing body of such a pantheos. As a member of the Society... we may call in Indian nomenclature the Vishwa Manava, the World-Man, in complete unitary and multiple thought-expression, is evolved. To dub this earthly "totalization" of Mental Mankind the cosmic consciousness, the Page 37 realization of the All, the God Ahead joining with the God Above — as Teilhard does — would be an exaggeration. No supreme divine reality is here. However magnified... will constitute — glorious though it might be — would be far indeed from that complete divinisation of mind, life and body, which Sri Aurobindo names "Supramental Transformation". Even the cosmic consciousness, the realisation of the All, the God Ahead joining with the God Above — even Omega figured as an infinite divine reality would not be able to effectuate that transformation; for, it would not ...
... we have seen that the Overmind, even when it is selective and not total in its action, is still a power of cosmic consciousness, a principle of global knowledge which carries in it a delegated light from the supramental Gnosis. It is, therefore, only by an opening into the cosmic consciousness that the overmind ascent and descent can be made wholly possible: a high and intense individual opening upwards... “In this boundless largeness, not only the separate ego but all sense of individuality, even of a subordinated or instrumental individuality, may entirely disappear; the cosmic existence, the cosmic consciousness, the cosmic delight, the play of cosmic forces are alone left: if the delight or the centre of Force is felt in what was the personal mind, life or body, it is not with a sense of personality ...
... Experiences of Cosmic Consciousness My Pilgrimage to the Spirit March 11, 1932 The cosmic consciousness does not belong to overmind in especial; it covers all the planes. Man is shut up at present in his surface individual consciousness and knows the world (or rather the surface of it) only through his outward mind and senses and by interpreting the... directly aware of a universal being, universal states, universal force and forces; universal mind, life, matter and lives in conscious relations with these things. He is then said to have the cosmic consciousness. Sri Aurobindo ...
... in the Vedas, is the inner sacrifice of limitations so that the required room is increasingly made in human consciousness for the formation and establishment of the cosmic consciousness and all that transcends the cosmic consciousness. The conquest of immortality, the Vedic Rishis discovered, involved also a long and difficult battle with formidable powers, Dasyus, Panis, Vritra; and the courage... and Vast (satyam, ritam, brihat), and the supreme triple divine worlds. They discovered that the path to immortality is the path of truth and that this path is built by man's expansion into cosmic consciousness and by his interchange with cosmic powers who enable him to reach the Supreme creative consciousness, mother Aditi, who is one with the original substance, the Supreme Triple Reality. As Rishi ...
... once the sadhaka, escaping from the prison of his ego-bound consciousness, enters the cosmic consciousness, and then proceeding further, transcends that cosmic consciousness too, he enters a status which is timeless, spaceless and changeless. If the realised soul, standing at the junction of the cosmic consciousness and the Transcendence, looks back upon the world he has transcended, this world existence ...
... of a marvellous single diamond beyond price. The necessary dynamic of the Aurobindonian Weltanschauung was the decisive drift from the egoistic or merely individualistic to the universal or cosmic consciousness, and it was Sri Aurobindo's firm view that this should apply as much to the future poetry as to the future man or the future society or polity: It is in effect a large cosmic vision... 115 This ecstasy of world-existence is not the gods' alone but is also within reach of the realised man. Mortal man can find in himself "the door to immortality", and he can with his cosmic consciousness see himself in all things and all things in himself: I am a single Self all Nature fills. Immeasurable, unmoved the Witness sits:... The burning galaxies are in me outlined;... facade; From its windows looks at me the Illimitable. In vain was my prison of separate body made; His occult presence bums in every cell. ... 119 To have won this light of cosmic consciousness is also to participate in the 'Bliss of Brahman', to "become a foam-white sea of bliss... a curling wave of God's delight". 120 It is natural for the materialist to imagine that the ...
... handwritten manuscripts. The Pilgrim of the Night. 26 July 1938, revised 18 March 1944. Three handwritten manuscripts, the first entitled "In the Night". Cosmic Consciousness . 26 July 1938, revised apparently on 21 March1944. Two handwritten manuscripts, the first entitled "The Cosmic Man". Liberation [1]. 27 July 1938, revised 22 March 1944. Two... "I" . 15 October 1939, revised 5 November. Two handwritten manu-scripts. The Cosmic Spirit . 15 October 1939, revised 5 November. Two hand-written manuscripts, the first entitled "Cosmic Consciousness", revised 722 Page 721 to "Cosmic Self". Self . 15 October 1939. Three handwritten manuscripts, the first entitled "Liberty". Omnipresence ...
... consequent forcing it out of its latency in figure of truth for the joy of God's cosmic self-knowledge. That which is to us unknowable X beyond thought & sensation is expressed here by Tapas of cosmic consciousness in theorem & formula of progression constituting the order of forms in the universe. The loosing of the latent out of latency by Tapas is the whole nature of creation in the idea of the Vedantin... vijnanamaya ideal being, the god in the universe and can be prepared to bear the activity of a divine force & divine joy and, breaking the walls of the mental ego, enlarge into the wideness of a cosmic consciousness. The gods, it is said in the Upanishad, presented by the Spirit with successive forms of animal life for their habitation, returned always the answer, "This is not enough Page 549 ...
... Daitya, between mortality and immortality, between man's temporary imperfection and his eternal perfectibility. In this holy war the Gods are our chief helpers. There are seven planes of cosmic consciousness on which the soul of man Page 513 plays with the love and wisdom and power of God. When first the unknowable Parabrahman turns towards knowableness in this partial manifestation... privilege, the discriminative and imaginative reason. For he has to develop vijnanam or ideal thought on which all Veda is based, he has to develop Ananda, Chit and Sat, the higher hemisphere of cosmic consciousness. In the present stage of his evolution he can only develop consciously as far as Ananda with Sat & Chit implicit in Ananda; to Chit & Sat proper he cannot arrive in his waking state, but only ...
... of rational beauty or shuts itself up in a materialised or intellectual interpretation and fails to open itself to the great things here meant by a kindred close response to some touch of the cosmic consciousness, some revelation of the greater spiritual self, some suggestion of the Infinite. These things, the spiritual self, the cosmic spirit, the Infinite, are not rational, but suprarational, eternal... but all the worlds and all Nature and cosmos. The European mind not having arrived except in individuals at any close, direct, insistent realisation of the unity of the infinite self or the cosmic consciousness peopled with its infinite multiplicity, is not driven to express these things, cannot understand or put up with them when they are expressed in this Page 279 oriental art, speech ...
... extinguished (nirvana) in the true Light. In spiritual experience it is sometimes the loss of all sense of individuality in a boundless cosmic consciousness; what was the individual remains only as a centre or a channel for the flow of a cosmic consciousness and a cosmic force and action. Or it may be the experience of the loss of individuality in a transcendent being and consciousness in which ...
... Experiences of Cosmic Consciousness My Pilgrimage to the Spirit (Undated?) Q. What is the difference between the individual and Cosmic Truth and Cosmic Ignorance? A. There is no ignorance that is not part of the Cosmic Ignorance, only in the individual it becomes a limited formation and movement, while the Cosmic Ignorance is the whole movement of... separated from the Supreme Truth and acting in an inferior motion in which the Truth is perverted, diminished, mixed and clouded with falsehood and error. The Cosmic Truth is the view on things of a cosmic consciousness in which things are seen in their true essence and their true relation to the Divine and to each other. ...
... of the separative, the individualistic and aggressive stage of development, when we would proceed forward from this necessity of littleness in the child-soul to unity and universality, to the cosmic consciousness and beyond, to our transcendent spirit-stature. It is indispensable to recognise clearly, not only in our mode of thought but in our way of feeling, sensing, doing, that this movement, this... perception of right relations and their inevitable execution in the act. The quarrel between the individual and society or disastrous struggle between one community and another could not exist: the cosmic consciousness imbedded in embodied beings would assure a harmonious diversity in oneness. In the actual state of humanity, it is the individual who must climb to this height as a pioneer and precursor ...
... descent of a divine Light, Force, Purity, Knowledge, freedom and wideness. It is necessary to break down the limits of the personal mind, life and physicality, dissolve the ego, enter into the cosmic consciousness, realise the self, acquire a spiritualised and universalised mind and heart, life-force, physical consciousness. Then only the passage into supramental consciousness begins to become possible... supermind; the mind, the vital, the physical itself have lights of their own, as yet hidden, which can be very inspiring, exalting, informative, powerfully executive. A breaking out into the cosmic consciousness may also bring in an immense enlargement of the consciousness and power. An opening into the inner mind, inner vital, inner physical, any range of the subliminal consciousness, can liberate ...
... This is the first result, but the second is a free inflow of all kinds of spiritual experience, experience of the Self, experience of the Ishwara and the Divine Shakti, experience of cosmic consciousness, a direct touch with cosmic forces and with the occult movements of universal Nature, a psychic sympathy and unity and inner communication and interchanges of all kinds with other beings and... the self and spirit is not restricted or divided as in our mind-nature, life-nature, body-nature. This also the psychic change makes possible; for Page 943 as it opens us to the cosmic consciousness now hidden from us by many walls of limiting individuality, so also it opens us to what is now superconscient to our normality because it is hidden from us by the strong, hard and bright lid ...
... at the cosmic consciousness, may know and feel his unity with all beings; but these are only stages or circumstances of his journey, results of the unfolding of his soul as it approaches nearer the ineffable goal. To pass beyond them all is his supreme object. When on the other hand, having attained to the freedom and the silence and the peace, we resume possession by the cosmic consciousness of the ...
... the samata & shakti chatusthayas & the Ananda of the Brahma chatusthaya. Varuna gives it greatness & expansion, Mitra intensity of love & delight, Earth & Heaven combine to formulate it, the cosmic consciousness & the universal ocean of substance supply that formulation with its field & materials. Script. The inconclusive result of the rupa extension has somewhat discouraged Prithivi, ie the... definite & decided progress. Eg stable lipi is settled in the akash; the long continuity of scene in swapna samadhi is Page 626 being slowly prepared; Tapas grows more powerful; the cosmic consciousness is settled. The general intention seems to be to fix these & other siddhis in the obscurer parts of the consciousness so that they shall not be dependent on the play of the Vijnana. The ...
... and the part, in the Cosmos as a whole and in each being, force or object in the Cosmos. Since He is one and indivisible, the Spirit in all is one and their multiplicity is a play of His cosmic consciousness. Therefore each human being is in his essence one with all others, free, eternal, immutable, lord of Nature. TRANSITIONAL THOUGHT Avidya The object of habitation is enjoyment and... inhabits each object as if separately, yet all objects exist in that Self and not outside it. Therefore by transcending Ego and realising the one Self, we possess the whole universe in the one cosmic consciousness and do not need to possess physically. Having by oneness with the Lord the possibility of an infinite free delight in all things, we do not need to desire. Being one with all beings, we ...
... physical being become fit instruments of the Divine Mother. Yes, these experiences [ of the smallness of the egoistic person ] always come when one is opening into the wideness of the cosmic consciousness and your conclusions are correct. The self-importance of the ego has to dissolve—the importance of life or the progress of the being can come only from its being a vehicle of the Divine's play... only in spite of work, but in spite of knowledge or bhakti. The disappearance of ego means complete mukti . But even the Yogi who feels Page 234 his separate being swallowed up in cosmic consciousness or some kind of transcendental consciousness, yet when it comes to outward action and reaction finds the superficial ego still there. That is why the ascetic has a horror of action and says ...
... most normal course is for a certain Peace and Force and Light which is above the mind to descend and as the result of its workings the cosmic consciousness opens and in it higher and higher levels above mind. Many people get an opening into the cosmic consciousness first but without the basis of the higher Peace and Light it brings only a mass of unorganised experiences. Page 449 It ...
... Experiences of the Cosmic Consciousness Letters on Yoga - III Chapter III The Universal or Cosmic Forces The Nature of the Universal or Cosmic Forces Universal forces means all forces good or bad, favourable or hostile, of light or of darkness that move in the cosmos. The cosmic forces here whether good or bad are forces of the Ignorance. Above... according to the person's nature—and his will and consciousness. It [ knowledge of the working of the cosmic forces ] is necessary—it comes of itself as one gets more and more forward in the cosmic consciousness. They [ pain and misery ] are perhaps rather the result of the action of universal forces—but in a certain sense grief and pain may be said to be universal forces—for there are waves ...
... with the cosmic mind, cosmic vital, cosmic physical. The psychic realises the contact with all existence, the oneness of the Self, the universal love and other realisations which lead to the cosmic consciousness. But all that is a result of the opening to the spiritual above and it comes by an infiltration or reflection of the spiritual light and truth in mind, life and body. The spiritual transformation... wrong in the nature and turned towards ego and error, away from Light and Truth. Eliminate egoism in all its forms; eliminate it from every movement of your consciousness. Develop the cosmic consciousness—let the egocentric outlook disappear in wideness, impersonality, the sense of the cosmic Divine, the perception of universal forces, the realisation and understanding of the cosmic manifestation ...
... in the full cosmic consciousness when it is only some front or small part of it or some larger Mind, Life-Power or subtle physical ranges with which they have entered into dynamic connection" [p. 37]. What is meant here by "larger Mind"? It means simply larger than the limited personal mind. It is a play of some combination of cosmic Mind-Forces but not the full cosmic Consciousness, not even the ...
... ion of the mind, heart, will, all the being. If a mantra is found helpful for that, one uses it. OM if rightly used (not mechanically) might very well help the opening upwards and outwards (cosmic consciousness) as well as the descent. It [ Pranava japa ] is supposed to have a force of its own although that force cannot fully work without the meditation on the meaning. But my experience is that... Divine and oneself as spread out in that vast consciousness—as if the world were within us and not we inside the world or as if the world were one with us and one with the Divine. It is the "cosmic consciousness" that comes by this mantra. For our Yoga this is a beginning only, not the end as it is in the ordinary Yoga,—a liberation, not the Siddhi. The Gayatri Mantra The power of the Gayatri ...
... taken as anything more. 16 September 1935 Seeking the Way X seems to have told Y that the old sadhaks, who were here before the Mother took up the work in 1926, had many experiences of Cosmic Consciousness, etc., meaning to convey that their sadhana was much better and more serious than what people are doing now. Before the Mother came all were living in the mind with only some mental realisations... realisations and experiences. The vital and everything else were unregenerated and the psychic behind the veil. I am not aware that anyone of them at that time entered the cosmic consciousness. At that time I was still seeking my way for the transformation and the passage to the supramental (all the part of the Yoga that goes beyond the ordinary Vedanta) and acted very much on a principle of laissez ...
... cannot provide total knowledge. To get that knowledge vaster and higher realisations have to be won through the soul: the Cosmic Consciousness has to be compassed and the Transcendental Truth attained. Here, however, I must say that the Cosmic Consciousness and the Transcendental Truth have many shades and grades. Various Yogis have given out of their realisations various answers ...
... development of the Self-realisation or of the cosmic consciousness or if there is the emptiness which is preliminary condition for these things, there comes an automatic tendency for a Unity with all — their affections, mental, vital, physical may easily touch. One has to keep oneself free. Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: The Universal or Cosmic Consciousness ...
... which has been termed as Mahas in the Taittiriya Upanishad, is indispensable for attaining one of the highest levels of universal consciousness or cosmic consciousness. It is interesting that in our own times, the experience of cosmic consciousness is being recognised increasingly, and we find references to it in William James' Varieties of Religious Experience (2004, pp. 344-345) and in many other ...
... said, is very erratic, saying one thing now, contradicting it the next moment, and prophesying so many things that don't come true. SRI AUROBINDO: That means he is living and acting from the Cosmic Consciousness. I don't know what realisation he has reached. Perhaps it is on the vital plane. That is a plane of possibility or idea or suggestion comes to him with some force, he accepts it. The nature... "vast range". SRI AUROBINDO: There is no indication of the nature of Meher Baba's first realisation; but to judge from his first experience, or its results, he seems to have got into the Cosmic Consciousness, but for its expression there was no instrumentation for a long time. That explains his long period of seeming madness. Since then he has been trying to establish the contact but there is still ...
... Spirit is not restricted or divided as in our mind-nature, life-nature, body-nature. The psychic change makes this ascent not only possible but even safe; psychic consciousness opens us to the cosmic consciousness by breaking many walls of limiting individuality; but it also opens us to what is now superconscient to our normality. If there is an awakening to the existence of the higher supernormal levels... the ascent of consciousness in the superconscient and even towards the Transcendence, which results in the experience of the Self, experience of the Ishwara and Divine Shakti, experience of cosmic consciousness. This inflow of spiritual experiences has effects on the lower Prakriti of mind, life and body, and there are illuminations of the mind by knowledge, illuminations of the heart, illuminations ...
... sure of true and right results. In that society, the quarrel between the individual and the collectivity or the disastrous struggle between one community and another would not exist, since the cosmic consciousness imbedded in the embodied beings would assure a harmonious diversity in oneness. The study of Applied Philosophy will need, therefore, to include the study of the relationship between the... desire, psychology of concentration including that of meditation and contemplation. Yoga and psychology of spiritual experiences could also be included such as those of liberation from ego, cosmic consciousness, transcendental consciousness and spiritual transformation and perfection. Along with the subject of science and values, one could also have in this programme the study of art and values ...
... the one proper business of life in this world of Matter. Finally, in all these theories, the role of the individual and the way in which the individual can relate itself with the cosmic life, cosmic consciousness and even with supra-cosmic reality is underlined. Supra-cosmic Aim of Life But there are theories and even yogic experiences which, even while admitting the relative validity of... Brahman, the transcendent Silence. It is in the experience of this pure and inactive Brahman or of the pure Self that the supra-cosmic view takes its stand. It maintains that transcendence of cosmic consciousness means also the rejection of cosmic conscious-ness. The appeal of this view is that neither the cosmic nor the terrestrial nor the supra-terrestrial life has any ultimate meaning and that re ...
... of the Supreme in the material universe. Yet even when sense and mind are enlarged, reason argues that all this knowledge by identity, by widening of consciousness into Infinite or Cosmic Consciousness is moon-shine, and perfection is not possible. Man would acquire more and more knowledge of sense-data, develop the chemistry, astro-physics, mathematics and arrive at perfection one day... at work is the intuition of the One, the Purusha. The formula : "I am He"— So'ham is the first formula. I am He, the Urilimited, the Infinite, the Divine, the Supreme, the Lord, or the Cosmic Consciousness. "Then: Thou art That:" — Tattvamasi. So, not only, 'I am He', but that which I cognize outside myself as 'thou' is also That. And the third is, "All this that I see is, indeed, the ...
... roots of personality are veiled in mystery. The term "Collective Unconscious" reminds the Indian Student of the terms "Collective Consciousness", and " Cosmic Consciousness" already used in our Ancient Sacred "books. This Cosmic Consciousness and even a supra cosmic-transcendent-Consciousness mentioned in Indian books, are Superconscient to the ordinary man, but they are regarded as capable of being ...
... meaning in that. Disciple : Does the experience of the Cosmic Spirit correspond to what you have termed the "Overmind"? Sri Aurobindo : Yes, but you can have the experience of the Cosmic Consciousness on any other level of consciousness Page 172 also. Generally, you have it on the level of the Higher Mind where you feel the two aspects static and dynamic as separate. But... have the power to be free, either by moving out of evolution, that is to say, one must get the power to act from beyond the evolution. Many yogis when they go beyond into the Spirit or the Cosmic consciousness, allow Cosmic nature to act through them without any sense of individual responsibility. They remain concentrated in, or identified with the Page 175 Higher Consciousness ...
... perception of right relations and their inevitable execution in the act. The quarrel between the individual and society or disastrous struggle between one community and another could not exist: the cosmic consciousness imbedded in embodied beings would assure a harmonious diversity in oneness. 26 Instead of expecting such an order to be precipitated by a flourish of the wand of the Omnipotent Supreme... sight see in a sort of fourth dimension, the character of which is a certain internally... ...Nothing will be really external to it, for it will experience all in the unity of the cosmic consciousness which will be its own.... It will experience matter, not only gross matter but the subtle and the most subtle, as substance and form of the spirit, experience life and all kinds of energy as ...
... harrowing, or the body starts sobbing helplessly as if seized with all the sorrows of the world. I do not know why so many wise or not so wise men gloat over their “cosmic consciousness”: it is the body that has the cosmic consciousness, absolutely and directly. You are stripped bare, the various cloaks covering you fall off in succession – and the whole world is there. Among the thousands of examples ...
... real and can last eternally .... 8 And the result of it all is that, divorced or withdrawn from the body as it were, Mirra's individual consciousness has merged with the universal or cosmic consciousness, making nonsense of the fret and fever and hectic movements of the phenomenal world. Page 137 III The meditation for 24 May 1915, although coming more than a month later... adventure of consciousness, a new experiment, if a controlled one. This was not just an experience in the negative sense of a general attunement to the immense reservoir of terrestrial or cosmic consciousness, but rather in the dynamic sense of being able to move about, establish contact with and activate individuals irrespective of intervening distances. X It would be interesting in ...
... variegated richness of the phenomenal world; but the Divine is nevertheless the ground of harmony, of unity, of Ananda. The transcendence of preferences and limitations could lead to cosmic consciousness; and such cosmic consciousness could ripen into the divine consciousness. To put it in another way, increasing self-awareness and progressive world-awareness invade and possess each other, and find their meaning ...
... are suddenly filled with very unpleasant odors and reduced to the size of a dwarf, which makes you think, “What! Is this yoga? Is this me...? ” It is excruciating. “Look, I set out seeking cosmic consciousness, not these stinking trifles! ” Yes, but sorrow, the great sorrow of the world is made of a million trifles—sharks are charming, that is not where death is: it lies in those countless “trifles"... voice of the Vedic Asuras—titans and demons—keeps droning in your ears: “You won’t succeed, it’s a hopeless endeavor, it's doomed to failure, you’re wasting your time.... Go on, soar into the cosmic consciousness!” On and on, day after day, tirelessly, and night after night without respite, it is there all the time: it is either you or me. Which one will win? Sometimes, you feel like Mr. Seguin's goat ...
... super-old methods. There are no methods! You cannot try to become what is not (or apparently not); how could you do it? You can try to become a mathematician or a poet or even a yogi in the cosmic consciousness, but how do you try to do what is nonexistent? There's no path, nobody went there! So She lived that undulation, interspersed with abrupt returns to the cage. The Double World Yet... seriously ill, that was the beginning. Because the entire body was emptied of its habits and forces, and then, slowly, slowly, the cells woke up to a new receptivity.... In short, it is the cosmic consciousness of the body—its natural consciousness. For the animal to become a man, it didn't take anything else than the infusion of a consciousness—a mental consciousness—and now, it's the awakening of ...
... experience and it made possible all the rest of the sadhana." That his sadhana was progressing at a pace can be deduced from his letters to his wife, Mrinalini Devi. - The experience of the Cosmic Consciousness, or the Vasudeva experience in the Alipore jail. Now, any one of these experiences would have been fulfilment enough for any individual. It is common knowledge in India that some of these... out to be ... a first step towards the complete thing, not the sole true attainment possible or even a culminating finale." Normally, the ultimate aim of most Yogis is the attainment of the Cosmic Consciousness, where all beings, all objects are perceived as the Divine. This is a cherished realization. Now, if 'Arabindo Babu' had these personal realizations while in Bengal, what need had he to ...
... ideal. The Gita's Yoga consists in the offering of one's work as a sacrifice to the Divine, the conquest of desire, egoless and desireless action, Bhakti for the Divine, an entering into the cosmic consciousness, the sense of unity with all creatures, oneness with the Divine. This Yoga adds the bringing down of the supramental Light and Force (its ultimate aim) and the transformation of the nature.... into which the Peace ineffable can descend; one gets by the dedication of one's will to the Divine, by the merging of one's will in the Divine Will the death of ego and the enlarging into the cosmic consciousness or else the uplifting into what is above the Page 48 cosmic; one experiences the separation of Purusha from Prakriti and is liberated from the shackles of the outer nature; one ...
... × Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: The Universal or Cosmic Consciousness × Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: The Universal or Cosmic Consciousness × ...
... that the Truth is experienced within but it has not yet taken hold of the dynamic relations with the outside existence. It is an inner experience of the cosmic consciousness and the overmind knowledge that you have. The cosmic consciousness, the overmind knowledge and experience is an inner knowledge—but its effect is subjective. As long as one lives in it, one can be free in soul, but to transform ...
... is extinguished ( nirvāṇa ) in the true Light. In spiritual experience it is sometimes the loss of all sense of individuality in a boundless cosmic consciousness; what was the individual remains only as a centre or a channel for the flow of a cosmic consciousness and a cosmic force and action. Or it may be the experience of the loss of individuality in a transcendent being and consciousness in which ...
... deeper consciousness but see no vision—and so on. The result varies with the nature. Yes, it [ the higher consciousness ] can come down into the mind planes bringing peace, wideness, the cosmic consciousness, the realisation of the Divine, the sense of the cosmic forces and other things—without any breaking of the veil through vision. Ordinarily, however, with most people the inner vision comes... religion or Yoga. Farther, vision is of value because it is often a first key to inner planes of one's own being and one's own consciousness as distinguished from worlds or planes of the cosmic consciousness. Page 92 Yoga experience often begins with some opening of the third eye in the forehead (the centre of vision in the brows) or with some kind of beginning and extension of subtle ...
... influence can extend downward through all the being and outward through space. It [ higher consciousness ] means the larger spiritual conscious ness which contains all these things [ cosmic consciousness, intuitive consciousness, other planes of consciousness between Intuition and mind ] in possibility and once it is there can develop them in their due place or order. The planes below... of intuition in ordinary mind itself, in the vital, in the physical consciousness, in the material itself. To live in the Intuitive it is necessary first to have the opening into the cosmic consciousness and to live first in the higher and the illumined Mind, seeing everything from there. To receive constantly the intuition from above, that is not necessary—it is sufficient to have the sense ...
... universal Life, a universal physical conscious Nature. We are unaware of it because we are shut up in our outer physical selves. By the inner awakening and the opening above we become aware of this cosmic consciousness, cosmic Nature and cosmic Self and its movements; our consciousness can widen and become one with it. The forces of universal Nature are always working on us without our knowing how they act... them as instrumental lower forms of itself; or it may not see them at all but rather immerge Page 21 in the free undifferentiated Self; or it may throw itself into an active dynamic cosmic consciousness and identify with that or do any number of other things without resorting to the help of this much overrated and meddlesome fly on the wheel which you call the clear individual "I". The real ...
... trying to depend on the psychic strength. You must not try to stop any opening. My remarks were only meant to keep you on your guard against certain errors that sadhaks often make when the cosmic consciousness opens. If there is the psychic opening with its surrender and the higher opening with its wideness and self-realisation, the two together, there is little danger of any such error. 11 October... also the Mother, that the personal "I" is a child of the Mother with whom I am one, yet different, her child, servant, instrument. I have said that you should not stop realising the Self or the cosmic consciousness, but should at the same time remember that all this is the Mother. 13 October 1934 ...
... integration the supracosmic Reality stands as the supreme Truth of being; to realise it is the highest reach of our consciousness. But it is this highest Reality which is also the cosmic being, the cosmic consciousness, the cosmic will and life: it has put these things forth, not outside itself but in its own being, not as an opposite principle but as its own self-unfolding and self-expression. Cosmic being... opening into universality the individual remains incomplete. The individual separating himself from the All to reach the Highest, loses himself in the supreme heights; including in himself the cosmic consciousness, he recovers his wholeness of self and still keeps his supreme gain of transcendence; he fulfils it and himself in the cosmic completeness. A realised unity of the transcendent, the universal ...
... divided from them by an egoistic individuality. In other words, besides the consciousness of the transcendent Self pure, self-existent, timeless, spaceless we have to accept and become the cosmic consciousness, we have to identify our being with the Infinite who makes himself the base and continent of the worlds and dwells in all existences. This is the realisation which the ancient Vedantins spoke... wide sea. This unity embracing all mind, life and matter in the light of a supramental Truth and the pulse of a spiritual Bliss will be to us our internal fulfilment of the Divine in a complete cosmic consciousness. But since we must embrace all this in the double term of the Being and the Becoming, the knowledge that we shall possess must be complete and integral. It must not stop with the realisation ...
... of the supramental being, the Vijnana Purusha. The state of the being after this supramental transformation will be in all its parts of consciousness and knowledge that of an infinite and cosmic consciousness acting through the universalised individual Purusha. The fundamental power will be an awareness of identity, a knowledge by identity,—an identity of being, of consciousness, of force of being... psychic consciousness and senses and use them as the means of an extreme inner objectivisation of experience. Nothing will be really external to it, for it will experience all in the unity of the cosmic consciousness which will be its own, the unity of being of the infinite which will be its own being. It will experience matter, not only gross matter but the subtle and the most subtle, as substance and form ...
... or of the tradition of the Eastern Church where he would have found much to interest him." Supreme Yogis, master occultists, at home on various subtle planes, recipients of knowledge from the cosmic consciousness, readers of the traces left in the inner dimensions by all that past spirituality has done, viewers of the paths traversed in the in-worlds by saint and seer and prophet and avatar of every... God who is the cosmos, and laying upon all forms in the universe the pressure to reject activities like theft, lechery, murder. Even to be able to cultivate the pantheistic experience, the Cosmic Consciousness, the realisation of God as the All, one has to purify oneself of propensities like those of the thief, the lecher, the murderer. Such are the "pragmatics" of mysticism. Still more insistent ...
... Yoga's, but much depends on the precise content read in it. In the past, the whole meaning of transcendence lay in getting beyond the ordinary human self into some aloof Absolute or some Cosmic Consciousness or some Oversoul that is this self's Lord and Lover. Transformation meant sagehood and saintliness, a calmly compassionate, wisely energetic and helpful living from within outwards, which... the eternal, the deific, it helps its instruments, our nature-parts, in that onward and upward straining. But since the Spirit is not only beyond but even here - and here not only as a Cosmic Consciousness containing and enveloping all but also as an entity hidden in the very atoms of the physical universe and progressively active in the stuff of life and mind - its outflowering in our ...
... modes of being and rise to a new, a higher, a wider mode of consciousness which is not that of the ordinary animal and intellectual man. Yoga is the exchange of an egoistic for a universal or cosmic consciousness lifted towards or informed by the supra-cosmic, transcendent Unnameable who is the source and support of all things. Yoga is the passage of the human thinking animal towards the God-consciousness... can be said figuratively that with a petty fragment of His being and a single ray of His consciousness He has created all these worlds. Therefore the universalised mind must look up from its cosmic consciousness to the Supernal and derive from that all its sense of being and movement of works. This is the fundamental truth from which the Yogic consciousness starts; it helps the individual to universalise ...
... principle of divided consciousness with all its oppositions, discords and dualities... In other words, besides the consciousness of the transcendent Self... we have to accept and become the cosmic consciousness... "This realisation of all things as God or Brahman has, as we have seen, three aspects.... First, there is the Self in whom all beings exist. The Spirit, the Divine has manifested itself as... 424-25. Page 300 all mind, life and matter in the light of a supramental Truth and the pulse of a spiritual Bliss will be to us our internal fulfilment of the Divine in a complete cosmic consciousness." 1 Our approach through spiritual philosophy to Sri Aurobindo's poetic vision is now complete. As "Overhead poetry" is at work here, the canons of the ordinary poetic imagination, no ...
... some intermediate power (not always a Power of the Divine) as the Supreme and intermediate consciousness as the supreme realization. Very readily they come to think that they are in the full cosmic consciousness when it is only some front or small part of it or some larger Mind, Life-Power or subtle physical ranges with which they have entered into dynamic connection. Or they feel themselves to be an... differently in it and respond sometimes to one class of possibilities, sometimes to another. In this case it seems to have been entered through an attempt to call down or force a way into the cosmic consciousness—it does not matter which way it is put or whether one is quite aware of what one is doing or aware of it in these terms, it comes to that in substance. It is not the Overmind which was entered ...
... flowing upon all these people through unity of the centres of the Sukshma Deha. Explanation: This is the opening by the power of the overmind, to the Cosmic Consciousness—to a certain extent, not complete. For, the complete Cosmic Consciousness takes time to come. What you saw was a symbol of the Cosmic force acting upon and through the separate individuals even when they were not conscious of it ...
... Experiences of Cosmic Consciousness My Pilgrimage to the Spirit March 7, 1932 Experience: As soon as I unite myself with you, the whole form gets extended in all directions—the head touches the sky; the feet go deep down in the ground and hands get extended into infinite distances in the ecstasy of the timeless, eternal, infinite consciousness I... receive its light. It is not your own consciousness, although you feel it in yourself, but a symbolic experience of the universal Vishwa-Purusha. These things one sees when one opens to the Cosmic Consciousness. Observed, felt and taken rightly, they help to liberate, universalize and impersonalize.... Observe and go forward. Sri Aurobindo ...
... Experiences of Cosmic Consciousness My Pilgrimage to the Spirit March 3, 1932 *Experience: While taking food I experience as if its soul or "that something within" shoots out of its heart and rises… unites and merges in the heart of each atom of air—as if a spark uniting with another spark.... Everywhere there streams out the joy of union. Fine elements... Light and Life come out of the lifeless stones and join… revel… enlarge this sweetest tune to its infinite vastness....* Explanation: It is one of the thousand experiences one gets when the Cosmic Consciousness is opening. Sri Aurobindo ...
... Bomb Case (photograph from police records) In Alipore jail he had his second important realization — this time of the omnipresent Brahman, the One within whom everything exists, and of the cosmic consciousness. ‘I looked at the jail that secluded me from man and it was no longer by its high walls that I was imprisoned; no, it was Vasudeva who surrounded me. I walked under the branches of the tree... find power and support for his political action. Gradually, by following with sincere surrender the unknown and the novel path that was being shown to him, step by step, he had acquired the cosmic consciousness. His quest would lead him to ‘the one thing needful,’ namely That, the One. Once That is found, all is found, the whole Cosmos and more — for That holds the cosmos in the palm of its hand, with ...
... provoked any comparable controversy: "It is not that I have laboriously discovered the whole; it is the whole that has presented itself to me, imposed itself on me through a sort of 'cosmic consciousness'. It is the attraction of the whole that has set everything in motion in me, has animated and given organic form to everything. It is because I feel the whole and love it passionately that... "Philosophically and psychologically,...nothing in the world is intelligible except in and starting from the whole." As to the exact relationship between the object of Teilhard's "cosmic consciousness " - the World that was the 9. Ibid., p. 102. 10. Ibid. 11. Science and Christ, pp. 43-44. Page 38 foundation of his religious life - and the ...
... one reads the accounts of certain Christian or pagan mystics or indeed the confidences of many apparently quite ordinary men, one has to ask oneself seriously whether there is not a sort of cosmic consciousness in our soul more diffused than individual consciousness, more intermittent, but perfectly well defined - a sort of feeling of the presence of all beings at once, not perceived as multiple and... itself. "We are moving towards a higher state of general consciousness, which is linked with a further synthesis of our particular consciousness.... In man, by virtue of reflexion, a fragment of cosmic consciousness is definitely individualized. But how can we imagine that this portion once shaped can afterwards join other like fragments in the building of a super-consciousness? To become super-conscious ...
... (d) To revert to our subject. Perhaps our research will one day flash out for us the moment when Sri Aurobindo in the period before the Victory Day parted the highest Cosmic Consciousness from the sheer Transcendence. According to his own admission¹ on 20 November 1933, he did it "fully" not before the sadhana was precipitated into the physical. But "the negative answer"... earthly fulfilment through all human illuminations. Also, Sri Aurobindo has accepted the essence of the great basic realisations of old - Nirvana, the All-Brahman, the Ishwara-Shakti, the Cosmic Consciousness, the great Gods and Goddesses, the Jnana, Bhakti and Karma Yogas, the Tantra. The Mother accepts this essence just as much, though she may not employ the ancient Indian terminology as easily ...
... Cantos. One of the Cantos in Book VII (The Book of Yoga) carries no title,* in Book VIII (The Book of Death) the solitary Canto is * The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness (Revised Edition in 1993). 12 Ibid., pp. 12-19. 13 A.B. Purani, Evening Talks, First Series, p. 294. Page 282 marked Three, and Book XII (Epilogue: The... Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, 60 Ibid., pp. 788-90. 61 Ibid., p. 743. 62 lbid., p. 759. Page 302 Intuition) must involve, in some measure at least, a "cosmic consciousness", a background consciousness to which the million particulars of phenomenal life perceived by the mind or the vital emotion or the physical seeing are ultimately related: "In the direct Overmind ...
... superconscient has been to evolve slowly the spiritual man out of the mental half-animal." 40 The superconscient has generally been referred to as the capital "M" Mind, the Deeper Mind, Cosmic Consciousness, the Higher Self, Spirit and other similar global terms. Sri Aurobindo, however, distinguishes various distinct levels of consciousness among these higher planes of being which lie above the... separation from the indivisible Truth above. 48 It is (sometimes directly, sometimes indirectly) by the power of the overmind releasing the mind form its close partitions that the cosmic consciousness opens in the seeker and he becomes aware of the cosmic spirit and the play of the cosmic forces. It is from or at least through the overmind plane that the original pre-arrangement ...
... to the absolving of all individuality as well. One could foresee in one's impersonal consciousness with its peculiar non-mental mode the threatening abrogation of all individuality and even cosmic consciousness. The individual die, the cosmos pass; These gone, the transcendental grew a myth, The Holy Ghost without the Father and Son, Or, a substratum of what once had been, ... of her own. She was the single self of all these selves, She was in them and they were all in her. 10 The first experience of this complete identification with the cosmic consciousness in one of losing one's separate identity in the universal subconscient, material, vital, emotional and mental consciousness. What seemed herself was an image of the Whole. She was ...
... What kind of "realisation" did you mean when you wrote, "Blankness is only a condition in which the realisation has to come"? Every kind of realisation - infinite self, cosmic consciousness, the Mother's Presence, Light, Force, Ananda, Knowledge, Sachchidananda realisation, the different layers of consciousness up to the Supermind. All these can come in the silence which remains... that ball my being began to expand and tended to be as vast as the globe itself. This widening movement was recorded down to my inner physical. That is a symbolic experience of the cosmic consciousness - it is that widening which is still lacking in your experience of peace. Yesterday at 6 p.m. (which is not my usual time for trance) I felt very deeply some call from above ...
... is the psychic transformation, in which all is in contact with the Divine through the psychic consciousness. Next is the spiritual transformation in which all is merged in the Divine in the cosmic consciousness. Third is the supramental transformation in which all becomes supramentalised in the divine gnostic consciousness. It is only with the last that there can begin the complete transformation... become জিতক্রধঃ জিতেন্দ্রিয়ঃ 88 . That a bad temper should be a sign of fulfilment in the Brahman, is a revolutionary doctrine. That is a particular stage in the growth in or towards the cosmic consciousness. But it is surely not the last stage of siddhi. How is it that later Avatars often find fault with the actions and movements of their predecessors? Avatars are supposed to be infallible ...
... would be no meaning in that. PURANI: Does the experience of the Cosmic Spirit correspond, to the experience of the Overmind? SRI AUROBINDO: Yes; but you can have the experience of the Cosmic Consciousness on any level. Generally you have it on the level of the Higher Mind where you feel the two aspects—dynamic and the static—as separate. But as you go above, you find the Overmind arching over... must have the power to be free either by moving out of the evolution or by attaining to something that would not bind one to the evolution. Many Yogis, when they go beyond into the Spirit of cosmic consciousness, allow the cosmic nature to act through them without any sense of individual responsibility. They remain concentrated in or identified with the higher consciousness and their nature sometimes ...
... touch, even the touch of anything else 'overhead' (which comprises all the above-mind states of consciousness: Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuition) must involve, in some measure at least, a "cosmic consciousness", a background consciousness to which the million particulars of phenomenal life perceived by the mind or the vital emotion or the physical seeing are ultimately related: "In the direct Overmind... are the superlative challenges to the painter: how should she figure out Aswapathy, and how Savitri? In Book I, Canto 5, a climactic point is reached in the Yoga of the King when he achieves cosmic consciousness: A universal light was in his eyes, A golden influx flowed through heart and brain... This is a challenge to the painter's art, and the challenge is squarely met ...
... constitution of the physical consciousness 28 that Sri Aurobindo sought, a fact he had so much difficulty impressing on his disciples, who remained stuck to the traditional notions of yoga: cosmic consciousness and so on: One can feel merged in the Cosmic Self or full of ecstatic Bhakti [love] or Ananda. But one may and usually does still go on in the outer parts of Nature thinking with the intellect... Matter. The next Matter is to be made, or rather revealed, through the breaking of a million little habits of seeing in the wrong way, living in the wrong way, being in the wrong way. As for cosmic consciousness, we will find it in Matter, every minute and in the smallest pebble. The time has come to emerge from the Minds old cosmic imposture. Mao Tse-Tung’s “Great Union of the Popular Masses” may well ...
... Page 439 Then touches on some height of luminous sleep The bliss and splendour of the eternal plane. 155 It is a preparation for the possession of 'cosmic consciousness', a prelude to the exercise of such sovereignty; nothing is now hidden from view, neither the origins nor the course of events, neither the glory of Shiva in his "mystic loneliness of nude ecstasy"... universe's call I mount to my imperishable home. I pass beyond Time and life on measureless wings, Yet still am one with born and unborn things. 156 Such is 'Cosmic Consciousness'; there is an edged intellectual clarity, but it by no means destroys the nuances of powerful suggestion, the rumbling undertones of dhvani. These sonnets are, of course, no ...
... 673 The Call of the Impossible 595 Charles Stewart Parnell 17 The Children of Wotan 641 A Child's Imagination 211 Chitrangada 309 Contrasts 593 Cosmic Consciousness 603 The Cosmic Dance 590 The Cosmic Man 637 The Cosmic Spirit 619 Creation 614 Page 733 Cry of the ocean's surges 653 The Death of ...
... self-experience the supreme existence, consciousness, bliss, be one with Sachchidananda. He will become one with cosmic being and universal Nature: he will contain the world in himself, in his own cosmic consciousness and feel himself one with all beings; he will see himself in all and all in himself, become united and identified with the Self which has become all existences. He will perceive the beauty of ...
... ripened culture; that is a question for Europe to decide. But Page 214 always to India this ideal inspiration or rather this spiritual vision of Self, God, Spirit, this nearness to a cosmic consciousness, a cosmic sense and feeling, a cosmic idea, will, love, delight into which we can release the limited, ignorant, suffering ego, this drive towards the transcendental, eternal and infinite, and ...
... an undeveloped humanity to which most men still belong, na yathā prākṛto janaḥ , he can even become a free perfected semi-divine man, mukta, siddha . But he can do more; released into the cosmic consciousness, his spirit can become one with God, one self with the Spirit of the universe or rise into a Light and Vastness that transcends the universe; his nature can become one dynamic power with universal ...
... bodily life to attain to the mental and spiritual, so we can arrive at a point of view where the preservation of the individual activities is no longer inconsistent with our comprehension of the cosmic consciousness or our attainment to the transcendent and supracosmic. For the World-Transcendent embraces the universe, is one with it and does not exclude it, even as the universe embraces the individual ...
... out in its fullest revelation in the third aspect of the Reality, the Divine Being who is the master and creator of the universe. Here the supreme Person, the Being in its transcendental and cosmic consciousness and force, comes to the front, omnipotent, omniscient, the controller of all energies, the Conscious in all that is conscient or inconscient, the Inhabitant of all souls and minds and hearts ...
... powers; study of Indian yogic practice a cogent residue Page 10 of superhuman states of existence beyond the body and brain, states partaking of a deathless In-dweller, a Cosmic Consciousness, a luminous Transcendent. It is an extremely facile and narrow survey that slurs over this evidence. Our scientific knowledge of the universe has increased, but the old magical dealing with ...
... and to the north of us and above and below and extended everywhere. All this magnificent universe is nothing but the Eternal." A mystic par excellence, Sri Aurobindo is inwardly one with a Cosmic Consciousness supporting with a limitless peace a limitless activity, with an indivisible singleness a myriad variety of forms. Not this one body alone which we know as Sri Aurobindo is his reality. It cannot ...
... behind my own self's light The Eternal who is birthless in things born, Equal to pin-point and infinity, Fused mother and child, one seer who is multiform. Merger of the whole cosmic consciousness In That which none can know but all can be! O leave me wingless on the earth no more; Bird me in thy dark dawning overhead, Invisible ere the heart burns up. a love ...
... him to have been directly from the sheer Overmind. (K.D.S.) Page 76 does not lean down and become part of mind, is super-conscient to us. It is more properly a cosmic consciousness, even the very base of the cosmic as we perceive, understand or feel it. It stands behind every particular in the cosmos and is the source of all our mental, vital or physical actualities and ...
... probably have to be interpreted along your lines. All I can say is that the ears, according to Sri Aurobindo, symbolise the medium through which spiritual messages and inspirations come from the Cosmic Consciousness to the individual consciousness. Your question on the turtle ( kurma ) calls for a two-fold answer. The turtle as one of the primal supports of the earth in Indian mythology is different from ...
... by K.D. Sethna, Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1968; second revised and enlarged edition 1992, pp. 136-41. Page 451 who should speak of what he termed Sri Aurobindo's Cosmic Consciousness and not preach to me of the "White Lodge" and the "Great Masters" and the Isis-unveiling Madame Blavatsky - this was a touch of Sri Aurobindo's Grace already. What made it the more Graceful ...
... materialistic philosophy are astronomical. Does Mrs. Knight forget that in her book of selections from William James she has stated that ESP very strongly recommends to us James's theory of a cosmic consciousness of varying kinds or a collection of several cosmic consciousnesses? Does she seriously mean to urge that such a consciousness or such a collection of consciousnesses is something altogether ...
... Yoga of Savitri,—through which she embodies higher and higher powers of the Divine Shakti in herself,— there arrives also a somewhat similar stage, that she must discover the cosmic spirit and cosmic consciousness. This is in the context that Savitri has a task to do and she cannot disappear into the Unmanifest. The gulf between that Ultimate Reality and this Manifestation has to be filled ...
... own making since She streams into us with her unbound force, Into mortal limbs the Immortal's rapture and power. 58 This background makes it easier to understand Savitri's cosmic consciousness described in the following cantos as also the images of Eternal Night, Double Twilight, Everlasting Day and the figure of Savitri when she takes her cosmic form to vanquish Death. There is ...
... Thought there has revelation's sun-bright eyes. 26 Sight in the Overmind Beyond the plane of the Intuitive Mind is a superconscient cosmic Mind which possesses a power of cosmic consciousness, a principle of global knowledge. In the wide cosmic perception of the Overmind, Ideas are phalanxed like a group of sums; Thought crowds in masses seized by one regard; All ...
... of the Spirit's reality. The one rises from Matter's plinth and viewless base of the Inconscient The other towers up to heights intangible, pleading with some still impenetrable Minds in the cosmic consciousness and hope to soar into the Ineffable's reign. Thus the three symbolic expressions—the World Stair, the Descent into Night, and the World-Soul stand identified to give a unitary approach ...
... divine beyond the impersonal and is least concerned if she is going to disappear altogether in it or new-become the All. VII: 7 The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness Beyond the Creation, beyond Sachchidananda, beyond the manifest Reality Savitri has reached the ultimate Supreme, Paratpara, the Absolute or the utter Unmanifest, the Greater ...
... The beginning of Sri Aurobindo's first draft of the concluding canto of Book Seven can be seen in the facsimile. He wrote the tide of the canto, "The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness", at the top and in the left margin of the page. When he began a new draft after taming the page, he did not repeat the title. As a result, the canto appeared without a title when the second ...
... 38: Canto V The Finding of the Soul 39: Canto VI Nirvana and the Discovery of the All-Negating Absolute 40: Canto VII The Discovery of the Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness Book Eight The Book of Death Page 92 41: Canto III Death in the Forest Book Nine The Book of Eternal Night 42: Canto I Towards the Black ...
... — the spiritual change in which there is the established descent of the divine peace, light, knowledge, power, bliss from above, the awareness of the Self and the Divine and of a higher cosmic consciousness and the change of the whole nature to that. ś raddh ā —faith. the Subconscient — the part of the being which is below the level of the mental, vital and physical cons ...
... to the extension of knowledge as the religious obscurantism which opposed in Europe the extension of scientific discovery. The greatest inner discoveries, the experience of self-being, the cosmic consciousness, the inner calm of the liberated spirit, the direct effect of mind upon mind, the knowledge of things by consciousness in direct contact with other consciousness or with its objects, most ...
... views the human being as a multi-levelled expression of a single consciousness, each level having its own characteristic sense of identity, ranging from the all-embracing infinite identity of cosmic consciousness to the exclusive, narrow identity of ego-consciousness. The innermost consciousness of the human being, states Wilber, "is identical to the absolute and ultimate reality of the universe" which ...
... be reached after centuries. The second reason is that nobody can practice the Integral Yoga for selfish aims. A necessary condition of the supramental transformation is the acquisition of the cosmic consciousness, something that is impossible in the ego-state. Besides, the acquisition of the supramental consciousness, even in a single cell of a human body, is a cosmic event with repercussions throughout ...
... to the extension of knowledge as the religious obscurantism which opposed in Europe the extension of scientific discovery. The greatest inner discoveries, the experience of self-being, the cosmic consciousness, the inner calm of the liberated spirit, the direct effect of mind upon mind, the knowledge of things by consciousness in direct contact with other consciousness or with its objects, most spiritual ...
... writes in the letters of which The Riddle of This World is composed: no answer has ever been given to satisfy the human mind because the answer requires a consciousness vaster than ours, a cosmic consciousness, only obtainable in an advanced state of yoga. The path towards such understanding is the path of faith and surrender, warranted by the Vedantic affirmation that all is the Brahman and that ...
... personality.) After the following intensive practice of the yoga and guided by the Master of the yoga in his heart, Sri Aurobindo had had the realization of the Omnipresent Divine and of the Cosmic Consciousness in the prison at Alipore. One of those two realizations is for the greatest yogis, in most cases, the fruit of a lifelong sadhana . The date of Sri Aurobindo’s third realization cannot be ...
... the woman too the Divine was visible.’ This exquisite cameo of life in Japan was noted down by Mirra in her diary on 5 December 1916. The reader may recall Sri Aurobindo’s realization of the cosmic consciousness when he saw Lord Krishna in all the people and objects of Alipore jail. Mirra must have had the same consciousness at least since her identification with the Great Mother. The entries in ...
... content with spiritual experience and do not seek after an outward perfection or progress, some who are saints, others who do not seek after sainthood, others who are content to live in the cosmic consciousness in touch or union with the All but allowing all kinds of forces to fly through them, e.g. in the typical description of the Paramhansa. The ideal I put before our Yoga Page 166 ...
... by Page 135 the Divine Grace that the Integral Yoga can be fulfilled. Man's consciousness can climb by its own initiative up to the Overmind, the highest range of the Cosmic Consciousness. To mount further than this, there is required the leaning down of the Grace from the Supermind, that Face of the sheer Transcendent turned towards the cosmos. And for this Grace to operate ...
... consciousness and attended at first by the overwhelming feeling and perception of the total unreality of the world, though this feeling disappeared after his second realisation which was that of the cosmic consciousness and of the Divine as all beings and all that is, which happened in the Alipore Jail. To the other two realisations, that of the supreme Reality with the static and dynamic Brahman as its two ...
... ochre Page xxi robes, Sadhus and Sannyasis and questioned them about the Unknown. It was from a South Indian Theosophist plus artcritic that he first heard about the Cosmic Consciousness of Sri Aurobindo. A picture of his Guru in a booklet and the special qualities: "multi-presence and polyglottism" associated with Sri Aurobindo provided additional stimulus. Later, ...
... Seeing the bundle of various qualities, even contradictory ones, in Sethna, he said: "A complex person like you will be satisfied only with Sri Aurobindo. I could see that Sri Aurobindo had the cosmic consciousness. He could feel even the grass grow! He could know everything within the universe as if it were within his own consciousness." That interested Sethna. But things rested there. Then ...
... its transcen- 14.Ibid., p. 294. 15.Ibid., p. 295. 16.Ibid. 17.Ibid., pp. 313-14. 18.Ibid., pp. 314-15. Page 82 dental and cosmic consciousness and force, comes to the front, omnipotent, omniscient, the controller of all energies, the Conscious in all that is conscient or inconscient, the Inhabitant of all souls and minds and hearts ...
... . The atmosphere which envelopes these forces is of unwillingness to depart with them and desires to keep them for some more time.... Explanation: 1) An image of the overmind action and cosmic consciousness. 2) The Light of the sun descending into the heart (the Sun of Knowledge) turns upon the physical and purifies it. Serpents indicate adverse energies, goats usually indicate sex-tendencies ...
... Experiences of Cosmic Consciousness My Pilgrimage to the Spirit February 16, 1933 Experience: Neither calm nor disturbance; neither joy nor sorrow; no individuality nor universality, but everything melting away in an unimaginable vastness which is behind and beyond everything.... This state which cannot be called static nor can it be called dynamic ...
... Experiences of Cosmic Consciousness My Pilgrimage to the Spirit March 9, 1932 Experience: As soon as I rise in the higher consciousness, first, the heart begins to feel a pain of unbearable expansion. It gets expanded and there comes a descent of that wide consciousness—with a jerk as if the heart is bursting;—Light makes its way and shoots out in all ...
... Experiences of Cosmic Consciousness My Pilgrimage to the Spirit April 25, 1932 Experience : Sometimes, I find myself descended among these planes—mind, life and body, living in that infinite vastness and in oneness with all the beings on all the planes.... Explanation: This is the beginning of the fundamental universalization of the consciousness ...
... the psychological powers which they [ six Vedic Gods ] bring with them: Mitra—Harmony. Varuna—Wideness. Aryaman—Power, Tapasya. Brihaspati—Wisdom (Word and Knowledge). Vishnu—Cosmic Consciousness. Vayu—Life. Post-Vedic Gods of the Indian Tradition Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva are only three Powers and Personalities of the One Cosmic Godhead. Brahma is the Power of the Divine ...
... Ananda not in its original transcendence but under conditions for which the plunge into the Inconscience was necessary. It is fundamentally a cosmic problem and can be understood only from the cosmic consciousness. If you want a solution which will be agreeable to the human mind and feelings, I am afraid there is none. No doubt if human beings had made the universe, they would have done much better; but ...
... the psychic and the inner mind and vital, the contact and presence of the Divine, the realisation of the Divine in all things, surrender, devotion, the widening of the consciousness into the cosmic Consciousness, the Self one in all, the psychic and the spiritual transformation of the nature. If these things are neglected and only poetry and mental development and social contacts occupy all the time ...
... Nature side. There is one Purusha—its action is according to the position and need of the consciousness at the time. It is the nature of the action above the ordinary mind or in the cosmic consciousness which is many-sided. The Purusha is one thing and the ordinary mental will and force are another. The latter may be unsuccessful in their action. When you are in the Purusha consciousness ...
... which the world is created, maintained and governed; it includes all concepts of force, will, energy, power, everything dynamic and dynamising. Ananda is the essential nature of bliss of the cosmic consciousness and, in activity, its delight of self-creation and self-experience. ...
... but symbol images sent up from the subliminal or experiences in which the subliminal consciousness or sense comes to the surface and puts us into contact with supraphysical realities; thus the cosmic consciousness which is our entry by a breaking down of our mental limitations into the sense of a vast reality, has been classed, even in admitting it, as a hallucination. But, taking only the common hal ...
... surrender of the being to the cosmic Self or to the universal Shakti; it can come in the Yoga of knowledge by the cessation of thought, the silence of the mind, the opening of the whole being to the cosmic Consciousness, to the cosmic Self, the cosmic Dynamis or to the supreme Reality; it can come in the Yoga of devotion by the surrender of the heart and the whole nature into the hands of the All-Blissful as ...
... subject to the world-self, a mirror of the universal existence, consciousness, power, delight, but not their full participant or possessor. Although more nearly and thrillingly united to the cosmic consciousness in knowledge, emotion and even appreciation through the senses, it might become purely recipient and passive, remote from mastery and action in the world; or, one with the static self behind ...
... dualities, oppositions, seeming denials of the nature of Sachchidananda which exist as an abiding reality for the mind, but only as a phenomenon misrepresenting a manifold Reality for the divine cosmic Consciousness concealed behind the veil of mind. Hence the world takes on the appearance of a clash of opposing truths each seeking to fulfil itself, each having the right to fulfilment, and therefore of ...
... snapping of the main cords escape, ascending like a Page 363 bird freed into the spaces or widening like a liberated flood into the One and Infinite. There is first a sudden sense of a cosmic consciousness, a casting of oneself into the universal; from that universality one can aspire more easily to the Transcendent. There is a pushing back and rending or a rushing down of the walls that imprisoned ...
... own being in the motion of energy of Nature. In this motion takes place the cycle of rebirth, and in that cycle the soul, the psychic being, prepares for itself,—or the Divine Wisdom or the cosmic Consciousness-Force prepares for it and through its action,—whatever is needed for the next step in its evolution, the next formation of personality, the coming nexus of necessary experiences constantly provided ...
... sea's motion. As each object in the universe is really the whole universe in a different frontal appearance, so each individual soul is all Brahman regarding Itself and world from a centre of cosmic consciousness. For That is identical, not single. It is identical always and everywhere in Time and Space, as well as identical beyond Time and Space. Numerical oneness and multiplicity are equally valid ...
... infinite universe of the divine self-manifestation of which we see a petty portion around us. A portion of the Transcendent, creative, he creates his own world around him even while he retains this cosmic consciousness in which are all others. If it be objected that this is an illusion which must disappear when he retreats into the transcendent Absolute, there is after all no very certain certainty in that ...
... by itself constitute in result a conscious operation, a perception, emotion, thought-concept, or prove that love is a chemical product or that Plato's theory of ideas or Homer's Iliad or the cosmic consciousness of the Yogin was only a combination of physiological reactions or a complex of the changes of grey brain matter or a flaming marvel of electrical discharges. It is not only that common sense ...
... or clime it is applied, have the same result, the dissolution, gradual or rapid, complete or partial according to the instruments and conditions of the experiment, of the waking ego into the cosmic consciousness. In each method, physical Science or psychological Science, different Scientists or different teachers may differ as to some of the final generalisations to be drawn from the facts & the most ...
... rising on the horizon is the direct light of the Divine Truth rising in the being—the ray upwards opens the being to the Truth as it is above mind, the ray in front opens it to what we call the cosmic consciousness, it becomes released from the personal limitation and opens and becomes aware of the universal mind, universal physical, universal vital. The action on the heart was the pressure of this Sun ...
... find in it (whether pronounced good or bad by others) the equal rasa , not of the food for its own sake, but of the universal Ananda. But the latter comes usually only when one can live in the cosmic consciousness or rise into the Overmind—and for this you are not yet ready. So the first way is the one you should keep in view. Page 420 Do not trouble your mind about food. Take it in the ...
... content with spiritual experience and do not seek after an outward perfection or progress, some who are saints, others who do not seek after sainthood, others who are content to live in the cosmic consciousness in touch or union with the All but allowing all kinds of forces to play through them, e.g., as in the typical description of the Paramhansa. The ideal I put before our Yoga is one thing, but ...
... your own mind and vital refused to them—i.e. they must not be accepted or allowed to influence. Very few have the direct occult perception of the Forces behind the suggestion—at least until the cosmic consciousness fully opens, for then direct perception Page 777 becomes more easily possible,—but the mental understanding can be used with good effect. Vital forces can attack the mind ...
... into which the Peace ineffable can descend; one gets by the dedication of one's will to the Divine, by the merging of one's will in the Divine Will the death of ego and the enlarging into the cosmic consciousness or else the uplifting into what is above the cosmic; one experiences the separation of Purusha from Prakriti and is liberated from the shackles of the outer nature; one becomes aware of one's ...
... the surface ] is the ordinary fundamental calm of the individual Adhar—the second [ perfect stillness in the body and in the surrounding atmosphere ] is the fundamental limitless calm of the cosmic consciousness, a calm which abides whether separated from all movements or supporting them. This [ limitless stillness ] is the calm of the Atman, the Self above, silent, immutable and infinite. Page ...
... ion of the mind, heart, will, all the being. If a mantra is found helpful for that, one uses it. OM if rightly used (not mechanically) might very well help the opening upwards and outwards (cosmic consciousness) as well as the descent. 16 October 1935 I humbly request Sri Aurobindo and you to send me some mūla-mantra which I can repeat in meditation and concentration and as nāma-smaraṇa. Coming ...
... consciousness and attended at first by an overwhelming feeling and perception of the total unreality of the world, though this feeling disappeared after his second realisation which was that of the cosmic consciousness and of the Divine as all beings and all that is, which happened in the Alipore jail and of which he has spoken in his speech at Uttarpara. To the other two realisations, that of the supreme ...
... then to the navel and below and through the whole body, or else an inexplicable opening—without any sense of descent—of peace, light, wideness or power or else a horizontal opening into the cosmic consciousness or, in a suddenly widened mind, an outburst of knowledge. Whatever comes has to be welcomed—for there is no absolute rule for all,—but if the peace has not come first, care must be taken not ...
... consciousness to expand out of the narrow prison of the body and the body-mind and the senses? For, to the physical mind untouched by the inner awakened consciousness, even the experience of the cosmic consciousness or the Eternal Self might very well seem merely subjective and unconvincing. It would think, "Curious, no doubt, rather interesting, but very subjective, don't you think? Hallucinations, yes ...
... is the psychic transformation, in which all is in contact with the Divine through the psychic consciousness. Next is the spiritual transformation in which all is merged in the Divine in the cosmic consciousness. Third is the supramental transformation in which all becomes supramentalised in the divine gnostic consciousness. It is only with the last that there can begin the complete transformation ...
... The third shape must be a symbolic one (not traditional)—it would seem to be a correspondent one on the Shakti side to the Trimurti, indicating the unity in difference of three powers in the Cosmic Consciousness—in it is the same manifestation in different forms,—the Overmind Power, the traditional Lakshmi and the One Power in the Mother here. 3 September 1936 ...
... wideness and cosmic multiplicity to be the Divine. The universal movement is after all a mixture of falsehood and truth, so that to stop there is to be imperfect; for, you may very well share the cosmic consciousness without ever attaining the transcendent Truth. On the other hand, to go to the Divine is also to attain the universal realisation and yet remain free of falsehood. The real bar to se ...
... supporting their separate existence and keeping it in being. Such Beings are as real and more permanently real than the men they influence but they belong to a higher plane, are part of the cosmic consciousness and being and act here on earth by shaping the human consciousness on which they exercise their influence. It is natural for man who sees only his own consciousness individual, national or racial ...
... total individuality, though made up of all these small cellulary consciousnesses. Mother, here it is written: "... there is a wall of separative ignorance between" the individual and the cosmic consciousness. Then how to break down this wall? Get rid of the ignorance, enter the knowledge. First of all you must know what I have just told you, that you are a part of the whole, that this whole ...
... As for the idea in itself, surely there is a difference between the individual, the cosmos in space and time, and something that exceeds this cosmic formula or any cosmic formula. There is a cosmic consciousness experienced by many which is quite different inits scope and action from the individual consciousness, and if there is a consciousness beyond the cosmic infinite and essentially eternal, not ...
... The world to the poetic vision is a pageant of symbols mutually interpretative, and in this it is akin to mystical insight; for, mysticism, in one of its aspects, is very insistently the Cosmic Consciousness. Still, a difference exists between the two. What is—to use the celebrated Coleridgean term—"the esemplastic imagination" in the poetic experience is to the mystic a direct realisation—in his ...
... untroubled, and that is why we are asked to be very careful, very conscious of the world spirit, which is the spirit of beauty. A poet has always to feel that there is a living being in the world, a cosmic consciousness, a vast soul of the universe. A poet cannot be a poet unless, whether openly or not, he is both a pantheist and a polytheist over and above whatever other brand of theist he may be. He feels ...
... *The first and the most important aspect is the relationship of the individual to the total. Each person should know the nature of the individual consciousness and the way it is related to the cosmic consciousness. This creates the understanding of the nature of consciousness, the evolutionary process, the need for taking a step forward towards super consciousness and other related matters. It gives a ...
... knowledge begins to rush in upon you from all sides and you see objects from all points of view and each thing from every viewpoint. All sides of knowledge tend to get related and there the cosmic consciousness is not merely static but also dynamic. It is the expression of something still higher, the Supermind above. When you become cosmic, even though you speak of yourself as "I", it is not "I" ...
... with the Maharashtrian Yogi Vishnu Bhaskar Lele at Baroda in January 1908; it was the realisation of the silent, spaceless and timeless Brahman.... His second realisation which was that of the cosmic consciousness and of the Divine as all beings and all that is,... happened in the Alipore Jail.... To the other two realisations, that of the supreme Reality with the static and dynamic Brahman as its two ...
... the psychic and the inner mind and vital, the contact and presence of the Divine, the realization of the Divine in all things, surrender, devotion, the widening of the consciousness into the cosmic Consciousness, the Self one in all, the psychic and the spiritual transformation of the nature. If these things are neglected and only poetry and mental development and social contacts occupy all the time ...
... mantra of Gayatri. The Ray then entered the head at the crown and illumined it: the force of consciousness that ruled there is Intuition, the immediate perception of truth and reality, the cosmic consciousness gathered and concentrated at that peak. That is Upanishadic knowledge. If the source and foundation of the Vedic initiation was occult vision, the Upanishad meant a pure and direct Ideation ...
... 251 Inconscient, descent into, 82-3 Consciousness, 15-6, 34-5, 38, 41, 45-8, 50-1, 56, 68, 104-5, 111, 118, 133-4, 135 Inconscient, Immanent God in, 83 Cosmic consciousness, 230 Independence of India, 1, 93 Crisis, evolutionary, 67-8 Indira Gandhi, 214 Influenza, epidemic of, 58 Integral perfection, 269-72 Integral ...
... cannot be considered to be true. Such a standard of knowledge is not accepted even in the sciences themselves. Of course, "the greatest inner discoveries, the experience of self-being, the cosmic consciousness, 25. Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga, p. 190. Page 71 the inner calm of the liberated spirit, the direct effect of mind upon mind, the knowledge of things by consciousness ...
... revelation's sun-bright eyes..." (660) (B.4) Sight in the Overmind : Beyond the plane of the Intuitive Mind is a superconscient cosmic Mind which possesses a power of cosmic consciousness, a principle of global knowledge. In the wide cosmic perception of the Overmind, "Ideas are phalanxed like a group of sums; Thought crowds in masses seized by one regard; ...
... formation. (c) Experience of the discovery of the Psychic Being-experience of the second birth. 2. Experience of Silence or of nirvana. 3. Experience of the Cosmic Consciousness. 4. Integral experience of the simultaneous Silence and Dynamism. 5. Supramental time-vision. III. Aids for the Development of the Yogic Consciousness and experience: ...
... the Veda in seed or in the first expression. The great force of intuition and inner experience, so evident in the Veda and the Upanishad, gave to the Indian mind the sense and reality of cosmic consciousness and cosmic vision. Perception of the One underlying reality, recognition of the perception of unity, as Vidya, and the necessity of the individual to lift himself from Avidya to Vidya - these ...
... , and in the Indian Yoga itself there are various classifications of the states of consciousness that pertain to these domains. The release from the ego, the realisation of the Self, of the Cosmic Consciousness, of the Transcendental Consciousness, — these are among the most fundamental. Nirvana and Advaita, Vishishtadvaita and Dvaita, Purusha and Prakriti, Brahman and Maya, Ishwara and Shakti and ...
... Soul-Powers and Fourfold personality of Knowledge, Power, Love and Skill Integral Personality Fundamental Experiences of the Yogi Experiences of the Witness Self, Cosmic Consciousness, Silent Self, Nirvana, Personal Divine, Supramental Consciousness and Power Yoga in the Veda, Upanishads, the Bhagavadgita, the Yoga Sutra, Yoga and Yogic Research; New Paths of Yoga ...
... integrating body, life and mind under its own integrating power. Superconsciousness refers to the realm of the transcendental Spirits which, in its universal aspects, provides an entry into cosmic consciousness and increasing unity of diversity which culminates in what is called in Yoga, supramental consciousness or consciousness of Vijnānamaya. Again, it is true. as William James points out, mystical ...
... therefore, the necessity of developing a still higher vision of right action. That higher vision, according to the Gita, cannot be obtained except when the individual consciousness expands into cosmic consciousness and! even into transcendental consciousness. It is for this reason that the Gita's emphasis on the development of that vision is a part of the search for the right action. The Gita affirms that ...
... to comment on Sri Aurobindo's words —if you read them aloud you may feel something of the immense vibrations they contain. Sri Aurobindo himself has said that this was the realisation of the cosmic consciousness — of the Divine as all beings and all that is, Vasudevah sarvamiti, and it was the second of the four great realisations (of the first — the experience of Brahma-Nirvana at Baroda — I have ...
... Forcibly sit down and scratch and scribble? You can try. It might dribble back like that. July 17, 1937 Guru, What the deuce is "Brahman consciousness" [12.7.37]? The same as cosmic consciousness? Does one come to it after the psychic and spiritual transformations? Is it something like seeing Brahman in everybody and everywhere or what? It is not spiritual realisation, I suppose ...
... supporting their separate existence, and keeping it in being. Such beings are as real and more permanently real than the men they influence, but they belong to a higher plane, are part of the cosmic consciousness and being and act here on earth by shaping the human consciousness on which they exercise their influence". 1 "Each nation is a Shakti or power of the evolving spirit in humanity and ...
... work finished at about half past four, and I went up and tried to meditate. Impossible! Thoughts began to come in from all sides: from environmental consciousness, from above, from below, from cosmic consciousness even. They began to pour in and in and in, till meditation was lost, sleep too was lost! (Laughter) But ideas came in and kept coming in. So ideas went on in this way: How did I come ...
... long as the ego is there. They cannot get beyond unless they lose it. Even in these planes it prevents them from getting the full consciousness and knowledge. For in the Overmind cosmic consciousness too ego is absent, though the true person may be there. Page 95 ...
... how I got N's pain. Either it was consciously transferred to me or it naturally entered into me. Naturally entered. When there is the development of the Self-realisation or of the cosmic consciousness or if there is the emptiness which is the preliminary condition for these things, there comes an automatic tendency for a unity with all — their affections, mental, vital, physical may easily ...
... reflections, faint echoes and promises of what is to come, mixed up with attributes of the present mentality. The Overmind brings in a true emergence. Still Overmind – whose characteristic is a cosmic consciousness and a transcendence of all ego-sense – is not the firm basis on which a new terrestrial organisation can stand and endure. It is still a basis of unstable equilibrium. For it is not the supernal ...
... consciousness. Next, as the consciousness grows and envelops the whole existence, good and evil are both embraced and are found to form a secret and magic harmony. That is the universal or cosmic consciousness. And Goethe's genius seems to be an outflowering of something of this status of consciousness. But there is still a higher status, the status of transcendence in which evil is not simply embraced ...
... reflections, faint echoes and promises of what is to come, mixed up with attributes of the present mentality. The Overmind brings in a true emergence. Still Overmind—whose characteristic is a cosmic consciousness and a transcendence of all ego-sense—is not the firm basis on which a new terrestrial organisation can stand and endure. It is still a basis of unstable equilibrium. For it is not the supernal ...
... function not in any personal sense with the feeling or consciousness of any individual personality but a large impersonal personality free from ego-sense which is the hallmark of a luminous cosmic consciousness, based upon a still higher and transcendent standing. Sri Aurobindo was a man of action absolutely in the Gita's sense of the word. He set an example, he was an exemplar showing by ...
... Crisis 55 Educational Philosophy of Sri Aurobindo 74 Selected Passages from Sri Aurobindo's Writings Part I The Human Aspiration 95 On Materialism 102 Cosmic Consciousness, Transcendence and Omnipresent Reality 139 Philosophy of the Supermind or Truth-Consciousness 154 Mind, Overmind and Supermind 168 Part II Transition from Mind to ...
... 101 Veda in seed or in first expression. A great force of intuition and inner experience, so evident in the Veda and the Upanishad, gave to the Indian mind the sense and reality of cosmic consciousness and cosmic vision. Perception of the One underlying reality, recognition of the perception of unity, as Vidya, and the necessity of the individual to lift himself from Avidya to Vidya — these ...
... mental, we enter into the field of the psychic, when we go above the Page 32 mental, we enter into the domain of the spiritual experiences of the transcendental self or of the wide cosmic consciousness or of the One and the Supreme as the upholder of time-space. For purposes of transformation, it is not enough in the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo to have even these spiritual experiences and ...
... corresponds to the nervous response of the waking organism of either man or animal. In the animal the consciousness is not mentally conscient as in man, but is vitally conscious. So this cosmic consciousness or universal consciousness, which is the power of an infinite existence, works on several levels in the cosmos; they are all present in man, in a condensed, tabloid form. The Unconscious, s ...
... mind, life and body seeing them as instrumental lower forms of itself or act seeing them at all and merged in the free undifferentiated Self or it may throw itself into an active dynamic cosmic consciousness and identify with that or do any number of other things without resorting to the help of this much overrated and meddlesome fly on the wheel which you call the clear individual " I ". The ...
... of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry?— and what a difference! This is the very incandescence of poetry truly wrought by a cosmic consciousness; we see the tiger poised in its terrible beauty, and dread and wonder strive for mastery; isn't he Rudra the fierce, or is he only the God's great creation? In quick short gasps the frenzy ...
... Page 415 ships in Yoga; Sadhana in the Ashram and Outside; Part Three: Experiences and Realisations; Visions and Symbols; Experiences of the Inner and the Cosmic Consciousness. Volume 24 Letters on Yoga, PART FOUR: The Triple Transformation — Psychic, Spiritual, Supramental; Transformation of the Mind; Transformation of the Vital; ...
... 5 , 1908 - May 6, 1909 Undertrial prisoner at Alipore. Spends his time reading the Gita and the Upanishads and in meditation and the practice of Yoga. Has the realisation of the Cosmic Consciousness and of the Divine (Sri Krishna) as all beings and in all that is. May 19 Preliminary hearing in the Magistrate's Court begins. August 19 Committed to the Court of Sessions. October ...
... fast in the original Mahabharata has already been transformed by Sri Aurobindo into the vast dimensions of 'The Book of Yoga', which describes Savitri's realisations of her secret self, of cosmic consciousness, and, finally, of supracosmic or transcendent consciousness. The events of the fateful day from dawn to evening are compressed into a few pregnant verses in the Mahabharata, ...
... knowledge begins to rush in upon you from all sides and you see the objects from all points of view and each thing from all points. All of them tend to get related to each other and there the Cosmic Consciousness is not merely in its static aspect but also in its dynamic reality : it is the expression of something Above. When you become Cosmic even though you speak of your self as "I" it is not the ...
... lines, it is not to be expected that the pure overhead inspiration can be more than occasional. But there are passages in both that come like an "outleap of a superior light", a ray of cosmic consciousness, an intimation of the Infinite; and of the two long poems, Ahana is the more uniformly sustained, packed with high thought, luminous in many places and suffused throughout with the promised ...
... Abanindranath and Rabindranath Tagore. 7 April. Talk on Indian political constitutions and institutions. 14 April. Sri Aurobindo spoke about one of his own experiences: "When I got first the Cosmic Consciousness – I call it the passive Brahman – I did not fall into unconsciousness; I was fully conscious on the physical plane. It also did not go away or last only for a few moments. ... It lasted for ...
... May 5 , 1908-May 6,1909 Under trial prisoner at Alipore. Spends his time reading the Gita and the Upanishads and in meditation and the practice of Yoga. Has the realisation of the Cosmic Consciousness and of the Divine (Sri Krishna) as all beings and in all that is. May 19 Preliminary hearing in the Magistrate's Court begins. August 19 Committed to the Court of Sessions ...
... everything into question again and might give a meaning to all those cycles of instrumental misery. A process — if we do not specially believe in the spiritual somersaults of the ascetics of cosmic consciousness who are bankrupt in the East, anymore than the somersaults of the laboratory ascetics who are bankrupt in the West — is something that must be seized directly in our own bodies (since the ...
... and intensity of the state, but well enough in the general type. 5 This is a remarkable analysis, as also a memorable description of the statusdynamis attained by himself. From cosmic consciousness or the consciousness of Unity (which, although it may lead to personal felicity, will really be "an escape instead of a victory"), the next stage will be to see the Unity as a creative duality ...
... the Mother; by losing themselves - and to the extent they lost themselves - in the consciousness of Sri Aurobindo and of the Mother (it was the same consciousness, in fact, being verily the Cosmic Consciousness), they experienced a liberation of the self and a soul's puissance and ananda that admitted of no analysis or verbal description. In that ambience of freedom, all work ranked the same, ...
... fourth or hundredth dimension that one finds the solution, but by becoming each atom, each vibration of the earthly body. And how is it possible? Mentally one understands that one can become the cosmic consciousness and merge with the universal Mind; even vitally one understands that one can become the great Energy of life and merge with the universal Dynamism (even though there is hardly any terrestrial ...
... to laugh for once, after centuries of crucifixions and Sinais under the thunder of Jehovah and ascetics in their solemn cosmic trance. A hell of a change, or in any case a sacred one. Perhaps cosmic consciousness in Matter? And endowed with humor moreover. I saw that what helps and what prevents people from becoming supra-mental is very different from what our usual moral notions imagine. I felt just ...
... A relationship between the two seemed impossible. 3 "But did you go out of your body, or what? " I asked, because this kind of experience is quite possible when you climb above, in the cosmic consciousness. And Mother gave me a somewhat enigmatic answer (She did not understand the phenomenon very well herself): It can truly be said that for a short while the body went out of my consciousness ...
... place, here, before the ocean that stretches all the way to Malaysia and the Pacific, and beneath the revolving galaxies, I said—a microbe amidst the eternity of time and space. To be sure, cosmic consciousness is an excellent way of drowning the little beast. But the little beast takes its revenge—it never drowns. And this person quite simply replied, "Yes, but microbes are what galaxies are made ...
... walls of Thebes, and nourished initiates here and there – at times we have entered a white radiance above the worlds where, in a flash, we have dissolved the little self and emerged into a cosmic consciousness.... But none of that has changed the world. We still did not have the clue that would connect that vision to this earth and make a new world with a new look. Our truths remained fragile; ...
... mutation of the cosmic becoming in Time and Space for the whole truth of existence,—that is the second, the cosmic ignorance. We are ignorant of our universal self, the cosmic existence, the cosmic consciousness, our infinite unity with all being and becoming; we take our limited Page 3 egoistic mentality, vitality, corporeality for our true self and regard everything other ...
... popular imagination still hangs round the ancient words, mysticism and intuition." Mistaken, if you choose to think so; but obsolete? What then are we to make of Bergson's intuition, James' cosmic consciousness, Eucken's superconscient, the remarkable trend towards mysticism of recent scientists, mathematicians, thinkers, the still more remarkable speculations of contemporary Russian philosophers? ...
... Sonnets from Manuscripts (Circa 1934-1947) Collected Poems Cosmic Consciousness Know more > I have wrapped the wide world in my wider self And Time and Space my spirit's seeing are. I am the god and demon, ghost and elf, I am the wind's speed and the blazing star. All Nature is the nursling of my care, I am the struggle and ...
... mentality and will into the type of the God-action, transcendent in initiation, cosmic in motive, transmitted through the individual, the Jiva. The supreme Godhead, the Self immutable behind the cosmic consciousness, the individual Divinity in the human being Page 316 and the Divine secretly conscious or partially manifested in cosmic Nature and all her works and creatures, are then one reality ...
... exclusions; for a great force of intuition and inner experience had given it from the beginning that towards which the mind of the West is only now reaching with much fumbling and difficulty,—the cosmic consciousness, the cosmic vision. Even when it sees the One without a second, it still admits his duality of Spirit and Nature; it leaves room for his many trinities and million aspects. Even when it concentrates ...
... congenial to the spaciousness of vision and intent curiosity of circumstance, characteristic of the Indian mind, that spring as I have pointed out in relation to architecture from the habit of the cosmic consciousness and its sight and imagination and activity of experience. Another difference is that the terrestrial life is not seen realistically just as it is to the physical mind but constantly in relation ...
... known. Certainly, that Knowledge cannot be reproduced successfully in the terms of thought and speech, but when we have attained to it, the result is a revaluation of That in the symbols of our cosmic consciousness, not only in one but in all the ranges of symbols, which results in a revolution of our internal being and, through the internal, of our external life. Moreover, there is also a kind of Knowledge ...
... according to its dharma and the other forces are covered over for the time. Our own force acts in this play of forces to help the sadhak through till he gets himself into the silence within and the cosmic consciousness as a whole with the Higher Force action to regulate and harmonise the progress—after which it is plainer sailing. There can be no question of our withdrawing protection and help. As for your ...
... belonging to older systems that are necessary on the way—an opening of the mind to a greater wideness and to the sense of the Self and the Infinite, an emergence into what has been called the cosmic consciousness, mastery over the desires and passions; an outward asceticism is not essential, but the conquest of desire and attachment and a control over the body and its needs, greeds and instincts is ...
... Overmind, so long as the ego is there. They cannot get beyond unless they lose it. Even in these planes it prevents them from getting the full consciousness and knowledge. For in the Overmind cosmic consciousness too ego is absent, though the true Person may be there. 27 April 1935 Page 395 Surrender to the Guru Surrender to the Divine and surrender to the Guru are said to be two different ...
... All this action is veiled from our surface mind’s direct sense and knowledge, but it is known and felt by the inner being, though only through a direct contact; when the being enters into the cosmic consciousness, it is still more widely, inclusively, intimately aware of this play of cosmic forces. Sri Aurobindo The Life Divine - I: Knowledge by Identity and Separative Knowledge Each man has ...
... wideness and cosmic multiplicity to be the Divine. The universal movement is after all a mixture of falsehood and truth, so that to stop there is to be imperfect; for, you may very well share the cosmic consciousness without ever attaining the transcendent Page 168 Truth. On the other hand, to go to the Divine is also to attain the universal realisation and yet remain free of falsehood. The ...
... regions of this world and act there or carry back its experience. It spreads out, feeling the body only as a small part of itself, and begins to contain what before contained it; it achieves the cosmic consciousness and extends itself to be commensurate with the universe. It begins to know inwardly and directly and not merely by external observation and contact the forces at play in the world, feels their ...
... 17 August 1955 Mother reads from Lights on Yoga , "Surrender And Opening". Sweet Mother, what is the meaning of "a horizontal opening into the cosmic consciousness"? You see, one always has the feeling either of a vertical ascent to the heights of the Supreme Consciousness or a kind of... how to put it?... horizontal widening into a universal consciousness ...
... and Yoga: Supermind and the Life Divine × Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga - I: The Cosmic Consciousness × That which is supreme over Buddhi is He. (Ed.) ...
... consciousness, which is a wider, more mentalised approach—as in the method of the Gita where knowledge, works, bhakti are all centred in Krishna, the One, the Supreme, the All and arrive through the cosmic consciousness to the luminous transcendence. There is the way too described in the Taittiriya Upanishad, the Vedanta's Gospel of Bliss. These are certainly wider methods, for they take up the whole existence ...
... above. This repeats itself (sometimes a descent also is felt) until all the centres are open and the consciousness rises above the body. At a later stage it remains above and widens out into the cosmic consciousness and the universal Self. This is a usual course, but sometimes the process is more rapid and there is a sudden and definite opening above. It [ a force in the navel region rising upward ...
... oppositions. Life seeks for full growth of being, but it can attain to it only when the limited being has found in itself its own inmost soul of existence and around it its own widest self of cosmic consciousness by which it can feel the world and all being in itself and as itself. Life seeks for power; it is only the power of the spirit and the power of this conscious oneness that can give it mastery ...
... perfect and absolute poetry, perfect and absolute not only in snatches and within boundaries but always and in numberless kinds and in the whole: for that is the nature of Overmind, it is a cosmic consciousness with a global perception and action tending to carry everything to its extreme possibility; the only thing lacking in its creation might be a complete harmonisation of all possibles, for which ...
... ideal. The Gita's Yoga consists in the offering of one's work as a sacrifice to the Divine, the conquest of desire, egoless and desireless action, bhakti for the Divine, an entering into the cosmic consciousness, the sense of unity with all creatures, oneness with the Divine. This Yoga adds the bringing down of the supramental Light and Force (its ultimate aim) and the transformation of the nature. ...
... expression. When it does express itself as love, it is something wide and universal, untroubled and firm even when it is intense. This is in the basic cosmic oneness. There is also the surface cosmic consciousness which is an awareness of the play of cosmic forces—here anything may rise, sex also. It is this part that needs the perfect psychisation, otherwise one cannot even hold, contain and deal with ...
... there are many states or planes or levels of consciousness between the human mind and the Supermind. The silence opens the mind and the rest of the being to greater things, sometimes to the cosmic consciousness, sometimes to the experience of the silent Self, sometimes to the presence or power of the Divine, sometimes to a higher consciousness than that of the human mind; the mind's silence is the ...
... in and yet the silence still remains, but if you become full of force, light, Ananda, knowledge etc. you can't call yourself blank any longer. Every kind of realisation—infinite self, cosmic consciousness, the Mother's Presence, Light, Force, Ananda, Knowledge, Sachchidananda realisation, the different layers of consciousness up to the Supermind—all these can come in the silence which remains ...
... there were not this all-pervading & all-supporting ethereal atmosphere of the divine Bliss around it?"—yad esha ákásha ánando na syát. Therefore as Tapas or Will is the working principle of cosmic Consciousness, (therefore the divine world in which infinite Consciousness is the basic factor is called by the Puranic writers, Tapoloka), so Jana, Birth or Joy of Procreation is the working principle of ...
... superconscient; of the constitutional by realising his spiritual being and its categories; of the cosmic by discovering his timeless self; of the egoistic by Page 499 realising the cosmic consciousness; of the original by opening to the Absolute of whom Self, individual and Nature are so many faces.—At the same time he realises the unity of himself and Nature in the first three steps of knowledge ...
... and though it does transcend the ordinary human mind and in its full and native self-power, when it does not lean down and become part of mind, is superconscient to us. It is more properly a cosmic consciousness, even the very base of the cosmic as we perceive, understand or feel it. It stands behind every particular in the cosmos and is the source of all our mental, vital or physical actualities and ...
... As for the idea in itself, surely there is a difference between the individual, the cosmos in space and time, and something that exceeds this cosmic formula or any cosmic formula. There is a cosmic consciousness experienced by many which is quite different in its scope and action from the individual consciousness, and if there is a consciousness beyond the cosmic, infinite and essentially eternal, not ...
... the habit of being on the surface and by going deeper within. Larger mind is a general term to cover the realms of mind which become our field whether by going within or widening into the cosmic consciousness. The true mental being is not the same as the inner mental—true mental, true vital, true physical being means the Purusha of that level freed from the error and ignorant thought and will ...
... could revive the faculty if it were of any use. Yes—to watch the animals with the right perception of their consciousness helps to get out of the human mental limitations and see the Cosmic Consciousness on earth individualising itself in all forms—plant, animal, man and growing towards what is beyond man. Plants It is true that the plant world—even the animals if one takes them the right ...
... Cosmic Something one must see not only the few outward factors observed by the human eye, but the whole working with all its multitudinous details—that one cannot do unless one is oneself in the cosmic consciousness and with some opening at least to the Overmind. There is no such thing as "free" will, but there is the power of the Purusha to say "yes" or "no" to any particular pressure of Prakriti and ...
... channel for the inner to express itself and communicate with the outer physical world. The inner again has to have free communication with the universal on all the planes—it has to enter into the cosmic consciousness. The outer consciousness has to be remoulded and reshaped through the inner consciousness and the processes that must do it are the psychic by its influence and the higher consciousness by its ...
... parts dealing with these broad subject areas: 1. The Place of Experiences in the Practice of Yoga 2. The Opening of the Inner Senses 3. Experiences of the Inner Consciousness and the Cosmic Consciousness 4. The Fundamental Realisations of the Integral Yoga The letters in this volume have been selected from the extensive correspondence Sri Aurobindo carried on with his disciples and others ...
... consecration, surrender. The spiritual change is the established descent of the peace, light, knowledge, power, bliss from above, the awareness of the self and the Divine and of a higher cosmic consciousness and the change of the whole consciousness to that. Between psychisation and spiritualisation there is a difference. The spiritual is the change that descends from above, the psychic is ...
... repelled what is the need of dealing with it? Pain Pain is caused because the physical consciousness in the Ignorance is too limited to bear the touches that come upon it. Otherwise, to cosmic consciousness in its state of complete knowledge and complete experience, all touches come as Ananda. Yes—all pain can become Ananda—pain is only the perversion of what in the original Consciousness ...
... Power of purity, blue the light of the spiritual consciousness, gold the hue of the supramental knowledge or of knowledge from the intermediate planes. (3) OM golden rising to the sky = the cosmic consciousness supramentalised and rising towards the Transcendent consciousness. (1) and (2) indicate either something that is happening at present or a potentiality that is trying to materialise. (3) ...
... even in the intervals between one creation and another. Out of that seed in his navel (the navel is the central seat of the Vital, the Life-Principle) Brahma the Creator arises in the Lotus (cosmic consciousness) which grows from it when Vishnu awakens from the inter-cyclic sleep. The Snake Ananta is the Energy of the cosmic manifestation of the Infinite in Space-Time. Krishna This is the Krishna ...
... The conch shell is the sound of victory. Page 112 Both of these [ the sound of OM and of church bells ] are usually sounds that indicate the opening or attempt to open to the cosmic consciousness. The music you heard was the music of the divine call to the soul—like the flute of Krishna. Subtle Smells and Tastes It [ experiencing subtle smells and tastes ] was not an opening ...
... known the supreme secret (uttamaṁ rahasyam) that you are the Divine Incarnate and the Mother is the ParaShakti? That is the highest realisation, I think, and all others—the realisation of the cosmic consciousness, of the presence of the immanent Divine, even of the silent immutable Brahman—are secondary in comparison with it. Whatever is to be done in the world will be done by you and the Mother. ...
... God-given work or mission, the service of some divine Power, idea or ideal. The last or highest emergence is the liberated man who has realised the Self and Spirit within him, entered into the cosmic consciousness, passed into union with the Eternal and, so far as he still accepts life and action, acts by the light and energy of the Power within him working through his human instruments of Nature. The ...
... in it, to know its truth: he can only arrive at real knowledge by passing beyond mind and thought, beyond this world-formation, and viewing all things from above in some supracosmic or super-cosmic consciousness like those who have become of one nature with the Eternal and dwell in Him, unborn in the creation and unafflicted by the cataclysmic destruction of the worlds below them. 9 But the solution ...
... and dissolves into it; for it exists by its limits and perishes by the loss of its limits. The being breaks out of its imprisonment in a separated individuality, becomes universal, assumes a cosmic consciousness in which it identifies itself with the self and spirit, the life, the mind, the body of all beings. Or it breaks out upward into a supreme Page 768 pinnacle and infinity and eternity ...
... knowledge and from the movement of self-existence, is indeed one and the same act. For we have seen that universal force and universal consciousness are one—cosmic force is the operation of cosmic consciousness. So also divine Knowledge and divine Will are one; they are the same fundamental movement or act of existence. This indivisibility of the comprehensive Supermind which contains all multiplicity ...
... our secret self; on the surface there is only an ephemeral being of nature, made by limit and circumstance. If there is a self in us capable of largeness and universality, able to enter into a cosmic consciousness, that too must be within our inner being; the outer consciousness is a physical consciousness bound to its individual limits by the triple cord of mind, life and body: any external attempt at ...
... to eliminate it, not by any other device, but by an increasing spontaneity of the supramental discrimination and a constant heightening of its own energy. The consciousness of supermind is a cosmic consciousness and it is in this self of universal consciousness, in which the individual knower lives and with which he is more or less closely united, that it holds before him the object of knowledge. ...
... of eternal and infinite light around "things mortal" and "what vanishes". The vision recorded by Traherne and by those who, employing more Eastern terms, have expressed themselves out of the "cosmic consciousness" is a proof of the transfiguration the world undergoes in mystic experience. Yet it is only the aspect of the world which is transfigured: the world's substance has not changed. The flawless ...
... though it does transcend the ordinary human mind and, in its full and native self-power when it does not lean down and become part of mind, is superconscient to us. It is more properly a cosmic consciousness, even the very base of the cosmic as we perceive, understand or feel it. It stands behind every particular in the cosmos and is the source of all our mental, vital or physical actualities ...
... behind my own self's light The Eternal who is birthless in things born, Equal to pin-point and infinity, Fused mother and child, one seer who is multiform, Merger of the whole cosmic consciousness In That which none can know but all can be! O leave me wingless on the earth no more; Bird me in thy dark dawning overhead, Invisible ere the heart burns up, a love Hungering ...
... crossing of a critical point of descent. This day was the culmination of year on long year of travel along uncharted ways of the inner life - travel far beyond the goals of Nirvana, Moksha, Cosmic Consciousness, Krishna-realisation, union with the World-Creatrix which were reached before he withdrew from the political field of British India to Pondicherry in 1910. It is known as the Day of Victory ...
... live only in the Inner Heart-centre have an intense divine sweetness and radiance, yet there is wanting the vast cosmic sweep and the pouring transcendent solar splendour. Even the complete cosmic consciousness will not exhaust the Divine: at least the kinetic as distinguished from the static Self of it is a reduced formulation from above of a perfect and integral truth in which not the slightest ...
... —is completely ignored in the new Gospel a la Satprem. To bring out the inmost Psychic Being, the true Soul, to experience the In-dwelling Deity and the immutable Self of selves and the Cosmic Consciousness, to realise the Transcendent Divine, to be filled with the Supreme Peace and Wideness and Illumination and Compassion and Dynamism —all these sine qua nons of the Supramental Yoga are ...
... of his own experience. Both he and Sri Krishna were Purushottama incarnate, the latter using, in consonance with the need of the time, what Sri Aurobindo has called the Overmind, the highest Cosmic Consciousness, as his instrument of manifestation while the former used the Supermind, the transcendent creative Truth-Consciousness whose hour in spiritual history has struck now. The Supermind is directly ...
... remained unsatisfied. Then - of all persons - a Theosophist broke the name of Sri Aurobindo to me. That I should bump into a Theosophist who should speak of what he termed Sri Aurobindo's Cosmic Consciousness and not preach to me of the "White Lodge" and the "Great Masters" and the Isis-unveiling Madame Blavatsky - this was a touch of Sri Aurobindo's Grace already. What made it the more Grace-ful ...
... divine harmony. There must be men in whom the rational has been absorbed and taken up into sainthood, seerhood, yoga - men who have inwardly opened to the Lord seated in the heart of hearts, the Cosmic Consciousness and the Transcendent Self and Master, men who are no moral preachers with an intellectually guided religious fervour but such as are at least on the way to realising the goal so integrally revealed ...
... physiological reactions or a complex of the changes of grey brain-matter or a flaming marvel of electrical discharges". These examples are: "Plato's theory of ideas or Homer's Iliad or the cosmic consciousness of the Yogin." 21 Page 18 Notes and References 1."Lammergeyer", Altar and Flame : Poems by Amal Kiran (Aspiration, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1975), p. 19. ...
... many apertures are received the urgencies of the earth-soul that has an evolving and not a typal career and that yearns to broaden from its deep dreaming centre of Godward devotion into some Cosmic Consciousness and into some overarching Ultimate brooding with utter fullness of light and love and life upon cosmos and earth. The Yeatsian atmosphere and vibration are felt in: Candle-vision from ...
... him how to silence the activity of his mind. This led to the experience of the static Brahman or Nirvana. A few months later, in Alipore Jail, he had the experience of the dynamic Brahman or cosmic consciousness. He later referred to these as the first two of the "four great realisations" of his yoga. The other two — "that of the supreme Reality with the static and dynamic Brahman as its two aspects ...
... is an arrow from the Light, not a bridge to reach it. Page 255 Cease inwardly from thought and word, be motionless within you, look upward into the light and outward into the vast cosmic consciousness that is around you. Be more and more one with the brightness and the vastness. Then will Truth dawn on you from above and flow in on you from all around you. But only if the mind is no less ...
... a containing universal vision or a knowledge by identity, but an individualised viewpoint from which it sees the universe. Still mind can arrive at a sort of containing vision, a mentalised cosmic consciousness. What then compels embodied mind to see objects externally and by separation? It is compelled by the fact of physical embodiment. Body is a self-limitation of conscious being by Page ...
... consciousness of its truth and reality. We become aware of the world as a manifestation of or in universal being who is the true truth of all that we see, hear, experience. We become aware of a cosmic Consciousness which is the secret of the cosmic Energy, a cosmic Self or Spirit, the cosmic Divine, the universal Godhead. But by Yoga we become aware also that our own Self or true being is one with the ...
... preparation for it. He is profoundly moral and religious, yet he does not plunge with the absolute abandon necessary into the Eternal and the Infinite, he has not achieved union with the Cosmic Consciousness and the Transcendental Perfection. The Immortal In-dweller that the soul is and that leaps utterly towards the Divine does not stand naked in Gandhi for all his austerity. It is somewhere ...
... the bundle of various qualities, even contradictory ones, in Sethna, he said: "A complex person like you will be satisfied only with Sri Aurobindo. I could see that Sri Aurobindo had the cosmic consciousness. He could feel even the grass grow! He could know everything within the universe as if it were within his own consciousness." That interested Sethna. But things rested there. Then ...
... apertures are received the urgencies of the earth-soul that has an evolving and not a typal career and that yearns to broaden from its deep dreaming centre of Godward devotion into some Cosmic Consciousness and into some overarching Ultimate brooding with utter fullness of light and love and life upon cosmos and earth. The Yeatsian atmosphere and vibration are felt in: Candle-vision ...
... lessons or instructions in typescript. He had a strong handsome clean- Page 50 shaven face with powerful eyes. The McPheeters thought very highly of him, believing he had a cosmic consciousness in which he must have contacted Sri Aurobindo. I was not very much struck by what I had heard about his philosophy, and even made to Purani a rather irreverent joke comparing this teacher to ...
... When it was time for me to go home there was no concern with any philosophy during the rapt ineffable quarter of an hour. What is really relevant is the tradition of a sound in which the cosmic consciousness exists: the Mantra OM. What I sensed was inseparable from an eternal-seeming rhythm arriving from all sides. Perhaps I would best characterise it as an infinite honeyed hum. Does OM echo ...
... a Theosophist whose world is chockful of occult Masters forming a coterie among themselves and leaving no room for any outsider like Sri Aurobindo. My friend added: "Sri Aurobindo has the Cosmic Consciousness." The Theosophist's testimony in general and this phrase in particular joined up with the memorable impression made by the statement that Sri Aurobindo was a multi-linguist. But I still ...
... Sri Aurobindo has said, “Vision is of value because it is, often a first key to inner planes of one's own being and one's own consciousness as distinguished from worlds or planes of the cosmic consciousness.” ...
... is the psychic transformation, in which all is in contact with the Divine through the psychic consciousness. Next is the spiritual transformation in which all is merged in the Divine in the cosmic consciousness. Third is the supramental transformation in which all becomes supramentalised in the divine gnostic consciousness. ‘Nobody can have the supramental realisation who has not had the spiritual ...
... characteristics, being able to go where it wishes in an instant and to be at two or more places simultaneously. It will have a supramental, i.e. divine consciousness, even more powerful than the cosmic consciousness; it will contain everything into itself and be present in all things … True, there is no comparing the capacities of the supramental being with those put at our disposal by the advanced technology ...
... whatever is wrong in them and turned towards ego and error, away from Light and Truth. 2) Eliminate egoism in all its forms and from every movement of the consciousness. 3) Develop the cosmic consciousness—let the egocentric outlook disappear in wideness, impersonality, the sense of the Cosmic Divine, the perception of the universal forces, the realization and understanding of the cosmic manifestation ...
... not thousands of human incarnations, is often recognizable because of its numerous capabilities, acquired in the course of its incarnations. It is only this completeness that can lead to the cosmic consciousness, which is a necessary state to realize the Supramental. And who has gone through more lives than the Mother – she who said she has never left the earth since its beginning? In our four c ...
... in the world that can diminish or hurt or hedge it in. In Sri Aurobindo's luminous words: "By transcending Ego and realising the one Self, we possess the whole universe in the one cosmic consciousness and do not need to possess physically. "Having by oneness with the Lord the possibility of an infinite free delight in all things, we do not need to desire. "Being one with ...
... psychic transformation, in which all is in contact with the Divine through the individual psychic consciousness. Next is the spiritual transformation in which all is merged in the Divine in the cosmic consciousness. Third is the supramental transformation in which all becomes supramentalised in the divine gnostic consciousness. It is only with the latter that there can begin the complete transformation ...
... mutation of the cosmic becoming in Time and Space for the whole truth of existence, — that is the second, the cosmic ignorance. We are ignorant of our universal self, the cosmic existence, the cosmic consciousness, our infinite unity with all being and becoming; we take our limited egoistic mentality, vitality, corporeality for our true self and regard everything other than that as not-self, — that ...
... and a revelation that shapes to the sight its very face and body of reality." 78 Beyond the plane of the intuitive Mind is a superconscient cosmic Mind which possesses a power of cosmic consciousness, a principle of global knowledge. In the wide cosmic perception of the Overmind "Ideas are phalanxed like a group of sums; Thought crowds in masses seized by one regard; All ...
... "the supra-cosmic Reality stands as the supreme Truth of being; to realise it is the highest reach of our consciousness. But it is this highest Reality which is also the cosmic being, the cosmic consciousness, the cosmic will and life: it has put these things forth, not outside itself but in its own being, not as an opposite principle but as its own self-unfolding and self-expression. Cosmic being ...
... Vasudeva. It was Narayana who was guarding and standing sentry over me.’ Narayan and Vasudeva are names of Krishna and Vishnu, and represent here the highest Godhead. Aurobindo had realized the cosmic consciousness, the second fundamental realization in his yoga. During a certain period he was visited by the spirit of Swami Vivekananda, who had died in 1902, six years before. ‘I didn’t know about the ...
... of the flowing Immense into which I had been partly taken up. When I look back on that rapt quarter of an hour - 5.15 to 5.30 -1 am reminded of the tradition of a sound in which the cosmic consciousness exists: the mantra OM. What I sensed was inseparable from an eternal-seeming rhythm sustained on all sides. Perhaps I would best characterise it as an infinite honeyed hum. Does OM echo this ...
... role anywhere. But this theosophist had been to Pondicherry in the days before the Ashram was formed and had met Sri Aurobindo and he could not help reporting to me: "Sri Aurobindo lives in the cosmic consciousness." I came to Pondicherry swept up on a wave which seemed irresistible. Sober thinking would never have brought me here. I once asked the Mother: "Will the Supermind, when it descends, be able ...
... different things. First, the passing from the outer to the inner consciousness, culminating in the discovery of the true soul that is a pure emanation of the Divine. Then, the opening out into the Cosmic Consciousness - the still Self of selves or the dynamic play of a universal Force. Next, the breaking through into the infinite luminosity above the mind. This is the state described in the following lines ...
... sea or sky Enveloped with its greatness all that came. Indifferent as it were to everything that was going on in the world, his gaze fixed far away and yet in his cosmic consciousness supporting all things and each one of us — that is the impression that always floats before my eyes whenever I think of Sri Aurobindo. Page 113 ...
... far or high enough. But the general theoretical method of Einstein's physics unequivocally suggests that if Spinozism is to be criticised the criticism must come from above it and not below. A cosmic consciousness into which we have a pin-point entry through mathematical divination is the irreducible minimum this method implies. To make that minimum yield a Spinozistic philosophy is to express a particular ...
... on? First, if the continuum is capable of geometrical structure, it must be "substantial" in some sense: the ordering, immense and multiple though non-successive, would represent not only a cosmic consciousness but also a cosmic being. The pointer away from materialism seems strengthened. Secondly, the material masses by being brought into relation with the "substantial" continuum may themselves be ...
... winsome personality traditionally attributed to Krishna. Sri Aurobindo has characterised Krishna as the Avatar who came from the plane of Divine Ananda and manifested through the Overmind, the top cosmic consciousness just next to the Supermind, the transcendent arch-creator. That is to say he was the Divinity of Bliss, who gave the world a manifold vision - the vision typical of the Gita in which Sri Aurobindo ...
... single, characteristic electro-magnetic wave. ... Each level of the spectrum is marked by a different and easily recognized sense of individual identity, which ranges from the supreme identity of cosmic consciousness through several gradations or bands to the drastically narrowed sense of identity associated with egoic consciousness." 20 Wilber's view of ego-consciousness as representing a "drastically ...
... belonging to older systems that are necessary on the way—an opening of the mind to a greater wideness and to the sense of the Self and the Infinite, an emergence into what has been called the cosmic consciousness, mastery over the desires and passions; an outward asceticism is not essential, but the conquest of desire and attachment and a control over the body and its needs, greeds and instincts are ...
... though it does transcend the ordinary human mind and in its full and native self-power, when it does not lean down and become part of mind, is superconscient to us. It is more properly a cosmic consciousness, 3 Aeneid, I. 462. 6 Ode on the Intimations of Immortality, iii. 4 The Tempest, I. ii. 7 Doctor Faustus, V. i. 5 Paradise Lost, II. 148. Page ...
... ecstasy unknown, Storm-breath of the soul-change yet to be, Ocean-self enraptured and alone! 26 But alone is company enough, since the poet, a cosmic man, is one with the cosmic consciousness. Not only does he "carry the 23 Ibid., p. 210. 24 Ibid., p. 336. 25 Ibid., p. 227. 26 Collected Poems, SABCL, Vol. 5, p. 572. Page 269 sorrow ...
... limits the king-soul goes through a brilliant opening carried by a mysterious sound into the Soul of the World. Here the poet describes the universal harmonies, sympathies and wisdom of this Cosmic Consciousness, home of souls in spiritual sleep between lives on earth. We learn how souls plan there in this "fashioning chamber of the worlds" the adventures of their new lives. The watching eye of this ...
... even disappears from our consciousness altogether. That is the extinction or Nirvana of the ego. To get into the transcendent self above all makes us capable of transcending altogether even cosmic consciousness and action — it can be the way to that complete liberation from the world-existence which is called also extinction, laya, mok ṣ a, nirv āṇ a. Letters on Yoga, pp. 1164-66 ...
... cosmic being, feel itself universal, one with all existence. In this freedom of entry into cosmic self and cosmic nature there is a great liberation of the individual being; it puts on a cosmic consciousness, becomes the universal individual. Its first result, when it is complete, is the realisation of the cosmic spirit, the one self inhabiting the universe, and this union may even bring about ...
... psychic transformation, in which all is in contact with the Divine through the individual psychic consciousness. Next is the spiritual transformation in which all is merged in the Divine in the cosmic consciousness. Third is the supramental transformation in which all becomes supramentalised in the divine gnostic consciousness. It is only with the last that there can begin the complete transformation ...
... universal acts. One could see from here the thousand roads that lead to Eternity and meet the veilless face of God. Freed from bondage to death and sleep, he travelled beyond the seas of cosmic consciousness and crossed the ocean of the primal sound; he walked carefully along the narrow bridge of nirvana, near the high borders of eternity. He had now reached the top of all that can be known; ...
... Death in the Forest, Savitri undergoes great spiritual experiences. First there is the experience of the great Nihil and Void. This is followed by the experience of the Cosmic Spirit and the Cosmic Consciousness. It is when she experiences the All-Negating Absolute that she saw the individual Self in her die, the cosmic disappear; she was not able to feel the presence of the transcendental Power. ...
... that towards which the mind of the West is only now reaching with much 6. The Foundations of Indian Culture, pp. 151-54. Page 73 fumbling and difficulty, - the cosmic consciousness, the cosmic vision. Even when it sees the One without a second, it still admits his duality of Spirit and Nature; it leaves room for his many trinities and million aspects. Even when it concentrates ...
... content with spiritual experience and do not seek after an outward perfection or progress, some who are saints, others who do not seek after sainthood, others who are content to live in the cosmic consciousness in touch or union with the All but allowing all kinds of forces to play through them, e.g., in the typical description of the Paramahamsa. The ideal I put before our Yoga is one thing but it ...
... but this fullness is related to a rather limited field on which the torch light of the intuition is focused. In the case of the overmind, on the contrary, the field itself is universal, and cosmic consciousness is automatic in the overmental cognition. But while describing the overmind, Sri Aurobindo uses the word, 'global', so as to distinguish it from a still higher level of consciousness, which ...
... gods (swe dame). This is the home of the Truth, the Right and the Vast (satyam, ritam, bhrihat). Page 14 This is the supramental Truth-Consciousness (Rita-Chit), the highest cosmic consciousness. It is that by which reality expresses itself, and in which expression, even the Idea- Expression, is the concrete body of the Truth itself. It may therefore be described as the Real-Idea. ...
... of integrating body, life and mind under its own integrating power. Super-consciousness refers to the realm of the transcendental Spirit which, in its universal aspect, provides an entry into cosmic consciousness and increasing unity of diversity which culminates in what is called in Yoga, supramental consciousness or consciousness of vijnānamaya. Again, it is true, as William James points out ...
... mutation of the cosmic becoming in Time and Space for the whole truth of existence,—that is the second, the cosmic ignorance. We are ignorant of our universal self, the cosmic existence, the cosmic consciousness, our infinite unity with all being and becoming; we take our limited egoistic mentality, vitality, corporeality for our true self and regard everything other than that as not-self, — that is ...
... the higher or highest stages of spirituality, we find the emergence of the liberated man who has realized the Self and page - 34 Spirit within him. The liberated man enters into the cosmic consciousness and passes into union with the Eternal and, so far as he still accepts life and action, acts by the light and energy of the Power within him working through his human instruments of Nature. ...
... descent of a divine Light, Force, Purity, Knowledge, freedom and wideness. It is necessary to break down the limits of the personal mind, life and physicality, dissolve the ego, enter into the cosmic consciousness, realize the self, acquire a spiritualized and universalised mind and heart, life-force, physical consciousness. Then only the passage into the supramental consciousness begins to become possible ...
... Purusha and Ishwara at different levels of the superconscient that lie beyond the mind. These experiences include those of the Self, Page 50 of Ishwara and the Divine Shakti of cosmic consciousness and of direct touch with cosmic forces and with occult movements of universal Nature. As a result of a free inflow of all kinds of spiritual experience, one receives illuminations of the mind ...
... and intent curiosity of circumstances, characteristic of the Indian mind, that spring, Page 289 as I have pointed out in relation to architecture, from the habit of the cosmic consciousness and its sight and imagination and activity of experience. Another difference is that the terrestrial life is not seen realistically just as it is to the physical mind but constantly in relation ...
... from within: ... If there is a being of the transcendence in us, it must be there in our secret self, ... If there is a self in us capable of largeness and universality, able to enter into a cosmic consciousness, that too must be within our inner being.... There must be for the divine Page 202 living a transference of the centre and immediate source of dynamic effectuation of the ...
... of the Psychic Being in formation. Experience of the discovery of the Psychic Being—experience of the second birth. Experience of Silence or of nirvana. Experience of the Cosmic Consciousness. Integral experience of the simultaneous Silence and Dynamism. Supramental time-vision. Change and transformation of human nature. Aids for the Development of the Yogic ...
... sure of true and right results. In that society, the quarrel between the individual and the collectivity or the disastrous struggle between one community and another would not exist, since the cosmic consciousness imbedded in the embodied beings would assure a harmonious diversity in oneness. But before such a spiritualised society could come into existence, much serious work needs to be done, and ...
... d through this enveloping circumconscient consciousness. An uninterrupted widening of our consciousness may finally Page 47 lead us to the acquisition of what is called 'cosmic consciousness'. Here is a relevant passage from Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine: "The subliminal has besides a formation of consciousness which projects itself beyond ... and forms a circumconscient ...
... Purity, Knowl- Page 259 edge, freedom and wideness. It is necessary to break down the limits of the personal mind, life and physicality, dissolve the ego, enter into the cosmic consciousness, realise the self, acquire a Spiritualised and universalised mind and heart, life-force, physical consciousness. "Then only the passage into the supramental consciousness begins to become ...
... Psychic Being in formation. (c) Experience of the discovery of the Psychic Being — experience of the second birth. 2. Experience of Silence or of nirvana. 3. Experience of the Cosmic Consciousness. 4. Integral experience of the simultaneous Silence and Dynamism. 5. Supramental time-vision. Page 102 6. Change and transformation of human nature. III. Aids for ...
... universal movement is one and indivisible and he who is presiding over this cosmic Manifestation is also One and indivisible. To quote from Sri Aurobindo: "The supramental being in his cosmic consciousness seeing and feeling all as himself would act in that sense; he would act in a universal awareness and a harmony of his individual self with the total self, of his individual will with the total ...
... own being in the motion of Energy of Nature. In this motion takes place the cycle of rebirth, and in that cycle the soul, the psychic being prepares for itself, - or the Divine Wisdom or the Cosmic Consciousness-Force prepares for it and through its action, - whatever is needed for the next step in its evolution, the next formation of personality... for each new birth, for each new step of the Spirit ...
... "the supracosmic Reality stands as the supreme Truth of being; to realise it is the highest reach of our consciousness. But it is this highest Reality which is also the cosmic being, the cosmic consciousness, the cosmic will and life: it has put these things forth, not outside itself but in its own being, not as an opposite principle but as its own self-unfolding and self-expression. Cosmic being ...
... avyaktam, the Unmanifest, beyond the divine Darkness, tamasaḥ parastāt, is the Supreme One Existence, ekam advaitam, the Para Purusha who holds in His vast integral Reality the truth of cosmic consciousness as well as that of the Nirvana of world-consciousness. He is beyond the duality and the non-duality, parata ḥ para ḥ 4 and is ādityavarṇa in contrast to the darkness of the Unmanifest ...
... we have to realise it if we would be really perfect. But this highest supracosmic Reality is not cut off from the world of manifestation. It is at the same time the cosmic Being, the cosmic Consciousness, the cosmic Will and life; it has put these things forth, not outside itself, but in its own being as its own self-unfolding and self-expression in the framework of Time and Space. There is ...
... deeper behind the mental we enter into the field of the psychic, when we go above the mental we enter into the domain of the spiritual experiences of the transcendental self or of the wide cosmic consciousness or of the One and the Supreme as the upholder of time-space. For purposes of transformation, it is not enough in the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo to have even these spiritual experiences and ...
... long as the ego is there. They cannot get beyond unless they lose it. Even in these planes it prevents them from getting the full consciousness and knowledge. For in the Overmind cosmic consciousness too ego is absent, though the true person may be there. The Supermind coming down on earth will change nothing in a man if he clings to the ego. Page 270 ...
... world eternal, as are those of the Overmind? They are mostly Emanations from the Overmind Gods. Do the natives of the Overmind put powers from themselves in the cosmic consciousness in a general working? The natives of the Overmind are Gods. Naturally the Gods rule the cosmos. In the direct working of the Overmind Gods, when they want to put ...
... Amritz-da, one Noimi-da." I will now read out to you some of my correspondence with Sri Aurobindo: 24 [Nirod-da:] Guru, what the deuce is "Brahman consciousness"? The same as cosmic consciousness ? Does one come to it after the psychic and spiritual transformations? Is it something like seeing Brahman in everybody and everywhere or what? It is not spiritual realisation, I suppose ...
... supporting their separate existence, and keeping it in being. Such beings are as real and more permanently real than the men they influence, but they belong to a higher plane, are part of the cosmic consciousness and being and act here on earth by shaping the human consciousness on which they exercise their influence. Each nation is a Shakti or power of the evolving spirit in ...
... into which the peace ineffable can descend—one gets by the dedication of one's will to the Divine, by the merging of one's will in the Divine will the death of ego and the enlarging into the cosmic consciousness or else the uplifting into what is above the cosmic,—one experiences the separation of Purusha from Prakriti and is liberated from the shackles of the outer nature; one becomes aware of one's ...
... Savitri that the task that lies ahead of her is of cosmic, rather than of a limited, significance; to be effective at that level, she should share the world's multitudinous pain and achieve a cosmic consciousness, know herself, .. .older than the birth of Time, Creation an incident in its consciousness, Arcturus and Belphegor grains of fire Circling in a corner of its boundless ...
... Theirs is a supra-rational consciousness, in which, ...the knower, the knowledge and the known become one again.. .This quality of consciousness has been given many names —cosmic consciousness, the mystic vision, the unitive life, etc.— but it is certain that these refer to one and the same thing which Page 302 in its fullness and permanence constitutes ...
... at once. Ordinarily we see only a small patch of the earth, only the present moment engages our attention; but a more comprehensive consciousness is possible. A global consciousness, even a cosmic consciousness, is not impossible; our own consciousness is by no means a static affair, for it evolves continually from lower limited forms into higher and more comprehensive forms. "I ...
... mysterious cycle of perpetual creation and distruction—it is the overwhelming vision given by Sri Krishna to Arjuna in the Gita. At the same time, the initial and most intense experience which this cosmic consciousness brings is the extreme relativity, contingency and transitoriness of the whole flux, and a necessity seems logically and psychologically imperative to escape into the abiding substratum, the ...
... mysterious cycle of perpetual creation and destruction—it is the overwhelming vision given by Sri Krishna to Arjuna in the Gita. At the same time, the initial and most intense experience which this cosmic consciousness brings is the extreme relativity, contingency and transitoriness of the whole flux, and a necessity seems logically and psychologically imperative to escape into the abiding substratum, the ...
... growth Page 104 and expression of that consciousness. Likewise the sun too has a solar consciousness, a solar being presiding over its destiny. Further, the universe too has a cosmic consciousness, one and indivisible, moving and guiding it. And still beyond there lies the transcendental consciousness, outside creation and manifestation. Consciousness being one and the same ...
... that what are the objects of other yogas are for us only the first stages, or first conditions. In the former ways of yoga men were satisfied if they could feel the Brahmic Consciousness or the cosmic consciousness or some descent of Light and Power, some intimation of the Infinite. It was thought sufficient if the mind got certain spiritual experiences and underwent partial transformation and the ...
... cycle of perpetual creation and destruction – it is the overwhelming vision given by Sri Krishna to Arjuna in the Gita. At the same time, the initial and most intense experience which this cosmic consciousness brings is the extreme relativity, contingency and transitoriness of the whole flux, and a necessity seems logically and psychologically imperative to escape into the abiding substratum, the ...
... satchid-ananda — in so many ways the thing has been sought to be envisaged and expressed. The consciousness of that level has also a great variety of names given to it — Intuition, Revelation, cosmic consciousness, God-consciousness. It is to be noted here, however, that the thing we are referring to, is not the Absolute, the Infinite, the One without a second. It is not, that is to say, the supreme ...
... SATYENDRA: You said yesterday that the blue colour might be of Vishnu or of Krishna. What is the difference between them? SRI AUROBINDO: Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva manifest certain powers of cosmic consciousness. Krishna manifests the Ananda. Krishna is said to be the Avatar of Vishnu, which means that he manifests the Vishnu aspect rather than the Shiva aspect. SATYENDRA: Are Vishnu and Krishna ...
... earth's evolution means the growth and expression of that consciousness. Likewise the sun too has a solar consciousness, a solar being presiding over its destiny. Further, the universe too has a cosmic consciousness, one and indivisible, moving and guiding it. And still beyond there lies the transcendental consciousness, outside creation and manifestation. Consciousness being one and the same everywhere ...
... in the process. As each individual will work according to his own truth, there will be some selective process. SRI AUROBINDO: In the supramental state there will be individual centres of cosmic consciousness. The Supermind will work through the cosmic in these centres according to the truth of their being. NIRODBARAN: Is the condition of complete egolessness a supramental state? SRI AUROBINDO: ...
... Sadhana Through Love and Devotion; Human Relationships in Yoga; Sadhana in the Ashram and Outside; Part Three: Experiences and Realisations; Visions and Symbols; Experiences of the Inner and the Cosmic Consciousness. Volume 24 — Letters on Yoga, PART FOUR: The Triple Transformation — Psychic, Spiritual, Supramental; Transformation of the Mind; Transformation of the Vital; Transformation of the ...
... 1908-1909 Sri Aurobindo realises 'in full two of the four great realisations on which his yoga and his spiritual philosophy are founded': of the silent spaceless and timeless Brahman, and of the cosmic consciousness - the Divine as all beings and all that is. To the other two, 'that of the supreme Reality with the static and dynamic Brahman as its two aspects and that of the higher planes of consciousness ...
... what was in the first instance contextually intended for one person at a particular time, could come with the force of a revelation to others also because it was the Mother speaking with her cosmic consciousness. For example, Huta had collaborated with the Mother on Meditations on Savitri, and the collaboration was to continue for some years; but whenever the disciple had moments of doubt, perplexity ...
... Aurobindo unperturbed in the midst of commotion. Ashramvas (Ashram life) in jail. Reading the Gita and the Upanishad. Practising Yoga. Had decisive spiritual realisations of cosmic consciousness vision of Sri Krishna everywhere and in everything. Attained mastery over the functions of the body as a means to its perfection. Never afterwards suffered from any serious illness, overcoming ...
... between that "heaven" and our Matter bogged down in thousands of years of mental habits. Matter is completely engulfed and caged in a mental web; "Heaven" shines up above for the experts in cosmic consciousness, who drift off to sleep there very honorably and religiously, but in between there is quite a "mudhole" to clean out—the path must be cleared! We have been much too busy playing with our new ...
... some mental realisations and experiences. The vital and everything else were unregenerated and the psychic behind the veil. I am not aware that anyone of them at that time entered the Cosmic Consciousness. At that time I was still seeking my way for the transformation and the passage to the Supramental. .. and acted very much on a principle of laissez faire with few Sadhaks who were ...
... shadows, a few flaws can be seen in the great Page 66 Light which manifests Thee, how shall they bear for long the marvellous brightness of Thy resplendent Love? While the cosmic Consciousness and Will gather up "me" and "mine" into a unity that passeth understanding, the illusive shadows of ignorance and suffering flit restlessly now and then till they disappear in the sunrise ...
... the first proposal had Page 426 been accepted, there would have been no partition, no refugees, and no Kashmir problem. 13 . The question may be asked if, with his cosmic consciousness, Sri Aurobindo couldn't have known that his word would be rejected, indeed accompanied by "ungracious remarks for the gratuitous advice". This was to be the subject of a talk in his room, ...
... and not by the Divine; aspiration, rejection and surrender are within the field of the individual effort. But to bring perception, to develop power, to give him the Truth, to give him the cosmic consciousness, to give him the experience of the transcendent consciousness, to give him the transformation, to bring the four-fold transformation and all the perfection of the Divine Power, is the work ...
... itself as the universal consciousness. When it realizes the universal consciousness the world does not change but the significance of all experience completely changes. When a man lives in the cosmic consciousness the sun does not begin to rise in the west. The accidents, difficulties and troubles and all kinds of conflicts of life and suffering are there but his view of them, his understanding of them ...
... and though it does transcend the ordinary human mind and in its full and native self-power, when it does not lean down and become part of mind, is super- conscient to us. It is more properly a cosmic consciousness, even the very base of the cosmic as we perceive, understand and feel it. It stands behind every particular in the cosmos and is the source of all our mental, vital or physical actualities and ...
... transformation, in which all is in contact with the Divine through the individual psychic consciousness. Next is the spiritual transformation in which all is merged in the Divine in the cosmic consciousness. Third is the supramental transformation in which all becomes supramentalised in the divine gnostic consciousness. It is only with the latter that there can begin the complete transformation ...
... unerring psychic light".¹.. .And there begins also "a free inflow of all kinds of spiritual experience, experience of the Self, experience of the Ishwara and the Divine śakti, experience of cosmic consciousness, a direct touch with cosmic forces and with the occult movements of universal Nature, a psychic sympathy and unity and inner communication and interchanges of all kinds with other beings and ...
... gives to the whole poem what I have called at another place its cosmic subjectivism. It is not an individual ego-centred mind which sees, but an enlightened being that has risen to not only the cosmic consciousness but has ascended to the regions of the Eternal trinity. Because the life in the poem is vast and cosmic, the emotion that we find in the poem is wide and impersonal, bordering almost on the ...
... with the sub- conscient, dream state, abnormal regions of man's consciousness, experiences of his vital and sensational being but its highest and greatest reach goes to the perception of the cosmic consciousness, to that of whole of mankind and to the regions of the supra-rational. Its most important and perhaps the most difficult task would be to contact and reveal in poetic form regions of consciousness ...
... and though it does transcend the ordinary human mind and in its full and native self-power, when it does not lean down and become part of mind, is superconscient to us. It is more properly a cosmic consciousness, even the very base of the cosmic as we perceive, understand and feel it. It stands behind every particular in the cosmos and is the source of all our mental, vital or physical actualities and ...
... Truth-consciousness is itself at Page 161 the centre of the individual. It is the common cosmic or all-pervading consciousness of the All and it is beyond the individual and the cosmic consciousness, both of which are derivatives of that One. If you grasp these three aspects which are here expressed in the formula of the Upanishads— "All Beings are in the Self", "The Self is in all Beings" ...
... no need of "climbing" or "going out of the body" anymore, of contemplating or meditating or sleeping: everything was right here, quite concretely. The universe was a single continuous plane. Cosmic consciousness was perfectly material and cellular. The "dead" were perfectly coexistent, if I may say so, with the living, in direct continuity with the rest of Matter. This is the great revolution of Sri ...
... nothing, a mere breath of air, and one is left with a smile. The Great Wonder is so transparent that we do not see it. We laugh and just pass. We pass everything by. We scale summits, soar into cosmic consciousness, move here and there, in a monk's robe or no robe at all, a sinner or a saint, it is all the same—and right in the middle of the road, without a temple, without fuss, it is there, and it smiles ...
... - and every mood, every quirk of sensibility, every leap of intelligence had its turn. Vaishnavism, Theosophy, Bahaism, Coueism, Gandhism, Nirvikalpa Samadhi, samatā. Grace and the Guru, Cosmic Consciousness, the Vedic Gods, Yogic miracles, Ouspensky, Jacob Boehme, M. Théon, astrology, the interpretation of dreams, Kaya Kalpa, Space and Time, Russian Communism, Tagore, Harindranath Chattopadhyaya's ...
... there is nothing left but Krishna and Kali. This is the stage I have reached in spite of all set-backs and recoils.... This is a remarkable analysis and a momentous confession. From cosmic consciousness or the consciousness of Unity (which, although it may be all right for personal felicity, will be "an escape instead of a victory"), the next stage would be to see the Unity as a creative duality ...
... full realization, out of four on which his Yoga is founded. Close upon the heels of the realization of liberation and Nirvana in January 1908, he got the experience in the Alipore jail of the cosmic consciousness, that is, the Divine in all beings and all that is. "For instance," Sri Aurobindo said to Dr. Manilal, "as I look around this room, I see everything as the Brahman. No, it is not mere thinking ...
... Experiences of the Inner Consciousness and the Cosmic Consciousness Experiences of the Inner Consciousness and the Cosmic Consciousness Experiences on the Inner Planes Letters on Yoga - III Chapter II Exteriorisation or Going Out of the Body The Experience of Exteriorisation The experience you had was that of exteriorisation or going out of the body... one begins, the vital body is at first a little vague and the consciousness also with the result that all is at first dim and unorganised. The serpent must be the Kundalini force which had left its coiled sleeping position in the Muladhara and taken the lengthened one in which it joins the embodied consciousness with the consciousness above. The power of exteriorisation is one that can be used for... falling down comes to many when the consciousness for a moment or a longer time exteriorises itself (goes up out of the body); the shock comes from the going up of the consciousness or from the return into the body. The Mother used to have that hundreds of times. It is not anything physical (the Doctor, as you say, found nothing). When this movement of the consciousness is more normal, the feeling will ...
... Experiences of the Inner Consciousness and the Cosmic Consciousness Experiences of the Inner Consciousness and the Cosmic Consciousness The Dangers of Inner and Cosmic Experiences Letters on Yoga - III Chapter II Inner Voices and Indications The Nature of Voices There are many voices, and all are not divine; this may be only a voice of desire. All... at a certain stage of the practice of Yoga. My experience is that it does not come from the highest source and cannot be relied upon and it is better to wait until one is able to enter a higher consciousness and a greater truth than any that these communications represent. Sometimes they come from beings of an intermediate plane who want to use the sadhak for some work or purpose. Many sadhaks accept... that was working within you or upon you, and some of the experiences, such as that of feeling the Mother in your heart, were perfectly genuine. But when the pressure of the Force works upon the consciousness, then in the plane on which it happens to be working, a great activity of different forces is set in play, e.g. if it is the mind, various mental forces, if it is the vital, Page 309 ...
... Inner Consciousness and the Cosmic Consciousness Experiences of the Inner Consciousness and the Cosmic Consciousness Experiences of the Inner Being and the Inner Consciousness Letters on Yoga - III Chapter III Inner Experiences in the State of Samadhi Samadhi or Trance The experience you had is of course the going inside of the consciousness which... visions or experiences in other supraphysical planes of consciousness. Your burning aspiration was just such a spiritual experience. No, it was not sleep. You went inside into an inner consciousness; in this inner consciousness one is awake inside, but not outside, not conscious of external things but of inner things only. Your inner consciousness was busy doing what your outer mind had been trying... our mental status. What she speaks of as losing the body consciousness is probably a tendency of the consciousness to go inside—into Samadhi of some kind. Samadhi means a state in which one is not awake and aware of outward things, but also one is not asleep, one is conscious inwardly with another than the waking consciousness. If this comes, it is not to be avoided, as Yogic realisation can ...
... Experiences of the Inner Consciousness and the Cosmic Consciousness Experiences of the Inner Consciousness and the Cosmic Consciousness Experiences of the Inner Being and the Inner Consciousness Letters on Yoga - III Chapter II Inner Detachment and the Witness Attitude Inner Detachment It [ the individual consciousness ] is not by its nature detached... psychic, but to get at the consciousness of the inner manomaya and prāṇamaya Purusha is always a step towards the unveiling of the psychic being. The condition in which all movements become superficial and empty with no connection with the soul is a stage in the withdrawal from the surface consciousness to the inner consciousness. When one goes into the inner consciousness, it is felt as a calm... . It can be detached, it can be involved. In the human consciousness it is as a rule always involved, but it has developed the power of detaching itself—a thing which the lower creation seems unable to do. As the consciousness develops, this power of detachment also develops. Detachment means standing back with part of the consciousness and observing what is being done without being involved ...
... Experiences of the Inner Consciousness and the Cosmic Consciousness Experiences of the Inner Consciousness and the Cosmic Consciousness Experiences of the Inner Being and the Inner Consciousness Letters on Yoga - III Chapter IV Three Experiences of the Inner Being Opening into the Inner Mental Self The three experiences of which you speak belong all... spiritual life; they are initial movements of the consciousness to become aware of your inner being which was veiled, as in most, by the outer waking self. There are, we might say, two beings in us, one on the surface, our ordinary exterior mind, life, body consciousness, another behind the veil, an inner mind, an inner life, an inner physical consciousness constituting another or inner self. This inner... self-knowledge when he is thus aware of living in two worlds, two consciousnesses at the same time, two parts of the same existence. At present he lives in the outer consciousness, the outer being and sees within the inner self—but he will go more and more inward, till the position is reversed and he lives within in this new inner consciousness, inner self and feels the outer as something on the surface ...
... Experiences of the Inner Consciousness and the Cosmic Consciousness Experiences of the Inner Consciousness and the Cosmic Consciousness Experiences on the Inner Planes Letters on Yoga - III Chapter I Experiences on the Subtle Physical, Vital and Mental Planes Subtle Physical Experiences Is it [ a strong and rapid heartbeat that shakes the whole body... opening Yogic consciousness and they have to be understood, simply. Here it is the breaking up of the small surface vital into the largeness of the true or inner vital being which can at once open to the Higher Consciousness, its power, light and Ananda. There is also begun a similar breaking of the small physical mind and sense into the wideness of the inner physical consciousness. The inner planes... frequent phenomenon; it happens very often when one has been long repeating a mantra that a voice or consciousness within begins to repeat it automatically—also prayer can be taken up in the same way from within. It is usually by an awakening of the inner consciousness or by the going in of the consciousness more deeply within from its outward poise that this happens. This is supported in his case by the ...
... Bliss; active and creative, it possesses or rather becomes the delight of the play of existence, the play of consciousness, the play of force and will. That play is the universe and that delight is the Page 152 sole cause, motive and object of cosmic existence. The Divine Consciousness possesses that play and delight eternally and inalienably; our essential being, our real self which is concealed... is to be enjoyed. Yet it is in the mind and its form of life and body that we exist on earth and, if we must abolish the consciousness of mind, life and body in order to reach the one Existence, Consciousness and Bliss, then a divine life here is impossible. We must abandon cosmic existence utterly as an illusion in order to enjoy or re-become the Transcendent. From this solution there is no escape... anda itself that is this principle, but Sachchidananda not resting in its pure infinite invariable consciousness, but proceeding out of this primal poise, or rather upon it as a base and in it as a continent, into a movement which is its form of Energy and instrument of cosmic creation. Consciousness and Force are the twin essential aspects of the pure Power of existence; Knowledge and Will must therefore ...
... One ... and creation had to be manifold. " 22 But unity, notwithstanding the teeming, tantalising and exasperating surface variety can be attained certainly through a return to the cosmic force, consciousness and will, but more simply, more infallibly, unity can be enacted through love, "for it is indeed love which leads to Unity". But for anything like a lasting unity, unity doubled with sovereign... here at the level of the ordinary earth-consciousness, and bring about the desired transformation? What is wanting still? The consenting Voice of Supreme Grace? The chiming of the instrumentation of Time? The uncompleted explosion of the Supramental consciousness? Mirra writes again, after a few days: "Spare me this calvary of earthly consciousness; let me merge in Thy supreme unity." Well... He therefore makes this passionate plea to the Divine Mother: How shall I rest content with mortal days And the dull measure of terrestrial things, I who have seen behind the cosmic mask The glory and the beauty of thy face? Hard is the doom to which thou bindest thy sons! How long shall our spirits battle with the Night And bear defeat and the brute yoke ...
... before the consciousness: fugitive symbols of its possibility float down from the high trances of the seers without yielding their inmost essence or becoming dynamic. Though sufficient support is given to regarding the cosmic scene as a field for manifesting the Spirit, complete spiritual fulfilment is said to come only after the gross body has been doffed and a status reached outside the cosmic round of... superhuman elan is perhaps just caught in the rendering: Millions of golden birds, O vigour to come! Shakespeare's accidental unmasking of the Divine by a Word one with some cosmic Truth-Consciousness exceeds as spiritual poetry even the large magnificence deepening into mystery that we meet in that Wordsworthian Being Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns. Wordsworth... the visions that fall across gigantic spaces. When our consciousness grows receptive enough, we observe that the spiritual and the material move here as one. Most of us who, when the night had run a long course but was still thick, have waited in the ambiguous atmosphere with our faces to the East, have had an inkling of a vigil by some cosmic Ignorance and have been faintly filled with the unplumbed ...
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