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... disconsolate To inarticulate murmurs dies away, While the eternal ages watch and wait. Such was the experience which mystically had turned his love for Beatrice into something like a cosmic force: And yet the will rolled onward, like a wheel In even motion, by the love impelled That moves the sun in heaven and all the stars. The poet had arrived at a general sense... even as Helena saves him. But this Helena is a sad-sweet romantic Psyche, tantalizing, never peace-giving (Goethe ever remained a romantic, never achieving the classic harmony) while Savitri, the cosmic force, is the pure divine. Goethe of his century had a sense of the need of resolving the conflict; but he could not. In Sri Aurobindo's Savitri we find the conflict resolved and supramental existence ...

... one manifestation and that in the inner heart of the sage or saint there is the Divine. Again his experience is that there is One Force working in the world both in its good and in its evil—one Cosmic Force; it works both in the success (or failure) of the Ashram and in the success (or failure) of the brothel. Things are done in this world by the use of the force, although the use made is according... of men and the starvation of women and children? The Taoist who J^Yes in the Impersonal Tao is more consistent and the Vedantin who believes that the Supreme is beyond good and evil but the Cosmic Force the Supreme has put out here Page 49 works through the dualities, therefore through both good and evil, joy and suffering, has a thesis which at least accounts for the double fact ...

... sensations etc. The Force which he feels is something quite different; it is the larger force exceeding the individual and when one feels it in its fullness, it is experienced as the cosmic force or something out of the cosmic force or else the Divine Force from above, according to its nature. His mind is not yet ready for the action of a greater Force, because it is full of mental notions and activities and ...

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... Follow always the one rule, to open yourself directly to the Divine Force and not to others; if you keep in touch with it, all else will progressively arrange itself. The Cosmic Force and the Overmind The cosmic Force is under the control of the Overmind. The Supermind does not act on it directly—whatever comes down from there is modified so as to pass through the Overmind and takes a lesser ...

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... leave the nature-part to act in its own way, thinking that it would fall off with the falling of the body. They would either allow the Cosmic Force to act on their nature so that the Bhavas of Bala, Unmatta, etc. would result, or they would open to the Cosmic Force with a controlling influence. Or it would be the nature of their own being that would go on with its movements to exhaust the Karma. ...

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... carrying out my actions. Of course I was there, but in the background. Was it not the Mother's Force?       What you say amounts only to some glimpse of the cosmic Force behind all the actions.         I gather that the cosmic Force is behind all our actions whether we see it or not. Now, have we to open ourselves to this Force in order to arrive at the divine Force?       Not necessarily ...

... the Divine Will. In the integral Karma Yoga, Sri Aurobindo points out, it is not enough to know the Divine Shakti as the one Cosmic Force that moves us and all creatures on the planes of Mind, Life and Matter. For at the level of Mind, Life and Matter, the cosmic force acts as the lower Nature, Apara Prakriti, and, although the Divine Knowledge, Light, Power are concealed there and at work in the ...

... occult machinery, Captured the mystic Morse whose measured lilt Transmits the messages of the cosmic Force." (ibid.) The first part of this refers to the cave-dwelling Panis of the Veda and the latter deals with the mystic Morse code which transmits the messages of the cosmic Force. As for mathematics, there is— "Necessity's logarithmic table" and "the calculus of destiny" and ...

... in the acceptation of material being as the only reality. As there is a cosmic Self and Spirit pervading and upholding the universe and its beings, so too there is a cosmic Force that moves all things, and on this original cosmic Force depend and act many cosmic Forces that are its powers or arise as forms of its universal action. Whatever is formulated in the universe has a Force or Forces that support... and in spite of wrong consciousness and wrong will or it is due to the intervention of redressing forces. This relativity, this mixture is a circumstance of human mentality and the workings of the Cosmic Force in human life; it is not the fundamental truth of good and evil. It might be objected that physical evil, such as pain and most bodily suffering, is independent of knowledge and ignorance, of right... the error born of it the source of falsity, a wrong consciousness governed by the life-ego the source of evil. But it is evident that their relative existence is only a phenomenon thrown up by the cosmic Force in its drive towards evolutionary self-expression, and it is there that we have to look for the significance of the phenomenon. For the emergence of the life-ego is, as we have seen, a machinery ...

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... worker and firmly to realise that we are only one instrument of the cosmic Force. At first it is not the one Force but many cosmic forces that seem to move us; but these may be turned into feeders of the ego and this vision liberates the mind but not the rest of the nature. Even when we become aware of all as the working of one cosmic Force and of the Divine behind it, that too need not liberate. If the... cannot be the conscious instruments of the Divine or come face to face with the Master, but are used through their fallible and imperfect nature. The most they see of the Divinity is a Fate or a cosmic Force or else they give his name to a limited Godhead or, worse, to a Titanic or demoniac Power that veils him. Even certain religious founders have erected the image of the God of a sect or a national... for they may become instruments, but not of the Divine; too often, using his name, they serve unconsciously his Masks and black Contraries, the Powers of Darkness. Our nature must house the cosmic Force but not in its lower aspect or in its rajasic or sattwic movement; it must serve the universal Will, but in the light of a greater liberating knowledge. There must be no egoism of any kind in the ...

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... he perceives it. SRI AUROBINDO: What he may perceive may be the Cosmic Force. But what we seek is something higher than the Cosmic Force. One may say that the Cosmic Force is also the Divine Force or the Mother's Force. True, but the Mother's Force is acting through it under certain conditions for a certain purpose. The Cosmic Force works through Nature, which one has to observe and reject. Then it... it is not the question of right or wrong that has to be considered, but of Ignorance and Knowledge. Cosmic Force works in Ignorance according to the Law of Ignorance, whereas one has to pass from Ignorance to Knowledge. × bhava : mood, Sentiment; bhasha : speech, words. ...

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... life or in a life hereafter, with its corresponding result of sorrow and suffering: he is caught in a rat-trap from which Page 120 there is no escape. This is the first cosmic Force operative in man's life. But if this would have been the one and only Force in action, man and his world would have been destroyed long ago; for, so many mistakes are being committed daily and... al equipollence, man's life would be a long tale of unmitigated series of sorrows and sufferings and disasters. But in reality it is not so. The question is why. Here comes the second cosmic Force operative in man's life. This may be called 'divine Compassion'. It is an impersonal divine Force of love and goodwill which is acting always in every man's life and in the world at large, ir... everywhere in every man's life irrespective of the quality or the state of consciousness of individual men or their subjective attitude and preparation. But this is not all. There is a third cosmic Force operative in Page 121 the world. It is the person ward-oriented mobile divine Grace and this is the most wonderful Force of all which can really work miracles at any time overriding ...

... inner heart of the harlot as in the inner heart of the sage or saint there is the Divine. Again his experience is that there is one Force working in the world both in its good and in its evil—one Cosmic Force; it works both in the success (or failure) of the Asram and in the success (or failure) of the brothel. Things are done in this world by the use of the force, although the use made is according... and the starvation of women and children? The Taoist who believes only in the Impersonal Tao is more consistent and the Vedantin who believes that the Supreme is beyond good and evil, but that the Cosmic Force the Supreme has put out here works through the dualities, therefore through both good and evil, joy and suffering, has a thesis which at least accounts for the double fact of the experience of the ...

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... function of substance in our bodies. All that we internally are is not ego, but consciousness, soul or spirit. All that we externally and superficially are and do is not ego but Nature. An executive cosmic force shapes us and dictates through our temperament and environment and mentality so shaped, through our individualised formulation of the cosmic energies, our actions and their results. Truly, we do... not think, will or act but thought occurs in us, will occurs in us, impulse and act occur in us; our ego-sense gathers around itself, refers to itself all this flow of natural activities. It is cosmic Force, it is Nature that forms the thought, imposes the will, imparts the impulse. Our body, mind and ego are a wave of that sea of force in action and do not govern it, but by it are governed and directed ...

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... in the acceptation of material being as the only reality. As there is a cosmic Self and Spirit pervading and upholding the universe and its beings, so too there is a cosmic Force that moves all things, and on this original cosmic Force depend and act many cosmic Forces that are its powers or arise as forms of its universal action. Whatever is formulated in the universe has a Force or Forces that support ...

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... inner heart of the harlot as in the inner heart of the sage or saint there is the Divine. Again his experience is that there is one Force working in the world both in its good and in its evil—one Cosmic Force; it works both in the success (or failure) of the Asram and in the success (or failure) of the brothel. Things are done in this world by the use of the force, although the use made is according... and the starvation of women and children? The Taoist who believes only in the Impersonal Tao is more consistent and the Vedantin who believes that the Supreme is beyond good and evil, but that the Cosmic Force the Supreme has put out here works through the dualities, therefore through both good and evil, joy and suffering, has a thesis which at least accounts for the double fact of the experience of the ...

Sri Aurobindo   >   Books   >   CWSA   >   Letters on Yoga - II
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... bondage [ in work ]. In all work and action, he feels perfectly free, because the work is not done by him personally (there is no sense of limited ego) but by the cosmic Force. The limitations of the work are those put by the cosmic Force itself on its own action. He himself lives in communion of oneness with the Transcendent which is above the cosmos and feels no limitation. That is at least how it ...

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... the worlds & works in them towards our soul's fulfilment in and beyond heaven—Agni, as játavedas, the self-existent luminosity of knowledge in this Cosmic Force—for Force is only Chitshakti, working power of the Divine Consciousness & therefore Cosmic Force is always self-luminous, all-knowing force. Agni Jatavedas then is the ray of divine knowledge in this embodied state of existence;—he is Adhrigu—the ...

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... acting, revealed, in the consciousness of creatures born into matter, janánám. It wakes when the fuel has been perfectly heaped, abodhi samidhá,—that power, plenty and richness of being on which this cosmic Force in us is fed and which minister to its intensity and brightness. It wakes towards the coming dawn of illumination, as to the Sun-cow, the cow of Surya, the illumination of the ideal life & the ideal... the seven essential forms of Ananda, the bliss of body, the bliss of life, the bliss of mind & the senses, the bliss of ideal illumination, the bliss of pure divine universal ecstasy, the bliss of cosmic Force, the bliss of cosmic being. For although we tend upwards immediately to the pure Idea, yet not that but Ananda is the goal of our journey; the manifestation in our lower members of the divine bliss ...

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... cannot be behind all we do, because we do not always do the right thing. Is there any truth in what X says? There is this much truth that the cosmic Force works out everything and the Cosmic Spirit (Virat Purusha) supports her action. But this cosmic Force is a Power that works under the conditions Page 62 of the Ignorance,—it appears as the lower nature and the lower nature makes you ...

... function of substance in our bodies. All that we internally are is not ego, but consciousness, soul or spirit. All that we externally and superficially are and do is not ego but Nature. An executive cosmic force shapes us and dictates through our temperament and environment and mentality so shaped, through our individualised formulation of the cosmic energies, our actions and their results. Truly, we do... not think, will or act but thought occurs in us, will occurs in us, impulse and act occur in us; our ego-sense gathers around itself, refers to itself all this flow of natural activities. It is cosmic Force, it is Nature that forms the thought, imposes the will, imparts the impulse. Our body, mind and ego are a wave of that sea of force in action and do not govern it, but by it are governed and directed ...

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... is only a small labouring agent; but that is because the conscious mind in us has a limited individual action and the Inconscient is an immense action of a universal concealed Consciousness: the cosmic Force, masked as a material Energy, hides from our view by its insistent materiality of process the occult fact that the working of the Inconscient is really the expression of a vast universal Life, a... confronting herself with a critical choice which must one day be solved in the true sense if the race is to arrive or even to survive. The evolutionary nisus is pushing towards a development of the cosmic Force in terrestrial life which needs a larger mental and Page 1092 vital being to support it, a wider mind, a greater wider more conscious unanimised Life-Soul, Anima, and that again needs ...

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... their variations the manifestation of personality. Love is the nature of the lover, courage the nature of the warrior; love and courage are impersonal and universal forces or formulations of the cosmic Force, they are the spirit's powers of its universal being and nature. The Person is the Being supporting what is thus impersonal, holding it in himself as his, his nature of self; he is that which is... individual, all his action would be in harmony with the cosmic action, but, owing to his transcendence, it would not be limited by a temporary inferior formulation or at the mercy of any or every cosmic force. His universality would embrace even the Ignorance around him in its larger self, but, while intimately aware of it, he would not be affected by it: he would follow the greater law of his transcendent ...

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... strive & wrestle blindly; for they cannot even [in] the highest man accomplish altogether their own unity & harmony. An ignorance in which is packed up all knowledge, a mighty inertia in which all cosmic force strives helplessly, an insensibility which conceals the pain and strain of all ecstasy present, but held back, this is the outer face of material Nature and our starting point. The Spirit awakening... thought and half-successful will, this toiling and fluctuating experiment, this field of the attempt at emergence of a thousand things that are striving to be, is no consummation of the struggle of cosmic Force; he is only a laboratory in which Nature seeks for its own concealed secret, makes tentative efforts at what she has been missioned to achieve. Page 264 As man arose out of the animal ...

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... bodies. All that we internally are is not ego, but consciousness, soul or spirit. All Page 128 that we externally and superficially are and do is not ego but Nature. An executive cosmic force shapes us and dictates through our temperament and environment and mentality so shaped, through our individualised formulation of the cosmic energies, our actions and their results. Truly, we... not think, will or act but thought occurs in us, will occurs in us, impulse and act occur in us; our ego-sense gathers around itself, refers to itself all this flow of natural activities. It is cosmic Force, it is Nature that forms the thought, imposes the will, imparts the impulse. Our body, mind and ego are a wave of that sea of force in action and do not govern it, but by it are governed and directed ...

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... name covering our self-satisfied ignorance of the cause and process of things; Chance is really the free action, not pursuable by us in its details, of a mighty cosmic Providence which is one with cosmic Force. It accepts the reality of Fate, but rejects as a void and baseless imagination the idea of an inexplicable mechanical Necessity; Fate is merely the inevitable working out in itself by a cosmic ...

Sri Aurobindo   >   Books   >   CWSA   >   Isha Upanishad
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... will and pleasure; the Conscious Being imparts its consciousness to the Energy we call Nature, receives in that consciousness her workings as in a mirror, accepts the forms which she, the executive cosmic Force, creates and imposes on it, gives or withdraws its sanction from her movements. The experience of Purusha-Prakriti, the Spirit or Conscious Being in its relations to Nature, is of immense pragmatic ...

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... being of the surface ignorance seeking obscurely after the truth of things and collecting and systematising fragments and sections of knowledge, the small limited and half-competent creature of the cosmic Force which he now is in his phenomenal nature. He must know himself and discover and utilise all his potentialities: but to know himself and the world completely he must go behind his own and its exterior ...

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... 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 the sense of cosmos as well as the individual disappears. Or again, it ...

... thought and half-successful will, this toiling and fluctuating experiment, this field of the attempt at emergence of a thousand things that are striving to be, is no consummation of the struggle of cosmic Force; he is only a laboratory in which Nature seeks for its own concealed secret, makes tentative efforts at what she has been missioned to achieve. As man arose out of the animal, so out of man superman ...

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... he be taken as an example of the defeat of the Divine or of a spiritual Power? I quite allow that there has been something behind Gandhi greater than himself and you can call it the Divine or a Cosmic Force which has used him, but then there is that behind everybody who is used as an instrument for world ends,— behind Kemal and Lenin also; so that is not germane to the matter. Of course I shall ...

... depend upon it: it is not a sum of individual beings, a pluralistic totality created by the conscious life of individuals; if an All-Soul exists, it must be the one Cosmic Spirit supporting the one cosmic Force in its works, and it repeats here, modified in the terms of cosmic existence, the primary relation of the dependence of the Many on the One. It is inconceivable that the Many should have independently ...

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... intelligence. Our mind works best and with a firm confidence when it Page 450 is given a substance to work on or at least to use as a basis for its operations, or when it can handle a cosmic force of which it has acquired the knowledge,—it is sure of its steps when it has to deal with actualities; this rule of dealing with objectivised or discovered actualities and proceeding from them for ...

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... indivisible, so he who is present in the movement is one, sole and indivisible. Not only all result is determined by him, but all initiation, action and process are dependent on the motion of his cosmic force and only belong secondarily and in their form to the creature. But what then must be the spiritual position of the personal worker? What is his true relation in dynamic Nature to this one cosmic ...

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... an accomplished harmony and poise of the whole being is the consummate achievement of the sattwic nature. No existence is cast entirely in the single mould of any of these three modes of the cosmic Force; all three are present in everyone and everywhere. There is a constant combining and separation of their shifting relations and interpenetrating Page 234 influences, often a conflict ...

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... concentration into a mystic sleep state or pass abruptly in waking Mind into a state belonging to the Superconscient, then the mind can be seized in the passage by a sense of the unreality of the cosmic Force and its creations; it passes by a subjective abolition of them into the supreme superconscience. This sense of unreality and this sublimating passage are the spiritual justification for the idea ...

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... the Absolute if it were denied in knowledge and power and will and manifestation of being a boundless capacity of self-determination. This Supermind then is the Truth or Real-Idea, inherent in all cosmic force and existence, which is necessary, itself remaining infinite, to determine and combine and uphold relation and order and the great lines of the manifestation. In the language of the Vedic Rishis ...

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... for it is in reality this force which works in man as well as in the sun and star. There is no doubt of this truth whether in Hinduism or in Science. This is the thing called Nature, the sum of cosmic force and energy, which alone Science recognises as the source of all work and activity. This also is the Prakriti of the Hindus to which under different names Sankhya and Vedanta agree in assigning a ...

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... not—all the activities cannot be that. It is only in the Yoga realisation that one feels all one's activities to be from the one source—something from above or the Yogashakti or the Guru Shakti or the Cosmic Force or whatever it may be (all names for the same thing in different formations) driving the whole consciousness and being. Success in life outside is dependent on different things, on one's own ...

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... he be taken as an example of the defeat of the Divine or of a spiritual Power?** I quite allow that there has been something behind Gandhi greater than himself and you can call it the Divine or a Cosmic Force which has used him, but then there is that behind everybody who is used as an instrument for world ends,—behind Kemal and Lenin also; so that is not germane to the matter. * * * ...

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... being of the surface ignorance seeking obscurely after the truth of things and collecting and systematising fragments and sections of knowledge, the small limited and half-competent creature of the cosmic Force which he now is in his phenomenal nature. He must know himself and discover and utilise all his potentialities: but to know himself and the world completely he must go behind his own and its exterior ...

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... s - only talk from the source within or with a true meaning must be felt as tolerable. Page 97 THE ACTION OF THE EGO   Everybody is an instrument of the Cosmic Force through his ego.   The Divine is there in all men, so the Divine and the ego do live together. But the Divine is veiled by the ego and manifests in proportion as the ego first submits ...

... will and pleasure; the Conscious Being imparts its consciousness to the Energy we call Nature, receives in that consciousness her workings as in a mirror, accepts the forms which she, the executive cosmic Force, creates and imposes on it, gives or withdraws its sanction from her movements. The experience of Purusha-Prakriti, the Spirit or Conscious Being in its relations to Nature, is of immense pragmatic ...

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... not—all the activities cannot be that. It is only in the Yoga realisation that one feels all one's activities to be from the one source—something from above or the Yogashakti or the Guru Shakti or the Cosmic Force or whatever it may be (all names for the same thing in different formations) driving the whole consciousness and being. Outside life is interdependent—on one's own energy and the environmental ...

... Blessings for the Pujas — anyway, it was close to the Pujas, and as usual Durga came to me. She was so beautiful and formidable, like all the other children, but it was an entity which possesses the cosmic force. And I told her: “Shall there be no end to these little entities and is it not time to turn towards the Supreme, leaving behind the little personal egos?” Then you know what happened? Something ...

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... Oversoul. "He linked creation to the Eternal's sphere, His finite parts approached their absolutes, His actions framed the movements of the Gods, His will took up the reins of cosmic Force." Page 227 ...

... linked creation to the Eternal's sphere.       His finite parts approached their absolutes,       His actions framed the movements of the Gods,       His will took up the reins of cosmic Force. 136   And that is the end of Aswapati's ascent as a typical representative of the race. He has realised all for himself, and he has seen the Possibility open to the race. He has reached ...

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... he be taken as an example of the defeat of the Divine or of a spiritual Power? I quite allow that there has been something behind Gandhi greater than himself and you can call it the Divine or a Cosmic Force which has used him, but then there is that behind everybody who is used as an instrument for world ends,—behind Kemal and Lenin also,—so that is not germane to the matter. 29 July 1932 This ...

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... course I was there, but in the background. Was it not the Mother's Force trying to take me into itself integrally? It is too much to say that. What you say amounts only to some glimpse of the cosmic Force behind all the actions. 2 June 1934 Everybody is in the Mother, but one must become conscious of that, not of the work only. 1 April 1935 The feeling that all one does is from the Divine ...

... 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 the sense of cosmos as well as the individual disappears. Or again, it may ...

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... evolution must therefore end in the openness of the individual for cosmic or infinite consciousness-being, not limited by individual ego-sense, the workings of free infinite Page 446 cosmic force, not limited by individual will; possessing entire freedom, knowledge & mastery it must be in its nature an infinite joy & bliss in oneself & in all the cosmic workings which enter into our experience ...

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... the imperfections remain somewhere. It is a usual experience—to live within in one consciousness while the external being (mind, life, body) goes on of itself under the impulsion of the cosmic Force, doing quietly whatever is necessary to do. This is part of the Yogic consciousness and to have it means a very real and considerable advance on the path of Yoga. You have been accustomed ...

Sri Aurobindo   >   Books   >   CWSA   >   Letters on Yoga - I
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... of other forces will allow it. So, naturally, if you want to stop it, you have to set a contrary force in motion which will be strong enough to prevail against its momentum. There is one cosmic Force working in all and a vibration of that Force or any one of its movements can awake (it does not always) the same vibration in another. The play of forces can lead to nothing, if the One Force ...

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... Sachchidananda? Or ego? The Hostile Forces in their own world embody ego self-fulfilled and having its own free play—ego on earth is not self-fulfilled and not meant to be, it is in conflict with a cosmic Force greater than itself and is only a temporary expedient for bringing forth individuality out of the indeterminateness of just conscient life and inconscient Matter. If there were no hostile ...

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... higher being ] as wide and infinite? When you are there do you feel it spread through infinity? Do you feel all the universe within you, yourself one with the self of all beings? Do you feel the one cosmic Force acting everywhere? Do you feel your mind one with the cosmic mind? your life one with the cosmic life? your matter one with the cosmic Matter? separative ego unreal? the body no longer a limitation ...

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... General Nature All movements are in the mass movements of Nature's cosmic forces—they are movements of universal Nature. The individual receives something of them, a wave or pressure of some cosmic force, and is driven by it; he thinks it is his own, generated in himself separately, but it is not so, it is part of a general movement which works just in the same way in others. Sex, for instance, ...

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... being of the surface ignorance seeking obscurely after the truth of things and collecting and systematising fragments and sections of knowledge, the small limited and half-competent creature of the cosmic Force which he now is in his phenomenal nature. He must know himself and discover and utilise all his potentialities: but to know himself and the world completely he must go behind his own and Page ...

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... which is inseparable from the act of 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 ...

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... ascending series affect the possibilities of our material existence? It would not affect them at all if each plane of consciousness, each world of existence, each grade of substance, each degree of cosmic force were cut off entirely from that which precedes and that which follows it. But the opposite is the truth; the manifestation of the Spirit is a complex weft and in the design and pattern of one principle ...

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... into an eternal stillness. That traced to its roots is Nihilism and Illusionism and it is the only wisdom if we suppose that our human mentality or anything at all like it represents the highest cosmic force and the original conception at work in the universe. But the moment we find in the original power of knowledge a higher force than that which is represented by our human mentality, this conception ...

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... to the guidance of the universal Teacher within himself, Yoga will fulfil itself without any farther effort on his part. The passivity will be confirmed, the higher faculties will awake and the cosmic Force passing down from the vijnana through the supermind will take charge of the whole machine and direct its workings as the Infinite Lord of All may choose. Whichever of the two methods be chosen ...

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... There is the movement of a force, an energy coming in, filling up, then going out, radiating. Is it rhythmic ? A: Yes, and it goes on all the time. Is it the Cosmic force? A: Something like that. * 25 September 1993 People often forget that apart from Light, Love and Sweetness, there is immense strength in the psychic when ...

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... 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. Sri Aurobindo ...

... living or inanimate opens out its secrecies and wonder after wonder begins to flood our awareness. What has been enigmatic all along ceases to be so and there is only the working of one miraculous cosmic Force. Even a simple line like Savitri, Savitri, O Savitri 92 pierces with the power of that name all the three worlds of Ignorance existing in us and in its cry takes us ...

... the dread of disintegration, decay, death. Savitri's dread reflects this pervading dread in the universe. Similarly, her strength bases itself on the cosmic strength. Her force is one with the cosmic force. All this is possible, because she embodies love which is the sure basis of identity and oneness. This love is the all-embracing love of the universal Mother. Against the evil at life's ...

... with the record in our cells, Concealed in the subliminal secrecies Mid an obscure occult machinery, Capture the mystic Morse whose measured lilt Transmits the messages of the cosmic Force. 30 In passing we may note here that there is a curious and at the same time brilliant mixture of two images, the first being that of troglodytes or cave-dwellers which reminds us of the ...

... and pleasure; the Conscious Being imparts its consciousness to the Energy we call Nature, receives in that consciousness her workings as in a mirror, accepts the forms which she, the executive cosmic Force, creates and imposes on it, gives or withdraws its sanction from her movements. The experience of Purusha-Prakriti, the Spirit or Conscious Being in its relations to Nature, is of immense pragmatic ...

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... human consciousness swinging in Nature's uncertain balance. The Synthesis of Yoga, pp. 91-92 No existence is cast entirely in the single mould of any of these three modes of the cosmic Force; all three are present in everyone and everywhere. There is a constant combining and separation of their shifting relations and interpenetrating influences, often a conflict, a wrestling of forces ...

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... 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 the sense of cosmos as well as the individual disappears. Or again, it ...

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... a Sun... He linked creation to the Eternal's sphere, His finite parts approached their absolutes, His actions framed the movements of the Gods, His will took up the reins of cosmic Force. 25 As the Mother said: "Savitri alone is sufficient to make you climb to the highest peaks. If truly one knows how to meditate on Savitri, one will receive all the help one needs ...

... so, people always do at first. But even so, I don't understand why he writes of it as a stage he does not want to leave. What he has is not of course overmind or supermind, but some sense of the cosmic Force of the Mother behind the action of the personal being. He feels some dynamic force working in him. He feels that he hasn't clung to the Divine, the Divine has clutched him. That is very ...

... you realise it as wide and infinite? When you are there do you feel spread through infinity? Do you feel all the universe within you, yourself one with the self of all beings? Do you feel the one cosmic Force acting everywhere? Do you feel your mind one with the cosmic mind? your life one with the cosmic life? your matter one with the cosmic Matter? separative ego unreal? the body no longer a limitation ...

... heights of self"; and their ministry makes their neophytes "comrades of the cosmic urge/No longer chained to their small separate selves". 176 They are masters of knowledge, and "vessels of the cosmic Force"; they are pacifiers and harmonisers, and they are the healers of the "hard and wounded world". And when they lisp in numbers, they sing "Infinity's names and deathless powers/In metres that reflect ...

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... his praying to Mother that the sex impulse must not come to him? He told if it did, he would take his life. NIRODBARAN: But that was at the beginning. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes; but the Mother or Cosmic Force didn't send the Kama any more. NIRODBARAN: You mean it was in the subconscient. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, of course. If it had come up, he would have rejected it. NIRODBARAN: Then if rejection ...

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... source was 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 ...

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... Spirit to these quiet holymen and found purity and peace which they needed. The sages lived for the sake of God and "Sowing in young minds immortal thoughts they lived," they were comrades of the cosmic Force. "Their speech, their silence was a help to earth". There were some who went into solitude to silence their thought and waited for the birth of Light. They attained intuitive knowledge. Some wanted ...

... atoms uniting into molecules, and the aperiodic organic molecules uniting to form unicellular living bodies. These are the first three levels of self-expansion in the elaboration of a cosmic evolutionary force. They represent the first status of Life in which the material substance infinitely divided seeks infinitely to aggregate itself. The dumb but potent urge of physical energy governing... possess and enjoy infinitely and its limited force and capacity for seizure. That which is free, One and Lord, which is all the time all-possessor, samrāṭ, and therefore all-enjoyer, sarva-bhuk, need not and does not hunger or strain, but inalienably contains, possesses and enjoys. We, too, by establishing a conscious unity and union with the Cosmic Enjoyer, will become in our turn possessors... 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 possess, in their enjoyment, in ours and in the cosmic Being's, delight of universal self-expression." 1 Delivered ...

... or in the poised classicism of a Leconte de Lisle we get a glimpse of this very thing. That is why with all the defects we feel that the sleeping Brahman is, as it were, astir in them; that a cosmic life-force, a generous universal breath sways by in their creation, and we do not hesitate to hail them as poets of the world. The same thing holds good with regard to the literature of a particular nation... not the real vastness, the infinity of the cosmic creation, its immeasurability. The literature which is formed with the help of thought and mental discernment, brain-power and intellectual skill may be, as we have already said, classical, it is not classic – it is not world-literature; it cannot focus and show the universal Muse, the figure of the cosmic beauty. It may at best give the frame-work... cannot form the best literature. The reason we have indicated is that such literature is exclusively confined to a particular time and clime; the free air of the world, the myriad waves of the vast cosmic life have no play there, it does not see man and creation in the perspective of the universe as a whole. That is not the sole reason of the matter, but we should clearly understand the deeper implication ...

... beginnings of "some tremendous dawn of God"— "The first writhings of cosmic serpent Force Uncoiled from the mystic ring of Matter's trance". The whole purpose of this movement seemed to him to be "To release the glory of God in Nature's mud" and behind all this lower play of life-force he felt a mystic Presence that was the "Creator of this game of ray... significant and full of purpose and we see that "A mystic motive drives the stars and suns". The purpose of human life gradually reveals itself and the whole vista of cosmic evolution shows that "In this passage from a deaf unknowing Force To struggling consciousness and transient breath A mighty supernature waits on Time." The whole world afterwards appears quite different to the... nor can he ever succeed because his own consciousness is "only a little trickle of the vast cosmic current, his mind, his life and even his body, all derive their sustenance from an infinitesimal flow of current from the vast cosmic mind, cosmic life and cosmic matter. In fact, it is these mighty cosmic forces from the subliminal and dark unknown but powerful forces from the subconscient that govern ...

... and even on the plane of matter. It is not the sense-organs that create sense perception; only cosmic sense creates sense organism. The nervous system does not create life; it is cosmic life-force which creates the nervous system for its own work. Brain does not create thought but brain is the result of cosmic mind trying to prepare for it an instrument for action in the cosmos. So what obtains is not... and Spirit there is a vast practical difference. When cosmic mind is presented with the substance, it turns it at the end into atomic division by its dividing faculty. This form of substance—which we called Matter—which the mind senses is nothing else than the original divine principle of Infinite Being—Satchidananda. Matter is a form of force, force of Conscious-being. The Consciousness there is concealed... unity which is inalienable or indivisible, a unity which cannot be abrogated by anything; that seems to be at work and it generates infinite variety. That is the first step. Then the second step of the cosmic creation that we notice is the constant reconciliation behind apparent division, a struggle combining all possible, separate or disparate elements, to reach some vast end. It seems to be the working ...

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... concludes that Matter is the eternal factor, the primary and ultimate reality, Brahman. Or it sees all as born of Life-Force or Mind, existing by Life or by Mind, going back into the universal Life or Mind, and it concludes that this world is a creation of the cosmic Life-Force or of a cosmic Mind or Logos. Or again it sees the world and all things as born of, existing by and going back to the Real Idea... is beyond even spiritual Mind must appear in us if we are to fulfil the divine possibility of our birth into cosmic existence. Overmind in its descent reaches a line which divides the cosmic Truth from the cosmic Ignorance; it is the line at which it becomes possible for Consciousness-Force, emphasising the separateness of each independent movement created by Overmind and hiding or darkening their... mental idea, power, force stands similarly on its separate self; if it communicates or combines with or contacts others, it is not with the catholic universality of the Overmind movement, on a basis of underlying oneness, but as independent units joining to form a separate constructed whole. It is by this movement that we pass from the cosmic Truth into the cosmic Ignorance. The cosmic Mind on this level ...

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... into atoms, atoms uniting into molecules, and the aperiodic organic molecules uniting to form unicellular living beings. These are the first three levels of union in the elaboration of a cosmic evolutionary force. In the fourth level, multicellular organisms grow out of the unicellular creatures of the primeval slime, wherein the principle of cohesion tries to offset the lopsided action of the principle... basic problems of human relations are viewed in the wider perspective of the meaning and sense of world-existence and thus acquire an altogether novel and significant hue. We shall see how this cosmic perspective not only helps us to unravel the mystery of these problems and understand clearly their true nature and inner significance, but also reveals to us at the same time the only, true and... relations is essentially an evolutionary problem intimately linked to the very march of world-existence. In fact, man's problem is by no means an isolated or unique one: it is a significant scene in a cosmic drama, an important link in a developing whole. The two basic drives of man towards cooperation and conflict, individuali-sation and socialisation with their attendant problems of mutual adjustment ...

... we can erect upon the foundation of certain modern ideas or discoveries the theory of a cosmic Inconscient creating a temporary soul, a consciousness which after a brief play is extinguished and goes back into the Inconscient. Or there may be an eternal Becoming, which manifests itself in a cosmic Life-force with the appearance of Matter as one objective end of its operations and the appearance of... three theories the apparent soul or spiritual individuality of the creature is not immortal in the sense of eternity, but has a beginning and an end in Time, is a creation by Maya or by Nature-Force or cosmic Action out of the Inconscient or Superconscient, and is therefore impermanent in its existence. In all three rebirth is either unnecessary or else illusory; it is either the prolongation by repetition... the spirit's powers and means and forms of manifestation. An infinite existence, an infinite consciousness, an infinite force and will, an infinite delight of being is the Reality secret behind the appearances of the universe; its divine Supermind or Gnosis has arranged the cosmic order, but arranged it indirectly through the three subordinate and limiting terms of which we are conscious here, Mind ...

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... 13): No, not at all. On the contrary, "if a constant development of being by a developing cosmic experience is the meaning and the building of a new personality in a new birth is the method, then any persistent or complete memory of the past life or lives might be a chain and a serious obstacle: it would be a force for prolonging the old temperament, character, preoccupations and a tremendous burden hampering... 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 backward... the whole machinery of rebirth and of our future evolution." (Ibid., p. 809) Real purpose of Rebirth: Not for Rewarding and Punishing: "Cosmic existence is not a vast administrative system of universal justice with a cosmic Law of recompense and retribution as its machinery... It is [the]... [field of] a self-developing movement of consciousness, a movement therefore of Spirit working ...

... nt or Nagamani. In Savitri we have an echo of these: In the deep subconscient glowed her jewel-lamp; Lifted, it showed the riches of the Cave. 79 This allegory of the cosmic serpent-force is further expanded. Despite all its primeval strength, it cannot crawl out of its slimy bed and raise its head towards the sun. It is lying in Matter's trance and cannot Put on its... 72 Ibid ., p. 358. 73 Ibid ., p. 405. 74 Ibid., p. 498. 75 Ibid .,p. 499. 16 Ibid ., p. 681. Page 506 diamond eye is unassailable and sees the worlds swaying in cosmic rhythm. The acme of Savitri's Yoga is reached when the great battle for mankind's transformative redemption has been won in the Everlasting Day. She returns to earth with Satyavan: ... course have a much more perfect structure than ordinary ones, and with perfection consciousness increases—but if you take a precious stone, you can charge it with consciousness and force; you can put, accumulate force within it. 1 These words acquire a special significance when in Savitri we come across an abundance of precious metals and stones adorning the lines of poetry. As we analyse ...

... superficial human feeling and standard as the sense of the cosmic Law and is based on an unsound reasoning; there must be some other and stronger foundation for the law of Karma. Here, as so often, the error comes by our forcing a standard which is the creation of our human mind into the larger, freer and more comprehensive ways of the cosmic Intelligence. In the action attributed to the law of Karma... are also the true vital worlds,—original constructions, organised developments, native habitats of the universal life-principle, the cosmic vital Anima, acting in its own field and in its own nature. On his internatal journey he may be held there for a period by force of the predominantly vital character of the influences which have shaped his earthly existence,—for these influences are native to the... ignorance. This may well either create or else reply to a corresponding cosmic action; for Nature takes us as we are and to some extent suits her movements to our need or our demands on her. If we accept the action of invisible Forces upon us, there may be also invisible Forces in Life-Nature that belong to the same plane of Consciousness Force as this part of our being, Forces that move according to the same ...

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... was to ensure lokasangraha, solidarity of people under his empire. In the esoteric sense, ashwamedha is a process of yoga, in which the yogin has to expand himself and become the Cosmic Horse, the cosmic Life-Force, and offer the integrality of life, including all cognitive, volitional and affective faculties and powers, to the Highest, so that all that is offered is touched and transformed by the... action and self-ordering; and they must become consciously quiet, silent and passive to the power, light and joy of something which is cosmic and beyond themselves. What happens then is that the Ultimate Reality, the divine unnamable reflects Himself openly in the cosmic powers or in the gods. As the Kena Upanishad states, "When It is known by perception that reflects It, then one has the thought of It... confirmed in all the Principal Upanishads, although one can see an increasing emphasis in due course of time on the rejection of the lower cosmic life. In the Vedic system of Yoga, individual liberation or salvation was regarded as a means towards a great cosmic victory, the eventual conquest of heaven and earth by the super conscient Truth and Bliss, and Angirasa Rishis, Ribhus and others who had achieved ...