... nothing else than this,—in the cosmic Will-Power of universal self-existent Being,—of God, of Brahman. The process of Force, then, however fixed, however imperative, is neither mystically self-existent nor mechanically self-determined. On the contrary it depends upon certain relations, exists in certain conditions, amounts to certain fixed motions of the cosmic Will-Power which have been selected from... 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 Will of its own fixed and predetermined self-perceptions. It accepts the idea of a principle of unerring self-guidance in Nature, but is unable to regard that principle as in any way a mysterious agency... Existence formulating its Will in fixed processes of things and combined arrangement of event actualised in its own eternal and illimitable being. Nature to Vedanta is only the mask of a divine cosmic Will, devátmashaktih swagunair nigúdhá; Prakriti of Vedanta is no separate Page 512 power, no self-existent mechanical entity, but the executive force of the divine Purusha at once self-revealed ...
... and a discord. There is a rhythm in everything unheard by the physical ear and by that rhythm things exist. The Cosmic Will It is not possible for the individual mind, so long as it remains shut up in its personality, to understand the workings of the Cosmic Will, for the standards made by the personal consciousness are not applicable to them. A cell in the body, if conscious, might also... begins to see the forces at work and the lines on which they work and get a glimpse of the Cosmic Self and the Cosmic Mind and Will. Everything here is not perfect, but all works out the cosmic Will in the course of the ages. Page 283 Opening to the Cosmic Mind What is happening is that you have got into touch with the cosmic Mind where all sorts of ideas, possibilities, formations ...
... Then you have to accept that it is the working out of a Cosmic Will. And then the question is whether the Cosmic Will is free or bound. If it is free, it is no longer a blind determinism and even when you find there is "no progress", yet that Will is working itself out in evolution. If, on the other hand, you accept that the Cosmic Will is bound, the question is: "Bound by whom or by what?" ...
... . Then you have to accept that it is the working out of a cosmic will. Then the question is whether the cosmic will is free or is bound ? If it is free it is no longer a blind determinism and even when you find there is no "progress", yet that will is working itself out in evolution. If on the other hand you accept that the cosmic will is bound then the question is "bound by whom?" and "by what ...
... concerned with the actual working out of things under the present circumstances. It is the Will of that Cosmic Divine which is manifested in each circumstance, each movement of this world. The Cosmic Will is not, to our ordinary consciousness, something that acts as an independent power doing whatever it chooses; it works through all these beings, through the forces at play in the world and the law... we can feel it intervening as an independent power and overriding the ordinary play of the forces. Then too we can see that even in the play of the forces and in spite of their distortions the Cosmic Will is working towards the eventual realisation of the Will of the Transcendent Divine. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - II: Faith ...
... actual working out of things under the present circumstances. It is the Will of that Cosmic Divine which is manifested in each circumstance, each movement of this world. The Cosmic Will is not, to our ordinary consciousness, something that acts as an independent power doing what- ever it chooses; it works through all these beings, through the forces at play in the world and the... intervening as an independent power and overriding the ordinary play of the forces. Then too we can see that even in the play of the forces and in spite of their distortions the Cosmic Will is work- Page 48 ing towards the eventual realisation of the Will of the Transcendent Divine. The Supramental Realisation ...
... face. A nameless Power, a shadowy Will arose Immense and alien to our universe." This life that emerged from the Inconscience introduced an element of disharmony into the original cosmic. Will and bound it to struggle and vicissitudes. It introduced error and, consequently, slowed down the process of evolution and made man dependent upon his external sense in preference to his natural... deepest spirit that was behind this Nescience he stood at the very entrance of the Subconscient and. saw that the Being that was there though acting unconsciously, was in reality carrying out ? cosmic will. He saw that a secret divine Hand, an invisible hand of Light, was guiding it. "He saw in Night the Eternal's shadowy veil, Knew death for a cellar of the house of life In destruction ...
... concerned with the actual working out of things under the present circumstances. It is the Will of that Cosmic Divine which is manifested in each circumstance, each movement of this world. The Cosmic Will is not, to our ordinary consciousness, something that acts as an independent power doing whatever it chooses; it works through all these beings, through the forces at play in the world and the law... we can feel it intervening as an independent power and overriding the ordinary play of the forces. Then too we can see that even in the play of the forces and in spite of their distortions the Cosmic Will is working towards the eventual realisation of the Will of the Transcendent Divine. The supramental realisation is the Will of the Transcendent Divine which we have to work out. The circumstances ...
... whole, and endeavoured to render it, in its entirety, a manifesting instrument of the supreme Light. Nothing was repressed or renounced, but all was illumined and transmute to serve the Cosmic Will. This Cosmic Will or the self-fulfilling Will of the Eternal operating in Time and Space, is the teleological secret and source of all action, collective and individual. To know this Will by inner identity ...
... across, being cast by "the grey python Night". Life's move had thus been countered and criss-crossed ere ever it even got into its stride. This shadow .. .falsified the primal cosmic Will And bound to struggle and dread vicissitudes The long slow process of the patient Power. 90 Working against the Mother of Light, this Mother of Evil "with a grey... Nay more, he is ready to drink the poison to know its taste. By a feat of forged identity he sees through its secret essence, and infers that behind it, behind even quintessential Hell, is a cosmic Will: Torn were the formats of the primal Night And shattered the stereotypes of Ignorance. 92 When this sudden blaze of realisation flashes before him, Aswapati feels a whole ...
... man's ignorant judgments and earthy desires and instincts. Life and rebirth do not follow these artificial constructions, but a movement spiritual and intimate to the deepest intention of Nature. A cosmic Will and Wisdom observant of the ascending march of the soul's consciousness and experience as it emerges out of subconscient Matter and climbs to its own luminous divinity fixes the norm and constantly ...
... 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 is not a meaningless ...
... creator of thought, but itself the creation, the instrument and here a necessary convenience of the cosmic Mind. The necessity then is not absolute, but teleological; it is the result of a divine cosmic Will in the material universe which intends to posit here a physical relation between sense and its object, establishes here a material formula and law of Conscious-Force and creates by it physical images ...
... of its thoughts And built the world not knowing what it built. There waiting its hour the future lay unknown, There is the record of the vanished stars. There in the slumber of the cosmic Will He saw the secret key of Nature’s change. 5 Nobody knows what that secret key was, but taking possession of it was certainly a deed only the Avatar himself could accomplish by means of ...
... And built the world not knowing what it built. || 64.34 || There waiting its hour the future lay unknown, There is the record of the vanished stars. || 64.35 || There in the slumber of the cosmic Will He saw the secret key of Nature’s change. || 64.36 || ..He saw in Night the Eternal’s shadowy veil, Knew death for a cellar of the house of life, In destruction felt creation’s hasty pace, ...
... 41 Aswapati's patience and courage paid off as he reached the very bottom of this world of falsehood. There he suddenly came upon the spring of Divinity. There in the slumber of the cosmic Will He saw the secret key of Nature's change. A light was with him, an invisible hand 38 Ibid, p. 202. 39 Ibid., p. 221. 40 Ibid., p. 227. 41 Ibid., ...
... thoughts And built the world not knowing what it built. There waiting its hour the future lay unknown, There is the record of the vanished stars. There in the slumber of the cosmic Will He saw the secret key of Nature's change ... He saw in Night the Eternal's shadowy veil, Knew death for a cellar of the house of life, In destruction felt creation's hasty pace ...
... 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 a divine significance ...
... about Fate which is always a mysterious word. Sri Aurobindo: Well, the determination of human life and events is a mysterious thing. Can't help that, you know. Fate is composed of many things - Cosmic Will + individual self-determination + play of forces -I- Karma -t-x + y + z-i-a + b + c ad infinitum. 38 NB: Some say that the Divine's Way would have been to try to turn the wife also this way ...
... upon earth is first created in a subtle world. When it is ready, ready-made in that world, then it precipitates itself upon the material world, slowly or gradually or suddenly, according to the cosmic will. An illustration to explain the point-the Mother herself gives it: Once, asked about the liberation of India, sometime in 1915 when India was completely in bondage, she answered without the ...
... fulfilment of His Will the real rationale and objective of action; and man being essentially one with the Supreme Being; it is only the movement of the Supreme's Force and the fulfilment of His Cosmic Will in him that can satisfy his whole being and appear as the only rationale of all action. It is for this reason that even his best ethical actions fail to give him full satisfaction, but trail a dull ...
... aishwarya of devibhava . But the third chatusthaya is held back in order to get rid of the last fragments of the ghost of desire which prevent the free identification of the effortless will with the cosmic Will and to get rid also of the defect of the thought which the Rakshasa still tries to limit to the stumbling movements of the intellect. Telepathy is now strong and spontaneous in its satyam, but ...
... or Will to live; and she reveals to us at last that although this Will divides itself into innumerable forms which represent themselves as individual selves, yet all these are images of one great Cosmic Will to live, just as all material forms are merely images of one great undifferentiated Universality of Page 380 cosmic matter, causal ether, if we so choose to describe it. That Will is ...
... unconscious of its thoughts And built the world not knowing what it built. There waiting its hour the future lay unknown, There is the record of the vanished stars. There in the slumber of the cosmic Will He saw the secret key of Nature’s change … He saw in Night the Eternal’s shadowy veil, Knew death for a cellar in the house of life, In destruction felt creation’s hasty pace Knew loss as ...
... ty and the purpose of the manifestation. For the manifestation seems to have no purpose except the will of the Eternal towards world-creation and it can end only by that will's withdrawal: this cosmic will could work itself out without any machinery of rebirth and the individual's desire maintaining it; for his desire can be only a spring of the machinery, it could not be the cause or the necessary ...
... by unison with the Will which is above Nature, complete. Well, the determination of human life and events is a mysterious thing. Can't help that, you know. Fate is composed of many things—Cosmic Will + individual self-determination + play of forces + Karma + x + y + z + a + b + c ad infinitum. Predictions and Prophecy I am afraid I have no great confidence in Cheiro's ideas and prophecies—some ...
... in the mind that forms it. Imaginations can create their own potentiality, especially if they are supported in the collective mind, and may in the long run draw on themselves the sanction of the cosmic Will. In fact all imaginations represent possibilities: some are able one day to actualise in some form, perhaps a very different form of actuality; more are condemned to sterility because they do not ...
... infinite Force of Existence which produces and regulates all these forms and movements; and that Force equally presupposes or is the action of an infinite Consciousness, because it is in its nature a cosmic Will determining all relations and apprehending them by its own mode of awareness, and it could not so determine and apprehend them if there were no comprehensive Consciousness behind that mode of cosmic ...
... of the Seer true and most rich in Page 117 varied inspiration." Agni is the Deva, the All-Seer, manifested as conscious-force or, as it would be called in modern language, Divine or Cosmic Will, first hidden and building up the eternal worlds, then manifest, "born", building up in man the Truth and the Immortality. Gods and men, says Vishwamitra in effect, kindle this divine force by ...
... কোনও তত্ত্ববিকাশ, কোনও অবস্থাপ্রাপ্তির উদ্দেশ্যে সং-গৃহীত, সঞ্চালিত, স্ববিষয়ের উপর সংস্থাপিত করেন, তখন তপঃশক্তির প্রয়ােগ হয় ৷ এই তপঃপ্রয়ােগই যােগেশ্বরের যােগ ৷ ইহাকেই ইংরাজীতে Divine will বা Cosmic will বলে ৷ এই Divine will বা তপঃশক্তি দ্বারা জগৎ সৃষ্ট, চালিত, রক্ষিত হয় ৷ অগ্নিই এই তপঃ ৷ চিৎশক্তির দুই দিক দেখি, চিন্ময় ও তপােময়, সৰ্ব্বজ্ঞানস্বরূপ ও সর্বশক্তি-স্বরূপ, কিন্তু প্রকৃতপক্ষে এই দুইটাই ...
... in desire. The Energy that drives is itself subject to the Lord, who expresses Himself in it with perfect freedom. By getting behind Nature to the Lord of Nature, merging the individual in the Cosmic Will, one can act with the divine freedom. Our actions are given up to the Lord and our personal responsibility ceases in His liberty. The chain of Karma only binds the movement of Nature and not the ...
... s from the body ] means the liberation from the body sense in which one can truly say, "I am not the body." This liberation is part of the cosmic consciousness—as is also the realisation of the cosmic Will. It is the liberation from the body sense only. That is quite different from the control of the body. Yes, your experience was a very good one and your feeling about it was correct. When ...
... said something about Fate which is always a mysterious word. Well, the determination of human life and events is a mysterious thing. Can't help that, you know Fate is composed of many things—Cosmic Will + individual self-determination + play of forces + Karma + x + y + z + a + b + c ad infinitum. Suicides and accidents are supposed to be due to hostile Forces. Not Forces hostile to our work ...
... universe, above it and originates it. I suppose in the eyes of the cosmic Divine everything here is perfect. Everything here is not perfect but all works out the cosmic Will in the course of the ages. Page 268 How far does the cosmic Divine maintain his unity or relation with the Supramental Divine? We see here hundreds of things and movements ...
... Page 111 world. When it is ready, ready-made in that world, then it precipitates itself upon the material world, slowly or gradually or suddenly according to the cosmic will. An illustration to explain the point, the Mother herself gives it. Once, asked about the liberation of India , sometime in 1915 when India was completely in bondage, she answered without ...
... Experiences of the Inner Consciousness and the Cosmic Consciousness Experiences of the Inner Consciousness and the Cosmic Consciousness 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... and substitute the Truth-Forces in place of the ordinary working. They [ the cosmic forces ] act on everyone, 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... 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 form suitable to the plane on which it acts, mental, vital or physical. But this intervention is exceptional in the ordinary play of the cosmic forces. Page ...
... down, and from where shall I bring it down -- since it is not yet manifested in the cosmic formula -- if not from the unmanifest Transcendence, which I must reach and realise? I have to bring it into the cosmic formula and, if so, I must realise the cosmic Divine and become conscious of the cosmic self and the cosmic forces. But I have to embody it here, -- otherwise it is left as an influence only... 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 merely extended in Time, that also must be different... The Riddle of This World The Triune Godhead The distinction between the Transcendental, the Cosmic, the Individual Divine is not my invention, nor is it native to India or to Asia-- it is, on the contrary, a recognised European teaching current in the esoteric tradition of the Catholic Church where it is ...
... 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... world consciousness 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. ...
... so that one can be led to realize the eternal supra-cosmic or acosmic Spaceless and Timeless Absolute. According to this supra- cosmic view, just as we can enter into the cosmic cons- page - 102 ciousness and be one with all cosmic existence, even so, we can enter into the world-transcending consciousness and become superior to all cosmic existence. But if it is asked whether this transcendence... 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 the material life and also... 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 renunciation is a sole ...
... 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 above the higher planes of cosmic Mind there is the Intuition and above that the overmind and still above that the supermind where the Tr... realms. 17 The intermediate zone means simply a confused condition or passage in which one is getting out of the personal consciousness and opening into the cosmic (cosmic Mind, cosmic vital, cosmic physical, something perhaps of the cosmic higher Mind) without having yet 16. Sri Aurobindo , Letters on Yoga - Part Four , SABCL, Vol. 24, pp. 1608-09. 17 . Ibid., Parts Two and Three... any of the cosmic planes, but the full entering into it, the entire union with the Supreme Divine 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 ...
... there is possible the attempt at a kind of cosmic consciousness by dwelling on the lower planes themselves after breaking their limitations laterally, as we have said, and then calling down into them the light and largeness of the higher existence. Not only Spirit is one, but Mind, Life, Matter are one. There is one cosmic Mind, one cosmic Life, one cosmic Body. All the attempt of man to arrive at universal... the active Lord and all-constituting Being without making any division between these aspects, we possess the whole cosmic Divine, embrace all of the universal Self and 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... have the liberation of the divine rest, but not the liberty of the divine action; they enjoy the peace of the Transcendent, but not the cosmic bliss of the Transcendent. Their liberty depends upon abstention from the cosmic movement, it cannot dominate and possess cosmic existence itself. But it is also possible for them to realise and participate in the immanent as well as the transcendent peace. Still ...
... the cosmic consciousness and to pass safely through it, it is necessary to have a strong central unegoistic sincerity and to have the psychic being, with its divination of truth and unfaltering orientation towards the Divine, already in front in the nature. Letters on Yoga, pp. 316-17 The cosmic consciousness has many levels — the cosmic physical, the cosmic vital, the cosmic Mind... Till then there may be direct contacts, communications, interchanges with cosmic forces, beings, movements, but not the full unity of mind with the cosmic Mind, of life with the cosmic Life, of body and physical consciousness with the cosmic material Energy and its substance. Again, there may be a realisation of the Cosmic Self which is not followed by the realisation of the dynamic universal oneness... inference. In yoga at a certain point this limitation breaks down, the consciousness enlarges itself, becomes directly aware of the Cosmic Self and knows the individual self to be one with it; of the Cosmic Energy and meets directly the action of the cosmic forces; of the cosmic mind, life, matter and feels first a contact of its individual mind, life, body with them, then a unity in which one's own ...
... and Nature. As I said, the Cosmic Spirit works through Nature and not direct. Disciple : But the Cosmic Spirit works its purpose through the individual, by making him carry out its intention. Sri Aurobindo : Yes, but that does not mean that the individual is not responsible. The Cosmic is and contains both good and evil. Disciple : Then it is the Cosmic Spirit that is responsible... responsible, for, he accepts the action of the Gunas of nature. Page 169 Disciple : But it is the Cosmic Spirit that makes him accept it, is it not? Sri Aurobindo : No. The Cosmic Spirit does not act directly. It acts through the Nature. The Cosmic Spirit acts not through the true individuality but through the individual in Nature. It acts through personality and personality... look beyond the Cosmic Spirit to the Transcendent, and act in the Cosmos according to the will of the Transcendent – is it so? Sri Aurobindo : Yes, that is to say, instead of being an instrument of ignorant nature you become the instrument of the Divine. Disciple : Do you mean by the Cosmic Spirit the Impersonal Consciousness? Sri Aurobindo : No, The Cosmic Spirit is a Personality ...
... an epic? How does it compare with some of the great epics or epic compositions of the ancient and the modern worlds? What exactly is meant by a 'cosmic poem' or 'cosmic epic'? Is Savitri the last word yet in presenting in poetical terms the cosmic drama of the struggle between darkness and light, falsehood and truth, death and immortality, the drama of change and chance and defeat and victory... "probably the greatest epic in the English language" and has also ventured the judgment that, "...it is the most comprehensive, integrated, beautiful, and perfect cosmic poem ever composed. It ranges symbolically from a primordial cosmic void, through earth's darkness and struggles, to the highest realms of supramental spiritual existence, and illumines every important concern of man, through verse... Savitri SAVITRI: A COSMIC EPIC The distinction of a poet—the dignity and humanity of his thought—-can be measured by nothing, perhaps, so well as by the diameter of the world in which he lives; if he is supreme his vision, like Dante's, always stretches to the stars. ...
... 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... Anilbaran 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 ...
... that is at 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... question whether cosmic consciousness is real or not. Normally man has no experience of the cosmic mind. He has no experience of the supermind, and so how is he to decide whether cosmic conciousness is real or not ? The remedy to solve this problem, Sri Aurobindo suggests here, is that we must try to extend the field of our own consciousness and get into the experience of cosmic consciousness. And... nature but the whole of cosmic movement. Modern psychology has begun to admit the existence of the cosmic consciousness in another sense than what the ancients knew. It is now called "the collective unconscious", whatever it may mean. The ancient seers and mystics had the experience of the cosmic consciousness : they knew matter to be only one working of the cosmic energy, another is life ...
... The Cosmic Divine and the Mother What is the difference between the cosmic Divine and the Mother? It is a matter of realisation. In the yoga of the Gita the cosmic Divine is realised as Vasudeva (Krishna). The Vaishnavas realise it as Vishnu, the Shaivas as Shiva. The Tantrics (Shaktas) realise the Devi (Goddess) as the Cosmic and even as the Transcendent Divine ...
... 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 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... called 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... more specific sense: The cosmic consciousness is that of the universe, of the cosmic spirit and cosmic Nature with all the beings and forces within it. All that is as much conscious as a whole as the individual separately is, though in a different way. The consciousness of the individual Page 371 is part of this, but a part feeling itself as a separate being. Yet all ...
... supraphysical and do not cabin ourselves 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... Cosmic and Universal Forces The Hidden Forces of Life Nature and Action of Universal Forces Universal forces means all forces good or bad, favourable or hostile, of light or of darkness that move in the cosmos. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - III: The Universal or Cosmic Forces They [the cosmic forces] act on everyone, according to the person‘s... in them, throwing themselves out from them on other beings and objects. Each natural individual is a receptacle of these cosmic forces and a dynamo for their propagation; there passes from each to each a constant stream of mental and vital energies, and these run too in cosmic waves and currents no less than the forces of physical Nature. All this action is veiled from our surface mind’s direct sense ...
... it down, and from where shall I bring it down—since it is not yet manifested in the cosmic formula—if not from the unmanifest Transcendence, which I must reach and realise? I have to bring it into the cosmic formula and, if so, I must realise the cosmic Divine and become conscious of the cosmic self and the cosmic forces. But I have to embody it here,—otherwise it is left as an influence only and not... 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 merely extended in Time, that also must be different... indivisibly united in the Whole. One must go on enlarging knowledge, adding experience to experience till all the limitation disappears. The Transcendent, Cosmic and Individual Divine The Divine has three aspects for us: 1) It is the Cosmic Self and Spirit that is in and behind all things and beings, from which and in which all is manifested in the universe—although it is now a manifestation in ...
... not the Cosmic Spirit that makes him accept them? SRI AUROBINDO: No, the Cosmic Spirit doesn't act directly. It acts through the individual, not the true individual but the individual in Nature, what may be called the individual personality. The personality, of course, is not the Person: it is something formed in the mental, vital and physical nature. NIRODBARAN: Well, if the Cosmic Spirit doesn't... then does it become possible for the individual to look beyond the Cosmic spirit to the Transcendent? SRI AUROBINDO: Yes; that is to say, instead of being an instrument of ignorant Nature, you become the instrument of the Divine. PURANI: Do you mean by the Cosmic Spirit the Impersonal Consciousness? SRI AUROBINDO: No, the Cosmic Spirit is a personality but not in our narrow sense. It is both... destiny, fate and the Cosmic Spirit had bewildered Nirodbaran. He wanted to get out of his bewilderment by asking a few more questions. But he was hesitant and expressed his feeling PURANI: Nirodbaran intends to ask you a question but he hesitates. It is the contradiction in what you said yesterday that he is unable to understand. NIRODBARAN: Once you said that the Cosmic Spirit might be leading ...
... of the world and the foundation of a global dictatorship would be the ultimate objectives of Derleth’s legions. 705 And there was also “The Cosmic Circle”, often called “the Cosmics” or “the Enormous”, a small but qualitatively significant group. The Cosmics, according to David Clay Large, wanted to rejuvenate a calcified and too much intellectually shaped modern world through a renaissance of paganism... estrial worlds. The earth and humanity are part of the cosmic whole.” 707 The dictations Gumppenberg received from his spirit mentor seem almost classical in their genre. The spiritist séances in the Cosmic Circle were much more violent, bordering on the demoniac and sometimes overstepping these borders. This does not mean that the Cosmics were crazy nitwits. Karl Wolfskehl was a renowned professor... would join the Nazis). And for a while, during his stay in Munich, there was Stefan George, whose contact with the Cosmics nearly proved fatal. Schuler, involved in black magic, was always in search of spiritist mediums who, he imagined, would effect a new breakthrough of the cosmic powers which had been repressed by patriarchal, mammonist and rationalist forces. To this end, he tried to force into ...
... for the psychic transformation to take one beyond the individual into the cosmic. Even the occult opening establishes a connection 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... 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, the play. Find in place of ego the true being—a portion of the Divine, issued from ...
... to our immense need for some revealing word to come from the mouth of Him who is." And this revealing word is what Teilhard calls the Universal Christ, the Cosmic Christ. The function of such a Christ is evidently different from whatever cosmic office Christianity has so far attributed to Jesus in extension of his nature as God-man. For, that office is inde- 1. The Divine Milieu, translated... undiminished individuality." What we have here is the whole physical world vibrating as the Cosmic Christ and therefore every part of it sharing in his existence, without either its own finite character being lost or his central all-animating dominance being annulled. Inasmuch as the cosmic stuff gets subtly deified in Christ, we have Christianity pantheised, while insofar as Christ retains... Element, the Centre of the universe and present in each part 7. Ibid., p. 54. Page 6 of it: personal Love and cosmic Power." A more elaborate expression, driving home the pantheism with which Teilhard's Cosmic Christ is instinct, may be offered by stringing together some passages from the collection entitled "Pensees" made by Fernande Tardivel from Teilhard's ...
... Keeping in view the Cosmic Christ as both anterior and posterior to Jesus as well as passing through him, the Cosmic Christ as identical with the immanent evolving Omega no less than with the transcendent evolver Omega, the Cosmic Christ as the universal Soul and Body which are perfect at the same time that he is the universal Soul and Body which are growing towards perfection, the Cosmic Christ who is Matter... would be: the Cosmic Christ who precedes and exceeds the historic human Jesus is still a human Christ, a God-Man, a theandric Being, though above historicity - a non-historic universal Jesus having not only a human soul but also a human body co-extensive with all space and time. Hence Christ-Omega is Jesus-Omega too, non-historic yet with a human cosmic body no less than a human cosmic soul. It is in... historic Jesus Christ, that we have to understand Teilhard's frequent description of the Cosmic Christ as animating all things and not only being "organically the prime mover and controller, the 'soul' of evolution", 14 but also "exerting a supreme physical influence on every cosmic reality without exception". 15 The Cosmic Christ is both "organic" and "physical" because he is an Omega that is a mystery ...
... and lives independently in Its own inexpressible infinity as well as in the cosmic harmonies. World lives by That; That does not live by the world. And as we can enter into the cosmic consciousness and be one with all cosmic existence, so we can enter into the world-transcending consciousness and become superior to all cosmic existence. And then arises the question which first occurred to us, whether... quarrel be decided. The extension of our consciousness, to be 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... but that which, calm and eternal, 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, ...
... self, in the Divine. The self contains the universe. The Cosmic Spirit or Self The Cosmic Spirit or Self contains everything in the cosmos—it upholds cosmic Mind, universal Life, universal Matter as well as the Overmind. The Self is more than all these things which are its formulations in Nature. Page 30 It [ the Cosmic Spirit ] uses Truth and Falsehood, Knowledge and Ignorance... what has to be worked out till all is ready for a higher working. The Cosmic Spirit contains the Supermind, but it keeps it above and works for the present between the Overmind and the physical. It is only when the Ignorance is removed that the Supra mental becomes directly a dynamic part of the workings of cosmic Nature here. Till then there are only reflections of it. The Self is e... that is felt—that is called Atman or Self. When action takes place, it is according to the realisation either felt as forces of Nature working in that wideness, as the Divine Shakti working or as the cosmic Divine or various powers of him working. It is not felt that the Self is acting. One may be aware of the silent static self without relation to the play of the cosmos. Again, one may be aware ...
... though 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... Then 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. ...
... 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 inspirations and influences from the higher... 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 in this world is effected; for from it the... 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 ...
... that what we see we become. We shall be in our self-consciousness not so much cosmic as ultra-cosmic, infinite. Mind and life and body will then be only movements in that infinity which we have become, and we shall see that what exists is not world at all but simply this infinity of spirit in which move the mighty cosmic harmonies of its own images of self-conscious becoming. Page 371 But... detachable robe, realising that also as a movement of universal Matter, a cell of the cosmic Body. We shall come to feel all the consciousness of the physical world as one with our physical consciousness, feel all the energies of the cosmic life around as our own energies, feel all the heart-beats of the great cosmic impulse and seeking in our heart-beats set to the rhythm of the divine Ananda, feel... 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 pure Self and Spirit, but include also all those modes of the Spirit by which it supports, develops and throws itself out into its cosmic manifestation. Self-knowledge ...
... Be silent, ye foolish hearts! Slay the ego, learn to see and feel vastly and universally. 177—The perfect cosmic vision and cosmic sentiment is the cure of all error and suffering; but most men succeed only in enlarging the range of their ego. What is "the cosmic vision and cosmic sentiment" and how can they be attained? This simply means the vision of the whole earth at the same time ...
... sacrifice is, psychologically, a symbol of cosmic and individual activity become self-conscious, enlightened and aware of its goal. The whole process of the universe is in its very nature a sacrifice, voluntary or involuntary. Self-fulfilment by self-immolation, to grow by giving is the universal law. That which refuses to give itself, is still the food of the cosmic Powers. "The eater eating is eaten" is... this divine Will that governs and guides, knows the sense of his blindness and the goal of his aberration and out of the crooked workings of the Page 280 cosmic Falsehood in him evolves the progressive manifestation of the cosmic Truth. Alone of the brilliant Gods, he burns bright and has full vision in the darkness of Night no less than in the splendours of day. The other gods are uṣarbudhaḥ... always the law of the Truth. We must remember that the oblation ( havya ) signifies always action ( karma ) and each action of mind or body is regarded as a giving of our plenty into the cosmic being and the cosmic intention. Agni, the divine Will, is that which stands behind the human will in its works. In the conscient offering, he comes in front; he is the priest set in front ( puro-hita ), guides ...
... is an 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... finally abolished; a wide cosmic perception and feeling of a boundless universal self and movement replaces it: many motions that were formerly egocentric may still continue, but they occur as currents or ripples in the cosmic wideness. Thought, for the most part, no longer seems to originate individually in the body or the person but manifests from above or comes in upon the cosmic mind-waves: all inner... possible to 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 ...
... its transfigured self in its divine equivalent. This transfiguration is the only possible positive goal of the creative evolution.—The presence of the seven principles is essential to all cosmic being. For cosmic being cannot exist except as the All-existence figuring itself in its self-conception as Time and Space, nor can this figuration take place except by an infinite Force which being of the nature... four which constitute human existence are a refraction of the four which constitute divine existence, but in inverted order. The Divine descends from pure existence to Supermind to cast itself into cosmic existence; the creature ascends from Matter toMind towards the Divine and meets it where mind and Supermind meet with a veil between them. By the rending of the veil each of the four divine human ... dynamis of being dependent on Page 486 such fixed standpoints of interaction, must accompany it and substance with differentiation of form must also be present.—It follows that in every cosmic arrangement the seven principles must be existent, either manifested in simultaneous apparent action or else all apparently involved in one of them which then becomes the initial principle, but all ...
... Nature, the universal Mother. But what does the Holy Spirit descending with "tongues of fire" on Pentecost represent? Those "tongues of fire" don't look like a cosmic symbol, do they? But I don't see how the Christ could be cosmic? He is very clearly the god within man. Why? Does the Holy Spirit descend everywhere, or in a limited way? Tradition has it that it descends on Pentecost. ... were gathered and the Holy Spirit "descended" upon them, in the form of tongues of fire. But the Immanent doesn't "descend," mon petit! Well, of course! But how can the Cosmic (assuming the Holy Spirit to be a cosmic symbol) "descend" too? And in the form of tongues of fire? Maybe we're trying to stretch the parallel too far, maybe it's something else. ( silence ) It might rather be... oh! Oh, he's very fine! Much better than what he writes. I'd like to ask you a little question. In this book on Sri Aurobindo, I say in passing that the three aspects—Transcendent, Immanent, Cosmic—probably correspond to the Catholic Trinity, Father, Son and Holy Spirit. Could you tell me the exact correspondence? The Father is clearly the Transcendent, but the Son? The Son is the Immanent ...
... affirmation of the Absolute, the experience-concept of the utter and ineffable Transcendence; but we find also, not in contradiction to it but as its corollary, an affirmation of the cosmic Divinity, an experience-concept of the cosmic Self and the becoming of Brahman in the universe. Equally, we find the affirmation of the Divine Reality in the individual: this too is an experience-concept; it is seized upon... the Universe is a truth, for all this that is is the Brahman: but it stops short of the whole truth when it misses and omits the supra-cosmic Reality. On the other side, every view that affirms the cosmos only and dismisses the individual as a byproduct of the Cosmic Energy, errs by laying too much emphasis on one apparent factual aspect of the world-action; it is true only of the natural individual... omnipresent Reality, Brahman, manifest to us as Atman, Purusha, Ishwara..," 16 "...with regard to the universe Brahman appears as the Self of all existence, Atman, the cosmic Self, but also as the Supreme Self transcendent of its own cosmicity and at the same time individual-universal in each being.... As soon as we become aware of the Self, we are conscious of it as eternal, unborn, unembodied, uninvolved ...
... the Cosmic and Supracosmic Mahashakti. I don't quite understand the question. I have explained in The Mother that there are three aspects, transcendent, universal and individual, of the Mother. 31 May 1933 As I see it, there are two Shaktis in the world: the Cosmic Shakti and the individual Shakti—our Mother. I believe it is difficult to remain in direct connection with the Cosmic Shakti ...
... Painting by Mayaura, Auroville II The cosmic-terrestrial view The cosmic-terrestrial view, the exact opposite of the supracosmic, considers cosmic existence as real; it goes farther and accepts it as the only reality. God, if God exists, is an eternal Becoming; or if God does not exist, then... the history of human endeavour, there have emerged four main theories of the aim of life in accordance with four different conceptions of truth of existence. These may be called the supracosmic, the cosmic and terrestrial, the supraterrestrial or other-worldly, and the integral or synthetic or composite. Human tendencies are complex and move often in various directions simultaneously. This explains why... I The supracosmic view In the supracosmic view of things the supreme Reality is alone entirely real. A certain illusoriness, a sense of the vanity of cosmic existence and individual being is normally a characteristic turn of this seeing of things. In the extreme forms of its world-vision, human existence has no real meaning; it is a mistake of the soul ...
... painful, assured only after a long struggle and endeavour. November 6, 1932 Cosmic Truth and Cosmic Ignorance 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 world Consciousness separated from the supreme Truth and acting... necessary knowledge and experience are usually lacking which would tell him that this is only a very uncertain and mixed beginning; he may not realise at once that he is still in the cosmic Ignorance, not in the cosmic Truth, much less in the Transcendental Truth, and that whatever formative Page 35 or dynamic i... 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. Samata and Equality Yogic Samata is equality of soul, equanimity founded on the sense of the one ...
... the first character of cosmic self; universality, non-limitation by the single or limiting point of view, is the character of cosmic perception and knowledge: this tendency is therefore a widening, however rudimentary, of these restricted mind areas towards cosmicity, towards a quality which is the very character of the higher mental planes,—towards that superconscient cosmic Mind which, we have suggested... vital, physical existence. This widening can extend itself to a complete entry into the consciousness of cosmic Mind, into unity with the universal Life, even into a oneness with universal Matter. That, however, is still an identification either with a diminished cosmic truth or with the cosmic Ignorance. But once this entry into the inner being is accomplished, the inner Self is found to be capable... and consciousness and also that which 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 ...
... Existence or 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 tr... 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 purely conventional value of form & name in the Universe is expressed in metaphysics by the formula that the world is a creation of Para Maya or supreme Cosmic Illusion. It... Maya The world exists as symbol of Brahman; but the mind creates or accepts false values of things and takes symbol for essential reality. This is ignorance or cosmic illusion, the mistake of the mind & senses, from which the Magician Himself, Master of the Illusion, is calling on us to escape. This false valuation of the world is the Maya of the Gita and can be ...
... 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... becomes 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 ...
... unimpaired sovereignty is left to it within its own cosmic province, and to acquiesce in the soul's intuition of the transcendent Reality and to support, by a dialectic which ends by dissolving the whole cosmic phenomenal and rational-practical edifice of things, its escape from the limitations constructed and imposed on the mind by Maya. The explanation of cosmic existence by which this is brought about seems... our mind by a supreme force of Illusion or a true formation of being experienced by us with a still ignorant but an increasing knowledge. And the true question is not of Mind alone or of a cosmic dream or a cosmic hallucination born of Mind, but of the nature of the Reality, the validity of the creative action that takes place in it or is imposed upon it, the presence or absence of a real content in... with regard to the truth of existence that all this Page 455 might be valid within the bounds of the cosmic Illusion; it is the system, the pragmatic machinery by which Maya works and maintains herself in the Ignorance: but the truths, possibilities, actualities of the cosmic system are true and actual only within the Illusion, outside that magic circle they have no validity; they are not ...
... 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; ... "... they are as if a ladder plunging down into Matter and perhaps below it, rising up into the heights of the Spirit, even perhaps to the point at which existence escapes out of cosmic being into ranges of a supra-cosmic Absolute..." (p. 438) It is worth quoting in this connection a passage from Sri Aurobindo's The Life Divine which makes clear to us the constitution of the superconscient... neighbour to cosmic sight: A universal light was in his eyes" (79) (2)"... eyes of boundless thoughts" (335) (3)"All came at once in his single view" (96) (4)"It enveloped all Nature in a single glance" (26) (5)"It was sight and thought in one all-seeing Mind" (555) (6)"Mind was a single immeasurable look" (556) (7)"The stretch and blaze of cosmic sight" (661) ...
... touches it, is in constant relation and commerce with it. The subliminal mind in us is open to the universal knowledge of the cosmic Mind, the subliminal life in us to the universal force of the cosmic Life, the subliminal physicality in us to the universal force-formation of cosmic Matter; the thick walls which divide from these things our surface mind, life, body and which Nature has to pierce with so... communication. So too is the subliminal soul in us open to the universal delight which the cosmic soul takes in its own existence and in the existence of the myriad souls that represent it and in the operations of mind, life and matter by which Nature lends herself to their play and development; but from this cosmic delight the surface soul is shut off by egoistic walls of great thickness which have indeed... 1. Meaning and Nature of the Psychic Being The Psychic Being The Double Soul There is a double soul or psychic term in us, as every other cosmic principle in us is also double. For we have two minds, one the surface mind of our expressed evolutionary ego, the superficial mentality created by us in our emergence out of Matter, another a subliminal mind ...
... Here 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... 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? No... forces 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 ...
... theatre of the individual soul. The macrocosm is the microcosm; infinity is reflected, is summed up, in a grain of sand. The cosmic drama is also the human drama; Savitri the cosmic symbol is also the human legend. A drama, whether cosmic or human, or cosmic as well as human, implies a conflict—a conflict clinched by the tragedy of defeat or the fulfilment of victory. One term of the... to a divine companionship and alliance.. .To the Vedic seers they (the Gods) are living realities; the vicissitudes of the human soul represent a cosmic struggle not merely of principles and tendencies but of the cosmic Powers which support and embody them...On the world-stage and in the individual soul the same real drama with the same personages is enacted. 52 ... existence, and taking his cue from the Vedic revelatory hints Sri Aurobindo attempts the following explanation of the origins of the cosmic conflict: This antinomy between the Light and the Darkness, the Truth and the Falsehood has its roots in an original cosmic antinomy between the illumined Infinite and the darkened finite consciousness. Aditi the infinite, the undivided, is the ...
... and opening into the cosmic (cosmic Mind, cosmic vital, cosmic physical, something perhaps of the cosmic higher Mind) without having yet transcended the human mind levels. One is not in possession of or direct contact with the divine Truth on its own levels , but one can receive something from them, even from the Overmind, indirectly. Only, as one is still immersed in the cosmic Ignorance, all that... 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 I The Intermediate Zone The Nature of the Intermediate Zone I mean by it [ the intermediate zone ] that when the sadhak gets beyond the barriers... 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. If you avoid these, then there is no necessity ...
... Mother, what does "cosmic spirit and cosmic Nature" mean? Universal. Cosmic is the synonym of universal. But what does "cosmic spirit" mean? Cosmic spirit? It is the cosmic spirit, it is the universal spirit, it is the spirit that's in the whole universe. There is a universe. You know what the universe is? Well, this universe has a spirit, and this spirit is the cosmic spirit; this universe... universe has a consciousness and its consciousness is the cosmic, universal consciousness. One may very well imagine that the universe is only an entity in something which is still vaster, as the individual is only an entity in a much vaster totality. Now, each unit has its consciousness and its own spirit which contains all the others, as a group consciousness is made up of all the individual cons... of your 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 ...
... permanent Emanations of the Divine put forth from the Supreme by the Transcendent Mother, the Adyā Shakti; in their cosmic action they are Powers and Personalities of the Divine each with his independent cosmic standing, function and work in the universe. They are not impersonal entities but cosmic Personalities, although they can and do ordinarily veil themselves behind the movement of impersonal forces.... movement by which the cosmic Intelligence separated itself from the light of Supermind (the divine Gnosis) and lost the Truth,—truth of being, truth of divine consciousness, truth of force and action, truth of Ananda. As a result instead of a world of integral truth and divine harmony created in the light of the divine Gnosis, we have a world founded on the part truths of an inferior cosmic Intelligence in... ly but as intimate portions of the original Mahashakti and in close union and harmony with each other. (5) Gods These four Powers are the Mother's cosmic godheads, permanent in the world-play; they stand among the greater cosmic Godheads to whom allusion is made when it is said the Mother as the Mahashakti of this triple world "stands there (in the Page 453 Overmind plane) above ...
... Oh, really! So he asked about you, if you were still alive, and also he has written a book on the "cosmic tradition." He wanted to send you a copy of the book as an expression of his "respectful admiration." And finally he sent the book by air. Here it is: it's called "In the Shadow of the Cosmic Tradition." ( Mother laughs ) Have you looked at it? I didn't read it, but I looked at it. ... ( Laughing ) It's very fantastic! He mentions you only in the preface and says this: "The influence of the cosmic philosophy goes beyond the boundaries of the cosmic groups of France. Consider, for example, that the Reverend Mother of the Pondicherry Ashram (!), Sri Aurobindo's collaborator, was a student of Max Théon in Tlemcen...." That's all he says about you. I told you the story. There... support to your words? ( Mother gives a packet ) Page 267 You know, the "Cosmic" had a very interesting effect in my life. I was completely against "God." The European notion of God was quite repulsive to me. But at the same time naturally, that prevented me from having any experience. And with the "cosmic teaching" of the inner god (that was Théon's idea, the inner god— Mother touches her ...
... from the cosmos. It is the nature that has formed itself out of the cosmic forces—mind out of cosmic mind, life out of cosmic life, body out of cosmic matter. For the soul there are three realisations—(1) the realisation of the psychic being and consciousness as the divine element in the evolution, (2) the realisation of the cosmic Self which is one in all, (3) the realisation of the supreme Divine... 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 of the latter, as is the surface person, we can become to a certain... but does not seem to originate them at all, rather to stand back detached or unconcerned, udāsīna . The other aspect is dynamic and that is experienced as a cosmic Self or Spirit which not only supports but originates and contains the whole cosmic action—not only that part of it which concerns our physical selves but also all that is beyond it, this world and all other worlds, the supraphysical as well ...
... 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. Sri Aurobindo ...
... limit him? Living in such a world he has to govern all the three universes! It is the omnipresent cosmic Divine who supports the action of the universe; if there is an Incarnation, Page 278 it does not in the least diminish the cosmic Presence and the cosmic action in the three or thirty million universes. When the Avatar comes down here how does he... human being and use his outer personality for his manifestation? That would be a possession not an Avatar. An Avatar is supposed to be from birth. Each soul at its birth takes from the cosmic mind, life and matter to shape a new external personality for himself. What prevents the Divine doing the same? What is continued from birth to birth is the inner being. You wrote:... the consciousness acting behind is divine. When the Divine descends here (as the Avatar), he has to veil himself and deal with the world and its movements like an ordinary man of the cosmic product [Sri Aurobindo's marginal remark: "Exactly"]. But behind he is perfectly conscious of what happens. The universal forces cannot make him their tool as they make us. That does not ...
... AUROBINDO: 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... (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 of India he suddenly alters his plan and sends them back to England. SRI AUROBINDO: That obviously is his cosmic movement.! (Laughter) ...
... theologians who highlight the cosmic role of Christ, had need of the evolutionist thesis!" This surprised exclamation from a most sympathetic commentator is enough to prove that the cosmicality of Christ a la Teilhard can never be equated to the cosmic role attributed to Christ by any other Catholic theological thinker past or present. If, according to Teilhard, Christ's cosmicality can become a reality only... to link to St. Paul and St. John the " 'new' Christianity" 3 he was fighting for. Secondly, the irrational idea that the cosmic Christ was necessarily a consequence and extension of the historic Jesus rather than the historic Jesus being a concentrated manifestation of the cosmic Christ. As might be expected of so complex and tension-fraught a thinker, Teilhard himself comes to our help here. Piet... when modern evolutionism is accepted, it is impossible for his cosmic Christ to figure in whatever St. Paul or contemporary religion posits in non-scientific terms. By insisting on evolutionism, Teilhard makes himself irrevocably unorthodox. As for the historic Jesus in this context, his being subsequent and subordinate to the cosmic Christ cannot be denied the moment we correctly grasp Teilhard's ...
... 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... experience how shall we find the solution that explains all experience? Pure Being is the affirmation by the Unknowable of Itself as the free base of all cosmic existence. We give the name of Non-Being to a contrary affirmation of Its freedom from all cosmic existence,—freedom, that is to say, from all positive terms of actual existence which consciousness in the universe can formulate to itself, even from... a concentration of mentality in the individual upon Non-existence with the 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 ...
... nature – though free. 2. or, he may open equally to Cosmic forces and acts as Bala, Jada, Pishacha or Unmatta.* 3. or, he may be one with the Divine and act and would be free not to act. In case he acts, he is the individual centre of the Cosmic for Divine action. He is one with the Divine yet remains a different self – yet free. Cosmic forces would be available to him for Divine action. ...
... The Ascent of Sight in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri 5.Divine's Cosmic Vision: The manifestation begins; the worlds are created. The passive Sachchidananda is now in his role of all-watching, all-governing Cosmic Purusha. To quote Sri Aurobindo: "The Brahman-consciousness [in this case]... is not the Absolute withdrawn into itself, but that Absolute in its outlook... (2)"Impartial fell its gaze on evil and good" (283) (3)"All things he sees with calm indifferent gaze" (646) (4)"He is the one infinite Person seeing this world" (656) (5)"... Cosmic Being at his task" (416) (6)"Calm eyes divine regard the human scene" (482) (7)"A wide unshaken look at Time's unrest" (36) (8)"Outspread beneath some large indifferent gaze, Impartial ...
... more enlarge its self-projection into the cosmic existence around it. A point comes where it can break through the separation altogether, unite, identify itself 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... amplitude; there is a direct awareness of universal being and nature, there is a greater openness of the mind to the cosmic Mind and its energies, to the cosmic Life and its energies, to cosmic Matter and its energies. A certain sense of unity of the individual with the cosmic, a perception of the world held within one's consciousness as well as of one's own intimate inclusion in the world c... touches it, is in constant relation and commerce with it. The subliminal mind in us is open to the universal knowledge of the cosmic Mind, the subliminal life in us to the universal force of the cosmic Life, the subliminal physicality in us to the universal force-formation of Cosmic Matter; 1 the thick walls which divide from these things our surface mind, life, body and which Nature has to pierce ...
... 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... inferior modes that govern our mind, life and body. As soon as the limits of the ego begin to fade, we see how that veil is constituted and detect the action of cosmic Nature in us, and in or behind cosmic Nature we sense the presence of the cosmic Self and the dynamis of the world-pervading Ishwara. The Master of the instrument stands behind all this working, and even within the working there is his touch... 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; there, waiting in it to be delivered here into Time, stands the mystery of the embodiment of the Transcendence. In the cosmic consciousness ...
... interested in the Cosmic Movement she began to involve herself in it. How? Lectures or speeches? No. Not Mirra. Abstract theorizing held no appeal to her. She always liked to come to grips with matter. Her involvement, therefore, was practical: she took in her charge the publication of the Cosmic Philosophy's mouthpiece, the French periodical, La Revue Cosmique. The Cosmic Review was a monthly... students, and its old bookshops much frequented by those who take a keen interest in the science of the occult —that Louis first came across an issue of The Cosmic Review. Whereupon he sent a letter to Theon enclosing a nominal subscription to the Cosmic publications. Then he met the Théons on one of their visits to France. It was only in 1907 that Louis and Claire visited Tlemcen, in Algeria, where the... Who was Theon, that mysterious person? How did Mirra come to know about him and his teaching? It was from Louis M. Thémanlys, Matteo's college friend, that Mirra first heard about Theon and the Cosmic Philosophy. Thémanlys was a writer, with several books to his credit. His wife, Claire, was also at home with a pen. Claire's brother, Jacques Blot, was an artist. Both Page 15 ...
... enter. The subliminal is able to widen indefinitely this circumconscient envelope and more and more enlarge its self-projection into the cosmic existence around it. A point comes where it can break through the separation altogether, unite, identify itself with cosmic being, feel itself universal, one with all existence." (p. 541) Now, as usual, we append below some illustrative verses from... Matter-field 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... world-knowledge broadened from within" (44) (7)"He grew one with a covert universe.... Forms he descried our mortal eyes see not. His wide eyes bodied viewless entities, He saw the cosmic forces at their work And felt the occult impulse behind man's will." (44) (8)"Through an inner seeing and sense a wakening came." (404) (9)"All things the eye had caught in coloured ...
... Till then there may be direct contacts, communications, interchanges with cosmic forces, beings, movements, but not the full unity of mind with the cosmic Mind, of life with the cosmic Life, of body and physical consciousness with the cosmic material Energy and its substance. Again there may be a realisation of the Cosmic Self which is not followed by the realisation of the dynamic universal oneness... s 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 of the cosmic Energy and its forces, workings and formations, this latter experience not being... realise it in the supramental plane. The supreme supra-cosmic Sachchidananda is above all. Supermind may be described as its power of self-awareness and world-awareness, the world being known as within itself and not outside. So to live consciously in the supreme Sachchidananda one must pass through the Supermind. If one is in the supra cosmic apart from the manifestation, there is no place for problems ...
... Then the story itself; the tremendous issue and its vast implications; the human and the cosmic backgrounds; and the struggle and the victory. In all this Savitri does convincingly project before us a human and a cosmic drama, and we are able to respond at once to this impact of poetry and this invasion of cosmic actuality. To quote Sri Krishnaprem again, Savitri... is neither subjective... aid of such external sign-posts—his poems and his letters, for example —as are available: his experience of cosmic silence under Yogi Lele's guidance; his beatific vision of Narayana the Omnipresent God in the Alipore Jail; his experience of the besieging of his fields of trance by the cosmic ignorance; his spiritual association with Madame Richard, the Mother from 1914 onwards; his rendezvous with... past eighty; chronologically coming in between these two poems, Song of Myself is somewhat 'alien' in cast and almost explosive in utterance; its range, too, is wider, and its sweep approaching the cosmic. All three are 'autobiographical' poems, though each has its own distinctive quality. What these share with Savitri, however, is an earnestness and integrity in facing the problem of man set in a ...
... assume the mould of its cosmic operations; but this is only their lesser and lower movement and beyond it they are for ever the One, the Transcendent and Wonderful, the Master of Force and Delight and Knowledge and Being. But in the Upanishads the Brahman idea has grown and cast down the gods from this high pre-eminence so that they appear only in their lesser human and cosmic workings. Much of their... heat of conscious force in Matter is Agni Jatavedas, the knower of all births; of all things born, of every cosmic phenomenon he knows the law, the process, the limit, the relation. If then it is some mighty Birth of the cosmos that stands before them, some new indeterminate developed in the cosmic struggle and process, who shall know him, determine his limits, strength, potentialities if not Agni Jatavedas... their other Vedic aspects they keep. Here the three gods Indra, Vayu, Agni represent the cosmic Divine on each of its three planes, Indra on the mental, Vayu on the vital, Agni on the material. In that order, therefore, beginning from the material they approach the Brahman. Agni is the heat and flame of the conscious force in Matter which has built up the universe; it is he who has made life and mind ...
... more enlarge its self-projection into the cosmic existence around it. A point comes where it can break through the separation altogether, unite, identify itself 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... amplitude; there is a direct awareness of universal being and nature, there is a greater openness of the mind to the cosmic Mind and its energies, to the cosmic Life and its energies, to Page 561 cosmic Matter and its energies. A certain sense of unity of the individual with the cosmic, a perception of the world held within one's consciousness as well as of one's own intimate inclusion in the world... and these run too in cosmic waves and currents no less than the forces of physical Nature. 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. But although ...
... 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 but as a field of manifestation, and this sense of the... abolished; a wide cosmic perception and feeling of a boundless universal self and movement replaces it: many motions that were formerly egocentric may still continue, but they occur as currents or ripples in the cosmic wideness. Thought, for the most part, no longer seems to originate individually in the body or the person but manifests from above or comes in upon the cosmic mind-waves: all inner... upon a cosmic formula whose basis is the entire nescience which results from the separation of Mind, Life and Matter from their own source and supreme origin. Overmind can bridge that division up to the point at which separative Mind enters into Overmind and becomes a part of its action; it can unite individual mind with cosmic mind on its highest plane, equate individual self with cosmic self and ...
... our self-consciousness not so much cosmic as ultra-cosmic, infinite. Mind 1 On Yoga, I: The Synthesis of Yoga, pp. 421-22 Page 299 and life and body will then be only movements in that infinity which we have become, and we shall see that what exists is not world at all but simply this infinity of spirit in which move the mighty cosmic harmonies of its own images of self... startling symbol the thought struck out in the concept of the archetypal cosmicity in the latter sections of the two preceding lines. With such a vision of its significance we are in a position to come to grips with the details of its apparently impossible violence. For, what exactly do we mean by an archetypal cosmicity? Primarily, there are in it the perfect divine originals, models, counterparts... individual narrowness — We shall come to feel all the consciousness of the physical world as one with our physical consciousness, feel all the energies of the cosmic life around us as our own energies, feel all the heart-beats of the great cosmic impulse and seeking in our heart-beats set to the rhythm of the divine Ananda, feel all the action of the universal mind flowing into our mentality and our ...
... for the psychic transformation to take one beyond the individual into the cosmic. Even the occult opening establishes a connection 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... 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 kinds with other... recast his individual mind in the boundlessness of a cosmic mentality, enlarged and vivified his individual life into the immediate sense and direct experience of the dynamic motion of the universal life, opened up the communications of his body with the forces of universal Nature, before he can be capable of a change which transcends the present cosmic formulation and lifts him beyond the lower hemisphere ...
... 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 Life, 78-79 Cosmic Matter, 78-79 Cosmic Mind, 78, 79 Culture, 279-83 and barbarism, 281; see also... meaning, 168, 169-70, 172 Truth-Consciousness, 224, 358, 159-60 See also Gnosis; Supermind Turiya, 206, 213 Universal Life, see Cosmic Life Universal Matter, see Cosmic Matter Universal Mind, see Cosmic Mind Upanishad(s), 90fm\n, 296, 297 record of experiences, 184 Vedanta (Vedantic), 170-71, 303, 367, 373, 391, 393 meaning of Nirvana... 82, 244, 248 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 ...
... effort to transcend humanity and the final blissful realisation, the manifestation, of the Divine. In the third place, Savitri was to be a cosmic epic, its human action symbolising the cosmic action, the visible terrestrial drama symbolising the total cosmic drama of the lila or ecstatic play of the Lord; this really meant translating into poetic terms the massive dialectic of The Life Divine... vision such as that of the Vedantin arriving beyond the world towards the Ineffable) is not what Savitri has to say or rather it is only a small part of it and, even so, bound up with a cosmic vision and an acceptance of the world... 92 The cardinal fact, then, is that Sri Aurobindo has seen something, experienced something, so vividly that, although many-splendoured, it is ...
... 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 different... above all of them and is the source of all the surface personalities. It is only then that one can know the aspect or bhava one is intended to manifest. The Cosmic Spirit or Self contains everything in the cosmos—it upholds cosmic Mind, universal Life, universal Matter as well as the Overmind. The Self is more than all these things which are its formulations in Nature. A Vision of the Universal... it and progressively 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 ...
... transmutation at its highest; Agni is not merely the heat or the energy, not merely the mined will working out evolutionary process in Matter and of the human soul, it is not merely a cosmic being in the of various other cosmic beings, it is an aspect of the Supreme Godhead itself verily, it is one of the sacred Page 17 Names of the Supreme Divine Himself, It is this Agni that is invoked by... consciousness. The Vedic gods are not mere physical Nature-powers, but the psychological conscious forces behind and within all cosmic things, is made clear enough in various Vedic texts. This clarity is also seen by the connection that is described between their cosmic character and their power of delivering the human consciousness from ignorance and from the stumbling blocks created by the powers... felicity". Varuna and Mitra According to the esoteric knowledge attained by the Vedic seers, Varuna is the cosmic power that enables the seeker of Page 20 the Supreme to develop wideness and vastness as also to discover and obey the law of relations of cosmic forces by which harmony can constantly be maintained. Vastness and harmony accompany each other, and therefore we find ...
... 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 but as a field of manifestation, and this sense of the delight... finally abolished; a wide cosmic perception and feeling of a boundless universal self and movement replaces it: many motions that were formerly ego-centric may still continue, but they occur as currents or ripples in the cosmic wideness. Thought, for the most part, no longer seems to originate individually in the body or the person but manifests from above or comes in upon the cosmic mind waves: all inner... evolutionary principle and process. All action, all mental, vital, physical activities in the world are the operation of a universal Energy, a Consciousness-Force which is the power of the Cosmic Spirit working out the cosmic and individual truth of things. But since this creative Consciousness assumes in Matter a mask of inconscience and puts on the surface appearance of a blind universal Force executing ...
... originate them at all, rather to stand back detached or unconcerned, uddsīna. The other aspect is dynamic and that is Page 119 experienced as a cosmic Self or Spirit which not only supports but originates and contains the whole cosmic action — not only that part of it which concerns our physical selves but also all that is beyond it — this world and all other worlds, the supraphysical... individual birth or cosmic existence. To get into the universal Self—one in all — is to be liberated from ego; ego either becomes a small instrumental circumstance in the consciousness or 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... what is lost we must break out of the walls of ego. The ego must either disappear in impersonality or fuse into a larger I: it must fuse into the wider cosmic 'I' which comprehends all these smaller selves or the transcendent of which even the cosmic self is a diminished image. The Synthesis of Yoga, pp. 341-43 The ego-sense serves to limit, separate and sharply differentiate, to make the ...
... Overhead Poetry Cosmic Rhythms Now cosmic rhythms are a laughter in my pulse, For the heart stands back immense and knows no aim, Cool core of a body of tortuous paths to power. My blood is the singing attar of that Rose Rooted in rest beyond all universe. Seraphs are crossing my brain that is wonder-wide, Smiling to ...
... spaceless, timeless, immobile and immutable Self; we take the constant mobility and mutation of the 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... affirmation of the Absolute, the experience-concept of the utter and ineffable Transcendence; but we find also, not in contradiction to it but as its corollary, an affirmation of the cosmic Divinity, an experience-concept of the cosmic Self and the becoming of Brahman in the universe. Equally, we find the affirmation of the Divine Reality in the individual: this too is an experience concept; it is seized upon... other than itself. To live in the cosmic Ignorance is a blindness, but to confine oneself in an exclusive absolutism of Knowledge is also a blindness: to know Brahman as at once and together the Knowledge and the Ignorance, to attain to the supreme status at once by the Becoming and the Non-Becoming, to relate together realisation of the transcendent and the cosmic self, to achieve foundation in the ...
... does not seem to originate them at all, rather to stand back detached or unconcerned, udāsīna. The other aspect is dynamic and that is experienced as a cosmic Self or Spirit which not only supports but originates and contains the whole cosmic action — not only that part of it which concerns our physical selves but also all that is beyond it — this world and all other worlds, the supraphysical... 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 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... afterwards the planes of consciousness above the body, also a consciousness surrounding the body, but part of oneself, part of the individual being, through which one is in contact with the cosmic forces and with other beings. 7 Each man has his own personal consciousness entrenched in his body and gets into touch with his surroundings only through his body and senses and the mind ...
... Axioms of Cosmic Philosophy." It was the work of a certain French metaphysician who was well known around the turn of the century—his name began with a B. He met Theon in Egypt when Theon was with Blavatski; they started a magazine with an ancient Egyptian name (I can't recall what it was), and then he told Theon (Theon must have already known French) to publish a Cosmic Review and the "Cosmic Books... one. Look, they made the central square very elongated. The one done here is more correct: Pavitra made all the sides equal. But the one for the Cosmic Review was elongated, with the lotus in the center. It's the same [as the one for the Cosmic Review ], only elongated so that the two triangles meet and form a square. I am keeping this to show Pavitra, because that's what I had first tried... Agenda 1962 December 15, 1962 ( Mother shows Satprem some pamphlets printed during Theon's time, "Fundamental Axioms of Cosmic Philosophy," which have just been found among some old papers: ) This is pretty funny! ( Laughing, Mother reads: ) "In his physical state, man is the supreme evolutor. "There is but one law ...
... Sri Aurobindo wrote: ".. .the 'Worlds' have fallen into a state of manuscript chaos, corrections upon corrections, additions upon additions, rearrangements on rearrangements out of which perhaps some cosmic beauty will emerge!" 38 Eight years later, in 1946, Sri Aurobindo acknowledged that, "Savitri has grown to an enormous length...The small passage about Aswapati and the other worlds has been replaced... Aswapati, tearing from his last terrestrial moorings, plunges into the occult unknown universe of moods, energies, world-shapes and freedom-formulas, he experiences the throb of direct contact with the cosmic play of passion and motion and "self-creation without end or pause". Contradictions merge and mix and cease in a harmony, Page 82 "plots of pain and dramas of delight" spin... the summits of the Spirit to matter's abysses is balanced by this other, .. .single stair to being's goal. A summary of the stages of the spirit, Its copy of the cosmic hierarchies Refashioned in our secret air of self A subtle pattern of the universe. It is within, below, without, above. 41 In the occult world, as in the material ...
... of omega-workings. Evolution is pushing man towards a higher goal, an omega-point, which can be described as collective divinity. A cosmic divine manifestation is in the making.¹³ Whitehead Whitehead (1861-1947), who recalls the Platonic view of the cosmic process, maintains that nothing can emerge in the evolutionary process of the universe if its constituents were not already in existence... embodies an idea from beyond the developing series of events in the universe. Whitehead suggests an eternal order and a creative reality. The cosmic series has a nisus towards the eternal order which is beyond itself, though it is increasingly realized in the cosmic. According to Whitehead, an actual event is the meeting point of a world of actualities, on the one side, and a world of ideal possibilities... assume new empirical qualities which are distinctive levels of experience — primary qualities, matter, and secondary qualities, life and mind. As explained in his book, 'Space, Time and Deity’, the cosmic process has now reached the human level, and man is looking forward to the next higher quality of deity. According to him, men of religious genius are preparing mankind for this next state of development ...
... 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... felt not only in the mind but up to the navel. And in that entire portion I feel as if there is no cover of limiting body, but there is infinite vastness.... Explanation: It is the experience of cosmic wideness descending from centre to centre. Sri Aurobindo ...
... 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 ...
... tremendous brow And the great rock that none has trod; A step, and all is sky and God. Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: One Day ============= The Cosmic Spirit or Self contains everything in the cosmos — it upholds cosmic Mind, universal Life, universal Matter as well as the overmind. The Self is more than all these things which are its formulations in Nature. Sri Aurobindo, Letters ...
... question whether the biological phenomenon described is really a symbol and a cloak for another order of reality, and even taking it at its face value, what is to be noted here is the idea of a cosmic cycle, and a cosmic cycle that proceeds through the principle of sacrifice. If it is asked what there is wonderful or particularly spiritual in this rather naïf description of a very commonplace happening... movement of ascent and descent that is secreted in nature, or to the combined action of Purusha and Prakriti in the cosmic Play, or again to the hidden fount of Delight that holds and moves the universe. In this view there is nothing merely secular and profane, but all is woven into the cosmic spiritual whole; and man is taught to consider and to mould all his movements-of soul and mind and body-in the... From the psychological standpoint, the four oblations are movements or reactions of consciousness in its urge towards the utterance and expression of Divine Truth. Like some other elements in the cosmic play, these also form a quartet – caturvyūha – and work together for a common purpose in view of a perfect and all-round result. Svāhā is the offering and invocation. One must dedicate everything ...
... respect Yoga exceeds the normal operation of cosmic Nature and climbs beyond her. For the aim of the Universal Mother is to embrace the Divine in her own play and creations and there to realise It. But in the highest flights of Yoga she reaches beyond herself and realises the Divine in Itself exceeding the universe and even standing apart from the cosmic play. Therefore by some it is supposed that this... Divine in all energies, in all happenings, in all activities, and a free and unegoistic participation of the soul in the cosmic action. So followed it will lead to the elevation of all human will and activity to the divine level, its spiritualisation and the justification of the cosmic labour towards freedom, power and perfection in the human being. We can see also that in the integral view of things... its true spiritual existence. But also it acquires the capacity of that free and concentrated energising of consciousness on Page 36 its object which our philosophy asserts as the primary cosmic energy and the method of divine action upon the world. By this capacity the Yogin, already possessed of the highest supracosmic knowledge and experience in the state of trance, is able in the waking ...
... Teilhard, although the Nazarene seed has to be once present for the Cosmic Christ to flower, the flowering of cosmicity cannot automatically follow from that seed. This must signify that Christ's cosmicity as visioned by Teilhard is not innate to the religion built upon the historical Jesus. It must also mean that whatever cosmicity 7. Ibid., pp. 528-29, n. 83. Page 199 ... the cosmic Christ with the plurality of worlds. - Since the Cosmos is certainly indivisible, and Christianity is not smaller than the Cosmos, one must admit a certain 'polymorphous' manifestation of the cosmic Christ upon various worlds, according to. the aptitude of these worlds for being integrated into the celestial Universe. The human Christ would then be but one aspect of the cosmic Christ... Church's interpretation of the divine cosmicity celebrated there. Thus Teilhard, out of his own mouth, suggests that even if the Church has not been devoid of a Cosmic Christ, the Church's Universal Godhead has had a different status from the one Teilhard would accord to him. A different status is unavoidable in the very nature of the case. The Teilhardian Cosmic Christ has no substance apart from ...
... the world and prevent the Light from possessing it. You said, "It is through the Cosmic Shakti that the Divine creates." Has the Cosmic Shakti any-thing to do with the hostile forces? She has to do with everything in this world, good, bad or indifferent. If the Cosmic Shakti has come from the Divine, why is the world such as to allow the hostile forces to reign... nature of this world because it is an evolutionary world moving out of the Inconscient into the full consciousness of the Divine. Is it not the Cosmic Shakti's work to reach the Divine through all her evolutionary forms? The Cosmic Shakti maintains the cosmos. To reach the Divine is the ultimate, not the immediate object. It is said that everything is already arranged ...
... wide cosmic perception and feeling of a boundless universal self and movement replaces it: many motions that were formerly ego-centric may still continue, but they occur as currents or ripples in the cosmic wideness. Thought, for the most part, no longer seems to originate individually in the body or the person but manifests from above or comes in upon the cosmic mind-waves... richer and fuller. 8 To cultivate the spiritual life is not to turn away from everyday life; it is not an escape from life but rather a steady confrontation of life and seeing it in its cosmic context. The little stream of life is seen lost in the ocean, the little bird of one's individuality is seen lost in the universality of the blue sky. The radical inner change, the profound spiritual... losing his thoughts in eternity; in other words, it is a basic change in the quality of his consciousness that enables him to be in the world but not of it, to think, speak and act but from "a vast cosmic instrumentation'. This is the utmost change that man can hope for while still remaining man, for, "the overmind change is the final consummating movement of the dynamic spiritual transformation; it ...
... theistic explanations of existence starting from an extra-cosmic Deity stumble over this difficulty and can only evade it; it would disappear only if the Creator were, even though exceeding the creation, yet immanent in it, himself in some sort both the player and the play, an Infinite casting infinite possibilities into the form of an evolutionary cosmic order. On that hypothesis, there must be behind... touch or to enter into a cosmic state of being and consciousness to which the totality of things and their integral principle would be better manifest than to our limited mind experience. Overmind consciousness is such a state or principle beyond individual mind, beyond even universal mind in the Ignorance; it carries in itself a first direct and masterful cognition of cosmic truth: here then we might... some insight into the fundamental movements of cosmic Nature. One thing indeed becomes clear; Page 323 it is self-evident here that both the individual and the cosmos come from a transcendent Reality which takes form in them: the mind and life of the individual being, its self in nature must therefore be a partial self-expression of the cosmic Being and, both through that and directly, a ...
... 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 the sense... supports and enforces on being a vain cosmic illusion and has no power for any other and real action. The force of the Divine is always there in silence as in action, inactive in silence, active in the manifestation. It is hardly possible to suppose that the Divine Reality has no power or force or that its only power is to create a universal falsehood, a cosmic lie— mithyā . 4) Compounds and... sense of cosmos as well as the individual disappears. Or again, it may be in a transcendence which is aware of and supports the cosmic action. But what do we mean by the individual? What we usually call by that name is a natural ego, a device of Nature which holds Page 395 together her action in the mind and body. This ego has to be extinguished, otherwise there is no complete liberation ...
... Pondicherry (Circa 1927-1947) Pondicherry (Circa 1927-1947) Three Sonnets Collected Poems The Cosmic Dance Know more > ( Dance of Krishna, Dance of Kali ) Two measures are there of the cosmic dance. Always we hear the tread of Kali's feet Measuring in rhythms of pain and grief and chance Life's game of hazard terrible and sweet ...
... intuitive Ray. On summit Mind are radiant altitudes Exposed to the lustre of Infinity, Outskirts and dependencies of the house of Truth, Upraised estates of Mind and measureless.... A cosmic Thought spreads out its vastitudes; Its smallest parts are here philosophies Challenging with their detailed immensity, Each figuring an omniscient scheme of things. But higher still... The Word, a mighty and inspiring Voice, Enters Truth's inmost cabin of privacy And tears away the veil from God and life. Then stretches the boundless finite's last expanse, The cosmic empire of the Overmind, Time's buffer state bordering Eternity, Too vast for the experience of man's soul: All here gathers beneath one golden sky: The Powers that build the cosmos... her measureless house; In its corridor she hears the tread that comes Out of the Unmanifest never to return Till the Unknown is known and seen by men. Above the stretch and blaze of cosmic Sight, Above the silence of the wordless Thought, Formless creator of immortal forms, Nameless, investitured with the name divine, Transcending Time's hours, transcending Timelessness ...
... forms of Agni,—the solar fire, the vaidyuta fire and the nether fire are one Trinity—the fivefold fire is part of the Vedic symbolism of sacrifice. Vayu and Indra are cosmic godheads presiding over the action of cosmic principles—they are not the manomaya purusha or pranamaya purusha in each man. You have a mental being or purusha in you and a vital being or purusha, but you cannot say that... 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 that stands behind formation and creation. As for Vishnu being ...
... Ray. On summit Mind are radiant altitudes Exposed to the lustre of Infinity, Outskirts and dependencies of the house of Truth, Upraised estates of Mind and measureless ... A cosmic Thought spreads out its vastitudes; Its smallest parts are here philosophies Challenging with their detailed immensity, Each figuring an omniscient scheme of things. But higher... Word, a mighty and inspiring Voice, Enters Truth's inmost cabin of privacy And tears away the veil from God and life. Then stretches the boundless finite's last expanse, The cosmic empire of the Overmind, Time's buffer state bordering Eternity, Too vast for the experience of man's soul: All here gathers beneath one golden sky: The Powers that build the... measureless house; In its corridor she hears the tread that comes Out of the Unmanifest never to return Till the Unknown is known and seen by men. Above the stretch and blaze of cosmic Sight, Above the silence of the wordless Thought, Formless creator of immortal forms, Nameless, investitured with the name divine, Transcending Time's hours, transcending T ...
... a complete entry into the consciousness of cosmic Mind, into unity with the universal Life, even into a oneness with universal Matter." 1 But this first result is not all that can be desired. For, however cosmic in scope and perfected in dynamism, our being remains still embedded in the field of diminished cosmic truth, if not in total cosmic Ignorance. If we would transcend the limitations... 1 Savitri, Book II, Canto XV, p. 300. Page 129 To the souls of men their deep identity. Or she might wake into God's quietude Beyond the cosmic day and cosmic night And rest appeased in his white eternity. 1 But once we set aside the exit-solution as not conforming to our goal and try instead to become aware in those supernal realms... the plane of the Intuitive Mind is a superconscient cosmic Mind, a principle of global knowledge which carries in it 'a delegated light from the supramental gnosis.' The Overmind is in direct contact with the Supramental Truth-Consciousness and represents the 'highest possible status-dynamis' of the Spirit in the spiritual-mind range. 'The cosmic empire of the Overmind' 3 represents 'the boundless ...
... Divine Purusha assuming many personalities and Page 90 it is thrown in Time as the Cosmic and the Individual for a particular purpose, use or work. This true Person is all the time conscious of its identity with the Cosmic. That is why liberation is possible. Disciple : Is Cosmic liberation static or dynamic? Sri Aurobindo : It is either, or both. In the static aspect... liberation, it depends upon where and how you experience the unity. If it is in the mind you feel your mind as one with the Cosmic Mind; in that case your own mind does not exist. If you feel the unity in the vital, then your vital being becomes a part of the cosmic vital, one with cosmic life. You can experience the Unity on the physical plane; then you feel your body as a speck of Universal Matter. Or, ...
... here, in order to make more precise to the mind this circling round of births and the escape from it, adopts the ancient theory of the cosmic cycles which became a fixed part of Indian cosmological notions. There is an eternal cycle of alternating periods of cosmic manifestation and non-manifestation, each period called respectively a day and a night of the creator Brahma, each of equal length in... But this unmanifest is not the original divinity of the Being; there is another status of his existence, bhāvo 'nyo , a supracosmic unmanifest beyond this cosmic non-manifestation, which is eternally self-seated, is not an opposite of this cosmic status of manifestation but far above and unlike it, changeless, eternal, not forced to perish with the perishing of all these existences. "He is called the... position and fixes it with sufficient precision. Substantially it comes to this that we are to move inwardly towards a greater consciousness and a supreme existence, not by a total exclusion of our cosmic nature, but by a higher, a spiritual fulfilment of all that we now essentially are. Only there is to be a change from our mortal imperfection to a divine perfection of being. The first idea on which ...
... coordinating himself with the world around him but not drowned in it.... For the individual is indeed part of the cosmic being, but he is also something more, he is a soul that has descended from the Transcendence. This he cannot manifest at once, because he is too near to the cosmic Inconscience, not near enough to the original Superconscience; he has to find himself as the mental and vital ego... Reality, as occurs in the experience of Nirvana. But instead of choosing merger into the One, the spiritual individual can choose to continue existence in the cosmic manifestation — as the Buddha is said to have done 20 — to further the cosmic evolutionary process. ...the liberation and transcendence need not necessarily impose a disappearance, a sheer dissolving out from the manifestation;... plane or stage of life is possible. 5 (M. Washburn) What truly defines the transpersonal orientation is a model of the human psyche that recognizes the importance of the spiritual or cosmic dimensions and the potential for consciousness evolution. 6 (S. Grof) As will be apparent in the presentation that follows, Sri Aurobindo's integral view of human growth incorporates all ...
... 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 cosmic Nature with all the beings... 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 feels all that as he now feels physical things and impacts. He finds it... union either transcendental (above the universe) or cosmic (universal) or individual or, as in our Yoga, all three together. Or it means getting into a 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 ...
... eternal Divine Purusha assuming many personalities and thrown out into Time as the Cosmic and as the Individual for a particular purpose, use or work. Even as the Individual, this Purusha is all the time conscious of identity with the Cosmic. That is why liberation of the Individual is possible. DR. SATYENDRA: Is the cosmic liberation static or dynamic? SRI AUROBINDO: It is both. In the static aspect... infinite, one, without movement, action, duality. In the dynamic, it depends on where your experience feels the unity. If in the mental, your mind feels one with the cosmic mind; if in the vital, your vital becomes part of the cosmic vital; if in the physical, the body is felt as a speck of universal Matter. Just as there is a wall that separates the outer nature from the soul, the psychic being ...
... 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, the play. 4) Find in place of ego the true being—a portion of the Divine issued ...
... and conception and its involvement is cosmic. In this respect Keats's Hyperion and Shelley's Prometheus Unbound are nearer to it. The idea Spirit, behold The glorious destiny nascent in Shelley's earlier work, Queen Mab, finds its fuller poetic expression in Prometheus Unbound. If this is a veritable cosmic lyric, Savitri is a cosmic epic. Prometheus, the man undergoing... Blake predicated such divinisation only for the individual, Sri Aurobindo sees divine transformation going on in the cosmic process itself. Although Blake too did see the vision of "Jerusalem" being established in "London", we wonder if this vision had acquired with him the full cosmic sense that was Sri Aurobindo's. And further, although Blake's "spiritual aim was a widening of consciousness," there... epic code, similarly poetises the fall of Uranus (representing the rule of shapeless chaos) at the hands of Saturn (representing the rule of cosmic order), and his fall in turn at the hands of Apollo (Jove), the Power of Light and Beauty. Here is cosmic story told by the thoughtful Titan Oceanus, to his brother, the fallen Saturn: We fall by course of Nature's law, not force Or thunder ...
... how 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... chapters that have preceded. They explain why a cosmic existence has manifested out of Transcendent Satchidananda whose nature is infinite existence, consciousness and bliss. The world could have been an infinity of figures without any fixed order or relation. But we find it is not so. The reason is that the Satchidananda acts first as Supermind. Therefore cosmic law is not to be imposed from outside, it... working in him. One might feel that one is there all the time in the intuitive plane. But in the Overmind one feels a vast, cosmic expansion of consciousness. It feels as if light is covering the whole world, the sunlight is holding the whole world within its light. The infinite cosmic consciousness is there and it covers the whole lower hemipshere of knowledge and ignorance made of mind, life and body ...
... The Adventure of the Apocalypse Cosmic Rhythms Now cosmic rhythms are a laughter in my pulse, For the heart stands back immense and knows no aim, Cool core of a body of tortuous paths to power. My blood is the singing attar of that Rose Rooted in rest beyond all universe. Seraphs are crossing my brain that is wonder-wide Smiling ...
... existence. Unity was perhaps and will be perhaps, but it is not now and cannot be so long as cosmos and the individual endure. The cosmic being can only know and possess the transcendent unity by ceasing to be cosmic; the individual can only know and possess the cosmic or the transcendental unity by ceasing from all individuality and individualisation. Or if unity is the one eternal fact, then cosmos... . That then is a Self which must be one in its being,—otherwise we could not have this experience of unity,—and yet must be capable in its very unity of cosmic differentiation and multiple individuality. The unity is its being,—yes, but the cosmic differentiation and the multiple individuality are the power of its being which it is constantly displaying and which it is its delight and the nature of... see farther that it is not solely and ultimately the cosmic being into which our individual being enters but something in which both are unified. As our individualisation in the world is a becoming of that Self, so is the world too a becoming of that Self. The world-being includes always the individual being; therefore these two becomings, the cosmic and the individual, are always related to each other ...
... so that we should triumph over the world with You, come to us clothed in the glory of the world." The cosmic has burst upon the Teilhardian vision, particularly the infinite multitudinous unity which is the evolving cosmos of modern science. And the God whom he invokes for adoration is the Cosmic Christ, who; according to him, was anticipated in the Pantocrator -the All-Ruler, the Universal Power -... being as vast as the World of all time", "a true soul of the World". Such a Christ is surely a Personal Pantheos, of whose cosmic soul, coextensive with space and time, the universe of Matter is a manifesting body. Looking on him as Super-Matter, we may even say that his cosmic soul is as a Super-body, of which an Page 19 evolving projection is the space-time universe. If our... Cuenot. Cuenot, 14 in La Table Ronde (June 1955), reports: "From the age of four or five - so he told us in a conversation (12 July 1950) - he already had a 'general cosmic sense (the consistency of the whole}'. And later the cosmic came to be concentrated in the human, in the Christly." 14. Quoted by Corte, op. cit., p .3. Page 21 ...
... question whether the biological phenomenon described is really a symbol and a cloak for another order of reality, and even taking it at its face value, what is to be noted here is the idea of a cosmic cycle, and a cosmic cycle that proceeds through the principle of sacrific. If it is asked what there is wonderful or particularly spiritual in this rather naif description of a very commonplace happening that... movement of ascent and descent that is secreted in nature, or to the combined action of Purusha and Prakrit! in the cosmic Play, or again to the hidden fount of Delight that holds and moves the universe. In this view there is nothing merely secular and profane, but all is woven into the cosmic spiritual whole; and man is taught to consider and to mould all his movements—of soul and mind and body—in the... From the psychological standpoint, the four oblations are movements or reactions of consciousness in its urge towards the utterance and expression of Divine Truth. Like some other elements in the cosmic play, these also form a quartet— catur vyuha— and work together for a common purpose in view of a perfect and all-round result. Svaha is the offering and invocation. One must dedicate everything ...
... Maya Page 427 the power the Self has of imposing on itself the cosmic illusion, or by the Self the Divine Being and by Maya the nature of conscious-being and the conscious-force by which the Divine embodies himself in soul-forms and forms of things. Others spoke of Ishwara and Shakti, the Lord and His force, His cosmic power. The analytic philosophy of the Sankhyas affirmed their eternal duality... lapse into unrest and suffering. So too we can have the same experience of all the principles of this activity which in the Immutable are self-contained and in a sense drawn in and concealed, in the cosmic are expressed and realise their infinite quality and capacity. The first of these principles in importance is the duality—which resolves itself into a unity—of Purusha and Prakriti of which we have... duality without any possibility of oneness, accepting only relations of union and separation by which the cosmic action of Prakriti begins, proceeds or ceases for the Purusha; for the Purusha is an inactive conscious existence,—it is the Soul the same in itself and immutable forever,—Prakriti the active force of Nature which by its motion creates and maintains and by its sinking into rest dissolves ...
... Wager of Ambrosia Chapter 6 The Tree of Cosmic Existence T he fifteenth chapter of the Gita begins with a description of the astounding tree of cosmic existence, having its roots in the infinite above and its thousand branches plunging and spreading here around. But it is not possible for us to know the true nature of this strange Ashwattha tree... downward. No words can describe this marvel. All that we might simply say is that an axe cannot hew this cosmic tree, nor can fire burn it. Does not the sun shine at a great height in heaven and yet scatter abroad in all directions the network of its rays? The way the Flood at the end of a cosmic cycle, pralaya , inundates everything, so has this tree occupied the entire creation. If you are looking... spiritual experience entirely invalid. The first few shlokas of this chapter of the Gita can very easily lend themselves to such a possible point of view or explanation of this cosmic tree of existence. The branches of this cosmic tree extend both below and above (below in the material, above in the supraphysical planes), they grow by the gunas of Nature; the sensible objects are its foliage, downward ...
... his message that 'further was not possible'. Not possible even if Grace intervenes?" The Supramental Avatars come from the Transcendent — that is, from beyond the cosmic law. So they cannot be cosmically law-bound. They obey cosmic laws for their own reasons but they are free and omni-capable. When I showed to the Mother soon after December 5, 1950 a short write-up, for the readers of Mother India... me this is a mystifying answer, just consoling rather than concrete." I think we have to look at the situation from two angles. There is the Avatar's transcendent self and there is his or her cosmically manifested or embodied self. The Avatar acts by being in touch with the Supreme Truth above and with the evolutionary conditions and needs below. In his embodied state he may not act with full knowledge... Truth: whatever is required for his action is held by him in his consciousness. At any moment his own transcendent being, which is ever-free and whose ever-freedom is essentially present also in his cosmically incarnate form, may send a command running counter to what was decided to be necessary before. As you know, the Mother said in effect: "Somewhere it has been decided whether this body is going to ...
... character." 1 But what is the basic nature of this Force whose other name is Life ? In order to unravel the mystery of life and death, we must first comprehend the sense and significance of this great Cosmic Becoming . The self-creation, ātma-kṛti, and a progressive unfoldment of a supremely transcendent and luminous Reality "with the multitudinous relativities of this world that we see and... is the nature of Being and this Conscious-Being manifested as a creative Knowledge-Will is the Real-Idea or Supermind." 3 This Supermind that is the divine Gnosis has created and arranged the cosmic order, but arranged it indirectly through three other subordinate and limiting terms, Mind, Life and Matter, which form by some sort of refraction in this lower hemisphere of existence a triple aspect... 3 Ibid . 189. 4 Ibid., p. 263. Page 397 absolute, untrammelled, inalienably possessed of its own unity and bliss." 1 But the central circumstance of the cosmic process as it is constituted now, in the involution of the triune Reality in the apparent nescience of the material universe and in its slow evolution therefrom, is the dividing and darkening faculty ...
... would have been otherwise arranged in the cosmic ordinance of things. All the secret of the circumstances of rebirth centres around the one capital need of the soul, the need of growth, the need of experience; that governs the line of its evolution and all the rest is accessory. Cosmic existence is not a vast administrative system of universal justice with a cosmic Law of recompense and retribution as its... 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... helpful to it; but to erect this human device into a general law of cosmic Nature or a law of the supreme Being or the supreme law of existence is a procedure of doubtful value. It is human, but also puerile, to impose the insufficient and narrow standards of our own Ignorance on the larger and more intricate operations of cosmic Nature or on the action of the supreme Wisdom and supreme Good which ...
... later the Mother came and, soon after Sri Aurobindo's daily walk, Dr. Manilal left. PURANI: Indra Sen wants to know if the cosmic descent could correspond to the yogic descent in any way. SRI AUROBINDO: No, the yogic descent is a process of unveiling while the cosmic descent is involutionary, a process of veiling. PURANI: Yes, I also said something like that. ...
... 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, one... supracosmic existence. For otherwise the mind would miss its highest goal and remain turned towards the cosmic only or else attached to some partial experience of the Divine in the cosmos. It lays stress next on his universal existence in which all moves and acts. For that is the justification of the cosmic effort and that is the vast spiritual self-awareness in which the Godhead self-seen as the Time-Spirit... movements. The Supreme from above cosmic existence leans, it is here said, or presses down upon his Nature to loose from it in an eternal cyclic recurrence all that it contains in it, all that was once manifest and has become latent. All existences act in the universe in subjection to this impelling movement and to the laws of manifested being by which is expressed in cosmic harmonies the phenomenon of the ...
... Omega Point, the Cosmic Christ Teilhard makes no bones about his "deepest 'pantheist' aspirations" 1 nor does he hesitate to speak of "the essential religious tendency which impels man towards some sort of 'pantheism'." 2 In the same vein he mentions "the sense of the whole, which is the life-blood at all mysticism" 3 and asks: "what in truth is the 'cosmic sense' from... Page 51 sence of life's action rather than a direct life-stuff being everywhere both constitutive and operative, the Cosmic Christ is bound to be a divine name for the profoundest significance of that "within". In correspondence with panpsychism, the Cosmic Christ must represent pantheism, even if for the direct beginning of his most outer manifestation he has to wait until his birth as... And N.M. Wildiers, a prominent Roman Catholic theologian and commentator on Teilhard, comes to grips with it. After quoting Teilhard to the effect that consciousness, in diverse modes, is a cosmic phenomenon, Wildiers 27 tells us: "That is not to say - as has been said from time to time - that Teilhard is an advocate of pan-psychism - as though one and the same consciousness were present in ...
... ready for transformation and in union with Divine Knowledge, Will and Love. Secondly, to develop the Yogic consciousness, e.g., to universalize the being in all the planes, become aware of the cosmic being and cosmic forces and be in union with the Divine in all the planes up to the overmind. Thirdly, to come into contact with the transcendent Divine beyond the overmind, through the Supramental consciousness ...
... an experience without parallel, and Aswapati feels new-made; renewed, purified, strengthened: Absolved from the ligaments of death and sleep He rode the lightning seas of cosmic Mind And crossed the ocean of original sound;... 135 He gains new insights into the heavens above and the abyss below, and he grows in the "wisdom of the timeless Child". One... 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. 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 ...
... Sonnets from Manuscripts (Circa 1934-1947) Collected Poems The Cosmic Spirit Know more > I am a single Self all Nature fills. Immeasurable, unmoved the Witness sits: He is the silence brooding on her hills, The circling motion of her cosmic mights. I have broken the limits of embodied mind And am no more the figure of a soul. The ...
... and force of the Divine—or, it may be said, she is the Divine in its consciousness-force. The Ishwara as Lord of the Cosmos does come out of the Mother who takes her place beside him as the cosmic Shakti—the cosmic Ishwara is one aspect of the Divine. The experience therefore is correct so far as it goes. 16 November 1934 ...
... one's life: the activities are "fate-hedged". But behind this process are "cosmic forces", "occult impulse", "the unknown Guardians of the world". One who gets into touch with them can bring new energies into play — either the dynamism of "an inner Light" or the Shakti of "spirit's immensities" or both together. A cosmicity other than known Nature's is drawn forth into action, a deep universal Will... the human stride" and every step of his brought nearer to accomplishment the Powers of the immense Spirit from the Overworld. Part of the means towards that accomplishment was a join-up with cosmic forces: The universal strengths were linked with his; Filling earth's smallness with their boundless breadths, He drew the energies that transmute an age. 4 Notes and References ...
... from primary energy and these five sense relations through which Matter is known is evolved what we would call in modern language the objective aspect of cosmic existence. Thirteen other principles constitute the subjective aspect of the cosmic Energy,—Buddhi or Mahat, Ahankara, Manas and its ten sense-functions, five of knowledge, five of action. Manas, mind, is the original sense which perceives... Sankhya does not explain at all or does not explain satisfactorily, but if all we need is a rational explanation of the cosmic processes in their principles as a basis for the great object common to the ancient philosophies, the liberation of the soul from the obsession of cosmic Nature, then the Sankhya explanation of the world and the Sankhya way of liberation seem as good and as effective as any... himself with the interest of the mind in the cosmic play. The ultimate result will be that Prakriti will lose her power to reflect herself in the Purusha; for the effect of the ego-sense is destroyed and the intelligent will becoming indifferent ceases to be the means of her sanction: necessarily then her gunas must fall into a state of equilibrium, the cosmic play must cease, the Purusha return to his ...
... finality which can be termed Omega. The Omega-concept is significantly connected, in however embryonic a way, not with 'the Christly' but with 'the cosmic'." All in all, Teilhardism is best seen as "the Christly" concentrated in "the cosmic" and not vice versa. Whatever endeavour Teilhard made in the opposite direction did injustice and violence to his fundamental feeling. Not that the... it is in a phenomenal process of formation: it is an eternal Prime Mover from in-front, an Omega who is also an Alpha. Now, Teilhard, basing himself on St. Paul and St. John, stresses the cosmic function of Christ. This function starts with the Incarnation which joins Christ to the material universe. It passes through his Resurrection from the dead by which he becomes the Universal Power who... is gradually rising up towards freedom and consciousness. The only satisfactory way of interpreting this process...is to regard it as irreversible and convergent. Thus, ahead of us, a universal cosmic centre is taking on definition, in which everything reaches its term, in which everything is explained, is felt, and is ordered. It is, then, in this physical pole of universal evolution that we must ...
... nothing else existent.” 15 “All action, all mental, vital, physical activities in the world are the operation of a universal Energy, a Consciousness-Force which is the power of the Cosmic Spirit working out the cosmic and individual truth in things.” Therefore “in reality all that we call undivine can only be an action of the four divine principles themselves.” Each principle is also the other principles... as it were automatically justified is a supra-intellectual knowledge, is a cosmic and not an individualized human intelligence …” 24 The mind of the human being, halfway up the ladder of evolution, is an instrument that only can grasp part of a whole, not the whole itself. The divine manifestation is a constant cosmic act of Consciousness/Force which far exceeds the ordinary capacity of the... 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 the supreme justification of the divine manifestation ...
... 'alive' under the surface. It is clear, then, that darkness, death, inconscience cannot be real, cannot be final: What stark Necessity or ordered Chance Became alive to know the cosmic whole? What magic of numbers, what mechanic dance Developed consciousness, assumed a soul? The darkness was the Omnipotent's abode, Hood of omniscience, a blind... abysses to the safe thither shore. 154 When consciousness exceeds the cribbed average mentality and scours the oceans of the Unknown, when the mind breaks through its prison-house and engages in a cosmic task, when man's courageous soul makes "an assignation with the Night" and comes to woo "her dark and dangerous heart", man then achieves a vast extension in his being and his power: ... 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 ...
... experience, was partially known in the great wisdom traditions under various names such as the Cosmic Purusha, Protanthropos, Adamas or Adam Kadmon, and the Primordial Man (“Supermind is Superman”). While in the traditions this knowledge remained limited and often deformed within the context of their cosmic vision, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother completed it in an unconditional revalidation of the Earth... Preparing for the Miraculous 1: Adam Kadmon and the Evolution The Cosmic Purusha The Mother has told several times of a very old tradition at the origin of the Vedic and the Chaldean branches of wisdom and spirituality. According to this tradition, the One, wanting to know himself, manifested as the Great Mother and thus became two. And the Great... superficial, could not at all hope to manifest. To them this symbol of the Creator’s body was more than an image, it expressed a divine reality. Human society was for them an attempt to express in life the cosmic Purusha. … Man and the cosmos are both of them symbols and expressions of the same hidden reality.” 2 Man as a microcosm contains the macrocosm within him. The structure of his person is expressed ...
... emanations of our own self, the universal or cosmic mind would deal with matter and radiation. But just as we are aware of a background of which our self appears to be a projection and our thoughts a semi-mysterious substance which we do not feel to be entirely Page 28 controlled by us as our own, so too the cosmic mind would be conscious of a secret background... is needed to render ignorance possible. That projection is the cosmic or universal mind - mentality unliaisoned with the omniscient and omnipotent Spirit. The lack of liaison does not affect the archetype with ignorance, it affects only the projection. Ignorance occurs when, though the archetype is aware of the mental cosmicity it has formulated as an instrument, the instrument becomes oblivious... sometimes forgets the many-sided whole of which it is a portion and becomes exclusively concentrated in itself. The ignorance that is ours would not be there without the cosmic mind becoming ignorant. Of course the cosmic mind is not completely ignorant, the complete ignorance takes place when a total plunge is made by the Spirit into a self-formulation at the opposite pole of its supreme ...
... 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 ...
... been 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. ... heart. Above the higher mind these two truths become one. If one realises the silent Atman above, there is no danger, but there is also no transformation, only Moksha, Nirvana. If one realises the cosmic self, dynamic and active, then one realises all as the Self, all as myself, that self as the Divine, etc. This is all true; but the danger is of the ego catching hold of the "my" in that conception... is 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 ...
... 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... with 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 ...
... rejection of the lower cosmic life. This note increases in them as they become later in date, it swells afterwards into the rejection of all cosmic life whatever and that becomes finally in later Hinduism almost the one dominant and all-challenging cry. It does not exist in the earlier Vedic revelation where individual salvation is regarded as a means towards a great cosmic victory, the eventual conquest... scrutinise them and perceive that there are first these forms of mind, life, speech and sense, all of them figures and imperfect suggestions, and then behind them the cosmic principles through which the One acts. It is to these cosmic principles that we must proceed and turn them from their ordinary aim and movement in the world to find their own supreme aim and absolute movement in their own one Godhead... mind of the people; the similar lure in popular Christianity and popular Islam has no meaning for the conscience of modern humanity. The lure of a release from birth and death and withdrawal from the cosmic labour must also be rejected, as it was rejected by Mahayanist Buddhism which held compassion and helpfulness to be greater than Nirvana. As the virtues we practise must be done without demand of earthly ...
... individual existence helplessly thrown into the arena of constant cosmic interchange of force fails to embrace freely and grow eternally by the shock and pressure of the universal Life, and instead gets disrupted and devoured at the end. In the words of Sri Aurobindo, "that which refuses to give itself, is still the food of the cosmic Powers. 'The eater eating is eaten' is the formula, pregnant and... fundamental, ineradicable impulse of Existence, once divided and individualised, yet ever secretly conscious of its all-embracing, all-possessing unity." 1 But although the spur of the cosmic Divine urges the individual on his path of ever-widening possessions, his demands for infinite and unfettered enjoyment cannot be satisfied, by the very nature of the situation, on the basis of a... realise itself as but a conscious form of the One, and instead of 'embracing all consciousness, all knowledge, all will, all force, all enjoyment and all being as one with its own', it regards all cosmic formations and movements as alien and not-self, anātma, excepting the limited mass of experiences that 'flow out from and in upon' its illusory particular self-centre. But the inescapable result ...
... seeker ultimately away from the world-existence to an absorption in the transcendent and supra-cosmic. But a larger path of devotion may extend to the elevation of the whole range of human emotion, sensation and aesthetic perception to the divine level, its spiritualization and the justification of the cosmic labour towards the love and joy of humanity. The path of works, Karma Yoga, aims at the discovery... but also a cosmic enjoyment, bhukt'i, of the power of the Spirit. Thus Tantra becomes a bolder and larger system. It is true that the Tantric system makes liberation the final, but not the only aim. It takes on its way a full perfection and enjoyment of the spiritual power, light and joy in the human existence, and even it has a glimpse of a supreme experience in which liberation and cosmic action and... phenomenal worlds from the consciousness as an illusion and the final immergence of the individual soul in the Supreme. A wider pursuit of the path of Knowledge may also lead to an active conquest of the cosmic existence for the divine, no less than to a transcendent. The path of devotion, Bhakti Yoga, aims at the enjoyment of the supreme Love and Bliss. It utilises normally the Page 53 conception ...
... stuff of divinity: omnipresent, He pervades occultly all phenomena. The many-sided vision of the Upanishads no sooner found tongue in the grand stanza about the supra-cosmic "There" than it followed up with another as grand about the cosmic "Here" of the Divine. In Sri Aurobindo's vivid, vibrant and wide-sweeping English this Sanskrit mantra runs: "The Eternal is before us and the Eternal is behind us... south 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... in the union he has realised with the Beauty of ancient days that is ever new. Can seventy-two years in one particular physical form sum up such an existence? When we have seen mysticism in its cosmic aspect as well as in its transcendental, we have still not said the last word about Sri Aurobindo. There is yet another aspect - the individual - rendering the concept of old age inapplicable to his ...
... two backgrounds to the central drama played in Savitri . There is the cosmic background, sketched already in Books II and III—'The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds' and 'The Book of the Divine Mother', and there is the human background, to be sketched now in Book IV, 'The Book of Savitri's Birth and Quest'. The wider cosmic background includes the smaller human background, for they are both centred... assumes a dull-grey look, till "a last massive deluge" clears up the mess and leaves everything in "lulled repose". It is the creative mating of the sky and the earth, the secret fashioning of the cosmic purpose. A calmness neared as of the approach of God, A light of musing trance lit soil and sky And an identity and ecstasy Filled meditation's solitary... repose, all suggestively lead to the promised miraculous Page 132 event of Savitri's conception and her birth, "three thoughtful seasons" later, in the season of spring. The cosmic and terrestrial planes meet in an intimate embrace, and out of the flux and the tension, the passion and the creative will, is born the child Savitri who shall be the redeemer, the saviour. Of the ...
... ntal vision of omega-workings. Evolution is pushing man towards a higher goal, an omega point, which can be described as collective divinity. A cosmic divine manifestation is in the making. Whitehead, who recalls the Platonic view of the cosmic process, maintains that nothing can emerge in the evolutionary process of the universe if its constituents were not already in existence. The qualities... embodies an idea from beyond the developing series of events in the universe. Whitehead suggests an eternal order and a creative reality. The cosmic series has a nisus towards the eternal order which is beyond itself, though it is increasingly realized in the cosmic. Pierre Tailhard de Chardin (1881-1955) Page 52 According to Whitehead, an actual event is the meeting point... assume new empirical qualities which are distinctive levels of experience—primary qualities, matter; and secondary qualities, life and mind. As explained in his book, Space, Time and Deity, the cosmic process has now reached the human level, and man is looking forward to the next higher quality of deity. According to him, men of religious genius are preparing mankind for this next stage of d ...
... In the Chandi the names of the four Cosmic Powers of the Mother—Maheshwari, Mahakali, Mahalakshmi, Mahasaraswati—are mentioned along with others, but the name Radha is not mentioned. This is a clear proof of the fact that when the Chandi was composed the Radha-Power was not manifested to the vision of the saints and that the Chandi mentions only the Cosmic Powers of the Mother and not her supramental ...
... 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... g and all-possessing infinity. Spurred by the 'lust of the embodied Self within every individual creature', the separative individual seeks to establish its empire of enjoyment over the whole of cosmic existence. But its means are wrong, the approach is crooked and the ego has lost its way in a blind alley. It looks upon the world as a means to sate awhile its lusts and desires and seeks ... a ś an ā y ā m ṛ tyu ḥ , the individual existence has to annul its ego-isolation and rediscover and re-live its secret unity with all. But uniformity or an amorphous oneness is not the law of cosmic becoming; universal life exists by diversity and "insists that... every being shall be, even while one with all the rest in its universality, yet by some principle or ordered detail of variation ...
... physical world?" (Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine p.86) Sleep is in its widest and intrinsic sense a cosmic phenomenon, evolutionary in character. And man's psycho-spiritual sleep to which we have alluded in the foregoing chapter is but a phase of this great cosmic event. Indeed, a close but detached scrutiny of the terrestrial becoming shows unmistakably that this becoming represents... instrumental elaboration, can reveal. For more, and indeed for the basic mystic rationale Page 179 of the whole phenomenon, we have to turn to the occult-spiritual view of the great cosmic becoming whose other name is Evolution. The Occult-Spiritual Account of the Involutionary Sleep A progressive rarefaction of the sleep of consciousness, a gradual unclosing... the pyramidal base of apparently inanimate and viewless Matter. The last to come upon the scene has been Man, sole awake in an unconscious world 1 who Aspires...to change the cosmic dream. 2 We have advisedly employed the word 'apparently' in order to denote the lifeless and inconscient state of Matter. For, contradicting our primary and superficial view of things, ...
... Silence is All Know more > Silence is All - I Silence is all, say the sages. Silence watches the work of the ages; In the book of Silence the cosmic Scribe has written his cosmic pages: Silence is all, say the sages. Silence is All - II What then of the word, O speaker? What then of the thought, O thinker? Thought is the wine of the soul and the word ...
... 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... beginning to 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 ...
... l evolution from a cosmic Inconscience, the cycle is not diurnal but aeonic. The Indian cosmogonic theory speaks of a repeated emergence of the universe from the Unmanifest and a repeated disappearance into it: there comes a pralaya, a dissolution, after which once more a manifesting process starts. Sri Aurobindo shows us a new cosmic relapse into Inconscience and a new cosmic emergence: the effort... effort and the pang of evolution are resumed, a revival in another frustrate world occurs, an old disillusioning cosmic history is forgotten and a compulsion is felt to renew consent to grow conscious. An aeonic vision, directly expressed, of destruction and creation on a cosmic scale is before us in Savitri's opening account." We should reply: "The Indian cosmogonic theory of pralaya does... the cosmos into the First Cause, the Divine. An Inconscience, symbolised by Night, is all that is there. We may, of course, think of a recurrent relapse into a primeval Inconscience, from which a new cosmic history takes its start time and again. But we cannot bring such a relapse into tune with the Indian cosmogonic theory. What is more important, we do not even come across this kind of relapse in Sri ...
... evolution from a cosmic Inconscience, the cycle is not diurnal but aeonic. The Indian cosmogonic theory speaks of a repeated emergence of the universe from the Unmanifest and a repeated disappearance into it: there comes a pralaya, a dissolution, after which once more a manifesting process starts. Sri Aurobindo shows us a new cosmic relapse into Inconscience and a new cosmic emergence: the effort... effort and the pang of evolution are resumed, a revival in another frustrate world occurs, an old disillusioning cosmic history is forgotten and a compulsion is felt to renew consent to grow conscious. An aeonic vision, directly expressed, of destruction and creation on a cosmic scale is before us in Savitri's opening account." We should reply: "The Indian cosmogonic theory of pralaya does... the cosmos into the First Cause, the Divine. An Inconscience, symbolised by Night, is all that is there. We may, of course, think of a recurrent relapse into a primeval Inconscience, from which a new cosmic history takes its start time and again. But we cannot bring such a relapse into tune with the Indian cosmogonic theory. What is more important, we do not even come across this kind of relapse in Sri ...
... 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 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 ...
... personal 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... the Divine—a union either transcendental (above the universe) or cosmic (universal) or individual or, as in our Yoga, all three together. Or 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... prepared with a minor action on other parts of the body. It is a matter of time and perseverance for the way to be entirely open. The experience you feel is that of the Atman, the cosmic Self supporting the cosmic consciousness—not yet clear but in its first impression. When the consciousness goes down from that condition, it brings something of it into the vital and physical consciousness and the ...
... the demands made by the tenth sign of the Zodiac, Capricorn. She shares in the great cosmic movements, especially mentioned in this tenth part of the Canto: "Her dread was one with the great cosmic dread, Her strength was founded on the cosmic mights" Page 402 278-9; "Her life shared the cosmic load" 305. But, especially, Capricorn is called the sign of the universal Mother, who... penetrate into the qualities and structures of larger units, the Cantos. They have a personality, a distinctive power, a soul of their own, with which we want to come in contact, in order to meet the Cosmic and the Transcendent in our own depths. The Cantos are like sub-gurus guiding us Mantra by Mantra towards high integration. We pray to the Master and the Mother for insight growing towards... basis of which the three transformations are to take place. The concepts are vague, undefined, in the grip of the dark night from which they are bom, in which they are sown. The dialects of the Cosmic Language are many. Numbers speak of the underlying order, stars and planets reflect the larger harmonies, inspired books like Savitri express the Universal and are our grammar books for the Language ...
... earth necessarily limit him? Living in such a world he has to govern all the three universes? It is the omnipresent cosmic Divine who supports the action of the universe; if there is an Incarnation, it does not in the least diminish the cosmic presence and the cosmic action in the three or thirty million universes. When the Avatar comes down here how does he take on a mind, vital and... outer personality for his manifestation? Page 74 That would be a possession not an Avatar. An Avatar is supposed to be from birth. Each soul at its birth takes from the cosmic mind, life and matter to shape a new external personality for himself. What prevents the Divine doing the same? What is continued from birth to birth is the inner being. You wrote: "The Avatar... behind is divine. When the Divine descends here (as the Avatar), he has to veil himself and deal with the world and its movements like an Page 75 ordinary man of the cosmic product [Sri Aurobindo's marginal remark: "Exactly"]. But behind he is perfectly conscious of what happens. The universal forces cannot make him their tool as they make us. That does not ...
... 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 but as a field of manifestation, and this sense of the delight... finally abolished; a wide cosmic perception and feeling of a boundless universal self and movement replaces it: many motions that were formerly egocentric may still continue, but they occur as currents or ripples in the cosmic wideness. Thought, for the most part, no longer seems to originate individually in the body or the person but manifests from above or comes in upon the cosmic mind-waves: all inner... work upon a cosmic formula whose basis is the entire nescience which results from the separation of Mind, Life and Matter from their own source and supreme origin. Overmind can bridge that division up to the point at which separative Mind enters into Overmind and becomes a part of its action; it can unite individual mind with cosmic mind on its highest plane, equate individual self with cosmic self and ...
... timeless, immobile and immutable Self; we take Page 55 the constant mobility and 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... assumed in Nature by the secret spirit. It is not that all cosmic manifestation would otherwise become impossible; but it would be a quite different manifestation from the one in which we live; ... Not to return as speedily as may be to heavens where perfect light and joy are eternal or to the supracosmic bliss is the object of this cosmic cycle, nor merely to repeat a purposeless round in a long ... glory with cosmic existence of the gods, pursued behind the symbols of the material universe into those superior planes which are hidden from the physical sense of the material mentality. The crown of this synthesis is to be found in the experience of the Vedic Rishis, which was transcendental and blissful in whose unity the increasing soul of man and the eternal divine fullness of the cosmic godheads ...
... break out of the walls of ego. The ego must either disappear in impersonality or fuse into a larger I: it must fuse into the wider cosmic "I" which comprehends all these smaller selves or the transcendent of which even the cosmic self is a diminished image. But this cosmic self is spiritual in essence and in experience; it must not be confused with the collective existence, with any group soul or the... on in him the largest possible cosmic wideness. Obeying the necessity to withdraw successively from the practical egoism of our triple nature and its fundamental ego-sense, we come to the realisation of the spirit, the self, lord of this individual human manifestation, but our knowledge is not integral if we do not make this self in the individual one with the cosmic spirit and find their greater reality... Synthesis of Yoga Chapter IX The Release from the Ego The formation of a mental and vital ego tied to the body-sense was the first great labour of the cosmic Life in its progressive evolution; for this was the means it found for creating out of matter a conscious individual. The dissolution of this limiting ego is the one condition, the necessary means ...
... superconscient. For actually we see that the Many objectivised in form in our material universe start Page 44 with a subconscious unity which expresses itself openly enough in cosmic action and cosmic substance, but of which they are not themselves superficially aware. In the conscient the ego becomes the superficial point at which the awareness of unity can emerge; but it applies its ... that which transcends alike the universe and the individual. It is to this Transcendence that we give currently the name of God, who thus becomes to our conceptions not so much supracosmic as extra-cosmic. The belittling and degradation of both the individual and the universe is a natural consequence of this division: the cessation of both cosmos and individual by the attainment of the Transcendence... the 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 ...
... imprisoned in an individual action. It exists and acts as a separate life with a limited insufficient capacity undergoing and not freely embracing the shock and pressure of all the cosmic life around it. Thrown into the constant cosmic interchange of Force in the universe as a poor, limited, individual existence, Life at first helplessly suffers and obeys the giant interplay with only a mechanical reaction... individualising operation of the all-comprehending and all-apprehending Supermind, the process by which its consciousness works individualised in each form from the standpoint proper to it and with the cosmic relations which proceed from that standpoint, so Life is the final operation by which the Force of Conscious-Being acting through the all-possessing and all-creative Will of the universal Supermind... was, we have seen, the self-limitation of the individual soul bound to self-ignorance because it regards itself by an exclusive concentration as a separate self-existent individuality and regards all cosmic action only as it presents itself to its own individual consciousness, knowledge, will, force, enjoyment and limited being instead of seeing itself as a conscious form of the One and embracing all ...
... the upholding."² The secret of the interchange between man and the cosmic powers, which are called Devas 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... 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 Parashara explains:... wholly misunderstood by those who ascribe to them only outer physical significance. Each of these Gods is in himself a complete and separate cosmic personality of the One existence, and in their combination of powers they form the complete universal power, the cosmic whole. Each again, apart from his special function, is the one godhead with the others; each holds in himself the universal divinity. Each ...
... and anna: it exhibits a ceaseless search for its 'aliments' (anna) and thus plays the role of an insatiable 'devourer' (annāda), but at the same time it is constrained by the great Law of Cosmic Exchange (viśva-yajña) to offer itself willy-nilly as 'aliments' for others. But, in real truth, there is only one and unique anna in the world, also a unique annāda who is One-... and whatever be the nature of the 'food', for the world itself has come into existence because of Brahman's seeking after 'food', annakāmena brahman ā . 2 But the great Initiator of the Cosmic Becoming, the Mother Mahashakti, is not merely licking all the regions around with her million tongues of flame, sahasrajihv ā ; it is She Herself again who has become the universal food, an... which is in its inmost character a great process of Devouring and Assimilation, adana. And since phenomenal Nature has been brought forth by the Absolute Spirit from His Self-Being as a great cosmic Movement "to provide a habitation for the Spirit, who, being One, yet dwells multitudinously 4 in the multiplicity of His mansions" 5 and since the object of habitation is to possess and enjoy ...
... final reading of the cosmic riddle. As for Hawking's concessive formula - "God is the embodiment of physical laws" - it seems to be a variation of Einstein's "religious" outlook: God is the intelligence embodied in the cosmic order. Here too God is impersonal, but this intelligence which renders the universe comprehensible to our minds evoked in Einstein what he termed "the cosmic religious emotion"... (Existence-Consciousness-Bliss) its own creation. The planes that are not overhead can also be designated each "a boundless finite" in terms of the Cosmic Ignorance as contrasted with each member of the overhead series which is so in terms of the Cosmic Knowledge - "Knowledge" being defined as the inherent experience, the natural pervading realisation, of the One Self everywhere. The extended meaning... brief all the "overhead" planes - Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuition - up to Overmind he begins the description of the Overmind: Then stretches the boundless finite's last expanse, The cosmic empire of the Overmind, Time's buffer state bordering Eternity... (Centenary Ed., 660: 23-25) The overhead planes, including Overmind, are boundless Page 170 because ...
... of the spaceless, timeless, immobile and immutable Self; we take the constant mobility and 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... limited, not an integral power of itself, but a first conceptive potentiality and promise of integral emergence is visible. That integral emergence is the goal of evolving Nature." 2 Thus the cosmic sleep and the somnambulist dream-state have by no means terminated with man and his mind-consiousness . As a matter of fact, man's present condition is at best a state of half-sleep and half-waking... with 'inconstant blink of mortal sight.' For, spiritually, sleep denotes a poise of consciousness in which we are ignorant of the fundamental truths of existence — existence whether individual, cosmic or transcendent — and of the Reality that is at the basis of all things; while the dream state signifies that particular status in which we may be aware of this "reality" but only in a distorted ...
... tonic and inevitable." 110 They are the infallible seers, who are also the Page 111 revealers through inspired utterance of the cosmic truths that they have seen: A single law simplessed the cosmic theme, Compressing Nature into a formula; Their titan labour made all knowledge one, A mental algebra of the Spirit's ways, ... thinking's roads". This world may almost be called a "world-kindergarten of young souls", where the alphabet of the higher knowledge is laboriously learnt and the first theorems of the geometry of the cosmic body are mastered. Not Heaven, not quite earth, this is a transitionary rest-place, inhabited by powers and presences who maintain a fruitful commerce with the human world. Thanks to them, the ... bold generalisation; they can reduce to an algebraic formula or an equation in Tensor Calculus the mysterious and manifold workings in four-dimensional Space-Time; and they can psycho-analyse the Cosmic-self itself! These are the symbol Einsteins, Plancks, Rutherfords and Freuds who draw Necessity's logarithmic tables and derive "the calculus of Destiny". Their massive insight— and their monumental ...
... perfect 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... around him but not drowned in it and separately inexistent and ineffective. For the individual is indeed part of the cosmic being, but he is also something more, he is a soul that has descended from the Transcendence. This he cannot manifest at once, because he is too near to the cosmic Inconscience, not near enough to the original Superconscience; he has to find himself as the mental and vital ego before... 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 cosmic, the egoistic, the original ignorance begin to lose the rigidness of their hold upon him. In ...
... intimately together, for a common purpose in a united functioning. There is an aim, a goal to which' humanity moves in obedience to a cosmic purpose, in accordance with a cosmic law. The principle of evolution has given an expression of formula to this cosmic law and purpose, although it is more or less an outward expression and in reference to an outward phenomenon. The different limbs... unity will be possible as a parallel eventuality to the same process of individual discipline. Humanity is evolving and developing the various groupings to manifest fundamental aspects of its cosmic person. Ancient Egypt, for example, brought us in contact with an occult world and a subliminal consciousness. We know also of the nature of the Hebraic genius, the moral fervour, the serious, almost... s – even as the body is not merely composed of cells, but also these cells are collected in aggregates forming various limbs and systems, each again with its own identity and function. Indeed, the cosmic or global humanity is very likely to be pyramidal in structure-not a flat and level construction. There will be an overall harmony and integration containing a rich variety of gradations – gradations ...
... supraphysical and do not cabin ourselves 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... self-awareness and confined to an exclusive concentration in a single field or upon a concealing surface of cosmic movement, what, in this view, are we to make of the problem which most poignantly preoccupies the mind of man when it is turned on the mystery of his own existence and of cosmic existence, the problem of evil? A limited knowledge supported by a secret All-Wisdom as an instrument for working... must be immediately perceivable by the manifesting Consciousness on the very threshold of manifestation, can take rank as implied absolutes and are inseparable from all cosmic existence. But it must first be noted that it is only in cosmic manifestation that they become possible; they cannot pre-exist in the timeless being, for they are incompatible with the unity and bliss that are its substance. In cosmos ...
... every step it is evidently dependent on the cosmic Power that created it, moved by it, a part of its cosmic being and action; this effort of the ego is clearly a misprision, an erroneous reflection of the truth of the self-existence that is within us. It is true that there is something in us, not in the ego but in the self and inmost being, that surpasses cosmic Nature and belongs to the Transcendence... and all Nature and, taken together as a single whole, they reconcile the apparent disparateness and incompatibility of the supracosmic Transcendence, the cosmic universality and the separativeness of our individual existence; the Absolute, cosmic Nature and ourselves are linked in oneness by this triune aspect of the one Reality. For taken by itself the existence of the Absolute, the Supreme Brahman... the same consciousness-force for ever. It is at once transcendental, universal and individual; it is the supreme supracosmic Being that is aware of itself as All Being, as the Cosmic Self, as the Consciousness-force of cosmic Nature, and at the same time experiences itself as the individual being and consciousness in all existences. The individual consciousness can see itself as limited and separate ...
... time the divine Transcendence is not a negation, nor is it an Absolute empty of all relation to the universe. It is a supreme positive, it is an absolute of all absolutes. All cosmic relations derive from this Supreme; all cosmic existences return to it and find in it alone their true and immeasurable existence. "For I am altogether and in every way the origin of the gods and the great Rishis." The gods... combinations of form and energy, action and movement exist for a quite limited relation and mutual experience in the cosmic oneness. And in this lower, outward and apparent order of things Nature as an expressive power of the Godhead is disfigured by the perversions of an obscure cosmic Ignorance and her divine significances lost in the materialised, Page 348 separative and egoistic mechanism... presence of the divine Master of the universe, etāṁ vibhūtiṁ mama yo vetti . He is aware of his spirit's transcendence of the cosmic order, but he is aware also of his oneness with it by the divine Yoga, yogaṁ ca mama . And he sees each aspect of the transcendent, the cosmic and the individual existence in its right relation to the supreme Truth and puts all in their right place in the unity of the ...
... concentrating centuries of development, here is an oecumenical poem, the inner epic of Man, its "harmonic order of the self s vastitudes," "the structured visions of the cosmic Self." This many-levelled order and exploration of the cosmic Self is the poem's own milieu, and its free gift to all who are able or willing to claim it. Like his own Aswapati, the poet is our Representative Man. Sometimes "one... to the fullest possible artistic limits, the yearning and battles of mankind for eternal life. I venture the judgement that Savitri is the most comprehensive cosmic poem ever composed. It ranges symbolically from a primordial cosmic void, through earth's darkness ad struggle, to the highest realm of spiritual existence, and illumines every important concern of man, through verse of unparalleled... free, Halo-moon of 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 ...
... 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 a God [1] 665 The Death of a God ...
... The Adventure of the Apocalypse Wondrous waking If the whole cosmic utterance suddenly ceased, The ocean's roar died down nor even came The vague and wavering whisper of thin leaves, The deepest slumber would be struck awake By that immeasurable surprise of hush! So too the gloom of ignorant mortal mind, That ever-present sleep... multitudinous lure Of transient things wafts never more its call And the heart is left with fathomless secrecies. Time washed in vast white waters of inwardness Throbs through still space a cosmic chastity— The universe moves divine with no desire, Impelled by a truth in love with its own light, Following no need but only a rapturous will Flamed by God's vision of His myriad ...
... The Secret Splendour If the whole cosmic utterance suddenly ceased, The ocean's roar died down not even came The vague and wavering whisper of thin leaves, The deepest slumber would be struck, awake By that immeasurable surprise of hush! So too the gloom of ignorant nortal mind, That ever-present sleep with open eyes, Breaks... s lure Of transient things wafts never more its call And the heart is left with fathomless secrecies. Time washed in vast white waters of inwardness Throbs through still space a cosmic chastity— The universe moves divine with no desire, Impelled by a truth in love with its own light. Following no need but only a rapturous will Flamed by God's vision of His myriad ...
... It is as though Aswapati has passed the last camp and has finally touched Everest: At last there came a bare indifferent sky Where Silence listened to the cosmic Voice,... He stood on a wide arc of summit Space Alone with an enormous Self of Mind. 123 There are evidently no more heights to conquer, no more worlds to traverse;... The great perturbed inquirer lost his task; Nothing was asked nor wanted any more. There he could stay, the Self, the Silence won: His soul had peace, it knew the cosmic Whole. 124 This, however, is no more than a temporary swoon in nirvana; "suddenly a luminous finger" falls on the great variety of terrestrial things, the earth-consciousness returns ...
... sincerely till there comes the full success. So long as there is complete sincerity, the Divine Grace will be there and assist at every moment on the way. 1 July 1933 There are two cosmic Forces—one the higher Cosmic Shakti which is a form of the Mother, the other a Power of the Ignorance. You have not to open to the latter, only to the Mother. 25 October 1933 I told you that when I make some... the Mother cannot or will not move the hostile forces to action, since even the Asura and Rakshasa and Pisacha are her children? As for the Asuric forces, their movement is part of the ordinary cosmic movement in the Ignorance, but Mother is not here to encourage that movement, but to bring down the higher Truth in which they have no place. If then she moves the hostile Forces to act against her ...
... result seems to have been not less calamitous. When we form and fashion each other, we are not building with anything more substantial than sand. Personalities are thus mere eddies in the swirl of cosmic life, they rise up and die down, separate and melt into each other and have no consistency and no reality in the end. The freedom too which is ascribed to such individuals, even when they feel it so... but becoming, the entity that has come out, stood out in its will and consciousness, articulated itself in name and form and act. But the person that stands out as part and parcel of Prakriti, the cosmic movement, is, as we have said, only an instrument, a mode of that universal Nature. The true person that informs that apparent formulation is something else. . To be a person, it is said, one... Divine in oneself that one is in a position to attain one's true selfhood and find oneself in other selves. And the re-creation of a crowd into such Page 349 divine individuals is a cosmic work in which the individual is at best a collaborator, not the master and dispenser. Anyway, one has to come out of the human relationship, rise above the give-and-take of human individuals – however ...
... divest himself of all the outer growths that cover and bury his soul: with the clear unmixed vision of his pure soul he has to look straight into the face of the Divine Transcendent, shredded too of its cosmic vesture, and rise from the station of ignorance, this level ground. of clay to which it is pinned, and soar and fly and merge into the pure reality of the pure Spirit. Therefore it is said, naked we... isolated entity; the nature of the spiritual consciousness is first transcendence, no doubt, transcendence of the merely temporal and ephemeral, but it is also universalisation, that is to say, the cosmic realisation that has its classic expression in the famous mantra of the Gita, he who sees himself in other selves and other selves in his own self. In that status "own" and "other" are not distinct... represents the freedom, the movement in height of the soul; but there is also the other, the horizontal movement leading to expansiveness and comprehension. One is transcendental, the other global or cosmic. First we have to reject, reject the false formations one by one (sheath by sheath, as it is described in the Upanishads) and arrive at the purest core of truth and reality; but again we have to come ...
... come. And 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... his 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 ...
... though it may succeed in some cases, it is not even in the mental and vital a safe or certain method. Exhaustion, of course is impossible; the things that create the difficulties are cosmic forces, forces of the cosmic Ignorance, and cannot be exhausted. People talk of their getting exhausted because after a time they lose strength and dwindle, but that is only by force of the constant rejection by ...
... 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 cosmic Self and Spirit, our nature a play of the cosmic Nature; the wall between ourselves and the Page 330 universe... than the cosmic being, a transcendent Being or Existence which is not dependent on ours or the existence of the universe. Our existence is a manifestation of and in that Being, the cosmos also is a manifestation of and in that one Supreme Existence. This then is the Truth or Reality to which we arrive by Yoga, a one and supreme Being or Existence and Power of Being which manifests as a cosmic Self or... meets us or a Divine Master or a World Father or World Mother or an almighty Lord of all or a Divine Lover. We are in the presence of a Cosmic Spirit in whose universal consciousness we lose our separate ego or a Supracosmic Absolute in whom we lose altogether our cosmic as well as our individual existence. We find our own highest Self or the Self of all or we pass into a sublime Page 331 Mystery ...
... limited human view. But have we not to realise that our human view is limited because we are living in a certain sort of universe and are evolving portions of a particular kind of cosmic movement? If the universe, the cosmic movement, is such that a limited human view must inevitably occur in it, surely Nature is ² . Ibid., p. 555. Page 100 working under... purpose; it is then a present but not an ultimate Totality. To it we could apply the Greek saying Theos ouk estin alla gigentai, the Divine is not yet in being, but is becoming."³ Thus the cosmic movement, not possessed of the Divine, proves to be capable of real waste. And to reconcile this aspect with the one noted earlier we must say in extenuation: "The amount of real waste is the ... he also continues: "Still our sense of them is part of a true sense, our values of them are necessary to their complete values." 6 Sri Aurobindo affirms the undivine as an ingredient of cosmic existence. Although he does not specifically name waste in this connection, waste is undoubtedly one of the aspects of the undivine, it is a result of "error" and "incapacity" which Sri Aurobindo ...
... justified if the Self as individual is no less real than the Self as Cosmic Being or Spirit and if both are powers of the Eternal Transcendent. It is only so that can be explained the necessity for the growth of the individual and his discovery of Page 146 himself as a condition for the discovery of the Cosmic Self and Consciousness and of the supreme Reality. Thus the world is... Speculations have been galore and various theories and hypotheses have been advanced to no universal acceptance and satisfaction. After all, the solution depends upon the nature, origin and object of the cosmic movement, and as we determine this, so we shall have to conclude about birth and life and death, the before and the hereafter. The first question we have to answer is whether the before and... phenomena begin, by which they live and into which they cease at some time or other. Of course, these theories differ as regards the nature of this primal Unity. One theory asserts that there is a cosmic Inconscient which creates a temporary soul and consciousness which after a brief play are extinguished and go back into the original Inconscient without leaving any trace behind. The second ...
... Divine Consciousness and Being manifesting through a physical body. It is possible from any plane. It is the omnipresent cosmic Divine who supports the action of the universe; if there is an Incarnation, it does not in the least diminish the cosmic Presence and the cosmic action in the three or thirty million universes. The descending Power chooses its own place, body, time for the manifestation;... relations between the cosmic consciousness and the individual and collective consciousness of man. From the point of view of spiritual and occult Truth, what takes shape in the consciousness of man is a reflection and particular kind of formation, in a difficult medium, of things much greater in their light, power and beauty or in their force and range which come to it from the cosmic consciousness of which... 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 at work and does not see what works upon it and shapes it, to think that all is created by him and there is nothing cosmic and greater behind it. The Krishna ...
... touches it, is in constant relation and commerce with it. The subliminal mind in us is open to the universal knowledge of the cosmic Mind, the subliminal life in us to the universal force of the cosmic Life, the subliminal physicality in us to the universal force-formation of cosmic Matter; the thick walls which divide from these things our surface mind, life, body and which Nature has to pierce with so... communication. So too is the subliminal soul in us open to the universal delight which the cosmic soul takes in its own existence and in the existence of the myriad souls that represent it and in the operations of mind, life and matter by which Nature lends herself to their play and development; but from this cosmic delight the surface soul is shut off by egoistic walls of great thickness which have indeed... in us is this principle of Delight? through what term of our being does it manifest and fulfil itself in the action of the cosmos as the principle of Conscious-Force manifests and uses Life for its cosmic term and the principle of Supermind manifests and uses Mind? We have distinguished a fourfold principle of divine Being creative of the universe,—Existence, Conscious-Force, Bliss and Supermind. Supermind ...
... s and fuse these two sides of knowledge and spiritual experience into a single and perfect way to the supreme perfection. First there comes a description of cosmic existence in the Vedantic image of the aswattha tree. This tree of cosmic existence has no beginning and no end, nānto na cādiḥ , in space or in time; for it is eternal and imperishable, avyaya . The real form of it cannot be... in the world and extended in the Veda, in self-knowledge and in cosmic experience. And whoever thus knows and sees him as the Purushottama, is no longer bewildered whether by the world-appearance or by the separate attraction of these two apparent contraries. These at first confront each other here in him as a positive of the cosmic action and as its negative in the Self who has no part in an action... Nature. The inherent Power in her is yet other than what it thus seems to be; for, hidden in its truth, manifest in its appearances, it is the Kshara, the universal Soul, the spirit in the mutability of cosmic phenomenon and becoming, one with the Immutable and the Supreme. We have to arrive at the hidden truth behind its manifest appearances; we have to discover the Spirit behind these veils and to see ...
... realities of Mind, Life and Matter: The subliminal mind in us is open to the universal knowledge of the cosmic Mind, the subliminal life in us to the universal force of the cosmic Life, the Page 423 subliminal physicality in us to the universal force-formation of cosmic Matter... 19 There are, then, the two hemispheres, the parārdha of Sachchidananda and the aparārdha... scenes fan out creepers of communication between the prison-house of egoistic individuality and the infinite freedom of cosmic universality. Nevertheless, for all practical purposes, the two hemispheres are distinct and apparently not easily bridgeable. In what amounts to this cosmic stalemate, Sri Aurobindo posits 'Supermind' as the link principle which is also a power of total transformation. ... creepers towards the Supermind, and so allies itself more and more with the cosmic Intelligence. But how about the other two terms, Life and Matter? At the deeper subliminal level, of course. Life and Matter too Page 424 break through the bars of their isolationist cages and send out their tentacles of cosmic kinship. A little reflection and a close look at the latest discoveries of ...
... cause, no right to live." It being the realm of perfect harmony there could be no conflict between thought and thought, truth and truth, and right and right. The vast cosmic labour goes Page 235 on in perfect calm of the cosmic nature and the all-sustaining and all-causing Witness looks at it from its eternal altitudes and shoreless self. In reality, this power has a mind too vast to be bound... feels not its inhabiting Self", i.e., he found matter which constitutes this cosmic manifestation rejecting the spirit. Second, he found "A spirit ignorant of the world it made". The world is searching to know its why and wherefore and the Self is struggling to emerge, to know and to rule. But the whole course of this cosmic manifestation which seems irrational appeared to be governed by three powers... identify himself with that Nameless. It was something which thought could not grasp, and will could not touch. All the instruments of his nature Which "Nescience builds collapsing failed." Even the cosmic Self fainted in this vastness and it was such that "The separate self must melt or be reborn Into a Truth beyond the mind's appeal." All names and forms completely disappeared ...
... the Divine Consciousness 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... experience in which we discover that the Inconscience from which all starts is apparent only, for in it there is an involved Consciousness with endless possibilities, a consciousness not limited but cosmic and infinite, a concealed and self-imprisoned Divine, imprisoned in Matter but with every potentiality held in its secret depths. Out of this Page 254 apparent Inconscience each potentiality... putting the question and answering it ought to be eliminated from the first,—the human way and its ethical revolt and reprobation, its emotional outcry. For it is not, as some religions suppose, a supra-cosmic, arbitrary, personal Deity himself altogether uninvolved in the fall who has imposed evil and suffering on creatures made capriciously by his fiat. The Divine we know is an Infinite Being in whose ...
... conscious being, among which the really divine world is what Sri Aurobindo has called the Supermind, the world of the Truth. Rut in between is what he has distinguished as the Overmind, the world of the cosmic Gods. Now it is this Overmind that has up to the present governed our world; it is the highest that man has been able to attain in illumined consciousness. It has been taken for the Supreme Divine... of history. And the reason why the true Divine has not manifested Page 120 and transformed the earth-nature is precisely that the Overmind has been mistaken for the Supermind. The cosmic Gods do not wholly live in the Truth-Consciousness: they are only in touch with it and represent, each of them, an aspect of its glories. No doubt, the Supermind has also acted in the history ...
... hard shutting in and shutting out, they become pervaded by a single reality, a single consciousness, a single bliss. That is the nature of the balanced mystical experience, whether cosmic or transcendental. The cosmic experience, enfolding a universe whose parts have jagged edges looking imperfect and ugly, bears a vision in which the jagged edges of the different parts fit into one another and... spectacle to understand its appearances. But to know what is inside those appearances we must go inside the consciousness in us that catches their challenge. The mind must turn inward its sense of the cosmic beauty. The usual subjective tensions of poetry do not go far enough. Their "soul-searchings" no more than hover on the verge of the true abyss that must be plumbed. Not on the peripheries or the mid-ways... fitting together of parts that have themselves flawlessly beautiful contours: this is the universe of archetypes, of ideal forms which our jagged universe is meant progressively to manifest. Both in the cosmic vision Page 90 and the transcendental, there is no compulsive loss of distinctions and so no inability to use language with its lights and shadows of a world where distinctions ...
... Unity was perhaps and will be perhaps, but it is not now and cannot be so long as cosmos and the individual endure. The cosmic being can only know and possess Page 104 the transcendent unity by ceasing to be cosmic; the individual can only know and possess the cosmic or the transcendent unity by ceasing from all individuality and individualisation. Or if unity is the one eternal fact... powers are not possessed by the form, but yet work in its mute subconscience." (Ibid. p.550) The journey of the evolution that we witness in the world begins from this cosmic abysmal sleep or consciousness, from the cosmic Inconscience; that inconscience, because it is involved consciousness, evolves in gradual developing forms which are capable of manifesting higher and higher degrees of con... His transcendence, unified with Him, and enjoy at the same time the Divine in other individuals and in His cosmic being. Evidently we have arrived at certain primary relations of the Absolute and they can only be intelligible to the mind if we see that the Transcendent, the individual, the cosmic being are the eternal powers of consciousness, — we fall again, this time without remedy, into a wholly abstract ...
... and opening into the cosmic (cosmic Mind, cosmic vital, cosmic physical, something perhaps of the cosmic higher Mind) without having yet transcended the human mind levels. One is not in possession of or direct contact with the divine Truth on its own levels , but one can receive something from them, even from the Overmind, indirectly. Only, as one is still immersed in the cosmic Ignorance, all that... permanent Emanations of the Divine put forth from the Supreme by the Transcendent Mother, the Adyā Shakti; in their cosmic action they are Powers and Personalities of the Divine each with his independent cosmic standing, function and work in the universe. They are not impersonal entities but cosmic Personalities, although they can and do ordinarily veil themselves behind the movement of impersonal forces.... beside him as the cosmic Shakti—the cosmic Ishwara is one aspect of the Divine. The experience therefore is correct so far as it goes. 16 November 1934 In The Mother you write: "There are three ways of being of the Mother of which you can become aware when you enter into touch of oneness with the Conscious Force that upholds us and the universe" [ p. 28 ]. Is it the Cosmic Spirit that is meant ...
... Immortal in our mortal poverty. This sculptor of the forms of the Infinite, This screened unrecognised Inhabitant, Initiate of his own veiled mysteries, Hides in a small dumb seed his cosmic thought. In the mute strength of the occult Idea Determining predestined shape and act, Passenger from life to life, from scale to scale, Changing his imaged self from form to form... her mightiest energies' springs; He spoke with the unknown Guardians of the worlds. Forms he descried our mortal eyes see not. His wide eyes bodied viewless entities, He saw the cosmic forces at their work And felt the occult impulse behind man's will. Time's secrets were to him an oft-read book; The records of the future and the past Outlined their excerpts on... purpose in the stars? Escape brings not the victory and the crown! Something thou cam'st to do from the Unknown, But nothing is finished and the world goes on Because only half God's cosmic work is done. Only the everlasting No has neared And stared into thy eyes and killed thy heart: But where is the Lover's everlasting Yes, And immortality in the secret heart, ...
... Teilhard's vision, just the stepping-stone to the Cosmic Christ whom he saw taking shape from the Resurrection of Jesus - a stepping-stone he 20.Ibid., p. 368. 21.Ibid., p. 369. 22.Ibid. Page 142 practically ignored in his worship once he had arrived at that universal divinity. Further, as the Cosmic Christ is but the Principle of Evolution apotheosised... Element, the centre of the universe and present in each part of it: personal love and Cosmic Power.'" The pantheist temperament which provides the theme of the opening of How I Believe is frankly acknowledged by Teilhard more than once in the course of the same essay. Thus, he 18 mentions "the cosmic sense from which germinates the whole organism of my faith". Again we read: "I tried... evolution are all in all to Teilhard and apart from them Christianity must fail and even "the most magnificent cosmic attributes lavished by St. Paul on the risen Christ" 15 be inexplicable and unconvincing: "Christianity takes on its full value when extended (as I find it rewarding to do) to cosmic dimensions." 16 The only nexus with orthodoxy lies in the latter's ascribing to Christ "the function of ...
... states of cosmic and transcendental consciousness. It manifests and stabilises states and powers which are obtained through the processes and methods of karma yoga, jn ā na yoga and bhakti yoga. Various cosmic forces working in different levels of manifested world come to be contacted and known; multiplicities of gods and goddesses, — cosmic in character and fixed in various layers of cosmic mani... and enables it to discover that there is in this world a law of interchange, — a law of the action" of cosmic forces, which are interrelated through their mutual Page 28 change and the law of interchange between those cosmic forces and the individuals who are all involved in the cosmic work of energies, which have themselves two levels of operations, the level of Apara Prakriti, where action... the Yoga of Knowledge, for immergence, for escape from cosmic existence, for release into the absolute and ineffable Parabrahman who is beyond all cosmic being. The seeker of this ultimate release may take other realisations on his way, may realise the Lord of the universe, the Purusha who manifests Himself in all creatures, may arrive at the cosmic consciousness, may know and feel his unity with all ...
... and strong, And Laxmi, queen of the fair and fortunate." But she, the Mother of Might, finds that her efforts are not successful in leading man to God: "The cosmic evil is too deep to unroot: The cosmic suffering is too vast to heal." She is able to help only a few. She has faith that ultimately she will not fail, because, "His seal is on my task." Her mission would be fulfilled... coverings". It may be an Intuition or an Inspiration. Even though man's ego claims the world for its use "Man is a dynamo for the cosmic work". It may be asked: if Nature does everything and if man is only an instrument, what is the contribution of man to the cosmic work? The Master says that "Only his soul's acceptance is his own," soul has the freedom to accept or reject the movement of higher... origin she found that they did not come from "human Time". They were children of cosmic Nature, and like boats they sailed from the far wide expanse and with "easy access reached the inner ear." while pursuing the place of their origin Savitri "saw a spiritual immensity" "pervading and encompassing, the world-space". The cosmic Thoughts came from there. When they entered Savitri's inner being they "met ...
... conscious being, among which the really divine world is what Sri Aurobindo has called the Supermind, the world of the Truth. But in between is what he has distinguished as the Overmind, the world of the cosmic Gods. Now it is this Overmind that has up to the present governed our world: it is the highest that man has been able to attain in illumined consciousness. It has been taken for the Supreme Divine... bowed down since the beginning of history. And the reason why the true Divine has not manifested and transformed the earth-nature is precisely that the Overmind has been mistaken for the Supermind. The cosmic Gods do not wholly live in the Truth-Consciousness: they are only in touch with it and represent, each of them, an aspect of its glories. No doubt, the Supermind has also acted in the history of ...
... this cosmic cycle, nor merely to repeat a purposeless round in a long unsatisfactory groove of ignorance seeking for knowledge and never finding it perfectly, in that case the ignorance would be either an inexplicable blunder of the All conscient or a painful and purposeless Necessity equally inexplicable, but to realise the Ananda of the Self in other conditions than the supracosmic, in cosmic being... concentration we call the Ignorance is necessary, is to trace the cycle of self oblivion and self discovery for the joy of which the Ignorance is assumed in Nature by the secret spirit. It is not that all cosmic manifestation would otherwise become impossible; but it would be a quite different manifestation from the one in which we live; it would be confined to the higher worlds of the divine Existence or... next birth; for most of us persist in sin and error and show no tangible signs of having profited by the teaching of our past experience. But 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: ...
... 113 Sweet Mother, what is this "fine flower of the cosmic Energy" of which he speaks here: "This fine flower of the cosmic Energy carries in it a forecast of the aim and a hint of the very motive of the universal labour"? The Synthesis of Yoga, pp. 118-19 It is the soul which he calls this fine flower of the cosmic Energy. (Mother reads:) "...that personality, like consciousness... consciousness, life, soul, is not a brief-lived stranger in an impersonal Eternity, but contains the very meaning of existence." This is the presence of the divine Person. "This fine flower of the cosmic Energy carries in it..." This is the soul. "...carries in it the forecast of the aim and a hint of the very motive of the universal labour." The realisation of the conscious and living ...
... Aurobindo, The Mother with Letters on The Mother: The Mother - VI Further Sri Aurobindo clarified in Vol. 25, p. 63: These four Powers are the Mother's cosmic Godheads, permanent in the world-play; they stand among the greater cosmic Godheads to whom allusion is made when it is said that the Mother as the Mahashakti of this triple world `stands there (in the Overmind plane) above the Gods' ... qualities and personal consciousness forms of the Godhead .... Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram: A Note on the Terminology of The Mother They are not impersonal entities but cosmic Personalities, although they can and do ordinarily veil themselves behind the movement of impersonal forces . Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Himself and the Ashram: A Note on the Terminology of The ...
... Indra, Varuna, Mitra or the Aswins, it is the same supreme and divine inflatus. The cosmic soul is true. But that truth is borne out, effectuated only by the truth of the individual soul. When the individual soul becomes itself fully and integrally, by that very fact it becomes also the cosmic soul. The individuals are the channels through which flows the Universal and the Infinite in its... itself and shine in its opal clarity and translucency. Not to do what others do, but what your soul impels you to do. Not to be others but your own self. Not to be anything but the very cosmic and infinite divinity of your soul. Therein lies your highest freedom and perfect delight. And there you are supremely creative. Each soul has a consort – Prakriti, Nature -which it creates ...
... Agni or Indra, Varuna, Mitra or the Aswins, it is the same supreme and divine inflatus. The cosmic soul is true. But that truth is borne out, effectuated only by the truth of the individual soul. When the individual soul becomes itself fully and integrally, by that very fact it becomes also the cosmic soul. The individuals are the channels through which flows the Universal and the Infinite in its... come to itself and shine in its opal clarity and translucency. Not to do what others do, but what your soul impels you to do. Not to be others but your own self. Not to be anything but the very cosmic and infinite divinity of your soul. Therein lies your highest freedom and perfect delight. And there you are supremely creative. Each soul has a consort— Prakriti, Nature —which it creates out of ...
... Mother's Chronicles - Book Three 4 The Human Fathers It was around the turn of the century that the Théons decided to found the Cosmic Movement. The Cosmic Review — intended for the "study and re-establishment of the original Tradition" —was to become the Movement's mouthpiece. Its first editor was Charles Barlet 1 ; and Theon, under the... received initiation in India," Mother disclosed to Satprem. "He knew a little Sanskrit, and was thoroughly versed in the Rig-Veda. Well then, in some way, he developed a tradition which he called the 'Cosmic Tradition.' He claimed to have received it —I don't know how —from a tradition anterior to that of the Cabala and the Vedas." Mother herself was deeply interested in the Vedas and made a thorough ...
... ance; an ignorance of the Absolute and knowledge only of the relations of being and becoming; an ignorance of our timeless and immutable self-existence and knowledge only of the cosmic becoming; an ignorance of our cosmic self and knowledge only of our egoistic existence; an ignorance of our eternal becoming in Time and knowledge only of the one life present to our memory; an ignorance of our larger ...
... to die according to Sage Narad's reading of the future. After the first two cantos that constitute the exordium, there comes a long, long spell of retrospective narration, sketching the personal and cosmic backgrounds to the central action. This has taken thirty-eight cantos in all out of the forty-nine that now make the poem, or a little over 600 pages out of the total 814 in the definitive one-volume... 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 ...
... and divine light and completeness. For this Spirit, this Divine is only in outward form the Destroyer, Time who undoes all these finite forms: but in himself he is the Infinite, the Master of the cosmic Godheads, in whom the world and all its action are securely seated. He is the original and ever originating Creator, one greater than that figure of creative Power called Brahma which he shows to us... was figured in the human manifestation and the human relation is also a reality which accompanies and mitigates for our mind the tremendous character of the universal vision. The transcendence and cosmic aspect have to be seen, for without that seeing the limitations of humanity cannot be exceeded. In that unifying oneness all has to be included. But by itself that would set too great a gulf between... energy, the universal, the original which none but thou amongst men has yet seen. I have shown it by my self-Yoga. For it is an image of my very Self and Spirit, it is the very Supreme self-figured in cosmic existence and the soul in perfect Yoga with me sees it without any trembling Page 393 of the nervous parts or any bewilderment and confusion of the mind, because he descries not only what ...
... mean only a cosmic evolution; for the individual would be a quickly perishing instrument, and the race, a more abiding collective formulation, would be the real step in the progressive manifestation of the cosmic Inhabitant, the universal Spirit: rebirth is an indispensable condition for any long duration and evolution of the individual being in the earth-existence. Each grade of cosmic manifestation ...
... 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 of the Gita 1 (the boy Krishna is the Krishna of Brindavan)... Narayana, Vishnu, Brahma, Lakshmi, Saraswati, Ananta Narayana is usually taken as a name of Vishnu—to the Vaishnavas he is the Supreme as Shiva is to the Shaivas. Both are Page 155 cosmic Personalities of the Divine and both like Brahma have their original plane in the Overmind, although they take different forms to the human consciousness in the mental, vital and subtle physical planes ...
... permanent emanations of the Divine put forth from the Supreme by the Transcendent Mother, the Adya Shakti; in their cosmic action they are powers and personalities of the Divine, each with his independent cosmic standing, function and work in the Universe. They are not impersonal entities but cosmic personalities, although they can and do veil themselves behind the movement of impersonal forces. But while ...
... 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 Time is... enveloped all Nature in a single glance. 32 It was sight and thought in one all-seeing Mind. 33 Mind was a single innumerable look. 34 ... the stretch and blaze of cosmic Sight. 35 A cosmic vision, a spiritual sense Feels all the Infinite lodged in finite form. 36 Sight of the Overmental Gods Immobile, seeing the milleniums pass. 37 They look... guards the world with its all-seeing gaze. 100 An Eye immense regarding all things done. 101 The Divine's Cosmic Vision The Manifestation begins; the worlds are created. The passive Sachchidanda is now in his role of all-watching, all-governing Cosmic Purusha. To quote Sri Aurobindo: "The Brahman consciousness... is not the Absolute withdrawn into itself, but that Absolute ...
... she carried In herself the world: world Her dread was one with the great cosmic dread, cosmic mights 280 Her strength was founded on the cosmic mights; cosmic dread 281 The universal Mother's love was hers. {T} Universal... [306-341] But now she stirred, her life shared the cosmic load. {I} The twelfth and final thematic unit contains two lines of secondary imagery: one related to the notion of the "cosmic load", which Savitri now shared, the other to her own self-awakening, continued from the previous unit. Expressions semantically related to "cosmic load" include "yoke of ignorance and fate", "labour and... earth-nature held the frame. {C} XII. [306] But now she stirred, her life shared the cosmic load. She awakens to her divinity and her cosmic goal—to confront pain, death, and darkness. {I} [342] This was the day when Satyavan must die. {C} ...
... appearance) and the incarnation of a power greater than ourselves; she is one of the two protagonists in the struggle that she wages, both as a human and as a cosmic power, and the resulting victory too has consequences both on the individual and the cosmic planes. Of Beatrice, who plays in the Divina Commedia a role not unlike Savitri's in the Indian epic, Charles Williams writes: "Let us... present in time future, And time future contained in time past. 171 Page 447 Kindled and quenched and kindled again, the cosmic creative fires blaze and subside and blaze again, and Sri Aurobindo has seen this cosmic play and tries also to reason out the probable purposes behind it all and infer the probable directions of future advance. "The philosophy of Savitri"... But in spite of all these propitious circumstances, a great epic may fail to arrive. Is Savitri the supreme achievement in the epic genre, or is it a noble effort gone awry? Is it the one great cosmic poem of our time and of all time, or is it no more than a tour-de-force, worthy to be praised because it was undertaken at all, and not because it has been successfully accomplished? Only posterity ...
... soon to assume the appearance of the greater cosmic sanction. For now the world Being appears to him as the body of God ensouled by the eternal Time-spirit and with its majestic and dreadful voice missions him to the crash of the battle. He is called by it to Page 301 the liberation of his spirit, to the fulfilment of his action in the cosmic mystery, and the two—liberation and action—are... up all desire of the fruits of his works and become simply the desireless Page 303 impartial doer of whatever has to be done,—leaving the fruit to whatever power may be the master of the cosmic workings. For he very evidently is not the master; it is not for the satisfaction of his personal ego that Nature was set upon her ways, not for the fulfilment of his desires and preferences that the... universal Life is living, not for the justification of his intellectual opinions, judgments and standards that the universal Mind is working, nor is it to that petty tribunal that it has to refer its cosmic aims or its terrestrial method and purposes. These claims can only be made by the ignorant souls who live in their personality and see everything from that poor and narrow standpoint. He must stand ...
... the transcendent Reality he is above and beyond creation, he is the U nmanifest, although he may hold within either involved or dissolved the entire manifestation. Next, he is the manifestation, the cosmic or the universal; he is one with creation, immanent in it, still its master and lord. Finally, he has an individual aspect: he is a Person with whom human b.eings can enter into relations of love and... away, in his absolute power and consciousness, working miracles here; for transcendence can do nothing but that in the midst of conditions left as they are. Nor does he manifest himself only as his cosmic power and consciousness, imbedded in the creation and all-pervading, exercising his influence through the pressure of Universal Law, perhaps in a concentrated form, still working gradually, step by... the maintenance of the natural order and harmony, lokasamgraha. God can be more than that, individualised in a special, even a human sense. His individual being can and does hold within itself his cosmic and transcendental self covertly in a way but overtly too in a singular manner at the same time. The humanised personality of the Divine with his special role and function is at the very centre of ...
... serve the economy of cosmic Nature. A materialistic philosophy would admit of no possibility of a divine life in Matter; but even a philosophy admitting a soul or spirit or a spiritual terminus of the evolutionary movement here could very well deny the capacity of earth for a divine life: a divine existence could only be achieved by a departure from earth and the body. Even if cosmic existence is not an... Supermind in the Evolution A new humanity would then be a race of mental beings on the earth and in the earthly body, but delivered from its present conditions in the reign of the cosmic Ignorance so far as to be possessed of a perfected mind, a mind of light which could even be a subordinate action of the supermind or Truth-consciousness, and in any case capable of the full possibilities... far this would go, whether it would eventually embrace the whole of humanity or only an advanced portion of it, would depend upon the intention in the evolution itself, on the intention in whatever cosmic or transcendentWill is guiding the movements of the universe. We have supposed not only the descent of the supermind upon the earth but its embodiment in a supramental race with all its natural co ...
... one with all material Nature, his vital being with the life of the universe, his mind with the cosmic mind, his spiritual knowledge and will with the divine knowledge and will both in itself and as it pours itself through these channels, his spirit with the one spirit in all beings. All the variety of cosmic existence will be changed to him in that unity and revealed in the secret of its spiritual s... of being is the impassive, impersonal, self-aware Absolute and therefore to grow into an impassive calm, impersonality and pure self-awareness of spirit is his idea of perfection and a rejection of cosmic and individual being and a settling into silent self-knowledge is his way. To the Buddhist for whom the highest truth is a negation of being, a recognition of the impermanence and sorrow of being and... which brings into the whole of our being and nature the eternal tranquillity of the Infinite. Moreover, it is the condition of a securely and perfectly divine action; the security and largeness of the cosmic action of the Infinite is based upon and never breaks down or forfeits its eternal tranquillity. That too must be the character of the perfect spiritual action; to be equal and one to all things in ...
... serve the economy of cosmic Nature. A materialistic philosophy would admit of no possibility of a divine life in Matter; but even a philosophy admitting a soul or spirit or a spiritual terminus of the evolutionary movement here could very well deny the capacity of earth for a divine life: a divine existence could only be achieved by a departure from earth and the body. Even if cosmic existence is not an... V. SUPERMIND IN THE EVOLUTION A NEW humanity would then be a race of mental beings on the earth and in the earthly body but delivered from its present conditions in the reign of the cosmic Ignorance so far as to be possessed of a perfected mind, a mind of light which could even be a subordinate action of the supermind or Truth-Consciousness and in any case capable of the full possibilities... far this would go, whether it would eventually embrace the whole of humanity or only an. advanced portion of it, would depend upon the intention in the evolution itself, on the intention in whatever cosmic or transcendent Will is guiding the movements of the universe. We have supposed not only the descent of the supermind upon the earth but its embodiment in a supramental race with all its natural c ...
... × The Cosmic Movement (le Mouvement cosmique) was based on an occult philosophy, developed by Max Théon and his wife Alma, and called the Cosmic Tradition (la Tradition cosmique). The Movement had several centres or chapters, the Cosmic Groups (Groupes cosmiques), and its monthly publication was called the Revue cosmique... Paris centre of the Cosmic Movement when Mirra Alfassa made his acquaintance. He and his wife Claire had come into contact with the Movement through a copy of the Revue cosmique picked up at the Librairie Chacornac, an occult bookshop which at the time of writing still exists on the Quai St Michel, across from the Notre-Dame. Three times a week Thémanlys gave talks on the Cosmic Tradition, and was... So many people come to her in the night for the passage to the other side whom she has not known in the body. 7 – Sri Aurobindo Even before Mirra discovered the teaching of the Cosmic Movement, she had ‘certain experiences at night, certain types of nightly activities, caring for people who had just left their body.’ Although still lacking the theoretical knowledge, she knew exactly ...
... not made the saviour of a cosmic fall structurally inherent in creation? Teilhard urges that St. John and St. Paul always saw Christ's function in cosmic terms. Christ saved the entire universe and not only man. The original sin, therefore, must be as cosmic as Christ. If it were just a moral accident of no great antiquity, then, as a quota- 20.Ibid., p. 551. 21.Ibid., p. 552. ... function of salvation that is not cosmic in its central meaning. We would decosmicise his role by making him counter merely the wrong turn taken by man in quite recent time, rather than act as one who has animated universal evolution from the very beginning of time - animated it not by an external "juridical" right but by an internal "organic" activity. How could he be a cosmic organic evolver if he is not... 24.Ibid., p. 539. 25.Ibid., p. 543. 26.Ibid., pp. 543-44. Page 118 Teilhard's revolutionary departure in going beyond Adam and making a cosmic Christ call for a cosmic imperfection to be compensated and turned to the advantage of man's earthly progress - that revolutionary departure is indirectly brought to a head and hit at in a sharp condensed negative ...
... will challenging the cosmic rule of Ignorance seems difficult to grasp. The mind naturally doubts if it is at all possible. How can the feeble individual stand against and overcome the operations of the gigantic cosmic machinery where enormous powers, irresistible forces seem to be working to their decreed ends? And yet, says the Master, it is possible. Even in this dark cosmic prison-house which seems... her creative passion's ecstasy." He, the Puruṣa, "...lies beneath her feet", inert and happy and "His breast he offers for her cosmic dance" His is the strength that sustains as the basis the entire multiplicity of planes of cosmic nature....The Puruṣa is moved by Nature and seems to be ..."carried by her from Night to deathless Light". He identifies himself completely with... It opens with the Symbol-Night which turns into the Symbol-Dawn. It figures the very beginning of the Universe from the Night of Nescience to the awakening of the Dawn of the Spirit. In sublime and cosmic sweeps it covers the whole period of evolution and brings it up to the human stage. It focuses our attention on the fundamental problem of man in the situation of Sāvitrī, the main character of the ...
... physics, for without it the cosmic movement is left shorn of an indubitable ground in the Supreme. Nor is the introduction of the compound the sole change Sri Aurobindo has brought about in Indian philosophy. There is also the concept of Vijnana added. Creative Con-scious Force at blissful self-deployment is only the first step towards giving a foundation to the cosmic movement. The second step is... inherently Force and so there was no need to make a special point of the identity of the two, but it has been seized by the Overmind and interpreted by the spiritualized mentality, with the result that cosmic creativity is not taken necessarily as involved in it. If the transmission of the triple synthesis had been done by a seerhood stationed in the Supermind instead of in a middle vastness between what... conceived as an extra term. Hence it is not enough to speak of a Divine Trinity: we have to speak of a Divine Quaternary in order fully to formulate the Transcendent which is yet the Arche-typally Cosmic, as it were. With Vijnana there, we have also the Personal or Super-personal Godhead, the omniscient and omnipotent and omnipresent Creator in whom the ideal blueprint of all phenomena is held forever ...
... 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 "I," – the ego, the "I-ness" disappears and the mental, vital and the... that Consciousness. Ramakrishna speaks of that state as the form of ego left for action. When you reach the Supermind you become not only Cosmic but something beyond the Universe – Transcendental, and there is indivisibility of unity and individuality. There, the Cosmic and the Individual all co-exist. The same principle works out in science. The scientists at one time reduced all multiplicity of elements ...
... mental realisation of cosmic oneness; now I find that that state has disappeared. Was there anything wrong in writing about it? Is it that the Mother does not like this sort of Yoga of Knowledge? Or is it that one should always write about the darker side and never mention the other side? Why should Mother dislike Yoga of Knowledge? The realisation of self and of the cosmic being (without which ...
... when the form is altered, but why should also the cosmic commodities we have for the universal gold be fixed and in a way unchanging? What is the explanation, how comes about this eternity of principles and elements and kinds of combination and this persistence and recurrence of the same forms which we observe in the cosmos? Why in this constant cosmic flux should everything after all remain the same... And between all beings there is a constant trial of strength; by that warfare they come into being, by that their measures are maintained. We see that he is right; he has caught the initial aspect of cosmic Nature. Everything here is a clash of forces and by that clash and struggle and clinging and wrestling things not only come into being, but are maintained in being. Karma? Laws? But different laws ...
... 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, and the truth-consciousness... the cosmic Ignorance which the mind would not have the power to solve or overcome. But in the supramental being, not only statically conscious but fully dynamic and acting in the creative light and power of the Transcendence, the supramental light, the truth light, ṛtaṁ jyotiḥ , would have that power. For there would be a unity with the cosmic self, but not a bondage to the Ignorance of cosmic Nature... circumscribe cosmicity, cosmicity does not contradict transcendence. The gnostic being living in the consciousness of the Infinite will create his own self-manifestation Page 1036 as an individual, but he will do so as a centre of a larger universality and yet at the same time a centre of the transcendence. A universal individual, all his action would be in harmony with the cosmic action, but ...
... 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 or by a departure from the One Will desired cosmic existence and forced by their desire the supreme Sa... kind becomes an impossibility to our intelligence. The world is too vast in its movement for such an account of its working to be credible; only a cosmic Power or a cosmic Being can be the creator and the upholder of the cosmos and it must have too a cosmic and not only an individual reality, significance or purpose. Accordingly, this world-creating or participating Individual and its desire or assent... the Many depend upon the One, are souls of the One, beings of the Being, this truth must determine also the fundamental principle of the cosmic existence. There we see that the universal precedes the individual, gives it its field, is that in which it exists cosmically even though its origin is in the Transcendence. The individual soul lives here by the All-Soul and depends upon it; the All-Soul very ...
... and still beyond, of the transcendental unity and oneness. For Veda is essentially and esoterically a book of know-ledge, the knowledge that is terrestrial, supra- terrestrial and cosmic and supra-cosmic. It is only when the vedic tradition is understood as a gradual expansion of what is contained in the Vedic seed of integral knowledge that we can get its right clues, and discover its power... the object of his synthesis of Yoga is not an individual achievement of divine realisation for the sake of the individual, but something to be gained for the earth-consciousness here, a cosmic, not solely a supra-cosmic achievement. The latest message of India, as expressed through Sri Aurobindo, is that of the application of the knowledge of the ascent to and descent of the supramental to the i... Rishis, — ekam sad viprā bahudhā vadanti. In the Veda, we find the secret of the unification of higher faculties of revelation, inspiration, intuition and discrimination with their corresponding cosmic godheads that are discoverable by the processes of evocation and sacrifices, which were in their esoteric aspects psychological in character. The Veda is, again, a gospel of human perfectibility, both ...
... 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 possibilities... transmission can contain or bring with it all the rest...." (Here are some passages from the Mundaka Upanishad on the transcendent and universal Brahman 1 and some from the Gita's Vision of the Cosmic Spirit. 2 Have they the accent of what you have described in The Future Poetry as the Mantra? The target of all mystic and spiritual poetry should be, in my opinion, the Mantric utterance. At ...
... g beyond the waking self into the subconscient and 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 ...
... They are not as other men, but live "immaculate in tranquil 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 ...
... supra-cosmic or acosmic Spaceless and Timeless Absolute. According to this supra-cosmic view, just as we can enter into the cosmic consciousness and be one with all cosmic existence, even so, we can enter into the world-transcending consciousness and become superior to all cosmic existence. But if it is asked whether this transcendence is necessarily a rejection of all individual and cosmic existence... 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 the material life and also... 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 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 ...
... working of an impersonal cosmic or a transcendent Force. A cosmic Mind, Life, Substance must act, or a pure transcendent Self-Power and Bliss other than our own personal being or its building of Nature. This is a state of freedom which can come in the Yoga of works through renunciation of ego and desire and personal initiation and the surrender of the being to the cosmic Self or to the universal Shakti;... 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 the adored Master of our existence. But the culminating... energy, 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 ...
... the cosmic vision of the Seer, or rather to the cosmic hearing of the Rishi, it would be possible for him to enter with the aid of his imagination into a region where an echo of the cosmic "murmur" would be audible to him. How rich is the wealth of the cosmic murmur! It is the subtle spiritual sound that rises from the Universe and reaches the ear of the Cosmic Being. And because it is cosmic it is... sympathy which 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... transcendent Page 90 vision of life given by that early poetry of humanity. Sāvitrī is the expression of a truth-vision by the greatest seer of the modem age. It is an integral and cosmic truth beginning with the origin of the world and rising towards man's ultimate divine fulfilment on earth. Affirming that "a death-bound littleness is not all we are", it moves with the mounting aspiration ...
... Mother India was more than a symbol, that there was an Entity as real as my own being. I feel tempted to ask: are these Devas or Devis creations of the Cosmic Mind, having an otherwise independent existence of their own (dependent only on the Cosmic Mind) with a definite form of their own, or does the Supreme pour itself into any form which the individual or a nation may create for his or its use... relations between the cosmic consciousness and the individual and collective consciousness of man. From the point of view of spiritual and occult Truth, what takes shape in the consciousness of man is a reflection and particular kind of formation, in a difficult medium, of things much greater in their light, power and beauty or in their force and range which came to it from the cosmic consciousness of... 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 individual, national or racial at work and does not see what works upon it and shapes it, to think that all is created by him and there is nothing cosmic and greater behind ...
... not in a sense more so than the gross world of ordinary experience. Experience reaches up to that of the Cosmic Mind which apprehends the world of universals as they exist in themselves. 115 From 'inanimate' matter to the Overmind (and beyond): such is the cosmic range, and the human consciousness holds within itself the possibility of extension, above as well as below; there... destination of our journey. Alfred Noyes has sung: Page 328 Out of this earth, this dust, Out of this flesh, this blood, this living tomb; Out of these cosmic throes of wrath and lust, Breaks the lost splendour from the world's blind womb. 117 And A.E. asks wistfully: Is there still in us A heaven-descended... within you', says the Scripture; and Browning says in Paracelsus: There is an inmost centre in us all, Where truth abides in fullness; and F.W.H. Myers says in A Cosmic Outlook: Inward! aye deeper far than love or scorn, Deeper than bloom of virtue, stain of sin, Rend thou the veil and pass alone within Stand naked ...
... an occult society in Egypt. After that he came to Algeria; and there he was first called 'Aia Aziz' —a word of Arabic root, meaning 'the beloved'; and then, when he began setting up his Cosmic Review and his 'Cosmic Group,' he called himself Max Théon, in other words, the Supreme God (!), the greatest God! And nobody knew him by any other names than these two: Aia Aziz or Max Théon." But Mirra... her because she had chosen for him a life of consecration. This was symbolized by Théon's long hair, never once touched by any pair of scissors. It is also on record that before he founded the Cosmic Movement, Max Théon was associated with the mysterious H. B. of L. (Hermetic Brotherhood of Luxor or Light). In 1873, Théon, then just twenty-six, was made its Grand Master; the Scottish philosopher... y evidence, in particular that of Madame Théon's death, was very kindly provided to us by Mr Christian Chanel, magistrate in Lyons, France, who is preparing a doctoral thesis on Max Théon and the Cosmic Philosophy. 2.A few particulars given in the certificate, such as Théon's and Alma's ages, possibly too Théon's stated profession of 'Doctor of Medicine,' appear rather doubtful. In all likelihood ...
... 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? What is the use of merely saying that the higher being is wide... a Force behind that is distinct from that which gives rise to emotions, anger, lust which are all purified and transformed gradually", in other words, the Divine or Spiritual Force, other than the cosmic vital which supports the ordinary embodied consciousness; that is also very clear. I suppose it is only a contact yet, but a very true and vivid contact if it gives rise to so vivid and true a feeling... descent of the higher Consciousness into the lower planes. The lower consciousness rises to meet the higher consciousness—when it joins there is the sense of unity and the feeling of the one cosmic Self with Ananda and Peace or both as the result. This is called the ascent of the lower consciousness—it cannot remain all the time but it can become more and more frequent until the descent of the ...
... Soul-Forces 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 ...
... Letters on Yoga - III Chapter IX The Plant World Aswattha or Peepul Tree The aswattha usually symblises the cosmic manifestation. It [ the peepul tree ] is the symbol of the cosmic existence. Jungle The jungle must be some unregenerated part of the vital nature and the serpent a wrong force emerging from it. Leaves Images of leaves ...
... The central theme of our essay has been the study of the itinerary of the ascent of sight. Following this course we have travelled from the "sightless sight" of the Inconscient up to the "cosmic gaze" of the Overmind. But all these belong to what was called by the ancient Indian mystics the "Lower Hemisphere" of our existence. But the reach of the Reality far transcends the borders of this... this Overmind links the lower hemisphere of Knowledge-Ignorance with the supramental Gnosis or Truth-Consciousness, but at the same time veils from our sight the greater Truth of the Supermind. The cosmic Vision of this overmental plane of consciousness, proceeding luminously from the truth, constitutes the "golden lid covering the face of the truth" (hiranmayena pātrena satyasyāpihitam ...
... that they should not think of the Divine as a very powerful extra-cosmic Person who has 'created' outside of Him this world and its creatures and has since then been governing them and determining their moment-to-moment fate by arbitrary, albeit divine, whims and fiats. No, the world is not the 'creation' of a extra-cosmic Deity.; it is the self-manifestation of Sachchidananda, of the supreme... in knowing what as sadhakas we should do in a critical situation of our life so that the third cosmic Force that we have called the 'divine Grace' nay successfully intervene and save the situation for us. But before that let us brush up our memory about the essential points concerning the three cosmic Forces simultaneously acting in the world and also in every man's life. The two following extracts... The Cosmic Law, of Kama or what else; (2) the Divine Compassion acting on as many as it Page 127 can reach through the nets of the Law and giving them their chance; (3) the Divine Grace which acts more incalculably but also mom irresistibly than the others." {Letters on Yoga, p. 609) "It [the Divine Grace] is a power that is superior to any rule, even to the Cosmic Law ...
... The cosmic spirit works itself out in the world and in human affairs in either of these forms: (1) as embodied in a single personality and (2) as an impersonal movement, sometimes through many personalities, sometimes through a few outstanding personalities and sometimes even quite anonymously as a mass movement. Either mode has each its own special purpose, its function in the cosmic labour,... a general sweep of his vital being to the truths and realities of his own nature and of the cosmic nature. Not the clear white and transparent almost glaring light of reason and logic, of the brain mind, but the rosy or rainbow tint of the emotive and aspiring personality that seeks in and through the cosmic panorama and dreams of A light that was ne'er on sea or land. . . A glory that hath... or worldly world, there maybe established God's own world, the City of God. The drive towards the building of Heaven upon earth and with earth, the materialisation of the Spirit on a cosmic scale, the remodelling of the whole human society in spiritual terms Page 214 was the secret inspiring the other Semitic Revelation, that of Mohammed. The Arab Master sought to bring ...
... The cosmic spirit works itself out in the world and in human affairs in either of these forms : (1) as embodied in a single personality and (2) as an impersonal movement, sometimes through many personalities, sometimes through a few outstanding personalities and sometimes even quite anonymously as a maps movement. Either mode has each its own special purpose, its function in the cosmic labour,... a general sweep of his vital being to the truths and realities of his own nature and of the cosmic nature. Not the clear white and transparent almost glaring light of reason and logic, of the brain mind, but the rosy or rainbow tint of the emotive and aspiring personality that seeks in and through the cosmic panorama and dreams of A light that was ne'er on sea or land... A glory that... mundane or worldly world, there may be established God's own world, the City of God. The drive towards the building of Heaven upon earth and with earth, the materialisation of the Spirit on a cosmic scale, the remodelling of the whole human society in spiritual terms Page 104 was the secret inspiring the other Semitic Revelation, that of Mohammed. The Arab Master sought to bring ...
... wideness through the world as the silent Self in all and dynamic too as the active Divine Being and Power, Ishwara-Shakti, containing the world and pervading it as well as transcending it, manifesting all cosmic aspects. But, what is most important for us, is that it manifests as a transcending Light, Knowledge, Power, Purity, Peace, Ananda of which we become aware above and which descends into the being and... nature. What the psychic realisation does bring is a psychic change of the nature purifying it and turning it altogether towards the Divine. After that or along with it comes the realisation of the cosmic Self. It is these two things that the old Yogas encompassed and through them they passed to Moksha, Nirvana or the departure into some kind of celestial transcendence. The Yoga practised here includes... descend from there if He wants to do so. Swami Ramatirtha I think Ramatirtha's realisations were more mental than anything else. He had opening of the higher mind and a realisation there of the cosmic Self, but I find no evidence of a transformed mind and vital; that transformation is not a result or object of the Yoga of Knowledge. The realisation of the Yoga of Knowledge is when one feels that ...
... 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 from which he has... 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 himself and then to transcend the cosmic formula. And this transformation acts not only on his status of being but... bound by any particular working or any moment of time or any field of space or any law of relation, because He is universal and infinite. Nor is He limited by the universe; for His infinity is not cosmic, but supracosmic. But the individualised being is or acts as if he were so bound and limited, because he treats the particular working of existence that he is and the particular moment of time and ...
... Savitri XV SAVITRI: ITS SYMBOLIC ACTION IN A COSMIC BACKGROUND A comparison of the extended scheme of Savitri with that of the earlier narrative poem will make clear that the major additions are Aswapati's Yoga, Savitri's Yoga and the new accent or dimension given to the struggle between Savitri and Death in Book IX... changes is to impose on the simple austere ambrosial human drama a vast symbolic dimension so that what happens in an apparently obscure place on earth may be made to carry implications on a truly cosmic scale. The opening line in canto three of Book I: "A world's desire compelled her mortal birth," succinctly prepares us for this shift from the individual to the general or universal context. Aswapati... about, he may ask in exasperation, and turn away, without waiting for an answer which, in any case, can be neither easy nor short. A thinker who tries to take stock of the human and cosmic situation may very well pose the fundamental questions: Where do I stand? What is my goal? How may I reach it? These roughly correspond to the traditional Hindu categories of tattva, hita and purus ...
... sees all existences as becomings ( bhūtāni ) of that self-existent Being, his own only one of them, all their actions as only the development of cosmic Nature working through their individual nature and his own actions also as a part of the same cosmic activity. This is not the whole teaching of the Gita; for as yet there is only the idea of the immutable self or Purusha, the Akshara Brahman, and... the right discrimination of the true nature of the Self and of the imposition on it of cosmic appearances by mental illusion which leads to egoistic identification and attachment. In the Vedantic method Maya ceases for the soul by its return to its true and eternal status as the one Self, the Brahman, and the cosmic action disappears; in the Sankhya method the working of the guṇas falls to rest by... the Sankhya method of knowledge must have been much overshadowed by the Buddhistic. Buddhism, like the Sankhya non-Theistic and anti-Monistic, laid stress on the impermanence of the results of the cosmic energy, which it presented not as Prakriti but as Karma because the Buddhists admitted neither the Vedantic Brahman nor the inactive Soul of the Sankhyas, and it made the recognition of this impermanence ...
... justify to us our being. For, missing the divine utility of the cosmic workings, they fail to explain to us with a sufficiently large, patient, steadfast wholeness God Page 297 and ourselves and existence, negate too much, miss the positive sense of our strain and leave sounding an immense note of spiritual futility and cosmic discord. No statement of the sense of our being or our non-being... affirms strongly only the more strongly to negate. It views the recurrence of birth as a prolonged mechanical chain; it sees, with a sense of suffering and distaste, the eternal revolving of an immense cosmic wheel of energy with no divine sense in its revolutions, its beginning an affirmation of ignorant desire, its end a nullifying bliss of escape. The wheel turns uselessly for ever disturbing the peace... self-extinction,—the latter, no doubt, a thing of great value. The illusionist solution adds something, but does not differ very greatly in its motive from the Buddhistic. It sets against the futile cosmic repetition an eternity of our own absolute being; from the ignorance which creates the illusory mechanism of a recurrence of rebirth, it escapes into the self-knowledge of our ineffable existence. ...
... one with all material Nature, his vital being with the life of the universe, his mind with the cosmic mind, his spiritual knowledge and will with the divine knowledge and will both in itself and as it pours itself through these channels, his spirit with the one spirit in all beings. All the variety of cosmic existence will be changed to him in that unity and revealed in the secret of its spiritual s... passion for release, mumuksutva, founded on distaste or vairāgya, is itself transcended; the soul is then liberated both from attachment to the lower action of nature and from all repugnance to the cosmic action of the Divine. This liberation gets its completeness when the spiritual gnosis can act with a supramental knowledge and reception of the action of Nature and a supramental luminous will in ...
... tive of Savitri, and Fire is his vehicle, instrument or symbol. Just as Surra is Vivasvan, the Supreme Effulgent One, Yama is likewise the Cosmic Being, all cosmic power and universal forces are his. Surya is supra-cosmic, belongs to the Beyond. Fire is cosmic, belongs to our worlds. Or, to put it more exactly, Surya is the point of transition from the Beyond to these worlds; Fire is such a point from... In fact, the Upanishads speak of two kinds of immortality. One is temporal immortality, that is, living for ever, the other is beyond time, in the ultimate Reality or the supreme- Truth; one is cosmic, the other transcendental. Page 121 There are likewise two kinds of eternity and infinity. One is in relation to time, with time as its basis and inseparable from the progress of... What he needed now was the realisation beyond time, this is what he demanded as his third boon: after the knowledge of the worlds the Knowledge of the Supreme, the transcendental realisation after the cosmic. Fire has been described as the Origin of the worlds, He is the Beginning of the worlds, their Source. He is also the primeval World, for the earth-principle, this earth of ours, this physical universe ...
... representative of Savitri, and Fire is his vehicle, instrument or symbol. Just as Surya is Vivasvan, the Supreme Effulgent One, Yama is likewise the Cosmic Being, all cosmic power and universal force are his. Surya is supra-cosmic, belongs to the Beyond. Fire is cosmic, belongs to our worlds. Or, to put it more exactly, Surya is the point of transition from the Beyond to these worlds; Fire is such a point from... In fact, the Upanishads speak of two kinds of immortality. One is temporal immortality, that is, living for ever, the other is beyond time, in the ultimate Reality or the supreme Truth; one is cosmic, the other transcendental. Page 7 There are likewise two kinds of eternity and infinity. One is in relation to time, with time as its basis and inseparable from the progress of time... What he needed now was the realisation beyond time, this is what he demanded as his third boon: after the knowledge of the worlds the Knowledge of the Supreme, the transcendental realisation after the cosmic. Fire has been described as the Origin of the worlds, He is the Beginning of the worlds, their Source. He is also the primeval World, for the earth-principle, this earth of ours, this physical ...
... light decisively vacating the aggression of dark. But the voice also reminds 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... the first decisive stage in Savitri's Yoga. Two more trials, two more realisations, await her. She is yet to be shocked into—or seized of—the realisation that her sovereign secret soul has really a cosmic compenetration and comprehension, and also that it is at the same time supracosmic, beyond space and time, beyond all imaginable beyonds. Her secret soul is infinity, it is all infinities; lost in ...
... 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 of the latter, as is the surface person, we can become to a certain... does not seem to originate them at all, rather to stand back detached or unconcerned, ud ā sina. The other aspect is dynamic and that is experienced as a cosmic Self or Spirit which not only supports but originates and contains the whole cosmic action - not only that part of it which concerns our physical selves but also all that is beyond it - this world and all other worlds, the supraphysical as... individual birth or cosmic existence. To get into the universal Self - one in all - is to be liberated from ego; ego either becomes a small instrumental circumstance in the consciousness or 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 ...
... body, that the Self is Eternal and Infinite. Even Nature has many powers hidden behind her outer appearance which can be brought to the surface and developed. In his voyage over the cosmic planes he at last came to the Cosmic Being and from there saw the possibility of transcending the Cosmos. He realised his oneness with the Transcendent Divine. Then he looked down on the depth of his own being and... 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 possibilities... vision".— Life Divine. "Even to what is discordant it gives a place in the system of cosmic concordances—discords become a part of a vast harmony therefore of beauty. It feels Oneness, sympathy, love for all—sees the face of the Divine everywhere".— Life Divine. "The Overmind is a principle of cosmic Truth and a vast and endless catholicity is its very spirit".— Life Divine. "Overmind ...
... world set out to be … Man must evolve out of himself the divine superman: he was born for transcendence. Humanity is not enough.” 936 The human being occupies a special, awkward position in the cosmic process of evolution: it stands at its crossroads, it is the X, the incomplete, problematical, self-questioning being in between the hemispheres of lower and higher Nature. “Man is an abnormal who... that are now beginning to be increasingly though yet too little and too clumsily examined, even while they are too much exploited.” 938 In other words, each human being contains all the degrees of the cosmic evolution within him. It is, as the traditions say, a “microcosm”. “Man, the microcosm, has all these planes in his own being, ranged from the subconscient to his superconscient existence.” 939 ...
... know perfectly well that they are great. It is the power in them [ great men ] that is great and that power comes from the Divine—by their actions and greatness they help the world and aid the cosmic purpose. It does not matter whether they have ego or not—they are not doing Yoga. If a man rises to a higher plane of consciousness, it does not necessarily follow that he will be a greater... stole deer, Napoleon lied freely, Caesar was without scruples. But do you really believe that men like Napoleon, Caesar, Shakespeare were not great men and did nothing for the world or for the cosmic purpose? that God was deterred from using them for His purpose because they had defects of character and vices? What a singular idea! Why should he [ the Divine ] care [ about the vices of great ...
... and speculate - when I speak, I forget the Divine Consciousness! He answered me, a bit annoyed, "When I write to you, do you think I cut off the cosmic connection?" And I realised He has all three levels of consciousness together -universal (cosmic), transcendental and individual. When He is talking to me, He knows what's going on in China or Russia, etc. ...
... well imagine a mathematician recording and calculating all the forces that act and react in the world and from the present position of things foretell the time and place of each and every event in the cosmic field. The idea of Karma, or Kismet, is a parallel conception in the domain of human nature and character. The chain reaction of cause and effect" is rigorous and absolute, follows a single line of... Such miracles, interventions, providential happenings are not rare. They are always occurring, only they do not attract attention. For it is these phenomena that are the real causes of all progress – cosmic as well as individual. Evolution is based upon this truth of Nature. Man is not bound to the present pattern or complex of his nature and character: he is not irrevocably fixed to the frame – ...
... status of the mere creature subject to the movement of Nature in the cosmos; but after all this Master-Consciousness, however high and great a thing it may be, has a relation to the universe and the cosmic movement; it cannot be the utter Absolute, Brahman superior to all relativities. This Conscious-Being who originates, supports and governs our mind, life, senses is the Lord; but where there is no... of the Upanishad have been supposed to be a figure for the senses, but although they act in the senses, they are yet much more than that. They represent the divine power in its great and fundamental cosmic functionings whether in man or in mind and life and Matter in general; they are not the functionings themselves but something of the Divine which is essential to their operation and its immediate possessor... these to good and light; the Titans, sons of darkness, seek to pierce them with ignorance Page 75 and evil. 3 Behind the gods is the Master-Consciousness of which they are the positive cosmic self-representations. The other entity which represents the Brahman in the cosmos is the self of the living and thinking creature, man. This self also is not an external mask; it is not form of ...
... originally reserved only for the initiates. The outer Vedic religion had behind it an esoteric synthesis of Yoga which had discovered the presence and operation of a number of godheads who were still cosmic expressions of the One Supreme, — ekam sad viprā bahudhā uadanti. The aim of the Vedic Yoga was to unite the human with the Supreme by the aid of the godheads and by purifying and perfecting human... them up to the qualities and Powers represented by the godheads. Perfectibility of the human being and attainment of immortality by enlarging the domains of human consciousness into the corresponding cosmic domains and even by reaching the transcendental Being through supreme experiences of love, joy, power, peace, knowledge and Page 81 ineffable Presence and Being was the special aim of this... fewer than those addressed to gods like Agni and Indra, it must be emphasised that they were not less significant or important. The functions assigned to them in the Vedas were much larger, more cosmic, even more overriding. And in the Puranas these functions came to be emphasised with overarching prominence. The Maruts have been declared in the Vedas as children of Rudra, and they are not ...
... came down with a whole bevy of 16000 1 Gopikas – divine powers, emanations – Matrikas – to rule His new creation, His divine Lila. He was the lord of the Overmind, the cosmic manifestation. He cannot be satisfied with less than cosmic dimensions! It is said the Avatar descends with His family repeatedly age after age pushing forward the Earth's march towards its divine goal. Krishna is always ...
... before any silence comes! SRI AUROBINDO: Quite so. I had the experience long before I knew anything about Supermind. And when the mind becomes silent, things may come from anywhere: from the Cosmic Vital or Cosmic Mind, from above—Intuition—or from within. Some people think that everything comes from the Mother or the Divine. It is a little dangerous to think, as the writer of one of these letters does ...
... experience in which we discover that the Inconscient from which all starts is apparent only, for in it there is an involved Consciousness with endless possibilities, a consciousness not limited but cosmic and infinite, a concealed and self-imprisoned Divine, imprisoned in Matter but with every potentiality held in its secret depths. Out of this apparent Inconscience each potentiality is revealed in... intelligence on its own level, for the consciousness to which the origin of this phenomenon belongs and to which it stands as it were automatically justified in a supra-intellectual knowledge, is a cosmic Page 66 and not an individualised human intelligence; it sees in larger spaces, it has another vision... effective negation - with all its consequences -- of the Power, Light, Peace, Bliss was very evidently one. If it is asked Why even if possible it should have been accepted, the answer nearest to the Cosmic Truth which the human intelligence can make is that in the relations or in the transition of the Divine in the Oneness to the Divine in the Many, this ominous possible became at a certain point an ...
... necessary knowledge and experience are usually lacking which would tell him that this is only a very uncertain and mixed beginning; he may not realize at once that he is still in the cosmic Ignorance not in the cosmic Truth, much less in the Transcendental Truth, and that whatever formative or dynamic idea-truths may have Come down into him are partial only and yet further diminished by their presentation... accept 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... humility also save from much danger and trouble. One can then pass quickly beyond into a clearer Light where if there is still much mixture, incertitude and struggle, yet the orientation is towards the cosmic Truth and not to a half-illumined prolongation of Maya and ignorance. I have described in general terms with its main features and possibilities this state of consciousness just across the border ...
... that he is not only himself but also all others, that the total 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... individual self with the total self, of his individual will with the total will, of his individual action with the total action.... His cosmic individuality would know the cosmic forces and their movement and their significance as part of himself, and the truth-consciousness in him would see the right relation at each step and find the dynamic right expression of that relation." 1 Unity, mutuality... know in what consists his true fulfilment. Groping blindly in the world, he is tossed hither and thither by the impact of world-forces. Vain of his freewill, he is merely a tool in the hands of cosmic energies. His nature is too complex for him to grapple with it. In his apparent manifestation he seems to himself to be a multiperson. He has in him a physical being, a life-being, a mental being ...
... Mother's Chronicles - Book Three 2 The Cosmic Tradition They met 'ere long.' By that time Mirra had read every available scrap of the Cosmic Philosophy. "Theon called it 'The Tradition'." She drank and she drank at this fount of knowledge. It seemed to her that she had long thirsted for something which was now being given to her in... in abundance. And she just could not get enough of it. "You know," said Mother to Satprem, "the 'Cosmic' had quite an interesting action in my life. I was completely against 'God.' The European notion of God was utterly repulsive to me." She added picturesquely, "You see, the idea of God sitting placidly in his heaven, then creating the world, and next looking pleasurably at it, and later telling... telling you, 'How well done it is!' 'Oh,' I said, 'I won't have that monster!' Page 27 And naturally, at the same time, that prevented me from having any experience. But with the 'Cosmic Teaching' about the inner god — Théon's key idea was this: the inner god (Mother touched her breast), the one who is inside each of us —"brrf!" She made a gesture as if walls crumbled. "The experience ...
... or at least can only inhabit a pure transcendent state of non-cosmic existence or else a non-existence. All cosmic existence or all that we call existence is a state of ignorance. Even the highest individual perfection, even the most blissful cosmic condition is no better than a supreme ignorance. All that is individual, all that is cosmic has to be austerely renounced by the seeker of the absolute Truth... Supreme is Brahman, the one Reality which is not only the spiritual material and conscious substance of all the ideas and forces and forms of the universe, but their origin, support and possessor, the cosmic and supracosmic Spirit. All the last terms to which we can reduce the universe, Force and Matter, Name and Form, Purusha and Prakriti, are still not entirely that which the universe really is, either... nature. As all that we are is the play and form, the mental, psychic, vital and physical expression of a supreme Self unconditioned by mind and life and body, the universe too is the play and form and cosmic soul-expression and nature-expression of a supreme Existence which is unconditioned by force and matter, unconditioned by idea and name and form, unconditioned by the fundamental distinction of Purusha ...
... synthesis was a synthesis of the Ultimate Reality that was at once 'tad ekam' (That One), the Deva, the supreme person, and also the source of cosmic forces and gods, the sons of Aditi. The Vedic synthesis was a synthesis of the Divine as the transcendental, cosmic, and individual. It was also a synthesis of seven planes of existence that provided the basis for linking Matter, Prithvi, with the Supreme... Because the object sought after is not an individual achievement of divine realization for the sake of the individual, but something to be gained for the earth- consciousness here, a cosmic, not solely a supra-cosmic achievement. The thing to be gained also is the bringing in of a Power of Consciousness (the Supramental) not yet organized or active directly in earth-nature, even in the spiritual life... an epical account, of the psychological being of man in its highest flights and widest rangings of divine knowledge, power, joy, life and glory; these flights and rangings were synthesized with the cosmic existence of the Gods, pursued behind the symbols of material universe in those superior planes which are hidden from the physical sense and the material mentality. The discovery of the supermind by ...
... ascension from Mind is directed upwards towards the mental silence and quietistic realization of the Self or when the emphasis in the yogic endeavour is sought to be developed mainly by the aid of cosmic powers and cosmic Beings or Gods of the higher planes. It may also be said that by means of ascension on the higher planes of consciousness between the mind and the supermind one can attain to varieties of... and 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... mass or body of the identity knowledge. Page 55 Overmind and Spiritual Transformation At the source of the Intuitive Mind, there is, according to Sri Aurobindo, a superconscient cosmic Mind in direct contact with the Supermind. That superconscient comic Mind is the Overmind. It is when, as a result of the ascent to the overmind, a descent of the overmental Consciousness is accomplished ...
... glory with the cosmic existence of the gods, pursued behind the symbols of the material universe into those superior planes which are hidden from the physical sense and the material mentality. The crown of this synthesis was in the experience of the Vedic Rishis something divine, transcendent and blissful in whose unity the increasing soul of man and the eternal divine fullness of the cosmic godheads meet... general human mind; but we find here a sense so entirely subtle, figurative and symbolic given to the word "sacrifice" and the conception of the gods is so little local or mythological, so entirely cosmic and philosophical that we can easily accept both as expressive of a practical fact of psychology and general law of Nature and so apply them to the modern conceptions of interchange between life and... its extreme issues. It does not cleave asunder, but reconciles and unifies. The thought of the Gita is not pure Monism although it sees in one unchanging, pure, eternal Self the foundation of all cosmic existence, nor Mayavada although it speaks of the Maya of the three modes of Prakriti omnipresent in the created world; nor is it qualified Monism although it places in the One his eternal supreme ...
... all forms are made. In that ether cosmic Life and Mind move as the Breath of things, an atmospheric sea in the ethereal, and constitute from it all these forms; but what they constitute are merely name and form and not realities; the form of the pot we see is a form of earth only and goes back into the earth, earth a form resolvable into the cosmic Life, the cosmic Life a movement that falls to rest... when we limit ourselves by identification with these things, we found our knowledge on a falsehood, we falsify our determining view and our practical experience not only of our self-being but of our cosmic existence and of our individual activities. The Self is an eternal utter Being and pure existence of which all these things are becomings. From this knowledge we have to proceed; this knowledge... Therefore we must concentrate again and see and realise also this which persists so sovereignly and must know the Self as no other than the Supreme Soul which is the Lord of Nature, the upholder of cosmic existence by whose sanction it proceeds, whose will compels its multitudinous actions and determines its perpetual cycles. And we must yet concentrate once again and see and realise and must know the ...
... Such is the constituent principle of the various worlds of cosmic existence and the various planes of our being; they are as if a ladder plunging down into Matter and perhaps below it, rising up into the heights of the Spirit, even perhaps to the point at which existence escapes out of cosmic being into ranges of a supra-cosmic Absolute,—so at least it is averred in the world-system of the Buddhists... subjective existence below and behind of which our surface consciousness is only a fringe or an outer court. We come to see that what is present to our physical senses is only the material shell of cosmic existence and what is obvious in our superficial mentality is only the margin of immense continents which lie behind unexplored. To explore them must be the work of another knowledge than that of physical... the lower triple world of our being, the trailokya of the ancient sages. Living on these we are, whatever the enlargement of our powers and our consciousness, still living within the limits of the cosmic gods and subject, though with a much subtler, easier and modified subjection, to the reign of Prakriti over Purusha. To achieve real freedom and mastery we have to ascend to a yet higher level of the ...
... by the 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... is Nature, Force or World-Principle (Prakriti, Shakti, Page 25 Maya). 2 The play of these two principles is the Life of the universe. The Gods are Brahman representing Itself in cosmic Personalities expressive of the one Godhead who, in their impersonal action, appear as the various play of the principles of Nature. The "others" are sarvāṇi bhūtāni of a later verse, all becomings... emerges out of the Multiplicity and changes entirely the values of the latter to our consciousness. This self-unfolding is governed by conditions determined by the complexity of consciousness in its cosmic action. For consciousness is not simple or homogeneous, it is septuple. That is to say, it constitutes itself into seven forms or grades of conscious activity descending from pure Being to physical ...
... VI (a) It is possible to look upon Yoga as a means of escape from the world and its life. It may be argued that the world- existence is a cosmic illusion or that it is born out of cosmic ignorance and desire, and that there is no issue in it except to find out the quickest means to come out of this sorrowful world-existence. In fact, extreme forms of Yoga have... object; (2) the object sought after is not an individual achievement of divine realisation for the sake of the individual, but something to be gained for the earth consciousness here, a cosmic, not solely a supra-cosmic achievement; and (3) a method has been preconized for achieving this purpose which is as total and integral as the aim set before it, namely, the total and integral change of the consciousness... "The human soul's individual liberation and enjoyment of union with the Divine in spiritual being, consciousness and delight must always be the first object of the Yoga; its free enjoyment of the cosmic unity of the Divine becomes a second object; but out of that a third appears, the effectuation of the meaning of the divine unity with all being by a sympathy and participation in the spiritual purpose ...
... —Book VII, Canto 6 Compare: "Nirvana" a poem by Sri Aurobindo. also: "It watched the figure of the cosmic game, But the thought and inner life in forms seemed dead "A hollow physical shell persisted still. All seemed a brilliant shadow of itself, A cosmic film of scenes and images: The enduring mass and outline of the hills Was a design sketched on a silent mind... when That is seen. —Book VI I Canto 6 Compare: Rig Veda: "When It is approached by Thought it vanishes" Rig Veda I. "Or she might wake into God's quietude Beyond the cosmic day and cosmic night And rest appeased in his white eternity —Book VII, Canto 6 Compare: "...the rapture-white foam-vest of the waters of Eternity" Bird of Fire "As if Love's... knowledge attains—enjoys —immortality" . "In a flaming moment of apocalypse The Incarnation thrust aside its veil" —Book X, Canto 4 Compare: the 'Visva Rupa'—Vision of the cosmic form Chapter XI Gita. Lines beginning with "The lowest of these earths was still a heaven" Book XI, Canto I and describing the subtle earth are comparable in substance to the sonnet "The other ...
... the gods and the self, and the self in us is greater than the cosmic Powers, its Godward destination more vital to our perfection and self-fulfilment than any transfiguration of these lesser deities. Therefore not only must the gods find their one Godhead and resolve themselves into it; that is to say, not only must the cosmic principles working in us resolve themselves into the working of the... in the individual,—and then to get behind these to the Beyond which they represent. The practical relation of the gods to Brahman in this process of divine knowledge has been already determined. The cosmic functionings through which the gods act, mind, life, speech, senses, body, must become aware of something beyond them which governs them, by which they are and move, by whose force they evolve, enlarge... the mind and senses recede inward and fall into an unending trance and the life be for ever stilled? This is possible, if the soul so wills, but it is not inevitable and indispensable. The Mind is cosmic, one in all the universe; so too are the Life, and the Sense, so too is Matter of the body; and when they exist in and for the Brahman only, they will not only know this but will sense, feel and live ...
... elevation to a diviner spiritual level as its final utility. Again, it includes in its objects of Yoga not only liberation, 1 which is the one all-mastering preoccupation of the specific systems, but a cosmic enjoyment 2 of the power of the Spirit, which the others may take incidentally on the way, in part, casually, but avoid making a motive or object. It is a bolder and larger system. In the method... only aim; it takes on its way a full perfection and enjoyment of the spiritual power, light and joy in the human existence, and even it has a glimpse of a supreme experience in which liberation and cosmic action and enjoyment are unified in a final overcoming of all oppositions and dissonances. It is this wider view of our spiritual potentialities from which we begin, but we add another stress which... . The human soul's individual liberation and enjoyment of union with the Divine in spiritual being, consciousness and delight must always be the first object of the Yoga; its free enjoyment of the cosmic unity of the Divine becomes a second object; but out of that a third appears, the effectuation of the meaning of the divine unity with all beings by a sympathy and participation in Page 613 ...
... the Yoga of Knowledge, for immergence, for escape from cosmic existence, for release into the absolute and ineffable Parabrahman who is beyond all cosmic being. The seeker of this ultimate release may take other realisations on his way, may realise the Lord of the universe, the Purusha who manifests Himself in all creatures, may arrive at the cosmic consciousness, may know and feel his unity with all... 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 active as well as the silent Brahman and can securely live in the divine freedom as well as rest in it, we have completed the second movement of the Path by which the integrality ...
... vacancy." I suppose this may be a cosmic silence which is always open to any universal force (which does not care about the good or the bad). But there does exist a silence which is open only to the higher knowledge and not to the mixture below. We may call it the soul's reticence. Yes, except that reticence is not an apposite word, stillness is better. The cosmic silence also is not apposite... apposite because whatever forces pass through it, the cosmic silence is not disturbed or distressed by them. What they mean is an inert vacancy of the nature, not of the soul. The soul's silence is always good; true silence always is. I am told that all difficulties like ego, sex etc. would vanish if one says: "I am Brahman, peace, light, knowledge, power. How can anything rise against... mind to Overmind, for in any of these the Self can be realised. It brings about a subjective transformation; the instrumental Nature is only so far transformed that it becomes an instrument for the Cosmic Divine to get some work done while the self within remains calm and free and united to the Divine. But this is an incomplete individual transformation — the full transformation of the instrumental ...
... until he was somewhat recovered and could travel. He then returned to Tlemcen. But before doing that he told the members of the Cosmic movement that as the Heart of the Movement had stopped beating, the publication of the Cosmic Review would stop too. Thus the Cosmic Review was published only for seven years —from January 1902 to December 1908. It was in the November 1908 issue that Mirra... nearest available —rather than to a hospital because of her critical condition. The newspaper states further that a telegram was sent to her Page 255 husband, Max Theon, editor of The Cosmic Review in Algeria, who arrived by S.S. Cygne. She was buried in the cemetary of the Croix-Grouville in the island of Jersey. Théon of course had to register her demise before the burial, and ...
... into deep forests and far away into open meadows for a full-breath draught of that heavenly element. But now physically, materially, we know that the radio-waves and innumerable other cosmic waves have been constantly, ceaselessly hammering, churning the earth-atmosphere all around us. Human bodies are immersed in a real turmoil. They are bathed in a whirlwind constantly. The nerves and... time immemorial, but that they have been corning, arriving, adding ceaselessly to the volume already there and continuing to do so more and more as time advances. For it is said that these particles, cosmic rays, radio-waves, have been on their journey for such a long time from the very beginning of time that they are arriving only now into the earth atmosphere. And always there are others that are arriving... change in the habitat involves a change in the form, the organs and functions of the body: that is what is meant by the appearance of a new type of creature adapted to the new conditions. Even so today cosmic travels are forcing the human body to adapt itself to new conditions and it is a very conscious discipline. The change in the body of living beings in the previous stages is due to an unconscious pressure ...
... ops and into deep forests and far away into open meadows for a full-breath draught of that heavenly element. But now physically, materially, we know that the radiowaves and innumerable other cosmic waves have been constantly, ceaselessly hammering, churning the earth-atmosphere all around us. Human bodies are immersed in a real turmoil. They are bathed in a whirlwind constantly. The nerves and... time immemorial, but that they have been coming, arriving, adding ceaselessly to the volume already there, and continuing to do so more and more as time advances. For it is said that these particles, cosmic rays, radio-waves, have been on their journey for such a long time from the very beginning of time that they are arriving only now into the earth atmosphere. And always there are others that are arriving... a change in the form, the organs and functions of the body: that is what is meant by Page 243 the appearance of a new type of creature adapted to the new conditions. Even so today cosmic travels are forcing the human body to adapt itself to new conditions and it is a very conscious discipline. The change in the body of living beings in the previous stages is due to an unconscious pressure ...
... mountain-tops and into deep forests and far away into open meadows for a full-breath draught of that heavenly element. But now physically, materially, we know that the radio waves and innumerable other cosmic waves have been constantly, ceaselessly hammering, churning the earth-atmosphere all around us. Human bodies are immersed in a real turmoil. They are bathed in a whirlwind constantly. The nerves and... time immemorial, but that they have been coming, arriving, adding ceaselessly to the volume already there and continuing to do so more and more as time advances. For it is said that these particles, cosmic rays, radio-waves, have been on their journey for such a long time from the very beginning of time that they are arriving only now into the earth atmosphere. And always there are others that are arriving... involves a change in the form, the organs and functions of the body: that is what is meant by Page 315 the appearance of a new type of creature adapted to the new conditions. Even so today cosmic travels are forcing the human body to adapt itself to new conditions and it is a very conscious discipline. The change in the body of living beings in the previous stages is due to an unconscious pressure ...
... itself will be removed and the full truth of things become apparent, the cosmic Truth free itself from the cosmic Ignorance. In fact, what is happening is that the Ignorance is seeking and preparing to transform itself by a progressive illumination of its darknesses into the Knowledge that is already concealed within it; the cosmic truth manifested in its real essence and figure would by that transformation... Ignorance and the true and total nature of the Knowledge. For if these two are independent, equal and original powers of the Consciousness, then the possibility of a cosmic Illusion pursues us. If Ignorance is the very character of cosmic existence, then our experience of the universe, if not the universe itself, becomes illusory. Or, if Ignorance is not the very grain of our natural being, but still... opposite of Page 503 the ideal divine Truth and all the circumstances of that opposition are founded upon the being's ignorance of himself and of the Self of all, outcome of an original cosmic Ignorance whose result is self-limitation and the founding of life on division in being, division in consciousness, division in will and force, division in delight, division and limitation in knowledge ...
... universal consciousness, a capacity in self-awareness of infinite existence to perceive a certain Truth in itself and direct its force of creation along the line of that Truth, which has presided over the cosmic manifestation. But why should we interpose any special power or faculty between the infinite Consciousness itself and the result of its workings? May not this Self-awareness of the Infinite range... hold of Force, holds her instead and fulfils in her illumined that for which she went out from Him at the first. This distinction between the lower and the higher Maya is the link in thought and in cosmic Fact which the pessimistic and illusionist philosophies miss or neglect. To them the mental Maya, or perhaps an Overmind, is the creatrix of the world, and a world created by mental Maya would indeed... in the descent and the ascent. It is an instrument of the descending creation, not the secret creatrix,—a transitional stage in the ascent, not our high original source and the consummate term of cosmic existence. The philosophies which recognise Mind alone as the creator of the worlds or accept an original principle with Mind as the only mediator between it and the forms of the universe, may be ...
... will not turn back till she sights and claims her hidden self. Her first series of insights disclose to her, "the cosmic past, the crypt-seed and the mystic origins,/The shadowy beginnings of world fate". It is a vivid and breathless pageantry—from the cosmic whirl of atomic space, the appearance of huddled masses of matter, the emergence of life' in algae, plant and tree, in insect, bird... from our sight. 273 But this is no more than a first report or preliminary finding; deeper meanings, clearer purposes, emerge on a closer look at the human drama that is being played on the cosmic stage. Not out of a "blind Nature-Force" has life emerged, and then mind; the sea of inconscience carries the potencies of life, mind, and any powers that may be above mind, though all as yet held ...
... and poetry, really derives from the universal ananda, the cosmic ecstasy of the Dance of Shiva, "which multiplies the body of the God numberlessly to the view: it leaves that white existence precisely where and what it was, ever is and ever will be; its sole absolute object is the joy of the dancing." 20 Viewed on this cosmic scale, "Delight is existence, Delight is the secret of creation... delight, power; overhead aesthesis is thus "an essential aesthesis...a fundamental and universal aesthesis", putting truth first, though not by any means ignoring beauty or the other aspects of the cosmic play. What this really means is that, when the overhead aesthesis actively functions, truth ceases to be anything abstract or formless, but is seen to tingle with a life and beauty of its own, and ...
... were, of the existence-status. Sri Aurobindo never denies the unequal realness in this connotation. The condition of Cosmic Ignorance has to be psychologically less real than the supreme Spirit's, direct consciousness and delight of itself — less real even than the condition of Cosmic Knowledge which obtains on "planes" where the supreme Spirit is luminously self-deployed in organised interplay of ...
... 296 Two golden serpents round the lintel, an eagle with massive wings above, doves at the cornices; inside the court, as in a South Indian temple, sculptured gods snapping moments in the cosmic play; on the walls, pictures conveying the "hieratic message of the climbing planes": the whole a parable of the "extension of the self of God/... And his passion and his birth and life and death/And... the statues of the minor gods and goddesses and the bhaktas and the god-intoxicated, the paintings on the walls and the sculptured pillars and walls reproducing scenes from epic and purana, the cosmic play and the tāndav dance, and moving from sacred enclosure to another enclosure, always moving within, observing the vāhanās, being enraptured by the ritual, the swaying of the lights and the ...
... A great revelation of a great truth that concerns the whole "world. We know also that the earth is the symbol of the cosmic evolution. What creation means has been epitomised in earth's history: the earth has been chosen as the field and means of working out a cosmic plan. As the earth is the representative of the world, so India is the representative of the earth. For the evolution of the ...
... A great revelation of a great truth that concerns the whole world. We know also that the earth is the symbol of the cosmic evolution. What creation means has been epitomised in earth's history: the earth has been chosen as the field and means of working out a cosmic plan. As the earth is the representative of the world, so India is the representative of the earth. For the evolution of the ...
... struggle upwards towards cosmic expression of its own truth of the Bliss that supports all things. To ask why this plunge was taken at all, why such an evolution slow, gratuitous, painful should ever have been undertaken is natural for man struggling painfully with his own transience, ignorance and suffering—inevitable consequences of that plunge or fall—but from the cosmic point of view Page... to be born from a cosmic Inconscience which, pushed somehow towards world-building, does what it can or does what it must but in either case knows nothing of itself or of its own action. Yet is there a meaning in these workings, a conscious intention; our life is led by the will of some secret Being, secret perhaps within its own phenomenon, towards the solution of this packed cosmic Mystery, the unrolling... cosmos that evolves and the individual is only an ephemeral member of the species, the species a means of this cosmic evolution. Mind is indeed the term and the mental human being the crown of this inexplicable emergence; when human progress is over, when the race decays and perishes, the cosmic evolution will be at an Page 242 end, for it has nothing more then it can do. In man it has shot ...
... 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 straining vital man; he in turn transmutes himself into the subtle mental and psychical being; this subtle thinker grows into the wide, multiple and cosmic man open on all sides of him to all the multitudinous inflowings of the Truth; the cosmic soul rising in attainment strives as the spiritual man for a higher peace, joy and harmony. These are the five Aryan types, each of them a great people... of abstract ideas or of psychological and physical functions of Nature. To the Vedic seers they are living realities; the vicissitudes of the human soul represent a cosmic struggle not merely of principles and tendencies but of the cosmic Powers which support and embody them. These are the Gods and the Demons. On the world-stage and in the individual soul the same real drama with the same personages... rising degree of consciousness of which it is the objective symbol and must house a kindred internal order of things. To understand the Veda we must seize this Vedic parallelism and distinguish the cosmic gradations to which it leads. We rediscover the same system behind the later Puranic symbols and it is thence that we can derive its tabulated series most simply and clearly. For there are seven principles ...
... 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 presences, but to the intellect only words, and visible, sensible... already beginning to return, something which belongs to the future. An Indian temple, to whatever godhead it may be built, is in its inmost reality an altar raised to the divine Self, a house of the Cosmic Spirit, an appeal and aspiration to the Infinite. As that and in the light of that seeing and conception it must in the first place be understood, and everything else must be seen in that setting and... begins and to which its work when finished returns or rather lives in it as in its self and natural atmosphere. Indian sacred architecture constantly represents the greatest oneness of the self, the cosmic, the infinite in the immensity of its world-design, the multitude of its features of self-expression, lakṣaṇa , (yet the oneness is greater than and independent of their totality and in itself in ...
... physical consciousness and by this transference a 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... which supports our individual soul manifestation and soul development, but knows itself to be one being with cosmic Godhead and universal Nature and can stand back from that even as a transcendent spirit. By this discovery the being in us exceeds its separate individuality, enters into a cosmic consciousness, is released into a supracosmic transcendence. ... picture. The aim the Yoga puts before itself is in essence the same as the object of other Yogas—the realisation of the Divine. But it is not the Divine in one of its aspects, personal or impersonal, cosmic or transcendent, Self or Lord or [ sentence not completed ] 153 That Yoga is full or perfect which enables us to fulfil entirely God's purpose in us in this universe. All Yoga which ...
... Savitri IV Song of Myself and Savitri While it is natural to see Savitri as a sort of continuation and fulfilment of the two earlier 'cosmic' epic narratives— the Divina Commedia and Paradise Lost —there were other formative influences as well, and some of these too deserve mention and even some scrutiny. The primary inspiration flowed... blank verse that was Upanishadic in its packed clarity and Kalidasian in its light-glancing unhurried movement; and his sense of structure or power of architectural construction 'contained' the cosmic drama in the old legend of Savitri and Satyavan. But the Yogi and the metaphysician was also a student and critic of poetry, he was responsive to new movements in the world of poetry, and he was ...
... for transformation and in union with the Divine Knowledge, Will and Love. Secondly, to develop the Yogic consciousness—i.e. to universalise the being on all the planes, become aware of the cosmic being and cosmic forces and be in union with the Divine on all the planes up to the Overmind. Thirdly, to come into contact with the transcendent Divine, beyond the Overmind, through the supramental consciousness... old Yogas go straight from mind to the absolute Divine, regard all dynamic existence as Ignorance, Illusion or Lila: when you enter the static and immutable Divine Truth, they say, you pass out of cosmic existence. They [ the ancient Yogas ] aimed at realisation and did not care Page 23 about divinisation, except the Tantric and some others. The aim however even in these was rather ...
... but it manifests itself in its various aspects which are primarily cosmic, and each one of them represents the Supreme Being of the Ultimate Reality or God; these cosmic beings are described as gods. The prayer starts with an address to Mitra, Varuna, Aryaman, and then to Indra, Brihaspati, Vishnu, Brahman and Vayu. These cosmic Page 79 beings are considered (in the psychological inte... considered to be the cosmic being of the illumined intelligence (Ibid., pp. 241-262), and to Brihaspati who is considered the master of the revelatory word, the word which emanates from the depth of the soul (Ibid., pp. 303-313). The three other gods who are objects of the prayer are Vayu, Vishnu and Brahman. According to the Vedic and Upanishadic symbolism, Vayu represents the cosmic being that dynamises... plane, 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 ...
... created what is probably the greatest epic in the English language.... I venture the judgement that it is the most comprehensive, integrated, beautiful and perfect cosmic poem ever composed. It ranges symbolically from a primordial cosmic void, through earth's darkness and struggles, to the highest realms of Supramental spiritual existence, and illumines every important concern of man, through verse... g conjugal problem, more even that a recurring human problem; it is a cosmic problem, it is a crisis in earth's evolutionary history. And the Divine Mother has come down as Power and Grace to defeat the Shadow and redeem the "soul of the world that is Satyavan". Page 666 The background infinities and cosmic significances notwithstanding, the splendour of the eternal feminine that... the "Worlds" have fallen into a state of manuscript chaos, corrections upon Page 654 corrections, additions upon additions, rearrangements on rearrangements out of which perhaps some cosmic beauty will emerge! 7 The original small passage about Aswapathy and the other worlds was ultimately to become, "under the oestrus of the restless urge for more and more perfection", the long ...
... and forties when the supreme cosmic epic was being architectured into its many-splendoured form. 3- Savitri, as we now have it, is in twelve Books of forty-nine 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... created what is probably the greatest epic in the English language... . I venture the judgement that it is the most comprehensive, integrated, beautiful and perfect cosmic poem ever composed. It ranges symbolically from a primordial cosmic void, through earth's darkness and struggles, to the highest realms of Supramental spiritual existence, and illumines every important concern of man, through verse... Savitri was now a major preoccupation with Sri Aurobindo, and once he dictated four to five hundred lines without a break, "whose beauty and flow," says Nirodbaran, "were a delight for their sweep of cosmic vision and their magical language." By 1950, it was as though a sense of urgency had seized even the unhurried imperturbable Sri Aurobindo. "I want to finish Savitri soon," he told Nirod, and ...
... 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... themselves in its Chit or self-consciousness, but for all cosmic purposes avyakta, unexpressed, undefined. To define it is first necessary that the general undifferentiated self-consciousness should dwell by particular concentration of consciousness, by Tapas or Force of self-knowledge, on the thing in itself latent in undifferentiated Cosmic Being. This self-dwelling of Tapas is, first, an act of seeing... 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 cosmic Bliss, Page 721 (therefore the divine world in which infinite Bliss is the basic ...
... ess of his own, so too there is a universal consciousness, a cosmic Being, a universal Mind, a 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... parātparam , it does not mean that it is a state of Non-existence or Non-consciousness, but beyond even the highest spiritual substratum (the "foundation above" in the luminous paradox of the Rig Veda) of cosmic existence and consciousness. As it is evident from the description of Chinese Tao and the Buddhist Shunya that that is a Nothingness in which all is, so with the negation of consciousness here. Su... seeing 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 ...
... the rejection of the cosmic and physical life, has been the cause of much of the gradual decline of Indian vigour and vitality in the later centuries of Indian history. As Sri Aurobindo states: "Now certainly there is an emphasis in the Upanishads increasing steadily as time goes on into an over-emphasis, on the salvation of the individual, on his rejection of the lower cosmic life... .It does not... not exist in the earlier Vedic revelation where individual salvation is regarded as a means towards a great cosmic victory, the eventual conquest of heaven and earth by the superconscient Truth and Bliss, and those who have achieved the victory in the past are the conscious helpers of their yet battling posterity. If this earlier note is Page 72 missing in the Upanishads, then, — for... synthesis of Gita's yoga is that we, as individuals, have a central role, and that we are here to move inwardly towards a greater consciousness and a supreme existence, not by a total exclusion of our cosmic nature, but by a higher and spiritual fulfillment of all that we now essentially are. There is to be a change from our mortal imperfection to a divine perfection of being. Sri Aurobindo explains the ...
... saving element being present, and determine another orientation. But to understand the working of this 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... behind visible events in the world there is always a mass of invisible forces at work unknown to the outward minds of men and by Yoga (by going inward and establishing a conscious connection with the cosmic Self and Force and forces) one can become conscious of these forces, intervene consciously in the play, to some extent at least determine things in the result of the play. All that has nothing to do... about your removal to Burdwan and, if it succeeds, you have not to be troubled or shaken or disappointed, but to accept and make use of all that happens for your sadhana and progress. For the play of cosmic forces, the will in the cosmos—as one might say—does not always work apparently in favour of a smooth and direct line for the work or the sadhana, it often brings in what seem to be upheavals, sudden ...
... Will does not so much guide or govern the development of cosmic life as consummate it in itself by an act of power 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... of forms or intershock of forces; all would exist and not be worked out,—a spaceless self-consciousness purely subjective would contain all things in an infinite subjective grasp as in the mind of a cosmic poet or dreamer, but would not distribute itself through all in an indefinite objective self-extension. Or again, if Time alone were real, its successions would be a pure development in which one strain... that exists always, one and whole, that holds Time in its grasp, that sees past, present and future in a single regard. This, then, is the first operative principle of the divine Supermind; it is a cosmic vision which is all-comprehensive, all-pervading, all-inhabiting. Because it comprehends all things in being and static self-awareness, subjective, timeless, spaceless, therefore it comprehends all ...
... 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 possibilities... together in a reconciling vision." "Even to what is discordant it gives a place in the system of cosmic concordances—discords become a part of a vast harmony therefore of beauty. It feels Oneness, sympathy, love for all—sees the face of the Divine every- where." "The Overmind is a principle of cosmic Truth and a vast and endless catholicity is its very spirit." "Overmind is a creator of truths... ___________________________ 8 Life Divine 9 Letters on Savitri Page 99 APPENDIX III OVERMIND "At the source of this Intuition we discover a super-conscient cosmic Mind in direct contact with the Supramental Truth-Consciousness, and original intensity determinant of all mental energies,—not Mind as we know but an Overmind that covers as with the wide wings of ...
... 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 with Nature,... the widening and illumination of human nature, the bridging up of the chasm between the human mind and the higher realms of the Spirit, the direct and dynamic contact with the cosmic forces, the union and communion with the cosmic Divine—cannot transform the whole human nature into the Supernature. To the mind that considers spiritual values and realisations in the gross, and possesses no insight into... a creative complete- ness in the will and force of his being; for, they too will be united with the Will and Force of the Supreme, which expresses itself in cosmic terms even while it transcends them.... "The complete individual is the cosmic individual, since only when we have taken the universe into ourselves—and transcended it—can our individuality be complete."¹ The supramental transformation ...
... Spirit, the cosmic godhead and its myriad forces throwing up myriad forms; the world-existence there appears as a play of ever-shifting veils upon the face of one ineffable reality, as a 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... the creative Truth-consciousness ( surya savitri). In the Supermind things exist in their perfect spiritual reality; each is consciously the divine reality in its transcendent essence, its cosmic extension, its spiritual individuality; the diversity of a manifested existence is there, but the mutually exclusive separativeness has not yet arisen. The ego, the knot of separativity, appears at... actual result of the movement of Nescience—of Involution—has been an increasing negation of the Spirit, but its hidden purpose is ultimately to embody the Spirit in Matter, to express here below in cosmic Time-Space the splendours of the timeless Reality. The material body came into existence bringing with it inevitably, as it seemed, mortality; it appeared even to be fashioned out of mortality, in ...
... Spirit, the cosmic godhead and its myriad forces throwing up myriad forms; the world-existence there appears as a play of ever-shifting veils upon the face of one ineffable reality, as a 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... the creative Truth- consciousness (surya savitri). In the Supermind things exist in their perfect spiritual reality; each is consciously the divine reality in its transcendent essence, its cosmic extension, its spiritual individuality; the diversity of a manifested existence is there, but the mutually exclusive separativeness has not yet arisen. The ego, the knot of separativity, appears at... actual result of the movement of Nescience —of Involution—has been an increasing negation of the Spirit, but its hidden purpose is ultimately to embody the Spirit in Matter, to express here below in cosmic Time-Space the splendours of the timeless Reality. The material body came into existence bringing with it inevitably, as it seemed, mortality; it appeared even to be fashioned out of mortality, in ...
... Spirit, the cosmic godhead and its myriad forces throwing up myriad forms; the world-existence there appears as a play of ever-shifting veils upon the face of one ineffable reality, as a 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... as the creative Truth-consciousness (surya savitri). In the Supermind things exist in their perfect spiritual reality; each is consciously the divine reality in its transcendent essence, its cosmic extension, its, spiritual individuality; the diversity of a manifested existence is there, but the mutually exclusive separativeness has not yet arisen. The ego, the knot of separativity, appears at... actual result of the movement of Nescience – of Involution – has been an increasing negation of the Spirit, but its hidden purpose is ultimately to embody the Spirit in Matter, to express here below in cosmic Time-Space the splendours of the timeless Reality. The material body came into existence bringing with it inevitably, as it seemed, mortality; it appeared even to be fashioned out of mortality, in ...
... impregnated by his potent influx. It is the ferment of his conception that sets the cosmic masses in motion and controls the first currents of the biosphere. It is the preparation for his birth that accelerates the progress of instinct and the full development of thought on earth... All these preparations were cosmically, biologically, necessary if Christ was to gain a footing on the human scene. And... soul is the spark of the divine Fire and that soul in man opens out to self-knowledge as it develops out of ignorance of self into self-being. The Divine also, pouring itself into the forms of the cosmic existence, is 1. Essays on the Gita (New York, 1950), pp. 12-13. Page 84 revealed ordinarily in an efflorescence of its powers, in energies and magnitudes of its knowledge... powers of Nature, - found them to be insufficient vehicles, and the Spirit finally created the form of man which the gods saw to be excellently made and sufficient and they entered into it for their cosmic functions. This is a clear parable of the creation of more and more developed forms until one was found that was capable of housing a developed consciousness. In the Puranas it is stated that the tamasic ...
... these million creatures with their Page 124 infinite diversities and various relations and it appears to us behind these as the soul and force of the action of the gods,—that is to say, the cosmic powers and qualities of the Divine which preside over the workings of the life of the universe and constitute to our perception different universal forms of the one Existence, or, it may be, various... begins to perceive and acknowledge in his acts the value of the self in others as well as the power and needs of his own ego, begins to perceive universal Nature behind his own workings and through the cosmic godheads gets some glimpse of the One and the Infinite, is he on his way to the transcendence of his limitation by the ego and the discovery of his soul. He begins to discover a law other than that... self in others are one being and this self is something higher than the ego, an infinite, an impersonal, a universal existence in whom all move and have their being,—when he perceives that all the cosmic gods to whom he offers his sacrifice are forms of one infinite Godhead and when again, leaving all his limited and limiting conceptions of that one Godhead, he perceives him to be the supreme and ineffable ...
... of the moon, Ambrosia ultimate For dream's tongue, is now brought On a photographic plate. The savour of that silence— The impossible—we speak forth. But through this cosmic capture More strange grows intimate earth: Behind rapt eyes that scan The back of the Man in the Moon, Stirs deeper some almighty dark, A self that is more than man. ...
... successions of Cause and Circumstance. This superconscient Existence, one, conscious of itself, conscious both of its eternal peace and its omniscient and omnipotent force is also conscious of our cosmic existence which it holds in itself, inspires secretly and omnipotently governs. It is the Lord of the Isha Upanishad who inhabits all the creations of His Force, all form of movement in the ever mobile... transcended name and form. This victory, this supreme immortality it must achieve here as an embodied soul in the mortal framework of things. Afterwards, like the Brahman, it transcends and embraces the cosmic existence without being subject to it. Personal freedom, personal fulfilment is then achieved by the liberation of the soul from imprisonment in the form of this changing personality and by its ascent... subjection, a help brought to the world and not a help to be derived from it, a descent of the ensouled superconscient existence not from any personal necessity, but from the universal need in the cosmic labour for those yet unfree and unfulfilled to be helped and strengthened by the force that has already described the path up to the goal in its experience and achieved under the same conditions the ...
... 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: Yes, when there is ...
... her. They support matter, life and mind and in obedience to the divine command create this complex world "Where the infant spirit learns through mind and sense To read the letters of the cosmic script "And search for the secret meaning of the whole." The million-sided movement of the one Reality was subjected by these forces of knowledge to the limitation of time, space and form... penetrate the subliminal mind of the cosmos or of the higher power and bring from there the intended potentialities. "Tracing the curve of a transcendent Power, They framed the cabbala of the cosmic Law". They permeate all the forces of nature and forge their ends under the mask of necessity and chance. From the chaotic moods of the Infinite and the Invisible, they derive the calculus of destiny... spirit height where all are one". CANTO XIII IN THE SELF OF MIND Going beyond the kingdoms of the ideal world, Aswapathy came to a region "Where Silence listened to the cosmic Voice". But he did not answer the million calls, the endless questions, nor did he answer the eager hopes that were directed towards it. It appeared as if the hierarchy of the worlds paused here. And ...
... embodied life itself, which is to seek infinite experience on a finite basis." 3 Indeed, this stupendous cosmic Becoming has for its secret purpose and goal the discovery and enjoyment, in Space and Time, of all that already exists beyond Time and Space. And in this cosmic Drama, viśva-līlā , The soul is a figure of the Unmanifest, The mind labours to think the Unthinkable,... particular individual frame has constantly to withstand the multipronged attacks coming from all around. Indeed, for each individual life it turns out to be a ruthless battle of one against all. And the cosmic movement seems to take the form of a Great Hunger, mahābubhukṣā, wherein each separate life is trying to prey upon the energy of other lives by feverishly seeking to devour and feed on them. But... and Mind. Instead of being anyonyabaddhaādhu, 3 each one offering the others its helping hands, and grhitakaṇthā 4 , all seized and governed by the divine Lord in the supremely harmonious cosmic Dance, rāsalīlā, 5 they try to go their own separate ways, in total disregard of the stresses and strains they are apt to inflict upon the other parts, in their whimsical separate swirls. ...
... read the akashic records, and see clairvoyantly... It is through the medium of this 'all-seeing eye' that the Adept can at any moment put Himself in touch with his disciples anywhere." (A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, p. 1010/1) In the Gita the war reporter Sanjaya had televisionic eye by which he could see all the events taking place on the battlefield; thus he could narrate the happenings... was never seen before. "Neither by the study of Vedas and sacrifices, nor by gifts and universal rites or severe austerities," Arjuna is told, "can this form be seen." The infinite Godhead with the cosmic manifestation spreading in its splendour everywhere is what he saw with that sight. But it was a sight that brought the vision of the Time-Spirit specifically poised for the destruction of nations... sight that was granted to him was too great to bear. It was a sight meant to see one particular aspect of the supreme and the sights that lie beyond it can open out only by going to the worlds past the cosmic manifestation. The ascent of sight has to continue not only to see the triple glory in the superconscient but also its manifestive play in this material creation. Rare is such a sight even for the ...
... The Secret Splendour Now cosmic rhythms are a laughter in my pulse, For the heart stands back immense and knows no aim, cool core of a body of tortious paths to power. My blood is the singing attar of that Rose Rooted in rest beyond all universe. Seraphs are crossing my brain that is wonder-wide Smiling to see even here an Eye like the ...
... mockery of light, A tiny stagnant pool Where darkles the flattened face, With gaping empty gaze, Of the demon and the ghoul. But when the Great Self glows Like a golden cosmic rose, The petals fanning out from one sweet core. No strangeness anywhere Remains for stare and stare Seeking to itself door. The central Eye of eyes Can shut in all-repose, ...
... incurable antinomy between the Self and cosmic Nature which would then be only the Maya of the three gunas and all this cosmic existence would be simply the result of this Maya; it could be nothing else. But there is something else, there is a higher principle, a nature of spirit, parā prakṛtir me . There is a supreme nature of the Divine which is the real source of cosmic existence and its fundamental creative... but the Divine in the nature of the gods; it is daivī , of the godheads or, if you will, of the Godhead, but of the Godhead in its divided subjective and lower cosmic aspects, Page 276 sattwic, rajasic and tamasic. It is a cosmic veil which the Godhead has spun around our understanding; Brahma, Vishnu and Rudra have woven its complex threads; the Shakti, the Supreme Nature is there at its... brought in of the Ishwara, the Divine as master of works and sacrifice, and it is hinted but not yet expressly stated that this Divine exceeds even the immutable self and that in him lies the key to cosmic existence. Therefore by rising to him through the Self it is possible to have spiritual freedom from our works and yet to continue in the works of Nature. But it has not yet been stated who is this ...
... is awake. 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.” ...
... Ignorance, it no longer binds or misleads because our inner being is seated in the light of self-knowledge. The third step is to know the Divine Being who is at once our supreme transcendent Self, the Cosmic Being, foundation of our universality, and the Divinity within of which our psychic being, the true evolving individual in our nature, is a portion, a spark, a flame growing into the eternal Fire from... free and unattached as the static Self in all and dynamic too as the active Divine Being and Power, Ishwara-Shakti, containing the world and pervading it as well as transcending it, manifesting all cosmic aspects. But what is most important for us is that it manifests as a transcending Light, Knowledge, Power, Purity, Peace, Ananda of which we become aware and which descends into the being and progressively ...
... spiritual consciousness, but when there is a dynamic action from them, it is always a mixed action, not an action of pure knowledge but of knowledge subduing itself to the rule of the Ignorance, the cosmic necessity in a world of Ignorance. If their action was that of the full Know-ledge, there would be no need of any supramental descent. What exactly is the difference between the Supermind... vital 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 ...
... Kazantzakis does, and so The Odyssey: A Modern Sequel can only be called an incomplete or arrested revelation of the total cosmic drama. Neither in its total sweep of Space and Time nor in its insight into the real nature of the evolutionary drama is the 'Modern Sequel' as truly a 'cosmic epic' as Sri Aurobindo's Savitri. Page 404 ... chapter how Savitri begins with the dawn and the Symbol Dawn—"It was the hour before the Gods awake" —and how, after compressing the history of the cosmos into the events of a single day (including a cosmic revolution in the course of which Death is worsted), concludes with the assurance that "Night, splendid with the moon...in her bosom nursed a greater dawn". In the Preface to one of his charming Oriental ...
... lightning's streak of smile, A lonely monolith of frozen fire, Sole pyramid piercing to the vast of the One— Waits Shiva throned on an all-supporting void. Wing after wing smites to the cosmic sky. Gathering flame-speed out of their own wild heart— That tunnel of dream through the body's swoon of rock— They find their home in this sweet.silent Face With the terrible brain ...
... In this way I see currents of various colours,—enveloped with the atmosphere of its source—running in the whole atmosphere.... Do these currents exist? Explanation: Yes, it is the current of the cosmic forces. ...
... Teilhard in his whole-view, it never had such natural, early, deep and intense roots as the "cosmic". Further, the "Christly" did no more than render the "cosmic" human and intimate: without being given the universal dimension, the "Christly" meant nothing to Teilhard, whereas without being "Christlv" the "cosmic" would still make Teilhard's life worthwhile. That indeed is the core of the disputed passage... Faith in the world and Faith in god No doubt, "the human, the Christly" answered to an authentic need of Teilhard's soul. Yet the concentration of the "cosmic sense" in it does not ever seem to have been a complete success. For, we cannot overlook the now-notorious passage commencing Part One of How I Believe (Comment je crois) which was written in 1934... vengeance? And if this faith alone is mentioned as that to which he will surrender himself" at the moment of death", what other faith can remain to follow, remain to be led up to and reached? No, "the cosmic" far exceeds for Teilhard "the human, the Christly", whether he would always openly admit it or not. To a certain extent the exceeding comes out in the very foreword to the essay, where he ...
... 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... images, traditions, and cultural symbols of the Purana and Tantra; for these things are only concrete representations or living figures of the synthetic monism, the many-sided unitarian ism, the large cosmic universalism of the Vedic scriptures. "Indian religion founded itself on the conception of a timeless, nameless and formless Supreme, but it did not feel called upon like the narrower and ...
... 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... here". Aswapathy saw that he had travelled alone to this realm of the spirit's Infinity as yet unrealised by man where stillness, light and silence reign. He saw that he was moving up on this vast cosmic stair, mounting heaven after heaven, and yet being drawn more and more upward by some invisible magnet as it were. He saw that he was the sole figure "...on Nature's giant stair" and from there he... instincts. To Aswapathy this lower aspect of life did not appear as its chief characteristic. He saw in it rather the mighty 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" ...
... vacant Nought. As in a dark beginning of all things, A mute featureless semblance of the Unknown Repeating for ever the unconscious act, Prolonging for ever the unseeing will, Cradled the cosmic drowse of ignorant Force Whose moved creative slumber kindles the suns And carries our lives in its somnambulist whirl. Athwart the vain enormous trance of Space, Its formless stupor without... far rim of life’s obscure sleep. Arrived from the other side of boundlessness An eye of deity pierced through the dumb deeps; A scout in a reconnaissance from the sun, It seemed amid a heavy cosmic rest, The torpor of a sick and weary world, To seek for a spirit sole and desolate Too fallen to recollect forgotten bliss. Intervening in a mindless universe, Its message crept through the ...
... has seen many visions.² These visions are "like a glorious song of cosmic forces at work both in man and nature." About his 'Golden Vision' an enlightened devotee Amal Kiran has written, "It reveals the Mother in her full reality - not only the Universal Form of her but also the individual being.... What you saw shows not only the cosmic power set to greater use by her departure from the body. What you ...
... is possible to realise in a way the unity of all these beings even in Nature herself and to become aware of a cosmic Soul which is manifest in the whole action of cosmic Nature, Nature manifesting the Soul, the Soul constituting the Nature. But this is to become aware only of the great cosmic Becoming, which is not false or unreal, but the knowledge of which alone does not give us the true knowledge... expresses its changes in her actions. And this Soul is One and Many; it is the one Life-being out of which all life is constituted and it is all these living beings; it is the cosmic Existent and it is all this multitude of cosmic existences, sarvabhūtāni , for all these are One; all the many Purushas are in their original being the one and only Page 228 Purusha. But the mechanism of the ...
... qualities of the Brahman. His being assumes by conscious Will all kinds of properties, shapings of the stuff of conscious being, habits as it were of cosmic character and power of dynamic self-consciousness, guṇas , into which all the Page 379 cosmic action can be resolved. But by none of these nor by all of them nor by their utmost infinite potentiality is He bound; He is above all His qualities... itself in a perpetual soul-experience. This is the truth which underlies the Sankhya theory of many Purushas, many essential, infinite, free and impersonal souls reflecting the movements of a single cosmic energy. It stands also, in a different way, behind the very different philosophy of qualified Monism which arose as a protest against the metaphysical excesses of Buddhistic Nihilism and illusionist... physical personality, and this we have to know and preserve in order that the Infinite may manifest Himself through it according to His will in whatever range and for whatever purpose of His eternal cosmic activity. And if we regard existence from the standpoint of the possible eternal and infinite relations of this One from whom all things proceed, these Many of whom the One is the essence and the ...
... evidently means by genuine freedom of will a quality of the full experience of being not what we apparently are at present but a luminous superhuman entity that is cosmic while being individual, and transcendental while being cosmic. Such freedom we cannot experience when we are unregenerate. In our present state, obscure and weak and perverted, we are divorced from the wisdom and puissance... d divinities we may be in our secret recesses: our daily surface existence is pretty far from Godliness. Hence the important query: does our souls' assent from their God-poise to the strange cosmic play confer on what we do in even our ordinary moments a true freewill? All our actions are really of our souls carrying out the free decisions they have taken in their role of divine creators;... soul, the individualised divinity, a supreme transcendental form in the play of the One as the Many. Presiding over manifestation and evolution, the Jivatman projects a representative into the cosmic process: this representative is the Antaratman, our inmost or deepest self or soul with all the potentialities of the Divine in it, and it passes from birth to birth, making for evolutionary ...
... without thought process and plan Arrayed the burning stars' magnificence, The living bodies of beasts and the brain of man. What stark Necessity or ordered Chance Became alive to know the cosmic whole? What magic of numbers, what mechanic dance Developed consciousness, assumed a soul? The darkness was the Omnipotent's abode, Hood of omniscience, a blind mask of God. Page 604 ...
... torrent of the days On the deep eddy that our being forms, Silent sustained the huge creation's stress, Unchanged supporting Nature's rounds and norms, Immobile background of the cosmic race. ...
... Know more > However long Night's hour, I will not dream That the small ego and the person's mask Are all that God reveals in our life-scheme, The last result of Nature's cosmic task. A greater Presence in her bosom works; Long it prepares its far epiphany: Even in the stone and beast the godhead lurks, A bright Persona of eternity. It shall burst out from ...
... nether gods. 30 She is Durga, goddess of supreme Power; she is Lakshmi, mother of cosmic harmony; she is Kali, destroyer of the demon hordes. She slays the malignant Titan and responds to the cry of the oppressed. But she can save only a few, for The cosmic evil is too deep to unroot: The cosmic suffering is too vast to heal. 31 But she is confident of the eventual fulfilment... fire of the inner sun, 8 3 Ibid., p. 475. 4 Ibid. 5 Ibid., p. 476. 6 Ibid. 7 Ibid. 8 Ibid., p. 477. Page 430 were disclosed to her the cosmic past, the mystic origins and the unfoldment of earth's destiny through the aeons. The appearance of creation from formlessness of the supreme Self, the shaping of Matter, the sprouting of the seeds... art thou to reach our brilliant air Flaming with thoughts supreme finality. O aspirant to the perfect way of life, Here find it; rest from search and live at peace. Ours is home of cosmic certainty. 17 He wanted Savitri to permanently station herself in this kingdom of safety, certainty and mental ultimacy. But Savitri could not have stayed in this world of ordered and cold ...
... later Upanishads there is an over- emphasis on the salvation of the individual and on the rejection of the lower cosmic life. This note increases later 1" date, and it swells afterwards into the rejection of all cosmic life. This explains the dominant note of a later yoga, where cosmic life came to be the outcome of Ignorance and Desire, and escape from life and refusal of the ascetic "became an a... earlier Upanishads are quite explicit in their acceptance of a larger Vedic ideal and in their synthesis of the transcendental and the cosmic, even the integration of the individual and collective life on the earth with the supra-terrestrial life and the supra-cosmic existence. The Upanishads have been rightly looked upon as the supreme work of the Indian mind. They are a record of the deepest spiritual... all-challenging cry. In the Vedic revelation, however, the individual salvation is regarded as a means to wards a great cosmic victory, the eventual conquest of heaven and earth by the Superconscient Truth and Bliss, and those who achieved the victory in the past, such as the Angirasa Rishis and the Ribhus, continue to be conscious Page 19 helpers of their yet battling posterity. This note ...
... delivered from individual existence." 1 But a deeper and higher spiritual exploration reveals the fact that the above assumption is not correct after all. Mind is not the highest principle of cosmic existence, with only the pure Spirit, the Impersonal Absolute beyond itself. As a matter of fact, there is a hierarchy of superior principles far transcending the normal mind- 1 The Synthesis... salient difficulties encountered and, at the same time, of the achievements of Mind as well as of its failures. The Ascent and Illusoriness : If Mind is taken to be the highest possible cosmic principle, since the Absolute is not seizable by the mind-consciousness, the seeker of the traditional Yogas tries to get away from the mortal failings of mind into the superconscient Infinite, by... to the supreme experience. And it is because of this incompatibility of mind-consciousness with the experience of the Absolute that so many systems of spiritual discipline have come to condemn the cosmic play. As a matter of fact, it is this very incompatibility that is at the basis of the Illusionism that "takes such firm hold of the human mind in its highest overleapings of itself." 6 ...
... Savitri's mortal birth was thus in answer to "a world's desire". Even ordinary incidents in Savitri get endowed with cosmic significance. There is nothing that is not conscious — even the seasons are not a mere mechanical succession of external changes but conscious operations in the cosmic body. Thus we see the problem and the difficult conditions for its solution. The problem is of man's i... and the Upanishads. The Vedas and the Upanishads speak of the One, the Divine, the Supreme Ineffable. It is that which finds expression in myriad forms in the cosmic dance. In the Seer's vision, the shadows of the lower planes of cosmic existence are shot through with the Light of this Eternal Reality and to him, therefore, the whole Nature seems to be bathed in an ether of Delight. This experience... to the crisis of the story — the imminent death of Satyavan —and introduces the chief character Savitri in glowing and divine colours. It brings out at the same time the nature of the crisis, its cosmic significance and thereby raises the character of Savitri to that of the "saviour" of men. The attention of the reader is gripped, —if he can enter into the Seer's vision — and he is anxious to know ...
... was thus in answer to "a world's Page 32 desire". Even ordinary incidents in Savitri get endowed with cosmic significance. There is nothing that is not conscious—even the seasons are not a mere mechanical succession of external changes but conscious operations in the cosmic body. Thus we see the problem and the difficult conditions for its solution. The problem is of man's imperfection... the Upanishads. The Vedas and the Upanishads speak of the One, the Divine, the Supreme Ineffable. It is that which finds expression in myriad forms in the cosmic dance. In the seer's vision, the shadows of the lower planes of cosmic existence are shot through with the Light of this Eternal Reality and to him, therefore, the whole Nature seems to be bathed in an ether of Delight. This experience... straight to the crisis of the story—the imminent death of Satyavan and introduces the chief character Savitri in glowing and divine colours. It brings out at the same time the nature of the crisis, its cosmic significance and thereby raises the character of Savitri to that of the "saviour" of men. The attention of the reader is gripped,—if he can enter into the Seer's vision—and he is anxious to know how ...
... of the human race, and as representative of the human race, he first tries to find out the true self that is in man. And then he finds that man is cosmic. Man is not merely an individual, he is cosmic. Aswapathy finds further that man is not only cosmic but something beyond the cosmos too: he can ascend to a plane of consciousness where he can be identified with the supreme divine. Aswapathy... of Aditi. Aditi means the power of the Supreme Infinite Consciousness, Mother of the Gods, according to the Veda. In a more general aspect, she is the source of all cosmic forms of consciousness. The dawn is the source of all the cosmic forms of consciousness from the physical upwards. Usha is the Mother of the Cows and she can only be a power of the supreme light, the light of the Supreme Consciousness... anywhere in philosophy or literature. The answer is radical and it is a new answer. It shows the place of pain in the growth of man's evolution and shows the necessity which has invited pain into this cosmic scheme, and how pain in its ultimate origin is nothing but a perversion or a distortion of the original delight of existence. It is only the original delight of existence which is felt as pain because ...
... From which an occult sovereignty derives: Hidden in an earthly garment that survives, I am the worldless being vast and free. A moment stamped with that supremacy Has rescued me from cosmic hooks and gyves; Abolishing death and time my nature lives In the deep heart of immortality. God's contract signed with Ignorance is torn; Time has become the Eternal's endless year, ...
... Synthesis of Yoga in the Veda PART FOUR Vedic System of Cosmic Knowledge The Vedic system of the cosmic knowledge is the same that we find behind the later Puranic symbols. Both in the Vedic system and the Puranic system, the cosmic existence consists of the unity of seven principles of existence and seven worlds corresponding to these principles, and they... are synthetic and integral. Psychological powers in this synthetic yoga of the Veda are sought to be purified, cultivated, developed and perfected by the constant aid sought and received from the cosmic powers in their individual or in their collective combinations. This is where the role of the Gods comes into our view prominently. Gods in their combination manifest the integrality of the one supreme... The crown of this synthesis was in the experience of the Vedic Rishis of something divine transcendent and blissful in whose unity the increasing soul of man and the eternal divine fullness of the cosmic godheads meet perfectly and fulfill themselves. Page 59 The Supreme Object of Vedic Realisation The highest object of knowledge, which the Vedic Rishis endeavored to discover ...
... saving element being present, and determine another orientation. But to understand the working of this 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... the Divine Consciousness 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... and I do 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 ...
... received an increasing recognition, perhaps because latterly that mentality had been prepared by the great discoveries and generalisations of Science for a fuller vision of cosmic existence and a more ordered and majestic idea of cosmic Law. It may be as well then to start from the physical base in approaching this question of Karma, though we may find at last that it is from the other end of being, from... failure—to explain supraphysical things by a physical formula, and a darkening second error of setting behind the universal rule of law and as its cause and efficient the quite opposite idea of the cosmic reign of Chance. The old notion of an unintelligible supreme caprice,—unintelligible it must naturally be since it is the working of an unintelligent Force,—thus prolonged its reign and got admission... at least we have rather to recognise the old harmonious truth of Veda—which also came by this way in its end, its Vedanta, to the conception of the unity of Being,—that there are different planes of cosmic existence and therefore too of our own existence and in each of them the same powers, energies or laws must act in a different type and in another sense and light of their effectuality. First, then ...
... on the way to its realisation—is "not an individual achievement of divine realisation for the sake of the individual, but something to be gained for the earth- consciousness here, a cosmic, not solely a supra-cosmic achievement. The thing to be gained also is the bringing in of a Power of consciousness (the Supramental) not yet organised or active directly in earth-nature, even in the spiritual life... process and the condition of the Divine Life Sri Aurobindo says, "The Divine descends from pure existence through the play of consciousness-Force and Bliss and the creative medium of Supermind into cosmic being; we ascend from Matter through a developing life, soul and mind and the illuminating medium of Supermind towards the divine Being. The knot of the two, the higher and the lower hemisphere, is... creature, who alone here stands between Spirit and Matter with the power to mediate between them, has any meaning other than an ultimate awakening from the delusion of life by despair and disgust of the cosmic effort and its complete rejection, then even such a luminous and puissant transfiguration and emergence of the Divine in the creature must be that high-uplifted goal and that supreme significance.” ...
... your limits horizontally if you like, but you will be quite mistaken if you take the sense of 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... gives it an undivine result. If all that happened were indeed the flawless translation of it, how could you account for the distortions of the world? Not that the Divine Will could not have caused the cosmic Ignorance. It is omnipotent and all possibilities arc inherent in it: it can work out anything of which it sees the secret necessity in its original vision. And the first cause of the world is, of ...
... Letters on the Mother Forms, Powers, Personalities and Appearances of the Mother The Mother with Letters on the Mother Krishna-Mahakali The Mother in her cosmic power is all things and all divine Personalities, for nothing can be in manifestation except by her and as part of her being. But what was meant in the Visions Page 67 and Voices 1 ...
... mockery of light, A tiny stagnant pool Where darkles the flattened face, With gaping empty gaze, Of the demon and the ghoul. But when the Great Self glows Like a golden cosmic rose, The petals fanning out from one sweet core, No strangeness anywhere Remains for stare and stare Seeking to itself a door The central Eye of eyes Can shut in all-repose ...
... old Yogas go straight from mind to the absolute Divine, regard all dynamic existence as Ignorance, Illusion or Lila; when you enter the static and immutable Divine Truth, they say, you pass out of cosmic existence. ...
... Consciousness in all material things, in the inner being and in the supraphysical worlds, in the causal plane above now superconscient to us and, finally, the supreme liberated transcendence above all cosmic existence. The last is usually the main preoccupation with those who use the mantra. In this Yoga there is no fixed mantra, no stress is laid on mantras, although sadhaks can use one if they find... concentration 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 ...
... principles of being than that first formulation which is her immediate preoccupation and seems to be for ever her only business: for in her primal works Matter alone appears, the sole dumb and stark cosmic reality. A Witness of creation, if there had been one conscious but uninstructed, would only have seen appearing out of a vast abyss of an apparent non-existence an Energy busy with the creation of... for itself, without a sense in it, empty of cause or purpose. It might have seemed to him a stupendous machinery without a use, a mighty meaningless movement, an aeonic spectacle without a witness, a cosmic edifice without an inhabitant; for he would have seen no sign of an indwelling Spirit, no being for whose delight it was made. A creation of this kind could only be the outcome of an inconscient Energy ...
... to 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 ...
... Cold propagandists of a million lies, Dictators of a world of agony? Or was it Thou who bor'st the fourfold mask? Enveloping Thy timeless heart in Time, Thou hast bound the spirit to its cosmic task, To find Thee veiled in this tremendous mime. Thou, only Thou, canst raise the invincible siege, O Light, O deathless Joy, O rapturous Peace! Page 624 ...
... manifestation, supporting them and using them as its instruments. Consciousness-Force — the Conscious Force that builds the worlds; a universal Energy that is the power of the Cosmic Spirit working out the cosmic and individual truth of things. Dharma — law; the deepest law of one's nature; the right law of individual and social life; literally, that which one lays hold of and which... reasoning that reaches its conclusion by a bound and does not need the ordinary steps of the logical mind. Overmind: The Overmind is a delegate of the Supramental Consciousness, its delegate to the cosmic Ignorance. The Supramental is the total Truth-Consciousness; the Overmind draws down the truths separately and gives them a separate identity. subliminal — inner, not on the waking surface ...
... Mother Three Aspects of the Mother The Mother with Letters on the Mother The Transcendental Mother and the Embodied Mother There are many Mothers in the cosmic and spiritual planes who help people in their search for the Divine. Above them, I have read, is the transcendental Mother and above her comes the supreme Mother. X and Y profess to have seen and spoken ...
... lightning's streak of smile, A lonely monolith of frozen fire, Sole pyramid piercing to the vast of the One— Waits Shiva throned on an all-supporting void. Wing after wing smites to the cosmic sky. Gathering flame-speed out of their own wild heart— That tunnel of dream through the body's swoon of rock— They find their home in this sweet silent Face With the terrible brain ...
... Preparing for the Miraculous The Fundamental Questions What is the meaning of our existence in the cosmic scheme? Is there a divine purpose in life or is it merely the mechanical playing-out of competing “greedy genes”? Do we live in a blind universe aimlessly running its course from Big Bang to Big Crunch or is there a higher purpose in evolution ...
... too I have tried to make in the course of the chapter, with illustrations from poets of the ancient and the modern world. Finally, in Savitri: A Cosmic Epic, I have done my best to show that Savitri is an epic of the soul with a range that is truly cosmic, and that, while it recalls for one or another reason many ot the epics of the past and of the present-day world, still the Divina Commedia comes... to be nowhere. I could have gone on reading and taking notes for a lifetime,for one subject led to another and to another still, and all seemed relevant enough to the study of a 'Cosmic' epic like Savitri. But I realised at last that I must really put my notes in some order, plan my book and start writing it. First I attempted a verse play on the Savitri theme, more as an exercise... Parts of the chapter 'Overhead' Poetry and Savitri were presented as a paper before the English Faculty Research Seminar on 12 March 1960. The final chapter on Savitri as a 'Cosmic Epic' took me to other epics, ancient and modern, and I had an enchanting time exploring these 'realms of gold'. Dante, among the poets of the past, comes closest to Sri Aurobindo, and I found the ...
... and into these view-points and associations cosmic Mind throws itself and dwells in them. So dwelling, creative by its inherent force as the agent of Real-Idea, bound by its own nature to convert all its perceptions into energy of life, as the All-Existent converts all His self-aspectings into various energy of His creative Force of consciousness, cosmic Mind turns these, its multiple viewpoints of... material universe. But this also is no complete solution; it tells us that Matter is a creation of Consciousness, but it does not explain how Consciousness came to create Matter as the basis of its cosmic workings. We shall understand better if we go back at once to the original principle of things. Existence is in its activity a Conscious-Force which presents the workings of its force to its c... its self-aware mental ego in which the will-to-be is liberated, conscious, separately active. Thus not any eternal and original law of eternal and original Matter, but the nature of the action of cosmic Mind is the cause of atomic existence. Matter is a creation, and for its creation the infinitesimal, an extreme fragmentation of the Infinite, was needed as the starting-point or basis. Ether may and ...
... into English as Never are you informed of the cosmic silence. As it envelops a growth. Rilke is full of subtle suggestions. What I gather here against the background of my general sense of the Rilkean Page 87 Weltanschauung is something like: "Whatever develops on earth is secretly protected and fostered by a cosmic Presence. This Presence is a vast and deep silence... transcendent Deity who is not exhausted by the cosmic existence. To the medieval thinker God's omnipresence in the cosmos was not by a secret substance in all but only by a secret action and the transcendent poise was of a Creator who did not make the world from his own self but by a bringing of it into existence from nothing. The Indian vision is of a supra-cosmic Infinite who emanates or looses-forth the... for the universe. Observation shows the number of radiation quanta to be about a billion times the number of "baryon" particles like the proton, and this is one of the parameters. It determines the cosmic epoch at which galaxies can form and finally plays a part in the various numerical coincidences crucial for the evolution of life whose ultimate outcome is the observer "anthropos". The Anthropic ...
... glory with cosmic existence of the gods, pursued behind the symbols of the material universe into those superior planes which are hidden from the physical sense of the material mentality. The crown of this synthesis was in the experience of the Vedic Rishis something divine, transcendent and blissful in whose unity the increasing soul of man and the eternal divine fullness of the cosmic godheads meet... Reality when the thought is stilled, when the mind withdraws from its constructions, and when one passes into a pure Selfhood void of all sense of Page 44 individuality, empty of all cosmic contents. If the spiritualised mind then looks at the individual and the cosmos, they appear to it as an illusion, a scheme of names and figures and movements falsely imposed on the sole reality of... svapatyāni tasthuh krnvānāso amrtatvāya gātum; mahnā mahadbhih prthivī vi tasthe mātā putrair aditih dhāyse veh. Page 47 seeker to embrace whole of Life in his divine scope as the cosmic Play of the Divine. In other words, it grasps that idea of the divine perfectibility of man, which was possessed by the Vedic Rshis. V In the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo a new ...
... glory with the cosmic existence of the gods, pursued behind the symbols of the material universe into those superior planes which are hidden from the physical sense of the material mentality. The crown of this synthesis was in the experience of the Vedic Rishis something divine, transcendent and blissful in whose unity the increasing soul of man and the eternal divine fullness of the cosmic godheads meet... overwhelming awakening to Reality when the thought is stilled, when the mind withdraws from its constructions, and when one passes into a pure Selfhood void of all sense of individuality, empty of all cosmic contents. If the spiritualised mind then looks at the individual and cosmos, they appear to it to be an illusion, a scheme of names and figures and movements falsely imposed on the sole reality of... evidently the divine Aditi of the Veda. The Tantric Yoga has developed methods for a richer spiritual conquest that would enable the seeker to embrace the whole of Life in his divine scope as the cosmic Play of the Divine. In other words, it grasps that idea of the divine perfectibility of man, which was possessed by the Vedic Rishis. V In the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo a new dimension ...
... creative feminine principle. Sri Râmakrishna's combination of the Vedânta and the Tantra was a prophetic achievement of supreme importance,—it, was, in truth, a combination of the Absolute and the cosmic manifestation, of Heaven and Earth, of Spirit and Matter. Is this transcendent and universal Shakti the Mother to whom we are called upon to surrender? Is She the sole pilot of the Integral Yoga... multitudinous movements of the world by the rigour and rectitude of Her Laws. The mechanical Nature with which we are all familiar, the aspect of Prakriti, is only the lower executive form of this cosmic Mahâshakti. Above the nature of the three gunas or essential modes of terrestrial existence. She moves in the freedom of Her spiritual infinitudes and creates and destroys in the steps of an unfaltering... unlimited vision embraces in its sweep at once the ultimate objectives of creation and the minute details of the working of every force and energy, every rule or rhythm; and Her unsleeping Power keeps the cosmic play in a perpetual progressive motion, and prevents it from tumbling into disintegrating chaos. 'But there are many planes of Her creation, many steps of the Divine Shakti. At the summit ...
... Pondicherry (Circa 1927-1947) Pondicherry (Circa 1927-1947) Lyrical Poems from Manuscripts (Circa 1934-1947) Collected Poems The Cosmic Man Know more > I look across the world and no horizon walls my gaze; I see Tokyo and Paris and New York, I see the bombs bursting on Barcelona and on Canton streets. Man's numberless misdeeds and small ...
... Lila Know more > In us is the thousandfold Spirit who is one, An eternal thinker calm and great and wise, A seer whose eye is an all-regarding sun, A poet of the cosmic mysteries. A critic Witness pieces everything And binds the fragments in his brilliant sheaf; A World-adventurer borne on Destiny's wing Gambles with death and triumph, joy and grief ...
... magnificence. He sits within who turns on her machine These beings, portions of his mystery, Many dwarf beams of his great calm sunshine, A reflex of his sole infinity. One mighty Self of cosmic act and thought Employs this figure of a unit nought. ...
... invisible process of soul evolution with rebirth into ascending grades of form and consciousness as its machinery. As a result, there is a cosmic evolution and there is the process of individual evolution. As a result of cosmic evolution, there arise ascending grades of cosmic manifestation, and each type of form that can house the indwelling Spirit is turned by rebirth into a means for the individual soul... hed from the ego, is capable of universal consciousness, and therefore, can summarise within his own consciousness the evolutionary experiences of cosmic evolution and lead it to a higher grade of evolution in individual formations, even when the cosmic evolution or terrestrial evolution is still confined to a lower grade of consciousness. On account of the fact that the supermind is involved in the... that Darwin's view of chance variations is virtually a confession of his inability to explain the source of variations. It is true that there is in the world unaccountable freak and fantasy in the cosmic phenomenon we call Nature. But on the other hand, we can also observe inevitable order. Sri Aurobindo points out that, in view of this paradox of inevitable order and freak and fantasy, it may be argued ...
... Chronology 1897 to 1907 - Mirra and Henri Morisset live in 15 Rue Lemercier. 1898, August 23 Their son, ANDRÉ MORISSET, is born in Paris. 1903-1904 -First contact with the Cosmic Movement. -Series of visions of Sri Aurobindo, or Krishna as Mirra thought. 1905 -Mirra meets MAX THEON. 1906, 14 July to15 October -First visit to Tlemcen. ...
... It is the movement of a cosmic Being who is the Knower of his field, the steps of a Divinity who is the Master of his own progressive force of action. As the movement is one and 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... its results can no longer be or seem a separate movement mainly or entirely determined by the egoistic "free" will of an individual, himself separate in the mass. Our works are part of an indivisible cosmic action; they are put or, more accurately, put themselves into their place in the whole out of which they arise and their outcome is determined by forces that overpass us. That world action in its vast... miraculous and significant process of its forces in the motion of Nature. This action, this movement, is not confined even in ourselves and those around us to the little fragmentary portion of the cosmic activities of which we in our superficial consciousness are aware; it is supported by an immense underlying environing existence subliminal to our minds or subconscious, and it is attracted by an immense ...
... breathed in that monstrous death, A mystery of Knowledge wore as sheath Matter's mute nescience. Its enveloped sense Or dumb somnambulist will obscurely reigns Driving the atoms in their cosmic course Whose huge unhearing movement serves perforce The works of a strange blind omniscience. The world's deep contrasts are but figures spun Draping the unanimity of the One. Page 593 ...
... 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 ...
... Consciousness in all material things, in the inner being and in the supraphysical worlds, in the causal plane above now superconscient to us and, finally, the supreme liberated transcendence above all cosmic existence. The last is usually the main preoccupation with those who use the mantra. In this Yoga there is no fixed mantra, no stress is laid on mantras, although sadhaks can use one if they find... concentration 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 the 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 ...
... everything, 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 ...
... 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". The ordinary "I"-ness disappears, and the mental, vital and physical... physical look like representatives of that new consciousness. Ramakrishna speaks of this state as "the form of ego left for action". When you reach the Supermind, you become not only cosmic but also what is beyond the universe—the transcendental—and there you have indivisibility and unity, and this transcendental coexists with the universal and the individual. The same principle works out in science ...
... ascend to cosmic feeling, to self-identification with the All, the One that is Many. This is the experience that seems to be behind the Buddhistic compassion, karuna And yet there can be a status even beyond. For beyond the cosmic reality, lies the transcendent reality. It is the Absolute, neti, neti, into which individual and cosmos, all disappear and vanish. In compassion, the cosmic communion ...
... 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... activity to serve his purpose. Even the second world-war-phrase finds a place "behind his vain labour, sweat and blood and tears" reminding us of the famous Churchilian phrase. The unrolling of the cosmic panorama finds an apt image in the Japanese rolls of painting "a kakemono of significant forms". And how far the latest scientific advances have become assimilated in his poetic genius can be seen ...
... about 5,000 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... pf the epic that Sri Aurobindo left behind him, only the first 381 lines were cast in the final form and published in his lifetime. The quality of the hexameter, as well as the overhead sweep of cosmic comprehension can be illustrated by this truly Homeric simile, which has received the characteristic Aurobindonian stamp: Even as a star long extinguished whose light still travels... light of a star "long extinguished". Mr. Sethna comments as follows on this simile: "It is a question whether in the entire range of similes there has been one so grandly apt and penetrating, so cosmic in its beauty and its glimpse of the supra-terrestrial." 77 Deiphobus appears "brilliant" to the men of Troy, but to Page 316 the gods he is a dead man in a doomed city; ...
... Manuscripts (Circa 1934-1947) Collected Poems The Miracle of Birth Know more > I saw my soul a traveller through Time; From life to life the cosmic ways it trod, Obscure in the depths and on the heights sublime, Evolving from the worm into the god. A spark of the eternal Fire, it came To build a house in Matter for the Unborn. The ...
... Sri Aurobindo's Message The miracle of birth I saw my soul a traveller through Time; From life to life the cosmic ways it trod, Obscure in the depths and on the heights sublime, Evolving from the worm into the god. A spark of the eternal Fire, it came To build a house in Matter for the Unborn. The inconscient sunless Night received ...
... 278 omega-workings. Evolution is pushing man towards a higher goal, an omega point, which can be described as collective divinity. A cosmic divine manifestation is in the making, Whitehead, who recalls the Platonic view of the cosmic process, maintains that nothing can emerge in the evolutionary process of the universe if its constituents were not already in existence. The qualities... embodies an idea from beyond the developing series of events in the universe. Whitehead suggests an eternal order and a creative reality. The cosmic series has a nisus towards the eternal order which is beyond itself, though it is increasingly realised in the cosmic. According to Whitehead, an actual event is the meeting point of a world of actualities, on the one side, and a world of ideal p... assume new empirical qualities which are distinctive levels of experience - primary qualities, matter; and secondary qualities, life and mind. As explained in his book Space, Time and Deity , the cosmic process has now reached the human level, and man is looking forward to the next higher quality of deity. According to him, men of religious genius are preparing mankind for this next stage of development ...
... 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 from us by the false self or mental ego, also enjoys... 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 unless there be an intermediate link between the two which can explain them to... 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 be the form which that Power takes in creating a world of relations ...
... on the way to its realisation,—is "not an individual achievement of divine realisation for the sake of the individual, but something to be gained for the earth-consciousness here, a cosmic, not solely a supra-cosmic achievement. The thing to be gained also is the bringing in of a Power of consciousness (the Supramental) not yet organised or active directly in earth-nature, even in the spiritual... process and the condition of the Divine Life Sri Aurobindo says, "The Divine descends from pure existence through the play of consciousness-Force and Bliss and the creative medium of Supermind into cosmic being; we ascend from Matter through a developing life, soul and mind and the illuminating medium of Super-mind towards the divine Being. The knot of the two, the higher and the lower hemisphere... who alone here stands between Spirit and Matter with the power to mediate between them, has any meaning other than an ultimate awakening from the delusion of life by despair and disgust of the cosmic effort and its complete rejection, then even such a luminous and puissant transfiguration and emergence of the Divine in the creature must be that Page 52 high-uplifted goal and ...
... your limits horizontally if you like, but you will be quite mistaken if you take the sense of 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... it an undivine result. If all that happened were indeed the flawless translation of it, how could you account for the distortions of the world?... Not that the Divine Will could not have caused the cosmic Ignorance. It is omnipotent and all possibilities are inherent in it: it can work out anything of which it sees the secret necessity in its original vision. And the first cause of the world is, of ...
... though its 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... s but when there Page 158 is a dynamic action from them, it is always a mixed action, not an action of pure knowledge but of knowledge subduing itself to the rule of the Ignorance, the cosmic necessity in a world of Ignorance. If their action was that of the full Knowledge, there would be no need of any supramental descent. The higher consciousness is a concentrated consciousness... partial power 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 ...
... contrary in direct contact with the universal mental and vital and their forces; the inner subtle physical can also be in direct touch with the cosmic forces of the physical universe. But the exterior being is not in direct touch with the universal or cosmic—only through the outer mind and senses. It is the outer nature that is obscure and when it is at ease, feels no necessity of remembering... filled, 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 ...
... very tension of this process a force of potential return which would lead things backward to their source in the reverse order. In the balance of these two upward and downward forces resides the whole cosmic action; everything is a poise of contrary energies. The movement of life is like the back-returning of the bow, to which he compares it, an energy of traction and tension restraining an energy of release... transmutation of energy. But the Greeks failed to go forward to that final discrimination which India attributed to Kapila, the supreme analytical thinker,—the discrimination between Prakriti and her cosmic principles, her twenty-four tattwas forming the subjective and objective aspects of Nature, and between Prakriti and Purusha, Conscious-Soul and Nature-Energy. Therefore while in the Sankhya ether ...
... projection of the authentic soul behind, a principle of that soul's manifestation. This soul in turn is a manifestation and vehicle of the eternal Spirit whose expression in time is the whole universe. The Cosmic Self or "Virat", as the Rishis called it, acting through its particularised representative, the soul, is the true source and support of the inner life-idea of the collective Page 16 ... different in several respects but have a basic similarity India and China strike the historian as nations that can be said to have lived from remote antiquity onward with a general touch on this infinite Cosmic Self. The sense of Page 17 Atman, the sense of Tao meet us throughout. Not that there have been no counter-currents, but, by and large, the inmost universal Reality has been felt by ...
... earth, and the dramas played in the theatre of Time must still diet on suffering and pain. It is man's merit that he is awake, that he has memory and desire, that he cannot help aspiring "to change the cosmic dream". But the law of Chance and Death cannot be altered; man is condemned yet to be no more than "a link between the demigod and the beast"; he must veer between the pulls of darkness and light,... armour of Patience? A cry is wrung from Aswapati: 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? 152 What use were waiting, when "all we have done is ever still to do", when humanity is apparently doomed to follow the circuit of ...
... owing to the hard knocks of the philosophers. Now he sees that it can be upheld; so he is changing. NIRODBARAN: Einstein seems to have said that cosmic religious feeling is an incitement to Science. SRI AUROBINDO: I see. But what does he mean by "cosmic religious feeling"? If Einstein could use such words, Meghnad Saha can't say that he is not a scientist. Or perhaps he will say that Einstein is ...
... infinite in its sweep, Sovereign it circles, soothing every pain, Conqueror of mortal grief by the touch of a kiss. The primal Heart's creative song is here: A mother-croon cradles a cosmic child And rhythms its body with the Omnipotent's will. 15.7.48 Page 340 ...
... its acts are only waves that pass Upon my surface; inly for ever still, Unborn I sit, timeless, intangible: All things are shadows in my tranquil glass. My vast transcendence holds the cosmic whirl; I am hid in it as in the sea a pearl. ...
... Immortal in our mortal poverty. || 5.16 || This sculptor of the forms of the Infinite, This screened unrecognised Inhabitant, Initiate of his own veiled mysteries, Hides in a small dumb seed his cosmic thought. || 5.17 || In the mute strength of the occult Idea Determining predestined shape and act, Passenger from life to life, from scale to scale, Changing his imaged self from form to form ...
... myths. In the great Fall “the cosmic Intelligence separated itself from the light” of the divine Consciousness, which is a consciousness of unity and therefore of essential, infallible Truth. “As a result, instead of a world of integral truth and divine harmony created in the light of the divine Gnosis, we have a world founded on the part truths of an inferior cosmic Intelligence in which all is half-truth ...
... of the shining harmonies of Mitra. There, eternally stable, dwell the herds of the divine radiances of knowledge; for that is the happy field to which they here are travelling. The Impeller of the cosmic movement and journey pours out knowledge in us, the milk of the herds, by the dawns of the inner light and there descend the streams of the immortal existence followed by the single and perfect movement... us, Mitra and Varuna; may we be victorious, who would take possession of that peace. Page 521 × The active cosmic Truth of things diffused and arranged in their mutability and divisibility of Time and Space veils the eternal and unchanging Truth of which it is a manifestation. ...
... the One Existence and the flame the dynamic power of action (Yogic) of that Truth-Light. The Sun is the divine Truth-Light on whatever plane of consciousness. It is, I suppose, the original cosmic Truth that is here indicated. The Sun is the Truth from above, in the last resort the Supramental Truth. The sun is the symbol of the Supermind. The sun in the Yoga is the symbol... sun 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 ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 8 A Commentary on the First Six Suktas of Rigveda THE FIRST SUKTA COSMIC creation is a great and sublime sacrifice. Sarvagatam Bramha...¹ (The all-pervading Brahman is established in the sacrifice), says the Gita. Each and every object offers itself into this sacrificial fire. Why? Sacrifice... creatures and said: By this shall you bring forth (fruits or offspring), let this be your milker of desires.) It is the gods who are the primal powers holding and controlling this sacrifice and the cosmic creation. By his self offering man fulfils the nature of the gods. What is externally the sacrifice of physical elements ¹ Gita, III.15 ²Gita, II.10 Page 95 represents ...
... hold on the cosmic and the individual, but also an active and creative absoluteness in the palm of whose heavenly hand, as it were, rests the individual and the cosmic. In the Supermind and nowhere else are all the "omni" 's of the Divine. God when He acts through a Guru has the Supermind, but unless the Guru is supramentalised and not only Inner-Heart-centred or Silent-Selfed or Cosmic-Consciousnessed... one aspect alone. Similarly those who 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... unmistakably, for instance, what happened a thousand years Page 161 back or what will happen a thousand years hence? Why shouldn't he solve all the problems of science with the help of his cosmic knowledge?" Well, I fear your idea of God-realisation by a Guru does not take into consideration the terms of the world-play and the terms of individual nature and the terms of true Guru-ship. ...
... them).... 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 ...
... psychic poise is necessary: the discrimination must develop, which sees accurately what is the Divine Force, what is the element of personal effort and what is brought in as a mixture from the lower cosmic forces. And until the transfer is complete which always takes time, there must always be as a personal contribution, a constant consent to the true Force, a constant rejection of any lower mixture—that ...
... Pondicherry (Circa 1927-1947) Pondicherry (Circa 1927-1947) 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 ...
... sleep, into the inconscient Deep. All I had won that the mind can win of the Word and the wordless, Knowledge sun-bright for ever and the spiritual crown of endeavour, Share in the thoughts of the cosmic Self and its orders to Nature, Cup of its nectar of bliss, dreams on the breast of its peace. Page 681 ...
... working of the Mother's Grace? Why does the Mother in her universal action act according to the law of things, but in her embodied physical by constant Grace? Page 51 It is the work of the Cosmic Power to maintain the cosmos and the law of the cosmos—transforming it by a slow evolution. The greater transformation comes from the Transcendent above the universe, and it is that transcendent Grace ...
... realising the Self as one does during the soul-realisation? The Self has two aspects, passive and active. In the first it is pure silence, wideness, calm, the inactive Brahman—in the second it is the Cosmic Spirit, universal not individual. One can feel in it union or oneness with the Mother. Intimacy is a feeling of the individual, therefore of the psychic being. 12 October 1934 ...
... explained to me the fifth picture. Arrived from the other side of boundlessness An eye of deity pierced through the dumb deeps; A scout in a reconnaissance from the sun, It seemed amid a heavy cosmic rest, The torpor of a sick and weary world, To seek for a spirit sole and desolate Too fallen to recollect forgotten bliss. || 1.14 || She drew a sketch and instructed me: No eye lashes ...
... grow And fruits of eternity: They touch the worlds dim brow Page 67 With a radiant caress Waking the memories Lulled in its crusted swoon Of the unborn ecstasies From which the cosmic fire Sprang rhythmic into Space That Gods body might be born And the Formless wear a face. Page 68 ...
... Upanishad. (II. 1.) Life is, we have seen, the putting forth, under certain cosmic circumstances, of a Conscious-Force which is in its own nature infinite, absolute, untrammelled, inalienably possessed of its own unity and bliss, the Conscious-Force of Sachchidananda. The central circumstance of this cosmic process, in so far as it differs in its appearances from the purity of the infinite... of 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... separation of Force from Consciousness, the specious miracle of the all-governing and infallible Inconscient which is only the mask but which modern knowledge has mistaken for the real face of the cosmic Deity. The third relation is the poise of being in Mind and in the Life which we see emerging out of this denial, bewildered by it, struggling—without any possibility of cessation by submission, but ...
... meaning of creation, whether there is a Supreme who is not merely a pure undifferentiated Consciousness and Being, but the source and support also of the dynamic energy of creation and whether the cosmic existence has for It a significance and a value. That is a question which cannot be settled by metaphysical logic which deals in words and ideas, but by a spiritual experience which goes beyond Mind... experience. If your reasoning leads you towards the Shankara idea of the Supreme, that might be an indication that the Vedanta Adwaita (Mayavada) is your way of advance. This Yoga accepts the value of cosmic existence and holds it to be a reality; its object is to enter into a higher Truth-Consciousness or Divine Supramental Consciousness in which action and creation are the expression not of ignorance... the true origin of things and the equal reality of the active Brahman. The Shakti or Power of the Eternal becomes then a power of illusion only and the world becomes incomprehensible, a mystery of cosmic madness, an eternal delirium of the Eternal. Whatever verbal or ideative logic one may bring to support it, this way of seeing the universe explains nothing; it only erects a mental formula of the ...
... Shiva expresses the majesty, pure calm and forceful control, dignity, and kingship of existence. The pose of the figure visibly incarnates that whole spirit of the cosmic Shiva. Again, the cosmic dance of Shiva expresses the cosmic movement and delight, and the posture of every limb is made to bring out the realm and significance, the rapturous intensity and fullness of the movement. Page 23... ancient Indian art at its greatest. Page 17 Indian architecture, particularly Indian sacred architecture, in its inmost reality is an altar raised to the Divine Self, a House of Cosmic Spirit, an appeal and inspiration to the Infinite. Symbolism is the main characteristic of Indian architecture, and this is true even of the Indo-Muslim architecture, where ' Sri Aurobindo: ... from spiritual realisation, and what it creates and expresses at its greatest is the spirit in form, the soul in body, this or that living soul-power in the Divine or the human, the universal and the cosmic individualised suggestion but not lost in individuality. Its aim is not to express the ideal physical or emotional beauty, but the utmost spiritual beauty or the significance of which the human form ...
... our aim is to expound the data of yogic experiences and not to enter into the realm of philosophical debate. 6. The Vedas and the Upanishads provide descriptions of the cosmic yoga that is constantly being practised by the cosmic life that can be seen pulsating in this vast universe. The Upanishadic metaphor of that pulsation is the galloping horse that rises from the inconscient ocean and whose limbs... organized constitution of the elements of the material world, intermediate worlds, mental world and still the higher worlds of the superconsciousness to which are all directed by constant gallops of the cosmic horse. Indeed, the whole universe is a vast pulsation, it is a constant process of splitting and fusion, even at atomic levels of existence, and constant inhalation and exhalation that we can visibly... high and profound synthesis of spiritual knowledge. The Vedic yoga synthesizes the psychological workings of man, which have been named symbolically and Page 94 significantly as various cosmic gods, each having his specialized functioning and yet all working together with subtle links of unifying powers of the One, who is declared to be expressed variously by the Rishis. In brief, the unifying ...
... all, Her nature felt all Nature as its own. Apart, living within, all lives she bore; Aloof, she carried in herself the world: Her dread was one with the great cosmic dread, Her strength was founded on the cosmic mights; The universal Mother's love was hers. Against the evil at life's afflicted roots, Her own calamity its private sign, Of her pangs she made a mystic poignant... giving voice to Overmental sight. It is one of the most impassioned and yet impersonal descriptions. The description of Savitri on the last day before she faces Death is suffused with strains cosmic pathos mingled with the grandeur Page 372 of Divine Grace. It has sufficient elements to make her human and yet it is her divinity that dominates. As Sri Aurobindo himself wrote it contains... wages of delight; Sullen, the torch of sense refused to burn; The unassisted brain found not its past. Only a vague earth-nature held the frame. But now she stirred, her life shared the cosmic load. At the summons of her body's voiceless call Her strong far-winging spirit travelled back, Back to the yoke of ignorance and fate, Back to the labour and stress of mortal days, ...
... people. Its survival into times not far from us was possible because of the survival of the cast of the antique mind in that philosophy and religion, a mind familiar with eternal things, capable of cosmic vision, having its roots of thought and seeing in the profundities of the soul, in the most intimate, pregnant and abiding experiences of the human spirit. The spirit of this greatness is indeed at... realisation, and what it creates and expresses at its greatest is the spirit in form, the soul in body, this or that living soul power Page 289 in the divine or the human, the universal and cosmic individualised in suggestion but not lost in individuality, the impersonal supporting a not too insistent play of personality, the abiding moments of the eternal, the presence, the idea, the power... work we see heroes, athletes, feminine incarnations of beauty, calm and restrained embodiments of idea, action or emotion in the idealised beauty of the human figure. The gods of Indian sculpture are cosmic beings, embodiments of some great spiritual power, spiritual idea and action, inmost psychic significance, the human form a vehicle of this soul meaning, its outward means of self-expression; everything ...
... The Secret Splendour A grip is broken loose Within my chest- Titan steel jointures part Their deep-grey rest In some blind cosmic plan Solidding night To crypt the fire that is man, To dungeon the height His dreamful mind remembers.... With a shining start, Suddenly rapture-russet, A hammer is the heart ...
... familiar. 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 ...
... and the law of Karma may be accepted as a fact, as part of the cosmic machinery..." (The Life Divine, pp. 806-07) (Author's emphasis) Such is the essence of Karmavada. Readers must have noted in the citation above that Sri Aurobindo has added two riders, two significant clauses and expressions: "so far as it goes" and "cosmic machinery". There lies a great meaning behind this purposeful addition... to see the exact reflection of this limited and crude human system in the government of the entire universe? It will surely be an act of absurdity to try to unravel the mystery of the operation of cosmic Nature by the sole application of the rigid formula of rewards and punishments invented by the mind of man. She does not work in this way at all. All that happens in the kingdom of universal Nature... principles and laws, and the evolving soul of an individual man has to learn through them necessary "lessons of experience" and follow a course of Page 119 ascending progression in the cosmic school of Nature's education. In order to banish from our mind the erroneous notion of "rewards and punishments" and adopt the right attitude towards the events and circumstances of our life, we should ...
... Pictures of Sri Aurobindo's poems The Indwelling Universal Read poem > My vast transcendence holds the cosmic whirl; I am hid in it as in the sea a pearl. 15.7.1938 Sri Aurobindo, Collected Poems: The Indwelling Universal ============= The Night is the symbol of Ignorance or Avidya in which men live just as Light ...
... 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 becomes aware of one's inner being... mental 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 ...
... a long text. What are these four?... ( Mother tries to remember, in vain ). How strange, I've forgotten. ( silence ) Did you read in the Cosmic Review about the "cosmic square": 1, Page 30 2, 3, 4, and one in the center? The cosmic square was conceived by Théon, and I know he put Love in the center. But the four sides... what are the four sides? I don't remember anymore. I used ...
... in their exasperation would like to declare? Nachiketas, the young aspirant of the Kathopanishad, asked Yama for the solution to this problem of death — Yama "the knower and keeper of the cosmic Law through which the soul has to rise by death and life to the freedom of Immortality." 1 Even when asked by Yama, the Lord of Death: "Another boon choose, O Nachiketas; importune me not, nor... death. For, if we can contemplate this sombre phenomenon, not from the limited and necessarily distorted angle of vision of the finite terror-struck ego-bound individual, but from the perspective of cosmic Becoming, we cannot fail to discover that death and dissolution is not such an unmitigated evil as it appears at first sight to be. As a matter of fact, death as death has no Separate or intrinsic... divine Inhabitant in His infinitely progressive self-becoming, could not be so far effectuated, death has been put forward and made to play its role as an agent of life itself to serve the ends of cosmic wisdom. That death is no more than a temporary curtain placed against eternal life — mors janua vitae — or that death is but the obverse of the coin of Life, as hinted by the Osirian ...
... Divine and all the other living or inanimate powers of the Eternal, and there are also relations in the dealings of the individual with the cosmic self in the nature of the universe. In philosophical terms, these relations are other than those of the supra- cosmic truth; they are derivative creations of a certain power of consciousness of the spirit. If one dwells in the yogic experience of the difference... experience of the Divine. It is true that if one dwells in this experience, we arrive at an intellectual conception, when we try to philosophise on the basis of that experience, of the divine as extra-cosmic. But we find that in the yogic field, there are other experiences also, and one of them is that in which it is found that all phenomena are contained in the Divine, and that no* phenomenon is outside ...
... really mean to say that people like Kemal Pasha can be called the instruments of the Divine? Yes, certainly, they are unconscious instruments — not for the great divine work, but for the cosmic work in the human race. Is it true that one can be so extraordinary as to do several things simultaneously without any direct or indirect Yogic discipline, several quite different... How are they helping the world and the Divine? It is the power in them that is great and that power comes from the Divine — by their actions and greatness they help the world and aid the cosmic purpose. It does not matter whether they have ego or not — they are not doing Yoga. You asked me why the Divine should care for vices or virtues. I cannot understand it, for, if He... his toe. He is the type of the truly great man as you conceive him. But do you really believe that men like Napoleon, Caesar, Shakespeare were not great men and did nothing for the world or for the cosmic purpose? that God was deterred from using them for his purpose because they had defects of character and vices? What a singular idea! So far as we know all the Avatars came down here ...
... should precede our attempts to apprehend Truth as god himself. He defies reason, and is himself: Universal, he is all, - transcendent, none. To man's righteousness this is his cosmic crime, Almighty beyond good and evil to dwell Leaving the good to their fate in a wicked world And evil to reign in this enormous scene. 60 But the human drama... And tears away the veil from God and life. 62 The image of humanity's future hope is installed in the heart of the seer-spirit who is also striving for the advent: A cosmic vision, a spiritual sense Feels all the Infinite lodged in finite form Page 222 And seen through a quivering ecstasy of light Discovers the bright... to conquer Time and Death? 64 And Death repeats his challenge that she should reveal her power or at least show that the Mighty Mother is with her. As Krishna assumes his vi ś var ū pa or cosmic form in the Gita in response to Arjuna's imperative request, Savitri too now permits her whole greatness to invade and possess her: A mighty transformation came on her. A ...
... ascend to cosmic feeling, to self-identification with the All, the One that is Many. This is the experience that seems to be behind the Buddhistic compassion, karuna. And yet there can be a status even beyond. For beyond the cosmic reality, lies the transcendent reality. It is the Absolute, neti, neti, into which individual and cosmos, all disappear and Vanish. In compassion, the cosmic communion ...
... when, from the domain of personal or individual feeling" and sympathy, we ascend to cosmic feeling, to self-identification with the All, the One that is Many. This is the experience that seems to be behind the Buddhistic compassion, karuā. And yet there can be a status even beyond. For, beyond the cosmic reality lies the transcendent reality. It is the Absolute, neti, neti, into which... which individual and cosmos, all dis. appear and vanish. In compassion, the cosmic communion, there is a trace and an echo of humanism – it is perhaps one of the reasons why Europeans generally are attracted to Buddhism and find it more congenial than Hinduism with its dizzy Vedantic heights. But in the status of the transcendent Self-hood, humanism is totally transcended and transmuted; one dwells ...
... adieu to the Earth it shook her hand —on 28 December 1908 Messina, the port city of Sicily, was completely destroyed by an earthquake followed by tidal waves, which left more than 80,000 dead. The Cosmic Review made its last appearance in December of that year. Mira Ismalun, Mirra's grandmother, passed away on 2 February 1909. Theon retired in 1909. Thus that "brief period of occultism... existence. Quite Page 268 the contrary. Rarely does one come across such a highly cultivated and refined young lady. Not only did she devour libraries, or write articles —for the Cosmic Review or her 'reunions' —but she even wrote stories. When Satprem was writing By the Body of the Earth or the Sannyasin, Mother recalled, "These past few days, the memories of things I had written... that all ideas are true and that there's a synthesis to be made, and that beyond the synthesis lies something luminous and true." She recalled, "Then I met him in connection with Theon and the Cosmic Review." In all likelihood they first met in 1908, when Andre was ten. At any rate he told me that this was in Montmorency, at the house of his aunts, to whom Mirra had entrusted her son. She was ...
... different powers of the one highest reality, ekam sat, tat satyam, tad ekam. Each of these gods is in himself a complete and separate cosmic personality of the one Existence. In their combination of the powers, they form the complete universal power, the cosmic whole. Each again, apart from his special function, is one godhead with others. Each holds in Page 12 himself the universal divinity... 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 are... people of India.) In the eyes of the Rishis, who composed the Veda, the physical and the psychical worlds were a manifestation and twofold and diverse and yet connected and similar figures of cosmic godheads. The inner and outer life of man was a divine commerce with the gods, and behind it was the one Spirit or Being of which the gods were various names and personalities and powers, ekam sad ...
... have various powers of some one highest reality, ekam sat, tat satyaim, tad ekam. Each of these gods is in himself a complete and separate cosmic personality of the one Existence. And in their combination of powers they form the complete universal power, the cosmic whole. Each again, apart from his special function, is one godhead with the others. Each holds in himself the universal divinity; each god... 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 are... According to the Vedic theory, the spirit of creation framed all the movements of the world by chhandas, fixed rhythms of the formative word. The metrical movements of the Vedic mantras reflect these cosmic rhythms as powers of balanced harmonies maintained by a system of subtle recurrences. Mantra is poetic speech which combines three highest intensities, a highest intensity of rhythmic movement, a ...
... In regard to the Akshara she is the same Para Shakti holding the Purusha immobile in herself and also herself immobile in him at the back of all creation. In regard to the Kshara she is the mobile cosmic Energy manifesting all beings and forces. 18 August 1932 ...
... Adventure of the Apocalypse Unbirthed Agrip is broken loose Within my chest— Titan steel jointures part Their deep-grey rest In some blind cosmic plan Solidding night To crypt the fire that is man, To dungeon the height His dreamful mind remembers . . . With a shining start, Suddenly rapture-russet, A hammer ...
... save upon Nature's summits, Ecstasy's chariots, 6 he is stating his own profound experience. Vishwarupa, the vision of the Cosmic Divine, expressed so beautifully in the eleventh chapter of the Gita bears a resemblance to the cosmic vision contained in Savitri . One may mark in this respect the utterance of Arjuna in his exultation of the vision, and of Vishwarupa as the... and succeed, because reason dominates and materialism is a living force today. But Sri Aurobindo has made the impossible possible. He has written an epic of the New Age. His Savitri is a cosmic epic and concerns all men and women and times. He has shown, by his grand work, the lines along which an epic writer should move today. Sri Aurobindo utilised his remarkable poetical capacity... and comprehensiveness of the Vedas and the Upanishads. The Vedas and the Upanishads speak of the One, the Divine, the Supreme Ineffable. It is that which finds expression in a myriad forms in the cosmic dance. Savitri also opens us to the realm of the External. But it is not merely a reproduction of the experience of the past, for the poet-seer has discovered new realms of the Spirit. ...
... and they need not be as rigid as the conflict among mental Page 103 opinion or as rigid as mental cognitions of intuitions can be. In the overmind, on account of its cosmicity, the sweep of knowledge is cosmic and global, but since it is still not integral, even overmental views may provide a field of divergence, and even when divergences can be more easily reconciled, final reconciliation... field of intuition can be limited, and it can be compared to torchlight so that the field of knowledge is focused on the limited field on which the torch is focused, but the field of the overmind is cosmic, so that massive fields of the object are intimately, directly and immediately cognized, as in a search light, Intuitive light is often described as holistic light, in the sense that all that is cognized... fullness, 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 ...
... the large descent of the Godhead enters Limbs that are mortal. Voiceless, thronged, Infinity crowds upon me; Presses down a glory of power eternal; Mind and heart grow one with the cosmic wideness; Stilled are earth's murmurs. Swiftly, swiftly crossing the golden spaces Knowledge leaps, a torrent of rapid lightnings; Thoughts that left the Ineffable's flaming mansions ...
... reach 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 ...
... reading a few of these poems. 'Some of the poems such as Soul of Song have a remarkable perfection and this is often accompanied with a great felicity and power of revelatory image as in Cosmic Rhythms. In another poem, Unbirthed, the images grow more audacious and tense and might seem to some to be almost violent in their push but they usually justify themselves by their originality ...
... relation between the subtle existence and the spiritual, the adhidaiva and adhyātma . But the Page 18 Mind, the Life, the speech, the senses are governed by cosmic powers, by Gods, by Indra, Vayu, Agni. Are these subtle cosmic powers the beginning of existence, the true movers of mind and life, or is there some superior unifying force, one in itself behind them all? By whom or what is the ...
... the individual is described as a dynamo or channel and afterwards is merged in the Cosmic. Sri Aurobindo read the passage. SRI AUROBINDO: There is no difficulty. I have said here, "the dynamo selected"—I haven't said who selects. It may be the Divine Will or Nature. And even when the individual is merged in the Cosmic, the individual character remains. But the question of selective action of the individual ...
... infinite in its sweep, Sovereign it circles, soothing every pain, Conqueror of mortal grief by the touch of a kiss. The primal Heart's creative song is here: A mother-croon cradles a cosmic child And rhythms its body with the Omnipotent's will. 15-7-48 Page 111 ...
... being through works. United with the Self and source of all by their surrender of their will into its infinity, guided in their works by the secret Divinity within or surrendered to the Lord of the cosmic action as the master and mover of all their energies of thought, feeling, act, becoming by this enlargement of being selfless and universal, they can reach by works some first fullness of a spiritual... by a 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... of the 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 ...
... conflagration, difficult to account for his theory of the upward and downward way, difficult to concede what Mr. Ranade contends, that Heraclitus did hold the theory of a cosmic conflagration or to imagine what could be the result of such a cosmic catastrophe. To reduce all becoming into Nothing? Surely not; Heraclitus' thought is at the very antipodes from speculative Nihilism. Into another kind of becoming... that can be imaged as Fire which, if an ever-active force, is yet a substance or at least a substantial force and not merely an abstract Will-to-become,—something out of which Page 226 all cosmic becoming arises and into which it returns, what is this but eternal Being? Heraclitus was greatly preoccupied with his idea of eternal becoming, for him the one right account of the cosmos, but ...
... Supreme Being as a pure silent Self and Spirit or as the divine Master of cosmic existence. The pure Self is equal, unmoved, the witness in an impartial peace of all the happenings and relations of cosmic existence. While it is not averse to them,—aversion is not equality, nor, if that were the attitude of the Self to cosmic existence, could the universe come at all into being or proceed upon its cycles... according to his large aim in the cycles and draws the soul upward in the evolution through its apparent progress and retrogression towards the higher and ever higher development which is the sense of the cosmic urge. The self-perfecting individual who seeks to be one in will with the Divine and make his nature an instrument of the divine purpose, must enlarge himself out of the egoistic and partial views... upward looking mentality. But an increasing will to equality in the intelligence is needed, before that light can work freely upon the mental substance. This too is not an abnegation of the seekings and cosmic purposes of the intelligence, not an indifference or impartial scepticism, nor yet a stilling of all thought in the silence of the Ineffable. A stilling of the mental thought may be part of the discipline ...
... Immutable and by Maya the power the Self has of imposing on itself the cosmic illusion, or by the Self the Divine Being and by Maya the nature of conscious-being and the conscious-force by which the Divine embodies himself in soul-forms and forms of things. Others spoke of Ishwara and Shakti, the Lord and His force, His cosmic power. The analytic philosophy of the Sankhyas affirmed their eternal... eternal duality without any possibility of oneness, accepting only relations of union and separation by which the cosmic action of Prakriti begins, proceeds or ceases for the Purusha; for the Purusha is an inactive conscious existence, — it is the Soul the same in itself and immutable forever, — Prakriti the active force of Nature which by its motion creates and maintains and by its sinking into ... resolves itself into this one question,— "What are we to do with this soul and nature set face to face with each other, — we who have as one side of our existence this Nature, this personal and cosmic activity, which tries to impress itself upon the soul, to possess, control, determine it, and as the other side this soul which feels that in some mysterious way it has a freedom, a control over ...
... a Shiva expresses the majesty, pure calm and forceful control, dignity, and kingship of existence. The pose of the figure visibly incarnates that whole spirit of the cosmic Shiva. Again, the cosmic dance of Shiva expresses the cosmic movement and delight, and the posture of every limb is made to bring out the realm and significance, the rapturous intensity and fullness of the movement. The art... its tone to an art and by which we must judge. 1 Indian architecture, particularly Indian sacred architecture, in its inmost reality is an altar raised to the Divine Self, a House of Cosmic Spirit, an appeal and inspiration to the Infinite. Symbolism is the main characteristic of Indian architecture, and this is true even of the Indo- Muslim architecture, where the Indian mind has taken... from spiritual realisation, and what it creates and expresses at its greatest is the spirit in form, the soul in body, this or that living soul-power in the Divine or the human, the universal and the cosmic individualised suggestion but not lost in individuality. Its aim is not to express the ideal physical or emotional beauty, but the utmost spiritual beauty or the significance of which the human form ...
... within us or outside in things and forces and creatures, started from an involution in inconscience of Page 161 Nature and began by the manifestation of its apparent opposites. Out of a vast cosmic inconscience and inertia and insensibility, an initial disguise that is almost non-existence, the Spirit in Matter has chosen to evolve and slowly shape, as if in a grudging and gradually yielding... can explain one side or appearance of things; but it is a greater truth that can alone successfully join all the aspects and illumine all the facts of the enigma. If all were indeed a result of cosmic Chance, there would be no necessity of a new advance; nothing beyond mind need appear in the material world,—as indeed there was then no necessity for even mind to arise at all out of the meaningless ...
... here self-represented in numberless personality, a Master of Knowledge, a Master of Forces, a Lord of love and bliss and beauty, a single Origin of the worlds, a self-manifester and self-creator, a Cosmic Spirit, a universal Mind, a universal Life, the conscious and living Reality supporting the appearance which we sense as unconscious inanimate Matter. " Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL... first spoken of the duality Brahman-Maya [eternal Existence and the existence of the world], and now he speaks of the duality Ishwara-Shakti [the Divine in his Being and the Divine in his Force of cosmic realisation]. This duality Ishwara-Shakti, it isn't very clear, is it? The other one is simpler, isn't it? For it is cut into two, distinct: one is Reality and the other illusion; one is Light ...
... body, there will be the need to resist it physically: if I do not do it, other instruments will be found. I may say like Arjuna, overwhelmed with pity and grief, "I shall not fight", but God and the cosmic deities may refuse my refusal and compel me to do what in my ignorance and wrong headedness I would not like to do. Here lies the secret and the solution of the problem. It is, indeed, the solution... it seems immoral, I have to do that, because that seems good. One goes beyond good and bad and awaits the divine command. One does what one is ordered to do from above, what is needed to fulfil the Cosmic Purpose. You do not act then, it is the Divine who acts in you. It may be asked if even then there are not some types of activity and impulsion that are intrinsically evil, undivine – ...
... body, there will be the need to resist it physically: if I do not do it, other instruments will be found. I may say like Arjuna, overwhelmed with pity and grief, "I shall not fight", but God and the cosmic deities may Page 69 refuse my refusal and compel me to do what in my ignorance and wrong-headedness I would not like to do. Here lies the secret and the solution of the problem... it seems immoral, I have to do that, because that seems good. One goes beyond good and bad and awaits the divine command. One does what one is ordered to do from above, what is needed to fulfil the Cosmic Purpose. You do not act then, it is the Divine who acts in you. It may be asked if even then there are not some types of activity and impulsion that are intrinsically evil, undivine—they can ...
... the growth of Savitri Sri Aurobindo refers to this art as follows : Music brought down celestial yearnings, song Held the merged heart absorbed in rapturous depths, Linking the human with the cosmic cry. Savitri, Book IV, Canto 2 Page 86 It expresses clearly the various functions of music: I. To bring to man's heart aspirations that are really projections from... octaves impossible for the human voice. These concerts are impressive by the powerful vibration they create, vibration pulsating with beauty and harmony. Sometimes they bring down sound patterns of cosmic harmony from the vital plane. The audience helps the artists by its semi-religious attitude towards music. The average Page 87 European, who is generally not open to direct spiritual ...
... jungles and strange seas of thought. Although content thus to feed on "scraps of life and Matter's bones in its kennel of objective certitude", even this pigmy figure plays an allotted role in the cosmic play. The second of Mind's deputies is "a rash Intelligence" with its thousand shapes and numerous names: It licked at knowledge with a smoky tongue. A whirlpool... too is no consummation to be wished, for who would care to stifle the promptings of the soul and make the human body a perfect machine? There is no room for despair, however; "many-visaged is the cosmic Soul" and "a greater Mind may see a greater Truth". Either this way is open, or all is a total defeat. The hazy twilight of Instinct and Sensory Perception; the dawn of Mind, and her ...
... 16 Strange is the relationship between purusha and prakriti, like word and meaning: Happy, inert, he lies beneath her feet: His breast he offers for her cosmic dance Of which our lives are the quivering theatre,.... 17 Purusha consents to veil himself in ignorance for an uncertain term and play the part Prakriti allots to him... in the city of God". 21 No sleep, no rest, till the goal be reached! Purusha and Prakriti are entangled here together in a mystic embrace, and they are seemingly lost in this cosmic game of play and clash and new creation. 22 He is Being and Becoming both, Becoming in his entanglement or communion with her, and Being as the one transcendent Reality. The descent (or involution) ...
... Page 295 There were some complete sets of classics. And I had my entire collection of the Cosmic Review, as well as my postcard collection —it was down below. The postcards were mostly from Algeria, Tlemcen — about two hundred. But there were five years of the Cosmic Review. And written in such a French! It was most funny." There was also her stamp collection. With what ...
... how often I was reading and repeating to myself in Poland, "In order to stand aside, you must know yourself as the Purusha (conscious being; essential being supporting the play of Prakrit (Nature or cosmic energy)) who merely watches, consents to God's work, upholds the Adhar and enjoys the fruits that God gives." But at that time I never grasped that it means I shall really be doing nothing. When I ...
... significance or purpose in her works, no hint of anything other than her immediate preoccupation, which also seems to be for ever her only business. Matter alone appears to be the sole, dumb and stark cosmic reality. If we were present there, conscious but uninstructed, we would only have seen appearing out of a vast abyss of an apparent non-existence an Energy busy with the creation of Matter, a ...
... not an episode of the Eternal. It is his face and body of glory that is imperishable, it is the movement of his joy and power... * The Divine that we adore is not only a remote extra-cosmic Reality, but a half-veiled Manifestation present and near to us here in the universe. Life is the field of a divine manifestation not yet complete: here, in life, on earth, in the body, — ihniva ...
... distances of space and time! Sri Aurobindo's Comment "That is perfect—it is all of one piece, an exceedingly fine poem expressing with revelatory images the consciousness of the cosmic Self into which one enters by breaking the walls of individual limitation. Higher Mind, touched with Illumined Mind, except lines 3,4, 8, 9 which are more of the Illumined Mind itself." Asked ...
... Overhead Poetry Unbirthed A grip is broken loose Within my chest— Titan steel jointures part Their deep-grey rest In some blind cosmic plan Solidding night To crypt the fire that is man, To dungeon the height His dreamful mind remembers.... With a shining start, Suddenly rapture-russet, A hammer ...
... is the descent of the Supramental Godhead into the world's mental human consciousness for a total transformative purpose. A brief fore-glimpse is given of the invasion of Cosmic Ignorance by the Transcendent Knowledge. This Cosmic Ignorance, whose highest term is the mind groping towards Truth, is itself an evolute from the basic Inconscience. If the Transcendent Knowledge is the Reality of which the... get again a significant present tense slightly later when Sri Aurobindo tells us of the cosmic drowse of ignorant force Whose moved creative slumber kindles the suns And carries our lives in its somnambulist whirl. A situation covering a long span of ages, including the continuous cosmic phenomenon of stars shining and the continuous terrestrial phenomenon of human history,... the manifestation, of which earth's history is a part, begins with a stark Inconscience in which all that we understand by the Supreme Divine is submerged and concealed. From the total Involution cosmic Evolution starts: the submerged qualities of the Supreme Divine gradually emerge, the concealed powers of the Super- Page 136 conscience come out of the Inconscience, grade after grade ...
... the descent of the Supramental Godhead into the world's mental human consciousness for a total transformative purpose. A brief fore-glimpse is given of the invasion of Cosmic Ignorance by the Transcendent Knowledge. This Cosmic Ignorance, whose highest term is the mind groping towards Truth, is itself an evolute from the basic Inconscience. If the Transcendent Knowledge is the Reality of which... again a significant present tense slightly later when Sri Aurobindo tells us of the cosmic drowse of ignorant force Whose moved creative slumber kindles the suns And carries our lives in its somnambulist whirl. [Ibid.] A situation covering a long span of ages, including the continuous cosmic phenomenon of stars shining and the continuous terrestrial phenomenon of human history... the manifestation, of which earth's history is a part, begins with a stark Inconscience in which all that we understand by the Supreme Divine is submerged and concealed. From the total Involution cosmic Evolution starts: the submerged qualities of the Supreme Divine gradually emerge, the concealed powers of the Superconscience come out of the Inconscience, grade after grade. First, organised Matter ...
... 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... its own complex action. Consciousness presenting itself to its own self-awareness as an object of cognition is substance. Between Matter 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... 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 ...
... us and we remember Keats's famous lines: The moving waters at their priestlike task Of pure ablution round earth's human shores. 10 Keats' s cosmic image enables us to capture the heightened beauty of a similar cosmicity in Sri Aurobindo's imagery. We have referred to Sri Aurobindo's allusive style here only to throw some light on the many quarries in which he searched... inert he lies beneath her feet: His breast he offers for her cosmic dance Of which our lives are the quivering theatre, And none could bear but for his strength within, Yet none would leave because of his delight.... She through his witness sight and motion of might Unrolls the material of her cosmic Act... Her empire is the cosmos she has built, He is governed... consciousness, Grammared the hidden rhythms of Nature's dance, Critiqued the plot of the drama of the worlds, Made figure and number a key to all that is: The psycho-analysis of cosmic Self 1 Savitri, p. 56. 2 Ibid., p. 175. ' Ibid., pp. 231 -32. Page 224 Was traced, its secrets hunted down, and read The unknown pathology of the Unique ...
... stretch and blaze of cosmic Sight, Above the silence of the wordless Thought, .... There is a world of everlasting Light, In the realms of the immortal Supermind Truth who hides here her head in mystery, Her riddle deemed by reason impossible In the stark structure of material form, Unenigmaed lives, unmasked her face and there .... A cosmic vision, a spiritual... 6. Isha Upanishad, 15. 7. Prashna Upanishad, 4.5. 8. Ibid., 4.1. 9. The Life Divine, p. 129. 10. Trip ā dvibh ū ti-mah ā n ā r ā yana Upani ṣ ad. Page 102 cosmic manifestation with the evolving terrestrial cycle as its central and significant element, has for its goal the self-finding of Sachchidananda, of Existence-Consciousness-Bliss absolute, in other conditions... a process of evolutionary ascension. Involution is the process of self-limitation by which the universal Consciousness-Force has veiled herself by stages until she assumes the appearance of a dense cosmic Inconscience. We feel tempted at this point to reproduce in full a magnificent passage by Sri Aurobindo, wherein he describes in terms of light and sight and sleep this involutionary plunge of Sac ...
... Thought-nude, void of the world, one with the silence be. Sole, self-poised and unmoved thou shalt behold below Hierarchies and domains, godheads and potencies, Titans, demons and men each in his cosmic role: Midst all these in the live centre of forces spun, Fate there under thy feet turning the wheels of Time, The World Law thou shalt view mapped in its codes sublime, Yet thyself shalt remain ...
... daily dynamic worship and service of the Divine in the unbounded temple of his own vast cosmic existence. Life becomes more and more the sacrifice of the eternal in the individual constantly self-offered to the eternal Transcendence. It is offered in the wide sacrificial ground of the field of the eternal cosmic Spirit; and the Force too that offers it is the eternal Force, the omnipresent Page... necessary for the merging of the incomplete ego. But for that there can be a speedy and enormous compensation in the discovery of a real greater or ultimate completeness in others, in all things, in the cosmic oneness, in the freedom of the transcendent Self and Spirit, in the rapture of the touch of the Divine. Our sacrifice is not a giving without any return or any fruitful acceptance from the other side;... Last, there is to be considered the recipient of the sacrifice and the manner of the sacrifice. The sacrifice may be offered to others or it may be offered to divine Powers; it may be offered to the cosmic All or it may be offered to the transcendent Supreme. The worship given may take any shape from the dedication of a leaf or flower, a cup of water, a handful of rice, a loaf of bread, to consecration ...
... 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, subconscious, subliminal, vital, mental, are all there; man is the representative of the cosmos. He is the microcosm. All the cosmic energies are present in a rudimentary... God as an Extra-cosmic Being, somebody who is away from the Cosmos which He has created, like the potter who has created a pot and is not in the Page 95 pot and all the imperfections of the pot are there because of his inability to create a perfect one, or because he has deliberately created the pot like that. That idea is wrong. To believe in a God who is extra-cosmic, away from the... of creation and self-manifestation or to hold itself back. Why does it cast itself into this universal rhythm ? Why does the One, the Self, the Purusha, One who watches and is independent of this cosmic movement of conscious force cast Itself into these rhythms ? The freedom to manifest or not, must be inherent in this Being. When It holds Itself back from movement it does not mean that it has ...
... considering. We have already considered the knowledge aspect of it. Now, of the three conscious aspects, we take up life—the force of Satchidananda putting itself forth under cosmic conditions. It becomes Life when it evolves from cosmic matter. The first projection is universal matter and the second projection is universal life. This life that has come into existence is subjected to the operation of universal... the Infinite that is behind life is Consciousness-Force or cit- ś akti of Satchidananda. Being, or Sat, becomes the basis of existence reducing itself to matter. When infinite Sat reduces itself to cosmic terms, we see it as Matter, the base of the material universe. Consciousness-Force becomes what we know or cognize as Life. Supermind becomes what we cognize as Mind. Ananda or delight becomes what... not know that he, himself, is universal. This is the knot of the difficulty. There is a mind at work and this mind comes in contact with energy or consciousness all around and it knows that there is cosmic or universal energy at work, universal life at work. But the mind is not conscious of its own universality; therefore, man who is the representative of mind in the world is unable to deal with the ...
... to the top of the created cosmos, he is led to supra-cosmic planes and worlds whence he descends back to the earth with a command to pursue his labour for the spiritual perfection of mankind and a promise of help of the supreme Grace that would ultimately solve the problem of man and achieve the victory for the Divine. This cosmic and supra-cosmic voyage occupies Books II and III. Book IV brings... second Book is, in fact, Aswapathy' s travel over worlds heaped upon worlds in a complex cosmogony mounting from the plinth of the plane of Matter right up to levels of Higher Mind and the plane of the Cosmic Being leading to worlds of greater knowledge. Aswapathy represents the aspiring human soul down the millenniums of evolution in his search for the truth of himself, of the world and of God. He acquires... legend has been transformed by the poet into an epic climb of human soul in its journey from the Inconscient to the very gates of the Superconscient and the whole symbol becomes full of a tremendous cosmic significance. Aswapathy's penances are here the trials and tribulations of the evolving Soul of Humanity and his gains are the gains of the human race during its long struggles for attainment of the ...
... A consanguinity of earth and heaven, Between the human portion toiling here And an as yet unborn and limitless Force. Again the mystic deep attempt began, The daring wager of the cosmic game. For since upon this blind and whirling globe Earth-plasm first quivered with the illumining mind And life invaded the material sheath Afflicting Inconscience with the need to ...
... A decimal point in the vastness of Eternity, So it seemed to my first human sight, But here the finite was measuring the Infinite. Even my cosmic gaze failed to contain that orb! The golden Sun was bigger than all our sky, It shadowed the luminous stars of the Way. Calm, serene and joyous were the beams ...
... 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 ...
... Dire the large descent of the Godhead enters Limbs that are mortal. Voiceless, thronged, Infinity crowds upon me; Presses down a glory of power eternal; Mind and heart grow one with the cosmic wideness; Stilled are earth's murmurs. Swiftly, swiftly crossing the golden spaces Knowledge leaps, a torrent of rapid lightnings; Thoughts that left the Ineffable's flaming mansions, Blaze ...
... Mahashakti immanent in the worlds of Sat-Chit-Ananda where all beings live and move in an ineffable completeness. (3) The Supramental Mahashakti immanent in the worlds of Supermind. (4) The Cosmic Mahashakti immanent in the lower hemisphere. Yes; that is all right. One speaks often however of all above the lower hemisphere as part of the transcendence. This is because the Supermind and Ananda ...
... Contemporary 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 ...
... existence except as a more or less protracted moment in the cosmic becoming of the All-Soul: that too is only a superficial appearance and much subtler and greater is the truth of my being. For the original and eternal Reality, the Alpha and Omega, the Godhead is neither separate in the individual nor is he only and solely a Pantheos, a cosmic spirit. He is at once the eternal individual and the eternal... inevitable union of two related truths which are needed for each other's completeness and can with difficulty exist in separation. These two things are the soul side and the nature side of one and the same cosmic sequence. Rebirth is meaningless without karma, and karma has no fount of inevitable origin and no rational and no moral justification if it is not an instrumentality for the sequences of the soul's... establish a reign of the most chaotic incoherence, such as we find only in the leaps and turns of the mind in dream or in the thoughts of madness, and hardly even there. And if this existence were, as the cosmic pessimist imagines, a dream or an illusion or, worse, as Schopenhauer would have it, a delirium and insanity of the soul, we might accept some such law of inconsequent consequence. But, taken even ...
... individual and no responsibility of any kind except the responsibility of universal Nature to carry out the idea or to execute the force put forth in the individual as in the universal by the All-Soul, the cosmic Spirit. But there is also this soul of the individual, and that is a being of the Infinite and a conscious and efficient portion of the All-Soul, a deputy or representative, and puts forth the energy... may therefore serve a partial purpose but can be of little eventual advantage to try to cut the knot of the riddle by reducing to the law of one form of energy alone all the apparent tangle of the cosmic action. The universe is not solely an ethical proposition, a problem of the antinomy of the good and the evil; the Spirit of the universe can in no way be imagined as a rigid moralist concerned only... world forces. If we thus state broadly our foundation, the simplicity of the ordinary solutions disappears, but that is a loss only to love of dogma or to the mind's indolence. The whole law of the cosmic action or even the one law governing all the others cannot well be the measure of a physical, mechanical and chemical energy, nor the law of a life force, nor a moral law or law of mind or of idea ...
... Ignorance. atman (Atman): Self. ātmarati: The peace and joy inherent in the self. avat ā ra (Avatar): The descent of the Divine in a human form. avidyā (Avidya): The cosmic principle of Ignorance. bhakta: Devotee. bhakti: Devotion. brahman: The spiritual Reality, universal and śupreme. brahmānda (Brahmanda): Cosmos, universe. caitya... manipura: See cakra. mantra: Set words or sounds having a spiritual significance and power. moksa (Moksha): Spiritual liberation from the sense ofpersonal being; release from cosmic existence. mūlādhāra: See cakra. nābhipadma: See cakra. nirvana (Nirvana): Spiritual extinction of the separate individual self. om: The primal sound representing ...
... 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 ...
... philosophies". It runs: "Whether they see dimly the material world as the body of the Divine, or life as a great pulsation of the breath of Divine Existence, or all things as thoughts of the cosmic Mind, or realise that there is a Spirit which is greater than these things, their Page 393 subtler and yet more wonderful source and creator,—whether they find God only in the Inconscient... annul the mind, life and body, or, overcoming division, see that He is all these at once and accept fearlessly the large consequences of that vision,—whether they worship Him with universality as the Cosmic Being or limit him and themselves, like the Positivist, in humanity only or, on the contrary, carried away by the vision of the timeless and spaceless Immutable, reject Him in Nature and Cosmos,—whether ...
... beyond history, a Grace of the Eternal, entered the historical stream to give it not only what it could never deserve but also what it could never dream of and desire. For, this stream belongs to the cosmic movement which has the transcendent behind it but never directly in it: its culmination would be the highest stratum of the world of the Gods, where the Many stand unified and harmonised in a Godhead... plane had been precipitated in the wake of the Descent on 24 November 1926 and not been set aside by the Mother at the command of Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo wanted not this natural crowning of the cosmic movement but the evocation of the Ineffable that was behind it, the secret Supermind transcendent of all religions, whose realisation would be rather the gift of a Super-Nature than Nature's own deserved ...
... after reading a few of these poems. 'Some of the poems such as Soul of Song have a remarkable perfection and this is often accompanied with a great felicity and power of revelatory image as in Cosmic Rhythms . In another poem, Un - birthed , the images grow more audacious and tense and might seem to be almost violent in their push but they usually justify themselves by their originality and... lightning's streak of smile, A lonely monolith of frozen fire. Sole pyramid piercing to the "vast of the One— Waits Shiva throned on an all-supporting void. Wing after wing smites to the cosmic sky. Gathering flame-speed out of their own wild heart— That tunnel of dream through the body's swoon of rock— They find their home in this sweet silent Face With the terrible brain ...
... its ground in emptiness And drew the figure of a universe, That the spirit might adventure into Time And wrestle with adamant Necessity And the soul pursue a cosmic pilgrimage. 37 It has been a marvellous tale of inner urge and the throwing up of life in matter, and of mind in life; like the plant from the seed, like the flower from the tree, like the... heights, Transcending grief and pain and fate and death. Yes, my humanity is a mask of God: He dwells in me, the mover of my acts, Turning the great wheel of his cosmic work. I am the living body of his light,... In me are the Nameless and the secret Name. 47 Once more Death sends out the cry that Spirit and Matter, being eternal foes ...
... reach 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 ...
... that conscious force; so also in everything Page 99 that is there is the delight of existence and it exists and is what it is by virtue of that delight. This ancient Vedantic theory of cosmic origin is immediately confronted in the human mind by two powerful contradictions, the emotional and sensational consciousness of pain and the ethical problem of evil. For if the world be an expression... the whole problem. All being Sachchidananda, how can pain and suffering at all exist? This, the real problem, is often farther confused by a false issue starting from the idea of a personal extra-cosmic God and a partial issue, the ethical difficulty. Sachchidananda, it may be reasoned, is God, is a conscious Being who is the author of existence; how then can God have created a world in which He... personality he declared to be a creation of ignorance and subject to Karma. In truth, the difficulty thus sharply presented arises only if Page 101 we assume the existence of an extra-cosmic personal God, not Himself the universe, one who has created good and evil, pain and suffering for His creatures, but Himself stands above and unaffected by them, watching, ruling, doing His will with ...
... of the spaceless, timeless, immobile and immutable Self, we take the constant mobility and 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 ...
... all that with a smile. ( Silence ) " A new humanity would then be a race of mental beings on the earth and in the earthly body but delivered from its present conditions in the reign of the cosmic Ignorance so far as to be possessed of a perfected mind, a mind of light which could even be a subordinate action of the supermind or Truth-Consciousness and in any case capable of the full possibilities... far this would go, whether it would eventually embrace the whole of humanity or only an advanced portion of it, would depend upon the intention in the evolution itself, on the intention in whatever cosmic or transcendent Will is guiding the movements of the universe. " The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 60 Page 182 Is this intention unknown? Do you know it? ...
... victory it will achieve will not come from the ego—it is the ego which requires an object outside and against to feel and affirm itself—but it will come from a higher personal self which is one with the cosmic soul and therefore with other personal souls. The Asura, in spite of, or rather, because of his aggressive vehemence betrays a lack of the sovereign power that is calm and at ease and self-sufficient... the forces of the world act not as its opponent but as its instrument. Thus the New Man shall affirm his individual sovereignty and do so to perfection by expressing through it his unity with the cosmic powers, with the infinite godhead. And by being Swarat, Self-Master, he will become Samrat, world-master. This mastery will be effected not merely in will, but in mind and heart also. For ...
... Each of these subtler sheaths possesses its own faculty of vision. In fact, what we can see with our "mortal" physical eye is an infinitesimal portion of the multilayered multidimensional world of cosmic manifestation. All that exists in all possible worlds -yes, all without exception - is accessible to the sight of a corresponding eye and, what is most notable, all these different "eyes" are already ...
... unmanifested timeless Eternal." (pp. 106-07) Here is a passage, rather long, from Sri Aurobindo's Savitri which pin-points in sublime verses the essential character of this vision: "A cosmic vision, a spiritual sense Feels all the Infinite lodged in finite form And seen through a quivering ecstasy of light Discovers the bright face of the Bodiless. In the truth of a ...
... 85 Chandragupta Maurya, 84 Charvaka, 46, 59 Chemistry, 44 Chhandas, 101,102 Chhandogya Upanishad, 68,75,78, 79, 80,81, 82 Cow, 3,13,14 Consciousness, mental, 41 Cosmic-terrestrial, 22 Crisis, 38,39,51 Culture,Indian,19,21,23,24,26,42, 43,47,49,55,56 Page 111 ...
... realization of the 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... to confront the Adversary. This shall be on the day of Satyavan's death. I: 2 The Issue Satyavan awaits in the forest of life the arrival of Savitri. His waiting for her is, in the cosmic working, the waiting of the God of Love for her. For him she is perfection's home and could well live in her as in his own infinity. But behind him also follows covertly the God of Death. Savitri... states, there is no more resistance of the lower members. Nature is mastered and the exploration of her vast provinces begins. His present Raj Yoga, the Yoga of the King, has to be raised to the Cosmic Yoga, Vishva Yoga, and finally to the Yoga of Surrender to the Divine Mother. II: 1 The World-Stair The Vishva Yoga begins. Here is a Universe well-planned and many-tiered ...
... self-experience and the apparent facts of universal existence. They cannot be entirely validated unless we know the real cause of ignorance, imperfection and suffering and their place in the cosmic purpose or cosmic order. There are three propositions about God and the world,—if we admit the Divine Existence,—to which the general reason and consciousness of mankind bear witness; but, one of the three... not supported by the Divine Existence; but we have then to suppose two Gods, an Ormuzd of the good and an Ahriman of the evil or, perhaps, a perfect supracosmic and immanent Being and an imperfect cosmic Demiurge or separate undivine Nature. This is a possible conception but improbable to our highest intelligence,—it can only be at most a subordinate aspect, not the original truth or the whole truth... is content to reflect all her order and all her disorders in his passive and stainless consciousness,—or a supreme Self absolute, inactive, free from all relations, unconcerned with the works of the cosmic Illusion or Creation which has mysteriously or paradoxically originated from It or over against It to tempt and afflict a world of temporal creatures. But all these solutions do no more than reflect ...
... possession of Truth and not in search of hidden and withheld realities. One observes that this Thought is much more capable than the mind of including at once a mass of knowledge in a single view; it has a cosmic character, not the stamp of an individual thinking. Beyond this Truth Thought we can distinguish a greater illumination instinct with an increased power and intensity and driving force, a luminosity... its own distinct character and is very clearly an intermediary of a greater Truth-Light with which our mind cannot directly communicate. At the source of this Intuition we discover a superconscient cosmic Mind in direct contact with the supramental Truth-Consciousness, an original intensity determinant of all movements below it and all mental energies—not Mind as we know it, but an Overmind that covers... condition in which there is no movement of thought or feeling, etc., only a great stillness of the mind. But there can be an action in the Silence, undisturbed even as the universal action goes on in the cosmic Silence. 51 Even intellectual thought, which is not based on the intellect but on supra-intellectual knowledge, can take place in a silent mind, says Sri Aurobindo who, after attaining silence ...
... have 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 ...
... 'THE BOOK OF LOVE' I 'The Destined Meeting Place' The "destined spot and hour", however, draw close. Naught happens but has its time and setting in the preordained cosmic play. Savitri now approaches a region, .. .of soft and delicate air That seemed a sanctuary of youth and joy, A highland world of free and green delight ...
... transformation and be in union with the Divine Knowledge, Will and Love. Secondly, to develop the yogic consciousness, i.e., to universalise the being in all the planes, become aware of the cosmic being and cosmic forces and be in union with the Divine on all the planes up to the overmind. Thirdly, to come into contact with the transcendent Divine beyond the overmind through the supramental consciousness... Because the object sought after is not a an individual achievement of divine realisation for the sake of the individual, but something to the-gained for the earth-consciousness here, a cosmic, not solely a supra-cosmic achievement. The thing to be gained also is the bringing in of a Power of Consciousness (the supramental) not yet organised or active directly in earth-nature, even in the spiritual... with the cosmic existence of the gods, pursued behind the symbols of the material universe into those superior planes which are hidden from the physical sense and the material mentality. The crown of this synthesis was in the experience of the Vedic Rishis something divine, transcendent and blissful in whose unity the increasing soul of man and the eternal divine fullness of the cosmic godheads ...
... 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... responsibility 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 ...
... the third Law of Life. This strife again has to divinise itself and become the clasp of Love. Until then Death, Desire and Strife are and must be the triple mask of the divine Life-principle in its cosmic self-affirmation. Page 473 ...
... self as the individual, the soul in action of Karma is bound always by ignorance, and only by rejection of individuality and of the cosmic illusion can we return to the liberty of the Absolute. What we see in both these systems is that spiritual freedom and the cosmic compulsion are equally admitted, but in a total separation and an exclusion from each other's own proper field,—still as absolute opposites... a self-imposed bondage. And very insistently they demand of man a choice between the right and the wrong way, between the will to an impermanent existence and the will to Nirvana, between a will to cosmic existence and the will to an absolute spiritual being. Nor do they demand this choice of the Absolute or of the universal Being or Power, who indeed cares nothing for their claim and goes on very ... Rather is Karma his instrument and its developments the material he uses, and he is using it always from life to life for the shaping of a limited and individual, which may be one day a divine and cosmic personality. For the eternal spirit enjoys an absolute freedom. This freedom appears to us no Page 346 doubt in a certain status, origin or background of all being as an unconditioned infinite ...
... 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... 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. The sadhaka in his progress towards truth and self-knowledge must... its eyes of vision and recognises this truth of ego and this truth of works. He gives up the idea of a mental, vital, physical "I" that acts or governs action; he recognises that Prakriti, Force of cosmic nature following her fixed modes, is the one and only worker in him and in all things and creatures. But what has fixed the modes of Nature? Or who has originated and governs the movements of Force ...
... there it struggles into life and then, into various patterns and variations of life. And when it struggles and creates mind then it succeeds in creating the individual. So the labour of the cosmic energy all along has been to create this individual, to create the self-aware centre of receptivity, a subjective self. Thus,one sees,as Sri Aurobindo says in the The Life Divine, that the universe... evolution came when mind awoke up into self-awareness and the individual was created because then he brought into actual dynamic movement the process of expanding out from the individual into the Cosmic, into the Transcendent. That process becomes possible only when the mind having come into existence becomes self-aware in man, in the subjective self, in the individual. And this individual is the... ages. There is the problem of ego and dualities. An infinite being, consciousness, delight—Satchidananda—is the cause of and material substance of creation; it has put itself out in terms of cosmic and individual manifestation. But one sees in life not being or consciousness but inconscience, not delight but pain and suffering not harmony but discord and strife, not immortality but the reign ...
... 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 also a Personal God, an... "liberation"- 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... All 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 ...
... of his legitimate pleasure and interest if he observes the legal rule. The cosmic law is expected by the popular theory Page 369 of Karma to deal with man on his own principle and do this very thing with a much sterner and more unescapable firmness of application and automatic necessity of consequence. The cosmic Being must be then, if this view is to hold, a sort of enlarged divine Human... variable individual souls who are feeling their way along its lines towards the right balance, synthesis, harmonies of their action. The karmic idea cannot be—for spirit and not mind is its cause—a cosmic reflection of our limited average human intelligence, but rather the law of a greater spiritual wisdom, a means which behind all its dumb occult appearances embodies an understanding lead and a subtle... Human or, we might say, a superior anthropoid Divine, or else the cosmic Law a perfection and magnitude of human methods and standards, which deals with man as he is accustomed to deal with his neighbour,—only not with a rough partial human efficacy, but either a sure omniscience or an unfailing automatism. Whatever truth there may be behind that notion, this is not likely to be an adequate account ...
... manifested being and determines largely and freely what shall be his self-expression. A oneness finding itself out in the variations of its own duality is the whole play of the soul with Nature in its cosmic birth and becoming. One Sachchidananda everywhere, self-existent, illimitable, a unity indestructible by the utmost infinity of its own variations, is the original truth of being for which our knowledge... relations of something eternal to itself in its own universal existence; they are not anywhere or at any time collisions of disconnected beings who meet fortuitously or by some mechanical necessity of cosmic existence. Therefore to get back to this eternal fact of oneness is our essential act of self-knowledge; to live in it must be the effective principle of our inner possession of our being and of our... possible to self-conscious mind, but it is also that by which liberation into the spiritual being is possible and the enjoyment of divine immortality. It is not the Eternal in His transcendence or in His cosmic being who arrives at this immortality; it is the individual who rises into self-knowledge, in him it is possessed and by him it is made effective. All life, spiritual, mental or material, is the play ...
... grand harmony of a thousand truths. Its fundamental tenet is the old Rig-Vedic formula: "The One whom the sages call by many names." Unity and multiplicity, simplicity and complexity, the supra-cosmic and the cosmic, the universal and the individual - all these are blended together in Hinduism and express themselves in the large number of aspects our country's culture and social life possess. A million... and concretising a million facets of the inexhaustible Divine and of the infinite Eternal, a supreme trinity-in-unity personalising the creative, preservative arid destructive qualities of the Supra-cosmic putting forth the cosmos and incarnating Himself again and again in the world, an ultimate Mother-force or Shakti bringing out for manifestation the secrets of the one Lord and Master of all existence... multifoliateness, for these alone can provide us with the final key to life's riddle and challenge. These are qualities that not only cope with the tremendous diversity on a basis of unity that is the cosmic play, but also afford lebensraum for new developments, adventurous advances, undreamt-of discoveries. Most religions catch hold of certain aspects of the Page 85 Divine to suit a ...
... glow. Of course it is all very easily said, but actually the cosmic pain and the cosmic evolution implicit in the process are indescribable. It is on those who are selected to undergo this cosmic suffering, it is on those who wish to save this world, that the mantle of thorns unerringly falls. They are the persons who have to undergo this cosmic pain. As examples Narad (or Sri Aurobindo) projects before ...
... the deformed chained god"that is man the master of knowledge and power, the asuric man; he is the man that has mastered Nature and would one day supersede God; he would smash the atom, canalise cosmic energy, "expunge a nation or abolish a race". Savitri, having heard them both, admits that while knowledge and power are necessary, without wisdom they cannot achieve much. Savitri promises to return... knowledge scans bright pebbles on the shore Of the huge ocean of his ignorance. 290 Hasn't the sum of the giant endeavours of mere mental man petered out into nothing? No wonder "a cosmic pathos" trembles through the moan of the "all-discovering Thought of man", man the natural scientist and philosopher. He makes a melancholy song about his achievements, for, while all battles are won ...
... come from the ego-it is the ego which requires an object outside and against to feel and affirm itself but it will come from a higher personal self which is one with the cosmic soul and therefore with other personal souls. The Asura, in spite of, or rather, because of his aggressive vehemence betrays a lack of the sovereign power that ... its opponent but as its instrument. Thus the New Man shall affirm his individual sovereignty and do so to perfection by expressing through it his unity with the cosmic powers, with the infinite godhead. And by being Swarat, Self-Master, he will become Samrat, world-master. This mastery will be effected ...
... Street, London W1. Page 674 Notes From the symbol to cosmic energy The master liked to repeat the words maru, sankaku, shikaku, meaning circles, triangles and squares; three words expressing an image and producing an energy. The circle is none other than the cosmic universe, the square is the earth and the triangle, man. Through respiration or rather... things stem from ki (qi in Chinese). Being timeless, ki has no beginning and no end, it has no form but can assume any form. It is. Aiki-do is defined by the way which relates man to the cosmic power, or ki. This idea of man, in harmony with the creative and original force of all things, is also at the root of life and serenity. 'He who discovers the secret of aiki-do', said Master Ueshiba... A philosophy and a spirituality which, through aiki-do, have attained such a high degree of application, deserve to be followed. The master himself had been seduced by the profoundly humanitarian cosmic ideas of the Reverend Deguchi. A trip to Mongolia Deguchi nurtured the idea of unifying the moral and religious meaning of the world. In February 1934, he revealed a highly secret plan ...
... visions? A vision is a perception by the visual organs, of phenomena that really exist in a world corresponding to the organ which sees. For example, to the individual vital plane there corresponds a cosmic vital world.... In this way, one can have visions that are vital, mental, overmental, supramental etc. Sri Aurobindo tells us that what is termed a hallucination is the reflection in the mind or... vision is vivid like actual sight, always precise and contains a truth in it. The inner vision can see objects, but it can see instead the vibration of the forces which act through the object. Cosmic vision is the seeing of the universal movements—it has nothing to do with the psychic necessarily. It can be in the universal mind, the universal vital, the universal physical or anywhere. When ...
... scale on the same footing as the others, it could not be the soul of all the rest, the divine element making the evolution of the others possible and using them as instruments for a growth through cosmic experience towards the Divine. So also the psychic world cannot be one among the other worlds to which the evolutionary being goes for supraphysical experience; it is a plane where it retires into... evolution and the soul grows by experience, working out by it this or that in the nature, and if there is suffering, it is for the purpose of that working out, not as a judgment inflicted by God or Cosmic Law on the errors or stumbling which are inevitable in the Ignorance. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: Rebirth It is often said that children enter into possession of their psychic being ...
... himself from this nature but transmutes it into an expression and emanantion of the Divine Consciousness. Even so the cosmic Godhead buried in Page 377 the universe grows, evolves and slowly spreads and establishes the radiance of its consciousness in the cosmic nature, makes this also the expression and embodiment of his conscious energy. That is the liberation or rebirth of nature ...
... the part of the inner physical which resists is thrown out. The way is opened for the Mother's golden light to descend in our inner being and stay, illumine and spread there. “In addition to the cosmic form of the Mother, Her eternal luminous golden form is also seen. We have the vision of both, the form of Light and the formless Light. “The criticism by the intellect is utterly vain. How can ...
... 1933 X told me that he does not feel it is the Mother's force that works in him, since with his own force he is able to lift 40 lbs. of grain. What is meant by one's own force? All force is cosmic and the individual is merely an instrument—a certain amount of the force may be stored in him, but that does not make it his own. There are certain possibilities in the way of the experience. First ...
... which is spontaneously in tune with the will of Nature, and they succeed in everything they undertake; others, on the contrary, have a will which is more or less totally out of tune with the will of cosmic Nature and they fail in everything they do or try to do. As for the question of what is necessary for progress, in an evolving world everything is necessarily a help to progress; but individual ...
... meditation 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 ...
... mean only a cosmic evolution; for the individual would be a quickly perishing instrument, and the race, a more abiding collective formulation, would be the real step in the progressive manifestation of the cosmic Inhabitant, the universal Spirit: rebirth is an indispensable condition for any long duration and evolution of the individual being in the earth-existence. Each grade of cosmic manifestation... reaching infinitely upward or sidewise into the Infinite is a delusion. If the soul of man is to go beyond humanity, to reach either a supramental or a still higher status, it must pass out of this cosmic existence, either to a plane or world of bliss and knowledge or into the unmanifest Eternal and Infinite. It is true that Science now affirms an evolutionary terrestrial existence: but if the facts... answered that, fundamentally, they were manifested in Matter by the Consciousness-Force in it, by the power of the Real-Idea building its own significant forms and types for the indwelling Spirit's cosmic existence: the practical or physical method might vary considerably in different grades or stages, although a basic similarity of line may be visible; the creative Power might use not one but many ...
... 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. Sri Aurobindo described her state in the following... daring wager of the cosmic game. For since upon this blind and whirling globe Earth-plasm first quivered with the illumining mind... A Mother wisdom works in Nature's breast To pour delight on the heart of toil and want. 18 Wisdom, the Mother or "the Mother wisdom" who "works in Nature's covert breast" does all that is necessary to make the cosmic evolution possible. Yet... letters, scatered abstruse signs... And recognise as a just necessity Its hard conditions for the mighty work, Nature's impossible Herculean toil.... The dumb great Mother in her cosmic trance.... Accepts indomitably to execute The will to know in an inconscient world, A will to live in a reign of death, The thirst for rapture in a heart of flesh, And works ...
... to create a race in which the Supermind will be a permanent state of consciousness. Why cannot one love or experience [ the Cosmic Divine or the Transcendent Divine ] concretely? many have done it. And why assume that He is immobile, silent and aloof? The Cosmic Divine can be as close to one as one's own self and the Transcendent as intimate as the closest friend or lover. It is only in the... mysterious Nothing from which all comes; according to others a mysterious Permanent in which there is no individual existence. This is Nirvana. Buddha himself always refused to say what there was beyond cosmic existence; he spoke neither of God nor Self nor Brahman. He said there was no utility in Page 428 discussing that—all that was necessary was to know the causes of this unhappy temporal ...
... outside us. cittākāś a — mental ether. Consciousness-Force, the Force — the Conscious Force that builds the worlds; a universal Energy that is the power of the Cosmic Spirit working out the cosmic and individual truth of things. Desire-soul — the surface soul in us, which works in our vital cravings, our emotions, aesthetic faculty and mental seeking for power, knowledge... — the Supreme Being from which all comes and in which all lives. In its supreme Truth the Divine is absolute and infinite peace, consciousness, existence, power and delight. The Transcendent, the Cosmic (Universal) and the Individual are three powers of the Divine, overarching, underlying and penetrating the whole of manifestation. Ego —the "I" constituted by a mental, vital and physical... that reaches its conclusion by a bound and does not need the ordinary steps of the logical mind. Overmind: The Overmind is a delegate of the Supramental Consciousness, its delegate to the cosmic Ignorance. The Supra-mental is the total Truth-Consciousness; the Overmind draws down the truths separately and gives them a separate identity. guṇa, Guna — quality, character, property; ...
... for things; it can pour downwards into the body, working, establishing its reign, extending into wideness from above, link the lowest in us with the highest above us, release the individual into a cosmic universality or into absoluteness and transcendence. 23 March 1933 Page 192 You often speak of the Mother's Force. What is it? It is the Divine Force which works to remove the ignorance ...
... the Old Testament theology, at the beginning of creation God said, "Let there be Light" and "there was light." Thus the "original Sound", parā vāk, became the primal agency behind the process of cosmic manifestation. The Upanishadic Rishis looked at the issue from a somewhat different angle. In their vision, at the very beginning everything remained unmanifest and dormant in the bosom of the absolute ...
... subtle sight is a great aid to the aspirant who has the necessary intelligence and clarity of mind and a power of intuitive discrimination. Visions are one key to unlock the doors of the other worlds of cosmic manifestation that lie beyond and behind the physical. Visions can offer the Sadhaka a first contact with the Divine in his forms and powers. Vision is often a first door of entrance into the ...
... of it as its self-expression becomes possible, not only possible but inevitable. That bed-rock is one's inmost spiritual being, the divine Consciousness which is at once an individual centre, a cosmic or universal field of existence and a transcendent truth and reality. With that as the nucleus and around it the whole system has to be arranged and organised: according to the demand of the will and ...
... it as its self-expression becomes possible, not only possible but inevitable. That bed-rock is one's inmost spiritual being, the divine consciousness which is at once an individual centre, a cosmic or universal field of existence and a transcendent truth and reality. With that as the nucleus and around it the whole system has to be arranged and organised: according to the demand of the will and ...
... expository in nature. Sri Aurobindo starts like a story-teller with a powerful descriptive style. He begins with the pre-creation darkness. It is a cinematic technique. The narrator's voice has a cosmic grandeur and the visuals are as vivid as the images projected on a screen. The dark starts fading and light creeps in as the symbol dawn approaches. The first colour-impression of the symbol... to generate consciousness into the ignorant race. The bare phrase "unchanging scene" speaks of the unconquered earth, which she wishes to conquer. The poet is now ready to pen down the story of a cosmic confrontation: a woman against the jaws of fate, love against death. 2 In The Issue the poet seeks to image the beauty and force of his heroine who is going to confront Death, Death... the density of the following speech: ODeath, thou speakest Truth but Truth that slays, 1answer to thee with the Truth that saves. 19 The poet uses an element of suspense in this cosmic debate. At the end of this debate between Love and Death, a quiet visual image precedes an end-stopped line containing suspense. Death walked in front of her and Satyavan, In the dark ...
... earth, it looks for its consummation by a transference to another world or a shuffling off of all cosmic existence. But the integral Yoga founds itself on a conception of the spiritual being as an omnipresent existence, the fullness of which comes not essentially by a transference to other worlds or a cosmic self-extinction, but by a growth out of what we now are phenomenally into the consciousness of... life and body; the full perfection is a possession, through this spiritual unity, of unity too with the universal Mind, the universal Life, the universal Form which are the other constant terms of cosmic being. Moreover, since human life is still accepted as a self-expression of the realised Divine in man, there must be an action of the entire divine nature in our life; and this brings in the need ...
... rational and most supremely pragmatic and utilitarian goal before us. It is the fulfilment of our self-existence and at the same time the fulfilment of our cosmic existence, of the individual in himself and of the individual in his relation to the cosmic Many. Between these two terms there is no irreconcilable opposition: rather, our own self and the self of the cosmos having been discovered to be one,... multiplicity to featureless unity. It must give us also that key, that secret of the whole play of relations, the whole variation of multiplicity, the whole clash and interaction of personalities for which cosmic existence is seeking. And knowledge is still incomplete if it gives Page 384 us only an idea and cannot verify it in experience; we seek the key, the secret in order that we may govern ...
... 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... the Witness seeing it all and observing in its unfolding the unrolling of the play of the Divine, Lila. It is this attitude that gives the greatest calm, peace, samata in face of the riddle of the cosmic workings. It is not meant that action and movement are not accepted but they are accepted as the Divine Working which is leading to ends which the mind may not always see at once, but the soul divines ...
... found for it. परा मनीषा, आद्या मनीषा, दैवी मनीषा, any of these might do, if no single word can be found or invented. Overmind and Intuition Is Overmind to the Cosmic Spirit as Intuition is to the individual Self? The Cosmic Spirit uses all powers, but Overmind power is the highest it normally uses in the present scheme of things here. In that sense as intuition is normally the highest power... (2) Because the object sought after is not an individual achievement of divine realisation for the sake of the individual, but something to be gained for the earth consciousness here, a cosmic not a supra-cosmic achievement. The thing to be gained also is the bringing in of a Power of consciousness (the supramental) not yet active directly in earth-nature, even in the spiritual life, but yet to be... inner consciousness and alter it, transform it, if you like, one can realise the Divine everywhere, the Self, the universal Shakti Page 141 doing all things, one can feel merged in the Cosmic Self or full of ecstatic bhakti or Ananda, but that need not transform the instrumental being. One can go on thinking with the intellect, willing with the mental will, feeling joy and sorrow on the ...
... 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 of self-existence independent of its cosmic or its individual existence. The ego collapses, losing its wall of separation, into the cosmic immensity; or it falls... replaces the separative ego by the Purusha, a conscious face and figure of the universal being and a self and power of the transcendent Divine in cosmic Nature. In the same movement, by the very awakening into the spirit, there is a dissolution of the cosmic ignorance; for we have the knowledge of ourselves as our timeless immutable self possessing itself in cosmos and beyond cosmos: this knowledge... the upward process of Nature as it heightens the forces of consciousness from principle to higher principle until the highest, the spiritual principle, becomes expressed and dominant in her, takes up cosmic and individual existence on the lower planes into its truth and transforms all into a conscious manifestation of the Spirit. The true individual, the spiritual being, emerges, individual yet universal ...
... be killed, or can only survive in the illogical passion of the heart denying by its strong beats of life the clear and dry truths of the reason. To love and adore a shadow of our minds or a bright cosmic phenomenon which vanishes from the eye of Truth, may be possible, but the way of salvation cannot be built upon a foundation of wilful self-deception. The bhakta indeed does not allow these doubts... it becomes the image-maker, the creator of symbols and values, a spiritual artist and poet. Therefore the severest intellectual philosophy admits the Saguna, the divine Person, only as the supreme cosmic symbol; go beyond it to reality and you will arrive, it says, at last to the Nirguna, the pure Impersonal. The rival philosophy asserts the superiority of the Saguna; that which is impersonal is, it... or phenomenal truths of the Time-consciousness. But these are only the personifications of monotheism. Polytheistic religions, less exalted perhaps, but wider and more sensitive in their response to cosmic life, have felt that all in the cosmos has a divine origin; therefore they conceived of the existence of many divine personalities with a vague sense of an indefinable Divine behind, whose relations ...
... intelligence and the amplitude of human sensitivity are the outcome of such inner movement towards Truth. The life-soul of humanity is certainty moving out to reach the sovereign truth of its cosmic existence; slowly but steadily it is seeking expression in the literature of consciousness. Indian languages being more aesthetically and musically structured and comparatively better suited... are destined to bring about a new birth of language itself making it an effective collaborator of the Muse in its progressive manifestation. As Sri Aurobindo observes: "It is in effect a larger cosmic vision, a realising of the godhead in the world and in man, of his divine possibilities as well of the greatness of the power that manifests in what he is, a spiritualised uplifting of his... offered to it by the slowly unfolding and now more clearly Page 150 disclosed Self of the universe." 3 The literature of the next future will most include this cosmic vision, and speak the voice of a widening and deepening and heightening spirit. An inner seeing and feeling of things suggestive of a deeper significance of life and Nature together with the ...
... × Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: The Universal or Cosmic Consciousness × Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: The Universal or Cosmic Consciousness × ...
... ordinarily powerful physical stimulus. After this point has been reached the Yoga proceeds to the processes of pranayam by which the whole system is cleared of impurities and the pranasakti , the great cosmic energy which lies behind all processes of Nature, fills the body and the brain and becomes sufficient for any work of which man is actually or potentially capable. This is followed by concentration... himself 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 ...
... the self to something which is beyond itself-it is the cosmic self, the oversoul, the universal being; it is God, it is Turiya, it is 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 ...
... sea. The fish must be the vital mind. The lake is the being in its individual consciousness, the sea is the same being with a universalised consciousness which can hold the universe and its cosmic forces in itself—the one (individual) merges into the other (the universal). The boat is the formation of the Mother's consciousness in you in which you are preparing to sail on this sea. The ...
... Deva and 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... blissfulness of the Chit in the Sacchidananda in place of an infinite passive blissfulness. The indifference of the Impersonal to the play of the Personal does not make the play an unreality or an immense cosmic falsehood with which Brahman amuses Himself or distresses Himself for a season, any more than the featurelessness of the Sad Atman makes feature a lie and an impossibility. On the contrary just as... Vasudeva, or tranquil Personality, He utterly enjoys without any distinction of pleasure and grief, good and evil, the infinite play of the world within Himself. The Saguna is Sacchidananda envisaging cosmic activity. On the tranquillity [of] Vasudeva God by a new adhyaropa manifestsHimself to Himself as the Sarvam Brahman in all things; He becomes the Lilamaya, the eternal Child frolicking in the Universe ...
... first to realise that it is something which contradicts the law of the world, for it is outside its normal rule and not of its nature. There is here something which does not seem to govern at all the cosmic action, but only to intervene, and yet it is always there; an element without which this universe would be either a tremendous machine or a fortuitously and yet inexorably ordered chance. For to our... intelligence; but it can come to the righteous also—curing them of their self-righteousness and leading to a purer consciousness beyond these things. It is a power that is superior to any rule, even to the Cosmic Law—for all spiritual seers have distinguished between the Law and Grace. Yet it is not indiscriminate—only it has a discrimination of its own which sees things and persons and the right times and... Grace is prepared in the individual often behind thick veils by means not calculable by the mind and when the state of Grace comes then the Grace itself acts. There are these three powers: (1) the Cosmic Law, of Karma or what else; (2) the Divine Compassion acting on as many as it can reach through the nets of the Law and giving them their chance; and (3) the Divine Grace which Page 168 ...
... Because the object sought after is not an individual achievement of divine realisation for the sole sake of the individual, but something to be gained for the earth-consciousness here, a cosmic, not solely a supra-cosmic achievement. The thing to be gained also is the bringing in of a Power of consciousness Page 400 (the supramental) not yet organised or active directly in earth-nature, even... Mind to Overmind, for in any of these the Self can be realised. It brings about a subjective transformation; the instrumental Nature is only so far transformed that it becomes an instrument for the Cosmic Divine to get some work done while the self within remains calm and free and united to the Divine. But this is an incomplete individual transformation—the full transformation of the instrumental Nature... saw all things as utterly unreal; this sense of unreality was overwhelming and universal. Only some undefinable Reality was perceived as true which was beyond space and time and unconnected with any cosmic activity but yet was met wherever one turned. This condition remained unimpaired for several months and even when the sense of unreality disappeared and there was a return to participation in the ...
... revelatory and inspired speech that comes to man's supreme faculties, and these compel the forms of things in the universe; it has its rhythms,—for it is no disordered vibration, but moves out into great cosmic measures,—and according to the rhythm is the law, arrangement, harmony, processes of the world it builds. Life itself is a rhythm of God. But what is it that is expressed or raised up before the... cannot be expressed by the Word; he does not use the word here to express his very self, but is known only to his own self-awareness. And even the truths of himself that stand behind the forms of cosmic things are in their true reality always self-expressed to his eternal vision in a higher than the mental vibration, a rhythm and voice of themselves that is their own very soul of movement. Speech ...
... and "Canto IV". 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 ...
... of pleasure and pain, and then has to find itself in the bliss of the Spirit or, as it is called in the Upanishads, the bliss of the Brahman. Letters on Yoga, p. 44 ...in its actual cosmic manifestation the Supreme, being the Infinite and not bound by any limitation, can manifest in Itself, in its consciousness of innumerable possibilities, something that Page 30 seems... on, a self-oblivion of the Spirit veiled in its own abysses where nothing is manifest but all inconceivably is and can emerge from that ineffable latency. In the heights, of Spirit this state of cosmic or infinite trance-sleep appears to our cognition as a luminous uttermost Superconscience: at the other end of being it offers itself to cognition as the Spirit's potency of presenting to itself ...
... level, 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... which there will be the descent of a higher consciousness into you. Your present consciousness in which you feel these things is only a preparatory one—in which the Mother works in you through the cosmic power according to your state of consciousness and your karma and in that working both success and failure can come—one has to remain equal-minded to both while trying always for success. A surer guidance ...
... 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... the material front of the universe: that is the field of occultism, if we take the word in its widest significance. He must know also the hidden Power or Powers that control the world: if there is a Cosmic Self or Spirit or a Creator, he must be able to enter into relation with It or Him and be able to remain in whatever contact or communion is possible, get into some kind of tune with the master Beings ...
... Sri Aurobindo: There are many personalities in man. But the true person is also there; it is the Eternal thrown out in time as the Cosmic and the individual for a particular purpose, use or work. This true person is all the time conscious of his identity with the Cosmic. Evening Talks, 1 January 1939 * First of all, what matters in a spiritual man's life is not what he did or what he ...
... notion that, since all things owe their final origin to the Divine, all their immediate activities also proceed directly from it. The fact is that here in the lower Nature the Divine is veiled by a cosmic Ignorance and what takes place does not proceed directly from the divine knowledge. That everything is equally the will Page 163 of God is a very convenient suggestion of the hostile influences ...
... A vision is a perception, by the visual organs, of phenomena that really exist in a world corresponding to the organ which sees. For example, to the individual vital plane there corresponds a cosmic vital world. When a human being is sufficiently developed he possesses an individualised vital being with organs of sight, hearing, smell, etc. So a person who has a well-developed vital being can ...
... notion that, since all things owe their final origin to the Divine, all their immediate activities also proceed directly from it. The fact is that here in the lower Nature the Divine is veiled by a cosmic Ignorance and what takes place does not proceed directly from the divine knowledge. That everything is equally the will of God is a very convenient suggestion of the hostile influences which would ...
... that, 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... and action with spiritual peace and the life of realisation.... Lowest causes of all are the weakness that shrinks from the struggle, the disgust and disappointment of the soul baffled by the great cosmic labour, the selfishness that cares not what becomes of those left behind us so long as we personally can be free from the monstrous ever-circling wheel of death and rebirth..." (pp. 311-12) ... by the unexpected results of life, the sadhaka may be led to experience "a sense of the entire vanity and unreality of all else than this remote Supreme, the vanity of human life, the unreality of cosmic existence, the bitter ugliness and cruelty of earth, the insufficiency of heaven, the aimlessness of the repetition of births in the body." (p. 675) The spirit and practice of utter renunciation ...
... elementary particles are constantly in a cosmic relation, then it stands to reason that the cells too must be in this kind of relation, if only because they consist of elementary particles. The relationships within the cosmic unity are a fundamental capacity of the cells though not in their surface consciousness, otherwise all of us would be conscious cosmic beings, which we are not. (Consisting of... of cells, elementary particles, a subliminal mind and vital, and a soul, we are indeed cosmic beings unconsciously, and even more than cosmic beings.) To put it graphically, we could say that the cell shows the respective gradations of the evolution going from the outside towards the inside — from the gross materiality, supported by the Inconscient, of its surface to the supramental Unity-Consciousness... remain, that will cross over into the new species.’ These statements need no comment. It is understandable that only the souls matured in and by the evolution (Sri Aurobindo somewhere speaks about ‘the cosmic training’ of the soul) can be ready for this important step, for the great evolutionary saltus. The third point is not the least important although it is the least evident. The universalization ...
... Because the object sought after is not an individual achievement of divine realisation for the sake of the individual, but something to be gained for the earth-consciousness here, a cosmic, not solely a supra-cosmic achievement. The thing to be gained also is the bringing in of a Power of Consciousness (the supra-mental) not yet organised or active directly in earth-nature, even in the spiritual... supramental experiences. All-comprehensive integrality is the basic characteristic of the philosophy of Sri Aurobindo. It is the philosophy of integral Monism that reconciles the supra-cosmic, supra- terrestrial and cosmic views of existence. In the history of Indian philosophy, the one system that comes closest to it is that of the Gita as expounded by Sri Aurobindo in his Essays on the Gita; and we... divine knowledge, power, joy and glory which had its crowning experience of the transcendental and blissful reality in whose unity the increasing soul of man and the eternal divine fullness of the cosmic can be made perfect and fulfil themselves. It includes also the high and profound synthesis of the Upanishadic spiritual knowledge. It places the Bhagavadgita's synthesis of the triple path of love ...
... emphasis on the supra-terrestrial, supra-cosmic, acosmic, so that the cosmic and terrestrial concerns are subordinated or neglected, even rejected. Since our aim will be to utilise superconscient knowledge in the conquest of the inconscient, we have to assign a central importance to those pursuits of the supra-conscient and supra-rational which deal with the cosmic and terrestrial, right up to our Material... a critical examination of the questions of the aim of human life. Study of the aim of human life can be viewed under four headings: The supra-cosmic aim of life; The supra-terrestrial aim of life; . Cosmic-terrestrial aim of life; and Integral aim of life. Secondly, one could discuss the question of relativity and subjectivity of values and... has continued right up to the present day and in our times, Sri Aurobindo has made radical experiments for the total transformation of the Inconscient by the process of the Supermind, the highest cosmic power of the Superconscient. " It is again affirmed that the superconscient is at work just as the subconscious or unconscious is at work, whether we may be aware of it or not. And it is further ...
... of the divine Delight in things from its dumb conception in Matter to its luminous consummation in Spirit. Like the other original divine principles, this Delight also must be represented in us by a cosmic principle corresponding to it in the apparent existence. It is the soul or psychic being.—As there is a subliminal luminous mind behind our surface mind, a subliminal life behind our mortal life, a ...
... Aurobindo's Savitri 4. Divine's Self-Vision: The ascending march of sight continues even beyond the supramental gnosis and arrives at the point where the cosmic manifestation has not yet begun and the static Sachchidananda is still absorbed in himself. What is the nature of sight there? By adapting what Sri Aurobindo has said in his commentary on ...
... natural evolution. And the new Renaissance of today has precisely corrected this aberration of humanity and brought it again in a line with the natural cosmic order. Certainly this does not go far enough into the motive of the change. The cosmic order does not mean mentalised vitalism which is also in its turn a section of the integral reality. It means the order of the spirit, it means the tr... trying to dawn upon the new age. Not matter but that which forms the substance of matter, not intellect but a vaster consciousness that informs the intellect, not man as he is, an aberration in the cosmic order, but as he may and shall be the embodiment and fulfilment of that order— this is the secret Intuition which, as yet dimly envisaged, nevertheless secretly inspires all the human activities of ...
... natural evolution. And the new Renaissance of today has precisely corrected this aberration of humanity and brought it again in a line with the natural cosmic order. Certainly this does not go far enough into the motive of the change. The cosmic order does not mean mentalised vitalism which is also in its turn a section of the integral reality. It means the order of the spirit, it means the... trying to dawn upon - the new age. Not matter but that which forms the substance of matter, not intellect but a vaster consciousness that informs the intellect, not man as he is, an aberration in the cosmic order, but as he may and shall be the embodiment and fulfilment of that order - this is the secret Intuition which, as yet dimly envisaged, nevertheless secretly inspires all the human activities of ...
... unattached as the static Self but also extended in wideness through the world as the silent Self in all and dynamic too as the active cosmic Divine Being and Power, Ishwara-Shakti, containing the world and pervading it as well as transcending it, manifesting all cosmic aspects. But, what is most important for us, is that it manifests as a transcending Light, Knowledge, Power, Purity, Peace, Ananda of... in the Self in the waking life as well as in meditation. I think Ramatirtha's realisations were more mental than any thing else. He had opening of the higher mind and a realisation there of the cosmic Self, but I find no evidence of a transformed mind and vital; that transformation is not a result of or object of the Yoga of Knowledge. The realisation of the Yoga of Knowledge is when one feels that... nature. What the psychic realisation does bring is a psychic change of the nature purifying it and turning it altogether towards the Divine. After that or along with it comes the realisation of the cosmic Self. It is these two things that the old Yogas encompassed and through them they passed to Moksha, Nirvana or the departure into some kind of celestial transcendence. The Yoga practised here includes ...
... distant Absolute. The message of the Gita is the gospel of the Divinity in man who by force of an increasing union unfolds himself out of the veil of the lower Nature, reveals to the human soul his cosmic spirit, reveals his absolute transcendences, reveals himself in man and in all beings. The potential outcome here of this union, this divine Yoga, man growing towards the Godhead, the Godhead manifest... revealed by the Gita. In part, for who shall exhaust its infinite depths or what creed or philosophy say that it has enlightened in a narrow space or shut up in a brief system all the significance of the cosmic miracle? But so far as is essential for the Gita's purpose, it is revealed to us. We have the way of the origination of the world from God, the immanence of the Divine in it and its immanence in the... heights. But when this new self-vision and consciousness have been acquired in place of the original ignorance, what will be the liberated man's view of the world around him, his attitude towards the cosmic manifestation of which he has now the central secret? He will have first the knowledge of the unity of existence and the regarding eye of that knowledge. He will see all around him as souls and forms ...
... in whom they come to the sense of their oneness. That which the old Indian seers called the mahān ātmā , the Great Self, the Great Spirit, which is seen through the vast strain of the cosmic thought and the cosmic life,—the French poets, influenced in their form and substance by Whitman, have seized on this element with the clear discernment and intellectual precision and lucidity of the Latin mind... more a subject of thought and utterance, not now limited to the old religious and personal form, but enlightened by a sense of the Infinite and Eternal which has arisen from and vivified the larger cosmic sense for which the thinking and discovery of the last century was a training. This change amounts to a revolution of the whole attitude of man towards existence, but it is commencing by an extension... which they are leading. He belongs to the largest mind of the nineteenth century by the stress and energy of his intellectual seeking, by his emphasis on man and life and Nature, by his idea of the cosmic and universal, his broad spaces and surfaces, by his democratic enthusiasm, by his eye fixed on the future, by his intellectual reconciling vision at once of the greatness of the individual and the ...
... divine powers in that atmosphere. The knowledge of the thinker and the seer was there and "earth's brooding wisdom spoke" to Savitri's still breast. It led her from heights of thought "to dive into the cosmic vastnesses". The actions of mortal man were heightened into cultural expression in art and beauty. Ethics refined their senses to make them capable of reaching the invisible Beyond. Savitri absorbed... invisible, Unveiled all Nature's meaning in a form, Or caught into a body the Divine." Music expressed "celestial yearnings", and song absorbed the heart "linking the human with the Cosmic cry". She mastered "the world-interpreting movements of the dance" which mould "idea and mood to a rhythmic sway and posture." "Poems in largeness cast like moving worlds" lifted "the human word near... to other subtle sounds that meet the inner ear. There, in the subtle, Nature's inmost movements could be known. He heard earth's wordless hymn to the Ineffable rising "from the ardent heart of the cosmic Void". He also could hear the voice of unborn, divine Powers. He heard the rising of yearning for "perfect life on earth for men", aspiration for assured knowledge and "shadowless bliss". Man aspires ...
... intelligence; but it can come to the righteous also—curing them of their self-righteousness and leading to a purer consciousness beyond these things. It is a power that is superior to any rule, even to the Cosmic Law—for all spiritual seers have distinguished between the Law and Grace. Yet it is not indiscriminate—only it has a discrimination of its own which sees things and persons and the right times and... Grace is prepared in the individual often behind thick veils by means not calculable by the mind and when the state of Grace comes then the Grace itself acts. There are these three powers: (1) the Cosmic Law, of Karma or what else; (2) the Divine Compassion acting on as many as it can reach through the nets of the Law and giving them their chance; and (3) the Divine Grace which acts more incalculably ...
... for example, of our days. The last two may, however, be represented somewhat differently. The Maruts may symbolise the region of the subder or supra-electromagnetic forces—what are now called cosmic rays: they are waves or particles of such infinitesimal magnitude that some of them at least have only a mathematical substance or reality, a probability-point, although of calculable or incalculable... and functions, but they may be extended to represent the whole existence, the cosmos as a whole. Indeed they are often taken to symbolise the stair of existence as a whole, the different levels of cosmic being and consciousness. Thus at the lowest rung of the ladder as always is the earth representing precisely matter and material existence; next, water represents life and the vital movement; then ...
... for example, of our days. The last two may, however, be represented somewhat differently. The Maruts may symbolise the region of the subtler or supra-electromagnetic forces – what are now called cosmic rays: they are waves or particles of such infinitesimal magnitude that some of them at least have only a mathematical substance or reality, a probability-point, although of calculable or incalculable... and functions, but they may be extended to represent the whole existence, the cosmos as a whole. Indeed they are often taken to symbolise the stair of existence as a whole, the different levels of cosmic being and consciousness. Thus at the lowest rung of the ladder as always is the earth representing precisely matter and material existence; next, water represents life and the vital movement; then ...
... 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, for instance, the tradition that one must recite the Ratri Sukta at the co... and right in things His soul, silent, supports the world and her, His acts are her commandment's registers. Happy, inert, he lies beneath her feet: His breast he offers for her cosmic dance 6 Savitri, p. 794. Page 183 Of which our lives are the quivering theatre, And none could bear but for his strength within, Yet none would leave because... lest one fall between the two and be lost for ever. Actually this Unknown is a realm of splendour that becomes the base of Tantra. We invoke the splendours of this Unknown through our worship of cosmic godheads. While it is 14 Savitri, pp. 727-28. 15 Savitri, p. 197. Page 187 difficult enough to comprehend the whole of earth, it is impossible to envision ...
... this cosmic cycle, nor merely to repeat a purposeless round in a long unsatisfactory groove of ignorance seeking for knowledge and never finding it perfectly,—in that case the ignorance would be either an inexplicable blunder of the All-conscient or a painful and purposeless Necessity equally inexplicable,—but to realise the Ananda of the Self in other conditions than the supracosmic, in cosmic being... usness. The One cannot in its integral conscious being exclude the Many from itself, because the Many would not then at all exist; at most it can stand back somewhere in its consciousness from the cosmic play so as to enable a similar movement in the individual being. The Many in the integrality or in each self of the Many cannot be really ignorant of the One or of others, because by the Many we mean... concentration we call the Ignorance is necessary, is to trace the cycle of self-oblivion and self-discovery for the joy of which the Ignorance is assumed in Nature by the secret spirit. It is not that all cosmic manifestation would otherwise become impossible; but it would be a quite different manifestation from the one in which we live; it would be confined to the higher worlds of the divine Existence or ...
... Knowledge This then is the integral truth, the highest and widest knowledge. The Divine is supracosmic, the eternal Parabrahman who supports with his timeless and spaceless existence all this cosmic manifestation of his own being and nature in Space and Time. He is the supreme spirit who ensouls the forms and movements of the universe, Paramatman. He is the supernal Person of whom all self and... being, conscious by the light of his consciousness, empowered to knowledge, to will and to action by his will and power, enjoying existence by his divine enjoyment of the cosmos, has come here into the cosmic rounds. The inner soul in man is here a partial self-manifestation of the Divine, self-limited for the works of his Nature in the universe, prakṛtir jīva-bhūtā . In his spiritual essence the ... individual is one with the Divine. In the works of the divine Prakriti he is one with him, yet there is an operative difference and many deep relations with God in Nature and with God above cosmic Nature. In the works of the lower appearance of Prakriti he seems by an ignorance and egoistic separation to be quite other than the One and to think, will, act, enjoy in this separative consciousness for ...
... is a 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... aspiration surge forth more and more frequently. 15.10.1970 In man is it the mind that pevents him from uniting with the cosmic rhythm ? Very often it is the vital vitiated by the adverse forces, and almost always the mind which wants to replace the cosmic rhythm by its own laws. 17.10.1970 Is there an intensity of aspiration which can bring realisation without delay? ... And we 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 ...
... one is a God or an Asura, each in his own way contributes to the progressive realisation of ------------------------------- * Hamlet, Act v, Sc. ii Page 386 the Cosmic Purpose. From a certain point of view even it may seem as though nothing helps or hinders, all are like a straw in a rushing current. In our human reckoning, we seem to help the evolutionary ...
... but it 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... illusionism in the Buddhist sense or even to the Gita's doctrine that though action in the world is never to be disdained as a revolving in a field of Māyā our true and final abode is in some supra-cosmic status after death has brought the God-realised soul its liberation from bodily existence. Sri Aurobindo is not content with substituting Līlā, or God's play in the world, for Māyā or the ...
... 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... l life happy or sorrowful in a low key — low yet with the entire essential meaning of the experience couched there. Before you are able to catch that entire essential meaning at every point of the cosmic scene you must not try to write poetry. That is one pre-condition. Now we come to another, which is even more profound: Page 419 When there shall fall upon you The shadow... there. You are being haunted by it. There is an intense movement going on far above you, and you are aware of it when you are standing on the earth. You have a sensation not only of wideness, of a cosmic being, but of something very elevated far beyond, something transcendental, and you feel there is a supreme being high above who is attracting you. You are with the universe still, but you have the ...
... 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 ...
... the soul's self-recognition that frequently we forget that our souls are here in bodies and that by communing or uniting with the Super-soul we are meant to evolve a tangible palpable Divine Shape, a cosmic structure of expressive visage and active limb. Inasmuch as we participate in this evolution of a universal divinity through our small humanity, we live beyond our doom of transience. We become ...
... truth and who contains all as well as inhabits all. ( Verses 4, 5 ) The basis and fulfilment of the rule of life are found in the experience of unity by which man identifies himself with the cosmic and transcendental Self and is identified in the Self, but with an entire freedom from grief and illusion, with all its becomings. ( Verses 6, 7 ) THIRD MOVEMENT In the third movement there ...
... universal and the individual) becomes meaningful, Supermind is not "Supracosmic." But inasmuch as the cosmos manifested on that plane is the archetypal cosmos, the Truth-world, Supermind is not cosmic in the sense that would apply to Overmind, etc. The fact that it is part of a transcendent quaternary — Sat (Existence), Chit-Tapas (Consciousness-Force), Ananda (Bliss), Page 178 ...
... limitations of the ignorant egoistic movements, pressing it forward to the domains of higher illuminations, towards spiritual consciousness and soul-knowledge, towards communion with the Divine, the cosmic and the transcendent Reality. That is the real work and labour. Bodily suffering is nothing: it is neither a sign nor a test of the ardours of consciousness thus seeking to uplift itself. Indeed, Tapas ...
... essence of Buddha's teaching. So in all the Greek stories, legends and tragedies we find this inexorable cruelty of the decrees of a Fate that nothing can deflect. The faith that goes to the Cosmic Divine is limited in the power of its action by the necessities of the play. To get entirely free from these limitations one must reach the Transcendent Divine. Page 230 The only ...
... vision does not limit itself to that of the One in the All; it extends itself to cover the integral perception of the All as the One. This universe in its entirety is the very Supreme Self figured in cosmic existence. The vision of the universal Purusha offers the Sadhaka a concrete living sight, in vivid images, of the visible greatness of the invisible Divine. The Sadhaka can then see the whole world ...
... mikros reproducing all the features and characters of the makros. Such being the case, a wholly conscious body governed and inspired by the supreme Consciousness lives and moves in the cosmic rhythm: not only does it register in itself the world happenings, but also possesses an active power to control and even to change those happenings by its individual movement. We may imagine the ...
... scale, the mikros reproducing all the features and characters of the makros. Such being the case, a wholly conscious body governed and inspired by the supreme Consciousness lives and moves in the cosmic rhythm: not only does it register in itself the world happenings, but also possesses an active power to control and even to change those happenings by its individual movement. We may imagine the body ...
... and significance of this verse which sums up the Supreme Entity in its aspects as the stable substratum of cosmic existence, the mighty sum of cosmic motion and energy and the infinite continent of cosmic energy. It is better therefore to take apah in the sense of the original ocean of cosmic matter, a figure which is so common as to have become a Page 256 commonplace of Hindu thought... can alone account for cosmic evolution. Page 258 Vedanta agrees and emphasizes what Sankhya briefly assumes,—that Purusha & Prakriti are themselves merely aspects, obverse and reverse sides, of a single Supreme entity or Self of Things. Buddhism, still more trenchant, does away with the reality of Purusha and Prakriti altogether and regards Cosmic Evolution as a cosmic illusion. The necessity... Self or Spirit envisaging itself as the immanent Cause and Director of cosmical evolution in matter. The Will does not move but causes and conditions the infinitely complex cosmic motions; the Will does not act, but causes and determines actions; the Will does not divide or multiply itself, but plays with the multiplicity of cosmic forms and energies and impresses or mirrors itself in each. Being essentially ...
... Of 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... to change this ignorant consciousness and nature into her divine consciousness and nature. It is the same with the truth about the instrument. It is true that each being is an instrument of the cosmic Shakti, therefore of the Mother. But the aim of the sadhana is to become a conscious and perfect instrument instead of one that is unconscious and therefore imperfect. You can be a conscious and perfect ...
... has to be called down from on high by an invocation. The tongue of this Flame lies hidden in the heavenly worlds of pure mind. The Fires spoke of the form or extension of Brahman, its manifested cosmic expansion, in time and space, inner and outer Satyakama completes the picture by revealing the supracosmic reality of Brahman, its transcendent essence beyond manifestation. That essence, Satyakama... However, in this Vedantic formula we miss one element of the supreme reality; Sat or Brahman is not only light and delight, it is also power, force, energy - tapas . Agni dwells not only on the three cosmic planes, the god has his own home in the supreme status. Sat, Being or Reality is Consciousness or Light; Consciousness is Delight; it is also Power, not only potential but dynamic Power, Energy. Sri ...
... be called down from on high by an invocation. The tongue of this Flame lies hidden in the heavenly worlds of pure mind. The Fires spoke of the form or extension of Brahman, its manifested cosmic expansion, in time and space, inner and outer. Satyakama completes the picture by revealing the supracosmic reality of Brahman, its transcendent essence beyond manifestation. That essence, Satyakama... in this Vedantic formula we miss one element of the supreme reality; Sat or Brahman is not only light and delight, it is also power, force, energy — tapas. Agni dwells not only on the three cosmic planes, the god has his own home in the supreme status. Sat, Being or Reality is Consciousness or Light; Consciousness is Delight; it is also Power, not only potential but dynamic Power, Energy. ...
... Page 16 III The first definitive and distinctive higher status is that of the Overmind. Its character is a global and entire being and consciousness, a cosmic and universal all-inclusive existence. Each being attains its self and each self lives in every other self and all selves together and at the same time live in each self. The diversities are not... individuals do in the world aggregate. Although the individual is the basic reality, aggregations and collectivities also are realities, even spiritual realities in the progressive unfoldment of the cosmic spirit. IV Such a consummation, so complex in composition, so global in scope would be possible only when the above-mental or the overmental world-consciousness descends into ...
... 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 at its most intense and immense the call of the Transcendent's own representative in the cosmic formula, the cry of the psychic being with its... Supramental Descent and Transformation". The psychic being is the only directly divine element in the evolving human composite. All the others, even at their highest, function as part of the cosmic formula with its various ascending planes of decreasing yet never annulled Ignorance and of increasing yet still limited Knowledge, a gradation whose top Sri Aurobindo distinguishes from the Supermind... has taken charge of our whole nature and set the mind, the life-force and the body working in accordance with its spontaneous truth-sense, it is ready to be the Supermind's central poise in the cosmic formula for an all-round irradiation of our nature, a process whose final result will be a totally transformed (that is, entirely divinised) mentality, vitality, physicality. No doubt, the Yoga ...
... on the individual's rejection of the lower cosmic life. This note increases, and it swells in due course of time into the rejection of all cosmic life whatever, and that becomes finally in India almost the one dominant and all-challenging cry. In the earlier Vedic synthesis, the liberation of the individual is regarded as a means towards a great cosmic victory, — swarājya as an indispensable step... beyond towards the discovery of the supreme victory of the Brahman, who is not merely immobile, but who is also beyond immobility, and who stands always behind the struggle and victory of the gods, the cosmic forces and beings; Indra must discover that Brahman that stands behind all victories, lesser or supreme. And the greatest helpfulness that one can render for the supreme victory of the Brahman is to ...
... uneased, Struggling for victory, by victory unappeased. All things it bore, even that which brings undying peace, But secret, veiled, waiting for some supreme release. I saw the spirit of the cosmic Ignorance; I felt its power besiege my gloried fields of trance. But now its huge Enigma had a voice, a cry That echoed through my oceans of felicity. A Voice arose that was so sweet and terrible ...
... many lives, one Delight of being in many hearts and bodies.—Man's difficulties; first, he only knows and governs a part of himself, the greater part of himself is subconscient and it is this greater cosmic part that really governs his surface being. This is what is meant by his being governed by his Nature and by the Lord seated within through the Maya or apparent denial of Sachchidananda by Himself ...
... things and the equal reality of the active Page 56 Brahman. The Shakti or Power of the Eternal becomes then a power of illusion only and the world becomes incomprehensible, a mystery of cosmic madness, an eternal delirium of the Eternal. Whatever verbal or ideative logic one may bring to support it, this way of seeing the universe explains nothing; it only erects a mental formula of the ...
... the Individual Being. People often say that now that the Mother has left her body she is a Universal Form - as if the bodily shape alone constituted her individuality. What you saw shows not only the cosmic power set to greater use by her departure from the body. What you saw shows also how closely and organically the Universal and the Individual in her were related and how naturally they interplay. ...
... glimpses of interpreting thought, But not the utter vision and delight. 47 What we need is "a fourth dimension of aesthetic sense" that will ultimately "re-align" our souls to the cosmic wideness. The full possibility of realisation is rendered difficult now because of a blinding or obscuring veil, but even this will be pierced or broken through in the fullness of time. ...
... limitations of the ignorant egoistic movement, pressing it forward to the domains of higher illuminations, towards spiritual consciousness and soul-knowledge, towards communion with the Divine, the cosmic and the transcendent Reality. That is the real work and labour. Bodily suffering is nothing: it is neither a sign nor a test of the ardours of consciousness thus seeking to uplift itself. Indeed ...
... more so against Britain. EVENING Purani asked Sri Aurobindo if he had finished Coomaraswamy's book on art and what he thought about it. SRI AUROBINDO: His book is one-sided. No doubt, art is cosmic, universal; it is not concerned with personality. But the artist expresses his inspiration and in that there must be the stamp of his individuality, as you find in the case of great artists and poets ...
... freedom of the spirit, when submitted to the spirit. Freedom is a divine quality; it belongs to the Divine Consciousness. Nothing below that status is free or can be free – all are bound to the Cosmic Law, the inexorable law of Karma, the chain of global Causation. You are free when you are out of it and dwell with and in the Master of the causal ring. God alone is free. You are free only when ...
... Hindu legend, and it carries the name of the holiest of Hindu mantras. It spans the past, the present and the future, man, Nature and God; it has an immediate human urgency, and also an enveloping cosmic background. Its very composition is largely the result (so it is confidently claimed) of a new aesthesis with its source of origin located in the overhead planes. In The Human Cycle, Sri Aurobindo ...
... sacrifices, the shining guardian of the rite", and if he increases in his own home, it must be in the house of sacrifice or on his own place on Page 545 the altar. Or if " rita " is the cosmic Law Agni is the god of fire who is the guardian of the Law—in what sense?—and who is manifested in the sacrificial flame on the altar. Now, if we take the rik by itself, there is no means by which... intimate way, cannot be disconnected; the phrase must mean therefore that Agni is guided in his will or his works by the seer's vision of the Truth because he is himself true in his being, free from the cosmic falsehood. What then of chitraҫravastamah ? Has it no connection at all with the two preceding words or does it mean that because Agni is true in being and has the seer-will, therefore he gives man ...
... 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 ...
... tion This Yoga aims at the conscious union with the Divine in the supermind and the transformation of the nature. The ordinary Yogas go straight from Mind into some featureless condition of the cosmic Silence and through it try to disappear upward into the Highest. The object of this Yoga is to transcend mind and enter into the Divine Truth of Sachchidananda which is not only static but dynamic... First 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 ...
... doomsday, for it is Page 138 the day of man's 1iberation. Satan has to release man from the pact that stands cancelled. The soul of man cannot be sold, even if he wanted it. THE COSMIC RHYTHM The angels weave the symphony that is creation. They represent the various notes and rhythms – in their higher and purer degrees – that make up the grand harmony of the spheres. It... individualised 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 ...
... light. With this end in view she started a society, rather a group, and the name given to it was "Le cosmique". Cosmic means the whole world; in other words, what she was doing, what she was giving, was for the whole world, for all men, for East and West, for everybody. Also it means a cosmic or world-embracing consciousness. She was creating a new type of the mental world, through the highest mental ...
... appointed 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... words with regard to his true family. The nation too assumes its Divine reality, a transcendent personality appears as an expression of the Divine afflatus, each one a particular mode of fulfilling the cosmic purpose. Humanity too undergoes a sea-change and its personality attains a glorious stature in the sahasra-shirsha Purusha as hymned by the Vedic Rishi. This is the cosmos that Sri Aurobindo ...
... not true? He has seen that by following it he has been able to get Austria, Czechoslovakia and he has been successful in many other things. Then how can you say it is not a true voice? As I said, the Cosmic Spirit may want him to go that way. Even morally, you can't say that he is immoral. He is very restricted as regards food and is supposed to have no wife or mistress and leads a controlled life in... Yes, was he right? He thought he was quite right in what he was doing, while others thought he was wrong. And yet, but for his action India would not have been half as free as she is to-day. So, the Cosmic Spirit may have, after all, led him to do it to bring this result. There is a Cabalist prophesy : the golden age will come when the Jews will be driven off and persecuted every where. So, Hitler ...
... spiritual 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... turned 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 ...
... narrowing belief would come in the way of the freedom, the many-sidedness, the expectation of the unexpected which go with the creation of worlds and with the creation of words aspiring to reflect cosmic harmonies. Page 131 ...
... is to make available, to the present generation, one of the major aspects of his life given in the narrations of visions as actually "seen" by him from time to time. They are like a glorious song of cosmic forces at work both in man and in nature. Our purpose will be well served if this book can re-create, in the prepared reader, at least a semblance of the experiences of Champaklal. Champaklal used ...
... rigid limitations of the ordinary mind and life and physical being are broken and man is able to experience a full inner life and open himself to communication with all the planes of his own and of the cosmic existence. × The state of bliss of which Swar, the supramental plane of existence, is the basis. ...
... of the transcendent reality, possess in the 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... Maya need be thrust in to justify its way of existence. It will be obvious that an escape from life is not necessary for the Divine to find itself or its reality; it possesses that always whether in cosmic life or in its transcendent existence. The divine life cannot Page 562 be a contradiction of the Divine or of the supreme reality; it is part of that reality, an aspect or expression of ...
... living puissances that are secret cosmic agents. Now we are told of an attempt with the help of inspiration from "higher spheres" and not merely inner ones ("Nature's heart"), to liberate the soul of man, the "spirit" encased in the sensing, feeling, thinking body, and enable it to grow one with divine entities, share in the very being of secret cosmic agents. Nature's hidden lords, and... lines that tear the veil from Deity's face, The rhythms that bring the sounds of wisdom's sea.6 Large structured chants bearing the formative force of the ideas on which the cosmic plan is founded, intensely lyrical phrases capturing with visionary power the secrets of the Supreme Beauty, patterns of sustained sonorities conveying fathomless suggestions and ultimate si ...
... living Sun. 3 He expressed what he experienced or aspired and his expressions became beauty and truth of his inner being. I consider yogi Amal Kiran a seeker of the Truth and discoverer of cosmic splendour as a poet of Integralism. His characterisation of his own poems published under the title, The Secret Splendour, is clearly indicative of his pursuit, Poems seeking a new intensity... to capture and convey what was experienced deep within in the profound silence of his soul -chamber! Amal had transcended the glorious literary persona Amal. Amal was immersed in the rhythm of the cosmic vibration. Amal instead of being splendidly expressive about "it", was becoming humbly one with "it". It is a momentous transition from expressing to experiencing and this distinction is of a paramount... transition is reflective of his own inner transformation. His own transformation may be subtle in appearance but it is of significant value. Maybe the poet himself is sublimely be-coming the part of the cosmic poem of Splendour. This all- 13. Ibid ., p. 68. 14. Ibid ., Vol. 34, p. 476. Page 89 encompassing reality of oneness with multitudinous cosmos most certainly ...
... 10. p. 8. Page 169 include in general the Spiritual Mind, the domain of the Cosmic Knowledge, which he described as standing between the Cosmic Ignorance and the Transcendental or Integral Truth - Supermind. But the definition falls short when he distinguishes Mind from Spiritual Mind as well as demarcates... element which opens it to a quite opposite influence." 5 Again, we have the arresting definition of the cross-symbol: "Sign of the Divine Descent barred and marred by the transversal line of a cosmic deformation which turns life into a state of suffering and misfortune." 6 To pass from the sublime to what may seem ridiculous but is still a terror for all its tinyness, the dream of teeth ...
... unaware of what it is and what it is doing." 4 (v)But behind the outer veil of material inconscience and the iron grip of physico-chemical determinism, a secret involved Consciousness, cosmic and infinite, is always at work in our body. And without this supporting greater Consciousness-Force that is 'awake in all that sleeps', 5 our physical system itself would have no power of action... child soul's 1 The Life Divine, p. 853. 2 Cf. "The Divine descends from pure existence through the play of Consciousness-Force and Bliss and the creative medium of Supermind into cosmic being; we ascend from Matter through a developing life, soul and mind and the illuminating medium of supermind towards the divine being." (The Life Divine, p. 264) 3 The Life Divine, p... to us supernatural is in fact either a spontaneous irruption of the phenomena of other-Nature into physical Nature or...a possession of the knowledge and power of the higher orders or grades of cosmic Being and Energy and the direction of their forces and processes towards the production of effects in the physical world by seizing on possibilities of interconnection and means for a material e ...
... Aurobindo points out that an isolated individual transformation is not enough and may not be wholly feasible. He further points out that even when achieved, the individual change will have a permanent and cosmic significance only if the individual becomes a centre and a sign for the establishment of the supramental Consciousness-Force as an overtly operative power in the terrestrial workings of Nature. In... that is demanded, — the discipline of the denial necessary for annihilation of the ego; that discipline leads to the discovery of real, greater or ultimate completeness in others, in all things, in cosmic oneness, in the freedom of the transcendental Self and Spirit, in the rapture of the touch of the Divine. The secret of the sacrifice to the Lord of sacrifice was discovered by the Veda, the ... surface Ignorance; secondly, Nature attempts in the spiritual endeavour to abolish the Ignorance, to go inwards and discover the soul and to become united in consciousness with God and with our cosmic existence. But that is not enough; if the victories of the Spirit are to be secure, a third step of integration is necessary. For that to happen, the old foundation of the inconscient itself, which ...
... condition of consciousness or is it dynamic in its movement? Is a dynamic intervention of this consciousness possible? Savitri answers: Yes, it is possible, it works out the process of the evolution of the cosmic energy and shows that the present equation is only a working equation, a provisional order necessitated by a process of evolution which has to move towards a goal, and when an active movement is made... force which is working. What is working at present is the determinism of Nature, and this determinism is in bondage to the spirit so far as the human experience is concerned. It is an expression of a cosmic being, but to the human being it appears to be a bondage, and freedom consists in getting out of the determinism of Nature and getting into the determinism of the spirit; when the determinism of the... inside the constitution of the universe. She is not expanding but going inside and here she meets the universal powers that are managing the cosmos today, and she finds that they are all imperfect. The cosmic powers Page 41 which are at work in the universe are imperfect themselves. So she says, "I will bring in the divine power. I will bring the power from the Divine and you will ...
... consciousness, entire mastery, must be a power of cosmic Nature & cannot be acquired by the individual except by breaking down the habits of consciousness & exceeding the fixed processes by which the individual action is separated & differentiated from cosmic action. The ultimate evolution must therefore end in the openness of the individual for cosmic or infinite consciousness-being, not limited by... 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. The highest state of Nature & goal of evolution must be infinite Sacchidananda. So much we can reasonably infer... tírtwá vidyayámritam asnute. APPENDIX [ The following passage, written on a loose sheet, seems to be related to the above section. ] In our observation of the workings of law & freedom in cosmic Nature we cannot fail to be struck by the principle of gradated and progressive freedom by which she climbs up from an apparent rigidity of law to an apparent elasticity of freedom. We observe that ...
... events, it can drive the course of events to the divinely intended direction and bring the success of the Divine Will near in time. 1 The Overmind can do it because it is a cosmic power and more than a cosmic power. The Upanishad admitted not only the Brahman but also the earth as the basis of manifestation. The Upanishad says : Earth is the foothold of the Spirit; it is that on which it... to it by progressing. So this will is not conscious in the collectivity of mankind but something beyond the collectivity is dictating. And this cosmic impulse to increase knowledge is what the modern scientist is serving without knowing—the cosmic impulse to make man realise the omnipotent power, and rule the terrestrial life. And this the modern scientist is trying to do without knowing it... individual 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 ...
... Page 80 Each character in Savitri typifies one line of growth. The King passes through one stage, Savitri passes through another, penetrating into the cosmic constitution. Aswapathy expands his consciousness into the cosmic and transcendent. Knowing the constitution of existence, he tries to fulfil the mission that is given to him of progress towards the Light, and for that progress he... is an Unknowable at work and all its processes are a blind man's bluff. You simply go and hit in the dark and you say that this is the solution. What was the utility and need of pain in the cosmic scheme of things? This is how Narada looked at the problem and he gives the answer to it as a divine representative of knowledge. He makes, first of all, an impersonal statement about pain because... Page 65 the scheme of life. While talking to Savitri's mother, he says that even world seers have had to admit the necessity of pain because unless and until the working of the cosmic scheme is gone through by the Creator himself, in some form or other, the solution of its problems cannot be given by the Divine to man. His whole discourse ends in saying: "It is you who have selected ...
... Conscious Force that upholds us and the universe. Transcendent, the original supreme Shakti, she stands above the worlds and links the creation to the ever unmanifest mystery of the Supreme. Universal, the cosmic Mahashakti, she creates all these beings and contains and enters, supports and conducts all these million processes and forces. Individual, she embodies the power of these two vaster ways of her existence... or manifest in all that can be seen or experienced or put into motion of life. Each of the worlds is nothing but one play of the Mahashakti of that system of worlds or universe, who is there as the cosmic Soul and Personality of the transcendent Mother. Each is something that she has seen in her vision, gathered into her heart of beauty and power and created in her Ananda. But there are many planes... of the human consciousness some ray of her power and quality and presence. All the scenes of the earth-play have been like a drama arranged and planned and staged by her with the Page 16 cosmic Gods for her assistants and herself as a veiled actor. The Mother not only governs all from above but she descends into this lesser triple universe. Impersonally, all things here, even the movements ...
... vital being... is wide, vast, calm, strong, without limitations, firm and immovable, capable of all power, all knowledge, all Ananda". (P. 13) Does this imply that the true vital belongs to the cosmic or supracosmic consciousness? If not, how can it have such qualities? The true being mental, vital or subtle physical has always the greater qualities of its plane - it is the Purusha and like... though in another way a projection of the Divine, - therefore in connection with the higher consciousness and reflects something of it, though it is not altogether that - it is also in tune with the cosmic Truth. * Page 55 If the true vital is "capable of all power, all knowledge, all Ananda", it seems as if it is the supramental vital itself or the vital of the Ishwara. How ...
... Alipore 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... yoga to 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 ...
... light. With this end in view she joined a society, rather a group, and the name given to it was Le cosmique. "Cosmic" means the whole world; in other words, what she was doing, what she was giving, was for the whole world, for all men, for East and West, for everybody. Also it means a cosmic or world-embracing consciousness. She was creating a new type of mental world, through the highest mental development ...
... AUROBINDO: How can one say that Hitler's voice is not right? He has seen that by following it he has been able to get Austria and Czechoslovakia and has been successful in many other things. As I said, the Cosmic Spirit rnay want him to go that way. Even from the standpoint of ethics, one can't say Hitler is immoral. He is very restricted as regards food, is supposed to have no wife or mistress and leads a... he right? He thought he had the right inspiration in what he was doing, while others thought he was quite wrong and yet but for his decision India would not be half as free as she is today. So the Cosmic Spirit may after all have led him to do this in order to bring about that result. There is a Cabbalist prophecy: the Golden Age will come when the Jews will be driven out and persecuted everywhere ...
... exactly. It may be for the new Yogic terms also. Perhaps he wants it more for himself than for others. He finds it difficult, for instance, to catch the distinction between extraterrestrial and extra-cosmic. SRI AUROBINDO: If it is for Sanskrit terms I can understand. You can't write of Yoga without using Sanskrit terms. There followed a short talk on R. Purani showed Sri Aurobindo a poem of R.'s ...
... have 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... mean by a "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 ...
... c 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 light and, although it transcends all ignorance, yet does not possess that absolute synthetic unity, that transcendent power of consciousness which is at once the cosmic and the ...
... ic 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 light and, although it transcends all ignorance, yet does not possess that absolute synthetic unity, that transcendent power of consciousness which is at once the cosmic and the ...
... consciousness and alter it, transform it, if you like; one can realise the Divine everywhere, the Self in all and all in the Self, the universal śakti doing all things; one can feel merged in the cosmic Self or fall of ecstatic bhakti or ānanda. But one may and usually does still go on in the outer parts of Nature thinking with the intellect or at best the intuitive mind, willing with a mental... spiritual life—and yet remain untransformed in his nature. "One can realise the Self in all and all in the Self"; "one can realise the universal śakti doing all things"; "one can feel merged in the cosmic Self", and yet, paradoxical as it may sound, none of these realisations, not even the sum-total of them, will constitute the transformation Sri Aurobindo holds up before us as the highest object of ...
... there happens at the moment, in answer to a last call as it were from below, a descent of consciousness from the higher into the lower. All the grades of being or consciousness are always there in the cosmic infinity, only it is a matter of gradual manifestation in the physical world. The higher scales are kept in the background, the march of life starts from the lowest, the material rung. One by one ...
... (1) "A vision is a perception, by the visual organs, of Phenomena that really exist in a world corresponding to the organ which sees. For example, to the individual vital plane there corresponds a cosmic vital world. When a human being is sufficiently developed he possesses an individualised vital being with organs of sight, hearing, smell, etc. So a Person who has a well-developed vital being can ...
... 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 inferior to the human stage... recognise outside ourselves as in some way resembling it. And the common or collective unconscious is this consciousness at its deepest and widest - an ultra- individual cosmicity of multi-dimensional experience. Yes, a veritable cosmicity and not only a commonalty behind the human or at most the whole of the organic. Particularly if we accept the principle of developmental and evolutionary continuity... intellectuality would interfere with the working of a higher mode of mentality which acts without both sense- observation and logical inference. Non-intellectuals may more easily prove transmitters of a cosmic consciousness's hidden powers. This does not mean that these powers are sub-intellectual: it only means that intellectuality is to be surpassed and not clung to as the grand finale of psychological ...
... possible. "For none stands even for a moment not doing work; everyone is made to do action helplessly by the modes born of Prakriti." The strong perception of the great cosmic action and the eternal activity and power of the cosmic energy which was so much emphasised afterwards by the teaching of the Tantric Shaktas who even made Prakriti or Shakti superior to Purusha, is a very remarkable feature... free Soul and Self which is the same and one in all and has therefore no personal interests, to the Divine in our being who possesses Himself transcendent of cosmos and is therefore not bound by His cosmic works or His individual action. That is what the Gita teaches and desirelessness is only a means to this end, not an aim in itself. Yes, but how is it to be brought about? By doing all works with sacrifice ...
... up his Cosmic Review and his 'cosmic group,' he called himself Max Theon, meaning the supreme God (!), the greatest God! And no one knew him by any other name than these two—Aïa Aziz or Max Theon. He had an English wife. He said he had received initiation in India (he knew a little Sanskrit and the Rig-Veda thoroughly), and then he formulated a tradition which he called the 'cosmic tradition' ...
... continuity was possible. Oh, how often I have told the Mother — 'Put your hand on my heart, open me, make an opening.'!" * 18 December 1992 "When did you start hearing the cosmic rhythm?" I asked. Amal answered: It happened when I was in Bombay. During my Pondy days a steady rhythmic sound used to come from somewhere near and localised. The sense of a universal sound began... 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... away); 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 ...
... transcendent reality, possess in the 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... justify its way of existence. It will be obvious that an escape from life is not necessary for the Divine to find itself or its reality; Page 176 it possesses that always whether in cosmic life or in its transcendent existence. The divine life cannot be a contradiction of the Divine or of the supreme reality; it is part of that reality, an aspect or expression of it and it can be nothing ...
... with the great cosmic dread, Her strength was founded on the cosmic mights; The universal Mother's love was hers. There is an uncertainty, there is a fear in the cosmos, 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... frame is held together by an indistinct earth-nature. The full force of that nature is not yet. 7 But now she stirred, her life shared the cosmic load. By now she wakes up fully. Her life-spirit moves into action to participate in the cosmic purpose. At the summons of her body's voiceless call Her strong far-winging spirit travelled back, Back to the yoke of ignorance and fate... creation. Each emanation from the Being of God is charged with a particular function. Each god is both a power and a personality. These gods, known by different names in different climes, are the cosmic functionaries, making possible the growth of this creation in the mould of the original intention of the Creator. Page 145 Before the Gods awake: it is not that they are awaking ...
... process that finally leads up to the general Ignorance and Darkness. The One Force was divided into the great cosmic forces and this division resulted ultimately in a material manifestation. Every force is a consciousness and every consciousness a being. The positive cosmic forces are the cosmic Beings called ‘Gods’. ‘They are the various facets of Something that exists in itself. Those beings are endowed... endowed with different aspects according to the countries and civilisations,’ said the Mother. The cosmic forces are evidently the same in the whole cosmos, but in the conceptual world of the humans they are called Demeter, Mars, the archangel Gabriel, Anubis or Krishna. The Spirit’s truths take form as living Gods And each can build a world in its own right. 2 — Savitri ‘The Gods … are... in his inmost being. For all of us have a part of the One Godhead in us, and this part belongs necessarily to the divine manifestation. At the origin stands the Great Mother; out of her issued the cosmic Forces who are the Gods; out of them issued the forces which, for the most part, still remain unrealized in us. Sri Aurobindo said that ‘the inner being of every man is born in the ansha [a substantial ...
... Nirvana 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... quest, but cares not to be found,— Out of that distant Vast came a reply. This Supermind is contacted in two ways: by the method of vertical ascent of consciousness crossing the Overmental Cosmic or global awareness—the last peak climbed by Thoughts—or by the lateral inward penetration of consciousness leading to the identification with the Divine behind the Psychic Being who lifts the blazing... now of consciousness, If centre could be where all seemed only space; No more shut in by body's walls and gates, Her being a circle without circumference Already now surpassed all cosmic bounds And more and more spread into infinity. This is the state of being the universalised individual, a conscious "nit not separative intermediary between the Inconscient and the ...
... Individual Self of the One, the Cosmic Self of the All, and the Transcendent above with individual and the All you have not got the right perspective of the Truth-consciousness. 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... The next step would be the victory of the Divine in the outer manifestation in life. How does the mind happen to be held in the Supermind ? It is held as the Real-Idea. We have seen that all cosmic mind, universal mind, is held there as a potentiality of the Supreme. All perfection which mind can conceive is already there, because the mind would not get the idea if it did not exist. The idea... that delight in life? Does the play of Satchidananda creating the worlds, flow into life ? Is life a divine principle in its origin, if not in its actual working ? When Mind sees Life it perceives a cosmic energy which builds and creates forms of energies, it stimulates, disintegrates and renews them. All the three are processes of life, not life. All is life—as we have already seen—all existence is ...
... prophetic speech And sat upon the tripod seat of mind: All was made wide above, all lit below. As for the Apollonian moderation, to see it correctly we must understand the religious cosmic perception from which the maxim about it took birth. Sri Aurobindo 2 has formulated this perception very effectively: "...there is something subtle, inscrutable and formidable that meets us... of checking the litdeness of man from straining towards greatness without first purifying the selfish motive in him. It is no mere reasonable doctrine of the golden mean: it takes account of secret cosmic forces, the mysterious gods. And it can be seen as directed actually against a Dionysian upsurge in mental man to drown his supra-intellectual possibilities: what is to be restrained is the desire... Finally, we must not mistake the famous calm face of Apollo for the poise of reason, nor his harmonious function as a concern for logical ordonnance. All the gods have a wideness of being, a cosmic air, which can hold in a comprehensive calm the most intense outbreaks of energy. And the supra-intellectual is always a harmonising power, keeping all things in step and capable of order and organisation ...
... only means 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 ...
... this body, this tiny self! Look, look upon the immensities within and without where "Shiva [sits] throned on an all-supporting void"! But when the Great self glows Like a golden cosmic rose, The petals fanning out from one sweet core, No strangeness anywhere Remains for stare and stare Seeking to itself a door. The central Eye of eyes Can shut... behind it a creative Ananda. Poetry, says Sri Aurobindo, repeats in its own way and on a small scale the original universal Delight with which the Supreme Soul created all things and set the cosmic rhythms going. Now, it should be very natural for Ananda both to smile and to laugh. Of course there can be a quiet or dumb happiness - a happiness which is ineffable. And poetry, with its burden ...
... coming from 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.... through his own ordeals — the trials of a spiritual pioneer, the first invoker and realiser of the hitherto unmani-fest "Supermind" which holds the original truth, the perfect model of every term of the cosmic evolutionary travail — all Page 13 through the challenges of his Yoga he had the liveliest sense of humour. The transcendental Bliss of the mystic in him he humanised into a laughter ...
... meanings 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. ... geography of the occult worlds and the drama enacted in the world of the Spirit that call for the special strain of "waiting and listening"; and the whole problem —which is at once a personal and a cosmic problem—is in a way summed up in the wonderfully sustained two opening cantos. Page 357 ...
... Knowledge. What matters in the universe is the play of the All in Itself & its ultimate self-fulfilment in Knowledge, Bliss & Being. There is an individual self-fulfilment, a collective, a cosmic & an extra-cosmic. We may move towards any of these ultimate affirmations, but he who accepts them all & harmonises them, is the highest human expression of Parabrahman. He is the Avatar or the divine Unit... degenerates quickly into a settled sectarian fanaticism or formality, the triumphant good turns into an organised evil. The Christian doctrine of the fall, the Indian idea of the wandering of the Soul in a cosmic illusion or the sceptic affirmation of an inconscient material Nature producing the freak of consciousness seems often to be the kernel of the whole matter. And yet if we go deep enough into ourselves... timeless but Time and all that is in Time, not only the Impersonal but the Person, quality and number and that which [is] beyond quality and number; the Formless and form, the individual no less than the cosmic and supracosmic, matter and life and mind as well as the spirit, the relative and the absolute. All is that: ekam evadvitiyam . All that is is reality of the Real; there is no need to invent an ...
... literature the same turn of inspiration and self-expression that we see in the architecture, painting and sculpture. Its first character is a constant sense of the infinite, the cosmic, and of things as seen in or affected by the cosmic vision, set in or against the amplitude of the one and infinite; its second peculiarity is a tendency to see and render its spiritual experience in a great richness of images... cast of vision gives a strange outline to their substance. The physical and the psychical worlds were to their eyes a manifestation and a twofold and diverse and yet connected and similar figure of cosmic godheads, the inner and outer life of man a divine commerce with the gods, and behind was the one spirit or being of which the gods were names and personalities and powers. These godheads were at once... said to create his own father and mother; but if we remember that Indra is the supreme spirit in one of its eternal and constant aspects, creator of earth Page 325 and heaven, born as a cosmic godhead between the mental and physical worlds and recreating their powers in man, we shall see that the image is not only a powerful but in fact a true and revealing figure, and in the Vedic technique ...
... Different Kinds of Space and Time - Fearlessness on the Vital Plane Space and time do not begin and end with the mental consciousness: even the Overmind has them. They are the forms of all cosmic existence: only, they vary on each level. Each world has its own space and time. Thus the mental space and time do not tally with what we observe here in the material universe. In the mind-world ...
... Signature Of Truth SPACE AND TIME Space and time do not begin and end with the mental consciousness: even the Ovcrmind has them. They are the forms of all cosmic-existence: only, they vary on each level. Each world has its own space and time. Thus the mental space and time do not tally with what we observe here in the material universe. In the mind-world ...
... then, there is a super-grace, as it were, which works in a few exceptional cases, which places you not according to what you are but according to what you are to become, which means that the universal cosmic position is ahead of the individual's progress. And it is then that you should keep silent and fall on your knees. × ...
... of Sri Aurobindo's writings.) Now, as usual, we quote below some illustrative verses from Savitri showing the character of supramental sight: (1)"Above the stretch and blaze of cosmic Sight'' (661) (2)"A universal vision that unites" (325) " (3) "All was uncovered to his sealless eye." (83) (4)"Spirit no more is hid from its own view" (298) (5)"A single and infallible ...
... changes upon earth and in humanity which are summed up in the word evolution—changes cosmological and psychological. You have to accept this principle of change and move on—to be one with the cosmic spirit,—never to stand still or turn back, but look forward and forge ahead. To be stagnant means to die and be fossilised. Now, if things change continually, it means things can change and must ...
... Sweden does, not seem to realise that it is its turn next to be swallowed up by Germany. After this, a quotation from Einstein given by Dilip was read to Sri Aurobindo, in which Einstein said that a cosmic religious feeling was a incitement to Science. SRI AUROBINDO: That doesn't come to much. All depends on what he means by religious feeling. It may be simply a sense of reverence at the sight of ...
... changes upon earth and in humanity which are summed up in the word evolution – changes cosmological and psychological. You have to accept this principle of change and move on – to be one with the cosmic spirit, – never to stand still or turn back, but look forward and forge ahead. To be stagnant means to die and be fossilised. Now, if things change continually, it means things can change and must ...
... universe in touch with something transcendent of world-experience. All these states are useful to the soul in its progress, but they are not the universal consciousness. When a man lives in the cosmic self, he necessarily embraces the life of the world and his attitude towards that world struggling upward from the egoistic state must be one of compassion, of love or of helpfulness. The Buddhists ...
... trinity of Sachchidananda (Existence-Consciousness-Bliss), we first develop the exceptional capacity of possessing and exercising a supra- mental sight, then the sight of the dynamically active Cosmic Divine, and, who knows, finally even the sight of the Supreme. At this point let us end our short survey of the eight elements involved in any act of "seeing". Now, if we permute and combine ...
... not the Fire of our earth that burns and bruises, smokes and crackles-it is something like the serene and silent luminousness, the steady and unaging radiance of the distant stars that energises the cosmic symphony. * * * All activity should carry with it a sense of repose. Doing everything you must feel as if you were doing nothing-even while most energetic, know how to be perfectly ...
... and blood of a spacious narrative poem like Urvasie and Love and Death of Sri Aurobindo's Baroda period; what is lacking in Book VIII is the epic amplitude, the luminous extravagant richness, the cosmic overtones and the more or less consistent overhead inspiration behind the rest of the poem. After a moment of silent prayer before the image of the Goddess Durga, Savitri approaches ...
... weave upon a puissant field of calm A high and lonely ecstasy of will. 9 She heaves to great heights of puissance and perceives near her a "slow embodiment of the aeonic will", a cosmic mightiness assuming a symbol form. On the eve of the tremendous struggle that is to commence, this "thousand-petalled home of Power and light", invulnerable to the shafts of time, omnipotent, "enters ...
... “because the object sought after is not an individual achievement of divine realization for the sake of the individual, but something to be gained for the earth-consciousness here, a cosmic, not solely a supra-cosmic achievement.” And it is new “because a method has been preconized for achieving this purpose which is as total and integral as the aim set before it, viz., the total and integral change... Nature devouring her children, Time eating up the lives of creatures, Death universal and ineluctable and the violence of the Rudra forces in man and Nature are also the supreme Godhead in one of his cosmic figures. We have to see that God the bountiful and prodigal creator, God the helpful, strong and benignant preserver is also God the devourer and destroyer. The torment of the couch of pain and evil... God’s discords and it is only by accepting and proceeding through them that we can arrive at the greater concords of his supreme harmony, the summits and thrilled vastnesses of his transcendent and his cosmic Ananda.” 13 Sri Aurobindo touches here upon the question that has been on the mind of all humans since their appearance on the Earth, and to which all religions have to provide an answer: the ...
... cause and the efficient cause of the world. Then, here in human experience is the ego, the fall into dualities. The knowledge of the Brahman, of the Infinite, the widening out of the ego into the cosmic and the infinite consciousness would eliminate the root cause, instead of the secondary causes. Reason allows itself to be overcome by images. If one can bring the infinite consciousness that would... manifestation 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... the All in consciousness, one does not run after things. That is what the Isha Upanishad says: "Then all this becomes fit habitation for the Lord." When one realizes that whatever movement of the cosmic energy takes place is a movement of that supreme, all-governing, Infinite Power, one will not try to possess somebody else's wealth because it is one's own wealth really speaking. When he rises to ...
... 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... Would not the retention of memories have helped the conscious development of the individual? (A. 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:... continuation of his surface past and stand heavily in the way of his bringing out new possibilities from the depths of the spirit.... The law that deprives us of the memory of past lives is a law of the cosmic wisdom and serves, not disserves, its evolutionary purpose." (Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, pp. 818-19) (Q. 14): Are there really other worlds besides our physical universe? (A ...
... ed (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 the... supports and enforces on beings a vain cosmic illusion and has no power for any other and real action. The force of the Divine is always there in silence as in action, inactive in silence, active in the manifestation. It is hardly possible to suppose that the Divine Reality has no power or force or that its only power is to create a universal falsehood, a cosmic lie – mithya. Page 171... greatness. That is not the case. Page 152 And then what Krishna must I challenge – the Krishna of the Gita who is the transcendent godhead, Paramatma, Para-brahma, Purushottama, the cosmic Deity, master of the universe, Vasudeva who is all, the immanent in the heart of all creatures, or the Godhead who was incarnate at Brindavan and Dwarka and Kurukshetra and who was the guide of ...
... states of cosmic and transcendental consciousness. It manifests and stabilises states and powers which are obtained through the processes and methods of Karma yoga, Jnana yoga and Bhakti yoga. Various cosmic forces working in different levels of manifested world come to be contacted and known; multiplicities of gods and goddesses, — cosmic in character and fixed in various layers of cosmic manifestations... consciousness and enables it to discover that there is in this world a law of interchange, a law of the action of cosmic forces, which are interrelated through their mutual interchange and the law of interchange between those cosmic forces and the individuals which are all involved in the cosmic network of energies, which has itself two levels of operations, the level of Apara Prakriti, where actions are... power of 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 ...
... 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 first. I said [ in the... through 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 ...
... Revised form of a chapter originally published in the Arya . The Divine and the Undivine XXXVII V Entirely new chapter. The Cosmic Illusion; Mind, Dream and Hallucination -- VI Entirely new chapter. Reality and the Cosmic Illusion -- VII Revised form of a chapter originally published in the Arya . The Knowledge and the Ignorance XXVIII VIII... Chapters in the 1940 edition of Book Two with corresponding Arya chapters Ch. no. in 1940 Comment Title in 1940 Ch. no. in Arya I Entirely new chapter. Indeterminates, Cosmic Determinations and the Indeterminable -- II Entirely new chapter. Brahman, Purusha, Ishwara — Maya, Prakriti, Shakti -- III Revised form of a chapter originally published ...
... one with all material Nature, his vital being with the life of the universe, his mind with the cosmic mind, his spiritual knowledge and will with the divine knowledge and will both in itself and as it pours itself through these channels, his spirit with the one spirit in all beings. All the variety of cosmic existence will be changed to him in that unity and revealed in the secret of its spiritual s... "The human soul's individual liberation and enjoyment of union with the Divine in spiritual being, consciousness and delight must always be the first object of the Yoga; its free enjoyment of the cosmic unity of the Divine becomes a second object; but out of that a third appears, the effectuation of the meaning of the divine unity with all beings by a sympathy and participation in the spiritual purpose ...
... it! I found the Cosmic Review [of Théon] again, it's quite amusing!... I've kept it to show you. They made some "rules and regulations" for the members of the Society, it's very funny! People must be very nice to each other!... And among the rules there is one saying that one must not recognize personal gods. ( Mother holds out the file to Satprem ) "Cosmic philosophy admits no personal ...
... "Substance, we have said, is conscious existence presenting itself to the sense as object so that, on the basis of whatever sense-relation is established, the work of world-formation and cosmic progression may proceed. But there need not be only one basis, only one fundamental principle of relation immutably created between sense and substance; on the contrary there is an ascending and... triplicity of Sachchidananda. In other words, we find that substance in its ascension bases itself upon each of these principles and makes itself successively a characteristic vehicle for the dominating cosmic self-expression of each in their ascending series." 1 "There are different planes of substance, gross, subtle and more subtle going back to what is called causal (Karana) substance. What ...
... Yoga. 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 ...
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