... 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 on our struggle... 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, constituted the "golden lid covering the face of the truth" (hiraṇmayeṇa pātreṇa satyasyāpihitaṃ mukhaṃ) (Isha... unsleeping Eye. 98 ... in the vigil of a deathless gaze. 99 And 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 ...
... of Page 306 life, a widening of the fields of the idea, a heightening of the flight of the spirit. The change that is at present coming over the mind of the race began with a wider cosmic vision, a sense of the greatness and destiny and possibilities of the individual and the race, the idea of humanity and of the unity of man with man and a closer relation too and unity of his mind with... help forward by giving to it its eye of sight, its shape of aesthetic beauty, its revealing tongue and it is this greatening of life that it has to make its substance. 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 as of the greatness of the power that manifests in what he is, a spiritualised uplifting of his thought and ...
... 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 thought... 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 necessary ...
... clamours. 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 ...
... highest mystic and spiritual experience living among a mass still impressed mostly by the life of the physical universe: the Upanishads casting off the physical veil created a free transcendent and cosmic vision and experience and this was expressed by a later age to the mass in images containing a large philosophical and intellectual meaning of which the Trinity and the Shaktis of Vishnu and Shiva are ...
... 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 taken from the inner psychic ...
... 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 the ...
... barrier' conveys much more, an awe inspiring vision, to the 'meeting soul'. I feel that while watching the Mother at play, Amal Kiran went into a deep trance and as his inner eye opened, he had a cosmic vision. All the boundary walls fell away and the little tennis court started widening, becoming vaster and vaster every moment. The net stretched and stretched and became 'time's barrier' separating the ...
... 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 you ...
... observation cited by Prof. Gilbert Murray in his The Rise of the Greek Epic, Oxford, 1934, pp. 254-55. Page 468 is yet on the whole far too narrow. Sri Aurobindo's cosmic vision is beyond Virgil's grasp. Mention of Empedocles's Purifications (5th cen. B.C.), never a world poem, and of which only a fragment of about 500 verses in all is available in English translation ...
... problem of man's destiny. Savitri lifts us out of the mundane and the ordinary rut of human life to a point of view from where we see the whole play of life, in fact, the whole cosmos, with a cosmic vision of a divine Purpose trying to work itself out through the life of man. The ultimate significance of life as emanating from the Mahabharata is often ambiguous, depending upon individual interpretation ...
... this ecstasy and lustre.” ( The Future Poetry , SABCL, Vol. 9, pp. 279) While presenting his vision of the kind of poetry that will be given to us in future, he writes: “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 as of the greatness of the power that manifests in what he is, a spiritualised uplifting of his thought and ...
... 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, as part of the supramental manifestation, and the evolution of Life on it. Such an interpretation of ...
... Spinoza or Hegel challenging you to trace the edifice of his speculative system: here is God's grace seeking to impress on the deepest part of your mind the shape of the Page 191 cosmic vision projected by a power beyond the mind. Sri Aurobindo's philosophical revelation is bent on giving itself to you and, whether you completely grasp or not its grand details, it will enter into you ...
... everlasting Fire, Action translates the movements of the soul, Thought steps infallible find absolute And life is a continual worship's rite, A sacrifice of rapture to the One. 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 moment ...
... a formation of the mind or vital are enough to create the connection—it is sufficient for a vibration of response anywhere to what these Powers represent. Cosmic, Inner and Psychic Vision 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. What do you ...
... Fire, Action translates the movements of the soul, Thought steps infallible and absolute And life is a continual worship's rite, A sacrifice of rapture to the One. 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, Page 148 ...
... 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) (8)"A cosmic vision, a spiritual sense Feels all the Infinite lodged in finite form" (662) Sight of the Overmental Gods : (1)"Immobile, seeing the milleniums pass" (57) (2)"They look ...
... 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 Page ...
... d 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 moment ...
... 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 the connecting threads ...
... 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 the connecting threads ...
... its contribution to humanity today it must rebuild the life of new India on her own spiritual foundation adapted to the needs of the scientific age. This is the reason why Sri Aurobindo with his cosmic vision of human history wriets at length about Indian culture which contains some values that are indispensable to the conception of a perfect human culture. There have been various attempts to rebuild ...
... problem of man's destiny. Sāvitrī lifts us out of the mundane and the ordinary rut of human life to a point of view from where we see the whole play of life, in fact, the whole cosmos, with a cosmic vision of a divine Purpose trying to work itself out through the life of man. The ultimate significance of life as emanating from the Mahābhārata is often ambiguous, depending upon individual inte ...
... force of intuition and inner experience had given it from the beginning that towards which the mind of the West is only now reaching with much fumbling and difficulty,—the cosmic consciousness, the cosmic vision. Even when it sees the One without a second, it still admits his duality of Spirit and Nature; it leaves room for his many trinities and million aspects. Even when it concentrates on a single limiting ...
... does with Thompson's poetry or might at least have found it sufficiently accessible. But this 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 which in its kind is unfamiliar to his mind and psychic sense and foreign to his experience. The two passages with which he deals do not and cannot give any full ...
... elements—the individual elements are at discord with each other to a large extent,—it is only owing to a sustaining divine Will behind that the whole is still a harmony to those who look at it with the cosmic vision. But it is a harmony in evolution, in progress—that is, all is combined to strive towards a goal which is not yet reached, and the object of our Yoga is to hasten the arrival to this goal. When ...
... 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 things ...
... the one fact under our noses, therefore we indulge in all these snifflings and clamours. Be silent, ye foolish hearts! slay the ego, learn to see & feel vastly & universally. 177) The perfect cosmic vision & cosmic sentiment is the cure of all error & suffering; but most men succeed only in enlarging the range of their ego. 178) Men say & think "For my country!" "For humanity!" Page 445 ...
... would be an eternal present infinitely stretched out, an infinite expanse eternally indivisible—and both would be a fact of Spiritual Being. Again, inasmuch as the Consciousness of Supermind is a cosmic vision which is all-comprehensive, all-pervading, all-inhabiting and upholds by its immutable unity the variation of its self-deployment it exceeds the successions of time and the divisions of space: it ...
... "insubstantial pageant" variously conjured up by its creative imagination, a dream-interlude between a divine peace and peace. We would have been reminded of the Upanishad's supreme Soul projecting the cosmic vision but only to dissolve it again and return to its unfeatured ecstasy of repose, its self-absorbed superconsciousness. What Shakespeare manages to convey to us, in spite of the mystic motive being ...
... 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 sense Feels all the Infinite lodged in finite form And seen through a quivering ecstasy of light Discovers the bright face of the Bodiless" 100 ** 100. ...
... 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 have ...
... with Thompson's poetry or might at least have found it sufficiently accessible. But this 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 which in its kind is unfamiliar to his mind and psychic sense and foreign to his experience. The two passages with which he deals do not and cannot give any full ...
... 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 ...
... 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 Destroyer of the world, with the colloquy of Aswapati ...
... 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 on our struggle ...
... 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 on a single limiting ...
... 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 ...
... with vigour and enthusiasm. Book after Book was being revised and released for publication. Some 400 to 500 lines he dictated in succession whose beauty and flow were a delight for their sweep of cosmic vision and their magical language. At this rate, Savitri, it seemed, would not take long to finish. On everybody's lips was the eager question, "How far Savitri?" But Savitri was not his sole occupation ...
... 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 face ...
... 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 a ...
... in sudden lightning flashes of illumination and expressed them through myth and symbol, in mantric incantation and song. If poetry is to be written again with such inner certainty and total cosmic vision, the new poet has both to return to those ancient wells of integral knowledge and to be a master of the mental knowledges of our age of advancing science and technology; he has to master the ...
... cosmic consciousness, and it was Sri Aurobindo's firm view that this should apply as much to the future poetry as to the future man or the future society or polity: It is in effect a large cosmic vision, 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 thought and ...
... 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 ...
... and the aesthetic mind of the people." From such a land came: -Subramaniam Bharati (1882-1921),the great Tamil poet, whose mind was familiar with eternal things, who was capable of cosmic vision. He lit a fire of love for the Motherland in the Dravidian heart. -Sir C. V. Raman (1888-1970) was awarded the Nobel Prize for physics in 1930. His discovery is known as the Raman effect: ...
... are difficult at first to grasp because of their sheer vastness Page 101 and the unfamiliarity of the nature of experience described therein. Even if the reader cannot rise to 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 ...
... unperturbed in the midst of commotion. Ashramvas (Ashram life) in jail. Reading the Gita and the Upanishad. Practising Yoga. Had decisive spiritual realisations of cosmic consciousness vision of Sri Krishna everywhere and in everything. Attained mastery over the functions of the body as a means to its perfection. Never afterwards suffered from any serious illness, overcoming by... C. R. Das's magnificent defence oration. 1909 May 5 : Sri Aurobindo was acquitted and released. May 30 : His historic speech at Uttarpara, describing his visions and experiences in jail. June 19 : Started the English weekly Karma yogin. Long patriotic poem Baji Prabhou and several long and short poems some of... servitude and a revived barbarism threatening India and the world.' I944 February 21 : Publication of The Advent, 'a quarterly devoted to the exposition of Sri Aurobindo's vision of the Future,' edited by Nolini Kanta Gupta, Secretary of the Ashram and an authentic exponent of Sri Aurobindo's thought, I945 August I5: Celebrating the cessation of hostilities ...
... find the way to beat normally in a body. It was like creating a new body in the old one or using the old one as a support for the new. Mother's experience had nothing to do with any kind of cosmic super-vision blah-blah-blah as all the others had had on the summits of consciousness: it was the experience of her body, an earthly body, like everyone else's: It is made of exactly the same thing, with... with its super-old methods. There are no methods! You cannot try to become what is not (or apparently not); how could you do it? You can try to become a mathematician or a poet or even a yogi in the cosmic consciousness, but how do you try to do what is nonexistent? There's no path, nobody went there! So She lived that undulation, interspersed with abrupt returns to the cage. The Double World ... moment of death in the world. Death is not in the nature of the world, it is the false world we see, it is something... that became distorted—and that needs to be set right again. For the whole world. A cosmic "accident." I am not asking myself intellectually—that doesn't interest me at all! It is here, in Matter.... It is double, it is double. 3 Oh, how long those words have been ringing in my ears ...
... self. There is no sparkling here, but minuscule sparks that crowd our seconds with a sweetness of eternity; no dazzling ranges, just little clearings where breathing is easy every instant; no cosmic visions, but tiny little drops of truth that seem to fill each point with total meaning; no prophecies or predictions; no ecstasies, no revelations, just a simple and clear look that does what is needed... there – at times we have entered a white radiance above the worlds where, in a flash, we have dissolved the little self and emerged into a cosmic consciousness.... But none of that has changed the world. We still did not have the clue that would connect that vision to this earth and make a new world with a new look. Our truths remained fragile; the earth remained refractory – and rightly so. Why should... condensers of the cosmic Energy, its projectors onto matter. They will nourish our own body directly the way today food nourishes us indirectly and heavily. They will each Page 178 receive the exact vibration corresponding to their function, the light “frequency” corresponding to their action: the rays of the instant will-thought that executes, the flashes of the truth-vision that puts things ...
... 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 ... that culminating cosmic event, the Parousia. The capital importance of the "Trans-Christian" to Teilhard's personal life springs into relief towards the end of our passage. Perhaps nowhere else in his writings does he show his cosmos-Christic vision to be such a decisive factor for a parting of the ways. He declares himself ready to quit the Catholic fold unless this vision can find living... Christianity, unlike ancient Vedanta, knows nothing of such a many-sided vision. As a Christian, Teilhard shares his co-religionists' anti-pantheist shudder. However, while the doctrinal mind in him tends to shy away, his intuition cannot be frightened off. In consequence we see him expressing his "cosmic sense" in several modes, some of them running counter to those where the conscious Christian ...
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