... concept", where knowledge is a gift bestowed by those considered knowledgeable upon those who are not. "Banking" education regards men as adaptable, manageable beings and minimizes or annuls the creative power of pupils. It reacts almost instinctively against any educational experiment which stimulates the critical faculties. Freire points out that oppressors manifest interest in changing the consciousness... them, the more they tend simply to adapt to the world as it is and to the fragmented view of reality deposited in them. The capacity of banking education to minimize or annul the students' creative power and to stimulate their credulity serves the interests of the oppressors, who care neither to have the world revealed nor to see it transformed. The oppressors use their "humanitarianism" to preserve... outset, his efforts must coincide with those of the students to engage in critical thinking and the quest for mutual humanization. His efforts must be imbued with a profound trust in men and their creative power. To achieve this, he must be a partner of the students in his relations with them. The banking concept does not admit to such a partnership — and necessarily so. To resolve the teacher-student ...
... Catholics (e.g. Father Raymond Brown), we turn away from the absurdity of the second-century churches, can we on scriptural authority look on Mary as anything else than a symbol of the Divine Creative-Power from whom the Avatar directly emerges? You write as if all the traditions were equally old and as if they were different merely because of separate localities. But surely Mark was known totally... tradition in the round suggests is the Incarnational character of Jesus. In tune with that character, the intuition arose that he must have been born by a process of derivation from the Supreme Creative Power, which could not have been the same process as obtains in the birth of non-Incarnations. Such a theological insight brought in the sense of a Mother-element in the Divine and precipitated itself... it. He draws back the whole creation to himself, but again this makes no change in him. In other words the one absolute eternal Reality projects the universe of space and time by an act of his creative power and is immanent in the whole creation, but is not changed or affected by it. The point is that the earth is not God: life in plants and animals is not the life of God, it is an effect of his ...
... that Grace is the birth of Savitri. She alone can bring about that transformative miracle. Savitri is the incarnate power who shall establish divinity in the terrestrial phenomenon. That creative power should bring truth and light and force and bliss to the mortal world, to this creation presently governed by death. That will be her work for the fulfilment of the mortal world. Such is the si... depths of the soul or being. It is a voice of the rhythm which has created the worlds and creates perpetually. All world is expression or manifestation, creation by the Word.... And the word of creative Power welling upward out of the soul is also brahman. 26 The Vedic poets regarded their poetry as mantras; they were the vehicles of their own realisations and could become vehicles of realisations... these devices with absolute precision to bring those marvellous worlds of joy and wonder into our being. A new sense of beauty is seized to seize truth and delight in this life of ours. That is the creative power of spiritual poetry which comes here in measures of rich felicities. 24: The Mahabharata legend of Savitri given as Pativrata Mahatmya is rarely narrated in simple Sanskrit prose. In fact ...
... ess prepare the realisation of the Divine. It is the same idea that is expressed in the Bible, "God said, Let there be Light, and there was Light." It is creation by the Word. 6 May 1933 Creative Power and the Human Instrument A poem may pre-exist in the timeless as all creation pre-exists there or else in some plane where the past, present and future exist together. But it is not necessary... necessary to presuppose anything of the kind to explain the phenomena of inspiration. All is here a matter of formation or creation. By the contact with the source of inspiration the creative Power at one level or another and the human instrument, receptacle or channel get into contact. That is the essential point, all the rest depends upon the individual case. If the substance, rhythm, form, words come down... similar variations may arise. As for the language, the tongue in which the poem comes or the whole lines from above, that offers no real difficulty. It all depends on the contact between the creative Power and the instrument or channel, the Power will naturally choose the language of the instrument or channel, that to which it is accustomed and can therefore readily hear and receive. The Power itself ...
... at is, the Consciousness of the Master―which is not realised, not perfectly dynamic, that is, it is not translated into a creation. Either the creative Power is not supported by the revelation, or the revelation is not expressed in the creative Power. This is what Sri Aurobindo means. There is a tendency to go towards one or the other, instead of having both at the same time, if one no longer separates... story without any horror in it, nothing but beauty, it would have a considerable influence on everyone's life. And this is what people don't know. If one knew how to use this power, this creative power in the world of vital forms, if one knew how to use this while yet a child, a very small child... for it is then that one fashions his material destiny. But usually people around you, sometimes ...
... inspires, we might lack the courage and motivating force to face the "darkness in terrestrial things," and the unknown beyond them. Savitri, "bom among these tribes," is the Divine Word—a creative power, a saving grace. A conscious surrender to her Light is the indispensable condition of progress, for the individual as for the human race, for she alone "can link man's strength to a transcendent... consummation is reached at the end of The Book of the Divine Mother when Aswapati's prayer for Earth's release from the grip of Death rises to heights where the Divine Consciousness unites will and creative power to bring about infallibly what is seen. The prayer turns into a prophetic vision of the future: a new creation and a new humanity. Now obeying the ādesh once heard by Sri Aurobindo, "Act ...
... it is not necessary to presuppose anything of the kind to explain the phenomenon of inspiration. All is here a matter of formation or creation. By the contact with the source of inspiration the creative power at one level or another and the human instrument, receptacle or channel get into contact. That is the essential point, all the rest depends upon the individual case. If the substance, rhythm, form... variations may arise. "As for the language, the tongue in which the poem comes or the whole lines from above, that offers no real difficulty. It all depends on the contact between the creative Power and the instrument or channel, the Power will naturally choose the language of the instrument or channel, that to which it is accustomed and can therefore readily hear and receive. The Power itself ...
... passage written by the Mother: This immobile Consciousness is the "Mother of Dreams", you may say that it is the creative consciousness, the origin of the Universe, the Universal Mother; the Creative Power—the sphinx of eternity who keeps vigil on the confines of the world like an enigma to be solved. This enigma is the problem of our life, the very raison d'être of the Universe. The problem of our... Divine or rather to become once again aware of the Divine who is the Universe, the Origin, cause and goal of life . Those who find the secret of the Sphinx of Eternity become that active and Creative Power . The Mother, Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 21 December 1950 ...
... self-being, and through the experience of the silent and inactive Self or the detached immobile Purusha we can move towards this feature less and relationless Absolute, negate the actions of the creative Power, whether that be an illusory Maya or a formative Prakriti, pass from all circling in cosmic error into the eternal Peace and Silence, get rid of our personal existence and find or lose ourselves... made by Consciousness out of itself, maintained by it, dissolving into it in their disappearance. For if there is nothing else, no essential Existence or Being supporting Page 669 the creative Power, and there is not, either, a sustaining Void or Nihil, then this Consciousness which creates everything must itself have or be an existence or a substance; if it can make structures, they must ...
... real, only a consciousness or a power of Brahman could be a real creator and a creator of realities. But since there can be no other reality than Brahman pure and absolute, there can be no true creative power of Brahman. A Brahman-consciousness aware of real beings, forms and happenings would signify a truth of the Becoming, a spiritual and material reality of the universe, which the experience of the... names, forms and happenings that are not in any way real. In that case Maya would be real, but her works entirely fictitious, pure imaginations: but can we affirm Imagination as the sole dynamic or creative power of the Eternal? Imagination is a necessity for a partial being with an ignorant consciousness; for it has to supplement its ignorance by imaginations and conjectures: there can be no place for ...
... and its varied interest in life, is itself due to a sense of some difficulty, limitation and unease, some want of equation between the fine but severely self-limiting character of this kind of creative power and the spirit of the age. At one time indeed it was hardily predicted that since the modern mind is increasingly scientific and less and less poetically and aesthetically imaginative, poetry must... of the self of man and the inner self of Nature and opens vast untrod ranges to sight and imagination, is not likely to be an age of decadence, and a poetry which voices these things,—unless its creative power has been fatally atrophied by long conventionalism, and that is not at present our case,—is not likely to be a poetry of decadence. The more perfectly intuitive poetry of the future, supposing ...
... and from there worlds, beings and gods were spreading out. Even God, through this power of creation, was getting expressed as different forms: Saguna, Nirguna, etc. God and this creative power are one; this creative power is his Shakti, the Mother. Is this correct? It is right. There is no difficulty about it. Nirguna, Saguna are only aspects taken by the Divine in the manifestation. It is the ...
... do well and to succeed, if it is pure, spontaneous and integral, you will then be able to speak very simply, to say the words that ought to be said, neither more nor less, and they will have a creative power. Bulletin, April 1953 The Four Austerities and the Four Liberations - III Of all austerities the most difficult is the austerity of feelings and emotions, the tapasya of love. Indeed... realisation of the supramental oneness. The mental liberation or liberation from ignorance will establish in the being the mind of light or gnostic consciousness, whose expression will have the creative power of the Word. The vital liberation or liberation from desire gives the individual will the power to identify itself perfectly and consciously with the divine will and brings constant peace and ...
... presuppose anything of the kind to explain the phenomenon of inspiration. All is here a matter of Page 99 formation or creation. By the contact with the source of inspiration the creative power at one level or another and the human instrument, receptacle or channel get into contact. That is the essential point, all the rest depends upon the individual case. If the substance, rhythm... similar variations may arise. "As for the language, the tongue in which the poem comes or the whole lines from above, that offers no real difficulty. It all depends on the contact between the creative Power and the instrument or channel, the Power will naturally choose the language of the instrument or channel, that to which it is accustomed and can therefore readily hear and receive. The Power ...
... of Civilisation The March of Civilisation WE are familiar with the phrase "Augustan Age": it is in reference to a particular period in a nation's history when its creative power is at its highest both in respect of quantity and quality, especially in the domain of art and literature, for it is here that the soul of a people finds expression most easily and spontaneously... largest, its most characteristic growth in that period. Earlier, at the very beginning of her life cycle, there came indeed Homer and no later creation reached a higher or even as high a status of creative power: but it was a solitary peak, it was perhaps an announcement, not the realisation of the national glory. Pericles stood as the guardian, the representative, the emblem and nucleus of a nation-wide ...
... and foundation, the creative power of the world, and even while seated securely in that foundation, it sees luminously the progressive self-unfolding. Again, as it is stated: abhyavasthāḥ pro jāyante pra vavrer vavriś ciketa. upasthe māturvi caṣṭe.² States upon states are born; covering over covering awakens to knowledge: in the lap of the Creative Power of the Worlds, the ...
... Destiny The March of Civilisation WE are familiar with the phrase "Augustan Age": it is in reference to a particular period in a nation's history when its creative power is at its highest both in respect of quantity and quality, especially in the domain of art and literature, for it is here that the soul of a people finds expression most easily and spontaneously... largest, its most characteristic growth in that period. Earlier, at the very beginning of her life cycle, there came indeed Homer and no later creation reached a higher or even as high a status of creative power: but it was a solitary peak, it was perhaps an announcement, not the realisation of the national glory. Pericles stood as the guardian, the representative, the emblem and nucleus of a nation-wide ...
... things well and to be successful, if it is pure, spontaneous and integral, then you will speak simply, you will utter the words that should be uttered, neither more nor less, and they will possess a creative power. Page 151 III Of all the austerities this is the most difficult, the austerity of feelings and emotions, the Tapasya of love. Indeed, it is in the field of feeling... of the supramental unity. The mental liberation or liberation from ignorance will establish in the being the mind of light or gnostic conscious ness, which will express itself in the creative power of the Word. The vital liberation or liberation from desire gives to the individual will the capacity of identifying itself perfectly and consciously with the divine will and brings constant ...
... sukham. Bhuma, brihat, mahat, that is God. It is Ananda therefore that insists on largeness & constitutes the mahat or brihat. Ananda is the soul of Nature, its essentiality, creative power & peace. The harmony of creative power & peace, pravritti & nivritti, jana & shama, is the divine state which we feel—as Wordsworth felt it—when we go back to the brihat, the wide & infinite which, containing & contented ...
... and position are due, according to Sri Aurobindo, to the fact that the highest spiritual Consciousness directly attained and set working in our nature so far is not the ultimate creative Power. The ultimate creative Power must hold the secret divine truth of all that is in our world, a truth that is meant to unfold itself in the course of earthly evolution Page 122 and fulfil here ...
... Aurobindo, ‘even the ordinary written word has a power. If it is an inspired word it has still more power.’ 47 ‘The mantra is the pronounced word that has a creative power … It is not only the idea, it is the sound that has the creative power … Sound always has a power. It has a lot more power than people imagine.’ 48 (the Mother) The poets have always known this. There are those inspired formulations ...
... ancient Revelation of the Semitic mystics, "God said, Let there be light: and there was light" 37 . Thus Speech, the Logos, becomes the original determinant. All speech no doubt possesses some creative power and the supreme Speech, the v ā k brahma of the Indian mystics, is without question supremely creative. For, in the words of Sri Aurobindo, "the Supermind using the Word is the creative Logos"... proceeds to the inevitable realisation of the truth it symbolises. This then is the supreme divine Word, the divya v ā k or Gauri of the Rig-Veda, that is reputed to be the original creative Power that builds up the universe of manifestation from out of the nameless Silence. For "it is out of this Silence that the Word which creates the worlds for ever proceeds; for the Word expresses that ...
... foundation, the creative power of the world, and even while seated securely in that foundation, it sees luminously the progressive self-unfolding. Again, as it is stated: abhyavasthāḥ pra jāyante pra vavrer vavriś ciketa. upasthe māturvi caṣṭe.² States upon states are born covering over covering Page 9 awakens to knowledge: in the lap of the Creative Power of the Worlds ...
... having a human form or human attributes (deities). Page 14 A Greek bronze of Zeus bearing a thunderbolt familiar epithets, and the thunderbolt, 7 symbolic of his supreme creative power, was his main attribute. He had united in himself all the attributes of the supreme divinity. He was "The Father of all”, head and source of the moral order of the world, the mighty ruler of gods... The thunderbolt: The thunderbolt or lightning is celestial fire as an active force, terrible and dynamic. The thunderbolt of Parabrahman, the fire-ether of the Greeks is a symbol of the supreme creative power. In the majority of religions we find that the Godhead is hidden from man's gaze, and then, suddenly, the lightning flash reveals Him momentarily in all his active might. This image of the logos ...
... Arsha'—overhead-creations. In Greek literature also a divine afflatus is held responsible for great creation. Even today, after so much work by new psychology, the critics admit that the roots of creative power of the artist are mysterious. C. Day Lewis in his book The Poetic Image says:— " It is a veiled vision, a partial intuition communicated to him from the depth of human heart. If he needs... the mystic origin of such light. But if man is a growing and evolving being and if ascent to higher plane than mind is the goal of his evolution, then his aesthetic instrumentation, his creative power, and the field of his aesthetic enjoyment of experience should not only expand hori- Page 106 zontally but ascend vertically. That will liberate man from the limits of his ego ...
... builders of the Bengali language, so alike in their mission, but in their fortunes so dissimilar. Both were equipped with enormous stores of reading, both were geniuses of a vast originality, both had creative power, a fine sense for beauty, and a gift for emotion and pathos: both made the same false start. But here all likeness between them stops. One was the king of prose, the other the king of poetry; and ...
... different spiritual and emotional values, tend to produce that is to say by virtue of the fixed succession of sounds a fixed spiritual atmosphere & a given type of emotional exaltation & the mere creative power of sound though a material thing is yet near to spirit, is very great; great on the material & ascending in force through the moral & intellectual, culminating on the emotional plane. It is a factor ...
... all literary forms the novel only has still some genius and even that is perishing of the modern curse of overproduction. Learning and scholarship are unendingly active over the dead corpse of creative power as in Alexandria and with the Page 558 later Romans before the great darkness. Eccentricity and the hunting after novelty & paradox play in it over an ostentatious precision and accuracy ...
... a Conscious Force which is progressively passing from status to status and thus manifesting in form all that it holds in itself in being. Cause is only a means of manifestation and not itself a creative power. The real cause is only the Will of God working through its own fixed and chosen processes. Are we to say, as it is often said, that the preexistent condition of things or arranged sum of force ...
... all-knowledge of Brahman; it is the Power of the Self; Prakriti is the working of the Purusha, Conscious Being active by its own Nature: the duality then of Soul and World-Energy, silent Self and the creative Power of the Spirit, is not really something dual and separate, it is biune. As we cannot separate Fire and the power of Fire, it has been said, so we cannot separate the Divine Reality and its Cons ...
... is bom as the wife of Satyavan and this union of Spirit and Matter is necessary for the New Creation. Savitri is the daughter of the supreme God; she is the Divine Word, meaning the Creative Power. And, specifically here in Savitri, she is the Word of the Supramental Consciousness, as the baby that is to be bom is the Supramental World. So, Savitri in union with Satyavan brings forth ...
... ascending beyond. How the spirit and the vision of the Master in Savitri moves on the regions of the Superconscient and how some of the symbols and modes of expression come out of the creative power as organic parts of a living process can be seen from a line like the following which describes Aswapati's wanderings in the dark world of Falsehood, the world where the Mother of Evil gives ...
... point of view, clearly at a turning point. A new kind of human being becomes discernible … This causes the old human species, as we have known it until now, to become inexorably decadent … All the creative power will be concentrated in the new human species. Both species will quickly separate and develop into opposite directions. The one will sink below humanity, the other will rise above the present humanity ...
... this error, he insisted, and also breed for superior human types, as dictated by Darwinism. However stern the measures necessary, Aryan blood must be purified, liberating its martial spirit and creative power. “The Jew was the most powerful foe. Other races were merely inferior, but Jews, the unnatural result of accidental crossbreeding in the ancient Middle East, through millennia of inbreeding ...
... under the Earth; Death and Immortality in the World View of Indogermanic Thinkers (a Christmas present from Heinrich Himmler); and *The Secret of Inspiration: From the Marvellous Realm of the Creative Power. For Subtle and Intelligent People of Genius Who are in Contact with the Genies and Intelligences, and with the Realm of the Spirit and the Spiritual Hosts.* 1007 “Most scholars dismiss the ...
... into its contrary. And as asuras are absolute, implacable egos, this creation would remain forever a world of falsehood, ignorance, suffering and death. Who was responsible for the “accident”? The creative Power of the Supreme Being, in other words the Universal Mother, the female Principle of all existence. Therefore she turned towards the Supreme Being for the permission to put forth a second wave of ...
... manifestation. But, relates the tradition, a crucial mistake happened which made Truth turn into falsehood, Light into darkness and ignorance, Bliss into suffering, and Life into death. “The Creative Power implored the Supreme Origin, asking for a special intervention which could save this corrupted universe; and in reply to this prayer there was emanated from the Supreme Origin a special Entity ...
... known that the relation Purusha-Prakriti created a problem to the manifested two-poled Avatar, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. For it has always been, ‘almost for eternities,’ the aspiration of the creative Power to unite with the Creator in a total and unconditional surrender, ‘so that the whole Being might exist’ in the manifestation. Practically speaking this meant that the Mother in her attitude of ...
... the difficulties in the creation as possibilities. While all Vedantic yogas (the ones mentioned earlier) turn towards the hidden Supreme Being that is the Purusha , the tantrayoga worships the creative Power, the Shakti , the World-Mother, and it worships her works because of her. One who has read the previous chapter will find here something of Sri Aurobindo’s relation with the Great Mother, accentuated ...
... This White Light is the light of the Mother. ‘There is only one Force in the world that can destroy them categorically, without any hope of return, and this is a force belonging to the supreme creative Power. It is a force from beyond the supramental world and therefore not at everybody’s disposal. It is a luminous force, of a dazzling whiteness, so brilliant that ordinary eyes would be blinded if ...
... creative habit is a tonic to the vital and keeps it in good condition and the practice of sadhana needs a strong and widening vital for its support. There is no real incompatibility between the creative power and silence; for the real silence is something inward and it does not or at least need not cease when a strong activity or expression rises to the surface. Your Tantrik was too big for me ...
... of Love is funda-mentally the secret of the self-expression, the secret which in our evolutionary universe emerges slowly and by degrees. Sri Aurobindo has written: "A supreme divine Love is a creative Power and, even though it can exist in itself silent and unchangeable, yet rejoices in external form and expression and is not condemned to be a speech-less and bodiless godhead. It has even been said ...
... itself to this line of discourse, but narrowly speaking Hawking cannot be easily faulted. What he does not realise is that God is not incompatible with such a cosmos: as Aquinas reasoned, God's creative power is not tied down to projecting a universe with a starting-point. However, Hawking may pull out "Occam's Razor": Entia non sunt multiplicands ("Entities are not to be multiplied"). This means: ...
... Plato gbmpsed a realm of divine models or "archimages" beyond this world and perceived at the base of the cosmos an undifferentiated flux of being which is almost like non-being. Upon this flux a creative Power which he named the Demiurge (the Divine Workman) imposes reflections of the ideal forms that are above and he turns the lower chaos into an orderly universe. But as the forms themselves are never ...
... presumptuous Germany. “Every manifestation of human culture, every product of art, science and technical skill which we see before our eyes today, is almost exclusively the product of the Aryan creative power”, wrote Hitler in Mein Kampf. “This very fact justifies the conclusion that it was the Aryan alone who founded a superior type of humanity; therefore he represents the archetype of what we understand ...
... answer is simple and clear. Every manifestation of human culture, every product of art, science and technical skill which we see before our eyes today, is almost exclusively the product of the Aryan creative power.” 451 For, as we know, the Aryan was “the Prometheus of mankind”. All the same, this is an intriguing statement by Hitler, the supreme racist: if one could not discuss what race or races were “the ...
... something else which belongs to the future. The Ashram has been founded and is meant to be the cradle of the new world. The inspiration is from above, the guiding force is from above, the creative power is from above, at work for the descent of the new realisation. It is only by its shortcomings, its deficiencies and its failures that the Ashram belongs to the present world. None of ...
... derivative perhaps but convincing, and it would send up its experience of them as belief and imagination to the surface being. This is a possible account, if we accept Consciousness as the real creative Power or agent and all things as formations of consciousness; but it would not give to the supraphysical planes of being the unsubstantiality or less palpable reality which the physical mind would like ...
... uncontrolled life-forces which drive and use it, it is mechanised by the physical forces on which it has to depend for its own self-expression. This is a sign that neither Mind nor Life is the original creative Power; they, like Matter, are intermediaries, successive and seried instruments of the evolutionary process. If a material energy is not that original Power, then we must seek for it in something above ...
... without risking to bring about the death of the very spirit of poetry whose breath of life is the exceeding of outward reality. Realism is still with us, but has already evolved out of itself another creative power whose advent announces its own passing. Page 115 × I am speaking here of Western literature. Oriental ...
... way inferior to that of the others of whom you speak,—the difficulty of intermittency of production is nothing, for all feel that except Nishikanta and Dilip who have no misgivings about their creative power. Yours rises probably from the fact that in order to have free command of the highest planes of poetry, you have to rise into them and not only open to the Word from them—it is therefore the same ...
... (this is a metaphor only) which supports the present evolutionary universe in which we live here in Matter. If Supermind were Page 137 to start here from the beginning as the direct creative Power, a world of the kind we see now would be impossible; it would have been full of the divine Light from the beginning, there would be no involution in the inconscience of Matter, consequently no ...
... activity is a tonic to the vital and keeps it in good condition, and a strong and widening vital is helpful as a support to the practice of sadhana. There is no real incompatibility between the creative power and silence; for the real silence is something inward and it does not or at least need not cease when a strong activity or expression rises to the surface. 14 June 1932 Periods of Incubation ...
... mental ignorance a misprision of the truths of Existence, a deviation from an original Truth-Consciousness which is the real world-builder? Our own mind, at any rate, is not an original and primary creative power of Consciousness; it is, and all mind of the same character must be, derivative, an instrumental demiurge, an intermediary creator. It is likely then that analogies from the errors of mind, which ...
... half-view taken for the whole, the dark bottom or shadow of things misconceived as the luminous substance, the effective figure of zero for the Integer. The materialist idea mistakes a creation for the creative Power, a means of expression for That which is expressed and expresses. Matter and our physical brain and nerves and body are the field and foundation for one action of a vital force that serves to connect ...
... This vast Being, this all-containing and all-formulating consciousness is Brahman. It is the Soul that emerges out of the subconscient in Man and rises towards the superconscient. And the word of creative Power welling upward out of the soul is also brahman . The Divine, the Deva, manifests itself as conscious Power of the soul, creates the worlds by the Word out of the waters of the subconscient ...
... all the sacred offices. It is evident that these functions all belong to the divine will or conscient power in man which awakes in the inner sacrifice. This Fire has built all the worlds; this creative Power, Agni Jatavedas, knows all the births, all that is in the worlds; he is the messenger who knows earth, knows how to ascend the difficult slope of heaven, आरोधनं दिवः, knows the way to the home ...
... is in her own way a great seer and magician; she has both the microscopic and the macroscopic, the closely gazing and the telescopic view, a dissolving power of searching analytic resolution, a creative power of revealing synthetic effectuation. She has hunted to their lair many of the intermediate secret processes of the great creatrix, and even she has been able, by the inventive faculty given to ...
... which all is half truth, half error. It is this that some of the ancient thinkers like Shankara, not perceiving the greater Truth-Force behind, stigmatised as Maya and thought to be the highest creative power of the Divine. All in the consciousness of this creation is either limited or else perverted by separation from the integral Light; even the Truth it perceives is only a half knowledge. Therefore ...
... helped and this can happen even though you yourself may not consciously have the idea or the feeling of extending any help to them. You have a very strong vital with a great communicative and creative power which is not shut up in itself but expansive and naturally flows out on those around it. Even ordinarily in the world people easily turn to such a strong and expansive vital and draw upon it for ...
... by her expression takes visible form and being; for the word is prior to and more real, because more spiritual, than the thing it expresses; she is the daughter of Brahma and has inherited the creative power of her father, the wife of Vishnou and shares the preservative energy of her husband; Vasuqie, also, and Seshanaga, the great serpent with his hosts, whose name means finiteness and who represents ...
... the upper hemisphere. The Indian systems did not distinguish between the Overmind and the Supermind, which is the reason why they got confused about Maya (Overmind-Force), took it for the supreme creative power and lost the secret of the transformation—although the Vaishnava and Tantra Yogas groped to find it again and were Page 298 sometimes on the verge of success. For the rest, this, I ...
... off from the apparent surface laws, for the mind makes many laws, and the surface very obligingly seems to ply with these laws, but it is only an appearance—but anyway this cuts you off from the creative Power of the Spirit, it cuts you off from the true Power of the Grace, for you can understand that if by your aspiration or your attitude you introduce a higher element, a new element—what we may now ...
... manifestation (unexpressed) of the divine Mother, the supreme Shakti. At the same time, he did this with the intention of its being the mode of creation of the universe he wanted to create, the creative power of the universe. Hence, first of all, he had to conceive the possibility of the divine Mother in order that this divine Mother could conceive the possibility of the universe. You are following ...
... of the Creator, that is, in His aspect as Creator, pronounces a word which has the power to create. So it is this... And it is the origin of the mantra. The mantra is the spoken word which has a creative power. An invocation is made and there is an answer to the invocation; or one makes a prayer and the prayer is granted. This is the Word, the Word which, in its sound... it is not only Page 342 ...
... something else which belongs to the future. The Ashram has been founded and is meant to be the cradle of the new world. The inspiration is from above, the guiding force is from above, the creative power is from above, at work for the descent of the new realisation. It is only by its shortcomings, its deficiencies and its failures that the Ashram belongs to the present world. Page 109 ...
... truly difficult and dangerous, and there was a sort of overall vision showing how nations (men as nations) have acted and more and more act in a growing Falsehood, and how they have used all their creative power to create such formidable means of destruction, with the really childish idea in the back of their minds that it would be so terrible that no one would want to use them. But they don't know (they ...
... literary forms the novel only has still some genius and even that is perishing of the modern curse of overproduction. Learning and scholarship are unendingly active over the dead corpse of creative power as in Alexandria and with the later Romans before the great darkness.... Yesterday's opinion is today exploded and discarded, new fireworks of theory, generalisation and speculation take the place ...
... Hindu tradition as the Asuras—the world, instead of developing according to its law of Light and inherent consciousness, was plunged into the darkness, inconscience and ignorance that we know, the Creative Power implored the Supreme Origin, asking him for a special intervention which could save this corrupted universe; and in reply to this prayer there was emanated from the Supreme Origin a special Entity ...
... to be among the pure. Accept to be with those who are in darkness and, in total love, offer it all. ( silence ) From the moment this was seen and DONE, the full power came back—the great creative Power. ( silence ) Most likely the experience could take place only because the time had come for all this to be offered up. The point is not to perpetuate those things, but to offer them up ...
... power to melt all hostile forces. Nothing can resist it. No consciousness, no being, no hostile will can draw near it without immediately being dissolved, for it is the Divine light in its pure creative power. ...
... adding any vibration to what is received or transmitted: a perfect neutrality. In this mirror, therefore, you would be able to see your book a little more impersonally, outside yourself and your own creative power. ( Satprem makes a face; he feels shy about reading his text aloud ) Yes, you can find out if it's consistent with your state of consciousness and your manner of working! If you give it ...
... Then 36, which is 3 times 12: it's the union of 30 (Sachchidananda) and 6, the creation. The 12 is the figure of the Mahashakti. It's the essential creation, the creation in its essence—the creative Power. And perfection, too: the perfection in the execution. The 12 is a very important figure (24 is two times 12, and 36, three times). 48 is four times 12. It's an extremely important figure. Extremely ...
... when I am all alone. But I never had it while listening to music, it's always something much closer to the earth. Here, it's something very high, but very universal, and with a tremendous power: a creative power. Well, his music opens the door. Now, some people have heard his music, and in Russia, France and the U.S.A. as well, they have asked for permission to copy it and spread it around. And the ...
... was a sort of all-embracing vision Page 204 showing how nations (men taken as nations) have acted and are increasingly acting in a growing Falsehood, and how they have used all their creative power to create such formidable means of destruction, with, at the back of their minds, the really childish notion that the destruction would be so terrible that no one would want to use them. But they ...
... you get in Sat . 2 Yet that immobility contained (how shall I put it?)... yes, it actively contained—although its action wasn't perceptible—a sort of infinite Power, which could be the creative Power. And directed by an unmanifest Consciousness.... If you can make anything out of this, good for you! Everything was like that, and without thought—I am now trying to put it into words. And ...
... else themselves an abstract primal pattern which a secondary being, a demiurge, has to imitate or work by: they are both an original self-expression of the One and, in their own right, a primary creative power. I don't know whether Plotinus elaborates these points, but the image of the Sun and its rays must, in my view, imply them. Perhaps a more accurate image would be to compare Nous itself to ...
... his letter without any acquaintance with the poem? You make him cut a very poor figure indeed if he could call Savitri 'undoubtedly one of the world's great poems' and refer to 'the sustained creative power of Savitri" without opening the volume and at least dipping into it in order to get some feel of its poetic quality, 1 have gone through quite a lot of Sir Herbert's writings and nowhere have ...
... Christ has wings in Milton as in all Christian tradition , wings which meet us from the very beginning of Paradise Lost in the poet's invocation to this Spirit to instruct him since its creative power was present "from the first . . . with mighty wings outspread" . 132 Blake's poetic consciousness, absorbing Milton, would find itself spurred to do all the more what his own sense of Christ ...
... Aurobindo. He alone has gone from his initial Nirvanic experience to a vision of the Divine at a revelatory play in the world and then to the Supermind which bears in itself not only the original creative power but also the final transformative power, for it is at the same time the home of Page 212 the perfect originals of mind, vitality and matter and the evolver of these very originals ...
... of Love is fundamentally the secret of the self-expression, the secret which in our evolutionary universe emerges slowly and by degrees. Sri Aurobindo has written: 3 "A supreme divine Love is a creative Power and, even though it can exist in itself silent and unchangeable, yet rejoices in external form and expression and is not condemned to be a speechless and bodiless godhead. It has even been said ...
... scriptures are culled because they bear a resemblance to ethical aphorisms from other religions, but an openly religious and spiritual song like Bande Mataram - a cry of obeisance to the divine creative Power that is mother of the world and that is visioned as the ultimate being of the National Soul of India the God-intoxicated country - is made to play second fiddle to a much inferior though by no ...
... anatomical sketches Leonardo had made were of such excellent quality that they set a new standard for anatomical drawings. During the seventeen years Leonardo stayed in Milan he released the creative power of his investigative mind through the study of nature by all sorts of different means; ranging from geometry, architecture and painting to geology, biology and mechanical engineering. He recorded ...
... man passes away and the personal tie loses its hold. What remains is a memory, a gradually fading memory. But memory is hardly a creative force, it is a dead, at best, a moribund thing; the real creative power is Presence'. So when the great man's presence, the power that crystallises is gone, the whole edifice crumbles and vanishes into air or remains a mere name. Love and admiration ...
... limbs; establishing itself in and working through their normal and habitual functionings, it moulds and refashions the earthly vessel. It is a global power, first of all, because it is the supreme creative Power, the original energy of consciousness that brought out this manifested universe, the matrix or the nodus that holds together and in an inviolable unity and harmony the fundamental truth-aspects ...
... "The divine Will is a vision united with a power of realisation." (The Mother) "The Lord sees in his omniscience the thing that has to be done. This seeing is his Will, it is a form of creative Power.... this vision of what is to be and therefore of what is to be done arises out of the very being, pours directly out of the consciousness and delight of existence of the Lord, spontaneously ...
... keener mental vision ... of our subjective becoming, a vision which at once knows, commands and controls the whole nature." Sri Aurobindo has referred in many ways to this controlling and creative power of sight in his Epic Savitri. Here are a few illustrative examples: "growing by his gaze"; "determining mandate of their eyes"; "his gaze had power"; "mild gaze uninsistent ruled"; "eyes that ...
... Knowledge and the Ignorance became more separative. Ignorance came to be regarded as erroneous knowledge of the Many divorced from the true knowledge of the One; it also came to be regarded as a creative power of the false appearance of the Many and multiplicity. Knowledge came to mean the knowledge of the One in the presence of which the manyness and multiplicity which is falsely created by Ignorance ...
... R.K. had trachoma, a contagious disease of the eye. × Speech: also sound or vibration as a creative power. ...
... the time it takes : it may be tomorrow, it may be the next moment, or it may take years and even centuries, but it will be realised. If to this power of imagination you can add a kind of creative power of the vital, then you raise a wholly living force. Like all living forces tending towards manifestation, this force too will exercise a pressure upon earthly events in order to realise itself ...
... not create material objects, consciousness may do so—indeed it is the force of the original consciousness, which is the force of being, that has created the physical plane of multiplicity. This creative power is the self-projecting energy of consciousness— prajnana. It is, in other words, the force of individuation inherent in the play of consciousness. Now, as I have already said, at a certain stage ...
... tree. That is to say, the emanations form a hierarchy. At the top, the apex of the pyramid, stands the one supreme Godhead. That Godhead is bi-une in respect of manifestation-the Divine and his creative Power. This two-in-one reality may be considered, according to one view of creation, as dividing into three forms or aspects -the well-known Brahma, Vishnu and Rudra of Hindu mythology. These may be ...
... men is the time it takes: it may be tomorrow, it may be the next moment, or it may take years and even centuries, but it will be realised. If to this power of imagination you can add a kind of creative power of the vital, then you raise a wholly living force. Like all living forces tending towards manifestation, this force too will exercise a pressure upon earthly events in order to realise itself ...
... do not cut yourself off from the apparent surface existence, for the surface, in a very obliging manner, seems to satisfy these laws. But that is an appearance, and it does cut you off from the creative Power of the Spirit, cut you off from the true Power of Grace. You can understand that if, by your aspiration and your attitude, you bring down a higher element, a new element – which now we may call ...
... conceived by me.' In our language we can say that the luminous globe was the supreme Divine and, then, within it, the whirling circling Page 29 light – that was the Creative Power, the Divine Mother in Her creative mood. And, within that, I was there as Her child, in my true reality, not as I see myself but as She sees me; in that image I saw myself. Dante says that ...
... not create material objects, consciousness may do so – indeed it is the force of the original consciousness, which is the force of being, that has created the physical plane of multiplicity. This creative power is the self-projecting energy of consciousness – praj ñana . It is, in other words, the force of individuation inherent in the play of consciousness. Now, as I have already said, at a certain ...
... mental being is naturally sattwic, but prone to passivity and weakness; his physico-vital reactions, on the other hand, are obscure and crude, simple and vehement, but they have life and energy and creative power, they are there to be trained and transfigured, made effective instruments of a higher illumination. All elemental personalities have something of the unconventional and irrational in them ...
... and evil, the fear of sin and the difficult endeavour towards virtue? Second: If action is entirely desireless, would it not be devoid of descisiveness, effectiveness and large or vigorous creative power? Third : Does action not take one away from liberation towards bondage? The answers of the Gita to these questions can be formulated as follows: First : The liberated who has united ...
... the earth, and there was a sort of all-embracing vision showing how nations (men taken as nations) have acted and are increasingly acting in a growing Falsehood, and how they have used all their creative power to create such formidable means of destruction, with, at the back of their minds, the really childish notion that the destruction would be so terrible that no one would want to use them. But they ...
... Sri Aurobindo has given us some glimpses into the consequences for humanity of the descent of the Supermind on the earth. As he points out: 'The descent into the earth-life of so supreme a creative power as the Supermind and its truth-consciousness could not be merely a new feature or factor added to that life or put in its front but without any other importance or only a restricted importance ...
... But the speciality of the Bengalis is the intuitive lore of the soul. Imbued and inspired by the inspiration of the soul, a wide and subtle vision is manifested in their thought-world, a creative power is at work in their field of actions and a gracefulness is visible in their bodies. In the person of the Bengalis, there reflects and sports a light of the luminous world of the Self. This higher ...
... foundation of the structure they have to build, can only be the provision of a fund of force and energy sufficient to bear the demands of a continually growing activity of the memory, judgment and creative power. Where is that energy to be found? The ancient Aryans knew that man was not separate from the universe, but only a homogeneous part of it, as a wave is part of the ocean. An infinite energy ...
... to make the ascent. There is a Lord in him who is the master but for that he must rise from this ignorant Maya to the creative Maya of the Supreme, to the Maya that governs the world, Maya the creative power of the Satchidananda. If man can rise to that the problem for him is easy to solve, because he will become one who can consciously govern his nature. The problem of life can be solved only by life's ...
... run...." 90 "Bankim came into that heritage of peace which Madhusudan had earned.... Both were equipped with enormous stores of reading, both were geniuses of a vast originality, both had creative power, a fine sense for beauty and a gift for emotion and pathos.... One was the king of prose, the other the king of poetry." "... Bankim, the greatest of novel- ists, 91 had the versatility developed ...
... and ascending beyond. How the spirit and the vision of the Master in Sāvitrī moves on the regions of the Superconscient and how some of the symbols and modes of expression come out of the creative power as organic pans of a living process can be seen from a line like the following which describes Aswapathy's wanderings in the dark world of Falsehood—(the world where the Mother of Evil gives birth ...
... "Studies in Vedic Interpretation" by the author, Chowkhambha Sanskrit Series, Benaras. Page 167 right season according to law; Brahma the voice of Rhythm the reciter of the word of creative power welling from the soul. The fruits of the sacrifice - go, ashwa, rayi, ratna^ vira, praja, tanaya - also are symbolic. The offerings— ghrita, soma, purodash - are also symbolic.4 ...
... and Death retreat and disappear. The essence of the Vedic drama of imprisonment, struggle and release is that Aditi the infinite consciousness is, "espoused and held by the lower creative power which works through the limited mind and body", but is ultimately, "delivered from this subjection by the force of the divine or illumined Mind born of her in the mentality of man". 54 But in ...
... India, open to the world's progressive currents, must create as her deepest soul dictates, not as some outer domination dictates or determines. As the spiritual vitality of India becomes strong her creative power in art will also develop. When I say "Strong vitality" and "India's advance" I mean by the phrases India's spiritual strength, the development of her soul, her true consciousness apart from national ...
... Reality is in sharp contrast to Sri Aurobindo's affirmation that there is but one Value which is also the one Reality (Sachchidananda) . 75 Bergson and Sri Aurobindo, "two thinkers of the greatest creative power of the present day", were both prophets of Evolution, both "volcanic" thinkers, and if for the European philosopher "the ultimate destiny of man... is to be one with the life-current... to be identical ...
... a certain evolutionary clay in an inscrutable crucible. Other mishaps may well propel us where we never expected. This discovery – this fabulous discovery of a new means of impulsion, a new creative power in an old animal body, thus has unforeseeable ramifications. It is a beginning. This new “strength,” what is it going to do? I can tell the obstacles it encounters in the body, and those obstacles ...
... with Mirra, leaving unfinished his superb exercise in synthesis The Wherefore of the Worlds , but he had at least brought his argument to the climactic point where he described the redeeming and creative power of Love. Richard called the birth of Love "the second Genesis": After having built up out of the cosmic dust the harmonious forms of the worlds and coordinated in the infinitesimal universe ...
... even as early as the Rig Veda, ether is the highest symbol of the Infinite, the apeiron of the Greeks; water is that of the same Infinite in its aspect as the original substance; fire is the creative power, the active energy of the Infinite; air, the life-principle, is spoken of as that which brings down fire out of the ethereal heavens into the earth. Yet these were not merely symbols. The Vedic ...
... 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 in the form of things as one aspect of his trinity, creation chequered by a balance of preservation and destruction. The real divine creation is eternal; it is ...
... The Gita here lays a great stress on the thought and state of mind at the time of death, a stress which will with difficulty be understood if we do not recognise what may be called the self-creative power of the consciousness. What the thought, the inner regard, the faith, śraddhā , settles itself upon with a complete and definite insistence, into that our inner being tends to change. This tendency ...
... rises to a higher law beyond good and evil, founded in the liberty of self-knowledge. Such desireless action can have no decisiveness, no effectiveness, no efficient motive, no large or vigorous creative power? Not so; action done in Yoga is not only the highest but the wisest, the most potent and efficient even for the affairs of the world; for it is informed by the knowledge and will of the Master ...
... wonderful, inaccessible and almost incomprehensible; but if you look from another point of view, you may say that it is the creative Consciousness, the Origin of the universe, the universal Mother, the creative Power, and so on. When we play badly we find that we have no energy, but if we play well, with great enthusiasm, we find that energy comes. Why? This is perfectly true. To enter into contact ...
... Divine or rather to become once again aware of the Divine who is the Universe, the origin, cause and goal of life. Those who find the secret of the sphinx of eternity become that active and creative Power. To choose without preference and execute without desire is the great difficulty at the very root of the development of true consciousness and self-control. To choose in this sense means to ...
... or monsters with many heads. There is only one force in the world which can destroy them categorically, that is, without any chance of return, and it is a force which belongs to the supreme creative Power. It is a force that comes from beyond the supramental world—it is not at the disposal of everybody. It is a luminous force, of a dazzling whiteness, so brilliant that if ordinary eyes looked at ...
... The divine Power is only a part of the divine Shakti; the divine Power is an attribute of the divine Shakti. Sri Aurobindo uses the word divine Shakti, here, in the sense of chit-tapas , the creative power, the creative consciousness; consequently, the divine Power is only a part of the Shakti. "An inert passivity is constantly confused with the real surrender, but out of an inert passivity ...
... to the future. The Ashram has been founded and is meant to be the cradle of the new world. The inspiration is from above, the guiding force is from above, the creative power is from above, at work for the descent of the new realisation. It is only by its shortcomings, its deficiencies and its failures that the Ashram belongs to the present world ...
... which we can call Over- mind and the other the true Supermind or Divine Gnosis. That is the reason why they got confused about Maya (Overmind-Force or Vidya-Avidya), and took it for the supreme creative power. In so stopping short at what was still a half-light they lost the secret of transformation- even though the Vaishnava and Tantra Yogas groped to find it again and were sometimes on the verge of ...
... vision, by the power of the word, by the attraction of the beauty and delight of what it shows us. What philosophy or other mental brooding makes precise or full to our thought, poetry can by its creative power, imaging force and appeal to the emotions make living to the soul and heart. This poetry will present to us indeed in forms of power and beauty all the actual life of man, his wonderful and fruitful ...
... highest possibility of a greater coming poetry. A distinct spiritual turn, the straining towards a deeper, more potent, supra-intellectual and supravital vision of things is its innermost secret of creative power. Now increasingly the highest turn of the human mind indicates a large opening of its vision to the self as well as the person of man and the spirit of Nature, Page 172 to supernature ...
... riot and revolt of its cravings, vehement and therefore impotent and unsatisfied, rather than its dynamis of self-expression and self-possession. But to this movement which reached its highest creative power in Russia, there succeeded a turn towards a more truly psychological art, music and literature, mental, intuitional, psychic rather than vitalistic, departing in fact from a superficial vitalism ...
... description, of fluid poetical phrase and minutely seen image. For these are Spenser's constant gifts, the native form of his genius which displays more of descriptive vision than of any larger creative power or narrative force. An inspired idea is worked out; a little too much lost in detail and in the diffusion of Page 83 a wealthy prolixity, it still holds well together its rather difficult ...
... being, truth, beauty, power, joy which are beyond the highest of his common or his now realised values of existence,—this will surely appear as the last potentiality of this high and beautiful creative power. When the eye of the poet has seen the life of man and the world externally or penetrated into its more vital inwardness or has risen to the clarities and widenesses of a thought which observantly ...
... poetry—but the latter in a much less degree,—have helped more than any other literary influence to form the modern turn of the European mind and its mode of expression; the shortlived outbursts of creative power in the Spain of Calderón and the Germany of Goethe exercised an immediate, a strong, though not an enduring influence; the newly created Russian literature has been, though more subtly, among the ...
... man. The dumb do voiceless meet, Babel avoiding. See,—the very ground Is silence-drenched—untrodden by earth's feet. On such a stillness might leap forth the Word, On such sink down to rest Creative Power: All those six days through which the Work occurred Revolved round Rest, enshrined a silent bower. Earth's many melodies all are on Silence weaved. Sleep foretells dawn's fanfare. And peace ...
... one which we can call Overmind and the other the true Supermind or Divine Gnosis. That is the reason why they got confused about Maya (OvermindForce or Vidya-Avidya) and took it for the supreme creative power. In so stopping short at what was still a half-light they lost the secret of transformation—even though the Vaishnava and Tantra Yogas groped to find it again and were sometimes on the verge of ...
... dealt with and eliminated. If it is allowed to remain concealed and not raised up, the difficulty will never be grappled with and no real transformation will take place. If there were no creative power in the material energy, there would be no material universe. Matter is not unconscious or without dynamism—only it is an involved Force and Consciousness that work in it. It is what the psychologists ...
... mood and needs something else than what the mind asks for to satisfy it. It is perfectly true that these reasonings have no force when the vital is in its true poise of love or joy or active and creative power, and when the vital is depressed then it is hard and seems sometimes impossible, so long as the depression is there, to surmount the trouble. But still the clouds do not last for ever—and even ...
... for the physical siddhi; for this energy is the support in the body of all the mental, vital and physical forces of the nature. It has to be changed into a mass and a movement of intimate Light, creative Power, pure Divine Ananda. It is only the bringing down of the supramental Light, Power and Bliss into the centre that can so change it. As to the working afterwards, it is the supramental Truth and ...
... is vile and repulsive? Is it not a blasphemy to envisage Him in the vicious and the criminal? Hence the popular Manicheanism which pervades every religion; hence the persistent idea of a twofold creative power, God and devil, Ormuzd and Ahriman, Allah and Iblis, the one responsible for all that is good, the other for all that is evil. This kind of spiritual and intellectual weakness loves to see God ...
... but capable of an upward evolution of its consciousness and an ascent into the light and power and bliss of a spiritual being and spiritual nature? The descent into the earth-life of so supreme a creative power as the Supermind and its truth-consciousness could not be merely a new feature or factor added to that life or put in its front but without any other importance or only a restricted importance ...
... and confused when we lack the key to their mystic significance, become clear enough the moment that is recovered. Aditi is the infinite consciousness in the cosmos espoused and held by the lower creative power which works through the limited mind and body, but delivered from this subjection by the force of the divine or illumined Mind born of her in the mentality of man. It is this Indra who makes Surya ...
... is the very nature of its creative vision and impulse. It is so that the spiritual seeker must deal with life and transmute its form and glorify it in its essence. A supreme divine Love is a creative Power and, even though it can exist in itself silent and unchangeable, yet rejoices in external form and expression and is not condemned to be a speechless and bodiless godhead. It has even been said ...
... the world and in us and executes them through the transcendent and universal Shakti. The Lord sees in his omniscience the thing that has to be done. This seeing is his Will, it is a form of creative Power, and that which he sees the all-conscious Mother, one with him, takes into her dynamic self and embodies, and executive Nature-Force carries it out as the mechanism of their omnipotent omniscience ...
... 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 processes or set many forces to act together. In Matter the process is a creation of infinitesimals charged with an immense energy, their association by design and number ...
... existence. But no such consequence ensues if, on the contrary, it is the immortal and infinite Spirit that has veiled itself in the dense robe of material substance and works there by the supreme creative power of Supermind, permitting the divisions of Mind and the reign of the lowest or material principle only as initial conditions for a certain evolutionary play of the One in the Many. If, in other ...
... g oneself with all existences in the One, or else from above by realising the pure Self or absolute Existence in its outgoing, immanent, all-embracing, all-constituting self-knowledge and self-creative power. The immanent, silent Self in all is the foundation of this cosmic consciousness for the experience of the mental being. It Page 409 is the Witness pure and omnipresent who as the ...
... Satan, would have breathed more life than anything in Shelley and Keats. But they would have equalled and excelled Spenser all-round. Spenser has "more of a descriptive vision than of the larger creative power or narrative force" 3 and so his human figures through whom he works out his scheme of a romantico-ethical story stand as the "allegorical body" of the powers of Good and Evil rather than as these ...
... sensible world, or with archetypal models, divine originals, forms of perfect purpose, whose broken shadows and faulty imitations we perceive around us. He was not quite sure also whether the world-creative Power whom he called the Demiurge is one with the supreme reality of Ideas, their self-manifesting aspect, or a subordinate deity copying out in mutable phenomena transcendent patterns passive for ever ...
... ourselves... ( Mother laughs ). That's all, mon petit. × Mother added: "This is what makes all the difference—the creative Power." ...
... that is to say, what is expressed by woman. She feels very well that without this ( gesture above ) the full understanding isn't there; but this, which is above, doesn't AT ALL understand the creative power of that which is below—it knows it in principle, but doesn't understand it. And there is a lack of adaptation, a sort of conflict, which shouldn't exist. It never existed—never—between Sri Aurobindo ...
... not as they should be (God knows we know it!), but to keep deliberately ignoring those denials in order to keep ACTIVELY in the consciousness the vision of what should be—that, I feel, is true creative power. Page 424 You know, the fact of no longer having the physical support of Sri Aurobindo's presence was a blow that might have been mortal (I prevented it from being mortal by closing ...
... hour about China. It made me understand China externally as if I had been born and lived my whole life there. I saw they were people who have attained the summit of the intellect, and who have a creative power—inventors. He told me, "No people in the world could understand Page 393 Sri Aurobindo intellectually as well as the Chinese." And it was luminously true. The highest intellectual ...
... "for widening my power of imagination so I can present these forms to the Lord.... But it's not necessary!" ( Mother laughs ) It really seemed so.... There was a time when I considered it a great creative power (and many things that I saw in those moments of super-creativity, super-imagination, were actually realized years later on earth), and this time it came again (perhaps to give me a little fun, ...
... spontaneously), I kept saying to myself, "No, that jiva hampers me; that jiva hems me in! It's not natural to me." What's natural to me is... it's probably Mahashakti. There is always that sense of creative Power, and of the Lord. The infinite, marvelous, innumerable joy of the Lord, you see, which is so intermingled with the Power—you can sense the presence of the Lord, yet you cannot distinguish or d ...
... you with my stories instead of speaking with you about your book.... Ah, no! Perhaps it's better I don't talk to you about it.... You're the one who knows! Because this kind of creative Power coming from on high, from up, up, up on the highest heights, beyond all forms of manifestation, mon petit, it's like... something tremendous... held behind a floodgate. And sometimes ( Mother smiles ...
... to stand with marked independence. However, Hamlet is as much of the pure intelligence in its reflective state as Shakespeare could seize; but nowhere do we come upon a mystic personation of his creative power. Page 99 Luckily, though, he did have fugitive moods which are interesting as clues to what is possible in the English language when the mystic hue enters the life-mind. There ...
... create and could not help creating, because the reflection of so grand a reality as Nirvana in the waking consciousness must unseal in a healthy and "rounded" constitution the divine spring of creative power that waits above the purely personal tanha- ridden mind. Though only one aspect and not the integral truth of the spiritual Mystery, Nirvana is still a superb more-than-human height and by ...
... the object its true soul of Reality. If we have to push the reasoning farther then we would enter, through the doors of aesthesis, the very domain of Maya itself that is a kind of conceptive creative power of imagination. That would make the imaginative world of an artist more real than the living multitude we witness around, in life. A sort of illusoriness is thus lent to the solidity of this ...
... poet becomes a clinical case and very likely, yet another addition to the curiosa of psychopathia sexualis." Sethna has his own reasons to offer for the loss of Wordsworth's creative power. In his reading of the situation, Sethna turns Leavis inside out and upside down. If the British critic claims that Wordsworth's interest in nature is only secondary to his concern for man ...
... final. There are endless gradations to it. The poet has been blessed with such a vision. The 'mystic silence' that envelops the poet prepares the right atmosphere for the descent of Mantra or the Creative Power. Although 'gold' has dominated K.D. Sethna's imagination other precious stones and gems have also graced his poems. "A Diamond Is Burning Upward" (p. 140) in the eponymous poem refers ...
... × Be it understood that Sri Aurobindo normally uses the word ‘Nature’, with a capital letter, for the conscious creative Power which is the manifesting executrix of the Divine Will. × Not to be confused with the same word ...
... Occultism My Pilgrimage to the Spirit February 29, 1932 Q. Is the faculty of formation different from creative power? A. You make a formation in your mind or on the vital plane in yourself—it is a kind of creation, but subjective only; it effects only your mental or vital being. You can create by ideas, thought-forces, images—a whole world in yourself ...
... could grasp I will reproduce below but more as a gist than as a verbatim report: "It is very remarkable and interesting", she went on, "to trace the changes and evolution in your music and creative power. The fund of vital force in you one day suddenly turned Page 223 and from that day forth your music was fundamentally altered in its character and outlook; you have continued ever ...
... X. 71.4. 100. Ibid., X. 71.2. Page 179 This then is the supreme divine Word, the divy ā v ā k or Gauri of the Rig Veda, that is reputed to be the original creative Power that builds up the universe of manifestation out of the nameless Silence. For "it is out of this Silence that the Word which creates the worlds for ever proceeds; for the Word expresses that ...
... helped and this can happen even though you yourself may not consciously have the idea or the feeling of extending any help to them. You have a very strong vital with a great communicative and creative power which is not shut up in itself but expansive and naturally flows out on those around it. Even ordinarily in the world people easily turn to such a strong and expansive vital and draw upon it ...
... mean above all psychologically , in your feelings and thoughts. 14 January 1935 How does one change the sex-centre and its energy into a mass and a movement of the inner Light, into a creative power, into a pure divine Ananda? By the gradual infusion of light into the centre. 15 January 1935 I nearly always feel upset or depressed, and I am afraid of disturbing other people. ...
... raised by the disciples and children at the Ashram Playground. ( Mother reads to the disciples an excerpt from Sri Aurobindo's THE MOTHER, in which he describes the different aspects of the Creative Power—what is India is called the 'Shakti,' or the 'Mother'—which have presided over universal evolution. ) '...There are other great Personalities of the Divine Mother, but they were more difficult ...
... of the world's creation, but it was very evocative; Theon called it The Tradition ). That was where I first learned of the universal Mother's first four emanations, when the Lord delegated his creative power to the Mother. And it was identical to the ancient Indian tradition, but told like a nursery story; anyone could understand—it was an image, like a movie, and very vivid. So She made her first ...
... Although the ancient Aryans are nowadays remembered most as the first domesticators of the horse, they themselves did not specially emphasise this animal - nor even the bull, for all its figuring the creative power of the Godhead. The cow was the focus of their symbolic spiritual thought. But one of the most laudatory expressions in the Rigveda connected with it has given rise to India's agelong prohibition ...
... were indulging in mere imagination. There was an unborn soul inspiring you. You were feeling Sri Aurobindo's presence more than the Mother's because a male child was on the way. But, finally, the creative power is the Mother's - and therefore your dream of the delivery was permeated by her presence. What you were told in your dream was correct as to the gender of the newcomer but not accurate as to the ...
... up the translation of "Savitri": Each in its hour eternal claimed went by Ideals, systems, sciences, poems, crafts Tireless there perished and again recurred, Sought restlessly by some creative Power. But all were dreams crossing an empty vast. ( X.IV.642 ) All this is the same thing! It's amusing. He certainly had similar experiences [to Mother's] when he wrote those lines. ...
... this morning.... Oh, as an experience it's very interesting. The spontaneous activity of Matter is defeatist ["the all-defeating might"]. It has to surrender , it has to annul itself so that a creative power—truly creative and victorious—can manifest. That's quite interesting. Théon used to say that this defeatist state (the result of which is death), this destructive power, was born with the Vital's ...
... Power. It's fire, too. No, tapas is Power. Chit-Tapas is heat. They say, Sat, Chit-Tapas, Ananda . They put Chit-Tapas together. And it's Chit first, then Tapas . It's the creative power of consciousness. But Sri Aurobindo always said "Consciousness-Force," indissolubly. We can't separate one from the other. There is no consciousness without force and no force without cons ...
... be? It is He who sees, He who wills, He who acts." ) You know, there's the same vibration here as in "to die unto death." It's something... yes, I think we could say it is His Presence... His creative Power.... It is a special vibration. Don't you feel something like... like a pure superelectricity? When we touch That, we see that it's everywhere, but we are unaware of it. When you read those ...
... Words spoil it because they give a somewhat brutal and hard precision, but it was as if the cells were saying, "Never will we have that marvelous Peace...." It was a peace, but a peace full of creative power, and so rich, containing an infinite power, rich with joy; and it gave the body the courage to say, "We will be THAT only if You are here, and You alone." Sri Aurobindo wrote, "Every event (like ...
... tradition as the Asuras — the world, instead of developing according to its law of Light and inherent consciousness, was plunged into the darkness, inconscience and ignorance that we know, the Creative Power implored the Supreme Origin, asking him for a special intervention which could save this corrupted universe; and in reply to this prayer there was emanated from the Supreme Origin a special ...
... is the birth of Savitri. She alone can bring about that miracle of physical transformation. Savitri is the incarnate power who shall establish divinity in the terrestrial phenomenon. That creative power should bring truth and light and force and bliss to the mortal world, to this creation presently governed by death. That will be her work for the fulfilment of the mortal world. Such is the ...
... taken for the whole, the dark bottom or shadow of things misconceived as the luminous substance, the effective figure of zero for the Integer. The materialist idea mistakes a creation for the creative Power, a means of expression for That which is expressed and expresses. Matter and our physical brain and nerves and body are the field and foundation for one action of a vital force that serves to ...
... effect, duality nor non-duality, but it is comprehending and apprehending consciousness,—such is that Eternal. Out of that Eternal, the supreme Brahman, has come into existence by its conceptively creative power, by its mysterious Maya, this astounding tree itself, known as Ashwattha. In that Maya is the reality of this enormous tree holding a cosmic purpose in the Will of the Eternal. Speaking about ...
... else than what the mind asks for to satisfy it. It is perfectly true that these reasonings have no force when the vital is in its true poise of love or joy or active Page 306 and creative power, and when the vital is depressed then it is hard and seems sometimes impossible so long as the depression is there, to surmount the trouble. But still the clouds do not last for ever—and even ...
... river of the ocean flowing from the infinite consciousness, which is entirely .pure and unbounded. Bhaga, the cosmic power and being conceived as the supreme enjoyer of the infinite reality and its creative power ( savitra ) opens the gate for the yogin to the supra-mental truth and divine bliss. Bhaga stands between the Infinite and the created worlds within us and without. According to the Vedic knowledge ...
... s in the course of the yogic process, the earthly realms of consciousness become illumined and they become earthly realms of light, pārthivāni rajāmsi. This transformation is effected by the creative power of Surya-Savitri. Surya-Savitri is the Lord of harmonious organization of all manifestations; our human energies are limited and in conflict with each other. But when these energies are offered ...
... Knowledge, jnanakanda, and the Veda came to be regarded rather as the Book of Works, karmakanda. 7 Aditi is considered, in the Veda, the original creatrix of the Universe, since she is the creative power of the supreme Divine who is the ultimate source and originator of the universe. In the Vedic yoga, Aditi has been regarded as the Divine Mother, and throughout the history of Indian culture, Aditi ...
... There is nothing else. And She is for me not the person I see. She together with Sri Aurobindo is the Highest. And I try to feel Her always together with Him - Ishwara-Shakti (The Lord and his creative power). This helps me so much. And in the Synthesis it is plainly said that "the seeker of the integral Truth feels in the duality of Ishwara-Shakti his closeness to a more intimate and ultimate secret ...
... can be sustained with solid stability only if the student is provided with a sufficient fund of energy—sufficient to bear the demands of a continually growing activity of the memory, judgment and creative power,—the teacher should be capable of helping the child to discover the source of infinite energy and tap its resources as and when the demands arise. For, we should not forget that "The source of ...
... from the Kingdom of Death, thus conquering Death and the Inconscience. The Kingdom of Truth, Light and Bliss is established upon the earth.... The sheer immensity of the poem, its grandeur and creative power surpass our highest imagination. Sri Aurobindo's own vast experience in the occult and mystic domains is transcribed here in authentic mantric language, which, according to him, will be the language ...
... because as a child he apparently loved horses and made clay-horses and also drew pictures of horses. Satyavan, the possessor of the higher Truth, has "espoused" and is in a way held by the "lower creative power which works through the limited mind and body"; this is 'bondage', and the wages of such bondage is death. But Satyavan is himself espoused by Savitri, Surya Savitri the Creator, and he is ultimately ...
... tree. That is to say, the emanations form a hierarchy. At the top, the apex of the pyramid, stands the one supreme Godhead. That Godhead is biune in respect of manifestation—the Divine and his creative Power. This two-in-one reality may be considered, according to one view of creation, as dividing into three forms or aspects —the well-known Brahma, Vishnu and Rudra of Hindu mythology. These may be ...
... happening before our eyes as it were, that we are invited to attend and contemplate. It is not a story narrated but an event occurring upon earth disclosed to our view. Such is the magical creative power in the Shakespearean word. It is the evocative force of the articulate sound. In India, we call it mantra. Mantra means a certain sum of syllables charged with dynamic force, creative con ...
... not cut yourself off from the apparent surface existence, for the surface, in a very obliging manner, seems to satisfy these laws. But that is an appearance, and it does cut you off from the creative Power of the Spirit, cut you off from the true Power of Grace. You can understand that if, by your aspiration and your attitude, you bring down a higher element, a new element —which now we may call ...
... image as conceived by Him, not as conceived by me." In our language we can say that the luminous globe was the supreme Divine, and then within it was the whirling circling light—that was the Creative Power, the Divine Mother in Her creative mood. And within that, "I was there as Her child, in my true reality, not as I see myself but as She sees me; in that image I saw myself." Page 74 ...
... physical activities and their apparent actualities, not from the true forces and action of life. It is the retreat necessary to one who has to go back into himself to conquer a new plane of creative power,— an entrance right into the world of basic forces, of fundamental realities, into the flaming heart of things where all actualities are born and take their first shape. It is the discovery ...
... create the field. But Vivekananda was a Seer. He saw and revealed the mystic Word, by the force of which the godhead of India awoke and stood vibrant with life. The seer is he whose vision and creative power go together. His creative genius is the fruit of his Page 230 vision. The seer-vision of Vivekananda cast aside all veils and non-essentials and penetrated straight into the ...
... Matter forms the lowest level of reality. Above it is the elan vital. Above the elan vital there is yet the domain of the Spirit. And the Spirit is a static substance and at the same a dynamic creative power. It is Being ( Sat ) that realises or expresses itself through certain typal nuclei or nodi of consciousness (chit) in a continuous becoming, in a flow of creative activity ( ananda). The dynamism ...
... perhaps a steel frame, to hold and fix the pattern of knowledge, that arranges, classifies, consolidates effective ideas, as they are translated into facts and events. It has not the initiative, the creative power of the vision of a god, but it is an indispensable aid, a precious instrument for the canalisation and expression of that vision, for the intimate application of the divine inspiration to physical ...
... which is above, aloof, witness and can have at best a kindly look and influence. That the spirit dynamic is involved in Matter and as Matter is a truth that has to be discovered. The supreme creative power of the Spirit – Truth-Consciousness – Sri Aurobindo calls the Superrnind. This power is not only up there above, but it is here below and within Page 262 Matter. It is a power ...
... spontaneity. A machine is exactly the sum of its component parts; it can give that work (both as regards quantity and quality) which is confined within the frame and function of the parts. Man's creative power is precisely this that it can make two and two not merely four but infinity. There is a force of intervention in him which upsets the rule of the parallelogram of forces that normally governs ...
... incident happening before our eyes as it were, that we are invited to attend and contemplate. It is not a story narrated but an event occurring upon earth disclosed to our View. Such is the magical creative power in the Shakespearean word. It is the evocative force of the articulate sound. In India, we call it mantra. Mantra means a certain sum of syllables charged with dynamic force, creative consciousness ...
... present physical activities and their apparent actualities, not from the true forces and action of life. It is the retreat necessary to one who has to go back into himself to conquer a new plane of creative power, – an entrance right into the world of basic forces, of fundamental realities, into the flaming heart of things where all actualities are born and take their first shape. It is the discovery of ...
... Matter forms the lowest level of reality. Above it is the elan vital. Above the elan vital there is yet the domain of the Spirit. And the Spirit is a static substance and at the same a dynamic creative power. It is Being (Sat) that realises or expresses itself through certain typal nuclei or nodi of consciousness (chit) in a continuous becoming, in a flow of creative activity (ananda) ...
... word quite an episodical story of the creation of the world, but how very evocative! That is where I got the first hint of the universal Mother's first four emanations, when the Lord delegated his creative power to the Mother. And it was identical with the ancient Indian tradition, but told almost like a nursery tale, anyone could understand it —it was an image. Like a movie picture, and very vivid." ...
... well and to succeed, if it is pure, spontaneous and integral, you will then be able to speak very simply, to say the words that ought to be said, neither more nor less, and they will have a creative power. Page 543 VIII The most difficult - and the most needed - of all austerities is the austerity of feelings and emotions, for it is in the name of love that the worst crimes ...
... greater the State, the greater would be the complexity of the constitution and the need of multiple rules. An example may make this point clear. The small city-States of Greece have exhibited greater creative power than many great nations and some empires; so also the small republics of ancient India or Small States under Kings were more creative than extensive Indian Empires. One could ask the question ...
... 'Arsha'—overhead-creations. In Greek literature also a divine afflatus is held responsible for great creation. Even today, after so much work by new psychology, the critics admit that the roots of creative power of the artist are mysterious. C. Day Lewis in his book 'The Poetic Image' says: "It is a veiled vision, a partial intuition communicated to him from the depth of human heart. If he needs mystery ...
... of the m ā y ā 'each' and 'all' coexist in the unity of the One. What is the remedy for the lower play of the m ā y ā ? The remedy is to accept and overcome the double aspect of the creative Power. That is to say, to accept its lower play and overcome it: to accept it as God's play with division, darkness and suffering, limitation, desire, strife etc. in which He subjects himself to the ...
... She simply said to the evangelists of death: those who believe in the tomb, believe in science, believe in the prison forever. Oh! how She wanted to give to men, to give back to the earth its own creative power, its “imagination of truth,” to wrest from Matter its own miracle. The miracle of Truth, for there is no other. And in everything, through everything⎯the good, the evil, the minuscule or the big ...
... a vast civilisation. But as they went forward on their path they were overcome by exhaustion and weariness. The force of their thought decreased, and along with it decreased the force of their creative power. Our civilisation has become a stagnant backwater, our religion a bigotry of externals, our spirituality a faint glimmer of light or a momentary wave of intoxication. So long as this state of things ...
... forces, all vibrations, all movements enter into us and pass Page 344 through us. And so we have a certain mental force held in, that is to say, ready to be used by the formative or creative mental power. These are, as it were, free forces. As soon as a thought coming from outside or a force or movement enters our consciousness, we give it a concrete form, a logical appearance and all kinds... November November Questions and Answers (1956) 7 November 1956 " The Shakti, the power of the Infinite and the Eternal descends within us, works, breaks up our present psychological formations, shatters every wall, widens, liberates... she frees the consciousness from confinement in the body; it can go out in trance ...
... principles and forms of his living, his ways of action and the whole build and tenor of his life. ...One result of the intervention of Supermind in the earth- nature, the descent of the supreme creative Truth-Power, might well be a change in the law of evolution, its method and its arrangement: a larger element of the principle of evolution through knowledge might enter into the forces of the material... reproduction of the Truth in a diminished working extending the power of the Light not only to its own but to lower levels of consciousness in their climb towards self- transcendence. ... ... Supermind alone has the truth-consciousness in full and, if this comes down and intervenes, mind, life and body too can attain to the full power of the truth in them and their full possibility of perfection... the psychic change, the conversion of our whole present nature into a soul-instrumentation; on that or along with that there must be the spiritual change, the descent of a higher Light, Knowledge, Power, Force, Bliss, Purity into the whole being, even into the lowest recesses of the life and body, even into the darkness of our subconscience; last, ... there must take place as a crowning movement the ...
... lift them out of their limitations, substitute for our mind's ignorant, limited, tepid or trepidant pleasure in them a free, intense and uplifting urge of delight and supply a new source of creative spiritual power and illumination by which they can be carried more swiftly and profoundly towards their absolute light in knowledge and their yet undreamed possibilities and most dynamic energy of content... and utilises his world and environment, and the noble and beautiful Arts which are at once work and knowledge, — for every well-made and significant poem, picture, statue or building is an act of creative knowledge, a living discovery of the consciousness, a figure of Truth, a dynamic form of mental and vital Page 103 self-expression or world-expression, — all that seeks, all that ...
... arrives at Nama in vijnánam. Page 724 For all sound has a creative & expressive power; each activity of sound in existence creates its corresponding physical & mental forms; all activity of forms in their turn creates a corresponding vibration of sound. But human speech informed with mind is the highest creative & expressive power of sound. It tends to bring about in life & being that which it... of knowledge in our mentality which is ojistha, most full of ojas, superabundant in effective puissance. By God-directed action our heart & intellect become suffused with power & light, or rather with light that is power and power that is light, since knowledge & force are in the divine nature one entity. Agna ojistham á bhara dyumnam asmabhyam adhrigo. This puissant light brought to us by Agni is... Let me bring forth worlds", as the Aitareya Upanishad expresses the original Will to create. But a second agent is also needed, Ananda or delight of creation & in the thing created, for without this creative Delight in conscious things nothing could come into existence or once being created remain in existence. "Who could exist or live" asks the Taittiriya Upanishad "if there were not this all-pervading ...
... matter. This suggests that the physical quantities and the geometrical properties are the same thing. In other words, all matter is a manifestation of the continuum's ever-standing Now of creative conscious Power. And, if Einstein's formulation, in his last years, of a unified field-theory taking into its sweep electromagnetism no less than gravitation and accounting for the particle-nature of matter... reached by generalising from observations. Einstein made it clear that they can be reached only by a creative act of the scientific imagination: all mere generalisations fail to coordinate the large variety of observed phenomena and so in order to co-ordinate them we have to cast about creatively or inventively for mathematical formulas. These formulas can be of any sort, no matter how "fantastic"... vision of Eternity. Again, what was understood as causality or determinism, the linkage of events by a power from the past, so to speak, assumes a new complexion. If the past, present and future are co-existent, a power from the present such as we feel in our sense of "freewill" and a power from the future such as we experience in our sense of goals to be realised - these powers can have a scientific ...
... concrete and quite often very discomfiting Other, facing even one's most external form of mind and life-force, one gets intensely into relation with the egoless Lord of the universe, the creative Mother-Power of Grace — and that Perfect Divine Person starts permeating one's human personality in every part. Then one is cleared of egoism with the greatest assurance. The practical upshot... life-force and body. Eternity, Infinity, Divinity themselves are to us more than they have been to spiritual seekers so far. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have been bent on bringing into action a power of these Ultimates more radically effective in earth-existence than ever before. As a result the practitioners of the Integral Yoga have had experiences which have scarcely been tabulated in earlier ...
... nativity. Sri Aurobindo regards it as a symbol of the Avatar's direct derivation from the Higher Spiritual Nature - Para-Prakriti, Para-Maya, the Supernature that is the Divine Shakti, the creative Goddess-Power which is ever pure, the Virgin Mother of all beings and things. He says: "In the Buddhist legend the name of the mother of Buddha [Maya-Devi, Maha-Maya] makes the symbolism clear; in the Christian... than the death of [Julius] Caesar. The story of Christ, as it has been told, is the concrete and dramatic enactment of the divine sacrifice: the Supreme Lord, who is All-Light, All-Knowledge, All-Power, All-Beauty, All-Love, All-Bliss, accepting to assume human ignorance and suffering in matter, in order to help men to emerge from the falsehood in which they live and because of which they die." ...
... and reveal Art's secret places by getting as isolated as possible from normal things and wrapping in rich cloths the thin bodies of far-fetched desires. They had considerable skill but not creative clairvoyant power. their inspiration was at its best a decorative inventor. Yeats wrote several poems in early youth which are indistinct and sentimental rather than artistically vague with occult emblems... on my dreams — yet it is a method equally authentic and supports an inspiration as inevitable. For, though there is no spell of a perceptible nature in The Folly of Being Comforted , the creative skill by which the effect as of "a moment's thought" is carried to perfection by an alert "stitching and unstitching" is proved by the careful phraseology, the pregnant transitions of syntax, the... the entire "inscape" of mystery until his outer consciousness is altogether drenched in that translucence. Change in Style and Psychology That a poet should discard so thorough a power to voice occult insight seems a grave tragedy. But life does not follow expected curves of development and the pure critic has no right to complain provided the new curves trace artistic forms as flawless ...
... Eternal and our lower triple being and nature, it is as if it stood there as the mediating, formulated, organising and creative wisdom, power and joy of the Eternal. In the gnosis Sachchidananda gathers up the light of his unseizable existence and pours it out on the soul in the shape and power of a divine knowledge, a divine will and a divine bliss of existence. It is as if infinite light were gathered up... that depends upon the sun in radiances that continue for ever. But the gnosis is not only light, it is force; it is creative knowledge, it is the self-effective truth of the divine Idea. This idea is not creative imagination, not something that constructs in a void, but light and power of eternal substance, truth-light full of truth-force; and it brings out what is latent in being, it does not create... eternal knowledge; it throws the consciousness and substance of being into infallible forms of truth-power, forms that embody the idea and make it faultlessly effective, and it works out each truth-power and each truth-form spontaneously and rightly according to its nature. Because it carries this creative force of the divine Idea, the Sun, the lord and symbol of the gnosis, is described in the Veda as ...
... ranges of existence which the physical mind ignores, pointing man himself to capacities of godhead in being, truth, beauty, power, joy which are beyond the highest of his common or his yet realised values of existence, is the last potentiality of this creative, interpretative power of the human mind. When the eye of the poet has seen life externally or with a more vital inwardness, has risen to the clarities... catch that of the old Romantic ones by plunging the creative Intelligence into intense imaginative emotion - and achieves its own individuality most through raising by both imaginative emotionalism and a subtilisation of Classicism's inspired reason its modern complex curiosity of mind into a directness, serene and mysterious, of spiritual power exceeding the world we know in sensation, feeling and... conceives to be Cha-liapin's. For it passes beyond the cadre not only of Classicism but also of Elizabethan poetry. And this it does not merely because it is a Romanticism of the creative Intelligence rather than of the creative Life-force - an Intelligence differently coloured than the Classical, far more complex and brooding as well as instinct with "things not easily expressible". It exceeds the old ...
... this Force aspect of Consciousness that it will be fruitful to consider. Absolute consciousness is in its nature absolute power; the nature of Chit is Shakti: Force or Shakti concentrated and energised for cognition or for action in a realising power effective or creative, the power of conscious being dwelling upon itself and bringing out, as it were, by the heat of its incubation 1 the seed and d... dynamic opening, there is power and play of knowledge and action, and that is Tapas; but in the former also, in the static consciousness, there is evidently a power for knowledge and a concentration of knowledge or at least a concentration of consciousness in immobility and a self-realisation, and that too is Tapas. Therefore it would seem that Tapas, concentration of power of consciousness, is the... Ignorance. And if Ignorance is not an element or power proper to the absolute nature of the Brahman or to Its integrality, there can be no original and primal Ignorance. Maya, if it be an original power of the consciousness of the Eternal, cannot itself be an ignorance or in any way akin to the nature of ignorance, but must be a transcendent and universal power of self-knowledge and all-knowledge; ignorance ...
... moments, with a rich throng of fine thought-effects, but not for any clear sum of intellectual vision or to any high power of either ideal or spiritual result." To realise the dissimilarity of note in the very stuff of the utterance between the creative Life-force and the creative Intelligence we have only to juxtapose Shakespeare and Milton. Even a descriptive passage will serve: Shakespeare on... deeper life-power in the poet which is not satisfied with mirroring or just beautifully responding, but begins to throw up at once around them its own rich matter of being and so creates something new, more personal, intimate, fuller of an inner vision, emotion, passion of self-expression. This is the source of the new intensity; it is this impulse towards an utterance of the creative life-power within... a multiple poetic vision of life and vital creation with no centre except the life-power itself, no coordination except that thrown out sponta-neously by the unseizable workings of its energy, no unity but the one unity of man and the life-spirit in Nature working in him and before his eyes. It is this sheer creative Ananda of the life-spirit which is Shakespeare; abroad everywhere in that age it incarnates ...
... lift them out of their limitations, substitute for our mind's ignorant, limited, tepid or trepidant pleasure in them a free, intense and uplifting urge of delight and supply a new source of creative spiritual power and illumination by which they can be carried more swiftly and profoundly towards their absolute light in knowledge and their yet undreamed possibilities and most dynamic energy of content... subdues and utilises his world and environment, and the noble and beautiful Arts which are at once work and knowledge,—for every well-made and significant poem, picture, statue or building is an act of creative knowledge, a living discovery of the consciousness, a figure of Truth, a dynamic form of mental and vital self-expression or world-expression,—all that seeks, all that finds, all that voices or figures... meaning. The Yogin's aim in the sciences that make for knowledge should be to discover and understand the workings of the Divine Consciousness-Puissance in man and creatures and things and forces, her creative significances, her execution of the mysteries, the symbols in which she arranges the manifestation. The Yogin's aim in the practical sciences, whether mental and physical or occult and psychic, should ...
... of Savitri has such an occult basis as its background and therefore it distinctly foresees the prospects of enlarging consciousness in the splendour of love, beauty, joy, knowledge, power, sweetness, harmony, the creative working of the Truth-Idea in the richly effulgent and ever-growing dimensions of the Infinite. Though not expressly stated so, the suggestions in the story are unmistakable. ... rises from Matter's inconscient base to the splendours of the superconscient Spirit. He goes yet beyond, crossing the triple Glory. Even as he approaches the Worlds of the Unknowable, the creative-executive power of the Supreme answers him and grants him the exceptional boon that one shall come and change everything. All shall be done for which this mortal world was created, — he is told. In... diligently the acts of ascetic sacrifices and offerings. Indeed, such a pativratā sees the very presence of divinity in her husband. The story is thus significantly charged with the resplendent and creative dynamism of the Dharma, the path of active and living Righteousness. The word dharma has the sense of the inner law of conduct natural to one's soul and one's spiritual build-up, one's swabhāva ...
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