... But this too finds itself independent of Nature only by dependence on a higher Reality; it is through self-giving or surrender of soul and nature to the Divine Being that we can attain to our highest self and supreme Reality, for it is the Divine Being who is that highest self and that supreme Reality, and we are self-existent and eternal only in his eternity and by his self-existence. This dependence... founds all things and secretly supports and pervades all things. This Self-existence reveals itself again in three terms of its essential nature,—self, conscious being or spirit, and God or the Divine Being. The Indian terms are more satisfactory,—Brahman the Reality is Atman, Purusha, Ishwara; for these terms grew from a root of Intuition and, while they have a comprehensive preciseness, are capable... aspect; it is not only Existence, it is the one Being absolute, eternal and infinite. As there are three fundamental aspects in which we meet this Reality,—Self, Conscious Being or Spirit and God, the Divine Being, or to use the Indian terms, the absolute and omnipresent Reality, Brahman, manifest to us as Atman, Purusha, Ishwara,—so too its power of Consciousness appears to us in three aspects: it is the ...
... Upanishad. (II. 2. 12, 11.) The Lord abides in the heart of all beings. Gita. (XVIII. 61.) The universe is a manifestation of an infinite and eternal All-Existence: the Divine Being dwells in all that is; we ourselves are that in our self, in our own deepest being; our soul, the secret indwelling psychic entity, is a portion of the Divine Consciousness and Essence. This is... explained to us, the Divine remains imperfectly known; for the world too is That and, so long as it is not present to our consciousness and possessed by our powers of consciousness in the sense of the divine being, we are not in possession of the whole Divinity. It is possible to escape from the problem otherwise; for, admitting always the essential Presence, we can endeavour to justify the divinity of... what it has to express of the possibilities of existence, in its assumption of its proper place in the complete manifestation. Each thing is divine in itself because each is a fact and idea of the divine being, knowledge and will fulfilling itself infallibly in accordance with the law of that particular manifestation. Each being is possessed of the knowledge, the force, the measure and kind of delight ...
... spiritual beauty, full of divine light and good, he develops into the saint and reaches the highest inner experience and most considerable change of nature proper to this way of approach to the Divine Being. But for the purpose of an integral transformation this too is not enough; there must be a transmutation of the thinking mind and all the vital and physical parts of consciousness in their own character... of desire; the ego subjects itself to some higher law and finally effaces itself, seems not to exist or exists only to serve a higher Power or a higher Truth or to offer its will and acts to the Divine Being as an instrument. The law of being and action or the light of Truth which then guides the seeker, may be a clarity or power or principle which he perceives on the highest height of which his mind... battlefield full of secret and treacherous and misleading or open and violent oppositions; beings and voices and influences may appear to the inner sense and vision and hearing claiming to be the Divine Being or His messengers or Powers and Godheads of the Light or guides of the path to Page 938 realisation, while in truth they are of a very different character. If there is too much egoism ...
... of the spiritual individual...but neither the cosmos nor the individual consciousness is the fundamental truth of existence; for both depend upon and exist by the transcendental Divine being. "This Divine Being, Sachchidananda, is at once impersonal and personal: it is an Existence and the origin and foundation of all truths, forces, powers, existences, but it is also the one transcendent... necessity for the soul in the universe - and therefore the inner trend of the evolutionary Energy and its ultimate intention - to know and to grow into this truth of itself, to become one with the Divine Being, to raise its nature to the Divine Nature, its existence into the Divine Existence, its consciousness into the Divine Consciousness, its delight of being into the Divine Delight of Being, and to... the Absolute governing, pervading, constituting all relatives..." 15 "...there are three fundamental aspects in which we meet this Reality, - Self, Conscious Being or Spirit and God, the Divine Being or to use the Indian terms, the absolute and omnipresent Reality, Brahman, manifest to us as Atman, Purusha, Ishwara..," 16 "...with regard to the universe Brahman appears as the Self of all existence ...
... Chapter I The Principle of the Integral Yoga The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of all powers of our human existence into a means of reaching divine Being. In an ordinary Yoga one main power of being or one group of its powers is made the means, vehicle, path. In a synthetic Yoga all powers will be combined and included in the transmuting instrumentation... brain it meets with and it becomes one with the divine consciousness. In Rajayoga the chosen instrument is the mind. Our ordinary mentality is first disciplined, purified and directed towards the divine Being, then by a summary process of Asana and Pranayama the physical force of our being is stilled and concentrated, the life-force released into a rhythmic movement capable of cessation and concentrated... one final end and the one all-important gain is that the mind, stilled and cast into a concentrated trance, can lose itself in the divine consciousness and the soul be made free to unite with the divine Being. The triple way takes for its chosen instruments the three main powers of the mental soul-life of the human being. Knowledge selects the reason and the mental vision and it makes them by purification ...
... whole universe in his consciousness; but neither the cosmos nor the individual consciousness is the fundamental truth of existence; for both depend upon and exist by the transcendental Divine Being. This Divine Being, Sachchidananda, is at once impersonal and personal: it is an Existence and the origin and foundation of all truths, forces, powers, existences, but it is also the one transcendent Conscious... the world as a garden of the Page 699 divine Lila, a play of the divine Being with the conditions of cosmic existence in this world of an inferior Nature; the soul of man takes part in the Lila through a protracted series of births, but it is destined to reascend at last into the proper plane of the Divine Being and there enjoy an eternal proximity and communion: this gives a certain rationale... the soul in becoming is urged by its own unseen reality and by the occult pressure of evolutionary Nature to come out of this state of Ignorance and recover eventually the knowledge of the one Divine Being and its oneness with it and at the same time to recover its spiritual unity with all individual beings and the whole universe. It has to become aware not only of itself in the universe but of the ...
... play or lila of the divine Being with the conditions of cosmic existence in this world of an inferior Nature. According to this view, the soul of man takes part in the play through a series of births, but it is destined to re-ascend at last into the proper plane of the Divine Being and there enjoy an eternal proximity and communion, or else be unified with the Divine Being or get extinguished... imperfection is the sign of a transitional state, a growth not yet completed, an effort that is finding its way; a consummation in a deployment of the spirit's self-knowledge and the self-power of its divine being and consciousness is the culmination: these are the three stages of this cycle of the spirit's progressive self- expression in life. The two stages that have already their play page - 106 ...
... and Jesus passed into the divine being and consciousness. This world is essentially the world of space and time as conceived by our ordinary mental consciousness. When Jesus passed beyond into the supermental state, he revealed the final state of man and the universe, which are both destined to pass beyond their present state so as to participate in the divine being and consciousness. In this... comparison on the ground of Jesus' passing into a state beyond the embodied mental consciousness in which humanity exists and his view of humanity getting transfigured "so as to participate in the divine being and consciousness". Yet here also you cannot bring in Sri Aurobindo. For, although both Sri Aurobindo and Teilhard look forward to an evolutionary "apocalypse", Teilhard lets go the logic of... man and nature are created really distinct and different from God, yet by a free act of grace God communicates to them a participation in his own nature. The soul by grace participates in the divine being, knowledge and bliss. It exists no longer merely in its own separate nature but in the nature of God himself" (p. 45). I should say that this is to eat one's cake and still have it. If God can ...
... (vayunam, vayas), bliss, felicity, Ananda.Divine Ananda is the inseparable companion of the divine strength and divine knowledge; Chit, Tapas & Ananda constitute the nature of Sat, the divine Being. The state of divine being is one & infinite embracing all existences, sarva-bhútáni, in one unifying self-consciousness, Atmani; therefore, Page 713 divine bliss also is infinite & embracing, ráyá... Asuryam is the principle of divine Power, Chit-Shakti or Tapas in which divine Being or Sat formulates itself for cosmic activity;Mitra is the Lord of Love who with Bhaga, the Lord of Enjoyment, most intimately represents in human temperament the principle of Ananda, which is the Page 718 base of the divine Being & divine Power in world-manifestation. Sat, Chit, Ananda (for Chit & Tapas... of realisation & the word arka is used to express the act of divine realisation by the mantra; gáyatram when it is considered as the means of attainment to the power, felicity or wideness of the divine being or nature through the path of the Truth or Ritam manifested by the mantra; sáma when it brings about the harmony or equality of the different constituents of our nature, body, life-energy, mind ...
... call of our spiritual being which is our true self, a transcendent reality, a being of the Divine Being, not created by the world, able to live in itself, to rise out of world to transcendence; on the other side there is the demand of the world around us which is a cosmic form, a formulation of the Divine Being, a power of the Reality in disguise. There is too the divided or double demand of our being... ourselves is the one thing to be done; but the true ourself is that which is within us, and to exceed our outer self of body, life and mind is the condition for this highest being, which is our true and divine being, to become self-revealed and active. It is only by growing within and living within that we can find it; once that is done, to create from there the spiritual or divine mind, life, body and through... spiritual unity, a dynamisation of the intimate consciousness of one-being, of one self in all beings, can alone found and govern by its truth the action of the divine life. In the gnostic or divine being, in the gnostic life, there will be a close and complete consciousness of the self of others, a consciousness of their mind, life, physical being which are felt as if they were one's own. The gnostic ...
... 58 Works find their source in the divine being, and with the knowledge of that being, there grows the knowledge of the source of becoming, the source of the divine will and also of the operation of the divine will. That leads to the fulfillment of Karma yoga, since the specific aim of the karma yoga is to unite the individual being and will with the divine being and divine will, as a result of which... infinity of the divine being. In the pursuit of knowledge, one meets the Divine in many aspects, and it is by knowledge that one can enter into and possess the infinite and Divine in every way of one's being, sarvabhāvena, and one is able to receive the Divine into oneself and one is possessed by him in everyway of one's being. By the method of knowledge or Jnana yoga the divine being is foundationally... rendered into the egoless and desireless instrument of the divine will that works itself out triumphantly through the individual. But there is also another consequence. With the knowledge of the divine being and the divine will as also with the dynamic operation of the divine will in the individual instrumentality, the individual grows not only into the divine Consciousness and divine Force but also ...
... divine thought in divine being,—therefore not a vyahriti. The Veda uses to express this pure Truth &ideal knowledge another word, equivalent in meaning to mahat,—the word brihat and couples with it two other significant expressions, satyam & ritam. This trinity of satyam ritam brihat—Sacchidananda objectivised—is the Mahan Atma. Satyam is Truth, the principle of infinite & divine Being, Sat objectivised... ing to Mahas is Maharloka or Mahi Dyaus, the great heavens (pure Buddhi or Vijnana, the ideal world). The Pranava in its three essentialities rules over the three supreme worlds, the Satyaloka (divine being), Tapoloka (divine Awareness & Force), Anandaloka (divine Bliss) of the Puranas, which constitute Amritam, immortality or the true kingdom of heaven of the Vedic religion. These are the Vedic sapta... three mighty elements of the divine nature predominate respectively, creative Ananda or divine bliss in Jana, the power of Chit (Chich-chhakti) or divine Energy in Tapas, the extension [of] Sat or divine being in Satya. But these worlds are hidden from us, avyakta—lost for us in the sushupti to which only great Yogins easily attain & only with the Anandaloka have we by means of the anandakosha some difficult ...
... attained by the human being after his liberation from the Ignorance. "Beholding a higher Light beyond this darkness we have followed it and reached the highest Light of all, Surya divine in the divine Being." This is the Vedic way of putting the idea which we find more openly expressed in the Upanishads, the fairest form of Surya in which man sees everywhere the one Purusha with the liberated vision... powers ( manuṣaḥ, naraḥ ); they are our "luminous seers", "our heroes", "our lords of plenitude". They conduct the sacrifice in their human capacity ( manuṣvat ) as well as receive it in their high divine being. Agni is the priest of the oblation, Brihaspati the priest of the word. In this sense Agni is said to be born from the heart of man; all the gods are thus born by the sacrifice, Page 493 ... varying prominence in the Veda. Varuna is easily the first and most considerable of them all, for realisation of infinite existence is the basis of the Vedic perfection: the wideness and purity of the divine being once attained, all the rest comes inevitably contained in it as possession and power and attribute. Mitra is seldom hymned except in union with Varuna or else as a name and form of the other gods ...
... play or lila of the divine Being with the conditions of cosmic existence in this world of an inferior Nature. According to this view, the soul of man takes part in the play through a series of births, but it is destined to re-ascend at last into the proper plane of the Divine Being and there enjoy an eternal proximity and communion, or else be unified with the Divine Being or get extinguished in... the last and the highest component. Neither religious doctrines nor formulations of ethical ideals correspond to the highest demands that human beings are capable of. There is, it will be found, a divine being in us that can be directly contacted by the pursuit of spirituality and by the methods that are neither religious nor ethical, but yogic, — methods which demand rigorous practices of purification... imperfection is the sign of a transitional state, a growth not yet completed, an effort that is finding its way; a consummation in a deployment of the spirit's self-knowledge and the self-power of its divine being and consciousness is the culmination: these are the three stages of this cycle of the spirit's progressive self-expression in. life. The two stages that have already their play seem at first sight ...
... supreme Self as the Divine Being, and here the insistence is on devotion; but the knowledge is not subordinated, only raised, vitalised and fulfilled, and still the sacrifice of works continues; the double path becomes the triune way of knowledge, works and devotion. And the fruit of the sacrifice, the one fruit still placed before the seeker, is attained, union with the divine Being and oneness with... taken up by the equal spirit and done for the sake of God and the good of all creatures. There will be needed an uplifting of the heart in a single aspiration to the Highest, a single love of the Divine Being, a single God-adoration. And there must be a widening too of the calmed and enlightened heart to embrace God in all beings. There will be needed a change of the habitual and normal nature of man... Supreme and this constant universal and individual manifestation of Him in things and beings which makes the complex character of the cosmos. "There are always these three eternal states of the Divine Being. There is always and for ever this one eternal immutable self-existence which is the basis and support of existent things. There is always and for ever this Spirit mutable in Nature manifested by ...
... triple human system, in the mind, the nervous life, the body. According to the philosophy of the ancient Indian seers Ananda, delight,— the rendering, in the terms of sensation, of the plenitude of divine being,—is that which supports, overtly or secretly, all mortal & immortal life & activity. “Who could live or breathe,” asks the Taittiriya Upanishad, “if there were not this ether of Delight in which... vitality; supporting, creating & rectifying the pure mentality, there is the ocean of supra mental & pure ideal self-existent, self-perceptive Truth or Light which leads us into the heights of the divine being; generating the divine Light, pouring itself out on the surge of the infinite harmonies of this Truth is the ocean of the divine Bliss & the plenitude of self-existence. These are the five states... presence, aid and protection, the need of their constant friendship. By the aid of the gods man has to rise beyond them to God; with their consent & assistance he is helped to ascend and dwell in the divine being which they also dwell in & enjoy, the Vast, the Delightful, the True, the Light, — mahas, brihat, ratnam, ritam, satyam, jyotih, various epithets by which the seers expressed the manifestation in ...
... The Divine Force, concealed in the subconscient, is that which has originated and built up the worlds. At the other end in the superconscient it reveals itself as the Divine Being, Lord and Knower who has manifested Himself out of the Brahman. × The necklace of many figures... divinity the triple being of man. × Possibly, the three Purushas, soul-states or Personalities of the divine Being, indicated by the three letters A U M. The highest Brahman is beyond the three letters of the mystic syllable. × ... consummated on the three planes of man's physical, vital and mental consciousness. × The Purusha or Divine Being, Knower of the Field, who dwells within all and for whose pleasure Prakriti fulfils the cosmic play. × ...
... taken up by the equal spirit and done for the sake of God and the good of all creatures. There will be needed an uplifting of the heart in a single aspiration to the Highest, a single love of the Divine Being, a single God-adoration. And there must be a widening too of the calmed and enlightened heart to embrace God in all beings. There will be needed a change of the habitual and normal nature of man... Supreme and this constant universal and individual manifestation of Him in things and beings which makes the complex character of the cosmos. "There are always these three eternal states of the Divine Being. There is always and for ever this one eternal immutable self-existence which is the basis and support of existent things. There is always and for ever this Spirit mutable in Nature manifested by... knowledge, this love that can be the deep heart of your action, will be your most effective force for an utter consecration and complete perfection. An integral union of the individual's being with the Divine Being is the condition of a perfect spiritual life. Turn then altogether towards the Divine; make one with him by knowledge, love and works all your nature. Turn utterly towards him and give up ungrudgingly ...
... identified with the universal spirit. It is to merge in him in the absolute and find him in all relations. Secondly, it is to put on the divine being and the divine nature. And since God is Sachchidananda, it is to raise our Page 511 being into the divine being, our consciousness into the divine consciousness, our energy into the divine energy, our delight of existence into the divine delight... result of a habitual purified reflecting of the reality and an entire concentration on it; and it is necessary in order to break down entirely that division and separation of ourselves from the divine being and the eternal reality which is the normal condition of our unregenerated ignorant mentality. Page 515 None of these things can be done by the methods of the lower knowledge. It is ...
... treated as two closely connected blocks which develop the rest of the doctrine from this primary basis. The seventh to the twelfth chapters lay down a large metaphysical statement of the nature of the Divine Being and on that foundation closely relate and synthetise knowledge and devotion, just as the first part of the Gita related and synthetised works and knowledge. The vision of the World-Purusha intervenes... remain), "the essential knowledge, attended with all the comprehensive knowledge, by knowing which there shall be no other thing here left to be known." The implication of the phrase is that the Divine Being is all, vāsudevaḥ sarvam , and therefore if he is known integrally in all his powers and principles, then all is known, not only the pure Self, but the world and action and Nature. There is then... be not the Divine, but only lower derivations. Undoubtedly sin has to be abandoned if one is to get anywhere near the Godhead; but so too has virtue to be overpassed if we are to enter into the Divine Being. The sattwic nature has to be attained, but it has then to be exceeded. Ethical action is only a means of purification by which we can rise towards the divine nature, but that nature itself is lifted ...
... its workings, spiritual in its origin, spiritual in its greatness. The soul bound and egoistic in Nature, mental, vital, physical only, cannot be a portion of the Divine and itself a divine being; for such a divine being must be itself of Page 307 the very nature of the Divine, free, spiritual, self-developing, self-existent, superior to mind, life and body. Both these difficulties and the... to escape except by renunciation of life and works. He has been shown that there are two opposed ways of working and living, one in the ignorance of the ego, one in the clear self-knowledge of a divine being. He may act with desire, with passion, an ego driven by the qualities of the lower Nature, subject to the balance of virtue and sin, joy and sorrow, preoccupied with the fruits and consequences ...
... draw back from the ego and the troubled personality into this calm, equal, eternal, universal, impersonal Self is the first step towards a seeing action in Yoga done in conscious union with the divine Being and the infallible Will that, however obscure now to us, manifests itself in the universe. When we live tranquilly poised in this self of impersonal wideness, then because that is vast, calm... eternal infinite nature or absolute self-power of the Godhead, devātmaśakti . The perfect, integrally conscious soul hidden in man, an eternal portion of Deity, a spiritual being of the eternal Divine Being, can open in us and can too open us to him if we live constantly in this true truth of his action and our existence. The seeker of Godhead has to get back to the reality of his immutable and eternal... what we will and do. Where is the release here, where the full elevation and transformation to the higher spiritual nature, the immortal Dharma, the law proper to the infinite purity and power of a divine being? If this change cannot be effected while in the body, then so it must be said, that the whole nature cannot be transformed and there must remain an unreconciled duality until the mortal type of ...
... them and one life. It is in philosophical language the recognition of the one self in all who fulfils himself variously in each; it is the finding of the law of the divine being in each unifying itself with the law of the divine being in all. At once the key of the problem is shifted from without to within, from the visible externalities of social and political adjustment to the spiritual life and... truth of the self is the eternal truth; we have to go back upon it in order to carry it out in newer and fuller ways for which a past humanity was not ready. The recognition and fulfilment of the divine being in oneself and in man, the kingdom of God within and in the race is the basis on which man must come in the end to the possession of himself as a free self-determining being and of mankind too in ...
... three Purushas, soulstites or Personalities of the divine Being, indicated by the three letters AUM. The highest Brahman is beyond the three letters of the mystic syllable. 7. The sacrifice of the lower existence to the divine, consummated on the three planes of man's physical, vital and mental consciousness. 8. The Purusha or Divine Being, Knower of the Field, who dwells within all and for... figures. __________ 3. The Divine Force, concealed in the subconscient, is that which has originated and built up the worlds. At the other end in the superconscient it reveals itself as the Divine Being, Lord and Knower who has manifested Himself out of the Brahman. 4. The necklace of many figures is Prakriti, creative Nature whifch comes under the control of the soul that has attained to ...
... psychological movement of human nature. Yoga of devotion aims at refining all emotions and proposes the various methods by which emotions can be turned and concentrated Page 45 on the Divine Being. Human life is marked by pain and wants, and in search of alleviation and cure of pain and wants, a point is reached where one is drawn more and more imperatively to a Power or Being, even though... though they may be supraphysical, and one may have to cultivate faith. This is how many turn to God for the removal of pain and wants. But these are not the only two motives for turning towards the Divine Being. A higher motive is to be found, when the seeker, in search of the highest knowledge, discovers philosophically or spiritually, that there is in the universe and above the universe a Reality, who... joy of the relation. Love is a passion and it seeks for two things, eternity and intensity, and it is through Bhakti yoga that the seeker arrives at the discovery and the possession of the Divine Being in whom alone eternity and intensity of love are fulfilled. In the following passage, Sri Aurobindo describes that love for the Divine which suffuses the steps of Bhakti yoga and leads the seeker ...
... those planes, breaks its limits, opens out to the Light and is upheld in its new wideness by the infinite Consciousness, Mother Aditi, and her sons, the divine powers of the Supreme Deva or the Divine Being. 61 The great attainments of the Vedic Rishis have been summarized by Sri Aurobindo in the following words: "They may not have yoked the lightning to their chariots, nor weighed sun and... the Object of the Integral Yoga The object of the integral yoga that Sri Aurobindo has formulated has several distinctive features. There is, first, the object of an integral realization of Divine Being. This realization would include not only a realization of the One in its indistinguishable unity, but also in its multitude of aspects which are all necessary to the complete knowledge of it by... out freely upon the world. Fourthly, the object includes the unity of freedom, purity, beatitude and perfection in their integrality. The integral purity implies the perfect reflection of the divine Being in ourselves as also the perfect outpouring of its Truth and Law in us in the terms of life and through the right functioning of the complex instrument we are in our parts. Integral purity brings ...
... must all attain to their utmost perfection, if they are meant to be instruments of the divine manifestation in the material world. Perfection really means a growth into the nature of the Divine Being. It is to be one with the Divine in His divine Nature, sārūpya or sādharmya. Oneness in consciousness with the Divine, sāyujya, or closeness to the divine Presence, sāmīpya, has always... the way of such an exploration. In the Integral Yoga the body is considered as important as any other instrument, and its divine perfection is sought with a most thorough and scrupulous care. A divine being in a divine body is the formula of perfection in the Integral Yoga. There are four prerequisites for the work of perfection: śākti, vīrya, daivī prakrti and śraddhā. Śakti means the... action of sense is a spiritual action and pure sense itself is a power of the Spirit." ¹ This pure and original sense is called sanjñāna. Sanjñāna makes us see, hear, touch, smell and taste the Divine Being, saccidānanda, as concretely as we sense the material objects. Its action is direct, immediate and intimate. It makes us contact the substance of the divine Existence, the substance of the divine ...
... done at one and the same time by three simultaneous movements,—an integral self-finding through works founded in his and our spiritual nature, an integral self-becoming through knowledge of the Divine Being in whom all exists and who is all, and—most sovereign and decisive movement of all—an integral self-giving through love and devotion of our whole being to this All and this Supreme, attracted to... the eternal being? It is Nature as Swabhava. The Supreme, the Godhead, the Purushottama is there and supports on his eternal immutability the action of his higher spiritual Shakti. He displays the divine Being, Consciousness, Will or Power, yayedaṁ dhāryate jagat : that is the Para Prakriti. The self-awareness of the Spirit in this supreme Nature perceives in the light of self-knowledge the dynamic idea... other conditions are satisfied. If we have become in our consciousness one self with all, one self which is always to our thought the Divine, and even our eyes and our other senses see and sense the Divine Being everywhere so that it is impossible for us at any time at all to feel or think of anything as that merely which the unenlightened sense perceives, but only as the Godhead at once concealed and ...
... for, in the first place, Falsehood and Evil are, unlike Truth and Good, very clearly results of the Ignorance and cannot exist where there is no Ignorance: they can have no self-existence in the Divine Being, they cannot be native elements of the Supreme Nature. If, then, the limited Knowledge which is the nature of Ignorance renounces its limitations, if Ignorance disappears into Knowledge, evil and... is a spiritual necessity of the evolution itself, a step towards the growth of the being out of the Ignorance into the truth of the divine unity and the evolution of a divine consciousness and a divine being. For much more than the mind or life which can turn either to good or to evil, it is the soul-personality, the psychic being, which insists on the distinction, though in a larger sense than the... even if our action still proceeds in the dynamics of the Ignorance, it no longer binds or misleads because our inner being is seated in the light of self-knowledge. The third step is to know the Divine Being who is at once our supreme transcendent Self, the Cosmic Being, foundation of our universality, and the Divinity within of which our psychic being, the true evolving individual in our nature, is ...
... nature but a transformation. All that presents itself here in our outward nature in perverse or imperfect forms has a significance and utility which come out when we get back to the greater truth of divine being. Love will be not destroyed, but perfected, enlarged to its widest capacity, deepened to its spiritual rapture, the love of God, the love of man, the love of all things as ourselves and as beings... instruments of a greater calm secret of divine working. The ordinary mental standards will be exceeded on the basis of this dynamic equality. The eye of his will must look beyond to a purity of divine being, a motive of divine will-power guided by divine knowledge of which his perfected nature will be the engine, yantra . That must remain impossible in entirety as long as the dynamic ego with its... Power within self and above mind, it will proceed on its way with a firm assurance and await with growing calm the vicissitudes and completion of the process of transformation. The promise of the Divine Being in the Gita will be the anchor of its resolution, "Abandon all dharmas and take refuge in Me alone; I will deliver thee from all sin and evil; do not grieve." The equality of the thinking mind ...
... sevenfold Truth-being increasing the divine births in us by the satisfaction of the soul's hunger for the Beatitude, this is the growth of immortality. It is the manifestation of that trinity of divine being, light and bliss which the Vedantins afterwards called Sachchidananda. The sense of this universal diffusion of Truth and the birth and activity of all the godheads in us assuring a universal... this is to be effected through the conquest of all the riches held in itself by our divided mortal being but kept from us by the Vritras and Panis and through the holding of them in the infinite divine being. The latter is to be in us protected from the ordinary tendency of our human existence, from subjection to the sons of Danu or Diti. The idea is evidently identical with that of the Isha Upanishad... thought", ṛtasya bodhi ṛtacit svādhiḥ ,—for all falsehood is merely a wrong placing of the Truth. He is to refer all fault and sin and defect in man to the various godheads or divine powers of the Divine Being so that it may be removed and the man declared finally blameless before the Infinite Mother— aditaye anāgasaḥ , or for the infinite existence, as it is elsewhere expressed. Then in the ninth ...
... with Prakriti. But now the reason of this double aspect of silence and of activity is revealed in its entire significance,—because the silent all-pervading Self is only one side of the truth of the divine Being. He who pervades the world as the one unchanging self that supports all its mutations, is equally the Godhead in man, the Lord in the heart of every creature, the conscient Cause and Master of all... matter the greater sense, the deeper realities of existence. There is a supreme, a divine Nature which is the true creatrix of the universe. All creatures and all objects are becomings of the one divine Being; all life is a working of the power of the one Lord; all nature is a manifestation of the one Infinite. He is the Godhead in man; the Jiva is spirit of his Spirit. He is the Godhead in the universe;... birth and becoming prepares us for oneness with the supreme object of our love and adoration, madbhāvāya . There is an intense delight of love in the greatness and beauty and perfection of this divine Being now seen everywhere in the world and above it, prīti . That deeper ecstasy assumes the place of the scattered and external pleasure of the mind in existence or rather it draws all other delight ...
... supported by his sanction and existing by his immanent presence, existing in his being, governed by the law of his being and by the conscious will within it. To know, to respond to, to live in the divine being and nature of this Soul is the object of withdrawing from the ego and its action. One rises then above the lower nature of the gunas to the higher divine nature. The movement by which this ascension... . He puts forth his own active nature, his Prakriti,— svāṁ prakṛtim , says the Gita,—manifest in the Jiva, worked out by the svabhāva , "own-becoming", of each Jiva according to the law of the divine being in it, the great lines of which each Jiva must follow, but worked out too in the egoistic nature by the bewildering play of the three gunas upon each other, guṇā guṇeṣu vartante . That is the... sarvabhṛt : but the action of the gunas within him is quite changed; it is lifted above their egoistic character and reactions. For he has unified his whole being in the Purushottama, has assumed the divine being and the higher divine nature of becoming, madbhāva , has unified even his mind and natural Page 232 consciousness with the Divine, manmanā maccittaḥ . This change is the final ...
... familiar images in dhenu & in yahvá are intended to convey directly in one, suggest obliquely by the simile in the other, the inseparable companionship of divine power with the divine light and the divine being. All the gods are indeed usharbudhah; with the morning of the revelation all divine faculties in us arise out of the night in which they have slept. But the figure here is that of awakening towards... glimmer on the horizon; so too divine, inspired and faultless activity in us rises heavenward & calls down God's dawn on His creature. This great uprush of force is in its nature a great uprush of divine being; for force is nothing but the power of being in motion. It is the secret waters in us that released, gush up openly & widely from their prison & their secrecy in our mortal natures; for in vitalised... that immortal is covered & curtained in and lives and works behind the veil, martyeshu devam amartyam. Therefore is the uprush of divine force in the great release felt to be the wide uprush of divine being & consciousness, yahvá iva pra vayám ujjihánáh. Abodhi hotá yajatháya deván, Úrdhwo Agnih sumanáh prátar asthát, Samiddhasya ruśad adarśi pájo, Mahán devas tamaso niramochi. The purpose ...
... the Sun of Knowledge Page 500 finishes his journey and unyokes his horses, where the thousand rays of consciousness stand together so that there is That One, the supreme form of the Divine Being. But this world in which we live seemed to them to be a mingled weft in which truth is disfigured by an abundant falsehood, anṛtasya bhūreḥ ; 2 here the one light has to be born by its own vast... his limitations, obeys her laws and makes as good a use of them by his enlightened will as their inexorable mechanism will tolerate. The religionist seeks his reign of enlightened will, love or divine being, his kingdom of God, in that other world where they are unalloyed and eternal. The philosophic mystic rejects all as a mental illusion and aspires to self-extinction in some Nirvana or else an immersion... the experience of the Multiplicity, beyond death and by the Knowledge takes possession of Immortality. For the Self-existent has really become these many existences; the Upanishad can say to the Divine Being, in all solemnity and with no thought to mislead, "Thou art this old man walking with his staff, yonder boy and girl, this blue-winged bird, that red of eye", not "Thou Page 508 seemest ...
... ss and the diviner sense into which our subjective being is intended eventually, if we will only allow it, to be transfigured. We have seen that this applies to the highest principles of the Divine Being. Ordinarily, the discriminating mind tells us that only what is beyond all manifestation is absolute, only the formless Spirit is infinite, only the timeless, spaceless, immutable, immobile Self... wider experience open to us. We perceive that the immutability of the timeless, spaceless existence is an absolute and an infinite, but that also the conscious-force and the active delight of the divine Being in its all-blissful possession of the outpouring of its powers, qualities, self-creations is an absolute and an infinite,—and indeed the same absolute and infinite, so much the same that we can... and Maya, meaning according to their predilections by the Self the Immutable and by Maya Page 427 the power the Self has of imposing on itself the cosmic illusion, or by the Self the Divine Being and by Maya the nature of conscious-being and the conscious-force by which the Divine embodies himself in soul-forms and forms of things. Others spoke of Ishwara and Shakti, the Lord and His force ...
... to admit that all these many must be that One, and it follows that the One is or has become many; but how can the limited or relative be the Absolute and how can man or beast or bird be the Divine Being? But in erecting this apparent contradiction the mind makes a double error. It is thinking in the terms of the mathematical finite unit which is sole in limitation, the one which is less than... Shankara describes as "Self" or "Atman". For, he says: "This Self-existence reveals itself again in three terms of its essential nature, - Self, Conscious Being or Spirit, and God or the Divine Being. The Indian terms are more satisfactory, - Brahman the Reality is Atman, Purusha, Ishwara." He also writes: "As there are three fundamental aspects in which we meet this Reality,... so too... Maya; it is Prakriti, Nature or Force made dynamically executive, working out all things under the witnessing eye of the Conscious Being, the Self or Spirit; it is the conscious Power of the Divine Being, Shakti, which is both conceptively creative and dynamically executive of all the divine workings. These three aspects and their powers base and comprise the whole of existence and all Nature ...
... fettered animal humanity. It uses divine means in order to rise to divinity. All Yoga is tapasya and all siddhi of Yoga is accomplishment of godhead either by identity or by relation with the Divine Being in its principles or its personality or in both or simultaneously by identity and relation. Identity is the principle of Adwaita, relation of Dwaita, relation in a qualified identity of Visi... also is a symbol or eidolon of God, we are made in His image; and by that is meant, not a formal image, but in the image of His being and personality, the essence of divinity & its quality, the divine being & divine knowledge. There are in every thing existing phenomenally or, as we shall say, symbolically, two parts, the thing in itself & the symbol, Self & Nature, res (thing that is) & factum... of divine attainment may usefully be distinguished, touch with God, indwelling in Him & becoming He. The first is initial & elementary; unless passing the veil of our ordinary nature we touch the divine Being or He leaning down impose His touch [on] us, unless we come first into contact with Him either in our heart, our mind, our works or our being, we cannot go on to indwell in Him. If we are strong ...
... A passage from Sri Aurobindo 523 will be very apt here: The Vedic deities are names, powers, personalities of the universal Godhead and they represent each some essential puissance of the Divine Being. They manifest the cosmos and are manifest in it. Children of Light, Sons of the Infinite, they recognise in the soul of man their brother and ally and desire to help and increase him by themselves... A. Macdonell and A.B. Keith, Vedic Index of Names and Subjects (London, 1912), I, p. 31." Page 412 hymns to them, just as he grows by giving himself to their greatness. So a divine being who wants to add to his glory in the world of manifestation by means of the Rishi's "religious services" could easily be the Asura who grants spiritual wealth in various forms in return for the... powers (mānuṣāh, narāh); they are "our luminous seers", "our heroes", "our lords of plenitude". They conduct the sacrifice in their human capacity (manusvat) as well as receive it in their high divine being. Moreover, to match the phrase "a powerful hero" in the Maruts-hymn we have not only Sri Aurobindo's mention of "our heroes" as a designation of the gods in their action in humanity: we have ...
... that in Christianity Christ is held to be the only Avatar, the one and only Redeemer of a fallen humanity. From a human teacher and miracle worker the theologians gradually exalted him into a divine being, one in essence with God the Father, therefore omniscient and omnipotent, capable of doing anything also while in the human body. A similar belief exists in some forms of Hinduism about its divine... possibility of struggle for one who represents the Divine. Such a conception makes nonsense of the whole idea of Avatarhood; there is then no reason in it, no necessity in it, no meaning in it. The Divine being all-powerful can lift people up without bothering to come down to earth. It is only if it is part of the world-arrangement that he should take upon himself the burden of humanity and open the Way... will then proceed in the same order once again, with similar characteristics, and this process will repeat itself till the final dissolution or Mahapralaya. … At this nadir in human existence a divine Being, who comprehends all things and is the beginning and the end, shall descend upon the earth. He will be born in the family of Vishnuyasas, an eminent brahmin of Sambal village, as Kalki. He will ...
... trans- formed being, whose every part of nature gradually ceased to be human and became divine. The graded process of transformation has been very well brought out in each canto till she becomes a divine being working through her human mould. It is when she is armed with self-knowledge and the knowledge of her mission in life that the date of Satyavan's death arrives. The third part begins after the... nature and remained resigned to Fate. The instruments of man's nature are in fact only secondary powers and the senses of man only draw him outwards. The real power in man is his Soul, his inner divine Being, the Antarātman. This Soul, the true Divine Entity, must come to the front in nature and govern it. In her mood of resignation Savitri suddenly heard a Voice from the heights of her being... of the divine Mother and he pleaded before her for humanity. He prayed for a boon of divine Grace to help humanity to overcome Ignorance and Death. The divine Mother gave him the assurance that a Divine being, her own emanation, would be born on earth. Savitri was that incarnation of the divine Grace. The yoga of Ashwapathy and that of Savitri need not be thought , of in contrast to each ...
... old classic poetry; for there it has been sung out by the rapt heart of a woman to the Heart of the Universe. The Tamil word, Alwar, means one who has drowned, lost himself in the sea of the divine being. Among these canonised saints of Southern Vaishnavism ranks Vishnuchitta, Yogin and poet, of Villipattan in the land of the Pandyas. He is termed Perialwar , the great Alwar. A tradition, which... had sung in inspired hymns. Her own poetry—we may suppose that she passed early into the Light towards which she yearned, for it is small in bulk,—is entirely occupied with her passion for the divine Being. It is said that she went through a symbolic marriage with Sri Ranganatha, Vishnu in his temple at Srirangam, and disappeared into the image of her Lord. This tradition probably conceals some actual ...
... Gods is an absolute Truth which lives in solar glories beyond mind. Man ascending thither strives no longer as the thinker but is victoriously the seer; he is no longer this mental creature but a divine being. His will, life, thought, emotion, sense, act are all transformed into values of an all-puissant Truth and remain no longer an embarrassed or a helpless tangle of mixed truth and falsehood. He moves... nether darkness by the aid of the mighty and helpful deities. The Vedic deities are names, powers, personalities of the universal Godhead and they represent each some essential puissance of the Divine Being. They manifest the cosmos and are manifest in it. Children of Light, Sons of the Infinite, they recognise in the soul of man their brother and ally and desire to help and increase him by themselves ...
... for the third, for the consummation. Our future state depends on our fullness at the time of our passage, on our harmonious progress towards divine being. That is the hidden thing in us which we have to develop. We are to become atmavan, to possess our divine being, to disengage & fulfil our real self. Those who fall from this development, who turn aside from it are self-hurters or, to take the full vigorous ...
... cosmic or divine Power of cosmic or divine Will. And because that Shakti is, Page 507 in the phrase of the Swetáswatara Upanishad, Devátmashaktih swagunair nigúdhá, the self-power of Divine Being hidden by the modes of its own workings, because it is, to use another Sanscrit formula, Chit-Shakti of the Sat-Purusha, Conscious Power of Conscious Being, & because that Conscious Being is infinite... spiritual principle and encounters in its search seven in the place of three prime elements of conscious being. Sat, Chit, Ananda, Vijnana are four divine unmodifiable principles; they constitute the divine being, divine nature & divine life, and are called in their sum Amritam, Immortality; Manas, Prana, Annam, Mind, Life & Matter, are inferior & modifying principles constituting in their sum in this material ...
... being established in yoga', that kind of action done from yoga, is not only a limb of this sadhana but also a part of its realisation. The manifestation of life, of the inner and the outer in the divine being and the expression of divine unity is the goal and the characteristic sign of the state of its realisation. * There are four limbs of the integral yoga, Knowledge, Works, Love... ment of this yoga is shaky and inadequate. When equality is perfectly realised the path of yoga becomes equal, without any thorn, straight and full of joy. * To be one with the Divine Being, to connect our consciousness with the Divine Consciousness and dwell in it, to dissolve one's power by the influence of the Divine Force, to be self-realised and perfect by attaining the Divine ...
... disidentification. The Path of Devotion selects the feeling aspect of the devotee and turns it Godward, and in an intensity of seeking makes the emotions a means of union of one's being with the Divine Being. The chief methods of this path consist in prayer, adoration, and worship of the Divine, and offering of oneself to Him through love and devotion. The Path of Works, selecting the will in... for the discovery of one's inmost being, "but the strongest, most central way is to found all such or other methods on a self-offering and surrender of ourselves and of our parts of nature to the Divine Being. ..." 96 Page 120 × Spiritual practitioner. ...
... reader is gripped, —if he can enter into the Seer's vision — and he is anxious to know how Savitri is going to meet Yama, the god of Death. To show how Savitri came to be constituted as a "half-divine" being even in her external being, the Seer rightly pursues the thread of her birth and explains to us how "a world's desire compelled her mortal birth." This brings us to the character of Aswapati... is for habitation by the Lord. The world becomes a holy place when we enter into this vision. It is the same truth we find in the expression of the Gita: All is Vasudeva, — the Divine Being: Vāsudevah Sarvam. Take another passage from the Isha reconciling the Static and the Dynamic aspects of the ultimate Reality in a powerful image: That moves, and That moves not; ...
... Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have gone through, we get some idea of what an Avatar has to suffer. And this time the step forward was an enormous one: it was the quantum jump from animal man to a Divine Being, skipping the intermediary stage of the god. The bitter cup had to be emptied once and for all. Nobody ever saw a sign of the suffering Sri Aurobindo went through. He hid it even from the Mother... translate this — a bath in the Lord? An immersion in the Lord? She saw the persons in front of her as her very own self and she put the soul in them directly into contact with their true, their divine Being, with the One she called the Lord, present in everything but thickly veiled. She took away as many of those veils as the inner being of the person in front of her could stand, for even the angels ...
... Avatars, had been sent to build the foundations of the material realization of a new species on Earth. This time the issue was not the embodiment of a higher being within the mental range, but of a divine being in the literal sense of the word. Their own yoga, work or development — whatever one wants to call it — therefore consisted of the following: (i) the complete identification with their divine nature;... embodied beings on Earth had ever acquired. And this is how we arrive at a new milestone in their work which we will relate in the next chapter. The Concept of the ‘Superman’ The higher, divine being that will succeed man has as yet no name. Sri Aurobindo called it the gnostic or supramental being, or more often the superman. However, the word ‘superman’ 92 can easily be misunderstood because ...
... actualities inspiring that imagination to perceive a many-sidedness in the unitary Divine Being who is at the same time an impersonal infinity of omnipotent peace self-multiplied endlessly and a super-personal eternity of omniscient love with innumerable soul-forms of his own to be interrelated. The experience of this Divine Being, even the vivid concept of it, give not only a proper meaning to the diversity ...
... . It was the leap from animal man to the supramental being that seemed to her so enormous, not to say impossible. ‘It is the leap, you understand, which looks so formidable to me.’ 4 For the divine being really had to be divine, for instance simultaneously present here, there and elsewhere, and not subject to illness, gravity and death. It had to be, physically, a cosmic being and even more than... clear that within the Unity there are gradations or distinct densities of that one Substance, otherwise transformation would not be necessary or even possible. Sri Aurobindo writes in The Life Divine : ‘Being, consciousness, force, substance descend and ascend a many-runged ladder on each step of which being has a vaster self-extension, consciousness a wider sense of its own range and largeness and ...
... possibility of struggle for one who represents the Divine. Such a conception makes nonsense of the whole idea of Avatarhood—there is then no reason in it, no necessity for it, no meaning in it. The Divine being all-powerful can lift people up without bothering to come down on earth. It is only if it is part of the world-arrangement that he should take upon himself the burden of humanity and open the Way... n appears very clearly from all the accounts about him and even, if what is related about the appearance of Krishna in him from time to time is accepted, these outbursts of the splendour of the Divine Being are among the most remarkable in the story of the Avatar. As for Ramakrishna, the manifestation in him was not so intense but more many-sided and fortunately there can be no doubt about the authenticity ...
... individual. It is a gathering up and concentration of the movements dispersed and loosely combined in the lower evolution. An integral method and an integral result. First, an integral realisation of Divine Being; not only a realisation of the One in its indistinguishable unity, but also in its multitude of aspects which are also necessary to the complete knowledge of it by Page 47 the relative... world. The divine existence is of the nature not only of freedom, but of purity, beatitude and perfection. An integral purity which shall enable on the one hand the perfect reflection of the divine Being in ourselves and on the other the perfect outpouring of its Truth and Law in us in the terms of life and through the right Page 48 functioning of the complex instrument we are in our ...
... equality that this equality has two sides. It must therefore be arrived at by two successive movements. One will liberate us from the action of the lower nature and admit us to the calm peace of the divine being; the other will liberate us into the full being and power of the higher nature and admit us to the equal poise and universality of a divine and infinite knowledge, will of action, Ananda. The first... dualities of the appearances and reactions which they impose on us. The second is an active, a positive equality which accepts the phenomena of existence, but only as the manifestation of the one divine being and with an equal response to them which comes from the divine nature in us and transforms them into its hidden values. The first lives in the peace of the one Brahman and puts away from it the ...
... origin, the continent, the initial and the ultimate reality of all that is in the cosmos is the triune principle of transcendent and infinite Existence, Consciousness and Bliss which is the nature of divine being. Consciousness has two aspects, illuminating and effective, state and power of self-awareness and state and power of self-force, by which Being possesses itself whether in its static condition or... Consciousness-Force and Bliss and the creative medium of Supermind into cosmic being; we ascend from Matter through a developing life, soul and mind and the illuminating medium of supermind towards the divine being. The knot of the two, the Page 278 higher and the lower hemisphere, 2 is where mind and supermind meet with a veil between them. The rending of the veil is the condition of the divine ...
... condition and causality. This constant presence of the Absolute would be the basis of its infinite freedom and delight, ensure its security in the play and provide the root and sap and essence of its divine being. Moreover such a divine soul would live simultaneously in the two terms of the eternal existence of Sachchidananda, the two inseparable poles of the self-unfolding of the Absolute which we... the still sea of Bliss so that certain forms of divine union and enjoyment may be brought in front in an active upwelling of waves of the Bliss. So also all its becoming will be formation of the divine being in response to these activities and what is with us cessation, death, annihilation will be only rest, transition or holding back of the joyous creative Maya in the eternal being of Sachchidananda ...
... being there may be contact, relation, union. In the Yoga of Bhakti it is the emotional nature that is made the instrument. Its main principle is to adopt some human relation between man and the Divine Being by which through the ever intenser flowing of the heart's emotions towards him the human soul may at last be wedded to and grow one with him in a passion of divine Love. It is not ultimately the... idea of a divine ruler, creator of the world and master of the Law who governs the earth and heavens and is the guide and helper and saviour of his creatures. This larger and higher idea of the divine Being long kept many elements and still keeps some elements of the old crudity. The Jews who brought it forward most prominently and from whom it overspread a great part of the world, could Page 562 ...
... instinct of worship any of these earlier motives need to survive and enter into the Yoga of devotion which itself starts from worship. That depends on how far they correspond to any truth of the divine Being and its relations with the human soul; for we seek by Bhakti union with the Divine and true relation with it, with its truth and not with any mirage of our lower nature and of its egoistic impulses... baffling of the search, or from the failure of the delight we have possessed or had thought to grasp; but love is that by which we can enter directly into possession of the self-existent delight of the divine Being. Divine love is indeed itself that possession and, as it were, the body of the Ananda. These are the truths which condition our approach to this Yoga and our journey on this path. There are ...
... from action, we are able to hold the inner results Page 545 of thought and act in a firm growth of our conscious being until it accomplishes itself, by union, in the infinity of the divine being. The Divine meets us in many aspects and to each of them knowledge is the key, so that by knowledge we enter into and possess the infinite and divine in every way of his being, sarvabhāvena , ... spiritual experience, it arrives readily at the etherial heights, pinnacles, skiey widenesses, it cannot without the aid of the heart fathom the intense and rich abysses and oceanic depths of the divine being and the divine Ananda. The way of Bhakti is supposed often to be necessarily inferior because it proceeds by worship which belongs to that stage of spiritual experience where there is a difference ...
... ly, of a mantra or a divine name through which the divine being is realised. There are supposed by those who systematise to be three stages of the seeking through the devotion of the mind, first, the constant hearing of the divine name, qualities and all that has been attached to them, secondly, the constant thinking on them or on the divine being or personality, thirdly, the settling and fixing of ...
... prominently to light. Not only are the four closely associated among themselves, but they seem to partake of each other's nature and attributes, and all are evidently emanations of Surya Savitri, the divine being in his creative and illuminative solar form. Surya Savitri is the Creator. According to the Truth of things, in the terms of the Ritam, the worlds are brought forth from the divine consciousness... order of the Truth. Therefore it is he that brings the seven delights, sapta ratnā , to the giver of the sacrifice. He looses them forth on us; for they are all there in the world as in the divine being, in ourselves also, and have only to be loosed forth on our outer consciousness. The rich and varied amplitude of this sevenfold delight, perfect on all the planes of our being, is the bhāga , ...
... impersonal Brahman is not the very last word, not the utterly highest secret of our being; for impersonal and personal, finite and infinite turn out to be only two opposite, yet concomitant aspects of a divine Being unlimited by these distinctions who is both these things at once. God is an ever unmanifest Infinite ever self-impelled to manifest himself in the finite; he is the great impersonal Person of whom... of the Yoga is then a living and self-completing union with the divine Purushottama and is not merely a self-extinguishing immergence in the impersonal Being. To raise our whole existence to the Divine Being, to dwell in him ( mayyeva nivasiṣyasi ), to be at one with him, unify our consciousness with his, to make our fragmentary nature a reflection of his perfect nature, to be inspired in our thought ...
... oneness, of equality, of liberated, desireless, God-governed action, of God-knowledge and self-knowledge enlightening and drawing to itself all the nature and all the action, drawing it towards divine being and divine consciousness, and of God-love as the supreme power and crown of the knowledge and the action. The idea of companionship and mutual aid in God-love and God-seeking which is at the basis... their consciousness and taking refuge in him with their whole being, manmayā mām upāśritāḥ , purified by the realising force of their knowledge and delivered from the lower nature, attain to the divine being and divine nature, madbhāvam . The Avatar comes to reveal the divine nature in man above this lower nature and to show what are the divine works, free, unegoistic, disinterested, impersonal, universal ...
... for the seven cosmic principles and their activities, three inferior, the physical, vital and mental, four superior, the divine Truth, the divine Bliss, the divine Will and Consciousness, and the divine Being. On this conception also is founded the ancient idea of the seven worlds in each of which the seven principles are separately active by their various harmonies. This is, obviously, the right si... the sacrifice, the disposal of the offerings to the God and, generally, of the sacrifice or worship itself. The Vedic namas , internal and external obeisance, is the symbol of submission to the divine Being in ourselves and in the world. Here the offering is that of completest submission and the self-surrender of all the faculties of the lower egoistic human nature to the divine Will-force, Agni, so ...
... knowing him in his entirety, samagraṁ mām , that the soul is easily released from the appearances of the lower Nature and returns by a vast sudden growth and broad immeasurable ascension into the divine being and supreme Nature. For the truth of the Kshara too is a truth of the Purushottama. The Purushottama is in the heart of every creature and is manifested in his countless Vibhutis; the Purushottama... form in their nature. Man, to know himself, must be kṛtātmā , formed and complete in the spiritual mould, enlightened in the spiritual vision. The Yogins who have this eye of knowledge, see the Divine Being we are in their own endless reality, their own eternity of spirit. Illumined, they see the Lord in themselves and are delivered from the crude material limitation, from the form of mental personality ...
... at a harmonised totality of spiritual realisation and experience. Its aim is integral experience of the Divine Reality, what the Gita describes in the words samagram mam , "the whole Me" of the Divine Being. Its method is an integral opening of the whole consciousness, mind, heart, life, will, body to that Reality, to the Divine Existence, Consciousness, Beatitude, to its being and its integral tr... universe. All Yoga which takes the soul entirely out of world-existence, is a high but narrow specialisation of divine tapasya. Page 359 God's purpose in us is that we should fulfil His divine being in world-consciousness under the conditions of the Lila. With regard to the universe God manifests Himself triply, in the individual, in the universe, in that which transcends the universe. ...
... explanation. Page 365 Mother, who was this man you have spoken about? Who told you that it was a man? I haven't said whether it was a man or a woman. I took care to put only "a divine being". Who? It is a prehistoric story, so you cannot find any information about it. It isn't written anywhere. There are no written documents. Haven't you any questions to ask on what we read... nobody has an interesting question according to the definition just given...? Page 372 APPENDIX An Old Chaldean Legend Long, long ago, in the dry land which is now Arabia, a divine being incarnated upon earth to awaken in it the supreme love. As expected it was persecuted by men, misunderstood, suspected, pursued. Mortally wounded by its assailants, it wanted to die quietly in solitude ...
... a whole is indispensable for a higher degree of perfection to be realised in the incarnate divine being. It is the necessity of a certain perfection in the environment that compels human beings to progress; it is the inadequacy of this progress, whatever it may be, that drives the divine being to intensify his endeavour for progress in his body. Thus the two movements of progress are simultaneous ...
... her own self. Ramakrishna, the illiterate man from the temple of conventional Kali-worship, was a veritable colossus of mystical experience: in him direct and immediate realisation of the Divine Being reached an intensity and variety which made him a marvellous summing-up of the whole spiritual history of India, with a face carrying the first gleam of a new age of the human soul. He could neither... schooling at all. All that he had was God: he could unite himself Page 2 with the Supreme Omniscience, his heart's home was the Infinite, he lived constantly in the Eternal. The Divine Being and the Divine Force that he called the Mother were a presence with him at all times - from deep within him, from near and far around him, from some absolute transcendence high above. His feelings ...
... old classic poetry; for there it has been sung out by the rapt heart of a woman to the Heart of the Universe. The Tamil word, Alwar, means one who has drowned, lost himself in the sea of the divine being. Among these canonised saints of Southern Vaishnavism ranks Vishnuchitta, Yogin and poet, of Villipattan in the land of the Pandyas. He is termed Peri-alwar, The Great Alwar. A tradition, which... had sung in inspired hymns. Her own poetry — we may suppose that she passed early into the Light towards which she yearned, for it is small in bulk, — is entirely occupied with her passion for the divine Being. It is said that she went through a symbolic marriage with Sri Ranganatha, Vishnu in his temple at Srirangam, and disappeared into the image of her Lord. This tradition probably conceals some actual ...
... y, of a Mantra or a divine name through which the divine being is realised. There are supposed by those who systematise, to be three stages of the seeking through the devotion of the mind, first, the constant hearing of the divine name, qualities and all that has been attached to them, secondly, the constant thinking on them or on the divine being or personality, thirdly, the settling and fixing of ...
... desire; the ego subjects itself to some higher law and finally effaces itself, seems not to exist or exists only to serve a higher Power or a higher Truth or to offer its will and acts to the Divine Being as an instrument.... In the end by this way one arrives at a consciousness in which one feels the Force or Presence acting within and moving or governing all the actions and the personal will... within and moving or governing all the actions and the personal will is entirely surrendered or identified with that greater Truth-Will, Truth-Power or Truth- Presence". (p. 903) Thus, the Divine being the actor of all one's actions and one-self being the joyously interested witness of this divine play, is the nature of the siddhi of this stage of Yoga. 7. Experience of identity with ...
... on of any one person in the Trinity, either the Father, the Son, or the Holy Ghost; but it appeared to be Divine glory. My soul rejoiced with joy unspeakable, to see such a God, such a glorious Divine Being; and I was inwardly pleased and satisfied that he should be God over all for ever and ever. My soul was so captivated and delighted with the excellency of God that I was even swallowed up in him;... autobiography into French:10 "The Science of the Sufis," says the Moslem author, "aims at detaching the heart from all that is not God, and at giving to it for sole occupation the meditation of the divine being. Theory being more easy for me than practice, I read [certain books] until I understood all that can be learned by study and hearsay. Then I recognized that what pertains most exclusively to their ...
... world-knowledge and who is engaged in works as an offering to the Master of self-energising and all-giving sacrifice. That is the path that leads to the state of immortality, the state of union with the divine Being, identity with the Self and oneness with the supreme dynamic divine Nature, and the state of transcendence of the three gunas of lower nature, — the state of trigunātīta, and the state of sādharmyam... Page 77 sacrifice, the knowledge of immutable is ripened and even attained; but there is also an expansion into world- knowledge so as to gain the knowledge of the two natures of the divine being, the higher nature and the lower nature as also a more perfect and integral knowledge of oneness of existence even in diversity and various degrees of the developments that are constantly evolving ...
... supreme Self as the Divine Being, and here the insistence is on devotion; but the knowledge is not subordinated, only raised, vitalised and fulfilled, and still the sacrifice of works continues; the double path becomes the triune way of knowledge, works and devotion. And the fruit of the sacrifice, the one fruit still placed before the seeker, is attained, union with the divine Being and oneness with ...
... process of self- purification directed towards a growth towards the divine contact or for the entrance of the Divine into the temple of the inner being in order that the divine consciousness and divine being is revealed in the shrine of the heart. The process of purification may be only ethical, but at the point where yoga Page 68 begins to appear in its true spirit and form, purification... yoga that aims at highest welfare and solidarity of people. These verses express exhortation of Rishis for building up the future divine man, "Be, first, the mental being, and manifest, then, the divine being", — so is the message of the Veda, — manurbhav, janayā daivyam janam. "Join together, speak one word, let your minds arrive at one knowledge even as the ancient gods arriving at one knowledge ...
... want to hear more and more." He continued : "Well, then, let me refer to the middle six chapters of the Gita, chapters seven to twelve. In these chapters, Gita describes the fullness of the Divine Being and His Divine Nature. The Gita also gives us some broad hints as to whether we can discover the divine nature even in our ordinary lower nature. The Divine Nature operates immanently in the universe... 185 of the Divine. It is the antaratman and its four-fold quality resulting in four-fold personality that takes us to the inexpressible freedom of the Jiva, of the divine Nature and the Divine Being, para prakriti and Purushottama." Vishuddha stopped here and remained silent for quite some time. My mind was greatly satisfied and although I had still a few questions, I did not disturb ...
... aspiration, they need have no notion of a divine existence for that. Aspiration necessarily includes a faith, but it need not be a faith in the divine Being. Prayer, on the other hand, cannot exist unless it is addressed to a divine Being. (6) What to pray unless one prays to some person for something. You pray to someone who can listen to you. If there is none to listen ...
... depths Kindles the first spark of the word born of the churning - One great characteristic of these mystics, particularly the older ones, is the conception of the spiritual or divine being as Page 224 a human being-the soul, "the man there within this man here," is a human person and the human form has a significant charm which none other possesses. The Spirit, the Divine... blazing experience with the Siddhacharyas and the experience continues down to our days. The Siddhacharyas themselves have added a peculiar, rather strange form to the conception. The soul, the inmost divine being is a woman whom one loves and seeks: she is an outcaste maid who dwells beyond the walls of the city; one, that is to say, the conscient being in us, loves her all the more passionately because ...
... great aspiration, they need have no notion of a divine existence for that. Aspiration necessarily includes a faith, but it need not be a faith in the divine Being. Prayer, on the other hand, cannot exist unless it is addressed to a divine Being. Page 114 (6) What to pray unless one prays to some person for something. You pray to someone who can listen to you. If there is ...
... eternity, i.e., immortality. It is this weakness in a thing ephemeral that opens up a secret spring in the human soul. It is a feeling, an elemental feeling that comes naturally perhaps to a humanly divine being, a saint such for example as Buddha. In this case it was named compassion, karuna – one whose being melted in deep sympathy (karuna – karunardra). In the Christian tradition it was called "pieta"... express here – this feeling of union and compassion in an exquisite beauty of expression: it has a tone of human frailty – the frailty with which Shakespeare condemns womanhood but a frailty which a divine being does not disdain to own or accept. It is the wonderful integrator of two, rather twin beats – not the subsumption, fusion or annihilation of either in a super-unity, but a close intermingling of ...
... end of human search of the truth that harmonises and delivers. We discover that the moral nature of the human being is not the last and the highest component; there is, in us, it will be found, a divine being that is spiritual and supra-mental. In that component of our complex nature, it is claimed, is the integrating power; in it the truths of the individual and the collectivity coalesce; there we discover... towards perfection, the search after pure Truth and unmixed Bliss, and sense of a secret Immortality. This aspiration, when analysed in fullness, can be said to be the urge to know, possess and be the divine being in an animal and egoistic consciousness, to convert our twilight or obscure physical mentality into the plenary supramental illumination, to build peace and a self-existent bliss where there is ...
... against them courageously, and in a state of faithfulness and total devotion to the service with full loyalty and fidelity in the service of the Divine. It is the total and sincere surrender to the divine Being, divine consciousness and power, that is required as the condition under which the highest supramental Force can descend, and as Sri Aurobindo states: "... it is only the very highest supramental... from below manifests itself as a turning of the seeker from the egoistic state of consciousness absorbed in the outer appearance and attraction of things to a higher state in which the Supreme Divine Being, — the Transcendental and Universal Page 79 Being, —can pour itself into the individual mould and transform it. This implies the intensity of the turning and personal effort of the ...
... squeeze out true delight and immortality. This is possible only after one has invoked Indra, the Lord the senses and the presiding deity of the pure intellect. When the mind has become pure, when the Divine Being Within it has awakened, the aspirant’s delight gets satisfaction no longer in the little imperfect pleasures of the material world. The ecstasy of the divinised mind is surcharged with the divine... faithfully all the way in order to go ahead. It will not do for an aspirant to make an effort to pull the power from above, himself remaining below. He has to raise himself. He has to look upon the Divine Being that resides in Indra, the deity of knowledge, in the pure mind, and according to the inspiration and guidance of the Being the aspirant has to proceed. When we shall be fully Prepared for the ...
... these poets, the household of the in-laws represents the confines of the ordinary ignorant consciousness; into these, confines has been introduced and kept imprisoned the inner Deity who is the Divine Being and Cherished Godhead. That is why the poet urges in tones of thunder: Give a good beating and make a clean sweep of all the in-laws, the father, the mother, the sister and the sister-in-law of... vehicle of his life and mind. Its ancient master and mistress have to be displaced, it has to be made neat and clean, and there you have to set up your Cherished Goddess, your innermost Self, the Divine Being – the Buddhists call her by another name, the Godhead of the Nihil or Non-Self. There is another thing that we find interesting here. Even in those days the condition of the ordinary Bengali ...
... the reader is gripped,—if he can enter into the Seer's vision—and he is anxious to know how Savitri is going to meet Yama, the god of Death. To show how Savitri came to be constituted as a "half-divine" being even in her external being the Seer rightly pursues the thread of her birth and explains to us how "a world's desire compelled her mortal birth". This brings us to the character of Aswapathy, her... universe—is for habitation by the Lord". The world becomes a holy place when we enter into this vision. It is the same truth we find in the expression of the Gītā: "All is Vasudeva,—the Divine Being"— "Vāsudevah Sarvam." Take another passage from the Iśa reconciling the Static and the Dynamic aspects of the ultimate Reality in a powerful image: "That moves, and That ...
... marvels at her human beauty. It is the height of our world's literature, I think. Nowhere is there something that can come near it. It is the description or the appreciation of human beauty by a divine being, and you must read it in order to see. Savitri was approaching; Narada saw her and Page 12 He cried to her, "Who is this that comes, the bride, The flame-born, and... Its chequered eager motion of pursuit, Its fluttering-hued illusion of desire, Visited her heart like a sweet alien note. Sri Aurobindo is not discussing Savitri only as a divine being. And then he says: A magic leverage suddenly is caught That moves the veiled Ineffable's timeless will: A prayer, a master act, a king idea Can link man's strength to a transcendent ...
... Force and Bliss and the creative medium of Supermind into cosmic being; we ascend from matter through a developing life, soul and mind and the illuminating medium of Supermind towards the divine being. The knot of the two, the higher and the lower hemisphere, is where mind and Supermind meet with a veil between them. The rending of the veil is the condition of the divine life in humanity; for... soul (behind the egoistic desire-self), secondly, the awareness of the kinship of our self with the self of all beings (these too being portions of the Divine), and, finally, an awareness of the Divine Being by identity with it, seeing in it the Divine within, the universe Self and the transcendent Divine. This difficult evolutionary process of Becoming, which is going on anyhow, can however he accelerated ...
... Brihaspati, saptagum , has to be confirmed or held in thought in the waters, the seven rivers, that is to say the seven forms of divine consciousness are to be held in the seven forms or movements of divine being; dhiyaṁ vo apsu dadhiṣe svarṣām , I hold the Swar-conquering thought in the waters. That the making visible of Swar to the eyes of the Swar seers, svardṛśaḥ , their drinking of the honeyed... worlds of the crookedness," upahvare yad uparā apinvan madhvarṇaso nadyaś catasraḥ . This is again the honey-streaming well pouring down its many streams together; the four higher rivers of the divine being, divine conscious force, divine delight, divine truth nourishing the two worlds of the mind and body into which they descend with their floods of sweetness. These two, the Rodasi, are normally worlds ...
... has now the central secret? He will have first the knowledge of the unity of existence and the regarding eye of that knowledge. He will see all around him as souls and forms and powers of the one divine Being. Henceforward that vision will be the starting-point of all the inward and outward operations of his consciousness; it will be the fundamental seeing, the spiritual basis of all his actions. He... force of delight, can result in an explosion which breaks the shell of the lower formulation and liberates the energy from its separative action into union with the infinite freedom and power of the divine Being. A highest Godward tension liberates the mind through an absolute seeing of knowledge, liberates the heart through an absolute love and delight, liberates the whole existence through an absolute ...
... way men shall follow. That is why each Incarnation holds before men his own example and declares of himself that he is the way and the gate; he declares too the oneness of his humanity with the divine being, declares that the Son of Man and the Father above from whom he has descended are one, that Krishna in the human body, mānuṣīṁ tanum āśritam , and the supreme Lord and Friend of all creatures... Nature is and can be nothing else than a power of the divine consciousness; all beings are and can be nothing else than inner and outer, subjective and objective soul-forms and bodily forms of the divine being which exist in or result from the power of its consciousness. Far from the Infinite being unable to take on finiteness, the whole universe is nothing else but that; we can see, look as we may, nothing ...
... mutable is Nature, svabhāva , it is the various becoming of the soul; the Purusha here is the multiplicity of the divine Being; it is the Purusha multiple not apart from, but in Prakriti. Akshara, the immobile, the immutable, is the silent and inactive self, it is the unity of the divine Being, Witness of Nature, but not involved in its movement; it is the inactive Purusha free from Prakriti and her works ...
... Soul of things and it is the spiritual principle of the mobile working of things, Purusha poised in himself and Purusha active in Prakriti; it is akṣara and kṣara . In both of these aspects the Divine Being, Purushottama, manifests himself in the universe; the immutable above all qualities is His poise of peace, self-possession, equality, samaṁ brahma ; from that proceeds His manifestation in the... typified in the dependence of rain and its product food on this working and on them the physical birth of creatures. For all the working of Prakriti is in its true nature a sacrifice, yajña , with the Divine Being as the enjoyer of all energisms and works and sacrifice and the great Lord of all existences, bhoktāraṁ yajñatapasāṁ sarvaloka-maheśvaram , and to know this Divine all-pervading and established ...
... presence of these forces is a test and the world that has to be changed being what it is and their Page 642 nature being what it is, it could not be otherwise. I believe that each divine being has a hostile being associated with it for some unknown purpose in the Asrama. It is not only in the Asram but everywhere that it is like that. It is a well-known principle of all occult knowledge... transform the Asuras—I am only asking them to reject them. I spoke of having seen and heard someone who showed me how he had organised, in the being of every sadhak here, a "dark being" veiling his "divine being". I do not know what you mean by this someone. The existence of a double being is a preexistent fact, it has not been organised by anyone here. I am not aware that the condition of anyone ...
... aspiration for progress, and they don't even need any idea of a divine existence for that. Aspiration necessarily implies a faith but not necessarily faith in a divine being; whilst prayer cannot exist if it is not addressed to a divine being. And pray to what? One does not pray to Page 142 something that has no personality! One prays to someone who can hear us. If there is nobody to hear ...
... even if our action still proceeds in the dynamics of the Ignorance, it no longer binds or misleads because our inner being is seated in the light of self-knowledge. The third step is to know the Divine Being who is at once our supreme transcendent Self, the Cosmic Being, foundation of our universality, and the Divinity within of which our psychic being, the true evolving individual in our nature, is... the one Self, Brahman, Divine, first above the body, life, mind and not only within the heart supporting them—above and free and unattached as the static Self in all and dynamic too as the active Divine Being and Power, Ishwara-Shakti, containing the world and pervading it as well as transcending it, manifesting all cosmic aspects. But what is most important for us is that it manifests as a transcending ...
... status of existence as final. The animal is a laboratory in which Nature has worked out man; man may very well be a laboratory in which she wills to work out superman, to disclose the soul as a divine being, to evolve a divine nature. Shorter Synopsis of the Chapter Man's highest aspiration has been always a seeking for God, perfection, freedom, an absolute truth and bliss, immortality. A... living body would be its complete solution. The accordance of immortal spirit with a mortal mind, life and body is her third and final problem; its complete solution would be the evolution of a divine being and a divine nature. As Nature has implanted the impulse to life in matter, to mind in life, so she has implanted in mind the impulse towards the evolution of what is beyond mind, spiritual, ...
... undifferentiated Prakriti, sushupta Purusha, Sunyam Brahma (Nihil), etc or in loss of the world self in Parabrahman or in Page 356 universalisation of the waking self & the joy of God's divine being in & beyond the world, Amritam. The last is the goal proposed for man by the Isha Upanishad. The waking ego, identifying the Jiva with its bodily, vital & mental experiences which are part of... all-blissful & luminous nature of the higher kingdom upon the lower is the object of the Seer in the Isha Upanishad. This liberation is to be effected by dissolving the waking ego into the Lord's divine being and experiencing entirely our unity with all other existences & with Him who is God, Atman & Brahman. All individual existences are jagat in jagati, object of motion in stream of motion & obey ...
... atoms in constant movement with regard to [each] other. But the movement here contemplated is not, as we see in the fifth verse, tad ejati & the eighth verse, sa paryagat, movement of matter, but of divine being & conscious force of which matter is only an appearance. But for the present, the Rishi is content to envisage the world as a world of motion & multitude. In essence the kshobha or formative movement... feels not concealed or subliminal, but manifest & always present to him, the Bright, Calm, Unconcerned, Unbound, Unrelated Divine Existence. This Pure Existence is not only an impersonal state of divine being, it is God Himself in His pure personality. For in all the divine manifestation, there is always this double aspect of Personality & Impersonality. God Impersonal manifests Himself, both in the ...
... something which is its opposite,—either for some pure state of the Spirit or else for some world of the Truth of things, if such exists, or other worlds, if such exist, of divine Bliss, divine Energy, divine Being? In that case the perfection of humanity is elsewhere than in humanity itself; the summit of its earthly evolution can only be a fine apex of dissolving mentality whence it takes the great leap... the Truth and not Page 183 of the perversity. They will be the straight things and not the crooked, to use the expressive distinction of the Vedic Rishis,—Truths, that is to say, of divine being with its self-possessive consciousness, will and delight moving harmoniously in itself. Now we have rather the warped and zigzag movement of mind and life, the contortions created by the struggle ...
... control, this is the source of all. Mandukya Upanishad. (Verses 5, 6.) We have to regard therefore this all-containing, all-originating, all-consummating Supermind as the nature of the Divine Being, not indeed in its absolute self-existence, but in its action as the Lord and Creator of its own worlds. This is the truth of that which we call God. Obviously this is not the too personal and limited... consciousness is born. In each form this Soul dwells with his Nature and observes himself in other forms from that artificial and practical centre of consciousness. In all it is the same Soul, the same divine Being; the multiplication of centres is only a practical act of consciousness intended to institute a play of difference, of mutuality, mutual knowledge, mutual shock of force, mutual enjoyment, a difference ...
... motion, inequality, want of balance, unstable strife of the gunas; but when these unequal gunas fall into perfect equilibrium, all action of Nature ceases and the soul rests in its quietude. The divine Being, we may say, may either exist in his silence or act in Nature through her instrumentation, but in that case must Page 688 put on the appearance of her strife and imperfection. That may... but the same perfect power of being, śakti , capable of an infinite, imperturbable and blissful action. Sattwa becomes not the modified mental light, prakāśa , but the self-existent light of the divine being, jyotiḥ , which is the soul of the perfect power of being and illumines in their unity the divine quietude and the divine will of action. The ordinary liberation gets the still divine light in ...
... possible. Purification and freedom are the indispensable antecedents of perfection. A spiritual self-perfection can only mean a growing into oneness with the nature of divine being, and therefore according to our conception of divine being will be the aim, effort and method of our seeking after this perfection. To the Mayavadin the highest or rather the only real truth of being is the impassive, impersonal ...
... the passions, and so prepare for the death of egoism in the rajasic human being. The niyamas are equally a discipline of the mind by regular practices of which the highest is meditation on the divine Being, and their object is to create a sattwic calm, purity and preparation for concentration upon which the secure pursuance of the rest of the Yoga can be founded. It is here, when this foundation... it is lost to all outward mental activity in the oneness of Samadhi. The real object of this mental discipline is to draw away the mind from the outward and the mental world into union with the divine Being. Therefore in the first three stages use has to be made of some mental means or support by which the mind, accustomed to run about from object to object, shall fix on one alone, and that one must ...
... true and spontaneous spiritual order. "Abandon all dharmas, all standards and rules of being and action, and take refuge in Me alone", is the summit rule of the highest existence held up by the Divine Being to the seeker. In the seeking for this freedom, in the liberation from constructed law into law of self and spirit, in the casting away of the mental control in order to substitute for it the control... tation, for the joy of the powers of the Infinite. In the intermediate stages or degrees of the gnosis there might be the manifestation of various and separate expressions of the aspects of the divine Being and Nature, a soul and life of love, a soul and life of divine light and knowledge, a soul and life of divine power and sovereign action and creation, and innumerable other forms of divine life; ...
... Mother Alone Beyond Man Chapter Twenty-two: Making Possible the Impossible By what alchemy shall this lead of immortality be turned into that gold of divine Being? 1 — Sri Aurobindo The Mother played her last game of tennis only a few days before she withdrew. She had started playing tennis — ‘my passion’ — at the age of eight; she was now... following description of the mantra : ‘The Mantra is the highest spiritual poetry: it is the Divine, as it were, expressing Himself directly, not through any other medium of consciousness. The Divine Being, getting embodied in words on the very plane of the Divine Himself: that is the Mantra. It is the Word from the Overmind, the Supermind’s delegate that has been the governing Power of the universe ...
... Sri Aurobindo's Philosophy And Yoga - Some Aspects The Divine Being - Spirit And Matter I had earlier written something of the nature of the Divine Being and His manifestations in myriads names and forms which constitute our Universe. Now, the mystery is how and why should the One Divine be manifested or manifest Himself into the 'Many instead of remaining ...
... Gospels about him... Paul is interested in the exalted Lord..." The difference, however, between the Valentinians and Paul is that the former took the historical Jesus to be just a vehicle for a Divine Being who entered him at his baptism by John and left him during the crucifixion, whereas to Paul Jesus was himself the pre-existent Son of God and Jesus himself was raised from the dead after the crucifixion... suggestion either that the Page 195 crucified Jesus did not die but was directly exalted or that he died irrecoverably and what survived to make after-death appearances was a divine being who had emerged from the casing of the mortal body it had put on for a time. Paul's lack of knowledge of the incidents the four Gospels narrate stands out. All he had to his hand was the teaching ...
... mould, that she is described in her own divine terms with phrases such as Page 393 "deathless," "conscious wideness and bliss," and "undying rapture." But she is a divine being imprisoned in a human form, and this is reflected in the juxtaposition of images on both sides of the World/ Spirit and Darkness/Light lines in the imagery diagram. The technique of delaying any... In vain now seemed the splendid sacrifice. {T} The next thematic unit describes Savitri's birth as a "splendid sacrifice", She has given herself entirely to save the world, to implant her divine being in human soil, to overcome pain, suffering, and death for mankind. This theme is developed with several relevant expressions: "her rich divinity...she had lent to men", "eternal's touch", "heaven's ...
... the power of its being be excised and why at all should we desire or labour to excise it? We should then only diminish the scope of our unity with it by an exclusive concentration accepting the divine being but not accepting our part in the power and consciousness and infinite delight of the Divine. It would in fact be the individual seeking peace and rest of union in a motionless identity, but ... limited mind is to stand away from ourselves, to be unpossessed of our true individuality, to be the apparent and not the real individual; it is our power of ignorance. To be taken up into the divine Being and be aware of our spiritual, infinite and universal consciousness as that in which we now live, is to possess our supreme and integral self, our true individuality; it is our power of self-knowledge ...
... as the Divine Being, and here the "insistence is on devotion; but the knowledge is not subordinated, only raised, vitalised and fulfilled, and still the sacrifice of works continues; the double path becomes the triune way of knowledge, works and Page 167 devotion. And the fruit of the sacrifice, the one fruit still placed before the seeker, is attained, union with the divine Being and oneness ...
... to what we may call the historic representations of the Divine Being. The remarks in a previous chapter about the relation of a Philosophy of Religion to a particular religion hold, of course, in regard to the conception of God in such a religion. A religious philosophy, though in the end it may lend support to a historic idea of the Divine Being, cannot, to begin with, select any historic idea of Deity ...
... vision and experience and is not merely the brilliant product of a speculative mind. Now, this integral vision of world-existence and self-existence views "our existence here as a Becoming with the Divine Being for its origin and its object, a progressive manifestation, a spiritual evolution with the supracosmic for its source and support, the other-worldly for a condition and connecting link and the... imperfection is the sign of a transitional state, a growth not yet completed, an effort that is finding its way; a consummation in a deployment of the spirit's self-knowledge and the self-power of its divine being and consciousness is the culmination: these are the three stages of the cycle of the spirit's progressive self-expression in life. The two stages that have already their play seem at first sight ...
... depths Kindles the first spark of the word born of the churning— One great characteristic of these mystics, particularly the older ones, is the conception of the spiritual or divine being as a human being—the soul, "the man there within this man here," is a human person and the human form has a significant charm which none other possesses The Spirit, the Divine individualised and... experience with the Siddhacharyas and the experience continues down to our days. The Siddhacharyas themselves have added a peculiar, rather strange form to the conception. The soul, the inmost divine being is a woman whom one loves and seeks: she is an outcaste maid who dwells beyond the walls of the city; one, that is to say, the conscient being in us, loves her all the more passionately because ...
... be negatived. Divine Consciousness, Divine Delight, Divine Power, indeed, Divine Being—they each and all exist as absolute and unitary realities, that is to say, one without a second. Even like Divine Love, there is only one Divine Consciousness, one Divine Power, one Divine Bliss, one Divine Page 133 Being, however various they may appear in outward name and form. But the physical ...
... and can never be negatived. Divine Consciousness, Divine Delight, Divine Power, indeed, Divine Being – they each and all exist as absolute and unitary realities, that is to say, one without a second. Even like Divine Love, there is only one Divine Consciousness, one Divine Power, one Divine Bliss, one Divine Being, however various they may appear in outward name and form. But the physical consciousness ...
... because it is not articulate and in the open. The aboriginal is that which harbours in the womb the original being. That is the Inconscient Godhead, the Divinity in pain - Mater Dolorosa - the Divine Being who lost himself totally when transmuted into Matter. Many years later, the Mother gave on 1st January as the Message for 1956 a declaration that was somewhat puzzling at the time: ... fulfilled are good character, good conduct, honest, regular and efficient work, and a general goodwill. 39 It was also in 1954 that the Mother shared with others her great "Dream" of the Life Divine being actually lived upon the earth: There should be somewhere on earth a place which no nation could claim as its own, where all human beings of good will who have a sincere aspiration could ...
... worm is seen only as a worm but the vision of one who has attained the higher consciousness sees in the 'worm' the evolution of a divine being after a long time. The worm is not an isolated item of the universe, it is a link in a long chain in which the Divine Being would find its place. Even the events that take place change their values to man in course of time. Take the French Revolution ...
... satisfied in itself, not asking or aspiring for anything else, for self-exceeding of any kind. That aspiration, on the contrary, is self-imposed on the imperfection of Earth; the very fact of the Divine being there, but suppressed in its phenomenal opposites, compels an effort to arrive at the unveiled Divine—by ascent, but also by a descent of the Divine Perfection for evolutionary manifestation here ...
... glorious emancipation and death into the seed of a splendid and beneficent life. He can refuse to allow the tortures of the body to affect the calm and illumined strength of his soul where it sits, a Divine Being in the white radiance of its own self-existent bliss, rejoicing in all the glorious manifestations of its Will, rejoicing in its pleasures, rejoicing in its anguish, rejoicing in victory, rejoicing ...
... without feature,—it contains enveloped in itself all truth of feature, all power of motion, all that ever was, is or shall be manifested in this or any universe. Page 182 But the supreme divine Being is beyond any distinction of pure existence and phenomenal existence, feature or no feature, form or no form, being or non-being, manifestation and the unmanifest—for these are distinctions, separate ...
... ousness was established here on its own sure foundation, the evolution of divine life would be a progress in felicity, a march through light to Ananda. Supermind is an eternal reality of the divine Being and the divine Nature. In its own plane it already and always exists and possesses its own essential law of being; it has not to be created or to emerge or evolve into existence out of involution ...
... sometimes he renders it simply "god", sometimes he gives it some root value, दान, देवन, sometimes he makes it mean the priest. There is not a single passage in the Veda where the ordinary sense "god", "divine being" does not give a clear and sufficient & the best sense. No doubt, the Vedic poets never left out of sight its root meaning; the gods are the Shining Ones, the Lords of Light as are the Dasyus the ...
... of divine & undivided being (Sat) which regards itself as one in all things & the multiplicity of minds, lives & bodies as only a varied motion of its own divine Page 454 unity. This divine being, force & bliss constitute the higher part of man's being centred in the principle of Ananda; they represent the direct, unveiled and unperverted action of the free & blissful Sacchidananda. To this ...
... remained in both systems the same, the truth of the One in many aspects. The Trinity is a triple form of the one supreme Godhead and Brahman; the Shaktis are energies of the one Energy of the highest divine Being. But this greatest religious truth was no longer reserved for the initiated few; it was now more and more brought powerfully, widely and Page 210 intensely home to the general mind and ...
... renunciation as a way of spiritual salvation. And yet it goes boldly beyond all these conflicting positions; greatly daring, it justifies all life to the spirit as a significant manifestation of the one Divine Being and asserts the compatibility of a complete human action and a complete spiritual life lived in union with the Infinite, consonant with the highest Self, expressive of the perfect Godhead. All ...
... Conscious Being. There is nothing beyond the Being,—that is the extreme ultimate, that the supreme goal. Katha Upanishad. (I. 3. 10, 11.) Rare is the great of soul to whom all is the Divine Being. Gita. (vāsudevaḥ sarvamiti, VII. 19.) A consciousness-force, everywhere inherent in Existence, acting even when concealed, is the creator of the worlds, the occult secret of Nature ...
... multitude of the beings we will have engendered. Page 48 Once again, their number and their ubiquity will be the most manifest signs of new times. If there were to be but a single divine being incarnating among us, and even were his stature to greatly surpass that of our greatest avatars, one could not really speak of a new phase in the history of evolution. We would receive a new spiritual ...
... yet save for the effect produced by the sound and the meaning of the words "awful" and "yawn" we miss the cosmic unfathomable reverberations Sri Aurobindo induces in some concealed spaciousness of divine being. Technically we might say that the second line in Thompson fails to be overhead because of the crowdedly repetitive clipped sounds "till" and "did" and "build". The overhead rhythm needs a different ...
... we did once know Christ in flesh, that is not how we know him now... there is a new creation; the old creation has gone..." (2 Corinthians 5:16-17). What appeared from the dead mortal body was a divine being, the Messiah, who had descended into the body at baptism by John. Sethna shows that there is no evidence of any rock-hewn tomb in a garden as described in Mark/ Luke nor of Joseph of Arimathaea ...
... that is easily anywhere in the universe is the triune principle of Sachchidananda: it is a transcendent and infinite and absolute Existence-Consciousness-Bliss which is the very nature of the divine Being. Thus Sachchidananda is the One with a triple aspect of functioning differently in three statuses. In the Supreme the three are not three but one. Existence, Consciousness and ...
... sense to a certain "taste" in things. Page 414 Rig Veda — the most ancient of the sacred books of India. Rishi — a seer. Sachchidananda (Sat-Chit-Ananda) —the One Divine Being with a triple aspect of Existence (Sat), Consciousness (Chit) and Delight (Ananda). Sadhana — the practice of yoga. śama — the divine quiet, peace, rest. Samadhi —yogic ...
... Jnani is ever absorbed in contemplation of the omnipresent Reality, while the Rishi does Tapas on the Truth-existent and takes a new birth in its spiritual fire; the Yogi gathers himself into the Divine Being, the Giver of Siddhis, Siddheshwar, and remains in its perfection. The One in the mode of the Many establishes as many contacts in the creative manifestation of his delight. Each is a soul-relationship ...
... Reality, its position of silent status and rest and its position of action and dynamic force; a silence of eternal rest and peace supports an eternal action and movement. The one Reality, the Divine Being, is bound by neither, since it is in no way limited; it possesses both. There is no incompatibility between the two, as there is none between the Many and the One, the sameness and the difference ...
... sanction for the ethical motive and discipline, Dharma; that becomes its chief social utility, and for the rest it takes a more and more otherworldly turn. The idea of the direct expression of the divine Being or cosmic Principle in man ceases to dominate or to be the leader and in the forefront; it recedes, stands in the background and finally disappears from the practice and in the end even from the ...
... his God Fallen Angels For centuries “the devil” was one of the most feared presences in European civilization. Learned studies describe how this anti-divine being from the nether worlds originated in Chaldean Mesopotamia. The European imagination represented it as a repulsive replica of the great god Pan. The childishness of this representation was one of ...
... spirit has no understanding for such wisdom and condemns it with supercilious disdain. For those acquainted with Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s view of things it will have become clear that the divine Being witnessed by the Gnostics, the Kabbalists, and even in several of the most ancient mysteries, must either be what Sri Aurobindo called the Supermind or something closely related it. Every kind of ...
... broadening and deepening the destiny of humankind, is the task of the Avatar. In Sri Aurobindo’s words: “The Avatar is one who comes to open the Way for humanity to a higher consciousness. … The Divine being all-powerful can lift people up without bothering to come down on earth. It is only if it is a part of the world-arrangement that he should take upon himself the burden of humanity and open the ...
... divine glory far beyond our understanding and imagination. As is Supermind. “We have to regard therefore this all-containing, all-originating, all-consummating Supermind as the nature of the Divine Being, not indeed in its absolute self-existence, but in its action as the Lord and Creator of its own worlds. This is the truth of that which we call God. Obviously this is not the too personal and limited ...
... The language is dense and abstract, but the implications are enormous. A complete change of the body and its organs far beyond our imagination is of course necessary to constitute a supramental, divine being. “If a total transformation of the being is our aim, a transformation of the body must be an indispensable part of it; without that no full divine life on earth is possible.” 8 Otherwise how ...
... word, a label covering by definition something of which we can have no idea. “We have to regard therefore this all-containing, all-originating, all-consummating Supermind as the nature of the Divine Being, not indeed in its absolute self-existence, but in its action as the Lord and Creator of the worlds. This is the truth of that which we call God. Obviously, this is not the too personal and limited ...
... this Love that is the driving force of the development of the world, of its evolution on the way back, or up, to its divinization. And as all forces are beings and all beings forces, this Love is a divine Being ever present at the core of the manifestation, which some call ‘creation.’ It is this Being who incarnates in what in India are called the Avatars, the series of direct divine interventions in ...
... consciousness, quite as much awake as the waking mind, but awake in a different plane of experience. As for the dream of the cobra, it could be taken as an answer to your own plaints against the Divine being grim and solemn and refusing to play and your remark that if you could have the faith that the troubles were a part of the Divine plan leading you through them to the Divine, you would be more at ...
... Consciousness and its Force into the body. This descent is felt as a pouring in of calm and peace, of force and power, of light, of joy and ecstasy, of wideness and freedom and knowledge, of a Divine Being or a Presence—sometimes one of these, sometimes many of them or all together. The movement of ascension has different results: it may liberate the consciousness so that one feels no longer in the ...
... on appears very clearly from all the account about him and even, if what is related about the appearance of Krishna in him from time to time is accepted, these outbursts of the splendour of the Divine Being are among the most remarkable in the story of the Avatar. As for Sri Ramakrishna, the manifestation in him was not so intense but more many-sided and fortunately there can be no doubt about the ...
... appears very clearly from all the accounts about him and even, if what is related about the appearance of Krishna in him from time to time is accepted, these outbursts of the splendour of the Divine Being are among the most remarkable in the story of the Avatar. As for Sri Ramakrishna, the manifestation in him was not so intense but more many-sided and fortunately there can be no doubt about the ...
... complete rest instead of the anticipated drowse a profound tranquillity and inner awakening took place which seemed to look Wordsworthianly into the heart of things and felt the whole universe as a Divine Being, charging even the most ordinary physical objects like the tables and chairs of my room with a wonderful spiritual presence. Towards nightfall I read several parts of Sri Aurobindo's Savitri ...
... physical atoms, however much we may endow them with attraction and repulsion, was to accept a more impossible miracle than to accept a non-material or spiritual origin for the physical universe — a Divine Being hidden within or behind phenomena and gradually manifesting itself as Matter, as Life, as Mind and pushing towards Supermind through even an Age of Atheism and Materialism. Indeed, the scientists ...
... the human-looking Mother we have known in the Ashram as our Guru and this "aroma" emanates from a small centre which is myself deep within, a centre held in the arms, as it were, of the same human-divine being - at once infinite and finite - towards whom and into whom the self-offering flows. I think what is happening covers all the alternatives you draw my attention to, including the movement of aspiration ...
... last two words - "in me" (en emoi in the original Greek) -suggest an inward revelation, as though Christ's "appearance" was witnessed in a trance or in some sort of communion with an indwelling divine being. In the Epistles the "appearance" is not said to be the occasion for the mandate to preach to the non-Jews. Here, contrary to what Acts conveys, the two events seem likely to be distinct ...
... way men shall follow. That is why each Incarnation holds before men his own example and declares of himself that he is the way and the gate; he declares too the oneness of his humanity with the divine being, declares that the Son of Man and the Father above from whom he has descended are one, that Krishna in the human body... and the supreme Lord and Friend of all creatures are but two revelations ...
... put out and brought into play once more. But also the detaining thread of connection can be severed or loosened and that which came forth as an emanation can proceed on its way as an independent divine being with its own play in the world. All the Gods can put forth such emanations from their being, identical with them in essence of consciousness and power though not commensurate. In a certain sense ...
... whole evolutionary process by which the Spirit in Nature creates a higher type of being. Each step could mean a pace, however distant from the goal, or a close approach leading to a larger and more divine being, a larger and more divine force and consciousness, knowledge and will, sense of existence and delight in existence; there could be an initial unfolding towards the divine life. All religion, all ...
... meaning or reason for existence: the Infinite too, while it possesses its delight of limitless being, finds also the joy of that very limitlessness in its infinite self-definition in the universe. The Divine Being is not incapable of taking innumerable forms because He is beyond all form in His essence, nor by assuming them does He lose His divinity, but pours out rather in them the delight of His being and ...
... the power of its being be excised and why at all should we desire or labour to excise it? We should then only diminish the scope of our unity with it by an exclusive concentration accepting the divine being but not accepting our part in the power and consciousness and infinite delight of the Divine. It would in fact be the individual seeking peace and rest of union in a motionless identity, but rejecting ...
... beyond them on all the aspects of the Divine, he exceeds both and fulfils them in that exceeding: he possesses the Divine in his being, even as he is enveloped, penetrated, pervaded, possessed by the Divine Being, Consciousness, Light, Power, Delight, Knowledge; he possesses God in himself and God in the universe. The All-Knowledge justifies to him its creation of himself and justifies by him perfected its ...
... individual, but also more widely as the same being in all and as the Self of the cosmos; it has also a self-existence above the individual and cosmos and it is then called the Paramatma, the supreme Divine Being. This distinction has nothing to do with the distinction between the psychic and the vital; the vital being is not what is known as the Atma. The vital as the desire-soul and desire-nature controls ...
... representative constructions of the mind that cannot embody the divine spirit which they vainly endeavour to imprison in their categorical formulas. Beyond the mental and moral being in us is a greater divine being that is spiritual and supramental; for it is only through a large spiritual plane where the mind's formulas dissolve in a white flame of direct inner experience that we can reach beyond mind and ...
... status of being which is absolute becomes dynamic in a truth of energy and activity of the being which is self-existent and perfect. Every movement there is a movement of the self-aware truth of Divine Being and every part is in entire harmony with the whole. Even the most limited and finite action is in the Truth-Consciousness a movement of the Eternal and Infinite and partakes of the inherent absoluteness ...
... Purusha is all this that is, what has been and what is yet to be; he is the master of Immortality and he is whatever grows by food. Swetaswatara Upanishad. (III. 15.) All is the Divine Being. Gita. (VII. 19.) But so far we have only cleared a part of the foreground of the field of inquiry; in the background the problem remains unsolved and entire. It is the problem ...
... that makes the native working of the spiritual being. It accepts human life, but takes account of the large supraterrestrial action behind the earthly material living, and it joins itself to the divine Being from whom the supreme origination of all these partial and lower states proceeds so that the whole of life may become aware of its divine source and feel in each action of knowledge, of will, of ...
... because in this way God expends the power of his being and in his powers and their signs we find him, because the divine Will in works is the out-flowing of the Godhead in the delight of its power, of divine Being in the delight of divine Force. He will feel perfect joy in the works and acts of the Beloved, because in them too he finds the Beloved; he will himself do all works because through those works ...
... of the cosmos as the principle of Conscious-Force manifests and uses Life for its cosmic term and the principle of Supermind manifests and uses Mind? We have distinguished a fourfold principle of divine Being creative of the universe,—Existence, Conscious-Force, Bliss and Supermind. Supermind, we have seen, is omnipresent in the material cosmos, but veiled; it is behind the actual phenomenon of things ...
... this, advances that other, but according to its own preconceiving Idea-Will. This is the justification of the current religious notions of the omnipresence, omniscience and omnipotence of the Divine Being. Far from being an irrational imagination they are perfectly rational and in no way contradict either the logic of a comprehensive philosophy or the indications of observation and experience. The ...
... g all beings, accepts their adoration, even as He accepts their works of aspiration and their seekings of knowledge, leans down to them and drawing them to Himself takes all into the joy of His divine being. Knowing Him as our divine Self, we become one with Him, as the lover and beloved become one, in the ecstasy of that embrace. Knowing Him too in all beings, perceiving the glory and beauty and joy ...
... ego for an egoistic satisfaction. In the Vijnana they are neither occult nor siddhis, but the open, unforced and normal play of its nature. The Vijnana is the Truth-power and Truth-action of the divine Being in its divine identities, and, when this acts through the individual lifted to the gnostic plane, it fulfils itself unperverted, without fault or egoistic reaction, without diversion from the possession ...
... that which becometh). सुरत्नः or else, perfect in light. But Savitri in this verse is not the Sun, see l. 2, or not the Sun in his light-giving aspect, but the creator, the bringer out, from the divine being, of its human manifestations, नर्या पुरूणि . नर्या or mightinesses. भूम hardly here the earth. Lit. “becoming”, so “abundant [or] full becoming”. (2) Loose & wide his arms of the bright-golden ...
... essential energies. They are called respectively Bhur, Bhuvar, Swar, Mahas and Jana or Mayas. × Divine Being, Consciousness, Bliss,—Sachchidananda. × Aditi, the infinite Consciousness, Mother of the worlds ...
... Or, stranger. × The two epithets are intended to give the two sides of the divine being, all-knowledge and all-power; māyām āsurasya śutasya . Man divinising himself has to become in the image of the godhead seer and king. ...
... ask the prophets—What?—I suppose you have had relations—Then? One of those who prepare, but are not prepared—Oh, let him do his own work, he does it well. Do not try to give men more part than the Divine Being has given them—That would do him harm, to try to make him more than himself—Friendship is blind—Love, but do not govern your actions by a partial affection—I was going Page 1401 to say ...
... fourth object is to enjoy God in all beings, in all things and in all that happens. Since the Life is to be Divine there must be siddhi or Perfection of the Being. The difference between the Divine Being and Divine Life and ours is that we are in the limited ego, confined to our own physical and mental experiences while that is beyond ego infinite eternal and all-embracing. Page 1463 ...
... to attain to all knowledge and result which other ways acquire, while yet one is not limited by any aspect, though one finds the truth of him in all aspects. This movement embraces all forms of divine being on its way to the supreme Purushottama. 8 This absolute self-giving, this one-minded surrender is the devotion which the Gita makes the crown of its synthesis. All action and effort are by ...
... since all his acts proceed from the One in him and to the One in all they are directed. The equality of the Gita is a large synthetic equality in which all is lifted up into the integrality of the divine being and the divine nature. Page 199 × Dhīras tatra na muhyati , says the Gita; the strong and wise soul is ...
... a perfect inner joy and peace which depends upon nothing in the world for its source or its continuance; it is innate, it is the very stuff of the soul's consciousness, it is the very nature of divine being. The ordinary man depends upon outward things for his happiness; therefore he has desire; therefore he has anger and passion, pleasure and pain, joy and grief; therefore he measures all things in ...
... us but now superconscient to us, called heaven by the ancient mystics, the Lord and the Jiva stand together revealed as of one essence of being, the Father and the Son of certain symbolisms, the Divine Being and the divine Man who comes forth from Him born of the higher divine Nature, 1 the virgin Mother, parā prakṛti, parā Page 162 māyā, into the lower or human nature. This seems ...
... think and act, feel and respond to the touches of existence. On the other are the vast spiritual reaches of immortal fullness, bliss and knowledge into which we are admitted through union with the divine Being, of whom we are then a manifestation and expression in the eternal light and no longer a disguise in the darkness of the ego-nature. It is the completeness of this union which is indicated by the ...
... done and become all Page 419 possible things, remains through it all the same pure immutable subtle infinite essence. That is the supreme status of the soul, parā gatiḥ , that is the divine being and nature, madbhāva , and whoever arrives at spiritual knowledge, rises to that supreme immortality of the Eternal. This Brahman, this eternal and spiritual knower of the field of his own ...
... after all only the breaking of these imperfect moulds on the way to a larger & diviner communism? 327) The individual cannot be perfect until he has surrendered all he now calls himself to the divine Being. So also, until mankind gives all it has to God, never shall there be a perfected society. 328) There is nothing small in God's eyes; let there be nothing small in thine. He bestows as much labour ...
... May we abide in the peace of thee, the many-energied, the wide of self-expression, O Varuna, O leader forward on the path; do you for us, O unconquered sons of Aditi, put forth the powers of your divine being for comradeship with us in the fight. (4) It is the son of Aditi who has let forth all things and holds all in its place; the streams of being travel towards the Truth of Varuna, they tire not ...
... live. Red is the colour of the physical; the red diamond is the Mother's consciousness in the physical. In the experience the disc of the sun indicates the supramental consciousness with the Divine Being in it (the supramental Divine who can bridge by his light the gulf between the higher and the lower consciousness and unify them). But the smoky appearance, the veil etc. indicated that there was ...
... is no possibility of struggle for one who represents the Divine. Such an idea makes nonsense of the whole idea of Avatarhood—there is no reason in it, no necessity for it, no meaning in it. The Divine being all-powerful can lift people up without bothering to come down on earth. It is only if it is part of the world arrangement that he should take upon himself the burden of humanity and open the Way ...
... which it was formed, and there is nothing divine either in the way in which it functions. And yet the excuse or occasion for the formation was undoubtedly some revelation from what one could call a Divine Being, a Being who came from elsewhere bringing down with him from a higher plane a certain Knowledge and Truth for the earth. He came and suffered for his Truth; but very few understood what he said ...
... to rise beyond mind is the condition. To be the superman is to live the divine life, to be a god; for the gods are the powers of God. Be a power of God in humanity. To live in the divine Being and let the consciousness and bliss, the will and knowledge of the Spirit possess thee and play with thee and through thee, this is the meaning. This is the transfiguration of thyself on ...
... a conception makes nonsense of the whole idea of Avatarhood;" and "there is then no reason in it, no necessity in it, no meaning in it." He adds ( Mother laughs ): Page 166 "The Divine being all-powerful can lift people up without bothering to come down on earth." He can do it just like this ( gesture ), he is all-powerful, he has only to pull them up and then they will be lifted ...
... work from both ends, not let go of one for the other. And certainly, if you want to have a divine consciousness, you must not give up spiritual aspiration; but if you want to become an integral divine being on earth, take good care not to let go of the other end, and make your body the best possible instrument. It is a disease of the ordinary human intellect—which comes, moreover, from separation ...
... mind is the condition. To be the superman is to live the divine life, to be a god; for the gods are the powers of God. Be a power of God in humanity. To live in the divine Being and let the consciousness and bliss, the Will and knowledge of the Spirit possess thee and play with thee and through thee, this is the meaning. This is the transfiguration ...
... —the Veda of the Riks (words of illumination), the most ancient of the sacred books of India. Russell, Bertrand —(1872-1970), English philosopher. Sachchidananda (Sat-Chit-Ananda) —the One Divine Being with a triple aspect of Existence (Sat), Consciousness (Chit) and Delight (Ananda). God is Sachchidananda; He manifests Himself as infinite Existence of which the essentiality is Consciousness, ...
... trance I went back to a life that I had lived and had the full consciousness that it was the outflowering of the human form on earth—the first human forms capable of embodying Page 90 the divine Being. It was that. It was the first time I could manifest in an earthly form, in a particular form, in an individual form—not a "general" life but an individual form—that is to say, the first time that ...
... victory is to create an individuality. And then later, the second victory is to give this individuality to the Divine. And the third victory is that the Divine changes your individuality into a divine being. There are three stages: the first is to become an individual; the second is to consecrate the individual, that he may surrender entirely to the Divine and be identified with Him; and the third ...
... born. All fanaticism is false, because it is a contradiction of the very nature of God and of Truth. Truth cannot be shut up in a single book, Bible or Veda or Koran, or in a single religion. The Divine Being is eternal and universal and infinite and cannot be the sole property of the Mussulmans or of the Semitic religions only,—those that happened to be in a line from the Bible and to have Jewish or ...
... power to observe law rigidly is the basis of freedom; therefore in most disciplines the soul has to endure and fulfil the law in its lower members before it can rise to the perfect freedom of its divine being. Those disciplines which begin with freedom are only for the mighty ones who are naturally free or in former lives have founded their freedom. 164—Those who are deficient in the free, full and ...
... change in the evolution of Matter for the Divine's play, how rejection of the Mind is useful ONLY as a means of progress and evolution, and how it will be fully used when the new being—the complete, divine being—manifests. It was very interesting. A demonstration. It's the continuation of the demonstration [of August 31 ] which showed that ALL that has happened is necessary. But this can be really ...
... been a lingering legend of a devilish spirit of the same name who could team with the likes of Śambara such as Karhsa. So we should be in an age prior to the epoch when Krishna was a recognisable divine being with a substantial following, even if he was not yet a supreme Avatar r The epoch of Megasthenes would appear to be posterior to the age of the Arthaśāstra's Krishna - indeed a far cry from the ...
... believed that Reason divorced from Desire is the real Devil and that what was originally cast out from Heaven was the spirit of rationality which had revolted against the many-sided fullness of Divine Being. In that fullness there is room for the Energy that to Blake is Eternal Delight and for the Exuberance that to him is Beauty. This fullness is "the Poetic Genius, which is the Lord", 58 or - as ...
... the Divina Commedia mostly converts into a mental incisiveness the sheer piercing Truth-touch. Even in that touch, however, the direct knowledge is not complete; the whole sense of the divine being and becoming is not caught in pure identity. The entire directness is really the privilege of the supermind, the sovereign Truth-consciousness that is the special dynamic of the Aurobindonian ...
... what shall we understand by the Beauty of God? Beauty is perfection of form. But there are levels of perfection and the determinant of each level is the type of being that assumes the form. The Divine Being makes the supreme perfection of form, the infinite Beauty: that is, a Form which is perfect with an infinite Being come to focus in it, a Perfect Form in which Divinity is individual yet is not ...
... it cannot be achieved even by natural means. Words she considers to be the things used by a human being, the "moon-swept lake" and the "delicately drifting snow" she takes to be things done by a Divine Being and therefore there is an incompatibility between words and nature's beauty — though, if we said "nature's beauty", it would bring in the suggestion of the natural. You might protest that, just ...
... total sense if there is not a descent of the higher consciousness together with an ascent of the lower. Those evolutionary terms, mind and life-force and matter - what is their fulfilment if the Divine Being from whom they have emanated carries only a sojourning soul through them and never grants them through that soul a deific destiny of their own - a mind not fumbling for knowledge but seizing it ...
... mission of Ramakrishna in a mind avid of immurement in the illimitable Formless where no questions arise, this lyric which we may well regard as one of the treasures of English poetry makes the Divine Being utter to him the Wisdom beyond thought: Page 166 THE CUP This is your cup - the cup assigned to you From the beginning. Nay, My child, I know ...
... elements of the Hindu religion are neglected as perhaps more often than not they are. Hinduism means essentially to live in constant sense, ultimately rising to a continual realisation of the Divine Being, infinite and eternal, from whom emanates this universe and who dwells within it as well as beyond it as its single yet multifarious Self and Sovereign. Hinduism implies essentially the progressive ...
... ess-Force and Bliss and the creative medium of Supermind into cosmic being; we ascend from Matter through a developing life, soul and mind and the illuminating medium of supermind towards the divine being." (The Life Divine, p. 264) 3 The Life Divine, p. 844. (Italics ours) Page 295 phantasy or its demands for arbitrary miracles nor are we visualising any impossible ...
... of Him by knowing whom all is known. What does that mean? This knowledge, this Vijnana, does not mean merely the fundamental realisation of the One. It means the knowledge of the principle of the Divine Being, what Krishna speaks of as Janati tattwata. One cannot know the complete Divine except in what I have called the Supermind. That's why Krishna said of himself that one who knows him in the true ...
... beyond do not seem to leave any trace here below. There was no regeneration of mankind, no reformation of earthly life. Sri Aurobindo aims at a power of consciousness, a formulation of the divine being that is integral. It takes up the whole man and it embraces all men: it works on a cosmic scale individually and collectively. That force of consciousness identifies itself with each and every ...
... as energy consciousness with a specific role for the Divine to play. It maintains its identity, its personality independent of the vicissitudes of the physical body: it continues to function as a divine being, a godhead, to work for mankind and the world. The popular legend has imaged this phenomenon in the mystic figure of an immortal Aswatthama and Vibhishana still wandering in earth's atmosphere. ...
... in the physical body. The physical body is a basis of action, which can not be neglected or excluded from the spiritual evolution. A perfection of the body as the outer instrument of a complete divine being living on earth will be necessarily a part of the supramental transformation. 'Pushed to its highest conclusion', says Sri Aurobindo, 'this movement brings in spiritualising and illuminations of ...
... Tradition, Theon told his story of Creation, which attempted to explain the process of involution and evolution of consciousness, the origin of the Inconscience and the process of the descent of the divine Being into the Inconscience. As Mother has explained, Theon told the whole story in the Biblical manner, with psychological knowledge hidden in symbols and forms. The way Theon told it, there was ...
... yanta uttara ṁ , deva ṁ devatr ā suryam aganma iyotiruttamam 33 ("Beholding a higher Light beyond this darkness, we have followed it and reached the highest Light of all, Surya divine in the divine Being.") 31.Compare: "There is a deeper seeing from within And when we have left these small purlieus of mind, A greater vision meets us on the heights In the luminous wideness ...
... ss-Force and Bliss and the creative medium of Supermind into cosmic being; we ascend from Matter through a developing life, soul and mind and the illuminating medium of supermind towards the divine being." (The Life Divine, p. 264). Page 235 to effectuate a resultant change of consciousness has now been superseded. Indeed, "in man a reversal is possible, indeed inevitable; for ...
... right to escape other compulsion; we must make our lower nature the willing slave, the conscious and illumined instrument or the ennobled but still self-subjected portion, consort or partner of the divine Being within us, for it is that subjection which is the condition of our freedom, since spiritual freedom is not the egoistic assertion of our separate mind and life but obedience Page 65 ...
... the profundities of his inner consciousness or on the heights of his being, leaving his outer nature imperfect and untransformed. An integrated and well-harmonised simultaneous realisation of divine Being and divine Becoming: such is the goal set before himself by the sadhaka of the Integral Yoga. It follows, therefore, that a perfect, integral and divine transformation of his whole nature including ...
... many aspects. As the Vedic godheads were forms of the Supreme, even so the Puranic Trinity was a triple form of the one supreme Godhead and Brahman; even the Shaktis were energies of the highest divine Being. But this truth was no longer reserved for the initiated few; it was now brought more and more powerfully, widely and intensely home to the general mind and feeling of the people. Vedas and ...
... are gathered up and concentrated for purposes of integral transformation. The integral method of the synthesis of Yoga produces integral results. There is, first, an integral realisation of Divine Being; and there is also an integral liberation, mukti, not only sayujya mukti in which the individual being attains unbroken contact in all its parts with the Divine, not only salokya mukti by ...
... but the same perfect power of being, sakti, capable of an infinite, imperturbable and blissful action. Sattwa becomes not the modified mental light, prakāśa, but the self-existent light of the divine being, jyotih, which is the soul of the perfect power of being and illumines in their unity the divine quietude and the divine will of action. The ordinary liberation gets the still divine light in ...
... world-knowledge and who is engaged in works as an offering to the Master of self-energising and all-giving sacrifice. That is the path that leads to the state of immortality, the state of union with the divine Being, identity with the Self and oneness with the supreme dynamic divine Nature, and the state of transcendence of the three gunas of lower nature, — the state of trigunātita, and the state of sādharmyam ...
... therefore been regarded as epic-hymns of self-knowledge and world Page 5 knowledge and God-knowledge. The utterances of the Upanishads contain the vision of oneness and self in a universal divine being, and they are couched in expressions that have great revealing power and suggestive thought colour Significance of the Age of the Upanishads It is instructive to observe that while ...
... hidden by a Truth where the Sun of Knowledge finishes his journey and unyokes his horses, where the thousand rays of consciousness stand together so that there is That One, the supreme form of the Divine Being. 20 This supramental world, which is imperishable, does not get abolished or attenuated, simply because there is Page 23 in one of its poises a movement in which a certain operation ...
... evolution in the ignorance with its play of possibilities of a partial developing knowledge is the middle. A consummation in a deployment of the spirit's self-knowledge and the self-power of its divine being and consciousness is the culmination. It is admitted that the two stages that have already occurred seem at first sight to deny the possibility of the later consummating stage of the cycle, but ...
... the fountain-head of all that is beautiful, noble, great and generous in the life of a country. True patriots feel its presence as a tangible reality. It is this which has been made almost into a divine being and all who love their country call it "Mother India" (Bharat Mata), and it is to her that they daily address a prayer for the welfare of their country". 4 The need of a political ...
... thought I should burst, not having anyone to tell how I really felt!" He went on like that, raving and weeping. And then suddenly he folded his palms together and began addressing me as if I were some divine being. "I know who you are, My Lord. You are Nara, the ancient sage, the incarnation of Narayana. You have come back to earth to take away the sufferings and sorrows of mankind." I was absolutely dumbfounded ...
... alternative became possible only because the Divine is here in a personal form. The soul may prefer now to live with Him and act as His instrument rather than disappear into laya. The Divine being here in a personal form is only for the work of further manifestation. How can it alter the fundamental purpose of the soul's presence here — which always was, according to the laya theory, to come ...
... risk. He is going towards the opposite camp—for the marks of the hostile Force are contempt of the Divine, revolt and hatred against the Mother, disbelief in the Yoga, assertion of ego against the Divine Being, preference of falsehood to Truth, seeking after false gods and rejection of the Eternal. Am I then to suppose that N, B and others began to walk with hesitating steps, doubting at every step ...
... the Divine Presence and intention. The mind will be wholly illumined, the vital with it will become the pure energy of Consciousness and the physical body will be made out of the substance of the divine being: our humanity will be the home and sanctuary of the Divine. Page 183 ...
... there is the double breaking of the barrier I was speaking about. The first is the piercing of the veil above, when the consciousness rises into the superconscient, takes the human being into the divine being; the second is the rending of the lower veil and the descent of the divine consciousness into the most material, the subconscient and the inconscient, realising the divine life on earth. ...
... You must form yourself, you must be conscious of yourself—not in a general way but in every detail. Every detail of what you call yourself must be organised around one centre, your true self, the divine being in you, so that the whole may be a cohesive organised entity. When thus wholly conscious, harmoniously organised around the divine centre, then it can be wholly consecrated, united to the Divine: ...
... company. One remembers the Vedic Sarama or Sarameya. The West too has its Hound of Heaven. Only the term here has been put in its vernacular form. Anyhow it is a yogini who embodies or represents the divine Being, nairatma devi, as the Buddhist commentator says. The opening lines have a clear Vedic ring, they take us back to the famous Devi Sukta where the poetess – there too it is a Rishika, Vak ...
... and make you its own mode of existence. Now, this is a new fulfilment for the human being to attain to the status of a god, to evolve oneself, to attune oneself so as to call by this affinity a divine being, a god, and to become a Page 12 god. Sri Aurobindo speaks of the divine life, the Life Divine, the life of a god, it means that you become a god, not only realise the utmost human ...
... the supreme Knowledge, the matrix of a new creation—the divine Ark. Indeed those alone who have souls, who are made of the soul-consciousness, who are in effect, parts and points, centres of the divine Being, will survive and form the nucleus of the new humanity— the rest if they cannot be corrected or converted will naturally be extirpated annihilated or else relegated to a status of barbarism worse ...
... levels upon levels, not merely a progressive purification, enlargement, deepening, intensification and sharpening of the consciousness and status; the aim is to transfigure all in the image of the divine being. This process involves a going upward and a, descent with a view to reshape the lower reaches anew in the mould of the heights, not a final extinction, nirvana, in the world of Brahman by a ...
... safety; it is they alone who will be able to save what is worthy of being saved; it is they who will see the sunny day; centring round them will dawn the new happy Age. The best friend of man is, the divine being in him, the divine consciousness, in other words, the divine Will – not ambition and desire for earthly things, for personal care and comfort but the high purpose and urge of the World-Mother, ...
... the supreme Knowledge, the matrix of a new creation – the divine Ark. Indeed those alone who have souls, who are made of the soul-consciousness, who are in effect, parts and points, centres of the divine Being, will survive and form the nucleus of the new humanity – the rest if they cannot be corrected or converted will naturally be extirpated annihilated or else relegated to a status of barbarism worse ...
... must form yourself, you must be conscious of yourself – not in a general way but in every detail. Every detail of what you call yourself must be organised around one centre, your true self, the divine being in you, so that the whole may be a cohesive organised entity. When thus wholly conscious, harmoniously organised around the divine centre, then it can be wholly consecrated, united with the Divine: ...
... brute force. It is not an Page 384 impossibility; only we must be able really to get to the true soul and not a semblance or substitute of it. The true soul is .man's spiritual or divine being – the consciousness in which man is one in substance and nature with God. It is not a mere thought formation, a mental and moral ideal. The only force that can succeed against a lower or undivine ...
... the Divine Presence and intention. The mind will be wholly illumined, the vital with it will become the pure energy of Consciousness and the physical body will be made out of the substance of the divine being: our humanity will be the home and sanctuary of the Divine. Page 380 ...
... nature. The Upanishad Page 388 speaks of two kinds of knowledge that have to be known, two forms of consciousness that have to be acquired in order to become the full integral Divine being. First you have to know, to become aware of the existence of ignorance, the primal or primitive nature and through that awareness or knowledge probe into its character and movement and destiny. ...
... the last and the highest component. Neither religious doctrines nor formulations of ethical ideals correspond to the highest demands that human beings are capable of. There is, it will be found, a divine being in us that can be directly contacted by the pursuit of spirituality and by the methods that are neither religious nor ethical, but yogic, — methods which demand rigorous practices of purification ...
... end of the Rigveda, the future task of humanity is described, in brief but powerful words, " manurbhava janaya daivyam janam”: (Be first the mental being in its perfection and then generate the divine being), it has behind it a vast body of experimentation with those faculties of inspiration, revelation, intuition and supramental discrimination that begin to operate when Reason is surpassed and faculties ...
... end of the Rigveda, the future task of humanity i$ described, in brief but powerful words, "manurbhava janaya daivyam janam": (Be first the mental being in its perfection and then generate the divine being), it has behind it a vast body of experimentation with those faculties of inspiration, revelation, intuition and supramental discrimination that begin to operate when Reason is surpassed and faculties ...
... that build knowledge upon knowledge. In one short sentence in Page 207 Sanskrit; Veda declares: "manurbhava, janaya daivyam janam” become first the mental being and then become the divine being. This is the message for the individual. The Veda also presents a collective ideal and enjoins upon all who want to listen to this message that they should strive to march together, to commune ...
... the Vedic godheads were forms of the Supreme, even so the Puranic Trinity was a triple form of the one supreme Godhead and Brahman; even the Shaktis were energies of the One Energy of the highest divine Being. But this truth was no longer reserved for the initiated few; it was now more and more brought powerfully, widely and intensely home to the general mind and feeling of the people. The system ...
... The physical body is a basis of action, which cannot be neglected or excluded from the spiritual Page 75 evolution. A perfection of the body as the outer instrument of a complete divine being living on earth will be necessarily a part of the supramental transformation. 'Pushed to its highest conclusion', says Sri Aurobindo, 'this movement brings in spiritualising and illuminations of ...
... It is a gathering up and concentration of the movements dispersed and loosely combined in the lower evolution. An integral method and an integral result. First, an integral realisation of Divine Being; not only a realisation of the One in its indistinguishable unity, but also in its multitude of aspects which are also necessary to the complete knowledge of it by the relative consciousness; ...
... are the intermediate grades which Sri Aurobindo has termed the 'Higher Mind', 'Illumined Mind', 'Intuitive Page 23 Mind', and 'Overmind'.² The Supermind is an eternal reality of the divine Being and divine Nature. In the words of Sri Aurobindo, 'A Supramental Truth-Consciousness is at once the self-awareness of the Infinite and Eternal and a power of self-determination inherent in that ...
... Impersonal. But this form beyond the formless is not like the forms of the inferior consciousness: it is the Form Page 73 of forms. And it is not a person like a human being or even a divine being or god, but an essential Personality, the Person of persons. It has not the limitation or exclusiveness of ego-bounded individuality (even the gods are ego-bounded); it has a kind of fluid boundedness ...
... influx of a dynamic, militant, conquering spirituality, the twin-force of Brahminhood and Kshatriyahood, 8 to lead India and the world towards the integral self-fulfilment of Nara-Narayana, the Divine Being in man. We shall now follow the subsequent political movement in the country, and study what constituted Sri Aurobindo's contribution to it. 8. Political freedom cannot be maintained ...
... physical to the highest mind centre and spiritual centre called the thousand-petalled lotus where ascending Nature, the Serpent Power of the Tantrics, meets the Brahman and is liberated into the Divine Being. These centres are closed or half-closed within us and have to be opened before their full potentiality can be manifested in our physical nature: but once they are opened and completely active, ...
... and Light. This triplicity however does not exhaust the whole of the mystery. For the ultimate mystery is imbedded within the heart of the third brother, for our rishis saw there the Universal Divine Being and his seven sons. In our familiar language we may say it is the Supreme Being, God himself (Purushottama) and his seven lines of self-manifestation. We have often heard of the seven worlds ...
... lapse Page 245 into ignorance of Mind, Life and Body take place from the Truth-Consciousness, from the Supermind ? Truth-Consciousness is the first projection from the nature of the Divine Being, from the Satchidananda. How did it lapse into Mind ? This lapse is not yet explained. Mind, being the consciousness of division, is the basis of ignorance. Supermind being based on the infinite ...
... Supermind self-awareness is effective,—while in the mind self-awareness is not effective. We may ask : what is the Supermind, and the reply in the light of previous exposition is : "Nature of the Divine Being in action is the Supermind." So Supermind is the Lord, it is the Creator. It appears to us as an operation of the Truth-Consciousness in which an ordering self-knowledge seems to be at work,—a world ...
... of Ignorance. This Ignorance really proceeds from an exclusive concentration of consciousness in the external being, the ego Page 278 and its nature and an oblivion of the true divine Being, which one really is. When the human being turns from the ego to seek the soul then Ignorance begins to melt. In the Upanishad the creation of this universe is said to be the result of "Tapas"—of ...
... transforming beneficence, its aspect of Grace. But to obviate a possible misunderstanding, I must make it clear at the very outset that this Grace or beneficence is not the act of a transcendent divine being stretching out its hands, like the Amitabha Buddha, across the ocean of life, to those afflicted souls who pant and thirst for the Beyond. It is the Grace that has assumed a human form, come ...
... consciousness-Force and Bliss and the creative medium of Supermind into cosmic being; we ascend from Matter through a developing life, soul and mind and the illuminating medium of Supermind towards the divine Being. The knot of the two, the higher and the lower hemisphere, is where mind and Supermind meet with a veil between them. The rending of the veil is the condition of the divine life in humanity; for ...
... against any transformation. She rather addressed the woman—The "Madonna of suffering," who had faith in the advent of God and in the consequent transformation: Thou art a universal aspect of my divine being put forth to bear the "unbearable sorrow of the. world." It is thy presence that saves man from despair and gives him hope. "But thine is the power to solace, not to save, One day I will ...
... each with its characteristic empirical quality." 137 Man to Deity is, according to Alexander, the next spurt in evolution, but he too doesn't relate the idea of evolution with the idea of the Divine being already involved in the lower forms of existences; an endless epic of emergent evolution can be played by a Force more akin to Kazantzakis' Combatant and Shaw's Life Force than a power like Sac ...
... of an Avatar. What has it to do win, the external life ? Disciple : The idea is that there must be Aishwarya – power of God – in an Avatar. Sri Aurobindo : Aishwarya – power of the divine being – is all right. But it is essentially a consciousness. What external sign can there be of an inner spiritual consciousness ? Disciple : But I suppose these two things : the inner spiritual ...
... Upanishads speak of "Him by knowing whom all is known." What does it mean? That Vignana is not the fundamental realization of the One. It means the knowledge of the principles of the Divine Being; what Krishna (in the Gita) speaks of "Tattvatah" One cannot know the complete Divine except in the Supermind. That is why Krishna said that one who knows him in the "true ...
... Reality that the limbs bear to the human body: The Vedic deities are names, powers, personalities of the universal Godhead and they represent each some essential puissance of the Divine Being. They manifest the cosmos and are manifest in it. Children of Light, Sons of the Infinite, they recognise in the soul of man their brother and ally and desire to help and increase him ...
... lodged in man as the means of promoting such progressive self-improvement: The principle of Yoga is the turning of one or of alt powers of our human existence into a means of reaching the divine Being. In an ordinary Yoga one main power of being or one group of its powers is made the means, vehicle, path. In a synthetic Yoga all powers will be combined and included in the transmuting instrumentation ...
... .is going towards the opposite camp - for the marks of the hostile Force are contempt of the Divine, revolt and hatred against the Mother, disbelief in the Yoga, assertion of ego against the Divine Being, preference of falsehood to Truth, seeking after false gods and rejection of the Eternal. 59 The difficulties - the ups and downs - the attacks from the outside, notwithstanding all these ...
... where work would be looked upon as worship and creative harmony as the law of life. All this received clearer definition and fuller formulation in her thinking aloud on her great Dream of the Life Divine being actually lived upon the earth: There should be somewhere on earth a place which no nation could claim as its own, where all human beings of goodwill who have a sincere aspiration could live ...
... transformed in all its fibres, and united with the Divine Consciousness and Will, the Karmayogi, freed from all personal duties and responsibilities, lives in the absolute equality and oneness of the divine Being, and works in the world out of His inexhaustible power and plenitude. This equality is the supreme equality of the Infinite and Eternal, which nothing in the universe can shake or ruffle. The ...
... the same perfect power of being, śakti, capable of an infinite, imperturbable and blissful action. Sattwa becomes not the modified mental light, prakāś, but the self-existent light of the divine being, jyoti, which is the soul of the perfect power of being and illumines in their unity the divine quietude and the divine will of action. The ordinary liberation gets the still divine light in ...
... straight and frank. A love that strengthens. Divine Love. Years before, Mother had related to us an ancient Chaldean legend. "Long ago, very long ago, in the arid country which is now Arabia, a divine being had incarnated upon earth to awaken there the supreme love. As one would expect, the Incarnation was persecuted by men, misunderstood, suspected, hunted down. Mortally wounded by assailants, this ...
... particular state of trance, I was rediscovering a life I had lived. And I was fully aware that that life was the flowering of the human form on earth —the first human forms able to incarnate the divine Being from above. This was the first time I could manifest in a particular terrestrial form, an individual form —not a general life but an individual form —that is to say, the junction between the higher ...
... will have the unique result of realising the integrality of the Supreme, and an integral self-fulfilment by that realisation. The Gitâ lays down the three large lines of man's approach to the Divine Being with an unsurpassed clarity and catholicity. It shows how the lines intertwine and interfuse as they proceed towards the goal, Page 27 in which they unite and become indisti ...
... of life, his rule of inner existence and his inspiration for external work, but he regarded it as even more, the word of eternal Truth on which man's knowledge of God and his relations with the Divine Being and with his fellows can be rightly and securely founded. This everlasting rock of the Veda, many assert, has no existence, there is nothing there but the commonest mud and sand; it is only a hymnal ...
... stream is placed by Vedic scholars in the Panjab and not in the vicinity of Prayaga and Ayodhya. Were these two deities,—for every river and indeed every natural object was to the Vedic Rishis a divine being,—the same goddess Saraswati? Sayana accepts, even in this passage, their identity; she is, he tells us, [ ]. 2 If this identity were accepted, we would have to ask ourselves by what process ...
... existence is the divine, the infinite of which the shining Cow, the infinite Mother, Aditi, is the symbol; the lower is subject to her dark form Diti. The object of the sacrifice is to win the higher or divine being and possess with it and make subject to its law and truth the lower or human existence. The ghṛta of the sacrifice is the yield of the shining Cow; it is the clarity or brightness of the solar ...
... not only consummates this passage but opens a door of escape from that which is to follow. Deliverance from the dominion of Ashanaya Mrityu is possible because of this circumstance that the sea of divine being is bandhu, kin & friend to the Horse. The aparardha proves to be of the same essential nature as the parardha, our mortal part is akin to our unlimited & immortal part, because the Horse of the ...
... one leads towards that movement of liberation on which the Gita is about to lay stress; it makes possible a high self-exceeding of the sattwa quality and a transformation into the likeness of the divine being, vimokṣāya . The other leads away from that universal potentiality and precipitates towards an exaggeration of our bondage to the ego. This is the point of the distinction. The Deva nature is ...
... and yet the forms of spirit, the moulds of its presence may affect us not only as something other than it, not only as transient, but as unreal images. We have the experience of the Spirit, the Divine Being immutable and ever containing in his vision the mutabilities of the universe; we have too the separate, the simultaneous or the coincident experience of the Divine immanent in ourselves and in all ...
... against its natural rebellions: it gives a noble peace, an austere happiness, but not the supreme joy of the liberated self living not by a rule, but in the pure, easy, spontaneous perfection of its divine being, so that "however it may act and live, it acts and lives Page 206 in the Divine," because here perfection is not only attained but possessed in its own right and has no longer to be ...
... For the living out of spiritual experience until we cease to be mind and become spirit, until, liberated from the imperfections of our present nature, we are able to live entirely in our true and divine being is what in the end we mean by Yoga. This upward transference of our centre of being and the consequent transformation of our whole existence and consciousness, with a resultant change in the ...
... universal Divinity and by loss of the smaller self has found its greater self, has been divinised. To exalt oneself out of the lower imperfect Prakriti, traiguṇyamayī māyā , into unity with the divine being, consciousness and nature, 1 madbhāvam āgatāḥ , is the object of the Yoga. But when this object is fulfilled, when the man is in the Brahmic status and sees no longer with the false egoistic ...
... monotheism, polytheism, pantheism are irreconcilable warring dogmas; oneness, many-ness, all-ness are not and cannot be different but concordant aspects of the eternal Infinite. A belief in one Divine Being superior to cosmos who is all cosmos and who lives in many forms of godhead, is a hotch-potch, mush, confusion of ideas; for synthesis, intuitive vision, inner experience are not the forte of this ...
... substance, structure, phrase, imagery, movement are determined by and stamped with this original character. These supreme and all-embracing truths, these visions of oneness and self and a universal divine being are cast into brief and monumental phrases which bring them at once before the soul's eye and make them real and imperative to its aspiration and experience or are couched in poetic sentences full ...
... conflicts and oppositions, perplexities and illusory certainties, a higher Law by which the soul shall be free from this bondage of works and yet powerful to act and conquer in the vast liberty of its divine being. For the action must be performed, the world must fulfil its cycles and the soul of the human being must not turn back in ignorance from the work it is here to do. The whole course of the teaching ...
... in the very language of those ancient writings, "Matter also is Brahman", and to give its full value to the vigorous figure by which the physical universe is described as the external body of the Divine Being. Nor,—so far divided apparently are these two extreme terms,—is that identification convincing to the rational intellect if we refuse to Page 8 recognise a series of ascending terms ...
... The Life Divine Chapter X Conscious Force They beheld the self-force of the Divine Being deep hidden by its own conscious modes of working. Swetaswatara Upanishad. (I. 3.) This is he that is awake in those who sleep. Katha Upanishad. (II. 2. 8.) All phenomenal existence resolves itself into Force, into a movement ...
... only within the heart supporting them—above and free and unattached as the static Self but also extended in wideness through the world as the silent Self in all and dynamic too as the active cosmic Divine Being and Power, Ishwara-Shakti, containing the world and pervading it as well as transcending it, manifesting all cosmic aspects. But, what is most important for us, is that it manifests as a transcending ...
... or not called for by any conscious part of the mind, — perhaps by a secret subliminal necessity or by an action or pressure from the higher levels, by something which is felt as the touch of the Divine Being, the touch of the Spirit, — and its results can be exceedingly powerful. But if it is brought about by a premature pressure from below, it can be attended with difficulties and dangers which are ...
... been considered to be very favourable to visions, to poetic inspiration and all other-worldly activity. There are all kinds of stories and legends about the stars—stars which appeared on the day a divine being was born.... But all that is a rather literary kind of symbolism. There is a fairly widespread belief that stars have a special influence on the destiny of men, to the extent that an entire system ...
... call man is a physical body with a mental being within, a mental being manifested in a body, a physical body—so the mental being has incarnated and become man in order to find within himself the divine Being, the divine Presence. Why? Are you asking why? It's a funny way of going about it! ( Laughter ) I don't know if he is going to explain it here, I don't remember now, but one thing is certain ...
... Sweet Mother, here Sri Aurobindo writes: "No matter what the gift and to whom it is presented by us..." and then "there must be a consciousness in the act that we are presenting it to the one divine Being." Page 89 The Synthesis of Yoga, P. 103 These two phrases are contradictory, aren't they? No, my child. That's because you don't understand the turn of the sentence. ...
... but in fact, each one of these branches of Buddhism, and many more, has its own conception of the Buddha, and it is the conception of a godhead which is worshipped in statues, much more than a divine being, so... If you show me a statue and ask me, "In this statue is there the influence or the presence of the Buddha as you know him?", I could reply yes or no to you; but when you say "whose statues ...
... physical to the highest mind centre and spiritual centre called the thousand-petalled lotus where ascending Nature, the Serpent Power of the Tantrics, meets the Brahman and is liberated into the Divine Being. These centres are closed or half closed within us and have to be opened before their full potentiality can be manifested in our physical nature: but once they are opened and completely active, ...
... individual, but also more widely as the same being in all and as the Self of the cosmos; it has also a self-existence above the individual and cosmos and it is then called the Paramatma, the supreme Divine Being. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: The Psychic Being The Divine is more than the Atman. It is Nature also, it contains everything in Itself. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: ...
... after all only the breaking of these imperfect moulds on the way to a larger and diviner communism? 328—The individual cannot be perfect until he has surrendered all he now calls himself to the divine Being. So also, until mankind gives all it has to God, never shall there be a perfected society. Sri Aurobindo writes here in a clear and definite way what I tried to express before: no perfection ...
... heart supporting them—above Page 497 and free and unattached as the static Self but also extended in wideness through the world as the silent Self in all and dynamic too as the active Divine Being and Power, Ishwara-Shakti, containing the world and pervading it as well as transcending it, manifesting all cosmic aspects. But, what is most important for us, is that it manifests as a transcending ...
... satisfied in itself, not asking or aspiring for anything else, for self-exceeding of any kind. That aspiration, on the contrary, is self-imposed on the imperfection of Earth; the very fact of the Divine being there, but suppressed Page 241 in its phenomenal opposites, compels an effort to arrive at the unveiled Divine—by ascent, but also by a descent of the Divine Perfection for evolutionary ...
... relation to the Divine is indeed a common object of Yoga. An incarnation is something more, something special and individual to the individual being. It is the substitution of the Person of a divine being for the human person and an infiltration of it into all the movements so that there is a dynamic personal change in all of them and in the whole nature; not merely a change of the character of the ...
... one Reality, its position of silent status and rest and its position of action and dynamic force; a silence of eternal rest and peace supports an eternal action and movement. The one Reality, the Divine Being is bound by neither since it is in no way limited; it possesses both. There is no incompatibility between the two, as there is none between the Many and the One, the sameness and the difference ...
... consciousness, quite as much awake as the waking mind, but awake in a different plane of experience. As for the dream of the cobras it could be taken as an answer to your complaints against the Divine being grim and solemn and refusing to play and your remark that if you could have the faith that the troubles were a part of the Divine plan leading you through them to the Divine, you would be more at ...
... or faculty, but works rather to lift all of them up out of their imperfection and groping ignorance, transforms them by its touch and makes them the instruments of the light, power and joy of the divine being and the divine nature. Page 135 × Therefore it is said that Vishnu is the King in the Treta, but in the ...
... on and effect or consequence, all things in infinite and in limited potentiality and in selection of actuality and in their succession of past, present and future. The organising supermind of a divine being in the universe would be a delegation of this omnipotence and omniscience for the purpose and within the scope of his own action and nature and of all that comes into its province. The supermind ...
... sanction for the ethical motive and discipline, Dharma; that becomes its chief social utility, and for the rest it takes a more and more other-worldly turn. The idea of the direct expression of the divine Being or cosmic Principle in man ceases to dominate or to be the leader and in the forefront; it recedes, stands in the background and finally disappears from the practice and in the end even from the ...
... right to escape other compulsion: we must make our lower nature the willing slave, the conscious and illumined instrument or the ennobled but still self-subjected portion, consort or partner of the divine Being within us, for it is that subjection which is the condition of our freedom, since spiritual freedom is not the egoistic assertion of our separate mind and life but obedience to the Divine Truth ...
... psychological conception is that of a truth which is truth of divine essence, not truth of mortal sensation and appearance. It is satyam , truth of being; it is in its action ṛtam , right,—truth of divine being regulating right activity both of mind and body; it is bṛhat , the universal truth proceeding direct and undeformed out of the Infinite. The consciousness that corresponds to it is also infinite ...
... delight, in consciousness of Brahman a Conscient, in existence of Brahman an Existent; but the object of Brahman's delight and consciousness and the term and stuff of Its existence are Itself. In the divine Being Knowledge, the Knower and the Known and, therefore, necessarily also Delight, the Enjoyer and the Enjoyed are one. This Self-Awareness and Self-Delight of Brahman has two modes of its Force of ...
... which has a motion in a straight path, a goal in the highest seat of Truth, parasmin dhámann ritasya? If it is not the activities of the human being in us offered as a sacrifice to the higher & divine being so that human activities may be led up to the divine nature & be established in the divine consciousness, then there is either no meaning in human language or no sense or coherence in the Veda. ...
... withdrawal through Nirvana or some positive divine fulfilment in the increasing manifestation of Sachchidananda. As to the impossibility of return [ to the earth ], that is a knotty question. A divine being can always return—as Ramakrishna said, the Ishwarakoti can at will ascend or descend the stair between Birth and Immortality. For the others, it is probable that they may rest for a relative infinity ...
... Divine Consciousness and its Force into the body. This descent is felt as a pouring in of calm and peace, of force and power, of light, of joy and ecstasy, of wideness and freedom and knowledge, of a Divine Being or a Presence—sometimes one of these, sometimes several of them or all together. The movement of ascension has different results: it may liberate the consciousness so that one feels no longer in ...
... no difference—but that is still far off. In the beginning of the sadhana you need nothing more than just what you say, "concentration with faith, devotion and sincerity" on a form of the Divine Being—you can add prayer or the name, if you like. Reading good books can be of help in the early mental stage—they prepare the mind, put it in the right atmosphere—can even if one is very sensitive ...
... risk. He is going towards the opposite camp—for the marks of the hostile Force are contempt of the Divine, revolt and hatred against the Mother, disbelief in the Yoga, assertion of ego against the Divine Being, preference of falsehood to Truth, seeking after false gods and rejection of the Eternal. Page 764 There are some who are never touched by the hostile forces. The normal resistance ...
... character & only succeed in making a mass of barbarous nonsense out of the Veda. The real sense is, "Give me the old perfect ecstasy; let there be with it an energetic or forceful expression of the divine being in me; do you, the gods, know that expression (that is to say, embrace it in your consciousness) & by it increase. All who oppose destroy & so make the path to the fulfilment of this inner yajna ...
... him in his right place in the sacrifice in such a way that he pervades the upper ocean, to the superconscient existence, and occupies two places in man, his conscious mortal being and his secret divine being. In the mortal man he drives the rapid swiftnesses of the vital strength upwards to the ocean of the superconscient, for he is the aspiring toiler set here to that end by the gods. Let him then ...
... which is to manifest in itself whether on earth in a terrestrial body and against the resistance of Matter or in the worlds beyond or enter beyond all world the glory of the divine Life and the divine Being. Page 91 × This is also the view of the Gita and generally accepted. ...
... × The action of the sacrifice consists in the formation or "extension" of the universal being, sarvatāti , and of the divine being, devatāti . × Of the Son, the godhead created within the humanity. ...
... nether darkness by the aid of the mighty and helpful deities. The Vedic deities are names, powers, personalities of the universalGodhead and they represent each some essential puissance of the Divine Being. They manifest the cosmos and are manifest in it. Children of Light, Sons of the Infinite, they recognise in the soul of man their brother and ally and desire to help and increase him by themselves ...
... the pure spiritual consciousness that is the first object in the evolution of the spiritual man, and it is this and the urge of that consciousness towards contact with the Reality, the Self or the Divine Being that must be the first and foremost or even, till it is perfectly accomplished, the sole preoccupation of the spiritual seeker. It is the one thing needful that has to be done by each on whatever ...
... dedicated to Something that is beyond us and greater than our ego. No matter what the gift or to whom it is presented by us, there must be a consciousness in the act that we are presenting it to the one divine Being in all beings. Our commonest or most grossly material actions must assume this sublimated character; when we eat, we should be conscious that we are giving our food to that Presence in us; it must ...
... with all beings, one too with That which expresses itself in them and in all that we see and experience. This equality and this oneness are the indispensable twin foundation we must lay down for a divine being, a divine consciousness, a divine action. Not one with all, we are not spiritual, not divine. Not equal-souled to all things, happenings and creatures, we cannot see spiritually, cannot know divinely ...
... spiritual life, or when a higher power than Mind has manifested and taken possession of the nature, these limited motive-forces recede, dwindle, tend to disappear. The spiritual or supramental Self, the Divine Being, the supreme and immanent Reality, must be alone the Lord within us and shape freely our final development according to the highest, widest, most integral expression possible of the law of our nature ...
... mind, from the mind into the spirit. It is this that must be the method of our growth from a mental into a spiritual and supramental manifestation, out of a still half-animal humanity into a divine being and a divine living. There must be achieved a new spiritual height, wideness, depth, subtlety, intensity of our consciousness, of its substance, its force, its sensibility, an elevation, expansion ...
... and Heaven and Earth equalised join hands in the bliss of the Supreme. Yet how can such contraries pass into each other? By what alchemy shall this lead of mortality be turned into that gold of divine Being? But if they are not in their essence contraries? If they are manifestations of one Reality, identical in substance? Then indeed a divine transmutation becomes conceivable. We have seen that ...
... experiences which are abnormal to humanity and only to be attained, in their organised entirety, by a revolutionary individual effort or an evolutionary general progression. To know, possess and be the divine being in an animal and egoistic consciousness, to convert our twilit or obscure physical mentality into the plenary supramental illumination, to build peace and a self-existent bliss where there is only ...
... satisfactions of sin by the egoistic consciousness and self-satisfaction of virtue, the rajasic by the sattwic egoism. But the original sin has to be cured, the separation of its being and will from the divine Being and the divine Will; when it returns to unity with the divine Will and Being, it rises beyond sin and virtue to the infinite self-existent purity and the security of its own divine nature. Page ...
... Infinite into a dense luminous consciousness, caitanyaghana or cidghana , the seed-state of the divine consciousness in which are contained living and concrete all the immutable principles of the divine being and all the inviolable truths of the divine conscious-idea and nature. Its third power brings or looses out these things by the effective ideation, vision, authentic identities of the divine knowledge ...
... symbols so as to make it nearer to us. But we have to judge by spiritual experience, and in a total spiritual experience we shall find that these things are not fictions and symbols, but truths of divine being in their essence, however imperfect may have been our representations of them. Even our first idea of our own personality is not an absolute error, but only an incomplete and superficial view beset ...
... limited mind is to stand away from ourselves, to be unpossessed of our true individuality, to be the apparent and not the real individual; it is our power of ignorance. To be taken up into the divine Being and be aware of our spiritual, infinite and universal consciousness as that in which we now live, is to possess our supreme and integral self, our true individuality; it is our power of self-knowledge ...
... Brahman, but it is the mutable Purusha, the phenomenon of the Eternal, not its stable reality. The Gita makes a distinction between three Purushas who constitute the whole state and action of the divine Being, the Mutable, the Immutable and the Highest which is beyond and embraces the other two. That Highest is the Lord in whom we have to live, the supreme Self in us and in all. The Immutable is the ...
... only is its Being revealed. Therefore to us the name of That is the Silence and the Peace. Page 316 × The Divine Being is described as the adhyakṣa , he who seated over all in the supreme ether over-sees things, views and controls them from above. ...
... creates that impurity of misplacement and that tangled confusion which is the whole evil of our psychological existence. In that confusion one law seems to reign, the law of desire. As the universal Divine Being, all-embracing and all-possessing, acts, moves, enjoys purely for the satisfaction of divine Delight, so the individual life acts, moves, enjoys and suffers predominantly for the satisfaction of ...
... meaning, design and, by delight in its intention in the divine consciousness and its manifestation of its law and dharma, its harmony with the total self, its place in the manifestation of the divine being, becomes beautiful and happy to the soul experience. All sensation becomes Ananda. The embodied mind in us is ordinarily aware only through the physical organs and only of their objects and of ...
... characteristic vehicle of earth-existence there can be no entire self-manifestation of the Divine here without this vehicle being thoroughly divinised and changed into stuff of the immortal divine being with its incorruptible illumination and imperishable bliss and power. No so-called natural law or necessity should compel this body to suffer disease and grow aged and finally die or remain ...
... Waste in Nature A NEW LOOK AT AN OLD PROBLEM One of the most burning issues in the controversies about God is Waste in Nature. Philosophies that do not admit a Divine Being as the source and support and goal of the world, or only admit a rudimentary consciousness fundamental to Matter and attaining higher intensities according to the growing complexities of physical ...
... world. What we call world, is a harmony of things seen not by the individual mind or even by universal mind, but rather seen through universal mind, as through a reflecting medium, by the Eye of divine Being. The eye that sees is immaterial, the things seen are Page 199 immaterial; for matter itself is only a form, image & appearance of eternal Spirit. 31 How, it is asked, do ...
... meant not a formal image, but the image of His being and personality; we are of the essence of His divinity and of the quality of His divinity; we are formed in the mould and bear the stamp of a divine being and a divine knowledge. In everything that exists phenomenally, or, as I shall prefer to say, going deeper into the nature of things, symbolically, there are two parts of being, thing in itself ...
... therefore to rise beyond mind is the condition. To be the superman is to live the divine life, to be a god; for the gods are the powers of God. Be a power of God in humanity. To live in the divine Being and let the consciousness and bliss, the will and knowledge of the Spirit possess thee and play with thee and through thee, this is the meaning. This is the transfiguration of thyself on the ...
... It is so that the frog regards himself and his well. But we have to grow out of this frog consciousness and exceed the limits of this well. In the end we come to perceive that we have a truer and divine being of which our petty personality is only a surface and corrupted output, a truer and divine Consciousness in which we must become self-aware and world-aware discarding our present fragmentary and ...
... Divine Love and the beauty and sweetness of the Divine; the absolute Bliss of the Absolute. Faith is our first need; for without faith in the Divine, in the existence and the all-importance of the Divine Being there can be no reason to aspire or to consecrate, there can be no power in the aspiration or force behind the consecration. Doubts do not matter, if the faith central and fundamental is there ...
... power to observe law rigidly is the basis of freedom; therefore in most disciplines the soul has to endure & fulfil the law in its lower members before it can rise to the perfect freedom of its divine being. Those disciplines which begin with freedom are only for the mighty ones who are naturally free or in former lives have founded their freedom. 164) Those who are deficient in the free, full and ...
... Lila or the Yoga; the reason for which the Avatars descend is to raise up man again and again, developing in him a higher and ever higher humanity, a greater and yet greater development of divine being, bringing more and more of heaven again and again upon the earth until our toil is done, our work accomplished and Sachchidananda fulfilled in all even here, even in this material universe. Small ...
... universal is a step, but beyond the universal and directing and determining it is the supracosmic Infinity; for the universe also has no self-existence, truth or validity except as it expresses the divine Being, Knowledge, Will, Power, Delight of Him who Page 121 surpasses all universe, so much that it can be said figuratively that with a petty fragment of His being and a single ray of His ...
... manifestations. Why we are here is to be this means of the spirit's upward self-unfolding. What we have to do with ourselves and our significances is to grow and open them to greater significances of divine being, divine consciousness, divine power, divine delight and multiplied unity, and what we have to do with our environment is to use it consciously for increasing spiritual purposes and make it more ...
... belonged to the creation, didn't he? Yes, while Christ isn't human, he is the son. But he took on a human body. Yes, but he's the son of God. He isn't a human being become divine, he is a divine being—"the son of God"—who took on a human body. But that's understood! All Avatars are like that. Yes, but he's the only one. It's all twisted. But the Virgin, in that affair? What happened ...
... Love is the essence of Truth and cannot be affected by human confusions. Page 116 An Old Chaldean Legend 1 Long ago, very long ago, in the desert land that is now Arabia, a divine being incarnated on earth to awaken it to the Supreme Love. As one would expect, he was persecuted by men, misunderstood, suspected, hunted after. Mortally wounded by his assailants, he wished to die ...
... his furnace and on his anvil the Wrath-form of himself - Christ the Tyger - that should attack and expel Urizen and his "myriads" who have revolted in Heaven. Christ, to Blake, is essentially the Divine Being who, on the one side, is mildness and mercy and, on the other, the fiery anger against that portion of Supernatural life, the Zoa Urizen, when this Zoa rebels in Supernature or when he and all that ...
... highest mind centre and spiritual centre called the thou-sand-petalled lotus where ascending Nature, the Serpent Power of the Tantrics, meets the Brahman and is liberated into the Divine Being. These centres are closed or half closed within us and have to be opened before their full potentiality can be manifested in our physical nature: but once they are opened and completely active, ...
... explain or justify the normative character of idealism. Idealism such as Nehru felt and advocated cannot admit of a purely natural explanation: it must seek both its motive force and its sanction in a Divine Being and can act only by virtue of this Divine's Being's representative scintilla in the depths of our humanity — a soul that functions with an instinct of divinity and that, even in letting itself ...
... our hearts and minds by his intimacy and naturalness and that rare humility which stands always in front of the inexhaustible Infinite whose touch lends "a Yonder to all ends". The most divine being that I could ever hope to meet, Sri Aurobindo was also the most human person I have ever met. Nor was his humanness definable only in terms of his affectionate fatherly attitude which led us onward ...
... being,’ built and shaped by the essence of experiences in their previous lives (which is the essential meaning of reincarnation). This psychic being will ultimately result in the creation of the divine being, in each case different, which they were as part of the one Divine before they plunged into the adventure of evolution, but now with a degree of conscious differentiation making the evolutionary ...
... own person. The Kingdom of God on Earth was promised to humankind at its origin and the moment of its fulfilment has now arrived, they say. The human being is inwardly mutating into a new, higher, divine being which has no name as yet, though it is sometimes called ‘superman’. Out of the mental being, whether it knows it or not, whether it consciously wants it or not, evolves NOW the supramental being ...
... of which He weaves constantly His garbs, builds recurrently the unending series of His mansions.” 4 The Upanishads describe the physical universe of gross matter “as the external body of the Divine Being”. 5 Therefore matter, arisen from the Inconscient – Sri Aurobindo described our body as “a flower of the material Inconscience” – is “a form of the Spirit, a habitation of the Spirit, and here ...
... want a race without an ego.’) Seen spiritually, the overmen are the radioactive element in humanity effecting the (trans)mutation. The supramental species. The supramental being is the divine being of the future; it will no longer be embodied in the manner of the present animal-human procreation. The process by which it will acquire a body of supramentalized substance is not yet known. The ...
... certain past is dying and a certain future is being born. The change on all levels of life is so bewildering because the transition is a tremendous one, from the human being to the supramental, divine being. Not only can the period in which we live be called “postmodern”; it can also, and with better justification, be called “presupramental”. It bears repetition that the vision of Sri Aurobindo and ...
... possibility of struggle for one who represents the Divine. Such a conception makes nonsense of the whole idea of Avatarhood; there is then no reason for it, no necessity in it, no meaning in it. The Divine being all-powerful can lift people up without bothering to come down on earth. It is only if it is a part of the world-arrangement that he should take upon himself the burden of humanity and open the ...
... of trance I went back to a life that I had once been living, with the full consciousness that it was the culmination of the human form on earth, in the first human forms capable of embodying the divine Being. For that was what it was. It was the first time I was able to manifest in an earthly form, in a personal form, in an individual form – not in a common life form but an individual form. 93 By ...
... always thought poorly of his thinking mind: he was never able to understand with the mind anything but the orthodox Adwaitic ideas in their most general and popular form. As for his idea of the Divine being bound, being a hostage to law as much as Philo himself or his cat, that was an old pet idea of his...an idea that can be accepted only by those who are unable to think philosophically or make the ...
... n appears very clearly from all the accounts about him and even, if what is related about the appearance of Krishna in him from time to time is accepted, these outbursts of the splendour of the Divine Being are among the most remarkable Page 192 in the story of the Avatar. As for Ramakrishna, the manifestation in him was not so intense but more many-sided and fortunately there ...
... the words of Sri Aurobindo, "the Supermind using the Word is the creative Logos" 38 . And what is "this all-containing, all-originating, all-consummating Supermind" 39 if not "the nature of the Divine Being, not indeed in its absolute self-existence, but in its action as the Lord and Creator of its own worlds"? 40 It is because of this all-determining power of the primal speech (v ā k) that ...
... December 1966 In an experience I felt (or rather I was) an intense unformed aspiration — there moral good and evil and even spiritual values had no importance. I could have been a beast or a divine being — it would have changed nothing. Oh, to be that intensity always . . . This is truly very good. It is the forerunner of a state that can be constant. 15 December 1966 ...
... been and are the goal of all other spiritual and religious endeavours up to the present. Its aim is to actively participate in the transition from the human being to a transhuman, supramental or divine being, to make this transition a concrete possibility. The person who practises the Integral Yoga can have no personal intentions. And the yoga of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother is integral because a t ...
... godhead. Every individual has what may be described as his line of spiritual descent and also ascent, for into each individual consciousness has come down from the supreme Maha Shakti an individual divine being, a particular godhead following a particular line of manifestation of divine power, Vibhuti. To bear inwardly the touch of this divinity and found it securely within oneself, to concentrate on ...
... manifests as Power, Love, etc., but in the physical He manifests Himself as harmony and beauty. The Mother, Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 25 January 1951 Ishwara is God, the Divine Being, Lord of all the Beings, conscious in the conscious, also in the inconscience, master and controller of the many who are in the hands of Nature. He is timeless in Time, the omnipresent, omnipotent ...
... pomegranate flower petals (The Divine's Love) attached to it. The inscription was in French. Later it was translated like this: Long ago, very long ago, in the desert land that is now Arabia, a divine being incarnated on earth to awaken it to the Supreme Love. As one would expect, he was persecuted by his assailants; he wished to die alone, quietly, so that his work might be accomplished; and pursued ...
... divine, incarnate being. It is the need for a certain perfection in the environment that drives human beings to progress; it is the insufficiency of this progress, whatever it may be, that impels the divine being to intensify his effort for progress in his own body. Thus both movements for progress are simultaneous and complementary. Page 34 ...
... The Avatar Avatar—the Supreme manifested on earth in a body. The Avatar: the supreme Divine manifested in an earthly form—generally a human form—for a definite purpose. The Divine, being all-powerful, can lift people up without bothering to come down on earth. It is only if it is part of the world arrangement that he should take upon himself the burden of humanity and open the Way ...
... Lord of the universe and to That which is beyond in a great aspiration towards the new Light. 31 October 1955 Kali Puja 1955 Long, long ago, in the dry land which is now Arabia, a divine being incarnated upon earth to awaken in it the supreme love. As expected it was persecuted by men, misunderstood, suspected, pursued. Mortally wounded by its assailants, it wanted to die quietly in solitude ...
... in which I was rediscovering a life I had lived. I was fully conscious that this life had to do with the first flowering of the human form upon earth, the first human forms able to incarnate the divine being from above. This was the first time I could manifest in a particular terrestrial form (not a general life but an individual form); that is, for the first time, through the mentalization of this ...
... it's not that at all, it is ... a Force, a Will advancing step by step, which won't stop to discourse and take pleasure in what has been done. ( silence ) Is there somewhere on earth a really divine being, that is to say, not ruled by any law of Unconsciousness?... It seems to me we'd know it. If he existed and I didn't know it, I would have to tell myself that, if that is the case, I must have a ...
... peacefully. How easy!... How easy. ( silence ) Do you know how the Hindu spiritual tradition was convinced—was forced to be convinced—of the multiplicity of souls (they don't say "souls"), of the divine being in individuals? Because those people were very logical: had there been a single soul, that is, a single supreme consciousness, anywhere, at any time, once it had experienced liberation (flight into ...
... respectively, Vaishwanara, Taijasa and Prajna -corresponding to the waking state, the dream-state and the sleep-state. The sleep-state, in which the consciousness is most in-drawn, represents the Divine Being, creator of both the dream-state and the waking one from its own depth of omnipotent vision. What is beyond is simply called Turiya, meaning "Fourth". It is the final ground of all and ...
... those rapturous "reasons of the heart which the mind cannot know". This chiselled yet shimmering shape comes as a blissful anticipation - in verbal terms - of that flawless formulation of the Divine Being, which Sri Aurobindo calls the Supramental Body. The formulation without a flaw, while already existent in the empyrean as the guide of "our human grope", is waiting to descend with its "almighty" ...
... discrimination of a multiform creativity, Vijnana; or, again/ simply as the dynamic Immense above mind, Mahas. There is inspired reference to it also in the vision of the threefold embodiment of the Divine Being: sthula sharira, the gross body of vitalised and mentalised matter that is the surface o reality - sukshma sharira, the subtle body of matter, life and mind as they are in reality's depths - ...
... presence we can answer that it is the omnipotence of an infinite self-dependent Being. Similarly we can name the logical causality of freewill by saying that it is the human soul, a spark of the Divine Being. Philosophers may argue whether human freewill and God's infinite existence are facts or else whether they are compatible with each other, but we are not now concerned with this problem. What we ...
... earth-bonds, but instead of falling asleep I grew Page 88 doubly awake — or, rather, deeply awake. For I had an amazing new sense of everything. The whole universe seemed to be a divine being. All objects were as if individualised forms of divinity. The chairs and tables of my room appeared to be gods and goddesses. I felt like getting up and kneeling at their feet. The ...
... which is called the Mantra. The Mantra is the highest spiritual poetry, as you know: it is the Divine, as it were, expressing Himself directly, not through any other medium of consciousness. The Divine Being, getting embodied in words on the very plane of the Divine Himself: that is the Mantra. It is the Word from the Overmind, the Supermind's delegate that has been the governing Power of the universe ...
... also to have been Yahweh in the time of Isaiah. How and why the Bad Spirit, the Devil, was engendered has not been made clear. In the Christian world-view the being who is Satan was originally a divine being, an archangel, who misused the "freewill" granted to all the creations of God and became the Prince of Darkness from having earlier been Lucifer, Son of the Morning. In Zoroastrianism, as in Ch ...
... several of these names again and bringing in one new name, Sri Aurobindo writes that he fully accepts "Chaitanya's position as an Avatar of Krishna" and that the "outbursts of the splendour of the Divine Being [in him] are among the most remarkable in the story of the Avatar". Then he adds: "As for Ramakrishna, the manifestation in him was not so intense but more many-sided... I would not care to enter ...
... inaugurator of a new era moving towards the Kingdom of God, Augustus was heralded by poets like Virgil as the creator of a Golden Age of peace and prosperity and accepted worship from the East as a divine being and saviour of humanity. Like the virginal conception the Gospels of Matthew and Luke picture for Jesus, a supernatural birth brought about by a deity's intervention was surmised for Augustus. Whatever ...
... Jesus as becoming a man in the same sense as any Philippian or Corinthian or Paul himself. Although the non-committing of sin, unlike all these people, is necessary to render the sacrifice that of a divine being, yet to act divinely in a body like all "sinful flesh" rather than in a specially conceived frame which would not be "as men are" - this also is a necessity for the completeness of the salvific ...
... of their spirit, when thinkers and poets thrill with excitement at the emergence of a 'world-soul', it is in fact Christ whom they are all seeking - Christ who still keeps hidden his personal and divine being, but nevertheless Christ himself, who must be the first object of desire as the keystone that holds together the effort of the universe - Christ who must effectively fulfil this natural function ...
... ess-Force and Bliss and the creative medium of Supermind into cosmic being; we ascend from Matter through a developing life, soul and mind and the illuminating medium of Supermind towards the divine being. The knot of the two, the higher and the lower hemisphere, is where mind and Supermind meet with a veil between them."¹ The exact significance of this formulation, before the First Part of The ...
... replacing of the power of lower consciousness by that of the higher is the object of self-surrender—the surrender of your small narrow personal being and its activities to the higher and vaster Divine being and the Divine activities. By this surrender one will cease to act from one's personal motives, impulses, desires, etc. as one is at present doing. By the progressively increasing self-surrender ...
... uttaram/ 167 devaṃ devatrā sūryam aganma jyotir uttamam// Beholding a higher Light beyond this darkness we have followed it and reached the highest Light of all, Surya divine in the divine Being. The above verse is at once the definition of the seer and an example of the Vedic Mantra. In the vision of the Overmind aesthesis, we have seen, there is the same reaching to the highest ...
... blind force and dares Savitri to reveal the Power of the Divine; for many have Truth but who has the Power to radiate it? Then is given a picture of Savitri as she becomes transformed into a divine being with all her Chakras or Lotuses of Power scintillating. The most powerful speech of all follows and Savitri exhibits her living Power of Truth and proves that Death is needed no more. Death is ...
... ethical motive and discipline, Dharma; that becomes its chief social utility, and for the rest it takes a more and more otherworldly turn. The idea of the direct expression of the divine Page 252 Being or cosmic Principle in man ceases to dominate or to be the leader and in the forefront; it recedes, stands in the background and finally disappears from the practice and in the end ...
... worlds of the spirit with effortless ease. Would you want to know the saranagati tattva which is the central spring of India's religious thought? Sethna can take us straight to that divine being of fraternal love. Bharata the image of total surrender prayerfully paying his daily homage to the sandals of Rama in Nadhigram: "Here in this kingdom's vigilant heart I place ...
... spoke of the Self and Maya, meaning according to their predilections by the Self the Immutable and by Maya the power the Self has of imposing on itself the cosmic illusion, or by the Self the Divine Being and by Maya the nature of conscious-being and the conscious-force by which the Divine embodies himself in soul-forms and forms of things. Others spoke of Ishwara and Shakti, the Lord and His force ...
... in this process of the evolution of the superman. Mind is the medium of the unfolding of the supermind and through that of the unveiled manifestation of the now-concealed and only partly revealed Divine Being. This revelation requires the transformation of Nature so that on all its levels, physical, vital and mental it may become conscious and spiritualised. The life of the supramental race of ...
... in the very language of the ancient Upanishads 'Matter also is Brahman,' and to give its full value to the vigorous figure by which the physical universe is described as the external body of the divine Being." Her spirit saw the world as living God; It saw the One and knew that all was He. The ground of all manifestation, the space where all the creation is laid and the movements happen ...
... replacing of the power of lower consciousness by that of the higher is the object of self-surrender — the surrender of your small narrow personal being and its activities to the higher and vaster Divine being and the Divine activities. By this surrender one will cease to act from one's personal motives, impulses, desires, etc. as one is at present doing. By the progressively increasing self-surrender ...
... full two months. So I suppose I have to pull through somehow. Send the poor composer some force to get through his resurge of doubts, the concomitants of depression: the doubts being as to the Divine being unlikely to make me receptive except for composing songs and poems—but true Yoga—no, which Kanai is doing- I truly envy him his meditation: he says he is having such ananda and peace through ...
... indeed I got through his thinking mind's resistance and he was beginning to express, not by ordered thought but by inspiration, a deeper truth, but only for a short time. As for his idea of the Divine being bound or a hostage to law as much as Harin himself or his cat,149 that was an old idea of his written in his poems long before he came here, an idea that can be accepted only by those who are unable ...
... devotion and derive from the deity his help, his intervention and his effective manifestation. Religions speak normally of God and gods and angels, and the myths and prayers connected with the divine being constitute substantive parts of religious doctrines. The Vedic texts also abound with materials which are associated with religious beliefs and practices. However, when the language of the Vedic ...
... Truth-conscious who places aright the thought", rtasya bodhi rtacit svadhih. Agni is prayed and all fault and sin and defect in man are offered to the various godheads or divine powers of the Divine Being, so that the same may be removed, and man may finally become blameless before the Infinite Mother - aditaye anagasah. Then Vamadeva expresses the idea of the united human and divine existence ...
... powers of cosmic and transcendental knowledge. In ^simple, but striking words, it enjoins: manurbhava janayā daivyam janam "Be first Manu, the being of the mind, and then generate the divine being, the being of divine light.” Page 105 In the last hymn, the Rigveda enjoins a gospel for a harmonious collective life, a life in which people would work together, would think together ...
... and peace which depend upon nothing in the world for their source and for their continuance; they are innate, they are the very stuff of the soul's consciousness, they are the very nature of the divine being. In all things, the divine worker has the same imperishable ananda, sukham aksayam aśnute. 81 The Gita insists on the difference between the inward and the outward renunciation, tyāga ...
... the spirit, the moulds of its presence may affect us not only as something other than it, not only as transient, but as unreal images. There is also the yogic experience of the Spirit as the divine being immutable and ever-containing in his vision the Page 62 multiplicity of the universe; there is also the yogic experience of the separate, of the simultaneous or the coincident experience ...
... discovery and invention that build knowledge upon knowledge. In one short sentence in Sanskrit, Veda declares: "manurbhava, janaya daivyam janam " — become first the mental being and then become the divine being. This is the message for the individual. The Veda also presents a collective ideal and enjoins upon all who want to listen to this message that they should strive to march together, to commune ...
... the still sea of Bliss so that certain forms of divine union and enjoyment may be brought in front in an active upwelling of waves of the Bliss. So also all its becoming will be formation of the divine being in response to these activities and what is with us cessation, Page 10 death, annihilation will be only rest, transition or holding back of the joyous creative Maya in the eternal ...
... fulfilled, and still the sacrifice of Works continues. The double path becomes the triple path of knowledge, works and devotion. And, at the end, the goal is accomplished, and the goal is union with the divine Being and oneness with the supreme divine Nature." The Princess asked: "The most difficult part of the Gita is, to my mind, chapters 3 to 6. And I find a great sympathy when Arjuna complains ...
... striving passion, but the same perfect power of being, Shakti, capable of an infinite, imperturbable blissful action. Satwa becomes not the modified mental light, but the self-existent light of the divine being. This transformation leads to the manifestation of a new Prakriti, Gnostic Prakriti or Gnostic Nature. To use the words of the Gita, this would mean the manifestation of Para Prakriti. The secret ...
... evolution in the ignorance with its play of possibilities of a partial developing knowledge is the middle; a consummation in a deployment of the spirit's self knowledge and self-power of its divine being and consciousness is the culmination. It may be argued that the two stages that have already occurred seem at first sight to deny the possibility of the later consummating state of the cycle, ...
... Aurobindo and the Mother, "the strongest, most central Page 48 way is to found all such or other methods on self-offering and surrender of ourselves and of our parts of nature to the Divine Being, the Ishwara." 42 The most important aim to be pursued would be not only the discovery of psychic entity and the development of psychic personality to its full stature, but also to allow the ...
... Arguments for the Existence of God Appendix II Conscious Force They beheld the self-force of the Divine Being deep hidden by its own conscious modes of working. Swetaswatara Upanishad.* This is he that is awake in those who sleep. Katha Upanishad. All phenomenal existence resolves itself into Force, into a movement of energy ...
... end of human search of the truth that harmonises and delivers. We discover that the moral nature of the human being is not the last and the highest component; there is, in us, it will be found, a divine being that is spiritual and supramental. In that component of our complex nature, it is claimed, is the integrating power; in it the truths of the individual and the collectivity coalesce; there we discover ...
... such a thing as Grace is well-nigh non-existent. What is the reason behind this obvious inequality of treatment? Can we dare say that the Divine suffers from some fault of partiality? But the Divine being divine, how can that be?" The question thus put seems to be quite baffling as if defying any solution. But the fact is otherwise. There is a great mystery of world-existence involved here ...
... to Something that is beyond us and greater than our ego. No matter what the gift and to whom it is presented by us, there must be a consciousness in the act that we are presenting it to the one divine Being in all beings." (The Synthesis of Yoga, pp. 102-03) 9. "Pray and Pray and Pray" The life of a sadhaka should be a life of constant prayer. Call it a 'prayer', call it an 'aspiration' ...
... in the universe is the triune principle of Sachchidananda: it is a transcendent Page 68 and infinite and absolute Existence-Consciousness-Bliss which is the very nature of the divine Being. Thus Sachchidananda is the One with a triple aspect functioning differently in three statuses. In the Supreme the three are not three but one. Existence, Consciousness and Bliss ...
... "The next step is to become aware of the eternal self in us unborn and one with the self of all beings. This self-realisation liberates and universalises.... "The third step is to know the Divine Being who is at once our supreme transcendent Self, the Cosmic Being, foundation of our universality, and the Divinity within of which our psychic being, the true evolving individual in our nature ...
... mutuality of consciousness, spontaneous reign of harmony and the growth of a spiritually conscious community. To quote Sri Aurobindo: "Beyond the mental and moral being in us is a greater divine being that is spiritual and supramental... There alone the unification of the transformed vital and physical and the illumined mental man becomes possible in that supramental spirit which is at once the ...
... life, our attitude to it and the trend of all our life-activities. Now, the integral theory of existence as advanced by Sri Aurobindo looks upon our earthly existence as a becoming with the Divine Being for its origin and object, a progressive evolutionary manifestation with the timeless spaceless Su-pracosmic as its source and support, the Other-worldly for a condition and connecting link and ...
... the fountain-head of all that is beautiful, noble, great and generous in the life of a country. True patriots feel its presence as a tangible reality. It is this, which has been made almost into a divine being and all who love their country, call it "Mother India" (Bharat Mata), and it is to her that they daily address a prayer for the welfare of their country. Mother India is not a piece of earth; ...
... the fountain-head of all that is beautiful, noble, great and generous in the life of a country. True patriots feel its presence as a tangible reality. It is this which has been made almost into a divine being and all who love their country call it "Mother India" (Bharat Mata), and it is to her that they daily address a prayer for the welfare of their country.'2 It was this feeling that was ...
... Hinduism is the Veda. The Veda is fundamentally a record of experiences based on intuition and revelation. They contain inspired utterances of seers and sages, who had a direct perception of the Divine Being. These seers, or Rishis, heard these compositions during their deep meditations. They are, therefore, known as Sruti. The Rishis transmitted to their disciples the Vedic truths for over a thousand ...
... Vedic Rishis. "Readings in Savitri" is a commentary on three excerpts from the same opening scene. The first of these refers to the Inconscient Godhead that is the transformation of the Divine Being into Matter who is always driven by the secret urge to be itself once again. The second set of passages brings up the theme of the Avatar, of the Divine Grace taking human form so that the lower ...
... because it is not articulate and in the open. The aboriginal is that which harbours in its womb the original being. That is the Inconscient Godhead, the Divinity in pain - Mater Dolorosa - the Divine Being who lost himself totally when transmuted into Matter and yet is harassed always by the oestrus of a secret flame driving it to know itself, to find itself, to be itself again. It is Rudra, the Energy ...
... violent because it is not articulate and in the open. The aboriginal is that which harbours in its womb the original being. That is the Inconscient Godhead, the Divinity in pain— Mater Dolorosa —the Divine Being who lost himself totally when transmuted into Matter and yet is harassed always by the oestrus of a secret flame driving it to know itself, to find itself, to be itself again. It is Rudra, the Energy ...
... gives them importance. They are puffed up with pride and are happy; when they can have a troop of people adoring them, they reach the very height of satisfaction. But if you take a truly divine being, that is not the thing he likes or appreciates. He does not like to be worshipped; worship does not give him special pleasure. But if he sees anywhere a fine intuitive sense, a good feeling, a movement ...
... godhead. Every individual has what may be described as his line of spiritual descent and also ascent; for into each individual consciousness has come down from the supreme Maha Shakti an individual divine being, a particular godhead following a particular line of manifestation of divine power, vibhuti. To bear inwardly the touch of this divinity and found it securely within oneself, to concentrate on ...
... will and aspiration, the other state will come again. The two alternate for a time till the complete fusion is achieved. Finally there is no longer the distinction of your personal being and the Divine Being, the two are one. There is no more the state of yearning towards, an ecstatic sense of submission in which the two are still separate. The state of fusion and mingling, of complete identity is extremely ...
... realisation and does no carry you much further. Disciple : Can One say that the Truth-Consciousness is the same as the Jiva ? Sri Aurobindo : On its highest plane the Jiva is the true Divine being. But it is on every plane. When you realise the Divine you know your true being and also you know God and his purpose in your Jiva. One can get into contact with it through the Central Being, ...
... motion and Light. This triplicity however does not exhaust the whole of the mystery. For the ultimate mystery is imbedded within the heart of the third brother, for our rishis saw there the Universal Divine Being and his seven sons. In our familiar language we may say it is the Supreme Being, God himself (Purushottama) and his seven lines of self-manifestation. We have often heard of the seven worlds or ...
... because it is not articulate and in the open. The aboriginal is that which harbours in its womb the original being. That is the Inconscient Godhead, the Divinity in pain – Mater Dolorosa the Divine Being who lost himself totally when transmuted into Matter and yet is harassed always by the oestrus of a secret flame driving it to know itself, to find itself, to be itself again. It is Rudra, the Energy ...
... plan." SRI AUROBINDO: All men who are great and strong and powerful believe in some higher force greater than themselves moving them. Socrates used to call this force his Daemon. Demon means divine being. It is curious how sometimes even in small things one depends on the voice. Once Socrates was walking with a disciple. When they were about to take a turn, the disciple said, "Let us go along this ...
... will and aspiration, the other state will come again. The two alternate for a time till the complete fusion is achieved. Finally there is no longer the distinction of your personal being and the Divine Being, the two are one. There is no more the state of yearning towards an ecstatic sense of submission in which the two are still separate. The state of fusion and mingling, of complete identity is extremely ...
... breaking of the barrier I was speaking about. The first is the piercing of the veil above, when the consciousness rises into the superconscient, takes the human being into Page 386 the divine being; the second is the rending of the lower veil and the descent of the divine consciousness into the most material, the subconscient and the inconscient, realising the divine life on earth. Page ...
... them, gives them importance. They are puffed up with pride and are happy; when they can have a troop of people adoring them, they reach the very height of satisfaction. But if you take a truly divine being, that is not the thing he likes or appreciates. He does not like to be worshipped; worship does not give him special pleasure. But if he sees anywhere a fine intuitive sense, a good feeling, a movement ...
... relation with the Impersonal. But this form beyond the formless is not like the forms of the inferior consciousness: it is the Form of forms. And it is not a person like a human being or even a divine being or god, but an essential Personality, the Person of persons. It has not the limitation or exclusiveness of ego-bounded individuality (even the gods are ego-bounded); it has a kind of fluid boundedness ...
... outer person of desire is made of ignorance and unconsciousness, the true person or soul is made of truth and consciousness. Always there is a struggle between the two, the inner being, your true divine being is always trying to express itself through the lower and outward limbs, impress itself upon them but normally with very little result. These outer limbs are more obedient to the world forces of ...
... the Truth is to follow the Divine. In being obedient to the Divine Will one acts absolutely freely, for obedience here means complete identification with the Master. The being one with the Divine Being, the consciousness one with the Divine Consciousness, the will one with the Divine Will – such is the condition and status of the perfect, absolute Freedom. Page 396 ...
... the Upanishads and the Page 187 Veda, the mantras given by a Guru to his disciple to help him come consciously into direct contact with a special plane of consciousness, a force or a divine being. In this case, the sound holds in itself the power of experience and realization – it is a sound that makes one see. Similarly, poetry and music, which are but unconscious processes of handling ...
... trembling in pain at the pitiful condition of Mother India. And this he cannot bear Mother. The Mother: But this is what Sri Aurobindo saw and worshipped as the Motherland a living entity, a divine being who is resplendent and fulfils all our needs. Mona: Mother, when he does the marching at the playground, he says, he feels as if he were marching on the breast of Mother India, calling at each ...
... d here on its own sure foundation, the evolution of divine life would be a progress in felicity, a march through light to Ananda. Page 172 Supermind is an eternal reality of the divine Being and the divine Nature. In its own plane it already and always exists and possesses its own essential law of being, it has not to be created or to emerge or evolve into existence out of involution ...
... the issue is between Spirituality and Religion. Certainly, all religions had their beginnings in a seminal mystical or "The spiritual experience, some revelation from "what one could call a Divine Being ... bringing down with him from a higher plane a certain Knowledge and Truth for the earth". 47 Mahavira, the Buddha, the Christ, the Prophet Mahomet, Guru Nanak were all historical personalities ...
... given. Now here in Savitri another solution is being given to us, a more integral and a more satisfying solution in the sense that it explains to us - given an omnipresent reality, given a divine being who works and is the cosmos - where arises the possibility of pain in it? Well, you get an explanation! and that is why I think that it is a more satisfying and integral reply to man's question ...
... eternal with a great largeness. of the nature and a breaking down of its limitations,. immortality becomes no longer a belief or an experience but a normal self-awareness, the close presence of the Divine Being, his rule of the world and our self and natural members, his force working in us and everywhere,. the peace of the infinite, the joy of the infinite are now concrete and constant in the being; in ...
... Page 158 Sri Aurobindo : Yes. All men who have been great and strong believe in some higher Force, greater than themselves, moving them. Socrates used to call this Daemon – man's divine being. It is curious how sometimes even in small things one depends on this voice. Once Socrates was walking with a disciple. When they came to a place where they had to take a turn, the disciple said ...
... changes without feeling any change within himself. He helped the toiling world by the stillness of his Spirit. Thus he was slowly chiselling the imperfect material of his Nature into the image of a Divine being. When Nature would be completely transformed then a new creation with "God found in Nature, Nature fulfilled in God" as its basic condition, would come into existence The line forms, seen in this ...
... Brahman. For instance, as I look around the room I see everything as the Brahman – it is not thinking, it is a concrete experience, – even the wall, the book is Brahman. I see you not as X. but as a divine being in the Divine. It is a wonderful experience. Page 78 ...
... the supramental transformation of man. She assured them that he was present in their midst, not in a figurative sense or as a universal, impersonal consciousness, but as the very divine being he had been in his physical body, as the very dynamic Master they had loved and adored. Sri Aurobindo had often told them that his consciousness and the Mother's ...
... supramental transformation of man. She assured them that he was present in their midst, not in a figurative sense or as a universal, impersonal consciousness, but as the Page 65 very divine being he had been in his physical body, as the very dynamic Master they had loved and adored. . Sri Aurobindo had often told them that his consciousness and the Mother's were one; and now they realised ...
... s-Force and Bliss and the creative medium of Supermind into cosmic being; we ascend from Matter through a developing life, soul and mind and the illuminating medium of Super-mind towards the divine Being. The knot of the two, the higher and the lower hemisphere, is where mind and Supermind meet with a veil between them. The rending of the veil is the condition of the divine life in humanity, for ...
... manushah, narah ); they are our ' luminous seers ', ' our heroes ', ' our lords of plentitude '. They conduct the sacrifice in their human capacity ( manusvat ) as well as receive it in their high divine being. Agni is the priest of the oblation, Brihaspati the priest of the word. In this sense Agni is said to be born from the heart of man; all the gods are thus born by the sacrifice, grow, and out of ...
... "a dead resistance in the mortal's heart." It is this suffering that makes possible man's ascension to divine heights. The whole earth-consciousness is, as it were, in birth- pang to deliver the divine Being: "and yet the godhead in her is not born". Before that great event takes place all the gods and human beings have to work hard to bring it about: "with pain and labour all creation comes." Pain ...
... There were some who opened their consciousness spontaneously to her like "flowers answering to the sun". They gave themselves to her and "asked no more". Infact, she became to them their Soul, their divine being. For such men she was the guide who held their hands and chose their path. Such self-surrender is not, as is sometimes falsely alleged, an act of servile dependence, but over and above fulfilling ...
... Page 488 the popular idea which is but a half-truth and the right idea that would give 'self-determination' the true spiritual meaning: The recognition and fulfilment of the divine being in oneself and in man, the kingdom of God within and in the race is the basis on which man must come in the end to the possession of himself as a free self-determining being and of mankind too in ...
... Just let someone try to interpret it in a different way, and see the consequences! "All fanaticism," explained Sri Aurobindo, "is false, because it is a contradiction of the very nature of God. The Divine Being is eternal and universal and infinite. ..." Be that as it may, it seems to me a quirk of fate that in India of today—which is supposed to be a Hindu-majority country —Muslims and Christians ...
... supreme battle to prevent his free and utter passing on." The Vedic deities are "names, powers, personalities of the universal Godhead and they represent each some essential puissance of the Divine Being. . . . Children of Light, Sons of the Infinite, they call man to a divine companionship and alliance; they attract and uplift him to their luminous fraternity, Page 47 invite his ...
... And of what type are those divine messages? They are the divine existences, they follow the divine nature. They infuse the aspirant with a clear and pointed intellect which can discern the quintessence of truth. Page 110 7. The true mental being and his pure thought-powers, Indra and Maruts, are reflected in that pure divine mind. 8. Indra is the being of knowledge and delight... apprehended by the aspirant. Earth, mid-region, sky and svar , that is the body, life, mind and the vast Truth beyond mind become manifest in their divine essence in the human aspirant inhabited by the mental being. Indra is the divine mental being and Indra is the power of revealing the truth. NOTE The remaining suktas of Madhuchchhandar Mantramala also deal with Indra. So there... more awakes in him the divine mental being in all its virtues. And the pure thought-powers or the Maruts turn the flow of knowledge and power towards an inner spiritual discipline. Page 109 3. It is the power of pure-thoughts that manifests the light of knowledge in the darkness of Ignorance. With the gradual development of such thoughts the true mental being takes birth in the aspirant ...
... understand anything; they know nothing even about the Divine. They are full of ignorance and mischief—they are very small and cannot resist being nasty. They do not know what they are doing and why they are doing it. They are what they are. But I want these small beings to be transformed completely in order to become divine beings. I want perfection for everyone . This experience I summed up in my message... to my mind her message: To have a glimpse of the Truth, one must take at least one step back in one's consciousness, enter a little more deeply into one's being and try to perceive the play of forces behind the appearance, and the Divine Presence behind the play of forces . The Mother, Questions and Answers (1929 - 1931): Niraya (Hell) Here are Sri Aurobindo's words which are quite apt:... apt: To look into ourselves and see and enter into ourselves and live within us is the first necessary step for the transformation of our nature and for the divine life . Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine - II: The Divine Life ...
... rare that immediately one says, "This is not an ordinary human being." That's the case of people who have been considered more or less divine beings and who were great yogis, great initiates. The Mother Questions and Answers (1955): 17 August 1955 You wrote to me that it is not easy to come in contact with the psychic being. Why do You consider it difficult? How should I begin? I said... 4. The Psychic Being and Sadhana The Psychic Being Becoming Conscious of the Psychic Being—Need for Sadhana In the ordinary life there’s not one person in a million who has a conscious contact with his psychic being, even momentarily. The psychic being may work from within, but so invisibly and unconsciously for the outer being that it is as though it... voluntary. The psychic being always has an influence on the thoughts and actions, but one is rarely conscious of it. To become conscious of the psychic being, one must want to do so, make one's mind as silent as possible, and enter deep into the heart of one's being, beyond sensations and thoughts. One must form the habit of silent concentration and descent into the depths of one's being. The discovery ...
... this triple world of Ignorance man creates God Himself in his own image and beings that appear there are more or less the outcome of the creative human thought. So at times we do have things that are truly frightful. I have seen formations that are so obscure, so ununderstandable, so inexpressive! There are some divine beings that are treated worse than the others. Take, for example, this poor Mahakali... popular, which belong normally to entities of the vital world, at best to mental formations but which do not represent in any way the truth of the beings behind. All the idols in temples or the household gods worshipped by the many are inhabited by beings who know only how to lead you to unhappiness and disaster. They are so far away from the divinity that one means to worship. There are certain family... has man made of her, wildly terrible, a nightmare beyond imagination! Such creations however live in a very inferior world, in the lowest vital world; and if there is anything there of the original being, it is such a far off reflection that it is hardly recognisable. And yet it is that which is pulled by the human consciousness. When, for example, an image is made and installed and the priest calls ...
... this triple world of Ignorance man creates God Himself in his own image and beings that appear there are more or less the outcome of the creative human thought. So at times we do have things that are truly frightful. I have seen formations that are so obscure, so ununderstandable, so inexpressive! There are some divine beings that are treated worse than the others. Take, for example, this poor Mahakali... are popular, which belong normally to entities of the vital world, at best to mental formations but which do not represent in any way the truth of the beings behind. All idols in temples or the household gods worshipped by the many are inhabited by beings who know only how to lead you to unhappiness and disaster. They are so far away from the divinity that one means to worship. There are certain family... wildly terrible, a nightmare beyond imagination! Such creations however live in a very inferior world, in the lowest vital Page 124 world; and if there is anything there of the original being, it is such a far reflection that it is hardly recognisable. And yet it is that which is pulled by the human consciousness. When, for example, an image is made and installed and the priest calls down ...
... consciousness. I said seriously: I can certainly paint it like that, but it will not look nice—it will be most physical and material, while here we are showing the spiritual union of the two divine Beings in all purity of perfection. If you will approve, then I would like to show only their heads in white and gold flames. They meet in the highest Consciousness. What about that? She spread her... said of it: It is nice and full of feeling. I got down to redoing all the paintings which the Mother had rejected. I concentrated fully on her instructions. If the paintings were not being done with deep contemplation, true consciousness, real feeling, sincerity, right attitude and proper understanding, the Mother rejected them totally without any hesitation. Then I had to do them all... knowledge. But later I confessed before her. She only smiled because she knew that I could never adopt anybody's technique except her own. She had actually steeped me in her art and method, so my true being refused to accept anything else. This I realised concretely. Now, in addition to all this aid I took from the artist, a woman used to barge into my house without informing me beforehand. She would ...
... In the supramental creation there will no longer be any religions . The whole life will be the expression, the flowering into forms of the divine Unity manifesting in the world. And there will no longer be what men now call gods. These great divine beings themselves will be able to participate in the new creation; but to do so, they will have to put on what we could call the "supramental substance"... if some of them choose to remain in their world as they are, if they decide not to manifest physically, their relation with the beings of a supramental earth will be a relation of friends, collaborators, equals, for the highest divine essence will be manifested in the beings of the new supramental world on earth. When the physical substance is supramentalised, to incarnate on earth will no longer... through me he would do the work. Suddenly, immediately, things took a certain shape: a very brilliant creation was worked out in extraordinary detail, with marvellous experiences, contacts with divine beings, and all kinds of manifestations which are considered miraculous. Experiences followed one upon another, and, well, things were unfolding altogether brilliantly and... I must say, in an extremely ...
... the world. But the Divine Consciousness was already there, otherwise the world could not have existed. Will not the Supermind be one of the powers commanded by man for realising the Divine upon earth? ...You mean manifesting, I suppose. Anyone can realise the Divine— in the sense of being conscious of the Divine. Man is a mental being in a body — how can... "The Divine is there below in the Page 273 inconscience itself." Does this not mean that it is the divine beings themselves who, in order to raise the whole world towards the Truth, have made a great sacrifice and come down upon earth and concealed themselves in Matter, even forgetting their true reality? What beings? This is true of the Divine Light and... command of the Supermind which is far above mind? Even Overmind is far above him. As the mind has its corresponding divine plane the vital too must have such a plane of its own. What is that plane? Mind — Supermind Emotional being (heart)—Ananda Main vital — Tapas Matter — Sat These are the correspondences — but the Supra-mental is ...
... the cosmic law but to the transcendent Divine Law. Here the individual is absolutely, utterly, free from his little self, the minor self-law, he is totally merged in the Divine, his being and living becomes the Divine's own law of existence. Discipline then is the obedience of a learner to an ever-expanding and ever-ascending law of consciousness and being, until the law of the supreme status... status is realised which is the law of divine living: it is the utter submission or total obedience to the Divine Himself, when one is identified with the Divine in being and nature, where Law and Person are one and the same. Page 160 ... law of being. Discipline thus is only another term for tapasy ā , replacing the lower law gradually by a higher and higher law. Mother speaks of three lines of this higher law. First of all, the individual law which at its lowest and its most common form is the law of selfishness. It is the most elementary Page 158 and superficial degree of consciousness when the being is confined ...
... the cosmic law but to the transcendent Divine Law. Here the individual is absolutely, utterly, free from his little self, the minor self-law, he is totally merged in the Divine, his being and living becomes the Divine's own law of existence. Discipline then is the obedience of a learner to an ever-expanding and ever-ascending law of consciousness and being, until the law of the supreme status is... is realised which is the law of divine living: it is the utter submission or total obedience to the Divine Himself, when one is identified with the Divine in being and nature, where Law and Person are one and the same. Page 283 ... and a greater law of being. Discipline thus is only another term for tapasya, replacing the lower law gradually by a higher and higher law. Mother speaks of three lines of this higher law. First of all, the individual law which at its lowest and its most common form is the law of selfishness. It is the most elementary and superficial degree of consciousness when the being is confined to its own ...
... the world-play from the divine Ananda; his flute is the music of the call which seeks to transform the lower ignorant play of mortal life and bring into it and establish in its place the lila of his divine Ananda. It was the psychic being in you that heard the call and followed after it. Page 156 It is, I suppose, the image of Sri Krishna as Lord of the divine Love and Ananda—and his... his flute calls the physical being to awake out of the attachments of the physical world and turn to that Love and Ananda. Krishna with Radha is the symbol of the Divine Love. The flute is the call of the Divine Love; the peacock is victory. The green circular disc you saw round Venus must indeed have been the aura of Venus which is of that colour; but this was only an introduction, a first... The Opening of the Inner Senses The Opening of the Inner Senses Symbols Letters on Yoga - III Chapter VI Gods, Goddesses and Semi-Divine Beings Agni There are many forms of Agni,—the solar fire, the vaidyuta fire and the nether fire are one Trinity—the fivefold fire is part of the Vedic symbolism of sacrifice. The vision you saw of the man ...
... PHILOSOPHY AND YOGA " AN ATTEMPT AT A SCHEMATIC SUMMARY 1)"The Mind of Light" is a coinage of Sri Aurobindo's, applicable not to all the levels of mental being where Light (Divine Knowledge) has open play in various degrees, but only to the human mental level — which we may designate broadly as the physical-mental — when its ignorance essentially ceases and it becomes... call the Life-force of Light and the Body of Light, would constitute the Intermediate Race between the Human and the Supramental Races. The Supramental Race would be a directly manifested line of Divine Beings who have never gone through the process of earthly evolution: they would be the Supermind humanised, as differentiated from Humanity supramentalised. Humanity would be supramentalised by a natural... ntal partakes of the evolution from the Inconscient where everything arises out of a total submergence of Himself by the Divine for the stupendous experiment of self-manifestation Page 141 from His own opposite, as it were. Nothing except the full Dynamic Divine which is Supermind has the competence to deal successfully with the clinging original darkness due to that submergence. ...
... lucky—thirty years of sustained effort, I say. It may happen that it's quicker. But this is so rare that immediately one says, "This is not an ordinary human being." That's the case of people who have been considered more or less divine beings and who were great yogis, great initiates. ( Silence ) Page 269 Do you want a concentration, a meditation? I suggest that the lights may be... into contact with one's psychic being. Sweet Mother, here Sri Aurobindo says: "The nexus between the psychic being and the higher consciousness is the principal means of the siddhi." Ordinarily is there not a nexus between the psychic being and the higher consciousness? Page 268 Ordinarily means in the ordinary life? A relation between the psychic being... Yes. It is almost,... liberation of the psychic being mean? Because one has the feeling—this is a feeling one very often has in the beginning of the sadhana—that the psychic being is as though shut up in a kind of hard shell, a prison, and that this is what prevents it from manifesting outwardly and entering into a conscious and constant relation with the outer consciousness, the outer being. One has altogether the feeling ...
... realise the Divine in its essential self and truth...." Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 106 How can one understand the Divine? By being Him, my child. And that is the only way: by identity. As Sri Aurobindo says, "We know the Divine and become the Divine, because we are That already in our secret nature." It is because He is the very essence of our being that we... we can become Him and, consequently, understand Him; otherwise it would be quite impossible. How can we find the Divine within ourselves? Well, it is precisely what I have just said. What do you mean exactly?... By what method? First of all, you must begin to seek Him, and then that must be the most important thing in life. The will must be constant, the aspiration constant, the preoccupation... with other things for three-quarters of an hour, there is not much chance of success. Anyway, it will take many lifetimes. It must not be a pastime. It must be the exclusive preoccupation of one's being, the very reason of one's existence. Is that all? Page 94 Tell us something, Sweet Mother, since we don't have any questions. Why say anything? I can say this, that the most precious ...
... be resolved above all sensations and feelings and ideas, beyond the worlds of the mind ... in the Divine Consciousness. The integral yoga is constituted of an uninterrupted series of examinations which one must pass without being warned about them beforehand—which puts you under the obligation of being always vigilant and attentive. Three groups of examiners set these tests. Apparently they have... overmind. In the supramental creation there will no longer be any religions, the whole of life will be the expression, the flowering into forms of the divine Unity manifesting in the world, and there will no longer be any gods. The great divine beings who will choose not to manifest physically will be friends and collaborators on a footing of equality. When the physical substance is supramentalised... collaborate for the same purpose and are indispensable to the integrality of the result. These three categories of examinations are those set by the forces of Nature, those set by the spiritual and divine forces, and those set by the hostile forces. These latter are the most deceptive in their appearance and in order not to be taken by surprise, unprepared, demands a constant state of vigilance, sincerity ...
... successful way than mere rational scientific methods can hope to do. Sri Aurobindo saw that the very core of his teaching was being missed by this common interpretation of his saying. So he changed his words and said, "Our Yoga is not for humanity but for the Divine." But I am afraid this change of front, this volte-face, as it seemed, was not welcomed in many quarters; for thereby all hope of... one must guard against certain misconceptions that are likely to occur. The transformation of human life does not necessarily mean that the entire humanity will be changed into a race of gods or divine beings; it means the evolution or appearance on earth of a superior type of humanity, even as man evolved out of animality as a superior type of animality, not that the entire animal kingdom was changed... main theme of the past efforts and achievements. Furthermore, the descent Page 4 spoken of here is the descent, not of a divine consciousness—for there are many varieties of divine consciousness—but of the Divine's own consciousness, of the Divine himself with his Shakti. For it is that that is directly working out this evolutionary transformation of the age. It is not my purpose ...
... successful way than mere rational scientific methods can hope to do. Sri Aurobindo saw that the very core of his teaching was being missed by this common interpretation of his saying. So he changed his words and said, "Our Yoga is not for humanity but for the Divine." But I am afraid this change of front, this volte-face, as it seemed, was not welcomed in many quarters; for thereby all hope of... against certain misconceptions that are likely to occur. The transformation of human life does not necessarily mean that the entire humanity will be changed into a race of gods or divine beings; it means the evolution or appearance on earth of a superior type of humanity, even as man evolved out of animality as a superior type of animality, not that the entire animal kingdom was changed into humanity... the Divine himself, it is the Divine's own Shakti that is labouring for the destined end. Here is the very heart of the mystery, the master-key to the problem. The advent of the superhuman or divine race, however stupendous or miraculous the phenomenon may appear to be, can become a thing of practical actuality, precisely because it is no human agency that has undertaken it but the Divine himself ...
... indicate various psychological dynamisms, e.g. faith, love, protection, etc. There is another order of significances in which they indicate the aura or the activity of divine beings, Krishna, Mahakali, Radha or other superhuman beings, there is another in which they indicate the aura around objects or living persons—and that does not exhaust the list of possibilities. A certain knowledge, experiences... instance, means that some kind of creation is in process in some field of the being; the square indicates that the creation is to be complete in itself, while the rectangle indicates something partial and preliminary. The waves of colour mean a dynamic rush of forces and the star in such a context indicates the promise of the new being that is to be formed. It depends on the nature of the symbolic vision... Akasha or etheric space is a symbol of the infinite all-pervading eternal Brahman. In any nationality it would convey the same meaning. Also, the Sun stands universally for the Supramental Light, the divine Gnosis. 4) Mental Symbols, instances of which are numbers, alphabets. Once they are accepted, they too become active and may be useful. Thus geometrical figures have been variously interpreted. ...
... extremely interesting.... As long as man stands dazzled, lost in admiration of the power, beauty, accomplishments of these divine beings, he is their slave. But when these become for him different ways of being of the Supreme and nothing more, and himself yet another way of being of the Supreme, which he must become, then the relation Page 38 changes and he is no longer their slave—he is... but That. The present way of being is a past which truly should no longer be there. While the other: "Ah! At last! At last! It is for this that there is a world." And everything else remains quite as concrete and real—it does not become hazy! It is just as concrete, just as real, but... but it becomes divine, because... because it is the Divine. It is the Divine who plays. Page 40 ... idea that this was possible, because it had happened to her! But when I am in my own state—I cannot even say that, it is not "personal", it is a way of being—when one is in the true state, when one is a conscious being and has the true way of being, this cannot touch one. It is like the experience of meeting an enemy and wanting to strike him, and then the blows do not go home and all that you ...
... satisfied only... when the thing will be done, that is to say, when what is now a revelation—dazzling but short-lived—will be an established fact, when truly there will be divine bodies, divine beings dealing with the world in a divine way; then, then only it will say, "Yes, that is it", but not before. Well, that, I do not believe that it can be immediately. Because I see very well, very well what... a... a Force, a Will that moves forward step by step and that cannot stop in order to tell the story, to rest content with what has been done. ( Silence ) Is there anywhere upon earth a being truly divine, that is to say, who is not ruled by any law of inconscience?... One would know, it seems to me. If it existed and I did not know it, then I must say that I must have somewhere in me a very great... has written it, for it was only a quotation) that if the divine Consciousness, the divine Power, the divine Love, the Truth manifested itself too rapidly upon the earth, the earth would be dissolved! She would not be able to bear it... brrf! I am translating, but the idea is that. But perhaps not the highest divine dose, but a small divine dose! ( Mother laughs ) The smaller dose is always ...
... identity is the characteristic of spiritual knowledge. If one keeps oneself separate and seeks to apprehend the Divine as an object outside, the Divine escapes or is caught only by the trail it leaves, its echoes and shadows, its apparent qualities and attributes. But one with the Divine, the being realises and possesses it in full consciousness, the Revealer reveals himself as such (vrnute tanum sw ā... The Revealer and the Revelation How the horizontal view limits and maims one's spiritual perception is further illustrated in the case of the famous Gloomy Dean. Dean Inge is a divine and as spiritual a person as one can hope to be in the modern world. He has, however, voluntarily clipped his wings and in the name of a surer rational knowledge and saner spirituality prefers a lower ...
... Aurobindo describes the different pantheons of different countries, specially of Greece or India. That is to say, it is an aesthetic and intellectual way of transforming all things into divine creatures, divine beings: all the forces of Nature, all the elements, all spiritual forces, all intellectual forces, all physical forces, all these are transformed into a number of godheads and they are given an... It is the truth of each being. Each being carries in himself his own spiritual law, his supramental law. It is not the same for everyone, it is not one single identical law. For each one it is the truth of his being, that is to Page 140 say, the thing he must realise in the universe and the place he must occupy in the world. That is the truth of his being. " Inadequate too... progress. You see, one who is known here as a sattwic man 1 is usually very comfortably settled in his own virtue and never thinks of coming out of it. So, that puts you a million leagues away from the divine realisation. What really helps, until one has found the inner light, is to make for oneself a certain number of rules which naturally should not be too rigid and fixed, but yet should be precise ...
... the gods is extremely interesting. As long as man is dazzled, in admiration before the power, beauty, realizations of those divine beings, he is their slave. But when they are, to him, ways of being of the Supreme and nothing more, and when he himself is another way of being of the Supreme, which he must become, then the relationship is different and he is no longer their slave—he is NOT their slave... the idea that it was possible, since it had happened to her!... But when I am in my state (I can't even say that, it's not "personal": it's a way of being), when you have the true way of being, when you are a little conscious and have the true way of being, it CANNOT touch you. It's like the experience of coming across an enemy and trying to hit him, and then none of the blows hit and whatever you... But what is objective, then? There ARE worlds, there ARE beings, there ARE powers, they have their own existence, but what I mean is that the form their relationships with the human consciousness take depends on that human consciousness. It's the same with the gods, mon petit, the same thing! The relationship with all those beings of the Overmind, with all those gods, the form those relationships ...
... say, "These people are cranks!" Now to come back to the gods and conclude. It must be said that all those beings who have never had an earthly existence—gods or demons, invisible beings and powers—do not possess what the Divine has put into man: the psychic being. And this psychic being gives to man true love, charity, compassion, a deep kindness, which compensate for all his external defects. ... legitimate as any other; and in any case it recognises the concrete reality of these divine beings. These are beings who belong to the progressive creation of the universe and have themselves presided over its formation, from the most ethereal or subtle to the most material regions; it is a descent of the divine creative Spirit. And they descended progressively, through realities more and more—one... relations with those beings that are identical with the relations you have with physical beings, with this difference that the relation is more plastic, supple and direct—for example, there is the capacity to change the external form, the visible form, according to the inner state you are in. But you can make an appointment with someone and be at the appointed place and find the same being again, with certain ...
... things, in having the capacity to objectify them. It is a curve of ascent, but that curve moves away from the Divine, and one must rise much higher to find again, naturally, a higher Divine, for it is a conscious Divine, whereas the others are Page 348 divine without being conscious, spontaneously and instinctively. And our whole moral notion of good and bad, we have thrown all that upon... fruit should be eaten in its own way. A being living according to its own nature, its own truth, should spontaneously discover its own way of using things. When you live according to the truth of your being, you have no need to learn things, you do them spontaneously, according to the inner law. When you follow your nature spontaneously and sincerely, you are divine. As soon as you think, see yourself... a tiger, more evolved, and higher in the spiral, that is to say, nearer to the Divine? To be conscious is not the point. Man is more evolved than the tiger, there is not the shadow of a doubt, but the tiger is more divine than man. You must not confuse things: the two things are quite different. You see, the Divine is everywhere, in everything. You should never forget that, not for a second should ...
... tends to awaken the consciousness and evolve the being. Page 231 21st November, 1939 Disciple : If love is an unconscious seeking for the Divine, why some people, who have turned to the Divine will seek the human love, especially here? Sri Aurobindo : Are they conscious of the Divine? If one is conscious of the Divine, one of the two things would happen : either... exclusively to the Divine or being conscious of the Divine one may keep the human love as an appendage. Disciple : Supposing a man is unconscious and seeks human love can it not be a seeking for Divine? Sri Aurobindo : These things are hardly pure – they are always mixed up. It may be only a cover for something else. There are people who, as I said, when turn to the Divine turn away from... as something Divine. The elements of love are : adoration and desire for the union. Disciple : Is such a love an unconscious seeking for the Divine? It may not bring divine fulfillment but that of love itself. Sri Aurobindo : Yes, it is. Disciple : Is it possible to evoke the Divine in oneself to love the other? Sri Aurobindo : If one has found the Divine in oneself ...
... In any case, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were not after such a suspension and not even after a divine immortality imposed on the body by a special Siddhi, a supernormal power exercised against the body's nature. What they wanted was to awaken the body's own latent Dharma of being divine so that a divine immortality would prove to be its very nature. Our critics would also do well to have a proper view... blind and blundering and tormented labour it has happened to be. If the psychic being had come to the fore and assumed leadership, the unfoldment could Page 45 have been as if the protracted yet beautiful and happy opening of a tightly shut flower. The Divine Grace may intervene, especially if our psychic beings press constantly into the outer consciousness. But, whether we have a hard... incarnate role responded. There have been unexpected turns in the past of the Integral Yoga. After the descent of the Overmind into the body on November 24, 1926, the Mother tried to bring down divine beings from the highest spiritual level to work in the human instruments and she could manifest even in her physical form something of her four goddess personalities and powers: Maheshwari, Mahakali, ...
... upon the origin. Have all psychic beings the same origin? This is how things happen. The origin of the psychic life, the divine Presence in Matter is one and the same, that's understood, but there are beings in the higher world who have never taken a body upon earth and who want to act there, have a terrestrial action. So they wait till some psychic beings attain their full development and unite... attracted, but this does not mean that they have decided sincerely to follow the spiritual life. The chief characteristic of these beings is falsehood: their nature is made of deceit. They have a power of illusion; they can take the appearance of divine beings or higher beings, they can appear in a dazzling light, but truly sincere people are not deceived, they immediately feel something that warns them... all psychic beings are not necessarily united with a being of the higher planes. Then Mother passes on to another question, that of "possession" or the embodiment on earth of beings of the vital world (See Questions and Answers 1929 , 12 May ). Have these vital beings a psychic being? No, I said that the first thing they have to do to incarnate is to drive away the psychic being of the person ...
... rapture and the joy to live. 28 The Spring, too, gives us a faint foretaste of the rapture that seizes the human soul when it meets the divine beings: His grasp was a young god's upon earth's limbs, Changed by the passion of his divine outbreak 25 Ibid., p. 351. 26 lbid., p. 46. 27 Ibid., p. 351. 28 Ibid., pp. 351-52. Page 253 ... is hidden. Thus, a chariot hurtling down earthly pathways serves as a ringing echo of the divine chariots speeding down gold streets of ether unretarded by any friction of matter. Notice how in the fourth line, driving as a metaphor is invigorated by the fact that a chariot is actually being driven. The second instance comes from Savitri. Savitri the heroine has set out in quest... clamours of winged storm-charge, Throngs of wind-faces, rushing of wind-feet Hurrying swept through the prone afflicted plains. 24 But this is a titanic onslaught, not the way of the divine beings. They come gently and bring peace and calm and bliss and warm sunshine. So we await the mellowing touch of Autumn: Earth's mood now changed; she lay in lulled repose, The hours went ...
... psychic as being only individual. SRI AUROBINDO: It is a mistake to suppose that the psychic is only individual or consists only of individuality. There is a universal psychic like the rest. PURANI: Is it there that the soul retires after leaving the body and gathers material for a new birth? SRI AUROBINDO: Yes. PURANI: He also asks how the distinction is made in The Life Divine between... between Being and Non-being. Does the Non-Being come after Overmind—or before it? SRI AUROBINDO: Why is he particular about the Non-Being? You arrive at the Non-Being by following the negative path. That is to say, when you start from mind, I mean spiritual mind, you come or open yourself to the experience of Nirvana. This Nirvana is the negation of all that the mind can affirm as the Being but it is only... only a gate of entry into the Absolute. From this Nirvana you can either take up the negative or the affirmative path. By the negative you reach the Non-Being or what the Gita calls anirdeshyam (the Indeterminate). This Non-Being is the Buddhists Nirvana or Chinese Tao. The Buddhists consider it as Shunya, the Void, while to the Taoists this void, contains everything. Again, this Nirvana is not the ...
... human consciousness - the possibility of man rising' from the animal to divinity. Narad himself represents a divine consummation of the human being. He is a devarshi, that is to say, he has by his tapasya and spiritual growth surpassed his humanity and developed into a divine immortal being. Now his special work is to be a wandering angel - surveying the world, help it in its onward march, bring to... and win the glory of divine immortality. * Savitri (Cent. Ed., Vol. 29), Bk.VI, C.I, p. 415. Page 44 LINES FROM Savitri A seer was born, a shining Guest of Time. For him mind's limiting firmament ceased above, In the griffin forefront of the Night and Day A gap was rent in the all-concealing vault; The conscious ends of being went rolling back: ... stairs of birth; Forerunners of a divine multitude Out of the paths of the morning star they came Into the little room of mortal life.¹ Notes: The whole thing refers to the New Creation coming down from above – now down into the psycho-vital or physico-vital or even the subtle physical plane. This New Creation is the creation of the Divine Love – the Mother's Love. Morning ...
... human consciousness - the possibility of man rising from the animal to divinity. Narad himself represents a divine consummation of the human being. He is a devarshi, that is to say, he has by his tapasya and spiritual growth surpassed his humanity and developed into a divine immortal being. Now his special work is to be a wandering angel - surveying the world, help it in its onward march, bring to... glory of divine immortality. Lines From Savitri: (1) A Seer was born, a shining Guest of Time. For him mind's limiting firmament ceased above, 1. Sri Aurobindo: Savitri, sabcl, Vol. 29. p. 415. Page 26 In the griffin forefront of the Night and Day A gap was rent in the ail-concealing vault; The conscious ends of being went... as usual, was sailing through the spaces, with his Vina, singing songs of innocence and joy. He was in the higher luminous heavens, the world of happiness, of light and delight, his heart full of divine felicity and his music echoing the music of his heart. Now he thought of coming down, into the lower spaces, regions nearer to the earth. And as he entered the earth atmosphere a change came over the ...
... indicate various psychological dynamisms, e.g., faith, love, protection, etc. There is another order of significances in which they indicate the aura or the activity of divine beings, Krishna, Mahakali, Radha or else of other superhuman beings; there is another in which they indicate the aura around objects or living persons—and that does not exhaust the list of possibilities. A certain knowledge, experiences... hostile vital forces. The lights one sees in concentration are the lights of various powers or beings or forces and often lights that come down from the higher consciousness. The violet light is that of the Divine Compassion ( karuṇā —Grace)—the white light is the light of the Mother (the Divine Consciousness) in which all others are contained and from which they can be manifested. Page 123... for this sadhana. The white light is, as you know, the Mother's light—it is the light of the Force of the Divine Consciousness; the sun of white light is symbolic of that Force in its origin and fullness of manifestation. It is a very good sign and if one feels its power in the being or mind or body it can have a strong influence. What you saw was the Light (the white Light is the Mother's) ...
... necessary sometime or other for that growth and well-being – the contingency is not ruled out – well, that destiny too has to be accepted as part of the divine purpose, as protection itself. For after all life and life's powers have no intrinsic' or absolute value of their own, their value depends upon the soul's need of them for its divine well-being. Page 383 ... hostiles and therefore need special protection. The Divine extends that protection, but under conditions – for his rule in the material field is not yet absolute. The Asura too extends his protection to his agents, and his protection appears sometimes, if not often, more effective; for the present world is under his domination and all forces and beings obey him; God and the godly have to admit his terms... dedicated to the Divine, the life that is in some way connected with the higher consciousness, through which something of the world of light and delight comes down into our mortality acquires a special worth and naturally calls for divine protection. Likewise the property placed at the service of the Divine, which is used as an instrument for the Divine's own work upon earth, the Divine will surely ...
... soothing your trouble. When I say "call' I do not mean that you have asked the Divine just to cure you: you have sent out your cry basically for the Divine just to come. There is nothing wrong in praying for the welfare of your body, but the core of every invocation is the appeal to the Divine to fill wholly your being and make it a humble part of his perfection. I remember those lines of the poet... little way I have been instrumental in making more and more real in your consciousness the Divine Presence at that sacred spot in the midst of worship-breathing flowers and heavenward-aspiring incense, I feel most humbly happy in the service of our two Masters who have brought their immensity home to us by being at the same time our souls' parents. Of late a certain method of sadhana has been taking... time you may tell me what they are. Knowing them I shall feel closer to your inmost being and get in keener touch with their beauty and truth in the depths of the sweetness and light that are you, I should say "you here", for there is a "you yonder", a high-above counterpart to the deep-below Psyche, the Divine-impelled aspirant. It is the "you yonder" who is hidden in the glowing red sun you saw ...
... monkey, one of the big monkeys, had met the first man, he would simply have felt that it was a being a little... queer, that's all. But now it is different, because man thinks, reasons. But with regard to all that is superior to man, man has been accustomed to think that these were beings... divine beings, that Page 96 is to say, they had no body, they appeared in the light—in short, all... entire body was emptied of its habits and its forces, and then slowly, slowly, slowly the cells woke up to a new receptivity and opened themselves to the Divine Influence directly. Otherwise there would be no hope. If this matter that started by being... Even a pebble is already an organisation—certainly it was worse than a pebble: unconscious, inert, absolute; and then, little by little, little by... mastery that was there in all the states of being, the vital, the mental and above, all that gone! and this poor body left to itself. And then naturally, little by little, all that was rebuilt, rebuilt, a conscious, purely conscious being. Yes, I understand, I understand. But truly it was cut off, that I have known—I have seen—cut off, the states of being sent away: "Go away, you are no longer wanted ...
... resolved above all sensations and feelings and ideas, beyond the words of the mind ...in the Divine Consciousness. The integral yoga is constituted of an uninterrupted series of examinations which one must pass without being warned about them beforehand _ which puts you under the obligation of being always vigilant and attentive. Three groups of examiners set these tests. Apparently they have... overmind. In the supramental creation there will no longer be any religions, the whole of life will be the expression, the flowering into forms of the divine Unity manifesting in the world, and there will no longer be any gods. The great divine beings who will choose not to manifest physically will be friends and collaborators on a footing of equality. When the physical substance is supramentalised... can lead him quickly to the Lord and serve His Divine Purpose, — and I am very grateful for the lesson. In our way of working we must not be the slaves of Nature; all these habits of trying and changing', doing and undoing and redoing again and again, wasting energy, labour, material and money, are Nature's way of action, not the Divine's. The Divine Consciousness sees first the truth of a work, ...
... these are all living beings, each with his own independent reality. They would exist even if men did not exist! Most of these gods existed before man. They are beings who belong to the progressive creation of the universe and who have themselves presided over its formation from the most etheric or subtle regions to the most material regions. They are a descent of the divine creative Spirit that... our stories of historical periods. Of course, it's not the only way of seeing, but it is just as legitimate a way as the others, and in any event, it recognizes the concrete reality of all these divine beings. Even now, the experiences of Western occultists and those of Eastern occultists exhibit great similarities. The only difference is in the way they are expressed, but the manipulation of the forces... mythology are terrible beings... They cut off people's heads, tear their enemies to pieces!... The Greeks were not always tender either! In Europe and in the modern Western world, it is thought that all these gods—the Greek gods and the 'pagan' gods, as they are called—are human fancies, that they are not real beings. To understand, one must know that they are real beings. That is the difference ...
... which animates "A Strong Son of Lightning", I am tempted to quote a little piece of mine which is not in any grand style yet has a quality of its own and is relevant to the subject of a divine being's advent and departure. It weaves both the events into one whole of spiritual effectiveness. Here it is: A SON OF GOD From heaven you came - Your soul a word Of airy... beyond peak shines out for a further manifesto of mastery, For the Divine is no fixed paradise But truth beyond great truth, as Amal Kiran says in a sonnet. I hope you are not tired out by my own endless-seeming reflections apropos of your remarks on "The Death of a God". Looking at the theme of the Divine's disappearance in this poem and at the theme of Page 45 ... utter peace. Even the flicker of an idea that there was going to be an accident was not present. I did not consciously appeal to the Divine for help, but I know that at all times something deep down in me is always open Page 49 and the presence of the Divine is never far. Of course, in spite of the luminous proximity in some degree or other, one's spells of outer unconsciousness could ...
... Nature, Nature expressing the being, executing the will, satisfying the self-knowledge, ministering to the delight of being of the soul. There we have, founded on the very nature of being, the supreme and the universal relation of Prakriti with Purusha. The absolute joy of the soul in itself and, based upon that, the absolute joy of the soul in Nature are the divine fulfilment of the relation... creative purpose." 2 But why is this so ? Because, in their essential nature and original aspect, Purusha and Prakriti arise from the being of divine Sachchidananda. As a matter of fact, "Self-conscious existence is the essential nature of the Being; that is Sat or Purusha: the Power of self-aware existence, whether drawn into itself or acting in the works of its consciousness and force... This biune being of Purusha-Prakriti is as if a flaming Sun and body of divine Light self-carried in its orbit by its own inner consciousness and power at one with the universe, at one with a supreme Transcendence. Its madness is a wise madness of Ananda, the incalculable ecstasy of a supreme consciousness and power vibrating with an infinite sense of freedom and intensity in its divine life-movements ...
... different from the true reality of any other being? The true reality of all is the Divine. Is not the Supermind one instrument of man for realising the Divine upon earth? Realising means what? You mean manifesting, I suppose. Anyone can realise the Divine, in the sense of being conscious of the Divine. Man is a mental being in a body — how can he have command of the... vision of things, can it not be said that the Divine arranges and plans all future occurrences of one's life and their exact time also? It is not mentally arranged by the Divine — the word plan is a mere metaphor. But the Divine sees what arises out of the movement of being and there is Foresight and a Sanction above. Does the Divine Power work in us at all times, even though we... that the vital beings allow Gods to remain on their plane? The vital plane is not one world but many. In which of the worlds do the divine vital beings stay? There are worlds of the vital Gods, they stay there. How has the vital world which can have even its own Gods got distorted in us? Everything in the exterior being is distorted by ...
... in Hinduism a welter of doctrines: there is only a recognition of the infinite possibilities of the omnipotent divine nature and the extreme multiplicity of frail aspiring human nature. All that Hinduism asks is: Can you in any manner realise the Supreme Page 83 Being who is at once transcendent, universal and individual and whose modes of manifestation are myriad? Without the least... devoid of it is not to the credit of the latter. What, after all, is the basis of the system? It is a recognition of the non-uniformity of human nature rooted in the multi-aspectedness of the Divine's being and action and an attempt to make the non-uniformity work with the utmost efficiency. Human nature falls into four main functions: the seeking of knowledge , inner and outer, and the giving of... to lead and rule - the seeking to produce wealth , promote trade , secure the physical well-being of society the seeking to serve and obey and exercise the capacity to do manual labour. The four functions are crystallised in the Brahmin, the Kshatriya, the Vaishya, the Sudra . Of course, no human being is entirely one-functioned and room must be left in any social system for passage from one group ...
... the apes, the large apes, had met the first man, he would simply have felt he was a somewhat ... strange being, that's all. But now it's different because man thinks, reasons. But anything higher than him man has been used to thinking of as ... divine beings; that is to say, bodiless beings, appearing in the light, anyway all the gods in human conception—but it's not that at all! ( long silence... silence ) It's a denial of all the spiritual assertions of the past: "If you want to live fully conscious of the divine life, leave your body—the body cannot follow." Well, Sri Aurobindo came and said, "Not only can the body follow, but it can be the base that will manifest the Divine." The work remains to be done. But now there is a certitude. The result is still very far—very far off, there... time, the vast majority—the vast majority—of human intellectuality is perfectly satisfied being busy with itself, satisfied with its little progress like this ( Mother draws a microscopic circle ). It doesn't even, doesn't even have a desire for something else! Which means the advent of the superhuman being may well ... it may very well go unnoticed, or not be understood. We can't say, because there ...
... remains to be done.... The divine Consciousness and Truth manifested in her body "in a flash", as a "dazzling but short-lived" revelation bringing about "an imperceptible change" which sustained its courage and gave it "a kind of smiling peace". But it would be satisfied only "when truly there will be divine bodies, divine beings dealing with the world in a divine way"; but that would not happen... how to find it? A fortnight earlier the Mother had said: Do you know what is true love? There is only one true love, the love from the Divine, which, in human beings, turns into love/or the Divine. Shall we say that the nature of the Divine is Love. 5 To serve the Truth, then, to serve the supreme Truth, the best course was the way of love, the way of surrender, the way of offering... conversation of 18 May 1966: As long as man stands dazzled, lost in admiration of the power, beauty, accomplishments of these divine beings, he is their slave. But when these become for him different ways of being of the Supreme and nothing more and himself yet another way of being of the Supreme, which he must become, then the relation changes and he is no longer their slave - he is not their slave ...
... people who have been considered more or less divine beings and who were great yogis, great initiates. Source The Psychic Being [The Psychic being] is a centre of light and truth and knowledge and beauty and harmony which the Divine Self in each of you creates by his presence, little by little; it is influenced, formed and moved by the Divine Consciousness of which it is a part and parcel... turned to the Divine, saying, "I want to be yours", and the Divine has said, "Yes", the whole world cannot keep you from it. When the central being has made its surrender, the chief difficulty has disappeared. The outer being is like a crust. In ordinary people the crust is so hard and thick that they are not conscious of the Divine within them. If once, even for a moment only, the inner being has said... the being around the divine Centre can only be done in a physical body and on earth. That is truly the essential and original reason for physical life. For, as soon as you are no longer in a physical body, you can no longer do it at all . And what is still more remarkable is that only human beings can do it, for only human beings have at their centre the divine Presence in the psychic being... ...
... (theologians) of Christendom, the higher Heavens sheltered also non-human, that is to say, godly or divine beings – angels and archangels, cherubs and seraphs – powers of Love, powers of Knowledge – Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Principalities, as Dante names them – various grades and modes of the divine force and energy – or, as we say, Personalities and Emanations. Indeed Dante's mind was full... the poisons they nourished within them, now burst out being no more pressed and contained within. Dante was overwhelmed, he could not bear to look at the scene, man has to suffer so much: but how long? Virgil shook his head and said, "Much more he has to suffer, it is man's own guilt. Long they will have to suffer." "Long? How long?" "That is Divine Justice." There is atonement for many sins – various... heard of me. I am Virgil from Mantua of Italy." "Oh, the great Virgil, the divine Virgil!" I exclaimed. "Yes," he answered, "the same." – Virgil who sang of the glory of Roman civilisation, of Roman greatness and also it was he, wonderful to say, mirabile dictu, who spoke of the advent of the new age and the birth of the Divine Child. It was just before the birth of Christ when Virgil made this prophecy ...
... were not this supreme reason, of rediscovering the Divine and being Him, manifesting Him, realising Him externally, earthly life as it is would be something monstrous. Naturally, the more people are unconscious, the less do they understand this, for they do not objectify, they live mechanically, according to habit, without even objectifying or being aware of their way of living. And as the consciousness... in you and you aspire to realise it, you won't any longer say to the Divine, "Give me this, give me that", or, "I need this, I must have that." You will tell Him, "Do what is necessary for me and lead me to the Truth of my being. Give me what Thou in Thy supreme Wisdom seest as the thing I need." And then you are sure of not being mistaken, and He will not give you something which harms you. There... enlighten you and make you conscious of your mistake, that it was truly not the thing you needed. And then you begin to protest―I don't mean you personally, I am speaking of all human beings―and you say, "Why has the Divine given me something which harms me?"―completely forgetting that it was you who asked for it! In both cases you protest all the same. If He gives you what you ask and then that brings ...
... spark of the Divine before it has evolved into an individualised being; the divine essence in the individual. In the course of the evolution, the soul grows and evolves in the form of a soul-personality, the psychic being. See also psychic being and soul. the psychic — psychic being, the term is sometimes used for the psyche or soul. See also psyche and psychic being. psychic... the transcendent and infinite existence. Bhakti — devotion, love for the Divine. central being — the portion of the Divine which supports the individual being and survives from life to life; it has two forms: jivātman, which is above the manifestation in life, presiding over it, and the psychic being, which stands behind mind, life and body in the manifestation, supporting them and... psychic being — the divine portion in the individual which evolves from life to life, growing, by its experiences until it becomes a fully conscious being. The term "soul" is often used as a synonym for "psychic being", but strictly speaking, the soul is the undifferentiated psychic essence, whereas the psychic being is the individualised soul-personality developed by the psychic essence in the course ...
... upon. Besides, in the invisible world hardly any beings love to be worshipped, except those of the vital. These, as I said, are quite pleased by it. And then, it gives them importance. They are puffed up with pride and feel very happy, and when they can get a herd of people to worship them they are quite satisfied. But if you take real divine beings, this is not at all something they value. They do... Page 189 They are not at all the same thing. Mysticism is a more or less emotive relation with what one senses to be a divine power—that kind of highly emotional, affective, very intense relation with something invisible which is or is taken for the Divine. That is mysticism. Occultism is exactly what he has said: it is the knowledge of invisible forces and the power to handle them.... happy or glorified by your pujas. You must get rid of that idea. There is an entire domain between the spiritual and the material worlds which belongs to vital beings, and it is this domain that is full of all these things, because these beings live upon that, are happy with it, and it immediately gives them importance; and the one who has the greatest number of believers, devotees and worshippers is ...
... Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: The Jivatman in the Integral Yoga The psychic being is organised around the divine spark. The divine spark is one, universal, the same everywhere and in everything, one and infinite, of the same kind in all. You cannot say that it is a being—it is the being , if you like, but not a being . Naturally, if you go back to the origin, you may say that there is only one... the psychic being is an individual, personal being with its own experience, its own development, its own growth, its own organisation; only, this organisation is the product of the action of a central divine spark. But the day an external being (physical, mental, vital) enters into direct and constant contact with the psychic being, one may say in the same way that the physical being of this person... comes out of the Divine without ever leaving Him and goes back to Him without ever ceasing from manifestation. The soul is the Divine made individual without ceasing to be divine. In the soul the individual and the Divine are eternally one. Thus to find one’s soul is to be united with the Divine. It can therefore be said that the role of the soul is to make of man a true being. The Mother ...
... that dominated not only his being but his nature also. After that he was driven by a divine breath into still higher regions of being ".. .past not-self and self and selflessness". In that region there is no duality of love and hate, good and evil, fate and chance and true and false. These things there "Find no access, no cause, no right to live." It being the realm of perfect harmony... crowding down the amber stairs of birth; Forerunners of the Divine multitude "The architects of immortality." Having seen those divine beings come to the fallen human spheres he felt that they were quite a different race of men from those that lived before them. In spite of this help that came down in the form of higher beings that incarnate themselves upon earth, still, the burden is... home." The effort of man for knowledge, the strivings of his Page 232 passion—all human effort in fact,—are directed towards this divine Power. It is through her that man will realise his unity with all beings and the fulfilment of divine life on earth. Aswapathy knew this "in a thunder-flash of God" and all his limbs were filled with joy of eternity. For "once seen, his heart acknowledged ...
... attracted, but this does not mean that they have decided sincerely to follow the spiritual life. The chief characteristic of these beings is falsehood: their nature is made of deceit. They have a power of illusion; they can take the appearance of divine beings or higher beings, they can appear in a dazzling light, but truly sincere people are not deceived, they immediately feel something that warns them... comments on the beings who live in these worlds which are invisible to ordinary eyes. I am even told that I speak very often of negative entities, that is to say, of hostile formations, of small beings formed from the disintegration of human beings after their death―the disintegration of the vital or mental being at death―but that I have never spoken of the great beings, the magnificent beings or positive... 1951): 2 April 1951 Have these vital beings a psychic being? No, I said that the first thing they have to do to incarnate is to drive away the psychic being of the person whom they possess. That may happen from the very birth. There are children who are almost still-born; they are taken to be dead and suddenly they revive—this means that a vital being has incarnated in them. I have known such ...
... there is an Infinite, Eternal, Perfect Being who is one yet capable of a myriad forms of manifestation, a Being whose divinity lives like a secret fire in all things and creatures and can guide and enlighten the human to unite with the divine, a Being who down the ages manifests also in a special sovereign form of spirituality which is the Avatar, the direct divine Incarnation. The Vedas, the Upanishads... only the ideals of liberty and equality but all ideals whatever must imply a divine sanction when they are offered us as true. The sense of unconditional imperativeness and inherent validity, without which no "ought" exists, leads ever to a theocracy of the universe. And if India or any State wishes to escape the charge of being a monstrous monument of cynical opportunism it must be overtly or covertly... side and the sense of it in human breasts works ultimately on their behalf. Our morals and ideals may not always image the divine depths of the eternal Law; but there can be nothing like morality and idealism without an effort or aspiration to image the depths that are divine of a Law that is eternal. Page 478 This is plain logic. And every State must either accept this logic or ...
... your psychic being, you will never dream of thinking, "Oh! I would like to be in contact with Divine Love" — you are in a state in which everything appears to you to be this Divine Love and nothing else. ...So, Divine Love need not be sought and known apart from the psychic being? Page 55 No, find your psychic being and you will understand what Divine Love is. Do not... * Mother, the psychic being in us is always in contact with the Divine: so one should have this experience all the time, for... Page 54 If one were in contact with one's psychic being all the time, yes. But it is a fact: from the moment one is in contact with one's psychic being all the time, one is in contact with the divine Presence all the time. And you... contact with my psychic being all the time, when I am in contact with the divine Presence all the time, in all things. This will be a proof for me that I am in contact with my psychic being." 58 * Can it be said that the psychic vibration is the vibration of Divine Love? Each one of you should be able to get into touch with your own psychic being, it is not an inaccessible ...
... words and syllogisms, but to act, love and know. I must act divinely so that I may become divine in being and deed; I must learn to love God not only in Himself but in all beings, appearances, objects, enjoyments, events, whether men call them good or bad, real or mythical, fortunate or calamitous; and I must know Him with the same divine impartiality and completeness in order that I may come to be... Essays Divine and Human Essays Divine and Human Circa 1911 Essays Divine and Human Philosophy The knowledge which the man of pure intellect prefers to a more active and mundane curiosity, has in its surroundings a certain loftiness and serene detachment that cannot fail in their charm. To withdraw from contact with emotion and life and weave a luminous... knowledge. He treads down his emotions, because emotion distorts reason and replaces it by passions, desires, preferences, prejudices, prejudgments. He avoids life, because life awakes all his sensational being and puts his reason at the mercy of egoism, of sensational reactions of anger, fear, hope, hunger, ambition, instead of al lowing it to act justly and do disinterested work. It becomes merely the paid ...
... been published, and with the hindsight we have of their lives, it is sometimes thought that their Work on Earth was completely preordained. After all, they were “special,” being divine incarnations, and, in the life of such beings, is not all settled beforehand, from beginning to end and with everything in between? Supposing this to be a given, some disciples even wrote to Sri Aurobindo that for him... are sweeping over the world and are being accepted with significant rapidity;” and he could point to the “dynamic ideas such as Nietzsche’s Will-to-live, Bergson’s exaltation of intuition above intellect, or the latest German philosophical tendency [German Idealism] to acknowledge a supramental faculty and a suprarational order of truths.” 7 In The Life Divine he wrote: “Now that we are outgrowing... narrated that immediately after Sri Aurobindo’s withdrawal “things took a certain shape: a very brilliant creation was worked out in extraordinary detail, with marvellous experiences, contacts with divine beings, and all kinds of manifestations which are considered miraculous. Experiences followed upon experiences, and, well, things were unfolding altogether brilliantly and, I must say, in an extremely ...
... in the world, much nearer to the Vedic Rishis in time, more capable of understanding and entering into their mentality, did not hold this view of the ancient deities. They considered them to be divine beings whose nature was vital, moral and spiritual, not simply material; they thought sacrifice to be a helpful and even a necessary symbolism. Throughout the Brahmanas & Upanishads we see this constant... expressions which do not agree very well with the naturalistic conception of Agni. A divine personification of Fire may be described poetically as the Purohit, Ritwik and Hota of the sacrifice (purohitam Yajnasya devam ritwijam hotaram ratnadhatamam), though it is curious—the old clear & rigid ideas on these subjects being given—to find these different functions heaped pell-mell together without any clear... g—the word used being the very one employed to describe Virat Vaisvanara, the Master of Page 12 the physical universe—we find him to be satya, serving the fundamental law of the world (satyadharmanam adhware), opposed to all deviation & crookedness—chitrasravas, he, shall we not say, who has detailed knowledge of the Sruti,—jatavedas Agni—kavikratu, the mighty in divine knowledge, well ...
... confronted with the torture and the vicious or random killing of a few or even a single human being. To this problem every religion has to find an answer in order to justify the actions of its God, whoever he is supposed to be. Sri Aurobindo considered the problem as follows in The Life Divine : “God being All-Good, who created pain and evil? If we say that pain is a trial and an ordeal, we do not... intermediaries were needed to express this Joy and Freedom in forms. And at first four Beings [or Forces] were emanated to start this universal development which was to be the progressive objectivation of all that is potentially contained in the Supreme. These Beings [the four essential attributes of the Divine] were, in the principle of their existence: Consciousness and Light, Life, Bliss and Love... to remain forever separated from it. The divine Love which she poured into it would be incarnated in the progressive succession of the Avatars enabling and supporting the evolution. This Love would also create the presence of the soul, the divine Self, in the manifestation. Hidden in the lower evolution, it would become consciously active in the human being, and, once fully developed, it will give ...
... one could almost say a new body within the old, a new way of being, living, seeing, breathing, understanding and feeling. A new type on earth, really. The first embryo of a new species. Man has been accustomed to thinking that the beings of future evolution, of the next species will be... divine beings; that is to say, bodiless beings, appearing in the light, anyway all the gods in human conception—but... Mother said, It's a denial of all the spiritual assertions of the past: "If you want to live fully conscious of the divine life, leave your body—the body cannot follow." Well, Sri Aurobindo came and said, "Not only can the body follow, but it can be the base that will manifest the Divine...." The work remains to be done.'s They used to go far, far above, in deep meditation, into something more and more... this moment in time, the vast majority—the vast majority—of human intellectuality is perfectly satisfied being busy with itself satisfied with its little progress going round in circles.... It doesn't even, doesn't even have a desire for something else! Which means the advent of the superhuman being may well... it may very well go unnoticed, or not be understood. We can't say, because there is no analogy; ...
... there where the divine Unity is no longer one but for the first time divided in a process that finally leads up to the general Ignorance and Darkness. The One Force was divided into the great cosmic forces and this division resulted ultimately in a material manifestation. Every force is a consciousness and every consciousness a being. The positive cosmic forces are the cosmic Beings called ‘Gods’. ‘They... time,’ she said. She being an embodiment of the Great Mother, Maheshwari, Mahakali and Durga with their mighty divine capacities were three of her many emanations, and she held in herself the Power which creates the worlds. ‘Mother’s pressure for a change is always strong — even when she doesn’t put it as a force,’ wrote Sri Aurobindo. ‘It is there by the very nature of the Divine Energy in her,’ 24... contact with him, of course; and that he would do the work through me. Things suddenly, immediately took a certain form: a very brilliant creation was being worked out with extraordinary precision, wonderful experiences, contacts with divine beings, and all sorts of manifestations which are considered to be miraculous. Experiences followed upon experiences. In brief, it developed in a completely brilliant ...
... within his own being. You know that there are two Page 50 Mothers who are ultimately one — the Mother inside us and the Mother outside. Of course, the aim in general of the Mother outside — the Mother who is in a body as our Guru — is to make us aware of herself within our being. But she is there also as a check on our imagination of what she is within us. The Divine Presence within... clear, be not too clear." What I infer from this is that we cannot do without clarity but that our clarity should lead on to a profundity beyond the mere mind — the profundity of the Divine's Being which to the Divine's Consciousness is a most blissful transparency — a colossal clarity of beatitude, but which to the mere mind is an ever-elusive secret. Mark the epithet I have employed: "ever-elusive"... and the sleep stage, susupti, in which everything is gathered into a divine concentration, a spiritual seed-form. Wordsworth's "fields Page 56 of sleep" conveys the life-sense of the superconscious unknown that is the Mandukya Upanishad's susupti: these fields are the hidden height of our inmost being, from whose recesses of eternal bliss and rapt truth-sight the most profoundly ...
... * Supramental Descent Page 266 sadhana, i.e. of the Divine Work." Will you kindly explain what work of the Divine is meant here? Is there any reference to the Super mind? The work of the yoga which includes the preparation for the Supermind. There is no other divine Work being done here, so the question as to what work has no meaning. Though... ego. One can aspire for the Divine to bring about the supramental transformation, but that also should not be done till the being has become psychic and spiritualised by the descent of the Mother's peace, force, light and purity. Those who consciously carry in them ambitious ideas about developing in sadhana and becoming equal in status with the Divine Himself may have to stay back... prepare its own possibility. The forces above the human mind, especially Overmind, Intuition, Illumined Mind can be very intense and fiery. They have divine powers in them. You said that "the Supermind descent into Matter is what is being attempted". In that case, has the Supermind already conquered the mental plane, the vital plane and the physical now that it is attempting to conquer ...
... fulfils we have then to ascend to the Supreme, the Divine, the Being of our being, the Para. Purusa of the Upanishad or the Purusottama of the Gitâ. The deepest mystery of existence, the ultimate truth of our soul's individuality, the teleological significance of its descent into the material world, the secret of our heart's love for the Divine, and its yearning for His infinite joy and love and... hum and whirl of the cosmic energies. We realise the Divine as the Supreme Person, the sempiternal Being, who knows all, sanctions all, governs all, contains, up-holds and informs all as the Parama Purusa, and at the same time executes all knowledge, will and formation as prakrti. We see Him as "one Existence, Being gathered in Itself and Being displayed in all existences; as one Consciousness ... Page 384 Divine Presence in the hearts of beings, are all summed up in the Paramātman or Para Purusa whom we seek and adore with the integrality of our being. He delivers us from the darkness of the Ignorance, lifts us into the infinite plenitude of His Truth-Consciousness, and, transforming us into His own divinity, fulfils the deepest aspiration of our whole being. He is our Master ...
... first was above bright ethereal skies of mind of man, "But chough immortal, mighty and divine, The first realms were close and kin to human mind". There is an interchange between the beings of that plane and humanity and it is possible for human beings to mount upwards, and for the divine beings to descend here into humanity. Looked at from afar, they seemed like imaginary symbols but... "But only we play with our own brilliant bonds; Tying her down, it is ourselves we tie." Being hypnotised by our personality we become oblivious of her boundlessness and "We share not her immortal liberty. Thus is it even with the seer and sage; For still the human limits the divine". Page 217 It is when man goes completely above the plane of mind and establishes... Aswapathy's soul passed on towards the end which ever begins again, approaching through a stillness to the source of all things, human and divine. "There he beheld in their mighty union's poise The figure of the deathless Two-in-One, A single being in two bodies clasped, A diarchy of two united souls, "Their trance of bliss sustain the mobile world." Behind this dual image ...
... this being that still refuses Thy Light and retards Thy manifestation. Let Thy pure Beauty shine in them. Work out Thy alchemy, O all-powerful Mother of my destiny and transmute every atom of my being into a centre of Thy Light and Love so that they may ever sing the song of Thy divine Harmony and Delight. O Mother of Radiances, everything in this being must belong to Thee alone. My entire being prostrates... to Thy law, true to my being as an individual centre of Thy manifestation and radiate Thy truth through the purity of my being. Let me have no other thought than Thine, no other love than Thine, no other will than Thine, no other consciousness than Thine. Let me ever wear the perfume of Thy Divine purity. Be ever present at all moments, I invoke Thee with the fire of my being, O supreme Mother, in every... prostrates before Thee in a humble supplication: Intensify in me this deathless Fire of Thy Divine Love and let me be consumed by it so that I may be transformed into a being of Thy Truth, a being of Thy Love and collaborate with Thee for a more and more perfect manifestation of the Divine on earth. *** Let it take many lives if that is the way it must be, but teach me, O Mother of Radiances, how ...
... in the infinite Being. It is a free and flexible play of illimitable energies, faultlessly following the rhythms of the dynamic Truth and the silent impulsion. of the supreme Will, the Truth-Will. Therefore, action, instead of being a bondage, is there the thrilled self- expression of an infinite freedom. It is an undammed flow of the self-manifesting Force of the Divine. There being no separative ego... work on earth as a supramental being, a vessel of the Page 204 gnostic Truth and Light and Bliss, instead of struggling and suffering in the dim light of his half-enlightened, egoistic mental consciousness. This divine perfection of the human race is the logical outcome of our acceptance of two truths upon which the whole conception of the Life Divine is founded: (1) the truth of the... rajas and tamas' ), afflicted Page 196 with perpetual instability and working within narrow confines, reflect or reveal the infinite Divine? Even sattwa, the highest of her gunas, is a limited and limiting principle, it binds the being by the modicum of happiness and the modified light it imparts to it, as the Gita puts it. Within the cramping formula of this Nature of the three gunas ...
... that", and they try to set right what the Divine has done badly! According to their picture, all this is stupid and useless.... It is not with that attitude that you can belong to the Divine. There will always be between you and Him the conscious ego of one's own intellectual superiority which judges Page 14 the Divine and is sure of never being mistaken. For they are convinced that if they... Their idea of justice, generosity, etc. is so big that there is no place for anything else, for the Divine. Before being capable of doing good, one must go deep within oneself and make a very important discovery. It is that one does not exist. There is one thing which exists, that is the Divine, and so long as you have not made that discovery, you cannot advance on the path. But it is so hard... Page 19 hospitals, schools, etc.—are done through vanity, for the feeling of being great, whilst these small unnoticed things overcome in oneself gain an infinitely greater victory, though the effects are hidden. Every movement in you which is false and opposed to the truth is a negation of the divine life. Your small efforts have considerable results which you don't even have the satisfaction ...
... "Why hurry, why so soon, since the others are not doing it?" This is a frightful platitude!... But even if you must be the one and only being in the whole creation who gives himself integrally in all purity to the Divine, and being the only one, being naturally absolutely misunderstood by everybody, scoffed at, ridiculed, hated, even if you were that, there is no reason for not doing it. One... Ties If your aim is to be free, in the freedom of the Spirit, you must get rid of all the ties that are not the inner truth of your being, but come from subconscious habits. If you wish to consecrate yourself entirely, absolutely and exclusively to the Divine, you must do it in all completeness; you must not leave bits of yourself tied here and there... When you come to the Yoga, you must be... the effort. You make an effort to progress because you feel within you the need, the imperative need to make an effort and progress; and this effort is the gift you offer to the Divine Consciousness in you, the Divine Consciousness in the Universe, it is your way of expressing your gratitude, offering your self; and whether this results in progress or not is of no importance. You will progress when ...
... them to the great liberation. For the Lord and the immutable Brahman are not two different beings, but one and the same Being, and whoever strives towards either, is striving towards that one divine Existence. All works in their totality find their culmination and completeness in the knowledge of the Divine, sarvaṁ karmākhilaṁ pārtha jñāne parisamāpyate . They are not an obstacle, but the way to... personal interests, to the Divine in our being who possesses Himself transcendent of cosmos and is therefore not bound by His cosmic works or His individual action. That is what the Gita teaches and desirelessness is only a means to this end, not an aim in itself. Yes, but how is it to be brought about? By doing all works with sacrifice as the only object, is the reply of the divine Teacher. "By doing works... and not merely sacrifice and social duties can be done in this spirit; any action may be done either from the ego-sense narrow or enlarged or for the sake of the Divine. All being and all action of Prakriti exist only for the sake of the Divine; from that it proceeds, by that it endures, to that it is directed. But so long as we are dominated by the ego-sense we cannot perceive or act in the spirit of ...
... ego, but as a centre of the Divine and of the universal consciousness embracing, utilising and transforming into harmony with the Divine all individual determinations. We have then the manifestation of the divine Conscious Being in the totality of physical Nature as the foundation of human existence in the material universe. We have the emergence of that Conscious Being in an involved and inevitably... individual by the transformation of the limited ego into Page 64 a conscious centre of the divine unity and freedom as the term at which the fulfilment arrives. And we have the outflowing of the infinite and absolute Existence, Truth, Good and Delight of being on the Many in the world as the divine result towards which the cycles of our evolution move. This is the supreme birth which maternal... want, the fruit of a divided being. This is the fruit which Adam and Eve, Purusha and Prakriti, the soul tempted by Nature, have eaten. The redemption comes by the recovery of the universal in the individual and of the spiritual term in the physical consciousness. Then alone the soul in Nature can be allowed to partake of the fruit of the tree of life and be as the Divine and live for ever. For then ...
... to develop equanimity, stand aloof unaffected and offer to the Divine all that happens for whatever result the Divine may will. The Divine's help is always there, but we have to be prepared for hitches to our choice of the higher life. Whether we feel protected or not depends on how receptive we are to the help given to save us from being overwhelmed by the complex of events. Secondly, the Mother's... realise it. The harm has been avoided from the beginning. We must not doubt that the protection has been present. To put ourselves in the Divine's hands and think at the same time that the Divine is not with us every moment is irrational. It is true that the Divine, by being omnipresent, is with each person, but since we have directly dedicated ourselves to Him, He is with us in a special sense. And if that... through various experiences which may not in every case look like the Divine's favours. Even death may be a part of the Divine's grace. Just because we have received the Mother's blessings we cannot expect success in all we do or a straight flower-strewn path. But once we have her blessings we can be sure that our souls are being looked after. We must constantly keep this faith burning and do our best ...
... the supramental consciousness. … Suddenly, immediately, things took a certain shape: a very brilliant creation was worked out in extraordinary detail, with marvellous experiences, contacts with divine beings, and all kinds of manifestations which are considered miraculous. Experiences followed one upon another, and, well, things were unfolding altogether brilliantly and…I must say, in an extremely ... errors But this does not mean that there are no “errors” in the first edition of Savitri, errors which need to be corrected. One may call these as routine errors but then the “errors of the Divine are also Divine”,—tells me an American friend of mine. Surely, a simple devout soul will immediately accept it, will live by such a consoling idea or thought or perception. But there are also “errors of the... Savitri up to the present Revised Edition. This itself looks strange when we look at the first edition of Savitri that came out in 1950-51. At that time there was absolutely no question of anybody being there to edit Savitri , anybody editing Savitri when the author himself was present. Part One consisting of the first three Books had appeared in September 1950, just a few weeks before Sri Aurobindo’s ...
... one must love the Divine. Then there is a chance of knowing what love is. I have said that one grows into the likeness of what one loves. So if one loves the Divine, gradually, through this effort of love, one grows more and more like the Divine, and then one can be identified with the divine love and know what it is, otherwise one can't. Inevitably, love between two human beings, whatever it may... something and says, "Oh, the divine Consciousness, divine Love have turned to me, have come to me!" It is not at all like that. One has just a tiny little opening, very tiny, at times like a pinhead, and naturally that force rushes in. For it is like an active atmosphere; as soon as there is a possibility of being received, it is received. But this is so for all divine things. They are there, only... in order to be successful without being affected by it. Nothing is more difficult than being successful. This, indeed, is the true test of life ! When you do not succeed, quite naturally you turn back on yourself and within yourself, and you seek within yourself the consolation for your outer failure. And to those who have a flame within them—if the Divine really wants to help them, if they are ...
... which these movements flowed. For instance, when he talked to us as a friend, could we ever have imagined that he was the Divine talking to us as divine beings? When he saw Dr. Manilal, could Manilal have perceived that "it was no longer Dr. Manilal but the Divine living in the Divine" that he saw? How could we guess that living confined within the body and the small room, he saw "Paris, Tokyo and New... wrap. It seems odd, for our feet feel the cold more than other parts. Did it imply that at all moments, even at night, the feet of the Divine must be available as the haven of refuge to the needy and the devoted? It may not be too fantastic to suppose that many beings came in their subtle bodies to offer their pranams at his feet. My hypothesis is not altogether a fiction, for we have now learnt from... Champaklal had to serve instead. The story goes that once Mridu's dish went back without being touched by Sri Aurobindo, and she raised a storm. Sri Aurobindo had to quiet her with the plea that the Mother being absent he did not know what he had taken or what he had not. On another occasion Sri Aurobindo's meal being over earlier than usual, Mridu's dish arrived late and was left untouched. As soon as ...
... the Mother, for the. Divine. Physical love and vital love are all flawed at the source and in their movements, being made up of egoistic desire, and the building-up of tension, and the aftermath of satiety. On the other hand, with its source in the psychic, true love can effect an integral change in the whole motivation and action: The true love for the Divine is self-giving, free... anger - for these things are not in its composition. In return the Divine Mother also gives herself, but freely - and this represents itself in an inner giving her presence in 'your mind, your vital, your physical consciousness, her power re-creating you in the divine nature, taking up all the movements of your being and directing them towards perfection and fulfilment, her love enveloping... silencing the insidious promptings of his 'reason' and 'common sense' : that, firstly, the work assigned to him was really the Divine's work, and must be done in the right attitude of consecration; and, secondly, that the work being the Mother's, the Divine's, if the application or dedication was truly sincere and free from all egoistic distortion, the Mother herself would give the strength ...
... thundering (all the time). (41) Finding Śrī Rāma extremely enraged and also beholding fearful portents, all created beings felt dismayed and fear seized Rāvana (too). (42) Seated in their aerial cars, gods and Gandharvas (celestial musicians), great Nagas (semi divine beings having the face of a man and the tail of a serpent and said to inhabit Patala, the nethermost subterranean region), as well... on end, in the air as well as on the earth and again on the top of the (Trikuta) mountain. (64) While the gods, the devils and the Yaksas as also the fiends, the Nagas (serpent demons or semi divine beings credited with the face of a man and the tail of a serpent, and said to inhabit the nethermost subterranean region, Patala) and the Rākshasas looked on that major conflict, it continued the entire... Vibhīsana. (25) Being covered thus with a stream of shafts discharged by the high souled Laksmana, Rāvana, whose prowess stood balked, no longer felt inclined to strike. (26) Standing with his face turned to wards Laksmana on seeing his brother (Vibhīsana) rescued by Laksmana, the notorious Rāvana spoke as follows; — (27) "Let ting off the rākshasa (Vibhīsana), this javelin is being violently hurled ...
... fancy that they were the Divine. In India, these four Lords are called Asuras. Further on we will hear more of them. Like all higher beings, they had the power to produce lesser entities of themselves, emanations existing by themselves and able to act independently, but essentially remaining the being who put them forth. The big Four have brought forth cascades of lesser beings, so to speak, who are... levels. All Asuras are radically against the work of the divine evolution and do everything possible to thwart it, on the one hand out of pure self-complacency which has no urge or aspiration for anything more elevated, and on the other hand because the material embodiment on the earth of divine beings, like the future supramental beings, would bring the dominance they are now exerting here to an... higher gradation, or world, of the hierarchy of typal worlds is inserted in our evolving universe. The beings of the typal worlds are immortal and on their level fully satisfied with their existence, this according to the basic principle of the omnipresent divine Ananda or Bliss. So too are the beings of the lower vital worlds, who for the most part are vicious little mischief-makers; their nasty games ...
... pressed again, he replied very softly: 'He was a friend of mine.'" No wonder you were "overjoyed", thinking "being his friend I was not far away from the Divine, - he being with the Divine." I am glad to mark that for all your devotion to Nolini the topmost concern in you was the Divine and you did not stop short with whatever was noteworthily Nolinian and that to you the most noteworthy part... the "fear-free" state desired, aspired after, is the epithet "wide'" in the Rigvedic phrase. Our non-spiritual condition, our delusive ignorance consists essentially in being locked up in oneself, being exclusive of one's true reality which includes everyone and everything, an inner vastness which rules out the feeling of the other, the alien that can oppose and injure one. Do you... friend has really been living with a sense of Sri Aurobindo tingling in his mind and a feeling of the Mother Page 322 athrob in his heart and, along with these divine Ones, a few humans are also at home in his sincere aspiring life. I am sure nobody can say about you what my friend Anil Kumar once told me people were saying about him. His words have stuck in ...
... pressed again, he replied very softly: 'He was a friend of mine.' " No wonder you were "overjoyed", thinking: "being his friend I was not far away from the Divine, - he being with the Divine." I am glad to mark that for all your devotion to N the topmost concern in you was the Divine and you did not stop short with whatever was noteworthily Nolinian and that to you the most noteworthy part in... obscurities. The dreadful aspect is only for those who are enemies of the Divine within and without. "Terrible," writes Sri Aurobindo, "is her face to the Asura." (10.9.1991) According to the ancient Indian wisdom, our non-spiritual condition, our delusive ignorance consists essentially in being locked up in ourselves, being exclusive of our true reality which includes everyone and everything... which Pondicherry with its Ashram represents, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother chose for their spiritual work. I believe India was chosen for what I regard as the supreme divine manifestation for two reasons. The inner being of what historically and geographically has come to be known as the Indian subcontinent is spiritually charged beyond that of any other country. From the time of the ancient ...
... in its essence, that is, the Divine. Then why is He a stranger to us? But He is not a stranger, my child. You fancy that He is a stranger, but He is not, not in the least. He is the essence of your being—not at all alien. You may not know Him, but He is not a stranger; He is the very essence of your being. Without the Divine you would not exist. Without the Divine you could not exist even for... foolish excuses imaginable. No, there are others much more subtle and much more dangerous than that. But even if you must be the one and only being in the whole creation who gives himself integrally in all purity to the Divine, and being the only one, being naturally absolutely misunderstood by everybody, scoffed at, ridiculed, hated, even if you were that, there is no reason for not doing it. One... from the goal also. But that kind of feeling that you have only one single reason for existence, one single goal, one single motive, the entire, perfect, complete consecration to the Divine to the point of not being able to distinguish yourself from Him any longer, to be Himself entirely, completely, totally without any personal reaction intervening, this is the ideal attitude; and besides, it is ...
... the key to a divine suprahuman knowledge. The heart, the will, the life and even the body, no less than the thought, are forms of a divine Conscious-Being and indices of great significance. These too have powers by which the soul can return to its complete self-awareness or means by which it can enjoy it. The object of the Supreme Will may well be a culmination in which the whole being is intended to... tremendous light of an infinite Consciousness, an illimitable Knowledge, an affirmative absolute Presence. The object of spiritual knowledge is the Supreme, the Divine, the Infinite and Absolute. This Supreme has its relations to our individual being and its relations to the universe and it transcends both the soul and the universe. Neither the universe nor the individual are what they seem to be, for the... is only the eternal Page 298 self-realisation by the individual in the essence of his conscious being; there will still remain on that foundation, unannulled by the silence, one with the release and freedom, the infinitely proceeding self-fulfilment of Brahman, its dynamic divine manifestation in the individual and by his presence, example and action in others and in the universe at large ...
... possible for the soul of man to unite with the Divine because the soul — the psychic being, as Sri Aurobindo calls it — is a portion of the Divine and it is through this union that man can gain true Knowledge, 'knowledge by identity', in Sri Aurobindo's words Ordinarily, i.e. in our ordinary state of consciousness, we are unaware of our psychic being or of the Divine Consciousness and live in a state of ignorance... found a seat to her right or left according to the turn of our nature or the inner being.... The Mother's endeavour at that time was for a new creation, the creation here of a new inner world of the Divine Consciousness. She had brought down the Higher Forces, the Gods, into the earth atmosphere, into our inner being and consciousness.' In one of her talks in later years the Mother herself referred... referred to this period and said: 'After 24 November 1926 suddenly, immediately, things took a certain form: a very brilliant creation was being worked out in extraordinary details, with marvellous experiences, contact with divine beings, and all sorts of manifestations usually considered miraculous. Experiences followed one upon another, indeed, things were unfolding altogether brilliantly and... I must say ...
... the movements (whether outer or inner), all the parts of the being, all of them, have one single wall to belong to the Divine, to live only for the Divine, to will only what the Divine wills, to express only the divine Will, to have no other source of energy than that of the Divine." (Questions and Answers 1953, Cent. Ed., p. 5) Now, to arrive at this state of perfect love the Mother has... the same measure pull us back from the Divine who is All-Love, All-Light, All-Joy and All-Mastery. The more we loosen our love and attachment for the things of the ordinary world, the more will the rue love which is in the depths of our being shine forth and flood even our outer being. (3)Being caught by the overpowering tyranny of the present and being dazzled by the glittering shows of the... Sri Aurobindo for a sincere devotee of the Divine: "... an all-embracing devotion to the Divine, becomes the whole and the sole law of the being. All other law of conduct merges into Page 170 that surrender, sarvadharmān parityajya. The soul then becomes firm in this Bhakti and in the vow of self-consecration of all its being, knowledge, works..." (Essays on the Gita ...
... certitude that the upper, divine hemisphere would become manifested 93 upon Earth. Therefore, the manifestation of the Supramental on 29 February 1956 meant, among other things, that the future embodiment of the supramentally conscious being beyond Man, of the divine Superman, was now assured, as it was assured that the human aspiration throughout countless millenniums was being fulfilled: the world... it is essentially the conflict of the adverse forces, of the anti-divine forces, who are trying to push back the divine Realization as much as they can – they hope for thousands of years. ‘It is this conflict which has reached its climax. It is their last chance. And as those who are behind their action are very conscious beings, they know very well that it is their last chance, and they will put... truth. In the supramental creation there will no longer be any religions. The whole life will be the expression, the unfolding into forms of the divine Unity manifesting in the world. And there will no longer be what men now call Gods. Those great divine beings themselves will be able to participate in the new creation, but in order to do so they will have to put on what we might call the “supramental ...
... in it grows psychic and spiritual. By becoming divine in nature [ one can love divinely ]; there is no other way. Page 335 Divine Love and Psychic Love The Divine's love is that which comes from above poured down from the Divine Oneness and its Ananda on the being—psychic love is a form taken by divine love in the human being according to the needs and possibilities of the human... I do not exactly know what you mean by the Divine Love being established down to the subconscious. What love? the soul's love for the Divine? or the principle of the Divine Love and Ananda which is the highest thing that can be reached? To establish the latter down to the subconscient is a thing which would mean the entire transformation of the whole being and it cannot be done except as the result... the Divine, there is still this ordinary human element in it. There is the call for a return and if the return does not seem to come, the love may sink; there is the self-interest, the demand for the Divine as a giver of all that the human being wants and, if the demands are not acceded to, abhimana against the Divine, loss of faith, loss of fervour. Etc. etc. But the true love for the Divine is in ...
... which is almost inexpressible, and the thing becomes bliss - it becomes... this extraordinary thing, the Divine everywhere.' - Jul 1 Sees the psychic being of a disciple who has come to see her. Realises that 'it is the psychic being... which will materialise itself and become the supramental being'. 1970 Dec- 1971 Jan Suffers from a kind of paralysis for a month and half, during which her physical... Sorrows' or the Lord of Suffering - one of 'the four original Divine emanations that went wrong' and were responsible for the Asuric deformations in the present creation. He gave her all his knowledge before dissolving himself into the Divine. 1892 Attends a wedding in a Jewish temple in Paris. Feeling uplifted by the music of Saint-Saëns being played on the organ, she stood gazing at a window from... Receives a translation of the Bhagavad Gita from Jnanendranath Chakravarti with the advice, 'Take Krishna as the symbol of the immanent Divine, the Divine within you.' And, 'in a month the whole work was done.' 1896-1907 Period of cultivation of the vital being and aesthetic consciousness. Comes in contact with leading artists of the period including Rodin and Matisse. Meets Emile Zola. Six ...
... identity with Him. -5- Man's refusal of the Divine Grace has been depicted very beautifully and graphically in a perfect dramatic form by Sri Aurobindo in Savitri. The refusal comes one by one from the three constituent parts of the human being. First of all man is a material being, a bodily creature, as such he is a being of ignorance and misery, of brutish blindness. He does not... was told she is to conquer Death, she is to establish immortal life upon mortal earth. The Divine Voice rings out: Arise, O soul, and vanquish Time and Death. 13 Yes, she is ready to do it, but not for herself, but for her Love, the being who always is the life of her life. Savitri is the Divine Consciousness but here in the mortal body she is clothed in the human consciousness; it is... gesture of the Divine Mother teaches us also what should be the approach and attitude of human beings in all their activities. In all our movements we should always remember Him, refer to Him, consider that in the last analysis each and every movement comes from Him and we must always offer them to Him, return them to the parent-source from where they come; therein lies freedom, the divine detachment ...
... constantly growing beauty and harmony And divine felicity. Harmony of the Body and the Spirit May my entire being, my whole life be a conscious collaboration With my soul, where resides forever the Mother Divine,. May I become a simple surrendered happy instrument, For Her play in the drama of divine life on earth. 36 - 37 ... monsters, The sick and healthy, the nuns and harlots, the hard and the gentle ones With a silent adoring Love which sees the Divine in all. The cathedral Temple needs constant expansion in all direction To house birds, animals, living beings on land, sea and air, For whom to reject: In the tiniest worm and flower and pebble Shines the Lord, the Great One who... Divinities can come down And make abode in our consciousness and being. The presence of Aspiration Is the sign of God's working in us. O Aspiration, become intense, steady and one-pointed. May all other aims, other ideals, other goals be consumed In your bright and incandescent plane. O Mother Divine, come down in me, Down the stairway of my rising aspiration. ...
... She was told she is to conquer Death, she is to establish immortal life upon mortal earth. The Divine Voice rings out: "Arise, O soul, and vanquish Time and Death." 1 Yes, she is ready to do it, but not for herself, but for her Love, the being who was the life of her life. Savitri is the Divine Consciousness but here in the mortal body she is clothed in the human consciousness; it is the... therein lies freedom, the divine detachment which the individual must possess always in order to be one with Him, feel one's identity with Him. (5) Man's refusal of the Divine Grace has been depicted very beautifully and graphically in a perfect dramatic form by Sri Aurobindo in Savitri, The refusal comes one by one from the three constituent parts of the human being. First of all man is... behind all its infirmities, the Divine Mother is there upholding it and infusing into it her grace and beauty. Indeed, she is one with this world of sorrows, she has in effect become it in Page 110 her infinite pity and love so that this material body of hers may become conscious of its divine substance and manifest her true form. But the human being individualised and separated in ...
... Page 12 (5) Man's refusal of the Divine Grace has been depicted very beautifully and graphically in a perfect dramatic form by Sri Aurobindo in Savitri. The refusal comes one by one from the three constituent parts of the human being. First of all man is a material being, a bodily creature, as such he is a being of ignorance and misery, of brutish blindness. He does not... told she is to conquer Death, she is to establish immortal life upon mortal earth. The Divine Voice rings out: Arise, O soul, and vanquish Time and Death. 11 Yes, she is ready to do it, but not for herself, but for her Love, the being who was the life of her life. Savitri is the Divine Consciousness but here in the mortal body she is clothed in the human consciousness; it... gesture of the Divine Mother teaches us also what should be the approach and attitude of human beings in all their activities. In all our movements we should always remember Him, refer to Him, consider that in the last analysis each and every movement comes from Him and we must always offer them to Him, return them to the parent-source from where they come, therein lies freedom, the divine detachment which ...
... an) and Nirvana is one of them, but by no means the only one. You may remember Ramakrishna’s saying that the Jivakoti [a human being who, once immersed in God cannot return] can ascend the stairs, but not return, while the Ishwarakoti [a divine human being] can ascend and descend at will. If that is so the Jivakoti might be those who describe only the curve from Matter through Mind... darker terms, still less a guidance which brings us solely and always nothing but happiness, success and good fortune. Its main concern is with the growth of our being and consciousness, the growth towards a higher self, towards the Divine, eventually towards a higher Light, Truth and Bliss; the rest is secondary, sometimes a means, sometimes a result, not a primary purpose. The true sense... them. The surface mind can get only an imperfect glimpse. When we are in contact with the Divine or in contact with an inner knowledge and vision,we begin to see all the circumstances of our life in a new light and can observe how they all tended, without our knowing it, towards the growth of our being and consciousness, towards the work we had to do, towards some development that had to be made ...
... one's identity with Him. (5) MAN'S refusal of the Divine Grace has been depicted very beautifully and graphically in a perfect dramatic form by Sri Aurobindo in Savitri. The refusal comes one by one from the three constituent parts of the human being. First of all man is a material being, a bodily creature, as such he is a being of ignorance and misery, of brutish blindness. He does not... She was told she is to conquer Death, she is to establish immortal life upon mortal earth. The Divine Voice rings out: Arise, soul, and vanquish Time and Death. 1 Yes, she is ready to do it, but not for herself, but for her Love, the being who was the life other life. Savitri is the Divine Consciousness but here in the mortal body she is clothed in the human consciousness; it is the... gesture of the Divine Mother teaches us also what should be the approach and attitude of human beings in all their activities. In all our movements we should always remember Him, refer to Him, consider that in the last analysis each and every movement comes from Him and we must always offer them to Him, return them to the parent-source from where they come, therein lies freedom, the divine detachment ...
... one's identity with Him. (5) MAN'S refusal of the Divine Grace has been depicted very beautifully and graphically in a perfect dramatic form by Sri Aurobindo in Savitri. The refusal comes one by one from the three constituent parts of the human being. First of all man is a material being, a bodily creature, as such he is a being of ignorance and misery, of brutish blindness. He does not know... proceed? She was told she is to conquer Death, she is to establish immortal life upon mortal earth. The Divine Voice rings out: Arise, soul, and vanquish Time and Death.¹ Yes, she is ready to do it, but not for herself, but for her Love, the being who was the life of her life. Savitri is the Divine Consciousness but here in the mortal body' she is clothed in the human consciousness; it is the human... gesture of the Divine Mother teaches us also what should be the approach and attitude of human beings in all their activities. In all our movements we should always remember Him, refer to Him, consider that in the last analysis each and every movement comes from Him and we must always offer them to Him, return them to the/ parent-source from where they come, therein lies freedom, the divine detachment ...
... the life of a mental being, so too a body must be developed with new powers, activities or degrees of a divine action expressive of a truth-conscious being and proper to a supramental consciousness and manifesting a conscious spirit”, writes Sri Aurobindo. And he goes on: “While the capacity for taking up and sublimating all the activities of the earth-life capable of being spiritualised must be... consciousness for perfect sincerity of consecration.” 9 In March 1953, the Mother said: “I tell you: Only if you are sincere in all the elements of your being, up to the very cells of your body, and only if your whole being integrally wants the Divine, are you sure of the victory, but on no less a condition.” 10 The invisible work of the transformation of the cells was continuing. She could not tell... complete tranquility towards the divine Grace, It will establish itself in the cells as It is established in the depths of the being, and the cells themselves will share in the eternal Truth and Joy.” 24 Apart from the light this quotation throws on the ever increasing role of the cells in the Yoga, it also is an indication that the Mother, from that time onwards, began being confronted with the health ...
... constitutes the true hierarchy of beings .... ... the point at which you are identified with the Divine is perfect in itself, that is to say, your identification is perfect in itself, at this point, but the number of points at which you are identified differs immensely ... , ... And so he who is able to identify himself in his totality with the Divine is necessarily, from the point of... thought. Above all, we should know "how to rely with childlike trust on the Great Supreme Force, the Divine Force that is One in all beings and things". Right discipline is certainly needed to achieve mastery of thought; but equally necessary is the attitude of unqualified surrender to the Divine, so that we may be moulded like pliant clay at the hands of the Supreme. With the mastery of thought... the Creation.4 We may also conceive the lotus as standing for the opening of the human Consciousness to the Divine: the bud of aspiration receives the warmth of the rays of the Sun, and there is the splendour of efflorescence petal by petal, the pointed aspiration from below being met by the answering response from above. Indeed, all the mystique and marvel of Yoga Page 47 Sadhana ...
... has a much more thorough occult knowledge of “the devil”, of the anti-divine beings in their various shapes and levels of existence, including the Asuras , the great mental beings who are a challenge to any godlike powers, the rakshasas, who are comparable to the titans in Greek mythology, and the pishachas, the small beings on the lowest vital levels who have pleasure in making the lives of the... all pettiness and limitations. Above all you must say to your ego: ‘Your time is past.’ We want a race without ego, that has a divine Consciousness in place of the ego. That is what we want: the divine Consciousness that will allow the race to develop and the supramental being to be born.” 6 Like every kind of birth in our universe the birth of a new era in the development of the manifestation... aspiration that have brought us here to do the Divine’s Work.” 31 She called them les bien-né : “the well-born”, or “the few”, “the predestined”, “the pioneers”, “the avant-garde”, “those who have in them a spiritual destiny and are born to realise the Divine”. “To follow the path of spiritual experience”, she said, “one must have within oneself a ‘spiritual being,’ 32 one must be ‘twice born’, as it ...
... offence of which to accuse me. As for your prospect of convincing any living person with even a smattering of intelligence that belief in supernatural and divine activities does not imply belief in Page 62 supernatural and divine beings, and vice versa, it is outside all the bounds of possibility. As a matter of fact, gentlemen, I do not feel that it requires much defence to clear... accessible on most days of the year, and was therefore quite a suitable place for bookstalls. 20 supernatural beings: "daemons". The word has a vague connotation but it is generally used of any being or agency that is more than human but not quite identifiably divine. The corresponding adjective often simply means "mysterious". It is used here with reference to Socrates' "warning voice"... to the divine command, if I think that anyone is wise, whether citizen or stranger; and when I think that any person is not wise, I try to help the cause of God by proving that he is not. This occupation has kept me too busy to do much either in politics or in my own affairs; .in fact, my service to God has reduced me to extreme poverty. Page 56 There is another reason for my being unpopular ...
... own reading of the symbol behind the legend offers the necessary clue to the right understanding of the poem: Satyavan is the soul carrying the divine truth of being within itself but descended into the grip of death and ignorance; Savitri is the Divine Word, daughter of the Sun, goddess of the supreme Truth who comes down and is born to save.... Still this is not a mere allegory, the characters are... Transcendent Infinite, the universal Shakti, and the finite divine-human being who had her birth on 21 February 1878 and withdrew on 17 November 1973. The Infinite had taken a finite form, the transcendent and the universal had for the nonce become the temporal and the particular. There are two sides to the arc of Reality: the poise of the Infinite Being, and the rhythm - the stir, the flux, the movement -... at all, being now dissolved in the living nectar of his Grace; and therefore she was everything! Beyonding Beauty, beyonding the worlds of the vital beings, beyonding the Kingdoms of the Little and the Greater Mind, beyonding her own past and all her tally of realisation through her intense sessions of prayers and meditations of the immediately preceding years when she had sought the Divine in her heart's ...
... to be thrown out from the being. It is easier to cast off an accretion than to excise what is felt as a parcel of our substance. "When the psychic being is in front, then also to get rid of desire becomes easy; for the psychic being has in itself no desires, it has only aspirations and a seeking and love for the Divine and all things that are or tend towards the Divine. The constant prominence... primordial Will of the Divine to conscious, multiple self-reproduction; but it is only a deceptive semblance, and not a fact. The normal human consciousness is an ignorant consciousness, seeking but not possessing know- Page 129 ledge,—it is not a representative of the divine Consciousness. The human being, therefore, though a developed individual, is not the perfect, divine individual, which... been clear from the above description that the ego-principle has created distinct individualities in human beings, multiple centres of mentally conscious existence, but not divine centres of luminous self- awareness and self-expression. Even having become many, the Divine has not yet become divinely many, which was His primal Will. For that supreme consummation and the ultimate goal of terrestrial evolution ...
... genuine offence of which to accuse me. As for your prospect of convincing any living person with even a smattering of intelligence that belief in supernatural and divine activities does not imply belief in supernatural and divine beings, and vice versa, it is outside all the bounds of possibility. As a matter of fact, gentlemen, I do not feel that it requires much defence to clear myself of Meletus'... accessible on most days of the year, and was therefore quite a suitable place for bookstalls. supernatural beings: "daemons". The word has a vague connotation, but it is generally used of any being or agency that is more than human but not quite identifiably divine. The corresponding adjective often simply means "mysterious". It is used here with reference to Socrates' "warning voice"... obedience to the divine command, if I think that anyone is wise, whether citizen or stranger; and when I think that any person is not wise, I try to help the cause of God by proving that he is not. This occupation has kept me too busy to do much either in politics or in my own affairs; in fact, my service to God has reduced me to extreme poverty. There is another reason for my being unpopular. A number ...
... of World War II with the surrender of Japan to him, the war which Sri Aurobindo had singled out as a crucial confrontation between forces controlled from behind the scene by preternatural anti-divine beings and those which, for all their defects, were on the side of the Gods helping the evolving soul of the world Page 221 towards a future of non-regimented diversified depth-expressive... I hope it is true that the future will bring the divine nearer, to shine 'directly through the human* but as you know I don't feel much enthusiasm for the idea of Utopia, under whatever form. I think I share Edwin Muir's liking for 'wheat and tares together sown' of this present world of Good and Evil. As to India, yes, India is a state of being, seen afar, and indeed it echoes in that 'mantra-vibrant... only man in his inner being but also apparently brute matter holds the supramental light and love and bliss secret within. That is why evolution follows as a natural consequence of involution of divinity. There is, no doubt, a pull by the free uninvolved Supermind from beyond earth combining with the push of the same power from below -and because matter is itself inwardly divine the outcome of evolution ...
... is motived by the divine & universal Force & Bliss at free play in the divine & universal Being. The world is to the Mayavadin a freak of knowledge, an error on the surface of Self, a misconception of mind about Brahman; the world to the Seer is a running symbol of God and a means for His phenomenal self-manifestation in His own active being & to His own active knowledge. God, being unbound by His own... only God in the infinite rest & play of His own Being & becomings,—God & Brahman whom none can bind & who, therefore, even when figured to Himself as man in this apparent cage of a mind and body is still in Himself free—infinitely and for ever. The yearning towards stillness and peace is not then man's supreme tendency; not peace is his goal but divine Ananda of which peace is only the flooring and... action are in entire possession of peace and, conquerors of desire & ego or eternally superior to them, keep their hold on the real and divine bliss of God's triple self-manifestation; they know and exercise the simultaneous & harmonious enjoyment of His transcendent being, His universal Self and His individual play of becoming. This then is the fundamental position assumed by the Seer, not denying the ...
... for uttering spiritual states in their true and pure essence as well as in the diverse ways they adopt to manifest their powers: these states become dynamic in a multiplicity of forms which are divine beings and objects, 'minute particulars' of moulded light and bliss. On the one hand there can be simply a beatific blank which may seem an apotheosised abstraction, but on the other there are plenty of... poured into his cup. The secret of this is that through the free giver the song flows freely and whoever constrains life in himself, in him it is constrained. There is indeed the Divine Silence, but we do not come to that by being negative," AE's letter is both beautiful and profound, a clear mirror to his own great personality. His advice too is sound in so far as it would suggest that one should... the tangle, which the Divine has imposed on terrestrial existence: Freedom is this with ever seated soul, Large in Life's limits, strong in Matter's knots, Page 66 Building great stuff of action from the worlds To make fine wisdom from coarse scattered strands And love and beauty out of war and night, The wager wonderful, the game divine. What liberty has ...
... worshippers of the gods, but my devotees come to Me. Bhagavad Gita VII. 23] But he is not asking that, he only suggests that you should believe in higher worlds and higher beings, divine beings also who are here behind material phenomena, not in the reality of the outer material world alone, after the Aristotelian fashion – though I am under the impression that Aristotle also ... last grace of the Divine – I mean for the sakar worshippers. Seeing is of many kinds. There is a superficial seeing which only erects or receives momentarily or for some time an image of the Being seen; that brings no change, unless the inner bhakti makes it a means for change. Page 70 There is also the reception of the living image of the Divine in one of his forms... of the being and may even lead in some cases to falling between two stools so that one loses earth and misses heaven. I therefore prefer to replace vairagya by a firm and quiet rejection of what has to be rejected, sex, vanity, ego-centrism, attachment, etc. etc.; but that does not include rejection of the activities and powers that can be made instruments of the sadhana and the divine work ...
... raise myself above it, the being (?) that I am is not mental. The mental being is a mask assumed by the true self. I see the way clearly. And I know that if I could make the total and definitive surrender to the Divine Force, it would itself take charge of the Yoga. This self-giving is made in my soul—my mind has accepted it, but there are certain points in the vital being which hinder the perfection... colour. It means that it is one aspect of the Divine. All these colours are aspects of the divine force. Is it a force of Knowledge? Not exactly. Knowledge manifests more by a force whose colour is golden. Though it includes many other things. Then it is a force of divine love. It is a force of true devotion that raises the psychic being to a pure aspiration. It includes also many... the deeper layers of my being but remains on the surface. When the meditation becomes deep, my feet start aching. What kind of sensation do you have? At the same time like a pressure and a pulling out. Is it perhaps the vital being rising up to separate itself? It may be that, or possibly it is a modification which is generally produced when the divine force transforms gradually ...
... materially embodied beings which have the psychic being – what we call humans – exist only on the Earth. As we know, the psychic being is much more than a ‘divine spark.’ Everything contains a divine spark, without which it could not exist. ‘The divine spark is at the centre of each atom,’ said the Mother. 76 ‘The psychic being is organized around the divine spark. The divine spark is one, universal... in all. One cannot say that it is a being. It is the being, if you like, but not a being … The psychic being, on the contrary, is an individual, personal being with its own experience, its own development, its own growth, its own organization. Only, this organization is the result of the action of a central divine spark.’ 77 In other words, the psychic being is the fine flower of the earthly... forgotten that the aim of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s yoga was a divinization of Matter, which means that the cells, and the body, and the human being should be rendered immortal – for being divine means being immortal. Which means that the low, dark, elementary consciousness of the cells must be transformed into the supramental, divine Consciousness. Indirectly, this again throws some light on the ...
... kinds, powers of consciousness, mental, vital, physical, psychic, spiritual. The Divine has been described as Being-Consciousness-Ananda, even as a Consciousness (Chaitanya), as putting out a force or energy, Shakti that creates worlds. The mind is a modified consciousness that puts forth a mental energy. But the Divine can stand back from its Energy and observe it at its work, it can be the Witness... mind being turned to the right direction. Aspiration can be done while one is active for outer objects also - that is supposed to be part of this Yoga. Especially one must aspire for purification of the being and this can be best done and tested in action - purification from desire, ego, selfishness etc. Page 139 One can work and aspire and offer to the Divine; one... yourself being here and the divine Force, Grace and Protection granted to us in abundance, we cannot master even our little natures! Other Yogis have not this advantage and yet progress much more than we do. The Yogis who progress are those all whose thought is for their Yoga - here people are thinking most of the time of anything but that. But that is so elsewhere too. It is only by being ...
... . a something: a way of being. 67.211 Now that the cells are becoming conscious, they very much wonder what's the use of all this? “How should things truly be? What's our function, our utility, our basis? What's the divine way of being? What will be the difference?...” And a very subtle perception of a way of being that could be luminous, harmonious. That way of being is still quite indefinable;... good and bad things — but all that is childishness: the good things are not worth more than the bad! It's not THAT. The divine is something else. The “divine” is the next way of being on earth. A dangerous unknown which is the very battle of the world, the one that is being waged in a hundred countries, under a thousand banners, a thousand pretexts, a thousand slogans — but which is the battle... large apes, had met the first man, he would simply have felt that he was somewhat... strange, that's all. Man has been used to thinking of all that is superior to himself as ... divine beings; that is to say, bodiless beings who appear in the light, anyhow all the gods in their human conception — but it's not that at all! That is where we now stand. Shall we go on searching for the key in a “genetic ...
... made. If each of the workers’ gestures were really filled with consciousness, the Matrimandir would shine all by itself like a divine Act and those men would already no longer be men, but divine beings. It is this divine world that we want to build, it is these divine men that we want to create, or else the Matrimandir can crumble along with the dust of all the useless temples that fill the banks... in the world, was not an ordinary being (neither is your son Satprem, for the same reason), but those uncommon beings also have uncommon difficulties, which cannot be resolved but through uncommon means. François, like your son Satprem, had been born to incarnate something of the divine Love and to create something through the force of this Love. But divine Love has nothing to do with the sentimental... which oppose this new creation — and you truly do not know the formidable extent of the thing — will rise and are trying to rise to prevent our work. When you read the thing which is being translated [ The Divine Materialism ], you will see how breathtaking it is. I have often wondered why Mother chose this kind of instrument for Her work, and I suspect that my young “education” in a Nazi con ...
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