... always desirable; for personal effort is better than tamasic inertia. The personal effort has to be transformed progressively into Page 84 a movement of the Divine Force. If you feel conscious of the Divine Force, then call it in more and more to govern your effort, to take it up, to transform it into something not yours, but the Mother's. There will be a sort of transfer, a taking up... the Divine will and no other, to live for the Divine and not for the ego. Self-surrender is to give up yourself and all that is yours, mind and everything else to the Divine, so that the Divine Force may take everything and change it. Surrender means to consecrate everything in oneself to the Divine, to offer all one is and has, not to insist on one's ideas, desires, habits etc., but... was. It is this outer man who has to open, to surrender and to change. His every least movement, habit, action has to be surrendered, seen, held up and exposed to the divine Light, offered to the divine Force for its old forms and Page 80 motives to be destroyed and the divine Truth and the action of the transforming consciousness of the Divine Mother to take their place. It [ the ...
... allow it to be shaken off without clinging to it with a "leechlike tenacity" worthy of a better cause. The Divine Force Works under Conditions The Divine Force, not using the supramental Power, can certainly throw back the forces of Death and that has been done many times. But the Divine Force works here under conditions imposed by the Divine Will and Law; it has to take up an immense mass of conflicting... clear away, but still it will be done steadily and more and more. Passivity can be only to the Divine Force when it is felt at work,—there can be no passivity to other forces, for that would be dangerous in the extreme. Passivity does not mean a blank mind—it means allowing the Divine Force to work without interference of the mental preferences, vital desires or physical disinclinations. As... keep in touch with the Divine Force. The best thing for you is to do that simply and allow it to do its own work; wherever necessary, it will take hold of the inferior energies and purify them; at other times it will empty you of them and fill you with itself. But if you let your mind take the lead and discuss and decide what is to be done, you will lose touch with the Divine Force and the lower energies ...
... Thus divine force continues ever increasing in our Page 624 purified mentality. To heaven and earth in man, manushye, mind & matter manifesting in this mortal world & in human nature, Agni stands in two relations. Divine force in us is purity & to the soul that is pure both mental & physical nature become harmonious, amical, like two friends and helpful playfellows. Divine force in us... action & enjoyment to the gods. He calls upon the god to sustain his lower parts and maintain him in full strength for that divine burden. Then, sustained by Agni, his whole nature flames up in divine force from its natural mortality towards the divinity of the gods and he attains that pure stillness of the mind & life-energies which is the foundation of the higher life. He prays to Agni to cleave... Agni is सुबन्धुः, सुभगः. If we accept, as we have already accepted in hypothesis, this Yogic symbolism as already formed in the times of Viswamitra, the sense of the image will be that Agni, the divine force, comes out white & pure from the state of non manifestation, Page 614 but as it grows and casts itself on its object it assumes the hue & lustre of enjoyment and action. In the next ...
... journey; the manifestation in our lower members of the divine bliss reposing on the divine force & being is the law of our perfection. Agni, whether he raises us to live in pure mind or yet beyond to the high plateaus of the pure ideal existence, adhi shnuná brihatá vartamánam, establishes & supports as the divine force that divine bliss in its seven forms in whatever houses of our being, whatever worlds... the lord who is mighty; firm in the light one by submission to him reaches in Agni a fixity, even as in heaven, so here golden bright and vast-expanding. Explanation. The awakening of the divine Force and its action in a man is in this hymn rather indicated than described. The súkta is purely lyric in its character, vacho vandáru, an expression of delight and adoration, a stoma or stabilising... dame sapta ratná (Rik 5), and assure that state of perfected and happy mentality, pure in perception, light and calm in the emotional parts,—the bhandishthasya sumatim of the tenth rik,—which the divine force dwelling in us abidingly assures to our conscious being. The Page 702 image of the physical morning sacrifice is maintained throughout the first two riks, but from its closing phrase ...
... 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 of the gift and pull me down at times. But now, even these defections I see with an equal eye and offer to the Divine Force—the good movements and the bad, all are parts... consciousness, is felt where I said. Now there is something I don't understand. When I meditated with Mother last Tuesday the divine force came down. But what is the part of either you or Mother in such a coming down? I don't understand ! Well ! The divine force comes from inside. How can it be brought down by somebody else? It is not a mere tuning of the vehicles, a quieting of the mind... this passage, I remember that at one moment X said, looking at me, "He is drowning, he is drowning". Immediately I perceived that I was being dragged away by these forces. At once I called the divine force which descended through the Sahasrara right down to the two lower chakras. With the help of this force, I pushed back the hostile forces and set myself afloat again. A little later I woke up. But ...
... written: "The personal effort has to be transformed progressively into a movement of the Divine Force. If you feel conscious of the Divine Force, then call it in more and more to govern your effort, to take it up, to transform it into something not yours, but the Mother's." But if one is not conscious of the Divine Force? You must become conscious. Aspire, ask, aspire sincerely. You see, generally... other things, don't you? So, how do you expect that you will become conscious of the divine Force? We have hardly about half an hour here, that's not a very long time to become conscious of the Force. But if it is your sole preoccupation, if truly, with all your being, you want to become conscious of the divine Force, you will be able to. You can't, simply because you think about it from time to time;... aware of the presence of the divine Force because the personal movement of the physical, the body, the vital, the mind, covers everything with its own importance. Listen: if every evening before going to sleep you take off only a tiny minute, like that, and in this little minute, with all the concentration you are capable of you ask to become conscious of the divine Force, simply like that, nothing ...
... longer its direct guidance. When these universal energies come into touch with the Divine Force, rise to meet it and allow it to take hold of them and occupy and change them, then they are purified and uplifted and transformed and become a movement of the Divine Force. When they are not in touch with the Divine Force, not obedient to it, but act for themselves, they are unenlightened, erring, ... most—and at no time is it really easy. The Universal Energies and the Divine Force There is only one Force or Energy here in reality; what is called the individual energy does not belong to the individual, but to the one universal Power. In the one infinite Energy itself a distinction has to be made between the Divine Force that descends from above the mind and the inferior universal Energy with... keep in touch with the Divine Force. The best thing for you is to do that simply and allow it to do its own work; wherever necessary, it will take hold of the inferior energies and purify them; at other times it will empty you of them and fill you with itself. But if you let your mind take the lead and discuss and decide what is to be done, you will lose touch with the Divine Force and the lower energies ...
... giants—is your Divine Force working in them too? Of course it is a Divine Force, for there is only one force acting in the world, but it acts according to the nature of the instrument. Yogic Force is different from others because it is a special power of the spiritual consciousness. Myself: It may not be Sri Aurobindo's Force, but how can I exclude the possibility of Divine Force behind? Because... conditions and qualifications for the success of the Divine Force, but is it not also true that the Divine can rise above all conditions and act, and get a thing done if he wants to? You make a distinction between the Yogic force and the Divine Force; but is not the former an outcome of the latter? Of course, but all force is the Divine Force. It is only the egoism of the individual which takes... ce. I mean by faith especially faith as a dynamic means of bringing about what has to be effected or realised. February 1, 1935 Can we help a patient by aspiring for him? Since the Divine Force is already acting on him, how can my aspiration help him further? It can. Every little helps. What is this "confounded quarrel with Matter" you mention? Does this refer to the lower vital ...
... of the Divine Force. 62 There are two possibilities, one of purification by personal effort, which takes a long time, another by a direct intervention of the Divine Grace which is usually rapid in its action. For the latter there must be a complete surrender and self-giving and for that again usually it is necessary to have a mind that can remain quite quiet and allow the Divine Force to act... the source of all power, including the power of personal effort, is the divine Force. As he states: Always indeed it is the higher Power that acts. Our sense of personal effort and aspiration comes from the attempt of the egoistic mind to identify itself in a wrong and imperfect way with the workings of the divine Force. ... In the world we act with the sense of egoism; we claim the universal... In the beginning, when one is more or less completely identified with the ego, one has necessarily to rely mainly on personal effort rather than on the divine Force for changing one's consciousness and opening it to the action of the divine Force. There is a period, more or less prolonged, of internal effort and struggle in which the individual will has to reject the darkness and distortions ...
... Is the Divine Force working in them too?" Of course it is a Divine Force, for there is only one force acting in the world, but it acts according to the nature of the instrument. Yogic Force is different from others because it is a special power of the spiritual consciousness. I continued, "It may not be Sri Aurobindo's Force, but how can I exclude the possibility of a Divine Force behind?... change, I would not have tried it, but simply put another force on him for another purpose. You make a distinction between the Yogic Force and the Divine Force; but is not the former an outcome of the latter? Of course, but all force is the Divine Force. It is only the egoism of the individual which takes it as his own. He uses it, but it is not his. By the way, Z did not question the reality... that sense, but is all the same effective. 6 February 1943 No Miraculous Force I tried to convince X that it was your force that cured Y. But X said, "What about instances in which the Divine Force has failed? Why does it succeed in some cases and not in others?" The mistake is to think that it must be either a miraculous force or else none. There is no miraculous force and I do not deal ...
... with the Divine Force. The best thing for you is to do that simply and allow it to do its own Page 27 work; wherever necessary, it will take hold of the inferior energies and purify them; at other times it will empty you of them and fill you with itself. But if you let your mind take the lead and discuss and decide what is to be done, you will lose touch with the Divine Force and the... was. It is this outer man who has to open, to surrender and to change. His every least movement, habit, action has to be surrendered, seen, held up and exposed to the divine Light, offered to the divine Force for its old forms and motives to be destroyed and the divine Truth and the action of the transforming consciousness of the Divine Mother to take their place. * There is not much spiritual... the Divine Truth is always his aim, either beyond or in life also - and in the latter case it is necessary to transform mind and life which cannot be done without surrender to the action of the Divine Force, the Mother. To seek after the Impersonal is the way of those who want to withdraw from life, and usually they try by their own effort, and not by an opening of themselves to a superior Power ...
... mustered strong, stormy west winds blowing ominously, rain imminent, and torrential Pondicherry rain! We would look at the sky and speculate on the result of the fight between the Divine Force and the natural force. The Divine Force would of course win: slowly the Fury would leash her forces and withdraw into the cave. But as soon as the intended object was achieved, a deluge swept down as if in revenge... to be achieved, and Sri Aurobindo's dictum that things must grow out of life itself, not according to a set mental pattern. In our case, of course, the process was sustained by a directly acting Divine Force. "All can be done if the God-touch is there." In fact all our institutions, the Ashram itself, have grown up in this way, from scratch, and Auroville is the latest example. We must remember, however... experience that she sees beyond our sight. The bandage was removed and he rejoined work. Curiously enough, he became all right in two or three days without any treatment whatsoever. Apart from the Divine Force, the psychological factor, the sense of active physical nearness to Sri Aurobindo, must have counted a lot. It will not be out of place to mention a minor instance of yogic cure in my own case ...
... nature; even those who do it get only a certain kind of control, but not a complete mastery. Will and aspiration are needed to bring down the aid of the Divine Force and to keep the being on its side in its dealings with the lower powers. The Divine Force fulfilling the spiritual will and the heart's psychic aspiration can alone bring about the conquest. There is only one way if you cannot exert... will and persuaded you that there is no will left and no possibility of any will. One can always use the will. The idea that you cannot is only a suggestion of the inertia. Will and the Divine Force or Power There are always two elements in spiritual success—one's own steady will and endeavour and the Power that in one way or another helps and gives the result of the endeavour. The... consciousness they cannot remain—if they come, it is as outside touches unable to lodge themselves in the being. The Force can bring forward and use the will. Personal Effort and the Divine Force or Power If there is no personal effort, if the sadhak is too indolent and tamasic to try, why should the Grace act? All that [ thinking one's efforts are useless ] is the physical mind ...
... the adverse Force is stronger than the Divine Force. The implication is that a man has no responsibility for his action and whatever he does or however he errs and falls in consequence, the Divine Force is to blame. It may be so, but in that case there is no need or utility in doing sadhana. One has only to sit still and let the adverse Force or the Divine Force do what they like! According to that theory... if you can keep in touch with the Force and reject any strong attack of the confusion. The rest will be done by the Force itself—for no one is really strong enough to change himself, it is the Divine Force called down that does it. This kind of attack is always possible. What one has to have is an inner condition which at once throws them off and a faith Page 787 in the Mother's... "It is written 'Thou shalt not tempt (put to a test) the Lord thy God.' " He ought to have jumped and if he got smashed, it would only have proved that the adverse forces were greater than the Divine Force! If an adverse Force comes, one has not to accept and welcome its suggestions, but to turn to the Mother and refuse to turn away from her. Whether one can open or not, one has to be loyal and ...
... the Divine force—only not in pure blindness if you please. (Don't trouble to reply though to me, I am very unwilling to make you spend your time over such things. You have done enough for me in that direction.) But this Nalineshwar has been on my mind considerably of late, so 1 had better tell you my trouble in this connection, which will illustrate incidentally my scepticism of the Divine Force doing... struggle— without them, without aspiration and will and faith ¦for aspi- ration is a prayer) it would be difficult for hi into get anywhere. But all these things are merely means for setting the Divine Force in action—and it sometimes takes long, very long even, before the forces come into action or at least before they are seen to be in action or bear their result. The ecstasist is not altogether wrong... avail myself of any kindly force because of my mental reservations. But then Mother's own eyesight is not perfect—she has to put on spectacles which has fortified not a little my scepticism of the Divine Force acting on the eye. If she with her supramental receptivity can't cure her eyesight, what chance have we ? that is the line of our despair.) But to Nalineshwar: here is a fellow who stayed here about ...
... described exactly the condition in the right kind of meditation—a state of inner rest, not of straining, of quiet opening, not of eager or desperate pulling, a harmonious giving of oneself to the Divine Force for its working, and in that a sense of a force working and a restful confidence and allowing it to work without any unquiet interference. And she asked you if you had not experienced that condition... When the Peace of God descends on you, when the Divine Presence is there within you, when the Ananda rushes on you like a sea, when you are driven like a leaf before the wind by the breath of the Divine Force, when Love flows out from you on all creation, when Divine Knowledge floods you with a Light which illumines and transforms in a moment all that was before dark, sorrowful and obscure, when all... anything about it just now,—for mental discussion of causes and con sequences is not of much help at this juncture. I must say however that it is not the push for union with the Divine nor is it the Divine Force that leads to madness—it is the way in which people themselves act with regard to their claim for these things. To be more precise, I have never known a case of collapse in Yoga—as opposed to mere ...
... effort and the action of the Divine Force? How can the personal effort be eliminated? A. It is not possible to get rid of the stress on personal effort at once—and always desirable; for personal effort is better than tamasic inertia. The personal effort has to be transformed progressively into a movement of the Divine Force. If you feel conscious of the Divine Force, then, call it in more and... forces at work in the personal Adhar—a transfer not suddenly complete but progressive. But the psychic poise is necessary: the discrimination must develop, which sees accurately what is the Divine Force, what is the element of personal effort and what is brought in as a mixture from the lower cosmic forces. And until the transfer is complete which always takes time, there must always be as a personal ...
... that? There is no relation between these two things! On the contrary, there is a very concrete relation. When you concentrate before sleeping, then in your sleep you remain in contact with the Divine force; but when you fall heavily to sleep without any preliminary concentration, you sink into the inconscient and the sleep is more tiring than restful, and it is difficult to come out of this sluggishness... Vigilant, that is what I should be. But how? All the psychological qualities can be cultivated as the muscles Page 268 are—by regular, daily exercise. Above all, turn towards the Divine Force in a sincere aspiration and implore It to deliver you from your limitations. If you are sincere in your will to progress, you are sure to advance. 21 January 1962 Sweet Mother, ... that he will be replaced by Indira Gandhi, but only for a fortnight. Then a period of chaos in the Government will follow. After that, a young man will appear on the scene who will be guided by a divine force coming from a woman of great spiritual power. What do You think about it? People say many things—especially astrologers! We have only to wait; we shall surely see what happens. 30 September ...
... one can equate the action of the divine Force with that of an adesh like Sri Aurobindo's. As Page 198 far as we can gather, the latter has nothing to do, as the former has, with a nexus of other forces. It acts exclusively in the consciousness of one individual alone and it acts but once: there is no continuity of action as with the divine Force which may be concerned with several... oblige him "to suspend all considerations of the political and other circumstances surrounding his departure" from British India. He bases himself on Sri Aurobindo's view in a letter of 1936 that the divine Force does not act independently of cosmic forces. Sri Aurobindo has written: "The Force does not act in a void and in an absolute way... It comes as a Force intervening and acting on a complex nexus... as "imperative": "it is clear and irresistible, the mind has to obey and there is no question possible, even if what comes is contrary to the preconceived ideas of the mental intelligence." The divine Force of which Sri Aurobindo has written does not seem quite like this single absolute momentary stroke from the Supreme within only one person. Its comparison with the adesh would hold simply in both ...
... self-mastery. Whatever work is done from the inner silence and serenity of the being, and offered as an oblation of love and devotion to the Divine, or whatever is directly inspired and intiated by the Divine Force, is authentic yogic work, and it cannot but lead to Union; all other work is but the effervescence of our egoistic energies, or a vainglorious parade of our personal capacities. If the quantity... to the Mother's Force, and become only a docile instrument of it. This transference of the initiative takes long to be complete; but on the way to it, one has to remain always concentrated on the divine Force and aspire for its guidance of one's nature. Let us take an example to illustrate what is meant by the inspiration and guidance of the Mother in the details of the yogic work. Let us suppose that... mystics, both Eastern and Western, performing heroic deeds, infusing superhuman light and energy into their disciples, producing marvellous poems or magnificent pictures under the inspiration of the divine Force. What has usually been more or less an intermittent or sporadic action of the divine inspiration is sought to be properly canalised and regularised in the followers of the Integral Yoga. And the ...
... kartavyaṁ karma . 3) Receptivity—the power to receive the Divine Force and to feel its presence and the presence of the Mother in it and allow it to work, guiding one's sight and will and action. If this power and presence can be felt and this plasticity made the habit of the consciousness in action,—but plasticity to the Divine Force alone without bringing in any foreign element,—the eventual result... Sadhana through Work Letters on Yoga - II Chapter III The Divine Force in Work Receiving the Divine Power or Force To be able to receive the Divine Power and let it act through you in the things of the outward life, there are three necessary conditions: 1) Quietude, equality—not to be disturbed by anything that happens, to keep the mind still and... try to get back to the true position, not listening to the wrong thoughts but rejecting them. If you cannot do that at once, still remain as quiet as possible and aspire and offer yourself. The Divine Force can always do more than the personal effort; so the one thing is to get quiet and call it down or back to the front—for it is always there behind or above you. Drawing upon the Force for Energy ...
... not asking you to be frivolously happy, but to be quiet and quietly confident, rejecting these old movements, but for the rest trusting not in a restless self-torturing personal effort but to the Divine Force to change the external nature. Page 737 As to your going away for a time in order to get rid of your difficulty with X , a difficulty can never be overcome by your running away... waiting to descend in you. Find this quietude behind and your mind also will become quieter and through the quiet mind you can call down the descent first of the purity and peace and then of the Divine Force. If you can feel this peace and purity descending into you, you can then call it down again and again till it begins to settle; you will feel too the Force working in you to change the movements... throw out the attacking force. The physical nature is a thing of habits; it is out of habit that it responds to the forces of illness; one has to get into it the contrary habit of responding to the Divine Force only. This of course so long as a highest consciousness does not descend to which illness is impossible. It is the old habit of the outer consciousness from which it refuses to be delivered ...
... their human weaknesses—such as lust, greed, vanity, pride, falsehood—they must become conscious of them, must always reject them, must call in the Mother's presence, the divine Consciousness, the divine Force to help them in rejecting their defects and to transform them. If they do that, then all that is necessary for the change will be done. When the old movements or suggestions or voices come... easy to change all at once the ignorant human consciousness and make it a spiritual consciousness open to the Divine. But with faith one need not Page 696 mind the difficulties; the Divine Force is there and will overcome them. Whatever is difficult can indeed be made easy by truth in the heart and sincerity and faith in the endeavour, even what is impossible can become possible... turmoil—and at the risk of the recurring decimal movement, because the release has come by temporary exhaustion of the attacking force, not by rejection and purification through the intervention of the Divine Force with the unquestioning assent and support of the sadhak. There has been a confused fight, an intervention in a hurly-burly, not a clear alignment of forces—and the intervention of the helping force ...
... ordinary life and not only in Yoga; the same causes work here. The one thing is that there may be an invasion of an alien Force bringing about the upsetting, but it is not the Divine Force, it is a vital Force that invades. The Divine Force cannot by its descent be the cause of madness any more than it can be of apoplexy or any other physical illness. If there is no predisposition one may have all kinds of... going to go mad or die. As nothing upsets the organism more than fear, they create by this general atmosphere of panic danger where there was none. The idea that Y was sent mad by a descent of Divine Force is an absurdity and an irrational superstition. People go mad because they have a physical predisposition due either to heredity (as in the case of Y and A ) or to some kind of organic cause... anything about it just now,—for mental discussion of causes and consequences is not of much help at this juncture. I must say however that it is not the push for union with the Divine nor is it the Divine Force that leads to madness—it is the way in which people themselves act with regard to their claim for these things. To be more precise, I have never known a case of collapse in Yoga—as opposed to mere ...
... intuition inclines to the opposite conclusion. God and Man Our contemporary does not understand why we wrote of God and the universal force or why we insisted on the special manifestation of the Divine Force as opposed to its veiled workings through human egoism. We did so because we had to oppose the excess of that very egoism. We have not risen to the heights of Monism from which he scoffs benignly... be the final truth that there is nothing but God, but for the purposes of life we have to recognise that there is a dualism in the underlying unity. It profits nothing to say, for instance, "The Divine Force wrote two columns of Facts and Comments the other day in the Bengalee ." God reveals Himself not only in the individual where He is veiled by ignorance and egoism, but in Himself. When the Bengalee... alternative to man's self-conscious action except unconscious action, it is under the influence of European materialism which sees only conscious creatures in an unconscious inanimate Nature. The Divine Force is not unconscious but conscious and intelligent and to see Him as a conscious power only in men is to deny Him altogether. When again our contemporary uses a misapplication of the truth of Adwaita ...
... Yoga; the same causes work Page 190 here. The one thing is that there may be an invasion of an alien Force bringing about the upsetting, but it is not the divine Force, it is a vital Force that invades. The Divine Force cannot by its descent be the cause of madness any more than it can be of apoplexy or any other physical illness. If there is no predisposition, one may have all kinds of... mad or die. As nothing upsets the organism more than fear, they create by this general atmosphere of panic danger, where there was none. The idea that Premshankar was sent mad by a descent of Divine Force is an absurdity and an irrational superstition. People go mad because they have a physical predisposition due either to heredity (as in the case of Premshankar and T.) or to some kind of organic... had with joy and spiritual profit. But if he felt Mother's presence so much, why this fear ? It was the fear of this insincere part of him, partly in terror lest it might really be seized by the Divine Force and made to change, partly lest its insincerity and egoistic, ignorant self-sufficiency might have pulled down a wrong Force which would upset his balance altogether. All that was wrong within him ...
... sincerity of the aspiration itself that matters. How do you differentiate the aspiration from the Page 106 will? The aspiration is a call to the Divine Force to act — the will is itself a force put forth to act or accomplish or bring about a result. What is the definition of will in the yogic sense? A conscious force... will to the Divine." What does it mean and how to put this precept into practice? It means "By allowing your will to be used by the Divine". You have first to become conscious of the Divine Force — then you can make your will one of its instruments. When I asked for the permission to go to see the festival, the Mother said: "Comme vous voulez" ("As you like"). What should... this is is the essential. What is "surrender"? How is one to offer a total and sincere surrender? By becoming conscious of the Divine, offering everything in you to the Divine Force to transform and obeying its will. How am I to offer a complete surrender to the Mother? Surrender cannot be so easily completed. You have to go on quietly and patiently ...
... when the expenses have climbed to a dizzy and fantastic height.... Carrying on anything of this magnitude without any settled income could not have been done if there had not been the working of a divine Force. 27 In the pre-1926 period, as the Mother has acknowledged, the Ashram had been only "a collection of individuals... without a collective organisation... one could say it had a general... work ranks the same with the Divine; and as for latter, the work being always an offering to the Divine, the necessary support will surely come from the Divine. It is the Divine's work, and the Divine force does the work through him and also helps him with his sadhana. In the ultimate analysis, aren't the work, the doer and the instrument one and the same, the Divine itself? The sadhaks have... physical contact - sight, touch - being only the means to the psychic contact, the essential thing is to still the vital movements, still the mind, and achieve a condition of perfect plasticity for the Divine Force to operate: The inner connection can only be developed by an inner concentration and aspiration, not by a mere outward Pranam every day... The greatest test of love and devotion is ...
... Mother's Force". Was it the same thing as divine Shakti? There came forth one of the most beautiful and comprehensive explanations on the Mother he has ever given me in a few lines: There is one divine Force which acts in the universe and in the individual and is also beyond the individual and the universe. The Mother stands for all these, but she is working here in the body to bring down something... so that you should regard her as the Divine Shakti working here for that purpose. She is that in the body, but in her whole consciousness she is also identified with all the other aspects of the Divine Force. The Master further explained the relationship between the Mother and Her Force: When I speak of the Mother's Force I do not speak of the force of the Prakriti which carries on things... the higher Force of the Divine that descends from above to transform the nature. The Mother's Force is the Page 80 manifestation of the Mother herself... It is the Divine Force which works to remove the ignorance and change the nature into the divine Nature. We little human beings can never fathom the full glory of the Mother's personality. Such is the case with ...
... the knowledge or intuition in the soul that started you on the way. I have been pressing on you the need of faith because the assent has again to take a positive form so as to give free way to the Divine Force; but the persistent drive in the soul (which is a hidden and externally suppressed faith) is itself sufficient to warrant the expectation of the Grace to come. September 11, 1934 ... upward opening puts us into direct relation with whole Devine and can create in us the divine consciousness and a new birth or births of the spirit. When the place is established, this higher or Divine Force Page 113 from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres the into the heart centre and liberates fully the psychic... welcomed—for there is no absolute rule for all—but if the peace has not come first, care must be taken not to swell oneself in exultation or lose the balance. The capital movement however is when the Divine Force or Shakti, the power of the Mother comes down and takes hold, for then the organisation of the consciousness begins and the larger foundation of the Yoga. The result of the concentration is ...
... Nature. It is Prakriti or Nature that acts; the Divine does not compel people to do anything. Nothing can happen without the presence and support of the Divine, for Nature or Prakriti is the Divine Force and it is this that works out things, but it works them out according to the nature and through or with the will of each man which is full of ignorance—that goes on until men turn to the Divine... Gunas The three gunas become purified and refined and changed into their divine equivalents: sattwa becomes jyotiḥ , the authentic spiritual light; rajas becomes tapas , the tranquilly intense divine force; tamas becomes śama , the divine quiet, rest, peace. You cannot drive out rajas and tamas, you can only convert them and give the predominance to sattwa. Tamas and rajas disappear only when... rest, calm, peace of the eternal Self— Page 49 which has finally to replace tamas, the physical inertia. Tamas is the degradation of śama , as rajas is the degradation of Tapas, the Divine Force. The physical consciousness is always trying to substitute its own inertia for the calm, peace or rest of the true consciousness, just as the vital is always trying to substitute its rajas for the ...
... kindle this divine force by lighting the fires of the inner sacrifice; they enable it to work by their adoration and submission to it; they express in heaven, that is to say, in the pure mentality which is symbolised by Dyaus, the knowings of the Seers, in other words the illuminations of the Truth-Consciousness which exceeds Mind; and they do this in order to make a passage for this divine force which in... as an instrument reach him there, unite around him, set him to the great work of the world in this new, mighty and effective birth. They, the outshinings of the vast consciousness, cleave to this divine Force as its bright lightnings and from him in the superconscient, the shoreless vast, his own home, they draw for man the Immortality. Such then, profound, coherent, luminous behind the veil of figures ...
... cleaving instrument and the self-ordering power of Nature, Swadha. The image is of the progress of the divine Force through the forests of the material existence as with an axe. But the axe is the natural self-arranging progression of Nature, the World-Energy, the Mother from whom this divine Force, son of Energy, is born. × ... of the Veda The Seventh Hymn to Agni The Divine Will, Desirer, Enjoyer, Progressive from the Animal to Bliss and Knowledge [Agni is hymned as the divine Force that brings the bliss and the ray of the truth into the human being and light into the night of our darkness. He leads men in their labour to his own infinite levels; he enjoys and tears up the ...
... outward side of the divine force acting upon the external world in order to maintain there and to reshape the divine law by which the Godward effort of humanity is kept from decisive retrogression and instead decisively carried forward in spite of the rule of action and reaction, the rhythm of advance and relapse by which Nature proceeds. It has an inward side of the divine force of the Godward con... changes, is always in its source and real meaning a crisis in the consciousness of humanity when it has to undergo some grand modification and effect some new development. For this action of change a divine force is needed; but the force varies always according to the power of consciousness which it embodies; hence the necessity of a divine consciousness manifesting in the mind and soul of humanity. Where ...
... power of knowledge lifts them to immortality. And the Rishi takes up the suggestion of the word "impelling", इषयन्, and indicates the nature of the great journey on whose paths the Flame of the divine Force marches himself and impels the human being. It is the great march which was undertaken by the strong semi-divine men of old. They found this supreme Thinker within, awakened by him to knowledge... extremely frequent in all Vedic literature, it does not mean keeping lively and awake during the sacrifice) and attained in that Power those great riches,—that is to say, in the full flame of the divine Force and Knowledge on its own divine plane, देवस्य पदं. This plane, we find elsewhere, is the home of the Truth, सत्यं ऋतं बृहत्. I take it to be a symbol of the supramental plane of existence, बृहद्... surrounded by the souls that aspire to transcend the two firmaments and have to be lodged in that supreme dwelling place, क्षयः, क्षेत्रं etc. He is bright and vast, a visible or a seeing might of the divine force and consciousness, full of the body and substance (वपावंतं, वपुषं, वपुष्यं) of its light and flame, always lifting up its lustres or else shining with a manifold and universal light of knowledge ...
... from above, 2nd a descent of the Force. If one has these two things permanently established in the consciousness, then one has the basis. By Force I mean not mental or vital energy but the Divine Force from above—as peace comes from above and wideness also, so does this Force (Shakti). Nothing, not even thinking or meditating can be done without some action of Force. The Force I speak of is a... favourable precondition in the head or heart or anywhere else and are sometimes the determining cause. What you feel in the head is probably the first conscious descent into the body of the divine Force from above. Up to now it must have been working unfelt by you from behind the heart. If the concentration takes place naturally in the head you must allow it to do so, but the possibility of this... continued in the same way until the conduct of the sadhana by the Mother's power is clearly felt and becomes to you the normal thing. The experience you had was simply the descent of the Divine Force into the body. By your attitude and aspiration you called for it to work in you, so it came. Such a descent brings naturally a deep inward condition and a silence of the mind, and it may bring much ...
... reason; part of your being consented to it, wanted and needed it as a self-fulfilment of the nature and the soul wanted it as a means of service to the Divine; the rest was due to the pressure of the Divine force and my pressure. As for the distaste, the lack of interest etc. all this is temporary and belongs only to a part of you. In so far as it comes from a kind of vairāgya , it may have helped you in... overcoming some of your attachments, but it is defective in so far as the element of tamas and apravṛtti is there; it is not so fundamental as to resist the victorious drive of the pressure of the Divine Force. You ask what I want you to do. What I want is that you should persist and give more and more that assent in you which brought about the progress you have made so that here too the resistance... this world; that is the reason why these difficulties manifest. But you have not to allow yourself to be shaken. You must remain calm and strong and go straight, using the power of Truth and the Divine Force supporting you to overcome the difficulties and set straight what has been made crooked by the falsehood. All who enter the spiritual path have to face the difficulties and ordeals of the ...
... given, but in the end it looks to be rather vague. It is a relative and partial help, of course, but it is sometimes useful. A radical help can only come from within through the action of the Divine Force and the assent of the being. It must be said of course that it is not everyone that thinks he is helping who is really doing it; also if the help is accompanied with the exercising of an "influence"... attitude, as you have resolved, then it is bound to have its effect and he must before long come himself entirely to the same attitude. What you say of sadhana is true. Sadhana is necessary and the Divine Force cannot do things in the void but must lead each one according to his nature to the point at which he can feel the Mother working within and doing all for him. Till then the sadhak's aspiration,... easily against them. But there are men as helpless in these struggles who are subject to the same reactions. Once one is open to the Divine, women are no less able than men to become strong with the Divine Force and luminous and wise with the Divine Light and Knowledge. 27 October 1935 The tendency you speak of, to leave the family and social life for the spiritual life, has been traditional in India ...
... lower nature and make use of them, so that you have no spiritual effort to make. On the contrary, if you are to be a fit instrument of the Divine Force you must make yourself perfectly pure, since it is only in an integrally divinised instrument that the Divine Force will have its full power and effect. 4-7-1940 * 2 We feel that not only is this a battle waged... my own birthday and it is naturally gratifying to me that it should have assumed this vast significance. I take this coincidence, not as a fortuitous accident, but as the sanction and seal of the Divine Force that guides my steps on the work with which I began life, the beginning of its full fruition. Indeed, on this day I can watch almost all the world-movements which I hoped to see fulfilled in my ...
... spiritual force is another matter, but I doubt whether the time has come for it or whether it could be understood by the mere reasoning intelligence. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - II: The Divine Force All the world, according to Science, is nothing but a play of Energy—a material Energy it used to be called, but it is now doubted whether Matter, scientifically speaking, exists except as... spiritual force must be believed in, but that the belief in it is not necessarily a delusion and that this belief can be rational as well as possible. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - II: The Divine Force The invisible Force producing tangible results both inward and outward is the whole meaning of the Yogic consciousness. Your question about Yoga bringing merely a feeling of Power without any... does not matter if you have not a leechlike tenacity—leeches are not the only type of Yogins. If you can stick anyhow or get stuck that is sufficient. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - II: The Divine Force In everyone, even at the very beginning, this spiritual presence, this inner light is there…. In fact, it is everywhere. I have seen it many a time in certain animals. It is like a shining ...
... shall I say that the Supramental Force is vehemently coming down in this form? Or it is at least some Divine Force, giving a last kick at the Sex Force? The Divine Force has nothing to do with it. It is the sex and other lower forces that are attacking in order to make it impossible for the Divine Force to do its work, or the Supramental to descend. They hope to prevent it altogether or, if by some ...
... incompetent ass, why does V support him, cover him, keep him there? This is a thing which seems to me a little unintelligible. Doctors differ? Why so much in this case? Valle who does not believe in Divine Force, is I think, the only doctor here who has a practical knowledge of homeopathy—he was struck with the justice of R's treatment from the first in S's case; he approves of his treatment in G's. Would... and years in which she was writing blood-curdling letters to me relating all her symptoms and miseries in voluminous detail. Once feeling well, she declared she did not believe in treatment but in Divine Force only, gave R a kick and sent him away. He was of course furious. For some time I had no letters, then little by little they began again, but as yet they are not so blood-curdling as before. Question:... × Probably. × Divine Force. × Knowledge of the Self. × ...
... Government department, and we can't contemptuously wave it aside—we can only minimise its incidence. As to Force let me point out a few elementary notions which you ignore. (1) The Force is a divine Force, so obviously it can apply itself in any direction; it can inspire the poet, set in motion the soldier, doctor, scientist, everybody. (2) The Force is not a mental Force—it is not bound to go... about the Force and the Spanish General Miaja [6.4.37], you said: "Let us suppose... I put the right force on him...", why did you say "right"? Is there also a wrong Force? Can't be, for it is the Divine Force. Don't remember what exactly I wrote—so can't say very well. But of course there can be a wrong Force. There are Asuric Forces, rajasic Forces, all sorts of Forces. Apart from that one can use... months he has struck a tall tower like K and a fat buoy like D; how many of these! And what then? In NK's letter you wrote that it is the hostile Force that is snatching away people, not the Divine Force that is driving them away. I hold the view that the Supramental is descending concentratedly and that those who resist, who are between two fires, have either to quit or to submit. Not so strongly ...
... by their zeal and their receptivity." The year 1933 We look upon the Mother as divine. Does she carry the full divine Shakti in her? There is one divine Force which acts in the universe and in the individual and is also beyond the individual and the universe. The Mother stands for all these, but she is working here in the body to bring down something... so that you should regard her as the Divine Shakti working here for that purpose. She is that in the body, but in her whole consciousness she is also identified with all the other aspects of the Divine Force. Is it always necessary for us to understand what the Mother's Force is doing in us for the progress of our Yoga? Plenty of people progress rapidly without understanding... adoration and also delight). You often speak of "the Mother's Force". What is it? The Mother's force is the manifestation of the Mother herself. It is the Divine Force which works to remove the ignorance and change the nature into the divine nature. Page 168 Sometimes, if not often, the Mother's Force comes down, finishes its work ...
... rewards, and one can watch one's various reactions to these outer touches —anger and lust and greed and vanity and resentment and envy and egoistic elation and gratification—and offer them to the divine Force for the transformation of their perverted energies and their conversion into their spiritual counter- parts. How else can the weak and obscure life of homo sapiens change into an epiphany of Light... the Divine and moved by His Force alone. It is a long, a very long and laborious discipline, this of Yogic action, demanding constant vigilance and an integral, ungrudging surrender to the divine Force, and a sudden, "striking conversion cannot be integral.” In order to reach the goal which is nothing short of a divinization of the whole being in all its states of consciousness and modes of... ” The absolute perfection of the individual depends upon the perfection of the collectivity of which he is an inseparable part, and the perfection of the collectivity is the great end which the divine Force has been working out through the evolutionary process of Nature and revolutionary Yoga. The first cause of the fugitiveness of this union is, as the Mother explains it, the complexity of the ...
... vehemently now? Does it mean that the supramental also is vehemently descending? Or at least some Divine Force, giving a last kick at the sex-force? The Divine Force has nothing to do with it. It is the sex and other lower forces that are attacking in order to make it impossible for the Divine Force to do its work or the Supramental to descend. They hope to prevent it altogether or, if by some miracle ...
... receptivity, something that opens in order to receive. Now, instead of opening and receiving from all sides and from everyone, as is usually done, one opens only to the Divine to receive only the divine force. It is the very opposite of what men usually do. They are always open on the surface, they receive all the influences from all sides. And then this produces inside them what we might call a pot-pourri... pot-pourri ( Mother laughs ) of all kinds of contradictory movements which naturally create countless difficulties. So here, you are advised to open only to the Divine and to receive only the divine force to the exclusion of everything else. This diminishes all difficulties almost entirely. Only one thing remain difficult. It is... One can do it and, unless one is in a state of total alchemy, well,... 218 × The complete sentence is: "A glad and strong and helpful submission is demanded to the working of the Divine Force, the obedience of the illumined disciple of the Truth, of the inner Warrior who fights against obscurity and falsehood, of the faithful servant of the Divine." ...
... receptivity, something that opens in order to receive. Now, instead of opening and receiving from all sides and from everyone, as is usually done, one opens only to the Divine to receive only the divine force. It is the very opposite of what men usually do. They are always open on the surface, they receive all the influences from all sides. And then this produces inside them what we might call a pot-pourri... pot-pourri (Mother laughs) of all kinds of contradictory movements which naturally create countless difficulties. So here, you are advised to open only to the Divine and to receive only the divine force to the exclusion of everything else. This diminishes all difficulties almost entirely. Source Stepping Back Most of you live on the surface of your being, exposed to the touch of external... earth with the Complete Manifestation as the crowning. When you get the sense of the relativity of things, then whatever happens you can step back and look; you can remain quiet and call on the Divine Force and wait for an answer. Then you will know exactly what to do. Remember, therefore, that you cannot receive the answer before you are very peaceful. Practice that inner peace, make at least a small ...
... they who have done the thing, but the divine force. When they have made a progress, when they have changed something in themselves, when they have learnt something, then when is it that spontaneously, without an effort of will, without thinking, without needing to tell oneself, "One ought to think like this", spontaneously one knows that without the divine force nothing would have been done? Look into... that", "I succeeded in this", "I failed in that", and when you have made a good effort, when you have obtained a result, you need a little moment for thought, or more, to tell yourself, "If the divine force had not helped me, probably I would not have been able to do it." The spontaneous thing is, "Oh! I have succeeded", isn't that true? There is indeed a part of the mind which has been educated, which ...
... your only object is to serve, that is, instead of acting for your personal good, you act with the feeling of serving, of receiving the Divine Force, not from outside (you must not at all believe in that) but from within you, of opening yourself to the Divine Force which will use you for its action, and of fulfilling what that Force wants you to fulfil. There is no place there for egoism. It is not... (I always speak of those who do yoga, I do not speak about ordinary life), for those who do yoga, to depend upon someone else is like wanting to transform that person into a representative of the Divine Force; now you may be sure there is not one in a hundred millions who can carry the weight: he will break immediately. So never take the attitude of hoping for support, help, comfort from anyone except ...
... constant descent of the Divine Consciousness and its Force Page 216 that is the means for the transformation of the whole being and the whole nature. Once this descent becomes habitual, the Divine Force, the Power of the Mother begins to work, no longer from above only or from behind the veil, but consciously in the Adhara itself, and deals with its difficulties and possibilities and carries on... have a new table, neither way is of any very great importance and it makes no difference to the Divine Purpose in you. The one thing important is to increase calm and peace and the descent of the Divine Force, to grow in equality and inward light and consciousness. Outward things have to be done with a great quiet, doing whatever is necessary but not exciting or upsetting yourself about anything. It... experience that open to one with the opening of the inner consciousness. The true rasa of poetry, painting or any other activity is truly found when these activities are part of the working of the Divine Force in you and you feel it as that and you feel in it the joy of that working. This condition you had of the inner being and its silence, separated from the surface consciousness and its little restless ...
... chequered, often painful and ruinous circles, takes even to the precipice, because it has no right guidance; it must be connected with the dynamic power of the higher consciousness and with the Divine Force acting through it for a great and luminous purpose. There are two movements necessary for this connection to be established. One is upward; the vital rises to join with the higher consciousness... But this, too, is not sufficient for the divine life. To come into contact with the higher mind consciousness is not enough, it is only an indispensable stage. There must be a descent of the Divine Force from yet loftier and more powerful reaches. A transformation of the higher consciousness into a supramental light and power, a transformation of the vital and its life-force Page 118 ... often happens temporarily in the course of the Yoga. Mental control has to be replaced by a greater control from above and by the calm, purity and strong peace of the vital itself opened to the Divine Force and its government of the whole nature. Do not allow yourself to be troubled or discouraged by any Page 124 difficulties, but quietly and simply open yourself to the Mother's force ...
... has to banish. To be conscious is necessary, but quiet self-examination is sufficient Page 761 for that—raising up difficulties under plan of testing is quite the wrong method. The Divine Force and the Adverse Force Do you not know the story of the Elephant Brahman? All is Brahman, but in action you have to treat the elephant as the Elephant Brahman and the Asura as the Asura Brahman... , until one has become the dynamic instrument of the Divine Consciousness and Force—then the problem of the elephant and the Rakshasa won't arise, for the Divine Consciousness will know and the Divine Force will execute what is to be done in each case. There is no need to have vaira inside, but to be friendly with the Rakshasa is not prudent, as the Rakshasa is impervious to that kind of thing—he... more than one has fallen a victim to it and got badly hurt. Your statement about the Shakti. The mere intensity of the force Page 762 does not show that it is a bad power; the Divine Force often works with a great intensity. Everything depends on the nature of the force and its working; what does it do, what seems to be its purpose? If it works to purify or open the system, or brings ...
... ego; ego must disappear and be replaced by the true spiritual person, the central being, and life itself must be turned towards the fulfilment of the Divine in terrestrial existence; it must feel a Divine Force awaking within it and become an obedient instrumentation of its purpose. There is nothing that is not ancient and familiar in the first of these three transforming inner movements; for it has... here and, if they were called down in their fullness, could altogether alter the whole make and economy of life in the material universe. It is all this latent experience and knowledge that the Divine Force working upon us by our opening to it in the integral Yoga, progressively reveals to us, uses and works out the consequences as means and steps towards a transformation of our whole being and nature... its basic consciousness, scope, significance. All forms of life activity that cannot bear the change must disappear, all that can bear it will survive and enter into the kingdom of the spirit. A divine Force is at work and will choose at each moment what has to be done or has not to be done, what has to be momentarily or permanently taken up, Page 186 momentarily or permanently abandoned ...
... nothing is. But should one do it? Should one, for instance, divert a storm?... All one has to do is ask. So should one ask the Divine Force to act one way rather than another? 6 In any case, the Divine Force will only do what it wills, and it is the Divine Force Itself which, in him, aspires to divert the storm. × ...
... condensed, it took on all the colors—vibrations of every color ... Like a materialization—these colors were like a materialization of the Divine Force when it enters matter. (Just as matter is a condensation of energy, well, this seemed to be a condensation of Divine Force. That's really the impression it gave.) It reminded me of tantric things. I have seen tantric formations and how forces are systematically... very guardedly. For I would have to see X do his puja one day to really know—from afar I'm not so sure. It's merely an impression. This is what I am constantly seeing now, but along with this Divine Force or this Divine Consciousness that Sri Aurobindo speaks of when he says, 'Mother's Force is with you.' When it comes, it is sparkling white, perfectly white and perfectly luminous. And as it accumulates ...
... Force". Was it the same thing as the divine Shakti? There came forth one of the most beautiful and comprehensive explanations on the Mother he has ever given me in a few lines: There is one divine Force which acts in the universe and in the individual and is also beyond the individual and the universe. The Mother stands for all these, but she is working here in the body to bring down something... so that you should regard her as the Divine Shakti working here for that purpose. She is that in the body, but in her whole consciousness she is also identified with all the other aspects of the Divine Force. The Master further explained the relationship between the Mother and Her Force: Page 266 THE MOTHER'S FORCE When I speak of the Mother's Force... of the Ignorance but of the higher Force of the Divine that descends from above to transform the nature. The Mother's Force is the manifestation of the Mother herself. . . . It is the Divine Force which works to remove the ignorance and change the nature into the divine Nature. We little human beings can never fathom the full glory of the Mother's personality. Such is the case ...
... action of the divine Force. Otherwise nothing great and permanent can be done; the Yoga will end in a break-down or an inert stoppage or a stultifying or a disastrous arrest in a process which must be absolute and integral if it is not [to] be a failure. But since no human system has this endless receptivity and unfailing capacity, the supramental Yoga can succeed only if the Divine Force as it descends ...
... Hymns to Agni The Secret of the Veda The Second Hymn to Agni A Hymn of the Liberation of the Divine Force [Nature in her ordinary limited and material workings holds the Divine Force concealed in her secret or subconscient being; only when consciousness enlarges itself towards the One and Infinite, is it manifested, born for the conscient Mind. The ...
... ing) ideality. Sortileges (20ᵗʰ) 1) अग्निः शुचिव्रततमःशुचिर्विप्रः शुचिः कविः । शुची रोचत आहुतः ।। उत त्वा धीतयो मम गिरो वर्धंतु विश्र्व्हा । अग्ने सख्यस्य बोधि नः । ie. the Divine Force (Tapas) has now to become entirely pure in its action, pure in the mental illuminations, pure in the idealities, pure in the sacrificial offering of all the energies to Krishna. So all the thoughts... general Ananda Brahman (ananda akasha) long covered over is now reviving. Sort. अग्निर्यथैक एव प्रकाशात्मा सन् भुवनं—भवंत्यस्मिन्भूतानीति भुवनम्—अयं लोकस्तमिमं प्रविष्टोऽनुप्रविष्टः ie. the Divine Force at work manifesting in luminous activity is to take possession of the whole subjective consciousness internal & external in this world; having already extended in the nervous consciousness it has ...
... sacrifice from plane to plane and all the planes of our being on which the Work proceeds come together in a conscious harmony and stream forth their riches in response to our giving. 3) Let this Divine Force manifest itself so that all shall say, "It is born and rises on high, slaying all the hostile powers that obstruct our progress and winning wealth on new wealth for the soul in battle after battle... The man then becomes perfect in his sacrifice; the offering is effective, the godheads are completely manifested, the base of sacrifice in the soul includes all the various planes of our being.The Divine Force, the Angiras, the puissance of Seer Will and the Son of Strength overpowering the Panis and Vritras, effects this completeness. 6) He is the envoy & effects the great commerce between earth & ...
... physical flame of the external sacrifice to which these profound phrases are inapplicable. × 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... comes under the control of the soul that has attained to the divine existence. × Probably, the divine force utilised to raise to divinity the triple being of man. × Possibly, the three Purushas, soul-states ...
... as infinite Conscious-Being and the ideas of Consciousness & Being attend & support the Ananda & work themselves out through its workings. When the divine Idea dwells rather on the principle of divine Force or Will in us, then we see & we work out all things in the Page 542 terms of Force or Will; still the ideas of Consciousness & Bliss always attend & support Will & work themselves out... possible for the Idea to produce a form of mind, life and body which will be able to house & express the vijnanamaya ideal being, the god in the universe and can be prepared to bear the activity of a divine force & divine joy and, breaking the walls of the mental ego, enlarge into the wideness of a cosmic consciousness. The gods, it is said in the Upanishad, presented by the Spirit with successive forms ...
... over impulses and desires. But whereas Sri Aurobindo regards such a control of the vital by exercise of the mental will or the will of the inner being as indispensable until one can call down the Divine Force, Eckhart's message is simply to bring Presence into whatever arises in one's nature. People who come to him, he says, seem to be ready for the arising of Presence. In Sri Aurobindo's yoga... Sri Aurobindo, Utters on Yoga, SABCL. Vol. 24, p. 1293. × The Divine Force. × Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga, SABCL. Vol. 24, p. 1717. ...
... limitations, a consciousness deeper or higher than that of the mind needs to be invoked. Eckhart calls it Presence. In Sri Aurobindo's yoga it is called the Divine Force or the Mother's Force. I realize more than ever before that, to invoke the Divine Force, it is not enough merely to detach oneself and stand back as a witness but to offer all the movements of one's ordinary consciousness to the Divine ...
... do not deal in miracles." And then: "What is Sri Aurobindo's Force? It is not a personal property of this body of mine, it is a higher Force used by me or acting through me. Of course it is a Divine Force, Page 87 for there is only one Force acting in the world, but it acts according to the nature of the instrument." But, as the psycho-analyst rightly says, human beings are i... is just why I adore Gurudev: he will know how to act on me. Why then must I fall back upon individual effort when I can get things done more speedily by surrender? Since I have come for that, the Divine Force will surely act through Sri Aurobindo and transform me." Feeling bewildered, if not discomfited, I appealed again to Gurudev to tell us something definite to go upon and not leave us suspended in ...
... part of your being consented to it, wanted and needed it as a self-fulfillment of the nature and the soul wanted it as a means of service to the Divine; the rest was due to the pressure of the Divine force and my pressure. As for the distaste, the lack of interest, etc. all this is temporary and belongs only to a part of you. In so far as it comes from a kind of vairagya, it may have helped you... some of your attachments, but it is defective in so far as the element of tamas and apravrtti is there; it is not so fundamental as to resist the victorious drive of the pressure of the Divine Force. You ask what I want you to do. What I want is that you should persist and give more and more that assent in you which brought about the progress you have made so that here too the ...
... remain in conscious contact with the higher Force. Theirs was like an aspiration (not formulated in words, of course), what in English one calls “a yearning,” “a longing” for the contact with the divine Force, the Force of Harmony, the Force of Truth, the Force of Love.’ 28 What happens to a body in course of universalization, to a body that is becoming decentralized? It loses its centre. But... was the Divine, directly. The Mother was learning how to live no longer according to the habits of the terrestrial evolution, hardened into so-called ‘laws,’ 96 but directly supported by the divine Force. For it will of course be this Force which shapes and determines the new supramental world and all beings in it. The Mother had to effectuate ‘the transition from an ordinary automatic way of ...
... it is the higher Power that acts. Our sense of personal effort and aspiration comes from the attempt of the egoistic mind to identify itself in a wrong and imperfect way with the workings of the divine Force. It persists in applying to experience on a supernormal plane the ordinary terms of mentality which it applies to its normal experiences in the world. In the world we act with the sense of egoism;... routine. And he will be on his guard against any turning of the means into a limitation, against the mechanising of process. His whole business is to awaken the divine light and set working the divine force of which he himself is only a means and an aid, a body or a channel. The example is more powerful than the instruction; but it is not the example of the outward acts nor that of the personal ...
... is the Energy from above working in the vital answering to the Serpent Kundalini which rises from below. The Serpent is the symbol of energy—especially of the Kundalini Shakti which is the divine Force coiled up in the lowest (physical) centre, Muladhara—and when it rises it goes up through the spine and joins the higher consciousness above. Page 171 Energies are of all kinds and the... physical. The serpent is a symbol of force, very often a hostile or evil force of the vital plane. The sea is a symbol of a plane of consciousness. The white light is a manifestation of pure divine force descending from one of the truth-planes leading to the supramental. The indication is that of a hostile vital force being expelled and the purifying light from above descending to illumine and ...
... them. It [ trying to help someone through words ] is a relative and partial help, of course, but it is sometimes useful. A radical help can only come from within through the action of the Divine Force and the assent of the being. It must be said of course that it is not everyone that thinks he is helping who is really doing it; also if the help is accompanied with the exercising of an "influence"... conduct—men want to help Page 317 each other with a motive behind or a feeling which proceeds from the ego. The idea of helping others is a subtle form of the ego. It is only the Divine Force that can help. One can be its instrument, but you should first learn to be a fit and egoless instrument. The idea of helping others is a delusion of the ego. It is only when the Mother c ...
... opening puts us into direct relation with the whole Divine and can create in us the divine consciousness and a new birth or births of the spirit. For when the Peace is established, this higher or Divine Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres, then into the heart centre and liberates fully the psychic and emotional being... welcomed—for there is no absolute rule for all,—but if the peace has not come first, care must be taken not to swell oneself in exultation or lose the balance. The capital movement however is when the Divine Force or Shakti, the power of the Mother comes down and takes hold, for then the organisation of the consciousness begins and the larger foundation of the Yoga. The result of the concentration is not ...
... It is certainly possible to draw forces from below. It may be the hidden divine forces from below that rise at your pull, and then this motion upward completes the motion and effort of the divine force from above, helping especially to bring it into the Page 164 body. Or it may be the obscure forces from below that respond to the summons, and then this kind of drawing brings either... greeds, jealousies, resistances and revolts over small matters, angers, vanities, sexualities etc. to be replaced by the right movements governed by selflessness, purity, obedience to the urge of the Divine Force in all things. It is evident that the lower vital has received the Divine Consciousness when even in the small movements of life there is an aspiration to the Divine, a reference as it were ...
... sure basis for further progress. The reason why the force flows out of him must be because he allows himself to become too inertly passive and open to everything. One must be passive only to the Divine Force, but vigilant not to put oneself at the mercy of all forces. If he becomes passive when he tries to see God in another person, he is likely to put himself at the disposal of any force that is working... vital which are the connecting links. Without the vital the action would not be complete, without the psychic it would not be possible. I do not see what is your difficulty. That there is a divine force asleep or veiled by Inconscience in Matter and that the Higher Force has to descend and awaken it with the Light and Truth is a thing that is well known; it is at the very base of this Yoga. ...
... sort of national Yoga. It was mastered in the inception by the inrush of divine force which came in 1905 and aroused it from its state of complete tamasic ajnanam. But, as happens also with individuals, all that was evil, all the wrong sanskaras and wrong emotions and mental and moral habits rose with it and misused the divine force. Hence all that orgy of political oratory, democratic fervour, meetings ...
... usual, came down directly through the forehead centre. It can come in anywhere, but the normal way of descent is through the head. 8 May 1934 When the Peace is established, this higher or Divine Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres, then into the heart centre and liberates fully the psychic and emotional ... welcomed—for there is no absolute rule for all,—but if the peace has not come first, care must be taken not to swell oneself in exultation or lose the balance. The capital movement however is when the Divine Force or Shakti, the Power of the Mother comes down and takes hold, for then the organisation of the consciousness begins and the larger foundation of the Yoga. 11 September 1934 The experiences ...
... believe it is difficult to remain in direct connection with the Cosmic Shakti, while the individual Shakti is always here before us. I would like to know more about these Shaktis. There is one divine Force which acts in the universe and in the individual and is also beyond the individual and the universe. The Mother stands for all three, but she is working here in the body to bring down something... so that you should regard her as the Divine Shakti working here for that purpose. She is that in the body, but in her whole consciousness she is also identified with all the other aspects of the Divine Force. 16 June 1933 ...
... this central Presence. It seems to me impossible to escape from this necessity if one wants to be and is to be a conscious instrument of the divine Force. You may be moved, pushed into action and used as unconscious instruments by the divine Force, if you have a minimum of goodwill and sincerity. But to become a conscious instrument, capable of identification and conscious, willed movements ...
... cases, in some temples, there are vital beings who are more or less powerful and have made their home there. But what Sri Aurobindo means here is that there is nothing, not even the most anti-divine force, which in its origin is not the Supreme Divine. So, necessarily, everything goes back to Him, consciously or unconsciously. In the consciousness of the one who makes the offering it does not go... you don't want it, you want to pull it out—well, if you identify yourself ever so little with that thing, you feel the pain of the extraction; if, on the contrary, you identify yourself with the divine Force which comes to liberate you, you feel the joy of the divine Grace—and you experience the deep delight of the progress you have made. And this is a sure sign for you, a sure indication of what ...
... cellular—the molecular and atomic, is progressing in its capacity to express the divine Force and Consciousness. Through all these organisms this substance becomes more and more conscious, more and more luminous, more and more receptive, until it reaches a perfection sufficient for it to become a possible vehicle for the divine Force itself which will be able to use it as it uses the elements of the other ...
... central Presence. It seems to me impossible to escape from this necessity if one wants to be and is to be a conscious instrument of the divine Page 173 Force. You may be moved, pushed into action and used as unconscious instruments by the divine Force, if you have a minimum of goodwill and sincerity. But to become a conscious instrument, capable of identification and conscious, willed ...
... the most intense and effective aspiration. The aspiration that comes from the heart is much more effective than that from the head. "Will and aspiration are needed to bring down the aid of the Divine Force and to keep the being on its side in its dealings with the lower powers." What is the meaning of "keep the being on its side"? "To keep on its side"—it is, for instance... you see, there is... the elements constituting this knot, the whole set of resistances, habits, preferences, of all that holds you narrowly closed in. So when you grow aware of this, you can concentrate and call the divine Force and the Grace and strike a good blow on this formation, these things so closely held, Page 390 like that, that nothing can separate them. And at that moment you must resolve that you ...
... Questions and Answers (1953) 9 September 1953 "Each time that something of the Divine Truth and the Divine Force comes down to manifest upon earth, some change is effected in the earth's atmosphere. In the descent, those who are receptive are awakened to some inspiration from it, some touch, some beginning of sight. If they were capable of holding... the strength to bear, and it is they who will become the vessels of the full knowledge, the chosen instruments and agents." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 9 June 1929 ) How does the divine Force choose the instrument in which it wants to manifest itself? Through affinity. For the quality, the nature of the consciousness is visible in the divine domain. It has a special vibration, a ...
... one's existence with the outer mental, vital and physical self. Not mental or vital energy but the Divine Force from above, a spiritual and supraphysical force acting on the physical world directly; a Force for illumination, transformation, purification. The help of a higher Divine Force other than the force of Karma, which can lift an individual beyond the present possibilities of his nature ...
... There are always two ways of doing the yoga—one by the action of a vigilant mind and vital seeing, observing, thinking and deciding what is or is not to be done. Of course it acts with the Divine force behind it, drawing or calling in that Force—for otherwise nothing much can be done. But still it is the personal effort that is prominent and assumes most of the burden. The other way is that... Divine, not only opening the psychic and bringing it forward, but opening the mind, the vital and the physical, receiving the Light, perceiving what is to be done, feeling and seeing it done by the Divine Force itself and helping constantly by its own vigilant and conscious assent to and call for the divine working. Usually there cannot but be a mixture of these two ways until the consciousness is ready ...
... nature and make use of them, so that you have no spiritual effort to make. On the contrary, if you are to be a fit instrument of the divine force you must make yourself perfectly pure since it is only in an integrally divinised instrument that the Divine Force will have its full power and effect. 4 July 1940 The world situation is critical today. India's fate too is hanging in the balance ...
... revelation is the revelation of the Divine. The descent of calm and light which you experience is a sign that the sadhana has actually begun in you; it shows that you are open now consciously to the Divine Force and its workings. The descent of calm and light into the being is the beginning of the foundation of the yoga. At first it may be felt in the mind and upper part only, but afterwards goes further... that the body wanted to prevent it. In order that the experience may not be dangerously deformed and painful, one should keep an absolute calm. It is only in the peace and the calm that the Divine Force expresses itself and acts. You know that for many years I have been in the habit of leaving my physical body and making exploratory tours in my subtle body. [Here the sadhak describes various ...
... like animals. But, Mother, your force is extremely active right now, you know. Yes, I know. I know: when I am like now, I always see the Force — it isn't "my" force, it is the Divine Force. I try — I only try to be like this (gesture like a channel). This body tries to be simply... simply a transmitter, as transparent as possible, as impersonal as possible. So the Divine can do... work, you can't fool people who have devoted their entire life to go beyond humanity. There is only one way to be convincing - it is to BE that. Then we'll stand strong, we'll have all the divine force on our side. We are here to prepare a super humanity, not to fall back into desires and easy life - no. People must feel it; it should be so strong that the sheer force of our sincerity ...
... the adverse forces—their atmosphere and vibrations are lethal. All the paintings have been done amidst dreadful struggle and suffering. The strife between two opposite Forces—the divine Force and the anti-divine force—was too much for me. But, yes, the golden snake is fighting fiercely in order to win the victory. And this is the year it must win. That was the vision I saw in 1956. The Mother wrote ...
... and said to him, "Yet a farther boon today I give thee; for even by thy name shall this Fire be called; this necklace also take unto thee, a necklace4 of many 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... heavenly Flame, 0 Nachiketas, which thou hast chosen for the second boon; of this Flame the peoples shall speak that it is thine indeed. A third boon choose, 0 _____________ 5. Probably, the divine force utilised to raise to divinity the triple being of man. 6. Possibly, the three Purushas, soulstites or Personalities of the divine Being, indicated by the three letters AUM. The highest Brahman ...
... activity of sadhana in the day that it extends also into the sleep state. In dreams and visions how can we be sure that what we see or hear is from you or Mother and not from an anti-divine force taking your form or imitating your voice? You cannot be sure unless you have sufficient experience and consciousness to discriminate. There are several people who have constructed an image... therefore that such suggestions should come. You have only to reject them and remember for what you are here. How sad it is that in spite of the Mother and 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 ...
... and sit comfortably there without any intention of doing sadhana. ... The Supramental Force can create the best conditions which the Divine Force can't? Yes. ... But surely the action of the Supramental Force would be different from that of the Divine Force. Yes. ... or would they be fundamentally the same, only different at points? No. No time to expatiate or divagate. What's ...
... is always there waiting Page 254 for its time of descent. As one feels the silence and wideness of the Self there, so one feels there a presence of a great Force — higher or Divine Force. During the free reception I feel the descent passing through my head, forehead and inner vision centre. It is the inner mind centres that have become open and conscious... consciousness till it takes possession of the vital and physical parts. There was just one moment, a single moment, when I experienced myself completely and throughout, as the divine Force itself. Is if not by such openings that tamas shall be conquered most easily and effectively? Yes. I am sorry, today I have not kept the distinction between what ...
... vital and body. That is inevitable since it has to work upon them. It is only after the trans-formation that it can be fully the Mother's Force with no mixture of the separate personality. If the Divine Force in all its perfection without mixture were to act from the beginning, not taking any account of the present nature, then there would be no sadhana, only a miraculous substitution of the Divine for... behind all the actions. I gather that the cosmic Force is behind all our actions whether we see it or not. Now, have we to open ourselves to this Force in order to arrive at the divine Force? Not necessarily — for the perfect action it is necessary. At the end of a certain experience, it was felt that Page 138 something ...
... Upanishad also describes, with its branches spreading out, i.e. all the multiple aspects of the creation. Even the gods, all of them, find shelter here in one form or other. All gods it is: Agni the Divine Force, Indra the Divine Mind, Soma the Divine Delight. It is Tapas, the upward urge in the Universe, it is Satyam the Truth and Ritam the Truth-action, Vak the Truth-word. Day and Night also are its... is the heaven placed and has its dwelling and in which limb reposes the higher heaven? 1 Energy, Energisation, Will, Divine Energy-will often identified with Agni. 2 Truth in action. 3 Divine Force or Will. 4 Life-force, 'Mother Breath'. Page 29 (4) Whither does Agni yearn to reach and blaze up and whither does the Mother-Breath yearn to reach and blow forward? There ...
... Mother has assured us that this Divine Force and Consciousness, this Supramental Consciousness has come down onto the earth. It is at work in man. The Supramental itself will descend into man and the Supramental Consciousness will by itself work out the transformation of human life as and when it wishes. The whole earth is the instrument of the Mother's Divine Force of Action. Each human being is ...
... Thus on 1 July: We bow down before Thee, we unite with Thee, O Lord, in a love that is limitless and full of an inexpressible beatitude. Page 110 Then a week later: O divine Force, supreme Illuminator, hearken to our prayer, move not away from us, do not withdraw, help us to fight the good fight, make firm our strength for the struggle, give us the force to conquer! 9... sublime sacrifice, they are offering their lives in a bloodstained holocaust. ... O Lord, O eternal Master, grant that all this may not be in vain, grant that the inexhaustible torrents of Thy divine Force may spread over the earth and penetrate its troubled atmosphere, the struggling energies, the violent chaos of battling elements; grant that the pure light of Thy Knowledge and the inexhaustible ...
... nature and make use of them, so that you have no spiritual effort to make. On the contrary, if you are to be a fit instrument of the Divine Force you must make yourself perfectly pure since it is only in an integrally divinised instrument that the Divine Force will have its full power and effect. 16 Then came August, and Hitler's decision to launch his Operation Sea-lion, preceded by a ...
... certainly aspiration and prayer have a greater efficacy because of the confidence they imply. 18.7.1970 Is the personal effort of him who is chosen by the Divine an easy action for the Divine Force? For the Divine all is bliss; but this word has to be given a meaning which man does not know. 20.7.1970 To get something from men one has to ask, but from You one gets more... the body it indicates the necessity of taking rest. All other fatigues come because you take the forces at the personal source which is necessarily limited, and you are not leaning on the Divine Force which is necessarily unlimited. 25.10.1970 The mind is learning not to be agitated by things it does not like. It is good. But there is a higher condition to attain. It is to ...
... minds and bodies,—only some original indifferent Spirit passively existing somewhere outside or above it,—the whole world and every particle of it is on the contrary nothing but the divine force in action and that divine force determines and governs its every movement, inhabits its every form, possesses here every soul and mind; all is in God and in him moves and has its being, in all he is, acts and displays ...
... to do that, particularly, it is necessary to see beyond the simple appearances. During the war between Germany and England it was Page 301 known on which side the Divine was, the divine Force which was fighting against the asuric forces... Known to whom? Here. Ah, of course! In present-day politics can we say in which camp... Unfortunately, things become completely... victory are such that the victory of one side is better than that of another. But this is when the thing becomes absolutely brutal, a reciprocal extermination. Otherwise, to tell the real truth, the divine Force acts for its work everywhere, in men's errors as in their goodwill, through ill-will as through favourable things. There is nothing that's not mixed; nowhere is there something which could be said ...
... is here asleep and coiled up in all the centres of our inner being (chakras) and is at the base what is called in the Tantras the Kundalini Shakti. But it is also above us, above our head as the Divine Force—not there coiled up, involved, asleep, but awake, scient, potent, extended and wide; it is there waiting for manifestation and to this Force we have to open ourselves—to the power of the Mother... release the individual into a cosmic universality or into absoluteness and transcendence. 23 March 1933 Page 192 You often speak of the Mother's Force. What is it? It is the Divine Force which works to remove the ignorance and change the nature into the divine nature. 18 June 1933 Why do I feel that it is I who do this thing or that? For is it not true that it is the Mother's ...
... inscrutable Will—and the instrumentation of the Divine Force in the adhara. These must be established in the Page 419 inner being, but also as much as possible in the outer nature. Men and circumstances may not come up to your expectation or to your demand on them—they seldom or never do, but it is not on them but on the Divine and on the Divine Force acting in you that must be your dependence ...
... figuring before the public in something big. What is important now is to get the true consciousness from above, get rid of the ego (which nobody has yet done) and learn to be an instrument of the Divine Force. After that the manifestation can take place, not before. 24 October 1935 It is necessary or rather inevitable that in an Asram which is a "laboratory", as Adhar Das puts it, 7 for a spiritual... Mother has told me what you said to her. In other circumstances I would have asked you to stay on in the confidence that, however sharp the struggle might be, the inner being in you aided by the Divine Force would prevail over the other and foreign influence. But in the condition of mind described by you some relief and rest from the inner struggle seems to be necessary for you. An absence from Pondicherry ...
... Therapeutic Force The Divine Grace has certainly done something. I [the Ashram doctor] acted according to your advice, and X felt better the whole day. It was not the Divine Grace but the Divine Force. If it had been the Grace, it would simply have said तथास्तु [ tathāstu] and the thing would be done. As it is, last night I had to work a damned lot for this result—I only hope it will last and... support it. All that is proof of a very familiar kind of resistance which refuses to yield to the mind's will or the soul's aspiration. It is like that in X ; it is so in many others here. The Divine Force does not act now in an omnipotent ease regardless of conditions—it might do that if it were the pure supramental Force in its native action; but that is not yet. Here conditions have been created ...
... 1951): 8 February 1951 It seems to me impossible to escape from this necessity if one wants to be and is to be a conscious instrument of the divine Force. You may be moved, pushed into action and used as unconscious instruments by the divine Force, if you have a minimum of goodwill and sincerity. But to become a conscious instrument, capable of identification and conscious, willed movements ...
... Yoga. It was mastered in the inception by the inrush of divine force which came in 1905 and aroused it from its state of complete tamasic ajñānam [ignorance]. But, as happens also with individuals, all that was evil, all the wrong samskāras [imprints] and wrong emotions and mental and moral habits rose with it and misused the divine force. Hence all that orgy of political oratory, democratic fervour ...
... the contrary, 'Aspire and draw.' For they would be able to receive and yet not be upset by the forces descending from the Divine." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 14 April ) Why does the divine force upset people? Because it is too strong for them. It is as though you were in the midst of a big cyclone. It happens at times that the wind is so violent that you are not able to stand—you have... movement followed it. This was ordinary meditation with an aspiration and ascent towards the Divine. Here, at the Playground, the work is to unify all who are here, make them open and bring down the divine force into them. It is the opposite movement and that is why this concentration cannot replace the other, even as the other cannot replace this one. What happens here is exceptional—in the other meditation ...
... rather than another. As we read in one of our recent classes, for one who follows the path of action, it is much more difficult to feel that the human personality does not exist and that only the divine Force works. For one who follows the path of knowledge it is relatively very easy, it is something one discovers Page 323 almost immediately. For one who follows the path of love it is elementary... ego; ego must disappear and be replaced by the true spiritual person, the central being, and life itself must be turned towards the fulfilment of the Divine in terrestrial existence; it must feel a Divine Force awaking within it and become an obedient instrumentation of its purpose." (Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga , SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 166 ) ...
... Mother, I don't understand "Our sense of personal effort and aspiration comes from the attempt of the egoistic mind to identify itself in a wrong and imperfect way with the workings of the divine Force." What is it that you do not understand? The sentence or the idea? The idea, Mother. It can be put in very familiar terms. The individual being, and particularly the mind in it, have... need for realisation which push him—if someone tells these people (I have had this experience), if someone tells them a little too soon, "Why, no, it is the Divine who aspires in you, it is the divine Force which produces in you...", they no longer do anything, they fall flat, it doesn't interest them at all any longer; they say, "Good, I have nothing to do then, let the Divine do it." And this ...
... in chequered, often painful and ruinous circles, takes even to the precipice because it has no right guidance; it must be connected with the dynamic power of the higher consciousness and with the Divine Force acting through it for a great and luminous purpose. There are two movements necessary for this connection to beestablished. One is upward; the vital rises to join with the higher co... But this too is not Sufficient for the divine life. To come into contact With the higher mind consciousness is not enough, it is only an indispensable stage. There must be a descent of the Divine Force from yet loftier and more powerful reaches. A transformation of the higher consciousness into a supramental light and power, a transformation of the vital and its life-force into a pure, wide, calm ...
... must move. It [ concentration of the inner consciousness ] can happen in several forms. It can become concentrated in silence as the witness—it can become concentrated in the feeling of the Divine Force flowing through it, the work being a result—it can become concentrated in the feeling of the presence of the Divine or the Ananda or love of the Divine while the working goes on separately in front... found these things in himself. All this can be arranged by the action of the inner Force with the constant consent and call of the sadhak. By himself he might not be able to do it, but with the Divine Force working within all can be done. The resistance you speak of and the insufficient receptivity and the inability to continue in communion while doing work, must all be due to some part of the ...
... universal forces that play through us and around us. And Page 204 then only too can we hope to be directly aware of the Divine in us and directly in touch with the Divine Light and the Divine Force. Otherwise we can feel the Divine only through external signs and external results and that is a difficult and uncertain way and very occasional and inconstant, and it leads only to belief and not... it is what predominates. There are two ways of getting out of this—one is to rise above in the self and see the physical from there as an instrument, not oneself, the other is to bring down the divine Force from above and make the physical the instrument of that Force. The forces of the physical mind, vital physical, material consciousness [ are the forces of the physical plane ]. Of course ...
... When the Peace of God descends on you, when the Divine Presence is there within you, when the Ananda rushes on you like a sea, when you are driven like a leaf before the wind by the breath of the Divine Force, when Love flows out from you on all creation, when Divine Knowledge floods you with a Light which illumines and transforms in a moment all that was before dark, sorrowful and obscure, when all... the knowledge or intuition in the soul that started you on the way. I have been pressing on you the need of faith because the assent has again to take a positive form so as to give free way to the Divine Force; but the persistent drive in the soul (which is a hidden and externally suppressed faith) is itself sufficient to warrant the expectation of the Grace to come. The sense of calm and light ...
... ignorance, the vital being not yet sufficiently open, the psychic not yet sufficiently awake, a hostile power can easily intrude and pass itself off as the divine Force. Remember that no personality and no power is to be allowed to possess you. The divine Force will not act in this way; it will work first to purify, to widen and enlighten and transform the consciousness, to open it to Light and Truth, to awaken ...
... is here asleep and coiled up in all the centres of our inner being (chakras) and is at the base what is called in the Tantras the Kundalini shakti. But it is also above us, above our head as the Divine Force—not there coiled up, involved, asleep, but awake, scient, potent, extended and wide; it is there waiting for manifestation and to this Force we have to open ourselves—to the power of the Mother... saw and whose effects you felt—the merging in silence and peace, the peace of the Atman or the Brahman consciousness—are usually a first effect, they are visual forms of the dynamic descent of the Divine Force from above; also the passage from the realisation of the static Brahman with the sense of the unreality of the world-existence to the realisation of the status of the dynamic one. This is a considerable ...
... impossible to expect from the mixed and confused nature of the human being that it should be constantly in a state of ardent aspiration, perfect faith and love or full and constant openness to the Divine Force. There is the mental with its limited knowledge and its hesitations, there is the vital with its desires, unwillingnesses and its struggles; there is the physical with its obscurity, slowness and... the Mother's force is working through the difficulty even and will do all that is needed. Our incapacity does not matter—there is no human being who is not in his parts of nature incapable—but the Divine Force also is there. If one puts one's trust in that, incapacity will be changed into capacity. Difficulty and struggle themselves then become a means towards the achievement. I repeat what I wrote ...
... powerful and happy in place of this troubled desire and its doubtful and precarious fruits—for it has been accustomed to think of desire as the only possible motive of life. It does not know that the divine Force is there waiting to descend with its light and peace and joy bringing much greater things and a happier life. When this part can be enlightened and persuaded to want wholeheartedly the change, then... wants to become a hero and master of spiritual action. In your life at Bogra these things were too much sheltered and allowed to remain; at Shillong you have a chance to be by yourself with the Divine Force and look life in the face from the soul's inner strength and become master of circumstances. Outer difficulties or inconveniences you should not allow to alarm or depress you. Inner difficulties ...
... to be offered to the divine force, Agni, to grow in us by devouring it. This is the idhma. To him who thus makes, havinshi, offerings to Agni, he returns tenfold the strength & joy that is given him, for, as Madhuchchhanda says in the first hymn of this Mandala, that is his satyam, his truth or vow to do good to the giver. In other words, whatever we surrender to the Divine Force, it returns to us in ...
... gods. Let the two great gods create in his being that wide world of their divine strength and vastness; let them bring to him its plenitude and felicity in the dawning of the divine light and the divine force.] वरुणं वो रिशादसमृचा मित्रं हवामहे । परि व्रजेव बाह्वोर्जगन्वांसा स्वर्णरम् ॥१॥ 1) Varuna, destroyer of the foe, and Mitra we call to you by the word of illumination; their arms encompass... × The gods. Swar is the "own house" of the Gods. × The divine force of the Truth-conscious being, called in the next verse "the force of the gods"; the Vast, bṛhat , is the constant description of that plane or "wide world",—the Truth, the Right, the Vast. ...
... dallier with the luxury of unneeded evils. He is wiser than our reason and wiser than our virtue. Our nature is not only mistaken in will and ignorant in knowledge but weak in power; but the Divine Force is there and will lead us if we trust in it and it will use our deficiencies and our powers for the divine purpose. If we fail in our immediate aim, it is because he has intended the failure; often... ness immersed in a trance of peace or an ecstasy of divine Love. But our more difficult problem is to liberate the true Person and attain to a divine manhood which shall be the pure vessel of a divine force and the perfect instrument of a divine action. Step after step has to be firmly taken; difficulty after difficulty has to be entirely experienced and entirely mastered. Only the Divine Wisdom and ...
... infatuation we are compelled to perceive the universality of the force that is acting and the insignificance of the individual. So also there are particular movements in particular epochs in which the Divine Force manifests itself with supreme power shattering all human calculations, making a mock of the prudence of the careful statesman and the scheming politician, falsifying the prognostications of the... we never made the absurd statement evolved out of the Bengalee 's imagination that God is everywhere except in the conscious and deliberate activities of men. What we say and hold to is that the Divine force manifests itself specially when it effects mighty and irresistible movements which even the ignorance and egoism of man is obliged to recognise as exceeding and baffling his limited wisdom and his ...
... unexpressed, involved or evolved, secret or manifest or in course of manifestation, not only that state of involved consciousness which we call annam or Matter, but also life, mind, knowledge, bliss, divine force and being,— prāṇa, manas, vijñāna, ānanda, cit, sat . In all things the self-conscious personality of God broods and takes the delight of his guṇas . Flowers, fruits, earth, trees, metals, all... take its firm stand on an infinite and ineffable rest and peace. Rajas, as we know it, will disappear into pure tapas , and the nature will flow in Page 81 a free and infinite ocean of divine force. On that foundation of calm and in that heaven of light, action will occur as the spontaneous objective expression of God's knowledge, which is one with God's will. This is the condition of infinity ...
... original principle. He tells us that the many are bad, the few good and that one is to him equal to thousands, if he be the best. Power of knowledge, power of character,—character, he says, is man's divine force,—power and excellence generally are the things that prevail in human life and are supremely valuable, and these things in their high and pure degree are rare among men, they are the difficult attainment... relative, individual reason into direct communion with or direct participation in the divine and absolute reason? to inspire and raise the values of his human force to the higher values of the divine force? to become aware like the gods of an absolute good and an absolute beauty? to lift this mortal to the nature of immortality? Against his melancholy image of human transiency we have that remarkable ...
... Ghost over the bent World broods with warm breast and with ah! bright wings, 24 and it is the Holy Ghost that is called the Spirit of God considered as the creative divine force no less than the divine force mediating, in-dwelling, enthusing, grace-giving, salvation-bringing. The Holy Ghost is also called the Spirit of Christ. And in early Christological speculation Christ and the Holy ...
... Ashram whose physical consciousness could readily receive the Divine Force and allow it to be effective in its working, I feel that a greater part of the illnesses in the Ashram would be pushed aside, and there would be sounder health. May the body consciousness awake, give itself completely to the Divine and allow the Divine Force to work out its Will. Yes, what you say is quite right. It ...
... April 1933 I have faith in my strength and believe I am capable of doing all the work. It is not in your own strength that you should have faith. It is in Page 11 the divine force, which works in all who are consecrated to the Divine and sustains them in their action. I have faith that I am capable of doing all the work. I like the work a lot; so if you don't mind, I... like this or like that?" (25 June 1914) What is the meaning of this passage? Wisdom lies in wanting what the Divine wants, not in deciding for yourself. 13 December 1933 "O divine Force, supreme Illuminator, hearken to our prayer, move not away from us, do not withdraw, help us to fight." (8 July 1914) Does the Divine ever move away or withdraw from us? No, it is we ...
... quiet and detachment. One thing only I can tell you that whatever the sincerity, simplicity and purity of the relation between two human beings, it shuts them off more or less from the direct divine force and help and limits their strength, light and power only to the sum of their potentialities. I cannot say that this is very advisable in your case. 15 February 1950 You lose a great... many years; but it is not a mental clue; and it is only if your mind falls silent that you can feel what I want to convey to you. Blessings. 14 March 1970 As for true love, it is the Divine Force that allows consciousnesses to unite themselves with the Divine. 22 May 1971 True love is something very deep and calm in its intensity; it may quite well not manifest itself in any exterior ...
... this transcendent Spirit. 102 Thus, Eckhart and Sri Aurobindo have the same perspective in looking upon the egoic self as incapable of transforming itself and in regarding Presence or the Divine Force as the sole power that can bring about transformation. However, Sri Aurobindo further states: ... the entire substitution of the divine for the human personal action is not at once entirely... Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita, SABCL Vol. 13, pp. 537. 538. × The Divine Force. × Sri Aurobindo. The Synthesis of Yoga. SABCL. Vol. 20. p. 80. ...
... divine will in the individual instrumentality, the individual grows not only into the divine Consciousness and divine Force but also into the divine Delight. There is then the rise of Bhakti, because Bhakti is essentially the delight in the Presence of the Divine Consciousness and Divine Force. The crown of the union of Karma yoga and Jnana yoga is divine Love, and the divine Love expresses the delight ...
... __ ¹A few days later, Mother added: There is also something I left unsaid: an urgent need to cease all material activity in order to enable the body to receive fully—as fully as possible—the divine Force that will replace what has been removed. There is something absolute about that need: to stay totally still, quiet, letting the Force descend–permeate the body, rather. All physical activity must... was very strange, I had only to sit quietly and watch: I would see here, there, there, the whole thing in my body, all that was going on. And while it went on, I would put the concentration of the divine Force there, so that all—all that pain, all that suffering, everything—would hasten the preparation of the earth and the Descent of the Force. And that went on consciously throughout the war. The ...
... three gunas themselves become purified, refined and changed into their divine equivalents; sattva becomes Jyoti, the authentic spiritual light; raja becomes tapas, the tranquilly intense divine force; tamas becomes shama, the divine quiet, rest, peace. But this can be done, according to Sri Aurobindo, in its fullness in the physical only when the physical life is finally transformed by the... my own birthday and it is naturally gratifying to me that it should have assumed this vast significance. I take this coincidence, not as a fortuitous accident, but as the sanction and seal of the Divine Force that guides my steps on the work with which I began life, the beginning of its full fruition....' In the same message, Sri Aurobindo spoke of the unfortunate partition of the country and made the ...
... Yoga. It was mastered in the inception by the inrush of divine force which came in 1905 and aroused it from its state of complete tamasic aj ñ anam [ignorance]. But, as happens also with individuals, all that was evil, all the wrong samskaras [imprints] and wrong emotions and mental and moral habits rose with it and misused the divine force. Hence all that orgy of political oratory, democratic ...
... national Yoga. It was mastered in the inception by the inrush of divine force, which came in 1905 and aroused it from its state of complete tamasic ajnanam [ignorance]. But, as happens also with individuals, all that was evil, all the wrong samskaras [imprints] and wrong emotions and mental and moral habits rose with it and misused the divine force. Hence all that orgy of political oratory, democratic fervour ...
... Yoga. It was mastered in the inception by the inrush of divine force which came in 1905 and aroused it from its state of complete tamasic aj ñ anam [ignorance]. But, as happens also with individuals, all that was evil, all the wrong samskaras[imprints] and wrong emotions and mental and moral habits rose with it and misused the divine force. Hence all that orgy of political oratory, democratic fervour ...
... Still the Divine gives these things. They are first in life a preparation of the consciousness—but when one does Yoga, they can become a part of the sadhana if done for the Divine and by the Divine Force. But one should not want to be a poet for the sake of being a poet only, or for fame, applause etc. From your statement I conclude that tendency does not matter much; I can go on as lain doing... with the Rudrabhava, but without anger, though people may mistake it for anger. That is a higher stage. There there is no disturbance even in the outer being, only a mass of very calm, but intense divine force in action. A few Blessings—24th. Many April 23, 1935 Lack of interest and energy, disinclination to go to the hospital—this is my condition for the last few days. Curiously ...
... instance of a double being? Well, it is something very much like that—except that the possession of the consciousness by either personality is not always or often as complete as that. Is Divine Force somewhat different from Ananda and Peace in its operation? When Peace descends or Ananda invades, one can distinctly feel it as coming from above. But what about the Force? One can feel it in... old masculines had towards women. The Divine Grace has done something. I acted up to your advice and N felt better the whole day, as he wasn't in bed. It was not the Divine Grace but the Divine Force. If it had been the Grace, it would simply have said तथास्तु 41 and the thing would be done. As it is, last night I had to work a damned lot for this result—I only hope it will last and complete ...
... and against the divine force and might, no asuric power can ultimately prevail. The human being who has stood against the Asura has by that very act sided with the gods and Page 123 received the support and benediction of the Divine. The more we become conscious about the nature of this war and consciously take the side of the progressive force, of the divine force supporting it, the ...
... Divine—and against the divine force and might, no asuric power can ultimately prevail. The human being who has stood against the Asura has by that very act sided with the gods and received the support and benediction of the Divine. The more we become conscious about the nature of this war and consciously take the side of the progressive force, of the Page 14 divine force supporting it, the ...
... Madhav-ji is no more. Mother's beloved child has gone back to Mother's lap and is enjoying Eternal Bliss. We all know that an incessant war is going on between the Divine and undivine forces. The Divine Force wants to establish a Divine kingdom in this world, and the undivine forces, with all their might, are trying to prevent it. I feel strongly, that all our elders, who are leaving us one by... helpful to no one but only add to the chaos if anyone in this transitional stage were to set out on "work for the future". Truth is active But one thing is certain: the Divine Force embodied in Mother and Sri Aurobindo is actively at work in each individual, not only in the Ashram but everywhere in the world in proportion to each one's capacity to receive it and his or her ...
... much theft and robbery endless lockouts and strikes. People don't work and yet the country seems to be running and holding together. After seeing all this I was convinced that there must be some Divine Force that holds the country together, that protects it. If this had not been so the country should have disintegrated," social order would have crumbled. This would be impossible without God. That's... capacity, do as well as we can, that is the solution. However long it might take, there is no other solution. If each one of us is sincere to the utmost then it won't take much time. The higher divine force then will dissipate the darkness in no time. Page 23 Dada was recounting incidents from his childhood. He was five or six then. An attendant of the house used to take Dad and his ...
... the Divine – and against the divine force and might, no asuric power can ultimately prevail. The human being who has stood against the Asura has by that very act sided with the gods and received the support and benediction of the Divine. The more we become conscious about the nature of this war and consciously take the side of the progressive force, of the divine force supporting it, the more will ...
... identified with the body and with the ordinary personality. The Peace is not of the nature of inertia, but the inertia of tamas is a degradation of peace or rest as rajas is a degradation of divine Force. So when the physical is invited to peace and cannot receive it, it Page 53 brings up inertia instead. Does the mental tamas remain till one realises the supermind... peace of the eternal Self — which has finally to replace tamas, the physical inertia. Tamas is the Page 62 degradation of shama, as rajas is the degradation of Tapas, the Divine Force. The physical consciousness is always trying to substitute its own inertia for the calm, peace or rest of the true consciousness, just as the vital is always trying to substitute its rajas for the ...
... Spirit), and it is this Force that will universalize our being, right down to the lowest layers. This is the fundamental experience of the integral yoga. When the Peace is established, this higher or Divine Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres, then into the heart centre... then into the navel and other vital centres...... mind, the vital, and even in the body. When he rises into the Superconscient, the seeker will find out that the intensities of the Spirit also can be overpowering (it is actually always the same divine Force, the same Consciousness-Force above or below, in Matter or in Life, in the Mind or higher up, but the farther it descends, the darker, more distorted and broken up it becomes by the medium it has ...
... Mother has assured us that this Divine Force and Consciousness, this Supramental Consciousness has come down onto the earth. It is at work in man. The Supramental itself will descend into man and Supramental Consciousness will by itself work out the transformation of human life as and when it wishes. The whole earth is the instrument of the Mother's Divine Force of Action. Each human being is a ...
... kept informed of the difficulties... and at the same time, of the need of his force to surmount them.... How often we heard her praying to Sri Aurobindo, "Lord, there should be no rain now."... The Divine Force would of course win.... But as soon as the intended object was achieved, a deluge swept down as if in revenge.... During the roof-construction, work had to go on all night long and the Mother would... when the expenses have climbed to a dizzy and fantastic height.... Carrying on anything of this magnitude without any settled income could not have been done if there had not been the working of a divine Force. 9 IV The War had indeed come to a grinding halt, Germany was under the occupation of the four Big Powers (USA, USSR, UK and France), the new Poland was a truncated nation as compared ...
... means the service of the Divine with the will of the servant in perfect tune with the Will of the Master, and the whole being of the servant, surrendered and integrated, moved by the omniscient divine Force. It is, really speaking, a direct action of the Divine in and through the instrumental being of the liberated, egoless individual. It is, if we can so put it, a service of the Divine by the Divine... quickened and illumined, ecstatically responding to the touch of ¹Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, June 30, 1914. Page 107 divine Love and impeccably moved by the divine Force. The Will of the eternal Doer functions through the co-operating will of the apparent human doer, using the means and achieving the ends decreed by itself. The individual being is at once the receiver ...
... always wrung out of the worst difficulties and obstacles. To complain and grumble is to lapse into doubt and darkness, and become unsteady. But, instead, if we quietly offer our difficulties to the divine Force, which is the dynamic aspect of divine Love, it will turn them into blessings, and help us derive from them the knowledge and strength needed for the next step forward. Sincerity requires a constant... an integral sincerity. And perfection in sincerity is victory itself, for, then, in the condition of perfect sincerity, it is the divine omnipotence that acts and achieves, and when the infinite divine Force ¹ The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo, Part VIII, by Nolini Kanta Gupta, ² Words of the Mother, 4th Series, Page 169 acts freely and sovereignly in a nature rendered ...
... movement of rejection and surrender,—rejection or repulsion of all egoistic desires and a progressive surrender and opening of the whole consciousness and nature to the developing action of the divine Force. Desirelessness, so much insisted upon in the Gita, is the best insurance against delusions and errors. A desireless heart is a pure heart and a fit temple for the installation of the divine... agent and participant in the divine action, each part of its being, in tune with the others and in tune with the Divine, developed to its utmost perfection and responding to every touch of the divine Force. In the midst of its passivity it Page 308 must be a vibrating dynamo of divine activity; in the midst of its impersonality it must preserve a unified and powerful personality ...
... There are always two ways of doing the Yoga — one by the action of a vigilant mind and vital seeing, observing, thinking and deciding what is or is not to be done. Of course it acts with the Divine Force behind it, drawing or calling in that Force — for otherwise nothing much can be done. But still it is the personal effort that is prominent and assumes most of the burden. The other way is that... Divine, not only opening the psychic and bringing it forward, but opening the mind, the vital and the physical, receiving the Light, perceiving what is to be done, feeling and seeing it done by the Divine Force itself and helping constantly by its own vigilant and conscious assent to and call for the Divine working. Usually there cannot but be a mixture of these two ways until the consciousness is ready ...
... all along my life. Under the influence of the Mother's divine force, our inner and outer beings were deeply touched and the programme itself had been rendered possible in a way that our ordinary human endeavour could never have been able to achieve. That is why today as I remember that descent of the Mother's extraordinary divine force, my whole being sings aloud: Victoire à la Douce ...
... requirements, reaches beyond them and expresses inner spiritual truth, the deeper not obvious reality of things, the joy of God in the world and its beauty and desirableness and the manifestation of divine force and energy in phenomenal creation. This is what Indian Art alone attempted thoroughly and in the effort it often dispensed, either deliberately or from impatience, with the lower, yet not negligible ...
... must have been convinced that the wonderful force of this agitation, this revolution in ideas, and these extreme changes in behaviour must have the support of some unseen wonderful supernatural and divine force. This movement is not an ordinary one, its regulator and leader is certainly not a human being, and it has the support of the best force in the universe. All the revolutions in the world have been ...
... merely sleeping and inoperative ideas held as sounding words rather than possibilities. Still the repetition of the words like the repetition even mechanical of a powerful mantra, began to awaken the divine force latent in the idea and, however feebly, it began to stir. But it was not till the 16th of October and the 7th of August that these ideas seized on the faith and imagination of the people and took ...
... weakness and the old want of faith which struggles occasionally to establish itself by a false appearance of philosophical weight and wisdom. It cannot really believe that this is a movement with a divine force within and a mighty future before it. The only force it sees is the resentment against the Partition which in its view is enough to explain everything that has happened, the only future it envisages ...
... mortal state into illimitable immortality. The instrument of their effort is sacrifice; the strength that is both to be born of the sacrifice and to make it effective, is the triple strength of divine Force, divine Light and divine Bliss. The primitive verbal sense of the word yajna was action, effort, endeavour done with a force directed towards some goal, some object or some person; its idea-sense ...
... creates and relates itself to form of substance: it has all the universal conscious-force of existence behind it and is not a separate entity or movement. Life in us must become conscious of this divine Force behind it in order to become divine.—Life, at first darkened, ignorant, divided and helplessly subject, seeks as it develops to become master and enjoyer, to grow in Power; but until it escapes ...
... of general illumination already described as the result of the ascending flight of the Ashwins is now described as being effected by the aid of the fires of Agni. For the flames of the Will, the divine Force burning up in the soul, are also drenched with the overflowing sweetness and therefore they perform perfectly from day to day their great office of leading the sacrifice 5 progressively to its ...
... within a given time have once more proved to be falsehoods. On the other hand the theory of the Yoga has been proved. The perfectibility of the human being, trikaldrishti, Power, the play of the Divine Force in the individual, the existence of the other worlds, & of extra-mental influences, even the possibility of the physical siddhis are established facts—vijnana, the Vedic psychology, the seven streams ...
... increasing his father. (Explanation. Heaven & earth, Mind & body dwelling together in one frame or in one material world move in the darkness of ignorance, they pass through it by following the divine Force which is born to their activities. कुपयं is of doubtful significance. The father is the Purusha or else Heaven in the sense of the higher spiritual being.) 4) For the thinker becoming man his ...
... functions of that divine priesthood. The divine Seer-Will is the Purohit, that power which is placed in front of our consciousness to act for the human being; replacing the fallible human will this divine force as soon as it is kindled conducts the sacrifice; he leads it in its journey through the stages by which the sacrificer rises to the supramental divine consciousness; he is its vanguard and front-fighter ...
... unegoistic, cosmic & purely self-fulfilling, nirahankara and nishkama. There we shall find & repeat in our own lives at once the utter reality of His self-collected calm and the perfection of His divine force at work, shama & tapas united in an action which is the fulfilment of a mighty Silence expressing itself in waves of power & bliss. That harmony & oneness of divine calm & divine work is man's ultimate ...
... order to give it a greater and unmistakable emphasis. And then throughout the rest of the chapter 3 we get a summary description of these principal indications, these pre-eminent signs of the divine force present in the things and persons of the universe. It seems at first as Page 360 if they were given pell-mell, without any order, but still there is a certain principle in the enumeration ...
... 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 Nature, this is the goal of the integral yoga. In one word, to accomplish birth of god, divine life. Not featureless, ineffable ...
... single bliss. 33 A certainty floods into him. All shall be yet well with this creation. When Death, Ignorance, Nescience, Inconscience and the rest are slayed by a master-act of the divine force, the world gets transformed into a divine spaceship. Ananda will be the reigning Law. Aswapati's vision recaptures the Tantric mode of understanding Existence as the Meru. No more compartmen ...
... world: He shall light up Truth's fire in Nature's night, He shall lay upon the earth Troth's greater law; Man too shall turn towards the Spirit's call. 76 And then A divine force shall flow through tissue and cell And take the charge of breath and speech and act And all the thoughts shall be a glow of suns And every feeling a celestial thrill.... ...
... Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL. Vol. 20. p. 306. × The Divine Force. × Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga, SABCL. Vol. 23. p. 605. ...
... Mother has told me what you said to her. In other circumstances I would have asked you to stay on in the confidence that, however sharp the struggle might be, the inner being in you aided by the Divine Force would prevail over the other and foreign influence. But in the condition of mind described by you some relief and rest from the inner struggle seems to be necessary for you. An absence from Pondicherry ...
... the Peace of God descends on you, when the Divine Presence is there within you, when the Ananda rushes on you like a sea, when you are driven like a leaf before the wind by the breath of the Divine Force, when Love flowers out from you on all creation, when Divine Knowledge floods you with a Light which illumines and transforms in a moment all that was before dark, sorrowful and obscure, when ...
... The above passage further implies that peace is a power for not only healing but also for prevention. For, the most important factor in prevention is one's power of resistance * The Divine Force. Page 148 to disease. This power to ward off illness depends not so much on physical strength as on inner strength which, the Mother states, is always associated with calm and peace ...
... service, he must go on with the ordinary life. He is still much too young and too unripe for any complete sadhana. At best he can do at present some kind of Karma yoga, trying to realise the one. Divine Force behind the action of the world and preparing himself so that one day he may feel a direct guidance. 1 October 1929 Sri Aurobindo ...
... years 1934 and 1935 as the correspondence between the Master and the disciple grew in volume, frequency and depth during this period. It will not be put of place here to highlight again the Divine force and Grace imparted concretely through these letters by a Guru, the Messianic "treasurer of superhuman dreams'71 to his cherished and receptive disciple who the Guru called "a friend and a son ...
... way. I have been pressing on you the need of faith because the assent has again to take a positive form (vairagya is but the negative form of this assent in you) so as to give free way to the Divine Force; but the persistent drive in the soul (which is hidden behind an exteriorly-suppressed faith) is itself sufficient to warrant the expectation of the Grace to come." Page 238 I ...
... similar responsibilities can understand what we have gone through. Carrying on anything of this magnitude without any settled income could not have been done if there had not been the working of a Divine Force. Works of charity are not part of our work, there are other people who can see to that. We have to spend all on the work we have taken in hand and what we get is nothing compared to what is needed ...
... a growth of the consciousness that this entanglement can he solved. My dear Mother, may my vital consecrate itself more and more to the Divine, open itself and be a perfect instrument of the Divine Force. Yes, a complete, absolute consecration of the vital to the Divine is the only solution. Always with you, my dear child, in your effort of progress 21 September 1935 ...
... come, my being clearly speaks to them and says: "If I submit myself to you, you gain strength and enter into the atmosphere. Go away, you have no place here." And they do go away. By calling the Divine Force and remaining completely quiet and undisturbed, the bad force is sure to go away defeated. Yes, this is just the right attitude that is sure to bring the victory. My dear child, I am always ...
... new consciousness, can overcome the enormous mass of difficulties barring the way of the workers [collaborating to realize the future], a new spiritual light, a manifestation upon Earth of some divine force unknown until now, a Thought of God, new for us, descending into this world and taking a new form here … This form, meant to manifest the spiritual force capable of transforming the Earth’s present ...
... repeated and constant descent of the Divine Consciousness and its Force that is the means for the transformation of the whole being and the whole nature. Once this descent becomes habitual, the Divine Force, the Power of the Mother begins to work, no longer from above only or from behind the veil, but consciously in the ā dh ā ra itself, and deals with its difficulties and possibilities and carries ...
... the way. I have been pressing on you the need of faith because the assent has again to take a positive form (vairagya is but the negative form of this assent in you) so as to give free way to the Divine Force; but the persistent drive in the soul (which is hidden behind as exteriorly-suppressed faith) is itself sufficient to warrant the expectation of the Grace to come." Page 365 But ...
... room as R she can come. For K there is no difficulty as he is going to stay in a hotel. The poem is very good. Don't worry about Hitler. No asuric force can stand eternally against the divine force and the hour of his defeat is bound to come. With our love and blessings 27 May 1940 ...
... come in search of his long-lost Mother. I cannot say the Mother always thinks up and plans out her moves. In her outer consciousness she may not always know what the purpose is of the Divine Force that is her true self. She may commit what looks like a mistake on an occasion. I should state that, viewed from purely external stand-points, some of her actions cannot help being considered ...
... from Damascus, a city especially celebrated for its steel sword-blade with a wavy surface-pattern in it, and the adjective also signifies a resemblance to such a blade. The extraordinariness of the Divine Force, its quality of being most beautiful and most cutting-keen, is caught in the adjective. The phrase about the diamond halo is extremely apt too. "Diamond" is suggestive both of sheer white luminosity ...
... has the possibility of becoming ultimately the master of Nature's play. Being thus constituted he cannot simply be pushed into anything. He cannot evolve without conscious collaboration with the Divine Force. And the collaboration is made easy because the same Force which acts as Grace is already within your own being as what the Mother calls "the Presence". To be aware of it you have to quiet yourself ...
... boundlessness above the brain-clamped mind, tends in Chadwick to touch at times the very summit. And the Upanishadic magnificence of a poetic gesture like the following apostrophe to the transcendent divine Force which he visions as drawing the quintessence of a triple Absolute of Being, Consciousness, Delight, and reigning from on high over the mental plane like a Sun-kingdom of Knowledge, is, like those ...
... the first rush and sense of power of a supernormal condition, they get dazzled with a little light which seems to them a tremendous illumination or a touch of force which they mistake for the full Divine Force or at least a very great Yoga Shakti; or they accept some intermediate Power (not always a Power of the Divine) as the Supreme and an intermediate consciousness as the supreme realisation ...
... Peace of God descends on you, when the Divine Presence is there within you, when the Ananda rushes on you like a sea, when you are driven like a leaf before the wind by the breath of the Divine Force, when Love flows out from you on all creation, when Divine Knowledge floods you with a light which illumines and transforms in a moment all that was dark, sorrowful and obscure, when all that ...
... cal consequences. I had not let my mind appraise all-round the critical point at which the workings behind the scene might have arrived. But she exclaimed: "What has happened shows that the Divine Force also can now have a direct effect upon the body. If the dark powers have this new possibility, the inner Light and the higher Consciousness can just as well emerge into the body with concrete ...
... throw out the attacking force. The physical nature is a thing of habits; it is out of habit that it responds to the forces of illness; one has to get into it the contrary habit of responding to the Divine Force only. This of course so long as a highest consciousness does not descend to which illness is impossible. Sri Aurobindo ...
... Supreme Grace that answers from above.... But the Supreme Grace can act only in the conditions of Light and the Truth.... A glad and strong and helpful submission is demanded to the working of the Divine Force, the obedience of the illumined disciple of the Truth, of the inner warrior who fights against obscurity and falsehood, of the faithful servant of the Divine. It was my sincere effort that had ...
... from the Mother. I followed suit. The Message read: Who is the superman? He who can rise above this matter-regarding broken mental human unit and possess himself universalised and deified in a divine force, a divine love and joy and a divine knowledge. If thou keepest this limited human ego and thinkest thyself the superman, thou art but the fool of thy own pride, the plaything of thy own force ...
... 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 occult knowledge, all supernormal ...
... to Page 371 him as in a representative image what the Divine is or at least pointing him through itself to the Absolute. On the other side, when I spoke of the self-absorption of the Divine Force in its energising, I was trying to explain the possibility in a Divine or cosmic manifestation of this apparently inconscient Matter. I said that in the frontal movement there was something of the ...
... the burden of humanity in order to exceed it—he becomes human in order to show humanity how to become Divine. But that cannot be if there is only a weakling without any divine Presence within or divine Force behind him—he has to be strong in order to put his strength into all who are willing to receive it. There is therefore in him a double element—human in front, divine behind—and it is that which ...
... results. But as soon as one enters the path of spiritual life, this old predetermined destiny begins to recede. There comes in a new factor, the Page 509 Divine Grace, the help of a higher Divine Force other than the force of Karma which can lift the sadhak beyond the present possibilities of his nature. One's spiritual destiny is then the divine election which ensures the future. The only doubt ...
... country are a larger ego—they are not the Divine. One can work for them and say that one is working for the Divine only if one is conscious of the Divine Adesh to act for that purpose or of the Divine Force working within one. Otherwise it is only an idea of the mind identifying country etc. with the Divine. I suppose each man makes or tries to make his own organisation of life out of the mass ...
... are entirely divine and supramentalised, that is the perfect transformation and the true transformation is the process that leads towards it. It is not a question of "can" or "cannot" [ the Divine Force transform someone ]—it is a question of what is necessary for the true transformation. Theoretically the Force can transform you in one hundredth of a second from an animal to a god, but that would ...
... Literature, poetry, science and other studies can be a preparation of the consciousness for life. When one does Yoga they can become part of the sadhana only if done for the Divine or taken up by the Divine Force, but then one should not want to be a poet for the sake of being a poet only, or for fame, applause, etc. 16 April 1935 Has my writing any spiritual value? No present value spiritually—it ...
... second stage of the Yoga, transitional between the human and the divine working, there will supervene an increasing purified and vigilant passivity, a more and more luminous divine response to the Divine Force, but not to any other; and there will be as a result the growing inrush of a great and conscious miraculous working from above. In the last period there is no effort at all, no set method, no fixed ...
... 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 too the Lord of his being expresses ...
... by higher experience, illuminations of dynamic action in the truth and largeness of a purified mind and heart and soul, the certitudes of the divine light and guidance, the joy and power of the divine force working in the will and the conduct. These experiences are the result of an opening outward of the inner and inmost being and nature; for then there comes into play the soul's power of unerring ...
... have a sense by the sense-mind or a conception and perception by the intelligent mind of the Spirit present in Matter and all its forms, the divine Delight present in all emotion and sensation, the divine Force behind all life-activities; but the lower will still keep its own nature and limit and divide in its action and modify in its character the influence from above. Even when that influence assumes ...
... his cry Vala is split to pieces and the cows answer lowing with desire to his call. As powers of Agni these Rishis are like him kavikratu ; they possess the divine Light, they act by it with the divine force; they are not only Rishis, but heroes of the Vedic war, divas putrāso asurasya vīrāḥ (III.53.7), sons of heaven, heroes of the Mighty Lord, they are, as described in VI.75.9, "the Fathers who ...
... illumination. By them let him establish the supramental knowledge of the seer. By their energy his energy will be supported in the human nature and he will give that nature his divine firmness, his divine force, so that it may not stumble under the shock or fail to contain the vaster play of puissant activities too great for our ordinary capacity. The Maruts, thus reinforced in strength, will always ...
... pleasure and pain are the confusions of Love, perversities of Ananda; the dualities of strength and weakness, sin and virtue, action and inaction are the confusions of will, dissipators of the divine Force. And all these confusions arise and even become necessary modes of our action because the triune powers of the divine Life are divorced from each other, Knowledge from Strength, Love from both, ...
... and thou illuminest utterly all this world of becomings. Shyavashwa has attained to the affirmation of thee, O Savitri. 1 Commentary Indra with his shining hosts, the Maruts, Agni, the divine force, fulfiller of the Aryan sacrifice, are the most important deities of the Vedic system. Agni is the beginning and the end. This Will that is knowledge is the initiator of the upward effort of the ...
... and activity, into the mental and bodily consciousness, those established limits between which man's action moves. It is from her, as she comes thus richly laden, vājena vājini , that Agni, the divine Force labouring here in body and mind to uplift the mortal, prays for and attains to the Soma, the wine of the Beatitude, the delightful substance. The supramental world in us, foundation of the Truth ...
... Hymns to Agni The Secret of the Veda The Twelfth Hymn to Agni A Hymn of Man's Aspiration to the Truth [The Rishi invokes this flame of the Divine Force, this vast Lord of the superconscient Truth, this Truth-conscious One, to accept thought and word into himself, become Truth-conscient in man and cleave out the many streams of the Truth. Not by mere ...
... discernment and according to the light, truth and harmony of the divine living. × The gods; the Divine Force contains and sustains all the other divine powers in their working; in him resides therefore the power of all the other godheads. ...
... delightful objects of our desire, sets the plenitude in our battling life-forces, the yield of heaven in the shining herds of Page 546 thought; he has put will in our hearts, Agni the divine force in the waters of existence, the Sun of divine knowledge in the highest heaven of mind and the plant that yields the wine of delight on the many-plateaued mountain of our being. All these are the ...
... the Attainment [The Rishi desires a state of spiritual wealth full of the divine working in which nothing shall fall away to the division and the crookedness. So, increasing by our works the divine Force in us daily, we shall attain to the Bliss and the Truth, the rapture of the Light and the rapture of the Force.] यमग्ने वाजसातम त्वं चिन् मन्यसे रयिम् । तं नो गीर्भिः श्रवाय्यं देवत्रा पनया ...
... capacity for love, a love self-sufficient and undisturbed by want or craving or disappointment and the more fixed the faith in God and the joy in all things as mangalam, the greater becomes the divine force in the chitta. Buddhishakti विशुद्धता प्रकाशो विचित्रबोधः ज्ञानधारणसामर्थ्यमिति बुद्धिशक्तिः । Vishuddhata, prakasha, vichitrabodha, jnanadharanasamarthyam iti buddhishaktih. Manas ...
... the Divine Impulse which acts through us—this is pure Pravritti. When there is no such Divine Impulse, it is pure Shama, Tapas or force of action being there but not acting. Just as Pravritti is a Divine Force coming and making you act, so the pure Prakasha is the Divine Light bringing knowledge into the consciousness. By being indifferent, we have to effect Shama; then acting as far as possible only ...
... that ourselves. Thirdly we have to get rid of desire and replace it by the Ananda of Sachchidananda. After that in order to live and act in the world we have to act as mere instruments so the Divine Force which we must realise as the sole Power which acts in the world and we must get rid of the idea that actions are ours or that the fruit of the action belongs to us personally. The only work we have ...
... dwell in the phenomenal nature only and see things only by the notions it impresses on us, we shall not get at the real truth of our active existence. The real truth is this spiritual power, this divine force of being, this essential quality of the spirit in things or rather of the spirit in which things are and from which they draw all their potencies and the seeds of their movements. Get at that truth ...
... 59 (with verse 6 omitted, evidently due to lack of Page 750 space) on the last page of the January 1920 issue of the Arya under the heading "A Hymn of the Universal Divine Force and Will". This version is reproduced on pages 574 - 75 of The Secret of the Veda , volume 15 of THE COMPLETE WORKS. Gotama Rahugana. Sukta 74 . Reproduced from a notebook of a type that ...
... The Vedic term kratu means sometimes the action itself, sometimes the effective power behind action represented in mental consciousness by the will. Agni is this power. He is divine force which manifests first in matter as heat and light and material energy and then, taking different forms in the other principles of man's consciousness, leads him by a progressive manifestation upwards ...
... blasphemes and denies the ideal because the Golden Mountains cannot be reached in our little day or in a few momentary centuries. 315) Fix thy soul without desire upon the end and insist on it by the divine force within thee; then shall the end itself create its means, nay, it shall become its own means. For the end is Brahman and already accomplished; see it always as Brahman, see it always in thy soul ...
... consciousness which is there already above, behind and englobing this mortal half-conscious existence. There must be too an increasing capacity to bear an ever stronger and more insistent action of the divine Force, till the soul has become a child in the hands of the infinite Mother. All other means known to other Yoga can be used and are from time to time used as subordinate processes in this Yoga too, but ...
... his struggle—without them, without aspiration and will and faith (for aspiration is a prayer) it would be difficult for him to get anywhere. But all these things are merely means for setting the Divine Force in action—and it sometimes takes long, very long even, before the forces come into action or at least before they are seen to be in action or bear their result. The ecstasist is not altogether wrong ...
... whether it [ the body ] is in tune with the vital or not. The nature of the body is tamasic—it is the vital which makes it move and uses it as an instrument: If the vital is enlightened then the Divine Force can act through it on the body. It [ how the body receives the higher dynamism ] depends on the condition of the body or rather of the physical and the most material consciousness. In one ...
... also with some obscurity or disharmony in the lower vital or the physical mind or elsewhere. It is very good if one can get rid of illness entirely by faith and Yoga-power or the influx of the Divine Force. But very often this is not altogether possible, because the whole nature is not open or able to respond to the Force. The mind may have faith and respond, but the lower vital and the body may not ...
... it does that, there is the unease in the heart, the psychic sorrow because the heart feels at once that this is wrong and the head Page 374 also aches because of the resistance to the Divine Force at work. This is a thing that often happens at an early stage, after the opening of the consciousness to the sadhana. The vital took it up perhaps and gave it a more vehement and turbid ...
... something quite different; it is the larger force exceeding the individual and when one feels it in its fullness, it is experienced as the cosmic force or something out of the cosmic force or else the Divine Force from above, according to its nature. His mind is not yet ready for the action of a greater Force, because it is full of mental notions and activities and it is for this reason that heat is generated ...
... preparation for the supramental change, but none of them is easy, and they must be complete before the nature can be said to be ready. If the true attitude (psychic, unegoistic, open only to the Divine Force) can be established, then the process can go on much more quickly. To take and keep the true attitude, to further the change in oneself , is the help that can be given, the one thing needed to ...
... human instruments of adverse forces, one should try to overcome it not in a spirit of personal hatred or anger or wounded egoism, but with a calm spirit of strength and equanimity and a call to the Divine Force to act. Success or failure lies with the Divine. In dealing with others there is a way of speaking and doing which gives most offence and opens one most to misunderstanding and there is also ...
... come. It is the inert passivity of physical Nature that leaves it at the mercy of every obscure or undivine influence. A glad and strong and helpful submission is demanded to the working of the Divine Force, the obedience of the illumined disciple of the Truth, of the inner Warrior who fights against obscurity and falsehood, of the faithful servant of the Divine. This is the true attitude and only ...
... be in the least disturbed by these things [ lack of sympathy and support in one's work ]. What you have to do, what is right to be done, should be done in perfect calmness with the support of the Divine Force. All that is necessary for a successful result, can be done—including the securing of the support of those who are able to help you. But if this outer support is not forthcoming, you have not to ...
... they can develop faster by it than by introspective meditation. All that is needed is that the action should be dedicated, so that they may grow by it more and more prepared to feel and follow the Divine Force when it moves them. It is a mistake to think that to live in introspective meditation all the time is invariably the best or the only way of Yoga. It is not meditation (thinking with the ...
... Literature, poetry, science and other studies can be a preparation of the consciousness for life. When one does Yoga they can become part of the sadhana only if done for the Divine or taken up by the Divine Force, but then one should not want to be a poet for the sake of being a poet only, or for fame, applause, etc. The spiritual life and one's own inner psychic and spiritual change should be the ...
... mind and vital and unveil the psychic being so that her constant guidance and presence in it may be felt always and (3) to concentrate in the quiet mind and (in the head) open oneself first to the divine force and light which is always above the mind and call to it to descend into the body and the whole being—either of these or both, according to the capacity of the sadhaka. Yoga must be done not for ...
... longer the mind's sanction to the old push of vital activity and vital desire and so feels the absence of the rajasic vital strength in which men live. In Yoga that strength must be replaced by the Divine Force that comes from the Mother. 15 May 1935 We are very glad to hear that you are better and that X has helped you out of the crisis. Surely this jealousy must go and no trace of it remain. ...
... necessary for its workings, not to indulge one's sentiments, not to have personal preferences or, having them, to be ready to waive them at any moment and submit to the Mother's Will which embodies the Divine Force, not to follow one's own way but hers; this is the psychic submission that is most needed. So long as it is not there, a full opening of the sadhana on the vital and the physical plane is hardly ...
... basis and form, must be kept intact in spirit, intact in basis and intact in form and must strengthen and enlarge itself in its own strength and by its inherent power of self-development and the divine force within it. This is the line of work on which you have to proceed. We have to confront the confusion around us with a thing that is sure of itself and illumined by self-knowledge and a work that ...
... its peace, power, light and felicity, but to ask nothing else and in life and action to be its instrument only for whatever work it gives one to do in the world. If one can once open and feel the Divine Force, the Power of the Spirit working in the mind and heart and body, the rest is a matter of remaining faithful to It, calling for it always, allowing it to do its work when it comes and rejecting every ...
... to the Mother The Mother with Letters on the Mother Aspiration, Rejection, Surrender What you say of sadhana is true. Sadhana is necessary and the Divine Force cannot do things in the void but must lead each one according to his nature to the point at which he can feel the Mother working within and doing all for him. Till then the sadhak's aspiration, ...
... Being Taken Up by the Mother When does the Divine take up the sadhaks fully? When they give up the ego. What is the meaning of "the Divine takes up" a sadhak? When it is the Divine Force that works out all the Yoga and the actions by a direct action of which the sadhak is conscious. When a person begins to do Yoga and comes to live under the shade of the Mother, is he not taken ...
... conflit des forces, accomplissent un sublime sacrifice — Men, driven by the conflict of forces, are performing a sublime sacrifice 603 pure lumière — pure light 603 Force Divine — divine Force 605 chacun des grands etres Asouriques qui ont résolu d'etre Tes serviteurs — each one of the great Asuric beings who have resolved to be Thy servitors 605 coup de diplomatie — ...
... either because of ideas in the mind, desires in the vital or inertia in the physical consciousness, but these things have to be and can be removed with the aid or by calling in the action of the Divine Force. There are three main possibilities for the sadhak—(1) To wait on the Grace and rely on the Divine. (2) To do everything himself like the full Adwaitin and the Buddhist. (3) To take the middle ...
... and cannot attain it otherwise. If they follow or want some other Truth, they are free to do so but they cannot do it here, because here they will not succeed, as it is not the end for which the Divine Force is working here. And it has been found that if they reject the Power that comes from us to follow something which is not that, it leads them out of this way and they cannot profit by our presence ...
... obey. It was in order, first, that there might grow up the complete intimacy in which you would be entirely open to her, so that she might pour more and more and continuously and at every point the Divine Force into you which would increase the Light in you, perfect your action, deliver and develop your nature. It is this that was important; all else is secondary, important only so far as it helps this ...
... he has the adoration of the Mother in his heart and an intense call. 25 August 1935 You spoke of my friend X as receiving the Mother's Force. Page 238 "In contact with" the Divine Force which is the force of the Mother—that was what I wrote, I believe. But which Mother? How many Mothers are there? Ours or some universal Mother as people say? Who is this some universal ...
... is much more important; the written word is only a minor means, and to expect answers because others have them is quite a wrong idea. The only necessity in this sadhana is to open yourself to the Divine Force; if one is open the necessary understanding or knowledge will come of itself through spiritual experience. 23 May 1933 Sometimes I think it would be better not to ask you questions about ...
... was. It is this outer man who has to open, to surrender and to change. His every least movement, habit, action has to be surrendered, seen, held up and exposed to the divine Light, offered to the divine Force for its old forms and motives to be destroyed and the divine Truth and the action of the transforming consciousness of the Divine Mother to take their place. If you want to make any progress ...
... stand on their legs and move on their way. If the vision of the Truth were suddenly given to them they would be crushed under the weight. Each time that something of the Divine Truth and the Divine Force comes down to manifest upon earth, some change is effected in the earth's atmosphere. In the descent, those who are receptive are awakened to some inspiration from it, some touch, some beginning ...
... own was an illusion. It was a wave from the everlasting sea of universal love. Love is universal and eternal; it is always manifesting itself and always identical in its essence. And it is a Divine Force; for the distortions we see in its apparent workings belong to its instruments. Love does not manifest in human beings alone; it is everywhere. Its movement is there in plants, perhaps in the very ...
... sublime sacrifice, they are offering their lives in a bloodstained holocaust.... O Lord, O eternal Master, grant that all this may not be in vain, grant that the inexhaustible torrents of Thy divine Force may spread over the earth and penetrate its troubled atmosphere, the struggling energies, the violent chaos of battling elements; grant that the pure light of Thy Knowledge and the inexhaustible ...
... religion. He told me his story and what had happened in Persia at the beginning of the religion. And I remember him telling me with what intense joy, what a sense of the divine Presence, of the divine Force, these people went to the sacrifice—it can't be called "sacrifice", it was a very joyful gift of their life.... He always spoke to me of someone who was, it appears, a very great poet and who had ...
... consciousness and the universal forces that play through us and around us. And then only too can we hope to be directly aware of the Divine in us and directly in touch with the Divine Light and the Divine Force. Otherwise we can feel the Divine only through external signs and external results and that is a difficult and uncertain way and very occasional and inconstant, and it leads only to belief and not ...
... is here coiled up and asleep in all the centres of our inner being (Chakras) and is at the base what is called in the Tantras the Kundalini Shakti. But it is also above us, above our head as the Divine Force - not there coiled up, involved, asleep, but awake, scient, potent, extended and wide; it is there waiting for manifestation and to this Force we have to open ourselves - to the power of the Mother ...
... The three Gunas become purified and refined and changed into their divine equivalents: sattva becomes jyoti, the authentic spiritual light; rajas becomes tapas, the tranquilly intense divine force; tamas becomes ś ama, the divine quiet, rest, peace. * There are three powers of the cosmos to which all things are subject - creation, preservation and destruction; whatever is created ...
... influences. When an individual is very strongly made and has the sense of his own personality, his own existence, it is much more difficult for him to think that he is nothing but an instrument of the divine Force, than for somebody who feels a little nebulous, like this ( gesture ) not very precise, who has no exact limits, no well-built individuality; he understands more easily that in himself he is nothing ...
... very concrete, very physical—which becomes the reality of the being, and which has nothing in common with the ordinary way of seeing. When one has this perception—the perception of the work of the divine force, of the movement being worked out behind the appearance, in the appearance, through the appearance—one begins to be ready to live something truer than the ordinary human falsehood. But not before ...
... divine Truth in its manifestation, and secondly, it must help in its manifestation. A negative side, consisting in not being a screen, not intercepting anything, not blocking the passage of the divine force seeking to express itself; on the other side, to be sufficiently clear and pure to be able to help this manifestation. One can apply this everywhere, it is very convenient. Voilà. Now ...
... nobody come between you and the Mother's force..." Who is this person? This person? Anybody at all. Anybody at all who... There are all kinds of ways of letting someone come between you and the divine force. First of all it is to attach a very great importance to your relation with someone. It is to listen to the advice given to you by someone who is not qualified. It is to want to please anybody at ...
... and the hypnotised, and how it is done. In its ordinary outer form it is something that can cause much disturbance. But there can be a spontaneous hypnotism which may be the expression of a divine force, but then that does not work in the ordinary way. I think there are as many cases as people. It's like every other thing. If you put scientific knowledge in the hands of ignorant and stupid people ...
... then some people can make the effort once, but the second time they no longer do it well, and the third time they don't do it at all; and they tell you, "Oh! One can't be cured by occult means, the divine Force doesn't cure you, it is better to take medicines." So for these, it is better to go to the doctor because this means that they have no spiritual perseverance and only material means can convince ...
... inspirations by the reason, then you are sure to make stupid mistakes, because reason understands nothing of this, and it should abdicate. But you must be sure that it is truly a contact with the divine Force; and to be sure of this... well, until one is sure of it, reason is very good for preventing you from deceiving yourself. Usually people who have a tendency for not altogether ordinary experiences ...
... (I always speak of those who do yoga, I do not speak about ordinary life), for those who do yoga, to depend upon someone else is like wanting to transform that person into a representative of the Divine Force; now you may be sure there is not one in a hundred millions who can carry the weight: he will break immediately. So never take the attitude of hoping for support, help, comfort from anyone except ...
... names and special terms found in Sri Aurobindo 's writings. Explanations of philosophical and psychological terms have generally been given in Sri Aurobindo's own words. the Adversary —anti-divine Force that is in revolt against the Divine, against the Truth and Light, and opposed to the yoga; see also Asura . Ananda —bliss, delight, beatitude, spiritual ecstasy; the essential principle ...
... the first rush and sense of power of a supemormal condition, they get dazzled with a little light which seems to them tremendous illumination or a-touch of force which they mistake for the full Divine Force or at least a very great Yoga Shakti; or they accept some intermediate Power (not always a Power of the Divine) as the Supreme and an intermediate consciousness as the supreme realisation. Very ...
... come. It is the inert passivity of physical Nature that leaves it at the mercy of every obscure or undivine influence. A glad and strong and helpful submission is demanded to the working of the Divine Force, the obedience of the illumined disciple of the Truth, of the inner Warrior who fights against obscurity and falsehood, of the faithful servant of the Divine. This is the true attitude and ...
... accomplish. I hope that more and more you will understand the exceptional importance of this work and that you will sense in yourselves the sublime joy that the accomplishment will give you. The divine force is with you—feel its presence more and more and be careful never to betray it. Feel, wish, act, that you may be new beings for the realisation of a new world and for this my blessings shall always ...
... have need of something—they have always had the need of something of their dimension so that they can fix their attention. And so the body does all it can in order not to be an obstruction to the Divine Force which passes through, it seeks to annul its interception, and at the same time it sees that it is... as though an image that men need to fix their attention. Page 324 ...
... very pretty humanity! But, Sweet Mother, your force is extremely active right now. Yes, I know. I know, when I am in this state I see the Force all the time―it is not my force, it is the Divine Force. As for myself, I try, I try to be like that. This body tries to be simply... simply a transmitter, as transparent as possible, as impersonal as possible. So that the Divine can do what He wants ...
... always, in spite of our clumsiness and imperfection, in spite even of our bad will and our error? And who hears? You who are with us? And is it you in your supreme consciousness, an impersonal divine force, the force of Yoga, or you, Mother Page 72 in a body, with your physical consciousness? A personal presence that really knows each thought and each act and not some anonymous force ...
... circumstances, and keeps a perfect mastery of himself and remains peaceful in the presence of whatever happens, the more he has progressed towards the goal. In quietness you will feel that the divine force, help and protection are always with you. Page 135 At the hour of danger a perfect quietness is required. When one remains perfectly quiet and without fear, nothing serious ...
... Prayers and Meditations July 8, 1914 O Divine Force, supreme Illuminator, hearken to our prayer, move not away from us, do not withdraw, help us to fight the good fight, make firm our strength for the struggle, give us the force to conquer! O my sweet Master, Thou whom I adore without being able to know Thee, Thou who I am without being able to realise ...
... ss which is there already above, behind and englobing this mortal half-conscious existence. There must be too an increasing capacity to bear an ever stronger and more insistent action of the divine Force, till the soul has become a child in the hands of the infinite Mother. All other means known to other Yoga can be used and are from time to time used as subordinate processes in this Yoga too ...
... and the true history of our progress only begins with the advent of European education! * * * July 17, 1909 There are particular movements in particular epochs in which the Divine Force manifests itself with supreme power shattering all human calculations, making a mock of the prudence of the careful statesman and the scheming politician. Page 55 falsifying ...
... Aphorism - 139 139—Who is the superman? He who can rise above this matter-regarding broken mental human unit and possess himself universalised and deified in a divine force, a divine love and joy and a divine knowledge. The superman is now in the making and a new consciousness has very recently manifested on earth to bring this process to perfection. But it ...
... It's far more often a state of consciousness than an individual. But this experience left me with a true sense of satisfaction, of fullness: his work had been perfect and his response to the divine Force, to the Grace that came to him, was magnificent.... It may be several people, 3 it may be one particular person—I don't know. It happened just last night. You remember all the difficulties ...
... within, beneath the surface agitation, and establish, as far as possible, a perfect quietness in your heart and head; then formulate your aspiration, if you have one, and open yourself to receive the divine force from above. 1 July 1960 Sweet Mother, Write something for me that I can remember throughout the year. Our aim is to realise the perfection of our being and to change the human ...
... You, I am sure that You will transform this physical body. It is all right; if the treatment does not suit you, you must stop it. It is true that the transformation can only be done by the divine force; but under the present conditions of the earth the process still takes a lot of time, and our faith must be very patient. Blessings. 30 August 1965 Sweet Mother, In view of the ...
... Aurobindo has said that to do his yoga, one must already have found the Divine and united with Him—then the consciousness descends through all the states of being down to the most material, bringing the Divine Force with it so that the Force can transform the whole being and finally divinise the physical body. 20 September 1967 In the message for the radio You substituted the word "union" for the ...
... was very strange, I had only to sit quietly and watch: I would see here, there, there, the whole thing in my body, all that was going on. And while it went on, I would put the concentration of the divine Force there, so that all—all that pain, all that suffering, everything—would hasten the preparation of the earth and the Descent of the Force. And that went on consciously throughout the war. Page ...
... becomes useful if it helps to find the Divine. The grace and protection are always with you. When in any inner or outer difficulty or trouble, do not allow it to oppress you; take refuge with the Divine Force that protects. If you do that always with faith and sincerity, you will find something opening in you which will always remain calm and peaceful in spite of all superficial disturbances. ...
... represents the supramental manifestation. 8 November 1933 What is symbolised by the waterfall in the picture you have given me? Is it not the current of your serene peace and of your divine force which constantly floods me? Yes, it is the symbol of the descent of the divine forces upon the physical plane. 25 January 1934 Water signifies many things such as fluidity, plasticity ...
... way to express their gratitude is by a complete consecration of their whole being to the divine work. May 1940 Don't worry about Hitler. No asuric force can stand eternally against the divine force and the hour of his defeat is bound to come. 27 May 1940 Page 43 The Victory has come, Thy Victory, O Lord, for which we render to Thee infinite thanks-giving. But now ...
... the working: the working in the hands, in the activity, in the Force going through [Mother] like this, in the use of vibrations—and which teaches the great Lesson: learning how to manifest the divine Force. It's absolutely wonderful. And if you look at it from the wrong side, it 1 is a tension, it's like something that doesn't leave you a second's respite. And it's true, it doesn't allow ...
... prepare Matter, this cellular matter as it is now organized [since the awakening of the mind of the cells in Mother], to make it supple enough and strong enough to be able to bear and manifest the divine Force. That takes a lot of time.... It explains everything, everything—everything is explained. The day we can describe that in detail, it will be really interesting. And there is a small beginning ...
... this: for the departure to be as harmonious as possible, it should take place like that, according to an inner RHYTHM, with the Presence (which is both a protection and a help), the Presence of the divine Force. So I put her in that Presence. And even (I don't know if she told you), when her brother, who is a doctor came, he declared with their usual presumptuousness, "Oh, she'll be gone before tomorrow ...
... recurring difficulty. That question of food... All that is under observation at the moment (a very minute observation, which I might almost call "scientific"), and, well, the cells are conscious of the divine Force and of the power that Force gives, but they are also conscious that in order to last as they are, even in a state of transformation, they still need this complement of something coming from outside—with ...
... don't work, you can't fool people who have devoted their entire life to go beyond humanity. There is only one way to be convincing—it is to BE that. Then we'll stand strong, we'll have all the divine force on our side. We are here to prepare a superhumanity, not to fall back into desires and easy life—no. People must feel it; it should be so strong that the sheer force of our sincerity would ...
... individuality is like an image to focus the attention (humans need something—they have always needed something on their scale to focus their attention), so the body tries its best not to obstruct the divine Force from passing through, it tries to suppress all its own interferences, but at the same time it sees itself... as an image humans need to focus their attention. ( At this point, Governor J. enters ...
... 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 were not of the ordinary ...
... When the Peace of God descends on you, when the Divine Presence is there within you, when the Ananda rushes on you like a sea, when you are driven like a leaf before the wind by the breath of the Divine Force, when Love flows out from you on all creation, when Divine Knowledge floods you with a light which illumines and transforms in a moment all that was dark, sorrowful and obscure, when all that is ...
... Aurobindo has said about India's Independence on 15 August — that the date being the same as of his birthday is not a mere coincidence nor a fortuitous accident but the seal and sanction of the Divine Force that guided his steps in the work with which he began life — this statement cannot be generalised to mean that whatever occurs on certain great days in our spiritual calendar or even on this very ...
... this world, that is the reason why these difficulties manifest. But you have not to allow yourself to be shaken. You must remain calm and strong and go straight, using the power of Truth and the Divine Force supporting you to overcome the difficulties and set straight what has been made crooked by the falsehood. Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV: The Difficulties of Yoga Falsehood is ...
... Veda) I (The Rishi desires a state of spiritual wealth full of the divine working in which nothing shall fall away to the division and the crookedness. So, increasing by our works the divine Force in us daily, we shall attain to the Bliss and the Truth, the rapture of the Light and the rapture of the Force.) 0 Will, 0 conqueror of our plenitude, the felicity which thou alone canst ...
... February 1936 By the way, you spoke of my friend J.B. as receiving the Mother's Force. [Sri Aurobindo underlined "Mother's Force".] " In contact with " the Divine Force which is the force of the Mother—that was what I wrote, I believe. But which Mother? Ours or some universal Mother as people say? Perhaps an ignorant and foolish question, but Can't help it ...
... pattern. And I am sure They will succeed, Their mission will not fail. Let us all take part in it and make it a success. Now let me read a few letters. I was telling you just now how the Divine Force is active and helpful in all our activities. Here is what Sri Aurobindo says about Himself: "...In my own case, the first time I started yoga, Pranayama, etc., I belaboured five hours a day for ...
... think that I allow the inertia to play with me willingly and that I do nothing to overcome it? Are you going to deny the tamas in you and put all the fault of your want of progress on the Divine Force? I did not mean that the Force should do everything for me while I remain lazy. But is it not true that our personal effort can bear definite and lasting fruit only if the Force has ...
... Leaves of humility, Give your bouquets to the Heralds of glory. Protected by its green magic They shall pass unhurt through All the keyless doors And contain the Divine Force Without breaking. 40 - 41 Harmony Led by the Organist the soul broke into the wide rapture Of a daring harmony in a moment of inner ...
... change. And we shall have to concede Shastri's demand to supply him with two thousand books because it is the Divine Will! He says everybody doing anything here is right, because it is the universal Divine Force, that is acting through him. About Arjuna, even if he was an instrument, he was acting according to his own nature, in his own way, by using his bow, and not like Bhishma and Bhima. There the selective ...
... become mystics to understand them. PURANI: Then he will have an easy escape. SRI AUROBINDO (taking up the passage): "Names" means ideas, significances, and as for "might after might", the Divine Force is of various kinds, each of which one takes up just as one wears a robe; all very simple. Ask him to use his mystic mind instead of the professorial one. EVENING PURANI: It seems Bonvain ...
... bombing and bombardment. Sandbags were piled up and trenches dug. It is reported that when the Mother was apprised of the preparations, she remarked in private, "There is such a strong Presence of Divine Force and Peace in the atmosphere that an attack is most improbable." I cannot end this chapter without noting how the whole Ashram was vitally interested in India's fight for freedom, though we are ...
... my own birthday and it is naturally gratifying to me that it should have assumed this vast significance. I take this coincidence not as a fortuitous accident, but as the sanction and seal of the Divine Force that guides my steps on the work with which I began life, the beginning of its full fruition. Indeed, on this day I can watch almost all the world-movements which I hoped to see fulfilled in my ...
... maintained, increased and fortified. As the Conscious-Force descends in matter and radiates, it seeks for fit instruments to express and manifest it." (The Mother, p. 226) A conscious divine Force presiding over the formation, maintenance and development of the Sri Aurobindo Ashram - such, then, is the secret of its constant growth and progress in spite of occasional vicissitudes. But that ...
... hint of the answer comes from the Mother's words:! "...whatever the sincerity, simplicity and purity of the relation between two human beings, it shuts them off more or less from the 1 direct divine force and help..." (Ibid., p. 126) The Mother becomes more explicit when she explains: "These rare souls must reject all forms of love between human beings, for however beautiful and pure they ...
... heart of emotion and the desire of the life-being and the urge and instinct of the flesh, but first from a spiritualised self and nature and, last, from a supramental Truth-Consciousness and its divine force of supernature. Thus are made possible the final steps when the veil of Nature is withdrawn and the seeker is face to face with the Master of all existence and his activities are merged in the ...
... so that it may enrich its realisations in humanity through Agastya and lead him forward by the way of the Truth. Let the egoistic endeavour cease, the great sacrifice be resumed, the flame of the divine Force, Agni, be kindled in front as head of the sacrifice and leader of the march. Indra and Agastya together, the universal Power and the human soul, will extend in harmony the effective inner action ...
... art takes us beyond reaches of thought and morality and takes us deeper into spiritual truths and into the joy and God in the world as also the beauty and desirableness of the manifestation of divine force and energy in phenomenal creation. Indian art, particularly, provides a Page 36 ready means through which body, heart and mind can be brought into touch with the Spirit. That is the ...
... instrument reach him there, unite around him, set him to the great work of the j world in this new, mighty and effective birth. They, the ¦ outshinings of the vast consciousness, cleave to this divine force, Agni, as its bright lightnings and from him in the superconscient, the shoreless vast, his own home, they draw for man the Immortality. This and numerous other passages in the Veda bring out ...
... away he will again complain of flatulence. Please see then if you can find out some way. I don't know; but one can't be responsible for the results if he goes on like that. If he expects the Divine Force to be always fighting against his Rasogollas to protect his confounded liver! July 31, 1935 × Reference ...
... of opening in the direction of poetry, may I not direct my aspiration mainly towards it? It seems to me that the aspiration should be mainly directed to the full opening of the Adhar to the divine Force. September 18, 1934 ...
... Mother said, "Let Prabhakar carry him on his back." When I heard about it, I said, "Mother doesn't know me." Anyhow, we started; as we approached, the sight of the hills began to breathe Divine force into my rickety constitution, into my lungs, into my heart, into my liver, into my spleen, into my stomach, so much that I felt I could carry on my bony back ten titanic Battis! 62 We reached Gingy ...
... evening), "I was seeing today how Nishikanto was getting on." We were very much surprised, and I said to myself, What? In this impersonal mood, when He'd be concerned, we thought, with sending Divine Force to General José Miaja in Spain or with bringing down the Supramental Light, He says He was seeing instead "how Nishikanto was getting on"?! Nishikanto or Nirod or anybody else He loved was never ...
... graciously look when I go for Pranam. I have selected the enclosed photograph for this purpose. I have hung up the photo and sit on my bed or in a chair and try to meditate to open myself to your Divine Force and reject the thoughts of the ordinary consciousness. I utter “OM Ma Mira sharanam mama” or simply “OM Ma”. When thoughts come, I try resolutely to drive them away and utter “OM swaha”. Mother ...
... seat in the mind centre between the eyebrows and during blankness it is shifted to the top of the head. What should be my attitude during voidness? Call down the higher Truth and the Divine Force into the void. The emptiness in itself is a state of peace, silence and rest. It is as yet too passive and therefore not able to keep off the outer or lower forces. Page ...
... Monnet, op. cit., p. 95. 37. Sadhana: from the Sanskrit root sadh: to bring to fruition, to lead to the goal. Spiritual self-training aimed at becoming a perfect instrument of the divine force. 38. A I'Ecoute de jean Monnet, op. cit., pp. 239-40. 39. Ibid., p. 43. 40. Ibid., pp. 48-49. 41. Underlined in the original. 42. A I'Ecoute de jean Monnet, op. cit., p. 56 ...
... complete one, since the physical does not share in it. The Peace is not of the nature of inertia, but the inertia of tamas is a degradation of peace or rest as rajas is a degradation of divine Force. So when the physical is invited to peace and cannot receive it, it brings up inertia instead. You say, "The inertia is a degradation of peace or rest." What kind of rest do you ...
... without thinking of anything. Wait patiently and you will see that everything will be arranged as it should be without your mental or physical intervention. With this attitude you will see how the divine force works to establish peace and happiness in you as well as in the surroundings, and that part which was in revolt and was in conflict, becomes tranquil. You understand, you should not get agitated ...
... and contradictory movements: and that creates difficulties without number. Now instead of that, live away from the surface, from the outside and open up to the Divine and receive nothing but the Divine force. If you can do that, all difficulties practically disappear. But, of course, the trouble is there. Unless one is alchemically conditioned, it is an impossibility to have relations with people, to ...
... study or sports – you must, think of the Divine in doing it. It is not a very difficult thing after all. At first you may do it as a kind of preparation to make yourself capable of receiving the divine force, and then as service to help in the collective work. You can do it not for personal gain but in order to be ready for the Divine Work. This seems to me indispensable. If you keep the ordinary ...
... matters. Such people have a wakeful, alert consciousness; they are not asleep, they are on the watch constantly within themselves. And at the right moment they call for the aid, they invoke the divine force, yes, exactly at the right moment. And the danger is warded off. On the other hand, whenever there is something going wrong, some dislocation in the being, if you are seized by fear, dark foreboding ...
... 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 of questions and doubts and Beatrice herself had noticed it and given warnings to him. As she was purifying ...
... Reduce the whole consciousness to the zero-point to the zero of consciousness, not the zero of unconsciousness. Then only the positive term, the Divine Consciousness, will begin to form. The Divine Force does not act in vacuo. Here it acts in the midst of teeming ignorances: so the net result is at best half and half which is the present world. The lesser half must know how to integralise ...
... Vol. 6 Hymn to dawn Lo, DAWN, the Beloved, appears in her gleaming young body. She impels all life on the path towards the goal. Fire, the Divine Force, is born to be kindled in man. Dawn drives away all Darkness and fulfils herself in creating Light. She, the Goddess rises lifting her forward gaze towards the Vast, the Universal. She has put ...
... the Divine's protection can come are simple enough, but difficult to fulfil completely and thoroughly. The ideal conditions that ensure absolute safety are an absolute trust and reliance on the Divine Force, a tranquillity and fearlessness that nothing shakes, .whatever the appearances at the moment, the spirit and attitude of an unreserved self-giving that whatever one is and one has is God's. Between ...
... dawning future, already belong to it, you feel the necessity of this destruction and welcome it to hasten the work and even rejoice in it. You enjoy the joy of destruction – at least Shiva does, the Divine Force does, it seems. Something like that, in fact the same thing is happening now. * A report of a private talk. Page 256 ...
... come. It is the inert passivity of physical Nature that leaves it at the mercy of every obscure or undivine influence. A glad and strong and helpful submission is demanded to the working of the Divine Force, the obedience of the illumined disciple of the Truth, of the inner Warrior who fights against obscurity and falsehood, of the faithful servant of the Divine." 60 Page 78 What is ...
... polytheism is not popular paganism. In Hinduism, the worshipper of many gods still knows that all his divinities, forms, names, personalities are the powers of the One; his gods are energies of the one divine Force. Even the Indian image worship is not the idolatry of a barbaric or undeveloped mind, for even the most ignorant know that the image is the symbol and support and can be dispensed with it when its ...
... three gunas themselves become purified, refined and changed into their divine equivalents: sattva becomes jyoti, the authentic spiritual light; rajas becomes tapas, the tranquilly intense divine force; tamas becomes Page 29 shama, the divine quiet, rest, peace. But this can be done, according to Sri Aurobindo, in its fullness in the physical only when the physical life is finally ...
... It was essentially collective, i.e., for the community as a whole. That is why we often hear an aspirant of the Vedas calling his friends to assemble in spiritual practice and bring down the divine force with a collective effort. The collective life flourished in those days with the help of companions and helpers in sadhana. The gods too were companions and helpers in the spiritual endeavour. Hence ...
... future and already belong to it, you feel the necessity of this destruction and welcome it to hasten the work, and you even rejoice in it. You enjoy the joy of destruction—at least Shiva does, the Divine Force does, it seems. Something like that, in fact the same thing, is happening now. Mahakali has started her work of preparation, of elimination, of destruction and dissolution, to clear the path ...
... the Ashram is not possible. It belongs only to the guru, this extraordinary method or tradition, what in Sri Aurobindo's language can be called 'He has no method and every method'. The divine Force works from within the guru - Force that works in him is impersonal — or Superpersonal - and infinite. We feel, Dada, the descent and working of the guru's force flows like the unhindered, ir ...
... that waste is the rule of Nature. But that is a 154. He has also written about the first two purposes; but we omit them for want of space. Page 283 groundless complaint. The Divine Force never works blindly, and there cannot be one jot or title of waste in Her dispensation; rather, it passes human understanding with what supreme control and little expenditure She produces plentiful ...
... the Divine Energy in her most terrible as well as in her most beautiful aspects, 'whether as the Beautiful or the Terrible Mother he has never shrunk from her whether in fear or in awe. When the divine force flowed into him he has never feared to yield himself up to it and follow the infinite prompting, careless whither it led. As a reward he has become the most perfect adhara of Shakti, the most ...
... Satyayuga. What was the meaning of the white horse, the sword and 'his slight limp? Mother replied that the horse was a symbol of force Page 210 and the white horse represented divine force. The un sheathed sword symbolised unhindered divine knowledge. But she could not tell me why he was lame. She said it was probably due to this collective suggestion from olden times that Sri Aurobindo ...
... in you. You are an individual with a divided consciousness. In a divided consciousness it is egoistic force, and you have to aspire from there. If you appeal to the Divine consciousness, then the Divine force can work in you. By aspiration one opens oneself to the Infinite consciousness, to the Divine Omnipresent Reality, and appeals to that Infinite consciousness to work in him. Therefore, when you ...
... darkness of Ignorance and by the conquest of the Truth the conquest also of Immortality.9 " The seven divine Angirasas are sons or powers of Agni," powers of the Seer-Will, the flame of the divine force instinct with divine Knowledge which is' kindled for the victory.10 THE RIG VEDA Sri Aurobindo's interpretation of the Veda is psychological and spiritual. It unveils the mystic ...
... heart strong enough not to fail, my hand firm enough not to tremble ? ” The heart was, indeed, strong with the strength of divine Love, and the hand was firm with the unshakable firmness of the divine Force, and she has been labouring since, in serene silence and endless patience, for the spiritual freedom and perfection of mankind. Among the historical mystics of India Mirabai stands apart ...
... extent on the outer nature; there is a reproduction or radiation of the inner peace and purity and joyous freedom and, subject to certain conditions, a more or less conscious and direct play of the divine Force in the natural personality which undergoes, in consequence, a remarkable heightening and acquires a new and infinitely more perfect an potent dynamism. But great as these states are and equally ...
... progressive modern mind is groping after, the coordinated progress of mankind towards a nobler existence, a higher perfection to which it is dimly aspiring, can be realised only by a direct flow of the Divine Force into us through a full-fledged psychic being. No moral precept, no emotional or humanitarian appeal, but the psychic alchemy alone can change the animal in man into a god. It is impossible to regard ...
... luminous consciousness is, therefore, the main business of a dynamic spirituality in the present world. And how is it to be effected ? The Mother's experience discovers the secret presence of the divine Force in the inconscient depths of Matter as the "Irresistible Healer ” , setting in motion, stirring and churning the innumerable elements, so that "from their primal darkness, their primitive chaos ...
... of all", there will result "the end of Death, the death of Ignorance". Matter's world will itself be transformed, for "Matter shall reveal the Spirit's face". Nature too will be transfigured, "a divine force shall flow through tissue and cell" and every feeling will become a "celestial thrill": Thus shall the earth open to divinity And common natures feel the wide uplift, ...
... This book is a testimony of how the Mother took charge of the most ordinary of human beings, made use of their nature's aptitudes, battled with their incapacities and resistances, helping with Her divine force each according to their nature's needs in order to urge us to walk the sunlit path of the New Life. My sadhana, dance, music, teaching and cultural programmes became the occasions for the Mother ...
... requirements, reaches beyond them and expresses inner spiritual truth, the deeper not obvious reality of things, the joy of God in the world and its beauty and desirableness and the manifestation of divine force and energy in phenomenal creation. This is what Indian Art alone attempted.... 50 Sri Aurobindo ends with the plea that "the spirit of old Indian Art must be revived" so that the whole ...
... not in the bad books indeed — how awful! But they belong to the future and all those old men, Herbert and Co., 56 will fade away like mere dust. Our field of action is the Earth, and the divine Force is with us — we must not forget this. And with gratitude. ... But I lament a little (though "lament" is a ridiculous way of saying it) the fact that nobody speaks of this Mind of the Cells ...
... the primordial I against all the rest. All that is under observation at the moment (a very minute observation, which I might almost call “scientific”), and, well, the cells are conscious of the divine Force and of the power that Force gives, but they are also conscious that in order to last as they are, even in a state of transformation, they still need this complement of something coming from outside—with ...
... the Mother and a reflection of Her continuing workings in our lives. This aspiration, this enthusiasm to receive the new Consciousness has been so deeply embedded and established by the Mother's divine force in our lives that this has become our sole preoccupation. However much the Page 204 old nature and old tendencies in us might seek to entangle us, however numberless the attacks ...
... marvellous splendour! Now we have only to learn to live the new life." In other words, the Life Divine in the transfigured world of the Next Future. As Sri Aurobindo puts it in Savitri: A divine force shall flow through tissue and cell And take the charge of breath and speech and act And all the thoughts shall be a glow of suns And every feeling a celestial thrill. Often a lustrous ...
... sobbing was uncontrollable. The Mother straightened up in Her chair and said, "Come, let's recite 'Om' together. I will start and you follow." Thus, the Mother started chanting 'Om'. With the Mother's divine force, all my gloom was simply obliterated! I felt such a peace! The whole room, my entire being was full of this peace! The Mother's eyes were fixed on me. After some time, She spoke again, "When you ...
... not attach importance to anything other than the capacity to remain in conscious contact with the higher Force.. It was like an aspiration... 'a yearning', 'a longing' for this contact with the divine Force, the Force of Harmony, the Force of Truth, the Force of Love." They rejected the defeatist suggestions, for this kind of pessimism "appeared to them as a kind of disease... which did not form ...
... promises to achieve its end, which is the inevitable end of evolution itself. What appears impossible to the limited capacity of the human mind need not be impossible to the omnipotence of the divine Force, the supreme Mother. What our personal effort may fail to achieve, the Mother's force will surely accomplish, if we can realise an integral surrender to it; for, that Force is no other than the ...
... would be prudent to give rest to the mind, and let it wait in patience for the dawn of new 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 ...
... Aurobindo dwelt on the significance of the double event and the possibilities for the future; I take this coincidence, not as a fortuitous accident, but as the sanction and seal of the Divine Force that guides my steps on the work with which I began life, the beginning of its full fruition. Recapitulating the aims and ideals conceived by him in his childhood and youth, Sri Aurobindo ...
... ESTABLISHED opposite—of the divine Power. And every time, there is a kind of action which really in every detail is almost miraculous: suddenly that negation is compelled to recognize that the divine Force is all-powerful. Seen from another angle, it's a sort of perpetual little miracle. I'll give you an example: last time you were with me, I got a pain here [left side], a frightful pain of the kind ...
... do not want you to do that kind of sadhana. That is not the spirit of our Yoga. What we want you to do is to recover your quietude and go on in that. To have the basis of quietude and allow the Divine Force to work in you firmly and quietly is always the best method — it is not necessary to proceed through a big personal effort, disturbance and struggle. Come back to this — open yourself once more ...
... obey. It was in order first that there might grow up the complete intimacy in which you would be entirely open to her, so that she might pour more and more and continuously and at every point the Divine Force into you which would increase the Light in you, perfect your action, deliver and develop your nature. It is this that was important; all else is secondary, important only so far as it helps this ...
... 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 Consciousness, the substance of the divine Force, and the substance of the divine Delight. "The supermind acting through sense feels all as God and in God, all as the manifest touch, sight, hearing, taste, perfume, all the felt, seen, directly ...
... marches with firm but flexible steps, profiting by the landmarks of the principal Yogas of the past, but solely depending upon the divine Grace and following the subtle, unfaltering guidance of the divine Force. Because its creative vision is fixed upon the realisation and expression of the splendours of the Supermind in human life, much of its path is a revolutionary departure from the beaten tracks ...
... real value and not merely a record of mistakes and overstatements." Because "the theory of the Yoga has been proved. The perfectibility of the human being, trikdldrishti, Power, the play of the Divine Force in the individual, the existence of the other worlds, & of extra-mental influences, even the possibility of the physical siddhis are established facts— vijnana [supramental knowledge], the Vedic ...
... within, beneath the surface agitation, and establish, as far as possible, a perfect quietness in your heart and head; then formulate your aspiration, if you have one, and open yourself to receive the divine force from above. 1 July 1960 * * * Sweet Mother, If a soul has taken birth as a boy in one life, does it always remain a boy in future lives, or can it be born as a girl? Theories ...
... like himself: each must bear with patience and indulgence the beliefs of others. (Giordano Bruno) *** There is no better way to make friends than to laugh together. *** O Divine Force, Supreme illuminator, who can resist your Divine Power? You are the unique and supreme Reality. Listen to our prayers, do not distance yourself, or withdraw from us. Help us to fight the good fight ...
... peace that knowledge and power are truly effective. In peace and inner silence you will more and more become conscious of the constant Presence. * In quietness you will feel that the divine force, help and protection are always with you. Let the vast peace of the Divine penetrate you entirely and initiate all your movements. * Increase the inner rest, it must become a rest ...
... tomorrow. Blessings. 11 January 1972 * * * Mother, is it possible to develop in oneself the capacity to heal? In principle everything is possible by uniting consciously with the Divine Force. But a method has to be found, and this depends on the case and the individual. The first condition is to have a physical nature that gives energy rather than draws energy from others. ...
... articulate voice that he hears, though but the reflection of his own. Immediately afterwards his mind coming nearer & nearer to sanity, hits upon something very close to the truth; he realises that a divine force may have transformed her to some object of nature & at first by a natural misapprehension imagines that it must be the river which has the appearance Urvasie wore when she fled from him. Then reason ...
... the Divine Energy in her most terrible as well as in her most beautiful aspects; whether as the Beautiful or the Terrible Mother he has never shrunk from her whether in fear or in awe. When the divine force flowed into him he has never feared to yield himself up to it and follow the infinite prompting, careless whither it led. As a reward he has become the most perfect ādhāra of Shakti, the most ...
... it may seem a good. It is at once good and evil. But that is the relative view; in its entirety, in its fulfilment in each and all of its circumstances of a divine purpose, a divine justice, a divine force executing itself in the large reason of things, it is from the absolute point of view good and just—to God, not to man. Does it follow that the relative view-point has no validity at all? Not ...
... as that achievement follows upon the discovery of the herds by Sarama. Another hymn of great importance in this connection is the thirty-first of the third Mandala, by Vishwamitra. "Agni (the Divine Force) is born quivering with his flame of the offering for sacrifice to the great Sons of the Shining One (the Deva, Rudra); great is the child of them, a vast birth; there is a great movement of the ...
... vital regions, to the earthly sacrifice and up which the sacrifice and man by the sacrifice ascends to the home of the gods. Agni yokes his mares, his variously-coloured energies or flames of the divine Force he represents, which bear the Hero, the battling power within us that performs the journey. And the births divine are at once the gods themselves and those manifestations of the divine life in man ...
... who first found the wisdom of which the Vedic hymns are a chant and memory and renewal in experience. The seven divine Angirases are sons or powers of Agni, powers of the Seer-Will, the flame of divine Force instinct with divine knowledge which is kindled for the victory. The Bhrigus have found this Flame secret in the growths of the earthly existence, but the Angirases kindle it on the altar of sacrifice ...
... and looking beyond the outward appearance he acts not for self but for God and man and the human and cosmic order, 1 not in fact himself acting, but conscious of the presence and power of the divine Force in his deeds and their issue. He knows that the supreme Shakti is doing in his mental, vital and physical body, adhiṣṭhāna , as the sole doer the thing appointed by a Fate which is in truth not ...
... the worshipper of many gods still knows that all his divinities are forms, names, personalities and powers of the One; his gods proceed from the one Purusha, his goddesses are energies of the one divine Force. Those ways of Indian cult which most resemble a popular form of Theism, are still something more; for they do not exclude, but admit the many aspects of God. Indian image-worship is not the idolatry ...
... vital and body. That is inevitable since it has to work upon them. It is only after the transformation that it can be fully the Mother's Force with no mixture of the separate personality. If the Divine Force in all its perfection without mixture were to act from the beginning, not taking any account of the present nature, then there would be no sadhana, only a miraculous substitution of the Divine for ...
... feel or miss this Divine support because it takes as its own the knowledge and power that are given to it; it is quite satisfied with that and is not aware of the Divine Existence behind it, or the Divine Force and Knowledge. 19 April 1937 "For there is nothing in the world which has not its ultimate truth and support in the Divine" [ p. 27 ]. To know this perfectly by experience is to have a very ...
... turmoil—and at the risk of the recurring decimal movement, because the release has come by temporary exhaustion of the attacking force, not by rejection and purification through the intervention of the Divine Force with the unquestioning assent and support of the sadhak. There has been a confused fight, an intervention in a hurly-burly, not a clear alignment of forces—and the intervention of the helping force ...
... was evident when for a fairly long period an active sadhana was proceeding within you. Everybody's capacity however is limited—little can be done by one's own strength alone. It is reliance on the Divine Force, the Mother's Force and Light and openness to it that is the real capacity. This you had for a time, but as with many others it got Page 749 clouded over by the coming up of the physical ...
... and to know how to wait patiently for the result of our effort. Lastly, without neglecting anything we can do ourselves, to know how to rely with childlike trust on the Great Supreme Force, the Divine Force that is One in all beings and all things. Page 65 ...
... earth with the Complete Manifestation as the crowning. When you get the sense of the relativity of things, then whatever happens you can step back and look; you can remain quiet and call on the Divine Force and wait for an answer. Then you will know exactly what to do. Remember, therefore, that you cannot receive the answer before you are very peaceful. Practice that inner peace, make at least a small ...
... indeed do consciously what you should do, it is done much more quickly. There are many people who are not even conscious, the immense majority of people are not even conscious of the action of the divine Force in them. If you speak to them about it, they look at you in round-eyed wonder, they think you are half mad, they don't know what you are talking about. That is the vast majority of human beings ...
... × "Love is universal and eternal; it is always manifesting itself and always identical in its essence. And it is a Divine Force; for the distortions we see in its apparent workings belong to its instruments. Love does not manifest in human beings alone; it is everywhere. Its movement is there in plants, perhaps in the very ...
... absolutely on character. Some have such an awakened consciousness, so alert, that they are not asleep, they are awake within. Just at the second it is required they call the help. Or they invoke the divine Force. But just at the second it is needed. So the danger is averted, nothing happens. They could have been killed: they come out of it absolutely unhurt. Others, on the contrary, as soon as they have ...
... not accepted, there would be no contact with it. No relation would be possible. And this is the reason of the incarnations. Otherwise, there would be no necessity. If the divine consciousness and divine force could work directly from the place or state of their perfection, if they could work directly on matter and transform it, there would be no need to take a body like man's. It would have been enough ...
... speaks of "the play Page 267 of forces"; it is the movement, the interaction. All activities are the play of forces. So one can take it in that sense. But, you see, it means that the divine Force, the divine Consciousness, has exteriorised itself to create the universe and all the play of forces in the universe. That's what it means, nothing else. I don't mean necessarily playing in the ...
... much money as possible to the Asram and spend as little as possible on yourself, only your actual needs and the collection expenses. If that had remained your attitude, circumstances moulded by the Divine Force would have arranged themselves accordingly and you would have had enough and to spare for your personal expenses. But in practice the position became quite the opposite. Your first care was to draw ...
... described exactly the condition felt in the right kind of meditation—a state of inner rest, not of straining, of quiet opening, not of eager or desperate pulling, a harmonious giving of oneself to the Divine Force for its working, and in that quietude a sense Page 221 of the Force working and a restful confidence allowing it to act without any unquiet interference. And she asked you if you had ...
... my own birthday and it is naturally gratifying to me that it should have assumed this vast significance. I take this coincidence, not as a fortuitous accident, but as the sanction and seal of the Divine Force that guides my steps on the work with which I began life, the beginning of its full fruition. Indeed, on this day I can watch almost all the world-movements which I hoped to see fulfilled in my ...
... suffocate? Your logical proposition is "Everything is possible", but this makes all human experience look so hopeless, so childish and so frightening. It is difficult to believe that any amount of the divine force will turn a C into a Sri Aurobindo or a D into a Sri Mira. I am not joking. I mean it. You do not seem to have followed the sense of my reasoning very well—perhaps because I clothe my arguments ...
... and their future results. But as soon as one enters the path of spiritual life, this old predetermined destiny begins to recede. There comes in a new factor, the Divine Grace, the help of a higher Divine Force other than the force of Karma which can lift the sadhak beyond the present possibilities of his nature. One’s spiritual destiny is then the divine election which ensures the future. The only doubt ...
... own birthday and it is naturally gratifying to me that it should have assumed this vast significance. I take this coincidence, not as a fortuitous accident, but as the sanction and seal of the Divine Force that guides my steps on the work with which I began life, the beginning of its full fruition. Indeed, on this day I can watch almost all the world-movements which I hoped to see fulfilled in ...
... higher that is behind them and express it in the way to which they are called by their nature. In the same way you could take all other types and trace them to some original intention in the Divine Force. Each is a diminution or caricature of the type intended by the Divine, a mental and vital distortion of things that have a greater spiritual value. It is a wrong movement that creates the distortion ...
... new spiritual influx, creating in man a new consciousness, can overcome the enormous mass of difficulties barring the way of the workers. A new spiritual light, a manifestation upon earth of some divine force unknown until now, a Thought of God, new for us, descending into this world and taking a new form here. And here we come back to our starting point, to our duty of true maternity. For this form ...
... come. It is the inert passivity of physical Nature that leaves it at the mercy of every obscure or undivine influence. A glad and strong and helpful submission is demanded to the working of the Divine Force...." Sri Aurobindo, The Mother , pp. 4-5 What is "a glad and strong and helpful submission"? Do you know what it means to be happy? Do you know what it means to be strong? Do you ...
... favourable is the instrument to the manifestation of the Divine. That is why we also have this idea of the prolongation of life, it is to be able to perfect the instrument so as to manifest the divine Force which wants to manifest. Otherwise, it would evidently be much easier, as soon as the body became a little ill or a little old or incapable of reacting as it did when young, to Page 328 ...
... I think the most important thing is to know why one meditates; this is what gives the quality of the meditation and makes it of one order or another. You may meditate to open yourself to the divine Force, you may meditate to reject the ordinary consciousness, you may meditate to enter the depths of your being, you may meditate to learn how to give yourself integrally; you may meditate for all kinds ...
... oneself: "How disinterested I am! I am going to help humanity." All this is nothing but egoism. The Mother Subtle ego The idea of helping others is a subtle form of the ego. It is only the Divine Force that can help. One can be its instrument, but you should first learn to be a fit and egoless instrument. Sri Aurobindo Page 75 A delusion The idea of helping ...
... the elements constituting this knot, the whole set of resistances, habits, preferences, of all that holds you narrowly closed in. So when you grow aware of this, you can concentrate and call the divine Force and the Grace and strike a good blow on this formation, these things so closely held, like that, that nothing can separate them. And at that moment you must resolve that you will no longer listen ...
... you don't want it, you want to pull it out—well, if you identify yourself ever so little with that thing, you feel the pain of the extraction; if, on the contrary, you identify yourself with the divine Force which comes to liberate you, you feel the joy of the divine Grace—and you experience the deep delight of the progress you have made. And this is a sure sign for you, a sure indication of what ...
... remain in conscious contact with the higher Force . It was like an aspiration (not formulated in words, naturally), what is called in English "a yearning", "a longing" for this contact with the divine Force, the Force of Harmony, the Force of Truth, the Force of Love. And it is because of that that they appreciate the present combination. It is altogether another point of view. I express it with ...
... and concentrate in or behind action also. Peace and Inertia The Peace is not of the nature of inertia, but the inertia (tamas) is a degradation of peace or rest as rajas is a degradation of divine Force. So when the physical is invited to peace and cannot receive it, it brings up inertia instead. Rest of the being from effort, disturbance etc. 1 The Spirit is Page 154 eternally ...
... Aspiration is a turning upward of the inner being with a call, yearning, prayer for the Divine, for the Truth, for the Page 56 Consciousness, Peace, Ananda, Knowledge, descent of Divine Force or whatever else is the aim of one's endeavour. Aspiration is to call the forces. When the forces have answered, there is a natural state of quiet receptivity concentrated but spontaneous ...
... consciousness which keeps it turned to the Mother, free from other movements, expecting and able to receive what may come from the Divine. There is a state in which the sadhak is conscious of the Divine Force working in him or of its results at least and does not Page 105 obstruct its descent or its action by his own mental activities, vital restlessness or physical obscurity and inertia ...
... of the Kundalini in this particular and powerful fashion. There is only a quiet uprising of the consciousness from the lower centres to join the spiritual consciousness above and a descent of the Divine Force from above which does its own work in the mind and body—the manner and stages varying in each sadhak. A perfect confidence in the Divine Mother and a vigilance to repel all wrong suggestions and ...
... disappearance of egoistic attachment to the work and its personal results, but at the same time a great joy in the work and in the use of the capacities for the divine purpose. The feeling that the Divine Force is working behind one's actions and leading at every moment. A persistent faith which no circumstance or event can break. If difficulties occur, they raise not mental doubts or an inert acquiescence ...
... But of course that is not the spiritual life, it is only a sort of elementary religious approach. For the spiritual life to give and not to demand is the rule. The sadhak however can ask for the Divine Force to aid him in keeping his health or recovering it if he does that as part of his sadhana so that his body may be able and fit for the spiritual life and a capable instrument for the Divine Work ...
... of the surface. (The other way of beginning the Yoga of works is by doing them for the Divine, for the Mother, and not for oneself, consecrating and dedicating them till one concretely feels the Divine Force taking up the activities and doing them for one.) If there is any secret or key of my Yoga which you say you have not found, it lies in these methods—and, in reality, there is nothing so mysterious ...
... mental functions, masters also of the vital & material. Agni, for instance, governs the actions of the fiery elements in Nature & in man, but is also the vehicle of pure tapas, tu, tuvis or divine force. They are therefore mankind’s greatest helpers. (9) But in order that they may help, it is necessary to reinforce them in these lower worlds, which are not their own, by self-surrender, by sacrifice ...
... chandra te girah śumbhanti aśwarádhasah. Śushmebhih śushmiṇo naro. When there is this strong & blissful action, blissful in the Page 728 vital energy supporting it, blissful in the divine force working in the mind, blissful in the easy & auspicious self-expressions of that force, then the perfection of the illuminative Powers awakes of itself or by the force of the Self in the pure mentality ...
... the essential Shakti; Energy is the working drive of the Force, its active dynamism; Power is the capacity born of the Force; Strength is energy consolidated and stored in the Adhar. The Divine Force can act on any plane—it is not limited to the Supramental Force. The Supramental is only one aspect of the power of the Divine. The Supreme cannot create through the Transcendent because ...
... ciation are both wrong attitudes. To recognise any defects without exaggerating them is useful but, once recognised, it is no good dwelling on them always; you must have the confidence that the Divine Force can change everything and you must let the Force work. The view taken by the Mahatma in these matters [ of caste ] is Christian rather than Hindu—for the Christian, self-abasement, humility ...
... Yogi. But these powers are not sought after, they come naturally, and they have not the astral character. Also, they have to be used on purely spiritual lines, that is by the Divine Will and the Divine Force, as an instrument, but never as an instrumentation of the forces and beings of the vital plane. To seek their aid for such powers is a great error. Prolonged fasting may lead to an excitation ...
... but for the best purposes of this or that stage in a progressive manifestation. The Nature of the Hostile Forces The mere intensity of the force does not show that it is a bad power; the Divine Force often works with a great intensity. Everything depends on the nature of the force and its working; what does it do, what seems to be its purpose? If it works to purify or open the system, or brings ...
... the satyam is temporarily emphasised in order that the resultant truth may be more sure and self-assured. St. 1) एति प्र होता व्रतमस्य मायया ऊधर्वं दधानः शुचिपेशसं धियं । Agni, the divine force, precedes the present movement of action by the concealed creative & formative Maya of the Master of the Yoga holding in himself a thought pure in form of vision & exalted to the Vijnana. This is ...
... they are denied or pushed out, it becomes depressed and wants to call them back—for it is accustomed to get the pleasure and strength of life from the vital movements and not from the spiritual or divine Force above. The vital can be all right when things are going on swimmingly, but when difficulties become strong, it sinks and lies supine. Also if a bait is held out to the vital ego, then it ...
... resistance disappears, the pressure is no longer felt but one becomes conscious of the working and of the calm descending into the body from centre to centre. The pressure is that of the Divine Force which he calls by his prayer descending to do its work in the Adhar, its passage being marked by the current which he feels. The pain was due to some resistance in the Adhar; it disappears as soon ...
... the first rush and sense of power of a supernormal condition, they get dazzled with a little light which seems to them a tremendous illumination or a touch of force which they mistake for the full Divine Force or at least a very great Yoga Shakti, or they accept some intermediate Power (not always a Power of the Divine) as the Supreme and an intermediate consciousness as the supreme Page 297 ...
... own, but imposed on you by a force of Nature outside you. Refuse all consent to the imposition. If anything in your vital consents, insist on that part of you withdrawing its consent. Call in the Divine Force to help you in your withdrawal and refusal. If you can do this quietly and resolutely and patiently, in the end your inner will will prevail against the habit of the outer Nature. To be conscious ...
... been given to you in the right kind or condition of meditation—a state of inner rest, not of straining, of quiet opening, not of eager or desperate pulling, a harmonious giving of oneself to the Divine Force for its working, and in that quietude a sense of the Force working and a restful confidence allowing it to act without any unquiet interference. Now that condition is the beginning of the psychic ...
... realise the Divine Truth is always his aim, either beyond or in life also—and in the latter case it is necessary to transform mind and life which cannot be done without surrender to the action of the Divine Force, the Mother. To seek after the Impersonal is the way of those who want to withdraw from life, but usually they try by their own effort, and not by an opening of themselves to a superior Power ...
... felt, it is the opening—the more are felt, the more complete the opening. What is the way to open all the knots of the being? By aspiration, by consent of the being to the workings of the Divine Force, by the descent and working of that Force. 25 April 1933 What does "opening" mean? Is it "not to keep anything secret from the Mother"? Page 150 That is the first step towards ...
... speak of surrendering everything to the Mother but you have not done even the one thing which she asked of you and which you have promised more than once. If after having called the action of the Divine Force, you allow other influences to prevail, how can you expect to be free from obstruction and difficulties? 20 November 1928 Nowadays my vital nature gets excited about anything and everything ...
... of Immortality; Knowledge is incomplete without action. Chit fulfils itself by Tapas, Consciousness by energy. And as Surya represents the divine Light, so Agni to the ancient Rishis represented divine Force, Power or Will-in-Consciousness. The prayer to Agni completes the prayer to Surya. THE INDIVIDUAL WILL As in knowledge, so in action, unity is the true foundation. The individual, accepting ...
... asmabhyam id, you are directing them elsewhere. This cannot be. You must not become the adashush & cease from the sacrifice decreed. Make ready the altar of the body & mind; kindle the fire of the divine force upon it in front of you, let Agni stand as your purohita. This is the way decreed; in the sacrifice to the right devatas & not otherwise the soul of man awakens out of this death into that immortality ...
... The Secret of the Veda A Vedic Hymn to the Fire A Hymn of the Universal Divine Force and Will A hymn of Nodha Gautama to Agni Vaishwanara in the Rig Veda. वया इदग्ने अग्नयस्ते अन्ये त्वे विश्वे अमृता मादयन्ते । वैश्वानर नाभिरसि क्षितीनां स्थूणेव जनाँ उपमिद् ययन्थ ॥१॥ Other flames are only branches of thy stock, O Fire. All the immortals ...
... diverse forms." He is the deity of the human journey who carries it forward in its irresistible progress which the attacks of the enemy cannot overcome or successfully interrupt so long as this divine Force is our leader. The journey is effected through a manifold movement of our evolution, the many chariots of Aryaman. It is the journey of the human sacrifice which has a sevenfold energy of its action ...
... this deity of flame and force is revealed as the solar godhead of love and harmony and light, Mitra, who leads men towards the Truth. But in the Vedic cosmos Agni appears first as a front of divine Force compact of burning heat and light which forms, assails, enters into, envelops, devours, rebuilds all things in Matter. He is no random fire; his is a flame of force instinct with the light of divine ...
... Hymns to Agni The Secret of the Veda The Third Hymn to Agni The Divine Force, Conqueror of the Supreme Good [The Divine Will-Force is that of which all the other godheads are forms and he manifests all these powers of supreme Truth as he grows in us. Thus the supreme state of conscious being is attained and by that our complex and manifold existence ...
... Hymns to Agni The Secret of the Veda The First Hymn to Agni A Hymn of the Morning Sacrifice [The Rishi hymns the awakening of Agni the Divine Force to conscious action in the coming of the Dawn. Agni rises towards the luminous Paradise, his goal, feeding on the works of the Discernment which distributes the gifts and activities of the sacrifice, becomes ...
... Hymns to Agni The Secret of the Veda The Fourth Hymn to Agni The Divine Will, Priest, Warrior and Leader of our Journey [The Rishi hymns the Divine Force that knows all the successive births of the soul on its ascending planes of existence and as priest of his upward and onward-journeying sacrifice gives him the purity, the power, the knowledge, the ...
... the divine light. It is the opening of the whole third plane of our existence which was before as a fortified city with its gates closed to the soul embodied in Matter. By this new action of the Divine Force the mental and physical consciousness are wedded to the high supramental which was till now separated from them and the life-force blazing in its works with the heat of the divine Sun is harmonised ...
... which the armies of darkness cannot stand; for it overpowers them by its plenitude and force. This it does on all the successive planes of the soul's labour and in each of them man gets, by this divine Force that is the true and transcendent Being, all the objects of his desire that they contain.] अग्ने सहन्तमा भर द्युम्नस्य प्रासहा रयिम् । विश्वा यश्चर्षणीरभ्यासा वाजेषु सासहत् ॥१॥ 1) Bring ...
... the conscious vision and the utter rapture. By increasing him in us we shall journey forward with our progressing sacrifice and the gods will utterly manifest themselves. We must entertain this divine Force as the master of our house, our physical and mental body, and give it all the objects of our enjoyment as its food.] प्र विश्वसामन्नत्रिवदर्चा पावकशोचिषे । यो अध्वरेष्वीड्यो होता मन्द्रतमो ...
... messenger, the lord of the offerings who waits on thee, of him become the protector. यो अग्निं देवदीतये हविष्माँ आविवासति । तस्मै पावक मृळय ॥९॥ 9) He who with the offerings approaches the divine force, for the Birth of the Gods, O Purifier, on him have grace. स नः पावक दीदिवोऽग्ने देवाँ इहा वह । उप यज्ञं हविश्च नः ॥१०॥ 10) O shining Flame, thou who purifiest, hither bear the Gods to ...
... Nature or unable to assimilate and to harmonise itself with the contacts of the universal Energy; they would not exist if in us there were an integral presence of the luminous Consciousness and the divine Force of an integral Being. Therefore the relation of truth to falsehood, of good to evil is not a mutual dependence, but is in the nature of a contradiction as of light and shadow; a shadow depends on ...
... our one sure illumination so long as we walk still amidst the siege of the Ignorance and the Truth-consciousness has not taken up the entire control of our Godward endeavour. The working of the Divine Force in us under the conditions of the transition and the light of the psychic being turning us always towards a conscious and seeing obedience to that higher impulsion and away from the demands and ...
... heart of emotion and the desire of the life-being and the urge and instinct of the flesh, but first from a spiritualised self and nature and, last, from a supramental Truth-consciousness and its divine force of supernature. Thus are made possible the final steps when the veil of Nature is withdrawn and the seeker is face to face with the Master of all existence and his activities are merged in the ...
... are to come. Kutsa Angirasa―Rig Veda. (I. 113. 8) Kutsa Angirasa―Rig Veda. (I. 113. 9,) Kutsa Angirasa―Rig Veda. (I. 113. 10) Threefold are those supreme births of this divine force that is in the world, they are true, they are desirable; he moves there wide-overt within the Infinite and shines pure, luminous and fulfilling.... That which is immortal in mortals and possessed ...
... learn to act with an impersonal or a universal mind or as a part or an instrument of an infinite Person. A Page 266 calm indifference, a joyful impartiality or a blissful response to a divine Force, whatever its dictate, is the condition of his doing any effective work or undertaking any worth-while action. Not desire, not attachment must drive him, but a Will that stirs in a divine peace ...
... their meaning for us. Ignorance changes into a particularising action of divine knowledge; strength and weakness and incapacity change into a free putting forth and holding back various measures of divine Force; joy and grief, pleasure and pain change into a mastering and a suffering of divine delight; struggle, losing its discords, becomes a balancing of forces and values in the divine harmony. We do ...
... he understood. It sank in, it was like a sort of revelation. Ah! Page 316 Was there a lot of violence in France? Yes, that revolution, which at the start was really moved by a divine force, was immediately spoilt by violence. So I explained, "If you want the future, well, you have to use the means of the future. And the means of the future isn't guns, it's inner means—the inner power ...
... I answered: Put yourself at the service of Truth, and you will know the Truth. Is it possible to develop in oneself a capacity for healing? By consciously uniting with the Divine Force, all is possible in principle. But a procedure has to be found, depending on the case and the individual. The first condition is to have a physical nature that gives energy rather than draws ...
... you put the Divine ON the thing ( Mother makes a gesture of aiming a beam ). You know, you're like... not an intermediary, I don't know... it's like a power of concentration on something; then the Divine Force flows through and is focused ( same gesture of aiming a beam ), but you yourself do nothing—yet the thing is done. Sometimes, if there is a word to be said, then the word comes to you; or if there ...
... from which its victims have to be drawn away into an illimitable peace, or that here is a mysterious play of God with the soul around a theme of love's hide and seek, or else that a creative divine Force is sweeping the soul upward through various phases of effective self-expression to an ultimate identity with the Supreme Spirit above Nature. Ascetic quietism, ecstatic devotionalism, enlightened ...
... from none. In brief, we have to replace dualities by unity, egoism by divine consciousness, ignorance by divine wisdom, thought by divine knowledge, weakness, struggle & effort by self-contented divine force, pain & false pleasure by divine bliss. This is called in the language of Christ bringing down the kingdom of heaven on earth, or in modern language, realising & effectuating God in the world. ...
... for this process of divine self-revelation, of the supreme force of tapas by which God created the world, supports it & will destroy it. It substitutes always some direct action of an infinite divine force for the limited workings of our 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 ...
... condition of blissfulness, ritam the key of ananda. 139) Who is the superman? He who can rise above this matter-regarding broken mental human unit and possess himself universalised and deified in a divine force, a divine love & joy and a divine knowledge. 140) If thou keepest this limited human ego & thinkest thyself the superman, thou art but the fool of thy own pride, the plaything of thy own force ...
... the sum of these and finds his own and true self;—when he becomes aware of his immortality and the unreality of death;—when he experiences the advent of knowledge and feels himself passive and the divine force working unresisted through his mind, his speech, his senses and all his organs;—when having thus abandoned whatever he is, does or has to the Lord of all, the Lover and Helper of mankind, he dwells ...
... s mission in this life. Page 391 He told me he was acquiring such a force that he could face any obstacle, and will thus be capable of asserting in front of people the power of the divine force. "I first want to become absolutely sure that I can manifest this force at any time and against any obstacle. Then I will show people, in a crowd of a thousand people, through a practical demonstration ...
... we can live like animals. But, Mother, your force is extremely active right now, you know. Yes, I know. I know: when I am like now, I always see the Force—it isn't "my" force, it is the Divine Force. I try—I only try to be like this ( gesture like a channel ). This body tries to be simply... simply a transmitter, as transparent as possible, as impersonal as possible. So the Divine can do whatever ...
... quite rebellious, but which gives a sense, as you said, of something hanging over your head and shoulders: a sort of Fate, of Destiny. So there is the good destiny and the bad destiny; there is a divine force which one regards as something entirely beyond understanding, whose designs and aims are perfectly inexplicable, and the submission, the surrender consists in accepting—blindly—all that happens ...
... inner problem—in spite of our blunders and imperfections, even in spite of our ill will and mistakes? And who hears? You who are with us? Is it you in your supreme consciousness, an impersonal divine force, the force of the yoga, or you, the embodied Mother with your physical consciousness—a personal presence really intimate to our every thought and act, and not some anonymous force? Can you tell ...
... trying to become fluid. Something is obviously trying to make it manifest a... an otherness. Be an otherness. But how?... ( silence ) The body is comfortable only when it is conscious of the divine Force acting ( gesture of descent through the body ), but otherwise it's.... Page 204 Any concentration on the body itself causes a kind of strange discomfort, a discomfort which stops only ...
... mantra: the body spontaneously repeats the mantra, but that's only the most external form. It tries. It tries to... ( gesture, hands open ). It aspires and tries to receive nothing but the divine Force. Food is still the big stumbling block. The body knows it must still eat, but it isn't hungry; food just seems.... It eats out of habit and necessity. It takes very little, though. ( Mother ...
... In verse 3 Indra tells Agastya that the Rishi, though his friend, does not will to give him his mind; and in verse 4 exhorts him to make ready the altar and set ablaze there Agni, the flame of divine Force that is the master of the Sacrifice of the human to the Superhuman, so that Indra and Agni may render Agastya's effort effective to experience the Immortal Reality. Verse 5 finds Agastya submissive ...
... sitting on the verge of the higher mental plane (indicated by 'thought') which readily responds to the call from his psychic being and immediately the help comes in the form of a vehicle driven by the Divine Force (Sri Aurobindo). After this initial lead given by the Divine, one may have to walk all alone in the sadhana and one can do it if one is clear about the path, as is the case with Champaklal. He ...
... changes, is always in its source and real meaning a crisis in the consciousness of humanity when it has to undergo some grand modification and effect some new development. For this action of change a divine force is needed …” It should be kept in mind that the real stuff of things is the Spirit, and that therefore everything exists and changes within the Spirit, also what we, human beings, perceive as material ...
... ‘When the peace of God descends on you, when the Divine Presence is there within you, when the Ananda rushes on you like a sea, when you are driven like a leaf before the wind by the breath of the Divine Force, when Love flowers out from you on all creation, when Divine Knowledge floods you with a Light which illumines and transforms in a moment all that was before dark, sorrowful and obscure, when all ...
... my own birthday and it is naturally gratifying to me that it should have assumed this vast significance. I take this coincidence not as a fortuitous accident, but as the sanction and seal of the Divine Force that guides my steps in the work with which I began life, as the beginning of its full fruition. Indeed, on this day I can watch almost all the world-movements which I hoped to see fulfilled in ...
... the first rush and sense of power of a supernormal condition, they get dazzled with a little light which seems to them a tremendous illumination or a touch of force which they mistake for the full Divine Force or at least a very great Yoga Shakti; or they accept some intermediate power (not always a Power of the Divine) as the Supreme and intermediate consciousness as the supreme realization. Very readily ...
... preparation for the Supramental change, but none of them is easy, and they must be complete before the Adhar can be said to be ready. If the true attitude (psychic, unegoistic, open only to the Divine Force) can be established, then the process can go on much more quickly. To take and keep the true attitude, to further the change in oneself, is the help that can be given, the one thing needed to ...
... come. For Kunju Ghosh there is no difficulty as he is going to stay in a hotel. The poem is very good. Don’t worry about Hitler; no asuric force can stand eternally against the divine force and the hour of his defeat is bound to come. With our love and blessings * June 18, 1940 Yes, you can come this afternoon on the staircase at 5.45 for pranam and ...
... and I may ask him for a few drops of oil in the nose. But this is the last time I am thinking of taking medicine. The next time the body should take up the true attitude and depend only upon the Divine Force. The power that the body must get is to be aware of the illness at the moment of its coming and to reject it before it has time to settle in the body. But once the illness has caught hold of ...
... bodies shall be conscious of a soul; Mortality's bond-slaves shall unloose their bonds, Mere men into spiritual beings grow And see awake the dumb divinity... And, lastly: A divine force shall flow through tissue and cell And take the charge of breath and speech and act. A sudden bliss shall run through every limb And Nature with a mightier Presence fill. ...
... acceptable to her people.’ 17 The proof of Hatshepsut’s insight and strength in daring the practically impossible is the success of her reign as King Maatkare. (Re being the Sun, Ka the divine force in all, and Maat the same as Maya or Dharma, the name could be translated as ‘Maat is the vital Force of Re,’ or, in terms more familiar to us, ‘Shakti of the Sun’ – the Sun being the symbol of ...
... When the Peace of God descends on you, when the Divine Presence is there within you, when the Ananda rushes on you like a sea, when you are driven like a leaf before the wind by the breath of the Divine Force, when Love flowers out from you on all creation, when Divine Knowledge floods you with a Light which illumines and transforms in a moment all that was before dark, sorrowful and obscure, when ...
... Granary it is K and P; in the Canal House D. What does this attack mean? Does it intend to wreck the whole organisation? No, it cannot be, my dear Mother. In all confidence I open myself to the Divine Force and invoke it. It will do its work. Yes, the more the attacks are violent, the more we must have a strong, quiet and unshakeable faith. All love and blessings to you, my dear child 25 ...
... and holds him back. One has to have patience and deal with it like a child who is going to school: that is, keep repeating the same thing to him and make him conscious of the need to open to the Divine Force and be transformed. So you have to be patient, but at the same time very confident that you are on the right track. I am always with you. Tenderly 2 April 1963 ...
... There is only one remedy to this malady which comes from a dissatisfied vital. It is to find your psychic being (the vesture of the Divine) and to unite with it. Then you will find joy in the Divine Force and the tiredness will disappear. If you decide to take up this liberating work, you can count on my full help. 18 September 1966 ...
... of course that is not the spiritual life, it is only a sort of elementary religious approach. For the spiritual life to give and not to demand is the rule. The sadhak, however, can ask for the Divine Force to aid him in keeping his health or recovering it if he does that as part of his sadhana so that his body may be able and fit for the spiritual life and a capable instrument for the Divine Work ...
... my own birthday and it is naturally gratifying to me that it should have assumed this vast significance. I take this coincidence not as a fortuitous accident, but as the sanction and seal of the Divine Force that guides my steps on the work with which I began my life, the beginning of its full fruition. Indeed, on this day I can watch almost all the world-movements which I hoped to see fulfilled in ...
... was very strange, I had only to sit quietly and watch: I would see here, there, there, the whole thing in my body, all that was going on. And while it went on, I would put the concentration of the divine Force there, so that all – all that pain, all that suffering, everything – would hasten the preparation of the Earth and the Descent of the Force. And that went on consciously throughout the war.’ 56 ...
... 1961 White Roses 10 March 1961 “Prasad” is a spiritual gift, a way of transmitting the Divine Force; it is considered as a sacred thing. ...
... is the Mother's Light. Wherever it descends or enters, it brings peace, purity, silence and openness to the higher forces. Sri Aurobindo says: The White Light is a manifestation of pure divine force descending from one of the truth planes leading to the Supramental. Sri Aurorindo on the Mother The Mother's consciousness is the divine consciousness and the Light that comes from it is ...
... then they cannot possibly express themselves. For example, a great musician has a piano but owing to the bad tuning he cannot play on it in spite of his wonderful talent. Similarly the Divine Force, the Divine Consciousness and the Divine Grace cannot work if the instruments are not proper ...
... Pictures of Sri Aurobindo's poems Agni Fire; Fire of Sacrifice; the Fire-God; Flame of Divine Force; illumined will; Divine Will; Fire of human aspiration; flame of purification or transformation in the psychic being; psychic fire. The psychic fire is the fire of aspiration, purification and Tapasya. Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: ...
... as if the Spirit were emerging from the board. I had only to follow what was shown to me. The whole work was done in a sweep, not needing the slightest alteration. My hand felt possessed by the Divine Force as it moved. After finishing the painting I offered it to the Mother's photograph. The eyes in the photograph were as if living, laughing, moving, appreciating. Later the new painting was ...
... are beyond me and against which I can do NOTHING. Oh Mother, it is not an excuse for a lack of will, or at least I don't think so—I profoundly feel like a helpless toy, totally helpless. If the divine force, if your grace, does not intervene to shatter this obscure resistance that is drawing me downwards in spite of myself, I don't know what will become of me ... Mother, I am not blackmailing you, ...
... done now in the body itself. January 1966 The inner progress has been sufficiently rapid for the exterior being to find it difficult to follow. Now the body must learn to receive the Divine Force and to keep it. Transparency in the physical: the physical prepares itself for transformation. Ananda in the physical: may it be welcome, even if it manifests itself rarely. ...
... tomorrow. 11 January 1972 Page 430 Mother, is it possible to develop in oneself the capacity to heal? In principle, everything is possible by uniting consciously with the Divine Force. But a method has to be found, and this depends on the case and the individual. The first condition is to have a physical nature that gives energy rather than draws energy from others. ...
... may express itself through it. 1960 So that the experience does not become dangerously distorted and painful, you must keep an absolute calm. It is only in peace and calm that the Divine Force expresses itself and acts. 26 June 1967 It is very good to have recovered the calm. It is in the calm that the body can increase its receptivity and gain the power to contain. ...
... try to hide things; whatever you want to conceal becomes all the more visible. 19 April 1952 Page 254 Only those who are capable of transmitting, along with a written word, the Divine force and consciousness, ought to give their autograph. 10 April 1954 Let us hope that the inner realisation will prove equal to the outer one. 26 April 1954 Better not count upon ...
... great will for revenge and began circling around the Ashram in the Preta Loka (I believe this corresponds to the vital world) seeking an opportunity to do harm, but there was such a purity, such a divine force that he could do nothing. When this girl died, he attacked her, and the two merged—he absorbed her. Then they continued wandering about the Ashram in search of a physical instrument to gain entry ...
... connected ( Mother is alluding to the vision of the flood She has just described ). I myself am clearly seeing it from the other side; I see a black, muddy form—a black, black force. And I see the [Divine] Force acting on people and, miraculously, the money comes—and then ... it's like something armored 1 —it seeps in with difficulty, a thin trickle from day to day. Provided the sadhana works, that's ...
... blasphemes and denies the ideal because the Golden Mountains cannot be reached in our little day or in a few momentary centuries. 316—Fix thy soul without desire upon the end and insist on it by the divine force within thee; then shall the end itself create its means, nay, it shall become its own means. For the end is Brahman and already accomplished; see it always as Brahman, see it always in thy soul ...
... 'pure' according to the spiritual concept—it doesn't sense its separate personality. More and more, year after year, it has been striving to feel only the divine Presence, the divine Life, the divine Force and the divine Will, all within itself; and to feel that without them it is nothing, it doesn't exist. This is fully realized in its consciousness (the conscious part). In the subconscient and ...
... Mother’s Agenda 1967 October 25, 1967 Mother reads "Savitri" A divine force shall flow through tissue and cell And take the charge of breath and speech and act And all the thoughts shall be a glow of suns And every feeling a celestial thrill. Often a lustrous inner dawn shall come Lighting the chambers of ...
... opposite—of the divine Power. And every time, there is a kind of action which really in every detail is almost miraculous: suddenly that negation is compelled... compelled to recognize that the divine Force is all-powerful. Seen from another angle, it's a sort of perpetual little miracle. I'll give you an example: last time you were with me, I got (while you were present) a pain here ( gesture to ...
... A few days later, Mother added: "There is also something I left unsaid: an urgent need to cease all material activity in order to enable the body to receive fully—as fully as possible—the divine Force that will replace what has been removed. There is something absolute about that need: to stay totally still, quiet, letting the Force descend—permeate the body, rather. All physical activity must ...
... IN CONSCIOUS CONTACT WITH THE HIGHER FORCE. It was like an aspiration (not formulated in words, naturally), and like a... what in English they call yearning, a longing for that Contact with the divine Force, the Force of Harmony, the Force of Truth and... the Force of Love, and [the cells' response was] that because of that, they valued the present combination. It was an altogether different point ...
... speaking, thinking again.... It's really interesting. But the idea (not "the idea"—oh, you see, it's impossible to speak, mon petit)... what was seen was this: this man has never believed in a divine force or a reality higher than what is manifested in man or anything, and the "idea" was that he should feel an intervention (which he would call by any name he liked) higher than anything known on earth ...
... ical consequences. I had not let my mind appraise all-round the critical point at which the workings behind the scene might have arrived. But she exclaimed: "What has happened shows that the Divine Force also can now have a direct effect upon the body. If the dark powers have this new possibility, the inner Light and the higher Consciousness can just as well emerge into the body with concrete ...
... drawing upon your vital energy and you must be letting it flow out in sympathy according to your generous nature. Whatever inner help goes forth from you should be out of a depth of serenity - the Divine Force using you as a calm pellucid medium. The suggestions that sometimes harass you - "No progress, I am hopeless" - are from invisible hostile beings. You are going on quite well in your quiet way ...
... the days, a great increasing state of illumined force and being, - for that is the image of ahan, - which are the eternal future of the mortal when he has attained immortality... "This divine force is born victorious by its very purity and infinity over all the hostile forces that prevent, obstruct, limit or strive to destroy our accomplished freedoms, powers, illuminations and widenesses; ...
... service, he must go on with the ordinary life. He is still much too young and too unripe for any complete sadhana. At best he can do at present some kind of Karma yoga, trying to realise the one Divine Force behind the action of the world and preparing himself so that one day he may feel a direct guidance. 1-10-1929 Sri Aurobindo 9 February 1930 ( Answer to Swami Satyanand Giri ) ...
... routine. And he will be on his guard against any turning of the means into a limitation, against the mechanizing of process. His whole business is to awaken the divine light and set working the divine force of which he himself is only a means and an aid, a body or a channel. The example is more powerful than the instruction; but it is not the example of the outward acts nor that of the personal ...
... Amal Kiran's Correspondence with The Mother 29 April 1968 Dearest Mother, There is a very fine recent statement of yours on sincerity and the Divine Force at work at present, all basically apropos of Auroville. Oscar showed it to me. It has such a general bearing that I feel its publication in the May Mother India will be very much appreciated. ...
... The three Gunas become purified and refined and changed into their divine equivalents: sattva becomes jyoti, the authentic spiritual light; rajas becomes tapas, the tranquilly intense divine force; tamas becomes ś ama, the divine quiet, rest, peace. Letters on Yoga, pp. 1201-02 Page 118 ...
... action of the Purusha for replacing the play of the lower forces by a higher play. and rhc method of offering the lower movements to the Divine so that they ma}' be transformed by the divine Force. × Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga, SABCL. Vol. 23. p. 1006. ...
... The Body must Learn The inner progress has been sufficiently rapid for the exterior being to find it difficult to follow. Now the body must learn to receive the Divine Force and to keep it. The Mother ...
... 10, 1933 My full blessings on your aspiration and resolution. For when you accomplish that, you will have taken a very big step towards what one might call "a state of grace" in which the Divine force can manifest directly in you and not as now indirectly in the midst of violent perturbations. It would be the first step towards a settled fundamental peace and inner happiness and, what is most ...
... reached that stage of illumination, they yoke their mind and they yoke their thoughts to Surya-Savitri. The sukta is thus a guideline for the yoga of the supermind. The yoga begins with Agni, the divine force, fulfiller of the Aryan sacrifice. In the Vedic yoga, Page 41 Agni is the beginning, and Agni accompanies the process of seeking and tapasya right up to the end. In answer to the aspiration ...
... Veda)* I (The Rishi desires a state of spiritual wealth full of the divine working in which nothing shall fall away to the division and the crookedness. So, increasing by our works the divine Force in us daily, we shall attain to the Bliss and the Truth, the rapture of the Light and the rapture of the Force.) 1. O Will, O conqueror of our plenitude, the felicity which thou alone canst ...
... art takes us beyond reaches of thought and morality and takes us deeper into spiritual truths and into the joy and God in the world as also the beauty and desirableness of the manifestation of divine force and energy in phenomenal creation. Indian art, particularly, provides a ready means through which body, heart and mind can be brought into touch with the Spirit. That is the reason why, if the Indian ...
... spiritual joy and ecstasy, illuminations of dynamic action and the truth and largeness of a purified mind and heart and soul, the certitudes of the divine light and guidance, the joy and power of the divine force working in the will and the conduct. When the psychic experiences and the spiritual experiences combine, there comes into play soul's power of unerring inherent consciousness, its vision, in touch ...
... covers matter, life and mind is to be lighted in our own limited body, life and mind. Whosoever lights this Fire on all the three planes of their own limited body, life and mind, comes to know the Divine Force, which is utilised to raise the triple being of man to divinity. Thereafter one makes an offering of the physical Page 21 consciousness, vital consciousness and mental consciousness to ...
... and disasters. But in reality it is not so. The question is why. Here comes the second cosmic Force operative in man's life. This may be called 'divine Compassion'. It is an impersonal divine Force of love and goodwill which is acting always in every man's life and in the world at large, irrespective of any variation of conditions and circumstances. Its sole purpose is to mitigate the effect ...
... upon earth with the Complete Manifestation as the Crowning. When you get the sense of relativity of things, then whatever happens, you can step back and look; you can remain quiet and call on the Divine Force and wait for an answer. Then you will know exactly what to do." (Ibid., p. 160) Now comes another daily sadhana which a sadhaka should never be negligent about. It is 'not to manifest in ...
... there—everything that was happening. And while it was happening, I concentrated the _________________________________ ¹The Mother, Prayers and Meditations, pp. 328-9. Page 63 divine Force there so that everything (all this pain, all this suffering, all of it)... so that it would hasten the preparation of the earth—or in truth, the descent of the Force.¹ The basic reason for ...
... indeed a divine apotheosis of body and the bodily life upon earth: "The Spirit shall look out through Matter's gaze And Matter shall reveal the Spirit's face. ........ A divine force shall flow through tissue and cell And take the charge of breath and speech and act And all the thoughts shall be a glow of suns And every feeling a celestial thrill. .... ...
... which the divine Light and Power can work in the sadhaka without encountering any obstruction." (The Mother) (2)Openness to the Divine "is a state in which the sadhaka is conscious of the Divine Force working in him or of its results at least and does not obstruct its descent or its action by his own mental activities, vital restlessness or physical obscurity and inertia." (Sri Aurobindo, Letters ...
... seeking." Now from the Mother: Page 42 An aspiration is "an inner enthusiasm towards the New, the Unknown, the Perfection." It is "a yearning, a longing for the contact with the Divine Force, divine Harmony, divine Love." An aspiration is "an inner flame, a need for the light... A luminous enthusiasm that seizes the whole being... An unquenchable thirst, an elan, a luminous drive towards ...
... between two opposing loyalties, the sadhaka cannot possibly expect that he would remain constantly in a state of ardent aspiration, perfect faith and love, and full and constant openness to the Divine Force. It is thus clear that so long as the sadhaka does not get integrally consecrated to the Divine Mother, he has to meet and contend with the resistance in his mental being with its principal ...
... but it means that I must labour—my own quota has to be enormous in-order to get any success. But I haven't got that leechlike tenacity. Since I haven't, I can't as well believe that someday the Divine Force will pour down, or gush out and do the miracle. You yourself had to concentrate for 4 or 5 hours a day for so many years, after which everything flowed in a river. But I am not Sri Aurobindo I I ...
... Minds lit, inspired, the occult summoner hear And lives blaze with a sudden inner flame And hearts grow enamoured of divine delight And human wills tune to the divine will.. || 155.67 || A divine force shall flow through tissue and cell And take the charge of breath and speech and act And all the thoughts shall be a glow of suns And every feeling a celestial thrill. || 155.68 || Thus shall ...
... special arrangement has been made for Westerners who cannot digest Dining Room food. The second patient had never come to us before. Very probably he disliked drugs and hoped to be cured by the Divine Force, but failed. There were many such instances. The Mother hardly forced people to take medical treatment against their will. Some cases were receptive to her and were cured, but it seems this general ...
... to do the following: (1) Half an hour sunbath in the morning at the time of sunrise, with the attitude that the Sun will help to open me physically, vitally, mentally and spiritually to the Divine Force. (2) Half an hour meditation with a prayer for inner opening for contact, so that all works become Thy work and I get correct guidance. (3) Taking food (breakfast, lunch, dinner) all alone ...
... of experience that open to one with the opening of the inner consciousness. The true rasa of poetry, painting or any other activity is truly found when these things are part of the working of the Divine Force in you and you feel it is that and it exists in the joy of that working. This condition you had of the inner being and its silence—separated from the surface consciousness and its little restless ...
... one enters the path of spiritual life, this old predetermined destiny begins to recede. There comes in a new Page 150 factor, the Divine Grace, the help of a higher Divine Force other than the force of Karma, which can lift the sadhak beyond the present possibilities of his nature. One's spiritual destiny is then the divine election which ensures the future ...
... you do—study or sports—you must think of the Divine in doing it. It is not a very difficult thing after all. At first you may do it as a kind of preparation to make you capable of receiving the divine force, and then as service to help in the collective work. You can do it not for personal gain but in order to be ready for the Divine Work. This seems to me indispensable. If you keep the ordinary ...
... The Dark Power tries to work in the self- same way; but it cannot touch you, even though you oppose it, if from the outset you are armed with the protection of the Divine - Force. The Dark Power too gives protection to- its devotees, but it cannot maintain them long against the inexorable oncoming of the Divine. * ...
... are mowed down and destroyed. The Dark Power tries to work in the self-same way; but it cannot touch you, even though you oppose it, if from the outset you are armed with the protection of the Divine Force. The Dark Power too gives protection to its devotees, but it cannot maintain them long against the inexorable oncoming of the Divine. *** Consciousness is the light that flows ...
... oneself to the Force. When one gets free through the silent Brahman, one does not go back to the old way of work. By this liberation one becomes free from the ego; one becomes an instrument of the Divine Force by receiving the Force and feels its working, then inertia goes away and work in a new way becomes possible. Until that can be, one has to work in the ordinary way. But becoming an instrument of ...
... stage of the Yoga, transitional between the human and the divine working, there will supervene an increasing purified and vigilant passivity, a more and more luminous divine response to the Divine Force, but not to any other; and there will be as a result the growing inrush of a great and conscious miraculous working from above. In the last period there is no effort at all, no set method ...
... think. Perhaps it was written privately to somebody and they have published it. SRI AUROBINDO (after some time) : Who knows, the spirit of my Tapasya may be behind the Khaksar movement also. The Divine Force is everywhere. NIRODBARAN: I told Dilip all that you had said about poetry. SRI AUROBINDO: What was that? NIRODBARAN: About creative force etc. He says Tagore's letter has a double value ...
... are all ordinary persons without any such influence pushing them. NIRODBARAN: Ordinary persons against an Asura? A bad look-out! SRI AUROBINDO: There is nobody among them who can receive the Divine Force to counteract the Asuras. The Mother has not found anyone. EVENING PURANI: Weygand seems to be hopeful of victory if they can resist for one month. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes. Z says she has found ...
... and contradictory movements: and that creates difficulties without number. Now instead of that, live away from the surface, from the outside and open up to the Divine and receive nothing hut the Divine force. If you can do that all difficulties practically disappear. But, of course, the trouble is there. Unless one is alchemically conditioned, it is an impossibility to have relations with people, to ...
... already better. SRI AUROBINDO: Applying Coué diligently! DR. MANILAL (laughing): Nishtha seems to have been completely metamorphosed, Sir! She was actually running. SRI AUROBINDO: The Divine Force is great but the force of chicken seems to be greater! (Laughter) NIRODBARAN: She is doing very well with her chicken and fish. Now she waits eagerly for her meals. After finishing half a chicken ...
... though he perceives it. SRI AUROBINDO: What he may perceive may be the Cosmic Force. But what we seek is something higher than the Cosmic Force. One may say that the Cosmic Force is also the Divine Force or the Mother's Force. True, but the Mother's Force is acting through it under certain conditions for a certain purpose. The Cosmic Force works through Nature, which one has to observe and reject ...
... can only be attained by the Grace of the Guru. This has been expounded by Yogishananda Nath Nilakantha Sharma Joshi, the disciple of Sri Amba Nanda Nath, as commanded by the Mother, the incarnate Divine Force, for the delight of the sadhakas who are freed from all evil by a single ray from the glance cast by the Grace of Sri Aurobindo, the great seer. Bliss for all! Page 155 ...
... consciousness.' The subconscient of the earth keeps rising up interminably: 'It is the Divine who must do the battling.... And so the body does all it can in order not to be an obstruction to the Divine Force which passes through.... Page 866 - Nov 8 Her physical consciousness experiences 'just for a few seconds - the supramental consciousness.... It is like the harmonisation of contraries ...
... , and so there had to be a new spiritual influx, a climactic transcendence of the mental faculty, - in other words, the bursting of "a new spiritual light, a manifestation upon earth of some divine force unknown until now, a Thought of God, new for us, descending into this world and taking a new form here". A Thought of God, a new form: something that is different from and exceeds all past ...
... the Mother's birth centenary must mean a fresh mobilisation of supramental force and its effective action for taking mankind in a big leap towards this Next Future prophesied in Savitri: "A divine force shall flow through tissue and cell And take the charge of breath and speech and act And all the thoughts shall be a glow of suns And every feeling a celestial thrill. Often a lustrous ...
... the story of his life and what happened in Persia in the early days of this religion. And I remember him saying, with what intense joy, with what sense of the Divine presence and Divine force those people went to the sacrifice." History informs us that Islam's reforms were fraught with sacrifice. All the first adherents paid their change of religion with their lives. In Persia, their ...
... in order to do his yoga, one must have already found the Divine and be united with Him, and then the consciousness descends through all the states of being down to the most material, bringing the Divine Force with it so that the Force can transform the whole being and finally divinise the physical body. 20.9.1967 In the message for the radio You substituted the word "union" for the word "unity ...
... in profiting inwardly by it. It is obvious that if you discover the psychological reason of the cough, that is to say what in your physical or vital being resists the penetration of the Divine Force in your body, not only will you have profited from the illness for making a big progress, but also, the body itself will begin the long work of transformation. Blessings. Did Mother ...
... jealousy and satiety. Although human beings have thus turned love into "an ugly and repulsive thing" , something "low, brutal, selfish, violent, ugly", true love is "universal and eternal... a Divine Force". 40 The Mother's view of Love is not different from Savitri's, who limns its contours (in Sri Aurobindo's epic, Savitri) for the benefit of Death who is confronting her: My love is not ...
... same accomplishment - for a work unique and new, that the divine Grace has given us to accomplish. I hope that more and more you will understand the exceptional importance of this work.... The divine force is with you - feel its presence more and more and be careful never to betray it. Feel, wish, act, that you may be new beings for the realisation of a new world and for this my blessings shall ...
... perfectionist Mahasaraswati. While at certain times (like the morning meditation and an evening Soup) she was serious, a Maheshwari doubled with a Mahalakshmi, a marvellous concentration of divine force, at other times she seemed to relax, and move informally with the sadhaks as a worker among other workers. There were afternoon visits to the sadhaks' rooms, and there were the evening drives ...
... movement followed it. This was ordinary meditation with an aspiration and ascent towards the Divine. Here, at the Playground, the work is to unify all who are here, make them open and bring down the divine force into them. It is the opposite movement and that is why this concentration cannot replace the other, even as the other cannot replace this one. 7 In the meditation, the -ascent towards the Divine ...
... 22nd May, 1940 Disciple : If the Asuric forces incarnated in Hitler and others in Germany, is there no one on this side of allies who incarnates a Divine force? Sri Aurobindo : No. Unfortunately there is none. They are all ordinary men; there is no one who can receive the Force. Perhaps Marshal Petain may be able to receive but he is too old ...
... similar responsibilities can understand what we have gone through. Carrying on anything of this magnitude without any settled income could not have been done if there had not been the working of a divine Force. Works of charity are not part of our work, there are other people who can see to that. We have to spend all on the work we have taken in hand and what we get is nothing compared to what is needed ...
... by higher experience, illumination of dynamic action in the truth and largeness of a. purified mind and heart and soul, the certitudes of the divine light and guidance, the joy and power of the divine force working in the will and the conduct."² All. parts of the nature are lit up and quickened and transfigured by the presence and influence of the psychic. The mind develops an immediate vision and ...
... there is no limit to the possibilities of divine manifestation. All knowledge is within the reach of psychic love, and all power of effectuation. Whenever and where- ever the divine Light or the divine force has been brought down into human life, it has been invariably by the power of psychic love, and not by any other means. The mind's adoration and the heart's love and devotion are powerful aids to ...
... the Grace of the Divine is the sole requisite, and surrender ensures it. The detached soul watches the desires as they rise in the being, and rejects them, at the same time offering them to the divine Force for the destruction of their dark forms and the conversion of their energies into the fire of the Will. An unreserved surrender makes for an unveiled action of the divine Omnipotence in man and ...
... There is in it no exceptions, no loop-holes, as the Buddha declared. As one sows so one has to reap. There is no escape from the natural and inevitable consequences of one's karma. But "the divine Force alone”, as the Mother assures us, "has the power to intervene and change the course of Universal Justice.”¹ Grace possesses this freedom to override the determinism of universal nature, because ...
... for our personal effort to do it, but reserve to ourselves the ideas and principles of our mind. This reservation stands in the way of the Mother's working in us. It is preposterous to expect the divine Force to act .according to our ignorant mental notions and conceptions; if it did, it would lead us no better than our mental reason. I have already elaborated the process of surrender in the chapters ...
... half-result and continue rumbling for ever in the twilight of the mind. But there is always a. limit to the mind's own power of self-transcendence, which necessitates a surrender to the infinite divine Force of the Mother. In the Integral Yoga, the mind is not sought to be forcibly silenced or suppressed, as is done in some of the other Yogas, notably in Raja Yoga. The aim of the Integral Yoga ...
... sympathy, feeling, dynamism become more catholic, all-understanding, all-embracing, cosmic, in- finite." 2 This is the highest that the human consciousness can achieve, sustained and aided by the divine Force; but the next step beyond, the crucial step into the Truth, the Right, the Vast (satyam, rtam, brhat) van only be a gift of the divine Grace, a crowning boon and blessing of the supreme ...
... are making a sublime sacrifice, they are offering their lives in a sanguinary holocaust. "Lord, eternal Master, grant that it may not be in vain; that the inexhaustible torrents of Thy divine force may spread over the earth, penetrating into the troubled atmosphere, the struggling energies, all the violent chaos of the battling elements; and that the pure Light of Thy Knowledge and the ...
... best is a broken rhythm. To show the perfect rhythm and to indicate how the imperfect rhythm of actual life is related to the perfect rhythm of ideal life, "to be able to suggest the unconquerable Divine force, in men and in the world; to show the Divine nature in its calm, wideness, greatness, attractiveness, to breathe it into man's soul and mould man into an image of the Infinite".— (Sri Aurobindo) ...
... birthday and it is naturally gratifying to me that it should have assumed this vast significance. I take this coincidence, not as a fortuitous accident, but as the sanction and seal of the Divine Force that guides my steps on the work with which I began life, the beginning of its full fruition Indeed, on this day I can watch almost all the world-movements which I hoped to see fulfilled in ...
... depths of that body: What takes time, She told me in 1966, is to prepare Matter, this cellular Matter as it is now organized, to make it supple enough and strong enough to be able to bear the divine Force. 69 And in fact, it was that tide of power that came as if by small touches as the web gave way, that “boiling porridge” of the primary Matter, those thousand experiences of “dissolution,” ...
... was very strange, I had only to sit quietly and watch: I would see here, there, there, the whole thing in my body, all that was going on. And while it went on, I would put the concentration of the divine Force there, so that all—all that pain, all that suffering, everything—would hasten the preparation of the earth and the Descent of the Force. 7 Each of Mother’s and Sri Aurobindo’s illnesses has ...
... you can't fool people who have devoted their entire life to go beyond humanity. There is only one way to be convincing—it is to be that. Then we'll stand strong, we'll have all the divine force on our side. We are here to prepare a superhumanity, not to fall back into desires and easy life—no. People must feel it; it should be so strong that the sheer force Page 155 ...
... After returning from Hazaribagh, another incident took place in Calcutta. Though it was not similar to the incident With the bhairavi, it made me very sharply conscious at that young age of the divine force and influence of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Page 21 My mashima (Ma's sister) had taken initiation from Balananda Giri's main disciple, Swami Mohanananda. She was most keen to take ...
... here coiled up and asleep in all the centres of our inner being (chakras) and is at the base what is called in the Tantras the Kundalini Shakti. But it is also above us, above our head, as the Divine Force—not there coiled up, involved, asleep, but awake, scient, potent, extended and wide; it is there waiting for manifestation and to this force we have to open ourselves—to the power of the Mother ...
... way to work without getting tired is to offer the work you do (whatever work it is) to the Divine and to find in the Divine the support you need—for the Divine's Force is inexhaustible and He answers always to whatever offer is made to Him sincerely. Then, when you will feel that it is the Divine's Force that has done the work in you and through you, in your sincerity you will know that the merit... s and deficiencies, everybody has some and one is here to overcome them. This is the meaning of the sadhana of works. Go on courageously with your duties, keeping all faith in the Divine and relying only on the Divine's help and grace. 6 January 1942 I do not see why you should feel oppressed. It is not an easy job to run an establishment like X Garden and many bitter experiences may be... without you. So I ask you to be patient and not to attach importance to the difficulties on the way. Love and blessings. 3 May 1970 Page 319 Take up the work and have faith, the force will come in proportion to the need; and your receptivity depends on your faith and confidence. Love and blessings. 24 December 1971 Page 320 ...
... 1954 Open yourself more and more to the Divine's force and your work will progress steadily towards perfection. 11 June 1954 Let us constantly aspire to be a perfect instrument for the Divine's work. 27 August 1954 Let nothing short of perfection be your ideal in work and you are sure to become a true instrument of the Divine. Page 304 There must be order and... October 1934 In all action, all work done, the degree of perfection depends upon the degree of consciousness. To work in the Divine's way is not easy for a blind and egoistic person like me. By that I mean: to work unegoistically and to keep myself open to your force so that it may work unhampered in me. Am I right? Yes, it is correct. Judging by that standard I have no right to work for... progress lies true joy. 6 January 1952 Page 303 When work becomes attractive and is done with joy, how much better it is. It is true that my force is always with him to help him to do his work; but my force is essentially a force for perfection, and to be able to allow it to work fully, one must have a constant will for progress in the work. 12 May 1952 It is by combined and ...
... Aurobindo's Message Divine Mother and Her Embodiment The Divine Mother is the Consciousness and Force of the Divine — which is the Mother of all things. * The one original transcendent Shakti, the Mother stands above all the worlds and bears in her eternal consciousness the Supreme Divine. Alone, she harbours the absolute Power and the ineffable... unknown others. All is her play with the Supreme; all is her manifestation of the mysteries of the Eternal, the miracles of the Infinite. All is she, for all are parcel and portion of the divine Conscious-Force. * Her embodiment is a chance for the earth-consciousness to receive the Supramental into it and to undergo first the transformation necessary for that to be possible. Afterwards... containing or calling the Truths that have to be manifested, she brings them down from the Mystery in which they were hidden into the light of her infinite consciousness and gives them a form of force in her omnipotent power and her boundless life and a body in the universe. The Supreme is manifest in her for ever as the everlasting Sachchidananda, manifested through her in the worlds as the one ...
... I First Absolute— The concealed Avyakta Supreme, self-involved Sachchidananda, Parabrahman (Parameswaraiswari) Second Absolute—Aditi-M. containing in herself the Supreme. The Divine Consciousness, Force, Ananda upholding all the universes—Para Shakti, Para Prakriti, Mahamaya (yayedam dhâryate jagat). Third Absolute— The Eternal Manifestation (The supreme Satya Loka, Chaitanyaloka,... absolute unity the dual Principle (He & She, Sa and Sâ) and the fourfold Principle, OM with its four states as one. Third Absolute— Aditi - M [the Mother]. Aditi is the indivisible consciousness force and Ananda of the Supreme; M, its living dynamis, the supreme Love, Wisdom, Power. Adya-Shakti of the Tantra = Parabrahman Fourth Absolute—Parameswara of the Gita = Parameswari of the Tantra ...
... I am sorry to see that this very nasty influence is still upon you the clouds seem to lift a little, and I can write. One thing you must know, that it is the Enemy of the Divine, the Force that is hostile to all divine realisation, that gives you this fear to see me and wants to keep you away from me. I may not be able to give you as much time as you wish me to give you, but on your side ...
... evidently the inner Flame of power and aspiration, the divine Will-Force that takes up the sacrifice, योगयज्ञ. It rises up to the heavens above the mental consciousness and brings down the divine power into the being. It is man's messenger to the gods, the priest of the call. It leads aright all the inner and outer actions because it is the Divine Knowledge-Will, all-knowing, unlike the ignorant mind ...
... aim, but it is only by a very patient effort that this can be obtained. The Mother Offer "Remember and Offer." The Mother Open yourself Open yourself more and more to the Divine's force and your work will progress steadily towards perfection. The Mother Organisation Organisation: indispensable for all good work. The Mother Regularity Regularity: indispensable... that is now done out of a sense of duty towards the Divine will be done out of love for Him. The Mother The starting-point When one is united with one's psychic being and conscious of the divine Presence, and receives the impulses for one's action from this divine Presence, and when the will has become a conscious collaborator with the divine Will - that is the starting-point. The Mother... quickly. . The Mother Page 58 The Divine's work If people could stop speaking of the work as their work it would put an end to a lot of trouble. Here, all work is the Divine's. The Mother Planning Faultless planning of work cannot be obtained except with the consciousness of the Divine. The Mother Boundless capacity for work When the instruments ...
... pleasant and prosperous. Page 43 For the bulk of humanity there is no choice or will ; they are like the dumb driven cattle. This is the rationale of the working of the Divine Conscious Force which is at work behind all the happenings of this world. If men were always conscious that tunings would not remain fixed and stable, they would not in all probability accept life and withdraw... economic ideologies differ. Now, if humanity is to survive, this mentality must be completely eliminated from our nature. Man must first be master of himself before he can be master of others. Brute force can subjugate for a time but this is only for a time, for, "Freedom's battle once begun Bequeathed from bleeding sire to son/ Though baffled oft/is ever won". If all the past civilisations have... future civilisation is destined to be a spiritual civilisation which will bring to humanity all that it lacks at present, rlamely, Consciousness, Power, Peace, Bliss, Harmony and Love, in other words, a Divine Life on earth. Page 46 ...
... the divine Light. × All our growing powers of force and knowledge move towards the manifestation of the divine Knowledge-Force and in it combine and are harmonised. × The illuminations of the divine Truth... Agni The Galloping Flame-Powers of the Journey [The flames of Agni the divine Will, home and meeting-place of all our increasing and advancing life-powers, are imaged as galloping on our human journey to the supreme good. Divine Will creates in us the divine strength of impulsion, an illumined and undecaying force and flame described as the steed of the plenitude, which brings us that good and... the path who increase by the sacrifice; they hasten uninterruptedly, and race always more swiftly; they bring in the penned-up illuminations of the hidden knowledge. Their entire force and rapidity are accorded when the divine Strength is filled and satisfied with the sacrificial offerings.] अग्निं तं मन्ये यो वसुरस्तं यं यन्ति धेनवः । अस्तमर्वन्त आशवोऽस्तं नित्यासो वाजिन इषं स्तोतृभ्य आ भर ॥१॥ ...
... Vibhutis that do her work in the universe. The One whom we adore as the Mother is the divine Conscious Force that dominates all existence, one and yet so many-sided that to follow her movement is impossible even for the quickest mind and for the freest and most vast intelligence. The Mother is the consciousness and force of the Supreme and far above all she creates. But something of her ways can be seen... Further Sri Aurobindo discloses in Vol. 25, pp. 62, 64: ... Shaktis, manifestations of different powers of the Supreme Consciousness and Force, the Divine Mother; by which she rules or acts in the universe. And they are at the same time divine personalities; for each is a being who manifests different qualities and personal consciousness forms of the Godhead .... Sri Aurobindo, Letters... mights and spiritual force and severest austerity of Tapas and swiftness to the battle and the victory and the laughter, the attahasya, that makes light of defeat and death and the powers of the ignorance: she is Mahalakshmi, the goddess of the supreme love and delight, and her gifts are the spirit's grace and the charm and beauty of the Ananda and protection and every divine and human blessing: she ...
... and behind that sense is the belief that one's own self is the only factor concerned. When one offers one's work to the Divine and cares only for the effective transmission of the Divine's force, one does not bother how one ordinarily compares with others in capacity. The Divine can not only make the most of whatever little capacity one has but also improve and expand such capacity. The main thing... heart-centre. The psychic element in the mind and in the vital force should be Page 65 your teacher. Here my master-formula is to be applied: equanimity plus "Remember and offer." Whoever takes to the spiritual ideal has been led to it either by a direct explosion of the secret dweller in the heart-centre or by this "divine dwarf" 's fingers of light extended above into the vibrant brain... lack of confidence". You have to drop making comparisons of one ego with another. Your aim must be service of the Divine in the way the Divine wants you to serve Him. By putting your personality at the Divine's feet you will bring the Divine's hands into action for whatever goal the Divine's eyes have chosen. Sometimes a certain imbalance in the nerves adds to one's psychological attitude. Here the p ...
... power for the Divine Work. I don't believe that at any time in his life he went "smoothly and confidently on one track"—it was from the beginning all leaps and shouts and catastrophes and upheavals. I thought I had destroyed the legend of his being a perfect Bhakta 7 and strong Adhar. Is the Divine so helpless against these forces or beings? Do you expect the Divine to force a man into heaven... 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 they had taken the Divine leading? Not with... when he stoops to help you and even when he lifts you up and sends the Black Force away, you call it back each time and rush back to embrace it. What then? That is what those who are under that influence do—D,N, others all did it. I cannot believe that the Divine does not know our ultimate fate. Why then does the Divine accept me if he knows that I shall fail in the long run? What is the long ...
... knowledge her centre of power and to build our soul and our nature into the divine Truth her mission and her labour. MAHAKALI is of another nature. Not wideness but height, not wisdom but force and strength are her peculiar power. There is in her an overwhelming intensity, a mighty passion of force to achieve, a divine violence rushing to shatter every limit and obstacle. All her divinity leaps... the largest vistas. Therefore with her is the victorious force of the Divine and it is by grace of her fire and passion and speed if the great achievement can be done now rather than hereafter. Wisdom and Force are not the only manifestations of the supreme Mother; there is a subtler mystery of her nature and without it Wisdom and Force would be incomplete things and without it perfection would... Vibhutis that do her work in the universe. The One whom we adore as the Mother is the divine Conscious Force that dominates all existence, one and yet so many-sided that to follow her movement is impossible even for the quickest mind and for the freest and most vast intelligence. The Mother is the consciousness and force of the Supreme and far above all she creates. But something of her ways can be seen ...
... vijñāna or gnosis is not only truth but truth power, it is the very working of the infinite and divine nature; it is the divine knowledge one with the divine will in the force and delight of a spontaneous and luminous and inevitable self-fulfilment. By the gnosis, then, we change our human into a divine nature. What then is this gnosis and how can we describe it? Two opposite errors have to be avoided... soul in the shape and power of a divine knowledge, a divine will and a divine bliss of existence. It is as if infinite light were gathered up into the compact orb of the sun and lavished on all that depends upon the sun in radiances that continue for ever. But the gnosis is not only light, it is force; it is creative knowledge, it is the self-effective truth of the divine Idea. This idea is not creative... highest height the absolute knowledge and force of eternal Sachchidananda. Its second power concentrates the 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 ...
... spiritualise the being in its entirety by a descent of a divine Light, Force, Purity, Knowledge, freedom and wideness. It is necessary to break down the limits of the personal mind, life and physicality, dissolve the ego, enter into the cosmic consciousness, realise the self, acquire a spiritualised and universalised mind and heart, life-force, physical consciousness. Then only the passage into supramental... Power comes inevitably by the supramental change, it is a necessary condition for a perfect action: but it is the Divine Shakti that comes and takes up the nature and the life, the power of the One acting through the spiritual individual; it is not an aggrandisement of the personal force, not the last crowning fulfilment of the separative mental and vital ego. Self-fulfilment is a result of the Yoga... perfection of the self and the dynamic nature rise each to its absolute of itself and all to their perfect harmony and fusion with each other, to a divine integrality, a divine perfection. For the supermind is a Truth-Consciousness in which the Divine Reality, fully manifested, no longer works with the instrumentation of the Ignorance; a truth of status of being which is absolute becomes dynamic in ...
... bind down the Force as to when, how and why it will act. It [ the higher consciousness ] descends in the atmosphere, but for it to be effective the individual must receive and respond. It descends also in the individual independently of the atmosphere. Preparatory Experiences and Descent The illumination above the head as usually seen in this Yoga is the Light of the Divine Truth. It is... is above the head that there is perpetually the Divine Peace, Force, Light, Knowledge, Ananda. These begin to descend into the body when the personal consciousness is prepared sufficiently. The preparation is usually full of vicissitudes such as these [ illness, sleeplessness, an inability to concentrate ] but one has to persist patiently, opening oneself more and more till that is ready. Page 442... of today makes it very clear what is happening. The Force that you felt had come down at first, came to open the way for the descent of the higher consciousness into the mind and body. That was why it descended with such force and the difficulty of holding or assimilating it was simply because the body was unaccustomed. But as often happens the Force is preparing its own reception and habituating the ...
... notes. The introductory chapters consist of a foreword, a general introduction entitled "The Doctrine of the Mystics", and two essays on the gods to whom the hymns are addressed: "Agni, the Divine Will-Force" and "The Guardians of the Light". The fifth Mandala of the Rig Veda comprises eighty-seven hymns composed by Rishis of the Atri clan. Sri Aurobindo translated forty-three of these: all twenty-eight ...
... Matter itself; it is in essence the gradual emergence and heightening of the force of consciousness in the manifest being, leading to an ever greater manifestation of the divine Consciousness-Force in the manifested material universe. Thus in this progressive evolutionary awakening of the involved Consciousness and Force and its ascent from principle to principle, from grade to grade, from light... in the self-luminous bliss of the Eternal." (Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, p. 640) Following the purposeful involutionary plunge of Sachchidananda into "the Inconscient's boundless sleep" 1 , commences the 'obverse manifestation', the inevitable process of evolution, by which the Consciousness-Force involved in the form and activity of inert material substance gradually wakes... The expressions put within quotation marks and bearing no specific references are all taken from Sri Aurobindo's Savitri. 2 The Life Divine, p. 552. 3 Sri Aurobindo, The Future Evolution of Man, p. 146. 4 The Life Divine, p. 853. (Italics ours) Page 184 things.' Out of the Inconscient, Existence appeared in a first evolutionary form as substance ...
... purity of the states of knowledge and of divine love by the pursuit of Jnana Yoga and Bhakti Yoga, the demands of the Life-Force will oblige the seeker to deal with the impurities and dualities of the ego-consciousness which seem to be inextricably tied up with the works of Life-Force. It is possible in systems of exclusive yoga to renounce the works of Life-Force (i.e. works that are related to acquisition... saving light in Knowledge, a redeeming and transforming force in Love, these cannot be effective in earth-life unless they secure the consent of Life and can use the instrumentation of some delivered energy at its centre for a sublimation of the erring human into a divine Life-Force. As Sri Aurobindo Page 11 states: "The Life-Force is an indispensable intermediary, the effectuating element... remedy to redress and transform the troubled vital nature and activities of Life-Force. These activities of Life-Force are normally centered on desire and egoism, and the effort to eliminate these two obstructing limitations and perversities and to transform the nature and motive of these activities so as to divinize them presents such obstinate difficulties that one is led to avoid them and banish ...
... vessel containing the hot soup was placed before her and Champaklal removed the cover. The Mother went into meditation for a while with her hands stretched out over the container, invoking the Divine's Force. Thereafter Champaklal set the container to the Mother's right. Then, one by one the sadhaks went up to her, each with his own enamel cup. With a long spoon she filled the cups and gave them... but also put her force behind the sadhak, and in fact she was with him (or her) all the time. The sadhak who, yielding to false suggestions from an adverse force, doubted this only weakened himself and maimed the work assigned to him. When someone asked Sri Aurobindo what was meant by his or by the Mother sending a Force, he gave this reply: The Mother or myself send a force. If there is no... no openness, the force may be thrown back or return ... as from an obstruction or resistance:. if there is some openness, the result may be partial or slow; if there is the full openness or receptivity, then the result may be immediate. 6 This was written in the context of a sadhak combating an illness, but with regard to Karmayoga too the principle and the process are the same. Again, when ...
... consciousness, power, delight of the Divine, a union or communion at all the points of meeting in the soul of man, the mental being, by which the Divine himself.. .shall by the light of his presence and guidance perfect the human being in all the force of the Nature for a divine living.. .The liberated individual being, united with the Divine in self and spirit, becomes in... "the sign of right action is the increasing and finally the complete submission of the individual to the divine Will", and in a footnote adds: "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." 49 The Gita, of course, is a pocket spiritual encyclopaedia, for all spiritual problems... only the supramental Force that works absolutely", he wrote in 1935, "because it creates its own conditions. But the Force I am using is a Force that Page 22 has to work under the present world conditions. It is not the less a Force for that." 41 Twelve years later, he wrote again that his yoga had enabled him to put only an Overmind force on human affairs, with ...
... physical—all turned towards the Divine, all based on love, adoration, bhakti—finally, the vision and sense of the Mother everywhere in all as well as in the heart, her Force working in the being etc., faith, consecration, surrender. The spiritual change is the established descent of the peace, light, knowledge, power, bliss from above, the awareness of the self and the Divine and of a higher cosmic co... them right—they indicate the two necessities of the sadhana. One is to go inward and open fully the connection between the psychic being and the outer nature. The other is to open upward to the Divine Peace, Force, Light, Ananda above, to rise up into it and bring it down into the nature and the body. Neither of these two movements, the psychic and the spiritual, is complete without the other. If the spiritual... evolution, part of the human being, its divine part—so a psychisation will not carry one beyond the present evolution but will make the being ready to respond to all that comes from the Divine or Higher Nature and unwilling to respond to the Asura, Rakshasa, Pishacha or Animal in the being or to any insistence of the lower nature which stands in the way of the divine change. It is not the psychic ...
... and the soul is just the centre and guide of a world which is not ultimately a contradiction of its divine spark but a veiled perfection which it has to clear of encumbrances and help to unveil. A divine Mind, a divine Life Force, even a divine Matter have to be realised and established. Then alone the aim of evolution will be fulfilled. The complete and integral divinisation of our whole being is the... negation of the Divine. The open affirmation of the Divine is therefore its evolutionary aim. But such affirmation cannot stop with the soul's inner realisation of God. The outer nature must also become Godlike - and this becoming Godlike is not tantamount only to the outer nature obeying the soul and receiving something of its light. Mind, Life Force, Matter are themselves the Divine concealed, and... evil from the roots. Our present mental-vital-physical status lacks the light and the force by which alone suffering and conflict can be avoided. We have to explore our deeper ranges of being, bring into the forefront the inner self, the true soul, call down into the mind and the life-energy and the body the Divine Consciousness by a direct process of Yoga. By Yoga I don't imply a sitting in a fixed ...
... of living soul-truths enjoying a play of divine consciousness, force and bliss, and which guides overtly or covertly a phenomenal mould of itself which starts with a complete involution of all its powers in order that they may be progressively manifested in the terms and figures of their own seeming opposites — apparently inanimate Matter and unconscious Force. What we call evolution is a process... and scope afforded them by nature-force on the material plane. For, matter contains, on this hypothesis, everything in potentiality; it is the action of what is hidden in it that aids to compel the emergence of the higher values, the action of the Spirit's single yet multiply-realised splendour through intervening terms of itself which are mind and life-force. This explains the rise of living and... process by which the multiplicity of the soul-truths inherent in the Spirit shape various series of formulations on earth for the gradual revelation of their own shades of divine diversity at play in the divine unity. This, again, means that each soul-truth gathers and assimilates through these formulations or rebirths a certain growing experience which helps it to express its diversity on evolutionary lines ...
... when he possesses much from the point of view of material riches, it is certainly not a sign that the Divine has chosen him for His divine Grace, and he must make honourable amends if he wants to walk on the path, the true path, to the Divine. Wealth is a force—I have already told you this once—a force of Nature; and it should be a means of circulation, a power in movement, as flowing water is a power... enough to know how to organise all these needs and use this force by these means. If, besides this, these beings have a higher spiritual knowledge, then they can utilise this force to construct gradually upon the earth what will be capable of manifesting the divine Power, Force and Grace. And then this power of money, wealth, this financial force, of which I just said that it was like a curse, would become... power in movement. It is something which can serve to produce, to organise. It is a convenient means, because in fact it is only a means of making things circulate fully and freely. This force should be in the hands of those who know how to make the best possible use of it, that is, as I said at the beginning, people who have abolished in themselves or in some way or other got rid of every personal ...
... tranquil concentrated force so that certain forms of divine conscious-force may realise themselves brought forward into form of Power. Its relations of love and delight will be the play of the divine ecstasy, for God is Love and Delight, and what with us would be denial of love and delight will be the holding back of joy in the still sea of Bliss so that certain forms of divine union and enjoyment may... play of mental thought, but as a real play of conscious being. The divine soul in this poise would make no difference between Conscious-Soul and Force-Soul, for all force would be action of consciousness, nor between Matter and Spirit since all mould would be simply form of Spirit. "In the second poise of the Supermind the Divine Consciousness stands back in the idea from the movement which it contains... knowledge will be the play of the divine omniscience, for God is Knowledge, and what is ignorance with us will be there only the holding back of knowledge in the repose of conscious self-awareness so that certain forms of that self-awareness may be brought forward into activity of Light. Its relations of will will be there the play of the divine omnipotence, for God is Force, Will and Power, and what with ...
... will will be there the play of the divine omnipotence, for God is Force, Will and Power, and what with us is weakness and incapacity will be the holding back of will in tranquil concentrated force so that certain forms of divine conscious-force may realise themselves brought forward into form of Power. Its relations of love and delight will be the play of the divine ecstasy, for God is Love and Delight... others, exceeds them in force and knowledge, yet is inferior to them in cosmic position and is employed by them as messenger, priest Page 166 and worker,—the creator of the world and father, he is yet the son born of our works, he is, that is to say, the original and the manifested indwelling Self or Divine, the One that inhabits all. All the relations of the divine soul with God or its... of being, of consciousness and knowledge, of will and force, of love and delight. Infinite in their potentiality of variation, they need exclude no possible relation of soul with soul that is compatible with the preservation of the inalienable sense of unity in spite of every phenomenon of difference. Thus in its relations of enjoyment the divine soul will have the delight of all its own experience ...
... and the Horse, were the object of the sacrifice. Force was the condition, Light the liberating agency; and Indra and Surya were the chief bringers of Light. Moreover the Force required was the divine Will taking possession of all the human energies and revealing itself in them; and of this Will, this force of conscious energy taking possession of the nervous vitality and revealing itself in it, Agni... capable of the marriage with Agni, the divine Will-force, which breaks down their boundaries and is himself nourished by their now abundant waves. That is the crisis of the being by which the mortal nature prepares its conversion to immortality. In the last verse of the hymn Vamadeva describes the whole of existence as established above in the seat of the divine Purusha, below in the ocean of the ... there is question of the divine action of the Life-forces in man, Agni in the form of the Vedic Horse, Ashwa, Dadhikravan, takes usually the place of Vayu. If we consider the fundamental ideas of the Rishis, this position of Vayu becomes intelligible. The illumination of the lower being by the higher, the mortal by the divine, was their principal concept. Light and Force, Go and Ashwa, the Cow and ...
... descent into our whole constitution in order to shape a divine mind, a divine life-force, a divine body: this is the aim and the decisive condition of Sri Aurobindo's yoga. But there is a long and difficult way to go, a hard task of self-consecration, self-purification, self-discipline, a development on many lines and an opening to the Divine Shakti and Her working on all the planes to be carried... and infinite Divine putting forth the world-play and taking part in it for a various expression of Himself by purifying and illuminating our mind and life-force and body. In Vaishnavism and Tantricism the ideal of God's self-expression in our nature was the most openly held. But everywhere a definite irreducible quantity was recognised in which no self-expression of the Divine could take place... Supermind means only "above the mind" and coincides with what other seers have discovered to be divine levels of being, higher than the mind yet lower than the "Ultimate Transcendent Reality". The Latin word "super", as used by Sri Aurobindo, has a particular significance which emerges with unique force once we look at his table of what is above the mind. He speaks of the Higher Mind, the Illumined ...
... soil of plenty covered by desire with a luxuriant growth of poisonous weeds and hardly less poisonous flowers, the pains and pleasures of our egoistic existence. When the Page 106 divine conscious-force working secretly in us has devoured these growths of desire, when in the image of the Rig Veda the fire of God has burnt up the shoots of earth, that which is concealed at the roots of these... conscious force, terms of that delight of being. Just as we find all things to be mutable forms of one immutable being, finite results of one infinite force, so we shall find that all things are variable self-expression of one invariable and all-embracing delight of self-existence. In everything that is, dwells the conscious force and it exists and is what it is by virtue of that conscious force; so also... itself out as a force of movement of consciousness which is creative of forces, forms and worlds, we have yet no answer to the question "Why should Brahman, perfect, absolute, infinite, needing nothing, desiring nothing, at all throw out force of consciousness to create in itself these worlds of forms?" For we have put aside the solution that it is compelled by its own nature of Force to create, obliged ...
... self-luminous divine Consciousness in its first dealings with the apparent negation of itself from which our cosmos commences, so also Life as it emerges in our material universe, an energy of the dividing Page 210 Mind subconscious, submerged, imprisoned in Matter, Life as the parent of death, hunger and incapacity, is only a dark figure of the divine superconscient Force whose highest... relation fixes the nature of that great cosmic processus of which we are a part; it determines the first, the middle and the ultimate terms of our evolution. The first terms of Life are division, a force-driven subconscient will, apparent not as will but as dumb urge of physical energy, and the impotence of an inert subjection to the mechanical forces that govern the interchange between the form and... rigid division the atom, which is the basis of all material form, is the very type. The atom stands apart from all others even in its union with them, rejects death and dissolution under any ordinary force and is the physical type of the separate ego defining its existence against the principle of fusion in Nature. But unity is as strong a principle in Nature as division; it is indeed the master principle ...
... more than a concealed soil of plenty covered by desire with a luxuriant growth of poisonous weeds and hardly less poisonous flowers, the pains and pleasures of our egoistic existence. When the divine conscious-force working secretly in us has devoured these growths of desire, when in the image of the Rig Veda the fire of God has burnt up the shoots of earth, that which is concealed at the roots of these... itself out as a force of movement of consciousness which is creative of forces, forms and worlds, we have yet no answer to the question "Why should Brahman, perfect, absolute, infinite, needing nothing, desiring nothing, at all throw out force of consciousness to create in itself these worlds of forms?" For we have put aside the solution that it is compelled by its own nature of Force to create, obliged... existence, terms of that conscious force, terms of that delight of being. Just as we find all things to be mutable forms of one immutable being, finite results of one infinite force, so we shall find that all things are variable self-expression of one invariable and all-embracing delight of self-existence. In everything that is, dwells Page 124 the conscious force and it exists and is what it ...
... the being in its entirety by a descent of a divine Light, Force, Purity, Knowl- Page 259 edge, freedom and wideness. It is necessary to break down the limits of the personal mind, life and physicality, dissolve the ego, enter into the cosmic consciousness, realise the self, acquire a Spiritualised and universalised mind and heart, life-force, physical consciousness. "Then only... (iii) "an excessive ambition, vanity or other dominating weakness" ; (iv) "an obscurity of the mind"; (v) "a vacillating will"; (vi) "a weakness of the life- force or an unsteadiness init or want of balance" ; etc. (See The Life Divine, p. 905) If the sadhaka possesses any of these failings in a marked degree, he should take immediate steps to remedy them as soon as possible. ... This is the first step of self-realisation, to enthrone the soul, the divine psychic individual in the place of the ego. "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 ...
... with his own Shakti. (1954) As far as I know, it is indeed "a new feature" - the opening of the chakras by the Force from above, as in our Yoga, instead of the Kundalini rising from below to open them. The divine Page 358 "overhead" Force will do the opening job far more safely, far more fruitfully. But I may add that quite an amount of creative spiritual development... Readings in "Savitri" as saying: "In the very process of its descent from the heights of the Spirit, the Divine has followed and involved itself in the movement in two poises that are necessary for working out its intention in Creation.... This is the dual status taken by the Divine in the Creation - Soul and Nature, Purusha and Prakriti - in order to build it in the full figure of the Truth... and preserving under all circumstances an inner poise, a sense of tranquil wideness in our being. The second secret is to surrender oneself to her and appeal to her to take up our defects and by her Force free us progressively from them. The core of this movement is devotion and love on our part, invoking and drawing her love and grace, instead of relying on our own supposed strength, our capacity of ...
... once, and between her waking and sleeping states, there were the trance states when she roamed the immensities. As Sri Aurobindo had said: The One whom we adore as the Mother is the divine Conscious Force that dominates all existence, one and yet so many-sided that to follow her movement is impossible even for the quickest mind and for the freest and most vast intelligence. 15 The people... India and Pakistan. While the Punjab was all ablaze in the weeks after Independence, Mahatma Gandhi was able to bring peace in Calcutta and Bengal, as if indeed he were an effective one-man boundary force in the East. But the exodus continued, and the invasion of Kashmir by Pakistan, Kashmir's accession to India in October 1947, and India's resistance of Pak aggression were to sow the seeds of strife... world struggling to be born would be made of a different texture which would come from within and not without. One must hold on, one must master the art of endurance - and one must open oneself to the force and light of transformation. III If some disciples questioned Sri Aurobindo about the bewildering Indian and world situation, others ventured to doubt the wisdom of the Mother giving so much ...
... 659. 2 The Life Divine, p. 272. 3 Savitri, Book X, Canto IV, p. 646. 4 Ibid., p. 635. Page 124 John of the Cross's 'divine Darkness of the mystic Night.' Also, as a medium of divine expression and action, the mind plane cannot in its very nature allow of the supreme workings native to the divine Consciousness-Force. "The mind spiritualised, purified... And on the dynamic side there is here "a golden drive, a luminous 'enthousiasmos' of inner force and power,...almost a violent impetus of rapid transformation." 4 1 Ibid., p. 938. 2 The Life Divine, p. 940. 3 Savitri, Book X, Canto IV, pp. 659-60. 4 The Life Divine, p. 944. Page 131 Next in the order of ascension is the Intuitive... they are 1 Savitri, Book VII, Canto VI, p. 549. (Italics Ours). 2 The Life Divine, p. 277. Page 130 domains of being, grades of the substance and energy of the spiritual being, fields of existence which are each a level of the universal Consciousness-Force constituting and organising itself into a higher status.... Each stage of this ascent is a general ...
... to the end of a line from its middle! The jump is an act of art, not of life. No doubt, there is an experience of vague spiritual exhilaration in every act of art that aspires to the Divine: the force of the Eternal is intuited and a grace of soul added to the consciousness; yet the phenomenon is not tantamount to realisation. The poetry has aided the Yoga but it does not measure it accurately... the criterion of the same recognisable Force which is behind all your poems, there would be no need to weed out anything: all your poems bear the mark of an Aurobindonian sadhak and, judged in that light, they must without exception be preserved and published. But to lump everything together would be to serve ill even the Force your friend speaks of: that Force is best served in poetry by what is poetically... character and force. The general idea, sight and emotion in Browning's Page 33 God's in His heaven, All's right with the world is almost the same as in Dilip Kumar Roy's For 'tis His will that overarches all, His sentinel love broods o'er the universe. And yet what a gulf of difference between the individual character and force of the one and ...
... world is a masked form of Sachchidananda, and the nature of the consciousness of Sachchidananda and therefore the thing in which His force must always find and achieve itself is divine Bliss, an omnipresent self-delight. Since Life is an energy of His conscious-force, the secret of all its movements must be a hidden delight inherent in all things which is at once cause, motive and object of its activities;... does it manifest and fulfil itself in the action of the cosmos as the principle of Conscious-Force manifests and uses Life for its cosmic term and the principle of Supermind manifests and uses Mind? We have distinguished a fourfold principle of divine Being creative of the universe,—Existence, Conscious-Force, Bliss and Supermind. Supermind, we have seen, is omnipresent in the material cosmos, but veiled;... subordinate term, Mind. The divine Conscious-Force is omnipresent in the material cosmos, but veiled, operative secretly behind the actual phenomenon of things, and it expresses itself there Page 232 characteristically through its own subordinate term, Life. And, though we have not yet examined separately the principle of Matter, yet we can already see that the divine All-existence also is ...
... them, to make the mind free and quiet and open only to the divine light, force, knowledge and the presence of the Divine. Your mistake has been to allow free play to these thoughts, voices and suggestions instead of rejecting, silencing and controlling them. It is what you must now do. Aspire, get into contact with the Light and the true Force, reassert your will to reject these suggestions and voices... filled with the higher Light; but it can feel and believe in the Divine and that the way of the Divine is sure, and this faith itself will bring the first true understanding. What you say is quite true. No personal effort can get these things done; that is why we tell you always to keep yourself quiet and let the peace and the force work. As for understanding, it is your physical mind that wants... There is a power in the idea—a force of which the idea is a Page 47 shape. Again, behind the idea and force and word there is what is called the spirit,—a consciousness which generates the force. The idea is not enough. It gives only a half-light—you must get to all the Truth that lies behind the idea and the object together. Being, consciousness, force,—that is the triple secret. ...
... nature. The real motive power is a divine spiritual Will which uses at present these inferior conditions, but is itself not limited, not dominated, not mechanised, as is the human will, by the gunas. No doubt, since these modes are so universal in their action, they must proceed from something inherent in the power of the Spirit; there must be powers in the divine Will-force from which these from aspects... because Sattwa is a power of light and happiness, a force that makes for calm and knowledge, and at its highest point it can arrive at a certain reflection, almost a mental identity with the spiritual light and bliss from which it derives. The other two gunas cannot get this transformation, Rajas into the divine kinetic will or Tamas into the divine repose and calm, without the intervention of the sattwic... and determines them by his divine will, is indeed above this mechanism of quality, not touched or limited by her modes, but still it would seem that he acts always through them, always shapes by the power of the swabhava and through the psychological machinery of the gunas. These three are fundamental properties of Prakriti, necessary operations of the executive Nature-force which takes shape here in ...
... activities, as a divine Maya 4 or Wisdom-Formation of the Eternal. Gnosis is the divine Knowledge-Will of the divine Consciousness-Force; it is harmonic consciousness and action of Prakriti-Purusha full of the delight of the divine existence. In the Ananda the knowledge goes back from these willed harmonies into pure self-consciousness, the will dissolves into pure transcendent force and both are taken... another and divine centre of control through which the Infinite can consciously govern its own action in the individual, it is moving towards the gnosis where that centre pre-exists, the centre of an eternal harmony and order. It is when he ascends above mind and life to the gnosis that the Purusha becomes the master of his own nature because subject only to supreme Nature. For there force or will is... is the exact counterpart, the perfect dynamis of the divine knowledge. And that knowledge is not merely the eye of the Witness, it is the immanent and compelling gaze of the Ishwara. Its luminous governing power, a power not to be hedged in or denied, imposes its self-expressive force on all the Page 502 action and makes true and radiant and authentic and inevitable every movement and impulse ...
... arrived at Pondicherry by boat. The historic record of impressions. Publication of The Mother in which Sri Aurobindo says: 'The One whom we adore as the Mother is the divine Conscious Force' 'who comes', says he in a subsequent letter, 'to bring down the Supramental'. 1930-38 Daily correspondence with sadhakas. Heaps of letters; replies giving them personal... Tamil Nation- alist weekly. February: In response to an Adesh (Command) from the Divine Sri Aurobindo secretly left Calcutta and came to Chandernagore where at the house of Matilal Roy he spent a month and a half in Yogic contemplation, after which, again commanded by the Divine, he came to Pondicherry on April 4 by the steamer Dupleix. Thirty years ago a Tamil Yogi had predicted... establish on earth a light of heaven. This work of theirs upset the forces of Darkness that dominate earth and seek to frustrate the work of the Divine. 1939 September : Second World War. November : Publication of The Life Divine, Vol. I, revised and enlarged from the Arya. It had appeared therein serially from its first issue since August 15, 1914, almost with the ...
... into the mould of a divine action of the universal Shakti or World Force (Chit or Tapas) which shall use the mind, body and life as a passive, obedient and perfected instrument; ego-sense cast and dissolved into the mould 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 last and supreme Immortality (Amrita) these lower mortal parts of man must be given up as the victims of a high & ultimate spiritual sacrifice in the upward movement of world-Nature... rather to me, the Lord. But the world was made by its Lord for Page 449 divine habitation & possession; the object of the renunciation, therefore, cannot be to turn away utterly from the world after abandoning it in itself & in the lower consciousness, but to conquer and repossess it through the divine Krishna and in the supreme & all-blissful conscious being of the Lord. Nivasishyasi mayyeva ...
... ," 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 of crookedness, that... driving up the cows, breaking Vala by the divine word, brahmaṇā , concealing the darkness and making Swar visible. The first result is the breaking open by force of the well which has the rock for its face and whose streams are of the honey, madhu , the Soma sweetness, aśmāsyam avataṁ madhudhāram . This well of honey covered by the rock must be the Ananda or divine beatitude of the supreme threefold world... mystic sacrifice, is instinct; it is the honeyed wave which rises out of the ocean of life. Such images can have only one meaning; it is the divine delight hidden in all existence which, once manifest, supports all life's crowning activities and is the force that finally immortalises the mortal, the amṛtam , ambrosia of the gods. But it is especially the Word that the Angirases possess; their seerhood ...
... spiritualise the being in its entirety by a descent of a divine Light, Force, Purity, Knowledge, freedom and wideness. It is necessary to break down the limits of the personal mind, life and physicality, dissolve the ego, enter into the cosmic consciousness, realize the self, acquire a spiritualized and universalised mind and heart, life-force, physical consciousness. Then only the passage into the... and emotion, imparts to the life-force a spiritual urge, a truth inspiration that dynamises the action and exalts the life-movements; it infuses into the sense a direct and total power of spiritual sensation so that our vital and physical being can contact and meet concretely, quite as intensely as the mind and emotion can conceive and perceive and feel, the Divine in all things; it throws on the physical... by the divine Shakti." 22 A fourth method consists of developing intellect instead of eliminating it; but the development is aimed at heightening the capacity right up to its utmost borders where the objects on which concentration is laid transcend the capacities of the intellect; the care is taken not to cherish the limitations but to increase the intensity, light and degree and force of activity; ...
... revolution in perspective. Positivist and Spiritual Evolution The central theme of this talk is that the macrocosm, and in it the human being as the microcosm, are brought about by a divine creative Force above and behind them, which Sri Aurobindo calls “Supermind.” What Sri Aurobindo called Supermind, and what he and the Mother discovered through their own experience, was partially known in... the gnostic myths, souls (sparks of the Divine) get lost in the world of the Ignorance and can only be saved by a redeemer who reminds them of their origin. In the Bible, Satan (originally the Angel of Light) revolts against God and becomes the devil. The Mother herself has more than once told the same story in its complete form: the four attributes of the Divine – truth, light, life and bliss – in their... boundless egoistic pride deemed themselves equal to be the very Divine and therefore turned into the great Asuras: the Lords of Falsehood, Darkness, Suffering and Death. (In one of his sonnets Sri Aurobindo called them “the iron Dictators”. They are also known as the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.) The “special Entity,” emanated by the Divine to save the world, is described in the narratives of the old ...
... cause of the rise of inertia: "This negation is the very nature of the physical resistance and the physical resistance is the whole base of the denial of the Divine in the world. All in the physical is persistent, obstinate, with a massive force of negation and inertia." Later on, the sadhana descended still lower: "The most material has come up or you have gone into it." And as ... approaching me! This negation is the very nature of the physical resistance and the physical resistance is the whole base of the denial of the Divine in the world. All in the physical is persistent, obstinate, with a massive force of negation and inertia — if it were not so, sadhana would be extremely cursory. You have to face this character of the physical resistance and conquer it however... Page 9 During the whole day I have been so much filled with tamas that I have not even succeeded in calling for the Divine's help. What to do under such circumstances? You have either to shake it off by will or to call down the force into it. What makes the physical so weak that it can't do without the vital's help? The physical is not ...
... even when it asked for the divine life it had no faith, in fact it was afraid of it and clung to the old life. The Mother pictured the transforming Force as a child sitting on the head of this Mind to silence it. Nevertheless as the Mother said on 6 May, there certainly was a Force abroad turning things upside down, pressing upon Matter to compel it to turn towards the Divine inwardly - not an outward... was a Force as well, and his life was the unleashing of a great Power of consciousness - verily "an immortal sunlight radiating over the future" In other words, he had come to get a movement going, the movement of evolution from man to Superman, from nature to Supernature, from our flawed present to the Next Future, the future that would see established here upon earth the Life Divine. This Force, this... Ten days later, wondering how human nature could continue to resist the Divine's will, the Mother remarked, "The depth of human stupidity is incredible." Resisting the new Force the human subconscient would cry out, "Oh! Not yet, not yet - not so soon!" And when this brought on catastrophes it would perversely blame the Force! And the general subconscient, retaining the memory of earlier pralayas ...
... something divine, absolute and infinite which is concealed in its blind strivings. Here too reason must be overpassed or surpass itself and become a passage to the Divine. The first mark of the suprarational, when it intervenes to take up any portion of our being, is the growth of absolute ideals; and since life is Being and Force and the divine state of being is unity and the Divine in force is God... courage, energy and strength are among the very first principles of the divine nature in action. All this great vital, political, economic life of man with its two powers of competition and cooperation is stumbling blindly forward towards some realisation of power and unity,—in two divine directions, therefore. For the Divine in life is Power possessed of self-mastery, but also of mastery of His world... native terms are growth of being, pleasure and power. Life itself here is Being at labour in Matter to express itself in terms of conscious force; human life is the human being at labour to impress himself on the material world with the greatest possible force and intensity and extension. His primary insistent aim must be to live and make for himself a place in the world, for himself and his species ...
... too every form of weakness is really a particular working of the one divine Will-Force or the one Cosmic Energy; weakness in that Force means its power to hold back, measure, relate in a particular way its action of Force; incapacity or weakness is the Self's withholding of its force-completeness or an insufficient reaction of Force, not its fundamental opposite. If this is so, then also it may be, and... 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 force out of an initial darkness or sea of Inconscience; 3 immortality and godhead have to be built... complete validity, then only the absolute idealist, sent perhaps out of some higher existence, unable to forget his mission, stung into indomitable enthusiasm by a divine oestrus or sustained in a calm and infinite fortitude by the light and force and voice of the unseen Godhead, could persist under such circumstances in holding up before himself, much more before an incredulous or doubting world, the hope ...
... the sadhana. One is to go inward and open fully the connection between the psychic being and the outer nature. The other is to open upward to the Divine Peace, Force, Light, Ananda above .... The best way is to aspire for both and let the Mother's Force work it out according to the need and turn of the nature. 23 One day, in a fit of gloom or moment of excessive self-dramatisation, another... the problem: How to find, how to unite with the divine Presence which is "always and everywhere"? Either go within, and find the Divine in your heart; or look out, and find the visible Divine in Sri Aurobindo and the Mother through love and self-giving. 22 Page 376 The way doesn't matter; what is necessary is to find the Divine, and learn to see Him "in all things and everywhere"... increasingly powerful descent of the Higher Force. Many now see the lights and colours around the Mother and her subtle luminous forms - it means that their vision is opening to supraphysical realities, it is not a phantasy. The colours or lights you see are forces from various planes and each colour indicates a special force. The supramental Force is descending, but it has not yet taken possession ...
... the earth, a knowledge complete enough to know how to organise all these needs and use this force by these means. If, besides this, these beings have a higher spiritual knowledge, then they can utilise this force to construct gradually upon the earth what will be capable of manifesting the divine Power, Force and Grace. Source Money Belongs to No One The conflict about money is... 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... to you in proportion to your capacity to use it as it is meant to be used. That is the true mechanism. The true attitude is this: money is a force intended for the work on earth, the work required to prepare the earth to receive and manifest the divine forces, and it―that is, the power of utilising it―must come into the hands of those who have the clearest, most comprehensive and truest vision. ...
... embodied material existence. Thus, for divine Sachchidananda to trace the cycle of self-oblivion and self-discovery, the manifestation has taken the shape of a double movement, a prior involution of the spirit followed by a process of evolutionary ascension. Involution is the process of self-limitation by which the universal Consciousness-Force has veiled herself by stages until she assumes... boundless sleep" 12 , when Sachchidananda lay self-shrouded in "the inconscient swoon of things", there commenced the obverse manifestation, the inevitable process of evolution, by which the divine Consciousness-Force involved in the form and activity of inert material substance gradually started waking again to bring out by slow degrees all the hidden powers and splendours inherent in "the original s... processes involved in the original Truth. All Nature is simply, then, the Seer-Will, the Knowledge-Force of the Conscious-Being..." 54 Thus, "the world expresses a foreseen truth, obeys a predetermining Will, realises an original formative self-vision, — it is the growing image of a divine creation." 55 (Italics ours) Such is then the primal Sight, par ā d ṛ k, the original s ...
... apply only with difficulty to the god of physical fire; they are of a striking appropriateness if we take a larger view of the divine nature and functions of the god Agni. He is a god of the earth, a force of material being, अवमः; but he seems too [to] be a vital (Pranic) force of will in desire, devouring, burning through his own smoke; and again he is a mental power. Men see him द्यामिव स्तृभिः, heaven... the spirit in the physical life of man was made available by the Bhrigus to each human creature, विशे विशे,—we must presume, by the order of the sacrifice. This Agni, this general flame of the divine Will-force, was turned by them into the Hotri of the sacrifice. The question remains, who are the Bhrigus of whom we may suppose that Apnavana is in this action at least the head or chief? Is it simply... were symbols of the dedication of inner powers and experiences to the Lords of Truth. The divine gifts, result of the outer sacrifice, were also symbols of inner divine gifts, the cows of the divine light symbolised by the herds of the Sun, the horse of strength and power, the son of the inner godhead or divine man created by the sacrifice, and so through the whole list. This symbolic duplication was ...
... two great elements of the divine Mystery, the Personal and the Impersonal, are here fused together, the seeker of the integral Truth feels in the duality of Ishwara-Shakti his closeness to a more intimate and ultimate secret of the divine Transcendence and the Manifestation than that offered to him by any other experience. For the Ishwari Shakti, divine Conscious-Force and World-Mother, becomes... Master of Force, a Giver of Bliss, Friend, Helper, Father, Mother, Playmate in the world-game, an absolute Master of his being, his soul's Beloved and Lover. All relations known to human personality are there in the soul's contact with the Divine; but they rise towards superhuman levels and compel him towards a divine nature. It is an integral knowledge that is being sought, an integral force, a total... Ignorance and put on the inherence of that light, peace, bliss, harmony, universality, mastery, purity, perfection; it must convert itself into a receptacle of divine knowledge, an instrument of divine Will-Power and Force of Being, a channel of divine Love, Joy and Beauty. This is the transformation to be effected, Page 131 an integral transformation of all that we now are or seem to be, by ...
... with as much solemnity & reverence as in the Rigveda and indeed in language borrowed from the Rigveda, not as the material Sun and material Fire, but as the master of divine God-revealing knowledge & the master of divine purifying force of knowledge, and not to drive away the terrors of night from a trembling savage nor to burn the offered cake & the dripping ghee in a barbarian ritual, but to reveal... alternative or not having the full courage of his ritualistic rendering introduces it as a mere possibility,—these would be meritorious failings,—but he wavers in a much more extraordinary fashion, forcing the ritualistic sense of a word or passage where it cannot possibly hold, abandoning it unaccountably where it can well be sustained. The Vedas are masterpieces of flawless literary style and logical... inherited by them. Their attitude to the ritual even when it was performed mechanically without the possession of this knowledge was far from hostile; but as ritual, they held it to be inferior in force and value, avaram karma, a lower kind of works and not the highest good; only when performed with possession of the knowledge could it lead to its ultimate results, to Vedanta. “By that,” says the ...
... supramental Light". 4 What does this mean? I don't understand. If you put "Divine" instead of "supramental", does that make it clearer to you? It means the consciousness that is not filled with the activities and influences of ordinary life, but is concentrated in an aspiration towards the divine light, force, knowledge, joy. Now do you understand? 23 March 1933 Page 79 ... identification with the Divine Consciousness that one can attain and preserve the true unchanging happiness. Keep your confidence and your faith, my little smile, and everything will be all right. With all my love. 1 August 1932 Dear Mother, This subject was given for composition in our French class— Develop this thought: Consecration to the Divine is the secret of existence;... me of this discouragement and this revolt, please. Will You not save me from them? With all my will I want to save you, but you must allow me to do so. To revolt is to reject the Divine Love and only the Divine Love has the power to save. 28 December 1932 Dear Mother, Am I not Your child? Yes, I know that I am a naughty child, but what can I do? Naughty or not, in any case I am ...
... comes before us with differing aspects; many are her powers and personalities, many her emanations and Vibhutis that do her work in the universe. The One whom we adore as the Mother is the divine Conscious Force that dominates all existence.… Four great Aspects of the Mother, four of her leading Powers and Personalities have stood in front in her guidance of this Universe and in her dealings with... “Repeat exactly whatever I say, even if you don’t understand.” He started with: “ Sans le Divin, la vie est une illusion douloureuse. Avec lui tout est félicité .” (Without the Divine life is a painful illusion, with the Divine, all is bliss.) I kept pronouncing the words exactly as he did and kept telling myself: “How will I remember anything without understanding?” Mr. Benjamin said: “Now, let... he continued, “what an invaluable thought I have given you in our first French lesson.” For many years now these words have come to my mind again and again: Without the Divine, life is a painful illusion, with the Divine, all is bliss. After remembering the words of the Mother that Benjamin had taught me, I suddenly recollect a great change that took place in my life. I was very young then ...
... and the soul is just the centre and guide of a world which is not ultimately a contradiction of its divine spark but a veiled perfection which it has to clear of encumbrances and help to unveil. A divine Mind, a divine Life-Force, even a divine Matter have to be realised and established. Then alone the aim of evolution will be fulfilled. The complete and integral divinsation of our whole being is the... negation of the Divine. The open affirmation of the Divine is therefore its evolutionary aim. But such affirmation cannot stop with the soul’s inner realisation of God. The outer nature must also become Godlike - and this becoming Godlike is not tantamount only to the outer nature obeying the soul and receiving something of its light. Mind, Life-Force, Matter are themselves the Divine concealed, and... (1) “Your [Dr. Dinkar’s] next query is: ‘The nescience is nearest the Divine in the tail-in-the-mouth snake-analogy; why couldn’t it go in reverse gear instead of ‘evolving’ and causing all this bother?’ If the divine car could have been put in reverse gear it would have been only the positive Divine dealing with the negative Divine, and perhaps there wouldn’t be much fun in that. All the fun seems to ...
... There is, after all, but one Consciousness - the Divine Consciousness. And two such divine collaborators like Sri Aurobindo and the Mother - the collaboration began in 1914, entered a new active phase in 1920, and a still closer creative phase in 1926 - could operate effectively only if their consciousness-force were intimately grounded in the Divine so as to be practically indistinguishable. There... 17 And this is the force behind the prophecy or divine decree in Savitri: "Even the body shall remember God". 18 It was during the meditation that followed the discussion - or exposition - that the Mother had the singular mystic experience of the descent of the Supramental Light and Force, and she recorded in her diary: This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material... the common divine action that was thrown out into the world in its beginning as a symbol of the solidarity of the universe. It is by the attraction of this law that a divinising, a saving power descends to limit and correct and gradually to eliminate the errors of an egoistic and self-divided creation. This descent, this sacrifice of the Purusha, the Divine Soul submitting itself to Force and Matter ...
... Purity of the Divine whom he loved and adored as the Divine Mother. His greatest disciple, Swami Vivekananda, was in America in 1893, waiting for his apostolic triumph at the Parliament of Religions, which was to open a new chapter in the history of the impact of the East upon the West. 88 The example and influence of Sri Ramakrishna acted as a potent regenerative and formative force in the Renaissance... wrung out of Vivekananda's leonine heart, his passionate love of his motherland, and his ardent appeal to the Divine Mother to raise the masses of India triggered the movement of a Force which has been unsleeping in its action, and which will not rest till it raises India to her highest, divine stature. Page 85 of the national spirit, after the spade work done by Raja Ram Mohan Roy, was... modesty and reticence characteristic of him in regard to personal matters. 54 Here he evidently speaks from a super-personal consciousness. Here we find the un- mistakable ring of the Divine Consciousness-Force (Chit- Tapas) uttering its Will. When God speaks through the chosen soul of man, He speaks in such accents of fire. It is undeniable that, apart from the spiritual experiences he had had ...
... the universe, Creatrix, the Eternal's artist Bride! But, when the second-century churches attributed to the physical mother of Jesus the transcendent act by which the ever-pure divine Consciousness-Force brings forth the Avatar into the world in a special manner unlike that in which other souls come into birth - when the theological truth of the Virgin Birth was given a literal material ... means of a special power, siddhi, and not the result of a cooperative venture between the ultra-physical above and the same below. In Sri Aurobindo's vision, the Supermind with its divine substance, consciousness-force, delight and truth is not only a free power beyond earth-life but also an involved or hidden power in matter itself, and the supramentalisation occurs by a descent from the beyond and... avatar whose speciality of manifestation was love, a being of beauty sprung from the Divine Mother's heart (a spiritual fact which was mythopoeicised as the Virgin Birth) to impart to gross earth a spark of the Supreme Bliss, but they have also recognised that the vast knowledge-light and the all-transforming force which they have seen in the sovereign Supermind and which they strove to incarnate in ...
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