... In the Mother's Light THE DIVINE MANIFESTATION AND THE DIVINE LIFE BEFORE we proceed to note the identity existing between Sri Aurobindo's views on the Divine Manifestation and the Divine Life and those of the Mother before her meeting with Sri Aurobindo, we had better be clear about what Sri Aurobindo understands by Manifestation and the Divine Life... humanity, has never been able to base itself on any definite truth of spiritual experience or any comprehensive vision of the purpose and possibilities of evolution. Sri Aurobindo's ideal of the divine Manifestation and the Divine Life on earth claims originality, in as much as it is "a thing to be achieved that has not yet been achieved, not yet clearly visualised, even though it is one natural but still... bringing in of a Power of consciousness (the Supramental) not yet organised or active directly in earth-nature, even in the spiritual life but yet to be organised and made directly active.” The divine Manifestation in the Divine Life has been the constant preoccupation of the Mother also all through her life, the single aim of all her spiritual strivings. As we read her Prayers and Meditations, we find ...
... in her entirety is also the One. “What Nature does, is really done by the Spirit.” 18 “All her works are instinct with an absolute intelligence.” 19 Nature is part of the divine manifestation; the divine manifestation is the work of the divine Power, the Consciousness/Force, also called the Great Mother, or known as Maya, Prakriti, Lila. 20 “World is the play of the Mother of things moved... individualized human intelligence …” 24 The mind of the human being, halfway up the ladder of evolution, is an instrument that only can grasp part of a whole, not the whole itself. The divine manifestation is a constant cosmic act of Consciousness/Force which far exceeds the ordinary capacity of the human mind, but which can be and has been acceded to by humans in a spiritual widening called “cosmic... cosmic consciousness the supreme affirmation that all is good or right as it is. It is however in the vision and work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother that we find the supreme justification of the divine manifestation in its origin, its evolution, and its glorious, endless future end. The Gnostic Explanation The following story told by the Mother to the Ashram youth contains in essence the theodicy ...
... which supposed that certain "perfections" must be demanded of the Divine Manifestation which seemed to me quite irrelevant to the reality. I put forward two propositions which appear to me indisputable unless we are to reverse all spiritual knowledge in favour of modern European ideas about things. First, the Divine Manifestation even when it manifests in mental and human ways has behind it a ... tant failure. I cannot see what solution there can be for such a contradiction—unless it be Nirvana. But transformation is heavily more difficult than Nirvana. Your attitude towards any divine manifestation in the Mother's external consciousness is illuminating, "terrifying not only to the Asuras, but to the sadhaks." As yet it was only a limited and particular force—the Durga power! Others did ...
... making a distinction between the divine life we aspire for and a present undivine existence, it would be Page 403 more logical to speak of an ascent from level to higher level of a divine manifestation. It may be admitted that essentially, if we look at the inner reality alone and discount the suggestions of the outer figure, such might be the nature of the evolution, the change we have to... nature, a sanction of the Purusha, a sustained pleasure in some part of the being, even though it be a secret or a perverse pleasure, to keep it in continuance. When we say that all is a divine manifestation, even that which we call undivine, we mean that in its essentiality all is divine even if the form baffles or repels us. Or, to put it in a formula to which it is easier for our psychological... discover that, although fixed grades exist each with its appropriate order of nature, they are only firm steps for a progressive ascent of the souls embodied in forms of matter, a progressive divine manifestation which rises from the inconscient to the superconscient or all-conscient status with the human consciousness as its decisive point of transition. Imperfection becomes then a necessary term of ...
... can give to your uncle that would satisfy him, as he is evidently living in the mentality of the past and would not readily understand anything about spiritual evolution, the supermind and the Divine Manifestation in life and matter. You can perhaps tell him casually that it is not our hope to transform suddenly the whole human race. Your object is precisely to lead a higher life away from the ordinary... Perversion by inconscience and ignorance should be manifested in order to be eliminated through being given their chance, since all possibility has to manifest somewhere: once it is eliminated, the Divine Manifestation in Matter will be greater than it otherwise could be because it will gather all the possibilities involved in this difficult creation and not some of them as in an easier and less strenuous... strenuous creation might naturally be. "From beauty to greater beauty, from joy to intenser joy, by an especial adjustment of the senses"—yes, that would be the normal course of a divine manifestation, however gradual, in Page 278 Matter. "Discordant sound and offensive odour" are creations of a disharmony between consciousness and Nature and do not exist in themselves; they would not be present ...
... the desired and destined transformation: We are not aiming at success - our aim is perfection. We are not seeking fame or reputation; we want to prepare ourselves for a Divine manifestation. 43 We want an integral transformation, the transformation of the body and all its activities. 44 .. .the truth we seek is made of four major aspects: Love, Knowledge... spiritual engineering - and these angels and ministers of Grace in the Ashram agreeably mingle in the life-ways of the sadhaks, and make the Ashram something akin to a Garden of the unfolding Divine Manifestation. After the passage of more than two decades, it is difficult today to convey in words the impression the Ashram made on a sensitive visitor during the late nineteen forties. The Ashram... Since, after all, even without his physical presence, he would be here, one with the Mother's consciousness and power, he could also accelerate, witness and participate in the decreed Divine manifestation upon earth. "A meditative silence reigned in the Ashram for twelve days after the passing of the beloved Master," writes Rishabhchand; "then the normal activities began, but with ...
... The Divine Collaborators CHAPTER V THE DIVINE MANIFESTATION AND THE DIVINE LIFE Before we proceed to note the identity existing between Sri Aurobindo's views on the Divine Manifestation and the Divine Life and those of the Mother before her meeting with Sri Aurobindo, we had better be clear about what Sri Aurobindo understands by Manifestation... humanity, has never been able to base itself on any definite truth of spiritual experience or any comprehensive vision of the purpose and possibilities of evolution. Sri Aurobindo's ideal of the divine Manifestation and the Divine Life on earth claims originality, in as much as it is "a thing to be achieved that has not yet been achieved, not yet clearly visualised, even though it is one natural but ... a Power of consciousness (the Supramental) not yet organised or active directly in earth-nature, even in the spiritual life, but yet to be organised and made directly active." The divine Manifestation in the Divine Life has been the constant preoccupation of the Mother also all through her life, the single aim of all her spiritual strivings. As we read her "Prayers and Meditations", we ...
... means that she has been here throughout the evolutionary history of the earth. Hers is an eternal birth. Since the beginning of the evolution whenever and wherever there was a possibility of the divine manifestation, she was present there. In fact it is she who works out that possibility. She 6 Ibid., p. 383. 7 The Mother, SABCL, Vol.25,p.23. takes birth as a radiant daughter... Vedic vision that sees the mortal world sans death. In it immortality shall be the basis as well as the means for endless progress in the aspects of the transcendental realities. It proclaims a divine Manifestation. Thus in the legend we have Aswapati as the Protagonist and Savitri as the resplendent incarnate Word in her occupation with the Soul of the Earth called Satyavan,—they timelessly engaged in ...
... inner, not to a physically embodied Divine and had a reference to certain states and reactions of the inner consciousness in its seeking after the Divine. In the relations with the embodied Divine Manifestation, or, I may add, of the disciple with the Guru, such things might rise as a result of human imperfection, but they were not made part of the theory of the relations. I do not think they formed... wholly approve), the Yoga by quarrelling with the Divine—about which I make express reserves, your old question about the illness of the Mother (which involves the nature and modalities of the divine manifestation on the physical plane). So this letter must not be regarded as finished, but To be continued January 14,1932 I am not posted in musical technique, but I imagine I understand; ...
... everything we are or can be aware of with our present consciousness. That is Being, Consciousness-Force and Bliss, which are not only concepts but realms of existence in the highest reaches of the divine manifestation. And the fourth realm of manifestation in which That is still fully Itself is what the Vedas called turiyam svid, a fourth world also consisting of manifold gradations but in which everything... present, although, as the reader will recall, fiercely challenged by the Antigods or Asuric forces – and Forces are always beings. The Supermind belongs to the higher hemisphere of the global divine manifestation where everything exists in oneness and is conscious of that oneness. The (apparent) diversification, or fragmentation, or endless division of the oneness into the world as we know it, is the ...
... which supposed that certain "perfections" must be demanded of the Divine Manifestation which seemed to me quite irrelevant to the reality. I put forward two propositions which appear to me indisputable unless we are to revise all spiritual knowledge in favour of modern European ideas about things. First, the Divine Manifestation even when it manifests in mental and human ways has behind it a c ...
... conduct are only our temporary, imperfect and evolutive attempts to represent to ourselves our stumbling mental progress in the universal self-realisation towards which Nature moves. But the divine manifestation cannot be bound by our little rules and fragile sanctities; for the consciousness behind it is too vast for these things. Once we have grasped this fact, disconcerting enough to the absolutism... unity with all is Page 204 the base and fixed condition of the supramental consciousness and spiritual life. In that universality and unity alone can we find the supreme law of the divine manifestation in the life of the embodied spirit; in that alone can we discover the supreme motion and right play of our individual nature. In that alone can all these lower discords resolve themselves into ...
... human life, of the eternal inner Godhead making himself manifest in the field of their own human mentality and corporeality so that they can grow into unity with that and be possessed by it. The divine manifestation of a Christ, Krishna, Buddha in external humanity has for its inner truth the same manifestation of the eternal Avatar within in our own inner humanity. That which has been done in the outer... representative of the qualities and works in which its characteristic soul-power manifests itself. This heightening of the powers of the being is a very necessary step in the progress of the divine manifestation. Every great man who rises above our average level, raises by that very fact our common humanity; he is a living assurance of our divine possibilities, a promise of the Godhead, a glow of the ...
... different aspects of the same being; a Power is not necessarily impersonal and certainly it is not avyaktam , as you suggest,—on the contrary it is a manifestation acting in the worlds of the divine manifestation. Page 104 (4) Emanations Emanations correspond to your description of the Matrikas of whom you speak in your letter. An emanation of the Mother is something of her consciousness... up into and bring down the supramental consciousness. But in the Arya you define the supermind as the truth-will of Sachchidananda. How could any human being except one who has come for the divine manifestation reach or bring down the supermind? This is something for the Divine alone. It is the very principle of this Yoga that only by the supramentalisation of the consciousness which means rising ...
... Natural Disasters, Adverse Forces and the Mother's Help Is it true that earthquakes are inevitable phenomena in the process of the Divine Manifestation on the earth and the transformation of matter? Not at all. The method of the Divine Manifestation is through calm and harmony, not through a catastrophic upheaval. The latter is the sign of a struggle, generally of conflicting vital forces ...
... to which can once more be given the name of art, an art renovated and perhaps, or let us hope so, regenerated. Art is nothing less in its fundamental truth than the aspect of beauty of the Divine manifestation. Perhaps, looking from this standpoint, there will be found very few true artists; but still there are some and these can very well be considered as Yogis. For like a Yogi an artist goes into... serve a divine purpose. The difficulty is that most of those who become artists believe that they stand on their own legs and have no need to turn to the Divine. It is a great pity; for in the divine manifestation skill is as useful an element as anything else. Skill is one part of the divine fabric, only it must know how to subordinate itself to greater things. There is a domain far above the mind ...
... Page 110 the name of art, an art renovated and perhaps, or let us hope so, regenerated. Art is nothing less in its fundamental truth than the aspect of beauty of the Divine manifestation. Perhaps, looking from this standpoint, there will be found very few true artists; but still there are some and these can very well be considered as Yogis. For like a Yogi an artist goes into... serve a divine purpose. The difficulty is that most of those who become artists believe that they stand on their own legs and have no need to turn to the Divine. It is a great pity; for in the divine manifestation skill is as useful an element as anything else. Skill is one part of the divine fabric, only it must know how to subordinate itself to greater things. There is a domain far above the ...
... 69 approximation. Does this state of consciousness, this way of being, this way of existing, of reacting, of expressing, point to or tend towards the Divine Manifestation? Is it in conformity with the urge towards the Divine Manifestation?... And the thought is silent, immobile, then the imagination does not work (all that, willingly), and the movement tries to be as sincere and as spontaneous ...
... bypass in an y way the mental , vita l and physical instruments o f our being but seek to remedy their defects. purify their functioning . and finally transform them into fit vehicles of divine manifestation here upon earth itself. For, is that not the aim of the Integral Yoga ') Our Yoga is not an escapist one nor are we enamored of Nirvanic non-manifestation . Also , we do not want to... establishment o f the divine Light. Consciousness. Power, Love and Ananda even in the entire field of our outer dynamic nature. In Sri Aurobindo' s luminous words : "Life is the field of a divine manifestation not yet com- Page 269 plete: here, in life, on earth, in the body,... we have to unveil the Godhead; here we must make its transcendent greatness, light and sweetness real ...
... what we propose to do in our sadhana is to purify and transform the nature, our self-nature and world-nature, as far as possible, and then offer them to the Divine as a fit instrument for his divine manifestation upon earth. Our aspiration is not merely to enjoy the delight of spiritual realisation in our inner consciousness; what we aim at in our yoga is that our outer nature and being too should fully... by the inimical reptile. But we should not shrink away for that from our noble enterprise. For has not Sri Aurobindo reminded the sadhakas of the Integral Path? "Life is the field of a divine manifestation not yet complete: here, in life, on earth, in the body ... we have to unveil the Godhead; here we must make its transcendent greatness, light and sweetness real to our consciousness, here possess ...
... spreads light, charges and illumines the atmosphere with the divine joy, expresses the Supra-conscious, changes and witnesses the course of events and circumstances, brings Peace and hastens the divine manifestation upon earth; how this gaze moves further and further and disappears in the eternity of time and space. Whereas the other one concentrates and sees all that goes on inside as well as outside,... that denies my presence, yet each atom of this mass of ignorance palpitates with my consciousness. I am the Mystery — the great paradox which has begun to unveil the innate secrets of this divine manifestation in the terrestrial and cosmic evolution. By the fact of this immense descent of the Supramental upon earth, we foresee the gradual dissolution of the duality, the contradictions and many other ...
... is the eternal substratum, the sustaining sap and essence of existence? Sri Aurobindo resolved to fight for crowning the ascending spiral of evolution with the glory of the long- dreamt-of divine Manifestation. His letters to his wife vibrate with this resolve, and contain the seed of the whole subsequent unfoldment of his life. There is another thing in them, which at once arrests attention:... in some remote and recondite Beyond, but here, in this earthly life, in this human bodily existence, in the very midst of our natural activities, the Divine Union must be realised and the Divine Manifestation take place. These lines strike the key- note of the dynamic spirituality that was developing in Sri Aurobindo, and the integral Yoga he was to practise and teach for the radical transformation ...
... illusion, or only a place of trial and training, Page 290 but as a rich field for the harvesting of the highest beatitudes of the divine union and the sublimest glories of the divine manifestation. It is true that life wears at first the aspect of a battlefield; but it does not daunt the Karmayogi; on the contrary, it affords him an occasion for adventure, for staking his all for God's... really and effectively fulfil the self-law of his essential Nature, swabhāva and swadharma. If liberation meant a disappearance from the field of life, which is a field of self-expression and divine manifestation, thea the self-nature of the soul would find no opportunity for self-unfoldment, but would be condemned to eternal sterility. swabhāva and swadharma rendered nugatory, ¹ avidyayā ...
... knowledge with itself and becomes an expression of the triune power of our being. It is the most potent means of an active integration of all the parts of the being, and the sole external vehicle of divine manifestation in the material world. Therefore, the perfection of Karmayoga would seem to ¹It is interesting to note in this connection the words of Pfleiderer who shared many of the views of Krause:... our work will remain tainted with imperfection. The whole organism of our nature must undergo a total transmutation, a supramental conversion, before it can become a perfect instrument of divine manifestation. And it is not enough that the conscious nature is transformed, even the subconscient and the inconscient ranges, too, must become conscious and luminous. There must be nothing left anywhere ...
... certain "perfections" must be Page 456 demanded of the Divine Manifestation which seemed to me quite irrelevant to the reality. I put forward two propositions which appear to me indisputable unless we are to revise all spiritual knowledge in favour of modern European ideas about things. First, the Divine Manifestation even when it manifests in mental and human ways has behind it a co ...
... Regard your life as given you only for the divine work and to help in the divine manifestation. Sri Aurobindo The Divine Worker The liberated man The liberated man has no personal hopes;... through works is the sufficient recompense of the selfless worker. Sri Aurobindo Only for the divine work Regard your life as given you only for the divine work and to help in the divine manifestation. Sri Aurobindo The heavens within The heavens beyond are great and wonderful, but greater and more wonderful are the heavens within you. It is these Edens that await the divine worker ...
... limitations; and if Mind there seeks to develop yet higher possibilities, still it must then too take account of the original vital formula of desire-force, its purpose and its demand upon the divine manifestation. So too with the higher gradations. The next in the series must be governed by the dominating and determining factor of Mind. Substance there must be subtle and flexible enough to assume... coarse and rebellious vital faculties can have no adequate conception. There Mind dominates as the original formula, its purpose prevails, its demand overrides all others in the law of the divine manifestation. At a yet higher reach Supermind—or, intermediately, principles touched by it—or, still higher, a pure Bliss, a pure Conscious Power or pure Being replace Mind as the dominant principle, and ...
... together, one might call Savitri Sri Aurobindo’s testament. As the Mother said in the aforementioned conversation, Sri Aurobindo shows us in Savitri the main structure and the sense of the divine manifestation which we call the universe, mantrically formulated from the largest spiritual knowledge and perception ever possessed by an incarnated being. We find in the epic a description of the universe... In “The Book of the Traveller of the Worlds” in Savitri , Sri Aurobindo has given an unprecedented description of “the world-stair,” the tremendous hierarchic scale of worlds that form the divine manifestation. All consist of their specific substance – vital, mental, spiritual; all are peopled with countless beings; all are perpetual and exist in complete contentment according to their nature. Sri ...
... true of every soul on earth that it is a portion of the Divine Mother passing through the experiences of the Ignorance in order to arrive at the truth of its being and be the instrument of a Divine Manifestation and work here.’ 5 He also wrote: ‘The soul goes to the Mother-Soul in all its desires and troubles,’ 6 and: ‘It is a far greater relation than that of the physical mother to her child... the first companions of Sri Aurobindo whom we have already met in this story, inwardly could rise at will to the plane of Being-Consciousness-Bliss — that is to say to the highest level of the divine manifestation. After Nolini’s demise, in 1984, several persons have published their remembrances of him. There we read that he had himself told that he was a reincarnation of the Latin poet Virgil, of the ...
... which is only an approximation. Does that state of consciousness, that way of being, that way of existing, reacting, expressing, does it strive towards the Divine Manifestation? Is it in conformity with the tendency towards the Divine Manifestation?... The thought is silent, immobile, so the imagination doesn't function (all that is deliberate), and the movement is trying to be as sincere and spontaneous ...
... freak rather than a guiding light for all Nature. The temporary difference is that the Avatar is conscious, overtly, of his divinity, he is aware both of the plane from which there is the divine manifestation and of the Supreme Godhead who has that plane-poise, whereas the Avatar's followers have to develop the divine consciousness. However, we must add that even the Avatar has to go through a... were in Rome in the time of Buddha, how could Buddha know as he did not even know the existence of Rome?¹ ... So if the Mother was present in the life of Christ, she was there not as the Divine Manifestation but as one altogether human. For her to be recognised as the Divine would have created a tremendous disorder and frustrated the work Christ came to ¹ Guidance from Sri Aurobindo ...
... supernatural significance. In fact, its symbolic nature is quite suggestive of the issue involved in this mortal creation, mrityuloka , the creation to which we belong. The issue is of divine manifestation in an evolutionary way, evolution that has its beginning in Inconscience. Ours is not a typal world. A typal world is a world of fixed forms and possibilities,— as is, for instance,... Savitri's lover and husband Satyavan. This death indeed becomes a glorious occasion for the incarnate Power's action to deal with the universal Adversary standing in the way of the intended divine manifestation. What was brief and suggestively succinct in Vyasa, given to us in just twenty swift shlokas, Sri Aurobindo elaborated in his epic to the great length of about ten-thousand lines. But ...
... attend to, if he seriously yearns to make any perceptible progress, is to create and maintain in his consciousness in an uninterrupted way a very sincere and living impetus towards the Divine and divine Manifestation. The following words of the Mother should open our eyes and help us shake off any mood of easy-going complacency: "Is the Divine the supreme fact of your life, so much so that it is simply... has reminded us: "The Divine that we adore is not only a remote extracosmic Reality, but a half-veiled Manifestation present and near to us here in the universe. Life is the field of a divine manifestation not yet complete: here, in life, on earth, in the body ... we have to unveil the Godhead; here we must make its transcendent greatness, light and sweetness real to our consciousness, here possess ...
... descent of Champaklal? At this the whole atmosphere changed and Purani, catching the opportunity, shot a question with a beaming face. PURANI: Because hostile forces offer resistance to the divine manifestation in the world and some are even victorious, can it be said with any logic that the Divine lacks omnipotence? It is not my question. I am asking somebody else's. Personally I don't think so. ... earth denies them, rejects them and afterwards, accepts them in name in order to reject them in substance. Only a small minority grows towards a spiritual birth and it is through them that the divine manifestation takes place. What remains of Buddhism today except a few edicts of Asoka and a few hundred thousand Buddhists? NIRODBARAN: Asoka helped in propagating Buddhism. SRI AUROBINDO: Anybody ...
... warnings is that the biographer should not surrender to an obsessive interest in the outer details so as to divert the readers' attention from the all-important inner history, the unfolding of the Divine Manifestation and the saga of the Divine Ministry. The familiar categories of birth, growth, maturity, of childhood, girlhood, womanhood, of heredity, environment, upbringing, have little relevance indeed... natural that I should now seriously think of revising my other book too, On the Mother. I knew it was going to be an even more taxing venture than the work on Sri Aurobindo. The mystique of her divine manifestation and the splendour of her divine ministry were such marvels ii that, while one might feel a surge of joy and measureless gratitude, any attempt to pluck the heart of the mystery or ...
... aspiration, full of an irresistible yearning for the Divine. Its sole business is to rum our entire being God wards by saturating it with its own love and devotion, and prepare it for the work of divine manifestation. The psychic love is a white flame which is inextinguishable, and it mounts straight towards the Divine. A total and constant self-giving, a self-consecration through service, a progressive... perfected means of His manifestation in the material life. When psychic love is united with the divine Love and the psychic will with the divine Will, 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 ...
... "transformation" bears a special and very comprehensively profound sense. It is the keyword of the long and arduous process of total self-perfection which is the indispensable prerequisite of divine manifestation. Transformation means a radical change and conversion of human nature, its thorough transmutation and transfiguration. Let us try to understand what it really amounts to. Human nature... ousness. The Mother's Mission and Experiences of Transformation The Mother has made this transformation—transformation of human nature as an inevitable condition of divine manifestation—the whole work and mission of her life. The Prayers and Meditations of the Mother is a living record of how she, after having attained a "constant and definitive" union with the Divine, had ...
... ice made the atmosphere a little encouraging So, X catching the chance shot the following question with a beaming face : Disciple : Because the hostile forces offer resistance to the Divine manifestation in the world and some of them become sometimes victorious (at least for the time being) can one logically say that the Divine lacks Omnipotence? It is not my question but somebody else's. ... the Divine dispensation. Buddha was denied; sons of Light come, the earth denies them, rejects them in substance. Only a small minority grows towards a spiritual birth. It is through them the Divine manifestation takes place. What remains of Buddhism today except a few decrees of Asoka and a few hundred thousand Buddhists? Disciple : Asoka helped in propagating Buddhism. Sri Aurobindo ...
... the truth behind the appearances, the multiplicity of the phenomenal world in their innate God-suffused magnificence. This was really the upper hemisphere of knowledge - the hemisphere of Divine manifestation - and was only complementary to the lower hemisphere of knowledge, the arc of immitigable Nirvanic calm. As Sri Aurobindo explained later: This is the integral knowledge, for we know... he dug up the bamboo later, the papers were found to have been eaten away by white ants. A better fate, however, overtook some of the poetic compositions of this period. The experience of Divine manifestation in everything and everybody was a new ground of realisation. But he had reached this spot only by battering his way through thorns and brambles, defying hazards and dieting on difficulties: ...
... so much way that the organs of this school in Bengal have accepted many of its conclusions and their writings are coloured by its leading ideas. But the fundamental idea of the movement as a divine manifestation purposing to raise up the nation not only for its own fulfilment in India but for the work and service of the world and therefore sure of its fulfilment, therefore independent of individuals ...
... always his force that takes the lead in our activity. We have in these two verses a succession of symbolic concepts in perfect logical order which express stage by stage the whole process of the divine manifestation in this lower material activity, devaviti in adhwara yajna. आ त्वा विशन्तु आशवः सोमास इन्द्र गिर्वणः । शं ते संतु प्रचेतसे ।।७।। May the fiery Soma-juices enter into thee, O Indra, thou ...
... goal—cf पार्ये दिवि. The wealth of divine delight is to be brought into the body, the physical consciousness. 4 Having manifested in the body, the Ananda is to bring the consciousness to the divine manifestation. 5 अर्थं—the field of movement—cf [ ] The object of चरामसि 8 बाकुरं perhaps = of the goat or sheep. 9 श्रिणंति—brighten? enter in? Here we reach the streams of the Infinite ...
... spoken of Soma in his impersonal manifestation, as the Ananda or delight of divine existence in the human being's conscious experience. He now turns, as is the habit of the Vedic Rishis, from the divine manifestation to the divine Person and at once Soma appears as the supreme Personality, the high and universal Deva. Arūrucad uṣasaḥ pṛśnir agriyaḥ ; the supreme dappled One, he makes the dawns to shine: ...
... Résumé of Savitri I: 1 The Symbol Dawn Savitri begins with the primordial Darkness when the gods are still asleep. Out of it has to come a fuller divine manifestation upon earth. But obstructing its path there is the mind of ominous Night and nothing can happen as long it is present. Many were the attempts made earlier but the success was only partial ...
... her earlier conditions so that he may start afresh on a larger curve of progress and self-fulfilment.” 10 The spiralling movement is double: widening, to include ever larger portions of the divine manifestation, and upward, towards the divine perfection. “There have been beautiful civilisations like the one which left something like an occult memory of a continent that might have linked India with ...
... telling it more than once in her own way, although with the warning that there was a deeper meaning beneath the story as told to children. Because of the ill-begotten creation by the Demiurge, the divine manifestation became divided into two: the greater part, where all worlds and levels of existence were perfect heavens, and the nether part, ruled by the blind god (by the Gnostics also identified with the ...
... to be and has been in the past. In Auroville there are – or there should be – no dogmas, no gurus, no sects, no religious uniforms, no ceremonies. Fundamentally Auroville is based, like the divine Manifestation, on Love and Freedom. This means that the essential Aurovillian effort is one of individual inner development within the social context of a city, founding its general growth on the Charter ...
... by the employment of the same defining term, with what includes this arrival no less than that phenomenon. Sri Aurobindo has put both parts of the account together as the story of a single divine manifestation through a series of Nature-moments, both that phenomenon and this arrival being called "outbreak of spiritual light". The continuing identity of a single process, the developing disclosure ...
... because of Sri Aurobindo's being a master-artist — but it may so happen that the artist in us does not awaken and only the philosopher does or the man of action: then we have a different type of divine manifestation. The mystical idea by itself is not sufficient for poetry to take birth, though it may bring with it, as you say, emotion and vision and rhythm; the artistic or aesthetic transmitting faculty ...
... you can give to your uncle that would satisfy him, as he is evidently living in mentality of the past and would not readily understand anything about spiritual evolution, the Supermind and the Divine manifestation in life and matter. You can perhaps tell him casually that it is not our hope to transform suddenly the whole human race. Your object is precisely to lead a higher life away from ordinary world ...
... there are only a few who are blessed to recognize, understand and accept or allow the Grace to act. The man born and bound by ego exists because he is destined to become the instrument of the Divine manifestation. The life will continue to remain a paradox till he allows the Grace to dismiss the ego and the key of the Divine Grace releases him from the bondage, fulfils and creates a Divine Kingdom. ...
... l Nature, the sole earthly frame in which her full evolution is possible, is a triple birth. He has been given a living frame in which the body is the vessel and life the dynamic means of a divine manifestation. His activity is centred in a progressive mind which aims at perfecting itself as well as the house in which it dwells and the means of life that it uses, and is capable of awaking by a progressive ...
... version by inconscience and ignorance should be manifested in order to be eliminated though being given their chance, since all possibility has to manifest somewhere. Once it is eliminated the Divine Manifestation in Matter will be greater than it otherwise could be because it will gather all the possibilities involved in this difficult creation and not some of them as in an easier and less strenuous ...
... changes it according to the same will. That is a very different thing from a body assailed constantly by desire and suffering and death brought on by decay or illness. Always assuming that the divine manifestation or any manifestation is worthwhile. As for the second argument, 3 change and progress are not excluded from the supramental life. I do not see why the change of cells, supposing it continues ...
... impress. But from another point of view that is not a cause for alarm or discouragement—for it has always been predicted from occult sources that such a descent would be the precursor of the Divine Manifestation. 1931 W. H. Auden I so often fail to detect the poetry in modern "poems" that the enclosed piece (by a quite young man), was a welcome exception—also it hints at an unusual warmth ...
... recognition that the Brahman alone is true, that there is nothing but the transcendent and immutable Absolute. If this is the one Truth, then all ground is cut away from under our feet; the divine Manifestation, the victory of the soul in Matter, its mastery over existence, the divine life in Nature would itself be a falsehood or at least something not altogether real imposed for a time on the sole ...
... an immobile Absolute. The Divine that we adore is not only a remote extra-cosmic Reality, but a half-veiled Manifestation present and near to us here in the universe. Life is the field of a divine manifestation not yet complete: here, in life, on earth, in the body,— ihaiva , as the Upanishads insist,—we have to unveil the Godhead; here we must make its transcendent greatness, light and sweetness real ...
... his conscious being; there will still remain on that foundation, unannulled by the silence, one with the release and freedom, the infinitely proceeding self-fulfilment of Brahman, its dynamic divine manifestation in the individual and by his presence, example and action in others and in the universe at large,—the work which the Great Ones remain to do. Our dynamic self-fulfilment cannot be worked out ...
... the soul begins to have an equal joy in the universe, an equal will dealing with all energies, an equal knowledge which takes possession of the spiritual truth behind all the phenomena of this divine manifestation. It possesses the world as the Divine possesses it, in a fullness of the infinite light, power and Ananda. All this existence can therefore be approached by a Yoga of positive and active ...
... mere form and eidolon. On the basis of this calm everything else may be built up in the knowledge and experience no longer of the external phenomena of things but of the deeper truth of the divine manifestation. Ordinarily, once this state is obtained, strenuous concentration will be found no longer necessary. A free concentration of will 7 using thought merely for suggestion and the giving of ...
... been shown too that the Divine who is above all these things and untouched by them, yet manifests himself in man and Nature and their action and that all is a movement in the cycles of this divine manifestation. But now when he is put face to face with the embodiment of this truth, he sees in it magnified by the image of the divine greatness this aspect of terror and destruction and is appalled and ...
... individual consciousness. The red lotus is the flower of the Divine Presence. The red lotus is the presence of the Divine on earth—the sun is the Divine Truth. It indicates the Divine manifestation on earth raising earth consciousness towards the Truth. The red lotus signifies the presence of the Divine on the Earth. Page 179 It [ the blue lotus ] can be taken as ...
... transformation which we seek; for although he spoke of the divine man (Ishwarakoti) coming down the stairs as well as ascending, he had not the idea of a new consciousness and a new race and the divine manifestation in the earth-nature. Whatever may have happened to Chaitanya or Ramalingam, whatever physical transformation they may have gone through is quite irrelevant to the aim of the supramen ...
... it something like the goddess Annapurna, who satisfies one's material needs? I suppose it would be some aspect like that—an aspect of Durga. 2 March 1934 Your attitude towards any divine manifestation in the Mother's external consciousness is illuminating, "terrifying not only to the Asuras, but to the sadhaks". And yet it was only a limited and particular force—the Durga power! Others did ...
... true of every soul on earth that it is a portion of the Divine Mother passing through the experiences of the Ignorance in order to arrive at the truth of its being and be the instrument of a Divine Manifestation and work here. 15 February 1937 ...
... to recognise you? Why should they? The veil was there necessary for their work. Why should it be thrown off? So if the Mother was present in the life of Christ, she was there not as the Divine Manifestation but as one altogether human. For her to be recognised as the Divine would have created a tremendous disorder and frustrated the work Christ came to do by breaking its proper limits. Moreover ...
... yogis outside the Asram heard about the Supermind and the higher realms they would think that they had passed these worlds or left them behind as a side-issue. They might regard the idea of a divine manifestation as a desire for Karma. Do you think there are any who have Page 308 enough plasticity to be prepared, at least theoretically, to accept Supermind and the possibility of its man ...
... child the certitude that the truth will triumph? For, when he learns history, when he observes Nature, he will see that things don't always end well. 1 Children must be taught to see the divine manifestation in the world and not the side which ends badly. No, if the child thinks that the Divine is different from the world, his idea that everything ends badly will be quite justified. Children ...
... by All India Radio, Pondicherry, on Mother's birthday, 21 February 1971 ) True liberty is an ascending movement, not yielding to the lower instincts. Page 370 True liberty is a divine manifestation. We want the true liberty for India so that she may be the right example for the world as the demonstration of what humanity must become. 13 February 1971 ( During the Bangladesh ...
... to the Divine and side with the Divine, they become all they should be. It may take time, there may be turmoil and difficulty - you must be... inflexible: "I am for the Divine and the divine manifestation, in spite of everything and anything." Voila. Then it is omnipotence - EVEN OVER DEATH. I am not saying tomorrow, I am not saying immediately, but... it's a certainty. Page 251 ...
... because ... You see, I invoke (the words are a bit strange) ... the Lord of Tomorrow. Not the unmanifest Lord, but the Lord as he will manifest 'tomorrow,' or in Sri Aurobindo's words, the divine manifestation in its supramental form. So the first sound of my mantra is the call to that, the evocation. With the second sound, the body's cells make their' surrender,' they give themselves. And with ...
... and shape. The Taoist "immortal body" and the Tibetan "diamond body" are also inner subtle realities which, it is hoped, will produce a marvellous exterior effect at some future period of the Divine Manifestation, like the Resurrection looked forward to by St. Paul as the taking on of Page 48 a "spiritual body". Nowhere is any evidence of an already established lasting transfiguration ...
... themselves to the Divine and side with the Divine, they become all they should be. It may take time, there may be turmoil and difficulty—you must be... inflexible: "I am for the Divine and the divine manifestation, Page 135 in spite of everything and anything." Voilà. Then it is omnipotence—EVEN OVER DEATH. I am not saying tomorrow, I am not saying immediately, but... it's a certainty. ...
... February 13, 1971 ( Mother reads her message for Indian radio. ) "True liberty is an ascending movement, not yielding to the lower instincts. Page 47 "True liberty is a divine manifestation. "We want the true liberty for India so that she may be the right example for the world as the demonstration of what humanity must become." ( After the reading of Chapter 14 of On ...
... "immortal body" and the Tibetan "diamond body" are also inner subtle realities which, it is hoped, will produce a marvellous exterior effect Page 8 at some future period of the Divine Manifestation, like the Resurrection looked forward to by St. Paul as the taking on of a "spiritual body". Nowhere is any evidence of an already established lasting transfiguration of the gross physical. ...
... liberation and static release of the soul become feasible there, the latter cannot freely possess Nature, become its conscious Lord and transform it into an effective and flawless instrument of divine manifestation. For that we have to reach the plane of supermind, the vijñāna or gnosis of Sachchidananda, which is "not only the concentrated consciousness of the infinite Essence, [but] also ...
... nirvana on every level, even behind the physical - it's death. And those who withdraw, who try to attain Nirvana, Never go into the psychic - the psychic is something essentially linked to divine manifestation, not to divine not-intervention, not to Nirvana. Earth must transform herself and equal Heaven Or Heaven descend into earth's mortal state. But for such vast spiritual change ...
... is now available, stored up in the individual formation, for the recreation of that earth. The advent and acceptance of material existence meant, as a kind of necessity in a given scheme of divine manifestation, the appearance and play of Evil, the negation of the very divinity. Absolute Consciousness brought forth absolute unconsciousness – the inconscient – because of its own self-pressure, a play ...
... her wide, open, welcoming heart as Thy seat. Let India realise her soul in Thee so that she may fulfil her glorious destiny. In the name of the earth I salute Thee, O Mother Supreme, for Thy divine manifestation and implore that we may consecrate our all to Thee and collaborate in Thy work so that this earth may be a field and camp of God and Thy Will may be accomplished in all its details. *** ...
... whole basic attitude activating all the efforts of sadhana of the sadhaka. A sadhaka of the integral Path should do everything, including his sadhana and his seeking after divine union or divine manifestation, only because he feels that such is the Will of the Divine in him and not because of any other consideration high or low. The Mother was once asked by a disciple: "But why do we do this divine ...
... of human existence. Everything else is a part of this achievement. And if it is so, all life can and should become the field of Yoga; of course, if it is approached appropriately. The Divine manifestation is everywhere; He is peeping through everything but from behind an opaque veil created by our separative egoistic ignorance or Avidya. To lift this veil and see face to face the One who is Many ...
... ideas of multiplicity, affirming the unity as a basis for the manifestation of the multiplicity and the multiplicity as the basis for the return to oneness and the enjoyment of unity in the divine manifestation, we need not burden our present statement with these discussions or undertake the vain labour of enslaving to our mental distinctions and definitions the absolute freedom of the Divine Infinite ...
... the consciousness of these divine worlds, synthesize them and act simultaneously and in full knowledge in all the domains” Was it the unimaginable difficulty of this integral union and divine manifestation that led the spiritual seekers to discover a short cut and turn vertiginously to the static Impersonal ? Or was it that this comprehensive ideal had been lost to the contracting consciousness ...
... among the beings of the earth, it is man alone who has the rare, glorious privilege of achieving a full efflorescence of the psychic being in himself and thereby becoming a perfect channel of divine manifestation. Integral divine transformation, integral divine union and manifestation of which even the gods are not capable, are the inevitable destiny of man on earth, thanks to the presence of the psychic ...
... function in the economy of our triple nature and must be developed to its highest perfection, so that with all its faculties quickened, widened and illumined, it may serve the soul in its work of divine manifestation. What is the essential and indispensable function of the mind in the hierarchy of the instrumental nature of man ? The mind is "an instrument of formation, organisation and action. And ...
... it. Making noise is another thing one must avoid. The vital desire for name and fame, the cinematographic tendency, all should be clean washed away. There should be no ego if there is to be a divine manifestation. All noise should only be incidental. I spoke about the world of the Gods because not to speak of it would be dangerous. I spoke of it so that the mind may understand the thing if it comes down ...
... Narayana whom I found in these darkened souls and misused bodies. 103 Although the ground is the absolute silence, there is structured above the many-chambered mansion of the divine manifestation Sarvam khalvidam Brahma: all is Brahman. Third came, during the first four or five years of 'silent yoga' in Pondicherry, the experience of the glimpse of the possibility ...
... protection in the beginning and to progress on the spiritual side. But one has to take the risk, reject the lower path and take to the higher truth. Besides, all these things are necessary for the divine manifestation. . Disciple : Are these things really necessary ? Page 63 Sri Aurobindo : They are. In society, in politics, in fact in every field progress is like that ...
... the link between the past and the future and asks humanity to build its life on the basis of the Omni- present Reality ;to him Life and God are absolutely compatible; earth is worthy of the divine manifestation. Separation of ____________________ 12 Ibid, Tome I, P. 233 13 Life of Sri Aurobindo, P. 296 14 Ibid, P. 297 " 15 I bid, P . 297 Page 14 the human spirit ...
... he Supermind or vijnāna is the eternal home of all harmonies—for the ascent of man into the truth and unity of the One and the descent of the One into the whole being and life of man. The divine manifestation is the key-note of this synthesis, and universal humanity is the field of its perfection. ¹ All these syntheses were spiritual, but their characterisation made here is from the standpoint ...
... itself and the consequent transfiguration of the whole arc of human existence down to the physical and the inconscient. On the other hand, Sri Aurobindo had warned his disciples that egoism and divine manifestation couldn't abide together; and hence "all noise should be only incidental". 2 This was how 24 November 1926 passed without any fanfare, without speeches, and without even the customary ...
... in the subsequent Books. For Krishna, it is not simply a question of making Arjuna fight, but charging him with a new sense of power and purpose. As an avatar, Krishna has both to enact the Divine manifestation and to effect Arjuna's upliftment to a higher - to the divine - level. The very purpose of the Avatar is to demonstrate that the divine essence can be housed in humanity with all the limitations ...
... Bauls. Truly, they possessed the qualities of Bauls. They were not attached to anything on earth. They were born free. They came down upon earth to express their heart’s ecstasy by hailing the divine manifestation on earth. Sudhir-da was one of those ecstatic Bauls. ...
... Sensibility. If it be true, as Keats said, that "Shakespeare led a life of allegory, his works are his comments on it", might it not be said of Sri Aurobindo that his was a life of progressive Divine manifestation, and his writings are but its radiations and recordings? In a book of this size aiming at all-inclusiveness, some repetition is unavoidable and could even be purposeful, and periodic r ...
... the high hope that the new forces would drown "in their sovereign floods all that persists" with their adhesion to the past, the clear anticipation of the Next Future with its splendour of divine manifestation, all this asked for a response from Sri Aurobindo. But perhaps his vision was too baffled and obscured by opposing possibilities, for in his letter of 16 September he doesn't seem to be very ...
... by the Mother's touch and blessings became emissaries of her Grace and agreeably mingled in the life-ways of the sadhaks, and made the Ashram something akin to a garden of the unfolding Divine manifestation and terrestrial transformation. While the name given to a flower (say Aspiration, Devotion, or Fidelity) is important enough and no sadhak can look at that flower without recalling its ...
... no coward median goal, she was for the summit itself: We are not aiming at success - our aim is perfection. We are not seeking fame or reputation; we want to prepare ourselves for a Divine manifestation. 33 Again, in the August issue of the Bulletin, the Mother pleaded for "an Page 479 integral transformation, the transformation of the body and all its activities", and to ...
... respects too in an orderly manner. Then - or thereafter - how were her children to remember their Mother, or recapitulate the epic history of her life or the marvels of her ministry and divine manifestation? She had come to India, almost sixty years earlier, in search of her soul's "Krishna", and found him in Sri Aurobindo on 29 March 1914. She was French by birth and early education, but an Indian ...
... at some length in chapter XI on "The purification of Nature". Our object in the Integral Yoga being, not a renunciation or rejection of Nature, but its transformation and utilisation for the divine manifestation, purification is necessarily a long and elaborate process, which steadily merges into the eventual process of transformation. The greater the growth of purity in the being, the greater the ...
... mysterious relation of love and devotion with the Divine; for, if it merged in the Divine and His Love, the psychic individuality would be abolished, and abolished with it the very means of divine manifestation in the world. This subtle duality in the midst of the closest unity is very sweetly brought out in the Mother's Prayer of May 21, 1914 :— "Outside all manifestation, in the immutable silence ...
... Integral Yoga it is utterly inadequate; for the aim we pursue is not only the liberation of the soul but also of nature, culminating in the supramental transformation as the sine qua non of divine manifestation. It is no Page 208 simplification that is attempted, but an aggrandisement and enrichment of the whole nature by an awakening and quickening of all its faculties, including even ...
... of his nature. His Page 441 spiritual, mental, emotional, volitional and physical parts must all attain to their utmost perfection, if they are meant to be instruments of the divine manifestation in the material world. Perfection really means a growth into the nature of the Divine Being. It is to be one with the Divine in His divine Nature, sārūpya or sādharmya. Oneness in ...
... world of action was stripped of its customary mask, exposed to the light of an integral spirituality and tossed into the limbo of the past. Life was affirmed and accepted as the field of divine Manifestation, and a deadly grapple with the entrenched powers of the Ignorance and the Inconscience began its fateful career. The Supramental Light-Force that alone can overthrow the sovereignty of darkness ...
... from the dull bondage of the physical mind and its engrossing material cares. But as an escape is ruled out in the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo — its aim being a perfect self-fulfilment and divine Manifestation in life—the physical mind has to be accepted fully and just as it is, and then purified, enlightened, Page 270 and finally transformed into a flexible medium of the self-expressing ...
... records a vision of Rudra descending from the heavens to the earth. अवः, down, is repeated for the sake of vividness. In the second half of the sloka the murti or image in which he beheld the Divine Manifestation is described, Rudra, the God of might and wrath, the neck and throat blue, a peacock's feather as a crest, in the act of hurling a shaft. 2) He proceeds to describe the descent. He descended ...
... Right and the Truth, dharmarājya . The history of the cycles of man is a progress towards the unveiling of the Godhead in the soul and life of humanity; each high event and stage of it is a divine manifestation. Arjuna, the chief instrument of the hidden Will, the great protagonist, must become the divine man capable of doing the work consciously as the action of the Divine. So only can that action ...
... supreme spiritual possibilities deprived of its greatest force, but the relations of soul with soul in humanity will be left petty, limited and egoistic. Finally, it insists at great length on the divine manifestation in all things in the universe and affirms the derivation of all that is from the nature, power and light of the one Godhead. For that seeing too is essential to the God-knowledge; on it is founded ...
... effected, are not a reality and a falsehood in perpetual struggle nor yet two hostile realities, one superior, the other inferior, each fatal to the other; they are the double term of the divine manifestation. The Akshara alone is not the whole key of their fulfilment, not the very highest secret. The double fulfilment, the reconciliation is to be sought in the Purushottama represented here by Krishna ...
... evolution so that the supramental descent might become possible. 9 December 1933 What I meant in my first question [ p. 641 ] was that, as far as I can see, evolution is not necessary for the divine manifestation. There is no question about the possibility of a non-evolutionary manifestation—but that is quite irrelevant, for this is an evolutionary manifestation and it was evidently intended to be ...
... politics necessary for some people here? We would seem to have sufficient difficulties in sadhana without adding that. Why do people take mental interest in something not likely to help the divine manifestation unless it is given as a work to some? No, it is not given as a work to anybody. People go on with that because it is a mental interest or habit they do not like giving up, it is like the ...
... things as they are at present and go forward to something else which, we hope, will be better than what is. That's all that one can do. Sweet Mother, here it is written: "The method of the Divine Manifestation is through calm and harmony, not through a catastrophic upheaval." Yes. So? You don't know that? You ought to know it. Some people always imagine that catastrophes are the result of the ...
... transformation which we seek; for although he spoke of the divine man (Ishwarakoti) coming down the stairs as well as ascending, he had not the idea of a new consciousness and a new race and the divine manifestation in the earth-nature. Swami Vivekananda I do not remember what I said about Vivekananda. 2 If I said he was a great Vedantist, it is quite true. It does not follow that all he said or ...
... ignorant, who came from a place where these things had not yet penetrated, and who were suddenly shown a statue being lighted up by rays of light; they fell on their knees in adoration: it was a divine manifestation. And I have seen someone else who was in the same state, it was a child who knew nothing. In front of him a button was pressed and the car started; it seemed a tremendous miracle to him. ...
... power... * The Divine that we adore is not only a remote extra-cosmic Reality, but a half-veiled Manifestation present and near to us here in the universe. Life is the field of a divine manifestation not yet complete: here, in life, on earth, in the body, — ihniva,1 as the Upanishads insist, — we have to unveil the Godhead; here we must make its transcendent greatness, light and sweetness ...
... the right movement found, all reveal their divine values. All are justified by the truth that is in them, all equally important, equally needed, different but indispensable instruments of the Divine Manifestation. Page 120 ...
... 30 December 1950 "We are not aiming at success—our aim is perfection. "We are not seeking fame or reputation; we want to prepare ourselves for a Divine manifestation." "Tournaments" , On Education What is perfection? Some people put perfection at the apex. It is generally thought that perfection is the maximum one can do. But I say that perfection ...
... psychic being is, so to say, the vehicle of the Divine, it contains the Divine, is the habitation of the Divine, but the Divine is higher than it. For the psychic being is only an aspect of the divine manifestation. Is not the Supermind also the psychic being? The Supermind is far higher than the psychic being also. What Sri Aurobindo calls the Supermind is the element or the divine Principle ...
... yesterday was more divine than the one preceding it. And so, it could be said that the Divine, in his expression of Himself, is in perpetual progress towards a more and more perfect, a more and more divine manifestation. And in that case, each element has only to manifest, as perfectly as possible, its own law, what it should be in the whole, in order to do the utmost of what ought to be done. It is thus ...
... ignorant, who came from a place where these things had not yet penetrated, and who were suddenly shown a statue being lighted up by rays of light; they fell on their knees in adoration: it was a divine manifestation. And I have seen someone else who was in the same state, it was a child who knew nothing. In front of him a button was pressed and the car started; it seemed a tremendous miracle to him ...
... child the certitude that the truth will triumph? For, when he learns history, when he observes Nature, he will see that things don't always end well. Children must he taught to see the divine manifestation in the world and not the side which ends badly. No, if the child thinks that the Divine is different from the world, its idea that everything ends badly will be quite justified. ...
... play the best we can and open thus the way to a new progress. We are not aiming at success—our aim is perfection. We are not seeking fame or reputation; we want to prepare ourselves for a Divine manifestation. That is why we can boldly say: It is better to be than to seem. We need not appear to be good if our sincerity is perfect. And by perfect sincerity we mean that all our thoughts, feelings, ...
... different aspects of the same being; a Power is not necessarily impersonal and certainly it is not avyaktam , as you suggest,—on the contrary it is a manifestation acting in the worlds of the divine manifestation. Page 452 (4) Emanations Emanations correspond to your description of the Matrikas of whom you speak in your letter. An emanation of the Mother is something of her consciousness ...
... inner, not to a physically embodied Divine and had a reference to certain states and reactions of the inner consciousness in its seeking after the Divine. In the relations with the embodied Divine manifestation, or, I may add, of the disciple with the Guru, such things might rise as a result of human imperfection, but they were not made part of the theory of the relations. I do not think they formed ...
... highest truth, largest beauty, good, power, joy, love, oneness. The object of this force acting in life will and must be as in all life growth, possession, enjoyment, but a growth which is a divine manifestation, a possession and enjoyment spiritual and of the spirit in things,—an enjoyment that will use, but will not depend on the mental, vital and physical symbols of our living. Therefore this will ...
... Bright, Calm, Unconcerned, Unbound, Unrelated Divine Existence. This Pure Existence is not only an impersonal state of divine being, it is God Himself in His pure personality. For in all the divine manifestation, there is always this double aspect of Personality & Impersonality. God Impersonal manifests Himself, both in the universe & transcendent of the Universe, transcending it as infinite pure Existence ...
... perception of the Divine as the All-Beautiful and All-Delight? No, that you can get on any plane, and it becomes easy as soon as one is in contact with the higher Mind. Beauty is the special divine Manifestation in the physical as Truth is in the mind, Love in the heart, Power in the vital. Supramental beauty is the highest divine beauty manifesting in Matter. 19 February 1934 Supramental Action ...
... being realises at this stage its oneness with the true being, the Self, but it does not disappear or change into it; it remains as its instrument for psychic and spiritual self-expression, a divine manifestation in Nature. The bindu seen by you above may be a symbolic way of seeing the Jivatman, the individual self as a drop of the Sea, an individual portion of the universal Divine; the aspiration ...
... contrary movement. Tests come sometimes from the hostile forces, sometimes in the course of Nature. I suppose they must be necessary, since they always come in sadhana. The method of the Divine Manifestation is through calm and harmony, not through a catastrophic upheaval. The latter is the sign of a struggle, generally of conflicting vital forces, but at any rate a struggle on the inferior plane ...
... for the petty satisfactions of the lower nature is a low and smoke-obscured flame that cannot burn upwards to heaven. Regard your life as given you only for the divine work and to help in the divine manifestation. Desire nothing but the purity, force, light, wideness, calm, Ananda of the divine consciousness and its insistence to transform and perfect your mind, life and body. Ask for nothing but the ...
... like the life upon earth, is a means and not an object in itself. After liberation the soul may possess these worlds as it possesses the material birth, accepting in them a means towards the divine manifestation in which they form a condition of its fullness, each being one of the parts in a series of organised states of conscious being which is linked with and supports all the rest. TRANSCENDENCE ...
... be intended and the glory and joy of God made manifest upon earth. What Mind, Life and Body are in their supreme sources and what therefore they must be in the integral completeness of the divine manifestation when informed by the Truth and not cut off from it by the separation and the ignorance in which presently we live,—this then is the problem that we have next to consider. For there they must ...
... spiritual capacity and experience, a means towards spiritual power, knowledge or Ananda. The mantra is one of these psycho-spiritual means, at once a symbol, an instrument and a sound body for the divine manifestation, and of the same kind are the images of the Godhead and of its personalities or powers used in meditation or for adoration in Yoga. The great forms or bodies of the Divine are revealed through ...
... surely "the point of intersection of eternity with time", which you press on me with Eliot must still have some chronological locus? The birth of Jesus for those like us who regard him as a divine manifestation is a point where eternity and time intersect, yet on that account we" do not consider a phrase like Anno Domini irrelevant or inapplicable and do not hesitate to locate the birth in the ...
... some affliction that had overtaken it. Never in the past has there been any vision of the thoroughly divinised body, immune even from accidents, as the external support for an integrally divine manifestation. If that vision put forth by Sri Aurobindo is not NEW, and revolutionarily NEW at that, tell me what significance the word NEW has! You may be sceptical about the probability of so ...
... the Divine on earth were checked or nullified, for its ultimate goal is still a fulfilment in some Beyond at the end of earth-life. But a unique Yoga insisting on fulfilment by an integral divine manifestation in matter itself and not proceeding to an unearthly hereafter, a Yoga aiming to lay hands on every side of us for the creation of a new race would have its bottom blown clean away by the ...
... teachings is not only the words our reader quotes from him: "Death must not be feared, but neither should death or permanent ill-health be invited." The truth of his teachings is also that for a divine manifestation the Supramental Yoga aims at conquest of bodily deterioration, disease and death just as it aims at conquest of the life-force's incapacity and perversity and the mind's ignorance and egoism ...
... l breath of the later lyric and we feel through all the differences the basic affinity of the two compositions. The Milton-poem starts with a mention of Christ the Lamb and his collective divine manifestation - the Pleroma, the perfect world, Jerusalem. It goes on to the Satanic subversion of this manifestation in our world whose concentrated symbol is England. It continues with an assertion of a ...
... transcendental vision of Page 278 omega-workings. Evolution is pushing man towards a higher goal, an omega point, which can be described as collective divinity. A cosmic divine manifestation is in the making, Whitehead, who recalls the Platonic view of the cosmic process, maintains that nothing can emerge in the evolutionary process of the universe if its constituents were ...
... Upanishad says: tat tvam asi . When a child asked the Mother: “Mother, are you God?” she answered instantly: “Yes, my child, and so are you.” Sri Aurobindo wrote in Essays on the Gita : “The divine manifestation of a Christ, Krishna, Buddha in external humanity has for its inner truth the same manifestation of the eternal Avatar within in our own inner humanity.” 27 And he wrote in a letter: “If ...
... the world, came out of the crucible more transformed, more divinized. After every cry of existential desperation, which was the cry of humanity in her, the design, the aim and the cause of the divine manifestation became more clearly discernible, not mentally, not abstractly, not theoretically or theologically, but concretely, ecstatically concrete. She found out, literally in the body, that omnipotence ...
... × Not to be confused with the same word used when describing the non-evolving worlds of the divine manifestation. ...
... Pondicherry.’ 28 A God was embodied in each sadhak — the God he represented in his inmost being. For all of us have a part of the One Godhead in us, and this part belongs necessarily to the divine manifestation. At the origin stands the Great Mother; out of her issued the cosmic Forces who are the Gods; out of them issued the forces which, for the most part, still remain unrealized in us. Sri Aurobindo ...
... manifestation is very vast and contains many planes and worlds that existed before the evolution, all different in character and with different kinds of beings.’ 22 Seen in this way, the divine manifestation, including earthly evolution, is not the result or the scene of a dictatorial divine fancy. The omnipotent Godhead has limited himself in his creation by building laws into it, thus providing ...
... 13 This is the earth-principle that together with the principles of wafer, fire, air and ether constitutes the five elements of which things consist. 91 We have been told that the divine manifestation has neither beginning nor end. From this we might deduce that the drama of evolution, that is the incarnation of the Divine Consciousness in a material, ‘earthly’ environment, must have taken ...
... and men, saints and sinners, gods, asuras, rakshasas and pishachas . The Mother has strongly condemned violence: ‘Violence is an asuric deformation. True power acts in peace.’ 19 ‘The divine manifestation takes place in calm and harmony, not by catastrophic upheavals.’ 92 20 ‘It is always preferable to save, to illumine, to transform, instead of having to destroy brutally.’ 21 ‘We do ...
... connection: ‘All is possible, but all is not licit — except by a recognizable process … 12 Certain conditions have been established for the game’, 13 for the Cosmic play, the Lila of the Divine manifestation. In the ‘game’ or process by which our universe is functioning the Avatar plays the leading role. He appears on the cosmic stage to intervene in periods of transition, at times of crisis ...
... person who has been a real yajam ā na. For when Agni devours and enjoys, he also purifies at the same time; and his very hunger and desire, infinite in their scope, prepare and perfect the divine Manifestation upon earth. "Devouring and enjoying, purifying, preparing, assimilating, forming he rises upward always and transfigures..." 3 But what does it mean to be pure and perfect? When can ...
... gain and not lose. But there is all the question: is the artist appointed by the Divine or self-appointed?... Art is nothing less in its fundamental truth than the aspect of beauty of the Divine manifestation. Perhaps, looking from this standpoint, there will be found very few true artists; but still there are some and these can very well be considered as Yogis. For like a Yogi an artist goes into ...
... knows what divine masochist. If God exists, he must be a little less foolish than that, and we are entitled to think that this material evolution has a divine sense and that it is the field of a divine manifestation in Matter. Our spiritual discipline must therefore aim at gaining this divine man or perhaps that other, still unknown being who will emerge from us just as we emerged from hominid infancy. ...
... fallen into the latter and got trapped there. In Sri Aurobindo's eyes, the soul has deliberately come below and to him what is dubbed the shadowy world is one where the soul has to work out a divine manifestation. Not just to reflect but to incarnate the idealities - not to run away to join them but to draw them down here is its job, its true mission. But the question confronts it: "How can a genuine ...
... is beyond the earth. Earth-life can be radiant with God-realisation, but it cannot itself be completely divinised. Even Krishna who is the most dynamic no less than the most many-sided in his divine manifestation has still a final wistful note in speaking of the earth-scene - "this transient and unhappy world". Sri Aurobindo alone looks on Matter as potentially divine and provides a cosmic picture in ...
... countries India, which Pondicherry with its Ashram represents, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother chose for their spiritual work. I believe India was chosen for what I regard as the supreme divine manifestation for two reasons. The inner being of what historically and geographically has come to be known as the Indian subcontinent is spiritually charged beyond that of any other country. From the time ...
... stanza until it declares in the last one that Page 46 even after the 'heart discovers God and the soul knows itself there is no end; that is to say, then begin the splendours of divine manifestation ("Our Yoga starts where others end"). I do not think that even up to stanza 6 'everything is said to terminate' as you have put it. Sri Aurobindo of course describes the external fact ...
... March 27, 1963 ( Sometimes she cried out ) I am fed up! ( long silence ) Once I told you about an experience I had, I told you that every time a divine manifestation occurs (what is called an Avatar), there's always a particular "angle of quest," in the sense of an intense NEED urging men along the road of evolution towards the Goal, the Transformation, ...
... Yes, exactly! I found it extraordinary. It's so beautiful! I've never heard anything so pure. Pure, yes, absolutely pure! That's a divine means of expression. It's really a divine manifestation on earth.... Yes, very pure—and simple. I have always wondered why I wasn't born a musician.... You must have been a musician. It's really a regret in my life not to be a musician ...
... Catholic, but there are Catholics all over the world. What seems... bizarre to those who have gone beyond the petty, purely terrestrial limits—human terrestrial limits—is that belief in a SINGLE divine manifestation on the earth; all the religions are based on that, everyone says, "Christ was the only one," or "Buddha was the only one," or elsewhere "Mohammed was the only one," and so forth. Well, that ...
... is a nirvana on every level, even behind the physical—it's death. And those who withdraw, who try to attain Nirvana, NEVER go into the psychic—the psychic is something essentially linked to divine manifestation, not to divine nonintervention, not to Nirvana. All that is fit for the wastepaper basket! 1 × It may ...
... experiences, described in Savitri 330 recording Savitri 282 N Naidu, Sarojini 147 Napoleon 150,152 Nature achievement of 273 and Supernature 12,208,315 divine manifestation 95 doings of secret 285 domain of 88 field of scientists 163 Goddess of Light 94 Gods 85 in bliss 3 laws of 177 Light submerged in 5 moods ...
... p. 150. Page 198 there is no self-evidence of divinity in the Jesus of history and, even if he accepts the Man of Nazareth as divine, he is not bound to him as the sole divine manifestation in humanity: there could be other Avatars and Christ is not the inevitable religious datum by which to feel a triumphant touch given to the action of Omega Point. Omega by itself will surely ...
... out of this state of utter forgetfulness and establish the dynamic delight of existence everywhere. For this to happen the Supreme has to do the evolutionary Yoga, the Yoga of progressive divine manifestation in the earth-consciousness. And this has to happen in the face of his own stubbornness; for he himself has become the Inconscient. One visible sign of this stubbornness of the inconscient ...
... several connotations and is loaded with supernatural significance. In fact its symbolic nature is suggestive of the issue involved in this mortal creation, this mrityuloka . The issue is of a divine manifestation in the evolutionary way, evolution that has its beginning in Inconscience. There is a long spiritual tradition which carries in its experience this esoteric sense of the story. The story ...
... recognise you? Why should they? The veil was there necessary for their work. Why should it be thrown off? So if the Mother was present in the life of Christ, she was there not as the Divine Manifestation but as one altogether human. For her to be recognised as the Divine would have created a tremendous disorder and frustrated the work Christ came to do by breaking its proper limits. ...
... But, more importantly, the Godhead of the Gita is the Avatar himself who has come here to destroy all that is evil and crooked and retrograde and establish in Becoming the Dharma that promotes divine manifestation in the fulfilment of this creation. His word is the supreme revelation effectuating itself in the greatness of his nature and it is that which shall reshape and mould in its self these thousand ...
... superhuman future and presents a transcendental vision of omega-workings. Evolution is pushing man towards a higher goal, an omega point, which can be described as collective divinity. A cosmic divine manifestation is in the making. Whitehead, who recalls the Platonic view of the cosmic process, maintains that nothing can emerge in the evolutionary process of the universe if its constituents were ...
... superhuman future and presents a transcendental vision of omega-workings. Evolution is pushing man towards a higher goal, an omega-point, which can be described as collective divinity. A cosmic divine manifestation is in the making.¹³ Whitehead Whitehead (1861-1947), who recalls the Platonic view of the cosmic process, maintains that nothing can emerge in the evolutionary process of the universe ...
... Power of the Spirit and in the inevitability of things Supermind, the supremely dynamic Gnosis, is bound to emerge in terrestrial evolution and become in time the principal instrumentation of divine manifestation here upon earth. But wherein lies the essential difference between the nature of Mind as we know it and the nature of Supermind? To put it in brief, mental nature is based on a con ...
... manifests himself always in the double form of the separative and collective being, vya ṣṭ i, sama ṣṭ i." (Ibid.) To fulfil with equal importance this double requirement of a truly divine manifestation the Sri Aurobindo Ashram has been created, "not for the renunciation of the world but as a centre and field of practice for the evolution of another kind and form of life which would in the ...
... recognise you? Why should they? The veil was there necessary for their work. Why should it be thrown off? So if the Mother was present in the life of Christ, she was there not as the Divine Manifestation but as one altogether human. For her to be recognised as the Divine would Page 284 have created a tremendous disorder and frustrated the work Christ came to do by breaking ...
... true of every soul on earth that it is a portion of the Divine Mother passing through the experiences of the Ignorance in order to arrive at the truth of its being and be the instrument of a Divine Manifestation and work here. I am told that the psychic even when it unites itself with the Mother keeps its separation. It is the individual self that merges entirely like a drop of water in ...
... making the same effort, although unconsciously. Behind your power and mine, behind your effort and mine there resides an enormous power of the whole universe, and that power is aspiring for the divine manifestation in humanity, for the establishment of the Kingdom of Heaven on earth .and the Divine Play of the Golden Age. When that universal Power reveals itself to our sight, and when we are able to recognise ...
... ground with his head on Savitri's lap, and presendy life is extinct in him: Book VIII, entitled 'The Book of Death'.) The Struggle Between Savitri and Death (The Divine Manifestation vs. the Old Dispensation; Supra-mental Light vs. the Night, the Falsehood and the Ignorance) I. Eternal Night (Book IX) II. The Double Twilight (Book X) ...
... for the Divine descent. He is the living assurance of our divine possibility, the promise of the Divinity radiating with the divine Light and divine Power — the progressive march towards the Divine Manifestation. That is why the whole atmosphere is charged with a divine and sublime Peace, you understand? It is He who is there — in the divine body — Himself divinised, the representative of the whole ...
... ideas and the Mother's. DR. MANILAL: Yes, that is why I ask. SRI AUROBINDO: Yoga is everywhere the same. NIRODBARAN: Yes, but what I mean is that the Mother also stressed the need of divine manifestation, of not considering the world as Maya. Did she have any teacher? SRI AUROBINDO: No, Jnan Chakravarty, the husband of Krishnaprem's Guru, gave her the Gita's Yoga in Paris. And she used to ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 5 A Programme for the Second Century of the Divine Manifestation I IT IS Integration. I am using a much used, much abused word but it happens to be the word. We have reached a status of consciousness within as distinct units, individual or collective: our ...
... and the felt presence and active guidance of the Mother, and her periodic affirmations, benedictions and clear directions were pointers to the healthy growth of the dream-city, the city of Divine Manifestation. Altogether things were on the move, and more or less in the right direction. 'Auro-Garage', 'Auro-Food', 'Maternity Homes for the Children of God', 'Auro Orchard'... 'Hope'... 'A ...
... she had a very serious physical breakdown. Vasudha was called up, and remained with the Mother day and night ministering to her needs. The Mother's was both a human body and the vehicle of a divine manifestation, and our ordinary notions of illness and breakdown do not quite apply to such a personality and such a realising power of consciousness. It was nevertheless natural that her numberless disciples ...
... in 1929 in Conversation XIV, and the main thrust of the Mother's exposition was that Art, in its fundamental truth, was nothing less than "the aspect of beauty Page 303 of the Divine manifestation". The artist too is like a Yogi who goes within seeking the right inspiration: A man like Leonardo da Vinci was a Yogi and nothing else .... Music too is an essentially spiritual ...
... in life and whom one can find again through life. 29 And in a universe that is still evolving, it should surely be expected that the sent falsities would diminish more and more and the divine manifestation become increasingly a matter of daily experience. There are other talks too: "Chance"; "Different Kinds of Space and 'Time - Fearlessness on the Vital Plane"; "Knowledge by Unity with ...
... belong by our body to the world of relativity, this Union with Thee can always grow more perfect. 40 To be able to perfect the race, Mirra would first perfect herself, make visible the divine manifestation. Hence the poignantly repeated, oft repeated, word of aspiration: If we had a truly living faith, if we had the absolute certitude of Thy omnipotence and Thy sole reality, Thy manifestation ...
... When you attain that consciousness, you should also keep a perfect balance. You don't lose anything of ordinary values of life and you know what is proper and what is improper. The divine manifestation is a harmony, not a dazzling and inexplicable miracle. It is not something extraordinary and queer. It is an ordered rhythm of divine life that has to be brought into life. An ordered rhythm ...
... on earth, which is our main objective. There are other differences, but we shall discuss about them when we meet. When are you coming? But it is supramental integral transformation and divine manifestation in Matter which are the dual aim of our sadhana, and it is impossible of achievement except by the Grace of the Divine Mother, the supreme Consciousness—Force, Chit-tapas, of Sachchidananda ...
... essence is divine,” and that "if no obstacle is put in the way of the Divine’s working”, it can be converted into its divine essence and become a radiant, potent and undecaying instrument of divine manifestation. Page 269 ...
... shall study them under four heads: (I) The Divine Union, (2) Physical transformation through service in an integral surrender, (3) conquest of the Subconscient and the Inconscient, (4) The Divine Manifestation and the Divine Life. It will be our humble endeavour in this study to follow the developing contours of the Mother's ideal and mission and relate them to those of Sri Aurobindo in order to ...
... shall study them under four heads : (1) The Divine Union, (2) Physical transformation through service in an integral surrender, (3) Conquest of the Subconscient and the Inconscient, (4) The Divine Manifestation and the Divine Life. It ill be our humble endeavour in this study to follow the developing contours of the Mother's ideal and mission and relate them to those of Sri Aurobindo in order to s ...
... of the Integral Yoga? Were it only so, our Yoga would be identical with the Tântric Yoga, and robbed °f much of its integrality and characteristic potentiality For physical transformation and divine manifestation; Page 87 for, the transcendent and universal Mother, as envisaged by Tantra, can release the soul from the bonds of the lower nature and bestow upon it either the status of a ...
... integral union with the Integral Divine and become the conscious intermediary between Him and the material world, so that His unflawed manifestation may be possible in transformed human nature. Divine manifestation can, therefore, be said to be the core of her mission in this life. Page 8 The Means of Fulfilment We turn now to the means the Mother adopts and advocates for the ...
... itself at the disposal of the divine Will and help its realisation. The combined working of the two wills is the best condition and the most speedily effective means of spiritual progress and divine manifestation. We shall now try to understand what the Mother means by integral surrender. Its key-note is struck in the very first Prayer of her book, The Prayers and Meditations of the Mother, ...
... transform that cavern into an illuminated temple and install the Spirit there as the undisputed sovereign of the material world. Love, the initiator of evolution, will consummate its mission of divine manifestation in Matter as Love the Victor. Page 39 ...
... the Mother) She defines the highest function of art when she says :- "True art is intended to express the beautiful. This manifestation of beauty and harmony is part of the divine manifestation upon earth, perhaps even its greatest part." Modern is the period of utter confusion so far as arts are concerned. It is symptomatic of the age in which we live after two world wars ...
... the process of expansion from limited and egoistic mental, vital, and physical consciousness to a consciousness of unity, universality, infinity and delight ? If this can take place then the divine manifestation becomes possible. Then the remoulding of all the instruments of mind, life, and body can also occur. For that we have to take cognizance of the fact that for man, the manifestation is taking ...
... themselves to the Divine and side with the divine, they become all they should be. It may take time, there may be turmoil and difficulty—you must be... inflexible: T am for the Divine and the divine manifestation, in spite of everything and anything.' Voila. Then it is omnipotence—even over death. I am not saying tomorrow, I am not saying immediately, but... it's a certainty. * * ...
... It is possible that there may be a great complexity in manifestation - one can manifest different godheads in different parts of the being.... There should be no ego if there is to be a divine manifestation. ... I spoke about the world of the Gods because not to speak of it would be dangerous. I spoke of it so that the mind may understand the thing if it comes down. I am trying to bring it down ...
... love -Agni, Indra, Soma - were important, yet "some new splendour, some possibility of a loftier and more integral realisation" was needed if "one step farther" was to be taken towards the Divine manifestation on the earth. 31 And in the entry for 5 October 1914, she explained the evolutionary process that would change man to greater man, superman: In the calm silence of Thy contemplation ...
... yoga was turned only to an inner realization of the inner' Divine. He himself never thought of transformation or tried for it. "He had not the idea of a new consciousness and a new race and the divine manifestation in the earth-nature." Where was the answer to the why of life and body? "If I did not try to repeat them [the experiences of the previous spiritual men], it is because I do not find in them ...
... its last spark extinguished. Then the good effect and puissance of Sri Krishna's statesmanship were exhausted. "To save India, to save the world, there then became necessary another full Divine Manifestation, puma avatar." * Foreword to the Gita, published in the Bengali weekly Page 11 Krishna Dhan Ghose in his later years 1 ...
... Consciousness, as his instrument of manifestation while the former used the Supermind, the transcendent creative Truth-Consciousness whose hour in spiritual history has struck now. The Supermind is directly an aspect of Purushottama, the Overmind is indirectly so. To divide Purushottama from the Supermind as something higher is a mistake. 2.Every Avatar has a special divine aspect to incarnate and a special... descent would feel itself essentially one with its own supreme Jivatman counterpart but would not fuse with it in the sense of disappearing in it. Its existence as an entity is needed for the Divine's manifestation upon earth through the human individuality. 6.I don't follow your phraseology here. What is meant by "the involutionary being" and by its "embodied state" or "disembodied state"? The Avataric... special plane to employ as his instrument of manifestation. It was Sri Krishna's purpose, according to Sri Aurobindo, to manifest the Bliss-Self, the Anandamaya, through the Overmind. Other Avatars had other purposes. An intense expression of the Bliss-Self through their particular planes of manifestation was not a part of the purpose of any of them who came before Sri Krishna. This is not in d ...
... (elephants), the Divine's power (horses), the Divine's light (cows). The ferocity and rapacity which are ordinarily associated with lions and tigers are found to be absent here since these animals are not to be observed. But the truth behind them is not lacking in spirituality; the lordly strength behind the lion and the fiery energy behind the tiger are part of the Divine's manifestation, but they belong... plane represents the Transcendent, for it is a projection directly from the Highest to stand behind the universal manifestation. And it is from this inmost fusion of the soul-plane with the supreme station of the Divine that a dish, giving what we have named the quintessence of the Divine, comes out, bringing the marvellous Prasad. “While Champaklal is coming out of the Bhavan he gets a view of the... called the central point of the psychic plane, the Prasad Bhavan where there is, as it were, the quintessence of the Divine. It is a deep core surrounded by a wall (with no door or window) where one may have the experience which an Aurobindonian poet has expressed in regard to the Divine Mother: Your spirit is my spirit, deep in the deep, Walled by a wizardry of shining sleep. “Here within ...
... If we had a truly living faith, an absolute certitude of the almighty power of the Divine, His manifestation could be so evident that the whole earth would be transformed by it. 5 November 1954 Keep an immutable faith. Truth will triumph. 10 November 1971 Page 80 Have faith in the Divine, and go deep inside yourself. My help is always with you. 7 April 1972 ... Elements of Yoga Elements of Yoga Faith and the Divine Grace Words of the Mother - II Faith Faith is spontaneous knowledge in the psychic. Faith is a certitude which is not necessarily based on experience and knowledge. Faith―confidence in the Divine and the unshakable certitude of the Divine's Victory. It is good to have this unshakable... Have faith and go on. 13 July 1972 Our best help is faith―the Divine is all merciful. With love and blessings. ...
... achievement that goes further than any spirituality known in the past. Our universe is not merely the occult omnipresence of the Divine: it is also meant to be His manifestation. The immense unity and the immense multiplicity are pressing forward to express in the cosmic formula a divine life taking its start in the individual soul-spark which is enshrined in creatures and which one of the Upanishads englished... our soul's journey in a plane that is not terrestrial - a Vedantic Brahmaloka, a Buddhist Nirvana, a Vaishnavite Gokula or Heaven. Sri Aurobindo says that if the universe is meant to be the Divine's manifestation, there must lie in the bosom of the Spirit the secret of the universe's fulfilment. In some hidden Consciousness must be waiting the archetype, the perfect ideality of our whole embodied nature... phenomena the dream of a divine earth has haunted him. He has sought the elixir vitae along a multitude of paths. Disappointment has met him wherever he has searched, for the right mode of searching has never been found by him. Even his spiritual masters have told him that though the terrestrial scene can display the paradisal lustre he cannot hope for an integral manifestation. Now comes Sri Aurobindo ...
... the recognition it intrinsically deserves as a form of the Spirit. In concrete terms: if the Divine has manifested this world, and if we are born in it, then there must be an intention behind both facts, for the consciousness of the Divine is an infallible Truth-Consciousness also in all of its manifestation. “The touch of Earth is always invigorating to the son of Earth, even when he seeks a supraphysical... for the Brahmavidya [knowledge of Brahman].” 942 The evolutionary cosmos is one of “the vast self-extensions of the Brahman” in a divine act of seeing which simultaneously is an act of creation. The mode of consciousness involved in this act of divine Self-manifestation Sri Aurobindo calls “Truth-Consciousness” or “Supermind”, “the real creative agency of the universal existence”. The Supermind is... been sublimely held or glorified by shining and golden examples, need we consider it the integral and ultimate wisdom. Rather, liberating ourselves from all passion and revolt, let us see what this divine order of the universe means, and, as for this great knot and tangle of Matter denying the spirit, let us seek to find out and separate its strands so as to loosen it by a solution and not cut through ...
... grasp, otherwise one can understand nothing about the manifestation of the Divine." 2 The same view Sri Aurobindo expresses elsewhere also. According to it, the Divine Consciousness of the Avatar, concerned as it is with only two things fundamentally—"the truth above and here below the Lila and the purpose of the incarnation or manifestation"—does "what is necessary" for them "in the way its greater... the total transformation of the "physical". That will be the crowning stage of Sri Aurobindo's action and the Divine's manifestation. Again, Sri Aurobindo's letter of September 15,1935, which couples the Mother with him by name, says: "What is being done is meant to prepare the manifestation of the Supermind on the earth-consciousness down to Matter itself, so it can't be for the physical of myself... place on the contrary what appeared to be a radical reversal of the entire course of the Yoga. The Mother abandoned the physical frame she had used for ninety-five years in the cause of the Divine's manifestation on earth. What are we to make of this act of leave-taking by one whom we expected to complete the Yoga of Supramental Descent and Transformation? And how are we to envisage the shape of ...
... weakness, into a mould for the Divine's manifestation have been inadequate. The Yoga of God's enrapturing love and the Yoga of God's uplifting power have indeed a splendour which cannot be depreciated, they have unsealed great springs of idea and action; and yet they have failed to break the ultimate rock, so to speak, from which the full fountain of the Life Divine may leap. Philosophically,... formations of the world are evolving terms. Divine counterparts of mind and life and matter must reside in it, fully manifested in Page 4 a flawless harmony in the Beyond and concealed in their fullness within the laboriously evolving terms here, the twofold presence of them constituting by descent and ascent a manifestation upon earth. Such presence alone, with... of altering radically the life of the race. In response to an inner call he left the field of politics and withdrew in 1910 to Pondicherry in French India for concentrated attainment and manifestation of the Supermind. There he was joined after a few years by one who in far Europe had been fired by the same integral aspiration and had proceeded on similar lines of spiritual experience. She ...
... imperfect in comparison to what comes after it? Behind this question there are a number of misconceptions. It is indeed true that no end can be set to the Divine's manifestation on earth. If the Divine is the Infinite, then His manifestation can never be exhausted: depth after depth must keep disclosing itself. When the Supermind, the Vijnana-plane, has established its splendour amongst us... understands fairly well the need of entire detachment from the non-divine and of absolute love for the Supreme and of perfect service to the Master. What is not often understood is the way of action in the midst of the world where the Supreme's manifestation has to take place, the way of dealing with the humans amongst whom the Divine has put us. There are two extremes into which we are likely... Transcendent Bliss, the Ananda-plane. After that, other secrets of the Supreme will work out their revelation. But we must not overlook a great difference between the Supermind's manifestation and the manifestation of divine powers that have preceded it. And we must not omit to note that the Mother's Message, in its complete form, has a second sentence running: "And yet men have always the ...
... that ( Mother reads her message ): "The best way to hasten the manifestation of the Divine's Love is to collaborate for the triumph of the Truth." So to the superficial mind ... On our part, we know it's true because, as Sri Aurobindo said, the Truth has to be truly established Page 409 and to reign for Divine Love to be able to manifest in all its power and glory without ...... ever been like that. It's something ESTABLISHED. And established effortlessly, established spontaneously, naturally, normally. So we can foresee that when this Matter will become truly divine—truly divine—its manifestation will be infinitely more complete, more perfect in the details, and more stable than anywhere else. Page 412 ( Towards the end, Mother takes up the English translation... but there is a will certainly far more effective than mine. ( Then Mother gives flowers ) This is "Divine Purity." 1 What does "Divine Purity" mean? ... It means that the Divine receives the divine influence alone!... I understand! Or else, the individual receives nothing but the divine influence—here, mon petit. ( Mother gives the flower ) Soon afterwards Then, did I tell you ...
... The Vedic seers, who had discovered the supermind, were conscious of the supermind as a divine self-manifestation and looked on it as an imperishable greater world beyond our lesser world, a freer and wider plane of consciousness and being. They described the first step of manifestation as the truth-manifestation, and they described it as the seat or own home of the Truth, the vast Truth or the Truth... clue, and this is confirmed by Sri Aurobindo, when he points out that when we realize the supramental consciousness, we find that among its innumerable powers and innumerable possibilities of its manifestation, it has also a power of plunging the consciousness into a trance of self-involution, a self-oblivion of the Spirit veiled in its own abyss where nothing is manifest but all is inconceivable and... hidden by a Truth where the Sun of Knowledge finishes his journey and unyokes his horses, where the thousand rays of consciousness stand together so that there is That One, the supreme form of the Divine Being. 20 This supramental world, which is imperishable, does not get abolished or attenuated, simply because there is Page 23 in one of its poises a movement in which a certain operation ...
... descent of the Supermind lead inevitably to the third aim of the Integral Yoga—the full and unblemished manifestation of the Divine. Though we have called it the third aim, it is, in Page 69 fact, the sole aim; but because by manifestation we mean the supramental manifestation and no other, we think we are justified in calling the ascent to the Supermind and the descent of the Supermind... be the unfaltering movements of the divine Will fulfilling itself in the terms of human life. The body too, transformed by the supramental force, will be released forever from the obscure hold of the Subconscient and the Inconscient, and, based on Light, filled with Light, and moved by Light, become a flexible means of divine action. MANIFESTATION OF GOD IN MATTER—THE THIRD AIM ... Supermind the first and second aims respectively. But the three together in an indissoluble unity form the great aim of the Integral Yoga. Manifestation or the divine self-revelation is the key to the riddle o 1 the world. A progressive manifestation starting from the creation of dumb Matter, and culminating in the perfect Epiphany in man is the ultimate sense and significance o terrestrial existence ...
... However, Maya is essentially the manifesting power of the Divine, in other words the supreme feminine principle or Universal Mother. She is “Shakti”, the inherent power of the Divine, or “Prakriti”, Nature as opposed to the Spirit. It should always be kept in mind that, in spite of the dualities for the working out of the Divine self-manifestation, the Spirit and its Shakti are inherently one and the same... its evolution, “moving with difficulty upward from Matter to Spirit”. The primal condition, responsible for the fact that this is an evolutionary universe, is the work of Nature, for so is the manifestation of the great negative beings, called “asuras”, and the great positive beings, called “gods”. And all is the work of the One, for nothing can exist without That. “When we speak indeed of the errors ...
... static infinity alone that he can entirely experience, the still freedom of Purusha unlimited by Prakriti, the Soul standing back from Nature. There may come Page 467 indeed some divine dynamic manifestation in him, but it cannot rise entirely above the heavy limitations of physical Nature. The peace of the silent and passive Self is more easily attainable and he can more easily and fully hold... of the infinite being, consciousness and delight of the Self and share in its passive or static infinity of these things. But we can only to a very limited extent share in its active or dynamic manifestation of knowledge, power and joy. Even this static identity by reflection cannot, ordinarily, be effected without a long and difficult effort and as the result of many lives of progressive self-development;... we must restate in a practical formula the relations of the worlds which constitute the two hemispheres. All is determined by the Spirit, for all from subtlest existence to grossest matter is manifestation of the Spirit. But the Spirit, Self or Being determines the world it lives in and the experiences of its consciousness, force and delight in that world by some poise—among many possible—of the relations ...
... Aurobindonian. Whatever prospect opens to us in the time to come is bound to lead us towards the same goal - the heights of the Divine Master's all-enfolding serenity, the depths of the Divine Mother's all-soothing affection. We are in the hands of the one Divine's dual manifestation we have been lucky enough to know in terms of very earth and these hands can bear us only towards the goal of the Infinite... "There is no pit so low and deep that the Divine Grace cannot lift you out from it sky-high." As for your job, why should you take it to be at a tangent from the line of sadhana? Whatever the job, tackle it with an inner dedication of it to our Master and Mother. We cannot always pick and choose our vocations, but all work is acceptable to the Divine if done with consecration to Him. It then... nowhere, I feel everywhere. In far Germany you must still be asleep - unless my intense remembrance of you has momentarily pulled you outward or else more inward to that dimension in which the Divine Mother holds all her children together in the depths of her love. I have been graced with a general sense of this dimension, for there is in my heart a warmth and a glow which I feel in a certain measure ...
... the Divine in the world-existence, the universal Ananda, the play of the Mother, the sweetness and beauty of God's Lila. 2 The divine Teacher accedes to the request of the disciple, but with an initial reminder that a full reply is not possible. For God is infinite and his manifestation is infinite. The forms of his manifestation too are innumerable. Each form is a symbol of some divine power... degree in manifestation, all beings are in their own way and nature Page 364 powers of the Godhead; nothing moving or unmoving, animate or inanimate in the world can be without Me. I am the divine seed of all existences and of that seed they are the branches and flowers; what is in the seed of self, that only they can develop in Nature. There is no numbering or limit to My divine Vibhutis;... when it rises out of this manifestation and this partial becoming to its source, paraṁ brahma, paraṁ dhāma . He accepts him as the supreme purity of the ever free Existence to which one arrives through the effacement of ego in the self's immutable impersonality calm and still for ever, pavitraṁ paramam . He accepts him next as the one Permanent, the eternal Soul, the divine Purusha, puruṣaṁ śāśvataṁ ...
... November 1926 suddenly, immediately, things took a certain form: a very brilliant creation was being worked out in extraordinary details, with marvellous experiences, contact with divine beings, and all sorts of manifestations usually considered miraculous. Experiences followed one upon another, indeed, things were unfolding altogether brilliantly and... I must say, in an extremely interesting way.' However... as a disease or hallucination any intention she may evince or effort she may make to go beyond. if it be true that Spirit is involved in Matter and apparent Nature is secret God, then the manifestation of the divine in himself and the realisation of God within and without are the highest and most legitimate aim possible to man upon earth.' You can now see why renunciation of the world has no place... descents of spiritual Force, Light, Peace, etc. which could help the disciples in their sadhana if they were receptive. Many indeed had unusual experiences and some would have the vision of divine manifestations emanating from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Also, for a visitor, a darshan could in a few moments of silent contact change the whole course of his life. Indeed the darshan was an unforgettable ...
... who had declared himself a manifestation of the Divine, and whom the Persian Government had executed in 1850. After the Bab’s death, Baha Ullah took over the leadership of the community and declared himself ‘Him Whom God Shall Make Manifest.’ The followers of the Baha’i religion believe him to have been the most recent in a series of past and future divine manifestations including Zoroaster, the Buddha... realization of human unity through the awakening in all and the manifestation by all of the inner Divinity, which is One. In other words: to create unity by founding the Kingdom of God which is within us all. ‘The following is therefore the most useful work to be done: 1. For each individually, to be conscious in himself of the Divine Presence and to identify himself with it. 2. To individualize the... you now is a faithful servant of the Divine. From all time, since the beginning of the Earth, as a faithful servant of the Divine it has spoken in the name of its Master. And as long as the Earth and humanity exist, it will be present in a body to preach the divine word. So, wherever I am asked to speak, I do it to the best of my ability, as a servant of the Divine. But to speak in the name of a particular ...
... easy path for the sacrifice to express itself. O Agni, secure in thy friendship, may we come not to harm. दुःशंसान्. This verse describes those Asuric forces which are opposed to our divine growth & manifestation. The दुःशंसाः are those who are identified with self-division & self-limitation, the sons of Diti who stand in the way of Aditi or infinite being & oppose the शंस referred to in the last... firmly. सुवीर्य, the thing held firmly by this sadhaka, is usually in the Veda the fullness of force, knowledge & being-manifestation, sat-tapas, on any plane of the being, although sometimes the idea of knowledge is almost suppressed in the more general and radical idea of manifestation, sometimes it predominates & almost conceals the idea of force. Sometimes both are combined equally. Ila, for instance... all 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 ...
... and unity with the universal and transcendental Reality and the eventual manifestation of the intended manifestation of the divine will in the physical life consists of the most difficult endeavour, and that process is the process of the integral yoga. This task culminates in Page 57 manifestation of the divine will in physical life, and in this task, the importance of the individual... with the One Being and all beings and to live in that knowledge and transform his life by it, is that which makes the working out of the divine self-manifestation through the individual possible; and the arrival of the individual, — not in one but in all, — at the divine life is the sole conceivable object of the movement. The existence of the individual is not an error in some self of the Absolute which... states: "The human being is here on earth the highest power of ...the individual, for he alone can work out at its critical turning-point that movement of self-manifestation which appears to us as the involution and evolution of the divine consciousness between the two terms of the Ignorance and the Knowledge. The power of the individual to possess in his consciousness by self-knowledge his unity with ...
... the self-conscious infinity of the divine creation. For we can conceive, and since we can, the Divine can still more conceive—and since there is the conception, there must somewhere be the execution, the creation actual or intended,—a universal harmony into which these contrary elements do not enter. The Vedic seers were conscious of such a divine self-manifestation and looked on it as the greater world... Brahman; but this can be accepted in the sense of the consciousness of the multiplicity and the consciousness of the Oneness which by coexistence in the supreme self-awareness became the basis of the Manifestation; they would there be two sides of an eternal self-knowledge. ... of enlightened will, love or divine being, his kingdom of God, in that other world where they are unalloyed and eternal. The philosophic mystic rejects all as a mental illusion and aspires to self-extinction in some Nirvana or else an immersion in the Page 502 featureless Absolute; if the soul or mind of the illusion-driven individual has dreamed of a divine realisation in this ephemeral ...
... mutuality founded in unity is the whole secret of the divine existence in its perfect manifestation; it must be the basis of anything to which we can give the name of a divine life. But, secondly, we see that the whole difficulty and confusion into which the normal reason falls is that we are speaking of a higher and illimitable self-experience founded on divine infinities and yet are applying to it a language... that is the Divine, the eternal all-possessing God-consciousness, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, which informs, embraces, governs all existences. The human being is here on earth the highest power of the third term, the individual, for he alone can work out at its critical turning-point that movement of self-manifestation which appears to us as the involution and evolution of the divine consciousness... One Being and all beings and to live in that knowledge and transform his life by it, is that which makes the working out of the divine self-manifestation through the individual possible; and the arrival of the individual—not Page 401 in one but in all—at the divine life is the sole conceivable object of the movement. The existence of the individual is not an error in some self of the Absolute ...
... of living spiritual consciousness whose circumference is lost in the infinite. More, the spiritual individual remains as a little universe of divine existence at once independent and inseparable from the whole infinite universe of the divine self-manifestation of which we see a petty portion around us. A portion of the Transcendent, creative, he creates his own world around him even while he retains... release, as it was the living spiritual centre of the divine action and manifestation; there is something more than the mere self-breaking of an illusory shell of individuality in the Infinite. This mystery of our existence signifies that what we are is not only a temporary name and form of the One, but as we may say, a soul and spirit of the Divine Oneness. Our spiritual individuality of which the ego... and respond to the touches of existence. On the other are the vast spiritual reaches of immortal fullness, bliss and knowledge into which we are admitted through union with the divine Being, of whom we are then a manifestation and expression in the eternal light and no longer a disguise in the darkness of the ego-nature. It is the completeness of this union which is indicated by the Gita's satataṁ ...
... being is not a presence only, but a portion, a part of the manifested divine, the manifestation of the Immutable in the existence, the Soul that is within us. This, in brief, is what the psychic being is — its function and its way of working. Mother, with all these qualities and the power of the psychic, we become almost divine. Oh, my child, far, far, very far from it; the contact with the psychic... celestial aroma when it rains. Even in the taste there is a transformation, and constantly we rejoice in the joy of tasting nectar, as in His divine expression, in the multiplicity of His forms. In the largeness of His élan, in the purity of His manifestation, there exists a Presence. Then, in this state, the psychic flame governs all the actions, but without constraint, without forcing, without ... dangers, obstacles and vicissitudes on the way. Firstly one must will, — will ardently, will sincerely, will constantly, — that all in you becomes an expression of the Divine, solely a vessel for the divine Truth and the divine Love and that His light may course through you without any obstruction or conflict, in its purity, in its clarity, in its grandeur and in its essence. And the first step necessary ...
... come to know the Divine, not in the form in which he can be approached or known through inferior formations, human powers, angelic powers or godly powers, but of the Divine directly who is behind all inferior formations but who transcends them all, the divine in Himself, both in his essence and in his divine manifestations; they are jnāni; they are knowers and who adore the Divine. The Gita recognizes... sacrifice of desire leading up to complete elimination of desire so as to allow by methodical process of surrender (nama uktim vidhema, Īśā Upanishad. 18) the direct operation of the Divine Will for its unhindered manifestation. It was that teaching that was lost in due course of time, as Sri Krishna explains in the very first three verses of the fourth chapter, and it was that secret that was now expounded... higher Prakriti to manifest itself through the instrumentality of the jiva. This is the way of works, but it is the way in which the knowledge of comprehensive consciousness of the Divine, both in its essence and its manifestation, (jnānam savijnānam) 55 is indispensable. This is the way where the willingness of jiva is motivated, not by desire any more, but by its progressive self-giving and surrender ...
... all Divinities are. 10. O Lord! Just as all rivers, originating from different mountains and fed by rain, finally enter the ocean, so also all paths of worship lead ultimately to Thee. Divine Manifestations (11-15) 11. Sattva, Rajas and Tamas are the three aspects constituting Thy Prakrti. All beings, from Brahma down to inert substances, have come out of these Gunas of Prakrti and are sustained... wondered at his exploits. (22) Ever since, having directly exhorted me thus, Garga returned to his abode, I have recognized Śrī Krsna, who has ever rid us of affliction, to be no other than a part manifestation of Lord Nārāyana. (23) Having heard the aforesaid statement of Nanda recapitulating the words of Garga, the inhabitants of Vraja, who had already witnessed and heard of the glory of Śrī Krsna,... king said: 27. Prayed to by Brahmā, the worshipful Lord (Bhagavān), in order to establish Dharma and eradicate it's opposite (unrighteousness), incarnated as Śrī Krsna, along with his part manifestation (Balarāma). 28. O holy one! He is the maker of the moral codes, their protector as well as their teacher. How did he then commit this most atrocious sin of indulgence in sensual relationship ...
... the seeker discovers that all is there for him contained or new-made... then the void begins to fill, there emerges out of it or there rushes into it all the manifold Truth of the Divine, all the aspects and manifestations and many levels of a dynamic Infinite. 130 When we have seen only a static Infinite, we have seen only one face of God, Whom we have excluded from this world (though a world we... upon a very simple double certainty: the certainty of the Spirit that is within us and the certainty of the Spirit's earthly manifestation. This is the only key, the real agency for doing his work. In each man there is a God and to make him manifest is the aim of the divine life. That we can all do. 352 When a disciple argued that it was easy for exceptional beings such as Sri Aurobindo and the... disciples – there were about fifteen of them – all remember that very special, highly concentrated atmosphere prevailing during this first phase. They had dazzling experiences almost at will; divine manifestations were common, and the natural laws seemed to begin to yield. The veil between the physical world and the other planes of consciousness was growing thinner, and the Page 272 beings ...
... becomes so stable, so constant: it's something ESTABLISHED, and established effortlessly, established spontaneously, naturally, normally. So we can foresee that when this matter becomes truly divine, its manifestation will be infinitely more complete, more perfect in details, and more stable than anywhere else, in any other world. 58.115 It's strange, the mantra coagulates something: all the cellular... is collapsing, except the ... the what? The divine... something — what? It's like an attempt to make you feel that there's no difference between death and life. There. That it's neither death nor life — neither what we call death, nor what we call life. It's ... something. And that, is something divine. Or rather, it's our next stage towards the divine. 69.164 It's strange, it looks just the... suddenly disappeared from the earth they were suffocating, leaving arboreal mice and shrews to frolic and gambol about. 57.412 “Can we hope that this body, at present our means of terrestrial manifestation, will have the possibility of transforming itself progressively into something which will be able to express a higher life, or will it be necessary to abandon this form totally to enter another ...
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