... recognise it also as the will of God in us to transcend evil and suffering, to transform imperfection into perfection, to rise into a higher law of Divine Nature. In our human consciousness there is the image of an ideal truth of being, a divine nature, an incipient godhead: in relation to that higher truth our present state of imperfection can be relatively described as an undivine life and the conditions... slowly rising towards the all-conscious Divine Nature. A partial unfolding implying imperfection and ignorance may take as its inevitable companion, perhaps its basis for certain movements, an apparent perversion of the original truth of being. For the ignorance or imperfection to endure there must be a seeming contrary of all that characterises the divine nature, its unity, its all-consciousness, its... Knowledge, Truth, Beauty, Power, Unity are, they too, the stuff and elements of a divine life, and these are given to us in a scanty and grudging measure; yet all are, in their absolute, powers of the Divine Nature. It is not possible then to limit the description of our and the world's undivine imperfection solely to moral evil or sensational suffering; there is more in the world-enigma than their double ...
... The strong man in spite of the divine nature of the principle of strength in him falls into subjection to desire and to attachment, stumbles into sin, struggles towards virtue. But that is because he descends in all his derivative action into the grasp of the three gunas and does not govern that action from above, from his essential divine nature. The divine nature of his strength is not affected... existence, all else also would change to our vision, assume its true character and our life and action acquire the divine values and move in the law of the divine nature. But why then, since the Divine is there after all and the divine nature at the root even of these bewildering derivations, since we are the Jiva and the Jiva is that, is this Maya so hard to overcome, māyā duratyayā ? Because it... related to a transcendent divine Becoming, that of the Ishwara, madbhāvaḥ . In this relation of the divine bhāva to the svabhāva and of the svabhāva to the superficial bhāvāḥ , of the divine Nature to the individual self-nature and of the self-nature in its pure and original quality to the phenomenal nature in all its mixed and confused play of qualities, we find the link between that supreme ...
... world for the Gita is real, a creation of the Lord, a power of the Eternal, a manifestation from the Parabrahman, and even this lower nature of the triple Maya is a derivation from the supreme divine Nature. Nor can we take refuge altogether in this distinction that there is a double, an inferior active and temporal and a superior calm, still and eternal reality beyond action and that our liberation... Divine himself who is not bound by necessity of birth, but free, superior to the cosmos, and yet abides eternally in action, varta eva ca karmaṇi . Therefore it is by putting on a likeness of the divine nature in its completeness that the unity of this double experience becomes entirely possible. But what is the principle of that oneness? The Gita finds it in its supreme vision of the Purushottama;... now in the fifteenth chapter that it is expressly stated and the distinction illuminated by a name. And it is instructive to see how it is immediately approached and developed. To ascend into the divine nature, we have been told, one must first fix oneself in a perfect spiritual equality and rise above the lower nature of the three gunas. Thus transcending the lower Prakriti we fix ourselves in the i ...
... bondage of Gunas by gradual sublimation and perfection of Sattwa. It even describes divinity and divine nature and mentions that divinity and divine nature are above the Gunas. The goal of the Gita is, therefore, to ask individuals to rise above the bondage and to attain to the freedom of the Divine Nature. Sri Krishna even speaks of the concept of Sadharmya 3 and tells 1. 14.21 2. 14.22 - 27... chapters of the Gita, chapters seven to twelve. In these chapters, Gita describes the fullness of the Divine Being and His Divine Nature. The Gita also gives us some broad hints as to whether we can discover the divine nature even in our ordinary lower nature. The Divine Nature operates immanently in the universe at large but it is discernible only partially in each of us at various levels of consciousness... and the law Page 185 of the Divine. It is the antaratman and its four-fold quality resulting in four-fold personality that takes us to the inexpressible freedom of the Jiva, of the divine Nature and the Divine Being, para prakriti and Purushottama." Vishuddha stopped here and remained silent for quite some time. My mind was greatly satisfied and although I had still a few questions ...
... sacrifice to the higher & divine being so that human activities may be led up to the divine nature & be established in the divine consciousness, then there is either no meaning in human language or no sense or coherence in the Veda. The Vedic sacrificer is devayu,—devakámah,—one who desires the god or the godhead, the divine nature; or devayan, one who is in the process of divinising his human life & being;... navel, enjoy, thou, O Soma, know when they grow to thee in their being.” Soma is the lord of the immortalising nectar, he is the god of Ananda, the divine bliss which belongs to the Amrita or divine nature of Sacchidananda and is its foundation. The most high seat of the truth, Mahas, the pure ideal principle which links the kingdom of Immortality to our mortal worlds, is peopled with the children... asti vah. So far the image has been a double image of a journey & Page 75 a battle,—the goal of the ritam, the journey of the sin-afflicted human being towards the Truth of the divine nature; the thorns, the pitfall, the enemy ambushed in the path; the great divine helpers whose divine knowledge, for they are prachetasah, becomes active in the human mind and conducts us unerringly & ...
... of Sri Aurobindo. Both he and the Mother regard it as symbolic of the elevation of matter into the Divine Nature, which is a cardinal point in the Aurobindonian evolutionary Yoga: only, in that Yoga the elevation does not make the body disappear into the Divine Nature but rather makes the Divine Nature appear in matter in an all-fulfilling culmination. I am afraid you have forgotten what you... this being must imply an immanence and omnipresence significantly different from the Christian, although including the Christian kind. A panpsyche and a pantheos which yet do not exhaust the divine nature, as they would in a non-Christian European view, but leave the divine transcendence undiminished - surely they cannot be the automatic consequence Page 106 of a vision in which... nce of God. Aurobindo himself allows that God 'becomes' the world. But this Christian doctrine will never admit. The world is the effect of the creative-intelligence and will of God, but the divine nature is in no way affected by this action of the cit-sakti or 'consciousness-force', as Sri Aurobindo calls it. Here again it seems to me that the two traditions, the Semitic and the Oriental, need ...
... Chit-Shakti. We are concerned at present, however, not with the metaphysical issue, but with the relation of this will or faith in our being to our possibility of growth into the perfection of the divine nature. This power, this śraddhā is in any case our basis. When we live, when we are and do according to our desires, that Page 483 is a persistent act of śraddhā belonging mostly to our... śraddhā which may be dominated by any one of these three qualities that constantly govern our every thought, will, feeling and act. And again when we try to be, to live and to do according to the divine nature, then too we must proceed by a persistent act of śraddhā , which must be according to the Gita the faith of the sattwic nature when it culminates and is preparing to exceed its own clear-cut limits... convenient to take them in the reverse order, from tamas to sattwa, since we are considering how we go upward out of our lower nature through a certain sattwic culmination and self-exceeding to a divine nature and action beyond the three gunas. The tamasic sacrifice is work which is done without faith, without, that is to say, any full conscious idea and acceptance and will towards the thing Nature ...
... become indistinguishable. There the divine nature is described as distinguished from human nature. When the Rig Veda speaks of the realm of the gods or the realm of Truth-Consciousness, it is really describing to us the divine nature and its function—, and how the divine nature is constituted. The first knowledge you get is a fingerpost on the path in which divine nature is described in its two-fold power... revelation, the two powers by which mind has known something of it. Hearing the vibration of Truth and seeing the vision of Truth—these two powers have brought man some inkling of the constitution of divine nature. It means there is a plane of consciousness where you can see the Truth. There is some plane where a vibration of Truth is sent forth and the mind can hear it and can receive the vibration of... language, generally symbolic, or in some other way. So that these two or rather three powers in the human consciousness,—inspiration, intuition and revelation—give an inkling into the working of that divine nature which has first projected itself into the world. It is truth-vision and truth-audition as Sri Aurobindo calls it and this is reflected in mental consciousness. One can say or put it a little differently ...
... entirely from its consciousness, their power and will to be drawn from and dependent on its power and will, their partial phenomenon of nature to be a resultant from its greater Page 367 divine Nature, whether in the immediate actuality of things it strikes the mind as a manifestation or a disguise, a figure or a disfigurement of the Godhead. No untoward or bewildering appearance of things will... harmonised free self-formulations of this absolute wisdom and will and power and delight and love. All is there a many-sided untrammelled unity of infinites. Each energy, each quality is in the ideal divine nature pure, perfect, self-possessed, harmonious in its action; nothing there strives for its own separate limited self-fulfilment, all act in an inexpressible oneness. There all Dharmas, all laws of ... hampering conditions, and as it reaches its heights of self-power, comes near to the visible expression of the Divinity and directs itself upward to its own absolute in the supreme, the ideal, the divine Nature. For each energy is being and power of the Godhead and the expansion and self-expression of energy is always the expansion and expression of the Godhead. One might even say that at a certain ...
... only, not a type of behaviour according to ethics and morality, but a free expression of the Divine in man with the divine nature. The Divine has the divine nature which man can also acquire by replacing his human nature by the elements of the divine Page 81 nature within him. That is how the Kingdom has to come. The idea of the Kingdom was there. The process of the Kingdom... word for divine consciousness. Then she overcomes death? Yes, death on earth. This possibility of change of the whole human nature from its present condition into a more perfect divine nature has not been visualized by any seer before. That is the special contribution Sri Aurobindo has given to mankind. If it had been given before, perhaps man would not have understood it. First, the... aspect - perfect detail and organization in material life - so as to make matter a fit receptacle of the spirit, to make matter express the spirit perfectly. That is how the four aspects of the divine Nature have to come into the human being and embody humanity's work; then humanity will have perfection. Read the sixth chapter of the book The Mother and you Page 82 ...
... changed action of the vital and physical life. This converted subjectivity can be made the base of some communion or unity of the soul in mind with the Divine and some partial reflection of the divine nature in the mentality of the human being. That is as far as man can go by his unaided or indirectly aided effort, because that is an effort of mind and mind cannot climb beyond itself permanently: at... perfection of the normal human life. A Yoga of integral perfection regards man as a divine spiritual being involved in mind, life and body; it aims therefore at a liberation and a perfection of his divine nature. It seeks to make an inner living in the perfectly developed spiritual being his constant intrinsic living and the spiritualised action of mind, life and body only its outward human expression.... law, know that law, possess it as the whole power of our spiritualised nature. The conversion its action will effect is an integral conversion of our ethical being into the Truth and Right of the divine nature, of our intellectual into the illumination of divine knowledge, our emotional into the divine love and unity, our dynamic and volitional into a working of the divine power, our aesthetic into a ...
... attainment of divine freedom in which the nature of the individual transcends its limitations, the limitations of the nature subject to three gunas, — tamas, rajas, and sattva, — and attains to the divine nature (s ā dharmyam). Gita's view of Duty for Duty's sake Often this high pitch of the Gita is not grasped, and often the Gita is so interpreted as to teach us the disinterested performance... self-energising and all-giving sacrifice. That is the path that leads to the state of immortality, the state of union with the divine Being, identity with the Self and oneness with the supreme dynamic divine Nature, and the state of transcendence of the three gunas of lower nature, — the state of trigunātīta, and the state of sādharmyam. In the last six chapters (XIII - XVIII), the entire synthesis... will and action, sarvabhāvena, in every way of conscious self and instrumental nature. For all other Dharmas or norms of action are only a preparation for that highest Dharma which is the law of divine nature and divine action, and all processes of Yoga are only a means by which we can come first to some kind of union, and finally, to an integral union with the Master and supreme Soul and Self of our ...
... When you .say the Divine, people have no idea that there is a divine Nature also, a Nature which is divine and perfect. And that has a double aspect in this universal working. When it works in the universe it puts on a double aspect, Ignorance and Knowledge. So it is possible from here to transform this Nature. The divine Nature is working in the universe; the one power that is divine divides... for as He has cast Himself into the human mould, so the human has to rise into the divine mould. "His nature we must put on as He put ours." He has put on the human nature as we are to put on his divine nature. We are sons of God and must be even as he Page 54 His human portion, we must grow divine. Our life is a paradox with God for key. Your life is a paradox... it first changes, the first stage that it reaches is psychicization. The second stage it reaches is universalization or spiritualization. And the third stage it reaches is supramentalization or divine Nature. You see that from human nature to the divine the stages are one, two and three. The first stage is psychicization, the second is universalization or spiritualization, and the third is supramen ...
... Being within him who is the fount and object of all his various becoming. He is the Godhead whose divine nature, origin of all that we are, is thickly veiled by these lower natural derivations; therefore man has to get back from his lower apparent existence, imperfect and mortal, to his essential divine nature of immortality and perfection. This Godhead is one in all things that are, the self who lives... is the supreme Self and Spirit, and from his highest original existence he originates and governs the universe, not self-deceived, but with an all-knowing omnipotence. Nor is the working of his divine Nature in the cosmos an illusion whether of his or our consciousness. The only illusive Maya is the ignorance of the lower Prakriti which is not a creator of non-existent things on the impalpable background... limited working misrepresents to the human mind by the figure of ego and other inadequate figures of mind, life and matter the greater sense, the deeper realities of existence. There is a supreme, a divine Nature which is the true creatrix of the universe. All creatures and all objects are becomings of the one divine Being; all life is a working of the power of the one Lord; all nature is a manifestation ...
... effective puissance. By God-directed action our heart & intellect become suffused with power & light, or rather with light that is power and power that is light, since knowledge & force are in the divine nature one entity. Agna ojistham á bhara dyumnam asmabhyam adhrigo. This puissant light brought to us by Agni is attended with the other divine phenomenon or manifestation (vayunam, vayas), bliss, felicity... other idea of vája, possession. The path is action of knowledge, the goal is vája, possession or plenteous having, magha, fullness or plenty, of Asurya, the divine might, Force or Tapas of the divine Nature,—magha & vája, full & assured having as opposed to the partial visitations which we receive in this mortal state & mortal nature and cannot invariably use or certainly hold. And this path Agni is... s transforms itself into state of knowledge. But in mortal knowledge & mortal nature the act & the knowledge are separated from each other and can be joined or disjoined; in divine knowledge & divine nature the two go always together and are one entity. When God acts, each act is a play of effective self-knowledge. When He creates Light, He conceives of Himself as a Light & Light becomes. The action ...
... Equality The very first necessity for spiritual perfection is a perfect equality. Perfection in the sense in which we use it in Yoga, means a growth out of a lower undivine into a higher divine nature. In terms of knowledge it is a putting on the being of the higher self and a casting away of the darker broken lower self or a transforming of our imperfect state into the rounded luminous fullness... with whom we aspire,—for if there is not this likeness, this oneness of the law of the being, unity between that transcending and universal and this individual spirit is not possible. The supreme divine nature is founded on equality. This affirmation is true of it whether we look on the Supreme Being as a pure silent Self and Spirit or as the divine Master of cosmic existence. The pure Self is equal,... his divine knowledge and will and love governs their evolution—to our ignorance so often a cruel confusion and distraction—from these depths and is not troubled by the clamour of the surface. The divine nature does not share in our gropings and our passions; when we speak of the divine wrath or favour or of God suffering in man, we are using a human language which mistranslates the inner significance ...
... Purusha, divine nature (daivi bhāva), action that involves giving (dāna) , sacrifice (yajna) and austere process of concentration (tapas) , and inner renunciation of desire (tyāga) instead of renunciation of action itself (sannyāsa). 61 The Gita puts forward the attainment of divine nature (madbhāva), 62 and of perfection of manifesting the law of the divine nature (sādharmyam)... movement by which hierarchies of mind, overmind and supermind are attained, so that one is enabled to manifest the higher nature, divine nature or Para Prakriti. The Gita replaces the obsessive idea of self-annulment of nature by the principle of self-fulfilment in divine Nature. There is, according to the Gita, the normal phenomenon of the individual in the state of its entanglement and identification ...
... of the supreme Self and Brahman; he must turn his love and adoration to the supreme Person; he must subject his will and works to the supreme Lord of cosmos. Then he passes from the lower to the divine Nature: he casts from him the thought and will and works of the Ignorance and thinks, wills and works in his divine identity as soul of that Soul, power and light of that Spirit; he enjoys all the inner... knowledge with the Ishwara's, attuned by an ever-present realisation to the sense of the indwelling Divinity, sees and adores him in all and changes the whole human action to the highest meaning of the divine nature. He knows him as the source and the substance of all that Page 323 is around him in the universe. All things that are he sees as at once in their appearance the veils and in their secret... inexpressibly wide in the end that leads to liberation and perfection. The growth of the god in man is man's proper business; the steadfast turning of this lower Asuric and Rakshasic into the divine nature is the carefully hidden meaning of human life. As this growth increases, the veil falls and the soul comes to see the greater significance of action and the real truth of existence. The eye opens ...
... the Lord and controls and sustains them....." (Bhagavad Gita, XV. 16, 17, 18) This Purushottama is both the unmanifest and the manifest, and all manifestation proceeds from the Divine Nature. The Divine Nature is described in the Gita as Para Prakriti. This Para Prakriti is distinguished from Apara Prakriti, the lower nature. The lower nature consists of matter, life and mind, and the higher... amśah sanātanah). Integral reality that is presented in the Gita is thus the transcendental, who abiding in himself inactively, manifests dynamically by his all-pervading and all-creative divine nature, and is thus universal who puts forth his eternal portion as individual souls through higher Prakriti. The integralism of the Gita thus places the complexity of the relationship between the tra... thinking mind, His power and joy of the life, His light and rapture of the emotional mind and the senses. Something of the supreme image of Brahman falls upon the world-nature and changes it into divine nature." (Ibid., Vol. 12, p. 221.) Explaining further the landmarks of this process of realization, Sri Aurobindo states: "All this is not done by a sudden miracle. It comes by flashes, revelations ...
... ascend into the divine nature; one must, as already indicated, first fix oneself in a perfect spiritual equality and rise above the lower nature of the three Gunas. Next, there is also an ineffable eternal multiplicity of the Purushottama, a highest truest truth behind the primal mystery of soul manifestation. The Infinite has an eternal power and unending action of his divine Nature, and in that action... opening of a new status, our birth into a new power, we return to the nature of the spirit and re-become a portion of the Godhead from whom we have descended. The basis of this self-fulfilment in divine Nature is to be found in "the essential knowledge, attended with all the comprehensive knowledge, by knowing which there shall be no other thing here left to be known." 70 As a foundation of this integral... sanction. It is, then, through these things that the soul of man fulfils itself, most Page 46 completely in this other and dynamic secret, this other great and intimate aspect of the divine nature and possesses by that fulfilment the foundation of immortality, supreme felicity and right law of action. When, by the union of the yoga of works, knowledge and devotion, the individual rises ...
... or gunas of the lower nature) indicates the necessity of the method of total self-surrender, since the higher and divine nature which requires to be manifested in every dynamic movement in the state of accomplishment of Karma Yoga can be attained only by the influx of the divine nature into the operations of the lower nature; and this influx becomes possible only if the operations of the lower nature... nature give up their demands and their narrow satisfactions and provide ample room for the influx of the divine nature. The method of self-surrender is, as we can see in the Gita, a plenary invitation to the divine nature by its descent from its heights with all its power of transformation in the alchemy of which the lower nature is transformed and the state of sadharmyam is attained, — the state ...
... the total vibrations of Nature express automatically (not by virtue of an obligation of a regular practice of Siddhis) the law of the divine Nature. This is what is meant in the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo as the sādharmya mukti, 'the acquisition of the divine nature by the transformation of this lower being into the human image of the divine.' IV The entire process of transformation is... e grades which Sri Aurobindo has termed the 'Higher Mind', 'Illumined Mind', 'Intuitive Page 23 Mind', and 'Overmind'.² The Supermind is an eternal reality of the divine Being and divine Nature. In the words of Sri Aurobindo, 'A Supramental Truth-Consciousness is at once the self-awareness of the Infinite and Eternal and a power of self-determination inherent in that self-awareness, the... that of Nature, Prakriti. The Spirit that is manifest to itself is to be made manifest to Nature and in Nature. The Prakriti of sattva, rajas, and tamas, has to be fully transformed by the Divine Nature, the Supramental Nature, so that Nature itself would be liberated from its limitations and be the direct and fall expression of the Divine Supermind. In the supramental transformation of Nature ...
... All-existence. The Jiva follows the cycle of its becoming in the action of this divine Nature, prakṛtiṁ māmikām, svāṁ prakṛtim , the "own nature" of the Divine. It becomes in the turns of her progression this or that personality; it follows always the curve of its own law of being as a manifestation of the divine Nature, whether in her higher and direct or her lower and derived movement, whether... greatest supreme supracosmic Self also is not affected because it Page 320 exceeds and eternally transcends them. But also since this action is the action of the divine Nature, svā prakṛtiḥ , and the divine Nature can never be separate from the Divine, in everything she creates the Godhead must be immanent. That is a relation which is not the whole truth of his being, but neither is it ...
... Page 146 O Arjuna. Delivered from liking and fear and wrath, full of me, taking refuge in me, many purified by austerity of knowledge have arrived at my nature of being ( madbhāvam , the divine nature of the Purushottama). As men approach me, so I accept them to my love ( bhajāmi ); men follow in every way my path, O son of Pritha." But most men, the Gita goes on to say, desiring the fulfilment... descent, the birth of God in humanity, the Godhead manifesting itself in the human form and nature, the eternal Avatar; the other is an ascent, the birth of man into the Godhead, man rising into the divine nature and consciousness, madbhāvam āgataḥ ; it is the being born anew in a second birth of the soul. It is that new birth which Avatarhood and the upholding of the Dharma are intended to serve. This... its ordinary means, by great men or great movements, by the life and work of sages and kings and religious teachers, without any actual incarnation. The Avatar comes as the manifestation of the divine nature in the human nature, the apocalypse of its Christhood, Krishnahood, Buddhahood, in order that the human nature may by moulding its principle, thought, feeling, action, being on the lines of that ...
... profoundly significant; for it reveals the whole basis of the Gita's philosophy of divine works. The liberated man is he who has exalted himself into the divine nature and according to that divine nature must be his actions. But what is the divine nature? It is not entirely and solely that of the Akshara, the immobile, Page 139 inactive, impersonal self; for that by itself would lead the liberated... double fulfilment, the reconciliation is to be sought in the Purushottama represented here by Krishna, at once supreme Being, Lord of the worlds and Avatar. The divinised man entering into his divine nature will act even as he acts; he will not give himself up to inaction. The Divine is at work in man in the ignorance and at work in man in the knowledge. To know Him is our soul's highest welfare and ...
... expressive instruments is the one object of the sacrifice; the steps of the sacrifice of works must therefore be measured, first, by the growth in our nature of something that brings us nearer to divine Nature, but secondly also by an experience of the Divine, his presence, his manifestation to us, an increasing closeness and union with that Presence. But the Divine is in his essence infinite and his... eliminating the twisted and tangled movements of his lower consciousness made of the stuff of the Ignorance, it rebuilds and new-makes his soul and nature into the substance and forces of a higher divine Nature. In this Duality too there is possible a separative experience. At one pole of it the seeker may be conscious only of the Master of Existence putting forth on him His energies of knowledge, power... his being, his soul's Beloved and Lover. All relations known to human personality are there in the soul's contact with the Divine; but they rise towards superhuman levels and compel him towards a divine nature. It is an integral knowledge that is being sought, an integral force, a total amplitude of union with the All and Infinite behind existence. For the seeker of the integral Yoga no single experience ...
... nature. The acceptance of the instrumental ego consciousness and the will to desire are the initial consent of the self to the lapse into the lower ranges of experience in which it forgets its divine nature of being; the rejection of these things, the return to free self and the will of the divine delight in being is the liberation of the spirit. But on the other side stand the contributions of Nature... 687 liberation. All the three gunas have to be transcended. Sattwa may bring us near to the Light, but its limited clarity falls away from us when we enter into the luminous body of the divine Nature. This transcendence is usually sought by a withdrawal from the action of the lower nature. That withdrawal brings with it a stressing of the tendency to inaction. Sattwa when it wishes to intensify... That may be true of the ordinary deputed action of the Divine in the human spirit with its present relations of soul to nature in an embodied imperfect mental being, but it is not true of the divine nature of perfection. The strife of the gunas is only a representation in the imperfection of the lower nature; what the three gunas stand for are three essential powers of the Divine which are not merely ...
... Tamas, Rajas, Sattwa—-into their equivalents of the divine Nature (Para Prakriti)—Shaman, Tapas, Jyoti. Describing this transformation of the modes of Nature, Sri Aurobindo states: Page 142 Here the disharmonies of the triple mode of our inferior existence are overpassed and there begins a greater triple mode of a divine Nature. There is no obscurity of Tamas or inertia. Tamas is... consciousness, it should be not only as the Witness but as the Anumanta," 112 refusing sanction to the disturbing movements, sanctioning only peace, calm, purity and whatever else is pat of the divine nature. This refusal of sanction need not mean a struggle with the lower Prakriti; it should be a quiet, persistent, detached refusal leaving unsupported, unassented Page 127 to, without... which we participate in a greater spiritual denomination; for the three lower unequal modes pass into an equal triune mode of eternal calm, light and force, the repose, kinesis, illumination of the divine Nature. 154 Eckhart's simple yet profound teaching, remarkably free from philosophical abstractions, does not make a distinction between liberation and transformation as Sri Aurobindo's yoga does ...
... Self, towards God, towards the universal, the eternal, the infinite, in a word his growth into spiritual consciousness, by the development of his ordinary ignorant natural being into an illumined divine nature, this is for Indian thinking the significance of life and the aim of human existence. To this deeper and more spiritual idea of Nature and of existence a great deal of what is strongest and most... Spirit. But it has had too at times a highest vision which sees the possibility not only of an ascent towards the Eternal but of a descent of the Divine Consciousness and a change of human into divine nature. A perception of the divinity hidden Page 215 in man has been its crowning force. This is a turn that cannot be rightly understood in the ideas or language of the European religious... ideal scale and finally grow into the liberty of the spirit, when rule and duty were not binding because he would then move and Page 226 act in a highest free and immortal dharma of the divine nature. All these aspects of the Dharma were closely linked up together in a progressive unity. Thus, for an example, each of the four orders had its own social function and ethics, but also an ideal rule ...
... uniting nearness, there is an embrace of the liberated spirit by its divine Lover and the enveloping Self of its infinitudes, sāmīpya . There is an identity of the soul's liberated nature with the divine nature, sadṛśya mukti ,—for the perfection of the free spirit is to become even as the Divine, madbhāvam āgataḥ , and to be one with him in the law of its being and the law of its works and nature,... given up to the supreme Master of action and he as the supreme Will meets the will of sacrifice, takes from it its burden and assumes to himself the charge of the works of Page 401 the divine Nature in us. And when too in the high passion of love the devotee of the Lover and Friend of man and of all creatures casts upon him all his heart of consciousness and yearning of delight, then swiftly... the Divine and rise undisturbed to perfection. Then too knowledge, will and devotion can lift their pinnacles from a firm soil of solid calm into the ether of Eternity. What then will be the divine nature, what will be the greater state of consciousness and being of the bhakta who has followed this way and turned to the adoration of the Eternal? The Gita in a number of verses rings the changes on ...
... and interesting sufferings (for it shrinks even from the Ananda which will replace them); next there is some vague ignorant idea of the mind, due, I suppose, to the ascetic tradition, that the divine nature is something cold, bare, empty, austere, aloof, without the glorious riches of the egoistic human vital life. As if there were not a divine vital and as if that divine vital is not itself and, when... omnipotence held back and conditioned by the Law of the world as it is, but a full action and therefore bringing the reign of light, peace, harmony, joy, love, beauty and Ananda, for these are the Divine Nature. The Divine Grace is there, ready to act at every moment, but it manifests as one grows out of the law of the Ignorance into the Law of Light and it is meant, not as an arbitrary caprice, however... legs means that their action here takes place in the physi cal or material consciousness, in the evolution of the external mind, vital, physical towards the experience of the Divine and of the Divine Nature. The bite of the cobras (Shiva's cobras!) does not kill, or it only kills the "old Adam" in the being; their bite brings the ecstasy of the presence of the Divine—that which you felt coming upon ...
... (Continued to p. 71). Page 85 manifesting itself in the human form and nature, the eternal Avatar; the other is an ascent, the birth of man into the Godhead, man rising into the divine nature and consciousness...; it is the being born anew in a second birth of the soul. It is that new birth which Avatarhood and the upholding of the Dharma are intended to serve. If there were not this... its ordinary means, by great men or great movements, by the life and work of sages and kings and religious teachers, without any actual incarnation. The Avatar comes as the manifestation of the divine nature in the human nature, the apocalypse of its Christhood, Krishnahood, Buddhahood, in order that the human nature may by moulding its principle, thought, feeling, action, being on the lines of that... extended in space" (8.21,22). "By Me all this universe has been extended in the ineffable mystery of My being; all existences are situated in Me, not I in them.... All existences...return into my divine Nature...in the lapse of the cycle; at the beginning of the cycle I loose them forth" (9.4.7). "I am here in this world and everywhere, I support this entire universe with an infinitesimal portion of Myself" ...
... y is used as the centre of a divine transfiguration and the instrument of its own perfection. In effect, the pressure of the Tapas, the force of consciousness in us dwelling in the Idea of the divine Nature upon that which we are in our entirety, produces Page 45 its own realisation. The divine and all-knowing and all-effecting descends upon the limited and obscure, progressively illumines... manifestation is constituted and that everything in it, however seemingly deformed or petty or vile, is the more or less distorted or imperfect figure of some element or action in the harmony of the divine Nature. We begin to understand what the Vedic Rishis meant when they spoke of the human forefathers fashioning the gods as a smith forges the crude material in his smithy. Thirdly, the divine Power... the duality; not only the sālokya-mukti by which the whole conscious existence dwells in the same status of being as the Divine, in the state of Sachchidananda; but also the acquisition of the divine nature by the transformation of this lower being into the human image of the Divine, sādharmya-mukti , and the complete and final release of all, the liberation of the consciousness from the transitory ...
... of the divine Nature in the human race. The liberated individual being, united with the Divine in self and spirit, becomes in his natural being a self-perfecting instrument for the perfect out-flowering of the Divine in humanity. This outflowering has its two terms; first, comes the growth out of the separative human ego into the unity of the spirit, then the possession of the divine nature in its... its proper and its higher forms and no longer in the inferior forms of the mental being which are a mutilated translation and not the authentic text of the original script of divine Nature in the cosmic individual. In other words, a perfection has to be aimed at which amounts to the elevation of the mental into the full spiritual and supramental nature. Therefore this integral Yoga of knowledge, love ...
... increase the divine nature, daivī prakṛti , which is present in us and get rid of the Titanic and demoniac elements. Not therefore the Hebraic righteousness of the God-fearing man, but the purity, love, beneficence, truth, fearlessness, harmlessness of the saint and the God-lover are the goal of the ethical growth according to this notion. And, speaking more largely, to grow into the divine nature is the... great ones of the earth, capable of whim, tyranny, personal enmity, jealous of any greatness in man which might raise him above the littleness of terrestrial nature and bring him too near to the divine nature. With such notions no real devotion could arise, except that doubtful kind which the weaker may feel for the stronger whose protection he can buy by worship and gifts and propitiation and obedience ...
... universal mind; for our spirit, to be identified with the universal spirit. It is to merge in him in the absolute and find him in all relations. Secondly, it is to put on the divine being and the divine nature. And since God is Sachchidananda, it is to raise our Page 511 being into the divine being, our consciousness into the divine consciousness, our energy into the divine energy, our delight... but to widen into it in all our being, because it is to be found on all the planes of our existence and in all our members, so that our mental, vital, physical existence shall become full of the divine nature. Our intelligent mentality is to become a play of the divine knowledge-will, our mental soul-life a play of the divine love and delight, our vitality a play of the divine life, our physical being... the divine reality can be reflected, a clear vessel and an unobstructing channel into which the divine presence and through which the divine influence can be poured, a subtilised stuff which the divine nature can take possession of, new-shape and use to divine issues. For the mental being at present reflects only the confusions created by the mental and physical view of the world, is a channel only for ...
... with their whole being, manmayā mām upāśritāḥ , purified by the realising force of their knowledge and delivered from the lower nature, attain to the divine being and divine nature, madbhāvam . The Avatar comes to reveal the divine nature in man above this lower nature and to show what are the divine works, free, unegoistic, disinterested, impersonal, universal, full of the divine light, the divine power... it means a fundamental law of our nature which secretly conditions all our activities, and in this sense each being, type, species, individual, group has its own dharma. Secondly, there is the divine nature which has to develop and manifest in us, and in this sense dharma is the law of the inner workings by which that grows in our being. Thirdly, there is the law by which we govern our outgoing thought ...
... not open into the higher planes. So far as a mental account can be given, I have done it in the Arya . Divine Nature is the nature of the divine Consciousness, Truth, Peace, Light, Purity, Knowledge, Power, Ananda on whichever plane it manifests. Supermind is one plane of the Divine Nature. The Divine is Sachchidananda. 18 October 1938 I do not find it easy to answer the few brief and casual... can get accustomed to forming general ideas and thinking coherently about them. 22 September 1933 What is meant by: 1) the psychic nature, 2) spiritual nature, 3) supramental nature, 4) divine nature? To answer these questions it would be necessary to write a volume. I have written some letters about the psychic being and the self—you can get hold of those and read them. Supramental nature ...
... it is not at all identical, but rather very far from what I mean by transformation. For the transformation I aim at is not from sin to sainthood but from the lower nature of the Ignorance to the Divine Nature of Light, Peace, Truth, Divine Power and Bliss beyond the Ignorance. It journeys towards a supreme self-existent good and leaves behind it the limited struggling human conception of sin and virtue;... for the purity and divinity of the supreme Nature; it is not the essence of being but the accidents of our undeveloped imperfect nature that are destroyed and replaced by the manifestation of the divine Nature. The monistic Adwaita aims at the disappearance of the ego, not of the essence of the person; it arrives at its disappearance by identity with the One, by dissolution of the Nature-constructed ego... no doubt to be active as well as static and passive; but none who has not arrived at the silence and motionless solitude of the eternal Self can have the free and integral activity of the higher divine Nature. For the Page 509 action is based on the silence and by the silence it is free. V. "...the Christian life, a mystic, progressive life which is an enrichment, an infinite enlargement ...
... That is not transformation. Puta, being purified, you attain to My nature—the Divine nature—but such an attainment is not transformation. PURANI: When one is acting from the Divine nature, the Divine spiritual consciousness is the background. Is it not the transformed nature? SRI AUROBINDO: What is the Divine nature? Transformation does not mean the change of ordinary nature into it. At least ...
... self-conscious means and willed arrangements of activities and by ever-increasing expression of inner potentialities in a persistent and guided effort to untie our being with the divine reality and divine nature. * * * There are several features in Yogic methods which are similar to those in religions. In Bhaktiyoga, for example, there is an important role assigned, not only to faith, but also... than moralist's seeking for the right and blameless action; it is a constant effort to grow into likeness to Divine, it is a constant effort of liberation from our lower nature so to change into Divine nature. * * * Prayer is often supposed to be a thing irrational and necessarily superfluous and ineffective. But prayer in Yoga is essentially an ardent aspiration, and it is a bridge of re... self-conscious means and willed arrangements of activity and by ever increasing expression of inner potentialities in a persistent and guided effort to unite our being with the divine reality and divine nature. * * * Just as in science, we first observe the natural force of electricity or of steam and its normal occurrences or normal operations, and then we handle these operations scientifically ...
... consciousness and experience with the imputation of unreality and clamps down to its earth-roots the growth of the spirit from its original limiting humanity into the supramental truth and the divine nature. These obstacles can be overcome, the denials and resistance of the body surmounted, its transformation is possible. Even the inconscient and animal part of us can be illumined and made capable... compulsions of its animality must cease to be obligatory and a purification of its materiality effected by which that very materiality can be turned into a material solidity of the manifestation of the divine nature. For nothing essential must be left out in the totality of the earth-change; Matter itself can be turned into a means of revelation of the spiritual reality, the Divine. The difficulty is dual... insistence of the body's gross instincts, impulses, desires; the second is the outcome of our corporeal Structure and organic instrumentation imposing its restrictions on the dynamism of the higher divine nature. The first of these two difficulties is easier to deal with and conquer; for here the will can intervene and impose on the body the power of the higher nature. Certain of these impulses and instincts ...
... rising into the Divine Nature from the lower nature. What that higher Nature is you will understand afterwards. You have to become fit for it. You can now see your lower nature; especially the vital play Page 126 of Kama (lust) and Krodha (anger) etc – is essentially the Dharma – the functioning – of the animal man. You have to rise into the Divine Nature by rejecting the... the lower nature. How can you get the Divine Nature unless you conquer the nature of the animal-man in you ? The first step has been given to you : you must learn to separate yourself as the Purusha, and look unmoved at all the play of nature in you. You must externalise the play and see all its actions as outside yourself. You ought not to allow any mental justification for the play of the lower ...
... are the basis on which the Gita rests its whole idea of the liberated being made one in the conscious law of its existence with the Divine. That liberation, that oneness, that putting on of the divine nature, sādharmya , it declares to be the very essence of spiritual freedom and the whole significance of immortality. This supreme importance assigned to sādharmya is a capital point in the teaching... essence. In the spiritual evolution of its becoming, no less than in its secret original being, it must grow into the likeness of the Divine. And this great thing, to rise from the human into the divine nature, we can only do by an effort of Godward knowledge, will and adoration. For the soul sent forth by the Supreme as his eternal portion, his immortal representative into the workings of universal Nature... cognizance of things, but a growing of man the mental being into a greater spiritual consciousness. The soul's salvation cannot come without the soul's perfection, without its growing into the divine nature; the impartial Godhead will not effect it for us by an act of caprice or an arbitrary sanad of his favour. Divine works are effective for salvation because they lead us towards this perfection ...
... thought, a less negating attitude, a greater affirmation. In place of its obsessing idea of a self-annulment of Nature we get the glimpse of an ampler solution, the principle of a self-fulfilment in divine Nature. There is, even, at least Page 289 a foreshadowing of the later developments of the religions of Bhakti. Our first experience of what is beyond our normal status, concealed behind the... limitations, says Krishna, come to know that Brahman and all the integrality of the spiritual nature and the entirety of Karma. And because they know Me and know at the same time the material and the divine nature of being and the truth of the Master of sacrifice, they keep knowledge of Me also in the critical moment of their departure from physical existence and have at that moment their whole consciousness... being and expresses it in the Swabhava, the spiritual nature of the Jiva. The inherent truth and principle of the self of each Jiva, that which works itself out in manifestation, the essential divine nature in all which remains constant behind all conversions, perversions, reversions, that is the Swabhava. All that is in the Swabhava is loosed out into cosmic Nature for her to do what she can with ...
... bondage. Sin and stain then cannot be; for we have overcome that creation full of desire and its works and reactions which belongs to the ignorance, tair jitaḥ sargaḥ , and living in the supreme and divine Nature there is no longer fault or defect in our works; for these are created by the inequalities of the ignorance. The equal Brahman is faultless, nirdoṣaṁ hi samaṁ brahma , beyond the confusion of... as to discover and live in that which is eternal; ethical knowledge, when by it having distinguished sin from virtue we put away the one and rise above the other into the pure innocence of the divine Nature; aesthetic knowledge, when we discover by it the beauty of the Divine; Page 203 knowledge of the world, when we see through it the way of the Lord with his creatures and use it for the... but it is on a lower plane. The Stoic kingship is maintained by a force put upon self and environment; the entirely liberated kingship of the Yogin exists naturally by the eternal royalty of the divine nature, a union with its unfettered universality, a finally unforced dwelling in its superiority to the instrumental nature through which it acts. His mastery over things is because he has become one soul ...
... Self there is the same divine nature, but here it is in its state of eternal rest, equilibrium, inactivity, nivritti. Finally, for activity, for pravritti, the Para Prakriti becomes the multiple spiritual personality, the Jiva. But the intrinsic activity of this supreme Page 278 Nature is always a spiritual, a divine working. It is force of the supreme divine Nature, it is the conscious will... and the inmost intrinsic being, not through the mental idea and vital desire, and to turn all his acts into a pure outflowing of the will of the Supreme, all his life into a dynamic symbol of the Divine Nature. But there is also this lower nature of the three gunas whose character is the character of the ignorance and whose action is the action of the ignorance, mixed, confused, perverted; it is the ...
... om: The primal sound representing the supreme spiritual reality. Parame ś vara (Parameshwara): The Supreme as Lord and Master of the universe. par ā prakrti: The higher or divine Nature. par ā prakrtir jivabhūtā: The higher Nature that has becomethe individual selves. prakrti (Prakriti): Nature, the active and executive Energy, as distinguished from the witnessing... created by the Powers of Darkness. śakti (Shakti): The Divine Power, the Conscious Force of the Divine. ś ama (Shama): Quiet, rest - the principle of calm and peace in the higher or divine Nature. śrāddha (Shraddha):The ceremony of offering oblation tothe dead. saccidānanda (Sachchidananda): The Supreme Reality as self-existent Being, Consciousness and Bliss. sahasradala:... upon the principle of Consciousness-Power (conceived as the Mother) as the supreme Reality. tap as: Energy of Consciousness - the principle of spiritual power and force in the higher or divine Nature. tapasy ā (Tapasya): Spiritual effort by concentration of the energies in a spiritual discipline or process. tāmasika (Tamasic): Full of the quality of tamas, the principle of obscurity ...
... final. The animal is a laboratory in which Nature has worked out man; man may very well be a laboratory in which she wills to work out superman, to disclose the soul as a divine being, to evolve a divine nature. Shorter Synopsis of the Chapter Man's highest aspiration has been always a seeking for God, perfection, freedom, an absolute truth and bliss, immortality. A direct contradiction exists... its complete solution. The accordance of immortal spirit with a mortal mind, life and body is her third and final problem; its complete solution would be the evolution of a divine being and a divine nature. As Nature has implanted the impulse to life in matter, to mind in life, so she has implanted in mind the impulse towards the evolution of what is beyond mind, spiritual, supramental. Each impulse... creation of the necessary organs and faculties. The animal is a laboratory in which she has worked out man; man may be a laboratory in which she wills to work out the superman, the being of a divine nature. Page 503 ...
... consciousness and experience with the imputation of unreality and clamps down to its earth-roots the growth of the spirit from its original limiting humanity into the supramental truth and the divine nature. These obstacles can be overcome, the denials and resistance of the body surmounted, its transformation is possible. Even the inconscient and animal part of us can be illumined and made capable... compulsions of its animality must cease to be obligatory and a purification of its materiality effected by which that very materiality can be turned into a material solidity of the manifestation of the divine nature. For nothing essential must be left out in the totality of the earth-change; Matter itself can be turned into a means of revelation of the spiritual reality, the Divine. The difficulty is dual... insistence of the body's gross instincts, impulses, desires; the second is the outcome of our corporeal structure and organic instrumentation imposing its restrictions on the dynamism of the higher divine nature. The first of these two difficulties is easier to deal with and conquer; for here the will can intervene and impose on the body the power of the higher nature. Certain of these Page 542 ...
... these million processes and forces. Individual, she embodies the power of these two vaster ways of her existence, makes them living and near to us and mediates between the human personality and the divine Nature. The one original transcendent Shakti, the Mother stands above all the worlds and bears in her eternal consciousness the Supreme Divine. Alone, she harbours the absolute Power and the ineffable... supramental godheads, then is the Mother revealed as the supramental Mahashakti and brings pouring down her luminous transcendences from their ineffable ether. Then can human nature change into dynamic divine nature because all the elemental lines of the supramental Truth-consciousness and Truth-force are strung together and the harp of life is fitted for the rhythms of the Eternal. If you desire this t... your mind, your soul that answers to the Truth, not your mind that leaps at appearances; trust the Divine Power and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of Divine Nature. The supramental change is a thing decreed and inevitable in the evolution of the earth-consciousness; for its upward ascent is not ended and mind is not its last summit. But that the change ...
... for everything essential is covered by its amplitude. On the other hand, the positive sense of freedom is to be universal in soul, transcendently one in spirit with God, possessed of the highest divine nature,—as we may say, like to God, or one with him in the law of our being. This is the whole and full sense of liberation and this is the integral freedom of the spirit. We have already had to speak... whole being to him, by which not only do we become one with him in our spiritual existence, but dwell too in him and he in us, so that the whole nature is full of his presence and changed into the divine nature; we become one spirit and consciousness and life and substance with the Divine and at the same time we live and move in and have a various joy of that oneness. This integral liberation from the... from the divine Being and the divine Will; when it returns to unity with the divine Will and Being, it rises beyond sin and virtue to the infinite self-existent purity and the security of its own divine nature. Page 680 Its incapacities it tries to set right by organising its imperfect knowledge and disciplining its half-enlightened will and force and directing them by some systematic effort ...
... strength, love, capacity, is not that personally we may enjoy the divine Nature or be even as the gods, though that enjoyment too will be ours, but because this liberation and perfection are the divine Will in us, the highest truth of our self in Nature, the always intended goal of a progressive manifestation in the universe. The divine Nature, free and perfect and blissful, must be manifested in the individual... the oneness of a supreme love and bliss, and all our forces of being uplifted into the one Force, our will and works surrendered into the one Will and Power, assume the dynamic perfection of the divine Nature. Page 276 ...
... these million processes and forces. Individual, she embodies the power of these two vaster ways of her existence, makes them living and near to us and mediates between the human personality and the divine Nature.’ 8 The Mother as Maheshwari is the personification of the supreme power and wisdom, as Mahalakshmi of harmony and beauty, as Mahakali of the combative force which destroys with Love in order... constitution; it is a yoga requiring the temperament of the heroic warrior. ‘Without heroism man cannot grow into the Godhead. Courage, energy and strength are among the very first principles of the divine nature in action,’ 33 wrote Sri Aurobindo. The Mother wrote after his passing away: ‘To follow Sri Aurobindo in the great adventure of his Integral Yoga, one needed always to be a warrior; now that... which the sadhaks had dedicated their life, was for that matter the most difficult endeavour a human being could take on. Its aim, as we know, was a complete transformation of the human into a divine nature and ultimately of the human body in a body that must be able to contain and express divinity. When somebody once asked him: ‘You have said, Sir, in The Life Divine that only the absolute idealist ...
... triune way of knowledge, works and devotion. And the fruit of the sacrifice, the one fruit still placed before the seeker, is attained, union with the divine Being and oneness with the supreme divine nature. — Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita, pp. 29-38 Page 72 The Message of the Gita "The secret of action," so we might summaries the message of the Gita, the word of... transcendence; he descends as the Avatar; he is here in you; he rules from within all things in the steps of their nature. And you too must do works in him, after the way and in the steps of the divine nature, untouched by limitation, attachment or bondage. Act for the best good of all, act for the maintenance of the march of the world, for the support or the leading of its peoples. The action asked... evil and lift you far above human standards of virtue. For you will live and act in the absolute and spontaneous right and purity of the spiritual being and the immaculate force of the divine Page 100 nature. The Divine and not you will enact his own will and works through you, not for your lower personal pleasure and desire, but for the world-purpose and for your divine good and the manifest ...
... years of the sacrificial session: he knows the time, place, order by which the Swadha, the self-arranging self-movement of the divine Nature in man that is developing itself, progresses till it turns itself into the Swaha, the luminous self-force of the fulfilled divine Nature of the gods. This order of the sacrificial seasons is called ऋतु and represents the progressive movement of development of the ...
... being, a connecting sacrifice, an intimate interchange, a mutual aid, a communion. There is a building of the powers of the godheads within man and a formation in him of the universality of the divine nature. For the gods are the guardians and increasers of the Truth, the powers of the Immortal, the sons of the infinite Mother; the way to immortality is the upward way of the gods, the way of the Truth... the fresh purity of the spiritual consciousness needed to be followed and supplemented by a descent of the light and force of the spirit into man's members and the attempt to transform human into divine nature. But it could not find its complete way or its fruit because it synchronised with a decline of the life force in India and a lowering of power and knowledge in her general civilisation and culture ...
... transcendence; he descends as the Avatar; he is here in you; he rules from within all things in the steps of their nature. And you too must do works in him, after the way and in the steps of the divine nature, untouched by limitation, attachment or bondage. Act for the best good of all, act for the maintenance of the march of the world, for the support or the leading of its peoples. The action asked... sin and evil and lift you far above human standards of virtue. For you will live and act in the absolute and spontaneous right and purity of the spiritual being and the immaculate force of the divine nature. The Divine and not you will enact his own will and works through you, not for your lower personal pleasure and desire, but for the world-purpose and for your divine good and the manifest or secret ...
... of matter, there are worlds besides ours. Just as worlds come into being by the natural processes brought about by commissions of atoms, they all perish too. Rejecting the theory of the divine nature of cosmic order, Lucretius ventures to affirm and maintain that to believe that for the sake of men the glorious nature of the world has been set in order and that it will be eternal and immortal... In their empyrean, its burning breath Survives beyond, the rapturous core of suns That flame for ever pure in skies unseen, A voice of the eternal Ecstasy. 23 Stressing the divine nature of love, Savitri later tells Death that she has triumphed over him within: ...Love must soar beyond the very heavens And find its secret sense ineffable; It must change its human ...
... works to remove the ignorance and change the nature into the divine Nature. We little human beings can never fathom the full glory of the Mother's personality. Such is the case with the Mother's Force, too. How much potency it must have that it not only removes the Ignorance but also changes and transforms the nature into the divine Nature, a process which was never attempted in the old Yogas. Sri ...
... vistrarasya me — there is no end to my self-extension. [ Gītā 10.19] Nature, Nature Force — the outer or executive side of the Conscious Force which forms and moves the worlds. The higher, divine Nature (Para Prakriti) is free from Ignorance and its consequences; the lower Nature (Apara Prakriti) is a mechanism of active Force put forth for the working of the evolutionary Ignorance. The lower... this union. Yoga is in essence the union of the soul with the immortal being and consciousness and bliss of the Divine, effected through the human nature with a result of development into the divine nature of the being. Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one's ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness. 2. one of ...
... plenary Godhead here below and not only there above will be answered: our matter itself will live in the light and the law of the Immortal. Our Nature-parts have their archetypes of truth in a Divine Nature that is inalienable from the Divine Self and, by the descent of that truth without which indeed everything in Nature would be a supportless Maya, our mind and life and body will put on divinity... time-conditions it still brings us in essence the flame-tongue of the original Fire that, in the Upanishadic phrase, has gone forth everywhere and become all things. In view of the Mantra's divine nature I am inclined to make a few remarks as to how exactly your beautiful statement about poetry's shortcoming as well as service should be interpreted. You write apropos of spiritual art of the ...
... appearance; (2) the universe, as a system of the One and the Many, is the sole reality, in which case God is nothing except Nature and hence, despite appearance, everything of Nature is equally divine. Nature, as we know it, is, for the ancient Vedanta, merely the outer manifestation and if we ignore what is behind this manifestation "we shall fall into the intellectual error of Pantheism, not realising... therefore the inner trend of the evolutionary Energy and its ultimate intention - to know and to grow into this truth of itself, to become one with the Divine Being, to raise its nature to the Divine Nature, its existence into the Divine Existence, its consciousness into the Divine Consciousness, its delight of being into the Divine Delight of Being, and to receive all this into its becoming, to make ...
... physical are accustomed to act for themselves and do not care for what the soul wants. When they do care and obey the psychic, that is their conversion—they begin to put on themselves the psychic or divine nature. The psychic is the support of the individual evolution; it is connected with the universal both by direct contact and through the mind, vital and body. It may be said of the psychic... when the true soul (psyche) comes forward and begins first to influence and then govern the actions of the instrumental nature that man begins to overcome vital desire and grow towards a greater divine nature. We are concerned with the growth of the soul out of the Ignorance, not its plunge into it. The lower nature is the nature of the Ignorance, what we seek is to grow into the nature of the ...
... mind and life and body seize on them to remould in a diviner image. Here the disharmonies of the triple mode of our inferior existence are overpassed and there begins a greater triple mode of a divine Nature. There is no obscurity of tamas or inertia. Tamas is replaced by a divine peace and tranquil eternal repose out of which is released from a supreme matrix of calm concentration the play of action... which we participate in a greater spiritual dynamisation; for the three lower unequal modes pass into an equal triune mode of eternal calm, light and force, the repose, kinesis, illumination of the divine Nature. This supreme harmony cannot come except by the cessation of egoistic will and choice and act and the quiescence of our limited intelligence. The individual ego must cease to strive, the mind ...
... integral Yoga. Yoga is in essence the union of the soul with the immortal being and consciousness and delight of the Divine, effected through the human nature with a result of development into the divine nature of being, whatever that may be, so far as we can conceive it in mind and realise it in spiritual activity. Whatever we see of this Divine and fix our concentrated effort upon it, that we can become... consciousness and delight of the Divine through every part of our human nature separately or simultaneously, but all in the long end harmonised and unified, so that the whole may be transformed into a divine nature of being. Nothing less than this can satisfy the integral seer, because Page 587 what he sees must be that which he strives to possess spiritually and, so far as may be, become. Not ...
... more is it indispensable for inner peace, purity and joy. But a much more radical deliverance, not only from egoism but from ego-idea and ego-sense, is needed if our aim is to raise human into divine nature. Experience shows that, in proportion as we deliver ourselves from the limiting mental and vital ego, we command a wider life, a larger existence, a higher consciousness, a happier soul-state, even... union is the discovery of that very Transcendent as the source, support, continent, informing and constituent spirit and substance of both these manifesting powers of the divine Essence and the divine Nature. Whatever the path, this must be for him the goal. The Yoga of Action also is not fulfilled, is not absolute, is not victoriously complete until the seeker has felt and lives in his essential and ...
... this growing into the divine likeness is to the outward ethical life. It culminates in a sort of liberation by likeness to the Divine, 1 a liberation from our lower nature and a change into the divine nature. Consecration becomes in its fullness a devoting of all our being to the Divine; therefore also of all our thoughts and our works. Here the Yoga takes into itself the essential elements of the... with the Divine and communion with other devotees, or at most keeps the doing from the secure fortress of the ascetic life of those services to men which seem peculiarly the out-flowing of the divine nature of love, compassion and good. But there is the wider self-consecration, proper to any integral Yoga, which, Page 573 accepting the fullness of life and the world in its entirety as the ...
... philosophy, on the same condition that it accepts the tamasic recoil,—it must have above it the sattwic vision of knowledge, at its root the aim at self-realisation and in its steps the ascent to the divine Nature. A Stoic discipline which merely crushed down the common affections of our human nature,—although less dangerous than a tamasic weariness of life, unfruitful pessimism and sterile inertia, because... proceed from the One in him and to the One in all they are directed. The equality of the Gita is a large synthetic equality in which all is lifted up into the integrality of the divine being and the divine nature. Page 199 × Dhīras tatra na muhyati , says the Gita; the strong and wise soul is not perplexed, troubled ...
... unbelievable. Nature has been represented as the mechanical bondage of the gunas, the soul as the egoistic being subject to that bondage. But if that be all their truth, they are not and cannot be divine. Nature, ignorant and mechanical, cannot be a power of God; for divine Power must be free in its workings, spiritual in its origin, spiritual in its greatness. The soul bound and egoistic in Nature, mental... come by accepting a higher knowledge in which all this apparent evil becomes convinced of ultimate unreality, is shown to be a creation of our darkness. But to grow thus into the freedom of the divine Nature one must accept and believe in the Godhead secret within our present limited nature. For the reason why the practice of this Yoga becomes possible and easy is that in doing it we give up the whole ...
... Lord and the Jiva stand together revealed as of one essence of being, the Father and the Son of certain symbolisms, the Divine Being and the divine Man who comes forth from Him born of the higher divine Nature, 1 the virgin Mother, parā prakṛti, parā Page 162 māyā, into the lower or human nature. This seems to be the inner doctrine of the Christian incarnation; in its Trinity the Father... action of that Will, Being, Power, Love, Light, Consciousness occupying the whole personality of the human Jiva. And this would not be merely an ascent of our humanity into the divine birth and the divine nature, but a descent of the divine Purusha into humanity, an Avatar. The Gita, however, goes much farther. It speaks clearly of the Lord himself being born; Krishna speaks of his many births that are ...
... 146 To enter into the entire consciousness of the Divine Reality with all our being and all parts and in every way of our being and to change all our now ignorant and limited nature into divine nature so that it shall become the instrument and expression of the Page 356 Divine Reality that in our self and essence we are,—this is the complete fulfilment of our existence and this is... defined into a formula by our human intelligence. Man cannot by his own effort make himself more than man, but he can call down the divine Truth and its power to work in him. A descent of the Divine Nature can alone divinise the human receptacle. Self-surrender to a supreme transmuting Power is the key-word of the Yoga. This divinisation of the nature of which we speak is a metamorphosis, not a ...
... more or less flattering portraits of what the superman will be like. But only like can know like, and it is only by becoming conscious of the divine nature in its essence that one will be able to have a conception Page 99 of what the divine nature will be in the manifestation. Yet those who have realised this consciousness in themselves are usually more anxious to become the superman than ...
... an eternally present memory of that consciousness of supreme Love emanated by the Lord onto earth—INTO earth—to draw it back again to Him. And truly it was the descent of the very essence of the divine nature into the most total divine negation, and thus the abandonment of the divine condition to take on terrestrial darkness, so as to bring Earth back to the divine state. And unless That, that supreme... dark and dirty stuff and thus poisoning the whole vital and even the mental nature. Always therefore one should begin by a positive, not a negative experience, by bringing down something of the divine nature, calm, light, equanimity, purity, divine strength into the parts of the conscious being that have to be changed; only when that has been sufficiently done and there is a firm positive basis, is ...
... extravagance, but I think that to want nothing is to resemble the Gods, and that to want as little as possible is to make the nearest approach to the Gods; that the Divine nature is perfection and that to be nearest to the Divine nature is to be nearest to perfection." Socratic Theme of Quest Socrates taught that the great problem of any human being lies in the question of how to live ...
... this growing into the divine likeness is to the outward ethical life. It culminates in a sort of liberation by likeness to the Divine, a liberation from our lower nature and a change into the divine nature. Consecration becomes in its fullness a devoting of all our being to the Divine; therefore also of all our thoughts and our works. Here the Yoga takes into itself the essential elements of... with the Divine and communion with other devotees, or at most keeps the doing, from the secure fortress of the ascetic life, of those services to men which seem peculiarly the out flowing of the divine nature of love, compassion and good. But there is the wider self-consecration, proper to any integral Yoga, which, accepting the fullness of life and the world in its entirety as the play of the Divine ...
... by confining its scope within narrow limits or Page 2 putting an arbitrary full stop to the ever self-extending scroll of the Infinite. Our object is to change into the divine nature, but the divine nature is not a mental or moral but a spiritual condition, difficult to achieve, difficult even to conceive by our intelligence. The Master of our work and our Yoga knows the thing to be done ...
... self-energising and all-giving sacrifice. That is the path that leads to the state of immortality, the state of union with the divine Being, identity with the Self and oneness with the supreme dynamic divine Nature, and the state of transcendence of the three gunas of lower nature, — the state of trigunātita, and the state of sādharmyam. In the last six chapters (XIII—XVIII), the entire synthesis of yoga... will and action, sarvabhāvena, in every way of conscious self and instrumental nature. For all other Dharmas or norms of action are only a preparation for that highest Dharma which is the law of divine nature and divine action, and all processes of Yoga are only a means by which we can come first to some kind of union, and finally, to an Page 25 integral union with the Master ...
... beyond the ignorance and the lower nature into unity with the Divine and the Divine Nature. Here in the ignorance we are not aware of the Divine and we obey the lower Nature. Page 1 What are the forces at work in the cosmos? There are the higher forces of the Divine Nature— the forces of Light, Truth, Divine Power, Peace, Ananda — there are the forces ...
... strength, love, capacity, is not that personally we may enjoy the divine Nature or be even as the gods, though that enjoyment too will be ours, but because this liberation and perfection are the divine Will in us, the highest truth of our self in Nature, the always intended goal of a progressive manifestation in the universe. The divine Nature, free and perfect and blissful, must be manifested in the individual ...
... beings by a sympathy and participation in the spiritual purpose of the Divine in humanity. The individual Yoga then turns from its separateness and becomes a part of the collective Yoga of the divine Nature in the human race. The liberated individual being, united with the Divine in self and spirit, becomes in his natural being a self-perfecting instrument for the perfect out flowering of the Divine... passage the unregenerated life-force can receive from that guidance that intermediate life and power which can unburden it of its vital perversions and uplift the being towards the higher heights of divine nature. As Sri Aurobindo points out, the psychic being indicates at each moment the method, the way, the steps that will lead to that fulfilled spiritual condition in which a supreme dynamic initiative ...
... even in the duality; (ii) sdlokya mukti by which the whole conscious existence dwells in the same status of being as the Divine, in the state of Sachchidananda, and (iii) the acquisition of the divine nature by the transformation of the lower being into the human image of the divine, sddharmya mukti, and the complete and final release of all, the liberation of the human consciousness of the mind,... concentration, on the Divine and to call Him to transform our entire being into His; in effect, the pressure of the concentration, the force or Tapas of consciousness in us dwells in the Idea of the divine Nature, and this pressure falls upon that which we are in our entirety; it is by that all- receiving concentration that produces its own realization. In the words of Sri Aurobindo: "The divine and all-knowing ...
... According to the Gita, the Supreme Reality can rightly be approached only through divine nature, divine consciousness and divine power, para prakriti. Para prakriti may be viewed as the Divine Logos, the creative truth of the order of the Universe, which is the source of our own human Reason. Para prakriti, the Divine Nature, is both a power of knowledge, and a power of action; it is Knowledge-Will. The ...
... manifestation is constituted and that everything in it, however seemingly deformed or petty or vile, is the more or less distorted or imperfect figure of some element or action in the harmony of the divine Nature. We begin to understand what the Vedic Rishis meant when they spoke of the human forefathers fashioning the gods as a smith forges the crude material in his smithy. Thirdly, the divine Power... duality; not only the sālokyamukti by which the whole conscious existence dwells in the Same£ status of being as the Divine, in the state of Sachchidananda; but also the acquisition of the divine nature by the transformation of this lower being into the human image of the divine, sādharmyamukti, and the complete and final release of all, the liberation of the consciousness from the transitory ...
... charged with rain; in whom Lakshmi and Saraswati revel in endless felicity; whose Face is like an immaculate lotus in full bloom; who is adored by the kings and leaders of the gods; and whose Divine Nature has been hymned in the inspired words of the Vedas - may He, my Lord, the Master of the worlds, reveal Himself to my vision.” "A Hymn to the Supreme Lord of the Universe" by Sri Chaitanya... speak in almost identical terms and with a singular ring and consensus of certitude, and whether they can be brought down to transfigure our mortal life and nature on earth into divine life and divine nature. These are some of the vital questions we have to attack and attempt to resolve, as we proceed with our study of Sri Aurobindo's many- faceted life and work. For, even his politics was not the ...
... the oneness of a supreme love and bliss, and all our forces of being uplifted into the one Force, our will and works surrendered into the one Will and Power, assume the dynamic perfection of the Divine Nature. 25 Sri Aurobindo's Yoga is also integral like the Yoga of the Gita, but a new dimension - the bringing down of the Supramental Light and Force - is added, and this makes all the difference... your mind, your soul that answers to the Truth, not your mind than leaps at appearances; trust the Divine Power and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of Divine Nature. 43 While, in the language of Yoga, the key role is thus given to Shakti or the Divine Mother, in the language of Sri Aurobindo's philosophy a like role is given to the Supermind. It is ...
... many.1 He has taken up this mask of imperfection so that ultimately man may rise to the divine nature. Transformation of nature becomes possible because of the presence of the Divine behind the human. As the Divine accepts man's nature with all its imperfections, so is it possible for man to put on the divine nature. In fact, that is the inevitable destiny intended of man. For we are children of God and ...
... nature of the Divine Being. It is to be one with the Divine in His divine Nature, sārūpya or sādharmya. Oneness in consciousness with the Divine, sāyujya, or closeness to the divine Presence, sāmīpya, has always been the usual object of spiritual seeking; but oneness in nature, the assumption of the dynamic divine nature, Parā-prakrti, is an achievement rarely aspired for, and never yet ...
... takes place by this spiritual force and not by the rajasic mode of Nature, precisely because it no longer lives in the lower movement to which that deformation belongs, but has got back in the divine nature to the pure and perfect sense of the kinesis. And again what is behind the inertia of Nature, behind this Tamas which, when complete, makes her action like the blind driving of a machine, a... is the freedom of the spirit when abandoning all dharmas the soul turns to God for its sole law of action, acts straight from the Page 475 divine will and lives in the freedom of the divine nature, not in the Law, but in the Spirit. This is the development of the teaching which is prepared by the next question of Arjuna. Page 476 × ...
... know, to respond to, to live in the divine being and nature of this Soul is the object of withdrawing from the ego and its action. One rises then above the lower nature of the gunas to the higher divine nature. The movement by which this ascension is determined results from the complex poise of the Soul in its relations with Nature; it depends on the Gita's idea of the triple Purusha. The Soul that... gunas within him is quite changed; it is lifted above their egoistic character and reactions. For he has unified his whole being in the Purushottama, has assumed the divine being and the higher divine nature of becoming, madbhāva , has unified even his mind and natural Page 232 consciousness with the Divine, manmanā maccittaḥ . This change is the final evolution of the nature and the ...
... the practical purposes of the involution and the withdrawal. But this is only the lower Prakriti of the three modes, the inconscient, the apparent; there is a higher, a supreme, a conscient and divine Nature, and it is that which has become the individual soul, the Jiva. In the lower nature each being appears as the ego, in the higher he is the individual Purusha. In other words multiplicity is part... can rise above the three gunas and, liberated from the bondage of action, yet possess action, even as I do myself, and by adoration of the Purushottama and union with him it can enjoy wholly its divine Nature. Such is the analysis, not confining itself to the apparent cosmic process but penetrating into the occult secrets of super conscious Nature, uttamaṁ rahasyam , by which the Gita founds its ...
... Knowledge looking out on her widest dominion; there the empire of oneself with the empire of one's world; 9 there the life 10 in the eternally consummate Being and the realisation of His divine nature 11 in our human existence. Page 19 × "Padbhyāṁ pṛthivī." — Mundaka Upanishad , II. 1. 4. "Pṛthivī... existence in one world of being with the Divine. × Sādharmya-mukti , liberation by assumption of the Divine Nature. ...
... vitalistic, economic and political ideal of life, society and civilisation. What account are the higher parts of man's being, those finer powers in him that more openly tend to the growth of his divine nature, to make with this vital instinct or with its gigantic modern developments? Obviously, their first impulse must be to take hold of them and dominate and transform all this crude life into their... power and courage who have abandoned their bodily life for a cause; for without heroism man cannot grow into the Godhead; courage, energy and strength are among the very first principles of the divine nature in action. All this great vital, political, economic life of man with its two powers of competition and cooperation is stumbling blindly forward towards some realisation of power and unity,—in two ...
... seems to be a double nature, an animal nature of the vital and physical being which lives according to its instincts, impulses, desires, its automatic orientation and method, and with that a half-divine nature of the self-conscious intellectual, ethical, aesthetic, intelligently emotional, intelligently dynamic Page 234 being who is capable of finding and understanding the law of his own action... bringing of its power into our human existence. We shall be on the right road to become ourselves, to find our true law of perfection, to live our true satisfied existence in our real being and divine nature. Page 245 ...
... our perfection. That was the idea of a spiritualised typal society. It proceeded upon the supposition that each man has his own peculiar nature which is born from and reflects one element of the divine nature. The character of each individual, his ethical type, his training, his social occupation, his spiritual possibility must be formed or developed within the conditions of that peculiar element; the... rather to lift all of them up out of their imperfection and groping ignorance, transforms them by its touch and makes them the instruments of the light, power and joy of the divine being and the divine nature. Page 135 × Therefore it is said that Vishnu is the King in the Treta, but in the Dwapara the arranger ...
... whether supplementary to the social law or partially corrective of it, the social law that is after all only the rule, often clumsy and ignorant, of the biped pack, the human herd, but to develop the divine nature in the human being. It would make it the aim of Art not merely to present images of the subjective and objective world, but to see them with the significant and creative vision that goes behind... the divine Law, because he will be a soul living in the Divine Reality and not an ego living mainly if not entirely for its own interest and purpose. His life will be led by the law of his own divine nature liberated from the ego. Nor will that mean a breaking up of all human society into the isolated action of individuals; for the third word of the Spirit is unity. The spiritual life is the flower ...
... mean the spiritual consciousness to which the Divine alone exists, because all is the Divine and by which one passes beyond the Ignorance and the lower nature into unity with the Divine and the Divine Nature. Here in the Ignorance we are not aware of the Divine and we obey the lower nature. Page 5 All that is true Truth is the direct expression in one way or another of the Divine... consciously in the Divine, we have to get rid of the forces of the Page 7 lower nature and open to the action of the Divine Shakti which will transform our consciousness into that of the Divine Nature. This is the conception of the Divine from which we have to start—the realisation of its truth can only come with the opening of the consciousness and its change. The distinction between ...
... vijñāna or gnosis is not only truth but truth power, it is the very working of the infinite and divine nature; it is the divine knowledge one with the divine will in the force and delight of a spontaneous and luminous and inevitable self-fulfilment. By the gnosis, then, we change our human into a divine nature. What then is this gnosis and how can we describe it? Two opposite errors have to be avoided ...
... first in our primitive conceptions his deity is a thing Page 582 of much inconstancy, freak and caprice, an enlarged edition of our human character; but afterwards we conceive of the divine nature of personality as a quite fixed quantity and we attribute to it those qualities alone which we regard as divine and ideal, while all the others are eliminated. This limitation compels us to account... us. And we can adore him through different forms of this nature, a God of righteousness, a God of love and mercy, a God of peace and purity; but it is evident that there are other things in the divine nature which we have put outside the form of personality in which we are thus worshipping him. The courage of an unflinching spiritual vision and experience Page 585 can meet him also in more ...
... the variations and directs them to whatever aim of its self-delight the Being, the Purusha, has conceived in its consciousness and determined by its will or power of consciousness. That is the divine Nature into unity with which we have to get back by our Yoga of self-knowledge. We have to become the Purusha, Sachchidananda, delighting in a divine individual possession of its Prakriti and no longer... consciousness is a transcendence and an all-comprehending unity. Its self-knowledge does not get rid of all the terms of self-knowledge, but unifies and harmonises all things in God and in the divine nature. The intense religious ecstasy which knows only God and ourselves and shuts out all else, is only to it an intimate experience which prepares it for sharing in the embrace of the divine Love and ...
... that can exist only by confining its scope within narrow limits or putting an arbitrary full stop to the ever self-extending scroll of the Infinite. Our object is to change into the divine nature, but the divine nature is not a mental or moral but a spiritual condition, difficult to achieve, difficult even to conceive by our Page 246 intelligence. The Master of our work and our Yoga knows ...
... The yoga we practise is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim is to work out the will of the Divine in the world, to effect a spiritual transformation and to bring down a divine nature and a divine life into the mental, vital and physical nature and life of humanity. Its object is not personal Mukti, although Mukti is a necessary condition of the yoga, but the liberation and ... arise, be apramatta, dhīra , have the utsāha , and leave God to do the rest. Time is necessary. It is a tremendous work that is being done in you, the alteration of your whole human nature into a divine nature, the crowding of centuries of evolution into a few years. You ought not to grudge the time. There are other paths that offer more immediate results or at any rate, by offering you some definite ...
... Dharma. The object of divine life, on the other hand, is to realise one's highest self or to realise God and to put the whole being into harmony with the truth of the highest self or the law of the divine nature, to find one's own divine capacities, great and small, and fulfil them in life as a sacrifice to the Highest or as a true instrument of the divine Shakti. About the latter ideal I may write at some... 20.5.27 Chandulal, The first conditions of this Yoga are: (1) A complete sincerity and surrender in the being. The divine life and the transformation of the lower human into the higher divine nature must be made the sole aim of all the life. No attachments, desires or habits of the mind, heart, vital being or body should be clung to which come in the way of this aspiration and one object of ...
... more is it indispensable for inner peace, purity and joy. But a much more radical deliverance, not only from egoism but from ego-idea and ego-sense, is needed if our aim is to raise human into divine nature. Experience shows that, in proportion as we deliver ourselves from the limiting mental and vital ego, we command a wider life, a larger existence, a higher consciousness, a happier soul-state... it an indivisible unity which division itself cannot divide. This fundamental world-fact of ego and apparent division and their separative workings in the world existence is no denial of the Divine Nature of unity and indivisible being; they are the surface results of an infinite multiplicity which is a power of the infinite Oneness. The Life Divine, pp. 401-02 Page 129 .. ...
... which the concept of sdlokyamukti and sdyujyamukti is further extended into sādharmyamukti, the liberation and perfection of the lower nature of life, body and mind by infusion into it of the divine nature, the parā Prakriti, which is evidently the divine Aditi of the Veda. The Tantric Yoga has developed methods for a richer spiritual conquest that would enable the * ā ye viśvā svapatyāni... coincides with the Yoga of knowledge, works, and devotion. Since human life is accepted as a self-expression of the realised Divine in man, the Integral Yoga insists on action of the entire divine nature in life. It is here that by a new effort of research and development of new Yogic methods, as also by bringing all the relevant materials from the synthetic yogas of the Vedas, Upanishads, ...
... apprehending Page 4 knowledge is the parent of that awareness by distinction which is the process of the Mind. 8 The supermind is the consciousness of what can be called Divine Nature, parā prakrti, to use the terminology of the Gita 9 , as distinguished from the lower nature, aparā prakrti, of which our mental nature is the present highest evolute. The mental nature is primarily... not experienced concretely. Mental consciousness is normally limited at a given time to one poise or one form of action, and it is difficult for it to hold several poises simultaneously. But the Divine Nature is not so particularized, nor so limited; it can be many things at a time and take more than one enduring poise or status for all time. Triple status of the Supermind In the yogic ...
... which the concept of salokyamukti and sayujyamukti is further extended into sadharmyamukti, the liberation and perfection of the lower nature of life, body and mind by infusion into it of the divine nature, the Para Prakriti - which is evidently the divine Aditi of the Veda. The Tantric Yoga has developed methods for a richer spiritual conquest that would enable the seeker to embrace the whole... coincides with the Yoga of knowledge, works, and devotion. Since human life is accepted as a self-expression of the realised Divine in man, the Integral Yoga insists on action of the entire divine nature in life. It is here that by a new effort of research and development of new Yogic methods, as also by bringing all the relevant materials from the synthetic yogas of the Vedas, Upanishads, ...
... sympathy and participation in the spiritual purpose of the Divine in Page 65 humanity. The individual Yoga then turns from its separateness and becomes a part of the collective Yoga of the divine Nature in the human race. The liberated individual being, united with the Divine in self and spirit, becomes in his natural being a self-perfecting instrument for the perfect out flowering of the Divine... supramental will and supreme Ananda become a direct instrumentation of spirit. In other words, the methods of the integral yoga include the methods of total transformation of human nature into divine nature. Organic Unity of the Integral Yoga The foundation of the integral yoga implies integrality of will, knowledge and love, which are the three divine powers in human nature and all these ...
... In Sri Aurobindo's words: "The children should be helped to grow up into straightforward, frank, upright and honourable human beings ready to develop into divine nature." These last few words, "ready to develop into divine nature", lead us to the consideration of the seventh and last principle, the principle of future education. Seventh Principle: We cannot stop at the borders ...
... ethics not to establish a rule of action whether supplementary to the social law that is after all only the rule, often clumsy and ignorant, of the biped pack, the human herd, but to develop the divine nature in the human being. It would make it the aim of Art not merely to present images of the subjective and objective world, but to see them with the significant and creative vision that goes behind... the law, the divine Law, because he will be a soul living in the Divine and not an ego living mainly if not entirely for its own interest and purpose. His life will be led by the law of his own divine nature liberated from the ego." The individual will not live either for himself or for the state and society, but for God in himself and for the Divine in the universe "The spiritual ...
... to remove the ignorance and change the nature into the divine Nature. We little human beings can never fathom the full glory of the Mother's personality. Such is the case with the Mother's Force too. How much potency it must have that it not only removes the Ignorance but also changes and transforms the nature into the divine Nature, a process which was never attempted in the old Yogas ...
... Sri Aurobindo had retired from the physical atmosphere in order to bring about the descent of what he called the Supermind. "By the supermind is meant the full Truth-Consciousness of the Divine Nature in which there can be no place for the principle of division and ignorance; it is always a full light and knowledge superior to all mental substance or mental movement. Between the supermind and... perfection above our lower nature of mind, life and body and is also involved, latent, within it. Sri Aurobindo's task was, by bringing about the descent of this Truth-Consciousness of the supreme divine Nature into one individual, himself, to prepare for its general manifestation in this apparently undivine lower nature. The ultimate result of this manifestation would be the transformation and divinisation ...
... universe supports its boundless activities, the frail and tremulous life of the rose no less than the flaming motions of sun and star. To suggest the strength and virile unconquerable force of the divine Nature in man and in the outside world, its energy, its calm, its powerful inspiration, its august enthusiasm, its wildness, greatness, attractiveness, to breathe that into man's soul and gradually mould ...
... itself and lie open to the new thought which the nation must now learn, so that Nationalism may enter on a new chapter of its history. No farther progress, no new development is possible until the divine nature of the movement is thoroughly understood by those who have been selected to lead it. The one thing which can bring it to nought and drag this nation back into Page 921 servitude is ...
... work that has to be done. Man cannot by his own effort make himself more than man; the mental being cannot by his own unaided force change himself into a supramental spirit. A descent of the Divine Nature can alone divinise the human receptacle. For the powers of our mind, life and body are bound to their own limitations and, however high they may rise or however widely expand, they cannot rise ...
... d here on its own sure foundation, the evolution of divine life would be a progress in felicity, a march through light to Ananda. Supermind is an eternal reality of the divine Being and the divine Nature. In its own plane it already and always exists and possesses its own essential law of being; it has not to be created or to emerge or evolve into existence out of involution in Matter or out of ...
... we reject the limitation to our apparent Nature which is their practical conclusion. Becoming as the working out of the energies of Being, Mind, Life and Matter as inferior terms of the higher divine Nature to be illumined, uplifted, transformed by the higher terms is our view of the knowledge.—We reject also intermediate theories like that which makes God and cosmos one,—perceiving as we do that cosmos ...
... thinking mind. His power and joy of the life. His light and rapture of the emotional mind and the senses. Something of the supreme image of Brahman falls upon the world-nature and changes it into divine nature. All this is not done by a sudden miracle. It comes by flashes, revelations, sudden touches and glimpses; there is as if a leap of the lightning of revelation flaming out from those heavens for ...
... concept becomes incredible. Science, Philosophy, the great creeds which have set Knowledge as the means of salvation, have always been charged with atheism because they deny these conceptions of the Divine Nature. Science and Philosophy & Knowledge take Page 408 their revenge by undermining the faith of the believers in the ordinary religions through an exposure of the crude and semi-savage nature ...
... and encounters in its search seven in the place of three prime elements of conscious being. Sat, Chit, Ananda, Vijnana are four divine unmodifiable principles; they constitute the divine being, divine nature & divine life, and are called in their sum Amritam, Immortality; Manas, Prana, Annam, Mind, Life & Matter, are inferior & modifying principles constituting in their sum in this material world mortal ...
... mountain citadel of our existence, we can, remaining in the universe, yet govern our use of a subject and no longer rebellious mind, life & body by the process and laws of our blissful spirit and our divine Nature. The superior movement then controls and uses the lower for its own purposes. But since the principle of the superior movement is unmixed bliss, our purposes and activities also must be purposes ...
... brought close to the nearness, even to the call and pressure of the Spirit who is greater than the life it informs, of the final goal, of a high possible immortality, freedom, God-consciousness, divine Nature. Man was not allowed to forget that he had in him a Page 165 highest self beyond his little personal ego and that always he and all things live, move and have their being in God, in ...
... spiritual experience to its farthest point, and chose to look from that farthest point at all existence, so as to see what truth or power such a view could give it. It tried to know the whole of divine nature and to see too as high as it could beyond nature and into whatever there might be of supradivine. When it formulated a spiritual atheism, it followed that to its acme of possible vision. When, too ...
... relation to the one Truth, the one supreme and universal reality. Eventually, its real value is to prepare a basis for spiritual realisation and the growing of the human being into his divine self and divine nature. Science itself becomes only a knowledge of the world which throws an added light on the spirit of the universe and his way in things. Nor will it confine itself to a physical knowledge and its ...
... Supramentalisation involves, among its final elements, freedom from disease, duration of life at will and a change in the functionings of the body - all, of course, as a material expression of the divine nature emerging in the human and not as an outer aggrandisement of an expanding inner egoism. But to compass these final elements which alone would found with utter security a supramental earth-existence ...
... Being, to connect our consciousness with the Divine Consciousness and dwell in it, to dissolve one's power by the influence of the Divine Force, to be self-realised and perfect by attaining the Divine Nature, this is the goal of the integral yoga. In one word, to accomplish birth of god, divine life. Not featureless, ineffable dissolution, that kind of liberation is not intended by me. Brahman ...
... Space is infinite and so matter too should be infinite. For him there is no necessity of a god to arrange the universe. On the contrary, he argues that the notion or supposition of the presence of divine nature in cosmic order will be full of flaw. There is neither past nor future to life and therefore we should remain unconcerned to life. Indeed all our dreams are made by Matter's mind. Here is Death ...
... carries with it the echo of its consequence— A mutual debt binds man to the Supreme: His nature we must put on as he put ours. 7 This "reconstitution" or "putting on" of the Divine nature by earthly substance is a mediated creative process that reproduces here the perennial dynamics of representation that is the play (Lila) of Shakti and Shakta, the Tapas of Chit calling into ...
... whether you can get your Shakti. Without a Shakti you can yourself be perfect, in the sense that you can attain full knowledge, power and Ananda and change your entire organised being into its divine nature, but when you want to throw your powers on the world for creation, it is different. Take my instance. It may so happen that I reach the highest all alone, my Shakti falling in the way. Then I cannot ...
... Dharma. The object of divine life, on the other hand, is to realise one's highest self or to realise God and to put the whole being into harmony with the truth of the highest self or the law of the divine nature, to find one's own divine capacities, great and small, and fulfil them in life as a sacrifice to the Highest or as a true instrument of the divine Shakti. About the latter ideal I may write at some ...
... The yoga we practise is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim is to work out the will of the Divine in the world, to effect a spiritual transformation and to bring down a divine nature and a divine life into the mental, vital and physical nature and life of humanity. Its object is not personal Mukti, although Mukti is a necessary condition of the yoga, but the liberation and ...
... ladder of divine dynamics, the ladder of Descent of the Divine and the ladder of ascent of the Divine into the earth-consciousness and the consequent transformation of the earth-nature into the divine nature. K. D. Sethna in his book says: "Only the ancient Vedas and Upanishads embody with anything like a royal freedom these ranges of mystical and spiritual being, hidden beyond the deepest plunge ...
... Social and Political Thought, p. 1 To perceive and have a right view of our way to such a transformation [conversion of the human into a likeness of and a fundamental oneness with the divine nature] we must form some sufficient working idea of the complex thing that this human nature at present is in the confused interminglings of its various principles, so that we may see the precise nature ...
... incompatible with liberation. All the three gunas have to be transcended. Sattwa may bring us near to the Light, but its limited clarity falls away from us when we enter into the luminous body of the divine Nature." 19 Thus, according to yoga, true mastery can be attained only by becoming trigunātita, above and beyond the three Gunas, by disidentifying from Prakriti, and attaining "the true character ...
... world of death, Mrityuloka. Not self-oblivion or abolition of our individuality in the featureless Absolute should be the object of our true endeavour; but the perfection of free spirit in the divine nature and its conduct and happy expression in that law is what has to occur. Each one then becomes real-ideally his amsha , his part, a Vibhuti possessing correspondingly the aspect of him who is of ...
... ourselves and with opposing forces around us.” Without heroism, avers Sri Aurobindo, no human can grow into the Godhead. “Courage, energy and strength are among the very first principles of the divine nature in action.” And the Mother had the following prayer printed in the Ashram School notebooks: “Make of us the hero-warriors we aspire to become. May we fight successfully the great battle of the future ...
... divine being in the literal sense of the word. Their own yoga, work or development — whatever one wants to call it — therefore consisted of the following: (i) the complete identification with their divine nature; (ii) the realization in themselves of their divine consciousness in a dynamic way (a yoga beyond the existing yogas), to render that consciousness active in the world; and (iii) to progressively ...
... All the same, when he takes on an earthly body, the incarnating divine personality has to undergo a process of becoming conscious by which it progressively realizes its innermost Self, till the divine nature takes possession of the incarnation directly and fully. At first Aurobindo Ghose and Mirra Alfassa were not at all aware of their avatarhood; at one time both of them had even been convinced ...
... transformation of physical body into the deathless physical body of Grace in its eternal youthfulness. One has to live in the depth of the ocean of blissful Grace-light for getting transformed into the divine nature and as the divinised body. The intensity of the flood of Light that radiated from his whole body was very powerful and one shall have the strength and capacity to bear and receive it. My whole ...
... things that happen in Yoga— realisations and experiences. Realisations are the reception in the consciousness and the establishment there of the fundamental truths of the Divine, of the Higher or Divine Nature, of the world-consciousness and the play of its forces, of one's own self and real nature and the inner nature of things, the power of these things growing in one till they are a part of one's inner ...
... ess as the moth is to the star, as the night is to the day. And will you not too accept this from me, you who in your nature are kin to the heavens, you who seem to me to have something of the divine nature, to be something bright and happy and pure far above the "sphere of our sorrow?" Of course all that is not said, but only suggested, but it is obviously the spirit of the poem. As to the tail, I ...
... integral divine life; for that the integral transformation of nature is evidently necessary; the union with the Divine has to carry with it a full entrance into the divine consciousness and the divine nature; there must be not only sayujya [the absolute union of the Divine with the human spirit] or salokya [dwelling of the soul in the Divine] but sadrsya [likeness to the Divine] or, ...
... moment I read them in my twenty-second year. Some other utterances also of this multi-mooded Christian of the fourth century kept ringing in my ears. There was that powerful insight into the Divine Nature and its strange dealings with the world, which might be considered to have flashed out to Francis Thompson the "majestic instancy" of his Hound of Heaven : "And lo! Thou pressing at the heel ...
... Integral Yoga by a transformation of his very body so that, just as there would be no ignorance or obscurity in the mind and no impurity and incapacity in the vital being, the body would acquire a divine nature and be free from disease, ageing and death. What he as well as the Mother would achieve was intended to be repeated in their disciples. Not that one would be eternally bound to one physical frame: ...
... is: it is by the Lord's "ache", as it were, for our perfection that we come to have in our embodied human Page 35 existence the renewed surprise of strength after strength of a divine nature. The gracious warmth of Him for us kindles in our aspiring bodies the force fit to take us towards Him. On our own we could never acquire the power to reach the Lord's beatific height. ...
... man's insatiable urge to search for it?" Over and above or rather behind and beyond the push of the typal mental plane to pursue ideas and theories for their own sake, there is one aspect of the Divine Nature, the Divine Existence, responsible for this urge. The ultimate reality is Omniscience (All-Knowledge) along with Omnipotence (All-Power) and Omnipresence (All-Pervasion), to which we may add Om ...
... individual existence; it transforms the individual being and nature by revealing to them their true significance and enabling them to overcome their separateness from the Divine Reality and the Divine Nature. An integral knowledge presupposes an integral Reality; for it is the power of a Truth-consciousness which is itself the consciousness of the Reality. But our idea and sense of Reality vary with ...
... all these existences,—I am He. Cosmic energy is not other than the conscious force of that Self-existent: by that energy It takes through universal nature innumerable forms of itself; through its divine nature It can, embracing the universal but transcendent of it, arrive in them at the individual possession of its complete existence, when its presence and power are felt in one, in all and in the relations ...
... and conditioned by the Law of the world as Page 356 it is, but a full action and therefore bringing the reign of light, peace, harmony, joy, love, beauty and Ananda, for these are the Divine Nature. The Divine Grace is there, ready to act at every moment, but it manifests as one grows out of the Law of the Ignorance into the Law of Light and it is meant, not as an arbitrary caprice, however ...
... policeman? So long as one is in the ordinary nature, one has qualities and defects, virtues and vices. When one goes beyond, there are no virtues and vices,—for these things do not belong to the Divine Nature. Yes, certainly. Many great men even have often very great vices and many of them. Great men are not usually model characters. They [ great men ] have more energy and the energy comes ...
... approaches this at its top and is often mistaken for Supermind, but it cannot reach it—except by uplifting and transformation. By the Supermind is meant the full Truth-consciousness of the Divine Nature in which there can be no place for the principle of division and ignorance; it is always a full light and knowledge superior to all mental substance or mental movement. Between the Page 146 ...
... Nature (Prakriti). Page 46 If the gunas are quiescent, then Prakriti ceases to act—unless the gunas are transformed into their divine equivalents,—then Prakriti becomes the higher or divine Nature. I don't think it 1 is correct myself. It is supposed that when the three qualities are not in an equalised condition, when there is a diversity and movement of variation, then creation ...
... behind the inadequacy of these ethical conceptions something too is concealed that does attach to a supreme Truth; there is here the glimmer of a light and power that are part of a yet unreached divine Nature. But the mental idea of these things is not that light and the moral formulation of them is not that power. These are only representative constructions of the mind that cannot embody the divine ...
... second is an active, a positive equality which accepts the phenomena of existence, but only as the manifestation of the one divine being and with an equal response to them which comes from the divine nature in us and transforms them into its hidden values. The first lives in the peace of the one Brahman and puts away from it the nature of the active Ignorance. The second lives in that peace, but also ...
... here one with Force, the Page 132 vibrations of knowledge with the rhythm of the will and both are one, perfectly and without seeking, groping or effort, with the assured result. The divine Nature has a double power, a spontaneous self-formulation and self-arrangement which wells naturally out of the essence of the thing manifested and expresses its original truth, and a self-force of light ...
... realisation of the Bliss which enjoys as the Lover all beings and all existences,—Sat, Chit-Tapas and Ananda. Each therefore aims at possessing Sachchidananda through one or other aspect of his triune divine nature. By Knowledge we arrive always at our true, eternal, immutable being, the self-existent which every "I" in the universe obscurely represents, and we abrogate difference in the great realisation ...
... itself unperverted, without fault or egoistic reaction, without diversion from the possession of the Divine. There the individual is no longer the ego, but the free Jiva domiciled in the higher divine nature of which he is a portion, parā prakṛtir jīvabhūtā ,. the nature of the supreme and universal Self seen indeed in the play of multiple individuality but without the veil of ignorance, with self ...
... Mandala Three III. 37. 2 वाघतः वहंति यज्ञियां धुरमिति वाघतः स्तोतारः Close connection of Indra with वाघतः see I.3 . 3 नामानि expresses the Truth of the divine Nature, his Powers in consciousness expressed by the name—numina—cf 38.4. & 7. 4 पुरुष्टुतस्य धामभिः शतेन—cf the 100 cities of Shambara 5 भरेषु & वाजेषु —cf 6. where वाज replaces भर—therefore भर ...
... × That is, let all in us that we offer to the divine Life be turned into the self-light and self-force of the divine Nature. ...
... The wideness of the infinite Truth-plane with the manifold wealth of its spiritual contents. Its condition is the perfection of the thought-mind and psychic mentality proper to a divine nature, which comes to man as the grace of the gods, sumati . × The harms of the Dasyus, destroyers ...
... that which is needed and effective at the moment. Entire passivity first, a passive surrender. Entire equanimity next, an absolute samata. An entire and harmonised strength of the divine nature An entire faith in the Supreme and his Divine Power, in the process and the result of the process. These are the four conditions of the rapid and decisive change. 8 April 1927 The conditions ...
... 9 Bodha); and in the power of the mind to receive and adapt itself to any kind of knowledge without feeling anywhere a limit or an incapacity. This is Jnana Samarthyam. Daivi Prakriti (Divine Nature) This means the possession of the four Shaktis—Maheshwari, the Shakti of greatness and knowledge; Mahakali, the Shakti of force and violence; Mahalakshmi, the Shakti of beauty, love and delight; ...
... the home of the Truth,—he mediates between God and man. These things apply only with difficulty to the god of physical fire; they are of a striking appropriateness if we take a larger view of the divine nature and functions of the god Agni. He is a god of the earth, a force of material being, अवमः; but he seems too [to] be a vital (Pranic) force of will in desire, devouring, burning through his own smoke; ...
... brought up against him by circumstances and the will in things to help by their opposition the march of destiny. Against them he can have no wrath or hatred; for wrath and hatred are foreign to the divine nature. The Asura's desire to break and slay what opposes him, the Rakshasa's grim lust of slaughter are impossible to his calm and peace and his all-embracing sympathy and understanding. He has no wish ...
... thanked God because He had given him a hard heart? But the teaching of the Gita springs from an Indian creed and to the Indian mind compassion has always figured as one of the largest elements of the divine nature. The Teacher himself enumerating in a later chapter the qualities of the godlike nature in man places among them compassion to creatures, gentleness, freedom from wrath and from the desire ...
... Purusha and makes his natural being and action one with eternal beauty, eternal harmony, eternal love and Ananda. But all this change means a total passing from the lower human to the higher divine nature. It is a lifting of our whole being or at least of the whole mental being that wills, knows and feels beyond what we are into some highest spiritual consciousness, some satisfying fullest power ...
... XIII The Field and its Knower The Gita in its last six chapters, in order to found on a clear and complete knowledge the way of the soul's rising out of the lower into the divine nature, restates in another form the enlightenment the Teacher has already imparted to Arjuna. Essentially it is the same knowledge, but details and relations are now made prominent and assigned their ...
... divine consciousness as the moth to the star, as night to the day. And will not you accept this from me, you who in your nature are kin to the heavens, you who seem to me to have something of the divine nature, to be something bright and happy and pure, far above the 'sphere of our sorrow'?" Of course all that is not said, but only suggested—but it is obviously the spirit of the poem. As to the tail, ...
... Purusha consciousness, it should be not only as the Witness but as the Anumanta, refusing sanction to the disturbing movements, sanctioning only peace, calm, purity and whatever else is part of the divine nature. This refusal of sanction need not mean a struggle with the lower Prakriti; it should be a quiet, persistent, detached refusal leaving unsupported, unassented to, without meaning or justification ...
... behind all life and all forms of affection come no doubt from it, but not consciously, and they get changed, mixed, perverted when the vital takes up the action of the force of Love of whose true or divine nature it is unconscious. But that is the nature of human vital affection, it is all selfishness disguised as love. Sometimes when there is a strong vital passion, need or tie, then the person is ...
... dark and dirty stuff and thus poisoning the whole vital and even the mental nature. Always therefore one should begin by a positive, not a negative experience, by bringing down something of the divine nature, calm, light, equanimity, purity, divine strength into the parts of the conscious being that have to be changed; only when that has been sufficiently done and there is a firm positive basis, is ...
... integral divine life; for that the integral transformation of nature is evidently necessary; the union with the Divine has to carry with it a full entrance into the divine consciousness and the divine nature; there must be not only sāyujya or sālokya but sādṛśya or, as it is called in the Gita, sādharmya . The full Yoga, Purna Yoga, means a fourfold path, a Yoga of knowledge for the mind, a Yoga ...
... necessary conditions. The first conditions of this Yoga are: (1) A complete sincerity and surrender in the being. The divine life and the transformation of the lower human into the higher divine nature must be made the sole aim of all the life. Page 43 No attachments, desires or habits of the mind, heart, vital being or body should be clung to which come in the way of this one aspiration ...
... the Divine Mother also gives herself, but freely—and this represents itself in an inner giving—her presence in your mind, your vital, your physical consciousness, her power re-creating you in the divine nature, taking up all the movements of your being and directing them towards perfection and fulfilment, her love enveloping you and carrying you in its arms Godwards. It is this that you must aspire to ...
... her childhood. The Power is in her that can bring down a true supramental creation, open the whole nature of the disciple to the supramental Light and Force and guide its transformation into a divine nature. It is because there is this Power in her that she has been entrusted with the work. But all are free in their inner being, free to accept or refuse, free to receive or not to receive, to follow ...
... The object of the divine life, on the other hand, is to realise one's highest self or to realise God and to put the whole being into harmony with the truth of the highest self or the law of the divine nature, to find one's own divine capacities great or small and fulfil them in life as Page 303 a sacrifice to the highest or as a true instrument of the divine Sakti . About the latter ideal ...
... spiritual nature). (3) That one seeks the Divine not only beyond life (by the cessation of birth) but for life, so that life also may become a realisation of the Divine and a manifestation of the Divine Nature. As for the book itself, 1 I am unfortunately ignorant of the Telugu language and cannot read the original, but from the account given in English I have formed some idea of the substance ...
... falsehood. Gods are those who are turned to the Light, who live in the Power and the Knowledge; that is what the Buddha means, he does not mean the gods of religion. They are beings who have the divine nature, who may live in human bodies, but free from ignorance and falsehood. When you no longer possess anything, you can become as vast as the universe. 23 May 1958 Page 254 ...
... place. . . . Man cannot by his own effort make himself more than man; the mental being cannot by his own unaided force change himself into a supramental spirit. A descent of the Divine Nature can alone divinise the human receptacle. . . . If the Supramental Power is allowed by man's discerning assent and vigilant surrender to act according to its own profound and ...
... Intuition and Overmind. See gradations between mind and supermind . Nature, Nature Force —the outer or executive side of the Conscious Force which forms and moves the worlds. The higher, divine Nature (Para Prakriti) is free from Ignorance and its consequences; the lower Nature (Apara Prakriti) is a mechanism of active Force put forth for the working of the evolutionary Ignorance. The lower nature ...
... when the true soul (psyche) comes forward and begins first to influence and then govern the actions of the instrumental nature that man begins to overcome vital desire and grow towards a greater divine nature. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: The Psychic Being Sweet Mother, here Sri Aurobindo has said: “If the inmost soul is awakened, if there is a new birth out of the mere mental, vital ...
... self-consecration progress the Sadhaka becomes conscious of the Divine Shakti doing the Sadhana, pouring into him more and more of herself, founding in him the freedom and perfection of the Divine Nature. The more this conscious process replaces his own effort, the more rapid and true becomes his progress. But it cannot completely replace the necessity of personal effort until the surrender and ...
... the Lord emanated upon earth, in the earth— in the earth to—bring it back to Him. For that was truly a descent into the most total negation of the Divine, the negation of the very essence of the divine Nature, and therefore a renunciation of the divine state in order to accept earth's obscurity and bring earth back to the divine state. And unless this supreme Love becomes all-powerfully conscious here ...
... only by the action of the supreme Shakti. ... Man cannot by his own effort make himself more than man, but he can call down the divine Truth and its power to work in him. A descent of the Divine Nature can alone divinise the human receptacle. Self-surrender to a supreme transmuting Power is the key-word of the Yoga. Sri Aurobindo Page 16 ...
... to be patient. It is some kind of mental tamas: one day they will wake up. 6 August 1966 Mother, Was the recent cyclone also brought by the transforming forces of the Divine? Page 286 Nature is collaborating in her own way. All is meant for the growth of a spontaneous sincerity. Blessings. 7 November 1966 Mother, I write stories for my magazine. Now let ...
... Page 248 and conditioned by the law of the world as it is, but in full action and therefore bringing the reign of light, peace, harmony, joy, love, beauty and Ananda, for these are the Divine Nature. The Divine Grace is there ready to act at every moment, but it manifests as one grows out of the Law of Ignorance into the Law of Light, and it is meant, not as an arbitrary caprice, however miraculous ...
... Supramentalisation involves, among its final elements freedom from disease, duration of life at will and a change in the functionings of the body - all, of course, as a material expression of the divine nature emerging m the human and not as an outer aggrandisement of an expanding inner egoism. But to compass these final elements which alone would found with utter security a supramental earth-existence ...
... Buddhism Yoga is in essence the union of the soul with the immortal being and consciousness and delight of the Divine effected through the human nature with a result of development into the divine nature of being, whatever that may be, so far as we can conceive it in mind and realise it in spiritual activity. Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga - II: The Delight of the Divine All yoga ...
... remain of it? How will it act? If the gunas are quiescent, then Prakriti ceases to act - unless the gunas are transformed into their divine equivalents, - then Prakriti becomes the higher or divine Nature. Page 26 When the Prakriti is emptied of the action of the gunas, or when it ceases to act, what is left in it for us to distinguish between Prakriti and Purusha? ...
... becoming to be governed by the habitual un-divine or at the most to be just illumined by a distant and faint glow which served, however, more to distort than express the Divine. The Divine Nature only can permanently reform the vital nature that is ours. Neither laws and institutions, which are the results of that vital nature, nor ideas and ideals which are often a mere revolt from and ...
... Divine Mother also gives herself, but freely — and this represents itself in an inner giving — her presence in your mind, your vital, your physical consciousness, her power recreating you in the divine nature, taking up all the movements of your being and directing them towards perfection and fulfilment, hen love enveloping you and carrying you in its arms God wards." {Letters on Yoga, p. 757) ...
... greatest power. Consciousness of the godheads can be built, according to the Vedic teaching, within man, and affirmation of these powers leads to the conversion of human nature into universality of divine nature. Gods are the guardians and increasers of the Truth, the powers of the Immortal, the sons of the Infinite Mother, Aditi. Man arrives at immortality by calling the gods into himself by means of ...
... unbroken contact in all its parts with the Divine, not only salokya mukti by which the whole conscious existence dwells in the state of Sachchidananda, but also sadharmya mukti, in which the divine nature is acquired by the transformation of the lower being. Transformation is the keyword of the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo. Sri Aurobindo explains this as follows: By transformation I ...
... and yet firmly devoted to the Supreme. 136 Sri Krishna points out that all who are devoted to the Supreme are all dear to Him. But he adds: "Those who are fixed in the imperishable law of divine nature and action (dharm ā mrtam), and who are devoted to the Supreme with supreme faith in Me, — they are exceedingly dear to Me." 137 Against this vast background, we can now enter into ...
... discover and live in that which is eternal. Ethical knowledge can aid us when having distinguished the wrong from the right, we put away the one and rise above the other into the pure innocence of the divine Nature, — par ā prakriti. Aesthetic knowledge, too, can be a part of Yogic knowledge when we discover by it the beauty of the Divine. Even knowledge of the world can be a part of Yogic knowledge when ...
... and participation in the spiritual purpose of the Divine in humanity. The individual Yoga then turns from its. Page 62 separateness and becomes a part of the collective Yoga of the divine Nature in the human race. The liberated individual being, united with the Divine himself and spirit, becomes in his natural being a self-perfecting instrument for the perfect out flowering of the Divine ...
... higher divine truth, — even as the gunas go back to their divine principles, — and the spirit lives in a universal, infinite and absolute Truth, Good, Beauty, Bliss which is the supramental or ideal divine Nature. The Page 85 liberation of the Nature becomes one with the liberation of the spirit, and there is founded in the integral freedom the integral perfection." 69 Integral ...
... the emergence of 25 desire-soul 64 dh ā ran ā 26 dhy ā na 26 Divine Consciousness 29, development of 14 Divine Knowledge 80; see also Knowledge Divine Nature 29; see also Nature earth-consciousness 14,15,86,87, 96,99, 100 earth evolution 14; see also evolution earth-life 100 earth-nature 80; see also Nature ego 54,80,88 ...
... triune way of knowledge, works and devotion. And the fruit of the sacrifice, the one fruit still placed before the seeker, is attained, union with the divine Being and oneness with the supreme divine Nature." 4 The solution that is offered by the Gita can be found applicable also to the contemporary crisis, if not fully in all details, but still by employing all the clues that are given here ...
... discover and live in that which is eternal. Ethical knowledge can aid us when having distinguished the wrong from the right, we put away the one and rise above the other into the pure innocence of the divine Nature, — Para Prakriti. Aesthetic knowledge, too, can be a part of Yogic knowledge when we discover by it the beauty of the Divine. Even knowledge of the world can be a part of Yogic knowledge when we ...
... one begins to grow into the likeness of the Divine in our nature. Bhakti yoga culminates in a sort of liberation by likeness to the Divine, liberation from our lower nature and a change into the divine nature. It is in the context of this profundity of Bhakti yoga that the place and significance of prayer needs to be underlined. There may be in the ordinary religious approach to the divine consciousness ...
... forward more openly and sovereignly on the surface consciousness and takes recourse to the path of knowledge, divine work and divine love, even so, it brings out more and more effectively its own divine nature, swabhava, and stamps it more and more visibly on the satwic, rajasic and tamasic personality. It is then that one recognizes that the soul-force in man represents the divine consciousness as a ...
... × sādrishyamukti; mama sādharmyam āgatāḥ: Identity of the soul's liberated nature with the divine nature; they have attained to one law of being with Me (the Divine). ( Bhagavat Gita 14.2) × In Latin: ...
... the joy of the Spirit in itself. The lucid simplicity and the direct and flowing cadence with a magnitude of power and grace bring the Light, the Peace and the Unity of harmony that express the Divine Nature. It is an experience from beyond, it is of a completely new dimension… one must enter deep within… into the very depths of the being, to absorb the vibrations which emanate from this music…. And ...
... Force". What is it? The Mother's force is the manifestation of the Mother herself. It is the Divine Force which works to remove the ignorance and change the nature into the divine nature. Page 168 Sometimes, if not often, the Mother's Force comes down, finishes its work and disappears. When once it has descended why has it to return at all? ...
... vital becoming to be governed by the habitual un-divine or at the most to be just illumined by a distant and faint glow which served, however, more to distort than express the Divine. The Divine Nature only can permanently reform the vital nature that is ours. Neither laws and institutions, which are the results of that vital nature, nor ideas and ideals which are often a mere revolt from and ...
... consciousness and posits it as part of itself or a function of its apprehension. The many Purushas (conscious beings or subjects) are imbedded in the universal Nature, say the Sankhyas. Kali, Divine Nature, is the manifest omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent reality holding within her the transcendent divine Purusha who supports, sanctions and inspires secretly, yet is dependent on the Mahashakti ...
... transcendence. According to it, the liberated soul, one who lives in and with the Brahman or the Supreme Divine is he who 'has discarded the inferior human nature and has taken up the superior divine nature. He has conquered the evil of the lower nature, certainly; but also he has gone beyond the good of that nature. The liberated man is seated above the play of the three Gunas that constitute the ...
... unto themselves, they do their own sadhana and attain siddhi and pass out. They do not come back. But the other category of beings who are called Ishwarakoti, that is to say, those who embody the divine nature, not only can save themselves but others also, they can bear the burden of imperfect human beings, they can go up and come down, pass from life to life even after liberation with ease, in order ...
... to take a leap and not merely trudge and crawl. It is the fulfilment of Nature that has to happen and is happening, the fulfilment of the inferior Nature in and through the higher divine Nature. Here we come perhaps to the very heart of the mystery. For till now, till Page 78 almost yesterday, we may say in a general way, the spiritual life, any kind of divine life ...
... when he asks God to remove the vessel of deadly poison from his lips, so that he may not have to drink of it any more. God having become a man shows by example how one can rise to a godly or divine nature from a human nature. God reveals this sadhana through his human life. Man knows himself as sinful, afflicted, weak and helpless. To him the spiritual realisation, the divine Life, the divine Co ...
... pivot of the Gita's teaching, Page 37 retire somewhat into the background and present a diminished stature and value. The centre of gravity has shifted to the conception of the Divine Nature, to the Lord's own status, to the consciousness above the three Gunas, to absolute consecration of each limb of man's humanity to the Supreme Purusha for his descent and incarnation and play in ...
... fullness of the glory. One must leave behind all the lower ranges of ignorance, the entire domain of human consciousness, come out of the imperfection man is made of; then only will he put on the divine nature as his own body and substance. The Cross symbolises all the suffering and difficulty, the ¹The Mother: Prayers and Meditations, 3 September 1919 Page 283 renunciation ...
... Nature proposes to take a leap and not merely trudge and crawl. It is the fulfilment of Nature that has to happen and is happening, the fulfilment of the inferior Nature in and through the higher divine Nature. Here we come perhaps to the very heart of the mystery. For till now, till almost yesterday, we may say in a general way, the spiritual life, any kind of divine life was considered possible only ...
... attract the heart of the world. The artist's genius does not follow that ideal. Art is beyond time and space. The artist sees only the eternal truth. He meditates upon the endless mysteries of the divine Nature at play in virtue and vice, in the small and the great, in the present and in the future. He tries to give expression to or manifest that Nature before the eyes of mankind. The art of an artist ...
... through that knowledge we can distinguish the wrong from the right, and distinguish the evil from the good, and we put away the wrong and the evil and rise above into the pure innocence of the divine Nature. We can use the aesthetic knowledge as an aid so that we can discover by it the beauty of the universal and the transcendental, the Page 315 beauty of the ineffable and of the formless ...
... its greatest power. Power of the godheads can be built, according to the Vedic teaching, within man, and affirmation of these powers leads to the conversion of human nature into universality of divine nature. The gods are the guardians and increasers of the Truth, the powers of the Immortal, the sons of the Infinite Mother, Aditi. Man arrives at immortality by calling of the gods into himself by means ...
... to enter into the human consciousness and partake of the earthly life: it has taken up a mortal frame, to Jive and dwell here below. Only thus she can transform the lower animal nature into the divine nature, raise man to godhead, make of earth heaven itself. A prodigal of her rich divinity, Her self and all she was she had lent to men, Hoping her greater being to implant That ...
... told us that if man wants to get out of the present condition and consciousness he has to transform his nature and his consciousness. Over the human nature, the human consciousness, there is the Divine Nature, the Divine Consciousness. It is only in the light of this Divine Consciousness that life can be changed and transformed. But for that man has to consciously will it. He has to call into him ...
... at once a prescience and a prophecy of the colossal work that was to rear its edifice on the secure foundation of political freedom 35. The integral Yoga was to transform human nature into Divine Nature and human life into Divine Life 36. 34. From the Bande Mataram, 23.2.1908. 35. "The true aim of the nationalist movement is to restore the spiritual greatness of the nation ...
... of action whether supplementary to the social law or partially corrective to it, the social law that is after all only the rule often clumsy and ignorant, of the human herd, but to develop the divine nature in the human being. In our sociology we shall treat the individual ...... from the saint to the criminal, not as units of a social problem to be passed through some skilfully devised ...
... Divine and the ladder of ascent of the human soul. It points to a culmination in the descent of the Divine into the earth-consciousness and the consequent transformation of the earth-nature into the divine nature. Mr. K. D. Sethna in his book says, "only the ancient Vedas and Upanishads embody with anything like a royal freedom these ranges of mystical and spiritual being, hidden beyond the deepest plunge ...
... compromise, such as is fondly advocated by the modern idealists. They met to help man live in God and God in man; to convert human life into a vehicle of the divine Light, and human nature into divine nature. They met to declare that Spirit and Matter, Heaven and Earth, the One and the many are essentially one, and that their oneness can be dynamically expressed in every movement of human life. It was ...
... delight of an immortal existence. The ascent to the Supermind will be followed by a descent of the supramental Consciousness-Force into the nature of man and the latter's transformation into the divine nature or Page 370 Para Prakriti. When the transformation is complete—it is only the supramental Force that can radically transform human nature—the whole being of man will be ready for ...
... Inconscient will ¹Prayers and Meditations of the Mother; February 9, 1914, Page 182 mean the conquest of material life and nature, and the conversion of human nature into divine nature. The Mother says that the majority of beings, even of human beings, live constantly in the Subconscient, "few, emerge from it,” and she affirms that "this is the conquest that has to be made; ...
... wills and the strife of their human fear, wrath and passion, and liberated from all the unquiet and suffering may live in the calm and bliss of the Divine."2 "The Avatar comes to reveal the divine nature in men above their lower nature and to show what are the divine works, free, unegoistic, disinterested, impersonal, universal, full of the divine light, the divine power and the divine loves. He ...
... growing into the Truth, the Right, the Vast. Man is at the meeting point of the physical and the metaphysical, and sums up in himself all physical nature and all the possibilities of angelic or divine nature. Page 322 The spiritual problem is to realise these possibilities. The mystic Jan Van Ruysbroeck says: He who seeks that gift to light him Must rise beyond ...
... ilating merger in the Brahman, sāyujya, nor an eternal proximity to the luminous presence of the Beloved, sāmipya and sālokya, but a union through the remoulding of human nature into the divine nature, a growing into the likeness of the Divine, sādrśya, sādharmya. The next part to feel the pressure of the descending spirit-force was the physical being of man. Two immediate outstanding ...
... descent, the birth of God in humanity, the Godhead manifesting itself in the human form and nature, the eternal Avatar; the other is an ascent, the birth of man into the Godhead, man rising into the divine nature and consciousness, madbhāvam āgataha; it is the being born anew in a second birth of the soul. It is that new birth which Avatarhood and the upholding of the Dharma are intended to serve. 52 ...
... written: "The Yoga we practise is not for ourselves alone, but for the Divine; its aim is to work out the will of the Divine in the world, to effect a spiritual transformation and to bring down a divine nature and a divine life into the mental, vital and physical nature and life of humanity. Its object is not personal Mukti... but the liberation and transformation of the human being." (SABCL, Vol. 16 ...
... of humanity? Why were they bearing the burden of earth-nature and treading its dolorous way? The answer was provided by the passage Amrita lighted upon: The Avatar comes to reveal the divine nature in man above this lower nature and to show what are the divine works, free, unegoistic. disinterested, impersonal, universal, full of the divine light, the divine power and the divine love. He ...
... your mind, your soul that answers to the Truth, not your mind that leaps at appearances; trust the Divine Power and she will free the godlike elements in you and shape all into an expression of Divine Nature. 9 The Mother had no doubt put on the cloak of humanity, but that was only to facilitate her leading others gently on. She did many things that others did, she breathed and walked and bathed ...
... gunas, but Sri Aurobindo takes up this hint and elaborates it into a glowing evangel of the Divine Life created by the transfiguring and revealing dynamism of the parā prakrti, the supreme Divine Nature, the Mother. The soul of man in its evolution inevitably passes through the lower Nature of the three guṇas, but when it is liberated, it does not shuffle off all Nature and retire into its immutable ...
... union and communion with the Divine, even while it manifests Him in the setting of the material existence and fulfils His Will in every "detail of its earthly life. This ascent to the higher divine Nature is the supreme "work of human life, both individual and collective. The collective lower Nature of the mental man has to be transformed and converted into the higher, so that man as a race may take ...
... purification. For, the psychic being has a will in it, a will of fire to manifest the Divine in its nature, and it cannot rest till it has converted and transformed its ignorant earthly nature into the divine nature. THE TWO CATEGORIES OF IMPURITY When we study the nature of our impurities, we find that they can be divided into two categories, born of two different causes. The first category ...
... an undeviating intimacy and identity in all the aspects and attributes of His infinitely one and multiple being, is integral union. We have to be one with Him in His divine Self and also in His divine Nature, parāprkrti; in His omnipresent being and also in His universal becoming. How can this be done except by an integral transformation of our being? By the liberation of our soul we can unite with ...
... with The Mother 13 August 1963 Without heroism man cannot grow into Godhead; courage, energy and strength are among the very first principles of the divine nature in action.—Sri Aurobindo Bonne Fête! To Surendranath With love and blessings 13 August 1963 ...
... Integral wealth of Mahalakshmi (white). The other colours remain as they are. 3 July 1970 * * * Sweet Mother, In the flower-names capital letters are presently used for: The Divine Nature (universal) The Presence (when it refers to the Divine Presence). We would like to ask whether capital letters could also be used to show the importance or greatness of a significance ...
... qualities of the one Godhead and it is these which the Rishis adored and towards which they directed their aspiration, then there must inevitably be in the Veda a large part of psychology of the Divine Nature, psychology of the relations of man with God and a constant indication of the law governing man's Godward conduct. Dayananda asserts the presence of such an ethical element, he finds in the Veda ...
... Dashagwas, seers of the ten rays who enter with Indra into the cave of the Panis and recover the lost herds. The sacrifice is the giving by man of what he possesses in his being to the higher or divine nature and its fruit is the farther enrichment of his manhood by the lavish bounty of the gods. The wealth thus gained constitutes a state of spiritual riches, prosperity, felicity which is itself a power ...
... Shankara : Others think creation was made for enjoyment or for play. These two theories are criticised by the line "This is the very nature of the Lord". Or, it may be, that the theory of Divine Nature is resorted to in order to criticise all other theories by the argument , He has all He can desire and why should He crave for anything? For no cause can be alleged for the appearance of the ...
... XX Swabhava and Swadharma It is then by a liberating development of the soul out of this lower nature of the triple gunas into the supreme divine nature beyond the three gunas that we can best arrive at spiritual perfection and freedom. And this again can best be brought about by an anterior development of the predominance of the highest sattwic ...
... of a certain differentiation in our active being. It is the persistence of the latter in a play of divine works which are urged by the motive power of divine love and constituted by a perfected divine Nature, it is the vision of the Divine in the world harmonised with a realisation of the Divine in the self which makes action and devotion possible to the liberated man, and not only possible but inevitable ...
... Purusha and Prakriti corrected and completed by the Vedantic truth of the threefold Purusha and the double Prakriti of which the lower form is the Maya of the three gunas and the higher is the divine nature and the true soul-nature. This is the key which reconciles and explains what we might have otherwise to leave as contradictions and inconsistencies. There are, in fact, different planes of our conscious ...
... triune way of knowledge, works and devotion. And the fruit of the sacrifice, the one fruit still placed before the seeker, is attained, union with the divine Being and oneness with the supreme divine nature. Page 38 ...
... last that all the while he did not really know his divine Friend. He has received counsel from his wisdom, help from his power, has loved and been loved, has even adored without understanding his divine nature; but he has been guided like all others through his own egoism and the counsel, help and direction have been given in the language and received by the thoughts of the Ignorance. Until the moment ...
... not always as gay and cheerful as we would like you to be! The storm, cloud, difficulty, suffering come, but they are no part of the Yogic idea; they belong to the Nature that is now, not to the divine Nature that is to be. Disregarding the Rules of the Ashram Is it a fact that some sadhaks enjoy the special privilege of having obtained either your or the Mother's sanction for eating meat or fish ...
... transcendence. 23 March 1933 Page 192 You often speak of the Mother's Force. What is it? It is the Divine Force which works to remove the ignorance and change the nature into the divine nature. 18 June 1933 Why do I feel that it is I who do this thing or that? For is it not true that it is the Mother's force which does everything in us? When I speak of the Mother's force, I ...
... ion of energy—has a life independent of the physical form—this is what we generally call the "soul" or the "psychic being"—and since it is organised around the divine centre it partakes of the divine nature which is immortal, eternal. The outer body falls away, and this remains throughout every experience that it has in each life, and there is a progress from life to life, and it is the progress of ...
... It is when the true soul (psyche) comes forward and begins first to influence and then govern the actions of the instrumental nature that man begins to overcome vital desire and grow towards a divine nature. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: The Psychic Being If knowledge is the widest power of the consciousness and its function is to free and illumine, yet love is the deepest and most ...
... a true experience. But the will of is that all you do should be done not the Mother (মায়ের ইচ্ছা) by her force in Nature as now, but her own direct force in the Truth of her nature, the higher divine Nature. So also it was correct, what you thought afterwards, that unless there is this change, the experience that all you do is done by her will cannot be altogether true. So it will not be permanent ...
... ascending order they are: Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuition and Overmind. Nature — the outer or executive side of the Conscious Force which forms and moves the worlds. The higher, divine Nature (Para Prakriti) is free from Ignorance and its consequences; the lower Nature (Apara Prakriti) is a mechanism of active Force put forth for the working of the evolutionary Ignorance. The lower nature ...
... omnipotence held back and conditioned by the Law of the world as it is, but a full action and therefore bringing the reign of light, peace, harmony, joy, love, beauty and Ananda, for these are the Divine Nature. The Divine Grace is there, ready to act at every moment, but it manifests as one grows out of the Law of the Ignorance into the Law of Light and it is meant, not as an arbitrary caprice, however ...
... God because He had given him a hard heart ? But the teaching of the Gita springs from an Indian creed and to the Indian mind compassion has always figured as one of the largest elements of the divine nature.... It is this compassion in the Aryan fighter, the soul of his chivalry, which will not break the bruised reed, but helps and protects the weak and the oppressed and the wounded and the fallen ...
... computation, does not matter at all, if you are one with the Divine Consciousness; for then you leave outside you the things of the human nature and you enter into the infinity and eternity of the Divine Nature. Then you escape from this feeling of a great eagerness of hurry with which men are obsessed, because they want to see things done. Agitation, haste, restlessness lead nowhere. It is foam on the ...
... separate even if not yet divided choice, is likely to lead to deviation from the Truth of things. The Overmind, therefore, does not and cannot possess the power to transform humanity into divine nature. For that, the Page 121 Supramental is the sole effective agent. And what exactly differentiates our Yoga from attempts in the past to spiritualise life is that we know that ...
... of separate even if not yet divided choice, is likely to lead to deviation from the Truth of things. The Overmind, therefore, does not and cannot possess the power to transform humanity into divine nature. For that, the Supramental is the sole effective agent. And what exactly differentiates our Yoga from attempts in the past to spiritualise life is that we know that the splendours of the Overmind ...
... Page 215 —has a life independent of the physical form—this is what we generally call the "soul" or the "psychic being"—and since it is organised around the divine centre it partakes of the divine nature which is immortal, eternal. The outer body falls away, and this remains throughout every experience that it has in each life, and there is a progress from life to life, and it is the progress of ...
... of separate even if not yet divided choice, is likely to lead to deviation from the Truth of things. The Overmind, therefore, does not and cannot possess the power to transform humanity into divine nature. For that, the Supramental is the sole effective agent. The Mother Questions and Answers (1929 - 1931): Supermind and Overmind * Supermind Here it is written: “It is very unwise for ...
... ion of energy—has a life independent of the physical form—this is what we generally call the “soul” or the “psychic being”—and since it is organised around the divine centre it partakes of the divine nature which is immortal, eternal. The outer body falls away, and this remains throughout every experience that it has in each life, and there is a progress from life to life, and it is the progress of ...
... and interesting sufferings (for it shrinks even from the Ananda which will replace them); next, there is some vague ignorant idea of the mind, due, I suppose, to the ascetic tradition, that the divine nature is something cold, bare, empty, austere, aloof, without the glorious riches of the egoistic human vital life. As if there were not a divine vital and as if that divine vital is not itself and, when ...
... the complete surrender being the crowning movement. One has first to conquer the lower nature, deliver the self involved in the lower movement by means of the higher Self which rises into the divine nature; at the same time one offers all one's actions including the inner action of the Yoga as a sacrifice to the Purushottama, the transcendent and immanent Divine. When one has risen into the higher ...
... to Him as a sacrifice. He may also try or aspire to feel the presence of the Divine Shakti behind the world and its forces, distinguish between the lower nature of the Ignorance and the higher divine nature whose character is absolute calm, peace, power, Light and Bliss and aspire to be raised and led gradually from the lower to the higher. If he can do this, he will become fit in time to dedicate ...
... a fact that one can approach Him or seek union only for the sake of Ananda and nothing else. That involves something which throws all your reasoning out of gear. For these are aspects of the Divine Nature, powers of it, states of his being,—but the Divine Himself is something absolute, someone self-existent, not limited by his aspects,—wonderful and ineffable, not existing by them, but they existing ...
... things that happen in Yoga—realisations and experiences. Realisations are the reception in the consciousness and the establishment there of the fundamental truths of the Divine, of the Higher or Divine Nature, of the world-consciousness and the play of its forces, of one's own self and real nature and the inner nature of things, the power of these things growing in one till they are a part of one's inner ...
... the legs means that their action here takes place in the physical or external consciousness, in the evolution of the external mind, vital, physical towards the experience of the Divine and of the Divine Nature. The bite of the cobras (Shiva's cobras!) does not kill, or it only kills the "old Adam" in the being; their bite brings the ecstasy of the presence of the Divine—that which you felt coming upon ...
... essence a calculation of good and evil in the action or a laboured effort to be blameless according to the standards of the world,—those are only crude appearances,—it is an attempt to grow into the divine nature. Its parts of purity are an aspiration towards the inalienable purity of God's being; its parts of truth and right are a seeking after conscious unity with the law of the divine knowledge and will; ...
... Page 41 worlds Jana, Tapas, Satya,—not unknown to the Veda—constitute the Parardha; they are the higher ranges of existence in which Sat, Chit, Ananda, the three mighty elements of the divine nature predominate respectively, creative Ananda or divine bliss in Jana, the power of Chit (Chich-chhakti) or divine Energy in Tapas, the extension [of] Sat or divine being in Satya. But these worlds ...
... mental action of these puissances, manuṣvat , and the divine. It is supposed that man by the right use of their mental action in the inner sacrifice to the gods can convert them into their true or divine nature, the mortal can Page 66 become immortal. Thus the Ribhus, who were at first human beings or represented human faculties, became divine and immortal powers by perfection in the work, ...
... [of] this lower life towards immortal strength & power, he is active & joyous, arusho, in those that take the delight of these movements and so prepare us for the immortal bliss & ecstasy of the divine nature. Manifesting progressively that Ananda the force of God establishes and maintains in each house of our habitation, in each of our five bodies, in each of our seven levels of conscious existence ...
... . In this working you will be aware of the presence and power of the Mother. Once that is done, all the rest will be a question of time and of the progressive evolution in you of your true and divine nature. Page 741 The statement 2 is a general one and like all general statements subject to qualification according to circumstances. What I meant was to discourage what some do which ...
... egoistic suggestions or excites the lower nature, then it is an adverse Force. The Forces of the Lower Nature and the Hostile Forces There are [ at work in the world ] the higher forces of the Divine Nature—the forces of Light, Truth, divine Power, Peace, Ananda—there are the forces of the lower nature which belong either to a lower truth or to ignorance and error—there are also the hostile forces ...
... and self-consecration progress the Sadhaka becomes conscious of the Divine Shakti doing the Sadhana, pouring into him more and more of herself, founding in him the freedom and perfection of the Divine Nature. The more this conscious process replaces his own effort, the more rapid and true becomes his progress. But it cannot completely replace the necessity of personal effort until the surrender and ...
... preferences, but to ask for her Truth only, to obey and follow her guidance, to open oneself and become aware of her Force and its workings and to allow those workings to change the nature into the divine nature. 24 March 1934 At present my subnature is still resisting and it is difficult to bring it under permanent control. But why does this difficulty hold on when my lower vital has already put ...
... universes with the indrawing of its breath and destroys universes with its out-throwing, beside whom we feel ourselves to be too vile and weak and feeble to partake even infinitesimally of His divine nature, that is Brahman; the ineffable and unimaginable Spirit whom our senses cannot perceive, nor our minds comprehend, nor our reason touch, that is Brahman; and our own Self who eternally enthroned ...
... behind this outer life soul of desire there is in us an inner and true vital being which has not to be dissolved but brought out into prominence and released to its true working as a power of the Divine Nature. The prominence of this true vital being under the lead of the true inmost soul within us is the condition for the divine fulfilment of the objects of the Life-Force. Those objects will even remain ...
... in danger of becoming the dubious and ambiguous formula of an inner Light doing the works of an outer Twilight, the perfect Spirit expressing itself in a mould of imperfection foreign to its own divine nature. If no better can be done for a time,—and during a long period of transition something like this does inevitably happen,—then so it must remain till things are ready and the spirit within is powerful ...
... supreme fulfilment. At first, the higher Love and Truth will fulfil its movement in the sadhaka according to the essential law or way of his own nature. For that is the special aspect of the divine Nature, the particular power of the supreme Shakti, out of which his soul has emerged into the Play, not limited indeed by the forms of this law Page 212 or way, for the soul is infinite. But ...
... d therefore the inner trend of the evolutionary Energy and its ultimate intention—to know and to grow into this truth of itself, to become one with the Divine Being, to raise its nature to the Divine Nature, its existence into the Divine Existence, its consciousness into the Divine Consciousness, its delight of being into the divine Delight of Being, and to receive all this into its becoming, to make ...
... each finds its own way, such as the love and worship of the Bhakta and the growing into the likeness of the Divine by love. But for the integral Yoga perfection will mean a divine spirit and a divine nature which will admit of a divine relation and action in the world; it will mean also in its entirety a divinising of the whole nature, a rejection of all its wrong knots of being and action, but no ...
... their reconciliation and harmony by their essential oneness even while he accepts an infinite blissful subjection, the condition of his mastery and his liberties, to the Supreme in his sovereign divine Nature. In the tops of the gnosis and in the Ananda he is one with the Prakriti and no longer solely biune with her. There is no longer the baffling play of Nature with the soul in the Ignorance; all is ...
... Chapter III The Psychology of Self-Perfection Essentially, then, this divine self-perfection is a conversion of the human into a likeness of and a fundamental oneness with the divine nature, a rapid shaping of the image of God in man and filling in of its ideal outlines. It is what is ordinarily termed sādṛśya-mukti , a liberation into the divine resemblance out of the bondage of ...
... reveals itself as the Godhead, we see in it the face of God and know the bliss of our Lover. Tuning our whole being to it, we grow into a happy perfection of likeness to it, a human rendering of the divine nature. And when it becomes in every way the self of our self, we are fulfilled in being and we bear the plenitude. Brahman always reveals himself to us in three ways, within ourselves, above our plane ...
... cosmic oneness. And if we can by the mind and heart get at the touch of the Spirit, receive the powerful inrush of the Divine into this lower humanity and change our nature into a reflection of the divine nature by love, by universal joy, by oneness of mind with all Nature and all beings, we can break down the walls. Even our bodies are not really separate entities and therefore our very physical consciousness ...
... our being, we can possess it in both its modes, the Impersonal in a supreme state of being and consciousness, in an infinite impersonality of self-possessing power and bliss, the Personal by the divine nature acting through the individual soul-form and by the relation between that and its transcendent and universal Self. We may keep even our relation with the personal Deity in His forms and names; if ...
... cleansed and emptied cup is filled with the wine of divine love and delight and no longer with the sweet and bitter poison of passion. The passions, even the passion for good, misrepresent the divine nature. The passion of pity with its impure elements of physical repulsion and emotional inability to bear the suffering of others has to be rejected and replaced by Page 353 the higher divine ...
... may add that every one of these religions could be called Hindu! Not that there is in Hinduism a welter of doctrines: there is only a recognition of the infinite possibilities of the omnipotent divine nature and the extreme multiplicity of frail aspiring human nature. All that Hinduism asks is: Can you in any manner realise the Supreme Page 83 Being who is at once transcendent, universal ...
... as disclosed in the Bhagavad Gita. This scripture combines a transcendent Person, a dynamic Pan-theos and a supreme Incarnation as well as a human soul-hood which is an eternal portion of the Divine Nature and called towards the Personal Divinity through an extreme of love and of self-renouncement in a Greater than it at the Page 31 same time that the human realizes its essential ...
... speculated on what we should build, what we should break, nor shall I now define my detailed opinions—but whatever it be, we must do it in the light and in the spirit of that triple principle of the divine nature; we must act in the reflection of God's Love, Strength & Wisdom. We are Hindus seeking to re-Hinduise society, not to Europeanise it. But what is Hinduism? Or what is its social principle? ...
... Nature a game of emergence from the inconscient Self out of which all here began, through the mixed and imperfect consciousness which is all we have now reached, towards a supreme consciousness, a divine nature. This we cannot now know; our eyes are fixed on a partial outer manifestation which we see and call the universe—though even now we see and know very little of it or about it, know Page 227 ...
... 126 Yoga means union and the whole object of Yoga is the union of the human soul with the supreme Being and of the present Page 334 nature of humanity with the eternal, supreme or divine Nature. The greater the union, the greater the Yoga, the more complete the union, the more complete the Yoga. There are different conceptions of the supreme Being and to each conception corresponds ...
... and imperfection, our good a lesser imperfection. 545) The religionist speaks a truth, though too violently, when he tells us that even our greatest and purest virtue is as vileness before the divine nature of God. 546) To be beyond good and evil is not to act sin or virtue indifferently, but to arrive at a high and universal good. 547) That good is not our ethical virtue which is a relative ...
... her aim; in him she looks up from the animal with open eyes towards her divine ideal. But God is complex, not simple; and the temptation of the human intellect is to make a short cut to the divine nature by the exclusive worship of one of its principles. Knowledge, Love whose secret word is Delight, Power and Unity are some of the Names of God. But though they are all divine, yet to follow any of ...
... then, it's everywhere at once, everywhere always the same, without alternations of high and low, unchanging, in an unvarying intensity of sensation. And that "something" which is characteristic of divine nature (and is hard to express with words) is at the same time absolute immobility and absolute intensity of vibration. And That... loves. There is no "Lord," there are no "things"; there is no subject ...
... become a tool for his expression, an instrument for his creation is the sole purpose of life. Then we should allow the highest light to react on the threefold nature for its transformation into divine nature. Thus God and His nature embodied in human frame, will manifest in transparent shape to us and the world. This manifestation is a divine boon to humanity. The Mother says: Every individual ...
... cosmic scheme — a part which he must play if he has to pay his debt to God who ... has made this tenement of flesh His own, His image in the human measure cast That to His divine nature we might rise."* And the final fulfilment will then come because "The Ruler there is one with all He rules. It is not contended that we never heard of this. But those who believe ...
... much more you do by meditation. What, what is going in meditation? Through meditation you are going to realise your self. Whenever your desire, ambition, all lower nature silent, naturally the divine nature manifests! Mother give work not only for economical condition. Through work our purifying our lower nature. Ego, desire, ambition this will go naturally, you can find your inner being ...
... millenniums was being fulfilled: the world would not always be a place of frustration, suffering and death. Like everything else in the One Divine it would be able to materially develop its essential divine nature. K.D. Sethna wrote in his diary: ‘I wonder when the world will realize that [on 29 February 1956] the greatest event in history took place.’ 15 The Mother announced the Event in the Bulletin ...
... Matter through the sole agency of the powers of consciousness so far organised in earth-nature, but through the action of the Supramental Power, the power of "the full Truth-Consciousness of the Divine Nature". 1 This Truth-Consciousness, ṛta-cit, the Supermind as Sri Aurobindo terms it, is "a dynamic and not only a static Power, not only a Knowledge, but a Will according to Knowledge," 2 that ...
... consciousness as the moth is to the star, as the night is to the day. And will you not accept this from me, you, who in your nature are kin to the Heavens, you, who seem to me to have something of the divine nature, to be something bright and happy and pure far above the sphere of our sorrow? Of course all that is not said but only suggested, but it is obviously the spirit of the poem,— and it is this spirit ...
... these million processes and forces. Individual, she embodies the power of these two vaster ways of her existence, makes them living and near to us and mediates between the human personality and the divine Nature.’ 34 ‘Four great Aspects of the Mother, four of her leading Powers and Personalities have stood in front in her guidance of this Universe and in her dealings with the terrestrial play. ...
... the individuality of the human soul and the transcendental aspect of God. Indian pantheism, which he misjudged, includes them or rather is itself included in a vaster many-sided synthesis of the Divine Nature. However, in the end this synthesis too looks towards a Beyond. Such a looking is due, I hold, to a past prehistoric failure to do something like what Sri Aurobindo has attempted and has, in essence ...
... a process too long-drawn-out? The next is: "The process by which we transcend the ego and put on the Divine Consciousness, and by which we transform the the lower nature into the Divine Nature." This too is a bit of a mouthful, but it has more particularity. The ego seems to have been a troublesome thing and the lower nature a rather demanding proposition. Transcendence ...
... we to construe Teilhard's comment? Of course, as he 19 says at the end while giving a general solution, we have to bring in a Christ who is the centre of the universe and has not only a humano-divine nature but also a third nature which is cosmic, "enabling him", as the editorial footnote 20 puts it, "to centre all the lives which constitute a pleroma extended to the galaxies". Yet, within the operation ...
... Savitri not in terms of her true, divine qualities but in terms of that which she is not—suggesting that she cannot be described in human terms—and, in doing so, creates a sharp contrast between her divine nature and that which is human and temporal. (The reader may note that this technique is remindful of the Upanishadic approach to defining the Brahman as neti, neti —"not this, not that") As we might ...
... le with liberation. All the three gunas have to be transcended. Sattwa may bring us near to the Light, but its limited clarity falls away from us when we enter into the luminous body of the divine Nature. The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 660 ...man as the individual self, owing to his ignorant self-identification with the work and the becoming, as if that were all his soul and not a power ...
... everything essential is covered by its amplitude. On the other hand, the positive sense of freedom is to be universal in soul, transcendently one in spirit with God, possessed of the highest divine nature, — as we may say, like to God, or one with him in the law of our being. This is the whole and full sense of liberation and this is the integral freedom of the spirit. The Synthesis of Yoga ...
... is when the true soul (psyche) comes forward and begins first to influence and then govern the actions of the instrumental nature that man begins to overcome vital desire and grow towards a divine nature. 22 Purusha and Prakriti Developing the concepts of the Sankhya philosophy, Sri Aurobindo distinguishes between the soul or spirit side of the Being called Purusha (Person or ...
... Chandulal Chandulal, The first conditions of this Yoga are: (1) A complete sincerity and surrender in the being. The divine life and the transformation of the lower human into the higher divine nature must be made the sole aim of all the life. No attachments, desires or habits of the mind, heart, vital being or body should be clung to which come in the way of this aspiration and one object of ...
... matter from the union of the above and the below.—Purushottama The process by which we transcend the ego and put on the Divine Consciousness and by which we transform the lower nature into the divine nature.—Satyen Faith in the Divine and aspiration for the Highest.—Tajdar ...
... cheerful as we Page 243 would like you to be! The storm, cloud, difficulty, suffering come, but they are no part of the yogic idea; they belong to the Nature that is now, not to the divine Nature that is to be. December 1936 ? (...) P.S. Forgive a little humour in sorrow: my father used to be renowned for it; one of his humour characters (Dileer Khan) said to Aurangzeb: ...
... not a fact that one can approach Him or seek union for the sake of Ananda and nothing else. That involves something which throws all your reasoning out of gear. For these are aspects of the Divine Nature, powers of it, states of his being—but the Divine Himself is something absolute, someone self-existent, not limited by his aspects— wonderful and ineffable, not existing by them, but they existing ...
... Existence. We call this manifesting spirit the Jiva... But in truth it is something greater than its present appearance... And when this soul arises above all ignorant limitation, then it puts on its divine nature of which its humanity is only a temporary veil, a thing of partial and incomplete significance.” ( Essays on the Gita , SABCL, Vol. 13, pp. 430-31) The difficulty of the Adwaitic philosophy ...
... His power and joy of the life, His light and rapture of the emotional mind and the senses. Something of the Supreme that is imaged of the Brahman falls upon the world- nature and changes it into divine nature. All this is not done by any sudden miracle. It comes by flashes, revelations, sudden touches and glimpses; there is as if a leap of the lightning of revelation flaming out from higher functionings ...
... self-conscious means and willed arrangements of activity and by ever increasing expression of inner potentialities in a persistent and guided effort to unite our being with the divine reality and divine nature. Just as in science, we first observe the natural force of electricity or of steam and its normal occurrences or normal operations, and then we handle these operations scientifically by ...
... knowledge, works and Page 167 devotion. And the fruit of the sacrifice, the one fruit still placed before the seeker, is attained, union with the divine Being and oneness with the supreme divine Nature." 4 The solution that is offered by the Gita can be found applicable also to the contemporary crisis, if not fully in all details, but still by employing all the clues that are given here ...
... ancient system of chaturvarnya proceeded from the supposition that each individual has Page 194 his own peculiar inner nature, which is born from and reflects one element of the divine nature. It further supposed that the human being falls into four types of qualities and functions, guna karma. There is, first and highest, the personality of learning and thought and knowledge; next ...
... true being and true delight of existence. This process is also the process of sacrifice which consists of giving by man of what he possesses in his ignorant consciousness to the higher or the Divine Nature. The sacrifice is governed by the law of the Rta which causes the ripening of the sacrifice into its corresponding fruits which consist of the gradual enrichment of the Faculties of Knowledge ...
... Prakriti of the Para Prakriti which constitutes the nature of the jiva. And, with the increasing force of the sacrifice of the jiva, there comes about greater response of the Divine and of the divine nature in the Apara Prakriti. A stage can be reached where the seeker, by force of some extraordinary development of the powers of emotion, feeling, thought and will, the boundaries of Apara Prakriti are ...
... triune way of knowledge, works and devotion. And the fruit of the sacrifice, the one fruit still placed before the seeker, is attained, union with the divine Being and oneness with the supreme divine Nature." (Essays on the Gita Vol. 13, SABCL, pp 34, 35) The modern epistemology has come to be confined to the problems of the knowledge of the world as it seems to us, — in all its divided forms ...
... know the spirit in the world and the ways of the spirit in its masks and behind them. Ethics would be pursued not to establish a rule of action, supplementary to the social law but to develop the divine nature in the human being. Art would be pursued to reveal the Truth and Beauty of things visible and invisible in the forms or symbols and significant figures. The new society would look upon every ...
... soul is united with the Supreme Lord or Infinite Existence, but also the ideal of sādharmya mukti, the liberation and perfection of the lower nature of life and mind by infusion into it of the divine nature, the Para Prakriti, — the divine Aditi of the Veda. The Tantrik yoga has also developed methods of far richer spiritual conquest that would enable the seeker to embrace the whole life in his divine ...
... thinking mind. His power and joy of the life, His light and rapture of the emotional mind and the senses. Something of the Supreme image of the Brahman falls upon the world-nature and changes it into divine nature. All this is not done by a sudden miracle. It comes by flashes revelations, sudden touches and glimpses; there is as if a leap of the lightning of revelation flaming out from those heavens for a ...
... self-conscious means and willed arrangements of activity and by ever-increasing expression of inner potentialities in a persistent and guided effort to unite our being with the divine reality and divine nature. Indeed, Yoga is a science, — an intuitive science, — which deals with the ranges of the psychical and spiritual being and discovers greater secrets of physical, psycho-physical and other higher ...
... continues. The double path becomes the triple path of knowledge, works and devotion. And, at the end, the goal is accomplished, and the goal is union with the divine Being and oneness with the supreme divine Nature." The Princess asked: "The most difficult part of the Gita is, to my mind, chapters 3 to 6. And I find a great sympathy when Arjuna complains that the answers of Krishna are very perplexing ...
... self-conscious means and willed arrangements of activity and by ever increasing expression of inner potentialities in a persistent and guided effort to unite our being with the divine reality and divine nature. Just as in science, we first observe the natural force of electricity or of steam and its normal occurrences or normal operations, and then we handle these operations scientifically by means ...
... self-conscious means and willed arrangement of activities and by ever- increasing expression of inner capacities in a persistent and guided effort to unite our being with the Divine Reality and Divine Nature. Indeed, Yoga is a science, which deals with ranges of the psychical and spiritual being and even discovers greater secrets of physical, psycho-physical and other higher realities and worlds. As ...
... ... [and] has a life independent of the physical form - this is what we generally call the 'soul' or the 'psychic being' - and since it is organised around the divine centre it partakes of the divine nature which is immortal, eternal. The outer body falls away, and this remains throughout every experience that it has in each life, and there is a progress from life to life, and it is the progress of ...
... vision. Light is here one with Force, the vibrations of knowledge with the rhythm of the will and both are one, perfectly and without seeking, groping or effort, with the assured result. The divine Nature has a double power, a spontaneous self-formulation and self-arrangement which wells naturally out of the essence of the thing manifested and expresses its original truth, and a self-force of ...
... our physical being. But what is the nature of this Supermind ? and what is its potency of action? The Supermind is the self-existent self-effulgent plenary Truth-Consciousness of the Divine Nature, far superior to all mental movement, by which the Divine knows not only his own essence and being but his manifestation also. Again, the supramental is not merely a static power of Knowledge; ...
... consciousness and experience with the imputation of unreality and clamps down to its earth-roots the growth of the spirit from its original limiting humanity into the supramental truth and the divine nature." 1 But the question is: Are the limitations imposed by man's body in its present state of development to be considered as something permanent and of the nature of insuperable impediments ...
... remoulds him into a completely new being through a process of rapid transformation. As an ultimate attainment, the mind and the heart and the body of the sadhaka undergo a radical change and assume a divine nature. Sri Aurobindo concludes: "The will of self-giving forces away by its power the veil between God and man; it annuls every error and annihilates every obstacle." (p. 320) So far for the 'opening' ...
... is that of Nature or Prakriti. The Spirit that is manifest to itself is to be made manifest to Nature. The Prakriti or Nature of sattva, rajas, and tamas has to be fully transformed by the Divine Nature, the Supramental Nature, so that Nature itself would be liberated from its limitations and be the direct and full expression of the Divine Supermind. In the supramental transformation of Nature ...
... attainment of divine freedom in which the nature of the individual transcends its limitations, the limitations of the nature subject to three gunas, — tamas, rajas, and sattva, — and attains to the divine nature (sādharmyam). Gita's view of Duty for Duty's sake Often this high pitch of the Gita is not grasped, and often the Gita is so interpreted as to teach us the disinterested performance ...
... policeman? So long as one is in the ordinary nature, one has qualities and defects, virtues and vices. When one goes beyond there are no virtues and vices; — for these things do not belong to the Divine Nature. If an overflow of energy in great men is merely of the mental, vital or physical kind what is new in it? There are plenty of people in the world who are not great and yet have ...
... one to reach the planes or do they open themselves like the centres? They open by the concentration and by the opening of the centres. There are the higher forces of the Divine Nature on every plane; when the vital attacks come, why do we not feel the divine Forces intervening to help? If you are sufficiently awake to them and call them in, they will act. ...
... itself once again. The second set of passages brings up the theme of the Avatar, of the Divine Grace taking human form so that the lower animal nature in man can be persuaded to change into the divine nature. But it is hard to persuade human nature to change; mortality does not take kindly to the eternal's touch and fights against it, until finally it is vanquished and transformed by the Grace. ...
... to enter into the human consciousness and partake of the earthly life: it has taken up a mortal frame, to live and dwell here below. Only thus she can transform the lower animal nature into the divine nature, raise man to godhead, make of earth heaven itself: A prodigal of her rich divinity, Her self and all she was she had lent to men, Hoping her greater being to implant ...
... have taken their seat near unto the vast-ranging Divine-Sun. NOTE It is the story of Redemption of Maya, the Lower Nature (Apara Prakriti), its purification or uplifting into the higher Divine Nature (Para Prakriti). The question is always asked how did Maya enter into and possess Brahman, how did darkness envelope and eclipse Light? It was the result of a separation, a rift between Brahman ...
... proposes to take a leap and not merely trudge and crawl. It is the fulfilment of Nature that has to happen and is happening, the fulfilment of the inferior Nature in and through the higher divine Nature. Here we come perhaps to the very heart of the mystery. For till now, till almost yesterday, we may say in a general way, the spiritual life, any kind of divine life was considered possible only ...
... must leave behind all the lower ranges of ignorance, the entire domain of human consciousness, come out of the imperfection Page 101 man is made of; then only will he put on the divine nature as his own body and substance. ⁂ The Cross symbolises all the suffering and difficulty, the renunciation and self-denudation that the ascent to the Goal involves. The Calvary of ...
... guidance of the Master. On this line Arjuna stands for us all and shows, by his example, how we can take courage and march out of the inferior nature into the peace and light and power of the higher divine nature. Page 33 ...
... a transcendence. According to it, the liberated soul, one who lives in and with the Brahman or the Supreme Divine is he who has discarded the inferior human nature and has taken up the superior divine nature. He has conquered the evil of the lower nature, certainly; but also he has gone beyond the good of that nature. The liberated man is seated above the play of the three Gunas that constitute the ...
... and the strife of their human fear, wrath and passion, and liberated from all the unquiet and suffering may live in the calm and bliss of the Divine." 2 ; "The Avatar comes to reveal the divine nature in men above their lower nature and to show what are the divine works, free, unegoistic, disinterested, impersonal, universal, full of the divine light, the divine power and the divine love. ...
... consciousness and posits it as part of itself or a function of its apprehension. The many Purushas (conscious beings or subjects) are imbedded in the universal Nature, say the Sankhyas. Kali, Divine Nature, is the manifest Omnipresent, omniscient, omnipotent reality holding within her the transcendent divine Purusha who supports, sanctions and inspires secretly, yet is dependent on the Mahashakti ...
... impossible thing nor trying to gloss it over with a coat of mental luminosity, but delving into it and cleaning and purifying it, removing its mire and dross wholly and absolutely so that its true divine nature comes out and remains as Nature's highest and fullest expression on earth. That is the goal: the way_too is not less characteristic. The total spiritual transformation, the divinisation of Matter ...
... to enter into the human consciousness and partake of the earthly life: it has taken up a mortal frame, to live and dwell here below. Only thus she can transform the lower animal nature into the divine nature, raise man to godhead, make of earth heaven itself: A prodigal of her rich divinity, Her self and all she was she had lent to men, Hoping her greater being to implant That heaven might ...
... guidance of the Master. On this line Arjuna stands for us all and shows, by his example how we can take courage and march out of the inferior nature into the peace and light and power of the higher divine nature. ¹ "Nor by brain-power, nor by much learning of Scripture." – Katha Upanishad, 1. 2. 23 . ² "This Self cannot be won by any who is without strength.”–Ibid. Page 78 ...
... hitherto seemed to be the pivot of the Gita's teaching, retire somewhat into the background and present a diminished stature and value. The centre of gravity has shifted to the conception of the Divine Nature, to the Lord's own status, to the consciousness above the three Gunas, to absolute consecration of each limb of man's humanity to the Supreme Purusha for his descent and incarnation and play in ...
... The very stuff of human nature has to be changed, not only what is considered as bad in it but what is valued as good also. For beyond good and evil is Nature Divine. Man has to find out this divine nature and dissolve his human nature into that, remould it, reshape it in that pattern. So long as human consciousness remains too human, it will be always branded with the bar sinister of all earthly ...
... the very fount and origin- of all power. That is the gift of Yoga, spiritual discipline. Yoga brings in a different line and scheme of life. For it is built upon soul-consciousness, upon Divine Nature which means another history of individual destiny. Even then tranquillity and self-confidence are at the basis of a Yogic life also and a new degree of modesty and humility. Page 368 ...
... transcendence. According to it, the liberated soul, one who lives in and with the Brahman or the Supreme Divine, is he who has discarded the inferior human nature and has taken up the superior divine nature. He has conquered the evil of the lower nature, certainly; but also he has gone beyond the good of that nature. The liberated man is seated above the play of the three Gunas that constitute ...
... Savitri ?" But Savitri , as I have mentioned, was not his sole preoccupation. Many other adventitious tasks were thrust upon him and he did not say "No" to them out of the magnanimity of his divine nature. During his last months the symptoms of prostatic enlargement reappeared and began to increase slowly. It was like a tiny dark cloud on the horizon and I fancied it would be blown away by the ...
... must be some expression of love, was his constant burden, to which Sri Aurobindo once replied that unity of consciousness is the root and love is its fine flower. A shrewd observer of human and divine nature, it was he who made the pertinent remark that in this Yoga only two persons have achieved complete surrender: the Mother to Sri Aurobindo and Sri Aurobindo to the Mother! As an example he related ...
... nature, man becomes a slave of nature, this ignorant external nature. To attain freedom is to rise out of this lower status into the domain of the higher status which is man's own true nature, the Divine nature. The body can be remoulded and reconstituted by the soul and self; the inferior nature can be rebuilt into the mode' of the higher nature; when this is done there is the reign of Supreme Liberty ...
... and thus poisoning the whole vital and even the mental nature. Always therefore one should begin by a positive, not a negative experience, by bringing down something of the Page 206 divine nature, calm, light, equanimity, purity, divine strength into the parts of the conscious being that have to be changed; only when that has been sufficiently done and there is a firm positive basis, is ...
... sure foundation, the evolution of divine life would be a progress in felicity, a march through light to Ananda. Page 172 Supermind is an eternal reality of the divine Being and the divine Nature. In its own plane it already and always exists and possesses its own essential law of being, it has not to be created or to emerge or evolve into existence out of involution in Matter or out of ...
... told us that if man wants to get out of the present condition and consciousness he has to transform his nature and consciousness. Over the human nature, the human consciousness, there is less the Divine Nature, the Divine Consciousness. It is only in the Light of this Divine Consciousness that life can be changed and transformed. But for that man has to consciously will it. He has to call into him ...
... a process of religio-ethical change, even a turning away of the human soul from Here to the Beyond. But the other, the integral, perfection aims at "a liberation and a perfection of his [man's] divine nature". As to how this aim of integral or divine perfection is to be achieved, Sri Aurobindo says: These three elements, a union with the supreme Divine, unity with the universal Self, and a supramental ...
... Mother also gives herself, but freely - and this represents itself in an inner giving her presence in 'your mind, your vital, your physical consciousness, her power re-creating you in the divine nature, taking up all the movements of your being and directing them towards perfection and fulfilment, her love enveloping you and carrying you in its arms Godwards. 25 The aberrations of ...
... What has delighted me beyond measure is your repeated reference to the Love and Grace of the Mother. It is, indeed, in the Mother's Love and Grace that we exist and evolve towards our divine Nature. Her Love is our life. It is at once our Source and Goal. We love each other in Her Love. It cements our hearts and makes us one. My dear friend, let us cling on to Her with all the passionate, ...
... discipline; but it is hardly ever thought possible that even this nature of the three gunas can be .liberated from its lower poise and working, and Page 398 transmuted into the divine Nature. But this double liberation is the very base of the supramental manifestation as envisaged by Sri Aurobindo. The Integral Yoga really begins where the other yogas usually end. We shall now ...
... existence. This integral knowledge arms us with the supreme Will and Force of the Divine, not only for our release from ignorance and suffering, but for the transformation of our whole nature into the divine Nature. All other spiritual knowledge, if practised with a sustained sincerity, can lead to the liberation of the soul from the lower nature, but cannot transform that nature. It is only the supramental ...
... hope of an infinite expansion of human consciousness in light and peace and creative harmony, and unimpeded flowering of man's immortal Spirit, and a radical transformation of his human into divine nature; and, on the other, the rampant chaos and anarchy of his animal appetites and blind impulses, rendered immensely more powerful and destructive by the subtlety of his intellect and reason. The ...
... lingering vestiges of the ego and transferred to the sole charge of the Divine ? Can the lower human nature of the three shackling qualitative modes, guṇas, be raised and converted into the divine Nature, parā prakṛti ? Can man become wholly divine, not only in his inner, but also in his outermost consciousness and being, even in his secular, active personality ? The second point which ...
... roots in the murky depths of the Inconscient and most of its motive forces in the obscure welter of the Subconscient, can be, not only purified, but completely converted and trans-muted into the divine Nature, is a possibility unexplored even by the greatest mystics of the West. In the absence of any such tradition in the West from which the Mother might have imbibed the main strands of her ...
... roots in the murky depths of the Inconscient and most of its motive forces in the obscure welter of the Subconscient, can be, not only purified, but completely converted and transmuted into the divine Nature, is a possibility unexplored even by the greatest mystics of the West. In the absence of any such tradition in the West from which the Mother might have imbibed the main strands of her man ...
... compromise, such as is fondly advocated by the modem idealists. They met to help man live in God and God in man; to convert human life into a vehicle of the divine Light, and human nature into divine nature. They met to declare that Spirit and Matter, Heaven and Earth, the One and the many are essentially one, and that their oneness can be dynamically expressed in every movement of human life. It ...
... an immortal existence. The ascent to the Supermind will be followed by a descent of the supramental Consciousness-Force into the nature of man and the latter's transformation into the divine nature or Para Prakriti. When the transformation is complete,—it is only the supramental Force that can radically transform human nature—the whole being of man will be ready for a "perfect manifestation ...
... spiritual mind, finds a stable base above in the Transcendent, and a tranquil, luminous poise in it, and never spirals back — na punarāvartate — into the whirl of the lower energies. It is the divine nature assumed after the ascent that descends as a vehicle of the divine Grace to help and heal humanity. This movement illustrates the Mother's rôle, so well indicated in many of her later Prayers, of ...
... strife of their human fear, wrath and passion, and liberated from all the unquiet and suffering may live in the calm and bliss of the Divine." 2 ; "The Avatar comes to reveal the divine nature in men above their lower nature and to show what are the divine works, free, unegoistic, disinterested, impersonal, universal, full of the divine light, the divine power and the divine love. He ...
... and to indicate how the imperfect rhythm of actual life is related to the perfect rhythm of ideal life, "to be able to suggest the unconquerable Divine force, in men and in the world; to show the Divine nature in its calm, wideness, greatness, attractiveness, to breathe it into man's soul and mould man into an image of the Infinite".— (Sri Aurobindo) That is also a high purpose and spiritual utility ...
... the Divine immanent in each being and object untouched by the imperfections of nature. He saw that it is the Divine that has assumed human nature and the purpose of man's life is to put on the Divine Nature. This work cannot be done by man alone; a higher Power must come, or must be brought down. The effort to bring down such a Power can only be done by "an inward turn" in man. No external method ...
... Advent of April 1951, N. Pearson has tried to show how well the 28 chapters of the first Volume of Tile Life Divine have been organised: four chapters each to the three principles - Spirit, Soul, Divine Nature - of the Higher Nature, then four chapters to Supermind, followed by four chapters each to the three principles - Mind, Life, Matter - of the Lower Nature. Pearson further sees this internal or ...
... the Gita. Dharma in the Gita means the law of one's own essential nature or is described sometimes as action governed by that nature, swabhava . [The asuric and divine natures complement each other.] This is not in the teaching of the Gita according to which the two natures are opposed to each other and the Asuric nature has to be rejected or to fall away by the power and process of the... the yoga. Sri Aurobindo's yoga also insists on the rejection of the darker and lower elements of the nature. × MS (dictated) phrase ...
... The Mother Page 108 Man can help or retard the process of Nature, in a sense. If his force of consciousness acts in line with Nature's secret movement, then that movement is accelerated: through the soul or self that is man, it is the Divine, Nature's lord and master who drives and helps Nature forward. If, on the contrary, man follows his lesser self, his lower ego, rajasic... barriers which hamper and slow down Nature's march. In a higher sense, from a transcendental standpoint, however, this too is only an appearance. In reality man neither helps nor hinders Prakriti. For in that sphere the two are not separate entities. What is viewed as the helping hand of man is really Nature helping herself: man is the conscious movement of Nature. In that transcendent status the past... even then would the change come about, in spite of man's inaction? Well, first of all, this is an impossible supposition. Man cannot remain idle even for a moment: not only the inferior Nature, but the higher Nature too is always active in him – remember the words of the Gita – though behind the veil, in the inner consciousness. Secondly, if it is really so, if man is not labouring and working and making ...
... the consummation of the joy of battle. Man can help or retard the process of Nature, in a sense. If his force of consciousness acts in line with Nature's secret movement, then that movement is accelerated: through the soul or self that is man, it is the Divine, Nature's lord and master who drives and helps Nature forward. If, on the contrary, man follows Page 95 his lesser self... barriers which hamper and slow down Nature's march. In a higher sense, from a transcendental standpoint, however, this too is only an appearance. In reality man neither helps nor hinders Prakriti. For in that sphere the two are not separate entities. What is viewed as the helping hand of man is really Nature helping herself: man is the conscious movement of Nature. In that transcendent status the... even then would the change come about, in spite of man's inaction? Well, first of all, this is an impossible supposition. Man cannot remain idle even for a moment: not only the inferior Nature, but the higher Nature too is always active in him— remember the words of the Gita—though behind the veil, in the inner consciousness. Secondly, if if is really so, if man is not labouring Page 94 ...
... Prayers of the Mother Prayers and Meditations The Mother with Letters on the Mother October 5, 1914 In the calm silence of Thy contemplation, O Divine Master, Nature is fortified and tempered anew. All principle of individuality is overpassed, she is plunged in Thy infinity that allows oneness to be realised in all domains without confusion, without disorder ...
... Meditations October 5, 1914 Translated by Sri Aurobindo or revised and published under his guidance. In the calm silence of Thy contemplation, O Divine Master, Nature is fortified and tempered anew. All principle of individuality is overpassed, she is plunged in Thy infinity that allows oneness to be realised in all domains without confusion, without disorder ...
... under the circumstances at the time. In our way of working we must not be the slaves of Nature; all these habits of trying and changing, doing and undoing and redoing again and again, wasting energy, labour, material and Page 11 money, are Nature's way of action, not the Divine's. The Divine Consciousness sees first the truth of a work, the best way of doing it according to the given... progress, one more step towards the goal. In order to progress Nature destroys, while the Divine Consciousness stimulates growth and finally transforms. 1 If you do not feel your responsibility and if you are not always alert and painstaking, then Nature will play mischief with you. If you want to stop the mischief of Nature, you have to do your work with exactness and a sense of responsibility... a spontaneous sincerity. November 1966 One must let things grow just as plants grow in Nature. Every too rigid form or limitation we would seek to impose on them before their time, would hamper their natural development and would sooner or later have to be destroyed. The Divine in Nature creates nothing final; everything is temporary and at the same time as perfect as it is possible for ...
... otherworldly, taking his embodied life on earth to be a temporary phase which consists of a divine side and an undivine if not actually a devilish side, the two ultimately irreconcilable. The question arises: Is it wisdom to make a trenchant division in Nature? Surely it is not undivine, much less devilish, of Nature to cry for the finite individual's bodily self-completion and his conquest of death.... not only the inner being but the outer as well must be able to partake of the Divine's nature: then alone the rush for sexual self-completion and for vicarious immortality through one's children will be checked — then alone the poverty which seems to spread over bodily existence will be avoided. The body must find the Divine's immortal bliss filling the very cells and transforming their substance, freeing... mystic. And even when it has been set free from its habitual mould and wholly re-orientated, it has not been put to any service of physical nature which might help out the secret behind sex. In consequence, the body has come to be regarded as baulked forever of a divine destiny. This implies that God cannot dwell in man from top to toe and that man must leave a part of himself as incapable of a supreme ...
... outer mixture of mental, vital and physical elements but something of the Reality behind them, Page 158 a spark from the one Divine Fire. He has to learn to live in his soul and purify and orientate by its drive towards the Truth the rest of the nature. There can follow afterwards an opening upward and descent of a higher principle of the Being. But even then it is not at once the full ... which each one who follows it can in time discover the One Self in all and evolve a higher consciousness than the mental, a spiritual and supramental consciousness which will transform and divinize human nature. Sri Aurobindo's Teaching and Method of Practice (On Himself, SABCL Vol. 26, pp. 95-97) Page 160 × ... involved Divinity in things release itself entirely and it become possible for life to manifest perfection. But while the former steps in evolution were taken by Nature without a conscious will in the plant and animal life, in man Nature becomes able to evolve by a conscious will in the instrument. It is not, however, by the mental will in man that this can be wholly done, for the mind goes only to ...
... up many of nature's contrivances, refined and condensed them to be made immediately and more thoroughly effective without waste of time or material, even so, in the inner life too there has come the possibility of an intenser and quicker change, an evolution that is likely to be a revolution. With man came also the sense of what is beyond man, the superman, the divine man, the Divine. That is the... is the fate decreed, the fiat of the inmost Divine at Nature's heart. Only, because of the outward resistance the path will be made harder and the travail more painful. A grim toll will be demanded, a violent eruption instead of a happy flowering. That is exactly how revolutions occur in human society and geological cataclysms in physical Nature. The hardening and contraction of the outer crust... and civilisations all over the earth age after age; expressing not merely the human animal in him, nor solely even the human, but something higher and deeper still, the extra-human or superhuman, the Divine. India was particularly the country where the experiment was carried on consistently and more successfully than anywhere else. And yet what has been the net result, the real achievement in view of ...
... Hymns of the Atris Hymns to Agni The Secret of the Veda The Second Hymn to Agni A Hymn of the Liberation of the Divine Force [Nature in her ordinary limited and material workings holds the Divine Force concealed in her secret or subconscient being; only when consciousness enlarges itself towards the One and Infinite, is it manifested, born for the conscient... their secret cavern. Divine Will manifested in man, itself liberated, liberates him from the cords which bind him as a victim in the world-sacrifice; we attain to it by the teaching of Indra, the divine Mind, and it protects the uninterrupted play of the Light and destroys the powers of falsehood whose limitations cannot hem in its growth and its out-flaming; it brings the divine waters from the luminous... × Maya. There are two kinds of Maya, the divine and undivine, the formations of the truth and the formations of the falsehood. × Swar, the divine mind pure to the luminous Truth. × ...
... future, but for the moment the burden of the gloom is too much upon her and she is engulfed in it and sacrificed. Page 186 good, the beautiful. He has been initiated into the divine – daiva – nature. Culture, refinement, sensibility, understanding – all the graces of a truly rational being make Hamlet the very flower of an evolving humanity. Over against the personality of Hamlet... – with which the Gita begins Arjuna's initiation into the secret of Deliverance. He has had a glimpse of the divine portals from a distance; but he did not know how to proceed in the straight and narrow path; he is diverted into an Asuric handling of the forces of lower nature and is himself broken in the process. A poignant vision or experience of evil in God's world which otherwise appears... represents human consciousness low down in the scale of evolution, almost at its start – a nature primitive and barbarian. We seem to go back into a prehistoric world, a paleolithic age – the domain of utter ignorance, of vulgar greed and hunger, where one sees the rank play of a raw and crude and aboriginal nature. Man is here simply the eater, a true brother of the rest of the animal kind, one in blood ...
... out of existence to find the Divine, to find God, a God who is outside life; they themselves go outside life to find Him. While in the integral yoga it is in life that the Divine must be found, not outside life. There are those, for instance, who consider life and the world an illusion, and think it necessary to leave them behind in order to find the Divine, whose nature, they say, is the opposite... oneself to receive the advice of the Divine! For, truly speaking, each one finds only what he wants to find of the Divine. Sri Aurobindo has said this by turning it the other way round; he has said—I am not quoting the exact words, only the idea: what you expect from the Divine is what you find in the Divine; what you want from the Divine is what you meet in the Divine. He will have for you the aspect... find the Divine in life. He contrasts the two things. In one case it is an extra-terrestrial and unmanifested Divine, and in the other it is the Divine who is manifested in life and whom one can find again through life. Do you catch the point? Mother, when one is identified with the Divine in the higher part of the being while neglecting the lower parts—neglecting life—doesn't the Divine, in the ...
... Avatar and Vibhuti on many occasions. For instance: “There are two sides of the phenomenon of Avatarhood, the Divine Consciousness and the instrumental personality. The Divine Consciousness is omnipotent but it has put forth the instrumental personality in Nature under the conditions of Nature and it uses it according to the rules of the game – though also sometimes to change the rules of the game.”... disciple asked: “Is she not the ‘individual’ Divine Mother who has embodied ‘the power of these two vast ways of her existence’?” Sri Aurobindo answered again with one word: “Yes.” And he explained: “The Divine puts on an appearance of humanity, assumes the outward human nature in order to tread the path and show it to human beings, but does not cease to be the Divine. It is a manifestation that takes place... Light and Force and Consciousness rushed down upon earth in an uninterrupted flow.” 52 About the Divine Mother, i.e. about herself, the Mother said: “She has descended onto Earth to participate in their nature [ i.e. the nature of the humans]. For if she did not participate in their nature, she could not lead them farther … But she does not forget: she has adopted their consciousness but she ...
... not quite belong to the outside world apart from you, they are within you, at least their foothold is within you. In fact man is a twofold being, one half of him belongs to the Divine, the other half to the un-Divine. His nature is a twofold string, the two inextricably intertwined, there is a luminous ray and there is its shadwow, the shadow makes the light unstable, flickering, at times even completely... to transform lead into gold, that is to say, manipulate forces and elements in nature in such a way that mere lead would be turned into pure gold. So, our Dr. Faust, in tune with these magicians as they were commonly known, ventured into this region to possess the power over the forces of nature. This control over nature could go to the extent of producing what we know as miracles, for example, you... power in addition – not only to know but to control. Universal nature was his field and he sought not only to measure and survey the outside but to probe into her deeper secret mysteries. In those days there was a line of inquiry pursued by savants that was called occultism. The occultist sought to discover the secret and subtle forces of nature through which one could influence and control outer and material ...
... means such a thing, the presentation of a divine name and form. And this distinguishes it from the mystic consciousness which is not the supreme solar conscious-ness but the nearest approach to it. Or, perhaps, the mystic dwells in the domain of the Divine, he may even be suffused with a sense of unity but would not like to acquire the Divine's nature and function. Normally and generally he embodies... reference to the Spirit or the Divine. Or this again, I have gazed upon beauty from my very birth and yet my eyes are not satiated; I have rested bosom upon bosom for thousands of aeons and yet my heart is not soothed.... they all give a very beautiful, a very poignant experience of . love, but one does not know if it is love human or divine, if it is soul's love or mere... morbid miasmas, go and purify yourself in the higher air and drink, like a pure and divine liquor, the clear fire that fills the limpid spaces." 1 That angelic poets should be inspired by the same ideal is, of course, quite natural: for they sing: Not a senseless, tranced thing, But divine melodious truth; Philosophic numbers smooth; since they Have ...
... ss means such a thing, the presentation of a divine name and form. And this distinguishes it from the mystic consciousness which is not the supreme solar consciousness but the nearest approach to it. Or, perhaps, the mystic dwells in the domain of the Divine, he may even be suffused with a sense of unity but would not like to acquire the Divine's nature and function. Normally and generally he embodies... reference to the Spirit or the Divine. Or this again, I have gazed upon beauty from my very birth and yet my eyes are not satiated; I have rested bosom upon bosom for thousands of aeons and yet my heart is not soothed.. . . they all give a very beautiful, a very poignant experience of love, but one does not know if it is love human or divine, if it is soul's love or mere... morbid miasmas, go and purify yourself in the higher air and drink, like a pure and divine liquor, the clear fire that fills the limpid spaces."¹ That angelic poets should be inspired by the same ideal is, of course, quite natural: for they sing: Not a senseless, trancèd thing, But divine melodious truth; Philosophic numbers smooth; since they Have ye ...
... heart, then Page 723 there can be no trouble, grief or disturbance; for that brings with it a spiritual nature of illumined strength in which these things can have no place. There the only vibrations and emotions are those which belong to the ānandamaya nature of divine unity. The calm established in the whole being must remain the same whatever happens, in health and disease, in pleasure... being, yathā prayukto 'smi, tathā karomi , which was before only a strong idea and faith with occasional and derivative glimpses of the divine action behind the becomings of our personal nature. Now every movement is seen to be the form given by the Shakti, the divine power in us, to the indications of the Purusha, still no doubt personalised, still belittled in the inferior mental form, but not primarily... become a perfect form of action of the self and spirit. It is the first secret of the soul's mastery of existence. When we have it in perfection, we are admitted to the very ground of the divine spiritual nature. The mental being in the body tries to compel and conquer life, but is at every turn compelled by it, because it submits to the desire reactions of the vital self. To be equal, not to be overborne ...
... no. 458 (reprinted, Hildesheim: Olms, 1960), lines 40-79 (the point at which the passage under study appears). Page 6 The ruler is divine by nature. His power extends to men, to animals, to the earth and to the sea. Nature belongs to him; the wind and the waves are subject to him. He works miracles and heals men. He is the savior of the world who also redeems individuals from... is that just as Jesus came to be called the Son of God, worshipped as divine and considered mankind's Saviour as well as the inaugurator of a new era moving towards the Kingdom of God, Augustus was heralded by poets like Virgil as the creator of a Golden Age of peace and prosperity and accepted worship from the East as a divine being and saviour of humanity. Like the virginal conception the Gospels... in his Jesus in History: An Approach to the Study of the Gospels, 7 writes: "It meant an announcement of the benefits the empire enjoyed through the gracious authority of Caesar, the divinely appointed ruler of Rome. Although the fuller documentation for this meaning of euangelion comes in part from post-New Testament writers, such as Plutarch (A.D. 46?-120?) in De For-tuna Romanorum ...
... in one even the suspicion that Sri Aurobindo intended both the commas in the line to be omitted. The phrase would then take on a deeper colour according more directly with the speaker's own divinely inspired nature; but one is not quite sure of the poet's intention because of the small "g" left in of the word "god" which is always applied to Death. Whatever be the case, we are in the presence of the... Of the vast business of created things Out of its rapt abysm. He resumed His burden and was strong for daily deeds, Wise with the thoughts that skim the fathomless surge Of Nature and wing back to hidden shores. Page 292 Take for subtlety the lines on Savithri's natural-supernatural girlhood: She grew like a young tree in silent bliss Self-gathered... these outward things It only knows as shapes of powers within. Or we see "natural magic" fringed with haunting mystery just before Sâvithrî catches sight of Suthyavan: But now to a Nature more remote, self-hidden, From all but its own vision deep and wild, Attracted by the sombre forest's call Her chariot hastened, skirting prouder glades Where the green stragglers ...
... truth of the one existence in this sense that all in Nature is the Divine even though God be more than all in Nature, and love becomes then a movement by which the Divine in Nature and man takes possession of and enjoys the delight of the universal and the supreme Divine. In any case, love has necessarily a twofold fulfilment by its very nature, that by which the lover and the beloved enjoy their union... the nature of the Divine is precisely the same as our human nature though upon a larger scale, or that it is that nature pure of certain perversions and God a magnified or else an ideal Man. God is not and cannot be an ego limited by his qualities as we are in our normal consciousness. But on the other hand our human consciousness must certainly originate and have been derived from the Divine; though... bypaths leading to it. We have to throw away the props of our weakness, the motives of the ego, the lures of our lower nature before we can deserve the divine union. Faced with the sense of a Power or perhaps a number of Powers greater and higher than himself by whom his life in Nature is overshadowed, influenced, governed, man naturally applies to it or to them the first primitive feelings of the natural ...
... spiritual paths lead to a higher consciousness and union with the Divine and among the many paths one of the greatest is the Page 348 Way of Works: it is as great as the Way of Bhakti or the Way of Knowledge. Do not imagine that works are in their nature nothing but a bondage, they can be a powerful means towards liberation and divine perfection. All depends on the spirit in our works and their... for the greater play of the Divine in Nature. A certain half-seeing and imperfect subordination of the personal will to an ill-understood greater Will and Power, a stumbling and occasional intuition or at best a brilliant lightning-like intimation of its commands and impulsions, a confused, clouded and often grossly distorted execution of the little one seizes of a divine Mandate seems to be the uttermost... at its best seems able to accomplish. Only by a growth into a greater superhuman and supramental consciousness whose very nature is to be attuned to the Divine can we achieve the true and supreme Karma Yoga. This transformation is only possible after certain steps of a divine ascent have been mastered and to climb these steps is the object of the Yoga of Works as it is conceived by the Gita. The ...
... unyielding Asura and the uncompromising Divine. As the Mother said in her talk on "Knowledge by Unity with the Divine": Life is a battlefield in which the Divine succeeds in detail only when the lower nature is receptive to its impulsions instead of siding with the hostile forces .... What you have to do is to give yourself up to the Grace of the Divine; for, it is under the form of Grace,... very nature and whose aim is to progressively build up the being around the central Divine Will." 14 IV In her brief talk on "Resurrection", the Mother gives the word an Aurobindonian connotation. Resurrection is not just a new lease of life after the holocaust of death. It is really the rise of the Greater Dawn after the plunge into the inconscience of the Night: "the Divine Consciousness... Beyond is the adventure of fulfilling and realising the Divine in this life. Returning to this question during one of her later Playground conversations, the Mother said on 1 February 1956: There are those ... who consider life and the world an illusion, and think it necessary to leave them behind in order to find the Divine, whose nature, they say, is the opposite of that of existence. So Sri ...
... of 'the Divine' in English. Casually turning the pages of Bernard Shaw's Three Plays for Puritans in the Penguin Edition, what do I chance upon on pp. 133-34? In the 'Prologue' to his play 'Caesar and Cleopatra' included here Shaw imagines an Egyptian god addressing the modern audience. Towards the end of the 'Prologue' the god says: '...I had not spoken so much but that it is in the nature of a god... My latest discovery is the title "Depicting the divine in Nature" of a review of Early Poussain Exhibition in the weekly from London, The Times Literary Supplement, October 28-November 2, 1988, p. 1204. If you run into any helpful phrase - preferably in English literature - bearing on the bone of contention, do pass it on to me. I am waiting for our friend's reply. 2 (9... where it would be natural, is not "the Divine" but "the deity" or the "the Godhead". She supposes that Sri Aurobindo used the expression "the Divine"- out of deference to the Mother's wishes, "because he wrote "The Hour of God' and 'God shall grow up while wise men talk and sleep' and 'A step and all is sky and God.' He did not write 'The Hour of the Divine' -thanks be to God!" Page 107 ...
... Nature, then I can understand and accept it. As for the Divine and human, that also is a mind-made difficulty. The Divine is there in the human, and the human fulfilling and exceeding its highest aspirations and tendencies becomes the Divine. That is what your silly X could not understand—that when the Divine descends, he takes upon himself the burden of humanity in order to exceed it—he becomes... The Divine Consciousness is omnipotent but it has put forth the instrumental personality in Nature, under the conditions of Nature, and it uses it according to the rules of the game Page 472 -though also sometimes to change the rules of the game. If Avatarhood is only a flashing miracle, then I have no use for it. If it is a coherent part of the arrangement of the omnipresent Divine in Nature... Otherwise his assumption of human nature has no meaning and no utility and no value. It is strange that you cannot understand or refuse to admit so simple and crucial a point. What is the use of admitting Avatarhood if you take all the meaning out of it? The Divine and Human Sides of the Avatar There are two sides of the phenomenon of Avatarhood, the Divine Consciousness behind and the instrumental ...
... one has a point d’appui for a more concrete realisation in the conviction that once at least the Divine has visibly touched the earth, made the complete manifestation possible, made it possible for the divine super-nature to descend into this evolving but still very imperfect terrestrial nature. Page 191 ... the Prakriti and the Purusha, the conscious Being standing back detached from all the movements of Nature and observing them as witness and knower and finally as the giver (or refuser) of the sanction and at the highest stage of the development, the Ishwara, the pure will, master of the whole Nature. By intensive sadhana I meant the endeavour to arrive at one of the great positive realisations... Correspondence 1946 April 15, 1946 I am ready to help Munshi 34 in his inner development, his sadhana if he undertakes one, in whatever way may be possible. But you know what nature of help I usually give. I can give counsel or guidance when it is necessary – through you, of course, for I cannot write personally – but usually it is through silent communication and influence ...
... Knowledge, Light and Darkness are organised in the same Sachchidananda. Even all the movements in time are only the movements of the Divine Consciousness. Nature and the Self, Prakriti and Purusha are no longer separate but the whole of Nature is felt in the self. All Nature's happenings were events in her, The heart-beats of the cosmos were her own, All beings, thought and felt and moved in... But the voice is the voice of the all-fulfilling Supramental and therefore it masters thought and sense. Human thought and human sense are now completely taken and transformed into the nature of Divine Thought and Divine Sense. The result is an instantaneous transvaluation of all values in the light of the Supramental Truth-Consciousness. As it spoke all changed within her and without; All... "accustomed only to read outward signs" and so "none saw aught new in her, none divined her state." They are engaged in their normal daily routine of sparing activities and plodding, small unchanging works in the atmosphere of the happy quiet of ascetic peace, and the characteristic smiling old beauty of the landscape. Nature, the Ancient Mother, continued to be passionately attached to Savitri and responded ...
... possible for human beings to mount upwards, and for the divine beings to descend here into humanity. Looked at from afar, they seemed like imaginary symbols but when they approached nearer they were seen to be "Gods and living Presences". Their forces stand behind Nature and support her. They support matter, life and mind and in obedience to the divine command create this complex world "Where the... stairs of thought climbed up to unborn heights Where Time's last ridges touch eternity's skies And Nature speaks to the spirit's absolute." This thought-world was a triple realm. The first was above bright ethereal skies of mind of man, "But chough immortal, mighty and divine, The first realms were close and kin to human mind". There is an interchange between the beings... is above these higher planes of the mind can become the mental nature in man, serving him as his consort and companion. Man can have a relation of subjection and mastery with her and through all his dealings with her he can experience a throbbing delight. For, in effect, she is not what she seems to be. She is from the immortal and divine heights and the Puruṣa and herself can mutually create each ...
... infrarational, but equally the suprarational refuges of the religious spirit. The old pagan polytheistic symbolism had clothed with its beautiful figures the ancient idea of a divine presence and supraphysical life and Power in all Nature and in every particle of life and matter and in all animal existence and in all the mental action of man; but this idea, which to the secularist reason is only an intel... claim of the Absolute. And this is not as a thing to speculate about, but as a real presence and a constant Power which demands the soul of man and calls it. Here is a mentality which sees the Divine in Nature and man and animal and inanimate thing, God at the beginning, God in the middle, God at the end, God everywhere. And all this is not a permissible poetical play of the imagination that need not... intelligence. This is its self-fulfilled static poise before it proceeds to that deflection or that self-exceeding to which man is inevitably moved when he reaches the acme of his normal nature. For he harbours a power in Nature that must either grow or else stagnate and cease and disintegrate, and until he has found all himself, there is for him no static abiding and no permanent home for his spirit. Now ...
... understand the Divine and its action, but by the growth of a true and divine consciousness within you. If the Divine were to unveil and reveal itself in all its glory, the mind might feel a Presence, but it would not understand its action or its nature. It is in the measure of your own realisation and by the birth and growth of the greater consciousness in yourself that you will see the Divine and understand... letters may complete our understanding of it. “There are two sides of the phenomenon of Avatarhood, the Divine Consciousness and the instrumental personality. The Divine Consciousness is omnipotent but it has put forth the instrumental personality in Nature under the conditions of Nature and it uses it according to the rules of the game – though also sometimes to change the rules of the game. If... If Avatarhood is only a flashing miracle, then I have no use for it. If it is a coherent part of the arrangement of the omnipotent Divine in Nature, then I can understand and accept it.” 5 “An Avatar is not at all bound to be a spiritual prophet – he is never in fact merely a prophet, he is a realiser, an establisher – not of outward things only, though he does realise something in the ...
... of the Absolute. And this is not as a thing to speculate about, but as a real Presence and a constant Power which demands the soul of man and calls it. "Here is a mentality which sees the Divine in Nature and man and animal and inanimate thing, God at the beginning, God in the middle, God at the end, God everywhere! And all this is not a permissible poetical play of the imagination that need not... reputation to avoid extreme, violent and arbitrary measures. "That was the dream. The reality to which we awake is Rawalpindi and Jamalpur. The events in the Punjab are an instructive lesson in the nature of bureaucratic rule.... The result is that we have a strange companion picture to that dream of a benevolent and angelic Britain, - a city of unarmed men terrorised by the military, the leaders of... the same stupefying ingenuity he would find in Kamban's image of the sea for the colour and depth of Sita's eyes clear evidence of a still more primitive savagery and barbaric worship of inanimate nature, or in Valmiki's description of his heroine's 'eyes like wine', madireksana, evidence of a chronic inebriety and semi-drunken inspiration of the Indian poetic mind. This is one example of Mr. Archer's ...
... strength must come from Faith in the Divine, and in the Divine within ourselves; not mental faith alone, but faith reaching down to the most subconscious, the very cells of the body. While the unity and interdependence of the different elements in man (body, vital, mind, soul) and of man and Nature provide the basis of a universal harmony, this is often upset and Nature is 'ridden with calamities' and... disasters; vampires, what they are; money power, its true role and its current misuse; diseases, microbes and sanitary arrangements; universal will and individual initiative; love human and divine; the nature of religion; mental aberrations and physical ailments; Yogic consciousness; Yoga and Art; repulsion towards snakes and scorpions; surrender and sacrifice; and so on. Informative, friendly and... the burden of the past, and even from the adamantine law of karmic predestination: This precisely is the aim of Yoga, - to get out of the cycle of Karma into a divine movement. By Yoga you leave the mechanical round of Nature in which you are an ignorant slave, a helpless and miserable tool, and rise into another plane where you become a conscious participant and a dynamic agent in the working ...
... la Marine in Pondicherry, was something completely different from and more than that old, frail, stooped body by which all were mesmerized. She was the Universal Mother, ‘the divine Mahashakti, original Power, supreme Nature, holding in herself infinite existence and creating the wonders of the cosmos,’ 3 as Sri Aurobindo wrote. Of herself, she said: ‘The central Consciousness, here, in the material... We have the extraordinary privilege to assist at the event of those great Impossibilities becoming possible this very moment ‘No Law is absolute,’ 41 Sri Aurobindo wrote in The Life Divine. ‘ What Nature does, is really done by the Spirit.’ 42 And the Mother said: ‘Down here, there are no fixed laws … Not two cases are the same.’ 43 ‘If there are not two combinations in the universe who... echo of what Sri Aurobindo wrote in The Life Divine : ‘This is the first step of self-realisation, to enthrone the soul, the divine psychic individual in the place of the ego.’ 56 The following year the Mother said again: ‘The true spiritual life begins when one is in communion with the Divine in the psychic, when one is conscious of the divine Presence in the psychic and in constant communion ...
... 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, O Divine Master, Nature is fortified and tempered anew. All principle of individuality is overpassed, she... mystic opening of the bud of consciousness to the warmth of the Divine Sun. Born on 21 February 1878 in Paris, from her early years Mirra had been a child apart, given to silent self-absorption. As a young girl, she used to take walks in the woods of Fontainebleau, and she would often sit at the foot of an ancient tree, communing With Nature for hours. From about the age of twelve, she began nurturing... that, in her view, the ideal state is to be constantly conscious with the Divine Consciousness, so that we know "at every moment, spontaneously, without any reflection being necessary, exactly what should be done to best express" the Divine Law. 8 And the very next day she wrote that such perfect identification with the Divine Consciousness was one of the things she expected from her journey to India ...
... me remind you of what I wrote about the Avatar. There are two sides of the phenomenon of Avatarhood, the Divine Consciousness behind and the instrumental personality. The Divine Consciousness is omnipotent but it has put forth the instrumental personality in Nature, under the conditions of Nature, and it uses it according to the rules of the game—though also sometimes to change the rules of the game... you through my own efforts and example. Transform your nature from the animal to the spiritual, grow into a higher divine consciousness. All this you can do by your own aspiration and by the force of the Divine Shakti." That, if you please, is not the utterance of a madman or an imbecile. I have said, "I have opened the Way; now you with the Divine help can follow it." I have not said "Find the way for... no use for it. If it is a coherent part of the arrangement of the omnipotent Divine in Nature, then I can understand and accept it. As for the Muthu affair, that was only a joke as ought to have been clear to you at once. Nobody has any intention of making Muthu a saint or an Avatar. But that is only because the Divine is not going to play the fool, not because he is impotent. Muthu's only business ...
... on one side Nature works according to her limited complex of formulas and is informed and supported in their execution by the Divine Presence, but on the other side there is an overseeing, a higher working and determination, even an intervention, free but not arbitrary, often appearing to us magical and miraculous because it proceeds and acts upon Nature from a divine Supernature: Nature here is a limited... but in the self and inmost being, that surpasses cosmic Nature and belongs to the Transcendence. But this too finds itself independent of Nature only by dependence on a higher Reality; it is through self-giving or surrender of soul and nature to the Divine Being that we can attain to our highest self and supreme Reality, for it is the Divine Being who is that highest self and that supreme Reality,... under the witnessing eye of the Conscious Being, the Self or Spirit; it is the conscious Power of the Divine Being, Shakti, which is both conceptively creative and dynamically executive of all the divine workings. These three aspects and their powers base and comprise the whole of existence and all Nature and, taken together as a single whole, they reconcile the apparent disparateness and incompatibility ...
... heaven of mind are also to be creators of a purified & blissful body & become protectors of all that has been created in the being; the gods have made them the navel, central support, of the divine & immortal nature. For that it is necessary that the full abundance of Ananda (Indo vrisha) should be maintained in the system & the opposition should be regarded as belonging to the operations of the favouring... ie the Srutis of the Vijnana are to be established by Ananda in Vijnana Buddhi which governs all the lower actions; the self-fixity Page 417 of the higher Nature in its law of works is to be sown as a seed in all the nature of the vijnana buddhi and perfected as corn is perfected by the rains & cleared [of] 24 chaff on the threshing floor. This will take a longer time to fulfil than... consciousness a more luminous sense of the necessity & meaning of the adverse movements in the siddhi & the life. The whole environmental nature is therewith assuming a more perfect & all-pervading anandamaya nati to the Ishwara. Last night prayer, to which the nature has been long much opposed & then indifferent, was twice used to the Rudra-Vishnu as the helper & healer & yet the cause of the affliction ...
... in that attitude means a waning of the divine state or a defect in its fullness. So long as it rests on a continued act of knowledge in mind & heart, the least discontinuity or defect of that knowledge means a defect of or a falling from our divine fullness. Only if identity with all existences has become our whole nature & being of our being, is the divine state perfected, is its permanent and unbroken... the demand & the groping. These poor & imperfect movements [are] to be replaced by a mighty calm and a divine satisfaction. We are not to renounce works, which do not & cannot stain the soul or bind it, but to be liberated through acceptance of works in a luminous knowledge of their divine use & nature; not mutilation of life is to be our ideal, but fulfilment through life of the intention of the Most... teaches knowledge & self-surrender to Him as the inscrutable Self & the ever-present Master. Similarly, the Isha has for its subject the nature of human life & action lived & done in the light of Vedantic knowledge & supreme realisation. It is the gospel of a divine life on earth, a consecration of works, the seed & foundation of Karmayoga. The Upanishads are works of inspiration, not of reasoning; ...
... know depression because it is divine by nature, and in the Divine there is no depression. Page 27 Doesn't the psychic get depressed when the mind and the vital act as they want and disobey the Divine or rebel against Him? No, no, no. Do you understand? The psychic may see and regret the stupidity of the other parts of the being, but by its very nature it is impossible for it to be... exist in certain regions of the vital world. 21 June 1935 Is it true that it is the Divine who has made us ignorant and unconscious? That is nonsense. I would like to know something about silence. Is it more beneficial than concentrating on the lower nature? Concentrating on the lower nature is NEVER good; you should concentrate on what you want to develop, not on what you want to... then? It is an active and deliberate concentration on the Divine Presence and a sustained, alert contemplation of that Sublime Reality. Page 24 How and why does this pressure come? If you mean the pressure of inert passivity, it comes from the resistance of the lower vital and the obscurity of the material nature. It can be overcome by an untiring will and aspiration. 12 February ...
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