... It is the Divine Power that commands Aswapathy to continue his labours in the field of life, by telling him: "Help still humanity's blind and suffering life" and then, it says further on: Sāvitrī, Book III, Canto 4. "only one joy, to raise thy kind desire". Sāvitrī, Book III, Canto 4. Aswapathy standing in the presence of the Supreme Divine Power had grown... Eternity". It passes beyond it into the realm of the Eternal Day fronting the supreme Creatrix Power with its moving prayer, and succeeds in bringing down upon earth a supreme manifestation of the Divine Power which makes possible the double victory of man and the Divine by conquering all the forces of darkness and Ignorance here and at last establishes the divine life on earth. It is this "Divine event"... life-force on earth. It is the sense of all human efforts at perfection. Throughout the epic this vast double life,—a life on earth aspiring and ascending towards the heights and a vast infinite Divine Power above which is pressing down for manifestation below,—is felt by us in all its intensity under the Light of the revealing Vision. He sees in his cosmic view, and shows us by his miraculous power ...
... the divine power was present in nature from the beginning working in matter to bring forth life, and in life to bring forth consciousness to transform matter so that it will transcend the present laws of matter, space and time. The various siddhis of holy people, Hindu, Buddhist and Page 86 others, and the miracles of Christ are examples of the action of this divine power on matter... the universe? I think that first of all, he showed how this divinisation of man was the final flower of millions of years of evolution - as Teilhard de Chardin did. This means in my view that the divine power was present - involved - in matter from the beginning, and by its hidden power gradually brought forth life in matter and then consciousness. We are now, as Sri Aurobindo understood, in the stage... is miles removed from the established creed. It is through and through coloured by the Indian vision in general and the Aurobindonian revelation in particular. For instance, you write: "...the divine power was present in nature from the beginning working in matter to bring forth life, and in life to bring forth consciousness..." This is a view of nature in terms of Aurobindonian involution and evolution ...
... the difference between the divine Shakti and the divine Power? Page 356 The divine Power is only a part of the divine Shakti; the divine Power is an attribute of the divine Shakti. Sri Aurobindo uses the word divine Shakti, here, in the sense of chit-tapas , the creative power, the creative consciousness; consequently, the divine Power is only a part of the Shakti. "An inert passivity... April Questions and Answers (1950-1951) 26 April 1951 "... Reject too the false and indolent expectation that the divine Power will do even the surrender for you. The Supreme demands your surrender to her, but does not impose it: you are free at every moment, till the irrevocable transformation comes, to deny and to reject the Divine or to recall ...
... Sadhana through Work Letters on Yoga - II Chapter III The Divine Force in Work Receiving the Divine Power or Force To be able to receive the Divine Power and let it act through you in the things of the outward life, there are three necessary conditions: 1) Quietude, equality—not to be disturbed by anything that happens, to keep the mind still and... you shows what are the conditions of that state in which the Divine Power takes the place of the ego and directs the action, making the mind, life and body an instrument. A receptive silence of the mind, an effacement of the mental ego and the reduction of the mental being to the position of a witness, a close contact with the Divine Power and an openness of the being to that one Influence and no other... s than that of the human mind; the mind's silence is the most favourable condition for any of these things to happen. In this Yoga it is the most favourable condition (not the only one) for the Divine Power to descend first upon and then into the individual consciousness and there do its work to transform that consciousness, giving it the necessary experiences, altering all its outlook and movements ...
... the sacrifice. Asuryam is the principle of divine Power, Chit-Shakti or Tapas in which divine Being or Sat formulates itself for cosmic activity;Mitra is the Lord of Love who with Bhaga, the Lord of Enjoyment, most intimately represents in human temperament the principle of Ananda, which is the Page 718 base of the divine Being & divine Power in world-manifestation. Sat, Chit, Ananda (for... firm-establishment to those who establish thee with the hymn. And do thou flourish in our battles for our growth. Gaya, the Rishi, prays to Agni, Lord of Tapas, the representative in Nature of the Divine Power that builds the worlds & works in them towards our soul's fulfilment in and beyond heaven—Agni, as játavedas, the self-existent luminosity of knowledge in this Cosmic Force—for Force is only Chitshakti... idea is manifested by the sure action of the nature or swabhava attached to the conception. This sureness of self-fulfilment based on a secret self-knowledge is the kratu or action of Agni, the divine Power in things. It is a secret Will in things fulfilling itself in motion of activity & in form. But though Agni in the tree knows, the tree knows nothing. When man comes in with his mind, he still does ...
... behind itself, goes back to a saving power of spirit in which it can find its own true being and redemption. There is an Page 369 original and originating Supreme Prakriti, in which the divine power and will to be enjoys its own absolute quality and pure revelation. There is found the highest, there the perfect energy of all the energies we see in the universe. That is what presents itself... inexpressible oneness. There all Dharmas, all laws of being—dharma, law of being, is only characteristic action of divine energy and quality, guṇa-karma ,—are one free and plastic dharma. The one divine Power of being 1 works with an immeasurable liberty and, tied to no single excluding law, not limited by any binding system, rejoices in her own play of infinity and never falters in her truth of ... normal limited separative action and objects towards the Eternal, Universal and Transcendent, orientates it towards the infinite and absolute Godhead. This truth of the dynamic omnipresence of the divine Power of being is the foundation of the theory of the Vibhuti. The infinite divine Shakti is present everywhere and secretly supports the lower formulation, parā prakṛtir me yayā dhāryate jagat , ...
... This control derived eventually from the supermind is a control by the Divine Power. Your difficulty in getting rid of the aboriginal in your nature will remain so long as you try to change your vital part by the sole or main strength of your mind and mental will, calling in at most an indefinite and impersonal divine Power to aid you. It is an old difficulty which has never been radically solved... which the Divine Truth can act, take hold of the vital and its life-force and use it for a greater purpose here. The life-force in the vital is the indispensable instrument for all action of the Divine Power on the material world and the physical nature. It is therefore only when this vital is transformed and made a pure and strong instrument of the Divine Shakti, that there can be a divine life. Then... with a quieted mind, but they can be fixed only when the vital is liberated and tranquillised. Whatever difficulties or troubles arise, the one thing is to go on quietly with full faith in the Divine Power and the guidance, opening steadily and progressively the whole being to the workings of the sadhana till all becomes conscious and consenting to the needed change. Page 123 At present ...
... poem. This is what Housman in his book tries to explain with regard to Blake's poetry though he misses altogether the real nature of the response. What the poem suggests to me is the miraculous Divine Power (Kali) in the night of Time (Ignorance ?) standing beside the occult consciousness, in that night (the Cake) and doing her miracles there. I don't know whether that was Nishikanta's own conception... only if that is quite secondary to the true thing, the seeking for the Divine, and if it is part of the Divine plan in you. Occult powers can only be for the spiritual man an instrumentation of the Divine Power that uses him, they cannot be the aim or an aim of his sadhana. I don't know who started Jashwant on this false path or whether he hit on it himself; many people here have a habit of doing yoga... necessary at present for you, the growth of the psychic being which had begun and the power of contact and communication which it will bring with the inner conscious- ness and through it with the Divine Power or Presence. But for that to grow the mind must keep more quiet, not insisting, not desponding at every moment, but steadily aspiring and letting the things of which these were indications grow ...
... there is a perfect equality to all works, results, things and persons, a surrender to the Highest and not to desire or ego, then the divine Will determines without stumbling or deflection and the divine Power executes freely without any nether interference or perverting reaction all works in the purity and safety of your transmuted nature. To allow your every act to be shaped through you by the divine... spiritualised and lifted beyond the limitations of its lower nature will reveal to you most intimately the secrets of God's immeasurable being, bring into you the whole touch and influx and glory of his divine Power and open to you the mysteries of an eternal rapture. It is perfect love that is the key to a perfect knowledge. "This integral God-love demands too an integral work for the sake of the Divine... moment to renounce the initiation of your acts without exception into the hands of the supreme Godhead within you. Then you will be released from all laws of conduct, liberated from all dharmas. The Divine Power and Presence within you will free you from 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 ...
... great clergy. As for experiences, anybody with an occult bent can have experiences. The thing is to know what to do with them. Am I to say alas, human nature! Or alas, Divine Power! Excuse me. It was not the Divine Power that told G to be a Teacher It was his ego. Please don't mind our pungent remarks. We don't look upon you as a Bengali father but as an English one—who is a father and... transformed into spiritual men by the touch of saints, prophets and Avatars. So I don't deny the action and the effectiveness of the Divine Power. Then why bring in the poor street-beggar at all? But others say—and it was the central question—that wherever the Divine Power has successfully acted upon and miraculously changed those who were in their external nature robbers and social pariahs, there... its work under the conditions of the evolutionary world here. It is not a question of "can" or "cannot" 50 at all. All is possible, but all is not licit—except by a recognisable process; the Divine Power itself imposes on its action limits, processes, obstacles, vicissitudes. It is possible that an ass may be changed into an elephant, but it is not done,—at least physically, because of the lack ...
... "buried its seed of grandeur in the hours", so this Divine power of the Imperishable also left behind her a "Sacred yearning lingering in its trace", and a devotion for her. These seeds of her presence would grow with the passage of time and when the conditions would be such that death-bound heart of men would want to be god-bound then the Divine Power would send down on earth one who would break the... the Divine's perfection and His descent into the Nescience so the creation of divine life on earth would be possible by the descent of the Divine Power in man helping him to conquer the obstacles and transform his ignorant nature. So, when the Divine Power withdrew to some far off world of her own, there was only the common light of earthly day,—the matter of fact life of man. The slow process... short- lived vision of the Divine Mother was, in fact, "the prescience of marvellous birth to come". Finding the conditions of earth incapable of supporting the full blaze of her Divine Glory the Divine Power puts on the mask of Matter and so works out the miracle that her eternity manifests itself "in a beat of time". Beauty, the mystery of the Divine, appears in life. "The excess of beauty natural ...
... Page 109 It has been clearly stated in The Mother that personal effort is necessary so long as the transference to the Divine Power cannot be complete [ p. 8 ]. It is the fact that all power is the Divine's and therefore self-effort is also a use of the Divine Power conceded by the Divine, but there is a great practical difference between the delegated use and the direct Divine Action. ... one becomes aware of the different parts and their proper action, and puts each in its place and to its proper action under the control of the higher consciousness or else under the control of the Divine Power. Page 80 Afterwards all gets surcharged with the spiritual consciousness and there is an automatic right perception and right action of the different parts because they are controlled... afterwards that I found certain confirmatory revelations in the Upanishad and Veda. 11 September 1936 "Detect first what is false or obscure in you ... then alone can you rightly call for the divine Power to transform you" [ pp. 4-5 ]. Does rightly mean it is the right way of calling or does it mean then only you have the 'right' to call? It means "in the right way". "If behind your devotion ...
... help of this divine power of Grace. She was "the magnet of our difficult ascent." She was the light of all lights, the origin of all power and delight. "All Nature dumbly calls to her alone" and "All here shall be one day her sweetness's home." The effort of man for knowledge, the strivings of his Page 232 passion—all human effort in fact,—are directed towards this divine Power. It is through... sound, The more it stretches, stretches endlessly". In order to make himself fit for the reception of this great Power, Aswapathy "tore desire up from its bleeding roots" so that the divine Power may take its place. The aspiration in him was to bring a divine harmony into the whole of life and to make this earth "an empire of the immanent Divine." Not merely his self but even his nature... life." but "Awake not the immeasurable descent, Speak not my secret name to hostile Time; Man is too weak to bear the Infinite's weight." It asked Aswapathy to leave the divine Power to work in its own way towards the fulfilment of man and his destiny. And it told him "I ask thee not to merge thy heart of flame In the Immobile's wide uncaring bliss" Page 240 ...
... participate in public movements with equanimity and with a truer spiritual attitude. I got some experiences also which confirmed my faith in Sri Aurobindo’s path. I got the confident faith in a divine Power that is beyond time and space and that can and does work in the world. I came to know that any man with a sincere aspiration for it can come in contact with that Power. There were people who... end went mad. Or take the case of L, an outsider, who was trying to remain in the Universal consciousness with the vital being full of all kinds of impurities. That is not perfection. When the Divine Power – the Supramental Shakti – works She establishes harmony between the various instruments of nature and also harmony in the whole of our life. R and people like him feel that such a harmonisation... will get the return in proportion to the sense of egoism he puts into it. G : What about the actions done in the past ? Sri Aurobindo : They are also in the hands of the Shakti – the divine Power. She knows what fruit to give and what not. When that kind of desirelessness is established you have to go on offering all your actions as a sacrifice to God. You must realise that it is the Shakti ...
... destined for the Path all circumstances, Page 30 through all the deviations of mind and life, help in one way or another to lead him to it. It is his own psychic being within him and the Divine Power above that use to that end the vicissitudes both of mind and outward circumstance. A spiritual opportunity is not a thing that should be lightly thrown away with the idea that it will be... cannot. What X wants is peace and something to carry her through the trials of life—she is not ready for more. In sadhana it is not by the personal capacity that things are done. It is the Divine Power that works and if one makes oneself its instrument, even what is impossible for the personal capacity can be done. When one once enters into the true (Yogic) consciousness, then you see that... live in its light and allow the light to transform the whole nature, so that the being may live in union with the Divine and the nature become a field for the action of the Divine Knowledge, the Divine Power and the Divine Ananda. He can succeed in that only if he makes it the supreme object of his life and is prepared to subordinate everything else to this one aim. Otherwise all that can be done ...
... to command success may no longer be there. For the sincere sadhak the difficulty can only be temporary; but he has to see the defect in his consecration or his attitude and to remove it. Then the divine Power itself will act through him and use his capacity and vital force for its ends. In your case it is the psychic being and a part of the mind that have drawn you to the Yoga and were predisposed to... is the spirit or consciousness in which the work is done that matters most; the outer form can vary greatly for different natures. This, so long as one does not get the settled experience of the Divine Power taking up one's works and doing Page 236 them; afterwards it is the Power which determines what is to be done or not done. The overcoming of all attachments must necessarily be difficult... with equality of mind and calm tranquillity in good or bad fortune, for the sake of the Divine and not for the sake of any personal gain, reward or result, with the consciousness that it is the Divine Power to which all work belongs, is a means of self-dedication through Karma. Like the vital disturbance the physical inertia with all its symptoms is an attack of the hostile forces intended to ...
... He is the divine power that builds up the worlds, a power which acts always with a perfect knowledge, for it is jātavedas , knower of all births, viśvāni vayunāni vidvān ,—it knows all manifestations or phenomena or it possesses all forms and activities of the divine wisdom. Moreover it is repeatedly said that the gods have established Agni as the immortal in mortals, the divine power in man, the... when we recall the standing description of Agni as the god in human beings, the immortal in mortals, the divine guest. We may give the full psychological sense by translating, "Let him come, a divine power with the divine powers." For in the external sense of the Veda the Gods are universal powers of physical Nature personified; in any inner sense they must be universal powers of Nature in her subjective ...
... Quietude There is no possibility of doing this Yoga, if one cannot give himself to the Divine Power and trust to its workings. If one Page 27 lives only in the mind and its questioning and ideas, it is not possible. The test of capacity is to be able to quiet the mind, to feel a greater Divine Power at work in one, the Power of the Mother, and to be able to trust to it and aid its workings... It is simply the habit of the mind when troubles come to worry about them. You must train your mind to remain calm and equal when troubles come—to do the thing that has to be done and rely on the Divine Power. Hastiness In the mind there is always a certain haste to seize quickly at what is presented to it as the highest Truth. That is unavoidable, but the more one is still in mind, the less this ...
... the physical consciousness (down to the most material parts) open to the Power, then to make it accustomed to respond and obey and to each physical difficulty as it arises, apply or call in the divine Power to throw out the attacking force. The physical nature is a thing of habits; it is out of habit that it responds to the forces of illness; one has to get into it the contrary habit of responding... If he perseveres, that should happen sooner or later. But it is best not to struggle with the resistances but to stand back from them, observe as a witness, reject these movements and call on the Divine Power to remove them. Surrender of the nature is not an easy thing and may take a long time; surrender of the self, if one can do it, is easier and once that is done, that of the nature will come about... place. However a man may stumble, the Divine Grace will be there so long as he aspires for it and in the end lead him through. If she remains firm and calm and keeps an unshaken faith in the Divine Power, that will carry her through every trial. Suicide is no solution; it only injures the life of the soul and the problems and difficulties one tries to evade by it seize one again in another form ...
... motives that is its main purpose, but a refounding of life and its action on their hidden divine element; for only such a refounding of life can bring about its direct government by the secret Divine Power above us and its transfiguration into a manifest expression of the Divinity, not as now a disguise and a disfiguring mask of the eternal Actor. It is a spiritual essential change of consciousness... capable of all action, achievement, highest or largest enterprise. The true Life-Force too reveals itself as no longer this troubled harassed divided striving surface energy, but a great and radiant Divine Power, full of peace and strength and bliss, a wide-wayed Angel of Life with its wings of Might enfolding the universe. And yet this transformation into a large strength and equality is insufficient;... preparation of the nature; but also it may repeat itself, grow, endure. A long and large and comprehensive working will then have begun, sometimes luminous or intense, sometimes slow and obscure. A Divine Power comes in front at times and leads and compels or instructs and enlightens; at others it withdraws into the background and seems to leave the being to its own resources. All that is ignorant, obscure ...
... grace of the Spirit; the breath of divine Power blows where it lists and fills today one and tomorrow another with the word or the puissance. If the potter shapes one pot more perfectly than another, the merit lies not in the vessel but the maker. The attitude of our mind must not be "This is my strength" or "Behold God's power in me", but rather "A Divine Power works in this mind and body and it is... step, motion, figure of our activities, in every turn of our will, in every thought, feeling and impulse. No doubt, we can feel that in essence even in the nature of the Ignorance, but it is the divine Power and Presence in a disguise, a diminution, an inferior figure. Ours is a greater demand, that our nature shall be a power of the Divine in the Truth of the Divine, in the Light, in the force of the ...
... 354 "is the divine power that builds up the worlds, a power which acts always with a perfect knowledge, for it is jātavedas, knower of all births, viśvāni vayunāni vidvān, - it knows all manifestations or phenomena or it possesses all forms of the divine wisdom. Moreover it is repeatedly said [e.g. 4,1,1] that the gods have established Agni as the immortal in mortals, the divine power in man, the... rations such as 6,47,18: 511 "Indra moves multiform by his illusions; for his Bay Steeds are yoked, ten times a hundred." Of course, Griffith's "illusions" renders the scripture's māyā, the divine power of knowledge by which "Name and Form" are created. To catch Sri Aurobindo's mystical drift more fully we have to follow him beyond the verse Hale has quoted. Hale has said that the name Tryaruna ...
... 1 But man in the strength of his ignorance and arrogance does not recognise this Goddess. Human power, we have said, is a reflection, a shadow of the Divine Power but most often it is a deformed, a perverted Divine Power. Man is full of his egoistic vital self-confidence: he believes it is his own will that is realising all, all which is achieved here; whatever he has created, it is... me. . No magic can surpass my magic's skill. There is no miracle I shall not achieve. 2 So this vital being in man in his Rakshasic hunger and Asuric self-conceit rejects the Divine Power that is in fact behind him too, supporting him. The Goddess, in the wake of her predecessor, goes back from where she came, leaving however a, consoling word, assuring that one day she will return; ...
... the world.¹ But man in the strength of his ignorance and arrogance does not recognise this Goddess. Human power, we have said, is a reflection, a shadow of the Divine Power but most often it is a deformed, a perverted Divine Power. Man is full of his egoistic vital self-confidence: he believes it is his own will that is realising all, all which is achieved here; whatever he has creater it is through... becomes in me. . No magic can surpass my magic's skill. There is no miracle I shall not achieve. ² So this vital being in man in his Rakshasic hunger and Asuric self-conceit rejects the Divine Power that is in fact behind him too, supporting him. The Goddess, in the wake of her predecessor, goes back from where she came, leaving however a consoling word, assuring that one day she will return; ...
... there is a perfect equality to all works, results, things and persons, a surrender to the Highest and not to desire or ego, then the divine Will determines without stumbling or deflection and the divine Power executes freely without any nether interference or perverting reaction all works in the purity and safety of your transmuted nature. To allow Page 587 your every act to be shaped through... spiritualised and lifted beyond the limitations of its lower nature will reveal to you most intimately the secrets of God's immeasurable being, bring into you the whole touch and influx and glory of his divine Power and open to you the mysteries of an eternal rapture. It is perfect love that is the key to a perfect knowledge. "This integral God-love demands too an integral work for the sake of the Divine... moment to renounce the initiation of your acts without exception into the hands of the supreme Godhead within you. Then you will be released from all laws of conduct, liberated from all dharmas. The Divine Power and Presence within you will free you from 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 ...
... can you rightly call for the divine Power to transform you. Do not imagine that truth and falsehood, light and darkness, surrender and selfishness can be allowed to dwell together in the house consecrated to the Divine. The transformation must be integral, and integral therefore the rejection of all that withstands it. Reject the false notion that the divine Power will do and is bound to do everything... opening from below that can victoriously handle the physical Nature and annihilate its difficulties ... There must be a total and sincere surrender; there must be an exclusive self-opening to the divine Power; there must be a constant and integral choice of the Truth that is descending, a constant and integral rejection of the falsehood of the mental, vital and physical Powers and Appearances that still... do not satisfy the conditions laid down by the Supreme. Make your surrender true and complete, then only will all else be done for you. Reject too the false and indolent expectation that the divine Power will do even the surrender for you. The Supreme demands your surrender to her, but does not impose it: you are free at every moment, till the irrevocable transformation comes, to deny and to reject ...
... you rightly call for the divine Power to transform you. Do not imagine that truth and falsehood, light and darkness, surrender and selfishness can be allowed to dwell together in the house consecrated to the Divine. The transformation must be integral, and integral therefore the rejection of all that withstands it. Reject the false notion that the divine Power will do and is bound to... opening from below that can victoriously handle the physical Nature and annihilate its difficulties.... There must be a total and sincere surrender; there must be an exclusive self-opening to the divine Power; there must be a constant and integral choice of the Truth that is descending, a constant and integral rejection of the falsehood of the mental, vital and physical Powers and Appearances that... not satisfy the conditions laid down by the Supreme. Make your surrender true and complete, then only will all else be done for you. Reject too the false and indolent expectation that the divine Power will do even the surrender for you. The Supreme demands your surrender to her, but does not impose it: you are free at every moment, till the irrevocable transformation Page 30 ...
... proceed through any set mental teaching or prescribed forms of meditation. Mantras or others, but by aspiration, by a self-concentration inwards or upwards, by self-opening to an Influence, to the Divine Power above us and its workings, to the Divine Presence in the heart and by the rejection of all that is foreign to these things. It is only by faith, aspiration and surrender that this self-opening... But to decide beforehand by our limited mental conceptions what they must be is to hamper the growth of the spiritual Truth within. As that grows we shall feel the Divine Light and Truth, the Divine Power and Force, the Divine Purity and Peace working within us, dealing with our actions as well as our consciousness, making use of them to reshape us into the Divine Image, removing the dross, su... representative; from this inner silent Being proceeds a rejection of all that is to be rejected, an acceptance only of what can be kept and transformed, an inmost Will to perfection or a call to the Divine Power to do as each step what is necessary for the change of the Nature. It can also open mind, life and body to the inmost psychic entity and its guiding influence or its direct guidance. In most cases ...
... realised status and frame and base a farther evolution out of realised status. Nature itself is Prakriti, working (literally, forward working) of world-Force, called by us Shakti, the cosmic or divine Power of cosmic or divine Will. And because that Shakti is, Page 507 in the phrase of the Swetáswatara Upanishad, Devátmashaktih swagunair nigúdhá, the self-power of Divine Being hidden by... is the divine attitude towards existence constituted, the attitude of the Ishwara; a perfect & blissful calm & quietism of the divine soul harmonised & become one with a colossal activity of the divine Power driving before it the ordered whirl of a myriad forces occupying limitless Space & Time towards an eternally predestined end. It may be objected, that while the divine Purusha standing back from... universal Will or Shakti in Prakriti even when we are increasing our individual control over the processes of her individual and universal working. Still as we become purer channels, more & more of the divine Power pours through us & our motions are invested with a more swift, easy & victorious knowledge & effectiveness upon their environment. But it is only when we stand entirely apart from Nature, yet entirely ...
... Vijnan as a superior mental consciousness and as this was still mental he rejected that Vijnan, Shankaracharya did not believe in manifestation which to him was Maya. Manifestation is truth of Divine power and has to be accepted. That power is working in us and it is possible for us to identify ourselves with that power and thus take part in the manifestation of the Divine on this earth. For some... , there is no manifestation as all exist in one, from another standpoint, we are one and yet different. The latter is superficial consciousness. It comes to play when there is projection of the Divine Power like a cinematograph. There are various aspects of the Divine and one example is not sufficient to explain all of them. Evening Talks 1924-10-25 It was stated by a Sadhak to Shyam... is beyond them and safe." } ] }, { t: "Tirupatti's Questions", chapters: [ { t: "7 April 1925 1925-04-07 A.G.: When you bring down Power, you always bring down fighting power. The Divine Power need not always be fighting power. When so power comes, mere touch is enough to produce great effect. The Higher Power knows the need of the system. In the physical, it is the calm, persistent power ...
... world. 26 But man in the strength of his ignorance and arrogance does not recognise this Goddess. Human power, we have said, is a reflection, a shadow of the Divine Power but most often it is a deformed, a perverted Divine Power. Man is full of his egoistic vital self- 24 Ibid., pp. 505-07. 25 Ibid.,p.507. 26 Ibid., p.510 Page 61 confidence: he believes... me... No magic can surpass my magic's skill. There is no miracle I shall not achieve. 27 So this vital being in man in his Rakshasic hunger and Asuric self-conceit rejects the Divine Power that is in fact behind him too, supporting him. The Goddess, in the wake of her predecessor, goes back from where she came, leaving however a consoling word, assuring that one day she will return; ...
... Our Light and Delight 5 The Exercise of Divine Power According to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the Divine Power which is all the time present in the world as well as beyond the world and especially the Divine Power as embodied by them for a new manifestation could do a lot of impossible-looking things. I know from my own experience ...
... one more and more and leaves less and less to individual effort—but even then, if not effort, at least aspiration and vigilance are needed till the possession of mind, will, life and body by the Divine Power is complete. I have dealt with this subject, I think, in one of the chapters of The Mother . On the other hand, there are some people who start with a genuine and dynamic will for a total surrender... constant consent to the true Force, a constant rejection of any lower mixture—that is very important. At present to give up personal effort is not what is wanted, but to call in more and more the Divine Power and govern and guide by it the personal endeavour. It is not advisable in the early stages of the sadhana to leave everything to the Divine or expect everything from it without the need of... 86 indispensable. To do the sadhana for the sake of the Divine and not for one's own sake is of course the true attitude. Faith, reliance upon God, surrender and self-giving to the Divine Power are necessary and indispensable. But reliance upon God must not be made an excuse for indolence, weakness and surrender to the impulses of the lower nature; it must go along with untiring aspiration ...
... typical worshipper of these religions. The sentiment of fear is indeed perfectly consistent with devotion of a certain kind and up to a certain point; at its highest it rises into a worship of the divine Power, the divine Justice, divine Law, divine Righteousness, and ethical obedience, an awed reverence for the almighty Creator and Judge. Its motive is therefore ethico-religious and it belongs not so... above the world and is the source or at any rate the regulator of all its laws and happenings. A nearer approach to the beginnings of the way of devotion becomes possible when this element of divine Power disengages itself from these crudities and fixes on the idea of a divine ruler, creator of the world and master of the Law who governs the earth and heavens and is the guide and helper and saviour... love is inconsistent with the admission of the motive of fear. Closeness of the human soul to the Divine is the object, and fear sets always a barrier and a distance; even awe and reverence for the divine Power are a sign of distance and division and they disappear in the intimacy of the union of love. Moreover, fear belongs to the lower nature, to the lower self, and in approaching the higher Self must ...
... persistent truth behind their play of subjective and objective phenomena. It is the essential quality and force, svabhāva , the self-principle of all their becoming, the inherent principle and divine power behind their phenomenal existence. The balance of the gunas is only a quantitative and quite derivative play evolved out of this supreme Principle. All this activity of forms, all this mental, sensuous... inanimate existences of the universe. We may disentangle them from the loose and free order which the exigence of the poetical form imposes and put them in their proper philosophical series. First, the divine Power and Presence works within the five elemental conditions of matter. "I am taste in the waters, sound in ether, scent in earth, energy of light in fire," and, it may be added for more completeness... " In each case it is the energy of the essential quality on which each of these becomings depends for what it has become, that is given as the characteristic sign indicating the presence of the divine Power in their nature. Again, "I am pranava in all the Vedas," that is to say, the basic syllable OM, which is the foundation of all the potent creative sounds of the revealed word; OM is the one universal ...
... above our average level, raises by that very fact our common humanity; he is a living assurance of our divine possibilities, a promise of the Godhead, a glow of the divine Light and a breath of the divine Power. It is this truth which lies behind the natural human tendency to the deification of great minds and heroic characters; it comes out clearly enough in the Indian habit of mind which easily sees... the Son, the divine Man, but only of the Lord and his Prakriti. The Divine descends by his own Prakriti into birth in its human form and type and brings into it the divine Consciousness and the divine Power, though consenting, though willing to act in the form, type, mould of humanity, and he governs its actions in the body as the indwelling and over-dwelling Soul, adhiṣṭhāya . From above he governs... of divinity and humanity; the Divine takes upon himself the human nature with all its outward limitations and makes them the circumstances, means, instruments of the divine consciousness and the divine power, a vessel of the divine birth and the divine works. But so surely it must be, since otherwise the object of the Avatar's descent is not fulfilled; for that object is precisely to show that the human ...
... were acclaimed as Avatars; those who came had each of them the idea of a work to be done for the world and the sense of a Divine Power working through them, which shows that there was a pressure for manifestation there and something came in each case, for something of the Divine Power always comes when it is called, but it does not look as if there was anywhere the complete descent. It is this that may... that he is impotent, that he cannot do what has never yet been done etc., you deny the possibility of changing conditions, of evolution, of the realisation of the unrealised, of the action of the Divine Power, of Divine Grace, and reduce all to a matter of rigid and unalterable status quo , which is an insolent defiance to both fact and reason (!) and suprareason. See now? About myself and the Mother ...
... more or less crudely encouraged among ignorant people the taste, the necessity for seeing what they call "miracles" in order to believe in the divine power of a person. This is an extraordinary ignorance, because it is not at all necessary to have a divine power or consciousness to perform miracles. It is infinitely more easy to perform miracles with the help of small entities of the vital world who are... knowledge they received. This is already of a higher order but it is not yet a proof. And I would finally say, the human demand for proofs is not at all favourable to one's development. Because the true divine power has organised the world according to a certain plan and in this plan there was no question of things happening in an illogical way; otherwise from the very beginning the world would have been illogical ...
... your trust in the Divine Power. But whatever you do, whatever the process you use, and even if you happen to have acquired in it a great skill and power, you must leave the result in the hands of the Divine. Always you may try, but it is for the Divine to give you the fruit of your effort or not to give it. There your personal power stops; if the result comes, it is the Divine Power and not yours that... or correct some physical imperfection? Should he concentrate upon the end to be realised and exercise his will-power or should he only live in the confidence that it will be done or trust in the Divine Power to bring about the desired result in its own time and in its own way? All these are so many ways of doing the same thing and each in different conditions can be effective. The method by which ...
... world." 2 But man in the strength of his ignorance and arrogance does not recognise this Goddess. Human power, we have said, is a reflection, a shadow of the Divine Power but most often it is a deformed, a perverted Divine Power. Man is 1 Bk. VII: Canto 4: P.576. 2 Bk. VII: Canto 4: P.579. Page 112 full of his egoistic vital self-confidence: he believes it is his... .. No magic can surpass my magic's skill. There is no miracle I shall not achieve." 1 So this vital being in man in bis Rakshasic hunger and Asuric self-conceit rejects the Divine Power that is in fact behind him too, supporting him. The Goddess, in the wake of her predecessor, goes back from where she came, leaving however a consoling word, assuring that one day she will return; ...
... But man in the strength of his ignorance and arrogance does not recognise this Goddess. Human power, we have said, is a reflection, a shadow of the Divine Power but most often it is a deformed, a perverted Divine Power. Man is full of his egoistic vital self-confidence: he believes it is his own will that is realising all, all which is achieved here; whatever he has created, it is... No magic can surpass my magic's skill. There is no miracle I shall not achieve. 25 So this vital being in man in his Rakshasic hunger and Asuric self-conceit rejects the Divine Power that is in fact behind him too, supporting him. The Goddess, in the wake of her predecessor, goes back from where she came, leaving however a consoling word, assuring that one day she will return; ...
... we are fossilized right from the cradle. The education of the cells' consciousness consists in teaching them how to choose the divine Presence—the divine Consciousness, the divine Presence, the divine Power (all that wordlessly), the "something".... It's a choice of every second between the old laws of Nature—and the government by the supreme Consciousness. 12 The government of the open air versus... a sort of Negation out of ignorant stupidity—not out of ill will, there is no ill will: its an inert and ignorant stupidity which, by the very fact of what it is, * DENIES the possibility of the divine Power [or open air]. And that's what has to be dissolved every time. At every step, in every detail, it's always the same thing that has to be dissolved. 13 That is to say, the natural that gives... and stupid Ignorance. An inert and stupid automatism. And so, automatically, it denies—not "denies," there's no will to deny: it CANNOT understand, it's an opposite—an ESTABLISHED opposite—of the divine Power. And every time, there is a kind of action which really in every detail is almost miraculous: suddenly that negation is compelled to recognize that the divine Force is all-powerful. Seen from another ...
... of kinesis of action, but that is because we approach him first through the selecting spirit in the mind. Afterwards when we are able to rise above even the spiritual mind, we can see that each divine power contains all the rest and can get rid of this initial error. 2 We see then that action is possible without the subjection of the soul to the normal degraded functioning of the modes of Nature... Asura full-born in him, and once he has taken that enormous turn away from the Light and Truth, he can no more reverse the fatal speed of his course because of the very immensity of the misused divine power in him until he has plumbed the depths to which it falls, found bottom and seen where the way has led him, the power exhausted and misspent, himself down in the lowest state of the soul nature, ...
... with the idea of space, and the Divine is spaceless and timeless. Space and time, immanence and pervasion and exceeding are all of them terms and images of his consciousness. There is a Yoga of divine Power, me yoga aiśvaraḥ , by which the Supreme creates phenomena of himself in a spiritual, not a material, self-formulation of his own extended infinity, an extension of which the material is only an... one Godhead. For that seeing too is essential to the God-knowledge; on it is founded the integral turn of the whole being and the whole nature Godwards, the acceptance by man of the works of the divine Power in the world and the possibility of remoulding his mentality and will into the type of the God-action, transcendent in initiation, cosmic in motive, transmitted through the individual, the Jiva ...
... heart of creatures" of the Gita; when within us the veil of that secret sanctuary is withdrawn and man speaks face to face with God, hears the divine voice, receives the divine light, acts in the divine power, then becomes possible the supreme uplifting of the embodied human conscious-being into the unborn and eternal. He becomes capable of that dwelling in God and giving up of his whole consciousness... through whom the voice of the one world-Teacher makes itself heard. Through these it strives to awaken to that inner voice, unveil that form of the Formless and stand face to face with that manifest divine Power, Love and Knowledge. Secondly, there is the typical, almost the symbolic significance of the human Krishna who stands behind the great action of the Mahabharata, not as its hero, but as its ...
... force—the highest supramental force. Do you understand now? Yes. Page 207 ( To another child ) Nothing? ( To another ) You? Mother, it is said: "Reject the false notion that the divine Power will do and is bound to do everything for you at your demand and even though you do not satisfy the conditions laid down by the Supreme." Then... But, you know, there are people who are told... example, wants to collaborate in the work, collaborate in the progress. It is the opposite of the inert automaton, the very opposite. Sweet Mother, what does "an exclusive self-opening to the divine Power" mean? Page 212 Instead of self-opening we could put receptivity, something that opens in order to receive. Now, instead of opening and receiving from all sides and from everyone, as ...
... with equality of mind and calm tranquillity in good or bad fortune, for the sake of the Divine and not for the sake of any personal gain, reward or result, with the consciousness that it is the Divine Power to which all work belongs, is a means of self-dedication through Karma. * Even the most purely physical and mechanical work cannot be properly done if one accepts incapacity, inertia... one feels the universal Force doing one's works and the Self or Purusha watching or witness but free; one feels all one's works taken from one and done by the universal or supreme Mother or by the Divine Power controlling and acting from behind the heart. By constant referring of all one's will and works to the Divine, love and adoration grow, the psychic being comes forward. By the reference to the Power ...
... kundalini śakti (Kundalini Shakti): The power that liescoiled or involved in the lowest centre at the bottom ofthe spine; it is awakened by Yoga and rises to join the Page 59 Divine Power or Presence in the 'sahasradala' (seventh centre). laya: Dissolution of the individual being, merging in theone Self-Existence. līl ā (Lila): Play (of the Divine). manipura:... passions. rājasika (Rajasic): Full of the quality of rajas, the kinetic principle. rāksī māyā (Rakshasi Maya): Illusions 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 ...
... more or less crudely encouraged among ignorant people the taste, the necessity for seeing what they call “miracles” in order to believe in the divine power of a person. This is an extraordinary ignorance, because it is not at all necessary to have a divine power or consciousness to perform miracles. It is infinitely more easy to perform miracles with the help of small entities of the vital world who are ...
... 1929 talk someone asked what should be done to effect the cure of an illness, whether one should exercise one's willpower or only live in the confidence that it will be done or rely entirely on the divine Power. Mother replied: "All these are so many ways of doing the same thing.... "But whatever you ask for or whatever your effort, you must feel, even while trying your best, using knowledge or... result in the hands of the Divine. Always you may try, but it is for the Divine to give you the fruit of your effort or not to give it. There your personal power stops; if the result comes, it is the Divine Power and not yours that brings it." Questions and Answers 1929 ( 23 June ) Well, it is this idea, which has been taught in almost all religions, that has made men atheistic, so much does it ...
... that. But to decide beforehand by our limited mental conceptions what they must be is to hamper the growth of the spiritual Truth within. As that grows we shall feel the Divine Light and Truth, the Divine Power and Force, the Divine Purity and Peace working within us, dealing with our actions as well as our consciousness, making use of them to reshape us into the Divine Image, removing the dross, substituting... representative; from this inner silent Being proceeds a rejection of all that is to be rejected, an acceptance only of what can be kept and transformed, an inmost Will to perfection or a call to the Divine Power to do at each step what is necessary for the change of the Nature. It can also open mind, life and body to the inmost psychic entity and its guiding influence or its direct guidance. In most cases ...
... only if that is quite secondary to the true thing, the seeking for the Divine, and if it is part of the Divine plan in you. Occult powers can only be for the spiritual man an instrumentation of the Divine Power that uses him, they cannot be the aim or an aim of his sadhana. I don't know who started Y on this false path or whether he hit on it himself; many people here have a habit of doing Yoga according... avoid impatience and to go on steadily with what is being done. If you wish to have something beyond the peace and calm, let it be the full opening of the inner being and the consciousness of the Divine Power working in you. Aspire for that sincerely and with a great intensity but without impatience and it will come. It is necessary to lay stress on three things—(1) an entire quietness and calm ...
... known nor has it diminished in later Hinduism. The mantra in Yoga is only effective when it has settled into the mind, is asina , has taken its seat there and become spontaneous; it is then that divine power enters into, takes possession of it and the mantra itself becomes one with the god of the mantra and does his works in the soul and body. This, as every Yogin knows, is one of the fundamental ideas... accept Brahma in the Veda as meaning speech of any kind, but as either soul or a mantra of the kind afterwards called dhyana, the object of which was meditation and formation in the soul of the divine Power meditated on whether in an image or in his qualities. It is immaterial which sense we take here. “Indra,” sings the Rishi, “arrive, O thou of rich and varied light, here are these life-streams poured ...
... Abodhi Agnih samidhá janánám, Prati dhenum iváyatím ushásam, Yahvá iva pra vayám ujjihánáh, Pra bhánavah sisrate nákam achchha. Force, pure, supreme & universal has, in man, awakened; divine power is acting, revealed, in the consciousness of creatures born into matter, janánám. It wakes when the fuel has been perfectly heaped, abodhi samidhá,—that power, plenty and richness of being on which... mahán devas tamaso niramochi. The two familiar images in dhenu & in yahvá are intended to convey directly in one, suggest obliquely by the simile in the other, the inseparable companionship of divine power with the divine light and the divine being. All the gods are indeed usharbudhah; with the morning of the revelation all divine faculties in us arise out of the night in which they have slept. But ...
... fever or cold for instance, in the subtle physical sheath before they are manifest in the gross body and destroy them there, preventing them from manifesting in the body. Take now the call for the Divine Power, Light, Ananda. If we live only in the outward physical consciousness, it may descend and work behind the veil but we shall feel nothing and only see certain results after a long time. Or at most... flowing through the body, the limbs, nerves, blood, breath and, through the subtle body, affecting the most material cells and making them conscious and blissful and we shall sense directly the Divine Power and Presence. These are Page 205 only two instances out of a thousand that are possible and can be constantly experienced by the sadhaka. Living in the Physical Consciousness So ...
... part of the movement of the Yoga and it takes place spontaneously according to need by the force of the aspiration Page 420 and the call for the workings of the Divine Power. As soon as there is an opening, the Divine Power descends and conducts the necessary working, does what is needed, each thing in its time, and the Yogic consciousness begins to be born in the sadhaka. The force ...
... enlighten by their psychic elements your mind and heart and life and physical consciousness and reveal to them too her ways and her nature. Avoid also the error of the ignorant mind's demand on the Divine Power to act always according to our crude surface notions of omniscience and omnipotence. For our mind clamours to be impressed at every turn by miraculous power and easy success and dazzling splendour;... it will not recognise the Mother even when she is manifest before you. Follow your soul and not 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; ...
... 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 whose whole aim is to maintain the reign... Yogic mentality. The Yogin should look on all the defects of the nature as movements of the lower prakriti common to all and reject them calmly, firmly and persistently with full confidence in the Divine Power—without weakness or depression or negligence and without excitement, impatience or violence. Page 763 No, [ the vital ego is ] certainly not [ a hostile power ]—it is part of the ...
... Truth outlast these religions and manifest themselves anew in whatever way or form the Divine Wisdom chooses. You cannot shut up God in the limitations of your own narrow brain or dictate to the Divine Power and Consciousness how or where or through whom it shall manifest; you cannot put up your puny barriers against the divine Omnipotence. These again are simple truths which are now being recognised... In answering you I am answering the ideas which have been put in you by the Power of darkness and ignorance that is just now using you for its own purpose. This Power is very obviously not the divine Power. It is a Power of Falsehood that is making you do and say extravagant things which are not Islamic but a caricature of Islamic faith and action; its intention is to make not only Islam but all ...
... become whatever it has the faith and will to be,—for faith is only a will aiming at greater truth,—and cease to set limits to our possibility or deny the potential omnipotence of the Self in us, the divine Power working through the human instrument. That however, at least as a practical force, comes in at a later stage of high perfection. The Prana is not only a force for the action of physical and vital... and suffers many reactions of grief, fear, depression, passion, short-lived and partial joy. An equal heart is needed for perfection, but not only a passive equality; there must be the sense of a divine power making for good behind all experiences, a faith and will which can turn the poisons of the world to nectar, see the happier spiritual intention behind adversity, the mystery of love behind suffering ...
... when the Purusha, the real Man in us, the divine Soul, shall act fully in this human instrument and shine fully through this human vessel. To divinise the perfected nature we have to call in the divine Power or Shakti to replace our limited human energy so that this may be shaped into the image of and filled with the force of a greater infinite energy, daivī prakṛti, bhāgavatī śakti . This perfection... of this second element of perfection, the full powers of the members of the instrumental nature, the perfected dynamis of the soul nature, the assumption of them into the action of the divine Page 693 Power, and a perfect faith in all our members to call and support that assumption, śakti, vīrya, daivī prakṛti, śraddhā . But so long as this development takes place only on the highest ...
... this attitude of perfect self-surrender can be even imperfectly established, all necessity of Yogic kriyā inevitably ceases. For then God himself in us becomes the sadhaka and the siddha and his divine power works in us, not by our artificial processes, but by a working of Nature which is perfectly informed, all-searching and infallibly efficient. Even the most powerful Rajayogic saṁyama , the most... everything that they might otherwise have asked or needed and in addition he gives himself and the spontaneous boons of his love. The next process is to stand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself. This working is often attended with disturbance and trouble in the system, therefore faith is necessary, though perfect faith is not always possible at once; for whatever impurity is ...
... woven into the human substance. They have the same superstition, the same superstitious belief in what is favorable to them as in what is unfavorable; in the divine Power as in the adverse power—it's the SAME attitude. And that's why the divine Power doesn't have its full force, and also precisely why the adverse force has so much power over them, because it's absolutely a movement of Falsehood, of Ig ...
... is one who is conscious of the presence and power of the Divine born in him or descended into him and governing from within his will and life and action; he feels identified inwardly with this divine power and presence. A Vibhuti is supposed to embody some power of the Divine and is enabled by it to act with great force in the world, but that is all that is necessary to make him a Vibhuti: the power... exemplar of a divine humanity.” 5 “Certain conditions have been established for the game and so long as those conditions remain unchanged things are not done …” 6 As the Mother said: “The true divine power has organized the world according to a certain plan, and in that plan was not included that things would happen in an illogical [ i.e. random] way; otherwise from the very beginning the world would ...
... is one who is conscious of the presence and power of the Divine born in him or descended into him and governing from within his will and life and action; he feels identified inwardly with this divine power and presence.” 3 In India it is known that there are also other beings in a human incarnation who are charged with a special divine mission, and who are called vibhutis. “A Vibhuti”, writes... certitude that his Work will be consummated. This certitude is the seal on his Work. The divine Vision saw the necessity of the coming and planned the means, time and required circumstances for it. The divine Power performed the Yoga, the realisation of something impossible and totally new in the evolution of the Earth. On the basis built by the Avatar, his divine Self sees to it, after his departure from ...
... out of Page 243 ignorant stupidity—not out of ill will, there is no ill will: it's an inert and ignorant stupidity which, by the very fact of what it is, DENIES the possibility of the divine Power. And that's what has to be dissolved every time. At every step, in every detail, it's always the same thing that has to be dissolved. It's repeated again and again.... It's not as in the realm... inert and stupid automatism. And so, automatically, it denies—not "denies," there's no will to deny: it is an opposite, I mean it CANNOT understand, it's an opposite—an ESTABLISHED opposite—of the divine Power. And every time, there is a kind of action which really in every detail is almost miraculous: suddenly that negation is compelled... compelled to recognize that the divine Force is all-powerful ...
... the whole crown and essence of our yoga. But it has always seemed to me impossible unless there comes as its support and foundation and guard the Divine Truth—what I call the supramental—and its Divine Power.... ( XXIII.753 ) Here it's clear: he says that what he calls the "Supramental" is the Divine Truth , and that it must come first, and the rest comes afterwards. And yet, for some time... but it's written clearly here: ...But it has always seemed to me impossible unless there comes as its support and foundation and guard the Divine Truth—what I call the supramental—and its Divine Power. Otherwise Love itself blinded by the confusions of this present consciousness may stumble in its human receptacles and, even otherwise, may find Page 236 itself unrecognised, rejected ...
... is even possible to discern Agni at work in the long passage preceding the one with which we are concerned. The Seer-Guest is born as the final expression of a number of moulding movements by a Divine Power upon and within Aswapathy. We may quote the lines between In him that high transition laid its base and A Seer was born, a shining Guest of Time. These lines run: ... directly continuing the lengthy narration of his development, which precedes this line, is perfectly conceivable. All the more is it so because, in the context from which our quotation derives, the Divine Power, variously named "Original and supernal Immanence", "the cosmic Worker", "the Craftsman of the magic stuff of self" and "the masked immaculate Grandeur" - is not the only referent of a cognate to ...
... yoga entails a long and arduous preparation for arriving at complete surrender when the need for personal effort ceases and all work of transformation is taken up Page 124 by the Divine Power. Thus, Sri Aurobindo speaks of two somewhat overlapping periods, movements, or stages in yoga. In the first, which is one of the process of surrender, the individual prepares oneself for the reception... surrender it is not inconsistent with the witness attitude. On the contrary by liberating from the ordinary Prakriti," 115 it makes easier the surrender to the higher or Page 128 divine Power. Very often when this witness attitude has not been taken but there is a successful calling in of the Force to act in one, one of the first things the Force does is to establish the witness attitude ...
... like laughing away the black future with which they—of course, with the best intentions and for my own good—threaten me in case of carelessness about my heart. I feel certain, Mother dearest, the Divine Power can help—can't it?) "My dear child, I quite agree with you that there is a power other and much more powerful than that of the doctors and the medicines and I am glad to see that you put your... ends.) "It is evidently the working of the Kali force that has lit and is directing this fire in you. There is nothing wrong in its action; it is not an anger personal to you but the wrath of a divine power and it must be allowed to act; in fact, I think you could not stop it from burning in you even if you wanted to stop it. This man has drawn it on himself and there is nothing wrong in what is happening ...
... According to Teilhard, such an exclusive regard is "the most essential aim and criterion of Christian orthodoxy" 2 and, "since St. John and St. Paul, the fundamental rule of theology". 3 The divine power so figured is the Cosmic or Universal Christ and, naturally, his central function is related to the cosmos with whose space-time he is coextensive and which he works to consummate. A new quotation... 126. Page 160 have this Christ unless we fully "accept the most modern concepts of evolution". 10 For Teilhard there is the crucial question: "How exactly is the divine power to put the universe together in such a way that it may be possible for an incarnation to be biologically effected in it?" 11 The answer, of course, is: in no other way than evolutively. And there ...
... Vijnan as a superior mental consciousness and as this was still mental he rejected that Vijnan, Shankaracharya did not believe in manifestation which to him was Maya. Manifestation is truth of Divine power and has to be accepted. That power is working in us and it is possible for us to identify ourselves with that power and thus take part in the manifestation of the Divine on this earth. For some... , there is no manifestation as all exist in one; from another standpoint, we are one and yet different. The latter is superficial consciousness. It comes to play when there is projection of the Divine Power like a cinematograph. There are various aspects of the Divine and one example is not sufficient to explain all of them. 26 October 1924 Champklal and Dilip Kumar Roy ...
... power of the great godheads who reigned on those planes breaks its limit, opens out to the Light and is upheld in its new wideness by the infinite Consciousness, Mother Aditi and her sons, the divine Power of the Supreme Deva. This is the Vedic immortality. 2 The Upanishads also speak of immortality, and as we study these great books of the profound masters of the spiritual knowledge,... calls the perfection of the fourfold personality, the personality of knowledge, of strength, of harmony and love and of skill and service. This movement is further strengthened by calling in the divine Power or Shakti to replace the limited human energy so that it may be shaped into the image of and filled with the force of a greater infinite energy. The third element of perfection is, according ...
... "The fundamental principle and the whole method of the Integral Yoga is to open wide the consciousness to the divine Influence. Only those sadhakas who can sufficiently open themselves to the divine Power and Action and receive them in themselves, can cherish a hope for the ultimate realisation, not others." Such being the capital importance of the allied virtues of opening and receptivity... the Integral Yoga is not to become a great Yogi or Sannyasi or Tapasvi but to bring about a total divine transformation of his life and consciousness. And this can be done only with the aid of a divine Power which is infinitely more potent and effective than the sadhaka's puny personal efforts. It is the height of folly and absurdity to think that one can attain to the realisation of the Integral Yoga ...
... were wrong. His physical nearness made us realise, with an extraordinary lucidity, what terrible inhuman forces were trying to overcast the world. We faced an abysmal darkness from which a supreme Divine Power alone could save us. In May 1940 the war suddenly erupted into violent action when, in a surprise move, Hitler launched a massive attack on France through Holland and Belgium. I well remember... few comments. Sri Aurobindo begins by stating that the 'coincidence' of the date of Independence with his own birthday is not just an accident but is a mark of 'the sanction and seal' of the Divine Power that guides his steps. He goes on to say that he had hoped to see five world-movements fulfilled in his lifetime, although they had looked at first like 'impracticable dreams', and now he could ...
... is not the doer, he is the witness, part of the Divine; it is the Divine Power that works through his body created for action by his own inner law of being. The soul is the witness and enjoyer, Nature is the doer, the Divine is the giver of sanction. The being so illumined does not seek to help or hinder any work that the Divine Power undertakes. Submitted to the Shakti, the body and mind and intellect ...
... step by step, slowly and laboriously, through gradual purification; he grows through endeavour and struggle. Man triumphs over the Asura only in so far as he moulds himself in the ways of the divine power. But in the world, the Divine and his powers remain behind, because the field of actuality in front is still the domain of the Asura. The outer field, the gross vehicle —body and life and mind—all... underlying character and significance of the present struggle, deliberately takes the side of the evolutionary force, works for the gods, in proportion as she grows to be an instrument of the Divine Power. The instrument that the Divine chooses is often, to all appearances, faulty and defective, but since it has this higher and mightier support, it will surely outgrow all its drawbacks and lapses ...
... Nishumbha, Hiranyaksha and Hiranyakashipu, Shishupala and Raktadanta, dual power of Evil defying the Divine Power. Something similar seemed to be happening again. Here was precisely what lay behind the origins of the second Great War: the descent of Evil incarnate to bar the descent of the Divine Power Page 73 ...
... nonexistent, they are never and can never be negatived. Divine Consciousness, Divine Delight, Divine Power, indeed, Divine Being—they each and all exist as absolute and unitary realities, that is to say, one without a second. Even like Divine Love, there is only one Divine Consciousness, one Divine Power, one Divine Bliss, one Divine Page 133 Being, however various they may appear ...
... moves step by step, slowly and laboriously, through gradual purification; he grows through endeavour and struggle. Man triumphs over the Asura only in so far as he moulds himself in the ways of the divine power. But in the world, the Divine and his powers remain behind, because the field of actuality in front is still the domain of the Page 12 Asura. The outer field, the gross vehicle—... the underlying character and significance of the present struggle, deliberately takes the side of the evolutionary force, works for the gods, in proportion as she grows to be an instrument of the Divine Power. The instrument that the Divine chooses is often, to all appearances, faulty and defective, but since it has this higher and mightier support, it will surely outgrow all its drawbacks and lapses ...
... They are only forces and want to realise themselves. It is a way of speaking when one says "A yogin's power is working". All power is Divine Power and the individual is merely the point of support – point d'appui – and he knows it all the time that the Divine Power is working. He can also use it egoistically and produce great effects but in proportion as it is limited by the ego or desire, it becomes ...
... as is represented in the story of Rama and Krishna; but always then his descent becomes in the soul of the race a permanent power for the inner and spiritual rebirth." 1 "He comes as the divine power and love which, calls men to itself, so that they may take refuge in that and no longer in the insufficiency of their human wills and the strife of their human fear, wrath and passion, and liberated... 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 comes as a divine personality, which shall fill the consciousness of the human being, to replace the limited egoistic personality, "so that it shall be liberated out of ...
... moves step by step, slowly and laboriously, through gradual purification; he grows through endeavour and struggle. Man triumphs over the Asura only in so far as he moulds himself in the ways of the divine power. But in the world, the Divine and his powers remain behind, because the field of actuality in front is still the domain of the As'ura. The outer field, the gross vehicle – body and life and mind... the underlying character and significance of the present struggle, deliberately takes the side of the evolutionary force, works for the gods, in proportion as she grows to be an instrument of the Divine Power. The instrument that the Divine chooses is often, to all appearances, faulty and defective, but since it has this higher and mightier support, it will surely outgrow all its drawbacks ...
... non -existent, they are never and can never be negatived. Divine Consciousness, Divine Delight, Divine Power, indeed, Divine Being – they each and all exist as absolute and unitary realities, that is to say, one without a second. Even like Divine Love, there is only one Divine Consciousness, one Divine Power, one Divine Bliss, one Divine Being, however various they may appear in outward name and form ...
... may start with a sincere surrender, but when the divine Power descends into us and achieves something extraordinary—as it not unoften does—we take all the credit to ourselves and forget the Source from which the Power came. The surrender, though genuine in the beginning, proves transient: the highly gratifying result of the working of the divine power is at once misappropriated by the ego, neutralising ...
... political, as is represented in the story of Rama and Krishna; but always then his descent becomes in the soul of the race a permanent power for the inner and spiritual rebirth." 1 "He comes as the divine power and love which, calls men to itself, so that they may take refuge in that and no longer in the insufficiency of their human wills and the strife of their human fear, wrath and passion, and liberated... 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 comes as a divine personality, which shall fill the consciousness of the human being, to replace the limited egoistic personality, "so that it shall be liberated out of ego ...
... Has the Soul no freedom? Narad replies that Fate is nothing else but Truth working out in life. Fate is not merely an event or an operation determined inexorably Page 247 by some Divine Power or Powers. Fate is really the movement driving towards the goal which the Spirit has set before itself. Pain and joy are only incidents on the way to the goal of the Truth. Narad affirms the divinity... she is offered the problem in the most acute form—the fated death of Satyavan. Thus Savitri's yoga from the beginning has a very pressing and practical character. Her problem is to bring down the Divine Power in herself and in nature to conquer Death. At first Savitri remains sad and resigned, for, she sees that her heart and mind cannot find any solution for her problem. The ordinary powers of Nature ...
... made doubly sure. Further if there are serious inconsistencies of fact, if for instance Krishna says in one place that he can only do his best as a man & can use no divine power in human affairs and in another foolishly uses his divine power where it is quite uncalled for, or if a considerable hero is killed three or four times over, yet always pops up again with really commendable vitality but without ...
... to the mother country, the impulse is surging forth in great force, and my set purpose and devotion are becoming more confirmed with the trials and oppressions to which I am subjected. When some divine power by the grace of God manifests itself in a human being any efforts to develop it give a new force to the national life. You will have to sacrifice yourself at the feet of your Mother. You should... fatigue and inactivity are natural; you will find instances of them in the history of every nation. Everyone must store up energy. Be prepared with fresh hope and vigour for the worship of the Mother. Divine power has infused this nation with a new power. This power will exalt the nation one day. Page 178 ...
... sacrifice demanded by the ego-transcendent Universal Being from the ego-besieged and ego-ridden human soul. We must, in this consummation, fall perfectly passive in mind, life & body & allow the Divine Power to use them from above, as a man uses a machine, wields a sword or hurls a ball to its mark. These formulae of the Gita are, also, the true sense of the inner sacrifice imposed on the seeker by... offers, Shiva or Rama, Krishna or Kali. Some aspire to the Pure & Bright Stillness beyond, others like the Tantriks, seeing Him as Universal Power, attempt to acquire & feel Him here in a superior & divine power and mastery, yet others would have God in Himself and yet God playing also in His garden of the universe. The reason of these differences lies in our human variation of temperament—for we live in ...
... with an initial reminder that a full reply is not possible. For God is infinite and his manifestation is infinite. The forms of his manifestation too are innumerable. Each form is a symbol of some divine power, vibhūti , concealed in it and to the seeing eye each finite carries in it its own revelation of the infinite. Yes, he says, I will tell thee of my divine Vibhutis, but only in some of my principal... the essence of the whole universal movement. Aham eva akṣayaḥ kālaḥ . In that movement of Time and Becoming God appears to our conception or experience of him by the evidence of his works as the divine Power who ordains and sets all things in their place in the movement. In his form of Space it is he who fronts us Page 362 in every direction, million-bodied, myriad-minded, manifest in each ...
... the first sign of the awakening of the cells. (2) When one comes in contact with the Divine Power, one at once can start thinking that he is an Avatar or Messiah. The human vital rushes up to capture the Divine by his vital, mental and physical power instead of giving oneself completely to that Divine Power — he wants to possess the Divine with his Asuric ego. This is the case of many seekers who ...
... company of shining archangels and kings of thought. Theirs is an attempt to grasp Truth's absolute. The creative Word sets into motion these many worlds and the will-to-be is seized in things. The divine power of hearing comes as a natural gift. But Mind is incapable of understanding these works of Truth. Even sages and seers find her to be beyond their grasp. There is no way to know her and it is... the Spirit's disdainfulness towards Matter should disappear. Behind the present world Aswapati sees a world to be and the question is to make it actual. He knows that it can be done only by the divine Power. He must call her. III: 4 The Vision and the Boon There is a sudden flow of energy and Aswapati feels its rush into all parts of his being down to the very physical ...
... You have written: "Would you resolve one problem of mine? There is this apparent contradiction between Sri Aurobindo's and the Mother's words. Sri Aurobindo says, 'Reject the false notion that the divine Power will do and is bound to do everything for you at your demand... do even the surrender for you' while the Mother says, '...you have nothing to do, you have only to allow the Lord to do everything... demanded of you at the start. Later too, the activity has to go on in order to make you passively lie in His wonder-working hands. This amounts to Sri Aurobindo's reminder of "the false notion that the divine Power will... do even the surrender for you". What the Mother asks is a total whole-hearted putting of ourselves at the Lord's feet and receiving His grace and guidance rather than following all the time ...
... continued into reality from that dream was a creation by the Page 141 Divine Power: Adam's dream partook, as it were, in that creation and was a translation into human terms of an activity which was divine. Similarly, Keats's "truth of the Imagination" is ultimately a human reflex of what a Divine Power, some Eternity which teases us out of thought, has visioned into existence through ...
... central thought and will that have to acquiesce, but all the parts of our being must assent and surrender to the law of the spiritual Truth; all has to learn to obey the government of the conscious Divine Power in the members. There are obstinate difficulties in our being born of its evolutionary constitution which militate Page 962 against this assent. For some of these parts are still subject... would cancel the frame of Inconscience and violently perturb without effectively changing the basis of the world-order; for none of them have in their mental or vital Page 996 play the divine power to replace this dark original principle and organise a totally new world-order. A transformation of human nature can only be achieved when the substance of the being is so steeped in the spiritual ...
... depths of the universal silence and the infinite largeness of the universal action. It finds the same absolute oneness in the Purusha and the Prakriti; in the divine Presence and the works of the divine Power and Knowledge; in the eternal manifestness of the one Purusha and the constant manifestation of the many Purushas; in the inalienable unity of Sachchidananda keeping constantly real to itself its... terrestrial being and activity. We have to see Life as a channel for the infinite Force divine and break the barrier of a sense-created and mind-created farness and division from it so that that divine Power may take possession of and direct and change all our life-activities until our vitality transfigured ceases in the end to be the limited life-force which now supports mind and body and becomes a ...
... “enveloped or encircled with his own being”. Indra, the Purusha of the divine luminous or intuitive Mind, is the first or supreme thinker or supreme mental being; from his very birth he in his divine power takes the other gods, the other divine principles developing or developed in man into his periphery by the force of his will. They all work in him as in a field. Just as now the ordinary sense mind... divine Mind or are shaken with the grandeur & awe of this mighty advent. For he is full of an aggressive heroic force that subjects all things by its attack & the greatness of his soul-force or divine power encompasses & subdues all things that enter into its orbit. [13] [RV II.28] Selected Hymns of the Rigveda. इंद कवेरादित्यस्य स्वराजो विश्वानि सान्ति अभ्यस्तु मन्हा । अति यो मन्द्रो ...
... method. It is getting rid of the violent nervous Tapas. Until that is done it cannot be Astara The 13ṭḥ indicated that the period of results was now approaching, the total effectivity of the divine Power. This is becoming Page 560 clear to the discrimination, Daksha, & through Daksha to the intellect. But its fullness is dependent on that full sevenfold activity of Agni in the Purusha... affirmation of the Ishwara means the affirmation of an omniscient & omnipotent Mind & Power. It includes, therefore, these three affirmations— (1) The fulfilment of the Kriti involving the use of a divine power & knowledge divinely displayed in human affairs, is possible to the Master of the Yoga, Yogeshwara Hari. (2) As he does nothing in vain & is Premamaya, the fulfilment is inevitable. (3) The ...
... outward action resulting from an already known inner nature. Brahmavarchasya Brahmavarchasya is the force of jnana working from within a man which tends to manifest the divine light, the divine power, the divine qualities in the human being. Page 8 Sthairya Sthairyam is the capacity of fixity in jnana; the man who is sthira is able to hold the light and power that enters into... action of man's ordinary life. All the ancient Rishis used these powers, all great Avatars and Yogins and vibhutis from Christ to Ramakrishna have used them; nor is there any great man with the divine power at all manifest in him who does not use them continually in an imperfect form without knowing clearly what are these supreme faculties that he is employing. If nothing else, he uses the powers of ...
... object of Yoga. The second is to know God in Himself and in ourselves and in everything. The third is to make ourselves one with the Divine Will and to do in our life a Divine Work by means of the Divine Power using us as an instrument. The fourth object is to enjoy God in all beings, in all things and in all that happens. Since the Life is to be Divine there must be siddhi or Perfection of the Being... must get rid of the idea that actions are ours or that the fruit of the action belongs to us personally. The only work we have to do in the world is to perfect ourselves, carry out whatever the Divine Power wills that we should do and so far as possible help others to perfect themselves and help the life of humanity to become Divine. Notes, c. 1914 - VII Methods of Yoga (Reproduction from ...
... impersonal, universal, full of the divine light, the divine power and the divine love. He comes as the divine personality which shall fill the consciousness of the human being and replace the limited egoistic personality, so that it shall be liberated out of ego into infinity and universality, out of birth into immortality. He comes as the divine power and love which calls men to itself, so that they may ...
... brings into it the other gods and gives its fruit, —unless we take the two padas as unconnected in sense. The Hotri is the priest of invocation and also the priest who gives the offering. This divine Power of the sacrificial thought and Page 735 action brings in the powers of the other gods into the sacrifice and conducts the sacrificial action. Is this spoken of the inner or only of the... riches,—(in the wake of) Agni blazing, visible (or, full of sight), vast, full of substance, ever luminous (or, shining in all ways of light). Explanation. The ancient Rishis pursued the leading divine Power on its ways, with a full wakefulness of the mind of knowledge, चितयंतः, not falling into error or deviating from the path (this psychological sense is extremely frequent in all Vedic literature ...
... a place in every human being, it is really a progress, because to be conscious is the first step. But along with Page 219 it you must have an aspiration and a confident faith in the Divine Power and Grace and in the divine element within you, psychic and spiritual, that through these the nature will be transformed and the ego replaced by the true person and the animal by the true vital... and bhakti for the Divine, love for the Divine, oneness with the Divine in consciousness, will, heart and body, become the sole aim—the rest is then only the fulfilment of the Divine Will by the Divine Power. This attitude is never difficult for the psychic, it is its natural position and feeling, and whenever your psychic was in front, you had Page 229 it in your central consciousness. ...
... many especially among women, would be to depend not on others but on the Divine. But here too the demand comes and spoils the dependence. A dependence without demand is what is needed, then the Divine Power comes in and at every moment guides, helps and sustains the being. When the sadhana was going on in you, you had periods when you had this right attitude and could get glimpses of the true happiness... has peace or love in him becomes an added influence for its increase in the atmosphere. Receiving Help from Others All change must come from within with the felt or the secret support of the Divine Power; it is only by one's own inner opening to that that one can receive help, not by mental, vital or physical contact with others. Concern for Others Whatever or whomever you have handed over ...
... cause in oneself, acknowledge it, see its workings and call down the Power for its removal, then the periods of obscurity can be greatly shortened and their acuity becomes less. But in any case the Divine Power is working always behind and one day, perhaps when one least expects it, the obstacle breaks, the clouds vanish and there is again the light and the sunshine. The best thing in these cases is, if... Arrest These periods of difficulty inevitably come—none is without them, for the lower nature is there in all. What you have to do is to keep the firmness of which you speak and persevere till the Divine Power and your will together have dealt with what rises from below. Why do you regard what rises and shows itself ( hīnatā, kṣudratā, āsakti, lobha ) as if it were peculiar to yourself? They are part ...
... very naturally, conditions for getting out of the Ignorance into the Light. One of them is that the mind of the sadhak should cooperate with the Truth and that his will should cooperate with the Divine Power which, however slow its action may seem to the vital or to the physical mind, is uplifting the nature towards the Light. When that cooperation is complete, then the progress can be rapid enough;... beginning to concentrate for more than a short time because it is contrary to the habits of the physical mind. Perseverance is necessary. At the same time there should be a call for the help of the Divine Power above the mind; for if one can open to that, the process can be more rapid. The Obscurity of the Physical Mind What you felt was the obscurity of the external physical mind and nature (the ...
... the whole crown and essence of our Yoga. But it has always seemed to me impossible unless there comes as its support and foundation and guard the Divine Truth—what I call the Supramental—and its Divine Power. 1 15 August 1931 Page 837 Birthday Messages for Disciples For Duraiswami Let the new birth become manifest in your heart and radiate in calm and joy and take up all the... only a shadow and will disappear in the growing Light. It is not a hope but a certitude that the complete transformation of the nature will take place. Keep faith quietude openness to divine power. Ashirvada. Page 845 × These two sentences are the opening of a letter written by Sri Aurobindo ...
... Meanwhile he can try to prepare himself by personal meditation if he likes. The method is to quiet the mind and, Page 817 in order to do so, to concentrate on an aspiration for faith in the Divine Power, peace and calm in the mind, single-minded sincerity in the heart, and a conscious opening to the Light and Truth and Power. 14 September 1928 An acquaintance has written a letter asking... secretary ] can write conveying the permission to meditate with X and the others. You can also write briefly to her explaining the principle of this Yoga (its practice) which is to open oneself to the Divine Power which is always secretly there above, aspire and call down its peace, calm, purity, wideness into one's own consciousness and its working which will change the nature and fill it with a higher light ...
... main a statement and justification of the Purna Yoga and of my message; I believe you have rightly stated the two main elements of it,—first, the acceptance of the world as a manifestation of the Divine Power, not its rejection as a mistake or an illusion, and, secondly, the character of this manifestation as a spiritual evolution with Yoga as a means for Page 373 the transformation of mind... do this in order to have peace. In my Yoga also I found myself moved to include both worlds in my purview, the spiritual and the material, and to try to establish the divine Consciousness and the divine Power in men's hearts and in earthly life, not for personal salvation only but for a life divine here. This seems to me as spiritual an aim as any and the fact of this life taking up earthly pursuits ...
... alone; it is everywhere. Its movement is there in plants, perhaps in the very Page 69 stones; in the animals it is easy to detect its presence. All the deformations of this great and divine Power come from the obscurity and ignorance and selfishness of the limited instrument. Love, the eternal force, has no clinging, no desire, no hunger for possession, no self-regarding attachment; it is... g. The Perfect Consciousness accepted to be merged and absorbed into the unconsciousness of matter, so that consciousness might be awakened in the depths of its obscurity and little by little a Divine Power might rise in it and make the whole of this manifested universe a highest expression of the Divine Consciousness and the Divine love. This was the supreme love, to accept the loss of the perfect ...
... ordinary language. If one wants to consecrate oneself to the divine life, one must do it truly, that is, give oneself entirely, no longer do anything for one's own interest, depend exclusively upon the divine Power to which one abandons oneself. Everything changes completely, doesn't it?—everything, everything, it is a reversal. What I have just read from this book applies solely to those who want to do yoga;... illusion, withdraw entirely and you will be free. I find this relatively very selfish, but after all, that was the only way he had foreseen. There is another: to identify oneself so well with the divine Power as to be able to act constantly and consciously upon all vibrations circulating through the world. Then the undesirable vibrations no longer have any effect upon you, but you have an effect upon ...
... When someone is destined for the Path, all circumstances through all the deviations of mind and life help in one way or another to lead him to it. It is his own psychic being within him and Divine Power above that use to that end the vicissitudes both of mind and outward circumstance. Each of you should be able to get into touch with your own psychic being, it is not an inaccessible... representative; from this inner silent Being proceeds a rejection of all that is to be rejected, an acceptance only of what can be kept and transformed, an inmost Will to perfection or a call to the Divine Power to do at each step what is necessary for the change of the Nature. It can also open mind, life and body to the inmost psychic entity and its guiding influence or its Page 27 direct ...
... Page 270 soul-power must be sought and can be attained by all who practise the integral Yoga.¹ The divinisation of the perfected nature can, however, come about by calling in the divine Power, or shakti to replace our limited human energy so that this may be shaped into the image of and filled with the force of a greater infinite energy (daivi prakriti, bhagavati shakti). Again, this... essentials of this second element of perfection, the full powers of the members of the instrumental nature, the perfected dynamis of the soul nature, the assumption of them into the action of the divine Power, and a perfect faith in all our members to call and support that assumption, shakti, virya, daivi prakriti, sraddha. ² The third element of perfection is, according to Sri Aurobindo and ...
... first, the personal will is occasionally or frequently enlightened or moved by a supreme Will or conscious Force beyond it, then constantly replaced, and, last, identified and merged in that divine Power-action. In a significant passage of The Synthesis of Yoga, already quoted on pp. 228-29 of this book (q.v.), Sri Aurobindo has described with great precision the various possibilities of the... life that whenever a sadhaka sincerely decides to fight against any of his weaknesses, the Divine himself actively intervenes to help him in his enterprise. And what is there impossible for the divine Power ? So if it is ever found that the sadhaka' s will is not being able to cope with a particular temptation, it simply means that he has not yet decided really to resist. (ii)Sometimes ...
... Aurobindo: "Reject the false notion that the divine Power will do and is .bound to do everything for you at your demand and even though you do not satisfy the conditions laid down by the Supreme. Make your surrender true and complete, then only will all else be done for you. "Reject too the false and indolent expectation that the divine Power will do even the surrender for you. The Supreme ...
... 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 of the lower nature which belong either to a lower truth or to ignorance and error— there are also the hostile forces whose whole aim is to maintain the reign... mentally arranged by the Divine — the word plan is a mere metaphor. But the Divine sees what arises out of the movement of being and there is Foresight and a Sanction above. Does the Divine Power work in us at all times, even though we may be unconscious of it? Page 3 It does not work directly at all times; very often it allows the Nature to work. ...
... Germany sought to transcend this religion of morality. It tried to found religion on some deeper urge within. But in its quest it took the ego for the Self and the demoniac vital energy for the Divine Power. No doubt, the East has moral codes and in profusion, but they are not considered to be the last word on spirituality; Page 257 they all fall under the category of the 'Lesser... The European heroes display daemoniac restlessness and exuberance. The Indian heroes possess the godly virtues of calmness and poise along with clear insight. Napoleon is a mighty Vibhuti of the Divine Power. But Sri Krishna is the Incarnation of God Himself Leaving aside some solitary exceptions, the West has generally failed to imbibe spirituality; even so the East has failed to assimilate the true ...
... of this four-fold soul-power must be sought and can be attained by all who practise the integral Yoga.'²¹ The divinisation of the perfected nature can, however, come about by calling in the divine Power, or shakti to replace our limited human energy so that this may be shaped into the image of and filled with the force of a greater infinite energy ( daivī prakriti, bhāgavatī shakti). Again, this... essentials of this second element of perfection, the full powers of the members of the instrumental nature, the perfected dynamis of the soul nature, the assumption of them into the action of the divine Power, and a perfect faith in all our members to call and support that assumption, shakti, vīrya, daivi prakriti, śraddhā. ²² The third element of perfection is, according to Sri Aurobindo and ...
... work and truth at revealed. The Page 100 more the inspiration of life-energy becomes divinely blissful and lasting, the more the aspirant is endowed with the pure intelligence, divine power and fulfilment, and at last he manifests in the waking consciousness the streams of the Vast, of direct sight and creation beyond mind and intelligence. In the present sukta there are four groups... sound and indomitable. In other words, they are the gods of immortality. Their work is to found immortality and an eternal youth of divinity in life. Pranavayu , which is the conveyance of the divine power, has been symbolically expressed as the horses. It may be asked why they have the twin forms. Perhaps it is because the one gives knowledge, the other the energy for work. Both are the presiding ...
... Nishumbha, Hiranyaksha and Hiranyakashipu, Shishupala and Raktadanta, dual power of Evil defying the Divine Power. Something similar seemed to be happening again. Here was precisely what lay behind the origins of the second Great War: the descent of Evil incarnate to bar the descent of the Divine Power. (2) The Second World War broke out in 1939. Sri Aurobirido had at first remained undecided ...
... "There are some men who are self-evidently super-human, great spirits who are only using the human body. Europe calls them supermen, we call them vibhutis. They are manifestations of Nature, of divine power presided over by a spirit commissioned for the purpose, and that spirit is an emanation from the Almighty, who accepts human strength and weakness but is not bound by them. They are above morality37... the second on the 31st was 'The Work' before us. In the second lecture he impressed upon his audience the truth of his constant experience that behind the political movement there was the divine Power, and that it was not the leaders but God Himself who was leading it. It was, indeed, a spiritual revolution preluded and prepared by a political revolution. If they wanted to re-create or reconstruct ...
... political, as is represented in the story of Rama and Krishna; but always then his descent becomes in the soul of the race a permanent power for the inner and Spiritual rebirth."1 "He comes as the divine power and love which calls men to itself, so that they may take refuge in that and no longer in the insufficiency of their human wills and the strife of their human fear, wrath and passion, and liberated... 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 comes as a divine personality, which shall fill the consciousness of the human being, to replace the limited ____________________ 1 Essays on the Gita, P. 258 ...
... commit the mistake which the mind does. Even when the yogi speaks of "my power" or "my work" it is for mere convenience. All the time he is conscious of the Divine Power that is working through him. It looks more pretentious to say "the Divine Power that is working through me". Disciple : Without using "I" and "my" one cannot even speak. Disciple : Can we not say that the Supramental is ...
... today, and she finds that they are all imperfect. The cosmic powers Page 41 which are at work in the universe are imperfect themselves. So she says, "I will bring in the divine power. I will bring the power from the Divine and you will be perfected." That is how she penetrates into the deepest constitution of the cosmos and sees how actually it will work out, and how it will... higher consciousness, as Aswapathy opened himself and found that the descent of the higher power was taking place in him, and he was able to ascend and descend. With every descent some element of the divine power enters into human nature - more peace, more control, more detachment, more purity. Every time one goes to the higher consciousness, one comes down with some element of the divine Nature in the human ...
... single." All kinds of arguments Death puts forward to Savitri, and Savitri answers every time in the light of her inmost being. She is not answering as an individual, but as a representative of the divine power; thus it is the power that is replying to the God of Death through Savitri. This is very clear in the poem. She says: "I have no need to revive Satyavan at all; if it is fated that he must die,... Dawn built her aura of magnificent hues And buried its seed of grandeur in the hours. The seed of grandeur was buried in the hours. Then the higher power also supports the dawn, and this divine power stands behind the dawn. Savitri is described in this very first canto, and the poet says that though she was semi-divine, she was full of human Page 21 elements ...
... The Name-Mantra The Mother, on hearing the name of Sri Aurobindo in a chant, entered a state of samadhi-like trance. It is said that the divine name is divine power. Sri Ram Thakur [a well-known yogi of Bengal] always told his followers: “Repeat the name, just go on repeating the name. There is nothing more you need to do in life.” One day when he... She looked at it for a long time and then remarked: “He is with me always.” The Mother Herself used to tell us: “Keep calling ‘Mother’. You will see all obstacles vanish.” Such is the divine power in a name. * Minnie-di, Smriti and Manoj’s sweet voices waft in… Sri Aravindah sharanam mama. Om namo bhagavate Sri Aravindaya. Om namo namah Sri Mirambikayai. In the Playground ...
... : Yes, it is so. Even what are called hostile forces have to be known and seen as the working of God. If you see what is pushing them from behind you find it is not the hostile force but the divine Power. But it is very dangerous to accept everything as the working of the Divine, saying, "All is the working of Gods", like K who says evil and good are both equal. Everything is, in the last analysis... on earth does it matter whether Krishna lived on the physical plane or not? If his experience is real on the psychic and spiritual plane, it is all that matters. As long as you find Krishna as a divine Power on the psychic and spiritual plane his life on the physical plane does not matter. He is true, he is real. The physical is only a shadow of the psychic. Disciple : I find the Vishnu Purana ...
... of divinity and humanity; the Divine takes upon himself the human nature with all its outward limitations and makes them the circumstances, means, instruments of the divine consciousness and the divine power, a vessel of the divine birth and the divine works... the object of the Avatar's descent... is precisely to show that the human birth with all its limitations can be made such a means and instrument... swiftly along the lines of your svabhāva to its consummate completion. And afterwards whatever your way of life and mode of action, you will be consciously living, acting and moving in him and the Divine Power will act through you in your every inner and outer motion. 57 Since its first publication in book form in 1922, Essays on the Gita has been frequently reprinted, and it is perhaps the ...
... universal Existence, the more his ego will race towards Zero: When that has been done, then we may hope to found securely the play in us of his divine Knowledge governing the action of his divine Power. The rest is the full opening up of the different planes of his world-play and the subjection of Matter and the body and the material world to the law of the higher heavens of the Truth: 6 ... unitive experience; then, from that position to the active self, from Krishna to Kali, the total elimination of the ego and the total sovereignty of Krishna and Kali, divine Knowledge coupled with divine Power; and then, the opening up of the higher planes of consciousness up to and including the supramental, and the subjection of mind, life and matter to these powers; finally, the possession of the ...
... impersonal, universal, full of the divine light, the divine power and the divine love. He comes as the divine personality which shall fill the consciousness of the human being and replace the limited egoistic personality, so that it shall be liberated out of ego into infinity and universality, out of birth into immortality. He comes as the divine power and love which calls men to itself, so that they ...
... it will not recognise the Mother even when She is manifest before you. Follow your soul and not 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... tamasic to leave everything to the Mother: "Oh, never mind, Mother is there after all, she will manage everything for me!" Hasn't Sri Aurobindo himself said: Reject the false notion that the divine Power will do and is bound to do everything for you at your demand... do even the surrender for you.... Page 598 Your surrender must be self-made and free; it must be the surrender of a ...
... vīrya, the perfected dynamis of the soul- nature; daivī prakrti, the assumption of these powers into the working of the divine Power; and śraddhā, a perfect faith in all the parts of our being to invoke and Page 442 sustain the action of the divine Power. A fundamental active equality supporting the play of the gnosis or the supramental Light-Force in the human nature is the ...
... to the mother country, the impulse is surging forth in great force, and my set purpose and devotion are becoming more confirmed with the trials and oppression to which I am subjected. When some Divine power by the grace of God manifests itself in a human being any efforts to develop it give a new force to the national life. You will have to sacrifice yourself at the feet of your mother. You should... of our motherland is our highest duty at this moment. This must be our duty in this iron age Every one must store up energy. Be prepared with fresh hope and vigour for the worship of the Mother. Divine power has infused this nation with a new power." This was to be the Supramental Power he was to discover. "This power will exalt the nation one day," he concluded. The students stored up his words ...
... There are some men who are self-evidently superhuman, great spirits who are only using the human body. Europe calls them supermen, we call them vibhutis . They are manifestations of Nature, of divine power presided over by a spirit commissioned for the purpose, and that spirit is an emanation from the Almighty, who accepts human strength and weakness but is not bound by them. They are above morality ...
... of modern thinkers, as is Heraclitus among the early Greeks, founded his whole philosophical thought on this conception of existence as a vast Will-to-become and of the world as a play of Force; divine Power was to him the creative Word, the beginning of all things and that to which life aspires. But he affirms Becoming only and excludes Being from his view of things; hence his philosophy is in the ...
... descended fiercely, that is, with wrath in his face, gesture and motion and stood facing the seer, प्रत्यष्ठात्, on the earth, and over it, अधि, in a way expressive of command or control. This image of Divine Power, seen by the prince in Yoga, becomes visible to the people in general as a mass of strength, मह, scarlet in colour, deep blue in the neck and throat. मह is strength, bulk, greatness. The manifestation ...
... ourselves and the gods. The gods of the Upanishad have been supposed to be a figure for the senses, but although they act in the senses, they are yet much more than that. They represent the divine power in its great and fundamental cosmic functionings whether in man or in mind and life and Matter in general; they are not the functionings themselves but something of the Divine which is essential ...
... savyasācin . This attitude must lead finally to an absolute union of the personal with the Divine Will and, with the growth of knowledge, bring about a faultless response of the instrument to the divine Power and Knowledge. A perfect, an absolute equality of self-surrender, the mentality a passive channel of the divine Light and Power, the active being a mightily effective instrument for its work in ...
... n, it is Chandi or it is Kali, the dark Mother. The One Godhead manifests himself in the form of his qualities in various names and godheads. The God of divine love of the Vaishnava, the God of divine power of the Shakta appear as two different godheads; but in truth they are the one infinite Deity in different figures. 2 One may Page 194 approach the Supreme through any of these names ...
... moment, as a comparative appreciation, loses all value. The Greek figure stresses no doubt the body, but appeals through it to an imaginative seeing inspiration which aims at expressing a certain divine power of beauty and gives us therefore something which is much more than a merely sensuous aesthetic pleasure. If the artist has done this with perfection, the work has accomplished its aim and ranks ...
... sadhak must open himself to it, reject what opposes the Force, put his full sincerity, aspiration, will power into the sadhana. It is only when all is open and there is the full surrender that the Divine Power takes up the sadhana so entirely that personal effort is no longer necessary. But that cannot happen at an early stage—one must go on opening oneself, consecrating oneself, making the surrender ...
... to become great?" On the contrary, we should tell ourselves, "There must certainly be something I can do better than anyone else, since each one of us is a special mode of manifestation of the divine power which, in its essence, is one in all. However humble and modest it may be, this is precisely the thing to which I should devote myself, and in order to find it, I shall observe and analyse my tastes ...
... that you had to be sufficiently old. I even said what age. I don't now remember which, but the brain must be a little more ready to be able to follow. "All the deformations of this great and divine Power come from the obscurity and ignorance and selfishness of the limited instrument. Love, the eternal force, has no clinging, no desire, no hunger for possession, no self-regarding attachment; it is ...
... nothing. The spiritual sadhaka is entitled to receive help from others, and that puts him to no obligation to them and leaves him perfectly free. Those that help are merely instruments used by the Divine Power to provide the sadhaka with the needed conditions for his living. 7) About the inner condition. Write regularly, fully and frankly everything, whether you think it good or bad. It is important ...
... secureness and intensity of the state, but well enough in the general type. When that has been done, then we may hope to found securely the play in us of his divine Knowledge governing the action of his divine Power. The rest is the full opening up of the different planes of his world-play and the subjection of Matter and the body and the material world to the law of the higher heavens of the Truth. To these ...
... When someone is destined for the Path, all circumstances through all the deviations of mind and life help in one way or another to lead him to it. It is his own psychic being within him and Divine Power above that use to that end the vicissitudes both of mind and outward circumstance. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - II: The Call and the Capacity Some people say there is something outside ...
... I request you to kindly accept me as one of your disciples and members of the Asram. He is not ready for life in the Asram. He must be able first, staying where he is, to open himself to the divine Power and make sufficient inner progress. It is not enough to want to dedicate himself; there must be some clear indication that he is capable of entering into the path and following it. 17 December ...
... have accepted my gospel of life, should have acquired this vast significance. As a mystic, I take this identification, not as a coincidence or fortuitous accident, but as a sanction and seal of the Divine Power which guides my steps on the work with which I began life. Indeed almost all the world movements which I hoped to see fulfilled in my lifetime, though at that time they looked like impossible dreams ...
... first you must understand, will, and then begin to practise—begin by just a very little... Source Open Only to the Divine Sweet Mother, what does "an exclusive self-opening to the divine Power" mean? Instead of self-opening we could put receptivity, something that opens in order to receive. Now, instead of opening and receiving from all sides and from everyone, as is usually done, ...
... do this in order to have peace. In my Yoga also I found myself moved to include both worlds in my purview, the spiritual and the material, and to try to establish the divine Consciousness and the divine Power in men's hearts and in earthly life, not for personal salvation only but for a life divine here. This seems to me as spiritual an aim as any and the fact of this life taking up earthly pursuits ...
... resplendent in all things, and this splendour of Thine, ever-increasing in its force, shall radiate its action over all the earth and become perceptible to every consciousness. Who can resist Thy divine power? Thou art the sole and supreme Reality. My being is ingathered in a mute adoration and everything disappears that is not Thou. Page 166 ...
... forces of the best quality either. Whatever has been done in the world has been done by the very few who can stand outside the action in silence; for it is they who are the instruments of the Divine Power. They are dynamic agents, conscious instruments; they bring down the forces that change the world. Things can be done in that way, not by a restless activity. In peace, in silence and in quietness ...
... society and praised for his virtue. But to the spiritual vision, they both stand on the same level; the generosity of the one, the avarice of the other are deformations of a higher truth, a greater divine power. There is a power, a divine movement that spreads, diffuses, throws out freely forces and things and whatever else it possesses on all the levels of nature from the most material to the most spiritual ...
... is also erroneous. It would lead one to think that woman has been put on earth only for the purpose of giving pleasure to man—which is absurd. All the universe has been created to express the Divine Power, and human beings, men or women, have for special mission to become conscious of and to manifest that Eternal Divine Essence. Such is their object and none other. And if they knew and remembered ...
... is false because its material appearance does not at all express the deeper truth of things. There is a kind of disconnection between the appearance and what is within. In this way, a man with a divine power in the depths of his being may find himself in the position of a slave on the external plane. It is absurd! In the supramental world, on the other hand, it is the will which acts directly on the ...
... question of experience) if your faith is not made of a complete trust in the Divine, well, you may very easily remain under the impression that you have faith and yet be losing all trust in the divine Power or divine Goodness, or the Trust the Divine has in you. These are the three stumbling-blocks: Those who have what they call an unshakable faith in the Divine, and say, "It is the Divine who is ...
... some who have great powers. But these powers come from the vital and from an association with vital entities. There are all kinds of powers. Only, those powers don't hold out before the true divine Power—they can't resist. But over ordinary human beings they have much power. Then, they can do harm? Much. Not only they can, they do it. They do a lot of harm. The number of people who are tormented ...
... the most important part of his action, almost the whole of his action, is associated, united, fused with his teaching. It seems difficult to make a distinction. ( After a silence ) The forms of Divine Power which have incarnated in different beings, have incarnated with a specific aim, for a specific action, at a specific moment of universal development, but essentially they are only differentiated ...
... be maintained even while the external consciousness is turned towards the work. Sri Aurobindo Inner opening All change must come from within with the felt or the secret support of the Divine Power; it is only by one's own inner opening to that that one can receive help, not by mental, vital or physical contact with others. Sri Aurobindo He alone Never seek a support elsewhere ...
... something infinitely precious, and protect it very carefully from everything that can impair it. In the ignorance and darkness of the beginning, faith is the most direct expression of the Divine Power which comes to fight and conquer. Source The Extent of the Grace ..no matter how great your faith and trust in the divine Grace, no matter how great your capacity to see it at work ...
... Page 58 O India, land of light and spiritual knowledge! Wake up to your true mission in the world, show the way to union and harmony. 23 September 1967 * Divine Power alone can help India. If you can build faith and cohesion in the country, it is much more powerful than any man-made power. * (Message for Shri V. V. Giri, President of India ...
... the Divine Truth can act, take hold of the vital and its life-force and use it for a greater purpose here. The Life-Force in the vital is the indispensable instrument for all action of the Divine Power on the material world and the physical nature. It is therefore only when this vital is transformed and made a pure and strong instrument of the Divine Shakti, that there can be a divine life. Then ...
... thrilled with a constant ecstasy. This would be the total perfection of the spiritualised body. All this might not come all at once, though such a sudden . illumination might be possible if a divine Power and Light and Ananda could take their stand on the summit of our being and send down their force into the mind and life and body illumining and remoulding the cells, awaking consciousness in all ...
... vision; but when it comes down and presses on Matter, everything begins to seethe and resist. Therefore, to attempt to impute the disorders and confusions and destructions to the divine Action, to the divine Power, is another human foolishness. It is the inertia—not to mention the bad will—which causes the catastrophe. It is not that the catastrophe was intended, nor even foreseen, it is caused by the ...
... are imperative for the physical nature only so long as this nature is not under the influence of the psychic being (the soul); for the psychic being is in possession of the Page 241 divine power which can, for its own ends, use all processes and formulas and transform them at will. 5 August 1969 ...
... workers few and mostly obscure, and yet the Indian world has stood amazed and the Anglo-Indian aghast at the vast and incommensurate results of an apparatus so inefficient. We believe, therefore, that Divine Power is behind the movement, that the Zeitgeist , the Time-Spirit, is at work to bring about a mighty movement of which the world at the present juncture has need, that that movement is the resurgence ...
... of belief in the necessity of passivity to all movements should be thrown aside. Will, aspiration, surrender are things that you must do yourself—although even in doing them you must call in the Divine Power to help your will, aspiration and surrender and make them effective. Why "getting" aspiration? Aspiration is an act of the will and one can always aspire. Activity in aspiration, tapasya ...
... opening of the being to the Mother's force and the persistent rejection of all egoism and demand and desire, all motives except the aspiration for the Divine Truth. If this is rightly done, the Divine Power and Light will begin to work and bring in the peace and equanimity, the inner strength, the purified devotion and the increasing consciousness and self-knowledge which are the necessary foundation ...
... A spirit which is all life because it is greater than life, is rather the truth in which we shall most powerfully live. Aditi, the infinite Mother, cries in the ancient Vedic hymn to Indra the divine Power now about to be born in her womb, "This is the path of old discovered again by which all the gods rose up into birth, even by that upward way shouldst thou be born in thy increase; but go not forth ...
... the whole crown and essence of our Yoga. But it has always seemed to me impossible unless there comes as its support and foundation and guard the Divine Truth—what I call the Supramental—and its Divine Power. Otherwise Love itself blinded by the confusions of this present consciousness may stumble in its human receptacles and, even otherwise, may find itself unrecognised, rejected or rapidly degenerating ...
... turned into a sham fight or unreal game without significance. Therefore there is a sadhana to be done, there is a resistance to be overcome, a choice made between the higher and the lower state. The Divine Power does the work, gives a protection and a guidance; but it is not here to use an absolute force—except when that is sanctioned by the Divine Wisdom and in the light of that Wisdom justifiable. Then ...
... of the gods above, near, around or in them, but this was a common experience of all, not special and personal, not an emanation or incarnation. One may see or feel the presence of the Divine or a divine Power above the head or in the heart or in any or all of the centres, feel the presence, see the form living there; one may be governed in all one's actions, thoughts and feelings by it; one may lose ...
... right and of domestic and personal virtue against unbridled licence and wrong in an epic encounter between these opposite forces. The Odyssey is a battle of human will and character supported by divine power against evil men and wrathful gods and adverse circumstance and the deaf opposition of the elements, and its scenes move with an easy inevitability between the lands of romance and the romance of ...
... change. The action that took place was not supramental; the fact that you were aware of a centre in the brain shows that it was through the mind that it was done. The force that acted was the Divine Power which can work in this way on any plane, supramental, mental, vital or physical or on all the planes together. The supramental action can only be achieved after a long discipline of Yoga directed ...
... vast on its way to bring the divine riches, and it has a corresponding language and rhythm. The higher thought has a strong tread often with bare unsandalled feet and moves in a clear-cut light: a divine power, measure, dignity is its most frequent character. The outflow of the illumined mind comes in a flood brilliant with revealing words or a light of crowding images, sometimes surcharged with its burden ...
... or vital kind, but by an action through unity of consciousness with the Divine and with all things and beings. It is not an individual strength depending on certain personal capacities, but the Divine Power using the individual as an instrument. It has no special relation to occult siddhis. Force is the essential Shakti; Energy is the working drive of the Force, its active dynamism; Power is ...
... spiritual being that consents to the play of Nature. What is original and eternal for ever in the Divine is the Being, what is developed in consciousness, conditions, forces, forms, etc., by the Divine Power is the Becoming. The eternal Divine is the Being, the universe in Time and all that is apparent in it is a Becoming. The eternal Being in its superior nature, Para Prakriti, is at once One and Many; ...
... (as with the four Personalities of the Mother) for a time in the course of the sadhana. But it is not a rule to do so. Our Yoga is meant to be plastic and to allow all necessary workings of the Divine Power according to the nature, but these in the details may vary with each individual. All these "experiments" of yours are founded upon the vital nature and the mind in connection with it; working ...
... true consciousness and part of the spiritual nature. They come first as experiences, afterwards they become more frequent, endure longer, settle into the nature. It is the pressure of the Divine Power which you are feeling and it is that which gives you the sense of joy and living fullness. If you keep it and allow it to work in you, it will give you the positive experience and progress in sadhana ...
... the higher consciousness growing in peace, light, force, love, knowledge, Ananda which is what we call the transformation. Page 355 The psychic being in you is open always to the Divine Power, and when it comes in front, your spiritual capacity awakens and you are fully within the protection and can be moved by the Mother's force. The other parts are divided and can be carried away by ...
... obstacle is, in the mind or the vital, and try to widen the consciousness there, call in more purity and peace and in that purity and peace offer that part of your being sincerely and wholly to the Divine Power. In one form or another the resistance of the mind and the Prana seeking to be independent and fulfil ego under the plea of spiritual realisation is a frequent obstacle in the Yoga. ...
... and heart the resolution to live for the Divine Truth and for that alone; reject all that is contrary and incompatible with it and turn away from all lower desires; aspire to open yourself to the Divine Power and to no other. Do this in all sincerity and the present and living help you need will not fail you. The resolution, to be a real resolution, must be there always, fixed. If it is dependent ...
... in a stronger form leading to still deeper and fuller experience. Aspire always, but with more quietude, opening yourself to the Divine simply and wholly. While the recognition of the Divine Power and the attunement of one's own nature to it cannot be done without the recognition of the imperfections in that nature, yet it is a wrong attitude to put too much stress either on them or on the ...
... desires by an intervention of another's will; but this is not how it should be done. Those who practise this Yoga can escape from it by a rejection of sexual suggestions aided by the influence of the Divine Power which acts through the Mother, but it is not instantaneous, except in the case of those who have a complete receptivity and an absolute faith. Usually it takes a steady tapasya to get rid of a lifelong ...
... the flames indicate aspiration filled with the Light arising to join the mental part to what is above Mind. Page 120 (2) The Divine Light from above is of various colours. White is the Divine Power of purity, blue the light of the spiritual consciousness, gold the hue of the supramental knowledge or of knowledge from the intermediate planes. (3) OM golden rising to the sky = the cosmic ...
... attribute of the Goddess Durga, the conquering and protecting aspect of the Universal Mother. The Death's Head is the symbol of the Asura (the adversary of the gods) vanquished and killed by the Divine Power. Ganesh It is according to the need or else the condition of the consciousness that these figures [ of the Gods ] appear in sadhana. Ganesh is at once the god of wisdom and the remover of ...
... is there in your lower vital nature, whether awake on the surface or lying in wait in the subconscient parts. The only thing to do with them is to turn the Light upon those parts and call on the Divine Power to expunge them from the nature. It is perfectly easy for this Desire-Force or for the subliminal part of the mind to create images of anyone it pleases or to reproduce the voice and make him or ...
... a weak bondage to the habits that the possession of riches creates. The divine Will is all for him and the divine Ananda. In the supramental creation the money-force has to be restored to the Divine Power and used for a true and beautiful and harmonious equipment and ordering of a new divinised vital and physical existence in whatever way the Divine Mother herself decides in her creative vision. ...
... the true spirit and the true force and influence. 23 March 1928 Page 193 The illnesses you have are the signs of the resistance of your physical consciousness to the action of the Divine Power. If you cannot advance in your sadhana, it is because you are divided and do not give yourself without reserve. You speak of surrendering everything to the Mother but you have not done even the ...
... of the ritual and the purification of the offerings. We can see how these functions are all combined in Agni. He is the hota, for Tapas is the chief agent both of action and of surrender to the divine power. He is adhwaryu, because he is dravinoda, it is Tapas which supplies all forms in the Universe & all forces and maintains them. He is prashasta; tapas controls & directs the actions of all creatures ...
... Fire is evidently the inner Flame of power and aspiration, the divine Will-Force that takes up the sacrifice, योगयज्ञ. It rises up to the heavens above the mental consciousness and brings down the divine power into the being. It is man's messenger to the gods, the priest of the call. It leads aright all the inner and outer actions because it is the Divine Knowledge-Will, all-knowing, unlike the ignorant ...
... children of Light, a worshipper of the Page 514 Masters of the Truth, a fighter in the battle against the powers of darkness who obstruct the human journey. Aryaman is the godhead in whose divine power this Aryahood is rooted; he is this Force of sacrifice, aspiration, battle, journey towards perfection and light and celestial bliss by which the path is created, travelled, pursued beyond all ...
... emotional and vital being; the others stand in the vital kinetic nature driven by a higher spiritual energy and turned by it towards an inspired action, a God-given work or mission, the service of some divine Power, idea or ideal. The last or highest emergence is the liberated man who has realised the Self and Spirit within him, entered into the cosmic consciousness, passed into union with the Eternal and ...
... there is the knowledge deep within us that a marvellous return is inevitable. The soul knows that it does not give itself to God in vain; claiming nothing, it yet receives the infinite riches of the divine Power and Presence. Last, there is to be considered the recipient of the sacrifice and the manner of the sacrifice. The sacrifice may be offered to others or it may be offered to divine Powers; it ...
... the Spirit, can again be made possible. These things, however, will be decided by no mental rule but in the light of the soul within us and by the ordaining force and progressive guidance of the Divine Power that secretly or overtly first impels, then Page 138 begins clearly to control and order and finally takes up the whole burden of the Yoga. In accordance with the triple character ...
... which, first, the personal will is occasionally or frequently enlightened or moved by a supreme Will or conscious Force beyond it, then constantly replaced and, last, identified and merged in that divine Power-action. The first is the stage when we are still governed by the intellect, heart and senses; these have to seek or wait for the divine inspiration and guidance and do not always find or receive ...
... in a succession of worlds which are so many other stages of its growth, stadia of its journey. The material universe, or earth especially, will then be a sumptuously appointed field created by a divine power, wisdom or caprice for the enacting of this interlude. According to the view we choose to take of the matter, we shall see in it a place of ordeal, a field of development or a scene of spiritual ...
... significance—now only underlying the adjustment and struggle—of a universal harmony. The perfected human soul must always be an instrument for the hastening of the ways of this evolution. For that a divine power acting with the royalty of the divine will in it must be in whatever degree present in the nature. But to be accomplished and permanent, steadfast in action, truly divine, it has to proceed on the ...
... 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 egoistic, an imperfect form, not a positive deformation. We ...
... world of the gnosis, the supramental world is the true and the happy creation, ṛtam, bhadram , since all in it shares in the perfect joy that made it. A divine radiance of undeviating knowledge, a divine power of unfaltering will and a divine ease of unstumbling bliss are the nature or Prakriti of the soul in supermind, in vijñāna . The stuff of the gnostic or supramental plane is made of the perfect ...
... absolute and inalienable power, freedom and self-knowledge. Our liberation and perfection is to transcend ignorance, bondage and weakness and live in Him in relation to the world and Nature with the divine power, freedom and self-knowledge. For the highest relation of the Soul to existence is the Purusha's possession of Prakriti, when he is no longer ignorant and subject to his nature, but knows, transcends ...
... vessel of the Ananda. But at other times it lapses into the old mortality and exists or works dully or pettily in the ruck of its earthly habits. The complete redemption comes by the descent of the divine Power into the human mind and body and the remoulding of their inner life into the divine image,—what the Vedic seers called the birth of the Son by the sacrifice. It is in fact by a continual sacrifice ...
... be the manifestation of various and separate expressions of the aspects of the divine Being and Nature, a soul and life of love, a soul and life of divine light and knowledge, a soul and life of divine power and sovereign action and creation, and innumerable other forms of divine life; on the supramental height all would be taken up into a manifold unity, a supreme integration of being and life. A ...
... The man free in his soul is aware that the Divine is the lord of the action of Nature, that Maya is His Knowledge Will determining and effecting all, that Force is the Will side of this double divine Power in which knowledge is always present and effectual. He is aware of himself also, even individually, as a centre of the divine existence,—a portion of the Lord, the Gita expresses it,—controlling ...
... built around us is abolished even in the body and the senses and there is in its place the free communication of the eternal oneness. All sense and sensation becomes full of the divine light, the divine power and intensity of experience, a divine joy, the delight of the Brahman. And even that which is now to us discordant and jars on the senses takes its place in the universal concord of the universal ...
... the body and substance of light of the truth in its essence, they are its vehicles and not substituted figures. There is such an infinite power of representation of the supermind and that is the divine power of which the mental action is a sort of fallen representative. This representative supermind has a lower action in what I have called the supramental reason, nearest to the mental and into which ...
... within, yes, I see. That's right. That's how it will be done. Page 334 I saw it, I don't remember what day (recently), all of a sudden, for several hours there was a contact with the Divine Power and Vision—it was... it was magnificent, things became extraordinary; then, immediately the next day, all the news changed. Really extraordinary. What actually took place isn't what I saw, for it ...
... Truth outlast these religions and manifest themselves anew in whatever way or form the Divine Wisdom chooses. You cannot shut up God in the limitations of your own narrow brain or dictate to the Divine Power and Consciousness how or where or through whom it shall manifest; you cannot put up your puny barriers against the divine Omnipotence. These again are simple truths which are now being recognised ...
... on its way to bring the divine riches, and it has a corresponding language and rhythm. The higher thought has a strong tread often with bare unsandalled feet and moves in a clear-cut light: a divine power, measure, dignity Page 11 is its most frequent character. The outflow of the illumined mind comes in a flood brilliant with revealing words or a light of crowding images, sometimes ...
... comes with a divine drive. Yes, such a call is required — and the mention of it leads me to stress another thing to be remembered. The one whom we regard as Sri Aurobindo is the manifestation of a divine power and all that the instrumental side of him does is done by that power and in consonance with the vision and the purpose of that power: if that power chooses not to act as you imagine a Guru should ...
... shown ontologically to have less reason on its side, and axiologically it amounts to sitting Page 186 in judgment on the Divine Goodness and to foisting on the Divine Power an incapacity of manifestation instead of humbly accepting the non-manifestation as an act of Divine Will beyond our comprehension. The paradox that takes the world to be enigmatic Lila or ...
... among Page 831 the cow-herds of Brindaban, will reveal Himself, will declare the Godhead, and the whole nation will rise, the whole people of this great country will rise, filled with divine power, filled with the inspiration of the Almighty, and no power on earth shall resist it, and no danger or difficulty shall stop it in its onward course. ( Loud and continued applause ) Because God is ...
... ridiculous opinions born out of his own prolific brain and generous facility in reading whatever he chooses into other people's minds. He thinks, for instance, that by seeing a special manifestation of Divine Power and Grace in a particular movement we mean to shut God out from all others. This is a fair sample of the "inconsistencies" which the Bengalee is always finding in his own brain and projecting ...
... 30 Chitshakti not mind has created the world. Chitshakti is the thing which the Scientists call in its various aspects Force & Energy, but it is no material Force or Energy, it is the divine power of self-conscious Being forming itself not materially, not in substance of matter but in the substance of that self-consciousness into these images of form and force which make up the world. What ...
... freely, but this is because it is not, or at least it is not primarily, new living forms that the Force of evolution is now busied with evolving, but new powers of consciousness. When Nature, the Divine Power, had formed a body erect and empowered to think, to devise, to inquire into itself and things and work consciously both on things and self, she had what she wanted for her secret aim; relegating ...
... this means of the spirit's upward self-unfolding. What we have to do with ourselves and our significances is to grow and open them to greater significances of divine being, divine consciousness, divine power, divine delight and multiplied unity, and what we have to do with our environment is to use it consciously for increasing spiritual purposes and make it more and more a mould for the ideal unfolding ...
... Centuries old. Now, it's worthless, it's time is over. It had its time, it had its usefulness—it's over, it's past, it's way past. Now... ( Mother lowers her fist sharply ): consciousness is the Divine; power is the Divine; action is the Divine; individuality is the Divine. And the body has understood, sensed very well; it has realized and understood , as they say in English, that the sense of ...
... by concentrating upon it.... These seven centres are widely recognised in the Yogic systems.... In our Yoga, however, we do not employ this set laboured process but open our whole being to the Divine Power, the Yoga-Shakti, that presides over our endeavour; this Shakti acts upon the centres of consciousness.... This way the activising of the centres proceeds in a more natural way.” ...
... is re-created at each moment, which means that in principle everything is possible. But then only in principle. ‘All is possible, but all is not licit — except by a recognisable process; the Divine Power itself imposes on its action limits, processes, obstacles, vicissitudes,’ 45 Sri Aurobindo wrote in a letter. ‘The Law! The Law! It is the Law! Don’t you understand that it is the LAW? You cannot ...
... material Power but which has no need of material means. A world which wants to incarnate into the [material] world.’ 24 Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have protected the world with all their divine power at moments when elements of humanity were not only able but also inclined to destroy their own planet. The moment had come for the supramental Transmutation to be possible and such crucial moments ...
... for getting out of the Ignorance into the Page 191 Light. One of them is that the mind of the sadhaka should co-operate with the Truth and that his will should co-operate with the Divine power which, however slow its action may seem to the vital or to the physical mind, is uplifting the nature towards the Light. When that co-operation is complete the progress can be rapid enough; but ...
... one who is conscious of the Presence and Power of the Divine bom in him or descended into him and governing from within his will and life and action; he feels identified inwardly with this Divine Power and Presence. A Vibhuti is supposed to embody some power of the Divine and is enabled by it to act with great force in the world, but that is all that is necessary to make him a Vibhuti: the ...
... Among other things She said that probably the dominant aspect in the supramental manifestation in the coming age will be that of Power, for the new race will need to be protected and that is why the Divine Power will have to protect it from destructive powers. Naturally, she said, that does not mean that the other aspects, Love, Joy, Knowledge will not be present. I have written this sentence for you because ...
... this in order to have peace. In my Yoga also I found myself moved to include both worlds in my purview, the spiritual and the material, and to try to establish the Divine Consciousness and the Divine Power in men’s hearts and in earthly life, not for a personal salvation only but for a life divine here. This seems to me as spiritual an aim as any and the fact of this life taking up earthly pursuits ...
... and also ascent, for into each individual consciousness has come down from the supreme Maha Shakti an individual divine being, a particular godhead following a particular line of manifestation of divine power, Vibhuti. To bear inwardly the touch of this divinity and found it securely within oneself, to concentrate on it and become one with it, to go on manifesting it in one’s outer life, this was the ...
... is telling a dream and then it no longer has any value. 10 April 1933 What is the significance of this picture showing a young girl with her hand on a lion's back? "With the help of the divine power all the hostile forces can become calm and peaceful"—is that it? The lion is the symbol of power. It would be better to say that under the control of the Divine Will, power is beneficent, while ...
... like laughing away the black future with which they—of course, with the best intentions and for my own good—threaten me in case of carelessness about my heart. I feel certain, Mother dearest, the Divine Power can help—can't it? My dear child, I quite agree with you that there is a power other and much more powerful than that of the doctors and the medicines and I am glad to see that you put your trust ...
... Satprem blurts out. ) But there's no more problem when the error no longer recurs! Isn't it when the error recurs that it needs to be effaced? When one does not repeat one's past mistakes, the divine power, the power of the divine Grace, abolishes their consequences—their karma—in the being. But as long as mistakes are repeated nothing can be abolished, because one re-creates them at every minute ...
... at least be something that's right! I have been given certain promises—great promises. Not "promises," but what comes is: "This is how it will be." Great things—concrete manifestations of the divine Power, the divine Consciousness, the divine Action. And spontaneous, natural, inevitable.... This is obviously being prepared ( Mother touches her body ) so that it won't put the usual obstacles in ...
... and by force changes it? Yes. But Sri Aurobindo says (I read it two days ago, I do not know where he has written it, for it was only a quotation) that if the divine Consciousness, the divine Power, the divine Love, the Truth manifested itself too rapidly upon the earth, the earth would be dissolved! She would not be able to bear it... brrf! I am translating, but the idea is that. But ...
... obviously... (you see, one thing after another is getting disorganized), if it continues in this way, how long can the body last? But this body feels so strongly that it exists ONLY because the divine Power is in it. And constantly, for the least thing, it has only one remedy (it doesn't think of resting, of not doing this or that, of taking medicine), its sole remedy is to call and call the Supreme—it ...
... that BY FORCE? Yes. But Sri Aurobindo said (I read it two days ago, I don't know where he wrote it because it was a quotation) that if the divine Page 363 Consciousness, the divine Power, the divine Love, the Truth, were to manifest on earth too rapidly, the earth would be dissolved! It couldn't bear it ... brrf! I am interpreting, but there's the idea! Well, maybe not the ...
... to spring up again (they had completely fallen asleep, you understand), and each time, this body consciousness feels a sort of surprise, at once astonished and distressed that the presence of the divine Power, the divine Consciousness, the Truth-Consciousness, should give rise to all those difficulties, which are essentially difficulties of ignorance and inertia—the incapacity to receive. And it comes ...
... the consciousness of the cells) consists in teaching them... First of all it's a choice (it looks like one): it's choosing the divine Presence—the divine Consciousness, the divine Presence, the divine Power (all that wordlessly), the "something" we define as the absolute Master. It's a choice of EVERY SECOND between the old laws of Nature—with some mental influence and the whole life as it has been ...
... that is the mind's addition to life. And now it makes me smile. Like peoples' need of a cult, the religious feeling, that sort of awe (what's the word in French?... Fear, terror?) before the divine Power—all of that is what the mind has brought into life—now it makes me smile. When people come and see me with that sort of graveness, when they come like that, I instantly feel like bursting into ...
... can see when you have the vision. But when It descends and presses down on Matter, everything starts seething and resisting. Page 153 So to want to ascribe to the divine Action and the divine Power the disorder and confusion and destruction is yet more human nonsense. It's inertia (not to speak of ill will), it's inertia that CAUSES the catastrophe. It isn't that the catastrophe is willed ...
... and falling in love with this power of manifestation—you see it all. And... oh, He wants to give Her her fullest chance and see, watch all that is going to happen, all that can happen with this divine Power thrust free into the world. And Sri Aurobindo expresses it as though he had absolutely fallen in love with Her: whatever She wants, whatever She does, whatever She thinks, whatever She wills, all ...
... ss 86,88,252,262 democracy of the Divine 77,366 descent of Supramental Godhead 248 different phases of night 249 divine and human simultaneously 314 Divine Mother 96 Divine Power 312 divine vision 249 divinised consciousness 129 earth-born heart of man 77 earth-life as the field of the Spirit 76 earth's aspiration 130 fate and pain 75 fourfold ...
... seriously at Pranam: "Both Sri Aurobindo and I have come to the conclusion that you should be the next Indian Consul in Pondicherry." I muttered inwardly to myself: "Good Heavens! This is really Divine Power running riot. I must check it. How can I be a Consul? How can I ever do such a difficult no less than dreary thing?" But aloud I just said: "All right, all right. I shall see what can be done." ...
... awareness of the One Self everywhere and knows and sees through a lofty and comprehensive thought-force. It has "a strong tread often with bare unsandalled feet and moves in a clear-cut light: a divine power, measure, dignity is its most frequent character". 1 The One Self everywhere is common to all the overhead planes, but the force at work varies: the Illumined Mind visions rather than thinks ...
... Page 32 the divine riches, and it has as corresponding language and rhythm. The Higher Thought has a strong tread often with bare unsandalled feet and moves in a clear-cut light: a divine power, measure, dignity is its most frequent character. The outflow of the Illumined Mind comes in a flood brilliant with revealing words or a light of crowding images, sometimes surcharged with its ...
... of the worlds and found the true meaning of this creation. He has now discovered the nature of the problem and the difficulty that stands in the way. He is convinced that only if the supreme divine Power shall take birth here that this issue of mortality will be resolved. In the Mahabharata story Aswapati is a follower of the dharma and is firmly established in the truth. He rules over his ...
... difficult to mould himself into a Vibhuti and accept the human limits? Why should it be difficult? Even the Avatar accepts limits for his work. Since an Avatar comes here with a divine Power, Light and Ananda why should he pass through the same process of sadhana as an ordinary sadhak? The Avatar is not supposed to act in a non-human way—he takes up human action and uses human ...
... through the advent of light. The gloss which would put forward black-skinned aborigines will not do at all. We have either a symbolic account of a struggle between the Truth and the Falsehood, the Divine Power and the superhuman forces of Evil, resulting in the former's victory and the revelation of spiritual abundances and a heavenly world (Swar); or else a poetic rendering of the supplantation of night ...
... unconcerned. I trust implicitly in your power and feel like laughing away the black future with which they threaten me in case of carelessness about my heart. I feel certain, Mother dearest, that the Divine Power can help — can’t it? My dear child, I quite agree with you that there is a power other and much more powerful than that of the doctors and the medicines and I am glad to see that you put ...
... ends. It is evidently the working of the Kali force that is lit and is directing this fire in you. There is nothing wrong in its action; it is not an anger personal to you but the wrath of a divine power and it must be allowed to act; in fact, I think you could not stop it from burning in you even if you wanted to stop it. This man has drawn it upon himself and there is nothing wrong in what is ...
... This also seems to me to be true; is it so? Heard from whom? And why should it be true? Sri Aurobindo If you wish you can try R's treatment but it is only if you keep the faith in the Divine power to cure that any treatment can be successful. So you must keep that as the main thing and use the treatment only as a secondary means and a subordinate help. 22.9.1935 Sri Aurobindo ...
... t or my hard-heartedness. What is the correct attitude? As he has chosen the spiritual life and work for the Mother, he has only to remain firm and quiet and for the rest to leave it to the Divine power. His indifference is nothing but this quietness and firmness in the true way and he has not to weaken it by any emotional scruples. 26 December 1927 Sri Aurobindo It is all nonsense about ...
... very naturally, conditions for getting out of the Ignorance into the Light. One of them is that the mind of the sadhak should co-operate with the Truth and that his will should co-operate with the Divine Power which, however slow its action may seem to the vital or to the physical mind, is uplifting the nature towards the Light. When that co-operation is complete, then the progress can be rapid enough; ...
... shining children of Light, a worshipper of the Masters of the Truth, a fighter in battle against the powers of darkness who obstruct the human journey. Aryaman is the cosmic being or godhead in whose divine power this aryahood is rooted; he is the Force of sacrifice, aspiration, battle, journey towards perfection and light and celestial bliss by which the path is created, travelled, pursued, beyond all ...
... as if the home of the Dasyus. The knowledge comes to her beforehand, before vision springs up instinctively at the least indication and with that knowledge, she guides the rest of the faculty and divine power. Sarama is the power descended from the superconscient Truth which leads us to the light that is hidden in ourselves, even in the subconscient; she is thus what can be properly be called power of ...
... gentle and puissant servant of God stand in the vital kinetic nature driven by a higher spiritual energy and turned by it towards an inspired action, a God-given work or mission, the service of some Divine power, idea or ideal. These higher degrees of spirituality are attained by constant aspiration and heroic efforts to break the boundaries of the mind so that the light of the spirit, the will-force ...
... calls the perfection of the fourfold personality, the personality of knowledge, of strength, of harmony and love and of skill and service. This movement is further strengthened by called in the divine Power or Shakti to replace the limited human energy so that it may be shaped into the image of and filled with the force of a greater infinite energy. Page 49 The third element of perfection ...
... therefore, is Page 73 the perfection of "the full powers of the members of the instrumental nature, the perfected dynamics of the soul nature, the assumption of them into the action of the divine Power, and a perfect faith in all our members to call and support that assumption, ś akti, vīrya, dam prakrti, śraddhā." 63 Evolution of the Supramental or Gnostic Being The third element ...
... Testament, the great teaching, The Sermon on the Mount, found in St. Matthew's gospel, is the foundation of Western Civilization's moral and ethical code. In the Sermon, Jesus teaches as if with divine power and authority, and by this seeming empowerment makes possible a higher level of consciousness in following the Law. For Christians, next to the Ten Commandments as an expression of God's will, the ...
... and reaction. This Life-Force, as Sri Aurobindo has pointed out, is not the same as the troubled, harassed, divided and striving surface energy with which we are familiar but "a great and radiant Divine Power, full of peace and strength and bliss..." (The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 167) Ninth Step: This is not in its nature actually the last step coming at the end of the series. Rather, ...
... of terrestrial being and activity. We have to see Life as a channel for the infinite Force divine and break the barrier of a sense-created and mind-created farness and division from it so that divine Power may take possession of and direct and change all our life-activities until our vitality transfigured ceases in the end to be the limited life-force which now supports mind and body and becomes ...
... Sadhana¹ as well as the Master of the Yoga by whom the lower personality is used as the centre of a divine transfiguration and the instrument of its own perfection....² In the integral yoga, the Divine Power in us uses all life as the means of our upward evolution. Every experience and outer or inner contact with our world-environment, however trifling or disastrous, is used as an occasion and opportunity ...
... mould himself into a Vibhuti and accept the human limits? Why should it be difficult? Even the Avatar accepts limits for his work. Since an Avatar comes here with a divine Power, Light and Ananda why should he pass through the same process of sadhana as an ordinary sadhak? Page 279 The Avatar is not supposed to act in a non-human way — he takes ...
... He wrote: 'First, about your yoga. You want to give me the charge of your yoga, and I am willing to accept it. But this means giving it to Him who, openly or secretly, is moving me and you by His divine power. And you should know that the inevitable result of this will be that you will have to follow the path of yoga which He has given me, the path I call the Integral Yoga.... What I started with, what ...
... literary activity be taken as part of one's sadhana? Any activity can be taken as part of the sadhana if it is offered to the Divine or done with the consciousness or faith that it is done by the Divine Power. That is the important point. March 29, 1934 × A commonly used Hindi word meaning "ripe", "complete". ...
... people, has now become a speaker. There is a verse which says: The Divine Grace can make a dumb fellow talkative, and one who is lame can be made to jump over a mountain. 250 The Divine Grace, the Divine Power can do that. I did not believe this when I was a child; but now when I am a grown-up man, Sri Aurobindo has proved it to me by my own example. In the former days of the Ashram, there was ...
... autocracies: it was of an altogether different type. In spite of a certain sanctity and the great authority conceded to the regal position and the personality of the king as the representative of the divine Power and the guardian of the Dharma, he did not have absolute power. But now we had a totally different system. The Muslim State in India was a theocracy and the Sultan was considered to be Caesar and ...
... feels the universal Force doing one's works and the self or Purusha watching or witness but free; one feels all one's works taken from one and done by the universal or the supreme Mother or by the Divine Power controlling and acting from behind the heart. By constant reference of all one's will and works to the Divine, love and adoration grow, the psychic being comes forward. By the reference to the Power ...
... to bring the divine riches, and it has a corresponding language and rhythm. The Higher Thought has a strong tread often with bare unsandaled feet and moves in a clear-cut light: a divine power, measure, dignity is its most frequent character. The outflow of the Illumined Mind comes in a flood brilliant with revealing words or a light of crowding images, sometimes surcharged ...
... meet them. Over and above this, if such people possess a higher spiritual consciousness, then they can use the force to build slowly upon earth something that will be able to manifest the Divine Power and the Divine Grace. It is then that this force of money, of wealth, this power of Finance, instead of being a curse, as I have said, would be a blessing for the welfare of all. The saying goes ...
... also ascent; for into each individual consciousness has come down from the supreme Maha Shakti an individual divine being, a particular godhead following a particular line of manifestation of divine power, vibhuti. To bear inwardly the touch of this divinity and found it securely within oneself, to concentrate on it and become one with it, to go on manifesting it in one's outer life, this was the ...
... its manifestation – its creation which should not be looked Page 227 upon as an illusion but only as a form of the Eternal. Therefore Sri Ramakrishna was the worshipper of the Divine Power, the child of the Mother. The Mother herself is the Power of the Brahman. The dynamic Vedanta of Vivekananda, its application in life, is based on this foundation. Spirituality and life are not ...
... possesses for me at least a greater importance; I mean, trust. If your faith is not made of a complete trust in the Divine or if you begin to lose the trust, then you gradually lose faith in the Divine Power or in the Divine Goodness or in the trust that the Divine has in you. These are the three great stumbling-blocks. It happens at times, if not quite often, that starting with a faith which ...
... might all the more easily utilise the imprisoned Soul for her own purposes. Page 28 If you happen to be in the way of the Divine Power, either you yield to it and are taken up into its substance and constitution, become an integral part of it, execute in it a special function- Or, you oppose it and are mowed ...
... when and on whom He chooses; covet them not. But devotion and love are man's and by love and (devotion Page 10 you can enter into divine power and knowledge. * Man is the net that Divine Fowler has spread to capture the wide and fleet universal physical Nature ...
... our goal: the Truth. Mother and Sri Aurobindo have filled and energised and dynamised the earth and the sky with the light of their consciousness. The more we are able to receive this divine power in our life and soul, the more our lives will be transformed as a result of its irresistible action. Although Mother and Sri Aurobindo are not in their physical bodies anymore, their ...
... Because it is solid, compact, and can refuse or give up its own stuff completely. It is the least open Page 312 to reasoning and in dealing with it you require the highest divine Power. Besides, the whole samskdra – established impression – of the whole universe is against your effort. Something from Above has to descend and remove the obstacle. Disciple : I have an idea ...
... matter whether he Page 146 lived on the physical plane or not ? If the thing is true pn the psychic and spiritual plane it is all that matters. As long as you find Krishna as a divine Power on the psychic, or on the spiritual plane nothing else matters. He is true for us. The physical is merely the shadow of the psychic. Disciple : To-day our friend asked me again about the ...
... or independence is only a make-believe so that Inferior Nature might all the more easily utilise the imprisoned soul for her own purposes. *** If you happen to be in the way of the Divine Power, either you yield to it and are taken up into its substance and constitution, become an integral part of it, execute in it a special function - Or, you oppose it and are mowed down and destroyed ...
... however, that activity by itself, of whatever kind, is of secondary importance, but "taken as pan of the sadhana offered to the Divine or done with the consciousness or faith that it is done by the Divine Power" — that is the important point. Now we come to a different field of activity altogether, one whose place in Yoga will be strongly challenged, especially when the Mother herself used it as a means ...
... victory by subjugating. It will not be Nietzschean "will to power," Page 4 which is, at best, a supreme Asuric power. It will rather be a Divine Power, for the strength it will exert and the victory it will achieve will not come from the ego-it is the ego which requires an object outside and against to feel ...
... manifesting gradually His consciousness, partially veiled for the Divine descent. He is the living assurance of our divine possibility, the promise of the Divinity radiating with the divine Light and divine Power — the progressive march towards the Divine Manifestation. That is why the whole atmosphere is charged with a divine and sublime Peace, you understand? It is He who is there — in the divine body ...
... to meet them. Over and above this, if such people possess a higher spiritual consciousness, then they can use the force to build slowly upon earth something that will be able to manifest the Divine Power and the Divine Grace. It is then that this force of money, of wealth, this power of Finance, instead of being a curse, as I have said, would be a blessing for the welfare of all. The saying goes ...
... silent bridge-building linking up the present with the hereafter, she ended her Yoga-Nidra and left her body on 17 November 1973. And yet, even after their physical withdrawal, the same Two-in-One divine Power is still active - invisibly, imperiously, irresistibly, - and is steadily knocking at and breaking the obstacles on the way, and inexorably - even if now and then zigzaggingly - moving towards the ...
... dangerous?” the disciple asked— Because it is solid, compact, and can refuse or even give up its own stuff completely. It is the least open to reasoning and in dealing with it you require the highest divine Power. Besides, the whole samskara— established imprint—of the whole universe is against your effort. 38 There comes a moment when it is no longer one body or one bit of matter: it is the body ...
... Leaving personalities aside, we can say with certainty that the divine Light is definitely more powerful than human obscurity. 2.8.1969 Page 99 Does Durga's lion represent the Divine Power over adverse forces? It can be understood that way. But in the vital there is a lion very much alive who is very often near me and whom several persons have often seen. He is evidently ...
... The Perfect Consciousness accepted to be merged and absorbed into the unconsciousness of matter, so that consciousness might be awakened in the depths of its obscurity and little by little a Divine Power might rise in it and make the whole of this manifested universe a highest expression of the Divine Consciousness and the Divine love. This was the supreme love... And yet none perhaps would call ...
... thing is to be done it must be done no longer as by a troop stumbling on courageously in the dark and losing its best strength by failures and the results of unhappy blunders, but with the full divine power working out its will in its instruments. 35 In Sri Aurobindo's view, the desiderata for such effective action were (1) that "the divine knowledge and power should manifest perfectly in at ...
... 21 First about his birthday coinciding with the day of Independence: As a mystic, I take this identification, not as a coincidence or fortuitous accident, but as a sanction and seal of the Divine Power which guides my steps on the work with which I began my life. Indeed almost all the world movements which I hoped to see fulfilled in my lifetime, though at that time they looked like impossible ...
... the will to carry it out successfully", 33 Again: Be calm, don't get disturbed, remember that the conditions of our life are not quite ordinary conditions, and keep your trust in the Divine Power to organise all and do all through the human instruments which are open to His influence. 34 Once, when the sadhak frankly writes that he feels like succumbing to an attraction or temptation ...
... him the cosmic consciousness, to give him the experience of the transcendent consciousness, to give him the transformation, to bring the four-fold transformation and all the perfection of the Divine Power, is the work of the Divine Grace. That one cannot claim. One cannot say :"I did sadhana therefore I must have grace." The Divine is not interested in you as such; He has to do some work and he ...
... the difficulties as opportunities, and in one sense one can say that whatever happens is for the best. Hostile forces also are recognized as hostile, but from another standpoint they become the Divine power throwing out attacks for the work to be done. Ultimately all powers are from Page 92 the Divine, they assist in the work. They throw up difficulties to test the strength. It is ...
... stimulate and inflate the ego, and the discouraged or repressed ambitions, if he has any, hiding anywhere in his nature, may rear their unholy heads and strive to lure him away from the path of the Divine. Power always corrupts, unless it is held by a consecrated and divinised consciousness; and the sâdhaka cannot do better at this stage of his spiritual carreer than resolutely continue in the attitude ...
... into the nature of the higher, mind can recover its divine light in the all-comprehending Supermind, the soul realise its divine self in the all-possessing all-blissful Ananda, life possess its divine power in the play of omnipotent Conscious-Force and Matter open to its divine liberty as a form of the divine Existence. And if there be any goal to the evolution which finds here its present crown ...
... in human beings alone; it is everywhere. Its movement is there in plants, perhaps in the very stones; in the animals it is easy to detect its presence. All the deformations of this great and divine Power come from the obscurity and ignorance and selfishness of the limited instruments. Love, the eternal Force, has no clinging, no desire, no hunger for possession, no self-regarding attachment, it ...
... has created his pain. The original Absolute Consciousness felt attracted by a negative Absolute and so the descent came, then duality and the world was created. Aswapathy then asks whether the divine Power that is in Savitri is capable of controlling Fate., Narad says that with the higher Truth everything that happens here on earth is foreseen. Man sees with his limited Mind and therefore cannot see ...
... above — free, wide, without limits, pure, untroubled by the mental, vital and physical movements, empty of ego and limited personality — this is what you have described in your letter. Secondly, the Divine Power descends through this silence and freedom of the self and begins to work in the Adhar. This is what you felt as a pressure; it’s coming through the top of the head, the forehead and eyes and nose ...
... bhakti for the Divine, love for the Divine, oneness with the Divine in consciousness, will, heart and body becomes the sole aim — the rest becomes merely the fulfilment of the Divine’s Will by the Divine Power. This attitude is never difficult for the psychic, it is its natural position and feeling, and whenever your psychic was in front you had it in your central consciousness. But there was the outer ...
... conscious of Thee and Thou alone wast living in me, O Lord, it seemed to me that I adopted all the inhabitants of this ship, and enveloped them in an equal love.... Not often had I felt so strongly Thy divine power.... 6 The boat itself seemed to her "a marvellous abode of peace, a temple sailing in Thy honour". 7 Day followed day, and realisation was piled on realisation, as if she were indeed ...
... consciousness in their use of it, to what purpose." Lakshmi, in the Indian tradition, is the presiding deity here. "In the supramental creation the money-force has to be restored to the Divine Power and used for a true and beautiful and harmonious equipment and ordering of a new divinised vital and physical existence in whatever way the Divine Mother herself decides in her creative vision." ...
... can now drink the Soma-wine from the uncovered well of honey, for they are now able to see Swar. But hidden in the waters, released by Indra from the hold of Vritra, the gods find visible the divine Power, Agni. Agni, the child of the earth's growths, called the child of the earth and heaven, with his companion gods and the sevenfold Waters, enters into the superconscient. "In that entire meeting ...
... that I adopted all the inhabitants of this ship, and enveloped them in an equal love, so that in each one of them something of Thy consciousness would awake. Not often had I felt so strongly Thy divine power, and Thy invincible light, and once again total was my confidence and unmixed my joyful surrender. ..." "9 March 1914. Those who live for Thee and in Thee may change their physical surroundings ...
... the Divine, forms that the Omnipresent has not disdained to assume. But beyond the material forms there are others that are ideal and symbolic, but not less, if anything more real, more full of divine power than any actual physical manifestation. These are the mental images in which we worship God. The Hindu believes that to whatever form he brings his devotion, the love of God is bound to assume and ...
... hymn of the Soma sacrifice, is addressed to no single god, but built in a harmony of four successive movements, each composed of three verses in the Gayatri metre, each an invocation of a separate divine power or set of divine powers, which in their significance are intended to follow the ascending series of a particular psychological progression reached by the Rishi in his self-development through the ...
... Page 163 of the material universe is the fundamental, the one abiding, progressive index event of the long earth-story. Only when this evolving consciousness can grow into its own full divine power will we directly know ourselves and the world instead of catching at tags and tail ends of an insufficient figure of knowledge. This full power of the consciousness is supermind or gnosis,—supermind ...
... there is on our part a progressive surrender of the being into the hands Page 169 of the Divine; there must be a complete and never failing assent, a courageous willingness to let the Divine Power do with us whatever is needed for the 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 ...
... These are complete, vast, multitudinous, infinite in a way, impersonal & many-personed in their very personality, not divine workmen merely but true creators endowed by God with something of His divine power and offering therefore in their works some image of His creative activity. Page 406 ...
... and thrilled with a constant ecstasy. This would be the total perfection of the spiritualised body. All this might not come all at once, though such a sudden illumination might be possible if a divine Power and Light and Page 534 Ananda could take their stand on the summit of our being and send down their force into the mind and life and body illumining and remoulding the cells, awaking ...
... but slight attention can always be detected, but actional stress still continues to confuse the mind. Aishwarya etc are now being liberated from the traces of egoism & used as an instrument of the divine power without preferential choice of result, insistence on knowledge of the result or, if known, on its perfection or continuance. Moreover, the thing ideally right is being willed without regard to the ...
... that he prays, not the sacrificial flame on the altar, and what can be meant by the cleaving of a godhead to man,—not, be it noted, merely its succour or nearness—if Agni does not represent some divine power which must embrace the human being as a father his child and whose constant presence leads, not to the possession of herds and slaves and gold, but to a spiritually perfect state, svastaye ? It ...
... down on a firm basis his justification of these teachings, he shows us first that God & the world are one, both are Brahman & therefore the world also is our divine Self compassing by a certain divine power movement of action & phenomenon in its still unmoving Self & without parting with its superiority to the movement, on this basis he shows us that existence & bliss not only can be made one, but ...
... laws or the subjection of the ephemeral individual to the interests of the slightly less ephemeral race is no substitute for a belief in Christ or Buddha, for the law of Divine Love or the trust in Divine Power & Providence. If Philosophy failed to be an ethical control or a spiritual force, Science has failed still more completely, and for a very simple reason—the intellect does not control the conduct ...
... & its ethical & altruistic possibilities as a preliminary training, that Shankara's system, less intellectually Nihilistic than Buddha's, has been practically more fatal to the activities of the divine power & joy in life in the nation which has so largely accepted his teachings. By denying God in life, by withdrawing the best souls from life, by discouraging through their thought & example,—the thought ...
... entry into the significance of the greater permanent things that lie behind them. And for this type too, for its vital mind and will, is intended all in the religion that calls on man to turn to a divine Power or powers for the just satisfaction of his desires and his interests, just because subject to the right and the law, the Dharma. In the Vedic times the outward ritual sacrifice and at a later period ...
... is at once a suggestion of the leaping up and radiant play of the potent sacrificial flame on the physical altar and of a similar psychical phenomenon, the manifestation of the saving flame of a divine power and light within us. The Western critic sneers at the bold and reckless and to him monstrous image in which Indra son of earth and heaven is said to create his own father and mother; but if we remember ...
... monarchy previous to the Mahomedan invasion was not, in spite of a certain sanctity and great authority conceded to the regal position and the personality of the king as the representative of the divine Power and the guardian of the Dharma, in any way a personal despotism or an absolutist autocracy: it had no resemblance to the ancient Persian monarchy or the monarchies of western and central Asia or ...
... has hitherto bound it. Lastly, to explain what makes emergents emerge in a progressive direction, as they seem to do, in the total computation of evolutionary history, he posits the Activity of Divine Power, an Activity omnipresent throughout emergent evolution and expressive of Divine Purpose. Like Lecomte du Noiiy, Lloyd Morgan strains at the gnat of a distinct life or mind governing matter ...
... with equality of mind and calm tranquillity in good or bad fortune, for the sake of the Divine and not for the sake of any personal gain, reward or result, with the consciousness that it is the Divine Power to which all work belongs, is a means of self-dedication through Karma. 29 Karma is a scientific principle; an act (karma) that produces effect, the effect in turn an action, becomes ...
... in spiritual practice spoken of by Rama-Krishna alluded to earlier (pp. 42, 43)—the baby-monkey attitude of reliance on personal effort, and the baby-cat attitude of surrender and reliance on the Divine Power—the latter is a more fitting description of the practice as taught by Eckhart. Not personal effort but Presence does it all, says Eckhart. The only personal effort is to choose Page 103 ...
... the mystery of the individual will in eternal opposition to the Divine Will. Satan, the creator of all evil on earth is conscious — very acutely conscious, of his limitations and also of the Divine Power that contains and drives him. It seems almost certain that after Milton an epic dealing entirely with an objective story is not possible, for, the rationalism with which the modern age began ...
... fixing it. 4.2.35 The Mother I once received a telegram from some one who was in great difficulty. I sent it to Mother for reply. Sri Aurobindo wrote: Keep faith quietude openness to divine power. Ashirvada. × Music. In those days Mother used to call some persons and play music for them. ...
... with Tirupati (The following seven reports of April 1925 are notes on Tirupati's interviews with Sri Aurobindo,) When you bring down Power, you always bring down fighting power. The Divine power need not always be fighting power. When so power conies, a mere touch is enough to produce great effect. The Higher power knows the need of the system. In the physical, it is the calm, persistent ...
... Divine everywhere.... In my Yoga also I found myself moved to include both worlds in my purview — the spiritual and the material — and to try to establish the Divine Consciousness and the Divine Power in men's hearts and earthly life, not for a personal salvation only but for a life divine here.... This at least has always been my view and experience of the reality and nature of the world ...
... Nature, the Self — the Atman, the universal Spirit, the self-existent Being, the conscious essential Existence, one in all. (The Self is being, not a being) Shakti — Force, Power; the Divine Power; the Power of the other; the consciousness and power of the Divine; the Mother and Energy of the worlds. Shunya — void; the Nothing which is All. Sorley, Prof. —William Ritchie ...
... the aboriginal in your nature will remain so long as you try to change your vital part by the sole or main strength of your mind and mental will, calling in at most an indefinite and impersonal divine power to aid you.... If you want a true * The practice of yoga. Page 140 mastery and transformation of the vital movements, it can be done only on condition you allow your psychic ...
... Love. 30.3.1948 The Mother (I once received a telegram from someone who was in great difficulty. I sent it to Mother for reply. Sri Aurobindo wrote): Keep faith quietude openness to divine power. Ashirvada. Sri Aurobindo Today it was the day of changing the pillow-cover on Sri Aurobindo's bed. I have come to know that Mother has said that Sri Aurobindo uses only one pillow. So ...
... do this in order to have peace. In my Yoga also I found myself moved to include both worlds in my view — the spiritual and the material — and to try to establish the Divine Consciousness and the Divine Power in men's hearts and earthly life, not for a personal salvation only but for a life divine here. This seems to me as spiritual an aim as any, and the fact of this life taking up earthly pursuits ...
... he perseveres that should happen sooner or later. But it is best not to struggle with the resistances but to stand back from them, observe as a witness, reject these movements and call on the Divine Power to remove them. Page 159 Surrender of the nature is not an easy thing and may take a long time; surrender of the self, if one can do it, is easier and once that is done that ...
... one more and more and leaves less and less to individual effort — but even then, if not effort, at least aspiration and vigilance are needed till the possession of mind, will, life and body by the Divine Power is complete." But one who has not practised Yoga will be hardly likely to realise the point Gurudev wanted to make when he suggested that effort and surrender are interdependent. So I shall ...
... at present”, she said, and if the Supermind in its full power appeared suddenly on the earth “everybody would disappear.” 20 – “Sri Aurobindo has said … that if the divine Consciousness, the divine Power, the divine Love, the Truth, manifested too rapidly upon the earth, the earth would be dissolved! She would not be able to stand it!” 21 The Family of the Aspiration “You are on the earth ...
... is really done by the Spirit.” 18 “All her works are instinct with an absolute intelligence.” 19 Nature is part of the divine manifestation; the divine manifestation is the work of the divine Power, the Consciousness/Force, also called the Great Mother, or known as Maya, Prakriti, Lila. 20 “World is the play of the Mother of things moved to cast Herself for ever into infinite forms and ...
... is one who is conscious of the presence and the power of the Divine born in him or descended into him and governing from within his will and life and action; he feels identified inwardly with the divine power and presence.’ 14 (Sri Aurobindo) Being the Son of Man he is also literally the Son of God. To human comprehension this remains an enigma, because the common human contact with the Avatar is ...
... high mountain, from which I have been able to descry the magnificent horizons that I always have dreamed of. It is certain that there always have been men who have come from on high to manifest the divine power and goodness. This confirms what I have long felt … Great things are taking shape.’ 11 After serving four years in the army, Richard had studied philosophy and theology, and been a pasteur ...
... one more and more and leaves less and less to individual effort—but even then, if not effort, at least aspiration and vigilance are needed till the possession of mind , will life and body by the Divine power is complete. I have this subject, I think, in one chapters of the Mother. 52 On the other hand, there are some people who start with a genuine and dynamic wm to surrender; it is those who ...
... attempted, for the former accepts only its own answer. There must be move clear understanding as to what we mean by the Divine, or by Power or by the spiritual Power, if it exists—and also what this Divine Power is supposed to do and under what conditions, the world being what it is, it is to be expected to work. So it is not a simple task to give a clear and full answer! Page 227 ...
... nostalgically) of the Descent of the power of Love Divine into our dismal humanity — a downpour of supernal Light on terrestrial life inaugurating a new era of freedom and harmony. But to invoke the Divine Power for the redemption of earth- life is one thing, to apply the power to alleviate the "misery" of ignorant man is quite another. How hard this task is in practice is difficult for most of us to realise ...
... is one who is conscious of the Presence and power of the Divine born in him or descended into him and governing from within his will and life and action; he feels identified inwardly with this Divine Power and presence." A Vibhuti is supposed to embody some power of the Divine and is enabled by it to act with great force in the world, but that is all that is necessary to make him a Vibhuti: ...
... in the heart, all that cannot prevent the final realisation; still, it may have to wait till the obstructions are removed or at least so much cleared out as to admit an unimpeded working of the Divine Power on the surface nature. Till then, there may be periods of inner ease and some light in the mind, periods also of the feeling of bhakti or of peace, periods of the joy of self-consecration in ...
... is one who is conscious of the presence and power of the Divine born in him or descended into him and governing from within his will and life and action; he feels identified inwardly with this divine power and presence. A Vibhuti is supposed to embody some power of the Divine and is enabled by it to act with great force in the world, but that is all that is necessary to make him a Vibhuti: ...
... Spirit’ and can therefore be changed by the Spirit. This does not mean that everything in the universe is arbitrary. ‘All is possible, but all is not licit – except by a recognizable process: the Divine Power itself imposes on its action limits, processes, obstacles, vicissitudes.’ (On Himself, SABCL 26 p. 202) ‘Brahman is not subject to law, but uses process. It is only the individual soul in a state ...
... to be accepted by the disciple without question. Every command of his has to be carried out and every statement taken as God's truth. Thus alone can the disciple open himself thoroughly to the Divine Power streaming through the Guru and put away the gross physical consciousness which is the main obstacle to the growth of the inner being. I do not know whether the Mother ever exercised the right ...
... totalitarian machine and monster of Stalinist Communism. The latter phrase sums up the decisive action of the Western democracies, behind which, in spite of their defects, Sri Aurobindo saw the Divine Power operating. One may thus picture, through the alternatives listed in Sri Aurobindo's last line, Hitler met on two fronts by roughly two forces of opposite characters, either of them stronger in ...
... speech. Mallarme had no notion that when you go far beyond the mind you enter into a realm where Truth can disclose itself massively as well as minutely. On the Spirit's Himalayan heights there is a divine power of expression by which what is divinely inexpressible by mental words stands internally self-lit in living language. Mallarme did not know the Everests and Kanchanjangas and Gaurishankers of the ...
... is nothing in it of the revelation prepared of the gold-panelled opalescent-hinged gate of dreams by A wandering hand of pale enchanted light. Sri Aurobindo has not just seen a divine power behind the dawn-moment: he has brought it right into the speech echoing the break of day and he has done it with an accurate word-scheme and a precise rhythm-design — the latter perhaps even more ...
... Shelleyan understanding of Dante's line may make its "amor" akin to the one Spirit's plastic stress which Sweeps through the dull dense world... Here we have the intimation of a Divine Power and Love overarching the world and at the same time looking after it and guiding it onward. In Dante we have the Aristotelian notion transmitted by Thomas Aquinas to the Middle Ages that all creation ...
... human history the experiment of physical divinisation was being tried - a most difficult and outwardly a most distressing experiment, entailing a lot of suffering under the tremendous pressure of a divine Power of immortality which had never before brought its unrelenting all-transformative light into a stuff of flesh and bone deliberately accepted to be like our own in essence so that whatever would be ...
... T. Prasad'. Kindly wish that this name Thakur Prasad' may be realised in my life integrally by the Blessings of the Lord ." Page 143 may expect, we must never lose faith in the Divine Power. Once we put ourselves in its hands, whatever happens is turned by it to our soul's good. Furthermore, the Divine's aim with us is to make our souls progress. If this progress is at times best brought ...
... to sustain the downward pressure of a tremendous force from overhead. The downward force can also be felt to enter the head like a bar of shining steel which could make one dizzy. But usually the divine power suits itself to the needs and capacities of the sadhak. In any case the Yoga proves to be a physical no less than a psychological working. But whether physical or psychological it will miss its ...
... awareness of the One Self everywhere and knows and sees through a lofty and comprehensive thought-force. It has "a strong tread often with bare unsandalled feet and moves in a clear-cut light: a divine power, measure, dignity is its most frequent character". 10 The One Self everywhere is common to all the overhead planes, but the force at work varies: the Illumined Mind visions rather than thinks ...
... Mother: ‘But you have never hoped that it wouldn’t take time?’ Satprem: ‘Well yes, of course.’ — The Mother: ‘But I have never believed that it could come quickly! … If the divine Consciousness, the divine Power, the divine Love, if the Truth would manifest too quickly upon the Earth, the Earth would be dissolved!’ (15 November 1967) ‘We think that this, this appearance [the Mother points to her ...
... get the physical consciousness (down to the most material parts) open to the Power, then to make it accustomed to respond and obey and to each physical difficulty as it arises apply or call in the Divine Power to throw out the attacking force. The physical nature is a thing of habits; it is out of habit that it responds to the forces of illness; one has to get into it the contrary habit of responding ...
... constant consent to the true Force, a constant rejection of any lower mixture—that is very important. At present to give up personal effort is not what is wanted, but to call in more and more the Divine Power and govern and guide by it the personal endeavour. Sri Aurobindo ...
... rupture in the unity of the Divine Existence. This division becomes in its inevitable practical effect a limitation of the divine consciousness and knowledge, the divine delight and beauty, the divine power and capacity, the divine harmony and good: there is a limitation of completeness and wholeness, a blindness in our vision of these things, a lameness in our following of them, in our experience ...
... is one who is conscious of the presence and power of the Divine born in him or descended into him and governing from within his will and life and action; he feels identified inwardly with this divine power and presence. A Vibhuti is supposed to embody some power of the Divine and is enabled by it to act with great force in the world but that is all that is necessary to make him a Vibhuti: the power ...
... he gives himself from deep within and is absolutely persevering in the Way that he can succeed. Give him some idea of the central process of the Yoga, especially opening to the working of the Divine Power and rejection of all that is of the lower nature. Humanitarianism The idea of usefulness to humanity is the old confusion due Page 441 to secondhand ideas imported from the West ...
... one becomes aware of the different parts and their proper action, and puts each in its place and to its proper action under the control of the higher consciousness or else under the control of the Divine Power. Afterwards all gets surcharged with the spiritual consciousness and there is an automatic right perception and right action of the different parts because they are controlled entirely from above ...
... are not the true vital and these are full of impurities which have to be thrown in the fire of aspiration burning in the true vital being. It [ the illumined vital ] is in contact with the Divine Power or the higher Truth and seeks to transform itself and become a true instrument—it rejects the ordinary vital movements. Parts of the Vital Being There are four parts of the vital being—first ...
... literary activity be taken as part of one's sadhana? Any activity can be taken as part of the sadhana if it is offered to the Divine or done with the consciousness or faith that it is done by the Divine Power. That is the important point. 29 March 1934 It is obvious that poetry cannot be a substitute for sadhana; it can be an accompaniment only. If there is a feeling (of devotion, surrender etc ...
... The third characteristic of the supermind arising from this difference, which brings us to the practical distinction between the two kinds of knowledge, is that it is directly truth-conscious, a divine power of immediate, inherent and spontaneous knowledge, an Idea holding luminously all realities and not depending on indications and logical or other steps from the known to the unknown like the mind ...
... and no longer obscure in this ignorant Prakriti. It will be an action not bound by the dualities but full and large in the spirit's impartial joy of existence. The happy and inspired movement of a divine Power and Wisdom guiding and impelling us will replace the perplexities and stumblings of the suffering and ignorant ego. If by some miracle of divine intervention all mankind at once could be raised ...
... divine soul and of natural life into divine living. The surest way towards this integral fulfilment is to find the Master of the secret who dwells within us, open ourselves constantly to the divine Power which is also the divine Wisdom and Love and trust to it to effect the conversion. But it is difficult for the egoistic consciousness to do this at all at the beginning. And, if done at all, it ...
... worship; an absolute, a culmination for the senses, for their pursuit of divine beauty and good and delight in the forms of things; an absolute, a culmination for the life, for its pursuit of works, of divine power, mastery and perfection; an absolute, a culmination beyond its own limits for the thought, for its hunger after truth and light and divine wisdom and knowledge. Not something quite other than themselves ...
... 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 in us uses all life as the means of this integral Yoga. Every experience and outer contact with our world-environment, however trifling or however disastrous, is used for the work, and every inner ...
... range and turn and nook and recess of our nature. It is a mistake to think, as many are apt to think, that the object of a supramental Yoga is to arrive at a mighty magnificence of supermanhood, a divine power and greatness, the self-fulfilment of a magnified individual personality. This is a false and disastrous conception,—disastrous because it is likely to raise the pride, vanity and ambition of the ...
... perfection. In these things lies the perfection of this Dharma and the nobility of this Swabhava. Man could not be perfect and complete if he had not this element of nature in him to raise to its divine power. None of these four types of personality can be complete even in its own field if it does not bring into it something of the other qualities. The man of knowledge cannot serve Truth with freedom ...
... 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 plenary reception and a creative enjoyment of divine beauty, not excluding even in Page 621 the end a divine conversion of the vital and physical being. It regards ...
... into the nature of the higher, mind can recover its divine light in the all-comprehending supermind, the soul realise its divine self in the all-possessing all-blissful Ananda, life repossess its divine power in the play of omnipotent Conscious-Force and Matter open to its divine liberty as a form of the divine Existence. And if there be any goal to the evolution which finds here its present crown and ...
... whose whole principle of action is founded on an intimate connection between the body and the soul. The body is the key, the body the secret both of bondage and of release, of animal weakness and of divine power, of the obscuration of the mind and soul and of their illumination, of subjection to pain and limitation and of self-mastery, of death and of immortality. The body is not to the Hathayogin a mere ...
... Nature lead towards the perception of the eternal and universal Power and Being whose thought and will work out through the cosmic and human evolution. Action itself forces us into contact with the divine Power which works through, uses, overrules our actions. The intellect begins to perceive and understand, the emotions to feel and desire and revere, the will to turn itself to the service of the Divine ...
... Vast or Truth is declared to be Page 118 the own or proper seat or home of Agni, svaṁ damam, svaṁ sadaḥ . Agni is described in this hymn ascending from earth to his own seat. This divine Power is found by the gods visible in the Waters, in the working of the Sisters. These are the sevenfold Waters of the Truth, the divine Waters brought down from the heights of our being by Indra. First ...
... अतक्षन् The idea is that of the chariot, the Thought & the Action fashioned into a chariot for the divine journey, a common idea in the Veda. The chariot fashioned is the धिइति, the thought and the divine power has to take possession of it as the horse that attains to the goal सप्तिर्न रथ्यो अह धीतिमश्याः (1) Mitra, Varuna, Adityas, Rudras, Vasus. (2) Visve Devah. (3) Indra and the Maruts. (4) Twashtri ...
... sacrifice, it is yet quite certain, as we shall see, that in the Rig Veda the occurrence or the legend is used as a symbol of the human soul bound by the triple cord of sin and released from it by the divine power of Agni, Surya, Varuna. So also Rishis like Kutsa, Kanwa, Ushanas Kavya have become types and symbols of certain spiritual experiences and victories and placed in that capacity side by side with ...
... movement of the divine Truth towards which it is directed. The crisis, then, that left so powerful an impression on the mind of the seer, was in the nature of a violent struggle in which the higher divine Power confronted Agastya and the Maruts and opposed their impetuous advance. Page 269 There has been wrath and strife between the divine Intelligence that governs the world and the vehement ...
... Vedic system. Agni is the beginning and the end. This Will that is knowledge is the initiator of the upward effort of the mortal towards Immortality; to this divine consciousness that is one with divine power we arrive as the foundation of immortal existence. Indra, lord of Swar, the luminous intelligence into which we have to convert our obscure material mentality in order to become capable of the divine ...
... lavishing of the substance of divinity. He is the son born to the thought of the seers and he gives himself as the godhead born in man who is the son of our works opulent with the divine Truth and the divine Power and as the conquering steed of the journey and the battle. The whole movement of the Seer-Will is upward to the light and vastness of the superconscient; his voice is as if the thunder-chant of ...
... 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 are satisfied to a sufficient degree. The next steps ...
... violence; Mahalakshmi, the Shakti of beauty, love and delight; and Mahasaraswati, the Shakti of worldly reason (science) and work. The possession of these Shaktis carries with it a sense of the Divine Power, of general compassion [and] helpfulness to the world, and of faculty for any work that [the] nature may undertake. Sraddha or Faith 1) Faith in God—Directing Power, Antaryami 2) Faith ...
... attainment for the bringing of the divine desire of the spirit, are themselves the Brahman, the Godhead. The mantra of the divine Consciousness brings its light of revelation, the mantra of the divine Power its will of effectuation, the mantra of the divine Ananda its equal fulfilment of the spiritual delight of existence. All word and thought are an outflowering of the great OM,—OM, the Word, the ...
... 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, vital, physical only, cannot be a portion of the Divine and itself ...
... eternal eye of will before it can at all be done by man upon earth. I as Time have to destroy the old structures and to build up a new, mighty and splendid kingdom. Thou as a human instrument of the divine Power and Wisdom hast in this Page 383 struggle which thou canst not prevent to battle for the right and slay and conquer its opponents. Thou too, the human soul in Nature, hast to enjoy in ...
... that potent secret of its being upon which the universal stresses and leans and makes the knot of power of all its workings: as the individual grows in consciousness and sight and knowledge and all divine power and quality, increasingly he becomes aware of the universal in himself, but aware of himself too in the universality, of his own past not begun and ended in the single transient body, but opening ...
... possession of our being; ye rule our heavens and ye rule this material movement. (4) Yea and this also ye rule that is some other discerning force of thine, O slayer of the Coverer. To us bring that divine power of man that for us thou shalt become the mind of the godhead. (5) Now by these thy enterings in, O God-in-Mind, lord of the hundred powers of will, may we abide in thy peace and bliss perfectly ...
... movement in a sadhak. As for the surrender it is not inconsistent with the witness attitude. On the contrary by liberating from the ordinary Prakriti, it makes easier the surrender to the higher or divine Power. Very often when this witness attitude has not been taken but there is a successful calling in of the Force to act in one, one of the first things the Force does is to establish the witness attitude ...
... ascending to it. The two serpents interlaced are the two channels in the spine, through which the Shakti moves upward and downward. The serpent with the six hoods is the Kundalini Shakti, the divine Power asleep in the lowest physical centre which, awakened in the Yoga, ascends in light through the opening centres to meet the Divine in the highest centre and so connect the manifest and the unmanifested ...
... surrender, the white is the purity of psychic love. Reddish pink rose = psychic love or surrender. White rose = pure spiritual surrender. The java [ red hibiscus ] is the flower of the Divine Power. The [ flower named ] eternal smile 3 means the self-existent joy and gladness of the Spirit. I told you saffron meant purification—so if it has any significance, it can only mean ...
... above—free, wide, without limits, pure, untroubled by the mental, vital and physical movements, empty of ego and limited personality,—this is what you have described in your letter. Secondly, the Divine Power descends through this silence and freedom of the Self and begins to work in the Adhara. This is what you felt as a pressure; its coming through the top of the head, the forehead and eyes and nose ...
... subtle vision which sees things that are not physical. At a later stage a descent of Light is one of the capital phenomena of the opening of the greater Yogic experience and of the working of the Divine Power on the adhar. (3) What does he mean by chitta when he speaks of the force? Chitta as opposed to Chit or Vijnana etc. is only the basic mind-life consciousness out of which rises the stuff of ...
... in the heart, all that cannot prevent the final realisation; still, it may have to wait till the obstructions are removed or at least so much cleared out as to admit an unimpeded working of the Divine Power on the surface nature. Till then, there may be periods of inner ease and some light in the mind, periods also of the feeling of bhakti or of peace, periods of the joy of self-consecration in works ...
... bring in an unnecessary difficulty to add to your own and hamper your own progress. Keep to your own path, concentrate on your own obstacles to overcome them. As for her, you can at most pray to the Divine Power to help her and leave it there. Yoga has always its difficulties, whatever Yoga it be. Moreover Page 630 it acts in a different way on different seekers. Some have to overcome ...
... feels the universal Force doing one's works and the Self or Purusha watching or witness but free; one feels all one's works taken from one and done by the universal or the supreme Mother or by the Divine Power controlling and acting from behind the heart. By constant reference of all one's will and works to the Divine, love and adoration grow, the psychic being comes forward. By the reference to the Power ...
... proceed through any set mental teaching or prescribed forms of meditation, mantras or others, but by aspiration, by a self-concentration inwards or upwards, by self-opening to an Influence, to the Divine Power above us and its workings, to the Divine Presence in the heart, and by the rejection of all that is foreign to these things. It is only by faith, aspiration and surrender that this self-opening ...
... y and creative activity—they can be united. Any activity can be taken as part of the sadhana if it is offered to the Divine or done with the consciousness or faith that it is done by the Divine Power. That is the important point. Literature, poetry, science and other studies can be a preparation of the consciousness for life. When one does Yoga they can become part of the sadhana only ...
... a quiet aspiration except one's own acquiescence in the inertia. The practice of rejection prevails in the end; but with personal effort only, it may take a long time. If you can feel the Divine Power working in you, then it should become easier. There should be nothing inert or tamasic in the self-giving to the guidance and it should not be made by any part of the vital into a plea for not ...
... to be quiet and more and more quiet, to look on these influences as something not yourself which has intruded, to separate yourself from it and deny it and to abide in a quiet confidence in the Divine Power. If your psychic being asks for the Divine and your mind is sincere and calls for liberation from the lower nature and from all hostile forces and if you can call the Mother's power into your heart ...
... cease—refusing the sanction to all that you wish to eliminate. The process is long and laborious and the final perfection can only come by resolute and persevering practice. (2) To open yourself to the Divine Power and give up all into its hands, yourself only rejecting and refusing sanction to all that you feel to be false and contrary to truth and purity in you. This is as an answer to your difficulty ...
... continue, but as the consciousness comes down or to help its coming down to the vital centres, more concentration in the heart may be necessary hereafter. What usually comes is a descent of the Divine Power to work upon the nature and prepare it for the Divine Presence in the heart. There is much in human nature that has to be changed before it can hold what descends—incapacity and limitation of the ...
... done it must be done no longer as by a troop stumbling on courageously in the dark & losing its best strength by failures & Page 211 the results of unhappy blunders, but with the full divine power working out its will in its instruments. What is necessary for that action? First, that the divine knowledge & power should manifest perfectly in at least one man in India. In myself it is trying ...
... definite and irrevocable choice. Moreover whenever a Power of this kind tries to manifest, always in the exterior human personality the opposite movements have a strong place. It is as if for each divine power the conquest of its opposite in its own Page 392 chosen vessel was a condition for its perfect manifestation on the earth plane. When you came here the Mother perceived that you ...
... can she take them up fully in such conditions? What is the sign that one is taken up by the Divine? One can feel it. 21 June 1933 My dear Mother, I have heard a good deal about your divine power and supernatural knowledge from X. As I myself am a humble servant of the Goddess, I would request you to instruct me in the development of supernatural force in order to attain the ultimate end—Darshan ...
... nature. That difficulty will remain so long as you try to change your vital nature by the sole power of Page 724 your mind and mental will, calling in at most an indefinite and impersonal divine Power to aid you. It is an old difficulty which has never been truly solved because it has never been met in the true way. In the former ways of Yoga it did not supremely matter because the aim was withdrawal ...
... is the spirit or consciousness in which the work is done that matters most; the outer form can vary greatly for different natures. Thus, so long as one does not get the settled experience of the Divine Power taking up one's work and doing it, one acts according to one's nature; afterwards it is that Power which determines what is to be done or not done. The overcoming of all attachments must necessarily ...
... 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; it is not an intellectual light that ...
... about your yoga, a Vedantin who sought the Self might say that it was only because you had Page 301 not reached the highest that you wanted to do something on earth by means of the divine power, but that this aim had to be rejected before one could reach the highest." These doubts come from the mind—for which action is inferior to thought and thought itself something that comes out ...
... doing its work under the conditions of the evolutionary world here. It is not a question of "can" or "cannot" at all. All is possible, but all is not licit—except by a recognisable process; the Divine Power itself imposes on its action limits, processes, obstacles, vicissitudes. It is possible that an ass may be changed into an elephant, but it is not done, at least physically, because of the lack ...
... disciples; the world does not know what they do; they are not anxious for fame and do not attract to themselves the attention of men; but they have the higher consciousness, are in touch with a Divine Power, and when they create they create from there. The best paintings in India and much of the best statuary and architecture were done by Buddhist monks who passed their lives in spiritual contemplation ...
... disciples; the world does not know what they do; they are not anxious for fame and do not attract to themselves the attention of men; but they have the higher consciousness, are in touch with a Divine Power, and when they create they create Page 106 from there. The best paintings in India and much of the best statuary and architecture were done by Buddhist monks who passed their lives ...
... I adopted all the inhabitants of this ship, and enveloped them in an equal love, and that so in each one of them something of Thy consciousness would awake. Not often had I felt so strongly Thy divine power and Thy invincible light, and once again total was my confidence and unmixed my joyful surrender. O Thou who relievest all suffering and dispersest all ignorance, O Thou the supreme healer, be ...
... Thy force is like a rising tide, invading the entire being and breaking upon all things. Lord, Thy force will penetrate all life and create in it the effective strength which never fails, the divine power which is invincible, and, above every contrast and contradiction, it will establish in all Thy mastering energy which is the supreme will. Page 244 ...
... one more and more and leaves less and less to individual effort - but even then, if not effort, at least aspiration and vigilance are needed till the possession of mind, will, life and body by the Divine Power is complete. I have dealt with this subject, I think, in one of the chapters of "The Mother". On the other hand, there are some people who start with a genuine and dynamic will for a total ...
... proceed through any set mental teaching or prescribed forms of meditation, mantras or others, but by aspiration, by a self-concentration inwards or upwards, by self-opening to an Influence, to the Divine Power above us and its workings, to the Divine Presence in the heart and by the rejection of all that is foreign to these things. It is only by faith, aspiration and surrender that this self-opening can ...
... him: "The Avatar comes and opens the Way, but if there is nobody to follow him, what happens?" Sri Aurobindo says: either his conception is wrong or his life is quite futile. That is to say, if a divine Power comes on earth to open the Way to a higher realisation and it so happens that there is nobody on earth to follow the path, it is quite obvious that it was useless for him to come. But as a matter ...
... by these means. If, besides this, these beings have a higher spiritual knowledge, then they can utilise this force to construct gradually upon the earth what will be capable of manifesting the divine Power, Force and Grace. And then this power of money, wealth, this financial force, of which I just said that it was like a curse, would become a supreme blessing for the good of all. For I think that ...
... put them at the disposal of the Divine so that He may be able to use them for His work of transformation. ( Long silence ) Sweet Mother, it is men who have created money. Then how is it a divine power? Page 251 Hm! ( laughing ) It is as though you told me: it is a man and woman who have created another person, then how can he be divine in essence? It is exactly the same thing! The ...
... What is the difference between occultism and mysticism? Page 189 They are not at all the same thing. Mysticism is a more or less emotive relation with what one senses to be a divine power—that kind of highly emotional, affective, very intense relation with something invisible which is or is taken for the Divine. That is mysticism. Occultism is exactly what he has said: it is the ...
... beings of the vital who created that for fun and amused themselves forming all these impossible beasts which make human life altogether unpleasant. Did these intermediaries also come out of the Divine Power? Through intermediaries, yes, not directly. These beings are not in direct contact with the Divine (there are exceptions, I mean as a general rule), they are beings who are in relation with ...
... generally is something very good. Well, the example of the painter is interesting, because a painter who is truly an artist is able to see what he is going to do, he is able to connect himself to the divine Power that is beyond all expression and inspires all expression. For the poet, the writer, it is the same thing and for all people who do something, it is the same. If you tried that for your lessons ...
... it in the parts where its action is needed, and it will work out the change. Or, again, you can present your difficulty to the Divine and ask of It the cure, putting confidently your trust in the Divine Power." Questions and Answers 1929-1931 ( 23 June 1929 ) What is this "consciousness of the completed cure"? This does not mean that there is a specific consciousness of the completed cure ...
... divine Will and not by the ego. The ego was a means-a means for many centuries-now it is worth nothing, its time has passed. Now. . .( Mot h er brings down her fist) , consciousness, it is the Divine; power, it is the Divine; action, it is the Divine; individuality, it is the Divine. And the body has understood, felt very well; it has realised, understood that this sense of being a ...
... these means. If, besides this, these beings have a higher spiritual knowledge, then they can utilise this force to construct gradually upon the earth what will be capable of manifesting the divine Power, Force and Grace. Source Money Belongs to No One The conflict about money is what might be called a "conflict of ownership", but the truth is that money belongs to no one. This ...
... spiritual being that consents to the play of Nature. What is original and eternal for ever in the Divine is the Being, what is developed in consciousness, conditions, forces, forms, etc. by the Divine Power is the Becoming. The eternal Divine is the Being; the universe in Time and all that is apparent in it is a Becoming. The eternal Being in its superior nature, Para Prakriti, is at once One and Many; ...
... the divine Will and not by the ego. The ego was a means—a means for many centuries—now it is worth nothing, its time has passed. Now... ( Mother brings down her fist ), consciousness, it is the Divine; power, it is the Divine; action, it is the Divine; individuality, it is the Divine. And the body has understood, felt very well; it has realised, understood that this sense of being a separate ind ...
... soul. 23 August 1951 Page 352 India must be saved for the good of the world since India alone can lead the world to peace and a new world order. 1 February 1954 Divine Power alone can help India. If you can build faith and cohesion in the country it is much more powerful than any man-made power. 2 February 1954 There must be a group forming a strong body ...
... representative; from this inner silent Being proceeds a rejection of all that is to be rejected, an acceptance only of what can be kept and transformed, an inmost Will to perfection or a call to the Divine Power to do at each step what is necessary for the change of the Nature. It can also open mind, life and body to the inmost psychic entity and its guiding influence or its direct guidance. In most cases ...
... of something infinitely precious, and protect it very carefully from everything that can impair it. In the ignorance and darkness of the beginning, faith is the most direct expression of the Divine Power which comes to fight and conquer. Page 352 ...
... ion of the body, when some cells of the body, more ready than others, more refined, more subtle, more plastic, are able to feel concretely the presence of the divine Grace, the divine Will, the divine Power, this Knowledge that is not intellectual but a knowledge by identity, when one feels this in the cells of the body, then the experience is so total, so imperative, so living, concrete, tangible ...
... must forget one's past. But why torment yourself so much? Be calm, don't get disturbed, remember that the conditions of our life are not quite ordinary conditions, and keep your trust in the Divine Power to organise all and do all through the human instruments which are open to His influence. Page 183 Be with me, Mother, without You I am weak, very weak and fearful. One must ...
... world is false because its material appearance does not at all express the profound truth of things. There is as if a discrepancy between the appearance and what lies within. Thus, a man with a divine power deep within him may, on the outer plane, find himself in the situation of a slave. It's preposterous! Whereas in the supramental world, the will acts directly upon the substance, and the substance ...
... What interested me is that in their case (those who follow tantric or other initiations), what is doubtful is whether or not they can succeed in receiving the response of the true Power, the divine power, the supreme power; they do everything they can, but this question still remains. Whereas for me, it is the opposite situation: the Power is there, I have it, but how can I make it act here in matter ...
... them exactly. If you read carefully what he has written—so much—you will find the answer to all these questions. And at the same time you will know that you will have the full support of the Divine Power. The Power that was behind him is behind this transformation. It is time for transformation. We can't cling to the past. The best way to go beyond politics is to spread the message of Sri Aurobindo ...
... Birth of true mental sincerity: with its birth the mind will understand that it is only a means and not an end in itself. The mind must learn to express only what is dictated by the Divine. Power of mental expression has no value unless it is in the service of the Divine. Page 339 Reason: an excellent instrument when at the Divine's service. Physical mind becomes ...
... ends. It is evidently the working of the Kali force that has lit and is directing this fire in you. There is nothing wrong in its action; it is not an anger personal to you but the wrath of a divine power and it must be allowed to act; in fact, I think you could not stop it from burning in you even if you wanted to stop it. This man has drawn it on himself and there is nothing wrong in what is happening ...
... Spiritual beauty has a contagious power. Beauty does not get its full power except when it is surrendered to the Divine. The beauty of tomorrow: beauty which will express the Divine Power. Page 232 The beauty of tomorrow manifesting the Divine: a beauty that exists only by the Divine and for the Divine. Beauty is not sufficient in itself, it wants to become ...
... innumerable experiences or of habits (it's both; not clearly one or the other, but both)—that Nature's force, that is to say, the nature governing the body, knows what needs to be done better than the divine Power: it's "used to it," it "knows better." That's how it is. And then, when this new consciousness which is being worked out in the physical being ( the mind of the cells ) has caught hold of that, ...
... Mother’s Agenda 1967 August 15, 1967 ( Message for Sri Aurobindo's ninety-fifth birthday: ) "But in any case the Divine Power is working always behind and one day, perhaps when one least expects it, the obstacle breaks, the clouds vanish and there is again the light and the sunshine. The best thing in these cases is, if one can manage it, not to ...
... him ( embracing gesture ). Page 149 It is very concrete—very concrete and very powerful: a concentration. As if the Grace were concentrated on an instrument of the Divine, of the divine Power—an instrument. For me, you see, there was constantly: May Your Will be done, Lord, may Your Will be done, Lord.... As if he were chosen as an instrument, as one of the instruments. May Your Will ...
... in whose hand what by decree I do, Second Omnipotence..." 100 Here is presented in both its essence-visioning and its form-executive aspects - the aspects of eye and hand - the Divine Power which expresses itself in the bright-burning Tyger with the help of the glory drawn by its Sonhood from the Supreme Fatherhood above. Then there is Christ's command to his own armies to stand ...
... the Mahratta insurgence under Shivaji, the flaming inspiration of the patriot saint Ram-das which made the former a leader of men who thought and felt and acted as if they were instruments of a divine Power Bhavani, the Goddess believed to preside over the destiny of India. The whole movement is worked out from this central motive with one master stroke after another: each word and phrase seems to ...
... the problem of incapacity has to be tackled and solved on the plane of the body itself. For "the body is the key, the body the secret both of bondage and of release, of animal weakness and of divine power, of the obscuration of the mind and soul and of their illumination, of subjection to pain and limitation and of self-mastery, of death and of immortality." 2 But what is the inherent ...
... beings, the elites, transcending the mental ignorance and rising to the truth of the spirit which is omnipresent, omniscient and omnipotent. If by spiritual self-discipline and self-surrender to the divine Power, we eliminate the ego and identify ourselves with the Divine, then we also become omniscient and omnipotent. This is not an impossible ideal ; this identification has been achieved by all spiritual ...
... will still consciously reject them, still urging that naked Power is worthy of worship. Such is the attitude inculcated in God's answer to Job 2 out of the whirlwind: the Page 289 divine power and knowledge are paraded, but of the divine goodness there is no hint. Such also is the attitude of those, who, in our own day, base their morality upon the struggle for survival, maintaining that ...
... thrilled with a constant ecstasy. This would be the total perfection of the spiritualized body. All this might not come all at once, though such a sudden illumination might be possible if a divine Power and Light and Ananda could take their stand on the summit of our being and send down their force into the mind and life and body illumining and remoulding the cells, awaking consciousness in all ...
... most terrible hailstorm accompanied by a tempestuous gale is out of season and will cause our destruction. (15) I shall employ an effective remedy against this...and shall accordingly by my own divine power protect Vraja, which has sought shelter in me, looks upon me as its Protector, nay, which constitutes my own family! This is my firm resolve." (18) * Adapted from Srīmad Bhāgvata Mahāpurāna ...
... your life. Because I am sure many of you are in my shoes, if I may put it this way, as amateur philosophers. These were the common questions that troubled me: Does the Divine exist? "What is Divine Power? etc. Not big, high, philosophical questions like those of Dr. Radhakrishnan or Bergson, but of a common man, of an average student. And He has answered me in the same vein, making the answers ...
... we were wrong. His physical nearness made us realise, with an extraordinary lucidity, what terrible inhuman forces were trying to overcast the world with an abysmal darkness from which a supreme Divine Power alone could save it. For all the war-news we had to depend on the daily newspapers, since members of the Ashram were not supposed to have radios. Somebody in the town began to supply us with ...
... Since All Life is Yoga, Sri Aurobindo has reminded: “Any activity can be taken as part of the sadhana if it is offered to the Divine or done with the consciousness or faith that it is done by the Divine Power.” [56] Nishikanto, apart from composing verses, did no work of the Ashram in the early years. Though he wrote from a vital inspiration a time came when the cascade of inspiration was reduced ...
... Mother, this statuette was made in Poland. Let me give You today the photo of Riek through whom You brought me to Yourself. Janina.") A few minutes later your letter arrived and I knew that the Divine Power was working with you too. You must forgive my letters and understand why it is. They are not so constructed as Heinz would want it, but other things will come later. What I wanted to tell you is ...
... Sri Aurobindo: Bad logic again! When I write "Look here" it means I am not serious, however terrifying I may be! NB: Others say - and it was the central question - that wherever the Divine Power has successfully acted upon and miraculously changed those who were in their external nature robbers and social pariahs, there was probably in them, interiorly, something latent. And they ...
... will of the sadhaka may be occasionally or frequently enlightened or moved by a supreme Will or conscious Force beyond it; then, constantly replaced; and, last, identified and merged in that divine Power-Action. There are two separate passages, one in The Life Divine and the other in The Synthesis of Yoga, where Sri Aurobindo has described in sufficient detail this complex process of progressive ...
... our nature such as it stands organised by our past evolution and without rejecting anything essential is brought under the force of tapasya so that all undergoes a divine change. Thirdly, the divine Power in us uses all life as the means of this integral Yoga. In this process, all life is perceived as Yoga of Nature, seeking to manifest God within itself, but the distinguishing mark of the integral ...
... perfection of the four-fold personality, the personality of knowledge, of strength, of harmony and love and of perfection of skill and service. This movement is further strengthened by the faith in the divine Power of Shakti to replace the limited human energy so that it may be shaped into the image of and filled with the force of greater infinite energy. The third element of perfection is, according to Sri ...
... depths of the universal silence and the infinite largeness of the universal action. It finds the same absolute oneness in the Purusha and the Prakriti; in the divine Presence and the works of the divine Power and Knowledge; in the eternal manifestness of the one Purusha and the constant manifestation of the many Purushas; in the inalienable unity of Sachchidananda keeping constantly real to itself its ...
... Samaveda occupies a special place. According to Yaska, Sama has three alternative meanings: (1) Union of heaven, life-breath and song; (2) Union of knowledge and works; (3) Union of divine power and individual soul. The mantras of Samaveda are recited as songs, and some of the best prayers of the Veda are to be found in the Mahanamni Archika, which occurs between the first and the ...
... clash with a rival, that seeks to gain victory by subjugating. It will not be Nietzschean "will to power," Page 110 which is, at best, a supreme Asuric power. It will rather be a Divine Power, for the strength it will exert and the victory it will achieve will not come from the ego—it is the ego which requires an object outside and against to feel and affirm itself—but it will come from ...
... The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 7 Mysticism and Occultism Mysticism is more or less an emotional relation with what one feels to be a Divine Power—it is a relation very intimate, emotive and intense with something invisible which one takes for the Divine. Occultism is the knowledge of invisible forces and the power to handle them. It is a science, ...
... * * * Knowledge and power belong to the Divine and are bestowed when and on whom He chooses; covet them not. But devotion and love are man's and by love and devotion you can enter into divine power and knowledge. * * * Man is the net that the Divine Fowler has spread to capture the wide and fleet universal physical Nature, so that through him it may be brought under control, ...
... familiar and common disbelief, God has wanted to show, by way of a practical demonstration, as it were, how to rise above human weakness. In man, in spite of his numerous weaknesses, there abides a divine Power by virtue of which even the dumb can be endowed with eloquence. The second mystery is this that not only for the individual but for the collectivity the human form of God has a special significance ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 3 Mysticism and Occultism MYSTICISM is more or less an emotional relation with what one feels to be a Divine Power – it is a relation very intimate, emotive and intense with something invisible which one takes for the Divine. Occultism is the knowledge of invisible forces and the power to handle them. It is ...
... "Through me you go into the city of sorrows, Through me you go into eternal grief, Through me you go among people lost for ever. Justice moved my supreme Creator, I was fashioned by the Divine Power, The Summit Knowledge, the First Love. Page 50 Before me nothing created was there Unless it was also eternal, and I eternally am. Abandon all hope, you who enter here ...
... greater importance; Page 48 I mean, trust. If your faith is not made of a complete trust in the Divine or if you begin to lose the trust, then you gradually lose faith in the Divine Power or in the Divine Goodness or in the trust that the Divine has in you. These are the three great stumbling-blocks. It happens at times, if not quite often, that starting with a faith which you ...
... step, motion, figure of our activities, in every turn of our will, in every thought, feeling and impulse. No doubt, we can feel that in a sense even in the nature of the Ignorance, but it is the divine Power and Presence in a disguise, a diminution, an inferior figure. Ours is a greater demand, that our nature shall be a power of the Divine in the Truth of the Divine, in the Light, in the force of the ...
... the full powers of the instrumental nature, the perfected dynamism of the fourfold soul-nature, the ascension of the powers of the instrumental nature and of the soul-nature into the action of the divine Power, and a perfect faith in all our members to call and support that ascension, — s'akti, virya, daivi prakrti, s'raddha. The third perfection will consist of the evolution of the mental into the ...
... intellectual proof of God's existence, I shall make four statements. "(1) 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 ...
... exact number of Agamas, but it is estimated that there are 64 of them. "Tantras are devoted to the methods of utilising the dynamic energies of life in order to open up the doors of the Divine Power for a triumphant mastery over the world-activities. Page 59 was also during this period a remarkable attempt to combine Vedanta and Islam or of establishing lasting communal harmony ...
... Sadhana6 as well as the Master of Yoga by whom the lower personality is used as the centre of a divine transfiguration and the instrument of its own perfection.'7 In the integral yoga, the Divine Power in us uses all life as the means of our upward evolution. Every experience and outer Page 27 contact with our world-environment, however, trifling or disastrous, is used as an occasion ...
... the spiritual course of the practicant. The Fire of spiritual discipline burns up all the dross contained in the receptacle of the aspirant making him more capable and bringing down into him the divine power, knowledge and bliss - complete success. The power of Fire is no other than the dynamis of the Divine vision, the activity born of direct realisation (kavikratu); therefore Fire is called the ...
... where she had gone leaving Brahman in this state of darkness. Then it was always Varuna who through his sight, long sight, his penetrating vision found Page 21 that Brahmashakti, the Divine Power has gone away far, very far, deep into the bosom of the Earth, and has disintegrated herself into material substances. She has become Matter, unconscious and dark like matter. The Gods found she ...
... thrilled with a constant ecstasy. This would be the total perfection of the spiritualised body. All this might not come all at once, though such a sudden illumination might be possible if a divine Power and Light and Ananda could take their stand on the summit of our being and send down their force into the mind and life and body illumining and remoulding the cells, awaking consciousness in all ...
... whether there is waste. It may be waste from the human point of view—but is that view enough ? He puts it very finely in poetic form, in Savitri, when he says "...prodigal of her rich divinity". The Divine power that is working, this Conscious Force, this Shakti, that is working at her task in the cosmos, is prodigal of its divinity. "She wastes eternity on a beat of time". She can afford to waste eternity ...
... elements. And he feels the possibility of bringing this Truth- world into the earth so that a new creation, the kingdom of the Divine, would be manifested here. He receives from this Divine Power the direct inspiration to continue his spiritual efforts and struggles for bringing the Truth-world in the midst of human ignorance and against the opposition of the Powers of Darkness, suffering ...
... eternal voice must be heard, the eternal Will (God's Will to Self-unfoldment in the world) must be known, and allowed to express and realise itself in the poet's whole life. And Strength (the Divine Power) must fulfil itself. Not in some remote and recondite Beyond, but here, in this earthly life, in this human bodily existence, in the very midst of our natural activities, the Divine Union must ...
... with the mystery of the individual will in eternal opposition to the Divine will. Satan, the creator of all evil on earth is conscious —very acutely conscious, of his limitations and also of the Divine Power that contains and drives him. It seems almost certain that after Milton an epic dealing entirely with an objective story is not possible, for, the rationalism with which the modem age began has ...
... into the nature of the higher, mind can recover its divine light in the all-comprehending Supermind, the soul realise its divine self in the all-possessing all- blissful Ananda, life possess its divine power in the play of omnipotent Conscious-Force and Matter open to its divine liberty as a form of the divine Existence. And if there be any goal to the evolution which finds here its present crown and ...
... to love are signs of infinite things, Love is a glory from eternity's spheres." Page 284 Even though lower elements of human nature debase and mock at it, still, love is a divine power by which "all can change". Love is like a bud in the human being, it opens slowly; or it is like a somnambulist child wandering about seeking himself in many forms and at last it sees a ...
... possibilities—of good and evil—within him. The past lives in him and the future is preparing in the present. Mind of man goes on working and creating its own moulds but at last it is some other will—a divine power—that works out the "intricate plan". It waits for its time and circumstances. Man is not what he appears to be on the surface of his consciousness: "A vast subliminal is man's measureless part" ...
... of self-perfection and divine work. In the New Creation or the supramental new- . ¹ The Mother by Sri Aurobindo. Page 259 moulding of life, money will be restored to the Divine Power and "used for a true and beautiful and harmonious equipment and ordering of anew divinised vital and physical existence in whatever way the Divine Mother herself decides in her creative vision ...
... human civilization is waiting for the fourth and final revolution that is the spiritual revolution. The Divine Consciousness with the spiritual power will continue to work silently and universally. Divine Power — Divya Shakti — moves in mankind from mind to mind and creates a revolution — Deva Manmani Sancaranti. In everyone's life this silent revolution goes on, so inevitably, infallibly that it is ...
... how She looked then! This moment of history was indelibly engraved on the earth. Vande Mataram in Sanskrit means ‘I adore the Mother’. As a mantra, these two words have an extraordinary, a divine power and their mere utterance enables man to offer his life in total fearlessness and joy. Those who create mantras are called rishis. And it is because they are divinely inspired that they can visualise ...
... participate in public movements with equanimity and with a truer spiritual attitude. I got some experiences also which confirmed my faith in Sri Aurobindo's path. I got the confident faith in a divine Power that is beyond time and space and that can and does work in the world. I came to know that any man with a sincere aspiration for it can come in contact with that Power. There were people who ...
... into the nature of the higher, mind can recover its divine light in the all-comprehending Supermind, the soul realise its divine self in the all-possessing all-blissful Ananda, life repossess its divine power in the play of omnipotent Conscious-Force and Matter open to its divine liberty as a form of the divine Existence. And if there be any goal to the evolution... such a luminous and puissant tran ...
... without cavil or resistance and let her do unhindered her work within you....Follow your soul and not 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 ...
... Vivekananda, n āyam ātm ā balahinena labhyah , “This self is not to be attained by one who is weak.” I believe that Sudhir Kumar’s seeking of the Self, his s ādhan ā , followed the path of the divine power. All through his life he offered his strength to serve his Master and his Mother. Sparks of Fire RAJEN GANGULI ( Managing Editor, ‘The Advent’, Ashram Publication ) I first met Sudhir-da ...
... his sadhana? The answer was categorical: Any activity can be taken as part of the sadhana if it is offered to the Divine or done with the consciousness or faith that it is done by the Divine Power. 5 The six months till August passed quickly enough, and Nirod stayed on, Page 274 and the bud of his psychic self blossomed in the steady warmth Grace of the Master and ...
... become great?" On the contrary, we should tell ourselves, "There must certainly be something I can do better than anyone else, since each one of us is a special mode of manifestation of the divine power which, in its essence, is one in all. However humble and modest it may be, this is precisely the thing to which I should devote myself, and in order to find it, I shall observe and analyse my ...
... secureness and intensity of the state, but well enough in the general type. When that has been done, then we may hope to found securely the play in us of his divine Knowledge governing the action of divine Power. The rest is the full opening up of the different planes of his world-play and the Page 406 Sri Aurobindo at Pondicherry, 1918-20 subjection of Matter ...
... central thought and will that have to acquiesce, but all the parts of our being must assent and surrender to the law of the spiritual Truth: all have to learn to obey the government of the conscious Divine Power in the members." — The Life Divine by Sri Aurobindo. "...At each step of the transition the assent of the Purusha is needed and there must be too the consent of each part of the nature to ...
... embrace the complex totality of human nature; second, the secret of transformation was sought for elsewhere than where it naturally belongs—the power that was employed for the work was not the supreme divine Power which alone can transmute,. without coercing or crippling, the teeming elements and. Page 411 energies of human nature; third, the time was not ripe for such a global collective ...
... the beliefs of others. (Giordano Bruno) *** There is no better way to make friends than to laugh together. *** O Divine Force, Supreme illuminator, who can resist your Divine Power? You are the unique and supreme Reality. Listen to our prayers, do not distance yourself, or withdraw from us. Help us to fight the good fight, strengthen our resolve for the battle; grant us the ...
... wisdom (elephants), the Divine's power (horses), the Divine's light (cows). The ferocity and rapacity which are ordinarily associated with lions and tigers are found to be absent here since these animals are not to be observed. But the truth behind them is not lacking in spirituality; the lordly strength behind the lion and the fiery energy behind the tiger are part of the Divine's manifestation, but they... called the central point of the psychic plane, the Prasad Bhavan where there is, as it were, the quintessence of the Divine. It is a deep core surrounded by a wall (with no door or window) where one may have the experience which an Aurobindonian poet has expressed in regard to the Divine Mother: Your spirit is my spirit, deep in the deep, Walled by a wizardry of shining sleep. “Here within... projection directly from the Highest to stand behind the universal manifestation. And it is from this inmost fusion of the soul-plane with the supreme station of the Divine that a dish, giving what we have named the quintessence of the Divine, comes out, bringing the marvellous Prasad. “While Champaklal is coming out of the Bhavan he gets a view of the vital world under the psychic influence—the ex ...
... should not end until the coming of the psychic law which manifests the Divine Will. Power to reject adverse suggestions: the power which comes from the conscious union with the Divine. Wisdom cannot be acquired except through union with the Divine Consciousness. Integral wisdom: that obtained by union with the Divine. Like everything that belongs to creation, wisdom is progressive... decrees of a Fate that nothing can deflect. The faith that goes to the Cosmic Divine is limited in the power of its action by the necessities of the play. To get entirely free from these limitations one must reach the Transcendent Divine. Page 230 The only hope is in the capacity of the invisible Power! Only the supreme consciousness can have an effect on your Karma and this... is independent, above all human consciousness. The Supreme Power is taking up all the movements. It will turn them into the Truth. No effort is needed, no aid from the mind or any of the instruments, even the individual consent is no longer needed. Those who are predestined receive the help of an Inner Guide. Divine solicitude: always active, even when we do not perceive it. ...
... is not itself the Divine, although it comes from the Divine—so the mechanism of Prakriti is not the Divine Mother. No doubt something of her is there in and behind this mechanism maintaining it for its evolutionary purpose—but what she is in herself is not a Shakti of Avidya, but the Divine Consciousness, Power, Light, Para Prakriti to whom we turn for the release and the divine fulfilment. 26 April... and blind and can only show a limited Truth and a brief Ananda. Everything comes from the Divine; but the lower Prakriti is the power of the Ignorance—it is not therefore a power of Truth, but only of mixed truth and falsehood. The Mother here stands not for the Power of the Ignorance, but for the Power that has Page 61 come down to bring down the Truth and rise up to the Truth out of... me that whatever we do, it is the Divine who acts through us. But it seems to me that the Divine cannot be behind all we do, because we do not always do the right thing. Is there any truth in what X says? There is this much truth that the cosmic Force works out everything and the Cosmic Spirit (Virat Purusha) supports her action. But this cosmic Force is a Power that works under the conditions ...
... have painted his beard as if it was false and stuck... better paint it again—another portrait of Aswapathy. And I did so. For picture seventeen I had to draw the "Yantra"—symbol of the Divine Shakti (Power). The Mother said jokingly: Now look, we must paint the "Yantra" correctly; otherwise, wise people will surely find out our mistakes... I said to her that I would surely copy it nicely ...
... is the Divine Shakti—the Consciousness and Power of the Divine, the Mother and Energy of the worlds. All powers are hers. Sometimes Devi-power may mean the power of the universal World-Force; but this is only one side of the Shakti. Mahakali and Kali are not the same, Kali is a lesser form. Mahakali in the higher planes appears usually with the golden colour. Ganesh is the Power that removes... and harmonise them in the One Divine and the One Adya Shakti of whom all are the manifestations. Shiva is the Lord of Tapas. The power is the power of Tapas. Krishna as a godhead is the Lord of Ananda, Love and Bhakti; as an incarnation, he manifests the union of wisdom (Jnana) and works and leads the earth-evolution through this towards union with the Divine by Ananda, Love and Bhakti. ... with them: Mitra—Harmony. Varuna—Wideness. Aryaman—Power, Tapasya. Brihaspati—Wisdom (Word and Knowledge). Vishnu—Cosmic Consciousness. Vayu—Life. Post-Vedic Gods of the Indian Tradition Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva are only three Powers and Personalities of the One Cosmic Godhead. Brahma is the Power of the Divine that stands behind formation and creation. As for Vishnu ...
... as uniformly sustained a passage of overhead (even clearly overmind) poetry, unmistakably recognisable in rhythm and language, as anywhere else in the poem. The main effect is to project a divine-human power who symbolises a union of beauty and grace, strength and silence: Near to earth's wideness, intimate with heaven, Exalted and swift her young large-visioned spirit Voyaging... Savitri XV SAVITRI: HER POWER AND PERSONALITY Gods and men and all Nature awake with the Dawn, and Savitri awakes too on this day of all days "when Satyavan must die". She is burdened by the foreknowledge about her Satyavan's fate, but she would share the burden with none; she cannot cry, she will not woo despair: ... the Higher Mind, if Shakespeare in his great dazzling moments of supreme utterance is the poet with the Illumined Mind, if Dante's poetry is charged again and again with the marvellous revelatory power of the Intuitive Mind, then Sri Aurobindo's Savitri embodies the sovereignty of the Overmind and comes to us with the direct, potent and radiant force of the Upanishadic mantra, a sustained feat ...
... must want nothing but the Divine, nothing but to manifest the Divine. And all that it does, even all its so-called errors, are only means towards making it inevitable for the whole creation to manifest the Divine—but not the "Divine" as man conceives him to be, "this and not that", with all kinds of restrictions: a Totality of tremendous power and light. It is truly the Power in the world, a new and... tremendous Power that has come into the world and must manifest itself and must make "manifestable" (if one may so put it) this Divine All-Power. I have come to this conclusion. I have looked, I have observed and I have seen that what we call "supramental", lacking a better word, this Supramental makes the creation more sensitive to the higher Power; we call that "divine" because we... It is divine in relation... and more true from day to day, from hour to hour—the feeling that this Force, when it is directed by what we call "the Divine", it can , truly it can—you understand—it has the power to move Matter, it can produce a material accident; and it can efface the consequences of an absolutely material thing—it is stronger than... Matter. This Page 315 is what is altogether new and incomprehensible; ...
... strong and brilliant force of battle, kṣatram amavat tveṣam . From what we already know of these symbols we can easily Page 226 grasp the inner sense of the hymn. Indra, the Divine Mind-Power takes their secret wealth from the powers of the Ignorance with whom he refuses to ally himself even when they are rich and prosper; he gives the imprisoned herds of the illumined Dawn to the... wheel that finds Swar, satisfying (with the wealth) the doer of works." It is always the thought, the Truth, the word that is associated with the Cows of the Panis; by the words of Indra the Divine Mind-Power those who withhold the cows are conquered; that which was dark becomes light; the chariot drawn by the horses yoked by the Truth finds (by knowledge, svarvidā nābhinā ) the luminous vastnesses... yatra raṇanti dhītayaḥ . And it is said in the next verse that the divine chariot of Soma follows, getting knowledge, the supreme direction and labours forward, having vision, by the rays, pūrvām anu pradiśaṁ yāti cekitat, saṁ raśmibhir yatate darśato ratho daivyo darśato rathaḥ . This supreme direction is evidently that of the divine or vast Truth; these rays are evidently the rays of the Dawn or Sun ...
... agonized quest for the purpose of life with the simple answer that it was "to do good". He renounced organized religion, government and private property in favour of a faith in the individual's divinely given power to discern the good, a conviction derived from his perception of the simple faith of the peasants and from his study of Christ's words. Most of Tolstoy's writing during the last 30 years ...
... wideness or power or else a horizontal opening into the cosmic consciousness or, in a suddenly widened mind, an outburst of knowledge. Whatever comes has to be welcomed—for there is no absolute rule for all,—but if the peace has not come first, care must be taken not to swell oneself in exultation or lose the balance. The capital movement however is when the Divine Force or Shakti, the Power of the Mother... we aspire for. The second opening is effected by a concentration of the consciousness in the head (afterwards, above it) and an aspiration and call and a sustained will for the descent of the divine Peace, Power, Light, Knowledge, Ananda into the being—the Peace first or the Peace and Force together. Some indeed receive Light first or Ananda first or some sudden pouring down of Knowledge. With some there... there will be the descent of a higher consciousness into you. Your present consciousness in which you feel these things is only a preparatory one—in which the Mother works in you through the cosmic power according to your state of consciousness and your karma and in that working both success and failure can come—one has to remain equal-minded to both while trying always for success. A surer guidance ...
... strength of elephants, nor the swiftness of eagles. For whom are we envying, whose goods are we coveting? Ourselves, our own goods. If we realise divine unity, we can enjoy them as perfectly in another's experience as in our own. Moreover, being divine in power ourselves we can get them whenever our supreme self wills without anyone else in the world being the poorer for our gain. There must be no demand... with that secret & divine laughter. For he knows that the whole world is but a divine play of the eternal Child-God Srikrishna with Himself in the playground of His self-existence. All this he cannot have unless in the roots of his conscious being he feels not concealed or subliminal, but manifest & always present to him, the Bright, Calm, Unconcerned, Unbound, Unrelated Divine Existence. This Pure... Pure Existence is not only an impersonal state of divine being, it is God Himself in His pure personality. For in all the divine manifestation, there is always this double aspect of Personality & Impersonality. God Impersonal manifests Himself, both in the universe & transcendent of the Universe, transcending it as infinite pure Existence, infinite pure Consciousness, infinite pure Delight, the triune ...
... Intimacy with the Divine Mental sincerity Resolution Mind touched by Divine Light Divine sacrifice Healing power Obedience Simple sincerity Supramental beauty in the cells Aspiration in the physical for Divine Love Idealism Countryside Peace in the cells of the body Discipline Happy humour Vital force Modesty Mental victory Devotion Vital harmony Faith Dynamic power The flame... paintings refer to the significances as given by the Mother to those flowers. Krishna's Light in the physical mind Tenderness Integral purity Child's hand The vital opening to Divine Love Power of expression Ananda A la promenade - Out walking (7.8.33) Offering The Lotus The bouquet The Child Psychological perfection Mango Transparency Faithfulness Krishna's Light... in thes subconscient Divine joy in work Mental sincerity Vital sincerity Vital progress Sweetness of thought turned exclusively towards the Divine Aspiration for vital purity Obedience (5.5.33) The will to conquer: vital conquest over vital enemies Vital thoroughness Will one with the Divine Will Faithfulness Service Aspiration in the physical for Divine Love Peace in the vital ...
... us with the Divine, and with the whole universe in the Divine. This union is the well-spring of universal love. "Live in the consciousness of the psychic centre, thus your will shall express the Divine’s Will alone and your transformed being will then be able to receive and manifest the Divine Love.”¹ What we know as faith in the Divine Presence everywhere and the Divine's power to heal and... by the Divine Consciousness of which it is a part and parcel. It is in each of you the deep inner being which you have to find in order that you may come in contact with the Divine in you. It is the intermediary between the Divine Consciousness and your external consciousness; it is the builder of the inner life; it is that which manifests in the outer nature the order and rule of the Divine Will. ... diversity may not lead to disorder, it proceeds on the basis of the unity of the Divine Consciousness, and uses the psychic being as an immortal, living individual unrolling infinite variation on the bosom of a conscious unity. The psychic being is the living temple of the Divine on earth, and if we aspire to realise the Divine, it can be only through a realisation of the psychic in us. "Below the human ...
... which the Mother would hesitate to make, being no particular figure in the political sphere. Even on the spiritual level, their modes of operation could be dissimilar. As the Shakti, the Divine Executive Power, she could be at times most dynamic and relentless but at other times most tender and considerate. Careful and conservative too she could be when the Force in her moved her not to be a breaker... of the Mother's telling him about me on November 24, 1950. Why had she not done the same either on August 15, 1947 or any of the two other occasions before the last Darshan? All actions of the Divine Incarnate have, whether the outer mind is allowed to know it or not, a truth-impulsion. Always at the right moment the right thing for Page 40 the soul is done. On the present ...
... included in the formula of Immortality; Knowledge is incomplete without action. Chit fulfils itself by Tapas, Consciousness by energy. And as Surya represents the divine Light, so Agni to the ancient Rishis represented divine Force, Power or Will-in-Consciousness. The prayer to Agni completes the prayer to Surya. THE INDIVIDUAL WILL As in knowledge, so in action, unity is the true foundation.... by desire and egoism, he uses them to transcend them and emerges as the universal in Man or universal Power, Agni Vaishwanara, who contains in himself all the gods and all the worlds, upholds all the universal workings and finally fulfils the godhead, the Immortality. He is the worker of the divine Work. It is these symbols which govern the sense of the two final verses of the Upanishad. THE IMMORTAL... knowledge and action are one movement. SURRENDER TO THE DIVINE WILL This is the change that happens when, the mental will approximating more and more to the divine, Agni burns out in us. It is that increasing knowledge and force which carries us finally into the straight or good path out of the crookedness. It is the divine Will, one with the divine knowledge, which leads us towards felicity, towards ...
... spirituality fell short, it was because the means remained undiscovered. Sri Aurobindo's teaching is that there must be in the infinite Divine the power that put forth the formula of a huge involution as the starting-point of an endless evolution and that in this power must reside the key to the irradiation of the Vedic darkness so that the Godhead may stand manifest in the very atoms of matter,... fierce inner wounds that are slow to heal." Nothing save Divine Love in the supreme degree could support him in such a journey - Divine Love that throws itself out infinitely to lead the evolving world, sparing itself no struggle however dangerous, no self-immolation however exorbitant. A body that housed the illimitable power of the Supermind and could become permeated with the Light... secure in them as in its own home since matter would release in its own terms the Supreme Spirit crypted within it. This power he calls Supermind, Truth-Consciousness, Gnosis. To make the Supermind descend into earth-life, to carry it down into the Cave of Night and, by making the "Sun on the head of the Timeless" join the Sun immured below the feet of Time, render possible a perfect existence ...
... material energy called Earth in the Veda and spoken of there as the Mother. It is a Vedic epithet of the God Vayu, who, representing the divine principle in the Life-energy, Prana, extends himself in Matter and vivifies its forms. Here, it signifies the divine Life-power that presides in all forms of cosmic activity. × ... × The Vedic term kratu means sometimes the action itself, sometimes the effective power behind action represented in mental consciousness by the will. Agni is this power. He is divine force which manifests first in matter as heat and light and material energy and then, taking different forms in the other principles of man's consciousness... × In the inner sense of the Veda Surya, the Sun-God, represents the divine Illumination of the Kavi which exceeds mind and forms the pure self-luminous Truth of things. His principal power is self-revelatory knowledge, termed in the Veda "Sight". His realm is described as the Truth, the Law, the Vast. He is the Fosterer or Increaser ...
... universality and therefore divine. Certainly, power is included To be the divine man is to be self-ruler and world-ruler; but in another than the external sense. This is a rule that depends upon a secret sympathy and oneness which knows the law of another's being and of the world's being and helps or, if need be, compels it to realise its own greatest possibilities, but by a divine and essentially an inner... 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 them exclusively is to invite... is a great and divine riddle; but it is no knot of Gordius, nor is its all-wise Author a dead king that he should suffer us to mock his intention and cut through to our will with the fierce impatience of the hasty mortal conqueror. None of these oppositions is more constant than that of Power and Love: yet neither of these deities can be safely neglected. What can be more divine than Love? But followed ...
... infinite Existence in forms of a Divine knowledge, will and delight to be imposed on our mentality, vitality, physical existence till the lower is transformed into the perfect vessel of the higher. This was the double Vedic movement of the descent and birth of the gods in the human creature and the ascent of the human powers that struggle towards the Divine knowledge, power and delight and climb into the... supermind where the One and Many meet and our being is freely open to the revealing light of the Divine Truth and the Inspiration of the Divine Will and Knowledge. If we can break down the veil of the intellectual, emotional, sensational mind which our ordinary existence has built between us and the Divine, we can then take up through the Truth-mind all our mental, vital and physical experience and offer... but even in a later period, we have Sankaracarya’s view that the Vedas are mines of knowledge, knowledge of all the planes of consciousness, and that they fix the condition sand relations of the Divine with the human and the animal element in the being. Moreover, we have in recent times, the two great interpretations of the Veda which bring us to the deeper profundities of the Vedic knowledge. These ...
... self-transcendence or no power of transforming by self-knowledge the conditions of the play Page 58 nearer and nearer to the truth of the divine Delight. In that power lies the justification of individual existence; the individual and the universal unfolding in themselves the divine light, power, joy of transcendent Sachchidananda always manifest above them, always secret behind their surface... manifestation of the divine will in the physical life consists of the most difficult endeavour, and that process is the process of the integral yoga. This task culminates in Page 57 manifestation of the divine will in physical life, and in this task, the importance of the individual is critical. As Sri Aurobindo states: "The human being is here on earth the highest power of ...the individual... involution and evolution of the divine consciousness between the two terms of the Ignorance and the Knowledge. The power of the individual to possess in his consciousness by self-knowledge his unity with the Transcendent and the universal, with the One Being and all beings and to live in that knowledge and transform his life by it, is that which makes the working out of the divine self-manifestation through ...
... the universe. It is contended that it is by the attraction of that law that a sovereign power descends to limit and correct and gradually to eliminate the errors of an egoistic and self-divided creation. It was this descent, which has been described as sacrifice of the Purusha in the Veda, 8 whereby the Divine Soul has submitted itself to Force and Matter so that it may form and illuminate them. It... system of yoga, which is not confined merely to Karma Yoga but also to a synthesis of yoga. This yoga synthesizes the psychological being of man in its highest flights and widest ranging of divine knowledge, power, joy, life and glory with cosmic existence of the gods perceived behind the symbols of the material universe into those superior planes which are hidden from the physical sense and the material... integrality of the divine consciousness, transcendent and blissful. The ideal that was pursued by the rishis was that of increasing powers of the. soul of man and attaining unity of the soul of man and the eternal divine fullness of the cosmic godheads in their synthesis and in their highest fulfillment. The Vedic yoga thus aimed at the divine perfectibility of man, and therefore of the divine integration ...
... its highest flights and widest rangings of divine knowledge, power, joy, life and glory with the cosmic existence of the gods, pursued behind the symbols of the material universe into those superior planes which are hidden from the physical sense and the material mentality. The crown of this synthesis was in the experience of the Vedic Rishis something divine, transcendent and blissful in whose unity... of Life in our divine scope as the Lila 2 of the Divine; and in some directions it is more immediately rich and fruitful, for it brings forward into the foreground along with divine knowledge, divine works and an enriched devotion of divine Love, the secrets also of the Hatha and Raja Yogas, the use of the body and of mental askesis for the opening up of the divine life on all its planes... universalised without the sense of the teaching suffering any diminution or violation; rather by giving an ampler scope to it than belonged to the country and epoch, the teaching gains in depth, truth and power. Often indeed the Gita itself suggests the wider scope that can in this way be given to an idea in itself local or limited. Thus it dwells on the ancient Indian system and idea of sacrifice as an ...
... living Consciousness and Force of the Divine, the divine Shakti. The Prakriti itself is divided into the lower and higher,—the lower is the Prakriti of the Ignorance, the Prakriti of mind, life and matter separated in consciousness from the Divine; the higher is the Divine Prakriti of Sachchidananda with its manifesting power of Supermind, always aware of the Divine and free from Ignorance and its co... and behind this mechanism maintaining it for its evolutionary purpose—but what she is in herself is not Page 41 a Shakti of Avidya, but the Divine Consciousness, Power, Light, Para Prakriti to whom we turn for the release and the divine fulfilment. The realisation of the Purusha Consciousness calm, free, observing the play of forces but not attached or involved in them is a means of... turmoil of the vital forces. But this calm, peace, silent strength and joy is only the first descent of the Power of the Mother into the Adhar. Beyond that is a Knowledge, an executive Power, a dynamic Ananda which is not that of the ordinary Prakriti even at its best and most sattwic, but divine in its nature. First, however, the calm, the peace, the liberation is needed.To try to bring down the dynamic ...
... the profoundest possibilities of human growth and provides the power for the next step in evolution - the change from mind to what Sri Aurobindo calls supermind as our established and effective status of consciousness. Unless a single Self in all creatures becomes a concrete experience, unless a derivation of every being from the one Divine Creative Person is inherent part of our life-sense, there can... scriptures are culled because they bear a resemblance to ethical aphorisms from other religions, but an openly religious and spiritual song like Bande Mataram - a cry of obeisance to the divine creative Power that is mother of the world and that is visioned as the ultimate being of the National Soul of India the God-intoxicated country - is made to play second fiddle to a much inferior though by... that India by the fundamentals of her Hinduism is the brightest hope of the earth's future. To be a revivalist of this vastly transformative power is the Page 98 duty of every Indian. And if secularism is the enemy of that power, then we must fight secularism tooth and nail. Such secularism is no authentic foe of the communalist mind but a destroyer of India and a destroyer ...
... cells: if they are told, "Nature will find the means," it leaves them absolutely indifferent—their impression is that it's the Divine that DIRECTLY... kneads Matter. That's the object of what I call the "change of power": to substitute the divine, direct Power for the power of Nature. And the cells no longer have that... (I can't find the word in French) that reliance at all. Trust? It's not... the inner development and the degree of union with the divine consciousness obtained by the individual consciousness. When the union is perfect, there only remains the 'fiercer form of delight.' "If he refers to physical pain endured by the body, the experience does not follow so clearly defined an order, all the more so as union with the Divine most often causes the pain to disappear." Yes, that's... essential way (not as it is now, as it IS or ought to be), its own way of understanding and manifesting the Supreme, the Divine, and that was what made its own individuality, its particular way of being. And all those ways put together were roughly a reproduction of the total Divine—but each way has to understand that it's only ONE way and that all other ways are just as true as itself. But it was the ...
... striving to bring out of himself is not to be altogether found even here; it lay in that attempt which, first failing in Endymion , was again resumed in Hyperion . It was the discovery of the divine Idea, Power and living norm of Beauty which by its breath of delight has created the universe, supports it and moves towards a greater perfection, inspires the harmonies of inward sight and outward form... enduring substance which force of thought gives to the poetical inspiration. They are, Coleridge in his scanty best work, Blake almost always, strong in sight, but are unable to command the weight and power in the utterance which arises from the thinking mind when it is illumined and able to lay hold on and express the reality behind the idea. They have the faculty of revelatory sense in a high degree... to make its way into poetry. It is by these poems that he lives, though he has also two or three others of a more human charm and grace; but here Coleridge shows within narrow limits a superlative power and brings in a new element and opens a new field in the realms of poetic vision. Blake lives ordinarily far up in this middle world of which Coleridge only catches some glimpses or at most stands ...
... eternal divine Principle and of all the return of Nature towards the Divine. We shall realise it next as itself going abroad in its Power and Knowledge,—for the Power and Knowledge are itself,—not only the source of their works, but the creator and Page 410 doer of their works, one in all existences; for the many souls of the universal manifestation are only faces of the one Divine, the many... secret consciousness and power and delight the indivisible Divine in its entirety, however much the figure it makes to our minds may appear only as a partial manifestation. When we possess thus the Divine as at once the silent and surpassing Witness and the active Lord and all-constituting Being without making any division between these aspects, we possess the whole cosmic Divine, embrace all of the universal... attempt to beat thin, breach and eventually break down by the power of the enlarging mind and heart the walls of the ego and arrive nearer to a 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 ...
... doubt, he frequently lingers overmuch with the delights of the earth, but never with them in their crude forms, and his deepmost endeavour is, as Sri Aurobindo puts it, "the discovery of the divine Idea, Power and living norm of Beauty which by its breath of delight has created the universe, supports it and moves towards a greater perfection, inspires the harmonies of inward sight and outward form... would have breathed more life than anything in Shelley and Keats. But they would have equalled and excelled Spenser all-round. Spenser has "more of a descriptive vision than of the larger creative power or narrative force" 3 and so his human figures through whom he works out his scheme of a romantico-ethical story stand as the "allegorical body" of the powers of Good and Evil rather than as these... poetic vision, splendidly charged with imagination and greatly gifted with a high and intense fluency of speech. A radiant spontaneity of rhythmic utterance is the essence of Shelley. Keats brings a power of extreme originality in choice of poetic words. An acute sense of beauty is ever at work in his compositions: beauty sensuous, beauty imaginative, beauty intellectual, beauty mystical is the very ...
... of Light. So much results beyond doubt, it seems to me, from the language of the Veda itself; but also that language points to this Sun being a symbol of the divine illumining Power, Swar the world of the divine Truth and the conquest of divine Truth the real aim of the Vedic Rishis and the subject of their hymns. I will now examine as rapidly as possible the evidence which points towards this conclusion... light out of the darkness, which we find from parallel passages to be the recovery, by the Angirases, of the Sun that was lying concealed in the darkness. Surya is found by the Angirases through the power of their hymns or true mantras ; Swar also is found and made visible by the hymns of the Angirases, arkaiḥ . It is clear therefore that the substance of Swar is a great light and that that light is... enveloped the Cows"; and finally in III.39 the absolute identification of the two images in their legendary form, "None is there among mortals who can blame (or, as I should rather interpret, no mortal power that can confine or obstruct) these our fathers who fought for the Cows (of the Panis); Indra of the mightiness, Indra of the works released for them the strongly closed cow-pens; when a friend with ...
... perhaps understood, but which helps best our modern understanding—the Divine as knowledge in man, the Divine as power, the Divine as production, enjoyment and mutuality, the Divine as service, obedience and work. These divisions answer to four cosmic principles, the Wisdom that conceives the order and principle of things, the Power that sanctions, upholds and enforces it, the Harmony that creates the... overshadowed and governed entirely by the divine and mystic figure and is spoken of in the terms of that figure. Mark, however, that the divine marriage here is not, as it would be in later ancient poetry, a decorative image or poetical ornamentation used to set off and embellish the human union; on the contrary, the human is an inferior figure and image of the divine. The distinction marks off the entire... from the body of the creative Deity, from his head, arms, thighs and feet. To us this is merely a poetical image and its sense is that the Brahmins were the men of knowledge, the Kshatriyas the men of power, the Vaishyas the producers and support of society, the Shudras its servants. As if that were all, as if the men of those days would have so profound a reverence for mere poetical figures like this ...
... we might regard possibly as a moral result of his philosophical conception of Power as the nature of the original principle. He tells us that the many are bad, the few good and that one is to him equal to thousands, if he be the best. Power of knowledge, power of character,—character, he says, is man's divine force,—power and excellence generally are the things that prevail in human life and are supremely... two first terms, the aspect of consciousness, the aspect of power, a supreme intelligence and a supreme energy. The eye of Indian thought saw a third aspect of the Self and of Brahman; besides the universal consciousness active in divine knowledge, besides the universal force active in divine will, it saw the universal delight active in divine love and joy. European thought, following the line of Heraclitus'... grow the power of Love replacing strife and exceeding the cold balance of reason. There is the gate of the divine ecstasy. Heraclitus could not see it, and yet his one saying about the kingdom of the child touches, almost reaches the heart of the secret. For this kingdom is evidently spiritual, it is the crown, the mastery to which the perfected man arrives; and the perfect man is a divine child! He ...
... ourselves and in the world, it will look for the divine meaning and the divine guidance; it will look beyond imposed limitations to the voluntary self-limitation of the universal Power by which it regulates its steps and gradations,—imposed on our ignorance, self-imposed in the divine knowledge,—and go beyond to unity with the illimitable power of the Divine. All energies and actions it will see as forces... 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 in the Ananda of the Divine and imposes on the life of the soul in nature the signs of the divine knowledge, power and... by two successive movements. One will liberate us from the action of the lower nature and admit us to the calm peace of the divine being; the other will liberate us into the full being and power of the higher nature and admit us to the equal poise and universality of a divine and infinite knowledge, will of action, Ananda. The first may be described as a passive or negative equality, an equality of ...
... liberty, is in its highest and ultimate sense a state of being; it is self living in itself and determining by its own energy what it shall be inwardly and, eventually, by the growth of a divine spiritual power within determining too what it shall make of its external circumstances and environment; that is the largest and freest sense of self-determination. But when we start from the natural and temporal... only the spiritual can give it, because it alone has the secure Page 632 power of realisation. The ancient truth of the self is the eternal truth; we have to go back upon it in order to carry it out in newer and fuller ways for which a past humanity was not ready. The recognition and fulfilment of the divine being in oneself and in man, the kingdom of God within and in the race is the basis... with them and one life. It is in philosophical language the recognition of the one self in all who fulfils himself variously in each; it is the finding of the law of the divine being in each unifying itself with the law of the divine being in all. At once the key of the problem is shifted from without to within, from the visible externalities of social and political adjustment to the spiritual life and ...
... individual and the transcendental. The methods of the Vedic yoga were progressively synthesized by the unifying method of tapas applied to the pursuit of the highest flights and widest rangings of divine knowledge, power, joy, life and glory with the aid of the cosmic gods, who are invoked and invited behind the symbols of the material universe culminating into those superior planes which are hidden from the... nothing beyond It. If we do not comprehend That Reality, how can it be helped? Is it understandable when Plato says in 'The Republic’ that the highest reality, the Good far exceeds essence both in power and dignity'? In what way this highest reality can be known and known justifiably as indescribable and yet describable in many ways, is provided by the Vedas and the Upanishads. That there are difficulties... conflicting forces. In fact, it is in the experience of this conflict and in the experience of constant struggle to harmonize these three elements that reason is motivated to discover and possess that power Page 93 of state of being in which this conflict can truly be resolved. That process is the sustained and systematic and methodical effort and constantly cumulative endeavour that constitutes ...
... extraneous relationships would be to interfere with the Divine-oriented sadhana and deflect it along undesirable or irrelevant channels. "The whole principle of this Yoga," said Sri Aurobindo, "is to give oneself entirely to the Divine alone and to nobody and nothing else, and to bring down into ourselves by union with the Divine Mother-Power all the transcendent light, force, wideness, peace, purity... this asking about progress - feel the Divine everywhere and in everything - first feel it within yourself. .. that you are an integral part of the Divine - strengthen your consecration to the Divine and perfect it and there will be no need for concerning yourself about progress, Establish equanimity and don't feel insulted, for who can insult the Divine?" January 28, 1936 Interview with... outer signs and helps. It is that alone that can give you the direct feeling of the Divine, the constant nearness, the inner support and aid. You will not then feel the Mother remote or have any further doubt about the realisation; for the mind thinks and the vital craves, but the soul feels and knows the Divine. 14 The problem for the sadhaks, then, was to effect this transcendence of the ...
... being which, when visited by the greatness of the infinite planes above and by the power of the great godheads who reign on those planes, breaks its limits, opens out to the Light and is upheld in its new wideness by the infinite Consciousness, Mother Aditi, and her sons, the divine powers of the Supreme Deva or the Divine Being. 61 The great attainments of the Vedic Rishis have been summarized... of the Divine; and there is also the Delight or Ananda of that which is above the world. Integral purity and integral beatitude prepare the integral perfection of our humanity as a type of the Divine in the conditions of the human manifestation, a perfection founded on a certain free page - 118 universality of being, of love and joy, of play of knowledge and of play of will in power and will... release from life; here the object is the divine fulfilment of life. 2. Because the object sought after is not an individual achievement of divine realization for the sake of the individual, but something to be gained for the earth- consciousness here, a cosmic, not solely a supra-cosmic achievement. The thing to be gained also is the bringing in of a Power of Consciousness (the Supramental) not ...
... fund of humour and great power of endurance and even pugnacious physical courage. His early sentimental vein has nothing essentially to do with the mysticism of Beauty with which his Endymion is sensuously a-wash. Two of the celebrated Odes, with their stronger fibre, have the same mystical tinge and the unfinished Hyperion , where the discovery of the divine Idea, Power and living norm of Beauty... mysterious, of spiritual power exceeding the world we know in sensation, feeling and thought. It does not reject this world, it embraces and transforms its appearances and values -but from within and beyond it; it is a pervasion of Nature and life by a vision and experience aloof from their externalities, a revelation indeed of these externalities as the body of the Divine yet by an in-drawn or up-poised... up-poised kindling with the Divine's secret consciousness. No doubt, the nebulous and indefinite went considerably Page 184 with that kindling because of the age's unreadiness for the strange power that seized the English Romantics. A more precise intellectual age had to intervene and even an extreme stress on the objective and material had to fall through scientific development ...
... the outer sacrifice; it is the spirit's hymn of battle and victory as it discovers and climbs to planes of thought and experience inaccessible to the natural or animal man, man's praise of the divine Light, Power and Grace at work in the mortal. It is far, therefore, from being an attempt to set down the results of intellectual or imaginative speculation, nor does it consist of the dogmas of a primitive... possessions, strength, power, children, servants, gold, horses, cows, victory, the slaughter and the plunder of enemies, the destruction of rival and malevolent critic. As one reads and finds hymn after hymn interpreted in this sense, one begins to understand better the apparent inconsistency in the attitude of Page 22 the Gita which, regarding always the Veda as divine knowledge, 6 yet... repute performed the rites with a very imperfect knowledge of the power and the sense of the sacred words which they repeated. For the material aspects of Vedic worship had grown like a thick crust over the inner knowledge and were stifling what they had once served to protect. The Veda was already a mass of myth and ritual. The power had begun to disappear out of the symbolic ceremony; the light had ...
... everywhere the Divine from whom he proceeds, to see him as all, to see him in the whole of this mutable Nature and in every part and result of her and in all her workings, and there too to make himself one with God, there too to live in him, to enter there too into the divine oneness. He unites in that integrality the divine calm and freedom of his deep essential existence with a supreme power of instrumental... , even while he contributes to the action as its means and its occasion his instrumental personal self-creation and the special will and power in his nature. That will and power is now not separately, egoistically his own, but a force of the suprapersonal Divine who acts in this becoming of his own self, this one of his myriad personalities by means of the characteristic form of the natural being,... mind, kṛtsna-karma-kṛt , according to the force and freedom and infinite power of the divine will within him. And since he is united with the Eternal, he has too the pure spiritual and illimitable joy of his eternal existence. He turns with adoration to the Self of whom he is a portion, the Master of his works and divine Lover of his soul and nature. He is not an impassive calm spectator only; he ...
... Gita and developed a synthesis with increasing stress on the yoga of Divine Love. There were also other Vedantic systems of yoga, and each one of these systems reflected the synthesis of yoga of the Upanishads and the Gita, even though each one of them laid a special emphasis either on the power of knowledge or on the power of Divine Love, and these systems of synthesis often presented a scene of ... and widest rangings of divine knowledge, power, joy, love and glory. This process was sought to be accomplished by synthesising the individual with the cosmic powers and beings in their operations in those higher planes which are hidden from the physical senses and the material mentality. This synthesis was crowned by the experience of the transcendental and blissful divine reality and its unity with... supramental perfection or the yoga of self-perfection. The supramental perfection implies a complete enjoyment and possession of the whole divine and spiritual nature; and it is complete lifting of the whole nature of man into its higher and highest power of divine and spiritual existence. Integrality becomes, in this context, the essential condition and content of what Sri Aurobindo calls the Supramental ...
... his life was the unleashing of a great Power of consciousness - verily "an immortal sunlight radiating over the future" In other words, he had come to get a movement going, the movement of evolution from man to Superman, from nature to Supernature, from our flawed present to the Next Future, the future that would see established here upon earth the Life Divine. This Force, this "decisive action direct... little error becomes categorical in its consequences, and a little sincerity, a little true aspiration becomes miraculous in its results." The new Force that was abroad, as the instrument of the Divine, had power over Matter, being stronger than Matter. It could cause or prevent material accidents: All our common sense, all our logic, all our practical sense is dashed to the ground! useless!... It... still, the ego might be transformed and turned into "an instrument of the Divine". There were letters too about "the Divine Presence". If one felt lonely even in the midst of people, it was the sign that the time had come to establish contact with the Divine Presence: The psychic being is the individual sheath off the Divine Presence. It is found deep within oneself, beyond all thoughts. Page ...
... Odes does Sri Aurobindo see the real soul of Keats: this "inner genius... lay in that attempt which, first failing in Endymion , was again resumed in Hyperion . It was the discovery of the divine Idea, Power and living norm of Beauty which by its breath of delight has created the universe, supports it and moves towards a greater perfection, inspires the harmonies of inward sight and outward form... Page 161 new Romanticism than are those who preceded it. The intellectual endeavour in the immediate predecessors was "paltry, narrow and elegantly null" , 9 the poetic sight a power of making abstractions pointed by rhetorical means. One of the best passages in Pope is - interestingly enough - on a kind of Pantheism: All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose... into the Universal Spirit whose body is Nature: many an hour in caves forlorn, And mid the hollow depths of naked crags He sate, and even in their fixed lineaments, Or from the power of a peculiar eye, Or by creative feeling overborne, Or by predominance of thought oppressed, Even in their fixed and steady lineaments He traced an ebbing and a flowing mind ...
... a new Power is needed to fight the Evil of the world and vanquish (or transform) it once and for all. The Power greater than that of Evil, and greater than that of the current Good of the world, can only be a new Power of the Divine, the power of supramental Truth-Consciousness that manifested itself, according to the Mother's testimony, on 29 February 1956 and continues as an operative power in human... encompass the salvation of the world and establish the Life Divine in our midst. Page 631 The supramental manifestation is a general power, like the power of gravitation for example; not individuals will control this new power, but this new power will use individuals for its own purposes. In the Mother's words - It [the Power] acts independently of all individual effort... but it creates... victory, the victory for the Divine, and the Dawn of the New Age. Page 630 One of the contending forces in the struggle now in progress is Evil (and its progeny), and it is pitted against all that is Good. But more than the power of Evil, it is the apparent impotence of Good that depresses us. The "Power greater than that of Evil" has thus to be also a power more effective than that of ...
... those yogas do not intend a divine creation here on Earth but try, without exception, to escape as soon as possible from the hell on Earth. Sri Aurobindo’s new method was unbelievably simple and at the same time very daring. If that new something was so new, if it was the intention of the Supreme and his manifesting power to embody in evolution something superhuman, a divine species succeeding the existing... release from life; here the object is the divine fulfilment of life. ‘2. Because the object sought after is not an individual achievement of divine realisation for the sake of the individual, but something to be gained for the earth-consciousness here, a cosmic, not solely a supra-cosmic achievement. The thing to be gained also is the bringing in of a Power of Consciousness (the supramental) not yet... to open inadequate human nature totally and unconditionally to the new Divine Action, to surrender to it. ‘Surrender’, the total giving of oneself, is the keyword in Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s yoga — also called the Integral Yoga, the Purna [complete] Yoga or the Supramental Yoga. If the comprehension as well as the power and the effects of the totally new Event on Earth surpass the human being ...
... unity with it by an exclusive concentration accepting the divine being but not accepting our part in the power and consciousness and infinite delight of the Divine. It would in fact be the individual seeking peace and rest of union in a motionless identity, but rejecting delight and various joy of union in the nature and act and power of the divine Existence. That is possible, but there is no necessity... self-transcendence or no power of transforming by self-knowledge the conditions of the play nearer and nearer to the truth of the divine Delight. In that power lies the justification of individual existence; the individual and the universal unfolding in themselves the divine light, power, joy of transcendent Sachchidananda always manifest above them, always secret behind their surface appearances, this is... that is the Divine, the eternal all-possessing God-consciousness, omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, which informs, embraces, governs all existences. The human being is here on earth the highest power of the third term, the individual, for he alone can work out at its critical turning-point that movement of self-manifestation which appears to us as the involution and evolution of the divine consciousness ...
... self-dynamising design, the force-filled icon: the Rose of Power. Power that works out a plan is yet insufficient for divine fullness. If its image is not to remain a shining inner formation without a body, if its image is to be not just a force of subjectivity but also a force of objectivity and arrive at an incarnation, there must be a divine Desire for self-growth, self-affirmation, conquest, possession... effective power of such Bliss-oneness is the yearning between the Lover and the Beloved: hence the supreme Absolute grown a form of Beauty cannot come wholly into its own with divine Desire and without being a Rose of Love. The Rose of God is full-blown in the transcendent realms: its fivefold divineness has to blossom gradually in the universe where human existence has evolved. The divineness of Bliss... being, the essence of the ever-blissful Spirit. The divineness of Light has to manifest in our mental thought, giving us the truth-sight by which that Beauty may be kept unperverted by ignorance. The divineness of Power has to manifest in our will, giving us the energy to guard and carry out the truth-sight in all our inner activity. The divineness of Life has to manifest in our embodied vitality, our ...
... integral theory of world-manifestation, the perfect and final goal set before the terrestrial being called "man" is to establish a divine life in a human body on the terrestrial plane itself. And that surely necessitates the perfect manifestation of divine knowledge-power-bliss here upon earth itself and not elsewhere in some supraphysical world. But surely this is not possible in the short span... they can be pliably moulded and governed at all times and in every way by one's divine centre. If one can do that, he will find after "death" that all that is required for his spiritual progression and all the other-worlds he should visit for this purpose will all be arranged for him by the luminous guidance of the divine powers of light. Here is one last but not the least important point we should... his body, his life, his mind, etc. And these instruments have many different modalities so far as their active functioning is concerned; such as, desires, aspirations, imaginations, memories, reason-power, discriminations, etc. There is no end to this delineation; for the constitution of a man's consciousness is indeed highly complex and an intermingled amalgam. But at the centre of all this complex ...
... Suktas 51, 52.1 – 3 . Rishi: Savya Angirasa. Circa 1918 – 20. Heading in the manuscript: “Hymns of Savya Angirasa”. Sukta 56 . Rishi: Savya Angirasa. Written under the heading “A Hymn of the Divine Mind-Power” in a notebook whose next few pages contain entries for the Record of Yoga dated March 1918. Suktas 61 – 64 . Rishi: Nodhas Gautama. Circa 1919. Sri Aurobindo translated these four hymns... in this part. Mandala One Suktas 2 – 4 . Rishi: Madhuchchhandas Vaishwamitra. These translations were written on a set of sheets used also for work connected with the revision of The Life Divine (1939 – 40). Suktas 5 – 7 . Rishi: Madhuchchhandas Vaishwamitra. These translations were done at the same time as the translation of RV I.1 reproduced as item [10] in the Appendix to Part Two... What is missing has been supplied from the draft. Appendix to Part Two Selected Verses . Sri Aurobindo translated these and other passages for use as chapter-opening epigraphs for The Life Divine when the first edition was being prepared in 1939 – 40. The verses reproduced here from the manuscript were not used (or only partially used) for the purpose for which they were originally translated ...
... are lifted to the Truth and return as enriched being and power,—this is the first achievement and effectivity: next, the whole sacrifice reaches the godhead,man's entire being, power, consciousness is accepted by the divine Truth,—this is the second achievement and effectivity: last, the man himself attains that plane and lives upon it, divine, स्वराट्, सम्राट्, immortal; this is the क्षयः, the third... to the godheads, the Seer-Will representing the divine existence responds with the gift of light, of power, of vastness. Sayana's rendering. Also, O shining Agni, to him who gives to the gods, thou bringest a shining wealth endowed with good energy. Psychological rendering. Yea, and for him who giveth to the divine Ones, thou, O divine, O Flame, lodgest wide in all his being a perfect... merely express the seeking of the mind for the right way of approaching Agni, the right thought, मनीषा, the right mentality in the self-giving, मनस्, the power to embrace in the human mind the right Page 576 judgment and discernment of the divine seer-will. मनीषा does not mean स्तुति in the Veda, but either the intellectual mind as distinguished from the wider मनस् which embraces the emotional ...
... Inner Ruler. 4. Pawns = ignorant instincts. Samskāras. 5. Bishop = Indian term 'tusker' (elephant) which means material power. Five = the senses. Page 264 6. Queen = the Divine Consciousness-Power. Chit-Shakti. King = the ignorant being (Purusha) that normally rules the ignorant nature. 7. 64. squares = fullness... 1. Five creatures – the five senses. 2. Lotus grove – the divine Consciousness. 3. When one enters the divine Consciousness one becomes dead to the world, to the life of flesh. 4. Illusion – the life of the flesh. 5. Story – the Story of the Soul, the soul's union with the Divine. XXIV [The original text of these... out. They are to be vigilant and stamped with the seal of the supreme consciousness. 5. The customer is the divine self, the true individual in man. 6. The complete number of the principles or elements of the human vessel. 7. Once you have the divine delight and enter into it you can no longer be satisfied with anything else less. 8. Truth is one and there ...
... body to reflect and hold something of the supramental light, power and bliss, aspiring to release the secret divinity into self-finding and self-fulfilment and self-poise, aspiring towards the ascension to the divine consciousness, able to receive and bear the descent of the divine light and power, fitting itself to be a vessel of the divine Life.” 18 The last sentence clearly describes the tr... self-exceeding. But if a divine life is possible on earth, then this self-exceeding must also be possible.” 11 The body is after all “the material basis … the instrument we have to use”, it is “the means of fulfilment of dharma”, 12 even when dharma is changing into higher gear, into a totally new mode, when evolution itself begins to evolve. “If we could draw this power [of the Supermind] into... mastery of the nature by the soul, a transformation of the mind into a principle of light, of the life-force into power and purity would be the first approach, the first attempt to solve the problem, to escape beyond the merely human formula and establish something that could be called a divine life upon earth, a first sketch of supermanhood, of a supramental living in the circumstances of the earth-nature ...
... perhaps understood, but which helps best our modern understanding — the Divine as knowledge in man, the Divine as power, the Divine as production, enjoyment and mutuality, the Divine as service, obedience and work. These divisions answer to four cosmic principles, the Wisdom that conceives the order and principle of things, the Power that sanctions, upholds and enforces it, the Harmony that creates... intuitive, perhaps in the end a more than intuitive, a gnostic consciousness. He will be able to perceive a higher divine end, a divine sanction, a divine light of guidance for all he seeks to be, think, feel and do, and able, too, more and more to obey and live in this larger light and power. That will not be done by any rule of infrarational religious impulse and ecstasy, such as characterised or... reason or the divine mind, but on a still higher plane, which see Truth directly face to face, or rather live in the truth of things both universal and transcendent and are its formulation and luminous activity. And these faculties are the light of a conscious existence superseding the egoistic and itself both cosmic and transcendent, the nature of which is Bliss. These are obviously divine and, as ...
... persistent doubts of the sceptical intellect re the Karmasiddhi & points to increasing authority of the divine Vani, अस्याः being Kali the Prakriti & the speaker the Deva or Purusha, Krishna, Master of the Yoga. It appears, however, that the doubts as to dehasiddhi, rapidity, exact fulfilment of knowledge & power are also included. Images 1) A mirror (back view) with a woman behind looking at herself... नो वधो नि कर्म मन्युं दुरेवस्य शर्धतः । Applied both subjectively & objectively—अनानुदो—without the tejasic egoism of aggression—ॠणया in forward action internal & external—रिषण्यति—seeks divine knowledge & power. (1) b. त्वया वयमुत्तमं धीमहे वयो बृहस्पते पप्रिणां सस्निना युजा । Page 421 मा नो दुःशंसो अभिदिप्सुरीशत प्र सुशंसा मतिभिस्तारिषीमहि sasnina = preserving पप्रिणा = satisfying... ie—When the soul is illumined & knows the three kinds of knowledge of these gods (ie Swar, Bhuvar, Bhur) & their eternal birth from the Divine Parapurusha, Surya of the vijnana, sees in mortals the straight & the crooked and illumines in his fulfilling power of upward movement their goings. This indicates a promise that the action shall before long be illumined & guided by the revelatory vijnana ...
... to become Page 267 more conscious of the divine will and to give yourself more entirely to it, until you have made enough progress to know and to feel that it is the Divine who acts in you, His force that impels you and His will that supports you—not just a mental knowledge, but the sincerity of a state of consciousness and the power of a living experience. For that to be possible,... nature, which resists the influence of the yogic power and tries to slow down the divine action, not out of ill-will but in order to be sure that nothing is forgotten or neglected in the haste to reach the goal. Few are ready for a total consecration. Many children who have studied here need to come to grips with life before they can be ready for the divine work, and that is why they leave to undergo the... by Indira Gandhi, but only for a fortnight. Then a period of chaos in the Government will follow. After that, a young man will appear on the scene who will be guided by a divine force coming from a woman of great spiritual power. What do You think about it? People say many things—especially astrologers! We have only to wait; we shall surely see what happens. 30 September 1964 Page 304 ...
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