... with any egoistic or self-interested calculation. 12 January 1934 Page 21 What do you think about the love between Y 3 and me? Only the love that is based on the Divine Presence can remain unmixed and present no obstacle to the sadhana. 17 January 1934 ... So I don't feel any repulsion for Z. Repulsion is always a bad thing and just the other side of attachment... undesirable from every point of view, of course it is better not to indulge in it. 12 February 1934 What is real meditation then? It is an active and deliberate concentration on the Divine Presence and a sustained, alert contemplation of that Sublime Reality. Page 24 How and why does this pressure come? If you mean the pressure of inert passivity, it comes from the resistance... depressed since this morning. I spend a lot of time in a state of inertia, I am not sincere and I am restless. The outer nature is always full of imperfections until it is transformed by the divine Presence. But it is wrong to let these things depress you. 4 May 1934 When I removed my bed sheet a scorpion fell on the floor. I touched it with my sandal and killed it before it could Page ...
... Divine in the psychic, when one is conscious of the divine Presence in the psychic and in constant communion with the psychic. Then the spiritual life begins, not before. The true spiritual life. When one is united with one's psychic being and conscious of the divine Presence, and receives the impulses for one's action from this divine Presence, and when the will has become a conscious collaborator... is the Spirit, the spiritual consciousness and the divine Presence which give to life all its value, that without this spiritual consciousness and divine Presence life has no value. The same holds true for the individual, whatever his material capacities and the material conditions in which he lives, his only worth is that of the divine Presence and the spiritual consciousness in him. And so from ...
... the Divine. But in certain cases the true self is found in the psychic being, that is, it dwells in the psychic being — but not always. There is always a divine Presence in the psychic being, but it is the divine Presence which was at the origin of the psychic formation, it is an emanation from the divine Consciousness; whereas the true self is not a terrestrial formation. It precedes the... But this does not mean that it is in the body: it is within the consciousness in another dimension, and there are beings who have a contact with it, others who haven't. But if you come to the divine Presence in the atom, the image is easier to understand, for there you touch so infinitesimal a domain that you are on the borderline where you can no longer distinguish between two, three, four or five... between the two. 23 — The Mother * What is the difference between "spiritual" and "psychic " ? It is not the same thing. The psychic is the being organised by the divine Presence and it belongs to the earth — I am not speaking of the universe, only of the earth; it is only upon earth that you will find the psychic being. The rest of the universe is formed in quite a different ...
... spiritual life? The awareness of the Divine Presence in all things and always. You have said in your Conversations that to prepare oneself for the Yoga one must first of all be conscious. To be conscious of the Divine Presence in us is our goal; I don't see how I can be conscious from the beginning. I have not said "conscious of the Divine Presence", I have said "conscious"; that means... you would not be able to think of me. So you may be sure of my presence. I add my blessings. Beloved Mother, how shall I find the source of that Love which will make me feel that the divine Presence is always and everywhere? You must find the Divine first, whether in yourself by interiorisation and concentration, or in Sri Aurobindo and me through love and self-giving. Once you have found... being is not asleep. It is the connection with it which is not well established because the mind makes too much noise and the vital is too restless. Mother, if the psychic always feels the Divine Presence, why does the human being cry and lament the lack of this Presence? I have already told you that it is because the contact between the outer consciousness and the psychic consciousness is not ...
... But this does not mean that it is in the body: it is within the consciousness in another dimension, and there are beings who have a contact with it, others who haven't. But if you come to the divine Presence in the atom, the image is easier to understand, for there you touch so infinitesimal a domain that you are on the borderline where you can no longer distinguish between two, three, four or five... theories is absolutely useless, for as soon as his mind awakes he will find a thousand reasons for contradicting your theories, and he will be right. This little true thing in the child is the divine Presence in the psychic—it is also there in plants and animals. In plants it is not conscious, in animals it begins to be conscious, and in children it is very conscious. I have known children who were... behind. Such boys do not respond to the vibration. One would say they are made of wood or plaster. The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 8 January 1951 If the inner truth, the divine presence in the psychic is so conscious in the child, it could no longer be said that a child is a little animal could it? Why not? In animals there is sometimes a very intense psychic truth. Naturally ...
... judgment? And that it might not necessarily tally with the judgment of the divine Presence within you? The “bad” things you could not get rid of were probably things not in their place, things not properly balanced, and it would be a great pity if they were eliminated because, perhaps, a part of your energy and of your divine Presence would disappear at the same time. People who do not do yoga under the... organisation and harmonisation of all the parts of the being (mental, vital and physical) around this centre, so that all the activities of the being may be the correct expression of the will of the Divine Presence. The Mother Words of the Mother - II: The Soul (the Psychic) … a truly harmonious personality implies a conscious arrangement of the inner individualities. This arrangement may be effected... being, you must needs have imagination enough to be able to put the movements you have, the movements you wish to keep, to put them before what you are capable of imagining as most akin to the divine Presence; naturally, at first it is only an imagination quite far from the truth, but it would help you to get out a little from moral narrowness and also from the limitations of your consciousness. For ...
... That's all? Sweet Mother, how can one feel the divine Presence constantly? Why not? Page 403 But how can one do it? But I am asking why one should not feel it. Instead of asking the question how to feel it, I ask the question: "What do you do that you don't feel it?" There is no reason not to feel the divine Presence. Once you have felt it, even once, you should be capable... minute one has the experience, how can one manage to forget? Within yourself you have the divine Presence, you know nothing about it—for all kinds of reasons, but still the chief reason is that you are in a state of ignorance. Yet suddenly, by a clicking of circumstances, you become conscious of this divine Presence, that is, you are before a fact—it is not imagination, it is a fact, it's something which... is an absolutely abnormal state, contrary to the Truth, how does it happen that it can be repeated? It is simply because you are not convinced. It's because when you have the experience of the divine Presence it seems to you something fabulous, miraculous and extraordinary, and almost abnormal. And so... "This sublime state—how can I keep it? It is absolutely contrary to my own existence." But this ...
... 278 what we cherish within ourselves, we must not hurt in others; what we love in ourselves, we must not hate in others. For that which is within us, is the Divine Presence, and that which is in others, is the same Divine Presence. To remember this is worth all the moral teachings and ethical doctrines in the world. Vedanta has been declared by those who have not chosen to understand it, a non-moral... takes care to preface it with that aspect of the Eternal Reality on which its value and truth depend. The first principles of Karmayoga arise from the realization of the Eternal as a great and divine Presence which pervades and surrounds all things, so that it is impossible to direct one's thought, speech or actions to thing or person without directing them to Him. With the declaration of the Eternal... Cosmos, as ether pervades the earth and contains the earth, and not only the Cosmos as a whole but every particular object and force in the Cosmos. This tree is pervaded and surrounded by the Divine Presence,—not, be it clearly understood, by a part of It but by Brahman one and indivisible. The presence of God is as complete in one small flower as in the whole measureless Universe. So also the Spirit ...
... conquered sleep, food, disease, etc. Was there any truth in that statement? SRI AUROBINDO: I am not aware of this gorgeous proclamation. What was said was that the Divine (Krishna or the Divine Presence or whatever you like) had come down into the material. It was also proclaimed that I was retiring - obviously to work things out. If all that was achieved on 24 November 1926, what on earth... As regards the absence of the name familiar to us, we are tempted to suppose that it was not yet coined. In Nirodbaran's correspondence itself Sri Aurobindo simply writes "Krishna or the Divine Presence or whatever you like" in explanation of the words "the Divine" used by him and the Mother for the Power that "had come down into the material": he refrains from listing "Overmind" as what he... disposed to ascribe to a mere back-look the phrase: "Krishna or the Overmind or something equivalent." But actually it sounds as though it were just a variant of the other - "Krishna or the Divine Presence or whatever you like." The first term is common to both, the final locution in either has semantically the same ring: there seems no ground ¹. "Overhead Poetry”: Poems with Sri ...
... 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 800 There comes a moment when life becomes intolerable without the Divine Presence. Therefore... birthday, the Mother went through a time of suffering ("a great difficulty"), and presently she felt herself "enveloped like a baby being carried in the arms of the Divine", and she was wholly in the Divine Presence - and the pain left, although she didn't ask for it to go. On 8 March she told the disciple: Page 804 It is becoming terrible, terrible. It is like a Pressure - a frightful Pressure ...
... appearance, one now sees only the divine Presence, the divine Will and the Grace everywhere; and every event, every element, every circumstance, every form changes into a way, a detail through which one can draw more intimately and profoundly closer to the Divine. Discordances disappear, ugliness vanishes; there is now only the splendour of Page 222 the divine Presence in a Love shining in all things... It so happens that this is exactly what Sri Aurobindo has described in the chapter we have just read: it is that capacity of finding Ananda in all things through identification with the one divine Presence and a complete self-giving to that Presence. So I don't think I have much to add; what I could say would be a limitation or a diminution of the totality of this experience. ( After a silence... somewhere. Otherwise, if you are really sincere, that is, if it is an integral and spontaneous experience, it is all-powerful. If, looking into somebody's eyes, you can spontaneously see the divine Presence there, the worst movements vanish, the worst obstacles disappear; and the flame of an infinite joy awakes, sometimes in the other person as well as in oneself. If in the other person there is the ...
... Mother, where does the identification take place ? Normally the identification is in the psychic being that forms itself consciously around the Divine Presence. But now with the descent of the new consciousness, the Divine Presence can be felt by the body-cells where It is at work for the transformation of Matter. 27.3.1970 Whatever work will come to me from You,... obstinately to be ill, is effective. A vital power that inflexibly pushes the illness back, is efficacious. A consciousness of the cells that finds its support exclusively in the Divine Presence and refuses to receive any other influence, is much more efficacious. A total identification with the Supreme Consciousness abolishing all division, is the sovereign remedy. 10.1... joy. 7.2.1970 One cannot breathe without absorbing what is in the terrestrial atmosphere. Mother, what is the solution ? To become more and more constantly conscious of the Divine Presence that counterbalances marvellously everything which may be absorbed in an automatic unconsciousness. 9.2.1970 Page 126 Yesterday the body wanted to receive the Light and you ...
... feel the need to find in your own being contact with the Divine Presence. So you must concentrate in silence and try to enter deep within to discover the Divine Presence in the depths of your consciousness, beyond all mental activity. 16 December 1971 * * There comes a moment when life becomes intolerable without the Divine Presence. Give yourself, therefore, entirely to the Divine and you... Chapter 3: Meditations Growing up with the Mother Meditations In the very depths of your being, deep within your breast, the Divine Presence is permanently there, luminous and peaceful, full of love and wisdom. It is there so that you may unite with it and it may transform you into a luminous and radiant consciousness. Together you and I are going to... see me you will ask me questions. You must tell me what you have felt or seen and I will explain it. Blessings. 11 December 1971 * * * The psychic being is the individual vesture of the Divine Presence. It is found deep within oneself, beyond the thoughts. 11 December 1971 * * * The first thing to be awakened in oneself is the will to do it, a very steadfast good will. 11 December ...
... something up there, so far away." Then immediately, as he was speaking, the whole room got filled with the divine Presence. I told him, "Not up there: here , here itself." And at that moment, everything , the whole atmosphere... it was as though the air had changed into the divine Presence ( Mother touches her hands, her face, her body ), well, everything was touched, touched, pervaded, but with... things), memories of this body, all the memories that might be called "anti-divine",in which the body had the sensation of something that was repulsive or evil, like negations of the divine Page 133 Presence. It began in that way; for two days I was like that, so much so that the body almost sank into despair. And then the experience came and after that it did not move. It did not budge... seen it—a physical suffering that lasts, that does not stop, that lasts day and night. And then all of a sudden, instead of being in this state of consciousness, you are in that of this exclusive divine Presence. Pain gone! And it was physical, altogether physical, with a physical reason. Yes, the doctors would say, "It is because of this, because of that and that", quite a material thing, altogether physical; ...
... hearsay that one can breathe freely. Sri Aurobindo encouraged them in their arduous upward effort by sometimes telling them an experience of his own. ‘When the peace of God descends on you, when the Divine Presence is there within you, when the Ananda rushes on you like a sea, when you are driven like a leaf before the wind by the breath of the Divine Force, when Love flowers out from you on all creation... taken place. By its presence the evolution has commenced; because of its presence the evolution cannot rest before it has reached its aim. There is nothing on Earth that does not have the divine Presence in itself. The Presence is there in the atom, in the crystal, the brick and the tree, in the watch, the airplane and the particle accelerator, in plants and animals — ever more complex according... takes place on earth,’ 26 said the Mother. For ‘it is only on the Earth — I do not even mean the material universe — only on the Earth that this descent of divine Love, at the origin of the divine Presence in the heart of matter, has taken place.’ 27 That is why only human beings — the human beings of the evolution, children of an earthly creation — ‘have a psychic being.’ 28 By this they are ...
... need to find in your own being contact with the Divine Presence. So you must concentrate in silence and Page 426 try to enter deep within to discover the Divine Presence in the depths of your consciousness, beyond all mental activity. 16 December 1971 There comes a moment when life becomes intolerable without the Divine Presence. Therefore, give yourself entirely to the Divine... and the judge of all that you should or should not do, and to strive to submit your external nature to its decisions. 11 December 1971 The psychic being is the individual sheath of the Divine Presence. It is found deep within oneself, beyond all thoughts. 11 December 1971 Communications from the psychic do not come in a mental form. They are not ideas or reasonings. They have their ...
... another except in their physical appearance. Even in unconsciousness and immobility, the apparently complete inertia—of the stone, for example—can be found a dazzling light, the light of the divine Presence. There is much more aspiration than one thinks in objects that are usually called inanimate. In the stone precisely there is a spontaneous sense of what is there high above and although it cannot... consciousness is essentially the way in which the individual answers to the divine call. Sri Aurobindo describes it as the capacity to find Ananda in all things through identification with the one divine Presence and through total self-giving to this Presence. That has the power of changing everything into perpetual ecstasy. Instead of seeing things in their apparent discord, you see the Presence alone... through which you can approach Page 43 more intimately and more profoundly the Divine. The discordances disappear, the uglinesses vanish, there remains only the splendour of the divine presence in the Love that radiates in all things. (3) Love for the Divine means an exclusive attachment to the divine Reality. This concentration finds its culmination in an integral ...
... another except in their physical appearance. Even in unconsciousness and immobility, the apparently complete inertia – of the stone, for example – can be found a dazzling light, the light of the divine Presence. There is much more aspiration than one thinks in objects that are usually called inanimate. In the stone precisely there is a spontaneous sense of what is there high above and although it cannot... consciousness is essentially the way in which the individual answers to the divine call. Sri Aurobindo describes it as the capacity to find Ananda in all things through identification with the one divine Presence and through total self-giving to this Presence. That has the power of changing everything into perpetual ecstasy. Instead of seeing things in their apparent discord, you see the Presence alone... changes into a way, a detail through which you can approach more intimately and more profoundly the Divine. The discordances disappear, the uglinesses vanish, there remains only the splendour of the divine presence in the Love that radiates in all things. (3) Love for the Divine means an exclusive attachment to the divine Reality. This concentration finds its culmination in an integral identification ...
... disputes; replies to their thoughts rather than their words. Protects the monitress from being unjustly dismissed by the authorities. 1896-98 'I attained a conscious and constant union with the divine Presence... all alone, with absolutely nobody to help me... not even books.' Later comes across Swami Vivekananda's Raja Yoga. 'It made me gain in a few months what would have perhaps taken me years... Isha Vasya Upanishads, the Narada Sutras, the Bhagavad Gita and some of the sayings of Sri Ramakrishna. 1912 May 7 Speaks of the work to be done: To become conscious of and unite with the Divine Presence; to realise the higher planes of consciousness and 'put the earth in connection with one or more of the fountains of universal force that are still sealed to it'; 'to speak again to the world the... through. That is why things take so much time here.' 1968 Feb 28 Inaugurates Auroville, 'The City of Dawn', dedicated to Sri Aurobindo's ideal of human unity. - Nov 21/22 Experiences the divine Presence filling her room, touching, pervading everything: 'a dazzling Light, a Peace... a Power, and then a Sweetness... one had the feeling that it could melt a rock. And it did not go away. It stayed ...
... became in these abnormal moments the Lord himself and so spoke and acted, with all the outflooding light and love and power of the divine Presence. Supposing this to be the normal condition, the human receptacle to be constantly no more than a vessel of this divine Presence and divine Consciousness, we should have the Avatar according to this intermediary idea of the incarnation. That easily recommends... as Krishna, even if in a less degree of the power of Avatarhood. The divine quality is not enough; there must be the inner consciousness of the Lord and Self governing the human nature by his divine presence. The heightening of the power of the qualities is part of the becoming, bhūtagrāma , an ascent in the ordinary manifestation; in the Avatar there is the special manifestation, the divine birth... indeed, for so he governs all nature, the human included; from within also he governs all nature, always, but hidden; the difference here is that he is manifest, that the nature is conscious of the divine Presence as the Lord, the Inhabitant, and it is not by his secret will from above, "the will of the Father which is in heaven," but by his quite direct and apparent will that he moves the nature. And here ...
... You also wrote in another letter that the Divine Presence in the heart is much more than the consciousness. In what way is the Presence more than the consciousness? I meant that one can feel the divine consciousness as an impersonal spiritual state, a state of peace, light, joy, wideness without feeling in it the Divine Presence. The Divine Presence is felt as Page 173 that of one... Feeling the Mother's Presence Live always as if you were under the very eye of the Supreme and of the Divine Mother. Do nothing, try to think and feel nothing that would be unworthy of the Divine Presence. 16 April 1930 The constant presence of the Mother comes by practice; the Divine Grace is essential for success in the sadhana, but it is the practice that prepares the descent of the Grace ...
... something up above, so far away...." Then, instantly, while he was speaking, the whole room FILLED with the divine Presence. "Oh," I told him, "Not up above: HERE, right here." And at that moment, EVERYTHING, the whole atmosphere... you know, the very air seemed to change into divine Presence ( Mother touches her hands, her face, her body ): you understand, everything was touched, touched, permeated... paintings, films, and life, people, things), memories of this body, all the memories we might call "antidivine," in which the body had a sensation of repulsive or bad things, like negations of the divine Presence. It began like that. For two days I was like that, to such a point that the body was almost desperate. Then the experience came, and it hasn't moved. It hasn't moved. It came: vrrff! finished,... it: a physical suffering that lasts—unceasing, going on night and day. And all at once, instead of being in that state of consciousness, you are in the state of consciousness of this exclusive divine Presence—the pain is gone! And it was physical, quite physical, with a physical reason. 1 You understand, doctors might say: "It's for this reason, that reason..."—quite a material thing, absolutely ...
... complex relations and harmony the One becomes Two and manifests the Many. The Two are the Self and Nature—Nature both lower and higher. Behind the external appearance of ignorance there is the Divine Presence that works in silence. And yet evolution is not really a process that denies the Light or that intends to perpetuate ignorance. It is a gradual growth towards a supreme knowledge. It is because... that the fulfilment of earth lay in her manifesting higher planes of consciousness upon her surface,—by realising perfect Knowledge unerring Will and unflagging Delight. Then he felt sure of a divine presence in and behind the world-process. His own will rose in union with the divine will to fulfil the world purpose. He could not, thereafter, rest content with ordinary life. As a result of his efforts... can stay". A little means "for a short time or duration". 23. "Spiritual beauty illumining human sight Lines with its passion and mystery Matter's mask". Even while the Divine presence withdrew, this beauty in Matter which is his "mask" remained indicating the passion and mystery of spiritual beauty. Lines means "gives a lining to" or "covers on the inside". Page ...
... incarnated and become man in order to find within himself the divine Being, the divine Presence. Why? Are you asking why? It's a funny way of going about it! ( Laughter ) I don't know if he is going to explain it here, I don't remember now, but one thing is certain, that this marvellous thing, the divine Presence in Matter, which is at the origin of the formation of the psychic being, belongs... if they had to progress through all the states of being, from any one of the states of being in the universe to the supreme Origin. It is easier to come down into a human body and find the divine Presence there, it is quicker. Imagine the serpent biting its tail, it makes a circle, doesn't it? So, if something wants to be united with the Divine, it is easier to enter the tail than to go the whole ...
... s, that Matter is automatically under the obligation to give itself to the Divine. It is a mutual and reciprocal sacrifice. And this is the great secret of the Gita: the affirmation of the divine Presence in the very heart of Matter. And that is why, Matter must sacrifice itself to the Divine, automatically, even unconsciously—whether one wants it or not, this is what happens. Only, when it is... "self-giving". Sweet Mother, here it is written: "All are linked together by a secret Oneness." The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 98 What is this secret Oneness? It is precisely the divine Presence. Because the Divine is essentially one, and yet He has subdivided Himself apparently in all beings, and in this way recreated the primordial Oneness. And it is because of this divine Oneness—which... you miss this joy. But how can a sacrifice be made when one is unconscious? It is made automatically. Whether you know it or not, whether you want it or not, you are all united by the divine Presence which, though it appears fragmented, is yet One. The Divine is One, He only appears fragmented in things and beings. And because this Unity is a fact, whether you are aware of it or not doesn't ...
... of the very spirit of self-devotion, and it is inevitable that out of it there should emerge the most engrossing worship of the Highest to whom is given this service. An absorbing love for the Divine Presence to whom he feels an always more intimate closeness, grows upon the consecrated worker. And with it is born or in it is contained a universal love too for all these beings, living forms and creatures... image of the Divinity, perceived as a dwelling-place of his Godhead, enveloped with the eternal Omnipresence. In its close, if not long before it, this way of works turns by communion with the Divine Presence, Will and Force into a way of Knowledge more complete and integral than any the mere creature intelligence can construct or the search of the intellect can discover. Lastly, the practice of... impulses and by the obscurity of the physical consciousness, the three powers which in their confused combination we now call our self. There will come about as a result a less impeded growth of a Divine Presence at the centre with its liberating Light and effective Force and an irradiation of it into all the conscious and subconscious ranges of our nature. These are the two signs, one marking our completed ...
... things, the attempt is to associate them with the Divine Presence so that they may be as much an expression of divine joy as possible. (This is realized to a certain extent.) Now where does japa fit into all this? Japa, like meditation, is a procedure—apparently the most active and effective procedure—for joining, as much as possible, the Divine Presence to the bodily substance. It is the magic of... of course that one is the most powerful of all). It is an attempt to divinize material substance. From another, almost identical point of view, it fills the physical atmosphere with the Divine Presence. So time spent in japa is time consecrated to helping the material substance enter into more intimate rapport with the Divine. And if one adds to this, as I do, a mantric program, that is, a ...
... is the Divine Presence that gives value to life. This Presence is the source of all peace, all joy, all security. Find this Presence in yourself and all your difficulties will disappear. Day and night constantly the Presence is there. It is enough to turn silently inward and we detect it. Remember always the Divine and all you do will be an expression of the Divine Presence. ... 17 April 1954 Alone the Divine can give us a perfect safety. 18 April 1954 Let the Divine Consciousness be the leading power in your life. 22 April 1954 Let the Divine Presence be always with you. 27 April 1954 Whatever you do, always remember the Divine. 5 May 1954 The Divine manifests upon earth whenever and wherever it is possible. 10 June ...
... its modesty is total; it has a keen sense of all its limitations, all its incapacities, all its ignorance, all... and at the same time—at the same time—the ABSOLUTE sense of the divine Presence, absolute; and a divine Presence that can break everything to pieces if it wants to. It's quite interesting.... A Presence with such power! A power... which is incalculable, with no possible comparison with earthly... coming and all of them expressing hatred, violence (all that side, you know), and the body saw, it saw and felt, and said so spontaneously (it continues to be in this constant communion with the divine Presence), it said to the Lord, "Why do You carry all that in Yourself?" With a child's candor and simplicity: "Why do You carry all that in Yourself?" And just when it said that, there was a sort of vision ...
... and thither to seek their own suitable environments. One part may enter into another person who has an affinity for it, another may even enter an animal, while that which has been alive to the divine Presence, may remain attached to the central psychic being. But if you are fully organised and converted into a single individual, bent on reaching the goal of evolution, then you will be conscious after... 19): "... within the individual, contained in each form, there Page 156 is an organisation of consciousness which is closer to and more directly under the influence of the inner divine Presence,... [and] has a life independent of the physical form - this is what we generally call the 'soul' or the 'psychic being' - and since it is organised around the divine centre it partakes of the... (CWM, Vol. 17, p. 78) "Other seekings also there are and these too find their means of self-fulfilment; a withdrawal into the supreme peace or ecstasy, a withdrawal into the bliss of the Divine Presence are open to the Page 161 soul in earth-existence: for the Infinite in its manifestation has many possibilities and is not confined by its formulations. But neither of these withdrawals ...
... the discussion - or exposition - that the Mother had the singular mystic experience of the descent of the Supramental Light and Force, and she recorded in her diary: This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there present amongst you. I had a form of living gold, bigger than the universe, and I was facing a huge and massive golden door which separated the world from the... and suffer no obscuration or perversion. Pupils and teachers are both heirs to limitless Page 766 liberty, but to follow this path one needs to have a consciousness of the Divine Presence in oneself and know too that the Divine is present in all others as well. "Freedom" is indeed the very oxygen of the whole scheme of things at the Centre of Education, but it is held in leash by... 768 should matter is one's dialogue or relationship with the Divine. The inner calm, the feeling of fulfilment, the sense of communion with the environment, the consciousness of the Divine Presence everywhere and at all times, these are the values, these are the incentives and energies that make the sadhak work long - unaffected by doubt and fatigue - and also with a deep sense of joy. ...
... and not in expectation of human appreciation and even in defiance of misunderstanding or criticism, one has to persevere on one's chosen path relying on the inner strength, the Divine presence within: The Divine Presence is in you. It is in you. You look for it outside; look inside.... You want the appreciation of others to get strength - you will never get it. The strength is in you. If you want... old, "the automatism of the material consciousness which is, yes, dramatic, almost catastrophic", to the automatism generated in the "cellular mind" by its being "constantly conscious of... the divine Presence and Consciousness". But in all attempts at elucidation words were apt to deform everything: From time to time... all of a sudden: the concrete experience, like a lightning flash - the experience ...
... me Page 152 the story of his life and what happened in Persia in the early days of this religion. And I remember him saying, with what intense joy, with what sense of the Divine presence and Divine force those people went to the sacrifice." History informs us that Islam's reforms were fraught with sacrifice. All the first adherents paid their change of religion with their lives... quarter asleep, oh no! Her need to know was intense and she dived into the inner quest. "Between eighteen and twenty," Mother said again, "I had obtained a conscious and constant union with the Divine Presence." And she told those sitting before her, "And you! Everything has been explained to you, half the work has been done for you, you have been helped not only with words but in every possible manner... . . . and then you let yourselves live 'just like that': it will come when it will come.... If you think of it at all!" Mirra was made of another stuff. This constant union with the inner Divine Presence "I did it ALL ALONE, I had ABSOLUTELY NOBODY to help me, not even books." But just after receiving the hint from the devotee of the Gita, Mirra came across a book. "When I had in my hands (a ...
... body had the sensation of something that was repulsive or evil, like negations of the divine Presence... so much so that the body almost sank into despair. Then, someone who had gone up to her that night spoke of the Divine as "something up there, so far away". Immediately everything "changed into the divine Presence", it pervaded her body and never left her, and "when something goes wrong in the body... things to one another without the need to separate them first. 21 Two months later, the Mother referred to an experience of the night of 21 November when the whole room was filled with the Divine Presence - a dazzling Light, a Peace, a Power, a Sweetness - that stayed the whole night, and some of which overflowed on the succeeding days. How was it that other people didn't experience the Presence ...
... creatures find delight in the Page 193 mere act of living "Even grief has joy hidden beneath its roots" because "nothing is truly vain the One has made". This all-pervading joy of the divine Presence in things gives glory and rapture to this passing phenomenon of life. So long as the Spirit is en- tangled in and attached to this imperfect expression of its ultimate purpose it is unable to awaken... struggle and vicissitudes. It introduced error and, consequently, slowed down the process of evolution and made man dependent upon his external sense in preference to his natural instincts. The divine Presence in man's heart was also obscured. This life was afraid of the birth of the soul in man and, to prevent it, it resorted to all kinds of tricks and methods. Sometimes this life suddenly attacks... beings have no soul "and only a mind and body live to die" in their case. Ignorance shields many terrible, enormous powers which are 'Haters of light, intolerent of peace". They imitate the divine; Presence in the heart while shutting its doors to the Divine completely and they keep out by the. Law "his tireless Grace". They always intervene in the passage of Light from above; "Wherever the. Gods ...
... deliberate concentration on the Divine Presence and a sustained, alert contemplation of that Sublime Reality." To me personally, meditation in its essence and at its best means a state of unforced inwardness, with eyes open or shut, in which, against a background of wide tranquillity, there is a flow of consciousness from the depth of the heart towards the Divine Presence whose visible form was Sri... Sri Aurobindo or the Mother - a flow from a Divine Presence itself hidden in that depth. Its effect is felt in the whole being, including the body, as a warm, pervasive, quiet, consecrated happiness ready to receive whatever gift of Grace comes from within, around or beyond. (25.8.1992) Page 71 ...
... consciousness which, though outwardly oriented, are still to be held together in an easy manner at their starting-points in some happy sense of divine Presence within your heart. Along these threads this sense sends out feelers towards the divine Presence around and above - the Mother's Love enfolding you, Sri Aurobindo's Light uplifting you. The act of typing Page 37 need be no d... their arms. Try to be conscious of this fact and don't allow your heart to be vexed, your mind to be clouded, no matter how many outward "ills" (as Hamlet would say) "the flesh is heir to." The Divine Presence has been established in your life: you have only to grow aware of it all the time. Once you realise that it is ever accompanying you, all those "ills" will be held securely in an inner calm, confined ...
... distinction we are obliged to make between good and evil or of that along with its kindred problem of the duality, the blend in us of happiness and suffering. When we seek intellectually for a divine presence in things, a divine origin of the world, a divine government of its workings, the presence of evil, the insistence on suffering, the large, the enormous part offered to pain, grief and affliction... there appears a disharmony, even a perversion, something that is the contrary of our conception of the Divine Existence, a very apparent denial or at least a disfigurement or disguise of the Divine Presence. There arises then a third affirmation of the Divine Reality and the world reality as different in essence or in order, so different that we have to draw away from one to reach the other; if we... both abandoned: humanity cannot be fulfilled in divinity; it must cease, be left behind and rejected. Whether the result will be an individual enjoyment of the absolute divine nature or of the Divine Presence or a Nirvana in the featureless Absolute, is a point on which religions and philosophies differ: but in either case human existence on earth must be taken as condemned to eternal imperfection by ...
... But to avoid misunderstanding the Upanishad goes on to point out that it is not only the Universe as a whole, but each thing that is in the Universe which we must feel to be encompassed with the divine Presence, यत्किंच जगत्यां जगत् । everything and anything that is moving thing in Her who moves. Jagati , she that moves, in the ancient Sanscrit, was a word applied to the whole Universe; afterwards it... In other words what is real, living, Page 180 eternal in you and me, is not our body, nor our vitality & its desires, nor our mind, nor our reason and understanding, but just the divine presence which pervades me and you as much as it pervades the tree and the mountain. And it is not the body, vitality, mind, reason or understanding which constitutes the presence of the Lord within us;... godhead, remembers utterly and becomes the Eternal. Selflessness then is the real & only law of renunciation; in the love of one's wider self in others, it has its rise; by the feeling of the divine presence in all earthly objects, it becomes rooted & unshakeable; the realization of the Brahman is its completion and goal. Page 191 × ...
... another matter and its signs are psychological. Page 373 Agni is the psychic fire—it is not the Divine Presence. If the psychic is active and open, the Presence may be felt—it is not necessary for that that it should be in the front. Also it may be in the front, but the Divine Presence in the heart may not be felt as yet, there may be only the aspiration, bhakti, self-giving. There is no fixed... is simply a reminder to you to be more vigilant in future. The unhappiness is not necessary or inevitable in the sadhana, but it comes because your inner nature feels the touch of the Divine Presence indispensable to it and uneasy when it does not feel it. To feel it always a certain constant detachment within allowing you to remain within and do everything from within is necessary. This can ...
... judgment? And that it might not necessarily tally with the judgment of the divine Presence within you? The "bad" things you could not get rid of were probably things not in their place, things not properly balanced, and it would be a great pity if they were eliminated because, perhaps, a part of your energy and of your divine Presence would disappear at the same time. People who do not do yoga under the... being, you must needs have imagination enough to be able to put the movements you have, the movements you wish to keep, to put them before what you are capable of imagining as most akin to the divine Presence; naturally, at first it is only an imagination quite far from the truth, but it would help you to get out a little from moral narrowness and also from the limitations of your consciousness. For ...
... Divine. Page 104 But in certain cases the true self is found in the psychic being, that is, it dwells in the psychic being—but not always. There is always a divine Presence in the psychic being, but it is the divine Presence which was at the origin of the psychic formation, it is an emanation from the divine Consciousness; whereas the true self is not a terrestrial formation. It precedes the... of energy—I have heard this very often: a great reserve of energy—in the earth, and that if they draw this energy into themselves they will be able to do things; but it is always mixed. The divine Presence is everywhere, that's well understood. And in fact, there is neither above nor below. What is called above and below, I think that is rather the expression of a degree of consciousness or a degree ...
... fact: from the moment one is in contact with one's psychic being all the time, one is in contact with the divine Presence all the time. And you may reverse the statement and say, "I shall know that I am in contact with my psychic being all the time, when I am in contact with the divine Presence all the time, in all things. This will be a proof for me that I am in contact with my psychic being." ... the unreality of external forms; to what an extent it is only... yes, it is like a sheet of thin paper, it has no consistency, no body, it is something altogether superficial and unreal; and the divine Presence, the divine Splendour behind, is the only thing which exists, which is true, solid, durable. This experience one can have. Mother, the psychic being in us is always in contact with the Divine: ...
... towards the Divine will be done out of love for Him. The Mother The starting-point When one is united with one's psychic being and conscious of the divine Presence, and receives the impulses for one's action from this divine Presence, and when the will has become a conscious collaborator with the divine Will - that is the starting-point. The Mother Our effort of every day Let our... at the end ought to be enough for the present. Or at the most to remember too when there is a pause. Sri Aurobindo Keeping in touch with the presence Always keep in touch with the divine presence, try to bring it down and the very best will always take place. The Mother Inner quietude I said once that, to speak usefully for ten minutes, you should remain silent for ten days ...
... I call the "cellular mind"), which is itself constantly conscious of the divine Presence and is keen on accepting nothing but That; so a whole work is going on for changing, shifting the origin of the movements. I mean to say that instead of it just being automatically the habit, it should be automatically the divine Presence and Consciousness that causes the movement ( Mother makes a gesture of pushing... And the thought is silent, immobile, then the imagination does not work (all that, willingly), and the movement tries to be as sincere and as spontaneous as possible, under the influence of the divine Presence.... Words deform everything. From time to time—from time to time, all of a sudden: the concrete experience, like a lightning flash—the experience of the Presence, the identification. But that ...
... Sweet Mother, What do You mean by "becoming conscious"? Is becoming conscious of the Divine Presence in oneself the only thing or does becoming conscious of one's movements, of one's speech, etc. also count? Page 402 You may be sure that becoming conscious of the Divine Presence in oneself considerably changes one's whole way of being and gives an exceptional control over all... What does Sri Aurobindo mean when he speaks of change of consciousness? Passing from the general ignorant human consciousness to the yogic consciousness founded on the knowledge of the Divine Presence. Blessings. 13 December 1969 Page 403 Sweet Mother, Why is it better to go to bed early and to get up early? When the sun sets, a kind of peace descends on earth ...
... (mental, vital and physical) around this centre, so that all the activities of the being may be the correct expression of the will of the Divine Presence. Unless and until the whole of the individual consciousness is organised around the central Divine Presence, the movements are fugitive, although recurrent, and we cannot expect them to have any permanence. Nothing is permanent in a terrestrial... influence all activity becomes balanced. The psychic influence compels the physical to turn towards the Divine. Let this house be a symbol of the psychic, the temple of the eternal divine Presence. Page 331 Live in the consciousness of the psychic centre; thus your will will express the Divine's Will alone and your transformed being will then be able to receive and manifest the ...
... shows that it is not quite pure. The question should be put like this: each one of us has a faith, for example, a faith in something, say a faith in the divine Presence within us. If our faith were pure, we would at once be aware of this divine Presence within us. This example is very easy to understand. You have faith, it is there, but you don't have the experience. Why? Because the faith is not pure... etc., for then all these things may happen only because of a well-built mental construction in which you move about with ease. In that case it is really a dream! If one is not aware of the divine presence, can one enjoy the divine protection? There too it depends on the case. It may occur; it is not always like that, but it may occur. It may happen that the divine grace is given to someone without ...
... indeed you will at once understand what I mean by the Western tradition being 'incarnational'. Jesus did not teach any evolutionary 'superman' Way, but the discovery in mortal fallen man of the divine 'Presence'; and the love of all human beings, because in them is the imprint of the 'image of God' (as told of man's creation in the first chapter of Genesis) and the recovery and redemption of something... beyond earth and towards a bodiless Nirvana, as compared to Christianity's alleged emphasis on Blake's "minute particulars" here and now, as well as on "the discovery in mortal fallen man of the divine Presence". Aren't you forgetting that in the Christian tradition the world is not an emanation of God's being but an artifact of his, created out of nothing - at best a mere "image of God", as you quote... speed, A Joy that drags not sorrow as its shade. The "superman" Sri Aurobindo speaks of is the bringing forth of what is in divine seed-form within man. To make a contrast between the divine Presence in mortal fallen man and the human soul which, in Sri Aurobindo's yoga, has to evolve all its latent Godliness by entering into higher states of consciousness that are its own concealed possibilities ...
... 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 come. (Letters on Yoga, Vol. 23, p. 505.)... of the dynamic Divine Truth and its transforming descent into the earth-nature. (Letters on Yoga, p. 509.) * * * The object of the yoga is to enter into and be possessed by the Divine Presence and Consciousness, to love the Divine for the Divine's sake alone, to be tuned in our nature into the nature of the Divine, and in our will and works and life to be the instrument of the Divine... 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 the pure gold of the Spirit. Only when the Divine presence is there in us always and the consciousness transformed, can we have the right to say that we are ready to manifest the Divine on the Page 81 material plane. To hold up a mental ideal ...
... —to create unity by founding the Kingdom of God which is within us all. This, therefore, is the most useful work to be done: (1) For each individually, to be conscious in himself of the Divine Presence and to identify himself with it. (2) To individualise the states of being that were never till now conscious in man and, by that, to put the earth in connection with one or more of the fountains... processes which, though opposite in appearance, must combine—must act upon each other and complete each other: (1) Individual transformation, an inner development leading to the union with the Divine Presence. Page 49 (2) Social transformation, the establishment of an environment favourable to the flowering and growth of the individual. Since the environment reacts upon the individual ...
... you a slight injury; if, however, you have the right attitude and the full consciousness of the divine presence everywhere around you, he will not be able to lift even a finger against you. This truth is just the key to the whole problem of transformation. Always keep in touch with the divine presence, try to bring it down—and the very best will always take place. Of course the world will not change ...
... an addition of their own mental formation. It is no longer the Thing in its essence and purity, which is beyond all form. But one may have a perception, and a very concrete perception of the Divine Presence, yes. One may have a very personal contact with the Divine, yes. But not in this way. And it is inexpressible, except for those who have had the experience. If you do not have an experience, I... or written things like this: "I see images of God." These are ways of speaking. It is possible that the thing you are speaking about may happen: to be suddenly in a particular state and see a Divine Presence and this Presence taking a form that's familiar to you—one is accustomed to associate certain forms with the Divine, due to one's education, tradition, and that takes an external form. But it is ...
... be himself. There is a great difference between a human being and these beings of the vital plane. I have told you this many times, I am going to repeat it: In a human being, there is the divine Presence and the psychic being—at the beginning embryonic, but in the end a being wholly formed, conscious, independent, individualised. That does not exist in the vital world. It is a special grace given... wanting it and the moment he wants it, he can do it. He is sure to succeed the moment he wants it, whereas those beings of the vital do not have a psychic being in them, they do not have the direct divine Presence (naturally, at the Origin, they descended directly from the Divine, but that was at the Origin, that is very far away). They are not in direct contact with the Divine within them, they have no ...
... speciality of the earth. It is a direct infusion, special and redeeming, in the most inconscient and obscure Matter, so that it might once again awake through stages to the divine Consciousness, the divine Presence and finally to the Divine Himself. It is the presence of the psychic which makes man an exceptional being—I don't like to tell him this very much, because already he thinks too much of himself;... who are very eager to take a physical body on earth to have the experience of the psychic, for they don't have it. These beings certainly have many qualities that men don't, but they lack this divine presence which is altogether exceptional and exists only on the earth and nowhere else. All these inhabitants of the higher worlds, the Higher Mind, Overmind and other regions have no psychic being. Of ...
... and capacities, without noise or restlessness, without impatience or laziness. ..? " If your calm is integral, that is, both inner and outer, founded on the perception of the Divine Presence, and unchanging, that is to say, constant and unvarying in all circumstances, it will undoubtedly be all powerful, and the children will necessarily be influenced by it and the class will certainly... in that community. But for the community to be happy, this discipline should be set by the most broad-minded person or persons, if possible the person or persons who are conscious of the Divine Presence and are surrendered to it. For the world to be happy, power should only be in the hands of those who are conscious of the Divine Will. But for the time being that is impossible because ...
... words. Here we speak of Yoga but elsewhere one would speak differently; some would say, "I am seeking my raison d'être", and so on. Those who have a religious bent will say, "I want to find the divine Presence." There are fifty ways of saying the thing but it is the thing which is important; you must feel it in your head, in your heart, everywhere. It must be concrete, living, otherwise you cannot advance... you are no longer in a physical body, you can no longer do it at all . And what is still more remarkable is that only human beings can do it, for only human beings have at their centre the divine Presence in the psychic being... And yet, human beings come into a physical body without knowing why, most of them go through life without knowing why, they leave their body without knowing why, and ...
... very fast. And then, what is quite miraculous according to ordinary ideas is that as soon as they reach that degree of consecration which identifies them through their psychic being with the Divine Presence, suddenly they become endowed with capacities of expression absolutely unknown to their nature. I had a case like this in France, a long time ago, of a young, very young girl who had never had... from forgetfulness, from indifference. ( Silence ) I am speaking of a joy which is perfect peace, shadowless light, harmony, total beauty and an irresistible power, that joy which is the divine Presence itself, in its essence, in its Will and its Realisation. Mother, you say that for conquering, it is only joy which can conquer the Adversary. But to attain the joy one must first conquer the ...
... without physically... without the heart beginning to beat faster, without the nerves trembling or the slightest emotion in any part of the being. Face everything with a constant consciousness of the divine Presence, with a total self-giving to the Divine, and the whole being unified in this will; then one can go forward in life, can face anything whatever. I say, without a shudder, without a vibration; this... these truths are valuable only if they are put into practice, and that it is useless to talk of consciousness, knowledge, equality of soul, universality, infinity, eternity, supreme truth, the divine presence and... of all sorts of things like that, if you make no effort yourselves to live these things and feel them concretely within you. And don't tell yourselves, "Oh, I have been here so many years ...
... intellect the promise of the Master, "I will surely deliver thee from all sin and evil; do not grieve." At the end, the flickerings of faith will cease; for we shall see his face and feel always the Divine Presence. The Master of our works respects our nature even when he is transforming it; he works always through the nature and not by any arbitrary caprice. This imperfect nature of ours contains... sincere and all-pervasive. The second step is to renounce attachment to the fruit of our works; for the only true, inevitable and utterly desirable fruit of sacrifice—the one thing needful—is the Divine Presence and the Divine Consciousness and Power in us, and if that is gained, all else will be added. This is a transformation of the egoistic will in our vital being, our desire-soul and desire-nature ...
... purely psychological, it wasn't physical.... 1912 or '13. But physically, the body's whole experience now is that it only has to... to give itself unreservedly, to abandon itself totally to the divine Presence, and the pain, any pain at all, disappears. That I said the other day. It's not at all that it turns into something else: it disappears. And on a physical level, it's more important because... to do it. When it was very small, the object of the surrender was not known, but the minute it knew it, for it that was very definitive.... You understand, the first contact (as I said) was the divine Presence in the psychic being, and so, the minute it became a fact—a patent fact, there was no arguing, the experience was perfectly conclusive—from that minute, the body had only one idea left (not even ...
... lines proclaim the combined peace and power of the divine presence as felt by the poet — the peace mellow and fruitful, the power a fiery bloom — in a kind of correspondence between the world without and the world within. The next two subtly connect up with the preceding pair by intimating with paradoxical felicity how the keenly felt divine presence within is able to manifest its glory despite the faults ...
... consciousness — which irrefutably appears from their wonderful organization of which molecular biology daily discovers new and amazing secrets. The cells too, like everything in the universe, have the divine Presence within them, for otherwise they could not be. Nothing can be without That. Once, when the Mother was fully involved in the yoga of the cells, their composition and modus operandi were shown... place of the ego.’ 56 The following year the Mother said again: ‘The true spiritual life begins when one is in communion with the Divine in the psychic, when one is conscious of the divine Presence in the psychic and in constant communion with the psychic. Then spiritual life begins, not before — the true spiritual life.’ 57 The true spiritual life is the prologue to the supramental ...
... 1956, gives his impression of the moment at the Playground when the Supramental manifested in the atmosphere of the Earth. The Mother herself noted down that very evening: ‘This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there present amongst you. I had a form of living gold, bigger than the universe, and I was facing a huge and massive golden door which separated the world from the... govern this supramental world have nothing to do with our values here below, even the values of the wisest, even those values which we consider most divine at the time we live constantly in the divine Presence. They are altogether different.’ 46 The supramental world was very much present, below at the core of the black Inconscient, above in a bright, limitless Vast, within a distance difficult to ...
... wants to lose itself in you. This is what I want, but have I done it? I want to be close to your heart, I want... but is it possible? I don't know. Make me peaceful. Give me the taste of your divine presence. Yes, my dear child, it is entirely possible and since you want it sincerely, it will come to be so. You will feel yourself always Page 116 close to my heart, cradled in my arms... you still have your mother's friendship? And also all her love, and her solicitude for you? No, all is not sad and gloomy, neither the trees nor the sky nor the sea; everything is full of the divine Presence and is only too glad to speak of it to you. Shake off this childish depression and contemplate the Sun that is rising in your heart! 28 April 1934 Mother, You don 't love me at all ...
... in the Physical, we descended into the Subconscient and from the Subconscient to the Inconscient. That was how we worked. And it was only when I descended into the Inconscient that I found the Divine Presence—there, in the midst of Darkness. It wasn't the first time; when I was working with Theon at Tlemcen (the second time I was there), I descended into the total, unindividualized—that is, gen... once you were there the day it happened—it had to do with divine Love 6 ); this experience of descending to the very bottom of the Inconscient and finding there the Divine Consciousness, the Divine Presence, under one form or another. It has happened quite frequently. But I can't say that my process is to descend there first, as you write. Rather, this can be the process only when you are ALREADY ...
... liberated from the ego and to emerge consciously into the Divine Presence which is at the centre of our being, in full light, in peace and joy, free at last from the sufferings imposed upon us by the ego. It is the ego which changes all the contacts of life into suffering, it is the ego which prevents us from being conscious of the Divine Presence within us and from becoming His calm, strong and happy ...
... The near totality of the body's movements are movements of habit. Behind, there is the consciousness of the physical mind (what I call the "cellular mind") which is constantly conscious of the divine Presence and anxious to allow nothing but That; then a whole work is going on to change, to shift the origin of movements. I mean that instead of them being just automatic; out of habit, the divine Con... The thought is silent, immobile, so the imagination doesn't function (all that is deliberate), and the movement is trying to be as sincere and spontaneous as possible under the influence of the divine Presence.... Words distort too much. From time to time, now and then, all at once—the concrete experience, as in a flash: the experience of the Presence, of identification. But it lasts for... a few ...
... (not the body's global consciousness, but 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 ...
... knowledge, bringing to you as a counterpart from Sri Aurobindo the boon of spiritual insight, the truth-touch that removes all distortions, inner or outer. Surely with such heavenly hints of the divine presence watching over you there can be no doubt that you will come smiling through whatever ailment has been troubling you. Try to live as much as possible in the memory of this vision. (4.9.1987)... sweetness and Sri Aurobindo's compassion. Being what we are, we cannot escape the pitfalls of a world of ignorance and imperfection, but we have the opportunity to keep our beings aware of the Divine Presence which can heal all wounds and make us go forward in spite of all our faults To have been a disciple of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother from my twenty-third year has not prevented me from stumbling ...
... 234 devotion, adoration, bhakti , the God within. 10 Well, this aspect of rapport with the Supreme could exist ONLY WITH MAN, because man is a special being in universal History—the divine Presence is in him. And several of those great gods have taken human bodies JUST TO HAVE THAT. 11 But not many of them—they were so fully aware of their own perfect independence and their almightiness... × Satprem subsequently asked Mother: You almost seem to be saying that during the Vedic era there was no divine presence in man! No, there wasn't! They discovered it. Humanity has undergone a spiritual evolution. Vedism is in contact with the gods and, THROUGH THE GODS, with the Supreme; but it is not in direct ...
... Chapman 189 Chattopadhyaya, Harindranath 36,42 Chit-Tapas 247 Coleridge 42,197,234 consciousness depths of 99 developing through Savitri 286 Divine 167,174 Divine Presence and 303 higher 67,176 human's 95 in-drawn 28 Mantra in 271 mental 306,325 outer 160 Overhead 73 Overmind 200 poet s 160,162 quiet 200 ranges... Dante 22,57,126,188,223,258 186, 205 Dawn-Goddess. See Savitri (2) De Quincey's division of literature 162 death 5 desire 29,160 dharma 145,174 Diekhoff,John 244 Divine Presence 303 divinisation 6 Donne 46,230 Durga'sLion 307 Dutt,Toru 144 dvārapālaka 299 E ego 298,310,313 Eliot, T.S. 126,335 emotional being 29 English poetry ...
... pursues its ordinary routines. This feeling contrasts strongly with the slow and dignified movement of Page 401 the previous thematic unit in which the earth responds to the divine Presence in worship and consecration. [186-214] And Savitri too awoke among these tribes. {T} At the beginning of the eighth thematic unit, Savitri is introduced with this line, which reminds... of soulless inconscience. Then, in the second unit [Then something in the inscrutable darkness stirred], something stirs, there is a faint longing and clutching as the earth faintly senses the divine Presence. In the next unit [Insensibly somewhere a breach began] this stirring movement becomes stronger—it becomes a breach, an intervention of the spirit, which is described in the following unit [All ...
... this event in the following text given by her: FIRST SUPRAMENTAL MANIFESTATION (During the common meditation on Wednesday the 29th February 1956) This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there present amongst you. I had a form of living gold, bigger than the universe, and I was facing a huge and massive golden door which separated the world from the... it: a physical suffering that lasts—unceasing, going on night and day. And all at once, instead of being in that state of consciousness, you are in the state of consciousness of this exclusive divine Presence—the pain is gone! And it was physical, quite physical, with a physical reason. You understand, doctors might say: 'It's for this reason, that reason...'—quite a material thing, absolutely physical: ...
... yourself and you will find Him." It is a direct, special, transmuting infusion into the most inconscient and obscure Matter to awaken it once more step by step to the Divine Consciousness, the Divine Presence and finally the Divine Himself. It is a thing characteristic of earthly creatures. It is a speciality of the earth. But only in the human being does the psychic become more conscious,... very eager to take a physical body upon earth so that they can have the experience of the psychic. These beings possess certainly many qualities which men have not, but they lack this direct Divine Presence which is quite exceptional, which is a fact of the earth and is found nowhere else. All these inhabitants of the higher worlds, of Higher Mind and Overmind and other regions do not possess a ...
... yourself and you will find Him." It is a direct, special transmuting infusion into the most inconscient and obscure Matter to awaken it once more step by step to the Divine Consciousness, the Divine Presence and finally the Divine Himself. It is a thing characteristic of earthly creatures. It is a speciality of the earth. But only in the human being does the psychic become more conscious, more formed... are very eager to take a physical body upon earth so that they can have the experience of the psychic. These beings possess certainly many qualities which men have not, but they lack this direct Divine Presence which is quite exceptional, which is a fact of the earth and is found nowhere else. All these inhabitants of the higher worlds, of Higher Mind and Overmind and other regions do not possess a psychic ...
... formations: it must be thoroughly cleansed and purified. For that it must learn to be quiet and silent – absolutely still and passive; and in that quiet passivity to feel, to be conscious of the Divine Presence, to be saturated with it. When once that is done, it is called upon to come out and take part in active life. Normally, however, the tendency is, when one has withdrawn and lived an inward quieted... back to outer life, to turn to the old accustomed ways and reactions; one falls back into the old groove of the consciousness. The vital should then make the experience and the realisation of the Divine Presence dynamic so that it may be a living reality; the vital must be conscious of it in the midst of all activities, not merely in the indrawn state. The energy of the vital must be put out into a complete ...
... different ways Gurudev Tagore at Shantiniketan, Gandhiji at Sabarmati and Shevagram, and in many of the Ramakrishna Mission centres, the challenges of everyday life were not ignored, although the Divine Presence was always assumed and Divine Protection was always hoped for. Page 571 The Ashram principle is also behind the age-old concept of guru-kula-vāsa, or learning by living with... There is thus a whole Guru-Sishya linked sequence which is as significant in the secular arts and sciences as it certainly is in the art and science of spiritual philosophy. The sense of the Divine Presence and the feeling of Divine Guidance and Divine Protection are, however, the indispensable élan in all Gurukulas and Ashrams. When young men were first drawn to Sri Aurobindo - at Baroda ...
... is itself the very sign of the greatness of the Divine". 4 Not only does He descend into and fill the obscurest figures of Nature, but He also animates them Page 157 with the Divine Presence. God is certainly power, knowledge, infinity and omnipresence, but He is even more essentially Love. In the longer poem, Parabrahman, the Ultimate is unravelled as the triune splendour... or plasm; he is "infinite moving mid infinities"; he is verily the Eternal concealed in the finite and the temporal. It is also this third Angel of Intuitive Vision that infers and affirms the Divine Presence and the Divine Play in the variegated multiplicity of phenomenal life. An experiment in the galloping anapaestic measure, another poem, Who, is one of the splendidly effective among Sri ...
... transformed into the favoured haunt of the Divine. How many hours hadn't Mirra, sitting in tapas, in that room of little space, communed with the Divine? How often hadn't she invoked the Divine Presence to consecrate that room; what far regions of consciousness hadn't she coaxed into that obscure room to enlarge it into the amplitudes of the World-Stair; what spiritual energies hadn't she mobilised... beneath the appearances, to gaze at the ascending possibilities, and to see far ahead of one's own constricted spheres of person, family, locality, country, and learn rather to identify the Divine presence everywhere and in all things. Without such a decisive emancipation from the prison-cell of the ego, or of the various concentric prison-like ego-formations, no real freedom, Or felicity, or ...
... benediction: Jealousy is a deadly poison that is fatal to the soul. Behind the sorrow and the loneliness, behind the emptiness and the feeling of incapacity, there is the golden light of the Divine Presence shining soft and warm. Courage! hope! faith! at the end of the tunnel there is the Light, at the end of the ordeal there is the Victory. 10 The messages, although brief, were pins... spirit which this form contains," but within the individual, contained in each form, "there is an organisation of consciousness which is closer to and more directly under the influence of the inner divine Presence". Then, addressing a child, the Mother summed it up in practical terms: This means that in your outer body you belong to the animal species - in the course of becoming a supramental species ...
... obscurity. The Divine alone is Light and Vastness, Truth and Compassion. So take refuge in the Divine and do not care for the smallness of the world, do not let it disturb you. Keep only the Divine Presence in you with its peace and quietness. Page 605 While the Mother was thus endlessly engaged in reassuring, admonishing, encouraging, enlightening or exhorting the sadhaks, amidst all... describe this eight-year phenomenon without a parallel, this evolution of a new human group over a period of years through a constant exposure to the heavens of the Ideal, the alchemic rays from the divine Presence? How indeed are we to take the measure of that marvellous ministry of words, that dialectic of doubt and faith or of the present and the future, the human and divine? Prosaic assessment is out ...
... gate-crash into the psychic citadel and station oneself at the psychic centre. What happens next is little less than a veritable revolution: This is an opening of the inner being to the divine Presence in the psychic centre, and there you know at every moment not only what must be done but why it should be done and how it should be done, and you have the vision of the truth of things behind... consciousness in contact with the highest consciousness within reach, you can be absolutely sure that in that case it is the best that can happen to you .... ... Always keep in touch with the divine presence, try to bring it down and the very best will always take place. 22 In other words, if there is this constant and utter rapport with the Divine, what looks like miracles can happen; and ...
... being; (ii) master and govern your lower nature; and (iii) with this preparation, take your proper place in the Divine Work. 19 The regimen is not easy to follow, but the awareness of the Divine presence everywhere can be a help. But the disciple feels an inner unease and turmoil, and asks the Mother why. Her answer is a classic diagnosis of a recurrent and universal disease. There is a conflict... turn towards me; for if you were not always present in my consciousness you would not be able to think of me. 21 V The crux of the problem: How to find, how to unite with the divine Presence which is "always and everywhere"? Either go within, and find the Divine in your heart; or look out, and find the visible Divine in Sri Aurobindo and the Mother through love and self-giving. ...
... other, like life and death together. And in that the cry of the cells, constant: the call, the aspiration, the Mantra. And sometimes the Marvel that was lived: The very air seemed to change into divine Presence. Everything was touched, touched, permeated [Mother made that gesture of dots everywhere in the air], but with ... above all, there was a dazzling Light, a MASSIVE Peace , a Power, and also... sufferings. A physical suffering that lasts—unceasing, going on night and day. And all at once, instead of being in that state of consciousness, you are in the state of consciousness of this exclusive divine Presence—the pain is gone! And it was physical, quite physical, with a physical reason. You understand, doctors might say: “It’s for this reason, that reason....”—quite a material thing, absolutely physical: ...
... revolution in young Mirra, is common to the Vedic system, which posits the heart as the chief centre of consciousness, and to the Cabala, which lays great stress on the Shekinah or the all-pervading Divine Presence in man and the universe, regarded as the key to man's mission of restoring the original harmony between man and God, or between Matter and the Divine —a sharp contrast to the transcendant and wrathful... had no idea of the path of bhakti, none whatsoever," said Mother. "The idea of surrender to the Divine was absolutely alien to him. Yet Page 102 he did have the idea of the Divine Presence, here in the heart centre, of the immanent Divine, and of union with That. And he said that it was by uniting with That and letting That transform the being that one could attain this divine creation ...
... siege of the evil." This is a great mantra & has mighty effects. But it does not by itself give a secure abiding place. God's will may bring doubt & then there is anguish; may bring loss of the Divine presence, separation from the Beloved & then there is a greater agony. The intellectual man has the intellect God has given him to satisfy. The active man has the impulse to work, but at every step is faced... —therefore yasmin, not yasya. In him his Self, that which he feels to be his true I has become all creatures. Not only does he feel himself or perceive himself to be in all creatures as the divine presence in them & around them, but he is they,—he is each bhuta. The word bhuta means that which has become as opposed to that which eternally is & it includes therefore name & form & play of mind & play ...
... colour of these levels. The vital, it turns into gold and green. 45 The abundant use of emerald and sometimes gold-green in the forest scenes of Savitri indicates that, although the Divine presence is there among the sylvan scenery, yet it has been modified by the consciousness inherent in plants belonging to the vital level. The tree is the symbol of subconscient vital. 46 The plants... can be drawn between Savitri's vision of the topaz walls and the Mother's action on 29 February 1956. The underlying factor is her role as harbinger of the New Light: This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there present amongst you. I had a form of living gold, bigger than the universe, and I was facing a huge and massive golden door which separated the world from the ...
... create unity by founding the Kingdom of God which is within us all. ‘The following is therefore the most useful work to be done: 1. For each individually, to be conscious in himself of the Divine Presence and to identify himself with it. 2. To individualize the states of being that till now were never conscious in man and thus to put the Earth in connection with one or more of the fountains of universal... the ship seemed to her ‘a marvellous abode of peace, a temple sailing in Thy honour over the waves of the subconscient passivity which we have to conquer and awaken to the consciousness of Thy divine Presence.’ She thought of ‘all those who were watching over the ship to safeguard and protect our course … [and] of all the inhabitants of this vast sea, both visible and invisible’ 46 – as she thought ...
... concrete than anything sensed by ear or eye or touch in the world of Matter; but it is a certitude not of mental thought but of essential experience. When the Peace of God descends on you, when the Divine Presence is there within you, when the Ananda rushes on you like a sea, when you are driven like a leaf before the wind by the breath of the Divine Force, when Love flows out from you on all creation, when... with him—and bear his play on your shoulders; the cobras and the bite indicate that what seems to you in the vital painful and dangerous may be the very means of bringing you the ecstasy of the Divine Presence. Less generally the cobras are the forces of the evolution, the evolution towards the Divine. Their taking the place of the legs means that their action here takes place in the physi cal or ...
... with the Godhead who is seated within us and in whom too we live, move and have our being. It is this Shakti with the Ishwara in her or behind her whose divine presence and way we have to call into all our being and life. For without this divine presence and this greater working there can be no siddhi of the power of the nature. All the action of man in life is a nexus of the presence of the soul and ...
... 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 come. The aim of the Yoga is to open the... and most powerful way of "getting the Divine". So it is the best policy also. The phrase [ "for the Divine" ], however, means that the object of the Yoga is to enter into and be possessed by the Divine Presence and Consciousness, to love the Divine for the Divine's sake alone, to be turned in our nature into nature of the Divine and in our will and works and life to be the instrument of the Divine. Its ...
... for this part of the work, the most difficult of all, that surrender is most needful; for this reason, that it is the actual descent of the supramental Divine into Matter and the working of the Divine Presence and Power there that can alone make the physical and external change possible. Even the most powerful self-assertion of human will and endeavour is impotent to bring it about; as for egoistic ... success and failure. It is these things which must be the first objects of the sadhana, not any hedonistic experience even of the highest kind; for that must come of itself as a result of the Divine Presence. I would rather like you to tell me what, precisely , you do in your hours of meditation, how you do it and what happens within you. Meanwhile the first thing you must do is to throw out ...
... which you are not as yet conscious. 9 April 1931 Is it true that one should feel that it is the Divine Presence which moves one and does everything for one? Would it be possible to feel it without a union with the Divine Mother? No—that is itself a union with her—to feel the Divine Presence above or in you and moving you. 14 July 1933 Page 189 Nowadays I feel that even my blood ...
... theories is absolutely useless, for as soon as his mind awakes he will find a thousand reasons for contradicting your theories, and he will be right. This little true thing in the child is the divine Presence in the psychic—is also there in plants and animals. In plants it is not conscious, in animals it begins to be conscious, and in children it is very conscious. I have known children who were much... forefront; there is something hard in him, the psychic being has gone behind. Such boys do not respond to the vibration. One would say they are made of wood or plaster. If the inner truth, the divine presence in the psychic is so conscious in the child, it could no longer be said that a child is a little animal, could it? Why not? In animals there is sometimes a very intense psychic truth. Naturally ...
... inner law of one's being, the particular truth of each one which ought to govern all the movements of our consciousness and all the acts of our body. The inner law, the truth of the being is the divine Presence in every human being, which should be the master and guide of our life. When you acquire the habit of listening to this inner law, Page 278 when you obey it, follow it, try more... glimpse of the Truth, one must take at least one step back in one's consciousness, enter a little more deeply into one's being and try to perceive the play of forces behind the appearances and the divine Presence behind the play of forces. 25 July 1958 Page 279 ...
... limits and bounds. The individual Self and the universal Self are one; in every world, in every being, in every thing, in every atom is the Divine Presence, and man's mission is to manifest it. In order to do that, he must become conscious of this Divine Presence within him. Some individuals must undergo a real Page 41 apprenticeship in order to achieve this: their egoistic being is too ...
... fact: from the moment one is in contact with one's psychic being all the time, one is in contact with the divine Presence all the time. And you may reverse the statement and say, "I shall know that I am in contact with my psychic being all the time, when I am in contact with the divine Presence all the time, in all things. This will be a proof for me that I am in contact with my psychic being." 58 ...
... wood. Page 304 Now, if one is able to consciously unite with one's psychic being, one can always be in this state of receptivity, inner joy, energy, progress, communion with the divine Presence. And when one is in communion with That, one sees it everywhere, in everything, and all things take on their true meaning. On what does that depend?... On an inner rhythm. Perhaps a grace. In... have a well-formed, well-coordinated individuality, which has an existence of its own, with a minimum of dependence on the environment, have much more difficulty in coming into contact with the divine Presence than others, because they have a very coordinated, very organised separate existence, which is usually self-sufficient. One always finds it much more difficult to convert, we might say, a very ...
... it? And how and on what plane do you judge that the other is not conscious? His way of replying. But perhaps he thinks the same of you! Well, I tell you that so long as it is not the divine Presence you address when you speak to someone, it means you are not conscious of it in yourself. And then it's terribly presumptuous to judge what state the other person is in. What do you know about it... speak to his soul if he is a brute", well, you have given yourself away... you have stuck a label on yourself. There you are. All those who have truly and sincerely had the experience of the divine Presence, all those who have truly been in contact with the Divine, have always said the same thing: that sometimes, even often, it is in what is most decried by men, most despised by men, most condemned ...
... This talk is based upon Bases of Yoga , Chapter 3, "In Difficulty". Sweet Mother, who is this "Master of forces" who sees "the defects of the present machinery"? It is the divine Presence which sees from within what is incomplete and imperfect in the working of the present being. The divine Consciousness is present in the psychic being and it sees what is imperfect and at the same... without physically... without the heart beginning to beat faster, without the nerves trembling or the slightest emotion in any part of the being. Face everything with a constant consciousness of the divine Presence, with a total self-giving to the Divine, and the whole being unified in this will; then one can go forward in life, can face anything whatever. I say, without a shudder, without a vibration; this ...
... means that the consciousness is turned towards external things—that is, all the things of life which one sees, knows, does—instead of being turned inwards in order to find the deeper truth, the divine Presence. This is the first movement. You are busy with all that you do, with the people around you, the things you use; and then with life: sleeping, eating, talking, working a little, having a little... of beings, of conscious beings, individualities, in the forms produced by the evolution—and so there is a union which takes place between beings of higher regions and the forms evolved by this divine Presence. And the identification takes place between this immanent godhead and this being which comes down. You see, it is when the psychic being, for instance, identifies itself with a personality of a ...
... something shakes you, you feel that you are going to lose your footing, you have to cling on to something; then you cling within yourself to the idea of union with the Divine, the idea of the divine Presence, the idea of the transformation of the consciousness, and you aspire, you want, you try to organise your feelings, movements, impulses around this. And it comes. Some people have recommended... circumstance and need; and all this is inside them. So when these people, with the help of yoga, the discipline of yoga, succeed in centralising all these beings around the central light of the divine Presence, they become powerful entities, precisely because of their complexity. So long as this is not organised they often give the impression of an incoherence, they are almost incomprehensible, one can't ...
... speciality of the earth. It is a direct infusion, special and redeeming, in the most inconscient and obscure Matter, so that it might once again awake through stages to the divine Consciousness, the divine Presence and finally to the Divine Himself. It is the presence of the psychic which makes man an exceptional being—I don't like to tell him this very much, because already he thinks too much of himself;... who are very eager to take a physical body on earth to have the experience of the psychic, for they don't have it. These beings certainly have many qualities that men don't, but they lack this divine presence, which is altogether exceptional and exists only on the earth and nowhere else. All these inhabitants of the higher worlds, the Higher Mind, Overmind and other regions have no psychic being. Of ...
... people can enjoy a good feast! It is simply an opportunity to swallow a considerable amount of food. I don't know, for me it does not make a great difference. Is it possible to feel the divine Presence even when one is surrounded by a bad atmosphere, a mental and vital disturbance? Provided the atmosphere is not within oneself! For if so, it is difficult. And yet! We have had frequent instances... drunkenness, suddenly had a contact with the Divine—which, moreover, changed his life and, I must tell you, prevented him from drinking in future. But still, at the time he had the revelation of the divine Presence, he was in an intoxicated state. I don't think—here again we fall back into the same things—I don't think the Divine is a moralist. It is man who is a moralist, not the Divine. If it happens that ...
... speciality of the earth. It is a direct infusion, special and redeeming, in the most inconscient and obscure Matter, so that it might once again awake through stages to the divine Consciousness, the divine Presence and finally to the Divine Himself. It is the presence of the psychic which makes man an exceptional being—I don’t like to tell him this very much, because already he thinks too much of himself;... who are very eager to take a physical body on earth to have the experience of the psychic, for they don’t have it. These beings certainly have many qualities that men don’t, but they lack this divine presence, which is altogether exceptional and exists only on the earth and nowhere else. All these inhabitants of the higher worlds, the Higher Mind, Overmind and other regions have no psychic being. Of ...
... Yes, to live in the consciousness of the Divine Presence is the only thing that matters. 2 June 1934 To want only what the Divine wants in us and for us, is the one important thing. 5 April 1935 The individual self and the universal self are one; in every world, in every being, in each thing, in every atom is the Divine Presence, and man's mission is to manifest it. 30 ...
... Nature?... It is what Sri Aurobindo has said from the beginning, that, hidden in the depths, at the core of matter, there is the Divine Presence and that the whole terrestrial evolution is made to prepare the return of the creation to its origin, to this Divine Presence which is at the centre of everything—that is the intention of Nature. The universe is an objectivisation of the Supreme, as if ...
... with a harsh word from you. So I have to bother you again. X's diabetes is finding friends in my body. If only I could learn not to go out of your protection. The best way is to call for the Divine Presence of Truth and Harmony, to replace the vibrations of disorder and confusion. Blessings. 25 March 1964 Mother, Y's brother wants to start a business in Bombay. He wants to use Sri... personally. Yesterday my right arm was very slightly hurt. I don't know why, but I almost swooned for about a minute. I do not see any reason for this. Concentrate more constantly on the Divine Presence and the protection will be more spontaneous. Love and blessings. About 1965 Page 274 Mother, Each time that I try to rise a little in my consciousness, I get a great ...
... and the other parts of the being? What are these other parts? This transformation of consciousness is something that comes to all who have practised a yogic discipline and become aware of the divine Presence or the Truth of their being. I don't say that "many" people have realised this, but at least quite a few. What is the difference between this experience and the integral transformation? In... in a forest can practise total sincerity, but you can only practise loyalty in social life, in relation to other people. A person who is entirely consecrated in an act of inner devotion to the divine Presence, can be loyal to this Presence. This implies a relationship with something in front of you, or a relationship with the universal. The German generals were loyal to Hitler, but they weren't ...
... n, not the cry of the life-force, not the lifting of the body's voice. All of them are audible too, but in tune with a central' note that is the soul's, a note charged with some divine Page 22 presence. It is because the soul finds tongue through the poet that there is a light in poetry, a delight in poetry. Light and delight are the soul's very stuff, and by virtue of them the poetic... be there speaking out sovereignly its own secrets." Note again the turn: "the eternity of the vision." The Eternal Eye is at the back of all poetic perfection, and what this Eye visions is the Divine Presence taking flawless shape in a super-cosmos. To that shape the poet, in one way or another, converts the objects or events he depicts. This conversion is the act put before us in the fourth and ...
... because all that isn't mentalized, it's hardly possible to describe or explain.... But this subtle physical very concretely has the sense or feeling or perception (I don't know) of the divine Presence—the divine Presence in all things, everywhere. So then, this body is... one might say, partly this way and partly that way ( gesture of oscillation between two worlds ).... That was one thing I asked this ...
... rather say something yourself? ( after a silence ) Plus on avance, plus le besoin d'une présence divine devient impérieux et... inévitable. [The more we advance, the more the need of a divine presence becomes imperative and... inevitable.] "Inevitable" isn't the word, it's.... "Indispensable"? Page 348 Yes, that's it, indispensable. Is it all right? Yes, Mother. ... message in French ) February 21 .... 1973. ( then she signs it ) How do you want to put it in English? We should put: "The more we advance on the way, the more the need of a divine Presence becomes indispensable—imperative and indispensable." ( Mother writes the message with her eyes closed ) A dot on the "i" here [Satprem guides Mother's hand]. That's all. And just put a period ...
... Paris on the 21st February, 1878. Her mother was Egyptian and her father was Turkish—both of them were perfect materialists. As a result, although she had inner experiences, including that of the divine Presence, right from her childhood, she was in her external life an atheist until she entered into adulthood. In her early years, she had a good grounding in music (piano), painting and higher mathematics... instantly.² ... between the ages of 18 and 20, I had attained a constant and _____________________ ¹ Ibid., pp. 196-7. ². Ibid. Page 27 conscious union with the Divine Presence and... I had done this ALL ALONE, without ANYONE'S help, not even books. When a little later I chanced upon Vivekananda's Raja Yoga, it really seemed so wonderful to me that someone could explain ...
... Nirguna and Saguna, in the infinite 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... the lower nature so as to surmount it and to devote themselves exclusively to union with the Divine. Thousands of poems and songs describe their sādhanā, their prayers, their glimpses of the Divine Presence and their experiences of the pain of separation from the Divine, even their ecstasy in union with the Divine, and indeed it can be said that it is not possible for the tongue of human speech to ...
... speciality of the earth alone. It is the direct infusion of a purifying and redeeming agent into the most obscure and unconscious Matter to waken it by degrees towards the divine consciousness, the divine presence, to the Divine Himself. It is the psychic presence that makes of man an exceptional being. Perhaps it is not good to tell it to him too often, for as it is he is already puffed up and thinks... are anxious to take a physical body upon earth so that they may experience the Psychic, as they do not possess it. These beings have very many qualities which men have not, but they lack this divine presence which is quite an exceptional thing belonging to the earth alone. All the inhabitants of the higher worlds—the Higher Mind, the Overmind and other domains—do not have the psychic being. Naturally ...
... speciality of the earth alone. It is the direct infusion of a purifying and redeeming agent into the most obscure and unconscious Matter to awaken it by degrees towards the divine consciousness, the divine presence, to the Divine Himself. It is the psychic presence that makes of man an exceptional being. Perhaps it is not good to tell it to him too often, for as it is he is already puffed up and thinks very... Overmind, are eager to take a physical body upon earth so that they may experience the Psychic, as they do not possess it. These beings have very many qualities which men have not, but they lack this divine presence which is quite an exceptional thing belonging to the earth alone. All the inhabitants of the higher worlds – the Higher Mind, the Overmind and other domains – do not have the psychic being. Naturally ...
... formations: it must be thoroughly cleansed and purified. For that it must learn to be quiet and silent—absolutely still and passive; and in that quiet passivity to feel, to be conscious of the Divine Presence, to be saturated with it. When once that is done, it is called upon to come out and take part in active life. Normally, however, the tendency is, when one has withdrawn and lived an inward quieted... the old accustomed ways and reactions; one falls back into the old groove of the consciousness. Page 74 The vital should then make the experience and the realisation of the Divine Presence dynamic so that it may be a living reality; the vital must be conscious of it in the midst of all activities, not merely in the indrawn state. The energy of the vital must be put out into a complete ...
... to take a physical body upon earth so that they may experience the Psychic, as they do not possess it". Page 82 to waken it by degrees towards the Divine Consciousness, the Divine Presence, to the Divine Himself. It is the psychic presence that makes of man an exceptional being...But to tell the truth, tie does not seem to have profited much by it. He does not look like considering... 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 redeem all, is a gift of the psychic. It is nothing irrational or superstitious, as the callow rationalist would glibly assert, but a reflection ...
... whereas these adverse forces are but the denizens of the vital underworld, the human being with a soul of his own stands on a wholly different footing: In a human being, there is the divine Presence and the psychic being - at the beginning embryonic, but in the end a being wholly formed, conscious, independent, individualised. That does not exist in the vital world. Page 557 ... on till nine o'clock or after, occasionally till ten. The children are at home, the sadhaks (whether or not they follow the Mother's speech rhythms in French) are attentive and drinking her divine presence. She is the best of companions and the best of teachers at once. She can be dialectical, anecdotal, descriptive, Socratic, iconoclastic, prophetical - all in the course of the same evening. Once ...
... the sadhaks. And to all who came upstairs she gave some fragrant leaves of Sweet Marjoram to which she had assigned the significance: "New Birth - Birth to the true consciousness, that of the Divine Presence in us." This time I looked at the Mother and our eyes met in utter silence, and it was as if our souls had embraced.... Then my heart whispered: "Yes, this is the Truth and the Love I have... had known that the seeking and the finding of the Immanent Divine was the central purpose of her life, and she had through aspiration and effort "achieved a conscious and constant union with the Divine Presence". She had as it were hurled herself into the search "like a cyclone"! But here, in the Ashram, circumstances were infinitely far more propitious. It only remained for the children and the sadhaks ...
... develops inner relation with 'Krishna' 10, IS, 31, 86 comforting stricken humanity 10 (cf 136-7) and 'the Man of Sorrows' 10-11, 76 writes 'The Path of Later On' 11, 16 union with the Divine Presence 14, 66 studies Hindu scriptures 15-6, 32, 82, 192 occultism sleight-of-hand 17 going out of her body 18, 23, 136, 148, 152, 402, 773 makes nights conscious 20 in the region between... 636) Terrace Darshan: 24 November 1967 753 concrete experience of the cells 766 the 'creation of equilibrium' 766 powerful penetration by supramental forces 766-7 experience of the Divine Presence 767-8, 783, 804 reversal of consciousness 'in all details... domains' 768 simultaneous experience of suffering and Ananda 768, 784 what tires her body 769 descent of superman consciousness ...
... feel its inevitable identity with the earth; in other words, the inevitability of decay and decomposition. But now, after twenty years, her experience was different: her body was able to feel the Divine Presence. There was also the sustained pressure of the new Consciousness in ruthlessly clearing away the cobwebs of old mental formations and in turning the heavy and the obscure and the ugly into lightness... December, the Mother explained how, whether one dwelt upon the inconveniences of one's own body or upon the likes and dislikes of others, either way it was misery; it was only if one lived in the Divine Presence and let the Divine do everything, only then it was peace, and time had no more duration. 39 Of the four categories of human beings — those who lived for themselves, those who were capable of loving ...
... discordant appearance, one now sees only the divine Presence, the divine Will and the Grace everywhere; and every event, every element, every circumstance, every form changes into a way, a detail through which one can draw more intimately and profoundly closer to the Divine. Discordances disappear, ugliness vanishes; there is now only the splendour of the divine Presence in a Love shining in all things. 13 ...
... continue progressing. We lead a fossil life, 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 ...
... that error is the first effort of life towards the truth. *** The individual self and the universal self are one; in every world, in every being, in everything, in every atom is the Divine Presence, and man’s mission is to manifest it. If we all brought here an ardent aspiration for more knowledge and greater wisdom, we would create an atmosphere of contemplation that would be highly... Unification means organisation and harmonisation of all the parts of the being, mental, vital and physical, around this centre, so that all activities become the right expression of the will of the Divine Presence. *** The Mother giving prizes in the recitation class Certainly we must always want peace and harmony and work for it as much as we can — but the best field of action for this work ...
... reduce, not only the infrarational, but equally the suprarational refuges of the religious spirit. The old pagan polytheistic symbolism had clothed with its beautiful figures the ancient idea of a divine presence and supraphysical life and Power in all Nature and in every particle of life and matter and in all animal existence and in all the mental action of man; but this idea, which to the secularist reason ...
... and Page 526 capacities. All that we can tell him about is his sadhana. If he progresses in his sadhana, opens his consciousness, can feel a higher and wider consciousness and the Divine Presence or Power at work, he will then be able to get our inner guidance for his life. 27 February 1933 Can you induce my Gurudev Sri Aurobindo to think kindly of me, even though the terrible situation ...
... guidance. Peace, peace upon all the earth! May all escape from the ordinary consciousness and be delivered from the attachment for material things; may they awake to the knowledge of Thy divine presence, unite themselves with Thy supreme consciousness and taste the plenitude of peace that springs from it. Lord, Thou art the sovereign Master of our being. Thy law is our law, and with all our ...
... and all iniquity disappear to give place to an era of peace and harmonious effort. O Lord, with thought rapt within and the heart at peace, I approach Thee and all my being is filled with Thy divine Presence; grant that I may see Thee alone in all things and that all may be resplendent with Thy divine Light. Oh, may all hatred be appeased, all rancour effaced, all fears dispelled, all suspicions destroyed ...
... and thither to seek their own suitable environments. One part may enter into another person who has an affinity for it, another may even enter an animal, while that which has been alive to the divine Presence may remain attached to the central psychic being. But if you are fully organised and converted into a single individual, bent on reaching the goal of evolution, then you will be conscious after ...
... what he wanted him to be. If he had had integral faith, he would have obliged the man to change. It is always by faith that miracles happen. A person goes to another and has a contact with the Divine Presence; if he can keep this contact pure and sustained, it will oblige the Divine Consciousness to manifest in the most material. But all depends on your own standard and your own sincerity; and the more ...
... incarnate on earth in human consciousness, and at times also in animal consciousness. It is the hatred for things beautiful, for what is pure, what is good, what is true. It is the hatred of the divine Presence. And naturally, with this hatred, the will to destroy and damage, to spoil, mar, deform, Page 232 disfigure. One step more and it is the will to inflict suffering. And all this is the ...
... intellectual, and who yet are apparently and in their outer life quite ordinary. There are others—I have known some who had an absolutely marvellous spiritual realisation, who lived constantly in the divine Presence and yet never had a vision in all their life! And they used to complain about it.... It is a question of temperament, destiny, and probably of the work one has to do, for evidently one can't do ...
... one has to choose among two or three or four possible decisions and doesn't know which is the right one, then one must put himself as far as possible in contact with his psychic being and the divine Presence in him, present the problem to this psychic consciousness and ask for the true light, the true decision, the Page 340 one most in accordance with the divine Will, and try to listen ...
... clear, you no longer see your defects. And this is automatic. Well, all these are insincerities. And perfect sincerity comes when at the centre of the being there is the consciousness of the divine Presence, the consciousness of the divine Will, and when the entire being, like a luminous, clear, transparent whole, expresses this in all its details. This indeed is true sincerity. When, at any moment ...
... means; this one was not adequate. But within the individual, contained in each form, there is an organisation of consciousness which is closer to and more directly under the influence of the inner divine Presence, and the form which is under this influence—this kind of inner concentration of energy—has a life independent of the physical form—this is what we generally call the "soul" or the "psychic being"—and ...
... Mother Questions and Answers (1929 - 1931): 26 May 1929 What is the difference between "spiritual" and "psychic"? It is not the same thing. The psychic is the being organised by the divine Presence and it belongs to the earth—I am not speaking of the universe, only of the earth; it is only upon earth that you will find the psychic being. The rest of the universe is formed in quite a different ...
... and help will be there as they were here. You have only to keep yourself open to them and live inwardly seeking Page 811 to become more and more conscious so that you may feel the Divine Presence and Power. As to the Bombay atmosphere, keep inwardly separate from it, even while mixing with others. See it as a thing outside and not belonging to the inner world in which you yourself live ...
... letter. As for the way out of the impasse, I know only of the quieting of the mind which makes meditation effective, purification of the heart which brings the divine touch and in time the divine presence, humility before the Divine which liberates from egoism and the pride of the mind and of the vital, the pride that imposes its own reasonings on the ways of the spirit and the pride that refuses ...
... don't know on what grounds to appreciate something, and, moreover, when there is something that is superior to them, they don't like it. But where to get such a strength ? Within you. The Divine Presence is in you. It is in you. You look for it outside; look inside. It is in you. The Presence is there. You want the appreciation of others to get strength—you will never get it. The strength is in ...
... it really so? No. In surrendering to the Guru, it is to the Divine in him that one surrenders—if it were only to a human entity it would be ineffective. But it is the consciousness of the Divine Presence that makes the Guru a real Guru, so that even if the disciple surrenders to him thinking of the human being to whom he surrenders, that Presence would still make it effective. Does surrender ...
... there; for it surpasses all expression. It is this wonderful state that we wish to realise upon earth; it is this which will transform the world and make it a habitation worthy of the Divine Presence, Then will love, pure and true, incarnate in a body that will no longer be a disguise or a veil. Many a time the Divine sought, under the supreme form of love, to make the discipline easier and ...
... absolutely useless, for as soon as his mind awakes he will find a thousand reasons for contradicting your theories, and he will be right. This little true thing in the child is the divine Presence in the psychic - it is also there in plants and animals. In plants it is not conscious, in animals it begins to be conscious, and in children it is very conscious. I have known children ...
... should be the constant memory of the One to whom you offer it. This is only a first process; for when you can have constantly the feeling of a calm being within concentrated in the sense of the Divine Presence while the surface mind does the work, or when you can begin to feel always that it is the Mother's force that is doing the work and you are only a channel or an instrument, then in place of memory ...
... 99.102,107,111 reversal of xxvi, 59 Consciousness-Force 108,110 Consecration 101 Desire 57 soul of, (desire-soul) 18,90, 94 Dharma 10 Divine Love 55, 56 Divine (Presence), the 14,18, 24, 25, 36, 55 and the psychic being 8, 15, 22 Divine spark 14; see also the Psyche, Psychic entity Emotions (feelings) 19, 21, 35 Enthusiasm link ...
... forbidden to fight among themselves, for each time that one gives a blow to another, one gives it to one's own soul. 15 January 1963 * True strength and protection come from the Divine Presence in the heart. If you want to keep this Presence constantly in you, avoid carefully all vulgarity in speech, behaviour and acts. Do not mistake liberty for license and freedom for bad ...
... Existence is not an illusion Existence is not a fluke, a random creation bv nobody, a thing that unaccountably happened to be. It carries in itself the Word of God, it is full of a hidden Divine Presence. Existence is not a blind machine that somehow came and started a set ignoble motion without object or sense or purpose. Existence is a Truth of things unfolding by a gradual process of ...
... and thither to seek their own suitable environments. One part may enter into another person who has an affinity for it, another may even enter an animal, while that which has been alive to the divine Presence may remain attached to the central psychic being. But if you arc fully organised and converted into a single individual, bent on reaching the goal of evolution. Page 74 then you ...
... boat which seems to me a marvellous abode of peace, a temple sailing in Thy honour over the waves of the subconscient passivity which we have to conquer and awaken to the consciousness of Thy divine Presence. Blessed was the day when I came to know Thee, O Ineffable Eternity. Blessed among all days be that day when the earth at last awakened shall know Thee and shall live only for Thee. Page ...
... But this does not mean that it is in the body: it is within the consciousness in another dimension, and there are beings who have a contact with it, others who haven't. But if you come to the divine Presence in the atom, the image is easier to understand, for there you touch so infinitesimal a domain that you are on the border-line where you can no longer distinguish between two, three, four or five ...
... there are many similar ones. Someone was seeking to establish a constant and conscious contact—absolutely constant and conscious—with the inner Godhead, not only with the psychic being but the divine Presence in the psychic being, and she had decided that she would be like this, that she would busy herself with nothing else, that is to say, whatever she might be doing, her concentration was upon this ...
... or to the immobile Witness. Page 183 That depends upon the origin. Have all psychic beings the same origin? This is how things happen. The origin of the psychic life, the divine Presence in Matter is one and the same, that's understood, but there are beings in the higher world who have never taken a body upon earth and who want to act there, have a terrestrial action. So they wait ...
... and Meditations August 11, 1914 O my sweet Master, enter into all these confused thoughts, all these anguished hearts; kindle there the fire of Thy divine Presence. The shadow of the earth has fallen back upon it, it has been completely shaken by it; but this shadow was hiding Thy immutable sun, and now that it has crashed down upon this poor world, rocking ...
... No, if there is a contradiction, it is that the concentration is not done in the right way. Indeed the world is in this state of falsehood in which one cannot concentrate within oneself on the divine Presence without losing contact with the external being. I do not say that it is very easy, I have given you this as a somewhat far ideal, but it is quite possible and it has been done, I may assure you ...
... words. Here we speak of Yoga but elsewhere one would speak differently; some would say, "I am seeking my raison d'être ", and so on. Those who have a religious bent will say, "I want to find the divine Presence." There are fifty ways of saying the thing but it is the thing which is important; you must feel it in your head, in your heart, everywhere. It must be concrete, living, otherwise you cannot ...
... himself, who has found his psychic being, who lives constantly in the consciousness of this psychic being, who has established a perfect relation or at least a constant relation with the inner divine Presence is enveloped in an atmosphere of knowledge, light, beauty, purity, which is the best of all protections against desires, but all the same it is possible for desire to intrude if one is not always ...
... may be doing, you are in the same state of joy, for this joy does not depend upon outer things, it depends upon your inner condition. You have found the source of joy in yourself, that is, the divine Presence, communion with the Divine; and having found this source of joy in yourself, you need nothing else, nothing whatsoever to have this joy. And as it has no cause, it does not cease; it is a constant ...
... means; this one was not adequate. But within the individual, contained in each form, there is an organisation of consciousness which is closer to and more directly under the influence of the inner divine Presence, and the form which is under this influence—this kind of inner concentration of energy Page 215 —has a life independent of the physical form—this is what we generally call the "soul" ...
... By what signs can one tell that the psychic being has come to the surface? One feels peaceful and happy, full of trust, full of a deep and true benevolence, and very close to the divine presence. 99 The Mother * Page 92 When the psychic being conies in front, there is an automatic perception of the true and untrue, the divine and the undivine, the spiritual ...
... means; this one was not adequate. But within the individual, contained in each form, there is an organisation of consciousness which is closer to and more directly under the influence of the inner divine Presence, and the form which is under this influence—this kind of inner concentration of energy—has a life independent of the physical form—this is what we generally call the “soul” or the “psychic being”—and ...
... theories is absolutely useless, for as soon as his mind awakes he will find a thousand reasons for contradicting your theories, and he will be right. This little true thing in the child is the divine Presence in the psychic it is also there in plants and animals. In plants it is not conscious, in animals it begins to be conscious, and in children it is very conscious. I have known children who were ...
... the material, all that one can see with eyes other than the physical, all the experiences that one can have in subtle domains from the sense perceptions of the vital world to the bliss of the Divine Presence. It was while discussing these and other similar "things" that Sri Aurobindo was told that they were "hallucinations". When you look up the word "hallucination" in the dictionary, you find this ...
... everything from the point of view of his narrow and limited ego as that of eternal fool. To be able to understand and feel things correctly one must have a universal vision and be conscious of the Divine Presence and Will in all things and in all circumstances. Then we know that whatever happens to us is always for our good, if we take the point of view of the spirit in the unfolding of time. 16 ...
... spark, which is the core of the psychic, because only on earth—I am not even speaking of the material universe—only on earth did this descent of divine Love take place, which was the origin of the divine Presence in the core of Matter. And naturally, since they have no psychic being, they do not know the psychic being. Some of these beings have even Page 202 wanted to take a physical body so ...
... a slave to thy pity. Be a slave to nothing except to God, not even to His most luminous angels. For those who want to live according to Truth, the only way is to become conscious of the Divine Presence and to live exclusively according to Its Will. This is the only way to escape from evil and suffering, the only way to be always in peace, light and joy. 26 November 1969 Page 275 ...
... receives, what comes and all that—oh! it is misery. When one lives in the consciousness of others, of what they want, what they need, their relation with you—it is misery! But if you live in the Divine Presence and if the Divine does all, sees all, is all... it is Peace—it is Peace—time has no more duration, everything is easy and... it is not that one feels a joy nor that one feels... it is not that ...
... Divine. You understand, it was like that. It was as though I was a baby being carried in the arms of the Divine. And then... after a time (but it was rather long) when it had been solely in the Divine Presence like that, the pain disappeared. It did not even ask for the pain to go, it left. It took a little time, it left. Page 294 I had completely, completely the feeling of being a baby enveloped ...
... students. I insist on the necessity of having good manners. I do not see anything grand in the manners of a gutter-snipe. 4 March 1960 True strength and protection come from the Divine Presence in the heart. If you want to keep this Presence constantly in you, avoid carefully all vulgarity in speech, behaviour and acts. Do not mistake liberty for license and freedom for bad manners: ...
... effort. As for the way out of the impasse, I know only of the quieting of the mind which makes meditation effective, purification of the heart which brings the divine touch and in time the divine presence, humility before the Divine which liberates from egoism and the pride of the mind and of the vital, the pride that imposes its own reasonings on the ways of the spirit and the pride that refuses ...
... 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 the pure gold of the Spirit. Only when the Divine Presence is there in us always and the consciousness transformed, can we have the right to say that we are ready to manifest the Divine on the material plane. To hold up a mental ideal or principle and ...
... own self and real nature and the inner nature of things, the power of these things growing in one till they are a part of one's inner life and existence,—as for instance, the realisation of the Divine Presence, the descent and settling of the higher Peace, Light, Force, Ananda in the consciousness, their workings there, the realisation of the divine or spiritual love, the perception of one's own psychic ...
... developed in you is a power of true inner vision—this will help you to enter through it into touch with the Divine; you have only to let it develop. Two other things have to develop—the feeling of the Divine Presence and power and inspiration behind your actions, and the inner contact with myself and the Mother. Aspire with faith and sincerity and these will come. I do not wish to give any more precise instructions ...
... with him—and bear his play on your shoulders; the cobras and the bite indicate that what seems to you in the vital painful and dangerous may be the very means of bringing you the ecstasy of the Divine Presence. Less generally the cobras are the forces of the evolution, the evolution towards the Divine. Their taking the place of the legs means that their action here takes place in the physical or external ...
... concrete than anything sensed by ear or eye or touch in the world of Matter; but it is a certitude not of mental thought but of essential experience. When the Peace of God descends on you, when the Divine Presence is there within you, when the Ananda rushes on you like a sea, when you are driven like a leaf before the wind by the breath of the Divine Force, when Love flows out from you on all creation, when ...
... brighter and more powerful consciousness with which she is in occasional communion but in which she does not constantly live. On the other hand another sentence seems to point to a Godhead or Divine Presence and it would then be not so much within as above. The language later on would seem to indicate such a Presence giving commands to her to guide others so that they might grow in consciousness. But ...
... Page 461 However, you need not personally concern yourself with them so long as they remain incognito. It is true that all comes from the Divine and it is true also that a Divine Presence and a Divine Will is behind all that happens and leads the world towards a divine goal. At the same time it is also taught in the Gita that this world is a world of obscurity and ignorance and ...
... unseen. Till then, one can feel the results of the divine help and, if one has faith, know that they are the work of the Divine; but it is only then that one can feel clearly the Force at work, the divine Presence, the direct communion. So long as you live only in thoughts and other movements of the surface consciousness, you cannot be conscious in the Yogic sense. It is when the mind becomes quiet ...
... By so standing back it will be easier also for you to find a quiet poise in yourself, behind the surface struggle, from which you can more effectively call in our help to deliver you. The Divine presence, calm, peace, purity, force, light, joy, wideness are above, waiting to descend in you. Find this quietude behind and your mind also will become quieter and through the quiet mind you can call ...
... Nature. Other seekings also there are and these too find their means of self-fulfilment; a withdrawal into the supreme peace or ecstasy, a Page 708 withdrawal into the bliss of the Divine Presence are open to the soul in earth-existence: for the Infinite in its manifestation has many possibilities and is not confined by its formulations. But neither of these withdrawals can be the fundamental ...
... perfection can come. The gnostic life will exist and act for the Divine in itself and in the world, for the Divine in all; the increasing possession of the individual being and the world by the Divine Presence, Light, Power, Love, Delight, Beauty will be the sense of life to the gnostic being. In the more and more perfect satisfaction of that growing manifestation will be the individual's satisfaction: ...
... couldn't understand how I was in it. And I must say, I didn't try, because I said to myself, I don't want to go back into that! So I didn't try to understand.... With the concrete perception of the divine Presence and the constant action of the Grace, it has totally come back, so I didn't try to understand how I could be in the other state—I had enough of it!... But it Page 321 happened all at ...
... receiving things that come and so on—oh, it's misery! When you live in the consciousness of others, of what they want, what they need, their relationship with you—it's misery! But if you live in the Divine Presence and it's the Divine who does everything, sees everything, is everything... it's Peace—it's Peace, time has no duration, everything is easy and.... Not that you feel joy or feel... it's not so. ...
... it correct to put him in regard to the Vedic revelation on the same level as Teilhard de Chardin in regard to the Christian. Teilhard was gifted with a fine intuitive sensitivity to the Cosmic Divine Presence in its growing evolutionary form: he was not a seer in the true spiritual connotation of the word, not a yogi in any connotation which might bring him into the Aurobindonian universe of discourse ...
... have reared their confidence are shaken or removed, what happens?... This poet is an absolutist: he makes his position independent of this or that reason. He will feel and love and declare the Divine Presence in joy and sorrow, light and shadow, youth and old age, life and death. Now listen: I build Thee not on golden dreams Nor on the wide world's winsomeness; Deeper than all I set my love ...
... until I seemed to look into a new dimension of things. Suddenly the whole universe appeared to be a great living being, a wonderful substance of Spirit, and every piece of matter tingled with a divine presence drawing my worship. I had an intense impulse to read that canto of Sri Aurobindo's Savitri, which is named The World-Soul. It is a thrilled cry of mystical insight bringing up image on strange ...
... conscious force and expressed, overtly or covertly, its boundless delight. But the Supreme, for Sri Aurobindo, is not only the utter freedom above cosmic existence, not only the inalienable divine presence within Page 158 the cosmos and the Lord and Lover of it: He also renders possible a fulfilment of the terrestrial adventure in its own terms of mind, life and ...
... and persons, a large equanimity and disinterestedness, a freedom from anger and rancour, a tranquil strength, a calm generosity, an untroubled accomplishment of all work, a remembrance of the Divine Presence everywhere and a quiet yet concentrated offering of all one's work into Its hands. I may add that some time may be reserved for what is called meditation - the getting alone, the cutting off of ...
... judge his answer. 43 Existence is not a fluke, a random creation by nobody, a thing that unaccountably happened to be. It carries in itself the Word of God, it is full of a hidden Divine Presence. Existence is not a blind machine that somehow came and started a set ignoble motion without object or sense or purpose. Existence is a Truth of things unfolding by a gradual process of man ...
... sake of the ego, by a mind turned outwards, involved in the act and not detached and free, bound to the ignorance of this lower nature. 139 To create the union of his soul with the Divine Presence and Power through a perfect surrender of the will in all his activities, is the high aspiration of the seeker on the Way of Works. To put off like a worn-out disguise the ignorant consciousness ...
... like that, when this body is sitting and someone is there, it's no longer conscious of itself; it's not at all conscious of a Force flowing through it, no longer conscious of itself—there's the Divine Presence acting. And it becomes conscious of the other's receptivity, of the action of this Force in others, all of it—and this ( the body ) no longer exists. But it's only a beginning. It's a beginning ...
... this is how it is...." ( gesture underground ) It was frightful.... Then all that left. It left completely after so many years—all those years of effort—it left: the body itself would feel the divine Presence, and its impression was that... everything necessarily had to change. So then, these last few days, that formation which had left (a terrestrial formation, of all mankind, which means that those ...
... with A.R. when he meditated here... his body is still ONE body. But he has the realization of "That." Yes, yes, in a certain way. And that's why (because he is very conscious of the Divine Presence), that's why I said, "Don't ask me what you should do: it's in your body that you must find out." I can't say, because... because the Divine realizes himself differently in everyone—otherwise there ...
... told you several times, the organs are "supported" in their functioning by the forces of Nature, and in this process of transformation, the forces of Nature are withdrawn and replaced with the divine Presence. But you understand, there comes a moment when there is a gap [between the old functioning and the new]—it may be imperceptible, but still it has an effect; a moment comes when there is an anguish ...
... even in the middle of that, there's a sort of smiling trust as a result of which, even when there's some pain, some discomfort, it doesn't matter—it doesn't matter. There is the sense of this Divine Presence, always, everywhere, every moment. That doesn't go away. ( silence ) Oh, you know, we think we're very intelligent, but... ( laughing ) how poorly we understand! It's like a little piece ...
... I felt it. For instance, eating is still a major problem—it's been ages since I've derived any pleasure from eating, but now it's become a real problem; well, any cellular contact with the divine Presence magnifies those things [like refusing food]. I mean all external processes—food and so on—seem then so cumbersome! Without a doubt the next creation will use something else, another way of staying ...
... one step down], very true, because it's true even for the most material body-consciousness. And you realize the difficulties that represents.... As soon as the body becomes more conscious of the divine Presence and Light, it's immediately as though you touched the dregs of unconsciousness and... yes, of unconsciousness and material inertia. And that makes the work very hard, very hard. And just last ...
... truly... it was almost a torture, last night; it was frightful. Page 178 I was saying to myself, "But what's the way to get out of here?" I concentrated, became conscious again of the divine Presence, but there was something telling me, "Nothing is responding, it's not working." It was horrible. "Nothing is responding, it's not working; it's not working, it can't change, nothing is responding; ...
... idea is that, being omnipotent, omniscient, infinite, supreme, the Divine does not seem to disdain to descend even into the lowest forms, the obscurest figures of Nature and animate them with the Divine Presence: that shows His Divinity. The whole sense has fizzled out in her translation." The Vedantin's Prayer is one of the first signs of the typical Aurobindonian Yoga, all the more notable because ...
... be there speaking out sovereignly its own secrets." Mark again the turn: "the eternity of the vision." The Eternal Eye is at the back of all poetic perfection, and what this Eye visions is the Divine Presence taking flawless shape in a super-cosmos. To that shape the poet, in one way or another, converts the objects or events he depicts. 1 Pp. 209-10. 2 P. 48 Page 206 The ...
... speech has a living suggestion of the Transcendent who is also the Cosmic and the Immanent: the brief crystallised expression strikes home with a concrete perspicuity some of the antinomies of the Divine Presence in relation to the created world. The intellect is at times energetically pointed and deliberate as in A Vision of Science: ... And Science confidently, "Nothing am I but earth, Tissue ...
... resulting from surrender to the Divine. Physical protection is possible only with a total surrender to the Divine and the absence of all desires. Concentrate more constantly on the Divine Presence and the protection will be more spontaneous. Exclusive turning of all movements towards the Divine: the sure means of having security. Nothing is in safety except what is given to ...
... The following text was given by Mother in both French and English. FIRST SUPRAMENTAL MANIFESTATION ( During the common meditation on Wednesday the 29th February 1956 ) This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there present amongst you. I had a form of living gold, bigger than the universe, and I was facing a huge and massive golden door which separated the world from the ...
... that the values governing the supramental world have nothing to do with our values here, even the values of our highest wisdom, even those we consider the most divine when we live constantly in a divine Presence: it is utterly different. Not only in our state of adoration and surrender to the Supreme, but even in our state of identification, the QUALITY of the identification is different depending upon ...
... But Theon had no idea of the path of bhakti , 5 none whatsoever. Page 296 The idea of surrender to the Divine was absolutely alien to him. Yet he did have the idea of the Divine Presence here ( Mother indicates the heart center ), of the immanent Divine and of union with That. And he said that by uniting with That and letting That transform the being one could arrive at the divine ...
... there is still a sort of memory of the Truth, but at the time I am completely engulfed. Oh!... Entrapped in an opaque cloud... it's terrible. But all you have to do is... feel that divine Presence within you, you know, stronger than everything. One feels It could revive all the dead if It wanted—just like that, you know. To that Presence... it doesn't make any difference. 1 My body ...
... "Give me consciousness." And there's a kind of answer (a wordless answer): "Not yet, you would no longer want to live separated." Like that. If the body enjoyed the complete consciousness of the divine Presence, it would no longer want, no longer want the separate consciousness. Obviously, there's still a lot of progress to be made. ( silence ) Nothing to ask? I don't like to speak. Yes ...
... imperfect one. Yes, he was no blind fool — but he could see, as Mencken cannot, that certain combinations of phe-nomena can give a feeling as if for a while the imperfect world were disclosing a Divine Presence and becoming the glimpse of a supercosmos in which everything manifests a flawless Beauty. This visionary moment has been embodied by Browning in his little lyric with a sensitive choice of wo ...
... I seemed to look into new dimension of things. Suddenly the whole universe appeared to be a great living being, a wonderful substance of Spirit, and every piece of matter tingled with a divine presence drawing my worship. I had an intense impulse to read that Canto of Sri Aurobindo's Savitri which is named ‘The World-Soul’. It is a thrilled cry of mystical insight...." Then he ...
... below and to manifest it in our own humanity and put it in relation to the ordinary life around us. The manifestation in ourselves and the channelling out to the world have to be of a Divine Presence and Power that can utterly transform into perfection all the terms of our being and nature, all the terms of the world's life, leaving nothing untouched. There is a supreme original, an eternal ...
... 's conception with Sri Aurobindo's insistence on "the eternity of the vision", Sethna declares "The Eternal Eye is at the back of all poetic perfection, and what this Eye visions is the Divine Presence taking flawless shape in a super-cosmos. To that shape the poet, in one way or another, converts the objects or events he depicts." (p. 25) Given his eclectic theory of poem and his ...
... bouquet of flames flying up, sustained by logs of fragrant sandalwood. This fire addressed Page 135 as 'Son of God' in the Avesta, the Zoroastrian scripture, symbolised the Divine Presence in the midst of the world, in the midst of each living creature, an 'objective correlative' of the ineffable secrecy in the human heart." The true nature of this God was revealed to him by Sri ...
... sincerity of the effort will carry it forward, until one synthesizes the conscious with the superconscious. The entire being is then filled with one idea, one consciousness—the consciousness of the Divine Presence and it even tends to lose all distinction from the surroundings and to feel one with them. This is the principal difference between those who believe in God with their intellect and those who ...
... 1934-02-07 I could not draw exactly what I saw in the vision. Does this drawing mean anything? It seems to be the fire of aspiration towards the Truth (the Sun) supported by the Divine Presence and lifting up the nature towards the just visible Sun of Truth. Sri Aurobindo ...
... Once the course of sadhana is guided by the psychic being, it gradually is stripped clear of various doubts and obstacles created by the mind and one can have amazing experiences and feel the Divine presence and the Unseen Force that guides, pulls and charts out the entire course. Champaklal at one stage, the penultimate stage, feels very uneasy and greatly suffocated, indicating that his inner ...
... ization of the manifestation. She also described herself on that all-important moment of the supramental manifestation, 29 February 1956. Late on that day she noted down: “This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there present amongst you [her audience at the Playground and perhaps the Ashram in general]. I had a form of living gold, bigger than the universe, and I was facing ...
... conquered sleep, food, disease and death. On what authority did she proclaim it then? ‘Sri Aurobindo: I am not aware of this gorgeous proclamation. What was said was that the Divine (Krishna or the Divine Presence or whatever you like) had come down into the material. It was also proclaimed that I was retiring — obviously to work things out. If all that was achieved on the 24th [November 1926], what on earth ...
... words: to create unity by founding the Kingdom of God which is within us all. “This therefore is the most useful work to be done: (1) For each, individually, to be conscious in himself of the Divine Presence and to Identify himself with it. (2) To individualise the states of being that were never till now conscious in man and, by that, to put the earth in connection with one or more of the fountains ...
... Judeo-Christian tradition, is only familiar with religion as a matter of knowledge and prayer, and with a God outside his creation. The scientists and science writers who have any notion of a divine Presence within, and of a possible identification with this Presence, are still exceptions. Sri Aurobindo’s appreciation of science: “But, first, it is well that we should recognize the enormous, ...
... development of the evolution and kept the Earth bound to its origin in the Ignorance. The success of his act was confirmed on 29 February 1956. On that day the Mother noted down: “This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there present amongst you. I had a form of living gold, bigger than the universe, and I was facing a huge and massive golden door which separated the world from the ...
... create unity by founding the Kingdom of God which is within us all. “The following is therefore the most useful work to be done: 1. For each individually, to be conscious in himself of the Divine Presence and to identify himself with it. 2. To individualize the states of being that till now were never conscious in man and thus to put the Earth in connection with one or more of the fountains of the ...
... precisely for this part of the work, the most difficult of all, that surrender is most needful; for this reason that it is the actual descent of the Supramental Divine into Matter and working of the Divine Presence and Power there that can alone make the physical and external change possible. Even the most powerful self-assertion of human will and endeavour is important to bring it about.... Sri Aurobindo ...
... this true? A. No. In surrendering to the Guru, it is to the Divine in him that one surrenders—if it were only to the human entity it would be ineffective. But it is the consciousness of the Divine Presence that makes the Guru a real Guru, so that even if the disciple surrenders to him thinking of the human being to whom he surrenders, that Presence will still make it effective. Q. (6) Does surrender ...
... and devotee of the Lord and rejected all deification, became in these abnormal moments the Lord himself and so spoke and acted, with all the out flooding light and love and power of the divine Presence." ( Essays on the Gita, Vol. I, "THE PROCESS OF AVATARHOOD") Page 193 NOTES BY THE AUTHOR Page 9. I have been forced to introduce the Indian word, ...
... to pour on you some of the Divine forces. I was looking at you for such a long time and it was Divine love that I was pouring in you with a strong will that you should become conscious of the Divine Presence in you and see all your sorrows turn into Ananda. I saw to my great joy that you were very receptive to all these Divine forces and absorbing them without resistance as they were pouring down ...
... "The Divine must be... a certitude not only as concrete but more concrete than anything sensed by ear or eye or touch in the world of Matter... When the Peace of God descends on you, when the Divine Presence is there within you, when the Ananda rushes on you like a sea, when you are driven like a leaf before the wind by the breath of the Divine Force, when Love flowers out from you on all creation ...
... all this turmoil left you untouched. Indeed it must be so more and more and you must yourself look at all these things from the light and equanimity of a spiritual consciousness filled with the Divine Presence and Love. Our help and trust are always with you. 12 October 1934 ...
... According to Sri Aurobindo the Inconscient is the Superconscient's sleep. That experience of descending to the very bottom of the Inconscient and finding there the Divine Consciousness, the Divine Presence, in one form or another has happened quite frequently. ...And it is remarkable that this marvellous Being strangely resembled him whose vision I had one day: the Being who is found at the ...
... 1957 White Roses 21 June 1957 Behind the sorrow and loneliness. behind the emptiness and the feeling of incapacity, there is the golden light of the Divine Presence shining soft and warm. ...
... Courage! hope! faith! at the end of the tunnel there is the Light, at the end of the ordeal there is the Victory. The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: New Year Messages It is the Divine Presence that gives value to life. The Presence is the source of all Peace, all. Joy, all Security. Find this Presence in yourself and all difficulties will disappear. The Mother, Words of the Mother ...
... folder there was a message in French on the left side and its translation , in English on the right: During the Common Meditation on Wednesday the 29th February 1956 This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there present amongst you. I had a form of living gold, bigger than the universe, and I was facing a huge and massive golden door which separated the world from the ...
... glimpse of the Truth, one must take at least one step back in one's consciousness, enter a little more deeply into one's being and try to perceive the play of forces behind the appearance, and the Divine Presence behind the play of forces . The Mother, Questions and Answers (1929 - 1931): Niraya (Hell) Here are Sri Aurobindo's words which are quite apt: To look into ourselves and see and enter ...
... obscurity. The Divine alone is Light and Vastness, Truth and Compassion. So take refuge in the Divine and do not care for the smallness of the world, do not let it disturb you. Keep only the Divine Presence in you with its peace and quietness. With my love and blessings. I wrote to her that I was hers—now and forever. She was my sole refuge and I relied on her. She affirmed: You have taken ...
... for a Birthday 3 ... No, I don't know now. It was to someone who told me he was 18 years old. I said that between the ages of 18 and 20, I had attained a constant and conscious union with the Divine Presence and that I had done this ALL ALONE, without ANYONE'S help, not even books. When a little later I chanced upon Vivekananda's Raja Yoga , it really seemed so wonderful to me that someone could explain ...
... a certain amount of patience is probably required—let the body catch its breath, otherwise something gives way. It gets much less winded, of course, when you have the inner equality of the divine Presence. So much fatigue is due to excess tension produced by desire or effort or struggle, by the constant battle against all opposing forces. All that can go. We tire ourselves out quite needlessly ...
... formation and action, it becomes like a dance of joy: all the cells vibrating (there is a sort of vivacity, and an extraordinary music), all the cells vibrant with the joy of the Presence—the divine Presence. But when I see the outside world entering and attacking, well... this joy doesn't exactly disappear, but it retreats. And the result is that I always feel like sitting down and keeping still—when ...
... the All. 17 September 1967 There is nothing in this world which is not submitted to a direct action beyond Nature—but most of the men are unaware of it. 18 September 1967 Divine presence: it hides from ignorant eyes its ever-present magnificence. You speak of delight, but in the material world there is no such thing as delight. Yet, remove the delight and the whole world ...
... do I live now without feeling Your Presence even in the cells of my body? The physical nature is obscure and recalcitrant everywhere; it is very difficult for it to become conscious of the divine Presence. That is why we must be patient and keep on aspiring with the certitude of Victory. My blessings are always with you. 25 June 1935 Each victory we win over the obscure physical ...
... spiritual life, it is not what you do that matters most, but the way in which it is done and the consciousness you put into it. Remember always the Divine and all you do will be an expression of the Divine Presence. When all your actions are consecrated to the Divine, there will be no longer activities that are superior and activities that are inferior; all will have an equal importance―the value given ...
... opposite way of being (benevolence, humility, goodwill) and insist that it develop to the detriment of the contrary element. 11 October 1958 True strength and protection come from the Divine Presence in the heart. If you want to keep this Presence constantly in you, avoid carefully all vulgarity in speech, behaviour and acts. Do not mistake liberty for licence and freedom for bad manners ...
... govern in this supramental world have nothing to do with our values here below, even the values of the wisest, even those values which we consider most divine at the time we live constantly in the divine Presence. It is altogether different. Not only in our state of worship and surrender to the Lord, but even in our state of identification, the quality of the identification is different depending on ...
... the Divine. Resurrection: the falling off of the old consciousness, followed by the awakening of the true being out of it. New birth: birth of the true consciousness, that of the Divine Presence in us. Realisation: the goal of our efforts. Realisation—that is what we aspire for and for which we shall strive unceasingly however long it may take. Power of realisation: ...
... same thing!'(Some people would be very happy with that, but him....) I asked him, 'What experience do you want?' 'To be conscious,' he told me, 'to be conscious of the Divine, conscious of the divine Presence!' And I always answer him, 'It's because your mind is barricaded.' ( Mother forms a geometrical figure ) He is so convinced that he knows! He tells me, 'No! It's not that.' He doesn't believe me ...
... realize itself. This is what aspires, this is what has the contact. So, when you're told "become conscious of your psychic being," it's for the being formed by external Nature to contact the divine Presence through the psychic being. Then the psychic takes charge of the whole being; in fact, it is the inner Guide.... Well, when I Page 283 was a little child, this "person" (which wasn't ...
... much work still remains to be done.... And so, as regards itself it can rejoice only when the work has been done—but what does that mean, the "work done"?... Something that is established . This divine Presence, this divine Consciousness, this divine Truth manifests itself like this, in a flash, and then... everything goes on in its usual trot—there is a change, but an imperceptible change. Well, for ...
... gesture indicating under the earth ).... It was frightful!... And all that is gone. It is gone completely after so many years, so many years of effort, it is gone; and the body itself felt the divine Presence, it had the impression that... all must necessarily change. And then, some days ago this formation that had left (which is an earthly formation, of all humanity, that is to say, of those who had ...
... remarkable that things you have understood in your consciousness ... reappear as problems to be solved in the cells of the body. In the cells, both things are there. The body is convinced of the divine Presence everywhere, that all is the Divine—it lives in that; and at the same time, it shrinks from certain contacts! I saw that this morning, both things at once, and I said, 'Lord, I know nothing at all ...
... this.... It's trying to be completely 'pure' according to the spiritual concept—it doesn't sense its separate personality. More and more, year after year, it has been striving to feel only the divine Presence, the divine Life, the divine Force and the divine Will, all within itself; and to feel that without them it is nothing, it doesn't exist. This is fully realized in its consciousness (the conscious ...
... fatalism, not at all. What is it?... Something that defies expression. ( silence ) Even the body, the body itself, has the constant perception of bathing in the vibration of the CONCRETE divine Presence; so certainly from a psychological standpoint there is not the slightest shadow in the picture. Even from the material standpoint, this Presence is here. Yet although it is here, felt, perceived ...
... offering in the being, which gives itself in order to learn. I am speaking of all the cells. It's very interesting. Of course, if we mentalize it, we have to say it's the sense or awareness of the divine Presence in all things, and that the mode—the mode of contact—comes from the state in which we are. This is the body's experience. And the only perception when there is some clash or other in i ...
... each minute how much work, IN SPITE OF THAT, remains to be done!... And so it won't be able to rejoice until the work is done—what does "the work is done" mean? Something is ESTABLISHED. This divine Presence, this divine Consciousness, this divine Truth manifests like that, in flashes, and then ... everything goes along in its own sweet way—there is a change, but an imperceptible one. Well, for it ...
... called "illness" is something CONSTANT, a constant state in which you are or aren't; and this "you are or aren't" depends on... many things, especially on your remembering—remembering the sole divine Presence and Reality—and on your way of acting. Life is a series of continuous activities, which last for a longer or shorter time, absorb you more or less, give you a greater or lesser sense of importance ...
... weeks, it has been educated all over again. It remembered all the experiences it had and sorted them out again, so to speak, and it has reached a sort of homogeneity wholly centered around the divine Presence. It has had several experiences of this Presence.... Spontaneously, for the body, it's a "conscious Light"; a conscious Light it sees everywhere, feels everywhere, whose presence it constantly ...
... from time to time, here or there, the nerves get strained. It's a sharp pain at its height. In France, I had it for weeks. Sometimes it comes, and then I have to keep still and... melt... in the Divine Presence—then it's over, it goes away without a trace. But when they feel ill at ease, they remember. They ask, "I don't know what should be done to erase this memory." I take them to task, I tell them ...
... there's something changing in here. And at the same time, a sense of... (what should I call it?) unimportance, of nothingness , and then the sensation, the perception of Page 248 the divine Presence, so concrete, so powerful... that sometimes I get the feeling people will break down! ( Mother laughs ) That's how it is: when they're here I feel as if... ( gesture ) That so-called "accident" ...
... That is always my aim in writing letters. Even if the subject is intellectual, it should be tackled not with the mere mind but always by the Dweller in the Depths who lives in the light of the Divine Presence at all times. Shouldn't something like this be expected of anyone who has had the supreme luck to have touched the feet of the Master who was a dispeller of all darkness and the feet of the Mother ...
... us with what I may indicate by inverting a mantric line from his "Life-Heavens" thus: Rest one with unimaginable Force. It was as if we were stilled into a deep surrender to a Divine Presence that irresistibly carried us forward on the path of Perfection. This Presence is well hit off by the paradox in that stanza from Sri Aurobindo's "Jivanmukta", a poem on the Vedantic ideal of the ...
... The last line points me to your phrases: "Today one need not meditate. Meditation descends of its own." For, when there is an opening to the mystery behind the gate of one's aspiring dreams the divine Presence breathes out, as it were, from its golden inwardness and then the very air one inhales is meditation. In my passage I find also a personalising suggestion in the words "gesture", "touch", "hand" ...
... "Sri Aurobindo is my refuge." Psychologically it is best to put into a mantra the name we are familiar with. A Page 327 pedant may not be pleased, but our aim is to please the Divine Presence in our hearts and I am disposed to believe that he will prefer the name that has been ringing in his disciples' ears. You wrote as a sort of apology for your pressing inquiries: "Clearness ...
... Letting your pen run loose is dangerously akin to automatic writing, giving charge of yourself to some imp within you or haunting you. This indulgence is likely to cover up your awareness of the Divine Presence in you. Attend to your studies and your medical work and to the calm sadhana to which I have always called you. The Hostiles are digging for you a path to their obscurities through these bouts ...
... the old-timers would affect the Ashram's future. But they overlook the fact that several of those who were children in the past had significant contact with our Gurus and carry the aroma of the Divine Presence into their adult life today. After their generation has passed, what would happen? I would say that the Gurus have charged the Ashram's atmosphere in such a way that they subsist subtly amongst ...
... beautiful words of the Mother to Huta published by Huta in White Roses: "Behind the sorrow and loneliness, behind the emptiness and the feeling of incapacity, there is the golden light of the Divine Presence shining soft and warm." You write about the Mahakali you saw: "She was not terrible-looking, she looked affectionate and soothing..." Your pair of adjectives answer well to the Mother's "soft and ...
... the urn bearing the golden bouquet of flames flying up, sustained by logs of fragrant sandalwood. This fire, addressed as "Son of God" in the Avesta, the Zoroastrian scripture, symbolised the Divine Presence in the midst of the world, in the midst of each living creature, an "objective correlative" of the ineffable secrecy in the human heart. The sandalwood signified the concentrated prayer-perfumed ...
... there speaking out sovereignly its own secrets." Mark again the turn: "the eternity of the vision." The Eternal Eye is at the back of all poetic perfection, and what this Eye visions is the Divine Presence taking flawless shape in a super-cosmos. To that shape the poet, in one way or another, converts the objects or events he depicts. The conversion is the act put before us in the fourth ...
... try to observe or study or understand—God knows! There is no need to understand: it's self-evident. Only one thing is always present: to keep intact and POWERFULLY conscious the sense of the divine Presence—that's all. That's the single concern of the cells. From time to time ( Mother laughs ), they hold... a kind of little conference among themselves, they seem to tell each other, "No Page ...
... what it should express, and its unworthiness to be an instrument of the Divine. At the same time, it has, first, a sort of increasing certitude of... (how can I put it?) the magnanimity of the divine Presence, which is so marvelous in its effects in spite of the almost total imbecility of all this ( Mother points to her own body ); all this is really cast in, outwardly cast in stupidity, but with the ...
... is)—of the way in which human consciousnesses make the most simple things complicated and difficult. It was fantastic—fantastic. And then, this consciousness was spontaneously impelled by the divine Presence, but it followed the others' human movements with the clear perception of the simple thing and of the way in which it becomes complicated. It was symbolic, with images; an activity in images in ...
... is naturally in a sort of gently undulating movement, a very harmonious, very peaceful, very quiet movement. And when it's not forced into outer activity there's such a wonderful sense of the divine Presence everywhere, everywhere—in it, around it, over it, in everything, everywhere... and so concrete! ( Mother touches her hands, her arms, her face, as if she were bathing in the Lord. ) It's really ...
... is the heart of the psychic being, since only ON THE EARTH (I am not even referring to the material universe), only on the earth was there the Descent of divine Love that was the origin of the divine Presence in the heart of Matter. And naturally, as they don't have a psychic being, they don't know, they have no knowledge of the psychic being. Some of those beings even decided to take on a physical ...
... is full of God", could arise because not only the Redeemer, but also the Creator, however less "specifically"'than the Redeemer, is steeped in all things. How, then, can the universality of the Divine Presence be "only valuable" in so far as it is a radiation from the "historical centre" that is Jesus the Redeemer? If the Creator, too, constitutes "the light, in which everything seems...bathed", the ...
... the Mother outside — the Mother who is in a body as our Guru — is to make us aware of herself within our being. But she is there also as a check on our imagination of what she is within us. The Divine Presence within, if properly found, is the most wonderful discovery; but, if improperly found, it is the most marvellous invention! Oh, it is ever so kind, so accommodating, so convenient — indeed it might ...
... measureless movement of the Mother's eternal forces. Tranquil is she and wonderful, great and calm for ever...." This was the first time I realised that when the Mother wants she can put forth the Divine Presence and Power completely into the physical being and manifest it. My wife Sehra has seen light coming out of the Mother's whole body and, as it were, assimilating the physical substance or else getting ...
... indefinable nimbus, when in dealing with heights or depths we have made our utmost effort to be clear. And even about this mystery I may utter a clarifying word. All true mystery is ultimately the Divine Presence. Now, to the Divine His own Presence is self-luminous: it is not a mystery in the ordinary sense at all. It is a mystery only to the mind of man. It is a supreme, a colossal clarity to the Divine ...
... meet, as it were, the still unmanifested truth of my being - a divinity which was as yet a wondrous dream. But strangely somewhere within the dreamer the dreamer was himself the dream. And the Divine Presence, when posed in front of me, seemed to wear my own face in a fusion with the face of the Mother or the face of Sri Aurobindo or else with an etherealised combination of their faces. (28 ...
... widenesses; by his victory he ushers in the wide days of the siddha, for which these nights and dawns of our human life are the preparatory movements." 1 We have here the picture of a divine Presence that establishes itself in the human consciousness, turning that consciousness into a figure of divinity. We have pointers to the light of a Seer-Guest being "born victorious" in one who was so ...
... connecting his Cosmic Christ with the Christian movement. What we have to mark is how in each case the Christie is extended backward beyond the life of Jesus and made out to be a spiritual force, a divine presence, from the beginning of the world, a cosmic dramatis persona ontological-ly involved and therefore "an element of reality, of a concrete involvement in the cosmos". It is as if there were already ...
... May 1930 The protection and help will be there as they were here. You have to keep yourself open to them and live inwardly seeking to become more and more conscious so that you may feel the Divine Presence and Power. As to the Bombay atmosphere, keep inwardly separate from it, even while mixing with others, see it as a thing outside and not belonging to the inner world in which you yourself live ...
... there speaking out sovereignly its own secrets." 7 Mark again the turn "the eternity of the vision." The Eternal Eye is at the back of all poetic perfection, and what this Eye visions is the Divine Presence taking flawless shape in a super-cosmos. To that shape the poet, in one way or another, converts the objects or events he depicts. 6 Ibid., pp 219-20. 7 Ibid ., p. 35. ...
... challenge ring forth to the soul who might seek the end of his being in Nirvana. Passages pregnant with deep meaning then flow forth from the poet as he narrates the drawing near of the Divine Presence behind the Godhead, that Luminous Heart which Aswapati had been yearning for with the passion of his soul. Hers was the Glory of God, the Divine Mother of All. Soul-stirring is his prayer to ...
... on this event, I seem to realise how far away was the action of my own will from that of the divine Will. If I had been acting according to my own inclination, I could never have come near the divine Presence. We are for the most part subject to petty desires and feelings. My life's course was settled without my knowing it, as soon as the Master's glance embraced me. When I reached the crucial stage ...
... Treasures Message ( Dahyabhai ) Let this new house be filled with an ardent aspiration for the Divine Realisation and in answer to the call the Divine Presence will be there. 7.10.51 When writing materials like fountain pens, ball-pens, pencils were offered to her, Mother would often try them immediately. Here is a specimen of a few pencils tried ...
... Supreme Lord to give us the Light of Truth. One drop of truth is worth more than an ocean of false information. Let this house be a symbol of the psychic, the temple of the eternal divine Presence. Say—”I have received his Grace: I must be worthy of it” and then all will be well. I do not like that the word love should be polluted to speak of sexual desire, the human inheritance ...
... 7 February 1934 I could not draw exactly what I saw in the vision. Does this drawing mean anything? It seems to be the fire of aspiration towards the Truth (the Sun) supported by the Divine Presence and lifting up the nature towards the just visible Sun of Truth. 7.2.1934 Sri Aurobindo ...
... to pour on you some of the Divine forces. I was looking at you for such a long time and it was Divine love that I was pouring on you with a strong will that you should become conscious of the Divine Presence in you and see all your sorrows turn into Ananda. I saw to my great joy that you were very receptive to all these Divine forces and absorbing them without resistance as they were pouring down ...
... on the 21st February, 1878. Her mother was Egyptian and her father was Turkish - both of them were perfect materialists. As a result, although she had inner experiences, including that of the divine presence, right from her childhood, she was in her external life an atheist until she entered into adulthood. In her early years, she had a good grounding in music (piano), painting and higher mathematics ...
... the Divine Will in Nature. Other seekings also there are and these too find their means of self-fulfilment; a withdrawal into the supreme peace or ecstasy, a withdrawal into the bliss of the Divine Presence are open to the soul in earth-existence: for the Infinite in its manifestation has many possibilities and is not confined by its formulations. But neither of these withdrawals can be the fundamental ...
... Aurobindo has been working constantly towards this end. And on 29 February 1956, the descent of the Supermind on the earth took place. The Mother described it as follows: 'This evening, the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there among you. I had a form of living gold, bigger than the universe and I was facing a huge and massive golden door which separated the world from the Divine. ...
... Paris on the 21st February, 1878. Her mother was Egyptian and her father was Turkish-both of them were perfect materialists. As a result, although she had inner experiences, including that of the divine presence, right from her childhood, she was in her external life an atheist until she entered into adulthood. In her early years, she had a good grounding in music (piano), painting and higher mathematics ...
... actively intervenes in the life of this sadhaka and helps to remove all his difficulties and weaknesses, both outer and inner, and gladdens his consciousness with the ambiance of his constant divine presence. But the essential requisites for that to happen are that (1) the sadhaka has to utterly feel the vanity of his self-potency, thus engendering in him a mood of genuine and all-round humility; ...
... that had gone. It had completely gone after so many ________________ ¹24 November 1938. Page 191 years—so many years of effort—, it had gone, and the body itself felt the divine Presence, and it had the impression that... everything would necessarily have to change. And then, these days, this formation which had gone (which is a terrestrial formation, of the entire humanity, such ...
... the Divine Will in Nature. Other seekings also there are and these too find their means of self-fulfilment; a withdrawal into the supreme peace and ecstasy, a withdrawal into the bliss of the Divine presence are open to the soul in earth-existence: for the Infinite in its manifestation has many possibilities and is not confined by its formulations. But neither of these withdrawals can be the f ...
... in the Physical, we descended into the Subconscient and from the Subconscient to the Inconscient. That was how we worked. And it was only when I descended into the Inconscient that I found the Divine Presence—there, in the midst of Darkness. It wasn't the first time; when I was working with Theon at Tlemcen (the second time I was there), I descended into the total, unindividualised—that is, ge ...
... you had conquered sleep, food, disease and death. On what authority did she proclaim it then? I am not aware of this gorgeous proclamation. What was said was that the Divine (Krishna or the Divine Presence or whatever you like) had come down into the material. It was also proclaimed that I was retiring—obviously to work things out. If all that was achieved on the 24th [November ] 1926, what on earth ...
... obtained in the simple, gentle manner of a good man, sometimes 41The psychic being is the Divine spark in every living creature, which develops into a fully conscious and individualized Divine presence through spiritual evolution. It is the Antaryamin, a delegate of the Divine self in the lower planes of body, life and mind. 42The human being has many elements in himself, quite distinct ...
... constitute the universe, and even more in the immutable silence of eternity, beyond all manifestation — in the immobile beatitude of His power and His resplendent light. My voice recovers the divine presence which creates the Word which is the expression of His plenitude and His Illumination. I can describe it indefinitely and as long as one has not attained a certain level of consciousness, one ...
... variety and so on. This may be an addition of each one's own mental: formation, but it would not be the Reality in its essence or purity which is beyond all form. One can have a perception of the Divine Presence, a very concrete perception, one can have even a personal contact with the Divine, but it need not happen in and through the kind of form you imagine; it is something inexpressible, beyond all ...
... helping force, and that is collaboration enough and it is always at our disposal. Now at present it all depends on how much the earth-consciousness has received, imbibed or assimilated of the Divine Presence. That will be the measure of the fulfilment human beings can achieve. As much as we earth-creatures feel and express of the higher reality, that much we shall become truly and divinely. If we continue ...
... to cure and dissolve this falsehood, the supreme Lord and His conscious-force, the supreme Mother, descended into the very depths of the abyss of creation. The radiating sparks of that supreme divine Presence are the souls on earth. Man, the human being, is nothing but that divine spark, the emanated spark of the Supreme, robed and lodged in the outer mould of an ignorant terrestrial consciousness ...
... indeed an actual descent that happens: the Divine Light leans down first into the mind and begins its purificatory work there— although it is always the inner heart which first recognises the Divine Presence and gives its assent to the Divine action—for the mind, the higher mind that is to say, is the summit of the ordinary human consciousness and receives more easily and readily the Radiances that ...
... holocaust—burns himself out at the altar of the Divine —keeping nothing for his own sake, living for the Divine alone, by calling down the divine will in himself, brings into the earthly life too a divine presence and transformation. A total physical sacrifice results inevitably into a total expression and embodiment of the Divine in the physical world. Page 49 ...
... like a Mantra. Everything in the world is a power. There are some who do Pranayama together with repeating the name. After a while, the repetition and Pranayama become automatic and one feels the Divine Presence. There are no limits to the ways of God. In the Ashram here, once people began to feel a tremendous force in their work. They could work without fatigue for hours and hours. But they overdid ...
... indeed an actual descent that happens: the Divine Light leans down first into the mind and begins its purificatory work there although it is always the inner heart which first recognises the Divine Presence and gives its assent to the Divine action-for the mind, the higher mind that is to say, is the summit of the ordinary human consciousness and receives more easily and readily the Radiances that ...
... she embodies, and that force she has given freely to the young ones as she had done to the older generation. It infiltrates everything that it comes in contact with; she leaves a part of her Divine Presence wherever she goes. She has said also she never forgets any person who has come in contact with her even for a moment! The person finds a place in her Divine Consciousness. Sri Aurobindo said to ...
... does not obey the central being, the work of transformation cannot be done, cannot go on.... All the parts of the being must be purified and they must obey only the central being. To find the Divine Presence which alone can help us, to abandon ourselves in His hands to be guided — this is the only refuge. Page 75 ...
... conflict without your wanting it. But deep within you is an immutable peace, an invariable calm, an unalloyed joy and a revealing knowledge. And, high above, above you, waiting to descend, is the Divine Presence, — the Peace, the Calm, the Purity, the Force, the Light, the Joy and the Vast. It is this that one has to be conscious of, this that one has to open oneself to and make the connection with — ...
... read out a passage from the Essays on the Gita 183 bearing on this: Love of the Highest and a total self-surrender are the straight and swift way to this divine oneness. The equal Divine Presence in all of us makes no other preliminary condition, if once this integral self-giving has been made in faith and in sincerity and with a fundamental completeness. All have access to this gate, all ...
... holocaust – burns himself out at the altar of the Divine – keeping nothing for his own sake, living for the Divine alone, by calling down the divine will in himself, brings into the earthly life too a divine presence and transformation. A total physical sacrifice results inevitably into a total expression and embodiment of the Divine in the Physical world. Page 246 ...
... diffracted in many forms and modes, the basic consciousness is still the divine consciousness which is there behind and at the origin of all the partial formulations. It is through this core of Divine Presence – which is nothing else than the psychic – that the individual maintains and develops its contact with the Divine, grows into the fullness of the divine consciousness even as an individual and ...
... your self as yourself does not exist, you are indeed nothing. This sense of nothingness must pervade your being, fill all the elements of your being before the truth can dawn upon you and the Divine Presence can be felt. And what you have been doing all along is the very contrary thing, asserting your egoism, your vanity – pretending that you were somebody, you could do something, that the world needed ...
... variety and so on. This may be an addition of each one's own mental formation, but it would not be the Reality in its essence or purity which is beyond all form. One can have a perception of the Divine Presence, a very concrete perception, one can have even a personal contact with the Divine, but it need not happen in and through the kind of form you imagine; it is something inexpressible, beyond all ...
... its expression and its field of action should be lifted and raised to a higher potency of poise – the higher the better – towards the higher mind, towards the overmental – and beyond. The Divine Presence in the heart – the central psychic – should not only be felt constantly there in the heart but in all other parts or levels of the being: it must create or awake its figure or norm everywhere so ...
... Yoga in the physical being (outer being), it remains ignorant and even its aspiration is ignorant and so also is its goodwill; all its movements are ignorant and so they distort and disfigure the Divine Presence. That is why the Yoga of the body-cells is indispensable. 25.2.1967 When I see Your symbol, be it by the physical eyes or by its appearance during meditation, mostly I see it in ...
... material substance. And from there —as is so well described in Savitri— she begins to act as a leaven in Matter, raising it up from within." Sri Aurobindo and Mother termed this essence of Divine Presence in matter, the 'psychic flame.' "And at the same time that she plunged into the earth, there was a second series of emanations, the gods, to inhabit the intermediary zones between Sachchidananda ...
... already done, you see, since the body never asked for anything." Soon Mirra discovered the Fount of Life. She Page 20 "obtained a conscious and constant contact with the Divine Presence." So that was done. Mirra now sought a rational explanation to the mass of experiences she had had from her childhood. She found many in Théon's teaching, and could at last say, "Ah, ...
... say so, that which lies in our body’s depths with all the rest of the evolutionary accumulation. That was how we worked. And it was only when I descended into the Inconscient that I found the Divine Presence—there, in the midst of Darkness. 18 It was the experience of Tlemcen that was being repeated, “the Sun in Darkness” or the “Black Sun" (Martanda) of the Vedas—what we, in our rational language ...
... Constant contact with the Supreme Lord. 13.7.1969 If I could let the past fall off like an old robe, I could be a new-born. . . Try to concentrate your consciousness on the Divine Presence which is a concrete fact, and the past will get effaced of itself quite naturally. 15.7.1969 Little by little the desire of realisation is changing into an aspiration. Here is ...
... and harmonisation of all the parts of the being (mental, vital and physical) around this centre, so that all the activities of the being may be the correct expression of the will of the Divine Presence. 17 But how are we to know that it is the psychic being, the Divine spark within, that speaks to us, and not some hostile force that has somehow made a surreptitious entry? The Mother gives ...
... 'prison city' of Akko (Acre) in palestine. 32 He informed Mirra that when the early followers of the faith were persecuted, they went to their death with intense joy, and a sense of the divine Presence; and in particular there was a poet who, when he was taken away for torture and death, went with joy, and even told Abdul Baha who tried to offer words of comfort: "Suffer! It is one of the ...
... the consciousness that descended on the earth last year [1 January 1969] is working for. Little by little the subconscient automatism of the body is being replaced by the consciousness of the Divine Presence governing the entire functioning of the body. 29 When she was asked how the unending stupidities of the 'lower nature' were to be effectively countered, she wrote that one needed the ...
... self-discipline, which was but another word for self-mastery. Pupils and teachers were alike heirs to infinite liberty, but to follow that path of liberty one must have the consciousness of the Divine Presence in oneself and know that the Divine was present in all others as well. Once this was realised, there would be no danger that liberty might be mistaken for licence or freedom for unsocial or outrageous ...
... that particular kind of atmosphere which one creates around oneself when one acts in contradiction, not with outer moral rules or social principles, but with the inner law of one's being... the divine Presence in every human being, which should be the master and guide of our life." To follow the true Path, to do Yoga, one has to open to this inner light, and one should be anchored in utter sincerity: ...
... release of the imprisoned spirit Into communion with its comrade gods. 1 Between her eighteenth and twentieth years, Mirra was able to achieve "a conscious and constant union with the divine Presence"\ and for effecting this communion she had neither Guru nor Book to guide her. In other words, with unerring intuition and a compulsive psychic movement Mirra had been able to reach the heart ...
... that the boat seems "a marvellous abode of peace, a temple sailing in Thy honour over the waves of the subconscient passivity which we have to conquer and awaken to the consciousness of Thy divine Presence". The next day, a great realisation is vouchsafed to her and she recapitulates this in a supremely evocative and beautiful meditation: In the silence of the night Thy Peace reigned over ...
... words, learn to be modest and recognise worth and superiority in others. In all education, of course, the truth that was to be driven home was that every child had in the psychic spark in him, the Divine Presence itself. As she said on 15 January 1951: If you organise everything - your feelings, your thoughts, your impulses, etc. - around the psychic centre which is the inner light, you will see that ...
... exchange is in comparison.... This is the marvellous state we want to realise on earth; it is this which will have the power to transform the world and make it a habitation worthy of the Divine Presence. 17 The Mother was to return to this theme in one of her Playground conversations of 1956: The best way when love comes, in whatever form it may be, is to try and pierce through ...
... vision: the mind rises into the higher plane of pure self, silent, tranquil, illimitable; or it rises into regions of light or of felicity, or into planes where it feels an in- finite Power or a divine Presence or experiences the contact of a divine Love or Beauty or the atmosphere of a wider and greater and luminous Knowledge."² In the beginning, when the mind comes down from these shining altitudes ...
... upholding all that is."¹ The utmost transcendence, the most comprehensive universality, and the, all-directing individuality of the ¹ Mundaka Upanishad. Page 384 Divine Presence in the hearts of beings, are all summed up in the Paramātman or Para Purusa whom we seek and adore with the integrality of our being. He delivers us from the darkness of the Ignorance, lifts ...
... integral than the current conception of it. Process of Transformation The most essential condition of transformation is a total and active surrender of the whole being of man to the divine Presence within and above him. The first stage of this long process is marked by an increasing emergence of the psychic being or the soul and its self-infusion into the mind, life and body. This is called ...
... Force. Desirelessness, so much insisted upon in the Gita, is the best insurance against delusions and errors. A desireless heart is a pure heart and a fit temple for the installation of the divine Presence. It is only in a desireless consciousness that the divine Will can manifest itself. We learn, then, from the above words of the Mother, that the touchstone of a true Yogic action, done from ...
... organism. It is not an easy thing to sweep them away at a stroke, or even at many strokes, from the entire nature. And unless the ego is completely blotted out, there is no possibility of the dynamic divine Presence being installed in our being for manifesting its glory upon earth. There is no greater enemy of spiritual liberation and perfection than the ego, "the lynch-pin of the wheel of ignorance," as Sri ...
... awaken to the 1 Bases of Yoga by Sri Aurobindo 2 The Life Divine, Vol. II, Chap. XXVI Prayers and Meditations of the Mother Page 46 consciousness of Thy divine Presence," 1 and calls this conquest "the work to be accomplished, the mission to be fulfilled upon the earth." Sri Aurobindo and the Mother are both agreed that so long as we live under the dismal ...
... extend the orbit of the union and its creative bliss down to her most outer physical being, so that from her soul to her body and its activities, all may be an uninterrupted expression of the Divine Presence and an integrated means of the fulfillment of His Will. 1 This colossal work of revealing the divine glory and dispensing the divine Grace in a life of ceaseless activity, she has undertaken ...
... illumined and rendered "the home of the Wonderful." Darkness and death, sorrow and suffering have to be blotted out from her face, and a superior race of men must people her, revealing the divine Presence in her transfigured heart. "It is a veritable work of creation we have to do : to create new activities and new modes of being, so that this Force, unknown to the earth till now, may manifest ...
... (In the letter below, the disciple recounts the experience he had on his birthday.)* I came before You with D—and I made my pranam. I had a feeling that I was kneeling before a divine Presence which was majestic, omnipotent yet gracious. It is only the Divine who can lean so understandingly, so compassionately on man. It was then that I had a most strange feeling—I could not see ...
... the reason, Mother? I have never become nervous wherever I have sung before!” The Mother replied, “You forget in whose Presence you were singing. Your vital being became nervous before that Divine Presence.” Once in one or two months the Mother used to hear our music in the hall before Amrita’s room — Dilip and myself, either of us alone, or together. Those inmates who could sing were sometimes ...
... the beauty he per' ceives uniform ? A. There is an experience in which all things—whether ordinarily considered ugly or beautiful—are equally beautiful because in everything it is the Divine Presence that equally animates the form. But as Sri Aurobindo puts in one of his letters "In the Yogin's vision of universal beauty, all becomes beautiful, but all is not reduced to a single level. There ...
... in the universal movement." Sri Krishna points out in effect that the Divine is not absent from the world. He is here flowing in the rivers and in the vegetable kingdom. Gita makes us feel the divine Presence in the world, for the world is not merely what our senses represent it to be, the Divine is there even though unperceived. One of the basic ideas of the Vedanta - derived from the Sankhya system ...
... regards to pain. The presence of Ignorance and pain can no more keep out the possibility of man attaining knowledge and delight than the existence of night prove that the sun does not exist. The divine Presence is behind the outer appearances, it is behind each one's heart. Through chequered experiences of life—of pleasure and pain—man marches towards the birth of divinity in life. Even world-saviours ...
... cells: the subtlest form of the physical Mind, just when it is born, so to speak. A kind of minute tremor. I am now studying the way in which Matter, the body, can be in constant Harmony with the divine Presence. And its so interesting: it's not at all an opposition, it's a tiny little microscopic distortion. 17 Using words that greatly exaggerate the phenomenon (for it is very minute), we could call ...
... blessings. The text: Always behave as if the Mother was looking at you because she is, indeed, always present. Do nothing, try to think and feel nothing that would be unworthy of the Divine Presence. Aspire especially for the elimination of all obscurity and unconsciousness in the nature. —Sri Aurobindo Those who do not stop telling lies, do not stop drinking or ...
... is simply incredible, the exceptional work he has left behind in the world of music. In this 1 st December programme what had profoundly stirred me, besides this privilege of coming into Her divine presence, was Sunil-da's music. Page 74 ...
... 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 voyaging towards His Divine Presence. In the solitude of the desert and during the silent pure nights, she felt His majestic Presence, she experienced His bountiful Love. On 23 March she recorded that, in her view, the ideal state ...
... Mother's Chronicles - Book Three 17 The Being of Irised Light Mother took it for granted that "we all know, of course, that the Divine Presence is there in the depths of the Inconscient." But do we? Well, anyway, as it happens, Mother had SEEN the Divine in the Inconscient. It was in the 1920s. "After I returned from Japan, and ...
... boat which seems to me a marvellous abode of peace, a temple sailing in Thy honour over the waves of the sub-conscient passivity which we have to conquer and awaken to the consciousness of Thy divine Presence. "Blessed was the day when I came to know Thee, O ineffable Eternity. "Blessed among all days be that day when the earth at last awakened shall know Thee and shall live only for Thee ...
... and often poetic conception, even when he fails to express it in line and colour. In the stillness and thoughtfulness of the figures in the second illustration of the book there is a hint of the divine presence which is suggested, and Indian richness, massiveness and dignity support this great suggestion. There is augustness and beauty in the picture of Rama and Sita about to enter Guhyaka's boat. Others ...
... well pause there,—for if he went farther, the creature would be in danger of rising too near to the level of his Maker. But if this is the truth of things that an infinite Spirit, an eternal Divine Presence and Consciousness and Force and Bliss is involved and hidden here and slowly emerges, then is it inevitable that its powers or the ascending degrees of its one power should emerge too one after ...
... man it Page 34 holds to be that in him which is of the highest importance, that which everything else in him must try in whatever way to bring out and express, and this soul, self, divine presence in the world it holds to be that which man has ever to try to see and recognise through all appearances, to unite his thought and life with it and in it to find his unity with his fellows. This ...
... present in the working, but he also exceeds and can overrule it; for on one side Nature works according to her limited complex of formulas and is informed and supported in their execution by the Divine Presence, but on the other side there is an overseeing, a higher working and determination, even an intervention, free but not arbitrary, often appearing to us magical and miraculous because it proceeds ...
... Jesus in the Synoptic Gospels which bears a specifically mystical character, yet the total impression which the gospel story leaves upon us is of one who lived in the constant awareness of the divine Presence." And where is this Presence with Jesus? Is it just a supreme Glory from a heaven above, which is now all about him active like an accompanying nimbus since that moment of his life when he was ...
... have been able to keep the Pondicherry-peace glowing within you. It will effect a new adjustment, in which you will find in the very diminution of the old values and old ties an increase of the divine presence that is always there in the world and only waits for our receptivity to show us its calm eternal smile whose message is: "Abhaya — Have no fear." Your indecision over staying on in Nepal ...
... possible only when the desire-soul in us has submitted to the Divine Law.... This will be done, not for the personal satisfaction of the ego, but that the whole may constitute a fit temple for the Divine Presence, a faultless instrument for the divine work. For the work can be truly performed only when the instrument, consecrated and perfected, has grown fit for a selfless action.... Even when the little ...
... upon this event, I seem to realise how far away was the action of my own will from that of the divine Will. If I had been acting according to my own inclination, I could never have come near the divine Presence. We are for the most part subject to petty desires and feelings. My life’s course was settled, without my knowing it, as soon as the Master’s glance embraced me. When I reached the crucial stage ...
... system of anthropology: this is the only place he mentions a tripartite division of body (cf. Romans 7:24+), soul (cf. 1 Corinthians 15:44+) and Spirit (which can be taken in two ways: as the divine presence in a human being, giving him new life in union with Christ, Romans 5:5+, or more probably as the innermost depths of the human being, open to the Spirit, cf. Romans 1:9+)." The second ...
... wooden box into which, as disciples approached them, they laid their offerings of flowers and garlands of Tulsi leaves (“Devotion”). We went up in a file standing only for a moment in front of the Divine Presence on earth and then moved on. As children we went with our parents. Soon I wanted to stand alone before Sri Aurobindo, so I started going on my own. I was about thirteen years old at that time. Sri ...
... unfinished work and its fulfilment lies in her manifesting higher planes of consciousness upon her surface by realising perfect Knowledge, unerring Will and unflagging Delight. There is, therefore, a divine presence in and behind the world-process. The mind as well as the body, Lucretius asserts, is material and its atoms are dispersed at death. There is no immortality and our life is limited to this ...
... The protection and help will be there as they were here. You have only to keep yourself open to them and live inwardly seeking to become more and more conscious so that you may feel the Divine Presence and Power. As to the Bombay atmosphere, keep inwardly separate from it, even while mixing with others, see it as a thing outside and not belonging to the inner world in which you yourself live ...
... Message for the Opening of a House ( Dahyabhai) Let this new house be filled with an ardent aspiration for the Divine Realisation and in answer to the call the Divine Presence will be there. 7 October 1951 The Mother ...
... can be found. It is by isolating oneself from those around one through concentration in the depths of one’s heart and through silence of the mind — there one finds that which is rich with the Divine Presence. Nothing that can truly help has changed; that is to say, the Force and the Presence are always with you and you will feel them more and more as you become more concentrated on them. Take ...
... through which the Master's vision shows us the voyaging soul of man Page 104 traversing and ascending till it reaches at last its own Reality in the Divine and brings down the Divine Presence here on earth to transform the life of man. In Mahabharata with its different purpose, the outer story engulfs our attention. We get lost in the human and emerge after long intervals for a short ...
... than anything sensed by ear or eye or touch in the world of Matter; but it is a certitude not of mental thought but of essential experience. When the Peace of God descends on you, when the Divine Presence is there within you, when the Ananda rushes on you like a sea, when you are driven like a leaf before the wind by the breath of the Divine Force, when Love flowers out from you on all creation ...
... to pour on you some of the Divine forces. I was looking at you for such a long time and it was Divine love that I was pouring on you with a strong will that you should become conscious of the Divine Presence in you and see all your sorrows turn into Ananda. I saw to my great joy that you were very receptive to all these Divine forces, and absorbing them without resistance as they were pouring down ...
... Recipient The protection and help will be there as they were here. You have to keep yourself open to them and live inwardly seeking to become more and more conscious so that you may feel the Divine Presence and Power. As to the Bombay atmosphere, keep inwardly separate from it even while mixing with others, see it as a thing outside and not belonging to the inner world in which you yourself live ...
... Yogi. The idea is that, being Omnipotent, omniscient, infinite, supreme, the Divine does not scorn to descend even into the lowest forms, the obscurest figures of Nature and animate them with the divine Presence,—that shows his Divinity. The whole sense has fizzled out in the translation. You need not say all that to the poetess, but perhaps you might very delicately hint to her that if she could ...
... Till then, one can feel the results of the divine help and, if one has faith, know that they are the work of the Divine; but it is only then that one can feel clearly the Force at work, the divine Presence, the direct communion. * October 2, 1944 What is there to comment on foolishness? It is a universal human failing. Your remark about Krishna was not so much foolish as ...
... are not limited in their movement. But their formation and growth belong to the terrestrial life, for reasons of concentration.” 38 – “One thing is certain: that this marvellous fact of the divine Presence in Matter, which is at the origin of the formation of the psychic being, belongs as such to life on the Earth.” 39 – “In the whole creation the Earth has a place of distinction, because unlike ...
... questions and she had answered them. And when there were no questions anymore, somebody switched off the light as usual for the meditation. It happened during that meditation. ‘This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there present amongst you. I had a form of living gold,’ wrote the Mother, ‘bigger than the universe, and I was facing a huge and massive golden door which separated ...
... that it made her body literally bend forward, her head touching her knees. What was to be found there below in that pit? At the bottom of the stagnant night of the Inconscient she found the divine Presence, the supramental Golden Light in which she was unexpectedly projected as in a vastness of ‘dark, warm gold’. And a total surprise it was! She formulated the experience in her New Year’s message ...
... a strong need to progress or to develop, an answer will be given, usually in a most unexpected way. ‘Between the age of eighteen and twenty, I attained a conscious and constant union with the divine Presence and I had done it all alone, with absolutely nobody to help me, not even books. When I found one – a little later I got hold of Vivekananda’s Raja Yoga – it seemed to me such a wonderful thing ...
... own self and real nature and the inner nature of things, the power of these things growing in one till they are a part of one's inner life and existence. As for instance, the realisation of the Divine Presence, the descent and settling of the higher Peace, Light, Force, Ananda in the consciousness, their workings there—the realisation of the divine or spiritual love, the perception of one's own psychic ...
... success and failure. It is these things which must be the first objects of the sadhana, not any hedonistic experience even of the highest kind; for that must come of itself as a result of the Divine Presence. I would rather like you to tell me what, precisely, you do in your hours of meditation, how you do it and what happens within you. Meanwhile, the first thing you must do is to throw ...
... lover and devotee of the Lord and rejected all deification, became in these abnormal moments the Lord himself and so spoke and acted, with all the out flooding light and love and power of the divine Presence." Being : The psychic being by which he means the Purusha in the heart which supports by its presence the action of the mind, life and body. It is the conscious form of the ...
... lover and devotee of the Lord and rejected all deification, became in these abnormal moments the Lord himself and so spoke and acted, with all the outflooding light and love and power of the divine Presence. “ Sri Aurobindo wrote to a disciple in a letter dated November 13, 1936: “He [Ramakrishnal never wrote an autobiography – what he said was in conversation with his disciples ...
... brighter and more powerful consciousness with which she is in occasional communion but in which she does not constantly live. On the other hand another sentence seems to point to a Godhead or Divine Presence and it would be then not so much within as above. The language later on would seem to indicate such a Presence giving commands to her to guide others so that they might grow in consciousness ...
... in life.’ 28 We know what an important element beauty and art had been in her own life. It is therefore not surprising that she did everything possible to create an expression of the divine Presence through beauty around her, and to develop the sense of it in the pupils and students of the school. To borrow a phrase from Savitri: ‘beauty was her footstep.’ Sri Aurobindo had stimulated the ...
... consisted in annulling this real distinction, for the result of the supramental transformation should make the Divine concretely present in Matter. As Matter became gradually more ‘porous’ to her, the divine Presence in all became ever more real, visibly, tangibly. She saw everything as vibrations – rainbow-coloured vibrations of the One – and her own vibrating body as a finely tuned receptor of those vibrations ...
... which the Bengali poet had never before seen her. Another cause must be the fact that in the eight years since her stay in Japan she had grown in spiritual stature and could manifest a greater divine Presence. A few years after Tagore's interview the Mother's body again suffered — now a much more serious illness as a result of nearly four years of the physico-spiritual practice of what we ...
... harmonious and the whole, the considerate and the sensitive - these compose the world-vision that love longs for, in tune with the Ideality to which it awakens at the sight of the sweetheart. A Divine Presence glows within, an unwithering Rose whose eternity all time-movements should reflect instead of obscuring or betraying as again and again they now do. The pain of the obscuration or betrayal is ...
... always in their arms. Try to be conscious of this fact and do not allow your heart and mind to be troubled, no matter how many outward "ills" (as Hamlet would say) "the flesh is heir to". The Divine Presence has been established in your life: you have only to grow aware of it. Once you realise that it is ever accompanying you, all those "ills" will be held securely in an inner calm, kept within their ...
... pervading clarity and a suffusing radiancy whereby there can be not only far-sight and in-sight but also a steady warmth and a quiet glow in the being with an intuition of the love and light of the Divine Presence everywhere - the many-aspected meaning of his name could be for you as it is for him a pointer and a guide to the goal, at once time-transcending and time-transforming, which we have attempted ...
... us? The Mother's grace has made the Ashram flourish even in her absence and it has become increasingly a centre for the earth's peoples to flock to and inwardly profit there from the Divine Presence she has subtly established, a Presence most effectively radiating from the Samadhi where her body and Sri Aurobindo's have been enshrined. But I cannot say that the intensity of the spiritual life ...
... towards what our idealistic literature calls "the True, the Good, the Beautiful." This trio forms the goal of our philosophical, ethical and aesthetic life. Religion sees it in the light of a divine Presence and there the Psychic Being tends to go directly rather than indirectly towards the object of its aspiration. But even there its intrinsic movement does not find its full play, for our life gets ...
... your disability is carried over and a plane more inward where your soul takes charge and its powerful draw towards the Lord is independently active, taking you irresistibly into the aura of the Divine Presence. On that inward plane you are not a defective body with a struggling soul but a sheer soul with its own subtle responsive body free of all embarrassments of the material life. The dream begins ...
... of profuse reading-matter and absorbed in the craft of endless writing and turned as much as his numerous human weaknesses allow towards the all-healing and all-fulfilling infinity of that dual divine presence: Sri Aurobindo and the Mother - such is Amal Kiran to whom you are stretching friendly hands which he is willing to clasp. What gifts these hands should bring is quite a problem. But I may add ...
... concentration is surely an important part of our Page 279 sadhana, but the final test of success is to be an illumined soul come forward into the waking state and feeling the Divine Presence radiate forth in all one's actions and relationships. At least this is the ideal I pray for and strive after in spite of repeatedly falling short of it. If I have any desire to go beyond my already ...
... and more powerful and render an actual visit unnecessary in the existing state of your body. If in my little way I have been instrumental in making more and more real in your consciousness the Divine Presence at that sacred spot in the midst of worship-breathing flowers and heavenward-aspiring incense, I feel most humbly happy in the service of our two Masters who have brought their immensity home to ...
... the questions are difficult to answer and so I have sidetracked into a domain where I am more at home. I suppose the Inconscient is no passive reality but an active adverse power by which the divine presence hidden in the cosmos - like "a slumberous Infinite" - is creatively bestirred into no more than forms ignorantly obscuring the soul which is born within them. Aswapati escapes from this world of ...
... were, in their outer conscious being and do not have man's restless aspiration, an aspiration rendered unbearable to himself no less than disturbing to the world in general by his inkling of the Divine Presence that turns all natural life unsatisfying for him. Two verses have stuck in my mind out of that chorus: The gier-eagle has chosen his part In blue deeps of the upper air Where one-eyed ...
... until I seemed to look into a new dimension of things. Suddenly the whole universe appeared to be a great living being, a wonderul substance of Spirit, and every piece of matter tingled with a divine presence drawing my worship: the very chairs and tables of my room were like gods and goddesses to whom I could have knelt down. I had an intense impulse to read that canto of Sri Aurobindo's Savitri, which ...
... Roman Catholics had more or less accurate notions about the difference between religio-ethical goodness like our Gandhi's and saintly purity and radiancy arising from mystical communion with the Divine Presence within - though I dare say that in some instances they reduced the difference to a crude cluster of what were called miraculous phenomena. But the canonisation of a man came about after much s ...
... be extremely sensitive to the texture, the order and the rhythm of words. Perhaps the texture is most easily appreciated. Take a line like the following from Sri Aurobindo, which suggests some divine presence at work in the phenomenon of dawning day - A slow miraculous gesture dimly came. I need not rub in the fact that none of the parts can be replaced: each is the right one in significance ...
... beautiful words of the Mother to Huta published by Huta in White Roses : "Behind the sorrow and loneliness, behind the emptiness and the feeling of incapacity, there is the golden light of the Divine Presence shining soft and warm." You write about the Mahakali you saw: "She was not terrible-looking; she looked affectionate and soothing...." Your pair of adjectives answers well to the Mother's ...
... (2) God is incarnate in Jesus Christ. His incarnation directly infuses divinity into the world of matter and, by virtue of Christ's resurrection after his death, it keeps a special intermediary divine presence at all places and at all times, a Holy Spirit constituting a mystical Body and unifying all believers, a Body whose nucleus is the Christ-appointed Church. This intermediary presence assures for ...
... than anything sensed by eye or ear or touch in the world of Matter; but it is a certitude not of mental thought but of essential experience. When the Peace of God descends on you, when the Divine Presence is there within you, when the Ananda rushes on you like a sea, when you are driven like a leaf before the wind by the breath of the Divine Force, when Love flows out from you on all creation ...
... after And pine for what is not. For us, the birthday should bring no regret, no doubt. The "what is not" of the past is the fading of our small self in the largeness of the Divine Presence. The future's vagueness is the unlimited room the same Presence shows us for merging in the depth beyond depth that is the Mother's Love and in the height over height that is the Truth of ...
... of profuse reading-matter and absorbed in the craft of endless writing and turned as much as his numerous human weaknesses allow towards the all-healing and all-fulfilling infinity of that dual divine presence - Sri Aurobindo and the Mother - such is Amal Kiran... (Jugal Kishore Mukherjee, The Wonder that is K.D. Sethna p. 2) Page 42 And to turn towards that 'dual presence' ...
... the Inconscient – the absolute Darkness, the Nihil that is the contrary of the absolute Light and All. ‘It was only when I descended into the Inconscient,’ said the Mother, ‘that I found the divine Presence – there, in the midst of Darkness. It wasn’t the first time. When I was working with Théon at Tlemcen (the second time I was there), I descended into the total, unindividualized – that is, general ...
... future. In the seed planted by the supramental Avatar, the fully grown tree of the Kingdom of God on Earth is present. All have made the same all-too-human error and, despite their belief in the divine presence of the Mother, have gone on considering that battered body of hers as a human reality. Even on 31 March 1973, after all those years of conversations, Satprem still asks her: ‘Are you active, or ...
... and obscurity—The Divine alone is Light and Vastness, Truth and Compassion. So, take refuge in the Divine and do not care for the smallness of the world, do not let it disturb you. Keep only the Divine Presence in you with Its peace and quietness. ...
... whole universe with one inconceivable unity in universal multiplicity... There does not exist any "I", but the hierarchy of the universal planes full of the one reality, the sole support—the Divine Presence. There are rainbow colours on all planes above which I stand and observe. Even here on the one hand the living Presence of the Divine tries to beguile this pose of mine by its sweetness; and ...
... he takes upon himself the burden of humanity in order to exceed it—he becomes human in order to show humanity how to become Divine. But that cannot be if there is only a weakling without any divine Presence within or divine Force behind him—he has to be strong in order to put his strength into all who are willing to receive it. There is therefore in him a double element—human in front, divine behind—and ...
... Yogi. The idea is that, being omnipotent, omniscient, infinite, Supreme, the Divine does not scorn to descend even into the lowest forms, the obscurest figures of Nature and animate them with the divine Presence,— that shows his Divinity. The whole sense has fizzled out in the translation. You need not say all that to the poetess, but perhaps you might very delicately hint to her that if she could ...
... Concentric System: Outer to Inner Letters on Yoga - I Chapter III The Psychic Being The Psychic and the Divine They [ the psychic being and the Divine Presence in the heart ] are quite different things. The psychic being is one's own individual soul-being. It is not the Divine, though it has come from the Divine and develops towards the Divine. ...
... by the growth of the psychic self-offering in all of them and in all their movements separately and together. To be enjoyed by the Divine is to be entirely surrendered so that one feels the Divine Presence, Power, Light, Ananda possessing the whole being rather than oneself possessing these things for one's own satisfaction. It is a much greater ecstasy to be thus surrendered and possessed by the ...
... living Page 967 being, on every level, in all things, and because it is there, the experience of Sachchidananda, of the pure spiritual existence and consciousness, of the delight of a divine presence, closeness, contact can be acquired through the mind or the heart or the life-sense or even through the physical consciousness; if the inner doors are flung sufficiently open, the light from the ...
... can be effectively fulfilled in our transmuted nature. This will be done, not for the personal satisfaction of the ego, but that the whole may constitute a fit Page 84 temple for the Divine Presence, a faultless instrument for the divine work. For that work can be truly performed only when the instrument, consecrated and perfected, has grown fit for a selfless action,—and that will be when ...
... a conversion through a divine influence and possession; but this divine grace, if we may so call it, is not simply a mysterious flow or touch coming from above, but the all-pervading act of a divine presence which we come to know within as the power of the highest Self and Master of our being entering into the soul and so possessing it that we not only feel it close to us and pressing upon our mortal ...
... of vision: the mind rises into a higher plane of pure self, silent, tranquil, illimitable; or it rises into regions of light or of felicity, or into planes where it feels an infinite Power or a divine Presence or experiences the contact of a divine Love or Beauty or the atmosphere of a wider and greater and luminous Knowledge. In the return the spiritual impression abides; but the mental record is often ...
... Nirguna and Saguna, in the infinite 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 ...
... identification. The object of purification is to make the whole mental being a clear mirror in which the divine reality can be reflected, a clear vessel and an unobstructing channel into which the divine presence and through which the divine influence can be poured, a subtilised stuff which the divine nature can take possession of, new-shape and use to divine issues. For the mental being at present reflects ...
... man and man in God a conscious thing and an engrossing and perfect union. Love of the Highest and a total self-surrender are the straight and swift way to this divine oneness. 9 The equal Divine Presence in all of us makes no other preliminary condition, if once this integral self-giving has been made in faith and in sincerity and with a fundamental completeness. All have access to this gate, all ...
... Ethical action is only a means of purification by which we can rise towards the divine nature, but that nature itself is lifted beyond the dualities,—and indeed there could otherwise be no pure divine presence or divine strength in the strong man who is subjected to the rajasic passions. Dharma in the spiritual sense is not morality or ethics. Dharma, says the Gita elsewhere, is action governed by the ...
... Moreover this condition even when it is perfect is only a transitional stage—it is intended to bring a certain state of freedom and liberation. But in that peace there must come the feeling of the Divine Presence, the sense of the Mother's power working in you, the joy or Ananda. If you can concentrate in the heart as well as in the head, then these things can more easily come. The mind can become ...
... incarnating Divine. The white lotus is the symbol of the Mother's consciousness,—it does not indicate any part of the individual consciousness. The red lotus is the flower of the Divine Presence. The red lotus is the presence of the Divine on earth—the sun is the Divine Truth. It indicates the Divine manifestation on earth raising earth consciousness towards the Truth. The ...
... always, taking her difficulties as ordeals to be passed through, to pray constantly and seek the Divine help and protection and ask for the opening of her heart and consciousness to the supporting Divine Presence. Page 345 × The correspondent wrote that while talking with others he was often conscious of an exchange ...
... Devil or Falsehood—there is no rational ground for the feelings of despair it suggests, but it throws itself with fury on the mind and vital and tries to possess them, ousting the Truth and the Divine Presence. Even the strongest have felt its attacks. You must understand what it is and, the moment it comes, oppose it with a resolute No. For the more the Truth descends, the more furious this adverse ...
... thing to be done is to open your consciousness to what is coming down, to let the change operate so that the consciousness becomes a consciousness of peace and light and power and joy full of the Divine Presence. When that is there, then what the Divine wants to get done through you or developed in you will be done or developed with a rapidity and perfection which at present is impossible. The one thing ...
... 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 mind, insufficient purity in the heart and elsewhere, restlessness ...
... January 1929 For Kantilal Live always as if you were under the very eye of the Supreme and of the Divine Mother. Do nothing, try to think and feel nothing that would be unworthy of the Divine Presence. 16 April 1930 For K. Krishna Rao Go below the surface of the consciousness deep within, for there you will find the soul's profound quietude, luminous silence, freedom and spiritual ...
... feel the Divine in you, open to the Mother and work for the Divine till you are aware of her in all your actions. The physical presence here is not enough; there must be this consciousness of the divine presence in your heart and the divine guidance in your acts. This the psychic being can easily, swiftly, deeply feel if it is fully awake; once the psychic has felt it, it can spread to the mental and vital ...
... nature is ignorant, full of itself and its desires that one cannot feel the presence. If one turns from self and desires and lives inwardly and outwardly for the Divine, then one begins to feel the divine Presence. The condition you describe is a very good one and it is evident from it that you opened sincerely to the Mother when you met Page 167 her. Keep that sincere opening always and ...
... In surrendering to the Guru, it is to the Divine in him that one surrenders—if it were only to a human Page 193 entity it would be ineffective. But it is the consciousness of the Divine Presence that makes the Guru a real Guru, so that even if the disciple surrenders to him thinking of the human being to whom he surrenders, that Presence would still make it effective. Yes [ surrender ...
... for this part of the work, the most difficult of all, that surrender is most needful; for this reason, that it is the actual descent of the supramental Divine into Matter and the working of the Divine Presence and Power there that can alone make the physical and external change possible. Even the most powerful self-assertion of human will and endeavour is impotent to bring it about; as for egoistic ...
... you had conquered sleep, food, disease and death. On what authority did she proclaim it then? I am not aware of this gorgeous proclamation. What was said was that the Divine (Krishna or the Divine Presence or whatever you like) had come down into the material. It was also pro claimed that I was retiring—obviously to work things out. If all that was achieved on the 24th [November] 1926, what on earth ...
... questions disappear rather than receive an answer. They seem no longer of any importance. But still this is not "going from knowledge to knowledge". This is an opening of the inner being to the divine Presence in the psychic centre, and there you know at every moment not only what must be done but why it should be done and how it should be done, and you have the vision of the truth of things behind their ...
... yoga, you see. With yoga one can watch with open eyes, one would not close them; but one would not close them because one calls upon something else, and that "something else" is the sense of the divine Presence in oneself which is stronger than everything. This is the only thing that can cure you of your fear. Years afterwards this talk was followed up by a question from a disciple ( 19 May 1965 ...
... Whatever be the goal attained, it is only a beginning. What is the difference between "spiritual" and "psychic"? It is not the same thing. The psychic is the being organised by the divine Presence and it belongs to the earth—I am not speaking of the universe, only of the earth; it is only upon earth that you will find the psychic being. The rest of the universe is formed in quite a different ...
... fabricate wonderful experiences, and they imagine they have them. I put all that aside, it is not interesting. But for sincere people who have a sincere experience, once you have the experience of the divine presence, the whole world may tell you it is not true, and you will not budge. If you are not sincere, you may have wonderful experiences, but these have no value either for you or for others. You should ...
... divine consciousness in me or in one whom I have chosen as my Guru does not tell me "This is to be done", "This is not to be done", I am indifferent to what others may tell me. For I think that the divine presence in the one in whom I have put my trust is capable of knowing what is good and what is bad, what is to be done and what is not to be done. And that is the best way of being free. Let your surrender ...
... glimpse is usually the awakening of the psychic consciousness. But some realisation you must have—a strong mental or vital, if not a deep psychic or integral contact. You must have felt strongly the Divine Presence in or about you; you must have felt the breath of the Divine world. And you must have felt too as a suffocating pressure the opposite breath of the ordinary world, drawing you to an endeavour to ...
... such a Great One", but instead they proclaim, "I am that Great One." I knew one who affirmed that he was both Christ and Buddha! He had received something, had experienced a truth, had seen the Divine Presence in himself and in others. But the experience was too strong for him, the truth too great. He became half crazy and the next day went out into the streets, proclaiming that in him Christ and Buddha ...
... February 29, 1956 MA 1-69 [This experience represents a radical step in the evolutionary process making possible such breakthroughs as the creation of Auroville. ] This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there present amongst you. I had a form of living gold, bigger than the universe, and I was facing a huge and massive golden door which separated the world from the ...
... perfectly identified with Thee, I may now be only Thyself manifested in word and act; I implore that all those who come to us, all who are in contact with us, may awaken to the full knowledge of Thy divine presence, Thy sovereign law, and let themselves be definitively transformed by it; I implore that all men upon earth, in spite of their bitter suffering, may feel dawning in it the sublime consolation of ...
... to preach his father's religion. He told me his story and what had happened in Persia at the beginning of the religion. And I remember him telling me with what intense joy, what a sense of the divine Presence, of the divine Force, these people went to the sacrifice—it can't be called "sacrifice", it was a very joyful gift of their life.... He always spoke to me of someone who was, it appears, a very ...
... circumstance and need; and all this is inside them. So when these people, with the help of yoga, the discipline of yoga, succeed in centralising all these beings around the central light of the divine Presence, they become powerful entities, precisely because of their complexity. So long as this is not organised they often give the impression of an incoherence, they are almost incomprehensible, one can’t ...
... 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 come. * The only creation for which ...
... knowledge. You are told about the divine Love; it is not altogether the same thing. Nothing is said about enjoying ambition or desire or even aspiration; what is spoken of is the enjoying of the divine Presence. That's completely different; there is no similarity. I admit that I don't quite catch the meaning of your question. I think you are mixing up the Divine with growth and increase and development ...
... moment of death, and that attitude necessarily depends on its inner development and its unification. If we take the best instance, of someone who has unified his being completely around the divine Presence within him, who is now only one will, one consciousness, this person will have grouped around his central psychic being a fully developed and organised mind, an absolutely surrendered and ...
... you are no longer in a physical body, you can no longer do it at all. And what is still more remarkable is that only human beings can do it, for only human beings have at their centre the divine Presence in the psychic being. For example, this work of self-development and organisation and being aware of all the elements is not within the reach of the beings of the vital and mental planes, nor even ...
... and wastes a lot of energy. And usually, they are already quite worn out and spent when they reach the state in which they are capable of having these relations in all their splendour with the divine Presence. That means much time lost and much wastage of energy; but it would seem that very few people can go straight avoiding all these roundabout ways. Mostly, when they are told that there is a divine ...
... preparation. Gradually, if you make use of this understanding, you must, with a methodical work of infusing consciousness into the cells of the body, infuse at the same time the truth of the divine Presence. This work takes time, but, if done methodically and constantly, it produces an effect. So you have prepared the ground. Suppose that as a result of some illness or other, there is some sort ...
... To what extent he is capable of developing them... it's a kind of hierarchy which is established among individuals and their degree of development. But, essentially, in each one there is the Divine Presence and therefore the Supreme Consciousness. Only, for some to be able to become conscious of it, it will take thousands and thousands Page 335 of years, and others have by inner and outer ...
... these truths are valuable only if they are put into practice, and that it is useless to talk of consciousness, knowledge, equality of soul, universality, infinity, eternity, supreme truth, the divine presence and... of all sorts of things like that, if you make no effort yourselves to live these things and feel them concretely within you. And don't tell yourselves, "Oh, I have been here so many years ...
... today. But I don't know if it was to her I said it. I said it to someone this morning. I said that between the age of eighteen and twenty I had attained a conscious and constant union with the divine Presence and that I had done it all alone , with absolutely nobody to help me, not even books, you understand! When I found one—here came to my hands a little later Vivekananda's Raja Yoga —it seemed ...
... penetrate all the cells. To begin with, it is the physical consciousness, the body consciousness which opens first to the influence of the Divine and understands and wants nothing else but this , the divine Presence, the divine influence. There are also the body's feelings, and the very cells of the body, which can open to receive the force. For instance, when at a certain moment one feels a kind of very intense ...
... know how to meditate are very few in number. Besides, admitting that through much discipline and years of effort you have in your meditation succeeded in coming into conscious relation with the divine Presence, evidently this is a result, and this result should necessarily have an effect upon your character and your life. But this effect is very different according to individuals. There are cases in ...
... loses one's memory, one would be oneself. If one sincerely continues this profound search, there comes a moment when everything disappears and one single thing exists, that is the Divine, the divine Presence. Everything disappears, dissolves, everything melts away like butter in the sunlight.... When one has made this discovery, one becomes aware that one was nothing but a bundle of habits. It is always ...
... words: to create unity by establishing the kingdom of God which is in all. "Hence, the most useful work to be done is: "1) For everyone individually the becoming aware in oneself of the divine Presence and one's identification with it." "Yes, you do not understand? I have said it fifty thousand times already, haven't I?... Ah, you understand now? ( laughter ) "2) The individualisation ...
... events in which the psychic took part...." (p. 60) And since the psychic is the Divine in the human being, when one is in constant contact with the psychic one feels "in contact with the divine Presence all the time, in all things", (p. 55) On the other hand, when one is anxious or fearful, morose or depressed, excited or peevish, critical or complaining, or under the sway of any other ...
... Difference between “Spiritual” and “Psychic” What is the difference between “spiritual” and “psychic”? It is not the same thing. The psychic is the being organised by the divine Presence and it belongs to the earth—I am not speaking of the universe, only of the earth; it is only upon earth that you will find the psychic being. The rest of the universe is formed in quite a different ...
... this. And above all let them not mistake their ego and their desires for the Divine. It is because they deceive themselves that they make this confusion. They must be conscious of the divine presence in themselves, and for that, the ego must be silenced and desires must disappear. 28.12.1972 * Is it to satisfy little personal needs that you have come to Auroville? That ...
... when your pleasure no longer depends on what you do or what happens to you, when your pleasure is the spontaneous outward expression of the unchanging joy which you carry within yourself with the Divine Presence. Then it is a constant state of consciousness in all activities and in all circumstances. And, as of all wearisome things one of the most wearisome is a wearisome book, Sri Aurobindo gives us this ...
... clear knowledge and a faultless action. The only safety in life, the only way to escape from the consequences of past errors, is an inner development leading to conscious union with the Divine Presence; the only effective guide, the Truth of our being and of all beings. 25 November 1969 ...
... rushing into the system in her fierce force and burning godhead? Only the man whom Krishna already possesses. This is a charming and most expressive way of saying that only the conscious Divine Presence is capable of mastering and conquering all violence. 8 December 1969 ...
... strength faint and repine, remember always the eternal word of our Lover and Master, "I will free thee from all sin and evil; do not grieve." Here, what Sri Aurobindo calls the soul is the Divine Presence in each one of us; and the certitude of this constant Presence within us will alleviate all our sorrow by convincing us of the ultimate victory which is certain. 10 January 1970 Page 293 ...
... consecration, victory thy apotheosis, defeat thy triumph. For one who is totally consecrated to the Divine, there can be neither shame nor suffering, for the Divine is always with him and the Divine Presence changes all things into glory. 9 January 1970 ...
... of the being, which gives itself in order to learn. I am speaking of the cells. It is very interesting. Evidently if you mentalise, you must say that it is the feeling or consciousness of the divine Presence in all things and that the mode—the mode of contact—derives from the state in which you are. Yes, that is the experience of the body. And in individuals, when there is any knock or shock ...
... for it surpasses all expression. This is the marvellous state we want to realise on earth; it is this which will have the power to transform the world and make it a habitation worthy of the Divine Presence. Then will pure and true love be able to incarnate in a body that will no longer be a disguise and a veil for it. Many a time, in order to make the discipline easier and to create a closer and ...
... influence is at work on the thoughts, the feelings, the sensations and even the actions. Sometimes, in all Page 43 its movements, the being has a concrete and constant impression of the Divine Presence and its action through the outer instrument. But one cannot say that the physical mind knows God, for the very way of knowing that is characteristic of the mind is foreign to the Divine; one ...
... this, because you have not seen and played with Krishna. What does "to play with Krishna" mean? What does "God is a great and cruel Torturer" mean? Krishna is the immanent Divine, the Divine Presence in everyone and in all things. He is also, sovereignly, the aspect of Delight and Love of the Supreme; he is the smiling tenderness and the playful gaiety; he is at once the player, the play and ...
... Almighty One, the harm and the cruelty, but do it not again"? What does this mean: "God struck me with a human hand"? These two Aphorisms are illustrations of the affirmation of the Divine Presence in all things and all beings, and they also develop the idea which has already been touched on, that there is nothing and no one to forgive, since the Divine is the originator of all things. ...
... a higher knowledge. 16 December 1969 It is only in the calm that one can know and do. All that is done in agitation and violence is an aberration and a folly. The first sign of the divine presence in the being is peace. We are here to do better than elsewhere and to prepare ourselves for a supramental future. This should never be forgotten. I appeal to the sincere goodwill of all so that ...
... live in that community. But for the community to be happy, this discipline should be set by the most broad-minded person or persons, if possible the person or persons who are conscious of the Divine Presence and are surrendered to it. Page 381 For the world to be happy, power should only be in the hands of those who are conscious of the Divine Will. But for the time being that is impossible ...
... and capacities, without noise or restlessness, without impatience or laziness...?" Page 336 If your calm is integral, that is, both inner and outer, founded on the perception of the Divine Presence, and unchanging, that is to say, constant and unvarying in all circumstances, it will undoubtedly be all-powerful, and the children will necessarily be influenced by it and the class will certainly ...
... its most concrete sense. When the concentration which forms the body comes to an end and the body dissolves, all the cells that have been especially developed and have become conscious of the divine Presence within them, are scattered and enter other combinations in which they awaken, by contagion, the consciousness of the Presence that each one has had. And in this way, by this phenomenon of concentration ...
... upon earth is and will always be for the triumph of the Divine, irrespective of all sects and parties. 29 February 1956 During the Common Meditation on Wednesday This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there present amongst you. I had a form of living gold, bigger Page 51 than the universe, and I was facing a huge and massive golden door which separated ...
... above all let them not mistake their ego and their desires for the Divine. It is because they deceive themselves that they make this confusion. Page 219 They must be conscious of the divine presence in themselves, and for that, the ego must be silenced and desires must disappear. 10 28 December 1972 Jesus is one of the many forms which the Divine has assumed to enter into r ...
... be happy it is necessary that this discipline should be determined by someone or by those who have the greatest broadness of mind and, if possible, by him or by those who are conscious of the Divine Presence and are surrendered to that. For the earth to be happy, power should be in the hands of those alone who are conscious of the Divine Will. But this is impossible at the moment because the number ...
... unknown potentialities (possibilities) still latent and waiting for manifestation. You will find already an embryo of organisation which has for its centre of coordination the symbol of the Divine Presence representing the One Supreme Master of the Universe. For here all works are dedicated to the Lord, the One who is all and contains all. And all works are done not for a personal profit but as an ...
... n will be to project you outside all creation, outside time and space. There is no joy more perfect than to give oneself totally to that which is greater than oneself. God, Supreme Origin, Divine Presence, Absolute Truth―it doesn't matter what name we give Him or what aspect we most easily approach Him through―to forget oneself totally in an integral consecration is the surest path towards Realisation ...
... be. If he had integral faith, he would have obliged the man to change. It is always by faith that miracles happen. A Page 42 person goes to another and has a contact with the Divine Presence; if he can keep this contact pure and sustained, it will oblige the Divine Consciousness to manifest in the most material. But all depends on your own standard and your own sincerity; and the more ...
... that it is much more difficult to pass from the mental to the supramental life than to pass from a certain psychic emotion in life—something that is like a reflection, a luminous emanation of the divine Presence in matter—to the supramental consciousness; it is much easier to pass from that into the supramental consciousness than to pass from the highest intellectual speculation to any supramental vibration ...
... sensation—not "pleasant" in the ordinary sense, but an almost comfortable feeling comes. Again, I am speaking purely physically, materially. And the last stage, when the cells have faith in the divine Presence and in the sovereign divine Will, when they have this trust that all is for the good, then ecstasy comes—the cells open, like this, become luminous and ecstatic. That makes four stages—only ...
... mother can begin educating her child through her attitude and her thoughts. With my love and blessings. 16 July 1970 In the very depths of your being, deep within your breast, the Divine Presence is always there, luminous and peaceful, full of love and wisdom. It is there so that you may unite with it and it may transform you into a luminous and radiant consciousness. Together you and ...
... She wrote me a letter the day before the operation (what is interesting is that now she doesn't even remember what she wrote). It was a magnificent letter saying that she was conscious of the Divine Presence and of the Divine Plan. 'Tomorrow they will operate on me,' she said. 'And I am entirely aware that this operation has ALREADY been done, that it is a fact accomplished by the Divine Will; otherwise ...
... And experiences!... I have had the most contradictory experiences! Only one thing has been continuous from my childhood on (and the more I look, the more I see how continuous it has been): this divine Presence—and in someone who, in her EXTERNAL LIFE, might very well have said, 'God? What is this foolishness! God doesn't exist!' So you understand, you see the picture. You know, it's a marvelous, marvelous ...
... absolutely identical—mental conditions, vital conditions, physical conditions, all identical—and suddenly it all seems... meaningless . One still has the consciousness, the full consciousness of the divine Presence, and... one senses somewhere something escaping, and all becomes... it's like running after something that escapes. Things become meaningless. In absolutely identical conditions—even the movements ...
... moment conditions are particularly favourable. Blessings. 22 July 1969 Sweet Mother, What does it mean, really, "to realise the Divine"? It means to become conscious of the Divine Presence in oneself or on the spiritual heights, and, once one is conscious of His Presence, to surrender to Him completely so that one no Page 409 longer has any other will than His, and finally ...
... don't know on what grounds to appreciate something, and, moreover, when there is something that is superior to them, they don't like it. But where to get such a strength? Within you. The Divine Presence is in you. It is in you. You look for it outside; look inside. It is in you. The Presence is there. You want the appreciation of others to get strength—you will never get it. The strength is in ...
... it blossoms immediately. And everything in the human heart, in human consciousness, in human thought, all that is slightly sheltered from this adverse influence—sheltered by the psychic, the divine Presence—blossoms, becomes... immediately becomes marvelous, without any obstacle—all the obstacles come from that source. So it's all very well to call it an 'accident,' but.... It's obviously reparable ...
... 1 I can't say for sure that no one has ever had it, because someone like Ramakrishna, individuals like that, could have had it. But I am not sure, for when I had this experience (not of the divine Presence, which I had already felt in the cells for a long time, but the experience that the Divine ALONE is acting in the body, that He has BECOME the body, yet all the while retaining his character of ...
... practises yoga in the physical being (outer being), it remains ignorant—even its aspiration is ignorant and so is its goodwill; all its movements are ignorant and so they distort and disfigure the Divine Presence. That is why the yoga of the body-cells is indispensable. 25 February 1967 "The Dawn that does not pass away" 3 —what spiritual state does this marvellous dawn represent? Perpetual ...
... ordinary sense of the word, but there comes an almost comfortable impression. Once again, I am speaking on a purely physical, material level. The last stage: when the cells have faith in the divine Presence and the divine sovereign Will and trust that all is for the good, then ecstasy comes—the cells open up, become luminous and ecstatic. That makes four stages (this aphorism refers to only three) ...
... whether it has come to the last battle, but it has descended very deep into the cells' worst-lit realm: what still belongs most to the world of Unconsciousness and Inertia and is most foreign to the divine Presence. It is, so to say, the primal substance that was first used by Life, and it has a sort of inability to feel, to experience a reason for that life. In fact, it's something I had never experienced ...
... that all disorders in the body and all diseases are the result of DOUBT in the cells or a certain group of cells. They doubt the Page 116 Divine's concrete reality, they doubt the Divine Presence in them, they doubt their being divine in their very essence, and this doubt is the cause of all disorders. 2 As soon as you succeed in infusing into them the certitude of the Divine, the ...
... Vital progress: organisation around the Divine Will and a progressive surrender to this Will. The vital governed by the Presence: the vital force rendered peaceful and disciplined by the Divine Presence. Page 354 Formative faculty in the vital: spontaneous but not always happy, it needs to be disciplined. Candid simplicity in the vital: one of the most difficult qualities ...
... 15 June 1954 Our mind must be silent and quiet but our heart must be full of an ardent aspiration. 1 July 1954 Look into the depths of your heart and you will see there the Divine Presence. 14 July 1954 Our heart is purified from the trouble and anguish; it is firm and calm, and sees the Divine in everything. 28 November 1954 The Divine is always seated in your ...
... influence. This is what the consciousness that descended on the earth last year is working for. Little by little the subconscient automatism of the body is being replaced by the consciousness of the Divine Presence governing the entire functioning of the body. 13 April 1970 The Divine Will acting in the subconscient: the rare moments when the Divine asserts Himself visibly. About accidents: ...
... of the Mother - III The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth 29 February 1956 During the common meditation on Wednesday This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there present amongst you. I had a form of living gold, bigger than the universe, and I was facing a huge and massive golden door which separated the world from the ...
... her have enough peace and quietness to be able to eat. When I am sympathetic with a sick person my body begins to feel the symptoms of his disease. The best way is to call for the Divine Presence of Truth and Harmony, to replace the vibrations of disorder and confusion. It is not very difficult to get rid of headache and giddiness. However bad your condition may be, call the light ...
... mutual understanding where all can meet and find their harmony: it is the aspiration for a divine consciousness. 21 February 1973 The more we advance on the way, the more the need of the Divine Presence becomes imperative and indispensable. Page 187 24 April 1973 Beyond man's consciousness Beyond speech O Thou, Supreme Consciousness Unique Reality Divine Truth ...
... upon Earth The Golden Day Henceforth the 29th February will be the day of the Lord. 1960 29 February 1956 During the common meditation on Wednesday This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there present amongst you. I had a form of living gold, bigger than the universe, and I was facing a huge and massive golden door which separated the world from the ...
... Blessings. 26 September 1971 ( Message for the inauguration of a house ) Let this new house be filled with an ardent aspiration for the Divine Realisation and, in answer to the call, the Divine Presence will be there. 7 October 1951 Page 206 ...
... recognise and admire. It is only when the psychic consciousness is all-powerful in the being that compassion for all that needs help, in whatever domain, and gratitude for all that manifests the divine presence and grace, in whatever form, are expressed in all their original and luminous purity, without mixing compassion with any trace of condescension or gratitude with any sense of inferiority. 15 ...
... I said to myself, "Here's how people understand things!" It was, oh, certainly more than fifty years ago, because I had already come upon the "Cosmic," Théon's teaching and the inner divine Presence, and I knew that the new creation would be a creation of immortality—I immediately felt it was true (that it was a way of expressing something true). So then, when I read that, I thought, "Here's ...
... It all depends on one's state of consciousness. If at death you withdraw from physical circumstances, from ordinary physical consciousness, and unite with the great universal Force, or the divine Presence, then all these little things.... It's not that you're not conscious of them—you are very conscious: conscious of what others are doing, conscious of everything, but... it's not important. But ...
... I've forgotten to act or concentrate, or to do the thing needed; the feeling of a servant who for a minute has stopped his work—that's it. It's just a flash, then at once comes the sense of the divine Presence, and it's all over. Page 232 It's not the word "live," no, it's "To do what one is supposed to do." It happens especially during daytime (between 12:30 and 1 o'clock—not for long ...
... On June 29 × Ayudha Puja , during which workers and servants invoke the divine presence in tools and machines. ...
... things that Protestantism lacks: the occult sense (not only the sense but even a certain occult knowledge), and the Mother—the Virgin. The Protestants have something the Catholics lack: the inner divine presence. It's only through those two things that you can catch them. But... Well, we'll see. I don't know, when I saw the photo of the new Pope, I got a strong impression of a very shrewd man ...
... Thing and its distortion]; in that case it would be so easy to discern. But that's not at all how it is!... I am now studying the way in which Matter, the body, can be in constant harmony with the divine Presence. And it's so interesting: it's not at all an opposition, it's a tiny little microscopic distortion. For instance, there is this frequent experience (and generally people don't know why it is so—now ...
... alone are." Then all the discomforts, all the pains, they vanish without a trace. It's a marvel, one can't imagine! Sri Aurobindo once wrote somewhere, after an experience like this of the Divine Presence in the being, he wrote, "If men knew how marvellous is the way.... But they don't know." He wrote it, I can't quote because I'll quote it incorrectly, but he had this experience, "If men knew ...
... confirmed for Megasthenes by a phrase he may have come across about this king. Since the Godhead is said to have entered Prithu and Prithu to have become the first consecrated monarch by that divine Presence, one can imagine the informants of the Greek ambassador using for Prithu the apt phrase Rāja daivyena sahasā, "King with God-Force". .This phrase could very well be to Greek ears the Indian ...
... ardent. I told you just before that I had felt that avalanche of attacks. It came in a very subtle form: the unreality of the conception that has been admitted and adopted—the unreality of the divine Presence Page 126 in the body, the unreality of the world in transformation towards a more and more divine state; like an unreality surging up ( gesture as of a wave from below ), in a sly way ...
... particular meaning? If so, which one?" I used the word in its quite positive meaning. I have even seen that those cells that have been specially developed and have become conscious of the divine Presence within themselves, when the concentration that gives shape to the body is stopped and the body dissolves (it dissolves little by little), all those conscious cells spread out and enter other c ...
... very first step towards immortality is to replace the mechanical centralization by a willed centralization. ...which comes from the inner Presence, which means that through its will, the divine Presence concentrates the cells. There. In English, I put it like this: Death is the consequence of the decentralisation of the Consciousness contained in the cells composing the body. ...
... Materially I am protected only when I am not asleep, wholly concentrated and absolutely still, without speaking to anyone, in contact with nothing around and only wrapped, as it were, in the divine Presence. Then it's fine. But things are far from being like that! ( Mother coughs ) ( silence ) You can put it in the Agenda , but we shouldn't speak about it. In the Agenda , yes, but not otherwise ...
... at all: that state of consciousness is immutable. Basically, I don't think there are many Page 412 minutes, even in a day's twenty-four hours, when the body isn't conscious of the divine Presence—that's how the body is. But the daytime hours are spent in action, they're for others; the night hours are for its own transformation. So these hours of action are like that.... Every day, I ...
... it with such intensity—such intensity and understanding and meaning.... It was as though all human miseries immediately disappeared in front of this EXTRAORDINARY thing—that one could feel the divine Presence in each cell. It was really interesting. The morning was really interesting. She stayed here while I was bathing, and she told me, "See, you can do all this, and not for a minute, not for ...
... you... and it's the Divine. If I were to tell in detail what goes on, it's absolutely wonderful!... For instance, while eating, when the body keeps its true attitude and the perception of the Divine presence in all things, and naturally in what it absorbs, and when it absorbs it automatically with that attitude, without any contradiction, everything takes place without any difficulty. To such a point ...
... say that it is far more difficult to go from the mental to the supramental life than to go from a certain psychic emotion in life—something that is like a reflection, a luminous emanation of the divine Presence in matter—to the supramental consciousness; it is much easier to go from that into the supramental consciousness than to go from the highest intellectual speculation to any supramental vibration ...
... an external form. All the time, I would be... only a transmitting channel, like this ( gesture of something flowing through Mother ). And I don't even ask to be conscious of it. I feel the Divine Presence all the time—all the time—very strongly, but.... ( long silence ) And this is what happens: at times, in some cases, the Power is so tremendous, so potent that I myself am flabbergasted, ...
... the Spirit and we have a spontaneous feel of high endeavour, an instinctive sympathy with the arduous attempt to catch in life or, if not in life, at least in art a concentrated outbreak of the Divine Presence ethereally pervading the universe. Every truly typical Indian is a Wordsworth in some degree or other, sensing a Cosmic Revelation in various forms, more distinct in some aspects of Nature than ...
... history cannot be separated from the spiritual quest, here also is a sense of the World-Mother just as in the first type indigenous history is ever alive, but the stress now falls less upon the Divine Presence than upon the particular face and form She assumes in the country's collective soul as felt in the traditional ideals and institutions , the characteristic customs and festivals, - in short ...
... concrete than anything sensed by eye or ear or touch in the world of Matter; but it is a certitude not of mental thought but of essential experience. When the Peace of God descends on you, when the Divine Presence is there within you, when the Ananda rushes on you like a sea, when you are driven like a leaf before the wind by the breath of the Divine Force, when Love flows out from you on all creation ...
... but action should not arise from personal desire, from private like or dislike, from any motive of the separate ego. There must be a vast equanimity and a surrender of the individual self to the Divine Presence, the Inner Lord, the Universal Oversoul. By a constant spiritual gesture of union (Yoga) with the dynamic Divinity (Ishwara) by the intelligent will (buddhi), the individual has to be active with ...
... down to the normal plane of consciousness. * Adapted from Journeys with Ramakrishna by Swami Pradhananda. Page 221 Sri Ramakrishna experienced a special manifestation of divine presence at Brindavan. Praising the spiritual atmosphere there, he once told a devotee: "Did you observe the single-minded love of the gopis for Krishna? The ideal of Brindavan is unique." One such ideal ...
... metaphorical terms, Sufism means to glide out of one's own mould like a snake peeling off its skin. Sufism may be regarded as a process of change or a profound conversion through the effect of the Divine Presence (hudur) This effect, according to Sufism, is brought out through initiation by a teacher. In order to bring about this change there has to be a discipline or method of training the pupil, a master ...
... is also the easiest and most powerful way of "getting" the Divine. So it is the best policy also. The phrase, however, means that the object of the Yoga is to enter into and be possessed by the Divine Presence and Consciousness, to love the Divine for the Divine's sake alone, to be turned in our nature into the nature of the Divine and in our will and works and life to be the instrument of the Divine ...
... " If so, why were you so much flabbergasted when he wrote about them? What was the date on which they began in this vividness—not as a mental impression but as a concrete contact with the Divine Presence or the Force? I have no objection to your being the Supreme, only it stupefies one to think of you as such! But there was no question about my being the Supreme; the question was whether ...
... nothing. This is true. NIRODBARAN: Isn't the silence associated with some sort of emptiness? SRI AUROBINDO: It depends on what you mean by emptiess. There is an emptiness which is full of the divine Presence and can hardly be called empty. There is another emptiness of silence which is neutral and still another in which one empties oneself, waiting for something higher to come and fill it. NIRODBARAN: ...
... what aspires, this is what has the contact. Page 11 So, when you're told "become conscious of your psychic being," it's for the being formed by external Nature to contact the divine Presence through the psychic being. Then the psychic takes charge of the whole being; in fact, it is the inner Guide.... Well, when I was a little child, this "person" (which wasn't a person, but an expression ...
... it is not possible. SRI AUROBINDO: One can have a reflection of it. But that is a very difficult state. There the individual becomes as it were a divine personality. He acts and lives in the Divine Presence. There is no longer any selective action. ...
... of years. If we could not get more it was not because he had closed the channel, but rather that our small vessels could not contain more. One can then understand that next to his; silent human-divine Presence, his talks were the most coveted feature of our close association with him. Yet they came so unexpectedly, for Sri Aurobindo, as we had come to know and see him during the Darshan, had succeeded ...
... asked Maniben about the leaves the Mother had given. She explained, "It is sweet marjoram ... the Mother has given them the significance, New Birth—birth to the true consciousness, that of the Divine Presence in us." It was truly my new birth! Dyuman introduced me to Chandanben C. Shah from Africa, who had settled in the Ashram with her husband and children. She acquainted me and my husband with ...
... pleasure, forgetfulness, indifference. What I speak of is a delight that is perfect peace, light without shadow, harmony; beauty whole and entire and irresistible Power, the Delight that is the Divine Presence itself, in its essence, in its will and in its realisation. The Mother, Questions and Answers (1955): 7 December 1955 In some faint dawn, In some dim eve, Like a gesture ...
... Nirodbaran, who was Sri Aurobindo's literary secretary and one of his medical assistants, Sri Aurobindo would pass most of the time of his day in silent aloofness and his serene and silent human-divine Presence pervaded the room in which he lived with his disciple-attendants. But - yes, there is an interesting 'but' to this story, which has emboldened us to embark on this venturesome project of writing ...
... one has to choose among two or three or four possible decisions and doesn't know which is the right one, then one must put himself as far as possible in contact with his psychic being and the divine Presence in him, present the problem to this psychic consciousness and ask for the true light, the true decision, the one most in accordance with the divine Will, and try to listen and receive the i ...
... of profuse reading-matter and absorbed in the craft of endless writing and turned as much as his numerous human weaknesses allow towards the all-healing and all-fulfilling infinity of that dual divine presence - Sri Aurobindo and the Mother — such is Amal Kiran..." "I am doing my best to live long both because I am happy and can give happiness and because I want as much time as possible to go nearer ...
... the Purano-Tantric stage; there was the development of the concept of avatars, of the .occasional manifestations of the Divine in humanity; there was also the development of the idea of the Divine Presence, discoverable in the heart of every creature. New systems of yoga also developed, but the basis was the same, namely, secret of the power of concentration, of the method of concentration, and of ...
... Aurobindo appeared august and vast, with an amiable smile playing on his lips; while the Mother sitting on his right in a beautiful sari, with her irresistible smile beckoned everyone to their Divine Presence. A marvellous vision! I shall turn now to Sri Aurobindo's correspondence with his disciples: it is a very big subject and I can but touch on it. Between 1930 and 1938 a considerable part of ...
... other words: to create unity by establishing the kingdom of God which is in all. ‘Hence, the most useful work to be done is: 1) For everyone individually the becoming aware in oneself of the divine Presence and one's identification with it. 2) The individualisation of states of being which have so far never been conscious in man and, consequently, the putting the earth into touch with one of several ...
... the passengers took its place and "there was the common light of earthly day." It was only after I had returned and settled in the Ashram that I realised how foolish I had been to drive away the divine Presence that had come to me as an act of Grace. Page 5 ...
... you can feel the Presence, or the flame of aspiration, then you can throw all these movements into the Flame and the Flame burns brighter. Only, if you can feel the flame of aspiration or the Divine Presence, then it blocks all the passages and you find yourself before an immense silence. Or else, another method is to detach yourself from the thoughts coming from outside, and to try to reject ...
... your self as yourself does not exist, you are indeed nothing. This sense of nothingness must pervade your being, fill all the elements of your being before the truth can dawn upon you and the Divine Presence can be felt. And what you have been doing all along is the very contrary thing, asserting your egoism, your vanity— pretending that you were somebody, you could do something, Page 167 ...
... manifest itself and play out its appointed role. Its configuration or disposition will be wholly determined by the Divine Purpose working in and through it; its fullness will be the fullness of the Divine Presence and intention. The mind will be wholly illumined, the vital with it will become the pure energy of Consciousness and the physical body will be made out of the substance of the divine being: our ...
... truer tradition cried out against Shankara being a crypto-Buddhist (pracchanna bauddha), who was yet one of the most consistent and violent critics of Buddhism. Life is an expression of the Divine Presence, earth is the field of labour for the gods-such was the original old-world Vedic view. It was the Buddhist dispensation that made life an inferior truth, a complex of unreality and decreed that ...
... a helping force and that is collaboration enough and is always at our disposal. Now at present it all depends how much the earth consciousness has received, imbibed or assimilated of the Divine Presence. That will be the measure of the fulfilment human being can achieve. As much as we earth-creatures feel and express of the higher reality, that much we shall. become truly and divinely. If we ...
... thousand ways, Yoga shows how to direct them to a single aim, organise them round a single centre. Organise your life, that is the aim, the very central aim. That centre is the Divine in you, the Divine Presence, the Presence of the Mother, your true self, your soul. As I have said, there are very many forces and movements in you and without you that drag you in conflicting directions, you have to marshal ...
... the Divine Will in Nature. Other seekings also there are and these too find their means of self- fulfilment; a withdrawal into the supreme peace or ecstasy, a withdrawal into the bliss of the Divine Presence are open to the soul in earth-existence: for the Infinite in its manifestation has many possibilities and is not confined by its formulations. But neither of these withdrawals can be the fundamental ...
... metric mastery and sense of music of which they were capable. Even today, when we listen to the Vedic chants, we feel ourselves surcharged merely by the act of hearing with sublimity and purity of divine presence that begins to pervade not only our outer senses but also our inner mind and heart and deeper depths of our souls. And if we examine as to how this miracle has been created, we find that the Vedic ...
... to an extraordinary extent; there was a development of the concept of the Avatars, of the occasional manifestations of the divine in humanity; there was also the development of the idea of the Divine Presence, discoverable in the heart of every creature. New systems of yoga also developed, but the basis was the same, namely, secret of the power of concentration, of the method of concentration, and of ...
... diffracted in many forms and modes, the basic consciousness is still the divine consciousness which is there behind and at the origin of all the partial formulations. It is through this core of Divine Presence—which is nothing else than the psychic—that the individual maintains and develops its contact with the Divine, grows into the fullness of the divine consciousness even as an individual and earthly ...
... outer circumstances or by life's events, we shall be, so to say, lifted above; we shall even live in a state of communion with the Divine, for the soul is a spark of the Divine, it is truly the Divine Presence itself. And then we shall also understand why things are as they are and not otherwise. To live within means to live in a state of constant aspiration for the Divine, and if we do so, we ...
... this event, I seem to realise how far away was the action of my own will from that of the divine Will. If I had been acting according to my own inclination, I could never have come near the divine Presence. We are for the most part subject to petty desires and feelings. My life's course, was settled without my knowing it, as soon as the Master's glance embraced me. When I reached the crucial stage ...
... this becomes dynamic then the yoga starts and is natural. The Higher Truth which one wants to attain is not absent, it is always present and can act if allowed. One is always surrounded by the Divine Presence. Q : Can one say aspiration is like a seed yearning to fulfill itself. A : Yes. One has to understand that "aspiration" and 'desire' are not the same. If a seed could speak it would ...
... Ignorance in man. There is a hidden passage in the heart leading to the holy Presence. That Divine spark is all the time there waiting Page 279 to be sought, to be unveiled. This divine Presence in the heart of man is declared by all the religions and is confirmed by the experience of mystics all over the world. One has to find out the passage which leads to it in the "Cave of the heart" ...
... of immense complex worlds through which the Master's vision shows us the voyaging soul of man traversing and ascending till it reaches at last its own Reality in the Divine and brings down the Divine Presence here on earth to transform the life of man. In Mahābhārata with its different purpose, the outer story engulfs our attention. We get lost in the human and emerge after long intervals for a short ...
... which, though opposite in appearance, must combine,—must act upon each other and complete each other : (1) Individual transformation, an inner development leading to the union with the Divine Presence. (2) Social transformation, the establishment of an environment favourable to the flowering and growth of the individual.” This terrestrial transformation of which the Mother speaks ...
... orbit of the union and its creative bliss down to her most outer physical being, so that from her soul to her body and its activities, all may be an uninterrupted expression of the Divine Page 373 Presence and an integrated means of the fulfilment of His Will. This colossal work of revealing the divine glory and dispensing the divine Grace in a life of ceaseless activity, she has undertaken ...
... mystic Presence that was the "Creator of this game of ray and shade" who "...by the swift vibration of a nerve Links its mechanic throbs to light and love." This divine Presence behind the working of the lower vital force drives the course of evolution towards, first, the finite loves and lusts and, then, "The will to conquer and have, to seize and keep, ...
... affectionately called by the Mother, "My Lion," "My true child," "My most faithful child," "A part of myself." Ever since his childhood, Champaklal had sincerely aspired to live constantly in the Divine presence of someone like Sri Ramakrishna. In his own words, his aspiration was "truly fulfilled in a number of ways." Sincere aspiration, even when not expressed in words, can evoke the Divine Grace. C ...
... has a power like Mantra. Everything in the world is power. There are others who do Pranayama along with the name. After a time the repetition behind the Pranayama becomes automatic and one feels Divine presence etc. Here people once began to feel tremendous force in their work. They would work without fatigue for hours and hours, but they began to overdo it. One has to be reasonable even in spirituality ...
... than that intended by Stoudt. In one of his letters, Sri Aurobindo has briefly explained the total aim of his yoga: The object of the Yoga is to enter into and be possessed by the Divine Presence and Consciousness, to love the Divine for the Divine's sake alone, to be tuned in our nature into the nature of the Divine, and in our will and works and life to be the instrument ...
... that we came to know from the Mother something about the Supramental Light. On 29th February 1960 during the special blessing, the Mother revealed what had happened in 1956: This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there present amongst you. I had a form of living gold, bigger than the universe, and I was facing a huge and massive golden door which separated the world from the ...
... to set it all aright, or even to make serious efforts towards that goal, in her hours of sleep and dreaming, and more especially in her moments of deep meditation, she is able to invoke the Divine Presence - or the presence of a Page 165 Divine plenipotentiary like the Buddha - that alternately admonishes, inspires and reassures her. Mirra is firmly told that she cannot escape her ...
... for Divine intervention, but also sees herself as an angel of mercy: O my sweet Master, enter into all these confused thoughts, all these anguished hearts; kindle there the fire of Thy divine Presence. The shadow of the earth has fallen back upon it, it has been completely shaken by it ... wilt Thou not once again move upon the chaos and speak Thy will: "Let there be Light"? ... I am the ...
... or floods with a splendour beyond them .... Tranquil is she and wonderful, great and calm for ever .... " This was the first time I realised that when the Mother wants she can put forth the Divine Presence and Power completely into the physical being and manifest it. .. here before me was indeed a superhuman being without any veils. 2 It is necessary we should remember the fact of this Presence ...
... spiritual life, it is not what you do that matters most, but the way in which it is done and the consciousness you put into it. Remember always the Divine and all you do will be an expression of the Divine Presence. 4 II Sri Aurobindo's "Message" was only the starting-point, for the subsequent issues of the Bulletin carried a series of remarkable essays by him on '"Perfection of the Body", ...
... in its life. She spent the evenings with the children, took classes herself, narrated stories and Page 433 blessed the divers functions, games, sports and entertainments with her divine presence. In Narayan Prasad's words: It looked as if she had lost herself in the younger section of the Ashram.... Her evening classes of little children, ending with distribution of sweets, were beautiful ...
... wiliest, as Thou wiliest!" as her sole weapon. It was her experience that she recorded in her birthday message on 21 February 1973: The more we advance on the way, the more the need of the Divine Presence becomes imperative and indispensable. 6 Writing on 23 January, M.P. Pandit had referred to what a couple of friends, just arrived from the United States, told him about the Mother. They had ...
... very act of expression narrows the reality to some extent. 8 And this is the record itself, first made on 29 February 1956, but made public only on 29 February 1960: This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there present amongst you. I had a form of living gold, bigger than the universe, and I was facing a huge and massive golden door which separated the world from the ...
... manifesting "the inner Divinity which is One" in individual and collectivity alike. More specifically, the task before us is fourfold: firstly, for each individual to realise in himself the one Divine Presence; secondly, individualising "the states of being that were never till now conscious in man and, by that, to put the earth in connection with one or more of the fountains of universal force that ...
... the sign of the forgetting—or rather its consequence which becomes more and more clear and precise as one progresses, until the time comes when one never forgets any more and the feeling of the Divine Presence is constant. "A last high world was seen where all worlds meet; In its sunmmit gleam where Night is not nor Sleep, The light began of the Trinity supreme. " 1 Is the "Trinity supreme" ...
... peccable to be lifted up at once to the divine stature. It has to be prepared,—its complex strands and elements to be purified, refined, impersonalised, integrated and organised round the central divine Presence. It is this long work of preparation that is done through the series of births of the individual soul. If a fulfilment was sought elsewhere than on this earth, this series of births would not impose ...
... into the nature of the Divine Being. It is to be one with the Divine in His divine Nature, sārūpya or sādharmya. Oneness in consciousness with the Divine, sāyujya, or closeness to the divine Presence, sāmīpya, has always been the usual object of spiritual seeking; but oneness in nature, the assumption of the dynamic divine nature, Parā-prakrti, is an achievement rarely aspired for, and ...
... opposite in appearance, must combine,—must act upon each other and complete each other: Page 29 (1)Individual transformation, an inner development leading to the union with the Divine Presence. (2)Social transformation, the establishment of an environment favourable to the flowering and growth of the individual." This terrestrial transformation of which the Mother speaks ...
... live in that community. But for the community to be happy, this discipline should be set by the most broad-minded person or persons, if possible the person or persons who are conscious of the Divine Presence and are surrendered to it. For the world to be happy, power should only be in the hands of those who are conscious of the Divine Will. But for the time being this is impossible because the number ...
... statement was first publicly distributed as the message for 29 February 1960, the first “anniversary” of the Supramental Manifestation upon earth. 29 February 1956 This evening the Divine Presence, concrete and material, was there present amongst you. I had a form of living gold, bigger than the universe, and I was facing a huge and massive golden door which separated the world from the ...
... that we had each day after our work on the book. On that day we had a long meditation together at the end of which She wrote: “In the very depths of your being, deep within your breast, the Divine Presence is permanently there, luminous and peaceful, full of love and wisdom. It is there so that you may unite with it and it may transform you into a luminous and radiant consciousness. “Together ...
... organisation and harmonisation ofall the parts of the being (mental, vital and physical) around this centre, so that all the activities of the being may be the correct expression of the will of the Divine Presence. * Jealousy comes from a narrowness of the mind and a weakness of the heart. It is a great pity that so many are attacked by it. * Vital relations are always dangerous. ...
... are. 3 July 1970 * * * Sweet Mother, In the flower-names capital letters are presently used for: The Divine Nature (universal) The Presence (when it refers to the Divine Presence). We would like to ask whether capital letters could also be used to show the importance or greatness of a significance. For example : Certitude of Victory Supramental Invocation ...
... the consciousness. Love and blessings. 1 May 1972 * * * Just received your sweet letter of April 30 th . Yes, I am always with you and I hope you will feel it concretely. Let the Divine Presence give you peace and joy. Blessings. 3 May 1972 * * * I hear that you have done and are doing many new interesting things; that is just what I was expecting and I am glad. Give my ...
... Doubts and the Life Divine A LETTER OF 1947 I myself have gone through many of your doubts and waverings. I have none of them any more. I may not be able to dispel all your difficulties, but some remarks may be of help to you. You seem to be struggling against three kinds of obstructions. The first is a fundamental uncertainty about the Divine's presence. This uncertainty... demand a certain deep instinct to start you off and sustain you. When this instinct is strong and takes a central place in your being, the mind's doubt about the Divine's presence becomes ineffective and you are aware of that presence even in the most dark and distressing situations. To make the most of this instinct you have to turn towards somebody who has followed it in himself firmly and... has the largest hope - the hope of transforming what others accept either only for the time being or as only part brightenable by the Divine's presence. He does not merely realise the Consciousness in which everything is for ever and unchangeably divine - God is in all and all are in God. He adds to it another vision and experience - God not only in all but coming out in all, all ...
... harassings. I undergo all possible pinchings, tortures and troubles, but our goal is something else—it is the Divine Life. You are quite right in not allowing the moods and fancies of the people to affect you. You must soar above all that in the constant feeling of the Divine's Presence, Love and Protection. With you always Undated ...
... brought a new trial to me, in my innermost being I was aware that I could not leave the Ashram, or stay in the ordinary world. Yet my mind was too sceptical to be convinced of the Divine's Presence, because it could not see the Divine face to face, or touch Him—it demanded concrete proof. I was unable to resist the combative, unyielding forces which caught me off guard time and time again. I could not ...
... and of the joy of the Divine's Presence in all your being. With love The Mother has disclosed in Vol. 12, [p. 447] about the old Mantra: I am going to tell you my old mantra; it keeps the outer being very quiet: OM NAMO BHAGAVATE . These three words—for me they meant: OM—I implore the Supreme Lord. NAMO—Obeisance to Him. BHAGAVATE—Make me divine. For me that has the... prayer. The Mother, Words of the Mother - II: Self-giving White flower: Integral Prayer—the whole being is concentrated in a single prayer to the Divine. The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: Prayer and Calling the Divine Yellow flower: Mental Prayer—spontaneous in a mind aspiring for transformation. The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: Transformation and the Parts ...
... is a first step; you have to get connected with it and it must descend into you and fill your mind and life and body and surround you so that you live in it—for this peace is one sign of the Divine's presence with you, and once you have it all the rest will begin to come. Truth in speech and truth in thought are very important. The more you can feel falsehood as being not part of yourself, as coming... coming on you from outside, the easier it will be to reject and refuse it. Persevere and what is still crooked will be made straight and you will know and feel concretely the truth of the Divine's presence and your faith will be justified by direct experience. So long as the mind is restless, it is not possible to get at the inner Truth. Calm, peace, quietude—that is the first necessary condition... is entirely the right thing and nothing more is needed. The peace you feel is the basis, the foundation for Page 123 the transformation, all the rest will be built on it. To open to the Divine Forces with a quiet and strong aspiration, to become conscious of their working, to allow quietly that working and calmly to contain it, seconding it with one's aspiration, getting more and more knowledge ...
... . Whenever you repeat the Name of the Divine you must always feel that the Divine is in your heart—there you can feel sweetness and peace. No doubt sometimes you do not feel the Divine's Presence and Peace; it is because your consciousness is entangled in the mind, and full of illusions. But you must understand that the hostile forces are false and the Divine Forces are true. You must always develop... impossible for you to attain your goal. When you feel my Presence, Peace and Joy, you must always believe in these things because they are true. As you gradually feel the Divine's Presence, you will get new strength, new consciousness, everything. Once and for all the adverse forces are bound to submit to the Divine Forces, and the Divine's Victory is certain. Then she kissed my forehead and... develop your consciousness towards the Divine Light. At the same time you should eat well—not for your own sake, but for the sake of the Lord and His work. You should keep your body fit. Relax before you go to sleep and call me and then sleep in that atmosphere. Then my Force will work and will organise the whole being. You must never think that the thing is difficult or impossible for you to ...
... recognise anything that expresses the Divine that they are ever on the alert to find fault, discover apparent defects and so reduce what is high to their own level. They are simply furious at being surpassed and when they do succeed in finding superficial "shortcomings" they are greatly pleased. But they forget that if they confront even the Divine, when its presence is on the earth, with their crude physical... descending truth and he shaped by it. I remember occasions when I used to be moved to tears on seeing even children, even babies do something that was most divinely beautiful and simple. Feel that joy and you will be able to profit by the Divine's presence in your midst. Page 72 ... they are themselves incapable of seeing or unwilling to see. They are sure to misjudge the Divine if they consider the surface-aspect of its actions, for they will never understand that what seems similar to human activity is yet altogether dissimilar and proceeds from a source which is non-human. The Divine, manifesting itself for the work on earth, appears to act as men do but really does not ...
... recognise anything that expresses the Divine that they are ever on the alert to find fault, discover apparent defects and so reduce what is high to their own level. They are simply furious at being surpassed and when they do succeed in finding superficial "shortcomings" they are greatly pleased. But they forget that if they confront even the Divine, when its presence is on the earth, with their crude physical... descending truth and be shaped by it. I remember occasions when I used to be moved to tears on seeing even children, even babies do something that was most divinely beautiful and simple. Feel that joy and you will be able to profit by the Divine's presence in your midst. Page 159 ... they are themselves incapable of seeing or unwilling to see. They are sure to misjudge the Divine if they consider the surface-aspect of its actions, for they will never understand that what seems similar to human activity is yet altogether dissimilar and proceeds from a source which is non-human. The Divine, manifesting itself for the work on earth, appears to act as men do but really does not. It ...
... the meaning and told me that she was going to get it blocked and printed and would use it as a New Year card. And she did. The meaning was: The physical world becoming aware of the Divine's Presence. When the Mother used to see the coloured proofs, she was not always satisfied with them. She wrote: The painting is better brighter but if this is all they can do... it will do! Otherwise... Mother's labour was not wasted after all... Then I went into Sri Aurobindo's room and placed the book Meditations on Savitri beside his couch. There also, I could not resist my tears. I felt his presence and my joy knew no bounds. I did a few paintings for the sake of studies. The Mother liked them all and gave a meaning to each of them. Here, I remember about the painting of an eye: I just ...
... feeling of the Divine's Presence, Love and Protection. Don't let anything from outside approach and disturb you. What people think, do or say is of little importance. The only thing that counts is your relation with the Divine. 30 April 1933 It is always regrettable when one is open to the influence of another person. One shouldn't admit any influence except that of the Divine. 22 March... exclusively turned towards the Divine, not under the divine influence alone. And then, instead of bringing with oneself the divine atmosphere made of love, tolerance, understanding, patience, it is one's ego that throws itself out, in response to another's ego, with stiffness and hurt feelings, and the disharmony is aggravated. The ego never understands that the Divine has different workings in different... and curse you. But the Divine will be with you. 17 September 1953 To be plastic towards the Divine means not to oppose Him with the rigidity of preconceived ideas and fixed principles. And this requires a great strength, for the more you are plastic to the divine will, the more you come in conflict with the human wills that are not in contact with the divine will. Give your will entirely ...
... once." So, you see, to seek the Divine we do not have to go far. He dwells within ourselves. He is as near and natural as our own heart. His flute is always playing there. And hearing it there I found that Yoga was not at all an unusual thing to do. However young you may be, you can always get in touch with the Divine's luminous presence. And indeed the story of Brindavan where Sri Krishna... of your life. It is not by cutting yourself off from people or by shutting out activity and locking yourself up in an impenetrable Samadhi that you meet the Divine. Yoga means being in touch with the Divine's presence every minute. It is an all-time job, as Sri Aurobindo has often said. And, if you live out the Mother's formula of remembering and offering, you will feel... girls and thus to talk of seeking the Divine is quite apt on this occasion. How to get more and more in touch with the Supreme Indweller is the whole business of Sadhana. If you ask me what is the simplest way, I shall quote to you three words of the Mother — "Remember and offer." Wherever you are, whatever you do, you can always think of the Divine, and you can always make an offering ...
... the key to the whole-whole-whole problem. Basically, we could say that it's the difference between the same life, the same existence, the same organization—the same life on earth—with the Divine's Presence now perceptible, now unmanifest. And that's how it is from the point of view of the entire earth. Soon afterwards What do you WANT? ( silence ) I know very well what I want... very interesting experiences.... With the same person, whom I see every day, let's say, or very often, the impression of the contact (an impression that remains more or less) that depends on the presence of the psychic. With the same person, you understand, the same relationship, at certain times it becomes full and you have the sense of something ... yes, full—not exactly "living," but ... (I can't... difference. I've never had such a strong impression of That, and ... so strongly THERE. Ah! Then that's it. I do it at night for you, only it's more subtle than when there is the physical presence. ( silence ) It's being done. It's being done in the sense that it's becoming more and more constant. It is the action of a perfectly conscious aspiration, increasingly constant, and the ...
... news that you will be Pondying for three days. Yes, the time is rather short, but as the awful punster in me is tempted to say, going about in shorts near the Divine's Samadhi is better than indulging in long pants for the Divine's presence far away. Punning as execrably in prosodic terms, I may affirm that to execute a pyrrhic (two shorts) or a tribrach (three shorts) here is preferable to performing... 1986) Here are my answers to your questions. (1) The experience of a Presence silently radiating love from the heart is surely of what Sri Aurobindo calls the "psychic being", the true soul. But the psychic being itself is something of the Divine come down from the Transcendent and flowing out to everything of the Divine beyond ourselves from the same everything within us. In order to be authentically... physical absence of Page 123 loved ones, the latter the feeling of freedom from bondage even to these and at the same time the glad recognition of their ever-presence of soul along with oneself in the depths of the Divine. Loneliness carries a bitter-sweet of memory, aloneness an entry - small or large - into an inner realm where one loses all loss not because one is oblivious but because ...
... as the psychic being in us is a representative of our highest Spirit-Self, its pushing into your sight sparkles of a blue beauty is quite natural. This dream-vision is a reminder to you of the Divine's presence pervading your life and penetrating with its love and bliss all your hours. The other dream-vision — a bright flame burning vividly on your horizontally lifted right forearm and giving you... never let go your hold on me -even if I am foolish enough at times to lose my hold on you!" Not our own serious-minded strength so much as our all-confiding light-hearted weakness before her enfolding presence is the true way to our goal of integral transformation. My good wishes are always with you, along with the prayer that the Mother may look after you and make you an ever sweeter child of hers... to your dream. Your spontaneous gesture of putting your head on the Mother's feet without the slightest delay is exactly like you - the child-soul's straight answer to its spiritual birth-giver's presence. What the Mother did and said are quite significant. She sweetly encouraged you and fully supported your idea of celebrating her birth-date. Your hearing her words in Gujarati is no illusion. She ...
... being has put forth beauty, but that being has not risen to the top-grade of temperature possible to the particular mood it has taken up. The same mood, essentially, of happy faith in the Divine's presence and in his work in the world can be made to yield a far-thrilling intensity: the expressive outcome will then be perfection of great poetry instead of a perfection of small poetry. Compare... Shakespeare, mental aesthesis that makes the poetry which is Miltonic and Overmind aesthesis that makes the Aurobindonian poetry. Knock Overmind aesthesis out of Savitri and we shall have The Life Divine or The Synthesis of Yoga in the guise of a Legend and a Symbol. Truth will still remain, but not poetry proper. As soon as aesthesis functions on the Overmind level, we have the poetry of ...
... succeed in establishing a contact with the Divine and a receptivity to the Mother's Power and Presence. A Fire in the heart is usually the psychic fire and that should rather grow and be fed by the tendency or aspiration to the personal sadhana. The main principle of the personal sadhana is the surrender, the aspiration to the Divine touch, presence, control in the heart—the opening of the psychic... above you and, if you can once become conscious of it, you have then to call it down into you. It descends into the mind and into the body as Peace, as a Light, as a Force that works, as the Presence of the Divine with or without form, as Ananda. Before one has this consciousness, one has to have faith and aspire for the opening. Aspiration, call, prayer are forms of one and the same thing and are all... allow the force of the Divine to flow in bringing light, peace, Ananda etc. and to do the work of transformation. When the being so receives the Divine Shakti and it works in him, produces its results (whether he is entirely conscious of the process or not), then he is said to be open. Opening to the Divine In this Yoga the whole principle is to open oneself to the Divine Influence. It is there ...
... is to make our souls progress. If this progress is at times best brought about by what we may call unfavourable circumstances, the Divine's presence can very well be in them. All these are subtleties the believer has to bear in mind. But, of course, they have their truth provided our faith and trust in God and our adherence to Him with our inmost being are genuinely there. In any case, remembrance... final flourish: "Yours divinely, T. Prasad." What made you choose this mode of closing the letter? There must be something in your mind which led you to such an extraordinary gesture. From the purely literary viewpoint, "divinely" can prove to be the mot juste by getting followed by your surname "Prasad", a term which in India signifies something touched by or blessed by the Divine and taken as a gift... Thakur' means the Divine, and this word gives the initial in my name: 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 ...
... idea, emotion and image at one stretch but also helped him convey to us the sense of a long sustained continued movement through time and space, a life's journey of repeated risks with yet the Divine's presence subtly assured as going with it. And both the companionship and the risks are hinted at as being constant by the r-note running from start to finish - 5 times audible ~ across the line. (6... ink on what seems to represent a sacred Ineffable which is void of all world-stain and which inwardly inhibits the attempt to penetrate it - does such a sense waft to us with the breath of a sacred presence haunting the blank sheet of paper? The boldness of your rendering, though more in keeping with contemporary idiom, misses the delicacy always going with Mallarme's audacity. Carried over into... revelation of what a phrase in Sri Aurobindo's Savitri calls the Divine Magician's freedom pacing in the same step with law and thus leaving for us also a breathing-space, as it were, of liberty - this clue is our intuition of "freewill". Without knowing the reason - namely, that the world emerges fresh and new all the while from the Divine's depth — we have continually the awareness that we are somehow ...
... of all human beings to bring up into activity a divine element which laughs at the difficult. and even the seeming impossible. This nuance I hint at in my expression: "psychological-spiritual." In the passage itself where the line occurs, the reference is to the advent of the Dawn, a preparation for the account of the approach of this superhuman Presence which would break the bonds of darkness - Dawn... this blend of the upper and lower cases in the same extended context I conclude that Sri Aurobindo does not draw any sharp line of significance between them but distinguishes fine shades of the Divine's presence or power according to his sense of the appropriate in each place. In one sense the small g should buck us up. In facing obstacles we have now a twofold source of sustenance. There is... unforgettable prolonged revelling in the memory of the English countryside in an essay by him on translating Kalidasa. Throughout his life English literature - English poetry in particular - was a living presence, and a speech in Baroda evinces an appreciative recollection of the temper of "liberal education" at the great English universities. But, according to his own declaration, he had more affinity with ...
... sadhak—(1) To wait on the Grace and rely on the Divine. (2) To do everything himself like the full Adwaitin and the Buddhist. (3) To take the middle path, go forward by aspiration and rejection etc. helped by the Force. Everything should be for the sake of the Divine, this [ aspiration for the Divine's Presence ] also. As for leaving the result to the Divine, it depends on what you mean by the phrase... realised term and as its final uncertain poise some possibility of the Divine. Our senses can discover no visible presence of the Divine, our intellect can do without any idea of its intervention—but it is another experience than that of the intellect and the senses which once it is there will no longer let us escape from the Presence or refuse to see the intervening Will or Grace. This world is a world... called a response of your own nature to the Divine. There is a Peace or a Light which is the response of the Divine, but that is a wide Peace, a great Light which is felt as a presence other than one's personal self, not part of one's personal nature, but something that comes from above, though in the end it possesses the nature—or there is the Presence itself which carries with it indeed the absolute ...
... teaching of Shankaracharya : "Steep your sight in knowledge and contemplate the world as full of Brahman." The desire to see the Divine is, as the Mother says, "a mental agitation which obscures Thy eternal Presence." In this agitation a veil falls between us and the Divine, and instead of seeing Him, we see only a surging mist or a confused blur of our mind's imaginings. But, if from the beginning... and the heart have been lulled into a reposeful, trustful peace. "We must not desire to see Thee, for that is still a mental agitation which obscures Thy eternal Presence.” An astounding this—not to desire to see the Divine ! But is not ¹ Prayers and Meditations of the Mother—December 5, 1912. Page 21 desire a movement of ignorance, however laudable and salutary it... first step; you have to get connected with it and it must descend into you and fill your mind, life and body and surround you, so that you live in it—for this peace is the one sign of the Divine's presence with you.” It is interesting to note the same idea here as in the Mother's Prayer quoted above, and expressed in almost identical terms. This was also the ideal of the ancient spiritual ...
... using the human, the human uses the spiritual power in the human's ordinary terms. Not emotional-vital pity but a radiant psychic peace, communicating the presence of the Divine, has to be in play. Don't endeavour to heal: be quiet and invoke the Divine who is in your soul to transfuse light into the patient. If you can't do this, stop your healing activity until the orientation of which I am speaking... Mother's presence, try to be in tune with her Will in whatever you do: then a zone of light and peace will form. Nothing will be able to penetrate your atmosphere and only what you wish to give out of your depths will go through it to people - with no unhealthy after-effects on yourself. As you are sensitive even to letters, appeal to the Divine before opening them, offer them to the Divine and keep... sustained gloom when the Divine Herself came to earth and allowed us to be Her children? Her presence is ever with us and there is no Page 140 cause for despair. Of course, at times we don't feel quite on top of the world, but we should take care not to persist in the bottom-of-the-world feeling.) For, I have always said: "There is no hole so deep that out of it the Divine grace cannot lift ...
... with the Will of the Divine. But we are just novices on the Path of sadhana. We are not aware of the Presence of the Divine near us nor do we have even the faintest idea about what the Divine's Will may be at this moment. Yet this is our resolve and aspiration that we must do only that action which is not only sanctioned but entirely governed by the Will of the Divine. Thus we face a dilemma... or to offer its will and acts to the Divine Being as an instrument.... In the end by this way one arrives at a consciousness in which one feels the Force or Presence acting within and moving or governing all the actions and the personal will is entirely surrendered or identified with that greater Truth-Will, Truth-Power or Truth-Presence," (The Life Divine, p. 903) While distinguishing... principle which he perceives on the highest height of which his mind is capable; or it may be a truth of the divine Will which he feels present and working within him or guiding him by a Light or a Voice or a Force or a divine Page 150 person or Presence." (The Life Divine, p. 903) "... something of the supreme Will can manifest in us as an imperative impulsion, a God-driven ...
... companions of his musing spirit. 8 I see the need of continuous sadhana day and night. The Mother Yes, there comes a time when nothing, absolutely nothing is outside the Yoga and the Divine's Presence is felt and found in all things and all circumstances. A last high world was seen where all worlds meet; In its summit gleam where Night is not nor Sleep, The light began of the... ... the Ray no mortal eye can bear, 68 ... a saviour touch, a ray divine, 69 ... a ray of the original Bliss, 70 from which some passion of the inviolate purity breaks through; ... the supernal Ray 71 with which we have to acquaint our depths; The ray revealing unseen Presences; 72 a ray that ... replied from the occult Supreme; 73 ... doesn't the soul chosen by the Divine go through hell in a different way than others? The Mother: This quotation means that in order to reach the divine regions one must, while on earth, go through the vital, which in some of its parts is a veritable hell. But those who have surrendered to the Divine and have been adopted by Him are surrounded by the Divine protection and for them the passage ...
... widen the whole being, from the highest consciousness to the most material consciousness. And then, at the same time, to look at this body and to see every cell, every atom vibrating with a divine, radiant Presence with all its Consciousness, all its Power, all its Will, all its Love—all, all, really—and a joy! An extraordinary joy. And one did not disturb the other, nothing was contradictory and everything... see it would almost require some gigantic instrument), a tiny, obscure point in an im-men-sity of Light, and that little point was the body. At the same time—it was absolutely simultaneous—I saw the Presence of the Supreme as a very, very, very, VERY immense Being, within which was 'I' in an attitude of ... ('I' was only a sensation, you see), an attitude ... ( gesture of surrender ) like this. There... to mental humanity, predominantly mental, which developed the mind but misused it and immediately set out on the wrong path—first thing. There is nothing to say since the first thing done by the divine Page 178 forces which emanated for the Creation was to take the wrong path! 6 That is the origin, the seed of this marvelous spirit of independence—the negation of surrender , in other ...
... of the whole being in all its parts, the offering of the thinking mind and the heart, the will and actions, the inner and the outer instruments so that one may arrive at the experience of the Divine, the Presence within, the psychic and spiritual change. The more one gives of oneself in all ways, the better for the sadhana. But all cannot do it to the same extent, with the same rapidity, in the same... that is, a turning of all the being in all its parts to the Divine. It follows that there must be knowledge and works as well as Bhakti and, in addition, it includes a total change of the nature, a seeking for perfection, so that the nature also may become one with the nature of the Divine. It is not only the heart that has to turn to the Divine and change, but the mind also—so knowledge is necessary,... progress. Work, meditation, bhakti, all must be done as sadhana. I have always said that work done as sadhana—done, that is to say, as an outflow of energy from the Divine offered to the Divine or work done for the sake of the Divine or work done in a spirit of devotion—is a powerful means of sadhana and that such work is especially necessary in this Yoga. Work, bhakti and meditation are three supports ...
... you'll imagine he was more in touch than she with what is termed the "psychic being" in our Yoga, the entity hidden deep within us which is constantly lit up because it is constantly in the Divine's secret Presence. You'll be wrong. Actually the wife was much more than he in the aura of the psychic being, for she had an intense love for the Mother, a rare self-giving devotion, so much so that the Mother... a "human face divine" on my own neck, too -provided, of course I sustain the Yogic aspiration over the centuries.... In actual fact, my life has been unexpectedly long as it is - unexpectedly because I was born rash and have taken all sorts of risks, at first with a deep-rooted confidence in an inexplicable vitality behind my own and later with an inner sense that the Divine, would see me through... Thank you very much for holding me so deep in your heart and so high in your mind. To be given such value might lead the common man in me to a swollen head, but as I have sought to serve the Divine it spurs me to look for all the defects that prevent me from deserving the compliment you are-paying me. Your profoundly appreciative attitude sets me on the alert to shoot whatever "Clear Ray" ("Amal ...
... Aurobindo's Il on runs; Ida climbed with her god-haunted peaks into diamond lustres... A sacred mountain of ancient Greece, Ida as seen by the poet, an ever-uplifting vigil, full of secret divine presences, now emerging in the dawn-light which has the purity and transparent depth of an ethereal diamond — here is an apt symbol for Sri Aurobindo's Ashram on November 24, 1986, the sixtieth year of... s. And there is the character of the world-play, a colossal wager of the Divine with himself. Evolution starts from the very opposite of the Divine — a total involution of all of the Divine's powers and a full chance is given to anti-divine forces to challenge each move forward. Always the Grace intervenes of the free Divine beyond, yet a heavy price is paid again and again, and for all the certainty... mind that has the conception of success and failure. It is the human mind that wants one thing and not another. In the divine plan each thing has its place. What matters is to be a docile and if possible a conscious instrument of the Divine Will. To be and to do what the Divine wants, this is the truly important thing." We cannot close on a wiser note in the 13th year since the Mother joined ...
... to come in as she had something to say. When the Mother reappeared, I brought her my flowers. I had hurriedly collected them from our own garden. They were Quiet Mind placed within the Divine's Presence. At the moment of offering them, Quiet Mind tumbled off and fell to the ground. The Mother laughed: "Your quiet mind has fallen down. Well, I'll replace it with this"—and Page 85... consciousness, gets somewhat limited: the very act of expression narrows the reality to some extent. Well, here is what I wrote." Then the Mother read out the French. It began with the words: "La Presence Divine est la parmi nous." She was as if addressing all of us. The next sentence, as far as I remember, was: "J'avais une forme d'or plus immense que tout l'univers." Then she went on to say that she... in a queue and receive blessings from the Mother, who stands almost at the head of the staircase. Page 83 The day passed happily after this—aspiration and peace, and the Mother's presence pervaded the hours. The same evening I caught the Mother on the Playground at seven, and said to her: "May I ask one question? Could I come and sit in your 'Prayers'-class?" She answered: "You ...
... This is from the point of view of our nature ascending upwards by self-conquest, effort and discipline. There must also intervene more and more a descent of the divine Light, Presence and Power into the being to transform it; otherwise the change at the point of culmination and beyond it cannot take place. That is why there comes in as the last movement the necessity of... transformation, Rajas into the divine kinetic will or Tamas into the divine repose and calm, without the intervention of the sattwic power in Nature. The principle of inertia will always remain an inert inaction of power or an incapacity of knowledge until its ignorance disappears in illumination and its torpid incapacity is lost in the light and force of the omnipotent divine will of repose. Then only... rigid spiritual predestination and those rejected from the beginning by the Divine are blinded by him so that they may be thrust down to eternal perdition and the impurity of Hell. All souls are eternal portions of the Divine, the Asura as well as the Deva, all can come to salvation: even the greatest sinner can turn to the Divine. But the evolution of the soul in Nature Page 473 is an adventure ...
... smile kindled in our hearts a hymn of adoration to the supreme Deity - the Divine Mother. On the Prosperity day, the Mother used to distribute our monthly material necessities to each of us. During the long distribution, some of us used to sit by her with her permission. To be so close to the Divine’s physical Presence and watch at the same time the significantly changing expressions on her face... so-called reading, I should have been sitting like the others in her Presence. If this is a too fanciful interpretation by a bhakta, I shall give a clearer example. At one stage, she was seeing some people, especially the departmental heads, in her boudoir, in the afternoon. Others would sit outside watching her and enjoying her Presence, and later expecting to catch her soul-stirring glance and sweet... the case of another friend, the answer was, "You are not to share your room with him." A more subtle way: During the Pranam downstairs in the ’fifties, quite a number of people would sit in her Presence throughout the function. I used to work in my office-room upstairs, go down for Pranam and come back at once. The work was just an excuse for my reluctance to sit "unnecessarily", for such a long ...
... thoughts go towards Thee, all my acts are consecrated to Thee; Thy Presence is for me an absolute, immutable, invariable fact, and Thy Peace dwells constantly in my heart. 10 Yet, although there is "union", the realisation of utter "identity" is still to come. Mirra's thoughts and acts flow towards the Divine; His Presence and Peace fill her whole being. This is union, but still it is only... from behind the veil the wordless symphony of gladness that reveals Thy sublime Presence. 17 Aspiration, faith, surrender, union: expectancy, ardour, the uplifting realisation of the Divine omnipresence, the deeper listening to the wordless symphony - these are the rhythmic beats in the dynamics of the divine play. V There is a prolonged break of nearly two months, from 11 December... the Divine ever deeper and more constant - such an integral action removes from us all egoism and mean pride, all covetousness and obscurity, and registers the serenity of a perfect surrender. Many years later, the Mother was to write to one of her disciples: There are two ways of uniting with the Divine. One is to concentrate in the heart and go deep enough to find there His Presence; the ...
... themselves the real origin of inspiration. It is also significant that even atheists like them break forth on occasion into chants about living forces more than human, one divine Spirit or many divine or at least supernatural presences. Thus Lucretius at his most inspired hails as all-fostering Venus, "delight of Gods and men," the procreative energy that is abroad in Nature; he invokes it as a Goddess... atmosphere of the Divine and the Superhuman around their highest moments, an instinct aligning itself with the inward impulsion that led Homer to appeal to his Thea and Milton to cry "Sing Heavenly Muse." A sense of the mysterious Divine is always leaping out in Page 73 this manner through great poetry. In general, it is the unformulated background whose presence is felt primarily... and higher towards the Mantra and frequently attaining it. Everywhere, Sri Aurobindo brings out living symbols from the mystical planes — a concrete contact with the Divine's presence. Even when realities that are not openly divine are viewed, the style is of a direct knowledge, direct feeling direct rhythm from an inner or upper poise: the mundane scene and the supra-mundane principalities and powers ...
... Consciousness and the Force and recognise it as mine. Most of your difficulties would then disappear and the way would lie open to the fullness of your sadhana and the realisation of the Divine, the presence of Krishna would be possible – I would even say that it would become an early certitude. At the same time a diminution of the hold of the physical mind and its too absolute trust in the ... for that the first necessity must always be to realise the Divine; only then can life be spiritualised or what I have called the Life Divine be made possible. The creation of something that could be called a divine body could be only an ulterior aim undertaken as part of this transformation; as obviously the development of such a divine body as was visioned in these speculations could only come... to be fit instrument and receptacle for the realisation and manifestation of the Divine. It has its part in the divine lila, even, according to the Vaishnava sadhana, in the joy and beauty of Divine Love. That does not mean that the body has to be valued for its own separate sake or that the creation of a divine body in a future evolution of the whole being has to be contemplated as an end and ...
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