... The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth Essays in Philosophy and Yoga The Divine Body A divine life in a divine body is the formula of the ideal that we envisage. But what will be the divine body? What will be the nature of this body, its structure, the principle of its activity, the perfection that distinguishes it from the limited and imperfect... there and could only be shut out by a constant vigilance or perpetual control obligatory on the corporeal instrument's spiritual inhabitant and master. This could not be called a truly divine body; for in a divine body an inherent freedom from all these things would be natural and perpetual; this freedom would be a normal and native truth of its being and therefore inevitable and unalterable. A radical... elementary forms to its most developed type, the Page 555 human; there is no reason why this process should not intervene in the transition from the human into the divine body. For the manifestation or building of a divine body on earth there must be an initial transformation, the appearance of a new, a greater and more developed type, not a continuance with little modifications of the present ...
... evolution of a divine body; so I wrote on that subject and went on to speak of the Supermind and Truth-Consciousness which had obviously not even the remotest connection with sport. The object was to bring in something higher and more interesting than a mere record of gymnasium events but which might appeal to some of the readers or even to wider circles. In speaking of the Divine Body I entered into... 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 into view as the result of a distant evolution and need not alarm or distract... Yoga could there come a supreme and total perfection of all the instruments of the Spirit and the ascent of the whole being to the highest level and a divine life on earth and the assumption of a divine body. I made it clear that by human and physical means such as sports only a limited and precarious human perfection could come. In all this there is nothing to justify the idea that sports could be ...
... are comprehended in their Eternal Forms in the divine body of the Saviour, the True Vine of Eternity, The Human Imagination..." 57 The concluding words, equating Christ and "The Human Imagination", emphasize how central to Blake's mythology of Supernature is Christ. Elsewhere we find the phrase: the Human Imagination, Which is the Divine Body of the Lord Jesus, blessed for ever. 58 ... the deeps of Entuthon Benython, A dark and unknown night, indefinite, unmeasurable, without end, Abstract Philosophy warring in enmity against Imagination (Which is the Divine Body of the Lord Jesus, blessed for ever), And there Jerusalem wanders... 364 Here we have the central theme of our lyric as read by us: it is stated at once symbolically and explicitly... the supernatural opponents. But may we not discern in the very name "Entuthon Benithon" with its suggestion of "thenceforth in the depths" the pointer to a fallen condition in conflict with "the Divine Body of the Lord Jesus" before the cosmos comes into being, a condition marking the stage after which that "dark and unknown night", Urizen's mind of "Abstract Philosophy", can be described as existing ...
... The Destiny of the Body Chapter VIII The Vision of the Divine Body The Light now distant shall grow native here, The Strength that visits us our comrade power; The Ineffable shall find a secret voice, The Imperishable burn through Matter's screen Making this mortal body godhead's robe. (Sri Aurobindo, Savitri... Integral Yoga of Self-Transformation as revealed to man by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother has for its aim, in contradistinction to the attempts mentioned in the foregoing chapter, the creation of a divine body, here in the conditions of earth and matter. It does not want to be contented with a cinmaya deha, or transcendental body, as in the case of the Vaishnavas, nor with the possession of a post-mortem... 8-9. 2 Ibid., p. 11. 3 The Life Divine, pp. 231-232. Page 370 of the Spirit manifesting in Nature.' For, it should be clearly borne in mind that the divine body thus envisaged can come into existence and its physical immortality be achieved and assured, not through the paltry efforts made by science, nor through the occult-spiritual influences that seek ...
... imperative....² In the concluding paragraph of this chapter, Sri Aurobindo states: The new type, the divine body, must continue the already developed evolutionary form; there must be a continuation from the type Nature has all along been developing, a continuity from the human to the divine body, no breaking away to something unrecognisable but a high sequel to what has already been achieved and in... 'gnostic' species. It would mean a step which would radically alter even the human body, its structure and the principle of its working. It would mean the appearance of what Sri Aurobindo has termed the Divine Body, an ever-youthful physical envelope of the unveiled Spirit. *** When Mother came back from Japan, she began to work with Sri Aurobindo. By that time, Sri Aurobindo had brought down the ... and realisations that Sri Aurobindo had regarding the supramental manifestation on the earth. Of particular significance was his vision of the transformed human body in the chapter entitled: 'The Divine Body'. He declared quite unambiguously: _______________________________ ¹The Mother, Questions and Answers, 8.3-51, 25.11.53. Page 94 If a total transformation of the being is our ...
... A Scheme for The Education of Bengal II. THE DIVINE BODY A DIVINE life in a divine body is the formula of the ideal that we envisage. But what will be the divine body? What will be the nature of this body, its structure, the principle of its activity, the perfection that distinguishes it from the limited and imperfect physicality within which we are... there and could only be shut out by a constant vigilance or perpetual control obligatory on the corporeal instrument's spiritual inhabitant and master. This could not be called a truly divine body; for in a divine body an inherent freedom from all these things would be natural and perpetual; this freedom would be a normal and native truth of its being and therefore inevitable and unalterable. A radical... in elementary forms to its most developed type, the human, there is no reason why this process should not intervene in the transition from the human into the divine body. For the manifestation or building of a Page 168 divine body on earth there must be an initial transformation, the appearance of a new, a greater and more developed type, not a continuance with little modifications of ...
... there and could only be shut out by a constant vigilance or perpetual control obligatory on the corporeal instrument's spiritual inhabitant and master. This could not be called a truly divine body; for in a divine body an inherent freedom from all these things would be natural and perpetual; this freedom would be a normal and native truth of its being and therefore inevitable and unalterable. A radical... by psychological functions; and the necessity of eating, eating always will disappear." (The Mother, Bulletin, Vol. XVI, No. 2, p. 57) For the manifestation or building of a divine body on earth there must be an initial transformation, the appearance of a new, a greater and more developed type, not a continuance with little modifications of the present physical form and its limited... of evolution, there is nothing impossible under the sun. But a lingering doubt may still incite the sceptic to declare that even if theoretically valid, the dream of the emergence of a divine body upon earth may perhaps be realised only at the end of thousands of years. So any discussion of the divine destiny of the body or of the possibility of its conquest of sleep or food-need may appear ...
... gets fixed by full descent in the physical consciousness as a permanent step in the evolutionary process that is what Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have envisaged as the Divine Body can be gradually constructed. It is that Divine Body which will have the power of the physical immortality, — the immortality that is terminable at will, — a temporal sign of the spirit's victory in the physical world over... minimised, and Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have aimed at working out the fabrication of the Divine Body, the proof of which will be found when that task is accomplished; that proof will be clinching even for the one who demands material evidence of the supramental manifestation. Since the fabrication of the Divine Body is a matter of further evolution, there is the need to continue the tasks of research; ...
... echoed often and loudly enough in chorus. And shall I tell you something more? You, yourself, Guru, by writing about the Divine Body in the second issue of the Bulletin have definitely lent weight to such facile fantasies. For many have been asseverating of late that this Divine Body can be manufactured only in the foundry of the collective drill and sports and athletics. I feel just dismayed what are... for the inaugural number of the "Bulletin". The two subsequent issues of the journal carried two other articles by Sri Aurobindo: these were respectively entitled "Perfection of the Body" and "The Divine Body". In course of time many senior Ashramites too joined these physical educational activities but a few others resisted the move. They not only refused to participate in any physical education... Yoga could there come a supreme and total perfection of all the instruments of the spirit and the ascent of the whole being to the highest level and a divine life on earth and the assumption of a divine body. I made it clear that by human and physical means such as sports only a limited and precarious human perfection could come. "In all this there is nothing to justify the idea that sports could ...
... also an achievement which stays for good: a divine immortality upon earth is enjoyed by the body that is supramentalised. If Jesus got a supramentalised body he would be still on earth. Whatever divine body he may be credited with, it cannot be called supramentalised in the Aurobindonian connotation of the word. And this connotation is logically the sole one compatible with what I have termed evolutionary... Christian faith. I cannot resist the conviction that Jesus did exactly what Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were attempting to do. He overcame the power of death and transformed the human body into a divine body, that is, a body filled with divine consciousness. In other words he initiated the 'supermental manifestation'. Where the Christian view of it differs from that of Sri Aurobindo, as I mentioned,... of remaining alive and yet finding his perishable nature put on imperishability shows that Christians need see no inevitable logic in dying in order to undergo the transition from a human to a divine body. Will this letter provoke you to break the peace upon which we have agreed? Yours sincerely, K. D. Sethna December 4, 1984 Dear Mr. Sethna, Thank you for your ...
... Human Species.htm 12 Mutation of the Human Species: The Next Species and The New Divine Body Sri Aurobindo has envisaged the development of the Divine Body, and he has written in his "The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth" on the structure and functioning that the divine body will have, when it will visibly be operating physically on the physical earth in the same way in ...
... evolution of a divine body; so I wrote on that subject and went on to speak of the Supermind and Truth-Consciousness which had obviously not even the remotest connection with sport. The object was to bring in something higher and more interesting than a mere record of gymnasium events but which might appeal to some of the readers or even to wider circles. In speaking of the divine body I entered into... 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 envisioned in these speculations could only come into view as the result of a distant evolution and need not alarm or distract... called, in the Bulletin ; 32 for their appearance there and their contents seem to have caused some trouble, perplexity or misunderstanding in your mind and especially my speculations about the divine body. I wrote the first of these articles to explain about how or why sport came to be included in the programme of the Ashram activities and I think I made it clear, as I went on, that sport was not ...
... appearance on the earth of a new divine body. There will be, in other words, the development of the next supramental species. Sri Aurobindo has even described the essential features of the divine body in his book ' The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth'. And the Mother's own experimental research in the physical transformation confirms the formation of the divine body of the new species, at least... Nature would be manifested; even the world of ignorance and inconscience might discover its own submerged secret and begin to realize in each lower degree its divine significance." 57 The Divine Body The structure of the human body and the functioning of the human body indicate that the law of the body arises from the subconscient or inconscient. But as Sri Aurobindo points out, in the... will be turned by the power of the spiritual consciousness into a true and fit and perfectly responsive instrument of the Spirit." 58 But apart from the emergence of the divine life in the divine body and apart from the integral yoga being a method Page 74 of future evolution and of the emergence of the next supramental species, this yoga will increasingly become the yoga of the ...
... exclusively. For the very first issue (February 1949), he wrote at the Mother's request a "Message", and subsequent issues carried a series of seven articles: The Perfection of the body'. The Divine Body', The Supermind and the Life Divine', 'Supermind and Humanity', 'Supermind in the Evolution', 'Mind of Light' and 'Supermind * More recently, the name has been changed to Bulletin of Sri... imminent happenings - perhaps all three in unison. The ideal should be, not simply a healthy or beautiful mind in a healthy and beautiful body, but rather a perfect and divine life in a perfect and divine body. But, then, what are the badges of the current imperfection of the body and the divorce of the Divine from human life? Life in the ignorance, life yoked to the density and obscuration of the ... becoming the- "body divine". Now, the two basic needs of the human body - food for the maintenance of life and sex for the perpetuation of the species - must both be capable of transcendence in the "divine body". Perhaps the body might one day be able to draw the means of sustenance and self-renewal from the ocean of energy all around and within oneself as well. The Mother too had said in the same issue ...
... there and could only be shut out by a constant vigilance or perpetual control obligatory on the corporeal instruments' spiritual inhabitant and master. This could not be called a truly divine body; for in a divine body an inherent freedom from all these things would be natural and perpetual; this freedom would be a normal and native truth of its being and therefore inevitable and unalterable. A radical... terrains of achievement. 18 But a valid question may be raised whether the process of evolution is still continuing, particularly so far as form-evolution is concerned. We maintained that the divine body to appear in the course of the future evolution of man will have a different structure and a new type of 'physiological' functioning and acquire hitherto unrealised evolutionary capabilities. But... disorders are mended, disorders even antecedent to the supramental manifestation." 37 (Italics ours.) The divine transfiguration of our embodied material existence and the emergence of a divine body upon earth are no longer dreams, to be realised, if at all, perhaps at the end of thousands of years from now. Here and now, we may remind our readers, the process of physical transformation has ...
... Mastery for the perfection of the Body The Powers of the Supermind and their operation on the Physical for its transformation The Divine Body Intermediary Bodies as a preparation for the Divine Body Projection of the Divine Body (without the intervention of animal means) Yoga and Evolution: The Modern Theory of Evolution, Indian Theory of Evolution: ...
... lower or supporting superconscience by the supramental emergence. The divine body would manifest the dynamic and irresistible spiritual realism of the Truth-Consciousness, and will be a true and fit and perfectly responsive instrument of the Spirit. Page 78 The Gnostic evolution at a certain stage where the divine body would be in formation would fulfill the claim of the body for immunity... of being and living, the will of the Spirit would directly control and determine the movements and law of the body, and this would lead to the appearance of what may be called the supramental or divine body. The law of the body which is at present operative in humanity arises from the subconscient or inconscient; but in the Gnostic being, the subconscient would become conscious and subject to the s ...
... destroyed. He purifies whatever has to be purified. He protects and enriches whatever has to be protected and enriched. This is His mission. That means a collision, a definite battle. Consequently the divine Body too has to undergo scars. That is the law of this plane, that is the rule of His game. But it is thus that God clears the road, makes the path easy. On behalf of man God conquers Nature so that it... – not because of an influence, impulsion or pressure from elsewhere; the material body of its own accord, by a demand from within, has to seek the Reality beyond Matter and body. That is why the divine Body shows how even Matter can aspire for spirituality and proves that Matter is not absolutely inert, in it too abides a consciousness and a conscious aspiration. There is a tradition that if the... manifested in the process of the evolution and confined to time and space. The Vaishnava philosophy teaches us that there is an eternal truth of the human form and it has an intimate connection with the divine Body. To look upon God as a man is not mere anthropomorphism. But in the Vaishnava doctrine prominence, almost an exclusive stress, has been given to the supraphysical conscious form of the body, cinmaya ...
... incarnation of the subtle Divine body preparing behind. . Humanity in its present embodied manifestation cannot be immediately changed, transmuted into the supramental body. That body must descend or reveal itself or clothe itself with a new material substance. That new material substance was being prepared in the Mother's body which was the workshop, as it were, for the Divine body. She has been building... building in this way not only a personal body of her own, the new Divine body, but also a 'generic' body for humanity at large out of which other personal bodies may be precipitated into the material forms of the material world - the two forming but one indivisible act. The body that is being divinised can never suffer deterioration, neither in respect of its substance nor of its functionings ...
... beginning in elementary forms to its most developed type, the human, there is no reason why this process should not intervene in the transition from the human into the divine body. For the manifestation or building of a divine body on earth there must be an initial transformation, the appearance of a new, a greater and more developed type, not a continuance with little modifications of the present ...
... May Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 29 May 1957 " A divine life in a divine body is the formula of the ideal that we envisage.... The process of the evolution upon earth has been slow and tardy—what principle must intervene if there is to be a transformation, a progressive or sudden change? " It is indeed... receive the supramental force, to assimilate it and obey it. Of course, there is a higher state than this, the state Sri Aurobindo speaks of as the ideal to be fulfilled: the divine life in a divine body. But he himself tells us that this will take time; it is an integral transformation which cannot be achieved in a moment. It will even take quite a long time. But when it is accomplished, when the ...
... itself, into a self-exceeding, a transformation of the mental being and even mutation of the human species so as to establish on the earth the rule of the divine life in the divine body. But before the appearance of the divine body, there will have to come about a radical change of consciousness that can be effected by the ascent to the supermind and the descent of the supermind in the physical consciousness ...
... But an apparently valid question may be raised at this point whether the process of evolution is still continuing, particularly as far as the form-evolution is concerned. We envisage that the divine body to appear in the course of the future evolution of man will have a different structure and a new type of 'physiological' functioning and acquire hitherto unrealised evolutionary capabilities. But... changes into something other than what it is now. (Bulletin, February 1967, p. 75) Sri Aurobindo also is very much explicit on this point when he speaks of the emergence of the New Body, the divine Body, as a fit vehicle for the untrammelled manifestation of Sachchidananda upon earth itself. He says inter alia: "... the evolutionary urge would proceed to a change of the organs themselves ...
... Knowledge-Will is bound to emerge and be overtly operative in the field of earthly manifestation; and this supramental manifestation in its turn is sure to usher in its wake a divine life in a divine body in a material world, for which Nature, the Great Mother, has been in travail since ages past. This divine transfiguration of life in the field of matter will necessarily signify "a union of the... inertia, sex and sensuality, animal impulses and appetites, diseases and decay, and finally the Sphinx like problem of death and dissolution are going to be tackled and solved in the transformed divine body to appear in the course of the future evolution of man. We shall incidentally seek to find out — in however meagre and suggestive a measure — any corroborative evidence gleaned from the ...
... ed human body will shine in the glories of a 'pure and spiritualised physical existence'. "The transformation of the physical being might follow [an] incessant line of progression and the divine body reflect or reproduce here in a divine life on the earth something of [the] highest greatness and glory of the self-manifesting Spirit." 1 At this point the critic may interject: Is... insistent problems of food and sleep, fatigue and inertia, disease and decay, sex and sensuality, and finally the sphinx-like problem of death and dissolution are going to be solved in the transformed divine body to appear in time. We shall incidentally seek to find out — in however meagre and suggestive a measure — any corroborative evidence gleaned from the field of past biological evolution ...
... Mother whether the process of transformation would continue uninterruptedly and produce a new 'divine' body or whether it may be dissolved at a certain stage. On this question Mother made several statements from time to time, but she never indicated that she had any full assurance that a new 'divine' body would emerge from her body or that her body would not be dissolved. One of the important statements ...
... first issue contained a special message from Sri Aurobindo, written at the Mother's request, and for the subsequent issues he wrote a series of seven articles: 'The Perfection of the Body', 'The Divine Body', 'The Supermind and the Life Divine', 'Supermind and Humanity', 'Supermind in the Evolution', 'Mind of Light' and 'Supermind and Mind of Light', the last appearing in the issue of November 1950... divinised so as to be a fit instrument and receptacle for the realisation of the Divine.... That does not mean that the body has to be valued for its own separate sake or that the creation of the divine body in a future evolution of the whole being has to be contemplated as an end and not a means — that would be a serious error which would not be admissible.' On July 9, 1950, Sri Aurobindo gave an ...
... with the intriguing question: whether the supramental manifestation of 29 February 1956 had in any way hastened the possibility of the transmutation of the present human body into the supramental divine body. Sri Aurobindo himself had said in a letter of 6 December 1949 that such a transformation could only be "the result Page 713 of a distant evolution". 30 Was the position any different... perceptible in the subtle physical, it had not become concrete in the outer physical. There were thus two possibilities; either the gradual transmutation of the present human into the supramental divine body, or the outright new creation of the supramental body. In her conversation of 6 March with a disciple, the Mother was of the view that both might happen, for one did not exclude the other. 31 ...
... of the Real and the True. All great poetry has a body that is divine, but mostly the soul of it is divine with a human mask; the mystical poet's work is the unmasking of the divine spirit in that divine body. The unmasking, however, is no simple and uniform act. Nor is it determined alone by a poet's individual style. Herbert has a religious simplicity, at once piquant and passionate; Crashaw... does more than transmute his Page 102 inward instruments: he conquers too the limitations imposed on the corporeal frame at present by age, disease or accident: he incarnates a divine body-archetype, his very stuff of matter flowers into a miraculous novel substance. So Savitri, fighting Satyavan's death, is in Sri Aurobindo's hands an Avatar of the immortal Beauty and Love plunging ...
... except water everywhere. The colour of the water is beautiful light sky-blue. The downpour stops. I then see in the water a big golden lotus in beautiful blue colour. The Mother in her self-luminous, divine body is seated on the lotus. I see Kiranbhai prostrate himself before her. A few persons are also sitting around. What is happening there cannot be seen clearly. I become very eager to see it, but... experience of eagerness today). Then, the scene changes. White Light descends over entire Paris. Nothing except light is seen. At that moment, I see Sri Aurobindo standing in his golden, luminous, divine body, facing me. He covers both my eyes with his soft hands and asks me to say something. I say something, but I don't know what; it was quite sensible at that time. He removes his blessed hands from ...
... Brihaspati of the Angirasas sent his son Kacha to gain this knowledge from Shukra of the Bhrigus. Yet it is hard to tell whether the Rishis ever tried to, or were in a position to, create a naturally divine body such as Sri Aurobindo envisioned. This would require the most powerful form of Soma. It would be, as it were, a body naturally made of pure Soma, matter with the capacity of perpetually rejuvenating... could not bring light to it. His body was afflicted with a triple poison and could not bear the sunlight. It was like an unbaked clay-pot, atapta tanu. Similarly, Vamadeva could live here in a divine body, divya tanu, only for sixteen 35 Private communication. years. 36 These ancient Rishis certainly knew what could bring about the physical transformation, the Mahar or Supermind ...
... system of man, including all its forms and functions, has to submit itself to the unrelenting process of supramental transformation. Sri Aurobindo affirms in one of his last prose writings, The Divine Body, published in 1949 as follows: These and other numerous potentialities might appear and the body become an instrument immeasurably superior to what we can now imagine as possible. There... life touched by a supreme pure Existence, consciousness bliss... The transformation of the physical being might follow this incessant line of progression Page 177 and the divine body reflect or reproduce here in a divine life on the earth something of this highest greatness and glory of the self-manifesting Spirit. 140 Of course, it is the consciousness within that ...
... of man, including all its forms and functions, has to submit itself to the unrelenting process of supramental transformation. As Sri Aurobindo has affirmed in one of his last prose writings, "The Divine Body", published in 1949: "...other numerous potentialities might appear and the body become an instrument immeasurably superior to what we can now imagine as possible. There could be an evolution... delineate expressive forms of life touched by a supreme pure Existence, consciousness and bliss... The transformation of the physical being might follow this incessant line of progression and the divine body reflect or reproduce here in a divine life on the earth something of this higher greatness and glory of the self-manifesting Spirit." (The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings, 1989, p ...
... From the" context in which this conversation takes place, it can be said Page 126 that the subject of her yogic research at that time was that of fabricating the supramentalised or divine body, and it can, therefore, be surmised that what science demands for its ultimate proof of utter objectivity of knowledge, and what spirituality ought to demand for its ultimate victory on the earth... to oneself. Nonetheless, the rigour of proof cannot Page 132 be minimized, and Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have, as we have seen above, aimed at working out the fabrication of the Divine Body, the proof of which will be found to be clinching even for the utmost insensitive human mentality of consciousness. In fact, it is at that level of the proof that we may expect the synthesis of science ...
... evolution that have been at work at various stages of evolution, and which are particularly related to human evolution and to what Sri Aurobindo puts forward as the supramental evolution of the divine body by a process of triple transformation. In the development of this method, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother found it necessary to work out something that was colossally important and indispensable but... but which was not found in any earlier systems of the synthesis of yoga, and it is to that aspect of the work that we may turn. Evolution of the Next Species The divine life in the divine body, the eventual advent of Page 7 the supramental supermanhood, and the evolution of the next species, is the goal that has been envisaged for the integral yoga, and since this yoga is ...
... alter even the human body, its structure and the principle of its working. It would mean the appearance of what Sri Aurobindo has termed the Divine Body, an ever-youthful physical envelope of the unveiled Spirit. 'For the manifestation or building of a divine body on earth,' writes Sri Aurobindo, 'there must be an initial transformation, the appearance of a new, a greater and more developed type, not ...
... The Life Divine, P. 5 Page 15 and half-darkness. The question is how would it affect th< laws of the body ? Is it possible to transform the gross an( seemingly undivine body into a divine body ? Or is there a divine use of the body as there is of mind and life ? Or metaphysically, if the Spirit has assumed form, a material form, what is the place of Form in the ultimate fulfilment' Though... the physical body."6 " The conquest of physical limitations by the power of supramental substance is possible. " The verse of Swetashwatara Upanishad shows that the idea of a divine body was familiar to the seers in the past. 1 . " When the five-fold quality of yoga has been produced; 2 , Arising from earth, water, fire, air and space; 3 . No sickness, no old age, no death ...
... × Jaimini's idea of liberation is the eternal Brahmaloka in which the soul that has come to know Brahman still possesses a divine body and divine enjoyments. For the Gita the Brahmaloka is not liberation; the soul must pass beyond to the supracosmic status. × ...
... Yoga could there come a supreme and total perfection of all the instruments of the Spirit and the ascent of the whole being to the highest level and a divine life on earth and the assumption of a divine body. I made it clear that by human and physical means such as sports only a limited and precarious human perfection could come. In all this there is nothing to justify the idea that sport could be a ...
... 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 not a means—that would be a serious error which would not be admissible. In any case, my speculations about an extreme ...
... existence through whom that transformation of the mental into the supramental can at last be operated, is it not possible that he may develop, as well as a divine mind and a divine life, also a divine body? or, if the phrase seem to be too startling to our present limited conceptions of human potentiality, may he not in his development of his true being and its light and joy and power arrive at a divine ...
... 1969 ( Satprem proposes to Mother a partial publication of the conversations of May 31 and June 4 on the glorified body. ) Don't you think some people are going to imagine they have a divine body?... ...
... Mother do. The constant day-to-day living in the light of the Supermind and the supramental descent into our whole constitution in order to shape a divine mind, a divine life-force, a divine body: this is the aim and the decisive condition of Sri Aurobindo's yoga. But there is a long and difficult way to go, a hard task of self-consecration, self-purification, self-discipline, a development ...
... several bearings. In the first place, it is a mistake on your part to set in opposition the later letter dated 6 December 1949 in which Sri Aurobindo speaks of full physical transformation — "the divine body" 1 — as a matter of the remote future and the earlier letter where he writes "My faith and will are for the now." You believe that this earlier communication belongs to 1923-24 and that around 1933-1934 ...
... planes. An exquisite or dynamic Occultism catches the Spirit naked; so too does a radiantly piercing and sweet Psychism — but neither the habitat of God's magician nor that of God's saint holds the divine body in its direct amplitude and puissance. These poets do not rest content with the "deep within": they strive to press on to the "high above", the planes from which has descended the cosmic formula ...
... a body that is divine, but mostly the soul of it is divine with a Page 375 human mask; the mystical poet's work is the unmasking of the divine Spirit in that divine body." 41 Great poets like Kalidasa and Shakespeare have given poetry a body that is divine, but the substance of the experience-field is human. However the human is not the negation of the Divine; ...
... of Tapas, glory and sweetness of bliss, the absolute essence and pitch of the all-creating Ananda. The transformation of the physical being might follow this incessant line of progression and the divine body reflect or reproduce here in a divine life on the earth something of this highest greatness and glory of the self-manifesting Spirit." 4 4. Ibid ., p. 40. Page 286 ...
... present in Matter. If this operation was successful, the cells and the Matter of the cells would effectively possess the Unity-Consciousness. The cell, divinized, would be prepared to become part of a divine body, the body of the new species on Earth. That is where the battle was fought. ‘ Le corps, c’est le champ de bataille ’ — the body of the Mother was the battlefield where the battle for the world of ...
... supramental Force, to assimilate it and to obey it. “Of course, there is a higher state than this, namely the state Sri Aurobindo speaks of as the ideal to be fulfilled: the divine life in a divine body. But he himself tells us that this will take time, it is an integral transformation that cannot be achieved in a moment. It will even take quite a long time … However, it is no longer only a possibility ...
... of the earth-nature.” This is not what Sri Aurobindo and the Mother until then had consistently called “superman”: “… It would not be the total transformation, the fullness of a divine life in a divine body. There would be a body still human and indeed animal in its origin and fundamental character and this would impose its own inevitable limitations on the higher parts of the embodied being.” 16 ...
... how novel and daring, how uncompromising was Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s enterprise when they took it up. When reading them, one may become satiated with reading about superman, Supermind, a divine body and paradise upon earth. But if concrete results are not forthcoming and life keeps passing by without any experience of the things promised, then what was at first a revelation becomes little by ...
... divine life upon earth, a first sketch of supermanhood, of a supramental living in the circumstances of the earth-nature … It would not be the total transformation, the fullness of a divine life in a divine body. There would be a body still human and indeed animal in its origin and fundamental character and this would impose its own inevitable limitations on the higher parts of the embodied being. Sri ...
... species of supermen, Homo supramentalis . This transitional being he gave no name, but called it “a new humanity.” “It would not be the total transformation, the fullness of a divine life in a divine body. There would be a body still human and indeed animal in its origin and fundamental character, and this would impose its own inevitable limitations on the higher parts of the embodied being.” All ...
... come unless and until its structure changes into something other than what it is now. 3 Sri Aurobindo is very much explicit on this point when he speaks of the emergence of the New Body, the Divine Body, as a fit vehicle for the untrammelled manifestation of Sachchidananda upon earth itself. Inter alia he says: "The evolutionary urge would proceed to change the organs themselves in their ...
... that circulates through all the atoms.’ 52 That early she was already working on what would be one of the main tasks of her incarnation on Earth: the yoga of the cells, the effort to build a divine body by transforming the human body. In the beginning of November 1915 the Richards were back in Paris. ‘In Paris, during the war, there were two kinds of bombardments. The first kind was by a big ...
... Supermind, as each would possess a beauty of its own and have its reason d'etre. ¹ To keep a sign of animal origin must not be understood as a radical imperfection. We must remember that "the truly divine body", of which Sri Aurobindo has spoken in his Bulletin-article, is said by him precisely to be the one emerging "in a progressive evolution" - the body of the Mother's Intermediate Race. The Mother ...
... and finally of all humanity. He focused his vision of such a centre in the Mother. Now that she has made her exit without actualising his vision, how will she yet manage, as she must, to be in a divine body amongst us to continue carrying the travail of evolution towards the grand finale prophesied by Sri Aurobindo? And what, after her exit at the age of ninety-five, should we understand by fulfilment ...
... of Tapas, glory and sweetness of bliss, the absolute essence and pitch of the all-creating Ananda. The transformation of the physical being might follow this incessant line of progression and the divine body reflect or reproduce here in a divine life on the earth something of this highest greatness and glory of the self-manifesting Spirit.' Page 59 ...
... would also mean a complete synthesis of divine knowledge, divine love and divine action, leading to an integral perfection of all the members, parts and planes of being the divine supermind in the divine body, a temporal sign of the spirit's victory here over Death and Matter. It is impossible to describe or even to give a faint or distant indication of the experiences and realisations of Sri Aurobindo ...
... the supermind can be manifested on the earth as a gradation of the earth-life, and, as a result, there could appear even in physical life, by the very process of transformation of matter itself, a divine body, which shall be free from the inevitability, even in the earth life, of the law of Death. Page 64 ...
... human body. How that body would be, how it would function and what extraordinary powers and capacities it would possess and manifest is discussed by Sri Aurobindo in another chapter entitled "The Divine Body". We have envisaged the inclusion of that chapter in a later book that we are planning. But the readers who are keen even at this stage to know how Sri Aurobindo and The Mother envisaged and worked ...
... s of the body. Need for temperance: avoidance of extremes. Need for change of consciousness. Mastery over bodily limitations possible only at the highest levels of yoga. The concept of the divine body. Aids for the Development of the Yogic Consciousness and Experience Elementary powers of expression. Necessity and methods of development of these powers, particularly in relation to: ...
... for temperance: avoidance of Page 98 extremes. Need for change of consciousness. Mastery over bodily limitations possible only at the highest levels of yoga. 6. The concept of the divine body. II. Aids for the Development of the Yogic Consciousness and Experience 1. Elementary powers of expression. Necessity and methods of development of these powers, particularly in relation ...
... Mortality and Immortality: The Real Issue The Misgiving and the Frown The Basal Immortality: The Evolution of Death Attempts at 'Kayasiddhi' and Rejuvenation The Vision of the Divine Body The Mystery of Life and Death Death at the Service of Life The Physiology of Senescence and Death Metaphysics of Life and Death Metaphysical Factors of Death The Conquest ...
... Amar-da lowered his head, and touching his forehead with folded hands made namaskar to Aurobindo. I laid my forehead on Aurobindo's feet as an expression of my reverence, and in the touch of that divine body, I felt fulfilled.' Early next morning, April 1, the Dupleix steamed out of Calcutta carrying Sri Aurobindo into the safety of the open seas and, four days later, on April 4, 1910, he reached ...
... otherwise due to us. Mankind, the world even, does not know the saving Grace that her material frame brought to it. It would have gone down to destruction and dissolution but for the presence of the Divine body. The world has survived, mankind has an assured future— that is the work done by her body. It aimed at a little more, to show us something of the concrete form of the future, but evidently ...
... originally, although they differentiated themselves from each other and from the Divine, yet they formed a unified harmony and lived and moved and had their being as different members of the same divine Body. At first they stood out, but still essentially and apparently linked on to their fountain and origin. Soon, however, they stood out no longer on the Divine, but moved out of him, away and separate; ...
... far-reaching changes may well be called for and inevitable if mankind is to be radically cured of all the illnesses of Page 14 which it is till now a natural prey The full health of a divine body in its individual as well as its collective and global functioning is assured only when the human being is lifted out of its mental sheath and established in the supramenal status. It is an ...
... built up the centre of physical education. I don't need to discuss the place and raison d'etre of physical education in our Ashram life when Sri Aurobindo has done it so well in his essay on The Divine Body. 6 My vision being more earthly, I can see that it has served the most important purpose of keeping the inflammable material of young boys, girls and children under a strict supervision through ...
... divine Power — the progressive march towards the Divine Manifestation. That is why the whole atmosphere is charged with a divine and sublime Peace, you understand? It is He who is there — in the divine body — Himself divinised, the representative of the whole humanity, He who, by His own effort, by His tapasya and by the sadhana that He has done in His body, has made His body glorious. The realisations ...
... Champaklal and Satyendra took interest in them and Sri Aurobindo freely gave his opinion but as I was not art-sensitive, I made no record of them hoping that Purani would do so. One part of the divine body that could not be entrusted to our rough hands was the head — the majestic crown. Washing it fell within the Mother's domain. Our part was only to help her. We could easily understand why all the ...
... Bulletin of Physical Education, with a Message from Sri Aurobindo on Physical Education. In its subsequent issues appeared sever other message- articles on subjects like Supermind, Divine Body, Evolution. These eight articles are his final reaffirmation and renewed assurance—besides being a splendid elaboration of his message of The Life Divine &mdsh;of the S ...
... These chakras too are all subtle centers of being, the centroids of consciousness as it were. Sri Aurobindo's Yoga is the sadhana of Integral Transformation whereby this body will become the Divine Body and the Divine or Supramental Consciousness will illuminate and take root in this very practical consciousness. The mind of man acts today only within the confines of the unconscious, ignorant ...
... Supermind is what is in the process of tearing down the world's veil in spite of us. There behind the veil is the divine, immortal man (as a matter of fact, at the end, Sri Aurobindo spoke of the divine body, and not the divine man, as if to suggest that the body would understand better and quicker than *we). And the proof—I have the proof because I experienced it myself—is that from the minute you ...
... glorious body, "something became concrete all of a sudden". Hadn't the disciple's aspiration been as good as answered? The utter delight in the possibility of its happening - that is, the golden divine body - had half brought about that miracle of manifestation in the Mother! But her body had no personal ambition or desire in the matter, it did not even aspire for it. Then there had come "that e ...
... through a virgin forest. He had to pass through all spiritual experiences in order to realise the ultimate synthesis of them all in an integral Divine fulfilment of man on earth—a Divine Life in a divine body. 5.02.67 * * * Regarding Vivekananda, I have read almost all his writings, speeches and talks. What a great man, what a harmonious life, and how irresistibly lovable a nature ...
... images of gods and goddesses must have had a vision of the Mother in some subtle world. That is why they were inspired to carve these images. I was awestruck. We humans could gaze at the Mother’s divine Body in a human form from so close in this mortal world! Gaze and be blessed! It is one thing to be able to see these incomparable Feet in a painting or a statue but the fact that the Mother has come ...
... perfection is through the ascent to supermind and the conquest of the physical also by the supramental substance so that he will be able to command a diviner physical life and conquer death in a divine body. Page 485 ...
... perpetuate the race by having children will be no more, even as the need sex tries to answer for a physical sense of union in which the ego-fragment seeks completeness will disappear because of a divine body-experience that is not shut off from the Beatific and the Perfect. Page 70 ...
... on for the purpose of presiding in the domain of Matter itself over the new humanity which the Mother will initiate. In that dawn of God's gold the Mother will be the first being to achieve the divine body by a progression through a body born in the natural manner, while through the support of her achievement Sri Aurobindo may be the first being to put on the physical vesture of transformation by a ...
... was a fullness of substance and light, solid with a Presence which one felt as something of profound magnificence . The day of Samadhi, the Mother asked us all to put a handful of earth as the Divine Body was laid among flowers. Something came down in our being like a heavy lid and we looked up to the window on the first floor where the Mother stood. I have never been able to forget the way she looked ...
... Sacrifice. It was in building up the body of this Begetter of Creatures that the creative act of sacrifice was performed long ago. By it shall he propagate. 34 That from the Supreme's dismemberment the divine body be built, the fires of the sacrifice were kindled and the chants raised and the oblations poured. The sacrificer by sacrificing himself created innumerable sacrifices. The five Yajnas bom of the ...
... Divine lila, even according to the Vaishanava 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 not as a means — that would be a serious error, which would not be admissible." I have a special purpose in quoting ...
... gradual change which perhaps might have led to a Nietzschean superman. This new species would possess a supramental, divine consciousness of the higher hemisphere, and accordingly a supramental, divine body. In a new act of the drama of the world The united Two began a greater age. 3 — Savitri They knew that their reunification — which would prove to be definitive — meant that the promise ...
... Yes, it is clear that a supramental body, as described a few pages earlier, must function in a manner different from the human body we are so familiar with and which gives us so much trouble. A divine body must be divinely moved, yes, by the supreme Consciousness – one can more or less imagine that. But to change from an animal-human body into a supramental body? Well, somewhere the transition between ...
... destiny. The Aurobindonian Yogi does more than transmute his inward instruments: he conquers too the limitations imposed on the corporeal frame at present by age, disease or accident: he incarnates a divine body-archetype, his very stuff of matter flowers into a miraculous novel substance. So Savitri, fighting Satyavan's death, is in Sri Aurobindo's hands an Avatar of the immortal Beauty and Love plunging ...
... visioned and proclaimed her to be. Are we prepared to believe that? As to what her reasons for "dying" were, we may here Page 39 simply say: "Her aim was to install in the world a Divine Body and thereby aid her children to get divinised. She has given up her present physical sheath in order somehow to bring closer, to concretise further, the secret Supramental form that she has spoken ...
... functions were used to work, they had to be transferred to a working under the direct governance of the divine Unity-Consciousness. The body had to be divinized, and if one remembers more or less how a divine body is supposed to work, one can hardly find words for the awesomeness of the undertaking. The most perceptible, external side of the process of transformation was that all organs and functions were ...
... full swing. ‘The Radiance of a Thousand Suns …’ The expectation that the very aged, ravaged body of the Mother would one day, as it were in the blink of an eye, be turned into a radiant divine body was an example of what Sri Aurobindo had called ‘crude downright statements of a miraculous kind.’ Surely, the coming about of the supramental world as a whole can be considered a miracle, but then ...
... it meant the change in this very matter. There was a Yogi some time ago in this region who taught it, but he hoped when the change was complete, to disappear in light. The Vaishnavas speak of a divine body which will replace this one when there is the complete siddhi. But, again, is this a divine physical or supraphysical body? At the same time there is no obstacle in the way of supposing that all ...
... The Life is at war with the body; it attempts to force it to satisfy life's desires, impulses, satisfactions and demands from its limited capacity what could only be possible to an immortal and divine body; and the body, enslaved and tyrannised over, suffers and is in constant dumb revolt against the demands made upon it by the Life. The Mind is at war with both: sometimes it helps the Life against ...
... Page 420 × The Upanishad speaks of a fivefold body or sheath of Nature, a physical, vital, mental, ideal and divine body; this may be regarded as the totality of the field, kṣetram . ...
... Published in the Bulletin in February 1949; dated 30 December 1948 Page 603 Perfection of the Body. Published in the Bulletin in April 1949; dated 23 March 1949. The Divine Body. Published in the Bulletin in August 1949. Supermind and the Life Divine. Published in the Bulletin in November 1949. Supermind and Humanity. Published in the Bulletin in ...
... "To be in full union with the Divine is the final aim." × "The Divine Body", The Supramental Manifestation SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 20-40 . ...
... Although written by the Mother, this letter may have been dictated by Sri Aurobindo. × "The Divine Body", now published in The Supramental Manifestation , SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 20-40 . × A spoken comment ...
... that it meant the change in this very matter. There was a yogi sometime ago in this region who taught it, but he hoped when the change was complete, to disappear in light. The Vaishnavas speak of a divine body which will replace this one when there is the complete siddhi. But, again, is this a divine physical or supraphysical body? At the same time there is no obstacle in the way of supposing that all ...
... it meant the change in this very matter. There was a yogi some time ago in this region who taught it, but he hoped when the change was complete, to disappear in light. The Vaishnavas speak of a divine body which will replace this one when there is the complete siddhi. But, again, is this a divine physical or supraphysical body? At the same time there is no obstacle in the way of supposing that all ...
... that it meant the change in this very matter. There was a yogi sometime ago in this region who taught it, but he hoped when the change was complete, to disappear in light. The Vaishnavas speak of a divine body which will replace this one when there is the complete siddhi. But, again, is this a divine physical or supraphysical body?" A body of light perpetually present amongst men has not been known so ...
... the eternal all-protecting Divine Humanity. 59 Blake also terms it in the same poem again using the designation "human" in an archetypal sense - the Human Imagination, Which is the Divine Body of the Lord Jesus, blessed forever 60 - Jesus whom in this very poem he Miltonically calls "the image of the Invisible God" 61 and elsewhere 62 distinguishes as "all Virtue" because, in ...
... it meant the change in this very matter. There was a yogi some time ago in this region who taught it, but he hoped when the change was complete, to disappear in light. The Vaishnavas speak of a divine body which will replace this one when there is the complete siddhi [=spiritual perfection]; but, again, is this a divine physical or supraphysical body?" A body of light perpetually present amongst men ...
... presiding in Page 132 the domain of Matter itself over the new humanity which the Mother will initiate. In that dawn of God's gold the Mother will be the first being to achieve the divine body by a progression through a body born in the natural manner, while through the support of her achievement Sri Aurobindo may be the first being to put on the physical vesture of transformation by a ...
... in the thick of time's drama with eternity as his theme, still as a concentrated individualisation of the wide and the high, an organised being in whom the Supramental karana sarira or causal divine body has descended into the suksma sarira or subtle body built of mind-stuff, life-stuff and even what we may term subtle-physical as distinguished from gross-material stuff, he stands close to earth ...
... "the Life is at war with the body; it attempts to force it to satisfy life's desires, impulses, satisfactions and demands from its limited capacity what could only be possible to an immortal and divine body; and the body, enslaved and tyrannised over, 1 2 The Life Divine, p. 192. 3 4 5 Expressions taken from the section "Rāsalilā " of Vyasadeva's Bhāgavatam. Page 403 ...
... proposed, therefore, is that the bodily life should undergo a great perfection and even an evolutionary mutation so that the material life of the body becomes fully transformed. Divine life in a divine body is thus proposed as the aim of the highest integral view of life. In the light of this aim and realisation, Socratesʼ views on the body, life and soul may seem to be constricted within limitations ...
... in the course of history, India tended to neglect bodily life. The time has come now when the right balance of the body and the spirit should be achieved under a new ideal of divine life in a divine body. ___________________________ This essay is based on the material contained in Physical Education in Ancient India, by S.H. Deshpande, Bharatiya ...
... judicious combination of various systems of Yoga, leading upto a comprehensive combination of consequences for the perfection of the spiritual, mental, vital and physical perfection. A divine life in a divine body would be the ideal of the integral Yoga. In the integral Yoga, perfections of the physical body would be a part of the totality of attainments, although the methods of Hatha Yoga may not prove to ...
... a little flexed, by which I mean a bit bent, with an embarrassed smile, as if to say "I am very sorry to trouble you". Plaster was put, etc. Then we tried to carry Him to His bed. We found the Divine Body a litte heavy, weighty like His own philosophy and teachings (Laughter), and we were three or four of us there. I was of a feather weight; Dr. Manilal and Dr. Becharlal carried the weight of ...
... way a patient drinks medicine. Perhaps Nripendra 295 would have liked it very much! Dr. Manilal, who had taken charge of the Divine Patient, had the great good fortune of touching the Divine Body, of nursing it and tending it. One day, he said, "We must give the Lord a bath." But since a bath was impossible, we decided to give Him a sponging. Then he told Sri Aurobindo, "Sir, we propose ...
... few days, she reminded him of the urgency. Then he began dictating on the value of sports and physical gymnastics. Quite a series commenced and the most memorable of the lot was the article "The Divine Body". It was a long piece and took more than a week, since we daily had just about an hour to spare. As he was dictating, I marvelled at so much knowledge of Ancient Greece and Ancient India stored up ...
... him; after an exchange of sweet smiles between them, she would go away. Champaklal would then step in and wipe away the dripping perspiration. Then he would sit in the chair and sponging of the divine body would begin. This practice was continued for several years till a bathroom was built nearby. Our complaint about this crude mode of cleansing was received with a disarming serenity. Neither one ...
... But even long afterwards, it continued for lack of a proper bathroom. Whatever the arrangement was, Sri Aurobindo was not affected in the least. It was Dr. Manilal's unique privilege to touch the divine body and give it a human cleansing with soap, powder, etc. Another thing that required medical attention was the proper functioning of the bowels. Their habit was deranged, and a constant flat position ...
... Death, 134, l60, 186-9, 206, 211, 212, 213, 220, 261 Adwaita, 7 Descent, 33, 76, 78, 146-7 Alipore jail, 11, 12 Descent of the Supermind, 85, 87 Arya, 2, 56, 67 Divine body, 95-6, l63 Ascent, 33, 76, 78 Divine, integral, 71, 75 Ashta Siddhi, 17-8, 241-3 Dying, new way of, l68 Auroville, 3, 178-9 Bengladesh, 214 Education ...
... body. Need for temperance: avoidance of extremes. Need for change of consciousness. Mastery over bodily limitations possible only at the highest levels of yoga. 6. The concept of the divine body. II. Aids for the Development of the Yogic Consciousness and Experience: 1. Elementary powers of expression. Necessity and methods of development of these powers, particularly ...
... argument — provides a scientific basis for the possibilities of durable perfection of the body and even of the possibilities of development of a new kind of body, which can appropriately be termed "The Divine Body". The extracts relating to Hatha Yoga are followed by some others from The Marathon Monks of Mount Hiei, which give insights into the extraordinary powers that manifest in the body when physical ...
... discoveries, new applications of the knowledge, new achievements, new proposals for further realisations. The concepts of the descent of the supermind on the earth, of the Gnostic Being, of the Divine Body are some of the results of the recent yogic research. Page 268 It may be noted that the science of Yoga not only provides us with the knowledge of the various states and levels of co ...
... questioned, and we have an account of the corporeal and psychological difficulties that stand in the way of transformation of the human body and the development of -a new instrumental structure of the Divine Body. All this is directly relevant to all those whose interests extend beyond the present horizons of the current fields of physical and biological sciences as also of the psychological and spiritual ...
... to. Such far-reaching changes may well be called for and inevitable if mankind is to be radically cured of all the illnesses of which it is till now a natural prey. The full health of a divine body in its individual as well as its collective and global functioning is assured only when the human being is lifted out of its mental sheath and established in the supramental status. ...
... originally, although they differentiated themselves from each other and from the Divine, yet they formed a unified harmony and lived and moved and had their being as different members of the same divine Body. At first they stood out, but still essentially and apparently linked on to their fount and origin. Soon, however, they stood out no longer on the Divine, but moved out of him, away and separate; ...
... g changes may well be called for and inevitable if mankind is to be radically cured of all the illnesses of Page 362 which it is till now a natural prey The full health of a divine body in its individual as well as its collective and global functioning is assured only when the human being is lifted out of its mental sheath and established in the supramenal status. It is an adventure ...
... due to us. Mankind, the the world even, does not know the saving Grace that her material frame brought to them They would have gone down to destruction and dissolution but for the presence of the Divine Body. The world has survived, mankind has an assured future, that is the work done by her body. It aimed at a little more, to show us something of the concrete form of the future, but evidently ...
... as we call it man's psychic being or soul. This being made of light and power and delight is not a formless entity but a real being, a person and possesses a name and body, a Divine name and a Divine body recognisable in the same way as a physical body is recognised. Now this Divine person is in us normally behind the veil almost inoperative acting or influencing only indirectly and can be and ...
... These chakras too are all subtle centres of being, the centroids of consciousness as it were. Sri Aurobindo's Yoga is the sadhana of Integral Transformation whereby this body will become the Divine Body and the Divine or Supramental Consciousness will illuminate and take root in this very physical consciousness. The mind of man acts today only within the confines of the unconscious, ignorant ...
... A Scheme for The Education of Bengal Special Appendix I. PERFECTION OF THE BODY— Sri Aurobindo (From Bulletin Vol. 1 No; 2 Page 2.) II. THE DIVINE BODY— Sri Aurobindo (Taken from Bulletin Vol. 1 No. 3 Page 2.) III . SUPERMIND AND THE LIFE DIVINE— Sri Aurobindo (Taken from Bulletin Vol. 1 No. 4 Page 2.) IV. SUPERMIND AND HUMANITY— Sri ...
... that, can be made to wake to consciousness and evolve and realise the Spirit, the Divine within it...That does not mean that the body has to be valued for its own 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 not as a means...” Regarding the indispensability of the active service of the Divine in an integral surrender ...
... of the forge and the illumination.” The liberated soul in a liberated, luminous nature—this is exactly what Sri Aurobindo means by the term "Jivanmukta"—works on in the world in an immortalized divine body or in several divine bodies in succession, if that be God's Will, securely stationed in the Divine and moved by His Force alone. It is a long, a very long and laborious discipline, this of Yogic ...
... York by E.P. Dutton & Company in 1953, it was given the title The Mind of Light. ** For a fuller discussion, of the subject, the reader is referred to Synergist's 'A Divine Life in a Divine Body' (Mother India; June 1952), K.D. Sethna's "The Descent of the Supermind' in Mother India, December 1953, pp. 11ff and Kishor Gandhi's The New Humanity' included in his book. Social Philosophy ...
... infinite self of knowledge and power of knowledge and Ananda of knowledge of the spirit. 45 The dream or the ideal is not simply "a healthy mind in a healthy body"; it is a divine life in a divine body. 46 The spiritual summit and the material base are to come together. This man-changing, world-changing, Nature-changing Yoga aims thus at establishing nothing less than an Earthly Paradise, for ...
... .... Mother puts me on real tough test. It seems that we are surrounded with obstacles at every step and on every side. This is a sure sign of the Divine Work but still ... I do not have a divine body yet! rather a grumbling and protesting body. Sometimes I wish I had finished all these publications and could disappear in the Himalayas for good, till the next happier body. Perhaps this is the ...
... 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", "The Divine Body", "Supermind and the Life Divine", "Supermind and Humanity", "Supermind in the Evolution", "Mind of Light" and "Supermind and Mind of Light" which cumulatively constituted the ripest testament of ...
... exploration. In the Integral Yoga the body is considered as important as any other instrument, and its divine perfection is sought with a most thorough and scrupulous care. A divine being in a divine body is the formula of perfection in the Integral Yoga. There are four prerequisites for the work of perfection: śākti, vīrya, daivī prakrti and śraddhā. Śakti means the fully developed powers ...
... that, can be made to wake to consciousness and evolve and realise the Spirit, the Divine within it....That does not mean that the body has to be valued for its own 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 not as a means...." Regarding the indispensability of the active service of the Divine in an integral surrender ...
... satisfy him any longer. His inmost aspiration, obscure even to his outer mind today, is for an integral fulfilment in life, for the possession of a divine consciousness, freely expressing itself in a divine body. It is for the definitive conquest of all that has opposed his self-transcendence—his weaknesses, his incapacities, his impurities, the easy susceptibility of his body to disease and decrepitude ...
... veiled from me?... Once more, everywhere I see cherry trees; Thou hast put a magical power in these flowers: they seem to speak of Thy sole Presence; they bring with them the smile of the Divine. My body is at rest and my soul blossoms in light: what kind of a charm hast Thou put into these trees in flower? O Japan, it is thy festive adorning, expression of thy goodwill, it is thy purest offering ...
... gods and angels. The Divine in a physical human body upon earth – it is such a temptation for the disembodied beings in the other worlds; it was so great an opportunity to be near the physical aura of the Divine. It was indeed a privilege, the privilege of having a material body, the privilege possessed by human beings alone to come in touch with the divine material body! So these beings rushed... of their being the Divine's instruments! The Mother in Her body was such an abode of miracles. Page 260 ... the physical presence of the Divine upon earth. Also it is said, when the Mother used to play on the organ, the same thing happened; there was a crowd of invisible listeners around Her; not only so, the Mother Herself revealed the secret, some beings, even departed musicians, also prayed to Her to be allowed to play on the organ through Her fingers – making the Divine their instrument instead of ...
... 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 it ( the body ), this is all right, and I think it is that which sustains its courage and gives it a kind... satisfied only... when the thing will be done, that is to say, when what is now a revelation—dazzling but short-lived—will be an established fact, when truly there will be divine bodies, divine beings dealing with the world in a divine way; then, then only it will say, "Yes, that is it", but not before. Well, that, I do not believe that it can be immediately. Because I see very well, very well what... But I never thought—I never thought that it could come quickly. First of all, one has only to try, as I do, on one's own body, see the difference between matter as it is, the constitution as it is, and then... what one may conceive of a divine existence—that is to say, divine , which is not at every second tied to the obscurity of a half inconscient matter... How long will it take? How long has it ...
... will their dream be realised if not here, in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram at Pondicherry, which has been their own creation, over whose shaping they have presided for almost fifty years, where their divine bodies remain interred in permanence, ceaselessly emanating their regenerating influence, and where the supramental Truth-Consciousness is inalienably active to bring about the desired earthly transformation... splendour of the Divine's rush And his impetuous knock at unseen doors." ( Ibid.) "Mortality's bond-slaves shall unloose their bonds, Mere men into spiritual beings grow And see awake the dumb divinity." (Ibid., p. 710) "Nature shall live to manifest secret God, The Spirit shall take up the human play, This earthly life become the life divine." (Ibid., p. 711)... of the Mother who are destined to appear "in the march of all-fulfilling Time", join this Ashram and turn it by their Tapasya into the divine Dream-Home of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother upon earth. Victoire à la Douce M è re: Victory to the Mother Divine! Page 91 ...
... not touched by them; he need not contract the illness of his patient in order to be in sympathy with him. The Divine -the Soul-can be in flesh and yet not smirched with its mire; the flesh is not essentially or irrevocably the ooze it is under certain given conditions. The divine physical body is composed of radiant matter and one can speak of it even as of the soul that weapons cannot pierce it nor... and suffering – evil – as an integral part of the Divine Consciousness. It is born out of the Divine, no doubt, as nothing can be outside the Divine, but it is a local and temporal formation; it is a disposition consequent upon certain conditions and with the absence or elimination of those conditions, this disposition too disappears. God and the Divine Consciousness can only be purity, light, immortality... inherent in God too, if he is a personality, and not Page 129 merely an abstract idea. God shares in the sufferings of men. He yearns for responsive love. There are divine as well as human passions and therefore divine or creative personality must always suffer to the end of time. A condition of anguish and distress is inherent in it." The view is logically enforced upon the Christian, it is ...
... 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 ( the body ), it's all very well, I suppose that's what gives it heart and a kind of smiling peace despite... satisfied ... when the thing is done, that is, when what is now a revelation—a dazzling but short-lived revelation—becomes an established fact; when there really will be divine bodies, divine beings who will deal with the world in a divine way. Then ... then it will say, yes, that's it, but not before. Well, I don't think that can be for right now. Because I see, I clearly see what is now at work...... Evidently not. But I never believed, I never believed it could come quickly. First of all, if one tries, as I do, with one's own body, to see the difference between matter as it is, its constitution as it is, and ... well, and what we can conceive of as a divine existence—"divine," that is, not tied down every second to the darkness of a nearly unconscious matter.... How long will it take? How long did ...
... great joy spread through my body like an electric current. I felt I had obtained the fruit, the total result of all my spiritual yearning through all my previous lives. I was truly fortunate. My mind became calm like a sea without waves. Tears of joy poured from my eyes. A face full of compassion, eyes shedding grace, as if all divine beauty had burst out as a divine smile on her lips, the Mother... Mother's sacred bed (the bed on which her pure and holy physical sheath had been kept for some days after she had assumed the inner golden body), I was meditating. With open eyes and not in an inner vision, I saw the Mother sitting on the bed with a glowing divine golden body which looked most concretely physical beyond a shadow of doubt. Source: Mother India, June 1980, Page 358 ... A Vision At 2 a.m. on Wednesday 17-10-1979 I was sitting and meditating in my room as usual. I had a vision in which I suddenly heard the continuous sound of our Divine Mother's car-horn. In a hurry I went down to the ground floor and reached the front door. The car was standing in front of my house. Pavitra very respectfully opened the door of the car. The Mother ...
... our body, this material envelope. Arani is also called Agniyoni. Rishi Vishwamitra says in the Veda: Manthata Narah . O man, churn. Churn your being so that you can awaken Chit-Shakti. Now let me tell you the story of the churning of the ocean as recounted in the Bhagavat . There was tremendous darkness in the whole of creation. The Asuras were running wild. The gods (signifying divine aspiration)... “Can’t explain; you won’t understand.” The Divine, by agreeing to hold the poison churned up from the world within Him, has been protecting us. That halahal has remained within him for all this time. In answer to one of the questions by the sadhaks He simply answered: “The time is extremely critical.” At the moment of renouncing His body to the material Consciousness, to Inconscience,... Light has reached today this material Consciousness, this pit of dense Inconscience. Just a little more needs to be done. We shall wait for Them in eager expectancy to grant us Their vision in divine bodies on this earth. ...
... or just a little better in some way, if possible; but to remould it in the very substance and constitution of the Spirit. And the ultimate goal of earthly life is not the Divine's crucified body, but the perfected glorious body. Naturally the old habits, the millennial forces, the ignorant and obscure movements of instinct and tradition cannot suffer such an upsetting. Earthly creatures, wherever... his sadhana and siddhi—Pithasthan. The Mother has not abjured his choice, she continues. Even so the Buddha had taken his seat under the Bo-tree and declared: I am here and I do not move. Let my body dry up, I sit firm and go through, to the end. The passage to heaven, Sri Aurobindo says, lies through hell. Here is his warning and beckoning: Here must the traveller of the upward way—... that—the mountain remains firm, the living structure that is to be there abides in its integrality and greatness, although the accidents look Page 129 like a tearing and a mauling of its body. Through all contraries and adversities, through all things that are broken and torn, through all that pass and disappear grows slowly and emerges irrevocably that which the Supreme wills towards ...
... सख्युर्निमिषि रक्षमाणाः ॥५॥ The gods and their wives altogether knew him and they came to him kneeling and bowed to the one who must be adored; and they exceeded themselves and made their own divine bodies and each friend was guarded in the gaze of his friend. त्रिः सप्त यद् गुह्यानि त्वे इत्पदाविदन्निहिता यज्ञियासः । तेभी रक्षन्ते अमृतं सजोषाः पशूञ्च स्थातृञ्चरथं च पाहि ॥६॥ The Masters... increasing the divine birth by the delight-offering, their walk is towards the gods. मथीद्यदीं विभृतो मातरिश्वा गृहेगृहे श्येतो जेन्यो भूत् । आदीं राज्ञे न सहीयसे सचा सन्ना दृत्यं भृगवाणो विवाय ॥४॥ When Matarishwan the Breath borne variously within us churned him into being, the Lord of Fire became the white and blissful one in every house. Man was a seer and kindler of the divine Fire and he... his sisters. He devours Earth's pleasant woods as a king devours his enemies. When driven by the breath of the wind he stands about in all the woodland, the Flame tears asunder the hairs of earth's body. श्वसित्यप्सु हंसो न सीदन् कत्वा चेतिष्ठो विशामुषर्भुत् । सोमो न वेधा ऋतप्रजातः पशुर्न शिश्वा विभुर्दुरेभाः ॥५॥ He breathes in the Waters like a seated swan. Awake in the dawn he has power ...
... namastute' Victory to Thee, Salutations to Thee Sarvam Khalhidam, Brahman: All is verily divine; the Divine is truly all; Rises a rich-textured chorus of adoration from a dedicated crowd of pilgrim souls. 114 In the solemn night streaked with beams of Light A hundred lovely bodies full of grace and strong Dance across the field of an incredulous vision, Like a stream... Time - indivisibly, The most beloved Being, the body of the ever-veiled Mystery, The compassionate Mother restores sight to my born-blind soul. My soul, a white candle bums on the altar without walls, Unafraid, needing no protection from the wind and the waves, For all is changed. There is only the Great Mother, the Divine Soul, Immeasurable pulsation of Love filling... The hero worshippers dance and slash and hew a straight path Through the demon hordes which deny the Will of the One. Ave Maria sends the soul soaring to the embrace of the Mother Divine. Bodies possessed by the divinities of beauty and harmony and the Soma wine Dance intoxicated as in a trance and oblige the psychic buds to blossom by their charm. The soul repeats the mantra; ...
... law of the body. For behind the gross physical sheath of this materially visible and sensible frame there is subliminally supporting it and discoverable by a finer subtle consciousness a subtle body of the mental being and a spiritual or causal body of the gnostic and bliss soul in which all the perfection of a spiritual embodiment is to be found, a yet unmanifested divine law of the body. Most of the... unity of the truth, power and delight of a divine existence. It will lift into that light and force and convert into their own highest sense our whole intellectual, volitional, dynamic, ethical, aesthetic, sensational, vital and physical being. It has the power also of overcoming physical limitations and developing a more perfect and divinely instrumental body. Its light opens up the fields of the su... pitch of their power and capacity, śakti , at which they become capable of being divinised into true instruments of the free, perfect, spiritual and divine action. For practical purposes we may take the understanding, the heart, the prana and the body as the four members of our nature which have thus to be prepared, and we have to find the constituent terms of their perfection. Also there is the dynamical ...
... In any case, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were not after such a suspension and not even after a divine immortality imposed on the body by a special Siddhi, a supernormal power exercised against the body's nature. What they wanted was to awaken the body's own latent Dharma of being divine so that a divine immortality would prove to be its very nature. Our critics would also do well to have a proper view... that the physical transformation, though not cancelled, has been postponed because of the Mother's giving up her body. We argued that this transformation in the sense intended by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother—a transformation supramentalising the body, turning the body totally divine— could be achieved only if either an Avatar of the Supermind was physically present amongst us or else the Supramental... s with its divine "causal body" and the immortality due to a medically induced suspension of degenerative processes in the gross body. The suspension could never be one-hundred-percent proof against the forces of degeneration; and the forces of accident, of "crass casuality", would still carry on their sport. Nor would the Godward-aspiring evolutionary soul be content to inhabit a body still working ...
... that ideal or causal body which is proper to our supramental being, and the conquest of the lower principles by supermind and its liberation of them into a divine life and divine mentality must also render possible a conquest of our physical limitations by the power and principle of supramental substance." 3 There would no doubt remain a material base for the New Body, but it will be 'a ... when the 'divinely human body' will make its appearance, the problem of material alimentation will lose all its validity and the divine destiny of the body will be amply realised. Page 313 ... with the physical body; that is only the earthly pedestal, the terrestrial base, the material starting point.... There are behind our gross physical being other and subtler grades of substance with a finer law and a greater power which support the denser body and which can... be made to impose that law and power on our dense matter ..." (Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, p. 260) ...
... integral living in the Divine. His body, life, soul and mind, in possession of the Divine and possessed by Him, will reveal nothing but Him in thought and feeling and action, and fulfil Him and His Will in the world. This is what Sri Aurobindo calls the Divine Life. Defining Page 51 the process and the condition of the Divine Life Sri Aurobindo says, "The Divine descends from pure... rise out of the ordinary ignorant world-consciousness into the divine consciousness, but to bring the supramental power of that divine consciousness down into the ignorance of mind, life and body, to transform them, to manifest the Divine here and create a divine life in Matter." 1 With regard to the "Advent" of the Divine, that is to •say, His unveiled manifestation in collective humanity... 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, as the "Prayers and Meditations" ...
... soul wishing to enter into a body or form for itself a body and take part in a divine life upon earth might be assisted to do so or even provided with such a form by this method of direct transmutation without passing through birth by the sex process or undergoing any degradation or any of the heavy limitations in the growth and development of its mind and material body inevitable to our present way... the standpoint that is taken, for no individual progress can come about without what could be called the "authorisation" of the divine Will. Ultimately, nothing in creation can happen without the sanction of the divine Will. So... Mother, will the first supramental body be like this? Like what? A transformation without passing through a terrestrial birth? Ah! Excuse me, you must not... someone and speaking with him, it is precisely to what surpasses all animality that you should speak; it is to the soul you must speak, never to the body. Even more is asked of you, for you are asked to address the Divine—not even the soul—the one Divine in every being, and to be conscious of that. But if only one person is conscious and the other is a brute, what will happen? If you alone are ...
... integral living in the Divine. His body, life, soul and mind, in possession of the Divine and possessed by Him, will reveal nothing but Him in Page 371 thought and feeling and action, and fulfil Him and His Will in the world. This is what Sri Aurobindo calls the Divine Life. Defining the process and the condition of the Divine Life Sri Aurobindo says, "The Divine descends from pure... to rise out of the ordinary ignorant world- consciousness into the divine consciousness, but to bring the supramental power of that divine consciousness down into the ignorance of mind, life and body, to transform them, to manifest the Divine here and create a divine life in Matter.”¹ With regard to the "Advent" of the Divine, that is to say. His unveiled manifestation in collective humanity... 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, as the Prayers and ...
... Life-powers in us, the purifying storm-gods who battle for the knowledge, they who are created by the divine Mind Indra and taught by Varuna who is the divine Purity and Wideness, are to attain to their enjoyment by the light of this Surya. The light of Surya is the form, the body of that divine vision. He is described as the pure and visioned force of the Truth which shines out in his rising like... forms, building up their divine bodies, and this new birth and self-building is the true nature of the Page 492 sacrifice,—the sacrifice through which there is the awakening of our consciousness to immortality. 4 The sons of the Infinite have a twofold birth. They are born above in the divine Truth as creators of the worlds and guardians of the divine Law; they are born also here... original divine order of things untouched by the falsehoods of the divided and separative consciousness. It is the vast divine and self-luminous synthesis born of a fundamental unity, of which our petty existence is only the poor, partial, broken and perverted cutting up and analysis. Such was the Sun of the Vedic worship, the paradise of light to which the Fathers aspired, the world, the body of Surya ...
... the priest of the word. In this sense Agni is said to be born from the heart of man; all the gods are thus born by the sacrifice, grow, and out of their human action assume their divine bodies. Soma, the wine of the world-delight, ________________________ 11.On the VedaTp. 111-12 12 This is the real secret of the external sense of Veda which is all that the modern scholars have been and so... birth and action as divine really knows me." Gita points out that divine action by the human being is possible; it is possible by a gradual development of the human consciousness. This is made clear in the Vibhuti Yoga chapters by Sri Krishna declaring: " I am Arjuna among the Pandavas " and Arjuna would be carrying the Divine Will and therefore doing divine action if he participated... values as a preparatory stage, as steps on the way to the discovery of the Divine Will. But it insists again and again upon the necessity of making the discovery. Though in a certain sense everything happens by the sanction of the Divine Will discoverable. This is the problem set before Arjuna in the Gita. One may equate the Divine Will to a principle, to an idea, an ideal, a value - which one follows ...
... in a resplendent, divinized body. Not only had many expected to see Sri Aurobindo and the Mother in a divinized body, they had also expected that they themselves would become immortal and share in their divine glory. K.D. Sethna, for instance, writes: ‘Psychologically, one of the most central facts of the early days [of the Ashram] was the conviction that complete divinization of the physical being... continuation and the deepening of the process. The yoga – and this should always be kept in mind – was taking place in the cells of the body, not in the vital, mental or spiritual parts of the being. More and more cells of her body were being spiritualized, even divinized. It was around this time that the Mother stated that the same spiritual experiences and realizations which all the Masters until then... time is past.” We want a race without ego, that has the divine Consciousness instead of the ego. It is that that we want. The divine Consciousness which will allow the race to develop itself and the supramental being to be born. ‘If you think I am here because I am compelled to, you are mistaken. I am not compelled. I am here because my body has been given for the first attempt at transformation ...
... eternal aspects of existence, are made one by its action in the spiritual being and Nature body of the Purushottama." 64 Gnostic Perfection and Divinizing the law of the Body The fourth element of perfection relates to the supramental Page 74 or Gnostic perfection and the physical body, and it aims at and accomplishes the transformation of life in the physical world as one... possession of planes and worlds beyond the material world. Perfection of the body as the outer instrument of a complete divine living on earth is a necessary part of the supramental transformation. In its highest movement, Sri Aurobindo envisages illumination of the whole physical consciousness and a divinizing of the law of the body. The yogic literature, particularly relating to Hatha yoga and Tantra,... sensational being and transmute them by a luminous and harmonizing conversion into a unity of the truth, power and delight of a divine existence. The super mind has the power even of overcoming physical limitation and developing a more perfect and divinely instrumental body. Explaining this third element of perfection that comes about by the progressive action of supramental transformation of our nature ...
... remains to be done.... The divine Consciousness and Truth manifested in her body "in a flash", as a "dazzling but short-lived" revelation bringing about "an imperceptible change" which sustained its courage and gave it "a kind of smiling peace". But it would be satisfied only "when truly there will be divine bodies, divine beings dealing with the world in a divine way"; but that would not happen... gone, the body was left to itself - purposely... little by little the cells began to wake up to the consciousness.... That started with a burst of the Love from the highest summit... and then... little by little, it came down into the body. Unlike earlier Yogis, Sri Aurobindo had said that the body could "even be the base for manifesting the Divine". Instead of the soul leaving the body to rise above... sadhana of the body. How long would it take to divinise a body tied to the obscurity of a half inconscient matter? Centuries, maybe. Apart from the work of infusing Consciousness into the Inconscient and replacing the domination and rule of so-called 'Fate' or 'Destiny' or 'Nature', our bodies are surrounded by "illness and misery and disorder" which have nothing in common with the Divine. But there are ...
... imposed on this sensible form and instrument of our being, then there may be even here a physical working of divine mind and sense, a physical working of divine life in the human frame and even the evolution upon earth of something that we may call a divinely human body. The Page 268 body of man also may some day come by its transfiguration; the Earth-Mother too may reveal in us her godhead... while the others are capable of a divine liberation. The ascent of man from the physical to the supramental must open out the possibility of a corresponding ascent in the grades of substance to that ideal or causal body which is proper to our supramental being, and the conquest of the lower principles by supermind and its liberation of them into a divine life and a divine mentality must also render possible... is the possibility of an infinite gradation. These considerations become of great importance when we consider the possible relation between the divine life and the divine mind of the perfected human soul and the very gross and seemingly undivine body or formula of physical being in which we actually dwell. That formula is the result of a certain fixed relation between sense and substance from which ...
... hinder the going on of my body which Sri Aurobindo has marked out for his work and on which the whole future of the world depends." How have we lived up to the duty to help her? Should we have taxed her less in the way of wanting to be with her? In fact she herself wanted to be with us as much as possible(To. put her divinely developing body in touch with our bodies was the raison d'etre of... suffering under the tremendous pressure of a divine Power of immortality which had never before brought its unrelenting all-transformative light into a stuff of flesh and bone deliberately accepted to be like our own in essence so that whatever would be achieved in it could represent a general human possibility. Finally, the suggestion of her words was that this body should be able to continue its work on... examples of insincerity. All of us suffer through the general condition of Ignorance - our lack of the Divine's luminous consciousness. There is also the seeming paradox that even the Avatar or the enlightened soul suffers. The latter has elements of humanity that are still open to dark forces. Our body, for instance, lives under laws that have not Page 34 yet been changed by the spiritual ...
... of the cherry trees and so thou canst take note that it is the Divine who makes the offering of this flower-prayer to heaven. When I had written it, all was effaced; but now the blood of the cherry-tree flows in my veins and with it flows an incomparable peace and force. What difference is there between the human body and the body of a tree? In truth, there is none: the consciousness which animates... devoted to the synthesis of knowledge. For the next seven years, Sri Aurobindo was to write, day after day, in one mighty avalanche almost the entire body of his work. He began writing three books simultaneously: The Secret of the Veda, The Life Divine, and The Synthesis of Yoga. Then he started writing five and even six books at a time—a most extraordinary feat! Mother has explained the secret... veiled from me?... Once more, everywhere I see cherry trees; Thou hast put a magical power in these flowers: they seem to speak of Thy sole Presence; they bring with them the smile of the Divine. My body is at rest and my soul blossoms in light: what kind of a charm hast Thou put into these trees in flower? O Japan, it is thy festive adorning, expression of thy goodwill, it is thy purest ...
... * Page 54 To work for the Divine is to pray with the body. When we work for the Divine, our body is reaching out to Him with love and we feel unmixed joys and our body becomes fresher, purer, happier and more smiling. In other works, our body is tired and unhappy. That is why to work for the Divine is to pray with the body. 15/20 fair 21 January 1944... notre esprit est toujours entoure de ce a quoi nous pensons. * Think of the Divine alone and the Divine will be with you. The Divine is everywhere, but it is only when we think Page 53 of the Divine alone that we are conscious of Him and then we definitely feel that the Divine is with us, because our spirit is always surrounded by that of which we think. *... be and what must be avoided, the true and the false, the Divine and the anti-Divine, we must act strictly according to this knowledge. And this knowledge comes by the Divine Grace. He is our life, our courage, our knowledge and our peace —how is it possible for us to live in this world without Him! That is why we say: "Without the Divine, life is a painful illusion. With Him all is bliss." ...
... wonderful golden form of divine beauty, radiating Light and Bliss. A little later the Mother's form merged in the form of Sri Aurobindo and became One with it. Then Sri Aurobindo also disappeared from the vision leaving behind an all-pervading Supreme Silent Consciousness of Sat, Chit and Ananda. In the nerves as well as in all the pores of my body ran a strong current of divine Ananda.... ... concrete physical presence inside the Ashram building. One day in the Ashram meditation hall... with open eyes and not in an inner vision, I saw the Mother sitting on the bed with a glowing divine golden body which looked most concretely physical beyond a shadow of doubt" (Gangadhar in Mother India Jun 1980:358ff) Earlier (GC: Nov'02) he spoke of seeing Her in the Meditation Hall. ... were at first distinct and separate, now combined into a single deep divine consciousness. The golden light descended further into the dark cavern of the dense Inconscient and lit up that entire field. The Inconscient was transformed....In a few minutes the whole scene changed. There appeared to the vision the divine golden compassionate form of Sri Aurobindo exuding Grace, Love and golden ...
... will race towards Zero: When that has been done, then we may hope to found securely the play in us of his divine Knowledge governing the action of his divine Power. The rest is the full opening up of the different planes of his world-play and the subjection of Matter and the body and the material world to the law of the higher heavens of the Truth: 6 The main object of the Power which... scale the sky .... Once more, everywhere I see cherry trees; Thou hast put a magical power in these flowers: they seem to speak of Thy sole Presence; they bring with them the smile of the Divine. My body is at rest and my soul blossoms in light: what kind of a charm hast Thou put into these trees in flower? O Japan. it is thy festive adorning, expression of thy goodwill. it is thy purest... descended Divine, although seemingly human, emblazons the Divine and brings out the Divine in others. X On 12 December 1916, Mirra finds that though her mind experiences the Divine in everything, in the vastest and the noblest as also in the least, the most futile things and activities, it cannot help wondering, why the latter prevail over the former. But when it turns to the Divine for ...
... limitations and developing a more perfect and divine instrumental body. The next element of perfection is that of the gnostic perfection in the physical body. The physical body is a basis of action, which cannot be neglected or excluded from the spiritual Page 75 evolution. A perfection of the body as the outer instrument of a complete divine being living on earth will be necessarily... vital, body to the Divine, for the love and union with the Divine, for its presence and power within the heart, for the transformation of the mind, life and body by the descent of the higher consciousness into our nature. This aspiration of the psychic being is essential and indispensable for the fullness of the integral Yoga. When the psychic imposes its aspiration on the mind, vital and body, they... consciousness proper to the limbs, cells, tissues, glands and organs. To make this consciousness luminous and directly instrumental to the higher planes and to the divine movement is what is meant in Sri Aurobindo's Yoga making the body conscious, that it to say, full of a true, awakened and responsive awareness instead of its own obscure, limited halfsubconscience. V The sub-conscient ...
... physical limitations and developing a more perfect and divine instrumental body. The next element of perfection is that of the gnostic perfection in the physical body. The physical body is a basis of action, which can not be neglected or excluded from the spiritual evolution. A perfection of the body as the outer instrument of a complete divine being living on earth will be necessarily a part of... vital, body to the Divine, for the love and union with the Divine, for its presence and power within the heart, for the transformation of the mind, life and body by the descent of the higher consciousness into our nature. This aspiration of the psychic being is essential and indispensable for the fullness of the integral Yoga. When the psychic imposes its aspiration on the mind, vital and body, then... Thy love, My body become Thy engine for earth-use; In my nerves and veins Thy rapture's streams shall move; My thoughts shall be hounds of Light for Thy power to loose. Keep* only my soul to adore eternally And meet Thee in each form and soul of Thee.¹ _______________ *Leave. ¹ Ibid., p. 143. Page 231 APPENDIX 1.4 The Divine Worker ...
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