... it into the image of the supermind itself, but at first, ordinarily, in the more limited action of the gnosis when it takes the form of what we might call a luminous supramental or divine reason. It is as this divine reason that the supermind itself at the beginning may manifest its action and then, when it has changed the mind into its own image, it descends and takes the place of the ordinary intelligence... intelligence and reason. Meanwhile a higher supramental power of a much greater character has been revealing itself above which takes the supreme lead of the divine action in the being. The divine Page 812 reason is of a more limited character because, although not of the mental stamp and although an operation of the direct truth and knowledge, it is a delegated power for a range of purposes greater... reason; it is in the yet greater supermind that there comes the direct, altogether revealed and immediate action of the Ishwara in the human being. These distinctions between the intuitive mind, the divine reason and the greater supermind, and others within these gradations themselves, have to be made because eventually they become of great importance. At first the mind takes all that comes from beyond it ...
... optimism: no light is turned on the disconcerting facts of pain, suffering and discord to which our human consciousness bears constant and troubling witness; at most there is a suggestion that in the divine reason of things there is a key to these things to which we have no access. This is not a sufficient answer to our discontent and our aspiration which, however ignorant in their reactions, however mixed... but we say that that is not the whole of the divine purpose. For what is is only justifiable, finds its perfect sense and satisfaction by what can and will be. There is, no doubt, a key in the divine reason that would justify things as they are by revealing their right significance and true secret as other, subtler, deeper than their outward meaning and phenomenal appearance which is all that can normally ...
... these clouds away. Keep fixed on the one thing indispensable. May 8, 1934 I should like to say something about the Divine Grace—for u seem to think it should be something like a Divine Reason ^mg ^"H lines not very different from those of human 9ence. But it is not that. Also it is not a universal Divine Page 57 Compassion either acting impartially on all who approach ...
... d as conveying the sense of what Greek philosophers called Logos in a special connotation. Logos literally means "thought-word", but the Greek philosophers came to define it as the Word of the Divine Reason, God as the Creative Idea-Expression. The Keatsian passage is therefore Logopoeia in a double manner: its inmost subject is the Logos and its turn of speech has the thought-element in predominance ...
... is in its total aspect an intellectual as well as passionate maker of the beautiful from its own beauty. For, it answers in its own manner to the original divine Imagination which must also be a divine Reason creating a cosmos fraught with significance and system and Page 137 charged with the goal of revealing in one way or another the workings of Supernature within the natural. It is ...
... reason that the children of Immortality should be here to conquer it for God and the Spirit. If life is an insanity, then there are so many million souls to whom there must be brought the light of divine reason; if a dream, yet is it real within itself to so many dreamers who must be brought either to dream nobler dreams or to awaken; or if a lie, then the truth has to be given to the deluded. Nor, if ...
... ss that must radically change if we are to command and not only be occasionally visited by that higher power of knowledge. But it is not confined to a higher thought or the action of a sort of divine reason. It takes up all our present means of knowledge immensely extended, active and effective where they are now debarred, blind, infructuous, and turns them into a high and intense perceptive activity ...
... intervenes, the law of a supernormal Light and Will, a help, an opening from above. I should like to say something about the Divine Grace—for you seem to think it should be something like a Divine Reason acting upon lines not very different from those of human intelligence. But it is not that. Also it is not a universal Divine Compassion either, acting impartially on all who approach it and acceding ...
... and not an end in itself. The mind must learn to express only what is dictated by the Divine. Power of mental expression has no value unless it is in the service of the Divine. Page 339 Reason: an excellent instrument when at the Divine's service. Physical mind becomes a good instrument of action when it is content to be that alone. When the mind turns towards ...
... very different from it, but overmind has always something relative in its knowledge. 18 March 1933 In the Arya there is no mention of the Overmind. You have mentioned the supramental or Divine Reason in the gradations of the Supermind, but from its description it is quite different from the Overmind. Why was the Overmind not mentioned and clearly distinguished from the Supermind in the Arya ...
... The Hidden Forces of Life The Divine Grace I should like to say something about the Divine Grace—for you seem to think it should be something like a Divine Reason acting upon lines not very different from those of human intelligence. But it is not that. Also it is not a universal Divine Compassion either, acting impartially on all who approach it and acceding ...
... that are imperfect. And, though we may assert that only her individual items are faulty but her sum-total is faultless, we still do not quite get rid of our conclusion. To hold that in the divine reason of things there is a key beyond us to all the waste we witness is no sufficient answer. Sri Aurobindo himself starkly observes: "A Divine Whole that is perfect by reason of the imperfection ...
... remove the knowledge secret in the being but lost by the mind in the oblivion of the ignorance, the other divines at a first remove a greater power of that knowledge. One resembles the reason, is a divine reason, the other is [of] the nature of prophesis or inspired interpretation. Sparsha is now abundant in the three things formerly gained by the sadhana, touch of subtle water and fire, touch of light ...
... physical system. At night great vividness and constancy of the basic rasas. T² in the interpretative revelatory and highest revelation of the third scale. All now is the third scale, ie, the divine reason. Magnificent drishya in the deep and deepest swapna samadhi, scenes, happenings etc, great stability, perfection, sometimes chhayamaya of tejas, sometimes vivid with some jyoti in the tejas. ...
... and determinant conscious force working as supreme Intelligence and Will. The Vedic seers called it the Truth-consciousness and believed that men also could become truth-conscious, enter into the divine Reason and Will and by the Truth become immortals, anthrōpoi athanatoi . Does the thought of Heraclitus admit of any such hope as the Vedic seers held and hymned with so triumphant a confidence? or ...
... admonition of Sri Aurobindo meant to disabuse the mind of the sadhakas concerning the mode of action of divine Grace: "... you seem to think it {the Divine Grace] should be something like a Divine Reason acting upon lines not vary different from those of human intelligence. But it is not that." (/bid., p. 609) Another important point to note. Even when the Grace inter-venes in a case and ...
... of Immortality should be here to conquer it for God and the Spirit. If life is an insanity, then there are Page 142 so many million souls to whom there must be brought the light of divine reason; if a dream, yet it is real within itself to so many dreamers who must be brought either to dream nobler dreams or to awaken; or if a lie, then the truth has to be given to the deluded. 140 ...
... other words, for conceptual analysis, for system-building and organisation, reason could be a marvellous helper, but for invading the Invisible, for exploring the mystical, for plunging into the Divine, reason can definitely be a hindrance. On 5 May, 1929, the Mother enunciated this simple criterion: A power has the right movement when it is set into activity for the divine'spurpose; Page ...
... result is the same. One may for reasons of a practical nature refuse money which has been stolen, but that is for altogether practical reasons, it is not because of divine reasons. This is a purely human idea. One may from a practical point of view say, "Ah! No, the way in which you have acquired this money is disgusting and so I don't want to offer it to the Divine", because one has a human consciousness... generally misheld and misused by those who retain them.... For this reason most spiritual disciplines... proclaim poverty and bareness of life as the only spiritual condition. But this is an error; it leaves the power in the hands of the hostile forces. To reconquer it for the Divine to whom it belongs and use it divinely for the divine life is the supramental way for the sadhaka." Sri Aurobindo,... unnamable means, obviously, it would not be good to go and ask him for money Page 379 for some divine work, because that would be like "rehabilitating" his way of gaining money. One cannot ask, that is not possible. If, spontaneously, for some reason, he gives it, there is no reason to refuse it. But it is quite impossible to go and ask him for it, because it is as though one legitimised ...
... for people to say, 'He's a madman,' than to say, 'He's a boring sermonizer.' And all this was coming with his sense of humor, the way he has of saying, for example, that folly is closer to the Divine than reason! I don't know, I didn't hear the beginning, but certainly everything dealing with physical events [of Sri Aurobindo's life] will be expressed in a very reasonable and normal style so that... the thread. But is this thread so very necessary? Because the last time you read (I can't pinpoint exactly where), Sri Aurobindo seemed to intervene each time any of those habitual coherences of reason intruded, things you probably inserted precisely in order to join passages together and make them comprehensible. It was at these junctures (I can't remember them exactly) where he would occasionally ...
... emphatic in regard to the utility of reason up to a certain stage of mental evolution. She considers it dangerous to give up the help of reason so long as one lives in the mind and acts from the mind. "It is possible”, she says, "to give up reason only when you have passed beyond the mental activity. It is possible only when you have given yourself totally to the Divine. It is possible only when you have... are not in the hands of the Divine. "There is another condition altogether indispensable for you to be able to do without reason. And that is, not to be open at any point to the suggestions of the hostile world. As a matter of fact, if you are not completely freed from the habit of answering to adverse suggestions, then by giving up your reason, you give up reason itself, that is to say, common... is created to become a mental being, and if he is to manifest his human nature, reason must govern his life and not vital impulses. That is the elementary education that should be given everywhere. The reign of reason should not end until the coming of the psychic law which manifests the Divine Will.”¹ Reason must not be thrown overboard, but purified and raised to its full stature and held ...
... troubled unconsciousness. A spiritual consciousness is emerging and it is through this spiritual consciousness that one can meet the Divine. Religions, full of mental and vital mixed, troubled and ignorant stuff, can only get glimpses of the Divine; positivist reason with its questioning based upon things as they are and refusing to believe in anything that may or will be cannot get Page 270 ... beings which are interested in the maintenance of all negations of the Divine, error and unconsciousness, pain, suffering, obscurity, death, weakness, illness, disharmony, evil. Hence the perversion of the manifestation here, its inability to reveal the true essence of the Divine. Yet in the very base of this evolution all that is divine is there involved and pressing to evolve, Light, Consciousness, Power... precipitation of Asuric forces from the darker vital worlds has been predicted by some occultists as one first result of the pressure of the Divine Descent on their vital domain, but it was regarded as a circumstance of the battle, not as something helping towards the Divine Victory. The churning of Matter by the attempt of the human intellect to conquer material Nature and use it for its purposes may break ...
... (outside the reach of physical phenomena and hardly even there) to arrive at anything you can call an ultimate certitude. It is for this compelling reason that mentalising or enquiring about the Divine cannot by its own right bring the Divine.” 23 “Reason is in its nature an imperfect light with a large but still restricted mission and that once it applies itself to life and action it becomes subject... foundations of the global “family of man”. The value and the role of reason are therefore essential to a human humanity and deserve the highest esteem. Then why is reason devalued by all postmodern viewpoints? Why hold reason – once enthroned as the presiding deity of the French revolution as la Déesse de la Raison, the Goddess of Reason – responsible for the evils that befell humankind in the 20th century... has to be surpassed by the overman and afterwards by the supramental being, then reason, the mental being’s main means of consciousness, must be surpassed – something painfully traumatic and profoundly puzzling to a being that relies on reason as its principal means of awareness and expression, and that even deems reason to be the highest phenomenon achieved by evolution. How can the highest be surpassed ...
... ss. A spiritual consciousness is emerging and it is through this spiritual Page 224 piousness that one can meet the Divine. Religions, full of mental and vital, mixed, troubled and ignorant stuff, can only net glimpses of the Divine; positivist reason with its questioning based upon things as they are and refusing to believe in anything that may or will be cannot get any vision of... believe the descent of this Truth opening the way to a development of divine consciousness Page 239 there to be the final sense of the earth evolution. If greater men than myself have not had this vision and this ideal before them, that is no reason why I should not follow my Truth- sense and Truth-vision. If human reason regards me as a fool for trying to do what Krishna did not try, I... being and the conscious- ness and its richness of experience and its scope. People also value the power of vision for a greater reason than that: it can give a first contact with the Divine in his forms and powers, it can be the opening of a communion with the Divine—of the hearing of the Voice that guides, of the Presence as well as the Image in the heart, of many other things that bring what man ...
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