... other Gods, for all the Gods are One. We will, in the next chapter, consider the psychological conditions for realizing this Divine Soul in life, and see how to bring the expression of the Divine Soul here in life. We are trying only to envisage the existence of the Divine Soul in the Truth-Consciousness and to understand in what state it would be living if it had its permanent station there. It would... Status of Supermind Chap. 17. The Divine Soul Chap. 18. Mind and Supermind It is perhaps good to take chapters 16, 17, 18, together as all the three deal with the subject of the Supermind. Then the chapters that follow upto chapter 28th may be regarded as applications of the working of the Supermind. The 17th gives the status of the Divine Soul,—the central being, in the Supermind; the... soul, the psychic being, behind the ego wants to ascend, but it is self-contained in the Supreme. That is the Divine Soul and you may call that the J ī v ā tman, the Central Being of the human individual here whose distortion is the ego. Sri Aurobindo puts it here with logic : the Divine Soul is pure, infinite Self-existence in its being and sense-existence and a free play of immortal life in its becoming ...
... The Life Divine Chapter XVII The Divine Soul He whose self has become all existences, for he has the knowledge, how shall he be deluded, whence shall he have grief, he who sees everywhere oneness? Isha Upanishad. (Verse 7.) By the conception we have formed of the Supermind, by its opposition to the mentality on which our human existence... colouring. We can already ascertain on the basis of the conclusions at which we have arrived the essential nature of the divine life towards which we aspire. What then would be the existence of a divine soul, not descended into the ignorance by the fall of Spirit into Matter and the eclipse of soul by material Nature? What would be its consciousness, living in the original Truth of things, in the inalienable... simply that there is a Brahman higher than the highest, 1 an Unknowable that knows itself in other fashion than that of our knowledge; but the intellect cannot bring us into its presence. The divine soul living in the Truth of things would, on the contrary, always have the conscious sense of itself as a manifestation of the Absolute. Its immutable existence it would be aware of as the original " ...
... Sri Aurobindo begins to unveil for us the cosmic plan. Matter and Spirit are one substance: the Mother of the Universe has fallen asleep in matter and it is She herself who is bom of earth as the divine soul in us. Hers is "the infant longing" reaching out in us towards her Cosmic Self. Sri Aurobindo now sets before us a dazzling vision of divine love incarnate. In all Savitri there is no more perfect... about the existence of a Divine Creator, yet how narrow, insufficient and unsatisfactory all our speculations now appear when we experience Sri Aurobindo's magnificent sustained metaphor of the divine soul in man as "the sailor on the flow of Time", voyaging from the obscure ports of our origin to a destination in Eternity: He leaves the last lands, crosses the ultimate seas, He rums to eternal... can end the reign of Falsehood and Death. His prayer is granted: Savitri will be bom on earth and thereafter she will take up the Yoga. All that can be done by Man's strength and courage and the divine soul in him is accomplished by Aswapati: What more needs to be done for earth and men is the work of the Divine Shakti. The remaining twenty-four steps of the Yoga belong to Savitri alone. This story ...
... Indivisible, but as if divided in beings. Gita. (XIII. 17.) The conception which we have so far been striving to form is that of the essence only of the supramental life which the divine soul possesses securely in the being of Sachchidananda, but which the human soul has to manifest in this body of Sachchidananda formed here into the mould of a mental and physical living. But so far as... our consciousness in Time determining our particular field in Space; granted all this, still there is a free identification from moment to moment which only the inalienable self-knowledge of the divine soul prevents from fixing itself in an apparently rigid chain of separation and Time succession such as that in which our consciousness seems to be fixed and chained. Thus the depiecing is already... will-of-being as if they were separate forces, of knowledge-of-being with knowledge-of-being as if they were separate consciousnesses has already been founded. It is as yet only "as if"; for the divine soul is not deluded, it is aware of all as phenomenon of being and keeps hold of its existence in the reality of being; it does not forfeit its unity: it uses mind as a subordinate action of the infinite ...
... subordinate and instrumental meaning. He does not ignore them, but he is above them. Good happening and evil happening, so all-important to the human soul subject to desire, are to the desireless divine soul equally welcome since by their mingled strand are worked out the developing forms of the eternal good. He cannot be defeated, since all for him is moving towards the divine victory in the Kurukshetra... and his all-embracing sympathy and understanding. He has no wish to injure, but on the contrary a universal friendliness and compassion, maitraḥ karuṇa eva ca : but this compassion is that of a divine soul overlooking men, embracing all other souls in himself, not the shrinking of the heart and the nerves and the flesh which is the ordinary human form of pity: nor does he attach a supreme importance... desire; therefore he has anger and passion, pleasure and pain, joy and grief; therefore he measures all things in the balance of good fortune and evil fortune. None of these things can affect the divine soul; it is ever satisfied without any kind of dependence, nitya-tṛpto nirāśrayaḥ ; for its delight, its divine ease, its happiness, its glad light are eternal within, ingrained in itself, ātma-ratiḥ ...
... the Gita. Nara is the human soul which, eternal companion of the Divine, finds itself only when it awakens to that companionship and begins, as the Gita would say, to live in God. Narayana is the divine Soul always present in our humanity, the secret guide, friend and helper of the human being, the "Lord who abides within the heart of creatures" of the Gita; when within us the veil of that secret sanctuary... declaring emphatically the necessity of action, but it is here that he reveals its secret and the divinity behind our works. The symbolic companionship of Arjuna and Krishna, the human and the divine soul, is expressed elsewhere in Indian thought, in the heavenward journey of Indra and Kutsa seated in one chariot, in the figure of the two birds upon one tree in the Upanishad, in the twin figures of ...
... they are introduced: hour — day Gods — Satyavan awake — die Hour and day both refer to temporal aspect; Gods and Satyavan both refer to God and Spirit (Satyavan represents the divine soul embodied in human form); while a dramatic contrast is created between the opposing words "awake" and "die". Thus, there are three main lines of contrasting imagery which run thoughout the... Satyavan must die. {C} As we have already noted, this line introduces Satyavan and ends the first canto on a highly dramatic note. Satyavan is Savitri's beloved husband and represents the divine soul embodied in human form. It is for him that she will confront Death itself, and her victory represents a victory for all mankind. Before concluding our discussion, it should be pointed out ...
... Advaitin, the Vishishta-advaitin and the Dualist, however they may differ from each other, they all agree in underlining the importance of the discovery of the inner spirit or self in man, the divine soul in him, and some kind of living and uniting contact or absolute unity of the soul in man with God or Supreme Self or Eternal Brahman. The Indian religion allowed the freedom to conceive an experience... in the least rational form of questionable creed or dogma. It has, for example, been maintained that man is a being primarily created as a material living body upon earth into which a newly bom divine soul is breathed or else with which it is associated by the fiat of an almighty Creator. According to this view, each individual is given one opportunity to be on the earth and at the end of that opportunity ...
... is the pure divine ideation and formation in the Infinite, — only an ideation and formation that is organised not as an unreal play of mental thought, but as a real play of conscious being. The divine soul in this poise would make no difference between Conscious-Soul and Force-Soul, for all force would be action of consciousness, nor between Matter and Spirit since all mould would be simply form of... death, annihilation will be only rest, transition or holding back of the joyous creative Maya in the eternal being of Sachchidananda. At the same time this oneness will not preclude relations of the divine soul with God, with its supreme Self, founded on the joy of difference separating itself from unity to enjoy that unity otherwise; it will not annul the possibility of any of those exquisite forms of ...
... but into which we have not yet grown?’ 51 We are now familiar with Sri Aurobindo’s answer. The human being is a transitional being that is the embodiment of an eternal, divine soul. It is the evolution of this divine soul which causes and supports the material evolution from the deepest Inertia back to its divine Origin. As before man there has been a whole gradation of evolutionary steps, so ...
... is no more exit for him. There is one jar and there is one thin Spout. Biruba says: steady your move.9 NOTES 1. The divine soul or consciousness in man embraces both the sphere of consciousness, the higher and the lower. 2. That central consciousness hoards the delight, keeps it tight bound in the depth of the... 1. lotus = lotus of the heart. thunderbolt = referring to the solidity and luminosity of the Supreme Consciousness, Nirvana. 2. Outcast Woman = the Divine Soul in man; the name Chandali literally means she, the fierce one; outcast because usually not accepted or recognised by the ordinary consciousness. We may remember the union achieved in between ...
... conscious being, the Jiva lost to self-knowledge and bound in its works through a phenomenal subjection to Nature. The Avatar 2 therefore is a direct manifestation in humanity by Krishna the divine Soul of that divine condition of being to which Arjuna, the human soul, the type of a highest human being, a Vibhuti, is called upon by the Teacher to arise, and to which he can Page 156 only ...
... superiority. A divine compassion for the ignorance of the struggling mind, a divine will to pour forth on it all light and power and happiness there will be, indeed, for the apparent man; but for the divine Soul within him there will be more, there will be adoration and love. For from all, from the thief and the harlot and the outcaste as from the saint and the sage, the Beloved looks forth and cries to ...
... are universally admitted by all the many religious sects and conflicting religious philosophies of India. Universal also is the admission that the discovery of the inner spiritual self in man, the divine soul in him, and some kind of living and uniting contact or absolute unity of the soul in man with God or supreme Self or eternal Brahman is the condition of spiritual perfection. It is open to us to ...
... in sacrifice, sarvagataṁ yajñe pratiṣṭhitam , is the true, the Vedic knowledge. Page 117 But he may be known in an inferior action through the devas , the gods, the powers of the divine Soul in Nature and in the eternal interaction of these powers and the soul of man, mutually giving and receiving, mutually helping, increasing, raising each other's workings and satisfaction, a commerce ...
... world which has not its ultimate truth and support in the Divine. And if you are not stopped by the appearance, physical or moral or aesthetic, but get behind and are in touch with the Spirit, the Divine Soul in things, you can reach beauty and delight even through what affects the ordinary sense only as something poor, painful or discordant. Can it be said in justification of one's past that whatever ...
... law that a divinising, a saving power descends to limit and correct and gradually to eliminate the errors of an egoistic and self-divided creation. This descent, this sacrifice of the Purusha, the Divine Soul submitting itself to Force and Matter so that it may inform and illuminate them, is the seed of redemption of this world of Inconscience and Ignorance. For 'with sacrifice as their companion,' says ...
... rhythmic word which embodies an intuitive and revelatory inspiration and ensouls the mind with the sight and the presence of the very self, the inmost reality of things and with its truth and with the divine soul-forms of it, the Godheads which are born from the living Truth. Or, let us say, it is a supreme rhythmic language which seizes hold upon all that is finite and brings into each the light and voice ...
... state into its perfection by the natural interaction of its four essential elements. The Divine is existence all-embracing, infinite and pure; Varuna brings to us the infinite oceanic space of the divine soul and its ethereal, elemental purity. The Divine is boundless consciousness, perfect in knowledge, pure and therefore luminously right in its discernment of things, perfectly harmonious and happy in ...
... divinising principle, a saving power descends to limit and correct and gradually to eliminate the errors of an egoistic and self-divided creation. This descent, this sacrifice of the Purusha, the Divine Soul submitting itself to Force and Matter so that it may inform and illuminate them, is the seed of redemption of this world of Inconscience and Ignorance. "For with sacrifice as their companion," says ...
... is first the idea of certain religions, long persistent but now greatly shaken or discredited, that man is a being primarily created as a material living body upon earth into which a newly born divine soul is breathed or else with which it is associated by the fiat of an almighty Creator. A solitary episode, this life is his one opportunity from which he departs to a world of eternal bliss or to a ...
... It is the pure divine ideation and formation in the Infinite,—only an ideation and formation that is organised not as an unreal play of mental thought, but as a real play of conscious being. The divine soul in this poise would make no difference between Conscious-Soul and Force-Soul, for all force would be action of consciousness, nor between Page 156 Matter and Spirit since all mould would ...
... type and direction; this has to be freed from its limitations, enlarged, rounded so that the whole manhood in us may become the basis of a divine manhood, when the Purusha, the real Man in us, the divine Soul, shall act fully in this human instrument and shine fully through this human vessel. To divinise the perfected nature we have to call in the divine Power or Shakti to replace our limited human energy ...
... imperfect and crude movement. To escape from ego and be united with the Divine is at once the liberation and the consummation of his individuality; so liberated, purified, perfected, the individual—the divine soul—lives consciously and entirely, as was from the first intended, in and for the cosmic and transcendent Divine and for his Will in the universe. In the Way of Knowledge we may arrive at a point ...
... purpose in man cannot be utterly accomplished. Therefore Nature or the Will of God—for Nature is nothing but the Will of God in action—has provided that some, having indwelt in God, human soul in divine soul, shall be irresistibly called immediately, with brief respite or at long & last to the utter immersion. These go onward & throw away the last trace of Ego into God. Some of us, it has been said by ...
... be crushed by the weight of her own unillumined knowledge and soulless organisation’ 30 — words which are gaining significance in the computer age. All human beings in East and West have a divine soul, therefore knowledge and wisdom are potentially present everywhere. ‘There is no law of Nature by which spiritual knowledge is confined to the East or must bear the stamp of an Indian manufacture ...
... Revolution, who died on the guillotine. [^102]: The difference between an incarnation of an ordinary human being and an incarnation of the Mother or Sri Aurobindo is that, in the first case, the divine soul has accepted to dive into the ignorance, completely forgetting its divinity and starting its ‘adventure of consciousness and joy’ from scratch, as it were; while in the second case the soul remains ...
... He is the sole Seer (ekar ṣ e 35 ), Seer of Oneness and knower of the self, and leads him to the highest Sight... The result of this inner process is the perception of the oneness of all in the divine Soul of the Universe" 36 . What is important to note here is the spiritual fact that this Sight 26 Rig-Veda, VI. 9-5. 27. Ibid., I. 46-7. 28. Rig-Veda, IV. 52-4. 29.Is ...
... the Divine: after having distanced Himself from Himself, He moves by means of the evolution towards a Self-reunification in the ecstasy of Self-recognition. The human, being an incarnation of a divine soul and part of the evolution, participates in this yoga of the Divine. However, until now humanity has not been aware of the evolutionary significance of the world and of itself. It has seen the world ...
... rhythmic word which embodies an intuitive and revelatory inspiration and ensouls the mind with the sight and the presence of the very self, the inmost reality of things and with its truth and the divine soul-forms of it, the Godheads which are bom from the living Truth. Or, let us say, it is a supreme rhythmic language which seizes hold upon all that is finite and brings into each the light and voice ...
... which this Lady is taken to be Sachi; but that would immediately deprive her of the native truth-consciousness she always possesses. Indeed, though the human soul may grow in the likeness of the divine soul the two yet remain distinct, though one in identity yet separate. The individuality of the individual in the infinity of manifestation is a fundamental fact and, unless the soul decides to merge ...
... becomes there a long continued tradition. The desire of the soul for God is there thrown into symbolic figure in the lyrical love cycle of Radha and Krishna, the Nature soul in man seeking for the Divine Soul through love, seized and mastered by his beauty, attracted by his magical flute, abandoning human cares and duties for this one overpowering passion and in the cadence of its phases passing through ...
... character development is laid in the family, and parents have to set example about the values of human life such as those of self-giving and sharing, of love and respect. She said that everybody has a divine soul, and every person is an equal partner in the development of society. She added that while character development has to start at home, it should continue in schools, in community and in every domain ...
... its own home And Light invades the world's inconscient base And perished has the adversary Force, He still must labour on, his work half done. 243 The world-redeemer, the divine soul, stands steadfast in this tremendous task, and is neither tired nor daunted by failures and difficulties. His will is of steel, his determination of iron. In spite of the barriers and troubles, ...
... law that a divinising, a saving power descends to limit and correct and gradually to eliminate the errors of an egoistic and self-divided creation. This descent, this sacrifice of the Purusha, the Divine Soul submitting itself to Force and Matter so that it may inform and illuminate them, is the seed of redemption of this world of Inconscience and Ignorance. ... The acceptance of the law of sacrifice ...
... l dichotomies will disappear, and one will know that "there is nothing in the world which has not its ultimate truth and support in the Divine", and if one is in touch "with the Spirit, the Divine Soul in things", one will be able to pierce through the crust of the discordant and the painful, and reach the beauty and the delight. Nay more: one is also emancipated from the burden of the past ...
... cruelty and violence. The Mother of Might had power and was helpful in keeping up the upward movement of evolution in life but she lacked knowledge. Savitri promises to bring on her return from her divine Soul that element of perfection which each power lacks so as to establish a harmonious and divine working in Nature. Then moving through a mysterious passage she found her Soul. She also met the ...
... cult, Sri Aurobindo writes: The desire of the soul for God is there thrown into symbolic figure in the lyrical love cycle of Radha and Krishna, the Nature soul in man seeking for the Divine Soul through love, seized and mastered by his beauty, attracted by his magical flute, abandoning human cares and duties for this one overpowering passion and in the cadence of its phases passing through ...
... poetry: The desire of the soul for God is there [in Bengali Vaishnava poetry] thrown into symbolic figure in the lyrical love cycle of Radha and Krishna, the Nature soul in man seeking for the Divine Soul through love, seized and mastered by his beauty, attracted by his magical flute, abandoning human cares and duties for this one overpowering passion and in the cadence of its phases passing through ...
... ecstasy. But always one has to look not at the form, but through and into it to see that which has seized and informed it. The appeal of this art is in fact to the human soul for communion with the divine Soul and not merely to the understanding, the imagination and the sensuous eye. It is a sacred and hieratic art, expressive of the profound thought of Indian philosophy and the deep passion of Indian ...
... comes to an end; even this vast universe with its masses of worlds upon worlds which seemed to stretch into infinity is convicted in the end of being only a boundless finite. Man claiming to be a divine soul and an all-discovering intellect is brought up short by Nature's rude proof of his ignorance and incompetence and exhibits constantly in his thoughts the proneness to self-confident error and in ...
... (That yonder is this here & the Truth), & looking on Ishwara & Brahman moving & unmoving we have to say with the same Upanishad, "Purusha evedam sarvam karma tapo brahma paramritam." "It is the divine Soul that is all this, even all action and all active force and Brahman & the supreme immortality." We have to realise the Self everywhere, but we have also to remember always in all our being, to ...
... time-regarding conscious self of which we all are the habitations. So is the divine attitude towards existence constituted, the attitude of the Ishwara; a perfect & blissful calm & quietism of the divine soul harmonised & become one with a colossal activity of the divine Power driving before it the ordered whirl of a myriad forces occupying limitless Space & Time towards an eternally predestined end. ...
... is a religion of love and beauty and of the satisfaction of the whole delight-soul of man in God and even the desires and images of the sensuous life were turned by its vision into figures of a divine soul-experience. Few religions have gone so far as this immense catholicity or carried the whole nature so high in its large, puissant and many-sided approach to the spiritual and the infinite. Finally ...
... incomplete without its unity with the cosmic Many. And that lateral unity translates itself by a multiplication, a reproduction of its own liberated state at other points in the Multiplicity. The divine soul reproduces itself in similar liberated souls as the animal reproduces itself in similar bodies. Therefore, whenever even a single soul is liberated, there is a tendency to an extension and even to ...
... Germany, the romantic, völkisch ideology established a frame of reference which reached deeper into the nation.” 531 Germany felt itself possessing true values and not modern mental constructs, a divine soul and not only an arbitrary mind, strength rooted in an ever-present authenticity and not the weakening morality of an alien Judaic creed, and pure blood that was not degraded. It felt itself as the ...
... integral Yoga; it is the rendering in personal experience of the truth which universal Nature has hidden in herself and which she travails to discover. It is the conversion of the human soul into the divine soul and of natural life into divine living. The surest way towards this integral fulfilment is to find the Master of the secret who dwells within us, open ourselves constantly to the divine Power ...
... incompletenesses and limitations of the intellectual, religious, scientific or philosophic mind. These are stoppings short on the way or temporary exclusive concentrations, but a fullness of the divine soul and power of truth and knowledge in man is the perfection of this Dharma or Swabhava, the accomplished Brahminhood of the complete Brahmana. On the other hand the turn of the nature may be to ...
... human sorrow and physical suffering he must assume and use so as to show, first, how that suffering may be a means of redemption,—as did Christ,—secondly, to show how, having been assumed by the divine soul in the human nature, it can also be overcome in the same nature,—as did Buddha. The rationalist who would have cried to Christ, "If thou art the Son of God, come down from the cross," or points out ...
... Brahman, a divine movement opening out from God and returning to God. All is the expressive activity of Nature and Nature a power of the Divine which works out the consciousness and will of the divine Soul master of her works and inhabitant of her forms. It is for his satisfaction that she descends into the absorption of the forms of things and the works of life and mind and returns again through mind ...
... Surya to cast them into right order and relation and then draw them together into the unity of revealed truth. The result of this inner process is the perception of the oneness of all beings in the divine Soul of the Universe. × Vayu, called elsewhere Matarishwan, the Life-Energy in the universe. In the ...
... ultimate truth and support in the Divine. And if you are not stopped by the appearance, physical or moral or aesthetic, but get behind and are in touch with the Page 8 Spirit, the Divine Soul in things, you can reach beauty and delight even through what affects the ordinary sense only as something poor, painful or discordant. Can it be said in justification of one's past that ...
... distinction between the progressive soul (the soul which has experiences and progresses from life to life), what can be called the 'lower soul,' and the higher soul, that is, the eternal, immutable and divine soul—essentially divine. He wrote this when he was in contact with certain Theosophical writings, before I introduced Theon's vocabulary to him. For Theon, there is the 'divine center' which is the eternal ...
... 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 earth and the sky. 92 - 93 The House of the Mother O fortunate Pilgrim, voyager on ...
... "there is no more benumbing error than to mistake a stage for the goal or to linger too long in a resting-place." 3 After all, laws are nothing but the "habits of the world," 4 and the divine soul has taken its birth in the field of its apparent negation in order to accept laws for the moment and discard them when their necessity is over. And it is in this high and noble spirit that ...
... Surya to cast them into right order and relation and then draw them together into the unity of revealed truth. The result of this inner process is the perception of the oneness of all beings in the divine Soul. 21 RV, VII.60.5. 22 Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, SABCL, 1971, Vol. 18, pp. 489-90. 23 Ma Upanishad, 9, 10, 11. 24 Ibid., 6,7, 8. As in the Veda, so in the Upanishads ...
... and correct and gradually to eliminate the errors of an egoistic and self-divided creation. It was this descent, which has been described as sacrifice of the Purusha in the Veda, 8 whereby the Divine Soul has submitted itself to Force and Matter so that it may form and illuminate them. It is by the sacrifice of the Purusha that this world of Inconscience and Ignorance can be redeemed and transformed ...
... is the pure divine ideation and formation in the Infinite, — only an ideation and formation that is organised not as an unreal play of mental thought, but as a real play of conscious being. The divine soul in this poise would make no difference between Conscious-Soul and Force-Soul, for all force would be action of consciousness, nor between Matter and Spirit since all mould would be simply form of ...
... Yoga means literally joining together, joining all the discordant Page 10 parts of your being, all the quarrelling personalities lodged in you in one single harmonious entity – your divine soul. It is difficult, the process: the path of yoga starts with purification, which involves strenuousness, as tapasya, but that is the basis. However, as I have said, you are not alone on the path, ...
... Advaitin, the Vishishta-advaitin and the Dualist, however they may differ from each other, they all agree in underlining the importance of the discovery of the inner spirit or self in man, the divine soul in him, and some kind of living and uniting contact or absolute unity of the soul in man with god or Supreme Self or Eternal Brahman. The Indian religion allowed the freedom to conceive an experience ...
... in the least rational form of questionable creed or dogma. It has, for example, been maintained that man is a being primarily created as a material living body upon earth into which a newly born divine soul is breathed or else with which it is associated by the fiat of an almighty Creator. According to this view, each individual is given one opportunity to be on the earth and at the end of that opportunity ...
... conflicting religious philosophies of Hinduism; they differ only in respect of relations between these three. Universal also is the admission that the discovery of the inner spiritual self in man, the divine soul in him, and some kind of living and uniting contact or absolute unity of the soul in man with God or supreme Self or eternal Brahman is the condition of spiritual perfection. It is open to the adherents ...
... therefore, is concealed and partial. It awakens in the nature of man thirst for the Truth, attraction for Beauty, for Love, for Harmony. This it is obliged to do because in strong nature it is the divine-soul that leads. The devotion for truth, right, justice, the zeal for unselfish ideals that awake in man's nature is a sign of the working of the psychic being. Then the question is : is psychic ...
... day. It is the one with which the book opens. .The last occasion is when Savitri actually faces Death and unveils her Divinity. The reader will see that Aswapathy sees her as some unknown divine soul full of immense spiritual possibilities. He awakens in her the sense of those vast possibilities. She goes in search of her partner. When Narad sees her on her return after the choice he finds in ...
... "unfathomed, inexpressible, chantings": In those far-lapsing symphonies she could hear, Breaking through enhancements of the ravished sense, The lyric voyage of a divine soul Page 226 Mid spume and laughter tempting with its prow The charm of innocent Circean isles, Adventures without danger beautiful In lands where siren Wonder ...
... (nerve-energy or prāna) and Mind. The fourth. Psyche, is the "double soul" in man, the superficial desire-soul of our normal experience and the quintessential psychic-soul that is a portion of the Divine Soul: ...we have a double psychic entity in us, the surface desire-soul which works in our vital cravings, our emotions, aesthetic faculty and mental seeking for power, knowledge and happiness ...
... of an immortal spirit", and on the 29th a passage from The Synthesis of Yoga was read out, the key sentence being: The law of sacrifice.... This descent, this sacrifice of the Purusha, the Divine Soul submitting itself to the Force and Matter so that it may inform and illuminate them, is the seed of redemption of this world of Inconscience and Ignorance. 6 The Mother explains that sacrifice ...
... perfection of Karmayoga, as a correlate of the total perfection envisaged in the Integral Yoga of Sri Aurobindo, is an extremely long and difficult work, but it is the only work for which the divine soul has descended into human birth, and without which no perfection it attains can really be perfect. It has come down to fulfil "a Will that stirs in a divine peace, a Knowledge that moves from the ...
... Ashrams, people feel a glow of renunciation, owing to sannyasa; therefore they don't mind what they eat." Does the human soul eat vegetables? If they don't want to be divine souls why are they here — or if they have no aspiration? Aspiration to the Divine ought surely to give a glow sufficient for not minding about vegetables. On the same day my friend N's pain in his... in a day). Nergine is very strengthening. Somebody referring to the Ashram food said, "We cannot eat such vegetables. They are not meant for human souls. The people in charge ought to know that we are not divine souls. 1 A French preparation, something like Bournvita but less tasty. Page 53 We pass our outer life just like worldly men, ...
... Agni The Secret of the Veda The Eighteenth Hymn to Agni A Hymn of the Lords of the Plenitude [The Divine Will is invoked to complete the manifestation of the divine powers after the second state of the soul when it has passed beyond the mere physical being and is full of the perfect energy of the vital plane, for the gods have given all the life's fifty... the fullness of the soul has been spread as a seat of sacrifice in the power 5 of the luminous world and all its inspirations are set round about. ये मे पञ्चाशतं ददुरश्वानां सधस्तुति । द्युमदग्ने महि श्रवो बृहत् कृधि मघोनां नृवदमृत नृणाम् ॥५॥ Page 447 5) They who have given me fifty steeds of swiftness 6 with a perfect affirming, the divine souls that are lords of the... their offerings. द्विताय मृक्तवाहसे स्वस्य दक्षस्य मंहना । इन्दुं स धत्त आनुषक् स्तोता चित् ते अमर्त्य ॥२॥ Page 446 2) He is the plenitude of his own discerning mind for the second soul 2 when it bears the purified intelligence; then it holds in itself the continual wine of delight and affirms thee, O Immortal. तं वो दीर्घायुशोचिषं गिरा हुवे मघोनाम् । अरिष्टो येषां रथो ...
... time. Will ever the Vast wake even here a chime Of heavenly gold transmuting common day? Heart within heart— Calls a wide garden sown in a mirrored sky, Deep day of some divine world-soul with eye On blossoming eye, dream-single though apart! O roses, bright With love of a calm space that is all sun! O space of calm, miraculously one With each rose by a ...
... Will ever the Vast wake even here a chime Of heavenly gold transmuting common day? Heart within heart— Calls a wide garden sown in a mirrored sky, Deep day of some divine world-soul with eye On blossoming eye dream-single though apart! O roses, bright With love of a calm space that is all sun! O space of calm, miraculously one With each rose by a ...
... described as "Ashwins, divine souls, many-actioned, thought-holding" who accept and rejoice in the words of the Mantra "with an energetic thought",— purudaṁsasā narā śavīrayā dhiyā dhiṣṇyā. Nṛ in the Veda is applicable both to gods and men and does not mean simply a man; it meant originally, I think, strong or active and then a male and is applied to the male gods, active divine souls or powers, puruṣas... Rishis sought to establish and perfect between the three main interests of the human soul. Thought and its final victorious illuminations. Action and its last supreme all-achieving puissances, enjoyment and its highest spiritual ecstasies. The Soma-wine symbolises the replacing of our ordinary sense-enjoyment by the divine Ananda. That substitution is brought about by divinising our thought-action, and... the subtle powers and by extension in body. "Come, O Indra, impelled by the mind, driven forward by the illumined thinker, to my soul-thoughts, I who have poured out the Soma-juice and seek to express them in speech. "Come, O Indra, with forceful speed to my soul-thoughts, O lord of the bright horses; hold firm the delight in the Soma-juice." Page 86 The Rishi next passes to the V ...
... existence. The vision of the universal Purusha offers the Sadhaka a concrete living sight, in vivid images, of the visible greatness of the invisible Divine. The Sadhaka can then see the whole world related and unified in the very Body of the Divine. The soul admitted to this awe-inspiring vision beholds all things in one view, not with a divided, partial, and therefore bewildered seeing of the mental ... denials and oppositions. It is the vision that reconciles and unifies. If the soul can arrive at unity with the Godhead in this vision, ... all even that is terrible in the world loses its terror." (p. 364) Now let us take a joyous dip into some verses of Savitri wherein Sri Aurobindo is describing how the Divine intimately manifests himself through all that is in the cosmos: "The... in its heart stands Virât, King of kings." (680-81) We now propose to enter the "forbidden land", for we are daring to speak about the vision of the Supreme Form of the supreme Divine. But does the Divine have any form? Is he not arupa or "formless" as the monistic Vedantin would affirm? But before attempting to discuss these tricky questions it will be better if we first clearly ...
... living free in the Divine (in Me, it says) and acting in the world as the Jivanmukta. It is this latter kind of salvation on which it lays the greatest emphasis. So Ramakrishna put the "divine souls" (Ishwarakoti) who can descend the ladder as well as ascend it higher than the ordinary Jivas (Jivakoti) who, once having ascended, have not the strength to descend again for divine work. The full truth... compared with the Hindu tradition,—the idea that the world is not either a creation ofMaya or only a play, līlā , of the Divine, or a cycle of births in the ignorance from which we have to escape, but a field of manifestation in which there is a progressive evolution of the soul and the nature in Matter and from Matter through Life and Mind to what is beyond Mind till it reaches the complete revelation... rises into the divine nature; at the same time one offers all one's actions including the inner action of the Yoga as a sacrifice to the Purushottama, the transcendent and immanent Divine. When one has risen into the higher Self, has the knowledge and is free, one makes the complete surrender to the Divine, abandoning all other dharmas, living only by the divine Consciousness, the divine Will and Force ...
... 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 can fire burn it. Page 130 ... 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 ...
... perfection of free spirit in the divine nature and its conduct and happy expression in that law is what has to occur. Each one then becomes real-ideally his amsha , his part, a Vibhuti possessing correspondingly the aspect of him who is of infinite Quality, ananta guni ; one Narayana is then present in every Nara. These divine souls indeed will be the denizens of the divine creation that is to come on... Rare is this relationship, possible only when the Divine incarnates as an Avatar and embraces the ready soul. But, and quite understandably, it is generally the initiator-aspect alone that we associate with the Guru. In the one we see the unborn disciple, aja , entering into spiritual life and in the other the already realised soul, pakva , living in the white radiance of the Benign. ... traditional wisdom tells us that you have to give yourself to the Guru in order to be taken over entirely by him for your soul’s and your life’s fulfilment. The mother-child and the father-son are but only two types among the innumerable relationships there can be with the relationless Divine. Not only Father or Mother, he is also Teacher, Master, Lord, Friend, Philosopher, Guide, Preceptor, Playmate, Comrade ...
... concerned. (ii)Even when attained, there is no return for the majority of seekers from this supreme height of spiritual consciousness. It is only the exceptionally gifted Iswarakotis or "divine souls" who succeed in coming back to the waking state. Cf. Swami Vivekananda, Complete Works, Vol. VI, p. 499: "When once they [ordinary Sadhakas] somehow attain to the direct realisation... integral possession of the integrality of the Divine in the life of this world and not only beyond it. In short, in the words of Sri Aurobindo: "It is the object of my yoga to transform life by bringing down into it the Light, Power and Bliss of the Divine Truth and its dynamic certitudes. This Yoga is not a yoga of world-shunning asceticism, but of divine life ....It aims at a change of life and... in somebody, it does not last for long." (Swami Vivekananda, Complete Works, Vol. VII, p. 112) 2 The Life Divine, p. 912. Page 88 considered to be the summum bonum, one need concentrate only on an inner realisation of the inner Divine and not bother oneself with the possibility or otherwise of an integral terrestrial realisation. Also the body, although initially ...
... firmly established. (4) And thou, O divine Mind, by the mind lead us and by the radiances and by the illumined gods in us to that blissful state and by the soul that is founded in the divine and by the right mind of the godheads that preside in our sacrifice. (5) The divine who enjoys in us and is the creator of bliss and the master of nectar and the divine Mind that conquers all the wealth which... wholly bliss. (10) May these soul-thoughts that increase these gods in us be full of the bliss for the twin Riders on the Life,—the thoughts that we fashion like chariots for their movement, and we express in ourselves the limitless surrender. SUKTA 74 (1) Where are ye today,O Riders on the steed of living,O divine Twins rich in mental power, in the divine world of mind and of That ye have... they, O God-Mind, who are the souls that generate thy force and we thy chariot-warriors driving to thy onset; may there come to us, O Strength of the Dragon, the Fighter and delightful Enjoyer to whom we call in the bringings of our oblation. (6) For the energy in thee, O God-Mind, desires satisfaction of delight and, immortal, as in a dance thou fulfillest thy divine strengths. So do thou become ...
... thick, the night on the soul may be so black that faith may seem utterly to have left us. But through it all the spirit within will be keeping its unseen hold and the soul will return with a new strength to its assurance which was only eclipsed and not extinguished, because extinguished it cannot be when once the inner self has known and made its resolution. The Divine holds our hand through all... within and, if so, it will keep even the doubt-racked mind in the way so that it goes on in spite of itself towards its destined goal. Faith is a spiritual certitude of the spiritual, the divine, the soul's ideal, something that clings to that even when it is not fulfilled in life, even when the immediate facts or the persistent circumstances seem to deny it. This is a common experience in the... here. Faith is a certitude in the soul which Page 199 does not depend on reasoning, on this or that mental idea, on circumstances, on this or that passing condition of the mind or the vital or the body. It may be hidden, eclipsed, may even seem to be quenched, but it reappears again after the storm or the eclipse; it is seen burning still in the soul when one has thought that it was ...
... reversal, as it were, of the original plunge of Divine Love into its seeming opposite—the Infinite Inconscient. This time, it was not the covert but overt Divine, emerging from its transformed human embodiment, that dared the Inconscient realms to recover the Soul of Earth. It is crucial for the devotee to appreciate that it is only the Divine in us who can possibly undertake the Yoga of ... holocaust of Prakriti, the sacrifice of the Divine Mother. 17 The devotee-begins with the ardent aspiration that the return journey to his or her true home in the bosom of the Supreme Mother begins with the release of the Divine spark in us from the coils of Ignorance— the psychic being or soul. In truth, nowhere—not even in Hell—can we escape the Divine. A rishi of the Rig Veda knew this stupendous... call it 'vital cannibalism.' " 11 Vivekananda, speaking of Divine Love, told a sublime story: "A great saint said, using the language of a girl, describing love: 'Four eyes met. There were changes in two souls. And now I cannot tell whether he is a man and I a woman, or he a woman and I a man. This only I remember, two souls were. Love came, and there was one.' " 12 Among powerful ...
... plane. psyche —the soul; spark of the Divine before it has evolved into an individualised being; the divine essence in the individual. In the course of the evolution, the soul grows and evolves in the form of a soul-personality, the psychic being. See also psychic being and soul . the psychic —psychic being, the term is sometimes used for the psyche or soul. See also psyche and... original and essential nature of our existence. soul —the psychic essence or entity, the divine essence in the individual; a spark of the Divine that comes down into the manifestation to support the evolution of the individual. In the course of the evolution, the soul grows and evolves in the form of a soul-personality, the psychic being. The term "soul" is also often used as a synonym for "psychic being"... —consciousness. desire-soul —the surface soul which expresses itself in our cravings, impulses, feelings, emotions, ambitions, etc.; it is distinguished from the true soul in us—the psychic being. Dharma —law; the deepest law of one's nature; the right law of individual and social life; literally, that which one lays hold of and which holds things together. Divine, the —the Supreme Truth ...
... way of the Divine Truth. A suggestion of this kind is usually made by some adverse Power or by some Page 140 egoistic element of mind or vital which wants the Grace or the Force, but only in order to use it for its own purpose, and is not willing to live for the Divine Purpose,—it is willing to take from the Divine all it can get, but not to give itself to the Divine. The soul, the true... must be created for him from within, when he has the true consciousness and lives in the Light. They will be determined within him by the power and will of the Divine Mother according to the supramental Truth for the divine life and the divine work; they must not be determined by his mind and his vital desires. This is the thing you have to remember. Your psychic being is capable of giving itself to... ing her that the life of sansar is in its nature a field of unrest—to go through it in the right way one has to offer one's life and actions to the Divine and pray for the peace of the Divine within. When the mind becomes quiet, one can feel the Divine Mother supporting the life and put everything into her hands—these are the first things to do, if she wants to have peace. 16 April 1933 In these ...
... dealings; a divine strength and courage and a divine compassion and helpfulness are the very stuff of that which he would be, they are that very nature of the Divine which he would take upon himself as a robe of spiritual light and beauty. The revolvings of the great wheel bring to him no sense of terror or giddiness; he rises above it in his soul and knows from above their divine law and their divine purpose... ensnare us because what the soul enjoys is no longer the object as an object but the Divine which it expresses; the inhibition of pleasure is no longer needed when the soul no longer seeks pleasure but possesses the delight of the Divine in all things equally without the need of a personal or physical possession of the thing itself; self-denial loses its field when the soul no longer claims anything... opposition has led to the entire rejection of world-existence as a lie, an insanity of the soul, a troubled and unhappy dream or at best a flawed, specious and almost worthless good or to its characterisation as a kingdom of the world, the flesh and the devil, and therefore for the divinely led and divinely attracted soul only a place of ordeal and preparation or at best a play of the All-existence, a game ...
... parts of man are constitutionally incapable of concentrating on the Divine and making Him the sole object of their pursuit, unless the soul has awakened and infused its fire-passion into them. The soul is made of love and joy, and it is not by any effort or outer influence, but by an innate, spontaneous urge that it turns to the Divine and offers itself to Him. It is the central being in man, embodying... moving, so inspiring and so exalting as the expression of man's love for the Divine. The soul's beauty and sweetness are, as it were, distilled into the love-lyrics of the mystics, and no human relation has ever reached the depth, the amplitude, the consuming intensity of passion which characterise the relation between the human soul and its eternal Beloved. Life becomes a Paradise, and even its crosses... Psychic Love The most sincere and poignant expression of love for the Divine is essentially psychic. It is the soul in man that alone can pierce through the veil of appearances and deliver itself to the Divine with the unreserved self-abandon of an absolute Page 30 love. Neither the mind nor the surface heart of fugitive emotions ...
... value of human personality and dealing most plastically with them, never pierces satisfactorily to the metaphysics of psychological facts. He does not conceive the immortal soul and its intimate relation to some divine Over soul who is the essence and perfection of the personal as well as of the impersonal. Also, the absorption in "physical phenomena and methods to handle them" lays too much emphasis ...
... momentarily pulled you outward or else more inward to that dimension in which the Divine Mother holds all her children together in the depths of her love. I have been graced with a general sense of this dimension, for there is in my heart a warmth and a glow which I feel in a certain measure to be simultaneously my own Little soul and a heavenly hugeness known to be Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, a hugeness... Has stolen from horizons watched alone Into thy being like a fathomless smile ... ? I think the three verses breathe something of your present and your future in relation to the Divine. Your soul is seen peering into the dream-distances that are our approach to the immensity of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. It is isolated from the hubbub and hunger of the common world and wants nothing... hostile powers into disarray so effectively as laughter in their faces. Laughter at them blows off their pretence of overwhelming strength and evokes in us a sense of the Divine Ananda hidden in our depths. It stirs into activity the true soul of us that is sweetness and light and strength and an intrinsic unstainable purity. This "psychic being" is an effortless dweller in the presence of the Supreme, a ...
... Thou as a human instrument of the divine Power and Wisdom hast in this Page 383 struggle which thou canst not prevent to battle for the right and slay and conquer its opponents. Thou too, the human soul in Nature, hast to enjoy in Nature the fruit given by me, the empire of right and justice. Let this be sufficient for thee,—to be one with God in thy soul, to receive his command, to do his... was the cause of his doubt and bewilderment and refusal of action. Now he knows what is the sense of the birth and passing away of existences. He knows that the imperishable greatness of the divine conscious Soul is the secret of all these appearances. All is a Yoga of this great eternal Spirit in things and all happenings are the result and expression of that Yoga; all Nature is full of the secret... —and all are the One. It is this vision that to the eye of the divine Yoga liberates, justifies, explains all that is and was and shall be. Once seen and held, it lays the shining axe of God at the root of all doubts and perplexities and annihilates all denials and oppositions. It is the vision that reconciles and unifies. If the soul can arrive at unity with the Godhead in this vision,—Arjuna has ...
... portion of the Divine. The soul, representative of the central being, is a spark of the Divine supporting all individual existence in Nature; the psychic being is a conscious form of that soul growing in the evolution—in the persistent process that develops first life in matter, mind in life, until finally mind can develop into overmind and overmind into the supramental Truth. The soul supports the... above the Adhara—most people are not aware of their central being (Jivatma)—they are aware only of the ego. The psychic is the soul—it is a portion of the Divine that supports the mind, life and body in the evolution. The psychic gets the Divine's help directly from the Divine. The central being is that which is not born, does not evolve, but presides over all the individual manifestation. The... parā prakṛtir jīvabhūtā . In this lower manifestation, aparā prakṛti , this eternal portion of the Divine appears as the soul, a spark of the Divine Fire, supporting the individual evolution, supporting the mental, vital and physical being. The psychic being is the spark growing into a Fire, evolving with the growth of the consciousness. The psychic being is therefore evolutionary, not like the Jivatman ...
... a general word = śraddhā —the soul's belief in the Divine's existence, wisdom, power, love and grace—confidence and trust are aspects of faith and results of it. Confidence is a feeling of sureness that the Divine will hear when sincerely called and help and that all the Divine does is for the best. Trust is the mind's and heart's complete reliance on the Divine and its guidance and protection... the perception that this Divine Consciousness can be realised not only beyond but here, and the consequent acceptance of a divine life as the aim of Yoga, do not belong to the mind. It is not a question of mental theory—even though mentally this outlook can be as well supported as any other, if not better,—but of experience and, before the experience comes, of the soul's faith bringing with it the... even goes on in spite of himself, because it feels that what it followed after was yet true and it more than feels, it knows. The fundamental faith in Yoga is this, inherent in the soul, that the Divine exists and the Divine is the one thing to be followed after—nothing else in life is worth having in comparison with that. It was this faith growing in you that made you come for Yoga and this faith has ...
... which is the way of the Divine Truth. A suggestion of this kind is usually made by some adverse Power or by some egoistic element of mind or vital which wants the Grace or the Force, but only in order to use it for its own purpose, and is not willing to live for the Divine Purpose, - it is willing to take from the Divine all it can get, but not to give itself to the Divine. The soul, the true being, on... 30 The soul, the psychic being is in direct touch with the divine Truth, but it is hidden in man by the mind, the vital being and the physical nature. One may practise Yoga and get illuminations in the mind and the reason; one may conquer power and luxuriate in all kinds of experiences in the vital; one may establish even surprising physical Siddhis; but if the true soul-power behind does... together make what we call the higher spiritual or Divine Consciousness. The psychic opening through the heart puts us primarily into connection with the individual Divine, the Divine in his inner relation with us; it is especially the source of love and Bhakti. This upward opening puts us into direct relation with the whole Divine and can create in us the divine consciousness and a new birth or births of ...
... true seeking for the Divine in the being, it must lead eventually to the realisation of the Divine. The soul within has always the inherent ( ahaitukī ) yearning for the Divine; the hetu or special motive is simply an impulsion used by it to get the mind and the vital to follow the inner urge. If the mind and the vital can feel and accept the soul's sheer love for the Divine for his own sake, then... in the heart opens within and by following this inward opening and going deep one becomes aware of the soul or psychic being, the divine element in the individual. This being unveiled begins to come forward, to govern the nature, to turn it and all its movements towards the Truth, towards the Divine, and to call down into it all that is above. It brings the consciousness of the Presence, the dedication... is absolute or tends towards the absolute in man and his seeking as well as in the Divine—something not to be explained by mental reasoning or vital motive. A motive, but a motive of the soul, not of vital desire; a reason not of the mind, but of the self and spirit. An asking too, but the asking that is the soul's inherent aspiration, not a vital longing. That is what comes up when there is the sheer ...
... dharma as a fighter, Arjuna, “the representative man of a great world-struggle and divinely guided movement of men and nations,” is initiated in yoga on the battlefield. Now he learns “what is the sense of the birth and passing away of existences. He knows that the imperishable greatness of the divine conscious Soul is the secret of all these appearances.” 8 As a confirmation of the revelation... first principles of the divine nature in action.” And the Mother had the following prayer printed in the Ashram School notebooks: “Make of us the hero-warriors we aspire to become. May we fight successfully the great battle of the future that is to be born, against the past that seeks to endure, so that the new things may manifest and we be ready to receive them.” O soul, intruder in Nature’s ignorance... world-wide Divinity seeing with innumerable eyes, speaking through innumerable mouths, armed for battle with numberless divine uplifted weapons, glorious with divine ornaments of beauty, robed in heavenly raiment of deity, lovely with garlands of divine flowers, fragrant with divine perfumes. Such is the light of this body of God as if a thousand suns had risen at once in heaven. The whole world mul ...
... explained all that indetail and, on account of his laborious research, the question of the human soul and its immortality have been expounded and answered in completeness, in the light of new knowledge. According to Sri Aurobindo, there is in the human being a psychic entity or the divine individual soul. This soul puts forward a formation, which evolves gradually in the human complex of the body, life... pur-pose for which the soul comes down into the body, life and mind. Hence, a further task remains still to be accomplished. A part of this task is to develop body, life and mind to such a point of perfection that they too become divinised, and one could describe the divinised body, life and mind as the divine temple, that lives physically on the earth and manifests fully the divine consciousness in each... his soul, because the soul is immortal. But what is the nature of the soul? What is its location? How does it function? Why is it located in the chariot as it smaster? These questions are answered briefly. First of all, it is said that the soul is no larger than the thumb of a man and that itis seated in the midst of the Self. That soul is the knower of his past and his future. That soul is ...
... Nothing better than formulations like these, condensing scores of volumes of learned writing, tells us about the void the contemporary thinking Western human is living in. All essences – the Divine, the soul, the occult existences – are declared unknowable; everything is accidental, unexplainable in its origins (which are nothing but “abstract systems and relationships”), and without meaning in its... × Sri Aurobindo: The Life Divine, p. 190. × See the chapter called “The Divine Maya” in The Life Divine, p. 112 ff. – It is painful to read time and again how childish the notions of some of the most famous scientists... 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 to what ...
... for a divine richness and diversity, for a manifold delight of self-manifestation, for the joy of the powers of the Infinite. In the intermediate stages or degrees of the gnosis there might be the manifestation of various and separate expressions of the aspects of the divine Being and Nature, a soul and life of love, a soul and life of divine light and knowledge, a soul and life of divine power and... spiritual integer. A similar inevitability of the union of freedom and order would be the law of the collective life; it would be a freedom of the diverse play of the Infinite in divine souls, an order of the conscious unity of souls which is the law of the supramental Infinite. Our mental rendering of oneness brings into it the rule of sameness; a complete oneness brought about by the mental reason drives... but he gives to them, as the divine Individual, his own turn in the manifestation so that each among the Many is a unique self of the one Divine. The Divine, the Eternal, expresses himself as existence, consciousness, bliss, wisdom, knowledge, love, beauty, and we can think of him as these impersonal and universal powers of himself, regard them as the nature of the Divine and Eternal; we can say that ...
... BHAGAVATE, make me as You are, divine. As the atoms in a laser crystal are tuned to the same frequency, so she used the age-old mantra ‘OM Name Bhagavate’ 93 to tune the vibration of her cells to the divine supramental Power in order to assist them in their transformation. ‘OM Namo Bhagavate’ was her mantra. For a mantra springs spontaneously from the soul, or the soul spontaneously begins vibrating... first has to find one’s soul,’ said the Mother in 1955, ‘this is wholly indispensable, and you have to identify with it. Then you can go on towards the transformation … You cannot skip this link, it is not possible.’ 55 In these words, we hear an echo of what Sri Aurobindo wrote in The Life Divine : ‘This is the first step of self-realisation, to enthrone the soul, the divine psychic individual in... preventing by its incoherent vibrations every direct contact with the Pure, the Harmonious, the Divine. The soul remains forever unstained; our thinking can be quieted or tuned harmoniously; feelings can be purified — but the body in its fundamental elements is the Great Barrier Reef in the tide of the divinization. That is why the Mother felt such a strong need of a mantra for her body: the power of the ...
... afterfmath. Aswapati's soul was passing on "towards the end which ever begins again." 134 It was approaching "the source of all things human and divine." Far beyond the zone of "nameless Gods", even beyond the Abode of Ishwara-Ishwari, "the deathless Two-in-One", "a single 131 Adaptation from The Life Divine, SABCL, Vol. 18, p. 337. 132 Essays Divine and Human, CWSA, Vol. 12... existence. The vision of the universal Purusha offers the sadhaka a concrete living sight, in vivid images, of the visible greatness of the invisible Divine. The sadhaka can then see the whole world related and unified in the very Body of the Divine. The Soul admitted to this awe-inspiring vision beholds all things in one view, not with a divided, partial, and therefore bewildered seeing of the mental... Here are just a few verses from Savitri referring to this divine Gnosis, the Supermind: Now mind is all and its uncertain ray, Mind is the leader of the body and life, Mind the thought-driven chariot of the soul- Mind is not all his tireless climb can reach, There is a fire on the apex of the worlds, There is a house of the Eternal's Light, There is an infinite ...
... This ego has to be extinguished, otherwise there is no complete liberation possible; but the individual self or soul is not this ego. The individual soul is the spiritual being which is sometimes described as an eternal portion of the Divine, but can also be described as the Divine himself supporting his manifestation as the Many. This is the true spiritual individual which appears in its complete... the Guru and the chief mantra of Buddhism insists on saranam to Buddha. For other paths of sadhana, especially those which, like the Gita, accept the reality of the individual soul as an “eternal portion “ of the Divine or which believe that Bhagavan and the bhakta are both real, the help of the Guru has always been relied upon as an indispensable aid. I don’t understand the objection to the validity... within and, if so, it will keep even the doubt-racked mind in the way so that it goes on in spite of itself towards its destined goal. Faith is a spiritual certitude of the spiritual, the divine, the soul’s ideal, something that clings to that even when it is not fulfilled in life, even when the immediate facts or the persistent circumstances seem to deny it. This is a common experience in the ...
... knowledge in the soul gets covered up — but it persists behind the veil. In you, in spite of your difficulties, there is always the knowledge or intuition in the soul that started you on the way. I have been pressing on you the need of faith because the assent has again to take a positive form (vairagya is but the negative form of this assent in you) so as to give free way to the Divine Force; but the... there within, and, if so, it will keep even the doubt-racked mind in the way so that it goes on inspite of itself towards its destined goal. Faith is a spiritual certitude of the spiritual, the divine, the soul's ideal, something that clings to that even when it is not fulfilled in life, even when the immediate facts or the persistent circumstances seem to deny it. This is a common experience in the life... same, so it is here. Faith is a certitude in the soul which does not depend on reasoning, on this or that mental idea, on circumstances, on this and that passing condition of the mind or the vital or the body. It may be hidden, eclipsed, may even seem quenched, but it appears again after the storm of the eclipse; it is seen burning still in the soul when one has thought that it was extinguished for ...
... true seeking for the Divine in the being, it must lead eventually to the realisation of the Divine. The soul within has always the inherent (ahaituk ī ) yearning for the Divine; the hetu or special motive is simply an impulsion used by it to get the mind and the vital to follow the inner urge. If the mind and the vital can feel and accept the soul's sheer love for the Divine for His own sake, then... the unrolling of the play of the Divine Lila [play]. It is this attitude that gives the greatest calm, peace, samat ā [equanimity] in face of the riddle of the cosmic workings. It is not meant that action and movement are not accepted but they are accepted as the Divine Working which is leading to ends which the mind may not always see at once, but the soul divines through all the supreme purpose... even goes on in spite of himself, because it feels that what it followed after was yet true and it more than feels, it knows. The fundamental faith in Yoga is this, inherent in the soul, that the Divine exists and the Divine is the one thing to be followed after—nothing else in life is worth having in comparison with that. It was this faith growing in you that made you come for Yoga and this faith has ...
... Inconscience, the very opposite of the Divine, and evolutionarily manifesting the Divine Fullness through aeons of travail due to the dark beginning of things, and reaching at last a series of epiphanic accomplishments on earth, the Supramental Manifestation and all the revelations of the Divine in man and nature that will follow in its wake, the result of the human soul ascending beyond the mind and ... and soul were assumed into the divine life. This had an effect on the whole cosmos. Through this event a power was released in the world by which matter and life and human consciousness are destined to be transformed, so as to participate in the divine life and consciousness. In that final state, time and space are transcended and the whole universe and mankind is assumed into the divine life... because the Divine is not only the Self of selves but also the Lord and Mother and Playmate and, from age to age, the Avatar, but even while relating man to the Divine under all these aspects Sri Aurobindo, in tune with his own spirituality as well as that of the whole Indian past, never denies the Gita's vision of the human soul as being in its last reality a portion of the Divine and knowing ...
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