... of the consciousness. Working with a Double Consciousness One can both aspire and attend to the work and do many other things at the same time when the consciousness is developed by Yoga. It [ peace and contact in work, but no aspiration ] is because the energy is put outward in the work. But as the peace and contact grow a double consciousness can develop—one engaged in the work, another... —because that can take up the action at once. Absorption in Work It is the external mind that gets absorbed in the work and Page 257 covers what is behind. There must be a double consciousness, one acting, one behind observing, separate, free to continue the sadhana. The absorption in work is not undesirable—but the difficulty in turning inwards can only be temporary. A certain ...
... been developing. There is a sort of objectification, like scenes unfolding in which I am one of the characters; but it isn't "me," it is some character or other that I play in order to have the double consciousness, the ordinary consciousness and the true consciousness at the same time. There was a whole series of experiences to show simultaneously the True Thing and the sort of half-death (it's his word... another subject, this, that.... If you enter a certain state, then another time enter the other state, you can remember the difference and it's useful, but in this form of a play, with the double consciousness, the opposition becomes so real, so concrete that... you come out of it wondering, "How can you go on living Page 238 in this aberration when you have once TOUCHED—touched, experienced ...
... Rishabhachand can do sadhana as consciously and comfortably during work as during motionless meditation? Those who can do that have either the Force for work acting in them naturally or a double consciousness, one of which meditates, the other attends to the work. Did not the old Yogas always say that the approach to the Divine is more easy and direct through meditation than through... during work unless one has established in work the conscious contact with the Mother's Page 141 Force and is aware of that during the work or unless one has developed a double consciousness, the inner concentrated, the outer doing the work. The physical work becomes burdensome only if I have to do several things, one after another, without an interval in which to ...
... attitude. Afterwards, the Force can take advantage of this key to open the deeper dedication within." May I know in what terms this deeper dedication can be expressed? One begins to feel a double consciousness, one an inner being within which is always dedicated, spontaneously and silently full of the devotion to the Mother or aware of her Force working or of her presence or all these together and... consciousness during work unless one Page 244 has established in work the conscious contact with the Mother's Force and is aware of that during the work or unless one has developed a double consciousness, the inner concentrated, the outer doing the work. 12 April 1936 You seem to have written to X that there is a special force for the work and, if it is brought down, its action need not ...
... everything becomes glad and easy, in touch with the Mother's force and fatigue or depression do not come. Sri Aurobindo Developing a double consciousness It is because the energy is put forward in the work. But as the peace and contact grow, a double consciousness can develop - one engaged in the work, an- other behind, silent and observing or turned towards the Divine - in this consciousness the ...
... which is one of the two ways towards Yoga by works is the separation of the Purusha from the Prakriti, the inner silent being from the outer active one, so that one has two consciousnesses or a double consciousness, one behind watching and observing and finally controlling and changing the other which is active in front. But this also means living in an inner peace and silence and dealing with the activities... possible. When people remember all the time during work (it can be done), it is usually with the back of their minds or else there is created gradually a faculty of double thought or else a double consciousness—one in front that works, and one within that witnesses and remembers. There is also another way which was mine for a long time—a condition in which the work takes place automatically and without ...
... the inner consciousness and the higher being in you and by their strength change the outer existence. Page 231 The Double Consciousness The condition you describe in your work shows that the inner being is awake and that there is now the double consciousness. It is the inner being which has the inner happiness, the calm and quiet, the silence free from any ripple of thought, the inwardly ...
... possible for us in certain conditions of our being to be aware of several different states of consciousness at the same time. There is a state of being experienced in Yoga in which we become a double consciousness, one on the surface, small, active, ignorant, swayed by thoughts and feelings, grief and joy and all kinds of reactions, the other within calm, vast, equal, observing the surface being with ...
... the mind. I don't know IP that is possible. When people remember all the time during work (it can be done), it is usually with the back of their minds or else there is created gradually a double consciousness—one in front that works, one within that witnesses and remembers. But this is only a comment—I am not asking you to try that. For usually it does not come so much by trying as by a very simple ...
... possible. When people remember all the time during work (it can be done) it is usually with the back of the their minds or else there is created gradually a faculty of double thought or else a double consciousness — one in front that works, one within that witnesses and remembers. This is also another way which was mine for a long time — a condition in which the work takes place automatically and without ...
... in action. A discord, a gulf between the Self in knowledge and the same Self in its works needs explanation, but it presents itself as unexplained and inexplicable. Or, again, we can posit a double consciousness of Brahman the Reality, one static and one dynamic, one essential and spiritual in which it is Self perfect and absolute, another formative, pragmatic, in which it becomes not-self and with ...
... — rather तरसाभिभविता III. 49. 1 धिषणे. Earth & Heaven. (S.) विभ्वतष्टं विभुना ब्रह्माणा स्थापितं 2 द्विता तरति either “breaks through by separating” or “breaks through in the double consciousness” पृथुज्रयाः तीव्रवेगः S. जृ is either “to break, wear away” or “to love, woo, enjoy” सत्वभिः. S. सीदद्भिः मरुद्भिः. Rather “by powers of being” & “powers of force”. 3 कारे मतीनाम् ...
... call and the turning of all the energies towards the one object to arrive at any kind of full success (siddhi). Even those who have cut off all other ties, find it difficult not to live in a double consciousness, one inward and turned towards the spiritual change and the other which is still chained to the ordinary movements and pulls them down from their spiritual experience into the persistent and ...
... during my physical work unless I become careless. Now I feel that it is time I became aware of Her presence during intellectual activity also. How to start doing it? By developing a double consciousness, one that reads and writes and one that watches and receives the inspiration or is in contact with the Divine. While trying to remember the Mother during the intellectual ...
... possible. When people remember all the time during work (it can be done), it is usually with the back of their minds or else there is created gradually a faculty of double thought or else a double consciousness - one in front that works, and one within that witnesses and remembers. There is also another way which was mine for a long time - a condition in which the work takes place automatically and ...
... figure of a man-bull, whose four horns are the four divine principles, his three feet or three legs the three human principles, mentality, vital dynamism and material substance, his two heads the double consciousness of Soul and Nature, Purusha and Prakriti, his seven hands the seven natural activities corresponding to the seven principles. "Triply bound"—bound in the mind, bound in the life-energies, bound ...
... concentration, in the full waking condition, while walking, working, eating, drinking, talking with others, in any occupation, in sleep, in dream, in states of unconsciousness, semi-consciousness, double-consciousness. It is no nostrum or system or fixed practice, but an eternal fact of process based on the very nature of the Universe. Nevertheless in practice the name may be limited to certain applications ...
... thus fulfilling the suggestion about the 7ᵗʰ; but the intensities vary and there is not perfect continuity when the mind is turned away entirely from the body. Nevertheless the opening of a double consciousness which has the full mental or gnostic activity and below it the sense of the body has definitely set in in spite of frequent intermittence. At night rupa in samadhi accompanied by shabda, ...
... which is one of the two ways towards Yoga by works is the separation of the Purusha from the Prakriti, the inner silent being from the outer active one, so that one has two consciousnesses or a double consciousness, one behind watching and observing and finally controlling and changing the other which is active in front. But this also means living in an inner peace and silence and dealing with the activities ...
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