... physical slumber. This habit of the mind has to be got rid of; the mind has to learn to be awake in the dream-state, in possession of itself, not with the outgoing, but with an ingathered wakefulness in which, though immersed in itself, it exercises all its powers. The experiences of the dream-state are infinitely various. For not only has it sovereign possession of the usual mental powers, reasoning... existence Page 519 of which our mind and sense catch only a few indications. The old Indian psychology expressed this fact by dividing consciousness into three provinces, waking state, dream-state, sleep-state, jāgrat, svapna, suṣupti ; and it supposed in the human being a waking self, a dream-self, a sleep-self, with the supreme or absolute self of being, the fourth or Turiya, beyond, of... phraseology of the old books, we shall find that the waking state is the consciousness of the material universe which we normally possess in this embodied existence dominated by the physical mind. The dream-state is a consciousness corresponding to the subtler life-plane and mind-plane behind, which to us, even when we get intimations of them, have not the same concrete reality as the things of the physical ...
... Prājñā . Yajnavalkya in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad states very positively that there are two planes or states of the being which are two worlds, and that in the dream state one can see both worlds, for the dream state is intermediate between them, it is their joining-plane. This makes it clear that he is speaking of a subliminal condition of the consciousness which can carry in it communications... it, is affected by its happenings because it accepts them, believes in them, they are to it real experiences, creations out of its conscious being; but it is unreal because it is a sleep state, a dream state, an eventually transient waking state, not the true status of the superconscient Reality. Here there is no actual dichotomy of being itself, but there is a multiplicity of status of the one Being;... can judge from the description of the three lower states of Self as the all-wise Intelligence, 1 the Seer of the subtle and the Seer of the gross material existence, this sleep state and this dream state seem to be figurative names for the superconscient and the subliminal which are behind and beyond our waking status; they are so named and figured because it is through dream and sleep—or trance ...
... worlds of subliminal consciousness. There is a complete difference between dream-state of yoga and the physical-state of dream. The ordinary dream-state belongs to the physical mind; in the dream-state of yoga the mind proper and inner mind are at work liberated from the immixture of the physical mentality. In the yogic dream-state, the mind is in a clear position of itself, and stands in contrast with... consciousness. Hence, the experiences of subliminal consciousness can be said to be experiences of yogic dream-state. Just as in ordinary dream-state, objects are cognized, not through sense organs, but by direct contact, even so the objects of the subliminal consciousness in yogic dream-state are also cognized by direct contact or intimate direct contact. The experiences of the subliminal consciousness... the ultimate Oneness, then one can say that the yogic dream-state can become a prelude to yogic sleep-state and even of still transcendental state (turiya). Thus, while the ordinary waking state, where only multiplicity or part of multiplicity is seen and experienced, is a state of Ignorance, the subliminal consciousness or the yogic dream-state can be regarded as a state of Knowledge-Ignorance, and ...
... The next state of Spirit, evolved out of Prajna, is the pure psychical or Dream State in which Spirit is in a condition of ceaseless psychical activity imagining, willing, selecting out of the matter which Prajna provides, and creating thought-forms to clothe the abundant variety of its multitudinous imaginations. The Dream-State is the psychical condition of Spirit and operates in a world of subtle matter... case. He has therefore a causal body for his Sleep-State or causal self, a subtle body for his Dream-State or psychical self and a gross body for his Waking-State or physical self. When he dies, what happens is simply the disintegration of the physical body and the return of the Waking into the Dream-State from which it was originally projected. Death, in the ordinary view, is a delivery from matter;... 233 into the Dream-State and no longer existing, the physical body must necessarily disintegrate since it has no longer a soul to support it and keep naturally together the gross material atoms out of which it is constructed. But because the physical body is destroyed or dropped off, it does not follow that no body is left. Man goes on existing after death in his Dream-State and moves & acts with ...
... hampered and imperfect activity; they considered therefore that man's mental life belonged properly to the Dream-State and only worked indirectly and under serious limitations in the Waking-State. They determined accordingly that mental life must be the result of consciousness working in the Dream-State on subtle matter. There remained the fundamental energy of consciousness, Will-to-be or shaping Delight... bring back no report except that one was in bliss. It is supposed to be a complete absorption in the Sushupti or the Turiya. Letters on Yoga, pp. 740-41 Dream-State and Sleep-State of Samadhi In the dream-state itself there are an infinite series of depths; from the lighter recall is easy and the world of the physical senses is at the doors, though for the moment shut out;... A Greater Psychology 16 States of Consciousness (a) Waking-State, Dream-State, Sleep-State ...only a small part whether of world-being or of our own being comes into our ken or into our action. The rest is hidden behind in subliminal reaches of being which descend into the profoundest depths of the subconscient and rise to highest peaks of ...
... does not. Why is it so?] It depends on the connection between the two states of consciousness at the time of waking. Usually there is a turn over of the consciousness in which the dream-state disappears more or Page 238 less abruptly, effacing the fugitive impression made by the dream events (or rather their transcription) on the physical sheath. If the waking is more... after getting up the dream memories fade away. Those who want to remember their dreams sometimes make a practice of lying quiet and tracing backwards, recovering the dreams one by one. When the dream-state is very light, one can remember more dreams than when it is heavy. Letters on Yoga, pp. 1493-94 1. ...Dream-consciousness is a vast world in which there are a multitude of provinces... there; or else in coming back these experiences of the deeper strata fade away and are quite forgotten before one reaches the waking state. But when there is a stronger dream-capacity, or the dream-state becomes more conscious, then one is aware of these deeper experiences and can bring back a transcript which is sometimes a clear record, sometimes a hieroglyph, but in either case possessed of ...
... or rather, four provinces: j ā grat or 'waking state', svapna or 'dream state', susupti or 'sleep state', and finally tunya transcending these all. "... the waking state is the consciousness of the material universe which we normally possess in this embodied existence dominated by the physical mind. The dream state is a consciousness corresponding to the subtler life-plane and mind-plane... plane proper to the gnosis.... The Turiya beyond is the consciousness of our pure self-existence or our absolute being..." (The Synthesis of Yoga, pp. 498-99) The sleep state and the dream state are thus seen to be the figurative names for the superconscient and the subliminal that lie respectively beyond and behind our normal waking awareness. Now it is impossible for us in our normal... deeper ranges of consciousness which are inaccessible for the moment to the reach of man's unregenerate waking awareness. Indeed, as Sri Aurobindo has aptly pointed out, the 'sleep state' and the 'dream state' of the ancient Yogic tradition "are so named and figured because it is through dream and sleep, — or trance which can be regarded as a kind of dream or sleep, — that the surface mental consciousness ...
... first enters the 'dream-state' and then proceeds to the 'sleep-state'. While in the dream-state, the outer mind of the Sadhaka becomes quiescent and his inner mind, separated from the outer and no longer covered up by it, ranges through a wonderful world of rich and variegated inner experiences. To obviate any possible misunderstanding that the nomenclature 'dream-state' or 'sleep-state'... the physical states of dream and sleep. "In the Yogic dream-state...the mind is in clear possession of itself, though not of the physical world, works coherently, ... [is perfectly] awake...not with the out-going, but with an in-gathered wakefulness in which, though immersed in itself, it exercises all its powers." 1 In the dream-state itself there is an infinite series of depths, starting ...
... condition or through a break or rift in our confined normality, that we can be on the surface conscious of the contacts or messages of the Superconscience. But, in spite of these figurative names of dream-state and sleep-state, the field of both these states of consciousness was clearly regarded as a field of reality no less than that of the waking state in which our movements of perceptive Page 443... the three states can be classed as parts of an illusion, our experiences of them can be ranked together as constructions of an illusory consciousness, our waking state no less illusory than our dream state or sleep state, since the only true truth or real reality is the incommunicable Self or One-Existence (Atman, Adwaita) which is the fourth state of the Self described by the Vedanta. But it is equally ...
... Why is it so? Page 304 It depends on the connection between the two states of consciousness at the time of waking. Usually there is a turn over of the consciousness in which the dream-state disappears more or less abruptly, effacing the fugitive impression made by the dream events (or rather their transcription) on the physical sheath. If the waking is more composed (less abrupt) or... after getting up the dream memories fade away. Those who want to remember their dreams sometimes make a practice of lying quiet and tracing backwards, recovering the dreams one by one. When the dream-state is very light, one can remember more dreams than when it is heavy. "Spiritual experience means the contact with the Divine in oneself (or without, which comes to the same thing in that domain) ...
... fact, following the ancient Wisdom of the Upanishads, 2 we can broadly divide the totality of our existence into four provinces or states: the 'waking state' (jāgrat), the subliminal or the 'dream-state' (svapna), the superconscient or the 'sleep-state' (suṣupti) and finally the state beyond or the 'ultimate state' (turīya). Corresponding to these four states of our existence, we have in us... 'wise of the outward' (jāgaritasthā-no bahiḥprajña ḥ ) 2 . No spiritual life or any higher or deeper realisation becomes possible if one remains fettered to this waking state. The Dream-State : This represents the subliminal condition of our conscious existence, the large luminous realm of interior consciousness, that corresponds to the subtler life-plane and mind-plane and even a ...
... thirty-two years and then approached Him once again. Prajapati gave a fuller explanation this time. "I have already told you," He said, "about the waking self. But the person that moves about in the dream-state is the one to be glorified. He is the Self, He is the Immortal, the Fearless, the Supreme Reality." Indra was satisfied and he started going back again, his doubts set at rest. But a fresh... "Granted," he thought, "any harm done in the waking state to the physical body does no hurt indeed to the dream-self, it does not reflect any flaws of the other. But one does feel during sleep, in the dream-state as if someone is coming to attack, one does feel that one is being pursued. If the dream-self too feels sorrow and affliction, then where is the gain, what makes it worth while?" Indra went ...
... into three, or rather four, provinces: jāgrat or waking state, svapna or dream state, suṣupti or sleep state, and finally turīya transcending these all. "The waking state is consciousness of the material universe which we normally possess in this embodied existence dominated by the physical mind. The dream state is a consciousness corresponding to the subtler life-plane and mind-plane behind... because our causal body or envelope of gnosis is not developed in us.... The Turiya beyond is the consciousness of our pure self-existence or our absolute being." 2 The sleep state and the dream state are thus seen to be the figurative names for the superconscient and the subliminal that lie beyond and behind our normal waking awareness. This last state, our waking state, is all the time blissfully ...
... Civilisation Desire-soul, 89 cf. Vital (being), the Divine, the, 165, 379, 357-58, 376-80 as a concrete certitude, 190 cf. Brahman; Sachchidananda Dream Self, 75, 79 Dream-State (svapna), 206-09 ordinary and yogic, 214 Dreams, 231-42, 351 remembering of, 238-39, 240 and the subconscient, 233-36 passim and the subliminal, 235-36, 240, 242 and visions, 242... Rejection, and suppression, 65-66 Rig Veda, 29, 31 Sachchidananda, 140, 161-66, 260, 325, 337, 357-58, 368, 374, 391-92 cf. Divine, the Samadhi, 211-19 dream-state of, 214-15 in the Gita, 217, 218 meaning of, in the Integral Yoga, 217 Nirvikalpa, 213 in the Yoga of devotion, 216 in the Yoga of Knowledge, 216 Sankhya, 103,... Suppression, and rejection, 65-66 and objectivity, 175-79, 192-94 Surface being, see Outer being Sushupti ( su ṣ upti), see Sleep-State svapna, see Dream-State Tamas. 108, 39, 110-15 passim, changed into ś ama, 118 Tao, 9 Tart, Charles T., 315, 321 Telepathy, 82, 178, 248 cf. Psychical phenomena Thinking mind, see ...
... by a man in his blindness, has a super-natural glory unexperienced by men of normal vision". The "supernatural glory" could have been a product of the dream-state as well as of the heightened inward sensibilities of a blind man. The dream-state of a mind like Milton's could also be responsible for the imagery Eliot 15 finds most memorable in him: "Milton is at his best in imagery suggestive... Coleridge never met with a repetition of the experience, though we may be right in viewing The Ancient Mariner and Christabel as resulting from a sort of prolongation or projection of the dream-state into the waking consciousness. If Milton is to be believed, he had a Kubla-Khan experience night after night from the Autumnal to the Vernal Equinox during several years. Might we not suggest ...
... dreams. It [ remembering one's dreams ] depends on the connection between the two states of consciousness at the time of waking. Usually there is a turnover of the consciousness in which the dream state disappears more or less abruptly, effacing the fugitive impression made by the dream events (or rather their transcription) on the physical sheath. If the waking is more composed (less abrupt) or... after getting up the dream memories fade away. Those who want to remember their dreams sometimes make a practice of lying quiet and tracing backwards, recovering the dreams one by one. When the dream state is very light, one can remember more dreams than when it is heavy. There is a change or reversal of the consciousness that takes place [ on waking up ], and the dream-consciousness in disappearing ...
... recollection the initial "Am" gets altered to "Ab" as if to render subtly evident the link with the suggestion of depth -"abyss" - in the adjective "Abyssinian". No doubt, the alteration is related to dream-state echoes from Coleridge's probable knowledge that a mountain in Abyssinia was called Aba Yared and from his reading in Bruce's Travels to the Source of the Nile that between a pair of ridges in... the fundamental reason why the damsel with a dulcimer (a phrase which itself also exemplifies poetic logic by alliterative effect) sings of Mount Abora rather than of Mount Amara is that the dream-state echoes provided the poet with a verbal instrument to achieve a connection of occult sense, a unifying spiritual glimpse. The connection is closer with the help of such an instrument than if it ...
... but a first conceptive potentiality and promise of integral emergence is visible. That integral emergence is the goal of evolving Nature." 2 Thus the cosmic sleep and the somnambulist dream-state have by no means terminated with man and his mind-consiousness . As a matter of fact, man's present condition is at best a state of half-sleep and half-waking, a state of veritable somnambulist... ess in which we are ignorant of the fundamental truths of existence — existence whether individual, cosmic or transcendent — and of the Reality that is at the basis of all things; while the dream state signifies that particular status in which we may be aware of this "reality" but only in a distorted, disfigured and topsy-turvy way. 3 Man, thus, proves to be a creature asleep in most parts ...
... Divine, p. 552. 14.15, 16, 17. The Life Divine, p. 630. Page 104 evolutionary ascent, has not yet arrived at its noontide effulgence. The cosmic sleep and the somnambulist dream-state of the waking soul has by no means terminated with man and mind-consciousness. As a matter of fact, man's present status is at best a state of half-sleep and a half-waking, a state of veritable ... in which we are completely ignorant of the fundamental truths of existence, — of existence individual, cosmic or transcendent, — and of the Reality that is at the basis of all things; while the dream-state signifies that particular status in which we may be aware of this "reality" but only in a distorted, disfigured and topsy-turvy way. 19 Man, thus, proves to be a creature asleep in most parts of ...
... The Sanskrit terms for the three are, respectively, Vaishwanara, Taijasa and Prajna -corresponding to the waking state, the dream-state and the sleep-state. The sleep-state, in which the consciousness is most in-drawn, represents the Divine Being, creator of both the dream-state and the waking one from its own depth of omnipotent vision. What is beyond is simply called Turiya, meaning "Fourth" ...
... thirty-two years and then approached Him once again. Prajapati gave a fuller explanation this time. "I have already told you," He said, "about the waking self. But the person that moves about in the dream-state is the one to be glorified. He is the Self, He is the Immortal, the Fearless, the Supreme Reality." Indra was satisfied and he started going back again, his doubts set at rest. But a fresh doubt... "Granted," he thought, "any harm done in the waking state to the physical body does no hurt indeed to the dream-self, it does not reflect any flaws of the other. But one does feel during sleep, in the dream-state as if someone is coming to attack, one does feel that one is being pursued. If the dream-self too feels sorrow and affliction, then where is the gain, what makes it worth while?" Indra went ...
... the human mind is termed imagination. The Rishis spoke of three worlds, three states of being and consciousness. The waking state, the dream state and the sleep state. The waking state means the physical consciousness, the material reality, earth. The dream state means the inner consciousness, the world of subtler formations. It is called the mid-world. Further beyond is the sleep-world, where all ...
... this point of support. Then I do not know where to fix my consciousness. Either it returns to external things and I then become quite awake and attentive to the outer world, or I fall into a half-dream state, although keeping my consciousness for a time attentive. It is not necessary to fix the consciousness anywhere. When you begin to participate in the higher consciousness, you will find it diffuse... the outer world you will see also at one time all the phenomena, noises, etc. as though you were a part of them ; you will embrace them in your consciousness, "they will occur in it". The half-dream state is not to be feared, but keep your consciousness attentive ; it will then probably shift inwards. But have you succeeded in quietening your mind ? Yes, in the first state in which I take a ...
... Isha in contemplation. Maheshwara. Ananda. The Seed State. Sleep. Hiranyagarbha. Manishi The Will in Buddhi God Manifold. The Saguna Brahman. The Qualities of God. The Dream State. Virat. Paribhu The Almighty. Mahat. The Self in creatures. God in Man (Avatars.) The Self in Nature. Images God as Fate God as ...
... should live firmly in the truth, express the truth in each movement of life, be a fit instrument of true realities” — such were the sweet notes that kept vibrating ceaselessly and noiselessly in my dream-state and that I heard now and again as a soft music in my waking state also. Although all attachment to the Vaishnava way of life had left me radically, my attachment to my parents, specially to my ...
... external to the person even though manifested in him and also the suggestions which are behind the impulses. When thus rejected the once habitual thoughts and movements may still manifest in the dream-state, because it is a well-known psychological law that what is suppressed or rejected in the waking state may still recur in sleep and dream because they are still there in the subconscient being. But ...
... this is the means and so as means for the work, I want it and not for anything else personal. In November last a fortnight after I saw you, I felt separation of Purusha and Prakriti once in the dream-state. Once I felt for nearly seven days that all my desires, as they were entering into me, were dissolving calmly as rivers in the ocean. Once I felt the world and all around me very terrible, kalasvarupa ...
... were bringing their light with them. A very brief glimpse, or happening, as I immediately woke up. Or, is it that it was happening after my waking up? Did it happen when I was still in the dream-state? No, I can't say. I don't know. But it was a vivid thing. Page 54 ...
... relation to that plane in a state of dreamless sleep. svabh ā va — "own being", "own becoming"; the essential nature and self-principle of being of each becoming. svapna — the dream-state, a consciousness correponding to the subtler life-plane and mind-plane beyond. svayamprak āś a — supreme existence supremely aware of itself; direct or essential knowledge. tamas ...
... Lord let himself surge in divine love to satisfy the wish of his fond and very dear friend, exceptional as he was amidst others. When a person leaves behind the waking condition and enters into a dream state, he identifies himself in it with all its objects; in the same manner the Avatar on the battlefield became all that is, brahmakataha . That is the richness, the plenty, the luminous opulence of ...
... rise above the tremendous void in front of you?" My spontaneous answer was "Yes." The next moment I woke up, a little stunned but deeply thankful to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother that even in the dream-state, face to face with an irreparable misfortune, my chief concern could be whether I was doing their Yoga properly. If we may put together little things with great, I may recount a conversation ...
... d there; or else in coming back these experiences of the deeper strata fade away and are quite forgotten before one reaches the waking state. But when there is a stronger dream-capacity, or the dream-state becomes more conscious, then one is aware of these deeper experiences and can bring back a transcript which is sometimes a clear record, sometimes a hieroglyph, but in either case possessed of a ...
... of transcendent and universal Brahman or Self,—they are merely conditions of Being and Consciousness—the Self that supports the Waking State or sthūla consciousness, the Self that supports the Dream State or subtle consciousness, the Self that supports the Deep Sleep State or Causal consciousness, kāraṇa , and the Self in the supracosmic consciousness. The individual of course participates, but these ...
... being—consciousness realised in the inner potentialities and intermediate states between the inmost supramental and the external—seen by the human consciousness as the subliminal and associated with the dream state.) M The inmost seed or condensed consciousness (the inmost supramental, glimpsed by the human consciousness as something superconscient, omniscient and omnipotent, Page 1337 and ...
... and to have higher forms of dream experience. Hostile dreams—e.g. sexsuggestions can be met and stopped in the dream itself and any result like emission prevented. 6) A waking will put on the dream state before sleeping becomes more and more effective. The subconscient is to be penetrated by the light and made a sort of bedrock of truth, a store of right impressions, right physical responses ...
... external to the person even though manifested in him and also the suggestions which are behind the impulses. When thus rejected, the once habitual thoughts and movements may still manifest in the dream-state, because it is a well-known psychological law that what is suppressed or rejected in the waking state may still recur in sleep and dream because they are still there in the subconscient being. But ...
... not do in the waking consciousness? The movement comes from a subconscient layer which is not allowed to express itself in the daytime. Is it because there is no mental control in the dream state and hence the vital being is free to act as it likes? Page 23 No true and constant control is established in that part as yet. An experiment: This morning while supervising work ...
... daimon or in-dwelling presence with whom he is identified on rare occasions but whom he recognises as a mighty independent spirit standing on a threshold between the waking intelligence and the dream-state. When the poet is genuinely inspired, a part of him is as though hypnotised by ideas, images, words into an absorbed aloofness from the outer mind; he becomes self-withdrawn, he wears a look of surrender ...
... should do so. But I really wouldn't like to do it from an arbitrary decision. I would like... You understand, I wouldn't like it to be "me" who decides. You told me that some time ago! [in the "dream" state] ( Banteringly ) I took a look and saw what you wanted to write, but I won't tell you! I saw two things, which were, so to speak, concomitant, or superimposed (they occupied the same space) ...
... dangerous happening. Its shock is felt even when I wake up. It comes sometimes in dreams - there is an effect of some inner shock or alarm on the body consciousness, which lasts after the dream state is over. At noon there is an urge to sleep. During the sleep I pass through ordinary or sometimes even lower dreams. And yet when I wake up I feel quite concentrated and withdrawn in ...
... Matter, making Matter its vehicle and embodiment. This is the mystery of the birth of Life, the first sprouting of consciousness in Matter. Life is half-awakened consciousness, consciousness yet in a dream state. Its earliest Page 37 and most rudimentary manifestation is embodied in the plant or vegetable world. The submerged consciousness strives to come still further up, to express itself ...
... Matter, making Matter its vehicle and embodiment. This is the mystery of the birth of Life, the first sprouting of consciousness in Matter. Life is half-awakened consciousness, consciousness yet in a dream state. Page 29 Its earliest and most rudimentary manifestation is embodied in the plant or vegetable world. The submerged consciousness strives to come still further up, to express itself ...
... truth, express the truth in āā Page 168 each movement of life, be a fit instrument of true realities— such were the sweet notes that kept vibrating ceaselessly and noiselessly in my dream-state and that I heard now and again as a soft music in my waking state also. Although all attachment to the Vaishnava way of life had left me radically, my attachment to my parents, specially to my ...
... What shall I do with that which does not make me immortal ?" Briti Ad. 2 Br. 4. Page 127 The Upanishads speak of various states of human consciousness. l. Jagrat—waking; 2. Swapna—Dream state 3. Sushupti—deep-sleep; 4. Turiya, the fourth one, above the mental state. Various levels of consciousness in man are also mentioned. 1. Annamaya, the physical; 2. Pranamaya, the vital; 3 ...
... dichotomy and oscillate between peaceful passivity and agitated activity. An integral union denotes a union in all the four states of our being at one and the same time— Jagrat (waking state), Swapna (dream state), Sushupti (massed sleep-state) and Turiya (transcendent state). It is to become absolutely one with the Absolute, but not by self-annihilation or tranced merger. If we refer to the state of the ...
... , which is. extroverted or externally cognitive (yahihprajña and enjoyer of the gross (sthūlabhuk). This is the vaiśvānara: or virāt state of Brahman. The second poise is that of the- dream state (svapnasthāna) introverted, or internally conscious and enjoyer of the subtle {praviviktabhuk). This is the Taijas state of Brahman. The third is that of the deep-sleep state (susuptisthāna) ...
... Truth, because only Truth is at rest, since it is. Strangely enough, this sort of slippage or shifting of the center of being does not loosen our grip on life, does not throw us into a sort of dream state we would be tempted to call hollow. On the contrary, we are utterly awake – it even looks as if the sleeper were in the one who talks, writes and telephones – in a state of alertness, but not alert ...
... of reasoning applies to the Omniscience of the Turiya . The Scripture also says "For of the Sight of the Seer there is no annihilation." Or indeed, since it is the Fourth that in the Waking and Dream State dwelling in all creatures is the light or reflection in them to which all objects present themselves as visible i.e. cognizable objects , it is in this way too the seer of all things for ever ...
... Somnambulism is not always due to preoccupations and cares! Yes, there are people who write wonderful things when in a state of somnambulism. But Tartini was not a somnambulist—it was in the dream-state that he wrote sonatas. Page 127 The other state is always a little dangerous, always. Unexpected things can happen, an accident to the vital, for instance. How can one be cured of ...
... concentrated anywhere,—except in this sense that in the waking state it is the mental Purusha that leads and the seat of the mental Purusha is in the head, behind the centre between the eyebrows. In the dream state what Page 63 remains active in the body is the externalising consciousness (or something of it) and the centre of that is in the neck (throat). In the suṣupti , if it is real suṣupti ...
... Beyond. But here it cannot mean that—it probably means a trance in a consciousness beyond the Mind. As to the dream, it was not a dream but an experience of the inner being in a conscious dream state, svapna-samādhi . The numbness and the feeling of being about to lose consciousness are always due to the pressure or descent of a Force to which the body is not accustomed but feels strongly. Here ...
... that is working which is everywhere without the necessity of our personal knowledge. This is the answer. "As to the dream, it was not a dream but an experience of the inner being in a conscious dream state, svapna-samādhi . The numbness and the feeling of being about to lose consciousness are always due to the pressure or descent of a Force to Page 129 which the body is not accustomed ...
... withdrawing into pure conscious existence. This is the Sankhya liberation. He may go inward into that larger existence of which he has the intuition and away from the superficial mentality into a dream-state or sleep-state which admits him into wider or higher ranges of consciousness. By passing away into these ranges he may put away from him the terrestrial being. There is even, it was supposed in ancient ...
... no trace of fatigue was left, but some muscular stiffness. Samadhi developed chiefly in the ordering of dream. The confused amalgamations of dream are being disentangled by the buddhi in the dream state itself. Occurrence of superior ideality in deep swapna samadhi. Some ideal rupa in jagrat. Vishaya occurs, but makes no definite progress. The attack of the external physicality and its ...
... other thinking, but sometimes descends to give its own character to thought manifested in the lower levels or regions of the subtle body. At night renewed action of coherence and ideality in the dream state. Page 1129 19 July 1919 Rf. [Reference] "Which I must act, briefness and fortune, work", of the approaching application to life of the ideal knowledge, power and guidance. In the ...
... consciousness has its eyes turned inward. Thus the transition from the sleep state to waking state is very often associated with a reversal, a turning over, of the consciousness in which "the dream-state disappears more or less abruptly, effacing the fugitive impression made by the dream events (or rather their transcription) on the physical sheath." 1 If the return to waking consciousness is ...
... becomes unconscious and gives no transcript of what is seen and experienced there, or else in coming back these fade away and are quite forgotten before one reaches the waking state. But when the dream- state becomes more conscious, one can often remember the deeper dream-experiences and these have a considerable interest and significance. (2) It is only the subconscious that is chaotic in its ...
... and yet what appears is no mere phantom, no sheer falsehood, but on the contrary the veridical fact itself getting realised in the form meant for it if the medium of its realisation is to be the dream-state, the form which alone answers to the Divine's plan for His own truth and which is in addition a necessary mode for that truth's fullest and richest sense of its own non-phenomenal being. ...
... Titan strokes And bore the fierce inner wounds that are slow to heal. But I think that in the Ashram's history the case I have reported is the first in which a misadventure in the dream-state got translated so substantially in the body. I may end by striking a spiritually optimistic note. When I had an occasion to relate the incident to Huta, she suddenly lighted upon an i ...
... should live firmly in the truth, express the truth in each movement of life, be a fit instrument of true realities — such were the sweet notes that kept vibrating ceaselessly and noiselessly in my dream-state and that I heard now and again as a soft music in my waking state also. Although all attachment to the Vaishnava way of life had left me radically, my attachment to my parents, specially to my mother ...
... live firmly in the truth, express the truth in each movement of life, be a fit instrument of true realities — such were the sweet notes that kept vibrating ceaselessly and noiselessly in my dream-state and that I heard now and again as a soft music in my waking state also. Although all attachment to the Vaishnava way of life had left me radically, my attachment to my parents, specially to ...
... is working which is everywhere without the necessity of our personal knowledge. This is the answer, "As to the dream, it was not a dream but an experience of the inner being in a conscious dream state, svapna samādhi. The numbness and the feeling of being about to lose consciousness are always due to the pressure or descent of a Force to which the body is not accustomed but feels strongly ...
... contemplation and concentration. The lowest state of the Self is what is experienced by us in our ordinary wakefulness Jāgarta; the next higher state of the Self is what is experienced in the dream state, swapna; this state occurs when we withdraw from the outer,' bahirmukha, consciousness Page 44 it is a state of deeper awareness, but it appears dreamy to our ordinary wakeful state; ...
... ip between the knowledge that comes to us by opening our senses outward with the knowledge that is arrived at by turning inwards; they also describe the transition from the wakeful state to the dream state and to the sleep state that culminates in the fourth state, turīya avasthā. They reveal the secret of the unity of the non-being and the being and even their identity; and through their great ...
... meditation and experience of Samadhi. The lowest state of the Self is what is experienced by us in our ordinary wakefulness, jagrita; the next higher state of the Self is what is experienced in the dream state, swapna, the state that comes when we withdraw from the outer, bahirmukha, consciousness; it is a state of deeper awareness, but it appears dreamy to our ordinary wakeful stage; the objects of ...
... railway train at full speed means rapid progress. What should we try to understand about dreams? Page 221 Simply to make precise where you are in the dream state. In a dream I saw X who had my time-piece. First he went straight to Arjava and then told me, "Now I will repair your time-piece." Does not this dream differ from the previous ones ...
... their final removal hereafter. SEXUAL DREAMS While I am getting some control over the sex impulses during the waking condition, there is absolutely no change in my dream state. How is that? It is absolutely necessary to get rid of sex interest. But the night dreams will only disappear after the waking mind is perfectly free. In last night's ...
... Matter, making Matter its vehicle and embodiment. This is the mystery of the birth of Life, the first sprouting of consciousness in Matter. Life is half-awakened consciousness, consciousness yet in a dream state. Its earliest Page 38 and most rudimentary manifestation is embodied in the plant or vegetable world. The submerged consciousness strives to come still further up, to express itself ...
... nature of precise visions and sometimes of revelations, and useful knowledge of a whole important order of things will be gained". 27 With most people, consciousness is below par in the dream-state. On the other hand, the dream-world includes obscure and unfamiliar tracts which impinge adversely on our consciousness; and this inferior dreamstuff must disappear gradually as we gain increasing ...
... for a subjective expression, direct and unhampered by any conventional considerations of fitness or otherwise of the subject and form of poetry. Often the new poetry deals with the sub- conscient, dream state, abnormal regions of man's consciousness, experiences of his vital and sensational being but its highest and greatest reach goes to the perception of the cosmic consciousness, to that of whole of ...
... memories of one's entire life—but while going back through the web, something is altered and distorted: there remains only a translation in the cage. We say, "It's a dream." But for Mother, the dream state seemed to be gone—She could no longer have "dreams": She could only see what was really there. And there was no longer any translation: it was direct and immediate, a "tactile vision." "Suddenly ...
... Page 140 Your dreams were very beautiful and, symbolically, very true. By the way, let me repeat, they were not really dreams; the state between sleep and waking or which is neither sleep nor waking is not a dozing but an inward gathered consciousness, quite as much awake as the waking mind, but awake in a different plane of experience. As for the dream of the cobras it could be taken... Symbolic Visions and Dreams Interpreted The depth of the sleep in your experience was intended to make you go deep inside and, as soon as you did so, you entered into the psychic and spiritual state which takes the figure of the beautiful maidān and the flow of white light and the coolness and peace. The staircase was a symbol of the ascent from this psychic and spiritual state into higher and higher... seeing and feeling things which are only partly or sometimes true but mixed with much that is false and misleading. It is good that there was something in your vital being which rejected it. The dream is evidently an indication of the difficulty you are experiencing. The sea is the sea of the vital nature whose flood is pursuing you (desires are the sea water) on your road of sadhana. The Mother ...
... developed of going back in memory from dream to dream, from state to state, till a sufficiently coherent knowledge of our sleep life is built up. But this training of the faculties of memory, as we shall presently see, does not prove sufficient to link the totality of our sleep-existence with our waking awareness. For that we have to grow conscious in the state of sleep itself. How to... fact that in the ordinary undeveloped state of our consciousness most of our sleep-experience remains unknown to our cognition and even the little that manages to reach our recording surface does so in the form of dreams and dream figures and "not in that condition which might be called an inner waking and which is the most accessible form of the trance state," 2 through a proper and methodical... sleep, a sleep of experience, can replace the ordinary subconscious slumber." 1 It is then that we have veridical dreams, dream-experiences of great value, conveying truths that are not so easy to get in our ordinary waking state. Thus problems are solved in our dream consciousness, which our waking consciousness could not possibly cope with; we are provided with warnings and premonitions ...
... subconscious as the storehouse of things which have been repressed and which lie buried, but not dead, and which continue to influence Page 105 powerfully the waking as well as the dreaming state. The "repetition compulsion", of which Freud spoke, is a well-recognised phenomenon in Integral Yoga which regards it as related to the subconscient. Sri Aurobindo speaks of it in the following... regarded as the opposite of depression. However, depression, accurately speaking, is an emotional state rather than a feeling. The state of depression may be associated with different feelings, such as grief, dejection, discouragement, inadequacy, helplessness, etc. The antipode of depression is the state of revolt which may be associated with not only anger but various other feelings such as resentment... only half-conscious and half-formed - this is always due to the fault of the state of consciousness in which the parents were when they conceived the child. Even as the state of consciousness of the last moments of life is of capital importance for the future of the one who is departing, Page 107 so too the state of consciousness in which the parents are at the moment of conception gives ...
... upon this Absolute Reality — something that/loots, something that can be said to be real only as a dream is real to the person who sleeps and who, on waking, finds that it was only a dream. The state of "wakefulness "possesses a quantum and degree of reality which the dream does not. The dream "seems to be real" while it lasts; but, on waking, it vanishes. Similarly, when the individual has had... substratum of the conscious- ness of egoism, the witness of the three states and distinct from the five sheaths 2 or coverings. Which knows everything that happens in the waking state, in dream, and in profound sleep; which is aware of the presence or absence of the mind and its functions; and which is the background of the notion of egoism. — This is that. Which Itself... ss Absolute, and becomes happy. It is this Supreme Oneness which alone is real, since there is nothing 4 else but the Self. Verily, there remains no other independent entity in the state of realisation of the highest Truth. All this universe which through ignorance appears as of diverse forms, is nothing else but Brahman which is absolutely free 5 from all the limitations ...
... November 1, 1932 Your dreams were very beautiful and, symbolically, very true. By the way, let me repeat, they were not really dreams; the state between sleep and waking or which is neither sleep nor waking is not a dozing but an inward gathered consciousness, quite as much awake as the waking mind, but awake in a different plane of experience. As for the dream of the cobra, it could be... estimate. I don't think we can complain of his seriousness about pacifism. Socialism and the rest of it; it was simply the form in which he put his dream, the dream he needed to fight for, needed by his Irish nature. Shaw's bugbear was unreason and disorder, his dream was a humanity delivered from vital illusions and deceptions, organising the life-force in obedience to reason, casting out waste and folly... the field in the form it takes in winter. "Blossoms a rose" must mean "blossoms as a rose, in the form of a rose"; the other sense seems to me inadmissible. "A casket for my dreams" can only mean "a casket (meant) to hold my dreams"—at least, for the moment I cannot think of any other sense. February 27, 1932 It is the darkest nights that prepare the greatest dawns— and it is so because ...
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