... ... is the seer of inner things and of supraphysical experiences; the surface subconscious is only a transcriber. It is for this reason that the Upanishad describes the subliminal being as the Dream Self because it is normally in dreams, visions, absorbed states of inner experience that we enter into and are part of its experiences,— just as it describes the superconscient as the Sleep Self because... a reality and is no longer an ideative perception. The Life Divine, pp. 541-42 The psychical consciousness is that of what is now often called the subliminal self, the subtle or dream self of Indian psychology, and its range of potential knowledge, almost infinite... includes a very large power and many forms of insight into both the possibilities and the definite actualities of ...
... "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 ...
... Gita. (IX. 33.) This Self is a self of Knowledge, an inner light in the heart; he is the conscious being common to all the states of being and moves in both worlds. He becomes a dream-self and passes beyond this world and its forms of death.... There are two planes of this conscious being, this and the other worlds; a third state is their place of joining, the state of dream, and when... entity,—is the seer of inner things and of supraphysical experiences; the surface subconscious is only a transcriber. It is for this reason that the Upanishad describes the subliminal being as the Dream Self because it is normally in dreams, visions, absorbed states of inner experience that we enter into and are part of its experiences,—just as it describes the superconscient as the Sleep Self because ...
... Corresponding to these four states of our existence, we have in us four selves or rather the four-fold status of the one Self that is Brahman: the waking self or Vaiśvānara, the Waker; the dream-self or Taijasa, the Dreamer; the sleep-self or Pr ā jña, the Sleeper; and finally the supreme or absolute self of being, the Fourth (caturtha), the Incommunicable (avyavahārya), the One without... 484-85. Page 72 It is because of its inward plunge bringing in its train a wealth of inner experiences, dreams and visions, that the self in this status has been termed the 'dream-self that is wise of the inward' (svapnasthāno'ntaḥprajña ḥ ). 1 The Sleep-State : This corresponds to a still higher super-conscient status, a state of pure consciousness (prajñānaghana) ...
... "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 ...
... but the Brahman as symbolised in the OM, the sacred syllable of the Veda; not, therefore, the pure state of the Universal Existence only, but that Existence in all its parts, the waking world & the dream self and the sleeping, the manifest, half-manifest and hidden, Bhurloka, Bhuvar & Swar,—the right means to win all of them, enjoy all of them, transcend all of them, is the subject of the Chhandogya. ...
... manifest in many other forms besides her physical one, and though I am rather less multitudinous, I can also. But that does not mean that you can take any gentleman for me or any she for her. Your dream-self has to develop a certain discrimination. That discrimination cannot go by signs and forms, for the vital beggars can imitate almost anything, it must be intuitive. 23 May 1935 Page 128 ...
... by Prana out of original matter. Brahman is Vaisvanor, the Waking Self, in whom is contained and by whom exists all this evolution of physical Page 274 world; Brahman is Taijasa, the Dream Self, in whom is contained and by whom exists all the psychical evolution from which the physical draws its material; Brahman is Prajna, the Sleep Self, in whom all evolution psychical & physical is for ...
... to stop at this imperfect probability, for the latest researches of psychology make it almost overwhelming in its insistence & next door to the actual proof. We now know that within men there is a dream self or sleep self other than the waking consciousness, active in the stunned, the drugged, the hypnotised, the sleeping, which knows what the waking mind does not know, understands what the waking mind ...
... 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 which all these are derivations for the enjoyment of relative experience in the world. If we examine ...
... light of life, 283 cf. 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 ...
... manifest in many other forms besides her physical one, and though I am rather less multitudinous, I can also. But that does not mean that you can take any gentleman for me or any she for her. Your dream-self has to develop a certain discrimination. That discrimination cannot go by signs and forms, for the vital beggars can imitate almost anything, it must be intuitive. My interest in poetry is growing ...
... physical consciousness and the material existence. The Synthesis of Yoga, pp. 844-46 The psychical consciousness is that of what is now often called the subliminal self, the subtle or dream self of Indian psychology, and its range of potential knowledge, almost infinite... includes a very large power and many forms of insight into both the possibilities and the definite actualities of ...
... present and future begins with the opening of the psychical consciousness and the psychical faculties. The psychical consciousness is that of what is now often called the subliminal self, the subtle or dream self of Indian psychology, and its range of potential knowledge, almost infinite as has been pointed out in the last chapter, includes a very large power and many forms of insight into both the possibilities ...
... origin of cosmic existence; this state of deep sleep in which yet there is the presence of an omnipotent Intelligence is the seed state or causal condition from which emerges the cosmos;—this and the dream-self which is the continent of all subtle, subjective or supraphysical experience, and the self of waking which is the Page 466 support of all physical experience, can be taken as the whole ...
... 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 which all these are derivations for the enjoyment of relative experience in the world. If we examine ...
... physical mind. In Sushupta Samadhi, one can get to the very limit of human consciousness, even [to] 18 the superconscient. Everything which we cannot attain in the waking state is there in us in the dream-self and the sleep-self. Samadhi is a means of increasing the range of consciousness. We can extend the inner wakefulness in the swapna to planes of existence which are at present sushupta to us and ...
... entity,—is the seer of inner things and of supraphysical experiences; the surface subconscious is only a transcriber. It is for this reason that the Upanishad describes the subliminal being as the Dream Self because it is normally in dreams, visions, absorbed states of inner experience that we enter into and are part of its experiences,—just as it describes the superconscient as the Sleep Self because ...
... the sacred syllable of the Veda. It therefore aims at providing the knowledge not only of the pure state of the universal existence, but of that existence in all its parts, the waking world and the dream self and the sleeping, the manifest, the half-manifest, and hidden, Bhur loka, Bhuvar, Swar, — the right means to win all of them, enjoy all of them, transcend all of them. Finally, we may refer ...
... the feelings were acute — which as it can no longer affect the waking state comes up in dreams. It is a common experience that long after one has got rid of things in the waking state, e.g., sex, family attachment or any past preoccupations that no longer exist, they return from time to time in dreams. Your self-liberation is quite recent, so it is not surprising that the impression comes up in this ...
... feel is only a dream, Eternal self a fiction sensed in trance. 236 The queen is a woman, and being also a mother, she has come to a stage when the higher thinking powers have been numbed by the shadow of a doom. Now it behoves Narad to guide the sorely afflicted queen out of the labyrinth of her ignorance. So the eternal seer begins: Was then the sun a dream because there is... The beauty and greatness by his genius wrought And the mighty output of a nation's toil. 235 Thus man unmakes God's beautiful and kindly creation and "wallows in his self-made misery". What is this life on earth, made miserable by ruthless fools? Is it not merely "an episode in a meaningless tale?" It has been said that we have come here from a heavenly source, and that... is hewn out of the earthy mortal by inflicting on him the pain of death. Unless we are tested and tempered by failures, we would rest quite Oblomov-like in a trance of success and miss the chance of self-transcendence, for it is when we are struck by tragedy that we wish to transcend to the higher states: If the heart were not forced to want and weep, His soul would have lain ...
... world is only relatively real so long as the mind persists in creating them, the world an effective dream of Self, or God and Self a mental construction or an effective hallucination. The true relation has not been seized, because these two sides of existence must always appear discordant and unreconciled to our intelligence so long as there is only a partial knowledge. An integral knowledge is the aim... the Ignorance - The Spiritual Evolution The Infinite Consciousness and the Ignorance The Life Divine Chapter IX Memory, Ego and Self-Experience Here this God, the Mind, in its dream experiences again and again what once was experienced; what has been seen and what has not been seen, what has been heard and what has not been heard, what has been experienced... relationless, without any other character than that of pure conscious existence self-sufficient and eternally satisfied with pure being, self-blissful. Thus we become aware of the stable Self, the eternal "Am", or rather the immutable "Is" without any category of personality or Time. But this consciousness of Self, as it is timeless, so is capable also of freely regarding Time as a thing reflected ...
... and freedom, which thinks, contrary to all reason and knowledge, that God in himself is blessed, but God in manifestation accursed. I will not admit that the Brahman is a fool or a drunkard dreaming bad dreams, self-hypnotised into miserable illusions. I do not find that teaching in the Veda; it does not agree with my realisations which are of the actuality of unalterable bliss and strength and knowledge... desire, from effort, from misplacement. It is best to begin by concentrating effort on the self-purification of the Will, towards which the first necessity is passivity of desire for the fruit, the second the passivity of the Chitta and the Buddhi, while the will is being applied; the third the development of self-knowledge in the use of the Will. It will be found that by this process of educating the... useful, either lofty or humble at the will of the One Supreme Shakti, impelled and used by Her entirely, and, whatever its outward appearance, always working on a basis of absolute peace, self-surrender and self-knowledge. Page 1399 ...
... God, before whom man is only a grovelling worm, to its fierce attachment to the normal ego a negation of personality Page 157 and a repellent menace, to its earthbound rationalism a dream, a self-hypnotic hallucination or a deluding mania. And yet in ancient Europe the Stoics, Platonists, Pythagoreans had made some approach to this aspiration, and even afterwards, a few rare souls have envisaged... satisfied propensity beyond its first intention to a noble self-exceeding and shapeliness by infusing into it the order and high aims of the Dharma. But its profounder characteristic aim—and in this it was unique—was to raise this nobler life too of the self-perfecting human being beyond its own intention to a mightiest self-exceeding and freedom; it laboured to infuse into it the great aim of spiritual... motive-force of a great idea is the conception placed before us by Indian culture. Man in the Indian idea is a spirit veiled in the works of energy, moving to self-discovery, capable of Godhead. He is a soul that is growing through Nature to conscious self-hood; he is a divinity and an eternal existence; he is an ever-flowing wave of the God-ocean, an inextinguishable spark of the supreme Fire. Even, he is ...
... it to fall from bliss? Perhaps the soul we feel is only a dream, Eternal self a fiction sensed in trance. Savitri's mother is asking Narada, "Why is there this will to live? Is there at all a soul?" And Narada replies to her with a counter question and then explains why pain exists: Was then the sun a dream because there is night? Hidden in the mortal's heart the Eternal... unveil the indwelling Power; Only it throws its symbols at our hearts. It evoked a mood of self, invoked a sign. Of all the brooding glory hidden in sense: I lived in the ray but faced not to the sun. I looked upon the world and missed the Self And when I found the Self, I lost the world, My other selves I lost and the body of God, The link of the finite with... thy face. Satyavan says: I did try to get into the depths of the mind, the profound secret of mental being, through Art and Beauty and life; and when the Self was there then the world was lost, and when the world was there the Self was forgotten. But now His gold sun has shone on me from thy face. And now another realm draws near with thee And now diviner voices fill my ear, ...
... the dream, The deep spell breaks. 57 Thus Arjava (J.A. Chadwick): Shining lance, far above rifted woe, Reveal to earth the ending of thy quest; Page 594 When thou to the Holy Logos shall be pressed, The Hidden Love behind all universe Sends ruby fire and ever-living flow, - And night is fading, dreams of self disperse... thousand experiments may fail, yet the next one may be able to open the doors of resistance for a mass-march through the wide-open gates. The intended alchemic change of mentalised egoistic self-divided self-corrupting self-destroying man into spiritualised (or supramentalised) man in unison with all humanity and all Nature and enacting wholeness and harmony and the life divine, such a radical, such a re... all Kapāl, sir. Mind, sir, mind. Madam Doubt, sir. Madam * Bengali for fate. Page 608 Doubt! Miss Material Intellectualism, sir! Aunt Despondency, sir! Uncle Self-distrust, sir! Cousin self-depreciation, sir! The whole confounded family, sir? 95 And for a final example, when a disciple wrote to Sri Aurobindo in 1936 that the Master had struck Paul Brunton as a ...
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