... continuity such as we want: between any two bricks we cannot put an infinite number of bricks. Also, no fourth dimension of space is available: the only dimension other than the available three of space is time, the continuum of moments or instants. But if we take time to be the fourth dimension to make a four-dimensional entity, the continuous succession of a three-dimensional entity in it must be... specified, an entity having time as its fourth dimension must be something that extends in time in a sense in which none of these entities do. But time, as ordinarily understood, is already there for a line, a surface and a volume: all of them need it in order to be themselves. Simply to continue in time as normally things do is not to have the genuinely new fourth dimension we require. To revert to our brick:... l surface has room to curve in because it curves in space which has three dimensions; but a hypersphere has itself three , dimensions and if it curves in anything it would be in a fourth dimension, but a fourth dimension of - what? The hypersphere, being three-dimensional, exhausts all the dimensions of what we call space; so, what it might curve in cannot be space! By the analogy of a two-dimensional ...
... that i§ always there, but which you don’t feel. There is no descent.... Do you know what is the fourth dimension? K: It has been spoken of. Mother: Have you experienced it? K: No, Mother. Mother: Ah! but this indeed is the best approach of modern science. The Divine for us is the fourth dimension.... It is everywhere, everywhere all the time. It doesn’t come and go, it is always there. It... away, not at all, not at all. To be able to become conscious of your psychic being, you have to be capable once of feeling the fourth dimension. Otherwise you won’t be able to know what it is. (After a silence) My God! It is 60 years since I knew what the fourth dimension is.... Indispensable! indispensable! life starts with it. Otherwise we are in falsehood, in a jumble, in disorder, in obscurity ...
... [Mother used to go out of her body and travel everywhere, on all the planes]. But now the whole use of the sense of the fourth dimension—along with all it entails—seems superficial to me! And so much so that I can't recapture it... 13 But of course! The so-called fourth dimension had merged with this one! The sense had become something else. Mother no longer needed to close her eyes and meditate and... It is also one of the first things Mother told me, just one month after her experience: Through yoga I had come to a sort of relationship with the material world based on the notion of the fourth dimension (of the innumerable inner dimensions opened up by yoga) and on the utilization of this attitude and state of consciousness. Using this sense of inner dimensions, and through perfecting the co... a kind of distorted caricature, indeed a dream—that is where the dream is. We dream the world... scientifically. And we have begun to realize that it is a nightmare. For not only is the fourth dimension collapsing, but also the third—which goes with the fourth one. Both are unreal (not in the Buddhist sense of illusion, because Buddhist illusionism is yet another sort of illusion, an illusion ...
... idea. Do you know what the fourth dimension is? Do you know What it is? Page-239 Z: We have heard about it.... Do you have the experience? Z: No, Sweet Mother. Ah! But in fact that is the best approach of modern science: the fourth dimension. The Divine, for us, is the fourth dimension... within the fourth dimension. It is everywhere, you see, everywhere... need to go away, not at all, not at all, not at all. To be conscious of your psychic being, you must once be capable of feeling the fourth dimension, otherwise you cannot know what it is. My God! For seventy years I have known what the fourth dimension is... more than seventy years! (Silence) Indispensable, indispensable! Life begins with that. Otherwise one is in falsehood, in ...
... is a completely wrong idea. Do you know what the fourth dimension is? Do you know what it is? B: We have heard about it.... Do you have the experience? B: No, Sweet Mother. Ah! But in fact that is the best approach of modern science: the fourth dimension. The Divine, for us, is the fourth dimension... within the fourth dimension. It is everywhere, you see, everywhere, always. It does... no need to go away, not at all, not at all, not at all. To be conscious of your psychic being, you must once be capable of feeling the fourth dimension, otherwise you cannot know what it is. My God! For seventy years I have known what the fourth dimension is... more than seventy years! ( Silence ) Indispensable, indispensable! Life begins with that. Otherwise Page 429 one is ...
... no descent, that's a completely wrong idea. Do you know what the fourth dimension is? We have heard about it.... Have you experienced it? No, Mother. Oh, but it's precisely the best example modern science can offer—the fourth dimension. The Divine is the fourth dimension for us. It... belongs to the fourth dimension. It's everywhere, you see—always everywhere. It doesn't come and go:... no need at all, none at all. Page 361 To be conscious of your psychic being, you must be able to have felt the fourth dimension, felt it once, otherwise you cannot know what it is.... Oh, Lord! It's been seventy years since I've known what the fourth dimension is—more than seventy years. ( silence ) Indispensable, it's indispensable. Life begins with that. Otherwise, you are in ...
... different manner in which the numbers for space and for time are obtained. The fact is that the hyphenating does not slur over the distinction. It is a mistake to turn the hyphenating to mean that a fourth dimension of space is welded on to the three known to us. Only if such a welding is signified the distinction may be said to suffer a slurring over. Unfortunately this significance is liable to be caught... which brought about an "isotropy" (or similarity in all directions) is proof enough of a certain difference between the three components and the one component in spite of their fusion. A true fourth dimension of space would require no such strange treatment. The treatment is administered just because space-time is an irregular and not a regular four- dimensional continuum or, rather, because it is... To employ a phrase already used by us, it is by all tokens an identity-in- difference. The criticism that Minkowski overlooked the distinction between a rod and a clock would hold only if the fourth dimension were a regular one - that is to say, spatial. But, we must add, the irregular element makes no odds to the revolutionary character of this four-dimensionality. It is erroneous to protest ...
... Ouspensky has an idea in his Tertium Organum that our three-dimensional world is a projection from a subtler fourth-dimension which is suprasensual but real. He means to say that to each solid form we see here there corresponds a subtler form of it which is in the fourth dimension. Sri Aurobindo : That is perfectly true, the cube would not be held together and therefore would not be... taps do not change the dimensions of the board ! only, you can say that a consideration of time is necessary to complete your measurements of space. Disciple : Einstein has introduced a fourth dimension of time, in addition to length, breadth, and height; their combination he calls the time-space continuum. It can be conceived as a cylinder over which a spiral is wound. Sri Aurobindo : ...
... him, especially in Munich. “The thesis that there is a fourth dimension of space, since 1870 supported by several theories and discussed in popular scientific publications, had deeply penetrated the public consciousness around the year 1900, as had the connection of the fourth dimension with the spirit world … The concept of the fourth dimension influenced the artists already in the years before the... the First World War. The cubists, futurists, rayonists and suprematists believed in their ability to make the fourth dimension visible.” 670 The “new age” phenomenon around 1900 was as varied as the wave which shocked the world from the mid-1960s onwards. It was, as indicated before, closely connected with the various trends of the völkisch movement. Theosophy and spiritism, and occultism in general ...
... : In that case can we not speak of "life" Of an atom? Sri Aurobindo : The explanation can be that when an object is made to disappear in the fourth dimension of space then it is dematerialisation and when it is put out from the fourth dimension into our space then it is materialisation, because then the object appears to us. Disciple : But nowadays the scientists speak of the selective... "life" of an atom? Sri Aurobindo : Life in an atom. But these things one has to see with the inner eye. Disciple : What is meant by seeing with the inner eye, and by bodies in the fourth dimension? Sri Aurobindo : It is a way of saying; more easily you can feel it, that is, be conscious of it. Disciple : Does one know them? Sri Aurobindo : One feels them. Knowledge ...
... Force. Is the psychic being in the heart? Not in the physical heart, not in the organ. It is in a fourth dimension, an inner dimension. But it is in that region, the region somewhat behind the solar plexus, it is there that one finds it most easily. The psychic being is in the fourth dimension as related to our physical being. What does "a negative Nirvana" mean? Negative Nirvana? It is ...
... 13 ]? I can't give you more than an approximation of that awareness. ( silence ) Through yoga I had come to a sort of relationship with the material world based on the notion of the fourth dimension (of the innumerable inner dimensions opened up by yoga) and on the utilization of this attitude and state of consciousness. Using this sense of inner dimensions, and through perfecting the co... course, it's been a long time since there has been any question of three dimensions—all that belongs ABSOLUTELY to the world of illusion and falsehood. But now the whole use of the sense of the fourth dimension—along with all it entails—seems superficial to me! And so much so that I can't recapture it. The other world, the three-dimensional world, is completely unreal; but now that one... (what can I ...
... what happens to light when it goes through a prism. Or else it's as if you turned a ball inside out, which can be done only in the fourth dimension. You emerge from the ordinary consciousness of the third dimension to enter the higher consciousness of the fourth dimension, and then an infinite number of dimensions. This is the indispensable starting point." ) That's what I had told you already: the ...
... Is the psychic being in the heart? Not in the physical heart, not in the organ. It is in a fourth dimension. an inner dimension. But it is in that region, the region somewhat behind the solar plexus, it is there that one finds it most easily. The psychic being is in the fourth dimension as related to our physical being. You have asked what is the discipline to be followed in order ...
... as for all the occult knowledge She had accumulated, the science of the fourth dimension, those astounding powers that leave common people dumbfounded because they do not understand the process—She quite simply let it all drop by the wayside one day in May 1962: 1 no longer need all that. Perhaps because the fourth dimension had merged with this one ... Indeed, there is something simpler, more direct—and ...
... 1951 Is the psychic being in the heart? Not in the physical heart, not in the organ. It is in a fourth dimension, an inner dimension. But it is in that region, the region somewhat behind the solar plexus, it is there that one finds it most easily. The psychic being is in the fourth dimension as related to our physical being. The Mother Questions and Answers (1954): 3 November 1954 ...
... world changed since then? One can only give an approximation of that consciousness. Through yoga, I had achieved a kind of relationship with the material world, based on the notion of the fourth dimension—inner dimensions, which become innumerable in yoga—and the use of this attitude and this state of consciousness. I studied the relationship between the material world and the spiritual world with... Naturally, for a long time, there has no longer been any question of three dimensions—this belongs absolutely to the world of illusion and falsehood. But now the whole use of the sense of the fourth dimension with all that it entails seems superficial to me! This is so strong that I have lost it. The other one, the three-dimensional world is absolutely unreal; and this one seems to be—how to put it ...
... asked by a little girl, and she answered: ‘Not in the physical heart, not in the heart muscle. It is in a fourth dimension, an internal dimension. But it is somewhere thereabouts, somewhere behind the solar plexus; that is where one finds it most easily. The psychic being is in a fourth dimension outside our physical being.’ 29 It is felt by us as if it were in the heart, and this is how it is spoken ...
... altogether. Page 118 First, just think of what the time-space fusion implies. Not that time becomes a space-dimension but it acquires the character, in time-terms, of what a fourth dimension would have in space-terms, exactly as all points of length, breadth and height have to be conceived as coexistent in space, so also by being held in a single though not necessarily symmetrical ...
... universal Spirit that is expressing itself in this objective form of its own conscious being." There will be at the same time a subtle change which will make the sight see in a sort of fourth dimension. The material object will become to this sight something different from what we see, "not a separate object on the background or in the environment of the rest of Nature, but an indivisible ...
... experienced by him are presented thus by Sri Aurobindo in our canto: A communion of spiritual entities, A genius of creative Immanence, Makes all creation deeply intimate: A fourth dimension of aesthetic sense Where all is in ourselves, ourselves in all, To the cosmic wideness re-aligns our souls. A kindling rapture joins the seer and seen; The craftsman and the ...
... total reversal of consciousness comparable with what happens to light when it passes through a prism. Or it is as though you were turning a ball inside out, which cannot be done except in the fourth dimension. One comes out of the ordinary three-dimensional consciousness to enter the higher four-dimensional consciousness, and into an infinite number of dimensions. This is the indispensable starting-point ...
... that interpenetrate like that), if there is just a gap , a lacuna, a void between the two, it is enough to not know. That's what Théon explained to me: "All your states of being are there in the fourth dimension, one inside the other; what you lack is a very small level." It's nothing, you know, in your consciousness you don't notice it, but in its construction something is undeveloped, and so what's ...
... developed and maintained by that class in society preoccupied with the production or earning of wealth. The economic bias of the literature of the period has often been pointed out. Lastly the fourth dimension of culture has made its appearance today when it seeks to be coterminous with the proletariate. With the arrival of the Sudra, culture has extended to the very base of the social pyramid in its ...
... more of absorbing interest to him not only for his own but also for the life of the whole humanity for his life had by now become one with the life of the world. Page 101 A fourth dimension of the aesthetic sense Where all is in ourselves, ourselves in all To the cosmic wideness re-aligns our souls. (Savitri) He took as deep and wide an interest in the affairs ...
... universal Spirit that is expressing itself in this objective form of its own conscious being." There will be at the same time a subtle change which will make the sight see in a sort of fourth dimension. The material object will become "to this sight something different from what we now see, not a separate object on the back- Page 90 ground or in the environment of the rest ...
... from Swami Vivekananda on this subject). 3. Materialism, science and yoga. 4. Need for the synthesis of science and spirituality. 5. Science and the discovery of the fourth dimension. 6. Discovery of the manifold dimensions of human personality. II. Central Experience of Inner Consciousness: 1. Experience of the true individuality: (a) Experience ...
... object is material because it has these three dimensions. That is what we knew till now. But Einstein has added another dimension to complete the picture of material reality. He says, time is the fourth dimension. For along with space, time also is to be taken into consideration for fixing or situating a physical object. Not space alone with its three dimensions determines the physical character of an ...
... whose heart is pure or has been purified, whose consciousness has transcended the human consciousness, who has direct vision of truth, that is to say, who seizes the 'Idea' by a vision in the fourth dimension, he alone deserves to be called a seer-poet, one who can express in a living manner the truth, the 'Idea' which is at once the supreme beauty and the supreme good. If Plato had known the poets ...
... the divine perfection of the Infinite. For, there the resistance of the expressive medium is non-existent. There "love and sweetness are the law of life". In fact, we awaken to "A fourth dimension of aesthetic sense where all is in ourselves, ourselves in all". And yet the inmost being in us feels that this is not the highest height of our attainment and that we have not to forget to reach ...
... the Divine.... ...the eye gets a new and transfigured vision of things and of the world around us.... There is at the same time a subtle change which makes the sight see in a sort of fourth dimension, the character of which is a certain internally... ...Nothing will be really external to it, for it will experience all in the unity of the cosmic consciousness which will be its own ...
... reminiscential by turns, but always unpredictable. In December 1939, for example, on two successive days, the discussion turned on Einstein and Gravitation, matter and energy, and on Time as the fourth dimension. Some months later, on 17 September 1940, the curvature of space as visualized by Einstein came up again in the course of the discussion. When on 15 January 1939 there was a reference to Spengler's ...
... gone beyond the mind. One can have a little understanding of these things if one knows the multiplicity of dimensions, if one has understood this principle. First of all you are taught the fourth dimension. If you have understood that principle, of the dimensions, you can understand this. For example, as I said, you don't need to exteriorise yourself to go from one plane to another, when going to ...
... universal spirit that is expressing itself in this objective form of its own conscious being. Page 868 There is at the same time a subtle change which makes the sight see in a sort of fourth dimension, the character of which is a certain internality, the seeing not only of the superficies and the outward form but of that which informs it and subtly extends around it. The material object becomes ...
... to the most ethereal regions. You go out through successive exteriorizations into more and more subtle bodies or worlds. Each time it is rather like passing into another dimension. In fact, the fourth dimension of the physicists is only the scientific transcription of an occult knowledge. To give another comparison, it could be said that the physical body is at the center—it is the most material and ...
... central being is not something here in physical life, is it?... It's above.... It is above and within and everywhere! ( Mother laughs ) No, unless you learn to think at all times with the fourth dimension, you will never understand anything. But Sri Aurobindo says that this central being is 'unborn.' I would like to know whether it is something individual—whether each person has a central being ...
... total reversal of consciousness comparable with what happens to light when it passes through a prism. Or it is as though you were turning a ball inside out, which cannot be done except in the fourth dimension. One comes out of the ordinary three-dimensional consciousness to enter the higher four dimensional consciousness, and into an infinite number of dimensions. This is the indispensable starting-point ...
... again, up to the most ethereal regions. You go, by successive exteriorisations, into bodies or worlds more and more subtle. It is somewhat as if every time you passed into another dimension. The fourth dimension of the physicists is nothing but the scientific transcription of an occult knowledge. To give another image, one can say that the physical body is at the center—it is the most material, the densest ...
... become what I see in myself." ) I told him once that he would begin to be intelligent when he could set all opposites face to face and make a synthesis. What they lack is the sense of the fourth dimension, so they don't understand. There, everything holds together, in a very concrete, palpable way, the "outside" and the "inside". Théon, for his part, insisted very much on adverse forces, while ...
... Spinoza and Leibnitz. He may witness the conflict between Galileo and God, sharpen his intellect on the whetstone of materialism, pursue zealously the dispassionate inquiries of science, probe the 'fourth' dimension, examine evolution and mutation, and dream of a new physics, a new biology and a new psychology. He may hear the categorical imperative, practise the austerities of morals, and knock at ...
... and follow it out and verify it in themselves. But just as not every untrained mind can follow the mathematics of relativity or other difficult truths or the physical world such as those of the fourth dimension or judge the validity either of their result or their process, even so, the truth of the yogic knowledge can be followed and verified only when the required capacity is acquired by training and ...
... par excellence (statements from Swami Vivekananda on this subject). Materialism, science and yoga. Need for the synthesis of science and spirituality. Science and the discovery of the fourth dimension. Discovery of the manifold dimensions of human personality. Central Experiences of Inner Consciousness Experience of true individuality: Experience of the Witness Self. Experience ...
... (statements from Swami Vivekananda on this subject). 3. Materialism, science and yoga. 4. Need for the synthesis of science and spirituality. 5. Science and the discovery of the fourth dimension. 6. Discovery of the manifold dimensions of human personality . II. Central Experiences of Inner Consciousness 1. Experience of true individuality: (a) Experience of the ...
... .. .brief magnificent reminiscences And high splendid glimpses of interpreting thought, But not the utter vision and delight. 47 What we need is "a fourth dimension of aesthetic sense" that will ultimately "re-align" our souls to the cosmic wideness. The full possibility of realisation is rendered difficult now because of a blinding or obscuring veil, but ...
... object is material because it has these three dimensions. That is what we knew till now. But Einstein has added another dimension to complete the picture of material reality. He says, time is the fourth dimension. For along with space, time also is to be taken into consideration for fixing or situating a physical object. Not space alone with its three dimensions determines the physical character of ...
... different level of vision. The earlier ages of mankind, narrow and circumscribed in many respects, possessed nevertheless that intensive and in-gathering movement, which is a kind of movement in the fourth dimension; it was a sixth sense leading into the Behind or Beyond of things. Page 143 ...
... the vibration of energy, the light and force and spiritual substance of which it is made.... There is at the same time a subtle Page 227 change which makes the sight see in a sort of fourth dimension, the character of which is a certain internality, the seeing not only of the superficies and the outward form but of that which informs it and subtly extends around it. The material object becomes ...
... things that I didn't get spontaneously, because the contact wasn't established. Page 313 "Theon had explained to me, 'You have all your states of being one inside the other in the fourth dimension; you only lack a very small step.' "So I asked him, 'What's to be done?' "He told me, 'You have to develop it.' "He told me. I did it." But she worked at it "day after day ...
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