... of which the gnostic life would be a part, there would be still continuing within it a life belonging to a less evolved order; the intuitive and gnostic life would have to fit into this total existence and carry into it as much of its own law of unity and harmony as may be possible. Here the law of spontaneous harmony might seem to be inapplicable, since the relation of the gnostic life with the ignorant... and world-action for the dynamisation of consciousness in the physical existence and takes up and transforms the values of a world of material Nature. But always the whole foundation of the gnostic life must be by its very nature inward and not outward. In the life of the spirit it is the spirit, the inner Reality, that has built up and uses the mind, vital being and body as its instrumentation;... dynamisation of the intimate consciousness of one-being, of one self in all beings, can alone found and govern by its truth the action of the divine life. In the gnostic or divine being, in the gnostic life, there will be a close and complete consciousness of the self of others, a consciousness of their mind, life, physical being which are felt as if they were one's own. The gnostic being will act ...
... multiply manifesting truth-power of one-existence and one-consciousness for the delight of one-existence. Delight of the manifestation of the Spirit in its truth of being would be the sense of the gnostic life. All its movements would be a formulation of the truth of the spirit, but also of the joy of Page 1010 the spirit,—an affirmation of spiritual existence, an affirmation of spiritual... and oneness with the Creator within him. This will be first effective in the shaping of his own inner and outer individual existence, but the same power and principle will operate in any common gnostic life; the relations of gnostic being with gnostic being will be the expression of their one gnostic self and supernature shaping into a significant power and form of itself the whole common existence... within it; if he acts upon it, it is from the fortress of his inner spiritual being where in the inmost sanctuary he is one with the Supreme Existence or the soul and God are alone together. The gnostic life will be an inner life in which the antinomy of the inner and the outer, Page 1013 the self and the world will have been cured and exceeded. The gnostic being will have indeed an inmost ...
... far off, but you can say, "Yes, the gnostic life is certain, because it has begun to be realised." 13 On 5 December 1950, the Mind of Light had invaded and settled in her. Now, less than three months after Sri Aurobindo's passing, she was demonstrating in her own person the possibility of evolving towards the supramental Truth-Consciousness and the gnostic life. For the world too there is the charter:... charter: "Yes, the gnostic life is certain, because it has begun to be realised." VI By mid-April 1951, the readings from the Conversations of 1929 had been concluded, and the talks now revolved round passages chosen from Sri Aurobindo's writings like On Yoga, "The Divine Superman" and The Mother, or from her own works. 14 On 19 April, the starting-point of the discussion was Sri ...
... one body has realized it, a human body, to have the assurance that it can be done. You may put that still very far ahead of you, but you may say: “Yes, the Gnostic life is a certainty, for its realization has begun.”’ 25 The Gnostic life is the supramental life, and that ‘one body’ cannot have been another than hers. In her Entretien of 19 April 1951 she talks about the surrender to ...
... enough that one body has been able to realise this, one human body, to have the assurance that it can be done. You should consider it still very far into the future, but you may say: ‘Yes, the gnostic life is certain, for it has begun to realise itself.’ ” 8 That “one”, the “one body” that had been “able to realise that, one human body”, naturally was hers. Again some six weeks later, on 19 ...
... of the light and power of the Divine.” 8 (The symbol of this gnosis or supermind is the Sun.) Later Sri Aurobindo will use the term gnosis less often, but even in 1950 the Mother said: “The gnostic life is certain.” An essential difference between the wisdom traditions and Sri Aurobindo’s worldview is that in the former traditions all developments were cyclic. Creation or manifestation ran its ...
... be a natural, normal and spontaneously simple working of the new higher or greater consciousness into which the being enters in the course of his self-evolution; the gnostic being accepting the gnostic life would develop and use the powers of this greater consciousness, even as man develops and uses the powers of his mental nature.” 17 Cleaning up the Mess The Supramental is independent ...
... that one body has been able to realize this, one human body, to have the assurance that it can be done [by other human bodies]. You may consider it still very far off, but you may say: “Yes, the gnostic life is certain, because it has begun to be realized.”’ 56 The key word here is of course ‘body.’ The only body the Mother could be talking about here, was hers. Two and a half months after Sri ...
... others. It is enough that one body has been able to realise that, one human body, to have the assurance that it can be done. You may consider it still very far off, but you can say, "Yes, the gnostic life is certain, because it has begun to be realised." Page 159 ...
... awareness of oneness in diversity, and harmony the inevitable manifestation of the working of its force: "Unity, mutuality and harmony must therefore be the inescapable law of a common or collective gnostic life." (Ibid., p. 1033) The Mother too has spoken about the essential character of a genuine community ("une communaut é vraie"). She says: "... a true community can exist only on ...
... is a pretty colourless abstraction - "a structure that hangs in mid-air, having neither a foundation nor any roof' 77 - as compared with Sri Aurobindo's inspiring vision of the Divine Lotus of Gnostic Life springing out of the ooze of the Life in the Ignorance. And, finally, although Nietzsche and Sri Aurobindo both emphasised the fact that "if the world is really to be raised to a higher level, ...
... The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter XXIV Gnosis and Ananda The ascent to the gnosis, the possession of something of the gnostic consciousness must elevate the soul of man and sublimate his life in the world into a glory of light and power and bliss and infinity that can seem in comparison with the lame action and limited realisations of our present mental... something top-heavy, one-sided and exclusive; even the widest mental spirituality is not wide enough and it is marred too by its imperfect power of self-expression in life. And yet in comparison with what is beyond it, this too, this first gnostic splendour is only a bright passage to a more perfect perfection. It is the secure and shining step from which we can happily mount still upwards into the absolute... planes where the Purusha plays with his modified and qualified Nature. There can be the experience of a spiritual and boundless Ananda on the plane of matter, on the plane of life, on the plane of mind as well as on the gnostic truth-plane of knowledge and above it. And the Yogin who enters into these lesser realisations, may find them so complete and compelling that he will imagine there is nothing ...
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