... the demonic race that was the lowest of all, the Jews. As Sri Aurobindo’s vision was that of a new era initiating the transformation of the human race into a race of higher beings he also called “supermen”, and as these higher beings would populate a new world, the expression of the higher consciousness which they would embody, it could be said that in broad outline Hitler’s vision was the shadow of ...
... of memories of this kind I've had is almost incalculable. But it doesn't have the same character as the memories of the higher consciousness (then it's not a "memory": it's a sort of vision the higher beings 2 have of life; but that's something else). The memories I speak of are memories of the psychic being, they have a different character: a rather personal character, I mean there is the sense... the sense of entities, but levels of being. × Mother does not refer to a category of so-called higher "beings," but to higher levels of being or states of being. × If it is the battle of Magenta, it is not ...
... descent of higher beings as you suggest may be envisaged as a part of the process of the change. But the main part of the change will be the appearance of the supramental being and the organisation of a supramental nature here, as a mental being has appeared and a mental nature organised itself during the last stage of the evolution. I prefer nowadays not to speak of the descent of the higher beings because ...
... if so, the continued existence of a mental race will be necessary so as to form a stage between the vital and the supramental in the evolutionary movement of the Spirit. Such a descent of higher beings as you suggest may be envisaged as a part of the process of the change. But the main part of the change will be the appearance of the supramental being and the organisation of a supramental nature... nature here, as a mental being has appeared and a mental nature organised itself during the last stage of the evolution. I prefer nowadays not to speak of the descent of the higher beings because my experience is that it leads to a vain and often egoistic romanticism which distracts the attention from the real work, that of the realisation of the Divine and the transformation of the nature. (Letters ...
... follow the spiritual life. The chief characteristic of these beings is falsehood: their nature is made of deceit. They have a power of illusion; they can take the appearance of divine beings or higher beings, they can appear in a dazzling light, but truly sincere people are not deceived, they immediately feel something that warns them. But if one likes the marvellous, the unexpected, if one loves fantastic ...
... That is not a synthesis. X: In my thesis I spoke of ordinary men. In the antithesis I speak of extraordinary men. Yes, but you believe that extraordinary men do not have their cross! Even higher beings have their cross to bear. It is a question of a difference of consciousness. In some it is the external states of consciousness which are most developed; others, on the contrary, have taken care ...
... strange because I was in that state all the time, saying to myself, "I must find something, I must find something, there's something to find...." And I tried to call down the experiences of the higher beings, 1 but it couldn't reach down—it couldn't reach down, couldn't make contact. So when I saw that old man come (I knew perfectly well that he could do nothing whatsoever, but I thought, "I must ...
... gods go the worshippers of the gods, but my devotees come to Me. Bhagavad Gita VII. 23] But he is not asking that, he only suggests that you should believe in higher worlds and higher beings, divine beings also who are here behind material phenomena, not in the reality of the outer material world alone, after the Aristotelian fashion – though I am under the impression that Aristotle ...
... return will be in the first supramental body built in the supramental way — through the extraordinary power the human body's attainment of supramentalisation will win to bring about the entry of higher beings without the ordinary process of sex. About her own future, the Mother has not denied "another time" and a self-undoing and self-remaking as in the common run of human generation. 21 ...
... writings which he received in a silent mind brought a new vision and a possible new mode of collective life. Global in their outlook, they encompassed in their fold the worlds of men and gods and higher beings preparing themselves to participate in the terrestrial possibilities in the greatness of the triple Spirit itself. Obviously such an outcome is not conceivable in the analytical or linear method ...
... life-force. Otherwise the old life-force gets exhausted and, if not renewed, the nation decays. The same thing happened with the Greek and Roman civilisations. PURANI: Could it be that some higher beings took birth and built the Greek civilisation? SRI AUROBINDO: How? The Greek civilisation was not spiritual. It was intellectual and aesthetic; it was more subtle and delicate than the Roman c ...
... not known whether it was read at any of the weekly meetings. In the Hall of Intelligence - the vestibule of the Palace of Truth situated on a very high cloud - a festival is held for the higher beings, who on earth are known as Virtues. They arrive one after another, and presently gather into congenial groups "full of joy to find themselves for once at least together, for they are usually ...
... freedom and enjoyment by which the four great Lords had been able to fancy that they were the Divine. In India, these four Lords are called Asuras. Further on we will hear more of them. Like all higher beings, they had the power to produce lesser entities of themselves, emanations existing by themselves and able to act independently, but essentially remaining the being who put them forth. The big Four ...
... unbridgeable gap between the higher, noble, god-like beings, and the lower, monstrous, animal-like beings whom he called Chandalas, apelings or Schrättlinge , i.e. mongrels, monstrosities. The higher beings were “the blond Ario-heroic races of all peoples and nations”. Alas, the women of these exalted beings let themselves be seduced by the mongrels, who delighted in thus contaminating the blood of ...
... beings, they can come for conversion—that is to say, to give up their own ideas and outlook on things and conform themselves to the higher Will and supramental Truth of the Divine. The higher beings are not likely to be in disharmony with each other as they are not subject to the lower ignorance. Page 456 The Gods have their own enjoyments, though they may not be of a material ...
... liberated from these incomplete and unsatisfactory relations of Purusha with Prakriti, or planes of his own being by ascending to which he can transcend them, or at the very least planes, worlds and higher beings from which he can receive or be helped to knowledge, powers, joys, a growth of his being otherwise impossible. All these things, the ancient knowledge asserts, exist,—other worlds, higher planes ...
... pierres est posée par la puissance de la pensée consciente et formatrice" Page 606 [p. 296]. Is this not similar to the fact that when Rama came he had with him some Devas and other higher beings to assist him in his work on the earth? I believe there are various such "divine stones" ("divines pierres") now in various countries who will be gradually called to assist in the work of manifestation ...
... other thing is very fine, it's the vibratory knowledge and the Power—but this, this Ananda... ( silence ) What's very interesting is that all those experiences you've had in your inner and higher beings, in your every state of being, appear feeble, flimsy, like a dream in comparison with the same experiences in the body. There, it becomes so... The Power and Intensity are so fantastic that, all ...
... It's interesting. Death was the first, and the other was the second. Page 186 That was the true consciousness. And it was my BODY that had it, not the psychic being or the higher beings (there, those things have been quite familiar for a long time), but the BODY, the very body, THIS, this, this. That gave it such a peace!... Those are the two things that must be mastered ...
... axiom, sabbam aniccam, sabbam dukkham ('All is impermanent, all is suffering'). And the Buddhist attitude towards the body has been summed up as follows: (a)the body, whether of men or of higher beings, can never be the abode of anything but evil; (b)a final deliverance from all bodily life, present and to come, is the greatest of all blessings, the highest of all boons and the loftiest ...
... human destiny. How does the light grow and develop? What are the forces, what are the agents that initiate and help in the growth and development of the spark into the being, and the being into higher beings? Life is the agent, life-forces are the artisans that do this work. Life means a series of experiences, impacts of the surrounding world upon yourself, your mind and body and sensation. These are ...
... these beings were very eager to come but they were not always very truthful. They wanted to show their cleverness or amused themselves by confusing or irritating human beings. Sometimes however higher beings can come and then you get useful instruction or even true knowledge from them. Sri Aurobindo himself has described at length how, when he was in prison, Vivekananda used to come to him and give ...
... those divine beings come to the fallen human spheres he felt that they were quite a different race of men from those that lived before them. In spite of this help that came down in the form of higher beings that incarnate themselves upon earth, still, the burden is too heavy "Heavy unchanged weighs still the imperfect world; "Heavy and long are the years our labour counts And still ...
... the physical consciousness as man is. There is more of the universal movement in them than in man. Their only evolution can be in two ways. I think they also want to change themselves into some higher beings. They can do it by a sort of Tapas of their own and arrive at a higher consciousness or they can do it by service; i.e., they can put their power at the service of the Truth and thus change. ...
... other's efforts to do the mischief. The remedy is to turn back and hold to the spot of light that is there in the consciousness, the clarity or the aspiration that belongs to the inner and higher being. That has to be used as a torch, as a staff to support and guide you in your periods of darkness and vacillation. That beam of burning light should be thrown, in turn, upon those parts in you ...
... each other's effects to do the mischief. The remedy is to turn back and hold to the spot of light that is there in the consciousness, the clarity or the aspiration that belongs to the inner and higher being. That has to be used as a torch, as a staff to support and guide you in your periods of darkness and vacillation. That beam of burning light should be thrown, in turn, upon those parts in you that ...
... they all result from it. 17 September 1934 My meetings with the Mother, instead of being occasions for giving and receiving love, joy and happiness, bring fear! There must be something wrong in my nature. It is the old vital with its ego which comes up again and again. It refuses to follow the higher being and be as the true bhaktas are who ask nothing and are content with all that the Mother... the Divine or of bhakti for the Divine is the one desire which can free one from all the others—at the core it is not a desire, but an aspiration, a soul need, the breath of existence of the inmost being and as such it cannot be counted among desires. 28 December 1932 How can I have pure bhakti for the Mother? Pure worship, adoration, love for the Divine without claim or demand is what is... mind and vital and body and look at these as not oneself but only outer instruments or movements of nature. In the end one begins to be aware of something behind them which is the real self, the true being. Is psychic bhakti perfect devotion? It is the basis of perfect devotion. How can I develop psychic bhakti? By sincere aspiration. What is the character of psychic bhakti, mental ...
... first realise the self above the mind and live there. Do you realise it [ the higher being ] as wide and infinite? When you are there do you feel it spread through infinity? Do you feel all the universe within you, yourself one with the self of all beings? Do you feel the one cosmic Force acting everywhere? Do you feel your mind one with the cosmic mind? your life one with the cosmic life? your... separative ego unreal? the body no longer a limitation? What is the use of merely saying that the higher being is wide and infinite? Do these realisations come when you are in the higher being and if not, why not? The inner being easily opens to all these realisations, the outer does not. So unless your inner being becomes conscious of itself, the mere ascent gives only height or some vague sense of other... part of the being can go upward and meet its source there. The central being is always above; the psychic is its counterpart below. If the psychic goes up it may be also to join its source in the central being. The psychic being and other parts can go up to join the higher consciousness there. It is part of the movement of ascent. Naturally the psychic wants a deeper union than can be had so long ...
... the lower impulsions is the first step towards realisation. Renunciation of desires: the essential condition for realisation. Yes, we must keep the seat of our consciousness in the higher being and do whatever we are doing from there, not allowing the lower, blind and selfish movements and reactions to spoil our work. To accept the uglinesses of the lower nature under the pretext... by another one and they go on clamouring more and more. It is only by conquering the desires that you can get rid of them, by coming out of this consciousness of the lower nature and rising to a higher consciousness. 29 April 1930 Page 253 Refuse to do anything whatsoever which leads you away from the Divine. 18 October 1934 If you want to become conscious of my presence... oneself. 3 May 1954 It is indispensable to perceive the lower movements of your being, in a detached and scientific manner, as a witness with clear vision and insight. But you must never allow these movements to express and assert themselves as if they had the right to exist and govern the rest of the being. In other words, you must never act under the impulse of these movements, never physically ...
... should not take the higher being as a first station. The question was about enforcing the peace of the higher being in the lower parts down to the physical so as to (1) create that separateness which would prevent the inner being Page 452 from being affected by the superficial disturbance and resistance, (2) make it easier for the force and other powers of the higher being to descend. ... complete until the whole system has been occupied by the higher silence and peace. It is the silence and calm of the higher consciousness pressing down into the body. When it comes down fully then there is the "still statue" feeling at first. Afterwards the calm or silence becomes free and normal. It is the wideness and silence of the being which makes transformation possible, because the lower... emotional and higher vital. They [ the mind and vital ] are always more open to the universal forces than the material. But they can be more restless than the material so long as they are not subjected to the peace from above. The movement of universality by itself cannot prevent the vital from disturbing—it is the complete surrender and the complete descent of peace into all the being down to ...
... heart and a will in the higher mind to the Supreme Truth and the transformation of the whole conscious being by its descent and power. He must, in his meditation open himself silently to it and call down first a deeper calm and silence, next the strength from the above working in the whole system and last the higher glory of which he had a glimpse pouring through his whole being and illumination with... mental control and forcible stilling of the mind and emotional and vital movements, but he has not yet established the true spiritual calm which can only come by experience of or surrender to the higher being above the mind. It is this that he has to get in order to make a foundation for a more substantial progress. (1) He is right in thinking that an inner calm and silence must be the foundation... and silence full of the higher light and strength and Ananda. Moreover, the quieting of the mind only is not enough. The vital and physical consciousness have to be opened up and the same foundation established there. Also the spirit of devotion of which he speaks must be not merely a mental feeling but an aspiration of the deeper heart and will to the truth above, that the being may rise up into it and ...
... Page 78 Could the higher experiences change the vital? They must come down before they can change it. Probably it wants something else and not higher experiences. Could you not put strong pressure on my lower vital and turn it to the higher light as you have done with some other parts of my being? Yes, certainly. But no support... only of itself but of all my human nature. And that it would no longer remain a mere witness as now, and let the outer being act through it. The higher vital can be that. but only when the true vital manifests itself—always calm, strong, ready for any action of the higher Force. To express love and joy is a usual movement of the heart. How is it that now I experience this... demand was kept in abeyance at the pranam and the other part of the vital which wanted the inner contact and not anything else was able to act and open the being to the inner experience. When the physical inertia came and suspended the higher experience, the vital demand awoke, demand for the physical love and its satisfaction so the awakened inner part of the Page 74 vital ...
... all the centres of my consciousness to focus their concentration on the higher being. But the external centres are still too Page 157 much under the influence of the mechanical mind to come up in consciousness. These things also can be quieted — but it is more likely to happen when the higher consciousness Force is there all through in the calm and silence. ... recognising its descent. Is it the higher consciousness as a whole then? I am not yet definite about it. It came down only after a sound preparation of two hours, blankness and emptiness. It will have to be seen — it can hardly be the higher consciousness as a whole—in the sense of that with all its contents—it may be the essential power of the higher consciousness. At... seems to have withdrawn today. It is usually so with new or yet unestablished experiences. The nature takes a long time to be able to keep the higher condition without a break. Strengthen the peace — higher power in the will (Tapas); extension and continuity of peace and self-realisation; if possible descent of a Force removing the Tamas and vital difficulty. ...
... to envision a being higher than oneself. An approximation may be found in the way in which humans have imagined their gods and other supernatural beings to be. Nietzsche himself projected on to or within himself a being at times like Zarathustra, and in his ultimate crisis like what he supposed to be the god Dionysus. But trying to overpass the mind is a dangerous wager for human beings and must, for... aggrandizement of existing man, while Übermensch clearly suggests a being beyond existing man, not inflated, but on a higher level and different. Kaufmann and others use the term “overman”, which is the literal translation of Übermensch ; Philip Novak, also annoyed with the word “superman”, still uses it, but along with “higher man”. 1 Awareness of these nuances may prevent misunderstandings... expectations of thinkers, poets and artists receptive to the ambience of the times. The anticipation of a higher being with the capacities to create new values and a new world is one of the most striking signs of a fundamental change in the times. The most perspicacious interpreter of this time-hinge period in which he was living, was Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900). So insightful were many of his ...
... intellectualism. The discrimination need not be intellectual,—although that also is a thing not to be despised. But it may be a psychic discrimination or one that comes from the higher super-intellectual mind and from the higher being. If you have not this, then you have need of constant protection and guidance from those who have it, and who have also long psychic experience, and it may be disastrous for... experience of the nature of the psychic being and the psychic worlds. Therefore it is not possible for you to put the true value on all that comes to you. When the psychic consciousness opens, especially so freely and rapidly as it has done in your case, it opens to all kinds of things and to suggestions, and messages from all sorts of planes and worlds and forces and beings. There is the true psychic which... as true and do not take any knowledge, voice or thought-message as absolutely final and definitive. Truth itself is only true when complete and it changes its meaning as one rises and sees it from a higher level. I must put you on your guard against the suggestions of hostile influences which attack all Sadhakas in this Yoga. The Page 371 vision you had of the European, is itself an ...
... form that compels the descent of a higher consciousness? There would be no universe without the descent of consciousness. Where would your universe begin, and with what? In the case of man, did the animal man bring down the mind or was it the descent of mind... Page 221 Oh! You mean: Is it something in the intermediary being or in the higher ape which by its aspiration called down... comprehension, deduction—all the mental qualities—man has gradually learnt to understand the laws of Nature and tried not only to understand them but master them. If we compare what he is with the higher being living in the Truth which we want to become, we may obviously speak about man as he is at present in a very derogatory fashion and complain of his imperfection. But if we put ourselves in the place... attracted, truly fascinated—I am not speaking of those which have lived close to man, but precisely of animals which have never met man before. They listen immediately, they feel the superior power that is being expressed. Page 223 ...
... be the psychicised higher mental being—the position above the head points to that. In other words, you have become aware of your higher mental being which is in contact at once with the Divine above and with the psychic behind the heart and is aware of the Truth and has the psychic and spiritual insight and view into things. Page 234 Above the head extends the higher consciousness centre... The thousand-petalled (head) lotus—Chakra or centre of the higher will and knowledge The lotus in the forehead—Will, vision, mental dynamism The lotus in the throat—Expression—external mind The lotus of the heart—Emotion, dynamic vital feeling (behind the heart is the seat of the psychic being) The lotus of the navel—Higher vital The lotus of the abdomen—Lower vital The lotus at... heart centre— hṛtpadma or anāhata —governs the emotional being; the throat centre— viśuddha —governs the expressive and externalising mind; the centre between the eyebrows— ājñācakra —governs the dynamic mind, will, vision, mental formation; the thousand-petalled lotus— sahasradala —above commands the higher thinking mind, houses the still higher illumined mind and at its highest opens to the intuition ...
... he could not understand why a being whom he had taken for a higher being would push a child to its death. Certainly this may be true, but without having the vision oneself, one can't explain it. It may be a question of two absolutely different things. Perhaps, indeed, it was its destiny, in the sense that it was the end of the life necessary for its psychic being, it was a death which had been... because generally they are quite unpleasant. I had the experience—among innumerable instances—but precisely of two very striking cases, of two opposite things, only it was not the same beings.... There are little beings like fairies who are very sweet, very obliging, but they are not always there, they come from time to time when it pleases them. I remember the time I used to cook for Sri Aurobindo;... the right gesture, the necessary movement to avoid the accident. Hence, in an almost absolute way, it is a flagging of consciousness. Or quite possibly it may be that the consciousness is fixed in a higher domain; for example, not to speak of spiritual things, a man who is busy solving a mental problem and is very concentrated upon his mental problem, becomes inattentive to physical things, and if he ...
... there is already an action of the mind, a beginning of independence, of independent reaction to the environment and the forces of Nature. And so, in man there is the whole range, right up to the higher being capable of spiritual life. That is what Sri Aurobindo tells us on this page. That is all. Now, if you have a question to ask?... Page 212 Sweet Mother, here he says: "This co... animal. The first animals, yes, it is difficult to distinguish them from plants, there is almost no consciousness. But there you see all the animal species, you know them, don't you, right up to the higher animals which, indeed, are very conscious. They have their own completely independent will. They are very conscious and marvellously intelligent, like the elephant, for instance; you know all the... Laughter ) And that is what he calls "exceeding itself", that is, that the Being, the inner divine Consciousness, the supreme spiritual Reality in its effort to develop... ( It rains harder. ) Oh, oh! We shall have to stop talking... in its effort to develop a conscious means of manifesting itself has arrived at a being capable of having a direct contact with It without going through the whole process ...
... have gone far, too far in our revanche. And the problem that faces us today is this: whether mankind will be able to change sufficiently and grow into the higher being that shall inhabit the earth as its crown in the coming cycle or, being unable, will go totally, disappear altogether or be relegated to the backwater of earthly life, somewhat like the aboriginal tribes of today. Page 8 ... life requires time to grow in consciousness, to acquire experiences, to assimilate and utilise them so as to transform them into powers of being, Page 5 time, that is to say, to build and forge the instrument so that it may house the higher consciousness and existence. In the present make-up, the body, at a certain stage has to be given up; for the frame becomes too rigid and stiff... grace, after all. If you have within you somewhere an Page 2 aspiration, a trust, a faith, a light, the enemy cannot touch you or maul you badly. You may have also around you there beings who help you, a teacher, a guide who is near visibly or invisibly to give you the necessary warning or protection. But here below when the enemy has clothed himself in a material form and armed ...
... pushed him under the train. The man was aghast, not understanding why a higher being —as he took it to be —should push a child to his death. "It could have been one of two quite different things," replied Mother. "Perhaps, for some reason, it Page 233 was a predestined death. Or . . . or, it was a hostile being whom the man mistook for an angel of light, because people generally... you don't see and proves to you their existence.' It's not true," she averred. "I have known people ... I knew one man in particular who was a man of science, intelligent and worthy; he had done higher science studies, become an engineer, and he held an important position. "This man was a member of what is known as a society of 'spiritism,' which had discovered a medium Page 234 ... atmosphere in which we live is filled with any amount of small vital entities that are the product of unsated desires, of a very low type of vital movements, as well as the decompositions of more important beings of the vital world —in short, it swarms with all this. You know, it's certainly a protection that most people don't see what's going on in that vital atmosphere, for it's not too pleasant." But ...
... the parable of the snake Pravriti devouring herself. The second was given in Shanker Chetti's house soon after the arrival in Pondicherry, & the words are lost, but it was a direction to form the higher being in the lower self coupled with a promise to speak once more when the sadhan was nearing its close. This is the third message (18 Oct 1912). " 'Make complete sannyasa of Karma. " 'Make... at the integrality of the Divine in this world and not only beyond it and at a supramental realisation." Elsewhere, he elucidated the point saying that his Yoga was a Yoga of transformation of the being, not "a Yoga of the attainment of the inner Self or the Divine, though that attainment is its basis without which no transformation is possible." As we know, he put forth the view that "the spiritual... and finally their applications. It needs a long practice and deft handling. Sri Aurobindo repeatedly asserted that Yoga is a process quite scientific in its principle, that is, capable of being verified, provided one accepts its conditions—as a scientist accepts the conditions of the laboratory where he is experimenting. Sri Aurobindo who was always methodical handled his Yogic methods ...
... earlier and higher curves of the present civilisation. The spiritual values have gone down, because the material values came to be regarded as valueless and this upset the economy or balance in Nature. It is true that we have gone far, too far in our revanche. And the problem that faces us today is this: whether mankind will be able to change sufficiently and grow into the higher being that shall inhabit... reason is that life requires time to grow in consciousness, to acquire experiences, to assimilate and utilise them so as to transform them into powers of being, time, that is to say, to build and forge the instrument so that it may house the higher consciousness and existence. In the present make-up, the body, at a certain stage has to be given up; for the frame becomes too rigid and stiff to keep pace... worlds there is a saving grace, after all. If you have within you somewhere an aspiration, a trust, a faith, a light the enemy cannot touch you or maul you badly. You may have also around you there beings who help you, a teacher, a guide who is near visibly or invisibly to give you the necessary warning or protection. But here below when the enemy has clothed himself in a material form and armed himself ...
... much in a hurry for remarks or linings. What about today's poem? Quite up to the mark. I am surprised to hear that the beautiful child in my dream, was my higher being. Why did he go away with his mother if he is my being? He has no other mother than the Mother, so if the Mother accepts him, what is there to lament over? ... Could you be a little more generous in your explanation... whatever its value has its place, because through it the psychic being gets the emotional experiences it needs until it is ready to prefer the true to the apparent, the perfect to the imperfect, the divine to the human. As the consciousness has to rise to the higher level, so the activities of the heart also have to rise to that higher level and change their basis and character. Yoga is the founding... fellow who is supposed to be hale and hearty, is brown and grey with a mysterious hepatisation and suffering a hell of agony and not yet in Paradise! ... Please help me to a higher consciousness. Where is the higher Being that I had met with? I seem to have lost everything. Everything once gained is there and can be regained. Yoga is not a thing that goes by one decisive rush one way or the other—it ...
... to know and solve the problem or else give place to some higher evolutionary being.—The poise of Life is determined by the relation of the Force to the Consciousness which drives it. Accordingly we have, besides the Infinite Existence, first the life of material Nature ruled by the infallible Inconscient; secondly the life of conscious being in material Nature emerging out of the Inconscient, fallible... superconscient and not only or chiefly in this lower Maya of the mental existence.—Secondly, he is separated by his individuality from the universal and does not Page 476 know his fellow-beings. He must be not only in sympathy with them, but arrive at a conscious unity with all and this conscious unity exists only in what is now superconscient to us.—Thirdly, Life is at war with body, Mind... opposing ideas of the mind. The principle of unity is above in the supermind.—Man as he develops becomes acutely aware of all these discords and seeks a reconciliation with himself and with his fellow-beings. This can only come by the perfection of his own existence through the principle in himself to which he has not yet attained and by embracing consciously the life of others in his own through a universal ...
... separateness also becomes fixed and permanent. Page 92 The Inner Being The inner being is the inner mind, inner vital, inner physical with the psychic behind them. The [ term ] higher being is used to denote the conscious self on planes higher than the ordinary human consciousness. Do you not know that the inner being means the inner mind, inner vital, inner physical with the psychic behind... to live in this inner being and to feel the outer as something a little outside and this inner being as your real self. The inner parts in everybody remain vulgar or become high according as they are turned to the outward forces of the Ignorance or towards the higher forces from above and the inner impulsion of the psychic. All forces can play there. It is the outer being that is fixed in a certain... silent—they are full of movements. It is the higher consciousness that has a basis of peace. Page 94 The psychic being is described in the Upanishads as no bigger than the size of one's thumb! That of course is a symbolic image. For usually when one sees anybody's psychic being in a form, it is bigger than that. As for the inner being, one feels it big because the true mental or the ...
... easier if I had lived in the inner being rather than in the higher. But how would the widening of the consciousness have been easier? Is not the higher being wide and infinite in itself? Do you realise it as wide and infinite? When you are there do you feel spread through infinity? Do you feel all the universe within you, yourself one with the self of all beings? Do you feel the one cosmic Force... the outer parts of my being feel it is no use being stationed on the higher plane. It has brought no change in the nature. Do they think they will get changed quicker by not living in the higher consciousness at all? Nobody said that you should not take the higher being as a first station. The question was about enforcing the peace of the higher being on the lower parts down... separative ego unreal? the body no longer a limitation? What is the use of merely arguing that the higher being is wide and infinite? Do these realisations come when you are in the higher being and if not why not? The inner being easily opens to all these realisations, the outer does not. So unless your inner being becomes conscious of itself, the mere ascent gives only height or some vague sense of other ...
... but because it is higher. When at night we put a problem to ourselves, the problem goes to the higher regions of our being and in the morning we get the answer, the solution, because there, in the depths of our consciousness, we know things which we do not know in our external consciousness. During sleep one has often the impression of entering into a region of light, of higher knowledge, but on... unshakable patience, for it is as if you wanted to build up in you a being, a body; and for that you require first of all the necessary knowledge, but also such a prolonged persistence and perseverance as would discourage Page 61 many. But it is altogether indispensable if you want to take part in the knowledge of your higher being. Is it useful to note down one's dreams? Yes, for more... slight, is sufficient to startle you out of your sleep. During the night I am not afraid of certain things, but during the day I am afraid of them. Why? That means your vital being is older than your physical being. "There is no doubt that from many points of view our subconscient has greater knowledge than our habitual consciousness." "On Dreams" , Words of Long Ago Here I am going ...
... which, by the way, is the problem of the life of all human beings, especially when they have reached a certain degree of inner development but are not yet on the summit of spiritual freedom through the unification of their being around their conscious soul. For it is the lack of unification which is the cause of all problems. One part of the being pulls one way, another pulls the other way, sometimes one... union to be made an accomplished fact, but it never complains and knows how to wait for the hour of realisation to come. The outer being, left to itself, is not very responsible; it is most often the plaything of the forces of Nature. But the inner or higher being, the deeper consciousness, is the master and builder of our destiny. That is why it is so important to discover this sovereign consciousness... always there, and it is strong. It is the receptivity that is weak. 1 May 1972 Page 335 The best way to get rid of the rule of the ego is to find the psychic being, instrument of the Divine in human beings. Go deep into yourself (i.e. the heart region) and aspire steadily. The true meeting of the psychic is unmistakable. 8 May 1972 It is indispensable that each one finds ...
... man was now also seen by many as a transitory being which was carried forward by the tide of general change, and which would transform itself or be transformed by Nature or Providence into a higher being. Marxism had its theory of economic processes which would produce such a new being; Nietzsche’s “superman” became a cliché; Freud had his ideal of a being conscious of the hidden depths within itself... new humanity.” And Rauschning reports the following amazing words of Hitler: “Creation is not finished, at least not where the human being is concerned. The human being stands, from the biological point of view, clearly at a turning point. A new kind of human being becomes discernible … This causes the old human species, as we have known it until now, to become inexorably decadent … All the creative... and His God 12. The Vision of Adolf Hitler Hitler and his God A New Man Hitler was convinced that humanity had the potential of transformation into a higher species. According to him “man was subject to an enormous change. In the course of the millennia a transformative process, literally speaking, took place in him.” Thus reports Rauschning, who asserts: ...
... destiny, the psychic destiny, and many others besides. In fact, the higher a being stands on the human scale, the more complex is his being, the more numerous are his destinies and the more unforeseeable his fate seems to be as a consequence. This is however only an appearance. The knowledge of these various states of being and their corresponding inner worlds gives at the same time the capacity... must know that, to begin with, all living creatures, and more especially human beings, are made up of a combination of several entities that come together, interpenetrate, sometimes organising themselves and completing each other, sometimes opposing and contradicting one another. Each one of these beings or states of being belongs to a world of its own and carries within it its own destiny, its own ... critical situation, call upon his highest destiny by aspiration, prayer and trustful surrender to the divine will. Then, in proportion to the sincerity of his call, this higher destiny intervenes favourably in the normal destiny of the being and changes the course of events insofar as they concern him personally. It is events of this kind that appear to the outer consciousness as miracles, as divine int ...
... to the subconscient with the higher consciousness. It is then that the loss of the ego in the Mother's consciousness becomes possible. 25 September 1935 Over my head I see a plane of infinite and eternal Peace. The Mother is the Queen of this plane. From there I feel a ceaseless Page 287 flow coming down towards me. It first touches the higher being and then the lower parts. When... t is the Mother's consciousness, the higher consciousness with the light, strength that has to come down in each sadhak, with the Mother's presence always there. Along with this experience there must have been an attempt at surrender or an initial answer in the lower vital, but as a reaction the nervous disturbance came back—the old lower vital nature not being ready to give up possession reasserted... meeting there one of the hostile vital beings who wished to menace or attack you, but could not attack you because of your call on the Mother. There are two things that must be acquired in these passages through the vital world—first this immediate call on the Mother's protection and, second, the throwing away of all fear. To those who do not fear them, these beings or forces can do nothing—in any meeting ...
... of that Page 696 one Ananda. His physical being will be one with all material Nature, his vital being with the life of the universe, his mind with the cosmic mind, his spiritual knowledge and will with the divine knowledge and will both in itself and as it pours itself through these channels, his spirit with the one spirit in all beings. All the variety of cosmic existence will be changed... principles in the supramental gnosis; therefore the next step of perfection will be the evolution of the mental into the gnostic being. This evolution is effected by a breaking beyond the mental limitation, a stride upward into the next higher plane or region of our being hidden from us at present by the shining lid of the mental reflections and a conversion of all that we are into the terms of this... the power of the higher being to change the lower existence, a working is chosen mainly from above downward and not the opposite way, and therefore the development of the superior power of the gnosis will be awaited as the instrumentative change in this part of the Yoga. There will remain, because it will then only be entirely possible, the perfect action and enjoyment of being on the gnostic basis ...
... sculpt it. At times he may arrive at the form by coming in contact with the higher worlds of being or planes of consciousness. In that case the artist brings back the memory of the forms Page 29 and reproduces them here in the material world. In some cases some superhuman agency—a higher being for instance, uses the artist as a medium for its self-expression. A work... matters is the inspiration that comes down through him from above —his personality being only a channel—a thing of no value whatever ? A. That would be perhaps too trenchant a way of putting it. For, after all, it is the personality of the artist that receives the inspiration and in most cases it has to rise higher than ordinary man in order to receive it, Page 31 A great work... It is only the Yogin who can perceive it everywhere. Beauty and delight are inalienable in the ultimate analysis or rather experience of Reality. Q. Does it then mean that beauty belongs to higher world than our own ? A. It means that Reality is essentially beautiful and blissful; this Reality manifests its Beauty and Ananda on the plane of our world also, but it is no: confined to this ...
... part of the nature, the inner being (inner mind, inner vital, inner physical) of which you were not yet aware, but which must also open in time. It is this that has happened in your last experience. What you felt as a part of you, yourself but not your physical self, rising to meet the higher consciousness above, was this inner being; it was your (inner) higher vital being which rose in that way to join... that it was working to open the mental centres — especially the two higher centres of thought and will and vision in the inner mental being. These two centres are called the thousand petalled lotus and the ajnachakra between the eyebrows — you can ask Nolini to explain to you about them. Thirdly, by this working inner parts of the being are opened and freed; you are liberated from the limitations of the... because the work of purifying the outer vital nature had begun in earnest. Each time there is a purification of the outer nature, it becomes more possible for the inner being to reveal itself, to become free and to open to the higher consciousness above. When this happens, several other things can happen at the same time. First, one becomes aware of the silent Self above — free, wide, without limits ...
... think about it, you see, it is the vital energy which is in either plants or animals, that is, logically it is of an inferior quality to the vital energy which should be in man, who is a slightly higher being in the gradation of the species. So if you draw from below you draw at the same time the inconscience that is below. It is impossible to eat without absorbing a considerable amount of inconscience;... pettiness, an absurdity to be attached to a limited number of ideas and consider them the exclusive expression of truth. Education is certainly one of the best means of preparing the consciousness for a higher development. There are people with very crude and very simple natures, who can have great aspiration and attain a certain spiritual development, but the base will always be of an inferior quality,... ordinary consciousness they will find obstacles in it, because the stuff is too thin, there are not enough elements in their vital and material consciousness to enable them to bear the descent of a higher force. To eat through greediness and a passion for food is something completely different from studying the different tastes and knowing how to compare them, combine them and appreciate them. ...
... *** Yes, we must keep the seat of our consciousness in the higher being, and do from there everything we do without allowing the lower, blind and selfish movements and reactions to spoil our work. *** To feel hurt by what others do, think or say is always a sign of weakness and a proof that the entire being is not exclusively turned towards the Divine, that it is not under the... especially the physical mind is incapable of seeing correctly, and yet it always wants to judge. *** Only a true and sincere humility in the mind which allows the psychic to govern the being, can save human beings from ignorance and obscurity. *** There is a true and profound consciousness where everyone can meet in love and harmony. *** Intimacy with the Divine will always grow... dangerous. The only solution is a complete and absolute consecration of the vital to the Divine. *** The centre of the human being is the psychic, the dwelling of the immanent Divine. Unification means organisation and harmonisation of all the parts of the being, mental, vital and physical, around this centre, so that all activities become the right expression of the will of the Divine Presence ...
... that people are fussy and unreasonable. But unless their consciousness changes, what else can we expect from them? * In all human beings is not falsehood always mixed with Truth? Yes, we must keep the seat of our consciousness in the higher being and do whatever we are doing from there, not allowing the lower, blind and selfish movements and reactions to spoil our work. * ... mind, the physical mind especially, is incapable of seeing correctly and yet it always wants to judge... It is only a true, sincere humility in the mind allowing the psychic to rule the being that can save human beings from ignorance and obscurity. * It is the Divine Grace that must be prayed for — if justice were to manifest, very few would be those who could stand in front of it. ... loving presence and all will be all right. * The centre of the human being is the psychic which is the dwelling place of the immanent Divine. Unification means organisation and harmonisation ofall the parts of the being (mental, vital and physical) around this centre, so that all the activities of the being may be the correct expression of the will of the Divine Presence. * Jealousy ...
... only if, instead of being like a public place as we generally are in our normal state—we are like a public place and all the forces pass there, come and go, enter, depart, jostle each other and even quarrel—if instead of being like that, we are a concentrated consciousness, turned upwards in an aspiration, and open beyond the limits of the human mind to something higher; then, being open like this brings... But how is the thought formed in the universal Mind? Page 345 In the universal Mind? You say that it comes from outside, don't you? Ideas have a higher origin than the mind. There is a region of the mind, higher than the ordinary mind, in which there are ideas, typal ideas, really prototypes; and these ideas descend and are clothed in mental substance. So, in accordance with—how... brings down that higher something across all the layers of reality, and this something may enter into contact with our conscious brain and take a form there which is no longer the creation of a universal force or a personal mind stronger than ours, but the direct expression and creation of a light which is above us, and which may be a light of the highest kind if our aspiration and opening allow it ...
... or else Heaven in the sense of the higher spiritual being.) 4) For the thinker becoming man his swift-hastening impulsions dark & bright desire freedom; unequal, active, rapid-quivering, they are yoked to their works, swift steeds and driven forward by the Breath of things. 5) They for him destroy & speed lightly on (or speed & pervade) creating his dark being of thickness and his mighty form of... of light; when reaching forward he touches the Vast of Being, he pants towards it and, thundering, cries aloud. (महीमवनिं might mean the vast earth, but अवनि & even पृथिवी are not used in the Veda invariably, the former not usually, to mean earth, Page 600 but stray or return to their original sense—सप्र अवनयः.) 6) He who when he would become in the tawny ones, bends down and goes... blissful the forms of things) and like a fierce beast hard to seize he tosses his horns. (बभ्रूषु, the cows, अरुणयः of a later verse—knowledge in the mortal mind.) 7) He whether contracted in being or wide-extended seizes on them utterly; he knowing, they knowing the eternal Agni lies with them, then again they increase and go to the state divine; uniting, another form they make for the Father ...
... that the mental being is joining the higher consciousness there and there is not much resistance or none. The other place indicates the joining is of the psychic being to the higher consciousness, hence the greater silence, as the psychic is more central than the mental being; but also there is the attempt to join through the psychic the rest of the lower consciousness to the higher and there there... the sadhana. There is a higher consciousness above you, not in the body, so above the head, which we call the higher, spiritual or divine consciousness, or the Mother's consciousness. When the being opens then all in you, the mind (head), emotional being (heart), vital, even something in the physical consciousness begin to ascend in order to join themselves to this greater higher consciousness. One has... on of the nature. The psychic is in the evolution, part of the human being, its divine part—so a psychisation will not carry one beyond the present evolution but will make the being ready to respond to all that comes from the Divine or Higher Nature and unwilling to respond to the Asura, Rakshasa, Pishacha or Animal in the being or to any insistence of the lower nature which stands in the way of the ...
... upon earth, the first human forms able to incarnate the divine being from above. This was the first time I could manifest in a particular terrestrial form (not a general life but an individual form); that is, for the first time, through the mentalization of this material substance, the junction between the higher Being and the lower being was made. I have lived that several times, and always in a similar... two planes of reality, attributing to their SUBTLE vision a physical reality which it does not have or no longer has: they have merely entered into contact with the memory of a place—for places, like beings, have a memory. × At first, Mother had said, 'But it's impossible.' Then, laughing, she had the word... from what Sri Aurobindo calls 'the other hemisphere,' where one realizes that they are only modes of expression to put one in contact—a kind of bridge or link between the lower way of seeing and the higher way of knowing. A time comes when all these disputes—'Ah, no, this is like this, that is like that'—seem so silly, so silly! And there is nothing more comical than this spontaneous reply so many ...
... nothing to do, it is all right." Then, if something in you revolts, if something says, "I don't want it", that is the higher part of your being. What takes the resolution to do yoga is not your body or your vital, not even your mind, it is the higher part of your mind or it is your psychic being. It is that alone which can take the resolution—your body does not know very well what it is all about, your vital... direct contact with the higher being or the psychic. Impulses come to it directly from the mind or from the mind clothed with the vital, and it does what they desire. Before the vital takes a decision (and I have told you, it is not very easy for it to take a decision), a light must begin to dawn in the highest part of the mind, a light which puts you in touch with a higher consciousness or with your... firm, your being must not vacillate; you must expect these things to come, but when they come, tell yourself, "Well, they come from below, I do not want them to recur, they are not mine." This is not the same thing as saying, "Let it go, since it is Nature." There must already be a beginning of realisation in the vital for it to revolt against the impulses that come to it. Most human beings and even ...
... flowering of the human form on earth —the first human forms able to incarnate the divine Being from above. This was the first time I could manifest in a particular terrestrial form, an individual form —not a general life but an individual form —that is to say, the junction between the higher Being and the lower being was made for the first time, through the mentalization of this material substance. I have... the result was plastic enough, there was a Descent, there was a mental descent of human creation. They were beings... it was a double descent, that was precisely its peculiarity, Page 80 double —male and female —it wasn't one single being, it was two who descended. Those beings lived an animal life in Nature, but with a mental consciousness, without, however, any disaccord with the... slowly. "It must have been before the first man produced by Nature. Not after. Before." Traditions say that the first human pair materialized through an occult process. "That is to say, beings belonging to higher worlds built or formed a body of physical matter by a process of concentration and materialization; it wasn't that the lower species progressively brought forth a body which was the first ...
... wisdom!... It's an almost cellular wisdom (it's odd). For instance, I was looking at the relationship I had with all those great beings of the Overmind and higher, the perfectly objective and very familiar relationship I had with all those beings and the inner perception of being the eternal Mother—all that is very well, but for me it's almost ancient history! The me that exists now is HERE, it's at ground... across the table ). You see ( laughing ), my things are protesting! It's in this "problem" that I have been living these past few days. And mark you, it isn't at all the speculation of a higher being or a being who belongs to other worlds: it's the substance of physical life that wants to know its own inner, deeper law. ( silence ) It's amusing: all the mental constructions men have tried to... ground level, in the body; it's the body, it's Matter; it's at ground level; and to tell the truth, it doesn't care much about the intervention of all those beings... who ultimately know nothing at all! They don't know the true problem: they live in a place where there are no problems. They don't know the true problem—the true problem is here. It's an amused way of looking at religions and all the ...
... that higher being which is to them a night, a sleep in which all knowledge and will cease, is to the self-mastering sage his waking, his luminous day of true being, knowledge and power." (Sri Aurobindo, Essays on the Gita, p. 140) A psychological self-investigation far transcending its present artificial bounds, an occult-spiritual exploration of the total field of our being, reveals... contains, overroofs, inhabits and determines the movements of the sea and its waves. It is there in this higher ether that we are inherently and intrinsically conscious of our self and spirit, not as here below by a reflection in silent mind or by acquisition of the knowledge of a hidden Being within us; it is through it, through that ether of superconscience, that we can pass to a supreme status... when enlightened and transformed, the only available means of escaping, even if for brief periods, the sway of this slumber over our instrumental existence, and entering the inner and higher reaches of our being. Page 176 ...
... It was quiescent for a long time under the influence of the higher being. Among all the parts of a sadhak, the ego seems to be the toughest in not submitting to the Divine. When the other parts have surrendered can they not impose their surrender on his ego? Yes, his psychic being, his mind and will, his heart can do it, provided they are conscious of the... you saw wrong things entering me and myself being unconscious of them, why did you not warn me about them? Here again is the rajasic ego in you, dictating to us what we should have done and showing us our mistakes. Page 92 THE EGO AND THE HIGHER PLANES Some sadhaks say that as one enters into higher planes one meets with a greater ego, ignorance... Certainly not. There is absolutely no element of ego there. For they are all (from the Higher mind to Overmind) divine planes of consciousness. On the higher spiritual planes there is no ego, because the oneness of the Divine is felt, but there may be the sense of one's true person or individual being — not ego, but a portion of the Divine. Page 93 Some travellers ...
... transformation of the mind, life and body by the descent of the higher consciousness into our nature. When the psychic being reaches a point of its evolution where it can impose its aspiration on the mind, vital and body, they too aspire and this is what is felt as the aspiration from the level of the lower being. The seeking of the lower being is necessarily at first intermingled and oppressed by the ordinary... deeper and the higher being. As a result, the outer nature, and not only the inner nature alone, arrives at conversion of the consciousness, and increasing transformation of nature, both psychic and spiritual, will become effected. It is true that at a certain stage, particularly, when one can stand back from the activities of Prakriti, it becomes possible to realize one's inner being as a silent impersonal... live, the country where you are born or the age to which you belong. You must find, in the depths of your being, that which carries in it a sense of universality, limitless expansion, unbroken continuity. Then you decentralise, extend and widen yourself; you begin to live in all things and in beings; the barriers separating individuals from each other break down. You think in their thoughts, vibrate in ...
... divided mind-nature. A secure universality of being is the very basis of this luminous higher consciousness. Abandoning all rigid separateness (but getting instead a certain transcendent overlook or independence) we have to feel ourselves one with all things and beings, to identify ourselves with them, to become aware of them as ourselves, to feel their being as our own, to admit their consciousness as... level. All-pervasive, universalised, freed from egoistic personality and individuality, it is the play of a higher Self, a higher consciousness and therefore a higher force and higher delight of being. All that acts in the Vijnana in the purity, in the right, in the truth of the superior or divine Prakriti. Its powers may often seem to be what are called in ordinary Yogic parlance siddhis, by the Europeans... and exceeding it; it is not like the divided mental being normally bound to a consciousness that feels itself contained in the world and a part of it. It follows that a deliverance from the limiting and imprisoning ego is the first elementary step towards the being of the gnosis; for so long as we live in the ego, it is idle to hope for this higher reality, this vast self-consciousness, this true s ...
... with me if I say that it is peace that descends?" If I have compared this experience with that of a strange sweetness in the mouth - both of them a prolonged flow from the inner and the higher being of ourselves - I should believe that what is at play is at once peace and power, serenity and felicity, Sri Aurobindo's imperturbable Himalaya getting mirrored in the Mother's gleaming and laughing... s equate it to a hallucinogenic decoction in the ritual: researchers now hold it to be a preparation from the plant Ephedra. The esoteric view takes this preparation to be a symbol for an inner or higher immaterial Reality. But Yogic experience in exceptional moments discovers that the decoction was merely a substitute in external ceremony for something which was also material, though in a secret way... Quite a long life has been mine. For us in the Ashram length of living has value only inasmuch as it measures out a nearer and nearer approach to the Light of our Gurus. We are - in the depths of our beings - always at the Great Goal, but our surfaces have to trace in time and space a running golden reflection of that eternal Truth. When I look back I feel ashamed of so many opportunities missed, so ...
... the divine unity with all beings by a sympathy and participation in the spiritual purpose of the Divine in Page 65 humanity. The individual Yoga then turns from its separateness and becomes a part of the collective Yoga of the divine Nature in the human race. The liberated individual being, united with the Divine in self and spirit, becomes in his natural being a self-perfecting instrument... and all in the terms of that one Ananda. His physical being will be one with all material Nature, his vital being with the life of the universe, his mind with the cosmic mind, his spiritual knowledge and will with the divine knowledge and will both in itself and as it pours itself through these channels, his spirit with the one spirit in all beings. All the variety of cosmic existence will be changed... According to Sri Aurobindo, these methods may be optionally used at certain stages by the integral Yoga, but they are not indispensable. In the integral yoga, reliance is laid on the power of the higher being to change the lower existence; a working is chosen mainly from above downward and not the opposite way, and therefore the development of the superior power of the supermind is awaited as an ins ...
... reason it cannot be concluded that this unity is no unity. Rather we know that science is proving the fact that the higher the being rises in the scale of evolution the greater complexity does its individuality acquire. Such diversity and variety are visible in India because a higher and greater synthesis is thus worked out or about to be wrought in a distinct manner and on a larger scale. The ... the collective being of all Europe. On the other hand, if we look at India we find that the whole of India possesses a well-defined and distinct geographical outline. But the boundaries of the separate states of India are not so well-marked; their geographical features do not look well-built and complete wholes. No doubt, each of them has its own speciality, but their collective beings do not stand... to the total consciousness of the inner being from the consciousness of the external physical parts. But in India what happened is the gradual descent to the external physical parts from the total consciousness of the inner subtle being. India first discovered her own inner being. This being of India is ever awake, so in India the manifestation of that being and the descent of her power are making ...
... way of sleep and seeks not the godhead, may he exhaust himself by his own movements; afterwards establish in us continuously an increasing felicity. (4) When, O Lord of Might, thou art in our higher being and when thou art in the lower, O slayer of the Coverer, he who has the Soma carrieth thee hence to thy home with the heavenward motion, O Indra, by his maned Words. (5) Yea, whether thou art... luminous with realisation and shaped and ruddy-bright, here appeareth coming to us as one varied in hue between his ten arms. (14) They travelled with a motion that went beyond the three worlds of beings; others entered around that illumination. Vastly he stood within the worlds, purifying and resplendent he entered into [ ] (15) Mother of the Rudras is she, daughter of the Vasus, sister ... Soma-offering. (9) The gods possess thee not nor mortals, O lord of the hill of being; thou by thy shining might masterest with thy being all births and the gods possess not thee. (10) They all together (with one impulse) have formed Indra as the Strong Purusha who overcomes all armies and gave him Page 318 being that he might rule, supreme by his might of action and [ ] 7 in the supreme ...
... handled by a Poet-Guru or a Realized Being, could be rewarding. And this is what we see in much of the insightful comments, at Page 379 tunes keenly critical, offered by Sri Aurobindo while assessing the "overhead” poetry of Amal Kiran. However, implicit in this approach that affirms various levels of inspiration such as the "Higher Mind," "Illumined Mind," "Intuitive... One of my favorites of such poetry of Amal Kiran is a short poem called Ape on fire. The evolutionary account of self-exceeding and the process of transformation of the ape into a higher being is described in the poem in a matchless manner, a perfect fusion between thought and life: Fuelled with forests I come, an ape on fire, A brown beast burning towards the ... "thrilling birdnews”, "grassy shops", "silver mob" are "an ingenious discovery'', while "quiet business of the stars" enables inspiration to lift it “beyond itself and out of the conceitedness by the higher tone". ( The Secret Splendour, p. 167) Wherever these poems succeed, they are able to apprehend a given reality and present it in a highly arresting manner. Sri Aurobindo observes in ...
... of humanity to be as humane as possible in their experiments. In all matters where a necessity of taking life is involved the main object should be avoidance of cruelty and an invocadon of some higher Being's care for the creature destroyed. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother always struck me as free spirits having no fixed notions, no faddism, in issues connected with life and death but always keeping above... welcome him so as to melt his heart. Gandhi did not realise how Indian spiritual insight has distinguished human ambitions and fighting urges from preternatural forces that seek to act through human beings and even to possess them - forces distinguished as Asura (Titan), Rakshasa (Giant), Pishacha (Demon). Sri Aurobindo knew the distinction and declared his whole-hearted support to a nation against... Page 311 eagle which he had saved from death and brought up as a pet. He decided to give it its natural non-vegetarian food. He fed it with fish from a river, saying: "The claims of higher life come before those of lower life." What about issues like hunting for sport on the one hand and, on the other, animal sacrifices to gods? I find the latter gruesome and degrading, the ...
... s descending from a higher level aims at meeting and transforming each minutest portion and movement of the lower Nature; each element, each fibre and each vibration must either be destroyed and replaced if it is unfit, or, if it is capable, transmuted into the truth of the higher being. A descent of consciousness from the higher and highest levels is necessary, but the higher powers of consciousness... quietistic realization of the Self or when the emphasis in the yogic endeavour is sought to be developed mainly by the aid of cosmic powers and cosmic Beings or Gods of the higher planes. It may also be said that by means of ascension on the higher planes of consciousness between the mind and the supermind one can attain to varieties of spiritual experience, but when the spiritual power and light descend... level and receives descent from above. But by the inflow of the processes of descent of the higher levels of consciousness, a permanent ascent on higher peaks of consciousness can be effected. Page 62 Established in the overmind and supermind, every part of our being, every instrument of our being in our body, life and mind can be taken up for transformation; this can be securely done if ...
... sleep and darkness of the soul; that higher being which is to them a night, a sleep in which all knowledge and will cease, is to the self-mastering sage his waking, his luminous day of true being, knowledge and power. They are troubled and muddy waters disturbed by every little inrush of desire; he is an ocean of wide being and consciousness which is ever being filled, yet ever motionless in its large... that, the place of the sensuous object-ridden pleasures and repulsions of the mind. This is the true way of liberation. Certainly self-discipline, self-control is never easy. All intelligent human beings know that they must exercise some control over themselves and nothing is more common than this advice to control the senses; but ordinarily it is only advised imperfectly and practised imperfectly... firmly established in its proper seat. This cannot be done perfectly by the act of the intelligence itself, by a merely mental self-discipline; it can only be done by Yoga with something which is higher than itself and in which calm and self-mastery are inherent. And this Yoga can only arrive at its success by devoting, by consecrating, by giving up the whole self to the Divine, "to Me", says Krishna; ...
... paths where one seems to be going further away for a very long time before drawing close. And there are beings who have chosen the labyrinthine paths and who intend to remain there as long as they can. So, apparently, they are beings who fight against the Divine. Although those who are of a higher order know quite well that this is an absolutely vain and useless struggle, without issue, they still... them—for as I told you once, if one begins to imagine them, it means they are already there. Before you can imagine something, it has to exist, otherwise you cannot imagine it. Yes, in our higher being we can have a very clear, very exact, very luminous perception of what it is. But if one comes down into the material consciousness, one has to say, "Well, I know Page 9 nothing about... Not quite. An integral yoga is one which comprises all the parts of the being and all the activities of the being. But the activities of one being are not as powerful as the activities of another; and the integrality of one being is not as total as the integrality of another. You don't understand? If all your being, as it is, participates in the yoga, it becomes for you an integral yoga. But ...
... Child". Everyone has these alternations because the total consciousness is not able to remain always in the above experience [ of the higher force working powerfully ]. The point is that in the intervals there should be quietude, at least in the inner being, no Page 59 restlessness, dissatisfaction or struggle. If that point is attained, then the sadhana can go on smoothly—not that... the ordinary physical consciousness, especially when the vital is not actively supporting the sadhana. These things can only be cured by a persistent bringing down of the higher spiritual consciousness into all the parts of the being. These fluctuations always take place. By insistence and practice it becomes finally possible to keep the aspiration and the open consciousness above continuously... The counterpart to this rajasic fuss is inertia. If the whole being can widen itself out, rest satisfied in the silence, then progressively inertia fades out and gives place to śama . In the interim periods, if any come, to maintain the calm observing consciousness is the one great necessity. The dynamic activity of the higher consciousness may be suspended but once manifested its presence ...
... power of consciousness into the mind, vital and body—by "higher" being meant nearer and nearer to the supramental Light and Force. But that can only be done on the basis of which I have spoken and with the psychic being constantly in front and acting as an intermediary between the instrumental mind, vital and body and these higher planes of Being. So this basic stabilisation must first be completed. ... changing or overcoming what arises in each part of the being so that that part may respond to what is higher, but the full change of the whole can only come by the ascent to the Above and the descent from Above. The first step of that (usually though not always) is the realisation of the Self above and the full descent of the higher peace into all the being down to the most physical. For your sadhana... physical being and stabilise in it the descent of calm, strength, purity and joy with the feeling of the presence and working of the Mother's Force in you. It is only on that assured basis that one can become an entirely effective instrument for the work. Once that is done, there is still the dynamic transformation of the instrumental being to achieve and that depends on a descent of a higher and higher ...
... level of the higher vital being. "But what she needed most she cannot build". She finds everything else but misses the Infinite. Then, Aswapathy found on the levels of the higher vital world, that there was a consciousness, lighted by the truth, but which did not actually hold the truth. There was an idea and the world was based upon that idea. It could have a conception of God. The beings who live... These are beings who are ..."the kinsmen of our earthly race" and "This region borders on our mortal state". The beings of this higher vital world are cast in "the hero's mould". Even though this is not a region of true and highest divine life, still, there is here a movement towards the light, for Page 190 the first time "An ideal is their leader and their king". These beings aspire... live upon this higher plane of life are capable of embodying an ideal. They are beings who hear "A voice of unborn things" They feel the need of bringing about a change in life in the image of some higher light and are equipped with great power to achieve their aims. Sometimes they succeed in establishing the rule of some idea and want always to rule their little empire, they want to be kings in their ...
... identification with mind and ego implies ignorance Page 136 about one's true being. Such ignorance inevitably entails limitation, bondage and suffering. The higher aspects of mind and feeling can indeed bring some amelioration of the suffering, as they also can lead to a relative mastery. But true well-being and real mastery come only from the Self. These teachings of the Gita, variously expressed... might say, two beings in us, one on the surface, our ordinary exterior mind, life, body consciousness, another behind the veil, an inner mind, an inner life, an inner physical consciousness constituting another or inner self. This inner self once awake opens in its turn to our true real eternal self. It opens inwardly to the soul, called in the language of this yoga the psychic being which supports... connotes in the West. It may be said that in the West, mastery, like other terms used to delineate the positive state of mental health, describes a quality of being which in the language of the Gita, would be called sattwic. Most human beings fall short of such an ideal state because they are governed primarily by Tamas and Rajas. However, from the viewpoint of yoga, the mastery conferred by Sattwa ...
... harmonises, establishes a new rhythm in the nature. It can bring down too a higher and yet higher force and range of the higher Nature until, if that be the aim of the sadhana, it becomes possible to bring down the supramental force and existence. All this is prepared, assisted, farthered by the work of the psychic being in the heart centre; the more it is open, in front, active, the quicker, safer... are the opening of the heart centre and the opening of the mind centres to all that is behind and above them. For the heart opens to the psychic being and the mind centres open to the higher consciousness and the nexus between the psychic being and the higher consciousness is the principal means of the Siddhi. The first opening is effected by a concentration in the heart, a call to the Divine to manifest... this higher or Divine Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres, then into the heart centre and liberates fully the psychic and emotional Page 204 being, then into the navel and other vital centres and liberates the inner vital, then into the Muladhara and below and liberates the inner physical being. It works ...
... of — higher ranges of mind overtopping our normal mind and leading to Supermind; these successive states, levels or graded powers of being are hidden in our own super-conscious parts. In an ascending order the gradations of spiritualised mind are: Higher Mind: a luminous thought-mind whose instrumentation is through an elevated thought-power and comprehensive mental sight. In the Higher Mind... and physical and to change them or to bring down the higher consciousness or for any other yogic or high purpose. transformation — not just a change of consciousness, but the bringing down of the higher, divine consciousness and nature into the lower nature of mind, life and body, and the replacement of the lower by the higher. true being — see Purusha. true mental — see Purusha... see Purusha. Truth-Consciousness — see Supermind. the vital (being) — the life-nature made up of desires, sensations, feelings, passions, energies of action and of all the play of possessive and other related instincts, such as anger, fear, greed, lust, etc. The vital has three main parts: higher vital: the mental vital and emotional vital taken together. Page 127 ...
... A Higher and a Lower Choice The German aspiration for a new and total spiritual experience was spontaneous and sincere. The existing religions had always promised a fulfilment of all expectations in another world, but human intuition knew that, if God was something more than a simulacrum residing above the clouds, then the earth and the life of the human being must have a meaning... meaning. These were bewildering times of change, in which a new world and a new, higher human being were expected. The Enlightenment had asked all the questions, but it had given very few dependable answers. The tectonic plates of the religious and philosophical certainties were felt to be moving; the results were a series of earthquakes – one revolution after another, then one war after another – and... Heinrich Seuse and Johannes Tauler. “The renaissance of mysticism around 1900 belongs therefore to the history of the religion of the German intellectuals and their idea of self-redemption. ‘The human being redeems itself: this is the new religion’, is written already in 1892 in a notebook of the young bookseller Diederichs, whose reading of Nietzsche had obviously not remained without consequences. One ...
... all; may he press out both the pure udder of the Cows of Light and the purified food of the plant of delight (the Soma) poured out everywhere. He is the infinite being of all the lords of sacrifice (the gods) and the guest of all human beings; may Agni, accepting into himself the increasing manifestation of the gods, knower of the births, be a giver of happiness." In the second hymn of the fourth... was manifested to vision which is the Births of the Gods within, O puissant One; they both accomplished the wide enjoyments (or, longings) of mortals and worked as aspirers for the increase of the higher being"; ā yūtheva kṣumati paśvo akhyad, devānāṁ yaj janimā anti ugra; martānāṁ cid urvaśīr akṛpran, vṛdhe cid arya uparasya āyoḥ . Evidently, this is a repetition in other language of the double idea... thought; then indeed, aspiring souls ( aryaḥ ), they, holding it in thought, bore it diffused in all their being," dadhann ṛtaṁ dhanayann asya dhītim, ād id aryo didhiṣvo vibhṛtrāḥ , (I.71.3). The image in vibhṛtrāḥ suggests the upholding of the thought of the Truth in all the principles of our being or, to put it in the ordinary Vedic image, the seven-headed thought in all the seven waters, apsu dhiyaṁ ...
... thing in the making. For a long time, in most human beings the psychic is a being in the making. It is not a fully individualised, fully conscious being and master of itself and it needs all its rebirths, one after another, in order to build itself and become fully conscious. But this sort of progress has an end. There comes a time when the being is fully developed, fully individualised, fully master... master of itself and its destiny. When this being or one of these psychic beings has reached that stage and takes birth in a human being, that makes a very great difference: the human being, so to say, is born free. He is not tied to circumstances, to surroundings, to his origin and atavism, like ordinary people. He comes into the world with the purpose of doing something, with a work to carry out, a... inspirations that come from all kinds of mental planes, and there are very, very rare inspirations that come from the higher mind or from a still higher region. All inspirations do not come from the same place. Hence, to be inspired does not necessarily mean that one is a higher being.... One may be inspired also to do and say many stupid things! What does "inspired" mean? It means receiving ...
... measure of which our human capacity in its enlarging cycles becomes capable of it, of the spiritual ranges of our being and the unmasking of their inherent light and power, their knowledge and their divine capacities. We shall better understand what may be this higher being and those higher faculties, if we look again at the dealings of the reason with the trend towards the absolute in our other faculties... Page 125 evolution, then since certainly the instinctive being of man below reason is not the means of attaining that high end and since we find that reason also is an insufficient light and power, there must be a superior range of being with its own proper powers,—liberated soul-faculties, a spiritual will and knowledge higher than the reason and intelligent will,—by which alone an entire conscious... power. On one side it takes up and enlightens the life of the instincts and impulses and helps it to find on a higher plane the finite order for which it gropes. On the other side it looks up towards the absolute, looks out towards the infinite, looks in towards the One, but without being able to grasp and hold their realities; for it is able only to consider them with a sort of derivative and ...
... be the FIRST thing—the first—which the higher being (which Sri Aurobindo called the "supramental being"), the first thing that being will want to abolish. Now I understand why he said "supramental"; instead of saying "superman" he said "supramental" because superman is... Whereas for that being, the very basis of his existence is different; instead of being based on division, it's based on union... belongs here, but it's not yet there, so... ( Mother makes a gesture in suspense ) in appearance it's something completely absurd, with apparent weaknesses that human beings scorn, and... ( laughing ) awesome forces that human beings cannot bear. It's curious. But then, it's not realized, not concretized, not expressed: it's like this ( same gesture in suspense ). So it has become something wholly... certainly the consciousness of what Sri Aurobindo called the supramental: 1 the being to come after man. How will he be? I haven't yet seen... I haven't yet seen that. I did see, I did have perceptions of the superman, the intermediary being, but you clearly feel it's only an intermediary being. What will that being be like who will come after the superman? I don't know.... Because we are still much ...
... their scale of being, are they otherwise quite independent and unconnected, or is there a relation and interaction of the higher worlds on the world of Matter? It is a fact that mankind almost from the beginning of its existence or so far back as history or tradition can go, has believed in the existence of other worlds and in the possibility of communication between their powers and beings and the human... light of their higher being. But all this is not a creation of the higher worlds of being; it is a revelation of them to the consciousness of the soul on the material plane as it develops out of the Nescience. It is a creation of their forms here by a reception of their powers; there is an enlargement of our subjective life on this plane by the discovery of its true relation with higher planes of its... living beings who appear in it. To the subliminal being in life and after death,—for it is the inner being that survives the death of the body,—these worlds might be real because sensible to its wider range of consciousness; it would move in them with that sense of reality, derivative perhaps but convincing, and it would send up its experience of them as belief and imagination to the surface being. This ...
... changes, transforms itself into material of the action and becomes part of the substance of the higher being. The greater spirit above the mind appears at first as a presence, a light, a power, a source, an infinite, but all that is knowable to us in it is at first an infinite identity of being, consciousness, power of consciousness, Ananda. The rest comes from it, but takes no determinate shape of... unfaltering ideation. The two higher powers in the same way make a higher intuitive gnosis. Acting as separate powers in the mentality they too are not in themselves sufficient without the companion activities. The revelation may indeed present the reality, the identities of the thing in itself and add something of great power to the experience of the conscious being, but it may lack the embodying... our nature, but it is transfigured and elevated into a higher consciousness. All thought is here seen and experienced as a luminous body of substance, a luminous movement of force, a luminous wave of Ananda of the being; it is not an idea in the void air of mind, but experienced in the reality and as the light of a reality of the infinite being. The will and impulsions are similarly experienced as a ...
... his being, a portion or a figure of his existence. But all proceeds here in a lower partial working that has come out of a secret, a higher and greater and completer nature of Divinity, the eternal infinite nature or absolute self-power of the Godhead, devātmaśakti . The perfect, integrally conscious soul hidden in man, an eternal portion of Deity, a spiritual being of the eternal Divine Being, can... personality in the super person of the divine Purusha and makes his natural being and action one with eternal beauty, eternal harmony, eternal love and Ananda. But all this change means a total passing from the lower human to the higher divine nature. It is a lifting of our whole being or at least of the whole mental being that wills, knows and feels beyond what we are into some highest spiritual... experience by which one is first of all liberated from the limitations of the ego sense and its contacts and feels and sees the one self in all, all in God, all beings as Vasudeva, all as vessels of the Godhead and one's self too as a significant being and soul-power of that one Godhead; it treats in a spiritual uniting consciousness all the happenings of the lives of others as if they were happenings of ...
... and their capabilities the highest which embodied beings on Earth had ever acquired. And this is how we arrive at a new milestone in their work which we will relate in the next chapter. The Concept of the ‘Superman’ The higher, divine being that will succeed man has as yet no name. Sri Aurobindo called it the gnostic or supramental being, or more often the superman. However, the word ‘superman’... present modes of being and rise to a new, a higher, a wider mode of consciousness which is not that of the ordinary animal and intellectual man.’ 11 These processes are based on the general psychological characteristics of the human being, and have been found to be realizable and repeatable by others as tried out by generations of practitioners in India. For man the active being there is the yoga... actually means a human being with greater quantitative and/or qualitative human capacities than at present. This is one of the reasons why it immediately brings to mind Nietzsche’s Übermensch , while Sri Aurobindo meant by it a ‘supra-man’, i.e. a being spiritually and physically of a totally different and higher order than the humans, just like the supramental is a higher and totally different c ...
... gradual elimination of the ego-will and its motive-power of desire; the ego subjects itself to some higher law and finally effaces itself, seems not to exist or exists only to serve a higher Power or a higher Truth or to offer its will and acts to the Divine Being as an instrument. The law of being and action or the light of Truth which then guides the seeker, may be a clarity or power or principle... of our being and from the depths so reached a new consciousness can be formed, both behind the exterior self and in it, joining the depths to the surface. There must grow up within us or there must manifest a consciousness more and more open to the deeper and the higher being, more and more laid bare to the cosmic Self and Power and to what comes down from the Transcendence, turned to a higher Peace... evolution of being there is indeed no consciousness of soul; there are psychic activities, but the instrumentation, the form of these activities are vital and physical—or mental when the mind is active. For even the mind, so long as it is primitive or is developed but still too external, does not recognise their deeper character. It is easy to regard ourselves as physical beings or beings of life or ...
... integral Yoga includes as a vital and indispensable element in its total and ultimate aim the conversion of the whole being into a higher spiritual consciousness and a larger divine existence. Our parts of will and action, our parts of knowledge, our thinking being, our emotional being, our being of life, all our self and nature must seek the Divine, enter into the Infinite, unite with the Eternal. But man's... powers of knowledge, action or experience which the uninstructed mind can easily mistake for spiritual revelations, inspirations, intuitions. An opening upward into the greater ranges of the higher mental being can bring down much light and force creating Page 283 an intense activity of the intuitivised mind and life-power or an ascent into these ranges can bring a true but still incomplete... us open to all the dangers we have seen to attend a presumptuous egoistic haste in our demand for achievement. If it is one of the higher states that we presume to be the highest, we may, though we achieve much, yet fall short of the greater, more perfect goal of our being; for we shall remain content with an approximation and the supreme transformation will escape us. Even the achievement of a complete ...
... itself the control of the mind and moral being only puts our normal consciousness into the right preliminary condition; it cannot bring about that evolution or manifestation of the higher psychic being which is necessary for the greater aims of Yoga. In order to bring about this manifestation the present nodus of the vital and physical body with the mental being has to be loosened and the way made clear... attainment of all the higher states of consciousness and their powers by which the mental being rises towards the superconscient as well as its ultimate and supreme possibility of union with the Highest. Moreover, the Yogin, while in the body, is not always mentally inactive and sunk in Samadhi, and an account of the powers and states which are possible to him on the higher planes of his being is necessary... egoism and its passions and desires in the human being are conquered and quieted into perfect cessation. The object is to create a moral calm, a void of the passions, and so prepare for the death of egoism in the rajasic human being. The niyamas are equally a discipline of the mind by regular practices of which the highest is meditation on the divine Being, and their object is to create a sattwic calm ...
... harm. 5) He is the protector of the peoples, by his drivings all living beings range whether the two-footed or the four-footed; thou art the various perception of the Dawn, mighty art thou; O Agni, secure in thy friendship may we come to no harm. विशां ie the various kinds of creatures. From वि to come into being, appear, be born. अक्तुभिः. From अज् to act forcibly, work, drive. Gr. ἄϒω... आदित्यान् .. तान् हि. Hi is here simply emphatic, not causal & the tan refers back to देवा of the last line. The Adityas, sons of Aditi, the infinite existence in the paravat, parardha or higher being of man & the world. उश्मसि. The word is from the root उश् and must therefore mean "desire, wish, yearning out, aspiration". But these words do not exactly express the Vedic idea. It is that... secure in thy friendship may we come not to harm. सुप्रतीकः. With a beautiful face. सदृङ्. With the sight of the higher vision, drishti. प्रतीक is that which faces or confronts—so a face or figure. Agni as divine Tapas is everywhere, a thing of beauty & delight behind all being in activity. Agni as force of knowledge is like a flash of lightning brilliantly illuminating Page 594 everything ...
... Page 764 In the superconscience beyond our present level of awareness are included the higher planes of mental being as well as the native heights of supramental and pure spiritual being. The first indispensable step in an upward evolution would be to elevate our force of consciousness into those higher parts of Mind from which we already receive, but without knowing the source, much of our larger... much rather than physical beings. That growth into the full mental being is the first transitional movement towards human perfection and freedom; it does not actually perfect, it does not liberate the soul, but it lifts us one step out of the material and vital absorption and prepares the loosening of the hold of the Ignorance. Our gain in becoming more perfect mental beings is that we get to the ... integral capacity of our being, and an assumption of mind and all that is below mind into that larger existence. In a future transformation the character of the evolution, the principle of evolutionary process, although modified, will not fundamentally change but, on a vaster scale and in a liberated movement, royally continue. A change into a higher consciousness or state of being is not only the whole ...
... meditate, of which of the immortals, the divine and delightful name; who shall give us back for our higher being in the vastness so that I may see my Father and see my Mother? (2) Of Agni first of the Immortals let us meditate the divine and delightful name; he shall give us back for our higher being in the vastness and I shall see my Father and see my Mother. (3) O God creator, around thee, the... of the Soma-juice, O hero, for strength, for opulence; for we know thee to be of a manifold substance of riches and we cast loose towards thee our desires; become the fosterer of our being. (9) Thine are these beings born, O Indra, who increase every desirable thing; for thou hast seen within the possession of knowledge 14 of those who give not to thee, and thou art a noble warrior; bring to us... the sacrificer encompass with his beings all of them as the sacrifice” or “and the sacrifice”,—neither of which renderings makes any tolerable sense. × Sayana renders “Let none torture thee”; but it refers to the extension in the gross and obscure material of being natural to the covering darkness, as ...
... plane. So the physical used to send up wave after wave of its inertia to cover up any higher or deeper activity of the sadhana. As Sri Aurobindo pointed out to me, "The principle of tamas is inertia, aprakasa (obscurity) and apravrti (non-activity) shown here by being unable to keep the prakasa (light) or the higher consciousness or answer continuously to the activity of sadhana." In another letter... them. One has then constantly to reject this invasion. By constant rejection, the force of recurrence finally dwindles and the individual becomes free and able to bring the higher consciousness and its movements into the physical being." 1 22-1-1937 THE NEGATION BY THE PHYSICAL Why is there such a mad revolt in the lower Prakriti... How to get rid of it even from the external being? More strength and force from above pouring into the inertia and not letting it be a habit. The dynamic will to draw that down always. Is my sadhana dependent on the mental will alone? No, but it is when there is the absence of it and the nonaction of the higher consciousness, that the journey seems not to ...
... entrance of the Divine Light. Until they [ the material and subconscient parts of the being ] aspire or at least assent fully to the aspiration and will of the higher being, there can be no lasting change in them. It [ the reason the physical can help to remove inertia ] is because, the subconscient being just below the physical, the enlightened physical can act on it directly and completely... And above them it opens to higher superconscient as well as below them to lower subconscient ranges. If one wishes to purify and transform the nature, it is the power of these higher ranges to which one must open and raise to them and change by them both the subliminal and the surface being. Even this should be done with care, not prematurely or rashly, following a higher guidance, keeping always the... there were, it could be immediately cured by mental action. But it is not so. For that reason the higher consciousness has to be brought down, the body and the subconscient enlightened by it and accustomed to obey its control. It is good. Emptiness and silence of the consciousness prepare the being to live within, with the outer consciousness only as a means of communication and action on the ...
... desire-movements." 4.ANAHATA (or HRITPADMA): located in the heart. The lotus is golden pink and has twelve petals. The element here is Air. It is the seat of two powers, "commanding the higher emotional being with the psychic deep behind it." Elsewhere he elaborated: "The heart spoken of by the Upanishads corresponds with the physical cardiac centre; it is the hrtpadma of the Tantras. As a subtle... physical sheath. Is that what the Theosophists call the 'aura' ? It is a sort of consciousness surrounding the body, but individual, through which we are in contact with the cosmic forces and with other beings. In spite of the closeness to the physical and resembling it somewhat, there are marked differences between the two. "For instance," Sri Aurobindo spelled out, "the subtle physical has a freedom, ... systems continued their inner explorations. The Tantra in particular made a thorough study of the subtle body. It also defined the worlds from which we get our emotions and feelings and sensations: our higher and lower moral qualities (vritti) —courage, selflessness, generosity, hope endeavour, and so on, or anger, cruelty, arrogance, jealousy, fear, greed, etc.—come to us from different planes. Tanta's ...
... altered in the process. There is an intermittent higher action or a dual working of the nature. Or we find that the Shakti for a time raises the being to a higher spiritual plane and then lowers it back into the inferior levels. These alternations must be regarded as the natural vicissitudes of a process of transformation from the normal to the spiritual being. The transformation, the perfection cannot for... rise above to a higher divine life we must loosen the force of the ego and eventually get rid of it—as for the lower life the development of ego, so for the higher life this reverse movement of elimination of the ego is indispensable. To see our actions as not our own but those of the divine Shakti working in the form of the lower Prakriti on the inferior levels of the conscious being, helps powerfully... between the mental and the spiritual action is formed and a higher knowledge applied to all the activities of our existence. That link is the supramental or gnostic energy in which the incalculable infinite power of the supreme being, consciousness, delight formulates itself as an ordering divine will and wisdom, a light and power in the being which shapes all the thought, will, feeling, action and replaces ...
... something above our normal and usual being; it is something into which we strive to grow, but it does not seem to be the normal stuff, the natural being or atmosphere of the individual and the society in their ordinary consciousness and their daily life. That life is practical and not idealistic; it is concerned not with good, beauty, spiritual experience, the higher truth, but with interests, physical... Cycle Chapter XVI The Suprarational Ultimate of Life In all the higher powers of his life man may be said to be seeking, blindly enough, for God. To get at the Divine and Eternal in himself and the world and to harmonise them, to put his being and his life in tune with the Infinite reveals itself in these parts of his nature as his concealed aim and his... society must which at all means to live and flourish,—yet these were not to them primary in the higher sense of the word; they were man's first business, but not his chief business. The ancients regarded this life as an occasion for the development of the rational, the ethical, the aesthetic, the spiritual being. Greece and Rome laid stress on the three first alone, Asia went farther, made these also s ...
... dynamic parts of our nature may aspire for. Mahālaksmī floods our heart and our higher vital being with love and sweetness, with harmony and happiness, and a serene peace and repose even in the midst of a thousand calls of our creative energies. Mahāsaraswatī fulfils all the high aspirations of our physical and active being. No single aspect of the Divine, even that of the All Beautiful and All-Blissful... quintessential truth of creation and evolution. All beings, all creatures, even all things which appear as inanimate, are impelled by this emergent love, consciously or subconsciously, towards this union and identity. In all our desires and lusts and longings we really seek, not the fleeting, finite forms we blindly pursue, but the infinite Beloved of our being, who has assumed all these forms. But the seeking... the object of the sâdhaka's love and devotion. His transcendence is sought to be embraced in "the ecstasy of an absolute union", his universality in "infinite quality and every aspect and in all beings with a universal delight and love", and his individuality in "all human relations with Him that love creates between person and person". But when the sâdhaka turns to this integral Divine, this P ...
... nature of Sat, the divine Being. The state of divine being is one & infinite embracing all existences, sarva-bhútáni, in one unifying self-consciousness, Atmani; therefore, Page 713 divine bliss also is infinite & embracing, ráyá paríṇasá. It environs all our sensations, states & actions, it environs also for us all the vishayas of our sensations, all the beings who come into contact with... involved in its forms & has to be rescued out of it by beings who bring conscious life & mind into the mechanism of its formal energies & the inertia of its substantial forms. Man is the nodus, the agent & instrument of the gods for the full recovery of Consciousness in material Energy, universal being in particular Form. Man, the mental being in Bhu, shares with the Gods the appellation, Nri, the... soul-state expressed in the heart or temperament, manma the mental realisation, vachas the expression of the god or his divine activities in the mortal nature, shansa the expression of the man's higher being which is brought about by the mantra, stoma the firm established condition of the manifest god in the man. Nor are these the only terms which are applied to the mantra in the Vedic s úktas. It is ...
... functioning of the physical instrument capable of receiving and serving a still higher illumination that he will rise above himself and realise, not merely in thought and in his internal being but in life, a perfectly divine manhood. Otherwise either the promise of Life is cancelled, its meaning annulled and earthly being can only realise Sachchidananda by abolishing itself, by shedding Page 245... for the return to a higher principle of union in which Page 251 division is made subject to unity and subordinate. Substance, then, as we know it, material substance, is the form in which Mind acting through sense contacts the conscious Being of which it is itself a movement of knowledge. But Mind by its very nature tends to know and sense substance of conscious-being, not in its unity... reverse side of the same movement, an act of union in being which heals this phenomenal division and prevents it from becoming even for a moment solely real to the knower. This act of conscious union is that which is represented otherwise in dividing Mind obtusely, ignorantly, quite externally as contact in consciousness between divided beings and separate objects, and with us this contact in divided ...
... conscious of the inner being and the inner world and rose up to a higher plane of being where the outer difficulties do not exist. The object of Yoga is to establish the inner consciousness and the higher being in you and by their strength change the outer existence. Page 231 The Double Consciousness The condition you describe in your work shows that the inner being is awake and that there... inner being can bring the whole force of the higher consciousness in it to change the nature wholly, observing the action of Nature without being affected by it, putting the force for change wherever needed Page 213 and setting the whole being right as one does with a machine. That is if one wants a transformation. For many Vedantins don't think it necessary—they say the inner being is mukta... becomes quiet that the real (inner) consciousness comes out or the higher consciousness above the mind comes down. It is only then also that the inner physical being becomes active and brings an alert consciousness and an intuitive sense into the body. Also the higher thought and the inner will comes then only. The exterior being has to become aware of the inner—the veil between the inner and outer ...
... The adverse beings pointing out partiality in the Guru will gradually lead the sadhak to revolt and that will bring a fall and a full stop to his sadhana. Yes, that is their aim — for it is their one short cut to success, to separate the sadhak from his soul. Today for the first time inertia invaded the body. That means the whole being is now affected by it... been to make a fresh opening. It is something in the higher consciousness evidently that is pressing. What has created such a strong resistance? When there is a pressure for a fresh opening, there is often a strong resistance from below. Which part of my being is interfering with the action of the Mother's Force? It... rather unhappy. This must be due to something wrong in us of which we are not aware as yet. It is the old vital with its ego which comes up again and again. It refuses to follow the higher being and be as the true bhaktas who ask nothing and are content with all that the Mother does or does not do, because whatever she does must be good, since she is the Mother. I am ...
... social and political life an expression of man's true self and some highest realization of the spirit within him is immensely greater than that which attends a spiritual self-expression through the higher being, that is to say, through the things of the mind, religion, thought, art, and literature. It is true that in all these India reached extraordinary heights and wideness in the inner life, but she... is a side of creative self-expression and appreciative aesthesis, intelligence and imagination. Last, there is a side of practical and outward formulation. A people's philosophy and higher thinking give us its mind's purest, largest and most general formulation of its consciousness of life and its dynamic view of existence. Its religion formulates the most intense form of its upward... religion have always worked together, in tandem as it were. Philosophy has been made dynamic by religion and religion has been enlightened by philosophy. What the intellect grasped through the higher mind was made living by religious and spiritual practice. Religion, which sometimes tends to become narrow and intolerant, has been widened and enlightened by the intellectual study of philosophy. ...
... of the formless that manifests through the mystery and wonder of the form. We can use the knowledge of the world as an aid when we see through it the way of the glory of the higher being and consciousness, and learn how that being deals with movements and affairs of the world, and we can use that knowledge for the service of the highest in man. Even then, they are merely aids. According to Indian pedagogy... knowledge. This informative knowledge helps us also to grow but in the realm of becoming and not of the being. If the highest learning is learning to be, then the appropriate method is the development, not of the light of senses or the light of the intellect, but of the light of profounder and higher faculties of intuition, revelation and inspiration as also of automatic discrimination between the real... of joy and continuous and increasing movement towards perfection. III Apara Vidya and Para Vidya (Lower Knowledge and Higher Knowledge) An important distinction has been drawn in the Indian pedagogy between two kinds of knowledge, — lower knowledge and higher knowledge, — apara and para vidya. 1 Science, art, philosophy, ethics, psychology, the Mundaka Upanishad 1.3-6 Page ...
... part of the nature, the inner being (inner mind, inner vital, inner physical) of which you were not yet aware, but which must also open in time. It is this that has happened in your last experience. What you felt as a part of you, yourself but not your physical self, rising to meet the higher consciousness above, was this inner being; it was your (inner) higher vital being which rose in that way to join... conscious and masters of the play of nature—how far this goes depending on the development of the inner being and its opening upward to the higher spiritual levels. At the same time the opening of the heart centre releases the psychic being which proceeds to make us aware of the Divine within us and of the higher Truth above us. For the highest spiritual Self is not even behind our personality and bodily... harmonises, establishes a new rhythm in the nature. It can bring down too a higher and yet higher force and range of the higher Nature until, if that be the aim of the sadhana, it becomes possible to bring down the supramental force and existence. All this is prepared, assisted, farthered by the work of the psychic being in the heart centre; the more it is open, in front, active, the quicker, safer ...
... material not merely from the great ocean of life around the artist, but by help of imagination it can create powerful new forms which have a great appeal for life. There is a plane of the higher vital being—a higher vital world—far above the plane of ordinary life of everyday, where forms of great power and beauty exist. An artist can either rise to this plane occasionally and draw inspiration for his... them and bring them into his creation. He can—if he acquires the practice—contact his true soul, his psychic being, his innermost self and perceive or see forms on that plane. He can bring them down into his art creation. Or, he can see this world—men, nature, etc.—from that higher plane and it would be a very different view of it! Above the mental level, there are ranges of consciousness... the excuse for setting into movement his inner being. This inner being has many levels of its natural self. It is this complexity of man's inner being that renders the task of the artist very difficult. Very often he mistakes his vital being, the being interested in life and action—for his true soul. It is certainly true that this vital being—the being of life-force—can and often does, create great ...
... The reason seems to be the physiological restrictions of the evolutionary human being, who can only measure things perceived by the senses. The phenomena of life are obvious but for the most part indefinable, and this goes still more for the phenomena of the mind and the spirit. The result will be that living beings are studied as complex compounds of material elements, and that the mind will be declared... today with the powerful telescopes on and above earth. Another question altogether is whether all this has taken the human being out of the centre of the universe. If the humans were only material things on planet earth, one could say yes. But as they are mental and spiritual beings, they will always perceive “the world,” including its picture as developed by Science, from the centre that they are themselves... incarnated in the material unfolding of the terrestrial evolution. Human beings are the sons and daughters of Mother Earth. As such they carry in them the evolutionary gradations of their formation – matter, the life forces, mind. Because these evolutionary gradations correspond to the cosmic gradations, the human being is rightly called a “microcosm.” The gradations are concretely expressed in ...
... intelligent design is quite compatible with common descent, which some religious people disdain. What’s more, although some religious thinkers envision active, continuing intervention in nature [by a higher being], intelligent design is quite compatible with the view that the universe operates by unbroken natural law, with the design of life perhaps packed into its initial set-up.” 22 The cause of... pamphlet, known as “the Wedge document” we quote the following: “The proposition that human beings are created in the image of God is one of the bedrock principles on which Western civilization was built. … Thinkers such as Charles Darwin, Karl Marx and Sigmund Freud portrayed humans not as moral and spiritual beings, but as animals or machines. … The materialist conception of reality infected virtually... depends, must be such as to admit the creation of observers within it at some stage.” 5 The observer is a living, conscious being. According to the weak principle this being may passively state the fact that the universe has created the (very improbable) circumstances of his being there; the strong principle asserts that all elements in the evolution of the universe must lead to the creation of the ...
... were yielding from time to time, the part that wants was not acutely insistent and, when it pressed, it was not so acutely felt by the rest of the vital nature. It is your mental, psychic and higher vital beings that now stand completely apart from it. It is your physical vital that still keeps the desire and is pushed from time to time by opposite forces to make the desire active. It was also this desire... movement in spite of the prohibition—man's mental will is not strong enough to compel them. When people do sadhana, there is a higher Nature that works within, the psychic and spiritual, and they have to put their nature under the influence of the psychic being and the higher spiritual self or of the Divine. Not only the vital and the body but the mind also has to learn the Divine Truth and obey the... to do or what not to do. It is only by persistent sadhana, by getting into the higher spiritual consciousness and spiritual nature that this difficulty Page 251 can be overcome; but even for the strongest and best sadhaks it takes a long time. All the ordinary vital movements are foreign to the true being and come from outside; they do not belong to the soul nor do they originate in ...
... n of the One Divine in all beings. In this way, the consummation of the highest might mean also a lesser consummation in its own degree of what must remain still below. At the higher end of the evolution the ascending ranges and summits of supermind would begin to rise towards some supreme manifestation of the pure spiritual existence, consciousness and delight of being of Sachchidananda. A question... on; the beings of the Ignorance, influenced by the light of the gnosis through their association with gnostic beings and through the evolved Page 1048 and effective presence of the supramental Being and Power in earth-nature, would be more conscious and responsive. In the untransformed part of humanity itself there might well arise a new and greater order of mental human beings; for the... A knowledge by identity using the powers of the integrated being for richness of instrumentation would be the principle of the supramental life. In the other grades of the gnostic being, although a truth of spiritual being and consciousness would fulfil itself, the instrumentation would be of a different order. A Higher-Mental being would act through the truth of thought, the truth of the idea and ...
... as a call for the realization of the following step, for a new, higher species. ‘Involution’ is another word for the full scale of manifested but, to our eye, hidden worlds; these are non-evolutionary ‘typal’ worlds, in other words worlds in which the beings do not change or evolve as they are fully satisfied with their way of being and with their type, a satisfaction which is the expression of the... and beings) has to be inserted at each higher step into the material evolution; this happens in answer to the impulse from below, to the pressure against the temporary evolutionary ceiling. The coordination of both forces, of the impulse from below and the answer from above, results in the material manifestation of a new, higher species. This has happened time and again when the lower and higher life-forms... origin and the moment of its fulfilment has now arrived, they say. The human being is inwardly mutating into a new, higher, divine being which has no name as yet, though it is sometimes called ‘superman’. Out of the mental being, whether it knows it or not, whether it consciously wants it or not, evolves NOW the supramental being. The Pioneers have already formed the archetype of the new species in themselves ...
... Upanishad; but the horse here is not, as in the Upanishad, aśva, the horse of vital and material being in the state of life-force, but vāji, the horse of Being generally, Being manifested in substance whether of mind, life, body or idea or the three higher streams proper to our spiritual being. Agni therefore manifests as the fullness, the infinity, the brhat of all this _____________... own being since "we were made" for Him to whom it belongs, it is the Seer, the Shining Guest, born in our temporal existence as our own divine self-realisation, yet it is a celestial entrant into us and we are also the all-too-human self which is now being exceeded. In short, "For him" applies to our composite being, the Aswapathy that we are, and not to the luminous Visitor who is the higher half... Divine Knowledge and human ignorance. Nor would they constitute simply a twilight mid-world, with a griffin-guarded portal, across which one passes from the lower hemisphere of existence to the higher. Besides being, in an ultimate sense, the material inconscience or ignorance on the one hand and the Supreme Light on the other, they would be the dark and the bright sides of mental consciousness itself, ...
... Cows in an opulent place, that which, seen near, was the birth of the gods, 27 O Forceful Fire; they both illumined the widenesses 28 of mortals and were aspirants 29 for the growth of the higher being. अकर्म ते स्वपसो अभूम ऋतमवस्त्रन्नुषसो विभातीः । अनूनमग्निं पुरुधा सुश्चन्द्रं देवस्य मर्मृजतश्चारु चक्षुः ॥१९॥ 19) For thee we worked and became perfect in our works, the Dawn shone... cogent and apposite. The sacrificer—the seeker—is praying Agni to be close to him, to protect him. He is aspiring that the Divine Fire should be his protector when the Dawn of the higher light comes to his soul, Varuna being the Lord of wisdom. × Here the connection between Fire and Ray-Cow and Aditi comes... might of seeing human beings he pierces beyond like a swift arrow. SUKTA 9 अग्ने मूळ महाँ असि य ईमा देवयुं जनम् । इयेथ बर्हिरासदम् ॥१॥ 1) O Flame, be gracious, for great art thou who comest to the seeker of the godheads to sit on his seat of sacrifice. स मानुषीषु दूळभो विक्षु प्रावीरमर्त्यः । दूतो विश्वेषां भुवत् ॥२॥ 2) He becomes manifest in human beings, 64 invincible, 65 ...
... which is itself a traveller, which has a motion in a straight path, a goal in the highest seat of Truth, parasmin dhámann ritasya? If it is not the activities of the human being in us offered as a sacrifice to the higher & divine being so that human activities may be led up to the divine nature & be established in the divine consciousness, then there is either no meaning in human language or no sense or... in their sacrificial activity, the taste of the wine of immortality, the freedom from attachment, the increasing force of ideal Truth in the human being, then it is impossible for the great divine Powers to fling wide open for us the doors of the higher Heavens, the gates of Ananda, the portals of our immortal life. They start wide open on their hinges to receive before the throne of God the sacrifice... appropriateness in the scattering of human enemies by Varuna as a condition of the seeker after Truth & Right’s reaching a state of sinlessness. It is the spiritual, moral & mental obstacles, the spiritual beings & forces who are opposed to the soul’s perfection, Brahmadwishah, whom Varuna, Mitra & Aryama remove from the path of their worshippers. They smite them & scatter them utterly, vi durgá vi dwishah ...
... domains is a world in itself, having its forms and inhabited by beings with a density ... analogous to that of the domain in which they live .... In these invisible worlds there are also regions which are the result of human mental formations .... There are hells, there are paradises, there are purgatories .... 22 Such being the nature of the interlinked occult worlds Ascending... without any transition, absolutely living, intense, conscious, marvellous .... 30 The link had been established at last, and there was no danger of it snapping or the experiences of the higher planes being lost on return to the material consciousness. Max Théon, a Polish Jew, and his wife Alma, an Englishwoman, an even greater occultist, lived at Tlemcen in Algeria. In 1906, leaving the... secrecies of her heart's deep muse Upon the altar of the Wonderful; Her hours were ritual in a timeless fane; Her acts became gestures of sacrifice. Invested with a rhythm of higher spheres The word was used as a hieratic means For the release of the imprisoned spirit Into communion with its comrade gods. 1 Between her eighteenth and twentieth years, Mirra ...
... the presence of a high and beautiful internal being but the part of the face showing the emotional and vital being is too delicate to support adequately the upper part and the physical and physic-vital mould is of a poor and inferior character not easily lending itself to the higher movements or to the change demanded by the Yoga. This disparity in the being was the cause of his illness and is the cause... consciousness and open to and bring down the higher or intermediate supramental from above, and this in its turn can only settle it into the being in proportion as the physico-vital and physical open and clear and change. The interaction must go on until a certain balance between the two movements is created which will enable the higher to hold the being without interruption, and open it more and more... the higher mind to the supreme truth and the transformation of the whole conscious being by its descent and power. He must, in his meditation, open himself silently to it and call down first a deeper calm and silence, next the strength from [ ] 9 above Page 366 working in the whole system and last the higher [ ] 10 glory of which he had a glimpse pouring through his whole being and ...
... the help of imagination it can create powerful, new forms which have a great appeal for life. There is a plane of higher vital being, a higher vital world, —far above the plane of ordinary life of every day where forms of great power and beauty exist. An artist can either rise to this plane occasionally and draw inspiration for his work from there. He can straightway bring down forms— either literary... art will be that of the modernist art in its beginning. It will be an art of subjective self-expression in which the higher ranges and deeper truths of man's consciousness will find rhythmical expression. It will bring into art-forms authentic subjective experience of levels of being beyond mind. And even when it deals with life and Nature and the material world, it will bring into play an intuitive... the soul or more correctly, the inner being, of the artist, even though outer objects, environment, life-experience may act as stimulating influences to set his creative inner being into movement. But this inner being of man is surrounded by instruments of Nature which are very complex. It has many levels of being. In fact, it is this complexity of man's inner being that renders the task of the artist ...
... nature and uplifting effect makes the being already capable of a still higher invasion before that earlier power itself is complete in its self-formation; but also it happens because the work of assumption and transformation of the lower nature can with difficulty be done if a higher and higher intervention does not take place. The illumination and the higher thought need the help of the intuition... constituting a cosmic being, a universal individual. In one state of the cosmic consciousness there is an individual included in the cosmos but identifying himself with all in it, with the things and beings, with the thought and sense, the joy and grief of others; in another state there is an inclusion of beings in oneself and a reality of their life as part of one's own being. Often there is no rule... an opening to a higher being and a higher nature. Our notion of free will is apt to be tainted with the excessive individualism of the human ego and to assume the figure of an independent will acting on its own isolated account, in a complete liberty without any determination other than its own choice and single unrelated movement. This idea ignores the fact that our natural being is a part of cosmic ...
... something proper to it."6 " The opening of the heart centre releases the psychic being which proceeds to make us aware of the Divine within us and of the higher Truth above us. "7 (b) Soul " A Distinction has to be made between the soul in its essence and the psychic being. Behind each and all there is the soul which is the spark of the Divine; none could ___________________... conscious and which become conscious to us only by sadhana—those above the human mind that is the higher consciousness. Below from the crown of the head to the throat are the layers (they are many of them) of the mind, the "three principal being one at the top of the head communicating with the higher consciousness, another between the eyebrows where is the thought, sight and will, a third in the... which is the externalising mind. .A second division is from the shoulders to the navel ;these are the layers of the higher vital presided over by the heart centre where is the emotional being with the psychic hidden behind it. From the navel downwards is the rest of the vital being containing several layers. From the bottom of the spine downward are the layers of the physical consciousness proper ...
... move in a rapturous Page 474 and boundless infinity and are not limited and hedged as in this many-walled existence of the mind, life and body which form the lower being. That is the wideness of the higher being to which we have to ascend breaking beyond the two enclosing firmaments of the mental and physical; it is described as a divine existence free and large in its unbounded range;... of the higher existence; he is led over it by the seers as in a ship. Surya, the Sun, is himself perhaps the golden ship in which Pushan the Increaser leads men beyond evil and darkness and sin to the Truth and the Immortality. This is the first aspect of Surya that he is the supreme Light of the truth attained by the human being after his liberation from the Ignorance. "Beholding a higher Light... power of a remote and high-uplifted Truth. Varuna is the King of all kingdoms and of all divine and mortal beings; earth and heaven and every world are only his provinces. Mitra If the purity, infinity, strong royalty of Varuna are the grand framework and majestic substance of the divine being, Mitra is its beauty and perfection. To be infinite, pure, a king over oneself and a master-soul must be ...
... towards the gods or immortal principles of higher being by this lower or mortal inhabitant. To the Vedic sages body was not our only possession nor bodily existence the whole of our existence. The body is only our earth, base and lower tenement or firmament of the conscious spirit that we are. Above it, in ourselves, there are higher reaches of conscious being represented in the body and in bodily existence... Therefore, their idea of the gods was a conception of great divine Beings manifesting or born, as they said, variously in all the kingdoms of being. Surya is manifest as creative solar Light in the material world, he is Savitri, the Father; he is manifest in his own home, the Truth-principle, as the divine Light that illuminates our liberated being. To all the gods this parallelism applies and it is the basis... divine help and the principle of a graduated & harmonious upward ascension. No creature of the lower worlds can develop a higher principle in him except by the attraction & aid of those grand Principles, Emanations & Forms of Deity, called the Gods, who inhabit the higher reaches of being and manifest themselves as powers in man, as both Powers & Personalities in the worlds. Hence the need of the manifestation ...
... already at work and lift it into a higher mentality. But this would still be a process of evolution, the higher plane only intervening to assist the appearance and enlargement of its own principle in terrestrial Nature. Next, it may be conceded that each type or pattern of consciousness and being in the body, once established, has to be faithful to the law of being of that type, to its own design and... evolution of being and of consciousness in the physical birth and the body. But there is the other, the invisible factor; there is rebirth, the progress of the soul by ascent from grade to grade of the evolving existence, and in the grades to higher and higher types of bodily and mental instrumentation. In this progression the psychic entity is still veiled, even in man the conscious mental being, by its... case there would be some race or kind or make of human beings that has already the material of the superman in it, just as the peculiar animal being that developed into humanity had the essential elements of human nature already potential or present in it: there is no such race, kind or type, at most there are only spiritualised mental beings who are seeking to escape out of the terrestrial creation ...
... living beings, to manifest mind and mental beings in a material world, and must therefore be able to manifest there supermind also and supramental beings. Thus has come about the present status of the evolution of which man is the now apparent culmination but not the real ultimate summit; for he is himself a transitional being and stands at the turning-point of the whole movement. Evolution, being thus... that will determine the reactions of the being to cosmic experience. The whole concentration of the being will be shifted from below upwards and from without inwards; our higher and inner being now unknown to us will become ourselves, and the outer or surface being which we now take for ourselves will be only an open front or an annexe through which the true being meets the universe. The outer world itself... , but still a radical characteristic difference between being and being in their nature. But it must be observed that this ascent, this successive fixing in higher and higher principles, does not carry with it the abandonment of the lower grades, any more than a status of existence in the lower grades means the entire absence of the higher principles. This heals the objection against the evolutionary ...
... weakness, .some vital or physical defect – unless the Central Being comes down and takes hold of the instruments. Disciple : Can these forces take possession when the man Page 188 has got a fine mind – a mind which is higher than the vital impulses ? Sri Aurobindo : What is man's mental knowledge before those beings ? What does man know ? Practically nothing. They know the... The vital beings are not so foolish as all that, they are not so limited. 22-6-1926 Disciple : What is the relation between the inner mental, vital and inner physical beings and the psychic being ? Sri Aurobindo : The mental, vital and physical beings are the instruments of expression of the psychic being. You can say that they are formulations of the psychic being here for m... the psychic being to do with the Supermind ? Sri Aurobindo : The psychic being is not the Supermind. For instance, one can, by breaking the veil, somehow Page 190 get into the subliminal or the psychic being, but one cannot get to the Supermind like that. The psychic being opens to the Higher Truth, but it is not That, it receives the Truth. The psychic being is what is "behind" ...
... the parable of the snake Pravritti devouring herself. The second was given in Shankar Chetti's house soon after the arrival in Pondicherry, & the words are lost, but it was a direction to form the higher being in the lower self coupled with a promise to speak once more when the sadhan was nearing its close. This is the third message ( 18 Oct 1912 ) "Make complete sannyasa of Karma. Make complete... the old reaction of distrust.) The Avaranam from the trikaldrishti has been removed, & all its parts are again functioning as before & being continually proved. The Power is still obstructed. 4.45.pm. Last night there was once more a dream of the higher order. The dream divided itself into two parts, images seen, — the record of an experience or vision in another world from which the spirit... the siddhi today, a relaxation and resting; yet certain movements are being decided. The one defect in the subjective Ananda, the absence of a certain & victorious Ananda in asiddhi and amangalam is being finally remedied, the force of the sadhan is being turned on the physical siddhi & the final perfection of the dasyam is being prepared. So far only five hours and a half have been given to the primary ...
... then he recovers his lordship—which in his higher being he has never lost—and appears to himself what he has always been in reality, free in his being, swarat, samrat. It follows then that the way to liberate oneself is not to renounce works but to rise from mind to Supra-mind, from the consciousness of mental being, sambhava, to the consciousness of self-being, swayambhava or asambhuti. It is necessary... but the unstable; not only the constant, but the recurrent; not only the Inhabitant but His habitation; not only Purusha but Prakriti. It is ekam, not a number [of] different beings, as in the dogma of the Sankhyas, but One being; not two separate categories, the real & the unreal, Brahman & Maya, but only One, the Brahman. That which moves not is the Brahman but also that which moves is the Brahman... in the first three verses,—(1) the oneness of all beings in the universe, (2) the harmony of renunciation & enjoyment by freedom from desire & demand, (3) the necessity of action for the fulfilment of the one purpose for which the One inhabits this multitude of names & forms,—the enjoyment of this phenomenal & in its consummation the liberated being. The remainder of the Upanishad is explanatory & ...
... heart. 4) I aspire for higher life from above the head; but I always feel strained on the middle part of the forehead. What should I do? Do not strain yourself. 5) How does the psychic being become open ? How to understand the psychic and vital beings in the adhar? By the force of aspiration and the grace of the Mother. Psychic : your true being, the being that is in the heart and... s by that of the higher is the object of self-surrender—the surrender of your small narrow personal being and its activities to the higher and vaster Divine being and the Divine activities. By this surrender one will cease to act from one's personal motives, impulses, desires, etc. as one is at present doing. By the progressively increasing self-surrender the action of the higher consciousness will... the presence of a high and beautiful being internal but the part of the face showing the emotional and vital being is too delicate to support adequately the upper part of the physical and the physico-vital mould is of a poor and inferior character not easily lending itself to the higher movements or to the change demanded by the Yoga. This disparity in the being was the cause of his illness and is the ...
... psychic being behind the heart-centre and the central being above the head? Are they two beings or one single being? Naturally, from one point of view, they are one. But your being, though one, is composed of many distinct beings. Just as your mental being is different from your physical or vital beings, so the psychic being, the soul, is different from the central being. The psychic being is... knowledge concern facts, beings and events of the manifested world, or simply metaphysical truths? The word "metaphysical" indicates a mental knowledge and there is in psychic knowledge a nearness, a concrete reality very different from intellectual speculation. To say that it brings material knowledge would be wrong, that is not its field. It transforms the being into a being of truth, into a flame... less important remembrance. This divine aspect is, in short, the individual Higher Self? You are speaking of the jiva, the individual element which persists and presides over the reincarnations ? It is more than that. These jivas, mostly, except for certain very rare cases, are like emanations of divine beings who have put forth outside themselves numerous jivas. And it is these jivas that ...
... would last more than an hour and a profound silence charged with an intense inner glow was maintained all through. In that dim light it felt as if a glimpse of a new world, the reflection of a higher being, had fallen upon the consciousness and was spreading itself. Some other influence than the earthly became dense and perceptible. The inner and outer parts seemed to get crystallised in that condensed... done, you have to go right through to the end. “If you want to do the work all alone, it is absolutely impossible to do it in a total way, for the entire physical being, however complete it may be, even if it is of an altogether higher quality, even if it had been created for a very special work, can never be but partial and limited. It represents only one truth, one law of the world; it may be a... fearful and terrible; its water was jet-black and crammed with frightful sea-creatures — each one of them most hideous and all pullulating in the dark water. The body felt terribly uneasy. Most of these beings were like huge snakes: long, thick and black. There were no waves. As far as one could see, it was a dreadful vast and dark expanse of water stretched, as it were, like a gigantic snake, giving a sense ...
... নীচে ৷ হৃদয়ে সে হয় emotional being, নাভিতে বাসনাময়, নাভির নীচে sensational অর্থাৎ ইন্দ্রিয়ের টান ও ক্ষুদ্র ক্ষুদ্র প্রাণের ভাব নিয়ে ব্যস্ত ৷ 29.1.35 তােমার অনুভূতি খুব ভাল – উপরের শক্তির চক্র (কাৰ্য্যকরী-গতি) নামছে নীচ প্রকৃতিকে আলােকিত ও সচেতন করবার জন্য, আর এদিকে মায়ের কার্য্যের জন্য ভিতরের higher vital পুরুষ সামনে এসেছে – আমরা যাকে বলি true vital being ! তােমার কাজ দেখে মা খুব সন্তুষ্ট... side সূৰ্য্যরশ্মির ন্যায় আর নীচের side সাদাটে নীল ৷ উ: চক্রের উপরের side পায় Overmind ও Intuitionএর আলাে, সােনার আলাে বা সূৰ্য্যরশ্মি – নীচের side Higher Mind ও Spiritual Mindএর সঙ্গে সংশ্লিষ্ট যাদের আলাে নীল ও সাদা ৷ 7.4.34 Psychic being ভগবানের অংশ, সত্যের দিকে ভগবানের দিকে তার টান, আর সে টান বাসনা শুন্য, দাবী নাই, নীচ কামনা নাই ৷Psychic emotion পবিত্ৰ নিৰ্ম্মল – emotional vitalএর অংশ... নিঃশেষে তাড়িয়ে দিচ্ছে ৷ আগে মিথ্যার খেলাকে ত্যাগ করতে আমার অনেক কষ্ট হত ৷ এখন সেই জাগ্রত চৈতন্যময় পুরুষের সাহায্যে ঐ সকল আক্রমণকে প্রত্যাখ্যান করা আমার পক্ষে সহজ হয়ে উঠেছে ৷ উ: এই পুরুষ higher mental being — ঊর্ধচেতনার অবতরণে সে জাগ্রত হয়ে যায় – তার জ্ঞান সাধারণ মনের নয়, উদ্ধৃমনের জ্ঞান ৷ 26.4.34 প্রথম চেতনা শূন্য ও বিশাল চাই – তার মধ্যে উপরের আলাে শক্তি ইত্যাদি স্থায়ীভাবে স্থান পেতে ...
... still any memory and habit of vibrating to the old chords. The one thing necessary when the renewed trouble comes, is to stand back in your mind and will from it, refuse it the sanction of your higher being, even when it is raging in the lower nature. As that habit of refusal fixes itself,—at first you may not be able to do it, the buddhi may be lost in the storm,—you will find that the asuddhi, even... without the necessary instrumentality of physical action. What I am attempting is to establish the normal working of the siddhis in life ie the perception of thoughts, feelings & happenings of other beings & in other places throughout the world without any use of information by speech or any other data. 2d, the communication of the ideas & feelings I select to others (individuals, groups, nations,) by... the Court of Cassation has, I should suppose the power of cancelling the warrant. I do not know whether it is necessary first to appeal to the Procureur Général in Pondicherry before going to the Higher Court. On these points of procedure Bose's representative will have to consult a French lawyer. In case he is handed over, the Hague decision with regard to Savarkar will come in the way Page 192 ...
... increase so as to disturb the sadhana or get too strong for the restraining will of the mental and higher vital being. It is best not to pay too much attention to this [ sex- ]movement, Page 510 but to let it drop off quietly by lack of support and assent from the mind and the higher vital. To think too much of sex, even for suppressing it, makes it worse. You have to open... the lower vital and the external being; if you recognise them fully and frankly and detect them and reject whenever they act or try to act upon you, they will in time disappear. The sexual desires show that the subconscient still retains the old impressions, movements and impulses; make the conscious parts of the being entirely free and aspire and will for the higher consciousness to come fully into... women and meet them as human beings—when you can forget sex in your feeling and action towards them. All that [ mental excitement when a man meets a woman ] happens because the vital is conscious of sex in the approach and immediately assumes the "man to woman" attitude. To get rid of that, one must be able to look on the woman and feel to her as to a human being only. That is difficult and needs ...
... about the higher consciousness? Sri Aurobindo : It is the Pranic – vifal – currents which sustain mental activity. When these currents are changed by Pranayama, they bring about a change in the brain. The cause of dullness of the brain is some obstruction in it which does not allow the higher thought to be communicated to it. When this obstruction is removed the higher mental being is able to... l activity as before. One has to wait till the higher consciousness begins to act. Of course, when the entire being is transformed then one has to accept all the planes of life and manifest the higher consciousness in life. (There was mention of "rich development" of sadhana) Sri Aurobindo : A well-trained intellect and a strong vital being are a great hindrance as well as a great help in... in this yoga. They are helpful because they render the Page 183 being wide, and allow the higher activity easily. For instance, if the intellect is well-trained, accurate and can arrange things, is plastic and elastic, then the Sadhaka can understand the working of the Higher Power, arrange his experience, discriminate and so on. But intellect can also be an obstacle because it tends ...
... to Micheline) Page 159 ... It is very comforting to feel you there — oddly enough, it is almost physical, as if certain beings were a rest for me, when most of them are a problem to solve or a point to be driven home, or ... Well, thank you for being. But I will go on until the end, my life can burn for Mother. I feel as if I were running the last race, a little out of breath. ... will not come one minute earlier than expected, so.... ...... What you lack, in fact, is a more direct and living contact with your soul. You are above all or primarily in contact with your higher being, impelled by the soul force from behind: it is an indirect contact, from the soul toward the heights, then you catch hold of the heights to descend again into action — it is not the direct soul-matter... disgust, and a lassitude of all that. Each time, you think that it is the bottom of the darkness, and each time there is something darker. December 31, 1981 A great lassitude of beings — all beings. I would like to be alone with my soul and the seagulls. 1982 January 3, 1982 Page 281 I have paid my debt to suffering. Like Shiva Nilakantha ...
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