... rise towards higher forces, at that time the vital can receive these higher forces into itself; and then this becomes a source of considerable energy for it. But in its ordinary, habitual life it is not in contact with these forces—unless, of course, it is Page 81 transformed; but I am speaking of the ordinary vital in ordinary life. It is not open to this source of higher forces, and for it ...
... says, "I move only when I am moved. Move me who can." The period of no-effort is usually when the physical consciousness is uppermost—for the nature of that is inertia, to be moved by the higher forces or to be moved by the lower forces or any forces, but not to move itself. One must still use one's effort if one can, but the great thing is to be able to call down the Force from above into the... the physical nature's normal tendency can be eradicated. The normal tendency of the physical nature is to be inert and in its inertia to respond only to the ordinary vital forces, not to the higher forces. If one has a perfect equality and peace then one can be unaffected by the spreading of the inertia and bring down into it gradually or quickly the same peace with a force of the higher consciousness... physical consciousness from which the tamas comes. The physical always is more tamasic than the rest of the being and does not respond easily. Moreover this is a time of struggle between the higher forces and the resisting forces on the material plane, it is therefore a time when intense attacks on that plane are possible. One has to be on one's guard and keep the true Force always round one as a ...
... a superior truth of existence. It has here to be emphasised, in order to obviate a natural misconception which can easily arise when the superior power of the higher forces is first perceived or experienced, that these higher forces are not in their descent immediately all-powerful as they would naturally be in their own plane of action and in their own medium. In the evolution in Matter they have ...
... things in the play of forces. Would you please explain to me this important process of sadhana — the play of forces between the higher and the lower? There are higher forces and lower — the lower have to be worked out by contact with the higher and in the working out sometimes they rise, sometimes they disappear till they are done with. It is not necessarily due to... the knowledge. Can one still make the effort? The period of no-effort is usually when the physical consciousness is uppermost, for the nature of that is inertia, to be moved by the higher forces or to be moved by the lower forces or by any forces but not to move itself. One must still use one's effort if one can, but the great thing is to be able to call down the force from above into the ...
... spirit of confrontation must be kept alive. The period of no-effort is usually when the physical consciousness is uppermost — for the nature of that is inertia, to be moved by the higher forces or to be moved by the lower forces or any forces, but not to move itself. One must still use one's effort if one can, but the great thing is to be able to call down the Force from above into the... nature's normal tendency can be eradicated. The normal tendency of the physical nature is to be inert and in its inertia to respond only to the ordinary vital forces, not to the higher forces. If one has a perfect equality and peace then one can be unaffected by the spreading of the inertia and bring down into it gradually or quickly the same peace with a force of the higher consciousness ...
... that divine perfection, the Realisation in the material, is attained. And for this consummation to come about, the process that is followed is a greater and greater infiltration of higher and higher forces into the field of disorder, of our normal life and consciousness. The time taken simply indicates that the process is being worked out; it is an expression of the rhythm of procedure. But to the... years do not mean more than what is one moment for us. Indeed, the slowness of time simply marks the steps of events in the lower Page 17 ranges of creation: as we rise higher and higher, forces from there come down into the lower field, and the tempo of events quickens; finally, when the highest peak is attained and its forces descend and intervene in the ordering of the lowest levels ...
... darkness, sweep it clean and make room for the Light, the Higher Forces of the Mother. This manner of working continued for some time; then it came to a halt, and we had only meditations. The Mother's endeavour at that time was for a new creation, the creation here of a new inner world of the Divine Consciousness. She had brought down the Higher Forces, the Gods, into the earth atmosphere, into our inner ...
... that divine perfection, the Realisation in the material, is attained. And for this consummation to come about, the process that is followed is a greater and greater infiltration of higher and higher forces into the field of disorder, of our normal life and consciousness. The time taken simply indicates that the process is being worked out; it is an expression of the rhythm of procedure. But to the... thousand or a million years do not mean more than what is one moment for us. Indeed, the slowness of time simply marks the steps of events in the lower ranges of creation: as we rise higher and higher, forces from there come down into the lower field, and the tempo of events quickens; finally, when the highest peak is attained and its forces descend and interevene in the ordering of the lowest levels ...
... forces of the higher planes of consciousness encounter the opposition and resistance of the energies of the lower levels of consciousness which one is attempting to outgrow. ...these higher forces are not in their descent immediately all-powerful as they would naturally be in their own plane of action and in their own medium. In the evolution in Matter they have to enter into a foreign ...
... one's aspiration. The method of relieving such a disturbance is essentially the same, and consists in relaxing the part of the being (physical, vital, or mental), where there is resistance to the higher forces, by using one's will, or by widening the consciousness or simply by calling the peace. The Mother speaks about this in the following passage: "The method is almost the same for all parts of ...
... the psychic and spiritual transformation precedes the supramental. But this is a change of the physical consciousness down to the submerged consciousness of the cells so that they may respond to higher forces and admit them and to a certain extent a change or at least a greater plasticity in the processes. The rules of food etc. are meant to help that by minimising obstacles. How far this involves a ...
... attack on the centres accustomed to receive them (external mind and the external emotional) and get in. This happens with most sadhaks. Two things are necessary—(1) to open fully the physical to the higher forces, (2) to reach the stage when even if the forces attack, they cannot come fully in, the inner being remaining calm and free. Then even if there is still a surface difficulty, there will not be these ...
... mechanical parts of the being that can truly say they are helpless: the physical (material) consciousness, especially, is inert in its nature and moved either by the mental and vital or by the higher forces. But one has always the power to put the mental will or vital push at the service of the Divine. One cannot be sure of the immediate result, for the obstruction of the lower Nature or the pressure ...
... one can live on the highest height reached, there cannot be the complete or more integral change. If the psychic mutation has not taken place, if there has been a premature pulling down of the higher Forces, their contact may be too strong for the flawed and impure material of Nature and its immediate fate may be that of the unbaked jar of the Veda which could not hold the divine Soma Wine; or the ...
... between static perception of event & dynamic perception of event (passive & active Chit). The latter which alters the event predestined by the ensemble of forces by a personal intervention (ie of higher forces) is becoming rapidly stronger & brings with [it] increasing satyam of trikaldrishti & increasing satyam of tapas-siddhi. The active Chit is either effectual trikaldrishti or effective will on the ...
... things—to be aware of one being everywhere, aware directly of the different planes, their forces, their beings—that is universalisation. Opening is when it [ the consciousness ] receives the higher forces—widening is when it is no longer limited to the body but widens to meet the cosmic consciousness. The widening of the consciousness beyond the body means that there is a preparation to pass ...
... It can be done in this way, only you must get the knack and the habit of it. If you achieve the power to do that, it makes the progress much easier, smoother and less painful. There are higher forces and the lower—the latter have to be worked out by contact with the higher and in the working out sometimes they rise, sometimes disappear till they are done with. It is not necessarily due to some ...
... inner consciousness, but that can be covered over by disturbance—the next step is for calm and silence to be established as the basis in the more and more outer consciousness—probably these [ higher ] forces are working for that. Then the play of the ordinary forces will be only on the surface and can be more easily dealt with. Silence and True Activity The silence is the silence of the inner ...
... it is dangerous to do a lot of meditation. If one meditates too much before one has become purified by means of work, things might rise up from the lower nature and upset the sadhak. When the higher forces come down into a nature not sufficiently purified through work, it is difficult to bear the descent of the divine forces." It is not the descent of the higher or divine forces that upsets a ...
... sit for meditation, I see a very white light coming around me. The white Light is the Mother's light. Wherever it descends or enters, it brings peace, purity, silence and the openness to the higher forces. If it comes below the navel, that means that it is working in the lower vital. 31 July 1934 Page 265 The Mother's white light is the light of the Divine Consciousness; you are living ...
... descend into them. Is there any relation between the Mother's descent into the physical parts and the descent of the forces that are working in me? Certainly. In a sense, the descent of the higher forces is the Mother's own descent—for it is she who comes down in them. 21 December 1933 As I sat to pray, I felt an electric force pass through my spinal cord. It was like the electricity from ...
... strong equanimity within into the external nature and the very cells of the body. But the difficulty is that the physical nature has little tendency to aspiration, its habit is to wait for the higher forces to do their work and remain passive. I think it is this difficulty that you are feeling. I felt it myself very often and for long periods at that stage of the sadhana. A steady development of the ...
... pastime, as a profession, but surely it is not the supreme goal. For the mind it is the same thing. To have a mind capable of progressing, of adapting itself to a new life, of opening itself to higher forces, it must be put through all kinds of gymnastics. That is why children are sent to school, it is not in order that they may remember all that they learn—who remembers what he has learnt? When they ...
... physical mind is that which is fixed on physical objects and happenings, sees and understands these only, and deals with them according to their own nature, but can with difficulty respond to the higher forces. Left to itself, it is sceptical of the existence of supraphysical things, of which it has no direct experience and to which it can find no clue; even when it has spiritual experiences, it forgets ...
... idea, one could go so far as to conceive of the replacement of material organs and their functioning as it now is, by centres of concentration of force and energy which would be receptive to the higher forces and which, by a kind of alchemy, would use them for the necessities of life and the body. We already speak of the different "centres" in the body—this knowledge is very widespread among people who ...
... material world to be able to act there. But anyhow, if the action is of a lower order, the power is of a lower order, and it is something almost repugnant for one who is truly in relation with the higher forces. Page 262 To act in order to accomplish a work with the spontaneous powers of spiritual realisation, that is well understood. But one may say that everybody does that, because just the ...
... material world to be able to act there. But anyhow, if the action is of a lower order, the power is of a lower order, and it is something almost repugnant for one who is truly in relation with the higher forces. To act in order to accomplish a work with the spontaneous powers of spiritual realisation, that is well understood. But one may say that everybody does that, because just the fact of thinking ...
... oneself. It is more difficult than swallowing poison. But I am not going to preach. When and if Auroville becomes the example of a higher life, having conquered all desires and opened itself to higher forces, then we will be able to go everywhere. When the Aurovilians become lights moving in the world, they will be welcome. There! Page 345 But I believe I have written something like that ...
... which are the works and at the same time the actions of the great beings who come to take birth Page 385 on earth. That is an imagination which can be called "Truth-imagination". These higher forces, when they come down into the earth-atmosphere, take living, active, powerful forms, spread throughout the world and prepare a new age. These two kinds of imagination are what could be called ...
... to accept it. He has tried very hard to understand. But his spiritual conception has remained like this: one can—one MUST—master life, and in life, to some extent, a certain adaptation to the higher forces can be achieved; but there is no question of transformation: the physical world remains the physical world. It can be a little better organized, more harmonious, but there is no question of something ...
... faster. But faster probably still means thousands of years. We shall speak of this again in a few thousand years! ( silence ) Those who are ready within, who are open and in touch with the higher forces, those who have had a more or less direct Page 78 personal contact with the Supramental Light and Consciousness, are capable of feeling the difference in the earth atmosphere. But ...
... have reached even the summits of yogic knowledge (I was thinking of Swami) need to resort to beings like gods or demigods to be able to realize things?—Because they have indeed united with certain higher forces and entities, but it was not decreed since the beginning of time that they were this particular being. They were not born as this or that, but through evolution they united with a latent possibility ...
... down to meditate? A mere repetition of words cannot have much effect. There are classical or traditional Japas which are intended to subdue the lower mind and establish a connection with higher forces or with deities. These Japas must be given by the Guru, who at the same time infuses them with the power of realisation. They are useful only for those who want to do an intensive yoga and spend ...
... and truthfulness almost entirely upon the real ability of the one who practises it. Moreover, it relates only to the material destiny and this destiny can be altered by the intervention of the higher forces. 3 January 1951 Page 35 ...
... instrumentation. And we may well conceive that in the New Body "material organs as we know them at present would be replaced by centres of concentration of force and energy that are receptive of higher forces and that would, by a sort of alchemy, use these latter for necessities of physical life." 1 About the process of materialisation of energy the Mother says: "Those who have practised ...
... that his whole nature has been and is being fashioned. Man does not and cannot Page 40 give carte blanche to his vital, inclinations, since there is a pressure upon them of higher forces coming down from his mental and spiritual levels. It is these latter which have deviated him from the direct line of the pure animal life. Thus then we may distinguish three types of control ...
... d by the physical, and it is fixed on physical objects and happenings, sees and understands these only and deals with them according to their own nature, but can with difficulty respond to the higher forces. Left to itself, it is sceptical of the existence of the supra-physical things, of which it has no direct experience and to which it can find no clue. To enlighten the physical mind by the consciousness ...
... turn of our nature or the inner being.... The Mother's endeavour at that time was for a new creation, the creation here of a new inner world of the Divine Consciousness. She had brought down the Higher Forces, the Gods, into the earth atmosphere, into our inner being and consciousness.' In one of her talks in later years the Mother herself referred to this period and said: 'After 24 November 1926 suddenly ...
... Here in the ignorance we are not aware of the Divine and we obey the lower Nature. Page 1 What are the forces at work in the cosmos? There are the higher forces of the Divine Nature— the forces of Light, Truth, Divine Power, Peace, Ananda — there are the forces of the lower nature which belong either to a lower truth or to ignorance and error— there are ...
... themselves and to go higher and deeper within. Their efforts indicate their call to the inner soul, inner mind and inner heart to come out into the front, and they also indicate their call to the higher forces of the spiritual mind and higher mind and overmind to come down; and we find among them the flowering, under the light and the influence that have come down from above, of the spiritual Sage, Seer ...
... d by the physical, and it is fixed on physical objects and happenings; it sees and understands these only and deals with them according to their own nature, but with difficulty responds to the higher forces. Left to itself, it is skeptical of the supra-physical things, of which it has no direct experience and to which it can find no clue. To enlighten the physical mind by the psychic consciousness ...
... supra-terrestrial life and the Supreme Reality, the supreme Purusha. In practical terms, the Veda prescribes that every action of man should be a sacrifice offered by him to higher and higher forces and beings, to the devas and ultimately to the Supreme Being itself. The world is thus not conceived as an illusion, although it grants that there is in this world an ignorance through ...
... d by the physical, and it is fixed on physical objects and happenings, sees and understands these only and deals with them according to their own nature, but can with difficulty respond to the higher forces. Left to itself, it is sceptical of the existence of supra-physical things, of which is has no direct experience and to which it can find no clue. To enlighten the physical mind by the consciousness ...
... possibilities. Page 138 3. Keep a constant contact with our psychic being by Japa, prayer, meditation or simply by remembering. 4. Keep ourselves open upward so that when the higher forces come down, they can enter into us and do their work. 5. Remain quietly happy all the time.' * Dada was telling us that there are chakras in different parts of our body ...
... 8.7.1970 When meditation comes spontaneously, often the body gets relaxed and sleep becomes irresistible. That is probably not an ordinary sleep. The body becomes able to receive higher forces which plunge it in a receptive rest. Consciousness will follow, and then the body will begin its transformation. 10.7.1970 My vital ego continues to see the faults of others with pleasure ...
... like a real battle, a real confrontation. And all of a sudden, there's something like a general issuing a command and saying, "What's this!"... You understand, that general is conscious of the higher forces, the higher realities and the divine intervention in Matter; and after trying to use the will, this reaction, that feeling of peace and so on, suddenly he is SEIZED by a very strong determination ...
... that, the firmer will be the foundation of the sadhana. In this self will come all the higher experiences, oneness with the divine, light, knowledge, strength, Ananda, the play of the Mother’s higher forces. It does not always become stable from the first, though for some it does; but the experience comes more and more frequently and lasts more till it is no longer covered by the ordinary nature. ...
... or else because mind is the womb of all our higher consciousness;—earth is the footing because matter here, outward form, is the fundamental condition for the manifestation of life, mind and all higher forces. On Matter we rest and have our firm stand; out of Matter we rise to our fulfilment in Spirit. Then once again, after these higher & more remote suggestions, we are reminded that it is some Force ...
... naturally in the long run, this bad use diminishes the capacity of receiving; but it takes time, it is not immediate. So it is very important to put yourself in a good condition to receive the higher forces and not the lower ones, and secondly, when you have received them use them for the best thing possible, in order to prepare yourself to receive those which are of a higher quality. But if you open ...
... Such things happen almost constantly. Well, these people have developed only the positive side. They make a kind of discipline of aspiration, they ask for help, they try to come into contact with higher forces, they succeed in this, they have experiences; but they have completely neglected cleaning their room; it has remained as dirty as ever, and so, naturally, when the experience has gone, this dirt ...
... But faster means still thousands of years probably. We shall speak about it again after a few thousand years! ( Silence ) People who are inwardly ready, who are open and in contact with higher forces, people who have had a more or less direct personal contact with the supramental Light and Consciousness are able to feel the difference in the earth-atmosphere. But for that... Only the like ...
... horizontally. But if you want to unite with the supramental Force which wants to come down, you have the feeling of gathering all your aspiration and making it rise up in a vertical ascent to the higher forces which have to descend. It is just a question of movement, you see, it is a movement of widening or a movement of concentration and ascent. What does the liberation of the psychic being mean ...
... pastime, as a profession, but surely it is not the supreme goal. For the mind it is the same thing. To have a mind capable of progressing, of adapting itself to a new life, of opening itself to higher forces, it must be put through all kinds of gymnastics. That is why children are sent to school, it is not in order that they may remember all that they learn who remembers what he has learnt? When they ...
... they consider that to be a weakness—it is their only strength. ( Silence ) It is really when one has the experience—the experience and Page 209 knowledge and identity with the higher forces—that one can see the relativity of all external knowledge; but until then, no, one cannot, one denies the other realities. I think this is what Sri Aurobindo meant: only when the other consciousness ...
... the Divine to which it is now shut—it indicates a state of receptivity. Opening is a thing that happens of itself by sincerity of will and aspiration. It means to be able to receive the higher forces that come from the Mother. Opening means only to be able to receive the Mother's force. Whether one is open or not is shown by two things. If one is conscious of the force working in one ...
... 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 character, certain tendencies, certain movements. The outer ...
... that, the firmer will be the foundation of the sadhana. In this self will come all the higher experiences, oneness with the Divine, light, knowledge, strength, Ananda, the play of the Mother's higher forces. It does not always become stable from the first, though for some it does; but the experience comes more and more frequently and lasts till it is no longer covered by the ordinary nature. The ...
... great danger there of entering into and getting perplexed in the intermediate zone. I would rather see him liberated from these things than pursuing them any farther. A descent from above of the higher forces would be far more helpful to him than these ascensions. Page 286 × The correspondent heard a rhythmic ...
... speech—there is no true reason after one has gained the inner quietness and wideness why that should be allowed to lapse and these things enter. And if the mind keeps its quietude and receptivity to higher forces only, it can then easily pass on that quietude and receptivity to the body consciousness and even to the material cells of the body. As the body consciousness becomes more open to the Force ...
... covered. If that can be done, then it becomes possible to push the lower forces out of the lower vital and body and not allow them to return. It is the Mother's Force which you feel—for all the higher forces are hers. Page 708 ...
... cannot take place in a few days. It is a constant progressive movement. The change of the lower consciousness (vital and physical) is a big work and takes a long time and much action of the higher forces to accomplish. Nobody has ever done it in a short time. That is nonsense—no one can get free from the lower nature in such a short time [ eight or nine months ]. It takes years for even the ...
... experience, dispersion or recurrence of old movements which had been pushed out from the other levels, but one must not be discouraged by that. The remedy is to be more insistent on bringing down the higher forces (peace etc.) into this field. This negation [ of deeper peace etc. ] is the very nature of the physical resistance and the physical resistance is the whole base of the denial of the Divine ...
... with rajasic or egoistic suggestions or excites the lower nature, then it is an adverse Force. The Forces of the Lower Nature and the Hostile Forces There are [ at work in the world ] the higher forces of the Divine Nature—the forces of Light, Truth, divine Power, Peace, Ananda—there are the forces of the lower nature which belong either to a lower truth or to ignorance and error—there are also ...
... being white. Sri Aurobindo has thrown more light on the subject: The white light is the Mother's Light. Wherever it descends or enters, it brings peace, purity, silence and openness to the higher forces. Sri Aurobindo says: The White Light is a manifestation of pure divine force descending from one of the truth planes leading to the Supramental. Sri Aurorindo on the Mother The Mother's ...
... it is an ignorant movement, for violent sensations can never be a remedy; on the contrary, they increase the confusion and obscurity. Page 147 The only remedy lies in opening to the higher forces in order to let them do in the vital their work of organisation and classification, of light and peace. Love from your mother who is always there ready to help you. My dear Mother, ...
... residue ( Mother shows her note, laughing ). × Mother means the perception of herself as a radiating center for the higher Forces. Mother commented on this passage later, on May 29 (see under that date). × In the next conversation ...
... terrestrial arrangements shows that, probably unconsciously (I told you right away: I don't think he is conscious in his body), he is nevertheless under the influence, if not the control, of the higher forces. Why is my attention drawn all of a sudden in that direction? Generally, I am not interested in all those things. For the action, I am concerned only with the little field of experience I have ...
... but they consider it a weakness—and it's their only strength! ( silence ) It is really when you have the experience—the experience and Page 105 knowledge and identity with the higher forces—that you see the relativity of external knowledge; but before that, no, you cannot see, you deny the other realities. I think this is what Sri Aurobindo meant; it's only once the other consciousness ...
... physical mind is that which is fixed on physical objects and happenings, sees and understands these only, and deals with them according to their own nature, but can with difficulty respond to the higher forces. Left to itself, it is sceptical of the existence of supraphysical things, of which it has no direct Page 46 experience and to which it can find no clue; even when it has spiritual ...
... and truthfulness almost entirely upon the real ability of the one who practises it. Moreover, it relates only to the material destiny and this destiny can be altered by the intervention of the higher forces. 3 January 1951 Do not take the sorrows of life for what they seem to be; they are in truth a way to greater achievements. (Music of the 2nd December, '51) "Who are you?" says the adverse ...
... and truthfulness almost entirely upon the real ability of the one who practises it. Moreover, it relates only to the material destiny and this destiny can be altered by the intervention of the higher forces. 3.1.1951 1952-03-25 Do not take the sorrows of life for what they seem to be; they are in truth a way to greater achievements. (Music of the 2nd December,'51) “Who are you ...
... world is then page - 51 seen to be an exchange of offerings, an exchange of sacrifices. This is a major but not the final result of Karma yoga. By the process of offering to higher and higher forces of energy and action in the world, one begins to discover that there is a supreme originator of action, a supreme originator even of the universal Prakriti. The offering of one's action then is ...
... like a real battle, a real confrontation. And all of a sudden, there's something like a general issuing a command and saying, 'What's this!'... You understand, that general is conscious of the higher forces, the higher realities and the divine intervention in Matter; and after trying to use the will, this reaction, that feeling of peace and so on, suddenly he is SEIZED by a very strong determination ...
... acquired by and by through a progressive development of sadhana. Not only that. It may so happen that one part of the sadhaka' s being and consciousness is already quite open to the higher forces but some other part has continued to remain closed up and resistant. What to do in such a situation? Here is Sri Aurobindo' s advice to the sadhaka: "The principle of total opening has to ...
... so as to strengthen the capacity for remaining above - but if the lower consciousness is left to itself there can be no transformation. The higher position has to be used for bringing down the higher forces below. From the higher station shall I start working on the inner being? It may be better to let the general pressure proceed as it has been doing. What ...
... function. Has one to reach the planes or do they open themselves like the centres? They open by the concentration and by the opening of the centres. There are the higher forces of the Divine Nature on every plane; when the vital attacks come, why do we not feel the divine Forces intervening to help? If you are sufficiently awake to them and call them in, they ...
... layers of the inner mind, vital and physical. 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 character, certain tendencies, certain movements. At ...
... transforms itself into the individual and the particular. The second is the principle of descent, which is almost the corner-stone in Sri Aurobindo's system. There are layers of reality: the higher forces and formulations enter into the lower, work upon it and bring about a change and transformation, purification and redemption. All progress and evolution is due to this influx of the higher, the ...
... not have been within its reach but for the occasion. The Forces of Darkness have precipitated themselves with all their might upon the world, but by their very down rush have called upon the higher Forces of Light also to descend. The true use of the opportunity offered to man would be to bring about a change, better still, a reversal, in his consciousness, that is to say, it will be of highest ...
... its reach but for the occasion. The Forces of Darkness have Page 17 precipitated themselves with all their might upon the world, but by their very downrush have called upon the higher Forces of Light also to descend. The true use of the opportunity offered to man would be to bring about a change, better still, a reversal, in his consciousness, that is to say, it will be of highest utility ...
... universal transforms itself into the individual and the particular. The second is the principle of descent, which is almost the corner-stone in Sri Aurobindo's system. There are layers of reality: the higher forces and formulations enter into the lower, work upon it and bring about a change and transformation, purification and redemption. All progress and evolution is due to this influx of the higher, the ...
... higher, and the lower forces on her body in connection with her haemorrhage. The lower forces wanted to make the physical being accept the suggestion that the bleeding should start again and the higher forces repelled the suggestion. DR. MANILAL: How can it be explained, Sir? (Laughter) SRI AUROBINDO: No explanation is required. It is a fact. Usually ordinary people get suggestions of illness ...
... would not have been within its reach but for the occasion. The Forces of Darkness have precipitated themselves with all their might upon the world, but by their very downrush have called upon the higher Forces of Light also to descend. The true' use of the opportunity offered to man would be to bring about a change, better still, a reversal, in his consciousness, that is to say, it will be of highest ...
... entirely on the value of the one who is practising it. Moreover, almost exclusively it puts one in contact only with the material destiny, and this destiny can be altered by the intervention of the higher forces. January 1, 1951 * Mother, When one sees a shooting star, does it signify something? Or is it a superstition? There is nothing in the world that does not signify something, or rather ...
... inner parts of our being; such illnesses may include allergies, colloidal disorders of the blood, and nervous and mental disorders. Here we are touching the problem of matter's receptivity to the higher forces of consciousness, one of the major problems of the supramental yoga. This is also one of the reasons why Sri Aurobindo and Mother insist so much on the development of our physical body; without ...
... the maximum of their possibilities. 3.Keep a constant contact with our psychic being by japa, prayer, meditation or simply by remembering. 4.Keep ourselves open upward so that when the higher forces come down, they can enter into us and do their work. 5.Remain quietly happy all the time. Page 6 ...
... ³ Ibid. 4 Ibid. Page 96 Would these gradations automatically succeed when they descend into Mind, Life and Body ? Sri Aurobindo explains the method of their working : " These higher forces are not in their descent immediately all-powerful as they would naturally be in their own plane of action and in their own medium. In the evolution of Matter they have to enter into a foreign and ...
... reality." — Life Divine. But because they are higher grades and more forceful it does not mean that they succeed immediately in the human consciousness in which they descend:— "these higher forces are not in their descent immediately all-powerful as they would naturally be in their own plane of action and in their own medium. In the evolution in Matter they have to enter into a foreign and ...
... — there is no true reason after one has gained the inner quietness and wideness why that should be allowed to lapse and these things enter. And if the mind keeps the quietude and receptivity to higher forces only, it can then easily pass on that quietude and receptivity to the body consciousness and even to the material cells of the body. (2.4.35) ...
... Hidden Worlds and Evolutionary Forces The Hidden Forces of Life Action of Higher Worlds and Evolution … we find these higher worlds in our vision and experience of them to be in no way based upon the material universe, in no way its results, but rather greater terms of being, larger and freer ranges of consciousness, and all the action of the material... evolution out of it. It is for this reason that material being does not begin and end with gases and chemical compounds and physical forces and movements, with nebulae and suns and earths, but evolves life, evolves mind, must evolve eventually supermind and the higher degrees of the spiritual existence. Evolution comes by the unceasing pressure of the supra-material planes on the material compelling... their full momentum or sufficiently develop their implications against the resistance of an inconscient or inert and ignorant material Nature except by a constant though occult resort to higher supraphysical forces of their own character. This resort, the action of this veiled alliance, takes place principally in our subliminal being and not on the surface: it is from there that the active power of ...
... If the development of a higher consciousness did not bring things that were not before heard of by the mind, it would not be good for much. The unification of the psychic and the higher consciousness forces and activities is indispensable for the sadhana at one time or another. Complete psychisation brings entire openness of the being to the Divine and to the Higher Consciousness and an entire... have been done was the aspiration for the purification and preparation of the nature, the permanent psychic opening and the increase of the higher spiritual opening above till there could be a total release of the being. The vehemence of the action of the forces was due to the resistance and the breaking of the knots in the head and different parts of the nature was their working for the release. The... importance because it makes safe and easy the descent of the higher consciousness and the spiritual transformation without which the supramental must always remain far distant. Powers etc. have their place, but a very minor one so long as this is not done. The Psychic and the Higher Consciousness What you see above is of course the true or higher consciousness—the Mother's—in which one sees all the world ...
... One must not think before that that one possesses the supermind; for that is a delusion which would prevent the fulfilment. One thing more. The more intense the experiences that come, the higher the forces that descend, the greater become the possibilities of deviation and error. For the very intensity and the very height of the force excites and aggrandises the movements of the lower nature and... worlds are in the higher worlds even as the higher worlds are in the lower worlds—they penetrate each other. E.g. in our system there is a vital mental, several layers of the vital itself, a physical vital and so on in each realm. Everything contains everything else, as it were. It is quite probable that the sloka [ Katha Upanishad 2.3.4 ] refers to a going up into higher worlds of felicity... felicity and light and this can be called a liberation or release. In later times the idea grew strong that from all these higher worlds return is inevitable and it is only release from all cosmic existence that gives mukti. The Vedic Rishis seem to have looked to an ascent into a divine luminous world or state above the falsehood and ignorance. In the Upanishad the sun is the symbol of the supramental Truth ...
... into a single life or even into a few compact but vibrant years. This is the inestimable advantage of Yoga—it is a quickening and revolutionary force, seconded, fortified and sped up by higher spiritual forces, to achieve its crowning end. Yoga breaks away from the tardy process of Nature and, stringing up all the energies of the individual being and firing his central will, sweeps him on to the... to a higher consciousness and a divine conversion and transfiguration of the whole being of man by the power of the Divine is the only means. A desperate and pervasive degeneracy calls for a radical and revolutionary redemption—and that can only be Yoga. "All Yoga is in its nature a new birth; it is a birth out of the ordinary, the mentalised material life of man into a higher spiritual... Aurobindo. Page 7 of spiritual values. Yoga, as I have said above, is a con- tact or union with the Infinite and Eternal, and not with any merely supraphysical beings and forces. It is a direct movement of the consciousness and being of man through a series of self-purifications and self-enlargements towards the Truth of existence and its unconditioned peace and bliss. ...
... kind ( Mother shows "The Synthesis of Yoga"), books of revelation, there is always an accumulation of forces―at least of higher mental forces, and most often of spiritual forces of the highest knowledge. Every book, on account of the words it contains, is like a small accumulator of these forces. People don't know this, for they don't know how to make use of it, but it is so. In the same way, in every... contains energies―if it tries to come into contact with the energy which is there and insists on having the answer to what it wants to know, well, naturally, the energy which is there―the union of the two forces, the force given out by you and that accumulated in the book―will guide your hand and your paper-knife or whatever you have; it will guide you exactly to the thing that expresses what you ought to... the answer depends on the value of the spiritual force contained in the book. If you take a novel, it will tell you nothing at all but stupidities. But if you take a book containing a condensation of forces―of knowledge or spiritual force or teaching power―you will receive your answer. So now, what do you want to know? I have explained the mechanism to you; you want me to do it? Is that what you wanted ...
... revelation, there is always an accumulation of forces - at least of higher mental forces, and most often of spiritual forces of the highest knowledge.... Now, you, when you are sincere and have an aspiration, you emanate a certain vibration, the vibration of your aspiration which goes and meets the corresponding force in the book, and it is a higher consciousness which gives you the answer. ... seriously your aspiration tries to concentrate on this instrument - it is like a battery, isn't it, which contains energies ... well, naturally, the energy which is there - the union of the two forces, the force given out by you and that accumulated in the book - will guide your hand ... it will guide you exactly to the thing that expresses what you ought to know" 14 V It was thus... transcends itself, that is its salvation. The apparent freedom and self-assertion of the personal being to which it is so profoundly attached, conceals subjection to a thousand suggestions, impulsions, forces which it has made extraneous to itself. The selfabnegation of the ego is its self-fulfilment; its self-surrender to that which transcends it is its liberation and perfect freedom. 17 Amal ...
... their full momentum or sufficiently develop their implications against the resistance of an inconscient or inert and ignorant material Nature except by a constant though occult resort to higher supraphysical forces of their own character. This resort, the action of this veiled alliance, takes place principally in our subliminal being and not on the surface: it is from there that the active power of... us as we are and to some extent suits her movements to our need or our demands on her. If we accept the action of invisible Forces upon us, there may be also invisible Forces in Life-Nature that belong to the same plane of Consciousness Force as this part of our being, Forces that move according to the same plan or the same power-motive as our lower vital nature. It can be often observed that when... lesson of experience. The action of the cosmic Energy is complex and the same Forces may act in different ways according to circumstances, to the need of the being, to the intention of the Cosmic Power in its action; our life is affected not only by its own energies but by the energies of others and by universal Forces, and all this vast interplay cannot be determined in its results solely by the ...
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