... though outwardly small and insignificant, can rise to those infinite regions of Light, Power and Bliss. Instead of human consciousness ascending to those higher planes it is also possible that something from those higher planes can descend here into the human consciousness. In such a case man would feel himself possessed by a greater personality than the human, or he would feel the presence of... for herself as for humanity, because her own calamity is to her only a "private sign" of man's general fate. The question she has to face was whether it is possible to break the bounds of human consciousness and go beyond to another state of consciousness higher than the mind. For, only so can man's problem be resolved. She found that she had within herself the Higher consciousness—in her the Divine... relapse into inconscience broken by a slow and difficult return to consciousness followed by a brief but splendid and prophetic outbreak of spiritual light leaving behind it the "day" of ordinary human consciousness in which the prophecy has to be worked out. P. 33 L. S) Ashwapathy's spiritual development consisted of two yogic movements; one a psycho-spiritual transformation and the other, a greater ...
... It's as if the consciousness were not in the same position with respect to things, so they appear quite different. Ordinary human consciousness, even if it has the broadest ideas, is always at the centre, and things exist in relation to a centre: in the human consciousness, you are at one point, and everything exists in relation to this point of consciousness. While now, the point no longer exists... a new reality. There was a MOMENT. There was a moment when the mental being was able to manifest on earth. There will come a time when the human consciousness is in the required state for a supramental consciousness to be able to enter this human consciousness and manifest. It does not stretch out like a rubber band, you see: there is a time when it happens — it can be done in a flash. Everything... wisp of imagination it has is always catastrophic. Whatever it foresees is always for the worst. And a worst that is so small, so mean, so nasty — really it's the most sickening condition of human consciousness and of matter. Well, I have been right in it for months, and my way of being in it is to go through every possible illness. 65.247 This material mind loves catastrophes and attracts them ...
... this may be true up to a certain point and so far as it goes; but this also is a solution incomplete by itself and it cannot give us an entire satisfaction. It takes insufficient account of the human consciousness and the human view from which we have to start; it does not give us the vision of the harmony it alleges, and so it cannot meet our demand or convince, but only Page 409 contradicts... Wisdom. It supplies us with nothing better than a complacent intellectual and philosophic optimism: no light is turned on the disconcerting facts of pain, suffering and discord to which our human consciousness bears constant and troubling witness; at most there is a suggestion that in the divine reason of things there is a key to these things to which we have no access. This is not a sufficient answer... and above us would be the real solution, to become perfect as That is perfect, to attain liberation by likeness to it or by attaining to the law of its nature, sādṛśya, sādharmya . If the human consciousness were bound to the sense of imperfection and the acceptance of it as the law of our life and the very character of our existence,—a reasoned acceptance that could answer in our human nature to ...
... "Psychology and Scientific Research" in Robert E. Ornstein (Ed.), The Nature of Human Consciousness. 17. Charles T. Tart, "States of Consciousness and State-Specific Sciences", in Robert E. Ornstein (Ed.), The Nature of Human Consciousness, p. 41. 18. Robert E. Ornstein (Ed), The Nature of Human Consciousness, p. 213. 19. Sri Aurobindo, Essays Divine and Human, pp. 331-32. ... 322 2. Charles T. Tart, "States of Consciousness and State-Specific Sciences" in Robert E. Ornstein (Ed.), The Nature of Human Consciousness (New York: The Viking Press, 1973), p. 60. 3. Robert E. Ornstein (Ed.), The Nature of Human Consciousness (New York: The Viking Press, 1973), p. XI. 4. Compare the following: "Psychology is, primarily, the science of consciousness... of the unconscious which they are describing. What we need now is a 'bootstrap psychology' that would integrate the various systems into a collection of maps covering the entire range of human consciousness. 29 Alluding to the well-known story of the blind men and the elephant, Robert E. Ornstein, besides pointing out the need for an overall view, states further that such an all-embracing ...
... goal; its process is rather one of inclusion and synthesis, and a raising of the integrated being of man into the glories of the Supermind. It insists on an increasing expansion of the waking human consciousness, and its ascent beyond the mind, beyond even the spiritual ranges of the mind, to that plane where Sachchidânanda stands as at once the transcendent Absolute and the timeless Creator of the... gives a new poise to the being and, opening up sealed horizons of vision, imparts a new rhythm to its movements. But the culminating evolutionary ascent is that to the Supermind, in which the human consciousness undergoes a complete reversal and an unprecedented transformation. Instead of the mental ignorance, a plenary knowledge; instead of division, a perfect, manifold unity; instead of discord... truth-force: the whole nature, knowledge, aesthesis, sympathy, feeling, dynamism become more catholic, all-understanding, all-embracing, cosmic, in- finite." 2 This is the highest that the human consciousness can achieve, sustained and aided by the divine Force; but the next step beyond, the crucial step into the Truth, the Right, the Vast (satyam, rtam, brhat) van only be a gift of the ...
... knowledge in the widest and integral sweep. Yoga has many gates of entry, and moral experience at an acute point of development throws up such a dilemma that the standards of conduct erected by human consciousness collide with each other so critically that one is obliged to enter into the gates of yoga in search of a true solution. When we examine the argument of Arjuna, we shall find that the crisis that... Action. In fact, the debate between Sankhya and Yoga occupies a prominent place in Sri Krishna's answer, and this prominence is due to the fact that the Sanmkhyan view, which aimed at lifting human consciousness from the ordinary mental consciousness to a spiritual level of consciousness, advocated the gospel of renunciation or sannyasa and advocated, therefore, the inferiority and dispensability of... buddhih " 7 "sarvam karm ā khilam jn ā ne parisam ā pyate” 8 However, since all yoga is an endeavour and a mighty Page 21 effort, there has to be in the human consciousness that need, that all-conscious imperative need, which provides perennial force of seeking, which is indispensable as a motive force at all stages of development. And this need must have its root ...
... if we try to study, in the light of the Mother's teachings, the distinctive features and functions of morality, religion and spirituality and their respective contribution to the growth of human consciousness and culture. Morality, Religion and Spirituality Anthropologists tell us that the consciousness of the primitive man was essentially religious. Whether it was animism, fetishism or... of reason and the balancing and enlightening principle of sattwa in man. It can be said that morality is a gift of religion, if by religion is meant a contact, however rudimentary, of the human consciousness with the light and harmony of the higher. Like every evolutionary growth in man, the principle of sattwa, in which there is a pronounced emergence and lead of the buddhi or reason, is quickened... ethics is to realise that he is a pilgrim of eternity and should not, therefore, rest in any half-way house, however clean and con- genial it may be. Ethics is only a stage in the evolution of human consciousness, and to cling to a stage is to forfeit the power and privilege of the final fulfilment. Deliverance for him lies in a sincere seeking for and an unconditional surrender to a higher light and ...
... do with this. I was speaking not of the world in general but of human consciousness in particular; and certainly, I was alluding to the fact that this Divine Love which animates all things, penetrates all, upbears all and leads all towards progress and an ascent to the Divine, is not felt, not perceived by the human consciousness, and that even to the extent the human being does perceive it, he finds... accepts it, and even ( smiling ) approves of it and glorifies it. This means that it must already be quite warped in order to be accepted by the human consciousness. And to accept it, bear it and receive it in its plenitude and purity, the human consciousness must become divine. This was what I meant, not anything else. I was stating that a human being, unless he raises himself to the divine heights... this Light, when it can be penetrated by it, is sufficiently receptive to absorb it, the moment it wants to express it in a way understandable to the human consciousness—I don't mean the ordinary consciousness but even the enlightened human consciousness—the moment it wants to formulate, to make it precise and understandable, it reduces, diminishes, limits—it attenuates, weakens, blurs the experience ...
... existence. But there is in the human consciousness clearer reflective mentality by means of which one becomes capable of the recovery of the inner spirit. But even in the pure mentality, there is still the veil between the mental and supramental action. As Sri Aurobindo points out, "an image of the Truth gets through, not the Truth itself." 43 In the human consciousness, however, the veil of the Ignorance... evolution; it is that which assumes in its Purusha consciousness the various formations that evolve from the inconscient nature in its evolutionary process; it is the individual being who in the human consciousness is found to have assumed in its Purusha consciousness various beings corresponding to the physical, the vital, the mental and the psychic; it is that which is capable of developing and formulating... could not be achieved in other conditions, to create out of Matter a temple of the Divinity would seem to be the task imposed on the spirit born into the material universe." 41 In the human consciousness, the individual soul has risen up to mental level; and since this consciousness is embodied in physical, vital and mental complex, it (the soul) is identified through its Purusha consciousness ...
... consciousness seems inevitably to lead to such a consummation in which the creative and the critical faculties will not be separate but form part of one and indivisible movement. Historically, human consciousness has grown from unconsciousness to consciousness and from consciousness to self-consciousness; man's creative and artistic genius too has moved pari passu in the same direction. The earliest... instrument for a type of poetic or artistic creation completely new, unfamiliar, almost revolutionary which the older mould would find it impossible to render adequately. The yearning of the human consciousness was not to rest satisfied with the familiar and the ordinary, the pressure was for the discovery of other strands, secret stores of truth and reality and beauty. The first discovery was that... what is wanted at present in the artistic world-the true inspiration, the breath from higher altitudes. And here comes the role of the mystic, the Yogi. The sense of evolution, the march of human consciousness demands and prophesies that the future poet has to be a mystic-in him will be fulfilled the travail of man's conscious working. The self-conscious craftsman, the tireless experimenter with his ...
... workings of the human consciousness which has evolved from the Inconscience but much more luminously as the human consciousness crosses the boundaries of ignorance and enters and masters the various domains of what may be called the Integral Knowledge. Just as the inconscience is a dark veil behind which the supermind is at work, even so, Ignorance as perceived at work in the human consciousness is an ev... That knowledge of the world and of its significance provides to the yoga of Sri Aurobindo a new aim and a new key for its integrality. (iii) Thirdly, behind the various layers in the human consciousness, there are, as noted above, not only the operations of the Involutionary Ignorance and of Inconscience; there are also lower states of subconscience which have evolved from the Inconscience.... process of groping which necessitates passage through errors and even falsehoods, even those errors and falsehoods which are illusions or generators of illusions; it may be said that the ignorant human consciousness has in its operations not only the phenomena of non-observation but even of mal-observation. Ignorant consciousness is not only incapable of observing or experiencing the totality of multiplicity ...
... consciousness seems inevitably to lead to such a consummation in which the creative and the critical faculties will not be separate but form part of one and indivisible movement. Historically, human consciousness has grown from unconsciousness to consciousness and from consciousness to self-consciousness; man's creative and artistic genius too has moved pari passu in the same direction. The earliest... instrument for a type of poetic or artistic creation completely new, unfamiliar, almost revolutionary which the older mould would find it impossible to render adequately. The yearning of the human consciousness was not to rest satisfied with the familiar and the ordinary, the pressure was for the discovery of other strands, secret stores of truth and reality and beauty. The first discovery was that... what is wanted at present in the artistic world—the true inspiration, the breath from higher altitudes. And here comes the role of the mystic, the Yogi. The sense of evolution, the march of human consciousness demands and prophesies that the future poet has to be a mystic—in him will be fulfilled the travail of man's conscious working. 'The self-conscious craftsman, the tireless experimenter with his ...
... Perhaps when the world sinks into a last sleep , I too may sleep in dumb eternal peace." Savitri, Book VII, Canto 4 Ah! that, that is the human consciousness. It is the human consciousness. It is the idea of the human consciousness that when all suffering will be over, well, "I shall sleep". It is indeed of this that Sri Aurobindo speaks. When there is this aspiration for a supreme peace... consciousness where there is no suffering, in her supreme knowledge and consciousness, she could not have any contact with human beings. And it is for this that she is obliged to take on the human consciousness and form, it is to be able to enter into contact with them. Only, she does not forget: she has adopted their consciousness but she remains in relation with her own real, supreme consciousness... itself is self-contradictory, for if there were a pralaya , there would be no more peace to be felt—there would be nothing at all any longer! But this is just one of the contradictions of the human consciousness: "As long as the world is there and suffering there, I shall suffer with the world. But if ever the world enters into peace, disappears in the peace of Non-Being, then I too shall rest." It is ...
... could remain, vitally and physically, in the Page 480 untransformed undivinised human consciousness, in unchanged contact with it, satisfying its demands, and yet be immune under all circumstances and in all conditions against strain and struggle and illness. If I want to divinise the human consciousness, to bring down the supramental, the Truth-Consciousness, the Light, the Force into the physical... egoistic life as man has found it throughout the ages, and yet it is that which this part of your vital regrets? How do you fail to see, when you lay so much stress on the desirability of a merely human consciousness, that suffering is its badge? When the vital resists the change from the human into the divine consciousness, what it is defending is its right to sorrow and suffering and all the rest of it... necessary conditions, no law or process, only miracle and magic, or else, well, this can't be the Divine! Again you all (or almost all) insist on the Divine becoming human, remaining in the human consciousness and you protest against any attempt to make the human divine; on the other hand there is an outcry of disappointment, bewilderment, distrust, perhaps indignation, if there are human difficulties ...
... Love, the being who was the life other life. Savitri is the Divine Consciousness but here in the mortal body she is clothed in the human consciousness; it is the human consciousness that she is to lead upward and beyond and it is in and through the human consciousness that the Divine Realisation has to be expressed and established. The human Savitri declares: If Death is conquered, it is for the... pulverising itself, scattering itself abroad. Immortality is thus entombed here below in death. The task of the incarnate Supreme Consciousness is to revive the death-bound divinity, to free the human consciousness in its earthly life from the obscurity of the material unconsciousness, re-install it in its original radiant status of the Divine Consciousness. Such is Savitri's mission. This mission... is offered to her. Ashwapati had to abandon, we know, the silent immutable transcendent status of pure light in order to bathe in this lower earthly light. Savitri too as the prototype of human consciousness chose and turned to this light of the earth. The Rishi of the Upanishad declared: they who worship only Ignorance enter into darkness, but they who worship knowledge alone enter into a ...
... mentality gave birth to Mind proper, that is thought, reflection and man appeared. A fully awakened consciousness, consciousness that can turn round upon itself is the characteristic marking out human consciousness. Such then are the stages in the progression of consciousness; they are clearly observable and admitted practically on all hands. Only Sri Aurobindo points out two crucial characters ... have reoriented or tend to reorient his vital instincts and reactions, even his bodily functions and forms. A conscious regulation, even refashioning of his life and body is the very essence of human consciousness, the urge of his nature, instead of a spontaneous laissez-faire movement of pure vitality or the mechanical go-round of the material base. These three major provinces or layers of consciou... inventions. There is also the other analogous movement called Inspiration that rules the poet and the artist disclosing to them a world of beauty and reality that is not available to the normal human consciousness. Again, there is yet another group of human beings at the top of the ladder of evolution—mystics and sages—who see the truth, possess the truth direct through a luminous immediacy of perception ...
... refer to a crucial change in human consciousness, a far-reaching change having no parallel since it invented the metal tool. The change means the appearance of pure intelligence in man, a change, as we may say, in modern terms, in the system of reference, from biological co-ordinates to those of pure reason. Only Jung thinks that the reorganisation of the human consciousness is to happen precisely round... knowledge—is a new degree of self-consciousness which is the special characteristic of the human consciousness. Put philosophically, we can say that the discovery of the subject and its growing affirmation as an independent factor in a subject-object relation marks the evolutionary course of the human consciousness. A still further unveiling seems to be in progress now. The subject has discovered... lies in a supersession of the self-consciousness, an elevation into a superconsciousness—as already envisaged by Yogis and Mystics everywhere—which will give a new potential and harmony to the human consciousness. This super consciousness is based upon a double movement of sublimation and integration which are precisely the two things basically aimed at by present-day psychology to meet the demands ...
... all-forgiving. She never protests under any load put upon her, never rises in revolt, never in a hurry or in worry, she goes on with her appointed labour silently, steadily, calmly, unflinchingly. Human consciousness can take infinite pains, go through the infinite details of execution, through countless repetitions and mazes: patience and perseverance are the very badge and blazon of the tribe. Ribhus, the... 271 mellowness, an understanding, a sweet reasonableness and a resilience all its own. And because of its intimacy with the tears of things, because of its long travail and calvary, human consciousness is suffused with a quality that is peculiarly human and humane-that of sympathy, compassion, comprehension, the psychic feeling of closeness and oneness. The gods are, after all, egoistic; unless... 3 We have spoken of the stability, the fixity, the rigidity even, of the god type and we contrasted it with the variability, the many-sidedness, the multiple character of the human consciousness. In another view, however, the tables are turned and the opposite appears as the truth. Man, for example., has a physical body and nothing is more definite and fixed and rigid than this material ...
... begin anywhere, at any level, by concentrating on a rock or a sparrow, an idea, a prayer, a feeling, or what people scornfully call an idol. Cosmic consciousness is not the highest point of human consciousness; we do not go above the individual to reach it, but outside. It is hardly necessary to ascend in consciousness, or to become Plotinus, in order to attain the universal Spirit. On the contrary... "vibrations," we do not mean any lifeless waves of quantum physics, but movements of light, inexpressibly filled with joy, love, knowledge, beauty, and all the qualities manifested by the best of human consciousness, whether they be religious or not: A light not born of sun or moon or fire, A light that dwelt within and saw within Shedding an intimate visibility.... 185 The... and the source of both the illumined mind and the intuitive mind, and of all human mental forms. This is the overmind. e) The Overmind The overmind is the rarely attained summit of human consciousness. It is a cosmic consciousness, but with no loss of the individual. Instead of rejecting everything to soar to celestial heights, the seeker has patiently ascended each step of his being, so that ...
... Divine here!" As if one could remain vitally and physically ln the untransformed individual human consciousness, in unchanged contact with it, satisfy its demands, and yet be immune under all circumstances and in all conditions against strain and struggle and illness. If I want to divinise the human consciousness, to bring down the supramental, the Truth-Consciousness, the Light, the Force into the physical... life as man has found it throughout the ages, and yet it is that which this part of your vital regrets? How do you fail to see, when you lay so much stress on the desirability of a merely human consciousness, that suffering is its badge? When the vital resists the change from the human into the divine consciousness, what it is defending is its right to sorrow and Offering and all the rest of it... necessary conditions, no law or process, only miracle and magic,—or else, well, this cannot be the Divine! Again you all (or almost all) insist on the Divine becoming human, remaining in the human consciousness and you protest against any attempt to make the human Divine; on the other hand, there is an outcry of disappointment, bewilderment, distrust, perhaps indignation, if there are human difficulties ...
... y becomes more and more visible, and it is in evolution of human consciousness that the body, life and mind within the limits of which the human consciousness seems to be operating in states of great imprisonment of confinement that individuality becomes more and more manifest in particular forms of body, life and mind. Human consciousness is a field of limited functionings of consciousness in which... which there is, as it grows, increasing pressure towards a real self-knowledge. In technical terms, it can be said that it is the human consciousness progressing towards or groping towards real self-knowledge that can be called evolutionary Ignorance, distinguishable from involutionary Ignorance, which was the parent of the Inconscience. In the working of the evolutionary Ignorance, therefore, there is... . The Purusha Consciousness, in the individual, experiences in his intimate play with Para Prakriti constant unity, even while there is varying play of diversity. In our lower experience of human consciousness, the individual soul is found in the complex formation of body, life and mind. The body, life and mind are formations of material energy of Prakriti, vital energy of Prakriti and Page 115 ...
... life of her life. Savitri is the Divine Consciousness but here in the mortal body she is clothed in the human consciousness; it is the human consciousness that she is to lead upward and beyond and 1 Bk. VII: Canto 2: p. 539. Page 101 it is in and through the human consciousness that the Divine Realisation has to be expressed and established. The human Savitri declares: If Death... pulverising itself, scattering itself abroad. Immortality is thus entombed here below in death. The task of the incarnate Supreme Consciousness is to revive the death-bound divinity, to free the human consciousness in its earthly life from the obscurity of the material unconsciousness, re-install it in its original radiant status of the Divine Consciousness. Such is Savitri's mission. This mission... it is offered to her. Ashwapati had to abandon, we know, the silent immutable transcendent status of pure light in order to bathe in this lower earthly light. Savitri too as the prototype of human consciousness chose and turned to this light of the earth. The Rishi of the Upanishad declared: they who worship only Ignorance enter into darkness, but they who worship knowledge alone enter into a ...
... mentality gave birth to Mind proper, that is thought, reflection and man appeared. A fully awakened consciousness, consciousness that can turn round upon itself is the characteristic marking out human consciousness. Page 65 Such then are the stages in the progression of consciousness; they are clearly observable and admitted practically on all hands. Only Sri Aurobindo points out... have reoriented Or tend to reorient his vital instincts and reactions, even his bodily functions and forms. A conscious regulation, even refashioning of his life and body is the very essence of human consciousness, the urge of his nature, instead of a spontaneous laissez-faire movement of pure vitality or the mechanical go-round of the material base. These three major provinces or layers of consciou... inventions. There is also the other analogous movement called Inspiration that rules the poet and the artist disclosing to them a world of beauty and reality that is not available to the normal human consciousness. Again, there is yet another group of human beings at the top of the ladder of evolution —mystics and sages—who see the truth, possess the truth direct through a luminous immediacy of perception ...
... Love, the being who was the life of her life. Savitri is the Divine Consciousness but here in the mortal body she is clothed in the human consciousness; it is the human consciousness that she is to lead upward and beyond and it is in and through the human consciousness that the Divine Realisation has to be expressed and established. The human Savitri declares: If Death is conquered, it is for the sake... pulverising itself, scattering itself abroad. Immortality is thus entombed here below in death. The task of the incarnate Supreme Consciousness is to revive the death-bound divinity, to free the human consciousness in its earthly life from the obscurity of the material unconsciousness, re-install it in its original radiant status of the Divine Consciousness. Such is Savitri's mission. This mission... it is offered to her. Ashwapati had to abandon, we know, the silent immutable transcendent status of pure light in order to bathe in this lower earthly light. Savitri too as the prototype of human consciousness chose and turned to this light of the earth. The Rishi of the Upanishad declared: they who worship only Ignorance enter into darkness, but they who worship knowledge alone enter into ...
... mentality gave birth to Mind proper, that is thought, reflection and man appeared. A fully awakened consciousness, consciousness that can turn round upon itself is the characteristic marking out human consciousness. Such then are the stages in the progression of consciousness; they are clearly observable and admitted practically on all hands. Only Sri Aurobindo points out two crucial characters Page... have reoriented or tend to reorient his vital instincts and reactions, even his bodily functions and forms. A conscious regulation, even refashioning of his life and body is the very essence of human consciousness, the urge of his nature, instead of a spontaneous laissez-faire movement of pure vitality or the mechanical go-round of the material base. These three major provinces or layers of consciousness... inventions. There is also the other analogous movement called Inspiration that rules the poet and the artist disclosing to them a world of beauty and reality that is not available to the normal human consciousness. Again, there is yet another group of human beings at the top of the ladder of evolution – mystics and sages – who see the truth, possess the truth direct through a luminous immediacy of perception ...
... refer to a crucial change in human consciousness, a far-reaching change having no parallel since it invented the metal tool. The change means the appearance of pure intelligence in man, a change, as we may say, in modern terms, in the system of reference, from biological co-ordinates to those of pure reason. Only Jung thinks that the reorganisation of the human consciousness is to happen precisely round... knowledge – is a new degree of self-consciousness which is the special characteristic of the human consciousness. Put philosophically, we can say that the discovery of the subject and its growing affirmation as an independent factor in a subject-object relation marks the evolutionary course of the human consciousness. A still further unveiling seems to be in progress now. The subject has discovered itself... in a supersession of the self-consciousness, an elevation into a superconsciousness – as already envisaged by Yogis and Mystics everywhere – which will give a new potential and harmony to the human consciousness. This super consciousness is based upon a double movement of sublimation and integration which are precisely the two things basically aimed at by present-day psychology to meet the demands ...
... crucial change in human consciousness, a far-reaching change having no parallel since it invented the metal tool. The change means the appearance of pure intelligence in man, a change, as we may say, in modern terms, in the system of reference, from biological Page 21 coordinates to those of pure reason. Only Jung thinks that the reorganisation of the human consciousness is to happen... knowledge—is a new degree of self-consciousness which is the special characteristic of the human consciousness. Put philosophically, we can say that the discovery of the subject and its growing affirmation as an independent factor in a subject-object relation marks the evolutionary course of the human consciousness. A still further unveiling seems to be in progress now. The subject has discovered... lies in a supersession of the self-consciousness, an elevation into a superconsciousness—as already envisaged by Yogis and Mystics everywhere— which will give a new potential and harmony to the human consciousness. This superconsciousness is based upon a double movement of sublimation and integration which are precisely the two things basically aimed at by present-day psychology to meet the demands ...
... bliss: "like a kind of gymnastic, a struggle of the consciousness" between the two extremes The suffering and the bliss seemed to alternate, the former sustained by "the mass of the general human consciousness", and the latter by the Peace superlative and immutable; and sometimes the two states - suffering and bliss - were almost simultaneous. 6 III On 1 July, the Mother had an experience... and it is in this guise that they will be studied at Auroville - not as beliefs to which one ought or Page 786 ought not to adhere, but as part of a process in the development of human consciousness which should lead man towards his superior realisation. There could even be a programme of research through experience of the Supreme Truth or of the Divine, not only through the traditional... an earlier chapter, that the Mother's Power as Ananda had come down nearly ten years earlier into the earth-atmosphere, but had been unrecognised and unwelcomed because of the density of the human consciousness. No doubt the Ashram and the earth itself had been surcharged with something akin to divine joy for a fortnight or more, but there was no receptivity on earth's part. The Power hadn't withdrawn ...
... and sublimating spirit. What then is Yoga? The etymological sense of the word is union, yoke (Dutch juk, German joch, Latin jugum, Sanskrit yuj). It means the linking or union of the human consciousness with something higher, some- thing transcendent, something eternal and divine. In the ignorance of his dividing mind, though not in spiritual fact, man is cut off from his transcendent source... the seventh, the practical ignorance." ¹ ¹ The Life Divine by Sri Aurobindo. Page 4 This colossal and multiform ignorance is due to the alienation of the human consciousness from the infinite and universal consciousness; it can be abolished only by healing the division. And Yoga is the only means, the only effective spiritual dynamism that can completely heal... metaphysical speculation and cogitation, even religious cults and creeds have nothing to do with Yoga—they rotate within the confines of the mental consciousness; but Yoga is a movement of the human consciousness to contact the Infinite by self- transcendence; it is a direct leap or a headlong plunge into -the Eternal. Even its start is characterised by an aspiration for such a leap or plunge; its ...
... which leads it up to the human state and evolves through it all a being of itself which we call the psychic being. This being supports the evolution and develops a physical, a vital, a mental human consciousness as its instruments of world-experience and of a disguised, imperfect, but growing self-expression. All this it does from behind a veil, showing something of its divine self only in so far as... blissful immersion or come back for some purpose. The word "descend" has various meanings according to the context—I used it here in the sense of the psychic being "coming down" into the human consciousness and body ready for it; that descent might be at the time of birth or before or it may come down later and occupy the personality it has prepared for itself. I do not quite understand what are... presence of the Divine. Animals and the Process of Rebirth The soul in the animal evolves its manifestation to a point at which it can pass from the expression in animal to the expression in human consciousness. It is when the vital gets broken up, some strong movements of it, desires, greeds, may precipitate themselves into animal forms, e.g., sexual desire with the part of the vital consciousness ...
... divine consciousness; in other words, the divine being acts in us to cause our consciousness. But there is this difference. The human consciousness can be raised to participation in the divine consciousness. This is an effect of divine grace. The human consciousness is penetrated by the divine consciousness, so that no difference is experienced, yet the difference remains. It is like light shining... of the Spirit and body and soul were assumed into the divine life. This had an effect on the whole cosmos. Through this event a power was released in the world by which matter and life and human consciousness are destined to be transformed, so as to participate in the divine life and consciousness. In that final state, time and space are transcended and the whole universe and mankind is assumed... itself. But we are still in the process of evolution from our present mental consciousness to the divine consciousness. In Jesus, I believe that the point in evolution was reached, when the human consciousness was raised to union with the divine consciousness. But this was not (as Aurobindo also envisaged) merely a transformation of the human mind, but involved also the transformation of the human ...
... We begin with "a universe of 'spiritual' stuff", a cosmos "fundamentally and primarily living". 26. Pp. 22-24. Page 225 in secret, of the same order as the human consciousness. Our conclusion is spotlighted by Teilhard himself some pages later: "Under penalty of being less evolved than the ends brought about by its own action universal energy must be a thinking... homogeneous unconsciousness": in the latter "all the lower centres unite, but by inclusion in a more powerful centre" 33 - "a supreme centre in which all the personal energy represented by human consciousness must be gathered and 'super-personalized' " 34 - "a 30.P. 98. 31.P. 100. 32.Pp. 102433. 33.P. 104. 34.P. 103. Page 227 ... Christian mysticism?... Drawn together by a fundamental identity, the two Omegas, I repeat (that of Experience and that of Faith), are certainly on the point of reacting upon each other in human consciousness and finally of being synthesized." The moment we have two entities designable as Omegas, we see that the historic Christ who is Omegalic in his own sphere is not irreplaceable as the ...
... plurality and multiplicity. The realm of multiplicity is thus the field of all that is known within the spectrum of human consciousness. It is true that some sense of unity and even of oneness does emerge in the higher or highest ranges of the powers of reasoning in human consciousness. But even if the certainty of unity and oneness is sometimes glimpsed or seized by the human intellect, one does not... complete insensibility that we find in Matter, Ignorance, on the other hand, has sensibility and the capacity of ideation. There is, at the human level, growth of sensitivity and ideation, and human consciousness is marked by the growth of cognition, affection, and volition. And the ordinary experience of human growth appears to be circumscribed between sense-experience and highest flights of reason.... have that concrete experience of unity and oneness of that kind, which one has in regard to division, plurality and multiplicity. In ordinary experience, pursuit of various faculties of human consciousness, which can be regarded as spectrum of Ignorance, one does not ever go beyond division and multiplicity, and the experience of division predominates. One remains confined to the realm of Ignorance ...
... lowest element that clothes the human consciousness. Indeed, mortality is enamoured of the tangled beam of joy and sorrow, of laughter and tears, of light and shadow and cannot contemplate the unalloyed sheer delight in Eternity. It is out of breath in the serene rarefied air of immortality; it pines for the terra firma, the mud and slime. The human consciousness has been fleeing the Hound of Heaven... Afflicted by his harsh divinity, Bound to his throne, he waited unappeased The daily oblation of her unwept tears. 1 The deepest and the most fundamental mystery of the human consciousness (and in fact of the earth consciousness) is not that there is an unregenerate aboriginal being there as its bed-rock, a being made of the very stuff of ignorance and inconscience and inertia... Page 23 (2) Savitri, the Divine Grace in human form, is upon earth. The Divine Consciousness has abandoned its own supreme transcendental status to enter into the human consciousness and partake of the earthly life: it has taken up a mortal frame, to live and dwell here below. Only thus she can transform the lower animal nature into the divine nature, raise man to godhead ...
... lowest element that clothes the human consciousness. Indeed, mortality is enamoured of the tangled beam of joy and sorrow, of laughter and tears, of light and shadow and cannot contemplate the unalloyed sheer delight in Eternity. It is out of breath in the serene rarefied air of immortality; it pines for the terra firma, the mud and slime. The human consciousness has been fleeing the Hound of Heaven... life's goal. Afflicted by his harsh divinity, Bound to his throne, he waited unappeased The daily oblation of her unwept tears.¹ THE deepest and the most fundamental mystery of the human consciousness (and in fact of the earth consciousness) is not that there is an unregenerate aboriginal being there as its bed-rock, a being made of the very stuff of ignorance and I inconscience and inertia... the immortal godhead in man. 2 Savitri, the Divine Grace in human form, is upon earth. The Divine Consciousness has abandoned its own supreme transcendental status to enter into the human consciousness and partake of the earthly life: it has taken up a mortal frame, to live and dwell here below. Only thus she can transform the lower animal nature into the divine nature, raise man to godhead ...
... doom of a world. Buddhism opposed and denied some of the very fundamental principles upon which the old world rested. It was perhaps the greatest iconoclastic movement ever thrown up by the human consciousness. First of all, it denied the tradition itself; it did not recognise the authority and sanctity of the purve pitarah , the ancient fathers, nor their revealed knowledge, the Veda. Buddhism enjoined... been forgotten and left behind, uncared for and undeveloped, must now be taken up again and brought forward, made a full-grown and mature element in a greater and more perfect organisation of human consciousness. Buddhism cried halt because of two omissions: it turned man's mind to two new directions. In our eagerness to reach the spiritual and the supra-sensual, we gave scant recognition to the... in by Buddha in India, and almost contemporaneously by Socrates in Greece and Confucius in China. The rational, that is to say, the scientific or analytical attitude to things appeared in the human consciousness for the first time in its fullness and almost exclusive sway. Neither the Vedas nor the Upanishads knew of logic as an instrument-a necessary instrument-for knowledge and expression. The old-world ...
... Love, the being who was the life of her life. Savitri is the Divine Consciousness but here in the mortal body' she is clothed in the human consciousness; it is the human consciousness that she is to lead upward and beyond and it is in and through the human consciousness that the Divine Realisation has to be express and established. The human Savitri declares: If Death is conquered, it is for the sake... pulverising itself, scattering itself abroad. Immortality is thus entombed here below in death. The task of the incarnate Supreme Consciousness is to revive the death-bound divinity, to free the human consciousness in its earthly life from the obscurity of the material unconsciousness, re-install it in its original radiant status of the Divine Consciousness. Such is Savitri's mission. This mission has ...
... or affinity."¹ Consequent upon the ascents, the descents of light and power and peace become more frequent and expansively effective, and they change and illumine the very texture of the human consciousness and knowledge. "A light and power, a knowledge and force are felt which first take possession of the mind and remould it, afterwards of the life part and remould that, finally of the little physical... the middle step of the three, the decisive transition of the spiritually evolving nature."¹ But even the spiritual transformation with its immense achievements—the universalisation of the human consciousness, the widening and illumination of human nature, the bridging up of the chasm between the human mind and the higher realms of the Spirit, the direct and dynamic contact with the cosmic forces... integration, even if it succeed, will be a very imperfect one, inasmuch as it will leave out the far-flung obscure bases and the shining summits of our being, which are not normally accessible to human consciousness. We know only the active superficial parts of our being, which are but an outer fringe of our boundless existence. The ideal of integration, which is claiming our attention more and more, carries ...
... but not for herself, but for her Love, the being who always is the life of her life. Savitri is the Divine Consciousness but here in the mortal body she is clothed in the human consciousness; it is the human consciousness that she is to lead upward and beyond and it is in and through the human 12 Ibid., p. 346. 13 Ibid., p. 474. Page 54 consciousness that the Divine... pulverising itself, scattering itself abroad. Immortality is thus entombed here below in death. The task of the incarnate Supreme Consciousness is to revive the death-bound divinity, to free the human consciousness, re-install it in its original radiant status of the Divine Consciousness. Such is Savitri's mission. This mission has two sessions or periods. The first, that of preparation; the second... is offered to her, Aswapati had to abandon, we know, the silent immutable transcendent status of pure light in order to bathe in this lower earthly light. Savitri too, as the prototype of human consciousness, chose and turned to this light of the earth. The Rishi of the Upanishad declared: They who worship only Ignorance enter into darkness, but they who worship Knowledge alone enter into ...
... (consciousness realised in the actual and concrete—seen by the human consciousness as the waking state.) U The internal manifestation (intermediate—the inner, not the inmost being—consciousness realised in the inner potentialities and intermediate states between the inmost supramental and the external—seen by the human consciousness as the subliminal and associated with the dream state.) M The... M The inmost seed or condensed consciousness (the inmost supramental, glimpsed by the human consciousness as something superconscient, omniscient and omnipotent, Page 1337 and associated with the state of dreamless Sleep or full Trance.) AUM Turiya, the Fourth; the pure Spirit beyond these three, Atman consciousness entering into Tat Sat and able to identify with it. Believed to... Mahashakti. The subsequent growth of spiritual knowledge has brought about a constant effort to add these missing elements. When the hidden secret has been discovered and made effective, the human consciousness will be exceeded, the superconscient made conscient and the subconscient or inconscient which is the inevitable shadow of the superconscient filled with the true spiritual and supramental co ...
... tion they have inspired at first, it is precisely because the transformation of the conditions of human life can be achieved by another preliminary transformation, the transformation of the human consciousness or at least of a few exceptional individuals capable of laying the foundations for a more widespread transformation. But we shall return to this subject later on; it will form our conclusion... Prince Siddhartha, later known as the Buddha, and the other in the West, Monsieur Vincent, who came to be called Saint Vincent de Paul after his death, stood, so to say, at the two poles of human consciousness, and their methods of assistance were diametrically opposite. Yet both believed in salvation through the spirit, through the Absolute, unknowable to thought, which one called God and the other... this happiness is accessible to a very few individuals, and most of the human race is still subject to terrestrial conditions. So we Page 97 can say on one hand that a change in the human consciousness is absolutely indispensable and, on the other, that without an integral transformation of the terrestrial atmosphere, the conditions of human life cannot be effectively changed. In either case ...
... Romantic Revival, starting somewhere about the beginning of the nineteenth century, is another outstanding example of a similar phenomenon, of the descent of light into human consciousness. The light that descended into human consciousness at the time of the Renaissance captured the higher mind and intelligence – the Ray touched as it were the frontal lobe of the brain; the later descent touched the heart... high-water mark of human civilisation. Greece and Rome may be taken to represent two types of culture. And accordingly we can distinguish two types of elevation or crest-formation of human consciousness – one of light, the other of power. In certain movements one feels the intrusion, the expression of light, that is to say, the play of intelligence, understanding, knowledge, a fresh outlook... and sometimes even quite anonymously as a mass movement. Either mode has each its own special purpose, its function in the cosmic labour, its contribution to the growth and unfoldment of the human consciousness upon earth as a whole. Generally, we may say, when it is an intensive work, when it is a new truth that has to be disclosed and set in man's heart and consciousness, then the individual is called ...
... Macbeth and the other in King Lear. Indeed these three mighty creations form a triology with the Karma of the human soul at different crises as its theme. King Lear represents human consciousness low down in the scale of evolution, almost at its start – a nature primitive and barbarian. We seem to go back into a prehistoric world, a paleolithic age – the domain of utter ignorance, of... tamas. * ---------- *The angelic Cordelia is a ray that has strayed down from some higher region, page – 185 In Macbeth we move up one step farther; human consciousness attains here a higher level. Something of the mental being enters into the purely vital creature: instead of the Eater, the man with the mere stomach, we have here the Ruler, the Tyrant, the... we have the world of the Asura-a creation of the mode of rajas. Hamlet is the third stage; it is a vision of sattva-guna and a creation attempted by that vision. The human consciousness that was imprisoned in the vital mind, is released here into the higher or pure mind. The soul escapes from its sheath of sheer hunger and desire and egoism and self-aggrandisement – yearns for ...
... radical shift in human consciousness and transformation of human consciousness by a synthetic process of Yoga. That transformed consciousness consisted of indubitable self-knowledge, world-knowledge and God- knowledge in the light of which human constructions of Dharma stood out as temporary constructions, which could be useful in the course of the evolution of human consciousness in its long journey... 162 that supreme bhakti manifests without any limitations. Here, too, it becomes necessary to indicate the method by which the attainment of sadharmyam is facilitated and fulfilled. The human consciousness, in ascent to the higher and higher levels of Para Prakriti and in securing its constant identity with the laws of divine action, divyam karma, 163 finds that conditioned, as it is, by the past ...
... Romantic Revival, starting somewhere about the beginning of the nineteenth century, is another outstanding example of a similar phenomenon, of the descent of light into human consciousness. The light that descended into human consciousness at the time of the Renaissance captured the higher mind and intelligence— the Ray touched as it were the frontal lobe of the brain; the later descent touched the heart... c high-water mark of human civilisation. Greece and Rome may be taken to represent two types of culture. And accordingly we can distinguish two types of elevation or crest-formation of human consciousness—one of light, the other of power. In certain movements one feels the intrusion, the expression of light, that is to say, the play of intelligence, understanding, knowledge, a fresh outlook and... and sometimes even quite anonymously as a maps movement. Either mode has each its own special purpose, its function in the cosmic labour, its contribution to the growth and unfoldment of the human consciousness upon earth as a whole. Generally, we may say, when it is an intensive work, when it is a new truth that has to be disclosed and set in man's heart and consciousness, then the individual is called ...
... out everywhere, in every country, every consciousness, every atom of the great earthly body – this is a merciless revolution, a relentless transmutation – and yet, here and there, in each human consciousness, each country, each fragment of the great torn body, the catastrophe is avoided at the last minute, the best slowly comes out of the worst, consciousness awakens, and our stumbling steps take... our intelligence, suffering and pettiness. This is the supreme “change of power,” which is knocking at the world's doors and hammering away at nations, churches and Sorbonnes, hammering at human consciousness and all our geometric and well-thought-out certainties. And if once, only once, man's consciousness opens up to one ray of that living miracle, if the consciousness of a single nation among... superman. This is not a theory we are advancing but an evolutionary fact, whether we like it or not. Only, the main difference Page 134 between the premental era and ours is that human consciousness, however closed, stubborn, obscure and petty, have become capable of perceiving the direction of their own evolution and hence of accelerating and lending themselves to the process. That was ...
... the rest of the universe; but these are conflicts and plays of forces that are formidable in proportion to human consciousness. These are things that in comparison with human duration last almost eternally. So, in time it is immensity, in space it is immensity, and for the human consciousness it is something almost incomprehensible. But to these forces, human dimensions and movements have truly almost... ants are having a fight." Well, to the titanic forces of the universe, men fighting on earth are like ants fighting, it is nothing at all. You must not judge things according to the measure of human consciousness.... For man Nature is a monstrous thing. It is so formidable, all the forces at her disposal, all the movements she creates. And what we know is only what is happening on earth! You know, directly ...
... of humanity, of human consciousness, which is capable of uniting with the supermind and liberating itself, will be completely transformed—it is advancing towards a future reality which is not yet expressed in its outer form; the part which is closest to Nature, to animal simplicity, will be reabsorbed into Nature and thoroughly assimilated. But the corrupted part of human consciousness which allows ... come to raise up the part of humanity which consents and to transform this physical world. So, to give hope Page 300 to those who have been born into it, into this perverted part of human consciousness, they have taught redemption through faith: those who have faith in the sacrifice of the Divine in Matter will be automatically saved, in another world—by faith alone, without understanding, ...
... own existence; but what I mean is that their relation with the human consciousness depends upon this human consciousness for the form they take. It is as with the gods, my child, it is the same thing. All these beings of the Overmind, all these gods, the relation with them, the form of these relations, depend upon the human consciousness. You may be... It has been said, "Men are cattle for the gods" ...
... essential and cardinal significance of the evolution is not development and perfection of the outer and instrumental form, but the development [and] increasing perfection of consciousness. If human consciousness had been something complete, consummate, a ne plus ultra, then we could confidently say that here was the summit, here the crown and end of things and beings, here the perfected creation and... universe or even of the earth-cycle, so also he is not its end and fulfilment. There was much before he appeared; there will be much after he has gone—or fallen into a subordinate place. Human consciousness is a half term in earth nature's climb from the electron and atom, gas and metal through the vegetable and animal and human formulas to the god and Titan and through the god to the Divine. It... not yet which he has to be; he is reaching always towards the something yet unrealised; his whole life and nature is a preparation, an endeavour of Nature towards what is beyond him. The human consciousness is limited in every direction; it does not know itself, it does not know the world around it, it does not know the origin and meaning and use of its existence. Page 265 But it strives ...
... humanity, of the human consciousness, which is able to unite with the Supermind and liberate itself will be completely transformed. It is moving towards its future reality as yet unexpressed in the outer form; the part very close to the simplicity of the animal, close to Nature, will be reabsorbed by Nature and thoroughly reassimilated. But that corrupted part of the human consciousness, which through... vision of the supramental world that will come to uplift the consenting part of humanity and transform this physical world. However, to give hope to those born into this perverted part of the human consciousness, redemption through faith was taught: those who have faith in the sacrifice of the Divine in Matter will automatically be saved, in another world—faith alone, without understanding, without ...
... example, there is, at the same time, for whatever happens, the explanation ("explanation" is not the right word, but after all...), the explanation of the ordinary human consciousness ("ordinary", I do not mean commonplace, I mean human consciousness), the explanation such as Sri Aurobindo gives through Page 236 an illumined mind, and... the divine perception. All the three simultaneously for... makes a gesture of reversal. ) Then, it is impossible to say. Whatever is said is no more truly true. And all the suffering vibrations are, as it were, sustained by the mass of the general human consciousness—yes, it is that. Page 235 And the other is sustained by... something that does not seem to intervene, it seems to be like that ( gesture meaning immutable ) in comparison with this ...
... on by the human consciousness (it's much stronger with man than with the animal; the animal doesn't have that, very little—it has it more and more because of man, but very little; it's something specific to man and the mental function), it's something very thin—as thin as an onion skin, as dry as an onion skin—yet it spoils everything. It spoils everything ONLY FOR THE HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS. At the time... time [of the experience], it was unimportant. Unimportant, in the sense that it takes away all the Beauty, all the Power, all the Magnificence of the thing—for the human consciousness. For man, it is of paramount importance. But for the Action, it's almost negligible. Basically, it's rather that it makes it difficult for man to become conscious and PARTICIPATE; otherwise, my feeling is that truly the ...
... all cosmic things, is made clear enough in various Vedic texts. This clarity is also seen by the connection that is described between their cosmic character and their power of delivering the human consciousness from ignorance and from the stumbling blocks created by the powers of blindness and of .evil. For instance, in Rig Veda X.63.8, we have the following prayer: "Since ye are they who rule... ocean of the light of knowledge, the ocean of darkness as the infinite potential zero, in contrast to the ocean of knowledge as the infinite plenary; between these two oceans is a third ocean of human consciousness, 21 and this third ocean is imaged as a sort of boundless wave that surges up to climb and to flow up beyond the mental consciousness to the supreme ocean of knowledge. Human life is thus... that pervades all the three oceans, — ocean of darkness, ocean of human Page 24 ignorance and ocean of divine knowledge, and he has the knowledge of the law that lifts the ignorant human consciousness from darkness and ignorance into the vast Right and Truth ( Ritam and Satyam ) The Veda, therefore, refers to Varuna as the teacher of vast Right and Truth. This path from darkness and ...
... of the physical world, vital world, mental world and even of the higher worlds, — do not provide that concreteness that the sensations of vision and audition provide to human consciousness. And nothing proves to the human consciousness the reality of the Real as the images that are captured in direct vision, when the eyes are opened and the panorama of the world gets imprinted on sensations and perceptions... movement at a critical point of development, so that the crisis is overcome, and the path of the human ascent is hewn and made ready for facilitating Page 99 general ascension of human consciousness to the new height that comes to be established by the avatar. We may now come to the phenomenon of the manifestation of vibhuti. This phenomenon is distinguishable from that of the avatar; ...
... kind of intelligence, Page 26 purposefulness, self-knowledge. It is true that these operations of consciousness take forms in our mentality of which we are habitually aware in human consciousness. But, as Sri Aurobindo points out, there are, in the animal, operations of a perfect purposefulness and an exact, indeed a scientifically minute knowledge which are quite beyond the capacities... fabricator of the threads which it coordinates. The limitation of its own consciousness and the mistaken view of itself as a fabricator instead of being only a small coordinator causes in the human consciousness the phenomena of dualities, — good and evil, joy and suffering, life and death.³¹ The task of conscious will and choice among alternative possibilities is its most important element; this... conceive and work for a development of a new evolutionary process, — all this is necessary and inevitable.³² According to Sri Aurobindo, there is an inherent urge in Page 39 the human consciousness to seek constantly to minimize the causes of error, pain and suffering. That is the basic urge of the dreams of science of regulating birth and indefinite prolonging of life, if not of effecting ...
... chimera to believe that the world of today and tomorrow can be safe without a radical change in human consciousness and character. It is true that the wisest leaders of today have declared unambiguously that the future of the human race is dependent exclusively upon a radical transformation of human consciousness, and that one of the most important means of effecting this transformation is an integral and... development, the world is shrinking and we are dreaming of the possibility of a planetary civilisation, we have not yet the required corresponding psychological development which can enable the human consciousness and character to sustain such a planetary civilisation. On the contrary, there is growing preponderance of those impulses which can thrive only through ignorance, fragmentation, discord and violence ...
... the life and in these cases it is some emanation of the psychic being which upholds the life." (Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga, pp. 440-41) "... the psychic being coming down into the human consciousness and body ready for it; that descent might be at the time of birth or before or it may come down later and occupy the personality it has prepared for itself." (Ibid., p. 442) (Q. 33):... loose holding of an animal form by a human soul, with an immediate subsequent reversion to its normal progression." (Ibid.) "But the soul, the psychic being, once having reached the human consciousness cannot go back to the inferior animal consciousness any more than it can go back into a tree or an ephemeral insect. What is true is that some part of the vital energy or the formed instrumental... evolution which leads it up to the human state and evolves through it all a being of itself which we call the psychic being that supports the evolution and develops a physical, a vital, a mental human consciousness as its instruments of world-experience and of a disguised, imperfect, but growing self- Page 165 expression. All this it does from behind a veil..." (Letters on Yoga, p. 438) ...
... to a human vision for the human consciousness to seize, almost in a human form. Finally, once the Truth is reached, it is to be held fast, firmly established, embodied and fixed in its inherent nature here in life and the waking consciousness. This is Svadha, The Gods feed upon Svadha and Vasat, as these represent the ascending movement of human consciousness: it is man's self-giving... the Brahman. Yama teaches the process of transcendence. Apart from the knowledge and experience first of the individual and then of the cosmic Brahman, there is a definite line along which the human consciousness (or unconsciousness, as it is at present) is to ascend and evolve. The first step is to learn to distinguish between the Good and the Pleasurable (sreya and preya). The line of pleasure leads ...
... s have a familiar norm in the ordinary nature. And human consciousness is made up of them, in various formations and modulations. These gradations are the various statuses of consciousness which the human being assumes in its relation with the world-reality. In other words, they are the instruments through which human consciousness comes in contact with the universe. They are as it were... Savitri 1, 5 Page 18 knot has to be cut through and the thread to be scattered into the infinity of the deepest and of the widest being. The last barrier at the base of the human consciousness is the hard crust of the physical and the material being. It is closed to the regions behind, the occult sources of all external movements. This too has to be pulled down and thrown into the ...
... and be firmly stabilised for experience or utilisation in physical life. There was indeed a hiatus in the human consciousness of the earlier period. Take, for example, the earliest human civilisation at its best, of which we have historical record, the Vedic culture of India: human consciousness is here at its optimum, its depth and height is a thing of wonder. But between that world, an almost occult... required. For here the evolution seems to have been more gradual and the steps are more clearly visible leading one to the other. India maintained an unbroken continuity in the cyclic change of the human consciousness. She was coeval with Egypt and Chaldea, Sumeria and Babylon: she communed with them perhaps in similar and parallel terms. And yet she changed or evolved and knew to express herself in other ...
... triplicities have a familiar norm in the ordinary nature. And human consciousness is made up of them, in various formations and modulations. These gradations are the various statuses of consciousness which the human being assumes in its relation with the world reality. In other words, they are the instruments through which human consciousness comes in contact with the universe. They are as it were windows... with the inner Divine. This egocentred knot has to be cut through and the thread to be scattered into the infinity of the deepest and of the widest being. The last barrier at the base of the human consciousness is the hard crust of the physical and the material being. It is closed to the regions behind, the occult sources of all external movements. This too * A greater force than the earthly held ...
... Dawn. This Dawn is the awakening of human consciousness to its divine possibility, and the basis of this self-aware being we call Satchidananda. The Dawn represents the awakening to this infinite existence, infinite consciousness, infinite delight, Satchidananda. In one sense we can say that Satchidananda is here as the universe which the human consciousness tries to know all the time. This s... unrolled itself as the cosmos. The individual and the universal are terms of this Unknowable, this Unknowable which represents itself to man as Infinite, Satchidananda. Whatever the human consciousness may be seeking it is, in reality, seeking the Infinite, Satchidananda. When man wants to progress it means that the self-awareness which has awakened in the cosmos wants to attain not merely ...
... possible faculty of man and the only leader of his life. It is only a guide so long as he lives in the mind—it bridges the gulf between instinct and intuitive knowledge. It leads and enlightens human consciousness during a particular period of transition in its evolution. But for it, man would have remained a bond slave of his desires and passions, and a sport of his lower impulses. He could not have advanced... about the high waters mark of its achievement. It can catch some broken reflections .of truth, but not truth itself. Its theories are feats of intellectual speculation, but they do not lead human consciousness beyond the confines of the mind, they do not open doors upon infinity and eternity, they do not make us experience and live Reality. The basal differences between the speculative structures... luminous reaches of his consciousness, or let his reason pander to the base interests and brutish hungers of his animal nature. On the one hand, there is the hope of an infinite expansion of human consciousness in light and peace and creative harmony, and unimpeded flowering of man's immortal Spirit, and a radical transformation of his human into divine nature; and, on the other, the rampant chaos ...
... Page 302 It is then that the rules of conduct having at their base a perfect personal disinterestedness should assume all their value.”¹ In this state of aspiring but unsealed human consciousness, it would be not only fatuous but spiritually fatal to believe or claim that we are instruments of the divine Will and have no personal responsibility for the actions we do. Such a belief is... in the measure in which they are imbued with the consciousness of that Law, which is not a law of practical application capable of being translated into principles or rules in the ordinary human consciousness, but which is a law of attitude, of a constant and general consciousness, something which is not at all expressed by formulas, but which is lived.”¹ In that unbanked consciousness "all... so long as the gross physical body is there and the ego's roots thrive in the fertile fields of the subconscient ? Has it ever been achieved except in trance or a deeply indrawn state of human consciousness? Is there any spiritual discipline by which not only the conscious parts of the nature, but also the subconscient and the inconscient can be thoroughly cleansed of even the last, lingering ...
... through the membrane, as if it were entering a different, deforming medium. It is what I had called "the fishbowl" before. It's like a thin film of difficulties, of complications, added on by the human consciousness 7 . And it reminds me of that "big brother" who so much wanted to "simplify" the passage across the river by inventing some fantastic boat, while it was enough to say, "I wish." The animal... ess: It's a WAY OF BEING, not even a "way of consciousness" because that implies "being conscious OF something" and it's not that: it's a way of being. And that way of being is what, in the human consciousness, translates as "Ah, the Divine!— by opposition. It's a perfectly natural and spontaneous way of being. 21 Ultimately, the Divine is the most natural thing in the world. Which is why we do... But that's not it either.... It's a little something that disappears, and * that little something is... essentially it's the Falsehood. It very strange. Basically, it's what gives the ordinary human consciousness the sense of reality. That's what must disappear. What we call "concrete," a "concrete reality"... yes, what truly gives you the sense of real existence—that's what must disappear and be replaced ...
... trophy, expressed in his particular teaching. None came to the world with this trophy in the cradle. No god-man has seen the light of day knowing himself to be God. All were first men like us. Human consciousness could dominate them for a very long time, and it is clear that they retained something of that consciousness until the end, even after divine consciousness had descended in them. That which... which nothing holds the verb which releases it and its results. We can foresee its stages, but neither enjoy them in advance, nor precipitate their development. Many things will happen in the human consciousness before perceptions will have been radically and definitively transformed. The establishment of an extra-corporeal mechanism for the consciousness is, in fact, only a first step in the comprehension... eternal and infinite Present we call God. But it does not suffice to see God. One must see what He sees; one must view the world with His eyes. And that represents the next stage in the ascent of human consciousness. Until now, the perception of the Eternal and Infinite has been the highest realization in our entire history, the most elevated degree to which, with the intercession of seers, we have ...
... and it takes into its purview worlds of being that are connected with humanity which are not perceived by it because of its limitations of ignorance. Nevertheless, these levels do act upon human consciousness. They 1 The Foundations of Indian Culture, SABCL, Vol. 14, pp. 286-93. Page 96 also include higher planes of consciousness which have not yet manifested here... that live on those planes of Light, Consciousness and Bliss, the worlds of Truth. The soul of aspiring humanity symbolised in Aswapati, the Lord of manifested Life, first descends from his human consciousness into nether regions of unconsciousness and materiality, the regions of the lower vital, its heaven and its hell, as a conscious witness. He then ascends to the regions of Heavens of the higher... figure of speech but is expressing his own personal experience. It is by such an onrush from above the mental level that, as K.D. Sethna says, "knowledge of the Deathless Divine leaps on the human consciousness and by whose thronged and glittering invasion the revelatory speech of the Overhead spiritual is bom." Again when he says Page 109 Missioned voices drive to me from ...
... a human being only—if you look for the Divine, you will find the Divine. The Avatar is not supposed to act in a non-human way—he takes up human action and uses human methods with the human consciousness in front and the Divine behind. If he did not his taking a human body would have no meaning and would be of no use to anybody. He could just as well have stayed above and done things from there... two things in a fundamental way—the Truth above and here below the Lila and the purpose of the incarnation or manifestation and it does what is necessary for that in the way its greater than human consciousness sees to be the necessary and intended way. I shall try if I can develop that when I write about it—perhaps I shall take your remarks about Rama and Krishna as the starting-point—but that I shall... Beings are as real and more permanently real than the men they influence, but they belong to a higher plane, are part of the cosmic consciousness and being and act here on earth by shaping the human consciousness on which they exercise their influence. It is natural for man who only sees his own consciousness individual, national or racial at work and does not see what works upon it and shapes it, to ...
... we daily communicate. Yoga proceeds by conscious union, the conscious being is its instrument, and a conscious union with the Inconscient cannot be. It is true that it goes beyond the human consciousness and in Samadhi becomes superconscient, but this is not an annullation of our conscious being, it is only its self-exceeding, the going beyond its present level and normal limits. So far, then... pure of certain perversions and God a magnified or else an ideal Man. God is not and cannot be an ego limited by his qualities as we are in our normal consciousness. But on the other hand our human consciousness must certainly originate and have been derived from the Divine; though the forms which it takes in us may and must be other than the divine because we are limited by ego, not universal, not superior... sentence of transience and passing. They are justified because there is a truth of the Divine behind them and only so could that truth of the Divine be approached in that stage of the developing human consciousness and be helped forward; they are condemned, because to persist always in these crude conceptions and relations with the Divine is to miss that closer union towards which these crude beginnings ...
... it is more than probable that (not more than probable, certain), that it will happen again in the same way. There will come a time when a human consciousness is in the required state for a supramental consciousness to be able to enter this human consciousness and manifest. But it is possible that before this becomes a new race like the human race, it may take very, very long. And it will be done... this: even if there should be only half a chance, it would be worth the trouble of trying. For after all... I don't know... I told you just now, there is a moment when life such as it is, the human consciousness such as it is, seems something absolutely impossible to bear, it creates a kind of disgust, repugnance; one says, "No, it is not that, it is not that; it can't be that, it can't continue." Well ...
... religions will be a part of the historical study of the development of human consciousness. Religions make up part of the history of mankind and it is in this guise that they will be studied at Auroville―not as beliefs to which one ought or ought not to adhere, but as part of a process in the development of human consciousness which should lead man towards his superior realisation. PROGRAMME... attempt to build Auroville as an experiment? The conception of Auroville is purely divine and has preceded its execution by many years. Naturally, in the details of the execution the human consciousness intervenes. 17 April 1969 How can people having different values live and work together in harmony? The solution is to go deep within oneself and find the place where all the ...
... the use one makes of the inspiration, rather than of the quality of the inspiration—the inspiration is always like a drop of light and truth which succeeds in penetrating the human consciousness. What the human consciousness does with this drop depends on the attitude, the need, the occasion, the circumstances; it does not alter the essential nature of the inspiration but it does alter the use one... in the Aphorism we read last week. When, in last week's Aphorism, Sri Aurobindo opposed—as one might say—"knowledge" to "Wisdom", he was speaking of knowledge as it is lived in the average human consciousness, the knowledge which is obtained through effort and mental development, whereas here, on the contrary, the knowledge he speaks of is the essential Knowledge, the supramental divine Knowledge ...
... existence, but what I mean is that the form their relationships with the human consciousness take depends on that human consciousness. It's the same with the gods, mon petit, the same thing! The relationship with all those beings of the Overmind, with all those gods, the form those relationships take depends on the human consciousness. You can be... The scriptures say, "Man is cattle for the gods"—but ...
... it's a psychological question, it's Page 277 nothing, it's not really THE THING (it's the thing expressed in a HUMAN consciousness). Because the other day... the other day, suddenly I went out of humanity. My consciousness went right out of the human consciousness. And then I said to myself, "But... all that they say, all that they know, all that they have attempted, all that so-called... that's illusory—the perception of the world, the perception we have of it, is illusory. The world has a concrete, real existence in what we could call the Eternal's Consciousness. But we, the human consciousness has an illusory perception of this world. And when the Vibration of Truth triumphs, you see and have the sense of the true reality of the world; and as I said, that illusory perception disappears ...
... instance, with anything happening, there is, at the same time, the explanation ("explanation" isn't the right word, but anyway...), the explanation of the ordinary human consciousness ("ordinary," I don't mean banal, I mean the human consciousness), then the explanation as Sri Aurobindo gives it in an illumined mind, and then... the divine perception. All three simultaneously, for the same thing—how, how... it's impossible to say. Whatever one may say is no longer really true. And all these suffering vibrations ( Mother points to her cheek ) are as though supported by the mass of the general human consciousness—that's right. While the other [state] is supported by... something that doesn't seem to intervene, that's like this ( immutable gesture ) in comparison with this human mass that tends to express ...
... to a human vision for the human consciousness to seize, almost in a human form. Finally, once the Truth is reached, it is to be held fast, firmly established, embodied and fixed in its inherent nature here in life and the waking consciousness. This is Svadhā. The Gods feed upon Svādhā and Vasat, as these represent the ascending movement of human consciousness: it is man's self-giving and... the Brahman. Yama teaches the process of transcendence. Apart from the knowledge and experience first of the individual and then of the cosmic Brahman, there is a definite line along which the human consciousness (or unconsciousness, as it is at present) is to ascend and evolve. The first step is to learn to distinguish between the Good and the Pleasurable (śreya and preya). The line of pleasure leads ...
... element that clothes the human consciousness. Indeed, Page 78 mortality is enamoured of the tangled beam of joy and sorrow, of laughter and tears, of light and shadow and cannot contemplate the unalloyed sheer delight in Eternity. It is out of breath in the serene rarefied air of immortality; it pines for the terra firma, the mud and slime. The human consciousness has been fleeing the... READINGS IN "SAVITRI" (2) Savitri, the Divine Grace in human form, is upon earth. The Divine Consciousness has abandoned its own supreme transcendental status to enter into the human consciousness and partake of the earthly life: it has taken up a mortal frame, to Jive and dwell here below. Only thus she can transform the lower animal nature into the divine nature, raise man to godhead ...
... consciousness which is operative, active, or creative, has not just one aspect of its expression, one mode of manifestation. It can be, to the human mind, superconscient. It can be to the human consciousness something conscious or subconscious. It can be subliminal. So, there are various states of consciousness—and they operate. The subliminal state is able to act independently of human senses... so to say; but the modern artists do not see it. They never see beauty. They get wedded to intellectual theory, then go to the subconscient and want to express in art the lower elements of human consciousness and think they are creating something very original, marvellous, and wonderful, because nobody did it before. That is where they get away from the path. The true artists go straight to the perception... to aspiration ? A : To an understanding of life, first of all. Very great understanding of life comes when you realise that it is only a way of reaction to certain circumstances. To the human consciousness it means that conditions must change. By suffering, one is very often trying to exert will or pressure on the environment or circumstances to change them. Page 103 Q : Thomas ...
... cosmos and it takes into its purview worlds of being that are connected with humanity which are not perceived by it because of its limitations of ignorance. Nevertheless, these levels do act upon human consciousness. They also include higher planes of consciousness which have not yet manifested here but which are pressing upon the earth-consciousness for manifestation. They contain beings, powers and presences... planes of Light, Consciousness and Bliss, the worlds Page 31 of Truth. The soul of aspiring humanity symbolised in Aswapathy, the Lord of manifested Life, first descends from his human consciousness into nether regions of unconsciousness and materiality, the regions of the lower vital, its heaven and its hell, as a conscious witness. He then ascends to the regions of Heavens of the higher... is not using merely a figure of speech but is expressing his own personal experience, it is by such an onrush from above the mental level that "knowledge of the Deathless Divine leaps on the human consciousness and by whose thronged and glittering invasion the revelatory speech of the Overhead spiritual is born".—K. D. Sethna. Again when he says: "Missioned voices drive to me from God's ...
... consciousness, inspirational consciousness, a revelatory power over mind, a supermind where one can open the human consciousness to the high levels and bring them down. That potential in us is waiting for manifestation here. Aswapathy realized this and carried the aspiration of the human consciousness to the supreme House of the Spirit and brought back Savitri's birth as a boon. That is the end of the third... only ignorance but anti-divinity, opposition to anything higher. As life has heights, like the Himalayas, it has depths also, into which it falls. Those depths of the vital are depths to which human consciousness is subject because they all have relation with the earth; so any human being opening to those vital forces will meet the operation of those forces on earth, and that is why we find perversity ...
... we can only discuss it in terms of Buddhism, not in terms of Buddha. That isn't possible. Page 71 And it has been very useful. Buddhism has been very useful in the evolution of human consciousness to help us or force us to PUNCTURE certain appearances. But it's the FIRST step! And what's the second step? That's it. That was my question.... That's where I was at the end of my journey... people are conscious of it or not, whether they like it or not, the entire human species is in the process of moving into another evolutionary stage. And that's what is being pounded on every human consciousness, every nation, every group – everywhere. Everything is being broken, broken, broken. BUT there are people who not only like to understand things but also give their life a real meaning, and... to our true human breath – to what we really are. The Failure. The Cry. The Fairy Tale In fact, we are LED there, through that relentless pounding on all nations, all human consciousness, all churches, all groups.... One feels as if everything were being kneaded, ground to powder in order to reach the bottom of it all. We are being shown how contradictory and ineffective all ...
... in itself is conscious and has a conscious will, we can then say that all these imaginations (I give you this one instance, but there are any number of them as terrible, as monstrous for our human consciousness), all these beings, fashioners, who have created these insects must be frightful beings (don't you think so?) and have a perverse and diabolical imagination. It is quite possible, for indeed... a plan, it has a conscious will, it is altogether a conscious entity—it can't be called a being, for it is not in the Page 150 same proportion. When we speak of a being with our human consciousness, we immediately imagine a human being, perhaps a little larger or much larger, but still functioning always in the same way. That is why I don't call it a being, but it is a conscious entity ...
... means is: Unless one has gone beyond the mind and into altogether higher regions, so long as one remains in the human consciousness, the mental, vital, physical consciousness, one must concentrate in order to find the psychic. It is only if you have soared up out of the human consciousness and entered consciously the higher regions above the mind, far above the mind, that you no longer need to concentrate ...
... human mind that the mind cannot grasp it. So he says that it is impossible for the supermind to come down into a human being. Have you spoken to him about this? No. It was the old idea that human consciousness can reach and merge in the Sun (Supermind)—by Samadhi, I suppose—but cannot redescend from there. 15 September 1935 You wrote a few days ago: "The difficulties are not likely to cease... regarded the emergence of thought and reason in an animal world as an absurdity and a chimaera. It is the same now with the appearance of supermind in the stumbling mentality of this world of human consciousness and its reasoning ignorance. I do not know that the descent depends Page 357 on the readiness of the sadhaks of this Asram. It is likely that these things are determined from above ...
... nd all would be truly well. But as it is not in contact with the psychic it doesn't even know what it is, it wonders all bewildered what kind of a being it can be; so to reach this ordinary human consciousness it must use ordinary means, that is, go through the mind, the vital and the physical. One of them may be skipped but surely not the last, otherwise one is no longer conscious of anything at... whose vital being is not developed do not possess. This confusion between the vital activity and the soul is a very frequent one.... The vital vibration is much more easily perceptible to the human consciousness than the vibration of the soul. To perceive the soul in someone, as a rule the mind must be very quiet—very quiet, for when it is active, its vibrations are seen, not the vibration of the ...
... circa 1934 Page 246 Nirvana and the Brahman I have never said that things (in life) are harmonious now—on the contrary, with the human consciousness as it is harmony is impossible. It is always what I have told you, that the human consciousness is defective and simply impossible—and that is why I strive for a higher consciousness to come and set right the disturbed balance. I am glad you ...
... religions will be a part of the historical study of the development of human consciousness. Religions make up part of the history of mankind and it is in this guise that they will be studied at Auroville—not as beliefs to which one ought or ought not to adhere, but as part of a process in the development of human consciousness which should lead man towards his superior realisation. PROGRAMME ...
... imagination, by the human mind's capacity of formation. There may be within that a vague reflection of the force of Mahakali, but it is so diminished, deformed, dwarfed, brought within the range of human consciousness, that truly she can very well deny that it is she! I have seen all possible horrors by way of images representing Page 395 Mahakali. Of the images we won't speak. If great artists... the nature, the quality of this something, you know... this varies infinitely and it is sometimes a little disturbing. I gave the example of Mahakali, because the conception of Mahakali in the human consciousness is especially horrible. When one goes to other divinities like Mahasaraswati, for instance, to whom all kinds of artistic, literary and other capacities are ascribed, it is no longer so terrible ...
... doesn't like to think that it could have been foreseen. Indeed, I refuse to believe it. I call it an accident—a rather terrible accident, but still, you see, it is especially terrible to the human consciousness; for the universal consciousness, it may only be quite a reparable accident. And after all, when it has been set right, we shall even be able to recall it and say, "Ah! it has given us something... it is very interesting to be still in Page 13 this state where one is at times on one side, at times just on the border of the other. Well, this border of the other, which for the human consciousness is an almost inaccessible summit, for one who can live consciously and freely in the higher hemisphere, is in spite of everything a descent. Later I would like us to take up and read here ...
... disturbing for the human consciousness with its sense of its short duration and the kind of impatience this brings. So I have been asked: "Will it take long for the Supermind which is involved in material Nature to emerge into the outer consciousness and bring visible results?" That depends on the state of consciousness from which one answers, for... For the human consciousness, obviously, I think ...
... at all, you understand, or several names, you are always speaking of the same thing which is the single Divine who is all things. Don't you catch it? It is only the mind and the limited human consciousness which make distinctions. And through these differences you get into a confusion. You distinguish only by differences, and differences mean just the illusory outer consciousness. As soon as you... humanity, that is, the perfect man. In the other case, it is God who has entered a human body. What is human is only the body, the outer form, not the consciousness. In the first case it is the human consciousness which has attained its perfection. Page 375 That's all? Something over there? Sri Aurobindo says here: "The divine working is not the working which the egoistic mind desires ...
... ketun´ a. All evil is a deviation from the right & truth, from the ritam, a deviation from the self-existent truth & right of the divine or immortal nature; the lords of knowledge dwelling in the human consciousness as the prachetasah , informing its acts of consciousness which include in the ancient psychology action & feeling no less than thought & attuning them to follow spontaneously the just rhythm... hymns of Sunahshepa the clear physiognomy of Varuna begins to dawn upon us. He is evidently the master of right knowledge, wide, self-luminous & all-containing in the world-consciousness & in human consciousness. His physical connection with the all-containing ether,—for Varuna is Uranus, the Greek Akasha, & wideness is constantly associated with him in the Veda,—leads us to surmise that he may also ...
... desires and not confuse the three together. The ordinary life is that of the average human consciousness separated from its own true self and from the Divine and led by the common habits of the mind, life and body which are the laws of the Ignorance. The religious life is a movement of the same ignorant human consciousness, turning or trying to turn away from the earth towards the Divine but as yet without ...
... Yoga - IV Chapter II Steps towards Overcoming Difficulties Ways of Dealing with Difficulties This sadhana is a Yoga of transformation of the human consciousness into the divine consciousness. The sadhaks who come here are human beings with all the human weaknesses, but with a possibility of the transformation and an aspiration for it. For getting rid... right attitude, to have faith and not mind the difficulties. Difficulties—and serious ones—there cannot fail to be in the path of Yoga, because it is not easy to change all at once the ignorant human consciousness and make it a spiritual consciousness open to the Divine. But with faith one need not Page 696 mind the difficulties; the Divine Force is there and will overcome them. Whatever ...
... Aditi and Diti together, realises the universal in the individual, becomes the Infinite in the finite. It is this conception that Surya embodies. He is the light of the Truth rising on the human consciousness in the wake of the divine Dawn whom he pursues as a lover follows after his beloved and he treads the paths she has traced for him. For Dawn the daughter of Heaven, the face or power of Aditi... Bhaga The goal of the path is the divine beatitude, the illimitable joy of the Truth, of the infinity of our being. Bhaga is the godhead who brings this joy and supreme felicity into the human consciousness; he is the divine enjoyer in man. All being has this divine enjoyment of existence for its aim and end, whether it seeks for it with knowledge or with ignorance, with the divine strength or the ...
... have the right to speak of it.... You understand, we could put "spiritual," but... "...The objective study of religions will be a part of the historical study of the development of human consciousness.... I place religions below, in the mental realm. Well yes, exactly! In the mental realm, and it was a "subject of study." Strangely, two days ago it came to me almost like... the history of mankind and it is in this guise that they will be studied at Auroville—not as beliefs to which one ought or ought not to fasten, but as part of a process in the development of human consciousness which should lead man towards his superior realisation." Page 178 So then, "Programme"... [Mother laughs]: PROGRAMME Research through experience of the Supreme Truth ...
... each of the intensities. The first two lines everywhere are charged with the Glory that is on high, the Reality above the human consciousness, ever perfect and always manifest. In the last two lines the same Reality is invoked to reveal itself by evolution in the human consciousness and to become progressively a part of earth or, rather, to make earth progressively a part of it. What is eternally in bloom ...
... individual, must infallibly attain its goal of perfect manifestation of the Godhead by continuous development...; and this manifestation, when complete, must include, not only the expansion of human consciousness to the awesome level of the supramental, but the impassibility, elevation, and immortality of the human body." Bruteau sums up: "If we are to hold all that we know of reality, and all that we... is only a certain expansion of consciousness in the human degree. Teilhard calls it a "planetization" of "co-reflection": all reflective units of the earth cohere and there emerges a single human consciousness thinking collectively on a planetary scale. What we may call in Indian nomenclature the Vishwa Manava, the World-Man, in complete unitary and multiple thought-expression, is evolved. To dub this ...
... lightning-like intimation of its commands and impulsions, a confused, clouded and often grossly distorted execution of the little one seizes of a divine Mandate seems to be the uttermost that the human consciousness as it is at its best seems able to accomplish. Only by a growth into a greater superhuman and supramental consciousness whose very nature is to be attuned to the Divine can we achieve the true... knowledge, armed with a mightier unerring strength, open to that vaster delight in which are drowned for ever our petty human pain and pleasure. Still even what can be done within the limits of our human consciousness brings a great liberation. But even to do that little is not easy to the physical mind of man, even when his higher mind and will consent and demand it. There is something in us wedded to ...
... and learn the happiness of being good, the joy of being good. But that I didn't write. "In the first case, he progresses; in the second he goes down one rung in human consciousness. "Fear is a degradation of human consciousness." I think that's very important. Because EVERYWHERE, people are convinced that punishment is what... Horrible! I get multitudes of questions of that sort—it's ...
... All means leading towards this goal are welcome, although the external ones have a very limited effect; however, the most important, urgent and indispensable of all, is a transformation of the human consciousness itself, an enlightenment of and conversion in its working. Meanwhile some exterior steps may be taken usefully, and the acceptance of the principle of double nationality is one of them. The... ess? A change of consciousness is equivalent to a new birth, a birth into a higher sphere of existence. How can a change of consciousness change the life upon earth? A change in human consciousness will make possible the manifestation upon earth of a higher Force, a purer Light, a more total Truth. August 1964 Nothing but a radical change of consciousness can save humanity from ...
... recall a consciousness striving for... (that's what Sri Aurobindo meant) for indifference. Interesting! It makes me understand why he said that it was I who could attempt the transition between human consciousness and supramental consciousness. He said that. He said it to me and he says it here (it's written among Nirod's things). Now I understand why.... Ah, I understand! ( silence ) Yes, I ... external: it's a difference of consciousness. I can sense it, I sense it so vividly, and so close! When I am very still, it comes, from over there, and even the highest and most intellectual human consciousness is ridiculous in comparison. Yes. Awful. Page 168 Yes, Mother. I don't know if I am in contact with "that," but when I remain still I sense something so full, so strong. ...
... A lonely splendour from the invisible goal Almost was flung on the opaque Inane. In short, what is symbolised is the descent of the Supramental Godhead into the world's mental human consciousness for a total transformative purpose. A brief fore-glimpse is given of the invasion of Cosmic Ignorance by the Transcendent Knowledge. This Cosmic Ignorance, whose highest term is the mind groping... relapse into Inconscience broken by a slow and difficult return of consciousness followed by a brief but splendid and prophetic outbreak of spiritual light leaving behind the 'day' of ordinary human consciousness in which the prophecy has to be worked out. The whole of Savitri is, according to the title of the poem, a legend that is a symbol and this opening canto is, it may be said, a key beginning and ...
... temporarily as an obstructor to the Rishi Agastya. It is not, however, in order to stop Agastya from reaching his goal. This goal Indra summarizes as the timeless Ultimate which can enter the human consciousness and be a source of life-movement but which vanishes when mere thinking approaches it (verse 1). Indra has come as a check to correct the attempt of this consciousness to reach that Ultimate without... Supreme Divinity they formed an image of Him in man, they established Him in the race as a child unborn, a seed of the godhead in man, a Birth that has to be delivered out of the envelope of the human consciousness." Whether or not we fully penetrate the significance of all these variously modulated deliverances of the ancient wisdom, the loftiness of their import is undeniable. They set the concept ...
... more dynamic earth-life in the light of a more-than-human consciousness. As his collaborator in the Integral Yoga — the Mother — puts it: "Yoga is not a contempt for matter but a means to divinise it — not a rejection of the body but a means to transform it." This definition of Yoga and the assumption behind it — that a more-than-human consciousness is already there, awaiting manifestation — can be ...
... his companion in Yoga, the Mother. Q: Sri Aurobindo has called his Yoga the Supramental Yoga. What exactly is it and why precisely is it needed? All Yogas aim at the union of the human consciousness with the Infinite, the Eternal, the Divine and at the expression of this union in world-activity. But all Yogas have held that this expression cannot be complete because the very stuff of wo... weak and mortal. To establish God amongst us for good, the Supramental Yoga is needed. Thirdly, the Supermind will make all life its province: no Page 123 function of the human consciousness will be left out: every field will be covered and changed. This means the solution of all our problems — cultural, social, political, economic. Fourthly, the Supermind brings to completion ...
... power and holds the key to a total healing and integration of the being. He views the problem also from the evolutionary perspective. He looks upon the present organisation of the human consciousness which is an amalgam of mind-formations, life-movements and physical functioning's as transitional. The aim of Sri Aurobindo's Integral Yoga is nor only to bring about the integration of... perfection of the human being, not just the perfection of the soul but the harmonious perfection of the whole being of man. Such an integral perfection is the deepest, ineradicable urge of the human consciousness. We must develop a new yoga which aims not at a departure out of the world and life into Heaven or Nirvana, but at a change of life and existence, not as something subordinate or incidental ...
... to compel men to overcome their small personal egoism and turn exclusively to the Divine for help and light. The wisdom of men is ignorant. Only the Divine knows. 7 December 1971 Our human consciousness has windows that open upon the Infinite. But generally men keep these windows carefully closed. We have to open them wide and allow the Infinite to enter us freely in order to transform us. ... source of an ever-increasing bliss. Page 434 Sri Aurobindo told me one day that if men knew this and were convinced of it, they would all want to do yoga. 9 February 1972 Human consciousness is so corrupted that men prefer the miseries of the ego and its ignorance to the luminous joy that comes from a sincere surrender to the Divine. So great is their blindness that they refuse even ...
... 'human collective' is restricted, while 'terrestrial' includes many animal and even plant vibrations; but in the present case, since the moral notion of guilt, sin and evil belongs exclusively to human consciousness, let us simply say 'human collective psychological consciousness'); when you contact that through identification, you naturally feel or see or know yourself capable of any human movement whatsoever... a Truth-Consciousness, or at such times the egoistical sense of what does or doesn't belong to you, of what you can or cannot do, disappears; you realize that the fundamental construction of human consciousness makes any human being capable of doing anything. And since you are in a truth-consciousness, you are aware at the same time that to feel judgmental or disgusted or revolted would be an absurdity ...
... First of all, one's own appreciation of oneself is always doubtful, and then, in the world as it is now, all is mixed, it is not the Law of Truth that openly manifests itself to the half-blind human consciousness—it will not even understand it. I mean, to be more exact, that it is the supreme vision that is realising itself constantly, but its realisation in the mixed material world does not appear to... and more useless, it will disappear quite naturally, and progress, instead of Page 76 being made through effort and struggle, will begin to be made harmoniously. That is what the human consciousness foresees as a divine creation upon earth—it will still be only one step. But for the present step, it is a kind of harmonious attainment that will change the universal progress (which is ceaseless) ...
... with the least amount of damage. But that least amount is still quite considerable. And for the human consciousness, it takes long. But as you remarked just before, it's pretty. It feels like something going like this ( gesture like a tide spreading out ), very slowly for the human consciousness, certainly, but quite implacable towards resistances, and so sov-er-eign-ly sure of its victory.... ...
... over Matter, a power to change Matter—to work physical wonders, too. Does the soul have that power? It has that power and it uses it CONSTANTLY, but the human consciousness is unaware of it! And the great difference is that the human consciousness becomes aware, but it becomes aware of something that's ALWAYS there! And which the others deny because they aren't aware of it. For instance, I've had ...
... reabsorbed—which obviously is perfectly unimportant because, the moment you have the eternal consciousness, whether things go this way or that way doesn't matter in the least. It's for the limited human consciousness that there is a sort of ambition or need for something that doesn't end, because, within, there is what we might call "the memory of eternity" and that memory of eternity aspires for the man... couldn't have existed without this material form of creation.... You know, there was always that great "Why?"—the great "Why like this?", "Why all this?" which resulted in what is expressed in the human consciousness by suffering and misery and helplessness and all, all the horrors of the ordinary consciousness—why? Why this? And then, the answer was like this: In the true Consciousness, there is a vibratory ...
... splendour from the invisible goal Almost was flung on the opaque Inane. [p. 4] In short, what is symbolised is the descent of the Supramental Godhead into the world's mental human consciousness for a total transformative purpose. A brief fore-glimpse is given of the invasion of Cosmic Ignorance by the Transcendent Knowledge. This Cosmic Ignorance, whose highest term is the mind groping... relapse into Inconscience broken by a slow and difficult return of consciousness followed by a brief but splendid and prophetic outbreak of spiritual light leaving behind the 'day' of ordinary human consciousness in which the prophecy has to be worked out. The whole of Savitri is, according to the title of the poem, a legend that is a symbol and this opening canto is, it may be said, a key beginning ...
... Instead of bringing down the Great Gods, the effort now was to start from the bottom, not from the top — to dig, as it were, into the subconscient and gradually prepare the purification of the human consciousness and nature and bring out what Sri Aurobindo has called the psychic being — the Divine's representative in the very midst of the natural formation. Thus the evolutionary creature would develop... philosophers and others whether the soul is in the head or in the heart. Man is called a mental being, a rational animal and hence most Western philosophers have believed that the characteristic human consciousness is up in the head. The heart has been often so capricious, so impulsive, so whimsical, so changing that people have not put much trust in it. There are four lines by a poet-lover which go: ...
... turning more and more to the consideration of man's highest potential, Maslow and other humanistic psychologists moved beyond humanism to a consideration of what transcends the ordinary state of human consciousness. During the later phase of his work, Maslow wrote: "I consider Humanistic, Third Force Psychology, to be transitional, a preparation for a still 'higher' Fourth Psychology, transpersonal... According to Jung, to lose the ego is to fall into a state of unconsciousness. Jung's difficulty in conceiving of consciousness without an ego is rooted in the very nature of the normal human consciousness which is ego-bound. But Sri Aurobindo's experience testifies - as does that of others who, transcending the ego-consciousness, have discovered the self -that the ego, with its sense of a separate ...
... and the Mother? Two brief expressions by Sri Aurobindo of their fundamental goal may be quoted to speak for all. A letter on January 14, 1932, has the phrase: "...I want to divinise the human consciousness, to bring down the Supramental, the Truth-Consciousness, the Light, the Force into the physical to transform it...." 1 The same letter goes on to say: "All other Yogas regard this life as an... with only two things fundamentally—"the truth above and here below the Lila and the purpose of the incarnation or manifestation"—does "what is necessary" for them "in the way its greater than human consciousness sees to be the necessary and intended way". 3 Now, if real failure is out of the question for all Avatars, how much less can it be conceived in connection with the incarnate Supermind? The ...
... ess and aesthesis to appreciate a new kind of mystic poetry. 5 He tries to capture in these lines a vision caught directly from the heights and depths and breadths of a more than human consciousness. The language too is austere and direct and tries to catch the very essence of the spiritual experience. But like Books I and II of the poem, Book III has the rare distinction of having been... realities, the Kingdom of Mind and mental realities, and the Kingdom of the Spirit and spiritual realities. This macrocosm of these worlds is mirrored microcosmically in the structure of human consciousness: A summary of the stages of the spirit, Its copy of the cosmic hierarchies Refashioned in our secret air of self A subtle pattern of the universe. 11 The living ...
... the world and of God. He acquires 1 M. P. Pandit, The Book of the Divine Mother, pp.17, 40, 42,46and78. by his tapasya immense knowledge of the possibilities of the human consciousness, its deeper depths and its higher and the highest heights. In his heart bums the flame of aspiration to create here on earth an image of the perfection which his soul feels is possible for... Nirodbaran, op. cit., p. 179. Page 260 Sri Aurobindo's own tapasya. Like Sri Aurobindo, Aswapati too seeks to win for mankind the secret of transforming the very structure of human consciousness so that life on earth can blossom into fulfilment." 21 Nonetheless, however profound their insight, all authors keep referring, as in the above passage, to Aswapati in a text and context ...
... conditions for the great achievement of Immortality. These four conditions were those which were fulfilled by the Angirasa Rishis. These were the following: 1. Breaking the rigidity of the human consciousness by the pursuit of Truth and arriving at the union with the luminous rays (cows) proceeding from the Supramental Sun; 2. Dwelling in dawns of light bringing with them experiences of bliss;... together constitute perfect perfection and in viable immortality. Ribhus are the object of the prayer because they have power to support and contain all these floods of delight of being in the human consciousness, and to use the language °f the sacrifice, they are able to divide these floods in fashioning the perfection of their works and distributing them Page 55 among the gods, to each god ...
... can never experience the noumenal truth behind the phenomenal reality, and that they can experience only the phenomena which are inevitably framed within the categories which are inherent in human consciousness. According to Hick, various specific forms of religious awareness are formed by the presence of the divine Reality but this presence comes to given consciousness in terms of the different sets... revelations. The very word religion connotes its emphasis on Page 108 this process of relationship. In the process of establishing this relationship between man and God or between human consciousness and the highest possible state of being of consciousness, religions have tended to place or recognize four necessities. In the first place, religions have tended to impose upon the mind ...
... contention is that peace can be built securely by means of culture, and our deliberations lead us to the conclusion that culture for peace implies a new orientation of human consciousness; it implies eventually transformation of human consciousness. Fostering among people the necessity of this new orientation, this change, this transformation is our immediate and imperative task, to which we are impelled by ...
... world-experience. These Rishis fathomed the deep waters of the three great oceans of consciousness, the ocean of dark inconscient in which darkness is shrouded in greater darkness, the ocean of the human consciousness, and the ocean of the superconscient, which is the goal of "the rivers of clarity and of the honeyed wave." A study of interrelationship of these three oceans enabled the Rishis to discover the... The secret of the interchange between man and the cosmic powers, which are called Devas in the Vedas, is the inner sacrifice of limitations so that the required room is increasingly made in human consciousness for the formation and establishment of the cosmic consciousness and all that transcends the cosmic consciousness. The conquest of immortality, the Vedic Rishis discovered, involved also a ...
... t, the world is shrinking and we are dreaming of the possibility of a planetary civilization, for which we have not yet secured a corresponding psychological development, which could enable human consciousness to sustain such a planetary civilization. On the contrary, there is a growing preponderance of those impulses, which can thrive only in ignorance, fragmentation, discord and violence. e.... still no doubt that goodwill is independent of personal need, desire or preference; the judgement of goodness of goodwill is free from relativity or subjectivity. In other words, there is in the human consciousness the possibility of the development of goodwill that can be considered to be objectively good. m. This discussion has important consequences for value-education. If Page 620 ...
... of the few who had already joined Sri Aurobindo since his arrival in Pondicherry. Later, hundreds joined so as to make a small representative world consisting , of specimens of each type of human consciousness and development. This collective formation was a sort of spontaneous development. In the words of the Mother: The decision was not at all a mental choice; it came spontaneously. The cir... There is not the absolute supramental harmony and certitude. These, inadequately expressed, are some of the differences. I speak, of course, of these planes in themselves—when acting in the human consciousness they are necessarily much diminished in their working by having to depend on the human instrumentation of mind, vital and physical. Only when these are quieted, they get a fuller force and reveal ...
... course true. When poets, authors, inventors, etc., bring down or create something quite new, do they do so by going for the time being beyond the human consciousness? No. They remain in the human consciousness, but they open to something in the larger mind or larger vital (worlds of thought and vision, worlds of beauty) and become a medium for the expression of things that ...
... For the mind is there to bring forth, to usher in the Supermind and man is there as the laboratory and the vanguard as well of the Supermind. Page 4 At the present time the human consciousness in general has been so prepared and its dwelling and playfield the earth-consciousness made ready to such a degree that it has been possible for the still secreted higher perfection to enter... first step in this momentous movement has been taken, the first act achieved, for the supramental is now here established in the earth's atmosphere and is already percolating into general human consciousness. It is no longer a far-off object residing away in its own home, its higher transcendent status, but a concrete reality as Page 5 something like earth's own. It is at work in ...
... "sovereign Kings of Thought". Whereas in the first of the three realms of ordered thought, consciousness is "close and kin" to the human consciousness, here in the highest of the three realms, consciousness is more close and kin to the divine than to the human consciousness; all creatures here have a clear sense of infallible direction towards Truth; and they even dare to translate the unknown unthinkable ...
... destiny of the hour. They are the supreme effective Powers, they are from – what is called – the Supramental Consciousness. But they have sent down into the still lower regions nearer to the human consciousness, more easily available to it, other forms and figures of the divine Personality. They are chiefly the gods of the Overmind who are interested in the human destiny and some of them appear as presiding... which are to be directed and organised. Specially with man at the top of this new creation, the terrestrial situation has changed considerably and is being changed continually. I have said, human consciousness has arrived at a stage when it has to leap over and attain a new dimension of earthly existence; just over him the gods of the age have gathered and are preparing themselves to take the field ...
... speak of the fact as it is, of the sum-total of combinations that realise themselves successively according to an order and a choice which evidently escape wholly Page 76 the human consciousness, a sum-total to which man has somewhat adapted himself and has at last succeeded in giving an expression that links itself to something tangible, after a great effort of study made through... what exactly is "prodigious" in these children. However, as the stories go, there is a new type or types of con- Page 77 sciousness which appear surprising to the ordinary human consciousness. It is such examples, I suppose, that you would like to have in order to understand what is happening. Indeed it is quite possible that things are happening now which people are not ...
... physical reactions to impacts of the gross outward world, the brute objects of physical life. The liberation of the mind, at least the higher mind, as an instrument of expression for the human consciousness was achieved to a remarkable degree in the Upanishads generally, particularly in some, although the beginnings of it might be traced even in some of the earliest of the Vedic Riks. A serious... has entered a cul-de-sac, a blind alley where it has bogged itself and does not know where and how to move. The recoil from the normal, the rich and lush physico-mental expression of human consciousness and experience has been so radical and complete that it has catapulted us into an opposite extreme of bareness and nudity, at the most into a world of pure signs and symbols of notches and blotches ...
... preceding the British advent. And yet man has survived all falls and has been reborn and rejuvenated every time he seems to be off the stage. The very lack of perfection and fixity in the human consciousness leaves a kind of plasticity in his nature and therefore an opening towards further life and progress. However perfect man's sten-gun is, it is not as sure and efficient as the bee's sting. Man... man and gives him a new power of self-adjustment. From Imperial Egypt to, say, modern France or Russia is a far cry; the two ends give very different connotations Page 298 of the human consciousness, although there are many things common in certain life-instincts and some broad mental impulsions. And there is not only progress, that is to say, advancement on the same plane, but there is ...
... They mean nothing more – and nothing less – than the force of thought and the mass of thought content. After all, that seems to be almost the whole difference between the past and the present human consciousness in so far at least as it has found expression in poetry. That element, we wish to point out, is precisely what the old-world poets lacked or did not care to possess or express or stress. A poet... terrestrial; made immanent in the mundane and the ephemeral, as they are commonly called. This is not an impossibility. Sri Aurobindo seems to have done the thing. In him we find the three terms of human consciousness arriving at an absolute fusion and his poetry is a wonderful example of that fusion. The three terms are the spiritual, the intellectual or philosophical and the physical or sensational. The ...
... fulfilment of the next cycle. For the mind is there to bring forth, to usher in the Supermind and man is there as the laboratory and the vanguard as well of the Supermind. At the present time the human consciousness in general has been so prepared and its dwelling and playfield the earth consciousness made ready to such a degree that it has been possible for the still secreted higher perfection to enter... The first step in this momentous movement has been taken, the first act achieved, for the supramental is now here established in the earth's atmosphere and is already percolating into general human consciousness. It is no longer a far-off object residing away in its own home, its higher transcendent status, but a concrete reality as something like earth's own. It is at work in this material envelope ...
... Instead of bringing down he Great Gods, the effort now was to start from the bottom, not from the top - to dig, as it were, into the subconscient and gradually prepare the purification of the human consciousness and nature and bring out what Sri Aurobindo has called the psychic being.... Thus the evolutionary creature would develop slowly, gradually with a lot of hardships but still with a sure footing... that causes the disorder to stop... And this Vibration (that I feel and see) gives the impression of a fire; it is that which the vedic Rishis must have translated as the Flame - in the human consciousness, in man, in Matter... 46 The process of transformation would thus have to be carried out by the Flame, the ultimate Agni, "the warm golden dust", the supreme Ray of the Spirit - as ...
... cabined in Time, but if they had the sense of Eternity, nothing would ruffle them. There was the All, the whole Consciousness; and there were the limited points of consciousnesses - such as the human consciousness and the earth consciousness, each distinctive - and the Mother was struck by "this inexpressible phenomenon that each point of consciousness - a point that does not occupy any space - each point... Hofman had but described what happened to her even without LSD, simply because her consciousness had felt concerned about it! The LSD enthusiasts were clearly wrong: the drug didn't develop the human consciousness and open it to unknown horizons; it only caused a dislocation of balance in the being, thus adding one more falsehood to the rest. To call these drug-methods "occultism made quick and easy for ...
... subtlety and moral grandeur. The avatars and prophets of old - Rama, Sita. Krishna, Moses, Mahavira, Siddhartha, Christ, Muhammad, Sankara, Ramanuja, Nanak - punctuated the march of the human consciousness by precept and example. There were also heroic figures like Arjuna and Achilles and Alexander and Napoleon, and there were the great poets and artists, the great scientists and inventors,... careering technology and the worship of force Page 18I can only lead to 'the crimes of the strong and the ruin of continents'; and the time has therefore come for a breakthrough in human consciousness that will create conditions for a general forward movement in human affairs. Let women, then, boldly and imaginatively enact the role of the dreamers and redeemers of the race; let them ponder ...
... instruments. for the reception and transmission of Knowledge. The mind is derived from the Supermind, the dynamic Truth-Consciousness of the Infinite, but in the evolutionary ignorance of the human consciousness, it seems to be cut off from its source—though, in reality, it is not,—and works as a dividing and differentiating instrument. It commands no vision of the Infinite, no- Page 107 ... nature of the .human mind and the transformation it has to undergo in the Integral Yoga in a subsequent part of this exposition. Suffice it to say here that, unless the mind surrenders and the human consciousness transcends it, there can be no attainment of knowledge and no satisfactory solution of the problems of life. Aspiration and renunciation must proceed hand in hand on the firm basis of a total ...
... nt and the abnormal of the vital and the lower vital regions of human consciousness by a kind of false subjectivism. But the real fulfilment of his efforts; the highest strains of his expression Page 69 would be attained when he would contact, either deliberately or by accident, the higher levels of human consciousness which, though for him not constant and permanent at present, are ...
... creations like the Veda, the Upanishads, the Gita and the two great epics—Ramayana and Maha Bharata—were put outside the scope of ordinary aesthetics. Aesthetics are limited to the normal range of human consciousness; they deal with the mental and vital consciousness i.e. with ideas, emotions, imagination, sensation, feelings, desires, passions etc. No mental standards or values could be laid down for "revealed"... dynamis of spirit and intrinsic form and force of 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 ...
... that one has succeeded in giving up the desire or attachment for the fruit of action. Gita suggests a further step. On the basis of the Sankhya realisation it speaks of the two parts of human consciousness, a realisable dichotomy in the inner being. There is in each individual a part that can separate itself from his nature, from the mind and all its ideas, suggestions, movements, from the emotions... action; one who knows my birth and action as divine really knows me." Gita points out that divine action by the human being is possible; it is possible by a gradual development of the human consciousness. This is made clear in the Vibhuti Yoga chapters by Sri Krishna declaring: " I am Arjuna among the Pandavas " and Arjuna would be carrying the Divine Will and therefore doing divine ...
... movement is moving toward ONE experience which becomes as generalized as possible, for it is only useful when it is general. If it remains local, it is like ; a mushroom; it is fruitless for the human consciousness as a whole. 19 We are in the midst of the terrestrial experience of Consciousness, as others were in the terrestrial experience of the great telluric folds, or the terrestrial experience... "consciousness”: Governments follow governments, regimes follow regimes, centuries follow centuries, but human misery remains pitifully the same ... Only a transformation, an illumination of the human consciousness, can bring about a real improvement in the human condition. 27 She had only to look at what was before her eyes, in Paris itself: What the mental atmosphere in a city like Paris can ...
... read, perhaps even open their eyes to that extraordinary Sense, but when the empire is crumbling – our human empire – when our earth is plundered as no Attila has ever done before, when the human consciousness is becoming increasingly clouded and overrun by a sly barbarism, and the twilight is stealing upon us, isn't there something more to do? Well, precisely, to do . It was a terrible challenge... subjecting ourselves to the yoke of a cruel despot that would eventually drive us faster and faster into a disastrous non-humanity. Thus, the true-false or the false-true has now overrun all of human consciousness, to the point that we are swimming in a sea of falsehood and in such an hallucinating and mesmerizing false reality of matter that all genuine approaches are clouded. Truly, an animal howling ...
... supreme Divinity they formed an image of Him in man, they established Him in the race as a child unborn, a seed of the godhead in man, a Birth that has to be delivered out of the envelope of the human consciousness. Māyāvino mamire asya māyayā, nṛcakṣasaḥ pitaro garbham ā dadhuḥ . The fathers are the ancient Rishis who discovered the Way of the Vedic mystics and are supposed to be still spiritually present... especially the formation of the godhead in its manifold forms in the human being. In the last verse the Rishi spoke of the Deva as the divine child preparing for birth, involved in the world, in the human consciousness. Here he speaks of Him as the transcendent guarding the world of the Ananda formed in man and the forms of the godhead Page 358 born in him by the divine knowledge against the attacks ...
... matter. But the reason is able only to form at the best an intellectually possible or logically consistent conception of the Eternal in the Universe; it is not able to bring Him home to the human consciousness and relate the Page 409 human soul to Him as it should be related if He exists. For nothing is more certain than this that if a universal & eternal Consciousness exists, the life... permanent, why then has it confused itself with phenomena and how does it escape from the bondage of this confusion? On the other hand if He is involved in phenomena, what is the relation of the human consciousness to the Eternal? Are our souls parts of Him or manifestations or emanations? And if so do they return into Him at the dissolution of the body or do they persist? And if they persist, what is their ...
... it attempts to explain the essential nature of consciousness on the basis of ordinary human experience, but the essential nature of things is beyond the ken of ordinary experience, for "human consciousness... cannot see what is there, but only speculate, infer or conjecture" 8 thus ending up with abstractions. On the other hand, consciousness as directly experienced by the mystic "is not something... existence and the conscious Force that builds the universe. Therefore, consciousness is not confined to the human being, but is present in the animal, the plant and also in matter. Human consciousness is not identical with mind; mental consciousness is only a middle term below which lie levels of consciousness which to us are subconscient, and above which there exist levels of consciousness ...
... of religions will be a part of the historical study of the development of human consciousness. Religions make up part of the history of mankind and it is in this guise that they will be studied in Auroville — not as beliefs to which one ought or ought not adhere, but as part of a process in the development of human consciousness which should lead man towards his superior realisation.’ 18 On 23 ...
... conscious, they are fully aware that it is their last chance and they will do everything they can. And what they can is quite a lot. These are no small, ordinary forms of human consciousness; they are not at all forms of human consciousness. These are forms of consciousness who, in proportion to the human capacities, seem divine in their power, their might, and even in their knowledge. Consequently, this ...
... ‘For instance, in whatever happens, there is at the same time its explanation (“explanation” is not the right word, but anyhow) its explanation by the ordinary human consciousness (by “ordinary” I do not mean banal, I mean the human consciousness as it is), the explanation as given by Sri Aurobindo in an illumined mind, and the divine perception. All three are simultaneous for the same happening. How ...
... has to be added that an individual approach to the Truth is forbidden. Such, by and large, has also been the history of Christianity. “The religious life is a movement of the same ignorant human consciousness, turning or trying to turn away from the earth towards the Divine, but as yet without knowledge and led by the dogmatic tenets and rules of some sect or creed which claims to have found the way... not to concrete reality but to a shadow world of symbols, beneath which those methods are unadapted for penetrating. Feeling that there must be more behind, we return to our starting point in human consciousness , the one centre where more might become known.” 33 A mathematical formula can never tell us what a thing is, only how it is moved. It can only specify an object through its external properties: ...
... two things in a fundamental way—the Truth above and here below the Lila and the purpose of the incarnation or manifestation and it does what is necessary for that in the way its greater than human consciousness sees like the necessary and intended way. I shall try if I can develop that when I write about it—perhaps I shall take your remarks about Rama and Krishna as the starting point—but that I shall... never seen, but as he was to be in the future—a prophetic vision. Page 146 October 1934? I have never said that things (in life) are harmonious now— the contrary with the human consciousness as it is harmony is impossible. It is always what I have told you, that the n man consciousness is defective and simply impossible— that is why I strive for a higher consciousness to come and ...
... religions will be a part of the historical study of the development of the human consciousness. Religions make up part of the history of mankind and it is in this guise that they will be studied at Auroville – not as beliefs to which one ought or ought not to adhere, but as part of a process in the development of the human consciousness which should lead man towards his superior realization.’ 62 ...
... presented in each stanza. The first two lines everywhere are charged with the Glory that is on high, the Reality above the human consciousness, ever perfect and ever manifest. In the last two lines the same Reality is invoked to reveal itself by evolution in the human consciousness and to become progressively a part of earth or, rather, to make earth progressively a part of it. What is eternally in bloom ...
... Consciousness; he was there to establish the dharma of the ethical man and acted out a moral ideal in a manner that suggested to everyone the superhuman. He never asked people to transcend the human consciousness and unite with the Divine. The Divine Consciousness as such formed no direct part of what Rama exemplified or sought to manifest. And yet he was undeniably an Avatar. Secondly, it is not necessary... disdainful of Nature and ever wanting to transform and fulfil Nature? Without a supernatural halo he would be no Yogi at all and would be of little use in bringing about a radical change of human consciousness. He did have a supernatural halo and to recognise it cannot lead, as you fear, to a mystic sectarianism but rather to a proper appreciation of and response to his extraordinarily wide and no ...
... brief, God cannot be truly spoken except by God Himself! To fasten on God an incapacity to utter Himself would be to cast a slur on His Godhead. It is speech taking shape on the level of the human consciousness or even on any-level below the highest divine, that to a more or less extent may be said to "come a cropper". On the highest divine level an everlasting Song that is God goes on simultaneous... ancient Indian rishis held that it could, and it is precisely the type of poetry possessing the power to do so that they termed the Mantra . The Mantra , they said, is not anything born of the human consciousness or, rather, anything garbed in the shape and colour of the consciousness that is human. The values and figures of it come from the divine Consciousness straight and sheer: the life-throb and ...
... Christianity and Evolution, p. 180. 45. Ibid., p. 240. 46. Ibid., p. 242. Page 52 natural Cosmic Christ. Then we are told 47 that "Christ's gradual rise in human consciousness cannot continue much longer without there being produced, in our spiritual climate, the revolutionary event of his coincidence with the definitely foreseeable centre of a terrestrial co-reflection... drawn together even more by a fundamental identity, the two Omegas (let me emphasize again), the Omegas of experience and of faith, are undoubtedly on the point of reacting upon one another in human consciousness, and finally of being synthesized..." 47. Ibid. 48. Ibid., pp. 242-43. Page 53 ...
... there, she was working in the world. While sitting there, she was making the world more and more transparent to the divine Sunlight. ‘What expresses this best, I think, is: in the ordinary human consciousness one is in a point and all things exist in their relation to this point of consciousness. And now such a point does not exist anymore, and as a result the things exist by themselves.’ The axis... cannot be put into mental words. 93 ‘The consciousness is lowered as soon as I begin to talk,’ the Mother said. ‘Words, languages are inappropriate to express something that surpasses the [human] consciousness. As soon as one formulates it, it descends on a lower level … As soon as one expresses it in words, it looks like a caricature.’ 78 ‘The spiritual truth is a truth of the spirit and not of ...
... reality—or, if there is such a cognition, it must be of the nature of an Is that is not, a magical Maya. But there is no binding reason to suppose that this chasm must exist; what our relative human consciousness is or is not capable of, is no test or standard Page 664 of an absolute capacity; its conceptions cannot be applied to an absolute self-awareness: what is necessary for our mental... obvious surface; these have to be fathomed and whatever is ascertained must be admitted within the scope of the total reality. An inner range of spiritual experience is one very great domain of human consciousness; it has to be entered into up to its deepest depths and its vastest reaches. The supraphysical is as real as the physical; to know it is part of a complete knowledge. The knowledge of the su ...
... ectual phase had to Page 268 come and has had, no doubt, its purpose and significance. One may also hold that one of its uses was as an experiment to see how far and whither the human consciousness would go through an intellectual and external control of Nature with physical and intellectual means only and without the intervention of any higher consciousness and knowledge—or that it may... s between mind and supermind act only as influences (the highest of them very indirect influences) on human mind and consciousness and cannot do more. This would change. An organised higher human consciousness could appear or several degrees Page 282 of it, with the supermind-organised consciousness as the leader at the top influencing the others and drawing them towards itself. It is likely ...
... which is a level of consciousness much higher than the human intelligence. It is there that the Divine Light and Power come down to be transmitted to the human consciousness and from there they work and prepare the transformation of the human consciousness and even the physical nature. The two first [ bright white and whitish blue ] are the Mother's Page 125 light and mine—the golden ...
... ego. When it comes down, the real change will come. But you must be quiet within, not worried and restless—you must open confidently to the Mother's Force and let it work in you. The human consciousness is permeated in all its past ideas with this substance of egoism. It is only by a constant quiet vigilance and increasing consciousness that it can be got out—for if it is not allowed to play... thinking mind (reason) has always to remain unmoved above and judge what is right without being caught and carried away by the vital. Ambition and vanity are things so natural to the human consciousness—they have even their use in ordinary life—that it is quite natural that at first they should enter into the sadhana also and linger even when they are rejected. But they have to be pushed out ...
... their union. Only you must not forget that it is constantly changing, that it is not a static best; it is a best which if preserved would not be the best a moment later. And it is because the human consciousness always has the tendency to preserve statically what it finds good or considers good, that it realises that it is unseizable. It is this effort to preserve which falsifies things. ( Silence... self-awareness of Himself. ( Silence ) To tell you the truth, all these things are of no importance; for that which is, goes in every way entirely and absolutely beyond everything that human consciousness can think about it. It is only when you are no longer human that you know ; but as soon as this knowledge is expressed, human limits reimpose themselves and then you cease to know. This is ...
... human idea. One may from a practical point of view say, "Ah! No, the way in which you have acquired this money is disgusting and so I don't want to offer it to the Divine", because one has a human consciousness. But if you take someone (let us suppose the worst) who has killed and acquired Page 378 money by the murder; if all of a sudden he is seized by terrible scruples and remorse and... demanded the mastery of the sex-impulse. Because, according to certain theories, the very need of power has its end in this satisfaction, and if one mastered that, if one abolished that from human consciousness, much of the need for power and desire for money would disappear automatically. Evidently, these are the three great obstacles in the terrestrial human life and, unless they are conquered, there ...
... dimension; I am speaking of the fact just as it is, of a total set of combinations which are realised successively, in accordance with an order and a choice which, obviously, completely elude the human consciousness, but to which man has to some extent adapted himself and which, with a great effort of study such as humanity has pursued down the centuries, he has succeeded in formulating well enough to be... tell you what is truly prodigious about these children, but still, according to the stories that are related, there are obviously some kind of new types which seem astonishing to the ordinary human consciousness. It is examples of this kind, I believe, that we would like to know in order to understand what is happening.... But it is possible, in fact, that things are happening now which we are not used ...
... origin is necessarily also its goal, so this would mean in fact that delight is the highest state. But I don't need to tell you that this is not delight as it is understood in the ordinary human consciousness.... Indeed, that delight is beyond the states which are generally considered as the highest from the yogic point of view, as for instance, the state of perfect serenity, of perfect equality of... a more intimate union with the divine Consciousness, one can experience this Delight as something that passes by and colours life and gives it its true meaning, but as long as one is in the human consciousness, this Delight is very easily deformed and changes into something which no longer resembles it at all. Therefore, one could hardly say that if one loses the delight, one's consciousness is lowered ...
... time—first one has to fight against a formidable mass of stupid prejudices which create an irreconcilable antagonism between material and spiritual life. And it is something so deep-rooted in human consciousness that it is very difficult to eradicate it, even in those who think they have understood Sri Aurobindo's teaching! And many people said, when for altogether different reasons I began to hold ... holding them for a long time. It was in order not to encourage this stupidity. But for other reasons it was necessary to do it and so I did. So long as this foolishness is not uprooted from human consciousness, the supramental force will always find it considerably difficult not to be engulfed in the obscurity of a human thought which understands nothing. That's all. All the same, we shall succeed ...
... everything is the same, it is a phenomenon of consciousness; but Love can exist without Grace and Grace can exist without Love. But for the human consciousness all manifestation of Grace is a manifestation of the supreme Love, inevitably. Only it goes beyond human consciousness. Page 243 How can one become conscious of Divine Love and an instrument of its expression? First, to become conscious ...
... with the potatoes one can grow in one's garden, without hoping to know anything at all about what is going on and happening elsewhere. Well, these two points are the most resistant. In the human consciousness this is most subject to the forces of ignorance, Page 167 inconscience and, I must say, quite generally, ill-will. This is what most refuses all progress and all advance towards the... of emerging from the chaos—the chaos of complications—in which humanity has put itself. It is like the shadow—but unfortunately a very active shadow—of the new hope which has sprung up in the human consciousness, a hope and a need for something more harmonious; and the need becomes so much more acute as life, as it is at present organised, becomes more and more contrary to it. The two opposites are facing ...
... as soon as it wakes up, it can come out of that; it is not at all necessary to accept them. Only, one must know that they are suggestions. One must be able to separate oneself from the purely human consciousness, the body consciousness. And once you can look at it from above, you can free yourself from these suggestions quite well. You can free yourself from all suggestions, but for that you must rise... human race, which are not personal to you at all. You are not aware of them because they are very intimately bound up with your consciousness. But the moment you can free yourself from this human consciousness and enter a domain where, for example, life in the body becomes almost an accident—it can be here, it can be there, it can be over there—you are no longer tied to the body. You look at it and ...
... nd all would be truly well. But as it is not in contact with the psychic it doesn’t even know what it is, it wonders all bewildered what kind of a being it can be; so to reach this ordinary human consciousness it must use ordinary means, that is, go through the mind, the vital and the physical. One of them may be skipped but surely not the last, otherwise one is no longer conscious of anything at... directs, even organises the life, organises the consciousness, the different parts of the being. When this happen, the work goes very fast. Very fast, well… relatively very fast. In the human consciousness everything is very slow . When we compare the time that is necessary to realise something with the average length of human existence, it seems interminable. But happily there comes a time when ...
... human" is restrictive, whereas "terrestrial" includes many animal movements, even plant movements; but as in the present case the moral notion of guilt, sin, evil belongs exclusively to the human consciousness, we will say simply the collective human psychological consciousness—when you come into contact with that through this identification, naturally you feel or see or know that you are capable of... truth-consciousness—this egoistic sense of what belongs and does not belong to you, of what you can do and cannot do, disappears at that time; you become aware that the fundamental structure of the human consciousness is such that any human being is capable of doing anything at all. And since you are in a truth-consciousness, at the same time you have the feeling that judgments or aversions, or rejection, ...
... consciousness was not in the same position with regard to things—I do not know how to say it. So they appear altogether different. ( Silence ) I do not know how to explain.... The ordinary human consciousness, even when it has the widest ideas, is always at the centre, and things are like this ( gesture of convergence from all sides, like a spider's web ). Things exist (all that one says only diminishes)... diminishes), they exist in relation to a centre. Whereas ( gesture indicating a multitude of scattered points ). I believe this is how it is best expressed: in the ordinary human consciousness one is at a point and all things exist in their relation to this point of consciousness ( same gesture of a spider's web ). And now, the point exists no more, so things exist in themselves. This is the most exact ...
... you will be able to speak of it.... You understand, I can put "spiritual", but... '...The objective study of religions will form part of the historical study of the development of human consciousness... * The next time Mother corrected the phrase "all forms of religion" and in its place simply put "all religions". Page 196 I put religions underneath: in the... the history of mankind and it is in this guise that they will be studied at Auroville — not as beliefs to which one ought or ought not to adhere, but as part of a process in the development of human consciousness which should lead man towards his superior realization." Then, "programme"... (Mother laughs) PROGRAMME Research through experience of the Supreme Truth. ...
... desires and not confuse the three together. The ordinary life is that of the average human consciousness separated from its own true self and from the Divine and led by the common habits of the mind, life and body which are the laws of the Ignorance. The religious life is a movement of the same ignorant human consciousness, turning or trying to turn away from the earth towards the Divine, but as yet ...
... without being reabsorbed—which obviously has no importance whatsoever, for when one has the eternal consciousness it does not matter whether it is like this or like that. Only in the limited human consciousness is there this kind of ambition or need for something that has no end, because, within, there is what might be called the "memory of eternity" and this memory of eternity aspires for the manifestation... not have existed without this material form of creation.... You see, there was always this great "Why?"—"Why is it like this?" Why is there all this, which brought about everything that the human consciousness interprets as suffering, misery and helplessness and everything, all the horrors of ordinary consciousness—why? Why is it? And so this was the answer: in the true Consciousness there is a mode ...
... the same effect on me as when I read the 'Yoga of Self-Perfection' in The Synthesis of Yoga ( Mother catches her breath ): there is such a gulf between what we are, what life on earth and human consciousness now are, even among the most enlightened, the most advanced, and THAT!... I don't know if it's because I have been so violently attacked—bludgeoned—by all these malevolent energies, but in... miraculously whenever He appears. Because I know that wherever Matter is not under the influence of this adverse will to any degree, it blossoms immediately. And everything in the human heart, in human consciousness, in human thought, all that is slightly sheltered from this adverse influence—sheltered by the psychic, the divine Presence—blossoms, becomes... immediately becomes marvelous, without any ob ...
... my body... this body.... Look, I have accepted—the Lord asked me if I wanted to undergo the transformation , and I said yes (I would have said yes in any event), but it's... to the ordinary human consciousness, I am going mad. 3 Yes, I understand, Mother. I understand.... Anyone else would have left umpteen times, rather than sit through all this I really understand. What about you, are... don't know, 11:00 or 11:10... I'll keep you with me like that. Yes, Mother, keep me! ( Mother plunges in ) Page 400 ADDENDUM A Grain of Rice? "To the ordinary human consciousness, I am going mad.".... What happened on November 17, 1973? Or rather, what is happening? I have pored over Mother's every word for so many years, I have LIVED them all with a pounding heart—or ...
... "real" is something that comes from the supreme Will directly. That is true; the rest isn't true, it's the product of all the confusion ( zigzag gesture downward ) and of all the disorder of the human consciousness—illness isn't true. I don't think that one illness in a hundred (oh, maybe in a thousand) is true. Some are the expression of a Will for something wrong to be well shaken, Page 165 ... truly say that there isn't, oh, there isn't one case in a hundred that is the expression of the direct Will—it's something... ( gesture of a zigzag fall ) which goes like this and which in the human consciousness gets into a tangle like a wire that's so twisted that you can't untangle it anymore. And because of that state, you are on the verge, yes, of a discomfort (that's almost constant), of an illness ...
... that the impact remained with me for hours after I woke up. It was incredible. Where is that world located? I know it very well, I have been there frequently. It's at the very summit of human consciousness, on the borderline between what Sri Aurobindo calls the lower and the higher hemispheres. It is very high, very high. I have studied this realm extensively. Page 387 It is a world... really be called "luminous" waves, for they are self-luminous. Waves of colored light. Great waves of colored light. ( silence ) All those zones of artistic creation are very high up in human consciousness, which is why art can be a wonderful tool for spiritual progress. For this world of creation is also the world of the gods; but the gods, I am sorry to say, have absolutely no taste for artistic ...
... shouldn't be forgotten that it's constantly changing, it isn't a static best; it's a best that, if retained, wouldn't be the best Page 95 of the next moment. And it's because the human consciousness always tends to want to retain statically what it finds or considers to be good that it finds this best always eludes it. That effort to retain is what warps things. ( silence ) I looked... more and more conscious of Himself. ( silence ) To tell the truth, all those things are without any importance (!) because in any case what IS exceeds entirely and absolutely all that the human consciousness may think of it. It is only when you stop being human that you know; but as soon as you express yourself, you become human again, and then you stop knowing. This is undeniable. And because ...
... consciousness were not in the same position with respect to things—I don't know how to say it. So they seem completely different. ( silence ) I don't know how to explain it.... The ordinary human consciousness, even in people who are broad-minded and all that, is always at the center, and things are like this ( gesture converging from all sides toward a center ), you understand. Things exist (words... everything), things exist in relation to a center. While here... ( Mother drops a multitude of points throughout space ). Yes, that's what expresses it the best, I think: in the ordinary human consciousness, you're at one point and everything exists in its relation to that point of consciousness ( same star-shaped gesture ). While now, the point no longer exists, so things are selfexistent. The ...
... forgetfulness of the truth that, though social reformism is a fine passion, it cannot be the centre and core of man's upward endeavour. The main purpose of true religion is a change of the merely human consciousness into a divine consciousness by a progressive practice of the presence of God. Only when that presence is inwardly realised can social pestilences like Untouchability be radically removed. Till... fast has nothing in it similar to the voices and the visions that are revelatory incidents in the exalted sweep of the Saints into the "unitive knowledge" which transcends and transfigures the human consciousness. Absence of mysticism does not prevent a man from being great, and Gandhi was great - but in the ethico-religious sphere, without the marked touch of the religio-mystical sphere which ...
... welcome just now upon earth, because the human heart is not yet ready for them—and if they were enforced upon the human consciousness by an act of Power, they would no more be the Truth and the Love, but something artificial. That is why the collaboration of the human consciousness is indispensable, and the way is long and arduous. However the Divine Grace is there always and each fall can ...
... evolution which leads it up to the human state and evolves through it all a being of itself which we call the psychic being that supports the evolution and develops a physical, a vital, a mental human consciousness as its instruments of world-experience and of a disguised, imperfect, but growing self-expression. All this it does from behind a veil showing something of its divine self only in so far as the... and all would be truly well. But as it is not in contact with the psychic it doesn't even know what it is, it wonders all bewildered what kind of a being it can be; so to reach this ordinary human consciousness it must use ordinary means, that is, go through the mind, the vital and the physical. One of them may be skipped but surely not the last, otherwise one is no longer conscious of anything ...
... the Buddhi. SATYENDRA: Meher Baba says Karana Sharira is the root of Samskaras which are manifested on the subtle planes. He puts the human consciousness on the gross planes but he believes that it opens to the subtle ones. SRI AUROBINDO: The human consciousness has what I call the subliminal, which is open to the subtle worlds, but of which one is not aware because the surface awareness is clouded ...
... the simpler and less equivocal temperament that mankind had in the past. And a good part of the catholicity or liberalism or toleration that appears to be more in evidence in the present-day human consciousness is to be attributed not so much to the sense of unity or identity, that is the natural and inevitable outcome of a real growth in consciousness, but rather to the doubt and indecision and hesitation... hesitation, to the agnosticism and dilettantism and cynicism of a pluralistic consciousness. Cut away from the soul, from the central fount of its being, the human consciousness has been, as it were, desiccated and pulverized; it has been thrown wholly upon its multifarious external movements and bears the appearance of a thirsty shifting expanse of desert sands. II ...
... in the heart proper. Some would say it is in an inmost or topmost region, the Self, while others would relegate it to something quite the opposite, the lowest and most external strand in the human consciousness, viz., that of unconsciousness or infra-consciousness, ignorance, fear, superstition. The domination of the religious sense reached its apogee Page 144 in the Middle... contrary appearances; it was this life which could not express freely and fully its own truth and reality in its own way, under the domination of what are known as the higher movements of the human consciousness. Life in another sense, as part of this higher and aristocratic movement, had had some autonomy and a field and scope of its own even under the old regime. The life-force that inspires noble ...
... or the forest, the belief in human progress, at least along a steady straight line, was very much shaken. Yet an imperious necessity of the idea, almost as an inevitable ingredient of human consciousness, always exists and constantly makes its presence felt. If recurrence is the law of creation, this idea with its will to fruition is also a recurrent phenomenon. A modern form of it has been given... seeking to emerge out of the purely vital nature. Ambition and pride are his guiding spirit. Prometheus is his prototype. There are still two higher types which have been established in the human consciousness and in the world atmosphere as dynamic ideals, if not as common concrete facts of the material Page 234 world. The first is the ethical man, who seeks to govern his life according ...
... continuously in the march of life; it is always unfolding new norms and forms of its light and power, ever new degrees of realisation. The individual human consciousness has to recognise that progressive flux and march along with it. Human consciousness, the complex of external mind and life and body consciousness, has the habit of halting, clinging to the forms, experiences and gains of the past, storing ...
... the world is shrinking and we are dreaming of the possibility of a planetary civilisation, for which we have not yet secured a corresponding psychological development, which could enable human consciousness to sustain such a planetary civilisation. On the contrary, there is a growing preponderance of those impulses, which can thrive only in ignorance, fragmentation, discord and violence. ... no doubt that goodwill is independent of personal need, desire or preference; the judgment of goodness of goodwill is free from relativity or subjectivity. In other words, there is in the human consciousness the possibility of the development of goodwill that can be considered to be objectively good. • This discussion has important consequences for value-education. If value-education proposes ...
... of synthesis when we come to the Bhagavadgita. The Bhagavadgita, which is known as the Yoga Shastra, provides us profound secrets of knowledge and application of knowledge by means of which human consciousness can be transformed into Divine consciousness. The first secret, guhyam rahasyam, is to find out how the field of circumstances in which one is placed can be apprehended or comprehended and... claims of Yoga are truly valid and whether they can be found to be sustainable. It has been contended that Yoga has discovered and perfected certain specific methods by application of which human consciousness can be so revolutionised that the ordinary functioning of the human body, human heart, and human mind can be united with Page 283 superior faculties of knowledge and action, and ...
... t, the world is shrinking and we are dreaming of the possibility of a planetary civilisation, for which we have not yet secured a corresponding psychological development, which could enable human consciousness to sustain such a planetary civilisation. On the contrary, there is a growing preponderance of those impulses, which can thrive only in ignorance, fragmentation, discord and violence. ... will is independent of personal need, desire or preference; the judgement of goodness of goodwill is free from relativity or subjectivity. Page 409 In other words, there is in the human consciousness the possibility of the development of goodwill that can be considered to be objectively good. This discussion has important consequences for value-education. If value-education proposes ...
... Leibniz Is the Ontological Argument for the existence of God Successful for the existence of God successful? I Introduction Religion as a phenomenon of human consciousness is perhaps one of the most fascinating subjects for all historians. Right from the time when human beings began to think reflectively, there seems to have arisen a concept or belief in some kind... have explicated what I think is the truth in rationalism, and that account that I have given may not be shared by rationalists. To my understanding, rationalism maintains that there are in human consciousness innate ideas, that these innate ideas are the very stuff of reason, and these ideas are at the source of the affirmation of the objectivity of the truth, of the validity of universality, of a ...
... principal Upanishads; that goal is the winning of me state of Immortality, but it is more specific about the relations of the divine, all-ruling and all-possessing Brahman, to the world and to the human consciousness; it is also specifically concerned with the means of passing out of our present state of divided self, ignorance and suffering into the unity, the truth, the true knowledge, integral knowledge... The Kena Upanishad is also concerned with the state of Immortality, it is also concerned with Ignorance and Knowledge with the relationship between the divine consciousness and the world and human consciousness. Like the Īśa Upanishad, the Kena Upanishad also closes with the definition of Brahman as the Delight and the injunction to Page 8 adore and pursue That as the Delight. But in contrast ...
... of the peace and silence in us? What purpose do they serve? Page 131 As the basis of the true consciousness that is to replace the ordinary restless and troubled human consciousness. Regarding the diffusion of my consciousness you said, "Probably some quite involuntary relaxation in some part of the consciousness — that always happens. One has to be quiet... descended and working in all the being. You always seem to think that because the silence is there in the consciousness, the whole consciousness must be equally affected by it. The human consciousness is not of one piece like that. Page 134 ...
... preceding the British advent. And yet man has survived all falls and has been reborn and rejuvenated every time he seems to be off the stage. The very lack of perfection and fixity in the human consciousness leaves a kind of plasticity in his nature and there-fore an opening towards further life and progress. However perfect man's sten-gun is, it is not as sure and efficient as the bee's sting. Man... man and gives him a new power of self-adjustment. From Imperial Egypt to, say, modern France or Russia is a far cry; the two ends give very different connotations Page 93 of the human consciousness, although there are many things common in certain life-instincts and some broad mental impulsions. And there is not only progress, that is to say, advancement on the same plane, but there is ...
... physical reactions to impacts of the gross outward world, the brute objects of physical life. The liberation of the mind, at least the higher mind, as an instrument of expression for the human consciousness was achieved to a remarkable degree in the Upanishads generally, particularly in some, although the beginnings of it might be traced even in some of the earliest of the Vedic Riks. A serious... it has entered a cul-de-sac, a blind alley where it has bogged itself and does not know where and how to move. The recoil from the normal, the rich and lush physico-mental expression of human consciousness and experience has been so radical and complete that it has catapulted us into an opposite extreme of bareness and nudity, at the most into a world of pure signs and symbols of notches and blotches ...
... which open the way to progress, which are not bound to mere reiteration. A new sense of direction is behind the spirit of independence that appears as transgression or sin – it is this which the human consciousness aims at in the movement. It is an opportunity to move away and upward, to fresh dimensions of consciousness and being. Progress takes place through a process of dialectics, that is to say... Mother also, in her turn, grow more and more conscious. Page 370 to be broken in order to start a move towards another harmony richer and higher, and this is done in the human consciousness by the growth of a free will in the individual that disobeys the established law. That is the great Disobedience of which Milton speaks so thunderingly in his famous epic poem and which is at ...
... life's fitful fever to sleep well -that seems to have been the motto given. Buddhism saw and accepted a world of misery; therefore it knew how to touch the human heart, open up the doors in human consciousness to sympathy and compassion and love. Life it envisaged as an unreal persistence and therefore awakened and installed there the fiery urge towards withdrawal, ascension and transcendence. It was... of an integral realisation, which means the Veda, came to be covered over by a more strenuous demand of immediate necessity, by an over-emphasis on one side or aspect or line of growth of the human consciousness; a negative approach was needed for man to rise out of its too earthly a tegument, Page 277 to glimpse his divine possibility beyond, before he could hope to build it here below ...
... can never experience the noumenal truth behind the phenomenal reality, and that they can experience only the phenomena which are inevitably framed within the categories which are inherent in human consciousness. According to Hick, various specific forms of religious awareness are' formed by the presence of the divine Reality but this presence comes to given consciousness in terms of the different sets... or through special revelations. The very word religion connotes its emphasis on this process of relationship. In the process of establishing this relationship between man and God or between human consciousness and the highest possible state of being of consciousness, religions have tended to place or recognize four necessities. In the first place, religions have tended to impose upon the mind a belief ...
... and of spiritual or religious disciplines. However, the most distinctive element of Hinduism lies in the fact that through successive stages, it built up for larger and larger gradations of human consciousness an organisation of the individual and collective life, — a framework of personal and social discipline and conduct, of mental and moral and vital development by which they could move each in... stage. According to the adhikara or qualification that one possesses, a corresponding effort was laid down and demanded. In practical effect, a gradation of three stages in the growing human consciousness came to be recognised and provided for: (i) the first stage or level was that of the crude, ill-formed,, still outward, still vital and physically minded; (ii) the second was more developed ...
... speak of it.... You understand, I can put "spiritual", but... Page 32 "...The objective study of religions will form part of the historical study of the development of human consciousness... I put religions underneath: in the realm of mind. Yes, exactly, yes! In the mental realm, and it was "a subject of study". It’s funny, two days ago, that came to me almost... history of mankind and it is in this guise that they will be studied at Auroville—not as beliefs to which one ought or ought not to adhere, but as part of a process in the development of human consciousness which should lead man towards his superior realization." Then, "programme"... (Mother laughs) PROGRAMME Research through experience of the Supreme Truth. A life divine ...
... this work Sri Aurobindo and the Mother came down on earth in human form, as a bridge between the two hemispheres. They represented in their human moulds not only humanity—all the elements of human consciousness-— Page 60 but also all that was represented in a human form, the entire terrestrial nature. They held their bodies as vessels to receive, on behalf of earth and man, what was... their physical forms and presence as a ladder for them to climb—no, to be carried up. They arranged so that human beings could grow into superhuman spiritual beings, shaking off their ignorant human consciousness, as the caterpillar grows into a butterfly shaking off its cocoon—but alas, man failed. Perhaps the new destiny was too new for him, the light too dazzling for his eyes so long accustomed to ...
... that the world is eternally imperfect, that will not be compatible with the Omniscience and Omnipotence of God. That is the stand of those who have despaired of any possibility of change of human consciousness. They have ignored those persons who have actually undergone a change of consciousness because they have always been overcome by quantity. Vast numbers of people are subject to ego, desire... and gave noble values to life. Study of literature—poetic and artistic,—reveals the contribution of the supraconscient realm of consciousness whose rays penetrated into the working of the human consciousness. The aesthetic sense or the sense of harmony, sense of beauty, or sense of perfection, owes its origin very often to the working of this greater influence. Apart from this we have seen ...
... will take a brief survey of the present-day psychology. It must be admitted that in spite of its shortcomings modern psychology is inspired by a genuine spirit of search for the truth of human consciousness. A vast literature has been created during a relatively short period of about 50 years. Since the rise of natural sciences European mind has been principally occupied in investigating the nature... accept her share of wealth, because she says : What shall I do with that which does not make me immortal ?" Briti Ad. 2 Br. 4. Page 127 The Upanishads speak of various states of human consciousness. l. Jagrat—waking; 2. Swapna—Dream state 3. Sushupti—deep-sleep; 4. Turiya, the fourth one, above the mental state. Various levels of consciousness in man are also mentioned. 1. Annamaya ...
... which we find in matter. Not only does it work separately in matter and life but it also joins the physical with the vital and even goes further to the creation of thought and links I' human consciousness "to the effulgence of a Ray above". In the human mind also it is this intelligence present everywhere that helps man to become conscious not only of himself but also of the workings... dazzling peaks, It looked within and woke the sleeping god." It was imagination with her shining army, "Lifting her beautiful and miraculous head" and freeing the human consciousness from the limitations of sense and reason. Myth was created by this faculty to feed the growing human soul's childhood with a food "Far richer in their sweet and nectarous sap ...
... Many, of the Transcendent, the Universal and the individual, of utter silence and the stupendous stir and hum of the cosmic movement, of the Spirit and Matter in an integrated and divinised human consciousness, is an achievement yet unrecorded in the history of spiritual culture.¹ Let us now try to follow in the footsteps of the Mother as she proceeds from one realization of union to another till... long and difficult process of transforming the physical consciousness by a descent into the Subconscient and the Inconscient and their conquest and illumination. These obscure regions of the human consciousness, of which we know precious little, are still dominated by the twin principle of Ignorance and False-hood, and unless their universal base and dynamic are mastered and metamorphosed, unless Ignorance ...
... That may be possible in Life manifested in Matter but in the pure Matter, in the domain of Chemistry and Physics ? Sri Aurobindo : Why not ? We are speaking of the material part of the human consciousness. What is a law ? It means a certain balance among universal forces Page 285 under certain conditions. If you change the conditions you get a different result. It is not by... It is said that each God has his nitya-r ūpa – "eternal form". , Sri Aurobindo : I think so. One cannot see that unless one passes entirely out of the human consciousness. They have forms by which they define themselves from other Gods and also through which they express what they are. It seems there are three elements that enter in this question. (1) The form ...
... difficult, and its failure far outweighed its slender success, but it evoked into activity a possibility of perfection which, since the days of the Vedas, had lain latent and overlooked in the human consciousness. This was the great contribution of Tantra. Its ideal was, not the self-annihilating merger in the Brahman, sāyujya, nor an eternal proximity to the luminous presence of the Beloved, sāmipya... the rest, which remains sunk in its habitual obscurity, or is at best distantly irradiated by the reflected light of the abstracted part. The union is enjoyed by the soul in the depths of the human consciousness or on its serene summits, but not in the whole being. The Vedic seers knew the secret of making the divine light, the divine bliss and force accessible to the entire human nature, and some of ...
... personal case; my own life is devoted to the progress of human consciousness and to Beauty, through my writings. As you may know, I have been for 17 years the single and personal confidant of the Mother in Pondicherry. She was Page 209 surrounded not by “disciples” as one might think, but by various samples of human consciousness through which She tried, after Sri Aurobindo, to work ...
... to those who were giving charity than to those who were the object of this charity." The Mother's conclusion is that, for a lasting solution to the problem of human misery, "a change in the human consciousness is absolutely indispensable... a new consciousness must manifest on earth and in man" at the same time. When the Mother denounces ambition in others - the egoistic ambition of philanthropists... most, good deeds proceed from self- satisfaction, a sense of superiority, a veiled desire to shine as benefactors. But with the Mother, the cause of unease is the current condition of the human consciousness. She would change herself, and from that leverage she would change the world. She would lose herself in the Divine, and she would strive to establish here a new Heaven and a new Earth inhabited ...
... the light of a more than human consciousness that India throughout her history has sought to manifest." 11 This concept of double citizenship was a challenge to the "Lord of the Nations", the Asuric being who receives the ready homage of all rabid 'national' egoisms. By expressing her wish for 'double citizenship', the Mother planted a potent seed in the human consciousness, and in the fullness of ...
... black mask of death is the unfading light of immortality, and suffering is only "a violent backwash of the waters of universal delight." An ascent of the human consciousness to the Supernature, and a descent of the Supernature into human consciousness and nature can alone release these divine principles and accomplish the evolutionary' purpose of the material existence. WHAT IS THE HIGHER NATURE ...
... the Avatar of the Supreme - the lotus. The water - inside the square - represents the Multiplicity, the Creation.4 We may also conceive the lotus as standing for the opening of the human Consciousness to the Divine: the bud of aspiration receives the warmth of the rays of the Sun, and there is the splendour of efflorescence petal by petal, the pointed aspiration from below being met by the... ideal society in a propitious spot for the flowering of the new race, the race of the Sons of God". The "states of being" and "fountains of universal force", so far foreign to the earth or human consciousness, are what Sri Aurobindo saw in general, when he was an undertrial prisoner in the Alipur Jail in 1908 as the overhead or above-mind states or powers which he was later to name as Higher Mind ...
... from below! Page 130 Yes, it is exact. The light rises from the depths as it descends from the heights, and the two flows of light join around the earth to flood the human consciousness and prepare it for the new creation. 13.3.1970 Yesterday You said, "A constant alert. No relaxation." Yes, it is exact. The work of physical... that the being becomes purer and more sincere. But it must never be forgotten that for the divine consciousness the value of beings and things is quite different from what it is for the human consciousness. 1.8.1970 He who is chosen by the Infinite cannot escape, but it is true that he tries to escape. Why, Mother? Men have fear of what they do not know, above all of that which ...
... the sorcerer—with some improvements. But it is not that at all!) It [the soul] has that power; Mother answered me, and it uses it CONSTANTLY, but the human consciousness is unaware of it! And the great difference is that the human consciousness becomes aware, but it becomes aware of something that's ALWAYS there! The power isn't so much of acting on Matter—that's something happening CONSTANTLY-but ...
... perfection and fulfilment we aim at in this Yoga. "To be perfect as our Father in Heaven is perfect" is not an idle dream of the religious visionary, but the deepest, ineradicable urge of the human consciousness, and its most irrepressible aspiration; and the spiritual endeavour of man cannot cease till this integral perfection is attained and expressed in his life. Life is expression, and a complete... Saramā, Saraswatī, Daksinā and Ilā by the Vedic Rishis. "The range of knowledge covered by the supramental thought, experience and vision will be commensurate with all that is open to the human consciousness, not only on the earth but on all planes."¹ The supramental thought will embrace from a dominating altitude of consciousness the entire stream of Time, past, present and future. Its vision ...
... vision and all the old visions?" I asked Mother one day. It's as if the consciousness were not in the same position with respect to things. So they seem completely different.... The ordinary human consciousness, even in people who are broad-minded and all that, is always at the center, and things exist in relation to a center—you're at one point and everything exists in its relation to that point of... brutally. 26 Then the experience was filed. Two or three days later, the person who read out the mail took a letter from the basket and read it to Mother: "What do you think of LSD? Can it help human consciousness progress?" Immediately, Mother broke out laughing. She had no need to "think" about the value of LSD: She had experienced LSD. So, I had the experience without swallowing the drug! And everything ...
... compel men to overcome their small personal egoism and turn exclusively to the Divine for help and light. The wisdom of men is ignorant. Only the Divine knows. 7 December 1971 * * * Our human consciousness has windows that open upon the Infinite, but generally men keep these windows carefully closed. We have to open them wide and allow the Infinite to enter us freely in order to transform us. ... and that is the source of an increasing bliss. Sri Aurobindo told me one day that if men knew this and were convinced of it, they would all want to do yoga. * * * 9 February 1972 Human consciousness is so corrupted that men prefer the miseries of the ego and its ignorance to the luminous joy that comes from sincere surrender to the Divine. Their blindness is so great that they refuse even ...
... of our phenomenal consciousness. Mahas, therefore, must express a fourth state of being, which is so much superior to the other three or so much beyond the ordinary attainment of our actual human consciousness that it is hardly considered in Vedic thought a vyahriti, whatever one or two thinkers may have held to the contrary. What do we know of this Mahas from Vedantic or later sources? Bhuh, Bhuvah ...
... helpful significance. For to the modern mind Avatarhood is one of the most difficult to accept or to understand of all the ideas that are streaming in from the East upon the rationalised human consciousness. It is apt to take it at the best for a mere figure for some high manifestation of human power, character, genius, great work done for the world or in the world, and at the worst to regard it ...
... māṁ viduḥ ), says in effect Krishna, I who am above all these things, must yet be sought and known through all together and by means of their relations,—that is the only complete way for the human consciousness which is seeking its path back towards Me. But these terms in themselves are not at first quite clear or at least they are open to different interpretations, they have to be made precise in their ...
... Essays on the Gita III The Human Disciple Such then is the divine Teacher of the Gita, the eternal Avatar, the Divine who has descended into the human consciousness, the Lord seated within the heart of all beings, He who guides from behind the veil all our thought and action and heart's seeking even as He directs from behind the veil of visible and sensible ...
... of things, uttamaṁ rahasyam . When Page 14 this eternal divine Consciousness always present in every human being, this God in man, takes possession partly 4 or wholly of the human consciousness and becomes in visible human shape the guide, teacher, leader of the world, not as those who living in their humanity yet feel something of the power or light or love of the divine Gnosis informing ...
... Omega to the scientific mind, the reluctance to admit intelligence as the mother of intelligence was an honest scruple. But now it is no more than an outworn paradox to affirm the emergence of human consciousness, intelligence and mastery out of an unintelligent, blindly driving unconsciousness in which no form or substance of them previously existed. Man's consciousness can be nothing else than a form ...
... two things in a fundamental way—the Truth above and here below the Lila and the purpose of the incarnation or manifestation and it does what is necessary for that in the way its greater than human consciousness sees to be the necessary and intended way. I shall try if I can develop that when I write about it—perhaps I shall take your remarks about Rama and Krishna as the starting-point—but that I shall ...
... which is the first and highest manifestation of Thy eternal Truth, that love which is at once the completest expression in this world of Thy Truth and the most direct road to lead to it the human consciousness that has gone astray. In the days when I used to aspire, desire and ask, how many times have I asked of Thee the grace of this state as the one most in conformity with my present ideal of action ...
... That's all. Nothing else. So she made a face.... I think she had never thought of that, she never thought of that possibility. (long silence) [passage omitted] ... our human consciousness is VERY SMALL, my child! Even when you're identified with the general Consciousness, you feel yo u r se lf so small, so microscopic in comparison to the true Consciousness which contains ...
... point of view from which you say: "Bah! That will be done, it is sure to come about, so it is all right, one has Page 62 only to let things go on." But then it is not the external human consciousness, it does not take part, for this tiny consciousness which has been formed by the body (this body that's at present made in this way), well, it will have gone away long before the thing is done ...
... rushes down. But what happens is something like an image: it is not exactly that, but something very similar. It throws itself down into an unconsciousness, because the physical world, even human consciousness whatever it may be, is very unconscious in comparison with the psychic consciousness. So it rushes into an unconsciousness. It is as though it fell on its head. That stuns it. And so generally ...
... to understand), to build a hospital, for example, or to open a crèche for little children. These are all works of goodwill that men understand. But if they are told that we want to change the human consciousness, we want to create a new world, oh! the first thing they say is: "Pardon me! Do not speak of God, for if it is God who is doing the work, well, it is God who will give you the means for it and ...
... then, that's all. It is a long, long, long way to go from what men call "love" to true love—a long way. I am not even speaking here about all the repulsive forms it takes in the ordinary human consciousness; I am telling you about the best conditions, about love in its best form, even the most disinterested. I don't know, if you question human beings, I would like to know very much the percentage ...
... even in children... the instinct to destroy and spoil. Well, it is the presence of the adverse forces. And these are forces which come directly from the vital world and incarnate on earth in human consciousness, and at times also in animal consciousness. It is the hatred for things beautiful, for what is pure, what is good, what is true. It is the hatred of the divine Presence. And naturally, with this ...
... Krishna for example, or the form of Christ, of Buddha, in every person? That seems to me childishness. But still I do not say that it cannot happen; I think it may happen. But there is in it much human consciousness added to the perception, for that would no longer be exactly Page 78 what I have just told you: for those who have the consciousness of the Divine, when they are in contact with the ...
... is the same, only you have mixed it with so many things in your vase that it no longer resembles it at all! Well, love in its essence is an absolutely pure, crystalline, perfect thing. In the human consciousness it gets mixed with a fairly considerable amount of mud. So it becomes more and more muddy in proportion to the amount of mud. It has been said that the tiger's need for devouring is one of ...
... highest human possibilities. He did not see things as they are, lifeless, he saw the spirit which was behind, he communicated with it, he tried to express it and he made... he went as far as a human consciousness can go. And then he found himself before a precipice. How to cross over to the other side? Everything is like that, you see. We shall have to repeat the same thing each time. There, then. ...
... this is what has caused all religions to be vulgarised, even those which had at the start something very high and very true to give; they have been obliged to reduce it to the proportion of the human consciousness. For humanity suffers and it is not with beautiful ideas that it is cured. Page 314 Something else is necessary. This perhaps we shall see at the end when we come to it. For the moment ...
... movement is going towards an experience which becomes as common as possible, because it is useful only if it is common. If it is localised, it is like a mushroom, it gives no fruit for the general human consciousness. The great human experiences have to be gone through, more or less thoroughly, by the whole of mankind, and it is done in this way. It is only man's thoughts which fix other words, other forms ...
... Consciousness is above good and evil. But that does not mean Page 362 that it does evil and good impartially. It can only mean that it acts from a light that is beyond that level of human consciousness which makes the human standard of these things. It acts for and from a greater good than the apparent good men follow after. It acts also according to a greater Truth than men conceive. It is ...
... psychisation of the whole nature is not small; it can bring about or embrace most of what have been celebrated as the great spiritual realisations. Only these are got by a sort of reflection in the human consciousness (mind, life, body), not by a permanent ascension of the consciousness to the highest planes or a permanent descent from above. There are upgoings and downflowings from there only. If that ...
... On Education III PHYSICAL EDUCATION Of all the domains of human consciousness, the physical is the one most completely governed by method, order, discipline, procedure. The lack of plasticity and receptivity in matter has to be replaced there by an organisation of details, at once precise and comprehensive. In this organisation one must not forget, ...
... the whole theoretical; or, if an attempt was ever made to realise them practically, it always failed lamentably in the long or short run: for no human organisation can change radically unless human consciousness itself changes. Prophets of a new humanity have followed one another, religions, spiritual or social, have been created, their beginnings were at times full of promise: but, as humanity was not ...
... happens is something like an image: it is not exactly that, but something very similar. It throws itself down into an unconsciousness, because the physical Page 75 world, even human consciousness whatever it may be, is very unconscious in comparison with the psychic consciousness. So it rushes into an unconsciousness. It is as though it fell on its head. That stuns it. And so generally ...
... naughty because he learns to be ashamed of being naughty, not because he is afraid of punishment. 1 In the first case, he makes true progress. In the second, he falls one step down in human consciousness, for fear is a degradation of consciousness. 21 November 1969 * Sweet Mother, Do the responsibilities of a teacher or an instructor cease after his working hours at ...
... regarded the emergence of thought and reason in an animal world as an absurdity and a chimaera. It is the same now with the appearance of supermind in the stumbling mentality of this world of human consciousness and its reasoning ignorance. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: The Descent of the Supermind One thing seems obvious, humanity has reached a certain state of general tension—tension ...
... again we seem to be only repeating the same thing always, but still the accumulative result is some effective change. The mistake is to look at these things through the dimensions of the human consciousness, for so seen these deep and vast movements seem inexplicable. It is dangerous to try to explain or understand them with the limited mental intelligence. That is the reason why philosophy has ...
... this conflict is not always foreseen except when one is conscious in the highest consciousness. One cannot foresee the result of a conflict with a consciousness which does not go beyond the human consciousness, so one calls it an "accident". It is not chance, it is not even an accident without reason, but an accident caused by reasons which one is not in a condition to foresee. In a dream, I thought ...
... has been taken for the Supreme Divine and all those who have reached it have never for a moment doubted that they have touched the true Spirit. For, its splendours are so great to the ordinary human consciousness that it is absolutely dazzled into believing that here at last is the crowning reality. And yet the fact is that the Overmind is far below the true Divine. It is not the authentic home of the ...
... faith, since the exact character of it escapes you. And if you are called upon to define realisation, you may declare that individually speaking, it means the transformation of your ordinary human consciousness into the divine and supramental. The consciousness is like a ladder: at each great epoch there has been one great being capable of adding one more step to the ladder and reaching a place ...
... thing did not exist, even when it exists! As if it was not, even while it was! Neither the one nor the other is wholly true, neither the one nor the other is wholly false. There is a state of human consciousness (it is not yet superhuman, it is truly human) in which the two things may coexist. One may have sufferings and not feel them, be as if they did not exist. That is, a misfortune, a "cross" touches ...
... conscious, it can be inert, tamasic, "unconscious". Otherwise all would be conscious, stones also would be conscious (I don't know how far they are so, but it is to a very small extent compared with human consciousness). Does not surrender consist in offering one's work like a good servant? Page 371 Work is a good discipline. But it is not this idea, it is not the idea of a passive, unconscious ...
... lost (I am speaking of civilisations preceding this one which for us is historical). Well, if thousands of years are yet needed to begin another, obviously.... In any case, for our external human consciousness, it is a loss of time. But we are told that the Work to be done, the promised Realisation is going to take place now. It is going to take place now because the framework of this civilisation ...
... There is a solution. Think about it, we shall speak about it again another time. There, I would like you to make an effort. For it is beneficial, because this is a sort of conflict in the human consciousness which comes up constantly; because it is a conflict which forms the basis of all oppositions to a concrete work; because this conflict makes people―I am speaking even of those who are the most ...
... if we can come to understand that the Divine is all that we can conceive of, and infinitely more, we begin to progress towards integrality. Integrality is an extremely difficult thing for the human consciousness, which begins to be conscious only by limiting itself. But still, with a little effort, for those who know how to play with mental activities, it is possible to widen oneself sufficiently to ...
... there. That will be the essential difference. Certainly it will not be a dull existence in which everything goes on indefinitely without changing. I believe there is always a tendency in the human consciousness to want to get somewhere, to sit down and feel it is at last all over: "We have arrived, we settle down and don't move any more!" That would be a poor type of Supermind. But this ascending ...
... and in the higher hemisphere there is "something"—which is what it is—in which all consciousnesses must meet. Page 203 This is what he calls the "Truth-Consciousness". As the human consciousness progresses, it has a greater and greater sense of this relativity, and at the same time a sort of feeling, it could be said, a vague impression that there is a Truth, which is not perceptible ...
... interest is vital satisfaction. For you to be interested in training exercises which don't have the stimulus of games, the reason must govern the being. In ordinary men reason is the summit of human consciousness, and this is the part of the being which must govern the rest, for it is orderly and reasonable, that is, it does things with a feeling for order, for goodness, usefulness, and in accordance ...
... is something rather difficult. But to live the spiritual life is to open to another world Page 413 within oneself. It is to reverse one's consciousness, as it were. The ordinary human consciousness, even in the most developed, even in men of great talent and great realisation, is a movement turned outwards—all the energies are directed outwards, the whole consciousness is spread outwards; ...
... whose vital being is not developed do not possess. This confusion between the vital activity and the soul is a very frequent one…. The vital vibration is much more easily perceptible to the human consciousness than the vibration of the soul. To perceive the soul in someone, as a rule the mind must be very quiet—very quiet, for when it is active, its vibrations are seen, not the vibration of the ...
... precisely the soul? A power of the soul over Matter, to change Matter and to work physical wonders too. Doesn't the soul have this power? It has that power and exercises it constantly, but the human consciousness is not aware of it; and the big difference is that it is becoming aware. But it is becoming aware of something that is always there , and which others deny because they cannot see it. For ...
... everything exists from all eternity, and we become conscious of it progressively in what we call the material world. This way of seeing and speaking is a complete reversal of the ordinary human consciousness. 2 February 1970 ...
... resistance from everything which has to be dissolved, from all the past habits; and it is this movement of dissolution, with its corresponding resistance, which is probably expressed in the ordinary human consciousness as a feeling of renunciation. I saw this very recently—it is insignificant, these circumstances have no importance in themselves; they are interesting only in the context of the study. This ...
... Mother touches her hands ), that which appears as separate, truly the feeling is that it is... I do not know how to say it, but it is real only in the distortion of the consciousness, but not the human consciousness: something has happened, something has happened in the consciousness.... ( Mother shakes her head ) I do not understand. ( Silence ) All the theories and explanations and stories that lie ...
... Yes, it is a guide. Well, it is a consciousness. For me, the Consciousness limits itself to special activities, for special cases, but it is always the Consciousness; just as in the human consciousness it limits itself almost to nothing, so also in certain states of being, in certain activities, it limits itself to a certain way of being in order to fulfil Its action: and I have very much asked ...
... magnificent. Only, it comes, it goes, it comes, it goes.... And when you come out of it, you have the feeling of dropping into a horrible hole—our ordinary consciousness (I mean the ordinary human consciousness) is a horrible hole. But you know also why it was momentarily so; that is to say, it is necessary in order to pass from the one to the other—all that happens is necessary for the full unfoldment ...
... move—and complete. And so concrete.... The difference between being in the Divine, existing only through Him and in Him, and then being in the consciousness (not the ordinary, naturally, but the human consciousness) is so great that the one seems to be death beside the other, so much is it... That is to say, the physical realisation is truly a concrete realisation. There has begun to take place a co ...
... mental way, not at all—but as... as things lived. I do not know how to explain. It is difficult to say... it is to feel (but, really, I do not know how to explain that) how in manifestation the human consciousness deforms the divine Action ( gesture of a direct flow ).... It is the constitution which is miserable. We belittle, we deform, we diminish everything —everything. We know the things, the Knowledge ...
... theoretical or, if an attempt has been made to realise them practically, it has always failed lamentably after a certain period of time; for no human organisation can change radically unless human consciousness itself changes. Prophets of a new humanity have followed one another; religions, spiritual or social, have been created; their beginnings have sometimes been promising, but as humanity has not ...
... At the outset, this may seem very difficult, if not impossible. Yet by examining this phenomenon more closely, one can see that it is not so alien, not so remote from the normally developed human consciousness. Indeed, there are very few people who have not felt, at least once in their lives, as if lifted up beyond themselves, filled with an unexpected and uncommon force which, for a time, has made ...
... goes to show that man is not the last step in terrestrial evolution. The human species will necessarily be succeeded by a new one which will be to man what man is to the animal; the present human consciousness will be replaced by a new consciousness, no longer mental but supramental. And this consciousness will give birth to a higher race, superhuman and divine. The time has come for this possibility ...
... transformation to life. Instead of peace they seem to bring rather a sword; for they increase the number and tension of conflict of the unreconciled forces, ideas, impulses of which the individual human consciousness and the life of the collectivity are the arena. The ideal and practical reason of man labours to find amidst all this the right law of life and action; it strives by a rule of moderation and ...
... comes from above poured down from the Divine Oneness and its Ananda on the being—psychic love is a form taken by divine love in the human being according to the needs and possibilities of the human consciousness. If love is psychic in its nature, it always brings the sense of oneness or at least of an inner intimate closeness of being. The Divine Love is based upon oneness and the psychic derives ...
... seem to go behind the veil and leave nothing in front except a dull blank, filled, if at all, only with recurrent attacks and difficulties. These alternations are the result of the nature of human consciousness and are not a proof of unfitness or of predestined failure. One has to be prepared for them and pass through. They are the "day and night" of the Vedic mystics. As for surrender, everyone ...
... out of its province and condemned to tread either diffidently or else with a stumbling presumptuousness in the realm of a power and a light higher than its own. But in the other spheres of human consciousness and human activity it may be thought that it has the right to the sovereign place, since these move on the lower plane of the rational and the finite or belong to that border-land where the rational ...
... their instrument or rather work in it as a medium, accepted as the very form of their being and the very force of their nature. Great poetry is the result, but there are other powers of the human consciousness which have not yet been mastered, and to get at these is the next immediate step of English poetry. The way it follows is to bring forward the intellect as its chief instrument; the thought-mind ...
... swiftly & mightily developing & reaching its glorious self-perfection, sukírtih, is the last stage of the Vedic Yoga and the desired state of the Vedic sádhaka. This natural awakening in the human consciousness of the perfected divine knowledge in the comprehensive wideness, brihat, natural to the Mahas, the vijnána, takes place divaś chid, even in the heaven of pure mind, even without man rising in ...
... various ways and move by various paths to one goal. The Divine Personality reveals Himself in various forms and names to the individual soul. These forms and names are in a sense created in the human consciousness; in another they are eternal symbols revealed by the Divine who thus concretises Himself in mind-form to the multiple consciousness and aids it in its return to its own Unity. 1 HE THAT ...
... of the sense of unity with all existence and with all existences. This exclusion is a fixed habit of the understanding due to our past evolution in the movement, not an ineffugable law of human consciousness. Its diminution and final disappearance are the condition of self-realisation. The beginning of wisdom, perfection and beatitude is the vision of the One. THE STAGES OF SELF-REALISATION ...
... and the Kena are both concerned with the same grand problem, the winning of the state of Immortality, the relations of the divine, all-ruling, all-possessing Brahman to the world and to the human consciousness, the means of passing out of our present state of divided self, ignorance and suffering into the unity, the truth, the divine beatitude. As the Isha closes with the aspiration towards the supreme ...
... their acts and feelings without their detecting the real source. At night many incoherent dreams come from this world or plane. The world above is the superconscient plane of being—above the human consciousness—there are many worlds of that kind; they are divine worlds. Page 222 The Subconscient and the Superconscient Below the feet is the subconscient, just as above the head is the ...
... concentrated in the Divine Unity and in the working out of the Divine Will, not dispersed and rushing about after this or that mental idea or vital desire or physical need as is the ordinary human consciousness—also not invaded by a hundred haphazard thoughts, feelings and impulses, but master of itself, centred and harmonious. The Plane of Intuition Intuition sees the truth of things by a direct ...
... relapse into Inconscience broken by a slow and difficult return of consciousness followed by a brief but splendid and prophetic outbreak of spiritual light leaving behind it the "day" of ordinary human consciousness in which the prophecy has to be worked out. The whole of Savitri is, according to the title of the poem, a legend that is a symbol and this opening canto is, it may be said, a key beginning ...
... 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 as the inmost? How can there be one centre for all that? The inner ...
... extreme. One does not doubt the existence of air because a strong wind is not always blowing or of sunlight because night intervenes between dawn and dusk. The difficulty lies in the normal human consciousness to which spiritual experience comes as something abnormal and is in fact supernormal. This weak limited normality finds it difficult at first even to get any touch of that greater and intenser ...
... will become one, under one rule, in the peace and sheltering Power and Light. Rejection of Wrong Vital Movements It is quite true that rising into a higher consciousness than the ordinary human consciousness is the right way towards transformation. Merely to remain in the ordinary lower consciousness and try to reject from there the wrong movements can produce no permanent or complete result. But ...
... enter into a higher consciousness than the ordinary one. Also then one feels the presence of the Divine, for the Divine is always there within and above in every human being. But to divinise the human consciousness entirely needs a long time—for the whole nature from top to bottom must be transformed. Page 440 ...
... from his own divine viewpoint. There is not the absolute supramental harmony and certitude. These are some of the differences. I speak of these planes in themselves—for when they act in the human consciousness, they are necessarily much diminished in their working, for they have to work with and depend on the human instrumentation or man's smaller seeking mental intelligence, his passionate turbid ...
... is to the Shaivas. Both are Page 155 cosmic Personalities of the Divine and both like Brahma have their original plane in the Overmind, although they take different forms to the human consciousness in the mental, vital and subtle physical planes. Lakshmi is usually golden, not white. Saraswati is white. The snake is simply a symbol of Energy or Power. Narayana in your dream is clearly ...
... the minds and bodies of her Vibhutis, even as she prepares and shapes minds and bodies for the Vibhutis of the Ishwara, that she may manifest in the physical world and in the disguise of the human consciousness some ray of her power and quality and presence. All the scenes of the earth-play have been like a drama arranged and planned and staged by her with the Page 16 cosmic Gods for her ...
... them from the outside world. We act according to the Light within us and for the Truth that we are striving to establish in this earthly Nature. 11 December 1933 Page 116 The human consciousness is made of many materials and all cannot bear quickly a constant spiritual endeavour—they have to be trained, enlightened, changed in their habits. That is why the Mother and I always give time ...
... Yoga, Sadhana, Dhyana Yoga is union with the Divine, sadhana is what you do in order to unite with the Divine. You have to get away from the ordinary human consciousness and get into touch with the divine Consciousness. For that call always on the Mother, open yourself to her, aspire and pray for her Force to work in you so as to make you fit—reject desire ...
... multiply himself like the protoplasm, because the One Jivatman is the same in all, hence the fundamental similarity of consciousness in all beings; in one sense He seems to divide himself like the human consciousness because He is the unit & all seem to be partial expressions of the comprehensive unit; again he seems to add pieces of Himself together, because you the consciousness who are He add yourself ...
... self-vision and all-vision of Surya. THE LAW OF THE TRUTH The face of this Truth is covered as with a brilliant shield, as with a golden lid; covered, that is to say, from the view of our human consciousness. For we are mental beings and our highest ordinary mental sight is composed of the concepts and percepts of the mind, which are indeed a means of knowledge, rays of the Truth, but not in their ...
... promptings, as if the Inconscient itself were secretly informed or impelled by a Power with a direct and absolute knowledge; its acts of creation are infinitely surer than the workings of our human consciousness at its best or the normal workings of the Life-power. Matter, or rather the Energy in Matter seems to have a more certain knowledge, a more infallible operation of its own and its mechanism once ...
... the being in all its progressive stages of conscious activity. The effort is opposed by the Gods who preside over the universe of man and of the world and a violent struggle takes place in the human consciousness between the individual soul in its egoistic eagerness and the universal Powers which seek to fulfil the divine purpose of the Cosmos. The seer Agastya at such a moment confronts in his inner ...
... truth and error, good and evil is a fact of our experience, but it is similarly a by-product, it is not a permanent factor native to existence; for it is true only of the valuations made by the human consciousness, true only of our partial knowledge and partial ignorance. Truth is relative to us because our knowledge is surrounded by ignorance. Our exact vision stops short at outside appearances which ...
... sometimes false lights that can at best only serve for a while or serve a little and for the rest either detain or confuse us. The guiding law of spiritual experience can only come by an opening of human consciousness to the Divine Consciousness; there must be the power to receive in us the working and command and dynamic presence of the Divine Shakti and surrender ourselves to her control; it is that surrender ...
... with each other and there is not the pure action of any one of them anywhere. It is their confused and inconstant interaction that Page 99 determines the experiences of the egoistic human consciousness swinging in Nature's uncertain balance. The sign of the immersion of the embodied soul in Prakriti is the limitation of consciousness to the ego. The vivid stamp of this limited consciousness ...
... a more luminously conscious action, would be assigned to the same category. The animal, in whom there is this less developed force of consciousness, is prior in creation; the more developed human consciousness, in which there is a greater force of kinetic mind energy and light of perception, is a later creation. The Tantra Page 869 speaks of a soul fallen from its status passing through ...
... and whether purity, calm and freedom in the spirit be Page 48 our aim or puissance, joy and perfection, Sachchidananda is the unknown, omnipresent, indispensable term for which the human consciousness, whether in knowledge and sentiment or in sensation and action, is eternally seeking. The universe and the individual are the two essential appearances into which the Unknowable descends and ...
... ego-prisoned soul is full of many incapacities; wrong knowledge is accompanied by wrong will, wrong tendencies and impulses of the being, and the acute sense of this wrongness is the root of the human consciousness of sin. This deficiency of its nature it tries to set right by standards of conduct which will help it to remove the egoistic consciousness and satisfactions of sin by the egoistic consciousness ...
... is the sole true supermanhood and the Page 1105 one real possibility of a step forward in evolutionary Nature. This new status would indeed be a reversal of the present law of human consciousness and life, for it would reverse the whole principle of the life of the Ignorance. It is for the taste of the Ignorance, its surprise and adventure, one might say, that the soul has descended into ...
... the needed fullness and power of the integral perfection. The range of knowledge covered by the supramental thought, experience and vision will be commensurate with all that is open to the human consciousness, not only on the earthly but on all planes. It will however act increasingly in an inverse sense to that of the mental thinking and experience. The centre of mental thinking is the ego, the person ...
... creative. Magnificent. Only, it comes and goes, comes and goes.... And when you go out of it, you have the impression of falling into a horrible pit—our ordinary consciousness (I mean the ordinary human consciousness) is a horrible pit. But we also know why it had to be momentarily that way, for it was necessary in order to go from this to that: everything that happens is necessary for the full development ...
... reason, in order to... to assure me the utmost peace possible in my relations with people. I can't explain it. Things are essentially what they are supposed to be, but the problem is this human consciousness, which is so... (what's the word?), so thin: it lacks something, which prevents us from seeing things as they really are, or feeling them as they really are. As for hearing, I've noticed one ...
... productiveness, for it is rich with the power of a consciousness more than human. Even at the age of five she was aware that she did not belong to this world, that she did not have a merely human consciousness. Her Yoga may be said to have begun in that early period. Her parents had a small chair, with a little back, made for her - she would sit in it and meditate. She used to see a column of light ...
... recrudescence of man's ignorance but the attempt to begin a new era of changeless horror and terror, the most monstrous onslaught made from Preternature to found here the empire of Satanism. The human consciousness is well-nigh dead in those who embody the preternatural hierarchy - for the simple reason that the human has become as good as possessed. And because Page 37 ...
... putting the matter would be to say: "Chaitanya was an emanation of Sri Krishna and manifested not only the Lord himself but also an extreme relationship of the psychic-emotional being in the human consciousness with the Lord." 4.After the incarnation of the Supermind, the Bliss-Self has to be incarnated — but not necessarily in a new Avatar. The Supramental Avatar can serve in the future as the ...
... women but a new type that is complete in itself, superior to sex-divisions, sex-hungers, a being that holds the essential truth and not the accidental vitalism of both the sexes in a more than human consciousness lit up with an indivisible Ananda. Anatole France in his own non-supramental way sums up the soul of la belle France so far as literary expression is concerned. And Anatole France himself can ...
... national Being. And the implication is perfectly justified. In point of fact, Page 18 this Being is so far the only supra-individual entity that has concretely emerged in human consciousness. The sense of the Supreme Divine may be very strong in individuals, it may even be an effective force in certain human collectivities or nations, but not every collectivity or nation possesses ...
... "body" was meant the physical instrument of even the sadhaks and not simply of the Master and the Mother. A letter of Sri Aurobindo on January 14, 1932 has the phrase: "... I want to divinise the human consciousness, to bring down the Supramental, the Truth-Consciousness, the Light, the Force into the physical to transform it..." Again, a letter of September 5,1935, which couples the Mother with Sri Aurobindo ...
... has for some thousands of years been attempting obstinately & with passion to discover that Truth by the very means which the Sruti has forbidden. Such error is natural and inevitable to the human consciousness. For the Angel in man is one who has descended out of light & bliss into the darkness, twilight and half light here, the darkness Page 78 of matter, the twilight of vital consciousness ...
... mind of these things with mentally self-conscious personality. Intelligence, we think, presupposes someone who is intelligent, an ego who possesses & uses this intelligence. An examination of human consciousness shows that this association is an error. Intelligence possesses us, not we intelligence; intelligence uses us, not we intelligence. The mental ego in man is a creation & instrument of intelligence ...
... feet are plunged in the abyss of the Page 287 material Inconscience. Consciousness emerging in the universe of life and mind is the bridge and link between the two poles. But our human consciousness is a term in the chain which is aware only of itself and sees all the rest in its own terms; it cannot identify itself with the other links and misses their significance and their purpose. It ...
... scenario for a film (it's remarkable). She has read me half of it (really remarkable), and she's just read a description of the vital world, of life.... Mon petit, it's certainly beyond the human consciousness: it's the consciousness of a vital being that can write that—it gave me a fever. It's gone; now it's Page 30 completely gone, but it gave me a fever. And I didn't feel any discomfort ...
... February Mother’s Agenda 1972-1973 February 10, 1972 ( A note from Mother ) Human consciousness is so corrupt that people prefer the misery and ignorance of the ego to the luminous joy that comes from sincere surrender to the Divine. Their blindness is so great that they refuse even to attempt the experience and prefer to be subjected to the misery ...
... interesting thing (it's obvious, but...)... for those capable of rising to that Consciousness, it's an interesting experience to have: as soon as you go beyond the region of even the highest human consciousness, once you are above, all spirit of revenge and punishment ABSOLUTELY disappears—absolutely It's impossible to feel it. It's... it seems to be a false way of reacting: instead of healing, you ...
... course, that's what I've just told you: everything is falling apart—everything and everybody. It's a fact—well, that fact is there to tell us, "This is what must cease to be." For the ordinary human consciousness, that's the reality—well, it's not true, that's all. We just have to tell ourselves it's not true. I mean, for example, what I have written is no longer a living reality for me. Yes, ...
... is a very special vibration unlike anything other than itself. It is something that widens you, that fills you—that is so fervent! It is certainly, of all the movements within the reach of human consciousness, the one that draws you the most out of your ego. And when it can be a gratitude without motive, that vibration (basically, the vibration of what exists towards the Cause of existence)... ...
... plunged straight down into a black hole. And then that sense of powerlessness, of knowing nothing—you don't know where to go, you don't know what to do. It was... And it is THE ORDINARY STATE OF HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS—the consciousness of human activity. But in my consciousness (I was shut in there, you understand), it was truly... it was almost a torture, last night; it was frightful. Page 178 ...
... PROGRESSIVE, those very crude methods will give way to more refined ones, and the world will progress without the need for such brutal oppositions. It is only because the world is in infancy and the human consciousness in its very early infancy. It's a very concrete experience. So, when the earth no longer needs to die in order to progress, there will be no more death. When the earth no longer needs to ...
... ..." It must have been the means—probably the most effective means, I don't know—to emerge from inertia, from tamas . If everything worked in that Simplicity, that perfect Quietness, well, human consciousness would be in such a state that it would have simply fallen asleep. It would have reached the state... not even of an animal, perhaps of a slumbering plant! Page 154 That must be the ...
... all the future, in all places, in everything. And He was smiling, smiling with the consciousness of that joy—it's not "joy," "joy" sounds pallid. And there was no excitement, nothing of what human consciousness mixes into these things, only... an eternal certitude, a crystal clear vision of the most MINUTE details. And all of this simultaneously, just like that, with a smile. And... although I can't ...
... depending upon what men have understood, desired, hoped for or dreamed; how he was materialistic with the materialist, and how each day he grows, draws nearer, becomes more luminous, as the human consciousness widens. Everyone is free to choose. The perfection of this endless variety of relationships between man and God throughout the history of the world is an unutterable wonder. Yet all this together ...
... the gods of the Puranas ) The gods of the Puranas are merciless gods who respect only power and have nothing of the true love, charity or profound goodness that the Divine has put into the human consciousness—and which compensate psychically for all the outer defects. They themselves have nothing of this, they have no psychic. 1 The Puranic gods have no psychic, so they act according to their power ...
... inert metal that is amassed and lifeless. Money is not meant to generate money; money should generate an increase in production, an improvement in the conditions of life and a progress in human consciousness. This is its true use. What I call an improvement in consciousness, a progress in consciousness, is everything that education in all its forms can provide—not as it's generally understood, but ...
... doubt, Savitri is not always easy to appreciate, it is mostly a new kind of poetry with a vision and language caught as if directly from hidden heights and depths and breadths of a more than human consciousness. Sri Aurobindo himself felt that it would take time to obtain wide recognition. But for an unprejudiced reader of quick, supple and penetrating imagination there is enough in it of recognisable ...
... whose reflective activity is concerned with the obvious world of common sense. If we turn such a person into a supreme standard we shall overlook three-fourths of the valuable activity of the human consciousness. The reflective Page 13 adult could never be a Plato considering the obvious world of common sense as no ultimate reality but the poor image of an eternal and ideal Beauty that ...
... ss of the truth that, though social reformism is a fine passion, it cannot be the centre and core of man's upward endeavour. The main purpose of true religion is a change of the merely human consciousness into a divine consciousness by a progressive practice of the presence of God. Only when that presence is inwardly realised can social pestilences like Untouchability be radically removed ...
... few rooms on the first floor. He never left those premises and showed himself only rarely to people for a darshan . What he was trying to accomplish was nothing short of a transformation of human consciousness. His partner in this endeavour, the Mother, who outlived him by almost twenty-five years, is also buried in that twin samadhi . The shrine is the hub of all the activities in a very modern ...
... between yoga and psychology can be seen here because psychology, from the viewpoint of yoga, is the science which deals with the nature of consciousness and the method of transforming the ordinary human consciousness into the divine consciousness. The second object of yoga - the liberation of the soul or the self - is related to what in psychology is called identification. In the ordinary consciousness, the ...
... following this method. Hardly a month had passed since the declaration of the Great War when I heard elderly people, rich in knowledge, affirm that the World War was but the unhealed sore in the human consciousness and the appearance of the Arya was destined to heal the sore. At the time, I could not grasp all that clearly. One day at the beginning of September I took up a copy of the first issue of ...
... Integral Yoga? Sadhana is the practice, system, method by which one tries to attain spiritual perfection. It may be called also the process of Yoga — Yoga meaning the union of the human consciousness with the Divine. The Integral Yoga sets before the sadhak, the doer of sadhana, a full and complete aim. The fullness and completeness may be viewed from several standpoints. ...
... functions with an instinct of divinity and that, even in letting itself be driven by considerations which it knows to be undivine, recognises the "ought" from which it deviates. Not that the human consciousness can always in its idealistic operation claim possession of the infallible divine rule; but the feeling that there is a supreme Reality faultlessly guided by its own Truth-light and that we are ...
... His life was too deeply inward. He has compassed all the traditional Yogas with their experiences and realisations. His stupendous endeavour was to bring the hitherto Unmanifest into the human consciousness and to establish it on the earth. So, about his passing, Sethna says: "No Yogi dies in the ordinary meaning of the word: his consciousness always exceeds the formula of the physical body ...
... regarded the emergence of thought and reason in an animal world as an absurdity and a chimera. It is the same now with the appearance of supermind in the stumbling mentality of the world of human consciousness and its reasoning ignorance.” (LY 8-9) For if “all evolution is in essence a heightening of the force of consciousness in the manifest being” (LD 720), why should it stop at humanity? That ...
... time a graded world is mentioned seems to have been by Homer, who’s golden chain reaches from God’s throne down to the meanest worm. Plato, drawing his inspiration from Pythagoras, divided the human consciousness into three levels. The lowest was the desire soul, corresponding to the material and vegetative vital plane centered around the navel and below; higher up, purely vital and partially psychic ...
... the precursor to an afterlife experience, claiming that the NDE cannot be adequately explained by physiological or psychological causes, and that the phenomenon conclusively demonstrates that human consciousness can function independently of brain activity. Many NDE-accounts seem to include elements which, according to several theorists, can only be explained by an out-of-body consciousness. For example ...
... however, depends on ourselves.” A more realistic Vaclav Havel, prominent Czech intellectual and politician, has said when addressing the USA Congress: “Without a worldwide revolution in the human consciousness nothing will change for the better.” This agrees with Sri Aurobindo’s declaration that “an inner change is needed in human nature,” and that “if this is not the solution, then there is no solution ...
... of humanity and open the Way that Avatarhood has any meaning.” 7 “The Avatar is not supposed to act in a non-human way – he takes up human action and uses human methods with the human consciousness in front and the Divine behind. If he did not his taking a human body would have no meaning and would be of no use to anybody. He could just as well have stayed above and done things from there ...
... seem to go behind the veil and leave nothing in front except a dull blank, filled, if at all, only with recurrent attacks and difficulties. These alternations are the result of the nature of human consciousness and are not a proof of unfitness or of predestined failure. One has to be prepared for them and pass through. They are the “day and night” of the Vedic mystics. As for surrender, everyone ...
... persist in bunching the same thorns and no others. In other words, I Page 65 insisted, as Gurudev pointed out in a long letter, "on the Divine becoming human and remaining in the human consciousness" and withal protested "against any attempt to make the human divine". And that is why this "bleeding piece of earth", human nature, has bled stanchlessly since the dawn of time and God ...
... Beings are as real and more permanently real than the men they influence, but they belong to a higher plane, are part of the cosmic consciousness and being and act here on earth by shaping the human consciousness on which they exercise their influence. Page 188 It is natural for man who sees only his own consciousness individual, national or racial at work and does not see what ...
... earth as a whole. Yet I cannot say how long it lasted nor what area it covered, that I don’t know. I only remember the condition, the state of material Nature and what the human form and the human consciousness were like then, and this kind of harmony with all the other elements on earth: harmony with the animal life and such a great harmony with the life of the plants. There was a kind of spontaneous ...
... objective tests. Physical life suffers from the experience of dualities like heat and cold, hunger and thirst, pain and pleasure, attractions and repulsions etc. which are so true to ordinary human consciousness but there is the subjective way of evading or escaping them by complete detachment and living in the spirit. The spiritualists claim that theirs is an abiding and eternal reality while matter ...
... manifestation of this gnostic or supramental consciousness, we have nothing to worry. Mind and mental principle have operated for millions of years without being able to check the downward trend of human consciousness. But the supreme truth consciousness will be able to achieve it in course of a few hundred years which is nothing compared to the age of earth-history. In the meantime, we must also evolve and ...
... Ibid., pp. 133-34. (Italics ours) Page 354 material world is rigid by nature, there transformation is slow, very slow, almost imperceptible for the measure of time as human consciousness perceives it, so that there is a constant lack of balance between the outer and the inner movement. It is this lack of balance, this incapacity of the outer form to follow the movement of ...
... readily value, being led away by the vital glamour, but which the Heavens do not reject though it is offered from something so far below them, so maimed and ignorant and sorrow-vexed as the human consciousness which is to the divine consciousness as the moth is to the star, as the night is to the day. And will you not accept this from me, you, who in your nature are kin to the Heavens, you, who seem ...
... by suffering. Why? This world is impermanent and all is passing. Love in its essence and origin is eternal, but the forms in which it manifests on earth are impermanent. It is this in the human consciousness that veils the felicity inherent in love. 29 December 1966 ...
... supreme consciousness where there is no suffering, in her supreme knowledge and consciousness, she could not have any contact with human beings. It is for this that she is obliged to take on the human consciousness and form: to be able to enter into contact with them. 1 – The Mother ‘Siddhi Day’ ‘In 1926 I had begun a sort of overmental creation,’ said the Mother, ‘that is, I had brought ...
... by the power of crashing circumstances. So, wake up and collaborate! The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: Human Unity Here the Mother's words are quite apt: A change in human consciousness will make possible the manifestation upon earth of a higher Force, a purer Light, a more total Truth. The Mother, Words of the Mother - III: Human Unity The project of the International ...
... difference between a vibratory movement circulating within an IDENTICAL field of action, and a movement from an outside source, touching you and getting a reaction (this is the usual state of human consciousness). But once the consciousness is identified with the Supreme, all movements are, so to speak, inner—inner in the sense that nothing comes from outside; there are only things circulating, Page ...
... is invariably catastrophic. Whatever it anticipates is always for the worst—the pettiest, meanest, nastiest kind of worst—always the worst. It's... really, it's the most sickening condition human consciousness and matter can be in. Well, I have been swimming in it for months, and my way of being in it is to go through every possible illness and to have every possible physical aggravation, one after ...
... distinguish one from the other, still more impossible to disentangle them and put an end to an embrace which has the horror of a pitiless struggle, all the more keen because veiled, especially in human consciousness where the conflict changes into an anguish for knowledge, for power, for conquest,—a combat obscure and painful, all the more atrocious because it seems to be without issue, but capable of a ...
... human misery remains lamentably the same. It will always be so, as long as man remains what he is, blind and ignorant, closed to all spiritual reality. A transformation, an illumination of the human consciousness alone can bring about a real amelioration in the condition of humanity. Thus even from the standpoint of human life, it follows logically that the first duty of man is to seek and possess the ...
... 230 The only hope is in the capacity of the invisible Power! Only the supreme consciousness can have an effect on your Karma and this consciousness is independent, above all human consciousness. The Supreme Power is taking up all the movements. It will turn them into the Truth. No effort is needed, no aid from the mind or any of the instruments, even the individual consent is ...
... for others that makes you happy: for you receive the love that you give from the Divine, who loves eternally and unfailingly. 20 March 1967 All the forms that love has taken in the human consciousness on earth are but awkward attempts, deformed and incomplete, to find once again true Love. 23 March 1967 True love has no need of reciprocation; there can be no reciprocation because ...
... Complete self-surrender without any reservation. Patient work on oneself and at the same time a steady conquering of perfect unshakable peace and equanimity. 4 February 1932 Our human consciousness has windows that open on the Infinite but generally men keep these windows carefully shut. They have to be opened wide and allow the Infinite freely to enter into us and transform us. Two ...
... from a practical standpoint, the solution is that the part of humanity expressing this Error in its life and its consciousness should ... or to put it another way, that part of humanity, of the human consciousness, capable of uniting with the Supermind and of liberating itself, will be completely transformed. This humanity is moving towards a future reality not yet expressed in its outer form. Whereas ...
... June 1958 (?) Note written by Mother. We are preparing upon earth the connecting-point, that point of communication and junction between the mental and terrestrial human consciousness and the supramental and superhuman Consciousness. It is a whole intermediate world that is being worked out, a new creation manifesting and materializing. In order to be realized here upon ...
... manifestation of the supreme Will expressing itself individually, consciously. But in the normal human state this is something extremely exceptional which to Page 87 the ordinary human consciousness does not seem at all natural—it seems almost supernatural! Man questions himself because the mental instrument is intended to see all possibilities. And the immediate consequence of this is ...
... Is it good to break all moral and social conventions as the new generation is doing? Don't these things have any value? What has value at one period no longer has any at another as human consciousness goes on progressing. But one must take great care to replace a law one no longer obeys by a higher and truer law that fosters progress towards the future realisation. Page 257 One ...
... e them. To the human way of understanding, the world is terribly immoral, full of suffering and ugliness, especially since the appearance of the human race. So it is difficult for the human consciousness to accept that this world could be the work of a personal God, because for man it seems to be the work of an omnipotent monster. Page 260 But Sri Aurobindo adds that it is better ...
... mischance; then He sees He is found out and takes His ghosts and bugbears away from me. With sparkling humour Sri Aurobindo endeavours to make us understand the falsehood of the ordinary human consciousness and the luminous and all-powerful joy of the Divine Consciousness we must acquire. 18 April 1970 ...
... And everything is getting clear. We shall see. ( Long silence ) It was relatively quick. ( Silence ) Well... Page 232 That is to say, it is now possible for every human consciousness with a little faith to come out of this hypnotism of the mind? Yes, yes, exactly so. Exactly so. Exactly so. Page 233 × ...
... of the entire earth; but I can't say how long it lasted or what area it covered—I don't know. I only remember the conditions at that time, the state of material Nature and the human form and human consciousness, and this state of harmony with all the other elements of the earth: harmony with animal life and a great harmony with plant life—there was a kind of spontaneous knowledge of how to use the things ...
... all humanity, or even for greater realizations, but anyhow it amounts to the same thing. That seems to be the condition for surrendering (!) To emerge from that, one must emerge from the human consciousness, that is, from the active, acting consciousness. It's so strong that if anyone dares say that the world and all creations exist for the Divine's satisfaction, it immediately raises a violent ...
... has when one is a man and endeavors to come into contact with the higher consciousness (the contact one has with it), if you compare that with this Consciousness, you feel that as soon as the human consciousness tried to contact higher things, to purify lower movements, to widen, it used to become... fluid, transparent, ethereal, whereas this Consciousness, with a vision, a perception INFINITELY SUPERIOR ...
... know what's happening, I want to be conscious of what's happening, I want to see what's happening." So that's what pulled the Force. A simple thing. It seems to me there is a progress in human consciousness—that's my impression. There is an awakening. Then Mother goes into a long concentration I have seen something.... In its totality, it is luminous, but not radiant; it's extremely ...
... they deserve no credit for it, it's not their exclusive property! So they cut the connection and become instruments of disorder and confusion. This one, the Lord of Falsehood.... To the human consciousness, those things are terrible, but seen from up above, they make you smile. I remember, when I met him during the war (I had ruined his work with Hitler, then I met him), I told him, "You know quite ...
... progressively and increasingly pointless, it will disappear quite naturally, and progress, instead of taking place in effort and struggle will begin to take place harmoniously. That's what the human consciousness envisions as a divine creation on earth—it will still be only a stage. But to the present stage, it's a sort of harmonious culmination that will change universal progress (which is constant) ...
... of the Inquisition, but also in political cases (much more recently, probably). Real tortures, you know, those inventions in which men are worse than monsters—no animal is more monstrous than human consciousness like that.... And it came back with the "law," the principle of the thing, of the distortion of consciousness, and once I had understood, I looked at myself (I was wondering, "Why? Why is my ...
... true "I" is watching to see if it corresponds to a concrete reality).... From a quite external and ordinary point of view (and it's not like that, it's not SEEN like that), but expressed in the human consciousness, those are ambitions caused by the fact that the material age is increasing ( Mother has just turned 89 ) and so one may foresee ... ( laughing ) my disappearance. It's very amusing. But I'll ...
... ) I had the experience without swallowing the medicine! Simply because the consciousness was turned to that. 3 But then, I understood! And those people imagine it's a way to "develop human consciousness" and open up "unknown horizons".... The effect (now I am absolutely sure of it) is the dislocation of the being's equilibrium. To me, it's very sensitive, because the equilibrium is very conscious ...
... sheer Being (Vijna-na, Ananda, Chit-Tapas and Sat). I may add that the lower hemisphere consists of two parts: the universe of Ignorance and the universe of Knowledge. The emergence of the human consciousness from the one into the other is spoken of in the Savitri-line I have quoted. "Knowledge" here means the inherent experience of the one Self in all. As to your inquiry about ancient Indian ...
... the one revealed to One 's ancestors and in which one has grown up. But they overlook an important historical fact. .From time to time spiritual teachers who have entered into a more than human consciousness appear on earth. If we stick always to the religion into which we were born, no such teacher would be able to get a following. When Jesus appeared, what would have been his effect if everyone ...
... now, otherwise I might have asked you a question. Go ahead. What question? Why didn't Sri Aurobindo or you make more use of miracles as a means to overcome the resistances of the outer human consciousness? Why this self-effacement towards the outside, this sort of nonintervention, as it were, or unobstrusiveness? In Sri Aurobindo's case, I only know what he told me several times: what people ...
... same brute power, the same vital force (there's no comparison, of course, man has lost all that completely), the fantastic force of life that's found in those animals was coming back into the human consciousness and, probably, into the human form, BUT with all that has been brought by the evolution of Mind (a painful enough detour), and transformed into the light of a higher certitude and a higher peace ...
... experience. ( silence ) Page 186 And immediately after that, the certitude—so peaceful—that everything was necessary—everything, but everything: from the most marvelous for the human consciousness to the most horrible, the most repulsive—everything was necessary. But strangely, all those things, all those experiences, all that life is what becomes unreal—unreal, worse than an act you put ...
... g force. Yes, but it acts, only it's an infinitesimal action. That's why millions of years are nothing. This stagnation, for instance, exists only for our consciousness; it's because the human consciousness, after all, measures everything on its own scale. For it, the history of the earth is an infinite—it isn't so in universal history, but for the human being, the impression is of an infinite (he ...
... true atmosphere and the conventional atmosphere. But a convention that's not local or of a particular period, of a time or a place, that's not it: they are kinds of conventions CREATED by the human consciousness, which take on nuances—they are quite supple—which take on nuances and transform themselves according to the need, but they really are conventions. It seemed to me like a balloon—immense, as ...
... You must have gone through the wrong door. The wrong door? Yes ( smiling ), you have opened the wrong door. Maybe what you want to write is very human? I mean, very much in the human consciousness: the human reactions, human perceptions. Because if that's the case... I find it so useless, futile, uninteresting, absurd, and, ninety-nine times out of a hundred, untrue, false. So then, maybe ...
... ( long silence ) Love is the single, supreme means of manifestation. And Manifestation automatically implies unfolding. And this conception (because ail this is the way in which the human consciousness is able to approach things), this conception of an eternal simultaneousness—an eternal, coexistent simultaneousness—is a very clumsy and human translation of the state of nonmanifestation. Because ...
... relapse into Inconscience broken by a slow and difficult return of consciousness followed by a brief but splendid and prophetic outbreak of spiritual light leaving behind it the 'day' of ordinary human consciousness in which the prophecy has to be worked out. The whole of Savitri is, according to the title of the poem, a legend that is a symbol and this opening canto is, it may be said, a key beginning ...
... two things fundamentally — "the truth above and here below the Lila and the purpose of the incarnation or manifestation" — does "what is necessary" for them "in the way its greater than human consciousness sees to be the necessary and intended way".2 In this vision our groping hearts must find the rest they need to prepare them for a new life with the Mother. 1 On Yoga II. Tome ...
... realm of truth, from religion as the realm of value, is arbitrary. What science gives is a certain type of truth: surely we cannot restrict the discovery of truth to the scientific method. The human consciousness has many modes of operation and each comes into contact with reality in a different aspect: we cannot dogmatically deny that the artistic imagination or the mystical intuition is incapable of ...
... becoming, always yet to be: the universe is never complete and new qualities keep on emerging as the patterns of nature's conditions change. Hence, though the next emergent after the present human consciousness may reasonably be supposed to be a quality higher than it, it cannot be understood within Alexander's system as anything independent of our universe's stuff of space-time. Neither can it be conceived ...
... of sight, sound, smell, taste and touch corresponds to what objectively exists? We have already indicated the direction in which the answer to the first question must lie: a more-than-human Consciousness relates itself to itself in the form of mind, life- force and matter which are all projected experience-moulds of that Consciousness. But, from the argumentative angle, no answer is immediately ...
... transcendence both of typal worlds and of travailing earth is what you have in view. Page 156 Your cry is evidently to Ahana, the God-light breaking upon the striving and aspiring human consciousness. In Sri Aurobindo's words it would run: Open the barriers of Time, the world with thy beauty enamour - Trailing behind thee the purple of thy soul and the dawn-moment's glamour ...
... days of the siddha, for which these nights and dawns of our human life are the preparatory movements." 1 We have here the picture of a divine Presence that establishes itself in the human consciousness, turning that consciousness into a figure of divinity. We have pointers to the light of a Seer-Guest being "born victorious" in one who was so far a mental creature. As a result, "fullness", ...
... verse on Surya, the Sun of Truth, Sri Aurobindo writes: "The face of this Truth is covered as with a brilliant shield, as with a golden lid; covered, that is to say, from the view of our human consciousness. For we are mental beings and our highest ordinary mental sight is composed of the concepts and percepts of the mind, which are indeed a means of knowledge, rays of the Truth, but not in their ...
... into Inconscience broken by a slow and difficult return of consciousness followed by a brief but splendid and prophetic outbreak of spiritual light leaving behind it the "day" of ordinary human consciousness in which the prophecy has to be worked out. The whole of Savitri is, according to the title of the poem, a legend that is a symbol and this opening canto is, it may be said, a key beginning ...
... knowledge for himself, who enters the dark caves of inconscient being with the light and knowledge of the superconscient realms, the missioned spirit striving to transform the very texture of the human consciousness so that Sachchidananda may have here its abode. Truth expresses itself to the limited human understanding through 8 Ibid, p. 161. Page 412 both myth and symbol ...
... relapse into Inconscience broken by a slow and difficult return of consciousness followed by a brief but splendid and prophetic outbreak of spiritual light leaving behind the "day" of ordinary human consciousness in which the prophecy has to be worked out. 2 This 'relapse into Inconscience' is, as K. D. Sethna points out, in some way figured each night by the earth's passage through darkness, ...
... as yet unfathomable for the average human mind of today. The knowledge he has utilised as the basis of that poetry is the Yogic knowledge which has yet not become the common possession of human consciousness. That poetry will be appreciated better when, some time in future, humanity — or at least a part of it — has received glimpses of those invisible yet very real occult worlds. But let ...
... Avyakta 4.Parabrahma — the Highest 5.Higher than the Highest — the Unknowable. The fourth and the fifth stages can hardly be described by words and can hardly be understood in the human consciousness but with Sri Aurobindo it is different. The Traveller had to pass through all these stages, and finally reach the culmination of this phase. His soul now reached the boundless silence ...
... 489 The canvas of Savitri is as wide as the cosmos and takes into its purview worlds of being that are connected with humanity. These worlds or planes of existence do act upon human consciousness. They also include higher planes of consciousness which have not yet manifested here but which are pressing upon the earth-consciousness for manifestation. The soul of aspiring humanity symbolised ...
... should he pass through the same process of sadhana as an ordinary sadhak? The Avatar is not supposed to act in a non-human way—he takes up human action and uses human methods with the human consciousness in front and the Divine behind. If he did not his taking a human body would have no meaning and would be of no use to anybody. He could just as well have stayed above and done things from there ...
... dawn that was always there, hidden in the dark. Seated Above will bear other interpretations than the one attempted above. Because its images and symbols are deeply rooted in human consciousness, all credible interpretations must cohere and coalesce for their mutual enrichment. Poems like Seated Above and Earth's Roof (and many others which cannot be looked at in detail in ...
... She was destined, in this earth-drama of evolution, to play the role of Prakriti to her Purusha, Radha to her Krishna and Savitri to her Satyavan. She is the Mediator between the light and the human consciousness bringing her Force to the disciples who could bear its Light and Power. 1. Nirodbaran and Deshpande, R.Y., Ed. Amal-Kiran : Poet and Critic, Pondicherry: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, ...
... of our outer nature, earth and humanity can come in some palpable touch of His Love, Light, Peace, Strength, Sweetness and Bliss. For is not Sri Aurobindo's yoga essentially about making the human consciousness a bridge through which the heavenly goods can be brought down upon earth: What would be the use of man if he were not created to throw a bridge between That which is eternally but is ...
... following this method. Hardly a month had passed since the declaration of the great War when I heard elderly people, rich in knowledge, affirm that the World War was but the unhealed sore in the human consciousness and the appearance of the Arya was destined to heal the sore. I could not grasp all that clearly then. One day at the beginning of September I tool up a copy of the first issue of the Arya ...
... each other and there is not the pure action of any one of them anywhere. It is their confused and inconstant interaction that Page 113 determines the experiences of the egoistic human consciousness swinging in Nature's uncertain balance. The Synthesis of Yoga, pp. 91-92 No existence is cast entirely in the single mould of any of these three modes of the cosmic Force; all ...
... which leads it up to the human state and evolves through it all a being of itself which we call the psychic being that supports the evolution and develops a physical, a vital, a mental human consciousness as its instruments of world-experience and of a disguised, imperfect, but growing self-expression. 21 A distinction must be made also between the true soul (psychic being) and the ...
... from the state of detachment or no identification. It [consciousness] is not by its nature detached from the mental and other activities. It can be detached, it can be involved. In the human consciousness it is as a rule always involved, but it has developed the power of detaching itself—a thing which the lower creation seems unable to do. As the consciousness develops, this power of detachment ...
... Savitri - Part 2 Savitri, the Mother 1 THE cup has to be emptied again and again if it is to be filled with ever-new riches. The vessel of the human consciousness has to be kept free and ready for the advent of the felicities of the higher altitudes of being. For what prevents the inflow of the Higher Consciousness into the Lower is precisely the spirit ...
... The Mother: Neither one nor the other in their apparent contradiction created by the separate consciousness, but something else which our words cannot express. In the present state of human consciousness, it is good for it to think that aspiration and human effort can hasten the advent of the divine transformation, because aspiration and effort are needed for the transformation to occur. ...
... productiveness, for it is rich with the power of a consciousness more than human. Even at the age of five she was aware that she did not belong to this world, that she did not have a merely human consciousness. Her Yoga may be said to have begun in that early period. Her parents had a small chair, with a little back, made for her—she would sit in it and meditate. She used to see a column of light above ...
... the reasons of differences. There will be no action where there is knowledge of only unity. True action is possible by reading the truth of all activities by means of the higher consciousness. Human consciousness is limited and therefore called ignorance. The higher consciousness is bound to grow. 26 October 1924 In meditation, the light that I experienced here last year repeats itself. The only ...
... peace can be realised upon earth. All means are welcome although the exterior ones have a very limited effect. But the most important, urgent and indispensable of all is a transformation of the human consciousness itself, an enlightenment and a conversion in its workings. Meanwhile some exterior steps may be taken usefully and the acceptance of the principle of double nationality is one of them. ...
... illuminating writings has left to the world a vast mass of his actually experienced living knowledge, which is a priceless treasure for all who want to tread the path of the evolution of human consciousness. He was a ceaseless explorer, not only delving deep into the "past dawns" but also lifting the veils that withhold our vision of the "noons of the future." He stands out, therefore, as a Supreme ...
... and accepts all things to transmute them in their divine stuff and forms. In the vision of Sri Aurobindo, the advent of the divine superman would mean a reversal of the present law of human consciousness and life. The divine superman Page 18 does not reject Matter and physical life, although he transforms it. One realizes that the soul has descended into the Inconscient and assumed ...
... of the Tantra, its initial stress falls upon the methods of the Veda, the Upanishads and the Gita. As a result, in Sri Aurobindo's synthesis of yoga, raising of the powers of the human Page 81 consciousness towards their heights is sought to be effected by the operation of the Purusha consciousness or Brahman consciousness; and as the yogic processes progress farther, the principle of ...
... could promote the growth of gnostic society where the needs of the individuals and needs of collectivity can be perfectly synchronized. Page 116 PKSP stated that unless the present human consciousness undergoes a change, we cannot bring about any real change in the society. He felt that there is a need of total revolution, both individual and collective. He asked whether such a total change ...
... claims of Yoga are truly valid and whether they can be found to be sustainable. It has been contended that Yoga has discovered and perfected certain specific methods by application of which human consciousness can be so revolutionised that the ordinary functioning of the human body, human heart, and human mind can be united with superior faculties of knowledge and action, and ultimately the human being ...
... perfecting human faculties so as to raise them up to the qualities and Powers represented by the godheads. Perfectibility of the human being and attainment of immortality by enlarging the domains of human consciousness into the corresponding cosmic domains and even by reaching the transcendental Being through supreme experiences of love, joy, power, peace, knowledge and Page 81 ineffable Presence ...
... the evolutionary processes of Ignorance. Page 41 Ignorance and Identification: Analysis of Ego-Sense: Surface Consciousness, Subconscious and Subliminal 33 In the human consciousness, there are several knots of identification, but the principal knot of identification is that of the self with the non-self. This identification becomes more and more visible with the growth of ...
... reopen even though they should constantly shut. But to dwell there permanently on this last and highest summit of the created and creative being is in the end the supreme ideal for our evolving human consciousness when it seeks not self-annulment but self-perfection." 5 Page 2 ...
... to time independently of each other or with predominance of one line of development in comparison with others. Of these four, the first three are approaches to the spiritual evolution of the human consciousness and being, but the last is the central avenue of entry. Religion It is difficult to define religion, considering that it is seen to have been manifested in various forms and at various ...
... in the Vedas and the Upanishads. Nonetheless, to learn that the Supramental was discovered by the Vedic Rishis and that they had developed profound psychological discipline of the ascent of human consciousness and of the descent of the divine consciousness so as to facilitate the discovery of the Supermind must be considered to be of inestimable value. In the development of knowledge, past gains ...
... spiritual education rests upon three important considerations: (a) education should provide to the individual a steady exploration of something that is inmost in the psychological complexity of human consciousness; (b) the most important human question of human life is to consider the aim of human life and the aim of one's own life and one's own position and role in the society; and this question can best ...
... There is not the absolute supramental harmony and certitude. These, inadequately expressed, are some of the differences. I speak, of course, of these planes in themselves — when acting in the human consciousness they are necessarily much diminished in their working by having to depend on the human instrumentation of mind, vital and physical. Only when these are quieted, they get a fuller force and reveal ...
... This scientific application constitutes the central principle of yoga. For the development of yoga depends on a scrupulous examination of the level at which evolution has reached in our present human consciousness and whether the psychological workings of the human being can be so handled that the causes of the slowness of the natural functionings can be eliminated for the purposes of introducing into ...
... In fact, death, they found, is intimately connected with the phenomena of desire and incapacity. These phenomena, death, desire and incapacity, are directly linked with the finiteness of human consciousness. The mark of finiteness, they discovered, was the rigid confinement to the apprehension of multiplicity of formations accompanied by the absence of the comprehension of the unity and transcendence ...
... into ascending grades of form and consciousness as its machinery. Indeed the process of rebirth is invisible, and it can be discerned only by a very close observation of the phenomena of human consciousness and its gradual evolution. Each grade of cosmic manifestation, each type of form that can house the indwelling soul, is turned by rebirth into a means for the individual soul, and the psychic ...
... concentrated in the Divine Unity and in the working out of the Divine Will, not dispersed and rushing about after this or that mental idea or vital desire or physical need as is the ordinary human consciousness - also not invaded by a hundred haphazard thoughts. feelings and impulses, but master of itself, centred and harmonious." (Letters on Yoga. Cent. Ed ., p. 744 ) Yes, "consciousness ...
... a loud pitch and thereby disturbs our discussion. I appeal to the tiny tot four or five times to stop crying or to go away from our classroom. But the boy, being a sample of egoistic human consciousness, has already developed a budding personal vanity and self-importance and does not want to tolerate any contradiction coming from any quarter. Its spontaneous tendency is to oppose it. It has ...
... naughty because he learns to be ashamed of being naughty, not because he is afraid of punishment. In the first case, he makes true progress. In the second, he falls one step down in human consciousness, for fear is a degradation of consciousness." (Ibid., p. 364) Page 121 The last two sayings of the Mother sum up everything essential in the matter and let us close this ...
... determine the directions and contents of education. Today humanity is gripped by three pulls and counter-pulls and the resultant situation is so difficult that nothing short of change in human consciousness can lift up humanity from its crisis. On the one hand, there is a downward gravitation; on the other hand, there is a pull towards horizontal development, and there is still a higher pull of ...
... establish the impartial outlook and attitude of a witness? Will it not be a contradiction in terms? No, it will not be so; and therein lies a mystery of the occult functioning of the human consciousness. Sri Aurobindo has explained this phenomenon in great detail in the chapter "Knowledge by Identity and Separative Knowledge" of The Life Divine. Here is a relevant portion of what he has said ...
... minds of men and of developing not only a responsible commitment to the idea and practice of the Family of Man but also to the generation of goodwill, mutuality and harmony in the very fibres of human consciousness. There are other great pressures on humanity, — pressures of increasing population, increasing exploitation of resources, which are always limited, and increasing degradation of environment ...
... realise this goal of our Yoga and what it is that may possibly be the medium of these realising ascensions and world-possessing descents? For, in the actually elaborated evolutionary status of human consciousness, mind represents the highest cosmic principle and power of consciousness so far organised in man the mental being. But this mind-consciousness, even in its highest flights, is no more than ...
... newly manifested Force and has included it in her movements. But as always, the movements of Nature take place on a scale infinitely surpassing the human scale and invisible to the ordinary human consciousness. It is more of an inner, psychological possibility that has been born in the world than a spectacular change in earthly events. I mention this because you might be tempted to believe that ...
... debate between Page 12 Sankhya and Yoga occupies a prominent place in Sri Krishna's answer, and this prominence is due to the fact that the Sankhyan view, which aimed at lifting human consciousness from the ordinary mental consciousness to a spiritual level of consciousness, advocated the gospel of renunciation or sannyasa and advocated, therefore, the inferiority and dispensability of ...
... knowledge in the widest and integral sweep. Yoga has many gates of entry, and moral experience at an acute point of development throws up such a dilemma that the standards of conduct erected by human consciousness collide with each other so critically that one is obliged to enter into the gates of yoga in search of a true solution. When we examine the argument of Arjuna, we shall find that the crisis that ...
... in the physical is going on, cannot the mind and vital keep up their usual sadhana without getting upset by the reactions in the physical, since they are separate from it? In human consciousness they are not — they are usually all mixed up in their activities. That is the reason why the human nature is full of confusion and ignorance. If you can catch the wrong parts that ...
... Avatars did or are supposed to have done (though in that case Krishna seems to have done some very queer and undivine things). My business is with rising above the Page 250 human consciousness and not with fulfilling limited human ideals; and I look at things from that standpoint. In defence of R you gave the examples of Napoleon, Caesar and Shakespeare. But they had ...
... process of sadhana as an ordinary sadhak? Page 279 The Avatar is not supposed to act in a non-human way — he takes up human action and uses human methods with the human consciousness in front and the Divine behind. If he did not his taking a human body would have no meaning and would be of no use to anybody. He could just as well have stayed above and done things from there ...
... its work, I still feel the lower resistance. You cannot expect to get rid of it in a single day. Persistence is needed. There is an attempt to keep a part of my human consciousness on the higher plane, so that at least half of myself stays exclusively in the Mother's Consciousness and so that her Force can work freely through this part into my whole nature. ...
... cannot stand forever against this necessity and the Divine Will. Indeed, despite national rivalries and the tussle between the power blocs, the concept of 'One World' has taken root in the human consciousness in a way which would have been unthinkable fifty years ago, and the trend towards it is unmistakable. The fourth dream relates to the gift by India of her spiritual knowledge to the world ...
... Mother who from the first had this objection long before you wrote about it. She gave the juice in the quantity asked for only because R insisted on it. He adds that you come down to common human consciousness level and listen to these suggestions!! He also says you have no time to go into higher consciousness to ascertain the validity of these statements. What an imbecile! As if one could not ...
... The finite for this one moment brief drinks The Infinite. One moment only, alas! Times seizes and Space dungeons and the dream, The deep spell breaks. I am left on the grey brinks Of human consciousness weltering morass Of a blind ignorance cresseted with desire: A dark sea with a phosphorescent Fire! Page 23 ...
... opposing viewpoints and one has to choose between them. Let us briefly analyse these two basic assumptions. There is no doubt that in the present state of human consciousness power does corrupt and that consequently checks and balances have to be constantly kept in place. This has resulted in the creation of an opposition with the 1 Archives & ...
... beings are as real and more permanently real than the men they influence, but they belong to a higher plane, are part of the cosmic consciousness and being and act here on earth by shaping the human consciousness on which they exercise their influence. Each nation is a Shakti or power of the evolving spirit in humanity and lives by the principle, which it embodies. India is the ...
... straight to the thing to be done: in order to do a thing it does not make a choice between possibilities, there is no selective process in its consciousness. It is Page 117 the human consciousness alone that says, "this is not to be done, but that to be done, not this but that" or puts the question, "which one, to be or not to be?" This is what we mean by discrimination or deliberation ...
... different way. But in the world of today, after the victory in the last war over the Nazi conception of humanity, it seems as though the spirit of disruption has gone Page 158 abroad, human consciousness has been atom-bombed into flying fragments; so we have the spectacle of all manner of parochialism pullulating on the earth, 'regional and ideological —imperial blocs, nations, groups, parties ...
... Kazantzakis and Sri Aurobindo—are masters of many languages and heirs to more than one cultural tradition, and each in his magnum opus has tried to explore human history, human experience or human consciousness to the utmost possible limits. But since Sri Aurobindo as man and as thinker experienced and comprehended more, since as yogi and as philosopher he outdistanced the other two in the range of ...
... served its purpose, has become otiose and time-barred and needs to be remodelled, has been at the most preparatory to something else. The Avatar means a new revelation and the uplift of the human consciousness into a higher mode of being. The Page 4 physical form he takes signifies the physical pressure that is exerted for the corroboration and fixation of the inner illumination that ...
... his harsh divinity, Bound to his throne, he waited unappeased The daily oblation of her unwept tears. Book 1 Canto 1. The deepest and the most fundamental mystery of the human consciousness (and in fact of the earth consciousness) is not that there is an unregenerate aboriginal being there as its bed-rock, a being made of the very stuff of ignorance and inconscience and inertia ...
... doom - of great heroism and conquest and of the supreme fulfilment of human destiny. In and through this dark passage, there emerged slowly a new radiance, the advent of a new conquest for the human consciousness - the possibility of man rising from the animal to divinity. Narad himself represents a divine consummation of the human being. He is a devarshi, that is to say, he has by his tapasya and ...
... is free, in the sense that he can, at will, take a body or not take. When a psychic being incarnates, it throws itself down into inconscience, because the physical world and even a human consciousness, whatever it may be, are very unconscious in comparison Page 19 with the psychic consciousness. It is as if it fell on its head and it is stunned. Generally, but for some rare ...
... into the abiding substratum, the ineffable Absoluteness. This has been the highest consummation, the supreme goal which the purest spiritual experience and the deepest aspiration of the human consciousness generally sought to attain. Page 13 But in this view, the world or creation or Nature came in the end to be looked upon as fundamentally a product of Ignorance : ignorance and ...
... it is always the inner heart which first recognises the Divine Presence and gives its assent to the Divine action—for the mind, the higher mind that is to say, is the summit of the ordinary human consciousness and receives more easily and readily the Radiances that descend. From the Mind the Light filters into the denser regions of the emotions and desires, of life activity and vital dynamism; finally ...
... actually in life. The complexity arises not only in extension, but also in depth. Man does not live on a single plane but on many planes at the same time. There is a scale of gradation in human consciousness: the higher one rises in the scale the greater the number of elements or personalities that one possesses. Whether one lives mostly or mainly on the physical or vital or mental plane or on ...
... factor that somewhat modifies or qualifies his choice comes from the nature of the birth itself. The soul, the conscious being, precipitates into the inconscience, for the physical world, even human consciousness, at its very best, is an inconscient thing when compared to the psychic consciousness. It is as though the soul fell head downmost. That makes it dazed and for a long time it does not know ...
... vital Page 124 world; and if there is anything there of the original being, it is such a far reflection that it is hardly recognisable. And yet it is that which is pulled by the human consciousness. When, for example, an image is made and installed and the priest calls down into it a form, an emanation of a god, through an inner invocation—there is usually a whole ceremony in this connection—if ...
... similar progressive, that is, radically progressive steps or leaps are recognisable. Page 4 The ape man without tools and the first man with tools mark very different stages in human consciousness and life. And we have carried on more or less the same manner of progression till today. But against this forward movement of nature, there is a counter-pull backward. The principle of inertia ...
... its own deliverance." Page 142 in general; but it becomes dynamically true here among us where there is a conscious effort on the part of individuals to uplift and change the human consciousness. It is however the privilege of each individual to deal with one's share in the whole in one's own way, that is to say, the individual has been given the freedom and the capacity to make the ...
... into the abiding substratum, the ineffable Absoluteness. This has been the highest consummation, the supreme goal which the purest spiritual experience and the deepest aspiration of the human consciousness generally sought to attain. 1 The Dhammapada, I. 1 Page 17 But in this view, the world or creation or Nature came in the end to be looked upon as fundamentally a product ...
... become otiose and time-barred and needs to be remodelled, has been at the most preparatory to Page 26 something else. The Avatar means a new revelation and the uplift of the human consciousness into a higher mode of being. The physical form he takes signifies the physical pressure that is exerted for the corroboration and fixation of the inner illumination that he brings upon earth ...
... ess a little and you are in the very midst of the thing. Doubt, hesitation, merely casts a veil and blurs or blocks the view. God, Soul, Immortality, even these are equally available to the human consciousness in the same way. These are existences of daily use, so to say, of "common neighbourhood," in the words of the poet—home truth. A faith, necessarily a blind faith in these impossibles ...
... through the entire valley of death and rise to the topmost summit to receive and achieve the fullness of the glory. One must leave behind all the lower ranges of ignorance, the entire domain of human consciousness, come out of the imperfection Page 101 man is made of; then only will he put on the divine nature as his own body and substance. ⁂ The Cross symbolises all the ...
... a new higher status, he can turn back upon the world and bring to bear upon it the force of his progress and establish the progress more generally. This power which in the inferior human consciousness appears as mind or mental discernment is the image or delegate here below of that very force of consciousness that originally separated the world from the Divine, created the ego and placed ...
... regions are called "inspired"; persons who have made some discovery are also included in that category. Each time you are in relation with a thing belonging to a domain superior to the normal human consciousness, you are inspired. And when you are not totally bound to the very ordinary level you do receive "inspirations" from above. It is the same in the case of a poet. The source of his creation is ...
... suspension of the ratiocinative faculty, it would not mean a suspension of the mental power in itself, but rather an enhancement in a new degree. The same may happen to the other parts and planes of human consciousness and existence. Of course, if one chooses, one can sidetrack these intervening ranges of consciousness between the Spirit and Matter, and strike something like a chord line between the ...
... with all the hierarchy of beings -powers and personalities-find a new play of harmony, a supreme and global fulfilment in the transfigured human vehicle. The frame itself that encases the human consciousness acts Page 39 as a living condenser: the very contour in its definiteness seems to exert a pressure towards an ever larger and higher synthesis, or, it may be compared to a kind ...
... the whole and it was enough to dissociate, reject, sublimate the lower status and somehow rise into something which is not that (neti): the question was not important at that stage of the human consciousness about a scientific scrutiny of the Beyond, its precise constitution and composition. But once there is the possibility gained of a more normalised, familiar and wider reconnaissance of ...
... culturally anti-Latin, religiously anti-Christian. Germany cherishes always in her heart the memory of the day when her hero Arminius routed the Roman legions of Varus. Germany stands for a mode of human consciousness that is not in line with the major current of its Page 37 evolutionary growth: she harks back to something primeval, infra-rational, infra-human. Such is the position ...
... "that life is false and imperfect but we can manifest Truth and perfection here" – is possible. The Truth cannot be manifested in life here with present formulation and organisation of the human consciousness which works with mind as its chief instrument. Page 192 The mind cannot organise Truth here. But a higher formulation, organisation, of consciousness is possible here. ...
... What's the use of Dr. Manilal So-and-so living with this "I"? If in discovering your inner being, you had even died, it would have been a glorious death. DR. MANILAL: What happens when the human consciousness is replaced by the divine consciousness? SRI AUROBINDO: One feels a perpetual calm, a perpetual strength, one is aware of Infinity and lives not only in Infinity but also in Eternity. One ...
... the true or the whole being of the person, once become human, does not revert to animalhood. The animal portion in man that refuses to be taken up and integrated, sublimated into the higher human consciousness has to be satisfied and exhausted, as much as possible, in the animal way. There is also the other question asked very often whether men and women always follow different lines of growth ...
... machine, a sort of passive mirror reflecting accurately and faithfully what is presented to it. This is indeed the great revolution brought about by Science in the world of human inquiry and in human consciousness, viz., the isolation of the observer from the observed. In the old world, before Science was born, sufficient distinction or discrimination was not made between the observer and the observed ...
... and reconciliation of differences and contraries. Two major chords of life-experience that demand accord are Life and Death, Time and Eternity. Indeed, the problem of Time hangs heavy on the human consciousness. It has touched to the quick philosophers and sages in all ages and climes; it is the great question that confronts the spiritual seeker, the riddle that the Sphinx of life puts to the journeying ...
... become otiose and time-barred and needs to be remodelled, has been at the most preparatory tosomething else. Page 126 The Avatar means a new revelation and the uplift of the human consciousness into a higher mode of being. The physical form he takes signifies the physical pressure that is exerted for the corroboration and fixation of the inner illumination that he brings upon earth ...
... the whole and it was enough to dissociate, reject, sublimate the lower status and somehow rise into something which is not that (neti): the question was not important at that stage of the human consciousness about a scientific scrutiny of the Beyond, its precise constitution and composition. But once there is the possibility gained of a more normalised, familiar and wider reconnaissance of the ...
... meaning a given word conveys. Of course, double entendre or suggestiveness is a quality or capacity that all languages that claim a status must possess; it is necessary to express something of the human consciousness. Still, in French that quality has a limited, if judicious and artistic application; in English it is a wild growth. French expresses better human psychology, while meta-physical realities ...
... into the abiding substratum, the ineffable Absoluteness. This has been the highest consummation, the supreme goal which the purest spiritual experience and the deepest aspiration of the human consciousness generally sought to attain. ¹ The Dhammapada , I. 1 Page 9 But in this view, the world or creation or Nature came in the end to be looked upon as fundamentally a product ...
... suspension of the ratiocinative faculty, it would not mean a suspension of the mental power in itself, but rather an enhancement in a new degree. The same may happen to the other parts and planes of human consciousness and existence. Of course, if one chooses, one can sidetrack these intervening ranges of consciousness between the Spirit and Matter, and strike something like a chord line between the two; ...
... with all the hierarchy of beings – powers and personalities – find a new play of harmony, a supreme and global fulfilment in the transfigured human vehicle. The frame itself that encases the human consciousness acts as a living condenser: the very contour in its definiteness seems to exert a pressure towards an ever larger and higher synthesis, it may be Page 81 compared to a kind ...
... it is always the inner heart which first recognises the Divine Presence and gives its assent to the Divine action-for the mind, the higher mind that is to say, is the summit of the ordinary human consciousness and receives more easily and readily the Radiances that descend. From the Mind the Light filters into the denser regions of the emotions and desires, of life activity and vital dynamism; finally ...
... withdrawn from all other objects and is canalised along a single line. This is a kind of meditation, although it may not be usually known by that name. It marks a progress in the make-up of the human consciousness. For normally the mind moves at random, thoughts run about on many subjects, various, contrary and contradictory, from moment to moment. There is neither direction, consistency nor organisation: ...
... valued as good also. For beyond good and evil is Nature Divine. Man has to find out this divine nature and dissolve his human nature into that, remould it, reshape it in that pattern. So long as human consciousness remains too human, it will be always branded with the bar sinister of all earthly things. Man has to grow into the immortal seated within mortality, into the light that shines inviolate on the ...
... because all has gone wrong with the modern world since it lost touch with its soul and was beguiled into a path lighted by false glimmers and will-o'-the-wisps, hires of a superficial and infra-human consciousness, or into the by-ways and backwashes and aberrations of a sophisticated intellectualism. Tagore is modern, as modern as reasonably and sensibly one can be; he is a modern, but not a modernist ...
... huddled together in a case called the body, which itself is not more stable than the shifting desert sands. It is this pluralisation which has resulted in a necessary polarisation in the human consciousness. We have gained a power which was not only rare but perhaps totally absent in the old world, at least in the general mind; we have reached in a novel way that very wideness or wholeness which ...
... the whole and it was enough to dissociate, reject, sublimate the lower status and somehow rise into something which is not that (neti): the question was not important at that stage of. the human consciousness about a scientific scrutiny of the Beyond, its precise constitution and composition. But once there is the possibility gained of a more normalised, familiar and wider reconnaissance of ...
... Doraiswamy would then be a retired Paraclete? (Laughter) The Paraclete is also the Holy Ghost. What I have meant there is that thought is the intercessor between the Supreme Truth and the human consciousness. Thought flies to the Supreme Truth to connect its consciousness with the earth and after its departure all that is left behind is the Self. That is what I have meant there. SATYENDRA: The ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 1 Federated Humanity THE last great war, out of its bloody welter, threw up a mantra for the human consciousness to contemplate and seize and realise: it was self-determination. The present world-war has likewise cast up a mantra that is complementary. The problem of the unification of the whole human ...
... exploit can be ascribed to Tagore. The Spirit, the bare transcendental Reality contemplated by the orthodox Vedantins, has been Page 98 brought nearer to our planet, close to human consciousness in Tagore's vision, being clothed in earth and flesh and blood, made vivid with the colours and contours of the physical existence. The Spirit, yes and by all means, but not necessarily asceticism ...
... Tapas,— finally sattwa also changes into divine Light. As for remaining quiet when tamas is there, there can also be a tamasic quiet. During the general morning concentration, my human consciousness went deep into the inner being and began to aspire. There it felt the working of the Mother's Force which slowly became more and more intense. My body could not bear its pressure for a long time ...
... It is not really this, as Isherwood has pointed out in the New Statesman . He says that what he understands from Huxley and Heard is that they want to discover a way to change the present human consciousness by which alone the social and political problems will be solved. Somebody also said that Heard advocates Buddhist fatalism. To which Heard replied that he didn't advocate fatalism at all. Nor ...
... is the basis of the individual consciousness is seen as a serpent – a serpent coiled up and asleep, with perhaps just the head sticking up in a very somnolent manner. It represents the normal human consciousness, bottled up, narrow, ignorant, asleep; human energy, too, at this level is obscure and mechanical, extremely limited. The whole energy potential, the consciousness-force is Page 384 ...
... free, in the sense that he can, at will, take a body or not take it. When a psychic being incarnates, it precipitates itself down into the inconscience, because the physical world and even a human consciousness, whatever it may be, are very unconscious in comparison with the psychic consciousness. It is as if it fell on its head and it is stunned. Generally, but for some rare exceptions, for a long ...
... twelve dimensions in reference to the present creation. We cannot readily picture a four-dimensional object, a fifth dimension borders on the bizarre and beyond that it is all a blank to the human consciousness. If I spoke of these multi-dimensional experiences, what would you make of them? For example, you read and hear much and constantly of the Divine. What is He or It to you in reality? Something ...
... he can turn back upon the world and bring to bear up on it the force of his progress and establish the progress more generally. Page 262 This power which in the inferior human consciousness appears as mind or mental discernment is the image or delegate here below of that very force of consciousness that originally separated the world from the Divine, created the ego and placed it ...
... regions are called "inspired" ; persons who have made some discovery are also included in that category. Each time you are in relation with a thing belonging to a domain superior to the normal human consciousness, you are inspired. And when you are not totally bound to the very ordinary level you do receive "inspirations" from above. It is the same in the case of a poet. The source of his creation is ...
... in equal measure. l This is true of mankind in general; but it becomes dynamically true here among us where there is a conscious effort on the part of individuals to uplift and change the human consciousness. It is however the privilege of each individual to deal with one's share in the whole in one's own way, that is to say, the individual has been given the freedom and the capacity to make the ...
... .. Call me when the time comes." It may appear strange to our human mind that the Mother should leave Sri Aurobindo at this critical moment. We must remember that we are not dealing with human consciousness. The Mother's consciousness always being united with Sri Aurobindo's, the physical nearness is not indispensable at all times. Besides, we know that at this particular hour she had very important ...
... one links oneself to the higher status, when one is imbued with the superior consciousness. The animal consciousness is not a wrong consciousness in itself, it is a life of the animal; the human consciousness may regard it as such and may still discover a superior consciousness looking at the movements of the lower world dispassionately, indifferently, or even appreciatively, for a thing of beauty ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4 The Mounting Fire THE seat of human consciousness, in fact of all consciousness, is the brain – the grey substance filling up the cranium. The brain constitutes man in his essential and characteristic substance and functioning. I am speaking specially of the physical and material basis of mind and ...
... automatically when the living creature within grows and is mature enough to come out. On the contrary, the prison need not be altogether a prison, it may be an occasion, an opportunity for the human consciousness to make a break-through to create a new dimension. Here is then our immediate work – to conquer inner domains, the inner truths: for all truths are found first within the consciousness, established ...
... things have happened – two mighty happenings in earth's history, in the course of nature's evolution here: two unseen events that have new-oriented the destiny of earth and mankind. First of all human consciousness in its essential achievement has risen to a new level of consciousness, although not in the mass, nor generally even in individuals, but there has come a common acquiescence in the being to a ...
... ess a little and you are in the very midst of the thing. Doubt, hesitation, merely casts a veil and blurs or blocks the view. God, Soul, Immortality, even these are equally available to the human consciousness in the same way. These are existences of daily use, so to say, of "common neighbourhood," in the words of the poet – home truth. A faith, necessarily a blind faith in these impossibles is ...
... other regions free from earth's gravitational control, he imagined or aspired to fly with other wings, golden wings , into other regions, golden regions of another kind of consciousness, supra-human consciousness. The symbol used here is very appropriate and meaningful. The sea-gull has normally a very beautiful appearance: Its snow-white body, out-spread wings, all spotless white and its gracefulness ...
... an achievement of Page 92 the human race which means a large or a significant part of it, the effort has had to be directed to that end. The level of the human consciousness has to be lifted up to an extent that it might be capable of holding and embodying the inflatus that was coming into it for the change. Otherwise an individual representing the human level and ...
... declared: Savitri, the Divine Grace in human form, is upon earth. The Divine Consciousness has abandoned its own Supramental transcendental status to enter Page 656 into the human consciousness and partake of the earthly life.... More Cantos appeared in the ensuing months, and in the Advent of 1948, there was again another editorial comment, this time on the second Canto ('The ...
... adverse forces might find their occupation gone! An exercise in self-correction was thus more important than censoriousness and the attempt to correct others: As long as it is possible for a human consciousness to feel, act, think or be contrary to the great divine Becoming, it is impossible to blame anyone else for it; it is impossible to blame the adverse forces which are maintained in creation as ...
... relapse into Inconscience broken by a slow and difficult return of consciousness followed by a brief but splendid and prophetic outbreak of spiritual light leaving behind it the "day" of ordinary human consciousness in which the prophecy has to be worked out. 34 The Mother too had the spiritual experience on which "The Symbol Dawn" is structured. As she speaks drawing upon the vast reserves of her spiritual ...
... questions. She always gave him a full explanation of those mystifying matters. Thus one day, when she was telling him that the zones of artistic creation being in the highest reaches of the human consciousness, Art could be a wonderful instrument for spiritual progress, she happened to make an observation, "This world of creation is also the world of the gods; but the gods, I regret to say, don't at ...
... A Scheme for The Education of Bengal VI. PHYSICAL EDUCATION OF all the domains of human consciousness, the physical is the one most completely governed by method, order, discipline, procedure. The lack of plasticity and receptivity in matter has to be replaced there by an organisation of details, at once precise and comprehensive. In this organisation ...
... The Mother and Sri Aurobindo have told us that if man wants to get out of the present condition and consciousness he has to transform his nature and consciousness. Over the human nature, the human consciousness, there is less the Divine Nature, the Divine Consciousness. It is only in the Light of this Divine Consciousness that life can be changed and transformed. But for that man has to consciously ...
... Things can get through. They are not blocked. And this Vibration (which I feel and see) gives the feeling of a fire. That's probably what the Vedic Rishis translated as the "Flame" fAgniiin the human consciousness, in man, in Matter. They always spoke of a "Flame." It is indeed a vibration with the intensity of a higher fire. Even the body felt several times, when the Work was very concentrated or condensed ...
... in time, it does. This would tend to show... I don't know if we can generalize or if this is just one special case being worked out, but there's a very distinct impression that what ordinary human consciousness perceives as death might simply be that the consciousness hasn't been brought back to its true position fast enough. I am quite aware that all this must seem confusing; I can feel how inadequate ...
... together on the path. 7 This is the very question of the world. For after all, we have a certain conception of the world. We have seen or think we have seen what the next stage of human consciousness is to be, the inevitable development, but what does evolution itself think of it? Evolution, meaning Tom, Dick or Harry—everything is part of it, even little cats and the vegetables in the ...
... manifest on earth. The starting point may have been quite poor and incomplete and partial, but it was a starting point just the same. Why could it not be now? 8 There will be a moment when a human consciousness reaches a state sufficient to allow the supra-mental consciousness to enter and manifest in it.... It does not keep stretching like a rubberband, you know: it has to happen sometime. It may happen ...
... epochs were played with the appropriate decor or, more often, were brought to life by slides projected on a screen at the back of the stage. 14 It was as though the Mother was preparing the human consciousness for the tasks ahead as she was to formulate them for Sri Aurobindo's birth centenary celebrations beginning on 15 August 1971: Sri Aurobindo belongs to the future; he is the messenger of ...
... consciousness, and it is only from that level of puissance and illumination that our problems can be truly understood and definitively solved: A transformation, an illumination of the human consciousness alone can bring about a real amelioration in the condition of humanity. 16 Thus, in no more than a few pages, the cardinal issues are posed and answered, and the current human malady ...
... series of descents in the lines of consciousness might lead, not only to the Overmind, but to the still lower and lower obscurations - "diminished, deformed, dwarfed, brought within the range of human consciousness", now almost a denial of the original beings! 24 While reading and discussing some of the inspired passages in Sri Aurobindo's The Mother on the four Powers and Personalities, new insights ...
... necessity of transformation; second, the process of transformation - how to do it. Its possibility was not known before. This is the way in which it is now given to mankind; human nature as well as human consciousness is capable of liberation and perfection, and that perfection consists in a transformation of nature, not a rejection of nature but a transformation, not a control only, not a type of behaviour ...
... steady will flaming in its centre. It turns to the supreme Mother, the divine mahāśakti , who sums up for the sâdhaka of the Integral Yoga all the aspects of the Divine to which the aspiring human consciousness may feel a natural attraction. "From the beginning even it is possible to have this closer relation of the lover and the beloved, but it will not be as exclusive for the integral yogin as for ...
... not bestow on the nether bases of life the same amount of attention as they bestowed on its radiant peaks, or, as in the case of the Tantra, in their exploration of the submerged regions of human consciousness, they let go their hold on the light of the peaks and floundered in the reeking swamps. Perhaps many of them failed to command the integral Page 117 vision of the omnipresent ...
... fully approved by the gods, says one of the Upanishads. It can reflect and reproduce, to a remarkable extent, the stuff, colour Page 263 and psychological vibrations of the human consciousness, work Out, as far as it lies in its power, the behests of the will and support the manifold action of an expanding mind and life. It is more conscious than the body of an animal—though its ...
... I was a sort of nobody. What is the use of your being Mr. so and so, son of so and so? If your "I" had died it would have been a glorious death. Disciple : What happens when the human consciousness is replaced by the Divine Consciousness? Sri Aurobindo : One feels perpetual calm, perpetual strength, – one is aware of Infinity, lives not only in Infinity but in Eternity. One feels ...
... human misery remains lamentably d same. It will always be so, as long as man remains what he is blind and ignorant, closed to all spiritual reality. A transformation ,an illumination of the human consciousness alone can bring about real amelioration in the condition of humanity. Thus even from the standpoint of human life, it follows logically that the first duty of man is to seek and possess the ...
... Mother's Force as more sovereignly in command of the life blossoming there. There was an imperative call, a kindling inspiration, almost an irresistible pull to transcend the normal levels of human consciousness and ascend to the radiant heights of the Spirit. Concentration came easier and the need for total self- consecration became more imperious than ever. Many felt an urge, never felt in the same ...
... that there is even a semblance of the fulfilment of the primordial Will of the Divine to conscious, multiple self-reproduction; but it is only a deceptive semblance, and not a fact. The normal human consciousness is an ignorant consciousness, seeking but not possessing know- Page 129 ledge,—it is not a representative of the divine Consciousness. The human being, therefore, though a developed ...
... Mother's Force as more sovereignly in command of the life blossoming there. There was an imperative call, a kindling inspiration, almost an irresistible pull to transcend the normal levels of human consciousness and ascend to the radiant heights of the Spirit. Concentration came easier and the need for total self-consecration became more imperious than ever. Many felt an urge, never felt in the same ...
... human mind which, unless clouded by the lower impurities, can reflect something of the higher truth of existence. It is a seeker of Reality and a lover of Truth. It has the power to lift the human consciousness for a while out of the turmoil of the vital desires and the helpless suffering of the body. It has a wideness, a depth, and a limpid tranquility which, at their best, can be an ideal condition ...
... house, then above the town, very high.” It signifies, I suppose, first, transcendence of the body-consciousness, then of the habitual environmental consciousness and, last, of the universal human consciousness. This transcendence of all human formulæ and ascent "very high" gives the Mother a secure station in the superconscience. But by transcendence we do not mean exclusion, nor do we imply a suspension ...
... born as a animal or a tree, if its karma in human life has been very dark and gross. In her view, if a soul, in Page 95 course of its evolution, has once reached the level of human consciousness and lived a human life, it can never sink back to the obscure levels of animal or vegetable consciousness, whatever may be the nature of its karma. This kind of total devolution is not observed ...
... Such transformation is deemed rather Utopian and impracticable. But for the Integral Yoga, which has as its sole object a dynamic union with the Divine and a divine transformation of the entire human consciousness and nature, a complete and dynamic realisation of the psychic and a resultant psychicisation of the whole being is an indispensable prerequisite. It may be argued that the realisation of the ...
... man, vital man, mental man and spiritual man. When mental man or spiritual man appears the others do not disappear. So, the tiger and serpent do not become man. In this upward growth of the human consciousness you cannot say that Buddha, Christ etc. have played no part. I consider the Supramental the culmination of the Spiritual man. When the Supramental becomes established I expect that one will ...
... constant study of the nervous system and generalizations based on thousands of cases are of no great importance, because the possibilities of development are infinite. You cannot know how far the human consciousness can be trained to react to outside contacts, therefore you cannot generalize about the individual and his so-called 'normal' contacts, which are not rules but only long established habits. These ...
... is invariably catastrophic. Whatever it anticipates is always for the worst—the pettiest, meanest, nastiest kind of worst—always the worst. It's... really, its the most sickening condition human consciousness and matter can be in... 16 You feel a little pain—oh, is it going to be a cancer?.. 17 And then that wonderful character, after imagining the worse (in the space of a second, of course) ...
... same brute Power, the same vital force (there's no comparison, of course, man has lost all that completely), the fantastic force of life that's found in those animals was coming back into the human consciousness, but with all that has been brought by the evolution of Mind (a painful enough detour), and TRANSFORMED into the light of a higher certitude and a higher peace. And, you know, it wasn't a thing ...
... switching from one to the other, like a sort of gymnastics, a struggle of the consciousness between the two. And all these suffering vibrations are as though supported by the mass of the general human consciousness—that’s right. 7 Something that supports pain in the world, that almost likes it. One day (once more), as She was suffering from a tooth infection that She had managed to “densify,” stop ...
... “life”—it is ... something. And that ... is Divine. Or rather it is our next step towards the Divine. 21 Then everything tears open, gets clearer: It is the next step, the next state of human consciousness, a state that transforms both life and death. It is the true consciousness of immortality. 22 That which has the power to undo death because death no longer exists, it is something else ...
... Magnificent, magnificent. Only, it comes and goes, comes and goes And when you go out of it, you have the impression of falling into a horrible pit, our ordinary consciousness (I mean the ordinary human consciousness) is a horrible pit. But we also know why it had to be momentarily that way [in evolution] , for it was necessary in order to go from this to that: everything that happens is necessary for the ...
... deep golden light. We could say this: if you compare the consciousness, not of ordinary humanity but the higher consciousness of humanity, with this Consciousness, you feel that as soon as the human consciousness tried to contact higher things, to purify lower movements, to widen, it used to become fluid, transparent, ethereal, whereas this Consciousness, with a vision, a perception infinitely superior ...
... What I see clearly, or am aware of and about which there is no doubt — even there the ego peeps! What a dismal aspect of human nature! SRI AUROBINDO: It is so with everybody, because the human consciousness is permeated in all its past ideas with this substance of egoism. It is only by a constant quiet vigilance and increasing consciousness that it can be got out — for if it is not allowed to play ...
... amplitude and self-sufficiency . While this testament of the Life Divine was unfolding with a leisurely puissance of self-assurance, sending out rays of new understanding and opening up the human consciousness to truths and possibilities till then unsuspected, the outside world went its weary, dreary, unprofitable, even sanguinary way - on the national as well as world theatre of action. After the ...
... enter his yoga in 1923, Sri Page 319 Aurobindo hid nothing. He told the aspirant that this yoga was a high adventure, for it was a radical transition from the present state of human consciousness; a sadhak of his yoga would be attacked by tremendous forces, and the sadhak would have to prove again and again his strength. "It is not a revolt against the British Government which anyone ...
... mankind is still nine-tenths of barbarism to one-tenth of culture." But it seems quite significant to me that from his very youth what interested Sri Aurobindo was the great movements of human consciousness through the ages. Page 212 ...
... are at work to transform the lower consciousness. The Sun of Truth yokes also his lustrous coursers and is in movement; sūraś cid aśvān yuyujāna īyate . The Ashwins too take knowledge for the human consciousness of all the paths of its progress so that it may effect a complete, harmonious and many-sided movement. This movement advancing in many paths is combined in the light of the divine knowledge by ...
... full expression of its separate absolute ecstasy even in the combination of the whole. 12 The Ribhus have power to support and contain all these floods of the delight of being in the human consciousness; and they are able to divide it in the perfection of their works among the manifested gods, to each god his sacrificial share. For such perfect division is the whole condition of the effective ...
... delicacy of action is needed as the least overstress or understress falsifies or disturbs the arrangement of the details & may lead to a wrong ultimate conclusion. The impersonality of the human consciousness is now everywhere perceived as the Srikrishna Narayana chaitanya diffused in the mental & sensational being with the ego centre as a circumstance of mind relating back to the ultimate cosmic ...
... no mere result of logic or speculation, but of careful observation, and yet unassailable by logic and unsurpassable by speculation. One of the most remarkable manifestations of Avidya in human consciousness, presenting in its nature and laws of working a close analogy to its parent is the power of imagination,—the power of bodying forth images which may either be reabsorbed into the individual ...
... between three principal types varying in their openness to the spiritual appeal or to the religious influence or impulse. This distinction amounts to a gradation of three stages in the growing human consciousness. One crude, ill-formed, still outward, still Page 220 vitally and physically minded can be led only by devices suited to its ignorance. Another, more developed and capable of a much ...
... the defenders of civilised values and on the other a titanic tyranny. Sri Krishna, however, did not look forward to just an outward triumph. The warrior was asked to rise above the ordinary human consciousness and live in the light of the Eternal and be by Yoga the instrument of a Will wider than his own. The Gita is not a gospel of action in the common meaning of the term: it teaches a ...
... limited individual ignorant consciousness, that is, through our own unconsciousness. Then again, these great souls, when they come on earth they take up a human form representing an aspect of human consciousness or terrestrial consciousness. And naturally this outer form is an aspect of that ignorance. All souls, big or small, come on the earth for the same purpose: to accept and illumine this ignorance ...
... music whereon her experience floats through the ages, transfigure themselves on Sri Aurobindo's plane into "a torrent of rapid lightnings" by which knowledge of the deathless Divine leaps on the human consciousness and by whose thronged and glittering invasion the revelatory speech of the overhead spiritual is born: Missioned voices drive to me from God's doorway Words that live not save upon ...
... the human species is now, in all probability, the sole repository of any possible future progress for life.... Second, with the evolution of man the character of progress becomes altered. With human consciousness, values and ideals appeared on earth for the first time. The criterion of further progress must include the degree by which those ideal values are satisfied." What are we to make of all ...
... she replied: Neither one nor the other in their apparent contradiction created by the separate consciousness, but something else which our words cannot express. In the present state of human consciousness, it is good for it to think that aspiration and human effort can hasten the advent of the divine transformation, because aspiration and effort are needed for the transformation to occur. ...
... theory of computation. It is certainly very appealing to contemporary minds that are immensely overpowered by the skills of the computer. However, since the computers are not able to simulate human consciousness, although many of the functions such as arithmetic may be cloned more efficiently than the human mind, the machines are not yet a threat to the basic conscious activity of man. Indeed ...
... relapse into Inconscience broken by a slow and difficult return of consciousness followed by a brief but splendid and prophetic outbreak of spiritual light leaving behind it the 'day' of ordinary human consciousness in which the prophecy has to be worked out." 30 In this symbol there is a suggestion of the Night-Dawn continuum Where the God-child lies on the lap of Night and Dawn. 31 The ...
... the form of the death of Satyavan, Satyavan who is her human counter-part in the work of Transformation. As Savitri has to work out the victory over death and fate and pain on the level of human consciousness, she works it out in Satyavan, her alter-body. Satyavan is the visible sign of her invisible work upon herself: to conquer death in Satyavan is to conquer it in herself, and to conquer it ...
... and the reasons of differences. There will be no action where there is knowledge of only unity. True action is possible by reading the truth of all activities by means of higher consciousness. Human consciousness is limited and therefore called ignorance. The higher consciousness is bound to grow. Interview with a Sadhak 1924-10-26 In meditation, the light that I experienced here last ...
... lasting peace can be realised upon earth. All are welcome although the exterior ones have a very limited effect. But the most important, urgent and indispensable of all is a transformation, human consciousness itself, an enlightenment and a conversion in its workings. Meanwhile some exterior steps may be taken usefully and the acceptance of the principle of double nationality is one of them. ...
... ordinary consciousness. 85 The state of dispersion is also a state of exteriorization in which consciousness is turned outwards instead of inwards. As the Mother says: The ordinary human consciousness, even in the most developed, even in men of great talent and great realisation, is a movement turned outwards—all the energies are directed outwards, the whole consciousness is spread outwards; ...
... inner being and discover the inner Person behind the outer personality, or to grow upwards and ascend to the higher planes above the mind. Only thus can a radical change be brought about in human consciousness, transforming the human being from a mental into a spiritual being. ...if we can live thus deeper within and put out steadily the inner forces into the outer instrumentation or raise ...
... obvious surface; these have to be fathomed and whatever is ascertained must be admitted within the scope of the total reality. An inner range of spiritual experience is one very great domain of human consciousness; it has to be entered into up to its deepest depths and its vastest reaches. The supraphysical is as real as the physical; to know it is part of a complete knowledge. The knowledge of the ...
... evolution which leads it up to the human state and evolves through it all a being of itself which we call the psychic being that supports the evolution and develops a physical, a vital, a mental human consciousness as its instruments of world-experience and of a disguised, imperfect, but growing self-expression. All this it does from behind a veil showing something of its divine self only in so far as ...
... to the scientific mind, the reluctance to admit intelligence as the mother of intelligence was an honest scruple. But now it is no more than an outworn paradox to affirm the emergence of human consciousness, intelligence and mastery out of an unintelligent, blindly driving unconsciousness in which no form or substance of them previously existed. Man's consciousness can be nothing else than a ...
... egoistic life as man has found it throughout the ages, and yet is it that which this part of your vital regrets? How do you fail to see, when you lay so much stress on the desirability of a merely human consciousness, that suffering is its badge? When the vital resists the change from the human into the divine consciousness, what it is defending is its right to sorrow and suffering and all the rest of it ...
... behind every human will there are forces in action whose origin is not human and which move consciously towards certain goals. The play of these forces is very complex and generally eludes the human consciousness. But for the sake of explanation and easy understanding, they can be divided into two main opposing tendencies: those that work for the fulfilment of the Divine Work upon earth and those that ...
... behind every human will there are forces in action whose origin is not human and which move consciously towards certain goals. The play of those forces is very complex and generally eludes the human consciousness. But for the sake of explanation and understanding, they can be divided into two main opposing tendencies: those which work for the fulfilment of the Divine Work upon Earth and those which are ...
... changed from within — for instance Christianity by the charismatic movements and Islam by its confrontation with the Western democratic spirit. ‘In the night I am always given a state of the human consciousness which has to be put straight, one after the other. There are millions of them.’ 28 A sadhak asked her the question: ‘I think that always, at every moment, someone or other is calling ...
... the realization of the Brahman — was, as it were, the first step, a necessary phase. But this was not everything, for there was a second phase: the descent of the power of the Divine in the human consciousness to transform it, and that this was what he, Sri Aurobindo, was trying to do. And he said to me: “If you want to try this, then you can stay here.” I threw myself at his feet, and that was that ...
... time comes.”’ And Nirodbaran comments: ‘It may appear strange to our human mind that the Mother should leave Sri Aurobindo at this critical moment. We must remember that we are not dealing with human consciousness … Besides, we know that at this particular hour she had very important occult work to do.’ But the Mother herself has told what actually happened at that moment: ‘As long as I remained in the ...
... other hand, behind every human will forces are acting whose origin is not human and who strive consciously for certain goals. The play of those forces is very complex and generally eludes the human consciousness. But for the sake of explanation and understanding they can be divided into two main opposing tendencies: those who work for the fulfilment of the Divine Work upon earth and those who are opposed ...
... possibility of receiving messages from the spirits of the dead and practices based on this belief. The word ‘spiritualism’ will be used for matters spiritual, i.e. above the normal level of the human consciousness. × This mental, vital and material ‘whole’ is called the adhara in Sanskrit. As this is a ...
... readily value, being led away by the vital glamour, but which the heavens do not reject, though it is offered from something so far below them, so maimed and ignorant and sorrow-vexed as the human consciousness which is to the divine consciousness as the moth is to the star, as the night is to the day. And will you not too accept this from me, you who in your nature are kin to the heavens, you who seem ...
... jeering. KESHAV ( impatiently ) But what, in the name of sanity, are we here Debating now? What is this approbation Of Krishna, Vishnu, Shiva, Brahma or Indra? And how can a human consciousness be sure Of the Gods' approving smile or deep or pale? Page 39 It seems to me, this, stark midsummer madness! ( He fixes Us eyes on Sri Chaitanya's ) You do not claim ...
... with this collective suggestion – not only with the collective suggestion of the present, but with the collective suggestion which belongs to the Earth-consciousness as a whole, the terrestrial human consciousness which goes back to the earliest formation of the human being. This has to be overcome before the cells can be spontaneously aware of the Truth, of the Eternity of matter.’ 52 The Mother ...
... in Yogic India, but he is not the full-fledged spiritual man in the Yogic sense. He does not seem to have taken indefeasibly his central seat in the soul: his seat is till in the ordinary human consciousness though at a great elevation or interiority in that consciousness' domain, so that he mainly dwells close to the soul even if not always within it. But it is often by the mind's will and not ...
... being and took unexpected advantage of the sensation of the life-force falling as though abysmally away from the cardiac centre where, in the Upanishads' view, the whole complex of the living human consciousness with all its various radiations has its hub. After the doctor had come and given an injection of atropine and morphine and advised complete rest instead of the anticipated drowse a ...
... relapse into Inconscience broken by a slow and difficult return of consciousness followed by a brief but splendid and prophetic outbreak of spiritual light leaving behind it the 'day' of ordinary human consciousness in which the prophecy has to be worked out." Mark that Sri Aurobindo talks only of night and dawn and refers to the former as "a relapse into Inconscience" and to the latter in terms that combine ...
... universe He has emanated) - to be a knower of Page 324 these supreme existences and to let that supra-intellectual knowledge issue in a life lived in the light of a more-than-human consciousness is something far greater than to be a mere moralist following ahimsa - non-violence - or any other rule by means of will-power and fellow-feeling. The moral life in itself is a fine thing, ...
... "overhead poetry". It is not what the common man may suppose: poetry that passes clean over his head! It is inspired verse with an illuminating power, hailing from secret regions of a more-than-human consciousness which lie above the mental level reached so far by earth's evolution. This poetry may be generally characterised, in Sri Aurobindo's own words from Savitri, as Consisting of The lines ...
... to this visionary vigil a glory comes down from the Unknown, an utterance of the Supreme in the tongue proper to it and not in a translation in terms of the human. No doubt, mingling with the human consciousness at the other end, it has a touch not quite alien to us; but the quiet with open arms, that receives it, allows the divine tone to keep ringing over every other note. Both types of art are precious ...
... the earth a frozen sleep and no least stir of even a grass-blade pierce the silence, the inanimation, the winter without end and all that passion and poetry have built grandly in the spaces of human consciousness leave not a mark on the vacuity of that distant doom, I stand paralysed. An utter hopelessness comes over me: no stroke of my pen, however delightful, seems worth the Page 95 ...
... again the uplifting Overmind Intuition influence." * (What precisely is meant when we say poems exist already on the higher planes and have only to be transmitted here by the human consciousness? If the parts of a poem hail from quite different planes, where exactly does the whole exist? Are there poetic fragments floating about which cohere only in the mind of the man Page 162 ...
... the earth a frozen sleep and no least stir of even a grass-blade pierce the silence, the inanimation, the winter without end and all that passion and poetry have built grandly in the spaces of human consciousness leave not a mark on the vacuity of that distant doom, I stand paralysed. An utter hopelessness comes over me; no stroke of my pen, however delightful, seems worth the Page 35 ...
... the forces of accident, of "crass casuality", would still carry on their sport. Nor would the Godward-aspiring evolutionary soul be content to inhabit a body still working under an unillumined human consciousness. In any case, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were not after such a suspension and not even after a divine immortality imposed on the body by a special Siddhi, a supernormal power exercised against ...
... German Lyserg Saiire Diethylamide (=Lysergic Acid in common English) - we have reached the peak-point of controversy. For, with a pill weighing 1/200,000 of an ounce, LSD not only releases the human consciousness from its common bounds but also expands it to an extent which seems infinite. We thus pass beyond medical science and even psychotherapy into profound parapsychology and impinge on the realm ...
... spiritual quest conveying in terms borrowed from the external life no less than in those of super-nature its journey and labour and conquest in the Page 176 domain of a more-than-human consciousness. To discern a secret spiritual significance through a symbolism which often seems outwardly orientated is not to be, as our critic announces, "exceedingly naive": it can be perfectly logical ...
... is the Indian word for the principle of inertia of consciousness and force... The animal, in whom there is this less developed force of consciousness, is prior in creation; the more developed human consciousness, in which there is a greater force of kinetic mind-energy and,light of perception, is a later creation. The Tantra speaks of a soul fallen from its status passing through many lacs of births ...
... the realization of the Brahman – was, as it were, the first step, a necessary phase. But it was not everything, for there was a second phase: the descent of the power of the Divine into the human consciousness to transform it, and that this was what he, Sri Aurobindo, was trying to do. And he said to me: “If you want to try this, then you can stay here.” I threw myself at his feet, and that was that ...
... and not the Lord. He says this will be done under these conditions. And what He says is done. Now to make you fully understand, I shall explain something more. All the elements of the human consciousness which gather and organize themselves around the soul form, through thousands of lives, the psychic being . This psychic being, when well constituted, becomes the conscious intermediary between ...
... has been erected at Pondicherry to guide the spiritual seekers, to help them to their destination—to realize the Divine, and in addition something new and unprecedented, to help divinize the human consciousness by a special Yoga of self-perfection, a stream of spiritual seekers from all sides, especially from Gujarat and Bengal, began to flow towards the beaconlight of the Ashram, for guidance and help ...
... conscient Divine; that contact, that pressure can alone liberate from the apparent Inconscience, which was our starting-point, the all-conscient Godhead concealed in us. In this order of things our human consciousness is the instrument, the intermediary; it is the point in the development of light and power out of the Page 811 Inconscience at which liberation becomes possible: a greater role than ...
... has covered the rising field that lies before the genius of poetry by strictly successive steps, and these steps have followed the natural ascending order of our developing perceptions as the human consciousness rises from the first physical view of things through the more inward life-vision, through the constructing and pondering intellect and last through a vivid or a brooding intuition to the gateways ...
... regarded the emergence of thought and reason in an animal world as an absurdity and a chimaera. It is the same now with the appearance of supermind in the stumbling mentality of this world of human consciousness and its reasoning ignorance. If the supramental descent is decreed, nothing can prevent it; but all things are worked out here through a play of forces, and an unfavourable atmosphere ...
... in animals or in most human beings is not in direct touch with the supramental—therefore it cannot be so described, by definition . But once the connection between the supramental and the human consciousness is made, it is the psychic being that gives the readiest response —more ready than the mind, the vital or the physical. It may be added that it is also a purer response; the mind, vital and ...
... philosophic sense I think it can be said that his conception of the universal life-force and his vision of man's future are prompted by a keen sense of the infinite, divine potencies of the human consciousness and of the secret urge towards godhead which is the motive power behind all evolution.... What Shaw claims to be is an artist-philosopher—that is to say, a man with a constructive as well as ...
... Karma. Karma means subjection to lower Nature; through Yoga the soul goes towards freedom. The bondage to the effects of Karma remains so long as one has not passed out of the ordinary human consciousness which is its field to the higher spiritual consciousness where all bonds are untied. As for peace one can gain it by an entire reliance on the Divine and surrender to the Divine Will. Page ...
... vision and knowledge are the possession of the supramental being in its own supreme region of light and are complete only on the highest levels of the supramental nature. But in the ascent of the human consciousness through the uplifting and transmuting evolutionary—that is to say, self-unveiling, self-developing, progressively self-perfecting—process of Yoga, we have to take account of three successive ...
... of Yoga. It is a radical conversion as great as and greater than the change which we suppose evolutionary Nature to have made in its transition from the vital animal to the fully mentalised human consciousness. The animal has the conscious vital mind, but whatever beginnings there are in it of anything higher are only a primary glimpse, a crude hint of the intelligence which in man becomes the splendour ...
... , this higher existence are not an enlightened or illumined mentality supported by a greater dynamic energy or supporting a purer moral life and character. Their superiority to the ordinary human consciousness is not in degree but in kind and essence. There is a change not merely of the surface or instrumental manner of our being but of its very foundation and dynamic principle. Yogic knowledge seeks ...
... reopen even though they should constantly shut. But to dwell there permanently on this last and highest summit of the created and creative being is in the end the supreme ideal for our evolving human consciousness when it seeks not self-annulment but self-perfection. For, as we have seen, this is the original Idea and the final harmony and truth to which our gradual self-expression in the world returns ...
... on to a new body. It is doubtful whether we should be justified in attributing any such entirely insufficient development to a being so strongly individualised that it has got as far as the human consciousness. Even at his lowest normality the human individual is still a soul Page 827 acting through a distinct mental being, however ill-formed his mind may be, however limited and dwarfed ...
... Divine Love The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter III The Godward Emotions The principle of Yoga is to turn God-ward all or any of the powers of the human consciousness so that through that activity of the being there may be contact, relation, union. In the Yoga of Bhakti it is the emotional nature that is made the instrument. Its main principle is to adopt ...
... and in its movements. The gods pour the fullness of these waters, especially the upper waters, the waters of heaven, the streams of the Truth, ṛtasya dhārāḥ , across all obstacles into the human consciousness. In this sense they are all apturaḥ . But man is also described as crossing the waters over to his home in the Truth-Consciousness and the gods as carrying him over; it is doubtful whether this ...
... corresponding to Page 98 the sevenfold substance of the ocean of being which appears to us formulated in the seven worlds enumerated by the Puranas. It is their full flow in the human consciousness which constitutes the entire activity of the being, his full treasure of substance, his full play of energy. In the Vedic image, his cows drink of the water of the seven rivers. Should this ...
... concealed Ananda; at the touch of the Truth the rivers of honey, the quick pourings of the wine of Immortality trickle and stream and break out into a flood of abundance over the whole extent of the human consciousness. 5 Thus Brihaspati, becoming manifest first of the gods out of Page 321 the vastness of that Light of the Truth-consciousness, in that highest heavenly space of the supreme ...
... for the fourfold (four-footed)." 4 Page 290 The process of this new creation is described in the rest of the hymn. Surya, as the creator, as the supreme good, manifests in our human consciousness its concealed heavenly summit on the levels of the pure mind, and we are able to look up above from the earth of our physical existence and are delivered from the obscurities of the night of ...
... succession by the expanding soul. × Night and Day, symbols of the alternation of the divine and human consciousness in us. The Night of our ordinary consciousness holds and prepares all that the Dawn brings out into conscious being. × ...
... to discover in the action of the divine Will the light, love and harmony of the true knowledge and true existence, the Mitra-power; it is in this aspect that he has to be set in front of the human consciousness as the representative priest in the sacrifice. × As the Purohita, the representative priest ...
... nothing is going on in us; but that is a mistake. Consciousness is active all the time. But no report comes from it to the physical mind. In Sushupta Samadhi, one can get to the very limit of human consciousness, even [to] 18 the superconscient. Everything which we cannot attain in the waking state is there in us in the dream-self and the sleep-self. Samadhi is a means of increasing the range ...
... he came forth, but the Godhead which is always within him, there living in the secret heart of his own nature, there burning like a veiled Fire on the inner altar in his own temple-house of human consciousness. He is ignorant because there is upon the eyes of his soul and all its organs the seal of that Nature, Prakriti, Maya, by which he has been put forth into manifestation out of God's eternal ...
... and mental tendency, powers. We have to suppose that the physical seed transmits these things. We are called upon to admit that the human seed for instance, which does not contain a developed human consciousness, yet carries with it the powers of such a consciousness so that they reproduce themselves automatically in the thinking and organised mentality of the offspring. This, even if we have to accept ...
... Apparent Man. And the sole debate that remains is whether this great conquest can be achieved and enjoyed in this human life and terrestrial body or is only possible beyond—whether in fact the human consciousness is the chosen instrument for the progressive self-revelation of this "Inconscient", this real self within us, or only a baulked effort with no fruition here or a haphazard and incomplete sketch ...
... of their faith, life and thought to the height and purity of a clearly-grasped ideal. Page 117 The Messiah or Avatar is nothing but this, the divine Seer-Will descending upon the human consciousness to reveal to it the divine meaning behind our half-blind action and to give along with the vision the exalted will that is faithful and performs and the ideal force that executes according to ...
... readily value, being led away by the vital glamour, but which the heavens do not reject, though it is offered from something so far below them, so maimed and ignorant and sorrow-vexed as the human consciousness which is to the divine consciousness as the moth to the star, as night to the day. And will not you accept this from me, you who in your nature are kin to the heavens, you who seem to me to have ...
... Witness Attitude Inner Detachment It [ the individual consciousness ] is not by its nature detached from the mental and other activities. It can be detached, it can be involved. In the human consciousness it is as a rule always involved, but it has developed the power of detaching itself—a thing which the lower creation seems unable to do. As the consciousness develops, this power of detachment ...
... their acts and feelings without their detecting the real source. At night many incoherent dreams come from this world or plane. The world above is the superconscient plane of being—above the human consciousness—there are many worlds of that kind; they are divine worlds. Page 154 × In a vision during meditation ...
... it is only a rush of an outside force churning up the subconscient and it does not last, it does not at all mean that the progress is not there. We have to deal with all the complexity of the human consciousness in its hidden parts as well as on its surface—and there are layers on layers of the consciousness in which something may lurk of the old reactions, but each conquest makes the control stronger ...
... very rare. If one enquires into the reasons of this phenomenon,—very unpleasant to our impatient human nature,—it will be found, I think, that they are in the main two. The first is that the human consciousness either cannot bear a constant descent of the Light or Power or Ananda, or cannot at once receive and absorb it; it needs periods of assimilation, but this assimilation goes on behind the veil ...
... is of any eventual value if this is not done. If the little external personality is to persist in retaining its obscure and limited, its petty and ignoble, its selfish and false and stupid human consciousness, this amounts to a flat negation of the work and the Sadhana. I have no intention of giving my sanction to a new edition of the Page 150 old fiasco, a partial and transient spiritual ...
... not concerned with what the Avatars did or are supposed to have done (though in that case Krishna seems to have done some very queer and undivine things). My business is with rising above the human consciousness and not with fulfilling limited human ideals; and I look at things from that standpoint. 20 April 1936 Avatars, unlike Vibhutis, do not need to satisfy their vital. Why should they ...
... if you have any strong attraction towards the usual human active life, towards earning, bright prospects, the use of your capacities for the ordinary motives or on the ordinary plane of human consciousness, you ought not to leave everything behind you for what may after all be only a mental attraction towards spiritual ideals and Yoga. The spiritual consciousness and spiritual life are exceedingly ...
... of the supermind. It has nothing to do with the supermind, for nobody can be aware of the supermind without opening the higher reaches in him first—the supermind is superconscient to the human consciousness. The man in question is in touch with the higher consciousness, so he has not to put any kind of inner pressure on himself to oblige the mind and other parts to admit the higher state or movements—it ...
... faith, since the exact character of it escapes you. And if you are called upon to define realisation, you may declare that, individually speaking, it means the transformation of your ordinary human consciousness into the divine and supramental. The consciousness is like a ladder: at each great epoch there has been one great being capable of adding one more step to the ladder and reaching a place where ...
... confined to some unreal or immaterial region? Divine love plunges its manifestation upon earth down into the most material matter. It does not indeed find itself in the selfish distortions of the human consciousness; but the vital in itself is as important an element in Divine love as it is in the whole of the manifested universe. There is no possibility of movement and progress without the mediation of ...
... you will avoid making the mistake of throwing the blame on the people and things around you and thus quite needlessly increasing your sufferings and your difficulties. 56 * In the human consciousness everything is very slow. When we compare the time that is necessary to realise something with the average length of human existence, it seems interminable. But happily there comes a time when ...
... with this collective suggestion, not only with the collective suggestion of the present, but with the collective suggestion which belongs to the earth-consciousness as a whole, the terrestrial human consciousness which goes back to the earliest formation of man. That has to be overcome before the cells can be spontaneously aware of the Truth, of the Eternity of matter. Of course, until now, those who ...
... Beings are as real and more permanently real than the men they influence but they belong to a higher plane, are part of the cosmic consciousness and being and act here on earth by shaping the human consciousness on which they exercise their influence. It is natural for man who sees only his own consciousness individual, national or racial at work and does not see what works upon it and shapes it, to ...
... priority, it is evident that the Divine exists before the individual, so it must be the Divine who has chosen first! But that is a choice prior to terrestrial life. In the order of the ordinary human consciousness it may be one or the other or both at the same time. In fact, it is likely that the Divine is the first to notice that this or that being is ready! But he who is ready generally does not know ...
... you liberate your spirit from matter." It is these stupidities which prevent you from understanding anything at all. But all this has nothing to do with the world as it really is. For the human consciousness as it is, there are certainly infinitely more invisible things than visible things. What you know, the things which are visible to you and which you are conscious of—it's almost like the skin ...
... there were things which were not as they should have been. But in any case, to the eye of this consciousness which was looking on, it was satisfying. Materially, you see, I said, "In the outer human consciousness this can be done much better." That of course is understood, we haven't reached the height of perfection, far from that, but it must also be said that it is only a very small part of our activity ...
... necessarily remains in the experience. They like it that way―they like to quarrel with the Divine, they like the feeling of separation, these things give them pleasure! For they remain in the human consciousness and want to remain there. The moment there is perfect identification, all this disappears. So, it is as though one were depriving oneself of the pleasure of a drama! There is something that has ...
... mixed with ignorance, at times false lights, that is, no knowledge at all: simply ideas, conceptions, ways of seeing, ways of feeling―all these things considered as knowledge by the ordinary human consciousness. Sri Aurobindo speaks even of physical needs, the needs of the body, which are generally considered as imperative and which have their own truth; he says that even that can be only quite ...
... this does not yet seem to be possible; therefore, what has so far been achieved has after all to be a little more fluid than the heaviest kind of matter. Does this progress depend on the human consciousness? You mean for a more complete materialisation?... It depends on power of manipulating the vibrations of matter. This power of manipulation is necessarily the result of a certain state of ...
... 22 March 1951 You say that "time is relative". What does that mean? The sense of the length of time depends upon your consciousness. If you are in the ordinary human consciousness, time is measured by the number of years you expect to live. So, what requires, let us say, fifty years to be realised, seems terribly long, for you think, "Fifty years... where will I be in ...
... nd all would be truly well. But as it is not in contact with the psychic it doesn't even know what it is, it wonders all bewildered what kind of a being it can be; so to reach this ordinary human consciousness it must use ordinary means, that is, go through the mind, the vital and the physical. One of them may be skipped but surely not the last, otherwise one is no longer conscious of anything at ...
... when they are ready to become aware of it. It is rather a hierarchy in realisation than one in potentialities. Now in addition to this, some beings manifest something other than a purely human consciousness—but this is something additional; these are exceptional cases. But usually it's like this: the substance itself contains all the possibilities. It is as Sri Aurobindo says further on: If the ...
... without passion, nothing of all that. It is very subtle and very intense at the same time, and when it comes, it seems that the whole universe is a marvellous harmony. Even what is to the ordinary human consciousness ugly, unpleasant, appears marvellous. Unfortunately, as I said, people, circumstances, all that, with all those mental and vital formations—that disturbs it all the time. Then one is obliged ...
... , and approach the rhythm of the divine development; but the material world is rigid by nature, transformation is slow, very slow, there, almost imperceptible for the measurement of time as human consciousness perceives it... and so there is a constant disequilibrium between the inner and outer movement, and this lack of balance, this incapacity of the outer forms to follow the movement of the inner ...
... directs, even organises the life, organises the consciousness, the different parts of the being. When this happens, the work goes very fast. Very fast, well... relatively very fast. In the human consciousness everything is very slow. When we compare the time that is necessary to realise something with the average length of human existence, it seems interminable. But happily there comes a time when ...
... lowest vital; and what it possesses of the original being is something... a reflection so remote from the origin that it is unrecognisable. However, usually, it is this that is attracted by human consciousness. And when an idol is made, you see, and the priest brings down a form—when the ceremony takes place in a regular manner, he puts himself in an inner state of invocation and tries to bring down ...
... that's easiest for him and the most expressive also. Essentially it is the same thing; in the human mind it becomes different. And then, man's mind fashions man's consciousness; and as for the human consciousness, well, it depends on one's inner attitude and one's tastes. The mind always needs to make divisions, otherwise it thinks that it does not understand. Probably it is to help him in his work, so ...
... to understand it well, and there is nothing which interested me in my outer being as much as learning. Well, now I still feel that I know nothing. There may occur in this world and in the human consciousness things which are beyond me! I don't understand how it can be possible. For me, when someone is so twisted up, to the point of being unrecognisable, I get the feeling—I always get the feeling ...
... day, but still he always postpones it as long as he can. But as they do not have human dimensions, it can go on for quite a long time, can't it? As long as they find somewhere upon earth a human consciousness ready to respond to their influence, they will remain. So you can imagine the problem! Now it is not through individuals, it is through nations that they exert their influence. Which are ...
... Divine, the union, the identification with the Divine. But that Divine, Sri Aurobindo says, is the Divine of the Overmind which is already something quite unthinkable, in comparison with the human consciousness, because even to reach there one must pass through several planes and in these planes one feels dazzled. There are beings of the vital, if they appeared to men, or to say things more exactly ...
... destroys, constructs and all this at the same time. It is incomprehensible. And yet, she evidently has a plan, and herself goes towards a certain goal which is very clear to her but quite veiled to human consciousness.... It is very interesting. If one could construct something like that, it would give an idea: a globe made of intersecting spirals of different colours, and each representing one aspect of Nature's ...
... one can be sufficiently master of oneself and above things, in a much higher consciousness which can see from above—even that which appears the most terrible and most dramatic to the ordinary human consciousness makes you smile as at a childishness. And so, if one is in that consciousness in which one can smile at everything (for one understands the causes of everything, and one also sees the forces ...
... what should one begin? Yes, with the help of what? You see, Sri Aurobindo defines religion as the seeking after the spiritual, that is, the Supermind, of what is beyond the ordinary human consciousness, and what ought to influence life from a higher realm. So, as religion seeks this it is beyond the reason, because it goes to the suprarational. And so how can reason help in the realm of religion ...
... fact it is true. It is only when something absolutely new and absolutely superior enters the earth atmosphere and changes it by a kind of spiritual coercion, it is only at that moment that human consciousness will change sufficiently for circumstances also to change. As for me, I have no illusions on the subject, because I know that Sri Aurobindo saw the truth of things and therefore, if humanity ...
... All means leading towards this goal are welcome, although the external ones have a very limited effect; however, the most important, urgent and indispensable of all, is a transformation of the human consciousness itself, an enlightenment of and conversion in its working. Meanwhile some exterior steps may be taken usefully, and the acceptance of the principle of double nationality is ...
... disjoin itself and join an animal birth to work out its animal propensities there. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: Rebirth The soul, the psychic being, once having reached the human consciousness cannot go back to the inferior animal consciousness any more than it can go back into a tree or an ephemeral insect. What is true is that some part of the vital energy or the formed instrumental ...
... would truly become the manifestation of the supreme Will expressing itself individually, consciously. But in the normal human state this is something extremely exceptional which to the ordinary human consciousness does not seem at all natural—it seems almost supernatural! Man questions himself because the mental instrument is intended to see all possibilities. And the immediate consequence of this is ...
... to build Auroville as an experiment? The conception of Auroville is purely divine and has preceded its execution by many years. Naturally, in the details of the execution the human consciousness ntervenes. 7.4.1969 Page 9 ...
... evolution which leads it up to the human state and evolves through it all a being of itself which we call the psychic being that supports the evolution and develops a physical, a vital, a mental human consciousness as its instruments of world-experience and of a disguised, imperfect, but growing self-expression. All this it does from behind a veil showing something of its divine self only in so far as the ...
... been constructed, and then... set off walking into the unknown. And—come what may! There. Source The Sublimest of Adventures ... there is a moment when life such as it is, the human consciousness such as it is, seems something absolutely impossible to bear, it creates a kind of disgust, repugnance; one says, "No, it is not that, it is not that; it can't be that, it can't continue." Well ...
... whose vital being is not developed do not possess. This confusion between the vital activity and the soul is a very frequent one.... The vital vibration is much more easily perceptible to the human consciousness than the vibration of the soul. To perceive the soul in someone, as a rule the mind must be very quiet—very quiet, for when it is active, its vibrations are seen, not the vibration of the ...
... new Force which has manifested and included it in her movements. And as always, the movements of Nature are on a scale which is infinitely beyond the human scale and not visible to an ordinary human consciousness. It is an inner, psychological possibility which has come into the world rather than a spectacular change in earthly events. I am saying this because you might be tempted to believe that ...
... weeping of children over their little griefs and their broken toys. Smile within thyself, but comfort the children; join also, if thou canst, in their play. It is the narrowness of the human consciousness that makes tragedies out of events which for the Divine Consciousness are only movements in the general evolution. But even when one Page 277 sees that, one can and must keep a profound ...
... of illusion disappeared. Indeed, the illusion that created this misery was lived so intensely that it became almost unbearable, with all the horrors and frightfulnesses created by it in the human consciousness and upon earth.... There had been things... frightful. And just after—just after—the liberation. What still remains to be lived, that is to say, the experience still to be realised is... the ...
... On Education Physical Education Of all the domains of human consciousness, the physical is the one most completely governed by method, order, discipline, process. The lack of plasticity and receptivity in matter has to be replaced by a detailed organisation that is both precise and comprehensive. In this organisation, one must not forget the interdependence ...
... each thing, each event, each circumstance is both the result of what has gone before and the cause of what is to follow. Chance and incoherence are only a deceptive appearance as seen by the human consciousness which is too partial and limited to see the truth of things. But this tangible and real truth exists behind all appearances and their illusory incoherence. What Sri Aurobindo tells us is: ...
... between a vibratory movement circulating in a unitary field of action and a movement coming from something outside, striking from outside and obtaining a response—that is the usual state of human consciousness. On the other hand, when the consciousness is identified with the Supreme, the movements are internal, so to say, in the sense that nothing comes from outside; there are only things that circulate ...
... a whole. But I cannot say how long it lasted nor what area it covered. I do not know. I can only remember the condition, the state, what material Nature was like, what the human form and the human consciousness were like at that time and this kind of harmony with all the other elements on earth—harmony with animal life, and such a great harmony with plant life. There was a kind of spontaneous knowledge ...
... them all, accept them, efface them so that these forces may disappear." This aphorism is the same thing from the other end, it is the same thing in essence. As long as it is possible for a human consciousness to feel, act, think or be contrary to the great divine Becoming, it is impossible to blame anyone else for it; it is impossible to blame the adverse forces which are maintained in creation as ...
... naughty because he learns to be ashamed of being naughty, not because he is afraid of punishment. 1 In the first case, he makes true progress. In the second, he falls one step down in human consciousness, for fear is a degradation of consciousness. 21 November 1969 Sweet Mother, Do the responsibilities of a teacher or an instructor cease after his working hours at school or at the ...
... evolved according to what men have understood, desired, hoped, dreamed and how He was materialist with the materialist and how He grows every day and becomes nearer, more luminous according as human consciousness widens itself. Each one is free to choose. The perfection of this endless variety of relations of man with God throughout the history of the world is an ineffable marvel. And all that Page ...
... of Thy law to the extent that they are infused with the consciousness of that law, which is not a law of practical application that can be translated into principles or rules in the ordinary human consciousness but a law of attitude, of a constant and prevailing consciousness, something that cannot be expressed in formulas but may be lived." But as soon as one falls back into the ordinary consciousness ...
... rushes down. But what happens is something like an image: it is not exactly that, but something very similar. It throws itself down into an unconsciousness, because the physical world, even human consciousness whatever it may be, is very unconscious in comparison with the psychic consciousness. So it rushes into an unconsciousness. It is as though it fell head foremost. That stuns it. And so generally ...
... next one, instead of letting each thing live in its own eternity. They are always wanting: forward, forward, forward.... And the work is spoilt. Source Live in Eternity In the human consciousness everything is very slow. When we compare the time that is necessary to realise something with the average length of human existence, it seems interminable. But happily there comes a time when ...
... Falsehood being replaced by Light... constantly. And this vibration—which I feel and see—gives an impression of fire. This is what the Vedic Rishis must have translated as the "Flame"—in the human consciousness, in man, in Matter they always spoke of a Flame. It is in fact a vibration which has the intensity of a higher fire. Several times, when the work was very concentrated or condensed, the body ...
... really is and what God; have done with vain and pleasant imaginations. Why didn't you or Sri Aurobindo make a greater use of miracles as a means of overcoming resistance in the external human consciousness? Why this kind of self-effacement where outer things are concerned, this non-intervention or discretion? As for Sri Aurobindo, I only know what he told me several times. People give the name ...
... e , the very crude means will give way to subtler ones and the world will progress without any need for such brutal oppositions. This is simply because the world is still in its infancy and human consciousness is still entirely in its infancy. This is a very concrete experience. It follows that when the earth no longer needs to die in order to progress, there will be no more death. When the earth ...
... SABCL, Vol. 19, pp. 885-86 Sweet Mother, what is the meaning of "spirituality... helps mind... to escape from itself"? As long as the mind is convinced that it is the summit of human consciousness, that there is nothing beyond and above it, it takes its own functioning to be a perfect one and is fully satisfied with the progress it can make within the limits of this functioning, and with ...
... it is already completely falsified. "Basically, this is what happens to the scientists. When they have just a bit of knowledge, they must clothe it, dress it up, to make it accessible to human consciousness, understandable to the mind. "(After a silence, Mother puts another question:) Do they know since when man came into existence? "It will take less time for the superman to appear ...
... This would tend to show.... I don't know if we can generalize or if this is just one special case being worked out (I can't say), but there's a very distinct impression that what ordinary human consciousness perceives as death might simply be that the Page 340 consciousness hasn't been brought back to its true position fast enough. I am quite aware that all this must seem confusing; ...
... their suggestions. This is what is vitally symbolized by the being with his dagger rushing forward to stab you—and in the back, at that! Not even face to face! This then expresses itself in the human consciousness by a movement of anger or rage or indignation: 'How intolerable! How ... !' And the other fellow says, 'Yes! We shall put an end to it!' It is quite interesting to watch it once, but it isn't ...
... often—is the perception of a superimposition of falsehood over a real fact. This brings us back to what I was telling you some time ago, 4 that everything is very simple in its truth, that human consciousness is what complicates everything. But the former was an even more total experience of it. Page 171 It is very interesting from the standpoint of death. I saw it once so clearly when ...
... behind every human will there are forces at work whose origin is not human and which move consciously towards certain ends. The play of these forces is very complex and generally eludes the human consciousness; but for ease of explanation and understanding, they may be divided into two main opposing tendencies: those that work for the fulfilment of the Divine work upon earth, and those that are opposed ...
... Divine is its master. Blessings. 11 December 1969 Sweet Mother, What does Sri Aurobindo mean when he speaks of change of consciousness? Passing from the general ignorant human consciousness to the yogic consciousness founded on the knowledge of the Divine Presence. Blessings. 13 December 1969 Page 403 Sweet Mother, Why is it better to go to bed early ...
... actually in life. The complexity arises not only in extension but also in depth. Man does not live on a single plane but on many planes at the same time. There is a scale of gradation in human consciousness: the higher one rises in the scale the greater the number of elements or personalities that one possesses. Whether one lives mostly or mainly on the physical or vital or mental plane or on any ...
... all my wrongdoings, take them all, accept them, obliterate them, and may those forces disappear." That's essentially what this aphorism says, seen from the other end. So long as a single human consciousness carries the possibility of feeling, acting, thinking or being in opposition to the great Page 46 divine Becoming, it is impossible to blame anyone else for it; it is impossible to ...
... would truly be a conscious expression of the supreme Will translated individually. But in the normal human state, such a case is still extremely rare and doesn't seem at all natural to ordinary human consciousness—it seems almost supernatural! Man questions himself because the mental instrument is made for seeing all possibilities and because the human being feels he has freedom of choice... and the ...
... it's finished, its utility is gone and it dissolves. It's an interesting experience to follow and observe. ( soon afterwards ) I went down into a place ... a place simply in the human consciousness, thus necessarily in my body ... I have never seen anything more timorous, fearful, feeble and mean! It's ... it must be a part of the cells, part of the consciousness, something that lives in ...
... nowhere; you're just reverting to the old way of doing things. A little later, Satprem returns to the previous conversation on the gods: But do those gods exist independently of human consciousness? They're not human creations? Page 366 No, not at all! One thing struck me: you say that the Gita as Sri Aurobindo explained it is not overmental but supramental.... Sri ...
... ." 29 (1) Is this change always violent and destructive, such as a revolution or a war? Not necessarily. What expresses itself as a war or a revolution is the resistance in the human consciousness to the New Force. When the resistance is less, everything takes place harmoniously. (2) And is the converse always valid: if there is a war or a revolution, is it the sign of a descent ...
... hour? Neither the one nor the other in their apparent contradiction created by the separative consciousness, but something else that our words cannot express. In the present state of human consciousness, it is good for it to think that aspiration and human effort can hasten the advent of the divine transformation, because effort and aspiration are needed for the transformation to take place ...
... and big words, but to truly explain myself, I should say: the Universal Mother. ( silence ) Automatically, everything that exists is a natural expression of divine Joy, even the things human consciousness finds most horrifying—this is understandable. But at the same time there is this aspiration, so intense that it's almost anguish, for a perfection of creation to come. And it does seem that this ...
... the resistance of all that must be dissolved, all the past habit. It is the contact of the movement of dissolution with the corresponding resistance that probably translates in the ordinary human consciousness as the sense of renunciation. I saw that very recently; it's something insignificant, the circumstances are completely unimportant in themselves (it's only the study of the whole that makes ...
... . Falsehood replaced by Light... constantly. And this Vibration (which I feel and see) gives the feeling of a fire. That's probably what the Vedic Rishis translated as the "Flame"—in the human consciousness, in man, in Matter. They always spoke of a "Flame." 1 It is indeed a vibration with the intensity of a higher fire. The body even felt several times, when the Work was very concentrated ...
... of this present incarnation was sexless—a warrior), an absolutely calm and imperturbable warrior—no desires, no attachments.... Since my earliest childhood, I have done things which, to the human consciousness, are "monstrous"; my mother went so far as to tell me that I was a real "monster," because I had neither attachments nor desires. If I was asked, "Would you like to do this?" I answered, "I don't ...
... him worse. It is a mistake to consider service to humanity as the highest expression of service to the Divine. To do so is to remain far too confined within the limits of an exclusive human consciousness. The best way of helping others is to transform oneself. Be perfect and you will be in a position to bring perfection to the world. Rise to a higher consciousness for the world ...
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