... short in front. I mean the ordinary human vision. For example, there isn't one man in a million who can say what is going to happen to him ten years hence, though he may make many plans and projects and try to organise his life; but he can't say with certitude what will happen, because his vision is very short. The divine vision is not like that. It [human vision] is very short, very limited in space ...
... action; it is Knowledge-Will. The human vision and human will are so limited that they cannot enter directly into the vision of the Supreme Reality. Divya- drishti. Divine Vision has to intervene. This is the reason why when Arjuna wanted to have the vision of the Divine, Lord Page 242 Krishna tells him that he cannot have it with his limited human vision. Lord Krishna then bestows upon Arjuna ...
... s, reveals himself in man and in all beings. The potential outcome here of this union, this divine Yoga, man growing towards the Godhead, the Godhead manifest in the human soul and to the inner human vision, is our liberation from limited ego and our elevation to the higher nature of a divine humanity. For dwelling in this greater spiritual nature and not in the mortal weft, the tangled complexity ...
... Mother are the same—there is no less nor greater. 31 March 1934 Why do some people here consider you greater than the Mother? Are not both of you from the same plane? Is it not a veil over the human vision that makes such a distinction? It is the minds that see surface things only and cannot see what is behind them. 28 March 1935 ...
... comes from his animal evolution. ( silence ) It is said that divine Love doesn't manifest because, in the world's present state of imperfection, the result would be a catastrophe—that's a human vision. Divine Love manifests, has manifested eternally, will manifest eternally, and it's the incapacity of the material world... not only of the material world, but of the vital world and the mental ...
... pure Truth—they wouldn't even understand it. To put it more precisely, what is constantly realized is the supreme vision, but its realization in this mixed material world isn't seen by the ignorant human vision as the triumph of good (of what men call "good" and "true"). But—to put it humorously—it's not the Lord's fault, it's mens' fault! That is, the Lord knows what he is doing, but men don't understand ...
... cargo of imagery before him and it is a cargo from many countries, from many worlds; it is a cargo of dreams, nay, of dreamlike realities and of eternal verities lying beyond our poor limited human vision. Or, perhaps, those images are not a cargo at all, but are themselves the boats, the freighters in which is loaded the divine cargo; for the boats, the freighters are familiar to us since they ...
... especially if it disturbs the higher working. Why do some people here consider you as greater than the Mother? Are not both of you from the same plane? Is it not a veil over the human vision that makes such a distinction? It is the minds that see surface things only and cannot see what is behind them. Our correspondence is a great help and enlightenment ...
... Divinity —that which makes the worshipper cry in delight, "Hail!" It is the coming of the Dawn— ahana— when the night has been traversed and the lid rent open, the appearance of the Divine 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 ...
... breathing difficulty; urine output definitely diminished. That was an alarming signal. We decided to make a thorough blood analysis. Sri Aurobindo consented after a great deal of reluctance. Our poor human vision! It was a Sunday; the General Hospital was closed. Dr. Nripendra and I hunted out the laboratory assistant; he took some blood from Sri Aurobindo's imperceptible vein. The punctures were painful ...
... "He was," writes one of his eminent biographers, "One of those giant spirits that on occasion bestride this world of pigmies, shedding fresh light, giving new life and expanding the frontiers of human vision and consciousness." And he achieved this because of his oceanic largeness which could receive the waters of all the rivers of the _____________________ 'Translated from one of his three famous ...
... greater light of self-knowledge and the knowledge of God and Nature is being unfolded before him. But intellectual clarity is not enough; he must see with the inner sight illumining his blind outward human vision, so that he may act with the consent of his whole being, with a perfect faith in all his members, śraddhā , with a perfect devotion to the Self of his self and the Master of his being and to the ...
... The world is not ready for the supramental force and if it is used without preparing the base, things will shatter completely. I have to prepare the base and then bring down the force. Your human vision sees things in a straight line. For you it is either this way or that way. For me it is not like this. I see the whole thing as a mass of consciousness moving towards its end or goal. For every ...
... childish. All the attempts that are made to enlighten, organize, educate mankind, to awaken it to a higher consciousness, to give it mastery over Nature and its forces, all of it—all of it, which for a human vision is sometimes utterly sublime, seems absolutely like children playing and having fun in a nursery. And children who love dangerous games, who believe TERRIBLY in what they do (as do children, naturally) ...
... ng based on experiences, memories, very small dormant things that seemed to be gone, and which awaken for the experience to become concrete. So then, all that unfolds, with the human sensation, human vision, human understanding (even the most spiritual understanding, I might say), and at the same time... this Presence. And then the Presence brings the TRUE understanding.... Something wonderful. ...
... smiles with her eyes closed ). All of a sudden I saw—I saw the world in another way. For a moment, all of a sudden I saw as... as the Divine sees the world, you understand? There was no longer the human vision. And I saw something so marvelous.... It was so marvelous I can't describe it. Then slowly the human consciousness came back and... oh! ( Mother takes her forehead in her hands ) Page 308 ...
... magnificence, I did not know where to stop! How is it possible, you may now ask, for one person, howsoever gifted, to write on such diverse subjects, all concerned with the highest reaches of human vision and thought, month after month without the inspiration flagging, without any discontinuity in the arguments and in a language which one of his English disciples Arjava (J.A. Chadwick) aptly described ...
... Divinity – that which makes the worshipper cry in delight, "Hail!" It is the coming of the Dawn – ahan ā – when the night has been traversed and the lid rent open, the appearance of the Divine 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 ...
... various spiritual and psycho- 39. At a mere glance, Sri Ramakrishna could see the soul of a man and predict his destiny. Page 189 logical factors beyond the range of human vision, and also on the degree of the resistance of the physical nature itself. And it is this length of time taken for manifestation or materialisation that gives an apparent plausibility to the facile ...
... why Sri Aurobindo called it the "Truth-Consciousness" and in what way He was "blind." I never saw the world so much as since I have withdrawn, he wrote. Naturally, we shall be told that the human vision, real or unreal, is perfectly adapted to the human milieu, as is the marmot to its hole—but the point is to know whether death, too, and pain are forever "adapted" to our life or if they are some ...
... the thing is done. How could the mineral understand the “materiality” of life? Cellular Survival No doubt one can think that this ponderability is simply a question of vision and if the human vision changes, the imponderable will become perfectly ponderable. But there still remains this old rag that we bury, and I do not know why, but I feel that the whole secret is precisely there. Otherwise ...
... which we don't understand – which is covered over by all sorts of habits. It is, in fact, the gradual uncovering of a marvel. Each species is like a new vision opening on the earth. Our human vision obviously is more open than that of a mongoose. But it still isn't the "total" vision of what is THERE on earth. Evolution is a growing vision. And finally, it means being all that is there ...
... this zero? It is an incalculable Infinite. Our sense by its incapacity has invented darkness. In truth there is nothing but Light, only it is a power of light either above or below our poor human vision's limited range. For do not imagine that light is created by the Suns. The Suns are only physical concentrations of Light, but the splendour they concentrate for us is self-born and everywhere... and Fragments on Philosophy, Psychology and Yoga (1912-1947) From Man to Superman: Notes and Fragments on Philosophy, Psychology and Yoga (1912-1947) Philosophy: God, Nature and Man Essays Divine and Human God: The One Reality The Divine Eternal and Infinite 1 There are three Powers with whom we have to reckon, three and no others; for no others... right relations with the other truths or appearances of existence, to live in it and govern by its Truth all our being, consciousness, nature, will, action would then be the law of a perfect life. If human life is imperfect, it is because its consciousness moves seeking, groping, experimenting in a fundamental ignorance of the real truth of its own being and is therefore unable to know or to effectuate ...
... is like that, everything has become entirely new and... unexpected, in the sense that all the human mental vision—is completely gone! So things are much better! ( Laughing ) Much better without the human mind. (I don't mean they are better without man, I mean that seen from another viewpoint than the human, mental viewpoint, everything is far more wonderful.) And then, all the details of every minute... the possibility of doing away with that vibration of desire through a broader and more total vision—broader, more total, more distant, that is to say, the vision of a vaster totality. I am insisting on this, because it eliminates all moral elements. It eliminates the derogatory notion of desire. The vision increasingly eliminates all those notions of good and evil, good and bad, inferior and superior... was to follow from that action—it's a very common mistake. People are used to thinking that when they want a particular thing, that's what should come; because their vision is too short—too short and too limited, not an overall vision which would make them see that that particular vibration is necessary to trigger a number of other vibrations, and that it's the TOTALITY of them all that will have an ...
... is always Page 24 something unfathomable about his vision — a distance beyond distance, a depth beyond depth: this constitutes the transcendence of the intellectual meaning by poetry. Ultimately the transcendence derives from the Supreme Spirit, the Poet Creator whose words are worlds. The human poet's vision has a contact, remote or close, with "some eternal eye," as the phrase... continuing world-existence - poetry achieves for whatever it catches. The perfection of phrase in which it embodies its vision makes that vision memorable for ever: it confers immortality on its themes by expressing them in such a way that the expression gets imprinted indelibly on the human mind: it eternises for all future an occurrence or an object of the present or the past. As Landor says: Past... himself dis-appears into sight: the personality of the poet is lost in the eternity of the vision, and the Spirit of all seems alone to be there speaking out sovereignly its own secrets." Note again the turn: "the eternity of the vision." The Eternal Eye is at the back of all poetic perfection, and what this Eye visions is the Divine Presence taking flawless shape in a super-cosmos. To that shape the poet ...
... was a time when I might have said, "No religion has done more evil in the world than this one." But I am not so sure now. It's one ASPECT of that religion. It's yet too human a vision of things. I prefer—I prefer the vision of the Lord telling the Asura, "Go ahead, keep on growing and growing and growing... and there will be no more Asura!" ( laughing ) That's better. ( silence ) Page 205... a bit outdated [the papacy]. But not so much as one may think. I saw that when the other one died, oh, how it stirred the earth's mental atmosphere, it was considerable. Which means that many, many human beings are still governed by that. But I never concerned myself with that domain. Even when I saw the Pope, the one before the last one [Pius XII], who came to offer me the Keys (I told you the story... situation from a distance: of course the whole world isn't Catholic, but there are Catholics all over the world. What seems... bizarre to those who have gone beyond the petty, purely terrestrial limits—human terrestrial limits—is that belief in a SINGLE divine manifestation on the earth; all the religions are based on that, everyone says, "Christ was the only one," or "Buddha was the only one," or elsewhere ...
... of things unknown, there is always something unfathomable about his vision—a distance beyond distance, a depth beyond depth: this constitutes the transcendence of the intellectual meaning by poetry. Ultimately the transcendence derives from the Supreme Spirit, the Poet Creator whose words are worlds. The human poet's vision has a contact, remote or close, with "some eternal eye", as the phrase... continuing world-existence—poetry achieves for whatever it catches. The perfection of phrase in which it embodies its vision makes that vision memorable for ever: it confers immortality on its themes by expressing them in such a way that the expression gets imprinted indelibly on the human mind : it eternises for all future a happening or an object of the present or the past. As Landor says : Past... it is in spite of its appearance of human convention a law of Nature, an innermost mind-nature, a highest speech-nature." The verb "metred", therefore, in the last line of our quotation ay be held to be perfecdy in order, especially in a context where infinity is implied to be harmoniously dynamic, eternity Page 218 is said to be the visioner of the temporal and both together ...
... things unknown, there is always something unfathomable about his vision - a distance beyond distance, a depth beyond depth: this constitutes the transcendence of the intellectual meaning by poetry. Ultimately the transcendence derives from the Supreme Spirit, the Poet Creator whose words are worlds. The human poet's vision has a contact, remote or close, with "some eternal eye", as the... continuing world-existence - poetry achieves for whatever it catches. The perfection of phrase in which it embodies its vision makes that vision memorable for ever: it confers immortality on its themes by expressing them in such a way that the expression gets imprinted indelibly on the human mind: it eternises for all future a happening or an object of the present or the past. As Landor says: ... Page 176 of its appearance of human convention a law of Nature, an innermost mind-nature, a highest speech-nature." The verb "metred", therefore, in the last line of our quotation may be held to be perfectly in order, especially in a context where infinity is implied to be harmoniously dynamic, eternity is said to be the visioner of the temporal and both together emerge as ...
... things unknown, there is always something unfathomable about his vision — a distance beyond distance, a depth beyond depth: this constitutes the transcendence of the intellectual meaning by poetry. Ultimately the transcendence derives from the Supreme Spirit, the Poet Creator whose words are worlds. The human poet's vision has a contact, remote or close, with "some eternal eye", as the... continuing world-existence — poetry achieves for whatever it catches. The perfection of phrase in which it embodies its vision makes that vision memorable for ever: it confers immortality on its themes by expressing them in such a way that the expression gets imprinted indelibly on the human mind: it eternises for all future a happening or an object of the present or the past. As Landor says: Past... 214 spite of its appearance of human convention a law of Nature, an innermost mind-nature, a highest speech-nature." 11 The verb "metred", therefore, in the last line of our quotation may be held to be perfectly in order, especially in a context where infinity is implied to be harmoniously dynamic, eternity is said to be the visioner of the temporal and both together emerge as ...
... mysticism... must acknowledge Sri Aurobindo as one of the greatest men, not only of our age, but of all ages. His all-embracing, crystal clear and profound philosophy is assuredly a contribution to human thought, vision and progress which ranks with that of Plato, Kant, Bergson or Goethe... the findings of Sri Aurobindo which we have no means of verifying at our level of experience actually supply all the ... participation" - is the mechanics of the "divine change"? IV The next great landmark in the progressive realisation of the world-vision of Sri Aurobindo was the inauguration of the futurist township, 'Auroville', City of Dawn, City of Human Unity, on the outskirts of Pondicherry, on 28 February Page 769 1968.* Seven days earlier, several thousands of the Mother's disciples... choice in the evolutionary crisis, his likely curve of development, his summits of possible ascent - in The Human Cycle and The Ideal of Human Unity, the concern is more with the human aggregate, its awakening soul, its evolving destiny, its purposive thrust towards the future. As with a human body - which is an aggregate of numberless cells and tissues - sometimes the mind decides and the body obeys ...
... the “other state.” Before the small tarsier of Borneo acquired its binocular vision that prepared our own, there must have been, within many species, a number of strange or aberrant “visions” that were nonetheless the “logic” and “mathematics” and evidence of that fish or this bat. And what is our human retinal vision anyway? — A narrow band between ultraviolet and near infrared, seen in a binocular... s, even the movement of the earth and the stars, everything has become entirely new and ... unexpected, in the sense that all the human mental vision — completely gone! So things are much better! (Question:) But is it a vision of “another world”? This new vision of things ... it's not going out of Matter in order to see the world in another way (that has been done for a long time, of course... non-binocular organ and through something other than a microscope or a telescope, which have never been anything but a widening of the same obsolete retinal vision? Biology and physics define the laws of a certain milieu or a certain human fishbowl which endeavours to look at itself or to look through the walls of its bowl, but when you move to another milieu, as the amphibian one day emerged into ...
... mislead us, because it is not an epitome of human consciousness, but another type of consciousness. We might try to approach it by distinguishing two aspects, one of consciousness or vision, and one of power. But this means becoming caught in the mental trap again, because these two aspects are inseparable; this consciousness is power, an active vision. Often, when Sri Aurobindo and Mother tried... work and spiritual vision of evolution; The Synthesis of Yoga , in which he describes the various stages and experiences of the integral yoga, and surveys all the past and present yogic disciplines; the Essays on the Gita , which expounds his philosophy of action; The Secret of the Veda , with a study of the origins of language; and The Ideal of Human Unity and The Human Cycle , which approach... abysmal Page 257 subconscient and a vast superconscient. It is this childish fragmentation – for it really belongs to our human childhood – that is the cause of all our errors and sufferings; all our woes proceed from this narrowness of vision, which is a false vision of ourselves and of the world. For in truth, the world and each cell of our body is Sat-chit-ananda , Existence-Consciousness-Bliss; ...
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