... Eternal. It lives therefore at its heights in all that which the action of the pure ideative mind is an effort to reach and discover, and even on its lower ranges these things are to its luminous receptivity present, near or easily grasped and available. But while the highest truths or the pure ideas are to the ideative mind abstractions, because mind lives partly in the phenomenal and partly in intellectual... formations. The thought is only or mainly interesting to the soul on this mental level as a means for a large range of action and experience. A third gradation of thinking opens in us the pure ideative mind which lives disinterestedly in truth of the idea apart from any necessary dependence on its value for action and experience. It views the data of the senses and the superficial inner experience... knowledge, its whole object is to have the delight of ideation, the search for truth, the effort to know itself and the world and all that may lie behind its own action and the world action. This ideative mind is the highest reach of the intellect acting for itself, characteristically, in its own power and for its own purpose. It is difficult for the human mind to combine rightly and harmonise these ...
... this mental level as a means for a large range of action and experience. A third gradation of thinking opens in us the pure ideative mind whose whole object is to have the delight of ideation, the search for truth, the effort to know itself and the world. This ideative mind is the highest reach of the intellect acting in its own power and for its own purpose. 72 Now, once we cross the confines ...
... rime "loving and lightful" is to be expressive from the Page 179 depth of one's being. People can be "loving" from the vital-emotional nature or they can be ''lightful" from the ideative mind, but it is only when one acts from the true soul that one can be both warm and illuminative and bring the atmosphere of a consciousness which has a spontaneous sense of the truth of things. ...
... heart and its urges, the vital and its surges, the physical impulses – it is these of which the poets sang in their infinite variations. But the mind proper, that is to say, the higher reflective ideative mind, was not given the right of citizenship in the domain of poetry. I am not forgetting the so-called Metaphysicals. The element of metaphysics among the Metaphysicals has already been called into ...
... uses cognate forms, and yet has something quite different in its spirit which creates a pronounced and separating divergence in its aesthetic tones, type of imagination, turn of self-expression, ideative mind, method, form, structure. The mind accustomed to the European idea and technique expects the same kind of satisfaction here and does not meet it, feels a baffling difference to whose secret it is ...
... 21 April 1925 1925-04-21 I mean by trained intelligence, the capacity to think rightly and see the truth, the truth of things in themselves and in right relation to each other. I mean the ideative mind. I do not mean to say that people have no ideas, but having ideas does not mean they think or look for the truth. Being idealistic does not mean that they have trained intelligence. It is just the ...
... offered to it. 20 April 1925 I mean by trained intelligence the capacity to think rightly and see the truth, the truth of things in themselves and in right relation to each other. I mean the ideative mind. I do not mean to say that people have no ideas, but having ideas does not mean they think or look for the truth. Being* idealistic does not mean that they have trained intelligence. It is just ...
... whether I can say from experience if we are able to manipulate the world by sheer will-power. There have been occasions when I wanted something to happen or to be done and a force went forth from the ideative mind but backed by an urge from the heart-centre and a drive from the vital being - and Io, the impossible-looking event which had been willed and aspired after took place. But on other occasions there ...
... Spirit-stuff which secretly pervades everything. Rising from that pervasion it comes charged with a broad and strong clarity of conception from the inside, resembling certain lofty outbrusts of the ideative mind proper but differing by a vibration-frequency, so to speak, no less than by a directness of spiritual sense. When Sri Aurobindo writes— I have drunk the Infinite like a giant's wine, ...
... artistic motive. Wordsworth is the standard example of the slow stiffening of the impulse of song towards the suprasensuous; for unless a centre of vision is reached and possessed beyond the mere ideative mind, poetry is likely, in its endeavour to express the first principles of things, to get hardened into metrical metaphysics, so that instead of the great moving rhythms and transparencies of the inner ...
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