... his importance. Knowing that the real teacher is seated within the pupil, he hands over the task of guidance to that inner guide as soon as possible. Until then, he devotes all his energies to one single aim, the/lowering of the pupil's faculties and the awakening of the inner guide seated within the pupil's heart. It is to such a teacher that the ancient tradition of India assigned highest reverence... Indian educational andyogic system recognized that the real teacher is the supreme Brahman seated within oneself, and sooner rather than later, the seeker must discover the inner teacher and the inner guide. The necessity for the pupil to have the external word or the external guidance of a teacher is then seen to be a concession to human limitations. We require external aids until we realize ...
... all in the individual becomes the divine working. As the supreme Shastra of the integral Yoga is the eternal Veda secret in the heart of every man, so its supreme Guide and Teacher is the inner Guide, the World-Teacher, jagad-guru , secret within us. It is he who destroys our darkness by the resplendent light of his knowledge; that light becomes within us the increasing glory of his own sel... right to despond because of his personal deficiencies or the stumblings of his nature. For the Force that works in him is impersonal—or superpersonal—and infinite. The full recognition of this inner Guide, Master of the Yoga, lord, light, enjoyer and goal of all sacrifice and effort, is of the utmost importance in the path of integral perfection. It is immaterial whether he is first seen as an impersonal... perceive that he is all and more than all these things together. The mind's door of entry to the conception of him must necessarily vary according to the past evolution and the present nature. This inner Guide is often veiled at first by the very intensity of our personal effort and by the ego's preoccupation with itself and its aims. As we gain in clarity and the turmoil of egoistic effort gives place ...
... importance. Knowing that the real teacher is seated within the pupil, he hands over the .task of guidance to that inner guide as soon as possible. Until then, he devotes all his energies to one single aim, the flowering of the pupil's faculties and the awakening of the inner guide seated within the pupil's heart. It is to such a teacher that the ancient tradition of India assigned highest reverence... Indian educational and yogic system recognized that the real teacher is the supreme Brahman seated within oneself,, and sooner rather than later, the seeker must discover the inner teacher and the inner guide. Page 36 The necessity for the pupil to have the external word or the external guidance of a teacher is then seen to be a concession to human limitations. We require external aids until ...
... art and beauty, but particularly music and painting, fascinated me. I went through a very intense vital development during that period, with, just like in my early years, the presence of a kind of inner Guide; and all centered on studies: the study of sensations, observations, the study of technique, comparative studies, even a whole spectrum of observations dealing with taste, smell and hearing—a kind... of your psychic being," it's for the being formed by external Nature to contact the divine Presence through the psychic being. Then the psychic takes charge of the whole being; in fact, it is the inner Guide.... Well, when I Page 283 was a little child, this "person" (which wasn't a person, but an expression of a certain consciousness and will) was actually the psychic presence; there was ...
... Yes, your own higher self in a way, whom you can meet in a human person. Page 240 Q: You don't always meet... ? A. No. You may not always meet but he is always there, the inner guide. The guru is always there, the higher self of man. You may identify and meet him in a human person. That also happens and then you can recognize him. Then it is not his human nature that will gude... Sri Aurobindo say in his Synthesis of Yoga that it is possible for the person to contact the spirit of truth within his own self? A. Yes, the guru is in the heart, the inner guru, he is the inner guide. The true guru is in the heart. He is always there. Sri Aurobindo has clearly said that the guru is within. All people cannot contact or awaken this guru within; so they meet the guru outside. The ...
... did not know how to proceed further and was searching for some guidance. Then I met Lele in the top room of Sardar Majumdar's house. After my separation from Lele, I had to rely on my inner guide. The inner guide led me through many mistakes. For days and days together I would follow wrong lines and come to know only at the end that it was all a mistake. At that time, I was making all sorts of e ...
... darkness and ugliness must be borne to the end even if all divine succour seems to be withdrawn. I must remain in the bosom of the Night and walk on without compass, without beacon-light, without inner guide.... I will not even implore Thy mercy; for what Thou willst for me, I too will. All my energy is in tension solely to advance, always to advance, step after step, despite the depth of the darkness ...
... if you don’t you are in the falsehood. But all this has never led to anything and has only created confusion. Page 39 There is only one true guide, that is the inner guide, who does not pass through the mental consciousness. Naturally, if a child gets a disastrous education, it will try ever harder to extinguish within itself this little true thing, and ...
... must be borne to the Page 297 end even if all divine succour seems to be withdrawn. I must remain in the bosom of the Night and walk on without compass, without beacon-light, without inner guide. I will not even implore Thy mercy; for what Thou willst for me, I too will. All my energy is in tension solely to advance, always to advance step after step, despite the depth of the darkness ...
... to the dogma you are in the truth and if you don't you are in the falsehood. But all this has never led to anything and has only created confusion. There is only one true guide, that is the inner guide, who does not pass through the mental consciousness. Naturally, if a child gets a disastrous education, it Will try ever harder to extinguish Within itself this little Page-141 ...
... on, worship, ceremonies, religious practice are not themselves Yoga but only a means towards Yoga. Nor is Yoga a difficult or dangerous path, it is safe and easy to all who take refuge with the Inner Guide and Teacher. All men are potentially capable of it, for there is no Page 11 man who has not strength or faith or love developed or latent in his nature, and any one of these is a sufficient ...
... Impersonal of the illusionist. He will be an atheist for the atheist, and the love of the lover. He will be fraternal and near, an ever faithful friend, ever helpful, to those who feel him as the inner guide of each movement, at each minute. And if you believe that He can erase everything, He will erase all your faults, all your errors, tirelessly, and at each moment you will feel his infinite Grace ...
... May 1963) ‘It must be your own mantra, not something you have received from whomever — the mantra that has spontaneously risen up from the depth of your being, that has come from your inner guide.’ (23 September 1964) ‘It is good for the mantra to rise up spontaneously with the simplicity of the call of a child — two or three words which repeat themselves rhythmically. If it does ...
... ignorant, a self-centered act of the mental will can only lead us astray. Sri Aurobindo had said that he had been progressing step by step in his yoga, instructed in total surrender by the all-wise inner Guide. So too did the Mother. Behind her, within her was present the guiding hand of the Great Mother, of her Self, and each of her movements in this world of ignorance was supported by the Flame of a ...
... them into the Truth. No effort is needed, no aid from the mind or any of the instruments, even the individual consent is no longer needed. Those who are predestined receive the help of an Inner Guide. Divine solicitude: always active, even when we do not perceive it. Let us understand and receive with gratitude this Divine Solicitude, so often not understood. Integral solace: ...
... couldn't be done. But that's why I say it has to be YOUR mantra, not something you received from whomever—the mantra that arose spontaneously from your deeper being ( gesture to the heart ), from your inner guide. That's what holds out. When you don't know, when you don't understand, when you don't want to let the mind intervene and you are... THAT is there; the mantra is there; and it helps you to get through ...
... Divine such as Sri Aurobindo — occurs in one of the months just before the Descent of the Overmind into the physical beings of both Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. He is recorded as saying: 4 "The inner guide may fail after a time in the sadhana. I had attained an inner calm, before J took help from Lele. But when I came to ¹ Ibid., 367. ² Talks with Sri Aurobindo (Sri Aurobindo ...
... We tried to explain to the smith that it would be quite all right to proceed without consulting the Mother. But he was adamant. "My God!" I said to myself. "What have I done — by discrediting the inner guide?" The old lady increased her yelling. Suddenly something got into the smith's head or, more appropriately speaking, his heart — and the Guru inside gave the decision: "If you Page 52 ...
... time on the way. But it was recognised that the real teacher is the Supreme Brahman seated in the heart of the pupil, and sooner rather than later, the pupil must discover the inner teacher and inner guide. The Vedic system of education worked on sound psychological principles and methods of education relevant to the teaching-learning processes. The most important idea was to aim at an all-round ...
... the vicissitudes of his early years in Pondicherry. Ever since his arrival, he was wholly absorbed in his Yoga. He was not following any of the traditional lines but, obeying the dictates of his inner Guide, was opening out a new path and sailing the uncharted seas of the Spirit. A letter dated July 1911, written a little more than a year after his arrival gives an indication of this new path and the ...
... In the Synthesis of Yoga, you have written, "As the Supreme Shastra of the Integral Yoga is the eternal Veda secret in the heart of every man, so its Supreme Guide and Teacher is the inner Guide, the World Teacher. . . ."A friend said that this Supreme Teacher is the psychic being. It is not the psychic. It is the Divine within - the psychic is only an instrument. If desire ...
... fair-weather sailing, as much of course as it is humanly possible. What are then these conditions? It is when the sadhaka keeps touch with his inmost being, his psychic consciousness, when this inner Guide and Helmsman is given the charge; for then he will be able to pass sovereignly by all shoals and rocks and storm-racks, through all vicissitudes gliding on—slow or swift as needed— inevitably towards ...
... is still there as antaryāmin, as the secret Inner Controller. And whatever the vagaries of the outer instruments or their slavery to the mode of Ignorance, in and through all that, it is this Inner Guide that holds the reins and drives upward in the end. Thus naturally there appear gradations of the human personality; as the consciousness in the human being rises higher and higher, the psychic ...
... Page 186 I had stopped thinking of myself or of my future? In fact this had started even earlier - since my Nirvana experience. From then onwards I had always followed the Voice of the Inner Guide. He took me to Chandernagore, brought me to Pondicherry." "How exactly did you come? Do tell us! It must have been very difficult, since you were in hiding and Pondicherry is a long way off from ...
... nor of the sophisticated lecturer, nor of the supercilious seminar-participant; there is here no argument, no attempt at exegesis; there is only simple statement and a call for reliance on the inner guide. First about the 'matter' of Savitri, and of its author's mantric mode of communication: He has crammed the whole universe into a single book. It is a marvellous work, magnificent, and ...
... of every thinking and living being .... As the supreme Shastra of the integral Yoga is the eternal Veda secret in the heart of every man, so its supreme Guide and Teacher is the inner Page 14 Guide, the World-Teacher, jagad-guru, secret within us. It is he who destroys our darkness by the resplendent light of his knowledge .... He discloses progressively in us his own nature of ...
... individual and universal and transcendental. (4) Hostile Maya is difficult to surmount. Careful not to be dazzled by anything that imitates the Divine. Our surrender must be onepointed to the inner guide and the Divine Mother. I must not be disturbed by the victory of the hostile but wait for the Divine Mother’s intervention. I must be empowered by Her Force, Knowledge and Love and surrender ...
... Adwaita. Of course if you set out to poetise Shankara, there is much in the poem that would have to be barred out. Priya [beloved] and nāth [lord] would not do. On the other hand antaryāmi [inner guide] and prabhu [master] could remain; Shankara himself would not have avoided these two words, I believe. Not love exactly, but bhakti is permissible even for the Mayavadi at a certain stage before ...
... × The Unified, in whom conscious thought is concentrated, who is all delight and enjoyer of delight, the Wise.... He is the Lord of all, the Omniscient, the inner Guide. Mandukya Upanishad 5, 6. × Satya means Truth; Krita, effected or completed. ...
... upon the path, even if they seem at first to wander uncertainly and even though the path itself may be only obscurely seen and the knowledge of the goal may be imperfect. The secret Teacher, the inner Guide is already at work, though he may not yet manifest himself or may not yet appear in the person of his human representative. Whatever difficulties and hesitations may ensue, they cannot eventually ...
... altered to: ] to trust only to the guidance of the Divine within him if once he could become aware of that guidance. What Lele asked him was whether he could surrender himself entirely to the Inner Guide within him and move as it moved him; Page 109 if so he needed no instructions from Lele or anybody else. This Sri Aurobindo accepted and made that his rule of sadhana and of life. Before ...
... same inner guidance. That is necessary for the deepest inmost divine element within behind the mind, life and body to come forward fully in you—when it does you will be able to become aware of the inner guide within you and of a Force working for the full spiritual change. This simplicity comes by a separation from the manifold devious mental and vital movements which lead one in all directions—a quiet ...
... conform to the dogma you are in the truth and if you don't you are in the falsehood. But all this has never led to anything and has only created confusion. There is only one true guide, that is the inner guide, who does not pass through the mental consciousness. Naturally, if a child gets a disastrous education, it will try ever harder to extinguish within itself this little true thing, and sometimes ...
... be Page 337 able to compare them in your own thought, compare the effect they have on you, how far they help you or don't. Naturally, people who are predestined are guided by the inner Guide. It happens that they come across the book they should read or meet the person who can give them a useful indication; but this is... After some time they become aware that there was a consciousness ...
... the Arya at two places. Sri Aurobindo: How is that? Where? Disciple: In The Synthesis of Yoga , in the fourth chapter about the Four Aids; you have mentioned there Chaitya Guru, the inner guide. Disciple: In Vaishnavite literature it means the portion — Amsha — of the Divine which guides a man. It is called Chaitya Guru. Sri Aurobindo: I wanted to know if the word has a fixed ...
... of the illusionist; He will be atheist with the atheist and the love of the lover. He will be brotherly and close, a friend always faithful, always ready to succour, for those who feel Him as the inner guide of each movement, at every moment. And if you believe that He can wipe away everything, He will wipe away all your faults, all your errors, tirelessly, and at every moment you can feel His infinite ...
... my advice on everything, everything they do, from their business to their daughter's marriage. I don't answer anymore, I say: "It's not my business." "Oh! How can that be?" "Consult the inner Guide." ( Mother laughs ) Satprem prepares to leave: Is your health all right? The nights are better, aren't they? Yes, since you started making that cocoon, I haven't been troubled anymore ...
... of your psychic being," it's for the being formed by external Nature to contact the divine Presence through the psychic being. Then the psychic takes charge of the whole being; in fact, it is the inner Guide.... Well, when I was a little child, this "person" (which wasn't a person, but an expression of a certain consciousness and will) was actually the psychic presence; there was something else behind ...
... of consciousness development.' Page 47 fascinated me. I went through a very intense vital development during that period, with, just like in my early years, the presence of a kind of inner Guide; and all centred on studies: the study of sensations, observations, the study of technique, comparative studies, even a whole spectrum of observations dealing with taste, smell and hearing—a kind ...
... Impersonal of the illusionists; He will be atheist with the atheist and the love of the lover. He will be brotherly and close, a friend always faithful, always ready to succour those who feel Him as the inner guide in each movement, at every moment. And if you believe that He can wipe away everything, He will wipe away all your faults, all your errors tirelessly, and at every moment you can feel His infinite ...
... new morality that would transcend the traditional dichotomy between good and evil and embrace all extremes of life in one unified vision. In Magister Ludi, the hero struggles to be true to his inner guide and is assisted by a teacher who is centred in his inner self. Both teacher and pupil (who ' later becomes a teacher) aspire to live and express their joy fid experience of inner perfection. The ...
... fair – weather sailing, as much of course as it is humanly possible. What are then these conditions? It is when the sadhaka keeps touch with his inmost being, his psychic consciousness, when this inner Guide and Helmsman is given the charge; for then he will be able to pass sovereignly by all shoals and rocks and storm-racks, through all vicissitudes, gliding on – slow or swift as needed – Inevitably ...
... is still there as antaryamin, as the secret Inner Controller. And whatever the vagaries of the outer instruments or their slavery to the mode of Ignorance, in and through all that, it is this Inner Guide that holds the reins and drives upward in the end. Thus naturally there appear gradations of the human personality; as the consciousness in the human being rises higher and higher, the psychic ...
... is still there as antaryamin, as the secret Inner Controller. And whatever the vagaries of the outer instruments or their slavery to the mode of Ignorance, in and through all that, it is this Inner Guide that holds the rein and drives upward in the end. Thus naturally there appear gradations of the human personality; as the consciousness in the human being rises higher and higher, the psychic ...
... to be done, what path must one follow, in which direction? Does everyone have a clear knowledge and perception about this? If that were so then nobody would ever need a guru. This inner guru or inner guide gets covered up due to the excessive predominance of the sadhak's personal inclinations and interference. Impelled his own obstinate urgings, the hidden proddings of the ego the sadhak often does ...
... one of his evening talks: "All that I wrote in the Bande Mataram and the Karmayogin was from this Yogic state. It used to run down to my pen while I sat down to write. I always trusted the inner Guide even when it seemed to be leading me astray...." 136 At Nasik he delivered a lecture on 24th January on Swaraj. He said that Swaraj is life, Swaraj is amrita, Swaraj is mukti. Swaraj cannot ...
... at two places. Sri Aurobindo : How is that? Where? Disciple : In the Synthesis of Yoga, in the fourth chapter about the "Four Aids" you have mentioned there "Chaitya Guru", the inner guide. Disciple (1) : In Vaishnavite literature it means the portion, – Amsha – of the Divine which guides a man. It is called Chaitya Guru. Sri Aurobindo : I wanted to know if the word has ...
... assurance is given that This faint and fluid sketch of soul called man Shall stand out on the background of long Time A glowing epitome of eternity,.. . 42 A Seer (the inner Guide) "inspires our ascent", as he now responds to the call of Aswapati too, who bears "the burden of the world's desire". And so Aswapati flies past world after world, and still mounts higher and higher ...
... all the godheads and their avatāras and manifestations. And while he might gratefully receive whatever is vouchsafed by a human Guru, the sadhak's ultimate dependence should be on the sovereign inner guide alone: It is he who destroys our darkness by the resplendent light of his knowledge; that light becomes within us the increasing glory of his own self-revelation. He discloses progressively ...
... tremendous purpose. At Uttarpara, Sri Aurobindo gave the "word" he had been charged to give, but there was still the "work" he had been ordained to do. And the time for it would come too, and the inner Guide would show him the way and the means at the appropriate time. II Along with Sri Aurobindo, some of the other accused too - Bejoy Nag and Nolini Kanta Gupta among them - had been released ...
... darkness and ugliness must be borne to the end even if all divine succour seems to be withdrawn. I must remain in the bosom of the Night and walk on without compass, without beacon-light, without inner guide. 4 Come what may, she will face it out; she will wade through Hell if need be, but always relying on the Lord - for has she, in fact, any existence except in relation to the Divine? Next ...
... detective stories. It seemed that half of the night I became a detective searching for the criminal and the other half I sojourned in unknown worlds. Sometimes I painted certain "studies" as the inner feeling guided me. The Mother and I were anxious to get from Bombay the prints of my pictures along with my original paintings. Meanwhile one picture went to Germany for a colour block and prints to be ...
... therefore lies. And is not the suppression of woman by man one of the most unreasonable conventions in the history of humankind? We have already seen that Mirra concentrated on an intense inner development guided by the Bhagavad Gita and Vivekananda’s Raja Yoga. In her social life she tried to contact persons who represented some aspect or other of her newly discovered values. She became acquainted... Mathilde with her constant hammering on the necessity of perfection. Not an easy environment for a child, but ‘a wonderful education’ for someone who had come to do a great and difficult work. All her inner experiences had occurred totally unexpectedly, which according to the Mother is the necessary condition for them so as not to be falsified. Expectation limits the experience and distorts it. Often ... has any relation with reality. Little then remains of the experience except illusion. From her early years Mirra was aware of something she could neither name nor describe. ‘There was a kind of inner light, a Presence. I was born with that.’ She went and sat in a little chair, especially made for her, to feel that Presence, which probably exerted a light, rather pleasant pressure on her brain; out ...
... discord which yet is turned by an inner wisdom's brave front into a spiritual gain: O face of scorn, you winter not my will: This heart grew brighter when your breath's proud chill Flung my diffuse life-blood more richly in! From the rude love-lacking visage we may slide into a vision of occult abnormal life brought by an inspiration of the Inner Mind guided from above the mental plane... occur in Wordsworth quite often in the midst of verse that is flat. What He calls "fathomless depth" is achieved not only by the idea getting an intuitively guided expression but also by — to use his own term — a "spiritual intonation", an inner rhythm, a mysterious sound as though the word-music were a snatch from some reverberation of godlike activity that has no end. After quoting this line along... travellers Is reason to the soul: and as on high Those rolling fires discover but the sky, Not light us here, so reason's glimmering ray Was lent, not to assure our doubtful way, But guide us upward to a better day. And as those nightly tapers disappear When day's bright lord ascends our hemisphere, So pale grows reason at religion's sight; So dies and so dissolves in ...
... art reduces itself in analysis. But it is the turn given to each of the constituents which makes all the difference in the aim and effect of the technique and the source and character of the inner vision guiding the creative hand in their combination which makes all the difference in the spiritual value of the achievement, and the unique character of Indian painting, the peculiar appeal of the art of... the inner Artist, the wide-eyed voyager in the vaster psychical realms, is obliged to subdue his inspirations to the law of the Seer of the outward, the spirit that has embodied itself in the creations of the terrestrial life, the material universe. An idealised imaginative realism is as far as he can ordinarily go in the method of his work when he would fill the outward with the subtler inner seeing... change of form and manner is still spiritually the same in the Rajput paintings. This unity and continuity enable us to distinguish and arrive at a clear understanding of what is the essential aim, inner turn and motive, spiritual method which differentiate Indian painting first from occidental work and then from the nearer and more kindred art of other countries of Asia. The spirit and motive of ...
... teachers unless students are observed carefully and understood sympathetically, so that the psychological powers of the students, actual or latent, are guided through various methods which aim at gradual evolution and awakening in each student the inner guiding light and integrating principle. 7. Research should be the method of learning at all stages Contrary to the usual idea that methods of... primary education and elementary education, during which the child will be so guided that its psychic being can be fostered along with the development of its faculties on the lines of its svabhava and svadharma. The child will also learn the art of self-education so that the subsequent development is propelled consciously by inner and progressive self-determination, as far as possible. The responsibility... and harmony need to be underlined. 3. Emphasis on progress Children normally like to grow and develop and measure their progress. And the sign of progress is the inner happiness that they experience and this inner happiness is the inevitable result of the development of faculties of personality. Therefore, the atmospheric pressure in educational activities should be built up by a special ...
... perfection in works and life. *Sadhana: A Guide to Self-Mastery: Ajourney into self-observation, self-organization, self-development and self-mastery. Page 494 *CD-Rom: 'A New Education for a New India: Integral Education' (available on sale) *Audio-cassettes: (available on sale) *Meditation for Inner Growth (guided meditation with music) *How to Think (talk)... to understand the world's erratic progression towards a certain unity; but this process must begin with self-understanding through an inner voyage whose milestones are knowledge, meditation and the practice of self-criticism. This message should guide educational thinking, in conjunction with the establishment of wider and more far-reaching forms of international cooperation. Coming... unity, where people of all races and nations would live together harmoniously. In order to achieve this, The Mother expected each resident of Auroville to become aware of his or her inner self, so that it may become the guide of his or her day-to-day life. We are, of course, very far from all this, very far from this lofty, yet concrete, ideal. Yes, there are many nice things happening in Auroville ...
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