... poetry does not necessarily or always depend on the level from which it is written. Shelley has more access to the inner Mind and through it to greater things than Milton, but he is not the greater poet. 19 October 1936 Higher Mind and Inner Mind When I say that the inner Mind can get the tinge or reflection of the higher experience I am not speaking here of the "descent" in Yoga by which the... consciousness but the inner Mind has not that naturally and in its own right, yet can open to its influence more easily than the outer intelligence. All the same between the reflected realisation in the mind and the automatic and authentic realisation in the spiritual mental planes there is a wide difference. ... There is also a plane of dynamic Vision which is a part of the inner Mind and perhaps should... should be called not a plane but a province. There are many kinds of vision in the inner Mind and Page 21 not this dynamic vision alone. So to fix invariable characteristics for the poetry of the inner Mind is not easy or even possible; it is a thing to be felt rather than mentally definable. A certain spontaneous intensity of vision is usually there, but that large or rich sweep or power ...
... difficulty is because the inner mind is not yet sufficiently habituated to act and see the inside things and therefore the ordinary outer mind interferes and tries to arrange them; but the outer mind is unable to see the meaning of inner things. When the outer mind is left outside altogether, Page 221 the things inside begin to be seen vividly and clearly, but the inner mind not being active, either... poise that the outer movement is really effective—and then it comes of itself. The difference [ in learning something ] is when a thing is done with the inner mind and when it is done only with the outer brain. What you feel is the inner mind taking it up—then it becomes part of the consciousness and things are really learned—the working of the outer mind is always difficult and superficial. It... consciousness entirely without developing this inner consciousness would be too difficult. That is why these inner experiences are going on to prepare the growth of the inner consciousness. There is an inner mind, an inner vital, an inner physical consciousness which can more easily than the outer receive the higher consciousness above and put itself into harmony with the psychic being; when that is done ...
... within and what is above. Intuitive intelligence, mystic mind, inner mind intelligence are all part of the inner mind operation." The lyrical tone of the Two Birds makes it less occult or spiritual and therefore the role of the mystic mind is correspondingly less here than that of the inner mind; at the same time, because the inner mind has lent itself to Intuition, we may say that there is a... to the intuitivised inner mind - it is therefore at once an overhead power and a mental intelligence power. All depends on the amount, intensity, quality of the intuition and how far it is mixed with mind or pure. The inner mind is not necessarily intuitive, though it can easily become so. The mystic mind is turned towards the occult and spiritual, but the inner mind can act without direct... Vedic-Upanishadic parable, it is a new and inspired recreation in a joyously vibrant form of what is seen by the eye behind the eye, a strange mystery literally caught on the tableau of the inner mind; it is an image winging to the wideness of a luminous vision, and a shape of sound taking the occult body of a rhythmically delightful voice, and a gleaming idea bordering on the real moulded ...
... from what you have called 'inner mind' and 'mystic mind'?) The intuitive mind, strictly speaking, stretches from the Intuition proper down to the intuitivised inner mind—it is therefore at once an overhead power and a mental intelligence power. All depends on the amount, intensity, quality of the intuition and how far it is mixed with mind or pure. The inner mind is not necessarily intuitive... spiritual, but the inner mind can act without direct reference to the occult and spiritual, it can act in the same field and in the same material as the ordinary mind, only with a larger and deeper power, range and light and in greater unison with the Universal Mind; it can open also more easily to what is within and what is above. Intuitive intelligence, mystic mind, inner mind intelligence are all... COMMENT On an earlier version not including lines 5 and 6: "First line from the higher Mind, the next five from the illumined Mind—the last two I can't very well say: perhaps the inner Mind there has taken up the illumined inspiration and given it a turn belonging to an interpretative language of is own making. All the lines are of a fine quality, but the 2nd and 4th are the finest ...
... permanent. Page 92 The Inner Being 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... sadhana. The exterior being is the physical which is connected in an ignorant way with the physical universe. It is this physical being which has developed an external mind and vital. The inner mind and vital are on the contrary in direct contact with the universal mental and vital and their forces; the inner subtle physical can also be in direct touch with the cosmic forces of the physical... It is only by virtue of the inner consciousness that the outer can awaken to the Divine Influence at all—it receives the inner urge even when it is not aware whence it comes. They [ the inner mind and vital ] exercise an influence and send out their powers or suggestions which the outer sometimes carries out as best it can, sometimes does not follow. How much they work on the outer depends ...
... greatness of poetry as poetry toes not necessarily or always depend on the level from which it is written. Shelley has more access to the inner Mind and through it to greater things than Milton, but he is not the greater poet. "When 1 say that the inner Mind can get the tinge or reflection of the higher experience I am not speaking here of the 'descent' in Yoga by which the higher realisation... So it is easy for the mind to mistake and take the higher for the lower inspiration or vice versa." Comparing the poetry of the Inner Mind with that of the Illumined, Sri Aurobindo writes: "There are many kinds of vision in the inner Mind.... A certain spontaneous intensity of vision is usually there, but that large or rich sweep or power which belongs to the Illumined Mind... limitations but more vivid, colourful, vivid with various lights and hues; it becomes less intellectual, more made of vision and a flame of insight. Very often this comes by an infiltration of the veiled inner Mind which is within us and has its own wider and deeper fields and subtler movements,—and can bring also the tinge of a higher afflatus to the poetic intelligence, sometimes a direct uplifting towards ...
... is nothing extraordinary, much less improbable in seeing one whom one has never seen—you are thinking as if the inner mind and sense, the inner vision, were limited by the outer mind and sense, the outer vision, or were a mere reflection of that. There would be not much use in an inner mind and sense and vision if they were only that and nothing more. This faculty is one of the elementary powers of the... Again in you the waking mind has been too active in its insistence on the ideas and operations of the outer consciousness to give the inner mind a chance to project itself into the waking state. But it is through the inner consciousness and primarily through the inner mind that these things come; so, if there is not a clear passage from the inner to the outer, it must be in the inner states that they first... quiet mind observes them or does not care to observe them but does not become active or lose its quietude. Silence is more than qui- etude; it can be gained by banishing thought altogether from the inner mind keeping it quite outside; but more easily it comes by a descent from above—one feels it coming down entering and occupying or surrounding the personal consciousness. As for the subconscient ...
... character as compared to the mystic or inner mind? The intuitive mind, strictly speaking, stretches from the Intuition proper down to the intuitivised inner mind—it is therefore at once an overhead power and a mental intelligence power. All depends on the amount, intensity, quality of the intuition and how far it is mixed with mind or pure. The inner mind is not necessarily intuitive, though it... spiritual, but the inner mind can act without direct reference to the occult and spiritual, it can act in the same field and in the same material as the ordinary mind, only with a larger and deeper power, range and light and in greater unison with the Universal Mind; it can open also more easily to what is within and what is above. Intuitive intelligence, mystic mind, inner mind intelligence are all... all part of the inner mind operations. In today's poem, for instance, it is certainly the inner mind that has transformed the idea of stammering into a symbol of inner phenomena and into that operation a certain strain of mystic mind enters, but what is Page 61 prominent is the intuitive inspiration throughout. It starts with the intuitive poetic intelligence in the first stanza, gets touched ...
... from what you have called 'inner mind' and 'mystic mind' ?) "The intuitive mind, strictly speaking, stretches from the Intuition proper down to the intuitivised inner mind—it is therefore at once an overhead power and a mental intelligence power. All depends on the amount, intensity, quality of the intuition and how far it is mixed with mind or pure. The inner mind is not necessarily intuitive... spiritual, but the inner mind can act without direct reference to the occult and spiritual, it can act in the same field and in the same material as the ordinary mind, only with a larger and deeper power, range and light and in greater unison with the Universal Mind; it can open also more easily to what is within and what is above. Intuitive intelligence, mystic mind, inner mind intelligence are... Comment On an earlier version not including lines 5 and 6: "First line from the higher Mind, the next five from the illumined Mind—the last two I can't very well say: perhaps the inner Mind there has taken up the illumined inspiration and given it a turn belonging to an interpretative language of its own making. All the lines are of a fine quality, but the 2nd and 4th are the finest ...
... eyebrows, the centre of the inner mind, will and vision. The moonlight you saw is the light of spirituality and it was this that was entering into your mind through the centre, with the effect of the widening in the heart like a sky filled with moonlight. Afterwards came some endeavour to prepare the lower part of the mind whose centre is in the throat and join it with the inner mind and make it open; but... thought and intelligence communicating with the greater mind planes (illumined mind, intuition, overmind) above. The second new significant feature is the self-manifestation of the inner mind; for it was your inner mind that was watching, observing and criticising the vital being's psychic experience. You found this clear division in you curious, but it will no longer seem curious once you know the... on the forehead were perhaps the working of a force to open the centre there—for there between the eyes is the centre of the inner mind, will and vision. All these centres are closed in the ordinary consciousness or else only very slightly open on the surface. If the inner mind centre opens, then the peace etc. from above can enter easily into the mind and afterwards into the vital and both mind and ...
... greatness of poetry as poetry does not necessarily or always depend on the level from which it is written. Shelley has more access to the inner Mind and through it to greater things than Milton, but he is not the greater poet." "When I say that the inner Mind can get the tinge or reflection of the higher experience I am not speaking here of the 'descent' in Yoga by which the higher realisation... colourful, vivid with various lights and hues; it becomes less intellectual, Page 2 more made of vision and a flame of insight. Very often this comes by an infiltration of the veiled inner Mind which is within us and has its own wider and deeper fields and subtler movements,—and can bring also the tinge of a higher afflatus to the poetic intelligence, sometimes a direct uplifting towards... one who lives in it has naturally and normally the realisation of the Self, the unity and harmony everywhere, and a vision and activity of knowledge that proceeds from this consciousness but the inner Mind has not that naturally and in its own right, yet can open to its influence more easily than the outer intelligence. All the same, between the reflected realisation in the mind and the automatic ...
... self-space which even in its more limited field just between the eyebrows you felt to be bigger than the corresponding physical space. In fact, though the inner mind spaces have horizons, they stretch beyond those horizons—illimitably. The inner mind is something very wide projecting itself into the infinite and finally identifying itself with the infinity of universal Mind. When we break out of the narrow... was veiled, as in most, by the outer waking self. There are, we might say, two beings in us, one on the surface, our ordinary exterior mind, life, body consciousness, another behind the veil, an inner mind, an inner life, an inner physical consciousness constituting another or inner self. This inner self once awake opens in its turn to our true real and eternal self. It opens inwardly to the soul,... vehement pulls from the forces of the inner planes which it is not safe to follow. Your first experience is an opening into the inner mental self—the space between the eyebrows is the centre of the inner mind, vision, will and the blue light you saw was that of a higher mental plane, a spiritual mind, one might say, which is above the ordinary human mental intelligence. An opening into this higher mind ...
... Intuition. c)The Overmind Proper. d)The Gnostic or Supramentalised Overmind. The Inner Mind Intelligence is the Inner Mind acting not in a special field of its own but in the same field as the Creative or Poetic Intelligence, though with a different power. The Intuitive Intelligence is the Inner Mind receiving from the plane of the Intuition a light not its own and adapting itself to it: the... altered. The inspiration itself can hail from any one of the following planes: 1)The Subtle Physical. 2)The Vital. 3) The Creative or Poetic Intelligence. 4)The Inner Mind, with its four domains: a)The inner Mind Intelligence. b)The Intuitive Intelligence. c)The Mystic Mind. d)The Mind of Dynamic Vision. 5)The Psychic. 6)The Higher Mind. 7)The Illumined Mind. ...
... itself? 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? Is it true that the point between the eyebrows is the centre of the will as well as of the inner vision? It is the centre of the inner mind - therefore also of the inner mental will and inner mental... inner being that is just behind the outer. Is there any substance in my statement? It is correct as a distinction between the true mental, vital, physical beings and the outer layers of the inner mind, vital and physical. The inner parts in everybody remain vulgar or become high according as they are turned to the outward forces of the Ignorance or towards the higher forces from above... probably get the impression that there is no inner being felt, only an upper and a lower, because you are trying to bring down the Force and as yet the Force has not come down from above, reaching the inner mind only; so the inner being is empty of force, though not, as you admit later on, of peace. During meditation I observed that there are two quite separate parts of my being - one is above ...
... no longer needed, though a farther divine progression, even an infinite development is still possible. The inner consciousness means the inner mind, inner vital, inner physical and behind them the psychic which is their inmost being. But the inner mind is not the higher mind; it is more in touch with the universal forces and more open to the higher consciousness and capable of an immensely deeper... transformation, there is only one way, one path. First, there must be a conversion inwards, a going within to find the inmost psychic being and bring it out to the front, disclosing at the same time the inner mind, inner vital, inner physical parts of the nature. Next, there must be an ascension, a series of conversions upwards and a turning down to convert the lower parts. When one has made the inward conversion... the higher consciousness and a power to change the ignorant nature. Higher Mind is one of the planes of the spiritual mind, the first and lowest of them; it is above the normal mental level. Inner mind is that which lies behind the surface mind (our ordinary mentality) and can only be directly experienced (apart from its vrittis in the surface mind such as philosophy, poetry, idealism Page ...
... stumble into it from time to time." The plane of dynamic vision is a part of the inner Mind and perhaps should be called a province rather than a plane. There arc many kinds of vision in the inner Mind and not dynamic vision only. So, to fix invariable characteristics for the poetry of the inner Mind is not easy or even possible. It is a thing to be felt rather than mentally definable." ... fourth stanza is from the Intuitive, the rest not from the Higher Page 131 Mind—for there a high-uplifted thought is the characters tic—but more probably from some realm of the inner Mind where thought and vision are involved in each other—that kind of fusion gives the easy felicity that is found here. All the same there is a touch of the Higher Mind perhaps in the 2nd lines of the ...
... intellectualises. It is on the surface and sees things from outside except in so far as it is helped by intuition and other powers to see a little deeper. When this ordinary mind opens within to inner mind and psychic and above to higher mind and higher consciousness generally, then it begins to be spiritualised and its highest ranges merge into the spiritual mind-consciousness of which this higher... of the lid between the ordinary mind and the higher consciousness above. If the ajnachakra also is open, then it is possible to have a clear communication between the higher consciousness and the inner mind and the outer mind (throat centre) also. That is the condition for the realisation of knowledge and the mental illumination and transformation. The heart centre commands the psychic and vital—that... eyes is that of inner (occult) thought, will and vision. This inner or occult vision is called by ordinary people psychic vision. It [ the centre between the eyebrows ] is the centre of the inner mind—therefore also of the inner mental will and inner mental vision. Page 237 The centre of vision is between the eyebrows in the centre of the forehead. When it opens one gets the inner ...
... this can help also. Also it opens a passage between the exterior consciousness and the inner mind or vital. But if one stops at that, then nothing much is gained. Sadhana must be the main thing and sadhana means the purification of the nature, the consecration of the being, the opening of the psychic and the inner mind and vital, the contact and presence of the Divine, the realisation of the Divine in... establish them in this troublesome and defective outer shell of oneself and in the outer world also. 10 November 1934 Literature and art are or can be first introductions to the inner being—the inner mind and vital; for it is from there that they come. And if one writes poems of bhakti, poems of divine seeking etc., or creates music of that kind, it means that there is a bhakta or seeker inside who... are very good for the literary man, but even for him they are not the cause of his good writing, only an aid to it. The cause is within himself. If one lives in the inner consciousness, if the inner mind or higher mind become dynamic, all the ideas in the world and all sorts of knowledge come crowding in from within or from above; there is little or no need of outside food any longer. At most reading ...
... the right attitude comes naturally and whatever difficulty there was soon diminishes or even disappears. I told you also at that time that there was a third part of the nature, the inner being (inner mind, inner vital, inner physical) of which you were not yet aware, but which must also open in time. It is this that has happened in your last experience. What you felt as a part of you, yourself but... these things, but the results are usually uncertain and fragmentary compared to the result of the two radical ways. That is why in this Yoga we insist always on an "opening"—an opening inwards of the inner mind, vital, physical to the inmost part of us, the psychic, and an opening upwards to what is above the mind—as indispensable for the fruits of the sadhana. The underlying reason for this is that... to these Page 324 greater things—or else to extinction of itself, Nirvana. The real Self is not anywhere on the surface but deep within and above. Within is the soul supporting an inner mind, inner vital, inner physical in which there is a capacity for universal wideness and with it for the things now asked for,—direct contact with the Truth of self and things, taste of a universal bliss ...
... things, but the results are usually uncertain and fragmentary, compared to the result of the two radical ways. That is why in this Yoga we insist always on an "opening" - an opening inwards of the inner mind, vital, physical to the inmost part of us, the psychic, and an opening upwards to what is above the mind - as indispensable for the fruits of the Sadhana. The underlying reason for this is that... Self and with it to these greater things - or else to extinction of itself, Nirvana. The real Self is not anywhere on the surface but deep within and above. Within is the soul supporting an inner mind, inner vital, inner physical in which there is a capacity for universal wideness and with it for the things now asked for - direct contact with the truth of self and things, taste of a universal... new birth or births of the spirit. When the Peace is established, this higher or Divine Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres, then into the heart centre and liberates fully the psychic and emotional being, then into the navel and other Page 35 vital centres and liberates the inner vital, then into ...
... truth, while others are false and misleading, or they may be a sort of artistry of that plane. They can have considerable importance in the development of the first Yogic consciousness, that of the inner mind, inner vital, inner physical or for an occult understanding of the universe. Visions which are real can help the spiritual progress, I mean, those which show us inner realities: one can for instance... of things or realities of this or other worlds or representations of the past, present or future. If the concentration goes naturally to the centre between the eyebrows which is the centre of inner mind and its thought, will and vision, there is no harm in that. These lights and visions are not hallucinations. They indicate an opening of the inner vision whose centre is in the forehead ... and objects that pass like a cinema film before you. If they are things seen by the inner vision, then there is no need to drive them away—one has only to let them pass. When one does sadhana an inner mind which is within us awakes and sees by an inner vision images of all things in this world and other worlds—this power of vision has its use, though one has not to be attached to it; one can let them ...
... and mental parts in us are strong, the vital comes under mastery and direction to an extent hardly possible to the surface mentality; even the body and the physical energies can be taken up by the inner mind and will and turned into a more plastic instrumentation of the soul, the psychic being. On the other hand, if the mental and Page 554 psychic parts are weak and the vital strong and unruly... some of them are now fragmentarily studied under the name of psychic phenomena,—although they have ordinarily nothing to do with the psyche , the soul, the inmost entity in us, but only with the inner mind, the inner vital, the subtle-physical parts Page 556 of our subliminal being; but the results cannot be conclusive or sufficiently ample because they are sought for by methods of inquiry... knowledge. To go farther and see what the knowledge by identity is in its purity and in what way and to what extent it originates, admits or uses the other powers of knowledge, we have to go beyond the inner mind and life and subtle-physical to the two other ends of the subliminal, interrogate the subconscient and contact or enter into the superconscient. But in the subconscient all is blind, an obscure ...
... stumble into it from time to time." "The plane of dynamic vision is a part of the inner Mind and perhaps should be called a province rather than a plane. There are many kinds of vision in the inner Mind and not dynamic vision only. So, to fix invariable characteristics for the poetry of the inner Mind Page 59 is not easy or even possible. It is a thing to be felt rather ...
... subliminal or inner consciousness and the spiritual or higher consciousness, Sri Aurobindo writes: The inner consciousness means the inner mind, inner vital, inner physical and behind them the psychic which is their inmost being. But the inner mind is not the higher mind; it is more in touch with the universal forces and more open to the higher consciousness and capable of an immensely deeper... vital, physical - which yoga aims at changing, constitute what in Sri Aurobindo's yoga psychology is called the outer or surface being which is distinguished from the inner being, composed of the inner mind, the inner vital, the inner physical, with the psychic or the soul as the innermost part of the being supporting all the rest. "The whole art of yoga", says Sri Aurobindo, "is to get that contact ...
... self, and this too we can set apart as a higher occult province of our nature. The Life Divine, p. 557 The Inner Being; the Psychical Consciousness The inner being means the inner mind, inner vital, inner physical with the psychic behind as the inmost. Letters on Yoga, p. 373 There is an inner mental, an inner vital, an inner physical which connects the psychic... energy of the Inconscient; it is a meeting-place of the consciousness that emerges from below by evolution and the consciousness that has descended from above for involution. There is in it an inner mind, an inner vital being of ourselves, an inner or subtle-physical being larger than our outer being and nature. This inner existence is the concealed origin of almost all in our surface self that... though large parts of it can be thus known by a penetration and looking within or a freer communication, it is only by going inward behind the veil of superficial mind and living within, in an inner mind, an inner life, an inmost soul of our being that we can be fully self-aware, — by this and by rising to a higher plane of mind than that which our waking consciousness inhabits. An Page 77 ...
... corresponding parts — mental, vital, physical. Thus "There are, we might say, two beings in us, one on the surface, our ordinary exterior mind, life, body consciousness, another behind the veil, an inner mind, an inner life, an inner physical consciousness constituting another or inner self." 6 Figure 1. The Concentric System The vertical system consists of various levels... things indirectly through the outer mind and senses", 15 the inner being is "directly aware of the universal consciousness and the universal forces that play through us and around us." 16 For the inner mind is directly in touch with the universal mind, just as the inner vital is in direct touch with the universal life-forces, and the inner physical with the universal physical forces around us. To... of Being called Prakriti (Nature), which is the phenomenal or instrumental being. Both the outer being and the inner being described previously belong to Prakriti. Behind the outer mind and the inner mind, the outer vital and the inner vital, the outer physical and the inner physical, lies the true being, the Purusha, in the form of "an inmost Page 345 mental, vital, physical, more ...
... 72 Subconscious (inner) mind, 4, 290- 91, 337 Subliminal (being, self), the, 4, 12, 13, 23, 38, 72-83, 307, 342-44, 362-63 and psychical phenomena, 248-49 and the subconscient, 72 See also Inner being Subliminal consciousness, 291-92 See also Psychical consciousness Subliminal mind, see Subconciou (inner) mind Superconscient ... 348-49, 398-99 and the Overmind, 154 and universality, 78 Inner being, 13-15, 22-27 passim, 26, 72-83, 84, 87, 337, 342-44, 363 See also Subliminal, the, Inner mind (mental), see Subconscious mind Inner senses, see Senses, inner Intellect, and spiritual truths, 179-80, 181-84, 191 See also Mind and spiritual truths under mind ...
... the vital that that becomes clear. In the mind plane they manifest at most as mental suggestions and not as concrete Powers, Also, if one looks at things with the Mind only (even though it be the inner Mind), one "lay see the subtle play of Nature-forces but without recognising the conscious intention which we call hostile. Page 227 Page 228 next two months—which I hope... Page 257 Another method is concentration and aspiration in the heart which opens the inner emotional being. Another is the concentration in the head of which I spoke which opens the inner mind or opens the passage through the Brahmarandhra 103 to the higher consciousness. These things are no fantastic invention of mine which one can dismiss as a newfangled and untested absurdity; they... Page 283 To anyone familiar with occult phenomena and their analysis, these things will seem perfectly normal and intelligible. The vision-mind in us is part of the inner being, and the inner mind, vital, physical are not bound by the dull and narrow limitations of our outer physical personality and the small scope of the world it lives in. Its scope is vast, extraordinary, full of inexhaustible ...
... sadhana. Is it not true that our vital lays bare all our hidden desires and impulses? It is not the vital that does that. It is either the psychic or something from the inner mind or the higher consciousness. I did some offering, but something was kept back. Someone from within me was constantly beating me for keeping that back. So there was depression. ... with the inner being. Page 68 The inner being is not usually unquiet but it can be quiet or unquiet like the outer. The psychic can have peace behind it — but the inner mind, vital and physical are not necessarily silent — they are full of movements. It is the higher consciousness that has a basis of peace. My inner concentration and quietude seem to... able to break the inner peace. When one lives an inner life, does not one come in touch with the psychic and bring about its leadership? Not always at once. There is the inner mind, vital, physical. Many live a long time in that. The psychic is the inmost. Till the evening the consciousness was in such a state that I could not make out anything. Along with ...
... passes down easily through my head and forehead. It is the inner mind centres that have become open and conscious. Page 11 Today's pressure was two-fold. One came forth from behind the eyes. The second entered through each of the ears. Both met in the mouth. Pressure on the inner mind centre and on the externalising mind also — probably connecting their... petalled lotus just above the head, at that part. The station in the heart centre is for the psychic opening. What you are at present doing is the upward opening to the Self and for that the inner mind centre is the proper station. The heart is the seat not only of the psychic but of the emotional vital which covers it. Sometimes I experience voidness near the navel centre ...
... which the higher consciousness commands. But what makes a power "essential"? Essence can never be defined — it simply is. Could it be said that my intellect or inner mind has now detached itself from the lower Prakriti? The thinking mind generally — except the physical part. LOSS OF MEMORY IN SADHANA In which part of the... enjoys these things in a certain sense of enjoyment. When I separate myself from the inertia and try to rise higher I feel some positive obstruction. Probably it is between the inner mind centre and the seventh centre (sahasradal padma). It must be the physical mind interfering and preventing the free ascension. Page 224 Why is my physical... about it. Page 230 I am told that in sadhana the outer mind can be developed directly from above. At present I see many changes in my inner being, particularly in 'the inner mind. But the outer mind seems to have remained as ignorant and unchanged as before! The change there can only come when the higher consciousness takes possession of the physical mind also ...
... the consciousness vibrating with an intensity of joy. It is in this way that we become conscious of the centres which are in us or become conscious of the functioning of the subtle world, of the inner mind, the inner vital and of the physical. It is moreover the essential principle: the beginning of the work of purification of these inner beings so that the psychic can govern when it comes to the fore... which effectuates everything. Still, there are many things which happen and one has the tendency to take them as a response coming from the inner support, from the psychic. But, truly speaking, the inner mind, the inner vital, the subtle physical which are inside us and which give us the intimations which warn us in advance, the intuition of the things which are to come, guard us against the results of... tormented hearts devoid of aspiration towards the sanctuary of the inmost being. When we say that the psychic comes in front it means that first of all it arranges all the parts of the being, — the inner mind, the inner vital and the inner physical, — and the activities of their outward manifestation around the psychic being, harmonises them, coordinates them, classifies them, and to each part delegates ...
... both cases the outward basis of the early religion spoke to the outward physical mind of the people and took that as the starting-point of its appeal. But the new evolution tried to awaken a more inner mind even in the common man, to lay hold on his inner vital and emotional nature, to support all by an awakening of the soul and to lead him through these things towards a highest spiritual truth. It... possibility of religious evolution open to Indian culture. The Vedic training of the physically-minded man made the development possible. But in its turn this raising of the basis of religion to the inner mind and life and psychic nature, this training and bringing out of the psychic man ought to make possible a still larger development and support a greater spiritual movement as the leading power of life... the Vedantic sages cast into the clear and immortal forms of their luminous revelation. Even the psychic-emotional part of man's nature is not the inmost door to religious feeling, nor is his inner mind the highest witness to spiritual experience. There is behind the first the inmost soul of man, in that deepest secret heart, hṛdaye guhāyām , in which the ancient seers saw the very tabernacle of ...
... we might say, two beings in us, one on the surface, our ordinary exterior mind, life, body consciousness, another behind the veil, an inner mind, an inner life, an inner physical consciousness constituting another or inner self. 44 It is the inner mind just mentioned—which is perhaps what some Zen Masters call "Zen mind" or the "deeper mind"—that is the witness in the mind. To requote Sri... can do that merely by a little practice; anybody who observes his own thoughts, feelings, actions, has begun doing it already. In yoga we make the division complete, that is all. It is the inner mind—the mental Purusha—that can stand back as a witness and observe the outer being, which, as previously stated, is chiefly ruled by the viral nature (desires and emotions), and thereby arrive at ...
... Inconscient; it is Page 39 a meeting-place of the consciousness that emerges from below by evolution and the consciousness that has descended from above for involution. There is in it an inner mind, an inner vital being of ourselves, an inner or subtle-physical being larger than our outer being and nature. ... There is here a consciousness which has a power of direct contact with the universal... the outer or surface being. Thus he states: "There are, we might say, two beings in us, one on the surface, our ordinary exterior mind, life, body consciousness, another behind the veil, an inner mind, an inner life, an inner physical consciousness constituting another or inner self." 30 The outer being is connected with the subliminal and, though unaware of it, receives from the subliminal... parts of it [the subliminal] can be thus known by a penetration and looking within or a freer communication, it is only by going inward behind the veil of superficial mind and living within, in an inner mind, an inner life, an inmost soul of our being that we can be fully self-aware,- by this and by rising to a higher plane of mind than that which our waking consciousness inhabits. An enlargement and ...
... higher intelligence communicating with the greater mind planes (illumined mind, intuition, overmind) above. The second new significant feature is the self-manifestation of the inner mind; for it was your inner mind that was watching, observing and criticising the vital being's psychic experience. You found this clear division in you curious, but it will no longer seem curious once you know the... course). This drawing inside is necessary because the active mind of the human being is at first too much turned to outward things; it has to go inside altogether in order to live in the inner being (inner mind, inner vital, inner physical, psychic). But with training one can remain outwardly conscious and live in the inner being and has at will the indrawn or the outpoured experience; you will then have ...
... means when the consciousness is fixed in a particular state (e.g. peace) or movement (e.g. aspiration, will, coming into contact with the Mother, taking the Mother's name); meditation is when the inner mind is looking at things to get the right knowledge. Concentration means fixing the consciousness in one place or on one object and in a single condition. Meditation can be diffusive, e.g. thinking... from above. If the psychic being is once active this struggle and these difficulties can be greatly minimised. The power of concentration in the eyebrows is to open the centre there, liberate the inner mind and vision and the inner or Yogic consciousness and its experiences and powers. From here also one can open upwards and act also in the lower centres; but the danger of this process is that one may... combination of idea and word or idea and name. But, farther, in Yoga one also concentrates in a particular place. There is the famous rule of concentrating between the eyebrows—the centre of the inner mind, of occult vision, of the will is there. What you do is to think firmly from there on whatever you make the object of your concentration or else try to see the image of it from there. If you succeed ...
... powerful dialectic of rhythm, structure and style. They demonstrate it to our grey cells by proving it on our senses and pulses. When we pass beyond the Poetic Intelligence we enter either the Inner Mind and the Psychic Consciousness or rise into the "overhead" hierarchy. It will be enlightening no less than interesting to take one particular word and see how poets have woven it into their work in... 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 to a clear discernment of dreadful details: A march of goddess figures dark and nude Alarmed the air with grandiose unease; Appalling footsteps drew... place, Where rivulets dance their wayward round, And beauty born of murmuring sound Shall pass into her face. If I were to comment in the style of Sri Aurobindo I should say: "The Inner Mind where sight and insight happily blend, but making contact with the sweetness and light of the inmost secrecy which is the Psychic Consciousness, and catching a delicate intensity from the plane of ...
... and Beauty and for God; We see beyond self's walls our limitless self, We gaze through our world's glass at half-seen vasts, We hunt for the Truth behind apparent things. Our inner Mind dwells in a larger light, Its brightness looks at us through hidden doors; Our members luminous grow and Wisdom's face Appears in the doorway of the mystic ward: When she enters... If the psychic being is once active this struggle and these difficulties can be greatly minimised. The power of concentration in the eyebrows is to open the centre there, liberate the inner mind and vision and the inner or yogic consciousness and its experiences and powers. From here also one can open upwards and act also in the lower centres; but the danger of this process is that one may... unshaken by all suggestion of doubt, desire, attachment. depression, sorrow, pain, inertia. This is possible when the inner being awakens, when one becomes conscious of the Self, of the inner Mind, the inner Vital, the inner Physical, for that can more easily attune itself to the divine Will, and then there is a division in the being as if there were two beings, one within, calm, strong. equal ...
... Is not the higher mind the first plane above our mind? That is right. It is the first of the planes above the ordinary human mind. Is the forehead (inner mind centre) a part of the higher mind? No, it indicates the mind generally. The higher mind is above. What is characteristic of the higher mind? It is... Since early morning I have been receiving something from above through the forehead. It descends swiftly and power-fully. It is the higher consciousness sending its force down into the inner mind centre. In the morning my inner consciousness was lifted up above the head. There if found a plane which was filled with force — a force of great intensity and power. Even the... presence of a great Force — higher or Divine Force. During the free reception I feel the descent passing through my head, forehead and inner vision centre. It is the inner mind centres that have become open and conscious. During a deep meditation, sometimes I feel a sweet and star-cool intense Force just above my head. At the same time I see my vital ...
... Through my forehead something has definitely been coming from above. The descent is powerful as well as rapid. It is the higher consciousness sending its force down into the inner mind centre. Page 76 The descent felt today has not been confined to me alone: it has been rather general. Will it not change the whole atmosphere? There is an... the psychic is in full activity. I dreamt of three aeroplanes rising from a steamer. What does it indicate? I suppose something capable of ascent in the psychic, the inner mind, the inner vital. Page 83 During the sadhana, has the psychic also to ascend? It joins itself to the higher consciousness. THE POWER OF AGNI... experience, which you have to feel as an aspiration and a force working. The higher flow that descends through the top of my head— the Brahmic centre — was felt till now only up to the inner mind centre in the forehead. Now it has extended and runs into the nose. It is coming down towards the externalising mind centre. I do not understand how the higher pressure ...
... started? No—an extension of the working on the inner mind. There were also sharp pressures on many parts of the face as with a pointed instrument. All that is a working on the externalising mind. Page 140 During the blank state my consciousness shifts its lodging from the inner mind centre to the centre on the top of my head. ... into the higher consciousness. When the pressure on the temples of the head becomes stronger there comes a spontaneous tendency to soar upwards. It is through the inner mind that one ascends—so that is quite natural. There is such a prolonged pressure on the whole head that I am forced to remain withdrawn all the time. And the eyes have become like two ...
... barbarian invaders and had to be reborn Page 430 by the infusion of a foreign vitality to become modern Italy, Spain and France. But India still lives and keeps the continuity of her inner mind and soul and spirit with the India of the ages. Invasion and foreign rule, the Greek, the Parthian and the Hun, the robust vigour of Islam, the levelling steam-roller heaviness of the British occupation... we say then of the surpassing vitality of the civilisation that could accomplish this miracle and of the wisdom of those who built its foundation not on things external but on the spirit and the inner mind and made a spiritual and cultural oneness the root and stock of her existence and not solely its fragile flower, the eternal basis and not the perishable superstructure? But spiritual unity is ...
... nothing extraordinary, much less impossible in seeing a person whom one has never seen—you are thinking as if the inner mind and sense, the inner vision were limited by the outer mind and sense, the outer vision, or were a mere reflection of that. There would be not much use in an inner mind and sense and vision if they were only that and nothing more. This faculty is one of the elementary powers of the ...
... (All passages in this Section have been extracted from the works of Sri Aurobindo.) In the psychic transformation there are three main elements: (1) the opening of the occult inner mind, inner vital, inner physical, so that one becomes aware of all that lies behind the surface mind, life and body — (2) the opening of the psychic being or soul by which it comes forward and governs... above. If the psychic being is once active this struggle and these difficulties can be greatly minimised. The power of concentration in the eyebrows is to open the centre there, liberate the inner mind and vision and the inner or yogic consciousness and its experiences and powers. From here also one can open upwards and act also in the lower centres; but the danger of this process is that one may ...
... the surface or frontal consciousness of the outer being there is an inner or subliminal consciousness upon all the three levels—physical, vital, mental. Thus there is an inner mind, an inner vital and an inner physical. The inner mind is in touch with the universal mind, the inner vital with the universal life-forces, and the inner physical with the universal physical forces around us. Thus whereas the ...
... has some connection with the subconscient. The Ear, Nose, Face and Throat It cannot be anything physical but only a subtle physical sensation. The ear is the passage of communion between the inner mind centre and the thought-forces or thought-waves of the universal Nature. It sounds like a sensation of opening and enlarging of this passage. The nose is connected with the vital dynamic part... externalising mind (physical mental) whose centre is in the throat. The neck and throat and the lower part of the face belong to the externalising mind, the physical mental. The forehead to the inner Mind. Above the head are the higher planes of Mind. The organ of speech is an instrument of the physical mental or expressive externalising mind. The Chest, Stomach and Abdomen It is because ...
... whole of us, because living awake on the surface we are conscious of that only. But within, with a sort of wall of obscurity or oblivion between it and the outer being, there is an inner being, an inner mind, vital, physical and an inmost or psychic being of which we are not aware. We are only aware of what comes up from there to the surface and do not know its source or how it comes. By Yoga the wall... ego—if in the mind, it is identified with the mind and its activities and so on. If the consciousness puts its stress outside, it is said to live in the external being and becomes oblivious of its inner mind and vital and inmost psychic; if it goes inside, puts its centralising stress there, then it knows itself as the inner being or, still deeper, as the Page 20 psychic being; if it ascends ...
... this can help also. Also it opens a passage between the exterior consciousness and the inner mind or vital. But if one stops at that, then nothing much is gained. Sadhana must be the main thing and sadhana means the purification of the nature, the consecration of the being, the opening of the psychic and the inner mind and vital, the contact and presence of the Divine, the realisation of the Divine in ...
... accustomed to live securely only within its normal limits,—but in either way, safe or unsafe, the thing can be done. What we discover within this secret part of ourselves is an inner being, a soul, an inner mind, an inner life, an inner subtle-physical entity which is much larger in its potentialities, more plastic, more powerful, more capable of a manifold knowledge and dynamism than our surface mind, life... world-knowledge. This character persists in Life and in subtle Matter and reappears in the gross material universe which arises from the final lapse into the Inconscience. Yet, as in our subliminal or inner Mind, so in this Mind also a larger power of communication and mutuality still remains, a freer play of mentality and sense than human mind possesses, and the Ignorance is not complete; a conscious harmony ...
... of the divine and infinite Ananda. Page 866 The supramental sense can act in its own power and is independent of the body and the physical life and outer mind and it is above too the inner mind and its experiences. It can be aware of all things in whatever world, on whatever plane, in whatever formation of universal consciousness. It can be aware of the things of the material universe even... often quite artificial order which pursues them even more Page 880 than it pursues our more normal mental activities of the surface, and they become the harmonious play of the universal inner mind and soul in us, assume their true law and right forms and relations and reveal their just significances. Even on the mental plane one can get by the spiritualising of the mind at some realisation ...
... d by or fused with the intellectual mind which, in its exalted operation, Sri Aurobindo often terms "the creative intelligence". Again, the same poetry draws into itself something of the Inner Mind, that many-dimensioned realm of a deeper look than the normal vision of the subtle-physical, vital or intellectual mentality. There are glimpses too of the "occult", snatches of a poetry communicating... mounting towards the "Mantra". Parts four and five have each a few poems whose planes are not mentioned in the comments but may be inferred, from certain terms of characterisation, as the Inner Mind, either pure or charged with the overhead afflatus, for the one group and as the Psychic Being for the other. In part six, some poems, not specified by Sri Aurobindo as overhead though highly ...
... sensitive representative spirits" 1 . Literature truly can induct us into the inner workings of the author; it can be the first introduction to his inner being and the inner mind. Of course, the inner mind itself has a very wide range that includes both 'reflected' and 'authentic' realisations, visions that arc contemplative and ruminative as well as dynamic and spontaneous. Witness ...
... inward turn is natural to you you do not penetrate far enough. All meditation is inward-going but there are in general two stages beyond this preliminary penetration. The first stage takes one to the inner mind, the inner vital, the inner subtle-physical. The second stage is the- innermost soul, the psychic being. Usually to go deep within is in our Yoga to reach this direct emanation of the Personal Divine... in the Aurobindonian terminology our true mental, our true vital, our true subtle-physical. It is wide and calm and clear, unlike our superficial individuality. I believe it is the terminus of our inner mind, vital and subtle-physical. Your final question is on quite a different plane: "In the spiritual map of India Burma is included. When and how long was Burma a part of ancient India?" I have ...
... fine—language and rhythm remarkably harmonious, terres totusque rotundus 1 —the expression very felicitous and embodying exactly the thing seen. Source is poetic intelligence drawn back into inner mind and lifting towards the overhead planes from which it receives its vision and substance and a certain breath of subtlety and largeness." * INVOCATION TO THE FOURFOLD DIVINE ... one. Poems ditto. "I had not in view the Dark Well poems when I wrote about Harin. I was thinking of his ordinary way of writing. If I remember right, the Dark Well poems came from the inner mind centre, some from the Higher Mind—other planes may have sent their message to his mind to put in poetic speech, but the main worker was the poetic intelligence which took what was given and turned ...
... that only that matters. So it seems to me that Krishnaprem is fundamentally right in what he says of the symbols. To the physical mind only the words and facts and acts of a man matter; to the inner mind it is the spiritual happenings in him that matter. Even the teachings of Buddha and Christ are spiritually true not as mere mental teachings but as the expression of spiritual states or happenings... Page 218 asked me the question about work and sadhana, I would have answered him otherwise. Of course literature and art are or can be a first introduction to the inner being—the inner mind and vital; for it is from there that they come. And if one writes poems of bhakti, poems of divine seeking, etc. or creates music of that kind, it means that there is a bhakta or seeker inside ...
... the mass-mind through the physical mind of man and make it familiar with the Godhead in the universe through the symbol of the sacrificial fire (yajna). In the latter, deeper approaches of man's inner mind and life to the Divine in the universe were attempted through the development of great religious movements, philosophies, 3 many-sided epic literature (particularly Ramayana and Mahabharata),... and, in the eighteenth century, which can be regarded as the period of dense obscurity, the work that had begun seemed almost lost. The aim of this third stage was to approach not only the inner mind and life of man, but to approach his Tantras are called Agamas. We do not know the exact number of Agamas, but it is estimated that there are 64 of them. Page 22 whole mental ...
... mind-forces, even though they attempt to enter also into the phenomena of the inmost soul or psychic being that is claimed to be discoverable by transcending the deeper depths of the inner life and inner mind. Occultism also aims at application of the knowledge that it gathers of the subjective inner being as also of the corresponding objective reality which can be contacted by the inner being. In... value, however limited it may be, of the fund of knowledge and evidence that occultism has provided to the realities and the functionings of the subliminal consciousness and of the domains of the inner mind, inner vital and subtle physical being. Indeed, it can safely be affirmed that occultism does provide adequate data the explanation of which necessitates the admission of the possibility and even ...
... peace that it can only concentrate in inaction. It can be there and concentrate in or behind action also. As for the dynamic descent, you say that the Force has descended to your forehead (inner mind) centre. It seems to be very slow in coming through. It has to come down to the heart centre and below before it can begin to be fully effective. Probably there must be something either in the physical... descent is absolutely necessary at present; it will help me to bring active sadhana into the work also. As for the dynamic descent, you say that the Force has descended to your forehead (inner mind) centre. It seems to be very slow in coming through. It has to come down to the heart centre and below before it can begin to be fully effective. Probably there must be something either in the physical ...
... the emotional men? I don't see why U's mind-power will be ultimately less because, as you say, when the inner mind or the head centre opens, there is a downpour of Knowledge. Then if we can expect a mental type's heart opening up, we can also expect the psychic type's head and inner mind opening up and thus bringing in the downpour of Knowledge. That is more logical—but the logical is not ...
... spine. Can there be such an action in the spine also? Yes. During a free reception, I feel the descent passing through my head, forehead and inner mind centre. It is the inner mind centres that have become open and conscious. While standing and looking at the Mother my eyes felt a burning pressure. It may be to connect ...
... try to become, as she always wanted, her golden children, within and without. Sri Aurobindo speaks of an inner mind, an inner vital, an inner physical. Only the other day the passage was read out at the Playground meditation. The golden body, the new body, is formed out of an inner mind, an inner vital and an inner physical, renewed and reshaped. We can show our love for her, requite the debt that ...
... accompanied by or fused with the intellectual mind which, in its exalted operation, Sri Aurobindo often terms "the creative intelligence". Again, the same poetry draws into itself something of the Inner Mind, that many-dimensioned realm of a deeper look than the normal vision of the subtle-physical, vital or intellectual mentality. There are glimpses too of the "occult", snatches of a poetry communicating... mounting towards the "Mantra". Parts four and five have each a few poems whose planes are not mentioned in the comments but may be inferred, from certain terms of characterisation, as the Inner Mind, either pure or charged with the overhead afflatus, for the one group and as the Psychic Being for the other. In part six, some poems, not specified by Sri Aurobindo Page 62 ...
... in that sense be called psychic, those which arise from or directly touch the psychic being.... " He continued to use the word "psychical" to refer to phenomena connected with the subliminal (inner mind, inner vital, inner physical), such as clairvoyance, telepathy, etc. Page 413 Psychical consciousness — the consciousness of the subliminal or inner being. Psychic being... physical mind, the vital being and the body-consciousness. Subconscious mind — the inner or subliminal mind. the Subliminal —comprises the inner being, taken in its entirety of inner mind, inner life, inner physical with the soul or psychic entity supporting them; (sometimes) all that lies outside the surface consciousness, including the subconscient, the subliminal proper and the ...
... results of certain actions; that is some part of the inner being, sometimes the inner mental, sometimes the inner vital, sometimes, it may be, the inner or subtle physical Purusha. The inner being — inner mind, inner vital, inner or subtle physical — knows much that is unknown to the outer mind, the outer vital, the outer physical, for it is in a more direct contact with the secret forces of Nature.... reference to this desire-soul than to the true psychic. It is used still more loosely of psychological and other phenomena of an abnormal or supernormal character which are really connected with the inner mind, inner vital, subtle physical being subliminal in us and are not at all direct operations of the psyche. Even such phenomena as materialisation and dematerialisation are included, though, if ...
... mind in which we are in direct contact with the infinite, in touch with the self and highest reality of things, Sachchidananda. In ourselves, behind our surface natural being, there is a soul, an inner mind, an inner life-part which can open to these heights as well as to the occult spirit within us, and this double opening is the secret of a new evolution; by that breaking of lids and walls and boundaries... creator, thinker, sage, prophet of an ideal, the self-controlled, self-disciplined, harmonised mental being, she has tried to go higher and deeper within and call out into the front the soul and inner mind and heart, call down from above the forces of the spiritual mind and higher mind and overmind and create under their light and by their influence the spiritual sage, seer, prophet, God-lover, Yogin ...
... word-significance. If that can be done by breaking rules, well, so much the worse for the rule. 30 October 1936 The poem was originally written from a lower level, a mixture perhaps of the inner mind, psychic, poetic intelligence, sublimised vital, afterwards with the Higher Mind, often illumined and intuitivised, intervening. Most of the stuff of the first book is new or else the old so altered... mortalia tangunt , which I think to be the Higher Mind coming through to the psychic and blending with it. So also his O passi graviora, dabit deus his quoque finem . Here it may be the intuitive inner mind with the psychic fused together. 5 November 1936 One dealt with her who meets the burdened great. [ p. 17 ] Who is "One" here? Is it Love, the godhead mentioned before? If not, does ...
... about all at once; the other parts of the being must be prepared for the change and the veil between must become thinner and thinner. It is for that experiences come and there is the working on the inner mind and vital and physical as well as on the outer nature. What do you mean by a personal vital? What people call personality is a formation. There is no unchangeable vital personality. There... It may be said of the psychic that it is that [ the luminous part of our being ], because the psychic is in touch with the Divine and a projection of the Divine into the lower nature. But the inner mind, vital and physical are a part of the universal and open to the dualities—only they are wider than the external mind, life and body and can receive more largely and easily the divine influence. ...
... poetry or art need not express anything that has happened in his outer personal life is too obvious to be made so much of; the real point is how far his work can be supposed to be a transcript of his inner mind or mental life. It is obvious that his vital cast, his character may have very little to do with his writing, it may be its very opposite. His physical mind also does not determine it; the physical... characters and creations of even the most sternly objective fiction, much more the characters and creations of poetry live by Page 112 the law of their own life, which is something in the inner mind of their creator—they cannot be constructed as copies of things outside. 30 January 1933 Page 113 × ...
... of pressure deepening sometimes into a feeling of headache or this feeling of the head preparing to split. It is nothing but a sensation in the physical created by the inner mind (this part of the head is the seat of the inner mind) trying to open under the touch from above. Headaches "produced by a pressure from above", as you put it, are not due to the pressure or produced by it, but produced ...
... cloud the inner consciousness as now. Plenty of people have this condition (it is human nature) and there is naturally a way of coming out of it—having full faith in the Mother to quiet the inner mind (even if the outer continues to be troublesome) and call in it the Mother's Peace and Force, which is always there above you, into the Adhar. Once that is there, consciously, to keep yourself open... the touch of the Mother's presence,—her consciousness, her force working in you to open the centre of the inner vision. For in the centre of the forehead between the eyebrows is the centre of the inner mind, inner will, the inner vision and when that opens one begins to see and know what is to the physical eye invisible and to the surface mind unknowable. 11 October 1935 It is an obsession from ...
... eyebrows, the centre of the inner mind, will and vision. The moonlight you saw is the light of spirituality and it was this that was entering into your mind through the centre, with the effect of the widening in the heart like a sky filled with moonlight. Afterwards came some endeavour to prepare the lower part of the mind whose centre is in the throat and join it with the inner mind and make it open; but ...
... Again in you the waking mind has been too active in its insistence on the ideas and operations of the outer consciousness to give the inner mind a chance to project itself into the waking state. But it is through the inner consciousness and primarily through the inner mind that these things come; so, if there is not a clear passage from the inner to the outer, it must be in the inner states that they first ...
... the central knowledge. For us there is one way, one path; first, a conversion inwards, a going within to find the inmost psychic being and bring it out to the front, disclosing at the same time the inner mind, inner vital, inner physical parts of the nature; next, an ascension, a series of conversions upwards and a turning down to convert the lower parts. When one has made the inward conversion, one ... and on all of them the self can be realised,—for they are all spiritual planes. Page 304 Mind, vital and physical are inextricably mixed together only in the surface consciousness—the inner mind, inner vital, inner physical are separate from each other. Those who seek the self by the old Yogas separate themselves from mind, life and body and realise the self apart from these things. It is ...
... —the most involved state of the Superconscience; all powers of the Superconscience progressively evolve and emerge out of the Inconscient, the first emergence being Matter. inner being —the inner mind, inner vital, inner physical with the psychic behind as the inmost; see also the subliminal. Intuition —1) Insight without conscious reasoning. 2) Plane of consciousness between Illumined... the subconscient is a nether diminished consciousness, the subliminal is an inner consciousness larger than our surface existence. the subliminal —the inner being, taken in its entirety of inner mind, inner life, inner physical, with the soul or psychic entity supporting them. The subliminal in man is the largest part of his nature; it is not subconscient, but conscient and greater than the waking ...
... strain. So it is easy for the mind to mistake and take the higher for the lower inspiration or vice versa." Comparing the poetry of the Inner Mind with that of the Illumined, Sri Aurobindo writes: "There are many kinds of vision in the inner Mind.... A certain spontaneous intensity of vision is usually there, but that large or rich sweep or power which belongs to the Illumined Mind is ...
... this subconscient is more directly concerned with what we may call the more obscure and darker movements of our being. What is then the origin of the higher movements? Where do they remain lodged—inner mind, life and body? Do all the higher impulses—service, fame, ambition, etc., come from these inner planes? In the making of a being, I suppose then, the subconscient impressions and sanskaras of previous... rays of the light of Truth are trying to get inside your skull. As you say "trying", I won't commit myself farther than that. Strictly speaking, as it was the brow, it means trying to get into the inner mind and light it up a little. You said on the previous day that the quick emerging of a faculty depends on a favourable adhar. But on what does this favourableness depend? I thought it is all an ...
... this can help also. Also it opens a passage between the exterior consciousness and the inner mind or vital. But if one stops at that, then nothing much is gained. Sadhana must be the main thing and sadhana means purification of the nature, the consecration of the being, the opening of the psychic and the inner mind and vital, the contact and presence of the Divine, the realization of the Divine in all ...
... (f) The inner consciousness is, in fact, what can be called the subliminal consciousness, because it is behind the threshold of our outer consciousness. It includes the large action of the inner mind, inner Intelligence and inner sense-mind, of an inner vital, and of an inner subtle-physical being which upholds and embraces our waking consciousness but which is not brought to the front. ... description of this entire process: First, there must be a conversion inwards, a going within to find the inmost psychic being and bring it out to the front, disclosing at the same time the inner mind, inner vital, inner physical parts of the nature. Next, there must be an ascension, a series of conversions upwards and a turning down to convert the lower parts. When one has made the inward conversion ...
... mind and life and body, Our larger being sits behind cryptic walls: There are greatnesses hidden in our unseen parts That wait their hour to step into life's front: Our inner Mind dwells in a larger light, Its brightness looks at us through hidden doors; A mighty life-self with its inner powers Supports the dwarfish modicum we call life; Our body's... body's subtle self is throned within In its viewless palace of veridical dreams. 3 Thus, the subliminal reach of our being comprises our inner existence, that is to say, our inner mind, inner life and inner physical with the soul or psychic entity supporting them all. It is of the nature of a secret intraconscient and circumconscient awareness in full possession of a brilliant mind ...
... the mass-mind through the physical mind of man and make it familiar with the Godhead in the universe through the symbol of the sacrificial fire (yajna). In the latter, deeper approaches of man's inner mind and life to the Divine in the universe were attempted through the development of great religious movements, philosophies, 3 many-sided epic literature (particularly Ramayana and Mahabharata),... , and, in the eighteenth century, which can be regarded as the period of dense obscurity, the work that had begun seemed almost lost. The aim of this third stage was to approach not only the inner mind and life of man, but to approach his whole mental, psychical and physical living, his totality of being and activity, and to turn it into a first beginning of at least a generalised spiritual life ...
... living resistance to barbarian invaders and had to be reborn by the infusion of a foreign vitality to become modern Italy, Spain and France. But India still lives and keeps the continuity of her inner mind and soul and spirit with the India of the ages. Invasion and foreign rule, the Greek, the Parthian and the Hun, the robust vigour of Islam, the levelling steam-roller heaviness of the British occupation... we say then of the surpassing vitality of the civilization that could accomplish this miracle and of the wisdom of those who built its foundation not on things external but on the spirit and the inner mind and made a spiritual and cultural oneness the root and stock of her existence and not solely its fragile flower, the eternal basis and not the perishable superstructure "?5 Page 12 ...
... experiences and realisations with a nature so full of insincerity and ego-centredness. One can realise certain things in the inner being (especially the inner mind) without transformation of the outer nature. Z's inner mind once it opened proved to be extremely receptive — but his inner vital and physical only opened for a while then closed, the outer man prevailed and the outer man in ...
... to become, as she always wanted, her golden children, within and without. Sri Aurobindo speaks of an inner mind, an inner vital, an inner physical. Only the other day the passage was read out at the playground-meditation.³ The golden body, the new body, is formed out of an inner mind, an inner vital and an inner physical, renewed and reshaped. We can show our love for her, requite the debt ...
... to have extended from 600 B.C. to 800 B.C Page 58 with the Godhead in the universe through the symbol of the sacrificial fire (yajna). In the latter, deeper approaches of man's inner mind and life to the Divine in the universe were attempted through the development of great philosophies,* many-sided epic literature (particularly Ramayana and Mahabharata), systems of Puranas and... and, in the eighteenth century, which can be regarded as the period of dense obscurity, the work that had begun seemed almost lost. The aim of this third stage was to approach not only the inner mind and life of man, but to approach his whole mental, psychical and physical living, his totality of being and activity, and to turn it into a first beginning of at least a generalized spiritual ...
... VI The inner consciousness is, in fact, what can be-called the subliminal consciousness, because it is behind the threshold of our outer consciousness. It includes the large action of the inner mind, inner Intelligence and inner sense-mind, of an inner vital, and of an inner subtle-physical being which upholds and embraces our waking consciousness but is not brought to the front. Our subliminal... description of this entire process: 'First, there must be a conversion inwards, a going within to find the inmost psychic being and bring it out to the front, disclosing at the same time the inner mind, inner vital, inner physical parts of the nature. Next, there must be an ascension, a series of conversions upwards and a turning down to convert the lower parts. When one has made the inward conversion ...
... vision. To give you one instance: I heard as if the Goddess Bhagawati were telling me, "I am coming" and many other things which I don't remember now. These things are at least a proof that the inner mind and vital are trying to open to supraphysical things. But if you belittle it at once the moment it starts how can it ever develop? 26 October 1934 I had a dream in which the Mother seemed ...
... you did not repel them with sufficient force to put an end to the attack. Hence they continue. 25 February 1935 I find great difficulty in understanding what is the difference between the inner mind and the vital, physical and outer minds. Also I want to know what is the physical consciousness and what are the different places of these things. If these things have forms but are not material ...
... What was this? It means the whole mind was liberated for a while from imprisonment in the body sense and became free in the passivity of the wider Self. 16 August 1934 When I spoke of the inner mind of the Asram, I was only using a succinct expression for the "minds of the members of the Asram" and I was not thinking of the collective mind of the group. But the action of the Mother in the meditation ...
... one's mind is perfectly within the possibilities of anyone who has the faith and will to undertake it. 5 August 1932 Literature and art are or can be first introductions to the inner being—the inner mind and vital; for it is from there that they come. And if one writes poems of bhakti, poems of divine seeking etc., or creates music of that kind, it means that there is a bhakta or seeker inside who ...
... It is because you have lived in your outer and not in your inner being that it is like that. But unless you open to the inner touch, the inner being cannot develop. I mean by the inner being the inner mind, the inner vital, the inner physical, the inner psychic. 3 February 1937 Could you explain what you mean by the inner touch? The inner touch is the Mother's influence felt in the inner ...
... want to change and buy your wares at the heavy cost of giving up all it is and has and does? It wants and it does not want something that it has not got. All that the supramental could give, the inner mind of the world would like to have, but its outer mind, its vital and physical do not like to pay the price. But after all I am not trying to change the world all at once but only to bring down centrally ...
... one's nature; the right law of individual and social life; literally, that which one lays hold of and which holds things together. Higher Mind — see under spiritualised mind. inner mind — that which lies behind the surface mind (our ordinary mentality); this inner or subliminal mind senses directly all the things of the mind-plane, is open to the action of a world of mental forces ...
... Gratitude link with the psychic 50-51 Harmonisation of being 80-81 Ignorance, the xvii, 5, 15 Immortality, feeling of 61-62 Individuality 16,16-17,63.68-69 Inner mind see under Mind Intuition 18 Joy xxvii-xxviii, 52 Liberation xxxi Love 7,9 aspiration for, 37 Memories of past lives xxviii-xxix, 60, 60- 61,66-67 Mind (the ...
... that if the entire reason is transformed—he speaks of transformation, you know—if the reason is transformed into the very essence, the substance of intuition, then the whole inner movement of the inner mind becomes a movement of intuition, organised as the reason is organised, that is, it becomes active at will, answers all needs and comes into the being in accordance with a methodical system. It is ...
... transformation, there is only one way, one path. First, there must be a conversion inwards, a going Within to find the inmost psychic being and bring it out to the front, disclosing at the same time the inner mind, inner vital, inner physical parts of the nature. Next, there must be an ascension, a series of conversions upwards and a turning down to convert the lower parts. When one has made the inward conversion ...
... is some sign of this emergence, then we come nearer to the most potent sources of universal and eternal delight and beauty, nearer to its full and wide seeing, and its all-embracing rapture. This inner mind is the first native power of the self and spirit dropping its lower veils and the very life and aesthesis of the spirit in its creation is a life of self-experiencing spiritual delight and a luminous ...
... ditto. Page 464 I had not in view the Dark Well poems when I wrote about Harin. I was thinking of his ordinary way of writing. If I re member right, the Dark Well poems came from the inner mind centre, some from the Higher Mind—other planes may have sent their message to his mind to put in poetic speech, but the main worker was the poetic intelligence which took what was given and turned ...
... these will come fast enough if the calm and strength become durable, are made the habit and stuff of the consciousness. As for sadhana what is necessary is to arrive at a certain quiet of the inner mind which makes meditation fruitful or a quietude of the heart which creates the psychic opening. It is only by regular concentration, constant aspiration and a will to purify the mind and heart of the ...
... enlightened and even too the pranic and sense movements and the consciousness of the body. And usually there will be some development also of the psychic faculties, powers and perceptions of the inner mind and its senses not dependent on the outer sense and the reason. The intuitive mentality will be not only a stronger and a more luminous thing, but usually capable of a much more extensive operation ...
... of Life as the original reality, Life as the great Eternal, prāṇo brahma . And already it has in germ, in preparation a third conception, the discovery of a great self-expressing and self-finding inner Mind other than our surface mentality as a master-power of existence, and that should lead towards a rich attempt to deal with our possibilities and our ways of living on the basis of Mind as the original ...
... symbols. What "remarkable source", please? Inner or over? Can't specify—as these things have no name. Inner—over also in imagery, but not what I call the overhead planes. These belong to the inner mind or inner vital or to the intuitive mind or anywhere else that is mystic. 8 July 1938 Page 495 This is really disappointing! Oh, the time it took! I am sure you will find ...
... from there. To receive constantly the intuition from above, that is not necessary—it is sufficient to have the sense of the One everywhere and to get into contact with things and people through the inner mind and senses more than with the outer mind and senses—for the latter meet only the surface of things and are not intuitive. The intuitive "mind" does not get the touch direct from the supramental ...
... results of certain actions; that is some part of the inner being, sometimes the inner mental, sometimes the inner vital, sometimes, it may be, the inner or subtle physical Purusha. The inner being—inner mind, inner vital, inner or subtle physical—knows much that is unknown to the outer mind, the outer vital, the outer physical, for it is in a more direct contact with the secret forces of Nature. The ...
... heart, detaches oneself from the parts of Prakriti, ceases to identify oneself with mind, life and body, falls Page 69 into an inner silence. One need not even explore the kingdoms of the inner mind or inner vital, still less is it compulsory to spread one's wings in ranges above. The Self is everywhere and by entering into full detachment and silence, or even by either detachment or silence ...
... like that to that person or place. If we have a will or strong mental desire that something should happen, a will-force may go out and try to make that happen. But also forces can go out from the inner mind without any conscious cause on the surface. The Play of Forces My experience shows me that human beings are less deliberate Page 560 and responsible for their acts than the moralists ...
... to look would be enough and even the faculty might disappear by atrophy through long discontinuance. But if the thoughts of others come to her of themselves, it may be the psychic opening in her inner mind which it would be difficult to get rid of. If she could remain indifferent or push away these unwelcome visitors behind her and not think of them again, that would be one remedy; it might even be ...
... the vital that that becomes clear. In the mind plane they manifest at most as mental suggestions and not as concrete Powers. Also if one looks at things with the Mind only (even though it be the Inner Mind), one may see the subtle play of Nature-Forces but without recognising the conscious intention which we call hostile. × ...
... the concentration. What happens usually is that something touches the vital, often without one's knowing it, and brings up the old ordinary or external consciousness in such a way that the inner mind gets covered up and all the old thoughts and feelings return for a time. It is the physical mind that becomes active and gives its assent. If the whole mind remains quiet and detached observing the ...
... thinking mind where it communicates with the higher consciousness; the neck or throat is the seat of the physical, externalising or expressive mind; the ear is the place of communication with the inner mind centre by which thoughts etc. enter into the personal being from the general Nature. The sternum at the point indicated 1 holds the psychic and emotional centre, with its apex on the spinal column ...
... the descent of the Page 416 higher consciousness into the lower. What you first experienced was an uprush of the lower consciousness from all parts so strong as to break the lid of the inner mind—that was the splitting of the skull—and to enable the joining of the two consciousnesses above to be complete. The result was a descent. Usually the first thing that descends from the higher con ...
... ordinary language. The Force when it descends tries to open the body and pass through the centres. It has to come in (ordinarily) through the crown of the head (Brahmarandhra) and pass through the inner mind centre which is in the middle of the forehead between the eyebrows. That is why it presses first on the head. The opening of the eyes brings one back to the ordinary consciousness of the outer world ...
... Divine and unshaken by all suggestion of doubt, desire, attachment, depression, sorrow, pain, inertia. This is possible when the inner being awakens, when one becomes conscious of the Self, of the inner mind, the inner vital, the inner physical, for that can more easily attune itself to the divine Will, and then there is a division in the being as if there were two beings, one within, calm, strong, equal ...
... can open all the doors. Another method is concentration and aspiration in the heart which opens the inner emotional being. Another is the concentration in the head of which I spoke which opens the inner mind or opens the passage through the Brahmarandhra to the higher consciousness. These things are no fantastic invention of mine which one can dismiss as a new-fangled and untested absurdity; they are ...
... course!). This drawing inside is necessary because the active mind of the human being is at first too much turned to outward things; it has to go inside altogether in order to live in the inner being (inner mind, inner vital, inner physical, psychic). But with training one can arrive at a point when one remains outwardly conscious and yet lives in the inner being and has at will the indrawn or the out-poured ...
... things, such as the feeling of the presence of the Mother etc. Light between the eyebrows indicates some opening of the Ajna-chakra, Page 117 which is there—it is the centre of the inner mind, inner will and occult vision. The light outside means a touch or influence of the Force indicated by the light (golden is truth-light, blue is some spiritual force from the upper planes) ...
... enables us to open the gate of realisation. Book The book indicates some kind of knowledge. Mirror, Square and Triangle The mirror between the eyebrows indicates that something in the inner mind has become able to reflect the Truth from above (golden light)—a square is a symbol of the truth beyond the mind as a triangle is the symbol of mind, life, body. Incense Stick and Tobacco The ...
... position that is untrue, it is the view of it taken by this obscure part of your being that is unsound and an error. It is the instinctive (not mental) will in the outer being that is blind—the inner mind knows and understands and when it comes out it enlightens the rest so that all is clear. But the outer being readmits the darkness and confusion through a wrong movement of the vital or through an ...
... But though large parts of it can be thus known by a penetration and looking within or a freer communication, it is only by going inward behind the veil of superficial mind and living within, in an inner mind, an inner life, an inmost soul of our being that we can be fully self-aware,—by this and by rising to a higher plane of mind than that which our waking consciousness inhabits. An enlargement and ...
... tasks he demands from his instruments, steel it against suffering and dis aster. In the spiritual ascent this power of the consciousness and its will over the instruments, the control of spirit and inner mind over the outer mentality and the nervous being and the body, increases immensely; a tranquil and wide equality of the spirit to all shocks and contacts comes in and becomes the habitual poise, and ...
... often hampered by it and in a general manner conditioned by its matter-obsession. In this respect also they stand with the brain-mind over against the subliminal. If we call the subliminal the inner mind and take it to pass beyond the physical formula, the rest is the outer or surface mind and the physical formula covers the whole of it in one way or another. Broadly speaking, what is not subliminal ...
... one. Poems ditto. "I had not in view the Dark Well poems when I wrote about Harin. I was thinking of his ordinary way of writing. If I remember right , the Dark Well poems came from the inner mind centre, some from the Higher Mind-other planes may have sent their message to his mind to put in poetic speech, but the main worker was the poetic intelligence which took what was given and turned ...
... expression, and taking. The fourth stanza is from the Intuitive, the rest not from the Higher Mind—for there a high-uplifted thought is the characteristic—but more probably from some realm of the inner Mind where thought and vision are involved in each other—that kind of fusion gives the easy felicity that is found here. All the same there is a touch of the Higher Mind perhaps in the 2nd lines of ...
... birds. Far lonelihoods of sleep Dwindle my words. Beyond life's clamour, A mystery mars Speech-light to a myriad stammer Of nickering stars.— it is certainly the inner mind that has transformed the idea of stammering into a symbol of inner phenomena and into that operation a certain strain of mystic mind enters, but what is prominent is the intuitive inspiration ...
... is beautiful as well as simple and very felicitous in its suggestiveness." To judge from the turn of the comment, one may guess the source of the lines to be jointly the psychic and the inner mind. Page 95 ...
... Beyond life's clamour, A mystery mars Speech-light to a myriad stammer Of flickering stars. Sri Aurobindo's remark on the poem is revealing: "It is certainly the inner mind that has transformed the idea of stammering into a symbol of inner phenomena.... " 21 What are the inner phenomena ? Can we interpret the symbol ? The symbol being a polyvalent ...
... Upon the brimming water among the stones Are nine-and-fifty swans. The scene is so composed, so serene. The swans symbolise the majesty of a long lost time that is frozen in the inner mind of the poet who looks upon them, and "now my heart is sore". Their hearts, on the other hand "have not grown old" and Passion or conquest, wander where they will, Attend upon them still ...
... Aurobindo's profound concept of poetic inspiration which, according to him, can hail from one of the following planes: (1) The Subtle Physical, (2) The Vital, (3) The Creative Intelligence, (4) The Inner Mind, (5) The Psychic, (6) The Higher Mind, (7) The Illumined Mind, (8) The Intuitive Mind, (9) The Overmind. For example, quoting the lines Page 283 To me the meanest ...
... gave joy to the emotional-vital. The roots were not deep enough. About his best mystical creations during the three years of stay in the Ashram, Sri Aurobindo says that Harin's "poems came from the inner mind centre, some from the Higher Mind - other planes may have sent their message to his mind to put in poetic speech, but the main worker was the poetic intelligence which took what was given and turned ...
... you and hold you after coming in though unwanted into your (and others') intimate relation within with the Mother. As the Mother disapproved it tried to attack her but your inner being (psychic, inner mind, inner vital) threw itself upon it and pushed it out and continued fighting with it so as to drive it away. The effect on the body means only some difficulty in the external being caused by the adverse ...
... the vital that this becomes clear. In the mind plane they manifest at most as mental suggestions and not as concrete powers. Also, if one looks at things with the mind only (even though it be the inner mind) one may see the subtle play of Nature-forces but without recognizing the conscious intention which we call hostile." But Knowledge, too, has its disadvantages — as I was to discover soon enough ...
... himself had erected. This shows that what came was someone or something real and not an imagination; what he describes as the radio are the communications or inspirations which usually come to the inner mind in one way or another in Yoga. Page 178 The line that seems to be natural to him is the Karmayoga and he is therefore right in trying to live according to the teaching ...
... experience in us or around us while in those subliminal realms of our existence. The subliminal in us, as we have mentioned before (Chapter III), is our concealed inner being comprising an inner mind and inner life and inner physical with the soul or psychic entity supporting them all. It "is not, like our surface physical being, an outcome of the energy of the Inconscient; it is a meeting ...
... look would be enough and even the faculty might disappear by atrophy through long discontinuance. But if the thoughts of others come to her of themselves, it may be the psychic opening in her inner mind, which it would be difficult to get rid of. If she could remain indifferent or push away these unwelcome visitors behind her and not think of them again, that would be one remedy; it might even ...
... plane and filling out or reconstructing the recorded experience so as to give more fully the Truth held in it. (4) The word psyche is used by most people to mean anything belonging to the inner mind, vital or physical. Poetry does come from there or from the supraconscient sometimes; but it does not come usually through the forms of dreams—it comes either through word-vision or through conscious ...
... sentence and jogging my memory. Some lines from Sri Aurobindo are responding at once. First a triplet from Savitri about whose source 1 had questioned him and he had replied: "It may be the intuitive inner mind with the psychic fused together." Here it is: But joy cannot endure until the end. T here is a darkness in terrestrial things That will not suffer long too glad a note. The second ...
... this power masterfully through 10,565 lines of pentametrical blank verse. Of ______________ 1 Bk. V,28-9. Page 229 course, we should not particularly look here for the inner mind, much less the domains still more occult. "Milton's architecture of thought and verse," writes Sri Aurobindo, 1 "is high and powerful and massive, but there are usually no subtle echoes there ...
... Master also implies, the supramental realisation was complete in him except that the Supermind had not yet permeated his body-substance - if the Truth- Consciousness had already descended into his inner mind, inner vital being and even subtle-physical nature - why could it not emerge into the gross-physical from within instead of being glimpsed up to the end above his head with its tail dangling just ...
... significance which takes shape in our personal mind or as thought-formations ready-made which we adopt and call ours. Our outer mind is blind to this process of Nature; but by the awakening of the inner mind we can become aware of it. 144 Page 139 For him [the Yogi] the image of the factory of thoughts is no longer quite valid; for he sees that thoughts come from outside, from ...
... Teachings of Eckhart Tolle and Sri Aurobindo - Some Comparisons Eckhart Tolle and Sri Aurobindo The Outer (Ordinary) Mind and the Inner (Subliminal) Mind The inner mind has also been previously alluded to (Chapter 5, pp. 91, 92) in connection with mind and the witness consciousness. ...
... would not only bring in the occult in its larger and deeper ranges but the truths of the spiritual heights, the spiritual depths, the spiritual intimacies and vastnesses as also the truths of the inner mind, the inner life, an inner or subtle physical beauty and reality. It would bring in the concreteness, the authentic image, the inmost soul of identity and the heart of meaning of these things, ...
... would not only bring in the occult in its larger and deeper ranges but the truths of the spiritual heights, the spiritual depths, the spiritual intimacies and vastnesses as also the truths of the inner mind, the inner life, an inner or subtle physical beauty 63 Ibid., p. 804. 64 Ibid., p. 802. 65 Ibid., pp. 813-14. Page 303 and reality... It might even enter ...
... would not only bring in the occult in its larger and deeper ranges hut the truths of the spiritual heights, the spiritual depths, the spiritual intimacies and vastnesses as also the truths of the inner mind, the inner life, an inner or subtle physical beauty and reality. It would bring in the concreteness, the authentic image, the inmost soul of identity and the heart of meaning of these things ...
... Self and with it to these greater things — or else to extinction of itself, Nirvana. The real Self is not anywhere on the surface but deep within and above. Within is the soul supporting an inner mind, inner vital, inner physical in which there is a capacity for universal wideness and with it for the things now asked for — direct contact with the truth of self and things, taste of a universal ...
... out of mind. Sri Aurobindo, on the other hand, distinguishes two dimensions of the mind—the ordinary mind that is part of Prakriti or Nature, which is an active and involved consciousness, and an inner mind that is part of Purusha, the inner being, which is a detached and observing or witness Consciousness. Secondly, Eckhart teaches that, for the transformation of the ordinary consciousness, one ...
... our conscious existence becomes possible when we break the wall between our external and our subliminal self. What we then discover are the secret parts of ourselves—an inner being, a soul, an inner mind, an inner life which are more plastic, more powerful, more capable of a manifold knowledge than our surface mind, life and body. The inner parts of ourselves are capable of a direct communication ...
... Aurobindo): "The characters and creations of even the most strongly objective fiction, much more the characters and creations of poetry live by the law of their own life, which is something in the inner mind of their creator—they cannot be constructed as copies of things outside." Page 303 February 9, 1933 Very glad the dragons of the pressure are turning round and becoming ...
... of new knowledge was developed, untrodden ways were opened and a hundred gates discovered into the Infinite. Puranas attempted to lay hold on the inner vital and emotional nature, to awaken a more inner mind even in the common man, and to lead him through these things towards a higher spiritual truth. The Puranic system, along with the Tantric, was a wide, assured and many-sided endeavour. It can be ...
... and the Upanishads were not surpassed but depths were further deepened and subtleties further subtilised and methods were discovered and developed whereby not only the physical mind but even the inner mind, inner vital, and larger subliminal consciousness of people was prepared. This enabled larger sections of people to enter into the possibility of a more generalised spiritual life. This is the reason ...
... conditions are fulfilled. Immortality of the mind can come about only if the mental being of the individual comes to be so powerfully individualised on the surface consciousness and so much with the inner mind and inner mental Purusha and at the same time so open plastically to the progressive action of the Infinite that the soul no longer needs to dissolve the old form of mind and create a new one in ...
... which William James does not offer in his book. Strictly speaking, experiences of automatic writing or mediumistic trance are experiences related to the subliminal consciousness consisting of the inner mind, inner vital force and subtle physical consciousness. Spiritual experiences relate to the realm of super-consciousness or of psychic consciousness which is the consciousness of the inmost being which ...
... There is a complete difference between dream-state of yoga and the physical-state of dream. The ordinary dream-state belongs to the physical mind; in the dream-state of yoga the mind proper and inner mind are at work liberated from the immixture of the physical mentality. In the yogic dream-state, the mind is in a clear position of itself, and stands in contrast with the incoherent jumble of the dreams ...
... mental personality representative of the inner mental Purusha could be possible. It could happen if our mental being came to be so powerfully individualised on the surface and so much one with the inner mind and inner mental Purusha and at the same time so open plastically to the progressive action of the Infinite that the soul no longer needed to dissolve the old form of mind and create a new one in ...
... and upheavals, in dumb automatic necessities of our obscurest parts of nature." (The Life Divine, p. 559) The 'subliminal' proper in us comprises our inner being, that is to say, our inner mind and inner life and inner physical with the soul or the psychic entity supporting them. It is of the nature of a secret intraconscient and circumconscient awareness which functions behind the veil ...
... of inward penetration, we seek to break asunder the wall separating our subliminal self from our present surface existence, leave the surface consciousness and live entirely in the realm of our inner mind, inner life, inner subtle-physical and finally in the inmost soul of our being. This inmost soul or the psychic being is the Purusha in the secret heart, hṛdye. guhāyām, a portion of the Divine ...
... or upward ascension, the consciousness first enters the 'dream-state' and then proceeds to the 'sleep-state'. While in the dream-state, the outer mind of the Sadhaka becomes quiescent and his inner mind, separated from the outer and no longer covered up by it, ranges through a wonderful world of rich and variegated inner experiences. To obviate any possible misunderstanding that the n ...
... in our sadhana of the Integral Yoga this opening has to be effected along two different directions: an opening inward and an opening upward. In Sri Aurobindo' s words, "an opening inwards of the inner mind, vital, physical to the inmost part of us, the psychic, and an opening upwards to what is above the mind." The necessity of this double opening can be easily understood if we remember that ...
... physical direct, not through the thinking mind or vital level, one cannot see the results without being aware of their process. That happens also in the earlier progress of the sadhana before the inner mind is awake. When will all our difficulties be over? That cannot be said. The difficulties are not likely to cease until the material resistance has been entirely ...
... more fully than the dream tranScript could do; for a dream record is usually compressed and often hastily selective. 4) The word "psyche" is used by most people to mean anything belonging to the inner mind, vital or physical, though the true psyche is different from these things. Poetry does come from these sources or even from the superconscient sometimes; but it does not come usually through the ...
... (physical?) thinking at random of many things which were passing by like a cinema film. Previously the whole being was mixed up with all those thoughts with a resultant turmoil. But this time the inner mind seemed to be detached. As soon as the outer thoughts cropped up it tried to see if all this was a forced condition of mind,—but no, the silence was really there and intact. This continued as long ...
... There was an idealism, an aspiration and although one could not always live up to it, yet one did not deny it or spurn it; one endeavoured as best one could, even though in leisure hours, in the inner mind and consciousness at least, to obey and follow its dictates. It is the Nazi theory of life that brought Page 144 to the very forefront and installed in the consciousness of man Evil ...
... , X. S. 3. Page 335 the poet is the priest who calls down and works out the right thinking in the sacrificial labour of creation, 1 But that creation is made in and through the inner mind and the inner senses that are alive to the subtle formation of a vaster knowledge. 2 The poet envisages the golden, forms fashioned out of the very profundity of the consciousness. 3 For the substance ...
... Ibid., X. 5. 3. Page 42 the poet is the priest who calls down and works out the right thinking in the sacrificial labour of creation.¹ But that creation is made in and through the inner mind and the inner senses that are alive to the subtle formation of a vaster knowledge.² The poet envisages the golden forms fashioned out of the very profundity of the consciousness.³ For the substance ...
... Shakti to make the Adahar fit for Yoga. All this shows that she has capacity and can do Yoga. But she must get rid of fear. Otherwise all experiences will stop. The fear indicates that though her inner mind is ready, her vital and physical beings are not—the one is full of fear and the other is suffering from bad health, as she says. A conflict is produced in her, which is not desirable. It may be better ...
... supramental World could be like at that time, so it could not enter into the scheme." In another letter of the same year: "The poem was originally written from a lower level, a mixture perhaps of the inner mind, psychic, poetic intelligence, sublimised vital, afterwards with the Higher Mind, often illumined and intuitivised, intervening. Most of the stuff of the first Book is new or else the old so altered ...
... fundamental experience of the integral yoga. When the Peace is established, this higher or Divine Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres, then into the heart centre... then into the navel and other vital centres... then into the sacral region and below.... It works at the same time for perfection as well as liberation; it ...
... would not only bring in the occult in its larger and deeper ranges but the truths of the spiritual heights, the spiritual depths, the spiritual intimacies and vastnesses as also the truths of the inner mind, the inner life, an inner or subtle physical beauty and reality. ... It might even enter into the domain of the infinite and inexhaustible, catch some word of the Ineffable, show us Page 679 ...
... * * * In your last letter you have referred to the "essential nature" of man. This essential nature or Svabhava is the nature of the psychic being which evolves by means of the inner mind, inner life and subtle or inner physical and seeks to express itself in the outer nature of the mind, life & body of man. It is not the nature of the ego. Arjun was not aware of his essential ...
... the energy of the Inconscient, it is a meeting place of the consciousness that emerges from below by evolution and the consciousness that has descended from above for involution. There is in it an inner mind, an inner vital being of ourselves, an inner or subtle-physical being larger than our outer being and nature. This inner existence is the concealed origin of almost all in our surface self that is ...
... Shakti to make the Adhar fit for Yoga. All these things show that she has a capacity for the Yoga. But she must get rid of fear. Otherwise, all the experiences will stop. The letter shows that her inner mind is ready but her vital and the physical are not – the Page 201 vital is full of fear and the body suffers from bad health. As she herself says, it produces a conflict in the being ...
... right attitude comes naturally and whatever difficulty there was soon diminishes or even disappears. I told you also at that time that there was the third part of the nature, the inner being (inner mind, inner vital, inner physical) of which you were not yet aware, but which must also open in time. It is this that has happened in your last experience. What you felt as a part of you, yourself but ...
... literature, the modern German literature. Instances there Page 146 are again of the nation freeing itself from foreign domination in one or two kinds of writing which partially reflect its inner mind and life, while the rest of its literature remains derivative and second-hand in its every fibre. We get to the heart of Roman life and character in Roman Satires, the annalistic histories of Livy ...
... guarded the sacrificial fire of a greater spiritual truth behind the form. The Purano-Tantric was the second stage: then religion took its outward formal stand on the first deeper approaches of man's inner mind and life to the Divine in the universe, but a greater initiation opened the way to a far more intimate truth and pushed towards an inner living of the spiritual life in all its profundity and in ...
... Through her our tides of feeling roll And find their God within her soul. It is again the poetic intelligence speaking — with a difference in two respects from Shelley's passages. First, the inner mind has contributed a certain intuitive intimacy of contact with mystical experience rather than a wash of bright and colourful vision. Second, the emotion does not so much rise upward to echo something ...
... subtle seeing which may seem unimportant at first but is the vestibule to deeper experience. They can have considerable importance in the development of the first yogic consciousness, that of the inner mind, inner vital, inner physical or for an occult understanding of the universe. Visions which are real can help the spiritual progress, I mean, those which show us inner realities: one can, for instance ...
... They not only "bring in the occult in its larger and deeper ranges but the truths of the spiritual heights, the spiritual depths, the spiritual intimacies and vastnesses as also the truths of the inner mind, inner life, an inner or subtle physical beauty and reality." 12 Inconscience, subconscience, all the planes of consciousness beyond the mind, even the transcendental Truth-Consciousness, the Supermind ...
... World could be like at that time, so it could not enter into the scheme." 3 In another letter of the same year: "The poem was originally written from a lower level, a mixture perhaps of the inner mind, psychic, poetic intelligence, sublimised vital, afterwards with the Higher Mind, often illumined and intuitivised, intervening. Most of the stuff of the first Book is new, or else the old so altered ...
... appears to us as if it were inconscient, comprising the material basis and a good part of our life and body; there is the subliminal, which comprises the inner being, taken in its entirety of inner mind, inner life, inner physical with the soul or psychic entity supporting them; there is this waking consciousness which the subliminal and the subconscient throw up on the surface, a wave of their ...
... of them are now fragmentarily studied under the name of psychic phenomena, — although they have ordinarily nothing to do with the psyche, the soul, the inmost entity in us, but only with the inner mind, the inner vital, the subtle-physical parts of our subliminal being;... The Life Divine, pp. 535-37 Page 249 × ...
... following extract which alludes to mastery: "There are, we might say, two beings in us, one on the surface, our ordinary exterior mind, life, body consciousness, another behind the veil, an inner mind, an inner life, an inner physical consciousness constituting another or inner self. This inner self once awake opens in its turn to our true real eternal self. It opens inwardly to the soul, called ...
... combination of idea and word or idea and name. But, farther, in Yoga one also concentrates in a particular place. There is the famous rule of concentrating between the eyebrows—the centre of the inner mind, of occult vision, of the will is there. What you do is to think firmly from there on whatever you make the object of your concentration or else try to see the image of it from there. If you succeed ...
... while others are false and misleading, or they may be a sort of artistry of that plane. They can have considerable importance in the development of the first Yogic consciousness, that of the inner mind, inner vital, inner physical or for an occult understanding of the universe. Visions which are real can help the spiritual progress, I mean, those which show us inner realities: one can, for instance ...
... own ordinary customary point of view, it should turn itself round admit that things may work from in outwards, and keep itself sufficiently quiet to see that developing and being done. For then an inner mind shows itself which is capable of following and being the instrument of the invisible Forces. It is not that you are incapable of it, for it was several times on the point of being done. But ...
... her our tides of feeling roll And find their God within her soul. It is again the poetic intelligence speaking - with a difference in two respects from Shelley's passages. First, the inner mind has contributed a certain intuitive intimacy of contact with mystical experience rather than a wash of bright and colourful vision. Second, the emotion does not so much rise upward to echo something ...
... revisions, each trying to lift the general level, higher and higher towards a possible Overmind poetry." In the same letter we read: "The poem was originally written from a lower level, a mixture of the inner mind, psychic, poetic intelligence, sublimised vital, afterwards with the Higher Mind, often illumined and intuitivised, intervening." Since the time of Nirodbaran's discovery other drafts of the ...
... critical appraisal. Apart from the metaphors it is a straight transcript of an inner condition and its antecedents. So at a venture I should say that it breaks out from the psychic realm through the inner mind which gives it most of its expression with just a halo of the source haunting the words. The metaphors are partly traditional partly imaginative but selected by a spontaneous sense of the details ...
... would not only bring in the occult in its larger and deeper ranges but the truths of the spiritual heights, the spiritual depths, the spiritual intimacies and vastnesses as also the truths of the inner mind, the inner life, an inner or subtle physical beauty and reality. It would bring in the concreteness, the authentic image, the inmost soul of identity and the heart of meaning of these things, so ...
... an opening is made to them. Broadly speaking, we can say that our inner being is composed of three parts: first, a luminous subliminal being behind each aspect of our surface personality - the inner mind, the inner vital and the subtle physical; second, an inmost psychic being or soul behind these inner parts; third, the higher planes of the spiritual consciousness posited in Yogic psychology ...
... see its glory and perfection in him and solely in him who has used this power masterfully through 10,565 lines of pentametrical blank verse. Of course, we should not particularly look here for the inner mind, much less the domains still more occult. "Milton's architecture of thought and verse," writes Sri Aurobindo, 2 "is high and powerful and massive, but there are usually no subtle echoes there ...
... had been missioned to accomplish (and what he will never reveal to anyone); he considered the NSDAP his instrument; and he would never let anyone, under any condition, thwart his mission. In his inner mind Adolf Hitler was an absolute autocrat from those days in the summer of 1919, when an as yet unexplained change took place in him, till the moment he put a bullet through his head. Only the circumstances ...
... it through painting. I recalled the most revealing letters she had written to me about the higher worlds and about spiritual and occult painting. They proved to be a wonderful promise. Now my inner mind saw clearly that not only myself but the whole of humanity would benefit by this project. My life suddenly assumed a new purpose—a new meaning. The following morning the Mother sent through Dyuman ...
... is that only that matters. So it seems to me that Krishnaprem is fundamentally right in what he says of the symbols. To the physical mind only the words and facts and acts of a man matter; to the inner mind it is the spiritual happenings in him that matter. Even the teachings of Christ and Buddha are spiritually true not as mere mental teachings but as the expression of spiritual states or happenings ...
... whole earth,—only there will be a growing influence of it on the earth life. It [ the world ] wants and it does not want something that it has not got. All that the supramental could give, the inner mind of the world would like to have, but its outer mind, its vital and physical do not like to pay the price. But after all I am not trying to change the world all at once but only to bring down centrally ...
... more fully than the dream transcript could do,—for a dream record is usually compressed and often hastily selective. (4) The word psyche is used by most people to mean anything belonging to the inner mind, vital or physical,—though the true psyche is different from these things. Poetry does come from these sources or even from the superconscient sometimes; but it does not come usually through the ...
... of the splitting of the forehead from the middle and the pouring out of light signified the opening of the centre of thought, will and vision there. When this opens, there is the opening of the inner mind consciousness through which the light of the higher can pour out—here it is the Mother's white light that was pouring out through the opening. The lights you saw were the many lights (powers, ...
... step towards overcoming this difficulty is the opening up of the inner being and its centres of action; for there the task that the surface mind could not achieve begins to be more possible. The inner mind, the inner life-consciousness and life-mind, the subtle-physical consciousness and its subtle-physical mentality, once liberated into action, create a larger, finer, greater mediating awareness able ...
... dependent on them alone even in their own field of objects or limited by their range. It has a spiritual sense and sensation of its own and it takes and relates to that the data too of a sixth sense, the inner mind sense. And it takes also the illuminations and the living symbols and images familiar to the psychic experience and relates these too to the truths of the self and spirit. The spiritual reason ...
... the energy of the Inconscient; it is a meeting-place of the consciousness that emerges from below by evolution and the consciousness that has descended from above for involution. There is in it an inner mind, an inner vital being of ourselves, an inner or subtle-physical being larger than our outer being and nature. This inner existence is the concealed origin of almost all in our surface self that is ...
... very inspiring, exalting, informative, powerfully executive. A breaking out into the cosmic consciousness may also bring in an immense enlargement of the consciousness and power. An opening into the inner mind, inner vital, inner physical, any range of the subliminal consciousness, can liberate an activity of abnormal or supernormal powers of knowledge, action or experience which the uninstructed mind ...
... reference to this desire-soul than to the true psychic. It is used still more loosely of psychological and other phenomena of an abnormal or supernormal character which are really connected with the inner mind, inner vital, subtle physical being subliminal in us and are not at all direct operations of the psyche. Even such phenomena as materialisation and dematerialisation are included, though, if established ...
... which appears to us as if it were inconscient, comprising the material basis and a good part of our life and body; there is the subliminal, which comprises the inner being, taken in its entirety of inner mind, inner life, inner physical with the soul or psychic entity supporting them; there is this waking consciousness which the subliminal and the subconscient throw up on the surface, a wave of their ...
... of the subliminal parts of our nature and the form and powers of the conscious being or Purusha which preside over their action; owing to this inexperience we can easily mistake something of the inner mind or vital self for the psyche. For as Being is one yet multiple, so also the same law prevails in ourselves and our members; the spirit, the Purusha is one but it adapts itself to the formations of ...
... চেনে না – নিম্ন প্রকৃতির বশে রয়ে তাদের দাস হয়ে থাকে ৷ 19.1.35 পাপের কথা কেন – পাপ নয়, মানুষের দুর্বলতা ৷ আত্মা সৰ্ব্বদা শুদ্ধ, psychic being (চৈত্যপুরুষও) শুদ্ধ, সাধনা দ্বারা অন্তরতাও (inner mind, vital, physical) শুদ্ধ হতে পারে অথচ external being বহিঃসত্তা বহিঃ-প্রকৃতিতে সেই চরিত্রের পুরাতন দুর্বলতা অনেক দিন লেগে থাকতে পারে, সম্পূর্ণ শুদ্ধ করা কঠিন ৷ চাই complete sincerity, চাই দৃঢ়তা ও ...
... implies a substitution of the control of the nature by the soul for its present control by the mind; a transference of the instrumentation of the nature from the outer to the now more than half-veiled inner mind, from the outer to the inner vital or life-self, from the outer to an inner subtler vaster physical consciousness and by this transference a direct and conscious instead of an indirect and unconscious ...
... a very outward result of this sudden stir within the occult folds of the being. Mystic poetry can strike still deeper—it can stir the inmost and subtlest recesses of the life-soul and the secret inner mind at the same time; it can even, if it is of the right kind, go beyond these also to the pure inmost psyche. Some Mystic Symbols If you expect matter of fact verisimilitude from N. or a scientific ...
... it from any source he can tap. There are many possibilities of this nature. There is also the possibility of an inspiration not from above, but from somewhere within on the ordinary levels, some inner mind, emotional vital etc. which the mind practised in poetical technique works out according to its habitual faculty. Here again in a different way similar phenomena, similar variations may arise. ...
... and technique. To anyone familiar with occult phenomena and their analysis, these things will seem perfectly normal and intelligible. The vision-mind in us is part of the inner being, and the inner mind, vital, physical are not bound by the dull and narrow limitations of our outer physical personality and the small scope of the world it lives in. Its scope is vast, extraordinary, full of inexhaustible ...
... thought and feeling 1 must arise out of the sight or be included in it, but sight is the primary consequence and power of poetic speech. For the poet has to make us live in the soul and in the inner mind and heart what is ordinarily lived in the outer mind and the senses, and for that he must first make us see by the soul, in its light and with its deeper vision, what we ordinarily see in a more ...
... which the soul can be more vibrantly sensible. This comes to its first self-discovery when either the adequate or the dynamically effective style is raised into a greater illumination in which the inner mind sees and feels object, emotion, idea not only clearly or richly or distinctly and powerfully, but in a flash or outbreak of transforming light which kindles the thought or image into a disclosure ...
... which is in the throat. When there is no resistance there, the Force comes down to the heart level and below. As for the dynamic descent, you say that the Force has descended to your forehead (inner mind) centre. It seems to be very slow in coming through. It has to come down to the heart centre and below before it can begin to be fully effective. Probably there must be something either in the physical ...
... plane between the two. The psychic being stands behind the heart supporting the mind, life and body. In the psychic transformation there are three main elements: (1) the opening of the occult inner mind, inner vital, inner physical, so that one becomes aware of all that lies behind the surface mind, life and body; (2) the opening of the psychic being or soul by which it comes forward and governs ...
... observes them or does not care to observe them but in either case does not become active or lose its quietude. Silence is more than quietude; it can be gained by banishing thought altogether from the inner mind keeping it voiceless or quite outside; but more easily it is established by a descent from above—one feels it coming down, entering and occupying, or surrounding the personal consciousness which ...
... perhaps on the birthday. 29 June 1935 I don't feel any personal relation with the Mother. There lies the whole difficulty of the sadhana. One has to become conscious by the awakening of the inner mind and vital—or best of all by the awakening of the psychic. It is quite possible for two persons to have a relation of which one is conscious and the other is not—his mental blindness or vital mis ...
... pressure he feels on his head is the pressure of the Mother's force (the force of the higher consciousness) preparing an opening through the three upper centres (brahmarandhra, base of sahasradala; inner mind centre in the forehead; and the heart or psychic-emotional centre). The feeling in the spine is due to a very slight flow of the current of the Shakti from above—the spine being the base of all the ...
... descent is through the head. 8 May 1934 When the Peace is established, this higher or Divine Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres, then into the heart centre and liberates fully the psychic and emotional Page 204 being, then into the navel and other vital centres and liberates the inner vital, then into ...
... vision—the motor-car indicates a rapid progress in this part of the consciousness. The motor-car is a symbolic image, these images do not refer to anything physical. These things take place in the inner mind or inner vital and usually there is a truth behind them, but the form in which they come into the mind may be imperfect—i.e. the meaning may be something not perfectly revealed in the words. ...
... not the only one, and on all of them the self can be realised,—for they are all spiritual planes. Mind, vital and physical are inextricably mixed together only in the surface consciousness—the inner mind, inner vital, inner physical are separate from each other. Those who seek Page 404 the self by the old Yogas separate themselves from mind, life and body and realise the self apart from ...
... point of view, it should turn itself round, admit that things may work from in outwards, and keep itself sufficiently Page 480 quiet to see that developing and being done. For then an inner mind shows itself which is capable of following and being the instrument of the invisible Forces. It is not that you are incapable of it, for it was several times on the point of being done. But your ...
... Letters on Yoga - I: The Physical Consciousness There are, we might say, two beings in us, one on the surface, our ordinary exterior mind, life, body consciousness, another behind the veil, an inner mind, an inner life, an inner physical consciousness constituting another or inner self. This inner self once awake opens in its turn to our true real and eternal self. It opens inwardly to the soul, ...
... results of certain actions; that is some part of the inner being, sometimes the inner mental, sometimes the inner vital, sometimes, it may be, the inner or subtle physical Purusha. The inner being — inner mind, inner vital, inner or subtle physical — knows much that is unknown to the outer mind, the outer vital, the outer physical, for it is in a more direct contact with the secret forces of Nature. The ...
... in the psychic influence cannot be easily distinguished when it manifests in our mind, vital or physical because when the psychic influence comes up to the surface, an action of the inner being (inner mind, inner vital, inner physical) mixes with and "distorts or diminishes its self-expression, even causes it to deviate and stumble or stains it with the impurity, smallness and error ...
... Divine and unshaken by all suggestion of doubt, desire, attachment, depression, sorrow, pain, inertia. This is possible when the inner being awakens, when one becomes conscious of the Self, of the inner Mind, the inner Vital, the inner Physical, for that can more easily attune itself to the divine Will, and then there is a division in the being as if there were two beings, one within, calm, strong, equal ...
... from above. If the psychic being is once active this struggle and these difficulties can be greatly minimised. The power of concentration in the eyebrows is to open the centre there, liberate the inner mind and vision and the inner or yogic consciousness and its experiences and powers. From here also one can open upwards and act also in the lower centres; but the danger of this process is that one may ...
... fine—language and rhythm remarkably harmonious, teres tot-usque rotundus 1 — the expression very felicitous and embodying exactly the thing seen. Source is poetic intelligence drawn back into inner mind and lifting towards the overhead planes from which it receives its vision and substance and a certain breath of subtlety and largeness." 1 "Smooth, complete and rounded." (K.D.S.) ...
... from any source he can tap. There are many possibilities of this nature. There is also the possibility of an inspiration not from above, but from somewhere within on the ordinary levels, some inner mind, emotional, vital etc., which the mind practised in poetical technique works out according to its habitual faculty. Here again in a different way similar phenomena, similar variations may arise ...
... compassed in a satisfying symbolism. The full-blown circular lotus with Page 37 two rows of petals seems to be the true inspired emblem which was hovering, so to speak, in the nation's inner mind but which through an insufficiently receptive imagination our leaders miscaught as Asoka's wheel. Here too is a wheel-like design, but suffused with a superb meaning attuned to the Rig-Veda which ...
... is washed a hundred times"). 5 Letters on Yoga, p. 355. Page 170 The subliminal : The subliminal proper in us comprises our inner being, that is to say, our inner mind and inner life and inner physical with the soul or psychic entity supporting them. It is of the nature of a secret intraconscient and circumconscient awareness, only sub-conscious in the specific ...
... is the source she struck—the pure mystic source. I refuse to believe that it is she who has done it. Of course she didn't, nor D nor Nishikanta either. It is a way of speaking. Has the inner mind opened up or what? A passage opened through it. Please shed some light on it. If you want it to be kept a secret, I shall keep it—but a few lines on it. Well, if you think I knew how ...
... inner things. So long as the mind is jumping about or rushing out to outside things, it is not possible to be inward, collected, conscious within. The Mother said to me in the interview that my inner mind asked for vital stability and faith, which can be established by bringing the psychic to the front. How to do that? I consulted your books and found that by silence, self-offering and aspiration ...
... way? SRI AUROBINDO: Both are gates to the Absolute. Non-Being is an aspect of the Absolute. When you enter the Absolute you can't describe it. PURANI: Jayantilal's friend was asking if the inner mind, inner vital and physical are psychic in their nature. SRI AUROBINDO: No, they are supported by the psychic. These inner parts can have good and bad things, both light and darkness. PURANI: ...
... SATYENDRA: There are instances in literature to explain some points about concentration of energy. For example, a woman goes about doing various works while she keeps a pitcher on her head. Her inner mind is concentrated on the pitcher though the outer is otherwise engaged. NIRODBARAN: But she had to practise keeping the pitcher on her head. SATYENDRA: In the case of the Gopis, it was not that ...
... Unfortunately, he had many other parts also. Reading his earlier poems I predicted that he could be a spiritual poet. As soon as he came here, he went on very well in the first year of his sadhana; his inner mind opened and the things he wrote about the Mother were felt by him. His poetry was always associated with his higher parts. ...
... quite sure that I am not going to be happy there, still I cannot prevent these thoughts. Why am I having these thoughts repeatedly? I humbly pray at Thy feet to remove these thoughts from my inner mind. These thoughts must be coming to you from the people over there. 2.5.34 Sri Aurobindo Page 32 Mother, Sometimes I got confused but still I felt ...
... mind and life and body, "Our larger being sits behind cryptic walls: There are greatnesses hidden in our unseen parts That wait their hour to step into life's front... Our inner mind dwells in a larger light, Its brightness looks at us through hidden doors... A mighty life-self with its inner powers Supports the dwarfish modicum we call life... Our body's ...
... spiritual experience, but they were wider, richer, complex and more suitable to the psycho-spiritual inner life. Page 24 The Purano-Tantric stage was marked by an effort to awaken the inner mind even in the common man, to lay hold on his inner vital and emotional nature, to support all by an awakening of the soul and to lead him through these things towards highest spiritual truth. This ...
... n which William James does not offer in his book. Strictly speaking, experience of automatic writing, or mediumistic trance are experiences related the subliminal consciousness consisting of the inner mind, inner vital force and certain physical consciousness. Spiritual experiences relate to the realm of super-consciousness or of psychic consciousness which is the consciousness of the inmost being ...
... if it were inconscient, Page 31 comprising the material basis and a good part of our life and body; there is the subliminal, which comprises the inner being, taken in its entirety of inner mind, inner life, inner physical with the soul or psychic entity supporting them; there is this waking consciousness which the subliminal and the subconscient throw up on the surface, a wave of their ...
... which has been offered to me by my College." Professor Chitle made no reply. He seemed reflecting on what I had said. So I said with some hesitation, : "I do not know if I have explained my inner mind with some clarity." 1. 18.38 Page 130 Principal Chitle comforted me by saying that he was very pleased with my statement. Then he went on to say: "Mahesh, I should like you to ...
... Presence, but the relation? Unfortunately, I don't feel any personal relation with the Mother. There lies the whole difficulty of the sadhana. One has to become conscious by the awakening of the inner mind and vital—or best of all by the awakening of the psychic. It is quite possible for two persons to have a relation of which one is conscious and the other is not—his mental blindness or vital mis ...
... give you one instance: I heard as if the Goddess Bhagawati 15 were telling me, "I am coming", and many other things which I don't remember now. These things are at least a proof that the inner mind and vital are trying to open to supraphysical things. But if you belittle it at once the moment it starts how can it ever develop? Now, in what light should I take it? If I take it as a reflected ...
... something damnably mystic, but neither inner nor overhead. Can't specify—as these things have no name. Inner—over also in imagery, but not what I call the overhead planes. These belong to the inner mind or inner vital or to the intuitive mind or anywhere else that is mystic. July 8, 1938 Z is asking again and again if she can join her work. Do you advise it? [ Mother :] She may ...
... one, and on all of them the self can be realised, — for they are all spiritual planes. Mind, vital and physical are inextricably mixed together only on the surface consciousness — the inner mind, inner vital, inner physical are separate from each other. Those who seek the self by the old Yogas separate themselves from mind, life and body and realise the self of it from these things. It is ...
... is the connection between getting knowledge and the pressure on the forehead? You asked I believe about knowing what comes. The knowledge you speak of comes most easily when the inner mind centre is open. You want me to observe and understand the movements of my nature and the working of the Page 35 Mother within me. But I do not know how to do ...
... is a thing in itself above the intellect. — It is only when something of its power comes down and is modified in the lower mind substance that it acts as part of the intellect. Are the inner mind and higher mind and Over-mind separative like our individual minds? How are we to get into the Overmind? No, they are more universal. You cannot reach the Page 6 ...
... the forehead centre instead of in the heart? The station in the heart centre is for the psychic opening. What you are at present doing is the upward opening to the Self and for that the inner mind centre is the proper station. I feel a rising movement skywards. It is very good that the consciousness is realising this movement. Is the experience ...
... — with that comes the smell. I had just closed my eyes — but was not asleep. Suddenly I saw a small bird coming down in swift flight. It knocked at my forehead, just above the inner mind-centre. I could not quite remember after-wards whether it entered in or fled away. It must have gone in. I suppose the bird indicates a power of ascension. Page 209 ...
... There was an idealism, an aspiration and although one could not always live up to it, yet one did not deny it or spurn it; one endeavoured as best one could, even though in leisure hours, in the inner mind and consciousness at least, to obey and follow its dictates. It is the Nazi theory of life that broughtto the very forefront and installed in the consciousness of Page 249 man Evil ...
... the Sage, the self-controlled, self-disciplined, harmonized mental being have been led to exceed themselves and to go higher and deeper within. Their efforts indicate their call to the inner soul, inner mind and inner heart to come out into the front, and they also indicate their call to the higher forces of the spiritual mind and higher mind and overmind to come down; and we find among them the flowering ...
... unconscious. Consciousness and Powers of the Subliminal We have already seen to some extent the nature of the domain of subliminal consciousness. It includes the large action of the inner mind, inner intelligence and inner sense mind, of an inner vital, and of an inner subtle physical being. Our subliminal being is not, like our surface being, an Page 36 outcome of the energy ...
... we listen to the Vedic chants, we feel ourselves surcharged merely by the act of hearing with sublimity and purity of divine presence that begins to pervade not only our outer senses but also our inner mind and heart and deeper depths of our souls. And if we examine as to how this miracle has been created, we find that the Vedic poets had reached profound depths of poetics in regard to the word, — ...
... of spiritual experience, but they were more wide and rich and complex and more suitable to the psycho-spiritual inner life. The Purano-Tantric 17 stage was marked by an effort to awaken he inner mind even in the common man, to lay hold on his inner vital and emotional nature, to support all by an awakening of the soul and to lead him through these things towards a highest spiritual truth. This ...
... and Answers Q : You spoke about two processes for rending the Veil, What are they? A : One is by going within—that is, withdrawing the consciousness from outside and entering the inner mind, inner vital being and other subliminal parts. The second process is by allowing the Higher Power to descend into oneself. Q : There are so many persons who speak about the All, the One as ...
... if in the mind, if is identified with the mind and its activities and so on. If the consciousness puts its stress outside, it is said to live in the external being and becomes oblivious of its inner mind and vital and in most psychic. If it goes inside, puts its centralising stress there, then it knows itself as the inner being or, still deeper, as the psychic being. If it ascends out of the body ...
... supramental World could be like at that time, so it could not enter into the scheme...." (Letter 1936) II "The poem was originally written from a lower level, a mixture perhaps of the inner mind, psychic, poetic intelligence, sublimised vital, afterwards with the Higher Mind, often illumined and intuitivised, intervening.... Moreover there have been several successive revisions each trying ...
... a cipher and a code." Very often mental stuff is born in the subtle or comes from outside. This is the ordinary thought-movement. Then lower forces were also seen, "they speak direct" to the inner mind" of man. Great thoughts, ideals, come to man from far, enter the human brain and find expression in life. Savitri's mind had ceased to be an individual centre, it had become universal: "the great ...
... plane, we may conjecture "the perfection of simple inevitability" to be pointing—if we may go by Sri Aurobindo's own words elsewhere on mystic and spiritual poetry—to a manifold blending: the inner mind's "easy and luminous simplicity which is at the same time very felicitous", the psychic being's "fine subtiety of true perception" and "its intimate language" but touched with the "pure intuitive"'s ...
... experience suggests to us. It is to be able to free people from their suffering with the help of one's mighty inner liberation. One doesn't oneself suffer: one merely reflects the sufferer's state in a clear unmoved mirror of true perception - but here is not the cold perception of the distant mind: here is the warm yet undisturbed perception of a close-beating heart, giving the sufferer a feeling of intimacy... the compassionate response accompanying it. The sweet serenity of the deep heart's sense of human suffering can be in us to a certain degree - in preference to the merely considerate calm of the inner mind's knowledge of it. In any case there should not be in us the contagion of the sorrowful condition we want to relieve: such contagion is not necessary for genuine compassion of the spiritual kind.... (27.3.1987) It is interesting that when you remember me you always see me smiling. I have used the word "remember" as if you had met me and were carrying a memory of me. It is certain that your inner being has established a concrete contact with me -no wonder it has the impression of a smile playing perpetually on my mouth, for indeed, as with many in this Ashram, there is a quiet happiness all ...
... the promise of the new being that is to be formed. It depends on the nature of the symbolic vision whether it is merely representative, presenting to the inner vision and nature (even though the outer mind has not the understanding, the inner can receive its effect) the thing symbolised in its figure or whether it is dynamic. The Sun symbol, for instance, is usually dynamic. Again, among the dynamic... of inner vision, mind and will which is between the eyebrows in the forehead. The light outside means a touch or influence of the force indicated by the light (golden is Truth-light, blue some spiritual force from the upper plane) while the light within means that it has penetrated or is established or frequently active in the nature itself. Light above means a force descending upon the mind, light... luminous kind. The sounds of bells and the seeing of lights and colours are signs of the opening of the inner consciousness which brings with it an opening also to sights and sounds of other planes than the physical. What one sees or hears of the other planes depends on the development of the inner sense.... It depends on the nature of the sounds. Some have a connection (with sadhana), others are ...
... overhead manner; but it has not the overhead grip." (What exactly is the mental process which would define "conceit" in poetry?) "When an image comes out of the mind not properly transmuted in the inner vision or delivered by the alchemy of language, it betrays itself as coin of the fancy or the conceiving intellect and is then called a conceit." (Would you describe the... of plane, we may conjecture "the perfection of simple inevitability" to be pointing—if we may go by Sri Aurobindo's own words elsewhere on mystic and spiritual poetry—to a manifold blending: the inner mind's "easy and luminous simplicity which is at the same time very felicitous', the psychic being's "fine subtlety of true perception" and "its intimate language" but touched with the "pure intuitive"... except in the lines marked with a cross where the illumined Mind gets strongly in, the 'note' is not quite pure,—there is the higher Mind tone, even a little of the illumined Mind, but not enough to make it absolutely that. It is a fine poem with very fine lines in it." * APOTHEOSIS Spurning the narrow cities of your mind, Climb to the turquoise dome of distances Where ...
... acting everywhere? Do you feel your mind one with the cosmic mind? your life one with the cosmic life? your matter one with the cosmic Matter? separative ego unreal? the body no longer a limitation? What is the use of merely saying that the higher being is wide and infinite? Do these realisations come when you are in the higher being and if not, why not? The inner being easily opens to all these re... experiences of our Yoga—the unveiling of the psychic and the self-realisation. Pursue your meditations in the same poise. Ascent and the Body The ordinary movement of sadhana is that of the inner being (mind, psychic, higher vital) rising towards the Divine Consciousness,—leaving the external being behind—but for this Yoga that is not enough, the physical and external being must also be able to rise... Consciousness. What you have written is quite correct. The body is not connected ordinarily with the higher consciousness, it only receives what it can from the mind. It is being prepared for the direct connection by the ascent of the inner or subtle body into that plane and the descent from it of the higher Light. No, the body itself cannot go up—how could it? The body is meant for keeping the ...
... organs. But the inner Manas has also a subtle sight, hearing, power of contact of its own which is not dependent on the physical organs. And it has, moreover, a power not only of direct communication of mind with object—leading even at a high pitch of action to a sense of the contents of an object within or beyond the physical range,—but direct communication also of mind with mind. Mind is able too to... phenomena of hypnotism and many others depend upon the action of this subliminal sense-mind; not that it alone constitutes all the elements of the phenomena, but it is the first supporting means of intercourse, communication and response, though much of the actual operation belongs to an inner Buddhi. Mind physical, mind supraphysical,—we have and can use this double sense mentality. Buddhi is a construction... to do it is the topmost capacity of the inner instrument, the antaḥkaraṇa . Buddhi is really an intermediary between a much higher Truth-mind not now in our active possession, which is the direct instrument of Spirit, and the physical life of the human mind evolved in body. Its powers of intelligence and will are drawn from this greater direct Truth-mind or supermind. Buddhi centres its mental ...
... the Level of the Mind Sadhana on the Level of the Mind Cultivation of the Mind in Yoga Letters on Yoga - IV Chapter IV Speech and Yoga Outer Speech and the Inner Life Even those who have a strong inner life, take a long time before they can connect it with the outer speech and action. Outer speech belongs to the externalising mind—that is why it is... difficult to connect it with the inner life. Talk is more external than writing, it depends more on the physical and its condition. Therefore in most cases it is more difficult to get it out of the clutch of the external mind. In talking one has the tendency to come down into a lower and more external consciousness because talking comes from the external mind. But it is impossible to avoid... especially if the inner peace and calm become very intense and durable. Page 81 X 's talk is certainly not very helpful to his sadhana and I think he knows it—but he has not made any real attempt to control his tongue as yet. Talk—of the usual kind—does very easily disperse or bring down the inner condition because it usually comes out of the lower vital and the physical mind only and expresses ...
... —unhappily, even in the mind of "educated" India. But where our religion eludes his fixed standards, misunderstanding, denunciation and supercilious condemnation come at once to his rescue. The Indian mind on the contrary is averse to intolerant mental exclusions; for a great force of intuition and inner experience had given it from the beginning that towards which the mind of the West is only now... form and dogma; it does not easily bear their limitations and, even when it admits, it transcends them; it lives in an experience which to the formal religious mind is unintelligible. But man does not arrive immediately at that highest inner elevation and, if it were demanded from him at once, he would never arrive there. At first he needs lower supports and stages of ascent; he asks for some scaffolding... all existence and all existence is in him and to find him is the great self-finding. Differences of credal belief are to the Indian mind nothing more than various ways of seeing the one Self and Godhead in all. Self-realisation is the one thing needful; to open to the inner Spirit, to live in the Infinite, to seek after and discover the Eternal, to be in union with God, that is the common idea and aim ...
... between Satyavan and Savitri, so as to give some idea of the fifth book. Satyavan is telling Savitri how he looks upon their meeting: I plunged into an inner seeing Mind And knew the secret laws and sorceries That make of Matter mind's bewildered slave: The mystery was not solved, but deepened more. I strove to find its hints through Beauty and Art, He says: I pursued Beauty... solution out of it? If you say that escape is the only solution, you will have to say that mind is the only reality. If you accept the Page 64 solution that Karma is the machinery responsible for suffering and pain to man, then the only answer from the metaphysical position will be that mind is the only reality in the world, that man is a mental being, that the process of the universe... universe is led, if at all it is led, to a mental consciousness and that there is nothing more than mind at work in the cosmos. In that case, only that solution can be satisfying. Whether that is so is another question. Incarnations and philosophers have tackled this problem of pain, its why and wherefore and the remedy for it, because pain exists not only on one level. In the physical body there is ...
... interrupted by nidra in the deepest swapna. The ananda tends to draw the mind back to the body, but then there occurs often a phenomenon which is now growing, the double or triple samadhi, in which the outside world is experienced accurately in an outer consciousness of sleep, by the sukshma and not the sthula indriya. The inner consciousness remains in swapna, a deeper is in sushupti of some kind, for... sushupti. Sometimes the outer world is experienced by the subtle sense with a fringe of waking physical sense. At times there is a division of the consciousness between the outer physical and the inner dream mind, the latter withdrawn into swapna and sleep, the Page 1133 former still aware physically on the outskirts of outer sound, touch or experience. The replacement of the idealised,... with a decisive beginning of finality 16 July 1919 Today is to be a hollow between two waves; there is a siege of the system by the external mind armed with all that has been cast out; but this comes now no longer in the shape of the old intellectual mind, but a semi-idealised intuivity translating into mental and physical terms all the rejected suggestions of the partial ideality which supports ...
... Bodily action is useful as a pressure on the materialised mind, but the better way is to act from within outwards, not from outwards within. To the man who lives the inner life, mind-state is all-important, bodily action only a variable symbol or a theatrical demonstration. Great spirits have yearned after Sannyasa as a symbol of inner renunciation and freedom; but the truth that has to be symbolised... aimed at an ethical balance of mind or an ethical balance of action; but the Vedanta rejects all mere balancing and arrangement. The Vedic thinkers went straight towards the soul and an inner rebirth. A radical change of outlook on life was their motive force for the change, if any, of outward conduct; a complete revolution & renovation of the soul was its demand on the inner life of man. Troubling themselves... from the discriminating mind to the responsive heart. Vedantic psychology sums up the motion of the Jagati in our mentality,—the complex thing we call mind,—in a quadruple knot;—the nodus of sense-forming mind reactive to outward impacts, the nodus of discriminating mind receptive and critical of these reactions, the nodus of responsive & formative heart or temperamental mind setting in motion waves ...
... queen's, Half a martyr's Crown." This has admirably the crosslight of a dream-experience which yet goes beyond mere dreaming to the spontaneous and surprising felicities of the inner mystic mind. I think it is unique in its naive but still deep charm and its sudden splendour of suggestion with the help of a revelatory pun. In another way the poem Miss Chadwick has written out in ink on... vitally one with substance and language, and John Chadwick at his finest reflects something of this triple intensity because his English mind has more consistently steeped itself in Yoga and caught a breath from what we may call the luminous spaces of Sri Aurobindo's inner life. If we wish to find among English-writing poets a match to that pair of lines ending with the full yet far-away gong of... Knowledge, is, like those verses about Truth's solitude that is perfectly withdrawn from the mind's "fragmentary mood", the most memorable of Chadwick's poetic victories: Unsullied wisdom of gold which was thrice refined, Shine in the clear space of holy noon On all the upland hollows of the mind: May every shadow-harbouring thought be strewn With solar vastness and compelled ...
... divided existence into the inner and outer. But the outer, the society needs to be fleshed out with individuals who carry an inner conditioned mind. In itself the society is a mere abstraction from real relationships between real people. In concrete it is an ensamble of individuals in dynamic relationship with each other. But if these individuals are conflict-ridden in their inner life, can they relate... the time. He can even see through people's intentions, minds and hearts and has the power to reward or punish them according to their good or bad deeds. Thus the Islamic concept of Aakhirah, the promise of paradise and the warning ahout the fire of hell, persuasively urge people to obey their God and lead an exemplary moral life. The inner urge of man to act correctly is the most distinguishing... the time. He can even see through people's intentions, minds and hearts and has the power to reward or punish them according to their good or bad deeds. Thus the Islamic concept of Aakhirah, the promise of paradise and the warning about the fire of hell, persuasively urge people to obey their God and lead an exemplary moral life. The inner urge of man to act correctly is the most distinguishing ...
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