... which has a power of direct contact with the universal unlike the mostly indirect contacts which our surface being maintains with the universe through the sense-mind and the senses. There are here inner senses, a subliminal sight, touch, hearing; but these subtle senses are rather channels of the inner being's direct consciousness of things than its informants: the subliminal is not dependent on its senses... Jung's concept of the collective unconscious contains, besides other elements, some aspects of what Sri Aurobindo describes as the subliminal. For example, in the subliminal, as stated above, are inner senses of sight, touch, hearing, etc; the subliminal is therefore "the seer Page 41 of inner things and supraphysical experiences." 32 Jung, who reports having had frequent supraphysical ...
... Guidance from Sri Aurobindo - Volume 2 OPENING OF THE INNER SENSES At pranam while putting my head in the Mothers lap I heard a voice. It was felt to be the Mothers. Did she really say something to me inwardly or was it a mere illusion? It may have been that the Mother conveyed something to yon. At this moment she does not remember... itself. Why should those subtle sounds which have no connection with my sadhana be heard at all? And what are the 'other planes'? Supraphysical planes. When the inner senses open, or any of them, one sees or hears things belonging to the other planes automatically. What one sees or hears depends on the development of the inner sense. It depends on what you hear whether ...
... that it will be possible only when we shall learn to collect data for scientific discoveries and to search after truth not only with our physical senses but also with subtler and inner senses, and those subtler and inner senses will wake up and become a part and parcel of our nature only when the outlook of the scientist will get liberated from its materialistic bias and allow itself to be widened, deepened ...
... Buffalo Bill. So she spent another part of her time doing exercises to develop other faculties. Mother was telling Satprem that if we developed our inner senses we could know infinitely more things than we ordinarily do; even physically, just using our inner senses. Satprem asked, "But what is the method?" Mother replied: "Oh, the method is very easy. There are various rules. It depends." She gave ...
... faculty, still all great poetry instinctively preserves something of that higher turn of its own aim and significance. Poetry, in fact, being Art, must attempt to make us see, and since it is to the inner senses that it has to address itself,—for the ear is its only physical gate of entry and even there its real appeal is to an inner hearing,—and since its object is to make us live Page 31 within ...
... ordinary embodied mind shut up in the prison of the physical senses and vaster too than the pure mentality, even when that is free in its own ranges and operates with the aid of the psychical mind and inner senses. And it has that power which the mental will and reason do not possess, because they are not truly self-determined and originally determinative of things, the power of transforming the whole being ...
... which has a power of direct contact with the universal unlike the mostly indirect contacts which our surface being maintains with the universe through the sense-mind and the senses. There are here inner senses, a subliminal sight, touch, hearing; but these subtle senses are rather channels of the inner being's direct consciousness of things than its informants: the subliminal is not dependent on its senses ...
... November 1933 Some people see light etc. around the Mother but I am not able to do so. What is the obstruction in me? It is not an obstruction—it is simply a question of the growth of the inner senses. It has no indispensable connection with spiritual progress. There are some very far on the path who have very little of this kind of vision if any—on the other hand sometimes it develops enormously ...
... currents, waves of emotion, e.g. anger, sorrow etc. which go out and affect others without their knowing whence they come or that they come at all—they only feel the result. One who has the occult or inner senses awake can feel them coming and invading him; influences good or bad can propagate themselves in that way; that can happen without Page 483 intention, automatically, but also a deliberate ...
... importance in their life, and it is only with intensive mental growth that those capacities diminish. Now, there are people who have the good luck to be born with a spontaneous development, with inner senses, and nothing can prevent them from remaining awake. If these people meet in good time someone who can help them in a methodical development, they can become very interesting instruments for the ...
... currents, waves of emotion, e.g. anger, sorrow, etc., which go out and affect others without their knowing whence they come or that they come at all—they only feel the result. One who has the occult or inner senses awake can feel them coming and invading him. Influences good or bad can propagate themselves in that way; that can happen without intention, automatically, but also a deliberate use can be made ...
... animates the body which has been built for it by the hands of men. In the mental domain also, there are conscious builders. There are people who are specially gifted or who have developed certain inner senses in themselves, who can come into direct contact with this domain, mainly through vision and touch. When they are thus able to watch over the working of the phenomenon, they can, like chemists ...
... good. Necessary also—it enhances your capacities. Théon told me right from the start: "You people deprive yourselves of the most useful kind of senses, EVEN FOR ORDINARY LIFE." If you develop your inner senses (he gave them fabulous names), you can.... And it's true, absolutely true, we can know infinitely more than we normally do, merely by using our own senses. And not only mentally but vitally and ...
... It isn't a dream! Perhaps it's what's going on up there. 5 You probably went there. ( silence ) Yes, one can see things that way, many things. It's to show you that you have inner senses—one goes and sees, one wanders about and comes back. ( Laughing ) It's exercises! × Tamas : inertia, darkness ...
... These things are not invisible in themselves—they are invisible to the physical consciousness and the physical senses, but not to the corresponding inner states of consciousness or the corresponding inner senses. For, by a systematic development one can acquire senses in these worlds and one can then live a similar life with different characteristics. I mean that one can live an objective life in these ...
... the mind. It is Thought with a capital T. Not the vitalistic mind, not the mind proper, but the spiritual mind is vibrant throughout, with its touch on spiritual realities that are known by subtle inner senses or by direct identity through an extension of one's sheer self. Eyeful Thought uttering an experience that goes beyond all earth and all hell and even all heaven into a pure infinitude where name ...
... Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Centenary Library, Vol. 18, p. 550. Page 257 with the universe through the sense-mind and the senses. As Sri Aurobindo explains: There are here inner senses, a subliminal sight, touch, hearing; but these subtle senses are rather channels of the inner being's direct consciousness of things than its informants: the subliminal is not dependent on its senses ...
... senses of knowledge, five senses of action. 2. Exercises of vision and hearing: art and music as instruments. 3. Exercises of concentration in sense activities,. 4. Inner senses: capacities to see the invisible and to hear the inaudible. III. Awareness of the body: 1. Elementary knowledge relating to health, strength and beauty of the body. 2 ...
... with the universal, unlike the mostly indirect contacts which our surface being maintains with the universe through the sense-mind and the senses. As Sri Aurobindo explains: "There are here inner senses, a subliminal sight, touch, hearing; but these subtle senses are rather channels of the inner being's direct consciousness of things than its informants: the subliminal is not dependent on its senses ...
... the universal, unlike the mostly indirect contacts which our surface being maintains with the universe through the sense-mind and the senses. As Sri Aurobindo explains: "There are here inner senses, a subliminal sight, touch, hearing; but these subtle senses are rather channels of the inner being's direct consciousness of things than its informants: the subliminal is not dependent on its senses ...
... emotion – for example, anger, sorrow etc. – which go out and affect others without their knowing whence they come or that they come at all, they only feel the result. One who has the occult or the inner senses awake can feel them coming and invading him. Influences good or bad may propagate themselves in that way; that can happen without intention and naturally, but also a deliberate use can be made ...
... and swam across the water —what a beauty, my child! Hood wide open, head held high above the water, he swam across like a king. I would certainly have been punished for my impertinence!" The inner senses Mirra had taken care to develop came in handy in her external life. "There are loads of stories I could tell; but I Page 290 don't remember any more right now." In fact she ...
... feelings of others without aid from their utterance, gesture, action or facial expressions and even in contradiction of these always partial and often misleading data. Finally, by an utilisation of the inner senses,—that is to say, of the sense-powers, in themselves, in their purely mental or subtle activity as distinguished from the physical which is only a selection for the purposes of outward life from ...
... intensive mental development do these capacities fade away in children and even sometimes disappear in the end. Yet there are people who have the good fortune to be born with spontaneously developed inner senses and nothing can prevent these senses from remaining awake and even developing. If these people, before it is too late, meet someone who has the knowledge and can help them in the methodical education ...
... practice of his system of Yoga. The letters have been arranged in four parts dealing with these broad subject areas: 1. The Place of Experiences in the Practice of Yoga 2. The Opening of the Inner Senses 3. Experiences of the Inner Consciousness and the Cosmic Consciousness 4. The Fundamental Realisations of the Integral Yoga The letters in this volume have been selected from the extensive ...
... Upanishad speaks of them as brahmavyaktikarāṇi yoge . The lights represent forces—or sometimes a formed light like that you saw may be the Light of a being of the supraphysical planes. When the inner senses open, or any of them, one sees or hears things belonging to the other planes automatically. What one sees or hears depends on the development of the inner sense. It depends on what you hear whether ...
... above the mind. It is Thought with a capital T. Not the vital mind, nor the mind proper, but the spiritual mind is vibrant throughout, with its touch on spiritual realities that are known by subtle inner senses or by direct identity through an extension of one's sheer self. Eyeful Thought uttering an experience that goes beyond all earth and all hell and even all heaven into a pure infinitude where name ...
... emotion, for example, anger, sorrow, etc. which go out and affect others without their knowing whence they come or that they come at all, they only feel the result. One who has the occult or inner senses awake can feel them coming and invading him. Influences __________________ 3 Sri Aurobindo’s comment here: “This does not come in well here; it refers to a much more general question ...
... is in fact a demonstration of the impotence of the mental consciousness, and that in the change-over to the Unity-Consciousness the technical machinery will be replaced by the awakened, activated inner senses and capacities of the being beyond man. Satprem writes: ‘It is strange, our imaginings of the future or our comic strips invent all the time a world equipped more and more with miraculous su ...
... want to work! So he had passed that job on to me. But it was impossible, you couldn't do a thing with it. And what words! Theon would invent words Page 441 for the subtle organs, the inner senses; he had found a word for each thing—a frightful barbarism! And I took care of everything: I found the printer, corrected the proofs—all the work for a long time. They were stories, narratives ...
... from their utterance, gesture, action or facial expressions and even in contradiction of these always partial and often misleading data. Finally, by Page 53 an utilisation of the inner senses, — that is to say, of the sense-powers, in themselves, in their purely mental or subtle activity as distinguished from the physical which is only a selection for the purposes of outward life from ...
... has a power of direct contact with the universal unlike the mostly indirect contacts which our surface being maintains with the universe through the sense-mind and the senses. There are here inner senses, a subliminal sight, touch, hearing; but these subtle senses are rather channels of the inner being's direct consciousness of things than its informants: the subliminal is not dependent on its ...
... experiences and phenomena which are beyond the perception of the physical senses or cognizable by the intellect. Therefore, in addition to the physical senses, yoga psychology employs subtler inner senses belonging to the subliminal consciousness. Further, unlike modern psychology which relies solely on intellectual reasoning in drawing conclusions from observations, yoga psychology utilises an ...
... 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 Intuition, 87, 353 Intuition (Plane of ...
... contemplation, what generally happens, is that most often our consciousness fails to go inward to the depths of our being; it remains functioning on the surface only and our mind and heart and inner senses continue ranging amidst the objects of the outside world subjectively imagined. The Mother's ironic remarks about this type of meditation are worth recalling in this connection so that our mind ...
... Knowledge of the senses: five senses of knowledge, five senses of action. Exercises of vision and hearing: art and music as instruments. Exercises of concentration in sense activities. Inner senses: capacities to see the invisible and to hear the inaudible. Page 42 Awareness of the body: Elementary knowledge relating to health, strength and beauty of the body ...
... senses: five senses of knowledge, five senses of action. 2. Exercises of vision and hearing: art and music as instruments. 3. Exercises of concentration in sense activities. 4. Inner senses: capacities to see the invisible and to hear the inaudible. III. Awareness of the body: 1.. Elementary knowledge relating to health, strength and beauty of the body. 2. Art of relaxation ...
... the sense-world is a world of deformations, narrow and full of impurities. Its material resources, however rich and vast, are really Page 310 worth little. But man has also his inner senses which can help him to return to his home in the infinite Vast as a child of Immortality. This is the real sense of self-mastery: instead of swimming down the sense-current, one must swim back in ...
... 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, the material ...
... Theon, her teacher in occultism. We had no small amount of personal experience in support of it. Still, this small incident from its manner and occasion left us flabbergasted. She must have had her inner senses functioning when the outer ones were in suspension or had ceased their work. She said on one occasion that she is extremely sensitive to the atmosphere. She can at once feel the vibrations of a ...
... 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, the material on ...
... Light which is greater can hide itself. It is a mystery for man. The physical eyes are not made to see the supramental light, that is why they cannot see it. But that human being whose inner senses are awakened, can see the supramental light when he wants so — it never hides itself. 9.9.1969 What are the conditions to be fulfilled to be able to see the supramental light? ...
... has a power of direct contact with the universal, unlike the mostly indirect contacts which our surface being maintains with the universe through the sense-mind and the senses. There are here inner senses, a subliminal sight, touch, hearing; but these subtle senses are rather channels of the inner being’s direct consciousness of things than its informants; the subliminal is not dependent on its ...
... The Opening of the Inner Senses The Opening of the Inner Senses Symbols Letters on Yoga - III Chapter XII Numbers and Letters Numbers In one form or another all these ideas [ such as the significance of numbers ] have existed in the past. The significance of numbers was one of the chief elements in the teaching of Pythagoras 5 centuries before Christ ...
... The Opening of the Inner Senses The Opening of the Inner Senses Symbols Letters on Yoga - III Chapter X Constructions Building The building is the symbol of a new creation—the white indicating spiritual consciousness, the coloured lights the different powers. Workshop The workshop is probably a symbol of the activity of the ordinary nature which... which is so full of formations and activities of the ordinary kind that it is difficult to pass through it to the inner or the inmost being. The walls with the spaces between indicate the different parts of the being to which the outer mind has no access—possibly, the inner vital (the women may be the occult vital nature), emotional etc. The ceiling (yellow) may be the intellect or thinking mind ...
... The Opening of the Inner Senses The Opening of the Inner Senses Symbols Letters on Yoga - III Chapter III Sky, Weather, Night and Dawn Sky The sky usually symbolises a plane of consciousness mental or higher than the ordinary mental—stars are formations of light on that plane. The sky is a symbol of the mental consciousness (or the psychic) ...
... The Opening of the Inner Senses The Opening of the Inner Senses Symbols Letters on Yoga - III Chapter IV Water and Bodies of Water Water Water is the symbol of a state of consciousness or a plane. Sea or Ocean The sea with the sun over it is a plane of consciousness lit by the Truth. To enter into the rays is to be no longer merely lit by it ...
... The Opening of the Inner Senses The Opening of the Inner Senses Symbols Letters on Yoga - III Chapter V Earth Mountain The mountain is the symbol of the embodied consciousness based upon earth but rising up towards the Divine. The mountain always represents the ascending hill of existence with the Divine to be reached on the summits. ...
... The Opening of the Inner Senses The Opening of the Inner Senses Symbols Letters on Yoga - III Chapter IX The Plant World Aswattha or Peepul Tree The aswattha usually symblises the cosmic manifestation. It [ the peepul tree ] is the symbol of the cosmic existence. Jungle The jungle must be some unregenerated part of the vital nature and ...
... The Opening of the Inner Senses The Opening of the Inner Senses Symbols Letters on Yoga - III Chapter XI Objects Cross and Shield The cross is the sign of the triple being, transcendent, universal and individual. The cross indicates the triple Divine (transcendent, universal, individual)—the shield means protection. Crown The crown is... 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 Opening of the Inner Senses The Opening of the Inner Senses Symbols Letters on Yoga - III Chapter VII The Human World Child The child is usually the symbol of the psychic being. A dream like this of a child—especially a newborn child—usually signifies the birth (i.e. the awakening) of the soul or psychic being in the outward nature. ...
... The Opening of the Inner Senses The Opening of the Inner Senses Symbols Letters on Yoga - III Chapter VI Gods, Goddesses and Semi-Divine Beings Agni There are many forms of Agni,—the solar fire, the vaidyuta fire and the nether fire are one Trinity—the fivefold fire is part of the Vedic symbolism of sacrifice. The vision you saw of the man... Asram. That this should be the first thing shown when the power of vision broke through its state of latency is very significant; it proves that you are in contact, the touch already there in your inner being and this force of presence and protection is already around you or over you as an environing influence. Hanuman Hanuman stands for Bhakti. Hanuman = complete bhakti. Page 157 ...
... The Opening of the Inner Senses The Opening of the Inner Senses Symbols Letters on Yoga - III Chapter II Sun, Moon, Star, Fire Sun Fire, lights, sun, moon are usual symbols and seen by most in sadhana. They indicate movement or action of inner forces. The Sun means the inner truth. The sun is the symbol of the concentrated light of Truth. ...
... The Opening of the Inner Senses The Opening of the Inner Senses Lights and Colours Letters on Yoga - III Chapter I Light Seeing Light Light is always seen in Yoga with the inner eye and even with the outer eye, but there are many lights; all are not and all do not come from the paraṁ jyotiḥ . Lights of various colours are one of the first... 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), while... in front before the centre of inner vision, mind and will which is between the eyebrows in the forehead. The Sun means the formed Light of the Divine Truth, the starry light is the same Light acting as a diffused Power on the ordinary consciousness which is seen as the night of Ignorance. The call Page 119 brought the Light etc. streaming down into the inner being. It is not balls ...
... The Opening of the Inner Senses The Opening of the Inner Senses Symbols Letters on Yoga - III Chapter I Symbols and Symbolic Visions Different Kinds of Symbols A symbol, as I understand it, is the form on one plane that represents a truth of another. For instance, a flag is the symbol of a nation. But generally all forms are symbols. This body of... usual symbols of the inner experience, but they have been combined together here in a rather difficult way. The fire of course is the psychic fire which wells up from the veiled psychic source. The bird is the soul and the flower is the rose of love and surrender. The moon is the symbol of spirituality. As the star is within it is described as piercing through the knots of the inner darkness and worsting... that are like clouds enwrapping it. The boat also is a usual symbol in the inner visions. The elephant is the spiritual strength that removes obstacles and the horse the force of tapasya that gallops to the summits of the spiritual realisation. The sun is the symbol of the higher Truth. The lotus is the symbol of the inner consciousness. The vision you saw was a symbol of the outward physical ...
... The Opening of the Inner Senses The Opening of the Inner Senses Symbols Letters on Yoga - III Chapter VIII The Animal World Cow The cow in the occult symbolism indicates Light or the consciousness—white indicates the purified or spiritual consciousness—the white Light. It is quite clear; it is the Vedic image. In the Veda the Cow is the Divine... outer vital nature also is so difficult and there are so many wrong movements and happenings in him,—because his vital is easily open to all these earth movements. In order to get rid of them, the inner being must wake and grow and its nature replace the outer nature. Sometimes serpents indicate energies simply, not harmful ones; but more often it is the other way. On the other hand the peacocks you... the Truth. Duck The duck is the symbol of the soul—silvery colour = the spiritual consciousness—golden wings = the power of the Divine Truth. The duck is usually a symbol of the soul or inner being; perhaps it was the four beings—mental, psychic, vital and physical—that you saw. 3 Crane The crane is the messenger of happiness. Peacock The peacock is the Bird of Victory. ...
... The Opening of the Inner Senses The Opening of the Inner Senses Lights and Colours Letters on Yoga - III Chapter II Colours The Symbolism of Colours Colour and light are always close to each other—colour being more indicative, light more dynamic. Colour incandescent becomes light. As for the exact symbolism of colours, it is not always easy... power in the being or mind or body it can have a strong influence. What you saw was the Light (the white Light is the Mother's) which is always there in a mass; but it is seen only when the inner (Yogic) eye is open and the consciousness in some part of it at least can enter into touch with the Light. The diamond light is the Mother's own light (that of divine Consciousness) at its most ...
... The Opening of the Inner Senses The Opening of the Inner Senses Visions, Sounds, Smells and Tastes Letters on Yoga - III Chapter I The Value of Visions Vision, Experience and Realisation When you see Light, that is vision; when you feel Light entering into you, that is experience; when Light settles in you and brings illumination and knowledge, that... other worlds or with the inner worlds and all that is there and these are regions of immense riches which far surpass the physical plane as it is at present. One enters into a larger freer self and a larger more plastic world; of course individual visions only give a contact, not an actual entrance, but the power of vision accompanied with the power of the other subtle senses (hearing, touch, etc.) as... 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 meet Krishna, speak with him and hear his voice in an inner "real" vision, quite as real as anything on the outer plane. Merely ...
... The Opening of the Inner Senses The Opening of the Inner Senses Visions, Sounds, Smells and Tastes Letters on Yoga - III Chapter II Kinds of Vision The Inner Vision There is an inner vision that opens when one does sadhana and all sorts of images rise before it or pass. Their coming does not depend upon your thought or will; it is real and automatic... a psychic "vision": we speak of the inner vision or the subtle sight or the occult sight—not the psychic vision. The "sight" spoken of [ in passages of the Upanishads ] is not a sense vision but an experience in the inner consciousness which is more true and living and dynamic than the experiences given to the external consciousness by the material senses. There is also a psychic vision by... range in the inner experience. But in both it is the inner vision that sees. The physical things 1 are simply an occasion or starting-point for the inner vision to work through the open eyes and bring in the significant inner things. Representative and Dynamic Visions It depends on the nature of the symbolic vision whether it is merely representative, offering to the inner vision and ...
... and "a direct observation of mental operations." 21 Such a direct observation and a direct or intuitive knowledge of consciousness requires a yogic or inner development, including the development of inner, subtler senses 22 ; the gross senses and the intellect employed in the natural sciences can yield only indirect or inferential knowledge. ...the greater part of existence is either ...
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