... Sri Aurobindo : Instead of Patel going there to Africa it is better that Gandhi should go to Hitler. Hitler will say to Mahatma : You follow your inner voice Mr. Gandhi, I my own. There is no reason to say that he would be wrong, for my inner voice may be good and necessary for me, while it may not be so for another man. The very opposite may be good and necessary for another man. The Cosmic Spirit... some pigs and thrown down by them. There are some who do not follow the inner voice but an inner light. The Quakers believed in that. Disciple : Do they see the Light? Sri Aurobindo : I don't know; but some one has said : “see that your light is not darkness.” The strange thing is that this inner voice does not give any reason; it only says : "do this; if you do not do that... follow if you don't listen to it. Lele used to say that whenever he did not follow the inner voice he had pain and suffering. Disciple : But many kinds of voices are there according to the forces on different planes. I believe it is extremely difficult to distinguish between the right or the true inner voice and false one. There may be voices either from the mental or the subtle physical planes ...
... herd of pigs and trodden down by them. There are some people who don't follow the inner voice but the inner light. The Quakers believe in that. NIRODBARAN: Do they see the light? SRI AUROBINDO: I don't know; but someone has said, "See that your light is not darkness." The strange thing is that this inner voice doesn't give any reason; it only says, "Do this" or "Do that" and "If you don't do... don't listen to it, bad results do follow. Lele used to say that whenever he didn't listen to his inner voice he met with pain and suffering. PURANI: But there are many kinds of voices owing to the forces on different planes and it is extremely difficult to distinguish which is right, the true inner voice. There may be voices from mental, vital and subtle-physical planes. Moreover, in the same man the... talk turned to local politics and afterwards Indian politics and Gandhi and non-violence and Hitlerism. SRI AUROBINDO: If Gandhi met Hitler, Hitler would probably say to him, "You follow your inner voice, Mr. Gandhi, and I my own." And there is no reason to say he would be wrong, for inner voices may differ and one kind of voice may be good and necessary for one person while the very opposite may ...
... than an experience, it was a permanent realization, for the state of inner silence never left him anymore. Along with it he followed Lele’s recommendation to surrender himself unreservedly to his inner voice as the directive of his spiritual exploration called yoga, “the art of conscious self-finding”. But the British authorities knew what a dangerous man the politician Aurobindo Ghose was and they... and the Viceroy called him in their correspondence “the most dangerous man in India”. When once more a warrant for his arrest was signed, Aurobindo left Calcutta instantly at the command of his inner voice. He was taken in a rowing boat to Chandernagore, a French enclave to the north of Calcutta; shortly afterwards he sailed to Pondicherry, another French enclave on the Coromandel Coast below Madras ...
... Bengali.) After some early experiences Aurobindo’s spiritual path had broadened considerably, and he paid but scant attention to the proceedings in the courtroom and the goings-on in jail. His inner voice had told him that he would be acquitted for lack of evidence, and so it happened. In his peroration an inspired C.R. Das, Aurobindo’s lawyer, had spoken the following words about his client: ‘Long... published in the Karmayogin — the weekly he had started after being acquitted and which after his departure was kept going for a while by Sister Nivedita, who was a nationalistic activist. His inner Voice gave him his ‘marching orders’. ‘When thou hast the command, care only to fulfil it,’ 14 reads one of his aphorisms. Less than half an hour after the warning he was on the Ganges in a rowing boat ...
... PURANI: The Allies have laid extensive mine-fields. Hitler has not much chance of success in Norway. SRI AUROBINDO: I don't know what made him take this step. PURANI: His inner voice, perhaps. SRI AUROBINDO: His inner voice must have been wild then. NIRODBARAN: Is there any chance of his attacking the Balkans? SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, when he gets wild he can do anything. NIRODBARAN: But that ...
... long and five feet in width; it had no windows, in front stood strong iron bars, and this cage was my appointed abode.’ 50 At first he ‘was shaken in his faith for a while,’ but very soon his Inner Voice began consoling and guiding him. He got a copy of the Bhagavad Gita and of the Upanishads, and his cell became a cave of tapasya in which he started a full-time spiritual effort, the practical... guest from Calcutta remained so completely secluded, often changing hiding places, that even Motilal’s wife did not know for whom she was cooking extra food. Then Aurobindo once again heard the inner Voice commanding him: ‘Go to Pondicherry,’ the main French enclave on the Coromandel Coast. Through Motilal Roy he contacted his young companions in Calcutta and requested them to make the necessary a... Aurobindo, this time (like the first) for sedition, had resulted on appeal in the government having to withdraw the warrant against him. Aurobindo was now free to return to British India, but his inner Voice had assigned him Pondicherry as his ‘cave of tapasya.’ His young Bengali companions became famous locally as first-rate footballers, Nolini on the right wing, Suresh as centre forward and Bejoy as ...
... It is an inner voice, evidently, but from where or whom it comes is not clear - anyway, the advice is good. The inner voices give us a truth and a command. But books also can do that. The former must also bring the necessary force. Perhaps we don't get it because some veil between the inner and the outer being hinders it. The inner voice is a voice only - it... consciousness for their guidance. Again, those voices are often dangerous, aren't they? There are plenty of difficulties and dangers in the consciousness also. There is only one reliable inner voice, the psychic. X and Y had no voices but they justified the wrong things their consciousness suggested to them and indulged them as if they were divine things (Y) or very high and noble ...
... he was positively frightened to learn about its progress and results. He had asked me to meditate three times a day, but I had not done it. Again he had advised me to follow the commands of my inner voice, but I obeyed the indications that I received from above. I did not sit down to meditate because I was in a state of constant meditation, very much like the poet-saint Ramprasad who was so continuously... what the Lord intended for me. Feeling hurt, I complained to Him, 'Why did You allow me to be locked up in jail on false charges before my work was finished?' On the third day came the answer. An inner voice told me, 'Be patient. You will soon find out.' The mind grew quiet and the trust returned. I was then taken from Lalbazar to Alipore and put in a small cell for a month. Solitary confinement." ... and day, week after week and month after month, even at the cost of his health. He was Chittaranjan Das. When he came, I felt certain that I need not give him any suggestions or advice. And the inner voice said, 'This is the man who will bring you your freedom - You do not need your papers any longer, for I will guide him, not you.' I grew completely quiet within, for the voice would repeat again and ...
... of the opinion that there was some danger in Sri Aurobindo following mechanically his "inner voice", for this might after all be from an Asuric force! After his encounter with Barin's Manicktolla group of reckless young men, Lele probably connected their activities remotely with Sri Aurobindo's inner voice and hence concluded it might have an Asuric origin. Sri Aurobindo released Lele from his ...
... inhabitant of the Ignorance, grows in it till it is able to turn it towards the Knowledge. It is the concealed Witness and Control, the hidden Guide, the Daemon of Socrates, the inner light or inner voice of the mystic. It is that which endures and is imperishable in us from birth to birth, untouched by death, decay or corruption, an indestructible spark of the Divine. Not the unborn Self or Atman ...
... view, or a coherent system of encompassing experience according to which the complexity of Hitler’s personality would be explainable? “Hitler is a sort of a mystic. He says he is guided by an inner voice. He goes into silence in his villa and waits for the voice. Whatever the voice says he will carry out. He is possessed by some supernormal Power and it is from this Power that the voice, as he calls ...
... “The Titan Kings Attack …” Sri Aurobindo never considered his seclusion at the end of 1926 to be definitive. It was a necessity of his yoga, imposed upon him by the inner Voice which he obeyed unconditionally. His seclusion was misunderstood by many, and the temporary seal of secrecy on his yoga, as on all inner explorations, did not allow him to set things straight at ...
... brings a light, a bliss, a power, a love the merely mental and emotional acceptance of the Eternal and the Infinite can never compass. To talk of having faith in God or even of listening to an "inner voice" is to encourage and practise the ordinary religious temper and the ordinary moral conscience. A man of unusual calibre like Page 325 Gandhi may encourage and practise these things ...
... luminous inhabitant of the Ignorance, grows in it till it is able to turn it towards the Knowledge. It is the concealed Witness and Control, the hidden Guide, the Daemon of Socrates, the inner light or inner voice of the mystic. It is that which endures and is imperishable in us from birth to birth, untouched by death, decay or corruption, an indestructible spark of the Divine. Not the unborn Self or Atman ...
... same form and are mistaken for a guiding voice. Make yourself pure of demand and desire, full only of psychic aspiration, surrendered, and in time a real guidance from within will come. An inner voice is a voice only—it may give the direction, but not the force. A voice speaks, it does not act. There is a great difference between reading a book [ for guidance ] and receiving the inner direction ...
... voice of the psychic, an intimation from his own soul to the mind as to what it wants Page 103 him to do. Now he has to accept it, for the assent of the nature, of the outward man to the inner voice, is necessary so that it may be effective. He is standing at the turning point and has been given an indication of the new road his inner being, the Antaratman, wants him to follow—but, as I say ...
... luminous inhabitant of the ignorance, grows in it till it is able to turn it towards the Knowledge. It is the concealed Witness and Control, the hidden Guide, the Daemon of Socrates, the inner light or inner voice of the mystic. It is that which endures and is imperishable in us from birth to birth, untouched by death, decay or corruption, an indestructible spark of the Divine. Not the unborn Self or Atman ...
... where it came Page 46 from. Was it my own thought expressed in words, or was it what is known as a "voice"? How can these things be distinguished, Sweet Mother? It was obviously an inner voice. One rarely hears the sound of the words, but rather the message is expressed as words in the mind or sometimes merely as a feeling in the heart. 23 May 1935 Sweet Mother, I have ...
... reality that brings a light, a bliss, a power, a love the purely mental and emotional acceptance of Page 11 God can never compass. To have faith in God and even to listen to an "inner voice" is to encourage and practise the ordinary religious temper and the ordinary moral conscience. A man of unusual calibre may encourage and practise these things in an unusual way, but they still remain ...
... details, and by yet failing to lay open anything mystical in his self-portrayal - leaves no shadow of a doubt that he never was a mystic. Merely to get promptings, as Gandhi said he did, from an inner voice does not constitute mysticism. "The still small voice" in the form of what is called conscience is a common possession: it becomes very imperative in some people, but there is no undeniable spirituality ...
... Appendix I A Synoptic Essay on Socrates It (the true soul) is the concealed Witness and Control, the hidden Guide, the Daemon of Socrates, the inner light or inner voice of the mystic. — Sri Aurobindo O ne of the greatest of the Greeks was Socrates who is known as the father of Philosophy. His early life is not much known but he must have lived a ...
... times one may make an effort for a thing, but the result comes in quite a different way. SRI AUROBINDO: That very often happens. In my case, Lele wanted me to get devotion, love and hear the inner voice, but instead I got the experience of the silent Brahman. SATYENDRA: And he prayed with incantations, etc., to pull you up to the other condition. (Laughter) . SRI AUROBINDO: No rigid rule ...
... inhabitant of the Ignorance, grows in it till it is able to turn it towards the Knowledge. It is the concealed Witness and Control, the hidden Guide, the Daemon of Socrates, the inner light or inner voice of the mystic. It is that which endures and is imperishable in us from birth to birth, untouched by death, decay or corruption, an indestructible spark of the Divine.¹ In its undeveloped state ...
... constant. Today I asked myself: when shall I put my head in Your lap and renew my agelong relation with You, dispel my sorrows and confusions of years and dedicate my whole life to You? The inner voice replied, "All this shall surely be." Tonight, unlike as on other days, I sat in meditation at about seven, and my prayers were: "Dear compassionate Sweet Mother, I salute You. Today—right now ...
... being in a friend of hers, but then he regretted that he could not obey the command of that psychic being because he was morally bound to his emperor. He would betray the emperor if he obeyed the inner voice. So that shows the distinction between the moral law and the spiritual law. He wasted a great chance that the Mother had granted him. As you know very well, we are trying hard to awaken in us the ...
... unregenerate freedom – the freedom of doing as they like; they have now to pause in their unreflecting career, turn round, as it were, and imbibe and acquire the habit of listening to the deeper, the inner voice, and obey the direction, the command of the Call. This is the "Word inviolate" ( an ahata - v ani ) of which the sages speak; this is also referred to as the "still small voice", for indeed it ...
... luminous inhabitant of the Ignorance, grows in it till it is able to turn it towards the Knowledge. It is the concealed Witness and Control, the hidden Guide, the Daemon of Socrates, the inner light or inner voice of the mystic. It is what which endures and is imperishable in us from birth to birth, untouched by death, decay or corruption, an indestructible spark of the Divine.'9 In its undeveloped state ...
... Your reply to my letter concerning the after-treatment of washed plants has come as a revelation to me. It is my mental formations and suggestions that have not been allowing me to hear the small inner voice and distorting and disfiguring the true inspirations and impulses coming from You. Mother, when it is Your will that I stop thinking I must do so. I pray to Your grace to remove the obstacles ...
... radical change. Bharati was very helpful in effectuating my inner nearness to Sri Aurobindo. Often it would occur to me: "Why did I not have, like Bharati, courage enough to act according to the inner voice?" As I grew more and more familiar with Bharati, the rites and ceremonies, rules and regulations dropped off from me as withered leaves from a tree. During that time my old orthodox friends and ...
... accused were brought to the court for the hearing, he hardly attended to the evidence or the conduct of the case. C. R. Das was engaged to defend Sri Aurobindo and Sri Aurobindo was guided by an inner voice to leave the defence completely in Das's charge. His view of life was thus undergoing a radical change in jail. In the beginning of the sadhana the idea was to take the Divine's help in the mission ...
... nature as a child behaving according to its wants. I think X's fall came in that way. He had gone into the higher mind, I do not know, if not even to the overmind state; he used to be guided by an inner voice which he accepted as the voice of the Divine and did everything in the light of that voice. When people were asking him about his conduct I am told he replied that it was by the voice of God and ...
... s or he is condemned as a misleader of men or a fomenter of religious, moral or social heresies. He is not governed by the judgements of men or the laws laid down by the ignorant; he obeys an inner voice and is moved by an unseen power. His real life is within and this is its description that he lives, moves and acts in God, in the Divine, in the Infinite."¹ ¹ On Yoga—I by Sri Aurobindo. ...
... of inspiration. Very often, he gets indications which assure him of an inner Presence unknown to his outer personality. These have been described by the poet as "A Silence overhead, an inner Voice A living image seated in the heart". There is, at times, an unwalled wideness and delight present everywhere and there is even the perception of the shape of our unborn Divinity ...
... luminous inhabitant of the Ignorance, grows in it till it is able to turn it towards the Knowledge. It is the concealed Witness and Control, the hidden Guide, the Daemon of Socrates, the inner light or inner voice of the mystic...." "It is... untouched by death, decay or corruption....It is...the true original Conscience in us deeper than the constructed and conventional conscience of the moralist, for it ...
... in its temples or in the worship of its Avatars or in the devotion to the human Guru through whom the voice of the one world-Teacher makes itself heard. Through these it strives to awaken to that inner voice, unveil that form of the Formless and stand face to face with that manifest divine Power, Love and Knowledge. Secondly, there is the typical, almost the symbolic significance of the human Krishna ...
... second fast of Mahatma Gandhi of three weeks has disquieted me a little. There seems to be no way out, for Gandhi asserts that he can break his irrevocable fast only if he is persuaded that the inner voice which enjoins the fast on him is the voice not of God but of the Devil. I wonder whose voice it is though? Can it be anything but disastrous augury? I don't think it was the voice of God that ...
... a heart that can respond to all my moods, that can understand me, that can do me justice, that can love me intensely and exclusively. Love, and love alone, is the chief note of my heart. But the inner voice says it is not love I crave for. It is Maya.... If you think it is time for me, will you allow me to come there for sadhana? Reply to him that what he describes (in the sentence on the first ...
... aspiration was truly sincere and disinterested. In such a case, things must happen like that. If someone who has been bad and wicked, suddenly decides to change, does he immediately hear the small inner voice which warns every time one does something bad? Everything depends upon the form the reversal, the inner conversion has taken. If the change is sudden, yes, one can immediately become conscious ...
... strongest. Should not one offer all one's willed actions to the Divine? That is, first do the willed actions and then offer them? Perhaps you could first silence your will and wait for the inner voice before acting! That would be wiser. You see, we have already found many ways of offering our will to the Divine: first, not to will any longer! Second, do what everybody wants except oneself! ...
... transformation. Even adaptable Japan, after the first enthusiasm of acceptance, has retained all that is fundamental in her culture, and everywhere else the European current has met the opposition of an inner voice and force which cries halt to its victorious impetus. 6 The East is on the whole, in spite of certain questionings and scruples, willing and, where not wholly willing, forced by circumstances ...
... not because it is inherently good or satisfying but simply because it is there, because it is part of its past and its national traditions; tamasic by its habit of changing not in obedience to any inner voice of ethical aspiration or sense of intellectual fitness but in answer to the pressure of environment; but rajasic by the open field it gives to individual character and energy, rajasic by its reliance ...
... ies or he is condemned as a misleader of men and a fomenter of religious, moral or social heresies. He is not governed by the judgments of men or the laws laid down by the ignorant; he obeys an inner voice and is moved by an unseen Power. His real life is within and this is its description that he lives, moves and acts in God, in the Divine, in the Infinite. But if his action is governed by no external ...
... twice a week, Mother would translate the works of Sri Aurobindo into French before a group of disciples. AGENDA OF THE SUPRAMENTAL ACTION ON EARTH On March 19 during the translation class the inner voice said: 'Hold yourself straight' and the body sat up and held itself absolutely straight during the entire class. Page 69 ...
... naturally and from there I would go on to another hall. Thus when I reached a particular hall, I felt it was a place of worship. The spot was enchanting! Its atmosphere was just indescribable. But the inner voice impelled, 'No, no, I have to go further than this.' The melodious, powerful and captivating chant of Sri Aurobindo was heard all along and it seemed I would reach Him very soon but it was not ...
... leave Berlin without a word and go to Berchtesgaden, where he spends his time walking in the mountains entirely by himself … It is during these periods of inactivity that Hitler is waiting for his ‘inner voice’ to guide him. He does not think the problem through in a normal way but waits until the solution is presented to him … As soon as he has the solution to a problem his mood changes very radically ...
... Hitler regularly visited the widow of his first favourite architect, Paul Troost. She asked him one day why he cared so little about his personal security. His answer was that he was following “his inner voice” which had told him that he was destined to remain alive “as long as he was needed by the German people”. When Germany did not need him any longer, he would be “called back to his maker”. 991 Albert ...
... live on all the three levels—mental, vital, and physical—with the inner light, when we harmonize the entire life with the inner notes or when we reconstitute the outer life at the behest of the inner voice, then spiritual living becomes the normal and natural process of living. Life without these efforts then appears like a veritable death itself. Then one receives Grace and, from behind appears the ...
... than before!" I looked for a way, and I ran to a corner (in the place of Pavitra's laboratory), found a water tap and put my prawn under the tap. Immediately someone told me (not "someone," the inner voice told me [ laughing ]), "Your water is even dirtier than the cloth!" So the consciousness came along with the light, and I was shown with such a clear vision the relativity of the measures we take ...
... give promptings, and often if the promptings suit us we think it is the soul talking, (laughter) One or two very striking instances I have come across here, of being completely misguided by the inner voice. There was a Telugu gentleman whom I had come to know because he and I used to eat opposite each other at a small table outside the Reading Room. We would bring our food from the Dining Room which ...
... missed the first word. (laughter) The universal chocolate-painting was halted and my friend learnt a lesson. But now look at the sequel. It made me sorry I had found fault with his inner voice. Soon after the incident, he was promoted from the carpentry to the smithy. He worked so hard there that he felt terribly hungry at the end of the working hours and ate the food meant for three or ...
... radical change. Bharati was very helpful in effectuating my inner nearness to Sri Aurobindo. Often it would occur to me: "Why did I not have, like Bharati, courage enough to act according to the inner voice?" As I grew more and more familiar with Bharati, the rites and ceremonies, rules and regulations dropped off from me as withered leaves from a tree. During that time my old orthodox friends and relatives ...
... change. Bharati was very helpful in effectuating my inner nearness to Sri Aurobindo. Often it would occur to me: "Why did I not have, like Bharati, courage enough to act according to the inner voice?" As I grew more and more familiar with Bharati, the rites and ceremonies, rules and regulations dropped off from me as withered leaves from a tree. During that time my old orthodox friends ...
... radical change. Bharati was very helpful in effectuating my inner nearness to Sri Aurobindo. Often it would occur to me: “Why did I not have, like Bharati, courage enough to act according to the inner voice?” As I grew more and more familiar with Bharati, the rites and ceremonies, rules and regulations dropped off from me as withered leaves from a tree. During that time my old orthodox friends and relatives ...
... what I call the voice of the psychic, an intimation from his own soul to the mind as to what it wants him to do. Now he has to accept it, for the assent of the nature, of the outward man to the inner voice is necessary so that it may be effective. He is standing at the turning-point and has been given an indication of the new road his inner being, the Antaratman, wants him to follow—but, as I say, ...
... fast of Mahatma Gandhi of three weeks has disquieted me a little.' 1 There seems to be no way out, for Gandhi asserts that he can break his irrevocable fast only if he is persuaded that the inner voice which enjoins the fast on him is the voice not of God but of the Devil. I wonder whose voice it is though ? Can it be of anything but disastrous augury? I would like to have your verdict.... ...
... that dense unconsciousness of any spiritual self within which obscures our outward nature... It is the concealed Witness and Control, the hidden Guide, the Daemon of Socrates, the inner light or inner voice Page 34 of the mystic... It is the individual soul, caitya purusa, supporting mind, life and body, standing behind the mental, the vital, the subtle-physical being in us and watching ...
... luminous inhabitant of the Ignorance, grows in it till it is able to turn it towards the Knowledge. It is the concealed Witness and Control, the hidden Guide, the Daemon of Socrates, the inner light or inner voice of the mystic. It is that which endures and Page 42 is imperishable in us from birth to birth, untouched by death, decay or corruption, an indestructible spark of the Divine." 37 ...
... started his revolutionary work in Bengal, they collaborated, trying to unite all the existing underground groups under a single organisation. When in 1910 Sri Aurobindo left Calcutta guided by an inner voice, he asked Sister Nivedita to take up the editing of the English weekly the Karmayogin in his absence. She consented and from that time onward she had the whole conduct of the paper till its closure ...
... desire to build my body and be Mr. Universe was totally beyond their comprehension. Because of it, I was put through a lot of changes. I locked up my emotions even further and listened only to my inner voice, my instincts. I went into the Army in 1965. One year of service was obligatory in Austria. After that, I could make my decision about a future. For me the Army was a good experience. I liked ...
... to understand the inspiration behind Sri Aurobindo's activities at this time and his perceptions regarding the true meaning of nationalism and religion. From now on he relied increasingly on the inner voice — the adesh or divine command from within — to regulate his actions and at any moment of crisis, he instantly obeyed its dictates. Also, mark that when he speaks of a Sanatana Dharma, it is not ...
... unregenerate freedom—the freedom of doing as they like; they have now to pause in their unreflecting career, turn round, as it were, and imbibe and acquire the habit of listening to the deeper, the inner voice, and obey the direction, the command of the Call. This is the "Word inviolate" (anahata-vani) of which the sages speak; this is also referred to as the "still small voice", for indeed it is scarcely ...
... the Tolstoy of Brahmanbaria. His grandfather was a Tantric and could meditate sitting upon the waters of a river. From him perhaps Nandi got his spiritual capacities. Nandi used to be guided by an inner voice. When Bipin Pal asked him whether he would do anything whatsoever, good or bad, if prompted by this voice, he replied that if it was from God he would follow it to any length. But, of course, ...
... more mysterious a thing, the more remarkable it must be! SRI AUROBINDO: People are getting to be mystic without their knowing it. You know, Hitler is a sort of mystic. He says he is guided by an inner voice. He goes into silence in his palace and waits for the voice. Whatever the voice says he will carry out. Jwalanti's son's friend writes that he is absolutely undependable. His generals, financiers ...
... conscience, Sir. So I avoid giving it whenever possible, saying that meat is not good for health. Is it the voice of my conscience, Sir? SRI AUROBINDO: Sanskara! DR. MANILAL: I thought it was my inner voice, Sir. (Laughter) NIRODBARAN: Like Gandhi's? DR. MANILAL: Is not meat injurious to the body, Sir? SRI AUROBINDO: Depends on the person. Of course it makes the body heavy, I mean the subtle ...
... crystalline murmur that imparts a note of harmony to a discordant concert". 23 Only, one needs patient perseverance, and one needs faith. VI Early in August 1913, Mirra hears an inner voice telling her that worrying about external circumstances or showing an obsessive concern for doing 'good' things, as distinct from 'bad', was most unwise: Why strive and strain so to realise ...
... a fight against the government. Sri Aurobindo : It is not always by fighting that you get what you want. With all his idealism Gandhi knows how far the people can go and in spite of his inner voice, he knows how far to go (himself). Page 224 ...
... : Roosevelt seems to have declared for democracy. Disciple : Now Hitler will think twice before he tries to do anything. Sri Aurobindo : Yes, if he is capable of thinking. His inner voice may ask him to push on. Mussolini may think twice unless he too is Hitlerised. In that case Hitler will Page 206 say : I have given you a chance for Colonies. If you don't ...
... "invisible Grandeur sits unworshipped there". Why is it like that? Because man is in love with his ignorance which is the father of "his pain". Man has lost contact with his inner soul, his inner voice. Intimations from the depth of his being come to him in vain. All uptil now—poets, seers, prophets— have failed. "Heaven's flaming lights descend and back return". "Eternity speaks, none understands ...
... whom the mantra Page 279 had come. Lele then told Sri Aurobindo that there was no further need for instructions; he could henceforth rely on the Guru within, and be guided by the inner Voice. From Bombay to Nasik, Dhulia, Amraoti, Nagpur - centres of Maharashtrian culture which Tilak had persuaded Sri Aurobindo to visit - and everywhere a spontaneous welcome, and everywhere a ...
... shop to work, return it to the cashier.” “No one knows that I have this money, so even if I spend it no one will think that it is not my money which I’m spending”. He started arguing with his inner voice. “Yes, that is true, and all the more necessary that you return the money. People think that you are a good man and you cannot do anything wrong. So when you get an opportunity to do something ...
... One may concentrate for one thing and quite a different result may come – one may go to quite another line. Sri Aurobindo : In my own case, Lele wanted me to get devotion and love and hear inner voices. Instead I got into the Silent Brahman Consciousness. Disciple : And he prayed and tried to pull you into the other condition. Disciple : I find in my case that with little effort... Disciple : There is no reason to associate these with the feminine aspect because he associates these with it. Disciple : Receptivity includes these things; it is only a way of representing the inner life of the woman. Sri Aurobindo : Because the female is passive, dependent, (passively active) while the male is active, strong and self-reliant. Disciple : The Vaishnavas look upon ...
... were made and then a new subject came up. NIRODBARAN: We spoke of inner voices yesterday. Is there any standard by which one can judge that a voice is the right one? SRI AUROBINDO: What standard? There is no such standard. How can you judge whether a voice is right or wrong? NIRODBARAN: Then is Hitler right when he hears a voice and follows it? SRI AUROBINDO: Right in what sense? Morally? ... which are considered moral. Robespierre was also a moral man and yet he killed many people. NIRODBARAN: Then what did you mean when you spoke of a true voice? SRI AUROBINDO: Oh, that is the psychic voice. But there can be many other voices from many planes. And how will you say which is right? What would you say of Lord Curzon's decision? NIRODBARAN; For the Bengal Partition? SRI AUROBINDO:... PURANI: Perhaps Nirodbaran means spiritually right. SRI AUROBINDO: How can one say that Hitler's voice is not right? He has seen that by following it he has been able to get Austria and Czechoslovakia and has been successful in many other things. As I said, the Cosmic Spirit rnay want him to go that way. Even from the standpoint of ethics, one can't say Hitler is immoral. He is very restricted ...
... who could surrender himself so absolutely and without reserve or question to the guidance of the helper." And astonished with the result. Lele had "wanted me to get devotion and love and hear inner voices. Instead I got into the silent Brahman Consciousness." In other words, Nirvana. Since then Sri Aurobindo's mind became the Master in its own house. "From that moment, in principle, the mental... Sri Aurobindo found him to be a Bhakta with a limited mind but with some experience and evocative power. "In my Page 438 own case," he wrote, "I owe the first decisive turn of my inner life to one who was infinitely inferior to me in intellect, education and capacity and by no means spiritually perfect or supreme; but, having seen a Power behind him and decided to turn there for help ...
... puzzle the ordinary man. A wise passivity today, fire and brimstone tomorrow; in either case, he would but be following the inner Light of which others might be totally unaware. There is, of course, very real danger in all and sundry talking about their intuitions and inner voices and proclaiming themselves to be agents of the Divine. Sri Aurobindo was therefore careful to add that, not everybody, but... Shyampukur too Sri Aurobindo seems to have experimented with "automatic" or mediumistic writing or speech.* The young men sitting around Sri Aurobindo in an unlighted room at eight would suddenly hear a voice - Sri Aurobindo's and yet not his - breaking the silence, announcing its identity - perhaps Danton, or Bankim, or Theramenes! - and speaking in English. What did it all amount to? Certainly, sup... the soul's sprout from the soil of India pointing fiercely towards the future. In the words of her biographer, Lizelle Raymond, in The Dedicated: Nivedita thought she could still hear the voice of Swami Vivekananda stirring up the masses: "Arise, Sons of India! Awake!" That had been the first phase of the struggle. Now this life-giving cry was repeated differently, because the effort required ...
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