... healing either the truth of our being be sufficiently explained in terms of the mind, the vital and the physical ? Sri Aurobindo has shown that the consciousness and force necessary for the integration of the being resides not in the mental, vital or physical components but in a higher consciousness which both transcends and is immanent in the three aspects of our being, - in the spiritual dimension... of all the parts of our being, we discover our spiritual being as well. This higher consciousness of the spirit is knowledge as well as power and holds the key to a total healing and integration of the being. He views the problem also from the evolutionary perspective. He looks upon the present organisation of the human consciousness which is an amalgam of mind-formations, life-movements ...
... out all these obstacles and create the gnostic being, but it can make a first change, a modification that will capacitate a higher ascent and a more powerful descent and further prepare an integration of the being in a greater Force of consciousness and knowledge. This greater Force is that of the Illumined Mind, a Mind no longer of higher Thought, but of spiritual light. Here the clarity of ...
... above and its depths annexed to the heights of the spirit. An integral consciousness will become the basis of an entire harmonisation of life through the total transformation, unification, integration of the being and the nature. Page 753 ...
... out all these obstacles and create the gnostic being, but it can make a first change, a modification that will capacitate a higher ascent and a more powerful descent and further prepare an integration of the being in a greater Force of consciousness and knowledge. This greater Force is that of the Illumined Mind, a Mind no longer of higher Thought, but of spiritual light. Here the Page 978 ...
... out all these obstacles and create the gnostic being, but it can make a first change, a modification that will capacitate a higher ascent and a more powerful descent and further prepare an integration of the being in a greater Force of consciousness and knowledge. This greater Force is that of the Illumined Mind, a Mind no longer of higher Thought, but of spiritual light. Here the clarity of the ...
... attainment of perfection, — Yogic perfection, — that exceeds the boundaries of ordinary ethical or religious perfection? It may still be asked, will this endeavour ensure the highest possible integration of the being, — including the integration of the spiritual and the physical? And, finally, will this endeavour promote the highest welfare of humanity? Solution in a New Synthesis of Yoga ...
... no sin or demerit of the nature. The power of love, of truth, of right will be there, not as a law mentally constructed but as the very substance and constitution of the nature and, by the integration of the being, necessarily also the very stuff and constituting nature of the action. To grow into this nature of our true being, a nature of spiritual truth and oneness, is the liberation attained by an ...
... out all these obstacles and create the gnostic being, but it can make a first change, a modification that will capacitate a higher ascent and a more powerful descent and further prepare an integration of the being for a greater Force of consciousness and knowledge. This greater Force is that of the Illumined Mind, a Mind no longer of higher Thought, but of spiritual light. Here the clarity of the spiritual ...
... perfection, — Yogic perfection, that exceeds the boundaries of ordinary ethical or religious perfection? It may still be asked, will this endeavour ensure the highest possible integration of the Page 117 being, — including the integration of the spiritual and the physical? And, finally, will this endeavour promote the highest welfare of humanity? Solution in a New Synthesis ...
... of affairs with all the perspicacity he can command. Otherwise, so far as his sadhana is concerned, he will be liable to demolish constantly by one hand what his other hand has built up. "Integration of the being" should Page 26 be his watchword. He should not act like a weathercock changing its orientation with every passing breeze. His heart and mind and will should not have separate ...
... A Pilgrims Quest for the Highest and the Best -08_Criteria of Ethical Perfection and Integration of Total Being.htm 7 Criteria of Ethical Perfection and Integration of Total Being of Total Being: An Exploration Human nature is complex and it is at once egoistic, collectivistic, moralistic and idealistic. In its pursuits of idealism, it is not limited... personal needs for pleasure, — because everyone psychologically prefers pleasure to pain, every individual ought to seek one's own pleasure. The familiar criticism arises from the perception that human beings do not necessarily seek pleasure alone but some other things also; if, however, it is insisted that the other things which are arguably perceived as having behind them only one basic aim, viz., pleasure... ty shall hold all things cheap, even its safety and its most pressing interests, in comparison with truth, justice, humanity and the highest good of the people. 47 The moralist's ideal is being pressed in all the upward endeavours of the contemporary humanity. This ideal compels us to examine once again various doctrines of rights and duties, of the good and the virtue, and of the law of dharma ...
... psychological integration of the total being, — somewhat in the direction suggested by Cottingham. A major difficulty in the pursuit of this direction, however, lies in the fact that there are many concepts of ethical perfection, page - 74 and they collide with each other so acutely that one may wonder as to how that conflict could be resolved. Even in regard to the question of integration of the... result of the growing climate of mutual understanding among religions, a new way of solution is being proposed. For a comparative study of religions shows not only several common points but also some specific and unique points that seem to characterize each religion. In this context, a question is being raised whether these unique points should necessarily be counted as factors of opposition and division... the total being, there are varying notions and conflicting notions, the resolution of which would necessitate a long and detailed pursuit of various psychological disciplines that have been developed and which are still being developed in various systems of yoga and in their synthesis. page - 75 ...
... nature follows what it knows to be wrong, dangerous or evil. Even when it is strong and clear and dominant, Mind, though it imposes a certain, a considerable mentalised harmony, cannot integrate the whole being and nature. These harmonisations by an inferior control are, besides, inconclusive, because it is one part of the nature which dominates and fulfils itself while the others are coerced and... ourself to the superconscient so as to know their relation to our surface being. For between these three things our existence moves and finds in them its totality. The Life Divine, p.223 ...he [man] is aware only of a small part of his own being: his surface mentality, his surface life, his surface physical being is all that he knows and he does not know even all of that; below is the... frontal being which we suppose ourselves to be and which we offer to the world around us. This frontal and external being is a confused amalgam of mind-formations, life-movements, physical functionings of which even an exhaustive analysis into its component parts and machinery fails to reveal the whole secret. It is only when we go behind, below, above into the hidden stretches of our being that ...
... individual entity and finally the fully conscious personality. But, as I have said, the growth does not follow a single one-track straight line: there can be a fusion of souls, the descent and integration of a being or soul from another level of consciousness into a developing soul or psychic element from out of Nature. In this sense then there can be a birth of souls too. The astronomers speak of novae... instrument of expression. Indeed, although the journey of the soul essentially and originally is the flight of the spirit to the Spirit, yet the final consummation is towards an increasing integration of all the external instruments from the highest to the lowest, from the subtlest to the grossest into a harmonised organised whole, reflecting and embodying the Spirit in its purity and totality... number and scheme depends upon a given purpose in view and is not an eternal constant. The types and archetypes with which we, human beings, are concerned in the present cycle of evolution belong to the supramental and overmental planes of consciousness; they are the beings known familiarly as gods and presiding deities. They too have emanations, each one of them, and these emanations multiply as they ...
... . It is not enough to know the superficial layers of man's being and consciousness; it is not enough to explore some parts of his Unconscious, individual or collective; it is not enough to hold up before him a bright ideal of moral life and altruistic activity. What is indispensable for the radical conversion and integration of his being is a systematic exploration of the Superconscient and an i... preoccupied with the outside world, it is to the East that we must turn to find the highest level that human thought has reached." The problem of the illumination, transformation and integration of the human personality is the most urgent and vital problem of the present human culture. If the human personality cannot be reclaimed from its present state of mutinous animality and transformed into its... tenor of his life, and yet he is driven to create and multiply a myriad causes of conflict, within him and without. He longs so much for a harmonious advance of the collectivity and a general well-being of his species, and yet he is so helplessly dominated by aggressive, individualistic tendencies and an exclusive self-assertion. It is an age of darkness pierced by stray shafts of an uncommon light ...
... distances and differences. According to Cottingham, it is in that practice of integration, — not in insisting on distinctions and divisions of religious beliefs and practices, but in that spiritual dimension which enables us to arrive at our own integration and in looking upon others and being with others in the experience of integration. Cottingham's Solution and Indian Solution of Conflict of Religions... religions consists of the deepening of our inner awareness in the arrival of integration of our being, such as we find page - 60 advocated in the Aristotelian doctrine of virtue which avoids excesses of self-aggrandizement and self-abasement, and arrives at the golden mean. He also refers to the kind of integration that is advocated by the psychoanalytic system of June. But beyond the limits... limits of the framework of the doctrines of Aristotle and Jung, Cottingham underlines the concept of integration by referring to the process by which different parts of being are harmonized in our wholeness. He speaks of integration that lies in the practice of morality and the practice of spirituality, which leads to the perception of oneness with all, in spite of distances that we find among ourselves ...
... character. But the rule and guidance of the soul brings into all Page 93 experience the tendency of light, of integration, of harmony and intimate tightness which is native to the psychic essence. 101 Sri Aurobindo * The psychic being emerges slowly in most men, even after taking up sadhana. There is so much in the mind and vital that has to change and readjust... the nature follows what it knows to be wrong, dangerous or evil. Even when it is strong and clear and dominant, Mind, though it imposes a certain, a considerable mentalised harmony, cannot integrate the whole being and nature. These harmonisations by an inferior control are, besides, inconclusive, because it is one part of the nature which dominates and fulfils itself while the others are coerced and... you are aware of your soul (the psychic being), when its feelings Page 85 and consciousness are yours, then you have got the consciousness of the psychic being. The feelings and aspirations of the psychic being are all turned towards truth and right consciousness and the Divine. 89 — Sri Aurobindo * The psychic being is always there, but is not felt because ...
... d action of the fourfold type of human temperament— Brāhman, Ksatriya, Vaiśya and Śūdra— in a single, integrated individual. It will be, in fact, a sublimation, transfiguration, and integration of the whole being of man with all its powers and faculties in full and unrestricted divine play. It will be a spontaneous, unified action of the caturvyūha of the ancient Vaishnavic tradition—a Power for... materialist's denial of Spirit and his scepticism about the reality of the spiritual forces, there is a growing, an insistent, though a more or less imprecise, aspiration for a radical change, a perfect integration, and a complete and integral fulfilment of human life and nature. There is a fumbling attempt, now in one direction, now in another, sometimes—as in some latest trends of modem psychology and so... extraordinarily long life in perfect health and vigour, or possessing a cinmaya or transcendental body. Page 410 It is a change of consciousness and being, more radical- and complete than what took place when "a mentalised being first appeared in a vital and material animal world." It is a victorious descent and manifestation of the Truth- Light (rtamjyotih) in the consciousness and ...
... sense. One begins to live and move and have one's being in a global unity. And yet some dissolving fragments or ghosts of the old egoistic habits and impulsions may be detected sometimes in some obscure nooks or hidden folds of the nature. The characteristic action of the Overmind being selective, though unitarian, it cannot integrate the entire being into a divinely dynamic unity. In order to effect... completely blotted out, there is no possibility of the dynamic divine Presence being installed in our being for manifesting its glory upon earth. There is no greater enemy of spiritual liberation and perfection than the ego, "the lynch-pin of the wheel of ignorance," as Sri Aurobindo calls it. It has to be expunged from the whole being—from each of its fibres and each of its energies with which it is securely... has to struggle with it as if it were a constituent part of oneself to be thrown out from the being. It is easier to cast off an accretion than to excise what is felt as a parcel of our substance. "When the psychic being is in front, then also to get rid of desire becomes easy; for the psychic being has in itself no desires, it has only aspirations and a seeking and love for the Divine and all ...
... Mind Matter, 6, 121, 196, 325, 377, 400 Maya, 96 and the Self, 98 Mayavada (Illusionism), 373, 374, 375, 377 See also Shankara Mind, 61, 193, 337 cannot integrate the being, 19 and consciousness, 8-9, 41-43 evolution of mental life, 256-58 Higher Mind, 143-46, 352 an Ignorance consciousness, 54-61 Illumined Mind, 146-49, 353 inner... see Central Being emotional, 63 inner, see Inner being outer, see Outer being parts and planes, 336-337, 348-49 physical, see physical, the psychic, see Psychic being structure and organisation of, 336-60 true, 91 vital, see Vital, the Body-consciousness, 67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 164, 339-41 Brahman, 96, 170-71, 296, 374, 375,378, 379 and the Self, 121 ... multiplicity of, 13, 16, 361-62 psychic, see Psychic being and real Individuality, 136 soul-personality, see Psychic being stages of development, 17-19 Philistine, the (the sensational man), 275-78 Physical mind, see under Mind Physical vital, see under Vital (being), the Physical (being, outer, surface), the, 67-71, 337 vital-physical ...
... n of that life, these separate constituent 'beings' wander about for some time in the supraphysical other-worlds and then vanish into thin air. And such is their normal destiny. But this need not be their invariable destiny. For, if a person has been able to integrate his vital being completely around his psychic being and if this vital being comes to be always governed by the psychic without... the other worlds, the psychic being may assume a new physical body on the terrestrial plane as soon as possible in order to maintain its spiritual adventure uninterrupted there. (ii)There is also an alternative course of action: instead of creating a new body for itself, the psychic being of the "departed" person may integrate itself with a second psychic being in another physical body and continue... it, this vital being need not be discarded after the body's death: it may be left intact in the universal vital world while the psychic travels to its own world, the psychic world. On its return journey to the earth for its next embodiment, the psychic may pick up this surviving vital being and carry it along to integrate it in the next physical body. For, as this developed vital being will remain always ...
... the nature follows what it knows to be wrong, dangerous or evil. Even when it is strong and clear and dominant, Mind, though it imposes a certain, a considerable mentalised harmony, cannot integrate the whole being and nature. These harmonisations by an inferior control are, besides, inconclusive, because it is one part of the nature which dominates and fulfils itself while the others are coerced and... and powers which, though not of this disastrous type, are of a powerful but inferior cosmic character. But the rule and guidance of the soul brings into all experience the tendency of light, of integration, of harmony and intimate rightness which is native to the psychic essence. A psychic or, more widely speaking, a psycho-spiritual transformation of this kind would be already a vast change of our... life-self, a physical self; there is a being of mind, a mental Purusha, expressing something of itself on our surface Page 929 in the thoughts, perceptions, activities of our mind nature, a being of life which expresses something of itself in the impulses, feelings, sensations, desires, external life activities of our vital nature, a physical being, a being of the body which expresses something ...
... consist in an integration, a healing of the divided consciousness of our being, and since that division is complex and many-sided, no partial change on one side of the being can be passed off as a sufficient substitute for the integral transformation. Our first division is that created by our ego and mainly, most forcefully, most vividly by our life-ego, which divides us from all other beings as not-self... Supernature. The integration of our being cannot be complete unless there is this transformation of the dynamic action; there must be an uplifting and change of the whole mode of Nature itself and not only some illumination and transmutation of the inner ways of the being. An eternal Truth-Consciousness must possess us and sublimate all our natural modes into its own modes of being, knowledge and action;... unborn and one with the self of all beings. This self-realisation liberates and universalises; even if our action still proceeds in the dynamics of the Ignorance, it no longer binds or misleads because our inner being is seated in the light of self-knowledge. The third step is to know the Divine Being who is at once our supreme transcendent Self, the Cosmic Being, foundation of our universality, and ...
... the psyche. If that Love is divine, then the psyche must be divine, exist in the Divine, have come forth from Him and carry Him most intimately in its being in the course of its evolutionary journey back towards the full integration into Him. Being divine, the psyche cannot but have willed and itself chosen its journey, its adventure through the Night of the Ignorance, to experience the joy of red... have seen, the primordial condition of supramentalization — the psychic being cannot halt at the point in the evolution now reached by humanity. For its redivinization it has also to experience and integrate into itself the higher levels of existence between mental consciousness and the absolute Divine if its presence in creation has to make any sense at all. This was exactly what the Mother observed... front of me, and I saw her psychic being that dominated her by this much [gesture: about 20 centimeters]. It was the first time. Her physical being was small and her psychic being was that tall. And it was an asexual being, neither man nor woman. I then said to myself … “But it is the psychic being, it is this that will materialize and become the supramental being!”’ 3 She had so often asked ...
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