... describe the process in this way: We all live very far removed from our body, in a small part of our being that we have HORRENDOUSLY cultivated – and very usefully cultivated, too – which is the intellectual mind. You can't do a thing without its being immediately "snatched" by a thought and filed away in a little compartment. This is truly the first of those layers I mentioned earlier which cover us –... what? What is looking through the microscope? It's their MIND that looks through the microscope and makes an image, a projection, of its own mental conception of the cell. So, first, that intellectual mind has to be silenced. Then we encounter a second mental layer, which is the emotional mind – all the passions, emotions and all that – which makes quite a considerable covering. And deeper... walk down the street – it can be repeated at each instant. And since matter is in fact very "repetitive," we can begin, in our mind at first, to CHURN OUT a different sort of routine. Thus, our intellectual mind, which is quite stupid in its substance, in its foundation, will begin to repeat the mantra the way it used to repeat its "I didn't lock the door," and "I forgot my scarf," and "I'm going to miss ...
... something that is in its source akin, bring a ripe reflective knowledge and a colour of intellectuality into their speech and vision, but Blake seeks to put away from him as much as possible the intellectual mind, to see only and sing. By this effort and his singularity and absorption he stands apart solitary and remote, a unique voice among the poets of the time; he occupies indeed a place unique in the... line between spirit and body. He is at once seer, poet, thinker, prophet, artist. In his own day and after, the strangeness of his genius made him unintelligible to the rather gross and mundane intellectual mind of the nineteenth century; those who admired him most, were seized only by the externalities of his work, its music, delicacy, diffusely lavish imaginative opulence, enthusiasm, but missed its... before their powers could fully expand, Byron led far out of the path, Blake isolated in his own splendour of remoteness, Coleridge and Wordsworth drawn away to lose the poet and seer in the mere intellectual mind. All wandered round their centre of inspiration, missed something needed and stopped or were stopped short. Another age had to arrive which worshipped other and lesser godheads. Page 147 ...
... to occasional frequency of established movements in swapna. Great intensity of audition and mental vision of the personalities (devatas) that stand behind the action of the intuitive and intellectual mind and temperament in the sadhana. The truth of the developments thus seen is established by the subsequent result in the changes of the mentality. Script. "What will outline itself, will be... by ideal suggestion than with an absolute authority. The new movement is as yet only initial and still hampered by the continued outer action of the intuitive mind with its clinging ends of intellectual mind-stuff. Lipi. "Superior ideality in trikaldrishti and tapas siddhi", already beginning to be initially fulfilled. The first and second chatusthayas are now unified by the development of... thoroughly accomplished. This as yet has not been done. It can only be done by the satyam brihat ritam in the decisive trikaldrishti developing into its full amplitude. For that the rejection of the intellectual mind-stuff which clings to the ideation is a necessary preliminary. In Samadhi still the same movement. At night a revival of dream incoherence. Utthapana unsatisfactory. Page 1082 ...
... mostly to external gesture, movement and action); vital mind (as in Kalidasa and Shakespeare, where the vibrant play, delicate or vehement, of sensation, passion, emotion is directly expressed); intellectual mind (as in Vyasa, Sophocles, Virgil, Dante and Milton, where the poetic vision markedly brings out thought-values of whatever is caught up from subjective or objective existence). The Future Poetry... may be considered the secret power which transmits inspiration. The next part and still more the third exhibit other blendings. The overhead poetry is 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 ...
... record left of the other line of achievement, that of spiritual self-discovery; occult knowledge was there but kept subordinate. We may say that here in India the reign of Intuition came first, intellectual Mind developing afterwards in the later philosophy and science. But in fact the mass of men at the time, it is quite evident, lived entirely on the material plane, worshipped the Godheads of material... the earth-life. In all probability the speculations would be quite beside the mark or, even where they hit on some broad lines, would draw them wrong and all awry and out of proportion; for the intellectual mind is a different and inferior power of consciousness; it is analytical and synthetic, pulling things to pieces and putting them together in order to understand and deal with them, proceeding by ...
... One may take the elements from the mind or emotion or other parts according to necessity. Disciple : How far is mind a factor in the process? Sri Aurobindo : If you mean the intellectual mind it has a very little part – though it, too, has a part. The whole Page 263 process is very complicated. The first impulse is given by the vital and then there is communication... what way does the mind enter as a factor in the creation of poetry? Sri Aurobindo : In the very highest poetry, the mind is silent; in other kinds, the mind is active but it is not the intellectual mind. Page 264 ...
... One may take the elements from the mind or emotion or other parts according to necessity. Disciple : How far is mind a factor in the process? Sri Aurobindo : If you mean the intellectual mind it has a very little part – though it, too, has a part. The whole Page 256 process is very complicated. The first impulse is given by the vital and then there is communication... way does the mind enter as a factor in the creation of poetry? Sri Aurobindo : In the very highest poetry, the mind is silent; in other kinds, the mind is active but it is not the intellectual mind. Page 257 ...
... mortal and human way of being. It is what Mother called “the horrible thing.” We are in fact enveloped in a quadruple, superimposed web: the first, whose mesh is relatively loose, is that of the intellectual mind; the second, with an already tighter and stickier mesh, is that of the emotional mind; then the compact mesh of the sensory mind, and finally the microscopic mesh of the physical mind — underneath... repeat the mantra. Instead of winding death, all of a sudden they start winding the new life, the new vibration, the new force. From layer to layer — thick, sticky, trepidating layers from the intellectual mind to the emotional mind to the sensory mind — the mantra cuts through like a drill. It bores right in there, imperturbably, with all the virtue of a drivelling old woman who keeps repeating and ...
... genius, poet, artist, thinker, saint or mystic. A partially intuitivised mentality may present an appearance of much less harmony and order outside its special activity than the largely developed intellectual mind. An integral development is needed, a wholesale conversion of the mind; otherwise the action is that of the mind using the supramental influx for its own profit and in its own mould, and that... however there is an integral development of the intuitive mind, it will be found that a great harmony has begun to lay its own foundations. This harmony will be other than that created by the intellectual mind and indeed may not be easily perceptible or, if it is felt, yet not intelligible to the logical man, because not arrived at or analysable by his mental process. It will be a harmony of the spontaneous ...
... mostly to external gesture, movement and action); vital mind (as in Kalidasa and Shakespeare, where the vibrant play, delicate or vehement, of sensation, passion, emotion is directly expressed); intellectual mind (as in Vyasa, Sophocles, Virgil, Dante and Milton, where the poetic vision markedly brings out thought-values of whatever is caught up from subjective or objective existence). The Future... be considered the secret power which transmits inspiration. The next part and still more the third exhibit other blendings. The overhead poetry is 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 ...
... touching the mind at different levels, we should more correctly say that man's poetry usually comes from the subtle-physical mind or the vital mind or the intellectual mind. The last is the mind proper, the first two are the mind functioning as what we may broadly term "sense" and "heart" in distinction from "thought". ... of Sri Aurobindo, by a clarity, a straightforwardness, a bare loftiness or strength, a just and harmonious presenta-tion, a restrained and tempered beauty. When the intellectual mind becomes complex and crowded, its poetry is still of the creative intelligence but it is no longer Classical. Further, Classical poetry succeeds in being ...
... clearness and force to metaphysics. Hence the greatness of his position in the history of Indian thought. From his time forward Indian metaphysics was bound to the wheels of the analytical and intellectual mind. Still, it is to be noted that while the philosophers thus split the catholicity of the ancient Truth into warring schools, the general Indian mind was Page 606 always overpoweringly ...
... world of ἰδέαɩ, the mahat of the ancients, in the principle of self-manifest and perfectly arranged knowledge, it is diversely developed by the more discursive but less surefooted agencies of intellectual mind. Imagination hunts after new variations, memory and association corrupt, analogy perverts, sensation, emotion, pleasure seize violent and partial satisfaction. Hence, change, decay, death, rebirth ...
... speculations. He is writing of experiences that are foreign to the ordinary mentality." 7 Sri Aurobindo further adds. "To the mystic there is no such thing as an abstraction. Everything which to the intellectual mind is abstract has a concreteness, sustantiality which is more real than the sensible form of an object or of a physical event." 8 Thus the symbol 3 Ibid., p. 788 4 Ibid., p. 794 ...
... His head was a youthful Rishi's touched with light, His body was a lover's and a king's. All the three aspects—"look", "head" and "body"—are deliberately chosen. A very powerful intellectual mind supervises this inspired poetry. These three aspects are related to the advanced consciousness of 9 Ibid , p. 393. 10 Ibid . 11 Readings in Common wealth Literature , ...
... agreed sadly, and throw clean overboard the compass of the4ntellect. His stinging sarcasm at the end of his letter hit the target: "I would ask one simple question of those who would make the intellectual mind the standard and judge of spiritual experience. Is the divine something less than Mind or is He something greater? Is mental consciousness with its groping Page 77 enquiry, endless ...
... true or not, what else can the spiritual Power do but retire and wait for the bubbles of the mind to cease? Page 223 I would ask one simple question of those who would make the intellectual mind the standard and judge of spiritual experience. Is the Divine something less than Mind or is it something greater? Is mental consciousness with its groping enquiry, endless argument, unquenchable ...
... be that there are many obstacles in the being to the domination of the mind and heart and will by bhakti and the consequent contact with the Divine. The too great activity of the intellectual mind and its attachment to its own pride of ideas, its prejudices, its fixed notions and its ignorant reason may shut the doors to the inner light and prevent the full tide of bhakti from flooding ...
... Poetry begins when words carry as much importance as what they express, and the words of poetry in the main are not vehicles of ideas. At times they may appear ideative, but that is because the intellectual mind has been made a medium, not because this mind is their Page 292 source. The source is something significant without being itself intellectual. Mallarme attempted to cut out ...
... in its own right, with an explicitness of spiritual substance and style,an immediate self-expression of the supra-intellectual, rather than in terms proper to the physical mind, vital mind, intellectual mind: that is the reason for considering the significance of Romantic poetry paramount. In this poetry both the content and the form, such as the bardic urge throughout its history Page 186 ...
... described by any other term and no other description except the "Permanent" could be made of That which alone existed. To the mystic there is no such thing as an abstraction. Everything which to the intellectual mind is abstract has a concreteness, substantiality which is more real than the sensible form of an object or of a physical event. To me, for instance, consciousness is the very stuff of existence ...
... pure occult vision there is this perfection and direct sense though it may be of different kinds, for the occult world of one is not that of another. But when there is the intervention of the intellectual mind in a poem this intervention may produce good lines of another power, but Page 415 or after—there is an alternation of the subtler occult and the heavier intellectual notes and the ...
... a highest intuitive mind which receives more nearly the Page 792 supramental truth, but even this is a formation which conceals the direct and greater real knowledge. There is an intellectual mind which is a luminous half-opaque lid which intercepts and reflects in a radiantly distorting and suppressively modifying atmosphere the truth known to the supermind. There is a still lower mind ...
... self-giving, मनस्, the power to embrace in the human mind the right Page 576 judgment and discernment of the divine seer-will. मनीषा does not mean स्तुति in the Veda, but either the intellectual mind as distinguished from the wider मनस् which embraces the emotional mentality and sense-mind also, or else the intellectual thought that seeks for the Truth. Cf इमं स्तोमं .. सं महेमा मनीषया (I ...
... uses words and images in order to convey to the mind some perception, some figure of that which is beyond thought. To the mystic there is no such thing as an abstraction. Everything which to the intellectual mind is abstract has a concreteness, substantiality which is more real than the sensible form of an object or of a physical event. To him, consciousness is the very stuff of existence and he can feel ...
... has of the greater self of humanity, the turning of its will to the inception of delivering forms of thought, art and social endeavour which arise from those perceptions and the raising of the intellectual mind to the intuitive supra-intellectual spiritual consciousness which can alone give the basis for a spiritualised life of the race and the realisation of its diviner potentialities. The meaning of ...
... But it may be that there are many obstacles in the being to the domination of the mind and heart and will by bhakti and the consequent contact with the Divine. The too great activity of the intellectual mind and its attachment to its own pride of ideas, its prejudices, its fixed notions and its ignorant reason may shut the doors to the inner light and prevent the full tide of bhakti from flooding ...
... been brought down into the consciousness of the earth and fixed there. To so bring it down is the aim of our Yoga. But it is better not to enter into sterile intellectual discussions. The intellectual mind cannot even realise what the supermind is; what use, then, can there be in allowing it to discuss what it does not know? It is not by reasoning, but by constant experience, growth of consciousness ...
... brought down into the consciousness of the earth and fixed there. To so bring it down is the aim of our Yoga. But it is better not to enter into sterile intellectual discussions. The intellectual mind cannot even realise what the supermind is; what use, then, can there be in allowing it to discuss what it does not know? It is not by reasoning but by constant experience, growth of consciousness ...
... action; and because of what he is himself, his line of action is located in a relatively very material domain: the physical, the immediate vital and the physical mind—not the higher, speculative or intellectual mind, no: the physical mind, the one that has an action on Matter, then the vital with all the vital's entities (he always mentions them, and he also gives the ways of mastering Page 215 ...
... superficial characters, forms, function-ings, etc., and never in their 'occult self-being and essence'. And as a result it can never come to any deep and firm experience of Truth. For that, the intellectual mind has to be replaced by a 'mind of vision' capable of direct reception of the Truth; conception has to give place to knowledge-vision, 7 and the thinker should transform himself into a seer so ...
... is taken from Dilip Kumar Roy's Sri Aurobindo Came to Me. Sri Aurobindo is writing to Dilip Kumar with 'stinging sarcasm': "I would ask one simple question of those who would make the intellectual mind the standard and judge of spiritual experience. "Is the Divine something less than Mind or He is something greater? Is mental consciousness with its groping enquiry, endless argument, un ...
... sadhaka' s personal preferences, opinions, judgments and imaginations, to the current repetitions of his habitual mind, to the insistences of his pragmatic mind, and to the limitations of his intellectual mind. All these attachments are there within the sadhaka waiting to wall in the spirit with imperfect and transitional forms. An attachment is always an attachment and acts as a great impediment ...
... record left of the other line of achievement, that of spiritual self-discovery; occult knowledge was there but kept subordinate. We may say that here in India the reign of Intuition came First, intellectual Mind developing afterwards in the later philosophy and science. But in fact the mass of men at the time, it is quite evident, lived entirely on the material plane, worshipped the Godheads of material ...
... from a material object became a living growth, developed mind and from the subconsciousness of the plant and the initial rudimentary mind or incomplete intelligence of the animal developed the intellectual mind and more complete intelligence of man and now serves as the physical base, container and instrumental means of our total spiritual endeavour. Its animal character and its gross limitations stand ...
... pouring out upon the world, upon all mankind, in an unceasing flood of regenerating and transforming force. The three aspects, like the three strands of a string, are intertwined; and though our intellectual mind, in its penchant for analysis, may feel tempted to analyse them, they are really unanalysable and indistinguishable —they are one essence and movement. In this essay I shall try to contemplate ...
... knowledge in the profounder Indian sense of Page 331 the word, Jnana. Not a mere thinking and considering by the intelligence, the pursuit and grasping of a mental form of truth by the intellectual mind, but a seeing of it with the soul and a total living in it with the power of the inner being, a spiritual seizing by a kind of identification with the object of knowledge is Jnana. And because ...
... observance of rule and measure even in indulgence that saves always from the unbridled licence to which less disciplined races are liable. The characteristic, the central action is the play of the intellectual mind and everywhere that predominates. In the earlier age the many strands of the Indian mind and life principle are unified and inseparable, a single wide movement set to a strong and abundant but ...
... intellectualism. The discrimination need not be intellectual,—although that also is a thing not to be despised. But it may be a psychic discrimination or one that comes from the higher super-intellectual mind and from the higher being. If you have not this, then you have need of constant protection and guidance from those who have it, and who have also long psychic experience, and it may be disastrous ...
... get Knowledge? 4 November 1936 "An unintellectual mind cannot bring down the Knowledge?" Certainly it can. But don't you think there is a world of difference between the expression of an intellectual mind and an unintellectual one? Expression is another matter, but Ramakrishana was an uneducated, nonintellectual man, yet his expression of knowledge was so perfect that the biggest intellects ...
... that the earth did previously attain to the Supramental Consciousness. We reject any such suggestion. Write to them that it is better not to enter into sterile intellectual discussions. The intellectual mind cannot even realise what the supermind is; what use, then, can there be in allowing it to discuss what it does not know? It is not by reasoning, but by constant experience, growth of consciousness ...
... life, in the innate will and principle of action and points more or less obscurely through these things to a spirit or self or nameless somewhat superconscient to or at least greater than our intellectual mind and reason. The nineteenth century was intellectual, not intuitive, critical rather than creative, or creative mostly by the constructive force of the critical mind,—critically constructive, we ...
... first three lines which are pure and perfect in inspiration, the sonnet might have stood among the finest things in the English language. But somehow it fails as a whole. The reason is that the intellectual mind took up the work of transcription and a Miltonic rhetorical note comes in, all begins to be thought rather than seen or felt; the poet seems to be writing what he thinks he ought to write on such ...
... abidingly perfect and self-sufficient except by the opening power of the supermind above it and that at once reveals its limitations and makes of it a secondary action transitional between the intellectual mind Page 808 and the true supramental nature. The intuitive mentality is still mind and not gnosis. It is indeed a light from the supermind, but modified and diminished by the stuff of ...
... úrdhwa, in the ideal being. From there he leans down and feeds on her, adhayaj, through the flames of his divine activity, juh úbhih, burning in the purified and upward aspiring activities of the intellectual mind. This essential relation of the divine force and the purified mind is brought out in a more general thought and figure in the first line of the succeeding rik. Agnim achchhá devayatám maná ...
... dislikes and repudiates. An intensity of belief is not the measure of truth, but neither is an intensity of unbelief the right measure. As to the real nature of intuition and its relation to the intellectual mind, that is quite another and very large and complex question which cannot be dealt with in a short space. I have confined myself to pointing out that this article is a quite inadequate and superficial ...
... a mistake to think the impersonal alone true or important—for that leads to a void incomplete ness in part of the being while only one side is given satisfaction. Impersonality belongs to the intellectual mind and the static self, personality to the soul and heart and dynamic being. Those who disregard the personal Divine ignore something which is profound and essential. In X 's case there exists ...
... true or not, what else can the spiritual Power do but retire and wait for the bubbles of the mind to cease? I would ask one simple question of those who would make Page 340 the intellectual mind the standard and judge of spiritual experience. Is the Divine something less than Mind or is It something greater? Is mental consciousness with its groping enquiry, endless argument, unquenchable ...
... Ananda has stood firm, except for rare touches; the second chatusthaya & the Mahakali bhava have been strengthened, even the ishwarabhava & the temperamental sraddha (in the heart) although the intellectual mind has been shaken. Krishnadarshana increases in the tertiary Anandamaya sense through all fluctuations. Sharira & Karmasiddhi have been obstructed & retarded; but the vijnana has been the ...
... existence is typified by the honey-wine of the Soma; it is mixed with the milk, the curds and the grain, the milk being that of the luminous cows, the curds the fixation of their yield in the intellectual mind and the grain the formulation of the light in the force of the physical mind. These symbolic senses are indicated by the double meaning of the words used, go, dadhi and yava . ...
... realisations. For here in man we have a distinction which is of the utmost importance. He has in him not a single mentality, but a double and a triple, the mind material and nervous, the pure intellectual mind which liberates itself from the illusions of the body and the senses, and a divine mind above intellect which in its turn liberates itself from the imperfect modes of the logically discriminative ...
... each other; each has shut itself up in its own formulas. This is because each is a creation and activity of Mind, Science of the concretising experimental mind, Philosophy of the abstracting intellectual mind, Religion of the dynamic spiritual mind. But Mind is bound always by its partial formulations of the Truth; Mind grasps formulas or images but is itself grasped by its own creations, it cannot ...
... 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 the lower order of things, drawing from a perversion ...
... output. As a writer in English, he earned a special mention from Sri Aurobindo - "He knows how to write English", which he could not say about others. Although Amal's first love is poetry, his intellectual mind takes interest in many activities of life and thought. His letters to his friends on life, literature and yoga, his literary criticism, his political comments on the burning questions of ...
... far-off rays. There is a highest intuitive mind which receives more nearly the supramental truth, but even this is a formation which conceals the direct and greater real knowledge. There is an intellectual mind which is a luminous half-opaque lid which intercepts and reflects in a radiantly distorting and suppressively modifying atmosphere the truth known to the supermind. There is a still lower mind ...
... of the greater self of humanity, the turning of its will to the inception of delivering forms of thought, art and social endeavour which arise from these perceptions and the raising of the intellectual mind to the intuitive supra-intellectual consciousness which alone can give the basis for a spiritualised life of the race and the realisation of its divine potentialities." If that is so, Sri ...
... realisations. For here in man we have a distinction which is of the utmost importance. He has in him not a single mentality, but a double and a triple, the mind material and nervous, the pure intellectual mind which liberates itself from the illusions of the body and the senses and a divine mind above intellect which in its turn liberates itself from the imperfect modes of Page 256 the ...
... mistake to think the impersonal alone true or important—for that leads to a void incompleteness in part of the being while only one side is given satisfaction. Impersonality belongs to the intellectual mind and the static self, personality to the soul and heart and dynamic being. Those who disregard the personal Divine ignore something which is profound and essential. In Jawaharla's case ...
... excerpts are from Sri Aurobindo's correspondence with Dilip Kumar. (1) Mental consciousness viz-d-vis Divine Consciousness: "I would ask one simple question of those who would make the intellectual mind the standard and judge of spiritual experience. "Is the Divine something less than Mind or is He something greater? Is mental consciousness with its groping enquiry, endless argument, un ...
... substance, the body had to be emptied completely of its old habits and its old coatings. This meant a direct contact of the Supermind with the cells without the need to pass through the layers of the intellectual mind, the vital mind, the sensory mind and the Physical mind. All the protective walls of the species had to disappear so that the new species can emerge. Indeed, as we have seen above, the first ...
... When the sadhana of an average sadhak goes on well, does it take long before the inner being is psychicised? It takes some time to be fully psychicised. Are my intellectual mind, middle vital and emotional being psychicised? I don't think it can be said definitely yet. There has been a change and growth of consciousness in these parts, but it has been due partly ...
... about her feeling, her 'experience,' in the hope no doubt of hearing a wondrous tale! Mother made no reply. Years later she told Satprem: "I still remember my experience." Which was not at all intellectual, mind you. "Exactly the impression of something like what Christ must have suffered when he felt the weight of the cross. It was the weight of a mass of obscurity, of ignorance, a universal ill-will ...
... the power of all the arts. Who shall decide between such claims or be a judge between these godheads? ¹ To the mystic there is no such thing as an abstraction. Everything which to the intellectual mind is abstract has a concreteness, substantiality which is more real than the sensible form of an object or of a physical event. To me, for instance, consciousness is the very stuff of existence ...
... of Page 210 the physical mind, the more it can expand and brighten up with an unwonted light. But it finds it very difficult to do so —the knot of the ego is strongest in the intellectual mind. An exaggerated development of the mental reason without a concomitant refinement and deepening of the feelings and an openness and surrender to the higher light is harmful to our harmonious ...
... mental transcription in her. Thus there was a kind of "mind" there, though it scarcely resembled ours, a vibration perceptible at a certain level, which was obviously not the cerebral level of our intellectual mind: a vibration that She felt or experienced in her body, and which was subsequently translated by words, sensations and images. A corporeal mind. A cellular mind, she would say, or even atomic ...
... discover, now that one body has uncovered it and understood the formidable power and the formidable freedom that lay there. The Fundamental Cage We say “the mind of the cells,” “the intellectual mind,” “the intuitive mind,” or “the liberated mind” in its heaven up above, but it is but one and the same Mind and perhaps the word is inadequate: it is but one and the same consciousness, one and ...
... all the things that have been told, even all the things Sri Aurobindo has said (he has said the most in Savitri ), all that is necessarily... (what can it be called?) mental, the super-intellectual spiritualized mind. But it is not THAT! It's a form, it's an image, it's not... the concrete fact. ( silence ) And with a sort of prescience I see that only the body can know—that's the extraordinary... the SAME thing! It's all the same thing. What is it? There is such a strong impression of facing something which completely escapes comprehension, reason, intelligence, everything mental or intellectual (even the most elevated); it's not that, it's.... And then truly, if you stand back from it and employ big words, you would say, 'All this ( Mother tilts her hand to one side ) is Truth, and all... of course! It's the universal Problem. That is my sole concern. Page 225 Something that veils? I am up against this fact: how did Truth become Falsehood? I am not asking myself intellectually—that doesn't interest me at all! It is here, in Matter, that the thing must be found. It is double, it is double. How did it happen? (But not just 'how' as in a story: the MECHANISM). And ...
... originality, his blending of excessive book-lore and of old expressive turns with a new psychological impetus and poetic fire. Sri Aurobindo 7 writes: "It is true that he had not an original intellectuality, his mind was rather scholastic and traditional, but he had an original soul and personality and the vision of a poet." Thus our four paradoxes about Milton can find points of indirect support... Puritan in Milton is also responsible for the claim he set up about the didactic part of his poem. John Bailey has well noted: "He claimed to justify the ways of God to men. Perhaps he did so to his own mind which, in these questions, was curiously matter-of-fact, literal, legal and unmystical.... Everybody who stops to reflect now feels that the attitude of his God to the rebel angels and to man is hard... emotions to self-fulfilment, the ability of the intellect to find truth by probing the discoveries of eye and ear. The other was Individualism, the self-assertion of personality, the confidence of the mind in its own judgments, the passion for freedom and independence, the urge to be original and unique. If powerfully Puritanical, Milton was still more Miltonic than Puritanical or, rather, Puritanical ...
... Our present attractive self-justifying attachment to our intellectual preferences, our judgments, opinions, imaginations, limiting associations of the memory which makes the basis of our mentality, to the current repetitions of our habitual mind, to the insistences of our pragmatic mind, to the limitations even of our intellectual truth-mind, must go the way of other attachments and yield to the i... dissolves these knots of the lower impulsion to works. This equality will not respond to the lower impulses, but watch for a greater seeing impulsion from the Light above the mind, and will not judge and govern with the intellectual judgment, but wait for enlightenment and direction from a superior plane of vision. As it mounts upward to the supramental being and widens inward to the spiritual largeness... self and above mind, it will proceed on its way with a firm assurance and await with growing calm the vicissitudes and completion of the process of transformation. The promise of the Divine Being in the Gita will be the anchor of its resolution, "Abandon all dharmas and take refuge in Me alone; I will deliver thee from all sin and evil; do not grieve." The equality of the thinking mind will be a part ...
... Shakespeare's Hamlet Would you take, as many critics do, Hamlet as typically a mental being? How would you characterise his essential psychology? Hamlet is a Mind, an intellectual, but like many intellectuals a mind that looks too much all round and sees too many sides to have an effective will for action. He plans ingeniously without coming to anything decisive. And when he does act,... obvious fact, I suppose—but he would like to. He says, "A purely intellectual artist, convinced that sentiment was an inferior element of art, Mallarmé never evokes emotion, but only thought about thought; and the thoughts called forth in his mind by the symbol are generally so subtle and elliptical that they find no echo in the mind of the ordinary mortal." [pp. 19-20] Do you agree? Certainly... alone, and here again the verbal sonorities suggested by the tortuous trend of his mind make no appeal except to the initiated." [p. 20] (I suppose here he means what you meant about the limitedness of the French language?) Not only that—his will to arrive at a true and deep, instead of a superficial and intellectual language. I gave two reasons for Mallarmé's unusual style and not this one of the ...
... the thinking mind will be a part and a very important part of the perfection of the instrument s in the nature. Our present attractive self-justifying attachment to our intellectual preferences, our judgments, opinions, imaginations,... to the current repetitions of our habitual mind , to the insistence of our pragmatic mind, to the limitations eve n of our intellectual truth-mind, must go the... judgment. Such isthe pure intellectual understanding of which disinterested observation, judg- Page 281 ment and reasoning are the law and characterising action." (The Synthesis of Yoga, pp. 296-97) The sadhaka has to see that, in his normal life-functionings and in his dealings with other men, he habitually take s recourse to this pure intellectual mentality. ... the advanced sadhakas. Sadhana of the mind ( 1) Acquisition of the Power of Concentration: The mind of man is habitually dispersed in various directions, and occupied and preoccupied with a host of pull s and pushes and varying interest s. Mind does not know how to sit still even for a short while. In the Buddhist tradition our mind has been compared to a restless monkey which ...
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