... away a ship upon the sea; (e) The mind subjected to the emotions, passions, longings, and impulsions awakened by these outward movements of the senses carry away similarly the intelligent-will; (f) The intelligent-will loses therefore its power of calm discrimination and mastery. The result of this movement is enslavement to grief, wrath, attachment and passion. But if the buddhi is oriented... by the Gita as a state of sthitaprajna, the state of fixed stability of the intelligent- will, or the state of samādhistha, the state of one who is constantly settled in the state of Samadhi. In answer to a question by Arjuna as to what are the signs of the one who is settled in Samadhi or one whose intelligent-will is fixed, Sri Krishna gives the following description, which is extremely important... are under his mastery, and his wisdom or intelligent-will becomes steady... When the self-controlled man, although moving among the sensory objects, is able to restrain his senses and becomes free from likes and dislikes, then he obtains that delight of the self that results from self-mastery. In that state of delight, all sorrows end, and the intelligent-will imbued with delight is soon established ...
... observing intelligence. 2. Our intelligence consists of the senses,—in the first place; but supreme over the senses is the mind; and supreme over the mind is the intelligent will, buddhi; that which is supreme over the intelligent will is he, the conscious self, the Purusha. (Mind is superior to senses because even if the senses are operative, but if the mind is not attentive to the operation... operations of senses, mind and intelligent will and observes as a witness the world as its object.) Page 301 Purusha is the supreme cause of our subjective life; in that we have to fix our will. Then we can destroy the restless ever- active enemy of our peace and self-mastery, the mind's desire. 4. But what is the method of fixing the intelligent will in the Purusha? 5. We must first... away similarly the intelligent will (buddhi) also. (c) Buddhi, therefore, loses its power of calm discrimination and mastery. (d) As a result, the soul becomes subjected to the play of the three gunas of Prakriti. This is the cause of the troubled life of the ordinary, unenlightened, undisciplined human being. Page 302 6. Therefore, the intelligent will should be turned upward ...
... Rung One: Instinctive drives, species-specific urges; blind and ignorant desire-pushes. Rung Two: Intelligent will but a will enslaved to the lower impulsions, acting as their pleading advocate and trying to rationalise and justify them. Rung Three: The same intelligent will as above but this time it is truly rational and enlightened, and governed by the sense of 'duty', of what... For we are dealing with the, procedure of sadhana meant for a sadhaka who has not yet reached his Goal. Page 236 In our present chapter we are mainly concerned with the "intelligent will" of rung three above. Our intention is to indicate the sadhana-procedure, if there is any, by adopting which the sadhaka can develop and intensify his will-power so that it can always be put... the service of his varying exigencies under different situations of life. The firstling we have to note in this .connection is that once the sadhaka has entered the stage of "rationally intelligent will'* he is faced with two opposite trends of this will. By adopting Sri Aurobindo' s analysis (Essays on the Gita, pp. 91-92) we may say that this rational will may either take a downward and ...
... state the ascending order of our subjective powers. "Supreme, they say," beyond their objects "are the senses, supreme over the senses the mind, supreme over the mind the intelligent will: that which is supreme over the intelligent will, is he,"—is the conscious self, the Purusha. Therefore, says the Gita, it is this Purusha, this supreme cause of our subjective life which we have to understand and become... Essays on the Gita X The Yoga of the Intelligent Will I have had to deviate in the last two essays and to drag the reader with me into the arid tracts of metaphysical dogma,—however cursorily and with a very insufficient and superficial treatment,—so that we might understand why the Gita follows the peculiar line of development it has taken, working... One, aware of the one self in all and acting out of its equal serenity, not running about in different directions under the thousand impulses of our superficial mental self, is the Yoga of the intelligent will. There are, says the Gita, two types of intelligence in the human being. The first is concentrated, poised, one, homogeneous, directed singly towards the Truth; unity is its characteristic ...
... Sankhya asserts it to be, jaḍa , a mechanical, even an inconscient principle in which the light of the conscious Soul has not at all struggled to the surface: the atom is not conscious of an intelligent will; Tamas, the inert and ignorant principle, has its grip on it, contains rajas , conceals sattva within itself and holds a high holiday of mastery, Nature compelling this form of existence to... life, with its capacity of the nervous reactions which in us are recognisable as pleasure and suffering, but sattva is quite involved, has not yet emerged to awaken the light of a conscious intelligent will; all is still mechanical, subconscient or half-conscient, Tamas stronger than Rajas, both gaolers of the imprisoned sattwa. In the animal, though tamas is still strong, though we may still... first light of the conscious mind, the mechanical sense of ego, conscious memory, a certain kind of thought, especially the wonders of instinct and animal intuition. But as yet the buddhi, the intelligent will, has not developed the full light of consciousness; therefore, no responsibility can be attributed to the animal for its actions. The tiger can be no more blamed for killing and devouring than ...
... come out. Or else, we wish to transform them in better or best ideal forms. "What is the way?" Page 48 "The first key lies in "buddhi" the intelligent will, which is always behind our action and its result. If this intelligent will is quieted and purified, it begins to do better discrimination and co-ordination. "It detects that in the operation of our works, there are two limiting... detection weakens ego's clamour and riot. "The intelligent will also detects that desire is quite ignorant; it does not know how to go about to get what it wants to, and what it really wants is quite small as compared to what can be obtained if desire is eliminated. "Normally, both ego and desire revolt against these findings of the intelligent will. And there is normally a struggle and even a long... long battle. "But three things can give a great help. 1. One is the help that can be obtained from the cosmic powers of the higher Nature. If our intelligent will can persuade ego and desire to become less and less assertive and make an offering of results of works, works themselves, and the sense of ego's authorship of works, then these cosmic powers (or godheads) can lift up our entire ...
... 38-39 Senses, mind and intelligent will are its places of residence; through them it veils the knowledge and deludes the soul. 40 Therefore, by means of the control of senses and the rest, slay that sinner, the destroyer of knowledge in all its entirety. 41 Above the senses is the mind, above the mind is the intelligent will, and above the intelligent will is that Self. 42 O... O Arjuna, knowing him to be above the intelligent will, controlling the self by the self, slay that enemy in the form of Desire, which is very difficult to conquer. 43 Page 217 After reciting these verses, mother explained to me each verse. At the end, she said : "Girish, this is the programme of education that I assign to you. I know it is a long and difficult programme, but the earlier... confirmed methods of purifying and developing these processes to their highest levels of perfection? Gita explains in detail how impulses and desires arise and impel action. It describes the role of intelligent will in purifying desire and in disentangling the knot of desire and ego from our motivation of action. It delineates the processes and methods by which one can become, first, free from the attachment ...
... most harmonious way, elevated to their highest as well as extended to their widest potential aims by the action of that faculty which man alone of terrestrial creatures clearly possesses, the intelligent will. It is only in this fourth stage of her progress that she arrives at humanity. The atoms and the elements organise brute Matter, the plant develops the living being, the animal prepares and brings... forming, trying often to govern them entirely, the intellectual being. Man's highest accomplished range is the life of the reason or ordered and harmonised intelligence with its dynamic power of intelligent will, the buddhi , which is or should be the driver of man's chariot. But the intelligence of man is not composed entirely and exclusively of the rational intellect and the rational will; there... mental being, with the absence of any one principle which can safely dominate the others, the absence of any sure and certain light which can guide and fix in their vacillations the reason and the intelligent will, is man's great embarrassment and stumbling-block. All the hostile distinctions, oppositions, antagonisms, struggles, conversions, reversions, perversions of his mentality, all the chaotic war ...
... accepts the dissolution of the identifying ego-sense, the discriminating action of the intelligent will and the transcendence of the action of the three modes of energy as the means of liberation. The Yoga which Arjuna is asked to practise from Page 76 the outset is Yoga by the Buddhi, the intelligent will. But there is one deviation of capital importance,—the Purusha is regarded as one, not... consents to the action of the intelligent will and the ego-sense, passively he consents to the recoil of that will from the ego-sense. He is Witness, source of the consent, by reflection upholder of the work of Nature, sākṣī anumantā bhartā , but nothing more. But the Purusha of the Gita is also the Lord of Nature; he is Ishwara. If the operation of the intelligent will belongs to Nature, the origination... the interest of the mind in the cosmic play. The ultimate result will be that Prakriti will lose her power to reflect herself in the Purusha; for the effect of the ego-sense is destroyed and the intelligent will becoming indifferent ceases to be the means of her sanction: necessarily then her gunas must fall into a state of equilibrium, the cosmic play must cease, the Purusha return to his immobile repose ...
... According to the Gita, there are three preliminary steps that we need to take. First, we must observe the chain of connection between our senses and our intelligent will, so that we may, by means of Buddhi Yoga, the yoga of the Intelligent Will, direct that Will towards the object on which it can become stable, unmoved, fixed, to arrive at the state of sthitaprajna, samadhistha. According to the... choice; we are not aware that there is universal Prakriti with its three Gunas, which are at the root of our senses, senses of knowledge and senses of action, and of the ego-sense, even of our intelligent will. To deal with our action we have to deal with Prakriti, the universal Nature, the universal machine of action, on which we are mounted and by which we are determined in our desires and our so-called... and by passion the soul is obscured, the intelligence and will forget to see and be seated in the calm observing soul; there is a fall from the memory of one's true self, and by that lapse the intelligent will is also obscured, even destroyed. For the time being, we become passion, wrath, grief and cease to be self and intelligence and will.6' This must be prevented. All the senses must be brought utterly ...
... the poise of the intelligent will in the Soul free and high-uplifted above the lower instrumentation of Prakriti and controlling the works of the mind and the senses and body in the power of self-knowledge and the pure objectless self-delight of spiritual realisation, niyataṁ karma . 2 Buddhiyoga is fulfilled by karmayoga ; the Yoga of the self-liberating intelligent will finds its full meaning... Essays on the Gita XI Works and Sacrifice The yoga of the intelligent will and its culmination in the Brahmic status, which occupies all the close of the second chapter, contains the seed of much of the teaching of the Gita,—its doctrine of desireless works, of equality, of the rejection of outward renunciation, of devotion to the Divine; but as yet... impossible, what is rational, necessary, the right way is a controlled action of the subjective and objective organism. The mind must bring the senses under its control as an instrument of the intelligent will and then the organs of action must be used for their proper office, for action, but for action done as Yoga. But what is the essence of this self-control, what is meant by action done as Yoga ...
... The Human Cycle Chapter XI The Reason as Governor of Life Reason using the intelligent will for the ordering of the inner and the outer life is undoubtedly the highest developed faculty of man at his present point of evolution; it is the sovereign, because the governing and self-governing faculty in the complexities of our human existence. Man is di... secretly decisive influences of existence. It is a question whether the intellectual reason will ever be able to give us an adequate account of these deeper and greater things or subject them to the intelligent will as it has succeeded in explaining and canalising, though still imperfectly, yet with much show of triumphant result, the forces of physical Nature. But these other powers are much larger, subtler... and the world of life which escapes from the full control of the reason, and that to bridge adequately the gulf between these two domains is beyond the power and province of the reason and the intelligent will. It would seem that these can only create either a series of more or less empirical compromises or else a series of arbitrary and practically inapplicable or only partially applicable systems ...
... remain unbroken. Absence of emotional reaction does not necessarily imply inertia or inefficiency in you. Emotion is not the sole motive-power. Man's characteristic in general is the intelligent will. And the intelligent will makes a dispassionate inquiry before taking whatever step may be required. Sri Aurobindo puts a stress on this part of our psychology when he wants us to practise "equality" and avoid... source of dynamism: man is a mental being and his typical activity is the buddhi , the intelligent will. Buddhi looks around, is far-visioned, tries to be impersonal, just and fair. Of course, beyond the buddhi is the immanent Divine, the ideal guide to be consulted and followed. But the intelligent will is one of the two passages towards that guide: the other passage is the devotional heart ...
... circumstance, — it is these things that are canalised or crystallised in their social institutions. Man proceeds by various stages out of these beginnings towards a rational age in which his intelligent will more or less developed becomes the judge, arbiter and presiding motive of his thought, feeling and action, the moulder, destroyer and re-creator of his leading ideas, aims Page 262 ... departure from the generally accepted standard of conduct. His ethical bent is a habit of the sense-mind; it is the morality of the average sensational man. He has a reason and the appearance of an intelligent will, but they are not his own, they are part of the group-mind, received from his environment; or so far as they are his own, merely a practical, sensational, emotional reason and will, a mechanical... not seem at first sight to have elevated or strengthened it by this large accession of the half-redeemed from below. Nor does the world seem to be guided any more directly by the reason and intelligent will of her best minds than before. Commercialism is Page 277 still the heart of modern civilisation; a sensational activism is still its driving force. Modern education has not in ...
... the human being is intended to do whatever work is not done for him by the physical or nervous nature as in the plant and the animal. Pending the evolution of any higher supramental power the intelligent will must be our main force for effectuation and to purify it becomes a very primary necessity. Once our intelligence and will are well Page 654 purified of all that limits them and gives... brings the shrinkings and panics of fear and the strainings and disappointments of hope, imposes the tortures of grief and the brief fevers and excitements of joy, makes the intelligence and intelligent will the accomplices of all these things and turns them in their own kind into deformed and lame instruments, the will into a will of craving and the intelligence into a partial, a stumbling and an... as pleasant, priyam ; we hate, dislike, fear, have repulsion from or grief of whatever it presents to us as unpleasant, apriyam . This habit of the emotional nature gets into the way of the intelligent will and makes it often a helpless slave of the emotional being or at least prevents it from exercising a free judgment and government of the nature. This deformation has to be corrected. By getting ...
... carries with it the wide delight of the free spirit in the works of the liberated nature. Work: (c) Intelligent Will (buddhi) and Sense of Balance (dhrit ī ) There are two other components of the psychology of work. The first is the role of reason, intelligent-will, buddhi. For every work demands will and decision, and if reason is tamasic, it sees all things in a dull and... of Apara Prakriti, particularly desire and ego, which constitute the central knot Page 118 of the bondage of the soul. A still farther point is to discover the role of buddhi, the intelligent-will, which by its power of discrimination, can be utilized in a methodical manner for recognizing the difference between Apara Prakriti and the soul, and how that discrimination can further be utilized ...
... entirely developed in us; the latter is an acquired action, an action of the intellect and the intelligent Page 51 will which represent in Mind an attempt of the mental being to do what can only be done with perfect spontaneity and mastery by something higher than Mind. The intellect and intelligent will form a bridge by which the mental being is trying to establish a conscious connection with ...
... which is no longer involved in the sense-mind, but acts from above and behind it in its own right, with a certain separateness and freedom. He is reflective, has a certain relative freedom of intelligent will. He has liberated in himself and has formed into a separate power the buddhi. But what is this buddhi? From the point of view of Yogic knowledge we may say that it is that instrument of the... rectifies and dominates the first mind of Page 667 sense impressions. The impulsive reactive sensational mentality, the life-cravings and the mind of emotional desire are taken up by the intelligent will and are overcome, are rectified and dominated by a greater ethical mind which discovers and sets over them a law of right impulse, right desire, right emotion and right action. The receptive, ...
... mind, has in him to be raised and offered to some kind of intelligence. In order to be characteristically human it has to become first a sense of force, sense of desire, sense of will, sense of intelligent will-action or mentally conscious sense of force-action. His lower delight of being translates itself into a sense of mental or mentalised vital or physical pleasure and its perversion pain, or into... the idea in the individual is one with the idea in the universal, because both are brought back to the truth of the supreme Knowledge and the transcendent Will. The gnosis takes up not only our intelligent will, but our wishes, desires, even what we call the lower desires, the instincts, the impulses, the reachings out of sense and sensation and it transforms them. They cease to be wishes and desires ...
... of their physical being. Yet it is the contrary that should be, for the truth of individual life is quite another thing. We have in us an intelligent will more or less enlightened which is the first instrument of our psychic being. It is this intelligent will that we must use in order to learn to live not like an animal man, but as a human being, candidate for Divinity. And the first step towards ...
... skilful work. 10-A. Mind should grow to achieve: (a) Clarity, complexity and subtlety; (b) Quietude, intuition, and true knowledge; (c) Vastness, synthesis and globality. 10-B. Intelligent Will should grow to achieve: (a) perseverance and endurance; (b) dynamism and heroism; (c) equality and mastery. 10-C. Physical Body should grow to achieve: (a) health; (b)... complexity Page 44 quietude intuition true knowledge Page 45 vastness synthesis globality Page 46 10-B. Intelligent Will should grow to achieve: a) perseverance and endurance; b) dynamism and heroism; c) equality and mastery. Page 47 10-C. Physical Body should grow to achieve: (a) ...
... remembered is that our cumbrous mammalian body is not everything, for there are other dimensions too to our existence: We have in us an intelligent will more or less enlightened which is the first instrument of our psychic being. It is this intelligent will that we must use in order to learn to live not like an animal man, but as a human being, candidate for Divinity. The human body is in part ...
... also is an insufficient light and power, there must be a superior range of being with its own proper powers,—liberated soul-faculties, a spiritual will and knowledge higher than the reason and intelligent will,—by which alone an entire conscious self-fulfilment can become possible to the human being. We must remember that our aim of self-fulfilment is an integral unfolding of the Divine within us, a... down or some touch of them into its finite action: but because it proceeds by ignorance and not by knowledge, it cannot truly succeed in this more vehement endeavour. The life of the reason and intelligent will stands between that upper and this nether power. On one side it takes up and enlightens the life of the instincts and impulses and helps it to find on a higher plane the finite order for which ...
... awakening into that greater consciousness. The individual and social progress of man has been thus a double movement of self-illumination and self-harmonising with the intelligence and the intelligent will as the intermediaries between his soul and its works. He has had to bring out numberless possibilities of self-understanding, self-mastery, self-formation out of his first crude life of instincts... impelled to convert that lower animal or half-animal existence with its imperfect self-conscience into the stuff of intelligent being, instincts into ideas, impulses into ordered movements of an intelligent will. But as he has to proceed out of ignorance into knowledge by a slow labour of self-recognition and mastery of his surroundings and his material and as his intelligence is incapable of seizing ...
... and circumstance,—it is these things that are canalised or crystallised in their social institutions. Man proceeds by various stages out of these beginnings towards a rational age in which his intelligent will more or less developed becomes the judge, arbiter and presiding motive of his thought, feeling and action, the moulder, destroyer and re-creator of his leading ideas, aims and intuitions. Finally... advance in the cycle of social evolution. This must take the form of an attempt to universalise first of all the habit of reason and the application of the intelligence Page 190 and intelligent will to life. Thus is instituted the rational age of human society, the great endeavour to bring the power of the reason and intelligence to bear on all that we are and do and to organise in their ...
... case to be the determining factor a force which in other cases was impotent to decide the eventuality? Is it Chance? Is it Fate? Is it some inexplicable mechanical self-guidance? Or is it supreme intelligent Will, Will that is in its nature Intelligence? Is there a conscious Will or rather a Will-Consciousness which contains, informs, constitutes these apparent forces and objects, but is hidden from our ...
... acquires from books and reacher. Almost all spiritual teaching starts with some mental concepts. Thus, the exposition of the Gita begins with the chapter on "Buddhi 23 Yoga," the "Yoga of the Intelligent Will," containing ... the first necessary rays of light on the path, directed not like that to the soul, but to the intellect. ... Not the Friend and Lover of man speaks first, but the Guide ...
... Buddhism. His personal name was Siddhartha. After realising the Truth, he became known as the "Buddha" ("the Enlightened"). buddeḥ paratastu saḥ — that which is supreme over the intelligent will is He. [Gītā 3.42] Buddhi — the thinking mind proper; the mental power of understanding; the discerning intelligence and enlightened will; the discriminating principle of mind, at ...
... and by passion the soul is obscured, the intelligence and will forget to see and be seated in the calm observing soul; there is a fall from the memory of one's true self, and by that lapse the intelligent will is also obscured, destroyed even. For, for the time being, it no longer exists to our memory of ourselves, it disappears in a cloud of passion; we become passion, wrath, grief and cease to be ...
... 14 – Michel Winock “Reason is the master of the nature of the human species,” 15 said the Mother, thus confirming that man is “the mental being” par excellence. “Reason using the intelligent will for the ordering of the inner and the outer life is undoubtedly the highest developed faculty of man at his present point of evolution; it is the sovereign, because the governing and self-governing ...
... animal being, it has nothing consciously to do with it, that is still Nature's business: it is man who first makes this upward gaze consciously his own business. For already by his possession of intelligent will, deformed ray of the gnosis though it be, he begins to put on the double nature of Sachchidananda; he is no longer, like the animal, an undeveloped conscious being entirely driven by Prakriti ...
... attempted? No, no, impossible. Such a thing has never been done. Reflexes, memories, associations, instinctive combinations of life and action, these things of course are possible; but reason, intelligent will, conscious planning and creation, art, poetry, philosophy in this savage shambling creature? An animal cannot evolve powers and activities which have never been possessed except by the gods and ...
... comprehending both equally and of disengaging and combining disinterestedly their purposes and potentialities. That higher principle seems to be provided for us by the human faculty of reason and intelligent will. Our crowning capacity, it would seem to be by right the crowned sovereign of our nature. Page 101 × ...
... apparent actor; his organs of sense and action, including the speech, become passive instruments for a thought and will other than his. Certainly, behind all intelligent action there must be an intelligent will, but it need not be the intelligence or the will of the conscious mind in the actor. In the psychological phenomena of which I have spoken, it is obviously in some of them the will and intelligence ...
... individual mind, the need of freedom will grow with the immense variation which this development must bring with it, and if only a free play in thought and reason is allowed, but the free play of the intelligent will in life and action is inhibited by the excessive regulation Page 211 of the life, then an intolerable contradiction and falsity will be created. Men may bear it for a time in consideration ...
... follows a double path; for there is the way of knowledge and there is the way of works, and the Gita combines them in a firm synthesis. The way of knowledge is to turn the understanding, the intelligent will away from its downward absorption in the workings of the mind and the senses and upward to the self, the Purusha or Brahman; it is to make it dwell always on the one idea of the one Self and not ...
... [ Discipline: ] To act according to a standard of Truth or a rule or law of action (dharma) or in obedience to a superior authority or to the highest principles discovered by the reason and intelligent will and not according to one's own fancy, vital impulses and desires. In Yoga obedience to the Guru or to the Divine and the law of the Truth as declared by the Guru is the foundation of discipline ...
... to man what man is to the animal. But the advent of this transformation, this creation of a new race which Nature would take centuries of groping attempts to bring about, can be effected by the intelligent will of man, not in a much shorter time but also with much less waste and loss. Here the integral Yoga has its rightful place and utility. For Yoga is meant to overcome, by the intensity of its ...
... a competition awakens enough interest in them so that they consent to make an effort. For this, a vital passion has to be aroused to intensify the will. The idea of progress belongs to the intelligent will which is active only in very few who are in contact with their psychic being; later on, in those who are mentally more developed and begin to understand the need to develop and control themselves ...
... and a surrender of the individual self to the Divine Presence, the Inner Lord, the Universal Oversoul. By a constant spiritual gesture of union (Yoga) with the dynamic Divinity (Ishwara) by the intelligent will (buddhi), the individual has to be active with the illumined energy of a more-than-human consciousness. Krishna is teaching Arjuna Karma Yoga: Karma implies Work, not passivity, but Work by Yoga ...
... individual mind, the need of freedom will grow with the immense variation which this development must bring with it, and if only a free play in thought and reason is allowed, but the free play of the intelligent will in life is inhibited by the excessive regulation of the life, then an intolerable contradiction and falsity will be created. Men may bear it for a time in consideration of the great and visible ...
... "discipline"? To act according to a standard of truth or a rule or law of action (dharma) or in obedience to a superior authority or to the highest principles discovered by the reason and intelligent will and not according to one's own fancy, vital impulses and desires. In Yoga Page 167 obedience to the Guru or to the Divine and the law of the Truth as declared by the Guru is ...
... gives an organised direction to forces moving at random and with no purpose. Man has started organising his life since he acquired the light of consciousness. He has been doing the yoga of the intelligent will (Gita's buddhi-yoga) since his advent upon earth. But even in man this force of light, the energy of consciousness is not fully operative because man is not fully conscious, he is only ...
... gives an organised direction to forces moving at random and with no purpose. Man has started organising his life since he acquired the light of consciousness. He has been doing the yoga pf the intelligent will (Gita's buddhi-yoga) since his advent upon earth. But even in man this force of light, the energy of consciousness not fully operative- because man is not fully conscious, he is Page 199 ...
... gives an organised direction to forces moving at random and with no purpose. Man has started organising his life since he acquired the light of consciousness. He has been doing the yoga of the intelligent will (Gita's buddhi-yoga) since his advent upon earth. But even in man this force of light, the energy of consciousness is not fully operative because man is not fully conscious, he is Page 198 ...
... Aurobindo's nature, and proves him to be a realist no less than an idealist. He always deprecated and discouraged emotional impulses in his followers, and advised them to base their action on their intelligent will, quickened and impelled by a spirit of service and sacrifice for Mother India. 46. 47. Studies in the Bengal Renaissance. Page 193 of whom Prof. Atindra Nath Bose says: ...
... religion." Over half a century later, Sri Aurobindo adopted the same attitude about us. He wrote to my father on September 29, 1934: ". . . The children. Most of them are too young to have an intelligent will of their own in such matters as yet and in a matter like sadhana there should be no pressure or influence of any kind. The delay will give some of them time to grow towards a possibility of a ...
... a competition awakens enough interest in them so that they consent to make an effort. For this, a vital passion has to be aroused to intensify the will. The idea of progress belongs to the intelligent will which is active only in the very few who are in contact with their psychic being, and later on, in those who are mentally more developed and begin to understand the need to develop and control ...
... Patanjali evidently considers the essence of Yoga, the coercion of all vrittis or functionings of the mental and moral qualities so as to arrive at sanyama or turning of the whole passionless intelligent Will in the spirit on whatsoever the Yogin wishes to possess, from the realisation of God to the enjoyment of mundane objects. But how is this silencing of the vrittis to be effected? for the yamas ...
... instrument, the self-assured steps of the Seer-will, the gnostic intelligence and with it the wide delight of the free spirit in the works of the liberated nature. The reason armed with the intelligent will works in man in whatever manner or measure he may possess these human gifts and it is accordingly right or perverted, clouded or luminous, narrow and small or large and wide like the mind of ...
... but the manhood of man grows by pursuit of truth and religion and knowledge and a right life. The Shastra, the recognised Right that he has set up to govern his lower members by his reason and intelligent will, must therefore first be observed and made the authority for conduct and works and for what should or should not be done, till the instinctive desire nature is schooled and abated and put down ...
... is discipline? To act according to a standard of Truth or a rule or law of action (dharma) or in obedience to a superior authority or to the highest principles discovered by the reason and intelligent will and not according to one's own fancy, vital impulses and desires. In Yoga obedience to the Guru or to the Divine and the law of the Truth as declared by the Guru is the foundation of discipline ...
... come to the vital there is a Time and Space which are similar to the physical but without that fixity and hardness and irremediability which are here. That is, for instance, in the vital a strong intelligent will has an immediate action; here, in the physical, it takes sometimes extremely long to be realised, an entire process has to be followed. In the vital it is direct, the will acts directly on the ...
... saying, "It is not Page 343 my fault; it was stronger than I." It is your fault if the thing was stronger than you. Because you are not these impulses, you are a conscious soul and an intelligent will, and your duty is to see that this is what governs you and not the impulses from below. Sweet Mother, is "truth in thought" the same thing as purity in thought? These of course are just ...
... call or pull from over there to create any vibrations in the sadhana. The second date proposed by you would then have to be adopted. Next, the children. Most of them are too young to have an intelligent will of their own in such matters as yet and in a matter like sadhana there should be no pressure or influencing of any kind. The delay will give some of them time to grow into a possibility of a clear ...
... oneself this excuse, saying, "It is not my fault; it was stronger than I." It is your fault if the thing was stronger than you. Because you are not these impulses, you are a conscious soul and an intelligent will, and your duty is to see that this is what governs you and not the impulses from below. Source To Fall Back into Error But to fall back into an error which one knows to be an ...
... e, self-control and self-mastery are good. You have to choose the one that comes to you spontaneously and best corresponds to your nature. And once having chosen the method, you must use your intelligent will to apply it with an unfailing perseverance that does not shrink from any obstacle, any difficulty. It is a long and minute work which must be undertaken with sincerity and continued with an increasing ...
... natural instruments and powers till they constitute in their purity and essential completeness a preparatory perfection of the present normal movement of the Shakti that acts in us. The reason and intelligent will, the buddhi, is the greatest of these powers and instruments, the natural leader of the rest in the developed human being, the most capable of aiding the development of the others. The ordinary ...
... impulse and the needs of the environment and the first conditions of existence. A rational, ordered, strict uniformity replaces a loose oneness full of natural complexities and variations. The intelligent will of the whole society expressed in a carefully thought-out law and ordered regulation replaces its natural organic will expressed in a mass of customs and institutions which have grown up as the ...
... development of his capacities, his actions, the use of the knowledge he has acquired, the whole ordering of his vital, his ethical, his intelligent being. For so only can the collective reason and intelligent will of the race overcome the egoism of individualistic life and bring about a perfect principle and rational order of society in a harmonious world. It is true that this inevitable character of ...
... atmosphere around us. As it evolves in power, precision and clearness, we are able to trace these to their source or feel immediately their origin and transit to us and direct consciously and with an intelligent will our own messages. It becomes possible to be aware, more or less accurately and discerningly, of the activities of minds whether near to us physically or at a distance, to understand, feel or identify ...
... and to study and judge Nature. On that pin-point the whole of mental human life is fulcrummed for activity, and the conceding of it is implied in the Aurobindonian outlook which holds our intelligent will to be a ray, deformed though it may be, of the Gnosis, the Supermind. Two sine qua nons we have tabulated and both we have discovered to be granted by Sri Aurobindo. But there is ...
... secretly decisive influences of existence. It is a question whether the intellectual reason will ever be able to give us an adequate account of these deeper and greater things or subject them to the intelligent will as it has succeeded in explaining and canalising, though still imperfectly, yet with much show of triumphant result, the forces of physical Nature … In this limited use of the reason subjected ...
... self-mastery are good. You have to choose the one that comes to you spontaneously and best corresponds to your nature. And once Page 246 having chosen the method, you must use your intelligent will to apply it with an unfailing perseverance that does not shrink from any obstacle, any difficulty. It is a long and minute work which must be undertaken with sincerity and continued with an increasing ...
... is evident from his later Essays on the Gita, Sri Aurobindo means in all these instances the higher intelligence or superior mind in man, the Buddhi or intellect, what he also called "the intelligent will". Here is no going beyond the mental plane. It is not easy to pinpoint the time of the radical distinction which Sri Aurobindo later habitually made between the two beyond-mind ranges of ...
... around us. As it evolves in power, precision and clearness, we are able to trace these to their source or feel immediately their origin and transit to us and direct consciously and with an intelligent will our own messages. It becomes possible to be aware, more or less accurately and discerningly, of the activities of minds Page 82 whether near to us physically or at a distance ...
... life-force, and a clear subtle-physical sense of things. It has the same capacities as our waking being, a subtle sense and perception, a comprehensive extended memory and an intensive selective intelligent will, self-consciousness; but even though of the same kind, they are wider, more developed, more sovereign. It is only subconscious in the sense of not bringing all or most of itself to the surface; ...
... Page 30 consciousness takes up the activities of the intellect and intellect itself and transforms it into the movement of the higher faculty. As Sri Aurobindo points out, the reason and intelligent will, the Buddhi, is the greatest of our natural power and instrument; the intellectual being is raised up to a point where it is taken up by the Shakti in the yoga and raised to its fullest and its ...
... and methods of Hatha Yoga. Hatha Yoga is only one of the several systems of Yoga. Other systems of Yoga include Raja Yoga (Yoga of meditative concentration), ' Buddhi Yoga (Yoga of intelligent will), Karma Yoga (Yoga of Divine works), Jnana Yoga (Yoga of Divine knowledge), Bhakti Yoga (Yoga of Divine Love), etc. There are also many other systems of Yoga like Mantra Yoga, Kriya Yoga and ...
... puppetry 12.Centre for research for setting up Exhibitions 13.Centre for Unending Education 14.Museum 15.Library 16.Film Studio 59 Intelligent Will should grow to achieve: (a)perseverance and endurance; (b)dynamism and heroism; (c)equality and mastery. ...
... development of his capacities, his actions, the use of the knowledge he has acquired, the whole ordering of his vital, his ethical, his intelligent being. For so only can the collective reason and intelligent will of the race overcome the egoism of Page 12 individualistic life and bring about a perfect principle and rational order of society in a harmonious world." This is denied or minimised ...
... each man belongs not only to the common humanity, but to the Infinite in himself and is therefore unique. It is because this is the reality of our existence that the intellectual reason and the intelligent will cannot deal with life as its sovereign, even though they may be at present our supreme instruments and may have been in our evolution supremely important and helpful. 211 But if evolution ...
... sensibility. But the ethical man and the aesthetic man - who flower in an age of culture - themselves need a sovereign third power to sustain and greaten them. This couldn't be Reason and the intelligent Will, although it has its importance; for Reason finds itself stopped by a stubborn barrier. Checkmated, Reason sees its occupation concluded and now tells unfinished Man: "There is a Soul ...
... which is already knocking at today’s door in issues like the anthropic principle and ‘intelligent design’, to which we now turn. Intelligent Design and the Other Evolutionary Theories The ‘Intelligent Design’ phenomenon is generally called ‘the Intelligent Design theory’, which is a misnomer. Intelligent Design puts scientific materialism into question without as yet being able to construct... who considers himself a neutral proponent of ID: “Intelligent design is not a form of anti-evolutionism. Intelligent design does not claim that living things came together suddenly in their present form through the efforts of a supernatural creator. Intelligent design is not and never will be a doctrine of creation.” 47 Problems of Intelligent Design Neutral ID theory is struggling with problems... been designed by an intelligent being. “3. Aspects of life overpower us with the appearance of design. 4. Since we have no other convincing explanation for that strong appearance of design, Darwinian pretensions notwithstanding, we are rationally justified in concluding that parts of life were indeed purposely designed by an intelligent agent.” 17 Creationist Intelligent Design Most experts ...
... growing. [5] By his zeal and vigilance and discipline and self-control, the intelligent man should create an island for himself which no flood can overwhelm. [6] The stupid, devoid of intelligence, give themselves to negligence. The intelligent guards vigilance as the supreme treasure. [7] Do not give yourself to negligence... [2] They know this thoroughly well, the wise in vigilance and they rejoice in their vigilance, ever in the presence of the Great Ones. [3] They who are intelligent, meditative, persevering, combat ceaselessly against themselves, reach the Nirvana that is supreme felicity. [4] He who is full of zeal, he who is mindful, he who... from a hilltop as it were the ignorant ones grieving on the plains. Page 202 [9] Vigilant among the negligent, wide awake among the slumberous, one intelligent goes fast like a steed that leaves behind a faint mount. [10] By vigilance Indra has become supreme among the gods. Vigilance is praiseworthy. Negilgence is always blameworthy ...
... in a mass ... to a degree of stupidity beyond all measure. You want to create Harmony: everyone quarrels! Intelligent people seem to become foolish, they do foolish things—since morning I have been spending my time writing to stop people from doing foolish things Strange. They are intelligent, responsible people, people who have worked for a long time—but ... nonsense. Oh, as soon as there is a ...
... it. Finally, there are those deliberately ordered codes which are an attempt at intelligent systematisation; a sovereign authority fixes the cadres of the law and admits from time to time changes that are intelligent accommodations to new needs, variations that do not disturb but merely modify and develop the intelligent unity and reasonable fixity of the system. The coming to perfection of this last... and arrange it according to its own pleasure and power and intelligent choice, to govern Nature in the human mass as it has already learned partly to govern it in the human individual. And since the mass is unenlightened and incapable of such an intelligent effort, who can do this for it, if not the capable individual or a body of intelligent and capable individuals? That is the whole rationale of absolutism... step because only so could the clear idea of an intelligently self-governing society firmly evolve. For what king or aristocracy could not do, the democratic State may perhaps with a better chance of success and a greater security attempt and bring nearer to fruition,—the conscious and organised unity, the regularised efficiency on uniform and intelligent principles, the rational order and self-governed ...
... But what to do in such cases: 1. X She has a good grasp of Hindi, but she is very careless, does not work and is often absent. 2. Y Very intelligent and capable, but she always shirked from work and tried to cheat me by her sweet and intelligent talk. I had to give up. 3. Z Very much interested, she can appreciate literature, but she cannot write one sentence correctly. There are others... And thus a true progress will have been made in the teaching. With blessings. 21 July 1967 * I find tests an obsolete and ineffective way of knowing if the students are intelligent, willing and attentive. A silly, mechanical mind can very well answer a test if the memory is good and these are certainly not the qualities required for a man of the future. It is by... I seek your guidance about promotion in the classes. X is very weak and irregular. If she wants she can do well, and since Y's birthday celebration she has become more intelligent. She was a star there. Intelligence and capacity of understanding are surely more important than regularity in work. Steadiness may be acquired later. 5 October 1967 * ...
... fool who recognises his foolishness is at least wise in that. But the fool who thinks he is intelligent, is a fool indeed. Even if the fool serves an intelligent man throughout his life, he will nevertheless remain ignorant of the truth, just as the spoon knows not the taste of the soup. If an intelligent man serves a wise man, if only for a moment, he will quickly understand the truth, just ...
... they're a small minority, made of people who are generally rather intelligent—intelligent people, mostly—and the press and the whole world are there, ready to exploit the affair. They take advantage of it. Yes, I am afraid it may only be an "intelligent" thing. Like what took place at the beginning of Protestantism. An INTELLIGENT thing, you understand: a mentalization of the opposition. Yes ...
... elephant sunk in a bog. [9] If you have as your companion one who is intelligent and wise and of perfect conduct, then you will overcome all obstacles and go forward with him, contented and courageous. [10] If your do not have companion one who is intelligent and wise and of perfect conduct, then live alone, even like a vanquished king who has lost his ...
... Child was already published but during the Green Group class, Mother once added this phrase in a lighter mood: The Ideal Child Is intelligent The facsimile in Mother’s handwriting in French of the dictation below The ideal child is intelligent. He understands everything he is told, he knows his lesson before he has learnt it and answers every question he is asked. … likes to ...
... habit of applying human figures to non-human things and the workings of intelligence to non-intelligent processes which come right because they must and not because they will and produce this magnificent ordered universe by some dumb blind and brute necessity inconceivable in its origin & nature to intelligent beings? If so, this blind brute force has produced something higher than itself, something... is not certain. It may be itself negatived in the future march of knowledge. But still, taking the evidence as it stands, what are the facts we actually arrive at in this comparison of intelligent & non-intelligent Nature? First, Nature possesses in a far higher degree than man the teleological faculty & process. To place an aim before one, to combine, adapt, modify, unify, vary means & processes... & wisdom or is intelligence & wisdom, is the constant association in the human mind of these things with mentally self-conscious personality. Intelligence, we think, presupposes someone who is intelligent, an ego who possesses & uses this intelligence. An examination of human consciousness shows that this association is an error. Intelligence possesses us, not we intelligence; intelligence uses us ...
... rotates her hand, shaping something ), and the child would have become intelligent." When I go off like that, within, I always seem to... to be shaping vibrations. And when that memory came, it was so clear, I said, "But no! One just has to go like this... ( same gesture of the hand ), and he will receive the light and become intelligent...." You understand, when I go within, it's always to work on vibrations... all of a sudden came Christ running away because he was brought an idiot—"But no!" And there was the movement of turning vibrations ( same gesture as before ), receiving the light, and he becomes intelligent—like that. In fact, it's with things of this sort that I spend my time. I don't note them down, because... there would be too many of them to begin with. Someone... (most of the time I know ...
... the past. THE MOTHER: Yes, you must set this will, which is capable of strength, against all troubles physical and spiritual. People who are intelligent find always a difficulty in going through troubles. Those who are not particularly intelligent have an easier time. AMAL: You are always having a dig at me like that! Well, I'll try to put to work the will which you refer to. Now I want ...
... of the unreality of our present culture and the inefficiency of our modernised existence. Our old life was well, even minutely organised on an intelligent and consistent Oriental model. The modern life of Europe is well and largely organised on an intelligent and consistent Occidental model. It materialises certain main ideas of life and well-being, provides certain centres of life, equips them efficiently... uselessly, if only to persuade itself that it is not dead. We have for instance a Literary Conference which meets once a year, if nothing occurs to prevent it. But such an annual celebration has no intelligent purpose except as the centre of an organised literary life. The pulse of our literary life is feeble and artificial. Its centres are conspicuous by their absence. In Europe the club, the literary ...
... vijnana. The final step must be to turn the intelligent mind from the recipient and judge which it is now into a channel, so that the ideality will no longer send its messages into the lower mind, but work in itself for itself, with itself as its own observer and judge. This is now being undertaken. Hitherto it is the active activity of the intelligent mind which has had to be eliminated by a long... indistinctness and evanescence still tend to predominate. The truth of the lipi is now continually being justified by results. Trikaldrishti proper is developing (until now all has been really intelligent and telepathic); but all is being arranged first in the lower intuitional vijnana, not in the higher revelatory and inspirational ideality. In physical siddhi Kamananda is progressing rapidly... (telepathic and intuitional) and tapas has been roughly accomplished. The siddhi is now attempting to get rid of the confusion which periodically overtakes the T² thought, owing to revival of intelligential turmoil and false stress. Ahaituka k. is again continuous, ordinarily with a certain intensity.. the periods of exclusive forgetfulness find it still in the body; therefore it must be considered ...
... with The Mother May 1965 Ma, enclosed are two photos of our new dog. The photos are not good, but she is really beautiful and very sensitive and intelligent. Ma, the dog has no name. I pray to You to give one — a French name. “ Fidèle .” She is gentle. Blessings May 1965 ...
... Daladier. SRI AUROBINDO: This unsteadiness looks like a bad sign. NIRODBARAN: It is said Reynaud is more efficient, has more drive. SRI AUROBINDO: He is certainly more intelligent. In fact he is the only intelligent minister, they say. NIRODBARAN: And I hear that he was handicapped by the French capitalists, while Daladier was much under their influence. SRI AUROBINDO: The French capitalists ...
... to meditation acquires a great happiness. The intelligent man who by his vigilance has dispelled negligence, mounts to the heights of wisdom, whence he looks upon the many afflicted as one on a mountain looks down upon the people of the plain. Vigilant among those who are negligent, perfectly awake among those who sleep, the intelligent man advances like a rapid steed leaving behind a weary... have learnt of the secrets of material Nature, we shall be able to join the two extremes and rediscover the supreme Reality in the very heart of the atom. 24 January 1958 Those who are intelligent, meditative, persevering, who ceaselessly struggle with themselves, attain to Nirvana, which is the supreme felicity. Whosoever can sustain his zeal, remain pure in his actions, act wisely,... understood, this text is quite excellent. One cannot do better than to conform to it. 31 January 1958 and 7 February 1958 By his effort, his vigilance, his discipline and self-mastery, the intelligent man should create for himself an island which no flood can submerge. The fools, devoid of intelligence, give themselves up to negligence. The true sage guards vigilance as his most precious ...
... with this one. My idea was to stick to the bare facts, to tell stories from Sri Aurobindo's life, the Ashram, things like that. This is still... ( gesture above the head ). It's geared to intelligent people interested in things of the spirit. I don't see how these things could be skipped.... In any event, it's all right—it's fine, I don't mean to criticize; I find it very good... but... what's new in what Sri Aurobindo brings, precisely because it has nothing to do with "spiritual" India. We can't avoid telling them this one way or another, can we? Yes, you're telling them very intelligently. It's put simply. Yes... well, it could be put much more simply! But it doesn't matter. You needn't think it's no good—it's very good. Page 246 Oh, you know, I don't think much... s I'm getting!... I mean, I know it could just as well be something else—it's not "the inevitable." That's no problem—the public isn't touched by inspiration. But what you write here is for intelligent people with inquiring minds, interested in ideas—is there such a public? But after this prologue, I intend to tackle the problem practically, to speak of the moment when people reach the limits ...
... sunk in a swamp. If for company you find a prudent friend, who leads a good life, who is intelligent and self-controlled, overcoming all obstacles, do not hesitate to set out with him joyfully and courageously. And if you do not meet with such a friend, who leads a good life, who is intelligent and self-controlled, then like a king renouncing a kingdom he has conquered, or like a solitary ...
... 'local' organ it belongs to. This organization could best be compared to that of an ideal human community in which each member would be conscious of the whole community and at the same time of his own intelligent personal function within the community." ( Werner Schupbach ) ...
... disorder. I have seen people who had no order in their minds and if you open their chest of drawers or their cupboards, you will find an awful mess—everything is in a jumble. There are people who are intelligent and have slips of paper on which they jot things down—authors, for example—but if by chance they need one of these notes, they have to spend an hour hunting it out and turning everything upside down... down! They either find the paper in the waste-paper basket or in the drawer where they put their handkerchiefs. Well, that's how it is, isn't it? There are people who may not be very intelligent, but who have taken the trouble to put some order among the few ideas they have. If you open their cupboard, you will find that they have very few things, but these things are neatly and tidily Page... things. You must first see the ideas in your mind before you can organise them—at least you can see your handkerchiefs and clothes! But you will find that a certain care is needed to achieve an intelligent arrangement—don't put the things you use every day beneath the things you use once a month! The mind is also an instrument of action. The thoughts form plans. The mind forms a plan of action and ...
... and they say they will understand—they'll understand that we are intelligent beings! ( Mother laughs ironically ) I don't remember the message I gave them. But a message for the new man... What am I going to tell them?... Whatever is the new man? Do YOU know what the new man is?... Man is always new! It won't be an intelligent man. Well, so much the better! So much the better. We ...
... thought. My main trouble was an inferiority complex which seemed a chronic disease—an endless nightmare. I had gone to London to gain confidence. True. Yet I felt that I was nobody in front of "intelligent" and "wise" people. I was hypersensitive and ultra-emotional. I thought that it was too late for me to do anything worthwhile. It would take an eternity to find the Divine Life. Time and age could ...
... communion with intelligent beings and forces living behind the veil of gross matter sensible to our limited material organs. Nature-worship is another side of the same ancient truth. Fetishism remembers barbarously the great Vedic dogma that God is everywhere and God is all and that the inert stone & stock, things mindless & helpless & crude, are also He; in them, too, there is the intelligent Force that... the planets. The mythologies are ancient traditions, allegories & symbols. The savage and the cannibal are merely the human beast, man hurled down from his ascent and returning from the sattwic or intelligent state into the tamasic, crumbling into the animal and almost into the clod by that disintegration through inertia which to the Hindu idea is the ordinary road to disappearance into the vague & rough... entirely cut off from the great centres of civilisation, all energetic spirits withdrawn from our midst and we ourselves wholly occupied with immediate material needs. An advanced race, losing its intelligent classes and all its sources of intelligence and subjected to these conditions, would be in danger of descending to the same level as the Maori or the Basuto. On the other hand individuals of the ...
... their exams!), he held examinations on a text or a subject he had dictated to the students in his class. In other words, they had the answer quite ready. Two of the boys (one of whom K. finds very intelligent—he is, moreover—and has a liking for, while he doesn't like the other) were late, and K. asked the boy he doesn't like to bring to him at home the result of their work. He brought it. K. read it... taken." To this I didn't exactly reply what I thought, but I thought: of course, if the teacher is an idiot, he can't judge the students' progress unless he makes them take exams, but if he is an intelligent man with a psychic sense, there are a thousand ways to find out if a student has understood. So they've had their meeting. But from the technical standpoint, it's more difficult to judge progress... attended exams like the ones taken for certificates, I saw the pupils who were there, I saw how they answered.... It's one of my very concrete experiences: the ones that pass are NOT AT ALL the most intelligent ones! Never. They are the ones that repeat parrot fashion. They repeat very nicely. They have no understanding of what they say. Anyhow, I think we'll get somewhere. But yesterday evening, ...
... training and, though as yet very imperfectly, of the development of the aesthetic faculties. The intelligent thinking being, moralised, controlling his instincts and emotions by his will and his reason, acquainted with all that he should know of the world and his past, capable of organising intelligently by that knowledge his social and economic life, ordering rightly his bodily habits and physical... of rage and fear, his need of punishment and reliance on punishment, his inability to think and act for himself, his incapacity for true freedom, his distrust of novelty, his slowness to seize intelligently and assimilate, his downward propensity and earthward gaze, his vital and physical subjection to his heredity, all these and more are his heritage from the subhuman origins of his life and body... his idea of life; the excellence of the body, its health, its soundness, its vigour and harmonious development are necessary to a perfect manhood and are occupying attention in a better and more intelligent way than before. But the first rank in importance can no longer be given to the body, much less that entire predominance assigned to it in the mentality of the barbarian. Moreover, although man ...
... Those disciplines which begin with freedom are only for the mighty ones who are naturally free or in former lives have founded their freedom. 164—Those who are deficient in the free, full and intelligent observation of a self-imposed law, must be placed in subjection to the will of others. This is one principal cause of the subjection of nations. After their disturbing egoism has been trampled under ...
... finding his strength in the ahankara or psychic principle of egoism. The psychic man fulfils the divinity of the soul by rising into the spirit and finding his strength in the superpsychic Will or Intelligent Force in things. The spiritual man fulfils the divinity of the spirit by rising beyond the human spirit, the Jivatman, and finding his strength in the Parameswara and Parabrahman, the Sa and the... individual. To put it in language easier but more capable of misconception, the material man realises himself by identifying God with his own ego; the psychical man by identifying God with passionless, intelligent, blissful Will in himself; the spiritual man by identifying God with the All in whom everything abides. The first is the Rakshasa or the Asura of the lower order; the second is the Deva or the Asura ...
... received its dismissal. It only continues to exist in chaotic fragments in the external suggestions which are no longer accepted. This is with regard to the buddhi,—but in the sense-mind intuitively intelligential telepathy still exists. There are trikaldrishtic indications that March will be a month of the extension of the physical Ananda and that secure continuity in the Kamananda will be rapidly... substituted itself for the inspirational ideality, but it is at present the intuitional revelatory. It is taking up all the action of the ideality and enlightening and transforming the relics of the intelligential mentality. There has been a struggle in the Kamananda. Persistent continuous recurrence seems to have been well established, though the enemy still struggles to bring about a long entire ...
... insects, reptiles, birds and beasts and lastly, in animals of developed intelligence like cats" dogs, cows and horses etc. to be ultimately followed by hum in beings of dwarf intelligence, the intelligent human creator from its primitive appearance in cavemen, nomads and hunters and lastly, the developed intelligence of thinkers, writers, poets, artists, painters, sculptors, architects, musicians... work under the shadow of the ignorance cast on them when the Divine created them and gave them freedom to separate their cortscrotrsriess from the supreme divine consciousness, that is, these intelligent human beings are still subject to the original inconscience illumined -to some extent by progressive growth of knowledge and consciousness culminating in the attainment of the supreme divine ...
... very largely the result of fear leading to mental inhibitions, and the experience that we are having with our children confirms me in this view. Their interest in science is at once passionate and intelligent, and their desire to understand the world in which they live Page 391 exceeds enormously that of children brought up with the usual taboos upon curiosity. What we are doing is of... the business of early education to train the instincts so that they may produce a harmonious character, constructive rather than destructive, affectionate rather than sullen, courageous, frank and intelligent. All this can be done with a great majority of children; it is actually being done where children are rightly treated. If existing knowledge were used and tested methods applied, we could, in a ... the professional classes. What is important is the spirit of adventure and liberty, the sense of setting out upon a voyage of discovery. If formal education is given in this spirit, all the more intelligent pupils will supplement it by their own efforts, for which every opportunity should be provided. Knowledge is the liberator from the empire of natural forces and destructive passions; without knowledge ...
... we could send it to China... There's a Chinese in Santiniketan, but I am no longer in touch with him (he gave all his goods to Communist China, and he's staying there). He's a philosopher, a very intelligent man.... But anyway, for the translation it should be Shu-Hu. For the German, I don't know.... We have many Germans, but I don't know. As for the book, it will do like The Adventure , it will ...
... "unintelligent faith". Is it not a queer specimen of faith? Intelligent faith is, I suppose, "reasoned" faith; unintelligent faith is faith that believes without reasoning. (1) If you say "X is equal to Y. Y is equal to Z. therefore X is equal to Z, — so I believe X is equal to Z,", that is intelligent faith. If you simply see at once that X is equal to Z and believe, that is... the whole subject is exhausted until you come to the conclusion either that he is Nirod or that he is Hitler and believe in your conclusion, then that is intelligent faith. (3) If you believe what Adhar Das believes, that is intelligent faith. If you believe what he does not believe, that is unintelligent faith. I hope you understand now Adhar Das's statement. ... with facts. All that can be done afterwards, but not so easily or so well, 1 Uncertain reading. Page 217 unless one is exceptionally industrious and intelligent. To neglect one's studies as R and S have done is therefore a mistake. I wish to read some philosophical books. Will you please give me some names? I am not sure what ...
... formerly. But of late he has undoubtedly changed and has a distaste for ordinary life. He speaks very emotionally of you and says he has accepted you for his guru. He is sincere I think and fairly intelligent with a literary bent – writes good prose – his novel is not bad – J had corrected it two years back: commercially it has not been a failure. He is receptive I think – but I can’t know about these... now to about Rs. 50 a month or thereabouts. So far about his finances. I am sure however that he will give all that he has at his command. The fellow is earnest. His character: very intelligent, not lazy, fairly well-read, very fond of reading, idealistic, talked once on subjects he didn’t know, improving with years, conscious of his defects, very popular, affectionate, not a little... Ballygunj aristocracy where Cod has no chance – his coming may cause some stir causing far-reaching ripples. One thing is well-known: he is courageous, energetic, of very robust health, intelligent, sincere and warmhearted. So he may do well if your grace falls on him. A reply – somewhat decisive – is expected by him and urgently – please [note]. The main question is ...
... wrong, to bring some practical sense into these nebulous minds! The other conceit seems to me more serious than the American one—the European conceit. Because they really think they are very intelligent. The Americans want "to help"—they're children. But the Westerners are "sages" of the intellect; so it takes some doing to penetrate their minds!... There's nothing they need to learn. I have... Page 29 Oh, the British, that's a different phenomenon, mon petit! Anything that isn't British is worthless! ( Mother laughs ) The British alone are practical, the British alone are intelligent, the British alone know how to live, the British alone are powerful, the British alone... In short, there are only the British, the entire earth ought to be British—but the British, I took a thorough ...
... politicians that are responsible. Oh, yes. The students follow directives. I have news from behind the scenes. I know some young people who are part of these movements of agitation, intelligent young people who don't want violence—but they want things to change. And there are all kinds of very interesting things: one of them (they are young people who live with their families, I know some... know the father very well), he was worried; he called a friend of his, a high official in the police, and the friend questioned his son; then he told the father, "Your son is remarkable, highly intelligent, highly remarkable...." But that revealed something; that there are spies in the police, and those spies tell lies against people to get themselves noticed, so then lots of reports are falsified—I'd ...
... and Free-Will 29-January-1910 A question which has hitherto divided human thought and received no final solution, is the freedom of the human being in his relation to the Power intelligent or unintelligent that rules the world. We strive for freedom in our human relations, to freedom we move as our goal, and every fresh step in our human progress is a further approximation to our ideal... that which is chosen for us; but it is possible that the freedom may be illusory and our apparent freedom may be a real and iron bondage. We may be bound by predestination, the will of a Supreme Intelligent Power, or blind inexorable Nature, or the necessity of our own previous development. The first is the answer of the devout and submissive mind in its dependence on God, but, unless we adopt a ...
... Mandala Four Glossary 2.1 अरतिः Apte. Anger, passion .. 2 Ved. going, moving .. 3 moving flame .. 4 occupying, attacking .. 5 servant, manager, assistant .. 6 master .. 7 an intelligent being. अर् (ऋ) indicates any strong or laborious movement or action or preeminent position .. eg to climb, to fight, to row, to cultivate. In the Veda it seems to indicate at least in its surface ...
... when public feeling is at white heat. It serves to bring the excitement to exploding point and yet remove those who can alone prevent the explosion or give it a legitimate channel of escape. No intelligent leader in India, Moderate or Nationalist, would use his influence to precipitate a collision between the authorities and the people on the physical plane in which the people can only act with a temporary ...
... presented in chronological order, chronicle Amal’s written exchanges with the Mother over several decades. What emerges is a sense of the relationship between the Mother and her bold, spirited, intelligent disciple. The correspondence is in English, with a very few exceptions. It is presented here for the first time in this form. ...
... Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 5 The Mind [1] The trepidating restless stuff of the mind is hard to guard, hard to control. The intelligent man straightens it even as an arrow maker straightens an arrow. [2] Born of water, the fish strains and struggles when thrown on land from out of its watery dwelling, even ...
... well-matched, if it's all right. And I can see straightaway—I see at once the sort of life they will have together, it's very amusing! Today there were three couples like that. In the first, the man was intelligent, sensitive, with an emotional side in need of something, of a response. The woman: rather stupid, rather ordinary too. Not at all made for one another. But I was looking, and as I looked I saw what ...
... practice it is to set the cow's milk flowing by putting a stuffed dummy calf in front of her, which she can't recognise as a fake one. You say animals are intelligent, but this doesn't show it. SRI AUROBINDO: Not all men are intelligent either! The talk about the dummy calf brought Gandhi into the discussion, as he severely condemned the practice and said, besides, that to drink cow's milk ...
... functions. Our contemporary's attempt to smother facts in a profusion of side-issues cannot deceive those who can read between the lines. We must congratulate him all the same on this sudden flash of intelligent outspokenness. But our contemporary need not feel anxious about "the proverbial impartiality of British justice". The proverb is badly in need of a change. And as we said yesterday when referring ...
... that which can carry by storm the biggest obstacles. It is that which is capable of turning an idiot into an intelligent person—it alone can do so; for if one yearns passionately for progress, if the vital takes it into its head that one must progress, even the greatest idiot can become intelligent! I have seen this, I am not speaking from hearsay; I have seen it, I have seen people who were dull, stupid... one had to know, it was necessary. Well, they set everything moving, they shook up the sleeping mind, they poured energy into all the corners where there was none; and they understood, they became intelligent. I knew someone who knew nothing practically, understood nothing, and who, when the mind started moving and the passion for progress took possession of him, began to write wonderful things. I have ...
... has sent me Msgr. R.'s photo. Oh, I'd like to see it. But I don't think it's a recent photo. ( Mother looks )... He's had to struggle with powerful instincts. Sensuality and... Very intelligent indeed! Interesting. A strange man: he is amoral. That is to say, he may do extreme good or extreme evil just as easily. And a brilliant intelligence indeed. A politician of the first order ...
... anyone anywhere who is wholly censured or wholly praised. Page 227 [9 & 10] If the wise on a day to day observation praise someone as of flawless conduct, intelligent and endowed with knowledge and character, who then would dare to blame him who is as it were a coin of gold? The gods praise him, even the Creator praises him. . [11] Restrain ...
... species.8 Scientific Theory of Evolution vs. Theory of Intelligent Design There has been a debate between the scientific theory of evolution and the special creation theory. This debate is most acute in the United States, where Christians faithful to the creation account in the Book of Genesis have seized upon "intelligent design" (I.D.) to show that the blanks in the evolutionary narrative ...
... She said to the children has been recorded. But I remember, She told one child that your hand is very artistic and you may become an artist someday. To another child, She said that you are very intelligent and whatever profession you take up you will do well. She also told another child that he would become a good engineer and so on. After seeing the last child’s hand the Mother stood up to leave ...
... the wealthy one, is indeed cow-giving. 3) "Then (standing) among the intelligent people who are nearest to thee, may we know thee. Do not (go) beyond us (and) manifest (thyself to others, but) come to us. 4) "Come to him and question about me, the intelligent one, (whether I have praised him rightly or not),—to the intelligent and unhurt Indra who gives to thy friends (the priests) the best wealth ...
... country), very good folks who had made considerable effort to send their son for studies in Paris. He was a very good student. A boy of the same age: about twenty or twenty-one. A fairly good poet, intelligent, and he was especially interested in occultism. But as for him, he wasn't inwardly formed; it was only his vital consciousness that took over the cat. But strangely, the look of the cat's eyes ...
... The senseless person may serve a wise man throughout his life, but he will not know the Right Law, even as a ladle does not know the taste of the soup. [6] An intelligent person may serve the wise one just for a moment but he will immediately have the knowledge of the Right Law, even as the tongue has the taste of the soup. [7] The senseless ...
... Analysis. ॥१॥ अग्निम् । Agni is a devata, one of the most brilliant and powerful of the masters of the intelligent mind. Man, according to Vedic psychology, consists of seven principles, in which the Atman cases itself,—annam, gross matter; prana, vital energy; manas, intelligent mind; vijnanam, ideal mind; ananda, pure or essential bliss; chit, pure or essential awareness; sat, pure or essential... higher half in which Avidya is dominated by Vidya and there is no ignorance, pain or limitation. In man as he is at present developed, the intelligent mind is the most important psychological faculty and it is with a view to the development of the intelligent mind to its highest purity and capacity that the hymns of the Veda are written. In this mind there are successively the following principles:... स्वे दमे, nor in its own rupa, vijnanam, but in the mind and as reasoning faculty, buddhi; extraordinary men are able to aid the action of manas and buddhi proper by the vijnanam acting in the intelligent mind indeed and so out of its proper sphere, but in its own form as ideal consciousness—the combination of manasic and vijnani action making what is called genius, pratibhanam, a reflection or luminous ...
... exclusively on a material plane: what is death, from the physical point of view? You must concentrate and find the answers in yourself. Don't make any speeches. Say only one sentence. The more intelligent you are, the less words you need to express yourself. 27 April 1968 ( The students' replies to the question, "What is death, from the physical point of view?": "All circulation of... physical being?", that is precisely the aim of physical education. It is physical education that teaches the cells to be conscious. But for the development of the brain, it is study, observation, intelligent education, above all observation and reasoning. And naturally, for the whole education of the consciousness from the point of view of character, it is yoga. Page 344 Does the central ...
... something changed between us. K was soon more attracted to M. Their friendship began to grow. We grew apart. She would spend most of her time with M now. Both were in the same class. M was a very intelligent girl, good both in studies and in sports. Probably that is why my friend K was more attracted to her and distanced herself from me. We practically stopped talking to each other. People were so used ...
... quench”…. Years of sadhana and dedication to higher pursuits have been kind to the minds and bodies of these two extraordinary beings. Their lovely, radiant, wrinkle-free skin, vibrant, sparkling, intelligent eyes and mental clarity are often not found in men of a much younger age. Amal-da, as he is affectionately called in the ashram, is a writer of poetry of exceptional merit ( The Secret Splendour: ...
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... free hand in their dealings with the people of the country. Had it been otherwise—had the British taxpayer been guided by considerations other than those of advantage to Great Britain to take an intelligent interest in Indian affairs the Sphinx would have found himself bound to speak. Yet to these people our deluded Moderate friends must go and spend the money of poverty-stricken India in the vain attempt ...
... out of a hundred, even more than that, if you are tense or hurt, or pained or bothered, it's simply because things aren't exactly as you had told yourself they should be—this is for intelligent people; for less "intelligent" people, it's a sort of desire: they want things to be "that way" (they feel it much more than they think it), and then when things happen in another way, oh, they get a shock. But ...
... And the answer came from up above, magnificent. An answer with a golden, superb force, and a power telling him that he had a great role to play and had to be strong and so on. A very, very intelligent man. And India's ambassador to Nepal (whom I had already seen once, he has a very remarkable wife, who was here too, she is very sweet) had me asked (because they're going to have a conference ...
... Surya Namaskar Introduction Our ancients were wise and intelligent people. In every sphere of human endeavour they had made experiments and discoveries and had left the fruits of their labour for posterity. Surya Namaskar is one of such things in the field of health and physical fitness. The Sun is considered to be the source of life-energy. Our ancients ...
... never been and never will be, nor is there now, one who receives only blame or only praise. Page 258 If a man is praised by the sages, who have observed him day after day, for being intelligent, without reproach, endowed with knowledge and virtue, who then would dare to blame him who is as pure as gold? Even the gods and Brahma praise him. Be on your guard against the wrath of the ...
... them to write down in class what they have heard. Yes, but the children are very noisy. A minimum of silence is necessary. I know that the most undisciplined children are usually the most intelligent. But to be tamed they must feel the pressure of an intelligence that is more powerful than their own. And for that, one must be able not to come down to their level, and above all know how to remain ...
... appears to us in the Ignorance,—is executive Force, mechanical in her steps, not consciously intelligent to our experiences of her, although all her works are instinct with an absolute intelligence." Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga, SABCL, Vol. 20, p. 91 Nature is not consciously intelligent?... There is an intelligence which acts in her and through her, in her action, but she ...
... Dhammapada Questions and Answers (1929-1931) The Mind Just as the arrow-maker straightens his arrows, so also the intelligent man straightens his thoughts, wavering and fickle, difficult to keep straight, difficult to master. Just as a fish cast out of the water, our mind quivers and gasps when it leaves behind the ...
... of sin and guilt. It is because their whole aspiration is to become like man—man is god—and then, dissimulation, Page 347 falsehood. Dogs do lie. Men admire that; they say, "Oh! How intelligent they are!" They have lost their divinity. The human species, in the spiral ascent, is truly at a point which is not pretty. But isn't a dog more conscious than a tiger, more evolved, and ...
... men. Dogs have the sense of sin and guilt, for their whole aspiration is to resemble man. Man is the god. Hence there is dissimulation, hypocrisy: dogs lie. But men admire that. They say, 'Oh! How intelligent they are!' They have lost their divinity. Truly, the human species is at a point in the spiral which is not very pretty. But isn't a dog more conscious, more evolved than a tiger, or higher ...
... find in nature something made like a watch, you could not but deduce that it must be made by an intelligent being, a watchmaker. Therefore, seeing how marvellously everything in nature and the universe had been put together and was functioning, one could not but deduce that there was a supreme Intelligent Being who had made it all. You had to conclude that God existed. At Cambridge William Paley’s... Soul Made Flesh – The Discovery of the Brain, pp. 232-33, 249. × John Forster e.a.: Critique of Intelligent Design, p. 111. × Tim Lewens: Darwin, p. 35. ...
... the self-conscious intellectual, ethical, aesthetic, intelligently emotional, intelligently dynamic Page 234 being who is capable of finding and understanding the law of his own action and consciously using and bettering it, a reflecting mind that understands Nature, a will that uses, elevates, perfects Nature, a sense that intelligently enjoys Nature. The aim of the animal part of us is... is to increase vital possession and enjoyment; the aim of the semi-divine part of us is also to grow, possess and enjoy, but first to possess and enjoy intelligently, aesthetically, ethically, by the powers of the mind much more than by the powers of the life and body, and, secondly, to possess and enjoy, not so much the vital and physical except in so far as that is necessary as a foundation and st ...
... knowledge. That faculty, intelligent mind, is described in various aspects of its operation, — Page 121 dhi, medha, mati, smriti, buddhi, manas, chitta, hrit, prajna. As Sri Aurobindo points out: "In man as he is at present developed, the intelligent mind is the most important psychological faculty and it is with a view to the development of the intelligent mind to its highest purity ...
... That faculty, Page 42 intelligent mind, is described in various aspects of its operation,— dhi, medha, mati, smriti, buddhi, manas, chitta, hrit, prajna. As Sri Aurobindo points out: "In man as he is at present developed, the intelligent mind is the most important psychological faculty and it is with a view to the development of the intelligent mind to its highest purity and capacity ...
... terms of age), the same thing as, You say that you can't love the Lord because you have never seen Him.... It's the same kind of level. But I like it because at least they don't pretend to be intelligent. And yesterday a child announced to me that it was his birthday and Page 121 that there were two questions he wanted to ask me, in English: Where does God live? or Where is the house ...
... action, it is said of him that he is the sattwic, the rajasic or the tamasic man; but few are always of one kind and none is entire in his kind. The wise are not always or wholly wise, the intelligent are intelligent only in patches; the saint suppresses in himself many unsaintly movements and Page 114 the vile are not entirely evil: the dullest has his unexpressed or unused and undeveloped... give the highest or the integral perfection; sattwa is always a quality of the limited nature; sattwic knowledge is the light of a limited mentality; sattwic will is the government of a limited intelligent force. Moreover, sattwa cannot act by itself in Nature, but has to rely for all action on the aid of rajas, so that even sattwic action is always liable to the imperfections of rajas; egoism, ...
... rich. It is a calamity; it is also perhaps a disgrace, a fall from the Divine Grace, the expression of a Divine discontent. It is infinitely more difficult to be rich and also to be wise, intelligent and generous—to be generous, please note,— when one is rich than when one is poor. I have seen and known many persons in many countries; the most generous persons were always the poorest. As soon ...
... the Upanishads, that Brahman is not a Being with fixed attributes, but absolute Being beyond attributes yet, being absolute, capable of all, and the world a phenomenal arrangement of attributes in Intelligent Being, arranged not logically & on a principle of mutual exclusion, but harmoniously on a principle of mutual balancing & reconciliation. God's immanence & God's extramanence, God's identity with... There are not many minds acting upon each other, mutually penetrative and tending to or consciously seeking unity, as romantic theories of being suppose, but always & eternally one mind variously intelligent in innumerable embodied vitalities. It is because of this unity that there is the possibility of contact, interchange, interpenetration and recovery of unity by & between substance & substance, life ...
... language which presents a number of almost insoluble difficulties. It is full of ancient forms and words which do not appear in later speech and have often to be fixed in some doubtful sense by intelligent conjecture; a mass even of the words that it has in common with classical Sanskrit seem to bear or at least to admit another significance than in the later literary tongue; and a multitude of its... Greeks and from the psychological and spiritual ideas we find attached to the functions of the Gods in the Upanishads and Puranas. We may accept for the present the theory that the earliest fully intelligent form of human religion is necessarily,—since man on earth begins from the external and proceeds to the internal,—a worship of outward Nature-Powers invested with the consciousness and the personality ...
... and Answers (1929-1931) Miscellany If renouncing the slightest happiness enables him to realise a greater one, the intelligent man should renounce the lesser for the sake of the greater. If he seeks his own happiness by harming others, bound by hate, he remains the slave of hatred. To neglect what should be done ...
... understood. And thus a true progress will have been made in the teaching. With blessings. 21 July 1967 I find tests an obsolete and ineffective way of knowing if the students are intelligent, willing and attentive. A silly, mechanical mind can very well answer a test if the memory is good and these are certainly not the qualities required for a man of the future. It is by tolerance ...
... hatred etc. are inherent in human nature. Education and mental enlightenment have not been able to eliminate these ingrained evils of vital and physical nature. On the other hand, the more clever and intelligent one is, the less scrupulous he becomes in his dealings with his fellowmen. Whatever might have been the case before, the exceptions are rare now-a-days. Hypocrisy, insincerity and dishonesty have ...
... these impulses are, whereas Inconscience is insentient. This is the great riddle, that Inconscience can yet create perfect order. It is like the Sankhya Prakriti which is Jada and at the same time intelligent. NIRODBARAN: What are effects of the working out of the mind and vital? SRI AUROBINDO: Opening to the higher consciousness and a capacity to receive it. NIRODBARAN: Why don't we see any ...
... of light in fire; I am life in all existences, I am the ascetic force of those who do askesis. Know me to be the eternal seed of all existences, O son of Pritha. I am the intelligence of the intelligent, the energy of the energetic. Srimadbhagavadgita 7.9 , 7.10 Translation by Anilbaran Roy Message of the Gita, p.121 प्रसीद देवेश सम्राट् महेश्वर। प्रसीद देवेश जगन्निवास। प्रसीद ...
... hour ) Strange, there's a child beside you. A child who must be between one and two years old—blond. And he is looking, he is putting his hand on your shoulder.... He's.... He seems very, very intelligent. ( Mother goes back within ) No questions? Who is that child? I don't know. I looked at him, he grew till he was about 10 years of age. And he stayed there. I saw him very young, two ...
... thrown together and the only bond of union is the sack. This is not homogeneity; this is called heterogeneity. I knew a person who had a will, a clarity of thought and ideas, who prepared intelligently all that needed to be done with regard to a particular work. All on a sudden there was a reversal of the whole being. Another person surged up who not only did not continue the work of his p ...
... only bond of union is the sack. This is not homogeneity; this is called heterogeneity. Page 408 I knew a person who had a will, a clarity of thought and ideas, who prepared intelligently all that needed to be done with regard to a particular work. All on a sudden there was a reversal of the whole being. Another person surged up who not only did not carry on the work of his predecessor ...
... be rich. It is a calamity; it is also perhaps a disgrace, a fall from the Divine Grace, the expression of a Divine discontent. It is infinitely more difficult to be rich and also to be wise, intelligent and generous – to be generous, please note, – when one is rich than when one is poor. I have seen and known many persons in many countries; the most generous persons were always the poorest. As soon ...
... pressing his legs into its sides. He had studied in Austria and knew French, German, English, Italian, Turkish and Egyptian. He had, moreover, an uncommon gift for numbers. Mirra’s mother was an intelligent but very strong-minded woman – at one time compared by her daughter to ‘an iron rod’ – thoroughly influenced by the spirit of the nineteenth century and by the ideals of the Enlightenment and the... taciturn girl, and she herself would later concede that she was not an easy character. Although Mathilde wanted her children to be the best of the best and to realize the highest ideals, she was intelligent enough not to force them and by forcing them to thwart their mental growth. Mirra learned to read only when she was seven years old and after her brother had put her to shame because of her ignorance... him (whom I knew I would meet on earth one day) that the divine work was to be done.’ 16 We will see later on how Mirra met this ‘Krishna.’ And so she grew up, that quiet, well-behaved, intelligent and talented girl de bonne famille , and nobody knew about the crowded experiences she was involved in day and night – as nobody anticipated the drastic step in life she would soon take. ...
... here, who used to attend the French cabinet meetings as a police officer, said that Mandel was the only clean and honest man. In Reynaud there was something excited and unsteady, but he was very intelligent. Outwardly his decisions were all right but one could see that inwardly he was liable to make many mistakes. SATYENDRA: It is lucky that England has got a leader now. Nobody knows what the old ...
... the last century. They are no longer in fashion now, but at the end of the last century it was always thought that the more weak and sickly people were, the more brilliant was their mind, the more intelligent they were! Some even explained that the development of their intelligence was due to the fact that they could not draw any joy from their body—for they were quite incapable of living fully, so all... others did by their movements. Well, it is just ideas like these which are at the root of this feeling that in order to have a mind one must not have a body, and that the more ill one is, the more intelligent he is! Isn't that quite silly? It is true that there is a certain independence. I think I spoke to you last time about a French poet called Sully Prudhomme who was dying of a very serious disease—a ...
... like that, you see. We shall have to repeat the same thing each time. There, then. No questions? Sweet Mother, how can literature help us to progress? It can help you to become more intelligent, to understand things better, to have a sense of literary forms, to cultivate your taste, to know how to choose between a good and a bad way of saying things, to enrich your spirit. It can help you... this person? What is he worth?"—"He is worth a hundred thousand dollars", "He is worth five hundred dollars." So this means that he has a position which Page 307 brings him this. "Is he intelligent, is he stupid? Is he..." this is not at all important. "Is he a good man or a bad one?" That makes no difference at all! "Is he a rich man or a poor one?" If he is rich, ah, ah! "I would like to ...
... there was a transition from the animal to the human creation to find a similar period, and at that time the consciousness was not sufficiently mentalised to be able to observe, understand, feel intelligently—the passage must have been made in a completely obscure way. So, what I am speaking about is absolutely new, unique in the terrestrial creation, it is something unprecedented, truly a perception... × A Bengali film, Rani Rasmani , which describes the lives of Sri Ramakrishna and Rani Rasmani, a rich, very intelligent and religious Bengali widow, who in 1847 built the temple of Kali at Dakshineshwar (Bengal) where Sri Ramakrishna lived and worshipped Kali. ...
... introduction, we'll keep our program.... Have you found a German yet? Page 351 No, Mother, I don't know any. As for me, I looked for one, but I can't find. It should be someone a bit intelligent. It should be ready for February. But the book, don't show it to anyone until its over. There's only Sujata who reads and types it. ( Laughing ) Sujata, that's nobody! You know, it's ...
... about Sri Aurobindo: My wish is that we may take the resolution to elevate ourselves daily in all sincerity and goodwill, in an ardent aspiration towards the Sun of Truth, the Supreme Light, the intelligent source of life of the universe, so that it may penetrate us entirely and illumine with its great brilliance our mind and heart, all our thoughts and all our actions. Doris and Aunt Margaret came ...
... told by the Muslims, I think (but I am not sure). Jesus is said to have raised people from the dead, made the dumb speak, restored sight to the blind... until he was brought an idiot to be made intelligent—and Jesus ran away! Afterwards, people asked him, "Why did you run away?" He answered, "I can do anything—except give intelligence to an idiot." ( laughter ) It was Théon who told me the story ...
... you know little S.? 1 Have you ever spoken to her?... I've heard she beats sixteen-and seventeen-year-old boys at logic and new mathematics. I saw her today. She is obviously quite remarkably intelligent. And yesterday was her birthday. You know that Y. ( her adoptive mother ) has gone into hospital; and when she went she asked me to send something to Thoth every day (you know who Thoth 2 is don't... very efficient : she wasn't informed. When she came it was too late because it was 10:30 or 11 while I had said "before ten." So she wrote me a letter.... I saw the girl today, she is really very intelligent, no doubt about that, and here is her letter. (Note that when she came to live with Y., she knew French because she had learned it with the Sisters—she was a pupil at the "Mission" some three years ...
... about whom I am told, "He is a good student!" But you know, I remember, I clearly remember my attitude when I was studying, and I clearly remember all my classmates and which one was to me an intelligent girl, which one was a chatterbox.... I have some very amusing memories about that, because I couldn't understand what meaning there was in learning in order to seem to know (I had a tremendous memory... books on geography were well-known. He was a fine man. So then, we were doing geography (I enjoyed maps more fully because it all had to be drawn) and one day, the teacher looked at me (he was an intelligent man), he looked at me and asked, "Why are towns, the big cities, settled on rivers?" I saw the students' bewildered look, they were saying to themselves, "Lucky the question wasn't put to me!" I ...
... neither centre nor circumference. “An omnipresent Reality is the truth of all life and existence whether absolute or relative, whether corporeal or incorporeal, whether animate or inanimate, whether intelligent or unintelligent; and in all its infinitely varying and even constantly opposed self-expressions, from the contradictions nearest to our ordinary experience to those remotest antinomies which lose ...
... Children are nicer and nicer!... The NEW children are truly remarkable. Today I saw V's little girl: she's two years old, I think, but she is as children used to be at the age of six or seven. Alert, intelligent... It's strange. What do you have to say? ( long silence ) I have a vague impression that I had something to tell you, but I don't know... ( Then Mother shows a brochure of "=1" on education ...
... lights, can achieve over obstacles, failures and enemies. For all in all, she governed alone, doing her utmost to the end when she collapsed of a heart attack. As a force in action, remarkably intelligent, intuitive and pragmatic, she had an uncanny way to see, to attract and to use only the people, things and circumstances that could serve her purpose. And her purpose was, to the last, to make ...
... recognises his foolishness is at least wise in that. But the fool who thinks he is intelligent, is a fool indeed. Page 44 Even if the fool serves an intelligent man throughout his life, he will nevertheless remain ignorant of the truth, just as the spoon knows not the taste of the soup . If an intelligent man serves a wise man, if only for a moment, he will quickly understand the truth... sleeping village is swept away by torrential floods. Neither children, nor father, nor family can save us. When death seizes us, our kinsmen cannot save us. Knowing this perfectly, the intelligent man, guided by good conduct, does not delay in taking up the path which leads to Nirvana. 1. Yama: The God of Death. 2. The Perfectly Enlightened One'. The Buddha. 3. Taking one's ...
... associates to admire his gallant and daredevil courage. Sometimes [it reminds me] of an old man, a man very early old, still strong in his decrepitude, garrulous, well-informed, luxurious, arrogant, intelligent, still Page 561 busy toddling actively from place to place, looking into this, meddling in that, laying down the law dogmatically on every point under the sun, and through it all the ...
... worth living. All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine. I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing. I am the wisest man alive; for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing ...
... interest and a basis of common understanding. But I don't mean the present form of education. It is not at all suitable for building up a nation. It has to be radically changed. Indian boys are more intelligent than English boys but three-fourths of their talent and energy are wasted, whereas English boys use their gifts ten times more efficiently than Indian boys do. PURANI: Y has approached the merchants ...
... high-school degree and a washing machine for all? The Great Sense, the True Sense, tells us that man is not the final goal. It is not the triumph of man that we want, not an improved version of the intelligent dwarf - it is another being on Earth, another race amongst us. Sri Aurobindo has said: man is a transitional being. We are right in the middle of this transition, it is cracking from all sides: ...
... that creates death because it cannot, at least not yet, do as it wants. Because it has not found itself. And finally, this body which seems an instrument, a mere material support for us to frolic intelligently around on this good earth’s surface might well in fact be the very essence of the story. A living heart of Matter, of each cell of Matter, of each atom. An original secret principle that appears ...
... calamity and can therefore sit lolling on its pillows, hookah-pipe in hand, waiting to see what happens; this apparently is how the question is envisaged by a race which considers itself the most intelligent and quick witted in the world. That it is something far other than this, that the danger involved is far more urgent and appalling, is what I shall try to point out in this article. Unfortunately ...
... is swept away by torrential floods. Neither children, nor father, nor family can save us. When death seizes us, our kinsmen cannot save us. Page 271 Knowing this perfectly, the intelligent man, guided by good conduct, does not delay in taking up the path which leads to Nirvana. Here are some very useful recommendations: moderation in speech, control of the mind, abstention from ...
... for those West-Europeans at that time a normal component in their way of perceiving the world, based on the supposedly incontestable fact that some people (with white skins) were stronger, more intelligent and inventive, and more religious than other people (mostly with coloured skins). “What today we find abominably racist in the writings of Gobineau, Darwin, Haeckel, Büchner, Vogt, Gumplowicz, etc ...
... things he didn't understand and that with the book, he understood. Now, the Italians worship the Virgin a lot, it's a lot in their makeup, and through that they would understand (those who are intelligent and see the symbol behind the story). There was a Pope (not the present one or the previous one, but the one before 1 ) who did remarkable things because he was in touch with the Virgin; he was ...
... of the Horses. Page 15 The King said: 14. Prince Satyavan is affectionate towards his father, but is he as well bright and intelligent? Is he, moreover, of a forbearing nature, and is he heroic in deed? Narad said: He is bright-shining like the Sun-god Vivasvan, and ...
... and sometimes eloquent. Her book is based on a wide literary culture ... All students of the work of Aurobindo and indeed of the spirit of modern India must be grateful to Dr Nandakumar for this intelligent and sympathetic guide to the masterpiece of a poet whose work is still too little known outside India. During the last fifty years, Savitri has been increasingly gaining ...
... only a day before as usual. How it happened, we still don't know. His end came in the year 1970 when he was 70. I remember some anecdotes narrated by him. Page 6 He spoke of an intelligent visitor who, after three days of stay at the Ashram, said to Mother, "When I look at you, I do not want to leave; when I look at the people here, I do not want to stay". An Ashramite felt unhappy ...
... communion with intelligent beings and forces living behind the veil of gross matter sensible to our limited material organs. Nature worship is another side of the same ancient truth. Fetishism remembers barbarously the great Vedic dogma that God is everywhere and God is all and that the inert stone and rock, things mindless and helpless and crude, are also He; in them, too, there is the intelligent Force that... planets. The mythologies are ancient traditions, allegories and symbols. The savage and the cannibal are merely the human beast, man hurled down from this ascent and returning from the sattwic or intelligent state into the tamasic, crumbling into the animal and almost into the clod by that disintegration through inertia which to the Hindu idea is the ordinary road to disappearance into the vague and... Harvard palaeontologist Stephen Jay Gould has said that if the great experiment of life were re-run a million times over, chances are it would never again give rise to mammals, let alone mammals intelligent enough to invent television.” 32 (Gould’s opinion, however, is limited, for it takes gross material evolution as the only possibility. According to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother there is life ...
... it in all our being, because it is to be found on all the planes of our existence and in all our members, so that our mental, vital, physical existence shall become full of the divine nature. Our intelligent mentality is to become a play of the divine knowledge-will, our mental soul-life a play of the divine love and delight, our vitality a play of the divine life, our physical being a mould of the divine... consummate practice of a perfect psychological knowledge. The data of philosophy are the supports from which it begins in the realisation of God through the principles of his being; only it carries the intelligent understanding which is all philosophy gives, into an intensity which carries it beyond thought into vision and beyond understanding into realisation and possession; what philosophy leaves abstract ...
... people who used to think themselves extremely intelligent, by the way, who thought they knew a lot, and when I spoke to them about the different parts of the being they looked at me like this ( gesture ) and asked me, “But what are you speaking about?” They did not understand at all. I am speaking of people who have the reputation of being intelligent. They don’t understand at all. For them it is just ...
... deal with the opposition of the demos without being hampered by inconvenient and trammelling considerations of legal procedure and the narrow limits of legality. But in a fight with an acute and intelligent people, a nation of born lawyers, this is only possible on condition that the judiciary are willing to support and confirm the actions of the executive unhesitatingly and without a qualm. These ...
... drop of sincerity has more value than an ocean of pretence and hypocrisy. * School is just a preparation to make the students capable of thinking, studying, progressing and becoming intelligent if they can all that must be done during the entire life and not only in school. November 1967 * What should he the guiding principles of the new ideal of education? Truth ...
... this constant change in his life and surroundings and goes on as if things are fixed and stable for ever. But for this illusion, there could not be the continuance of the world. A rational and intelligent human being would certainly get disgusted with this perpetual change and would prefer to remain inactive because of the lack of certitude that life would always remain fixed, pleasant and prosperous ...
... and then the many formulations. You can exercise your mind in this way, Page 34 teach it suppleness, subtlety, strength and other virtues, In fact, if you wish to be truly intelligent, you must learn a bit of mental gymnastics, even as you have to do physical gymnastics if you wish to have a strong capable body. People who have never done mental gymnastics have a small elementary ...
... and then the many formulations. Page 26 You can exercise your mind in this way, teach it suppleness, subtlety, strength and other virtues. In fact, if you wish to be truly intelligent, you must learn a bit of mental gymnastics, even as you have to do physical gymnastics if you wish to have a strong powerful body. People who have never done mental gymnastics have a small elementary ...
... practised in all schools without exception. * ...the children are very noisy. A minimum of silence is necessary. I know that the most undisciplined children are usually the most intelligent. But to be tamed they must feel the pressure of an intelligence that is more powerful than their own. And for that, one must be able not to come down to their level, and above all know how to remain... before them as to what we could do and how we could do it. But I get absolutely no response, no initiative, no proposal as if I were speaking to a wall. Yet the students are good, friendly and intelligent. Something must be missing in me that in spite of my best effort I get no response. I feel like leaving the class. For the first time I am having this experience. Yesterday I was on the point of ...
... you answer insult by insult, blow by blow and agitation by agitation. Sri Aurobindo speaks of "the rejection of ... stupidity, doubt, disbelief". 4 If one rejects stupidity does one become intelligent? Do you mean whether one can get rid of stupidity? Yes, there is a way. It is not easy, but there is a way. I have known people who were extremely stupid, truly stupid; well, these people succeeded... coming into contact with their psychic being. It was not a constant contact, it was momentary, at times very fugitive. But while they were in contact with their psychic being, they became remarkably intelligent, they said wonderful things. I knew a girl Page 368 who had no education, nothing, truly stupid; people said, "There is nothing to be done about it, it is not possible." Well, when she ...
... mastered European conditions and knowledge, rather we have been seized, subjected and enslaved by them. Successful rejection is possible only if we have intelligent possession of that which we wish to keep. Our rejection too must be an intelligent rejection; we must reject because we have understood, not because we have failed to understand. But our Hinduism, our old culture are precisely the possessions ...
... Instead of complaining to either man or God, both of them had accepted the punishment with a smile. Both brothers were s ādhaks but their natures were different. Nagendra was steady, grave, intelligent. He was very fond of godly conversation and religious topics. When we had been kept in solitary confinement the jail authorities had permitted us, at the end of the day’s labour, to read books. Nagendra... spirit of equality, renunciation of the desire for fruit, to see the Divine in all things, etc., is the index of a not negligible inner life or spiritual capacity, s ādhan ā . Dharani was not as intelligent as Nagendra, but he was obedient and tender by nature, temperamentally a devotee. He was always wrapt up in the idea of Divine Motherhood, and looking at the Grace that shone on his face, his innocent ...
... thing itself, is sattwic and preserves the thing itself; achar without knowledge, looking to the letter of custom and observance, disregarding the spirit, is tamasic and destroys the thing itself. Intelligent observance and custom are always ready to change when change is needed, for they know themselves to be important but not essential. Ignorant observance and custom consider themselves the thing itself ...
... contact with the outer world and of becoming aware of what it is. And sometimes you can spend a whole lifetime learning how things are in their appearances and be considered very cultured, very intelligent, highly knowledgeable, when you have observed all this in detail and remembered all that you have observed or learnt... Strictly speaking, you can, when you have worked hard, have some slight ...
... the sooner they give up their leadership and attend to their spiritual salvation, the better for themselves and the country. The situation in East Bengal puts three important questions to any intelligent leadership. Is East Bengal to be left alone to fight out the battle of nationalism while the rest of the country looks calmly on? Is reaction to be allowed to persecute local and disorganised forces ...
... Question Hitler and his God Intelligence “Intelligence is the mortal sin of the Jews”, said one Friedrich Gentz. The Jews were indeed thought to be an intelligent sort of people, and they were hated and feared for it. Hitler himself wrote in Mein Kampf: “The intellectual faculties of the Jews have been trained through thousands of years. Today the Jew is ...
... telling you bluntly because it's no use making sentences. ( silence ) When you were in hospital, for several days I was in constant concentration at night so that... My own way is a way that intelligent people regard as very childish, but which I find the best: I turn to the Lord and pray to Him with all the ardor of my consciousness; and I asked Him to save your life, which was in danger, with ...
... has to go on its own. It must depend entirely on itself, bring out what it carries within itself or has acquired and stored. It has to outgrow its childhood or apprenticeship, the period when an intelligent amount of pressure or even coercion might be needed or inevitable. But that stage passed, the higher realisation has to be the natural expression of ordinary earth-life: its normal state has to be ...
... speed of my epistolary movement. MYSELF: So, J is going tonight. If any intelligent fellow with some interest in work can take his place or guard the Dispensary at least, please give us one. Page 12 SRI AUROBINDO: Good Lord! What high expectations! Where are they, these intelligent interested fellows who are ready to stand guard over the Dispensary? Spot them, please... please. MYSELF: Very strange, Sir, that you don't have a single intelligent chap in the species of your Supramental race to be! On what do you build your hopes, please? SRI AUROBINDO: Excuse me, you said intelligent and interested.... You might find one of these separately, but how do you hope to get them combined together? Anyhow, we can't hunt for the kind of animal you want ...
... only an organised republic of animalcules, and it is in the mould of that idea Europe has recast herself;—that is what the European nations are becoming, organised republics of animalcules,—very intelligent, very methodical, very wonderful talking and reasoning animalcules, but still animalcules. Not what the race set out to be, creatures made in the image of the Almighty, gods that having fallen from ...
... divine Grace will answer, but do not think it will answer in Falsehood...." An admirable sentence. Only, they don't know: they are the possessors of the Truth—the Falsehood is the others!... And even intelligent people (that's the strange thing, because it's so idiotic!), even people ... anyway, those with a brain, who understand, fall into the trap. It's very common at the School. ( silence ) ...
... who understand you best are the simple-hearted. Yes, they are touched. And their understanding is infinitely greater than that of "cultured" people—they understand better, they are more intelligent. Page 65 More receptive. Yes, they feel. They feel correctly, they mentalize less. ( Mother goes into contemplation ) Just before Satprem leaves So, if by our next ...
... has to go on its own. It must depend entirely on itself, bring out what it carries within itself or has acquired or stored. It has to outgrow its childhood or apprenticeship, the period when an intelligent amount of pressure or even coercion might be needed or inevitable. But that stage passed, the higher realisation is to be the natural expression of ordinary earth-life: its normal state is to be ...
... the logical conclusion. Then what to do?... We don't want to do away with life, so we do away with the Divine. That's it exactly. They can't take it—even those who are very intelligent (and this man is very intelligent): they immediately close up. I feel that this man himself is the obstacle and that if the book came out, it would be understood—not everywhere, but it would be understood. Not... public, but I see how things work in the universe: it will go far more surely and directly to those who are ready to receive it. And we mustn't believe that only an 'elite' public of especially intelligent and refined people will be touched: among very simple, open-hearted people there is a deep intelligence that understands and responds to these things far better than very cultivated people do—far ...
... people please themselves. You could have put to me a very interesting question: "Why am I fourteen years old today?" Intelligent people will say: "It is because it is the fourteenth year since you were born." That is the answer of someone who believes himself to be very intelligent. But there is another reason. I shall tell this to you alone.... I have drowned you all sufficiently well! Now you must ...
... greater becomes the number of Page 361 experiments and results of study and observation. You make for yourself a sort of mental structure in which you live. And unless you are powerfully intelligent, with an opening to the higher worlds, you have an innate, spontaneous, unshakable conviction of the absolute worth of your observations, and even without your having to think, it acts automatically... al terms or to speak to you from a slightly philosophical point of view, you cannot follow. And that is simply because you have not done any philosophical gymnastics. It is not that you are not intelligent, it is not that you don't have the capacity to understand: it is because you haven't done the proper gymnastics. I could tell you the same thing in another way: you have not learnt the language. ...
... are and endure and cannot with impunity be violated. What the instincts and impulses seek after, the reason labours to make us understand, so that the will may come to use the ethical impulses intelligently and turn the instincts into ethical ideas. It corrects man's crude and often erring misprisions of the ethical instinct, separates and purifies his confused associations, shows as best it can the... compromise between their conflicting claims, arranges a system and many-sided rule of ethical action. And all this is well, a necessary stage of our advance; but in the end these ethical ideas and this intelligent ethical will which it has tried to train to its control, escape from its hold and soar up beyond its province. Always, even when enduring its rein and curb, they have that inborn tendency. Page ...
... to variations of the Manichean theory which sees a double control in the world, God as the Principle of good and Satan as the Principle of evil. Those who regard the belief in the existence of an intelligent evil power as superstition, find the origin of evil in man who abuses his freedom and by his revolt and self-will gives birth to sin. This solution solves nothing, for it does not explain why there ...
... everything—impulsions, desires, etc.—could come from "outside," from universal Nature, as Sri Aurobindo moreover declares, "I become what I see in myself." ) I told him once that he would begin to be intelligent when he could set all opposites face to face and make a synthesis. What they lack is the sense of the fourth dimension, so they don't understand. There, everything holds together, in a very concrete ...
... expenditure or sacrifice, without the least care or reservation; the same person I have also found to be the vilest of misers in respect of certain other considerations. I have seen again the most intelligent person, with a clear mind, full of light and understanding, easily comprehending the logic and implication of a topic and yet I have seen him betraying the utmost stupidity of which even an ordinary ...
... not too much tied down to the body faint away when the bodily suffering becomes too strong. Only, when you go out of the body, leaving it as an inert mass, there must be someone near sensible and intelligent enough. The body must not be shaken violently to make you wake up. If people by the side are seized by a panic and hurl buckets of water upon your head, the result may be worse. Otherwise, the fainting ...
... poverty. Naturally if you have a few things – a dozen books and a limited number of objects – it is easier to have them properly arranged. But what is to be aimed at is a logical order, a conscious intelligent order among a multiplicity of objects. That requires a capacity for organisation. It is a capacity which every one must acquire and possess, unless of course you are physically disabled – when one ...
... help of examples only, it is seen that in the world of non-intelligent objects without being guided by an intelligence brings forth from it- Page 95 self the products which serve to further given aims of man. For example, houses, palaces, beds, seats, pleasure-gardens and the like are (only) contrived in life by intelligent artists in due time for the purpose of obtaining pleasure and... should this arrangement proceed from the non-intelligent original-matter (or the Samkhyas)? For lumps of earth, stones and the like are in no wise capable of this? Clay also, for example, is formed as experience teaches, to different shapes (only) so long as it is guided by the potter, and exactly in the same way must matter be guided by another intelligent power. He, therefore, who relies on the material... etc., as well. For when this is assumed there is no contradiction, and at the same time the scripture, which teaches an intelligent power as cause, is thereby respected. So that, as the arrangement (of the Kosmos) would become impossible, we may not have recourse to a non-intelligent power as the cause of the world." 2 "After anyone has been taught from the scripture, that also ether (or ...
... take the rays of light which come from above and translate them into terms of intelligent mentality and to accept, examine, develop, Page 850 intellectually utilise the intuitions that escape the barrier and descend into mind from the superconscience. It does this until man, becoming more and more intelligently conscient of himself and his environment and his being, becomes also aware that... a supplier of materials and data, but no longer quite itself or at ease in its action because half rationalised, dependent at least on some infused element however vague of reasoning or intelligent activity and incapable of acting to good purpose without the aid of the intelligence. Its roots and place of perfection are in the subconscient from which it emerges and man's business is to increase... accumulating store and a constant addition of ideas, memories, imaginations, judgments; these make up primarily the nature of activity of our knowledge. There is a kind of natural enlargement of this intelligent activity of the mind progressing by its own momentum, an evolution aided more and more by a deliberate culture, the increase of faculties gained by the culture becoming in its turn a part of the ...
... even then uses with a much less sure rapidity. We are entitled to see in this general fact the proof of a conscious Force at work in the animal Page 6 and the insect which is more intelligent, more purposeful, more aware of its intention, its ends, its means, its conditions than the highest mentality yet manifested in any individual form on earth. And in the operations of inanimate... inanimate Nature we find the same pervading characteristic of a supreme hidden intelligence, "hidden in the modes of its own workings". The only argument against a conscious and intelligent source for this purposeful work, this work of intelligence, of selection, adaptation and seeking is that large element in Nature's operations to which we give the name of waste. But obviously this is an objection ...
... gentlemen, I give them a hearty welcome, for they force you to be absolutely sincere, they unearth the subtlest hypocrisy and at each moment place you before your most secret vibrations. And they are intelligent, with an intelligence infinitely surpassing our own! They know everything, they know how to set your least thought against you, your least Page 143 argument or action, with a really wonderful ...
... You see, there are limits to the horrors men can commit because, in spite of everything, there is a psychic being behind that curbs them—but the Chinese don't have one. And they are VERY intelligent. ( Mother goes within a long time ) Mother, the problem is to find out how one can counteract all that, because in 1950 already, Sri Aurobindo had told the Americans: if you yield in Korea ...
... Page 27 the body faint away when the bodily suffering becomes too strong. Only, when you go out of the body, leaving it as an inert mass, there must be someone near sensible and intelligent enough. The body must not be shaken violently to make you wake up. If people by the side are seized by a panic and hurl buckets of water upon your head, the result may be worse. Otherwise, the fainting ...
... poverty. Naturally if you have a few things—a dozen books and a limited number of objects—it is easier to have them properly arranged. But what is to be aimed at is a logical order, a conscious intelligent order among a multiplicity of objects. That Page 11 requires a capacity for organisation. It is a capacity which every one must acquire and possess, unless of course you are physically ...
... Solution - A Free Grouping of Mankind These principles founded on the essential and constant tendencies of Nature in the development of human life ought clearly to be the governing ideas in any intelligent attempt at the unification of the human race. And it might so be done if that unification could be realised after the manner of a Lycurgan constitution or by the law of an ideal Manu, the perfect... vast and powerful empires or even the emergence of a single predominant world-empire, a king-state that will be accepted or will impose itself as the arbiter, if not the ruler of mankind. Not any intelligent principle, but necessity and convenience, not urgent light, but urgent power is likely to be the effective force in any political, administrative and economic unification of the race. Still, though ...
... if all that is not an illusion, if you are not just imagining things, if there is really any substance to it.... And mind you, this mistrust seems stupid, but you encounter it even in the most intelligent, even in those who have repeatedly had conclusive experiences—it is something that you take in with the food you eat, the air you breathe, your contacts with others; and that is why you can speak ...
... it is absurd in theory. It was the bureaucracy and the Magistrate who made a scapegoat of the Printer and not the Bande Mataram or anyone on its staff. Page 699 The Statesman is intelligent enough to understand this without having it pointed out and malice alone prompted its dishonest attempt to discredit us. ...
... reason to feel annoyed by people foreign to the body of their Germanic, or Nordic, or Nordic-Germanic, or Ario-Germanic race. Such non-Germans there had been among them for centuries, industrious, intelligent, even occupying high places in their society: they were the Jews, now representing about one person out of every hundred in the country. Like the populations of other European nations, the Germans ...
... nothing of the grand father in him. His father had more brilliance and dash. Pratap Singh has a soul – but not a strong one. Page 215 Jaysingh Rao was dull. Shivaji Rao was intelligent. I taught him French; he was a good student. Dhairyashil showed signs of premature development of lust. All that was due to the servants of the palace. Indira was more interesting and there was ...
... efficient people without education. It creates common interest and a basis of common understanding. I don't mean the present form of education. It has to be radically changed. The Indian boys are more intelligent then English boys of the same age and status but three-fourths of their talent and energy are wasted, while the English boys use their talent ten times better than the Indian because of the training ...
... he is a mental being, a means of the evolution of the mental self-expression of the spirit, cannot confine the rule of his action and nature to an obedience to the vital and physical law and an intelligent utilisation of it for the greater, more ordered, more perfect enjoyment of his vital and physical existence, perpetuation, reproduction, possession, enjoyment, expansion. There is a higher law of... direction. At first sight, if success is the desideratum, it is not clear what morality has to say in the affair, since we see in most things that it is a right understanding Page 404 and intelligent or intuitive practice of the means and conditions and an insistent power of the will, a settled drive of the force of the being of which success is the natural consequence. Man may impose by a system... automatically subjected to certain measures; it is the field of an instinctive vital Dharma. Man, liberated from these automatic checks by the free play of his mind, has to replace them by willed and intelligent restraints, an understanding measure, a voluntary discipline. Not only a powerful expenditure and free play of his energies, but also a right measure, restraint and control of them is the condition ...
... ourselves from hampering customs and superstitions, none of which are an essential part of our religion; if, instead of being dazed in imagination by the progress of Europe, we learn to examine it intelligently, and meet it with our own progress, there will be no reason for us to despair; but if we fail in this we must not hope to occupy a place in the civilised and progressive world. To speak with... agricultural classes at present. Page 703 The failure of the old arts and crafts, and especially that of arms, has thrown vast numbers back on the soil, and these classes are neither intelligent nor progressive. Many old professions are dying out and while those, who should have followed them, go back to the land, many of these professions are not such as to provide any hereditary capacity... difficulties lie. Their criticism, as a rule, is more destructive than educative. I have found it possible to do something to improve the more backward classes of cultivators by sending more intelligent ryots to show them better methods of cultivation; and the school for the Dhankas at Songadh has been more or less successful. These measures only serve to raise the internal level of the lower a ...
... particles come across the atmosphere and that is why the planets being near do not twinkle, while the stars being far do. Disciple : It is an intelligent way of believing, I am afraid. Sri Aurobindo : It is not at all an intelligent explanation. Disciple : Apart from theories, why do the stars twinkle ? Sri Aurobindo : You must ask them ! When we were young we... particles come across the atmosphere and that is why the planets being near do not twinkle, while the stars being far do. Disciple : It is an intelligent way of believing, I am afraid. Sri Aurobindo : It is not at all an intelligent explanation. Disciple : Apart from theories, why do the stars twinkle ? Sri Aurobindo : You must ask them ! When we were young we... Dr. Gaur has fallen off (from the nationalist group). Sri Aurobindo . I knew that he would. He has nothing very deep in him, only a gift of speech and sometimes he tries to show himself more intelligent than he is. He was with me at Cambridge and I have heard him speak at the College Union. He repeated during one speech three times : "The Egyptians rose up to a man"! Disciple : In Nagpur ...
... me. It is said that there are people who are very intelligent, and others who are foolish. Why? Why? But, my child, there are all kinds of things in Nature! No two things are identical. All the possibilities exist in Nature: Page 224 everything you can imagine and a hundred million times more. So you notice that there are intelligent people and again others who are not. And then there ...
... silence ) I'm going to make a declaration: 'I am not the leader of a group, I am not at the head of an Ashram.' Oh! It's disgusting. And that's not all. This J.M., who thinks herself highly intelligent, has written a letter saying, '... It is exactly the same teaching—exactly.' It's always exactly the same teaching! They are abysmally ignorant. (Satprem:) They jumble everything up. Yes... Compassion' 10 ), an integral conversion, with Sri Aurobindo, with his compassion—his compassion which gives us the opportunity to serve him. Oh, mon petit, we need to say something a bit intelligent, don't you think? I'm counting on you. I'm counting on you! Yes, of course—Sri Aurobindo told me so. But I stay behind, invisible! You don't even need to tell me things—you may tell me if ...
... someone, then someone else, a priestess in Egypt, anyway all kinds of things, and finally (I don't remember), it was in modern times: she met a young married couple; the husband was a remarkable man, intelligent (I think he was an inventor); his wife, whom he loved passionately, was a stupid and wicked fool who spoilt all his work, who ruined his whole life... and he went on loving her. And that's what (... what compels the cessation of existence, in order to allow the transformation to take place. And love, which is unconditioned: it doesn't depend on whether you are loved or not, whether you are intelligent or not, whether you are wicked or not—that goes without saying. But it was put in a ridiculous way. But it goes without saying, love is unconditioned, otherwise it isn't love, it's what I call b ...
... He who, in this life, has realised the cessation of suffering, who has laid down the burden and has liberated himself (from the yoke of attachment), him I consider to be a Brahmin. The intelligent man, gifted with profound wisdom, discerning the good and the evil path, who has attained the supreme goal, him I consider to be a Brahmin. One who seeks the company neither of householders ...
... expenditure or sacrifice, without the least care or reservation; the same person I have also found to be the vilest of misers with respect to certain other considerations. Again, I have seen the most intelligent person, with a clear mind, full of light and understanding, easily comprehending the logic and implication of a topic; and yet I have seen him betraying the utmost stupidity of which even an ordinary ...
... mess of many things, but there remains that need to learn. The French are a little stale. They're caught in refined but terrible constructions. Yes. And also they are too aware of being intelligent. They're imprisoned in intellectual castles! I almost felt like sending my blessings to your publisher.... If he began to understand, it would be fun! I'm not all that hopeful! Do you ...
... all Page 225 and the washing machine? "The Great Sense, the True Sense, tells us that man is not the end. It is not the triumph of man that we want, not an improved version of the intelligent dwarf—it is another man on the earth, another race in our midst. "'Man is a transitional being,' Sri Aurobindo said. We are right in the middle of this transition, it is bursting forth on every ...
... and space exist there also. Sri Aurobindo : Whether they exist or not need not trouble you. I have written at enough length on it. Philosophy Page 341 is the art of talking intelligently about things you know nothing about. Disciple : Hegel says : "being" is nothing : "becoming" is everything. Sri Aurobindo : How does he know ? All philosophy that is mental is ...
... symbolise the great destructive forces of Nature? It is a pity to complicate matters instead of adopting a reading such as even an intelligent child may find congenial! After all, isn't this poem taught often at school?" Well, I have much sympathy with the intelligent child and can enjoy several sallies of its mind. But its condition may be com-pared to that of a grown-up Indian with whom I once ...
... not an inconscient reason in things, for his Fire is not merely an inconscient force, it is Zeus and eternity. Fire, Zeus is Force, but it is also an Intelligence; let us say then that it is an intelligent Force which is the origin and master of things. Nor can this Logos be identical in its nature with the human reason; for that is an individual and therefore relative and partial judgment and intelligence... of things, but the Logos is one and universal, an absolute reason therefore combining and managing all the relativities of the many. Was not then Philo justified in deducing from this idea of an intelligent Force originating and governing the world, Zeus and Fire, his interpretation of the Logos as "the divine dynamic, the energy and the self-revelation of God"? Heraclitus might not so have phrased ...
... a catastrophe. When they see someone whom they love die or when they find themselves in particularly painful and difficult circumstances, they turn back upon themselves, if they are sufficiently intelligent, and ask themselves: "But really, what is this tragedy we are living, and what's the use of it and what is its purpose?" And only at that moment does one begin the search to know. And it is ...
... is to adhere integrally to the Truth." ( Mother then writes a second note: ) "Adhere totally to the Truth and you will be ready to receive Divine Love." When you say that to good intelligent folks, their heads spin!... ( Mother laughs ) I must say that making their heads spin amuses me very much! But the best part is that it's true! It's true, it is like that. Every time that there ...
... moment he will ask for another thing and go on doing without end. For it is a law, the law of desire, that it is never satisfied. So you can change your method and tell the child, supposing it is intelligent enough: "You see, you wanted so much to have the thing and now that you have it you don't care, you ask for something different. You will do the same with that also." But if it is a shrewd child ...
... people who used to think themselves extremely intelligent, by the way, who thought they knew a lot, and when I spoke to them about the different parts of the being they looked at me like this ( gesture ) and asked me, "But what are you speaking about?" They did not understand at all. I am speaking of people who have the reputation of being intelligent. They don't understand at all. For them it is just ...
... The Vanity of Reaction 07-October-1907 The devices of reactionary absolutism have a curious family resemblance all the world over. Reaction is never intelligent and never imaginative. Limited to the narrow horizon of its own selfish interests, committed to the preservation of the impossible and the resuscitation of corrupt systems and dead forms it has neither ...
... animal species, you know them, don't you, right up to the higher animals which, indeed, are very conscious. They have their own completely independent will. They are very conscious and marvellously intelligent, like the elephant, for instance; you know all the stories about elephants and their wonderful intelligence. Therefore, it is already a very perceptible appearance of mind. And through this progressive ...
... to like this man and this is the most important point. For cleanliness it is a matter of supervision. 15 July 1932 No wonder that Ojas 2 gave some trouble. These bullocks are quite intelligent enough to feel the change of people. This new man is not an expert and moreover he has something of a brute around him. You will have to look carefully after him, for I do not like his way of dealing ...
... he will ask for another thing and continue to do so without end. For it is a law, the law of desire, that it is never satisfied. So you can change your method and tell the child, supposing it is intelligent enough: "You see, you wanted so much to have the thing and now that you have it you don't care, you ask for something different. You will do the same with that also." But if it is a shrewd child ...
... m. The most famous trial remains the State of Tennessee vs. John Scopes in 1925, known as “the monkey trial.” In recent years, against the background of the controversy between creationism and “intelligent design,” there have been several more court cases in which evolution was at stake. Such events seem to be spreading to other countries, sometimes instigated by Muslim students or teachers, for Islam... Weinberg, caustically, is “all in favour of a dialogue between science and religion, but not a constructive dialogue. One of the great achievements of science has been, if not to make it impossible for intelligent people to be religious, then at least to make it possible for them not to be religious.” 24 The End of Science? It is not the intention of this book to attack science, but to examine its... diminished figure,” writes David Berlinski. 50 One expression of Dawkins’ idea of God is as follows: “Any designer capable of constructing the dazzling array of living things would have to be intelligent and complicated beyond all imagining. And complicated is just another word for improbable … Either your God is capable of designing worlds and doing all the other godlike things, in which case he ...
... is more intelligent, more purposeful, more aware of its intention, its ends, its means, its conditions than the highest mentality yet manifested in any individual form on earth. And in the operations of inanimate Nature we find the same pervading characteristic of a supreme hidden intelligence, "hidden in the modes of its own workings". The only argument against a conscious and intelligent source ...
... said by Sri Aurobindo. But then, afterwards, he added, "But we should not forget that he who wrote this is at least as intelligent as we!" ( Mother laughs. ) When people spend their time judging things, if they tell themselves, "But perhaps the other person is at least as intelligent as I am!", they would be less... But you have only to observe yourselves... you can observe yourself, catch yourself ...
... dealing with the physical and subconscient the working is always slower than when it acts on the mind and vital because Page 365 the resistance of physical stuff is always heavier and less intelligent and adaptable; but as a compensation the work done in the being by this slower movement is in the end more complete, solid and durable. You feel as you do only because you are largely identified... It is of course the physical consciousness that always came in with this ignorance, and the physical consciousness is stupid and obscure—even in men whose thinking minds are wise or at least intelligent. It is only by the Light from above that it can be illumined. It is always in the Peace and Power, which bring more and more that light, that you must take refuge. "At the mercy of the external ...
... wrongly and superstitiously in her, and we must be prepared to abandon a too persistent attachment to forms of faith and cling to the saving reality alone. A great and wide spiritual and intelligent faith, intelligent with the intelligence of that larger reason which assents to high possibilities, is the character of the śraddhā needed for the integral Yoga. This śraddhā —the English word faith ...
... more intelligent, more purposeful, more aware of its intention, its ends, its means, its conditions than the highest mentality yet manifested in any individual form on earth. And in the operations of inanimate Nature we find the same pervading characteristic of a supreme hidden intelligence, "hidden in the modes of its own workings". The only argument against a conscious and intelligent source ...
... good, that is bad, this is right, that is wrong, this one has this defect, that one has that bad thing, etc."—this is depreciatory judgment. For people who exercise their intelligence, the more intelligent they are, the more do they grow aware that they know Page 46 nothing at all and that with the mind one can know nothing. One may think in a particular way, judge and see in a particular ...
... your messages! Yes. Why? ( Mother laughs ) Because everyone finds the words aren't the ones he wants.... There has been quite a to-do with the Communists and the Soviet consul, a very intelligent man, it seems, who has read Sri Aurobindo, is quite interested, wants to be useful... and he says, "What can I do with 'divine consciousness'! 1 ( Mother laughs ) In our country the word 'divine' ...
... a very corpulent person. As he had some sense of beauty he disliked corpulency, and in order to reduce it or keep it within bounds, he took to fasting for one day a week regularly. As he was an intelligent man, he did not on that day give any thought to food, but he kept himself wholly engaged in writing and studying. Fasting was of use to him. The moral then is this: you must not think about ...
... puts you in touch with things you don't see and proves to you their existence.' It's not true," she averred. "I have known people ... I knew one man in particular who was a man of science, intelligent and worthy; he had done higher science studies, become an engineer, and he held an important position. "This man was a member of what is known as a society of 'spiritism,' which had discovered ...
... action, it is said of him that he is the sattwic, the rajasic or the tamasic man; but few are always of one kind and none is entire in his kind. The wise are not always or wholly wise, the intelligent are intelligent only in patches; the saint suppresses in himself many unsaintly movements and the evil are not entirely evil: the dullest has his unexpressed or unused and undeveloped capacities, the most ...
... true process, otherwise... There is nothing one cannot do, if one knows how to do it. ( Silence ) I have a question here which is more childish. Someone has asked: "Why are some people intelligent and others not? Why can some people do certain things while others can't?" It is as though you asked why everybody was not the same! Then it would mean that there would only be one single thing... to complaining that perhaps one is not of the best kind! If you look attentively at questions like this: "Why do some have much and others little?" "Why are some wise and not others? Why are some intelligent and not others?" etc., behind that there is "Why don't I have all that can be had and why am I not all that one can be?..." Naturally, one doesn't say this to oneself, because one would feel ridiculous ...
... much disappointment and disillusionment, fasten on false finalities and prevent advance to greater formulations of truth and perfection. What is needed is a great and wide spiritual and intelligent faith, intelligent with the intelligence of that larger reason which assents to high possibilities. * * * Even real religion, which is spiritual only begins when outward worship corresponds to ...
... । ऊर्ध्वं भानुं सवितेवाश्रेन्मेतेव धूमं स्तभायदुप द्यां ॥ अमृरः अमूढः प्रगल्भ इत्यर्थः मंद्रः मदनीयो मादयिता वा मेता स्थूणा Page 672 उप द्यां द्युलोकस्योपरि S. The intelligent offering priest, the enrapturing Agni of great knowledge is settled among the peoples (the priests) in (for) the sacrifices; he resorts upward to his lustre like the sun; like a pillar he supports ...
... depend on the amount one has read, it is a quality of the mind. Study only gives it material for its work as life also does. There are people who do not know how to read and write well who are more intelligent than many highly educated people and understand life and things better. On the other hand a good intelligence can improve itself by reading because it gets more material to work on and grows by exercise ...
... and power of a single individual, have already in the inception this grain of incapacity and disease and death that they are not an integrally self-conscious creation, they are not, as a whole, intelligent and wide awake and therefore constantly responsive to the truths and ideals and realities for which they exist, for which at least, their founder intended them to exist. The light at the apex is ...
... very corpulent person. As he had some sense of beauty he disliked corpulency, and in order to reduce it or keep it within bounds, he took to fasting for one day a week regularly. As he was an intelligent man, he did not on that day give any thought to food, but he kept himself wholly engaged in writing and studying. Fasting was of use to him. The moral then is this: you must not think about ...
... He used to come regularly to these reunions which took place on Wednesday evenings. His parents were decent country folk who bled themselves white to pay for his life in Paris. The boy was very intelligent and a true artist, but he was depraved. We knew about it, but that was his private life and none of our business. "That particular evening there was a reunion, and we were perhaps four or five ...
... put down with a strong hand. Our contemporary must be far more simple-minded than what one should expect him to be, judging both from his general education and experience and his position as an intelligent observer and critic of current affairs, if he ever thought that there could be any real affection and loyalty to an alien despotism, such as the present Government in this country undoubtedly is ...
... In this way, very naturally, everyone works at once for himself and for the collectivity. This orderly and harmonious country was ruled by a king who was king simply because he was the most intelligent and wise, because he alone was capable of fulfilling the needs of all, he alone was both enlightened enough to follow and even to guide the philosophers in their loftiest speculations, and practical ...
... country asking for alms. In a meadow he met a ram. The furious animal got ready to rush at him, and to do so, took a few steps back and lowered its head. "Ah!" said the monk, "here is a good and intelligent animal. He has recognised that I am a man full of merit, and he is bowing down before me to greet me." Just then the ram rushed forward and knocked the virtuous man to the ground with one blow ...
... progress by obedience. But also I may, by an intuition in my nature, an aspiration in my heart and a reason in my mind, put myself at the service of Page 161 some strong ideal, some intelligent Force that serves God with or without knowledge of Him. Then is my will a true will; it does its share, it leaves its quota, it returns to its Master with its talent used or increased. And to a certain ...
... discomfort, it doesn't matter—it doesn't matter. There is the sense of this Divine Presence, always, everywhere, every moment. That doesn't go away. ( silence ) Oh, you know, we think we're very intelligent, but... ( laughing ) how poorly we understand! It's like a little piece cut out of the Whole, so we no longer see anything. Now it's beginning to be better. ( silence ) Has it made your ...
... interest in public questions than even the so-called educated classes. They have joined our meetings in their thousands and their tens of thousands, and have taken, during the last twelve months, an intelligent interest in our movements. What right have we now to ignore them in such momentous matters as the submission of a fresh memorial to the Secretary of State, which may radically change the face of ...
... following. The Moderate party at present is held together merely by the prestige and personal influence of the small secret Junta of influential men who lead it, not by any settled convictions or intelligent policy. The personalities of Mr. Gokhale and Sir Pherozshah Mehta in Bombay, of Sj. Surendranath Banerji and Sj. Bhupendranath Bose in Bengal, of Pandit Madan Mohan Malaviya in the United Provinces ...
... this: The way to really awaken the physical consciousness is physical education. It's physical education that teaches the cells to be conscious. But to develop the brain, it's study, observation, intelligent education—especially observation and reasoning. And naturally, for the whole education of the consciousness from the standpoint of character, it's yoga. Another question: "Does the central ...
... Administration. The Bureaucracy was dead certain that 'Arabinda Ghose' was at the centre of the mighty rebellion. The highest-ranking officials gave him full credit for being 'extraordinarily sharp, intelligent and powerful.' And to crown it all, a bold bad man! In fact, the Government — used to the amazing timidity of Congress Moderates—must have assumed that Indians were a nation of cowards and old ...
... The old pre-Buddhistic Sanscrit was, to all appearance, a simple, vigorous, living language understood though not spoken by the more intelligent of the common people just as the literary language of Bengal, the language of Bankim Chandra, is understood by every intelligent Bengali, although in speech more contracted forms and a very different vocabulary are in use. But the new Sanscrit of the revival... The old pre-Buddhistic Sanscrit was, to all appearance, a simple, vigorous, living language understood though not spoken by the more intelligent of the common people just as the literary language of Bengal, the language of Bankim Chandra, is understood by every intelligent Bengali, although in speech more contracted forms and a very different vocabulary are in use. But the new Sanscrit of the revival... recognised by all the commentators, that in the Upanishads the gods are masters not only of material functions in the outer physical world but also of mental, vital and physical functions in the intelligent living creature. This will be directly evident from the passage describing the creation of the gods by the One & Supreme Being in the Aitareya Upanishad & the subsequent movement by which they enter ...
... existence and must serve this one aim and endeavour. This is the formula which European civilisation has accepted and is still labouring to bring into some kind of realisation. It is the formula of an intelligently mechanised civilisation supporting a rational and utilitarian culture. Or is not the truth of our being rather that of a Soul embodied in Nature which is seeking to know itself, to find itself... civilisation striving through the perfection but also through an exceeding of mind, life and body towards a high soul-culture. Whether the future hope of the race lies in a rational and an intelligently mechanised or in a spiritual, intuitive and religious civilisation and culture,—that, then, is the important issue. When the rationalist critic denies that India is or ever has been civilised, when ...
... organise your cerebral capacity. If you remain in your hazy movement in that kind of cloudy fluidity, you may labour for years, it will be quite useless to you; you will not come out of it more intelligent than when you entered it. But if you are able, even for half an hour, to concentrate your attention on things that seem to you of very little interest, like a rule of grammar, for example (the rules... going to explain it to you: when you have understood, it forms a little crystal in you, like a little shining point. And when you have put in many, many, many of these, then you will begin to be intelligent. That is the utility of work, not simply to stuff the head with a heap of things that take you nowhere. How is it that in people occupied with scientific studies artistic imagination is lacking ...
... action, a greater and spontaneous certitude. It acts in a self-light of the truth which does not depend upon the torch-flares of the sense-mind and its limited uncertain percepts; it proceeds not by intelligent but by visional concepts: it is a kind of truth-vision, truth-hearing, truth-memory, direct truth-discernment. This true and authentic intuition must be distinguished from a power of the ordinary... certainty is too often a confident error. The validity of its conclusions must always depend on a subsequent verification or support from the evidence of the sense-perceptions or a rational linking of intelligent conceptions must intervene to explain to it its own certitudes. This lower light may indeed receive very readily a mixture of actual intuition into it and then a pseudo-intuitive or half-intuitive ...
... interesting reply brings in its train others and the child, his attention attracted, learns without effort much more than what he usuaHy does on the Page 116 school bench. A careful and intelligent selection should also give him a taste for healthy reading which is at once instructive and attractive. Fear nothing that awakes and satisfies his imagination; it is imagination that develops the ...
... work done had an interest of its own." Thus A. A. Ghose, who had not been taught any Greek by Rev. Drewett, was coached in it in the 'special' class, and as he was found to be exceptionally intelligent, he was pushed up rapidly into the upper forms. The most formative years of Sri Aurobindo's life were therefore influenced by two Englishmen — Reverend W. H. Drewett and Dr. R W. Walker. When ...
... perception of an Unity in their multitude, melted on closer analysis into a single concept, a single Force or Presence, one and universal. The question then arose, Was that Force or Presence intelligent or non-intelligent? God or Nature? "He alone" hazarded the Rigveda "knoweth, or perhaps He knoweth not." Or might it not be that the Oneness which ties together and governs phenomena and rolls out the evolution... power must be intelligent consciousness unmanifested; must , because it is obviously a power that can plan, arrange and suit means to ends; must because otherwise the law of subtler involving grosser cannot obtain. If matter is all, then from the point of view of matter, the gross is more real because more palpable than the subtle and unreality cannot develop reality; it is intelligent consciousness... Science mean anything and are not a chaos, an illusion or a chimaera, they can only mean the existence of an intelligent consciousness present and working in all things. Parabrahman therefore is present subjectively even in the condition of Avyakta no less than in the other conditions as intelligent consciousness and therefore as bliss. For the rest, we are driven to the use of metaphors, and since metaphors ...
... Darwinism. ‘Intelligent Design’ Readers informed about the present controversy concerning ‘intelligent design’ will have noticed that Alfred Wallace was stepping on the same path. He did so openly, sincere and outspoken as always, and made his viewpoint perfectly clear. He reminded his readers of the terms he had used for the Overruling Intelligence – “some other power”, “some intelligent power”, “a... truth, or believe that those will be better off in a future state who have lived in the belief of doctrines inculcated from childhood, and which are to them rather a matter of blind faith than intelligent conviction.” 3 A book that influenced Wallace particularly was Robert Chambers’ Vestiges of the Natural History, published anonymously in 1844. “ Vestiges started harmlessly enough,” describing ...
... these will be understood - it will be understood that we are intelligent beings! (Mother laughs, scoffing) I no longer remember the message I gave them. But a message for the new man... What am I going to say to them?... What is the new man? Do you know what the new man is?... Man is always new! It won't be an intelligent man. Well, so much the better! So much the better. ...
... of an hour or an hour), I had to order and organize everything. Then I saw how widespread it is on earth. (Note that these young people belong to the "top" of society, they are regarded as very intelligent, they are very well educated, in a word, it's about the best you can find in mankind! Not the dregs, far from it.) And I wondered if it isn't even more widespread in Western countries than here—I... Sri Aurobindo was here, there was a boy who was quite uncontrollable: he had fits of anger which he couldn't control (not that it occurred to him to control them!). He was an engineer and a very intelligent boy (but that makes no difference), and once, while Sri Aurobindo was in my room, this boy came up the stairs and had me called. I went out to see him. Then he flew into a great rage, began shouting ...
... where all these movements of the mind are for you a play altogether relative—you may play well or ill, but it is all a play. There are people who know how to make use of it, these are the so-called "intelligent" people and there are those who do not know how to use it, these are the so-called "fools". Page 170 Things are "in" us to the extent we identify ourselves with them—if we push back ...
... three contradictions! I am telling you this because I have heard people who read in a rather superficial way and perhaps also don't read continuously enough—people who consider themselves extremely intelligent and learned—who have told me, "But Sri Aurobindo repeats himself all the time in this book! He tells us the same thing again in almost every paragraph." ( Mother laughs ) For he presents all other ...
... anchor holds." Mr. Morley's fur coat is one of the most comprehensive garments ever discovered. All the tribe of high-aiming tyrants and patriotic pirates and able political scoundrels and intelligent turncoats that the world has produced, he gathers together and covers up their sins and keeps them snug and comforted against the cold blasts of censure blowing from a too logical and narrow-minded ...
... reach us through our dreams, we have too much rationality, too much cerebrum to obey it – but Hitler listens and obeys. The true leader is always led .” 900 Are so many testimonies by honest and intelligent witnesses to be disbelieved because they do not fit within the framework of post factum theories with “too much cerebrum”, or because the current philosophical and religious interpretations of the ...
... When she was awake, she understood wonderfully; and she herself was furious, but she didn't have ... she didn't have the power to get free of the influence on her subconscient. She was far more intelligent than Mrs. Z, there's no comparison. She was a great artist. What should I do? Should I attempt something? I am like an intermediary, you understand. Or should I put it to her bluntly, but with ...
... she was dead. And she lives like that, in the subtle physical, and I see her very, very often, very often (she is a little better than Page 188 she was physically, but not much more intelligent!). But the other night, she brought me big prunes (they were this big), and I ate a few, and found them very good; then Pavitra came along, looked at those poor prunes and told me, "Oh, you shouldn't ...
... the work of contemporaries like Yeats, Eliot and Ezra Pound. While the extent of the influence might not have been very appreciable, there can be no question about the reality of Sri Aurobindo's intelligent interest in contemporary English poetry. Passages from The Hollow Men are scanned in Sri Aurobindo's essay on quantitative metre as examples of the new 'ametric poetry', and once, in 1946, in ...
... Montessori method of child-education ? Disciple : The principle is to base education round the spontaneous activities of the child, i.e., primarily, round its sense-activities which have to be intelligently guided by the teacher. In fact, the child learns, the teacher does not teach in the old sense. Group-life furnishes occasions to inculcate social virtues in the child's mind. Freedom of the child ...
... covered the whole of Bavaria under the command of the powerful General Arnold von Möhl. Captain Mayr was appointed chief of this propaganda section. Mayr, “very much radical Right”, was “ambitious, intelligent, a talented organizer and politically involved”; he was also an opponent of the Weimar Republic and an anti-Semite. 16 His network of connections seems to have extended to the most influential centres ...
... Faber, 1996 Dyson, Freeman: Infinite in All Directions , Pelican Books, 1989 Ferguson, Kitty: The Fire in the Equations , Bantam Books, 1994 Foster, John Bellamy, and others: Critique of Intelligent Design , Monthly Review Press, 2008 Fox Keller, Evelyn: The Century of the Gene , Harvard University Press, 2000 Fuller, Steve: Kuhn vs Popper , Icon Books, 2003 Garreau, Joel: Radical ...
... self-regulating organism. 1 But it must be remarked that modern democracy and modern socialism are only a first crude and bungling attempt at that consummation, an inefficient hint and not a freely intelligent realisation. At first, in the early stage of society, there is no such thing as what we understand by law, the Roman lex ; there are only a mass of binding habits, nomoi, mores, ācāra , determined ...
... clasping the hands like this... Oh! if one lost one's temper: "I am becoming better and better, I don't lose my temper now." ( Laughter ) (Pavitra) Every day I am becoming more and more intelligent. That's really good. Why, and if you repeat to a child, if you make him repeat, "I am good, day by day more and more." "I am better and better, I am more and more obedient." Oh, but this is ...
... acquires. So it doesn’t itself carry any special virtues except the same kind of qualities as those one learns through chemical manipulations. You may reproduce these manipulations, but if you are an intelligent and capable being, you can by the help of these manipulations obtain an interesting and useful result, and in any case, be sheltered from all danger; whereas if you are an idiot, misfortunes may ...
... have a meditation on it, and in the following lesson to ask me questions on the sentence from the previous week. Then, from the questions I am asked, I shall choose those that seem to me the most intelligent and answer them. And later we shall take a new sentence which will serve as the subject for meditation on that day and the subject for questions the following week. And this I am going to do with ...
... and that they appear quite happy. So they are doing studies on them: there's an American scientist looking after all that, and someone told him (I read this yesterday), "You say they may be as intelligent as we are, but if they were they would have tried to make themselves understood and to understand us." The other fellow replied ( Mother laughs ) that perhaps it was wisdom, because they would have ...
... begun Savitri —ah!... As you know, I prepare some illustrations with H., and for her illustrations she has chosen some passages from Savitri (the choice isn't hers, it's A.'s and P.'s and made intelligently), so she gives me these passages one by one, neatly typed (which is easier for my eyes). It's from the Book I, Canto IV. Page 37 And then, as I expected, the experience is rather interesting ...
... , if I don't get into some activity and persist [in going within], I literally start howling as if I were tortured. ( silence ) Yesterday I asked the doctor—not Sanyal, 3 Dr. Bisht, an intelligent man. He told me that some of the brain's cells are independent, they aren't controlled (in normal people), and they are the ones that become prominent when such movements take place.... So would ...
... his own training programme he should be free to take or not to take any particular test during the training programme, except when in the view of the educators he is unable to use his freedom intelligently and prudently Page 11 and is therefore in need of compulsory compliance with the advice and directions of the educators. At the end of the training period, the candidate ...
... weaknesses and strengths and some specific means by which one's body can be brought back to the normal state of equilibrium. It must be understood that even the most serious illnesses can be avoided by intelligent self-care of the body. The basic and essential point is that one must feel responsible for one's health. Personal responsibility is then what should count more and could bring real solutions ...
... medical treatment I had a lot to learn. In fact, it was in the Mother’s School that I took initiation in the Page 25 Healing Art. Her knowledge of medicine was far beyond any average intelligent doctor’s. I have noted in Twelve Years with Sri Aurobindo how she even non-plussed the orthopaedist. This knowledge that she possessed was primarily intuitive, but also partly derived from her vast ...
... questions they put. An interesting reply brings in its train others and the child, his attention attracted, learns without effort much more than what he usually does on the school bench. A careful and intelligent selection Page 112 should also give him a taste for healthy reading which is at once instructive and attractive. Again, you must fear nothing that awakes and satisfies his imagination: ...
... l thought makes a sort of scission in our being and on one side of the line is the vital urge carrying on life and on the other side the deliberate detached reason trying to observe it, take an intelligent view and extract from it all its thought values. The poet, as a child of the age and one of its voices, is moved to follow this turn. He too observes life, extracts the thought values of his theme... Passion, direct feeling, ardent emotion, sincerity of sensuous joy are chilled by the observing eye of the reason and give place to a play of sentiment,—sentiment which is an indulgence of the intelligent observing mind in the aesthesis, the rasa of feeling, passion, emotion, sense thinning them away into a subtle, at the end almost unreal fineness. There is then an attempt to get back to the natural ...
... what it should do in all independence, but usually it is obscured by the vital movements, desires etc. and its ideas and judgments are not pure. In physical mind there can be an action of intelligent reasoning and coordination which is a delegation from the Buddhi Page 169 and would perhaps not be attributed to the Manas by the old psychology. Still the larger part of the action of... mental physical—so that the two usually act together. The automatic or mechanical mind is called by us the mental physical—and distinguished from the physical mind which is that which deals intelligently with physical things. The other simply stores, associates, repeats, gives reflexes and reactions etc. Repetition is the habit of the mental physical—it is not the true thinking mind that ...
... their phenomenal existence. The balance of the gunas is only a quantitative and quite derivative play evolved out of this supreme Principle. All this activity of forms, all this mental, sensuous, intelligential striving of the lower nature is only a phenomenon, which could not be at all except for this spiritual force and this power of being; it comes from that and it exists in that and by that solely... each sense is the Divine in his dynamic conscious force. This we gather better from the other terms of the series. "I am the light of sun and moon, the manhood in man, the intelligence of the intelligent, the energy of the energetic, the strength of the strong, the ascetic force of those who do askesis, tapasyā ." "I am life in all existences." In each case it is the energy of the essential quality ...
... print that the human being, made in the image of God and therefore most noble among creatures, descended from the ape. An examination of the reactions to Darwin’s thesis shows that, intuitively, intelligent people knew that there must be truth in the assertion, for the resemblances between human and primate are obvious. But every important new idea evokes the full spectrum of reactions, from enthusiastic... religion, spirituality, occultism or the paranormal, that it has become synonymous with godlessness. As mentioned before, some neo-Darwinians have gone on an all-out attack on creationism and “intelligent design,” a movement that in its scientific form finds the works of nature too complex to have been brought about by the material mechanism of ‘Darwinism’. We know about Darwin’s religious struggle... David Berlinski: The Devil’s Delusion, p. 196. × John Forster e.a.: Critique of Intelligent Design, p. 29. × Jean Staune and Eric de Romain: L’Homme face à la science, p. 170. ...
... classroom where lessons are "taught". One of her most strongly held beliefs was never to silence a child who asks questions. She urged everyone to talk to Helen naturally, to give her full sentences and intelligent ideas, never minding whether Helen understood or not. Similarly, she did not believe in imposing tasks and ideas that would be wearisome or distasteful. Every child is naturally curious and she believed... than anyone can intimate or estimate, the story of Helen Keller is the story of Anne Mansfield Sullivan. This is not said to minimize the heroic achievements of the one, but to do justice to the intelligent, affectionate, and courageous devotion of the other. References 1. Helen Keller, The Story of My Life (New York: Lancer, 1968), pp. 360-61. 2. Ibid, pp. 35-36. ... teaching it; but invariably used language as a medium for the communication of thought; thus the learning of language was coincident with the acquisition of knowledge. In order to use language intelligently, one must have something to talk about, and having something to talk about is the result of having had experiences; no amount of language training will enable our little children to use language ...
... it leads to some distinct advantages, for it decidedly aids those who are not gifted with fine insight and literary discrimination, to understand certain sides of a poet's work more clearly and intelligently. But while it increases our Page 168 knowledge of the workings of the human mind it does not in the end assist or improve our critical appreciation of poetry; it helps to an understanding ...
... well be defeated. "The collapse came, mowing us down like corn in a field; and misfortune compelled us to regain possession of ourselves, to think carefully. The best of us are lost. The most intelligent, those who were most able to guide and direct us paid for their courageous self-sacrifice with exile or death. Consternation reigned in our ranks; at last I was able to make the others listen to ...
... not the same as seeing her with the physical eyes or having conversations with her. These things are extremely common among those who practise Yoga everywhere. In the Asram the sadhaks are too intelligent, sceptical and matter of fact to have much of that kind of experience. Even those who might develop it are repressed by the outward-mindedness and physical-mindedness that dominates the atmosphere ...
... or in the most material vital must be developed. I must tell you that this kind of capacity may come spontaneously, without effort—one may be a born clairvoyant. They are not necessarily very intelligent people, their vital consciousness may be mediocre, but they are born clairvoyant. It is not a sign of a great development—comes from something else, from a capacity of the parents, of past lives ...
... have a spiritual being within you, capable of awakening and living its own life, all these things teach you nothing at all. I knew some people—one of them especially, who was a man of science, intelligent, a man of real ability; he had studied higher science, become an engineer and held an important position; this man was a member of a society known as "spiritualist", which had found a medium who ...
... Asuras are beautiful in appearance and can carry even a splendour or light with them. It is the Rakshasas, Pisachas, etc. who are ugly or evil in appearance. Some of the vital beings are very intelligent—but they do not make friends with the Light—they only try to avoid destruction and wait their time. Very few [ vital beings ] come upon earth—they prefer to get hold of human beings and make ...
... so opposed to it in its psychological motives and real institutions without any apparent change of formula is one of the most curious phenomena in the social history of mankind and still awaits intelligent study. Our minds are apt to seize things in the rough and to appreciate only what stands out in bold external relief; we miss the law of Nature's subtleties and disguises. We can see and fathom ...
... Nature-Force, but it excludes the Silent Cause of the Sankhyas, the Purusha or observant and reflective Soul. Hence it conceives the world as a sort of automatic machine which has somehow happened. No intelligent cause, no aim, no raison d'être , but simply an automatic deployment, combination, chance self-adaptation of means to end without any knowledge or intention in the adaptation. This is the first ...
... the material experience, of the thing you touch. To use that without being governed by it, to base yourself on that without being influenced by it, is very difficult. Maybe someone much more intelligent, much smarter than me would find the work easier; but he would probably have more difficulties inside—no such difficulties here! But outside... For example, the chemical discovery of the structure ...
... FUNCTIONING; it's not the substance, not the essence. The essence isn't evil, but the functioning is faulty. But if you understand.... The words are so childish that if you tell this story to intelligent people, they look at you with pity—but it gives such a concrete grasp of the problem! It helped me a lot. It was written in English and I am the one who translated it into French—into horrible ...
... ) What's new? Nothing? Yes: V. 1 saw the photo of the Vatican man, and he confirmed, he said, "This is the man." This is the man... ( Mother looks at the photo ) Oddly, he's an intelligent man. But these people are hypocrites; they think in one way and act according to another principle. He isn't obtuse, he's a man who can understand. As for me, he strikes me as a cruel man ...
... Logic & Political Economy; one of the most important results of languages is to refine & train the power of expression, and nothing more enlarges the power of comparison & differentiation than an intelligent study of history. But no particular subject except language is essential, still less exclusively appropriated, to any given faculty. There are types of intellect, for instance, which are constitutionally ...
... If any girl would have been in my place she might have succumbed to this irresistible offer from such a wonderful person, full of vivacity, versatility, virile, devastatingly attractive, rich, intelligent and so forth. He deserves these adjectives and many more. Indeed, some men are most attractive. They are well dressed, well mannered and there is something dashing and jaunty about them. I might ...
... there cannot be a full and perfect transfiguration of the lower nature. We may feel imperfectly by the emotional mind, we may have a sense by the sense-mind or a conception and perception by the intelligent mind of the Spirit present in Matter and all its forms, the divine Delight present in all emotion and sensation, the divine Force behind all life-activities; but the lower will still keep its own ...
... reactions. Otherwise, there can be only at best a fallacious period of artificial peace. What was in the past will be sown still in the present and continue to return on us in the future. The intelligent mind or the best intellectual reason and science of man are not the sole disposers of our future. Fortunately for the order of things a greater unseen power, a Universal Will, or, if you please, ...
... as a divinely given task. The fact that a modern nation and indeed the nation most advanced in that efficiency, that scientific utilisation of Science, that spirit of organisation, State help and intelligent dealing with national and social problems and ordering of economic well-being which Europe understands by the word civilisation,—the fact that such a nation should be possessed and driven by such ...
... interests of the future. It is entirely futurist in its view; it turns away from the confused and darkened good of the past to the purer good of the future when man, at last beginning to become a truly intelligent and ethical being, will shake away from him all these sources of prejudice and passion and evil. Humanity will become one in idea and feeling, and life be consciously what it now is in spite of itself ...
... sense of wonder, it is the wonder of the psychic which sees the truth but does not understand much about the world, for it is too far from it. Children have this but as they learn more, become more intelligent, more educated, this is effaced, and you see all sorts Page 26 of things in their eyes: thoughts, desires, passions, wickedness—but this kind of little flame, so pure, is no longer there ...
... relates that a lady was beating her dog and saying, "It does not suffer, it has no soul, this is a reflex." Descartes maintains that men alone can feel! I have always been told that he was an intelligent man! If unhappiness entered the world with thought, happiness also entered, didn't it? Ah! Here is logic! When there is unhappiness there is happiness... without unhappiness, no happiness ...
... and others. He was a very fat man, and as he had a sense of beauty, becoming fat upset him very much. So he had decided to fast once a week; one day in the week he did not eat, and as he was an intelligent man he did not bother about food; he wrote, he worked hard on that day, and that kept him reasonably well and in an elegant form; and from that point of view it was very useful to him. This is ...
... acquires. So it doesn't itself carry any special virtues except the same kind of qualities as those one learns through chemical manipulations. You may reproduce these manipulations, but if you are an intelligent and capable being, you can by the help of these manipulations obtain an interesting and useful result, and in any case, be sheltered from all danger; whereas if you are an idiot, misfortunes may ...
... prison of our limits, of our stupid, narrow, ignorant sense which knows nothing of the Page 124 laws of life. The laws of life are not at all what you think they are nor what the most intelligent people think. They are quite different. Taking a step, especially the first step on the path—one begins to find out. Mother, here it is written: "Q: Is it a sign of sincerity to confess ...
... humility is humility towards the Divine, that is, the precise, exact, LIVING sense that you are nothing, can do nothing, understand nothing without the Divine, that even if you are an exceptionally intelligent and capable being, that is NOTHING in comparison with the divine Consciousness—and one must keep that constantly, because then one constantly has the true attitude of receptivity. A humble receptivity ...
... suppose that I was dreaming and that all that I saw or imagined was false, I could not at any rate deny that the ideas were truly in my consciousness. Since I had already recognised very clearly that intelligent nature is distinct from corporeal nature, I considered that composition is an evidence of dependency and that dependency is manifestly a defect. From this I judged that it could not be a perfection ...
... poignantly true. The irony of the situation Page 413 is that he cannot even think of transgressing the prison walls of the system by going out to play. The younger brother is intelligent and can afford to play gulli-danda [a simple stick game] without spoiling his examination results. And yet his elder brother's orthodox and conservative attitude towards games and sports is so... engages in those educative activities, although he confesses that he is "not at all interested in studies ". Is it not a simple, candid criticism of the way in which lessons are made so dull that even intelligent students do not take interest in them? Besides the amusing personal idiosyncrasies of the two brothers, we have in this short story an instructive indictment of an educational system that ...
... Kshatriya family of scholars and philanthropists. Naren's father, an attorney of the Calcutta High Court, had earned a lot of money and was free in spending it. His mother was deeply devout, highly intelligent and, though without formal education, had a remarkable memory. Naren was the eldest boy among three brothers and four sisters. In his boyhood he showed exceptional intellectual capacities and... Narendra than I recognised him to be that sage. 9 When questioned, Sri Ramakrishna admitted that the child in the vision had been himself. Narendranath's doubting, sceptical and highly intelligent mind grew to accept Riimakrishna as his Master. One marvels at such a transformation. Narendra ."' opposed to the traditional Indian idea of the chela owing blind obedience to the lie revolted ...
... later: This is a Mohammedan story, I believe. As it was said that Jesus raised the dead, healed the sick, made the dumb speak, gave sight to the blind, one day an idiot was brought to him, to be made intelligent and Jesus ran away! "Why did you run away?" he was asked. "I can do everything," he answered, "except give intelligence to an idiot." ...
... merits of others and is always ready to help another to succeed. IS FAIR AND OBEDIENT He observes the discipline and is always honest. Bulletin, August 1950 The ideal child is intelligent . He understands everything he is told, he knows his lesson before he has learnt it and answers every question he is asked. He has faith in the future which is rich with all the realisations ...
... which will end by crushing out the freedom, initiative and various growth of the human being. The State is bound to act crudely and in the mass; it is incapable of that free, harmonious and intelligently or instinctively varied action which is proper to organic growth. For the State is not an organism; it is a machinery, and it works like a machine, without tact, taste, delicacy or intuition. It ...
... aristocrat, very much conscious of this status; he was tall and good-looking, resembling the fine medieval statue The Bamberger Reiter, the Knight of Bamberg, in the cathedral of this town; he was intelligent and talented; and he had an extraordinary will power. To George and his disciples, poetry was more than a noble pass-time; it was a way of fullest existence and a means of knowledge and power ...
... along as lightly as the high seriousness of the central theme can permit and, expect perhaps for a somewhat "specialist" though valuable chapter on metrical experiments, they can be enjoyed by every intelligent reader who possesses "the upward-looking face". Glimpses of the Ashram's activity and development, portrayals of close friends, sketches of significant situations inner and outer, disclosures of ...
... stares at me as if to say, "Bats in her belfry!" So I don't say anything. I tried two or three times, just to see—there's no reaction, nobody understands, nobody! Even if I speak to someone more intelligent or better informed.... Once or twice I said something to Pavitra, to see what would happen: he immediately dogmatizes, makes a mental principle out of it (consistent with Sri Aurobindo's teaching ...
... method of any objective research; it is manipulated history. But it is precisely with such arguments and reasons that The Lives of Sri Aurobindo is plague-ridden. It is also very amazing that intelligent supporters of the biography should fall prey to these illogicalities and absurdities. But here is a thoughtful private observation from an American friend, and she as an academician deeply studied ...
... 4 Bankim's Bengal At the intervention of the Maratha leader M. G. Ranade (1852-1904), the political series New Lamps for Old came to an end. Ranade, however, was keen to meet the intelligent and promising young critic. An interview was arranged that very year, and they met at Bombay. "I remember," wrote Sri Aurobindo in Karakahini {Tales of Prison Life), "when, back home from England ...
... commercial and political advantages to be had from a secure base on the Coromandel coast. Francois Baron' was the Company's first Director General. In Francois Martin he found a devoted and intelligent assistant. When Baron died (14 May 1683) Martin stepped into his shoes. After several skirmishes with rivals—mainly the Dutch and the English—Martin opted to build his base at Pondicherry. Why P ...
... Mister Mind Mirra had first met him in Montmorency, at the house of Henri Morisset’s sisters, who were looking after her son André: Paul Antoine Richard, born in 1874 in the south of France, intelligent, good-looking, and very interested in occultism. Richard too must have discovered the Revue cosmique , for he had already been on a visit to Tlemcen from 7 January to 17 February 1907. One may suppose... shackles of marriage to press too deeply into her flesh, although we owe to that relationship many interesting letters addressed to her dear, generous ‘Mouchy,’ as she called her husband. The very intelligent Alexandra, now Madame David-Néel, was also active as a journalist and gave talks about all new and progressive topics: socialism, feminism, eastern religions in general and Buddhism in particular... books he wrote were based on her inspiration. She would accompany him to Pondicherry and to Japan, each time paying for the passage from the money she had left. Outwardly she would be the cultured, intelligent, refined Madame Mirra Richard, while inwardly she would be battling for Richard’s soul, having to swallow the venom of his antagonism and weather the fury of his Asuric revolt. The Mother sometimes ...
... study of their science. On the other hand, with capable astrologers the results have been often of such a remarkable accuracy as to put quite aside any possibility of chance hit, mere coincidence, intelligent prevision or any of the current explanations. I may instance the father of a friend of mine, a deep student of the science but not a professional, who predicted accurately the exact year, month, ...
... inferior animal forms, they again out of mollusc & protoplasm, jellyfish or vegetable animals, & so to the end of the series, then what need is there of anything but the training, preferably the most intelligent & scientific training of our mental, moral and physical energies till they reach a point when they are transmuted by the psychical chemistry of Nature into the coming superior type? But the problem ...
... operations as we see them in their present formula upon earth, arrives in him at the thing it was seeking to express. It has brought out the hidden principle of Mind that now operates consciously and intelligently on the life and the body. Man is the satisfaction of the necessity which Nature bore secretly in her from the very commencement of her works; he is the highest possible Name or Numen on this planet; ...
... light of aspiration in a precise place, because of the culture, the education it will find there. This happens much more frequently than one believes, especially in somewhat educated circles. An intelligent woman with some artistic or philosophical culture, a beginning of conscious individuality, may aspire that the child she is going to have may be the best possible according to her idea or according ...
... none in ordinary humanity with its ordinary mental make-up. How many people have a thought as a result of reflection? Very few, and if they have it, they are considered terribly hard or remarkably intelligent or despotic or authoritative—they are covered with all sorts of compliments! Page 201 And that, simply because they have a precise fashion of thinking. Take any general idea; for example: ...
... is really.... And the experience is renewable, renewable, renewable—I have only to make a slight inner movement and there it is. Ultimately, looking at it like any idiot who thinks himself intelligent, one could say: this must be why the Lord created the universe. For the joy of this You. If you understand something, congratulations! Au revoir, mon petit. ...
... cardinal of India (the first and only cardinal in India), a straightforward man and a wholehearted believer—he must be a fanatical Catholic, but with a sincerity, a fervor. The other fellow is very intelligent—oh, he has a mouth I cannot look at, dreadful. Anyway, we'll see what happens. It seems Kennedy is Catholic. That is a serious matter. They say he was the first person the Pope saw after ...
... words. And what questions they asked me!... "What is responsibility?..." One of the girls asked me, "What's the Divine?" Page 267 (They're all ultramodern people, you know, much too intelligent to believe in any godhead! They're far above that.) She asked me with a derisive little air, "What's the Divine?" So I looked at her ( Mother looks hugely amused ), and told her, "The Divine is the ...
... Neither have I! With my brother, we lived our whole childhood together, and very close, very close, until he entered Polytechnique 5 —for eighteen years—and he understood NOTHING. Yet he was an intelligent, capable man: he was a governor, and a rather successful one, in several countries. But he understood NOTHING.... He was friends with Jules Romains, 6 and Jules Romains told him he had a very ...
... person has got the quality which the name denotes, the other is of those where the person is the opposite of what the name denotes. In which category am I ?" Mother has spoken of him as a very intelligent man. To me she has spoken of his psychic. When Chinmayi's misbehaviour with Mother became unbearable for Udar, he offered to kill her. Mother replied, "Killing is no solution. The force behind ...
... Cultural Freedom to which several eminent men of letters from England and elsewhere had been invited. During a preliminary discussion I got riled and burst into my "Salvador de Madariaga". A very intelligent-faced old man whose brainy aspect was enhanced by his. almost total baldness came up to me and inquired with exquisite manners whether he had offended me in any way. I was taken by surprise. "But ...
... to the Communists, saying, "I give it to you so you don't have to take it"!... He told me personally (I was downstairs, long ago, Sri Aurobindo was there 9 ), he said to me, "China is a very intelligent country; they would be able to understand Sri Aurobindo's writings, and I see NOTHING ELSE that could save the world from confusion...." Only, naturally, it would have to be in Chinese—that's what ...
... operated on Page 240 and died 2 (that makes two in a row, among our best workers). The other one had an important government position and did us some incredible services (he was a very intelligent man and had been chief justice for a very long time), he was very helpful and full of faith and devotion. This one [M.] had even promised to lend some money, but he died just before—a few days before ...
... on KDS's "argument from Jesus' sinful body", I shall reserve my observations for whatever I have to say about James M. Somerville's letter which is a pleasure to read with its human as well as intelligent discussion of what he is moved to call my "fine paper". At the very outset Somerville infers from scriptural evidence that there is no sign of the doctrine of virginal conception in the ...
... hold, very concretely, of the truth of what caused the world's distortion.... The essence isn't evil, but the functioning is faulty. "The words are so childish that if you tell this story to intelligent people, they look pityingly at you; Page 41 but it gives such a concrete grasp of the problem! It helped me a lot." A slow smile spread across her face. "It was written in ...
... number of visitors were permitted to have darshan of the two together - the Mother seated to the right of Sri Aurobindo - and offer pranam to them. Since 1926 the number had grown year by year, but intelligent and tactful management made it possible for the Darshan to be completed in the course of the forenoon, or at least before 2 p.m. 1 The sadhaks and the permitted visitors first assembled in the ...
... continued Sri Aurobindo's text of 1917, "with capable astrologers the results have been often of such a remarkable accuracy as to put quite aside any possibility of chance hit, mere coincidence, intelligent prevision or any of the current explanations. I may instance the father of a friend of mine, a deep student of the science but not a professional, who predicted accurately the exact year, month, ...
... The next lines bring in more of such indicative imagery. Sri Aurobindo's detractors would feel elated in calling such images vague and pompous. But then, the Seer-Poet is certainly not less intelligent than William Walsh and Adil Jussawala's. He knows what he is doing. Contrary to Jussawala's view of Savitri as an "onion" opening to nothingness, 11 I find, every image of the poem intellectually ...
... she might be given again the capacity to read her works and Sri Aurobindo's. She said she did not care whether she could talk as freely as before, but would be endlessly grateful if she could intelligently absorb herself in their marvellous books. Her prayer was granted. Her speech too returned to normal. At one stage Dr. Sanyal proposed that if improvement was not rapid enough he might ...
... falsehood in us" of which the Vedic poet complains. Where then lies the hope that mind will repair its errors and guide itself according to the truth of things? The hope lies in Science, in the intelligent observation, utilising, initiation of the forces and workings of the Inconscient. To take only one instance,—the Inconscient operates by the law of heredity and, left to itself, works faultlessly ...
... a merit to have become rich. It is a calamity and perhaps it is a disgrace, that is, it is an expression of a divine displeasure. It is infinitely more difficult to be good, to be wise, to be intelligent and generous, to be more generous, you follow me, when one is rich than when one is poor. I have known many people in many countries, and the most generous people I have ever met in all the countries ...
... humility is humility before the Divine, that is, a precise, exact, living sense that one is nothing, one can do nothing, understand nothing without the Divine, that even if one is exceptionally intelligent and capable, this is nothing in comparison with the divine Consciousness, and this sense one must always keep, because then one always has the true attitude of receptivity—a humble receptivity that ...
... Auroville, and she came with a list of questions this long ( gesture ), saying, "I don't know Auroville's sociology too well." I told her ( laughing ), "Neither do I!" Then she asked me questions (very intelligent ones, mind you), and I answered her. But there was one thing about the selection of people and admissions to Auroville ... I told her that naturally, the essential condition to be able to select ...
... emphasis of the Western mind is on life, the outer life above all, the things that are grasped, visible, tangible. The inner life is taken only as an intelligent reflection of the outer world, with the reason for a firm putter of things into shape, an intelligent critic, builder, refiner of the external materials offered by Nature. The present use of living, to be wholly in this life and for this life, is ...
... (gesture). She told me, "I don't know very much about the sociology of Auroville." So I said, (laughing) "Me neither!" Then she asked me questions (notice, she Page 45 asked very intelligent questions) and I answered her. But there was something about the choice of people and admission to Auroville...so I told her that naturally the essential condition to be able to choose people is... refusal or incapacity, then, he HIMSELF runs away saying, "They're fools, they're trying to do something impossible, it's unrealizable" (I know many like that, they believe they're exceptionally intelligent). But even to place themselves, it is they who do it. ... She had come with the idea of a hierarchy. 1 said yes, everything is hierarchical, always, and especially all conscious individuals are ...
... difference: the physiological functioning of the monkey and ours are identical, except that ours has considerably deteriorated just because of the weight of this machinery. We have grown a bit too intelligent (I was about to say much too super-apes). We speak of the superman, but come to think of it, where simply is man? The next evolutionary bifurcation will be a radical one, that is to say, it will... whether we are ten thousand miles away or just across the room, as if there were no separation. And there is no separation, except in our clever little brains that suddenly thought they were more intelligent than all the little cells in the universe. Anyway.... It was a necessary stage in evolution. And when I think of how we could ever believe that all this evolutionary labor was designed merely for ...
... this only affects matters of detail and does not touch the fundamental principles of Dayananda's interpretation. Interpretation in detail is a work of intelligence and scholarship and in matters of intelligent opinion and scholarship men seem likely to differ to the end of the chapter, but in all the basic principles, in those great and fundamental decisions where the eye of intuition has to aid the workings ...
... was in this country an ancient and indigenous system of medicine, which had shared the fate of the other Hindu arts and sciences both in the comparatively high degree of scientific knowledge and intelligent practice it had reached in astonishingly early times and in the premature blight which had subsequently come over it. In surgery, in pharmacy and in sanitation its knowledge was sound and masterly; ...
... Naturally if you have about a dozen books and a very limited number of things, it is easier to keep them in order, but what one must succeed in doing is to put into order—and a logical, conscious, intelligent order—a countless number of things. That asks for a capacity of organization. Of course, if someone is very ill, has no strength to spare, then that's different. And yet even here, there are limits ...
... is a way which consists in giving him all he wants; and naturally, the next minute he will want something else, because that's the law, the law of desire: never to be satisfied. And so, if he is intelligent, one can tell him, "But you see, you insisted so much on having this and now you no longer care for it. You want something else." Yet if he was very clever he would answer, "Well, the best way of ...
... beautiful things in it, worthy of being preserved, and it would be a great pity if all this disappeared. But if there is another war, I can tell you that all this will disappear. For men are very intelligent creatures and they have found the means of destroying everything, and they will make use of this, for what's the good of spending billions to find certain bombs, if one might not use them? What is ...
... We live in a world of Falsehood, how can He see Falsehood and see..." But He sees the thing as it is! Exactly! I am not speaking of people of no intelligence, I am speaking of people who are intelligent and who try—there is a kind of conviction, like that, somewhere, even in people who know that we live in a world of Ignorance and Falsehood and that there is a Lord who is All-Truth. They say, "Precisely ...
... understand Sri Aurobindo. So are the teachers justified in asking us questions (on the texts of Sri Aurobindo studied in class)? I said it would take years to understand properly. But if you are intelligent you can understand something immediately ; and the teacher wants to assess your degree of intelligence. 7 October 1967 The nature of my work is such that I have constantly to go on reading ...
... spiritually, by each other. The great determining force has been the example and the aggression of Germany; the example, because no other nation has so self-consciously, so methodically, so intelligently, and from the external point of view so successfully sought to find, to dynamise, to live itself and make the most of its own power of being; its aggression, because the very nature and declared ...
... a humanity sinking into... an abyss of ignominy. Then they brought cards to me (they're preparing a new movement), cards with big photos—those little ones, if you knew how sweet they are! And intelligent! They're first-rate. And I saw the photo before knowing anything of the story; I looked and said, "Oh, what a lovely little one!" I instantly saw: receptive, admirable, an admirable kid! So there ...
... don't speak, most of the time they put on a nice little shell! That was the interesting thing, I told you: with the President, "that" opened up; with the Vice-President, nothing—because it was an intelligent man. It's very interesting! Yes, I am quite convinced that the greatest fortress is the intellect. Yes, yes.... I am convinced of it. Because it gives people confidence, it makes ...
... everything that leads humanity towards its future realization. Money should serve to augment that and to augment the material base for the earth's progress, the best use of what the earth can give—its intelligent utilization, not the utilization that wastes and loses energies. The use that allows energies to be replenished. In the universe there is an inexhaustible source of energy that asks only to be ...
... arteriosclerosis of the brain, she is becoming a little silly, reverting to a second childhood...." I saw this, it's really funny. I saw, I was shown a whole way of thinking. Ah, they think they're intelligent, they think they know a lot! Anyhow.... ( silence ) Even in India. And I am beginning to believe.... That's what I observe when I am put in contact with the outside world, Europe. ...
... is seen as of many planes - outer, inner, inmost, highest. Beauty is visioned as of several degrees - gross, subtle, supernatural, beatific. Goodness is beheld as of numerous poises - impulsive, intelligent, inspired, enlightened. And an urge is felt to rise from stage to stage, refine and largen one's capacity, merge one's initiative with some in-dwell-ing and over-brooding Mystery that is the All-True ...
... own consciousness—though much of it is still submerged and can be evolved—its own mode and rhythm of action and its characteristic way of expressing the self-nature of the being. If patiently and intelligently trained, it can respond to most of the psychological movements of our composite personality and reproduce them in a growing beauty of poise and form. But the training must respect its autonomy and ...
... in India, because it was held at a time when discontent reached its highest point in Bengal and it concerned people who were gentlemen belonging to the best society, cultured, educated and highly intelligent." The book tells us that the mass of documents filed, if counted individually, amounted to over 4000 pages, and the exhibits—bombs, revolvers and what not —numbered over 300. The Prosecution witnesses ...
... Upanishad. (Verses 11, 14.) An omnipresent Reality is the truth of all life and existence whether absolute or relative, whether corporeal or incorporeal, whether animate or inanimate, whether intelligent or unintelligent; and in all its infinitely varying and even constantly opposed self-expressions, from the contradictions nearest to our ordinary experience to those remotest antinomies which lose ...
... (Sunil-da) is a great man, he is unique. He has saved my life.” Mr. Parasara was floored by Sunil-da’s music and also by his humility. What did Sunil-da most cherish, strive for? A plausible and intelligent guess could be “Music.” A revisal of our thinking may not go amiss after the following. Once, some of his instruments went out of order, repairs were delayed and the date for the completion of the ...
... becomes a veritable manifestation and no longer a veiled growth. The will within grows conscious of the increasing godhead, awakens to the process, perceives the lines of the growth. Human action intelligently directed and devoted to the universal Powers, ceases to be a mechanical, involuntary or imperfect offering; the thinking and observing mind participates and becomes the instrument of the sacrificial ...
... every week—quite a small number of friends, three or four, who discussed philosophy, spiritual experiences, etc. There was a young boy, a poet, but one who was rather light-hearted; he was very intelligent, he was a student in Paris. He used to come regularly Page 320 to these meetings (they took place on Wednesday evenings) and one evening he did not come. We were surprised; we had met ...
... a Swedish artist, a French lady and... a young French boy, a student and a poet. His parents were decent country people who bled themselves white to pay for his life in Paris. This boy was very intelligent and a true artist, but he was depraved. (We knew about it, but it was his private life and none of our business.) One evening, when four or five of us were to meet, this boy didn't turn up, although ...
... those who were going to play), "To think that God sees all this and tolerates it!" ( Mother laughs ) I told her, "Maybe he doesn't see it as we do!" I found it amusing because she was a very intelligent woman. But that... ( Mother laughs ). ( silence, Mother coughs ) What time is it? Twenty past eleven. Already... I was going to propose a meditation, but it's too late. ( Mother ...
... students . The Mother: It depends on the age of the children. Tara : And also on how many hours each teacher will give . The Mother: One teacher can take forty students if he is intelligent. That means six teachers would be enough, six geography teachers. But we need... all that, good, we’ll have to arrange that for the end of the year, for the beginning of the next school-year. We ...
... Vedic knowledge and has the force to receive and assimilate it. 3) मयो दधे मेधिरः पृतदक्षो दिवः सुबंधुर्जनुषा पृथिव्याः । अविंदन्नु दर्शतमप्स्वंतर्देवासो अग्निमपसि स्वसृणाम् ॥३॥ Sayana:—Intelligent, pure in strength, a good friend from his birth, Agni, who disposes bliss of heaven & earth, the gods found that beautiful Agni within the waters of the flowing streams in (for?) the work (of bearing... कतुं पुनानः कविभिः पवित्रैः । शोचिर्वसानः पर्यायुरपां श्रियो मिमीते बृहतीरनृनाः ॥५॥ Sayana:—Agni with his bright lustres pervading the mid-air, purifying the doer of works (the sacrificer) with intelligent (or praiseworthy) and purifying lustres, wearing brightness about him as a dress creates for the active performers of ritual food and large & perfect prosperities. I object to this rendering that ...
... benefits.” He estimated in 1974 that a million civilizations may exist in our Milky Way alone. Given that our galaxy is but one of hundreds of billions of galaxies in the Universe, the number of intelligent alien species would be enormous. “The study of a single instance of extraterrestrial life will deprovincialize biology,” wrote Sagan in his best-selling Cosmos . “For the first time, the biologists... biologists will know what other kinds of life are possible. … Every star may be a sun to someone. Within a galaxy there are stars and worlds and, it may be, a proliferation of living things and intelligent beings and spacefaring civilizations.” Everyone does not share this enthusiasm. “Those searching for extraterrestrial intelligence have published copiously, in almost total absence of data and in complete ...
... books often need to be supplemented by what may be called 'Work Sheets', i.e. educational material so prepared that it can be studied only by the active participation and exercise of the student's intelligent reflection and application. These work sheets should be of . various types to permit alternative approaches; (d) a series of graded exercises which the students can handle on their own with... perfection, and the psychological process by which one can develop one's own personality are some of the most important and difficult things on which students have to reflect deeply in order to take intelligent decisions with regard to their progress. It should be the function of the teacher to provide to the students all the necessary elements of information and material relevant to these important... realities the effort will be to make the body supple, strong, agile, and beautiful; the vital will be trained to be dynamic, disciplined, obedient and effective; the mind will be cultivated to be intelligent, Page 92 observant, concentrated, rich and complex. But at every stage, the paramount importance will be given to the needs of the psychic and spiritual growth. As the Mother writes ...
... books often need to be supplemented by what may be called 'Work Sheets', i.e. educational material so prepared that it can be studied only the active participation and exercise of the student's intelligent reflection and application. These work sheets should be of various types to permit alternative approaches; (d) a series of graded exercises which the students can handle on their own with... perfection, and the psychological process by which one can develop one's own personality are some of the most important and difficult things on which students have to reflect deeply in order to take intelligent decisions with regard to their progress. It should be the function of the teacher to provide to the students all the necessary elements of information and material relevant to these important... will be to make the body supple, strong, agile, and Page 193 beautiful; the vital will be trained to be dynamic, discipline, obedient and effective; the mind will be cultivated to be intelligent, observant, concentrated, rich and complex. But at every stage, the paramount importance will be given to the needs of the psychic and spiritual growth. As the Mother writes, "The will for ...
... persistently because they expressed shades of meaning & fine psychological distinctions of great practical importance to the Vedic religion, that the Vedic gods were intelligently worshipped Page 31 & the hymns intelligently constructed to express not incoherent poetical ideas but well-connected spiritual experiences,—then the interpreter of Veda may test his rendering by repeating the Vedic... mean a science which can trace the origins, growth & structure of the Sanscrit language, discover its primary, secondary & tertiary forms & the laws by which they develop from each other, trace intelligently the descent of every meaning of a word in Sanscrit from its original root sense, account for all similarities & identities of sense, discover the reason of unexpected divergences, trace the deviations... Mitra he supports and upholds Daksha when he is at his works; for so I take Daksham apasam. Mitra has already been described as having a pure daksha. The adjective daksha means in Sanscrit clever, intelligent, capable, like dakshina, like the Greek δεξɩóς. We may also compare the Greek δóξα, meaning judgment, opinion etc & δοᵪέω, I think or seem, and Latin doceo, I teach, doctrina etc. As these identities ...
... humanity. The discipline of Yoga renders a man much more sensible to the surrounding mental Page 89 atmosphere, than in his ordinary state. He becomes consciously aware of it, feels intelligently its impacts, stirs more quickly to its deep buried secrets and obscure suggestions. And as he becomes more quick to receive, so also he becomes more powerful to impart. Practising forms of the old... intermediary is a hundred times more Page 94 keenly felt than in any material process; for the thing itself is more remote from daily experience, the methods which bring it into the range of intelligent realisation are much more difficult and delicate and the formulas in which it is couched, are necessarily elusive and with difficulty intelligible. Therefore India, supremely sensitive to the importance ...
... reflective mind or a spiritual temperament confronted with the same or a similar problem. They are those, as we might say, of the practical or the pragmatic man, the emotional, sensational, moral and intelligent human being not habituated to profound and original reflection or any sounding of the depths, accustomed rather to high but fixed standards of thought and action and a confident treading through ...
... is the source of all internal revelation. It is the drishti of which the Veda is the result, it is the sruti which in its expression the Veda is, it is the smriti of the Rishi which gives to the intelligent part, the manishi in him a perfect account of the vision & inspired hearing of the seer in him, the Kavi. For mankind although evolving towards vijnana yet dwells in the mind. He has to be fulfilled ...
... unconscious action, it is under the influence of European materialism which sees only conscious creatures in an unconscious inanimate Nature. The Divine Force is not unconscious but conscious and intelligent and to see Him as a conscious power only in men is to deny Him altogether. When again our contemporary uses a misapplication of the truth of Adwaita to justify the deifying of his own reason, he ...
... of view, and therefore would like the whole world to adopt it—there is a sincerity in their conviction, they believe it's the best way of life. They are not entirely ill-willed. And they are very intelligent. At any rate, they had the power to do whatever they liked [last October, at the defenseless northern borders of India], yet they did nothing. Yes, that was extraordinary! ( Mother smiles ...
... has all fallen flat. They are carrying on with their little activities, but it's absolutely unimportant. They publish a small journal, and V, who writes for them, is far from stupid. She is rather intelligent and I have some control over her, so I will try to stop her from writing nonsense. They also had a sudden brainstorm to affiliate with the Sri Aurobindo Society. But the Sri Aurobindo Society ...
... are terrible. Oh, they're stupid. It's a fortress. Such conceit... ( Mother laughs ) They're stupid. It's even very visible in the atmosphere: as soon as people think they're very intelligent, it's FINISHED, they completely cut themselves off from the true light. That's it. They become self-sufficient , so... ( Mother laughs ) It doesn't matter, it's better this way: we'll publish ...
... follow them up unremittingly till the whole dreams come sailing back into our memory. What the psycho-analysts attempt by free association is something—though not quite—like this. A regular and intelligent practice of concentration in this direction will facilitate the recovery of dreams, and even enable us to track them to their "obscure retreat" in the subconscient "where the forgotten phenomena ...
... overturn its culture, but to transform, enlighten and aggrandise its best values and to add new elements which have too long been ignored or forgotten. It will be singular if while Europe is thus intelligently enlarging herself in the new light she has been able to seize and admitting the truths of the spirit and the aim at a divine change in man and his life, we in India are to take up the cast-off clothes ...
... progress immediately renders the thing, no matter what it is, interesting. 26 September 1963 Sri Aurobindo writes in one of his Aphorisms: "Those who are deficient in the free, full and intelligent observation of a self-imposed law, must be placed in subjection to the will of others." 2 I Mother, I am one of those. Will You take me and discipline me? My child, it is exactly what I have ...
... (it was based on experience, but the experience wasn't his, it was Madame Theon's. She was a marvelous woman from the standpoint of experience—unique—but with no real intelligence... oh, she was intelligent and cultivated, but no more than that, and it didn't amount to much). But they really had come as forerunners , and Theon always insisted, 'It will have a greater density.' Scientifically, this ...
... principle, the faculty most useful to him, most indispensable is daksha or viveka. Drishti of Vijnana transmuted into terms of mind has become observation, sruti appears as imagination, intuition as intelligent perception, viveka as reasoning & intellectual judgment and all of these are liable to the constant touch of error. Human buddhi, intellect, is a distorted shadow of the true ideative faculties.... came. Imagination is at rest or has been transfigured into inspiration, sense observation or insight of intelligence at rest or transfigured into revelation & luminous vision, judgment, reasoning & intelligent divination at rest or transfigured into sure intuition & illuminated discrimination. The Solar Purushas are there swe dame in their own home; the self-awakening of their perfect activity, sukírti ...
... has now the possibility of proceeding ahead with the conscious and deliberate co-operation of the species called man. Man should not therefore be satisfied with the leading of a gloriously opulent intelligent animal existence. He should become awake and aware of his spiritual destiny. An enlightened aspiration, will and seeking should actuate all his movements. He should offer his participating will to... huge superstructure of "knowledge" in the mind of the student without first preparing a solid foundation to sustain that "knowledge". We have to encourage the student to have a free play of his intelligent attentive thought on the subject of his study; we must correct the habit of spoiling his instruments of knowledge by the adoption of false methods. We should bear in mind that "Information cannot ...
... ।। ऋतया । ऋतं कर्मफलं तत्कामनया ।। संपतः । त्वां परिचरणाख्येन कर्मणा Page 400 स्पृशंतः ।। धियं । कर्म ।। प्रशस्तिं । प्रकृष्टशंसनं स्तोत्रं ।। धीमहि । त्वयि निदधीमहि ।। Sy. May we intelligent live in thy heart, O Indra, may we enjoy the work touching thee with a desire for the fruit of the sacrifice. Desiring protection we place the hymn of praise in thee; may we be at once for thy giving... पर्यभूषत् । यस्य शुष्माद्रोदसी अभ्यसेतां नृम्णस्य मन्हा स जनास इंद्रः ।। प्रथमो. Chief, first. Sayana says “of the gods”, but this is not necessary. मनस्वान् S. preeminent among the intelligent. Again, this rendering is not warranted by the text. मनस्वान् = one who has mind. प्रथमो मनस्वान् means therefore the Supreme Thinker or the supreme mental being. पर्यभूषत् S. took to protect ...
... is the triple Being, Prajna, Hiranyagarbha, Virat; Prajna, Lord of Sleep-Life, the intelligent force which lives and wakes in what would otherwise seem inert and inanimate existence or the mere blind play of mechanical forces; Hiranyagarbha, the Lord of Dream-Life who takes from this ocean of subconsciously intelligent spiritual being those conscious psychic forces which Page 176 He materializes ...
... animal creation and the human creation to find a similar evolutionary period. At that time, however, the consciousness was not sufficiently mentalized to be able to observe, understand and feel intelligently, so the transition had to be worked out in a totally obscure way. Consequently, this thing is really new and unique in the terrestrial creation: it's something unprecedented and is really quite... materially. When we say that something suddenly "mutates" in the cells, we simply push back the problem by making it a mechanical one, because we do not know that the cells are as conscious and intelligent in their own way as our little anthropological brains—there certainly is a cellular consciousness. And it is precisely that consciousness in our own substance which will work out the new evolutionary ...
... excessive metropolitan absorption of the best national energies and facilitate their free circulation through many centres and plexuses. At the same time, we contemplate the organised use of a State intelligently representative of the whole conscious, active, vitalised nation as a means for the perfection of the life of the individual and the community.This is the point which the development of the nati ...
... suprarational in its origin and nature. For the conscious appreciation of beauty reaches its height of enlightenment and enjoyment not by analysis of the beauty enjoyed or even by a right and intelligent understanding of it,—these things are only a preliminary clarifying of our first unenlightened sense of the beautiful,—but by an exaltation of the soul in which it opens itself entirely to the light ...
... give the highest or the integral perfection; sattwa is always a quality of the limited nature; sattwic knowledge is the light of a limited mentality; sattwic will is the government of a limited intelligent force. Moreover, sattwa cannot act by itself in Nature, but has to rely for all action on the aid of rajas, so that even sattwic action is always liable to the imperfections of rajas; egoism, perplexity ...
... Supermind, Page 96 while ordinary people know nothing about it and wouldn't notice. So he asks, 'I would like to know by what signs such a person can be recognized?' It is a very intelligent question. I replied very briefly in English. I haven't brought my answer with me, but I can tell you right away that there are two signs—two certain, infallible signs. I know them through personal ...
... back into the past and forth into the future. The principle takes into account the plain truth that the physical universe must be so built as to permit the observer's physical existence as an intelligent being. William McCrea, a TLS reviewer, has rightly said that," roughly, the Anthropic Principle states that we cannot discuss the universe at all unless the universe includes us. In other words, ...
... is a stage in evolution. That which is common to all stages is the urge of Sachchidananda towards self-expression. This urge is at first non-ethical, then infra-ethical in the animal, then in the intelligent animal even anti-ethical for it permits us to approve hurt done to others which we disapprove when done to ourselves. In this respect man even now is only half-ethical. And just as all below us is ...
... age of fourteen. Again, if elementary education is conceived as a first terminal point, value-education should have been so provided within the eight years of schooling that one can perform intelligently the duties that have been laid down in the Constitution and also show minimum maturity to pursue the ideals of multisided personality. Page 78 III The discussion document contains ...
... l experiences, the more so as his attestations, whether direct or indirect, provide illuminating pointers to the facts. And it is unreasonable to wave away countless testimonies by reliable and intelligent witnesses of the way they perceived Hitler, on the grounds that a certain kind of consensus holds such experiences to be unreliable, unfounded or even untrue without having anything better to propose ...
... what has to flow out of us is God manifesting Himself. This outward act of His has to be through a psychic spontaneity and not through a mind-managed intervention, though the mind's role of giving intelligent support is quite acceptable. I may observe that spiritual graciousness towards fellow human beings comes more easily to a certain type of sadhak. By and large, there are two types. One has ...
... Divine. Subjective siddhis dull owing to flagging of the Vijnanabuddhi. In this reactionary state Ananda is dull in the purely physico-vital parts of the indriyas though strong in the mental and intelligent parts, the other siddhis sink to a low intensity and show whatever imperfections are still defectively purged out of them. Mahasaraswati tapas with the Maheshwari basis sometimes covered, sometimes ...
... says Sri Aurobindo, "the mind and intellect must develop to their fullness so that the spirituality of the race may rise securely upward upon a broad basis of the developed lower nature in man, the intelligent human being." And when the intellect comes into play, it may try to put everything else into the background, lest its own free total flowering should be impeded. "Therefore we see," remarks Sri Aurobindo ...
... enthusiasm the Maulvi did not give up his profession of a 'tec'. Once he said: 'You made a great mistake in handing over the garden to your younger brother to manufacture bombs. It was not very intelligent on your part.' Understanding the nature of the innuendo I smiled a little, and said: 'Sir, the garden is as much mine as my brother's. Where did you learn that I had given it over to him, or given... that Mr. Norton had chosen me as the protagonist of this play. Like Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost, in Mr. Norton's plot at the centre of the mighty rebellion stood I, an extraordinarily sharp, intelligent and powerful, bold, bad man! Of the National Movement I was the alpha and the omega, its creator and saviour, indomitably engaged in undermining the British empire. As soon as he came across any ...
... being life, something other than a prey for death, and Matter from really being what it is—for we know nothing of what matter really is, except through our microscopes, which can scarcely be more intelligent than we are or are mere extensions of our own intelligence—the same golden or black net extending all the way down to the infinitesimal, the same pair of spectacles looking at itself in a different... indigent consciousness. But there are some rare beings —still children—who have the imagination of truth, 25 as Mother would say, some young shoots, still untouched by the putrid wind of our intelligent civilization, who have the capacity to imagine something still unmanifested —a truer earth, a more living Matter—who have antennae that seem to reach out into a still unrealized world, capturing ...
... very difficult to make them understand that there are many kinds of good and that sometimes it is worth the trouble perhaps to make an effort to be good. So to make this intelligible to the least intelligent, they are told: "There, it is very simple. If you are quite obedient, quite nice, quite unselfish, if you always do good deeds, and if you believe in the dogmas we teach, well, when you die, God ...
... thought and conscience of the people so as to make it one single, undivided, perfectly efficient and perfectly directed mind and body. 3 It is from this point of view that we shall most intelligently understand the attempt of the Tudors and the Stuarts to impose both monarchical authority and religious uniformity on the people and seize the real sense of the religious wars in France, the Catholic ...
... although appearing to distribute itself and to stand separate in each. But this is a knowledge which the mind can arrive at, can reason out, can feel, but cannot readily make the practical basis of its intelligent operations. And with regard to objects external to the form of consciousness which I call myself, the difficulty becomes almost insuperable; even to feel unity there is an abnormal effort and to ...
... choose to take. (4) Whether any guiding principles should be laid down for them on joining Auroville. If yes, the Mother may kindly enlighten us. Certainly it would be good if somebody was intelligent enough to do it and do it well. (5) Whether any particular amount for food should be fixed per person per day; if yes, whether Rs. 2.50 per adult and Rs. 2.00 per child will be all right. ...
... order, the desire of the mind to tread through life with a harmonised knowledge and in the right rhythm and measure. Indian Page 446 mind was powerful, penetrating and scrupulously intelligent, — combined of the rational, ethical, and aesthetic mind at a height of intensity. As noted earlier, India has a tendency to pursue most opposite extremes to their highest point of climax, but ...
... when the front lines of this war of religion ran through families and marriages. Margaret was, like her painter and the other members of her circle, through and through a Renaissance person, highly intelligent and cultured, intent on equilibrium and harmony, and trying to understand where others did not want to, trying to heal where others sought to harm. In 1572 she married Henry IV of France precisely... years old. Still her father continued showing interest in her and later even nominated her third in succession to the throne, after Edward and Mary. Deeply marked by these traumatic events, the very intelligent Elizabeth was put through an arduous schooling which made her into a highly cultured Renaissance person. As her tutor, Roger Ascham would declare: ‘Her mind has no womanly weakness, her perseverance... not only peace but eternal springtime.’ 46 ‘Elizabeth’s name came to connote the peak of national greatness … It is difficult to convey a proper appreciation of this amazing Queen, so keenly intelligent, so effervescing, so intimate, so imperious and regal. She intoxicated Court and country, and keyed her realm to the intensity of her own spirit. No one but a woman could have done it, and no woman ...
... going—once out of the Asram, all these things will be his own business. As he is going tonight, if any intelligent fellow with some interest in work can take his place or guard the Dispensary at least, please give us one. Good Lord! what high expectations! Where are they, these intelligent interested fellows who are ready to stand guard over the Dispensary? Spot them, please. March 7, 1936... effective and definite than Yoga-Force—his opinion. The fellow! After my strong intervention, he now says it is not God's Force, but Codein Phos! Very strange, Sir, that you don't have a single intelligent chap in the species of your Supramental race-to-be! On what do you build your hopes, please? Excuse me, you said intelligence and interest. You might find one of these separately, but how do ...
... also backward, which was not. That it developed simultaneously into the foremost industrial nation in the world made it more schizophrenic, and the Jew still more guilty. And that the Jews were intelligent and some of them highly visible, did not help either. A few quotes will have to do. They are intended to suggest the anti-Jewish atmosphere of a period in the German past when anti-Semitism became ...
... Immortality in the World View of Indogermanic Thinkers (a Christmas present from Heinrich Himmler); and *The Secret of Inspiration: From the Marvellous Realm of the Creative Power. For Subtle and Intelligent People of Genius Who are in Contact with the Genies and Intelligences, and with the Realm of the Spirit and the Spiritual Hosts.* 1007 “Most scholars dismiss the notion that Hitler seriously ...
... this liberation is dependent on two simultaneous, but Page 304 not yet reconciled perceptions, the clear vision of spirit and the clear vision of Nature. This is not the scientific and intelligent detachment which is quite possible even to the materialistic philosopher who has some clear vision of Nature alone, but not the perception of his own soul and self-being. Nor is it the intellectual ...
... secret Knowledge and Will which she is trying to bring to the surface and there would be no mental conflict. For we should then be able to identify ourself with her movement, know her aim and follow intelligently her course,—realising the truth on which the Gita lays stress that it is Nature alone that acts and the movements of our mind and life are only the action of her modes. The subhuman life vitally ...
... formulation in the mental world, even the speculative or artistic mental world. This is a very good thing to do when one loves gymnastics. It is mental gymnastics. Well, if you want to be truly intelligent, you must know how to do mental gymnastics; as, you see, if you want really to have a fairly strong body you must know how to do physical gymnastics. It is the same thing. People who have never done ...
... elevator (a hydraulic one) broke. It crashed down, crushing all those inside it. He asked me about it and my explanation was that an entity had forewarned him. The image of the bellboy indicates an intelligent, conscious intermediary—it doesn't seem to come from the man's subconscient. 1 Or else he had seen it in the subtle physical and his subconscient knew—but then why did it present him with such ...
... itself and Sri Aurobindo has said, but mercilessly , " Shut up, you are foolish! " It has learned its lesson. It has learned its lesson, but quite recently. We think we're wise, we think we're intelligent... There. ( Mother takes Satprem's hands ) I want it to be, for you tomorrow, really a new birth—but not a new birth to an inner being: an opening to something not yet manifested in the ...
... mind, it is the same thing. It is through gymnastic exercises that you make yourself supple. It is a question of discipline, of development. Suppose a man endeavours in this life to become very intelligent, but if in the next life he is born an idiot, what is the use of all these efforts? No, I spoke a little briefly, but it is not that. His psychic being is not stupid! Granting, for example, that ...
... these gentlemen I welcome them, for they compel you to be absolutely sincere, they track down the most subtle hypocrisy and make you at every moment face your most secret vibrations. And they are intelligent!—their intelligence infinitely surpasses ours: they know everything, they know how to turn against you the least thought, the least argument, the least action, with a truly wonderful subtlety. Nothing ...
... the early work whose spirit and manner it often tries hard to recover because it is the thought that is primarily at work and the form less a spontaneous creation of the soul than a deliberately intelligent structure, and while the movement of the pure lyrical impulse is entirely shaped by the feeling and the thought only accompanies it in its steps, here the thought actively intervenes and determines ...
... evolves, this desire and craving get into the action of the mental will and knowledge; that makes the will a will of craving, a force of desire instead of a rational will and a discerning force of intelligent effectuation, and it distorts the judgment and reason so that we judge and reason according to our desires and prepossessions and not with the disinterested impartiality of a pure judgment and the ...
... the very face of wickedness and hardness: a pitiless wickedness. He closeted himself in there. After a short while there came a rather young woman, perhaps thirty years old, gentle, very sweet—not intelligent but very sweet—entirely dressed in black. She entered the box (he was already shut in and could no longer be seen), and they spoke through a grille. I should add that it's far more medieval than ...
... "Thunbergia kirkii", a small lavender-blue salverform flower with a cream-yellow throat. The Mother's felicitous gloss on its meaning ("Krishna's Light in the Mind") was: "A charming way of being intelligent." The epithet "charming" is apt in view of the winsome personality traditionally attributed to Krishna. Sri Aurobindo has characterised Krishna as the Avatar who came from the plane of Divine Ananda ...
... descended in the line of Ikswāku, and known by men by the name of Rāma. He has fully controlled his mind, is very powerful, radiant and resolute and has brought his senses under control."(8) He is intelligent, sagacious, eloquent, glorious and an exterminator of foes. He is distinguished with broad shoulders, powerful arms, a neck shaped as a conch and a stout chin. (9) He is marked with a broad chest ...
... received the initiation, Brahmin, Kshatriya, Vaishya. Last came the more undeveloped human type, not yet fit for these steps of the scale, unintellectual, without force, incapable of creation or intelligent production, the man fit only for unskilled labour and menial service, the Shudra. The economic order of society was Page 170 cast in the form and gradation of these four types. The Brahmin ...
... need, and persisting or altering partly under the pressure of an internal impulse, partly under that of the environment acting on the communal mind and temper. In this stage the people is not yet intelligently self-conscious in the way of the reason, is not yet a thinking collective being, and it does Page 398 not try to govern its whole communal existence by the reasoning will, but lives ...
... falsehood in us" of which the Vedic poet complains. Where then lies the hope that mind will repair its errors and guide itself according to the truth of things? The hope lies in Science, in the intelligent observation, utilising, initiation of the forces and workings of the Inconscient. To take only one instance, — the Inconscient operates by the law of heredity and, left to itself, works faultlessly ...
... missionary and theologian, remembered for his interreligious lectures in India. Subash Chandra Bose (23.1.1897). Dilipda's intimate from their college days; a great patriot, highly intelligent; great organizational skill; politician of no mean repute; founder of the political party "Forward Block"; during WWII he formed the Indian National Army (INA) outside India. Popularly known ...
... strange oversight. Still, how are we to explain its original entry into the MS and how is it that Sri Aurobindo let it stand when Nirod read the canto to him before publication? A highly intelligent friend, well conversant with both Sri Aurobindo's poetry and his Yogic teaching, accounts for the fact that none of us reacted against "twixt" for years and years, by remarking: "On a first reading ...
... They show that the Ashwins are twin divine powers whose special function is to perfect the nervous or vital being in man in the sense of action and enjoyment. But they are also powers of Truth, of intelligent action, of right enjoyment, they are powers that appear with the Dawn, effective powers of action born out of the ocean of being who, because they are divine, are able to mentalise securely the ...
... who has the knowledge and knows the way. If one learns all by oneself, the chances are that one will learn all wrong. What is the use of a freedom to learn wrongly? Of course if the pupil is more intelligent than the master, he will learn more than the master, just as a great spiritual capacity may arrive at realisations which the Guru has not—but even so, the control and discipline in the early stages ...
... going to explain it to you: when you have understood, it forms a little crystal in you, like a little shining point. And when you have put in many, many, many of these, then you will begin to be intelligent. That is the utility of work, not simply to stuff the head with a heap of things that take you nowhere. * Essentially, from the general point of view, particularly from the intellectual viewpoint ...
... Aurobindo' s words: "Perfect security can only be had by resorting to something higher than the sattwic quality, something higher than the discerning mind , to the Self, - not the philosopher's intelligent self, but the divine sage's spiritual self which is beyond the three Gunas, All must be consummated by a divine birth into the higher spiritual nature." (Essays on the Gita, p. 189) Yes ...
... order, the desire of the mind to tread through life with a harmonised Page 73 knowledge and in the right rhythm and measure. Indian mind was powerful, penetrating and scrupulously intelligent, — combined of the rational, ethical, and aesthetic mind at a height of intensity. As noted earlier, India has a tendency to pursue most opposite extremes to their highest point of climax, but ...
... books often need to be supplemented by what may called "Work Sheets", i.e. educational material so prepared that it can be studied only by the active participation and exercise of the student's intelligent reflection and application. These work sheets should be of various types to permit alternative approaches; (d)A series of graded exercises which the students can handle on their own with the ...
... regions of the being". This is a consummate analysis of the whole science of mental education. In the life of the growing child, a thousand things distract its attention, and hence to forge intelligent attention and lively reception is the beginning of mental education. The child's curiosity, which often finds expression in continual questioning, should not be frowned upon but used as a means of ...
... indifference towards the happenings, and at times even sympathy or admiration for the attackers. 9 The Mother herself, in her Declaration of 16 February, while acknowledging that the cultured, intelligent and fair-minded elements in the population had always welcomed and supported the Ashram, identified four groups of people who had nursed a sullen antagonism towards the ideals and the functioning ...
... is a way which consists in giving him all he wants; and naturally, the next minute he will want something else, because that’s the law, the law of desire: never to be satisfied. And so, if he is intelligent, one can tell him, “But you see, you insisted so much on having this and now you longer care for it. You want something else. “ Yet if he was very clever he would answer, “Well, the best way... consists in giving him all he wants; and naturally, the next minute he will want something else, because that's the law, the law of desire: never to be satisfied. And so, if he is intelligent, one can tell him, "But you see, you insisted so much on having this and now you no longer care for it. You want something else." Yet if he was very clever he would answer, "Well, ...
... देवप्सरस्तमं but also सानसि; therefore अथ. The word is frequently spoken as being the gods', especially in connection with Agni and Indra. Sayana's rendering. O best of the Angirases, O very intelligent one, then may we speak to thee a pleasing and enjoyable hymn. Psychological rendering. Then, O most puissant in the seer-will, O most skilful Ordainer, O Flame, may we speak a soul-thought... = मेधविभिः. He makes a difference between the two senses in a note on I.79.5, कविः क्रांतदर्शनो मेधावी वा. I presume that the former means a seer, one whose vision is active, the other merely an intelligent man or thinker. Perhaps S. is unwilling to attribute omniscient seerhood to men. But why should there be a difference of meaning between कविभिः कविः? I cannot understand this remarkable principle ...
... it in the same complete and decisive manner and at the same time to throw the whole into an ordered relation to the ruling ideas of the national culture and frame and perpetuate a social system intelligently fashioned so as to provide a basis, a structure, a gradation by which there could be a secure evolution of the life Page 343 from the vital and mental to the spiritual motive. The leading ...
... investigation of the past is to be carried on. Dr. Sankalia of international repute in archaeology writes, among other matters: "There is no doubt that Shri Sethna has made a very intelligent use of his deep knowledge of archaeology and Sanskrit literature." Apropos of the relationship between the Rigveda and the Harappa Culture, he ends his Introduction: "Shri Sethna's views deserve ...
... be able to get the insights as to what has to be the role of the teacher while tending the bud so that it receives necessary environment, atmosphere, influence and some kind of intervention of intelligent and deliberate but extremely careful and restrained care of the teacher. The teacher is not merely an instructor, but she provides atmosphere and environment through her own internalised values ...
... any other part of the world, if only one wants to learn and fill his mind with the true knowledge, the pure idea, to think adequately, to deduce, to reason and to understand, to know and to become intelligent, alert and conscious of all that surrounds us, of all that we feel and perceive, in fact, to develop the mental faculties, the vital faculties and the physical faculties, — for all things, to open ...
... is immense, and is still growing. Not only are there journals in several languages sponsored by disciples or admirers, but other learned periodicals the world over are also increasingly evincing intelligent interest in his life and work. While it is beyond our scope here to attempt a comprehensive list, the more important Aurobindonian journals are mentioned below, and most of these are published from ...
... will exaggerate enormously the points of opposition, but by his very exaggeration he will make them more strikingly clear and intelligible. He will make up for his want of correct information and intelligent study by a certain sureness of instinct in his attack upon things alien to his own mental outlook. It is this sureness of instinct which has led him to direct the real gravamen of his attack against ...
... ‘Omega Point’ theory of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and his epigones; there is, of course, creationism, not only as narrated in some holy books, but also in its metaphorical variations; there is the intelligent design theory, which posits that the complexity in nature can only have been fashioned by a special Intelligence; and there is the very scientific but fiercely opposed theory of ‘punctuated equilibrium’ ...
... known in the Ashram, under the name given by Sri Aurobindo, "Pavitra" (meaning "The Pure"). When I first came to the Ashram he also had a fine brown Bossanquetish beard as a base to a highly intelligent and happy-looking face. After a search in the Far East — Japan and inner Mongolia — he had arrived at the Ashram a few years before me and established close contact with the Master as well as ...
... insistence of the senses." Perfect security can only be had by resorting to something higher than the sattwic quality, something higher than the discerning mind, to the Self,—not the philosopher's intelligent self, but the divine sage's spiritual self which is beyond the three gunas. All must be consummated by a divine birth into the higher spiritual nature. And the philosopher's equality is like the ...
... that I was dreaming and that all that I saw or imagined was false, I could not at any rate deny that the ideas were truly in my consciousness. Since I had already recognised very clearly that intelligent nature is distinct from corporeal nature, I considered that composition is an evidence of dependency and that dependency is manifestly a defect. From this I judged that it could not be a perfection ...
... Yes, one day I shall transform you. I alone have the keys, the means, the methods and the process. Wait, wait with patience and perseverance. But, if you want to be strong, perfect in your action, intelligent, clever, formidable in each sphere of knowledge and true consciousness, in an instant I can turn you into a formidable being. I have all the powers. Do not doubt it. Voilà! My child, I do not reveal ...
... wonder of the psychic which sees the truth but does not understand much about the Page 143 world, for it is too far from it. Children have this but as they learn more, become more intelligent, more educated, this is effaced, and you see all sorts of things in their eyes: thoughts, desires, passions, wickedness but this kind of little flame, so pure, is no longer there. And you may be... organise your cerebral capacity. If you remain in your hazy movement in that kind of cloudy fluidity, you may labour for years, it will be quite useless to you; you will not come out of it more intelligent than when you entered it. But if you are able, even for half an hour, to concentrate your attention on things that seem to you of very little interest, like a rule of grammar, for example (the rules... going to explain it to you: when you have understood, it forms a little crystal in you, like a little shining point. And when you have put in many, many, many of these, then you will begin to be intelligent. That is the utility of work, not simply to stuff the head with a heap of things that take you nowhere. 16 September 1953 How can memory be enlarged? Widen your consciousness ...
... undoubtedly means in ninety-nine places out of a hundred, one of the shining ones, a god. Even though this is not so vital a term as ritam , still I must not take it in the sense of a priest or intelligent man or any other significance, where the word god gives a good and sufficient meaning unless it can be shown that it is undoubtedly capable of another sense in the mouth of the Rishis. On the other... Upanishads and later Sanscrit; चेतः or चित्ति stands for ज्ञान, the latter word being classical and not Vedic. प्र Page 698 gives the idea of knowledge directed towards an object, प्रचेताः = intelligent, wise in a general sense (thus S. takes प्रकृष्टज्ञानः and makes no distinction between the words). वि means widely, pervadingly or else in high degree; विचेताः means then having a complete or great ...
... think only when they talked... When they do not speak, they do not even think! They are not able to think in silence, so they get into the habit of speaking. But the more developed one is, the more intelligent one is and the less need one has to express oneself. It is always at a lower level that one needs to talk. And truly, a being who is very conscious, who is mentally, intellectually, very developed ...
... entirely against this kind of maltreatment. It is not by beating, but by patience and a persistent will without getting into a nervous irritation that work can be taught to animals. They are far more intelligent than you believe. 25 April 1932 You had better put up a notice on the slate that whoever has walked off in X 's wooden sandals is asked to rectify the mistake by returning them to her. ...
... so in the intellectual being of man there emerges a necessity of knowledge which is no longer its utility for life, its need of knowing rightly in order to act rightly, to deal successfully and intelligently with the world around it, but a necessity of the soul, an imperative demand of the inner being. The pursuit of knowledge for the sake of knowledge is the true, the intrinsic dharma of the intellect ...
... second it is relaxed, somewhat as in drunkenness or dream", 2 or again: "The eighteenth century had always had at its ear two voices, like the warning Daemon of Socrates; one whispering'That is not intelligent', the other 'That is not done'. Romanticism seems to me, essentially, an attempt to drown these two voices and liberate the unconscious life from their tyrannical repressions. Like the accom-panying ...
... like I am, has become a speaker. Is this not a miracle? So here is one more miracle before you. There are many other miracles the Guru performed on me. I was a big ass, He has made me an intelligent ass; I was a medical man, He has made me a poet; so if these are not miracles, what are they? A fellow who could not write a single line of poetry has now become a poet. One who could not utter a ...
... Rajaji said in Madras that there was no rupture between Gandhiji and the Congress High Command. The AICC which met at Poona from 25 to 28 July ratified the Delhi resolution of the Working Committee. Intelligent public opinion throughout India welcomed this development. Rajaji had, of course, his own doubts about the acceptance of the Congress proposal by the British Government because he knew that the views ...
... possibilities of contacts between man and man to such an extent that it would not be surprising if cultural isolation and natural prejudices would give way before long and the conscience of the intelligential—the leaders of every nation—would beat in unison with the whole humanity. The car, the aeroplane, the steamer and factories are—apart from commercialising him—tending to unite man physically. On ...
... are not many substances in this world, but one substance variously concentrated in many forms; not many lives, but one liver variously active in many bodies; not many minds, but one mind variously intelligent in many embodied vitalities. It is, at first sight, a plausible theory that life & mind are only particular movements of matter itself under certain conditions & need not therefore be regarded ...
... did Sri Aurobindo write at all such a thing, contradicting his own experiences? And then how did he allow it to stand when the text was read out to him on several occasions? He writes: “A highly intelligent friend [Arabinda Basu] well conversant with both Sri Aurobindo’s poetry and his yogic teaching, accounts for the fact that none of us reacted against ‘twixt’ for years and years, by remarking: ‘on ...
... to; and if one has not the faintest wish? I believe, though it cannot be proved, that this mystic eagerness for unity is due ultimately to a loss of nerve. As man has grown more individual and intelligent, he has grown more divided and solitary. Men are not lemmings - Alone the sun rises, and alone Spring the great streams. Page 187 But at moments, realising that 'nous ...
... tendency, is to obliterate all fine shades and distinctions between words and to give them their vaguest general significance. All epithets conveying ideas of mental activity mean for him simply "intelligent", all words suggesting various ideas of force, and the Veda overflows with them, are reduced to the broad idea of strength. I found myself on the contrary impressed by the great importance of fixing ...
... that of the Asura, there is always a tendency to subordinate the lower ego to the intellectual Aham, but the subordination is at Page 1331 first only a self-disciplining for a more intelligently victorious selfindulgence, like the tapasya of Ravana. This type evolved is fixed in the character of Ravana and takes possession of its field in the Manwantara of the seventh Manu, Vaivasvata. ...
... the beating is not always successful. But the mind or nature or mental energy—whatever you like to call it—does this in a certain way and carries on with a certain order of thoughts, haphazard intelligentialities (excuse the barbarism) or asininities, rigidly ordered or imperfectly ordered intellectualities, logical sequences and logical inconsequences, etc. etc. How the devil is an intuition to get in ...
... coming into contact with their psychic being. It was not a constant contact, it was momentary, at times very fugitive. But while they were in contact with their psychic being, they became remarkably intelligent, they said wonderful things. I knew a girl who had no education, nothing, truly stupid; people said, "There is nothing to be done about it, it is not possible." Well, when she was in contact with ...
... peace, do not question, all will be well." And when they grow older they already begin to reason, then it is no longer so well, no longer so easy. But that depends, as I said, that depends upon how intelligent they are, how great is their opening. There are those who are predestined, who are here because they should be here. With these it is easy. You have only to tell them: "My children, it is because ...
... these things? We're living in a world of Falsehood, how can He see Falsehood...?" But in fact He does see things as they are! And I am not talking about people with no intelligence, but about intelligent people, people who are trying.... There's still a sort of conviction in them somewhere, even in those who know that we're living in a world of Ignorance and Falsehood and that there's a Lord who ...
... countries sometimes gave. Srinivasa Sastri observed: 'The circumstances of her (Japan's) present Page 103 approach leave no doubt in my mind as to her intentions and no intelligent person can be deceived by her protestations. We must keep her away.' The Congress, on the other hand, viewed Britain and not Japan as India's immediate aggressor. The argument was that if the British ...
... Sri Aurobindo in "The Life Divine" (Vol. I, p. 51) "is the truth of all life and existence whether absolute or relative, whether corporeal or incorporeal, whether animate or inanimate, whether intelligent or unintelligent; and in all its infinitely varying and even constantly opposed expressions, from the contradictions nearest to our ordinary experience to those remote antinomies which lose themselves ...
... yawning before them. None of them had given serious thought as to what would have contributed to their intrinsic good or to the real and lasting good of the human aggregate. They were doubtless intelligent men, but their mental consciousness had failed even to pose the right questions. They were yet to see that "behind these fleeting appearances there is an eternal reality, behind this unconscious ...
... Aurobindo writes: “The mind and the intellect must develop to their fullness so that the spirituality of the race may rise securely upward upon a broad basis of the developed lower nature in man, the intelligent mental being. Therefore we see that the reason in its growth either does away with the distinct spiritual tendency for a time, as in ancient Greece …” 10 The sophists were feared and loathed by... however, the institutions became conventions and the process described by Sri Aurobindo in The Human Cycle 20 set in: the conventions were more and more felt as restrictions by sensitive and intelligent people, and a need for individualisation began to be felt. This need formed the basis of the Renaissance and its direct offspring, the Reformation. “The individualistic age of Europe was in its ...
... to turn it into something else." 2 But this is just one side of the picture: there is another to it. For an untrained reader it is not always easy to understand and appreciate a subtle and intelligent point of humour when it comes from the pen of a truly master artist. To perceive the point intended, by breaking the riddle, often requires a great amount of reflection on the part of the reader... could be used as an expletive, and 'Burns' meant either conflagration or a Scotsman." 6 Here is a third example - this time, an example of what is termed a 'humour of ideas'. It is a very intelligent piece of humour whose beauty will vanish if we try to explain it. So, we stop with merely reproducing it. "There was a famous canon who had said to his brother: 'Brother, you and I are exceptions ...
... can only be done as the Sacrificer wishes if they are in the acceptance of the mantra dhishnyá, firm and steady.Sayana suggests wise or intelligent as the sense of dhishnya, but although dhishaná, like dhí, can mean the understanding & dhishnya therefore intelligent, yet the fundamental sense is firm or steadily holding & the understanding is dhí or dhishaná because it takes up perceptions, thoughts... words, we have to render this line, “Come, O Indra, impelled by the understanding, driven by the Wise One.” Sayana thinks that vipra means Brahmin and the idea is that Indra is moved to come by the intelligent sacrificing priests and he explains dhiyeshito, moved to come by our understanding, that is to say, by our devotion. But understanding does not mean devotion and the artificiality of the interpretation ...
... which one hears sometimes advanced as a solid condemnation of their work. And that can be pardoned in the average man who under the high dispensation of modern culture is not expected to have any intelligent conception about art,—the instinctive appreciation has been already safely killed and buried. But what are we to say of a professed critic who ignores the deeper motives and fastens on details in ...
... man or of life, because reason is only an intermediate interpreter, not the original knower, creator and master of our being or of cosmic existence. It can besides only mechanise life in a more intelligent way than in the past; to do that seems to be all that the modern intellectual leaders of the race can discover as the solution of the heavy problem with which we are impaled. But it is conceivable ...
... realities. The effort is to make the body supple, strong, agile and beautiful; the vital is to be trained to become dynamic, disciplined, obedient and effective; the mind has to be cultivated to be intelligent, observant, concentrated, free, rich and complex. But at every stage the paramount importance is to be given to the needs of the psychic and spiritual growth. As the Mother writes: The will ...
... this matter). . . It is said that Christ healed the sick and even raised the dead. One day an idiot was brought to him to be cured. But Christ slipped away, saying that to make a stupid man intelligent is an impossibility. To make a dishonest man honest is an even more impossible miracle.... Which is swifter for transformation: Divine Love or Mahakali's force? Page 25 ...
... more and more titled and imperious personalities—a world where nobody would ultimately be left but pharaohs and sultans, as if we were not already swamped with tyrants—or even to evolve ever more intelligent geniuses, super-Goethes or super-Beethovens—a world ultimately so overflowing with literature and music that we might be saturated or bored to death, as if this formidable human ascent of suffering ...
... collectivity. Artists were creating something of subliminal beauty. Philosophers were there, four in number, who were wisely guiding the people. That little kingdom was ruled by on old king. He was intelligent and wise. One day, as it happened in the Mahabharata's story of Savitri, the king called his son, Meotha, and asked him if he had by then found a partner or a companion for himself because ...
... unexpected! Suddenly you say, "Ah! Supposing we did this"... when you feel a little like that yourself, a little ready. That would be very interesting. You ask a question, a question that is as intelligent as you Page 424 can make it, not a dogmatic question, an academic question, no—a question that has a little life in it. That would be interesting. ( Silence ) You will see, the ...
... come from outside. I could not understand why a girl who intended probably to stay here, and would never take up a medical career should learn these subjects. However, I started. The girl was quite intelligent but my interest was not equal to her intelligence. Besides, the subjects were quite new to her and could not be properly learnt unless followed by practical demonstrations. I found it therefore a ...
... more I study it, the more it seems to me that it's not at all what one thinks it is... a series of progress, of discoveries which pile up, and we become more and more knowledgeable, more and more intelligent, until the moment when we shall know everything... No, it is not that. And at that instant, there was a tiny white spark, like a diamond. —It's rather a series of exhaustions... as if each ...
... Mother caught him at once and asked how then could he recommend massage and passive movements. The doctor was not prepared for such an astute question ... and said that the Mother was a very intelligent person! 19 Again, when massage was to be given, the Mother watched the application, putting forth her force to speed up the recovery. Also, she made careful and comprehensive arrangements ...
... Sudarsana for his part was the heroic son of Sahkhana. Agnivarna was the son of Sudarsana and Sīghraga, of Agnivarna. (31) Maru was the son of Sīghraga and Maru's son was Prasusruva. The highly intelligent Ambansa was the son of Prasusruva. (32) Nahusa of unfailing prowess was, the son of Ambansa, while Nābhāga was the supremely pious son of Nahusa. (33) Both Aja and Suvrata were the sons of Nābhāga... the countryside, (so) devoted to you. (11) Indeed our kinsmen, warriors, friends and relations too wait for you alone as cultivators do for the rumbling cloud. (12) Accepting the kingdom, 0 highly intelligent brother, actually place it on a sound footing. Such as you are, you are capable of protecting the people on all sides, 0 scion of Kākutsthas!" (13) Saying so, Bharata then fell at the feet of ...
... Despite all the criticism, there were those who loved him deeply. This Age produced not only men of genius in every walk of life but also those who nurtured them and stimulated them with their intelligent and sympathetic appreciation. As he said to one of his students: Perhaps I may be able to assist you in the pursuit of honour and virtue, from being mutually disposed to love; for whenever... last of the three great tragedians of classical Athens. Euripides is known primarily for having reshaped the formal structure of traditional Attic tragedy by showing strong women characters and intelligent slaves, and by satirizing many heroes of Greek mythology. His plays seem modern by comparison with those of his contemporaries, focusing on the inner lives and motives of his characters in a way ...
... universe. Nature,—not as she is in her divine Truth, the conscious Power of the Eternal, but as she appears to us in the Ignorance,—is executive Force, mechanical in her steps, not consciously intelligent to our experience of her, although all her works are instinct with an absolute intelligence. Not in herself master, she is full of a self-aware Power 2 which has an infinite mastery and, because ...
... such a use or instrumentation of the body. If so then either there must be a conscious being in us that is other than the body or else a conscious Energy that thinks, senses, observes, acts intelligently through the physical instrument. This is what we actually observe in our experience of ourselves that there is such a being or else such an energy at work in us and this self-experience is surely ...
... y readily the representative man of his people. The Maratha race, as their soil and their history have made them, are a rugged, strong and sturdy people, democratic in their every fibre, keenly intelligent and practical to the very marrow, following in ideas, even in poetry, philosophy and religion the drive towards life and action, capable of great fervour, feeling and enthusiasm, like all Indian ...
... sense of the corporate life dominates and it is served by the idea of a great intellectual and material progress, an ameliorated political and social state governed by science. There is an ideal of intelligent utility, liberty and equality or else an ideal of stringent organisation and efficiency and a perfectly mobilised, carefully marshalled uniting of forces in a ceaseless pull towards the general welfare ...
... Vishayananda is firmly based. It has now to be developed out of its covering shell into the initial intensity. The shell is merely the mass of the old sanskara of ashubham and asundaram Intelligent faith in the intellectuality is still doubtful of the Adesha and of the rapidity of the siddhi. The doubt has three foundations,—the non-development of akasha rupa etc, the slowness of the physical ...
... impart to the students a wider understanding of the important branches of knowledge. School is just a preparation to make the students capable of thinking, studying, progressing and becoming intelligent if they can—all that must be done during the entire life and not only in school. November 1967 Up to the secondary level, it is understood that the children are too young to know about ...
... intellectual flavour in the commonest walks of French life. The things of the mind are not limited to a small group: even the sailor and the barman and the concierge will surprise you with intelligent interest in literature or science or the fine arts. As a charming instance of the general appreciation of serious literature in France F.L. Lucas remembers the case of one Laurent, called "Coco" ...
... for only 39 years. He was born on January 12, 1863, and named Narendra Nath. His father Vishwanath Datta, was a well-known Calcutta attorney, and his mother, Bhuvaneshwari, was known as a highly intelligent woman. Narendra Nath' s early years were spent in a home characterised by purity and truthfulness. In his boyhood Narendra showed remarkable capacities of intellect, powers of concentration and qualities ...
... knew the recitals and the bodily postures of the Sufi schools, was taken by his father into the presence of the Emperor. "Mighty Mahmud," said Iskandar, "I have had this youth, my eldest and most intelligent son, specially trained in the ways of the Sufis, so that he might obtain a worthy position at your Majesty's court, knowing that you are the patron of learning of our epoch." Mahmud did not look ...
... caught him at once and asked how then could he recommend massage and passive movements. The doctor was not prepared for such an astute question from a "woman" and said that the Mother was a very intelligent person! We reported this remark to Sri Aurobindo; he simply smiled. All of us were very much depressed by this adverse manifestation, since it would delay his recovery. I was particularly disturbed ...
... know, nor whether they will fecundate anything except a doubtful progeny alien to us. We must admit that we live a complete absurdity and our ways would have seemed very barbaric to supposedly less intelligent ancestors. For Her, everything was different. She had a different way of touching Matter and a different way of growing up on a highroad that became ever clearer, vaster, and more precise: It is ...
... this morning is exceedingly active & always succeeds except in instances where there is not time to overcome the immediate resistance. Telepathy is also active & well-justified, but void of the intelligent ritam. The siege of the mental sat is, however, growing thinner & the reemergence of the vijnanamaya jyoti may be expected. Another signal instance of kriti more complete than on either of the... to correct the mental impression produced by the last, which applies only to details, not to the general lines laid down by the vijnana, to the daily effectiveness, not to the final aim. 11) intelligent ideality is obliterated by (n) 3 the faith, therefore the faith must be perfected, brilliant ideality is strengthened in the faith . ie vijnanabuddhi replaced by brilliant vijnana with faith as ...
... into this preparation you Page 544 put a strong sincerity and a settled psychic aspiration, then one day you will be ready for more. 23 February 1931 The letter is an extremely intelligent one and shows considerable justness of mind and discriminating observation both as to the nature of the sadhana and its obstacles and the movements in him. You had better correspond with him and ...
... sense of wonder, it is the wonder of the psychic which sees the truth but does not understand much about the world, for it is too far from it. Children have this but as they learn more, become more intelligent, more educated, this is effaced, and you see all sorts of things in their eyes: thoughts, desires, passions, wickedness - but this kind of little flame, so pure, is no longer there. And you may be ...
... s which they render. The word prachetas is one of the fixed recurrent terms of the Veda; & we have corresponding to it another term vichetas. Both terms are rendered by the commentators wise or intelligent. Is prachetas then merely an ornamental or otiose word in this verse? Is it only a partially dispensable & superfluous compliment to the gods of the hymn? Our hypothesis is that the Vedic Rishis ...
... is a quality of the mind. Study only gives it material for its work as Page 61 life also does. There are people who do not know how to read and write well who are more intelligent than many highly educated people and understand life and things better. On the other hand a good intelligence can improve itself by reading because it gets more material to work on and grows by exercise ...
... course, he took great care to say nothing to my mother, but we were intimate enough for him to tell me about it. I told him, “Well, what an idiot you are!..." And he understood nothing. Yet he was an intelligent, capable man: he was a governor, and a rather successful one, in several countries. But he understood nothing ...He didn’t conceive of anything better than “helping others”—philanthropy. That's ...
... the other, I could not possibly make him see what I had seen, for the simple reason that Yoga, like lovemaking, cannot be done by proxy. Not only that: I knew him well; he was, indeed, a highly intelligent man; but his keen intelligence, like that of most intellectuals, demanded that spiritual truth be ultimately assayed by reason alone and that human intellect be the sole Judge of data which belonged ...
... s is constantly pushed back, and the existence of previous civilizations, which disappeared from the surface of the Earth without a trace, is on the verge of becoming an acceptable hypothesis. “Intelligent design” (not to be confused with creationism), the inevitable conclusion that the “irreducible complexity” of Nature’s workings cannot but be the planned result of an Intelligence, will be for some ...
... for India, and landed at Pondicherry in December 1925. He never left. Pavitrada's assistant Mrityunjay Mukherjee was a graduate of Calcutta's well-known Presidency College. A good looking and intelligent young man, with a very fine handwriting, but of a querulous nature. Only a saint like Pavitrada could get along with him. After Abhay's arrival in 1940 and before the opening of the Ashram school ...
... eyes are large, and his colour is of soft lustrous green. He is neither too tall, nor very short, but well-formed and of symmetrical limbs. This highly beautiful and mighty Rama is supremely intelligent, and of eloquent speech. Centuries later, Rama was described again by the poet Kalidasa echoing Valmiki's description: Young, with arms long as the pole of the yoke ...
... by all.... These festivals... are, above all, the festivals of human unity. In an incomparable synthesis, the effort of the muscles and of mind, mutual help and competition, lofty patriotism and intelligent cosmopolitanism, the personal interest in the champion and the abnegation of the team-member, are bound in a sheaf for a common task. " Today, these ideas may not seem to us revolutionary in ...
... enthusiasm the Maulvi did not forget his profession as a detective. Once he said: "You made a great mistake in handing over the garden to your younger brother to manufacture bombs. That was not very intelligent on your part." I saw the implication of his words and said with a smile: "Sir, the garden is as much mine as my brother's. Where did you learn that I had given it over to him, or given it to him ...
... unconscious of his own subconscious and subliminal being which are not the same. Below the surface is the subconscious and behind the veil the subliminal. That is one difficulty why man is not able intelligently and spontaneously, without making a conscious effort, to rise from the third to the fourth status. The second difficulty is this formula of our mind and life and body separated from universal life ...
... living in a hermitage in the forest. Dyumatsen was living in exile because his enemies had taken advantage of his blindness and driven him out of his kingdom. The young prince Satyavan was brave, intelligent, generous, forgiving. The parents therefore approved of her choice. But Narad disapproved of the choice because he knew that Satyavan was fated to die after one year. In the face of this reading ...
... perhaps another meaning altogether. So, for an instant, we can imagine that little golden trigger pressing on the earth's masses, on those young, open masses that have had enough of this future of intelligent robots, and... everything stops. The pilot suddenly finds that his plane has lost all meaning; the government pen-pusher lifts his ball point from amongst his dusty ordinances and realizes that his ...
... anywhere means a retardation and a fresh expenditure of energy to start again. There is not the general excitement and vital enthusiasm that supported the French revolution. There is instead a more intelligent intellectual force and centre acting on a more complex and contradictory national psychology which is itself by no means strong either in intellectuality or in rapid vital energy. The experiment... mental sanskaras; the second, which similar[ly] responds to the vital and preserves the habit of replying to habitual vital impulses, the third of a more purely material kind. These beings are not intelligent, but obscure and fixed in their habits. When a change has to be made, it is they who are the last support to a resistance to the change, but also if they can be made to reply to new things, they ...
... bhavas one in which the Infinite Force acts as if it were a mechanical entity, knowledge standing back from it, the other in which Life Force & Knowledge act together & the Infinite Force is an intelligent or at least a conscious force. Hitherto the position of the Tapas has been that when strongly exerted, it has come to produce an effect against resistance, sometimes the full effect, sometimes... coarser, one seen the other day after the Image, barbarously coarse; these seen today are of a higher kind, but all have a slightly Teutonic cast in the character-mould only half refined into an intelligent quiescence. 2) A low type of the Kali Pashu, 1ˢᵗ Manwantara,—in appearance hatted, bearded & visaged like a common type west country American. 3) A part of a hill with a house upon it roofed... Jnana Ananda Krishna. Note that before taking the second sortilege, the book was pointed out & the indication given that the second sortilege would supply something still needed. All this shows an intelligent, omniscient & all-combining Mind at work which uses everything in the world as its instrument & is superior to the system of relations & connections already fixed in this world. It can use the most ...
... leader, ruler, prince, king, Kshatriya. And where the sattwic mind predominates, we get the Brahmin, the man with a turn for knowledge, who brings thought, reflection, the seeking for truth and an intelligent or at the highest a spiritual rule into life and illumines by it his conception and mode of existence. There is always in human nature something of all these four personalities developed or u ...
... and dominant of equally inheritable negative characteristics. Always there were strong and there were weak, noble and ignoble, winners and losers, conquerors and conquered, healthy and unhealthy, intelligent and dull, well-shaped and deformed. In some societies such categories and sub-categories were even fixed by laws allegedly issued by some Divine Authority. Eugenics, the ‘science’ of breeding ...
... Existence, this Brahman, this "omnipresent Reality is the truth of all life and existence whether absolute or relative, whether corporeal or incorporeal, whether animate or inanimate, whether intelligent or unintelligent; and in all its infinitely varying and even constantly opposed self-expressions, from the contradictions 14.Sri Aurobindo. The Life Divine, p. 89. 15,16. Sri Aurobindo ...
... completer figures of conscious experience. We also find in man the operation of the law of integration, and we find that the human mind takes up the lower grades and gives to their action and reaction intelligent values. He takes up the mental life of the animal, as well as the material and bodily. It is true that he loses something in the process, but he gives to what he retains a higher value. In the ...
... anchor holds.' "Mr. Morley's fur-coat is one of the most comprehensive garments ever discovered. All the tribe of high-aiming tyrants and patriotic pirates and able political scoundrels and intelligent turn-coats that the world has produced, he gathers together and covers up their sins and keeps them snug and comforted against the cold blasts of censure blowing from a too logical and narrow-minded ...
... was made to look at things from a new angle as it were. In a word, his talks were always suggestive. But to come now to something more important. One meets clever people often, and highly intelligent people, too, now and then. But seldom does one meet an intelligence which aspires to be replenished at the fount of a deeper wisdom. Intelligence in itself is indeed admirable and none but a fool... intellect. But alas, one cannot both eat one's cake and have it: one cannot glimpse something higher than what the mind can reveal and yet retain unimpaired one's faith in the mental. That is why most intelligent people fight shy of mystic wisdom. They are not wrong in dreading this, for the savour of the higher joys is not merely creative, but destructive also, being by its very nature subversive of the ...
... elaborate metaphysical theory of the unconscious was developed by Eduard Von Hartmann in Philosophic des Unbewussten (Philosophy of the Unconscious) published in 1869, according to which there is an intelligent, purposive, unconscious will which directs the universe. However, as a psychological construct used for the understanding of human behaviour, the concept of the unconscious is associated with two ...
... Dawkins proclaims, is the work of the genes, which for tactical reasons he started calling “replicators.” The origin, the fons et origo of life was not longer to be sought in God, a superior Intelligent Power, or in whatever. It was now located in the genes and their concerted action in the gene pools, for reasons never explained. Around 1950 biochemical research in nuclear acids was still looked ...
... and the corresponding color.* March 8, 1972 MA XIII-80-81 [The previous night a fire had completely destroyed the Toujours Mieux workshop in Aspiration. Only the prompt and intelligent action of neighbouring villagers prevented the fire from spreading throughout Aspiration and the adjacent village of Kuilapalayam.] Ten lakhs of rupees have just burned up in Auroville. ...
... to break asunder the walls of mind and take a leap into the splendours of the Spirit. It is true that "by constant enlargement, purification, openness the reason of man is bound to arrive at an intelligent sense even of that which is hidden from it, a power of passive yet sympathetic reflection of the Light that surpasses it". 58 But this cannot be the final goal, and a sincere seeker should not falter ...
... Matter.’ 37 A strong argument in favour of reincarnation is the blatant injustice of the one and only life, so short and so precarious, that is measured out to us. Is a human being really so intelligent and of a stature so high as to commit sins against God — supposing that one could sin against God — sins of such a nature that his soul would have to burn eternally in hell? What understanding ...
... true essence of Death. No, not the hole; true death: unconsciousness. The world is full of dead men. Dark dead men in pin-striped suits who televise their eternal words from the heights of intelligent satellites and hypnotize men by the millions. The web of the Mind has grown almost visible, it furrows the sky in every direction and deafens our consciousness at every street corner. They are closing ...
... But what to do in such cases: 1) X—She has a good grasp of Hindi, but she is very careless, does not work and is often absent. 2) Y—Very intelligent and capable, but she has always shirked from work and tried to cheat me by her sweet and intelligent talk. I had to give up. 3) Z—Very much interested, she can appreciate literature, but she cannot write one sentence correctly. There are... Mother, I seek your guidance about promotion in the classes.... X is very weak and irregular. If she wants she can do well, and since Y's birthday celebration she has become more intelligent. She was a star there. Intelligence and capacity of understanding are surely more important than regularity in work. Steadiness may be acquired later. 5 October 1967 Mother, I... before them as to what we might do and how we could do it. But I get absolutely no response, no initiative, no proposals—as if I were speaking to a wall. Yet the students are good, friendly and intelligent. Something must be missing in me that in spite of my best effort I get no response. I feel like leaving the class. For the first time I am having this experience. Yesterday I was on the point of ...
... answers to the "cosmic sense" he often spoke of as something born with him. And Rideau quite openly recognises the foundational and self-sufficient character of that sense for Teilhard, as indeed no intelligent student of Teilhardism can help doing. He 3 writes: "Teilhard was a romantic, and his keen sensibility was so excited by the immense spatial dimension of the universe, by the power and complexity... Teilhard's soul - a mysticism that can be defined simply as the ineradicable inner sense of a God who is a World-Soul, within whose bosom all things and beings are ultimately held and borne both intelligently and lovingly towards their as-yet-unknown consummation in the context of an unavoidably slow and difficult cosmic process. An honest analysis of the so-called controversial statement is ...
... Aurobindo was cast for that role: Page 313 Like Satan in Milton's Paradise Lost, in Mr. Norton's plot, at the centre of the mighty rebellion stood I, an extraordinarily sharp, intelligent and powerful, bold, bad man! Of the national movement I was the alpha and the omega, its creator and saviour, engaged in undermining the British Empire. As soon as he came across any piece of... interregnum, when he was cooped up in total loneliness and normal human supports were taken away, that he was able to gauge what effect such solitary confinement could have even on healthy or intelligent people: how such monstrous isolation might - unless God's Grace stood sentinel by one's side - drive one to distraction and lunacy. There was the other side of the medal too, for there were ...
... measured: it is by the sincerity of the giving and the absoluteness of the giving. Source Money Is Valuable When Spent It is infinitely more difficult to be good, to be wise, to be intelligent and generous, to be more generous, you follow me, when one is rich than when one is poor. I have known many people in many countries, and the most generous people I have ever met in all the countries ...
... It is said that Christ healed the sick and even raised the dead. One day an idiot was brought to him to be cured. But Christ Page 369 slipped away, saying that to make a stupid man intelligent is an impossibility. To make a dishonest man honest is an even more impossible miracle. 8 November 1967 Which is swifter for transformation: Divine Love or Mahakali's force? Kali's ...
... humans creating an incredible story, like so many little random gestures and chance molecules creating a symphony, or an explosion. And finally, we must say it, if it is chance, that chance is damn intelligent. But we are so scared by the idea that our great chance intelligence might be supplanted by a greater intelligence that we prefer to consign this world to its wretched chance rather than to a demiurgic ...
... matter); for it is perfectly certain that your thinking intelligence is quite trained enough to understand anything that is put before it. It is only the physical mind that is limited even in the most intelligent and opens up pits of stupidity or at least larger or smaller spaces of blank non-understanding in the face of unaccustomed ideas or a new line of possible experience or anything else either alien ...
... chilled... and give place to a play of senti- Page 25 ment , - sentiment which is an indulgence of the intelligent observing mind in the aesthesis, the rasa of feeling, passion, emotion, sense...." 35 One step more and these latter get thinned away into "a subtle, at the end ...
... Those disciplines which begin with freedom are only for the mighty ones who are naturally free or in former lives have founded their freedom. 164) Those who are deficient in the free, full and intelligent observation of a self-imposed law, must be placed in subjection to the will of others. This is one principal cause of the subjection of nations. After their disturbing egoism has been trampled under ...
... the Ashram Trust stopped keeping two separate accounts. Only the Ashram account was retained. Mother used to budget the monthly expenses. She kept an eye over what was spent. Thanks to her intelligent organisation the Ashram somehow managed to meet its expenses. After some time, progressively, the Ashram could begin saving some money. While offering money to Mother, many would write "For ...
... the denials, all the failures, all the defeats, all its proofs. We must be a little childish to contradict Newton's apple. We must be frightfully childish to want to get out of the web. We are too intelligent to be childish. And Mother was moving in this, bumping into one side, bumping into the other, plugging up a hole here only to see it reopen there, taking one stupidity off its shelf only to find ...
... is too full, like a clumsy fellow who does not know how to hold a full tumbler. 10 Among the aspirants who regularly attended the weekly meetings was a young poet, a student in Paris, intelligent though light-hearted. One evening he didn't turn up, although he had said a few days earlier that he would come. Why hadn't he come, then? We waited quite a long time, the meeting was over ...
... But a cosmic baby!... Perhaps that is what the "Divine" is. It is quite easy. Any stupid body can understand that, but it is not stupid, it is only covered over with stupidities. We are full of intelligent stupidities that block us off from the natural world—the great undivided natural. Basically, "consciousness" is nothing but the ability to perceive what is really there. The body, the cells of the ...
... and work as one unified group. I have heard that they do not have a brain, they are not enlightened creatures. In the process of evolution, ants occupy a much lower level than human beings. We are intelligent beings and science and technology have ensured that we remain supreme. Unfortunately, we lack these certain qualities that those tiny ants have. If only we could imbibe these qualities then we would ...
... of a lesson they have to learn by heart at the ticking of the rod of a feared schoolmaster. India has outstanding educational institutions too, but relatively few — far too few for that mass of intelligent youth, eager to learn but crushed under the weight of a standardized or rather calcified educational tradition. Sri Aurobindo had denounced that system already during his years as an educator and ...
... and their derivatives. गुहा नमः S. offering food; really “obeisance, devotion” युजानं 1. आत्मना संयुजानं. So “taking to himself”; may it not =प्रयुज्? Parallel passages. धीराः S. The intelligent gods. Simply the thinkers—possibly the Angiras Rishis. सजोषाः समानप्रीतयः पदैः. S. Tracks. Parallel passages. यजत्राः. S. यजनीयाः to be worshipped with sacrifice. But he also takes ...
... was the most eccentric. In his childhood he behaved very much like an animal, he used to walk like a monkey, gaze like one and scratch himself exactly like a monkey too. He was not even remotely intelligent. He roamed the jungles and spent most of his time on trees. In the evenings, after a lot of calling and cajoling his mother managed to bring him back into the house. The mother had a nasal ...
... often went there to visit those kind sisters, with whom She was on the best of terms, and She played tennis, which was her old passion. Paul Richard also played tennis. He was a quite remarkably intelligent man, a "philosopher,” who would in fact end his days as a professor in a well-known American university. He was also a lawyer. But what is more interesting—and here we shall never cease marveling ...
... change in them into divine Page 493 Ananda. All that is not sukta must be made sukta Lipi. 1) The society of the Satyayuga, then rightly begin. 2) After the destruction of the intelligent activity . ie the ideal can develop. Script. The Law of submission, namas, to Krishna revealed in the gods, is now accepted by the Jiva in all parts of the system. The law of affirmation... tyranny of the Gods has to be destroyed. 4) they apologise .. paralogise. Script. However hopeless the outlook may seem in the Kriti, yet it is sure that the work will be done, but the intelligent Powers give too large a place to the immediate process. This stage is the tyranny of the gods and must be overcome. Page 517 27 June 1914 St. तव प्रणीती तव शूर शर्मत्रा विवासंति... the knowledge of the divine personality . (antard.) 7) before the light the fulfilment of the tapas independent of the obstacle of time 8) the superiority of the perfect ideality to the intelligent ideality 9) it is the perfect business capacities that are about to be active. 10) besiege the faith —immediately fulfilled 11) the intellectuality still struggles to besiege the faith ...
... anyatas chid árata dadháná Indra id duvah. Uta nah subhagán arir vocheyur dasma krishtayah syámed Indrasya sarmani. Sayana renders: “O sacrificer, do thou approach Indra the intelligent and uninjured, and ask of me the clever priest (whether I have praised him well or not),—Indra who gave perfectly the best wealth to thy friends, the sacrificial priests. Let (the priests connected)... difficulty may admit, but no writer in his senses would use. We must reject Sayana’s interpretation totally and start afresh with a clean slate. I reject to begin with vigram in the sense of wise or intelligent,— for it would then be identical with vipaschitam and lead to a heavy tautology; I take it in the sense of vigorous. The root vij expresses any intensity of motion, emotion, thought or being; it ...
... standpoint of Scientism while generally weakening religious faith. The polemical tension between both survives in the present, witness the quarrel between Scientism on the one hand and Creationism or Intelligent Design on the other. Science is now thought by many to be the only source of true knowledge, which should be clear from the fact that it can prove its affirmations mathematically and experimentally ...
... Shankara. It can be well summarised in the language of Radhakrishnan as follows: “Badarayana says that the soul is jna , which Shankara interprets as intelligence, while Ramanuja takes it as an intelligent knower. Vallabha agrees with Shankara, while Keshava thinks that the soul is both intelligence and knower. The individual soul is an agent ( karta ). Birth and death refer to the body and not the ...
... on women were a prelude to a bigger question on them in general... I will quote the view of a medical man of experience who seems to represent the popular opinion "Women are, as a rule, more intelligent than men, but their intelligence is of a different order. Man's brain is superior to woman's in size and weight... We are told that it can be explained by our keeping all culture as a sex-monopoly ...
... room we used to get soaked with perspiration as if we had had baths. We did not have the means to air-condition our dark-room and neither could the Ashram be asked to do it. Once we made an intelligent contraption: we fitted a flash to my Leica and in this way we turned it into a copying device. Many projection slides were made with it and several people took those slides and offered us money ...
... our consciousness. That consciousness itself is, indeed, only a subjective & quite subordinate activity of matter. Since the machine is automatic, there is no need to suppose the existence of an intelligent operator. Ego is a fiction of the mind, the soul an ignorant theory invented by the uninformed intellect to explain to itself its own existence. What then is the cause of these thinkings, doings ...
... 1. Omnipresent Reality “An omnipresent Reality is the truth of all life and existence whether absolute or relative, whether corporeal or incorporeal, whether animate or inanimate, whether intelligent or unintelligent; and in all its infinitely varying and even constantly opposed self-expressions, from the contradictions nearest to our ordinary experience to those remotest antinomies which lose ...
... the behaviour of the rākshasas who were dispersing them). (24) Consuming the rākshasas with his glances as it were, Śrī Rāma addressed in indignation the following reproachful words to the highly intelligent Vibhīsana: (25) "Why, disregarding me, are these people being molested by you? (Pray) stop this annoyance. They are my own people. (26) Neither apartments nor costumes nor a protective wall nor ...
... has been reborn and come back to us. We have given him the same name too." Later the gentleman came to see me with his son and Family. I saw the boy. He was already quite grown-up, smart and intelligent and he looked very happy. (61) S ince we have started talking about phantoms let me tell you a story connected with Vishwajit. Vishwajit's elder brother was a police officer ...
... jackal, realising the danger, abandoned its idea of hunting the ducks and started running for its life. The monkey kept chasing the jackal until it jumped over the wall and disappeared. How intelligently the monkey saved the ducks that day!' (17) I was now a little older. Maybe eleven or twelve. We were staying in Calcutta. One day it occurred to me that I too, like the goondas ...
... humility is humility before the Divine, that is, a precise, exact, living sense that one is nothing, one can do nothing, understand nothing without the Divine, that even if one is exceptionally intelligent and capable, this is nothing in comparison with the divine Consciousness. 21 A tamasic kind of humility will avoid all personal effort, imagining that the Divine will do everything. "But ...
... only an organised republic of animalcules, and it is in the mould of that idea Europe has recast herself;—that is what the European nations are becoming, organised republics of animalcules,—very intelligent, very methodical, very wonderful talking and reasoning animalcules but still animalcules. Not what the race set out to be, creatures made in the image of the Almighty, gods that having fallen from... associates to admire his gallant and his daredevil courage. Sometimes it reminds me of an old man, a man very early old, still strong in his decrepitude, garrulous, well-informed, luxurious, arrogant, intelligent, still busy toddling actively from place to place, looking into this, meddling in that, laying down the law dogmatically on every point under the sun; and through it all the clutch already nearing ...
... sense of wonder, it is the wonder of the psychic which sees the truth but does not understand much about the world, for it is too far from it. Children have this but as they learn more, become more intelligent, more educated, this is effaced, and you see all sorts of things in their eyes: thoughts, desires, passions, wickedness—but this kind of little flame, so pure, is no longer there. And you may be ...
... March 1917 Out of the inhibition and asiddhi there is being created a new luminously mechanical ideal substratum of thought and action—jnana tapas—combined which replaces gradually the old half-intelligent action or thought, habitual, instinctive etc which rose out of the subconscient or was determined by the subconscient. This rises out of the realised sat in the mental, vital, physical prakriti ...
... view of existence; for so long as the universal Becoming takes the form of human body and mind, the thought, the will it has developed in its human creature will work itself out and to follow that intelligently is the natural law and best rule of human life. Humanity and its welfare and progress during its persistence on earth provide the largest field and the natural limits for the terrestrial aim of ...
... gandha, rasa, touches of old sparsha, but on a small scale. In Samadhi great abundance of lipi of all kinds, in a successive flow of sentences, but with some incoherence, and without a link of intelligent succession in the flow. Only in the lighter swapna is Page 1119 there full ideality. Some plenty of shadowy rupa, but insufficient stability. Easily dispelled touches of roga. 12 July ...
... its explanation (e.g. his own) through an inner Force. Yet, he also points out that ascribing the works of nature to “an inconscient Energy of creation” – or to an Intelligence as in the theory of intelligent design – is a hypothesis which has not been sufficiently substantiated. Let us see how he himself accounts for the workings of evolution. We have now a rudimentary idea of the general framework ...
... smell, touch, taste, and that the business of the mind, the present central organ of our consciousness, is only to receive the physical impression and its nervous translation and so become intelligently conscious of the object. ...we have to realise first that the mind is the only real sense even in the physical process: its dependence on the physical impressions is the result of the conditions ...
... seems to be unique. I wonder how many sadhaks here have developed it. These things are extremely common among those who practise Yoga everywhere. In this Ashram the sadhaks are too intelligent, sceptical and matter of fact to have a mind of that kind of experience. Even those who might develop it are hampered by the outward-mindedness and physical-mindedness that dominates the atmosphere ...
... clearly!' the nawab nodded vigourously. Dada later said: Now let me tell you one of Nasiruddin. The nawab of Persia loved Nasiruddin very much. After all he was a poet, philosopher and a very intelligent wit. Qualities that he respected in Nasiruddin. One day the nawab said: 'Nasiruddin, I'll go to your house tomorrow morning.' On arriving at Nasiruddin's house the next morning the ...
... which is tantamount to belief in fairies. … I am all in favour of a dialogue between science and religion, but not a constructive dialogue.” “Science has tended to destroy religion and has allowed intelligent people to reject God,” asserts Weinberg, adding wryly: “We should not retreat from this accomplishment.” 10 The chemist Peter Atkins, together with many others, joins the somber chorus: “We are ...
... though poor and ekes out a bare living by spinning, comes of a good Brahmin family and was brought up in an atmosphere of culture and learning for which Navadwip has always been famous. But although intelligent and gifted with spiritual insight, she fears equally the Divine and the Devil. KESHAV ( with the Ganges water in his hands formally intoning a hymn ) O thou ...
... illuminating and vivifying experience, they may seem at first a little difficult or unseizable. But that is true of most spiritual truth—and not of spiritual truth alone. There are many very highly intelligent and cultured people to whom a scientific explanation of even so patent and common a fact as electricity and electric light (this is a reminiscence of an article by Y. Y. in the New Statesman and ...
... them! Yes. Why? (Mother laughs) Each one, because the words are not the ones he wants.... There was a whole story with the communists and the Soviet consulate: a very intelligent man, it seems, a reader of Sri Aurobindo, entirely interested, wanting to be useful and... he says, "What can I do with the 'divine consciousness'! ["To live in Auroville, one must be a willing ...
... beating is not always successful. But the mind or nature or mental energy—whatever you like to call it, does this in a certain way and carries on with a certain order of thoughts, haphazard intelligentialities (excuse the barbarism) or asininities, rigidly ordered or imperfectly ordered intellectualities, logical sequences and logical inconsequences etc., etc. How the devil is an intuition to get in ...
... optimal results what, in your opinion, should be the role of the leader and his code of conduct in running his organisation? A: The task is heavy and difficult. There must be a good number of intelligent, progressive, honest, dutiful and capable people, dedicating their lives for the cause, and be living examples of what they say and teach; and they must exert their influence to create a new world ...
... found to his dismay that each tied bundle contained two ten-rupee notes, one on top and one at the bottom and in between there were nothing but cleverly cut white sheets of paper! It was done so intelligently that there was absolutely no way of finding out. But despite this, he still managed to win two or three hundred rupees. And he used this money to organise a 'steamer-party' . Sometimes I used ...
... unruly, power is increased by entry into the inner vital, but discrimination and detached vision are deficient; the knowledge, even if increased in force and range, remains turbid and misleading; intelligent self-control may give place to a vast undisciplined impetus or a rigidly disciplined but misguided egoistic action. For the subliminal is still a movement of the Knowledge-Ignorance; it has in it ...
... forces Victory has to precede Peace. No, this is not a yoga of ahimsa and no sinecure somewhere in the rarefied air of high hills; it is a battle with very real, implacable, strong and extremely intelligent forces, mostly fought in the dingy basement of our own personality. ‘Our yoga is not for cowards; if you have no courage, better leave it.’ 35 (the Mother) The Growth of the Ashram There ...
... I know who has never sat in judgment on his own sadhana or indulged in nagging self-analysis. And he has been perhaps one of the happiest here. Though not an intellectual, he is quite bright and intelligent, yet he has never, never worried to find out whether he was progressing or not. Most of you know him. Apart from his service to the Mother, he is now best known as a teacher of Hathayogic Asanas ...
... higher, and try to manifest it . Page 266 Disciple : Some of the Asuras are said to have practised Sadhana. What is their kind of Sadhana? You also said that they are very intelligent beings. Sri Aurobindo : I never said that they have true ideas and great ideals and that they were great mental beings. What I said was that they were clever in carrying out their purpose ...
... it were, for the event. It may have been mere chance, but there would be no end to such “chances.” Who knows whether China does not represent the dragon of the Mind?... The Chinese are the most intelligent people in the world—they give us the shivers. At 6 p.m., Sri Aurobindo came out of his room, followed by Mother—there was always that tranquil slowness in his movements. He had already changed a ...
... For this great flux of Nature, by which we mean a great cosmic motion & activity, shows us nowhere a centre of knowledge & intelligent control, yet its every movement, denoting law, pointing Page 377 to harmony, speaks of a centre somewhere of knowledge & intelligent control. It shows nowhere any definite unity except that of sum and process, yet every little portion of it the more we analyse ...
... attaining liberation, that is to say, union with the Truth. 29 September 1963 Sweet Mother, Sri Aurobindo writes in one of his aphorisms: "Those who are deficient in the free, full and intelligent observation of a self-imposed law, must be placed in subjection to the will of others." 13 Mother, I am one of those. Will You take me and discipline me? My child, that is exactly what I... better done. In order to achieve self-mastery, should one follow the method of "widening the consciousness"? Widening the consciousness is necessary for all who want to live a free and intelligent life, even without there being any question of Yoga or aspiration for the Divine Life. 7 December 1966 Page 344 Sweet Mother, When I heard that X was drowned in a lake ...
... advanced notions are, in the main, really what the Church has always said in old-fashioned instead of in new-fangled forms. Such, for instance, is the conviction of Emile Rideau, S.J., in an extremely intelligent book which has the honesty to offer us an enormous number of passages illustrating all possible shades of opinion in Teilhard. He quotes a series of them which tend to the orthodox Roman Catholic ...
... apostrophe which we shall find almost literally echoed in Kant: Conscience! Conscience! Divine instinct, immortal voice from heaven; sure guide of a creature ignorant and finite indeed, yet intelligent and free, infallible, judge of good and evil, making man like to God! In thee consists the excellence of man s nature and the morality of his actions; apart from. thee I find nothing in myself to ...
... born of Vibhīsana is called by the name of Kala, 0 monkey! Kala herself reported this to me when her mother sent her (to me). (11) There is a jewel among the rākshasas, Avindhya by name, who is intelligent and learned, full of fortitude and rich in amiable disposition, aged and highly respected by Rāvana. (12) He forewarned Rāvana of the imminent destruction of rākshasas at the hands of Śrī Rāma ...
... so close, so very close we were—up to the time when he entered the Poly technique. Eighteen years. Yet he understood NOTHING." Was there a tinge of wistfulness in Mother's voice? "Yet he was intelligent, a capable man, he became a governor, and a rather successful governor, in several countries. But he understood NOTHING." As a matter of fact, Matteo's highest conception seems to have been... on geography were well-known) and was a very line man. So then we were doing geography 1 enjoyed enormously doing maps because they had to be drawn. One day, the teacher looked at me (he was an intelligent man), he looked at me. He asked me, 'Why are towns, the big cities, situated on river banks?' 1 saw the faces of the-students flabbergasted- saying to themselves: Lucky! The question wasn't put to ...
... was a transition from the animal to the human creation to find a similar period, and at that time the consciousness was not sufficiently mentalised to be able to observe, to understand, to feel intelligently – the transition must have taken place in a wholly obscure way. Consequently, what I am speaking about is absolutely new, unique in the terrestrial creation, it is something that never had a precedent ...
... among the suitors who had come to claim her hand only Arjuna in his shining valour could win her. Noble as she was, she always remained chaste and faithful in her conduct; she was learned and intelligent, she observed the sacred vows, she respected the elders and the wise, and she was a lady of great determination. Fate had in many ways humiliated her in life, and its wretched ignominy she had ...
... but among the suitors who had come to claim her hand only Arjuna in his shining valour could win her. Noble as she was, she always remained chaste and faithful in her conduct; she was learned and intelligent, she observed the sacred vows, she respected the elders and the wise, and she was a lady of great determination. Fate had in many ways humiliated her in life, and its wretched ignominy she had to ...
... What a coupling of disparates! What a blunder! Don't you know that the Divine smiles equally on the wicked and the good together? 56 (2)NB: Very strange, Sir, that you don't have a single intelligent chap in the species of your Supramental race to be! On what do you build your hopes, please? Sri Aurobindo: Excuse me, you said intelligence and interest. You might find one of these separately ...
... there was a change of government in March, Reynaud replacing Daladier. Sri Aurobindo thought that such unsteadiness looked like a bad sign, but added that Reynaud was the more intelligent man; "in fact, he is the only intelligent Minister, they say". 15 * Actually, when Hitler struck at last, it took the Allied powers by surprise. First he invaded Denmark and Norway on 9 April, and by adopting the ...
... between a mechanical act and an act according to purpose and will. Such a reading is responsible for that superlatively inept statement in an article of the Hibbert Journal, entitled Is Matter Intelligent? - "Either the universe of physics has been created by mechanism or by intelligence. But when mechanism is ruled out, as it has been, what remains? It is a shame to take the money." The fact is ...
... only to begin again and again, as if by being repeated thousands upon thousands of times the question itself acquired a power of its own and a presence of fire that was the Answer. To be “intelligent” was to be able to drink “that.” Everything else was just deft little anecdotes to occupy the cerebral cortex. I was suddenly face to face with a “nothing” that was a formidable something – without ...
... being — the mental being — which cannot form an idea with its mental consciousness of that which surpasses such a kind of consciousness, not analogically but ontologically. The primates are very intelligent beings, but a jet engine, a recipe for a chocolate cake or a piano concerto are simply not within the order of their consciousness. We should not forget that the Supermind is a divine world, which ...
... self-appreciation. His humility vis-à-vis his spiritual mentors and their judgments has to be seen to be believed. Dilip Kumar Roy once remarked about him: “One meets clever people often, and highly intelligent people, too, now and then. But seldom does one meet an intelligence which aspires to be replenished at the fount of a deeper wisdom…. Sethna impressed me the more because… he had the uncommon wisdom ...
... this. Nevertheless, he might have got the degree if he had applied for. it, but he did not care to do so. After the Irish leader Pamell died in 1891, Aurobindo wrote a poem on him. ² He took an intelligent interest in all public questions of those days and formed his own independent judgment and opinion about them. It was during his stay at Cambridge that the "Indian Majlis", an association of Indian ...
... physical movements there is such a thing as the ideal and the mental action. That is to say, the ananda hitherto manifested even if in its origin supramental, was supported by the Page 1049 intelligent mind or at the best by the intuitive mind, while what is now manifesting is ideal delight in the body. That was mixed in its character, modified by the lower physical reaction, this is pure and sovereign ...
... years later she said: “I really think that it is among the children that there are those able to begin the new race.” 48 It is now often observed that the new generation of children is amazingly intelligent, 49 that they seem to be fully aware of themselves and have the gift of looking straight through you. It is for this sort of children that the Mother founded her school with its integral education ...
... beating is not always successful. But the mind or nature or mental energy — whatever you like to call it, does this in a certain way and carries on with a certain order of thoughts, haphazard intelligentialities (excuse the barbarism) or asininities, rigidly ordered or imperfecdy ordered intellectualities, logical sequences and logical inconsequences etc., etc. How the devil is an intuition to get in ...
... From the land of Shivaji came the Maharash-trians. "The Maratha race, as their soil and their history have made them, are a rugged, strong and sturdy people, democratic in their every fibre, keenly intelligent and practical to the very marrow, following in ideas, even in poetry, philosophy and religion the drive towards life and action, capable of great fervour, feeling and enthusiasm, like all Indian... thin, with razor-sharp features, the very face of vicious-ness, hardness — pitilessly vicious. He shut himself in there. A little later a woman of mature age came, around thirty, gentle, sweet —not intelligent but very sweet —and dressed all in black. She went into the box. He was already shut inside, and could not be seen. They spoke with a wire-netting between them." Mother interposed to comment: "I ...
... sensitive the Partition was to the pride of the Bengali Hindus, who formed the most cultured and dominant part of the Presidency and who would lose this position because of the Partition. But Curzon, intelligent and capable, was also well endowed with the colonial superiority complex of the British. Moreover, like most others he may have underestimated the courage and the readiness to rebel of the Bengalis ...
... propose a toast and he neatly retaliated on the Page 29 poet by coupling his name with a further toast "The British paper stainers!" 16 This was the happy give-and-take of an intelligent witty exchange. V. Basic Principles and Devices In spite of E.B. White's injunction that humour should not be dissected, many a scholar has tried to analyse the phenomenon of humour ...
... world, but it is only the beginning of another: there were six “pralayas,” it is said, before our present Earth. The Earth seven times over. Seven evolutionary scenarios... “culminating” in some intelligent and rather destructive hominoid who will unfold his particular little scenario, will multiply and start all over again – and so forth till death follows? And we start an eighth Earth over again? ...
... away, confident and cheerful. Not so Ganesh who was aware that apart from being rather overweight, he had only a Rat for his mount, and so he could certainly be no match for Kartik. But being very intelligent and wise, he decided to go round his parents. He did so and when Kartik returned, tired and panting, he found Ganesh calmly sitting on his mother's lap and claiming to be the victor. When Kartik... strange to us. On the one hand, you say you were a timid boy, on the other you were winning so many prizes and accolades!" "But what has winning prizes got to do with timidity? So often, extremely intelligent students are quite incapable of achieving anything in life. Their minds are free and active in the world of thought and imagination, it is when these have to be translated into action that their... I have already explained how the boys learned much about the science of bomb-making from people like Sister Nivedita and Jagadish Chandra Bose. Of those young men, one of the brightest and most intelligent was Ullaskar Datta. He was the first to succeed in making a bomb for the Indian Swadeshi Movement. When Barin was setting up the factory he had sent Nolini to me with an invitation to go and see ...
... children are better and better!... The NEW children are truly remarkable. Today I saw [name's] child, she's two, I think, but she is like the children of six or seven used to be before. Wide awake, intelligent... . It's curious: What do you have to say? (long silence) I have a vague impression I had something to tell you, but I don't know what.... (Then Mother shows a ...
... design and expands the mould and tries to replace this fixed unconscious or half-conscious law of automatism by an order based on ideas and significances and accepted life-motives, or it attempts an intelligent standardisation and a framework determined by rational purpose, utility and convenience. There is nothing really binding or permanent in man's knowledge structures or his life-structures; but still ...
... should obey his elders. It is more important that he disobeys his elders and have the courage to launch out in a new direction. We need leaders, winners, iconoclasts, innovators. They have to be intelligent, smart, specialized and hard-nosed practical men, who can compete in today's cutthroat world. It is no use teaching them to be good, patient, submissive, cooperative, loving, non-violent and com ...
... of Huta's 460 "meditations" (February 1967), not only had the enormous epic been published in full, first in two volumes and then in a single volume (along with the letters), it had also provoked intelligent and increasing interest in India and abroad. A doctoral dissertation on Savitri, of which he was one of the referees, led Professor H.O. White of Trinity College, Dublin, to make a deep study of ...
... marvelous cities and less marvelous suburbs. But that is only a secondary end, a turbulent by-product, and it turns out that the major effect of the Mind in man has not been to make him more intelligent (intelligent with respect to what? The mouse in its hole has the perfect intelligence for its own terrain), but to individualize him within his own species and endow him with the power to change – while... rebellious soil, brings its chemical ingredients to a boil and breaks the husk, till everything is returned to its ultimate beauty, in spite of all our efforts to become, say, just a social and intelligent fellow. The great Sun of evolution presses upon its world, cracking its old molds, fermenting the heresies of the future and bringing to a boil the pale canned wisdoms of the mental legislators ...
... memory of previous birth in a child two and a half years old. She gave another instance of a similar case that is authentic. It occurred in her own family. She has a brother who is a cultured, intelligent man who does not believe in rebirth or any of these things. He had a daughter Page 218 Between the age of three and four years she was being given a bath by her father when ...
... —sense of spiritual values. For politicians or materialists may not react favourably to such personalities. For them, therefore, Sri Krishnaprem may exist merely as the memory of a robust man — intelligent, indeed, but too much of a day-dreamer to be taken seriously. But my humble tribute to him, now that he is no more, is not meant for such appraisers: for they will persist, alas, in being too sensible ...
... the French Foreign Office, Francois Seydoux, say very sadly: 'Don't try to persuade me: you know that my job is to defend national sovereignty.' His frankness was that of a sensitive and intelligent man, but it nevertheless revealed the insurmountable barrier dividing my own wish to persuade from the conservative reflex of so many people set in their old patterns of thought. There was more ...
... 1894 Sri Aurobindo met M .G. Ranade at Bombay for half an hour. It was Ranade who, having read Sri Aurobindo's Induprakash series, had sent a warning to the editor. He was anxious to meet the intelligent and promising young man! At last when an interview was arranged he found an opportunity to try to persuade Sri Aurobindo not to waste his energies in violently attacking the Congress but turn them ...
... failures, incomplete realizations and transient successes, a maze of forces acting and reacting on each other, helping, hindering and repulsing and always with a partial and mechanical or only half-intelligent action. Somehow a result is worked out, progress is made, but nowhere is there any finality or completeness, nowhere the repose of consummation. This incompleteness is an illusion created by the ...
... it being a social question one was free. The question remains (I confess I am still a little puzzled) why should Anilbaran make such a foolish assertion. I have never thought him to be a very intelligent man (like Moni e.g., to say nothing of Nolini) but that one could threaten like this of madness, etc. seems to me to be so utterly childish! Please.... His writing has certain qualities ...
... the English-educated higher middle and middle classes of the country, mostly wedded to Western ideas and guided by Western political and social theories. Some of these politicians were able and intelligent men, sincerely desirous of serving the country and promoting its political and social welfare; but they had little insight into the soul of the nation, its destiny, and its potential powers, and... homage and respect, was the transparent spirituality of his nature, and his absolute, child-like reliance on God and His guidance. When such a person, spiritual, sincere, highly educated and intelligent, and irreproachably pure and stead- fast in his feelings and will, embarks upon revolutionary politics, it would be stark folly to put it down to a reckless freak. There must have been sound reason ...
... Manes (but cf काव्या) (c) कवरकी prisoner (cf करमरिन्, कारा) Inclusion, Confinement. कवी, कविकः, कविका the bit of a bridle कवियं, कवीयं the bit of a bridle (d) कवि intelligent, wise; a sage, poet. Inclusion, Comprehension. कविता poetry कव् to praise, describe .. compose, paint, picture काव्य prophetic, poetical, praise worthy ...
... eagerness of tapas and the desire of rapidity are being entirely suppressed in order that they may not interfere with effectivity of tapas and effectuation of rapidity. Lipi 1) It is the intelligent aishwarya that is being established. 2) It is the entirety of the lipi (that is to say, the siddhi represented by the appearance of this entire phrase sufficiently stable in the akasha or sadhara) ...
... Rudra's example. Death is the sure consequence that would befall him. 32. The teachings of great ones are true and fit to be followed by all. This is so in regard to some of their actions too. The intelligent man should follow only such of their actions as are consistent with their teachings. 33. For these supermen, who are without the egoistic impulse, there is no self-interest — there is nothing to ...
... Vishuddha with emphasis. "And this was not at my prompting. He remembered you on his own. Did I not introduce you to him when he arrived at the St. Xavier's College? I am sure your handsome and intelligent face must have made an impression on him. In any case, he told me on his own to bring you with me for the lunch." "What a beautiful circumstance!" I was truly elated. Just on the previous day ...
... "Where?" "To Delhi, Bombay, Calcutta, etc... there are not even four who can work together." "Yes, they talk of human unity and act like this. It is grotesque." "People outside are intelligent, and they laugh at us." "Yes, they laugh." * * * "Mother, should I tell X to come or keep quiet?" "You keep quiet." * * * 1.4.72 The monthly offering ...
... monstrous. We are at the end of an evolutionary cycle and the Force is with those who will seize hold of the secret of the Transition to the next species, the true human species, for we are still but intelligent and evil-minded gnomes. We are not yet men . The next species is not an improvement upon the old gnomes, it will not come from a super-quality of the old gnome qualities — it is Something Else... ways of action. One is the political way, the one which we have adopted long enough and which has led us nowhere — and which will lead us nowhere at any time of the future. This is the way of intelligent calculation: if I do this, I shall obtain that; if I move this fellow, I shall be able to move this other fellow and so on; and if I accept the onerous and painful burden of governorship in Uttar ...
... be catastrophic and pulverizing or asphyxiating — and one starts all over again, perhaps on another planet, with means that will be those of the old law. The crab’s pincers will have acquired intelligent thumbs and forefingers to pinch the same old world. But we have perhaps had enough of it and could feel inclined to dream of some definitive Nirvana on some plateau of no Tibet, which would... pleasant, kind, open, you have done a great, good work — I feel like thanking you, but it is actually all of Thought that you are helping to progress. It gladdens one’s heart to see that truly intelligent people understand at last the active and immense part they can play in this difficult evolutionary Page 97 work. I had felt your thought very much — something that is not fluid but concrete ...
... 'notes' which radically differentiate the Teilhardian Christology from all the 'gnostic' or gnosticising Christologies. Personal God, historic Jesus: these are the two fixed poles of all his effort of intelligent faith (whence the constancy, in his spiritual life, of the prayer, the love, and the fidelity to the Church which preserve for us the presence of Christ). To tell the truth, we notice no fundamental ...
... there would as for others the full speed and certitude. Page 144 October 24, 1934 I enclose Barada Babu's postcard—whom you remember. He is a remarkable yogi—very sincere, intelligent with running powers (he stunned me anyway as I related), can meditate for ten or twelve hours at a stretch, a great bhakta f yours. But to him I was indebted as he prophesied I would be accepted ...
... below, it's swarming. In fact, it's a battle against small, really tiny things, things: habits of being, ways of feeling and of reacting.... 69.2712 When it is a question of material things, intelligent people instinctively feel that everything is quite familiar, known and based on established experiences. So there, one is vulnerable. And that's just what is being taught to the body: the inanity ...
... New Zealand, it is necessary to ask the following question: What are the major problems of our "have not" people that science and technology education should prepare the students to tackle intelligently and purposefully? In the first place, whether it is a ghetto, a reserve, or urban slum where the majority of less advantaged students live and assuming minimal socially healthy conditions, ...
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