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... The Dangers of Inner and Cosmic Experiences Letters on Yoga - III Chapter I The Intermediate Zone The Nature of the Intermediate Zone I mean by it [ the intermediate zone ] that when the sadhak gets beyond the barriers of his own embodied personal mind he enters into a wide range of experiences which are not the limited solid physical truth of things... lost altogether. The transition through this intermediate zone—not obligatory, for many pass by a narrower but surer way—is a crucial passage; what comes out of it is likely to be a very wide or rich creation; but when one founders there, recovery is difficult, painful, assured only after a long struggle and endeavour. The Dangers of the Intermediate Zone As for the letter, I suppose you will have... state of siddhi. He passed out of the normal mental consciousness contact with some intermediate zone of consciousness (not the spiritual) where one can be subjected to all sorts of voices, suggestions, ideas, so-called inspirations which are not genuine. I have warned against the dangers of this intermediate zone in one of my books. 1 The sadhak can avoid entering into this zone—if he enters, he ...

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... The Riddle of This World The Intermediate Zone All these experiences are of the same nature and what applies to one applies to another. Apart from some experiences of a personal character, the rest are either ideatruths, such as pour down into the consciousness from above when one gets into touch with certain... and often mixed and misleading experiences; one may go astray in it, follow false voices and a mendacious guidance, and that ends in a spiritual disaster; or one may take up one's abode in this intermediate zone, care to go no farther and build there some half-truth which one takes for the whole truth or become the instrument of the powers of these transitional planes,- that is what happens to many sadhaks... because they are mixed with it, imitate its form, are lit up by its illumination and get from this association and borrowed light an exaggerated value.     There are worse dangers in this intermediate zone of experience. For the planes to which the sadhak has now opened his consciousness, - not as before getting glimpses of them and some influences, but directly, receiving their full impact, - send ...

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... a big or even a decisive fall if there is something seriously unpsychic in the lower nature. 29 March 1935 What precisely is meant by the "intermediate zone" [pp. 35-45]? Has everyone to pass through it to reach the truth? The intermediate zone means simply a confused condition or passage in which one is getting out of the personal consciousness and opening into the cosmic (cosmic Mind, cosmic... cosmic Ignorance, all that comes from above can be mixed, perverted, taken hold of for their purposes by lower, even by hostile Powers. It is not necessary for everyone to struggle through the intermediate zone. If one has purified oneself, if there is no abnormal vanity, egoism, ambition or other strong misleading element, or if one is vigilant and on one's guard, or if the psychic is in front, one... higher zones—higher Mind, illumined Mind, Intuition, Overmind, is obligatory—they are the true Intermediaries between the present consciousness and the Supermind. 28 December 1933 About the intermediate zone, you wrote [in the preceding letter]: "One is not in possession of or direct contact with the divine Truth on its own levels." Are the planes of Higher Mind or Intuition in direct contact with ...

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... and often mixed and misleading experiences; one may go astray in it, follow false voices and a mendacious guidance, and that ends in a spiritual disaster; or one may take up one's abode in this intermediate zone, care to go no farther and build there some half-truth which one takes for the whole truth or become the instrument of the powers of these transitional planes,—that is what happens to many sadhakas... receiving because they are mixed with it, imitate its form, are lit up by its illumination and get from this association and borrowed light an exaggerated value. There are worse dangers in this intermediate zone of experience. For the planes to which the sadhaka has now opened his consciousness,—not as before getting glimpses of them and some influences, but directly, receiving their full impact,—send... powers to imitate the guiding Voice or Image and deceive and mislead the sadhaka or for himself to attribute the creations and formations of his own mind, vital or ego to the Divine. For this intermediate zone is a region of half-truths—and that by itself would not matter, for there is no complete truth below the Supermind; but the half-truth here is often so partial or else ambiguous in its application ...

... to various experiences which have generally been described as "transpersonal" experiences in modern psychological thought. Many of these experiences belong to what Sri Aurobindo has called the Intermediate Zone by which is meant   that when the sadhak gets beyond the barriers of his own embodied personal mind he enters into a wide range of experiences which are not the limited solid physical truth... where all the worlds meet, mental, vital, subtle physical, pseudo-spiritual - but there is no order or firm foothold - a passage between the physical and the true spiritual realms. 17 The intermediate zone means simply a confused condition or passage in which one is getting out of the personal consciousness and opening into the cosmic (cosmic Mind, cosmic vital, cosmic physical, something perhaps... that comes from above can be mixed, perverted, taken hold of for their purposes by lower, even by hostile Powers. 18   Sri Aurobindo has sounded many warnings against the dangers of the intermediate zone, such as "imitation higher experiences", "false inspirations" and "false voices" which come from this realm "into which hundreds of yogins enter and some never get out of it". 19 To a disciple ...

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... failures is better than a hectic gallop leading nowhere. March 13, 1934 You have missed my rather veiled hint about wealth of "any kind of experiences" and the reference to the intermediate zone which, I think at least, I made. I was referring to the wealth of that kind of experience of which Govindabhai's MS abounds and of which Bejoy, to give only one example, had some hundred every... than with meeting the Divine or get- ting the Divine consciousness which enables one to live in or with the Divine, then a flood of pseudos or mixtures comes in, one is led into the mazes of the intermediate zone or spins in the grooves of one's own formations. There is the truth of the whole matter. Then why does Krishnaprem say that one should not hunt after experiences, but only love and seek... only room for discrimination in Yoga, but a need for it at every step—otherwise you will get lost in the jungle of things that are not spiritual—as for instance the tangle of what I call the to intermediate zone. I have also told you that you are not asked no believe everything told you by anybody and that there is no call to put faith in all the miraculous things narrated about of Bejoy Krishna or another ...

... suggestion says that a preparation for the second plane is on. And I am passing through the intermediate zone, which lies between the two higher planes. Is that why the downward pull of the adverse forces is so strong and obstinate at present?       What do you mean exactly by the intermediate zone?       It is not likely that the attack is for preventing your rising above the higher... your being permanently above in the Self and secondly the descent of the Force which should fill the Peace and Silence.         Some people say that between two planes there is an intermediate zone. As one passes through it the forces or beings of that region try their best to lure away and prevent the sadhak from entering the next upper plane.       Who are the people that say that ...

... Imagine Nolini engaged in dark and sinister occult operations to take possession of somebody. You said something about the intermediate zone. I thought it was sex-trouble. Sex-trouble, ego-trouble, occult-power trouble. I had an idea that the intermediate zone is something that one is likely to tumble into after making a great progress in sadhana... I find there is some similarity between... psychic is crying and crying but other parts are dragging him away. Quite true. But the psychic is weak, the mind erratic, the vital rest less and over-eager. Hence these results. Is this intermediate zone such a beastly thing that you can't draw anyone out of it in spite of his bearing so much love for you? The diffculty is that if I draw him out, he runs back into it. These people feel a ...

... g brain". I have hired about this region of imitation experiences, false inspirations, false voices into which hundreds of yogin's enter and some never get out of it in my letter about the intermediate zone. 34 If a man has a strong clear head and a certain kind of spiritual scepticism, he can go through and does—but people without discrimination like Y or Z get lost. 35 Thus, Sri Aurobindo... Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga. SABCL. Vol. 23 , p. 901. × I mean by it [the intermediate zone] that when the sadhak gets beyond the barriers of his own embodied personal mind he enters into a wide range of experiences which are not the limited solid physical truth of things and not yet ...

... ting brain." I have hinted about this region of imitation experiences, false inspirations, false voices into which hundreds of Yogis enter and some never get out of it in my letter about the intermediate zone. If a man has a strong clear head and a certain kind of spiritual scepticism, he can go through and does—but people without discrimination like X or Y get lost. Especially ego enters in and... that brings—is not an absolute defence against these things, but it is a defence and serves as a check and as a kind of corrective balance. I notice that those who enter into this region of the intermediate zone usually make for retirement and seclusion and insist on it. These are the reasons why I prefer usually that sadhaks should not take to an absolute retirement, but keep a certain poise between ...

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... ess which comes when the inner being is brought forward in all its wideness. For then there is much less danger of the difficulties of what I have called the Intermediate Zone. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - III: The Intermediate Zone Everything is dangerous in the sadhana or can be, except the psychic change. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - III: The Psychic Being and Its Role in ...

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... of siddhi. He passed out of the normal mental consciousness into a contact with some intermediate zone of consciousness (not the spiritual) where one can be subjected to all sorts of voices, suggestions, ideas, so-called aspirations which are not genuine. I have warned against the dangers of this intermediate zone in one of my books. The sadhak can avoid entering into this zone—if he enters, he has ...

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... long effort and many failures, is better than a hectic gallop leading nowhere. You have missed my rather veiled hint about wealth of "any kind of experiences" and the reference to the intermediate zone which, I think at least, I made. I was referring to the wealth of that kind of experience. I do not say that these experiences are always of no value, but they are so mixed and confused that... Divine or getting the Divine Consciousness which enables one Page 38 to live in or with the Divine, then a flood of pseudos or mixtures comes in, one is led into the mazes of the intermediate zone or spins in the grooves of one's own formations. There is the truth of the whole matter. Then why does Krishnaprem say that one should not hunt after experiences but only love and seek the ...

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... relationship what is missing is an intermediate zone between the existing physical world and the supramental world as it exists. This zone has yet to be built, both in the individual consciousness and in the objective world, and it is being built. When Page 137 formerly I used to speak of the new world that is being created, I was speaking of this intermediate zone. And similarly, when I am on ...

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... and three o’clock in the afternoon. Now I know that what was lacking for the two worlds to join in a constant and conscious relation is an intermediate zone between the physical world as it is and the supramental world as it is …” She saw this intermediate zone as “a huge ship, as large as a city, which was a symbolic representation of the place where this work is going on.” On board of this ship were ...

... conscious relationship what is missing is an intermediate zone between the existing physical world and the supramental world as it exists. This zone has yet to be built, both in the individual consciousness and in the objective world, and it is being built. When formerly I used to speak of the new world that is being created, I was speaking of this intermediate zone. And similarly, when I am on 'this' side—that ...

... supramental body was also an actuality. She had an existence, outwardly as a human being, on this bank, and she had a supramental existence on that bank; what had been lacking was a bridge, an intermediate zone. It was this zone "both in the individual consciousness and the objective world" - that had to be built, and was in fact being built. Of her experience of the 3rd February afternoon, the ... Sri Aurobindo had often warned his disciples against picturing the supermind and supramental conditions in mental categories. In detailing her dream of the supramental world - of the intermediate zone or connecting bridge symbolised by the boat, and of the kind of people who seemed to qualify for the supramental world - the Mother also warned people against visualising the perfected world, ...

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... has gone and remained there consciously between two and three o’clock in the afternoon. I know now that what is lacking for the two worlds to join in a constant and conscious relation is an intermediate zone between the physical world as it is and the supramental world as it is. It is this zone which remains to be built, both in the individual consciousness and in the objective world, and which is ...

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... without any true mental will or strong mental will to steady or restrain it, and so at the mercy of the imaginations and suggestions of the adverse vital world when carried over the border into the intermediate zone of which I spoke in a recent message. All the causes of collapse in this Ashram 2 have been due to these three causes—to the first two mostly. Only three or four of them have ended in madness—and ...

... perception on the mental level, then towards the close of the third line shifts to a level intermediate between this and some other that has a thrill of more than the mind acting the mystic — an intermediate zone which ends with the word "interfused" and leads completely to the ultra-mental in the verse:   Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns.   Here the change is not merely in the ...

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... when it is only some front or small part of it or some larger Mind, Life-Power or subtle physical ranges with which they have entered into dynamic connection. There are worse dangers in this intermediate zone of experience. For the planes to which the sadhak12 has now opened his consciousness, - not as before getting glimpses of them and some influences, but directly, receiving their full impact, - ...

... shadowy, often illusory range of experiences which belong to this intervening country between the soul and its superficial instruments or rather to its outermost fringes, all the chaos of the intermediate zone, is summed up as psychic and considered as an inferior and dubious province of spiritual discovery. Again there is a constant confusion between the mentalised desire-soul which is a creation of ...

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... of a family, is Page 717 a social institution based on ego. It can only be a stage in the evolution of a spiritual man. 13 November 1934 Is there a region of Apsaras in the intermediate zone? Perhaps you discourage me from retiring because you feel I might go there and try to get in touch with them. But probably such a contact is not as dangerous as ambition, pride, egoism etc. ...

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... shadowy, often illusory range of experiences which belong to this intervening country between the soul and its superficial instruments, or rather to its outermost fringes, all the chaos of the intermediate zone, is summed up as psychic and considered as an inferior and dubious province of spiritual discovery. Again there is a constant confusion between the mentalised desire-soul which is a creation of ...

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... themselves as a result of their experiences, both objective and subjective (which are really one and the same), that is, discover Thee in their unfathomable essence. The subconscient is the intermediate zone between precise perception and ignorance, total darkness; it is Page 97 probable that most beings, even human beings, live constantly in this subconscient; few emerge from it. This ...

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... intellectual region, can see all this from above; they can look down at it all, keep their heads above and breathe; but those who live in this realm ... Sri Aurobindo calls this realm the 'intermediate zone,' a zone in which, he says, you can have all the experiences you wish if you enter into it. But it isn't ( laughing ) very advisable!—and I understand why! I had that experience because I had ...

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... have to do is concentrate in a certain way before going to sleep to spend my whole night in these ... very far from here, very far ... I can't say very far from the earth, for surely it's in an intermediate zone between the forces from above and the earth's atmosphere. That's what it mainly is, in any case. It's a great universal current as well, but mainly it's what descends and comes onto the earth ...

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... inspirations and false lights and voices. Sri Aurobindo has sounded a note of serious warning against these alluring but often dangerously misleading visions and experiences in his writing "The Intermediate Zone" (Letters on Yoga, pp. 1039-46), also in The Life Divine (p. 905). Here is a passage from his The Synthesis of Yoga dealing with the same topic: "The seeker of spiritual perfection ...

... blacksmith; the flow is the sign of the Muse pouring down things at her ease. What's up with J? Trying to bring down the Supermind or going off the deep end? I fear he is wandering in the intermediate zone. How much is occultifying drama and how much is real aberration is the question. I can't ask him to work when he's in such a mood. Don't You can keep this note-book, but what about ...

... ”² Locating and describing the subconscient, the Mother says in her Prayer of March 13, 1914, just a fortnight before her fateful meeting with Sri Aurobindo : "The subconscient is the intermediate zone between precise perception and the total darkness of the ignorance; it is probable that the majority of beings, even of human beings, live constantly . in this subconscience; few emerge from ...

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... despair, These were the movements of the Life-force, ''full of ardour". They had their higher movements full of mixture. For example, one could enter here into "the valley of the wondering Gleam", intermediate zone of the vital being full of deceit and danger because of the false light it shows. Those who are attracted by this "wandering Gleam" are agents of life-force, not its masters. This current of ...

... without one asking for it. Y. was another M. with a powerful vital being. At one time I had strong hopes about him. But people whose sadhana is on a vital basis pass into what I have called the Intermediate Zone and hardly go beyond the vital. It is like a jungle and it is comparatively much easy with those people who are weak and have no such power. He used to think that he had put himself in the Divine's ...

... contraries meet; Truth stares and does her works with bandaged eyes And Ignorance is Wisdom's patron here: Those galloping hooves in their enthusiast speed Could bear to a dangerous intermediate zone Where Death walks wearing a robe of deathless Life. 278   Here too lies "the valley of the wandering Gleam", a self-created self-perpetuating nightmare death-in-life. Savitri withstands ...

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... went there and remained there consciously between two and three o'clock in the afternoon. Now, I know that what is lacking for the two worlds to unite in a constant and conscious relation, is an intermediate zone between the physical world as it is and the supramental world as it is. This zone remains to be built, both in the individual consciousness and the objective world, and it is being built. When ...

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... only room for discrimination in Yoga, but a need for it at every step—otherwise you will get lost in the jungle of things that are not spiritual—as for instance the tangle of what I call the intermediate zone. I have also told you that you are not asked to believe everything told you by anybody and that there is no call to put faith in all the miraculous things narrated about Bijoykrishna or another ...

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... mental and vital planes (in his case more the vital) and some extraordinary experiences which are not altogether safe. There is great danger there of entering into and getting perplexed in the intermediate zone. I would rather see him liberated from these things than pursuing them any farther. A descent from above of the higher forces would be far more helpful to him than these ascensions. Page 286 ...

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... without any true mental will or strong vital will to steady or restrain it, and so at the mercy of the imaginations and suggestions of the adverse vital world when carried over the border into the intermediate zone of which I spoke in a recent message. 2 All the cases of collapse in this Asram have been due to these three causes—to the first two mostly. Only three or Page 809 four of them ...

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... went there and remained there consciously between two and three o’clock in the afternoon. Now I know that what is lacking for the two worlds to unite in a constant and conscious relation is an intermediate zone between the physical world as it is and the supramental world as it is. This zone remains to be built, both in the individual consciousness and the objective world, and it is being built. When ...

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... went there and remained there consciously between two and three o’clock in the afternoon. Now I know that what was lacking for the two worlds to join in a constant and conscious relation is an intermediate zone between the physical world as it is and the supramental world as it is. This zone is to be built both in the individual consciousness and in the objective world, and it is being built … “I ...

... there and remained there consciously between two and three o’clock in the afternoon. Now I know that what was lacking for the two worlds to join in a constant and conscious relation 98 is an intermediate zone between the physical world as it is and the supramental world as it is. This zone remains to be built both in the individual consciousness and in the objective world, and it is being built … ...

... Supramental world exists permanently and I am there permanently in a Supramental body. Now, I know that what is lacking for the two worlds to unite in a constant and conscious relation is an intermediate zone between the physical world as it is and the Supramental world as it is. It is this zone that remains to be built, simultaneously in the individual consciousness and the objective world, and is ...

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... overmental experiences! And he also gone. I have heard that you don't approve of one's going. He had no overmind experiences—he had something of the opening of the cosmic mind and vital in the intermediate zone and that plenty besides him have done and are doing. I have explained this before. We approved of it. He went to arrange about his aunt's property as the family want to live here (not in the ...

... It is said, the occultists say, that between the light of the day, that is to say, the light, of the ordinary consciousness and the higher spiritual light, there is an interim world, an intermediate zone of consciousness. When one leaves the earthly day, the normal consciousness and goes within and to the heights, towards the other Light, one enters at first into a dark region (cf. the selva ...

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... without one's asking for it. Barin was another Z, with a powerful vital. At one time I had high hopes for him, but people whose sadhana is on the vital basis pass into what I have called the Intermediate Zone, and they don't want to go beyond. The vital is like a jungle and it is extremely difficult to rescue one with such a vital power. It is comparatively much easier to help those who are weak and ...

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... light. It is said, the occultists say, that between the light of the day, that is to say, the light of the ordinary consciousness and the higher spiritual light, there is an interim world, an intermediate zone of consciousness. When one leaves the earthly day, the normal consciousness and goes within and to the heights, towards the other Light, one enters at first into a dark region (the selva oscura ...

... in sexual perversity or ambition. DR. MANILAL: Which was it in Shastri's case? SRI AUROBINDO: Ambition. He wanted to be a great Yogi. What happens in such cases is that they open to some intermediate zone before the vital is prepared. DR. MANILAL: G is said to have had the Overmind experience. Is it true, Sir? SRI AUROBINDO: True, if he had it. (Laughter. Dr. Manilal thought that he had ...

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... itself awakening in its cells, a freedom of the cells themselves, an absolutely new vibration....' 1958 Feb 3 Her earth-consciousness participates for an hour in her work of creating an intermediate zone between the supramental and the physical worlds out of a supramental substance 'closest to the physical'. This zone is represented in her experience as a huge boat 'where people who are destined ...

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... Locating and describing the subconscient the Mother says in her Prayer of March 13, 1914, just a fortnight before her fateful meeting with Sri Aurobindo: "The subconscient is the intermediate zone between precise perception and the total darkness of the ignorance; it is probable that the majority of beings, even of human 1 The Life Divine by Sri Aurobindo 2 Prayers and ...

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... accomplished immediately and without delay: the time lag is abolished altogether. Time may be compared to a kind of elastic bond connecting the highest and the lowest and running through the intermediate zones. It contracts as one moves upward and is telescoped, as it were, at the top. Page 18 ...

... accomplished immediately and without delay: the time lag is abolished altogether. Time may be compared to a kind of elastic bond connecting the highest and the lowest and running through the intermediate zones. It contracts as one moves upward and is telescoped, as it were, at the top. Page 177 ...

... years later we would hold the Olympic Games in India, there. So we need space. Between these sections, there are intermediate zones, four intermediate zones: one for public services, post office, etc.; one zone for transport, railway station and possibly an aerodrome, one zone for food—that one would be near the lake and would include dairies, hen-houses, orchards, cultivated lands, etc.; it would... interesting thing is that around this central point, there are four big sections, like four big petals (Mother draws), but the corners of the petals are rounded and there are small intermediate zones—four big sections and four zones.... Naturally that is only in the air; on the ground, it will be an approximation. We have four big sections: the cultural section, to the North, that is to say, towards... would spread and include the Lake Estate: what they wanted to do separately would be done within the framework of Auroville. Then a fourth zone. I have said: public services, transport, food, and the fourth zone: shops. We do not need many shops, but a few are necessary in order to obtain what we do not produce. They are like districts, you see. And you will be there at the centre? ...

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... e years later we would hold the Olympic Games in India, there. So we need space. Between these sections, there are intermediate zones, four intermediate zones: one for public services, post office, etc.; one zone for transport, railway station and possibly an aerodrome; one zone for food―that one would be near the lake and would include dairies, poultry farms, orchards, cultivated lands, etc.; it... interesting thing is that around this central point, there are four big sections, like four big petals ( Mother draws ), but the corners of the petals are rounded and there are small intermediate zones―four big sections and four zones.... Naturally that is only in the air; on the ground, it will be an approximation. We have four big sections: the cultural section, to the North, that is to say, towards Madras;... it would spread and include the Lake Estate: what they wanted to do separately would be within the framework of Auroville. Then a fourth zone. I have said: public services, transport, food, and the fourth zone: shops. We do not need many shops, but a few are necessary in order to obtain what we do not produce. They are like districts, you see. And you will be there at the centre? A hopes so ...

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... thing is that around this central point, there are four large sections, like four large petals ( Mother draws ), but the corners of the petals are rounded and there are small intermediate zones: four large sections and four zones.... Of course, this is only in the air: on the ground it will be an approximation. We have four large sections: the cultural section in the north, that is, in the direction... after, we would have the Olympic games in India, here. So we need space. In between these sections, there are intermediary zones, four intermediary zones: one for public services (the post, etc.), a zone for transportation (railway station and, if possible, an airfield), a zone for food supplies (that one would be towards the Lake and would include dairies, poultry farms, orchards, cultivation, etc... the Lake estate 3 : what they wanted to do separately will be done as a part of Auroville); then a fourth zone (I've said public services, transportation, food supplies), and the fourth zone: shops. We don't need many shops, but a few are necessary to get what we don't produce. These zones are like quarters, you see. And you will be there, in the center? H. hopes so! ( Mother laughs ) I ...

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... there is a more ignorant action and those who, penetrating within, pause in the zones of lesser coherence or in the No-man's-land between the subliminal and the surface, may fall into much delusion and confusion: but that too, though ignorant, is not of the nature of the subconscious; the confusion of these intermediate zones has no kinship to the Inconscience. Page 580 We might say then that ...

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... thing is that around this central point, there are four large sections, like four large petals (Mother draws), but the corners of the petals are rounded and there are small intermediate zones: four large sections and four zones.... Of course, this is only in the air: on the ground it will be an approximation. We have four large sections: the cultural section in the north, that is, in the direction... would have the Olympic games in India, here. So we need space. In between these section, there are intermediary zones, four intermediary zones: one for public services (the post, etc.), a Page 18 zone for transportation (railway station and, if possible, an airfield), a zone for food supplies (that one would be towards the Lake and would include dairies, poultry farms, orchards, cultivation... incorporate the Lake estate* what they wanted to do separately will be done as a part of Auroville; then a fourth zone (I've said public services, transportation, food supplies), and the fourth zone: shops. We don't need many shops, but a few are necessary to get what we don't produce. These zones are like quarters, you see. And you will be there, in the center? [The Ashram artist] hopes so! ...

... room for discrimination in Yoga, but a need for it at every step — otherwise you will get lost in the jungle of things that are not spiritual — as for instance the tangle of what I call 'the intermediate Zones.' I have also told you that you are not asked to believe everything told by anybody and that there is no call to put faith in all the miraculous things narrated about Bijoykrishna or another... "Books are after all just words, but these words fall into two categories — words used to express worldly experience and words used to express transcendental experience. (Perhaps there is also an intermediate class which are just words!) When there is any reason to suppose that words are being used to express transcendental experience, it becomes of the utmost importance how we try to read them. The ...

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