... ies which do duty for certitudes. The intuitive mind constructs nothing in this artificial fashion, but makes itself a receiver of the light and allows the truth to manifest in it and organise its own constructions. But so long as there is a mixed action and the mental constructions and imaginations are allowed to operate, this passivity of the intuitive mind to the higher light, the truth light, cannot... conditions give us real data of a supraphysical knowledge. It is evident, however, that it is only an intuitive knowledge that can discover and formulate them,—as it was in fact the psychical and intuitive mind that originally formulated these ways of veridical knowledge,—and it will be found in practice that only an intuitive knowledge, not the mere use either of a traditional or a haphazard interpretation... most highly developed psychical consciousness cannot be absolutely safe unless the psychical is illumined and uplifted by a higher force than itself and touched and strengthened by the luminous intuitive mind and that again raised towards the supramental energy of the spirit. The psychical consciousness does not derive its time knowledge from a direct living in the indivisible continuity of the spirit ...
... The Yoga of Self-Perfection The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter XXI The Gradations of the Supermind The intuitive mind is an immediate translation of truth into mental terms half transformed by a radiant supramental substance, a translation of some infinite self-knowledge that acts above mind in the superconscient spirit. That spirit becomes conscient to us... and around us of which our present self, our mental, vital and physical personality and nature, is an imperfect portion or a partial derivation or an inferior and inadequate symbol, and as the intuitive mind grows in us, as our whole being grows more moulded to an intuitive substance, we feel a sort of half transformation of our members into the nature of this greater self and spirit. All our thought... first an infinite identity of being, consciousness, power of consciousness, Ananda. The rest comes from it, but takes no determinate shape of thought, will or feeling above us, but only in the intuitive mind and on its level. Or we feel and are manifoldly aware of a great and infinite Purusha who Page 811 is the eternally living truth of that being and presence, a great and infinite knowledge ...
... A burning head of vision leads the mind, Thought trails behind it its long comet tail; The heart glows an illuminate and seer. 22 Sight in the Intuitive Mind Next in the order of ascension is the Intuitive Mind whose characteristic power is an intimate and exact Truth-perception which arises out of a revealing encounter between the subject and the object, 13 The... 660. Page 156 carrying in it as its natural consequence a Truth-sight and Truth-conception. Thought in the Intuitive Mind is revelatory in character. Here are some verses from Savitri indicating how sight functions in this Intuitive Mind plane: Sight's lightnings leaped into the invisible. 23 Nothing escaped his vast intuitive sight. 24 Intuition's... of the four-rung 'Spiritual Mind' series. We describe in a brief outline the nature of sight in each of the four levels represented by (i) the Higher Mind, (ii) the Illumined Mind, (iii) the Intuitive Mind, and (iv) the Overmind. But before that let us enjoy the rasa of a significant passage from Savitri: A vision came of higher realms than ours, 6 Ibid., p. 484. 7 The Synthesis ...
... (B.3) Sight in the Intuitive Mind : Next in the order of ascension is the Intuitive Mind whose characteristic power is an intimate and exact truth-perception which arises out of a revealing encounter between the subject and the object, carrying in it as its natural consequence a truth-sight and truth-conception. Thought in the Intuitive Mind is revelatory in character. ... four-rung "spiritual Mind" series. We now intend to describe in brief outline the nature of the sight in each of the four levels represented by (i) the Higher Mind, (ii) the Illumined Mind, (iii) the Intuitive Mind, and (iv) the Overmind. But before that let us enjoy the rasa of a significant passage from Savitri: "A vision came of higher realms than ours, A consciousness of brighter fields... normal waking mind of non-spiritual humanity and the native heights of our spiritual being. These planes are in the ascending order: (i) the Higher Mind; (ii) the Illumined Mind; (iii) the Intuitive Mind; (iv) the Overmind; and finally (v) the Supermind or Gnosis, this last being the plane of absolute and everlasting Light, that transcends altogether the aparārdha or the lower hemisphere of existence ...
... sense and experience. Even then, these two stages of the ascent enjoy their authority and can get their own united completeness only by a reference to a third level, the level of the Intuitive Mind. When the Intuitive Mind acts in its own plane, it can perform all the action of the Reason; it can replace the function of logical intelligence and work out their right relation of things and the right relation... superior process and with steps that do not fail or falter. The process of integration and transformation by the descent of the intuitive mind into the lower levels of consciousness also achieve greater effectivity. Speaking of the power of the transformation of the Intuitive Mind, Sri Aurobindo states: Page 59 "It takes up also and transforms into its own substance not only the mind of thought... But even then, the total integration is hampered, and the intuitive mind cannot sufficiently take up the subconscient and penetrate the fundamental Inconscience. As Sri Aurobindo points out, the basis of Inconscience in our nature is too vast, deep and solid to be altogether penetrated, turned into light, transformed by the intuitive mind or even by the still higher Overmind. It is not easy to bring ...
... massive lightning of a flaming sun-stuff. 48 Intuitive Mind Beyond the Illumined Mind is the Intuitive Mind. It has a still greater power of Truth-Force, and intimate and exact Truth-vision, Truth-thought, Truth-sense, Truth-feeling, Truth-action. The Illumined Mind does not work primarily by thought, but by a vision, and the Intuitive Mind is more than sight, more than conception. Intuition... change. There is thus the necessity of an upward journey above our mind and an ascent of consciousness not only into the higher ranges of the superconscient Higher Mind, Illumined Mind and Intuitive Mind but also of Overmind and spiritual nature in which the sense of Self and Spirit is ever unveiled and permanent and in which the self-luminous instrumentation of the Self and Spirit is not restricted... five planes which are distinguishable in the path of spiritual ascension, the path of ascent into the superconscient above the mind. These five planes are: the Higher Mind, the Illumined Mind, Intuitive Mind, Overmnid, and Supermind. Page 53 Higher Mind The Higher Mind is, according to Sri Aurobindo, a mind which is no longer subject to mingled light and obscurity or half-light ...
... something suggested to and by the intuitive mind,—only the least inspired poetry is purely intellectual in substance,—but it is expressed with a certain indirectness or else with a dilution of the body of the intuitive light, and this is due to an intellectualised language or to the speech of an imagination which tries to bridge the gulf between the intuitive mind and the normal intelligence. The two... the present human mind to recover the same spirit as moved Shakespeare's speech; it is nearer to that of the later poets and their voice of the brooding or the moved poetic intelligence or of the intuitive mind rising out of the intellect and still preserving something of its tones. Still the manner of the coming poetry is likely to recover and hold as its central secret something akin to the older poet... natural body of intuitive intensity, because it too will take up the thought and feeling into a concentrated expression of an equal though a different directness. It will be the language of a higher intuitive mind swallowing up the intellectual tones into the closenesses and identities of a supra-intellectual light and Ananda. The future poetry, assuming it to be of the kind I have suggested, its object ...
... . All that is part of the day's work and dejection is quite out of place." (20-4-1937) (What exactly is the intuitive mind you have spoken of, and how does it differ from what you have called 'inner mind' and 'mystic mind'?) The intuitive mind, strictly speaking, stretches from the Intuition proper down to the intuitivised inner mind—it is therefore at once an overhead... The 2nd and 4th and 5th lines are the finest." "What you are writing now is 'overhead' poetry—I mean poetry inspired from those planes—before you used to write poems very often from the intuitive mind—these had a beauty and perfection of their own. What I mean by absoluteness here is a full intensely inevitable expression of Page 151 what comes from above. These lines are... gets touched by the overhead intuition in the second, gets full of it in the third and again rises rapidly to that in the two last lines of the fourth stanza. This is what I call poetry of the intuitive mind." "It is a very true and beautiful poem." * THE SACRED FIRE O keep the sacred fire A prisoner poise With walls that never wake To earthly voice ...
... fullness of self, the fullness of its light and being and which lives in a division and diversion, not in the body of the sun, but first in its nearer and then in its far-off rays. There is a highest intuitive mind which receives more nearly the Page 792 supramental truth, but even this is a formation which conceals the direct and greater real knowledge. There is an intellectual mind which is... integral order can only be founded by the spiritual supermind in its emergence. The supermind in the lower nature is present most strongly as intuition and it is therefore by a development of an intuitive mind that we can make the first step towards the self-existent spontaneous and direct supramental knowledge. All the physical, vital, emotional, psychic, dynamic nature of man is a surface seizing of... circuitous to work them out in the action of a superficial Page 796 embodiment and power of the nature which is not overtly enlightened by the inner power and knowledge. An increasingly intuitive mind has the best chance of discovering what they are seeking for and leading them to the desired perfection of their self-expression. The reason itself is only a special kind of application, made by ...
... massive lightnings of a flaming sun-stuff. Beyond the Illumined Mind is the Intuitive Mind. It has a still greater power of Truth-Force, an intimate and exact Truth-vision, Truth-thought, Truth-sense, Truth-feeling, Truth-action. The Illumined Mind does not work primarily by thought, but by vision, and the Intuitive Mind is more than sight, more than conception. Intuition is a power of consciousness... Yogic psychology of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the word 'superconscient' is used to include the planes beyond our pre-sent level of awareness, namely, those of the Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuitive Mind, Overmind, Supermind, and the other heights of the pure spiritual being. A basic sense and knowledge of unity is the general characteristic of all the grades of the Superconscience. They are not... But still the intuitive light and power is only the edge of a delegated and modified Supermind, and does not bring in the whole mass or body of the identity knowledge. At the source of the intuitive mind, there is, according to Sri Aurobindo, a superconscient cosmic Mind in direct contact with the Supermind. This cosmic Mind is not a mind as we know it, but, in the words of Sri Aurobindo: ...
... lightnings of a flaming sun-stuff. Beyond the Illumined Mind is the Intuitive Mind. It has a still greater power of Truth-Force, an intimate and exact Truth Page 67 vision, Truth-thought, Truth-sense, Truth-feeling, Truth-action. The Illumined Mind does not work primarily by thought, but by vision, and the Intuitive Mind is more than sight, more than conception. Intuition is a power of ... Yogic psychology of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the word 'superconscient' is used to include the planes beyond our present level of awareness, namely, those of the Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuitive Mind, Overmind, Supermind, and the other heights of the pure spiritual being. A basic sense and knowledge of unity is the general characteristic of all the grades of the Superconscience. They are not... But still the intuitive light and power is only the edge of a delegated and modified Supermind, and does not bring in the whole mass or body of the identity knowledge. At the source of the intuitive mind, there is, according to Sri Aurobindo, a superconscient cosmic Mind in direct contact with the Supermind. This cosmic Mind is not a mind as we know it, but, in the words of Sri Aurobindo: ...
... n. All that is part of the day's work and dejection is quite out of place." (20-4-1937) (What exactly is the intuitive mind you have spoken of, and how does it differ from what you have called 'inner mind' and 'mystic mind' ?) "The intuitive mind, strictly speaking, stretches from the Intuition proper down to the intuitivised inner mind—it is therefore at once an overhead... The 2nd and 4th and 5th lines are the finest." "What you are writing now is 'overhead' poetry—I mean poetry inspired from those planes—before you used to write poems very often from the intuitive mind—these had a beauty and perfection of their own. What I mean by absoluteness here is a full intensely inevitable expression of what comes from above. These lines are original, convincing, have ...
... until Of many thousand kisses the poor last I lay upon thy lips. But all have the same characteristic stamp of the intuitive mind rapidly and powerfully at work. .." 18 And if we accept in its total import the nature of this intuitive mind that makes poetic speech at its intensest "the unity of a divine rhythmic movement with a depth of sense and a power of infinite suggestion... 17 "It is not merely a difference of the measure of the genius, but of its source. This language of Shakespeare's is a unique and wonderful thing; it has everywhere the royalty of the sovereign intuitive mind looking into and not merely at life" with a "readiness to get through, seize the lurking word and bring it out from the heart of the thing itself.. .. We are most readily struck in Shakespeare ...
... transition from mind to the Supermind one first comes to the movement of what Sri Aurobindo calls the Higher Mind. The next higher layer will be that of the Illumined Mind; the third layer will be Intuitive Mind. The fourth will be Overmind, and Overmind directly puts one in contact with the Supermind. The movement of ascent from mind often begins by stopping all mental activity,— there is no thinking... are working; their action in the present constitution of man is concealed and the problem for man is to make its action conscious. So the ascent from Mind to the Higher Mind, the Illumined Mind, Intuitive Mind, to Overmind and Supremind seems to be the rungs of the ladder to reach the Truth-Consciousness. That is the problem and it can be Page 257 solved by rending the veil, by going... feel, but not the Overmind itself—Overmind itself is overwhelmingly wide. Q : Are there different stages of illumintion ? A : Yes, from mind you go to Higher Mind, the Illumined Mind, the Intuitive Mind and the Overmind. That's Page 259 how you generally progress. But it may not go regularly in that order. There are many complex movements. Q : Is cosmic consciousness Overmind ...
... stage that has still to open up to the operations of the supermind. Power and Limitations of the Intuitive Mind As compared to the plenary light of the supermind, intuition is a first imperfect organization of superconscient light. In the words of Sri Aurobindo: "The intuitive mind is an immediate translation of truth into mental terms half transformed by a radiant supramental substance... result of a penetrating and revealing touch which carries in it sight and conception as part of itself or as its natural consequence." 20 Four Methods of arriving at the Intuitive Mind To arrive at the Intuitive Mind, Sri Aurobindo finds, in the actual process and experience of the Integral yoga, four methods, none of which would be regarded as exclusively adequate. The first method... overmind. The process of ascent from the mind, in order to be complete, has to pass not only through the higher mind, illumined mind, intuitive mind and also arrive at the overmind before arriving at the supermind. Nonetheless, the four methods for arriving at the intuitive mind are extremely important, and the practice of these methods, when they are combined, creates the organization of a predominantly ...
... as suggestions from the external physicality breaking down the defences of the intuitive mind. The Shakti has once more put them in their right place and discharged the intuitive mind of tapatya and even of unduly extended tapata. Decisive trikaldrishti and effective tapas are steadily increasing even in the intuitive mind; but until all tapas becomes ideal tapas, the Page 1081 perfection... into vijnana; it is limited by what the intuitive intellect might have done; the superior takes up the inferior and is not limited by the possibilities of the intuitive mind. The inferior ideality does in its own right what the intuitive mind does by derivation from the inferior ideality, but the inferior ideality itself is only a selection from the greater range of the superior. The speech thought... 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 and has taken up the physical reaction ...
... necessary, and above all more peace, more natural equilibrium, and more silence. The higher we ascend in consciousness, the sturdier the equilibrium required. Page 180 d) The Intuitive Mind The intuitive mind differs from the illumined mind by its clear transparency. It is quicksilver, skipping barefoot from rock to rock. Unlike the higher mind, it is not hampered by the mental orthopedic... in four zones: (1) The Superconscient , with one center slightly above the top of the head, 45 which controls our thinking mind and communicates with higher mental realms: illumined mind, intuitive mind, overmind, etc. (2) The Mind , with two centers: one between the eyebrows, which controls the will and dynamism of our mental activity (it is also the center of subtle vision, the "third eye"... higher hemisphere of existence, the seeker will go through several mental layers or worlds, which Sri Aurobindo has respectively called, in ascending order, the higher mind, the illumined mind, the intuitive mind, and the overmind. We may of course use a different terminology, but these four zones correspond to very specific experiences, verifiable by anyone who has the capacity to consciously undertake ...
... A burning head of vision leads the mind, Thought trails behind it its long comet tail; The heart glows an illuminate and seer. 22 Sight in the Intuitive Mind Next in the order of ascension is the Intuitive Mind whose characteristic power is an intimate and exact Truth-perception which arises out of a revealing encounter between the subject and the object, 13 The... p. 660. Page 256 carrying in it as its natural consequence a Truth-sight and Truth-conception. Thought in the Intuitive Mind is revelatory in character. Here are some verses from Savitri indicating how sight functions in this Intuitive Mind plane: Sight's lightnings leaped into the invisible. 23 Nothing escaped his vast intuitive sight. 24 Intuition's... waking mind of non-spiritual humanity and the native heights of pure spiritual being. These planes are in their ascending order: (i) the Higher Mind; (ii) the Illumined Mind; (iii) the Intuitive Mind; (iv) the Overmind; and finally (v) the Supermind or Gnosis, this last being the plane of absolute and everlasting Light, that transcends altogether the aparārdha or the lower hemisphere of ...
... l. The Plane of Intuition and the Intuitive Mind Intuition proper is true in itself (when not interpreted or altered by mind), although fragmentary—intuitive mind is mixed with mind and therefore not infallible because the truth intuition gives may be mixed or imperfectly put by mind. There is the Intuition and below it there is the intuitive mind which may have several degrees or layers... senses—for the latter meet only the surface of things and are not intuitive. The intuitive "mind" does not get the touch direct from the supramental. Above it is the Overmind—in which there is a higher and greater intuition and above that are the supermind ranges. Page 161 The intuitive mind is a level of consciousness which is touched by the light of higher truths and receives... Intuition as compared with the Supermind is that it sees things by flashes, point by point, not as a whole. Also in coming into the mind it gets mixed with the mental movement and forms a kind of intuitive-mind activity which is not the pure truth, but something in between the higher Truth and the mental seeking. It can lead the consciousness through a sort of transitional stage and that is practically ...
... The Yoga of Self-Perfection The Synthesis of Yoga Chapter XX The Intuitive Mind The original nature of supermind is the self-conscience and all-conscience of the Infinite, of the universal Spirit and Self in things, organising on the foundation and according to the character of a direct self-knowledge its own wisdom and effective omnipotence for the... till the transcendence is completed and the change of the whole system integrally effected. It takes and develops the intelligence and will and other natural powers, but brings in constantly the intuitive mind and afterwards the true supramental energy to change and enlarge their action. These things it does in no fixed and mechanically invariable order, such as the rigidity of the logical intellect... still mind and not gnosis. It is indeed a light from the supermind, but modified and diminished by the stuff of mind in which it works, and stuff of mind means always a basis of ignorance. The intuitive mind is not yet the wide sunlight of truth, but a constant play of flashes of it keeping lighted up a basic state of ignorance or of half-knowledge and indirect knowledge. As long as it is imperfect ...
... concepts of the mental intelligence. It is not like the gnosis, self-luminous, authentic, making the subject one with the object. There is, indeed, a higher form of the buddhi that can be called the intuitive mind or intuitive reason, and this by its intuitions, its inspirations, its swift revelatory vision, its luminous insight and discrimination can do the work of the reason with a higher power, a swifter... 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 mind is created, very misleading by its frequent luminous successes palliating a whirl of intensely self-assured false certitudes. The true intuition on the contrary carries in itself its own guarantee... , revelations, intuitions, self-luminous discernings are messages from a higher knowledge-plane that make their way opportunely into our lower level of consciousness. The very character of the intuitive mind sets a gulf of great difference between its action and the action of the self-contained gnosis. In the first place it acts by separate and limited illuminations and its truth is restricted to the ...
... The thought, in the Intuitive Mind, is revelatory in character and it proceeds by a fourfold power: "an intuition that suggests its idea, an intuition that discriminates, an inspiration that brings in its word and something of its greater substance, and a revelation that shapes to the sight its very face and body of reality." 78 Beyond the plane of the intuitive Mind is a superconscient... normal waking mind of non-spiritual humanity and the native heights of pure spiritual being. These planes are in the ascending order: (i) the Higher Mind; (ii) the Illumined Mind; (iii) the Intuitive Mind; (iv) the Overmind; and finally (v) the Supermind or Gnosis, the plane of absolute and everlasting Light, that transcends altogether the apar ā rdha or the lower hemisphere of existence. ... mind, Thought trails behind it its long comet tail; The heart glows, an illuminate and seer, And sense is kindled into identity." 76 Next in the order of ascension is the Intuitive Mind whose characteristic power is an intimate and exact truth-perception which is much more than mere sight or conception: it is the result of a revealing encounter carrying in it as its natural ...
... meant by "things", he would have said: "physical phenomena and methods to handle them." Philosophical Position Here we strike upon a limitation which prevents his unusually intuitive mind from embracing fully the metaphysical. When he philosophises he is admirable up to a certain point. His grip on the pantheistic vision is firm, and not only at the source of art - especially music... on with a Cosmic and Transcendental Being - all this escapes Einstein. But it must surely be said that, in spite of this philosophical shortcoming, he remains the supreme example of what the intuitive mind, whose full and final glory is in the realisations of Yoga, can do when it operates in the purely scientific form and how, while confining itself to physical phenomena, it can suggest an immense ...
... is the mental intelligence, the mind proper. Beyond the ordinary thinking mind or intellect is the higher mind; beyond the higher mind is the illumined mind and beyond that is the intuitive mind. Above the intuitive mind are the Intuition and the Overmind. The Mind proper is divided into three parts—thinking Mind, dynamic Mind, externalising Mind—the former concerned with ideas and knowledge ...
... the reasoning Mind & the Truth-consciousness. वाणीं the Speech or Word of the Truth, the divine form of Thought set sounding by the two horses of Indra which forms the impetuous stream of the intuitive Mind to which Indra gives his impulsion. 9) इंद्रः महां सिंधुं आशयानं मायाविनं वृत्रं अस्फुरत् निः । Page 398 अरेजेता रोदसी भियाने कनिक्रदतः वृष्णा अस्य वज्रात् ।। सिंधुं... these alternative explanations. परिभूष् is in the Veda simply an intensive form of परिभू and means here “enveloped or encircled with his own being”. Indra, the Purusha of the divine luminous or intuitive Mind, is the first or supreme thinker or supreme mental being; from his very birth he in his divine power takes the other gods, the other divine principles developing or developed in man into his periphery ...
... the spirit to transmute the other members of our being. But the new age is one which is climbing from a full intellectuality towards some possibility of an equal fullness of the intuitive mind, and the full intuitive mind, not that of glimpses, but of a luminous totality, opens to the mind of revelation and inspiration. The aesthetic mind, whether it take form in the word of the poet or in the word ...
... interpret. It is not merely a difference of the measure of the genius, but of its source. This language of Shakespeare's is a unique and wonderful thing; it has everywhere the royalty of the sovereign intuitive mind looking into and not merely at life and in this most myriad-minded of poets it takes like life itself many tones, but that intuitive readiness to get through, seize the lurking word and bring it... — I am dying, Egypt, dying; only I here importune death awhile, until Of many thousand kisses the poor last I lay upon thy lips. But all have the same characteristic stamp of the intuitive mind rapidly and powerfully at work; but always too,—and this is the important distinction,—that mediator between the secret spirit and our ordinary surface mentality works in him through and behind ...
... different Krishna lights—pale diamond blue, lavender blue, deep blue etc. It depends on the plane in which it manifests. Diamond blue is Krishna's light in the overmind—lavender blue in intuitive mind. There is the whitish moonlight blue of Krishna's light—lavender blue of devotion, deep blue of the physical mind, sapphire blue of the higher mind and many others. All blue is not... in the body. The different parts [ mind, life and body ] are naturally coloured by the lights of the powers that come down (golden of Overmind and Intuition, blue of higher, illumined and intuitive mind) while keeping their own characteristic shade as an element. Gold-Green Light Gold-green: gold indicates at its most intense something from the supramental, otherwise overmind truth or intuitive ...
... experienced in Yoga, and it means that these things were not intuitions, but constructions of the mind, mental formations. If there was an intuition at all, it was movements of the intuitive mind, but what the intuitive mind gives to us is the intuition of possibilities, some of which realise themselves, some do not or do it partly only, others miss altogether. Behind these mental constructions are Forces ...
... Some Philosophical Topics These discernable slow gradations—steps in the spiral of ascent—are, respectively, Higher Mind, Intuition (or Intuitive Mind) and Overmind. No, what is called intuitive Mind is usually a mixture of true Intuition with ordinary mentality—it can always admit a mingling of truth and error. Sri Aurobindo therefore avoids the use of this phrase ...
... Supermind. He may be and is in a true Consciousness, but that is a different matter. If he lives in the true consciousness, has he not always the full knowledge? Is he not using the intuitive mind? Living in the true consciousness is living in a consciousness in which one is spiritually in union with the Divine in one way or another. But it does not follow that so living one... he will have other knowledge that [is] beyond what he has reached or is outside it. Intuition proper is true in itself (when not interpreted or altered by mind) although fragmentary — intuitive mind is mixed with mind and therefore not infallible; because the truth intuition gives may be mixed or imperfectly formed by mind. Is not the inner Self everywhere? Why do we speak ...
... a grade of existence beyond, mind, life and Matter. And, between Mind and Supermind are the intermediate grades which Sri Aurobindo has termed the 'Higher Mind', 'Illumined Mind', 'Intuitive Page 23 Mind', and 'Overmind'.² The Supermind is an eternal reality of the divine Being and divine Nature. In the words of Sri Aurobindo, 'A Supramental Truth-Consciousness is at once the self-awareness... be an ascent into the planes of the higher dynamic action and the descent of the powers of these planes into our mind, life and body. These planes are those of the Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuitive Mind, and Overmind preparing the ascent and descent of the Supermind.13 It is this process that is specifically called in the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo the process of spiritual transformation. This ...
... describes it, seems to be the coming down of Light with the intuitive mind. But that is not the whole level of the Higher Consciousness above the mind. There are other truths which are as real as those of which Dr. Bucke speaks. He got into that higher state and was evidently in exaltation; there must have been some play of the intuitive mind, and the intellect working at great speed. He himself admits ...
... one can feel merged in the cosmic Self or fall of ecstatic bhakti or ānanda. But one may and usually does still go on in the outer parts of Nature thinking with the intellect or at best the intuitive mind, willing with a mental will, feeling joy and sorrow on the vital surface, undergoing physical afflictions and suffering from the struggle of life in the body with death and disease. The change... active physical parts the right rhythm and the right spirit and technique of perfection in work, informing them with "the intimate and precise knowledge, the subtlety and patience, the accuracy of intuitive mind and conscious hand and discerning eye of the perfect worker."¹ This free and harmonious working of the four supreme aspects and powers of the Divine Mother in the transformed human nature will ...
... before I used to write poems very often from the intuitive mind, but the term you have employed connotes for us the plane between the Illumined Mind and the Overmind. But that would be an overhead source of inspiration. Do you mean the intuitivised poetic intelligence? If so, what is its character as compared to the mystic or inner mind? The intuitive mind, strictly speaking, stretches from the Intuition... from you of the ideal you would like me to follow. What you are writing now is "overhead" poetry—I mean poetry inspired from those planes; before you used to write poems very often from the intuitive mind—these had a beauty and perfection of their own. What I mean by absoluteness here is a full intensely inevitable expression of what comes down from above. These lines are original, convincing, have... gets touched by the overhead intuition in the second, gets full of it in the third and again rises rapidly to that in the two last lines of the fourth stanza. This is what I call poetry of the intuitive Mind. 13 May 1937 Bengali Overhead Poetry We are sorry to hear that you can't decide about Bengali overhead poetry. I consider it a defect, Sir, in your poetic supramental make-up, which you ...
... symbolic figure of a dark (blue-black) moon with a shapeless reproduction of it below; above-round the small sphere a blaze of sunlight on one side. This Page 1102 meant the dark Soma (intuitive mind-orb, ananda consciousness, with the jyoti involved in it), emitting the jyoti, the other the intellectual reflection. The suryamandala is the symbol of the vijnana. The ideality was of this character... powers and tendencies of the present and what they mean and presage, and that of the other powers and forces which attempt to create a future not bound by the probabilities of the present. In the intuitive mind the first corresponds to the current habitual understanding in the intellectual reason, the second to the pragmatic reason and will, a third range of perceptions to the truth-seeking reason. In... sensation. The highest ideality is now acting in jnana frequently with a complete possession; only, when the thought tapas is relaxed or there is some other preoccupation, the older state of mixed intuitive mind and lower gnosis holds predominance. Very little remnant of intellectuality is left in existence; only some after effect of it is left in the lowest action of the intuitive perception. Little ...
... confused labour; the main result has been to confirm the satyam entirely in knowledge thought & will thought on both the two planes of nervous & pure mental mind, but not yet in the intuitive mind; for satyam of intuitive mind = ritam. Tapas effectiveness varies between all the different degrees from postponed or deflected effectivity to 80° Telepathy is in the same condition, active, but not we... यन्मरुतो विश्र्ववेदसो दिवो वहध्वे उत्तरादधि ष्णुभिः ते मंदसाना धुनयो रिशादसो वामं धत्त यजमानाय सुन्वते ।। This is an indication that the satyam (and ananda) are to be extended to the highest or intuitive mind as well as the two others. It has begun to be fulfilled to a certain extent. Gandha seems now to be fixed in recurrence, but it is sometimes rare, sometimes more frequent. Rasa also comes ...
... that intellectual thought is in itself inadequate and is not the highest thinking; the highest is that which comes through the intuitive mind and from the supramental faculty. So long as we are dominated by the intellectual habit and by the lower workings, the intuitive mind can only send its messages to us subconsciously and subject to a distortion more or less entire before it reaches the conscious... electrified by constant discharges from behind the veil and yielding to a higher enthusiasm admits a considerable instreaming from the intuitive and inspired faculty of knowledge. For there is an intuitive mind in man which serves as a recipient and channel for these instreamings from a supramental faculty. But the action of intuition and inspiration in us is imperfect in kind as well as intermittent ...
... being founded on the highest logistis Rupa and samadhi are still obstructed and pressing on the obstruction. Some progress in rejecting obstruction in samadhi Attack of the intuitive mind from outside, only temporarily successful in a partial invasion— The idealistic force is strong enough to reestablish its hold. 6 February 1920 All February the struggle in the physical... the transformation is much opposed by the survival of old idealised intuitive Ananda. The other Anandas are sharing the change. Page 1190 The second half of the day possession by the intuitive mind from outside. Progress under difficulties. 20 February 1920 Rapid progress in spite of mental siege. (1) Shakti in system fixing the essential being in representative revelatory vijnana;... completeness, but as yet there is no freedom or dominance of stability. The difficulty of T² is now the adjustment between the higher and lower perceptions; so long as this lasts the surrounding intuitive mind is led to invade with its inadequate suggestions. But this mind now promises to turn into the ideal form. Ananda is now again active, but subject to the recurrence of its Page 1193 ...
... which takes up the Illumine Mind and Higher Mind and even the intellect to form a rental Overmind, next an uplifting of these lower movements and the Intuitive Mind together to constitute the Overmind Intuition, which is like the Intuitive Mind grown massive and widened, lastly the Gnostic Overmind or Over- mind Gnosis bearing some colour of the Supermind and ¹. The Supramental... higher intelligence communicating with the greater mind planes (illumined mind, intuition, overmind) above." 4 (4) "...the sahasradala which centralises spiritual mind, higher mind, intuitive mind and acts as a receiving station fort he intuition proper and overmind..." 5 (5) "...the sahasradala padma through which the higher intuition, illumined mind and overmind all pass their ...
... red crimson lights. One is supramental Divine Love. The other is the supramental physical Force. I am reading your Intuitive Mind. Can you not release that manuscript in the meantime? Which blessed manuscript? I have a hundred! I don't recall anything about Intuitive Mind. May 14, 1935 I spoke of the manuscript (typed letter) on Avatar, on which you have written a lot, you said... a direct connection with that of the brain, so that any suppurative process can go up and infect the brain. [ Sri Aurobindo put an exclamation mark. ] Again, I have read many times the "Intuitive Mind". Though the theoretical process is given very elaborately, it is not of much use for practical purposes. So will you answer how to get Intuition? If no time tonight, let the book wait till Monday ...
... aesthetic mind lifted up beyond its ordinary field to express the wonder and beauty of the rarest spiritual self-vision and the profoundest illumined truth of self and God and universe. Here the intuitive mind and intimate psychological experience of the Vedic seers passes into a supreme culmination in which the Spirit, as is said in a phrase of the Katha Upanishad, discloses its own very body, reveals... still remained alive and creative and could generate the great devotional religions and motive the persistent Indian idea of the Dharma. The Upanishads are the creation of a revelatory and intuitive mind and its illumined experience, and all their substance, structure, phrase, imagery, movement are determined by and stamped with this original character. These supreme and all-embracing truths, these ...
... of intuitive seeing is at the back of his imaginative vision and the real power that calls down the inspired word, it will be when he can rise to its source and live in the fullness of a highest intuitive mind which is greater than the awakened sense, intuitive life-vision or inspired reason, though it will see all that they can see, that Page 239 he will get his fullest power, deepest sight... sight, broadest scope. To throw light on the self of things in some power and beauty of it is after all the native aim of poetry, and that can be done entirely by this greatest intuitive mind, for it can bring near or going beyond itself actually reach the vision of identity, that seeing of our whole self and the self of the world which is the last object and the highest spirit of all our mental powers ...
... which studies always from outside, cannot give this inner and more intimate contact; it has to aid itself by a more direct insight springing from the soul itself and to call at every step on the intuitive mind to fill up the gap of its own deficiencies. We see this in the history of the development of literary and artistic criticism. In its earliest stages the appreciation of beauty is instinctive... Criticism reaches its highest point when it becomes the record, account, right description of this response; it must become itself inspired, intuitive, revealing. In other words, the action of the intuitive mind must complete the action of the rational intelligence and it may even wholly replace it and do more powerfully the peculiar and proper work of the intellect itself; it may explain more intimately ...
... but as yet only succeeds occasionally in the type. There is the old struggle between the intellectuality to keep the truth for itself & become intuitive mind of the intelligence and the ideality to replace the intellectuality and establish the pure intuitive mind or the vijnana itself. For the present the intellectuality prevails; but tends to lose its hold of both satyam and ritam in the struggle. ...
... sufficient for the individual in this one life: but it is a state of imperfection and not the complete and successful evolution of the being. If however there is an integral development of the intuitive mind, it will be found that a great harmony has begun to lay its own foundations. This harmony will be other than that created by the intellectual mind and indeed may not be easily perceptible or, if... vision and it pours into the language, even though the same as that of mental speech, another than the limited intellectual, emotional or sensational significance. It is formed and heard in the intuitive mind or supermind and need not at first except in certain highly gifted souls come out easily into speech and writing, but that too can be freely done when the physical consciousness and its organs ...
... the judge and recipient; it still persists, but is being dominated. It is the intuitive mind that is taking its place, while in the thought etc it is mostly the ideality itself that is the judge and recipient. Lipi trikaldrishti is now being constantly fulfilled. After taking up telepathies into the intuitive mind and observing there all the relative uncertain certainties of the mental, vital ...
... of the truths of the Self and the Universe. But for pure yogic knowledge something more is necessary. First, intellect has to be trained to recognise the faculties of the intuitive mind. This intuitive mind is also sometimes called a higher buddhi, which is not understanding through concepts but which consists of vision; it is not understanding but rather an "over-standing" in knowledge ...
... 2 The Life Divine, p. 940. 3 Savitri, Book X, Canto IV, pp. 659-60. 4 The Life Divine, p. 944. Page 131 Next in the order of ascension is the Intuitive Mind whose characteristic power is an intimate and exact Truth-perception which is much more than sight and conception. Intuition is in us "a projecting blade, edge or point of a far-off supermind... sun-bright eyes; The Word, a mighty and inspiring Voice, Enters Truth's inmost cabin of privacy And tears away the veil from God and life. 2 Beyond the plane of the Intuitive Mind is a superconscient cosmic Mind, a principle of global knowledge which carries in it 'a delegated light from the supramental gnosis.' The Overmind is in direct contact with the Supramental ...
... knowledge that is descending it matters little for me if it is from the Higher Mind or the Intuitive Mind or any other plane. The important thing is that it should be a pure and unmixed knowledge, the transcription by the mind in no way distorting it." As for terms like Higher Mind, Intuitive Mind, Overmind, etc., it is necessary to make these distinctions in the sadhana only if one wants ...
... many questions. in an ascending order: Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuitive Mind, Overmind, and the Supermind. Briefly, the Higher Mind is the plane where the mind has fallen silent or thoughts are seen to be occurring on the surface. In the Illumined Mind, thought is replaced by sight and light. In the Intuitive Mind, knowledge is no longer by thought or sight, but by complere identity with ...
... must, however, be noted that Mohammed only developed the existing social, religious and administrative customs of the Arab people into a new system dictated to him by the Divinity to his secret intuitive mind while he was in a state of trance, when he passed from his conscient into his superconscient self. But within one century of his death, the whole of Western Asia, Syria, Palestine, and... According to the Indian tradition, the Veda is the creation of an age anterior to our intellectual philosophies. In that age, the wisest-the Rishi-depended on inner experience and suggestions of the intuitive mind for all knowledge that ranged beyond mankind's ordinary perceptions and daily activities. Their aim was illumination, not logical conviction, their ideal the inspired seer, not the accurate reasoner ...
... to the rays of the Sun of Truth. This lower world in us, rajas , is extended and shaped by this ascending movement of all its powers and satisfactions into the very brightness of the luminous intuitive mind, Swar, which receives directly the higher Light. The mind, the act, the vital, emotional, substantial existence, all becomes Page 331 full of the glory and the intuition, the power ...
... beginning of a definitive, decisive and rapid conversion that is still in process. The change brought at first a resuscitation of old imperfections belonging to the inspirational vijnana of the intuitive mind and the intellectualities that hung about it, an attempt at invasion and a Page 1240 resuscitation of the principle of struggle. This however has been checked and is being ejected. ...
... intuition-sense we share with the animals by means of the emotional heart, then the reason seeking to find a cause, a formula and justification for the vitality of the nation-idea and, finally, the intuitive mind, looking behind the phenomena of the senses, begin to draw near to the real truth. In real truth a nation is an existence in the universal Consciousness, an Idea-Force in the universal Will that ...
... initial, constant, always recurrent; it is the support of all the rest. The first age of India's greatness was a spiritual age when she sought passionately for the truth of existence through the intuitive mind and through an inner experience and interpretation both of the psychic and the physical existence. The stamp put on her by that beginning she has never lost, but rather always enriched it with ...
... language and vision luminous powers who, unseen companions, accompany us at every step of journey: "Varuna active within is a remover of limits, Saraswati a bringer of revelation, Sarama the power of intuitive mind to search out Truth. In the mind's silence they interpret for us the images that rise and change before our eyes, as if by some magical process, conjures them line by line. These are images charged ...
... language and vision. They, unseen companions, accompany us at every step of Aswapati's journey: Varuna active within is a remover of limits, Saraswati a bringer of revelation, Sarama the power of intuitive mind to search out Truth. In the mind's silence they interpret for us the images that rise and change before our eyes as Sri Aurobindo, as if by some magical process, conjures them line by line. These ...
... 10.1929 The generosity of your absolute self-giving will bring to you the revelation of the generosity of the Divine's Love . 20.10.1929 Reach through aspiration the intuitive mind ; then you will know what is meant by transformation . 21.10.1929 Peace in the physical cells leads first to health and then to transformation. 22.10.1929 Advance on the ...
... object: there is an element of fine ideal delicacy in its sustained strength and breath of power. In both poems it is a high poetic soul and inspired intelligence that is at work; the directly intuitive mind of the Veda and Upanishads has retired behind the veil of the intellectual and outwardly psychological imagination. We shall close this long citation of the estimate of the two great Indian ...
... by the reason ceases to be an intuition and can only have the authority of the reason for which there is no inner source of direct certitude. But even if the mind became predominantly an intuitive mind reliant upon its portion of the higher faculty, the co-ordination of its cognitions and its separated activities, — for in mind these would always be apt to appear as a series of imperfectly ...
... heights of supramental and pure spiritual being." 36 Among the higher planes of mental being, Sri Aurobindo distinguishes various distinct levels which he terms Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuitive Mind and Overmind, culminating in what Sri Aurobindo calls Supermind or the Truth-Consciousness which secretly supports all the universe and leads all towards itself through the evolutionary process ...
... intuitively on his own level: this will render his words incarnative of the causal body. Sri Aurobindo himself has instanced dialogue after dialogue from Shakespeare for a sovereign operation of the intuitive mind, creating the ne plus ultra of poetry. And yet, according to Sri Aurobindo, Shakespeare is the poet of the plane of the life-force, the mind borne on a surge of sensation and emotion, throwing ...
... place exceeding the range and grasp of the physical conceiving consciousness. A sort of reverse movement, not anything arising from our life but visiting it from the Higher, the Illumined, the Intuitive Mind occurs when Savitri's future father Aswapati has returned from his supra-mundane travels: Once more he moved among material scenes, Lifted by intimations from the heights And in the ...
... by a wizardry of shining sleep. SRI AUROBINDO'S COMMENT '"I find it very good. It is not sentimental at all, for feeling and sentiment are not the same thing. It comes from the intuitive mind and has a note of fine adequacy which is often the best form for that inspiration to take. The last two lines are more intense and come straight from the Intuition itself—an expression not of mind ...
... Lines like these are a fit offering to the Master, because they bear out Sri Aurobindo's own prophecy that the future poetry will shape its utterance in the language of a higher illumined and intuitive mind "swallowing up the intellectual tones into the closeness and identities of a supra-intellectual light and Ananda". KISHOR GANDHI Page 245 ...
... the Cosmic Self or full of ecstatic bhakti or Ananda. But one may and usually does still go on in the outer active parts of Nature thinking with the intellect or at best Page 273 the intuitive mind, willing with a mental will, feeling joy and sorrow on the vital surface, undergoing physical afflictions and suffering the struggle of life in the body with death and disease. The change then ...
... higher mind can be a beginning. This merging is part of the spiritual transformation. For the mind there are many centres: (1) the sahasradala which centralises spiritual mind, higher mind, intuitive mind and acts as a receiving station for the intuition proper and overmind, (2) the centre in the forehead for inner thought, will and vision, (3) the throat centre for the externalising or physical ...
... review by the reason ceases to be an intuition and can only have the authority of the reason for which there is no inner source of direct certitude. But even if the mind became predominantly an intuitive mind reliant upon its Page 982 portion of the higher faculty, the co-ordination of its cognitions and its separated activities,—for in mind these would always be apt to appear as a series ...
... causal or spiritual body, and less directly through the mental body, nor are their secret powers absent from the workings of the vital and material existence. Our conscious spiritual being and our intuitive mind awaken in us as a result of the pressure of these highest worlds on the mental being in life and body. But this causal body is, as we may say, little developed in the majority of men and to live ...
... those of our logical reasoning and speech accepted modes of expression which in our modern habits would be inadmissible. The wisest then depended on inner experience and the suggestions of the intuitive mind for all knowledge that ranged beyond mankind's ordinary perceptions and daily activities. Their aim was illumination, not logical conviction, their ideal the inspired seer, not the accurate reasoner ...
... light, in their view, is not merely an apt poetic image of thought, but is actually its physical form. Thus, the herds that are milked are the Herds of the Sun,—Surya, God of the revelatory and intuitive mind, or else of Dawn, the goddess who manifests the solar glory. The Rishi desires from Indra a daily increase of this light of Truth by his fuller activity pouring rays in a rich yield upon the receptive ...
... with things & ideas that might be known by experience, if the means of experience were sufficiently wide. It is prajnanamaya vijnana intuitional & discriminative. The second corresponds to intuitive mind (perception) & is independent of possible experience. This is now developing. It is inspirational. The third is pure vijnana & revelatory sakshaddarshana. Yesterday kamananda was almost ...
... administrative customs of the Arab people into a new system dictated to him often in a state of trance, in which he passed from his conscient into his superconscient self, by the Divinity to his secret intuitive mind. All that may be suprarational or, if you will, irrational, but it represents a different stage of human development from the government of society by its rational and practical mind which in contact ...
... anything. It is not so much getting rid of mental activity as converting it into the right thing. Krishnaprem has mental activity, but it is a mind that has gone inside and sees things from there, an intuitive mind; I have mental activity (in the midst of silence) whenever necessary, but it is a mind that has gone up and sees things from above, an overmind action. What has to be surpassed and changed is the ...
... Aurobindo's light was manifesting on a sea along with another light of pale blue colour. Does this mean that in the vastness of consciousness Sri Aurobindo's divine light is manifesting through the Intuitive Mind consciousness? Yes. 15 October 1933 I saw Sri Aurobindo last night in a vision seated on a chair and writing something. Behind his head there was a circular green light. What does this ...
... kind of sudden inspiration. Has that inspiration anything to do with the Supermind? Page 93 The scientist who gets an inspiration revealing to him a new truth, receives it from the intuitive mind. The knowledge comes as a direct perception in the higher mental plane illumined by some other light still farther above. But all that has nothing to do with the action of Supermind and this higher ...
... faculty and the nearest to physical Nature.... Always she holds in her nature and can give to those whom she has chosen the intimate and precise knowledge, the subtlety and patience, the accuracy of intuitive mind and conscious hand and discerning eye of the perfect worker." Sri Aurobindo, The Mother , p. 33 In the order of manifestation, she was the last. And in her special nature, in the quality ...
... physical. But I am deeply sensible of your kindness, my Mother, and grateful too. There is no contradiction that cannot be solved and harmonised in a synthesis if you rise high enough in the intuitive mind and yours is not at all irreducible. I am sure that one day you will find this out. My love and blessings. 27 August 1939 Life of my life! My own sweetest Mama! Accept my love ...
... So none of this stuff can be published, though it's fine for the Agenda . How can it be told to people? ( silence ) I have the feeling that Sri Aurobindo was in his period of ascent, the intuitive mind was piercing through and coming into contact with the Supermind, and it was coming into his thought like bursts of light—whoosh! And then he would write these things. But if you follow the movement ...
... Walled by a wizardry of shining sleep. Sri Aurobindo's Comment "I find it very good. It is not sentimental at all, for feeling and sentiment are not the same thing. It comes from the intuitive mind and has a note of fine adequacy which is often the best form for that inspiration to take. The last two lines are more intense and come straight from the Intuition itself—an expression not of ...
... also from a brief correspondence between Sri Aurobindo and me in 1948. When I had asked him to help me draw inspiration from the 'overhead' planes which he had named Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuitive Mind and Overmind, with the still unmanifested Supermind at the top, and whose distinguishing traits and powers he had explained, I was eager to get lines of English and European poetry elucidated both ...
... Aurobindo focuses in it what he specifically calls "Supermind" or "Truth-Consciousness" and distinguishes it from the several other "overhead" levels such as Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuition (or Intuitive Mind), Overmind. Sri Page 215 Aurobindo does not just posit these levels and beyond them the Supermind: having had direct experience of them by means of his "Integral Yoga" he has ...
... higher planes in the mind. Thus, for instance, one may receive a reflection from the Overmind. One may not oneself know it. What is called genius is the reflection from the higher planes—from the Intuitive Mind, for example. But it does not mean that one is living in that plane. There may be reflections in the vital being also. ...
... his disciples had sketched some diagrams of Meher Baba's world-scheme SATYENDRA: There he shows the arrangement of the different planes. SRI AUROBINDO: It seems by "Intuition" he means the Intuitive Mind which throws its light on the ordinary intelligence. In that plane there are four divisions: discrimination with intuitive suggestion, inspiration which he calls "Higher Inspiration", then revelation ...
... philosophers, and discursively and scientifically rational through the Aristotelian tradition. The practical and robust Roman did not indulge in the loftier and subtler activities of the higher or intuitive mind; his was applied intelligence and its characteristic turn found expression in law and order and governance. Virgil was a representative poet of the race; finely sensitive and yet very self-conscious ...
... Or assets valueless in Truth's treasury." 16 Place of Intuition in Mathematics "The scientist who gets an inspiration revealing to him a new truth, receives it from the intuitive mind. The knowledge comes as a direct perception in the higher mental plane illumined by some other light still farther above." 17 Mathematicians have not only discarded the vain hope ...
... seeking. If the Veda is world's first yet extant record of yoga, Upanishads are the first yogic interpretation, elucidation and development of the yoga contained in the Veda. In the Upanishads, the intuitive mind Page 4 and intimate psychological experiences of Vedic seers pass into a supreme culmination in which the Spirit, as is said in a phrase in Kathopanishad, discloses its very own body ...
... inner nor overhead. Can't specify—as these things have no name. Inner—over also in imagery, but not what I call the overhead planes. These belong to the inner mind or inner vital or to the intuitive mind or anywhere else that is mystic. July 8, 1938 Z is asking again and again if she can join her work. Do you advise it? [ Mother :] She may try a small amount of work. Days must ...
... Sri Aurobindo has, in the course of his yogic research, discovered that there are several gradations of the rising layers of mental consciousness such as those of the Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuitive Mind and Overmind; and Sri Aurobindo points out that even in the overmental plane of consciousness, the unity and integrality of the Object of realization is not effected and that one has to rise still ...
... emotion or object; there is an element of fine ideal delicacy in its sustained strength and breath of power. In both it is high poetic tone and inspired intelligence that is at work; the directly intuitive mind of the Veda and the Upanishads has retired behind the veil of the intellectual and outwardly psychological imagination". We shall close this long citation of the estimate of the two ...
... Prakriti HEAVENS OF THE IDEAL (Canto XII) The Rose & the Flame GREATER MIND (Canto XI) Higher mind, Illumined Mind, Intuitive mind LITTLE MIND (Canto X) Pigmy Thought, Intelligence, Reason NIGHT (Cantos VII, VIII) Mother of Falsehood ...
... —'wings of wind', 'gold-red', 'the face lustred.. .gleamed', 'sun-realms of supernal seeing'—make a chain of significant advance and indicate the flight through the worlds of Illumined Mind, Intuitive Mind, and Overmind. The hippogriff, the "fabulous griffin-like creature with body of horse", 83 naturally calls to our mind the Aswins of the Veda rising upward in the "wide-shinings of the Dawn"; ...
... if Shakespeare in his great dazzling moments of supreme utterance is the poet with the Illumined Mind, if Dante's poetry is charged again and again with the marvellous revelatory power of the Intuitive Mind, then Sri Aurobindo's Savitri embodies the sovereignty of the Overmind and comes to us with the direct, potent and radiant force of the Upanishadic mantra, a sustained feat of poetic recordation ...
... technique of things are Mahasarawati's province. Always she holds in her nature and can give to those whom she has chosen the intimate and precise knowledge, the subtlety and patience, the accuracy of intuitive mind and conscious hand and discerning eye of the perfect worker. This Power is the strong, the tireless, the careful and efficient builder, organiser, administrator, technician, artisan and classifier ...
... Surrender; the yellow champak, Supramentalised Psychological Perfection. Likewise other flowers acquired names such as Sincerity Devotion, Radha' s Consciousness, Transformation, Tapasya, Intuitive Mind, Successful Future, Divine Solicitude, Cheerfulness, Integral Opening, Patience, Service, Psychic Purity, Faithfulness, Realisation, Spiritual Power of Healing, Avatar: the Supreme Manifested ...
... tic method of the Indian artist and it is directly enjoined on him by the canon. He has to see first in his spiritual being the truth of the thing he must express and to create its form in his intuitive mind; he is not bound to look out first on outward life and Nature for his model, his authority, his rule, his teacher or his fountain of suggestions. Why should he when it is something quite inward ...
... object: there is an element of fine ideal delicacy in its sustained strength and breath of power. In both poems it is a high poetic soul and inspired intelligence that is at work; the directly intuitive mind of the Veda and Upanishads has Page 351 retired behind the veil of the intellectual and outwardly psychical imagination. This is the character of the epics and the qualities which ...
... single wide movement set to a strong and abundant but simple music; here they seem to stand side by side related and harmonised, curious and complex, multiply one. The spontaneous unity of the intuitive mind is replaced by the artificial unity of the analysing and synthetising intelligence. Art and religion still continue the predominance of the spiritual and intuitive motive, but it is less to the ...
... prājña प्राज्ञ ( cidghana ) caitanya , but that is a different thing from prajñā प्रज्ञा. Perhaps Overmind can be described as आद्य हिरण्यगर्भ चैतन्य (as opposed to the rest of सूक्ष्म from the intuitive mind to the bottom), but that is a of the very long phrase. It is really, however, a different classification and other words ought to be found for it. परा मनीषा, आद्या मनीषा, दैवी मनीषा, any of these ...
... Vivekananda some where. No, not in the body. My contact with him was in the jail when he was speaking with me for about 15 days, giving me the first insight into the Intuition plane (not the intuitive mind which is mental and not supramental) as the first opening to Supermind. 21 October 1934 Page 264 If it is not indiscreet would you ask Sri Aurobindo if it is true that in 1909—in ...
... recurrent; it is the support of all the rest. The Page 41 first age of India's greatness was a spiritual age when she sought passionately for the truth of existence through the intuitive mind and through an inner experience and interpretation both of the psychic and the physical existence. The stamp put on her by that beginning she has never lost, but rather always enriched it with ...
... a swift, sometimes a vehement, almost a violent impetus of rapid transformation. Sri Aurobindo The Life Divine - II: The Ascent towards Supermind * Intuition *The thought of the intuitive mind proceeds wholly by four powers that shape the form of the truth, an intuition that suggests its idea, an intuition that discriminates, an inspiration that brings in its word and something of its ...
... look it in the face you see immediately that it is a stupidity—there is no error, it slips through your fingers. ( Silence ) I have a feeling that Sri Aurobindo was in his ascension; the intuitive mind was piercing a hole and coming into contact with the Supermind, and so it would come like that, pop! like an explosion in the thought, and he would write these things. And if you follow the movement ...
... all its working there is felt its own essence of an intuitive delight which acts in these moulds and gets into them whatever it can of its own intimate and eternal delight values. But when that intuitive mind self-finding, self-seeing, self-creating in a higher power of light and vision than is possible on the intellectual or other levels gets out into full play, and now there is some sign of this emergence ...
... of the universe Page 283 and discovering and realising its spiritual relations with others will be the vision and intention of a dramatic poetry fully reflective of the now growing intuitive mind of the future. All drama must be a movement of life and of action because its mode of presentation is through the speech of living beings and the interaction of their natures, but equally the real ...
... what path it will actually choose to tread or what new heights attempt, waits still for its own yet unformed decision. What would be the ideal spirit of poetry in an age of the increasingly intuitive mind: that is the question which arises from all that has gone before and to which we may attempt some kind of answer. I have spoken in the beginning of the Mantra as the highest and intensest revealing ...
... (thinking, perceiving and reasoning intelligence) into itself and modifies itself to suit the operation—the result is what may be called a mental Overmind—then it lifts these lower movements and the intuitive mind together into a higher reach of itself, forming there the Overmind Intuition, and then all that into the Overmind Gnosis awaiting the supramental transformation. The overmind "touch" on the Higher ...
... is impossible or absurd to the unaided reason, becomes real and right to the reason lifted beyond itself by the power of the spirit and irradiated by its light. For then it is dominated by the intuitive mind which is our means of passage to a yet higher principle of knowledge. The widest spirituality does not exclude or discourage any essential human activity or faculty, but works rather to lift all ...
... intelligence and will, but inspired and piloted by the divine knowledge and will made conscious in his nature. And that can only be done, first by communication of the truth of these things through the intuitive mind as it purifies itself progressively from the invasion of egoism, self-interest, desire, passion and all kinds of self-will, finally through the suprarational light and power, no longer communicated ...
... of all one meets, thinks or feels Page 59 through some kind of intimately subjective vision that life is turned into poetry. If this subjective medium is the inspired reason or the intuitive mind, the external presentation of life gives place inevitably to an interpretation, a presentation in which its actual lines are either neglected or subordinated in order that some inner truth of it ...
... please? Inner or over? Can't specify—as these things have no name. Inner—over also in imagery, but not what I call the overhead planes. These belong to the inner mind or inner vital or to the intuitive mind or anywhere else that is mystic. 8 July 1938 Page 495 This is really disappointing! Oh, the time it took! I am sure you will find plenty of hurdles. There are indeed ...
... higher planes of Intuition and Overmind. He receives through the spiritualised higher and illumined mind the fundamental experiences on which spiritual knowledge is based; he can become even full of intuitive mind movements, illuminations, various kinds of powers and illumined light, liberation, Ananda. But to rise fully into the Intuition is rare, to reach the Overmind still rarer—although influences and ...
... it is altogether native and in which it is not only behind the word-rhythm but gets into the word-movement itself and finds a kind of fully supporting body there. P.S. Lines from the highest intuitive mind-consciousness, as well as those from the overmind, can have a mantric character—the rhythm too may have a certain kinship with mantric rhythm, but it may not be the thing itself, only the nearest ...
... technique of things are Mahasaraswati's province. Always she holds in her nature and can give to those whom she has chosen the intimate and precise knowledge, the subtlety and patience, the accuracy of intuitive mind and conscious hand and discerning eye of the perfect worker. This Power is the strong, the tireless, the careful and efficient builder, organiser, administrator, technician, artisan and classifier ...
... progressively be revealed, messages and illuminations that secretly flash down to us from the divine Oracle concealed in light above our mentality whether they seem to descend through the intuitive mind or arise from the seeing heart. But this it cannot do rightly because it is pinned to the limitations of the life-energy in the senses, to the discords of sensation and emotion, and to its own ...
... have been viewed and confirmed by the judgment of the rational intelligence: it is there that it feels most well founded and secure. Man surmounting reason to organise his thought and life by the intuitive mind would be already surpassing his characteristic humanity and on the way to the development of supermanhood. This can only be done above: for to attempt it below is only to achieve another kind of ...
... things; one can feel merged in the Cosmic Self or full of ecstatic bhakti or Ananda. But one may and usually does still go on in the outer parts of nature thinking with the intellect or at best the intuitive mind, willing with a mental will, feeling joy and sorrow on the vital surface, undergoing physical afflictions and suffering from the struggle of life in the body with death and disease. The change ...
... by Sri Aurobindo, has a particular significance which emerges with unique force once we look at his table of what is above the mind. He speaks of the Higher Mind, the Illumined Mind, the Intuitive Mind, the Overmind, and then the Supermind. The word "super" does not indiscriminately cover all these levels. It acquires, as distinguished from the word "over", a shade of utter supremacy, and ...
... Intelligence. b)The Intuitive Intelligence. c)The Mystic Mind. d)The Mind of Dynamic Vision. 5)The Psychic. 6)The Higher Mind. 7)The Illumined Mind. 8)The Intuition or the Intuitive Mind. 9)The Overmind, with its four domains: a)The Mental Overmind. b)The Intuitive Overmind or the Overmind Intuition. c)The Overmind Proper. d)The Gnostic or Supramentalised Overmind ...
... in a particular sense in distinction from "supramental". Downward from Supermind these gradations he labels as Overmind, Intuition, 9 9 . This is to be distinguished from the intuitive mind constituted by the mere intelligence functioning intuitively. The intuition, coated over with intellectual elements, that is sometimes ours is different from the Intuition proper that belongs ...
... of vijnana. This vijnana is that of the lowest total stage of the triple ideal supermind, the domain of the luminous reason. First, there was the disappearance of the old intellectual into the intuitive mind and buddhi, and not only the thought-being, but the whole being including the consciousness in the body, the physical Ananda was brought up finally into this form, to the total exclusion of the ...
... insisting on perfection. Page 1143 In Samadhi a great flood and mass of experiences of all kinds, but incoherent, yet all in the ideality. Subsequently an ordered movement. All the intuitive mind turned into ideality, what was before simple intellectuality, is now just before the ideal level and is changing to the intuivity. This movement represents a complete mutation of the whole being ...
... in lipi, jnana and T², while it is partly active in samadhi. The Shakti has first converted into the seer logistis the constantly recurring remnants of the old actualistic telepathies of the intuitive mind, intuition, inspiration and inferior (semi-intellectual) revelation; then the dynamic telepathies and tapas thought on the basis of accurate possibility, Page 1179 sometimes but not ...
... strain and difficulty. No evident reaction from the walking in this position. The movement is now to replace finally in trikaldrishti the action through the intellect by the action through the intuitive mind. In trikaldrishti the survival of the inferior action is strong and will take some time to eliminate. It prevents decisive trikaldrishti and perpetuates error of stress and error of interpretation ...
... paler, and then the Illumined Mind, which is the color of the flag [Mother's flag], a silver blue, but naturally paler than that. And after this comes yellow, a yellow that is the yellow of the Intuitive Mind; it must not be golden, it must be the color of cadmium. Then after this yellow, which is pale, we have the Overmind with all the colors—they must all be bright colors, not dark: blue, red, green ...
... (thinking, perceiving and reasoning intelligence) into itself and modifies itself to suit the operation—the result is what may be called a mental Overmind—then it lifts these lower movements and the intuitive mind together into a higher reach of itself, forming there the Overmind Intuition, and then all that into the Overmind Gnosis awaiting the supramental transformation. The Overmind 'touch' on the ...
... gets touched by the overhead intuition in the second, gets full of it in the third and again rises rapidly to that in the two last lines of the fourth stanza. This is what I call poetry of the intuitive mind." "It is a very true and beautiful poem." Page 90 ...
... Aurobindo while assessing the "overhead” poetry of Amal Kiran. However, implicit in this approach that affirms various levels of inspiration such as the "Higher Mind," "Illumined Mind," "Intuitive Mind," "Overmind" ( The Secret Splendour, p. 81) or the one that defines poetic speech in terms of "Adequate," " Effective," "Intuitive,” "Illuminative," "Inspired" or the "Revelatory" ( The ...
... direct utterance of poetry. It was possible to be receptive to it without myself getting stationed on those higher levels. Sri Aurobindo distinguished these levels as higher mind, illumined mind, intuitive mind and overmind intuition. He considered these planes as being communicated by us through our poems. The sheer overmind was difficult to tap and examples of the sheer communication could be found ...
... inner-mental than overhead is therefore the general character of the poem. Speaking about the several levels of mind coming into operation in poetry, Sri Aurobindo writes to Amal Kiran: "The intuitive mind, strictly speaking, stretches from the Intuition proper down to the intuitivised inner mind - it is therefore at once an overhead power and a mental intelligence power. All depends on the ...
... one of the following planes: (1) The Subtle Physical, (2) The Vital, (3) The Creative Intelligence, (4) The Inner Mind, (5) The Psychic, (6) The Higher Mind, (7) The Illumined Mind, (8) The Intuitive Mind, (9) The Overmind. For example, quoting the lines Page 283 To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears, ...
... then. it encourages the growth of the inner being. The new age in literature is moving steadily from a fully realised and utilised intellectuality towards the fullness of experience of the intuitive mind. It is in need of the experience of the harmonious integration of man's nature and being. It is imperceptibly closing upon a new birth of humanity, - the birth of a new light and truth upon ...
... wrote prophetically, four score years ago, that the future poetry "transcending the more intellectualised or externally vital and sensational expression" would speak "wholly in the language of an intuitive mind and vision and imagination, intuitive sense, intuitive emotion, intuitive vital feeling, which can seize in a peculiarly intimate light of knowledge by a spiritual identity the inmost thought, ...
... fullness of self, the fullness of its light and being and which lives in a division and diversion, not in the body of the sun, but first in its nearer and then in its far-off rays. There is a highest intuitive mind which receives more nearly the supramental truth, but even this is a formation which conceals the direct and greater real knowledge. There is an intellectual mind which is a luminous half-opaque ...
... complete identifications, according to certain bodily functions—I don't know. And beneath, there are still old undercurrents of mental influence, from what we are used to calling the "higher" mind (intuitive mind and so on). And then, all around, a whole play of forces, suggestions, formations, which comes from outside. I say "from outside," but there's no sense of "outside"; there's no such sense, no longer ...
... dissonance in the spelled harmony intended. It would thus spoil something of the mysterious atmosphere and suggestion which are the true life of this kind of utterance from what Sri Aurobindo calls "intuitive mind". There would, further, be a marring of the musical mysticism which lies in the stanza-structure. For, two trimeter lines — the second and the third — would stand together and make a somewhat heavy ...
... theologically, philosophically and metaphorically. Speaking of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, Sri Aurobindo says that in both these poems "it is a high poetic soul that is at work; the directly intuitive mind of the Veda and the Upanishads has retired behind the veil of the intellectual and outwardly physical imagination."" 4 In Kalidasa too the direct intuition is veiled by sensuous symbols and ...
... things; one can feel merged in the Cosmic Self or full of ecstatic bhakti or Ananda. But one may and usually does still go on in the outer parts of Nature thinking with the intellect or at best the intuitive mind, willing with a mental will, feeling joy and sorrow on the vital surface, undergoing physical afflictions and suffering from the struggle of life in the body with death and disease. The change ...
... Intuition as compared with the supermind is that it sees things by flashes, point by point, not as a whole. Also in coming into the mind it gets mixed with the mental movement and forms a kind of intuitive mind activity which is not the pure truth, but something in between the higher Truth and the mental seeking. It can lead the consciousness through a sort of transitional stage and that is practically ...
... (thinking, perceiving and reasoning intelligence) into itself and modifies itself to suit the operation—the result is what may be called a mental Overmind—then it lifts these lower movements and the intuitive mind together into a higher reach of itself, forming there the Overmind Intuition, and then all that into the Overmind Gnosis awaiting the supramental transformation. The Overmind 'touch' on the Higher ...
... It is not so much getting rid of mental activity as converting it into the right thing. Krishnaprem has mental activity, but it is a mind that has gone inside and sees things from there, an intuitive mind; I have mental activity (in the midst of silence) whenever necessary, but it is a mind that [has] gone up and sees things from above, an overmind action. What has to be surpassed and changed ...
... expressed by the rays of the Sun, the Vedic Symbol of the Supermind. The lower world of the earth of physical consciousness and the world of sensations, emotions, intellectual thought and intuitive mind are reconciled with their counterparts in the higher consciousness of the Supermind. The Ignorance in which one lives, the Night, is illumined upon both sides of our complete being. That state ...
... higher levels of consciousness, ranges of the powers of the fourfold personality in the superconscious. These ranges are those of what Sri Aurobindo has termed the Higher Mind, the Illumined Mind, Intuitive Mind, Overmind and Supermind. An account of all this would form a subject by itself, and in an introductory paper as this we cannot dare enter into this field. 11. What we need to stress now is ...
... reality is to be Page 65 reflected indivisibly and infinitely, the reflecting medium has to rise to levels higher than that of mind, such as the levels of higher' mind, illumined mind, intuitive mind, overmind and supermind. It is only at me level of the supermind that the integral experience of the infinite and the indivisible is obtained in its full infinity and indivisibility. It is claimed ...
... spiritual experiences, written in a language which is profoundly poetic, manifesting an unfailing inspiration inevitable in phrase, wonderful in rhythm and expression. Like the Veda, they express the intuitive mind and intimate psychological experience, but although they start from concrete images and symbols of the Vedic seers, there is here a less covertly expressive language, and they pass over to another ...
... classification which has been presented by Sri Aurobindo, these levels are distinguished from each other and described in an ascending order starting from Higher Mind and rising up to Illumined Mind, Intuitive Mind, Overmind and Supermind. The subconscious and inconscience are states of involved consciousness, not itself aware of all that is involved but it acts with some kind of automatic intelligence, and ...
... Descent of the Supermind and Supramental Transformation The process of ascent to the supermind from the mind and the descent of the supermind, which would transform successively the Overmind, Intuitive mind, Illumined mind, Higher mind, mind and the rest cannot be a logical series of separate segments. Sri Aurobindo has stated that while a sufficient integration of one status has to be complete before ...
... object: there is an element of fine ideal delicacy in its sustained strength and breath of power. In both poems it is a high poetic soul and inspired intelligence that is at work; the directly intuitive mind of the Veda and Upanishads has retired behind the veil of the intellectual and outwardly psychical imagination. This is the character of the epics and the qualities which have made them immortal ...
... there is a Vital world, above that is a world of the Mind, and then there are several planes between the Mind world and the world of the Super-mind; these are worlds of Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuitive Mind and Over-mind. On the top level, there are worlds of the Super-mind, of Bliss, of Consciousness and of Existence. In the various descriptions of the universe, there are slight variations, but on ...
... higher levels of consciousness, ranges of the powers of the fourfold personality in the superconscious. These ranges are those of what Sri Aurobindo has termed the higher Mind, the Illumined Min, Intuitive Mind, Overmind and Supermind. An account of all this would form a subject by itself, and in an introductory paper as this we cannot dare enter into this field. _______________________________ ...
... any intervening Force that seeks to effect a radical transformation. Even the higher spiritual-mental powers such as those whom Sri Aurobindo has named the Higher Mind, the Illumined Mind, the Intuitive Mind and the Overmind, and their intensities, entering into the substance of this inconscient foundation, undergo this inescapable disability and fail to annul the disparity between the consciousness ...
... be an ascent into the planes of the higher dynamic action and the descent of the powers of these planes into our mind, life and body. These planes are those of the Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuitive Mind, and Overmind. It is this process that is specifically called in the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo the process of spiritual transformation. This process is extremely complex and it is impossible to ...
... out from the Divine? The Formateurs of the Overmind have shaped nothing evil — it is the lower forces that receive from the Overmind and distort its forms. Can the intuitive mind or the higher mind be influenced by hostile forces? No — but the hostile forces can use the forces sent down from them if they get mixed with the mind or the vital. ...
... function far otherwise than as the dark muddy powers of the subconscious and unconscious. These overhead powers (including Intuition) may light up, "various areas of experience, but when the intuitive mind is directed towards the things of God, intuition is called mystical intuition and the knowledge so possessed, mystical knowledge." 43 Aesthesis like this induces in the reader, the responsive ...
... of the unity of all existence. It is difficult to say, I don't know him . But judging from his writing ... It does not indicate much—for it may be only an awakening of the intuitive mind. Sometimes my aspiration is very intense, but when the mind resumes again its working, it covers it to some exent. Mind must remain, but mind must be transformed. And so also with the ...
... or seems to act, according to some "reason" he acts not by mental reasoning but by something from above – intuition. At a certain stage the substance of the mind itself is transformed into the intuitive mind. Then it is found impossible to resume the old mental activity. Intuition is an image to the Supermind ; materials collected by the mind are Page 213 there, of course, but ...
... process complex. I am trying to bring the highest layer of the Supermind into the physical consciousness. There are three layers of the Supermind corresponding to the three activities of the Intuitive mind. First is what I call the Interpretative Supermind. I call it interpretative because what is a possibility on the mental plane becomes a potentiality on the Supramental plane. The Interpretative ...
... He speaks of fourteen Shunyams: Intuition, Superconscious State, Lower Inspiration, Higher Inspiration, Insight, Illumination, etc. SRI AUROBINDO: How does he classify them? Is Intuition the Intuitive Mind? SATYENDRA: He has no classification. He doesn't have the critical mind required for that. But he doesn't believe in the Vedantic withdrawal from life. He wants to bring down the realisation ...
... place of the traditional genres. Like the 'form', the verbal expression too must change so as to keep pace with the change in intention and spirit: It will be the language of a higher intuitive mind swallowing up the intellectual tones into the closenesses and identities of a supra-intellectual light and Ananda.... The voice of poetry comes from a region above us, a plane of our being above ...
... not - strictly speaking - mystical outpourings. The poems have come - to use the phraseology of his later writings - from the levels of the Higher Mind or the Illumined Mind, perhaps even of the Intuitive Mind, and give us only philosophical generalisations or images of vividly perceived facets of the truth. Sri Aurobindo himself has remarked that "the mental intuitions of the metaphysician or the poet ...
... the classical. Page 29 In Sri Aurobindo's words: "The first age of India's greatness was a spiritual age when she sought passionately for the truth of existence through the intuitive mind and through an inner experience and interpretation both of the psychic and the physical existence." The age of the Rishis. "The stamp put on her by that beginning she has never lost, but rather ...
... One can feel merged in the Cosmic Self or full of ecstatic Bhakti [love] or Ananda. But one may and usually does still go on in the outer parts of Nature thinking with the intellect or at best intuitive mind, willing with a mental will, feeling joy and sorrow on the vital surface, undergoing physical afflictions and suffering from the struggle of life in the body with death and disease. 29 And ...
... Upanishad he follows the same line that he does in that of the Veda relying on the straightforward meaning of words and internal evidence of the text. This is what he says about them: " Here the intuitive mind and intimate psychological- experience of the Vedic seers passes into a supreme culmination in which the Spirit, as is laid in a phrase of the Katha Upanishad, discloses its own very body, reveals ...
... body has uncovered it and understood the formidable power and the formidable freedom that lay there. The Fundamental Cage We say “the mind of the cells,” “the intellectual mind,” “the intuitive mind,” or “the liberated mind” in its heaven up above, but it is but one and the same Mind and perhaps the word is inadequate: it is but one and the same consciousness, one and the same power in various ...
... people call mind or intellect is only the movement of the physical mind (because only the physical mind creates doubts — is it not so, Mother?) not the clear passive and silent mind or the higher or intuitive mind which can be the true expression of the higher things and the seat of knowledge. When you discourage mental movement it is, I feel, this limited physical mind’s obscure and doubt-creating movement ...
... greater self of humanity, the turning of its will to the inception of delivering forms of thought, art and social endeavour which arise from those perceptions and the raising of the intellectual mind to the intuitive supra-intellectual spiritual consciousness which can alone give the basis for a spiritualised life of the race and the realisation of its diviner potentialities. The meaning of spirituality... in her and the intuition of all that she keeps hidden in her forms and veils and reveals more and more to the soul that has entered into Page 272 unity with that spirit. The more intuitive human mind of the future, delivered from its present limitation of sympathy by the touch of the one self in all being, will feel as has not been felt before a unity with other consciousness in Nature and... a consciousness too of the oneness of the individual and the race and a harmonious unity of the life of man with the spirit in Nature and the spirit of the universe. The voice of a new deeper intuitive poetry can be a powerful aid to this necessary change of seeing and aspiration, because what the thought comprehends with a certain abstraction, it can make living to the imagination by the word and ...
... the two were not perfectly synthetised or fused in him. There was a gap between that was not thoroughly bridged. Pascal did not possess the higher, intuitive, luminous mind that mediates successfully between the physical discursive ratiocinative brain-mind and the vision of faith: it is because deep in his consciousness there lay this chasm. Indeed, Pascal's abyss (l' abîme de Pascal) is a well-known... wrote just a quarter of a century after the death of Pascal: "They can no longer tell us that it is only small minds that have piety. They are shown how it has grown best in one of the the greatest geometricians, one of the subtlest metaphysicians, one of the most penetrating minds that ever existed on earth. The piety of such a philosopher should make the unbeliever and the libertine declare what... effective Pyrrhonian."4 The process of conversion of the doubting mind, of the dry intellectual reason as propounded and perhaps practised by Pascal is also a characteristic mark of his nature and genius. It is explained in his famous letter on "bet" or "game of chance" (Le Pari). Here is how he puts the issue to the doubting mind (I am giving the substance, not his words): let us say then that in ...
... sentence and jogging my memory. Some lines from Sri Aurobindo are responding at once. First a triplet from Savitri about whose source 1 had questioned him and he had replied: "It may be the intuitive inner mind with the psychic fused together." Here it is: But joy cannot endure until the end. T here is a darkness in terrestrial things That will not suffer long too glad a note. The second... materially concrete channel to us who are so sadly caught in the density of our own bodies. Only by the Divine becoming human can we humans best approach divinity. So we would do well to focus our minds on their photographs - preferably on the picture taken on the Darshan day of 24 April 1950 which shows them both together. Those who have seen them with their own eyes do not need the picture but even... to the spiritual movement going on in the soul-profundities, the inmost heart, rather than through the mental consciousness playing about the brain. A greater action was going on along with it. His mind was eternally silent and what acted in him was a self-luminous immensity above the head which reached out towards an endless Beyond and transmitted its magnificent mysteries to his embodied being. Do ...
... can imagine a particular worry doing immense damage. It is the one he would have been visited with if he had been like that strange entity which has inspired one of the greatest phrases his intuitive poetic mind created: the prophetic soul Of the wide world dreaming on things to come. If he could have prophesied the bitter controversy that has raged in later times as to whether... Another one shows a rather Shakespearian forehead. I am sure it would have pleased our Master. He regarded Shakespeare as extraordinarily intuitive in his poetic expression. Perhaps he would have found your facial expression a pointer to an inner intuitiveness? I see from what you have written that the spiritual pursuit is the most instinctive thing for you and that your resolve not to get... Sri Aurobindo, of receiving poetic inspiration again and again from the planes above that of the creative intelligence -Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuition, Overmind - has trained the mental Me not exactly to escape ...from the confines of thought To where Mind motionless sleeps waiting Light's birth 1 but at least to follow the inspiring precept: Out of our thoughts we must ...
... it. The second is the stage when human intelligence is more and more replaced by a high illumined or intuitive spiritualised mind, the external human heart by the inner psychic heart, the senses by a purified and selfless vital force. The third is the stage when we rise even above spiritualised mind to the supramental levels. In all three stages the fundamental character of the liberated action is... self-determined actions and is independent and therefore sole master of its works and responsible. It is not easy for the ordinary mind, the mind that has not thought nor looked deeply into its own constitution and Page 213 constituents, it is difficult even for minds that have thought but have no spiritual vision and experience, to imagine how there can be anything else in us truer, deeper and... Purusha in her or behind her witnesses, assents, bears and upholds it. Prakriti forms the thought in our minds; Purusha in her or behind her knows the thought and the truth in it. Prakriti determines the result of the action; Purusha in her or behind her enjoys or suffers the consequence. Prakriti forms mind and body, labours over them, develops them; Purusha upholds the formation and evolution and sanctions ...
... may be the pure or the intuitivised higher mind. I do not think it is the poetic intelligence any more than Virgil's Sunt lacrimae rerum et mentem mortalia tangunt , which I think to be the Higher Mind coming through to the psychic and blending with it. So also his O passi graviora, dabit deus his quoque finem . Here it may be the intuitive inner mind with the psychic fused together. 5 November... to be at work. The former pitch continues, as far as I can see, up to "Light", then it begins to come down to an intuitivised higher mind in order to suit the change of the subject—but it is only occasionally that it is pure higher mind—a mixture of the intuitive or illumined is usually there except when some truth has to be stated to the philosophic intelligence in as precise a manner as possible... it is because the truths it expresses are unfamiliar to the ordinary mind or belong to an untrodden domain or domains or enter into a field of occult experience; it is not because there is any attempt at a dark or vague profundity or at an escape from thought. The thinking is not intellectual but intuitive or more than intuitive, always expressing a vision, a spiritual contact or a knowledge which ...
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