... feelings which come from the secret Purusha in the heart are of the direct intuitive character. This method is consonant with a certain truth of our nature. The secret Self within us is an intuitive self and this intuitive self is seated in every centre of our being, the physical, the nervous, the emotional, the volitional, the conceptual or cognitive and the higher more directly spiritual centres. And in... the heart of all creatures turns them mounted on the machine of Nature by the Maya of the mental ignorance. It is possible then by referring back all the initiation of our action to this secret intuitive Self and Spirit, the ever-present Godhead within us, and replacing by its influences the initiations of our personal and mental nature to get back from the inferior external thought and action to another ...
... word comes secretly from above the mind, but it is plunged first into our intuitive depths and emerges imperfectly to be shaped by the poetic feeling and intelligence, hṛdā taṣṭaṁ manīṣā . An intuitive self in the depth of each of our parts of being, hid in sense, life, heart, mind, is the transmitting agent, a subliminal power concealed in some secret cavern within of which the curtained and crystal... poetry has been an attempt, sometimes lucid, sometimes half understanding or obscure, to break open the doors of the luminous cavern and to get the seeing and phrase which would be that of this intuitive self of our intelligence and imagination and sensation and life and feeling. In a certain kind of continental poetry it is a search for the sheer intuitivities of sensation and of the more vital emotions... attained even, are to be regarded only as incipient efforts and successes and stimulations to a more complete disclosure of the unfolding spirit. The speech that opens more constantly the doors of the intuitive self in the caverns of light of our nature has not done all that is to be done. The speech also has to be found that shall come by the rending or removal of the golden lid between our intelligence and ...
... that this can altogether be said; the knowledge which the intellect of man amasses, is gathered laboriously by the senses and the reason from outside. To get this other knowledge, self-existent, intuitive, self-experiencing, self-revealing, we must have conquered and controlled our mind and senses, saṁyatendriyaḥ , so that we are no longer subject to their delusions, but rather the mind and senses become ...
... when it universalises itself it is then possible for it to come in contact with overmind. If by the individual Self is meant the Jivatman, it can be on any plane of consciousness. By the intuitive self I meant the intuitive being, that part which belongs to the intuitive plane or is in connection with it. The intuition is one of the higher planes of consciousness between the human thinking mind ...
... while this pre-existent knowledge comes up in the surface mind as a knowledge acquired, it arises in the subliminal as a thing seen, caught from within, remembered as it were, or, when it is fully intuitive, self-evident to the inner awareness; or it is taken in from the object contacted but with an immediate response as to something intimately recognisable. In the surface consciousness knowledge represents ...
... formless light from which we have to disengage or reshape substance and speech with the help of our own faculties while they are excited by the influx from above. The influx plunges first into "an intuitive self in the depth of each of our parts of being, hid in sense, life, heart, mind". 1 4 This self is the transmitting agent, a subliminal secrecy, through which the inspiration emerges into one or ...
... by something happening yet not necessarily to the writer himself. "Artistic sincerity" consists in putting one's mind sympathetically in tune with the theme in hand and drawing upon one's inner intuitive self who is in touch with the sources of inspiration so that the theme is treated with the right rhythmic response of vision and feeling and thought, which gathers what I may call associative lights ...
... from the secret Purusha in the heart are of the direct intuitive character. As Sri Aurobindo points out: "It is possible then by referring back all the initiation of our action to this secret intuitive Self and Spirit, the ever-present Godhead within us, and replacing by its influences the initiations of our personal and mental nature to get back from the inferior external thought and action to another ...
... hammer into our minds the presence of the "poor men" but also fix in our hearts their humble yet happily side-by-side living. Further, by means of the word "lie", they drive home into our inmost intuitive self the sense that the "Love" with which the poet's insight opened is secretly confirmed here through the closing alliteration, through the echoing I which affines the down-to-the-ground significance ...
... poetry and for the simple reason that the poetic expression is intenser in rhythm no less than in word; it appeals more keenly than prose to our senses and our imagination, to our heart and our intuitive self: it carries home to us better, therefore, a spiritual truth's stuff of body and stuff of being. Prose succeeds in communicating these stuffs as it approaches more and more the form of poetry. Yet ...
... responsive heart link up with what Sri Aurobindo calls the "soul" in his Future Poetry - not the psychic being as such, to which his later directly Yogic writings give that name, but the inmost intuitive self in whatever plane the poet is poised on. If we like, we may consider this self the psychic being's representative within that plane. Of course, infiltrations from the "overhead" also take place ...
... the chaotic side of the subconscious nor the ingenious outer brain can produce art. Authentic mysticism comes with a fire in the emotions and a light in the imagination and a golden glow in the intuitive self, it strikes harmonious chords in our being and finds a most natural outlet in artistic activity. It is entirely different from the "modernism" from which you broke away. The latter is incapable ...
... the consciousness that either is expressed in the body or comes through somehow; one perceives or feels it there through the photo. The Psychic Being and the Intuitive Consciousness No, the intuitive self is quite different [ from the psychic ], or rather the intuitive consciousness—that is somewhere above the mind. The psychic stands behind the being—a simple and sincere devotion to the Divine ...
... knowledge so far as that is possible in the mental being. It is by the progressive extrusion of the ordinary action of the intelligence, the acquiring of a complete and total reliance on the intuitive self and a consequent intuitivising of all the parts of the mental being that the mind of ignorance can be, more successfully, if not as yet wholly, replaced by the mind of self-contained knowledge ...
... self-existent spontaneous and direct supramental knowledge. All the physical, vital, emotional, psychic, dynamic nature of man is a surface seizing of suggestions which rise out of a subliminal intuitive self-being of these parts, and an attempt usually groping and often circuitous to work them out in the action of a superficial Page 796 embodiment and power of the nature which is not overtly ...
... which is the true method of life and may even slay the capacity for real growth. We repress and over-standardise life at our peril; by over-regimentation we crush Nature's initiative and habit of intuitive self-adaptation. Dwarfed or robbed of elasticity, the devitalised individuality, even while it seems outwardly fair and symmetrical, perishes from within. Better anarchy than the long continuance of ...
... leads us to liberation, liberation from the bondage to Page 316 nature and to its limitations. Self-knowledge is the seat of wisdom, and Indian psychology regards it as self-existent, intuitive, self-experiencing, and self-revealing. We arrive at it more and more readily when we conquer and control our mind and senses, so that we become more and more free from subjection to their delusions ...
... that little. For the rest it is Yoga that has developed my style by the development of consciousness, fineness and accuracy of thought and vision, increasing inspiration and an increasing intuitive discrimination (self-critical) of right thought, word form, just image and figure. 29 October 1935 Methinks you are making just a little too much of Yogic Force. Its potency as regards matters spiritual... would have to quiet it first which is not always easy. You have tried it? 5 October 1936 Do you mean that the method you advised [to "sit in vacant meditation and see what comes from the intuitive Gods"] can really do something? It was a joke. But all the same that is the way things are supposed to come. When the mind becomes decently quiet, an intuition perfect or imperfect is supposed ...
... embodying new values of soul and Nature and existence. And in 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... seeing, and its all-embracing rapture. This inner mind is the first native power of the self and spirit dropping its lower veils and the very life and aesthesis of the spirit in its creation is a life of self-experiencing spiritual delight and a luminous Ananda. The beauty and delight of such a greater intuitive inspiration, a poetry of this spiritual Ananda making all existence luminous and wonderful... assimilate, but no happy, deep or satisfied possession either of self or life, a continual seeking but no repose in the thing found, a feverish restlessness without home and abiding-place. The spirit of man can make its home in either one of two things, the depths of our self arrived at through vision of self-knowledge, through power of self-mastery or through ecstasy, or a profound, a glad and satisfied ...
... Often the intuitive again and throughout almost that. July 21, 1938 Can't this intuitive faculty grow in my medical sphere and make me see both the disease and the cure? But in medicine you don't hook on to the intuitive source. Self-annihilation is my own diagnosis. For, I think, N will revolt if I call him "self-centred" when he is considering himself preparing for self-annihilation... Can't say for N. But his subconscious is contradictory like S's and inclined to say No to any medicine. And if it is due to his extreme self-annihilation, why not tell him so? Where did you get this self-annihilation? I wrote self-centredness. N's self is not annihilated; it is there alive and kicking and governing everything. What's the use of telling him' It won't go by the mere telling... neither 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 ...
... that little. For the rest it is Yoga that has developed my style by the development of consciousness, fineness and accuracy of thought and vision, increasing inspiration and an increasing intuitive discrimination (self-critical) of right thought, word form, just image and figure. October 29, 1935 I don't know what to do with R.K There is virtually no improvement in his trachoma. Today he... prevent you acknowledging it or even call in more pseudo-intuitions to justify and back up the original error. Innumerable are the tricks of the ego. Also, if you feel yourself becoming intuitive, rightly or wrongly intuitive, (more so if it is wrongly), then a too strong ego may develop in you megalomania and then you are gone. So don't justify ego. I understand that Intuition will be one of the outstanding... the first year of my stay in Baroda, at the moment when there threatened to be an accident to my carriage. Precise enough? By the Self, I suppose, you mean the individual Self? Good Lord, no. I mean the Self, sir, the Self, the Adwaita, Vedantic, Shankara Self. Atman, Atman! A thing I knew nothing about, never bargained for, didn't understand, either. I had a dream of the Mother: we were ...
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