... question which shall evoke a clearer elucidation of these still ill-lighted matters. He asks to learn of the Purusha and the Prakriti; he inquires of the Page 409 field of being and the knower of the field and of knowledge and the object of knowledge. Here is contained the sum of all the knowledge of self and the world that is still needed if the soul is to throw off its natural ignorance and staying... Nature, but it is evidently not the whole description of our being; it is our actuality but not the limit of our possibilities. There is something beyond to be known, jñeyam , and it is when the knower of the field turns from the field itself to learn of himself within it and of all that is behind its appearances that real knowledge begins, jñānam ,—the true knowledge of the field no less than of the knower... spirit manifesting himself in light to the force-obscured soul which he has put forth into the action of Nature. This eternal Light is in the heart of every being; it is he who is the secret knower of the field, kṣetrajña , and presides as the Lord in the heart of things over this province and over all these kingdoms of his manifested becoming and action. When man sees this eternal and universal Godhead ...
... the fourth part, "Unity in Diversity - Vedantin and Christian", of his most recent book. 5 He starts with the Chhandogya Upanishad's two terms ksetrajna and a-ksetrajfia, "knower of the field" and "non-knower of the field" and goes on to quote from it the passage (8.3.2): "Just as [a group of people] who do not know the country (aksetrajnd) might wander about and pass over a hidden hoard of gold ...
... questions demand a clear distinction between renunciation of works and this subtler renunciation he is asked to prefer; the actual difference between Purusha and Prakriti, the Field and the Knower of the Field, so important for the practice of desireless action under the drive of the divine Will; and finally a clear !14.21! statement of the practical operations and results of the three modes of Prakriti ...
... the field of circumstances in which one is placed can be apprehended or comprehended and mastered. This secret is the knowledge of the distinction between the field of circumstances and the knower of the field, kshetra and kshetrajna. There is behind and above the field of circumstances the secret conscious-ness that can be experienced as a silent witness, purusha or as a transcendental immobility ...
... questions demand a clear distinction between renunciation of works and this subtler renunciation he is asked to prefer; the actual difference between Purusha and Prakriti, the Field and the Knower of the Field, so important for the practice of desireless action under the drive of the divine Will; and finally a clear statement of the practical operations and results of the three modes of Prakriti which ...
... three planes of man's physical, vital and mental consciousness. × The Purusha or Divine Being, Knower of the Field, who dwells within all and for whose pleasure Prakriti fulfils the cosmic play. × Yama is the ...
... syllable. 7. The sacrifice of the lower existence to the divine, consummated on the three planes of man's physical, vital and mental consciousness. 8. The Purusha or Divine Being, Knower of the Field, who dwells within all and for whose pleasure Prakriti fulfils the cosmic play. Page 42 Nachiketas." Nachiketas speaks: 20. "This debate that there is over the man ...
... the field of circumstances in which one is placed can be apprehended or comprehended and mastered. This secret is the knowledge of the distinction between the field of circumstances and the knower of the field, kshetra and Page 275 kshetrajna. There is behind and above the field of circumstances the secret consciousness that can be experienced as a silent witness, purusha or as a ...
... ces in which one is placed can be apprehended or comprehended and mastered. This secret Page 39 is the knowledge of the distinction between the field of circumstances and the knower of the field, kshetra and kshetrajña. There is behind and above the field of circumstances the secret consciousness that can be experienced as a silent witness, purusha or as a transcendental immobility, ...
... means by which the true self is realised. Page 179 III "O Son of Kunti, this physical life is called the field circumstances and the one who knows it is called the knower of the field." Two Things That Cannot Be Doubted: The Indian idea of the application of Dharma and Karma begins with two things that cannot be doubted. There is, first, the experience ...
... Sayana, but also in the ancient book on Grammar, Nirukta, we come across traces of spiritual interpretation. Let us cite here only one instance: sarira-madhyavarti... (Indra designated as the Knower of the field (nature), as Life that resides in the body). This is one of the interpretations of the word 'Indra' given by the author of Nirukta. But as a matter of fact, the Vedas are not merely literary ...
... only its first steps on the path of infinite transcendence.... "Thus, we can now become aware that the realm of being which we know is merely the field of manifestation, of a more complete materialisation of its own distant and anterior modes, the last among the fields of life." "If we could perceive the living images which thoughts produce around us at each moment, if we could measure the force... all light to the one field of our vision. "However, no space exists where there is no vibration of light, no depth exists where the essence of the intelligible does not assume appropriate forms." Page 111 "So long as we imagine that the whole universal reality is confined to the one order of substance, to the one state of materiality perceived by our senses, we know nothing and can explain... postponed. When I came near to him, he said, "Go and take my place at today's lecture." I was startled, unprepared as I was to hear such a request. I said to him, "I am not a member of your sect and I know nothing about it, so how can I talk to them about anything?" But he insisted, saying, "It does not matter. Say anything at all, it will be quite all right. Go and talk.... Concentrate in the sitting-room ...
... manifests in its place is not a blank or void but something very real, substantial, concrete we may say—a mental being that extends itself widely and can be its own field of existence silent or active as well as the Witness, Knower, Master of that field and its action. ... an emptiness there is, but it is an emptiness of the ordinary activities, not a blank of existence. 55 Page 101 Regarding... of a thing. On the other hand, knowing of a. thing in itself is a unitive knowledge through consciousness, in which the knower and the thing known become one. In a similar way, Sri Aurobindo distinguishes four methods of knowledge: 1. Knowledge by identity: The knower and what is known are one; there is no division between the subject and object, between self and not-self. 2. Knowledge... Truth-action, to which we can give in a special sense the name of Intuition; for though we have applied that word for want of a better to any supra-intellectual direct way of knowing, yet what we actually know as intuition is only one special movement of self-existent knowledge. This new range is its origin; it imparts to our intuitions something of its own distinct character and is very clearly an intermediary ...
... place is not a blank or void but something very real, substantial, concrete we may say—a mental being that extends itself widely and can be its own field of existence silent or active as well as the Witness, Knower, Master of that Page 258 field and its action. Some feel it first as a void, but that is because their observation is untrained and insufficient and loss of activity gives them... for the hours set apart for Page 261 sleep where it gets its natural field. Otherwise there may be an unbalancing, a tendency to live more and too much in the visions of the supraphysical realms and a decrease of the hold on outer realities. The knowledge, the enlargement of our consciousness of these fields of inner Nature is very desirable, but it must be kept in its own place and limits... There should also be a discriminating mind which puts each thing in its place and can pause to understand its field and nature. There are some who become so eager after these subsidiary experiences that they begin to lose all sense of the true distinction and demarcation between different fields of reality. All that takes place in these experiences must not be taken as true—one has to discriminate, see ...
... helpless impersonal wave of being which lends itself to the will of any ego according Page 189 to that ego's strength and insistence. It is the movement of a cosmic Being who is the Knower of his field, the steps of a Divinity who is the Master of his own progressive force of action. As the movement is one and indivisible, so he who is present in the movement is one, sole and indivisible. Not... knowingly or unknowingly, it is to this end that Nature is working in him under the thick veil of her inner and outer processes. But the material or animal man is ignorant of the inner aim of life; he knows only its needs and its desires and he has necessarily no other guide to what is required of him than his own perception of need and his own stirrings and pointings of desire. To satisfy his physical... intense moments, no society yet created satisfies this ideal. And in the present state of morality and of human development none perhaps can or ought to satisfy it. Nature will not allow it, Nature knows that it should not be. The first reason is that our moral ideals are themselves for the most part ill-evolved, ignorant and arbitrary, mental constructions rather than transcriptions of the eternal ...
... world has become the undivine and pierced thee with the darkness, then the worlds and their peoples think like a man bewildered and Page 283 deluded who finds not the Field which he is seeking (or knows not the field of his movement). (6) O God-Mind, thereafter when thou didst hurl down from it as they moved over the mental heaven the formations of knowledge (illusions) of that Titan Light... nourish, in him let there dwell a forceful and blazing warrior strength. SUKTA 35 (1) Bring us, O God-Mind, that will in works which is most effective for our increase, for it prevails in the fields of our labour, and conquers in their plenitudes and the foe cannot pierce it. (2) The increasing birth of thee bring to us perfectly which thy four nations are, and that which are thy three, O Hero... loosed forth heaven of mind and earth of body and this middle vital habitation; from that door the king of all this world of our becoming floods wholly this earth as rain sweeps over the crops of a field. (4) He floods from it the wide earth and the heaven when he the All-Encompasser desires that sweet milk at last. The high summits of our earthly being are clothed then with his cloud and his he ...
... that field of beautiful aliveness, stillness, Presence. Out of that or within that, perception arises. And what you now perceive—no longer through the labeling mind—is not being labeled. It's perceived within that field of enormous peace and aliveness. And it's all beautiful. And one could almost say that, through that, everything that you perceive is returning home ... And you know that field to be... to allow what is there to be there. Then deepening comes when that awareness, that Presence, knows itself—becomes self-aware. So, it's not so much anymore that you are interested in that which is being witnessed. You are now interested in—that's not the right word—you know yourself as the underlying field. Then that which is being witnessed is relatively unimportant. Before, when you were witnessing... which is a thought. The thought may be, "There is anger." That's the surface thought. But underneath the surface thought there is the field of attention. And perhaps after the surface thought has said, "Here is anger," there is simply the field of attention, the field of alertness, in which the anger happens. And then perhaps another thought arises that says, "Anger is still moving through my body ...
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