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... that Page 127 belongs to the mind—Krishna's light in the mind. There are 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... Light. The lights indicate the action of certain forces, usually indicated by the colour of the light. Whitish blue is known as Sri Aurobindo's light or sometimes Sri Krishna's light. Whitish blue is Krishna's light or mine; deeper blues often indicate light from the higher consciousness. There are two pale blues, one which is whitish blue and is known as Sri Aurobindo's light, the... that of the higher consciousness just above mind. The meaning of blue light depends on the exact character of the colour, its shade and nature. A whitish blue like moonlight is known as Krishna's light or Sri Aurobindo's light—light blue is often that of the Illumined Mind—there is another deeper blue that is of the Higher Mind; another, near to purple, which is the light of a power in the vital ...

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... " It does not always come like that—very often it comes by stages or at long intervals, at first, working on the consciousness till it is ready. We speak here also of Krishna's lightKrishna's light in the mind, Krishna's light in the vital; but it is a special light—in the mind it brings clarity, freedom from obscurity, mental error and perversion; in the vital it clears out all perilous stuff... and it prepares besides for something deeper. But to realise the identity is another matter, [ incomplete ] I do not know that I can answer your question about what Krishnaprem means by Krishna's light. It is certainly not what people ordinarily mean by knowledge. He may mean the light of the Divine Consciousness, or if you like, the light that is the Divine Consciousness or the light that comes ...

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... " It does not always come like that—very often it comes by stages or at long intervals, at first, working on the consciousness till it is ready. We speak here also of Krishna's lightKrishna's light in the mind, Krishna's light in the vital; but it is a special light—in the mind it brings clarity, freedom from obscurity, mental error and perversion; in the vital it clears out all perilous stuff... the letter is largely a repetition of the previous ones. Evidently I am running dry so had better shut up. I do not know that I can answer your question about what Krishnaprem means by Krishna's light. It is certainly not what people ordinarily mean by knowledge. He may mean the Light of the Divine Consciousness or, if you like, the light that is the Divine Consciousness or the light that comes ...

... does not always come like that— very often it comes like stages or at long intervals, at first, working on the consciousness till it is ready. "We speak here also of Krishna's Light, Krishna's Light in the mind, Krishna's Light in the vital, etc. But it is a special Light — in the mind it brings clarity, freedom from obscurity, mental error and perversion; in the vital it clears all perilous stuff... Kirishnaprem how M. had misunderstood him Page 351 and, incidentally, wanted to have a fling at 'the faithful' as he called them. Please tell me. Guru, whether he uses the phrase 'Krishna's Light' to imply knowledge. Please also note what he writes in the second paragraph about his own view of true faith and ventures: 'I should have thought your Gurudev would more or less agree with it'... say except "hurrah' or 'ditto'?" He did keep his promise. For the next day I received the following: "I do not know that I can answer your question about what Krishnaprem means by Krishna's Light. It is certainly not what is ordinarily meant by knowledge. He may mean the Light of the Divine consciousness, or the Light that comes from it or he may mean the luminous being of Krishna in which ...

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... asked to paint the flower called "Falsehood" for the room in which the sadhaks read daily newspapers. For my own room the Mother told me to paint "Krishna's Light in the Mind". I was very happy with this choice of hers — especially as "Krishna's Light" is said by Sri Aurobindo to be also "Sri Aurobindo's Light". Ever since this choice, cleverness for the sake of cleverness has ceased to ...

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... between that incarnate Lord and tiny and puny Amal, a poor pallid mortal. But do you know that the flower the Mother chose as representing me happens to carry in her vision the significance: "Krishna's Light in the Mind"?   To be more precise, there was once a scheme set for me by the Mother to paint flower-pictures for the rooms of the sadhaks, suggesting the spiritual forces specially at work... was, according to the Mother, what is botanically labelled "Thunbergia kirkii", a small lavender-blue salverform flower with a cream-yellow throat. The Mother's felicitous gloss on its meaning ("Krishna's Light in the Mind") was: "A charming way of being intelligent." The epithet "charming" is apt in view of the winsome personality traditionally attributed to Krishna. Sri Aurobindo has characterised Krishna ...

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... his inner being: "The pale whitish blue light is 'Sri Aurobindo's light' — it is the blue light modified by the white light of the Mother...¹ A whitish blue like moonlight is known as Krishna's light or Sri Aurobindo's light".² In a letter³ dated August 14, 1945 to Dilip Kumar Roy, who was greatly under Krishna's spell, we have a more explicit personal note: "If you had an... for the present writer. For, when the Mother was giving significances to the various flowers offered to her or given by her she told him that the flower special to him was the one signifying "Krishna's light in the mind". ³ Sri Aurobindo on Himself and on the Mother, pp. 268-269. Page 59 11, 1933 to an aspirant - Narayan Prasad - brought up in a Krishna-charged atmosphere ...

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... Aurobindo says: "Ordinary pale blue is usually the light of the Illumined Mind or something of the Intuition. Whitish blue is Sri Aurobindo's light or Krishna's light."² We are told the same thing in another letter: "...whitish blue Sri Krishna's Light (also called Sri Aurobindo's Light)."³ Along with this esoteric information we read the implication of "whitish" by ¹. Sri Aurobindo ...

... by the Mother to those flowers. Krishna's Light in the physical mind Tenderness Integral purity Child's hand The vital opening to Divine Love Power of expression Ananda A la promenade - Out walking (7.8.33) Offering The Lotus The bouquet The Child Psychological perfection Mango Transparency Faithfulness Krishna's Light in the subconscient Japanese girl child ...

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... flower and whose painting I had made and hung, as she had ordered, in Sri Aurobindo's old room which I had occupied for 10 years in the Guest House—the flower called "Krishna's Light in the Mind". Sri Aurobindo has said that Krishna's Light is also his own. Krishna's and Sri Aurobindo's Light—a whitish blue— surely needs for the preparation of its establishment in the mind the latter's complete psychicisation ...

... deeper blue is higher Mind, a paler blue Illumined Mind—whitish blue Sri Krishna's light (also called Sri Aurobindo's light). March 1934 It depends on the shade of the blue. Ordinary pale blue is usually the light of the illumined Mind or something of the Intuition. Whitish blue is Sri Aurobindo's light or Krishna's light. 6 February 1935 Receiving Sri Aurobindo's Light How can I receive ...

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... the fire of aspiration rising from the vital (navel centre) to the Higher Consciousness above. A revolving disc means a force in action on the nature. The whitish blue light is known as Krishna's light, also as Sri Aurobindo's light. White is the Mother's. Perhaps here it is a combination. The [ Sudarshan ] Chakra symbolises the action of Sri Krishna's force. The chakra is the energy ...

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... 1+5=6, the number corresponding to "The New Creation". This is symbolised by the commonly known flower tuberose or Nishigandha. But the Mother considered his flower to be the one she named "Krishna's Light in the Mind". A certain cosmicity of intellectual perception shines through all his writings, acquiring even spiritual intensity in his poetry.   While reviewing Amal-kiran's collected ...

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... I must have prepared a number of such labels. I don't remember any other label of room-significance except the one the Mother made me do for my own room. The flower she chose here signified: "Krishna's Light in the mind."   Some other jobs also came my way. I had to make designs for the bands round the Mother's head - either when she wore a sari or when she wore just a "kitty-cap" going with ...

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... symbolising "New Creation" is the tuberose, a flower which used to be a favourite of mine before I knew my number was 15. But what the Mother considered to be my flower was the one she named "Krishna's Light in the Mind". (25.6.1983) I have promised to tell you why I cancelled the operation on my right thigh which was to counter the defect that had resulted from the serious thigh-fracture ...

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... sincerity in the vital , the Divine's Love will surely answer. 4.10.1929 The devotion that accompanies Radha's absolute consecration , this alone has the power of bringing down Krishna's Light in the mind . 5.10.1929 Only by the constant flaming up of Agni can an integral loving consecration be realised. And only by this absolute loving consecration can there be established ...

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... long outmoded, of leaving all One's given by God Himself for God! My boy, I adjure you not to barter away the real For mere moonshine. Besides, where would you go? To Brindavan? For what? Sri Krishna's Light? Page 41 But as a God He must pervade all space: How could He live a prisoner king in one Small hamlet? Come, a householder must keep His own dear house in order first and ...

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... painting pictures of flowers for me for years. Now I have the idea of putting in each room a flower-picture with its significance written below. For your room I am choosing the flower which means 'Krishna's light in the mind'."   (22.7.1990) Page 103 ...

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... this Within. The car of a special type which you never saw before and which was coloured blue and white is the movement of Yoga assimilating the passage of time and representing by its colour Krishna's light which Sri Aurobindo has also termed his own light - a whitish blue. No wonder the "heart-stirring music" that came out of it bore the mantra "Rama...Krishna" and, by that soul-intimate sound, cut ...

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... the early days she was allotting to various rooms little paintings by me of flowers with their significances, she asked me to put in my own room a painting of the flower whose significance is: "Krishna's light in the mind." In later times I remember her once telling 1. Letters on Savitri in the Centenary Edition of Savitri, p. 759. Page 258 me during an interview: "If I told ...

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... supramental light and some say it was the descent of Krishna, I asked you to make it clear to me. What I wanted to know was whether the 24th November was the descent of the supramental light or of Krishna's light. Why are we observing the 24th as a special day? It was the descent of Krishna into the physical. I do not know the significance of the 24th November 1926; some say it is the immortality ...

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... The Bird of Happiness The lights indicate the action of certain forces, usually indicated by the colour of the light. Whitish blue is known as Sri Aurobindo's light or sometimes Sri Krishna's light. Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: Colours The fire indicates a dynamic action. Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - III: Sun, Moon, Star, Fire I am the bird of ...

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... SRI AUROBINDO: The Divine Self means the Atman. Does she follow the Adwaita path? The Atman has no colour. Maybe the blue is of some being. She doesn't know herself? PURANI: No. Could it be Krishna's light? SRI AUROBINDO: Possibly, or Vishnu's. PURANI: Krishnamurti is giving some new principles now, but they are so amorphous. He says that to realise the Reality a Guru is not necessary. One ...

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... the symbol of the Divine Truth, and the Mother is the incarnation of this Truth. NIRODBARAN: The other vision was of an intense blue light striking him in the eyes. SRI AUROBINDO: That is Krishna's light. ...

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... intuition are necessary to perceive in each case the true significance. Observation and exact description are also very necessary.... The blue colour must here be the Krishna light, so it is a creation under the stress of Krishna consciousness. All these are symbols of what is going on in the inner being, in the consciousness behind and the results well up from time to time in the external or surface... between the eyebrows in the forehead. The light outside means a touch or influence of the force indicated by the light (golden is Truth-light, blue some spiritual force from the upper plane) while the light within means that it has penetrated or is established or frequently active in the nature itself. Light above means a force descending upon the mind, light around a general enveloping influence. ... in which they indicate various psychological dynamisms, e.g. faith, love, protection, etc. There is another order of significances in which they indicate the aura or the activity of divine beings, Krishna, Mahakali, Radha or other superhuman beings, there is another in which they indicate the aura around objects or living persons—and that does not exhaust the list of possibilities. A certain knowledge ...

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... colour mean a dynamic rush of forces and the star may in such a context indicate the promise of the new being that is to be formed. The blue colour must here be the Krishna light—so it is a creation under the stress of the Krishna light. All these are symbols of what is Page 102 going on in the inner being, in the consciousness behind, and the results well up from time to time in the external... [ a vision of Krishna, silvery blue in colour, standing in a dance pose playing the flute ] can be taken as true since it has been seen by many and always in the same relation and still more because it has been confirmed by what was seen by Yashodabai and Krishnaprem. It means obviously that your singing by the power of the bhakti it expresses can and does bring the presence of Krishna there. It is... is not that Krishna "shows himself", but simply that he is there and some who have the power of vision catch sight of him and others who have not the power fail to do so. This power of vision is sometimes inborn and habitual even without any effort of development, Page 103 sometimes it wakes up of itself and becomes abundant or needs only a little practice to develop; it is not necessarily ...

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... Aurobindo wrote: ‘Krishna is here in the Ashram and it is his work that is being done here,’ and to another sadhak: ‘If you can give yourself to him, you can give yourself to me.’ 17 Sri Aurobindo’s light is the same as the light of ‘the blue God’ Krishna: ‘Whitish blue is Sri Aurobindo’s light or Krishna’s light,’ 18 he wrote himself. (The Mother’s light is the pure white diamond light.) Among... dictating him ‘the ten limbs’ of it. Sri Aurobindo himself spoke about ‘the prominent and dominant role’ played by Krishna in his sadhana, which he had worked out ‘with the help of Krishna and the Divine Shakti.’ ‘I always saw [Krishna] near Sri Aurobindo,’ said the Mother. We remember that Krishna was one of the Ten Avatars, more specifically, the Avatar of the Overmind. ‘It was a descent of the Supreme... of worship and upasana [devotion] of Krishna. Later I found out that Mahesh had a strong attraction to Krishna and his way was different from mine. One day, however, when he expressed to Sri Aurobindo his difficulty in reconciling his adoration of Krishna with his devotion to Sri Aurobindo, Sri Aurobindo told him: ‘There is no difference between me and Krishna.’ 16 To Dilip Kumar Roy, who till ...

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... sadhana (the saptachatushtaya). Some utterances by the Mother even suggest that Sri Aurobindo had been Krishna, ‘a formation of the past,’ and the fact that the light of the aura of both of them is the same seems to confirm this. ‘Whitish blue is Sri Aurobindo’s light or Krishna’s light,’ Sri Aurobindo himself wrote. 10 The Word of Creation ‘I had begun a sort of overmental creation,’ said the... association between Sri Aurobindo and Krishna, as we have seen on several occasions. Sri Aurobindo would write that it was Krishna ‘who was the guide of my Yoga and with whom I realized identity.’ 9 It was Krishna who gave him the commands ( adesh) which, because of his unconditional and immediate obedience, worked such important changes in his life, as it was Krishna who drew the plan of his sadhana... noted down: ‘Datta spoke: “Krishna the Lord has come. He has ended the hell of suffering. He has conquered pain. He has conquered death. He has conquered all. He has descended tonight, bringing immortality and Bliss.”’ 8 ) This means that from that moment onwards Sri Aurobindo’s adhara contained two Great beings, he himself and Shri Krishna. It also means that Shri Krishna was embodied on Earth from ...

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... with Light, it is the flood of the Divine Himself that is around you. Of course, the Divine is something much more; many other things besides, and in them all a Presence, a Being, a Divine Person; for the Divine is Krishna, is Shiva, is the Supreme Mother. But through the Ananda you can perceive the ā nandamaya [all-blissful] Krishna; for the Ananda is the subtle body and being of Krishna; through... of colour mean a dynamic rush of forces and the star may in such a context indicate the promise of the new being that is to be formed. The blue colour must here be the Krishna light—so it is a creation under the stress of Krishna light. All these are symbols of what is going on in the inner being, in the consciousness behind, and the results well up from time to time in the external or surface consciousness... do with the vital and indicates here, I think, the emotional forces in their outpouring. The play of the emotional forces in the divine Truth is, obviously very pertinent to the working of the Krishna light. Page 176 February 25, 1932 If it is a translation of the poem ("Vichitra") that you want me to correct, then I can easily do it, for that kind of work takes practically ...

... grief is to discover a higher level of consciousness, if such exists, and if in that state, a perfectly pure action devoid of any blemish can be possible. Sri Krishna, the Master of Yoga, has the key to that higher level of consciousness in the light of which a positive solution and a fully affirmative answer can be obtained. The entire statement of the answer that is expounded in the Gita is a gradual... that Sri Krishna provides to Arjuna. Arjuna had come to the battlefield with the confident sense of the Right in regard to the role that he wanted to play in the battle of the Kurukshetra; he was acting according to the dharma of kshatriya, the dharma of the warrior that was recognized in his Age to fight and even to massacre, if need be, his enemies, who were judged in the highest light available... renunciation, even if it was seen for a moment to be the right solution — was it truly the right solution? Arjuna was not sure. He confessed his confusion and his bewilderment and turned to Sri Krishna for light and for a true solution so as to be able to do what was perfectly right and to which no blemish could apply. Arjuna was in complete bewilderment, where dharma collided with dharma, and where standards ...