... together in comprehensiveness is to be found in the following verses of the Isha Upanishad: "The face of Truth is covered with a brilliant golden lid; that do thou remove, O Fosterer, for the law of the Truth, for Sight. O Fosterer, 0 sole Seer, of illumining Sun, 0 power of the Father of creatures, marshal thy rays, draw together thy light; the Luster which is thy most blessed form of all, that in... overmental consciousness, which can be compared to a brilliant golden lid. These verses also indicate the yogic effort of the Seer to cross the overmind so that he can realize the supramental law of the Truth-Consciousness. It can also be seen that it is in the illumining Sun that the scattered rays of light of lower levels of consciousness are drawn together in the supreme supramental light, since... sole Seer, Seer of Oneness and Knower of the Self, who leads the seeker to the highest Sight. He is Yama, Controller or Ordainer; for he governs man's action and manifested being by the direct Law of the Truth, satyadharma, and therefore the right principle of our nature, a luminous power proceeding from the Father of all existence; he reveals himself as the divine Purusha of whom all beings are the ...
... t tendency to place Page 47 the law of the truth as the sole law to which the individual and the collectivity are called upon to give their ultimate allegiance. Thus there came about in India an organization of human life in which each individual and collectivity was given the freedom to develop in accordance with the law of the truth; even the state authorities could legislate... legislate, but the legislation itself had to be in accordance with and in subservience to the law of the truth. This is what is meant by the law of Dharma and this is significance of the superiority that was ascribed to Dharma in determining the individual and collective life. It is true that, according to the Vedic Rishis, Rita had to be discovered by each individual and that Rita could not be formulated ...
... VII Fourth Movement [1] The Worlds - Surya Verses 15-16 15) The face of Truth is covered with a brilliant golden lid; that do thou remove, O Fosterer, for the law of the Truth, for sight. 16) O Fosterer, O sole Seer, O Ordainer, O illumining Sun, O power of the Father of creatures, marshal thy rays, draw together thy light; the Lustre which is thy most blessed form... dṛṣṭi , seeing, not conceiving. It is the vision at once of the essence and the image. It is this intuition or gnosis which is the Vedic Truth, the self-vision and all-vision of Surya. THE LAW OF THE TRUTH The face of this Truth is covered as with a brilliant shield, as with a golden lid; covered, that is to say, from the view of our human consciousness. For we are mental beings and our highest... falsehood, that we have a separate existence from others and we try to know the relations of separate beings in their separateness and act on the knowledge so formed for an individual utility. The law of the Truth would work in us if we saw the totality of our existence containing all others, its forms created by the Page 72 action of the totality, its powers working in and by the action of ...
... the Sun the earth of his physical being, create everywhere the divine Dawn. Then are established in man the seasons of the Truth, the divine workings, called sometimes the Aryan workings; the law of the Truth seizes and guides his action, the word of the Truth is heard in his thought. Then appear the straight undeviating paths of the Truth, the road and ford of Heaven, the way of going of the gods... of all that moves and all that is stable, and if this Surya is also the divine, "the wide-burning Truth that is lodged in the law which upholds heaven", then all the worlds should manifest that law of the Truth and all of them should be so many heavens. Whence then comes this falsehood, sin, death, suffering of our mortal existence? We are told that there are eight sons of the cosmic Aditi who are born... of Light" and to her her sons "cleave ever waking". They are "most straight" in their being, will, thought, delight, action, movement, they are "thinkers of the Truth whose law of nature is the law of the Truth", they are "seers and hearers of the Truth". They are "charioteers of the Truth, whose seat is in its mansions, purified in discernment, unconquerable, the Men wide-visioned". They are the "Immortals ...
... the flashings of the Light and the movement of the divine Waters; its clouds become robes for the Life-Powers. Through it all by the formative knowledge of the mighty master of Truth and by the law of the Truth, the two kings maintain the divine workings in us, governing by the Truth all our being, and finally set in its sky the Sun, now revealed, as a chariot of the richly varied splendours of the knowledge... Page 522 ऋतस्य गोपावधि तिष्ठथो रथं सत्यधर्माण परमे व्योमनि । यमत्र मित्रावरुणावथो युवं तस्मै वृष्टिर्मधुमत्पिन्वते दिवः ॥१॥ 1) Guardians of the Truth, you ascend your car and the law of the Truth is yours in the supreme ether. 1 He whom here you cherish. Masters of the wideness and the harmony, for him increases full of the honey the rain of heaven. सम्राजावस्य भुवनस्य राजथो... outflashing of its sense. × Vratāni , called the Aryan or divine workings, those of the divine law of the Truth to be revealed in man. The Dasyu or un-Aryan, whether human or superhuman, is he who is void of these diviner workings, opposes them in his darkened consciousness and tries to destroy them in ...
... हिरण्मयेन पात्रेण सत्यस्यापिहितं मुखम् । तत् त्वं पूषन्नपावृणु सत्यधर्माय दृष्टये ॥१५॥ 15) The face of Truth is covered with a brilliant golden lid; that do thou remove, O Fosterer, 10 for the law of the Truth, for sight. पूषन्नेकर्षे यम सूर्य प्राजापत्य व्यूह रश्मीन् समूह । तेजो यत् ते रुपं कल्याणतमं तत् ते पश्यामि योऽसावसौ पुरुषः सोऽहमस्मि ॥१६॥ 16) O Fosterer, O sole Seer, O Ordainer,... is the sole Seer, Seer of Oneness and Knower of the Self, and leads him to the highest Sight. He is Yama, Controller or Ordainer, for he governs man's action and manifested being by the direct Law of the Truth, satyadharma , and therefore by the right principle of our nature, yāthātathyataḥ . A luminous power proceeding from the Father of all existence, he reveals in himself the divine Purusha of ...
... the Guru or to the Divine and the law of the Truth as declared by the Guru is the foundation of discipline. Is there really any difference between the Guru, the Divine and the Truth in our Yoga? I have been considering that the Mother and you are not only the Gurus but also the Divine, and that whatever either of you says is the law of the Truth. Why then are you using (in reply ...
... only in material Nature, not only in Page 54 the moral akasha even,the akasha of the heart of which the Rishis spoke, but on higher levels also. I have pointed out that Ritam is the law of the Truth, of vijnana. It is this ideal Truth, the Truth of being, by which everything animate or inanimate knows in its fibres of being & serves in action & feeling the truth of itself, in which Law is... divine delight which world is in Jana, in production or birth by Tapas, through Ananda, that is to say, into the manifest world, dwells in ideal knowledge & Truth and makes there Ritam or the Law of the Truth of Being his peculiar province. It is the very process of all creation, according to our Vedic&Vedantic Rishis. Descending into the actual universe we find Varuna master of the Akash or ether ...
... central symbol of the Sun but without any secrecy in the sense. Thus runs the passage in the Upanishad, "The face of the Truth is covered with a golden lid.OPushan, that remove for the vision of the law of the Truth. 6 O Pushan (fosterer), sole seer, O Yama, O Sun, O Child of the Father of beings, marshal and gather together thy rays; I see the Light which is that fairest (most auspicious) form of thee;... Or, it means, "I saw the greatest (best) of the bodies of the gods." × Or, for the law of the Truth, for vision. × I.68.2 × ...
... who is the lord of harmony. We may take for instance, one of the many hymns in which Mitra and Varuna are addressed together: 1. Guardians of the Truth, you ascend your car and the law of the Truth is yours in the supreme ether or in the infinity of the superconscient being. He whom here you cherish, Masters of the Wideness and the harmony, for him increases full of the honey the rain of... 7. O Mitra and Varuna, you who are illumined in consciousness, by the Law, by the knowledge of the Mighty One, you guard the workings or divine rhythms of work determined by the divine law of the Truth; by the Truth you govern widely all the world of our becoming; you set the Sun in heaven, a chariot of various splendour 20 This hymn brings out, as always the Vedic verses do, when they are ...
... whose dwelling is in the purity. He is Vasu in the inner regions, the Sacrificer at the altar, the Guest in the vessel of the drinking: he is in man, in the great Ones, and his home is in the Law ( of the Truth), his dwelling is in the firmament: he is all that is born of the water, and all that is born of earth, ________________ ³ This is related to 1.22.20; 1.154.5 Taittiriya I.A... this Page 189 Sun, the truth of the spirit and the Eternal . (Isha 16.) " The face of the Truth is covered with a golden lid: 0 fostering Sun, that uncover for the law of the truth, for Sight. 0 fosterer, O Sole Rishi, O controlling Yama, Surya, O Son of the Father of creatures, marshal and mass thy rays: , the Lustre that is thy most blessed form of all, that I see, He ...
... .4. in 4 D. দেবার্চ্চনা করিয়া থাকেন 4.प्रमिनाम आ पृणाति—proof that प्रमि = to diminish, make defective. पृष्ट = पूर्णं कृ येभिः .. ऋतुभिः. D. যে যে সময়ে—in 5 ऋतुशः—যথা সময়ে ऋतुभिः ऋतु = law of the truth 5.पाकत्रा मनसा. D. মণ অপরিণত दीनदक्षा—दक्ष = mental capacity मन्वते. D. remember!! क्रतुविद्विजानन् 6.केतुं यजस्व = knower or knowledge Page 516 7.सुजनिमा যিনি উত্তম নির্মাণ করিতে ...
... itself beatific; all his travail and struggle and labour grows full of a divine delight. As it is said in the Veda that by Truth is the progress towards the Truth, that is to say by the growing law of the Truth in the mental and physical consciousness we arrive finally beyond mind and body to the superconscient Truth, so here it is indicated that by Ananda is the progress towards the Ananda,—by a divine ...
... Immortal, the sons of the infinite Mother; the way to immortality is the upward way of the gods, the way of the Truth, a journey, an ascent by which there is a growth into the Page 202 law of the Truth, ṛtasya panthāḥ . Man arrives at immortality by breaking beyond the limitations not only of his physical self, but of his mental and his ordinary psychic nature into the highest plane and supreme ...
... limitations of the mind in order to reach the highest Truth which is beyond. It says: The face of Truth is covered with a brilliant golden lid; that do thou remove, O fosterer, for the law of the Truth, for sight. The Master in Savitri speaks in the language of living symbolism. Describing Aswapati's spiritual achievement he says: And broken the intellect's hard and lustrous ...
... entered it only by contact and influence, not from an original impulse. And it is to its passion for the discovery of the actual truth of things and for the governing of human life by whatever law of the truth it has found that the West owes its centuries of strength, vigour, light, progress, irresistible expansion.” 34 The individualisation of the human being, rooted in the Earth that is ...
... things could be very radically Page 232 altered in this respect—and that is why my main effort is directed towards that object—for then the sanction would not be rare! For the Law of the Truth would be at work, not constantly balanced by the law of the Ignorance. Still the Yoga-force is always tangible and concrete in the way I have described and has tangible results. But it is ...
... contact and influence, not from an original impulse. And it is to its passion for the discovery of the actual truth of things and for Page 15 the governing of human life by whatever law of the truth it has found that the West owes its centuries of strength, vigour, light, progress, irresistible expansion. Equally, it is due not to any original falsehood in the ideals on which its life was ...
... Page 313 (11) [ Not translated .] (12) Pure offerings we must give to them, for they are pure; they are stainless from their birth, they are very flames of purity and it is by the law of the truth that they march to the truth which they discover, (13) [ Not translated .] (14) their thoughts come from the foundation and are its greatnesses; by the steps of their sacrifice they extend ...
... splendours of day. The other gods are uṣarbudhaḥ , wakers with the Dawn. Therefore is he the priest of the offering, strongest or most apt for sacrifice, he who, all-powerful, follows always the law of the Truth. We must remember that the oblation ( havya ) signifies always action ( karma ) and each action of mind or body is regarded as a giving of our plenty into the cosmic being and the cosmic intention ...
... Life-God. That is the world of the satisfaction of desires. This also is spread out in its full wideness, free from limitation, to receive the Ananda or divine delight by means of the knowledge and law of the Truth. × Arvatsu , meaning both "battlers, strivers" and "horses". ...
... or action, क्रतु, and in verse 7 he is described as ऋजुक्रतु, straight in will or action. His nature like that of the other gods is the nature of the Truth, ऋतवृध्; the law of its action is the law of the truth, सत्यधर्म, often figured in Vedic language by the idea of straightness. × S. “the air-world ...
... happy attaining. O Will, this obeisance to Earth and Heaven; I serve them with the love and pleasure in me for their food and I march to the ecstasy. (4) Yea, O ye our firmaments that keep the law of the Truth, the ancients found in you that knowledge of it, for their words gave expression to the Truth; and in your meeting and union that is the Hero’s conquest of the Light, men, O Earth, discovered ...
... to the highest principles discovered by the reason and intelligent will and not according to one's own fancy, vital impulses and desires. In Yoga obedience to the Guru or to the Divine and the law of the Truth as declared by the Guru is the foundation of discipline. What most want is that things should be done according to their desire without check or reference. The talk of perfection is humbug ...
... between the Guru, the Divine and the Truth in our Yoga? I have been considering that the Mother and yourself are not only the Gurus but also the Divine, and that whatever either of you say is the law of the Truth. Why then are you using these three different words? 1 I wrote the general law of spiritual life and obedience. You have to know that as well as its special application here. Moreover ...
... that things could be very radically altered in this respect—and that is why my main Page 479 effort is directed towards that object—for then the sanction would not be rare! For the Law of the Truth would be at work not constantly balanced by the law of the Ignorance. Still the Yoga-force is always tangible and concrete in the way I have described and has tangible results. But it is i ...
... through the Overmind, that things could be very radically altered in this respect—and that is why my main effort is directed towards that object—for then the sanction would not be rare! For the Law of the Truth would be at work not constantly balanced by the law of the Ignorance. Still the Yoga-force is always tangible and concrete in the way I have described and has tangible results. But it is i ...
... quite true. But it seems to me that even the outer forms, the appearances are changing more than you say. Only, this is not very easily seen because it happens normally, in accordance with the law of the truth of things, and not arbitrarily through a mental decision. Certainly the Divine Grace is always at work, it is the material world and the men living there that do not want it! What ...
... 10. Op. cit., p. 5. 11. Hymns to the Mystic Fire, SABCL Vol. 11, p. 14. 12. Ibid. Page 200 O Pushan, that remove for the vision of the law of the Truth. O Pushan (Fosterer), Seer, O Yama, O Sun, O Child of the Father of beings, marshal and gather together thy rays; I see the Light which is that fairest (most auspicious) form of thee; he ...
... Indian ethics assigned due place to the pursuit of pleasure, kama, and of wealth or prosperity, artha, provided that they were adequately controlled and governed by the pursuit of the ideal law of the truth and the right and of the harmonic balance of the individual and collective development, dharma. At a still higher level, dharma was allowed to be surpassed by an unconditional imperative emerging ...
... vital form. 1 Sri Aurobindo has often emphasised the Isha Upanishad's parallel passage: The face of the truth is covered with the brlliant golden lid: O fostering Sun, that uncover for the law of the truth, for sight. O Fosterer, O Sole Rishi, O Controlling Yama, O Surya, O Son of the Father of creatures, marshal and mass the rays: the Lustre that is the most blessed form of all, that I see, He ...
... authenticity. A day will come when it is the Divine that will reign upon earth, the Divine in his transcendent Delight and Knowledge and Power and Purity, and human life shall embody the Law of the Truth. The thing may not happen today or within a short period, according to the human standard. Man's smallness, in its impatience, once could not contemplate a span of more than a few thousand ...
... constant reference to the demand of that truth, putting everything and judging everything in the light of that truth, a vigilant wakefulness to it. The second condition is progression. It is the law of the Truth that it is expressing itself, seeking to express itself continually and continuously in the march of life; it is always unfolding new norms and forms of its light and power, ever new degrees of ...
... the Truth is covered to the point where the supreme light and knowledge are realised: The face of Truth is covered with a brilliant golden lid; that do thou remove, O Fosterer, for the law of the Truth for sight. O Fosterer, O sole Seer, O Ordainer, O illumining Sun, O power of the Father of creatures, marshal thy rays, draw together thy light; the Lustre which is thy most blessed form of ...
... inner solidarity of the universe and the law of action that proceeds from this truth, which is termed rita in the Veda is a law that governs the journey of yoga. Hence, the law of sacrifice is law of the truth and the right, satya and rita, informing all the processes of thought, feeling and action. An action, when it is filled with truth and right, can rightly be called sacrifice. Page 10 ...
... broken the intellect's hard and lustrous lid;" Sāvitrī, Book I, Canto 3. (5) The face of Truth is hidden by a golden lid: that remove O! fostering Sun, for the Law of the truth, for sight. Iśa Upanisad, 15. s mortals add possessed of the Truth, ardiy as an energy working out in our (6) "Where the God-child lies in the lap of Night and Dawn" ...
... mind in order to reach the highest Truth which is beyond. It says: Page 49 "The face of Truth is covered with a brilliant golden lid; that do thou remove, 0 fosterer, for the law of the Truth, sight." Iśa 15. The Master in Sāvitrī speaks in the language of living symbolism. Describing Aswapathy's spiritual achievement he says: "And broken the intellect's ...
... AND THE 'SYMBOL The face of Truth is hidden by a brilliant golden lid; that do thou remove, O fostering Sun, for the Law of the Truth, for sight. O sole Seer, O Ordainer, marshal thy rays, draw them together; let me see the Lustre, thy most blessed form of all. ...
... —even as late as the Isha Upanishad we find the name used as an appellation of the Sun,—and then one of the twin children of the wide-shining Lord of Truth. He is the guardian of the dharma, the law of the Truth, satyadharma , which is a condition of immortality, and therefore himself the guardian of immortality. His world is Swar, the world of immortality, amṛte loke akṣite , where, as we are told ...
... born as the guardian of the divine Law and the Yama-power; Ushanas drives the herded illuminations of our thought up that path of the Truth to the Bliss which Surya possesses; so is born from the law of the Truth the immortality to which the Aryan soul by its sacrifice aspires. Page 240 × Sayana takes paṇ in Veda—to ...
... infinite supramental truth, the body and self of this Sun, the truth of the spirit and the Eternal: The face of the Truth is covered with a golden lid: O fostering Sun, that uncover for the law of the truth, for sight. O fosterer, O sole Rishi, O controlling Yama, O Surya, O son of the Father of creatures, marshal and mass thy rays: the Lustre that is thy most blessed form of all, that I see, He ...
... to the highest principles discovered by the reason and intelligent will and not according to one's own fancy, vital impulses and desires. In Yoga obedience to the Guru or to the Divine and the law of the Truth as declared by the Guru is the foundation of discipline. 12 June 1933 What is discipline and how does it apply here, in our Yoga? It is not the discipline of Yoga, but the discipline ...
... and there all the myriad rays are drawn together into One and that was considered the goal. The Isha Upanishad also speaks of the golden lid hiding the face of the Truth by removing which the Law of the Truth is seen and the highest Page 423 knowledge in which the One Purusha is known ( so'ham asmi ) is described as the kalyāṇatama form of the Sun. All this seems to refer to the supramental ...
... × The Indian names of the golden age are Satya, the Age of the Truth, and Krita, the Age when the law of the Truth is accomplished. ...
... सत्वानमृत्वियम् । उतो नु चिद् य ओहत आण्डा शुष्णस्य भेद- त्यजैः स्वर्वतीरपो नभन्तामन्यके समे ॥११॥ 11) Intensify him who is perfect in the rite of the path, the true warrior who follows the law of the Truth; it is he who observes, who breaks the serpent-eggs of Shushna, conquers the waters that bear the light of the Sun-world,—let all that are alien be rent asunder. एवेन्द्राग्निभ्यां पितृवन्नवीयो ...
... dwells in the Man, he dwells in the Truth, he dwells in the wide Ether; he is born of the Waters, he is born of the Light, he is born of the Law, he is born of the Hill of Substance, he is the law of the Truth. Page 268 ...
... Chit, Will and Sight are combined and no longer as in the mind separated from each other. Therefore when we have the sight and live in the truth-consciousness, our will becomes the spontaneous law of the truth in us and, knowing all its acts and their sense and objective, leads straight to the human goal, which was always the enjoyment of the Ananda, the Lord's delight in self-being, the state of I ...
... conjecture, may be because in inconscient Nature there is a truth of energy at work which follows infallibly its own law, an energy which can walk blindfold without stumbling because the automatic law of the truth is within it, operating surely without swerving or mistake when there is no external intervention or interference. But in all normally automatic processes of existence there is this law: even ...
... The Eleventh Hymn to Mitra-Varuna An Invocation to the Sacrifice [The Rishi invokes Mitra and Varuna to the sacrifice as the godheads who lead man on the path according to the law of the truth and confirm our spiritual gains by its workings.] आ मित्रे वरुणे वयं गीर्भिर्जुहुमो अत्रिवत् । नि बर्हिषि सदतं सोमपीतये ॥१॥ 1) With the words we sacrifice to Mitra and to Varuna as ...
... labour to the peace and the bliss. He is, then, the Will, the Knowledge-Force of the Deva; secret inhabitant of Matter and its forms, visible and beloved guest of man, it is he that guards the law of the Truth of things in the apparent aberrations and confusions of the world. The other gods awake with the Dawn, but Agni wakes also in the Night; he keeps his divine vision even in the darkness where there ...
... came together—That One. I saw the most glorious of the Forms of the Gods. Rig Veda. (V. 62. 1.) The face of Truth is hidden by a golden lid; that remove, O Fostering Sun, for the Law of the Truth, for sight. O Sun, O sole Seer, marshal thy rays, gather them together,—let me see of thee thy happiest form of all; that Conscious Being everywhere, He am I. Isha Upanishad. (Verses 15, 16 ...
... × A Vedic expression. The gods act according to the first laws, original and therefore supreme, which are the law of the truth of things. × Gita , XVIII. 61. ...
... action and Page 695 enjoyment; the gnosis brings the fullness of spiritual knowledge and it will found on that the divine action and cast the enjoyment of world and being into the law of the truth, the freedom and the perfection of the spirit. But neither action nor enjoyment will be the lower action of the gunas and consequent egoistic enjoyment mostly of the satisfaction of rajasic desire ...
... many consciousnesses and bodies; there would be a universality and plasticity which saw and expressed the One in many figures of itself and worked out oneness in all diversities as the inherent law of the Truth-consciousness and its truth of nature. A single Consciousness-Force, of which all would be aware and see themselves as its instruments, would act through all and harmonise their action together ...
... because it is free to all the hardihoods and audacious delights of a soul dealing fearlessly and even violently with Nature, but yet is it the very normality of the infinite and all governed by the law of the Truth in its exact unerring process. It obeys the law of a self-possessed Knowledge, Love, Delight in an innumerable Oneness. It seems abnormal only because its rhythm is not measurable by the faltering ...
... ordered development and intelligible process. When complete mastery is gained, then the process by its self-effective rapidity may seem a miracle to the intelligence, but it still proceeds by law of the truth of Spirit,—when the Divine within us by close union of our will and being with him takes up the Yoga and acts as the omnipotent master of the nature. For the Divine is our highest Self and the ...
... By the Truth they hold the Truth that holds all, in the power of the Sacrifice, in the supreme ether. Rig Veda. (V. 15. 2.) O Immortal, thou art born in mortals in the law of the Truth, of Immortality, of Beauty.... Born from the Truth, he grows by the Truth,—a King, a Godhead, the Truth, the Vast. Rig Veda. (IX. 110. 4; 108. 8.) As we reach in our thought the ...
... entered into it only by contact and influence, not from an organical impulse. And it is to its passion for the discovery of the actual truth of things and for the governing of human life by whatever law of the truth it has found that the West owes its centuries of strength, vigour, light, progress, irresistible expansion. Equally, it is due not to any original falsehood in the ideals on which its life was ...
... × The Indian names of the golden age are Satya, the Age of the Truth, and Kṛta, the Age when the law of the Truth is accomplished. × 4 manomayaḥ prāṇaśarīranetā. Mundaka Upanishad, II. 2. 7. ...
... is restated in verses fifteen and sixteen, which reaffirm the integral vision of reality: "The face of Truth is covered with a brilliant golden lid; that do thou remove, O Fosterer, for the law of the Truth, for sight." "O Fosterer, O sole Seer, O Ordainer, O illumining Sun, O power of the Father of creatures, marshall thy rays, draw together thy light, the Lustre which is thy most blessed form ...
... Upanishad, we turn to the Sun and effect the same realisation: Page 33 "The face of Truth is covered with a brilliant golden lid; 52 that do thou remove, O Fosterer (Pushan), for the law of the Truth, for sight. O Fosterer, O sole Seer, O Ordainer, O illumining Sun, O power of the Father of creatures, marshal thy rays, draw together thy light; the Lustre which is thy most blessed form of all ...
... हिरण्मयेन पात्रेण सत्यस्यापिहितं मुखम् | तत् त्वं पूषन्नपावृणु सत्यधर्भाय ष्टये | |15| | 15. The face of Truth is covered with a brilliant golden lid; that do thou remove, 0 Fosterer, for the law of the Truth, for sight. पूषन्नेकषौ यम सूर्य प्रजापत्य व्यूह रश्मीन् समूह | तेजो यत् ते रूपं कल्याणतमं तत्ते यश्यामि योऽसावसौ पुरूषः सोऽहमास्मि | |16| | 16. 0 Fosterer, 0 sole Seer, 0 Ordainer, 0 ...
... The heroes prepare the dappled Scatterer even like food; such were the first and pristine laws. [43] Three are the Shining Ones who see widely in accordance with the law of the Truth: of them one plants the seed throughout the year, another labours upon the world with his effulgences, of still another the mighty rushing is seen, not the form. [44] Four-fold is ...
... inconscient Nature there is a truth of Page 193 energy at work which follows infallibly its own law, an energy which can walk blindfold without stumbling because the automatic law of the truth is within it operating surely without swerving or mistake when there is no external intervention or interference. But in all normally automatic processes of existence there is this law: even ...
... necessary realm between, though not the secure resting place. Even * Cf. Isha Upanishad: "The face of Truth is covered with a brilliant golden lid; that do thou remove, O Fosterer, for the law of the Truth, for sight." Page 477 in a predominantly infrarational period, Calibans might occasionally speculate on their godhead, Setebos, and make a show of reason. The chequered reign of ...
... after mind, life and body. 1. The quotations in this chapter are from Sri Aurobindo's The Secret of the Veda. Page 44 Swar is the world of Yama, the guardian of the law of the Truth, the guardian of immortality. It is the world of immortality where is the indestructible Light. "Yama and the ancient Fathers discovered the path to that world which is a pasture of the Cows whence ...
... according to its law. 1 In truth, the only thing that is truly tragic is not to become conscious of one's soul, the psychic being, and not to be entirely guided by it in one's life. To die before having found one's soul and lived according to its law, that is the true failure. And the true epic, the true glory is to find the Divine in oneself and to live according to His law. 3 December ...
... still a secret Truth in things which arranges all, guides towards the Self many contrary powers of being and rises towards its own heights where it can manifest its own highest truth and fulfil the secret purpose of the universe. Even this material world of existence is built upon a pattern of the truth in things which we call Law of Nature, a truth from which we climb to a greater truth until we emerge... passage from the principle of Truth and Light into their opposite. The creative truth of things works and can work infallibly even in the Inconscient: the Spirit is there in Matter and it has made a series of steps by which it can travel from it to its own heights in an uninterrupted line of gradations; the depths are linked to the heights and the Law of the one Truth creates and works everywhere.... creatures and objects which seem Page 591 each to be following its own law of nature; in this vast and apparently confused mass of existence there is a law, a one truth of being, a guiding and fulfilling purpose of the world-existence. The Supermind is veiled here and does not work according to its characteristic law of being and self-knowledge, but without it nothing could reach its aim. A world ...
... still a secret Truth in things which arranges all, guides towards the Self many contrary powers of being and rises towards its own heights where it can manifest its own highest truth and fulfil the secret purpose of the universe. Even this material world of existence is built upon a pattern of the truth in things which we call Law of Nature, a truth from which we climb to a greater truth until we emerge... passage from the principle of Truth and Light into their opposite. The creative truth of things works and can work infallibly even in the Inconscient: the Spirit is there in Matter and it has made a series of steps by which it can travel from it to its own heights in an uninterrupted line of gradations: the depths are linked to the heights and the Law of the one Truth creates and works everywhere.... and creatures and objects which seem each to be following its own law of Page 212 nature; in this. vast and apparently confused mass of existence there is a law, a one truth of being, a guiding and fulfilling purpose of the world-existence. The Supermind is veiled here and does not work according to its characteristic law of being and self-knowledge, but without it nothing could reach ...
... still a secret Truth in things which arranges all, guides towards the Self many contrary powers of being and rises towards its own heights where it can manifest its own highest truth and fulfil the secret purpose of the universe. Even this material world of existence is built upon a pattern of the truth in things which we call Law of Nature, a truth from which we climb to a greater truth until we emerge... and creatures and objects which seem each to be following its own law of nature; in this vast and apparently confused mass of existence there is a law, a one truth of being, a guiding and fulfilling purpose of the world-existence. The Supermind is veiled here and does not work according to its characteristic Page 200 law of being and self-knowledge, but without it nothing could reach its... creates life out of Matter, out of life mind, and a gradation of planes of Matter, Life and Mind culminating in the emergence of Supermind. The secret truth that emerges in Supermind has been there all the time, but now it manifests itself and the truth in things and the meaning of our existence." The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 73-74 In fact this was not finished. It ...
... because you simply learn, but do not understand. You retain in your brain the words, the outer formula or forms, you note down the information; but what they stand for, their import and inner law, the living truth escape you totally. You read Einstein, read over and over again his formulas and Page 88 equations and even commit them to memory—learn by rote; but after a time, if you ...
... which the enlightenment of Europe has been governed is the passion for the discovery of the Truth and Law that constitutes existence and governs the process of the world, the attempt to develop the life and potentialities of man, his ideals, institutions, organisations by the knowledge of that Law and Truth and the confidence that along this line lies the road of human progress and perfection. The... The idea is absolutely just and we accept it entirely; but its application has been erroneous. For the Law and Truth that has to be discovered is not that of the material world—though this is required, nor even of the mental and physical—though this is indispensable, but the Law and Truth of the Spirit on which all the rest depends. For it is the power of the Self of things that expresses itself in... and metaphysical Germany. The idea by which the illumination of Asia has been governed is the firm knowledge that truth of the Spirit is the sole real truth, the belief that the psychological life of man is an instrument for attaining to the truth of the Spirit and that its laws must be known and practised with that aim paramount, and the attempt to form the external life of man and the institutions ...
... conflict between our members. ... This supreme truth of ourselves must have a double character. It must be a law and truth that discovers the perfect movement, harmony, rhythm of a great spiritualised collective life and determines perfectly our relations with each being and all beings in Nature's varied oneness. It must be at the same time a law and truth that discovers to us at each moment the rhythm ...
... because you simply learn, but do not understand. You retain in your brain the words, the outer formula or forms, you note down the information; but what they stand for, their import and inner law, the living truth escape you totally. You read Einstein, read over and over again his formulas and equations and even commit them to memory-learn by rote; but after a time, if you lose touch with them, they vanish ...
... capable, overcoming selfishness, overcoming fear, overcoming the temptation to palter with truth in order to earn earthly favours. The first formula of belief is satyannasti paro dharmah , there is no higher law of conduct than truth. We leave it to the conscience of the Mahamandal to decide how much of truth and manhood there was in their demonstration of loyalty and their ridiculous appeal to a ... add a final stroke. We cannot refrain, however, from reminding the Mahamandal that the foundations of Hinduism are truth and manhood, esha dharmah sanatanah . Hinduism is no sect or dogmatic creed, no bundle of formulas, no set of social rules, but a mighty, eternal and universal truth. It has learned the secret of preparing man's soul for the divine consummation of identity with the infinite existence ...
... would not bring about any appreciable result, but leave the thing as it is. Change the laws as much as you like, but if you do not change the nature of man, the world will not change. For it is man that makes laws and not laws that make man. Laws express at best the demand which man feels within himself. A truth must realise itself in human nature before it can be codified. You may certainly legalise... sought to realise those ideals was mainly the insistence of our emotional urges, rather than Nature's Truth-Power. For this must be understood that the mental, the vital and the physical form a nexus of reality which works in its own inexorable law and so long as we are within them we cannot but obey the laws that guide them. Of these three strata which form the human adhara, it is the vital which holds... required is a complete spiritual regeneration in man, a new structure of his soul and substance-not merely the realisation of the highest and supreme Truth in mental and emotional consciousness, but the translation and application of the law of that truth in the power of the vital. It is here that failed all the great spiritual or rather religious movements of the past. They were content with evoking ...
... would not bring about any appreciable result, but leave the thing as it is-. Change the laws as much as you like, but if you do not change the nature of man, the world will not change. For it is man that makes laws and not laws that make man. Laws express at best the demand which man feels within himself. A truth must realise itself in human nature before it can be codified. You may certainly legalise... sought to realise those ideals was mainly the insistence of our emotional urges, rather than Nature's Truth-Power. For this must be understood that the mental, the vital and the physical form a nexus of reality which works in its own inexorable law and so long as we are within them we cannot but obey the laws that guide them. Of these three strata which form the human adhara, it is the vital which holds... required is a complete spiritual regeneration in man, a new structure of his soul and substance—not merely the realisation of the highest and supreme Truth in mental and emotional consciousness, but the translation and application of the law of that truth in the power of the vital. It is here that failed all the great spiritual or rather religious movements of the past. They were content with evoking ...
... streams of the Truth; I know not how to travel by force or by division to the Truth of the shining lord. कया नो अग्न ऋतयन्नृतेन भुवो नवेदा उचथस्य नव्यः । वेदा मे देव ऋतुपा ऋतूनां नाहं पतिं सनितुरस्य रायः ॥३॥ 3) By what thought of ours seeking the Truth by the Truth shalt thou become for us, O Fire, a new discoverer of the word? The god who is guardian of the order and laws of the Truth knows me... flame, to the Bull of the Truth, to the mighty lord I bring my thought as if the offering of light in the sacrifice, purified in the mouth; I bring the word turned to meet him for the master of the herds. ऋतं चिकित्व ऋतमिच्चिकिद्ध्यृतस्य धारा अनु तृन्धि पूर्वीः । नाहं यातुं सहसा न द्वयेन ऋतं सपाम्यरुषस्य वृष्णः ॥२॥ 2) O thou conscious of the Truth, of the Truth alone be conscious, cut out... यस्ते अग्ने नमसा यज्ञमीट्ट ऋतं स पात्यरुषस्य वृष्णः । तस्य क्षयः पृथुरा साधुरेतु प्रसर्स्त्राणस्य नहुषस्य शेषः ॥६॥ 6) But he, O Fire, who desires with obeisance the sacrifice, guards the Truth of the luminous lord; let there come to him his wide and perfect habitation, the last state of man as he advances on his journey. SUKTA 13 अर्चन्तस्त्वा हवामहेऽर्चन्तः समिधीमहि । अग्ने अर्चन्त ...
... in order that he may know the law and truth of the process of the universe and their practical results are only a secondary motive of the enquiring mind and no motive at all to the higher scientific intelligence. The philosopher is driven from within to search for the ultimate truth of things for the one sake of Truth only and all else but to see the very face of Truth becomes to him, to his absorbing... discovered law and measure. Here as in the other fields, as in the vital and physical, so in his mental provinces, it is the appointed work of his intelligence and will to know and master through an always enlarging experience the conditions Page 413 of an increasing light and power and right and truth and joy and beauty and wideness, and not only to discover the Truth and the Law and set... subjection to the lowering and limiting claim of a vital and physical Karma. It is true that his lower being remains subject to the law of life and of the body, and it is true also that he must strive either to find in life or to bring into the world around him some law of truth, of right and good, of beauty, of love and joy, of the mind's will and mastery, for it is by that effort that he is man and not ...
... 173 of expansion, and each one of these fragmentations has been the beginning, the origin of an individual being. The origin of every individual form is the law of this form or the truth of this form. If there were no law, no truth of each form, there would be no possibility of individualisation. It would be something extending indefinitely; there would be perhaps points of concentration, assemblages... implies an innumerable quantity of laws, elements of consciousness, truths which spread out into the universe and finally become separate individualities. So the individual being seems constantly to go farther and farther away from its origin by the very necessity of individualisation. But once this individualisation, that is, this awareness of the inner truth is complete, it becomes possible, by... river's bed constitutes the river. The bed localises the river, but the bed also changes much; which means that all is inconstant, all is fugitive, and this is true. But it is only one part of the truth, it is not the whole. You feel quite Page 172 clearly that there is something "stable" in you, don't you, but where does this sensation of stability come from? If I were to place it ...
... and space, of one of the countless possibilities latent in the supreme origin of all manifestation which, through the medium of the one and universal consciousness, takes concrete form in the law or the truth of an individual and so, by a progressive development, becomes his soul or psychic being. I must emphasise that what is stated briefly here does not claim to be a complete exposition of the... for most of those who have reached it have described it more or less clearly. But the supreme value of the discovery lies in its spontaneity, its ingenuousness, and that escapes all ordinary mental laws. And that is why anyone wanting to take up the adventure usually first seeks out some person who has successfully undertaken it and is able to sustain him and enlighten him on his way. Yet there are... because it is mainly the religions that have concerned themselves with this aspect of life. But it need not necessarily be so: the mystic notion of God may be replaced by the more philosophical notion of truth and still the discovery will remain essentially the same, but the road leading to it may be taken even by the most intransigent positivist. For mental notions and ideas have only a very secondary importance ...
... friendship, O shining one. तव द्रप्सो नीलवान् वाश ऋत्विय इन्घानः सिष्णवा ददे । त्वं महीनामुषसामसि प्रियः क्षपो वस्तुषु राजसि ॥३१॥ 31) The blue stream of thee with its cry is faithful to the law of its Truth, even as it is kindled it takes what is cast in it; thou art beloved of the great Dawns and thou shinest in the dwelling places of the night. Page 336 तमागन्म सोभरयः सहस्त्रमुष्कं... रथ्यः ॥३५॥ 35) For you, the kings, who have power over seeing men, choose one or another to have mastery in the human ways,—such may we be, O Varuna, O Mitra, O Aryaman, charioteers, indeed, of the Truth. अदान्मे पौरुकुत्स्यः पञ्चाशतं त्रसदस्युर्वधूनाम् । मंहिष्ठो अर्यः सत्पतिः ॥३६॥ 36) The Terror of the Destroyers, son of the master of wide vision, has given me the brides five hundred, he ...
... within, a law, becomes the law of a realisation. And every one of these possibilities becomes the reality of a being, of an individuality if you like, of something existing objectively. And it is that law which is the origin of the centre of the psychic being: it is the truth of the being or the law of the being. The Buddha called it the "law", he spoke of the Dharma . It is the truth of the being... and space, of one of the countless possibilities latent in the supreme origin of all manifestation which, through the medium of the one and universal consciousness, takes concrete form in the law or the truth of an individual and so, by a progressive development, becomes his soul or psychic being." It is a little philosophical... You know the difference between what is subjective and what is objective... because it is mainly the religions that have concerned themselves with this aspect of life. But it need not necessarily be so: the mystic notion of God may be replaced by the more philosophical notion of truth and still the discovery will remain essentially the same, but the road leading to it may be taken even by the most intransigent positivist." What don't you understand? I mean that what one thinks ...
... days ago 3 : the supreme Knowledge Page 156 in action along with the complete abolition of all consequences, past and future. Each second has its own eternity and its own law, which is a law of absolute truth. When I had this experience, I understood that only a month ago I was still uttering mountain-sized imbecilities. And I laughed to the point of almost approving those who say, 'But... right of material laws to exist), one must make a resolution never to legitimize any of these movements, at any cost. To be able to see the problem as it is, it is absolutely indispensable, as a first step, to get out of the mental consciousness, even out of a mental transcription (in the highest mind) of the supramental vision and truth. A thing cannot be seen as it is, in its truth, except in the... remember having had the experience, you are left in the same condition as before, but with the difference that now you know, you can know, that these material laws do not correspond to the truth—that's all. They do not at all correspond to the truth, so consequently, if you want to be faithful to your aspiration, you must in no way legitimize all that. Rather, you must say that it is an infirmity from ...
... O Savitri, to the three shining worlds of heaven and thou art made manifest by the rays of the Sun, and thou encirclest on both sides the Night, and thou becomest Mitra, O god, with his settled laws of Truth. उतेशिषे प्रसवस्य त्वमेक इदुत पूषा भवसि देव यामभिः । उतेदं विश्वं भुवनं वि राजसि श्यावाश्वस्ते सवितः स्तोममानशे ॥५॥ 5) And thou alone hast power for the creation and thou becomest the... of light that he attains to his real greatness of manifestation in the rays of the divine sun; then he encompasses the night of our darkness with his being and his light and becomes Mitra who by his laws produces the luminous harmony of our higher and lower worlds. Of all our creation he is the one author, and by his forward marches he is its increaser until the whole world of our becoming grows full ...
... laughs ) To begin with, self-appreciation is always dubious, and then, in the world as it now is, everything is mixed and what openly manifests to the half-blind human consciousnesses is not the Law of pure Truth—they wouldn't even understand it. To put it more precisely, what is constantly realized is the supreme vision, but its realization in this mixed material world isn't seen by the ignorant human... ( Mother laughs, then remains silent ) We always confuse two notions. It is from the universal and spiritual point of view that, not exactly "good" as people understand it, but the True, the Truth, will have the final word, that is well known. In other words, the Divine will eventually be victorious. That is what has been said, what all those who have lived a spiritual life have said—and it is... consequently nothing can remain as it is, and in spite of all contrary appearances, the WHOLE is always in constant Page 263 progression: the harmony becomes increasingly harmonious, the truth becomes increasingly true in the Manifestation. But in order to see that, one must see the whole, and man only sees ... not even just the human field, but his own tiny, so tiny, microscopic field—he ...
... become aware of the Truth and the eternal Will that manifests it. Through this identification having become the faithful servant and sure intermediary of the divine Will, and uniting this conscious identification with the Principle to the conscious identification with its becoming, to mould and model consciously the love, mind and life of the becoming in accordance with the Law of Truth of the Principle... Prayers and Meditations May 24, 1915 One day, O Lord, Thou didst teach my mind that it could act fully as an instrument of manifestation of Thy divine truth, as an intermediary of Thy eternal will, without being limited in its realising constructions by the narrow field of possibilities of the external being. Till then this mind, except very rarely, was... Principle. This is how the individual being can be the conscious mediator between the absolute Truth and the manifested universe and intervene in the slow, uncertain march of the Yoga of Nature in order to give it the swiftness, intensity and sureness of the divine Yoga. This is how in certain periods the entire terrestrial life seems to cross miraculously over stages which at other times would require ...
... vision of the Bliss. [X.5.5] One part of him is all these beings, three parts of him are that which is Immortality in heaven. [X.90.3] Truth and the Law of Truth were born from the kindled flame of Page 344 Energy, thence Night was born and the flowing Ocean of being, from the Ocean Time arose controller of all that lives and sees, the Creator (ordered) heaven and earth and the mid-world... three luminous worlds thou blazest. [IX.17.5] In his flow he begets the vast and brilliant Truth-Light and smites away the darknesses. [IX.66.24] Thrice seven the Milch cows that gave him their milk of Truth in the supreme ether; he cast into form four other worlds of beauty when he grew by the Truths. [IX.70.1] One sea that holds all the streams of Energy,—one who has many births sees the... crookedness, even the four rivers of the Sea of sweetness. [I.62.6] I purify earth and heaven with the Truth and burn the Great Forces of Harm that possess it not. [I 133.1] They uphold three earths and three heavens, and within them are their ways of action in the knowledge three. By the Truth that greatness is great and beautiful. Three divine worlds of light they uphold—golden and pure and sleepless ...
... functioning ritubhih, by the ideal laws of the truth,—the plural used, in the ordinary manner of the Veda, to express the particular actions of the law of truth, the singular its general action. It is the ideal law that supports Page 64 the human offering of our activities to the divine life above us, rituná yajnaváhasá; by the force of the law of Truth Agni leads the sacrifice to its goal... symbolic &, as ritam means ideal truth in general, so ritu to mean that truth in its ordered application, the ideal law of thought, feeling or action, then this impossible awkwardness vanishes & gives place to a natural construction & a lucid & profound significance. Indra is to drink the wine of immortality according to or by the force of the ideal law, by that ideal law Varuna &Mitra are to enjoy the... daksham apasam, Mitra & Varuna are enabled to enjoy the effective activities of men under the law of truth, ritena kratum brihantam, rituná yajnam ásháthe, activities of right knowledge, right action, right emotion, free from crookedness & ignorance & sin. For it is viveka that helps us to distinguish truth from error, right-doing from wrong-doing, just feeling from false & selfish emotions. Once again ...
... knowledge will be justified that it is one Law and Truth acting in all, but very differently formulated according to the medium in which the work proceeds and its dominant principle. The same gods exist on all the planes and maintain the same essential laws, but with a different aspect and mode of working and to ever wider results. If this be the truth, then the action of evolution must be other... ancient truth already known to the Vedic sages,—the idea of an inconscient or subconscient ocean of being, the ocean of the heart of things out of which the worlds form themselves. But the Veda posits also a governing and originating Superconscient which accounts for the appearance of a hidden consciousness and knowledge pervading the operations of Evolution and which constitutes the self-acting Law and... conditions of Matter and applying to it its own laws, impulses, necessities. This idea of a mighty Life, other than the material Principle, working in it and upon it has begun to dominate the advanced thought of Europe. The other idea of a still mightier Mind working in Life and upon it has not yet made sufficient way because the investigation of the laws of Mind is still in its groping infancy. Again ...
... principles, but with the inner law of one's being, the particular truth of each one which ought to govern all the movements of our consciousness and all the acts of our body. The inner law, the truth of the being is the divine Presence in every human being, which should be the master and guide of our life. When you acquire the habit of listening to this inner law, Page 278 when you obey... obey it, follow it, try more and more to let it guide your life, you create around you an atmosphere of truth and peace and harmony which naturally reacts upon circumstances and forms, so to say, the atmosphere in which you live. When you are a being of justice, truth, harmony, compassion, understanding, of perfect goodwill, this inner attitude, the more sincere and total it is, the more it reacts... covets the wife of another: shame, troubled sleep, condemnation and Hell. So he acquires an evil reputation and an evil birth; brief is the pleasure of the anxious pair, heavy the punishment of the law-giver. Let no man therefore seek the wife of another. Just as Kusa grass cuts the hand if wrongly handled, so also asceticism wrongly understood leads to Niraya. A duty carelessly fulfilled ...
... therefore, all existence should be good for me." ( Mother laughs ) First of all, one's own appreciation of oneself is always doubtful, and then, in the world as it is now, all is mixed, it is not the Law of Truth that openly manifests itself to the half-blind human consciousness—it will not even understand it. I mean, to be more exact, that it is the supreme vision that is realising itself constantly, but... ( Mother laughs, then remains silent. ) People always confuse two ideas. It is from the universal and spiritual point of view that, not positively the "good" as men understand it, but the True, the Truth, will have the last word; it goes without saying. That is to say, finally the Divine will be victorious. That is what is said, what all who have lived a spiritual life have said—it is an absolute fact... good and true. But (to say it in a joking way) it is not the fault of the Lord, it is the fault of men! That is to say, the Lord knows what he is doing, and men do not understand it. In a world of truth, all would be just as it is now perhaps, but it would be seen differently. Both. There would be a difference. It is the present ignorance Page 75 and obscurity in the world that give ...
... other words there is, above society's external law and Page 201 man's moral law and beyond them, though feebly and ignorantly aimed at by something within them, a larger truth of a vast unbound consciousness, a law divine towards which both these blind and gross formulations are progressive faltering steps that try to escape from the natural law of the animal to a more exalted light or universal... towards its own concealed perfection, must be a supreme spiritual law and truth of our nature. Again, as we are embodied beings in the world with a common existence and nature and yet individual souls capable of direct touch with the Transcendent, this supreme truth of ourselves must have a double character. It must be a law and truth that discovers the perfect movement, harmony, rhythm of a great ... time a law and truth that discovers to us at each moment the rhythm and exact steps of the direct expression of the Divine in the soul, mind, life, body of the individual creature. 1 And we find in experience that this supreme light and force of action in its highest expression is at once an imperative law and an absolute freedom. It is an imperative law because it governs by immutable Truth our every ...
... ashamed of being naughty, the child could be expected to "make further progress and learn the joy of being good". 2 There was an inner law, an inmost truth of things, which prescribed the norms of behaviour; and the problem of education was to help this law, this truth, to coin out to the forefront of its own accord. In order to avoid the tyranny of an imposed discipline as well as the chaos of unbridled... any one aspect of life at the Centre of Education, for freedom indeed was the very oxygen of the whole scheme of things, except that it needs must be held in leash by the paramountcy of Truth, by the innermost Law of things. The new thrust given to education at the Centre was the sovereign dynamic of Free Progress, Pupils were now free to choose what subjects they liked, cultivate intensely what areas... "only, one withdraws, shrivels up and hardens, and the other strikes. This is what makes all the Page 736 difference." The wise course would be to attain the truth of things and cling to it: "this essential truth, the truth of essential Love". 16 VII Reminiscing about the Darshan of 24 November 1965, the Mother confided that Sri Aurobindo had remained in the Ashram atmosphere ...
... persistently mistakes for spirituality— is a preference for living in the mind and emotions more than in the gross outward life or else an attempt to subject this rebellious life-stuff to the law of intellectual truth or ethical reason and will or aesthetic beauty or of all three together. But spiritual knowledge perceives that there is a greater thing in us; our inmost self, our real being is not the... are quieted; for since it is seated deep within and is represented on the surface only by the intuitive sense of self-existence and misrepresented by the mental, vital, physical ego-sense, its truth has to be experienced in the mind's silence. But also the dynamic parts of our surface being are similarly diminished figures of greater things that are there in the depths of our secret nature. The... accurately, it is behind the frontal Page 22 consciousness, behind the veil, occult and known only by an occult knowledge. Modern psychology and psychic science have begun to perceive this truth just a little. Materialistic psychology calls this hidden part the Inconscient, 1 although practically admitting that it is far greater, more powerful and profound than the surface conscious self ...
... and space, of one of the countless possibilities latent in the supreme origin of all manifestation which, through the medium of the one and universal consciousness, takes concrete form in the law or the truth of an individual and so, by a progressive development, becomes his soul or psychic being. I must emphasise that what is stated briefly here does not claim to be a complete exposition of the... Nirvana; yet others, who view the world as an unreal illusion, will name it the Only Reality and to those who regard all manifestation as falsehood it will be the Sole Truth. And every one of these expressions contains an element of truth, but all are incomplete, expressing only one aspect of that which is. Here too, however, the mental formulation has no great importance and once you have passed through... for most of those who have reached it have described it more or less clearly. But the supreme value of the discovery lies in its spontaneity, its ingenuousness, and that escapes all ordinary mental laws. And that is why anyone wanting to take up the adventure usually first seeks out some person who has successfully undertaken it and is able to sustain him and enlighten him on his way. Yet there are ...
... projection, in time and space, of one of the countless possibilities latent in the Supreme Origin of all manifestation which, through the one and universal consciousness, is concretised in the law or the truth of an individual and so becomes by a progressive growth its soul or psychic being. I stress the point that what I have said here in brief does not profess to be a complete exposition... Nirvana; yet others who view the world as an unreal illusion will name it the Only Reality and to those who regard all manifestation as falsehood it will be the Sole Truth. And every one of these definitions contains an element of truth, but all are incomplete, expressing only one aspect of what is. Here also the mental formulation has no great importance and once you cross the intermediate stages,... extent; for, most of those who have reached it have described it more or less clearly. But the supreme value of the discovery lies in its spontaneity, its genuineness: that escapes all ordinary mental laws. And this is why anyone wanting to take up the adventure, usually seeks at first some person who has gone through it successfully and is able to sustain him and show him the way. Yet there are some ...
... his war-conch; for he wishes to look upon all these Kings of men who have come here to champion against him the cause of unrighteousness and establish as a rule of life the disregard of law, justice and truth which they would replace by the rule of a selfish and arrogant egoism. When this confidence is shattered within him, when he is smitten down from his customary attitude and mental basis of... proceeds from the acceptance of the necessity in Nature for such vehement crises and it accepts not only the moral aspect, the struggle between righteousness and unrighteousness, between the self-affirming law of Good and the forces that oppose its progression, but also the physical aspect, the actual armed war or other vehement physical strife between the human beings who represent the antagonistic powers... consider man primarily as a social being or the fullness of his social existence as the highest ideal, but rather as a spiritual being in process of formation and development and his social life, ethical law, play of temperament and exercise of function as means and stages of spiritual formation. Thought and knowledge, war and government, production and distribution, labour and service were carefully di ...
... and established a kingdom of the Law of Truth ... India would have fallen untimely into the hands of barbarians. "We must remember that the Kurukshetra war occurred five thousand years ago. Only after two thousand five hundred years passed was the first successful attack by barbarians able to reach the other shore of the Indus river. Therefore the Kingdom of Truth founded by Arjuna had still so ...
... a disinterested pursuit of truth for the sake of Truth and of knowledge for the sake of Knowledge without any ulterior motive, with every consideration put away except the rule of keeping the eye on the object, on the fact under enquiry and finding out its truth, its process, its law. The other is coloured by the passion for practice, the desire to govern life by the truth discovered or the fascination... fascination of an idea which we labour to establish as the sovereign law of our life and action. We have seen indeed that this is the superiority of reason over the other faculties of man that it is not confined to a separate absorbed action of its own, but plays upon all the others, discovers their law and truth, makes its discoveries serviceable to them and even in pursuing its own bent and end serves also... subjective and external life to Page 115 understand it and determine the law and order of its present movement and its future potentialities. It has also an upward and inward eye and a more luminous functioning by which it accepts divinations from the hidden eternities. It is opened in this power of vision to a Truth above it from which it derives, however imperfectly and as from behind a veil ...
... to the domain of the Spirit. They embody the mighty universal laws of that vaster Truth-Consciousness (Rtam ). To go beyond all the dharmas of this three-fold Lower Nature, attain to the Truth- Consciousness of the Fourth Status, incarnate in all that we are, know, will, feel and do the Law or Dharma of the Spirit and of the Spirit alone, is what we mean... oncoming of the Divine. * Consciousness is the light that flows from the Truth of existence. To be conscious means to be aware of the-Truth of one's nature and live and move with the luminous force of that Truth. Awareness is not a mere passive phenomenon; it is supremely active and dynamic. To be aware means... of consciousness. * Faith: Certitude born of the soul's secret communion with the Truth. * Faith is the urge of the soul's truth-the truth that has not yet come down and become evident to the reason and the brain-mind. Faith brings out not only your own latent power ...
... iya-they are native to the domain of the Spirit. They embody the mighty universal laws of that vaster Truth-Consciousness (Rtam). To go beyond all the dharmas of this threefold Lower Nature, attain to the Truth-Consciousness of the Fourth Status, incarnate in all that we are, know, will, feel and do the Law or Dharma of the Spirit and of the Spirit alone, is what we mean by Spirituality... maintain them long against the inexorable oncoming of the Divine. *** Consciousness is the light that flows from the Truth of existence. To be conscious means to be aware of the Truth of one's nature and live and move with the luminous force of that Truth. Awareness is not a mere passive phenomenon; it is supremely active and dynamic. To be aware means a constant radiation of the... experience itself. Will: the selective and realising power of consciousness. *** Faith: Certitude born of the soul's secret communion with the Truth. Page 362 Faith is the urge of the soul's truth-the truth that has not yet come down and become evident to the reason and the brain-mind. Faith brings out not only your own latent power, but opens the gates to a Power ...
... from hour to hour, from period to period, from life to life, and not that in us which is eternal. We are ignorant of the world because we do not know God; we are aware of the law of appearances, but not of the law and truth of being. Our highest wisdom, our minutest most accurate science, our most effective application of knowledge can be at most a thinning of the veil of ignorance, but not a going... supreme. This is that verse which was spoken; "Truth, Knowledge, Infinity the Brahman, He who knoweth that hidden in the secrecy in the supreme ether, Enjoyeth all desires along with the wise-thinking Brahman." This is the burden of the opening sentences of the Taittiriya Upanishad's second section; they begin its elucidation of the highest truth. Or in the Sanskrit, brahmavid āpnoti param—... 'śnute sarvān kāmān saha—brahmaṇā vipaściteti. But what is Brahman? Whatever reality is in existence, by which all the rest subsists, that is Brahman. An Eternal behind all instabilities, a Truth of things which is implied, if it is hidden in all appearances, a Constant which supports all mutations, but is not increased, diminished, abrogated,—there is such an unknown x which makes existence ...
... Sanatan Dharma; 1 I believe it to be the concealed divinity within Hinduism,—but a veil has to be drawn aside, a curtain has to be lifted. I believe it to be 1 The Eternal Dharma or Law of Truth. Page 283 knowable and discoverable. I believe the future of India and the world to depend on its discovery and on its application, not to the renunciation of life, but to life... Brahman, his seeking included Brahman's manifestation. So he was to put aside these various partial truths and pass onward. Pass onward to discover the unchanging, undying Truth. He was going to give that Truth "new forms and beauty, grandeur, truth and effectiveness." He was to place the eternal Truth— the Veda—in its native light before humanity. "I believe that Veda to be the foundation of the... complete sannyasa of thought. " 'Make complete sannyasa of feeling. " 'This is my last utterance.' " Hinduism has layers and layers of truth. In Sri Aurobindo's words, "I can say what to my view is the truth behind Hinduism, a truth contained in the very nature (not superficially seen of course) of human existence, something which is not the 1 Anritam: falsehood. ...
... it is not something true which carries its truth in itself. Sweet Mother, what is this "imperious law", this "spiritual and supramental law"? It is the truth of each being. Each being carries in himself his own spiritual law, his supramental law. It is not the same for everyone, it is not one single identical law. For each one it is the truth of his being, that is to Page 140 ... until a supramental Truth-Consciousness is reached by which the appearances of things are put in their place and their essence revealed and that in them which derives straight from the spiritual essence. In the meanwhile our only safety is to find a guiding law of spiritual experience―or else to liberate a light within that can lead us on the way until that greater direct Truth-Consciousness is reached... considered as imperative and which have their own truth; he says that even that can be only quite Page 139 a partial light, that is to say, a semblance of knowledge or even something false. That goes against all modern ideas. People always have the impression that what they call the needs of the body, what the body demands, is an absolute law; that if it is not obeyed, well, one commits ...
... strife and trouble and unease. Into the mind as a whole, instead of a divine law of narrower truth flowing into greater truth, lesser light taken up into wider light, lower will surrendered to higher transforming will, pettier satisfaction progressing towards nobler and more complete satisfaction, it brings similar dualities of truth pursued by error, light by darkness, power by incapacity, pleasure of pursuit... lived without breath by his self-law, there was nothing else nor aught beyond it. In the beginning Darkness was hidden by darkness, all this was an ocean of inconscience. When universal being was concealed by fragmentation, then by the greatness of its energy That One was born. That moved at first as desire within, which was the primal seed of mind. The seers of Truth discovered the building of being... individual feeblenesses in the midst of the giant Ignorance which is the law of the universe. Out of this heartless Inconscience and within its rigorous jurisdiction hearts have been born and aspire and are tortured and bleed under the weight of the blind and insentient cruelty of this iron existence, a cruelty which lays its law upon them and becomes sentient in their sentience, brutal, ferocious, horrible ...
... dynamic Force of Spirit, the native Light and Law of Truth must come down and effectuate this long and complex work, which will be the crowning achievement of human evolution. Vijñāna śakti or the supramental Force» as Sri Aurobindo calls it, is the supreme Page 413 creative Force of the Divine, and it is only this Force with its Truth-Light that can new-create what it has created... consciousness and being, more radical- and complete than what took place when "a mentalised being first appeared in a vital and material animal world." It is a victorious descent and manifestation of the Truth- Light (rtamjyotih) in the consciousness and nature of man, and of the highest creative principle and power of. knowledge marking a decisive advance in his evolution. It is true that a somewhat ...
... progressive, for the truth of the being is never static, it is a continual unfolding of a growing, a more and more global and comprehensive perfection. As soon as the body learns to follow the movement of a progressive harmony, it will be possible for it, through a continuous process of transformation, to escape the necessity of disintegration and destruction. Thus the irrevocable law of death will have... projection, in time and space, of one of the countless possibilities latent in the Supreme Origin of all manifestation which, through the one and universal consciousness, is concretised in the law or the truth of an individual and so becomes by a progressive growth its soul or psychic being. I stress the point that what I have said here in brief does not profess to be a complete exposition of the... For if we truly want to progress and acquire the capacity of knowing the truth of our being, that is to say, the one thing for which we have been really created, that which we can call our mission upon earth, then we must, in a very regular and constant manner, reject from us or eliminate in us whatever contradicts the truth of our existence, whatever is in opposition to it. It is thus that little ...
... also the consent and participation of the Prakriti. It is not only the central thought and will that have to acquiesce, but all the parts of our being must assent and surrender to the law of the spiritual Truth: all have to learn to obey the government of the conscious Divine Power in the members." — The Life Divine by Sri Aurobindo. "...At each step of the transition the assent of the Purusha... also in its nature. The difference between the consciousness of the worm— for, it, too, has a consciousness, though it is not mental— and that of the dog or the horse is an indisputable evidence of the law of transcendence, and we perceive an equal difference in their respective natures. The difference between the consciousness of man and that of the animal is a still more striking difference, and equally... nature? Are the twilight of the human mind and its inherent weaknesses and incapacities the insuperable limit beyond which evolution cannot advance?" Evolution presupposes involution. From this truth we can reasonably deduce that what is involved must fully evolve. What is it, then, that is involved here in Matter? According to ancient Indian philosophy, it is the Supreme Being, saccidānanda, ...
... to its law and truth the lower or human existence. The ghṛta of the sacrifice is the yield of the shining Cow; it is the clarity or brightness of the solar light in the human mentality. The Soma is the immortal delight of existence secret in the waters and the plant and pressed out for drinking by gods and men. The word is the inspired speech expressing the thought-illumination of the Truth which... night he dispels is the night of the ignorance which yet conceals the dawn in its bosom. Usha herself is the Truth, sūnṛtā , and the mother of Truths. These truths of the divine Dawn are called her cows, her shining herds; while the forces of the Truth that accompany them and occupy the Life are called her horses. Around this symbol of the cows and horses much of the Vedic symbolism turns; for these are... and Darkness, Truth and Falsehood, Knowledge and Ignorance, Death and Immortality, then that is the real sense of the whole Veda. We have concluded that the Angiras Rishis are bringers of the Dawn, rescuers of the Sun out of the darkness, but that this Dawn, Sun, Darkness are figures used with a spiritual significance. The central conception of the Veda is the conquest of the Truth out of the darkness ...
... a letter published in The Hindu (Madras), August 27,1914. See The Secret of the Veda, pp. 544-48, for the full text. Page 78 of Dawn following always the path of the eternal Law or Truth! We have to suppose that when the Rishi gives vent to the joyous cry 'We have crossed over to the other shore of this darkness!', it was only the normal awakening to the daily sunrise that he thus... the gods on the summit of the eternal mountain. Then shall be the dawning of the 'best' or highest, most glorious Dawn, when 'driving away the Enemy guardian of the Truth, born in the Truth, full of the bliss, uttering the highest truths, fulfilled in all boons she brings the birth and manifestation of the godheads' (I.113.12). Meanwhile each dawn comes as the first of a long succession that shall follow... night of ten or twelve hours, we have to start with the concession that the Vedic Rishis were savages overpowered by a terror of the darkness which they peopled with goblins, ignorant of the natural law of the succession of night and day, - which is yet beautifully hymned in many of the Suktas, - and believed that it was only by their prayers and sacrifices that the Sun rose in the heavens and the Dawn ...
... consecration of each and all. 26.3.1968 Today You have shown me the basic incompatibility between human law and the Truth. But this is a problem that confronts me very often. Page 40 Politics and so-called justice are still in humanity what is most closed to the Truth. But their turn for conversion will also come, perhaps sooner than we think. 28.3.1968 I asked myself:... form part of the triumph of Truth. Wealth should not be a personal property and should be at the disposal of the Divine for the welfare of all. 4.1.1968 When Mother says that wealth should not be a personal property, understand I that what should come is more a change of psychological attitude on the part of those who own money than any change in the law of property. Undoubtedly... essential truth or also in detail? In its essential truth, but one usually keeps the perception of the illusory appearance at the same time. 23.12.1968 1 Savitri (1972), p. 341. Page 64 It seems to me that to know things in detail, the ordinary instrumentation is necessary for the Yogi too, but that the Yogi puts this knowledge to the test of the essential truth. ...
... clamour of his war-conch. He asks Krishna to set his chariot between the armies so that he can look upon the kings who had come there to champion the cause of unrighteousness and, disregarding law, justice and truth, to establish the rule of selfish and arrogant egoism. But as he looks at them, and as he sees on the other side his teachers, guardians and brethren, he is inwardly defeated by the uprush... what? For the maintenance of family morality, of the social law and the law of the nation? These are the very standards that will be destroyed by this civil war; the family itself will be brought to the point of annihilation, corruption of morals and loss of the purity of race will be engendered, the eternal laws of the race and moral law of the family will be destroyed. Ruin of the race, the collapse... the thought alone but heart and vital desires and all, are utterly bewildered and can find nowhere the dharma, nowhere any valid law of action. For this alone he takes refuge as a disciple with Krishna; give me, he practically asks, that which I have lost, a true law, a clear rule of action, a path by which I can again confidently walk. He does not ask for the secret of life or of the world, the ...
... power and knowledge intervene, so that the force of truth can be projected upon the place—in such a way that everything is put under the influence of this force, and that things, elements, the cells and everything, everything constituting them, all become receptive to this supramental power and the organisation is made according to a law of truth—then Page 288 this may be even an opportunity... is progressive—and not necessarily constant, not necessarily regular, but answering to a much more subtle law of freedom. In this compound new elements penetrate and change the whole organisation. So, this organisation which was in itself perfect and unfolding itself according to its own law, is almost suddenly changed and all the internal relation become different. So this gives the impression of... shock, for instance, with all the egoistic blindness of ordinary emotion, one objectivises, sees what it is, sees the combination in the vibration; and instantly one throws upon it light, knowledge and truth, and all things are put back in their place. That happens instantaneously. But I insist that even on the most material body, and in the most material way, the effect is not the same. Besides, it is ...
... of one's being? You must live it, that is to say, live according to the inner law, the truth of your being. I have explained this at some length in "The Science of Living", I have said that this truth of the being is precisely the particularity of every one. But it differs with every one, doesn't it? The law of each being is different, yes, otherwise how would a distinction be made?—From... as a personality. This is precisely what the Buddhists and the disciples of Shankara try to realise; they wish to abolish totally their personality, their individuality, abolish the truth of their being, the special law of their being. This is what they consider to be a fusion with the Divine. But this is the negation of this creation. And as I was saying, the miracle of this creation, as far as the... achieve this union, this complete identification with the Supreme, the One, and at the same time keep the consciousness of our diversity, of the particular law we have to express. It is more difficult but infinitely more complete, and it is the very truth of this universe. The universe has not been made for anything else but that, to unite these two poles, the two extremes of consciousness. And when they ...
... by a blind force of Nature: even in the Inconscient the presence of the supreme Truth is at work; there is a seeing Power behind it which acts infallibly and the steps of the Ignorance itself are guided even when they seem to stumble.... In this vast and apparently confused mass of existence there is a law, a one truth of being, a guiding and fulfilling purpose of the world-existence. 143 Page... may not be so easily or so soon as some wish or imagine, or in the way that they imagine. The present must surely change, but whether by a destruction or a new construction on the basis of a greater Truth, is the issue. The Mother has left the question hanging and I can only do the same. 128 October 19, 1946 (From a letter to a disciple who expressed anguish at the widespread horrors... her rebirth. June 6, 1967 (An inner communication from Sri Aurobindo to Mother.) All the countries live in falsehood. If only one country stood courageously for truth, the world might be saved. 144 Page 255 March 31, 1942 (The British government, partly realizing the inevitability of India's future independence and ...
... outwards in which the source of all thought, will and action shall be the Spirit working through the truth and Page 769 the divine law which are not built and constructed by the mind of Ignorance but are self-existent and spontaneous in their self-fulfilment, not so much a law as the truth acting in its own consciousness and in a free luminous plastic automatic process of its knowledge. ... the Knowledge. Mahopanishad. (V. 1.) He found the vast Thought with seven heads that is born of the Truth; he created some fourth world and became universal.... The Sons of Heaven, the Heroes of the Omnipotent, thinking the straight thought, giving voice to the Truth, founded the plane of illumination and conceived the first abode of the Sacrifice.... The Master of Wisdom cast down... mental beings in labour of a spiritual evolution. Even the truth of physical things cannot be entirely known, nor can the right use of our material existence be discovered by physical Science and an outward knowledge alone or made possible by the mastery of physical and mechanical processes alone: to know, to use rightly we must go beyond the truth of physical phenomenon and process, we must know what is ...
... preoccupation with cosmic law and truth not only refine the reasoning and observing faculty, but have, when not counteracted by other tendencies, a steadying, elevating and purifying influence on the mind and moral nature which has not been sufficiently noticed. The concentration of the mind and the training of the will towards the reception of the truth and living in the truth is also an evident result... Principle of all these principles and investigate its nature, attributes and essential workings. So ethics must eventually perceive that the law of good which it seeks is the law of God Page 513 and depends on the being and nature of the Master of the law. Psychology leads from the study of mind and the soul in living beings to the perception of the one soul and one mind in all things and beings... concentration. Secondly, it is necessary in order to break down the veil which is erected by our ordinary mentality between ourselves and the truth; for outer knowledge can be picked up by the way, by ordinary attention and reception, but the inner, hidden and higher truth can only be seized by an absolute concentration of the mind on its object, an absolute concentration of the will to attain it and, once ...
... impartial law of Karma. This truth of Karma has been always recognised in the East in one form or else in another; but to the Buddhists belongs the credit of having given to it the clearest and fullest universal enunciation and the most insistent importance. In the West too the idea has constantly recurred, but in external, in fragmentary glimpses, as the recognition of a pragmatic truth of experience... no doubt one, and Law too may be one; but it is perilous to fix from the beginning on one type of phenomena with a predetermined will to deduce from that all other phenomenon however different in its significance and nature. In that way we are bound to distort truth into the mould of our own prepossession. Intermediately at least we have rather to recognise the old harmonious truth of Veda—which also... different planes of cosmic existence and therefore too of our own existence and in each of them the same powers, energies or laws must act in a different type and in another sense and light of their effectuality. First, then, we see that if Karma be a universal truth or the universal truth of being, it must be equally true of the inly-born mental and moral worlds of our action as in our outward relations with ...
... battle-ready armies, “for he wishes to look upon all these kings of men who have come here to champion against him the cause of unrighteousness and establish as a rule of life the disregard of law, justice and truth which they would replace by the rule of a selfish and arrogant egoism.” 2 Being well aware of the importance and the righteousness of his cause, he is yet suddenly overwhelmed by dejection... life. The first law of this world that I have made is creation and preservation by destruction.’ “Ancient thought accepted this starting-point so far as it could see it by scrutiny of the universe. The old Upanishads saw it very clearly and phrased it with an uncompromising thoroughness which will have nothing to do with any honeyed glosses or optimistic scuttlings of the truth. Hunger that is... Greek thinker, suggests a profound truth. From a clash of material or other forces everything in this world, if not the world itself, seems to be born; by a struggle of forces, tendencies, principles, beings it seems to proceed, ever creating new things, ever destroying the old …” 5 Words like these are rarely found in books on spirituality and yoga. Still the truth is that the world can only be changed ...
... the religious spirit. But philosophy had Page 78 become too much a thing of abstractions, a seeking for abstract truths in a world of ideas and words rather than what it should be, a discovery of the real reality of things by which human existence can learn its law and aim and the principle of its perfection. Poetry and art had become too much cultured pursuits to be ranked among the elegances... exist for their own sake, but as vehicle and instrument of a good higher than their own. They must be subordinated to the superior needs of the mental being, chastened and purified by a greater law of truth, good and beauty before they can take their proper place in the integrality of human perfection. Therefore in a commercial age with its Page 80 ideal, vulgar and barbarous, of success... part of the knowledge necessary for transcending them. Life and the body have to be exceeded, but they have also to be utilised and perfected. Neither the laws nor the possibilities of physical Nature can be entirely known unless we know also the laws and possibilities of supraphysical Nature; therefore the development of new and the recovery of old mental and psychic sciences have to follow upon the ...
... shows him that he cannot securely discover the truth and law of his own being without discovering some universal law and truth to which he can relate it. Of the universe he is a part; in all but his deepest spirit he is its subject, a small cell in that tremendous organic mass: his substance is drawn from its substance and by the law of its life the law of his life is determined and governed. From a... dangers. The individualistic age is, then, a radical attempt of mankind to discover the truth and law both of the individual being and of the world to which the individual belongs. It may begin, as it began in Europe, with the endeavour to get back, more especially in the sphere of religion, to the original truth which convention Page 27 has overlaid, defaced or distorted; but from that... possibilities, circumstances, tendencies created by the relation between the mind and soul of humanity and its life and body. Therefore to find the Page 28 truth of things and the law of his being in relation to that truth he must go deeper and fathom the subjective secret of himself and things as well as their objective forms and surroundings. This he may attempt to do for a time by ...
... the natural law of the succession of night and day,—which is yet beautifully hymned in many of the Suktas,—and believed that it was only by their prayers and sacrifices that the Sun rose in the heavens and the Dawn emerged from the embrace of her sister Night. Yet they speak of the undeviating rule of the action of the Gods, and of Dawn following always the path of the eternal Law or Truth! We have to... the coming of the Dawn the Truths are won out of the Nights. This is the rising of the Sun which was lost in the obscurity—the familiar figure of the lost sun recovered by the Gods and the Angirasa Rishis—the sun of Truth and it now shoots out its tongue of fire towards the golden Light:—for hiraṇya , gold is the concrete symbol of the higher light, the gold of the Truth, and it is this treasure not... through the heaven of the pure mind, the journey by the path of the Truth to the other side. Not till we reach the highest supreme, paramā parāvat , do we rest at last from the great human journey. We shall see that not only in this hymn, but everywhere Dawn comes as a bringer of the Truth, is herself the outshining of the Truth. She is the divine Dawn and the physical dawning is only her shadow ...
... of the "dharma" of each thing and each being. It is a constant perception, spontaneous, effortless, through identity, of the dharma of each being (I use the word "dharma" because it's neither "law" nor "truth," but both together). In order for this being to go by the shortest way to his goal, here is the curve of the most favorable circumstances; consequently the action will always be modeled on that... gesture of drawing within ) and look, well, I see that the cells themselves are beginning to learn the Vibration. It is obviously the agent of the creation. And I said that that sort of "rain of Truth-Light" which came a few months ago 1 announced something—it has obviously prepared, started this kind of permeation of a superior Harmony into the material vibrations. It has prepared not a "new ...
... exactitude. But the Power that is at work is omniscient; it is selecting, rejecting, correcting, fashioning, creating, co-ordinating elements in accordance with and by the drive of the inviolable law of Truth and Harmony that reigns in Light's "own home"— swe dame —the Supermind. Page 24 It is also to be noted that as mind is not the last limit of the march of evolution, even so the... intelligence, but unescapably unitarian even in the utmost diversity. Supermind is the" Truth-consciousness at once static and dynamic, self-existent and creative: in Supermind the Brahmic consciousness — Sachchidananda — is ever self-aware and ever manifested and embodied in fundamental truth-powers and truth-forms for the play of creation; it is the plane where the One breaks out into the Many and... their oneness of Reality the manifold but not separated lines of essential and unalloyed truth: its march is the inevitable progression of each one assured truth entering into and upholding every other and therefore its creation, play or action admits of no trial or stumble or groping or deviation; for each truth rests on all others and on that which harmonises them Page 17 all and does ...
... that is at work is omniscient; it is selecting, rejecting, correcting, fashioning, creating, co-ordinating elements in accordance Page 22 with and by the drive of the inviolable law of Truth and Harmony that reigns in Light's "own home"— swe dame— the Supermind. It is also to be noted that as mind is not the last limit of the march of evolution, even so the progress of evolution... mental intelligence, but inescapably unitarian even in the utmost diversity. Supermind is the Truth-consciousness at once static and dynamic, self-existent and creative: in Supermind the Brahmic Consciousness—Sachchidananda—is ever self-aware and ever manifested and embodied in fundamental truth-powers and truth-forms for the play of creation; it is the plane where the One breaks out into the Many and... their oneness of Reality the manifold but not separated lines of essential and unalloyed truth: its march is the inevitable progression of each one assured truth entering into and upholding every other and therefore its creation, play or action admits of no trial or stumble or groping or deviation; for each truth rests on all others and on that which harmonises them all and does not act as a Power diverging ...
... that is at work is omniscient; it is selecting, rejecting, correcting, fashioning, creating, co-ordinating elements in accordance Page 14 with and by the drive of the inviolable law of Truth and Harmony that reigns in Light's "own home" – swe dame – the Supermind. It is also to be noted that as mind is not the last limit of the march of evolution, even so the progress of evolution... mental intelligence, but inescapably unitarian even in the utmost diversity. Supermind is the Truth-consciousness at once static and dynamic, self-existent and creative: in Supermind the Brahmic consciousness – Sachchidananda – is ever self-aware and ever manifested and embodied in fundamental truth-powers and truth-forms for the play of creation; it is the plane where the One breaks out into the Many and... their oneness of Reality the manifold but not separated lines of essential and unalloyed truth: its march is the inevitable progression of each one assured truth entering into and upholding every other and therefore its creation, play or action admits of no trial or stumble or groping or deviation; for each truth rests on all others and on that which harmonises them all and does not act as a Power diverging ...
... "Thus is it in thee and it is not otherwise." Purnata, fullness is the true law of our progression. Therefore all attempts to deny and slaughter the reason are reprehensible and should be strongly opposed & discouraged. The revolt of Rationalism against the tyranny of the creeds & the Churches is justified by God's law and truth. And not only the Page 346 Churches & creeds, but Veda must... of the iron age. I have said that I do not deny the truth of these Page 341 philosophies. The Asad Brahman, Nirvana, annihilation of the manifest soul in the unmanifest are all of them great truths and, if we regard them without the fear & shrinking of the ignorant existence-loving mind, they are not only great but also blissful truths; they are an eternal part of Vedanta and it is well... Instruments of Vedanta Chapter I: Intellect and Revelation If in the progression of the ages there are always golden periods in which man recovers self-knowledge and attunes the truth of himself to the truth of his surroundings—or may it not even be, may not this be the true secret of his evolution—attunes his surroundings to his fulfilled and triumphant self, not being merely determined by ...
... within, a law, becomes the law of a realisation. And every one of these possibilities becomes the reality of a being, of an individuality.if you like, of something existing objectively. And it is that law which is the origin of the centre of the psychic being: it is the truth of the being or the law of the being. The Buddha called it the "law", he spoke of the Dharma. It is the truth of the being... one of the countless possibilities latent in the supreme origin of all manifestation which, through the medium of the one and universal consciousness, takes con- crete form in the law or the truth of an individual and so, by a progressive development, becomes his soul or psy- chic being." — The Mother It is a little philosophical.... You know the difference between what is... imperceptible that they cannot be understood with our three-dimensional understanding, the more so as they follow laws which elude completely this three-dimensional idea. So if you take refuge there, you may say that the divine spark is at the centre of each atom and you won't be far from the truth; but I was not speaking of the divine spark, I was speaking of the being, the psychic consciousness, which is ...
... sed and cannot express itself. 21 March 1968 Today You have shown me the basic incompatibility between human law and the Truth. But this is a problem that confronts me very often. Politics and so-called justice are still, in humanity, what is most closed to the Truth. But their turn for conversion will also come, perhaps sooner than we think. 28 March 1968 Can one say that all... of the triumph of Truth. Wealth should not be a personal property and should be at the disposal of the Divine for the welfare of all. 4 January 1968 Page 372 When Mother says that wealth should not be a personal property, I understand that what should come is more a change of psychological attitude on the part of those who own money than any change in the law of property. ... known in its essential truth or also in detail? In its essential truth, but one usually keeps the perception of the illusory appearance at the same time. 23 December 1968 Page 391 It seems to me that to know things in detail, the ordinary instrumentation is necessary for the yogi too, but that the yogi puts this knowledge to the test of the essential truth. Yes, one can put ...
... net of the inner consciousness; he is the master of a profounder and truer setting of world-truth and world-experience than that which is formed by the senses and the superficial mind. It is by this inner setting that he seizes the powers of false hood, obscurity and division and subjects them to the law of truth, light and unity; gṛbhṇāti ripuṁ nidhayā nidhāpatiḥ . Men therefore protected by the lord... plenty of the godhead which is the condition of the divine delight. In other words it is the Lord of the Ananda who gives us the splendours of the Truth and the plenitudes of the Vast by which we attain to Immortality. The fathers who discovered the Truth, received his creative knowledge, his Maya, and by that ideal and ideative consciousness of the supreme Divinity they formed an image of Him in man... attainment to Immortality. They are the sages who received the strong divine vision, nṛcakṣasaḥ , the Truth-vision by which they were able to find the Cows hidden by the Panis and to pass beyond the bounds of the Rodasi, the mental and physical consciousness, to the Superconscient, the Vast Truth and the Bliss (R.V. I.36.7, IV.1.13-18, IV.2.15-18 etc.). Soma is the Gandharva, the Lord of the hosts ...
... void hast trod! RISHI King, not in vain. I knew the tedious bars That I had fled, To be His arms whom I have sought; I saw How earth was made Out of His being; I perceived the Law, The Truth, the Vast, From which we came and which we are; I heard The ages past Whisper their history, and I knew the Word That forth was cast Into the unformed potency of things To build... gleams. The dreams of God are truths and He prevails. Then all His time Cherish thyself, O King, and cherish men, Anchored in Him. MANU Upon the silence of the sapphire main Waves that sublime Rise at His word and when that fiat's stilled Are hushed again, So is it, Rishi, with the Spirit concealed, Things and men? RISHI Hear then the truth. Behind this visible world... in their hearts the single mighty God Whom none can know, Page 229 Guiding the mimic squadrons with His nod Watches it all— Like transient shapes that sweep with half-guessed truth A luminous wall. MANU Alas! is life then vain? Our gorgeous youth Lithe and tall, Our sweet fair women with their tender eyes Outshining stars, The mighty meditations of the wise ...
... crookedly seeing fashion, there may well be something of a real truth behind this view, though it is not likely to be the whole or the well understood truth. There are some certain or Page 370 probable laws of the universal working which are relevant to it and must enter into the account. First, it is sure that Nature has laws of which the observance leads to or helps well-being and of which... real evil this may be said that the one tends towards some supreme Right, the ṛtam of the Vedic Rishis, the highest law of a highest Truth of our being and that Truth is the door of the spirit's Ananda, its beatific nature, the other is a missing or perversion of the Right and the Truth and exposes us to its opposite, to false delight or suffering. And even in the perplexed steps of life some reflection... divine Human or, we might say, a superior anthropoid Divine, or else the cosmic Law a perfection and magnitude of human methods and standards, which deals with man as he is accustomed to deal with his neighbour,—only not with a rough partial human efficacy, but either a sure omniscience or an unfailing automatism. Whatever truth there may be behind that notion, this is not likely to be an adequate account ...
... a spiritual life: King, not in vain. I knew the tedious bars That I had fled, To be His arms whom I have sought; I saw How earth was made Out of his being; I perceived the Law, The Truth, the Vast, From which we came and which we are; I heard The ages past Whisper their history, and I knew the Word That forth was cast Into the unformed potency of things To... in regard to the truth so long as we take our stand on the lower plane when we have to look at the truth through the symbol; but if we view it from the higher plane, from truth itself, it is no longer mere symbol but the very truth bodied forth. Whatever there is of symbolism on earth and its beauties, in sense and its enjoyments, is then transfigured into the expression of the truth, of the divinity... voiceless core of white And luminous bliss, The sweet vast centre and the cave divine Called Paradise, He dwells within us all who dwells not in Aught that is.³ It is the bare truth, "truth in its own home", as I have said already using a phrase of the ancient sages, that is formulated here without the prop of any external symbolism. There is no veil, no mist, no uncertainty or ambiguity ...
... net of the inner consciousness; he is the master of a profounder and truer setting of world-truth and world-experience than that which is formed by the senses and the superficial mind. It is by this inner setting that he seizes the powers of falsehood, obscurity and division and subjects them to the law of truth, light and unity; grbhnati ripum ridhaya nidhapatih. Men therefore protected by the lord... lord of the Ananda governing this inner nature are able to accord their thoughts and actions with the inner truth and light and are no longer made to stumble by the forces of the outer crookedness; they walk straight, they become entirely perfect in their works and by this truth of inner working and outer action are able to taste the entire sweetness of existence, the honey, the delight that is the food... the offering, the divine food, the wine of delight and immortality, havih and as the Deva, lord of that divine offering (havismah), above as the vast and divine seat, the superconscient bliss and truth, brhat, from which the wine descends to us. As the wine of delight he flows about and enters into this great march of the sacrifice which is the progress of man from the physical to the superconscient ...
... resistant material activity, how much more difficult must it seem for the spiritual existence to live on in a world that appears full not of the Truth but of every lie and illusion, not of Love and Beauty but of an encompassing discord and ugliness, not of the Law of Truth but of victorious selfishness and sin? Therefore the spiritual life tends easily in the saint and Sannyasin to withdraw from the material... no dependence and is equal behind all objective appearances; its dream of perfect Truth in the supreme, self-existent, self-apparent and eternal Verity which never varies, but explains and is the secret of all variations and the goal of all progress; its dream of perfect action in the omnipotent and self-guiding Law that is inherent for ever in all things and translates itself here in the rhythm of... inner love and bliss may pour itself out on the world in good deeds, in service, in compassion, the inner Truth in the giving of knowledge, without therefore attempting the transformation of a world which must by its inalienable nature remain a battlefield of the dualities, of sin and virtue, of truth and error, of joy and suffering. But if Progress also is one of the chief terms of world-existence ...
... aware at once of the Law, Truth and Right of the All and the Law, Truth and Right of the individual and the two become consciously harmonised in a mutual unity, where the whole nature of the consciousness is the One knowing itself as the Many and the Many knowing themselves as the One, there the Force also will be of the same nature: it will be a Life that consciously obeys the law of Unity and yet fulfils... in its law and truth, of that which works in the subconscient by the lower Maya under the conditions of the Denial which seeks to become the Affirmation. For this lower Nature works out what is willed and known in that higher Nature. The Illusion-Power of the divine knowledge in the world which creates appearances is governed by the Truth-Power of the same knowledge which knows the truth behind the... unaware of what it contains, seeming mechanically to fulfil itself by a sort of inexorable accident, an inevitably happy chance, even while all the while it really obeys faultlessly the law of the Right and Truth fixed for it by the will of the supernal Conscious-Being concealed within its movement. Where the Consciousness is divided in itself, as in Mind, limiting itself in various centres, setting ...
... inextricably confused together, temporal and conventional amidst all their claim to absoluteness and immutable truth, empirical and irrational in spite of their aping of right reason. And finally the sage seeking in the midst of it all a highest foundation of fixed law and an original truth finds himself obliged to raise the Page 177 last supreme question, whether all action and life itself ...
... reason. Human reason has a double action, mixed or dependent, pure or sovereign. Reason accepts a mixed action when it confines itself to the circle of our sensible experience, admits its law as the final truth and concerns itself only with the study of phenomenon, that is to say, with the appearances of things in their relations, processes and utilities. This rational action is incapable of knowing... of the ego and an instance of the manner Page 68 in which it has proceeded throughout, starting from an original falsehood and covering over the true truth of things by contingent falsehoods which become for us practical truths of relation. From this nature of mental and sense knowledge as it is at present organised in us, it follows that there is no inevitable necessity in our existing... leads to the aim we have in view, the psychological experience of those truths that are "beyond perception by the sense but seizable by the perceptions of the Page 70 reason", buddhigrāhyam atīndriyam . 1 They give us only a larger field of phenomena and more effective means for the observation of phenomena. The truth of things always escapes beyond the sense. Yet is it a sound rule inherent ...
... critical juncture in which, having gone forward from symbols, types, conventions, having turned its gaze superficially on the individual being to discover his truth and right law of action and its relation to the superficial and external truth and law of the universe, our race begins to gaze deeper, to see and feel what is behind the outside and below the surface and therefore to live from within. It is... n of the mere egoistic will-to-live for the sake of one's lower members is the true object at which a humanity subjectively seeking to know and fulfil its own deepest law and truth should increasingly aim. The second psychic truth the individual has to grasp is this, that he is not only himself, but is in solidarity with all of his kind,—let us leave aside for the moment that which seems to be not... for the real is the one general error, root of all others and cause of all our stumbling and suffering, to which man is exposed by the nature of his mentality. We may apply this truth to the attempt of man to live by the law of his subjective being whether as an individual or as a social unit one in its corporate mind and body. For this is the sense of the characteristic turn which modern civilisation ...
... pursuit of pure truth and right knowledge; it seeks to discover the real Truth behind life and things and our apparent selves and to subject its will to the law of Truth. Few, if any of us, can use this highest reason with any purity, but the attempt to do it is the topmost capacity of the inner instrument, the antaḥkaraṇa . Buddhi is really an intermediary between a much higher Truth-mind not now... reaction and response which rise up from the basic consciousness, citta-vṛtti . Their action too is largely regulated by habit and an emotive memory. They are not imperative, not laws of Necessity; there is no really binding law of our emotional being to which we must submit without remedy; we are not obliged to give responses of grief to certain impacts upon the mind, responses of anger to others, to... divine Spirit as a universal will through the supermind individualised in him for action. His works will therefore be the works of an eternal Knowledge, an eternal Truth, an eternal Might, an eternal Love, an eternal Ananda; but the truth, knowledge, force, love, delight will be the whole essential spirit of whatever work he will do and will not depend on its form; they will determine his Page 644 ...
... hands in the air) : I have no idea ( Laughter ). It is yet to be done. All I Page 247 can say is that it would be something which would have in it the two fundamental laws of the Supermind Truth and Harmony. Disciple : Would the Ashta Siddhis – the eight Supernatural powers – be attained by one who attains the Supramentalisation of the physical ? Sri Aurobindo : You... one yesterday. Page 244 There was a scientist and a magician. Both of them wanted to rescue a girl from alien enemies. The magician was the psychic and mental man who knows the truth but does not know concretisation of the same. He has the grasp of the Spirit but not of the process and its details. The scientist tried and the magician tried to save the girl. The... Yes. After all the distinctions we make between mental, vital and physcal are not quite true : they are not separate parts – they are all one. And I think the Vedic Rishis found out a great truth when they spoke of the Sun in the physical as one with the 'highest Sun. After all the physical is as much a manifestation of the higher. Force as anything else and I do not understand why we should ...
... your work." So everything is for the best! But this breaks all bounds! Indeed, Mother!... In the essential truth, I am with you forever, as you know, there is no doubt about it. So far so good But when I deal with Matter, I have to fight using Matter's laws along with whatever truth I may have. As far as Matter is concerned, I saw there was falsehood; I'm fighting against that falsehood, and I'm... B. And B. said I was quite right. So where is the confusion? 1 Yes? ( silence ) What I wrote you is.... Will you read me what I told you?... To tell the truth (I don't like to say this), but to tell the truth, it was Sri Aurobindo who came and told me to write this to you. There must have been some reason, mon petit. Page 233 Yes. Here's what you say: "An individual... at all. Yes. There's something I don't grasp in all this. I told him quite plainly. What did André tell you? Didn't he tell you that? No, Mother. But André is straight, André tells the truth. André isn't with those crooks, naturally! Neither André nor I are people who tell lies. He may not have understood, then. Do you want to call André and we see it together? Calling André is ...
... order founded upon a seeking for the inner law and truth of things and having in view always the possibility of conscientious practice. India has been preeminently the land of the Dharma and the Shastra. She searched for the inner truth and law of each human or cosmic activity, its Dharma; that found, she laboured to cast into elaborate form and detailed law of arrangement its application in fact and... insight, — that life cannot be rightly seen in Page 17 the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities. She was alive to the greatness of material laws and forces; she had a keen eye for the importance of the physical sciences; she knew how to organise the arts of ordinary life. But she saw that the physical does not get its full sense until it stands... and empires, philosophies and cosmogonies and sciences and creeds and arts and poems and all kinds of monuments, palaces and temples and public works, communities and societies and religious orders, laws and codes and rituals, physical sciences, psychic sciences, systems of Yoga, systems of politics and administration, arts spiritual, arts worldly, trades, industries, fine crafts, — the list is endless ...
... type indicates man's proper field and should trace for him his just circle of function in his outer social existence. 3. And thirdly, whatever work a man does, if done according to the law of his being, the truth of his nature, can be turned Godwards and made an effective means of spiritual liberation and perfection. It must not be thought that the fourfold order of the society was peculiar... individuals to fulfil those functions. Even if one could create a purely productive and commercial society such as modern times have attempted, even then, there would emerge thinkers moved to find the law and truth and guiding rule of the society, the captains and leaders utilising productive activity as an excuse for the satisfaction of their need of adventure and battle and leadership and dominance, the... the fourfold law and beyond the limitation of all distinctive Dharmas, sarvadharmani parityajya. The Spirit takes up the individual into the universal Swabhava, perfects and unifies the fourfold soul of nature in us and does its self-determined works according to the divine will and the accomplished power of the godhead in the creature. ... Our work should be according to the truth within us, ...
... within, a law, becomes the law of a realisation. And every one of these possibilities becomes the reality of a being, of an individuality if you like, of something existing objectively. And it is that law which is the origin of the centre of the psychic being: it is the truth of the being or the law of the being. The Buddha called it the "law", he spoke of the Dharma . It is the truth of the being... would find and live according to the hidden Truth and deepest law of its own being. Sri Aurobindo The Human Cycle: The Coming of the Subjective Age The psychic being is formed by the inner Truth and organised around it. The Mother Words of the Mother - III: 18 January 1951 Does the psychic being identify itself with the inner Truth? It organises itself around it and enters... and space, of one of the countless possibilities latent in the supreme origin of all manifestation which, through the medium of the one and universal consciousness, takes concrete form in the law or the truth of an individual and so, by a progressive development, becomes his soul or psychic being." It is a little philosophical.... You know the difference between what is subjective and what is objective ...
... seeking for the inner Page 8 law and truth of things and having in view always the possibility of conscientious practice. India has been preeminently the land of the Dharma and the Shastra. She searched for the inner truth and law of each human or cosmic activity, its dharma; that found, she laboured to cast into elaborate form and detailed law of arrangement its application in fact and... literary, cultural, political, social forms by the same soul rejuvenescent will, I should think, be the type of the Indian renascence,—forms not contradictory of the truths of life which the old expressed, but rather expressive of those truths restated, cured of defect, completed. What was this ancient spirit and characteristic soul of India? European writers, struck by the general metaphysical bent... she never lost hold of the insight,—that life cannot be rightly seen in the sole light, cannot be perfectly lived in the sole power of its externalities. She was alive to the greatness of material laws and forces; she had a keen eye for the importance of the physical sciences; she knew how to organise the arts of ordinary life. But she saw that the physical does not get its full sense until it stands ...
... or Yucatan, the hierophants of Eleusis or even our Celts. We have forgotten. We have lost the Word. ...I perceived the Law, The Truth, the Vast, From which we came and which we are; I heard The ages past Whisper their history, and I knew the Word 2 An age of Truth, India's satya yuga , or rather an age of intuition , preceded the history of our mental humanity. Judging by the remnants... embodied gods" (V.62.1). That Truth covering another Truth is the summit of the mind, the mystical border where the seeker topples into ecstacy, thinking he has found the supreme Truth; it is the "golden lid" of the Upanishad of later times. But the Rishis found the Truth which lies beyond that Truth, the place where the ten hundred rays of our illuminations and our lower truths are gathered into one great... dwelling place" (I.36.8). They entered "the Truth, the Right, the Vast," satyam, ritam, brihat , "the unbroken light, the fearless light," for there, suffering and falsehood and death are no more : there is only immortality, amritam . And the Veda gives us its high unifying vision, which has illuminated India to this day : "There is a Truth covered by a Truth, where they unyoke the horses of the Sun; ...
... working, no element of error or impotence to obscure or distort the luminous perfection and power of the Spirit. All these lower conditions, laws, dharmas cease to have any hold on us; the Infinite acts in the liberated man and there is no law but the immortal truth and right of the free spirit, no Karma, no kind of bondage. Harmony and order are the characteristic qualities of the sattwic mind and... renunciation is to withdraw not from action, but from the personal demand, the ego factor behind it. It is to do works not dictated by desire but by the law of right living or by the essential nature, its knowledge, its ideal, its faith in itself and the Truth it sees, its śraddhā . Or else, on a higher spiritual plane, they are dictated by the will of the Master and done with the mind in Yoga, without any... a dull and wrong light, a cloud of misconceptions, a stupid ignoring of the values of things and people. This reason calls light darkness and darkness light, takes what is not the true law and upholds it as the law, persists in the thing which ought not to be done and holds it up to us as the one right thing to be done. Its ignorance is invincible and its persistence of will is a persistence in the ...
... instrument of the infinite Spirit acting in its own knowledge. The divine Will and Wisdom organising the action of the infinite consciousness and determining all things according to the truth of the spirit and the law of its manifestation is not mental but supramental and even in its formulation nearest to mind as much above the mental consciousness in its light and power as the mental consciousness... power of its self-knowledge the law of its own manifestation of being in the universe, not only the material universe present to our senses, but whatever lies behind it on whatever planes of existence. All is organised by it not under any inconscient compulsion, not according to a mental fantasy or caprice, but in its own infinite spiritual freedom according to the self-truth of its being, its infinite... infinite potentialities and its will of self-creation out of those potentialities, and the law of this self-truth is the necessity that compels created things to act and evolve each according to its own nature. The Intelligence—to give it an inadequate name—the Logos that thus organises its own manifestation is evidently something infinitely greater, more extended in knowledge, compelling in self-power, large ...
... relation. For this is the nature of Law or Truth in the world that it is the just working and bringing out of that which is contained in being, implied in the essence and nature of the thing itself, latent in its self-being and self-law, svabhāva and svadharma , as seen by the divine Knowledge. To use one of those wonderful formulas of the Upanishad 1 which contain a world of knowledge in a few... its dual contrary sides of the one Truth. The Divine Consciousness, having conceived and thrown into operation the Idea of this dual or divided representation of Itself, deduces Page 186 from it in real-idea and educes practically from it in substance of life, by the governing action of the whole Truth-consciousness behind it, its own inferior truth or inevitable result of various relation... has created this material world. But since, as we have now found, Mind is no independent and original entity but only a final operation of the Truth-consciousness or Supermind, therefore wherever Mind is, there Supermind must be. Supermind or the Truth-consciousness is the real creative agency of the universal Existence. Even when Mind is in its own darkened consciousness separated from its source ...
... Divine Chapter XIII Exclusive Concentration of Consciousness-Force and the Ignorance From the kindled fire of Energy of Consciousness Truth was born and the Law of Truth; from that the Night, from the Night the flowing ocean of being. Rig Veda. (X. 190. 1.) Since Brahman is in the essentiality of its universal being a unity and a multiplicity... moment is not the real or the whole truth of his being, but only a practical or pragmatic truth for the purposes of the superficial movement of his life and within its limits. It is a truth, not an unreality, but a truth only in its positive part; in its negative parts it is an ignorance, and this negative ignorance limits and often distorts even the practical truth, so that the conscious life of man... enough, but it is not the whole truth of our being and by regarding it by itself even its truth is misrepresented to our outer awareness. In that true truth of itself it is an involved Consciousness and Knowledge evolving back to itself, but it is dynamically effective as an Inconscience and an Ignorance. This being the root-nature of the Ignorance, a practical truth of a phenomenally but not really ...
... parts. The tendency of man to seek after a just and perfect law of his living finds its truth and its justification in the Dharma. Every thing indeed has its dharma, its law of life imposed on it by its nature; but for man the dharma is the conscious imposition of a rule of ideal living on all his members. Dharma is fixed in its essence, but still it develops in our consciousness and evolves and has its... line, a guidance. There must be an ethic or a science, a restraint as well as a scope arising from the truth of the thing sought, a standard of perfection, an order. Differing with the type of the man and the type of the function these special dharmas would yet rise towards the greater law and truth that contains and overtops the others and is universally effective. This then was the Dharma, special... have the same training, cannot be shaped in the same pattern, cannot all follow the same way of living. All ought not to be put under the same tables of the law; for that would be a senseless geometric rigidity that would spoil the plastic truth of life. Each has his type of nature and there must be a rule for the perfection of that type; each has his own proper function and there must be a canon and ...
... time, and ignorance means ignoring the inner law, the truth of the being. And loyalty means not to take the illusion for the reality, the changing and fluctuating appearances for the inner and real permanence of the being. We can say then that self-control and self-mastery, measure, absence of desire, the search for the inner truth of the being and the law of its self-manifestation are very necessary... chiefly egoism and ignorance; because, from the Buddhist standpoint, the greatest of all taints is ignorance, not ignorance of external things, of the laws of Nature and of all that you learn at school, but the ignorance of the deepest truth of things, of the law of the being, of the Dharma. It is noteworthy that the two defects insisted upon here are lack of self-control and lack of loyalty. Loyalty means... of admission and refusal that we call thought-control and this will be the subject of our meditation tonight. 20 September 1957 For, in truth, in this world hatred is not appeased by hatred; hatred is appeased by love alone. This is the eternal law. This is one of the most celebrated verses of the Dhammapada, one of those most often cited—I would have liked to be able to say, "one of the ...
... 19 April 1968 Divine Mother, Is there any reason why in Auroville we should have to compromise with the truth out of a feeling of expediency or material gain? The very fact of living and acting is a compromise because the world is not yet living under the law of Truth. 7 June 1968 Page 197 Auroville No big creation is possible without discipline— individual... effort from all so that it has not to be. It is only the Truth that can save us, truth in words, truth in action, truth in will, truth in feelings. It is a choice between serving the Truth or being destroyed. 26 November 1972 Auroville has been created for a progressive superhumanity, not for an infra-humanity governed by its instincts and dominated by its desires. Those who belong to the... At the service of Truth Truth 30 October 1972 Harmony Good will Discipline Truth I can work with you only if you do not say a lie and are at the service of Truth. 31 October 1972 Before dying, falsehood rises in full swing. Still people understand only the lesson of catastrophe. Will it have to come before they open their eyes to the Truth? I ask an effort ...
... become aware of the Truth and the eternal Will that manifests it. Through this identification having become the faithful servant and sure intermediary of the divine Will, and uniting this conscious identification with the Principle to the conscious identification with its becoming, to mould and model consciously the love, mind and life of the becoming in accordance with the Law of Truth of the Principle... indicative symbol or sign. For now the Spirit sees all with its own characteristic supramental mode of Truth-Vision. A spirit, a being saw created things And cast itself into unnumbered forms And was what it saw and made; all now became An evidence of one stupendous truth, A Truth in which negation had no place, A being and a living consciousness, A stark and absolute Reality... with a desireless but effective action without." She has realised "the possibility of an entire motionless impersonality and void Calm within doing outwardly the works of the eternal verities, Love, Truth and Righteousness." She is passing through the great experience of the Buddha, Sakyamuni, and the Seer of the Taittiriya Upanishad who spoke of the Asat, the Non-Existent, which "alone was in the beginning ...
... become conscious of the Truth and the eternal Will which manifests it. By this identification, becoming the faithful servant and sure intermediary of the divine Will, and uniting this conscious identification of the Principle with the conscious identification of the becoming, to mould and model consciously the love, mind and life of the becoming according to the Law of Truth of the Principle. It... servitor. Thy love is vaster than the universe and more enduring than the ages; it is infinite and eternal, it is Thyself. And it is Thyself that I would be and that I am, since such is Thy law and such Thy Will.”¹ This love, as I have already said, is not a static but a supremely dynamic love, and the union it leads to is not a union. in trance, but a perfect union in action...Action... vaster than the universe... Page 1 Words are poor and clumsy, O divine Master, and mental translations are always childish... But my aspiration for Thee is constant, and, to tell the truth, it is very often Thyself and Thou alone who livest in this body, an imperfect means of Thy manifestation May all beings be happy in the peace of Thy illumination. THIS is one of the ...
... Each of these parts has its own law of growth and its fulfilment. Truly, the spirit remains unchanged as it is Page 52 beyond space and time. But as we rise to our goal of perfection, ... we shall perceive that the truth we seek is made up of four major aspects: Love, Knowledge, Power and Beauty. These four attributes of the Truth will spontaneously express themselves... concretised in the law or the truth of an individual and so becomes by a progressive growth its soul or psychic being.36 This definition of the psychic being will be sufficient for our purpose. "Psychic" means "belonging to the soul, or psyche”. The psychic being is a conscious form of the Divine growing in the evolution. It is through the psychic presence that the truth of an Page... the condition of genuine development. The highest aim of Art is to find the Divine through beauty. But this discovery has its own laws and the first endeavour is "to see and depict man and Nature and life for their own sake, in their own characteristic truth and beauty; for behind these first characters lies always the beauty of the Divine in life and man and Nature and it is through their ...
... some illumination and transmutation of the inner ways of the being. An eternal Truth-Consciousness must possess us and sublimate all our natural modes into its own modes of being, knowledge and action; a spontaneous truth-awareness, truth-will, truth-feeling, truth movement, truth-action can then become the integral law of our nature. Page 655 ... find out an intellectual basis, an idea of law or principle, rational or cosmic, a law of Karma perhaps or an ethical system founded on reason or on an aesthetic, emotional or hedonistic basis. Religion brings in her sanctions; there is a word or law of God that enjoins righteousness even though Nature permits or stimulates its opposite,—or perhaps Truth and Righteousness are themselves God and there... Nature is either a neutral indifference or an equal acceptance or, intellectually, an admission of all that she may do as a divine or a natural law in which everything is impartially admissible. That is indeed one side of the truth: there is an infrarational truth of Life and Matter which is impartial and neutral and admits all things as facts of Nature and serviceable for the creation, preservation or ...
... wither all too soon and lose the native hue of freshness under the glare of such "discipline". On the other hand, there is an inner law, an innermost truth of things, which prescribes the norms of behaviour, and the problem of education is to help this law, this truth, to come out to the forefront of its own accord, and suffer no obscuration or perversion. Pupils and teachers are both heirs to limitless... too that the Divine is present in all others as well. "Freedom" is indeed the very oxygen of the whole scheme of things at the Centre of Education, but it is held in leash by the paramountcy of Truth, by the Law at the heart of all existence. The academic courses are not stereotyped, the training is not cheaply utilitarian nor solely through specialist grooves, the pupils are not specifically equipped... the Mother and the Ashram children. A passage from The Synthesis of Yoga was under discussion: The law of sacrifice is the common divine action that was thrown out into the world in its beginning as a symbol of the solidarity of the universe. It is by the attraction of this law that a divinising, a saving power descends to limit and correct and gradually to eliminate the errors of an egoistic ...
... of the wrong road retarding our real progress. This law obtains in one form or another in all Nature; it underlies all that action of law of universality and law of variation revealed to us by science. The same law obtains in the life of the human being, his many lives in many human bodies. Here it has an outward play and an inward spiritual truth, and the outward play can only put on its full and real... function in his outer social existence. Finally, whatever work a man does, if done according to the law of his being, the truth of his nature, can be turned Godwards and made an effective means of spiritual liberation and perfection. The first and last of these propositions are suggestions of an evident truth and justice. The ordinary way of man's individual and social living seems indeed to be a contradiction... apparently uncertain but secretly inevitable growth to fullness. That is our Swabhava, our own real nature; that is our truth of being which is finding now only a constant partial expression in our various becoming in the world. The law of action determined by this Swabhava is our right law of self-shaping, function, working, our Swadharma. This principle obtains throughout cosmos; there is everywhere ...
... सिन्धवो वरूणस्य यन्ति । न श्राम्यन्ति न वि मुचन्त्येते वयो न पप्तू रघुया परिज्मन् ।।४।। प्र forward, in front सीम a bourne, limit; आदित्यो the son of Aditi विधर्ता who holds apart or variously ऋतं law or truth सिन्धवो rivers or oceans वरुणस्य of [Varuna] यन्ति go. न not श्राम्यन्ति they grow weary न not मुचन्ति leave एते they वयो manifestation or heaven रघुया by swiftness पप्तू they fall न not परिज्मन्... bourne, even he that holdeth things apart in their places, and the waters follow Varuna’s law; they weary not, neither do they leave flowing (widening), they have fallen not (from their heaven) though they speed swiftly, O Varuna of the wide spaces. May we advance, O Varuna, for my free movement the circuit of thy law as a lover widens the girdle of his beloved, may not my thread be cut as I expand my ... base in the wideness of the earth consciousness & labours with the seven waters Indra has set flowing to produce the Truth. पारे of heaven, the mind पार्ये दिवि . That is on the borders between 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 ...
... shows him that he cannot securely discover the truth and law of his own being without discovering some universal law and truth to which he can relate it. Of the universe he is a part; in all but his deepest spirit he is its subject, a small cell in that tremendous organic mass: his substance is drawn from its substance and by the law of its life the law of his life is determined and governed. From a... old is at all taken up, it must be transformed and exceeded. For the underlying truth of things is constant and eternal, but its mental figures, its life forms, its physical embodiments call constantly for growth and change …” “The individualistic age is, then, a radical attempt of mankind to discover the truth and law both of the individual being and of the world to which the individual belongs.... the gulf between the convention and the truth becomes intolerable and the men of intellectual power arise, the great ‘swallowers of formulas’, who, rejecting robustly or fiercely or with the calm light of reason, symbol and type and convention, strike at the walls of the prison-house and seek by the individual reasonal moral sense or emotional desire the Truth that society has lost or buried in its ...
... beings, involving humanity. It has its laws, it has its functions.... A : Yes, these are the laws which we are studying now. All other laws are derivatives from mind. These are the laws given to us by somebody who has the vision of the Truth-Consciousness, experience of the Truth-Consciousness, and also the experience of the operation of the Truth-Consciousness. So, it is not unrelated to... the process and move toward interchange with others ? It is, really speaking, a movement of trying to realize conscious Page 195 Unity in difference. That is the law of Satchidananda, that is the law of Truth-Consciousness,—unity in difference. There all individualities exist as variations on the infinite one. The infinite one holds innumerable variations of its own self within itself... this desire and death and incapacity into existence, that it is the operation of a Truth-Consciousness working under the conditions of material inconscience. It is not, as if it was unreal, or that man has no escape from it. That attitude is wrong, because it takes only a temporary condition as if it were the permanent law. The conclusion that Sri Aurobindo substantiates through all these long chapters ...
... down to the tiniest leaf – everything harmonizes when one harmonizes with Page 60 the Law. Because, in fact, there is only one Law, a Law of Truth. Truth is supreme effectiveness. 7 The Fire of the New World But what is this new consciousness that suddenly appeared in the year of grace 1969 of our evolution? (There may have been many other years of grace... vision is contagious. There is contagion of Truth, an irrepressible spreading of Truth. It is Truth that is breaking our molds and our human consciousnesses and our law and our systems and our countries under its invisible golden pressure – the world is under a solar spell, which is shaking our age and throwing it into panic by its influx of vigor, and the Truth of a few will force all the rest to change... future, completely clear and vibrant and marvelous, without borders, without laws, without gospels, beyond all their possibilities and impossibilities, their good and evil, their small countries and small thoughts – we who believe in Truth, in the supreme beauty of Truth, the supreme joy of Truth, the supreme power of Truth. We are the sons of a more marvelous Future which is already there, which ...
... by our ignorance. Even an incomplete statement made by the Supermind is a truth leading to a further truth, its incomplete action a step towards completeness. The Supramental Manifestation and Other Writings, pp. 41-42 The Infinite, we may say, organises by the power of its self-knowledge the law of its own manifestation of being in the universe, not only the material universe... inconscient compulsion, not according to a mental fantasy or caprice, but in its own infinite spiritual freedom according to the self-truth of its being, its infinite potentialities and its will of self-creation out of those potentialities, and the law of this self-truth is the necessity that compels created things to act and evolve each according to its own nature. The Intelligence — to give it an... Intuition has a fourfold power. A power of revelatory truth-seeing, a power of inspiration or truth-hearing, a power of truth-touch or immediate seizing of significance, which is akin to the ordinary nature of its intervention in our mental intelligence, a power of true and automatic discrimination of the orderly and exact relation of truth to truth, — these are the fourfold potencies of Intuition ...
... this conscious identification with the Principle to the conscious identification with its becoming, to mould and model consciously the love, mind and life of the becoming in accordance with the Law of Truth of the Principle". 30 But these beginnings of her action upon other people without anything happening to her own body - without its becoming inert, so to say, as under ordinary conditions of... Supreme Principle, to become aware of the Truth and the eternal Will that manifests it". She was thus at once one with the Principle of Being and with the Process of Becoming; in other words, she was the perfect link, the perfect intermediary, the perfect paraclete: This is how the individual being can be the conscious mediator between the absolute Truth and the manifested universe and intervene... single pearl in the network contains or reflects all the other; any of the constituent elements could, with the right concentration of force, become the transforming chamber of the rest. Such is the law of change and transformation in a universe built on the bootstrap model. But in actual practice, however, it is given to only a very few - call them the 'elect', the 'avatars', if you like - to actuate ...
... among the "unwonted stars" and covered the infinite spaces? The Rishi answers: King, not in vain.... ... I saw How earth was made Out of His being; I perceived the Law, The Truth, the Vast, From which we came and which we are; I heard The ages past Whisper their history, and I knew the Word That forth was cast Into the unformed potency... Nature were wrested one by one, and they were sorted out, Page 159 categorised, and all but taken for granted: Man's spirit measuring his worlds around The laws of sight divined and laws of sound, Light was not hidden from its searching gaze, Nor matter could deny her myriad maze To the cold enquiry; for the far came near, The small loomed large... worthier goal? But Science first denies man's immortality - then assumes what she rejects - and is at last baffled by her own sophistries. That is not the way at all! Truth cannot be contained by Science's "material finds" alone, for Truth is larger than formulas, and subtler than the sophist's pleas: The intellect is not all; a guide within Awaits our question. He it was informed The ...
... material environment, the suggestions themselves are coming to be automatically true. The vijnanam which is satyam ritam is conquering the last fields of mentality & imposing its satyadharma or law of self-existent truth which is necessary for perfect vision of things, satyadharmaya drishtaye. The movement is not yet entirely triumphant, for the enemy returns to the charge and clouds the siddhi with the anritam... determining illumination—I do not see the future flight with the self-vision as I see the present flight with the physical vision & so know about it. I see only the truth (ritam, satyam) about this flight, satyam of it, not sat, its truth of existence, not its existence. But this day I realised more certainly what I had previously perceived by fragmentary experience, that the basis of all knowledge is... of trikaldrishti in those movements which are nearest to the prakamya and vyapti (perception and reception of the truth about objects by sanyama on the objects or contact in consciousness with them), [has] 4 triumphed over the obstruction. Instead of a difficult choice of the truth, past, present & future, about things & happenings, a choice hampered by a siege of false suggestions from the physical ...
... beyond it there is a reason, a highest action of the Buddhi which concerns itself disinterestedly with a pursuit of pure truth and right knowledge; it seeks to discover the real Truth behind life and things and our apparent selves and to subject its will to the law of Truth. Few, if any of us, can use this highest reason with any purity, but the attempt to do it is the topmost capacity of the... Mind's Power for Truth Mind has a power also for truth; it opens its thought-chamber to Vidya as well as to Avidya, and if its starting-point is Ignorance, if its passage is through crooked ways of error, still its goal is always Knowledge: there is in it an impulse of truth-seeking, a power, — even though secondary and limited, — of truth-finding and truth-creation. Even if it is... is only images or representations or abstract expressions of truth that it can show us, still these are in their own manner truth-reflections or truth-formations, and the realities of which they are forms are present in their more concrete truth in some deeper depth or on some higher level of power of our consciousness. The Life Divine, p. 496 The visible imperfections and limitations ...
... never said that you should be the judge. I agree to be the judge in all cases, because I recognise that it is very difficult to know whether a thing is right and good, unless one can see the law of Truth behind things. If You had said to me, "Removing the nails is nothing, is it?", I would have replied, "Nothing much." And if You had said, "What! Removing the nails for nothing and damaging... commonly say in French, and that one can rely only on one's physical eyes Page 40 for seeing and observing, on one's physical-mental knowledge for judging and deciding, and that the laws of Nature are laws —in other words, any exception to them is a miracle. This is false. This is what is at the root of all the misunderstandings and reservations. You already know, and I mention it only to... No general rule can be made for this, each case is different. The important point is the attitude behind the talk. It is only what is said as a pure and sincere offering on the altar of Divine Truth that can have a real value. 6 August 1932 There was lightness, mirth and joy in Your expressions this morning, as if to counteract the graveness I was feeling. This was to remove all ...
... attitude towards shastra. For that pressure has behind it a truth of the living perception in Purusha, which does not find any corresponding answer in the shastra of the day, such as the pressure that Buddha felt against the Vedic law which had in his days become a ritualistic convention or the pressure that Christ felt in regard to the Mosaic law which led him to abrogate it and yet to fulfill it, — to... desire, which misrepresents and distorts the truth and right. It is apt to justify its desire and to uphold as right or legitimate means which best help it to get the coveted fruit of its work and endeavour. It is only when buddhi is sattwic that it strives to seek the movement of the world impartially and to discriminate between the law of action and the law of abstention from action. It endeavours to... transcendent Spirit. Through the sattwic guna, one can pass beyond the gunas, and having reached the higher Prakriti, Reason happily obeys the action of the infinite, and therefore it obeys no law but the immortal truth and right of the free spirit; there remains no bondage of karma. Secondly, there is the functioning of Dhrti, that element which aims at harmony and order, balance and steadiness. ...
... established between the two. She tells him so and argues extensively with him on fundamental issues, he being the son of Vivasvan, the Sun- Page 534 God, knower and upholder of the Law of Truth obtaining in the mortal creation. You are the mighty son of Vivasvan and that is why the learned call you Vaivasvat; to all creatures you are fair and you uphold the dharma. For that reason... inquiring about their son and daughter- Page 537 in-law. They are concerned to such an extent that they rave almost in madness. Seeing their distressed plight, tormented as they are by evil suggestions, the sages of the forest gather around them and console them. Suvarchasa, ever the speaker of the truth, assures them that as Savitri is a woman of exceptionally noble and... affirm it in everyday conduct and in every respect. One aspect of it is to see that in all its glory it is perpetuated from generation to generation. The Law of the Right, ritam , was the ancient Vedic ideal that prevailed in the dynamic Age of the Truth, Satya Yuga, and of it Aswapati was one ardent and devout votary. But then Aswapati's tapasya was not just a part of the fulfilment of this social ...
... his. Each believes the Master loves him most and it is true that he loves each the most. This feeling is not an illusion or delusive self-hypnotism but quite real. The spontaneous dynamic law of the Suprerne Truth which he embodies is love – divine love. In all the inmates the delight of surrender is overflowing – the bliss of surrender, its sparkle pervades all. All is given up, everything is... Disciple : If the laws of Matter change, will not Matter cease to be Matter ? Sri Aurobindo : Why ? Disciple : Because certain laws define the nature of Matter. Sri Aurobindo : What do you mean by laws ? What you call laws are mere habits. If you change your habits you still remain yourself. Disciple : Can a few persons by their Sadhana change the laws of the material world... of the laws of the physical being as final, the mistake of accepting the vital powers as the true gods. For example, the people who do psychic research, mediumistic experiments, automatic writing, spirit communication etc. are the people. Disciple : Do you mean to say that the physical laws also will be changed ? Sri Aurobindo : What do you mean by a law ? What are called laws are mere ...
... the Pure Absolute down to the Inconscient. “For the whole of being is a connected totality and there is in it no abrupt passage from the principle of Truth and Light into their opposite … The depths are linked to the heights and the Law of the one Truth creates and works everywhere.” 27 This is the same as saying that there is no gap, hiatus, discontinuity or lacuna anywhere, and that the supposed... the Ignorance, a seeker after Light but not an inhabitant of the Light, not yet a perfected instrument, truth-conscious and delivered out of the Ignorance. Instead, it would be possessed already of what could be called a mind of Light, a mind capable of living in the truth, capable of being truth-conscious and manifesting in its life a direct in place of an indirect knowledge. “Its mentality would... when it finds, it does not possess; it only keeps a certain fund of current coin of Truth – not Truth itself – in the bank of Memory to draw upon according to its needs. For Mind is that which does not know, which tries to know and which never knows except as in a glass darkly. It is the power which interprets truth of universal existence for the practical uses of a certain order of things; it is not ...
... Arya. ‘“Only by finding himself can man be saved,” and “What shall it profit a man though he gain the whole world, if he lose his own soul.” The West has heard the message and is seeking out the law and truth of the soul and the evidences of an inner reality greater than the material. The danger is that with her passion for mechanism and her exaggerated intellectuality she may fog herself in an external... || Alive, breathing a deep spiritual breath, Nature expunged her stiff mechanical code And the articles of the bound soul’s contract, Falsehood gave back to Truth her tortured shape. || 64.40 || Annulled were the tables of the law of pain.. || 64.41 || ..He imposed upon dark atom and dumb mass The diamond script of the Imperishable, Inscribed on the dim heart of fallen things A paean-song... the cosmic Ignorance so far as to be possessed of a perfected mind, a mind of light which could even be a subordinate action of the supermind or Truth-Consciousness and in any case capable of the full possibilities of mind acting as a recipient of that truth and at least a secondary action of it in thought and life.’ 27 The general aim of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s avataric endeavour was ...
... diminution, a modification, an incomplete authenticity of its truth and power. Or, at the least, the nescience limits its truth and circumscribes its force, segments its applicability and its range; its truth of principle is barred from a full truth of individual realisation or from an achieved truth of cosmic practice. Thus love as a law of life can affirm itself practically as an inner active principle;... to the law of the spiritual Truth; all has to learn to obey the government of the conscious Divine Power in the members. There are obstinate difficulties in our being born of its evolutionary constitution which militate Page 962 against this assent. For some of these parts are still subject to the inconscience and subconscience and to the lower automatism of habit or so-called law of the... a spiritual instrument and so act as a power of the Supreme Being, limited in its workings only by the potencies of the Supernature, which are without bounds or any restriction except its own Truth and self-law, and by the Will in her. But in either case there would be, as the condition of a freedom from the control of a mechanical action of Nature-forces, a submission to a greater conscious Power or ...
... mind and law of supermind; and it bases the stability and imperative force of all law in the world on an ultimate truth & source of freedom. It is this ultimate conclusion that gives to the Vedantic conception of Causality and Law of Nature an entirely different force and essential meaning from the vast generalisation of mechanical Energy popularised by modern Science. Law of Nature is to Science the... perpetual attack of those infinite possibilities. Therefore even the most well-established laws of Nature, the most general, persistent, apparently eternal and unvariable processes of world-Force, being formations of Jagati, being rhythms and harmonies of God's active Energy, truths of recurrent motion and not truths of eternal status, are none of them indestructible like the sempiternal Being out of which... 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 is knowledge, not constituted by geographical boundaries, nor by a given sum or combination of human units, nor by a common language, religion, custom, laws, government,—for all these conditions may be satisfied without ...
... supreme knowledge in action, with the complete abolition of all consequences, past and future.... And this is where our eyes open wide: ... Each second has its eternity and its own law, which is a law of absolute truth. Then the mesh closes up again. 65.107 & 48 I can tell you that the mental distortions of doctors are frightening: they stick in your brain, remain there, and return ten years... in which you cannot be hit — there is no contact, they are like two worlds, one within the other. A world of physical truth and a world of physical falsehood. A world of physical freedom and a world of physical slavery. A world of physical laws and a world outside of illusory laws — which may be striking or not, fatal or not, gravitational or not... depending on whether you are here or there. Another... You have to start all over again. 58.105 As soon as the body is conscious, it's conscious of its own falsehood! It's conscious of this law, that law, this third law, that fourth law, that tenth law — everything is “laws”: “We are subject to physical laws: this will produce such and such result, and if you do this, that will happen, and ...” No! It oozes out of every pore. We have to understand ...
... seems to be the truth, from our point of view, behind Einstein's theory. All these ideas about the universe are based on the assumption that the Infinite can organise a universe only on these particular lines with which mankind is at present familiar. But that is purely an assumption. Disciple : There is a new standpoint reached by Einstein's theory that the laws of the physical universe... they can't destroy the devils? They are merciful and good because God is merciful and good but it does not mean they have no power. They simply go on doing their work with their eyes on the Eternal Law of Truth. To them it is that which matters and nothing else. Disciple : Are they very busy ? Sri Aurobindo : Not 'busy' in the human sense. They are eternally engaged in doing their work... universe are related to the law of numbers and as this law seems absolute to our mind, the laws of the physical world are also absolute. They cannot be otherwise. If the law of number is different in another universe, or on another plane, then the laws of that world would be different. It was thought once that laws are restrictions placed by Nature upon infinite possibilities; e.g. a stone has to ...
... Aurobindo: "If an Avatar (incarnation) came, it was a promise. The Truth was not made a fact in Matter. I can say this that it may have been tried but it was never made a dynamic factor in the world. The difficulty in bringing down the Truth is not so much in the upper physical layers as in gross Matter – the most material plane. The Earth-law has to be changed and a new atmosphere has to be created. The... governing the action of his divine Power. The rest is the full opening up of the different planes of his world-play and the subjection of Matter and the body and the material world to the law of the higher heavens of the Truth. To these things towards which in my earlier ignorance I used to press forward impatiently before satisfying the first conditions – the effort, however, was necessary and made the necessary... – but it is not so simple as it is thought. It is a very complex movement. There is the Truth above, when you go on increasing in knowledge and power etc., you go on getting above, higher and higher but the thing does not come down at once. It comes down when the whole is ready. If once it could be made the law of the Earth-plane, then it would endure. It is difficult to make it flow down so long as ...
... " replied Prof. Bapat. "You recall what Prof. Desai said yesterday in his speech. He said that one of the tasks of the law-makers and interpreters of law is to visualise higher truths of perfection and to strive to modify the present law in the image of those higher truths. If this exercise is done vigorously by all concerned, we could certainly arrive at a workable formulation." "Father"... ns of the Truth, agnir hota kavi kratuh satyash chitrashravastamah. "The significance of the antaratman becomes acutely meaningful to us when we consider the question of free-will. In fact, the question of free-will is supremely important for the student of law, since the entire institution of law assumes that every human being should voluntarily adhere Page 180 to law and that if... mass of customs and conventions. A time comes when it is found that the shastra is imperfect or is no longer useful for the progress that is demanded. A new truth, a more perfect law of living becomes imperative. Page 121 The Vedic Law becomes a convention and Buddha appears and propounds a new rule of the eightfold path of the goal of Nirvana, and it may be remarked that he propounds it not ...
... order founded upon a seeking for the inner law and truth of things and having in view always the possibility of conscientious practice. India has been pre-eminently the land of the Dharma and the Shastra. She searched for the inner truth and law of each human or cosmic activity, its Dharma; that found, she laboured to cast into elaborate form and detailed law of arrangement its application in fact and... potentiality (ii)Intension and desire are to be regulated with a sense of detachment (III) Values like truth, righteous conduct, peace, love, non-violence, freedom and scientific temper may lead the student to realize the deeper self. (iv) The value of serving and the law of giving. Page 527 Professor Kireet Joshi presented the following two stories at the Seminar. Narrating... Brother-in-law says you are not to step into this side of the house and tomorrow the—all the—what, Mother?" Page 562 "Property and things," prom ted Digambari. "Yes, property and things are going to be divided and—and—what else, Mother?" Digambari frowned. "You silly girl! The oath, the oath!" Surodhuni swept on delightedly as she had been coached. 'Yes, brother-in-law took ...
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