... his sattva or mental faculties. Sattva is mind and it regulates the body because of its association with the soul. Depending upon its strength, it is of three types, viz. superior, mediocre and inferior. Thus human beings are classified into three categories depending upon the superiority, mediocrity or inferiority of their mental faculties. Individuals having mental faculties of superior type... Such individuals are loved by women, they are strong and endowed with happiness, power, health, wealth, honour and children. (h) Sattva-sara (Excellence of mental faculties): Individuals having the excellence of mental faculties are characterized by good memory, devotion, gracefulness, wisdom, purity, excessive enthusiasm, skill, courage, valour in fighting, absence of sorrow, proper gait... sara or excellence of their dhatus, viz. tvak (skin), rakta (blood), mamsa (muscle tissue), medas (adipose tissue), asthi (bone tissue), majja (marrow) sukra (semen) and sattva (mental faculties). (a) Tvak-sara (Excellence of skin): Individuals having the excellence of tvak or skin are characterized by unctuous, smooth, soft, clear, fine, less numerous, deep rooted ...
... Training of the Mental Faculties, Training of the Senses, Meditation: *L'avenir (the future) is a learning centre for ages 2-4 years, started in April 2001 *Children's Workshops and Classes (4yrs-16yrs) *Talks and Workshops for College Youth The Centre carries out activities for young children and adolescents, to develop their sensorial skills, mental faculties, attitudes and q... worked with over a 100 mainstream schools and teacher education institutes (in and around Delhi) in the last five years, to introduce practical ways of implementing value education and training of mental faculties both for the teacher and the student. It is on the panel of Delhi University for teacher education and conducts self-development and integral education workshops with B.El.Ed. teacher students... My Life *The Journey to Love *The Modes of Nature and Mental Tamas *The Self and Self-Realization as the Base for Social Change *The Spirit in Management *Training the Mental Faculties—a resource guide on the Mind *Understanding Ego—a process towards its dissolution *Understanding Tamas—a personal experience *Vital Education—its role in self development *Vital ...
... as useless as it is tiring, by eliminating its physical causes. There are also other dreams which are nothing but futile Page 33 manifestations of erratic activities of certain mental faculties, which associate ideas, conversations and memories that come together at random. Such dreams are already more significant, for these erratic activities reveal to us the confusion that prevails... traces will gradually become transformed into precise memories, as well as the habit of noting them down on waking, will be found most helpful from this point of view. "By these habits, the mental faculties will be led to adapt their mechanism to phenomena of this kind and to exercise on them their attention, their curiosity and power of analysis. "A kind of intellectualisation of our dreams will ...
... Evolution and the Earthly Destiny Education is Organisation EDUCATION is organisation. Mind's education means organisation of mental faculties. Organisation naturally involves development. The faculties in the normal and natural state are an undeveloped disorganised lot, a confused mass,—unformed, ill-formed ideas, notions, thoughts, form a jumble. They... that is to say each of them has to be strong, able, ample, concentrated. They have to present a united front and function towards an ever-increasing consciousness and knowledge. As for the mental faculties so for the faculties of the vital. The normal vital being in man is in a greater and perhaps more dangerous chaos. The impulsions, emotions, upsurges that belong to this domain have not so much ...
... is one of the first uses of drawing and it is sufficient in itself to make the teaching of this subject a necessary part of the training of the organs. (7) THE TRAINING OF THE MENTAL FACULTIES THE first qualities of the mind that have to be developed are those which can be grouped under observation. We notice some things, ignore others. Even of what we notice, we observe very... world. Page 73 This is in every way as important as the training of the faculties which observe and compare outward things. Bur that demands a separate and fuller treatment. The mental faculties should first be exercised on things, afterwards on words and ideas. Our dealings with language are much too perfunctory and the absence of a fine sense for words impoverishes the intellect and ...
... and diminution of mental faculties. The fact is that, like all the other parts of the human being, the mind too needs rest and this rest it will not have unless we know how to give it. The art of giving rest to one's mind is a thing to be acquired. Changing mental activity is a way of rest; but the greatest possible rest lies in silence. And in the matter of mental faculties, a few minutes passed ...
... is one of the first uses of drawing and it is sufficient in itself to make the teaching of this subject a necessary part of the training of the organs. Page 403 The Training of the Mental Faculties The first qualities of the mind that have to be developed are those which can be grouped under observation. We notice some things, ignore others. Even of what we notice, we observe very little... life that pervades the world. This is in every way as important as the training of the faculties which observe and compare outward things. But that demands a separate and fuller treatment. The mental faculties should first be exercised on things, afterwards on words and ideas. Our dealings with language are Page 406 much too perfunctory and the absence of a fine sense for words impoverishes ...
... and diminution of mental faculties. The fact is that, like all the other parts of the human being, the mind too needs rest and this rest it will not have unless we know how to give it. The art of giving rest to one's mind is a thing to be acquired. Changing mental activity is a way of rest; but the greatest possible rest lies in silence. And in the case of mental faculties, a few minutes passed ...
... On Education VII THE TRAINING OF THE MENTAL FACULTIES The first qualities of the mind that have to be developed are those which can be grouped under observation. We notice some things, ignore others, Even of what we notice, we observe very little. A general perception of an object is what we all usually carry away from a cursory... pervades the world. This is in every way as important as the training of the faculties which observe and compare outward things. : But that demands a separate and fuller treatment. The mental faculties should first be exercised on things, afterwards on words and ideas. Our dealings with language are much too perfunctory and the absence of a fine sense for words impoverishes the intellect and ...
... or a subconscrient nature which contains much that is there in one but not distinguishably active in the waking state. Some dreams are manifestations of the erratic activities of certain mental faculties which associate ideas, conversations and memories that come together pell-mell. Such dreams, if recalled with accuracy, are apt to reveal to the sadhaka the confusion that Secretly prevails in... transforming their vestiges little by little into precise memories as well as that of noting them down on waking, are very helpful from this point of view. "By virtue of these habits, the mental faculties twill be induced to adapt their mechanism to the phenomena of this order and to direct upon them their attention, curiosity and power of analysis. "It will them produce a sort of inte ...
... business of educating a child cannot but assume an erroneous character, both in its meaning and content and in its application. For, then, education reduces itself to the task of culturing the mental faculties of the student, training him into an efficient, productive and well-disciplined member of the society and the State as a political, social and economic being. The whole life and education of the... the other is enhanced and fulfils itself." (Ibid., p. 334) Page 18 Sixth Principle: It needs no emphasising that the development of the intellect and the culture of mental faculties alone cannot enable the child to grow into full manhood. His ethical-aesthetic nature too has to be developed at the same time. When we say so, we are surely not referring to any conventional ...
... The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 10 X Education is Organisation Education is organisation. Mind's education means organisation of mental faculties. Organisation naturally involves development. The faculties in the normal and natural state are an undeveloped disorganised lot, a confused mass,—unformed, ill-formed ideas, notions, thoughts, form... is to say each of them has to be strong, able, ample, concentrated. They have to present a united front and function towards an ever-increasing consciousness and knowledge. As for the mental faculties so for the faculties of the vital. The normal vital being in man is in a greater and perhaps more dangerous chaos. The impulsions, emotions, upsurges that belong to this domain have not so ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 4 Education is Organisation EDUCATION is organisation. Mind's education means organisation of mental faculties. Organisation naturally involves development. The faculties in the normal and natural state are an undeveloped disorganised lot, a confused mass, – unformed, ill-formed ideas, notions, thoughts... that is to say each of them has to be strong, able, ample, concentrated. They have to present a united front and function towards an ever increasing consciousness and knowledge. As for the mental faculties so for the faculties of the vital. The normal vital being in man is in a greater and perhaps more dangerous chaos. The impulsions, emotions, upsurges that belong to this domain have not so much ...
... first step in reform must therefore be to revolutionize the whole aims & methods of our education. We must accustom teachers to devote nine-tenths of their energies to the education of the active mental faculties, while the passive retaining faculty, which we call the memory, should occupy a recognised & well-defined but subordinate place, and we must direct our school & university examinations to the ...
... consciousness, Indra always when our gettings & our felicity are attacked & our city has to be held against the dasyus, the robbers, the foes. He comes to us always bringing fresh substance to our mental faculties, increased resources of mental force for our active consciousness.भुवत्, गमत्,—the habitual past, formed direct from the proper stem भू, गम्. I accept राये as the usual dative, although I do not ...
... , it is easy to avoid this type of dream... by eliminating its physical causes. There are also other dreams which are nothing but futile manifestations of the erratic activities of certain mental faculties, which associate ideas, conversations and memories that come together at random. Such dreams are already more significant, for these erratic activities reveal to us the confusion that prevails ...
... out. I listen uncomprehendingly. My incomprehension did not stem from any language barrier—they were all Bengalis and spoke in Bengali—but from the subject matter itself. As I grew up, my mental faculties developed, my comprehension enlarged, I began to appreciate Dilipda's wide-ranging interests. He was, to boot, an omnivorous reader (including Agatha Christie and P.G. Wodehouse!). ...
... seat of understanding in the head? The faculty of understanding? Is that what you are asking about, whether it is in the head? I have just said the opposite. A few minutes ago I said that all mental faculties are in the mind and it is only by habit that they are in the head. One can understand from any place whatever. One can understand from wherever the seat of the consciousness is. You say "by ...
... impossible), but a communion on a higher or deeper plane. (Silence) Those who have reached the higher regions of intelligence, but have not dominated the mental faculties in them, have an innocent need that everybody should think like them and be able to understand as they understand. And when they see that others do not, cannot understand, their first reflex is ...
... that it becomes impossible for it to go on expressing itself on the physical plane. This can be done without risk or danger only by one who moves in the gnostic realms and possesses in his mental faculties the light of the spirit and the power of the truth. He, the divine worker, is free from all preference and all attachment; he has broken down the limits of his ego and is now only a perfectly ...
... fact of objectifying (what WE call 'objectification') is already a falsehood. 5 I have had this particular consciousness in flashes. The difficulty is that in expressing it, we use all our mental faculties, and they themselves are false—so we are cornered . Because when you follow through.... Whatever you say—,If this, if that, if the other...'—is all part of our general stupidity. Going right ...
... far as possible, what the other needs to attain that goal. 10 June 1964 Sweet Mother, How can one know the other's need and help him? I was not speaking of external things and mental faculties! True love is in the soul (all the rest is vital attraction or mental and physical attachment, nothing else) and the soul (the psychic being) knows instinctively what the other needs to receive ...
... Page 270 deluded fools. Yet mysticism (in the narrow sense of the word) irritates me; it appears to be vague and soft and flabby, not a rigorous discipline of the mind but a surrender of mental faculties and a living in a sea of emotional experience. The experience may lead occasionally to some insight into inner and less obvious processes, but it is also likely to lead to self-delusion. ...
... mental development. What has happened in the past is that we have encouraged research into how to teach various subjects of studies, but we have not paid adequate attention to research in how mental faculties develop, particularly during the childhood. We speak of Piaget with great admiration, but we have not taken enough lead from his work. In our teachers' training programmes we should bring to the ...
... courses on translations in our schools or in colleges. In one of his essays on national system of education, Sri Aurobindo had underlined the importance of language in the development of mental faculties. He had said that mental faculty should first be exercised on things, afterwards on words and ideas. But he had added ''our dealings with language are much too perfunctory and absence of ...
... Speech to the Deaf. You must not imagine that as soon as Helen grasped the idea that everything had a name she at once became mistress of the treasury of the English language, or that "her mental faculties emerged, full armed, from their then living tomb, as Pallas Athena from the head of Zeus," as one other enthusiastic admirers would have us believe. At first, the words, phrases and sentences ...
... mechanical repetition. Whether it is of the mind or of the body the procedure is the same. As the muscles of the body are sought to be strengthened and developed through repetitive exercises, the mental faculties too are put under a training that consists of similar repetitive exercises. To store the mind with as many kinds of information as possible, hammer all ingredients of knowledge into the brain ...
... Archaeological excavation has been furnishing more and more evidence of ancient culture and education. These discoveries go to prove that the ancients were not immature in the least in their mental faculties, education and culture. On the contrary, we find in them signs of superior qualities and endeavours. Strangely enough, these archaeological finds are found in the places which were so long considered ...
... a seeking for the illumination of knowledge or the descent of Power or whatever. When there is this impatience in the being for the experience, there is a subtle pressure of the vital on the mental faculties (for example, the faculty of imagination) to anticipate what is wanted. This urge of anticipation, semi-conscious or subconscious, tends to reproduce in ourselves a simulacrum of the desired ...
... open oneself to other bodies; the psychic and occult phenomena we come across in life are due to them. Six nervous centres of life in the physical body, corresponding to six centres of vital and mental faculties in the subtle, have been discovered by the yogis and they have found out physical exercises by which these, now closed, centres could be opened up, and man can enter into the higher spiritual ...
... identification. One who has not transcended one's own nature, which comes to the same thing as transcending human nature, cannot command a full and clear view of it; and it is not by the normal mental faculties, but by an inner identification that this study can be made to bear perfect fruit. The whole subtle machinery of human nature can best be studied by taking a stable poise beyond it, either behind ...
... that it becomes impossible for it to go on expressing itself on the physical plane. "This can be done without risk or danger only by one who moves in the gnostic realms and possesses in his mental faculties the light of the spirit and the power of the truth." What is the "the gnostic realm"? It is just another way of speaking about the Supermind. Gnostic—it means Knowledge, but the true ...
... vibration so as to prevent it from continuing to express itself on the physical plane. This can be done without danger or risk only by him who moves in the gnostic domain and possesses in his mental faculties the hght of the spirit and the force of the Truth. Page 146 He, the divine worker, is free from all preference and attachment; he has broken down in himself the limits of ...
... mistake. It is these people the mental being does not understand. So long as one is in the mental consciousness, even the highest, and sees the spiritual life from outside, one judges with one's mental faculties, with the habit of seeking, erring, correcting, progressing, and seeking once again; and one thinks that those who are in the spiritual life suffer from the same incapacity, but that is a very ...
... first step in reform must therefore be to revolutionise the whole aim and method of our education. We must accustom teachers to devote ninetenths of their energy to the education of the active mental faculties while the passive and retaining faculty, which we call the memory, should occupy a recognised and well-defined but subordinate place and we must direct our school and university examinations to ...
... cannot isolate oneself, it is impossible), but a communion on a higher or deeper plane. ( Silence ) Those who have reached the higher regions of intelligence, but have not dominated the mental faculties in them, have an innocent need that everybody should think like them and be able to understand as they understand. And when they see that others do not, cannot understand, their first reflex is ...
... provide it. The art of resting one's mind is something to be acquired. Changing one's mental activity is certainly one way of resting; but the greatest possible rest is silence. And as far as the mental faculties are concerned a few minutes passed in the calm of silence are a more effective rest than hours of sleep. When one has learned to silence the mind at will and to concentrate it in receptive ...
... conditions so that he may start afresh on a larger curve of progress and self-fulfilment. It would seem at first sight that since man is pre-eminently the mental being, the development of the mental faculties and the richness of the mental life should be his highest aim,—his preoccupying aim, even, as soon as he has got rid of the obsession of the life and body and provided for the indispensable s ...
... chetanti sumatinam. It is she who gives the impulsion to the truths that appear in the mind, it is she who, herself conscious of right thoughts and just processes of thinking, awakens to them the mental faculties. Therefore, because she is the impelling force behind intellectual Truth, and our awakener to right thinking, she is present at the sacrifice; she has established and upholds it, yajnam dadhe ...
... through which the Spirit expresses itself. Indeed, to bring the battle of the ages, the slow travail of phenomenal Nature to a rapid victory by not merely extending the limits of our vital and mental faculties but by predominantly seizing on the true psyche, the inmost soul, hidden behind life and mind, the spontaneously spiritual part of our nature which possesses the dynamic to develop the vision ...
... normally holds true - a child may or may not do physical education, but all children have to sit through the same lesson with no scope of diversity or choice. Thus, the training of the mental faculties, the development of physical health and capabilities, the shaping of the human character and senses, the nurturing of the higher qualities - these provide education a truly all-round character ...
... dreams of the night, whose traces will gradually become transformed into precise memories, as well as the habit of noting them down on waking, will be found most helpful.... By these habits, the mental faculties will be led... to exercise on them their attention, their curiosity and power of analysis. A kind of intellectualisation of our dreams will then occur... Dreams will then take on the nature ...
... transforming their vestiges little by little into precise memories as well as that of noting them down on waking are very helpful from this point of view. "By virtue of these habits, the mental faculties will be induced to adapt their mechanism to the phenomena of this order and to direct upon them their attention, curiosity and power of analysis. "It will then produce a sort of in ...
... and deep. Keenness can be acquired by training it on various problems, trying to get at the centre of each by tackling Its greatest difficulty first. Depth comes from the ability to hold one's mental faculties in voluntary silence, not exercising them but turning them inward, as it were, so that one tends to exceed the individual frame in which the intelligence is set and lay oneself open to what ...
... . Well, that's the same thing, you don't tell a dog, "You're superstitious." ( silence ) Those who have touched the higher regions of intelligence but haven't mastered in themselves the mental faculties have an ingenuous need for everyone to think as they do and to be able to understand as they understand, and when they realize that others cannot, don't understand, their first reflex is to be ...
... idea or figure or image is what is properly called dhydna or meditation or contemplation. A remarkable result of the development of the state of Dhydna is that there occurs a development of mental faculties: understanding becomes sharpened, awareness becomes alert, freshness in perception or in understanding becomes vivid, and the world begins to be felt in its aspects of mystery and wonder. One ...
... form: His desire to develop his mental powers by exercising them will necessarily diminish if the means whereby it is hoped to teach him to think do not appeal in an attractive way to his mental faculties, but only irritate him by their tedium, and subdue and confuse him rather than stimulate and arouse him by their harmony. There is an interesting similarity between Pestalozzi's approach ...
... multiple thoughts, it turns into Maruts. In the Rigveda the God Marut has always been invoked and worshipped along with Indra. That is to say, without Indra, the mental being, the Maruts, the mental faculties, have no separate existence. 1. The seat of pure mind is a chariot. The chariot signifies movement and it is the emblem of the spiritual progress. The spiritual adventure of the purified mind ...
... I see his ways, his habits, his thoughts, in short, what he wants. I see his soul; I see his past, his present, his future in an instant, that which one can never see by the human faculties, mental faculties, nor by these miraculous inventions. For this, there must be another development — that which comes by the spiritual and also the occult discipline. And you know, when I was small, very young ...
... think adequately, to deduce, to reason and to understand, to know and to become intelligent, alert and conscious of all that surrounds us, of all that we feel and perceive, in fact, to develop the mental faculties, the vital faculties and the physical faculties, — for all things, to open oneself towards the heights in order to develop other faculties which are innate and latent in us and demand an absolute ...
... beyond it; there is a succession of self-transmutations at the summit of which lies the Supermind or Divine Gnosis"². It is possible to mistake these gradations for heightened operations of mental faculties. Sri Aurobindo warns against it: "They are not merely methods, way of knowing or faculty or power of cognition; they are domains of being, grades of substance and energy of the spiritual being ...
... mind is an imperative necessity of our evolution, unless, of course, we elect to describe a downward curve of culture and ¹ Brhadāranyaka Upanisad. Page 359 allow our mental faculties to be employed in the service of our blind desires, and the god-like elements in us to be darkened and disfigured by our animal appetites and passions. There is already a great danger of such ...
... detailed enumeration of this justification. We will only give one or two illustrations. In Book II, Canto 10 dealing with "The kingdoms of Godheads of the Little Mind" he enumerates various mental faculties and not only their limitations but their possibilities and the service they render to the growing soul of humanity. "Logic" and "inventiveness" have their place; then he brings only "imagination" ...
... secure for every member of society an existence materially sufficient, and ultimately, even an existence permitting and indeed guaranteeing the full development and exercise of their physical and mental faculties. But just as the old revolutionary of the time of landed aristocracy became the new bourgeois of the capitalistic age, the new Marxist revolutionary too has tended to become the new philistine ...
... ĀJNĀCHAKRA :located on the forehead between but a little above the eyebrows. The lotus is white and has two petals. It "governs the dynamic mind, will, vision, mental formation." In a word all mental faculties . When the third eye opens, it is here; then we get the occult vision. All these six lotuses are upward turned. So Mother was quite surprised one day. It was August 1966. After the interview ...
... have to be developed for expressing supramental things in a supramental way. At present we have to raise our mental faculty to its maximum, Page 71 to a sort of frontier that is hardly visible and yet which exists; for our means of expression still belong to this mental world and they do not possess supramental power. We do not have the necessary organs. We must become beings of ...
... those available at present. New modes of expression have to be developed for expressing supra mental things in a supramental way. At present we have to raise our mental faculty to its maximum, to a sort of frontier that is hardly visible and which yet exists; for our means of expression still belong to this mental world and they do not possess supramental power. We do not have the necessary organs. We must ...
... conclusions. This must not be mistaken for intuition. In the ordinary functioning of the brain, intuition is something which suddenly falls like a drop of light. If one has the faculty, the beginning of a faculty of mental vision, it gives the impression of something coming from outside or above, like a little impact of a drop of light in the brain, absolutely independent of all reasoning. This... field; whereas, if you want to contact the intuition, you must keep this ( Mother indicates the forehead ) completely immobile. Active thought must be stopped as far as possible and the entire mental faculty must form—at the top of the head and a little further above if possible—a kind of mirror, very quiet, very still, turned upwards, in silent, very concentrated attention. If you succeed, you can—perhaps... Some Answers and Explanations Our Many Selves Intuition and Its Development Mother, how can the faculty of intuition be developed? There are different kinds of intuition, and we carry these capacities within us. They are always active to some extent but we don’t notice them because we don’t pay enough attention to what is going on in us. Behind ...
... conclusions. This must not be mistaken for intuition. In the ordinary functioning of the brain, intuition is something which suddenly falls like a drop of light. If one has the faculty, the beginning of a faculty of mental vision, it gives the impression of something coming from outside or above, like a little impact of a drop of light in the brain, absolutely independent of all reasoning. This... field; whereas, if you want to contact the intuition, you must keep this ( Mother indicates the forehead ) completely immobile. Active thought must be stopped as far as possible and the entire mental faculty must form—at the top of the head and a little further above if possible—a kind of mirror, very quiet, very still, turned upwards, in silent, very concentrated attention. If you succeed, you can—perhaps... 1958 1958 July Questions and Answers (1957-1958) 23 July 1958 Mother, how can the faculty of intuition be developed? There are different kinds of intuition, and we carry these capacities within us. They are always active to some extent but we don't notice them because we don't pay enough attention to what is ...
... ous, vital, physical or mental, yet comes into its kingdom only when it emerges in Mind. It uses the mental faculty of memory to link together and direct consciously the activities towards the goal of the individual. In man the use of consciousness by the mental will is imperfect, because memory is limited. Our action is both dispersed and circumscribed because mentally we live from hour to hour... It is the thread upon which the continuity of our successive bodily lives is arranged, precisely because it is itself immortal. It associates itself with the perishable body and carries forward the mental being, the Purusha in the mind, upon his journey. WILL AND MEMORY This journey consists in a series of activities continued from life to life in this world with intervals of life in other states... linking life to life with an increasing force of knowledge and direction until it becomes the fully conscious Will moving with illumination on the straight path towards the immortal felicity. The mental will, kratu , becomes what it at present only represents, the divine Will, Agni. WILL AND KNOWLEDGE The essentiality of the divine Will is that in it Consciousness and Energy, Knowledge and ...
... highest peak of evolution on earth up to now. In him the mind or mental consciousness seems to have reached its highest possible height. But still, man is not fully a mental being, he is rather a mental animal. Page 59 The mind is not yet the master in his Adhara; the true master who rules and handles the mental faculty is the life principle, the animal in him, his vital being, which... live and stay on the mental level; they are not ready or fit for more. For them the highest possible development is in intellectual speculation or philosophical occupation—that is their ideal and aim, the highest reach for them; for them it may be a help to be occupied with mental discussions. In this way, with the help of the intellect, they may create a sort of terrestrial mental atmosphere, a spiritual... which again in its turn is a slave of the obscure brute matter in him. So man, in spite of all his mental splendour, is a dangerous creature—dangerous, for the vital in him is leading him towards the destruction of his own self as well as of all that is around him. Man is a queer experiment of Nature. So up to now, the growth or progress in evolution has been from greater obscurity to lesser obscurity ...
... aspects are important, and even though calculations could be done by computers, one should not forget that mental calculations are vital for the development of the mental faculty. MS pointed out that Vedic mathematics has been found by him to be of great help in developing the mental faculty. He also pointed out that psychic and spiritual education has now become a necessity. He, however, felt... idea of interdisciplinary courses. She said that each teacher should chalk out one's own plan and endeavour to make it a plan of the department, which should further be developed as a plan of the faculty of the university. She added that what Kireet Joshi had suggested was being tried in her university. She, however, added that the University plan should also become the plan of every teacher. ... juxtaposition of education of different elements of personality. Integral education is not education of the body, plus education of the vital plus education of mental, but education of underlying personality of which physical, vital and mental are instrumental" Page 131 manifestations. The real entity which is manifested is what is called the psychic being. Therefore, he added, the education ...
... Sayana. I demuṛ There is an obvious connection in sense between मन्ये & मनसा which necessitates some such rendering as I have given. It means really I meditate on in my thought so as to possess in mental faculty. 4) Aryamaṇam Varuṇam Mitram eshám, Indrávishṇú Maruto A sh winota; Sva sh wo Agne surathah surádhá, edu vaha suhavishe janáya. Aryaman, Varuna & Mitra of these, Indra&Vishnu, theMaruts... wideness that is the world of the Light (of the Herds). शुचंतो, not merely दीपयंतः; the repeated शुचंतः (15), शुचि (16), शुचंतः (17) shows that it is the idea of the pure light of knowledge, the pure mental & moral state, which is intended. 18) Á yútheva kshumati pa sh vo, akhyad devánám yaj janimánti ugra; Martánám chid urva sh ír akṛipran, vṛidhe chid arya uparasya áyoh. Like herds in the ...
... between the ordinary human or mental action of these puissances, manuṣvat , and the divine. It is supposed that man by the right use of their mental action in the inner sacrifice to the gods can convert them into their true or divine nature, the mortal can Page 66 become immortal. Thus the Ribhus, who were at first human beings or represented human faculties, became divine and immortal powers... śravaṇa, śruti, śruta ,—revealed knowledge, the knowledge which comes by inspiration. Dṛṣṭi and śruti , sight and hearing, revelation and inspiration are the two chief powers of that supra-mental faculty which belongs to the old Vedic idea of the Truth, the Ritam. The word śravas is not recognised by the lexicographers in this sense, but it is accepted in the sense of a hymn,—the inspired word... appearance which are full of falsehoods ( anṛtam , not-truth or wrong application of the satyam in mental and bodily activity), we have for instruments the senses, the sense-mind ( manas ) and the intellect working upon their evidence, so for the truth-consciousness there are corresponding faculties,— dṛṣṭi, śruti, viveka , the direct vision of the truth, the direct hearing of its word, the direct ...
... worried, myself a little less, about your "too overmental style"! Ornamental, not overmental. ... She exercised her mental faculty too much? Epic movement has to surpass that? No, sir—You must read my epic handwriting properly first—afterwards exercise your mental faculty. May 29, 1937 By the way, you have absolutely forgotten to send that "Presse Médicale" with your notes [2.2... inevitability which is the sole criterion of highest poetry? Yes, but mental and vital poetry can be inevitable also. Only in O.P. there must be a rightness throughout which is not the case elsewhere—for without this inevitability it is no longer fully O.P., while without this sustained inevitability there can be fine mental and vital poetry. But practically that means O.P. comes usually by bits... evidently the overhead inspiration that is trying to come, that it changes into something more mental in the transmission. Lines 7, 8, 9 are those that can be suspected of being actually O.P. in rhythm, movement, spirit and turn of the language. But the poetry of the rest is not the less fine for the mental intervention. O.K. in English is something like all right, quite fit, etc. no? In American ...
... is the "intellect". It combines the intellect and the will. It is the faculty of thinking and reflection. It reasons. It tries to answer the question, "What is the truth ? What is it that I must do?" and also, "How must I do it ?" And when this pure mental faculty develops we find it has a certain power of perception and mental vision. It creates forms and speech. Disciple : To what does the... speaking, a mental faculty. It tries to communicate the result of thinking and reasoning through the medium of speech. It serves as &n expression of thought and it is also used by the Motions and the vital being for their expression. First they go up from the lower parts and express themselves Page 227 through speech. But speech is essentially a mental faculty. Disciple... it "thinks" about them, yet it is that which arranges them in a sort of way. It hardly reasons except when acting in conjunction with higher faculties. It is, you may say, the farthest end met like the point of a pen, which is necessary for the work of the mental being. When I take up a pen and my hand begins to write something upon paper without of course, thinking anything about it – , say some word ...
... significance in the avataric work he had come to do. The way Sri Aurobindo had drafted his epic with utmost care and precision is what is to be noted here, and therefore to try to read with our mental faculty his “intentions” while editing it will on our part only be foolhardy, imprudent, rash. If we think that there are defects in Savitri , the wise thing to do is to leave them as they are. What is ...
... its protection is constant and effective, even when it is not perceived. 15.12.1968 In order to be conscious of the constant Presence, is memory helpful? Memory is a mental faculty and helps the mental consciousness. But feeling and sensation must also participate. 17.12.1968 1 Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis of Yoga (1972), p. 103. Page 63 When the Presence... gaze." 2 What does "the triple cord of mind " mean? The cords symbolise the limitations of the mind; and there are three of them because there is a physical mind, it vital mind and a mental mind. 9.11.1968 "The days were travelers on a destined road, The nights companions of his musing spirit.' 3 Yes, there comes a time when nothing, absolutely nothing is; outside ...
... ineffective intellectuals? So I would like to know how far your supramental Yoga can develop the mental faculty of U, S, etc. and also of people like my humble self: whether the full opening of these inner centres will make everybody's knowledge the same. Please do not confuse the higher knowledge and mental knowledge. The intellectual man will be able to give a wider and more orderly expression to... rises to an equal width and plasticity and comprehensiveness of the higher knowledge planes. In that case he will replace his mental by his above-mental capacity. But for many intellectuals, so-called, their intellectuality may be a stumbling-block as they bind themselves with mental conceptions or stifle the psychic fire under the heavy weight of rational thought. On the other hand I have seen comparatively... leave out Christ, because his spiritual knowledge was from the heart only and intense but limited. Or can we ever imagine that a supramental X will have the same mental range and altitude as the supramental Sri Aurobindo? Absurd! Mental and supramental are two different things. How does the supramental come in here? You may say that it is after all the realisation that is important and all three ...
... these forces to act; it is the darkest hatred which must be touched and transformed into luminous peace. 9 All difficulty is an opportunity, all resistance is also an incentive; and the mental faculty itself, long prone to error, carries within it the propensity to progress. Hearkening to the Voice, Mirra receives the capital assurance: This dividing intellect, which makes him [man] stand... December) On 7 October, Mirra starts with the sad observation that most people are only concerned with the material life, "Heavy, inert, conservative, obscure"; there are also people with an awakened mental life, but they too are "restless, tormented, agitated, arbitrary, despotic", and alas! "Caught altogether in the whirl of the renewals and transformations of which they dream, they are ready to ... weeks when Mirra was "entirely occupied by outer work", and now the musings unfold themselves again. Mirra feels that the Lord has emancipated her from her slavery to mere habits, thought-forms, and mental constructions. Nearly a week passes, and on 10 December a highly charged prayer rises in her heart, although it is not deliberately articulated. Is it not a folly, this reign of egoism: my idea ...
... life. At the same time, as they grow up, they must discover in themselves the thing or things which interest them most and which they are capable of doing well. There are latent faculties to be developed. There are also faculties to be discovered. Children must be taught to like to overcome difficulties, and also that this gives a special value to life; when one knows how to do it, it destroys boredom... should also teach him to enjoy good reading-matter which is both instructive and attractive. Do not be afraid of anything that awakens and pleases his imagination; imagination develops the creative mental faculty and through it study becomes living and the mind develops in joy. Page 32 In order to increase the suppleness and comprehensiveness of his mind, one should see not only... deal of attention. By his ingenuity, therefore, the educator will gradually help the child to become capable of a sustained effort of attention and a faculty of more and more complete absorption in the work in hand. All methods that can develop this faculty of attention from games to rewards are good and can all be utilised according to the need and the circumstances. But it is the psychological action ...
... Synthesis of Yoga in the Veda PART THREE Role of the Higher Faculties Faculties of Vastness of Light, Revelation, Inspiration, Intuition and Discrimination The attainment of Surya Savitri, the supramental consciousness which is creative of the worlds, and which is the power of the manifestations of the highest triple world is a culminating... much wealth of spiritual light hidden within the rock. Dakshinā We have in the Rig Veda also the description of another supramental faculty, namely, Dakshina, the power of immediate discrimination or discernment, corresponding to the mental faculty of logical discrimination. The great Rishi, Vishwamitra, refers 42 first to the Thought of the fathers, pitryādhīh, and it is described as... culminating victory of the Angirasa Rishis and of the Vedic system of yoga. The supermind is the highest creative faculty of the One, who unites multiplicity of manifestation with the original oneness. The development of this supramental faculty is prepared by the working of the seven rivers, the mighty ones of the heaven, which are also described as the seven Mares, seven Words, seven mothers and seven fostering ...
... concentrated, we become aware of a wonderful transformation in all things. 13 December 1968 In order to be conscious of the constant Presence, is memory a good aid? Memory is a mental faculty and helps the mental consciousness. But feeling and sensation must also participate. 17 December 1968 Page 390 When the Presence becomes concrete, does this indicate the participation... The Jivatman is the individual Purusha, and the physical Purusha, the vital Purusha, the mental Purusha and the secret Purusha in the heart are projections of it. The soul is the Purusha that enters into the evolution. Is my understanding correct? This is one way of putting it. Mental definitions are never more than approximations, ways of speaking. 10 March 1967 My body... certain lower and wrong vibrations arise in me. This is an invariable habit, in spite of the fact that I want to get rid of these reactions. What should I do? The radical method is to cut off all mental and vital connection with these people; but until you know how to do this, you Page 358 must persistently eliminate from your consciousness the effect produced by their influence. 18 ...
... es were doubling themselves with each new crisis in human affairs, and thereby proving more and more intractable at the level of customary mental formulations, and so there had to be a new spiritual influx, a climactic transcendence of the mental faculty, - in other words, the bursting of "a new spiritual light, a manifestation upon earth of some divine force unknown until now, a Thought of God... instinct, as by a strong and unfailing hand. This faculty which is exceptional, almost abnormal now, will certainly be quite common and natural for the new race, the man of tomOITow. 8 In the past, sundry men and women - mystics, saints, ecstatics, poets, artists, even scientists - have known and exercised fitfully this infallible faculty of intuition. But such choice spirits were but few... nation-builders, but now there is need for the invocation, or eruption, of Page 180 an altogether new power of consciousness as different from the mental that has been the badge of humanity for millennia, as the mental was different from the mere animal consciousness of man's remote simian ancestors. The emergence of 'mind', of intellect, of reason, if it made possible the development ...
... "The faculty of associating ideas in new and ingenious, and at the same time pleasing way, exhibited in apt language and felicitous combinations of words and thoughts, by which unexpected resemblances between things apparently unlike are vividly set before the mind, so as to produce a shock of pleasant surprise; facetiousness." 2.Definition (conforming to the 1st sense): "A mental faculty... springeth up one can hardly tell how." 8 Yet scholars and analysts have tried to tackle the task, and let us see what tentative definitions they have offered us for the strange phenomenon and faculty of humour. Page 23 Aristotle felt it to be the perception of some sort of unseemliness, of some defect that does not involve pain or injury. According to Henri Bergson the comic... of sound. Such word-twisting has neither any genuine wit nor humour though its very far-fetchedness has in it something of the ludicrous. This mania of producing puns "easily runs to a sort of mental degeneration in which the unhappy victim tries to make puns all the time, hears only sounds and not ideas, his mind as vacant as a bell waiting for its clapper. ... Many people hate puns because of ...
... death, but it is incapable of cerebration, and it indulges in no speculation about good and evil, pain and pleasure. It is man the mental being who has grown the faculty of interpreting phenomena in terms of the dualities. And yet human experience often jerks mental categories into hopeless confusion. Through the pangs of childbirth the mother experiences the ecstasy of fulfilment. Isn't there a terrible... young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same Door as in I went. It is with his mental faculty that man usually tries to pluck the heart of Reality, but he is himself in it and of it, and he finds himself baffled in his attempts to seize it Page 415 in its unity and totality... quintessential psychic-soul that is a portion of the Divine Soul: ...we have a double psychic entity in us, the surface desire-soul which works in our vital cravings, our emotions, aesthetic faculty and mental seeking for power, knowledge and happiness, and a subliminal psychic entity, a pure power of light, love, joy and refined essence of being which is our true soul... 18 Like the subliminal ...
... Consciousness. When that is removed, sight replaces mental thought; the all-embracing truth-ideation, Mahas, Veda, D ṛṣṭ i, replaces the fragmentary mental activity." 41 The Vedic mystics (otherwise called the Rishis or the Seers, for they did not think out the Truth but rather 'saw' it) always sought and eulogised this supra-mental faculty of constantly growing inner and higher perception... almost the faculty itself must be changed. All the functions have to be changed for the transformation to be possible. And we are so much accustomed to identify the faculty with the function that one doubts whether it is at all possible to think except in the manner in which one thinks ordinarily. "It is only possible when one has the experience of a complete silence in the mental region and... give expression to their spiritual knowledge, is that the level of consciousness at which any mental formulation of spiritual experience becomes possible, is far, far below the level at which the experience is. actually realised. Thus, our mind-consciousness being as it is at present, - a power and faculty of half-enlightened ignorance, - the very incompatibility of the two levels - the level of experience ...
... in the Omniscient and Omnipotent". Mind can exercise its inventive faculty and .bring out all the suppressed possibilities of Matter and Life. It can also become aware of the future, and awaken faculties which appear abnormal in their operation. It is when Mind turns all its faculties to the service of the Spirit that mental movements find their proper place and justification and value in the total... total field of the divine governance. There is an occult order which is behind the material and mental order known to man. And it is that unseen and unknown occult world which governs from behind this outer material, vital and mental life. Faculties of the inmost, i.e. subliminal mind disclose the knowledge of the world's mystery. An ascending and a descend- ing order of worlds from Eternity into... interpret this poetry in terms of its intellectual content. It would be better instead to allow the vision to grow in intensity and clarity in his consciousness. He might find that with the help of this faculty of vision he is able to enter into the spirit of the poem much better than through the doors of dry intellect. The Symbol-Dawn here is related to the Vedic goddess Dawn— Usha. Some acquaintance ...
... without submitting itself to an intermediary power - the Divine Mind which 389. Ibid. p. 299. 390. Op. cit. , p. 224, col. 2. Page 360 could organize and transform that mental faculty and make it naturally participate in the Ultimate. In verse 2 Agastya appeals: "Why dost thou seek to smite us, O Indra? The Maruts are thy brothers. By them accomplish perfection; slay us not... of the Rigveda. It is as if two different widely removed epochs were involved. Another fact of high significance is a linguistic one. Dr. Satya Swarup Mishra, Head, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Arts, at Banaras Hindu University, writes to me about the words in the Mitanni documents: "These words were first of all taken as Indo-Iranian. Then the western scholars themselves decided that... to men, it indicates the Vedic idea of the Kavi or Rishi, 347. Ibid., pp. 220-21. Page 340 inspired sage or seer, as one who had access to a knowledge received through faculties not possessed by ordinary mortals. The important place in the Rigveda of a conception of supranormal insight as the source of the special powers of the Rishi has begun to be recognized by recent ...
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