... rationale of the Sadhana. It will be evident that the two most important things here are the opening of the heart centre and the opening of the mind centres to all that is behind and above them. For the heart opens to the psychic being and the mind centres open to the higher consciousness and the nexus between the psychic being and the higher consciousness is the principal means of the Siddhi. The... Descent of the Mother's Force What you feel streaming down must be the Mother's overhead Force. It flows usually from above the head and works at first in the mind centres (head and neck) and afterwards goes down into the chest and heart and then through the movement of the whole body. It is the effect of this working which you must be feeling in the head up to... through the head. 8 May 1934 When the Peace is established, this higher or Divine Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres, then into the heart centre and liberates fully the psychic and emotional Page 204 being, then into the navel and other vital centres and liberates the inner vital, then into the Muladhara ...
... rationale of this sadhana. It will be evident that the two most important things here are the opening of the heart centre and the opening of the mind centres to all that is behind and above them. For the heart opens to the psychic being and the mind centres open to the high611 consciousness and the nexus between the psychic being and the higher consciousness is the principal means of the siddhi. The... spirit. When the place is established, this higher or Divine Force Page 113 from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres the into the heart centre and liberates fully the psychic and emotional being, then into the navel and other vital centres and liberates the inner vital, then into the Muladhara and below and liberates ...
... rationale of the sadhana. It will be evident that the two most important things here are the opening of the heart centre and the opening of the mind centres to all that is behind and above them. For the heart opens to the psychic being and the mind centres open to the higher consciousness and the nexus between the psychic being and the higher consciousness is the principal means of the siddhi. The... or births of the spirit. For when the Peace is established, this higher or Divine Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres, then into the heart centre and liberates fully the psychic and emotional being, then into the navel and other vital centres and liberates the inner vital, then into the Muladhara and below and ...
... rationale of the Sadhana. It will be evident that the two most important things here are the opening of the heart centre and the opening of the mind centres to all that is behind and above them. For the heart opens to the psychic being and the mind centres open to the higher consciousness and the nexus between the psychic being and the higher consciousness is the principal means of the Siddhi. The... birth or births of the spirit. When the Peace is established, this higher or Divine Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres, then into the heart centre and liberates fully the psychic and emotional being, then into the navel and other Page 35 vital centres and liberates the inner vital, then into the ...
... plunges infinitely below, widens infinitely on every side. There is besides the opening of all the centres to the Light and Power and Ananda that has to descend from above. At present only the mind centres seem to receive fully the descent of Force, while the upper vital centres are being prepared with a minor action on other parts of the body. It is a matter of time and perseverance for the way to... consciousness and energy into the whole system down to the bottom of the spine where is the Muladhara or centre of the physical consciousness. The Energy descends through all the levels and centres, mind centres, vital centres, physical centre and fills the whole body with the higher existence and consciousness. The ascent is the liberation (mukti) and when once this ascends, one is liberated from the body ...
... psychic, behind the heart. But the fourth of our seven planes is the supramental which is far above the head, but can be communicated with through the seventh centre, the Sahasradala padma. The Mind Centres This must be the psychicised higher mental being—the position above the head points to that. In other words, you have become aware of your higher mental being which is in contact at once with... subtle body in the throat and connected strongly with the speech—but it acts by connection with the brain. All forces that want to cover the consciousness rise up to do it, covering and acting on the mind centres if they can—because otherwise the covering is not complete. Speech comes from the throat centre, but it is associated with whatever is the governing centre or level of the consciousness—wherever ...
... its own way of action and lower purpose. Ordinarily, in their task of assumption and assimilation of this difficult stuff of Nature, the higher powers descend first into the mind and occupy the mind centres because these are nearest to themselves in intelligence and knowledge-power; if they descend first into the heart or into the vital being of force and sensation, as they sometimes do because these... that the workings of each remain still partly of the new higher, partly of a mixed, partly of the old unchanged lower order. All the mind in its whole range cannot be transmuted at once, for the mind centres are not a region isolated from the rest of the being; the mind action is penetrated by the action of the vital and physical parts, and in those parts themselves are lower formations of mind, a vital ...
... pressure was on your mind. The centres of the mind are (a) the head and above it, (b) the centre of the forehead between the eyes, (c) the throat and the vital mental (emotional) and sensational mind centres from the breast downward. It is this latter which is the first prāṇa of which you became aware. The action of the Power was to widen these two parts of you and raise them up towards the lowest... Mother's Force which is first felt above the head or around it, then afterwards within the head. The pressure means that it is working to open the mind and its centres so that it may enter. The mind-centres are in the head, one at the top and above it, another between the eyes, a third in the throat. That is why you feel the vibration around the head and sometimes up to the neck, but not below. It ...
... its own light and force. He is not confined to his position in the heart or to the single cord of the psycho-spiritual realisation. He has also his supramental station above the heart-centre and mind-centres and can descend from there if He wants to do so. 3 March 1937 I am giving below the best brief account by Paul Brunton of the Maharshi's technique of discovering what Brunton calls the Overself ...
... force. He is not confined to his position in the heart or to the single cord of the psycho-spiritual Page 499 realisation. He has also his supramental station above the heartcentre and mind-centres and can descend from there if He wants to do so. Swami Ramatirtha I think Ramatirtha's realisations were more mental than anything else. He had opening of the higher mind and a realisation ...
... Mother's Force which is first felt above the head or around it, then afterwards within the head. The pressure means that it is working to open the mind and its centres so that it may enter. The mind centres are in the head, one at the top and above it, another between the eyes, a third in the throat. That is why you feel the vibration around the head and sometimes up to the neck, but not below. It ...
... philosophical attitude of this great poet which is found to be pervading all his works in different degrees and in different ways. The most prominent idea that pervades the works of Kālidāsa, to my mind, centres round the Upanisadic philosophy of Vedānta which goes far beyond any fanatic clinging to one ideology or the other, based on the conception of a particular deity as the ultimate, while at the same ...
... in this sadhana. During a receptive period I feel a free flow of what the Mother may be granting me. It passes down easily through my head and forehead. It is the inner mind centres that have become open and conscious. Page 11 Today's pressure was two-fold. One came forth from behind the eyes. The second entered through each of the ears. Both met ...
... action in the spine also? Yes. During a free reception, I feel the descent passing through my head, forehead and inner mind centre. It is the inner mind centres that have become open and conscious. While standing and looking at the Mother my eyes felt a burning pressure. It may be to connect the outer with the inner vision ...
... experience of the integral yoga. When the Peace is established, this higher or Divine Force from above can descend and work in us. It descends usually first into the head and liberates the inner mind centres, then into the heart centre... then into the navel and other vital centres... then into the sacral region and below.... It works at the same time for perfection as well as liberation; it takes up ...
... a fully effective meditation. (2) The pressure on the head and the movements within it. The pressure is that of the Force of the higher consciousness above the mind pressing on the mind (the mind centres are in the head and throat) and penetrating into it. Once it enters there it prepares the mind for opening to it more fully and the movements within the head are due to this working. Once the head ...
... of the details are not clear to me. I suppose however that the three supernals are at the top, that the two below them (led to by Justice and Prudence from the psychic centre) are mind-planes or mind-centres, that Tiphareth in the middle is the psychic, the three between it and the earth are vital planes. In the absence of precise information I cannot carry the correlation farther. Now as to the ...
... of a great Force — higher or Divine Force. During the free reception I feel the descent passing through my head, forehead and inner vision centre. It is the inner mind centres that have become open and conscious. During a deep meditation, sometimes I feel a sweet and star-cool intense Force just above my head. At the same time I see my vital consciousness ...
... Centres My Pilgrimage to the Spirit February 23, 1932 The Moon is sometimes a symbol of the light in the mind—if it is a full moon. The Crescent moon may be a symbol of growing spirituality of the mind-centre. Sri Aurobindo ...
... Overmind My Pilgrimage to the Spirit February 23, 1932 The moon is sometimes a symbol of the Light in the mind—if it is a full moon. The crescent moon may be a symbol of growing spirituality of the mind centre. I have written hastily and roughly. If you find it difficult to read you can send it back marking the places. Sri Aurobindo ...
... higher, spiritual, or divine consciousness and energy into the whole system down to the bottom of the spine where is the Muladhara or centre of the Physical Consciousness. The Energy descends through all the levels and centres, mind centre, vital centre, physical centre and fills the whole body with the higher existence and consciousness. The ascent is the liberation (Mukti), and when one thus ascends... the feet of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo 13 November 1936 It is the beginning of a very decisive experience and realisation — first, the Ascent above the mind (head) into the spiritual plane. It is here that one realises and is released into the vastness, stillness, silence, freedom, peace and joy of the Infinite and becomes aware of the Universal Self and ...
... the externalising mind centre. During the evening meditation there were very powerful pressures inside the head. Is there any working started? No—an extension of the working on the inner mind. There were also sharp pressures on many parts of the face as with a pointed instrument. All that is a working on the externalising mind. Page 140... state my consciousness shifts its lodging from the inner mind centre to the centre on the top of my head. That is a first entry into the higher consciousness. When the pressure on the temples of the head becomes stronger there comes a spontaneous tendency to soar upwards. It is through the inner mind that one ascends—so that is quite natural. ... comes as a natural result of the general withdrawal and concentration. I suppose, it is simply that the effort brings a concentration in the centres of the vital and physical to Page 136 share in the stillness which the will acting through the mind is trying to impose on the nature. All the time I feel in my being an energy which does not seem to be rajasic or sattwic ...
... Usually the mind opens first or the heart — the psychic centre opens afterwards. From where does the mind or the psychic receive the power of discrimination? It belongs to them by nature — only the mind can Page 72 err, the psychic does not. Is It not the Mother who warns us indirectly, through the mind or the psychic? ... and a force working. The higher flow that descends through the top of my head— the Brahmic centre — was felt till now only up to the inner mind centre in the forehead. Now it has extended and runs into the nose. It is coming down towards the externalising mind centre. I do not understand how the higher pressure is not only coming with intensity and power... skilful, except in the special connection of dogs and horses? These are faithful because of the psychic part in them, but in mind they are inferior. Why do I not feel love and Ananda every time I see the Mother? Does the psychic consist of a centre as well as a plane? Yes. As for the love and Ananda, it depends on the psychic coming up. ...
... Chakras or Centres of Consciousness Letters on Yoga - I Chapter II The Parts of the Body and the Centres The Parts of the Body in Yoga Different parts of the body indicate for this purpose different parts of the nature. The head is the seat of the mind (buddhi) and the lower part of the mouth, chin, neck are the seat of the external or physical mind. It... action on the externalising mind (physical mental) whose centre is in the throat. The neck and throat and the lower part of the face belong to the externalising mind, the physical mental. The forehead to the inner Mind. Above the head are the higher planes of Mind. The organ of speech is an instrument of the physical mental or expressive externalising mind. The Chest, Stomach and Abdomen... else can be done. The Legs and Feet It is the material consciousness that is indicated by the legs and feet. Below the feet is the subconscient. There is no big centre below the Muladhara in the body, but there are minor centres everywhere. The leg indicates the physical (material) consciousness. All below the Muladhara is the range of the physical consciousness proper including the mental ...
... I generally live in the physical mind only. Is not the growth of intellect important to our Yoga? If your sadhana develops, knowledge will come with it and there will be the necessary development. In connection with becoming conscious of the Mother's working in me, you write: "Yes. But it will probably bring the pressure on the forehead centre, of which you complain." What is... connection between getting knowledge and the pressure on the forehead? You asked I believe about knowing what comes. The knowledge you speak of comes most easily when the inner mind centre is open. You want me to observe and understand the movements of my nature and the working of the Page 35 Mother within me. But I do not know how to do it exactly... psychic. You have said: "There can be no perfect understanding unless you are in union with the unexpressed mind." What is this mind and how is one to come into contact with it? I don't know the context. But it can only mean that only one part of the mind expresses itself, the rest remains unexpressed behind — it is that unexpressed part with which you have to get into union ...
... consciousness—for all below the Muladhara down to the feet is the physical province. The moon is sometimes a symbol of the Light in the mind,—if Page 145 it is a full moon. The crescent moon may be a symbol of growing spirituality of the mind centre. Star The star signifies a creation or formation or the promise or power of a creation or formation. The star is always a promise... indicates spiritual realisation in the mind. Page 144 The moon indicates different things according to circumstances—most often spiritual consciousness in the mind. The light above the head is never an imagination in Yoga; if it is felt, it is because it is there. If it is the moon, it means the light of the spiritual consciousness in the mind. The moon as a symbol in vision... vision signifies usually spirituality in the mind or, simply, the spiritual consciousness. It can also indicate the flow of spiritual Ananda (nectar is in the moon according to the old tradition). The moon indicates spirituality, sometimes also spiritual Ananda. It [ spiritual mind, symbolised by the moon ] is Mind in contact with truths of the spirit and reflecting them. The Sun is the ...
... conscious centres and sources of all the dynamic powers of our being organising their action through the plexuses and arranged in an ascending series from the lowest physical to the highest mind centre and spiritual centre called the thousand-petalled lotus where ascending Nature, the Serpent Power of the Tantrics, meets the Brahman and is liberated into the Divine Being. These centres are closed... According to Sri Aurobindo, this might well be part of a supreme total transformation of the body, though this too might not be final. He admits that to envisage such changes is to look for ahead and minds attached to the present form of things may be unable to give credence to their possibility. The Mother (1878-1973) Page 57 A radical transformation of the ...
... conscious centres and sources of all the dynamic powers of our being organising their action through the plexuses and arranged in an ascending series from the lowest physical to the highest mind centre and spiritual centre called the thousand-petalled lotus where ascending Nature, the Serpent Power of the Tantrics, meets the Brahman and is liberated into the Divine Being. These centres are closed... do exactly the same thing, sometimes they even do it much better than the yogi, but it doesn't give them a stable health... because they haven't thought about it, haven't done it with this purpose in mind. I have asked them myself, I said, "But how can you be ill after doing all that?"—"Oh! but I never thought of it, that's not why I do it." This amounts to saying that it is the conscious will which ...
... been explored, and mind too; the sciences are multiplying, and the techniques of analysis or organisation are getting to be more and more subtle and complicated; yet the central mystery of creation remains, and man doesn't yet know how to pluck the heart of the mystery. Is the phenomenal world but the play of the magic of Maya? Is there a realm of absolutes? But mind-centred man cannot achieve ...
... that comes the smell. I had just closed my eyes — but was not asleep. Suddenly I saw a small bird coming down in swift flight. It knocked at my forehead, just above the inner mind-centre. I could not quite remember after-wards whether it entered in or fled away. It must have gone in. I suppose the bird indicates a power of ascension. Page 209 ... in a dream last night. Was it real or was it imagination only at work? What do you mean by real? It was the form of Mother in a dream experience. Imagination applies only to the waking mind. But cannot false forces take the form of the Mother? If false forces take the form of the Mother, it will be with some bad object. If there is no attack or wrong suggestion... constructed a dream about the Mother or put her figure there when she Page 206 herself was not there. That happens when it is only a dream, a number of ideas and memories etc. of the mind put together and not experience on another plane. In a letter about subtle supraphysical fragrance, you used the phrase: "Like the supraphysical light seen by the eyes." Do our eyes ...
... Dark Well poems when I wrote about Harin. I was thinking of his ordinary way of writing. If I remember right , the Dark Well poems came from the inner mind centre, some from the Higher Mind-other planes may have sent their message to his mind to put in poetic speech, but the main worker was the poetic intelligence which took what was given and turned it into something very vivid, coloured and... Blown by his breath a cloud of colour runs: The yearning curves of life are lit to a smile. O mystic sun, arise upon our thought And with thy gold omnipotence make each face The centre of some blue infinitude! Sri Aurobindo's Comment "The modifications now made are quite satisfactory and render the poem perfect. The last six lines still remain the finest part... for Arjava's poems and wanting to get something of the same quality into his own poetic style. But in any case Dilip has not the mystic mind and vision—Harin also. In quite different ways they receive and express their vision or experience through the poetic mind and imagination—even so, because it expressed something unusual, Dilip's poetry has had a difficulty in getting recognised except by people ...
... them, giving them importance, not seeing the entire inanity of them. At the same time the inertia communicated itself to the mind, preventing the will from acting. Hence the difficulty. I feel something going on strongly between the navel and the sex centre? What is it? I suppose the Power is working there to clear a way for a stronger descent of the higher things into... whole system feels rest when the sadhana is going on well. The deeper the sadhana the better is the rest felt. That is as it should be. During voidness I feel my seat in the mind centre between the eyebrows and during blankness it is shifted to the top of the head. What should be my attitude during voidness? Call down the higher Truth and the Divine Force into the... great appetite for food though in fact I may not be at all hungry! Association of ideas perhaps — emptiness=hunger. This type of vital emptiness is all right. But it confuses my mind regarding the sense of appetite — whether or not I am really hungry or how much hungry. It is noticed that in spite of eating a large amount the feeling of voidness did not disappear. ...
... It is the Agni and the peace together. Why do I have a station in the forehead centre instead of in the heart? The station in the heart centre is for the psychic opening. What you are at present doing is the upward opening to the Self and for that the inner mind centre is the proper station. I feel a rising movement skywards. It is very... me to tell. The centre of silence, peace etc. as you feel them now is above, so it must be there. But you must be conscious and able to feel it there. What is this constant spell of the Spirit I feel in me? There is no spell of the Spirit there is the consciousness of it in you. Sometimes I feel a thread-like connection between my head-centre and some planes far... covered by the ignorance, when one identifies with the Self and not with the mind, life and body and their movements or with their small ego, that is the release of the Self. You have said that the spirit or Self is covered or concealed by the activity of the mind, vital and the body. But would not the mind's aspiration help the spirit to uncover itself? Yes, but to feel ...
... result—went into a few seconds' samadhi according to the ordinary language. The Force when it descends tries to open the body and pass through the centres. It has to come in (ordinarily) through the crown of the head (Brahmarandhra) and pass through the inner mind centre which is in the middle of the forehead between the eyebrows. That is why it presses first on the head. The opening of the eyes brings one... have been too much haste in this attempt to open the navel and the lower centre. In this Yoga the movement is downward—first the two head centres, then the heart, then the navel and then the two others. If the higher experience is first fully established with its higher consciousness, knowledge and will in the three upper centres, then it is easier to open the three lower ones without too much disturbance... into the mind, then into the vital and then into the body, because it is these that have to be changed and that is the natural order. Whatever comes from above the head, whether it is Presence, Peace, Ananda, or anything else, normally descends into the head first, then after occupying all the mental centres it comes down into the heart and from there goes down into the vital centres and occupies ...
... the working of a force to open the centre there—for there between the eyes is the centre of the inner mind, will and vision. All these centres are closed in the ordinary consciousness or else only very slightly open on the surface. If the inner mind centre opens, then the peace etc. from above can enter easily into the mind and afterwards into the vital and both mind and vital will become quiet. ... completeness, that the centre of the psychic is behind the heart and it is through the purified emotions that the psychic most easily finds an outlet. All from the heart above is connected with the mental-vital and above it is the mind with its three centres, one in the throat (the outward-going or externalising mind), one between the eyes or rather in the middle of the forehead (the centre of vision and will)... moonlight you saw is the light of spirituality and it was this that was entering into your mind through the centre, with the effect of the widening in the heart like a sky filled with moonlight. Afterwards came some endeavour to prepare the lower part of the mind whose centre is in the throat and join it with the inner mind and make it open; but there was some difficulty, as is very usually the case, which ...
... naturally a deep inward condition and a silence of the mind, and it may bring much more—peace, a sense of liberation, happiness, Ananda. It is very often attended as in this experience by a light or luminosity. It was felt enveloping the upper part of the body down to the cardiac centre, because it is these centres, the head and heart centres that are first invaded and occupied by Page 456 ... fourmillement at the time of concentration. Once the head with its mental centres is open and occupied, the Force descends rapidly to the heart centre, unless there is some obstacle or a resistance in the higher vital parts. From there it sends its stream into the whole body and begins to occupy the vital and physical centres—from the navel to the Muladhara. The coming of this experience, occupation... difficulty you feel is in the externalising mind the centre of which is in the throat. When there is no resistance there, the Force comes down to the heart level and below. As for the dynamic descent, you say that the Force has descended to your forehead (inner mind) centre. It seems to be very slow in coming through. It has to come down to the heart centre and below before it can begin to be fully ...
... which you got rid of after coming into the body. This part of the head from the ears down to the neck is the seat of the physical mind—the centre of the physical or externalising mind is in the throat joining the spine at the back. It was an attack on the physical mind. Going Out in the Vital Body It looks as if it were an exteriorisation 1 in which she goes out in Page 206 her... experiences and this must be overcome; as the inner mental, vital, physical consciousness opens to things behind the thick physical veil all kinds of experiences may happen that are strange to the physical mind and its tendency to be apprehensive or nervous at these things must disappear. It must be able to face even formidable things without fear. A feeling like that of the shock and the stopping of... power over the vital world. As there is no one there who can do this for you, you should draw back from this movement. Aspire for perfect surrender, calm, peace, light, consciousness and strength in the mind and the heart. When the mental being and psychic being are thus open, luminous and surrendered, then the vital can open and receive the same illumination. Till then premature adventures on the vital ...
... moonlight you saw is the light of spirituality and it was this that was entering into your mind through the centre, with the effect of the widening in the heart like a sky filled with moonlight. Afterwards came some endeavour to prepare the lower part of the mind whose centre is in the throat and join it with the inner mind and make it open; but there was some difficulty, as is very usually the case, which... force coming down below the centre between the eyes where it has been working up till now. When such sensations or the unease you once felt or similar things come, you must not be alarmed, but remain quiet and let the difficulty pass. What you had before that, the moonlight in the forehead, was this working in the centre there between the eyebrows, the centre of the inner mind, will and vision. The moonlight... which caused the heat. It was probably the fire of tapas, Agni, trying to open the way to this centre. The experience of being taken up into the sky is a very common one and it means an ascent of the consciousness into a higher world of light and peace. The idea that you must go more and more within and turn wholly to the Mother is quite right. It is when there is no attachment to outward things ...
... something was trying to remove the obstacle it met in the physical mind and heart centres. Such a working does not always immediately fulfil the object. It works and waits and works again and that may go on for a long time. What good is this dynamic descent if it needs years and years merely to touch the heart centre? Just what is this dynamic descent? It is a thing... (inner mind) centre. It seems to be very slow in coming through. It has to come down to the heart centre and below before it can begin to be fully effective. Probably there must be something either in the physical mental (throat) [or] the emotional vital that obstructs the descent. That may be the reason of the union of the upper Agni and the psychic fire and the push in the psychic centre - something... or other level and no farther does not make it a non-descent. The previous descent came down only up to the mind centre. I suppose so. If so, I wonder what was new in it. We know that there had already been a descent into the mind centre long ago. I don't know what was new in it - but the descent is not always of the same things, it may bring or try ...
... fathomless—the meaning becomes visioned and felt as though man were no longer mental merely but poised on a level beyond mind. This type of poetry Sri Aurobindo calls "overhead", because it comes as if by a wide sweeping descent from an ether of superhuman being, high above our mind's centre in the brain. It has not been absent from English literature: Vaughan, Wordsworth, Shelley, Francis Thompson... reflective intelligence is a plane of thought, termed Higher Mind, which is not conceptive from outside its object but is projected from a Spirit-stuff which secretly pervades everything. Rising from that pervasion it comes charged with a broad and strong clarity of conception from the inside, resembling certain lofty outbrusts of the ideative mind proper but differing by a vibration-frequency, so to speak... merely touched by the overhead, as happens at times in Sri Aurobindo's earlier philosophic or other verse, but unified with it and yet not so much assimilated into the specific tones of Higher Mind, Illumined Mind, Intuition or Overmind as itself assimilating them. Its own mode remains, but within the possibilities of that mode the overhead is fully exploited instead of new possibilities being created ...
... Chakras revealed by Tantric knowledge and accepted in the systems of Yoga, conscious centres and sources of all the dynamic powers of our being organising their action through the plexuses and arranged in an ascending series from the lowest physical to the Page 284 highest mind centre and spiritual centre called the thou-sand-petalled lotus where ascending Nature, the Serpent Power of... of the Tantrics, meets the Brahman and is liberated into the Divine Being. These centres are closed or half closed within us and have to be opened before their full potentiality can be manifested in our physical nature: but once they are opened and completely active, no limit can easily be set to the development of their potencies and the total transformation to be possible. At the same time... space-time. The original matrix is space-time. Time is the mind of space. In course of time, space-time breaks up into finites of ever-increasing complexity. At certain points in the history of things, finites assume new empirical qualities which are distinctive levels of experience - primary qualities, matter; and secondary qualities, life and mind. As explained in his book Space, Time and Deity , the ...
... through the physical mind centre." The work was going on all the while. I do not know what work, but it was going on all the while. She told me this afterwards, that it was through the physical mind centre the work was going on. Page 49 Where is it, this physical mind centre? Cannot say, but perhaps the brain-cells. Must have some connection with the Mind of Light. The whole... that centre. It is an empty well. 13:06:1994 The Mother was working directly on the sex centre. Ananda had descended earlier and stopped at the vital. When the Mother was working, I could see from the psychic centre energy rising up and going above. It was released completely. Is it Ojas? I am not told about it, but it must be that. Energy rising above from this centre must... Grace should work directly on it. It worked in that way. Had it come down from centre to centre, descending to lower and lower levels, it would have perhaps taken a longer time. Or perhaps got weakened. Then, while I was meditating, I saw a big well. This well deepened from my heart to the sex centre, even a little down below, down to the thighs; it was a very large well, but it was empty ...
... e to call the phenomenon a manifestation rather than a descent. A descent is in relation to the framework of an individual's existence in which various things are below and above - the mind centre, the heart-centre etc. and the "overhead" planes. Doubtless there was some rumour-mongering and not a little bemused speculation in the Ashram,' for the changes made by the Mother by hand in the printed... indeed wants to see in the forms of Nature a symbolic expression, one can see a centre which is the supreme Truth, and a triple manifestation - (because four indicates manifestation) - in three superimposed worlds; the outermost... that is a physical world, then a vital world and a mental world, and then at the centre, the supramental Truth 4 On a subsequent occasion, when the Mother gave this... the four Darshan days of the year were, as a rule, such focal points of aspiration and fulfilment. There were the visitors, and there were the exhibitions and other special events in the University Centre; and it was on these four days that the quarterly issues of the Bulletin and the Advent (and some other Ashram journals too) came out, carrying their divers loads of philosophical comment and spiritual ...
... Dark Well poems when I wrote about Harin. I was thinking of his ordinary way of writing. If I re member right, the Dark Well poems came from the inner mind centre, some from the Higher Mind—other planes may have sent their message to his mind to put in poetic speech, but the main worker was the poetic intelligence which took what was given and turned it into something very vivid, coloured and beautiful... for Arjava's poems and wanting to get something of the same quality into his own poetic style. But in any case Dilip has not the mystic mind and vision—Harin also. In quite different ways they receive and express their vision or experience through the poetic mind and imagination—even so because it expressed something not usual, Dilip's poetry has had a difficulty in getting itself recognised except... own tongue are often missed there. So probably your last remark is founded. 14 March 1937 I hope people won't misunderstand what you have remarked about the mystic mind [in the above letter]. One's not having the mystic mind and vision does not reflect upon one's poetic excellence, even as a singer of the Spirit. As regards Harin, you had said long ago that he wrote from several planes [ see ...
... not deep enough. About his best mystical creations during the three years of stay in the Ashram, Sri Aurobindo says that Harin's "poems came from the inner mind centre, some from the Higher Mind - other planes may have sent their message to his mind to put in poetic speech, but the main worker was the poetic intelligence which took what was given and turned it into something very vivid, coloured and beautiful... even as in the Aurobindonian experience he comes down into us and shapes our thought and feeling and will in his own splendour and amethyst sovereignty. He makes those who are receptive to him living centres of blue-and-gold infinitudes. A conscious effort on our part is needed. But rare is such a conscious effort and rarer yet the guiding Light leading us on the path. "The yearning curves of life are... Blown by his breath a cloud of colour runs: The yearning curves of life are lit to a smile. O mystic sun, arise upon our thought And with your gold omnipotence make each face The centre of some blue infinitude! Sri Aurobindo comments: "The last six lines... have i breath of revelation in them; especially the image 'my heart has grown his glimmering East' and the extreme ...
... positive obstruction. Probably it is between the inner mind centre and the seventh centre (sahasradal padma). It must be the physical mind interfering and preventing the free ascension. Page 224 Why is my physical mind not happy with your answers to what I write? Something in your physical mind stiffens and begins to defend its views. It is better... it be said that my intellect or inner mind has now detached itself from the lower Prakriti? The thinking mind generally — except the physical part. LOSS OF MEMORY IN SADHANA In which part of the mind is the memory of everything stored? It is not in the mind alone; it is stored in the subconscient (mind, vital and physical) as impressions — also... sadhana the outer mind can be developed directly from above. At present I see many changes in my inner being, particularly in 'the inner mind. But the outer mind seems to have remained as ignorant and unchanged as before! The change there can only come when the higher consciousness takes possession of the physical mind also. I wonder why any part of my mind identifies itself ...
... Dark Well poems when I wrote about Harin. I was thinking of his ordinary way of writing. If I remember right, the Dark Well poems came from the inner mind centre, some from the Higher Mind—other planes may have sent their message to his mind to put in poetic speech, but the main worker was the poetic intelligence which took what was given and turned it into something very vivid, coloured and beautiful... y in his lecture. The Name and Nature of Poetry. The "thousand-petalled lotus" is Sri Aurobindo's addition denoting, in terms of the traditional Raja-Yogit psychology, the centre of consciousness just above the brain-mind, now a supra-intellectual source of contact by a direct spiritual sense. (K.D.S.) Page 108 ... poem expressing with revelatory images the consciousness of the cosmic Self into which one enters by breaking the walls of individual limitation. Higher Mind, touched with Illumined Mind, except lines 3, 4, 8, 9 which are more of the illumined Mind itself." Asked what exactly was meant in line 3 by the phrase "that breaks through form", Sri Aurobindo replied: "It means nothing exactly, but it ...
... are several centres of it, e.g., the centre for inner concentration is not in the Page 309 brain but in the heart,—the originating centre of vital desire is still lower down. The two main places where one can centre the consciousness for Yoga are in the head and in the heart—the mind-centre and the soul-centre. One has to open through concentration in the heart centre or above the... it which is that of the above-mind or higher consciousness; a centre in the forehead between the eyebrows which is that of the thinking mind, mental will, mental vision; a centre in the throat which is that of the expressive or externalising mind: these are the mental centres. Below comes the vital—the heart (emotional), the navel (the dynamic life-centre), another below the navel in the abdomen which... One can concentrate in any of the three centres which is easiest to the sadhak or gives most result. The power of the concentration in the heart-centre is to open that centre and by the power of aspiration, love, bhakti, surrender remove the veil which covers and conceals the soul and bring forward the soul or psychic being to govern the mind, life and body and turn and open them all—fully—to ...
... the Lord; it also is in its completeness Sachchidananda using Ignorance as the minor term of its being. But it has projected its conceptions into this minor term and established there in limited mind its centre of vision, its view-point. It assumes to itself the incompleteness and the resultant sense of want, discord, desire, suffering. The Real Man behind is not affected by all this confusion; but the... to be only a parent of evil. Ignorance is a veil that separates the mind, body and life Page 45 from their source and reality, Sachchidananda. Thus obscured the mind feels itself pierced by the evil that Ignorance creates. But the Active Brahman is always Sachchidananda using for its self-becoming the forms of mind, body and life. All their experiences are therefore seen by It in the... and names to the individual soul. These forms and names are in a sense created in the human consciousness; in another they are eternal symbols revealed by the Divine who thus concretises Himself in mind-form to the multiple consciousness and aids it in its return to its own Unity. 1 HE THAT WENT ABROAD It is He that has extended Himself in the relative consciousness whose totality of finite ...
... conscious centres and sources of all the dynamic powers of our being organising their action through the plexuses and arranged in an ascending series from the lowest physical to the highest mind centre and spiritual centre called the thousand-petalled lotus where ascending Nature, the Serpent Power of the Tantrics, meets the Brahman and is liberated into the Divine Being. These centres are closed... communicating themselves without physical means from mind to mind, producing with a similar directness effects on the thoughts, actions and lives of others or even upon material things. The heart would equally be a direct communicant and medium of interchange for the feelings and emotions thrown outward upon the world by the forces of the psychic centre. Heart could reply directly to heart, the life-force... waste, remaining thus with no need of sustenance by material aliments, and yet continue a strenuous action with no fatigue or pause for sleep or repose. The soul's will or the mind's could act from higher sources upon the sex centre and the sex organs so as to check firmly or even banish the grosser sexual impulse or stimulus and instead of serving an animal excitation or crude drive or desire turn their ...
... conscious centres and sources of all the dynamic powers of our being organising their action through the plexuses and arranged in an ascending series from the lowest physical to the highest mind centre and spiritual centre called the thousand-petalled lotus where ascending Nature, the Serpent Power of the Tantrics, meets the Brahman and is liberated into the Divine Being. These centres are closed... communicating themselves without physical means from mind to mind producing with a similar directness effects on the thoughts, actions and lives of others or even upon material things. The heart would equally be a direct communicant and medium of interchange for the feelings and emotions thrown outward upon the world by the forces of the psychic centre. Heart could reply directly to heart, the life-force... waste, remaining thus with no need of sustenance by material aliments, and yet continue a strenuous action with no fatigue or pause for sleep or repose. The soul's will or the mind's could act from higher sources upon the sex-centre and the sex organs so as to check firmly or even banish the grosser sexual impulse or stimulus and instead of serving an animal excitation or crude drive or desire turn their ...
... the process of our Yoga the centres have each a fixed psychological use and general function which base all their special powers and functionings. The mūlādhāra governs the physical down to the subconscient; the abdominal centre - sv ā dhisth ā na - governs the lower vital; the navel centre - n āb hipadma or manipura - governs the larger vital; the heart centre - hrdpadma or an ā hata -... - governs the emotional being; the throat centre -vi ś uddha- governs the expressive and externalising mind; the centre between the eye-brows - ājnācakra - governs the dynamic mind, will, vision, mental formation; the thousand-petalled lotus sahasradala - above commands the higher thinking mind, houses the still higher illumined mind and at the highest opens to the intuition through which or... in all the centres of our inner being (Chakras) and is at the base what is called in the Tantras the Kundalini Shakti. But it is also above us, above our head as the Divine Force - not there coiled up, involved, asleep, but awake, scient, potent, extended and wide; it is there waiting for manifestation and to this Force we have to open ourselves - to the power of the Mother. In the mind it manifests ...
... t into a few seconds' samadhi, according to the ordinary language. The Force when it descends tries to open the body and pass through the centres. It has to come in (ordinarily) through the crown of the head (Brahmarandhra) and pass through the inner mind centre which is in the middle of the forehead between the eyebrows. That is why it presses first on the head. The opening of the eyes brings one... man's desire to be the master and keep her in subjection,—the Hitler and Mussolini attitude. The sex is an additional stimulus. Not more hard than you deserve. Then again, it is said that woman's centre of life and consciousness is in the vital, whose nature is to pull the jiva down to earth. Woman's living in material and vital is not the cause—it is man's living in the vital and material that... irrational undetermined character. It is of the same class as the ideas which get hold of people's minds and become "fixed ideas", only these are momentary. But even if he did it by mistake, it was a suggestion from a source that wanted to do him injury—and took advantage of a momentary absence of mind. January 24, 1935 Apropos our discussion on women, let me put before you Mother's opinion ...
... descent seems to have stopped at the throat centre (the physical mind centre). If it has stopped there, it must be because there is not sufficient plasticity and surrender in the physical mental to let it through. The descent will come when it is possible for it to come down. Meanwhile, more quietness and fortitude in the physical mind and consciousness would perhaps be helpful.... physical records and feels the effect. When Force descends into the head it means that it has come down into the mind, when it is felt in the heart it means it has entered into the emotional vital, when it is in the Muladhara and below it means it is acting on the physical consciousness. The centres are all in the subtle body although there are corresponding parts in the gross physical. I understand... serves, etc. etc. - there can be many points of view which are not ego-centric. You wrote, "If it was an impersonal experience how does the ego come in? Self (Atman) is one thing, the ego another." Certainly the ego did not come with the experience. It was only when the experience was over that the foolishness of my mind brought it in as an idea. Why? Because I had heard that X's ego became ...
... active is one aim of yoga." — Sri Aurobindo "The centres or Chakras are seven in number: — 1. The thousand-petalled lotus on the top of the head. 2. In the middle of the forehead — the Ajna Chakra — (will, vision, dynamic thought). 3. Throat centre — externalising mind. 4. Heart-lotus — emotional centre. The psychic is behind it. 5. Navel — higher vital (proper)... presides over it; and the psychic being which stands behind mind, life and body in the manifestation and uses them as its instruments. Centres of Consciousness — " [The soul] is, according to our psychology, connected with the small outer personality by certain centres of consciousness of which we become aware by yoga....The inner centres are for the most part closed or asleep — to open them... subconscient; the abdominal centre — svādhiṣṭhāna — governs the lower vital; the navel centre — nābhipadma or maṇipūra — governs the larger vital; the heart centre — hrt-padma or anāhata — governs the emotional being; the throat centre — viśuddha — governs the expressive and externalising mind; the centre between the eyebrows — ājñācakra — governs the dynamic mind, will, vision, mental ...
... Measuring vast pain in his immortal mind, or by the vision as of that other from Urvasie: Time like a snake coiling among the stars. But Sri Aurobindo soon struck beyond the level from which he had written the original poem. He grew master - at all moments and not solely in the trance-state - of the plane the traditional Yogas posit above the mind-centre in the brain, the famous "th... occasionally a vehicle for their messages, but only if he lets nothing of his ordinary mind interfere. And in his case the ordinary mind must be understood to comprise not merely what has to be kept in abeyance in the writing of all genuine poetry; to get overhead inspiration we must regard as the ordinary mind the whole poetic urge too of the planes that are usually tapped. One who aspires after the... our thoughts and hopes are signal flares; A lonely splendour from the invisible goal Almost was flung on the opaque Inane. Once more a tread perturbed the vacant Vasts; Infinity's centre, a Face of rapturous calm Parted the eternal lids that open heaven; A Form from far beatitudes seemed to near. Ambassadress twixt eternity and change, The omniscient Goddess leaned ...
... . Mental beings, souls throned in mind, it is in mind our centre not in matter which is to us a mere case, circumference and result of mind, that we should seek our secret of bondage and our means of deliverance. All outward material action is in itself Maya, a thing without self-existent reality. Action is effected only as the outflow and physical symbol of mind; it has no inherent moral or spiritual... are put on it by the manomaya purusha, the spirit centred and veiled in mind. Humanity still imprisoned in its surroundings, servilely reflects in its mind the habitual impact of outward things, the bahyasparshah, & gives to them a fixed & conventional mental value. The more humanity moves towards freedom & perfection, the more it will live in the mind itself, use outward circumstances of life & matter... very nature as human beings, the knot must be hidden somewhere in our minds, and, particularly, it should be sought in the emotional part of our minds. For where the centre of our active being is, there must be the knot of our bondage, and there also must we seek for the secret of its unloosing. If we had been material beings or centred in matter, the knot would have been in some material habit and the ...
... forehead, the Agna Chakra—; ( will, vision, dynamic thought. ) 3. Throat-Centre-externalising mind. 4. Heart-lotus-emotional centre. The psychic is behind it. 5. Navel centre, higher vital ( proper ) 6. Below navel—the lower vital. 7. Muladhara—the physical. All these centres are in the middle of the body; they are supposed to be attached to the spinal chord;... develops with evolving mind and life and body."4 " The psychic being is in the heart centre in the middle of the chest (not in the physical heart, for the centres are "in the middle of the body,) but it is deep behind."5 " The psychic being is a Purusha, not a flame, - the psychic fire is not the being, it is something proper to it."6 " The opening of the heart centre releases the psychic... part of us can remain; so also can the vital, provided they are organised by and centred round the true psychic being for they then share the immortality of the psychic. Otherwise the psychic draws mind and life into itself and enters into an inter-natal quiescence. "I2 ( vii ) CENTRES OR CHAKRAS "Everything here that belongs strictly to the earth plane is evolved ...
... Measuring vast pain in his immortal mind, or by the vision as of that other from Urvasie: Time like a snake coiling among the stars. But Sri Aurobindo soon struck beyond the level from which he had written the original poem. He grew master — at all moments and not solely in the trance-state — of the plane the traditional Yogas posit above the mind-centre in the brain, the famous "thous... Wings of the angel, gallop of the beast! Mind and body on fire, but the heart in swoon. . O flame, thou bringest the strength of the noon, But where are the voices of mom and the stillness of eve? Where the pale-blue wine of the moon? Mind and life are in flower, but the heart must grieve. Page 90 Gold in the mind and the life-flame's red Make of the... occasionally a vehicle for their messages, but only if he lets nothing of his ordinary mind interfere. And in his case the ordinary mind must be understood to comprise not merely what has to be kept in abeyance in the writing of all genuine poetry; to get overhead inspiration we must regard as the ordinary mind the whole poetic urge too of the planes that are usually tapped. One who aspires after the ...
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