... and the Life Divine', 'Supermind and Humanity', 'Supermind in the Evolution', 'Mind of Light' and 'Supermind * More recently, the name has been changed to Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education, and it is published in English-French-Hindi. Page 718 and Mind of Light', the last appearing in the issue of November 1950.* In the "Message", Sri Aurobindo... direction. As an advanced guard, these select men and women charged with the Mind of Light may prove the harbingers of the Supramental Age: Thus there will be built up, first, even in the Ignorance itself, the possibility of a human ascent towards a divine living; then there will be, by the illumination of this mind of Light in the greater realisation of what may be called a gnostic mentality... introduced, as we have seen earlier, the "realm between" - the Mind of Light - a limited or delegated power of the Supermind; and we have the Mother's word - reinforced by the experience of the Supramental radiance from his body from 5th to 8th December - that "as soon as Sri Aurobindo withdrawal from his body, what he called the Mind of Light got realised here". Was it, perhaps, necessary for Sri Aurobindo ...
... divinised manhood and the divine life. In the birth of the mind of Light and its ascension into its own recognisable self and its true status and right province there must be, in the very nature of things as they are and very nature of the evolutionary process as it is at present, two stages. In the first, we can see the mind of Light gathering itself out of the Ignorance, assembling its constituent... The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Mind of Light A new humanity means for us the appearance, the development of a type or race of mental beings whose principle of mentality would be no longer a mind in the Ignorance seeking for knowledge but even in its knowledge bound to the Ignorance, a seeker after Light but... the Light but not an inhabitant of the Light, not yet a perfected instrument, truth-conscious and delivered out of the Ignorance. Instead, it would be possessed already of what could be called a mind of Light, a mind capable of living in the truth, capable of being truth-conscious and manifesting in its life a direct in place of an indirect knowledge. Its mentality would be an instrument of the Light ...
... the actual realisation - of the Mind of Light upon the earth must be viewed as the prelude to the coming supramental manifestation, for, if Mind of Light comes (or has come) indeed, can Supermind be far behind?** * When The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth was published in New York by E.P. Dutton & Company in 1953, it was given the title The Mind of Light. ** For a fuller ... radiance of Knowledge and be transformed in consequence as Mind of Light?* Technically it would be below Higher Mind, yet it might be more intrinsically (if feebly) supramental than the four higher states of the spiritual mind and it might also solve humanity's immediate problem of meeting the evolutionary crisis: A mind of light will replace the present confusion and trouble of this earthly... beginning of a divinised life. 67 With the settled rule of the Mind of Light, a "gnostic mentality" may replace the ordinary mentality "even before the Supermind is reached". 68 In these essays Sri Aurobindo has only thrown a few hints, and there is even a certain ambiguity regarding the exact location of the Mind of Light in the hierarchy of powers. Lesser than the powers of the spiritual-mind ...
... body too is then a centre of an all-pervasive, infinite Force of Consciousness. This mind will be a fort of Light, dense with knowledge, what Sri Aurobindo has called the "Mind of Light". I have felt that this Mind of Light must certainly also have a corresponding point or chakra in this body. And so I checked all the chakras that are there in the different parts of our body. These are all... then we could attain even physical immortality. What Sri Aurobindo has called the "Mind of Light" will be able to work out with the intervention of this chakra the conjunction of the Supramental and the physical being. This chakra that surrounds the pituitary gland is the centroid of the "Mind of Light" in our body, the point where the mind and the body meet and become one.' Dada wrote... prevented. Thus perfect control and mastery over this centre may bring physical immortality. Sri Aurobindo has spoken of 'Mind of Light' that will serve as the liaison between the supermind and the physical being. Perhaps this centre is the seat of the 'Mind of Light' in the body. * Dada was sitting that day as if lost in thought. Very quiet. Then Chandranath asked very gently: ...
... called the Mind of Light." Face to face with such a clear-cut statement our sole task is to use as exegesis on its conjunction of physical mind, Supermind and Mind of Light Sri Aurobindo's own treatment of the last. His phrase, "Mind of Light", except for an occurrence in Book IV, Canto I, of Savitri ² in connection with Savitri's early development - A mind of light, a life of rhythmic... initial form of the Mind of Light and the difference between it and the fullest creations possible of Spiritual Mind before Supermind has descended. The difference provides the clue to the forms the Mind of Light assumes in its farther development. We are here talking of forms developed by supramental descent. But we can also speak of the progression of the Mind of Light by ascent, what we... Spiritual Mind in its own undescended hierarchy as well as to the Mind of Light ascended there, we should call the Mind of Light in its second form in the body mental Gnosis as distinguished from the Gnosis proper which is Supermind. Beyond mental Gnosis the Mind of Light manifests, in complete assimilation of the human mental, the Gnosis proper and assumes its third and sovereign form. ...
... On the one hand, the supramental Force realized in the physical by Sri Aurobindo, the Mind of Light, had during his confrontation with death been transmitted to the Mother, so concretely that she had felt it as a friction every time that Force entered her body through the pores of its skin. The Mind of Light is the supramental Presence in the cells, and it would indeed be a bizarre supramental phenomenon... being active there in one way or another. Maybe it is because Sri Aurobindo wrote little and rather cryptically about the Mind of Light, and because the Mother in the first years after his passing rarely talked about her own sadhana, that the physical presence of the Mind of Light on Earth, in her body, has not been included in the Aurobindonian ‘system of yoga’ by the commentators, and that they do... the situation? Sri Aurobindo, after his great realizations which had led him to the inner discovery of the Supermind, had brought it down gradually into the mental, the vital and finally, as the Mind of Light, in the matter of his body. This had become possible only by his work in the Subconscient and Inconscient, as explained in a previous chapter. We find a confirmation of this explanation in a co ...
... 22 “Supermind and Mind of Light” is the title of the last article; it was published in the Bulletin of November 1950 and must have been written one or two months earlier. Here we get the full definition of the Mind of Light. “The Mind of Light is a subordinate action of Supermind, dependent upon it even when not apparently springing directly from it … In the Mind of Light when it becomes full-orbed... embodiment of the Mind of Light will proceed in two stages. “In each of these stages it will define its own grades and manifest the order of its beings who will embody it and give to it a realised life. Thus there will be built up, first, even in the Ignorance itself, the possibility of a human ascent towards a divine living; then there will be, by the illumination of this mind of Light in the greater... Sanyal remembered. “With a piercing gaze she stood there”, 24 for a long, long time. This was when the Mother received the Mind of Light from Sri Aurobindo into the cells of her body. “As soon as Sri Aurobindo withdrew from his body, what he has called the Mind of Light got realised in me”, the Mother afterwards told K.D. Sethna. “The Supermind had descended long ago – very long ago – into the mind ...
... items include a short poem on 'Mind of Light' with these opening lines. The core of a deathless sun is now the brain And each grey cell bursts to omniscient gold - lines that elicited the Mother's comment that they "are sheer revelation", what in fact that preceding 32-page essay on The Supermind's' Descent and the Mind of Light tries to present with a due weight... experience. Towards the close of his masterly exposition, Sethna writes: "Yes, the Mind of Light as its supreme and in its absolute orb, is what was realised in the descent into earth's being in December 1950." And at the time of Sri Aurobindo's passing, the Mind of Light (as admitted by her) got realised in the Mother, and paved the way for the supramental manifestation ...
... do so earlier? Why did it not flow from the Mother into any other sadhak later? Page 68 3) The Mind of Light was first mentioned by Sri Aurobindo in his last articles in the Bulletin. According to your line of reasoning there might be a typal layer of the Mind of Light. (I won't mind, even if it is newly created by the Mother's efforts.) This is said to have been realised... being from above which descends into a psychic being is an involutionary being - a being of the Overmind plane or from elsewhere." When in Bombay during 1953 I was writing my article on "the Mind of Light", which the Mother had realised on 5 December 1950, she let me know through Nolini that this Mind, which was constituted by the supramental Light settling in the physical mentality, was involutionary... harmoniously according to a perfect inner light, love and liberty. Sri Aurobindo also conceived the appearance of a semi- supramentalised group, "a new humanity", possessing what he called the Mind of Light. In this context he labelled that humanity as "the new race", and told us: "Its mentality...at its highest...would be capable of passing into the supermind and from the new race would be recruited ...
... unutterably ecstatic. One of their discoveries was ‘the Mind of Light.’ In his book The Vision and Work of Sri Aurobindo, K.D. Sethna has included an early essay of his on the Mind of Light in which he quotes the following words the Mother spoke to him: ‘As soon as Sri Aurobindo withdrew from his body, what he has called the Mind of Light got realised in me. The Supermind had descended long ago... ‘What we have called specifically the Mind of Light’, Sri Aurobindo writes there, ‘is indeed the last of a series of descending planes of consciousness in which the Supermind veils itself by a self-chosen limitation or modification of its self-manifesting activities, but its essential character remains the same: there is in it [in the Mind of Light] an action of light, of truth, of knowledge... physical mind received the supramental light: the physical mind was the instrument for direct action upon the most material. This physical mind receiving the supramental light Sri Aurobindo called the Mind of Light.’ 8 This needs some elucidation. The Supermind is the divine Unity-Consciousness or Truth-Consciousness. (‘Supermind’ and ‘supramental’ are technical terms denoting a reality far surpassing ...
... its descent it brings about in essence the end of ignorance in the physical-mental, and the state it creates by that radical change is the Mind of Light. The Mind of Light is Supermind openly itself in human Mind-terms. 4) The first form the Mind of Light takes seems an added last rung of the luminous ladder of Spiritual Mind. It appears to stand below Higher Mind in quality of Light. But it... Aspects of Sri Aurobindo "THE MIND OF LIGHT" IN SRI AUROBINDO'S PHILOSOPHY AND YOGA " AN ATTEMPT AT A SCHEMATIC SUMMARY 1)"The Mind of Light" is a coinage of Sri Aurobindo's, applicable not to all the levels of mental being where Light (Divine Knowledge) has open play in various degrees, but only to the human mental level... forth without a crucial poise-change as in Spiritual Mind. 6)The third form of the Mind of Light goes farther than such mental Gnosis. It embodies the Supramental Gnosis free from any frontal appearance of Spiritual Mind. Not, Page 142 however, all of the Supramental Gnosis, for the Mind of Light expresses that in the Supermind which is the divine counterpart of all Mind — "Divine ...
... beyond-human state in his body, he must first have realized a new state of consciousness in his body, in the cells of his body. This new state of consciousness he called ‘the Mind of Light,’ and it is to this Mind of Light that he dedicates a major part of The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth. (This title was not coined by him and does not cover the general contents of the articles. Towards... into mine. And I felt the friction of the passage. It was extraordinary. It was an extraordinary experience.’ 62 This was when the Mother received the Mind of Light in the cells of her body. We have already seen what the Mind of Light is. We have also seen that, since November 1926, there had been a sort of ‘division of tasks’ between Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Because of the unity of their... supramental light: the physical mind was the instrument for direct action upon the most material. This physical mind receiving the supramental light Sri Aurobindo called the Mind of Light.’ 63 The transmission of the Mind of Light from Sri Aurobindo’s body into the body of the Mother, ‘with such a strong sensation as to make one think that it could be seen,’ happened immediately after Sanyal declared ...
... manhood and the divine life. In the birth of the mind of Light and its ascension into its own recognisable self and its true status and right province there must be, in the very nature of things as they Page 206 are and very nature of the evolutionary process as it is at present, two stages. In the first, we can see the mind of Light gathering itself out of the Ignorance, assembling... A Scheme for The Education of Bengal VI. MIND OF LIGHT A NEW humanity means for us the appearance, the development of a type or race of mental beings whose principle of mentality would be no longer a mind in the Ignorance seeking for knowledge but even in its knowledge bound to the Ignorance, a seeker after Light but not its natural possessor, open... Light but not an inhabitant of the Light, not yet a perfected instrument, truth-conscious and . delivered out of the Ignorance. Instead, it would be possessed already of what could be called a mind of Light, a mind capable of living in the truth, capable of being truth conscious and manifesting in its life a direct in place of an indirect knowledge. Its mentality would be an instrument of the Light ...
... The Sun and The Rainbow MIND OF LIGHT ("The Supermind had descended long ago — very long ago — into the mind and even into the vital: it was working in the physical also, but indirectly through those intermediaries. The question now was about the direct action of the Supermind in the physical. Sri Aurobindo said it could be possible... physical mind received the supramental light: the physical mind was the instrument for direct action upon the most material. The physical mind receiving the supramental light Sri Aurobindo called the Mind of Light." — Note received from the Mother) The core of a deathless sun is now the brain And each grey cell bursts to omniscient gold. Thought leaps — and an inmost light speaks out from... Page 157 When the Mother read this poem, she was extremely struck with the two opening lines. She remarked that they were sheer revelation, expressing exactly what had happened when the Mind of Light had been realised. The rest of the lines she regarded as having been produced by imaginative reconstruction. Page 158 ...
... Published in the Bulletin in February 1950; dated 13 January 1950. Supermind in the Evolution. Published in the Bulletin in April 1950. Mind of Light. Published in the Bulletin in August 1950. Supermind and Mind of Light. Published in the Bulletin in November 1950. THE PRESENT EDITION In 1971 most of the contents of the present volume were published... Earth (This title was provided or at least approved by the Mother.) The book has been reprinted several times. In 1953 and subsequently it was brought out in the United States under the title The Mind of Light. Message. Published in the Bulletin in February 1949; dated 30 December 1948 Page 603 Perfection of the Body. Published in the Bulletin in April 1949; dated 23 ...
... would be the precipitation of the Supramental Light. A sign of what was being done may be seen from the Mother's statement: "As soon as Sri Aurobindo withdrew from his body, what he had called the Mind of Light got realised in me." We can understand also how after death and as a result of it, the Supramental Light suffused his body for several days. The shock and desolation, however, that we felt can... effect whose purport will not be evident to those who are unfamiliar with Sri Aurobindo's Yoga was, to quote the Mother, "As soon as Sri Aurobindo withdrew from his body, what he had called the Mind of Light got realised here. The Supermind had descended long ago — very long ago — in the mind and even in the vital: it was working in the physical also, but indirectly through those intermediaries. The... physical mind received the supramental light: the physical mind was the instrument for direct action upon the most material. This physical mind receiving the supramental light Sri Aurobindo called the Mind of Light." 1 It is because the Mother as his supreme collaborator was there to receive the Light and continue his work that Sri Aurobindo could make that holocaust of himself. The holocaust has also had ...
... a series of remarkable essays by him on '"Perfection of the Body", "The Divine Body", "Supermind and the Life Divine", "Supermind and Humanity", "Supermind in the Evolution", "Mind of Light" and "Supermind and Mind of Light" which cumulatively constituted the ripest testament of his spiritual vision. Starting with the ideal of the perfect body, Sri Aurobindo explores its fullest ramifications ... greatest present human attainment. 6 Sri Aurobindo's argument in the entire series of articles embraced almost the whole of Yoga, glancing incidentally at a new power of consciousness, the Mind of Light, to which no reference had been made in The Life Divine or The Synthesis of Yoga, and the whole demonstration resounded like a diapason of the inevitability of the Supramental Manifestation ...
... Aurobindo called the Mind of Light.” 4 After all we have learned in the previous chapter about “the new humanity” to be endowed with the Mind of Light, this new definition of the Mind of Light comes as a surprise. For as far as we know, in The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth Sri Aurobindo never even mentioned the physical mind, surely not in this context. The Mind of Light, he wrote, was “the... they were and what they did. “This is what I have been doing …” Let us, at this point of our enquiry concerning overman, repeat what the Mother said to K.D. Sethna in June 1953 about the Mind of Light: “The Supermind has descended long ago – very long ago – into the mind and even into the vital: it was working in the physical also but indirectly through those intermediaries. The question was... trustworthy, but also because of what the Mother says in the quotation from 1958 at the beginning of the present chapter. “This [namely, realising the overman, the being to be endowed with the Mind of Light] is what I have been doing for the last eight years, and even more during the past two years …” This long-term yogic occupation started at the very moment that Sri Aurobindo left his body and charged ...
... omniscience. In the Mind of Light when it becomes full-orbed this character of the Truth reveals itself though in a garb that is transparent even when it seems to cover: for this too is a truth-consciousness and a self-power of knowledge. This too proceeds from the Supermind and depends upon it even though it is limited and subordinate. What we have called specifically the Mind of Light is indeed the last... A Scheme for The Education of Bengal VII. SUPERMIND AND MIND OF LIGHT THE essential character of Supermind is a Truth-Consciousness which knows by its own inherent right of nature, by its own light: it has not to arrive at knowledge but possesses it. It may indeed, especially in its evolutionary action, keep knowledge behind its apparent consciousness... act according to its vision and even by an infallible immediacy which is inherent in its nature. This is the same Truth that is apparent in Supermind but is here involved and seems not to be. The Mind of Light is a subordinate action of Supermind, dependent upon it even when not apparently Page 208 springing direct from it in which the secret of this connection becomes evident and palpable ...
... The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth Essays in Philosophy and Yoga Supermind and Mind of Light The essential character of Supermind is a Truth-consciousness which knows by its own inherent right of nature, by its own light: it has not to arrive at knowledge but possesses it. It may indeed, especially in its evolutionary action, keep knowledge... act according to its vision and even by an infallible immediacy which is inherent in its nature. This is the same Truth that is apparent in Supermind but is here involved and seems not to be. The Mind of Light is a subordinate action of Supermind, dependent upon it even when not apparently springing direct from it, in which the secret of this connection becomes evident and palpable. The Truth-consciousness... working, its action can be essentially the same. There can even be a hidden immediacy which hints at the presence of something absolute and is evidence of the same omnipotence and omniscience. In the Mind of Light when it becomes full-orbed this character of the Truth reveals itself, though in a garb that is transparent even when it seems to cover: for this too is a truth-consciousness and a self-power of ...
... This body too is then a centre of all-pervasive, infinite Force of Consciousness. This mind will be a fort of Light, dense with knowledge, what Sri Aurobindo has called the "Mind of Light". I have felt that this Mind of Light must certainly also have a corresponding point or chakra in this body. And so I checked all the chakras that are there in the different parts of our body. These are all... control then we could attain even physical immortality. What Sri Aurobindo has called the "Mind of Light" will be able to work out with intervention of this chakra the conjunction of the Supramental and the physical being. This chakra that surrounds the pituitary gland is the centroids of the "Mind of Light" in our body, the point where the mind and the body meet and become one. A Note ... prevented. Thus perfect control and mastery over this centre may bring physical immortality. Sri Aurobindo has spoken of "Mind of Light" that will serve as the liaison between the supermind and the physical being. Perhaps this centre is the seat of the "Mind of Light" in the body. 17.1.1955 (3) A Remark Question : Today, as I was coming to you, someone told me "Why ...
... revealer.... In the Mind of Light when it becomes full-orbed this character of the Truth reveals itself though in a garb that is transparent even when it seems to cover: for this too is a truth-consciousness and a self-power of knowledge. This too proceeds from the Supermind and depends upon it even though it is limited and subordinate. What we have called specifically the Mind of Light is indeed the last... crossed over the borders of the truth-conscious into ignorance. " The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, pp. 70-71 Sweet Mother, I did not understand this passage: "In the Mind of Light when it becomes full-orbed this character of the Truth reveals itself though in a garb that is transparent even when it seems to cover..." Page 193 And so? What is it you don't understand... its aspects at the same time and... simultaneous, complete. And as soon as one wants to explain that or to describe it, one is obliged to come down, so to say, to a plane which he calls here "the Mind of Light", where things have to be said or even thought or expressed one after another, in a certain order and a certain relation with one another; the simultaneity disappears, for in the present state of ...
... the body will be kept lying on his bed as long as it remains intact." Later she reported: "As soon as Sri Aurobindo withdrew from his body, what he called the Mind of Light got realised in me." The Mother speaks of the Mind of Light as follows: "The Supermind had descended long ago — very long ago — into the mind and even into the vital: it was working in the physical also but indirectly through... mind received the supramental light: the physical mind was the instrument for direct action upon the most material. This physical mind receiving the supramental light Sri Aurobindo called the Mind of Light." Amal Kiran writes apropos of the full circumstances of Sri Aurobindo's passing: "Whoever has studied the full circumstances knows too that as a result of this grand and dreadful strategic... written, I would like to print 15,000 copies." (29 December 1950) A revelation came on 4 April 1954 to the gifted poet about that extremely significant event, the realisation of the Mind of Light in the Mother: Page 295 The core of a deathless sun is now the brain And each grey cell bursts to omniscient gold. When the Mother read this poem she ...
... title The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth . In these articles he expounded the state of affairs at that time of his Work, of his Yoga of Transformation, explaining the realization of the “Mind of Light,” and the necessity of a range of intermediary beings between the present human and the future supramental species. These transitional species or subspecies in the making he gave no name, calling... deep meditation. I have never seen her like that again. To me she looked like the personification of Mother Kali herself, so powerful was the appearance. I stood before her for some time.” The Mind of Light On the last day before Sri Aurobindo left his body the Mother said: “Each time I enter the room, I see him pulling down the Supramental Light.” And later: “All the supramental force he had ... “division of the tasks” is essential to understand what happened between them at the time of Sri Aurobindo’s departure. “As soon as Sri Aurobindo withdrew from his body, what he has called the Mind of Light got realized in me,” the Mother said afterwards to K.D. Sethna. “The Supermind had descended long ago – very long ago – into the mind and even into the vital; it was working in the physical also ...
... physical mind received the supramental light: the physical mind was the instrument for direct action upon the most material. The physical mind receiving the supramental light Sri Aurobindo called the Mind of Light."—Note received from the Mother.) The core of a deathless sun is now the brain And each grey cell bursts of omniscient gold. Thought leaps—and an inmost light speaks out from... dust.* 4.4.54 * The Mother, after reading this poem, said that the first two lines were sheer revelation. That is, they catch exactly what happened when, on December 5. 1950. the Mind of Light was realised by her at the moment Sri Aurobindo left his body. The rest of the lines were, she said. an imaginative reconstruction of what the realisation had involved. Page 573 ...
... others the right to continue to hold a different view. Amal Kiran is also clear about the Work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother. Some years ago there was a question about the status of the Mind of Light that had got realised in the Mother when Sri Aurobindo left his body. I had got confused on reading a viewpoint about it and thought of asking Amal about it. In those days he used to sit in the... curious. It took him only some moments to recollect that he had asked the Mother about it and she had said that the physical mind receiving the supramental light was called by Sri Aurobindo the Mind of Light. This answer dispelled my confusion. Back home, after dinner, I tried to locate the answer in the Mother's writ- Page 30 ings and I could locate it quickly in some minutes. Amal ...
... the formation of the overman. Two facts make this very clear. Firstly, the consciousness of the intermediary being that is overman is a supramental consciousness, called by Sri Aurobindo “the Mind of Light”. The fact that he defined it as the lowest degree of the Supermind does not diminish its importance. Any degree of the Supermind is supramental; anything supramental is divine; anything divine... see.” 37 In order to see, however, there is a condition: that we change from a blind species into a species which has its inner sight activated – that the darkness of our mind changes into a Mind of Light. All remains literature and fantasy stuff unless we become apprentice-overmen and apprentice-overwomen. “There are some …” Auroville, 28 March 2001 ...
... active, but with absolutely no responsibility. I never felt responsible for a single minute – he took the full responsibility.’ 2 True, the supramental force gathered in his cells, the Mind of Light, had entered into her – which means that Sri Aurobindo had entered into her, for on that level the part equals the whole. After his passing, she would say that Sri Aurobindo remained, in an occult... Work of the Integral Yoga from the point which Sri Aurobindo had reached – which was much farther than is commonly supposed. This immediate continuation was made possible by the transfer of the Mind of Light into her cells. She applied to this sadhana of physical transformation all her power and concentration although what she was doing remained practically unnoticed by the people around her. It is ...
... action of the Supermind in the human constitution in a regular way took place on December 5, 1950, when, as the Mother told me and as she also declared in a Talk in the Ashram Playground, the "Mind of Light" which had hitherto been elusive or at most an intermittent power had been permanently realised in her the Page 224 moment Sri Aurobindo had left his body. I may remark, in passing... years later she found the first two lines to be a perfect revelation while the rest were an imaginative reconstruction. These lines, according to her, caught in exact word-form the truth of the Mind of Light, the precise experience which had got fixed in her. They ran: The core of a deathless Sun is now the brain And each grey cell bursts to omniscient gold. But, of course, this realisation ...
... intellectual and, last, the thinker, sage, great mind of knowledge. The soul-powers which make their appearance by a considerable development of this temperament, personality, soul-type, are a mind of light more and more open to all ideas and knowledge and incomings of Truth; a hunger and passion for knowledge, for its growth in ourselves, for its communication to others, for its reign in the world... free circle of an integral and harmonious spiritual dynamis. The godhead, the soul-power of knowledge rises to the highest degree of which the individual nature can be the supporting basis. A free mind of light develops which is open to every kind of revelation, inspiration, intuition, idea, discrimination, thinking synthesis; an enlightened life of the mind grasps at all knowledge with a delight of finding ...
... intelligence; at a next higher level this temperament develops intellectuality, and, at a still higher level this temperament flowers as a thinker, sage, great mind of knowledge that is open to a mind of light and to all ideas and knowledge and incomings of Truth. The Kshatriya temperament is marked by the predominance of the will-force and the capacities which make for strength, energy, courage... into the free circle of an integral and harmonious spiritual dynamis. The soul-power of knowledge rises to the highest degree of which the individual nature can be the supporting basis of a free mind of light; powers of revelation, inspiration, intuition, discrimination begin to flower; there comes about a high status of consciousness where, in the words of Sri Aurobindo, "a bottomless steadiness and ...
... '(From Bulletin Vol. 2 No. 1 Page 2.) V . SUPERMIND IN THE EVOLUTION— Sri Aurobindo (From Bulletin Vol. 2 No. 2 Page 2.) VI. MIND OF LIGHT— Sri Aurobindo . (From Bulletin Vol. 2 No. 3 Page 2.) VII . SUPERMIND AND MIND OF LIGHT— Sri Aurobindo (From Bulletin- Vol. 2 No. 4 Page 2.) VIII. TRANSFORMATION— The Mother (From Bulletin Vol. 2 No. 3 Page 9.) ...
... page 162 of Volume 2, "Historical Impressions" comes under Section X of Volume 17. SABCL: Karmayogin, Vol. 2 The Harmony of Virtue, Vol. 3 The Hour of God, Vol. 17 53 . THE MIND OF LIGHT E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1953 American Edition of The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth ( See 86) , published under this new title. SABCL: The Supramental Man... Bulletin of Physical Education ( presently called the Bulletin of Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education), February 1949 to November 1950. Reprinted in New York in 1953 as The Mind of Light (See 53). SABCL: The Supramental Manifestation, Vol. 16 87. SWAMI DAYANAND SARASWATI N. K. Kapadia, Bombay, 1939 Reprint of Dayananda: The Man ...
... mind receiving the supramental light Sri Aurobindo called the Mind of Light." In view of all this I hazarded the guess that 1938 — the year when the Mother had expected something very great — had seen not exactly what had been expected but a great enough event: the come-and-go, rather than the permanent fixing down, of the Mind of Light. These are extremely high matters and guesses are... happier man. Later, I linked up in my mind some of her words now with what I had been told by her several years before: "As soon as Sri Aurobindo withdrew from his body, what he had called the Mind of Light got realised in me." And subsequently, on June 29, 1953, she had sent me through Nolini an explanation: "The Supermind had descended long ago — very long ago — in the mind and even in the vital: ...
... about." She sat silent for awhile, and then said: "Have you read Sri Aurobindo's article, The Mind of Light?" I said I had. She went on: "This was the last thing he wrote, apart from some revisions of Savitri. Immediately after he gave up his body the Mind of Light got realised in me." The Mind of Light is, of course, a state in the descent and establishment of the Supermind on earth. It is not ...
... ' ¹ A few weeks after the passing of Sri Aurobindo, Mother said, in one of the conversations with a disciple: As soon as Sri Aurobindo withdrew from his body, what he had called the Mind of Light ² got realised here.... The Super mind had descended long ago—very long ago—into the mind and even into the vital: it was working in the physical also but indirectly through those intermediaries... mind received the Sacramental light; the physical mind was the instrument for direct action upon the most material. This physical mind receiving the Sacramental light Sri Aurobindo called the Mind of Light. Two months after Sri Aurobindo withdrawal from the body, Mother wrote the following note, explaining briefly the main reason for Sri Aurobindo departure: The lack of the earth's receptivity... _______________________________ ¹ Ibid, pp.445-6. ²see chapters 7 and 8 of The Sacramental Manifestation upon Earth, Centenary Library, Vol. 16, pp. 67-74, which deal with the Mind of Light. ³ In an 'official' version, Mother had omitted 'and the behavior of Sri Aurobindo disciple.. Page 105 will make this abundantly clear.¹ In I960, Mother explained a little ...
... C. R. Reddy on, 715; message to Andhra University, 715-6; publication of The Life Divine and Collected Poems and Plays, 717; contributions to Bulletin, 718ff; on perfection of body, 718-9; Mind of Light, 720H, 743; on the world situation, 721-2; on Korea and Chinese aggression, 721-2; interviews to Tagore, Levi & others, 723; on Golconde, 723-4; Brahmabandhab on, 728; Gandhiji on, 730; Justice... spirituality, 434; ascent towards Supermind, 436ff; steps of ascent, 436ff; higher mind, illumined mind, intuition, overmind, 436-7; emergence of Gnostic being, 437ff; current evolutionary crisis, 438; Mind of light, 439; a Manifesto for the Future, 440; tributes, 440; synthesis of West & East, 440-41; compared with Plato, Plotinus & others, 441-2; with Heidegger, 442; with Gurdjieff, 442-3; with Teilhard de... Standard-Bearer, The, 527 St. Paul, 445 Statesman, The, 222-23, 237, 247 Strachey, Lytton, 177,241 Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, The, also Mind of Light, 438-39, 718 Swarnalata Devi, 25,27, 30,48 Synthesis of Yoga, The, 404ff, 415,448,490, 492, 514, 516, 550ff; structure of 55051; French & Hindi translations, 551; "all life is ...
... be a race of mental beings on the earth and in the earthly body, but delivered from its present conditions in the reign of the cosmic Ignorance so far as to be possessed of a perfected mind, a mind of light which could even be a subordinate action of the supermind or Truth-consciousness, and in any case capable of the full possibilities of mind acting as a recipient of that truth and at least a secondary... It is this certainty that authorises us to believe Page 583 that mind and humanity also will tend towards a realisation that will be far beyond our present dreams of perfection. A mind of light will replace the present confusion and trouble of this earthly ignorance; it is likely that even those parts of humanity which cannot reach it will yet be aware of its possibility and consciously ...
... The Vision and Work of Sri Aurobindo Mind of Light A POEM ON A CRUCIAL EXPERIENCE (When the Mother read this poem she said: "The first two lines are sheer revelation. They catch exactly what took place. The rest is an imaginative reconstruction of the event.”) The core of a deathless sun is now the brain And... Aurobindo had never done anything so stupendously creative as his own passing from the body! Later I learned from the Mother that the moment he had left his body what he had termed the Mind of Light, the physical mind receiving the supramental Light, had been realised in her. The strange golden light that many saw upon his body that lay without a touch of discoloration or decay for five ...
... body what he had called the Mind of Light had been realised in her. Here at last was the reason for the desperate-looking step the Avatar of the Supermind had taken, an Page 107 acceptance of death in all its realism of a fatal disease (extreme uraemia, in medical parlance) in order to win by the self-sacrifice a long-awaited boon. For, the Mind of Light has been defined by the Mother ...
... there was no touch of decomposition, not even of discolouration. The Mother has said in private that as soon as Sri Aurobindo left his body what he had called the Mind of Light was realised in her — and she has defined the Mind of Light as the physical mind receiving the Supramental Light. Thus we may say that the "change" which occurred in Sri Aurobindo's life in 1950 established permanently the Supermind ...
... for direct action upon the most material. This physical Page 62 mind receiving the supramental light Sri Aurobindo called the Mind of Light. 1 29 June 1953 As soon as Sri Aurobindo withdrew from his body, what he has called the Mind of Light got realised in me. 2 MOTHER'S SYMBOL The central circle represents the Divine Consciousness. The four petals represent ...
... tremendous breakthrough in the process of the Integral Yoga, so that the Mother could confide to me subsequently: "As soon as Sri Aurobindo left his body what he had called the Mind of Light was realised in me." The Mind of Light, as she defined it afterwards, is the physical mind receiving the Supramental Light. The nature of the victory won may be gauged from the two opening lines of the poem I wrote ...
... lay in his bed as if in a deep trance for 5 days. Something also happened to the Mother. She has told me that as soon as Sri Aurobindo left his body what he had termed the Mind of Light got realised in her. And the Mind of Light she has described as the physical mind receiving the Supramental Light. So the individual fixation of the Supermind in a conscious part of the gross physical took place in ...
... and placed in the Ashram courtyard. A few days later, in one of the conversations with a disciple, the Mother said: 'As soon as Sri Aurobindo withdrew from his body, what he had called the Mind of Light got realised here....' 'The Supermind had descended long ago very long ago into the mind and even into the vital: it was working in the physical also but indirectly through those intermediaries... mind received the Supramental light; the physical mind was the instrument for direct action upon the most material. This physical mind receiving the supramental light Sri Aurobindo called the Mind of Light.' Sri Aurobindo's withdrawal from the body has therefore been a self-chosen step to hasten the supramental descent upon the earth. And, indeed, it has been affirmed by The Mother that Sri ...
... wrote a series of seven articles: 'The Perfection of the Body', 'The Divine Body', 'The Supermind and the Life Divine', 'Supermind and Humanity', 'Supermind in the Evolution', 'Mind of Light' and 'Supermind and Mind of Light', the last appearing in the issue of November 1950. These articles are reproduced in volume 16 of the SABCL, The Supramental Manifestation. They constitute the last of Sri Aurobindo's ...
... emergence of an Overhead School. And what they achieved was to bring out the inner reality behind the material façade by giving arresting form,' movement, colour, life and mind - shall we call it the "Mind of Light"? - to psychological, occult and spiritual phenomena. The Mother herself has said, introducing the fourth volume of Meditations on Savitri: "Behind the appearances there is a subtle reality much... verily "the supreme revelation of Sri Aurobindo's vision"; and hence to read the poem, as it were in a trance of meditation, must involve an attempt to re-capture the vision and re-enact in the Mind of Light awakened out of the Mind of Night that "supreme revelation". The Mother's comment on the very first line lightningly projects the sublime spiritual perspectives of the poem. The first emanations ...
... then be a race of mental beings on the earth and in the earthly body but delivered from its present conditions in the reign of the cosmic Ignorance so far as to be possessed of a perfected mind, a mind of light which could even be a subordinate action of the supermind or Truth-Consciousness and in any case capable of the full possibilities of mind acting as a recipient of that truth. and at least a secondary... luminousness and perfection. It is this certainty that authorises us to believe that mind and humanity also will tend towards the realisation that will be far beyond our present dreams of perfection. A mind of light will replace the present confusion and trouble of this earthly ignorance; it is likely that even those parts of humanity which cannot reach it will yet be aware of its possibility and consciously ...
... memorable, what made them a form of alchemic action even more than streams of thought-laden cadenced speech, was the personality of the Mother, her heart of compassion, her mother-might and her mind of Light. Like a neutron bombarding a uranium atom and starting the nuclear chain-reaction, the Mother's words, charged as they were with Love and Light and Truth and Ananda, penetrated to the psychic centre... one can be realised by others.... You may consider it still very far off, but you can say, "Yes, the gnostic life is certain, because it has begun to be realised." 13 On 5 December 1950, the Mind of Light had invaded and settled in her. Now, less than three months after Sri Aurobindo's passing, she was demonstrating in her own person the possibility of evolving towards the supramental Truth-Consciousness ...
... couldn't be fixed here for good. In the series of articles that he contributed to the Bulletin during 1949-50, he spoke of the Mind of Light, a limited or delegated power of the Supermind, and we have the Mother's word that there was a transference of this power and the Mind of Light got realised in her. Besides, the Mother said that in the days preceding, every time she had entered Sri Aurobindo's room ...
... 713 Many Barenesses 655 Man's Other Side 597 Maya 129 Maya 410 Mere of Dream 151 Milk in Almighty Breasts 309 Mind of Light 573 Minnie—10.8.1982 645 Mirror and Knowledge 228 Misalliance 736 Modern Love 8 Moksha 168 Moment of Grace 585 ...
... Aurobindo had never done anything so stupendously creative as his own passing from the body! Later I learned from the Mother that the moment he had left his body what he had termed the Mind of Light, the physical mind receiving the supramental Light, had been realised in her. The strange golden light that many saw upon his body that lay without a touch of discolouration or decay for five days ...
... Canto Twenty-Five Year is the body and Savitri was born. Gods and goddesses gave her heavenly gifts, The moon of delight, the sword of triumph, The golden heart of love, the mind of light, The physical plastic to the touch of truth, The spirit making the moulds of time immortal. Even as a child she would visit the stars Or dream of a city waking to wide days. Already ...
... 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 thing appears to be closely knit together. 21:12:1996 In the evening I had come to the Ashram for meditation. Sri Aurobindo and the Mother were doing the work for a long ...
... important series of articles titled The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth . In these articles he expounded the situation at that time of his Work, of the Integral Yoga, explaining the role of the “Mind of Light,” and the necessity of a range of intermediary beings between the human and the future supramental species. These transitional species or subspecies in the making he gave no name, calling them in ...
... Mother’s definition, is a being born from animal-human parents, as have been all humans in past ages and as they still are today, but who will develop a partly supramentalised consciousness, a Mind of Light. This kind of being will make possible the transition from the human to the supramental species. As the Mother said in April 1972: “The change from the human into the supramental being is being ...
... he wrote in the series of articles for the Bulletin : ‘It might be that a psychological change, a mastery of the nature of the soul, a transformation of the mind into a principle of light [the Mind of Light], of the life-force into power and purity would be the first approach, the first attempt to solve the problem, to escape beyond the merely human formula and establish something that could be called ...
... must lay hands on the natural world and lay bare its true meaning as a progressive manifestation of the Spirit. The thinker in us has thus a role to play in art too: he must act more and more as a mind of light, something that does hot try to seize and shape in its own terms the inner inspired illumination but lets that insight seize and shape it into crystalline concepts. Poetry cannot be allowed ...
... destroyed, he destroyed that power's capacity to stand in the path of the Mother's Yoga and to retard the world's evolution towards the Supermind. The immediate result was the establishment of the "Mind of Light" in the Mother on December 5,1950— the permanent reception of the Supramental Light by the physical mind. This result has been described, according to the Mother's estimate, with revelatory accuracy ...
... change of strategy came with the passing of Sri Aurobindo. A breakthrough which would have taken long if he had remained within his body was achieved at one drastic stroke by his leaving it. The Mind of Light, the physical mind receiving the Supramental Light, was established in the Mother the moment Sri Aurobindo made his stupendous self-sacrifice. Sri Aurobindo's physical absence created indeed a gap ...
... then be a race of mental beings on the earth and in the earthly body but delivered from its present conditions in the reign of the cosmic Ignorance so far as to be possessed of a perfected mind, a mind of light which could even be a subordinate action of the supermind or Truth-Consciousness and in any case capable of the full possibilities of mind acting as a recipient of that truth and at least a secondary ...
... will be at the same time the liberation from suffering, in a total realisation of the supramental oneness. The mental liberation or liberation from ignorance will establish in the being the mind of light or gnostic consciousness, whose expression will have the creative power of the Word. The vital liberation or liberation from desire gives the individual will the power to identify itself perfectly ...
... understanding anything. X has a very well-developed mind. I can say that his mind is very open towards the light. Twice I tried to speak to him in the language of what Sri Aurobindo calls the mind of light, but even he could not understand it. He could catch a little, but the fullness of the sense escaped him. With the others it is still worse; they fail to understand Page 94 anything ...
... articles: "Waste in Nature", "The Goal and the Guide", "Linguistic Formations and Usages connected with the name 'Sri Aurobindo' ", "Sri Aurobindo and the Veda". The fifth is a short poem, "Mind of Light", which was appreciated by the Mother and to whose opening lines she paid the highest possible compliment from the spiritual point of view, as quoted in the introductory note to it. Some ...
... 254-5 Mental-vital, 254-5 Mind, bodily, 212 . Mind of the cells, 133, 180, 256 Mind, dynamic, 253-5 Mind, externalising, 253-4 Mind of light, 105 Mother, 1878 (Birth), 25 (Experiences during childhood),25-27 1904 (Meeting Theon), 29-30 1910 (Reversal of Consciousness), 50 1910-20 ...
... see the truth of a thing in all its aspects simultaneously. But as soon as you want to explain or describe it, you are obliged to come down to a lower level. Sri Aurobindo calls it the Mind of Light. Here things have to be said or even thought or expressed and realised in action one after another in a certain order, in a certain relation to each other. Therefore the simultaneity disappears; ...
... enrichment of his nature and for the establishment of other orders of luminous existence upon earth. Sri Aurobindo has, Page 70 in this connection, spoken of the Over-mind and the Mind of Light. But these too lie beyond the border of mental twilight and are domains of Light, own delegates of Supermind. It may not be out of place here just to mention a few characters proper ...
... to pass for a greater enrichment of his nature and for the establishment of other orders of luminous existence upon earth. Sri Aurobindo has, in this connection, spoken of the Overmind and the Mind of Light. But these too lie beyond the border of mental twilight and are domains of Light, own delegates of Supermind. It may not be out of place here just to mention a few characters proper to this ...
... from the divine: As from the soil sprang glory of branch and flower, As from the animal's life rose thinking man, A new epiphany appeared in her. A mind of light, a life of rhythmic force, A body instinct with hidden divinity Prepared an image of the coming god;... 162 As the years add to her strength of limb and grace of form ...
... of ascent from Mind to Supermind and the descent from Supermind to the mental, vital and physical consciousness brings about the transformation of nature. For example. Mind would function as the Mind of Light, not as at present, a mind subject to half-light _____________________ 17 The Life Divine, P. 5 Page 15 and half-darkness. The question is how would it affect th< laws of the ...
... no mere experiment 332 Page 919 his sovereign peace 336 and mayavada 336 Savitri 389-90, 393 transfers from his body to hers the supramental Force 491-2, 494, 807 the Mind of Light 503 his body charged with supramental light 494 significance of his passing 503-4, 799, 807 continuing his work 537, 799, 807 'belongs to the future' 606, 799 'is the Future...'754 ...
... and go beyond it to a large meditation chamber illumined by a descending ray of sunlight. This would be the transforming chamber, the spiritual cyclotron; the Mind of Night hot-linked with the Mind of Light: one complete spectrum from the inconscient to the superconscient: the way up also being the way down, the whole mysterium tremendum of the cosmic dance-drama. The pilgrim, when he had charged ...
... Light. Next week, the Mother explains how in the supramental vision "one has a direct and total and immediate knowledge of things", but when one wants to describe this knowledge to others, the Mind of Light becomes the mediator: ...things have to be said or even thought or expressed one after another, in a certain order and a certain relation with one another; the simultaneity disappears.... We ...
... the mind and heart, and there is needed also the readiness of Nature to undergo change. But since Sri Aurobindo wrote The Life Divine, there had been some progress - the realisation of the Mind of Light in the Mother, for instance - and, after the supramental manifestation of February 1956, things started moving indeed. As the Mother confided two years later on 16 April 1958: This new realisation ...
... earth; Sri Aurobindo's correspondence with his disciples in the thirties was lit up with frequent references to the near possibility of the supramental manifestation; and on 5 December 1950, the Mind of Light, the physical mind receiving the Supramental Light, was realised in the Mother. All through, Savitri, imaging the dynamic and conquering power of the Supermind in the personality of the heroine ...
... smashed. But otherwise it is terribly difficult. This was what Sri Aurobindo meant when he said that one lived constantly in ignorance and that unless the mind of ignorance is replaced by the mind of light one could not follow the true path, and that this was the indispensable preparation before any integral transformation could take place. That's all? ( To a child ) You have something to say? ...
... his last article which appeared in the Bulletin . He says that if you want to prepare for the descent of the supermind, first of all your mind of ignorance and incapacity must be replaced by a mind of light which sees and knows. And this is the first step! Before this step is crossed, one cannot go forward. It is not to discourage you that I tell you this, but it is for those who believe that one has ...
... is smashed. But otherwise it is terribly difficult. This was what Sri Aurobindo meant when he said that one lived constantly in ignorance and that unless the mind of ignorance is replaced by mind of light one could not follow the true path, and that this was the indispensable preparation before any integral transformation could take place. The Mother Questions and Answers (1955): 29 June 1955 ...
... be at the same time a liberation from suffering in the integral realisation of the supramental unity. The mental liberation or liberation from ignorance will establish in the being the mind of light or gnostic conscious ness, which will express itself in the creative power of the Word. The vital liberation or liberation from desire gives to the individual will the capacity of identifying ...
... in Supermind has been there all the time, but now it manifests itself and the truth in things and the meaning of our existence. Sri Aurobindo Essays in Philosophy and Yoga: Supermind and Mind of Light Supermind is the grade of existence beyond mind, life and Matter and, as mind, life and Matter have manifested on the earth, so too must Supermind in the inevitable course of things manifest ...
... the Light but not an inhabitant of the Light, not yet a perfected instrument, truth-conscious and delivered out of the Ignorance. Instead, it would be possessed already of what could be called a mind of Light, a mind capable of living in the truth, capable of being truth-conscious and manifesting in its life a direct in place of an indirect knowledge. Its mentality would be an instrument of the Light ...
... Light suffusing it. And at the very time of his withdrawal the Supramental Power made its permanent base in the Mother's body, beginning with the brain-mind. This is what is known as the "Mind of Light." From then onward a deeper and deeper digging-in by the Light continued. In reaction against the invasion by the Truth-Consciousness the powers of the Ignorance attempted a desperate ...
... into the supermind and from the new race would be recruited the race of supramental beings, who would appear as the leaders of the evolution in earth nature. Even, the highest manifestations of a mind of Light would be an instrumentality of the supermind, a part of or a projection from it, a stepping beyond humanity into the superhumanity of the supramental principle. Above all, its possession would enable ...
... between man and the supramental being, or l e surhomme ,’ (the overman). We have been able to follow the progress of this work from the moment in December 1950 when Sri Aurobindo transmitted the Mind of Light into her body. On 16 April 1958 she again gave a progress report: ‘It can be asserted with certainty that there will be an intermediate being between the mental and the supramental being, a kind ...
... glory in his world-work. Our Divine Mother at 80 was playing tennis every afternoon and participating in the Ashram's activities and giving us the benefit of what Sri Aurobindo had called "the Mind of Light" which, as she told me, had got realised in her the moment he had left his body and about which I wrote a poem in 1954, whose first two lines she declared to be sheer revelation: The core of ...
... was charged, as the Mother declared, with the Supramental Light as an overflow from the subtle-physical plane? We have also the Mother's statement that the moment Sri Aurobindo left his body the Mind of Light was realised in her - the consciousness which she has defined as the physical mind receiving the Supramental Light - an experience which, according to her, has been revelatorily expressed in the ...
... 1950 Sri Aurobindo gave up his body in a strategic self-sacrifice and the Supramental Light was drawn for good and fixed in the physical mind of the Mother, constituting what he had called the Mind of Light. We have learnt from the Mother that Sri Aurobindo, in leaving his body, sacrificed his own personal fulfilment in order to hasten the fulfilment of mankind. We may take as a sign of the ...
... Mother said later: "He was not compelled to leave his body, he chose to do so for reasons so sublime that they are beyond" our grasp. 27 As soon as Sri Aurobindo withdrew from his body the Mind of Light as the leader of the intermediate race, prior to the arrival of the gnostic being, got realised in the Mother. 28 It was only by "consciously experiencing and transforming death" 29 that the ...
... to understand the sense of history, particularly of one who claims himself to be a historian, he mixing up two significantly different periods of time. After 1938 with the establishment of the Mind of Light in his physical, the physical’s mind, the mind of the physical opening to the supramental Light and Force, Sri Aurobindo’s Yoga took a decisive positive upward turn and things had started happening ...
... Page 134 The first step towards this victory was the permanent establishment, in the Mother's most outward self, of that phase of the supramental consciousness which he had called the Mind of Light. And that establishment was a prelude to the progressive illumination, which she subsequently described, of the subtle consciousness within the very cells of the body. But when this illumination ...
... decades to approach. As soon as he withdrew from his physical envelope the supramental Light made its permanent base in the Mother's body, beginning with the brain-mind. This is what is known as the "Mind of Light". From then onward a deeper and deeper digging-in by the Light continued. In reaction against the invasion by the Truth-Consciousness the powers of the Ignorance attempted a desperate obstruction ...
... and wrote it down. May 22,1956 THE MOTHER: Things are now all changed for me—radically changed. How, Mother? THE MOTHER: Previously everything worked under the pressure of the Mind of Light. Sri Aurobindo secured this working when he left his body. Now it is the Supermind that directly guides and governs. The manifestation is just over two and a half months old and yet a new situation—an ...
... that gives to the soul-force its largest scope. The soul-power of Knowledge must rise to the highest degree of which the individual nature can be the supporting basis. There must develop a free mind of light, and there must develop a bottomless steadiness and illimitable calm, upholding all the illumination, movement, and action as on some rock of ages, equal, unperturbed, unmoved. Similarly, the soul- ...
... formation, the creation, the achievement remains and continues to be alive in the terrestrial atmosphere, in the general consciousness of man. Ancient Greece is dead, Augustan Rome is gone, but the mind of light that Greece brought into play, the cast of social character that Rome established are among the permanent acquisitions of human culture and civilisation. They have gone into the making of the warp ...
... you see the truth of a thing in all its aspects simultaneously. But as soon as you want to explain or describe it, you are obliged to come down to a lower level. Sri Aurobindo calls it the Mind of Light. Here things have to be said or even thought or expressed and realised in action one after another in a certain order, in a certain relation to each other. Therefore the simultaneity disappears; ...
... dodecagon, and go beyond it to one of the four Halls of Meditation bathed in the sun's light. This will be the transforming chamber, the spiritual cyclotron; the Mind of Night hot-linked with the Mind of Light: one complete spectrum from the inconscient to the superconscient: the way up being also the way down, the whole secret of the cosmic play. The pilgrim, when he has charged and changed himself enough ...
... giving in chronological sequence the dates of publication of Sri Aurobindo's works. There is also a brief annotated bibliography by Robert A. McDermott in the new edition of Sri Aurobindo's The Mind of Light (New York, 1971). Finally, each volume of the Birth Centenary Library edition has a very informative bibliographical note, covering the contents of the respective volumes. Page 827 ...
... left... [it] passed from his body into mine. And I felt the friction of the passage... it was a material sensation.' 'As soon as Sri Aurobindo withdrew from his body,, what he has called the Mind of Light got realised in me.' - Dec 7 'Lord, this morning "Thou hast given me the assurance that Thou wouldst stay with us until Thy work is achieved, not only as a consciousness which guides and illumines ...
... 24 At the time Sri Aurobindo withdrew from his body on 5 December 1950, there was the emergence and the force accumulated in his body passed into the Mother, thus what Sri Aurobindo called the "Mind of Light" became a realised part of her own consciousness. 25 In the coming years, she took evening classes in the Playground, and on 29 February 1956, after she had read a passage from The Synthesis of ...
... inanimate. Nothing without its meaning or its call". She represented a further step in the journey of consciousness towards Light, She had outgrown the mental consciousness and hers was "A mind of light, a life of rhythmic force". "A body instinct with hidden divinity": thus Savitri grew up "an image of the coming god." As she advanced towards adolescence her mind came forward more and more ...
... is the light of the Divine Truth on the higher planes above the ordinary mind—a light supramental in origin. It is also the light of Mahakali above the mind. The golden light is also often seen emanating from the Mother like the white Light. 17 September 1933 The line of golden light is a line of the light of the higher Divine Truth encircling the Akash of the heart and the diamond mass is the... the Mother's light pressing into that Akash. It is therefore a sign of these powers working on the psychic-emotional centre. 17 December 1936 One night I found a vast light, yellowish white, cool and peaceful, coming down from above. Is this the light of the higher mind consciousness or of some spiritual consciousness? It depends on the shade of the yellow. If it is golden white it comes from... Golden Light of Mahakali Today at Pranam I saw a light like a golden thread coming from the Mother to me, but it vanished in a short time. Once I saw this light very clearly when she was standing on the Page 267 terrace, just before coming down the staircase. Is this light from inside or outside? Since I saw it only for a while, I cannot believe my own eyes. The golden Light is ...
... intensities of mental light. Yellow is light of the mind—golden is light from above the mind. It is again the ascent into one of the higher planes of mind illumined with the light of the Divine Truth. Yellow is the light Page 131 of mind growing brighter as one goes higher till it meets the golden light of the Divine Truth. Pink or Rose Light The rosy light is that of love—so... whitish blue light is "Sri Aurobindo's light"—it is the blue light modified by the white light of the Mother. The snake form is a symbol of Energy and the white blue light may be that of the Mother's consciousness in the higher mind, or if it is not two separate colours but whitish blue then it is Sri Aurobindo's light. The light is a manifestation of Force, the nature of the force being indicated... Sri Aurobindo's light, the other quite blue which is that of the higher consciousness just above mind. The meaning of blue light depends on the exact character of the colour, its shade and nature. A whitish blue like moonlight is known as Krishna's light or Sri Aurobindo's light—light blue is often that of the Illumined Mind—there is another deeper blue that is of the Higher Mind; another, near ...
... token of his Grace than for its other merits, as also because of the light it carried from the fount of his luminous personality, which we had grown to cherish. To me, personally, his letters radiating affection imparted something even more convincing—possibly because only such personal letters could convey to my sceptic mind the light of seerhood that hovered round him, through a receptive emotion which ...
... And man but a half-dark half-luminous sign Of the transition of the veiled Divine From Matter's sleep and the tormented load Of ignorant life and death to the Spirit's light. Mind liberated swam Light's ocean vast, And life escaped from its grey tortured line; I saw Matter illumining its parent Night. The soul could feel into infinity cast Timeless God-bliss ...
... His subtle Ignorance borrows Wisdom's plan; His mind is the Infinite's sharp and narrow tool. He wades through mud to reach the Wonderful, And does what Matter must or Spirit can. All powers in his living's soil take root And claim from him their place and struggling right: His ignorant creature mind crawling towards light Is Nature's fool and Godhead's candidate, A demigod ...
... It [ spiritual mind, symbolised by the moon ] is Mind in contact with truths of the spirit and reflecting them. The Sun is the light of the Truth, the Moon only reflects the light of the Truth—that is the difference. Golden light means the light of the higher Truth—the moon is the symbol of spirituality. A golden moon means a power of spirituality full of the light of the higher Truth.... ss. Stars indicate points of light in the ignorant mental consciousness. Moon = spiritual light Sun = the higher Truth light They [ gold stars in the sky ] are simply indications of divine Truth in the mind—the sky is a symbol of mind very often. The sky is always some mental plane. The stars indicate beginnings or promises of Light—the various lights indicating various... 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 signifies usually spirituality in the mind or, simply, the spiritual consciousness. It can also indicate the ...
... Thought has flown back from its wheelings and stoopings, the nerve-beat of living Stills; my spirit at peace bathes in a mighty release. Wisdom supernal looks down on me, Knowledge mind cannot measure; Light that no vision can render garments the silence with splendour. Filled with a rapturous Presence the crowded spaces of being Page 573 Tremble with the Fire that knows,... Collected Poems Trance of Waiting Know more > Lone on my summits of calm I have brooded with voices around me, Murmurs of silence that steep mind in a luminous sleep, Whispers from things beyond thought in the Secrecy flame-white for ever, Unscanned heights that reply seek from the inconscient deep. Distant below me the ocean of life with ...
... Thought has flown back from its wheelings and stoopings, the nerve-beat of living Stills; my spirit at peace bathes in a mighty release. Wisdom supernal looks down on me, Knowledge mind cannot measure; Light that no vision can render garments the silence with splendour. Filled with a rapturous Presence the crowded spaces of being Tremble with the Fire that knows, thrill with the might... the strict cut of classical metre, comes in naturally in English and is therefore permissible. Lone on my summits of calm I have brooded with voices around me, Murmurs of silence that steep mind in a luminous sleep, Whispers from things beyond thought in the Secrecy flame-white for ever, Unscanned heights that reply seek from the inconscient deep. Distant below me the ocean of life with ...
... in mind's uncertain light And strive to know and master a dubious world Whose purpose and meaning are hidden from our sight. 273 But this is no more than a first report or preliminary finding; deeper meanings, clearer purposes, emerge on a closer look at the human drama that is being played on the cosmic stage. Not out of a "blind Nature-Force" has life emerged, and then mind; the... dust Grew towards an unseen heaven of thought and dream Looking into the vast vistas of his mind On a small globe dotting infinity. At last climbing a long and narrow stair He stood alone on the high roof of things And saw the light of a spiritual sun. 274 As Savitri sees these vistas pass before her, the realisation comes to her... ultimate flowering of 'mind' in man: Mind nascent laboured out a mutable form, It built a mobile house on shifting sands, A floating isle upon a bottomless sea. 269 Restless and enterprising, Mind has made conquests of all sorts and organised the "thousandfold commerce of the world". Sometimes probing below, sometimes gazing above, Mind has extended its inquiries ...
... the Divine Light leans down first into the mind and begins its purificatory work there— although it is always the inner heart which first recognises the Divine Presence and gives its assent to the Divine action—for the mind, the higher mind that is to say, is the summit of the ordinary human consciousness and receives more easily and readily the Radiances that descend. From the Mind the Light filters... dynamism; finally, it gets into brute Matter itself, the hard and obscure rock of the physical body, for that too has to be illumined and made the very Page 5 form and figure of the Light supernal. The Divine in his descending Grace is the Master-Architect who is building slowly and surely the many-chambered and many-storied edifice that is human nature and human life into the mould... greatest and the most difficult of the arts; for it is the art of life. To make of life a perfect work of beauty, pure in its lines, faultless in its rhythm, replete with strength, iridescent with light, vibrant with delight—an Page 8 embodiment of the Divine, in a word—is the highest ideal of spirituality; viewed as such, spirituality—the spirituality that Sri Aurobindo practises—is ...
... the Divine Light leans down first into the mind and begins its purificatory work there although it is always the inner heart which first recognises the Divine Presence and gives its assent to the Divine action-for the mind, the higher mind that is to say, is the summit of the ordinary human consciousness and receives more easily and readily the Radiances that descend. From the Mind the Light filters... life activity and vital dynamism; finally, it gets into brute Matter itself, the hard and obscure rock of the physical body, for that too has to be illumined and made the very form and figure of the Light supernal. The Divine in his descending Grace is the Master-Architect who is building slowly and surely the many-chambered and many-storeyed edifice that is human nature and human life into the mould... greatest and the most difficult of the arts; for it is the art of life. To make of life a perfect work of beauty, pure in its lines, faultless in its rhythm, replete with strength, iridescent: with light, vibrant with delight-an embodiment of the Divine, in a word-is ¹ The Gita, II. 40 Page 6 the highest ideal of spirituality; viewed – the spirituality that Sri Aurobindo practises ...
... different rungs such as "little life", "greater life", "heart", "physical mind", "little mind", "greater mind", "intellect", "thought", etc. Here are a few verses in each case: Page 50 (a) Matter's Sight : (1)"Out of the inconscient and subliminal Arisen, we live in mind's uncertain light And strive to know and master a dubious world Whose purpose and... beyond the seen" (601) (2)"A joy of light, a joy of sudden sight" (38) (f) Sight in the "Physical Mind" : (1)"That strange observing Power imposed its sight. It forced on flux a limit and a shape, It gave its stream a lower narrow bank" (148) (2)"It had no inward look, no upward gaze" (149) (g) Sight in "Little Mind" : (1)"All she conceives in... "Greater Mind" : (1)"A seeking Mind replaced the seeing Soul" (223) (2)"They erected absolute walls of thought and speech And made a vacuum to hold the One. Page 53 In their sight they drove towards an empty peak" (273) (3)"By an abstract purity of godless sight, By a percept nude, intolerant of forms, They brought to Mind what Mind could never ...
... soma. Likewise, the Fire of the Call, ahavaniyagni , has for its seat the life-breath, which gives the power to work. Its form is of the nature of extension; its field the heavenly regions of mind, the light which it seeks is like the self-luminous lightning. After thus imparting the knowledge of the Reality, the Fires said to Upakoshala, "Upakoshala, we have given you what knowledge of the Self... worlds of pure mind. The Fires spoke of the form or extension of Brahman, its manifested cosmic expansion, in time and space, inner and outer Satyakama completes the picture by revealing the supracosmic reality of Brahman, its transcendent essence beyond manifestation. That essence, Satyakama says in our first approach to it, appears as a twofold reality - it is a thing of light, Bhamani, and it... in this Vedantic formula we miss one element of the supreme reality; Sat or Brahman is not only light and delight, it is also power, force, energy - tapas . Agni dwells not only on the three cosmic planes, the god has his own home in the supreme status. Sat, Being or Reality is Consciousness or Light; Consciousness is Delight; it is also Power, not only potential but dynamic Power, Energy. Sri Aurobindo ...
... Likewise, the Fire of the Call, āhavanīyā gni , has for its seat the life-breath, which gives the power to work. Its form is of the nature of extension; its field the heavenly regions of mind, the light which it seeks is like the self-luminous lightning. After thus imparting the knowledge of the Reality, the Fires said to Upakoshala, "Upakoshala, we have given you what knowledge of the... worlds of pure mind. The Fires spoke of the form or extension of Brahman, its manifested cosmic expansion, in time and space, inner and outer. Satyakama completes the picture by revealing the supracosmic reality of Brahman, its transcendent essence beyond manifestation. That essence, Satyakama says, in our first approach to it, appears as a twofold reality — it is a thing of light, Bhamani, and... in this Vedantic formula we miss one element of the supreme reality; Sat or Brahman is not only light and delight, it is also power, force, energy — tapas. Agni dwells not only on the three cosmic planes, the god has his own home in the supreme status. Sat, Being or Reality is Consciousness or Light; Consciousness is Delight; it is also Power, not only potential but dynamic Power, Energy. Sri ...
... large. "For that very reason it was an excellent place to stay in hiding." There were two tiny rooms nine or ten feet square, and another smaller one which, were you suddenly to enter it, brought to mind a light railway carriage. The house faced north and it had a small open terrace with a railing round it. "At the back, on the southern side, was a long covered verandah." On the west, if you went down two ...
... Torn with my anguish I cried out for knowledge, light on my midnight, Light on my symbols of dream and a power in the Light to redeem. Yea, was it knowledge He gave me, this thought that is tangled in darkness, Ignorance reading its own record in sense and in stone? Ignorance tracing its plans and its dreams on a canvas of error! Mind this half-light in me born, like the glow of a morrowless morn... strive without end and in vain. Fire that travellest from immortality, spark of the Timeless, Why hast thou come to my night, an unbearable Idol of Light? Ah from what happier universe strayedst thou kindling my torpor? Thou, O spirit of Light, perturb not my vastness of Night. ... Collected Poems The Inconscient and the Traveller Fire The Inconscient Flame that invadest my empire of sorrow wordless and sombre, Arrow of azure light golden-winged, barbed with delight, Who was it aimed thee into this crucified Soul that for ever Passions and beats in the womb of a universe built for its tomb? Lo, I am Death and I live in the ...
... one thing, however great & high. Open yourselves to the light, to the power, to the love & do not exaggerate the importance of the one above all the others. If I say man needs knowledge most, I speak of the present need. Love without it will not help him in the great struggles that are before him. I admit that I am more akin in my mind to light & power than to love, but I recognise the importance of... is a different kind of light. Mine is more subdued, less fertile. Less intense, more quietly spread, perhaps a little wider, but not so forceful & productive. No, there is an immense difference.. His is a light I cannot describe. No, that was a form. It is the mentality—Who the devil can describe it—Don't ask me to do impossible things. At the centre—In that from which the light comes; also to a certain... that I agree. I must have known him, if he was in the world of light—But he said, I think, he knows me? That is why I waited. In his present form & name I do not know him. No—From my own. Approaching that? I can, if I try but I do not know whether I shall be permitted to speak. By that which governs my knowledge. I see three forms of light; one is white with a blue radiance around it & out of it fierce ...
... (A) Introduction : We have just now referred to the insufficiency of the normal mind of man to be an instrument for the discovery of the Truth: "Our mind lives far off from the authentic Light Catching at little fragments of the truth..." (161) But if mind fails, what else remains? Again, it has been affirmed that "thought nor word can seize eternal Truth"... inconscient and the subliminal Arisen, we live in mind's uncertain light... Above us dwells a superconscient god Hidden in the mystery of his own light..." (484) So we now proceed to the delineation of the nature of sight in those superconscient regions of our being. If and when we pierce the veil of our limiting mind-consciousness and enter into the superconscient field... Acts vibrant with a superhuman light..." (28) (B) Sight in the Spiritual Mind Planes : To recapitulate: once we cross the confines of the normal mind of man, we meet on our ascending climb a series of Page 58 hierarchised luminous planes of consciousness serving as links and bridges between the now normal waking mind of non-spiritual humanity and the native ...
... come to it directly from the mind or from the mind clothed with the vital, and it does what they desire. Before the vital takes a decision (and I have told you, it is not very easy for it to take a decision), a light must begin to dawn in the highest part of the mind, a light which puts you in touch with a higher consciousness or with your psychic, and it is upon this light that you must take your support... takes the resolution to do yoga is not your body or your vital, not even your mind, it is the higher part of your mind or it is your psychic being. It is that alone which can take the resolution—your body does not know very well what it is all about, your vital looks at the beginning of transformation with some anxiety, the mind with its ideas declares, "This can be done in that way, can be explained like... change? I may assure you that the vital, left to itself, will never take the decision to be transformed—it is quite satisfied with itself and, over and above this, being an accomplice of the mind, the mind will furnish it with all possible explanations for whatever it does. Page 78 People who live in their vital consciousness are, even when they do not say so, always very satisfied with ...
... conceal either from yourself or from the Mother your faults or your errors. As for your doubts about the Mother, they are not likely to disappear so long as you think you can read the Mother's mind by the light of your own and pass your mental judgments on her and her action from those erroneous data. Nor can they easily disappear if your faith breaks down every time that she does something which your... accept her or to accept myself and my Yoga, are guilty of a stupid and irrational inconsequence. As for understanding, that is another matter. I would suggest that you must grow out of the ordinary mind and become conscious with the true consciousness before you can hope to do it. And for that faith and surrender and fidelity and openness are conditions of some importance. 6 November 1929 Are... for the Mother's action. I have long ago decided that I would not allow the Mother's rightful position here to be lowered by the sadhaks putting her as an accused before the tribunal of their ignorant mind or vital ego and demanding that she or I for her should plead her case. The Mother acts from her own knowledge and consciousness which is not that of the sadhaks; their ideas of what she ought to do ...
... quietude of the mind is needed for other things, such as the feeling of the presence of the Mother etc. Light between the eyebrows indicates some opening of the Ajna-chakra, Page 117 which is there—it is the centre of the inner mind, inner will and occult vision. The light outside means a touch or influence of the Force indicated by the light (golden is truth-light, blue is some... pure and both open to what is above the mind, these lights descend into the body and with them the divine influence. Light and the Illumination of the Consciousness Light or rays of light are always light of the higher consciousness working in the being to illumine or to purify or to awaken the consciousness or attune it to the Truth. It [ Light ] is the power that enlightens whatever... star or fire. The Light is often seen in front before the centre of inner vision, mind and will which is between the eyebrows in the forehead. The Sun means the formed Light of the Divine Truth, the starry light is the same Light acting as a diffused Power on the ordinary consciousness which is seen as the night of Ignorance. The call Page 119 brought the Light etc. streaming down into ...
... least care or reservation; the same person I have also found to be the vilest of misers in respect of certain other considerations. I have seen again the most intelligent person, with a clear mind, full of light and understanding, easily comprehending the logic and implication of a topic and yet I have seen him betraying the utmost stupidity of which even an ordinary man without education or intelligence... central consciousness of the evolving individual is his psychic being. It is, Page 39 as it were, a very tiny speck of light lying far behind the experiences in normal people. In grown up souls this psychic consciousness has an increased light—increased in intensity, volume and richness. Thus there are souls, old and new. Old and ancient are those that have reached or about to... in front of you just a sheet of water dark and still, hardly visible—a bit of a pond imbedded in the obscurity, and slowly upon it a moonbeam is cast Page 41 and in the cool dim light emerges the calm liquid surface. That is how your secret truth of being will appear and present itself to you at your first contact with it: there you will see gradually reflected the true qualities ...
... least care or reservation; the same person I have also found to be the vilest of misers in respect of certain other considerations. I have seen again the most intelligent person, with a clear mind, full of light and understanding, easily comprehending the logic and implication of a topic and yet I have seen him betraying the utmost stupidity of which even an ordinary man without education or intelligence... personality, the central consciousness of the evolving individual is his psychic being. It is, as it were, a very tiny speck of light lying far behind the experiences in normal people. In grown Page 239 up souls this psychic consciousness has an increased light – increased in intensity, volume and richness. Thus there are souls, old and new. Old and ancient are those that have reached... dark and noiseless; you see in front of you just a sheet of water dark ,and still, hardly visible-a bit of a pond imbedded in the obscurity, and slowly upon it a moonbeam is cast and in the cool dim light emerges the calm liquid surface. That is how your secret truth of being will appear and present itself to you at your first contact with it: there you will see gradually reflected the true qualities ...
... least care or reservation; the same person I have also found to be the vilest of misers with respect to certain other considerations. Again, I have seen the most intelligent person, with a clear mind, full of light and understanding, easily comprehending the logic and implication of a topic; and yet I have seen him betraying the utmost stupidity of which even an ordinary man without education or intelligence... the true personality, the central consciousness of the evolving individual is his psychic being. It is, as it were, a very tiny spark of light lying in normal people far behind the life-experiences. In grown-up souls this psychic consciousness has an increased light—increased in intensity, volume and richness. Thus there are old souls and new souls. Old and ancient are those that have reached or are... dark and noiseless; you see in front of you merely a sheet of water, dark and still, hardly visible—a bit of a pond imbedded in the obscurity; and slowly upon it a moonbeam is cast and in the cool dim light emerges the calm liquid surface. That is how your secret truth of being will appear and present itself to you at your first contact with it: there you will see gradually reflected the true qualities ...
... were not even aware of it. Yet it is not these things which give you the impression that you are living in a wonderful world. These things are quite normal. Suddenly an opening in the mind, a Page 352 light that comes, one understands something which he did not before. You take that for a very natural phenomenon. But it is a spiritual experience—or the clear seeing of a situation, the u... "Calm—Peace—Equality". "Absolute faith—faith that what is for the best will happen, but also that if one can make oneself a true instrument, the fruit will be that which one's will guided by the Divine Light sees as the thing to be done —kartavyam karma." Faith that always what is for the best happens. We may for the moment not consider it as the best because we are ignorant and also blind, because we... drive away the thoughts. And this is only the first step. The second is to try to have other thoughts, to take interest in something else: either read or reflect, but in any case try to fill your mind with something more interesting, to use your energy in constructing rather than in destroying. It is of course necessary from time to time to recognise one's faults; it is altogether indispensable ...
... vision, mind and will which is between the eyebrows in the forehead. The light outside means a touch or influence of the force indicated by the light (golden is Truth-light, blue some spiritual force from the upper plane) while the light within means that it has penetrated or is established or frequently active in the nature itself. Light above means a force descending upon the mind, light around... The light, colours, flowers are always seen when there is a working of the forces within at a certain stage of the sadhana. The light of course indicates an illumination of the consciousness, the colour, the play of forces mental (yellow), physical and vital, but forces making for enlightenment of these parts of the being. The flowers usually indicate a psychic activity. The light is often... cow stood for light because the same word 'go' meant both ray and cow, and because the cow was their most precious possession which maintained their life and was constantly inn danger of being robbed and concealed. But once created, such a symbol becomes alive. The Rishis vitalised it and it became a part of their realisation. It appeared in their visions as an image of spiritual light. The horse also ...
... spiritual idea and its power of truth, so the Illumined Mind brings in a greater consciousness through a Truth-sight and Truth-light and its seeing and seizing power. It can effect a more powerful and dynamic integration; it illumines the thought-mind with a direct inner vision and inspiration, brings a spiritual sight into the heart and a spiritual light and energy into its feeling and emotion, imparts to... as intensely as the mind and emotion can conceive and perceive and feel, the Divine in all things; it throws on the physical mind a transforming light that breaks its limitations, its conservative inertia, replaces its narrow thought-power and its doubts by sight and pours luminosity and consciousness into the very cells of the body. In the transformation by the Higher Mind the spiritual sage and... greater Force of consciousness and knowledge. This greater Force is that of the Illumined Mind, a Mind no longer of higher Thought, but of spiritual light. Here the clarity of the spiritual intelligence, its tranquil daylight, gives place or subordinates itself to an intense lustre, a splendour and illumination of the spirit: a play of lightnings of spiritual truth and power breaks from above into the co ...
... movements like Fascism and Communism; served because with the deeper minds the dissatisfaction with the ideals of the past or the present, with all mental or vital or Page 149 material solutions of the problem of life has increased and only the spiritual path is left. It is true that the European mind having little light on these things dallies with vital will-o-the-wisps like spiritism or... or theosophy or falls back upon the old religionism; but the deeper minds of which I speak either pass by them or pass through them in search of a greater Light. I have had contact with many and the above tendencies are very clear. They come from all countries and it was only a minority who hailed from England or America. Russia is different—unlike the others it has lingered in mediaeval religionism ...
... is triple, — Sat, Chit, Ananda (existence, consciousness, delight). It is One which has four heads and three feet, it is One that is also septule, Bhur (matter) Bhuvah (life), Swar (mind and light in the mind), Mahas (or vijanana or supermind), Janah (creative bliss), Tapas (concentrated force of action), and Satyam (existent). It is He, the Bull, and it is She as the cow; it is He... belonging to the Ignorance, but to Knowledge. It is, in fact, ' the infinite existence and beatitude of the soul in the being of the all-blissful existence; it is too the higher status, the light of the Mind beyond the mind, the joy and eternal mastery of the Life beyond the life, the riches of the Sense beyond the senses. And the soul finds in it not only its own largeness but finds too and possesses the... (tapas) of his brooding, on universal matter (anna), on universal life-force (prāna), on universal Mind (manas), on universal principle of Knowledge (yijnāna), and on universal Bliss (ānanda). The entire process ends in the realization of the Brahman, the eternal, who synthesizes matter, life, mind, supermind and bliss. And the highest achievement of yoga-siddhi is described as possession of the ...
... sacrifice; the mind is extraordinary, highly dynamic and effective, hidden with creative powers. May that mind of mine be filled with Good Will." "The mind represents insight and awareness, patience, light and nectar of the Immortality within the human beings; without mind no action of sacrifice can be performed. May that mind of mine be filled with Good Will." "The mind, when seized... six verses 67 which are devoted to a prayer for the mind to be filled with Good Will. They are as follows: "The mind, irrespective of whether one is awake or asleep, travels to far distant corners; this far distant-moving mind is a light of lights. May that mind of mine be filled with Good Will." "It is by virtue of this mind that the enlightened ones, endowed with deep insight and... 3. Pure Bliss — Ananda World of creative delight of existence (Janaloka) 4. Knowledge or Truth — Vijnana World of the Vastness (Maharioka) 5. Mind World of light (Swar) 6. Life (nervous being) World of various becoming (Bhuvar) 7. Matter The material world (Bhur) According to the Vedic sages, we live in physical ...
... knowledge, he can only fabricate "signs of the Real in Ignorance." He asks for freedom but needs to live in bondage, "he has need of darkness to perceive some light." In his life, he actually obeys the Inconscient which he has come to rule. His mind, his life and all his other natural instruments are not capable of attaining the highest spiritual knowledge and perfection because of their inherent defects... despair of man. "His failure is not failure whom God leads; "And how shall the end be vain when God is guide?" In spite of the resistance of the flesh, the vital and the mind, the Light ultimately leads man and he is able to look up to, or have a vision of superhuman peaks. "A borrower of Supernature's gold, He paves his road to Immortality." Page 241 ... outside and never find, "Incarnate the white passion of thy force, Mission to earth some living form of thee. . "Let thy infinity in one body live, All-Knowledge wrap one mind in seas of light, All-Love throb single in one human heart. Immortal, treading the earth with mortal feet All heaven's beauty crowd in earthly limbs!" He appealed to her to unlock the doors ...
... the inner mind becomes a movement of intuition, organised as the reason is organised, that is, it becomes active at will, answers all needs and comes into the being in accordance with a methodical system. It is not something which appears and disappears one doesn't know how or why; it is the result of the transformation of the reason, which is the higher part of the human mind, into a light higher than... than the mental light, a light of intuition. So it becomes ordered, organised, instead of being spasmodic and uncoordinated. Page 382 ... Now we are going to read what should be done to realise what was expressed in the five preceding paragraphs: " Transform reason into ordered intuition; let all thyself be light. This is thy goal. " Transform effort into an even and sovereign over-flowing of the soul-strength; let all thyself be conscious force. This is thy goal. " Transform enjoying into an even and ...
... all forms of knowing; he is the knower of Veda and the maker of Vedanta. In other words, the Divine is at once the Soul of matter and the Soul of life and the Soul of mind as well as the Soul of the supramental light that is beyond mind and its limited reasoning intelligence. Thus the Divine is manifest in a double soul of his mystery, a twofold power, dvāv imau puruṣau ; he supports at once the... spiritualised mind, blinding light of the heart intense but divorced from largeness, or sole aspiration of the will in works, but in all the perfectly illumined ways of his being and his becoming, his soul and his nature. Divine in the equality of his imperturbable self-existence, one in it with all objects and creatures, he brings that boundless equality, that deep oneness down into his mind and heart... immortal in the truth of the self and spirit. But they see him too not only in themselves, but in all the cosmos. In the light of the sun that illumines all this world they witness the light of the Godhead which is in us; the light in the moon and in fire is Page 446 the light of the Divine. It is the Divine who has entered into this form of earth and is the spirit of its material force and ...
... was feeling that the mind is quite empty. In the afternoon I saw an intense compact golden light there in front, at some distance outside the mind. The golden light is the promise of the higher knowledge. For the coming of that knowledge the silence of the frontal exterior mind is necessary. Today I felt that a part of the mind is or can be always open to the higher light, but realisation has... of the light, the white light in the vital, the golden light in the silence of the outer mind, the change in the vital, the quiet and natural trust and confidence are all signs and circumstances of this opening to the true consciousness. As you say, there must be established Page 284 the fixing of this consciousness. The constant openness of part of the mind to the higher light will bring... of the whole mind and it is in the silent mind that the true knowledge will come—and indeed it has begun already to come. The change you note in the vital must also continue. 26 March 1930 I remember that formerly at night I became conscious of the mind rising upward and then I saw many points all around rising up with aspiration, as if each point was aspiring in a different light that was guided ...
... at the source the Græco-Roman culture. It was pre-eminently a culture based upon the powers of mind and reason: it included a strong and balanced body (both body natural and body politic) under the aegis of mens sana (a sound mind). The light that was Greece was at its zenith a power of the higher mind and intelligence, intuitively dynamic in one – the earlier –phase through Plato, Pythagoras, ... also a movement of devolution, of reclamation. The Brahminic stage represents culture that is knowledge; it touches the mind, it is the brain that is the recipient and instrument of the Light. The Kshatriya comes into the field when the light, the vibration of awakening, from the mind comes down into the vital energies, from the brain to the heart region. The Vaishya spirit has taken up man still at a... somewhere about the beginning of the nineteenth century, is another outstanding example of a similar phenomenon, of the descent of light into human consciousness. The light that descended into human consciousness at the time of the Renaissance captured the higher mind and intelligence – the Ray touched as it were the frontal lobe of the brain; the later descent touched the heart, the feelings and emotive ...
... at the source the Greece-Roman culture. It was pre-eminently a culture based upon the powers of mind and reason: it included a strong and balanced body (both body natural and body politic) under the aegis of mens sana (a sound mind). The light that was Greece was at its zenith / a power of the higher mind and intelligence, intuitively dynamic in one—the earlier—phase through Plato, Pythagoras, Heraclitus... also a movement of devolution, of reclamation. The Brahminic stage represents culture that is knowledge; it touches the mind, it is the brain that is the recipient and instrument of the Light. The Kshatriya comes into the field when the light, the vibration of awakening, from the mind comes down into the vital energies, from the brain to the heart region. The Vaishya spirit has taken up man still at a... somewhere about the beginning of the nineteenth century, is another outstanding example of a similar phenomenon, of the descent of light into human consciousness. The light that descended into human consciousness at the time of the Renaissance captured the higher mind and intelligence— the Ray touched as it were the frontal lobe of the brain; the later descent touched the heart, the feelings and emotive ...
... permanent, one can be said to have passed out of the twilight of the mind Page 13 into the light of the Spirit. What you have now to do is to allow the realisation to grow and develop. The necessary movements will probably come of themselves as these have come—provided you keep your will single and faithful towards this Light and Truth. Already it has brought you the guidance towards the next... kind of sadhana in the past. As for the current it is the familiar sign of a first touch of the higher consciousness flowing down in the form of a stream—like the "wave" of light of the scientist—to prepare its possession of mind, vital and physical in the body. So is the stillness and rigidity of the body in your former experience a sign of the same descent of the higher consciousness in its form or... towards the opening of the consciousness to the higher Peace and Light. But it was not in the line of your expectations and you gave it no special value. As for vague and dreamlike, you feel it so because you are looking at them and at everything that happens in you from the standpoint of Page 18 the outward physical mind and intellect which can take only physical things as real and important ...
... trying to pierce my brow. It means something, I suppose? It simply means that some rays of the light of Truth are trying to get inside your skull. As you say "trying", I won't commit myself farther than that. Strictly speaking, as it was the brow, it means trying to get into the inner mind and light it up a little. You said on the previous day that the quick emerging of a faculty depends on a... outside Nature, and persistently rushes back from there—until it is so absolutely rejected that it can't return. But when what the mind rejects is strongly supported by the vital, it sinks down into the vital, rages there and tries to rush up again and reoccupy the mind. When the vital rejects it, it sinks from the higher to the lower vital. When the lower vital too rejects it, it sinks into the physical... extra food! Secondly he thought he has turned out to be Hercules overnight, went on scrubbing, doing gate-duty and many other exercises without ever asking me. Purushottam says the work is light, but S purposely turned it into a Sandow exercise making all sorts of motions to give work to his muscles. Motive—to get hungry so that he might conscientiously ask for an increase of food. I noticed ...
... call down from above you (where it always is) first her calm and peace, then her power and light and her ananda. It is always there above the head—but superconscient to the human mind—by aspiration and concentration it can become conscient to it and the adhar can open to it so that it descends and enters into mind, life and body. 14 March 1933 If a sadhak even after a long time cannot open himself... That is what must be done. Trust in the Mother and will only to be open to her always and as quietly confident as may be. The work to be done is too great for the outer mind to understand how it is to be done; it is only by growing light and experience that one day it begins to understand—it is also too great and difficult for it to do by itself,—it can only help the Power that is working by its readiness... being comes in the front. Mother, how can one develop the buddhi? The ordinary way is to read and study or to observe and try to understand all things; the sadhak's way is to open his mind to the light from above. × Written by Sri Aurobindo to his secretary, who replied to the enquirer.—Ed. ...
... butter hidden by the Panis must also symbolise an inner illumination and not physical light. The cow is really Aditi, the infinite consciousness hidden in the subconscient, and the triple ghṛtam is the triple clarity of the liberated sensation finding its secret of delight, of the thought-mind attaining to light and intuition and of the truth itself, the ultimate supramental vision. This is clear... is said, "One Indra produced, one Surya, one the gods fashioned by natural development out of Vena"; for Indra is the Master of the thought-mind, Surya of the supramental light, Vena is Soma, the master of mental delight of existence, creator of the sense-mind. Page 104 We may observe also in passing that the Panis here must perforce be spiritual enemies, powers of darkness, and not Dravidian... internal enemies who limit our material of mind to the sense-action and sense-perception so that though the waves of our being beat on banks that border upon the superconscient, the infinite, they are limited by the nervous action of the sense-mind and cannot reveal their secret. They are like horses controlled and reined in; only when the waves of the light have nourished their strength to the full ...
... force... The animal, in whom there is this less developed force of consciousness, is prior in creation; the more developed human consciousness, in which there is a greater force of kinetic mind-energy and,light of perception, is a later creation. The Tantra speaks of a soul fallen from its status passing through many lacs of births in plant and animal forms before 11. Vie Life Divine, pp... himself, he is the universal Being in whose embrace we live.... He is indivisible and the One, but seems to divide himself in forms and creatures and appears as all the separate existences.... He is the light of all lights and luminous beyond all the darkness of our ignorance. He is knowledge and the object of knowledge. He is seated in the hearts of all" (13.14,17,18). "His supreme 7.The Message... 9.Jiva = individual soul. Page 87 Form...is that of the infinite Godhead...who multiplies unendingly all the many marvellous revelations of His being... Such is the light of this body of God as if a thousand suns had risen at once in heaven. The whole world multitudinously divided and yet unified is visible in the body of the God of Gods" (11.9,13). Some words ...
... Intelligence if we will, but which is obviously the same thing as Intelligence. The difference is between Intelligence organised as mind, & Intelligence not organised but working with a broad elementary purity more unerring, in a way, than the action of mind. In the light of these facts the conception of Nature as infinite teleological & discriminative Force of Intelligence unorganised & impersonal because... nothing in that darkness justified itself as a cause of its creation. Unless mind was inherent in brute matter,—& in that case matter is only apparently brute,—it was impossible for matter to produce mind. But since this leads us to an impossibility, it cannot be the truth. We must suppose then, if matter is brute, that mind is also brute. Intelligence is an illusion; there is nothing but a shock of... active like the tree, but a mind perfectly aware of itself, its medium & its surroundings, though no longer in active possession of the medium and therefore no longer able to act materially on its surroundings. In face of these examples how can we assert that there is no life in the stone, no mind in stone or tree? The premise of the syllogism by which science denies mind to the tree or life to the ...
... Life and Mind, Force & Light, Power & Knowledge are the continual duos of the Veda. Vayu has the first draught of the Soma, the Wine of Delight or Joy of things expressed or generated in the body of man by the pressure of the divine sensations, those which seek with the electrical force of the divine mind, the pure rasa of things. The Soma juices are ready—the immortalising joy in the mind, the amrita... formative activity of the god of Mind. “Verily light-giving is the intoxication of thee impetuous.” For when the vital force and joy in us, especially that divine vitality and joy developed by Yoga is placed at the service of Indra’s luminous mental activity, then the mind increases in a sort of ecstatic intoxication of energy, vriddho ajáyatháh, and the abundant light of thought pours forth in the impetuous... sama because dunasha & not because of equal delight. He is to be slain in the pure mind where he dwells by Indra in the form of the thunderbolt, mind force informed with vaidyuta energy Page 392 from Mayas. A uhate is proleptic; the result of Indra or mind force becoming entirely luminous with the solar light of the ideal knowledge is to perfect the mental power of the Yogin so that he is ...
... self-disciplined, harmonised mental being, she has tried to go higher and deeper within and call out into the front the soul and inner mind and heart, call down from above the forces of the spiritual mind and higher mind and overmind and create under their light and by their influence the spiritual sage, seer, prophet, God-lover, Yogin, gnostic, Sufi, mystic. This is man's only way of true sel... creative energy of Mind and a creative Life Force, but they are instrumental and partial, not original and decisive: Mind and Life do indeed modify the material substance they inhabit and its energies and are not merely determined by them, but the extent and way of this mutual modification and de termination are fixed by the inhabitant and all-containing Spirit through a secret indwelling light and force of... but very little light has been shed on the inner side, the side of consciousness, and what little has been observed is rather of its physical basis and instrumentation than of the progressive operations of Consciousness in its own nature. In the evolution, as it has been observed so far, although a continuity is there,—for Life takes up Matter and Mind takes up submental Life, the Mind of intelligence ...
... SUKTA 4 समित्समित् सुमना बोध्यस्मे शुचाशुचा सुमतिं रासि वस्वः । आ देव देवान् यजथाय वक्षि सखा सखीन्त्सुमना यक्ष्यग्ने ॥१॥ 1) Aflame and again aflame in us awake with thy truth of mind, with light upon light grant us right understanding from the shining One. A god, bring the gods for the sacrifice; right-minded, a friend do sacrifice to the friends, O Fire. यं देवासस्त्रिरहन्नायजन्ते दिवेदिवे... many-actioned, the lasting conquest of the Light. May there be for us a Son of our begetting pervading in his birth; 8 O Fire, may there be created in us that true thinking of thine. SUKTA 2 वैश्वानराय धिषणामृतावृधे घृतं न पूतमग्नये जनामसि । द्विता होतारं मनुषश्च वाघतो धिया रथं न कुलिशः समृण्वति ॥१॥ 1) We create an understanding like pure light for the Fire that makes the Truth to grow... conquest of the Light. May there be for us a Son of our begetting pervading in his birth; 33 O Fire, may there be created in us that true thinking of thine. SUKTA 9 सखायस्त्वा ववृमहे देवं मर्तास ऊतये । अपां नपातं सुभगं सुदीदितिं सुप्रतूर्तिमनेहसम् ॥१॥ 1) Mortals we have chosen thee, a god, for our comrade to protect us, the Child of the Waters, full of happiness and light, victorious, ...
... speaks within. Light comes to us from above". Even in the imperfect life, subject to ignorance, man seeks Good and Beauty, God and Truth. There is in us a greater Life-Being. Man put his consciousness on the surface and has succeeded in mastering Nature partially by his Mind. Thus he "grew towards an unseen heaven of thought and dream". Man is now able to take his stand on the mind and gaze above;... is that in the Mind "only a bright shadow of God can come." When I return with the Divine then life will attain perfection. Page 321 CANTO FIVE THE FINDING OF THE SOUL As Savitri ascended further she found a dark region, "a night of God"—as distinguished from the darkness of the lower regions. This was a region where there was no mind/no light, no heart, no k... the entire human part of Savitri became harmonious. Once Nature's veil is removed then "a Light comes down into the Ignorance". "Then sin and virtue leave the cosmic lists" because, "Our words become the natural speech of Truth." "Each thought is a ripple on the sea of Light." Then the mind lifts a cry of victory: "O Soul, my soul, we have created Heaven Within we have found ...
... ce, is able to take two other poises. He can have an intuition of himself as a soul in body, which puts forth life as its activity and mind as the light of that activity. This soul in body is the physical conscious being, annamaya puruṣa , which uses life and mind characteristically for physical experience,—all else being regarded as a consequence of physical experience,—does not look beyond the life... finding, a derivative uncertain reflection and narrow utilisation for action from a greater light beyond which is the real knowledge. This light is the self-awareness and all-awareness of Spirit. The essential self-awareness he can arrive at even on the mental plane of being, by reflection in the soul of mind or by its absorption in spirit, as indeed it can be arrived at by another kind of reflection... which we are identified with the action of mind, life and body and live Page 632 inwardly in the soul. The liberation from an externalised ego sense is the first step towards the soul's freedom and mastery. When we thus draw back into the soul, we find ourselves to be not the mind, but a mental being who stands behind the action of the embodied mind, not a mental and vital personality,—p ...
... Centre The throat centre is the centre of the physical mind, the external will and the expression. Yes [ the throat centre is the physical mind centre ]. It is the centre of externalisation,—speech, expression, the power to deal mentally with physical things etc. Its opening brings the power to open the physical mind to the light of the divine consciousness instead of remaining in the ordinary... then it begins to be spiritualised and its highest ranges merge into the spiritual mind-consciousness of which this higher mind can be a beginning. This merging is part of the spiritual transformation. For the mind there are many centres: (1) the sahasradala which centralises spiritual mind, higher mind, intuitive mind and acts as a receiving station for the intuition proper and overmind, (2) the centre... is so—it is the physical mind that acts like that [ rising up from the throat centre to cover the mind ]. The centre of the physical mind or externalising mind is in the 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 ...
... thought or understanding. In one of the hymns, Agni is invoked as priest of the sacrifice to flood the offering with a mind pouring ghrita, ghritapusha manasa. The yogic meaning refers to the "mind pouring the light", which is a labour of the clarity of the enlightened or illumined mind. Sometimes the Veda speaks plainly of offering intellect (dhishana) as purified ghrita, to the gods, ghritam na... and heaven, body and mind. At a higher stage, Agni rises to the state of vital kinesis, the Prana, and it is here at this vital birth that Mares, asvah, move and labour about him. At this level, Agni purifies the nervous life in man pervading it with his own pure bright limbs, lifting upward its impulsions and desires, its purified will in works. Consequently, "he wears light as a robe about all... endeavour; Page 14 (iii) In the perfect gladness of the heart of emotion, hrit, and a brilliant heat and clarity of the mind, ghrita, throughout our intellectual and psychical being, medha, dhi, smriti; (iv) In the coming of the supramental Light, rita chit, by the arrival of the Dawn, Usha, and by the rising of the Sun, Savitri, and by the help of the shining Mother of the ...
... Delight, but It transcends all thought or image; who then can unravel Its mystery? The three elements here may well represent the body, life and mind, and the Light is the inner Consciousness that rules over them. The Vedantin may say that this Light is no Page 126 other than his Brahman whose attributes are Existence, Conscious Power and Bliss, saccidananda. It is remarkable... that It exists, it cannot be said that It does not exist. Can such a thing be grasped by any hidden faculties? It is a Light made up of three elements, and yet It has no colour or form or distinguishing marks. The reason is that the outer sense-organs cannot reach It, nor can the mind grasp It no matter how well-versed in scripture it be. The reflection of the moon in water looks fine and cool and sweet... out to the sky. The sixty-four here must have been meant to symbolise the integrality of consciousness: four are the main levels or planes of consciousness – body, life, mind and all that is above Page 120 mind – and the number sixty is their multiple and various divisions or lines of expression. The ordinary ignorant man passes through life, plying the boat of his ignorant ...
... Sight in the Superconscient Introduction We should recognise the insufficiency of normal mind of man to be an instrument for the discovery of the Truth: Our mind lives far off from the authentic Light Catching at little fragments of the Truth. 1 But if mind fails, what else remains? Again, it has been affirmed that "thought nor word can seize eternal Truth." 2... Out of the inconscient and subliminal Arisen, we live in mind's uncertain light- Above us dwells a superconscient god Hidden in the mystery of his own light. 6 So we should see the nature of sight in those superconscient regions of our being. If and when we pierce the veil of our limiting mind-consciousness and enter into the superconscient region, we find there... our material grasp, Acts vibrant with a superhuman light. 9 Sight in the Spiritual Mind Planes To recapitulate: Once we cross the confines of the normal mind of man, we meet on our ascending climb a series of hierarchised luminous planes of consciousness serving as links and bridges between the now normal waking mind of non-spiritual humanity and the native heights of pure ...
... " there is simply the field of attention, the field of alertness, in which the anger happens. And then perhaps another thought arises that says, "Anger is still moving through my body and my mind." The light of attention continues. And then a point may come when the mental label doesn't arise any more that even calls it anger, and there is simply the attention that is given to that which no longer... called "presence of mind" refers to a state of consciousness that is beyond mind ... that is arising, that is a state of Presence which I would never call presence of mind because, in the terminology that I use in the teaching, Presence and mind are not synonymous at all. [chuckle] Page 33 So, in my terminology, "Presence of mind" is a contradiction because mind, in this teaching, means... Presence of mind may sometimes simply refer to a reactive state, and at other times it might refer to a state of Presence, [chuckle] It depends on the context, the person who is using it. DALAL: The mind does seem to have the power to observe things objectively as is done in scientific observation. Can the mind observe with detachment and become a witness? ECKHART: If, in normal mind activity ...
... spite of the opportunities given. The mind is assailed with suggestions of illness, but resists Page 375 & expels them while the bodily parts which have now learned to look up to the mind for light & impulse, are only slightly affected & chiefly in their subtle parts. The whole psychic mechanism of illness is now evident to the understanding. Full light and ananda are being steadily combined... recurrence of the manasic false response and distortion of vijnanamaya messages. In the light of this self-perfecting jnana all the past vicissitudes of the sadhana are seen in their right light, their reasons, necessity, utility, essential cause & teleological purpose; for better impression on the natural mind, they recur in slight & fleeting instances, repeat their old action[,] are understood and... speedy inevitability; the positive defects that remain are occasional overstress on a telepathic perception marring the satyam and imperfect light of detail and arrangement limiting the ritam. Nevertheless even in the unillumined secondhand perceptions of mind the ritam is at last prevailing and the satyam is now dominant. *Lipi. 1 Effective fertility of the lipi; delight: utility of the lipi ...
... every manner of intensest Ananda. And so too beyond the inferior light and happiness of that purest quality of Nature, Sattwa, the power that makes for assimilation and equivalence, right knowledge and right dealing, fine harmony, firm balance, right law of action, right possession and brings so full a satisfaction to the mind, beyond this highest thing in the normal nature, admirable in itself... lifelong clash between human Devas and Asuras, the men of power, sons of the Gods, who are governed by the who are out for the service of their intellectual, vital and physical ego. The ancient mind, light of a high ethical Dharma and others who are embodied Titans, the men of power more open than ours to the truth of things behind the physical veil, saw behind the life of man great cosmic Powers or... supramental force of knowledge, jyotiḥ , not our modified and derivative mental light, prakāśa . That is the light and bliss Page 466 of widest self-existence, spontaneous self-knowledge, intimate universal identity, deepest self-interchange, not of acquisition, assimilation, adjustment and laboured equivalence That light is full of a luminous spiritual will and there is no gulf or disparateness ...
... here also of Krishna's light—Krishna's light in the mind, Krishna's light in the vital; but it is a special light—in the mind it brings clarity, freedom from obscurity, mental error and perversion; in the vital it clears out all perilous stuff and where it is there is a pure and divine happiness and gladness. There are some however who seem to regard this invasion of Light not merely as a thing without... Ananda, everything is there. There is also a manifestation of Light—the Upanishads speak of jyotir brahma , the Light that is Brahman. Very often the sadhak feels a flow of Light upon him or around him or a flow of Light invading his centres or even his whole being and body, penetrating and illumining every cell and in that Light Page 489 there grows the spiritual consciousness and... incomplete ] I do not know that I can answer your question about what Krishnaprem means by Krishna's light. It is certainly not what people ordinarily mean by knowledge. He may mean the light of the Divine Consciousness, or if you like, the light that is the Divine Consciousness or the light that comes from it or he may mean the luminous being of Krishna in which all things are in their supreme ...
... to the higher Powers and brings back in return their force and light and joy into our humanity. Indra, the Puissant next, who is the power of pure Existence self-manifested as the Divine Mind. As Agni is one pole of Force instinct with knowledge that sends its current upward from earth to heaven, so Indra is the other pole of Light instinct with force which descends from heaven to earth. He comes... unmaimed condition of mind, vitality and body are necessary. This condition is given to us by the twin Ashwins; wedded to the daughter of Light, drinkers of honey, bringers of perfect satisfactions, healers of maim and malady they occupy our parts of knowledge and parts of action and prepare our mental, vital and physical being for an easy and victorious ascension. Indra, the Divine Mind, as the shaper... help mankind to repeat their achievement. They shape by the mind Indra's horses, the Ashwins' chariot, the weapons of the Gods, all the means of the journey and the battle. But as giver of the Light of truth and as Vritra-slayer Indra is aided by the Maruts, who are powers of will and nervous or vital Force that have attained to the light of thought and the voice of self-expression. They are behind ...
... Ultimate. It is the nature of Mind to arrive at this result of uncertain certainty; our experience is true but it is not and cannot be the sole possible integral experience. 157 All human Yoga is done on the heights or levels of the mental Page 362 nature; for man is a mental being in a living body. But mind if it is able to reflect some light of the divine Truth or even admit... our absolute being with the ineffable Divine and in the manifestation a free movement of his being, power, consciousness and self-realising joy, to grow into a divine Truth-consciousness beyond mind, into a Light beyond all human or earthly lights, into a Power to which the greatest strengths of men are a weakness, into the wisdom of an infallible gnosis and the mastery of an unerring and unfailing divinity... highest reach is the divine Gnosis, the Wisdom-Power-Light-Bliss of God by which the Divine knows and upholds and governs and enjoys the universe[.] 160 The supramental Yoga is a path of integral seeking of the Divine by which all that we are is in the end liberated out of the Ignorance and its undivine formations into a truth beyond the Mind, a truth not only of highest spiritual status but ...
... ghṛitapruṣā manasā, "a mind pouring ghee", has to be translated a "mind pouring the light". 30 Again, when the Rishi asks Agni (Fire-God) to "hearken to the anthem our thoughts strain out pure to the godhead like pure clarified butter" (VI. 10.2), we have in the comparison the clue to the symbol of ghṛita in the sacrifice. 31 Ghṛita is "the light-offering", the labour of the... Truth and Knowledge and his rays are the light emanating from that supreme Truth and Knowledge. It is clear from this instance - and there are others - that the seer of the Upanishad had a truer sense of the meaning of the ancient Veda than the mediaeval ritualistic commentator with his gigantic learning, much truer than the modern and very different mind of the European scholars." Unlike... the clarity of an enlightened or illumined mind. Perhaps the easiest way to rout Renou and his tribe of modern expositors, on whom Monchanin leans so confidently, is to employ the argument Sri Aurobindo brings to bear on the nature of the Panis, a certain type of enemy of the aspirants to Aryanism, the cult of Light. The general term for the enemies of Aryanism is Dasa-Dasyu and, as ...
... the Self and give room for a wider and greater consciousness; or it must make itself passive to an inner Light and allow that Light to use it as a means of expression; or else it must itself change from the questioning intellectual superficial mind it now is to an intuitive intelligence, a mind of vision fit for the direct perception of the divine Truth. If you want to do anything in the path of... deeper minds the dissatisfaction with the ideals of the past or the present, with all mental or vital or material solutions of the problem of life has increased and only the spiritual path is left. It is true that the European mind having little light on these things dallies with vital will-o'-the wisps like spiritism or theosophy or falls back upon the old religionism; but the deeper minds of which... this extent; the soul feels, but the mind goes on with mixed and imperfect transcriptions, blurs and confusions in the idea. There must have been the gift of right vision lying ready in this nature. It is an achievement to have got rid so rapidly and decisively of the shimmering mists and fogs which modern intellectualism takes for Light of Truth. The modern mind has so long and persistently wandered—and ...
... had some realisation at least of the Divine—so take comfort. May 6, 1935 I hear there are some who proceed through the heart, and and some through the mind, in sadhana. Those who proceed through the mind—vertically, receive Light, Knowledge etc. I would like to know if a vertical opening can be there without the opening of the heart centre. It can—but that usually leads to মোক্ষ or to... saw a red-crimson light around the Mother a few days back. What does it signify? ??? Great Heavens? which? who? But there is nothing new in that. It was coming down before Nov. 34, but afterwards all the damned mud arose and it stopped. But there are red crimson lights. One is supramental Divine Love. The other is the supramental physical Force. I am reading your Intuitive Mind. Can you not release... true. It may be that homo-intellectualis will remain wider and homo psychicus will remain deeper in heart. I am still not sure. Can we say that Ramakrishna's mind or Christ's mind was as powerful as that of Buddha? Buddha's mind as a mind was more powerful, but had he as much or as many-sided a spiritual knowledge as Ramakrishna? I leave out Christ, because his spiritual knowledge was from ...
... deeper minds the dissatisfaction with the ideals of the past or the present, with all mental or vital or material solutions of the problem of life has increased and only the spiritual path is left. It is true that the European mind having little light on these things dallies with vital will-o'-the-wisps like spiritism or theosophy or falls back upon the old religionist; but the deeper minds of which... don't think, he is himself really sure what he will do next.* He has not only two minds but three or four minds, and all depends on which will turn up topmost at a particular moment and how it will combine with the others. There would be no harm in that, on the contrary these might be an advantage if there were a central Light somewhere choosing for him and shaping the decision to the need of the action... half-light, half-darkness. I believe the descent of this Truth opening the way to a development of divine consciousness here to be the final sense of the earth evolution. 107 August 8, 1935 From the spiritual point of view such temporary phenomena as the turn of the educated Hindus towards materialism are of little importance. There have always been periods when the mind of nations ...
... two discoveries have refused to shed light upon each other; each has shut itself up in its own formulas. This is because each is a creation and activity of Mind, Science of the concretising experimental mind, Philosophy of the abstracting intellectual mind, Religion of the dynamic spiritual mind. But Mind is bound always by its partial formulations of the Truth; Mind grasps formulas or images but is itself... centre or another in the multiplicity of his play. Otherwise no knowledge would be possible. The Secret below the Surface 90 All life, all existence is an enigma to the human mind, because the mind is a light which sees only the surfaces of things or at most a little below the surface and is moreover limited by its own circumscribed area of vision. It cannot see what is beyond those limits... [its] instrument made of its substance, dependent on [its] substance, inexistent without it. Mind is an action of Matter, not a separate power or force; there is nothing in it superior to the physicality of the body; it exists by the body and as a part of its activity, lasts along with it, dies with it. Mind is a product of gases, some operation of Nature's chemistry, glandular influences, nervous ...
... Illumined Mind At a still higher level, there is, according to Sri Aurobindo, the Illumined Mind, a Mind no longer of higher Thought but of spiritual light. The downpour of inwardly visible Light very usually envelops the action of this Mind. The illumined Mind does not work primarily by thought, but by vision; thought is here only a subordinate movement expressive of sight. The illumined mind can... is able to step out of the lower mentality, one can ascend into what Sri Aurobindo calls a Higher Mind, a mind no longer made of mingled light or obscurity or half-light, but a large clarity of the Spirit. Sri Aurobindo points out that although it is still conceptual, it is a luminous thought-mind, a mind of Spirit — born conceptual knowledge. In the words of Sri Aurobindo: "An all-awareness emerging... Intuitive Mind As compared to the plenary light of the supermind, intuition is a first imperfect organization of superconscient light. In the words of Sri Aurobindo: "The intuitive mind is an immediate translation of truth into mental terms half transformed by a radiant supramental substance, a translation of some infinite self-knowledge that Page 24 acts above mind in the ...
... A veil hides Him, so you do not see, or feel or hear the divine Guest. You speak only from your human mind and therefore, ignorantly: Page 299 for Thought is "a light of Ignorance". You can see the world but cannot know the meaning of God in the world. ' "Thy mind's light hides from thee the eternal's thought" "Its brilliant curtain hides from thee God's face." ... lifeless law—not a living heart. But the Self is there, behind the machine. If man could identify his nature with God's, if he could surrender to God their all can change here. Then can "the mind of man receive God's light" "It is decreed that Satyavan must die; The hour is fixed, chosen the fatal stroke." But "What else shall be is written in her soul." The determination of Fate goes... mankind. The reason is that there is an adversary Force which opposes any move towards Light. Escape from the world of pain would not solve the problem. The Light must descend into the Inconscient which is the basis of Ignorance and therefore of pain. Such a world-saviour may come and he would bring the Light down into the Inconscient and then only the law of Pain will end. Pain and suffering ...
... covering with its wings of light the whole triplicity of the Mind, Life Page 251 and Matter. So from below, from mind, one sees the light of the Overmind first, not the light of the Supermind with which it is connected. In a sense it screens one off from the Higher Light. For Supermind it acts as a step of descent, and is a necessary convenient step; for mind it is the necessary step... of the Truth-Consciousness. The Light working in the corona is the Overmind. It is from there that the mind arises at a certain stage. A dispersal of Light takes place through mind, it goes into the Inconscient and completely disappears. The Light in the Overmind goes on penetrating further and further and it comes into the Inconscient. In the Inconscient, all the Light is absorbed and it becomes a dark... that there is the connecting region between mind and Overmind being the first step toward creation of mind. So the light of the Supermind, moving toward creation of the mind, passes through an intermediate stage called the Overmind. The ascent from mind to the Supermind cannot be sudden. Sri Aurobindo found in his Yogic experience that the mind cannot ascend directly to the Supramental con ...
... disappearing into a sky, lighted with an unseen light. These higher realms were realms of lucent mind which were quite different from the realms of the vital. The rays of these realms "Parting Life's sentient flow from Thought's self-poise" created a world—a new world—"On a ground reserved for doubt and reasoned guess". It was a meeting-ground of knowledge and ignorance. This mind "only sensed itself... to reach the Highest because "A passage she cut through from Night to Light". It was intended to be a search for an ungrasped omniscience. This search of the human spirit for the Highest knowledge was helped by "A dwarf three-bodied trinity". These three dwarf's were the physical mind, the mind of desire and the reasoning mind. The first of them was "A pigmy Thought needing to live in bounds... investiture of intuitive light". Page 212 One day, in the wake of this higher intuitive knowledge will come "On lustrous seas from the still rapt Alone To illumine the deep heart of self and things. A timeless knowledge it shall bring to Mind, Its aim to life, to Ignorance its close". He saw that above this human mind there was a region of bright Light from where two demons ...
... character and is very clearly an intermediary of a greater Truth-Light with which our mind cannot directly communicate. At the source of this Intuition we discover a superconscient cosmic Mind in direct contact with the Supramental Truth-Consciousness, an original intensity determinant of all movements below it and all mental energies,—not Mind as we know it, but an Overmind that covers as with the wide... —veiled no doubt, because the light of the superior consciousness not only acts within narrow limits, usually in a special field, without any regulated separate organisation of its characteristic energies, often indeed quite fitfully, erratically and with a supernormal or abnormal irresponsible governance, but also in entering the mind it subdues and adapts itself to mind substance so that it is only... gift to human mind, the greater light which arms them with the right to act upon us and is the innate power of their existence. There are two successive movements of consciousness, difficult but well within our capacity, by which we can have access to the superior gradations of our conscious existence. There is first a movement inward by which, instead of living in our surface mind, we break the ...
... creation of the mind's seeking for light and knowledge and right rule and right movement and true order. The moment this notion becomes powerful in man, he begins to escape from the engrossing vital and material into the mental life; he climbs from the first to the second degree of the threefold ascent of Nature. His needs and desires themselves are touched with a more elevated light of purpose and... beauty, light. It is therefore essentially an individual standard; it is not a creation of the mass mind. The thinker is the individual; it is he who calls out and throws into forms that which would otherwise remain subconscious in the amorphous human whole. The moral striver is also the individual; self-discipline, not under the yoke of an outer law, but in obedience to an internal light, is essentially... something too is concealed that does attach to a supreme Truth; there is here the glimmer of a light and power that are part of a yet unreached divine Nature. But the mental idea of these things is not that light and the moral formulation of them is not that power. These are only representative constructions of the mind that cannot embody the divine spirit which they vainly endeavour to imprison in their ...
... the Veda a series of outer physical light, another series of higher and inner light which is a vehicle of the mental, vital and psychic consciousness. Besides these, there is the highest inmost light of spiritual illumination. Surya, the Sun-god, was the lord of the physical Sun, but he is at the same time giver of the rays of Knowledge which illumines the mind. At the same time, he is also the soul... 3. Pure Bliss-Ananda World of creative delight of existence (Janaloka) 4. Knowledge or Truth- Vijnana World of the vastness (Maharloka) 5. Mind World of light (Swar) 6. Life (nervous being) World of various becomings (Bhuvar) 7. Matter The material world (Bhur) Page 26 The Vedic interpretation... Angirasa Rishis indicates the effort to discover the lost sun and herds of light in the caves of darkness, symbolising physical inconscience. It may even be said that the Yoga of the Veda seems to suggest that the discovery of the light in Surya Savitri is followed and completed by the discovery and uncovering of the light in the very depths of darkness of the Inconscient, tamas. Not the rejection ...
... each of them and manifest the Gods. 2 But what is a ghee-pouring mind, and how by pouring ghee can a priest manifest the Gods and the triple heavens? But admit the mystical and esoteric meaning and the sense becomes clear. What the Rishi means is a "mind pouring the light", a labour of the clarity of an enlightened or illumined mind; it is not a human priest or a sacrificial fire, but the inner Flame... possible for him to see at once the inner experience and in image its symbolic happening, the flow of clarifying light and the priest god pouring the clarified butter on the inner self-offering which brought the experience. This might seem strange to a Western mind, but to an Indian mind accustomed to the Indian tradition or capable of meditation and occult vision it would be perfectly intelligible... translator is the ubiquitous double entendre marking in Page 22 one word the symbol and the thing symbolised, Ray and Cow, clear light of the mind and clarified butter, horses and spiritual power; one has to invent phrases like the "herds of the light" or "the shining herds" or to use devices such as writing the word horse with a capital H to indicate that it is a symbolic horse that is meant ...
... token of his Grace than for its other merits, as also because of the light it carried from the fount of his luminous personality which we had grown to cherish. To me, personally, his letters radiating affection imparted something even more convincing — possibly because only such personal letters could convey to my sceptic mind the light of seer-hood that hovered round him, through a receptive emotion which... rapture his light moods occasioned in our somewhat over-impressed breasts still resonant with the tribute of a quondam Prime Minister of England: "I called on one whose name is on every lip as a wild extremist across whose path the shadow of the hangman falls... .He talked of things which trouble the soul of man; he wandered aimlessly into the dim regions of aspiration where the mind finds a soothing... worth while — I know what pays." And he made me know it, too, although I did pay what I could for him, As he would clarify what to my mind had seemed intriguing, dim. Maybe his "knowledge": has let him down and so he longs for a greater light Than his continental firefly twinkles — helpless in his soul's dark night! The last though not least, 0 great Master, of your namesakes ...
... liberated spiritual mentality and the obscure life of the cosmic Ignorance which the mind would not have the power to solve or overcome. But in the supramental being, not only statically conscious but fully dynamic and acting in the creative light and power of the Transcendence, the supramental light, the truth light, ṛtaṁ jyotiḥ , would have that power. For there would be a unity with the cosmic self... the movement of a deliberate bringing out of its timeless knowledge into a process of Time-manifestation. A self-illumination, a revelation of light out of light will be the method of cognition of this evolutionary supramental Nature. As mind seeks for light, for the discovery of knowledge and for mastery by knowledge, so life seeks for the development of its own force and for mastery by force: its... revealed and conscious truth of being. Mind seeks for light, for knowledge,—for knowledge of the one truth basing all, an essential truth of Page 1017 self and things, but also of all truth of diversity of that oneness, all its detail, circumstance, manifold way of action, form, law of movement and happening, various manifestation and creation; for thinking mind the joy of existence is discovery ...
... general, if not a total, conversion of the being into a new light and power of a greater existence. The Life Divine, p. 938 (a) Higher Mind Our first decisive step out of our human intelligence, our normal mentality, is an ascent into a higher Mind, a mind no longer of mingled light and obscurity or half-light, but a large clarity of the Spirit. Its basic substance is a... an edge or ray or outleap of a superior light; it is in us a projecting blade, edge or point of a far-off supermind light entering into and modified by some intermediate truth-mind substance above us and, so modified, again entering into and very much blinded by our ordinary or ignorant mind-substance; but on that higher level to which it is native its light is unmixed and therefore entirely and... thought-conception can manage. As the Higher Mind brings a greater consciousness into the being through the spiritual idea and its power of truth, so the Illumined Mind brings in a still greater consciousness through a Truth-sight and Truth-light and its seeing and seizing power. It can effect a more powerful and dynamic integration; it illumines the thought-mind with a direct inner vision and inspiration ...
... there is in the Veda the series of the outer physical light, another higher and inner light which is a vehicle of the mental, vital and psychic consciousness, and a highest inmost light of spiritual illumination. Surya, the Sun-god, was the lord of the physical Sun, but he is at the same time the giver of the rays of Knowledge which illumines the mind, and he is also the soul of energy and body of the... the general mind and feeling of the people. The system of the hierarchy of the worlds that we find in the Veda was more intricate than the system that we find in the Puranas. In the Veda, the highest worlds constitute the triple divine principle; infinity is their scope, bliss is their foundation. These three worlds are supported by the vast region of the Truth whence a divine Light radiates out... force (Tapoloka) 3 Pure Bliss -Ananda World of creative delight of existence (Janaloka ) 4 Knowledge or Truth Vijnana World of the Vastness (Maharloka) 5 Mind World of light (Swar) 6 Life (nervous being) World of various becoming (Bhuvar) 7 Matter The material world (Bhur) The Vedic' interpretation of life as a movement of sacrifics ...
... passage from the evolution in the Ignorance to a greater evolution in the Knowledge, founded and proceeding in the light of the Superconscient and Page 857 no longer in the darkness of the Ignorance and Inconscience. This terrestrial evolutionary working of Nature from Matter to Mind and beyond it has a double process: there is an outward visible process of physical evolution with birth as... and process, with the detail of Nature's execution, with the physical development of things in Matter and the law of development of life and mind in Matter; its account of the process may have to be considerably changed or may be dropped altogether in the light of new discovery, but that will not affect the self-evident fact of a spiritual evolution, an evolution of Consciousness, a progression of the... category. The animal, in whom there is this less developed force of consciousness, is prior in creation; the more developed human consciousness, in which there is a greater force of kinetic mind energy and light of perception, is a later creation. The Tantra Page 869 speaks of a soul fallen from its status passing through many lacs of births in plant and animal forms before it can reach ...
... than the ancient Classical and is far removed from even the Miltonic mind whether in its initial delicacy and suppleness or in its final Classicism of power and massiveness and sheer intellectual vision. Secondly, as never before in so consistent a shape in occidental literature, there falls upon this poetic mind a higher light which occasions temporarily a speech which is sheerly from above the... Heaven's light forever shines, Earth's shadows fly; Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass, Stains the white radiance of Eternity, Until Death tramples it to fragments. The one has the colour of an intuition of the life-soul in one of its intense moods and we not only think the thought but seem to feel it even in our nerves of mental sensation, the other is the thought-mind itself... similes. The first two lines recall even more directly some of the verses preceding in the same passage those quoted by Sri Aurobindo - And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death... But the reflective mind proper rather than the Life-force thinking is vocal both in the general posture of Meredith's phrases and in his sound-movement. There is even a touch of Page ...
... very often it comes like stages or at long intervals, at first, working on the consciousness till it is ready. "We speak here also of Krishna's Light, Krishna's Light in the mind, Krishna's Light in the vital, etc. But it is a special Light — in the mind it brings clarity, freedom from obscurity, mental error and perversion; in the vital it clears all perilous stuff and where it is there is a pure... that it provided, they were used by another Light and a larger Mind than the intellect. When the intellect tried to decide things in this field, it always delayed matters. I suppose what it can do sometimes is to stir up the mind, plough it or prepare — but the knowledge comes only when one gets another, higher than the intellectual, opening. Even in mind itself there are things higher than the intellect... inwardly the attitude of the bhakta and the disciple. That is a rare achievement for a modern mind, be he European or educated Indian; for the modem mind is analytic, dubitative, instinctively independent even when it wants to be otherwise, and holds itself back and hesitates in front of the light and the influence that comes to it; it does not plunge into it with a simple directness, crying: ...
... answers to my letters I feel as if I would never be able to read or understand them. What is this activity in me? A useless activity of the vital mind. You should keep it quiet and receive with a silent mind waiting for light. In the silent mind one can receive an answer even if I write nothing. 9 June 1933 I have the idea that since we can communicate everything to you by prayer, why do... deeply affected and began supporting and expressing the reasonings of the attacking force—in place of a clear observation and expression of the difficulty by the vigilant mind laying the state of things in the light for the higher Light and Force to act upon it, there was a vehement statement of the case for the Opposition. Page 451 Many sadhaks (even "advanced") had made a habit of this kind... put it under her protection, in the light of the Truth, under the rays of the Power that is working for the transformation—for immediately those rays begin to play and to act on the thing brought to her notice. Anything within that advises you not to do it when the spirit in you moves you to do it, may very well be a device of the vital to avoid the ray of the Light and the working of the Force. It may ...
... but in the bodies of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, who was herself no less a warrior. For are two of the personalities of the Great Mother not Durga and Kali? Out, out with the mind and its candle flares, Light, light the suns that never die. For me the cry of the seraph stars And the forms of the gods for my naked eye! 37 This too was the voice of the soft-spoken Sri Aurobindo – who... our absolute being with the ineffable Divine and in the manifestation a free movement of his being, power, consciousness and self-realising joy, to grow into a divine Truth-consciousness beyond mind, into a Light beyond all human or earthly lights, into a Power to which the greatest strengths of men are a weakness, into the wisdom of an infallible gnosis and the mastery of an unerring and unfailing divinity... for Westerners, to keep in mind that “mental formulation” (philosophy) is secondary to praxis, to the practical, living realisation of knowledge. For the West, as we shall see further on, has been one-sided and therefore fundamentally flawed in its attitude towards Existence. Its approach to things has been mental through and through, it has been an exercise of the mind; the living, the praxis, the ...
... Nature from Matter to Life, from Life to Mind may be conceded: but there is no proof yet that Matter developed into life or Life-energy into Mind- energy; all that can be conceded is that Life has manifested in Matter, Mind in living Matter. (d) The constant creation of types is visible but that is no indubitable proof of evolution. In this light, man is a type among many types; he is one... beyond Mind. In that case, the unconquerable impulse of man towards God, Light, Bliss, Freedom, Immortality presents itself in its right place in the chain as simply the imperative impulse by which Nature is seeking to evolve beyond Mind, and appears to be as natural, true and just as the impulse towards Life which she has planted in certain forms of Matter or the impulse towards Mind which she... misunderstanding of the Greek mind. The modem theories also rely completely on philology, but in spite of its valuable contributions, comparative philology has failed to create a science of language. The cumulative result of the deficiencies of the modem theories is that the problem of interpreting of the Veda still remains an open field in which any contribution that can throw light upon the problem should ...
... depths of consciousness, a daring of the highest heights, a linking of the extremities, a raising up or bringing down of the strength of matter to the earth, the throb of life, the thrill of mind and the light of the Spirit, charging the WORD with POWER and turning Vision into unfolding Reality: a manifold as well as a unified Revelation. Well might he have said, on the completion of the Arya: ... That is the general rule. But periodically the Divine Light "shines in a being and radiates through him over the world"; such are the Sanatanas, the Saviours, the Messiahs who have leavened our existence in the past. Yet more is needed now: But how much greater a splendour than all that have gone before, how marvellous a glory and light would be needed to draw these beings out of the horrible... willed and Thou dost execute: A new Light shall break upon the earth. A new world shall be born, And the things that were promised shall be fulfilled. 27 While the outer gloom cast by the war was to continue for some years, the inner mist raised by the invasion of doubt wholly cleared, and gave place to the sovereign light of assurance that ultimate victory was sure and ...
... themselves ... each day, in all sincerity and goodwill, in an ardent aspiration towards the Sun of Truth, towards the Supreme Light, the source and intellectual life of the universe, so that it may pervade us entirely and illumine with its great brilliance our minds and hearts, all our thoughts and our actions. 20 The Mantra is striking in several respects when we also realise that the... without debate. He came into an armoured fierce domain. He witnessed the shadow depths of Life. His vision discovered Hell's trade-mark. He wrestled with powers that snatched from mind its light. He entered a gaunt spiritual blank. He strove to shield his spirit from despair. His spirit became an empty listening gulf. His being from its own vision disappeared. His body... Darkness and Sleep vs. Light and Awakening are the three lines of imagery that are used to work out the idea-substance in several degrees of significance of the coming Dawn. This aspect of supreme artistry in Savitri as a poem perhaps reinforces its mantric quality in a mutually advantageous way. "The three lines of imagery which run throughout this canto reverberate in our minds and hearts like a repeated ...
... a lovely moonlight with a self-luminous blue scarf. You looked the essence of magic, she says. Blue is the normal colour of the spiritual plane; moonlight indicates the spiritual mind and its light. (2) Mother in a powerful sunlight on a lion – her jagaddhatrT aspect, I infer. She looked so puissant, etc. It was probably the Durga aspect. (3) Near you both Krishna... (generally and not individually) is working to make that possible, its pressure is for that – for, on the other levels, the. change has already been made possible (not, mind you, assured to everybody). But to open the Inconscient to light is a herculean task; change on the other levels is much easier. As yet this work has only begun and it is not surprising that there seems to be no change in things... others are a play of the mind or vital and are good only for their own special purpose, others are formations of the mind and vital plane some of which may have truth, while others are false and misleading, or they may be a sort of artistry of that plane. They can have considerable importance in the development of the first Yogic consciousness, that of the inner mind, inner vital, inner physical ...
... a brotherly advice, I should insist upon your putting a brake at once upon your physical mind, and revert to the joy and peace, the love and light of the psychic. Look upon your mind and treat its thoughts and ideas and logic and suggestions as something belonging to the universal nature. You are not the mind. Its thoughts and ideas must not be suffered to disturb or distract you. Stand back from them... upon your snubbing your mind into silence and living in the light and love of the psychic. Your mind is not your real self, it is but a temporary perishable construction of Nature, and its ideas and thoughts have no permanent value. They come from the universal Nature and lodge in us for a time. Sri Aurobindo wants us to be firm and uncompromising in our "rejection of the mind's ideas, opinions, preferences... and calm of the mind and this constant sense of the inner being in you standing back from the external nature and turned to the Light and Truth." "The forces that stand in the way of sadhana are the forces of the lower mental, vital and physical nature. Behind them are adverse powers of the mental, vital and subtle physical worlds. These can be dealth with only after the mind and heart have become ...
... an edge or ray or outleap of a superior light; it is in us a projecting blade, edge or point of a far-off supermind light entering into and modified by some intermediate truth-mind substance above us and, so modified, again entering into and very much blinded by our ordinary or ignorant mind substance; but on that higher level to which it is native its light is unmixed and therefore entirely and purely... parts of the nature, especially in the thinking mind itself and in the heart which is nearest to its own province: but this change is not often a total perfection even within limits and what it does achieve is rare and difficult. The spiritual consciousness using the mind is employing an inferior means and, even though it brings in a divine light into the mind, a divine purity, passion, ardour into the... enveloped and taken up into its own greater being and essence. Our first decisive step out of our human intelligence, our normal mentality, is an ascent into a higher Mind, a mind no longer of mingled light and obscurity or half-light, but a large clarity of the spirit. Its basic substance is a unitarian sense of being with a powerful multiple dynamisation capable of the formation of a multitude of ...
... "Proceeding from primeval seed, They see the light of the Mind, And have light which glimmereth higher than the light of the Mind."57 "From out of darkness all around We, gazing on the higher light - Yea, gazing on the higher light - To Surya, god worshiped by the gods, We have attained the highest light! Yea, the highest light!58 We see here the confirmation of the... the Vedic experience in which one rises from darkness to a light that belongs to Swar, the light of the highest plane of the Mind; and a farthest ascent to the highest light that is symbolized by the Sun, the Supramental Light, the light in which all the diverse rays of light are united or integrated. [iii] Here are brief statements of Shwetashwatara Upanishad, which affirm the reality of... states, "When It is known by perception that reflects It, then one has the thought of It, for one finds immortality ........ 16 The light of the Supreme takes possession of the thinking mind, His power and joy of the life, His light and rapture of the emotional mind and the senses. Something of the Supreme that is imaged of the Brahman falls upon the world- nature and changes it into divine nature ...
... duramudaiti daivarh tadu suptasya tathaivaiti/ dūrarigamam jyotisārh jyotirekarh tanme manah śivasarikalpamastu// "The mind, irrespective of whether one is awake or asleep, travels to far distant corners; this far distant-moving mind is the light of lights. May that mind of mine be filled with Good will." * * * Page 39 A MODEST PROPOSAL FOR RESTORING TO EDUCATION ... and also to prepare corresponding programmes of teacher-education. The role of the teacher in education is irreplaceable, and unless the teachers' programmes or training are conceived in the light of the full implications of value-education, we shall not be able to equip the teachers with the right inspiration and with the required tools. If value-education has suffered so far, it is because... In fact, education is a subset of a larger setting of culture, and culture consists of cultivation of Page 31 faculties and powers pertaining to reason, ethics and aesthetics in the light of the pursuit of Values of Truth, Beauty and Goodness ( satyam, śivam, sundaram) . Culture also consists of infusing the influences of this pursuit into physical and vital impulses, so as to refine ...
... as it passes before him throwing its figures on his mind and stirring it to a kindly satisfaction in the movement and its interest, to a blithe sense of humour or a light and easy pathos. He does not seek to add anything to it or to see anything below it or behind its outsides, nor does he look at all into the souls or deeply into the minds of the men and women whose appearance, action and easily... of the essence and efflorescence of God. Bliss, Light, Power, Life, Love are the five essences that fuse as the integral perfection of God. In every stanza, the first half names a Power above and the second half invokes that Power to inhabit, inform and re-create the corresponding instrument below. Bliss for the human heart. Light for the human mind, Power for the human will. Life for the body terrestrial... half-luminous sign Of the transition of the veiled Divine Page 648 From Matter's sleep and the tormented load Of ignorant life and death to the Spirit's light. Mind liberated swam Light's ocean-vast, And life escaped from its grey tortured line; I saw Matter illumining its parent Night. The soul could feel into infinity cast Timeless God-bliss the ...
... acts; Its influence pressing on our heart and mind Pushes them to exceed their mortal selves. It seeks for Good and Beauty and for God; We see beyond self's walls our limitless self, We gaze through our world's glass at half-seen vasts, We hunt for the Truth behind apparent things. Our inner Mind dwells in a larger light, Its brightness looks at us through hidden... opens the rest of the nature to the true supramental light and finally to the supreme Ananda. Mind can open by itself to its own higher reaches: it can still itself and widen into the Impersonal: it may too spiritualise itself in some kind of static liberation or Nirvana: but the supramental cannot find a sufficient base in a spiritualised mind alone. If the inmost soul is awakened, if there is a new... nerves and veins Thy rapture's streams shall move; My thoughts shall be hounds of Light for Thy power to loose. Keep only my soul to adore eternally And meet Thee in each from and soul of Thee. It is not the psychic being that suffers for personal reasons, it is the mind, the vital and the ordinary consciousness of ignorant man. This is because the contact between ...
... But the vital can be prepared before the mind opens. The mind may get partially opened and the vital is then able to receive the higher light. But the total opening of mind may come only later. In your case the fact that the force works now on the vital level shows that it can pass through the mind without being hampered. You have to open to the higher light and power. Has my recent illness... spoke of two ways. One direct to the the supermind through the mind, the other by the opening of the psychic being. Are they really two different paths ? And what are their characteristics ? Yes, there are two movements. Sometimes the mind opens first to the light and the supermind works then through the mind and uses the machinery of mind. Sometimes the psychic being, which is always behind — without... in cases where the mind has been rigidly trained and has worked much, as in Europeans. In most Hindus where the mind is trained differently it is more easy. But this way is also not absolutely secure. When the mind, enlightened, begins to awaken, the vital powers arise. In the practical use of these powers, the mind is capable of making mistakes, and even if it receives the light from above, it may ...
... here also of Krishna's light—Krishna's light in the mind, Krishna's light in the vital; but it is a special light—in the mind it brings clarity, freedom from obscurity, mental error and perversion; in the vital it clears out all perilous stuff and where it is there is a pure and divine happiness and glad- ness. There are some however who seem to regard this invasion of Light not merely as a thing... of instances of that. There must be a descent of the light not merely into the mind or part of it but into all the being down to the physical and below before a real transformation can take place. A light in the mind may spiritualise or otherwise change the mind or part of it in one way or another, but it need not change the vital nature; a light in the vital may purify and enlarge the vital movements... in manner—simple and precise and penetrating. What you describe is the psychic fire, agni pāvaka, which burns in the deeper heart and from there is lighted in the mind, the vital and the physical body. In the Page 267 mind it becomes a light of intuitive perception and discrimination which sees at once what is the true vision or idea and the wrong vision or idea, the true feeling and the ...
... 4.34 বেদযজ্ঞে পাঁচটী অগ্নি থাকে, পাঁচটী না থাকলে যজ্ঞ পূর্ণ হয় না ৷ আমরা বলতে পারি psychicএ, মনে, প্রাণে, দেহে ও অবচেতনায়, এই পাঁচটী অগ্নির দরকার ৷ 9.4.34 নীল — Higher Mind, ACÚST QUICOT – Light of divine Truth, উজ্জ্বল লাল – হয় Divine Love নয় ঊর্ধচেতনার Force. 11.4.34 ন: আমার সব সময় নীরব গম্ভীর এবং নির্জনতায় থাকতে ইচ্ছা হচ্ছে ৷ বাইরের দিকে গেলে এবং একটু বাজে কথা বললে... শিশু বলে নিজেকে চেনে, মায়ের কাছে, মায়ের কোলে থাকে – physical mind সেই কথা ভাবতে সেই সত্য উপলব্ধি করতে সহজে পারে না ৷ সেই জন্য সর্বদা গভীরে psychicএ থাকতে হয় ৷ যা ভিতরে তােমার soul জানে তা বাহির থেকে physical mind দিয়ে খোঁজা দরকার কি? যখন বাহিরের মনে সম্পূর্ণ আলাে আসবে তখন সেও জানবে ৷ 6.11.35 হ্যা, সমস্ত সত্তাকে (physical mind ও physical vital পৰ্য্যন্ত) একদিকেই ফিরাতে হয় ৷ তারাও যখন ওইভাবে... যা সমর্পণ করছি তা এই সমুদ্রের সাথে মিশে যাচ্ছে ৷ উ: গাছটী আধ্যাত্মিকতার বৃদ্ধি তােমার মধ্যে – সমুদ্র তােমার vital. 12.3.34 ন: বিজ্ঞানের আলাে (Supramental light) কি কমলালেবুর রঙের মত আলাে? উ: হ্যা, ঠিক আদি Supramental light নয়, তবে সে আলাে যখন ৷ physicalএ নামে, তখন ঐ রঙকে ধারণ করে ৷ 12.3.34 ইহা খুব ভাল ৷ এইরূপ সত্যমিথ্যাকে স্বতন্ত্র হওয়া psychic সত্তার জাগ্রত ভাবের লক্ষণ ৷Psychic ...
... her ideas were so lacking in humility. Ignorance always lacks humility—the more ignorant the mind, the more it judges and the more it revolts. 13 March 1936 What must one do to illumine the mind? Make it calm and quiet—in calm it can receive the light. 14 March 1936 My mind is always the same, ever full of thoughts. It has never learned to be silent. This is precisely... the ideal that your mind sets before you. Yesterday I wrote that there was a deep calm—but today there is only a deep disturbance! There is at the same time a part of the being that lives in light and joy, and a part that lives in disturbance and obscurity. If you turn your attention towards the disturbance, you feel it. But if you turn your attention towards the light and joy, you live in... hypocrite, for hypocrisy is a great obstacle on the spiritual path. 16 May 1936 I see clouds all around me shutting out Your light. How can I feel Your presence again? The first condition is to keep your mind calm and peaceful. It is in calm that the Light can descend. 19 May 1936 Forgive me, I am still ignorant, I know nothing. My help is always with you, and also the strength ...
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