... work and dejection is quite out of place." (20-4-1937) (What exactly is the intuitive mind you have spoken of, and how does it differ from what you have called 'inner mind' and 'mystic mind'?) The intuitive mind, strictly speaking, stretches from the Intuition proper down to the intuitivised inner mind—it is therefore at once an overhead power and a mental intelligence power... power. All depends on the amount, intensity, quality of the intuition and how far it is mixed with mind or pure. The inner mind is not necessarily intuitive, though it can easily become so. The mystic mind is turned towards the occult and spiritual, but the inner mind can act without direct reference to the occult and spiritual, it can act in the same field and in the same material as the ordinary mind... mind, only with a larger and deeper power, range and light and in greater unison with the Universal Mind; it can open also more easily to what is within and what is above. Intuitive intelligence, mystic mind, inner mind intelligence are all part of the inner mind operation. In today's poem, for instance— A POET'S STAMMER My dream is spoken, As if by sound Page 153 ...
... work and dejection is quite out of place." (20-4-1937) (What exactly is the intuitive mind you have spoken of, and how does it differ from what you have called 'inner mind' and 'mystic mind' ?) "The intuitive mind, strictly speaking, stretches from the Intuition proper down to the intuitivised inner mind—it is therefore at once an overhead power and a mental intelligence power... power. All depends on the amount, intensity, quality of the intuition and how far it is mixed with mind or pure. The inner mind is not necessarily intuitive, though it can easily become so. The mystic mind is turned towards the occult and spiritual, but the inner mind can act without direct reference to the occult and spiritual, it can act in the same field and in the same material as the ordinary... mind, only with a larger and deeper power, range and light and in greater unison with the Universal Mind; it can open also more easily to what is within and what is above. Intuitive intelligence, mystic mind, inner mind intelligence are all part of the inner mind operation. In today's poem, for instance— Page 89 ...
... easy to catch in one's own tongue are often missed there. So probably your last remark is founded." (I hope people won't misunderstand what you have remarked about the mystic mind. One's not having the mystic mind and vision does not reflect upon one's poetic excellence, even us a singer of the Spirit. As regards Harin, you said long ago that he wrote from several planes. And surely his Dark... different from imagination and its work with which the intellect is familiar. It was in this sense that I said Dilip had not the mystic mind and vision. One can go far in the spiritual way, have plenty of spiritual visions and dreams even without having this mystic mind and way of seeing things. So too one may write poetry from different planes or Page 92 sources of inspiration... times expressing great admiration for Arjava's poems and wanting to get some- Page 91 thing of the same quality into, his own poetic style. But in any case Dilip has not the mystic mind and vision—Harin also. In quite different ways they receive and express their vision or experience through the poetic mind and imagination—even so, because it expressed something unusual, Dilip's ...
... through a flame of sleep— A love whose heart is white tranquillity Upborne by vast surrender to this Sun. Flickering no longer with the cry of clay, The distance-haunted fire of mystic mind Embraces there its own eternal Self— Truth's burning core poised over the universe! Sri Aurobindo's Comment "It has become by the omitted and added lines a finer poem... their relation to poetry—only with Amal who is trying to get his inspiration into touch with these planes. Either one must have the experience—e.g., here one must have lived in or glimpsed the mystic mind, felt its fire, been aware of the distances that haunt it, heard the cry of clay mixing with it and the consequent unsteady flickering of its flames and the release into the straight upward burning ...
... one's own tongue are often missed there. So probably your last remark is founded. 14 March 1937 I hope people won't misunderstand what you have remarked about the mystic mind [in the above letter]. One's not having the mystic mind and vision does not reflect upon one's poetic excellence, even as a singer of the Spirit. As regards Harin, you had said long ago that he wrote from several planes [ see... its work with which the intellect is familiar. It was in this sense that I said Dilip had not the mystic mind and vision. One can go far in the spiritual way, have plenty of spiritual experiences, spiritual knowledge, spiritual feelings, significant visions and dreams even without having this mystic mind and way of seeing things. So too one may write poetry from different planes or sources of inspiration... Dilip wrote to me in recent times expressing great admiration for Arjava's poems and wanting to get something of the same quality into his own poetic style. But in any case Dilip has not the mystic mind and vision—Harin also. In quite different ways they receive and express their vision or experience through the poetic mind and imagination—even so because it expressed something not usual, Dilip's ...
... easy to catch in one's own tongue are often missed there. So probably your last remark is founded." (I hope people won't misunderstand what you have remarked about the mystic mind. One's not having the mystic mind and vision does not reflect upon one's poetic excellence, even as a singer of the Spirit. As regards Harin, you said long ago that he wrote from several planes. And surely his... different from imagination and its work with which the intellect is familiar. It was in this sense that I said Dilip had not the mystic mind and vision. One can go far in the spiritual way, have plenty of spiritual visions and dreams even without having this mystic mind and way of seeing things. So too one may write poetry from different planes or sources of inspiration and expressing spiritual ... "Dilip wrote to me in recent times expressing great admiration for Arjava's poems and wanting to get something of the same quality into his own poetic style. But in any case Dilip has not the mystic mind and vision—Harin also. In quite different ways they receive and express their vision or experience through the poetic mind and imagination—even so, because it expressed something unusual, Dilip's ...
... easily to what is within and what is above. Intuitive intelligence, mystic mind, inner mind intelligence are all part of the inner mind operations. In today's poem, for instance, it is certainly the inner mind that has transformed the idea of stammering into a symbol of inner phenomena and into that operation a certain strain of mystic mind enters, but what is Page 61 prominent is the intuitive... power. All depends on the amount, intensity, quality of the intuition and how far it is mixed with mind or pure. The inner mind is not necessarily intuitive, though it can easily become so. The mystic mind is mind turned towards the occult and spiritual, but the inner mind can act without direct reference to the occult and spiritual, it can act in the same field and in the same material as the ordinary ...
... Universal Mind; it can open also more easily to what is within and what is above. Intuitive intelligence, mystic mind, inner mind intelligence are all part of the inner mind operation." The lyrical tone of the Two Birds makes it less occult or spiritual and therefore the role of the mystic mind is correspondingly less here than that of the inner mind; at the same time, because the inner mind has... All depends on the amount, intensity, quality of the intuition and how far it is mixed with mind or pure. The inner mind is not necessarily intuitive, though it can easily become so. The mystic mind is turned towards the occult and spiritual, but the inner mind can act without direct reference to the occult and spiritual, it can act in the same field and in the same material as the ordinary ...
... done the same day or the next day, and very rapidly done. By the way, you said that these two lines of Amal's poem: "Flickering no longer with the cry of clay The distance-haunted fire of mystic mind", have an Overmind touch. Frankly speaking, I thought the first line I too could have written myself. Can you show me where its super-excellence lies? What super-excellence? as poetry? When... or height or width of spiritual truth or spiritual vision, feeling or experience. But all that has to be felt, it is not analysable. If I say that the second line ["The distance-haunted fire of mystic mind"] is a magnificent expression of an inner reality most intimate and powerful and the first line with its conception of the fire once " flickering " with the " cry " of clay, but now no longer is... in their relation to poetry—only with Amal who is trying to get his inspiration into touch with these planes. Either one must have the experience—e.g. here one must have lived in or glimpsed the mystic mind,. felt its fire, been aware of the distances that haunt it, heard the cry of clay mixing with it and the consequent unsteady flickering of its flames and the release into the straight upward burning ...
... in their relation to poetry—only with Amal who is trying to get his inspiration into touch with these planes. Either one must have the experience—e.g., here one must have lived in or glimpsed the mystic mind, felt its fire, been aware of the distances that haunt it, heard the cry of clay mixing with it and the consequent unsteady flickering of its flames and the release into the straight upward burning... × Sri Aurobindo was asked: "You said that these two lines of Amal's poem: Flickering no longer with the cry of clay, The distance-haunted fire of mystic mind have an Overmind touch.... Can you show me where their super-excellence lies?" × The cataracts ...
... Physical. 2)The Vital. 3) The Creative or Poetic Intelligence. 4)The Inner Mind, with its four domains: a)The inner Mind Intelligence. b)The Intuitive Intelligence. c)The Mystic Mind. d)The Mind of Dynamic Vision. 5)The Psychic. 6)The Higher Mind. 7)The Illumined Mind. 8)The Intuition or the Intuitive Mind. 9)The Overmind, with its four domains: a)The... of the Intuition a light not its own and adapting itself to it: the pure intuitive play is here mixed with the functioning of the mind and diminished or coated with something less luminous. The Mystic Mind works amidst occult formations belonging to another field than the one in which the Creative Intelligence operates. The Mind of Dynamic Vision is a power that has tremendous force, usually of a packed ...
... puissances. This transcendental height haunts Nirodbaran and his poetry catches now and again glimmers and vibrations from if, but perhaps the major portion of his work is more an inwardness of the mystic mind exploring occult vistas of its own or mirroring in lovely lakes and torrents the colours and designs and dynamisms of the Overworld. In consequence, there is often a kind of "faery" spirituality... final glance; the silver trails Wing to some unknown region's Vast. This style has another aspect in which a greater simplicity has play, a limpider tone that is born less from the mystic mind than from the psychic being, the infant divinity at the deep heart of us, and then the poetry is capable of moving along a range of beautiful expression in which the simple and the sublime, the childlike ...
... . This transcendental height haunts Nirodbaran and his poetry catches now and again glimmers and vibrations from it, but perhaps the major portion of his work is more an inwardness of the mystic mind exploring occult vistas of its own or mirroring in lovely lakes and torrents the colours and designs and dynamisms of the Overworld. In consequence, there is often a kind of "faery" spirituality... glance; the silver trails Wing to some unknown region's Vast. This style has another aspect in which a greater simplicity has play, a limpider tone that is born less from the mystic mind than Page 75 from the psychic being, the infant divinity at the deep heart of us, and then the poetry is capable of moving along a range of beautiful expression ...
... shades of soul-poetry. Consider these two lines of mine, which are some of my best according to Sri Aurobindo: Flickering no longer with the cry of clay, The distance-haunted fire of mystic mind... The whole mystic-ram-aesthetic effect here depends on a few special points. Perhaps the most telling is the present participle "Flickering" rather than any possible equivalent like "... short of the deep sense of that phenomenon would call forth the precise form of expressive aesthesis. Here the second line is of prime importance. For it is the "distance-haunted" character of the mystic mind - the inner consciousness's straining ever beyond the apparent and the immediate - that tends to free it from disturbance by the bodily life's claims and clamours. In the creative field ...
... Paraclete: As some bright archangel in vision flies Plunged in dream-caught spirit immensities, Past the long green crests of the seas of life, Past the orange skies of the mystic mind Flew my thought self-lost in the vasts of God. (Sri Aurobindo, "Thought the Paraclete") This transformed thought, as Sri Aurobindo describes it, has become visible. And with luminous ...
... thought images the true Amal who has to manifest some day the reality caught in those two verses in a poem of his - Flickering no longer with the cry of clay, The distance-haunted fire of mystic mind - the reality at which Sri Aurobindo hinted when he gave me my Ashram name "Amal Kiran" meaning "The Clear Ray". I picture this ray to be something like that streak of all-penetrating white ...
... queen's, Half a martyr's Crown." This has admirably the crosslight of a dream-experience which yet goes beyond mere dreaming to the spontaneous and surprising felicities of the inner mystic mind. I think it is unique in its naive but still deep charm and its sudden splendour of suggestion with the help of a revelatory pun. In another way the poem Miss Chadwick has written out in ink on page ...
... and grow more Aurobindonian. (1) The mute unshadowed spaces of her mind. "Intuitive with Oveirnind touch." (2)Flickering no longer with the cry of clay, The distance-haunted fire of mystic mind... "Illumined Mind with the Overmind touch." (3)An ocean-hearted ecstasy am I Where time rolls inward to eternal shores. "Intuitive, Illumined, Overmind touch all mixed together ...
... flame of sleep - A love whose heart is white Tranquillity Upborne by vast surrender to this Sun. Flickering no longer with the cry of clay, The distance-haunted fire of mystic mind Embraces there its own eternal Self- Truth's burning core poised over the universe! The compactness and high severity of the poet's speech is clearly noticeable in all ...
... Aurobindo and his poet disciples Truth is primary, and then a technique expressive of the truth in the form of beauty has to be found. Sethna is not just a religious poet; he has the mystic mind which has often access to the spiritual planes. Sri Aurobindo has characterised the planes, but we are concerned with the overall beauty of Sethna's poems. Mystic or spiritual, great things come ...
... "Names" means ideas, significances, and as for "might after might", the Divine Force is of various kinds, each of which one takes up just as one wears a robe; all very simple. Ask him to use his mystic mind instead of the professorial one. EVENING PURANI: It seems Bonvain is going to declare for De Gaulle. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes. The British Government has put pressure on him. He must either declare ...
... planes: As some bright archangel in vision flies Plunged in dream-caught spirit immensities, Past the long green crests of the seas of life, Past the orange skies of the mystic mind Flew my thought self-lost in the vasts of God. 82 An inspired opening: like an archangel winging homeward to God, my Thought raced beyond the green seas (the vital) and the ...
... Know more > As some bright archangel in vision flies Plunged in dream-caught spirit immensities, Past the long green crests of the seas of life, Past the orange skies of the mystic mind Flew my thought self-lost in the vasts of God. Sleepless wide great glimmering wings of wind Bore the gold-red seeking of feet that trod Space and Time's mute vanishing ends. The face Lustred ...
... stammer Of nickering stars.— it is certainly the inner mind that has transformed the idea of stammering into a symbol of inner phenomena and into that operation a certain strain of mystic mind enters, but what is prominent is the intuitive inspiration throughout. It blends with the intuitive poetic intelligence in the first stanza, gets touched by the overhead intuition in the second ...
... this meditative aspiration, quill-pushing and spiritual struggle been worth it ? Has he not sacrificed "the long green crests of the seas of life" to float across "the orange skies of the mystic mind" in search of the Divine in the last Beyond ? Pat comes the joyous answer from the title poem like the laughter of early-morning blossoms: Barren nor drear the exalted sacrifice! ...
... actuation from far above that is at once uplifting and transforming. His Gnosis is a good example: Flickering no longer with the cry of clay, The distance-haunted fire of mystic mind Embraces there its own eternal Self- Truth's burning core poised over the universe! The bulk of his writings and compositions constitute what may be called in modern terminology ...
... receptive, vibrant to the touch when it comes. By the way, I had a talk with D regarding mystic poetry. He doesn't seem to feel much in Blake's poetry. It simply means that he has not the mystic mind. It does not make any difference to the value or beauty of Blake's poetry. And mystic poetry as a whole appeals to him less than poems with concrete meaning. Mystic poetry has a perfectly ...
... As some bright archangel in vision flies Plunged in dream-caught spirit immensities, Past the long green crests of the seas of life, Past the orange skies of the mystic mind Flew my thought self-lost in the vasts of God. Sleepless wide great glimmering wings of wind Bore the gold-red seeking of feet that trod Space and Time's mute ...
... helped us, - science mustn't consign us to the clouds of unknowing. Beyond the near horizon of mere intellectual inquiry and scientific hypotheses, there loom other horizons, "the orange skies of the mystic mind" - soul-immensities, ineffable realities: Freedom, God, Immortality, the three Are one and shall be realised at length; Love, Wisdom, Justice, Joy and utter Strength Gather ...
... Consciousness - to come down and permeate the earth-atmosphere. Thought was the mediator, the bridge-builder: Past the long green crests of the seas of life, Past the orange skies of the mystic mind Flew my thought self-lost in the vasts of God .... Hungering, large-souled to surprise the unconned Secrets white-fire-veiled of the last Beyond, Crossing power-swept silences ...
... friends or visitors, but there was an inner life too, and thee were the ardours and the adventures of the sadhana; and Thought raced through "spirit immensities" - "past the orange skies of the mystic mind" - to be one with the "vasts of God". 10 There were visitors in the evening. Bharati, V.V.S. Aiyar, Srinivasachariar; there were readings in the Veda; there were the younger men, Nolini, Bejoy ...
... language and yet the sense will remain of the miraculous that no language can wholly compass and make satisfyingly understood or completely natural. As a rule no incompatibility exists in the mystic poet's mind between his declaring that he has intuited or experienced the Unutterable and his attempting to transmit in words not only that ecstatic fact but also some notion of the supernatural strangenesses... seem to be beyond speech. Still, the metaphysi-cals had flashes of mystic intuition and experience visiting their undeniable if intermittent poetic genius: they could not, therefore, be abject failures in what they set out to do. Nor did they set out every time to do literally what Dr. Johnson charges them with. In fact, no mystic poet takes the term "Unutterable" as always connoting something which... turn of consciousness. Is there any reason why words should be for ever at loggerheads with the mystic's perception? Is not the deciding factor the psychological level at which they start functioning? The psychological level, for instance, of Dr. Johnson's own poetry would be quite impotent for the mystic's purpose. What about levels less brain-dense, more inward and "dreamy"? Cannot words arising there ...
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