... encouraged ? I suppose it is a movement on the mental plane, but we have to see. As I said I am conscious of the dissolving power of the force coming from above. It goes down to the navel centre and works from there. I cannot say yet how it works. But, at times, a sense of vital power rises. I am fully conscious from above of vital movements rising. For instance a movement of pride... great calm force which was behind me. It did not enter my consciousness but I felt it nevertheless backing me. When in meditation, the divine force comes readily down. It works through the navel centre on the vital and also it seems on the physical. There is not any powerful vibration of the lowest centre, but I feel as if a force was expanding in the physical itself. It seems to me quite distinct... physical part of the mind, the material stuff of mind. Below the centre of the navel there is another centre, a vital centre also, which is in connection with life, outward life. The activities of the navel centre may be felt all around the waist. From that centre to Muladhara, all is vital. At Muladhara the vital connects with the physical. It seems that all these centres become active, though I don't ...
... highest centres — and the first to be touched by the descending Force. What is the higher vital? Page 10 The heart and the dynamic vital. The heart centre and navel centre. The year 1934 Listening to the Mother's music I felt something descending into me. Up to the neck the descent was concretely experienced. Up to the neck... inner mind centre is the proper station. The heart is the seat not only of the psychic but of the emotional vital which covers it. Sometimes I experience voidness near the navel centre. Is it the centre of the inner or of the outer vital? It is the centre of the inner vital but what is felt there can extend to the outer. Page 12 ...
... general function which base all their special powers and functionings. The mūlādhāra governs the physical down to the subconscient; the abdominal centre— svādhiṣṭhāna —governs the lower vital; the navel centre— nābhipadma or maṇipūra —governs the larger vital; the heart centre— hṛtpadma or anāhata —governs the emotional being; the throat centre— viśuddha —governs the expressive and externalising mind;... the numbers of petals are respectively, from bottom to top:—(1) the Muladhara or physical consciousness centre, four petals, red; (2) the abdominal centre, six petals, deeper purple red; (3) the navel centre, ten petals, violet; (4) the heart centre, twelve petals, golden pink; (5) the throat centre, sixteen petals, grey; (6) the forehead centre between the eyebrows, two petals, white; (7) the thou... psychic being (which is the soul) does not make centres for itself in the Adhar—the centres are there. The psychic being can take control of the centres that are already there—the heart and the navel centre and the two below the navel. Also the mind and vital are not abolished—they are brought under the psychic influence and psychicised, or they are occupied by the higher consciousness from above and ...
... ॥४॥ 4) In the pilgrim-sacrifice a high path for you both has been made which departs to the high lustres, the mid-worlds; Page 168 the Priest of the call has taken his seat in the navel-centre of heaven. We spread wide the sacred grass, a space of wideness of the gods. सप्त होत्राणि मनसा वृणाना इन्वन्तो विश्वं प्रति यन्नृतेन । नृपेशसो विदथेषु प्र जाता अभीमं यज्ञं वि चरन्त पूर्वीः... । पाति नाभा सप्तशीर्षाणमग्निः पाति देवानामुपमादमृष्वः ॥५॥ 5) He guards from hurt the beloved 21 summit-seat of the being, mighty, he guards the course 22 of the Sun; Fire guards in the navel-centre the seven-headed thought, sublime, he guards the ecstasy of the gods. Page 171 ऋभुश्चक ईड्यं चारु नाम विश्वानि देवो वयुनानि विद्वान् । ससस्य चर्म घृतवत् पदं वेस्तदिदग्नी रक्ष... वर्ष्मन् दिवो अधि नाभा पृथिव्याः । मित्रो अग्निरीड्यो मातरिश्वाऽऽ दूतो वक्षद् यजथाय देवान् ॥९॥ 9) Lauded by us mighty he shone with his high flaming in the largeness 24 of heaven, in the navel-centre of earth. The Fire is Mitra the Friend, the desirable one, he is life growing in the mother; 25 may he as our messenger bring the gods for the sacrifice. Page 172 उदस्तम्भीत् ...
... middle of the forehead, the Agna Chakra—; ( will, vision, dynamic thought. ) 3. Throat-Centre-externalising mind. 4. Heart-lotus-emotional centre. The psychic is behind it. 5. Navel centre, higher vital ( proper ) 6. Below navel—the lower vital. 7. Muladhara—the physical. All these centres are in the middle of the body; they are supposed to be attached to the spinal... general function which base all their special powers and functionings. The Muladhara governs the physical down to the subconscient; the abdominal centre, Svadhishthana, governs the lower vital; the navel centre, Nabhi padma, or manipura, governs the larger vital; the heart centre—hrt-padma, or Anahata, governs the emotional being; the throat centre, Vishuddha, governs the expressive and externalising... and number of petals are respectively from bottom to top:- (i) Muladhara, or physical consciousness centre, four petals, red; [ii) the abdominal centre, six petals, deep purple red; (iii) the navel centre, ten petals, violet; (iv) the heart centre, twelve petals,, golden pink; (v) the throat centre, sixteen petals, grey; (vi) the forehead centre between the eye-brows, two petals, white; (vii) ...
... god in might and glory. स तु वस्त्राण्यध पेशनानि वसानो अग्निर्नाभा पृथिव्याः । अरुषो जातः पद इळायाः पुरोहितो राजन् यक्षीह देवान् ॥६॥ 6) Putting on robes, putting on forms, Fire in the navel-centre of the earth is born a ruddy flame, in the seat of Revelation. O King, as the Priest set in front sacrifice to the gods. आ हि द्यावापृथिवी अग्न उभे सदा पुत्रो न मातरा ततन्थ । प्र याह्यच्छोशतो... The two mothers in whom is the Truth, in whom is the mage-wisdom, formed him and brought to birth like an infant child, they have put him firm in his place and make him grow. Men found in him the navel-centre of all that is moving and stable and they weave by the mind the weft of the seer. ऋतस्य हि वर्तनयः सुजातमिषो वाजाय प्रदिवः सचन्ते । अधीवासं रोदसी वावसाने घृतैरन्नैर्वावृधाते मधूनाम् ॥४॥ ...
... harmonise the supramental creation. Descent into the Heart-Lotus 5) The Sun of Supramental Force dynamised as a power and source of life to support the supramental creation Descent into the navel centre 6) The Sun of Life-Radiances (Power-Rays) distributing the dynamis and pouring it into concrete formations. Descent into the penultimate centre 7) The Sun of supramental Substance-Energy... the throat. Speech, external mind, all external expression and formation. 4) The heart-lotus. Externally, the emotional mind, the vital mental: in the inner heart the psychic centre 5) The navel centre. The larger vital proper; life-force centre. 6) The centre intermediate between the navel and the Muladhara. The lower vital; it connects all the above centres with the physical 7) The last ...
... love and joy is a usual movement of the heart. How is it that now I experience this as if it were springing out from my navel centre? It means that it is spreading through the vital. During the morning meditation I felt a strong working on the navel centre. Was it not an action from above on the vital through the psychic? Yes. Page 80 ...
... psychic being (which is the soul) does not make centres for itself in the Adhar. The centres are there. The psychic being can take control of the centres that are already there —the heart and the navel centre and the two below the navel. Also the mind and vital are not abolished—they are brought under the psychic influence and psychicised, or they are occupied by the higher consciousness from above and ...
... things born, as the Fire perfect in light, perfect in vision, the object of our prayer and offer to thee our obeisance; thee the gods made the Messenger, the Traveller, the carrier of offerings, the navel-centre of Immortality. यस्त्वद्धोता पूर्वो अग्ने यजीयान् द्विता च सत्ता स्वधया च शंभुः । तस्यानु धर्म प्र यजा चिकित्वोऽथा नो धा अध्वरं देववीतौ ॥५॥ 5) O Fire, he who was before thee and was the ...
... the very precise localisation of the uprush of the consciousness from the pit of the stomach—that is to say, from above the navel, the movement itself starting from the navel or even below it. The navel-centre ( nābhi-padma ) is the main seat of the centralised vital consciousness (dynamic centre) which ranges from the heart level (emotional) to the centre below the navel (lower vital, sensational desire ...
... The wheel is the sign of an action of Force (whatever force may be indicated by the nature of the symbol) and as it was surging upwards it must be the fire of aspiration rising from the vital (navel centre) to the Higher Consciousness above. A revolving disc means a force in action on the nature. The whitish blue light is known as Krishna's light, also as Sri Aurobindo's light. White is the ...
... 3) Him greatly desiring Trita, son of the master of wide riches, 2 found on the head of the light unslayable; he is born the youth who increases the felicity in our mansions and becomes the navel-centre of the luminous world. मन्द्रं होतारमुशिजो नमोभिः प्राञ्चं यज्ञं नेतारमध्वराणाम् । विशामकृण्वन्नरतिं पावकं हव्यवाहं दधतो मानुषेषु ॥४॥ 4) In their aspiration they created him by their ...
... this state she appears like a ring of lightning, or a rounded fold of fire, or a thick bar of pure shining gold rolled around. Under yogic pressure she presently stirs up and stands erect at the navel centre. But pushing her hood upward as she surges just then the mythical lake of the moon-nectar, chandramrutache tale , tilts a little and pours a bit of itself in her mouth. At this stage even the ...
... correspondence for the time being? No, it is better to write. When there is a good opening to the higher things, sometimes the Force descends like an armour down to my navel centre. When you say like an armour, do you mean that you feel it outside you and surrounding you, but not within the body? At times it is hard to distinguish a pressure of ...
... Tantras). Next, second in the line of ascent is the Vital, the centre of power and dynamism of which the Rudras are the deities and Indra the presiding God (cf. Swadhishthana of the Tantras—the navel centre). Indra, in the Vedas, has two aspects, one of knowledge and vision and the other of dynamic force and drive. In the first aspect he is more often considered as the Lord of the Mind, of the Luminous ...
... spine, coiled like a serpent, what Sri Aurobindo has called "Coiled Energy" or the kundalini power. Swadhishthana is below the abdomen, the chakra of the lower vital. Manipura is at the navel-centre where the lower vital ends. Anahata is our heart-centre which is the seat of the psychic and the higher vital. Vishuddha is at the throat-centre, the centre of speech. Ajna chakra ...
... the supramental creation. Descent into the Heart-Lotus. 5.The Sun of Supramental Force dynamited as a power and source of life to support the supramental creation. Descent into the Navel Centre. 6.The Sun of Life-Radiances (Power-Rays) distributing the dynamis and pouring it into concrete formations. Descent into the Penultimate Centre (Swadhishthana, below the navel). 7.The ...
... function which base all their special powers and functionings. The mūlādbāra governs the physical down to the subconscient; the abdominal centre — svādhiṣṭhāna — governs the lower vital; the navel centre — nābhipadma or maṇipūra — governs the larger vital; the heart centre — hrt-padma or anāhata — governs the emotional being; the throat centre — viśuddha — governs the expressive and ...
... direct connection with the universal force of materialisation and therefore the cornerstone of our bodily incarnation. Higher up are three vital chakras, the lowest being the sex centre, then the navel centre commanding vital feelings like anger, fear and greed, while the higher vital feelings (courage, generosity, sympathy and “love”) are dependent on the heart centre. This centre has a double function ...
... substance of the experience. The first is the very precise localisation of the uprush of the consciousness from the pit of the stomach—that is to say, from the navel or perhaps from just below it? The navel-centre (n ā bhi-padma) is the main seat of the centralised vital consciousness (dynamic centre) which ranges from the heart level (emotional) to the centre below the navel (lower vital, sensational ...
... revelation is born in the manifestation of knowledge. इळायास्त्वा पदे वयं नाभा पृथिव्या अधि । जातवेदो नि धीमह्यग्ने हव्याय बोळ्हवे ॥४॥ 4) We in the seat of the Word of revelation, on the navel-centre of the earth, set thee within, O knower of all things born, for the carrying of the oblations. मन्थता नरः कविमद्वयन्तं प्रचेतसममृतं सुप्रतीकम् । यज्ञस्य केतुं प्रथमं पुरस्तादग्निं नरो जनयता ...
... placed behind the heartlotus, the centre of the emotional being, the Anahata chakra—it is therefore the opening of the Anahata that is most important for the unveiling of the psychic. The Manipura (navel centre) and the Swadhisthana below it are the seats of the vital being, the Muladhara is the seat of the physical. The opening of the Manipura gives one the free play of the inner vital consciousness and ...
... function which base all their special powers and functionings. The mūlādhāra governs the physical down to the subconscient; the abdominal centre - sv ā dhisth ā na - governs the lower vital; the navel centre - n āb hipadma or manipura - governs the larger vital; the heart centre - hrdpadma or an ā hata - governs the emotional being; the throat centre -vi ś uddha- governs the expressive and ...
... and conscious. During a deep meditation, sometimes I feel a sweet and star-cool intense Force just above my head. At the same time I see my vital consciousness rising from its navel centre to that Force and drawing if down. It may be noted, however, that this whole movement needs a little effort (though not striving), otherwise the Force by itself does not descend. Such ...
... outer consciousness with love and devotion as its main means. Yes, certainly that is the working of the psychic. The pressure from the cardiac centre down to the navel centre is felt deeply and powerfully. It descends and ascends unceasingly. It means a strong working to connect the psychic and vital closely together. This morning my c ...
... fixed — otherwise the active Descent may find the forces it awakes swayed on by lower Powers and a confusion created. That has happened with many. What is this influence felt in my navel centre? It is an influence from the wider self above occupying the vital. Why do I feel blankness at times? Is it really usual during this state of sadhana? Page 151 ...
... the higher vital, for example: it is very catching, perhaps even a little vulgar, something that twines round your nerves, as it were, and twists them. It catches you somewhere about your loins—navel centre—and charms you in its way. As there is a vital music there is also what can be called psychic music coming from quite a different source; there is further a music which has spiritual origin. In ...
... Tantras). Next, second in the line of ascent is the Vital, the centre of power and dynamism of which the Rudras are the deities and Indra the presiding God (cf. Swadhishthana of the Tantras-the navel centre). lndra, in the Vedas, has two aspects, one of knowledge and vision and the other of dynamic force and drive. In the first aspect he is more often considered as the Lord of the Mind, of the Luminous ...
... the higher vital, for example: it is very catching, perhaps even a little vulgar, something that twines round your nerves, as it were, and twists them. It catches you somewhere about your loins – navel centre – and charms you in its way. As there is a vital music there is also what can be called psychic music coming from quite a different source; there is further a music which has spiritual origin. In ...
... spine, coiled like a serpent, what Sri Aurobindo has called "Coiled Energy" or the kundalini power. Swadhistana is below the abdomen, the chakra of the lower vital. Manipura is at the navel-centre where the lower vital ends. Anahata is our heart-centre which is the seat of the psychic and the higher vital. Vishuddha is at the throat-centre, the centre of speech. Ajna chakra is located ...
... Sensations in the Inner Centres It [ a pressure felt in meditation ] is what we call the pressure of the Force (the Force of the higher spiritual or divine consciousness, the Mother's Force); it comes in various forms, vibrations, currents, waves, a wide flow, a shower like rain etc. It passes to each centre in turn, the crown of the head, the forehead centre, throat, heart, navel centres down to the Muladhara... mind and its centres so that it may enter. The mind centres are in the head, one at the top and above it, another between the eyes, a third in the throat. That is why you feel the vibration around the head and sometimes up to the neck, but not below. It is so usually, for it is only after enveloping and entering the mind that it goes below to the emotional and vital parts (heart, navel etc.)—though... the seat of the physical, externalising or expressive mind; the ear is the place of communication with the inner mind centre by which thoughts etc. enter into the personal being from the general Nature. The sternum at the point indicated 1 holds the psychic and emotional centre, with its apex on the spinal column behind. Pressure When the Force comes down one at first feels a pressure. Afterwards ...
... the head in meditation ] is not merely a sensation; it is an actual happening and a most important one. The consciousness is usually imprisoned in the body, centralised in the brain and heart and navel centres (mental, emotional, sensational); when you feel it or something of it go up and take Page 437 its station above the head, that is the liberation of the imprisoned consciousness from... is open to all knowledge from above, but it does not think with the brain as does the ordinary mind—it has other and larger means of awareness than thought. No methodical opening of the centres is necessary—the centres are in fact open, otherwise there could not be this ascent. In this Yoga their opening comes automatically—what we call opening is not that, but an ability of the consciousness itself... foundation will have been made. There are various states of experience in which the expression "taken up out of the body" would be applicable. There is one in which one goes up from the centres in the body to a centre of consciousness extending above the physical head and takes up Page 438 a position there in which one is liberated from subjection to the body sense and its heavy hold and ...
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