... One is with reference to the "new body" which the Mother spoke of on several occasions as existing in the subtle-physical plane and acting upon the body in the gross-physical with a view to emerge into it and materially manifest a corps glorieux, "a body of glory", a divinely radiant form. The gross-physical, in order to effectuate the emergence in it of the new body, would have to get transformed... shock we have received with the Mother's departure and, along with it, the sense that departure has given us of a greater impact from her new body have caused a forward spurt in our Yoga. If we can keep up the intensified aspiration we may hope to see the new body materialised in the near future—in less than a century. Even if our effort for progress gets relaxed the Mother will press for the manifestation... in her new body as if it were the most natural sheath for her—to be precise, on February 15,1969—she said: "...the work is becoming more and more 'exacting'. But I feel (that is to say the body feels very well) that it is part of a training. It looks like that: it must hold on, the body, or otherwise, so much the worse, it will be for another time." 1 Again, in the very talk about the new body the Mother ...
... wonder whether the formation of this new body is not only the first stage of the transformation instead of the last one as many think. Whether the two phenomena are not complimentary. For if only the new body remains, it is still something that is “suspended in a world that is not the earth”: one evaporates. It is not that , Mother would say. But it is this new body, more rapid to form because precisely... until the two are melted one into the other; then we would have something that would no longer be the old bone structure that we know and no longer the imponderable new body, something that would confer a ponderability to the new body and a new materiality to the old one, and it would be truly the supramental body on earth. The old body would be the bridge. The whole question lies in this “po... other there? Two paths or two bodies that seemed to go in two opposing directions, or parallel ones that met at the infinite—but the infinite is far. On one hand, She vaguely, imperceptibly felt this new body forming itself in her: I am not quite sure that I do not already exist PHYSICALLY with a true body, She said as early as 1963, there, in Matter on the other side of our cage. I say “not quite sure” ...
... ce the revelation of Being in a perfect Becoming." (The Life Divine, p. 682) (Q. 32): At which stage does the soul enter the new body when it is reborn? (A. 32): "As regards the stage at which the soul returning for rebirth enters the new body no rule can be laid down, for the circumstances vary with the individual. Some psychic beings get into relation with the birth-environment... fully conscious and developed psychic being is free to choose what its next life will be and when that life will take place." (CWM, Vol. 15, p. 136) (Q. 3): When does the soul enter the new body at rebirth? (A. 3): "If one is yogically conscious, he can actually prepare the body of his next birth. Before the body is born, he shapes and moulds it, so that it is he who is the true... the body. The earth's mental atmosphere is filled with beings, mental personalities which lead an entirely independent existence, even after the disappearance of the body; they can reincarnate in a new body when the soul, that is to say, the true Self, reincarnates, thus carrying with it the memory of its previous lives." (CWM, Vol. 10, pp. 27-28) (Q. 7): What is reborn? Our total external ...
... to be one with your children. You wanted this body to uphold the New Body you were building upon it, and it gave you the service you asked of it. You will come with your New Body. Your children's, the world's call and aspiration, love and consecration are laid at your feet in gratitude. How was it that, after all, the New Body - the golden supramental body - didn't arise out of the old body... in that process. On 24 March 1972, the Mother had spoken of her new body, probably a first supramental formation, in the subtle physical - a body sexless, youthful, white, slim, pretty and harmonious - which she had seen clearly that morning. The new body was there, - but how was her old body going to be united with the new body? Where was the link? What was the principle and process of fusion and... prolonged sadhana of transformation? Nolini answered this unformulated question thus: The Mother's body belonged to the old creation. It was meant to be the pedestal of the New Body. It served its purpose well. The New Body will come. Page 822 This a test, how far we are faithful to Her, true to Her Consciousness. The revival of the body would have meant revival of the old troubles ...
... this work is finished, the full consciousness enters into it [into the new body] and the other one [the gross physical] can be dissolved, for it is of no importance anymore.’ And she concluded: ‘This possibility exists.’ This possibility existed in her body, she knew that. Her mentor showed her how the formation of the new body had to be done ‘for hours and hours, and that insisted and did not want... Nature, and who accepted the formation of the new body with a symbolic gesture. ‘This means that material Nature has accepted the new creation.’ 24 March 1972. ‘For the first time, early in the morning, I have seen myself, my body. I do not know whether it is the supramental body or — how to say — a transitional body. But I had a completely new body, in the sense that it was asexual, it was neither... Part Three: The Mother Alone Beyond Man Chapter Twenty-seven: The New Body ‘Happy New Year!’ 1 January 1969. ‘That has been gradually increasing during the night, and at the time of waking up this morning there was as it were a golden Sunrise and the atmosphere was very light. The body felt: “Indeed, this is really, really new.” A golden light, ...
... first days after the departure of the Mother, Nolini already had had a message posted: ‘The Mother’s body belonged to the old creation. It was meant to be the pedestal of the New Body. It served its purpose well. The New Body will come. This is a test, how far we are faithful to Her, true to Her consciousness. The revival of the body would have meant revival of the old troubles in the body. The body... Nolini’s answer: ‘Obviously, the immediate programme of a physical transformation is postponed — not cancelled. But what we have been given is not less of a miracle. Mother has prepared for us her new body in the inner world, in the subtle physical which is as living and tangible as her physical body even though not as concrete. In one of her last Notes [ Notes on the Way ] she refers to this new t... transformed body and she describes it as presented in her vision. That body she has built up in her long arduous labours, built up in a complete form and left with us and with humanity. ‘This new body of hers, prepared behind the material curtain, she sought to infuse into the material form, even press into it or force into it this new element; but Matter and man’s physical nature were not ready: ...
... will of earthly desire pressing for fulfilment, which would enforce an immediate transmigration of the same persistent form of personality into a new body. But still the alternative process of a reincarnation, a rebirth of the Person not only into a new body but into a new formation of the personality, would be the normal line taken by the psychic entity once it had reached the human stage of its ev... dis card its past mind-formation and life-formation and build after a useful interval new formations, it would be obliged to transfer at once its rudimentary crude personality for preservation to a new body. It is doubtful whether we should be justified in attributing any such entirely insufficient development to a being so strongly individualised that it has got as far as the human consciousness. Even... to remain on earth or return to it always so long as it has not wearied of desire and awakened to the fact of its ignorance and to the true knowledge. This desire compels it to return always to a new body; it must follow always the revolving wheel of birth till it is enlightened and liberated. It does not, however, remain always on earth, but alternates between earth and other worlds, celestial and ...
... makes it clear how the New Body can possibly dispense with the need of any material alimentation. For, one need not limit oneself to the principle of gross physical substance alone: one can very well draw upon the substances corresponding to the supernal ranges of our being. But even this does not exhaust all the possibilities. For we should not imagine that the New Body will after all remain... solution of the problem of substantial replenishment of the body without the aid of any material aliments. It is through the process of the direct tapping and materialisation of energy that the New Body can very well meet its material needs. And since energy is not limited to its physical forms alone but rises through an ascending scale, as we have seen in the previous chapter, to forms subtler... superior grades of energy may be effected for the body's needs. But the supramentally transfigured body will surely bring into play the necessary instrumentation. And we may well conceive that in the New Body "material organs as we know them at present would be replaced by centres of concentration of force and energy that are receptive of higher forces and that would, by a sort of alchemy, use these ...
... Part One: The Cell Without Code Mother or The Mutation Of Death - III 8: The Exit from the Second Web or the New Body But how could this new way of being create a new Matter? The body moves in another way, it knows in another way, it acts in another way, but it is opaque in the old way, it digests just like everyone, breathes just like everyone, and... One morning in 1970, Mother simply remarked: My own impression is that there is a part that tries to take form in the body, that is, a way of being of the cells that would be the beginning of a new body. When it happens, it’s a bizarre sensation. A bizarre sensation. The very body feels as if it’s dying—something, it doesn’t know what it is. It’s only a state of intense faith that enables you to... were trying to change into something else. But that’s ... it’s hard to bear. Something wholly new. 18 The entire mystery lies there. A way of being of the cells that would be the beginning of a new body How can a way of being form a body? Obviously, there is a way of being that makes a lizard, a way of being that makes a flower, or a man. And what is it after all that makes a lizard, there at ...
... that men should be content to think crudely about such a matter as rebirth. Those who accept it, take it usually ready-made, either as a cut-and-dried theory or a crude dogma. The soul is reborn in a new body,—that vague and almost meaningless assertion is for them sufficient. But what is the soul and what can possibly be meant by the rebirth of a soul? Well, it means reincarnation; the soul, whatever... incarnates in the sense of becoming or assuming to the senses a palpable shape of bone and flesh? In the ordinary, the vulgar conception there is no birth of a soul at all, but only the birth of a new body into the world occupied by an old personality unchanged from that which once left some now discarded physical frame. It is John Robinson who has gone out of the form of flesh he once occupied; it... "I" is not, never was, never will be Practically, so long as the error of personality persists, this does not make much difference and I can say in the language of ignorance that I am reborn in a new body; practically, I have to proceed on the basis of that error. But there is this important point gained that it is all an error and an error which can cease; the composite can be broken up for good without ...
... achieve in his previous body. He, therefore, enters a womb where a new body is formed, and he takes a new birth in the new body. Some others, like Nachiketas, can even enter into the previous body, if that body is not burnt away after it ceases to breathe. There are some others who do not need to enter into the same body or a new body, if they have pursued the path of Page 30 yoga, and... that in that flame there is that Purusha who is as large as the universe and even beyond and who is immovable, eternal and immortal. Even then, one can enter into a new body, but one is not obliged to; one is free to take up a new body, if he so chooses. But that choice becomes imperative if he freely chooses to help others so that others also can rise up, and this can continue until a great harmony ...
... piece of paper. I could not believe my eyes. I read like an automaton: "The Mother's body belonged to the old creation. It was not meant to be the New Body. 6 It was meant to be the pedestal of the New Body. It served its purpose well. The New Body will come.... The revival of the body would have meant revival of the old troubles in the body. The body troubles were eliminated so far as could be... new procedure was needed. 'Death' was the first stage in that process." I read once again, in speechless outrage: "The Mother's body belonged to the old creation. It was not meant to be the New Body..." I looked at all those people staring at me in Nolini's room. A terrible silence fell. And then I said NO. "I will NOT translate that." They looked at me as if I had gone mad I left. The battery... to me as if a candle was slowly extinguishing." × This last sentence ("It was not meant to be the New Body") was later deleted for the official version of the message, probably in part because of Satprem's reaction. ...
... it succeeds in this attempt, leaves the first creeper-tip and moves on to the second creeper, the "jivatma", in an analogous manner, even before it leaves the first body, looks out for a suitable new body, and when it is found, decides to quit the previous body, and this is what appears to other men as "death". And this is invariably followed by a new embodiment. But there is a snag here. For... psychic being or the real "jiva" do, stage after stage, after the body's death? Where does it proceed to? And when and after how much time does it decide to reincarnate Page 84 in a new body upon earth? Second Line of Inquiry. - Continuing to remain all the time oblivious of the presence of the psychic being even in the "postmortem" supraphysical worlds, what do the ego-being... experiences of the physical, vital and mental parts of the being in its preceding incarnation will be gathered by the psychic and carried with it: this will act in time as the seed and constituent of the new body, vital and mind in its next embodiment upon earth. The psychic being will at last go to the psychic world and rest there in a profound "pregnant trance". It will await its new embodiment under ...
... our old perception of Matter? Or else, having evolved its new perception, having perhaps even created its new body, allowed its true Matter (invisible to us) to emerge, the old body falls away, its destiny accomplished?—One "vanishes" into real Matter. There would then remain only the new body, which would be visible to all only when all will have equally gone through the wall of perception and fashioned... very mysterious and probably the very heart of the mystery, but it would seem that there are two possible yet almost radically different ways of effecting the transition from this opaque body to the new body, from this false and obscure matter to that true and conscious Matter—what Sri Aurobindo and Mother call "transformation." It may be that they are not contradictory, perhaps they complement each other... will allow this consciousness to infiltrate, if its old obscure mold can be permeated, "transformed," or... There lies the mystery. Or what? Or will the consciousness itself directly produce its own new body?... It seems a formidable proposition. Yet, that is always how things have transpired in evolution: the change of forms has always been produced by a change in consciousness—it is because something ...
... to an end? Obviously, the immediate programme of a physical transformation is postponed—not cancelled. But what we have been given is not less of a miracle. Mother has prepared for us her new body in the inner world, in the subtle physical, which is as living and tangible as her physical body, even though not as concrete. In one of her last "Notes on the Way" she refers to this new transformed... transformed body and she describes it as presented to her vision. That body she has built up in her long arduous labours, built up in a complete form and left with us and with humanity. This new body of hers, prepared behind the material curtain, she sought to infuse into the material form, even press or force into it this new element; but Matter and man's physical nature were not yet ready: Earth... intrusion, as something foreign. The material casing broke down in consequence—perhaps not broke down, rather broke Page 4 through; but that must be another story. But her new body is there, living and glorious in its beauty and power, and it is still at work within us and around us in the world, incessantly, towards the final consummation of its material embodiment. What is ...
... —Nolini Kanta Gupta November 17, 1973 l The Mother's body belonged to the old creation. It was meant to be the pedestal of the New Body. It served its purpose well. The New Body will come. This is a test, how far we are faithful to her, true to her Consciousness. The revival of the body would have meant revival of the old troubles in the body... Mother, Your physical body belonged to the old creation because you wanted to be one with your children. You wanted this body to uphold the New Body you were building upon it, and it gave you the service you asked of it. You will come with your New Body. Your children's, the world's call and aspiration, love and consecration are laid at your feet in gratitude. November 1973 Page ...
... point is quite secondary, it's incidental, it isn't in the line of evolution. I am only saying that it's a method that CAN be used, and it has been used in the past. Switching to a new body? Switching to a new body. The method may be used again, IF IT IS FELT TO BE NECESSARY. It wasn't the central idea, it was perfectly incidental—it may happen. And all I said was that the consciousness of these... were speaking of the first form of supramental life. On the earth. Page 74 Yes, in an "improved physical body." I wondered about that... especially when you speak of "switching to a new body." What were you wondering? This, in particular: The difference between the present human body and the supramental creation is so considerable, the substance must be so different... Of... Whether the body is young or old doesn't make any difference, because the advantages are balanced by drawbacks. I have also looked at the problem—it doesn't make any difference. Switching to a new body may become a necessity, that's all, but it's secondary. What I meant by an "improved physical body" is that sort of mastery over the body that's being gained nowadays through physical training ...
... energy-need is concerned, once we admit the possibility of the emergence of a new body-chemistry and of new physiological functioning, attendant upon the supramental change of 1 Arthur W. Galston, The Life of the Green Plant, p. 1. Page 301 consciousness, 1 there is no theoretical bar to the New Body manifesting the capability of directly absorbing and utilising the physical... physical energy that is all around us in the universe. But the New Body need not limit itself to the tapping of "the energies accumulated in the material and earthly world and [drawing] freely from this inexhaustible source." 2 Apart from the fact that "these material energies are obscure and half incon-scient", 3 physical energy is not the only modality of Energy as modem science would... transformation of our earthly existence. It will suffuse the very cells of the body with the Light and Power of Supermind, transmute its stuff and transfigure its functionings and make of the New Body 'a dynamic constant eddy' and 'a vibrant station of storage and communication' for the Chit-Shakti to stream in and act. But even when the problem of energy-needs of the body is thus tackled ...
... residue of the old would undergo the change. In this process, Mother will make many new discoveries, she will pass through a hell of resistances of the old world,— even after building up in her body a new body of the awakened cells where there is no 'life' and 'death' but 'overlife'. A perilous journey it was—and we shall describe here in Mother's own words some of these resistances and discoveries... with Satprem _________________________________ ¹ Mother’s Agenda, Vol. 11, 25.2.1970. ² Ibid., 18.4.1970. Page 206 on 9th May, 1970, Mother saw in her subtle physical her new body, how it would be! It was a body not very different but extremely refined, and it had an orange colour. The body was vibrant, and it had a kind of luminosity. The skin was 'efflorescent'. As she... was that: no sex, neither man or woman—no sex. It was a form like that (Mother draws a silhouette in space, very slender).... ¹ Gradually, one part of Mother's body began to form within itself a new body. But the process was extremely painful. During August 1970, her body fought with death. It was a repetition of the turning points of 1962 and 1968. In conversations with Satprem on 2nd and 5th September ...
... November I7, I973 THE Mother's body belonged to the old creation. It was meant to be the pedestal of the New Body. It served its purpose well. The New Body will come. This is a test, how far we are faithful to Her , true to Her Consciousness. The revival of the body would have meant revival of the old troubles in the body... Mother, Your physical body belonged to the old creation because you wanted to be one with your children. You wanted this body to uphold the New Body you were building upon it, and it gave you the service you asked of it. You will come with your New Body. Your children's, the world's call and aspiration, love and consecration are laid at your feet in gratitude. Page 87 ...
... failed—even the heartbeats could no longer remember very well how to function—which, for a body, is akin to death. But then, from within that "death," a new kind of beat emerged, one could almost say a new body within the old, a new way of being, living, seeing, breathing, understanding and feeling. A new type on earth, really. The first embryo of a new species. Man has been accustomed to thinking that... new! Mother exclaimed. What's new is the capacity to perceive the thing 14 ), this something in the depths of the cells had to find the way to beat normally in a body. It was like creating a new body in the old one or using the old one as a support for the new. Mother's experience had nothing to do with any kind of cosmic super-vision blah-blah-blah as all the others had had on the summits of... 15 Now to work. Mother is 84 years old. There only remained to "work out and create the instrument" capable of bringing that "other world" or true cellular mode into this one, to develop the new body, which could not even stand very well on its two feet—such are the eleven years that were left to Mother before coming to the Mystery of 1973, the real, great Mystery of this whole story which is ...
... inevitable, they choose freely, but ninety times out of a hundred this is what they do. The Mother Questions and Answers (1950 - 1951): 24 February 1951 Each time that the soul takes birth in a new body it comes with the intention of having a new experience which will help it to develop and to perfect its personality. This is how the psychic being is formed from life to life and becomes a completely... accomplished during its active existence is worked out, and when this assimilation is finished, when it has absorbed the progress it had prepared in its active life on earth, it comes down again in a new body bringing with it the result of all its progress and, at an advanced stage, it even chooses the environment and the kind of body and the kind of life in which it will live to complete its experience... leaving the body, decide what kind of life it will have in its next incarnation. When it has become an almost completely formed and already very conscious being, it presides over the formation of the new body, and usually through an inner influence it chooses the elements and the substance which will form its body in such a way that the body is adapted to the needs of its new experience. But this is at ...
... accomplished during its active existence is worked out, and when this assimilation is finished, when it has absorbed the progress it had prepared in its active life on earth, it comes down again in a new body bringing with it the result of all its progress and, at an advanced stage, it even chooses the environment and the kind of body and the kind of life in which it will live to complete its experience... the body, decide what kind of life it will have in its next incarnation. When it has become an almost completely formed and already very conscious being, it presides over the formation of the new body, and usually through an inner influence it chooses the elements and the substance which will form its body in such a way that the body is adapted to the needs of its new experience. But this is at... condition, what have I done? What crime have I committed in the other life so that in this one..." This is all childishness. 81 —The Mother * Each time that the soul takes birth in a new body it comes with the intention of having a new experience which will help it to develop and to perfect its personality. This is how the psychic being is formed from life to life and becomes a completely ...
... Part Three: The Road Alone The Mother (biography) 18: The New Body It’s always like this, the same answer: a yes, you see. All is well, all is well, all is well – just like it has to be, as soon as one is in it. All is well, just like it has to be. That’s how it is, all the time. 1 – The Mother Meanwhile the transformation process in... don’t listen to the ego. ‘If there is in your hearts a sincere “yes,” you will satisfy me completely. I don’t need words, I need the sincere adhesion of your hearts. That’s all.’ 31 The New Body The Mother’s progress which we are trying to sketch here was complex, as complex as Life, of which most humans have only a very narrow and superficial notion. The Subconscient and the Inconscient... that year she said that during the night she found herself in a completely normal body. ‘Is this body replaced by another one?’ Then on 9 May 1970, the Mother had an experience in which she saw her new body. ‘Well, I have seen it, my body – how it will be. It’s quite good.’ The form was not that different from the present human form, but ‘so refined.’ It was sexless, ‘neither man nor woman,’ and its ...
... February 1961 Page 57 Will you please let me see you in your new body? It should be possible with your help, I think. The help is always there but it will be intensified because you must be ready to wait for some pretty long time. January 1963 I would very much like to see you in your new body. Till then grant that I may be able to receive and assimilate what you give... give me. I suppose you mean my new appearance or my transformed body. Because for a new body, I do not know of anybody who could make a complete living body into which I could step without losing, at least partly, my present consciousness. This of course could be a relatively quicker process, but not quite fair for the cells of this body so full of enthusiasm, and lending themselves so willingly ...
... own identity and yet it is the same being who is there and the lost memory can one day be recovered, it is evident that so radical a change as a transition to other worlds followed by new birth in a new body ought normally to obliterate altogether the surface or mental memory, and yet that would not annul the identity of the soul or the growth of the nature. This obliteration of the surface mental memory... memory is all the more certain and quite inevitable if there is a new personality of the same being and a new instrumentation which takes the place of the old, a new mind, a new life, a new body: the new brain cannot be expected to carry in itself the images held by the old brain; the new life or mind cannot be summoned to keep the deleted impressions of the old mind and life that have been dissolved... limitations of material Nature. But such a survival could only persist in the subtle body; the being would still have to discard its physical form, pass to other worlds and in its return put on a new body. The awakened mental Purusha and vital Purusha, preserving the mind sheath and the life sheath of the subtle body which are usually discarded, would return with them into a new birth and keep a vivid ...
... consciousness: each time, Mother’s physical cells had the sensation they would explode or volatilize in this tide of solid power. But not being imprisoned in a fixed, hardened form, this body—this new body—can move about or blend into everything, everywhere. It is life innumerable. It is physical life without separation. It is the great unity of Life—unity of Matter, of Consciousness—lived materially... experience would come back, sharper, vaster, more precise, as if it had been making its way underground, and one did not even always know that this linked up to that or was the follow-up of that. This new body was forming itself very invisibly and slowly around the cells, by small layers or microscopic coatings, with each of its aspirations, its silent prayers, its vibrations of call in the great rout of... last—what's going to happen? I don't know ... I don't know. But it will change last. 77 It will change, She said. It is the whole mystery. It is no longer the mystery of the formation of a new body in evolution, it is the mystery of the transformation of the old body: the link between the two. Or no link? It seems that this old Matter remains our keystone. The fact of the corpse. The ...
... slowly ascend the ladder of consciousness or remain in their stagnant but harmonious perfection. What one does not know is to what extent, perhaps formidable and unpredictable, the formation of this new body or of several new bodies endowed with this vibratory power⎯somewhat fantastic as it is the very power, in its purity, that animates atoms, this “innumerable powdering of gold” that moves freely in... species with the eyes, understanding and sentimentality of the old species. If we were endowed with animal organs that allowed us to see this original substance, to visibly witness the formation of a new body within the old one, to watch it slowly take form, move independently and radiate its beauty and joy, in what way would we be attached to the old simulacrum, even if it was what allowed for the birth... evolution is chosen. And we always come back to those two worlds existing side by side, one within the other, two “humanities,” one might say, one slowly opening the eyes of its cells, slowly spinning a new body of beauty and joy, and the other, laggard, which by the sum total of its pains and chaos would also be led and compelled to look for something else, to want something else, to also open the little ...
... me as I am and they say so.’ As early as 1962 she said that the new body was a body of the subtle physical, which in her case means the supramental. It happened that, in her new body, she went down from her room into the Ashram and did certain things, the results of which were materially there when she asked about it. That new body was, besides, not something temporary or ephemeral, but permanent ...
... supramental Force, etc. This is going on, I have a whole packet still! But we may change the subject for once. Someone has asked me a question about death: what happens after death and how one takes a new body. Needless to say, it is a subject which could fill volumes, no two cases are alike: practically everything is possible in the life after death as everything is possible on earth when one is in... s. The question is like this: "When an especially developed soul leaves the body, does it take with it the subtle physical sheath? When it reincarnates, how does it introduce this into the new body?" Even to answer this, as I have told you, it would be necessary to write volumes or to speak for hours. For, to tell the truth, no two cases are alike―there are similarities, classifications... should there, when it descends again, it will put on one after another all these parts which lived with it in a former life, and with this wealth of knowledge and experience it will prepare to enter a new body.... This may be after hundreds or thousands of years, for in those domains all that is organised is no longer necessarily subject to the deposition which here we call "death". As soon as a vital being ...
... her new body in the inner world, in the subtle physical which is as living and tangible as her physical body even though not as concrete. In one of her last Notes2 she refers to this new transformed body and she describes it as presented to her vision. That body she has built up in her long arduous labours, built up in a complete form and left with us and with humanity. This new body of... within and without. Sri Aurobindo speaks of an inner mind, an inner vital, an inner physical. Only the other day the passage was read out at the playground-meditation.³ The golden body, the new body, is formed out of an inner mind, an inner vital and an inner physical, renewed and reshaped. We can show our love for her, requite the debt that we owe to her Grace by admitting her Presence into ...
... line of sex. If there are shiftings of sex, it is as a rule a matter of parts of the personality which are not central. 6) As regards the stage at which the soul returning for re birth enters the new body no rule can be laid down, for the circumstances vary with the individual. Some psychic beings get into relation with the birth-environment and the parents from the time of inception and determine... past lives but also one gathers what is necessary from the earth consciousness and so too brings in new elements as one develops. It is a little difficult to explain. When one gets a new body, the nature which inhabits it, nature of mind, nature of vital, nature of physical, is made up of many personalities, not one simple personality as is supposed—although there is one central being ...
... he showed me how this or that thing would be, how the body would be. I remember that when I woke up, he was lying down on a bed, I was kneeling beside the bed, looking at him, and while he was that new body, he at the same time explained to me how the superman's body would be (the supramental being). 1 And it was so living that even when I woke up, it remained—I can still see it. But the details.... almost the same, with some... I still have the memory there ( gesture in the atmosphere ), but I don't know how to explain.... Lately, I had been wondering, "It's odd, we don't at all know how it [the new body] will be." And I was saying to myself, "There's no one to tell me." Because this Consciousness that came, it acts through the consciousness, but not so much through the vision. So then, I had that ...
... decided, and that it is not to be told to the body. It accepts, it is not impatient, it accepts, it says, 'It is all right, it is as Thou wilt'..." Not much later she had the inner experience of the new body that was ready to be manifested. Recounting it in the Bulletin of August 1972, p. 75, she said: "I was like that, I had become like that." And shortly afterwards, in the Bulletin of February 1973... (the body) — just a few seconds — the supramental consciousness. It was so wonderful." There we have the Mother on the verge of fulfilling Sri Aurobindo's Yoga. But the last step of precipitating the new body into the old was not taken. The Mother appears to have found out that the Supreme's decision for the body was to end its struggle and suffering. She ceased in her efforts to keep the body going. Against ...
... whole—but I don't see how? It reverts to dust. Obviously the transitional being, the being who does the Work, would have to be able to build a new body, or to give his cells a new possibility of action. Yes, but those cells revert to dust. Yes.... A new body must be created. Well, yes! But dust is dust! During your lifetime, during the lifetime of the one who works, you would have to create ...
... e. After death, the soul undertakes a journey; according to the actions that were performed during its sojourn in the body, the soul enters a womb for a new embodiment and is thusre born in a new body. But if, during the sojourn in the body, there has been a pursuit of the Reality that is immovable, and which is the highest imperishable and immortal Reality, then the soul after death of the body... is for this reason that there is in the world the machinery of rebirth. Rebirth becomes inevitable because the soul's work continues to become more and more victorious in its mission, and in every new body, the soul attempts to create a more and more powerful nucleus of its light from where its rays of light can spread over the mind, life and body. That nucleus of light is called the psychic being. ...
... merits and demerits is exhausted through the experiences in the heavens and the hells beyond, the departed being has to leave the supraphysical other-worlds and come back to the earth to assume there a new body in an act of rebirth. But he will not be allowed to start his new life on a clean slate. His past life's karmas, good deeds and bad deeds alike, will follow him there and heap upon him a succession... accumulated deeds in the second lifetime. After the lapse of a certain interval of time spent in these heavens and hells, he will come back again upon earth to continue his life-journey in another new body. And the series will continue apparently ad infinitum. But is it really ad infinitum? Cannot the "janma-cakra" , the "Wheel of Birth-death-rebirth-redeath...", be made to stop at some time ...
... possible a conquest of our physical limitations by the power and principle of supramental substance." 1 Sri Aurobindo assures us that there will no doubt remain a material base for the New Body to appear in course of the contemplated supramental transformation, but it will be 'a new earth with divine structure', having for its stuff the supramental substance and for its organisation a... Then, why do the Sadhakas of the Integral Yoga seek to collaborate consciously with the supramental process of evolution in the building up of a divinely transfigured New Mind, New Life and New Body upon earth? It is because we believe that a perfect self-expression of the Spirit is the object of terrestrial existence and it is a perfect and divinised life for which the earth-nature is in ...
... concentrated upon the transformation of the subconscient and inconscient. Her discoveries were momentous, particularly in regard to the nature and origin of Pain and Death. Gradually, she was building a new body—material body—of the supramental light and power. And this entire field of experiences and discoveries was like a virgin forest; and it was in this forest that Mother hewed a path and a curve of... Matter, Matter of multi-colored light associated with the shades of all the colors. This gave rise to the possibility of a transition so that the outer body would be gradually replaced by the new body of true matter. _____________________________ ¹ Mother’s Agenda, Vol. 5, pp.175-6. Page 187 Mother found that a local or momentary manifestation would not be impossible; but ...
... natural and the ideal or spiritual life. 333 Page 260 Chapter 17 The Transformation The manifestation of the Spirit in a supramental consciousness and in a new body, a new race, is something as inevitable as was the advent of Homo sapiens after the primates. The only real question now is whether this new evolution will take place with us or without us. This is... material concentration of this current behind, may in the course of evolution be replaced by a direct action of the centers of consciousness, which would simply radiate their energy throughout the new body, just as the heart, blood and nerves now radiate throughout our present body. This is how the Mother once explained the future body to the ashram children: Transformation implies that all this purely ...
... looked down to the earth—like Mirra. He even quoted Peter the Apostle: "A new earth where Truth shall live." 100 And, like Sri Aurobindo, he proclaimed a new, superhuman humanity, endowed with a new body that he said would be made of a substance "denser than Matter.” We are not very sure what he meant by that, for the only “denser Matter” we know of is ionized Matter, which results from intra- atomic... When the body remembers itself wholly, when it wholly becomes what it is, enlightened and clear, when the two have embraced down to the most obscure cell, we shall become completely immortal in a new body and on a new earth. "O men,” said the Vedic Rishis, "follow the shining thread ... weave an inviolate work, become the human being, create the divine race ... Seers of Truth are you, sharpen the shining ...
... achieved, for the manifestation of the Divine on earth through its liberated and transformed nature. "Rebirth is a necessity, it is compulsory; for it is through reincarnation...taking up a new body...that he (the psychic being) progresses, develops and grows. It is in the physical life and in the physical body that the soul slowly builds itself until it becomes a fully conscious being.”¹ ... dissolved. The psychic then goes to the psychic plane, carrying with it the essence of its experiences. When it returns to human birth again, it puts on a new mind, a new vital or prana, and a new body in accordance with its past experiences and the fresh line of evolution it is going to pursue. Where then does the memory of past lives reside ? For, nothing, except the psychic, survives the d ...
... and pain in the old way⎯keep a coherent contact with the old world, dwell in an old body in the depths of which … something was beginning to stammer. Something that would be like the formation of a new body. And this is where we begin to touch a very concrete and practical phenomenon, which, in its almost insignificant simplicity, is the greatest terrestrial turning point since the appearance of the... NAMO BHAGAVATE ... constantly, all the time. OM Namo Bhagavate is repeated spontaneously and automatically in a sort of hazy peace. 18 It was the last scrawled little note. A body, a new body. An awakened, conscious cellular Matter, freshly born to the world, which has no longer any laws, any code, and gropes its way … within a vast Consciousness, a Matter which repeats and repeats the ...
... inner faculty of sight has been suddenly opened. A deeper being in them becomes receptive to a greater unearthly range of existence. Page 242 2 The Nature of the New Body in the Light of Sri Aurobindo's Yogic Knowledge The problem, however, remains: "What kind of supraphysical body does Paul ascribe to the 'resurrected' Jesus?" There is only one... Paulinism. The change in the twinkling of an eye and the sudden uplifting into heaven introduce a sheer cleavage between the flesh-and-blood body, however alive it may be, and the entirely dissimilar new body which alone can inherit the kingdom of God. A hiatus is created such as to render the idea of transformation illogical, whether we speak of those alive being exalted or of those dead being resurrected ...
... supramental body took shape in her in a series of extraordinary experiences. She saw her new body in May 1970, and ce n’était pas surhumain, it was not a body of the overman but of the superman. In March 1972 the formation of the supramental body was complete: she was like that, she said, she “had a totally new body”. But this is outside the compass of this essay and has been narrated elsewhere. The ...
... e her "new body" directly and not pursue the line of rebirth- She is said to have expressed in the Agenda a strong dislike for such a line. But the dislike of again being born and growing up and slowly developing may emphasise her wish and eagerness to complete her mission Page 31 in the very life at her disposal. I don't know whether the idea of precipitating a new body after the ...
... it is possible that a new relation or a new intermediary form is developing between the psychic being and the material, the physical. It looks as if this is something that is being done.’ A new body? The new body? However that be, her psychic being was ‘completely transparent,’ which had been the reason why she had not noticed it during all this time. For she was that psychic being; she existed and ...
... mind: first that India's culture, like that of many other countries, is increasingly threatened by the tendency towards uniformisation; and secondly, that the concept of rebirth necessarily implies a new body, it cannot mean a return to the past. So the only solution seems to lie in a two-fold movement: on one side, to become conscious of what was, is, and will be the essential spirit of India, that which... has come, said Sri Aurobindo, India will certainly keep her essential spirit, will keep her characteristic soul, but there is likely to be a. great change in the body. The shaping for itself of a new body, of new philosophical, artistic, literary, cultural, political, social forms by the same soul rejuvenescent will, I should think, be the type of the Indian renascence, — forms not contradictory of ...
... accomplished during its active existence is worked out, and when this assimilation is finished, when it has absorbed the progress it had prepared in its active life on earth, it comes down again in a new body bringing with it the result of all its progress and, at an advanced stage, it even chooses the environment and the kind of body and the kind of life in which it will live to complete its experience... leaving the body, decide what kind of life it will have in its next incarnation. When it has become an almost completely formed and already very conscious being, it presides over the formation of the new body, and usually through an inner influence it chooses the elements and the substance which will form its body in such a way that the body is adapted to the needs of its new experience. But this is at ...
... the body. The earth's mental atmosphere is filled with beings, mental personalities which lead an entirely independent existence, even after the disappearance of the body; they can reincarnate in a new body when the soul, that is to say, the true Self, reincarnates, thus carrying with it the memory of its previous lives. But this is not what Sri Aurobindo calls Immortality. Immortality is a life without... serve the development of the soul, and how by cultivating the instrument one can be of help to future lives, are questions which are not without interest. Each time that the soul takes birth in a new body it comes with the intention of having a new experience which will help it to develop and to perfect its personality. This is how the psychic being is formed from life to life and becomes a completely ...
... indicate that he has recently taken a new body without my being informed of it, which is quite possible. It cannot be among the children I have seen, for I would have recognised him, but there are so many others! Blessings. 21 March 1970 Sweet Mother, Isn't there any way to find out definitely whether a particular psychic being has taken a new body or not? There is a way. You ...
... my child, shake off the bad influence. With my love and blessings. 7 January 1963 Mother, I would very much like to see you in your new body. I suppose you mean my new appearance or my transformed body. Because for a new body, I do not know of anybody who could make a complete living body within which I could step without losing, at least partly, my present consciousness. ...
... Sweet Mother, Sri Aurobindo says: "If the transformation of the body is complete, that means no subjection to death.... One creates a new body for oneself when one wants to change...." 24 Mother, what does he mean by "One creates a new body for oneself when one wants to change"? Does this change take place in the present body or does one have Page 322 to leave it? If one ...
... sufficient amount to be able to bear the work of transformation. I don't know if I can make myself understood.... Yes, but you are talking about "switching" to a new body? In that case, one would have to switch to a new body. But a switching (from the occult point of view, that's a known thing), a switching not to a body to be born, but to an already formed body. It would take place through ...
... Beauty, Goodness, Absolute Essence and the Equality of things, then this activity of recollection can be possible only because the soul has prior knowledge of these absolutes before taking on a new body. In a new body, it is found that these ideas are pre-existent, and this could not be possible unless the soul in a new birth, in the present body was immortal. He sums it up by concluding that the external ...
... Life and yoga, 70 1970 (Sri Aurobindo's work is done), 191-7 Light, golden, 233 1970 (New body in the subtle physical), 206-7 Love supreme, 144-5, 149 1970 (Fight with death), 207 1972 (Second vision of the new body), 216-8 Mantra, 117-8, 132-4 1973 (Cataleptic trance, need for), 218-21 Mantra of Life, 35-7 ...
... “I just stood there in stunned disbelief. I had never imagined that I would hear this. “‘I shall give up this body, no doubt, but I shall return. And you will be able to recognise me because my new body will look exactly like the present one.’” I was thrilled on hearing this from an old sadhak. An unearthly joy filled my whole being in silence. “I hope when the Mother comes back, we will still... on his way to wherever he was going. I just stood there speechless. The Mother shall surely return, this thought kept going round and round in my head. The Mother has said many things about this new body to Satprem. She even described Her form. This description was so vibrant that we all felt that it was this body of the Mother that would take on that new form. But Satprem understood at once with ...
... of the body, the millions of Mantras repeated night and day. A second time, She had seen it, in 1972. I don't know whether it's the supramental body or a transitional body, but I had a completely new body, in the sense that it was sexless It was very slender. Really lovely, a truly harmonious form. 3 What was very different was the torso—the breathing. The shoulders were strikingly broad. That's... backdrop to everything. OM Namo Bhagavateh You know, a backdrop you can use as a physical support. OM Namo Bhagavateh 38 She was weaving the cocoon of light. It was in March, 1973. The “new body” is decidedly the cocoon of the body under transformation. Sleeping Beauty In my heart, I felt that the Moment was drawing near⎯the Moment of the Earth, truly, the one we had so much struggled ...
... a sarcophagus November 18, 1973 I have hardly sat down in front of this body... when Nolini 17 sends for me. I refuse to translate Nolini’s “message”: “Her body was not meant to be the New Body.” While Mother is lying there, in the midst of the crowd, in that “meditation hall” where they have carried her down only a few hours after she left, I hear a formidable sound pealing over the... Mother’s papers contain a process and secret of which our finishing mental race is in great need — the very secret and process of its passage to another level of consciousness and perhaps even a new body on Earth. Will you help me? With all my heart Satprem February 10, 1977 (To Micheline) Dear Micheline, Your letter is very good. Afraid of what? We have but sordid things to ...
... walked, and it came into being through her walking. It is not a mental trail through some mathematical problem whose solution lies at the end: it is a cellular trail, a progress of the body. It is a new body being made in the old body or emerging from the old body: a new world emerging from the old. All the points are equally good, are that, but they all have equally to reach the development that results... world was emerging. Only one link is missing for it to be visible to all: the unconcealed forest, the total course, the secret in every point. The Amazon unveiled. The new world beneath our steps. The new body here. We only need to become aware of something. For the crossing is over, She went through it all. So what is missing? The Secret is to know what is missing, not to know what is here. There ...
... that he has recently taken a new body without my being informed of it, which is quite possible. It cannot be among the children I have seen, because I would have recognised him, but there are so many others. Blessings. 21 March 1970 * * * Sweet Mother Isn’t there any way to find out definitely whether a particular psychic being has taken a new body or not? There is a way. ...
... of the existing universities with its radically false principles, its vicious and mechanical methods, its dead-alive routine tradition and its narrow and sightless spirit. Only a new spirit and a new body born from the heart of the Nation and full of the light and hope of its resurgence can create it. We have a right to expect that the Nation will rise to the level of its opportunity and stand behind ...
... reincarnating soul But would not the mental being be a part of the personality—the mental, nervous and physical composite—which in the popular conception is the thing that is carried over or which takes a new body in the next life? And the 'Self' here is quite different from the 'mental being'....Is the 'mental being' then the same thing as the 'psychic being' which is carried over to the next life?" The ...
... disintegration of that form of matter with which its ignorance identified its being and which now dissolves into the natural elements. But the soul itself persists and after an interval resumes in a new body formed from those elements its round of births in the cycle, just as after the interval of pause and cessation the universal Being resumes his endless round of the cyclic aeons. This immortality in ...
... thing would be like, what the body would be like. I remember that when I woke up, he was lying on a bed, I was kneeling beside the bed, looking at him, and then at the same time that he was that new body, he was explaining to me what the body of the superman (the supramental being) would be like and it was so vivid that even when I woke up, it remained, still see it. But the details... (what shall ...
... of the existing universities with its radically false principles, its vicious and mechanical methods, its dead-alive routine tradition and its narrow and sightless spirit. Only a new spirit and a new body born from the heart of the Nation and full of the light and hope of its resurgence can create it____ The new education will open careers which will be at once ways of honorable sufficiency, dignity ...
... ignorantly, machine-like, that certainly cannot be called maternity! True maternity begins with the conscious creation of a being, with the willed shaping of a soul coming to develop and utilise a new body. The true domain of women is the spiritual. We forget it but too often. To bear a child and construct his body almost subconsciously is not enough. The work really commences when, by the power ...
... Page 291 extension of some established process of Nature. It is more conceivable that there was an opening of some existing body to a supraphysical influx so that it was transformed into a new body; but no such event can lightly be assumed to have taken place in the past history of material Nature: in order to happen it would seem to need either the conscious intervention of an invisible mental ...
... democracy has travelled from the East to the West in the shape of Christianity, and after a long struggle with the feudal instincts of the Germanic races has returned to Asia transformed and in a new body. But when Asia takes back democracy into herself she will first transmute it in her own temperament and make it once more Asiatic. Christianity was an assertion of human equality in the spirit, a ...
... unprecedented forms, fitting tenements and temples of the freer, subtler, vaster spirit that is preparing to enter into occupation. To remould seems to be an insufficient change, the creation of a new body for a quite new spirit the commanded discovery and labour. There must certainly take place in order to satisfy the changed vision a considerable departure in all the main provinces of poetic creation ...
... could not hope to realise, could not even dream of or could only imagine. Much that can now only be known, worked out or created by the use of invented tools and machinery might be achieved by the new body in its own power or by the inhabitant spirit through its own direct spiritual force. The body itself might acquire new means and ranges of communication with other bodies, new processes of acquiring ...
... HEAVEN AND HELL The enjoyment of beatitude in a heaven beyond is also not the supreme consummation. But Vedantic thought did not envisage rebirth as an immediate entry after death into a new body; the mental being in man is not so rigidly bound to the vital and physical,—on the contrary, the latter are ordinarily dissolved together after death, and there must therefore be, before the soul ...
... basis and acts by an extension of some established process of Nature. It is more conceivable that there was an opening of some existing body to a supraphysical influx so that it was transformed into a new body; but no such event can lightly be assumed to have taken place in the past history of material Nature: in order to happen it would seem to need either the conscious intervention of an invisible mental ...
... reason. It has like them to be changed and perfected and to undergo a transformation. As we must get ourselves a new life, new heart, new mind, so we have in a certain sense to build for ourselves a new body. The first thing the will has to do with the body is to impose on it progressively a new habit of all its being, consciousness, force and outward and inward action. It must be taught an entire ...
... the Roman plebeians, was to give a definite form to that public opinion,—focus it, as it is commonly expressed,—and, secondly, to make that definitely formulated opinion effective. In each case a new body was formed within the State which served the purpose of formulating popular sentiment with a view to bring pressure on the ruling caste and bring about a change in political conditions. But while ...
... monarchy as soon as they had become a great Empire; and democracy disappeared from the world until the slow development of the principle of representation enabled the spirit of democracy to find a new body in which it could be reborn. The contact with Greek and Persian absolutism seems to have developed in India Page 945 the idea of the divinity of Kinghood which had always been a part of ...
... underlying the Reform Scheme and dissatisfaction with the Bombay conventionists for their suicidal support of the Government policy entered largely into the universal support given by Punjab Hindus to the new body and its great initial success. Mortification at the success of Mahomedans in securing Anglo-Indian sympathy and favour and the exclusion of Hindus from those blissful privileges figured largely in ...
... worldwide change, an approaching new birth of mankind itself of which the change in us is only a part. Therefore the result that we are face to face with, is a renascence, the birth of the Spirit into a new body, new forms in society and politics, new forms of literature, art, science, philosophy, action and creation of all kinds. And the question arises what in the great play of modification and interchange ...
... you had of your own transitional body. I simply wanted to make sure you had received it. 1 Yes, Mother, it's extremely interesting.... Did you see anything new since that vision of the new body? No. It's something totally new for me—it was the first time and it seems it's going to be the last. ( silence ) My body has asked for... (it is in a constant state of aspiration, you know) ...
... sees Sujata ) For the first time, early this morning, I saw myself: my body. I don't know whether it's the supramental body or... (what shall I say?) a transitional body, but I had a completely new body, in the sense that it was sexless: it was neither woman nor man. It was very white. But that could be because I have white skin, I don't know. It was very slender ( gesture ). Really lovely ...
... light was of an entirely different radiance than any on earth. I could even feel its touch on my body. Sri Aurobindo was also seen there in a golden, transparent, luminous, radiating and altogether new body. One after another, all were seen doing pranam to Sri Aurobindo. From where they came and to where they went, it was not possible even to imagine. They came, did pranam and disappeared! All of them ...
... carry on its adventure. (Ancient texts say that at that moment it begins to perspire.) It chooses the earthly scene of its next experience, and when it sees the light that calls for it, it takes on a new body in the evolution. The programme of the experiences the soul has been drawn up by its essential Omniscience. It is the soul which governs the life of man and which determines all his experiences even ...
... having to use the old animal method, and these beings, who will have a truly spiritual birth, will constitute the elements of the new race, the supramental race.’ 42 A new species requires a new body, a new material body. ‘It seems – it is even certain – that the very substance which will constitute the intermediate world that is already being built up, is richer, more powerful, more luminous ...
... the part played by food and its need to an incidence no longer preoccupying, a necessity minor and less and less imperative." 2 At the end, new processes will surely be discovered by the New Body and new instrumentalities are bound to emerge therein in the course of the supramental transformation of our physical existence, which will annul all necessity for material alimentation. ...
... If the transformation of the body is complete, that means no subjection to death — it does not mean that one will be bound to keep the same body for all time. One creates a new body for oneself when one wants to change... (Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga, p. 11) The Integral Yoga of Self-Transformation as revealed to man by Sri Aurobindo and the Mother ...
... the body cannot come unless and until its structure changes into something other than what it is now. 3 Sri Aurobindo is very much explicit on this point when he speaks of the emergence of the New Body, the Divine Body, as a fit vehicle for the untrammelled manifestation of Sachchidananda upon earth itself. Inter alia he says: "The evolutionary urge would proceed to change the organs ...
... temporarily the management of Auroville from the Sri Aurobindo Society and others. The properties relating to Auroville currently owned by Sri Aurobindo Society and other trusts would vest in the new body corporate called Auroville Foundation. Under the proposed legislation, assets created by Sri Aurobindo Society through donations would become the responsibility of the Foundation. There would be an ...
... settled—settled very nicely. Since the physical transformation is so difficult, one is tempted to wonder whether it wouldn't be advantageous to "materialize" something, to work occultly—to create a new body by occult means.... That was the idea: for a few beings to first attain, here in this physical world, a level of realization giving them the power to materialize a supramental being. I once ...
... An instantaneous deliverance. A few months later (or it may have been a few years), P. came to see Satprem at night with a bouquet of flowers and a smile, as if to announce that he was taking on a new body. ...
... increasingly conscious, and instead of disintegrating Page 93 when the whole becomes inadequate to express the fullness of life, it's INWARDLY that all those cells would gather to form a new body with a matter superior to ordinary matter. It was so interesting that I looked at it for hours this morning, and in every detail. But it's precisely the kind of thing that can't be said: it ...
... conscious, so I don't want an impotent body that constantly requires someone to nurse it or move it around. I prefer to change." He asked me to find him a good one (!) This one didn't ask to take a new body, but the last thing he said (afterwards, he was paralyzed) was: I must live, because I want to give ten lakhs of rupees to the Mother . And he left with that—so an appropriate body has to be found ...
... exclaims: "If that were to materialise..." Apparently, all was ready on the subtle-physical plane to precipitate itself in the gross; but the mode of precipitation, the technique for materialising the new body, was unknown. Feeling acutely the disparity between the waiting future perfection, so close yet so far, and the aspiring actuality, the Mother turned from the prospect of that glory, pointed to ...
... follows: "We know that we must resort to the art of poetry for expressing, to the fullest possible artistic limits, the yearnings and battles of mankind for eternal life. And fortunately a tremendous new body of metaphysical and mystical poetry has already inaugurated the new Age of Illumination. This poetry radiates from the master metaphysician, mystic, and poet, Sri Aurobindo, and his Ashram in ...
... development that is filled with promise of actual renaissance that will, if properly inspired and Page 55 guided, retain the ancient Indian spirituality as its soul but will also create a new body, new currents of life and expression and the powerful mentality capable of highest criticality as also of a new synthesis of the disciplines of knowledge of the East and the West, and of science and ...
... our mind and intellect. But there is also its very powerful and radical delegate, which is called in the Gita, the Soul which, even after, the death of the body, remains immortal and enters into a new body. This soul can be made more and more active; and it can guide us in the process of sacrifice. "The important point here is that it can get directly in contact with the Jiva, with the Gods, with ...
... until its structure changes into something other than what it is now. (Bulletin, February 1967, p. 75) Sri Aurobindo also is very much explicit on this point when he speaks of the emergence of the New Body, the divine Body, as a fit vehicle for the untrammelled manifestation of Sachchidananda upon earth itself. He says inter alia: "... the evolutionary urge would proceed to a change of the ...
... lose all significance. Today we are in the midst of an incomparable Page 124 ordeal. If we know how to take the final and crucial step, we come out of it triumphant, a new soul and a new body and we make the path straight for the Lord. We have to recognise clearly and unequivocally that victory on one side will mean that the path of the Divine—of progress and evolution and fulfilment—will ...
... he has no more need Page 148 to take birth in a body to make further progress. Till then rebirth is a necessity, it is compulsory; for it is through reincarnation—taking up a new body that he progresses, develops and grows. It is in the physical life and in the physical body that the soul slowly builds itself until it becomes a fully conscious being. But once it is fully formed ...
... the aim of the Tantriks who sought to rejuvenate the body, possess it youthful and vigorous indefinitely. The Hatha yogis also in their turn through physico-vital exercises attempted to acquire a new body changing the modalities of the old. The ancient alchemists tried more material means, the use of alchemic substances for cleansing the body making it free from disease and, if possible, death. But ...
... earth and humanity too lose all significance. Today we are in the midst of an incomparable ordeal. If we know how to take the final and crucial step, we come out of it triumphant, a new soul and a new body, and we make the path straight for the Lord. We have to recognise clearly and unequivocally that victory on one side will mean that the path of the Divine—of progress and evolution and fulfilment—will ...
... organs worn out by age; and to come into such a body and to cure all that and to bring back health and youth, it is my feeling that is not possible. Then I am asked: "Will she come back in a new body amongst us?" To this I must say, "Certainly." Throughout the ages, from the beginning of creation, she has come several times, many many times, to help us progress, to help us go forward ...
... arth and humanity too lose all significance. Today we are in the midst of an incomparable ordeal. If we know how to take the final and crucial step, we come out of it triumphant, a new soul and a new body, and we make the path straight for the Lord. We have to recognise clearly and unequivocally that victory on' one side will mean that the path of the Divine – of progress and evolution and fulfilment ...
... elements that are necessary for the soul's evolution in the next life. It is the psychic that chooses according to its need from its own inner world. It is not that the psychic takes up an entirely new body, mind, etc. or that it is once again the old personality that renews itself. You can see in the case of the Lamas that it is not the same person. Purani gave an instance of how a Dalai Lama, as ...
... radiances, psychic entities, soul-sparks encased in human bodies: True maternity begins with the conscious creation of a being, with the willed shaping of a soul coming to develop and utilise a new body. The true domain of women is the spiritual. 6 *Mirra's essay on "Women and the War", first published on 7 July 1916 in the Japanese journal Fujoshimbun is an eloquent plea for the recognition ...
... breaking life itself and disintegrating the form? This will be Mother's major problem for years: a problem lived minute by minute, physiologically. In short, She was trying to build the first "new body." Or perhaps to set the true one free. And that means a... perilous passage. Mother's mantra had seven syllables: A UM NAMO BHAGAVATE Mother gives it to the world. The Surrounding Thoughts ...
... presented itself at the time. But as for the "Transformation," no one knows what it is about, Mother did not know at all—how do you attempt to become something you know nothing about! What is that new body? A transformation of the old, or something else, another kind of unknown? The only plain fact is that these cells would have to create something else before decomposing, unless they found a way not ...
... difficult Work—provided she understands her true role of creator and inspirer, which has no longer anything to do with the old small literary, aesthetic or conjugal stories, but with a new world and a new body difficult to give birth to, difficult to know, difficult to conquer—for it must be conquered step by step in the most humble Matter and most obscure gestures, every minute of the day. At every minute ...
... operation I have already spoken of took place: the transfer of the nervous system. From then on, the whole body was to function automatically, independently. It was the cells’ little vibration, the new body, that enveloped her and made her move, breathe and feel; nothing obeyed the old laws anymore. There was a logic in all that, obviously, but the logic of what? The last operation of the caterpillar ...
... of Matter , one within the other: an illusory, unconscious, opaque crust, and the other. And I looked at Mother: I could well understand the growth of that new consciousness, that new vision, that new body, but the other, the “residue”? That was really where the mystery lay, the bridge. Or else the illusion dissolves and all the old bodies in the world crumble into dust⎯which would make a lot of dust ...
... and pour down its knowledge upon the lower system, then the whole system becomes remoulded in the mould of the vijnana. Man can get himself a new heart, a new mind, a new life, navyam ayu, even a new body, punah kritam. This whole system will then consent & be compelled to live in the truth—& that truth to which vijnana itself is the door, is Brahman as Sacchidananda. All things here will be Sacchidananda ...
... substance, the atoms out of which their shapes are built, and can be entirely rearranged,—by translation, for example—without our losing Othello and Desdemona, just as the indwelling soul can take a new body without being necessarily changed by the transmigration. Othello and Desdemona are embodied in sounds or words, but thought is their finer and immortal substance. It is the subtler world of thought ...
... salvation, the reawakening has come, India will certainly keep her essential spirit, will keep her characteristic soul, but there is likely to be a great change of the body. The shaping for itself of a new body, of new philosophical, artistic, literary, cultural, political, social forms by the same soul rejuvenescent will, I should think, be the type of the Indian renascence,—forms not contradictory of the ...
... The Renaissance in India - 4 The renaissance thus determining itself, but not yet finally determined, if it is to be what the name implies, a rebirth of the soul of India into a new body of energy, a new form of its innate and ancient spirit, prajñā purāṇī , must insist much more finally and integrally than it has as yet done on its spiritual turn, on the greater and greater action ...
... as all bodies are now, is not sexless. As the body the Mother saw was sexless, it must have been a supramental body, for this is how she said the supramental body would be. At the time she saw her new body, “as of a very, very young person”, she was ninety-four. What she called “the subtle physical” in her conversations, she sometimes also called “the true physical” and used this term to locate “Sri ...
... times. To begin with she emphasizes again the spiritual role of women. ‘True maternity begins with the conscious creation of a being, with the willed shaping of a soul come to develop and utilize a new body. The true domain of women is spiritual. We forget it but too often.’ 14 Then she develops a viewpoint that is demonstrably Lamarckian, to make her female audience understand that their psychological ...
... matter is coated with a film, as it were: the film of our own consciousness, which is ignorant, dark and fragmentary out of evolutionary necessity. And already she had had her first experience of a new body, ‘a body that is not mine.’ Pondicherry Merges with India On 15 August 1954 the French comptoir of Pondichéry became a Union Territory of India. On that day the Mother read aloud her ...
... In fact she experienced the supramental Force as a supramental body, ‘a much greater and powerful being’ in her gross material body. This was the very first time that she reported the presence of a new body within her. So strong was the power acting through that supramental body on the world that she had to contain it so as not to cause a catastrophe or a revolution somewhere on Earth. And with that ...
... She said that no ceremonies were to be performed but only this mantra was to be repeated a hundred and twenty Page 70 times. It must have provided to the soul parted from the body a new body of subtle vibrations building, as it were, an Aurobindonian embrace shielding it from whatever adversary would come out of the unknown. Then nothing would obstruct it from reaching its place of divine ...
... set to one note of devotion to the work of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, the same mental and vital beings and not only the psychic being which naturally persists from life to life may return in a new body in the next birth. After death they may stick together or they may serve different functions but they continue. My motion is suggested by what the Mother said about my friend A.B. Purani who passed ...
... compromise, no approximation, no 'it will come', not so: it is like this (Mother brings down her fist), a formidable Will. But—it is the only way for things to go fast." Not much later she saw her new body: 3 "I was like that, I had become like 1 Bulletin, April 1969, p. 87. 2 Ibid., April 1972, p.73. 3 Ibid., August 1972, p. 75. Page 63 that." And shortly afterwards ...
... is the only difficulty. If the transformation of the body is complete, that means no subjection to death—it does not mean that one will be bound to keep the same body for all time. One creates a new body for oneself when one wants to change, but how it will be done cannot be said now. The present method is by physical birth—some occultists suppose that a time will come when that is not necessary—but ...
... realisation which shall enrich the elements of the new mankind. If this is not enough, then you may easily know me by seeing in vision the form of what I was renewed though changed in the form of my new body. A seer with knowledge can know the identity of one he sees even though not known before to the physical mind. It will be begun. That is not necessary. That I should be directly descended ...
... the body of a guinea-pig or an ass. The philosophical appreciation of the theory expressed itself in the admirable but rather unmanageable Greek word, metempsychosis, which means the insouling of a new body by the same psychic individual. The Greek tongue is always happy in its marriage of thought and word and a better expression could not be found; but forced into English speech the word becomes merely ...
... s of the life just preceding returned, and persisted till rebirth. Only for a time, not till rebirth—otherwise the stamp could be so strong that remembrance of past births even after taking a new body would be the rule rather than the exception. I was also disposed to believe that in cases of pure and unalloyed attachment the relationships of one birth persisted in successive births, the number ...
... Whatever may have happened to Chaitanya or Ramalingam, whatever physical transformation they may have gone through is quite irrelevant to the aim of the supramentalisation of the body. Their new body was either a non-physical or subtle physical body not adapted for life on the earth. If it were not so, they would not have disappeared. The object of supramentalisation is a body fitted to embody ...
... ignorantly, machine-like, that certainly can-not be called maternity! True maternity begins with the conscious creation of a being, with the willed shaping of a soul coming to develop and utilise a new body. The true domain of women is the spiritual. We forget it but too often. To bear a child and construct his body almost subconsciously is not enough. The work really commences when, by the power ...
... to influence even the formation of the body in the new life. "When it has become an almost completely formed and already very conscious being, it presides over the forma- tion of the new body, and usually through an inner influence it chooses the elements and the substance which will form its body in such a way that the body is adapted to the needs of its new experience ...
... of sex. If there are shiftings of sex, it is, as a rule, a matter of parts of the personality which are not central. (6) As regards the stage at which the soul returning for rebirth enters the new body no rule can be laid down, for the circumstances vary with the individual. Some psychic beings get into relation with the birth-environment and the parents from the time of conception and determine ...
... the body. The earth’s mental atmosphere is filled with beings, mental personalities which lead an entirely independent existence, even after the disappearance of the body; they can reincarnate in a new body when the soul, that is to say, the true Self, reincarnates, thus carrying with it the memory of its previous lives. But this is not what Sri Aurobindo calls Immortality. Immortality is a life without ...
... everything sings, the cells sing, they are happy. But if the physical transformation is so difficult, would it not be preferable to act in an occult way, to materialise something, to create a new body by occult processes? The idea is that first of all some beings must reach a certain Page 117 realisation here in the physical world that would give them the power to materialise a ...
... ruined, and if I survive now, instead of this body being a help and a tool of work, it will be a hindrance, an impediment, a source of difficulty, so I have come to ask to be freed—I prefer to enter a new body." I answered immediately, "But as you are, you are useful, very useful; the position you occupy makes you very useful; you are totally conscious; it would be good if you could recover." He listened ...
... observes: "Whatever may have happened to Chaitanya of Ramalingam, whatever physical transformation they may have gone through is quite irrelevant to the aim of the supramentalisation of the body. Their new body was either a non-physical or subtle physical body not adapted for life on the earth. If it were not so, they would not have disappeared..." Another letter 21 says: "The idea of a transformation of ...
... a part that tries to take form in the body ( gesture of connection between the two or of descent of the one into the other ), that is, a way of being of the cells that would be the beginning of a new body, but that's... when it happens, it's a bizarre sensation. A bizarre sensation. The very body feels as if... it's dying—something, it doesn't know what it is. And it's rather hard to bear. It's only ...
... But what do you say? I say that it must be the supramental consciousness—not Page 261 "consciousness": the supramental SUBSTANCE. And those who are ready will thus have their new body. That's my most... optimistic explanation. Did you actually discern something outside of the official news? Not quite. For me, eating is getting more and more difficult—almost impossible ...
... a great power entered into me and I felt capable of resuscitating him. But when I told him, he said, 'No, it is purposely that I have left my body, I will not come back into it, I will return in a new body, the first body built in the supramental way.' But," Mother added, "he did not tell me the time when he would return." ...
... observes: "Whatever may have happened to Chaitanya or Ramalingam, whatever physical transformation they may have gone through is quite irrelevant to the aim of the supramentalisation of the body. Their new body was either a non-physical or subtle physical body not adapted for life on the earth. If it were not so, they would not have disappeared..." Another letter 21 says: "The idea of a transformation of ...
... tamed in its own den. Hence we proceed now to the consideration of the physical necessity for material aliments and try to see how this problem of bodily hunger may possibly be solved in the New Body that is going to appear in the course of supramental evolution. Page 268 ...
... in the overt frontal plane of life, when the divine Super-mind emerges from behind and descends from above to take charge of the evolutionary process. Let us now proceed to study how the New Body, a future product of supramental evolution, is expected to solve its twin problems of energy-requirement and substantial need. 1 J. A. V. Butler, Inside the Living Cell (1959), p. 50 ...
... also embodied the Way to spiritual fulfilment. There was no Page 277 question of saving humanity – it was more serving than saving – by transfiguring it, giving it a new body and life and mind, nor was there any idea of raising the level of earth-consciousness. The Divine acts in three different ways in his three well-known aspects. As the transcendent Reality ...
... to remain almost the same familiar person I was before death in my lifetime? (vi) Even if something of my personality survives, where will it stay and function, in which location? Will there be a new body there? And what about my mind and heart? my sensations and feelings? (vii) Will there be a new course of life on the other side of death, a new series of experiences with the flow of time? (viii) ...
... the present embodied existence (sañcīyamāna-karma). Spiritual knowledge, so it is asserted, destroys altogether the second kind 1 and prevents the third 2 , thus rendering the assumption of a new body impossible. But the first type of karmas that have begun to germinate and produce their effects can by no means be infructified; the embodied soul must perforce exhaust them through sufferance ...
... completed, that is to say, he has no more need to take birth in a body to make further progress. Till then rebirth is a necessity, it is compulsory; for it is through reincarnation i.e. by taking up a new body that he progresses, develops and grows. It is in the physical life and in the physical body that the soul slowly builds itself until it becomes a fully conscious being. But once it is fully formed ...
... phase of cultural development that is filled with promise of actual renaissance that will, if properly inspired and guided, retain the ancient Indian spirituality as its soul but will also create a new body, new currents of life and expression and the powerful mentality capable of highest criticality as also of a new synthesis of the disciplines of knowledge of the East and the West, and of science and ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 6 A Vision The Mother says: “Just see. Look at me. I am here come back in my new body, – divine, transformed and glorious. And I am the same mother, still human. Do not worry. Do not be concerned about your own self, your progress and realisation, nor about others. I am here, look at me, gaze into me ...
... The Mother Abides - Final Reflections A Vision The Mother says: "Just see. Look at me. I am here, come back in my new body—divine, transformed and glorious. And I am the same mother, still human. Do not worry. Do not be concerned about your own self, your progress and realisation, nor about others. I am here, look at me, gaze into me, enter into me wholly ...
... a great power entered into me and I felt capable of resuscitating him. But when I told him, he said, 'No. It is purposely that I have left my body, I will not come back into it, I will return in a new body, the first body built in the supramental way.'" 11 And she hastened to add: "But he did not tell me the time when he would return." Then I told her: "Certainly you know the time, Mother ...
... did leave Her body, hasn’t left us. In times of pain and difficulty She continues to protect us as always. And therefore ‘Do not fear’: The Mother says, “Look at me, I am here, come back in my new body, divine, transformed and glorious. And I am the same Mother, still human. Do not worry. Do not be concerned about your own self, your progress and realisation, nor about others. I am here, look at ...
... of Mother's Agenda . The battle of the Agenda was continuing. The yoga of the cells was taking shape. I could not yet believe that I had started walking this "impossible" path of the New Body, but I was right in it! Without being aware of it, I had not ceased to be in it since that day of November 18, 1973 after Mothers departure, only I took the blows and strove to bear them and go ...
... And then, until the body adapts to the new power, there is a period which is, well, critical.... The minutes are long. This cellular mind, I can assure you, is absolutely new — absolutely new. A new body being built from below, but so silently and invisibly, by a slow and innumerable formation of new microscopic ways of being in the smallest gestures of each minute and the slightest little vibration ...
... Because all this is the consciousness of the body, a cellular consciousness—and what is left if the old body disintegrates? Even when conscious, the cells need a body to hold them together. A new body? Formed with what? Or else, does the cellular consciousness have the power to transform the old body, as it transforms the caterpillar into a butterfly? ...
... specialized exercises; each one had to practice a whole range of exercises, and the girls took up boxing as well as the horizontal bar and weightlifting. One might wonder how boxing could produce a new body (apart from a muscular one) and whether sprinters might have a better chance in the next stage of evolution than M.A.'s in literature? But why not, after all? It all depends on the way you sprint ...
... sun, became concrete, as if it were on the verge of an ultimate transfusion, a golden invasion of matter, one last cry of love that would topple the walls and bring forth the living glory of the new body, of the Master of all this evolution. “O Fire... the flaming rays of thy might rush abroad on every side violently,” says the Veda. “The Flame with a hundred treasures... O Son of the body... Thou ...
... conditions to mature which will provide them with a suitable milieu. If one is yogically conscious he can actually prepare the body of his next birth. Before the body is born he shapes and moulds it, so that it is he who is the true maker of it while the parents of the new child are only the adventitious, purely physical agents. I must here remark in passing that there is a common misconception... about rebirth. People believe that it is they who are reincarnated, yet this is a palpable error, though it is true that parts of their being are amalgamated with others and so act through new bodies. Their whole being is not reborn, because of the simple fact that what they evidently mean by their "self" is not a real individualised entity but their exterior personality, the personality composed... something which is not the exterior name and form. You want to know if all men retain their identities after Page 145 the dissolution of their bodies. Well, it depends. The ordinary mass of men are so closely identified with their bodies that nothing of them survives when the physical disintegrates. Not that absolutely nothing survives—the vital and mental stuff always remains but it is not ...
... conditions to mature which will provide them with a suitable milieu. If one is yogically conscious he car. actually prepare the body of his next birth. Before the body is born he shapes and moulds it, so that it is he who is the true maker of it while the parents of the new child arc only the adventitious, purely physical agents. I must here remark in passing that there is a common misconception... misconception about rebirth. People believe that it is they who are reincarnated, yet this is a palpable error, though it is true that parts of their being are amalgamated with others and so act through new bodies. Their whole being is not reborn, because of the simple fact that what they evidently mean by their "self" is not a real individualised entity but their exterior personality, Page 75 ... deep within, something which is not the exterior name and form. You want to know if all men retain their identities after the dissolution of their bodies. Well, it depends. The ordinary mass of men arc so closely identified with their bodies that nothing of them survives when the physical disintegrates. Not that absolutely nothing-survives—the vital and mental stuff always remains bur it is not ...
... political edifice. The efforts of the two parties to replace the Congress by new bodies of a party character are not likely to prosper, for the Moderate Convention will fade into nothingness by its inherent want of vitality, while the Congress of the Nationalists, whatever its destiny, will not be the old Congress but a new and incalculable force, the product of a revolution and perhaps its plaything... orderly and peaceful evolution of self-government, which the first energies of the new movement had fostered, are gone for ever. Revolution, bare and grim, is preparing her battlefield, mowing down the centres of order which were evolving a new cosmos and building up the materials of a gigantic downfall and a mighty new-creation. We could have wished it otherwise, but God's will be done. ... 1908 Bande Mataram New Conditions 29-April-1908 A great deal of the work done by us during the last three years has been of a purely preparatory character. The preparation of the national mind was the first necessity. All that the old school of politics did was to prepare the way for the new thought by giving a full trial to the delusions that then possessed ...
... action of new bodies which will be able to manifest the supramental life in the material world. But, as Sri Aurobindo says, before this can be done, it is good to utilise all that we have in order to increase and make more exact the control of physical activities. It is very obvious that those who practise physical culture scientifically and with coordination acquire a control over their bodies that's... physical culture also. If our seeking is for a total perfection of the being, the physical part of it cannot be left aside; for the body is the material basis, the body is the instrument which we have to use . Śarīram khalu dharmasādhanam, says the old Sanskrit adage,—the body is the means of fulfilment of dharma, and dharma means every ideal which we can propose to ourselves and the law of its working... conditions of the material universe. That cannot be unless the body too undergoes a transformation, unless its action and functioning attain to a supreme capacity and the perfection which is possible to it or which can be made possible. " The Supramental Manifestation, SABCL, Vol. 16, p. 5 Mother, how can the functioning of the body "attain to a supreme capacity"? Precisely by transformation ...
... very difficult hole into which Lord Morley has thrust it. The Council Elections The elections for the Reformed Councils, so far as they have proceeded, entirely justify the description of the new bodies which we gave in our article on the Reforms. The elections for the United Provinces give a fair sample of the results which are sure to obtain all over India. With the exception of two or three gentlemen... be an even more select and unrepresentative body than we expected. We counted the District Boards as possible constituencies for representatives of opposition and independent opinion, but, for the most part, they might almost as well have been preserves for the aristocracy. In East Bengal it is evident that the Councils will be a Mahomedan and European body. British Unfitness for Liberty By all... forward and become personally responsible for whatever he may think it necessary to compel the Convention to do. The Bengal Conventionists are already in danger of drifting away from the moorings and the new Regulations have, we believe, created the imminence of another dissension among the remaining faithful. The resignation of Sir Pherozshah makes it easier for the Bengal Moderates to attend the Lahore ...
... Cannot eternity itself be caught in the net of time? Cannot the Spirit be coerced into matter? Prakriti or Nature is "an Energy of perpetual transience" and is endlessly resourceful, finding "new bodies for the Infinite and images of the Unimaginable." Nature dazzles us by her infinite variety and termless restlessness; she is a timeless actor playing her intriguing parts on a temporal stage. Although... travels further on from these outskirts, the sky clears, the earth smiles, and he reaches "the kingdom of the morning star". His eyes are lit up with a surer hope. From within well up the beginnings of a new authentic knowledge. Immortality glimmers in the distance, a beckoning star; love is a releasing force making for the heart's fullness and freedom; Truth flames forth in the Word, thrown up "from a chance... ache. On the other hand, this medial half-hearted felicity cannot content Prakriti, and she cannot long abide here. Her cardinal aspiration to bring the heavens down and charge the body with the soul's delight cannot accept defeat as a permanent condition; neither is she able to force the pace of rounded fulfilment. "A sense of limit haunts her masteries", but she will not give up ...
... Mystic Darshan 1984-07-13 In this experience, Champaklal already finds himself with the Mother in the new world (“Futuristic place”) which received the light of the Supramental Consciousness (“golden light”) and from where Sri Aurobindo also could be seen in his, new supramentalised body. A number of persons come, offer their salutations to Sri Aurobindo and disappear, signifying that most... consciousness. This person ultimately seems to expand and merge into the gross universe. The Mother now leads Champaklal in the new world, towards the Divine Truth symbolised by the golden sun. The saviour touch of the Divine (the Mother) brings coolness to Champaklal's body and does not allow the intense heat to burn it to ashes. A “Mighty transformation” is felt by Champaklal who experiences a “Celestial ...
... ideas that fill the weak human heart with anxious thoughts! And finally Rebirth! and the trepidant query: Will I come back upon earth again in a new human body? Or, is all an eternal zero and silence after the dissolution of my present physical body? There is not a human being who never asks himself some such questions even for once in his lifetime. Death is a constant phenomenon facing ...
... by discoveries of new lands and peoples, and the religious and political dogmas had already suffered a severe shaking in the atrocious wars of religion among supposedly civilized countries. Moreover, science had changed the way men looked at the cosmos and, in consequence, the idea they made of its Maker. Copernicus had long been accepted, Galileo had discovered new heavenly bodies, and Newton’s laws... there is the case of that other philosophe , as the thinkers of the Enlightenment were called, Jean-Marie Arouet, alias Voltaire. Strange to say, this man, who was one of the prominent champions of the new ideals of liberty, equality and fraternity, was also “a vicious anti-Semite” (Weiss). The many barbs against the Jews in his Philosophical Dictionary are there for all to read, e.g. “the Jews, our... our teachers and our enemies, whom we believe and detest”, or: “The Jews thus treat history and ancient fables as their old-clothes-men threat their worn garments: they turn them and sell them for new at the highest possible price.” Etc. 561 The English editor and translator of the Dictionary tries to defend his author: “This sort of thing is common form in Voltaire, and the legend of his anti-Semitism ...
... The Next Species and The New Divine Body Sri Aurobindo has envisaged the development of the Divine Body, and he has written in his "The Supramental Manifestation Upon Earth" on the structure and functioning that the divine body will have, when it will visibly be operating physically on the physical earth in the same way in which the human physical body is today operating on the physical... and the Mother in the development of the new synthesis of yoga will prove to be of direct relevance and momentous significance. page - 126 Total Transformation: The Keyword of the Integral Yoga The one word that brings out centrally the novelty of the objective and method of the new synthesis of yoga is "transformation". The yoga of the new evolution that would lead humanity into... rapidity towards its fullness. page - 129 All men might not reach that fullness till a later time, but still the human mind could come to stand perfected in the Light and a new humanity take its place as part of the new order." 74 page - 130 ...
... in Philosophy and Yoga Rebirth and Karma The ancient idea of Karma was inseparably connected with a belief in the soul's continual rebirth in new bodies. And this close association was not a mere accident, but a perfectly intelligible and indeed inevitable union of two related truths which are needed for each other's completeness and can with difficulty... it may not wait for and assume other forms in which its will of being, its type of nature and mentality, its attempt of experience is carried forward, migrates, one might almost say, into new-born collective bodies, in other ages or cycles? Mankind itself has this separate collective soul and collective existence. And on that community the community of karma is founded; the action and development of... by a generation which is a carrying on of its unbroken history; the body, life, physical mentality of all past being prolongs itself in me and I must therefore undergo the law of heredity; the parent, says the Upanishad, recreates himself by the energy in his seed and is reborn in the child. But as soon as I begin to develop, a new, an independent and overbearing factor comes in, which is not my parents ...
... the evolutionary scheme and if the future of this soul is of extreme evolutionary importance. A soul which existed before its present body and which inhabited other bodies earlier and which not only survives the death of its present body but also will inhabit new bodies in the future - such a soul Teilhard should logically envisage instead of the one he does, with no before and no after in earth-evolution... 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 of Teilhard's may well be juxtaposed with these stanzas. Teilhard 10 writes: ... man opens out to self-knowledge as it develops out of ignorance of self into self-being. The Divine also, pouring itself into the forms of the cosmic existence, is 1. Essays on the Gita (New York, 1950), pp. 12-13. Page 84 revealed ordinarily in an efflorescence of its powers, in energies and magnitudes of its knowledge, love, joy, developed force of being, in degrees ...
... and even visible changes in the structure of the physical body. Just as with the evolution of newer species in the past, not only has there been the emergence of new capacities of consciousness but even physiological changes, even so, the evolution of the supramental being will eventually lead to the appearance on the earth of a new divine body. There will be, in other words, the development of the next... liberated and active within the terrestrial whole and an organized supramental instrumentation of the Spirit in the life and the body, — for the body-consciousness also must become sufficiently awake to be a fit instrument of the workings of the new supramental Force and its new order. ...On this basis the principle of a divine life in terrestrial Nature would be manifested; even the world of ignorance... appearance of the new supramental body on the earth. That eventual result may even take two or three centuries. For the present moment, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother had envisaged the accomplishment of the crucial task of fixing of the supramental consciousness in the physical human body; and according to what is recorded in 'Mother's Agenda', that task was accomplished by her in her own body in 1 ...
... So runs the not incredible tradition. Yes. A new harmony, but not the scrannel pipes of European materialism, not an Occidental foundation upon half truths & whole falsehoods. When there is destruction it is the form that perishes, not the spirit—for the world and its ways are forms of one Truth which appears in this material world in ever new bodies and constantly varied apparel—the inward Eternal... subTreta & subDwapara breaks down and disappears in the subKali. The process then begins over Page 56 again [.................................] for each new temporary harmony is fairer and more perfect than its preceding harmony, each new temporary collapse more resounding & terrible than its anterior dissolution. Already ended are the first five thousand years of the Kali which were necessary... nced and, in many cases, penalised; so too are the customs of the future that are now being resisted or discouraged,—even, I am prepared to believe, the future no less than the past prepares for us new modes of living which in the present would not escape the censure of the law. It is the achar that makes the shishta , not the shishta who makes the achar . The achar is made by the rebel, the ...
... from Goethe reminds us of the memorable words of Sri Krishna in the Bhagavadgita: "Finite bodies have an end, but that which possesses and uses the body is infinite, illimitable, eternal, indestructible. It casts away old and takes up new bodies as a man changes worn-out raiment for new; and where is there in this to grieve at and recoil and shrink?" 1 Incidentally we may touch... there is attachment to the body, for it is only by living in the immortal part of oneself which is unidentified with the body and bringing down its consciousness and force into the cells that it can come." 1 Hence is the command upon every Sadhaka of the Integral Yoga to overcome all attachment to life in the body and renounce "the repulsion to the death of the body which is so strong and... sleepless nights, especially, I had some feelings so remarkable that I cannot describe them clearly. It was as if my soul was thinking unaccompanied by my body. It looked upon the body as something apart from itself, much as we look on a dress ... the body will rend like a garment, but I — I am." 3 1 2 The Mother, "The Fear of Death and the Four Methods of Conquering It", in Bulletin of Physical ...
... individual body is mortal and the race has to be continued through one's offspring. The Supramental Body, being what it is, cannot degenerate and die or be subject to fatal accident. The necessity of death is due also to an incapacity of the ordinary body to change and keep pace with inner development; it has to break up and set free the evolving soul to get for itself new bodies. The Supramental Body by its... individual Yoga and it promises a perfect society, a new world of complex harmony moving from adventure to blissful adventure of Truth-discovery and Truth-dynamism. All modern thought which has a global vision and stresses the ideal of "One World" is in profound need of the Supramental Yoga. Q: What, according to Sri Aurobindo, would the Supramental Body be like and how long will Yoga take to fulfil... a result of Page 121 Sri Aurobindo's sacrifice of his own body. The whole resistance of what he had named the Inconscient, the root and support of all incapacity of the physical nature, including death, was, as it were, swallowed up into Sri-Aurobindo's body and nullified and exhausted there. Hence this body, semi-divinised and marked for total transformation, had to be given up and ...
... East such a movement divorced from all political or any strongly iconoclastic social significance would have produced simply a series of religious reformers, illumined saints, Page 18 new bodies of belief with their appropriate cultural and social practice; in the West atheism and secularism were its inevitable and predestined goal. At first questioning the conventional forms of religion... for the group the liberty to form a sub-society governed by new conceptions like the Sikh or the Vaishnava. But neither of these violent departures from the norm could be tolerated by a strictly economic and rigorously scientific and unitarian society. Obviously, too, there would grow up a fixed system of social morality and custom and a body of socialistic doctrine which one could not be allowed to... religious tradition; but he stands there and can no other, because to destroy is his mission, to destroy falsehood and lay bare a new foundation of truth. Page 17 But by what individual faculty or standard shall the innovator find out his new foundation or establish his new measures? Evidently, it will depend upon the available enlightenment of the time and the possible forms of knowledge to which ...
... realisation of the soul as the one imperishable self by whom all this universe has been extended. Finite bodies have an end, but that which possesses and uses the body, is infinite, illimitable, eternal, indestructible. It casts away old and takes up new bodies as a man changes worn-out raiment for new; and what is there in this to grieve at and recoil and shrink? This is not born, nor does it die, nor... death are merely incidents in the history of the soul. The soul, not the body, is the reality. All these kings of men for whose approaching death he mourns, have lived before, they will live again in the human body; for as the soul passes physically through childhood and youth and age, so it passes on to the changing of the body. The calm and wise mind, the dhīra , the thinker who looks upon life steadily... and intolerance of sorrow and recoil from the unavoidable and trivial circumstance of the death of the body, this is un-Aryan ignorance. It is not the way of the Aryan climbing in calm strength towards the immortal life. There is no such thing as death, for it is the body that dies and the body is not the man. That which really is, cannot go out of existence, though it may change the forms through ...
... of the body's know-how, which scientists freely acknowledge, a minute amount of time and money is spent trying to grasp the living body as a whole, and for very good reason. The Greek philosopher Heraclitus made the famous remark, "You cannot step into a river in the same place twice," because the river is constantly being changed by new water rushing in. The same holds true for the body. All of us... could see your body as it really is, you would never see it the same way twice. Ninety-eight percent of the atoms in your body were not there a year ago. The skeleton that seems so solid was not there three months ago. The configuration of the bone cells remains somewhat constant, but atoms of all kinds pass freely back and forth through the cell walls, and by that means you acquire a new skeleton every... same second, John's marrow, mostly in his ribs, skull and vertebrae, produces an equal number of new cells. In a lifetime these bones will manufacture about half a ton of red cells. During its short life, each red cell will make something like 75,000 round trips from John's heart to other parts of his body. To distribute oxygen and food to cells, I operate like a town water-supply system. The ...
... That body must descend or reveal itself or clothe itself with a new material substance. That new material substance was being prepared in the Mother's body which was the workshop, as it were, for the Divine body. She has been building in this way not only a personal body of her own, the new Divine body, but also a 'generic' body for humanity at large out of which other personal bodies may be precipitated... that these may acquire new properties. Indeed all that her body takes in, even as food, tends to undergo this divine chemical change. This forms another line of the process of transformation of Matter. The Mind has been set aside, the vital withdrawn: the intermediary worlds do no longer interfere. The mere Matter, the Body, is now face to face with the Supramental (the Supreme). One can be in... through one's soul: even then the soul under the light or influence of the supramental has to refound or recreate its instruments once more – in the mind and vital the and the body – to be able to manifest and incarnate the new supramental revelation. Mother's response to a prayer: "I am always with you I shall never fail you in prosperity or in adversity, even when you sink I am with you ...
... it and ignores the foundations Page 504 of human character and the source of the difficulty—the duality of mind, life and body. Unless there is a descent of a new Power of Consciousness, not subject to the dualities but still dynamic which will provide a new foundation and a lifting of the centre of consciousness above the mind, the Kingdom of God on earth can only be an ideal, not a fact... union in separateness through that love and a transformation of the nature by realising certain mental, ethical, emotional, perhaps even physical possibilities (for the Vaishnavas speak of a new cinmaya body) is the principle of Vaishnava Yoga. So there is nothing here that was not already present in that line of Asiatic mysticism which looks to a Personal Deity and insists on the eternal pre-existence... these ties have to be broken, the imperfect forms of mind and life transcended, mind transformed into something beyond mind, life into divine life, if the transformation is to be real and not merely a new shaping or heightening of the lights of the Ignorance. IV. "This solitude of the soul [of the Asiatic ascetic] is not the true spiritual leisure, the active solitude in which the transformation from ...
... man's physical existence too share in the glory of the divine life upon earth? Will the body of man be ever able to liberate itself from all the present frailties and limitations? In which way will the New Man's body, in its form and functioning, be different and distinguished from the present physical body of man? Our last chapter seeks to furnish answers to these questions. Page... earth-nature. It is now actively at work there and, as a preparatory measure, it is trying to fully awaken a few individuals to the divine possibility upon earth itself and convert their mind, life and body into perfect receptacles and vehicles of manifestation of the Truth-Consciousness. And once this is effected, once the Supramental Power fully takes its stand and gets organised in the nature of a ...
... supple and malleable body capable of doing everything, a creation of the New Consciousness or else a transformed body which was never conceived. It will have nothing in common with the human being, I mean man with the mind, the vital and all that. All that is human, encased, limited, egocentric, small, mean, obscure and ignorant will have no place in this new transformed body. All that surpasses man... hand, I have only to wish and I shall have the thing in my hand. With this transformed body, I shall be free from the fetters of ignorance, and the inconscience. I could do many things at the same time. The body transparent, luminous, light, elastic will not need material things to subsist on. It is an altogether new concept. When I need something, I only have to wish for it and immediately I will have... to this new process. (silence) Page 160 The Mother, 1968. Page 161 You know, like this, (gesture) to stretch one's hand as if to hold something, and it becomes long, and, it is naturally frightening for those who are not used to it. And we shall be able to do things like that, (Mother laughs) by the plasticity of our bodies. And in this new world we ...
... s?" The traditional Karmavadi's answer is direct and simple: The body of the Jivanmukta drops off in time like a withered leaf of a tree and he attains to what is called "videha-mukti", the status of "disembodied liberation", which then endures for eternity. The Videhamukta will never again assume a new physical body and come upon earth to lead another round of worldly existence. For him will... remain there underneath to trouble the mind and heart of the aspirant. For the sadhaka may reasonably argue: "A new life upon earth cannot but be a new series of 'sañciyamāna karmas leading to all their adverse fruits. How to avoid the consequences of these karmas if we have to live a new life upon earth?" The answer is: No karma as karma is a bondage. It becomes a source of bondage when it... perfection of Sachchidananda through the progressive development of his consciousness; (ii)to establish divine life upon earth itself in a human body if possible, through the integral transformation of the triple instruments of mind and life and body; (iii)to be a willing and effective participant in the divine action of achieving collective liberation and perfection on the earthly plane. ...
... something new. The body groans, and it says, it says to itself it's suffering, then a little something occurs (but I don't exactly know what it is; it looks more like an act of will, but that's not it), and there's no more suffering, yet it's not at all what we call "bliss"—we don't know what it is... it's something else. It's something else. But extraordinary. New, completely new—completely new. So all... they found his body partly on the shore, partly in the water. As it was a public place, the police asked for an autopsy, and it was done: there wasn't a drop of water in his stomach, which means he didn't drown. And it does seem, according to what people say, that he didn't drown (but I didn't see the body, so I am not absolutely sure), but one thing is sure, it's that he left his body, and another thing... gone and come back. So there. That too is miraculous. But I know that this body's life... (what can I say?) yes, this body's life is a miracle. Which means that if it weren't what it is and the way it is, and arranged as it is, anyone else would be dead.... But then, if you knew ( smiling ) how it becomes... The body is conscious (and things aren't hidden from it: it's not led up the garden path ...
... blockhead! 27 December 1963 One is often afraid of doing what is new; the body refuses to act in a new way, like trying a new gymnastic figure or another way of diving. From where does this fear come? How can one free oneself of it? And again, how can one encourage others to do the same? The body is afraid of anything new because its very base is inertia, tamas ; it is the vital which brings... rajas (activity). That is why, generally, the intrusion of the vital in the form of ambition, emulation and egotism, obliges the body to shake off tamas and make the necessary effort to progress. Naturally, those in whom the mind predominates can lecture their body and provide it with all the necessary reasons to enable it to overcome its fear. Page 395 The best way for everybody is... through the story there are mysteries and the trial is like the mental gymnastics of a master gymnast. But each time, when I have finished the book, I feel that I have gained nothing, learnt nothing new, that it was a waste of time. It is not absolutely useless. You have doubtless a great deal of tamas in your mind and the mental acrobatics of the author shake up this tamas a little and awaken ...
... because of the unusual state in which it outwardly found itself. The soul's ways are strange and often inscrutable. Before it leaves a body it chooses its own next incarnation, the nature of which would answer to the need felt by the departing soul for a certain kind of new experience. Of course there are Karmic effects too of one's doings, but the ordinary idea that good fortune now means reward for past... the generation contemporary with him will also be transformed in the twinkle of an eye and be lifted up into the Page 187 heavens in the wake of the dead who will arise in new spiritual bodies. Paul at first believed that the great event would be witnessed in his own lifetime: later, owing perhaps to a decline in his health, he held that it might happen soon after his death. No... for dispersal. I am glad you have qualified for intenser care as well as for greater understanding of the ailing who come to the emergency department. Most probably your new job reveals a field for which your new name - "Kripa" - has acted like an "Open Sesame". "Kripa" in place of the old "Catherine" is what has come through me from the Mother's overflowing love and compassion not only to ...
... whether this phenomenon, the new perception, has the capacity to transform the body—this body made of false matter, one might say—that has served evolution by being a bridge at the cellular level to the other reality of Matter (without the body—this "old thing," as Mother called it—we could never have built a bridge), or whether the illusion will be dissolved and the body along with it: the skin shed... about rather progressively, but it's fairly new, so it's hard to express. But it's this very body that no longer feels limited: it feels spread about in everything it does, in everything around it, in all things, people, movements, sensations, in all that.... It's spread about like that. It has become very amusing, very interesting. Its really new. The body has to be a little attentive and careful not... Part Two: The Passage Through the Veil Or The Purification of the Cells Mother or The New Species - II 21: The Cellular Level We shall never fully appreciate the evolutionary significance of what was happening in Mother's body—until the new stage is here, visible and realized. Then we shall say: Oh, so that's what it is! In short, we are asked to understand ...
... prevented the formation of the first and second considerable efforts towards the beginning of an attempt at union and the practical formation of a concrete body, an organised instrument with that object: rather they have caused and hastened this new creation. The League of Nations came into being as a direct consequence of the first war, the U.N.O. similarly as a consequence of the second world-wide conflict... without which world conditions would be infinitely worse and more dangerous, even perhaps irremediable. A third attempt, the substitution of a differently constituted body, could only come if this institution collapsed as the result of a new catastrophe: if certain dubious portents fulfil their menace, it might emerge into being and might even this time be more successful because of an increased and a... might not survive its coming into power in separate national States and a resulting inheritance of competing national interests and necessities: the old spirit might very well survive in the new socialist bodies. But also there might not be or not for a long time to come an inevitable tide of the spread of Socialism to all the peoples of the earth: other forces might arise which would dispute what seemed ...
... Aurobindo was not physically present either to suggest in mantric words what did happen. But, at least, we do have the Mother's own voice on an Agenda-tape saying that she had seen and been her new sexless body. So? To get back to some of Savitri's statements on love in her debate with Death, that repeatedly clarify the significance of the word 'love' as used by Sri Aurobindo in his epic. Savitri... foursome of classical American-English literature (the other three being Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman.) Asked how she would define poetry, Miss Dickinson replied: "If I read a book, and it makes my body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry. These are the only ways I know it. Is there any other... between tremendous Presences, Under the watching eye of nameless Gods... There he beheld in their mighty union's poise The figure of the deathless Two-in-One, A single being in two bodies clasped, A diarchy of two united souls, Seated absorbed in deep creative joy; Their trance of bliss sustained the mobile world. Behind them in a morning dusk One stood Who ...
... of the soul's rest before being reborn with a new subtle body as well as a new gross one. Sri Aurobindo, at the hour of his physical withdrawal, was in a position to do much more than be the cosmic and transcendent Purusha that his supramental Yoga had made his incarnate personality. He could actually be that Purusha active in an indissoluble subtle body at once divine and human, in a far more direct... and life-energy and even the physical body, transforming and divinising them in entirety, are Sri Aurobindo's special discovery and Yoga. With the supramental descent Sri Aurobindo aimed at creating a new humanity enjoying true self-consummation and living divinely in every field, and it is with this aim that he sought to form an initiating double centre for the new humanity by his own supramentalisation... divine material body which must one day emerge in a progressive evolution to a totally transformed existence both of life and form in a divinised earth-nature." These words hold out the prospect that Sri Aurobindo who has already a divinised subtle physical sheath may employ the supramental mode of manifestation for the purpose of presiding in the domain of Matter itself over the new humanity which ...
... of the soul's rest before beingreborn with a new subtle body as well as a new gross one. Sri Aurobindo, at the hour of his physical withdrawal, was in a position to do much more than be the cosmic and transcendent Purusha that his supramental Yoga had made his incarnate personality. He could actually be that Purusha active in an indissoluble subtle body at once divine and human, in a far more direct... creating a new humanity enjoying true self-consummation and living divinely in every field, and it is with this aim that he sought to form an initiating double centre for the new humanity by his own supramentalisation and the Mother's. Supramentalisation involves, among its final elements freedom from disease, duration of life at will and a change in the functionings of the body - all, of course... mode of manifestation for the purpose of presiding in Page 132 the domain of Matter itself over the new humanity which the Mother will initiate. In that dawn of God's gold the Mother will be the first being to achieve the divine body by a progression through a body born in the natural manner, while through the support of her achievement Sri Aurobindo may be the first being to put on ...
... into being only once and, passing away, will never come into being again. The embodied soul casts away old and takes up new bodies as a man changes worn-out raiment for new. As far as the body is concerned, certain is death for the born, and certain is rebirth for the dead. Therefore, what is inevitable ought not to be a cause of any sorrow or anxiety." After all, what is a single life? It is... After all, there is nothing to make us fear the death of the physical body. Fear of what? Fear of coming out of the rut? Fear of being free? Fear of no longer remaining a prisoner in the body? As the Mother once said: "And after all, if one must for some reason or other leave one's body and take a new one, is it not better to make of one's death something magnificent, joyful, enthusiastic... consciousness at death. New forms may be constituted but what gain will that bring to me as a person if I vanish for ever from the scene of existence with the break-up of my body? - yes, such is the nature of the misgiving, and unless this point is satisfactorily cleared, fear about death is bound to linger on. But is it really the fact that with the death of the physical body, the embodied being ...
... resembling sleep; (3) the new or "second life" that will be ushered in by a double event, man's resurrection and the renewing of Heaven and Earth. Between the death and the resurrection there is no survival of man's spirit: there is only a long slumber-like subsistence of the spirit together with a similar condition of the body, a death of the spirit along with the body's death. Our lines clinch Milton... Shall be all Paradise, far happier place Than this of Eden... 21 The terrestrial Paradise would continue till the time when all the happy just ones would go to Heaven in their new physical bodies. If these passages are taken along with the other in a literal sense, the terms definitely imply that Man's redemption is identical with Christ's conquest of death: he is freed from death by... in a spiritualised earthly body. The bodily transformation would be the result of a descent or manifestation of the archetypal form of man, the divine original "truth-body", known to the ancient Vedanta as the k ā ra ṇ a ś ar ī ra, "the causal body", secretly underlying the s ū k ṣ ma ś ar ī ra, "the subtle body" as well as the sthula ś ar ī ra, "the gross body". Just as the doctrine ...
... terms as it would amount to compromise on essentials. He did not want to maintain unity that way. He proposed a change in the constitution of the Congress and pleaded for the freedom of the new political bodies that had been formed to send in their representatives so that the Nationalists could have their own men in the Congress. The negotiations broke down on these issues. Sri Aurobindo thought... muscular exertion. Only one part ¹ Sri Aurobindo, On Himself, pp. 226-27. Page 113 of the body was slightly in contact with the ground and the rest was raised up against the wall. I could not have held my body like that normally even if I had wanted to and I found that the body remained suspended like that without any exertion on my part. That is the only thing that happened. In the... eyes of a mad man!' Charu Dutt took great pains to convince him that I was not at all mad but a Karma Yogi."² ¹ Sri Aurobindo, Bangia Rachana (Pondicheny: Sri Aurobindo Ashram, 1972), Pp. 280-81 (new translation). ² Talk of 3 January 1939, cf. Nirodbaran, Talks with Sri Aurobindo (Calcutta: Sri Aurobindo Pathamandir, 1966), p. 147. Page 111 "In my own case I once saw anger coming ...
... not yet come when an integral transformation would be possible. 29 June 1935 "The perfected ones were no longer obliged, like other men, to purify themselves in new bodies." What is meant by "purify themselves in new bodies"? It is during one's physical life on earth that one has the opportunity to purify oneself, to make spiritual progress. 1 July 1935 "When we have passed beyond... through him." Our aim is quite different. It is most unlikely that for a long time to come any new centres will be established, at least with our full approval. What we want to realise requires concentration rather than expansion. 5 February 1934 Mother! Don't you think that as long as the body exists we shall make mistakes and sometimes forget things? Not necessarily. It all depends... not need Your physical body—in the extreme fire of love Your body and his physical body are dissolved in a soul-communion. I think, Mother, that man does not need Your physical body, since You are already in his heart. That is not quite true. If there were not something more in the physical contact than in the inner contact, there would have been no reason for me to take a body upon earth. 23 October ...
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