... this New Consciousness is! It is floating there ( indicating a region above the head ) to descend here below. April 8, 1969 THE NEW CONSCIOUSNESS MESSAGES AND PRAYERS It is true that there is a new world or rather a new Consciousness manifested upon earth since the first of January. January 24, 1969 * “Give me the power to open myself entirely to the new consciousness.” ... Blessings of the Grace ASPIRATION OPENING TO THE NEW CONSCIOUSNESS …You know that this year ( 1969 ), a New Consciousness has descended upon earth…. Yes, Mother…. What is it…? You would like to have a little of this New Consciousness? That’s what you were … thinking? Yes, Mother: make me ready to participate. You see! But it depends... January 1969 * “Let me be born into the New Consciousness.” March 1969 * Open yourself to the New Consciousness. March 1969 * “Purify me of all the much too human weaknesses so that I may acquire the necessary calm to receive the new Consciousness.” “Make me worthy of it.” April 1969 * The result of all this inner work should be the disappearance of desires; for it ...
... all-embracing; it will not be a precipitous ascent but a descent or, rather, an unveiling of the Truth which pervades everything, down to the very cells of our body. 5 The New Consciousness There is a radically new fact. It is not old. It goes back only a few years. It is a new beginning on earth, and perhaps in the universe, as simple and bewildering as must have been the... little ones: a sameness of truth growing with each step and each gesture – one could almost say a consciousness of the Truth of Matter. This is the great new Fact in the world. This is the new consciousness announced by Sri Aurobindo, the Page 46 microscopic beginning of an earth-of-truth. Because they had not seen (or the time had not come), the sages of old searched for heaven by scaling... that springs up or the face that passes. But we did say “vibration”: thoughts have very little to do with this; they belong to the old mental acrobatics and are about as consequential for the new consciousness as tree climbing was for the first thought. It is more like a change of inner coloration, a play of fleeting shadows and sudden sunshine, of lightness and heaviness, a minute alteration of ...
... enormously interested in this new consciousness. He said, "I would really like to experience this new consciousness, so what has to be done?" He told me, 'All the spiritual stories tell you you shouldn't do this, you shouldn't do that, and you have to do this, you have to meditate and... " No, no! So I tried to explain to him that this new consciousness just wasn't like that. ... But he didn't speak to me about it. It bothers him a lot: "What has to be done to experience the new consciousness?" He needs to be helped. I have the impression he's right on the brink of something. Yes. What's to be done to experience the new consciousness? Well, you could help him. I tried to tell him something; I don't know if I did... ... the exclusion of the other religions; and every branch of human knowledge has been a failure because they were exclusive; and man has been a failure because he was exclusive. And what the new Consciousness wants (it is on this that it insists) is: no more divisions. To be able to understand the spiritual extreme, the material extreme, and to find... to find the meeting point, the point where. ...
... Auroville must become: a place where a new consciousness and a new way of being on Earth will be born. If you yourself change, everything else will change faster — but if you remain the same idiotic little humans, how do you expect other even more idiotic humans to change? Will Auroville understand that it is a laboratory ? the place where a new consciousness is being worked out. The "liberation"... Yes, we may build "Pavilions" of each country, but the real cement of these buildings is the common effort toward a new consciousness and a new way of being. "Buildings" are a mere excuse — in fact the whole of Auroville is an excuse and a façade for building up a new consciousness. Once Auroville is nicely built with all its avenues and alleys and Page 189 beautiful Pavilions, then... probably even before I became aware of it), Forces that we could call monstrous and tantric, of the lowest kind of black magic, came to attack this body directly. Luckily, the visions of the "New Consciousness" showed me, very concretely and with an unthinkable precision, where the blows were coming from and what all this was about. All the same, Sujata and I deposited our will with a notary in ...
... disciple reads) "A new consciousness is at work upon the earth to prepare the coming of the superman. "Open yourselves to this new consciousness if you aspire to serve the Divine Work. (Mother had used the word "collaborate", then she changed it to "serve" and made several other minor corrections.) "To be able to enter into contact with this new consciousness, the essential condition... (silence ) [passage omitted] [This new Consciousness] is very useful: sometimes when I don't know where I've put a piece of paper, it tells me, "It's there." It's really very interesting! And most of the time, it is that which makes me write things, especially for Auroville. [passage omitted] But [this new Consciousness] feels people, because I told you what the President... fierce, I don't know why. It comes and it strikes. With others, on the contrary, I'm very quiet. Some people tell me: you 're hard!... Has it always been like that? It's not since that new consciousness came, since this year? Last year too. Because I have noticed that there's something like that in this Consciousness: all of a sudden it comes like that, oh, it wants to strike ...
... And he was prodigiously interested in this new consciousness. He said, "I'd like to experience this new consciousness, so what should I do?..." He told me, "All spiritual stories tell us that you mustn't do this, mustn't do that, then you must do this, must meditate and..." No, no! So I tried to explain that, in fact, this new consciousness is not like that. Page 203 Yes. But... But he didn't tell me about it. It torments him a lot: "What's to be done to experience the new consciousness?" He needs to be helped. You get the feeling he's just on the edge of something. Yes. "How to experience the new consciousness?" Well, you'll be able to help him. I tried to tell him something; I don't know if I... With me, he doesn't ask anything. Yet he... his ties. But I tell you, I feel lie's on the edge of something. Yes, oh yes! He has to hold on for some more time. You can help him a lot. What I tried to tell him is that this new consciousness doesn't demand spiritual athleticism, great concentrations and meditations and tapasya [austerities], or special virtues.... No. It simply demands trust in something else, a sort of childlike ...
... what had happened. Past. No words, it is perfectly cured now. It ought to be. When you are reborn in the New Consciousness, it will be completely cured; it is the sign. You have understood? It should be normal, completely cured. Then it is the sign that you begin to live in the New Consciousness. So, it is understood. It is a fact… It is well… All right. ( After a brief pause Mother resumes ) You... way. Nothing more. The past does not exist for the knee so that it awakens to a new process of consciousness, — of acting, of adjusting, of conducting, or of behaving, — by the infusion of the New Consciousness into the knee. All the past habits, the atavism, the essential nature of the cells, the mental formations, the ideas, the ways of conduct, the physical actions and reactions, the vital attractions... all, all that constitutes the mode of action, the fear and the spontaneous shrinking, all that must be forgotten, leaving behind all the traits and habits. You must renew life, blossom into a New Consciousness. This is the only way to cure your knee. In fact, this is what I am doing on myself and the results are convincing. The body follows an inner rhythm leading to a limitless blossoming. It is ...
... energetically and even irresistibly, to cooperate with that power would mean hastening the day of realisation. Hence the urgency of the Mother's appeal: Will you help? The descent of the new Consciousness on 1 January 1969 was, after all, as the Mother herself had made clear, not confined to the Ashram or Auroville alone, but was global in its diffusion. Did it not mean, as Edith B. Schnapper had... inevitability of decay and decomposition. But now, after twenty years, her experience was different: her body was able to feel the Divine Presence. There was also the sustained pressure of the new Consciousness in ruthlessly clearing away the cobwebs of old mental formations and in turning the heavy and the obscure and the ugly into lightness and luminosity and beauty: This is the conquest that is... mental world. It is a change over of authority.... It is difficult. It is hard. It is painful. Naturally there is breakage, but... that is the real change, it is that which will enable the new Consciousness to express itself. And the body is learning, learning its lesson - all bodies, all bodies. Of course the battle was being fought still, but the Mother could see how, since his departure, ...
... The New Consciousness The new consciousness manifested upon earth on 1 January 1969 . Its characteristics are described in several talks of January 1969, where the Mother called it the superman consciousness ( la conscience du surhomme ). These talks appear in Notes on the Way , Volume 11 of the Collected Works of the Mother. To be able to receive the new consciousness without deforming... ess so that its coming is not in vain for us. To allow the free working of the New Consciousness that descended last year, what should a sadhak do? 1) Be receptive and 2) Be plastic 1970 Page 107 The first indispensable condition to prepare ourselves to receive the new consciousness is a true and spontaneous humility which makes us feel deeply that we know nothing... must be able to stand in the light of the Supreme Consciousness without casting a shadow. 16 April 1969 Page 105 There is only one new fact—from the beginning of this year a new consciousness has manifested and is working energetically to prepare the earth for the new creation. 17 April 1969 Of late, I am constantly feeling, flowing in my system from above, a Force which ...
... the work to be perfected, but until then I was wide awake. So I slipped into trance. I came out of this trance two hours later, at 3 a.m. And during these two hours I saw... with a new consciousness, a new vision, and above all a NEW POWER—I had a vision of the entire Work: all the people, all the things, all the systems, all of it. And it was... it was different in appearance (this is only... or of what was about to come, so that when I reached the end, all of it together was a simultaneous whole—the Supreme Consciousness.' When Satprem asked if this Supreme Consciousness was the 'New Consciousness,' Mother replied, 'Not "new"! One can't say new"—Supreme Consciousness.' ². This entire experience and Mother's insistence that it all happened 'without moving', unlike the experience of... around her. This work was proceeding rapidly with increasing acceleration. * * * _____________ ¹ Ibid, p. 326. Page 181 On 1st January, 1969, Mother had an experience of 'new consciousness', which was later on described by her as the consciousness of the superman, an intermediate between the human and the supramental being. Speaking of this, Mother said: ; On the ...
... will produce a new civilisation". The foundation of Auroville is "a new kind of spirituality, a new consciousness which we lack today"; Auroville "will never cease to evolve": ...Sri Aurobindo has given us in his works a concrete illustration or a crystallisation of the new man with a new consciousness. In our world the great error of our thought has been to divide our life between spiritual life... would build up a new personality in a new universe. Nolini Kanta Gupta too explained the ideal as "nothing less than the founding of a new mankind upon earth - with a new life and a new consciousness". The sense of the Convention was that the emphasis in the proposed university should be on quality, not quantity in terms of size and numbers: that, of the two kinds of knowledge - that 'obtained... Homo Sapiens is caught in an evolutionary crisis, which is also a psychological crisis: man has to break the egoistic mould within, release the imprisoned soul, and let it grow the wings of a new consciousness that will mean also a great accession of power. In all the major Arya sequences, Sri Aurobindo wove together the twin strands of individual and collective transformation, though the proportion ...
... is certain that the entire terrestrial life has to follow a certain curve of progress, so that a new world and a new consciousness can manifest. And that is why I said at the beginning that it depends at least partially on you. Have you ever tried to picture what this new consciousness could be and what a new race could be like, and finally what a new world could be like? By analogy, it is quite... Perfect! Perfect in comparison with us but not in comparison with what will come later. The world is in perpetual movement and perpetual progression, and it is very obvious that each time a new consciousness has manifested upon earth, one has felt that it would be... perhaps not a definitive realisation but in any case a considerable progress. And it is also very obvious that for... say, the consciousness... which we Page 321 have in ourselves, this need of an absolute, of an absolute truth, an absolute good, an absolute beauty—this indeed awakens at the moment one is ready to receive a new consciousness. It is certain that for a very long time, perhaps from the very beginning (not the beginning from the evolutionary standpoint, because there were periods of intermediate beings who were much ...
... which has emanated from us, in order to act in the very depths of the inconscience. The light that has emanated from us has awakened these tiny particles from millions of years of torpor to a new consciousness, to the vibration of an unknown Ananda. They have retained this Consciousness and Ananda and have spread them all around to effectuate a change in their surrounding — as if to suffuse it through... le joy. And Nature gathers this energy which has emanated from me and sends it here and there to bring forth new plants and new flowers that have not been seen before, impregnated with the New Consciousness. It is astonishing — these flowers! They are distinctly different from what we find ordinarily, with characteristics and modes of another plane of consciousness. They are so beautiful and they... atmosphere thrills with this unique vibration interspersed here and there; and those who are open and receptive, fulfilling the conditions demanded by these elements, have been able to awaken to this New Consciousness. They have had only a slight glimpse of what this substance is and they are astonished to find the effect it can bring about on the body, without knowing what it is. You see, these people who ...
... nature Page 954 and law of the transition from intellectual to spiritual mind; from that achieved starting-point we can begin to trace the passage to a higher dynamic degree of the new consciousness and the farther transition from spiritual mind towards supermind. The indications must necessarily be very imperfect, for it is only some initial representations of an abstract and general character... being: even there it could not be at first completely free, so long as it was imprisoned in the limits created by its own formations or combated by imperfection due to a mixture of the old and the new consciousness. Still there would be an increasing mastery and knowledge and an opening to a higher being and a higher nature. Our notion of free will is apt to be tainted with the excessive individualism... judgment to be replaced first by an intuitive and then by an overmind or supramental functioning which inaugurates the action of a direct Truth-consciousness, Truth-sight, Truth-discernment, a new consciousness which is in all its ways quite foreign to our mind's present nature. There is demanded too a similar giving up by the vital of its cherished desires, emotions, feelings, impulses, grooves of sensation ...
... atmosphere. Earth life as a whole has to follow a certain curve of progress in order that a new world and a new consciousness may appear in it. So the future realisation does depend, partially at least, upon you, individually and collectively. Have you ever tried to conceive what the new consciousness may mean, what the new race and the new world would look like? It is evident that the advent... relative term. A thing may be perfect in relation to the present or the past; it may not be so in relation to what is to come. Creation is a perpetual movement, a perpetual progression. Each time a new consciousness manifested upon earth, it was very natural for men of the epoch to have the impression that it was the final definitive realisation, at least a very great progress. Still we must note that... upon it, something durable, permanent, the Rock of Ages. This need of eternity, of an absolute good and absolute beauty awakens exactly at the moment when one is ready to receive a new consciousness. For a very long time, perhaps from the very beginning —I do not mean from the beginning of human evolution, for there have been earlier periods when, before the true man appeared, intermediate ...
... atmosphere. Earth life as a whole has to follow a certain curve of progress in order that a new world and a new consciousness may appear in it. So the future realisation does depend, partially at least, upon you, individually and collectively. Have you ever tried to conceive what the new consciousness might mean, what the new race and the new world would look like? It is evident that the advent of... relative term. A thing may be perfect in relation to the present or the past; it may not be so in relation to what is to come. Creation is a perpetual movement, a perpetual progression. Each time a new consciousness manifested upon earth, it was very natural for men of the epoch to have the impression that it was the final definitive realisation, at least a very great progress. Still we must note that... props oneself upon it, something durable, permanent, the Rock of Ages. This need of eternity, of an absolute good and absolute beauty awakens exactly at the moment when one is ready to receive a new consciousness. For a very long time, perhaps from the very beginning – I do not mean from the beginning of human evolution, for there have been earlier periods when, before the true man appeared, intermediate ...
... the path. Obviously, there had to be, at a given moment in History, the final convulsions of a reptile in order to begin to find the key to the bird. 69.35 Death, food and money: this new consciousness feels that those are the three “daunting” things in human life — that human life revolves around those three things: eating, dying, and having money. And for it, the three are ... passing inventions... goal is not immortality in this old body, that would be quite worthless. “Who would care to be confined in one narrow and changeless lodging unto a long eternity?” said Sri Aurobindo. 6 This new consciousness obviously has to gradually change the modalities of its body, and all this corporeal rigidity has to acquire a new suppleness, free itself from its dependence on coarse matter to feed itself,... wanted you to follow one religion to the exclusion of all others; and all human knowledge has gone bankrupt because it was exclusive, and man has gone bankrupt because he was exclusive. What the new consciousness wants is: no more divisions. To be capable of understanding the extreme spiritual, the extreme material, and to find the meeting point there where ... it becomes a true force. It's trying to teach ...
... only as starting-point and, when the right time came, spoke about the action of the New Consciousness which had been manifesting since the beginning of the year 1969. On 21st March 1969, after our Savitri work, the Mother said: Child, do you know, from the beginning of this year the New Consciousness has been coming down upon earth, which tells everything—what to do and what not to do—to... and very sweet, you'll see! The Mother always kept her promise. I became more and more aware of the New Consciousness and its action. The Mother's message of 1st April 1969 to all, in connection with the talk she gave me, runs: Since the beginning of this year a New Consciousness is at work upon earth to prepare men for a New Creation, the Superman. For this creation to be possible... Its coolness enveloped my subtle body. Here the Divine had strewn lavishly her exquisite Beauty and Wonder and Quietude. The divine vibrations were overwhelming. I was engulfed by the new consciousness. I reached the Suns. Their Force and Power were absolutely still and calm. Then I saw a narrow passage between the two Suns. I entered it, and on the other side I saw a golden world. There ...
... another life, and his new eyes, his new senses are not yet formed; he is like a newborn child just coming into the world. There is not a lessening of consciousness but, in reality, a passage to a new consciousness: The cup [has to be] left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it. 34 The only resource in these circumstances is to cling to our aspiration and, precisely because everything... heart, because everything now takes place within; nothing is outside or separate anymore. As the Upanishad long ago stated: "When That is known, all is known." 154 The first signs of this new consciousness are quite tangible: One begins to feel Page 148 others too as part of oneself or varied repetitions of oneself, the same self modified by Nature in other bodies. Or, at the least... be a sudden poetic blossoming, others will see new architectural forms, others will pursue new scientific discoveries, while still others will worship their God. Generally, the access to this new consciousness is accompanied by a spontaneous flowering of creative energies, particularly in the poetic field. It is interesting to note the number of poets of all languages – Chinese, Indian, English, etc ...
... we hope that the new consciousness that descended on the 1st of January will do in the field of Yoga what the astronauts are in the course of doing in the scientific field? What the astronauts have just done on the moon is surely a wonderful accomplishment of calculation, endurance and courage, but they are a child's realisations in comparison to what the new Consciousness is in course of ... I will do what You want me to do. . . in peace, light and joy." 13.5.1969 Are the conditions now more favourable for the Yoga of the body ? Since the time that this new consciousness is working on the earth, it is certainly helping powerfully the Yoga of the body. But even now it is not an easy thing and it demands that the body be neither tender nor timid, and of course that... most ardent, like a flame that rises all straight without a puff of air to make it waver. 5.6.1969 The light of gold is becoming a splendid rain around the Mother! It is the new Consciousness ready to help all those who are ready to listen to it. 7.6.1969 My ego's reactions, produced constantly, make a veil between me and the Truth. 9.6.1969 This is inevitable ...
... you as the touch of Shiva—naturally, this would not be all but a beginning, a basis for a new self, a new consciousness, an activity of a greater nature; as I told you, it is a deep spiritual calm and peace that is the only stable foundation for a lasting Bhakti and Ananda. In that new consciousness there would be a new basis for relations with others; for an ascetic dryness or isolated loneliness cannot... and her external surroundings and power of action upon them. To try to go back to the old relation does not usually succeed; the only safe course is to progress still farther and arrive at a new consciousness and new power which will enable her to establish a fresh relation with her external environment. If one keeps courage and always looks forward, relying on the Force behind which supports, there... passed through safely and eventually overcome. Yes. The inner being turned to the Divine naturally draws away from old vital relations and outer movements and contacts till it can bring a new consciousness into the external being. The movement [ of rejection ] of which you speak is not psychic but emotive. It is a vital emotive force that you put out and waste. It is also harmful because ...
... in this environment and aspiration. In their prolific writings, both Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have given us very clear guidelines to become conscious participants in this adventure of the new Consciousness, how to transform our old human nature in order to manifest the new. This has been the primary focus of the Mother's workings in us. And the work IS continuing: the transformation of our human... and customs, this ever-present endeavour at change is our inheritance from the Mother and a reflection of Her continuing workings in our lives. This aspiration, this enthusiasm to receive the new Consciousness has been so deeply embedded and established by the Mother's divine force in our lives that this has become our sole preoccupation. However much the Page 204 old nature and old... realisation by the transformation of our nature. And this is made possible only by Their Grace, by Their help. Sri Aurobindo is for us the invoker of the Supermind, the full flowering of the new Consciousness. I have had the privilege of this Maharishi's darshan, the privilege of bowing down to Him. However, it is the Mother we have really known. She has been our support, She has been the object of ...
... between the inmates, (though good feeling, consideration and courtesy should always be there), because that is not the aim; it is a unity in a new consciousness that is the aim and the first thing is for each to do his sadhana, to arrive at that new consciousness and realise oneness there. Whatever faults are there in the sadhaks must be removed by the Light from above—a sattwic rule can only change... fuller vital life. But for one who has the assured inner life, there is no dullness. Realisation within must be the first object; work for the Divine on the basis of the true inner self and a new consciousness, not on the basis of the old, is the result that can follow. Till then work and life can be only a means of sadhana, not a "self-fulfilment" or a brilliant and interesting vital life on the old... is to go—although the principle of the spiritual life is against any return to the old one even for a time especially if the deeper urge is there and striving towards a firm foundation of the new consciousness—for the return to the ordinary atmosphere and surroundings and motives disturbs the work and throws back the progress. 10 March 1937 Does your allowing people to go out from here mean that ...
... and the arising of a new consciousness on the planet. Sri Aurobindo says that consciousness has evolved from a state of Inconscience, emerging first as Matter, then Life, then Mind, and is now preparing to emerge into a consciousness that he calls Supermind, which is not a bigger mind but something beyond mind. [ECKHART: Yes.] What you say about the arising of a new consciousness, is it based on some... before it finally gives way, either through violent upheavals or in a general way. Who knows? That probably depends on how many humans are open to the new consciousness that wants to arise. If a sufficient number of humans are open to the new consciousness, the need for violent upheavals lessens on the planet. There could be violence produced by humans against other humans, humans against the planet ...
... Aurobindo and the Mother to hasten the advent of this New Consciousness, soften its impact, and create conditions for its general diffusion, interpenetration and activisation as the commanding ruling principle and power of human and terrestrial transformation. Page 842 XI People may (and do) ask: "Ah, but where is this new Consciousness? We only see the disturbed opening scenes portending... happened.... A new world, yes, a completely new world, is born and is here." 27 And yet only a few, an elect few, could see what the many couldn't understand; and while there was the burst of the New Consciousness, the wise men only talked and slept. 28 The Mother, however, gave the guarantee that the time would come when "the most blind, the most unconscious, even the most unwilling shall be obliged... action of the supramental Light and Force and Consciousness that there should be certain unexpected defeats, disturbances and dismantlings defying understanding in the old conventional terms. The new Consciousness now sweeping over the earth clearly carries an elemental revolutionary thrust, as if it will carry all before it. On the contrary, the supramental is quintessentially a creative force, and its ...
... his way and all depends on his growth through experience to the point at which he can grow out of it into something else. That something else is in fact a new consciousness—whether a new consciousness beyond the earthly life or a new consciousness within it. I don't remember the context; but I suppose he [ the writer of Yogic Sadhan] means that when one has to escape from the lower dharma, one ...
... substance and energy by which the many obstacles in it rarefy, drop away or otherwise disappear; it then becomes possible to pass through to the depths of our being and from the depths so reached a new consciousness can be formed, both behind the exterior self and in it, joining the depths to the surface. There must grow up within us or there must manifest a consciousness more and more open to the deeper... greater sight, a higher truth and wisdom, enter into the being, a luminous intuitive discrimination works which dispels all darkness of understanding or dazzling confusions, puts all in order; a new consciousness begins to form, the mind of a high wide self-existent thinking knowledge or an illumined or an intuitive or an overmental consciousness with new forces of thought or sight and a greater power... mind and remould it, after wards of the life part and remould that, finally of the little physical consciousness and leave it no longer little but wide and plastic and even infinite. For this new consciousness has itself the nature of infinity: it brings to us the abiding spiritual sense and awareness of the infinite and eternal with a great largeness of the nature and a breaking down of its limitations; ...
... is drawn outward to people or things in the old way, but is dissatisfied because the growth of the new consciousness behind prevents it taking pleasure in them, so that it remains restless, not understanding anything. What it has got to learn is that it must fall quiet and open to a new consciousness from above and within. This part of the being is obscure,—not sufficiently mentalised to understand... dismiss them either rapidly or by a slow pressure. There is always the conflict between the consciousness that is coming into you and the ignorant consciousness that was there before. The new consciousness is gaining ground always but still against much resistance especially in the vital physical (which is indicated in the stomach attacks). But there is only one way to go and that is to insist always ...
... between the inmates (though good feeling, consideration and courtesy should always be there), because that is not the aim; it is a unity in a new consciousness that is the aim, and the first thing is for each to do his sadhana to arrive at that new consciousness and realise oneness there. 31 October 1935 I don't think it is much use writing about personal relations in the true spiritual life (which... order to fit yourself for service to others. But leading a higher life is a vague mental phrase and the object of Yoga is not service to others. The object of Yoga is to enter into an entirely new consciousness in which you live no longer in the mind and the ego but in the divine consciousness and grow into the true inmost truth of your being above mind and life and body. The aim in most ways of Yoga ...
... or resulting from the ascent—the ascent is the real thing. Here the ascent is indispensable, but what is decisive, what is finally aimed at is the resulting descent. It is the descent of the new consciousness attained by the ascent that is the stamp and seal of the sadhana. Even Tantra and Vaishnavism end in the release from life; here the object is the divine fulfilment of life. (2) Because the... Yoga—only so much purification and change is demanded by them as will lead to liberation and the Page 403 beyond-life. The influence of the Atman can no doubt do that—a full descent of a new Consciousness into the whole nature from top to bottom to transform life here is not needed at all for the spiritual escape from life. It is not a hope but a certitude that the complete transformation... on. There was no need in him for the transformation which we seek; for although he spoke of the divine man (Ishwarakoti) coming down the stairs as well as ascending, he had not the idea of a new consciousness and a new race and the divine manifestation in the earth-nature. Whatever may have happened to Chaitanya or Ramalingam, whatever physical transformation they may have gone through is quite ...
... whole lower nature so as to make it ready for the divine change. Going upwards, one passes beyond the human mind and at each stage of the ascent there is a conversion into a new consciousness and an infusion of this new consciousness into the whole of the nature. Page 300 Thus rising beyond intellect through illuminated higher mind to the intuitive consciousness, we begin to look at everything... depends on the numbers. The numbers of Buddhism and Christianity were so great because the majority professed it as a creed without its making the least difference to their external life. If the new consciousness were satisfied with that, it could also and much more easily command homage and acceptance by the whole earth. It is because it is a greater consciousness, the Truth-consciousness, that it will ...
... Blessings. 5 November 1969 * You must have lived what you want to teach. To speak of the new consciousness, let it penetrate you and reveal to you its secrets. For only then can you speak with any competence. To rise into the new consciousness, the first condition is to have enough modesty of mind to be convinced that all that you think you know is nothing in... teach is not only a mental ideal, it is a new idea of life and a realisation of consciousness. This realisation is new to all, and the only true way to teach others is to live according to this new consciousness oneself and to allow oneself to be transformed by it. There is no better lesson than that of an example. To tell others: "Do not be selfish," is not much use, but if somebody is free from all ...
... ADDENDUM "The Schism" Satprem had received the following letter from an enthusiastic reader of "On the Way to Supermanhood": "Until the year of grace 1969 [the descent of the New Consciousness], all philosophies, all religions, all isms, all spiritual paths were only the refined products of the 'mental circle' [according to 'Supermanhood']. All experiences were merely on 'the higher... if not from Mother and Sri Aurobindo? You forget that it is thanks to him that the yoga of the superman is possible, that it is he who prepared it, he who brought down the great flood of the New Consciousness so that, instead of seeking for the Divine Truth up above, men can live it down here and walk their every step in it. It is like saying that Sri Aurobindo did not have the key to the door he opened... the soul, the Fire within, Agni, does not belong to the "mental bubble" or to any bubble: it is the Divine in matter. It is that little Fire which opens the door to the great solar Fire of the New Consciousness. It is the instrument of the yoga of the superman (when I speak of turning on the "psychic switch," I am there taking the word in the vulgar and ridiculous sense of people seeking visionary and ...
... state, but if I am drawn into the old consciousness by circumstances, it becomes almost unbearable. You see. And it results in pains in the body or... a body malfunction. But when I enter the new consciousness, everything takes place quite... without my even noticing it and without any effort. That's all I can say for the moment. You see, my body is full of pains and malfunctions, but as soon... pronounced), every minute: do you want life, do you want death; do you want life, do you want death?... That's how it is. And life is union with the Supreme. And consciousness, a COMPLETELY new consciousness is coming. That's how it is, like this (Mother makes a gesture of swinging from one side to the other). But yesterday or the day before, I don't know, all of a sudden the body said, 'No! I am... _____ ¹ Satprem refers to numerous meditations he had with Mother, when Mother used to hold his hand in order to build inner bridges of communication and to give him the experience of the new consciousness. Page 225 there was no 'Mother' in this or any 'me', or even an experience— unless the world itself was having the experience. Yes, in fact, it was like the first manifestation of ...
... to come down; they called it down, established it in this atmosphere and withdrew—for the mission for which they took up material form was done. Yes, the mission was fulfilled. Now the new consciousness will spread and make its own place. It is the Truth-Consciousness; by the very fact of its presence it is bound to disturb the rhythm of ignorance and falsehood, to break and demolish the formations... darkness; perhaps there were deeper necessities of fate and secret reasons. But man failed, man refused the help and rebelled against it; like the Asuras of ancient folklore, man wanted to use the new consciousness to serve his human ends; his human self refused to obey the Divine truth. So man rejected the offer. The time was over. Sri Aurobindo and Mother left their Page 61 bodies;... for the soul, Mother's arms carry them forward as always. But still there is a difference. We spoke of the Pralaya; if you look around, you will be sure that it has started. The new consciousness is at work and, as predicted, the first phase of its effect has turned out to be a thorough destruction of all that stands in the way of its advent. The whole world seems to be in trouble—all ...
... required is of a deeper kind: it is the appearance of a new consciousness that is called for, and the subsequent transformation of human nature. There must grow in a few individuals at first, then in an increasing number of people, the urge to overpass the old limits, to find in themselves or above themselves a new light, a new consciousness, a new guiding principle of knowledge and action, and a decision... decision to abide by it, to let this new consciousness transform their life and nature. Then only can be removed the obstacles that block the way and humanity enter into a new creative age of civilization. No material prosperity, no advance of physical science, no religious revival, no social revolution can replace the necessary and Page 35 inevitable spiritual transformation. ...
... The Mother on Auroville New Consciousness The city will be built by what is invisible to you. The men who have to act as instruments will do so despite themselves. They are only puppets in the hands of larger Forces. Nothing depends on human beings—neither the planning nor the execution—nothing! That is why one can laugh. +Sep. 1969 * Q:... * The task of giving a concrete form to Sri Aurobindo's vision was entrusted to the Mother. The creation of a new world, a new humanity, a new society expressing and embodying the new consciousness is the work she has undertaken. By the very nature of things, it is a collective ideal that calls for a collective effort so that it may be realised in the terms of an integral human perfection... in contact with one's psychic being, one must be guided by it and the ego's authority and influence must disappear +28.12.1972 * Auroville wants to be a new creation expressing a new Consciousness in a new way and according to new methods. 18.8.1969* Page 28 Auroville's Symbol The Mother had made a sketch of the new symbol of Auroville on 16.8.71 and ...
... pass through that to arrive at a more positive new consciousness. When the mind thus falls quiet the thoughts of the past, all sorts of repetitive or mechanical thoughts begin to rise up—these come from the physical mind or the subconscient. One has to refuse them and let them pass away, aspiring for the complete mental quietude in which the new consciousness can reveal itself little by little. Remain... receive, unwillingness to let go what is mistaken. Its advantage is steadiness, a firm hold when it gets the right thing. Therefore you should not mind if it takes long to absorb and hold the new consciousness—as a matter of fact, to hold takes long with everybody. Once you have got it well established, your nature is likely to hold it firmly. As for the lack of discrimination, that is only in the physical ...
... progress in order for a new world and a new consciousness to manifest. This is why I said in the beginning that it depends at least partially on you.’ 8 In the same conversation she said: ‘For a very long time it has been said: “It will come, it will come” … Many thousands of years ago some already began to promise that one day there would be a new consciousness, a new world, something divine which... something that will become one of the main lines of her subsequent effort: the change of Matter effected by the change of consciousness, or the change of Matter made necessary to incorporate a new consciousness. All degrees of consciousness above the mental degree which denominates humankind exist somewhere in the invisible worlds, but the substance of those worlds is not the gross material substance ...
... of something not too... not too steady—not too steady, it's odd. 12 That's odd; it's new, it began two days ago. We'll see. ( long silence ) Maybe a new consciousness is trying to use this body?... It's a new consciousness in the sense that what this body did, its activities, all the events of its life, appear in the memory as COMPLETELY different from the way it remembered them—not that... point of stupidity—for everything, everything. And there is a sort of... strange gap: it now finds its former state of consciousness artificial, untrue, and... incredibly stupid; and then, in the new consciousness, the SAME circumstances have a completely different MEANING—another meaning, they give another sensation. I think there's something changing in here. And at the same time, a sense of... ...
... laws of the Divine and ultimately it is the laws of the Divine that will prevail. The new Consciousness that descended on the 1st of January is very active, and we have come to an extremely critical time in the history of the world. It is most interesting to watch how things are happening. This new Consciousness is preparing for the Superman and so there are big changes occurring all around. When the... the animal had no mind and could not appreciate the evolution. Man has mind and can appreciate it. That is why the present is the most interesting period in history. If one can stand in the new Consciousness and watch all events from above, one can see how small and futile they are and then one can act upon them with a great power. I am aware of the condition of the country. If even one person ...
... Mother had what amounted to a mystic experience. Suddenly Nature understood that the new Consciousness - the supramental - which the Mother was trying to embody wasn't Nature's enemy but only her collaborator. Nothing of Nature was to be denied, but readily accepted and integrated into the movements of the new Consciousness to achieve a new crown of fulfilment. When Nature was thus in a receptive mood,... she received a direction from the supreme Reality to wake up and collaborate with the new Consciousness, and Nature too made an instantaneous response, rushing forward in "a great surge of joy" accepting the role of collaboration. Immediately "there came a calm, an absolute tranquility" so that the Mother's "bodily vessel could receive and contain, without breaking, without losing anything, the mighty ...
... that the Mother left her body. It was after this intense experience in 1961, that the Mother declared that hereafter children will be born with an altogether new consciousness, reminding us how Savitri had brought down the new consciousness through her own conquest over Death. Savitri represents the Mother in totality. In a way, like Savitri, She too has been brought down after eighteen years ...
... without weaknesses and without shadows: it was all light, all light and smiling, and sweetness at the same time. Yes, perhaps the overman.” 32 Finally, on 8 January, she identified the new Consciousness: “It is the descent of the consciousness of the overman [le surhomme]: I had the assurance afterwards. It was 1 January, after midnight. I woke up at two in the morning, surrounded by a con... stabilised it [the body], and, if it keeps the right attitude, as if every support is there to help it.” 33 Ten days later, on 18 January, the Mother had become quite familiar with the new Consciousness: “Well, it is very consciously active. It is like a projection of power. And it has now become habitual. There is a consciousness in it – something very precious – that gives lessons to the ...
... you as the touch of Shiva—naturally, this would not be all, but a beginning, a basis for a new self, a new consciousness, an activity of a greater Nature; as I told you, it is a deep spiritual calm and peace that is the only stable foundation for a lasting Bhakti and Ananda. In that new consciousness there would be a new basis for relations with others; for an ascetic dry ness or isolated loneliness ...
... identify with the souls whom he was teaching – in other words, it required that he be a yogi or she a yogini. ‘You must have lived what you want to teach,’ wrote the Mother. ‘To speak of the new consciousness, let it penetrate you and reveal to you its secrets. For only then can you speak of it with any competence.’ 42 In fact, the Ashram School was a school where the teachers were also students... The Mother, On Education , CWM 12 p. 101. × A New Education for a New Consciousness , Sri Aurobindo Ashram Trust. × Id., p. 147. ...
... inadmissible technique; but this seems to me a reasoning from the conventions of a past order which cannot apply to a new poetry dealing with spiritual things. A new art of words written from a new consciousness demands a new technique. A.E. himself admits that this rule makes a great difficulty because these 'high light' words are few in the English language. Page 190 ... but also for having readily acquitted themselves of their sacred responsibility, the sense of which prompted them to "salute the Dawn" they had seen and announce the high Herald of a new consciousness in poetry, who sang vibrantly of Earth's deepest aspiration and highest fulfilment: An inarticulate whisper drives her steps Of which she feels the force but not the sense; ...
... if and when we succeed, will be a beginning, not a completion. It is the foundation of a new consciousness on earth …’ 14 In a letter from 31 July 1935, he writes: ‘I am not trying to change the world all at once but only to bring down centrally something into it that it has not yet, a new consciousness and power.’ 15 He had already written in The Synthesis of Yoga: ‘It must be kept in mind ...
... without changing the consciousness is a vain chimera ." I have understood directly from the Mother and the books of Sri Aurobindo that now we have entered a new Age—the Age of a new Consciousness. The New Consciousness manifested upon earth on 1 January 1969. The Mother called It "The Superman Consciousness." We must try to live That. The whole world cannot be changed in a trice. But if each one ...
... founds itself are exceeded, there is even another law and canon of perception and knowledge. His entire business is to break out or upward or widen into a new consciousness which looks at things in a very different way, and if this new consciousness may include, though viewed with quite another vision, the data of the ordinary external intelligence, yet it cannot be limited by them, cannot bind itself ...
... work out according to the truth of its own nature. A Beginning, Not a Completion What we are doing, if and when we succeed, will be a beginning, not a completion. It is the foundation of a new consciousness on earth—a consciousness with infinite possibilities of manifestation. The eternal progression is in the manifestation and beyond it there is no progression. If the redemption of the soul from... outer mind, its vital and physical do not like to pay the price. But after all I am not trying to change the world all at once but only to bring down centrally something into it has not yet, a new consciousness and power. Not in their entirety [ will cosmic Mind, Life and Matter be transformed ]—for that is not our business. It is ourselves that we have to transform and change the earth consciousness ...
... nature and through concentration of thought and will raising oneself into the vital and then into the mental self. By doing so we can become the vital being and draw up the physical self into that new consciousness so that we are only aware of the body, its nature and its actions as secondary circumstances of the Life-soul which we now are, used by it for its relations with the Page 462 material... or siddhis; a close sense of and sympathy with the Life-soul in the world and a knowledge or sensation of the emotions, desires, vital impulses of others; these are some of the signs of this new consciousness gained by Yoga. But all this belongs to the inferior grades of spiritual experience and indeed is hardly more spiritual than the physical existence. We have in the same way to go yet higher ...
... with the danger of morbidity and self-delusion. A middle path with the rule of living more and more within, standing back from outward things but not throwing them aside, looking at them with a new consciousness, Page 327 a new view and acting on them from this inner consciousness is the best way. But there is need for some at some stages to minimise outward contacts without abolishing them... because there is no knowledge. The consciousness comes with a growing inner development in the being which makes the peace, the liberation a necessity—with that one opens to a higher Force of a new consciousness which puts an end to the vital interchange and creates a new poise for the vital as well as the mental life. If one stops with the increased sensitivity and does not go farther, then of course ...
... the transforming process. Probably the sense of unsureness is due to the part of the nature which founds itself on the body consciousness and feels nothing sure or solid except the body. In the new consciousness on the contrary what will be felt as sure and solid is the wide spiritual consciousness not limited by the body, in which the body is only a small circumstance hardly felt, an instrument only... without this vital push one can do very little. When the higher consciousness descends into the mind and vital, this push becomes silent, but the faculty of work remains,—afterwards when the new consciousness is settled it takes up the work and carries it on with another force which replaces the push of the vital and is much greater. In the first condition you are receiving through the mind ...
... luminous and decisive, they have to be followed by a long process of firm and stable foundation, fuller development, progressive transformation of the nature and a complete organisation of the new consciousness which involves years of persistent and vigilant discipline and endeavour. Please write to me before you start and inform me of the date of your arrival. [2] [August-September 1927]... experiences and all sorts of influences from all the planes and from all sources and quarters. There is a period of intense and overpowering internal activity of formation, vision and movements of new consciousness and new power. If then the disciple is carried away [ ] 3 by the brilliance and splendour and delight of his experiences, he can easily wander far from the highest way. But the Forces and Beings ...
... consciously felt at all times. 7 January 1935 Is there any difference between the Mother's Presence and the Divine Consciousness? One can feel the Divine Consciousness impersonally as a new consciousness only. The Mother's Presence is something more—one feels herself there present within or above or enveloping one or all these together. 8 July 1935 The feeling of the Mother's Presence or... write or do not write. Many who write often do not feel it, some who write seldom feel her always close. 11 June 1936 You write: "One can feel the Divine Consciousness impersonally as a new consciousness only" 1 but that the Mother's presence is something more. You also wrote in another letter that the Divine Presence in the heart is much more than the consciousness. In what way is the Presence ...
... one is above all contradictions. 16 December 1968 You must have lived what you want to teach. To speak of the new consciousness, let it penetrate you and reveal to you its secrets. For only then can you speak with any competence. To rise into the new consciousness, the first condition is to have enough modesty of mind to be convinced that all that you think you know is nothing in comparison ...
... Aurobindo has written about the necessity of restricting our contacts with the outside world and separating ourselves from the ordinary life, in order to carry on our special work of bringing down a new consciousness for the earth. This letter was written in 1933. But now all types of people from the outside world are freely allowed to come to the Ashram, and the sadhaks of the Ashram also freely mix... labour of divine Love. 2 22 October 1933 What Sri Aurobindo has written is absolutely true and must be followed. There is only one new fact―from the beginning of this year a new consciousness has manifested and is working energetically to prepare the earth for the new creation. 17 April 1969 Page 147 On the occasion of Sri Aurobindo's centenary, many people will ...
... all that—I cannot give the names or the facts, but it is as concrete as it can be. And this continues. All this has been seen—I saw it long ago, but it came back as an illustration of the new consciousness, just this morning. Extraordinarily concrete in its effects: changing the capacities and movements of the consciousness of the other, and consciously—an absolutely conscious life. And it is the... why I could follow all the details. But it is clear, precise and evident only with this new vision because, how to say?... I knew it—I knew it before, I knew it—but I saw it again with the new consciousness, the new way of seeing, and then the comprehension was total, the perception total, altogether concrete, with elements that were wholly missing—convincing elements—wholly missing in the first ...
... It is the advent of the being that will succeed man, the being that will be to man what man is to the animal, that is being prepared. And the work has already begun with the action of a new consciousness which came on the first of January 1969 and is at work in all who are ready. The action of this consciousness has intensified and is becoming more and more material. It is up to us to be receptive... heart to become Your true child. Help me to become worthy of You. My dear child, I was very glad to read what you have written. The day of your birth will truly be your birth into a new consciousness, the true consciousness that will lead you to the Divine realisation. Page 367 But just now I want to tell you that my love and help are always with you to help you on the way. ...
... substance and this new consciousness to such an extent that it will rise towards it and serve as a link between the two but all that belongs incorrigibly to falsehood and ignorance will disappear. This was also prophesied in the Gita : among what we call the hostile or anti-divine forces, those capable of being transformed will be uplifted and go off towards the new consciousness, whereas all that ...
... start of the new school year. ) One must have lived what one wants to teach. To speak of the new consciousness, let it penetrate you and reveal Page 465 its secrets to you. For only then will you be able to speak of it with competence. To leap into the new consciousness, the first condition is a mental modesty sufficient to be convinced that all one thinks one knows ...
... same objectivity we have when awake: I was fully awake, I didn't sleep, it wasn't a dream. Objectivity: I saw the fact and then I reasoned over it—a completely, completely new consciousness. Now I know what this new consciousness is, and I say so positively (I mean it's the body that speaks, and it knows it positively—yesterday it was asking). So its attitude is like this: "Now I know, and it's for ...
... don't feel "I" am eating, you see, so I am not aware of putting things in my mouth and having to swallow them and.... Yes, I understand. I can't say, but the fact is like this: in the new consciousness, I eat very easily, without noticing it, and everything goes very well; as soon as I become conscious in the old consciousness, which means eating, tasting the food, putting it in my mouth—it's... state, but if I am drawn into the old consciousness by circumstances, it becomes almost unbearable. You see. And it results in pains in the body or... a body malfunction. But when I enter the new consciousness, everything takes place quite... without my even noticing it and without any effort. That's all I can say for the moment. You see, my body is full of pains and malfunctions, but as soon ...
... "The task of giving a concrete shape to Sri Aurobindo's vision has been entrusted to the Mother. The creation of a new world, a new humanity, a new society, expressing and embodying the new consciousness, is the work undertaken by her. In the nature of things, it is a collective ideal calling for a collective effort to realize it in terms of an integral human perfection. "The Ashram, founded... Mother. (Second version) The task of completing Sri Aurobindo's vision has been given to the Mother. The creation of a new world, a new humanity, a new society expressing and embodying the new consciousness is the work she has undertaken. By the very nature of things, it is an ideal because the state of Nature that makes it necessary must be surpassed. We aspire for the time when Sri Aurobindo will ...
... This is the new consciousness." It happened several times. Then I understood. ( silence ) You see, what in terms of human common sense says, "This is impossible, it's never been before," that's what is finished. This idiocy is over. It's become a stupidity. Now we could say: it's possible BECAUSE it has never been before. This is the new world and this is the new consciousness and this is the ...
... lower nature so as to make it ready for die divine change. Going upwards, one passes beyond the human mind and at each stage of the ascent, there is a conversion into a new consciousness and an infusion of this new consciousness into the whole of the nature. Thus rising beyond intellect through illuminated higher mind to the intuitive consciousness, we begin to look at everything not from the intellect ...
... between the inmates (though good feeling, consideration and courtesy should always be there), because that is not the aim; it is a unity in a new consciousness that is the aim, and the first thing is for each to do his Sadhana to arrive at that new consciousness and realise oneness there." (The Mother, p. 264) (3)"Our view is that the normal thing is in yoga for the entire flame of the nature ...
... problem very closely so as to dwell upon this very important subject of Indianness and cultural continuity of India. Let us, first of all, emphasise the fact that as we look deeply into the new consciousness that is fundamentally vibrating among the children and the youth, is manifesting itself through flashes of their amazing talents, genius and dexterity, we find that there is a sound basis to feel... feel confident that the present stage of degeneration in our country can be reversed and remedied. We have, however, to stress that we have to create conditions under which that new consciousness is allowed to be liberated from the clutches of ignorance and imprisoning modes of social structures and uninspiring ideals that are constantly being bombarded on the minds of the youths. Let us also admit ...
... What is this struggle really about? It is between the old lower nature supported by the hostile forces and the new consciousness that began to descend — the struggle is always that. You say the struggle is between the old and the new consciousness. But then what is special in it now? Does it not begin from the beginning of the sadhana and continue till the sadhana is completed ...
... consciousness which he calls Supermind. In the earthly scheme there will thus manifest a new type, a higher functioning of consciousness and a new race or species will appear on earth with this new consciousness as the ruling principle. Out of the rock and mineral came the plant, out of the plant the animal, out of the mere animal man has come and out of man the Superman will come inevitably. Standing... s and means of expression, but which till now, because of an evolutionary necessity of growth and development, acted more as an obstruction or a veil than as an aid or a channel. When in the new consciousness the individual attains its soul-status, in other words, its divinity, then a reshaping and recasting of the lower limbs becomes possible and even inevitable. The soul-status means freedom, harmony ...
... The Great Holocaust – Chhinnamasta* Throughout the ages whenever there has been a new creation on earth, or manifestation of a new consciousness in earthly atmosphere, it was always preceded by a stage of destruction and dissolution of the old. The dance of Shiva has its two aspects - the bliss of creation and also the joy of destruction... to it – he loves this game of falsehood and croockedness. Perhaps truth is too bright too compelling for his egoistic nature and obscure make-up – so he denies, obstructs as much as he can the new consciousness, the new reality. Mother out of her infinite love tried to take this denial on her own self, tried to convince and change as many elements as was possible – then, when nothing more could be done ...
... - Final Reflections The Great Holocaust - Chhinnamasta Throughout the ages whenever there has been a new creation on earth or the manifestation of a new consciousness in the earthly atmosphere, it was always preceded by a stage of destruction and dissolution of the old. The dance of Shiva has two aspects—the bliss of creation and the joy of destruction (l... it—he loves this game of falsehood and crookedness. Perhaps the truth is too bright, too compelling for his egoistic nature and obscure make-up, so he denies, obstructs as much as he can the new consciousness, the new reality. Mother, out of her infinite love, tried to take this denial on her own self, tried to convince and change as many elements of it as possible; then, when nothing more could be ...
... first, then in an increasing number, the urge to overpass the old limitations, to find in themselves or above themselves a new light, a New Consciousness, a new guiding principle of knowledge and action, and a decision to abide by it, to let this new consciousness transform their nature and life. This is possible, says Sri Aurobindo, because by Yoga man has shown that he is able to raise himself ...
... understand why She did not decide to take the plunge, or why Sri Aurobindo, or the Consciousness, did not categorically tell her what She had to do. “Better to be mistaken while listening to the new consciousness than not to be mistaken while listening to the doctors!” I told her. But the Consciousness doesn't contradict anything. I don't know how to explain it If there were a strong and clear indication... more and more, more and more, through good or evil, into something that we do not know yet, as it did in Mother’s body. It is “the transition of the earth,” she said as early as 1963. This new Consciousness seems to be intensifying all things so as to make them more perceptible: all the circumstances of life. Diseases, misunderstandings, quarrels, everything but everything has become acute, so acute ...
... ascending one; from one form, one species, she brings forth a new one capable of manifesting something more of the universal consciousness... the present human consciousness will be replaced by a new consciousness, no longer mental but supramental. And this consciousness will give birth to a higher race, superhuman and divine. And now is the time when this possibility, this thrust into the future, this... appeal: Let us unite our wills in a great aspiration; let us pray for an intervention of the Grace. A miracle can always happen. Faith has a sovereign power... let us invoke with sincerity this new Consciousness, this new Force, Truth, and Beauty which must manifest, so that the earth may be transformed and the supramental life realised in the material world. Then they concentrate in silence as he ...
... Being drawn from all over the country, the children were a cosmopolitan crowd, and being young and fresh and open, they easily mingled in one another's life-ways making a pool of refreshing new consciousness. The old hermitage-like place, the Ashram, now rang with scintillating cries, and the lights of miscellaneous smiles and buoyant laughter filled and enriched the atmosphere. As Nolini Kanta Gupta... can help the body to grow sufficiently and serve as the means of fulfilment of the ideal that man sets before himself. Scientific advancement on the one hand and the evolutionary influx of a new consciousness on the other pose challenges of adjustment to present-day man, and the body should accordingly be in readiness to meet with self-assurance the coming events. Hence the primacy the Mother gave ...
... does the identification take place ? Normally the identification is in the psychic being that forms itself consciously around the Divine Presence. But now with the descent of the new consciousness, the Divine Presence can be felt by the body-cells where It is at work for the transformation of Matter. 27.3.1970 Whatever work will come to me from You, I will like to take... The body also now begins to aspire for its reconstitution according to Your Will. My blessings are with it so that this be the occasion for a new force to install itself with the new consciousness. 6.7.1970 Page 146 With Your aid all becomes possible and time no longer seems so important. Of my aid you can be assured; it does not depend on physical conditions ...
... a hint that it might be well if you spoke with P. 4.10.34 It is good that you were able to observe yourself all the time and saw the movements and that the intimation o f the new consciousness was frequent and automatic. At a later stage you will no doubt get a guidance in the mind also as to how to do the things you want to get done. Evidently your mind was too active as well as the... any, some social or moral control. The same attacks come to the sadhak because something of the old consciousness sticks — if they seem abnormal, it is only because they are not normal to the new consciousness, Page 50 and there is a struggle — it is not because they are stronger than before. At that rate — if what you said in your account is correct — we shall have to conclude that the ...
... took place on February 28. Some future buildings of concrete perhaps, but above all, a few men, a handful of men and women on a plateau of red earth, who accepted to make the experiment of the new Consciousness in their bodies and in their lives—this Consciousness of the terrestrial body's material oneness. How is it materialized in a collective life? How will human bodies bear the infiltration of this... of experimental evolution. A whole world in the making, from A to Z, without any reference points—everything has to be invented, or rather let itself be molded by the inner growth of this new Consciousness. A sort of challenge, because, by definition, there is nothing more human than man. Each one arrives there with his own baggage of morality or immorality, of spirituality or nonspirituality, with ...
... on. There was no need in him for the transformation which we seek; for although he spoke of the divine man (Ishwarakoti) coming down the stairs as well as ascending, he had not the idea of a new consciousness and a new race and the divine manifestation in the earth-nature. Swami Vivekananda I do not remember what I said about Vivekananda. 2 If I said he was a great Vedantist, it is quite true... Yoga—only so much purification and change is demanded by them as will lead to liberation and the Page 174 beyond-life. The influence of the Atman can no doubt do that—a full descent of a new Consciousness into the whole nature from top to bottom to transform life here is not needed at all for the spiritual escape from life. 6 March 1937 Sundays are no better than other days. A number of people ...
... ." February 18, 1967 AM VIII-58-59 [This passage is part of a longer conversation on the new Consciousness.] Basically, we want... we know we need a language not artificially new but something supple enough to be adapted to the needs of a new Consciousness; and this language will probably emerge like that, through elimination of habits, from a group of older languages ...
... never was night so complete, so terrifying, maybe never will dawn have been so bright, so pure, so illuminating as the coming one.... After the bad dreams of the night the world will awaken to a new consciousness. The civilisation which is ending now in such a dramatic way was based on the power of mind, mind dealing with matter and life. What it has been to the world, we have not to discuss here. But... social, ethical, even religious.... Indeed, none of these seem sufficient to face with any reliable success the magnitude of the task to be done. Only a new spiritual influx, creating in man a new consciousness, can overcome the enormous mass of difficulties barring the way of the workers. A new spiritual light, a manifestation upon earth of some divine force unknown until now, a Thought of God, new ...
... whole lower nature so as to make it ready for the divine change. Going upwards, one passes beyond the human mind and at each stage of the ascent, there is a conversion into a new consciousness and an infusion of this new consciousness into the whole of the nature. Thus rising beyond intellect through illuminated higher mind to the intuitive consciousness, we begin to look at every thing not from the intellect ...
... my body felt a kind of new unease and anxiety; and there was as though something which was not a voice, but which translated itself in words in my consciousness: "Why are you afraid? It is the new consciousness." It came several times. And then I understood. ( Silence ) You understand; it is this which in the human common sense says: "It is impossible, that has never been"; it is this which has... has come to an end. It is finished, it is foolish. It has become a stupidity. One might say: it is possible because it has never been. It is the new world and it is the new consciousness and it is the new Power, it is possible, and this is and will be more and more manifested because it is the new world, because it has never been. It will be because it has never been. ( Silence ) It is ...
... step in terrestrial evolution. The human species will necessarily be succeeded by a new one which will be to man what man is to the animal; the present human consciousness will be replaced by a new consciousness, no longer mental but supramental. And this consciousness will give birth to a higher race, superhuman and divine. The time has come for this possibility, promised and anticipated for so long... be done, then an intervention will come Page 495 and prolong our lives. Let us pray with the humility of the wise and the candid faith of a child; let us invoke with sincerity this new Consciousness, this new Force, Truth and Beauty which must manifest, so that the earth may be transformed and the supramental life realised in the material world. They all concentrate in silence. The Unknown ...
... transformed in order to be capable of that; it must become strong and pure. First of all, it must have the strength to love the Divine alone and turn away from all other ties. But besides that a new consciousness must be created in it—first a consciousness of pure and purifying Divine Peace from above which must take hold of all down to the most physical—then in that peace an increasing inner strength... habit. If the concentration continues to grow, this becomes a thing of little importance at the circumference of the mind and in the end drops away to be replaced by things that belong to the new consciousness. Human Love in the Sadhana And first about human love in the sadhana. The soul's turning through love to the Divine must be through a love that is essentially divine, but as the instrument ...
... Transitional State The emptiness that you described in your letter yesterday was not a bad thing—it is this emptiness inward and outward that often in Yoga becomes the first step towards a new consciousness. Man's nature is like a cup of dirty water—the water has to be thrown out, the cup left clean and empty for the divine liquor to be poured into it. The difficulty is that the human physical c... usually in different parts of the nature at different times. You had your former experiences because the mind and higher vital were sufficiently emptied and quiet to receive some experiences of a new consciousness. Now it is the physical mind, physical vital and body that have to be emptied—these always take longer than the others because the physical is more full of old habits, more obstinate in keeping ...
... whole lower nature so as to make it ready for the divine change. Going upwards, one passes beyond the human mind and at each stage of the ascent there is a conversion into a new consciousness and an infusion of this new consciousness into the whole of the nature. Thus rising beyond intellect through illuminated higher mind to the intuitive consciousness, we begin to look at everything not from the intellect ...
... which their minds cannot follow. I have explained that there is no such thing as a miracle. If a higher consciousness opens a higher power in him, the sadhak has to use it as part of the new consciousness but in the right way, without egoism, selfishness, vanity or pride. Magic Jādu (magic) is a special practice which is done by professional magicians or those who learn the art of the magician... become part of the realised divine consciousness by the Mother herself or at her command for good and unselfish purposes. There is no harm in Yogic powers that come naturally as a part of the new consciousness and are not used for a wrong personal purpose. For instance you see something in vision or dream and that hap pens afterwards in the waking state. Well, that is a Yogic power of prevision, knowing ...
... remember it and bring it up when it can. This is a common trait of human nature and a quite customary movement. The new consciousness on the contrary Page 140 does not want these things and when they happen throws them off as quickly as possible. When the new consciousness is fully grown and established, then the disturbances will be altogether rejected. Even if the causes of them happen ...
... forces, not only of forces but of the conscious being behind the forces. One is aware of all this not only in oneself but in the universe. There is a force which accompanies the growth of the new consciousness and at once grows with it and helps it to come about and to perfect itself. This force is the Yoga shakti. It is here asleep and coiled up in all the centres of our inner being (chakras) and is... Descent to continue till it has fixed the higher power of being everywhere below—in the body and in the subconscience below it and also all round the body so that one lives enveloped in this new consciousness and being. The experiences you relate mark a great progress—the passage from the perception of the ascending Force to that of the descending Shakti. For the spiral coils of Light you saw ...
... the ego) are the reactions of the vital. Both must be refused acceptance. There is only one aim to be followed, the increase of the Peace, Light, Power and the growth of a new consciousness in the being. With that new consciousness the true knowledge, understanding, strength, feeling will come, creating harmony instead of revolt and struggle and union with the Divine consciousness and will. Dullness ...
... are trying to leave and therefore stand in the way of concentration and quietude. They should be stopped at their root by rejecting the suggestions of the physical mind as soon as they begin. A new consciousness is coming based upon inner silence and quietude. You must wait quietly for that to develop. True knowledge, Page 268 true perceptions of people and things will come in that new silent... silent consciousness. The mind's view of people and things must necessarily be either limited and defective or erroneous—to go on judging by it is now a waste of time. Wait for the new consciousness to develop and show you all in a new and true light. Then the tendency to anger which arises from this mind and is a violent impatience directed against things the mind and vital do not like, would have no ...
... itself on greater values than the mental, vital, physical values of the ordinary human society; if it is not so founded, it will be merely the normal human society with a difference. An entirely new consciousness in many individuals transforming their whole being, transforming their mental, vital and physical nature-self, is needed for the new life to appear; only such a transformation of the general mind... seizing on a mental and vital domination over humanity, but the sovereignty of the Spirit over its own instruments, its possession of itself and its possession of life in the power of the spirit, a new consciousness in which humanity itself shall find its own self-exceeding and self-fulfilment by the revelation of the divinity that is striving for birth within it. This is the sole true supermanhood and the ...
... quite another kind of experience; the world also continues, but we see it in our own being and not as something external to it and other than ourselves. To be able to live permanently in this new consciousness of our real, our integral being is to attain liberation and enjoy immortality. Page 439 Here there comes in the complication of the idea that immortality is only possible after death... then only their real value. We have no longer the experience of our existence as exclusive of the other existences which make up by our relations with them our experience of the world; in this new consciousness they are all contained in ourselves and we in them. They and we are no longer so many mutually exclusive egos each seeking its own independent fulfilment or self-transcendence and ultimately aiming ...
... But it was lovely, she had, oh, such a lovely consciousness! Page 323 Isn't it the new consciousness? I don't think so.... You don't think so. I don't know. Anyway, in any case she was quite helpless. Quite helpless: it was I who carried her. But the new consciousness OF THE BODY, perhaps? But I felt there was no reason whatsoever to do this.... I don't know. ...
... easily, so it's.... Basically, I realize more and more that we live in total Page 51 ignorance. We really don't know either what should be done or how to do it. But surely that New Consciousness should make one do what is necessary. I think we don't know how to listen. We don't know how to listen.... ( silence ) It's very difficult to disentangle the old impulse from the... practical knowledge is based on an experience that has become worthless. ( long contemplation with her eyes open ) But it's better to make a mistake listening or trying to listen to the New Consciousness than to make a mistake listening to the doctors, isn't it? ( Mother smiles ) But the Consciousness doesn't contradict anything. You mean it's neutral? The Consciousness doesn't argue ...
... once his own consciousness but is now below his tops and belongs to an inferior creation. This reversal is the sign of a decisive victory and the seal of a radical progress in Nature. The new consciousness attained in the spiritual evolution is always higher in grade and power, always larger, more comprehensive, wider in sight and feeling, richer and finer in faculties, more complex, organic, dominating... it is a progression of consciousness, a spiritual or psychological change. At each step the spirit heightens its stature, perfects its instruments, organises better its self-expression; a new consciousness comes in, takes up the old and gives it an extended movement and another significance, adds greater, richer, more Page 251 complex movements of which the first formulation was incapable ...
... about apparent damage) is for the normal state to cease to be this thing which is so heavy, so obscure, so ugly—so low—and for the dawn to come... you know, something dawning on the horizon: a new Consciousness. That something truer and more luminous. What Sri Aurobindo says here about diseases is just the point: the power of habit, of all constructions, of what appears "inescapable" and "irrevocable"... authority.... It's difficult. It's hard. It's painful. There is some damage done, naturally, but... But truly, one can see—one can see. And that's the REAL CHANGE, that's what will enable the new Consciousness to express itself. And the body is learning, it's learning its lesson—all bodies, all bodies. ( silence ) That was the old division made by the mind: "Above, things are very fine, you may ...
... door to it. On the contrary, the larger the number of people who have a vital interest in the abolition of war, the more effective the chances towards a stable peace, until the advent of a new consciousness in man makes of war an impossibility. 24 April 1955 Shake off all narrowness, selfishness, limitations, and wake up to the consciousness of Human Unity. This is the only way to achieve... manifested into the world and the world has now the capacity to become conscious of its own unity. 25 March 1960 You are quite right . Old methods cannot do for this new work. Not only a new consciousness must be firmly established but Page 62 also a new process must be found before anything truly effective can be done. 15 January 1961 To those concerned with World Union ...
... yet it is only an incident on the way or resulting from the ascent – the ascent is the real thing. Here the ascent is the first step, but it is a means for the descent. It is the descent of the new consciousness [Supermind] attained by the ascent that is the stamp and seal of the Sadhana. Even the Tantra and Vaishnavism end in the release from life; here the object is the divine fulfilment of life. ... knowledge have left us their witness to this constant aspiration …” 70 “I am not trying to change the world all at once but only to bring down centrally something into it, it has not yet, a new consciousness and power,” 71 wrote Sri Aurobindo in a letter. And in another one, of October 1935: “The present business is to bring down and establish the Supermind, not to explain it.” 72 – “I know ...
... inadmissible technique; but this seems to me a reasoning from the conventions of a past order which cannot apply to a new poetry dealing with spiritual things. A new art of words written from a new consciousness demands a new technique. A.E. himself admits that this rule makes a great difficulty because these 'high light' words are few in the English language. His solution may do well enough where the... but also for having readily acquitted themselves of their sacred responsibility, the sense of which prompted them to "salute the Dawn" they had seen and announce the high Herald of a new consciousness in poetry, who sang vibrantly of Earth's deepest aspiration and highest fulfilment: An inarticulate whisper drives her steps Of which she feels the force but not the sense; A ...
... the Mother 21 March 1969 On 21st March 1969 after our Savitri work, the Mother said: Child, do you know, from the beginning of this year the New Consciousness has been coming down upon earth, which tells everything—what to do and what not to do—to people who are conscious and want to change. This Consciousness is gradually and gently organising... everything. It is always smiling—it never gets angry, it never scolds but is very gentle and very sweet, you'll see! The Mother always kept her promise. I became more and more aware of the New Consciousness and its action. ...
... apparent ravages) is so that the normal condition should no longer be a thing so heavy, so obscure, and so ugly—so low—and that it should be the dawn... something breaking out on the horizon: a new consciousness—something more true, more luminous. What Sri Aurobindo says here of diseases is just that: the force of habit and of all its constructions and all that appears inescapable and irrevocable in... authority.... It is difficult. It is hard. It is painful. Naturally there is breakage, but... But truly one can see—one can see. And that is the real change , it is that which will enable the new Consciousness to express itself. And the body is learning, learning its lesson—all bodies, all bodies. ( Silence ) It is the old division made by the mind: up above, it is quite all right, you may have ...
... for the work to be perfected, but until then I was wide awake. So I slipped into trance. I came out of this trance two hours later, at 3 a.m. And during these two hours I saw... with a new consciousness, a new vision, and above all a NEW POWER—I had a vision of the entire Work: all Page 42 the people, all the things, all the systems, all of it. And it was... it was different in appearance... or of what was about to come, so that when I reached the end, all of it together was a simultaneous whole—the Supreme Consciousness.' When Satprem asked if this Supreme Consciousness was the 'New Consciousness,' Mother replied, 'Not "new!" One can't say "new"—Supreme Consciousness.' × This entire experience ...
... open-mouthed ). Very amusing! So I've put the same thing here: ( Satprem reads ) "A new consciousness is at work upon earth to prepare the coming of the superhuman being. Open yourselves to this consciousness if you aspire to serve 5 the Divine Work. To come into contact with this new consciousness, the essential condition is no longer to have any desires and to be wholly sincere." ...
... the pleasure of upsetting everything, but now and then you feel something... ( gesture of piercing through ): "Oh, I'd like... I'd like something else." And that will be ready to receive the new consciousness. This boy is nice, he has stuff. It seems he met Y and was captivated by her "ideas" (!) R. was alarmed. So I told him, "It doesn't matter!" That's why I've encouraged him to go to Bombay... is, because it requires a whole explanation (and I think it's better not to publish it, I don't know). It requires a whole explanation. Or else, we could put: "To be able to receive the new consciousness without deforming it... Then the text: "...One must be able to stand in the light of the Supreme Consciousness without casting a shadow." Words... if one hasn't had the experience ...
... ultimately it is the laws of the Divine that will prevail. 9) The Mother said that the new Consciousness that has descended on the 1st of January is very active, and that we have come to a very critical time in the history of the world, and it is most interesting to watch how things are happening. This new Consciousness is preparing for the Superman and so there are big changes happening all around. When ...
... Soon afterwards You know that L. went to Delhi to see Indira. He brought her a message about the situation up there [in Bengal]. Then, at the end of the conversation, he told her about the new Consciousness, saying she should open to this Consciousness and that it's all-powerful (he repeated it all to me), all-powerful. He even told her, "Even if there is a fire, you can walk through the fire without... have been queer things... and I thought it may again have been the result of what they're doing there. I was looking, like that (in fact, trying to put the Light and Peace everywhere), when this new Consciousness said something to me ( Mother looks for a note ).... It didn't "say," it showed me. It showed me the vibrations of those who want to cause harm (you know how it is there), vibrations, formations ...
... tension, all of it is gone, entirely. So then, while the vision was developing, there was the answer Page 96 to all possible objections, based precisely on the presence of this new consciousness which CHANGES things—but changes things while leaving them as they are! I don't know how to explain. Our whole way of feeling and reacting to things doesn't exist in this Consciousness, that's... this ( Mother shows a note ). I thought it was an opportunity to tell them something: ( Mother reads her text by lamp light, with great difficulty ) "Since the beginning of this year a new consciousness is at work upon earth to prepare men for a new creation, the superman. For this creation to be possible the substance that constitutes man's body must undergo a big change.... I write almost ...
... aware of it subjectively as within itself; it embraces both its world-material and its individualised experience of spatial and temporal activities in a free and enlarged consciousness. In this new consciousness the spiritual individual perceives its true self to be one in being with the Transcendence and seated and dwelling within it, and no longer takes its constructed individuality as anything more... quite another kind of experience; the world also continues, but we see it in our own being and not as something external to it and other than ourselves. To be able to live permanently in this new consciousness of our real, our integral being is to attain liberation and enjoy immortality. The Synthesis of Yoga, pp. 419-20 Page 139 × ...
... the Divine; positivist reason with its questioning based upon things as they are and refusing to believe in anything that may or will be cannot get any vision of it at all. The spiritual is a new consciousness that has to evolve and has been evolving. It is quite natural that at first and for a long time only a few should get the full light, while a greater number but still only a few compared with... yet it is only an incident on the way or resulting from the ascent—the ascent is the real thing. Here the ascent is the first step, but it is a means for the descent. It is the descent of the new consciousness attained by the ascent that is the stamp and seal of the sadhana. Even Tantra and Vaishnavism end in the release from life; here the object is the fulfilment of life. 2. Because the object ...
... problem very closely so as to dwell upon this very important subject of Indianness and cultural continuity of India. Let us, first of all, emphasise the fact that as we look deeply into the new consciousness that is fundamentally vibrating among the children and the youth, is manifesting itself through flashes of their amazing talents, genius and dexterity, we find that there is a sound basis to feel... feel confident that the present stage of degeneration in our country can be reversed and remedied. We have, however, to stress that we have to create conditions under which that new Page 11 consciousness is allowed to be liberated from the clutches of ignorance and imprisoning modes of social structures and uninspiring ideals that are constantly being bombarded on the minds of the youths ...
... about apparent damage), it is in order that the normal state ceases to be so heavy, so obscure and so ugly—so low—and that there would be dawn... isn't it, something which rises on the horizon: a new Consciousness. Something truer and more luminous. What Sri Aurobindo says here,—regarding illnesses,—is exactly that: the power of habit and of all the constructions and what seems 'inevitable' and 'i... is laborious. It is painful. Naturally, there will be some Page 192 damage, but.... But really, one can see—one can see. And that's the REAL CHANGE. That's what will allow the new Consciousness to express itself. And the body learns—it learns its lesson—all the bodies, all the bodies. (silence) It was the old division made by the mental: 'Above, it is all very well, you can ...
... joint creation of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother....² Stressing the novelty of the aim and method of his Yoga, Sri Aurobindo has written in one of his letters: It is the descent of the new consciousness attained by the ascent that is the stamp and seal of the Sadhana... a method has been preconised for achieving this purpose which is as total and integral as the aim set before it, viz., the total... seizing on a mental and vital domination over humanity, but the sovereignty of the Spirit over its own instruments, its possession of itself and its possession of life in the power of the spirit, a new consciousness in which humanity itself shall find its own self-exceeding and self-fulfilment by the revelation of the divinity that is striving for birth within it. This the sole true supermanhood and the one ...
... Trance would be not sufficient - the waking consciousness must be the same. Why is trance not sufficient? Is it not my present need? It is not a trance but a new consciousness that is wanted. During the noon nap I sometimes enter into a vaster and more solid peace than during the waking state. That is why people used to seek it most in... In that case samadhi is a useful state even for our Yoga. But Page 191 some time ago you wrote to me, "It is not the samadhi that is needed but a new consciousness." Certainly, samadhi is not barred from this Yoga. The fact that the Mother was always entering into it is proof enough of that. What I said then was not a general statement that ...
... It will be a true being, perfect in proportions, very, very strong, light, luminous or else transparent; it will have 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... dualities of the ignorance and the effect of the inconscience. And it will be able to subsist without food. This much only? But don't you want to be a transformed man, a creation of the New Consciousness? Yes, Mother, very much. Then you have to want it constantly and get used to this new process. (silence) Page 160 The Mother, 1968. Page ...
... chalked out, well chiselled, all the obstacles, all the impediments removed, all that was blocking the way demolished, — so that you may walk freely towards the Truth in the full light of the New Consciousness. Once there, you have nothing to worry about, you can now walk straight ahead. But it was quite a work that had to be done in this virgin forest where nothing existed, where nothing could... have done, prepared a niche for you up there. And all that I am doing here below is reflected a thousand times more up there and is immediately realised. This is the way to reach the New Consciousness. Page 170 ...
... not enkindled, enlivened with the spirit. Now I say that you have to breathe your own spirit into the apparently dead or lifeless forms. For you children are nothing but spirit: spirit means new consciousness, living light. It is not a tall claim I make on your behalf. I will explain. You children who are here, who have been here for some time, are a privileged class of human beings. You do... also to be displayed as living entities in your being—in your consciousness, in your life, even in your body. That is the better part of your work, indeed, the essential part. Today a new consciousness is abroad. The earth-atmosphere is filled with a new spirit. And here the Mother has left with us not merely her consciousness but a conscious being, a part of her living personality in us; that ...
... consciousness which he calls Supermind. In the earthly scheme there will thus manifest a new type, a higher functioning of consciousness and a new race or species will appear on earth with this new consciousness as the ruling principle. Out of the rock and mineral came the plant, out of the plant the animal, out of the mere animal man has come and out of man the Superman will come inevitably. Standing... s and means of expression, but which till now, because of an evolutionary necessity of growth and development, acted more as an obstruction or a veil than as an aid or a channel. When in the new consciousness the individual attains its soul-status, in other words, its divinity, then a reshaping and recasting of the lower . limbs becomes possible and even inevitable. The soul-status means freedom, harmony ...
... if it is not enkindled, enlivened with the spirit. Now I say you are to breathe your own spirit into the apparently dead or lifeless forms. For children are nothing but spirit: spirit means new consciousness, living light, it is not a tall claim I make on your behalf. I will explain. You children who are here, who have been here for sometime, are a privileged class of human beings. You do not... to be displayed as living entities in your being – in your consciousness, and in your life, even in your body. That is the better part of your work – indeed, the essential part. Today a new consciousness is abroad. The earth-atmosphere is filled with the new spirit. But here the Mother has left with us not merely her consciousness but a conscious being – a part of her living personality in us ...
... " in the sense of a certainty - a harmonious certainty. She came to know later that a couple of hours after her own experience, a few others too had felt this distinct invasion of a new consciousness which had spread out wide and far to find people who were readily receptive to it. It was something very material... luminous, with a golden light... very strong, very powerful... its... nothing similar to that happiness has this body ever felt during the ninety-one years it has been here upon earth: freedom, absolute power and no limits.... The special character of this new consciousness is: no half measures, no approximations.... It is Yes or No.... Page 770 Truly it was a Grace, a tremendous Power doubled with Compassion; if one could be attentive to it, it ...
... the sponsors of the University would Page 534 The Mother at the Centre of Education be "nothing less than the founding of a new mankind upon earth - with a new life and a new consciousness". 3 It may be added that there was no reference to the proposed University in the Mother's talks in the Playground. It was as though she had convened the Memorial Conference more as a... to be fought, so that the future may be won. For the hero warriors, however, it will be both an outer struggle with the protagonists of the past and an inner battle of knowledge to win the new consciousness and achieve self-transformation. Everyone has to wrestle, late or soon, with the ego's propensity to separativity, selfishness, narrowness, stupidity and fear, put the miserable ego in its place ...
... strange. But the distance soon vanished and by the Grace of the Mother’s and Sri Aurobindo’s touch, a new world came to light which was reflected in the lives of the inmates. I perceived that a new consciousness was seeking an opportunity to be born at every instant. Inspired by the unique teachings of the Mother and Sri Aurobindo, my journey started leading through an unaccustomed path to an unknown... open the door of the Ashram to all seekers, and the number of pilgrims went on increasing. I could perceive very clearly that a vast and varied new world was being created, a new life with a new consciousness. “Whatever you have said, will happen, because it is true – it will be realised in time, Every word of it will come true, the whole world Will see on that day – your promise is not a mere ...
... of them, in fact) mistook for senility. The body is beginning to wonder ... to wonder what it will be like, that is to say, the way of perceiving, the relationship with things: How will the new consciousness relate with the old consciousness of those who will still be humans?... 7 It was at the beginning of 1970. Exactly seventeen years before, She had asked those rebellious little samples on... always brought back to those two worlds 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 ...
... perception which I had, always, less clearly and dynamically then, but which has now become more and more evident to me, that the true basis of work and life is the spiritual: that is to say, a new consciousness to be developed only by Yoga. But what precisely was the nature of the dynamic power of this greater consciousness? What was the condition of its effective truth? How could it be brought down... present is to make ourselves fit instruments for the higher Truth, so that when it came down there would be the proper instrumentation for its working. We won't reject life; we have to bring a new consciousness into the external work. ... So far as I am concerned, I have got my work... immediately at present we have to bring down a change in the physical mind, the nervous being, and the vital ...
... will function differently in them will, in fact, protect them from any lack of understanding shown by their milieu, in such a way that they will be able to manifest with increasing freedom the new consciousness of which they will be the instruments. It is probable that, in the beginning, the wave which will bring them to the shores of our humanity will not break, shattering all our structures, but ...
... towards the Eternal does not just shoot up ideas, does not just think of the Divine and imagine what the Divine must be like. It clearly separates from the body, rises as a distinct entity into a new consciousness and a series of supra-physical worlds. Passionate with God-hunger it is a living creature inwardly lit by a lust for the Eternal's empyrean, "pale-blue-lined" and wearing a symbolic form to its ...
... inadmissible technique; but this seems to me a reasoning from the conventions of a past order which cannot apply to a new poetry dealing with spiritual things. A new art of words written from a new consciousness demands a new technique. AE himself admits that this rule makes a great difficulty because these 'high light' words are few in the English language. His solution may do well enough where the ...
... a perception which I had always, less clearly and dynamically then, but which has become more and more evident to me, that the true basis of life and work is the spiritual, that is to say, a new consciousness to be developed only by Yoga. I see more and more manifestly that man can never get out of the futile circle; the race is always treading until he has raised himself to the new foundation. I believe ...
... taken towards its outbreak. contrary the larger the number of people who have a vital interest in the abolition of war the more effective the chances towards a stable peace until the advent of a new consciousness in man makes of war an impossibility. (Sri Aurobindo's bust by E. Frankel.) From the artistic point of view, it is certainly a masterpiece. It is also an inspired work, inspired by an ...
... within and opened out myself. Nothing happened. Yesterday the same. I did not know what the matter was. Then Sri Aurobindo told me that she has already done the work and gone back. "A new consciousness has descended in you," he said. 06:12:1994 Yesterday evening, after the meditation, I was going to the Samadhi. Sri Aurobindo said: "Power." I aspired for Power and opened ...
... leaped into a glad divine abyss; But where hast thou thrown self s mission and self s power? On what dead bank on the Eternal's road? 8 Aswapati veers round. A new perception, a new consciousness begins to open within him. A new urge moves him. He has to start on a new journey, a new quest and achievement. The world exists neither as a Truth nor as an illusion in itself. It exists in ...
... understand. What do they know? Nothing at all. And it is useless to try to make them understand. Men will know what it is, but in a distant future. It is only the new race with the new consciousness which will be able to understand it. I assure you there is nothing under the blue sky to compare with Savitri. It is the mystery of mysteries. It is a super-epic, it is super-literature, ...
... several years ago, I stated two things: first, the encouraging message I found in his reaching that the witnessing Presence is not part of the old consciousness—it indicates the arising of the new consciousness; and, second, the discouraging feeing I had that, in spite of the practice of the witnessing Presence for quite a number of decades, I still felt almost as bound as ever to the ordinary consciousness ...
... or ecstatic trance. If the control of that highest spiritual being is to be brought into our waking life, there must be a conscious heightening and widening into immense ranges of new being, new consciousness, new potentialities of action, a taking up, — as integral as possible, — of our present being, consciousness, activities and a transmutation of them into divine values which would effect a ...
... another law and canon of perception and knowledge. His entire business is to break through these borders into another consciousness which looks at things in a different way and though this new consciousness may include the data of the ordinary external intelligence it cannot be limited by them or bind itself to see from the intellectual standpoint or in accordance with its way of conceiving, reasoning ...
... with such an excessive hyperactivity, such a widespread trepidation, that the species as a whole seems to have come to a point where it must either break through the resistance and emerge into a new consciousness or else fall back into an abyss of obscurity and inertia. “This tension is so total and has become so generalised that obviously something has to break. It cannot go on in this way. We may ...
... reflects: “This was surely the mightiest act of renunciation in spiritual history.” No New Edition of the Old Fiasco Of Sri Aurobindo’s battle in the following years to establish the new Consciousness of the Supermind on Earth, we have some ideas from his letters, his poetry, and Nirodbaran’s Correspondence with Sri Aurobindo . At times his reports were very positive, to be followed by renewed ...
... in Time. When there at darshan, there was not the least doubt in my mind that I had met two people who had experienced what they claimed. They were Gnostic Beings. They had realized this new consciousness which Sri Aurobindo called the Supramental.’ 2 In those November days of 1938, the focus of all attention in the Ashram was the newly arrived person who was also American: Margaret Wilson ...
... path, well shaped, well chiseled, with all the obstacles, all the impediments removed, all that was blocking the way demolished, so that you may be able to walk freely in the full light of the new consciousness towards the Truth.’ 25 All were her children, probably the vultures too — as long as there was somewhere a spark of sincerity, a spark of a living soul in them. As far as the Mother is concerned ...
... step depends on two factors. On the one hand there is the unstoppable evolutionary impulse or “nisus” (a word often used by Sri Aurobindo) pushing up from below; on the other hand there is the new consciousness answering, descending from above. For, as noted before, the manifestation encompasses all levels of consciousness in a “stair”, a graded hierarchy of typal worlds. Those levels of consciousness ...
... She declared: ‘The task of giving a concrete form to Sri Aurobindo’s vision was entrusted to the Mother. The creation of a new world, a new humanity, a new society expressing and embodying the new consciousness is the work she has undertaken. By the very nature of things it is a collective ideal that calls for a collective effort, so that it may be realised in the terms of an integral human perfection ...
... former kind of substance, with the ordinary mental substance … This [new] substance is at present almost universally spread in the terrestrial atmosphere.’ 9 March 19 69: ‘It is as if that new Consciousness has brought with it a whole new field of experiences in the very material domain, with the abolishment of a number of things declared by people to be impossible … This consciousness has a great ...
... yet it is only an incident on the way or resulting from the ascent — the ascent is the real thing. Here the ascent is the first step, but it is a means for the descent. It is the descent of the new consciousness attained by the ascent that is the stamp and seal of the sadhana. Even the Tantra and Vaishavism end in the release from life; here the object is the divine fulfilment of life. ‘2. Because ...
... Time. When there at the darshan , there was not the least doubt in my mind that I had met two people who had experienced what they claimed. They were Gnostic Beings. They had realized this new consciousness which Sri Aurobindo called the Supramental.’ 38 Sri Aurobindo, Mahasamadhi, 5 December 1950 ...
... Nature and myself, a long movement of approachment that has culminated in an experience which produced itself on 8 November [^1957]. All of a sudden, Nature understood. She understood that this new Consciousness which is born does not intend to reject her but to embrace her fully. She understood that this new spirituality does not distance itself from life, does not recoil in fear before the amplitude ...
... Spirit: after the human, the divine.’ She briefly sketches the evolution that is expected to culminate ‘in the descent of the Supramental.’ ‘Only a new spiritual influx, creating in man a new consciousness, can overcome the enormous mass of difficulties barring the way of the workers [collaborating to realize the future], a new spiritual light, a manifestation upon Earth of some divine force unknown ...
... (Correspondence with Dyuman) Dyuman's Correspondence with The Mother 24 April 1934 Mother, This auspicious Darshan day has given me a new life, a new consciousness and a new aspiration. I feel that a force of transformation has gathered and it will transform me. I bow down to Thee, dear Mother, and with Your Love and Blessings I begin the new life. Yes ...
... Mother stated: ‘The task of giving a concrete form to Sri Aurobindo’s vision was entrusted to the Mother. The creation of a new world, a new humanity, a new society expressing and embodying the new consciousness is the work she has undertaken. By the very nature of things, it is a collective ideal that calls for a collective effort, so that it may be realized in the terms of an integral human perfection ...
... or myself were born with a prevision that they or I would take to the spiritual life? So long as one is in the ordinary consciousness, one lives the ordinary life. When the awakening and the new consciousness come, one leaves it - nothing puzzling in it." Again, there was never any question of his family getting Sri Aurobindo paired off with Mrinalini. In 1900 he himself chose to wed and got many offers ...
... Overpassed were the leaden formulas of the Mind, Overpowered the obstacle of mortal Space: The unfolding Image showed the things to come. To my understanding, we have here a new consciousness emerging from the profoundly in-drawn state ("slumber's cell") reached by Aswapati. It goes beyond the usual process of time and, from its thought-transcending poise in Eternity's all-knowing ...
... the inner. One often feels at a loss, as if one's contact with the free-flowing psyche of the depths is endangered and one is thrown out on the outer's own resources, but if one persists in the new consciousness and lets the awakened "material" psyche take its course all difficulties in the way of the Yogic life get fundamentally solved and one's home of perennial happiness is in the deep heart. This ...
... responsive now and achieve for itself what it is alleged to have fatally prevented the Mother from doing for her own body. True, she has declared: "The Superman is now on the way to formation, and a new consciousness has manifested itself recently upon earth to perfect this formation." 1 But she also added: "it is hardly probable that any human being has reached such a consummation, more so, since there must ...
... and strong, light, luminous or else transparent. It will have a supple and malleable body endowed with extraordinary capacities and able to do everything; a body without age, a creation of the New Consciousness or else a transformed body such as none has ever imagined … All that is above man will be within its reach. It will be guided by the Truth alone and nothing less. That is what it is and more even ...
... ignorance . Sri Aurobindo came upon earth to teach this truth to men. He told them that man is only a transitional being living in a mental consciousness, but with the possibility of acquiring a new consciousness, the Truth-consciousness, and capable of living a life perfectly harmonious, good and beautiful, happy and fully conscious. During the whole of his life upon earth, Sri Aurobindo gave all his ...
... the lake. Its coolness enveloped my subtle body. Here the Divine had strewn lavishly her exquisite Beauty and Wonder and Quietude. The divine vibrations were overwhelming. I was engulfed by the new consciousness. I reached the Suns. Their Force and Power were absolutely still and calm. Then I saw a narrow passage between the two Suns. I entered it, and on the other side I saw a golden world. There ...
... Vision: The task of giving a complete form of Sri Aurobindo's vision was entrusted to the Mother. The creation of a new world, a new humanity, a new society expressing and embodying the new consciousness is the work she has undertaken. By the very nature of things, it is a collective ideal that calls for a collective effort so that it may be realised in the terms of an integral human perfection ...
... aware of it subjectively as within itself; it embraces both its world-material and its individualised experience of spatial and temporal activities in a free and enlarged consciousness. In this new consciousness the spiritual individual perceives its true self to be one in being with the Transcendence and seated and dwelling within it, and no longer takes its constructed individuality as anything more ...
... reason with its questioning based upon things as they are and refusing to believe in anything that may or will be cannot get Page 270 any vision of it at all. The spiritual is a new consciousness that has to evolve and has been evolving. It is quite natural that at first and for a long time only a few should get the full light, while a greater number but still only a few compared with ...
... that has to be done. And what, compared with the limited Greek perfection, is the technique of the Mahabharata? Next, what is the use of vicārabuddhi in such a case? If one has to get to a new consciousness which surpasses the reasoning intellect, can one do it on lines which are to be judged and understood by the reasoning intellect, controlled at every step by it, told by the intellect what it ...
... describe. What then, when he so resumes his hold upon the universe and views no longer himself in the world but the cosmos in himself, will be the position of the Jiva or what will fill in his new consciousness the part of the ego-sense? There will be no ego-sense even if there is a sort of individualisation for the purposes of the play of universal consciousness in an individual mind and frame; and ...
... inadmissible technique; but this seems to me a reasoning from the conventions of a past order which cannot apply to a new poetry dealing with spiritual things. A new art of words written from a new consciousness demands a new technique. A.E. himself admits that this rule makes a great difficulty because these "high light" words are few in the English language. This solution may do well enough for him ...
... n which prevented rather than helped any deep and serious achievement. The aim of a spiritual age of mankind must indeed be one with the essential aim of subjective religions, a new birth, a new consciousness, an upward evolution of the human being, a descent of the spirit into our members, a spiritual reorganisation of our life; but if it limits itself by the old familiar apparatus and the imperfect ...
... , it is a state of the heart and soul. It is a state which comes when the psychic being is awake and prominent. The very object of Yoga is a change of consciousness—it is by getting a new consciousness or by unveiling the hidden consciousness of the true being within and progressively manifesting and perfecting it that one gets first the contact and then the union with the Divine. Ananda and ...
... you still give an exaggerated importance and attention to the ego and other elements that are interwoven in the nature of humanity and cannot be entirely got rid of except by the coming of a new consciousness which replaces them by higher movements. If one rejects centrally and with all sincerity the ego and rajas, their roots get loosened and sattwa can prevail in the nature, but the expulsion of ...
... the head, and a descent of the higher consciousness which is above into one's mind, vital and body. How it is done or by what stages or how long it will take varies with each person. But this new consciousness is very different from the ordinary one and many things happen in its coming which would not happen to the mind and might seem strange to it—e.g. the dissolution of the ego and the opening into ...
... course, it comes more and more, lasting longer, and in the end an enduring deep peace and inner stillness and release becomes a normal character of the consciousness, the foundation indeed of a new consciousness, calm and liberated. Your idea of the psychic is certainly a mental construction which should be avoided. The psychic has indeed the quality of peace—but that is not its main character as it ...
... environment they take the form of thought-suggestions or impulses or a vague restless or disturbing pressure. It is probably this environmental pressure that you feel. When the body is full of the new consciousness, Peace and Power at the same time, then this outward pressure is felt but can no longer disturb and finally it recedes to a distance (no longer pressing immediately on the physical mind or body) ...
... psychic or by the enlightened mental will, then there are no primary or later aggravations but a steady and quiet pulsing of the change, the remaining difficulties falling away of themselves as the new consciousness develops, or else there may be no difficulties at all, only a necessary readjustment and change. If X has allowed any fall in her consciousness and action which retards her sadhana and ...
... silence. For there are two conditions in the Yoga, one in which all is silent and there is no thought, feeling or movement even though one is acting outwardly as others do—another in which a new consciousness becomes active bringing knowledge, joy, love and other spiritual feelings and inner activities, but yet at the same time there is a fundamental silence or quietude. Both are necessary in the ...
... strength, Ananda. Let it become complete. It does not remain when engaged in work because it is still confined to the mind proper which has only just received the gift of silence. When the new consciousness is fully formed and has taken entire possession of the vital nature and the physical being (the vital as yet is only touched or dominated by the silence, not possessed by it), then this defect ...
... in the sadhana. The third is when there is no screen and the Force and all else are always felt whether actively working or pausing during a transition. The Need of Assimilation When a new consciousness comes down, it is not possible at first to keep it all the time—the former consciousness has to get accustomed and receive and assimilate it, and that takes time. Page 479 It [ ...
... not of the inner life. They must quiet down and give room for the inner life. At first the result may be a neutral quiet, but one has often to pass through that to arrive at a more positive new consciousness. 2 January 1937 Why am I suffering? Why am I so far from the Mother? How can I get over this? Reject the suffering. Reject every vital movement that would take you away from the Mother ...
... with the danger of morbidity and self-delusion. A middle path with the rule of living more and more within, standing back from outward things but not throwing them aside, looking at them with a new consciousness, a new view and acting on them from this inner consciousness is the best way. But there is need for some at some stages to minimise outward contacts without abolishing them during part of the ...
... perception which I had always, less clearly and dynamically then, but which has now become more and more evident to me, that the true basis of work and life is the spiritual, that is to say, a new consciousness to be developed only by Yoga. I see more and more manifestly that man can never get out of the futile circle the race is always treading until he has raised himself on to the new foundation. I ...
... easier to do in samadhi, then is not samadhi a very good state even for this Yoga? But some months ago when I spoke of samadhi, you said something like, "It is not samadhi that is needed but a new consciousness." Certainly, samadhi is not barred from this Yoga. The fact that the Mother was always entering into it is proof enough of that. What I said then was not a general statement that samadhi is ...
... self, your low exterior nature and starting quite anew. In the experience of resurrection the movement of discarding the old being is closely connected with that of the rising up from it of the new consciousness and the new strength, so that from what is thrown off the best can unite in a new creation with what has succeeded. The true significance of resurrection is that the Divine Consciousness awakes ...
... into the waking consciousness. If they come from the environment they take the form of thought-suggestions or impulses or a vague restless or disturbing pressure… When the body is full of the new consciousness, Peace and Power at the same time, then this outward pressure is felt but can no longer disturb and finally it recedes to a distance (no longer pressing immediately on the physical mind or body) ...
... not only of forces, but of the conscious being behind the forces. One is aware of all this not only in oneself but in the universe. There is a force which accompanies the growth of the new consciousness and at once grows with it and helps it to come about and to perfect itself. This force is the Yoga-Shakti. It is here coiled up and asleep in all the centres of our inner being (Chakras) and is ...
... This is what Sri Aurobindo calls bringing down the Force from above. In this way there is a chance of being able to change the world, because one has brought in a new Force, a new region, a new consciousness and put it into contact with the outer world. So its presence and action will produce inevitable changes and, let us hope, a total transformation in what this outer world is. So we could say ...
... able to use it as it uses the elements of the other parts of the creation, like the mind or the vital. And at that moment the physical substance will be ready to manifest in the world the new Consciousness, new Light, new Will. Through all the centuries, through countless lives, passing through innumerable organisms, using countless experiences it, so to speak, becomes refined; it is prepared, and ...
... and makes them the expression, the vehicle of a higher and more universal truth. A new religion would not only be useless but very harmful. It is a new life which must be created; it is a new consciousness which must be expressed. This is something beyond intellectual limits and mental formulae. It is a living truth which must manifest. Everything in its essence and its truth should be included ...
... that drawing you are looking at. Nothing else exists in the world any longer except the drawing, and then, suddenly, you pass to the other side; and when you pass to the other side you enter a new consciousness, and you know." We had a good laugh, for it was amusing. But it is quite true, it is an excellent method to practise. Naturally, instead of taking a drawing or any object, you may take, for ...
... the past, which even are or were or seemed to be completely effaced, with which you no longer have any contact, all sorts Page 337 of little circumstances, which yet are seen in the new consciousness, in their true place, and make such a poor, miserable, mean, sordid whole of the entire life, the entire general human life. And so, it is a luminous joy of offering all this for transformation ...
... around the central consciousness. For example, to take the most positively material things like food and sleep: it is quite possible that, if he has not taken care to infuse, as it were, his new consciousness into his body, his need for food and sleep will remain almost the same and that he won’t have much control over them. On the other hand, if he has taken care to unify his being and has infused ...
... contrary, the larger the number of people who have a vital interest in the abolition of war, the more effective the chances towards Page 66 a stable peace, until the advent of a new consciousness in man makes of war an impossibility. 24 April 1955 * ( Message for the First World Conference of the Sri Aurobindo Society ) The future of the earth depends ...
... not conscious, and others also, of this intervention and pressure at its source for the reason I state. Sri Aurobindo Letters on Yoga - I: The Hostile Forces and Hostile Beings His new consciousness makes him feel more strongly the opposite forces that one contacts when one moves in the world and has to do affairs and meet with others and he is afraid of a response in his vital which will ...
... between Nature and myself, a long movement of a growing closeness which culminated in an experience which came on the eighth of November. Suddenly Nature understood. She understood that this new Consciousness which has just been born does not seek to reject her but wants to embrace her entirely, she understood that this new spirituality does not turn away from life, does not recoil in fear before the ...
... sincere in your efforts for physical education and you will acquire a powerful body. My blessings are with you. 1 April 1968 Competitions 1969 Since the beginning of this year a new consciousness is at work upon earth to prepare the men for a new creation, the superman. For this creation to be possible the substance that constitutes man's body must undergo a big change, it must become ...
... replaced by a white one, when there comes a turn in the tide of human affairs, when the shades of ignorance are dispelled by the dawn of a new light, the bright, white, self-luminous light of the new Consciousness, and when at the helm of the ship stand those who will face this brilliant radiance and set course towards the Promised Land. 1 Bulletin, November 1949 Page 266 ...
... is simply not to let people down in that way: all at once, nothing more. Afterwards, one is so far away that people do not understand at all. ( Silence ) Certainly, the principle of the new consciousness is that things are done just at the moment when needed, and then that is all. Yes, yes. There is no planning, no foreseeing. Yes, yes; exactly so. Page 248 ( Silence ) ...
... moment: Do you want life, do you want death; do you want life, do you want death?... And it is like that. And then, life, it is union with the Supreme, and the consciousness, an altogether new consciousness comes. And it is this way, it is that way Page 284 ( Mother makes a gesture of tilting from one side to the other ). But yesterday or the day before, I do not know, all of a sudden ...
... of Nature's ascending march in her progress towards perfection, by the creation of a new species that will be to man what man is to the animal and that will manifest upon earth a new force, a new consciousness and a new power. And so will begin a new education which can be called the supramental education; it will, by its all-powerful action, work not only upon the consciousness of individual beings ...
... with the proof that the thing can be done and that the time has come to do it. Consequently, we are not here to repeat what others have done, but to prepare ourselves for the blossoming of a new consciousness and a new life. That is why I address myself to you, the students, that is, to all who wish to learn, to learn Page 72 always more and always better, so that one day you may be capable ...
... nestles—nestles within... (what to call it?) a Divine Consciousness... all-embracing . Page 332 × The New Consciousness. ...
... and, on the other, that without an integral transformation of the terrestrial atmosphere, the conditions of human life cannot be effectively changed. In either case, the remedy is the same: a new consciousness must manifest on earth and in man. Only the appearance of a new force and light and power accompanying the descent of the supramental consciousness into this world can raise man out of the anguish ...
... mental ideal, it is a new idea of life and a realisation of consciousness. This realisation Page 357 is new to all, and the only true way to teach others is to live according to this new consciousness oneself and to allow oneself to be transformed by it. There is no better lesson than that of an example. To tell others: "Do not be selfish," is not much use, but if somebody is free from all ...
... religious to the exclusion of the other religions; and every branch of knowledge has been a failure because they were exclusive; and man has been a failure because he was exclusive. And what the new consciousness wants (it is on this that it insists) is: no more divisions. To be able to understand the spiritual extreme, the material extreme, and to find... to find the meeting-point, the point where... ...
... committee ) The task of giving a concrete form to Sri Aurobindo's vision was entrusted to the Mother. The creation of a new world, a new humanity, a new society expressing and embodying the new consciousness is the work she has undertaken. By the very nature of things, it is a collective ideal that calls for a collective effort so that it may be realised in the terms of an integral human perfection ...
... shown to Mother, she wrote: ) All these questions prove that you expect Auroville to be a continuation of all that has been done up to now. Auroville wants to be a new creation expressing a new consciousness in a new way and according to new methods. 18 August 1969 To raise funds for Auromodèle, what shall we do? The more you chase funds the less you get. What you should do is to inform ...
... Mother's Pavilion/Shrine see Matrimandir music 103, 107-8, 111-5 Page 254 N Nehru 13 new consciousness see consciousness . O Olympic Games 18 organization 25, 31-2, 51, 53, 60, 86-8, 191, 231 Orissa ...
... we want the sadhaks to concentrate, to open this concealed consciousness—it is by concentration of whatever kind and the experiences it brings that one opens and becomes aware within and the new consciousness and nature begin to grow and come out. Of course we want them also to use their will and reject the desires and wrong movements of the vital, for by doing that the emergence of the true consciousness ...
... Sri Aurobindo came upon earth to teach this truth to men. He told them that man is only a transitional being living in a mental consciousness, but with the possibility of acquiring a new consciousness, the Truth-consciousness, and capable of living a life perfectly harmonious, good and beautiful, happy and fully conscious. During the whole of his life upon earth, Sri Aurobindo gave all his ...
... Mother, won't you please speak to us about the "reversal" you have already mentioned to us several times? You said that a reversal was necessary to obtain the new consciousness. A reversal? What kind of reversal do we need, now? You said "a reversal of consciousness". That is a way of speaking. It doesn't mean that you should walk on your head!... It is an ...
... matter-regarding broken mental human unit and possess himself universalised and deified in a divine force, a divine love and joy and a divine knowledge. The superman is now in the making and a new consciousness has very recently manifested on earth to bring this process to perfection. But it is unlikely that any human being has yet arrived at this fulfilment, especially since it must be accompanied ...
... Falsehood. I suppose that is the first effect of the Supermind—the first effect in the individual, because it will begin with the individual. Page 383 It is probable that this state of new consciousness will have to become a constant state. But then a problem arises: how can one remain in contact with the world as it is in its deformation? Because I have noticed one thing: when this state is ...
... yourself, 'But look! That is absolutely amazing! How did it happen?' Quite simply, the habit of a purely superficial way of seeing. Sweet Mother, what should be our attitude towards this New Consciousness? That depends upon what you want to do with it. If you want to look at it as an object of curiosity, then you have only to look at it, to try to understand. If you want it to change ...
... vibration that sets disorders right—even disorders that existed prior to the supramental manifestation. Naturally, all this is a gradual process, but I am hopeful that little by little this new consciousness will grow, gain ground and victoriously resist the old forces of destruction and annihilation, and this Fatality we believed to be so inexorable. ...
... you. Are you asking how I am?... Yes—you "can't hear"! But what does it mean? I can only be well when... there's no I. I have been asking myself a question. Ah? About that new consciousness. I can grasp (or guess) its contemplative or passive aspect, but not so well its dynamic or active aspect. I don't quite see how it ACTS—I understand the contemplative part, but how does it act ...
... March 3, 1973 We have nothing for the next Bulletin, no "Notes". ( silence ) One would like to know if one is on the right path... What path? Your path, the path to the new consciousness. ( Mother indicates that she does not want to talk ) For the moment, the real Force—the real Force—is in silence. ( Mother plunges in ) ...
... Oh, yes. It's interesting. And after all, what we want ... we know that we need, not an artificially new language, but something supple enough to be able to adapt to the needs of a new CONSCIOUSNESS; and that's probably how that language will emerge, from a number of old languages, through the elimination of habits. What's specific to each language (apart from a few differences in words) ...
... Nature's force, that is to say, the nature governing the body, knows what needs to be done better than the divine Power: it's "used to it," it "knows better." That's how it is. And then, when this new consciousness which is being worked out in the physical being ( the mind of the cells ) has caught hold of that, oh, it was as if it had caught hold of an extraordinary revelation; it said, "Ah, I've got you ...
... follow it in all its details. But it's clear, precise and EVIDENT only with this new vision, because (how can I explain?...) I knew this—I knew it before, I knew it—but I saw it again with the new consciousness, the new way of seeing, and then the understanding was total, the perception was total, absolutely concrete, with elements that were completely missing—convincing elements that were completely ...
... 2 And it's beginning to spread. In Korea, too, there is someone who says the same thing and who is known to thousands of people. They are all asking for the change in [human] nature, a "new consciousness." ( long silence ) There is something interesting in this cellular consciousness: they have a sense of sincerity which is MUCH sharper, and what they call in English exacting , than in ...
... really interesting to have .... I don't know what I should do to get them. Naturally, they're personal questions, but I answer in a general way. It's beginning to rise. The effect of this new Consciousness (it's taken a year) is that things are beginning to rise. ( Then, regarding the forthcoming "Notes on the Way" in which Mother speaks of her experience of the supramental Consciousness-the ...
... Very interesting. And that's also why (now that I see this experience), I see that the result is far more precise and concrete, because the mind and the vital aren't there. Because it [this new consciousness] is taking their place. And with this whole tranquil assurance of knowledge that comes at the same time. It's interesting. ( silence ) Do you have something to say? I was wondering how ...
... Aurobindo to die. Undated The task of completing Sri Aurobindo's vision has been given to the Mother. The creation of a new world, a new humanity, a new society expressing and embodying the new consciousness is the work she has undertaken. Because of the very nature of things, it is an ideal that seeks to broaden the base of the attempt to establish harmony between body and Soul, Spirit and Matter ...
... way: they are done spontaneously by the Consciousness. In the transition between the old and the new movement there is a difficult little moment when the old habit is no longer there, and the new consciousness is not there permanently, so ... For example, it results in apparently clumsy gestures, movements that are not exactly what they should be. But it doesn't last, it happens once in a while for ...
... receptivity that mattered, and also their level of consciousness. As far as the party was concerned—anything. It was a rather interesting study, which was made under the auspices of this new consciousness, and so in quite a general way, and very clearly, very clearly And with the sense of a GREAT power. This Consciousness contains a GREAT power. Especially a psychological power, that is, an immunity ...
... Just like that. I don't know. Simply to make contact. R., something's stirring inside! ( Mother laughs a lot ) He is torn between the old man full of ties there and the new life, the new consciousness which is beginning to be interesting. ( long silence ) There were interesting things again by Sri Aurobindo, did you get them? ( Satprem reads the latest aphorisms ) 517—Until ...
... perception which I had always, less clearly and dynamically then, but which has now become more and more evident to me, that the true basis of work and life is the spiritual,—that is to say, a new consciousness to be developed only by Yoga. I see more and more manifestly that man can never get out of the futile circle the race is always treading until he has raised himself on to the new foundation. I ...
... from all rules and obligations! ( general laughter ) That was the chief result of all that. All the "you have to do this, you have to do that," gone! Well, certainly the principle of the new consciousness is that things are done exactly when they are necessary, and that's that. Yes, absolutely. There isn't any planning and anticipation. Yes, that's it. ( Mother sits looking ) ...
... form, as we might call it (that is to say, the Grace helping and assisting and healing), it's white like milk. And if I want a wholly material action (but this is quite recent—it's since this new Consciousness came), then in its physical action, on the physical, it's become slightly colored: it's luminous, golden with some pink in it, but it's not pink... ( Mother takes a hibiscus next to her ). It's ...
... It's really interesting. I wonder if there are people who can hear it.... It would be interesting to know. It goes into an atmosphere... not mental, just above the mind, but it's in this new consciousness. And it's like this ( same gesture ), it goes off vast, vast, vast... as if spreading over the earth. It's interesting. ( Mother plunges in, smiling ) Page 377 ...
... the world as the demonstration of what humanity must become." ( After the reading of Chapter 14 of On the Way to Supermanhood, "The Victory over Death." ) I have the feeling of a new consciousness being formed. ...
... ( silence ) It's far more serious than it seems. Page 85 Yes, Mother. ( silence ) But, Mother, I have the feeling India is the symbol of the world's battle and the new Consciousness cannot be established in the world so long as India has not regained her unity. Yes. ( silence ) It's obvious that India is the symbol of the New World in formation, so India must be ...
... On Himself , 26.216 Page 338 It's from 1943. What he called "the Light" is the Consciousness that came in... ( Mother tries to remember ), it came in 1969. Oh, the New Consciousness. And the other one? The other quotation is a mantra. OM Sri Aurobindo Mira Open my mind, my heart, my life to your Light, your Love, your Power. In all things may I see the Divine ...
... greatness, knowledge, power, intelligence, will,... genius,... saintliness, love, purity or perfection." 7 It is SOMETHING ELSE, another vibration of being, another consciousness. But if this new consciousness is not to be found on the peaks of the human, where then, are we to find it? Perhaps, quite simply in that which we have most neglected since we entered the mental cycle, in the body. The body ...
... inadmissible technique; but this seems to me a reasoning from the conventions of a past order which cannot apply to a new poetry dealing with spiritual things. A new art of words written from a new consciousness demands a new technique. AE himself admits that this rule makes a great difficulty because these 'highlight' words are few in the English language. His solution may be well enough where the r ...
... for an explanation. She replied: 31.5.61 My dear little child Huta, I shall see you on 5th June at 10 a.m. When I speak of "New Birth" I am always speaking of the birth of a new consciousness. This time it was the birth (that is, the expression) of a higher artistic consciousness. With love and blessings The Mother has stated about the "New Birth": What is called 'New ...
... January 1968, after we had finished the work of Meditations on Savitri . She took Savitri as the base, the great epic poem written by Sri Aurobindo, but commented on the New World, New Race, New Consciousness, New Force and New Light. She affirmed that Consciousness, Force and Light would spread their vibrating influence to change the course of the present world. All depends on how much we are conscious ...
... above. When you become cosmic, even though you speak of yourself as "I", it is not "I". The ordinary "I"-ness disappears, and the mental, vital and physical look like representatives of that new consciousness. Ramakrishna speaks of this state as "the form of ego left for action". When you reach the Supermind, you become not only cosmic but also what is beyond the universe—the transcendental—and there ...
... we want the sadhaks to concentrate, to open this concealed consciousness — it is by concentration of whatever kind and the experiences it brings that one opens and becomes aware within and the new consciousness and nature begin to grow and come out. Of course we want them also to use their will and reject the desires and wrong movements of the vital, for by doing that the emergence of the true consciousness ...
... the cheeks of my life anon, Rejuvenation rings in the blood in me… The birth from the human-mother is over With Supramental-Mother’s kiss; The eyes blaze with a new sight In body and mind new consciousness’ bliss. I see this world and life anew Having a message from another world drew In the appearance of a new light in the earthly abyss… What shall I give Thee as birthday-offering? This birth ...
... expression of light, that is to say, the play of intelligence, understanding, knowledge, a fresh outlook and consideration of the world and things, a revaluation in other terms and categories of a new consciousness. The greatest, at least, the most representative movement of this kind is that of the Renaissance. It was really a New Illumination: a flood of light poured upon the mind and intellect and un ...
... your goal. When you feel my Presence, Peace and Joy, you must always believe in these things because they are true. As you gradually feel the Divine's Presence, you will get new strength, new consciousness, everything. Once and for all the adverse forces are bound to submit to the Divine Forces, and the Divine's Victory is certain. Then she kissed my forehead and gave me some flowers. ...
... Aurobindo: "If the control of [the] highest spiritual being is to be brought into our waking life, there must be a conscious heightening and widening into immense ranges of new being, new consciousness, new potentialities of action, a taking up — as integral as possible — of our present being, consciousness, activities and a transmutation of them into divine values which would effect a ...
... to go - although the principle of the spiritual life is against any return to the old one even for a time especially if the deeper urge is there and striving towards a firm foundation of the new consciousness - for the return to the ordinary atmosphere and surroundings and motives disturbs the work and throws back the progress." (Letters on Yoga, p. 865) (2)"Most people after the atmosphere ...
... submerged in water. But I was not afraid at all; on the contrary, I found it very enjoyable. Mother, what is the significance of this dream? The sea must have been only the symbol of a new consciousness submerging the old. S RI A UROBINDO Page 60 Page 61 ...
... but also for having readily acquitted [himself] of [his] sacred responsibility, the sense of which prompted [him] to 'salute' the 'Dawn' [he] had seen and announce the high Herald of a new consciousness in poetry..." 6. K.D.S. as a Prose-writer Amal Kiran is not only a poet of great distinction, he is at the same time an admirable prose-writer, and that too on a variety of ...
... yet it is only an incident on the way or resulting from the ascent - the ascent is the real thing. Here the ascent is the first step, but it is a means for the descent. It is the descent of the new consciousness attained by the ascent that is the stamp and seal of the sadhana. Even the Tantra and Vaishnavism end in the release from life; here the object is the divine fulfilment of life. Page 22 ...
... sorrow, and Arjuna found no way of relief from that sorrow. In that hour of terrible crisis, Sri Krishna assured him to show the way by which he could act and fight in the battle with such a new consciousness that there would be in his action such purity that it would be devoid of any blemish. If ultimate reality consisted of only two independent principles of Purusha and Prakriti, and if all ...
... on a mental and a vital domination over humanity, but the sovereignty of me Spirit over its own instruments, its possession" of itself? and its possession of life in the power of the spirit a new consciousness in which humanity itself shall find its own self-exceeding and self-fulfillment by the revelation of the divinity that is striving for birth within it. This is the sole true supermanhood and the ...
... yet it is only an incident on the way or resulting from the ascent — the ascent is the real thing. Here the ascent is the first step, but it is a means for the descent. It is the descent of the new consciousness attained by the ascent that is the stamp and seal of the sadhana.... Because the object sought after is not an individual achievement of divine realisation for the sake of the individual, but ...
... with? I seem to have lost everything. Everything once gained is there and can be regained. Yoga is not a thing that goes by one decisive rush one way or the other—it is a building up of a new consciousness and is full of ups and downs. But if one keeps to it the ups have a habit of resulting by accumulation in a decisive change—therefore the one thing to do is to keep at it. After a fall don't wail ...
... or myself were born with a prevision that they or I would take to the spiritual life? So long as one is in the ordinary consciousness, one lives the ordinary life. When the awakening and the new consciousness come, one leaves it - nothing puzzling in it. Sri Aurobindo's argument is sound and convincing. Still, my puzzle remained. For it was based on a different reason altogether. I thought that ...
... cannot understand. What do they know? Nothing at all. And it is useless to try to make them understand. It will be known what it is, but in a distant future. It is only the new race with the new consciousness which will be able to understand. I assure you there is nothing under the blue sky to compare with Savitri . It is the mystery of mysteries. It is a *super-epic,* it is super-literature, su ...
... gathered by this Eternal Look, I have sent a state, a substance of the Supramental Consciousness, that which does not perish but works incessantly to change the contents of these elements to the New Consciousness. This look is filled with Love, Light, Grace and Divine Compassion. Voilà! …What? Again the same look! ( in a jovial mood ) Do you think you can swallow me, now that you know what is there in ...
... expression of light, that is to say, the play of intelligence, understanding, knowledge, a fresh outlook and consideration of the world and things, a revaluation in other terms and categories of a new consciousness. The greatest, at least, the most representative movement of this kind is that of the Renaissance. It was really a New Illumination: a flood of light poured upon the mind and intellect and u ...
... this critical turn of human history where we stand today, man has to choose his destiny—either the Capitol or the Tarpeian Rock, as in the classical phrase. Either he becomes a new man with a new consciousness or he goes down into inconscience and is no more man. Page 94 ...
... into a glad divine abyss; But where hast thou thrown self's mission and self's power ? On what dead bank on the Eternal's road?" 2 Ashwapati veers round. A new perception, a new consciousness begins to open within him. A new urge moves him. He has to start on a new journey, a new quest and achievement. The world exists neither as a Truth nor as an illusion in itself. It exists in and ...
... all know the special emphasis she laid on physical education in order to prepare the body and senses to receive the golden light. She always said, physical education gives you the basis for the new consciousness, the new light, we must have a strong body, a beautiful body, a body that endures: for the new light is powerful, it is not merely light, it is force, one must be able to bear it and carry out ...
... consciousness which he calls Supermind. In the earthly scheme there will thus manifest a new type, a higher functioning of consciousness and a new race or species will appear on earth with this new consciousness as the ruling principle. Out of the rock and mineral came the plant, out of the plant the animal, out of the mere animal man has come and out of man the Superman will come inevitably. ...
... s and means of expression, but which till now, because of an evolutionary necessity of growth and development, acted more as an obstruction or a veil than as an aid or a channel. When in the new consciousness the individual attains its soul-status, in other words, its divinity, then a reshaping and recasting of the lower limbs becomes possible and even inevitable. The soul Page 80 ...
... glad divine abyss; But where hast thou thrown self's mission and self's power? On what dead bank on the Eternal's road? 7 Ashwapati veers round. A new perception, a new consciousness begins to open within him. A new urge moves him. He has to start on a new journey, a new quest and achievement. The world exists neither as a Truth nor as an illusion in itself. It exists in and ...
... physical mind, with its satellite, the human speech, must indeed be rescued from the thraldom of the animal life, the life of the ordinary senses. They should be put under the regimen of the new consciousness, the status of the Idea-Force. The action of that consciousness will create its own norm and pattern adequate for expressing and embodying suprasensuous realities. It will not have to depend upon ...
... life to life and from light to light. The transference from the lower chain to the higher is to be effected by the consciosuness of nothingness (Shunyam) being filled or impregnated with the new consciousness of Immortality; for the units of the normal or ignorant. consciousness are themselves not wholly or essentially ignorant and mortal. They have in them what Buddha did not see or recognise – the ...
... in the world. What is needed then is an army of souls: individuals, either separately or in groups, who have contacted their inmost reality, their divinity, in some way or other-men with a new consciousness and aspiration, a new life and realisation. Page 251 Theywill live in the midst of the general degeneration and disintegration, not aloof and immured in their privacy of purity ...
... turned to action. That is what Sri Aurobindo calls bringing down the Force from above. That way lies the only chance of changing the world; for you seek there a new Force, a new domain, a new consciousness and you put that in contact with the external world. Its presence and its action will bring changes inevitably, a total transformation, we hope, in the external world. (2) There is no ...
... yet it is only an incident on the way or resulting from the ascent — the ascent is the real thing. Here the ascent is the first step, but it is a means for the descent. It is the descent of the new consciousness attained by the ascent that is the stamp and seal of the Sadhana. Even the Tantra and Vaishnavism end in the page - 121 release from life; here the object is the divine fulfilment of ...
... the peoples of the world has taken a concrete form. On its worst side, the survival of humanity on the earth has come under severest attack; on its best side, it has come to be realised that a new consciousness must seize humanity and change human nature so radically that the spirit of oneness and unity not only reigns as an idea and an aspiration but becomes embodied in human life like its living breath ...
... psychicises the whole lower nature so as to make it ready for the divine change. Going upwards, one passes beyond the human mind and at each stage of the ascent, there is a conversion into a new consciousness and an infusion of this new consciouness into the whole of the nature. Thus rising beyond intellect through illuminated higher mind to the intuitive consciousness, we begin to look at everything ...
... yet it is only an incident on the way or resulting from the ascent the ascent is the real thing. Here the ascent is the first step, but it is a means for the descent. It is the descent of the new consciousness attained by the ascent that is the stamp and seal of the sadhana. Even the Tantra and Vaishnavism end in the release from life; here the object is the divine fulfilment of life. 2. Because ...
... the attitude, you have to change consciousness. Of course, there are difficulties on the way, the force of habit, the force of atavism, all that means an extra dose of your consciousnes's or a new consciousness. What is done here and what is done elsewhere, in this respect of freedom being given to women and freedom being given to the younger generation, there is a difference. I will come to it. Mother ...
... capacities and capabilities of man to tackle successfully. Our Master has pointed out that man has to change his nature, transcend himself and evolve into a higher species with the help of a new consciousness. Then only will he be able to come out of his, difficulties. Now let us examine the problem in our own context. With regard to our individual and collective progress, taster has given ...
... tion or the divinisation of the body could take place. She has done it and we can see everywhere man's urge for this change and which, therefore, explains the necessary upheaval. Now this new consciousness will go on acting and bring in the promised changes. It is absolutely certain. Can you describe the period of confusion immediately after? What was your role then? How do you see the ...
... India's soul ! 1 Sri Aurobindo retired from the outer political world to devote himself more intensively to the discovery and conquest 1 "Salutation" Page 375 of a new consciousness and force, glimpses of which he was having at the time and which alone could save mankind and recreate it. From 1910 to 1914 he was, he said, silently developing this new power in seclusion and ...
... many who have become possessed of spiritual powers but as something exceptional and occasional, the casual or incomplete manifestation of an acquired capacity rather than. the organisation of a new consciousness, a new life and a new nature. How far can such physical transformation be carried, what are the limits within which it must remain to be consistent with life upon earth and without carrying that ...
... in the Golconde. I started by reading out a brief passage from the Words of the Mother. It contained a statement of our ideal or objective —the goal of transformation, the coming race, a new consciousness and realisation. But the Soviet leader was a bit of a blunt atheist, or at least that was the role he had chosen to play. And in due course he raised the usual objection. Page 100 ...
... up in the teacher is one of wonder and respect. It will surely mark the children's life, and the teacher's also, although all the children may not be equally conscious of what has happened. A new consciousness has emerged, and even if it recedes and disappears for a time, it will surely work from behind towards its reappearance. The main preoccupation of the teacher will henceforth be to protect it ...
... works vigilantly, quietly opening one after another the hidden doors of our consciousness. The sadhaka at one time realises that he is not the same man as before. He has become a new man with a new consciousness. In his life externally there is no noise, no loud calls, but inwardly all his being has been reversed, is topsy-turvy. The yoga of The Mother and Sri Aurobindo has quietly reconstructed, renovated ...
... for Women and Girls Introduction The world is moving towards a new age of freedom, equality and progress under the pressure of a new Truth and a new Consciousness. Some people are aware of it; many are not. But that does not matter. The movement is going all right in the individual and in collective life: there is unrest, turmoil and upheaval everywhere; ...
... whether it is death or the beginning of a new Life for the Earth and for man. A non-path, dark and unknown, on which you tread step by step unknowingly, with from time to time visions of the New Consciousness that so concretely and graciously show you what step you have to take, or the meaning of the step, the danger ahead and the “situation” in the world or around you, people’s intentions and faces ...
... relevant was incorporated in my book On the Mother: The Chronicle of a Manifestation and Ministry (1978). Sri Aurobindo's and the Mother's were really one story, a single saga of the conquest of New Consciousness and the inauguration of the Supramental Age. In the present fourth edition of the biography of Sri Aurobindo, the text is substantially the same as in the third edition. Nevertheless several ...
... young seeker: For you to return to France just now would be a defeat .... You bring to your search a sincere heart and a mental capacity to learn (by reserving judgment) .... A new consciousness is seeking expression in you .... .. here it is a matter of remaining perfectly conscious. This perfecting of the human being is difficult - very, very difficult; and it is the Work ...
... perception which I had always, less clearly and dynamically then, but which has now become more and more evident to me, that the true basis of work and life is the spiritual, - that is to say, a new consciousness to be developed only by Yoga. I see more and more manifestly that man can never get out of the futile circle the race is always treading until he has raised himself on to the new foundation. I ...
... of. This took place on 16 th August at the Playground. The theme of this presentation was the trail-blazing mantras from Sri Aurobindo and the Mother on the dawning of the new world, of the new consciousness that was progressively being felt everywhere on the planet. Page-200 I had incorporated Sanskrit hymns from the Vedas and the Upanishads to the musical ...
... were the object of this charity." The Mother's conclusion is that, for a lasting solution to the problem of human misery, "a change in the human consciousness is absolutely indispensable... a new consciousness must manifest on earth and in man" at the same time. When the Mother denounces ambition in others - the egoistic ambition of philanthropists, for example - but confesses to nurturing ambition ...
... have here the unique privilege of being at the very centre of this radiating light, at the fount of this force of transformation. 4 Sri Aurobindo had incarnated the will to bring down the New Consciousness and the New Life, and his abiding Presence still radiated his light and his force. It was for the students young and old - and for others too - to open themselves to this Force and hasten its ...
... Nature's ascending march in her progress towards perfection, by the creation of a new species that will be to man what man is to the animal and that will manifest upon earth a new force, a new consciousness and a new power. And so will begin a new education which can be called the supramental education; it will, by its all-powerful action, work not only upon the consciousness of individual beings ...
... s is still mental and intellectual in its functioning, but sufficiently imbued with the supramental strength and force to become the instrument of a higher truth. 22 The infusion of the new consciousness can tone up the body as much as the vital and the mind, and there will emerge a new spontaneity of infallible efficiency undreamt of before. On 9 July, the Mother saw in the evening a Bengali ...
... Commenting on this, the Mother had said on 19 March 7 that the whole mass of mankind seems now to have come to a point where it must either break through the resistance and emerge into a new consciousness or else fall back into an abyss of darkness and inertia". We are living in one of those crucial periods of terrestrial history when either there is accomplished a leap forward or there must be ...
... and their Messages (4th Revised ed. 1992) The Spiritual Significance of Flowers (1994) Sri Aurobindo International Centre of Education (Pondicherry) A New Education for a New Consciousness (1992) Ever to the New and the Unknown (1993) Sri Aurobindo Ashram (New Delhi) Pioneer of the Supramental Age (1958) Page 892 Sri Aurobindo Pathamandir (Calcutta) ...
... An hour of choice. A whole part of humanity, the part that is consciously or unconsciously open to the new forces, is going to be more and more impregnated with the new substance and the new consciousness to the point of rising toward it to serve as a link between the two... but those who cannot be raised up, those who refuse to progress, will be "dementalized": they will automatically lose the ...
... next being, but this is our mistake. The real cause is almost mechanical, as it were, a physiological mechanics, not at all meant (or only secondarily) to provide great world panoramas. For the New Consciousness is crushing, it is formidable and utterly disproportionate to the little network of nerves that faint when a finger gets pinched in the kitchen door. This Consciousness is first and foremost a ...
... Descent to continue till it has fixed the higher power of being everywhere below — in the body and in the subconscient below it and also all-round the body so that one lives enveloped in this new consciousness and being. (13.11.36) ...
... Aurobindo 04 October 1934 It is good that you were able to observe yourself all the time and see the movements and that the intervention of the new consciousness was frequent and automatic. At a later stage you will no doubt get a guidance in the mind also as to how to do things you want to get done. Evidently your mind was too active — as well as the ...
... will see sudden upheavals and revolutionary changes. The high will become low and the low high. The oppressed and the depressed shall be elevated. The nation and humanity will be animated by a new consciousness, new thought and new efforts will be made to reach new ends. Amidst these revolutionary changes, India will become free. 32 India was to become free thirty-seven years later. What strange ...
... a particular skin. Perhaps we can understand the dimension of the experience by its mental analogy: when we emerged from the primates and began to "think" and "communicate" a little, that new consciousness began to EMBRACE a lot of things. In a sense, to understand means TO BE INSIDE what one understands. It's truly like embracing it. And so the more refined the human being becomes and the ...
... Page 421 The third condition is the descent of the supramental consciousness into the nature of the aspirant. "The ascent is the first step, but it is a means for the descent of the new consciousness attained by the ascent that is the stamp and seal of the sâdhanâ."¹ As I have already said, the work of transformation, which is a radical and integral operation, is beyond the capacity of any ...
... design you are looking at. Nothing else exists in the world except the design, then, all of a sudden, you are through to the other side. And when you have passed to the other side you enter into a new consciousness, and you know. " Oh, my! Is that what happened to Alice Through the Looking Glass? "We laughed a lot," said Mother remembering, "because it was amusing. But it's very true, it's an excellent ...
... merely a mental ideal but a new conception of life and a realisation of consciousness. This realisation is new for everyone, and the only true way to teach others is to live according to this new consciousness oneself and allow oneself to be transformed by it. There is no better lesson than that of an example. To tell others, “Do not be selfish”, is not much use, but if somebody is free from all selfishness ...
... we help? What is being prepared is the advent of the being who will succeed man, the being who will be to man what man is to the animal. And the work has already begun with the action of a new consciousness which came on the first of January 1969 and is at work in all who are ready. The action of this consciousness has intensified and is becoming more and more material. It is up to us to be receptive ...
... or myself were born with a prevision that they or I would take to the spiritual life? So long as one is in the ordinary consciousness, one lives the ordinary life —when the awakening and the new consciousness come, one leaves it nothing puzzling in that." Page 129 ...
... heart to become Your true child. Help me to become worthy of You. My dear child, I was very happy to read what you have written. The day of your birth will truly be your birth into a new consciousness, the true consciousness that will lead you to the divine realisation. But just now I want to tell you that my love and help are always with you to help you on the way. Blessings. 2 July ...
... how long this went on, but I have with me, in the Mother’s handwriting, four of the topics She gave. Reproduced below are all these topics for meditation. The new birth—the birth to a new consciousness, the psychic consciousness. 5 July 1957 How to awaken in the body the aspiration towards the Divine. Turning one’s gaze within. Looking within oneself. 2 August 1957 ...
... divine knowledge—the doers of evil find me not, says the Gita. And they were unable to realise that knowledge of the truth means for Indian thought, not intellectual assent or recognition, but a new consciousness and a life according to the truth of the Spirit. Morality is for the Western mind mostly a thing of outward conduct; but conduct for the Indian mind is only one means of expression and sign of ...
... may guide and sustain you. This is a preliminary stage which often takes long, but if one goes through it with sincerity and steadfastness, the mentality begins little by little to change and a new consciousness opens in the sadhak which begins to be aware more and more of the Mother's presence within, of her working in the nature and in the life or of some other spiritual experience which opens the gate ...
... on the number. The numbers of Buddhism or Christianity were so great because the majority professed it as a creed without its making the least difference to their external life. "If the new consciousness were satisfied with that, it could also and much more easily command homage and acceptance by the whole earth. It is because it is a Page 454 greater consciousness, the Truth Con ...
... forces, not only of forces, but of the conscious being behind the forces. One is aware of all this not only in oneself but in the universe. There is a force which accompanies the growth of this new consciousness and at once grows with it and helps it to come about and to perfect itself. This force is the Yoga shakti. It is here asleep and coiled up in all the centres of our inner being (chakras) and is ...
... yet it is only an incident on the way or resulting from the ascent—the ascent is the real thing. Here the ascent is the first step, but it is a means for the descent. It is the descent of the new consciousness attained by the ascent that is the stamp and seal of the sadhana. Even Tantra and Vaishnavism end in the release from life; here the object is the fulfilment of life. (2) Because the object ...
... Confucius or myself were born with a prevision that they or I would take to the spiritual life? So long as one is in the ordinary consciousness, one lives the ordinary life—when the awakening and the new consciousness come, one leaves it—nothing puzzling in that. 27 April 1936 Meditation as a Means What do you call meditation? Shutting the eyes and concentrating? It is only one method for calling down ...
... necessary in order to be established in this consciousness which has no end. Rising higher also becomes a part of this movement. I feel that all will be done, only time is needed for fixing the new consciousness. Very good. All that you write on this page is entirely sound and accurate; it shows that you are getting the true knowledge. Most in fact of the day's experiences are signs of the true ...
... outer mind, its vital and physical do not like to pay the price. But after all I am not trying to change the world all at once but only to bring down centrally something into it it has not yet, a new consciousness and power. 31 July 1935 It seems that wherever one turns one sees the same humanity—with all its ignorance and incapacity. Of course. That's what I have been telling you all along. ...
... am I to think? Page 498 I did not expect you to take my तथास्तु with such grim seriousness. Speaking semi-seriously, I am not here to do miracles to order, but to try to get in a new consciousness somewhere in the world—which is itself however to attempt a miracle. If physical miracles happen to tumble in in the process, well and good, but you can't present your medical pistol in my face ...
... march in her progress towards perfection, by the creation of a new species that will be in relation to man what man is in relation to the animal and that will manifest upon earth a new force, a new consciousness and a nevI power. Then will begin also a new education which can be called the supramental education; it will, by its all-powerful action, work not only upon the consciousness of individual beings ...
... judgment to be replaced first by an intuitive and then by an overmind or supramental functioning which inaugurates the action of a direct Truth-Consciousness, Truth-sight, Truth-discernment, a new consciousness which is in all its ways quite foreign to our mind's present nature. There is demanded too a similar giving up by the vital of its cherished desires, emotions, feelings, Page 109 ...
... life—with such an excessive hyperactivity, so widespread a trepidation, that mankind as a whole seems to have come to a point where it must either break through the resistance and emerge into a new consciousness or else fall back into an abyss of darkness and inertia. This tension is so complete and so widespread that something obviously has to break. It cannot go on in this way. We may take it as ...
... self, your low exterior nature and starting quite anew. In the experience of resurrection the movement of discarding the old being is closely connected with that of the rising up from it of the new" consciousness and the new strength, so that from what is thrown off the best can unite in a new creation with what has succeeded. The true significance of resurrection is that the Divine Consciousness awakes ...
... recognise honestly and sincerely that what has happened is due to your fault, then you are able to put a red-hot iron as it were on the affected spot. You can purify the weakness and turn it into a new consciousness. And you find after the storm that you have grown a little more, you have truly made a progress. "Progress may be slow, falls may be frequent, but if a courageous will is maintained one is ...
... perseverance to reach the goal—one second which shows you how to start, the beginning.... Some have this in dreams at night; some have it at any odd time: something one sees which awakens in one this new consciousness, something one hears, a beautiful landscape, beautiful music, or else simply a few words one reads, or else the intensity of concentration in some effort—anything at all, there are a thousand ...
... around the central consciousness. For example, to take the most positively material things like food and sleep: it is quite possible that, if he has not taken care to infuse, as it were, his new consciousness into his body, his need for food and sleep will remain almost the same and that he won't have much control over them. On the other hand, if he has taken care to unify his being and has infused ...
... life—with such an excessive hyperactivity, so widespread a trepidation, that mankind as a whole seems to have come to a point where it must either break through the resistance and emerge into a new consciousness or else fall back into an abyss of darkness and inertia. Page 296 This tension is so complete and so widespread that something obviously has to break. It cannot go on in this way. ...
... quite astonishing! How did it happen?" Page 127 Quite simply, it is a habit of seeing things in a purely superficial way. Sweet Mother, what should our attitude be towards this new Consciousness? That depends on what you want to do with it. If you want to look at it as a curiosity, you have only to watch, to try to understand. If you want it to change you, you must open yourself ...
... powerful, in a peace so smiling! So smiling that it cannot be annoyed, it is absolutely impossible... so smiling, so smiling... and watching. ( Silence ) The special character of this new consciousness is: no half measures, no approximations. That is its character. The idea "Oh yes, we shall do it, and little by little we..."—no, no, not like that; it is Yes or No, either you can or you cannot ...
... ignorance. Sri Aurobindo came upon earth to teach this truth to men. He told them that man is only a transitional being living in a mental consciousness, but with the possibility of acquiring a new consciousness, the Truth-consciousness, and capable of living a life perfectly harmonious, good and beautiful, happy and fully conscious. During the whole of his life upon earth, Sri Aurobindo gave all his ...
... of the opening of the psychic centre. It has also made my life very dry and top-heavy. You have said in the "Bulletin" that this sort of constant mental activity is not good for receiving the New Consciousness that is now manifesting. But, then, Page 213 if the work that I have to do demands it, how can I help it? You seem to forget that Sri Aurobindo wrote for so many years the whole ...
... to concentrate, to open this concealed Page 24 consciousness—it is by concentration of whatever kind and the experiences it brings that one opens and becomes aware within and the new consciousness and nature begin to grow and come out. Of course we want them also to use their will and reject the desires and wrong movements of the vital, for by doing that the emergence of the true consciousness ...
... spiritual birth. What he has written there could be a very accurate indication of the process of the change, the putting away of the old mind, vital, physical consciousness and the emergence of a new consciousness from the now invisible Within, not an illusory periphery like the present mental, vital, physical ignorance but a truth-becoming from the true being within us. He speaks of the transition as a ...
... can do that without losing consciousness. Inner Guidance about Work It is good that you were able to observe yourself all the time and see the movements and that the intervention of the new consciousness was frequent and automatic. At a later stage you will no doubt get a guidance in the mind also as to how to do the things you want to get done. Evidently your mind was too active—as well as the ...
... these vicissitudes of the sadhana. Everything once gained is there and can be regained. Yoga is not a thing that goes by one decisive rush one way or the other—it is a building up of a new consciousness and is full of ups and downs. But if one keeps to it the ups have a habit of resulting by accumulation in a decisive change—therefore the one thing to do is to keep at it. After a fall don't wail ...
... these things are associated with the ordinary mental consciousness and still need it to be done. At a later stage it will be possible to do these things with the surface mind only while the new consciousness remains intact and is either found there immediately as soon as the surface occupation ceases or else remains even during the occupation upholding the surface action or enveloping it as a small ...
... many who have become possessed of spiritual powers but as something exceptional and occasional, the casual or incomplete manifestation of an acquired capacity rather than the organisation of a new consciousness, a new life and a new nature. How far can such physical transformation be carried, what are the limits within which it must remain to be consistent with life upon earth and without carrying that ...
... general condition which is a proneness to aprakāśa and sometimes apravṛtti . The Opening of the Physical Consciousness The physical consciousness? It opens just like the rest, receives a new consciousness, obeys the Force, feels a change even in the cells, aspires to and seeks self-giving and union with the Divine. Page 206 The True Activity of the Senses It [ the true activity of ...
... achievement or the signposts of the journey to spiritual perfection. It is ignored that any of these things may be there and yet there need not be any spiritual life behind it, any rebirth into a new consciousness or any remoulding of either the inner or the outer consciousness no longer in a higher or richer power of mind and life and body only, the instruments, but in the direct light and force of the ...
... a man here—e.g. when Y came back and wanted to enter the Asram, there was clearly a hostile force working that wanted to create trouble, but it was not strong enough to do it. X 's new consciousness makes him feel more strongly the opposite forces that one contacts when one moves in the world and has to do affairs and meet with others and he is afraid of Page 563 a response in ...
... another form of the same action of the inner conscious force. As for the anger it is evidently in process of control and elimination and its recurrences cannot fail to disappear after a time as the new consciousness increases. Living Within There is an inner being in man of which he is not usually conscious; he lives in a superficial consciousness which he calls himself and which is normally concerned ...
... such as newspaper reading ] and not able to Page 67 do without them or to think of them as a matter of main importance. The all-important thing must be the sadhana, the growth into a new consciousness and a new inner life. The rest must be done with detachment and without getting absorbed in them. The feeling must be such that if the Mother were to tell you never to see a newspaper at all, ...
... even non-existent, nothing seems to be left but a wide practically infinite consciousness which is oneself—or, if not at once infinite, yet what is now called a boundless finite. This new consciousness is open to all knowledge from above, but it does not think with the brain as does the ordinary mind—it has other and larger means of awareness than thought. No methodical opening of the centres ...
... open to it. The total transformation of the nature cannot be done in a moment; it must take long and proceed through stages; what is now experienced is only an initiation, a foundation for the new consciousness in which that transformation will become possible. The automatic spontaneity of the experience ought by Page 392 itself to show that it is nothing constructed by the mind, will or ...
... movements, but not preoccupied with them only. The defects should be noticed and rejected, but the concentration should be positive—on what you are to be, i.e., on the development of the new consciousness rather than on this negative side. Page 700 It is necessary to observe and know the wrong movements in you; for they are the source of your trouble and have to be persistently ...
... the pressure—the old Yogas did this going above precisely in this way, by going into samadhi. For us, it has to come in the waking condition—for until it does, it cannot be made the basis for a new consciousness governing the life. It [ the tendency to fall asleep during meditation ] is a common obstacle with all who practise Yoga at the beginning. The sleep disappears gradually in two ways—(1) ...
... If the control of that highest spiritual being is to be brought into our waking life, there must be a conscious heightening and widening into immense ranges of new being, Page 765 new consciousness, new potentialities of action, a taking up—as integral as possible—of our present being, consciousness, activities and a transmutation of them into divine values which would effect a transfiguration ...
... and in the poise of a falsehood created in Time by the principle of divided consciousness with all its oppositions, discords and dualities. We have to take back all things and beings into our new consciousness but as one with all, not divided from them by an egoistic individuality. In other words, besides the consciousness of the transcendent Self pure, self-existent, timeless, spaceless we have ...
... September 3, 1969 For two days, I've had a sort of retrospective vision of the horrors of life... as though seen with the new Consciousness. And the odd thing is that you wonder how it was possible to go through all those horrors.... It began with a sort of thoroughly repellant perception of people's condition from the standpoint ...
... more pronounced), every minute: do you want life, do you want death; do you want life, do you want death?... That's how it is. And life is union with the Supreme. And consciousness, a COMPLETELY new consciousness is coming. That's how it is, like this ( Mother makes a gesture of swinging from one side to the other ). But yesterday or the day before, I don't know, all of a sudden the body said, "No! I am ...
... It knows that the old way is no longer that, but it's beginning to wonder what it [the new way] will be like, that is to say, the way of perceiving, the relationship with things: "How will the new consciousness relate with the old consciousness of those who will still be humans?..." All these things will remain what they are, but there will be a way of perceiving them, a relationship... It comes... it's ...
... perception. Which means that the ordinary sight is as if behind a veil, and then the veil grows thicker. But if the circumstances, the people or the work allow me to go more completely into the new consciousness, the perception grows clearer and clearer. The body has understood that, it has been led to understand: it isn't worried about the decreasing sight or hearing, and it notices, it realizes that ...
... chest, she is out of breath ), it's hard for me to speak; I can't speak easily, it's hard. Things like that. That makes three things. But when I am very quiet (at night, for instance), the new consciousness becomes clearer and clearer, but words cannot easily express it because... it's a kind of... (how shall I say?) it's almost as if a new mind were being formed (but not a mental one). And so speech ...
... of hesitating hue... A slow miraculous gesture's dim appeal.... An experiment is proceeding with ups and downs and zigzags but with a gradual movement forward on the whole to develop a new consciousness resulting in a new life. The word "Superman" connected with Sri Aurobindo's work has to be properly understood - in the very sense in which you speak of "man" "since in our nature we are already ...
... groan inwardly as we wait for the adoption as sons, the redemption of our bodies' (Romans 8.21-23). Is not this exactly Sri Aurobindo's idea that we have already received the Spirit, that is, a new consciousness, but the Spirit has now to penetrate the body itself and then the whole creation will be transformed by the indwelling Spirit? The one difference, as I understand it, is that Sri Aurobindo seems ...
... power would be able to effect the cure, which meant my waiting for the Supramental descent into her outermost substance. Right down to the subtle-physical which lies behind this substance the new Consciousness had made its appearance. In a letter of August 1936, after affirming that "perfection on the physical plane is indeed part of the ideal of the Yoga, but it is the last item" and that till it would ...
... wanted you to follow one religion to the exclusion of all others. And all human knowledge has gone bankrupt because it was exclusive. And man has gone bankrupt because he was exclusive. What the New Consciousness wants (it insists on this) is: no more divisions. To be capable of understanding the extreme spiritual, the extreme material, and to find... to find the meeting point where... it becomes a true ...
... the condition you are in. Now I don't remember a single word. A pity! It's a pity. Oh, and it was so clear, I told you, "But see..." It was Page 89 so precise, seen in this new Consciousness. I told you, "So there..." But it was good. I told you, "See, you have no reason to be worried, things are fine!" ( Sujata laughs ) That I remember. And I explained to you why you aren't conscious ...
... On the bare summit of created things. II.I.101-102 That's really good. It's a pity it was cut into small bits! ( Then Satprem reads the fifth chapter of Supermanhood: "The New Consciousness." ) That's very good, it's creative of the condition. ( silence ) Can't speak ( Mother shakes her head ). ...
... to understand; if there were nothing to understand, I wouldn't have come here." He was very nice; it's me, I don't know what got hold of me, it came like that. ( Mother laughs ) It's this New Consciousness. You think so? That's how it is, yes! I told you, I had arranged for him to meet N.S., and it didn't work out. But then, I had a perception afterwards. Because when this man speaks ...
... fine. He feels that material, concrete help. When he has problems and turns to you, it gets sorted out. Page 338 But I don't know why people don't feel this concretely! This New Consciousness is thoroughly concrete, mon petit. Thoroughly concrete. It's a lack of vision. One does feel the Force, but one feels it's... spread out, general. But it Is like that. But is it particular ...
... usually in different parts of the nature at different times. You had your former experiences because the mind and higher vital were sufficiently emptied and quiet to receive some experiences of a new consciousness. Now it is the physical mind, physical vital and body that have to be emptied—these always take longer than the others because the physical is more full of old habits, more slow to receive anything ...
... who is not easily carried away—she was transformed, literally transformed, and she told me it was like the revelation of her life for Page 34 her.... That was the chapter on the "New Consciousness." I would like her to hear the end.... If you sit here ( gesture to Mother's right ), I think I can hear you. As you like, Mother. I think there were six chapters left to read. Yes ...
... e sense of time isn't the same, but anyway...) a wonder. A wonderful Presence. It doesn't really depend on circumstances: the circumstances are always the same, and yet.... And in this new consciousness, time has a completely different value: I feel I have spent a few minutes, and I am told it's been almost an hour. That's how it is. ( silence ) So it's as you want. If you want to meditate ...
... many who have become possessed of spiritual powers but as something exceptional and occasional, the casual or incomplete manifestation of an acquired capacity rather than the organisation of a new consciousness, a new life and a new nature.” 35 “This destiny of the body has rarely in the past been envisaged or else not for the body here upon earth; such forms would rather be imagined or visioned ...
... fringe of which touches the higher degrees of a cliff or hill while the rest is still below. At each stage the higher parts of the nature may be provisionally but incompletely organised in the new consciousness while the lower are in a state of flux or formation, partly moving in the old way though influenced and beginning to change, partly belonging to the new kind but still imperfectly achieved and ...
... the Mother’s words ‘il y en a’ (there are some) and Nolini’s declaration that the new man is present among us. Much more important than the external is the internal work — of openness to the new Consciousness and surrender to it, of faith in the transformation which is an inner certitude, and of a total and no longer egoistic preparedness to do everything the guiding Consciousness demands. (‘We want ...
... irresponsive atmosphere – if I may put it like that – of what surrounds it. And it is certain that the entire terrestrial life has to follow a certain line of progress, so that a new world and a new consciousness may manifest. And this is why I said at the beginning that it depends at least partially on you.” 21 Touching again upon this subject shortly afterwards she said: “The personal realisation ...
... become golden in the mental, vital and physical levels of existence. With the descending force of the golden Light of Truth on the earth, a new era has begun and the earth has woken up with a new consciousness which is seen vibrating with a new awakening of life at all levels of human existence. The human race is awakening everywhere with a new life. Carried by the force of the flood of the ...
... in his yoga, the triple transformation of psychic, spiritual and supramental change will achieve a complete and radical change of human nature so as to usher in a new birth, a new life and a new consciousness in the human life. Speaking of the evolutionary growth and ascent of consciousness from inert and inconscient matter, he traces how life consciousness developed out of the inconscience first in ...
... consciousness of man so that he may change and have peace, prosperity and harmony in life. This is for the future as predicted by Swami Vivekananda, Sri Aurobindo and other great seers. A new consciousness other than the mental, i.e., Supra-mental or Truth-consciousness will bring about the desired change in Life. But we all must contribute our share. Even on the struggling Nature left below ...
... the dynamis of the higher spiritual grades of being active and organised in our waking life, we must first effectuate "a conscious heightening and widening into immense ranges of new being, new consciousness, new potentialities of action." 1 But this ascension of our consciousness to these higher luminous planes, even if permanently centred there, does not suffice for the spiritual tr ...
... As M.P. Pandit of Sri Aurobindo Ashram has so well pointed out, during the last few years of her physical existence upon earth, "the Mother was pre-occupied with the organisation of the New Consciousness-Force, the Dynamis of Knowledge-Will, the Supramental Shakti that has been brought down on earth by the concentrated Tapasya of Herself and Sri Aurobindo. She was ceaselessly engaged in extending ...
... or myself were born with a prevision that they or I would take to the spiritual life? So long as one is in the ordinary consciousness, one lives the ordinary life. When the awakening and the new consciousness come, one leaves it – nothing puzzling in that.’ 25 And so Aurobindo returned home in the company of his young wife and of his sister Sarojini, after having spent some time in Nainital, the ...
... 1961 White Roses 31 May 1961 When I speak of 'New Birth', I am always speaking of the birth of a new consciousness. ...
... Its coolness enveloped my subtle body. Here the Divine Mother had strewn lavishly her exquisite Beauty and Wonder and Quietude. The divine vibrations were overwhelming. I was engulfed by the new consciousness. I reached the Suns. Their Force and Power were absolutely still and calm. Then I saw a narrow passage between the two Suns. I entered it, and on the other side I saw a golden world. There ...
... Force and Delight. She disclosed their effect on the cells of the body. She took only the theme of Savitri as the starting-point and, when the right time came, spoke about the action of the New Consciousness which had been manifesting since the beginning of the year 1969. ...
... 01 April 1969 The Mother's own message of 1st April 1969 to all in connection with the talk she gave me runs: Since the beginning of this year a New Consciousness is at work upon earth to prepare men for a New Creation, the Superman. For this creation to be possible the substance that constitutes man's body must undergo a big change, it must become more ...
... my very dear little child Huta Let your thoughts be filled with the Divine's Truth and your heart be filled with the Divine's Love. It was the beginning of my new life, new work and new consciousness. ...
... July 1938 Here is a little "New Birth". 3 Indeed, what better use could one make of an illness than to take the opportunity to go deep within oneself and awaken, take birth into a new consciousness, more luminous and more true. Our help and our blessings are always with you, affectionately. 28 July 1938 Sri Aurobindo and I think it would be wiser for you to wait another week ...
... on your Presence in the heart-centre? Should we avoid a formulated prayer? Yes, concentration on the Presence is enough. ( Examples of subjects for meditation ) New birth. Birth to a new consciousness. The psychic consciousness. 5 July 1957 How to awaken in the body the aspiration for the Divine. 26 July 1957 Turning one's gaze inward. Looking within oneself. 2 August ...
... anniversary day of my birth, grant that the power to know changes in me into a power to transform myself integrally." Page 199 A bonne fête! A new birth also, the birth into a new consciousness in which you will be above all little personal reactions because you will constantly feel in your heart the presence of the Divine; may it give you the force to surmount all obstacles, all pettiness ...
... such an excessive hyperactivity, such an overall restlessness, that the species as a whole seems to have reached a point where it must either burst through the resistance and surge forth into a new consciousness, or else sink back into an abysm of obscurity and inertia. This tension is so total and so generalized that obviously something must break. It cannot go on like this. Yet all this is a sure ...
... Divine Command, because they are incapable of perceiving it. 1 March 1970 × Mother is referring to the "New Consciousness" (or Superman Consciousness) which manifested on 1 January 1969. ...
... unit ) To do always our best in all sincerity. To be always our best in all sincerity. 23 June 1969 ( Message for Auroson's House, Certitude community ) A New House for a New Consciousness. Blessings. 25 June 1969 Auromodèle is being built to make a concrete experiment and to learn how to live in Auroville. 18 August 1969 Divine Mother, I want to help ...
... it's quite brutal, I don't know why. It comes and strikes. With others, on the contrary, I am very tranquil. Some tell Me, "You're hard!"... Has it always been like that? It's not since this new consciousness came? Since the beginning of this year? Last year, too. Because I've noticed that in this Consciousness there is something like that: suddenly it comes, oh! and it feels like striking ...
... prophets, but now in these last days he has spoken to us through his Son Jesus Christ...). Thus God has spoken "in several ways." Page 103 I know that a new light has just appeared, a new Consciousness—let us go in search of it. But we shall have to step down from our throne, from our convenience; perhaps to leave the place to others and do away with the Hierarchy: no more Pope or Cardinals ...
... strong, powerful, in such smiling PEACE! So smiling, incapable of getting angry—that's absolutely impossible—so smiling, so smiling... and watching. ( silence ) The special character of this new consciousness is: no halfmeasures, no approximations. That's its character. It doesn't accept the idea, "Oh, yes, we'll do that, and little by little we'll..." No, no, not like that: it's yes or no, you can ...
... if it keeps the true attitude, all the support is there to help it. A certain number of people (I asked afterwards) had the experience, they felt it (not as clearly), felt the presence of a new consciousness—lots of people. They told me (I asked them if they had felt something), they told me, "Oh, yes!" But each with... ( Mother twists her fingers slightly ) naturally his own special approach. ...
... history. Here was a definite turn in the process of evolution. A breakthrough was achieved. Further manifestation of the Supermind was to be expected, leading ultimately to an emergence of the new consciousness in the outer or gross-physical layer of our planet and to a gradual transformation of not only the human mind and life-force but also the very body in which they function. In this great change ...
... forgotten things that belong to the past—that are even, or that were or seemed, completely erased, with which you no longer had any contact: all kinds of little circumstances, but seen now in the new consciousness, in their true place, and because of which all life, all human life is such a pathetic, miserable, mean whole. And then, there's a luminous joy in offering all that for it to be transformed, ...
... very quiet... and the next day she was gone. I haven't lost hope that X might be progressive. If he is progressive, all will be well. Maybe in two or three years he will be a new man with a new consciousness? The stuff is good. I saw the other day—it was very interesting, the very day he was on his way here (I wasn't thinking of him—I never "think" of people), suddenly I saw all that the knowledge ...
... instinctive research for a less down-to-earth food, which certainly will serve as a transition. There are lots of things like that. Since the 24th [the darshan day] I have been living in this new consciousness and have seen the picture of a lot of things. There are even experiences I had gone through which I've understood now. Like for instance when I fasted for ten days (completely, without even a ...
... used to see the Supermind entering into his physical substance without yet getting fixed there - 1950, when Sri Aurobindo gave up his body in a tremendous fight to bring the realisation of a new consciousness which would pave the way towards the final Page 162 victory. Do we not know that for five days after the certified clinical death his body was charged, as the Mother declared ...
... thesis. If I didn't I wouldn't have any M.A. But how after coming here could I start again going round and round in the intellectual mill? I would never be able to take advantage of whatever new consciousness was there in the Ashram, a light beyond the mind. So I decided to let my M.A. go hang.... Nor did I know how long I would be staying at the Ashram. Every minute seemed precious. Some circumstance ...
... realised in me."²-The word "realised" is most important here: it stands for the Higher Power's permanent stabilisation, an achieved conversion of the instrument, an entry and settlement of the new consciousness for good. There is no question of a continuing process. The Mother's "physical mind receiving the supramental light" is not like the physical mind of the two talks which is said to be ...
... of this yoga - only so much purification and change is demanded by them as will lead to liberation and the beyond-life. The influence of the Atman can no doubt do that - a full descent of a new consciousness into the whole nature from top to bottom to transform life here is not needed at all for the spiritual escape from life. Letters on Yoga, pp. 115-16 If the redemption of the soul ...
... head, and a descent of the higher consciousness which is above into one's mind, vital and body. How it is done or by what stages or how long it will take varies with each person. But this new consciousness is very different from the ordinary one and many things happen in its coming which would not happen to the mind and might seem strange to it — e.g. the dissolution of the ego and the opening ...
... towards its outbreak. On the contrary the larger the number of people who have a vital interest in the abolition of war the more effective the chances towards a stable peace until the advent of a new consciousness in man makes of war an impossibility. Sri Aurobindo's Bust by E. Frankel: 2 From the artistic point of view, it is certainly a masterpiece. It is also an inspired work, inspired by ...
... maintained unflinchingly throughout the long decade that we lived and worked together." Champaklal helped me personally to remould my life towards a Divine- oriented existence, a birth into a new consciousness. My heart overflows with gratitude as I remember the many sacred moments I have shared with him. Those were beautiful days when I worked under his presence and guidance. Sri Aurobindo and the ...
... spiritual birth. What he has written there could be a very accurate indication of the process of the change, the putting away of the old mind, vital, physical consciousness and the emergence of a new consciousness from the now invisible Within, not an illusory periphery like the present mental, vital, physical ignorance but a truth becoming from the true being within us. He speaks of the transition as ...
... has to be done. And what, compared with the limited Greek perfection, is the technique of the Mahabharata? Next, what is the use of vic ā rabuddhi in such a case? If one has to get a new consciousness which surpasses the reasoning intellect, can one do it on lines which are to be judged and understood by the reasoning intellect, controlled at every step by it, told by the intellect what it ...
... vital domination over humanity, but the sovereignty of the Spirit over its own instruments, its possession of itself and its possession of life in the power of the Spirit. It will represent a new consciousness in which humanity itself shall find its own self-exceeding and self-fulfilment by the revelation of the divinity that is striving for birth within it. This is the concept of the superman that ...
... seizing on a mental and vital domination over humanity, but the sovereignty of the Spirit over its own instruments, its possession of itself and its possession of life in the power of the spirit, a new consciousness in which humanity itself shall find its own self-exceeding and self-fulfilment by the revelation of the divinity that is striving for birth within it. This is the sole true supermanhood and the ...
... experiences and realisations. Stressing the novelty of the aim and method of the supramental descent upon the earth, Sri Aurobindo has written in one of his letters: 'It is the descent of the new consciousness attained by the ascent that is the stamp and seal of the Sadhana.". . . a method has been preconized for achieving the purpose which is as total and integral as the aim set before it, viz ...
... is psychologically a symbol of divine knowledge. Cow and horse symbolise two companion ideas of light and energy consciousness and force, - chit shakti. Offsprings are symbolically flowers of new consciousness, while men and physical strength are symbolical of spiritual valour and courage. ____________________________________________________ 4.See the first Sukta of the ninth Mandala of the ...
... leading fringe touches the higher degrees of a cliff or hill, but the rest is still below. At each stage the higher parts of the nature may be provisionally but incompletely organized in the new consciousness; but lower are in a state of flux or formation, partly moving in the old way though influenced and beginning to change, partly belonging to the new kind but still imperfectly achieved and not ...
... new perception which was total, something that comprehended at the same time hearing, vision and knowledge. There was, she said, no differentiation among her organs. She pointed out that the new consciousness insisted on surpassing all divisions and all exclusiveness, including the great division of life and death. The Mother discovered 'over-life', which is at once life and death or which is rather ...
... Jesus placed priority. In the Sermon, Jesus wants all to know that God has reached out to the whole of humanity in all its diversity, and they, who would enter the kingdom of God must develop a new consciousness. Jesus especially teaches these beatitudes to the disciples who are to be the salt of the earth and the light of the world as they go about bringing the words of Jesus to the people (5:13-16) ...
... n, exhortation, guidance, instruction, help, caution, promise, and assurance. Sometimes a single quotation presents a whole thesis. For instance one reads on pages 51-52: "An entirely new consciousness in many individuals transforming their whole being, transforming their mental, vital and physical nature-self, is needed for the new life to appear; only such a transformation of the general mind ...
... the Mother and Sri Aurobindo. In our attempt to establish an ideal group life in the Sri Aurobindo Ashram we should never lose sight of the following words of Sri Aurobindo: "An entirely new consciousness in many individuals transforming their whole being, transforming their mental, vital and physical nature-self, is needed for the new life to Page 51 appear; only such a transformation ...
... —the sex affair looks like it—then he can go very fast. I don't understand what my friend means by the disturbance in connection with the affairs of the world. That is clear enough. His new consciousness makes him feel more strongly the opposite forces that one contacts when one moves in the world and has to do affairs and meet with others and he is afraid of a response in his vital which will ...
... will see sudden upheavals and revolutionary changes. The high will become low and the low high. The oppressed and the depressed shall be elevated. The nations and humanity will be animated by a new consciousness, new thought and new efforts will be made to reach new ends. Amidst these revolutionary changes India will become free.' These words were published with Sri Aurobindo's authorisation. I shall ...
... Confucius or myself were born with a prevision that they or I would take to the spiritual life? So long as one is in the ordinary consciousness, one lives the ordinary life—when the awakening and the new consciousness come, one leaves it—nothing puzzling in that. B finds that the power of his glasses has to be increased. Shall I take him to the hospital? He will bear the cost of the glasses. But the power ...
... the lines of his earlier letters to Baptista and Dr. Munje. 'I have become confirmed in a perception,' he wrote, '...that the true basis of work and life is the spiritual, — that is to say a new consciousness to be developed only by Yoga. I see more and more manifestly that man can never get out of the futile circle the race is always treading until he has raised himself to a new foundation.... I am ...
... I myself were born with a pre-vision that they or I would take to the spiritual life? So long as one is in the ordinary consciousness, one lives the ordinary life - when the awakening and the new consciousness come, one leaves it - nothing puzzling in that." So there you are. You have observed perhaps that the tone is a little sharp: abusing the writer and calling him "an unmitigated ass" ...
... mechanical. No conscious orientation by our will should be there. There is only a spontaneous attitude of self-offering. Yes, that is what often happens for a time until there is a new consciousness taking up the actions. Before the dynamic self pours itself down into me, is there no possibility to start the actions from the Page 196 "true consciousness" ...
... a case for the descent of Grace! I did not expect you to take my तथास्तु with such grim seriousness. Speaking semi-seriously, I am not here to do miracles to order, but to try to get in a new consciousness somewhere in the world—which is itself however to attempt a miracle. If physical miracles happen to tumble in in the process, well and good, but you can't present your medical pistol in my face ...
... the world. What is needed then is an army of souls: individuals, either separately or in groups, who have contacted their inmost reality, their divinity, in some way or other—men with a new consciousness and aspiration, a new life and realisation. They Page 146 will live in the midst of the general degeneration and disintegration, not aloof and immured in their privacy of purity ...
... ...this seems to me a reasoning from the conventions of a past order which cannot apply to a new poetry dealing with spiritual things. A new art of words written from a new consciousness demands a new technique...Truth first—a technique expressive of the truth in the forms of beauty has to be found if it does not exist. It is no use arguing from the spiritual ...
... into a glad divine abyss; But where hast thou thrown self's mission and self's power ? On what dead bank on the Eternal's road? 1 Ashwapati veers round. A new perception, a new consciousness begins to open within him. A new urge moves him. He has to start on a new journey, a new quest and achievement. The world exists neither as a Truth nor as an illusion in itself. It exists in ...
... turned to action. That is what Sri Aurobindo calls bringing down the Force from above. That way lies the only chance of changing the world; for you seek there a new Force, a new domain, a new consciousness and you put that in contact with the external world. Its presence and its action will bring changes inevitably, a total transformation, we hope, in the external world. (2) There ...
... know the special emphasis she laid on physical education in order to prepare the body and senses to receive the golden light. She always said that physical education gives us the basis for the new consciousness, the new light. We must have a strong body, a beautiful body, a body that endures: for the new light is powerful, it is not merely light, it is force; one must be able to bear it and carry out ...
... simple, limpid. No rhetoric is there, no exaggeration, no effort at effect; the voice is not raised above the normal speech level. That is indeed the new modem poetic style. For according to the new consciousness prose and poetry are not two different orders, the old order created poetry in heaven, the new poetry wants it upon earth; level with earth, the common human speech, the spoken tongues give ...
... country's friend, O voice incarnate, free, Of India's soul! Sri Aurobindo retired from the outer political world to devote himself more intensively to the discovery and conquest of a new consciousness and force, glimpses of which he was having at the time and which alone could save mankind and recreate it. From 1910 to 1914 he was, he said, silendy developing this new power in seclusion ...
... were in the Golconde. I started by reading out a brief passage from the Words of the Mother. It contained a statement of our ideal or objective – the goal of transformation, the coming race, a new consciousness and realisation. But the Soviet leader was a bit of a blunt atheist, or at least that was the role he had chosen to play. And in due course he raised the usual objection. "In times like ours," ...
... attitude, you have to change your consciousness. Of course, there are difficulties on the way, the force of habit, the force of atavism; all that demands an extra dose of your consciousness or a new consciousness. There is a difference in what is done here and what is done elsewhere, in respect to the freedom being given to women and to the younger generation. Mother repeated so often: the freedom ...
... physical mind, with its satellite, the human speech, must indeed be rescued from the thraldom of the animal life, the life of the ordinary senses. They should be put under the regimen of the new consciousness, the status of the Idea-Force. The action of that consciousness will create its own norm and pattern adequate for expressing and embodying supra-sensuous realities. It will not have to depend ...
... and from light to light. The transference from the lower chain to the higher is to be effected by the consciousness of nothingness (Shunyam) being filled or impregnated with the new consciousness of Immortality; for the units of the normal or ignorant consciousness are themselves not wholly or essentially ignorant and mortal. They have in them what Buddha did not see or recognise—the immortal ...
... comprehensions. The mind bound by its reasoning faculties, its deductive system, its syllogistic scheme, all that scaffolding has to go if the new light is to penetrate and illumine it with the new consciousness. The mind has Page 19 also a vital element, when it moves according to its inspiration, as it is called sometimes, but it is only an ignorant inspiration, it is only another ...
... march in her progress towards perfection, by the creation of a new species that will be in relation to man what man is in relation to the animal and that will manifest upon earth a new force, a new consciousness and a new power.45 And The Mother hints at the future education, when she adds: Then will begin also a new education which can be called the supramental education; it will, by its ...
... bring a sincerity of heart in your search and the aptitude of your mind for learning (for reserving your judgment). But your mental activity is harmful ; you must make your mind silent. A new consciousness is seeking expression in you. There are in India people, yogis, who can help you in this and give you a new birth. But there will be some difficulties in finding them, for you do not speak their ...
... physical strength? You cannot fight out darkness with darkness. The Mother used to say: 'If you light just one matchstick the heaviest darkness can vanish in a second.' We need the light of a new consciousness, the light of Truth. That is why the most urgent need of the hour is the descent of this new light into man's consciousness. Each one must do his work to the best of his or her capacity, do ...
... Secondly, they had other, more direct, means of dealing with them. Disciple : Will all Supermen be able to do it ? Sri Aurobindo : How many Supermen are there ? But as say, this new Consciousness is a gradual unfolding. You find it in the atoms of your body and there is a conscious Page 214 ness in the cells; you can also feel and understand the forces on the physical ...
... present is to make ourselves fit instruments for the higher Truth, so that when it came down there would be the proper instrumentation for its working. We won't reject life; we have to bring a new consciousness into the external work. Supposing I am preparing fish for the cats. That is not my Supramental work. But as it happens to be there I do it, so as to be able to do anything that is needed in the ...
... this critical turn of human history where we stand today, man has to choose his destiny -either the Capitol or the Tarpeian Rock, as in the classical phrase. Either he becomes a new man with a new consciousness or he goes down into inconscience and is no more man. Page 299 ...
... simple, limpid. No rhetoric is there, no exaggeration, no effort at effect; the voice is not raised above the normal speech level. That is indeed the new modern poetic style. For according to the new consciousness prose and poetry are not two different orders, the old order created poetry in heaven, the new poetry wants it upon earth; level with earth, the common human speech, the spoken tongues give the ...
... India's soul!¹ Sri Aurobindo retired from the outer political world to devote himself more intensively to the discovery and conquest ¹ "Salutation" Page 226 of a new consciousness and force, glimpses of which he was having at the time and which alone could save mankind and recreate it. From 1910 to 1914 he was, he said, silently developing this new power in seclusion and ...
... moved by the spirit of the Time, one Page 198 is modernist when one is bound to the letter, to the external formulas of the law of the Zeit-Geist. You remain modern if the new consciousness enters and dwells in your nature and character, you become modernist as soon as it degenerates into a tic and a mannerism. The passage of mediaevalism to modernism can be defined as ...
... There must be a radical transformation of each part of the being. To change them is not enough. It is not a mere change I want. I want a complete transformation, and nothing less. To make the New Consciousness — the Supramental Consciousness — come down into the being and everywhere in the body, to transform each part. It is this that I want, to transform all this. (indicating the body) ...
... Page 173 of a new life, a life that is not content with moving along the same old ways and rounds. The desire to know the Divine, to consecrate yourselves to His service, to awaken to a new Consciousness - these are all there in you. As they intensify, they will become more evident and you will become aware of them." "Yes. Sometimes we ask ourselves - 'Who is the Divine? Can He be known?' At ...
... comprehensions. The mind bound by its reasoning faculties, its deductive system, its syllogistic scheme, all that scaffolding has to go if the new light is to penetrate and illumine it with the new consciousness. The mind has also a vital element, when it moves according to its inspiration, as it is called sometimes, but it is only an ignorant inspiration, it is only another name for "mood," for fancy ...
... down the rains and streams of the universal consciousness with its purificatory ablution of the lower nature and conciousness. But this again becomes not only possible but inevitable when this new consciousness contacts openly and directly its master and overlord, the supreme Supramental Consciousness, which is the true reality pressing down always upon the lower creation, rejecting whatever has to be ...
... transparent and... benevolent. "Benevolent" in the sense of a certainty - a harmonious certainty.... It gave the impression of a personal divinity who comes to help....' - Feb 10-15 The new Consciousness demonstrates to her 'what it was to have the divine consciousness in the body... nothing similar to that happiness has this body ever felt during the 91 years it has been upon earth: freedom, ...
... or myself were born with a prevision that they or I would take to the spiritual life? So long as one is in the ordinary consciousness, one lives the ordinary life - when the awakening and the new consciousness come, one leaves it.... 11 This was in 1936, nearly eighteen years after Mrinalini's death. But in 1905, when she was at Calcutta and Sri Aurobindo was at Baroda, letters passed between them ...
... was night so complete, so terrifying, maybe never win dawn have been so bright, so pure, so illuminating as the coming one .... After the bad dreams of the night the world win awaken to a new consciousness. Page 179 The civilisation which is ending now in such a dramatic way was based on the power of mind, mind dealing with matter and life .... But a new reign is coming, that of ...
... whose Nilgiri series captured on the canvas the bygone beauty of these hills. But Nandalal was the greatest. He found himself in the thick of the national awakening and bathed in the light of a new consciousness. The artist in him blossomed in this radiant atmosphere. Persuaded by Sister Nivedita and Aban Thakur, he joined in 1909, along with three of his classmates, the team of Lady Harringham to ...
... Daily dozen for Men The Mother's Message Since the beginning of this year a new consciousness is at work upon earth to prepare the men for a new creation, the superman. For this creation to be possible the substance that constitutes man's body must undergo a big change, it must become more receptive to the consciousness and more plastic under its working ...
... awakened and purified soul tries to keep in touch with the 'intimations of immortality'. Even the lower reaches of Aswapati's being, having lately experienced a profound sea-change, tingle with a new consciousness of power and joy. What's the 'use' of this higher knowledge and power? There is a purposeful merging of the higher knowledge and the lower, from which results an integration ...
... that the hour is at hand. For a long, long time it was said, "It will be, it will be," as a promise to come. Thousands and thousands of years ago, we were already being promised the advent of a new consciousness, a new world, something divine that would manifest on earth, but all that was really said was , "It will be, it will be"— meaning in millions and billions of years. But never before has there ...
... Calamity and catastrophe, conflict and violence, obscurity and ignorance - all ills come from the same source. 27 The remedy, then, is to increase the receptivity below to the downpour of the new consciousness from above. Great messiahs in the past have tried to hew new paths to freedom, peace and harmony, and this in spite of much contemporary resistance. Some inner progress has surely been achieved ...
... undesirable overgrowth of the past, and make all work equally an offering to the Divine. "The Mother was moulding our entire life for a God-oriented existence," says Sahana Devi, "a birth into a new consciousness, an inner life." 3 And the best way this could be done was to entrust each sadhak with a piece of work - be it ever so seemingly insignificant or ever so crushingly responsible - that is relevant ...
... Aurobindo and the Mother - the Mother even more than Sri Aurobindo - had to be at the centre of a struggle with adverse forces, and of a work of change and transformation of the old into a new consciousness. In so far as the Mother was doing the sadhana of the disciples, she had to identify herself with them, in other words sharing their difficulties, even receiving into herself "all the poison ...
... This was to become the manifesto - the prospectus - of the Ashram School. The great aim of the Ashram's educational endeavour was verily to advance the evolutionary movement, to manifest the new Consciousness, and to usher in the New Race. It was not surprising that, revisiting the Ashram in 1951 after the passage of twelve years. Professor Tan Yun-shan, the founder-director of Sino-Indian Cultural ...
... unending stream and paid their profound respects with tear-filled eyes to the almost mythical Person, the man-God who had made Pondicherry his home and Cave of Tapasya and Power-House of the New Consciousness. The news of Sri Aurobindo's passing had been broadcast early in the morning by the All India Radio, and a stunned world tried its best to come to terms with the "greatest tragedy to humanity ...
... a kind of conquest though the agents who do the work are not conscious of it and which, if it becomes conscious in man, must sooner or later lead him to the opening of a new faculty and a new consciousness. A terrestrial omnipotence for humanity is the aim of the mastery of Matter. Sri Aurobindo says in The Life Divine that the scientist is trying to create for man a terrestrial omnipotence ...
... is to rise to that plane and bring its Light and Power into his nature which would enable him to solve all his problems. It is necessary that the t ego ' in man should be replaced by the new Consciousness. Most of our philosophers thought ignorance to be an individual problem whereas to Sri Aurobindo, it is a collective problem; in fact, it is a cosmic problem. Very often it is seen that the ignorance ...
... mind and remould it, afterwards of the life part and remould that, finally of the little physical consciousness and leave it no longer little but wide and plastic and even infinite. For this new consciousness has itself the nature of infinity: it brings to us the abiding spiritual sense and awareness of the infinite and eternal with a great largeness. of the nature and a breaking down of its limitations ...
... nature of man into the higher nature, parā prakṛti. But this sublimation does not imply suppression or annihilation, the triple formation of mind, life and body persists and acts, but with a new consciousness, a new dynamism, and a new triumphant effectivity. The Upanishads say that there is nothing here that is not there above, and nothing there that is not here. This formula not only links the earth ...
... "Sri Aurobindo came upon earth to teach this truth to men. He told them that man is only a transitional being living in a mental consciousness, but with the possibility of acquiring a new consciousness, the Truth-Consciousness, and capable of living a life perfectly harmonious, good and beautiful, happy and fully conscious. During the whole of his life upon earth, Sri Aurobindo gave all his ...
... comes into the picture with its deadly little trepidation], that the species as a whole seems to have reached a point where it must either burst through the resistance and surge forth into a new consciousness, or else sink back into an abysm of obscurity and inertia. All this is a sure sign that a new principle of force, consciousness and power has been infused into Matter and by its very pressure ...
... of all or nothing, of giant progress or gigantic collapse, in individuals, nations and hearts, and everywhere on earth. No one is spared: it is one single Coup. The great coup d’etat of the New Consciousness. We get over the dam or we do not. And woman, this primal Shakti, has a decisive role to play in this supremely difficult Work—provided she understands her true role of creator and inspirer, ...
... wanted you to follow one religion to the exclusion of all others. And all human knowledge has gone bankrupt because it was exclusive. And man has gone bankrupt because he was exclusive. What the New Consciousness wants is: no more divisions. To be capable of understanding the extreme spiritual, the extreme material, and to find ... to find the meeting point where ... it becomes a true force. And it’s trying ...
... all that has been a sufficient preparation for the moment of the Total Manifestation to have come. 23 This "Manifestation" was what held her interest. In other words, the advent of the new Consciousness. The word recurs again and again in her "journal" with increasing urgency from 1913 onwards: The hour of Your manifestation has come ... The glorious news of Your next Coming... Your new Ma ...
... you have accepted a project, the correct attitude in my drawing work must be to be silent so that in silence we may receive Thy force and understand Thy will, with the total confidence that the new consciousness itself will find the exact place for each thing and for each person." Mother said, "It is alright" and gave a blessings packet with her photo. * * * Claude Milami has to ...
... That is to say, the “bottom” of Matter had traversed the web and joined the surface of Matter. And in 1969, while She was talking of that eternal same thing that was surfacing, She said the “new consciousness”—it was nothing that was “new” but it was for the first time perhaps on earth that true Matter, the true Movement, the pure Consciousness at the bottom of Matter emerged into the terrestrial field—and ...
... knowledge, power, intelligence, will,... genius,... saintliness, love, purity or perfection." 6 It is SOMETHING ELSE, another vibration of being, another consciousness. But if this new consciousness is not to be found on the peaks of the human, where are we to find it ? Perhaps, quite simply, it is to be found in that which we have most neglected since we entered the mental cycle, it is ...
... Undated All that you write in your letter is perfectly sound and true. The very object of Yoga is a change of consciousness — it is by getting a new consciousness or by unveiling the hidden consciousness of the true being within and progressively manifesting and perfecting it that one gets first the contact and then the union with the Divine. Ananda and ...
... filled with the supernal touch of some rare mood of Heaven! Overwhelming me with this inexpressible feeling he vanished conferring these benedictions — as if a standing Call for the awakening of a new consciousness to the coming Dawn of Sri Aurobindo’s future Supramental manifestation: — “Why this lassitude? I am united with Sri Aurobindo.” I wrote everything to Sri Aurobindo and asked him, “How shall I ...
... will see sudden upheavals and revolutionary changes. The high will become low and the low high. The oppressed and the depressed shall be elevated. The nation and humanity will be animated by a new consciousness, new thought and new efforts will be made to reach new ends. Amidst these revolutionary changes, India will become free." Ambalal B. Purani was a Gujarati and a revolutionary. In December ...
... of our Sadhana." But Ramakrishna's yoga was turned only to an inner realization of the inner' Divine. He himself never thought of transformation or tried for it. "He had not the idea of a new consciousness and a new race and the divine manifestation in the earth-nature." Where was the answer to the why of life and body? "If I did not try to repeat them [the experiences of the previous spiritual ...
... Sushumna devours time. Page 325 Such is the ascent of the Kundalini Shakti. Sri Aurobindo sums it all up in a few lines. "There is a force which accompanies the growth of the new consciousness and at once grows with it and helps it to come about and to perfect itself. This force is the Yoga-Shakti. It is here coiled up and asleep in all the centres of our inner being (chakras) and ...
... handwriting Sri Aurobindo came upon earth to teach this truth to men. He told them that man is only a transitional being living in a mental consciousness, but with the possibility of acquiring a new consciousness, the Truth-consciousness, and capable of living a life perfectly harmonious, good and beautiful, happy and fully conscious. During the whole of his life upon earth, Sri Aurobindo gave all his ...
... Yoga? A. The fundamental difference is in the teaching that there is a dynamic divine Truth (the Supermind) and that into the present world of Ignorance that Truth can descend, create a new Truth-consciousness and divinize Life. The old Yogas go straight from mind to the absolute Divine, regard all dynamic existence as Ignorance, Illusion or Lila; when you enter the static and immutable Divine ...
... mould them into a new spiritual consciousness according to Sri Aurobindo's vision. When, after bringing down the Supramental Consciousness, he left his body in 1950, the Mother "continued to live in order to do his work which is : By serving Truth and enlightening mankind to hasten the rule of Divine's Love upon the earth." She declared, "There is a Supreme Divine Consciousness. We want to manifest... manifest this Consciousness in the physical life." In furtherance of the realisation of Sri Aurobindo's ideal of human unity, the Mother inaugurated 'Auroville' on 28 February, 1968, "which is meant to be an International City, a living embodiment of that unity built upon the Divine Consciousness. It will be the effective way of preventing World War." In 1973 she left her body, after she... eleven and thirteen", she says, "a series of psychic and spiritual experiences revealed to me, not only the existence of God, but man's possibility of meeting with Him or revealing Him integrally in consciousness and action, of manifesting Him upon earth in a life divine. This along with a practical discipline for its fulfilment was given to me, during my body's sleep, by several teachers some of whom I ...
... Power … puts forward its own perverted consciousness as true knowledge and its wilful distortions or reversals of the Truth as the verity of things.” 990 It was this Power, the Lord of Falsehood who calls himself “the Lord of the Nations”, by whom Hitler was possessed. At the time the nations were undergoing a decisive change towards a new, higher consciousness of truth and harmony, this asuric Power... the asuric forces, as narrated in the traditional stories of all peoples, in their myths. In the great Fall “the cosmic Intelligence separated itself from the light” of the divine Consciousness, which is a consciousness of unity and therefore of essential, infallible Truth. “As a result, instead of a world of integral truth and divine harmony created in the light of the divine Gnosis, we have a world... Ashram School, insisting that it was no more than a parable to clarify realities which transcend human understanding. 2 The Supreme Being is sat-chit-ananda 3 , in other words Existence-Consciousness-Bliss in eternity, she said. As everything imaginable is contained in it, at one (eternal) moment there arose in it also the urge to manifest its being, and this urge was sufficient to manifest ...
... of a Power that is beyond the ordinary nature yet is its inevitable master, a fulcrum, as we have said, outside the earth. For what is required first is the discovery and manifestation of a new soul-consciousness in man which will bring about by the very pressure and working out of its self-rule an absolute reversal of man's nature. It is the Asuras who are now holding sway over humanity, for man has... growing round Sri Aurobindo. It is rather the nucleus of a new life that is to come. Quite naturally it has almost insignificant proportions at present to the outward eye, for the work is still of the nature of experiment and trial in very restricted limits, something Page 33 in the nature of what is done in a laboratory when a new power has been discovered, but has still to be perfectly... field of present physical activities and their apparent actualities, not from the true forces and action of life. It is the retreat necessary to one who has to go back into himself to conquer a new plane of creative power,— an entrance right into the world of basic forces, of fundamental realities, into the flaming heart of things where all actualities are born and take their first shape ...
... of a Power that is beyond the ordinary nature yet is its inevitable master, a fulcrum, as we have said, outside the earth. For what is required first is the discovery and manifestation of a new soul-consciousness in man which will bring about by the very pressure and working out of its self-rule an absolute reversal of man's nature. It is the Asuras who are now holding sway over humanity, for man has... that is growing round Sri Aurobindo. It is rather the nucleus of a new life that is to come. Quite naturally it has almost insignificant proportions at present to the outward eye, for the work is still of the nature of experiment and trial in very restricted limits, something in the nature of what is done in a laboratory when a new power has been discovered, but has still to be perfectly formulated... outward field of present physical activities and their apparent actualities, not from the true forces and action of life. It is the retreat necessary to one who has to go back into himself to conquer a new plane of creative power, – an entrance right into the world of basic forces, of fundamental realities, into the flaming heart of things where all actualities are born and take their first shape. It ...
... its separate consciousness, and to attempt to grow into an organised life under a capable and high-spirited leader, although we consider his political attitude mistaken and believe that he is laying up for himself bitter disappointment and disillusionment in the future. But when the inevitable disappointment and disillusionment come, then will the new political consciousness, the new organized life... begins to form, then it is a law that all energies are forced to direct themselves consciously or unconsciously, willingly or against their will, to the one supreme work of the time, the formation of the new manifest and organised life which is in process of creation. So now when the waters of a people's life are stirred and the formation of a great organic Indian state and nation has begun, the same law... conciliate, has helped what they sought to destroy and swelled the volume and strength or purified as by fire the forces of Nationalism. So also the efforts of those among ourselves who are afraid of the new movement or distrustful of it to check the pace and bring back the nation's energies into the old grooves, have only helped to increase the vehemence of the National desire to move forward. When Sir ...
... concrete in the body through their way of being, which is the old way; for this new physical consciousness, it can be avoided, but, oh! it means such a difficulty. One must maintain, through a sort of conscious concentration, a condition, a way of being which is not natural according to the old nature, but which is evidently the new way of being. But in that way, illness can be avoided. But it is almost a... much of the activity I have left to this Consciousness. This is true. I let this Consciousness work actively, because... I found that truly it knows. Otherwise, the feeling of nearness with you is much stronger than before—very much stronger. I have almost the feeling that I am moving within you, which I did not have before. But perhaps, before, my consciousness used to put a pressure upon yours; now... to school, it wants to be shown where it is making a mistake and to learn everything. And it is learning constantly. But whatever comes from outside... This is very interesting: the Consciousness, the Consciousness there ( gesture upward ) is influenced by nothing: it is the witness, it sees, but does not receive; the body still receives vibrations: when certain people come and sit before me, all ...
... the light of consciousness and by the touch of that light a continuous purification and new-creation. * Consciousness: the movement by which existence goes out of itself and turns back upon itself in order to experience itself. Will: the selective and realising power of consciousness. * ... necessary to fill a vacuity. * Two consciousnesses are there at two extreme and opposing poles-one of the Spirit and the other of Matter. Both are static. A dynamic consciousness lies between; it joins, harmonises, energises both-it is the Occult Consciousness. The passage from the world of the Spirit ... luminous realisation in itself of the godhead above. Earth has a consciousness, matter is instinct with an Aspiration; only the consciousness is involved and turned inwards, the Aspiration is mute and knows not itself. The consciousness is that of a Divinity which has precipitated and taken this material form, the Aspiration is to ...
... light a continuous purification and new-creation. *** Consciousness: the movement by which existence goes out of itself and turns back upon itself in order to experience itself. Will: the selective and realising power of consciousness. *** Faith: Certitude born of the soul's secret communion with the Truth. Page 362 Faith is the urge of the soul's... going out for materials and objects necessary to fill a vacuity. *** Two consciousnesses are there at two extreme and opposing poles-one of the Spirit and the other of Matter. Both are static. A dynamic consciousness lies between; it joins, harmonises, energises both - it is the Occult Consciousness. The passage from the world of the Spirit to the world of Matter and back lies through... triumphant self-revelation; its self-finding is the luminous realisation in itself of the godhead above. Earth has a consciousness, matter is instinct with an Aspiration; only the consciousness is involved and turned inwards, the Aspiration is mute and knows not itself. The consciousness is that of a Divinity which has precipitated and taken this material form, the Aspiration is to regain God-head ...
... environmental consciousness, but even this is liberation, not transformation. Spiritual liberation means to be free from ego and from the imprisonment in the mind and vital and physical nature and to be conscious of the spiritual Self and live in that consciousness. Spiritual perfection and fulfilment means that the nature should be spiritualised, new-formed in the consciousness of the free... Transformation The fundamental difference is in the teaching that there is a dynamic divine Truth (the Supermind) and that into the present world of Ignorance that Truth can descend, create a new Truth-consciousness and divinise Life. The old Yogas go straight from mind to the absolute Divine, regard all dynamic existence as Ignorance, Illusion or Lila: when you enter the static and immutable Divine Truth... nce. The way of Yoga followed here has a different purpose from others,—for its aim is not only to rise out of the ordinary ignorant world-consciousness into the divine consciousness, but to bring the supramental power of that divine consciousness down into the ignorance of mind, life and body, to transform them, to manifest the Divine here and create a divine life in Matter. This is an exceedingly ...
... unimportant: how to start a business, the opening date, a name for a house, a message for a meeting.... And what goings-on, it's a deluge from every side. So it all was seen in the new attitude—not "new," the consciousness was fully there, there had been a whole tendency to increasingly adopt that attitude, but now it was KNOWN, fully known: what one must be, how one must be. So I came down abruptly... clear vision that a collective transformation sufficient to create a new species on earth still seems some way off ... without any estimate of the length of time, but not immediate. Page 261 The fact is certain. The fact is certain—it's not a possibility, but a FACT. But as for what's expressed in the earth consciousness in terms of time, that can't be estimated, it can't be calculated... And instinctively—instinctively—mankind felt death to be the negation of the Divine. But like all negation, it had the capacity to lead and open the way. The solution of Christianity wasn't completely new, it was the adaptation of an Page 260 ancient solution: a life in other worlds—which was expressed by that quite childish conception of paradise. But that was a conception for public use: ...
... it becomes concrete through their own way of being, which is the old way. To this new physical consciousness, it could be avoided, but, oh, how difficult! Through a sort of conscious concentration, you have to keep up a state, a way of being that isn't natural according to the old nature, but which is clearly the new way of being. That way, you can avoid illness. But it's an almost Herculean labor... large part of the activity I have left to this Consciousness, that's true. This Consciousness, I let it work actively, because... I've noticed it really knows. Otherwise, the sense of closeness with all of you is much greater than before—much greater. I almost feel I am moving about within you all (I didn't feel that before). But before, maybe my consciousness was exerting a pressure on yours ( gesture... "in school," it wants to Page 295 be shown where it goes wrong and to learn things. And it's constantly learning. But what comes from outside... This is very interesting: the Consciousness (the Consciousness there [ gesture above ]) is influenced by nothing; it's a witness, it sees, but it doesn't receive. The body still receives vibrations: with some people, when they sit in front of me, ...
... to open or build up or furnish a new (Yogic) consciousness; (2) the great experiences of Self, Peace, Light, Ananda, etc., also the perception of a deeper knowledge which shows us the truths of Soul and Nature and of the aspects of the Divine. This class of experiences are the beginning of realisation and it is when they settle and become part of the consciousness that realisation is complete. ... what begins is a change in the stuff of the consciousness itself and by that, as it proceeds to settle and confirm itself, begins naturally what we call the transformation of the nature. The phrase [ "stuff of consciousness" ] simply means "substance of consciousness", the consciousness in itself. As the Yogic experience develops, consciousness is felt as something quite concrete in which... sadhana to attain union with the divine consciousness. A Yogi is one who is already living in some kind of oneness with the Divine, not in the ordinary consciousness. Subordinate and Great Experiences One who lives in the spiritual consciousness is a spiritual man, just as one who lives in thinking mind is an intellectual man. The spiritual consciousness is that in which you realise the Divine ...
... which all aspires. 223 But the hard earth-crust is still an "anguished and precarious field of toil", which now receives the awakening ray that is both of the Sun and of the new Truth-Consciousness. Even the earth—frail and foul clay, as Hopkins calls it—agreeably responds to the revealing light; and this too is but a faithful transcription of Sri Aurobindo's own experiences at various... The temporary darkness that envelops man and Nature is to precede a new dawn and a new day. The bleak hour of Satyavan's death is to precede a renewal of life for him, and the flow of new happiness to him and to Savitri and to their parents. The dark hour of the body's inconscience and the soul's ignorance is to precede a new inrush of Light and the divinisation of man and Nature. The "divine... day-break than actually meets the prosaic eye; in short, actuality is wedded to romance. In the more mature Ilion, the description of Dawn with which the epic opens is charged with a new energy and force of utterance uniting the Homeric with the Aurobindonian: Dawn in her journey eternal compelling the labour of mortals, Dawn the beginner of things with the ...
... 290 We repeat what we have suggested, a national language flowers in one way, an international language flowers in another way. The atmosphere if not the soil, will be, in the new international consciousness, the inner life of mankind. That will become a more and more vivid, living and concrete reality. And minds open to it, soaked in it will find it quite natural to express themselves in a... this way, even though English might have lost a good deal of its external dominion in India, can still retain psychologically its living reality there, in minds that form as it were the vanguard of a new international age, with just the minimum amount of support needed from external circumstances and these are and may be available. And it would not be surprising, if not only English but French too in... given word conveys. Of course, double entendre or suggestiveness is a quality or capacity that all languages that claim a status must possess; it is necessary to express something of the human consciousness. Still, in French that quality has a limited, if judicious and artistic application; in English it is a wild growth. French expresses better human psychology, while meta-physical realities find ...
... self-knowledge when he is thus aware of living in two worlds, two consciousnesses at the same time, two parts of the same existence. At present he lives in the outer consciousness, the outer being and sees within the inner self—but he will go more and more inward, till the position is reversed and he lives within in this new inner consciousness, inner self and feels the outer as something on the surface... Experiences of the Inner Consciousness and the Cosmic Consciousness Experiences of the Inner Consciousness and the Cosmic Consciousness Experiences of the Inner Being and the Inner Consciousness Letters on Yoga - III Chapter IV Three Experiences of the Inner Being Opening into the Inner Mental Self The three experiences of which you speak belong all... spiritual life; they are initial movements of the consciousness to become aware of your inner being which was veiled, as in most, by the outer waking self. There are, we might say, two beings in us, one on the surface, our ordinary exterior mind, life, body consciousness, another behind the veil, an inner mind, an inner life, an inner physical consciousness constituting another or inner self. This inner ...
... The fundamental difference is in the teaching that there is a dynamic divine Truth (the Supermind) and that into the present world of Ignorance that Truth can descend, create a new Truth-consciousness and divinise Life. The old Yogas go straight from mind to the absolute Divine, regard all dynamic existence as Ignorance, Illusion or Lila; when you enter the static and immutable Divine Truth... Supreme and an intermediate consciousness as the supreme realisation. Very readily they come to think that they are in the full cosmic consciousness when it is only some front or small part of it or some larger Mind, Life-Power or subtle physical ranges with which they have entered into dynamic connection. Or they feel themselves to be in an entirely illumine consciousness, while in reality they are... this state of consciousness just across the border of the normal consciousness, because it is here that these experiences seem to move. But different sadhaks comport themselves differently in it and respond sometimes to one class of possibilities, sometimes to another.In this case it seems to have been entered through an at- tempt to call down or force a way into the cosmic consciousness -- it does not ...
... result of the integral knowledge taken in its mass; its work is to gather up the different strands of our being into the universal oneness. If we are to possess perfectly the world in our new divinised consciousness as the Divine himself possesses it, we have to know also each thing in its absoluteness, first by itself, secondly in its union with all that completes it; for so has the Divine imaged out... with the objects of our consciousness. In that experience not only the Beyond but all here, not only the totality, the All in its mass, but each thing in the All becomes to us our self, God, the Absolute and Infinite, Sachchidananda. This is the secret of complete delight in God's world, complete satisfaction of the mind and heart and will, complete liberation of the consciousness. It is the supreme experience... ; but the absolute satisfaction Page 426 and sense of illumination which it gives and alone can give is really a proof of its greater validity; we get by that a ray from the higher consciousness and the diviner sense into which our subjective being is intended eventually, if we will only allow it, to be transfigured. We have seen that this applies to the highest principles of the Divine ...
... the cosmos and of the individual centres through which the involved cosmic possibilities blossom forth. Sri Aurobindo calls it Supermind, Gnosis, Creative Truth-Consciousness. The Aurobindonian Supermind is not an entirely new discovery. As early as the Vedas, there was the vision of it as Satyam Ritam Brihat - the True, the Right, the Vast - and it was symbolised as the Sun of Knowledge... SABCL vol. 26, pp. 468-69. Page 9 Poetry (essays on poetry in general and English poetry in particular, on the various grades and powers of consciousness finding poetic expression and on a new direction of poetic development under the stress of spiritual experience). Savitri (a blank-verse epic of nearly twenty-four thousand lines turning legend of the past... most living and significant literature, as well as the illuminating publications of the Mother, what would convey his vision would be the constant presence of its very source - the new spiritual consciousness made dynamic for earth-use by him and the Mother and in process of establishment in their disciples. Thus the Centre of Education in its full development would be at the same time a ...
... intuitive intelligence. A completer opening of the psychical consciousness leads us far beyond this faculty of vision by images and admits us not indeed to a new time consciousness, but to many ways of the triple time knowledge. The subliminal or psychic 3 self can bring back or project itself into past states of consciousness and experience and anticipate or even, though this is less common... what is below the ordinary physical consciousness, not what is behind it. The inner mental, vital, physical, the psychic are not subconscious in this sense, but they can be spoken of as subliminal. Letters on Yoga, p. 354 The real subconscious is a nether diminished consciousness close to the Inconscient; the subliminal is a consciousness larger than our surface existence. But... unconsciousness or half-consciousness or else a submerged consciousness below and in a way inferior to and less than our organised waking awareness or, at least, less in possession of itself. But we find, when we go within, that somewhere in our subliminal part, — though not co-extensive with it since it has also obscure and ignorant regions, — there is a consciousness much wider, more luminous ...
... in the discipline of the Gita because it can be associated with and can help to the realisation of the free immutable Self in the mobile human being, paraṁ dṛṣṭvā , and to status in that new self-consciousness, eṣā brāhmī sthitiḥ . "Awakening by the understanding to the Highest which is beyond even the discerning mind, put force on the self by the self to make it firm and still, and slay this enemy... multiplicities, personalities, differences, inequalities of the action of Nature, it has to effectuate these other signs of its free status by this one manifesting sign of equality. Knowledge is the consciousness of unity with the One; and in relation with the many different beings and existences of the universe it must Page 188 show itself by an equal oneness with all. Impersonality is ...
... formation here and there where a new self-consciousness has come to the surface. But it cannot be said that these forms have yet a sufficient hold on the general mind of the people. They represent an advance movement; they are the voices of the vanguard, the torchlights of the pioneers. On the whole what we see is a giant Shakti who awakening into a new world, a new and alien environment, finds herself... us by a poet and subtle critic and thinker, Mr. James H. Cousins, and others have touched suggestively various sides of the growing movement towards a new life and a new thought that may well seem to justify the description. This Renaissance, this new birth in India, if it is a fact, must become a thing of immense importance both to herself and the world, to herself because of all that is meant for... the Indian mind in the face of new and unprecedented conditions. It was at this moment that the European wave swept over India. The first effect of this entry of a new and quite opposite civilisation was the destruction of much that had no longer the Page 14 power to live, the deliquescence of much else, a tendency to the devitalisation of the rest. A new activity came in, but this was ...
... 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 in the body. The body troubles were eliminated so far as could be done while in the body - farther was not possible. For a new mutation, a new procedure was needed... whole day long, even while seeing people, she had been keeping the consciousness unclouded by any vestige of falsehood whatsoever; that - the pure adhesion to Truth, the uncompromising expulsion of falsehood - was "the thing worth living for". Meeting the Mother on 10 March, the disciple asked her about the new (superman) Consciousness. Whenever he tried to come in contact with it he had the feeling... her deep concentration for her work. She is not on the surface. Sri Aurobindo is needed to understand and to tell us what she is doing and where is she. This yoga is altogether new, ways and means are new, the object is new. So we have no guidance from any of the old writings except from Savitri: "She only can save herself and save the world." The entire outside work is going on as usual. One ...
... living, a birth into a new truth consciousness. The enamoured of light, the sage, the Yogin of knowledge, the seer, the Rishi live for knowledge and in knowledge, because it is the absolute of light and truth that they seek after and its claim on them is single and absolute. At the same time this also is a line of the world energy,—for the world Shakti is a Shakti of consciousness and knowledge and not... more, a necessity of the growth of our consciousness and being and the right ordering of our action, not less an imperative need laid upon man by the will of the spirit in the universe. And in the pursuit of knowledge as in the pursuit of good we see the same lines and stages of the evolution of energy. At first as its basis there is simply a life-consciousness seeking for its self, becoming more and... underlying purpose is other,—it is the evolution of that which is hidden within her: for if her first dynamic word is life, her greater revealing word is consciousness and the evolution of life and action only the means of the evolution of the consciousness involved in life, the imprisoned soul, the Jiva. Action is a means, but knowledge is the sign and the growth of the conscious soul is the purpose. Man's ...
... relation within the terrestrial formula. The supreme power of the principle of unity taking all diversities into itself and controlling them as parts of the unity, which must be the law of the new evolutionary consciousness, would not as yet be there. Also by this much evolution there could be no security against the downward pull or gravitation of the Inconscience which dissolves all the formations that... es for humanity of the descent of the Supermind on the earth. As he points out: 'The descent into the earth-life of so supreme a creative power as the Supermind and its truth-consciousness could not be merely a new feature or factor added to that life or put in its front but without any other importance or only a restricted importance carrying with it no results profoundly affecting the rest of... on newer, bolder, loftier, and even, on unprecendented lines. In this new endeavour, the Yoga of Sri Aurobindo marks a momentous programme and project of Yogic research taking within its sweep all the domains of life, all aspects of culture, a synthesis of the systems of Yoga based upon a new discovery resulting in an ever-growing methodised discipline for a transmutation of Man into a new transformed ...
... psychical consciousness leads us far beyond this faculty of vision by images and admits us not indeed to a new time consciousness, but to many ways of the triple time knowledge. The subliminal or psychic self can bring back or project itself into past states of consciousness and experience and anticipate or even, though this is less common, strongly project itself into future states of consciousness and... future that is always carried within itself by the eternal spirit. But embodied as we are and founded on the physical consciousness, the mind of ignorance still persists as a conditioning environment, an intervening power and limiting habitual force obstructing and mixing with the new formation or, even in moments of large illumination, at once a boundary wall and a strong substratum, and it imposes... precipitate from an energy which has no longer a conscious centre. The supramental consciousness on the other hand is founded upon the supreme consciousness of the timeless Infinite, but has too the secret of the deployment of the infinite Energy in time. It can either take its station in the time consciousness and keep the timeless infinite as its background of supreme and original being from which ...
... organisation which will shape and mould the indwelling consciousness; the order will be reversed and it is the new manifesting consciousness which will be the determinant and mould the material substance and its structure. Surely this appears to be too presumptuous a statement to be accepted easily! — Matter is a function of Consciousness and not the other way round! But is not the whole of modern... confined solely to the outer existence of man but primarily as a qualitative transmutation of his consciousness, leading in the end to the appearance of a new supramental species upon earth. In reality, the earthly manifestation is ever progressive, of which the key-note is the evolution of consciousness with all that it implies; and if evolution is a fact, the present man cannot be its last term, nor... instrumentation; mind is only a middle term of consciousness, the mental being can only be a transitional being." (Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine) What is more, even at the risk of provoking derisive laughter in some of our readers, we make bold to affirm that the evolutionary movement has very recently taken a saltus; a new principle of consciousness, a higher element has already been in operation ...
... external form to the human species with its animal origin, but who will transform his consciousness sufficiently to belong in his realization and activity to a new race, a race of overmen [ surhommes ]. This species may be considered a transitional species, for one can foresee that it will discover the means of producing new beings without going through the old animal method … So we could call overmen [... convinced that this is what we have to do.” 10 The Manifestation of the Supermind The avataric task of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother consisted in bringing down a new, higher consciousness into the Earth atmosphere: the consciousness of the Supermind. Life on Earth is still predominantly the fiefdom of the “hostile powers,” which are the direct descendants of the Inconscient from which the evolution... consequences of which humans cannot estimate. The Overman Consciousness In the first hours of the very first day of 1969, the Mother had another special experience. “In the night it came slowly, and on waking up this morning there was as it were a golden dawn, and the atmosphere was very light. The body felt: “Well, this is truly, truly new.” A golden light, imponderous and benevolent. ‘Benevolent’ ...
... discovered the key to the synthesis in the Supermind, the rest was not very difficult. The new synthesis of knowledge called also for a new integral Yoga for the translation of the logical possibility into realised actuality: this Yoga had to be a delicate, powerful and multi-pronged movement in consciousness, comprehending, reconciling and exceeding the two fundamental categories of experience. Matter... significant victory, no doubt; but the victory was also tinged with disappointment. As he told Dilip Kumar Roy: It was then that my outlook changed with the knowledge born of my new Yogic consciousness. But then I found, to my utter disillusionment, that it was only my ignorance which had led me to think that the impossible was feasible here and now... in order to help humanity out, it was... chosen place - or God-directed sanctuary - for continuing the work begun at Chandernagore; that was his Gaya where he would one day complete his siddhi; that was where the foundations of a New Heaven and a New Earth would be securely laid. Force, fraud or temptation, Sri Aurobindo endured them all and was master of the situation - "lone, limitless, nude, immune". III Sri Aurobindo's ...
... and obstacles, we would get a welcome respite from them. The Mother always told us: “Never forget for a moment that you are my much-loved children.” Helped by the Mother’s indulgent Love, a new wondrous consciousness began to take shape within us. Year after year, how much time, love and infinite patience the Mother lavished on us ordinary little boys and girls so that our personality would develop and... cinema hall. It was then that this seed of love and compassion was sown in a young girl’s inmost consciousness. We have seen this same film here at the Ashram a couple of times, sitting next to the Mother. While watching the film I would sometimes look at the Mother. Even while the Mother guided us to the new life She also taught us how to forgive human pettiness and baseness. With Compassion Thine... into my new life. It was impossible for me to speak to the Mother freely. I would keep thinking: “I have just arrived. I am totally new to this place.” At that time no one really spoke with the newcomers. Nolini-da was the only person who understood me. Why, even girls of my age did not speak much! That is how life was in the Ashram of those days. It was like coming to the first class in a new school ...
... to the new gnostic consciousness would prove to be a fundamental change in the very texture, temper and tone of existence: Our nature, our consciousness is that of beings ignorant of each other, separated from each other, rooted in a divided ego, who must strive to establish some kind of relation between their embodied ignorances.... An innate character of the gnostic consciousness and the... nature of cosmic existence. 28 What, then, are the new ingredients in Aurobindonian metaphysics of life-transformation and world-transformation? Firstly, the conception of the interlinked processes of evolution-involution or ascent-descent; secondly, the principle of integration at every stage of the forward movement of consciousness; and thirdly, the identification of the sovereign creative... evolved out of Life, man the mental being did not - indeed he could not - deny either Life or Matter; he only achieved a new integration, a harmony of all three, with the "psyche" as the true master of the ceremonies. This is why Sri Aurobindo views the adventure of Consciousness as a threefold movement: an upward movement - the evolution or the ascent or the emergence; a downward movement - the involution ...
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