... to a past which no longer has any purpose”, it is now. In the process of the creation of a new world, the elements of the old world and of the new one exist simultaneously. The old world partly continues to survive up to a certain point and mixes with the first elements of the new world. The new world, at the present moment, “is necessarily a totally new experience. One would have to go back to... Answers ). Here she speaks without interruption in an almost hymnal tone about the new world that is born. This is not literature: in her words vibrate the triumphal accomplishment of the essential aim of the Yoga in which she was involved since the beginning of the century, and the joyful confirmation of the birth of a new world. In the first chapters of this book we have tried to make the importance of... conceive freely of a new life, of a new world. And, naturally, the liberation begins on the highest planes of consciousness: it is easier for the mind or the higher intelligence to conceive of new things than for the vital, for instance, to feel the things in a new way. And it is still more difficult for the body to have a purely material conception of what a new world will be. Yet this perception must ...
... consciousnesses representative of a new world. After all, there is such a great interdependence of the individual and the collectivity that the individual realization, however great, is limited, impoverished by the unresponsive atmosphere of its surroundings. And it is certain that the entire terrestrial life has to follow a certain line of progress in order for a new world and a new consciousness to manifest... and I execute: A new light breaks upon the earth, A new world is born. The things that were promised are fulfilled. 16 This was a modification of four great lines from her diary entry on 25 September 1914, forty-two years earlier: The Lord has willed and Thou dost execute: A new Light shall break upon the earth. A new world shall be born, And the things that were promised shall... but with the body, if you understand what I mean: in the cells of the body – that a new world is born and is beginning to grow.’ 31 This reminded the Mother of her overmental creation in 1926-27, which she briefly described to her audience. Then she continued: ‘I announced to you all that this new world is born. But it has been so swallowed up, as it were, by the old world that up to now ...
... ly leading the whole process to the chaos he wants for the new world he wants. We cry Page 110 for our broken toys, but to tell the truth, we are very childish. They would probably like to make a new world with improved machines, but it is not like that... and fortunately so! Whether people call for it or not, the new world will be, as inevitably as the mammals were, with or without... It is Sri Aurobindo and Mother who have begun to walk upon the world — just wait and see. We are all going to see. We delight in speaking of the “new world,” everyone repeats the word or brandishes it or hides behind it — but one day the new world establishes itself. And masks drop. We are reaching this point, at long last! So now is the time to keep our helmets on and to hold on — this book... “legatees” who want to reign and claim their rights (Ashram or the Society) and a rather heteroclite bunch with a little something in the heart, but vibrating, open, and really longing for the New World. The New World is not a new Church. It is even rather unorthodox and ragged. One day, Andre Brincourt of the Figaro asked me: “What is an Ashram without a guru?” (that is, without Mother). The answer ...
... for the new world and precipitated a little more truth upon earth. But no circle is little when it has that center, since it is the center of everything. Or else, one day, perhaps they will feel impelled to join with their peers of the new world and with them build some living testimony of their common aspiration, as others built pyramids or cathedrals – perhaps a city of the new world. And this... and is like the true key to the new world. Behind all his gropings and stumblings and dozens of wrong turns every day, his cries in the dark, he senses a sort of Help – something is answering.... One must have walked long in the dark to appreciate the marvel of that particular answer. Something answers, moves, hears, knows where we are going! As if the new world were all here, already done, i... second and each gesture. They create their heaven with each step and carve the new world out of the banality of the day. And they are not afraid of failure, for they have left behind the failures and success of the prison – they live in the sole infallibility of a right little note. But these builders of the new world will have to be careful not to erect a new prison, be it an ideal and enlightened ...
... must be recounted: it is the Legend of the New World. Page 56 There, I embrace you very tenderly. Please excuse my disjointed sentences, what must be caught is the momentum , the marvellous movement of Mother the great Ballerina, who goes through the false appearances of our intellectual prison. And with your film, you will help the New World to be . With you very tenderly ... will not allow her to simply "take over" — it will create other hard circumstances by which it will attain its Aim, which is to cleanse India and make it really enter through the door of the New world. A new world is not a continuation of the old world, nor even an "improvement" of the same old rot. Satprem December 5, 1979 (Personal Letter) I keep you company while you are at Laffont's... Indiraji's future and India's destiny are at stake. The new world and new consciousness and new Force are threatened to be swallowed and disfigured. Will Indiraji understand her real mission which is not to perpetuate the old democratic fallacy presently ruining India, but to seize on the new Force and discover new ways and establish the new world? — a new Order? This is precisely the real question ...
... freely conceive of a new life, a new world. And naturally, the liberation begins on the highest planes of consciousness: it is easier for the mind or the higher intelligence to conceive of new things than for the vital being, for instance, to feel things in a new way. And it is still more difficult for the body to have a purely material perception of what a new world will be. Yet this perception must... One must know how to renounce immediate success in order to create the new world, the supramental world in its integrality." With my inner consciousness I understood immediately: a few hours later the creation was gone... and from that moment we started anew on other bases. Well, I announced to you all that this new world was born. But it has been so engulfed, as it were, in the old world that... long as this is a conception up there in the field of thought, in fact it is hardly more than that—but what has happened, the really new thing, is that a new world is born, born, born . It is not the old one transforming itself, it is a new world which is born . And we are right in the midst of this period of transition where the two are entangled—where the other still persists all-powerful and entirely ...
... threshold of a new, still unknown experience that may have the power to change life itself. Page 4 For Sri Aurobindo is not only the explorer of consciousness, he is the builder of a new world. Indeed, what is the point of changing our consciousness if the world around us remains as it is? We would be like Hans Christian Andersen's emperor walking naked through the streets of his capital... Victoria was about to become Empress of India, and the conquest of Africa was not even completed; it was the turning point from one world to another. Historically, it appears that the birth of a new world is often preceded by periods of trial and destruction, but perhaps this is simply a misreading: it may be because the new seeds are Page 6 already alive that the forces of subversion... a global realization , in all points – one that embraces the individual's entire being – is necessary. If you want to transform your nature and your being, and participate in the creation of a new world , the Mother says, that aspiration, that one-pointed and linear push is no longer enough; you must embrace everything and contain everything in your consciousness. Hence the integral yoga or "full ...
... "barbaric" from the new world. (Mother laughs) I'll hear a bit of it on the 16th when I see him. The people who compose this music have millions of fans. These people have a tremendous fortune - they have movies, radio, television, everything at their disposal, and they are fully in revolt. Oh? Yes, as I told you: the barbarians of the new world. The old world is swept... nods her head) ... be uplifted and purified. Well, we should make an axis, a centre in Auroville, a symbolic temple of the new world we want to create, and all consciousnesses might come together in the construction of that pyramid or temple of the new world. And at the same time, it will help bring down that which is to be expressed there. . It's very good, that was the original... the same ones who take drugs? Yes. Then it must be in the vital. Oh, it's very vital, without doubt! But they sense that the world is in revolt and that we're coming to a new world, and that all the old conventions have to be swept aside. There's no conformity of any kind. They're open to everything. Open like this (horizontal gesture), not like this (vertical ...
... strode over the ruins, strode over the Gentleman who was beneath the debris, and... everything came to a close in the child's vision with an immense burst of laughter. The divine laughter of the new world. Gold is the color of the supermind. Krishna in gold is growing up amongst us. Beware of the sanctuary. And what is a vision? It is the translation, in a visual language, of a phenomenon... is on the path and what is not, then? What is important and what is not? An overlooked speck of dust might perhaps contain the whole key to the mystery. A very difficult diagram. Because if the new world were already explained, it would no longer be new at all! A Friable Body The action, development and effects of this new Power gradually became more distinct in the body. A body that was a... to a man of the Stone Age. But there is a fact. We must take hold of the fact. We are no mystics, we are only struggling hard with a reality that is difficult for our senses of children of the new world. That experience happened during one of the last "Wednesday classes." Mother was seated there, before that whole amorphous mass that listened willingly; but then, life went on as always, you see ...
... cells of the body’, experienced a New World in which the Promise to humankind would be fulfilled here, on the Earth, and not in a hereafter. She experienced this New World as such a contrast with the former one that the difference appeared to her as big as the difference between the new human being and the animals. To realize the importance of the birth of the New World, one had ‘to find a comparison... understanding with the head, not with the intellect, but with the body, you know what I mean: it was an understanding in the cells of the body — that a new world is born and that it is beginning to grow … I have announced to all of you that that a new world was born. But it has so much been swallowed up, so to speak, in the old world that up to now the difference has not been very perceptible for a lot... such emphasis to her audience, the young ones sitting there in the sand in front of her, in one of her most lyrical, at times hymnic talks: ‘It is a new world that is born, born, born. It is not the old one that is transforming itself, it is a new world that is born. And we are now fully in the transitional period in which both are overlapping: in which the old one still persists in an all-powerful ...
... you, I could not bring. Myself—Which book? Amrita—Your book, forgotten? Book for the journey to the New World. Myself—Yes, yes, now I remember. What happened? Amrita—I must say it was a great opportunity to see this marvellous and magnificent book with beautiful pictures of the New World. When did you do it? I never knew! Champaklal, you know, this man from whom you had asked me to get... Visions of Champaklal Visions of Champaklal A Journey to the New World 1979-11-14 Morning There was a huge tent. I went around, it looking for an entrance to get in but could not find any. At last an idea came to me: why not try to lift up the bottom of the tent from one side, and see if it is possible that way to get in? I saw it was possible... expression on his face, you can know him and understand how he feels. But he must have felt my need. Truly I was anxious to get this book as I knew it would be very useful to me for going to the New World. He gave it to me with pleasure. You could see it so vividly on his face.” Champaklal, it was a pleasure to see such a man. While he was speaking to me thus, I saw tears flowing from his eyes. ...
... an attention attuned to the Living Presence in everything. ‘A Child Shall Destroy Them’ It has been the constant concern of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother that the breaking through of the new world into the old one would happen without irreparable damage. The phasing out of a world is always a catastrophe, a loss of everything built up by it. The present Change is not without danger, for the... extreme, as if what is good became better and what is bad worse. This is how it is. With a formidable Power pressing on the world.’ And she continued: ‘It is no longer like it was … This really is a new world. We may call it “supramental” to avoid misunderstandings’ — the Mother has never liked this term very much — ‘for as soon as one speaks of “Divine” people think of a God and that spoils everything... as a not totally unfounded thought-experiment. It is already worthwhile to know that something indeed is happening, and to watch out with intensified attention for other signs of the birth of the New World and of its first embodied representatives. Five Indications On 15 August 1925, more than seventy years ago, Sri Aurobindo in his evening talks gave a few indications by which to recognize ...
... remember too that the new world whose coming we envisage is not to be made of the same texture as the old and different only in pattern, and that it must come by other means – from within and not from without; so the best way is not to be too much preoccupied with the lamentable things that are happening outside, but themselves to grow within so that they may be ready for the new world, whatever form it... momentous change not only in the history of humanity but in the course of evolution on this Earth. Things were no longer as they had been, she said in the last years of her embodiment. “This really is a new world.” “There is something like a golden Force, without material consistence and yet apparently enormously heavy, that is pressing down upon Matter in order to compel it to turn towards the Divine inwardly... them by the power of crushing circumstances.” 16 She also said: “Nothing but a radical change of consciousness can save humanity from the terrible plight into which it is plunged.” And again: “A new world, based on Truth and refusing the old slavery to falsehood, wants to take birth. In all countries there are people who know it, at least feel it. To them we call: ‘Will you collaborate?’” 17 ...
... should have added that it was an event forerunner of the birth of a new world." This means that the new world was born after the supramental consciousness manifested. You have fixed the 29th February 1956 as the date of the supramental manifestation. Which date after that should be taken as the date of the birth of the new world? Half an hour later. In the November 1958 issue of the "Bulletin"... yourself, be open, passively allow it to penetrate your body. It has the power to restore you to strength and health. A new world is born—all those who want to have a place in it must sincerely prepare themselves for it. 15 August 1957 Heralding the birth of a new world, we invite all those who want to have a place in it to prepare themselves sincerely for it. 15 August 1957 Page... every moment of the universal history. But to celebrate the advent of a new world, the supramental world, is a marvellous and exceptional privilege. 21 February 1958 By whatever name it is called, the Supramental is a truth and a fact and its reign is certain. 27 March 1959 The advent of a new world is an ineluctable fact and whatever name is given to it, its victory is certain ...
... up with this perception; to do all that one does with this great truth as the background, as a constant support, this great truth that we are witnessing the birth of a new world. We can participate in it, we can become this new world. And truly, when one has such a marvellous opportunity, one should be ready to give up everything for its sake. Page 160 ... complete reversal, the sudden appearance of something which will belong to quite a different world, and which instead of being based on Ignorance will be based upon Truth. That is why it will truly be a new world. But if the essence , the principle of this world were not included in the world as we knew it, there would be no hope of the one being transformed into the other; they would be two worlds so totally... imperceptible, non-existent for a world belonging exclusively to the Ignorance and the Inconscience. How is it that even when this change has taken place, there will be a connection and this new world will be able to act upon the old one? It is that in its essence and principle the new is already enclosed, involved in the old world. So, in fact, it is there, inside, in its very depths, hidden, ...
... .. and rise and purify themselves. Well, what should be built in Auroville is an axis, a center, a symbolic temple of the new world we want to create, and all the consciousnesses should unite in the construction of this pyramid of the new world, or this temple of the new world—which will at the same time help to bring down what must express itself there. It's very good, that was the first idea:... Mother, what I think, and what Paolo too has put his finger on, is that if these... say, twenty or fifty Aurovilians sincerely unite their hearts in the construction of this pyramid or temple of the new world, it will ATTRACT money, the millions. It should. It will come. What's needed isn't to "look for millions," it's first to unite the consciousnesses around something. Yes. That's the... idea and the old principle. Yes. The starting point should be something else. It's out of a fear of religions. It could very well be done not as a religion but as the symbol of the new world. Page 500 Yes... We need someone who understands that—maybe Paolo will understand. Yes, certainly! And he would have the capacity to convince people, I think. ( silence ) Yes ...
... concerning the re-founding of the spiritual, religious, social, political and economic institutions which have a role to play in the process of the supramental transformation and, perhaps partly, in the New World. We also know about some facts which drew or were brought to her surface attention. When she heard about the first astronauts on the moon, she considered the enterprise ‘a game for grown-up children... a diameter of about thirty metres, which arises from the Earth. The symbolism is simple: the golden, supramental world is breaking out of Matter as we know it, out of the Earth as it is now; the New World is being born. If the Matrimandir was only this, the monumental construction would be destined from its very inception to become little more than a tourist attraction, and the Mother was not exactly... in works and the utilities of divine knowledge and the self-application of the spirit to life and the happiness of its harmonies.’ 26 Such are the Powers which will render the emergence of the New World possible. Since then the construction of the golden Matrimandir has continued through thick and thin and is now completed. The ‘inner chamber,’ the Matrimandir’s main feature, has a diameter of ...
... on 1st January as the Message for 1956 a declaration that was somewhat puzzling at the time: The greatest victories are the least noisy. Page 756 The manifestation of a new world is not proclaimed by beat of drum. On 29 February 1956, a conversation took place between the Mother and the Ashram children. A passage from The Synthesis of Yoga was under discussion: ... February - 29 March", the following appeared in the Bulletin of 24 April 1956: Page 757 Lord, Thou hast willed, and I execute: A new light breaks upon the earth, A new world is born. The things that were promised are fulfilled. What had been but a promise on 25 September 1914 - "shall break" ... "shall be born" ... "shall be fulfilled" - now became in... future: From beyond the frontiers of form a new force can be evoked, a power of consciousness... which, by its emergence, will be able to change the course of things and give birth to a new world. ... 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, but upon the very ...
... In it we notice the seeds of a brighter world taking birth. This birth of a bright world may not be in the immediate context, but it is bound to occur in the evolutionary future. It is a new world whose birth is helped and supported by Yama, true Yama as the possessor of gracious kindness. In it the authentic meaning, the high purport of mrityuloka, becomes clear. Yama shall thus prove to... mortal birth." By condescending to be bom here Savitri accomplishes the heavenly task. She removes the dark Obstacle that lies across the path of the divine Event and makes the manifestation of a new world a reality. If we choose the Pauranic language we can say that Brahma's conceptive-expressive power as the supreme Creatrix is present in two aspects,—in the modes of transcendental and terrestrial... Unfortunately Sri Aurobindo's recommendation to accept the proposal was rejected. "integral manifestation." She was sure that A new Light shall break upon the earth. A new world shall be bom. 23 If this is the nature of the work she envisaged for which she got the mantric knowledge, there is also the certainty of her joining the Master to carry it out and to give ...
... Savitri have to unite in order to create the new world because it is only in their union that the New World will be created. Therefore, Savitri has to descend this time as Satyavan's wife. In Book Twelve, when Savitri Page 145 returns after her battle with the Lord of Death, Sri Aurobindo says that she carries in her arms the new world like a baby. The Mother explained that this... this baby in Savitri's arms, or Satyavan, is the New World that she is bringing down. So the symbolism is that Savitri is bom as the wife of Satyavan and this union of Spirit and Matter is necessary for the New Creation. Savitri is the daughter of the supreme God; she is the Divine Word, meaning the Creative Power. And, specifically here in Savitri, she is the Word of the Supramental ... Consciousness, as the baby that is to be bom is the Supramental World. So, Savitri in union with Satyavan brings forth the New World. She has chosen this earth for transformation, not any other planet. Even though Satyavan had to die within a year, Savitri had no other choice but to choose him because she has to transform this earth and Satyavan represents this earth. Savitri is ...
... living, an outdated world". She also knew that this old world had been already transcended, and something new, sublime, intense was taking its place. She knew in the very cells of her body that "a new world is born and is beginning to grow". Next day, on 10 July, she made a reference to this experience, and then recapitulated her startling - and wonderful - experiences after the Siddhi Day (24 November... held the key to the Overmind creation she had, on Sri Aurobindo's advice, desisted from using it and preferred instead to wait patiently for the Supermind creation. Then, thirty years later, the "new world" was born, and although largely engulfed in the old world, the new forces were then quite active. Her concrete experience the previous evening of the pastness, the irrelevance, of the old world of... longer be any religions.... But all this is in the future; it is a future... which has begun, but which will take some time to be realised integrally.... We are now witnessing the birth of a new world; it is very young, very weak - not in its essence but in its outer manifestation - not yet recognised, not even felt, denied by the majority. But it is here... making an effort to grow, absolutely ...
... element which will open the doors of our prison and cast us forth onto a new earth, just as one day the first amphibian landed on the sunlit shores of a new world. 57.107 A new world is BORN. It's not the old one transforming itself, it is a NEW world that is born. And we are right in the middle of this period of transition where the two are entangled: where the other still persists all-powerful, entirely... code is worthless! It is adapted only to a certain thinking fishbowl. In fact, it is a revolution, the consequences of which have not been fully assessed. Here are the first stammerings of the new world: 61.66 Take absolutely identical circumstances, not even a day, a few hours apart; identical circumstances: the same outer circumstances and the same inner circumstances, in other words the ... accustomed to disguising everything — there, it's gone! 72.76 It's something that the cells don't quite understand yet, but they know, they feel. They feel as if they were thrust forcibly into a new world. 73.82 It's has nothing to do with going off into inaccessible regions, it's RIGHT HERE. Although, for the moment, all the old habits and the general unconsciousness have put a sort of lid on ...
... look as though She were trying to take in the whole earth: if only one or two could understand! Comprehension had to begin somewhere, in some corner, if only in one single being in the world. A new world begins with one. And one particular day, after the showing of the weekly film at the Playground—a very beautiful Indian film on Ramakrishna and Hindu religious devotion, on the meaning of the gods... worthless. Then I really understood, for I understood not with the head, not with the intelligence, but with the body—do you understand what I mean?—I understood in the cells of the body that a new world is born. 8 It is all here, really, only we must look at things differently. As long as our eyes are fixed on heaven or fixed on false matter, we shall understand nothing and see nothing:... a reversal of consciousness takes place which for us is the proof that we have entered the spiritual life; well, yet another occurs when we enter the supramental world. And probably each time a new world opens up, there will again be a new reversal. This is why even our spiritual life, which is such a total reversal compared to ordinary life, seems something still so totally different when compared ...
... up with this perception; to do all that one does with this great truth as the background, as a constant support, this great truth that we are witnessing the birth of a new world. We can participate in it, we can become this new world. And truly, when one has such a marvellous opportunity, one should be ready to give up everything for its sake. The Mother Questions and Answers (1957 - 1958):... Hidden Worlds and Evolutionary Forces The Hidden Forces of Life Supermind - Force of the New World The Supermind is veiled here and does not work according to its characteristic law of being and self-knowledge, but without it nothing could reach its aim. A world governed by an ignorant mind would soon drift into a chaos; it could not in fact come into... forget all the time…. But if we could remember… that we are at an exceptional hour, a unique time, that we have this immense good fortune, this invaluable privilege of being present at the birth of a new world, we could easily get rid of everything that impedes and hinders our progress. So, the most important thing, it seems, is to remember this fact; even when one doesn’t have the tangible experience ...
... of life which would in the final end be moved by a higher spiritual consciousness and embody a greater life of the spirit. Sri Aurobindo Cradle of the new world The Ashram has been founded and meant to be the cradle of the new world. The Mother Ardent aspiration It is ages of ardent aspiration that have brought us here to do the Divine's Work. The Mother Unselfish work... Mother The cradle of the new world I know that from the external point of View we are below many of the present achievements in this world, but our aim is not a perfection in accordance with the human standards. We are endeavouring for something else which belongs to the future. The Ashram has been founded and is meant to be the cradle of the new world. The ...
... Plenum. The Shakespearian phrase you have used "O brave new world that has such people in it" - has a deeper and wider significance than you imagine. Of course our earth is full of wonderful people - as you say, "many faces of the one Face whom I have loved" - but what you are referring to is the brave old and not new world. The really new world towards which the finger of Sri Aurobindo is pointing will... we are. Would that Kalki, the Second Coming of the Lord Jesus, etc., be at hand. But 'what rough beast/Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?'. Yet how wonderful this world is, how rich, 'O brave new world that has such people in it'. I have known so many wonderful people, many faces of the one Face whom I have loved. Of course if - or must I say since - Spirit is indestructible, all must pass, yet ...
... antiquity whereas the counterpart of ancient Athens in modern times was Paris. But, of course, whatever the play of a modernised Athenian temper with its love of beauty and clarity and liberty in the new world which Sri Aurobindo and the Mother aim to manifest, the principal moving element in it is Spiritual India of the ages with her face of past illuminations turning to a yet vaster light from the future... Creation. When I looked a little puzzled she added: "You know that Brahma is said to create by his Word. In the same way whatever I would express could take place. I had willed to express a whole new world of superhuman reality. Everything was prepared in the subtle dimension and was waiting to be precipitated upon earth." On the eve of the precipitation she went to Sri Aurobindo and told him of what... same year the Mother made a change in one of her old "Prayers and Meditations" and made the passage go: "Lord, Thou hast willed, and I execute, A new light breaks upon the earth, A new world is born. The things that were promised are fulfilled." Next year she made a direct mention of the manifestation of Page 104 the Supermind's Consciousness, Light and Force ...
... is perhaps the last, and certainly the best, hope of humankind.” They want to bring about a worldwide spiritual renaissance. In Laszlo’s words: “We now live in a period of transformation when a new world is struggling to be born.” 11 Laszlo is convinced that the present situation of Planet Earth is as critical as the scientists in the previous section (together with most reasonable people)... death. Six years later, in 1956, the Mother announced the first manifestation of the Supermind in the Earth atmosphere, equivalent to the beginning of a new stage in the terrestrial evolution, of a new world. 20 The effects of this manifestation were immediate, for instance in the phenomenon called “the Sixties”: the decade of the New Age movement, the student revolts of ’68, and the Velvet Revolution... “the third world” became independent. The common impulse behind all these phenomena was the need of “unity for the human race by an inner oneness,” without which, according to Sri Aurobindo, the new world would not be possible. For “all mankind may be regarded as a collective being,” as “all mankind is one in its nature, physical, vital, emotional, mental and ever has been in spite of all differences ...
... representative of a new world. There is, in spite of everything, so great an interdependence between the individual and the collectivity that the individual realisation … is limited, diminished by the 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... children, the Mother said, the anshas 24 of the Gods as well as the anshas of the Asuras, and the conversion of the latter formed an essential part in the movement of transition towards the New World. For those who want to see, or are chosen to see, the lives of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother are a continuous confirmation of the veracity of their avatarhood; they have also confirmed it on many... crop up. What about the expectation that Sri Aurobindo and the Mother would stay on Earth forever? (They have never said so.) What about the appearance of the immortal supramental beings and the New World? (What Sri Aurobindo and the Mother said about the transitional being was not taken into consideration till the present day.) Would Sri Aurobindo and/or the Mother come back, preferably as soon as ...
... higher worlds. Now I think of expressing them in painting by various colours—blues, golds, pinks and whites—with certain vibrations of Light—all in harmony forming the New World. I wish to bring down upon earth this New World. Since I have no time physically, I will paint through you. The world of Supreme Beauty exists. I shall take you there, you will see the things, remember them and... towards my heart), like this. On another occasion, the Mother said: Child, our work is a work of the Future—a work of tomorrow for younger generations who will be the builders of the New . World. She also revealed: Savitri is the prophetic vision of Sri Aurobindo. It will surpass the Gita and the Bible. Without reading Savitri intellectually I could not go any further... consciousness sufficiently, we see that even the apparent defeats are marvellous steps towards the final Victory. As we went on, the Mother uncovered Sri Aurobindo's vision and hers of the New World, expressing the Supramental Light, Consciousness, Force and Delight. She disclosed their effect on the 15 Ibid., p. 34. Page 35 cells of the body. She took the theme ...
... fault of the Prime Minister Page 54 was that he had underestimated the power of forces of violence, greed, corruption and selfishness. He had begun to live under the illusion that the new world of goodwill and harmony had already been established and that the only road that was to be followed was that of development, prosperity and happiness for all people of his country. The Princess... "You are right," I said, "I should have used a better word." I then explained to him what was uppermost in my mind. I said: "I am convinced that India has a great role to play in the emergence of a new world order. India has or rather had knowledge of the Spirit. But it has neglected Matter. The West has the knowledge of Matter but has neglected Spirit. Both have become bankrupt in their own ways. Both... life. I have visited at least ninety countries with a deliberate intention to meet such individuals and to establish some kind of contact in the battle that is being waged today for the birth of a new world of harmony and unity and fraternity, which is being opposed ferociously by the old world. "Let me now come to the main point of my letter. I feel that the greatest hope for the future can be ...
... is a meaning in the choice. We know now the meaning, the fundamental meaning of her life, her mission and her work. She came to bring a new light. She wanted a new world, not the old world with its old nature and old culture, but a new world, a new human race. She brought with her the new light that is to re-create, re-shape man and the world. What was the relation between the new man and France? For... it was an image of the new child that was born in humanity. A new world is thus ushered in in the land of the cherry-blossom, a new vital world, for all the world. The Mother is creative consciousness; wherever she happens to be, wherever she is called upon to be, her very presence moves towards creation, creating a new world and a new dimension of being and consciousness, according to the ...
... 1 In her Prayers and Meditations Mother wrote under the date September 25, 1914: The Lord has willed and thou dost execute: A new Light shall break upon the earth. A new world shall be born, And the things that were promised shall be fulfilled. Subsequently, after a lapse of more than forty years, under the date February 29 - March 29, 1956, she introduced... introduced a change in the statement, in respect of the tense used. She rewrote it in this form: Lord, Thou has willed, and I execute: A new light breaks upon the earth, A new world is born. The things that were promised are fulfilled. The change of tense was needed because of the change in the situation. There has been a radical change in the actualities of the situation. Mother... day will come when the most blind, the most unconscious, even the most unwilling shall be obliged to recognise it. She speaks repeatedly of her vision and declares most emphatically that the new world is born, born, born—as it were, thrice born ("il est né, né, né"). It is there behind, it is moving, threading past all the obscurities that hide it, but in a manner indomitable and invincible: ...
... the earth, A new world is born. The things that were promised are fulfilled. 26 The work begun by Sri Aurobindo had now been brought to the point of fruition by the Mother. "The greatest thing that can ever be," she said on 20 October 1957, "the most marvellous thing since the beginning of creation, the miracle has happened.... A new world, yes, a completely new world, is born and is... if the Cosmic Egg itself had begun to crack. Is this the nightmarish enactment of the end of history, or, hopefully, the first strident summons prefacing the morning serenade that is to greet the New World? It may be that we are now witnessing only the new Force and Light and Consciousness - these two viewed, as through a thick mist, in ambiguous distortions - but not the supramental Ananda. It is perhaps ...
... could have been a continuation with some improvement, a widening of the same world... but, she said, what has happened—the truly new thing—is that a new world has been BORN, BORN, BORN. It is not the old world which is being transformed, it's a NEW WORLD that has been BORN. And we are in the middle of the transition period, when the two are intermingled: the old one still persists, all-powerful and entirely... intelligence to conceive of new things is easier than for the vital being, say, to feel things in a new way. And for the body it is still more difficult to have a purely material perception of what a new world will be. Yet, this perception must PRECEDE the material transformation; the strangeness of old things, their lack of relevance to the present conditions must first be felt very concretely, if you... 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 been the present ...
... gradually at home in the sacred precincts of the Ashram, though everything was still unfamiliar and 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... out of the Hall. The ceremony would last more than an hour and a profound silence charged with an intense inner glow was maintained all through. In that dim light it felt as if a glimpse of a new world, the reflection of a higher being, had fallen upon the consciousness and was spreading itself. Some other influence than the earthly became dense and perceptible. The inner and outer parts seemed... turning inward and the way to do it, how to bring about total sincerity! To study oneself at every step on the way to the transformation of consciousness, this unique training opened before us a new world, and what a number of worlds seemed to be there in oneself! Sri Aurobindo had told us to surrender ourselves to the Mother, and one could clearly perceive that working in all of us. He also insisted ...
... west of the new continent—which confirmed the newness of these lands. The Europeans named the New World: America. 1 To be ' Derived from the name of the Italian merchant, Amerigo Vespucci, who explored the north coast of South America in 1499. Page 128 precise, the 'New World' was a 'discovery' only for the Europeans, because the lands were already inhabited, and many... laborers and artisans erected Roman Catholic shrines and churches." Sixteenth-century Spanish gold seekers, French and British empire builders, brought with them diseases till then unknown in the New World. "From the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries, diseases brought to the Americas by Europeans killed at least half and perhaps as much as ninety-five percent of the native population," wrote J.... goodness of the Indians is undeniable." It was really the greed and cruelty of the Westerners that wrought havoc in the lives of the natives wherever the former established colonies. Gold from the New World, all the silver from the mines of Mexico and Bolivia and Peru; coffee and cacao ... oh, so many new consumer goods and raw materials Page 132 that flowed into West Europe were produced ...
... Last year when I announced to you the manifestation of the Supramental Consciousness and Light and Force, I should have added that it was an event forerunner of the birth of a new world. But at that time, the new world was so much engulfed in the ancient that even now there are very few people who are aware of its birth and of the difference it brings into the world. Yet the action of the new forces... this work could have been a simple continuation, an amelioration, an enlargement of the old world as it was. What has happened is truly a new thing: A New World has been born. It is not the old that is being transformed, it is quite a new world that has been really concretely born. At the present hour we are in the very heart of a period of transition, where the two are intertwined; the old... but will take some time before realising itself integrally. In the meanwhile, we are in a very special situation, extremely special, which has had no precedent. We are attending on the birth of a new world, altogether young, altogether weak—weak not in its essence, but in its external manifestation—not yet recognised, nor yet felt, denied by most, but it is there, it is there endeavouring to grow and ...
... from: The Lord hast willed and thou dost execute; A new Light shall break upon the earth. A new world shall be born, And the things that were promised shall be fulfilled. to: Lord, Thou hast willed, and I execute A new light breaks upon the earth. A new world is born, The things that were promised are fulfilled. We used to recite this prayer of the Mother... unconscious, even the most unwilling shall be obliged to recognise it. On 10 July 1957, during the class in the Playground, the Mother emphasised that a new world is born , born , born . It is not the old one transforming itself, it is a new world which is born . And this was the message She distributed on the first ‘anniversary’: 29.2.60 The Golden Day Henceforth the 29th February... The final moment was near. What was going to happen? On 1st January 1956 we received from the Mother Her New Year Message: The greatest victories are the least noisy. The manifestation of a new world is not proclaimed by beat of drum. And so we all waited with bated breath. And finally breaking through all the obstacles and resistances, the victorious, irresistible Supramental Light came down ...
... not know what the mystery is. If we knew, the New World would be all there, visible. Perhaps this book is a desperate attempt to make the mystery visible: to conjure up the new world, like the Rishis of old who hammered the mountain with their cry. Our common cry. We must change into a new species or die. We must find the key to the New World. ... be the same one. Sri Aurobindo and Mother had a handful of very “ordinary” boys count the pebbles of the new world—but everyone is so utterly ordinary; extraordinary people are only the extraordinary ones of the old world, like pretty Ming vases of the Mental Dynasty. The treasure of the New World is to be found in what is most ordinary—which is not yet extraordinary, that is all. Curiously enough ...
... that has high social, political and ethical ideals Page 102 and is artistically delicate and refined. Savitri too offers a whole world of experience but it is altogether a new world in which the life of man, — in fact the whole view of the cosmos, — undergoes a great and radical change. In Ramayana, for instance, the ideal law of conduct, dharma, is seen triumphing over the... were trying to establish their reign. Savitri is not a rendering, or a vision of the world in terms of the current laws of human evolution as seen by the ideal mind. In enunciates a new law, a new world of consciousness transcending — and yet fulfilling at the same time — the evolution attained by man up till now. And it renders it with such a rare power of inspiration and vision that it succeeds... remote realm of experiences intimately near to us, and carries a sense of their reality to our most outward mind. While reading those inspired utterances one feels opening before him altogether a new world of experiences, a world of beings "more real than living man"; for, in it breathe and move "nurslings of immortality". Like Veda and the Upanishads, Savitri also opens us to this realm of the ...
... t of the new Dawn in the Bulletin of Physical Education of 24 April, two months afterwards. There one reads: Lord, Thou hast willed and I execute: A new light breaks upon the earth, A new world is born. The things that were promised are fulfilled. These were exactly the same vibrating words which she had written many years earlier in her Prayers and Meditations, but what was at the... a promise but a living fact, a reality. It is at work here, and one day will come when the most blind, the most unconscious, even the most unwilling shall be obliged to recognise it.’ 46 A new world was born; a new era in the evolution of Mother Earth, the symbolical centre of the cosmos, began. Since that leap day no earthling can escape the effects of the Supramental. In other words, the Divine... body can satisfy some faithful feelings. ‘To celebrate the manifestation of the eternal Consciousness can be done at every moment of the universal history. ‘But to celebrate the advent of a new world, the supramental world, is a marvellous and exceptional privilege.’ 47 Since then we have to read Sri Aurobindo in a completely different light. For everything he did and wrote was focused ...
... future, talking in evolutionary terms. These are the reasons why it is plausible to surmise that the Mother, in her endless love for humankind, took up her body again to hasten the advent of the New World. Later she described the important changes that had taken place in her during the experience of 12 April 1962. ‘The Mental withdrew [from her material body], the Vital withdrew, all withdrew. At... one and all destinies are henceforth interlocked. The old values have become hollow, the new are still nonexistent or unperceived – but the foundations for the One World, the preconditions for the New World, are now in place. Matter, Substance, Vibrations, Light ‘I am trying to do it [the supramentalization of the physical],’ the Mother said, ‘not out of an arbitrary will, not at all: there is... and leaders, had created one of the high moments of human understanding and goodwill in an exceptionally harrowing century. The Mother had supported them in their contribution to the advent of a New World. ‘The rapprochement between Russia and America is something I have been working on for years,’ 33 she said. She also said that Kennedy was receptive and that she had been counting on him. She ...
... Mother’s will had been kept for her since 1950. A Canadian Question And so, what remained of the grandiose dream of a ‘life divine’ upon Earth, of the immortal superman who would create a new world order? Sri Aurobindo was dead, and now the Mother was dead too. Their bodies were there in that tomb, under colourful layers of daily renewed flowers. The disciples sat around the tomb or leaned... stands again before the laid out body of the Mother in the meditation hall of the Ashram. One stands again near the Samadhi, now opened to receive her body too. And one hears that voice again. A new world is born, is born … Nature has accorded her collaboration … There are some who have gone ashore and who are already supramentalized in parts of their body … This new substance is... won remains won … The certitude that what had to be done is done … There is such a certitude that it is already like that, but seen from the other side … The foundations of the new world are being established … It is impossible that a change somewhere, a change towards perfection, would not have its repercussions on the whole Earth … As if something has been established ...
... e of a new world. In spite of everything there is so great an interdependence of the individual and the collectivity, Page 319 that the individual realisation, despite all, is limited, impoverished by the irresponsive atmosphere—if I may say so—of what surrounds it. And it is certain that the entire terrestrial life has to follow a certain curve of progress, so that a new world and a new... 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 obvious that the arrival of man upon earth has changed the earth-condition. I cannot say that from a certain point of view this was for the greatest good... very long time it has been said, "It will be, it will be", and it was promised... thousands and thousands of years ago they had already begun to promise that there would be a new consciousness, a new world, something divine which would manifest upon earth, but it was said, "It will be, it will be", like that; they spoke of ages, eons, thousands and millions of years. They did not have this sensation ...
... remember too that the new world whose coming we envisage is not to be made of the same texture as the old and different only in pattern, and that it must come by other means-from within and not from without; so the best way is not to be too much preoccupied with the lamentable things that are happening outside, but themselves to grow within so that they may be ready for the new world, whatever form it... Dharma and severely criticise the old imperialisms; it is to be hoped that they will practise what they now preach when they themselves become strong and rich and powerful. But the best will be if a new world-order evolves, even if at first stumblingly or incompletely, which will make the old things impossible-a difficult task, but not absolutely impossible. The Divine... ideal, Spirit embrace Matter and Matter find its own true reality and the hidden Reality in all things in the Spirit. 11-8-1949 * THE PRESENT DARKNESS AND THE NEW WORLD I am afraid I can hold out but cold comfort-for the present at least-to those of your correspondents who are lamenting the present state of things. Things ...
... SRI AUROBINDO: Nobody knows. NIRODBARAN: Not nobody; you must know, and as you said just now the New World Order is bound to come, that must be the Supreme Vision? PURANI: But at present before the Supreme has a chance there are many others who are already busy with their own idea of the New World. NIRODBARAN: To the supramental vision the Supreme Vision must be known. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes... in this world—I mean the inner forces. I myself wished for the Empire's destruction but at that time I didn't know certain other forces would arise. These forces are working for the evolution of a New World Order which is bound to come. But for this new arrangement the British Empire need not be destroyed. It can be achieved in quite a different manner by a change in the balance of different forces,... the material world. If everything is fixed and whatever happens is, as he says, according to the decisions above, then this world would be only an illusion. He says that by a psychic change, the New World Order can be brought about. Psychic change is useful only for much higher spiritual purposes. Even so, it is possible only in a small number of people and how can that alter the world? Besides, for ...
... is a meaning in the choice. We know now the meaning, the fundamental meaning of her life, her mission and her work. She came to bring a new light. She wanted a new world, not the old world with its old nature and old culture, but a new world, a new human Page 3 race. She brought with her the new light that is to re-create, re-shape man and the world. What was the relation between the new... child: it was an image of the new child that was born in humanity. A new world is thus ushered in in the land of the cherry-blossom, the hew vital world, for all the world. The Mother is creative consciousness; wherever she happens to be, wherever she is called upon to be, her very presence moves for creation, creating a new world and a new dimension of being and consciousness, according to the need ...
... is in harmony with a group consciousness representing a new world. There is always an interdependence between the individual and the collective so much so that an individual realisation is bound to be restricted and diminished in an irresponsive 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... time is near. Yes, for a very long time, men were told, "It will be, it will be", were given the promise. It was promised, thousands and thousands of years ago, that a new consciousness, a new world, something of the Divine would manifest itself upon earth; it was always in the future, somewhere in the revolution of the ages. One had not this feeling, this sensation that it is here and now. ... 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 of man upon the earth has changed the terrestrial conditions. One cannot say that this has been to the greatest good of all, for it meant much suffering ...
... A new world will be born, And the things promised will be fulfilled.¹ Subesquently, that is to say, after a lapse of more than forty years, under the date 29 February – 29 March 1956 , she introduced a change in the statement, in respect of the tense used. She re-wrote it in this' form: A new light breaks upon the earth, A new world is be born... most blind, the most unconscious, even the most unwilling shall be obliged to recognise it.¹ She speaks repeatedly of her vision and declares most emphatically that the new world is born, born, born – as it were, thrice born ( il est né, né, né,). It is there behind, it is moving, threading past all the obscurities that hide it but in a manner indomitable and invincible:... reading it a young girl from outside wrote to the Mother that she would like to be a passenger on the boat and prayed to the Mother for admission. Mother explains that the substance of which this new world was made was the most material supramental, the supramental substance nearest to the physical world, its first manifestation. Once again she reaffirms the reality of her vision in the message ...
... is in harmony with a group consciousness representing a new world. There is always an interdependence between the individual and the collective so much so that an individual realisation is bound to be restricted and diminished in an unresponsive 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... the time is near. Yes, for a very long time, men were told, "It will be, it will be," were given the promise. It was promised, thousands and thousands of years ago, that a new consciousness, a new world, something of the Divine would manifest itself upon earth; it was always in the future, somewhere in the revolution of the ages. One had not this feeling, this sensation that it is here and now. ... 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 man upon the earth has changed the terrestrial conditions. One cannot say that this has been to the greatest good of all, for it meant much suffering ...
... noble thought power of a mind that has high social, political and ethical ideals and is artistically delicate and refined. Sāvitrī too offers a whole world of experience but it is altogether a new world in which the life of man,— in fact the whole view of the cosmos,—undergoes a great and radical change. In R ā m ā yana, for instance, the ideal law of conduct, Dharma, is seen triumphing over... were trying to establish their reign. Sāvitrī is not a rendering, or a vision of the world in terms of the current laws of human evolution as seen by the ideal mind. It enunciates a new law, a new world of consciousness transcending—and yet fulfilling at the same time— the evolution attained by man up till now. And it renders it with such a rare power of inspiration and vision that it succeeds in... remote realm of experiences intimately near to us, and carries a sense of their reality to our most outward mind. While reading those inspired utterances one feels opening before him altogether a new world of experiences, a world of beings, "more real than living man", for in it breathe and move "nurslings of immortality". Like Veda and the Upanishads, Sāvitrī also opens us to this realm of ...
... shall break upon the earth. A new world shall be born, And the things that were promised shall be fulfilled. 13 Page 617 A little later, when some of the sadhaks met her upstairs, she took back the message and made a few alterations before returning it: Lord, Thou hast willed, and I execute: A new light breaks upon the earth, A new world is born. The things that were... On The Mother CHAPTER 45 A New World is Born I Time and again the Mother had reiterated by word, gesture, silence and action that Sri Aurobindo's Yoga was not for half-hearted or bargaining people. The consecration needed was akin to that of the poor woman of the woods who offered to a beggar - who was really Shiva in disguise - her only belonging:... the Divine's decree had been declared fulfilled, the manifestation had taken place, and the Mother became the executrix of the details of the new dispensation. The promised bud of the future - "a new world" - had already burst forth from the stem of past aspiration and tapasya, and was now in its white radiance of progressive efflorescence. A few days later, on 5 April, the Mother told Sethna explaining ...
... medium of her mysteries. We have made the mind a cypher, we have strangled Thought with a cord; Dead now are pity and honour, strength only is Nature's lord. We build a new world-order; our bombs shout Wotan's peace. A cross of the beast and demoniac with the godhead of power and will, We are born in humanity's sunset, to the Night is our pilgrimage. ... of bomb and shell and the aeroplanes' fatal humming, We march, lit by Truth's death-pyre, to the world's satanic age." 21 An even more frightening picture of Hitler's promised new "world order" is inset in the Canto entitled The Descent into Night' in Savitri (11.7), and Sri Aurobindo had clearly Hitler in mind when he indited the passage: A race possessed inhabited those... may be grappled with and thrown out or to emerge from latency in the depths for the same purificatory purpose... night is darkest before dawn and... the coming of dawn is inevitable. But... the new,, world whose coming we envisage is not to be made of the same texture as the old and different only in pattern... it must come by other means - from within and not from without.. . 40 Later ...
... the old body: a new world emerging from the old. All the points are equally good, are that, but they all have equally to reach the development that results from having gone through all the other points. In a way, we could say that the forest emerges all at once, at any point at all, once everything has been gone through. Mother's was the symbolic body in which the body of the new world was emerging... emerging. Only one link is missing for it to be visible to all: the unconcealed forest, the total course, the secret in every point. The Amazon unveiled. The new world beneath our steps. The new body here. We only need to become aware of something. For the crossing is over, She went through it all. So what is missing? The Secret is to know what is missing, not to know what is here. There is a sort of... rejuvenated, unwrinkled, unbent and glorious in the same old corporeal substance were looking at the phenomenon in the wrong way. Perhaps we are looking at the whole earth in the wrong way: the new world is perhaps not the old being transformed, but the true one, already here, taking its place. A tremendous change in perspective. A complete dissolution of the web. One had better know which side one ...
... something unlike the old vibrations of life, and who remained there, "pensive,” between two branches. A new world is like something that does not exist, an invention of nothing which is but a something driving us to "invent”—we just invent what is there. Only afterward do we know that it is a new world. While it is happening, it is merely everyday life moving gropingly and sometimes "missing its branch... amidst the routine—a sudden little lapse of memory in the usual gymnastics—and one is left there ... pensive. This "pensiveness” about nothing may be the rift through which the new thing steals in. A new world is not an improvement of the old gestures, it is a lapse of memory, a rift in the old habit of being. In this case, a rift in the Mind. But where is this rift? Actually, Mirra never pondered abstract... the way for the advent of Homo sapiens. To be “pensive” was the rift in the old habit of being an ape. To be non-pensive is the first rift in the habit of being a man, the crack through which the new world can steal in. The mind is simply a pair of old gills preventing us from breathing the new air. But gills can be changed into lungs. In evolution, each stage always prepares or contains the next ...
... 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 beautiful: it will be because... All our common sense, all our logic, all our practical sense is dashed to the ground! Useless! It has no force any more, no reality any more; it no longer corresponds to what is. It is truly a new world. ( Silence ) It is this in the body which finds it difficult to adapt itself to this new Power and creates the disorder and difficulties, the illnesses. But all of a sudden one feels that if ...
... universality and oneness with all life upon earth which is the other concomitant result of an evolution into the gnostic consciousness and nature. But there still remains the third desideratum, a new world, a change in the total life of humanity or, at the least, a new perfected collective life in the earth-nature. This calls for the appearance not only of isolated evolved individuals acting in the... existence by rules of living which help them in that endeavour. It is not usually an effort to create a new Page 1097 life-formation which will exceed the ordinary human society and create a new world-order. A religion may hold that eventual prospect before it or attempt some first approach to it, or a mental idealism may make the same endeavour. But these attempts have always been overcome by... Here also, however, the mind can only forecast probabilities and possibilities; the supramental principle in Supernature would itself determine according to the truth of things the balance of a new world-order. A gnostic Supernature transcends all the values of our normal ignorant Nature; our standards and values are created by ignorance and therefore cannot determine the life of Super nature. ...
... a new era in human history which was succeeding the millennium of the Christian era; it was his intention to create a race of supermen who were to be the lords of a new world; this race of supermen would create and rule their new world supported by their faith in their race and the mission of this race; their domination would ultimately be global and last a thousand years, in other words forever; the... As Sri Aurobindo’s vision was that of a new era initiating the transformation of the human race into a race of higher beings he also called “supermen”, and as these higher beings would populate a new world, the expression of the higher consciousness which they would embody, it could be said that in broad outline Hitler’s vision was the shadow of Sri Aurobindo’s vision. Considerations of this sort have ...
... the inexhaustible source of Love and Peace, which he was and is for anyone turning towards him, and not as the great warrior who had to fight, together with the Mother, the decisive battles for the new world. Of these battles the three 20th century wars – the First and Second World War and the so-called Cold War (actually one war in three parts) – were partial externalizations. “My life has been a... last Avatar was to lay the foundations of a new, supramental world, in which “evolution itself will evolve.” (In 1956, after the supramental manifestation, the Mother cried out, almost chanted: “A new world is born, born, born!”) Most important, and rarely referred to, was the role Shri Krishna played in Sri Aurobindo’s avataric realization, 71 thereby demonstrating Sri Aurobindo’s statement: “The... The dazzling pace at which Mother Earth and her human offspring are changing, in ways unprecedented in history, is a sure sign that something huge is happening, equivalent to the coming about of a new world, which could only be effected by the spiritual and material action of the ultimate Avatar, Shri Kalki. ...
... mutation into a new species was to be initiated now. Indeed, they believed themselves missioned to set the process going, to take the first basic, transformative steps and secure the transition into a new world. They were not naïve, for their life experience, their insight into human nature and their spiritual explorations had been too thorough for that. And although they may have underestimated the ... for the sword of the Hero of the struggle and the word of its prophet.” 48 – “Every time a god has taken a body, it has always been with the intention of transforming the earth and creating a new world. But till today, he has always had to give up his body without completing his work. And it has always been said that the earth was not ready and that men had not fulfilled the conditions necessary... faith and will are for the now.” 74 (25.12.1934) “The hour of the realisations is near”, noted Mirra in her diary as early as September 1914. “A new light shall break upon the earth. “A new world shall be born. “And the things that were promised shall be fulfilled.” 75 However, the previous pages should have made clear that the realisation of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother’s endeavour ...
... animal method … So we could call overmen [ surhommes ] those who, in their origin, still belong to the old method of generation, but in their achievement are in conscious and active contact with the new world of supramental realization.” 9 Two remarks are in order here. Firstly, the above quotations of Sri Aurobindo clearly show the need of a series of “miraculous” transformations between our... up to it, and in the succeeding decennia things have undoubtedly accelerated under its influence. But 29 February 1956, at that point in our space and time, was “the moment.” The Ship from the New World On 3 February 1958, the Mother had an experience which she deemed sufficiently important to dictate it immediately afterwards. “The supramental world exists permanently and I am there permanently... Earth-atmosphere since 1956; 4. since 1 January 1969 the presence of the Overman Consciousness “in search of people who can receive it.” The people called to participate in the realization of the new world should be aware of these extraordinary Forces. The miraculous is present now as it was during the lifetime of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, but to perceive it one has to be prepared for it. Five ...
... very bottom of the inconscience most hard and rigid and narrow and stifling I struck upon an almighty spring that cast me up forthwith into a formless limitless Vast vibrating with the seeds of a new world. Here is the origin of this message: Last evening in the class, 1 I noticed that the children, who had a whole week to prepare questions on the text we are reading, did not find a single... very bottom of the inconscience most hard and rigid and narrow and stifling I struck upon an almighty spring that cast me up forthwith into a formless limitless Vast vibrating with the seeds of a new world." Generally the inconscience gives the impression of something Page 363 amorphous, inert, formless, neutral and grey—formerly, when I entered into the zones of inconscience, that was... material matter without any intermediary. I have said this many times, but here it was an experience of the thing as I had it. Finally I said, "a formless limitless Vast vibrating with the seeds of a new world". This does not refer to the primordial creation, but to the supramental creation; so this experience does not correspond to a return to the supreme origin of all. I had altogether the impression ...
... "The barbarians of the new world." ( Mother laughs ) I'll hear a little on the 16th when I see him. Those who make this music have millions of followers. They are people with a huge fortune, and with cinema, radio, television and everything at their disposal. And they are right in the middle of a revolution. How? Yes, as I told you, the barbarians of the new world. The entire old world... take drugs? Yes. Then it must be in the vital. Oh, it's quite vital, no doubt. But they have the perception that the world is in the midst of a revolution, that we're moving towards a new world, and all the old conventions have to be swept away. There's no conformity of any sort. They're open to everything. Open like that ( horizontal gesture ), not like this ( vertical gesture ). ...
... without there being present in it a specifically material element, souls could not be physically gathered in Christ.... In this regard, there is no difference between the lower natural world and the new world that is being formed around Christ." Now the picture is distinct: "physical", implying "organic", refers to the material universe of nature. It may not in every context coincide with "material"... what is asserted about the Body of Christ, the state of grace which is union of souls with God. We are told that, despite its being "a world which is new" (a phrase echoing an earlier quotation's "new world that is being formed around Christ"), this body is still within "nature" and, for all its being a "super-creation", is yet a part of "cosmic evolution". It is a higher "physical" and "organic" or... evolutionary cosmos of material nature. But this is one side of the situation. The other side is that, though the Body of Christ is not out of "nature" and "cosmic evolution", it is nonetheless a "new" world, a "super-creation", "a further rung on the ladder". We may speak of two conditions of organic nature - an ordinarily material-physical and an extraordinarily material-physical. The two ...
... supermen those who still belong by their origin to the older method of generation, but who, by their achievement, are in conscious and active relation with the new world of supramental realisation."² What the Mother calls "the new world of supramental realisation" is something unique in evolutionary history. Perhaps it is not correct to speak of evolution at all in this connection. When the life-world... success. But it is an Overmind creation. And it is not success that we want; we want to establish the Supermind on earth. One must know how to renounce immediate success in order to create the new world, the supramental world in its integrality." With my inner consciousness I understood immediately: a few hours later the creation was gone...and from ¹. Collected Works of The Mother ...
... and beginning "O divine adorable Mere"—"O divine adorable Mother". The English version ran: The Lord has willed and Thou dost execute: A new Light shall break upon the earth. A new world shall be born, And the things that were promised shall be fulfilled. After the Pranam the Mother went up. Those who daily met her on the first floor gathered there as usual. She sat... and I contributed my bit to the suggestions given. The English message now read in its altered form: Lord, Thou hast willed, and I execute, A new light breaks upon the earth, A new world is born. The things that were promised are fulfilled. The transformation of the future tense into the present marked the Mother's first open disclosure of what had taken place on February... difficulties belong to an old world that is really dead. But, although the sense of being a part of your life and of your work is often strong, I seem to be lingering just within the borders of the new world instead of penetrating right to its centre. I want so much to be wholly yours. Won't you do something to absorb me into yourself? What should I do on my side?" I kept my note on a table near the ...
... 29 February—29 March Lord, Thou hast willed and I execute: ________________________ ¹ Mother's Agenda, Vol. 1, p. 69. Page 111 A new light breaks upon the earth, A new world is born. The things that were promised are fulfilled.¹ In a message of 24th April, 1956, she declared: The manifestation of the Supramental upon earth is no more a promise but a living... to allow a more general possibility to emerge, it is no longer a 'descent' but a 'manifestation'. What I call a 'descent' is the individual movement in an individual consciousness. But when a new world is manifesting in an old world—as when similarly the mind spread over the earth—I call it a manifestation. You may call it whatever you like, it makes no difference to me, but we must understand... and the supramental world as it exists. This zone has yet to be built, both in the individual consciousness and in the objective world, and it is being built. When formerly I used to speak of the new world that is being created, I was speaking of this intermediate zone. And similarly, when I am on 'this' side—that is, in the realm of the physical consciousness— and I see the supramental power, the ...
... 12 that will serve as the basis of the new creation and give it its law and constitution. A new world built out of knowledge and vision and luminous power is destined to come, for man is no longer in love with his ignorance, but a divine afflatus is possessing him. The new world has to be based on new foundations. The old world was built from outside with superficial cheap elements... arranged according to a plan supplied by mind's ideas and notions under the directive and compulsion of the ego, the sense or consciousness of one's separate individual existence as against others. The new world will start from the soul, the luminous divine element in man which is one with all and grow from within outward. It is as if the foundations are laid not below, but above—the tree of existence would ...
... Sri Aurobindo came to announce the creation of tomorrow: the coming of the Supramental being. Sri Aurobindo came on earth from the Supreme to announce the manifestation of a new race and the new world, the Supramental. Let us prepare for it in all sincerity and eagerness. One more step towards Eternity. The best homage that we can render to Sri Aurobindo on his centenary is to have a... Matter, being stronger than Matter. It could cause or prevent material accidents: All our common sense, all our logic, all our practical sense is dashed to the ground! useless!... It is truly a new world. 23 Almost four months later, on 30 August, the Mother reported that she could see that it was the consciousness that was directing, and not the thought. But unless the consciousness was open... and Bangladesh" for publication. It declared: For the battle of India is the battle of the world. This is where the world's tragic destiny is brewing, or its last-minute burst of hope into a new world of Truth and Light, for it is said that the deepest darkness lies nearest the most luminous light. The last Asura must die at the feet of the Eternal Mother. It was at this time of heightening ...
... life on earth, offer Her worship, serve Her through their works, prepare themselves for receiving the new Light according to the best of their ability, so that the Light may spread and usher in a new world to take the place of the old. 7 There was also a definite 'policy' decision. Two courses had been open to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother: first, to wait till their own Yoga of supramental... extremely interesting way. 15 † At the crest as it were of these rising stairs of "bril1iant" experiences, the Mother herself came to possess the key to the creation of a fascinating new world, a world of the Gods. She related to Sri Aurobindo what had been happening: *Sethna has advised the original "ten" be replaced by "six". †One of the sadhaks had in a trance seen Anilbaran... .. It will be a great success .... And it is not success that we want; we want to establish the Supermind on earth. One must know how to renounce immediate success in order to create the new world, the supramental world in its integrality.'' 17 With her inner consciousness, the Mother at once saw that Sri Aurobindo was right. She returned to her room, concentrated for a few hours ...
... plane is also ready to bear the pressure of the Descent."³ No modern Rishi Vishvamitra would attempt, by a mere audacious flourish of his yogic wand, the creation of an entire new world. A self-poised and puissant new world, a new heaven and a new earth, were indeed the unfading aim of Sri Aurobindo's massive yogic endeavour; but such a world could not be brought into existence in a hurry or to... the human body, the collective Yoga of a big Ashram community, the bringing to birth of Auroville, the City of Dawn, and the sending forth of tendrils of aspiration and effort meant to usher in a new world - a new Heaven and a new Earth. Again and again, the diary-entries for the latter half of May reiterate this tremendous equation of Spirit and Matter, the need to coax a descent of the Spirit from ...
... little river—one could have flowed there for ever. And everything was said. Everything was done, there. Perhaps it was non-time. We run off far, but everything is here. Perhaps it was the music of the new world, yes, that silvery light, sparkling like the light pulsation of the cells freed from their thorny coating. But even the music room would soon close, and the whole problem would be implacably concentrated... 1968 is a strange period in which Mother was feeling her way between two worlds in search of the new species, or the new type, with all the vertigo that results from leaving a "solid" world for a new world whose laws She did not know very well. But what is it we call "solidity" if not a crystallized habit? For fish, water is perfectly solid. The world is but a huge habit. Hence it would be more accurate... perhaps, taking place? How will the transition from false matter to true Matter occur? And what is this true Matter, how does it behave? Mother's body had become like the laboratory of the New World. × * There is the striking example of the first Chinese attack on India in September ...
... " * * * "Now, what you wanted to say?" So I took up the regular items. I read out the message given by Mother yesterday in French and its English translation: A new world, based on Truth and refusing the old slavery to falsehood wants to take birth. In all countries there are people who know it, at least feel it. To them we call: "Will you... over. Mother drew my attention towards the picture of Durga put before her. Today is Durga Puja, ashtami, and gave special blessings packets. For 'Fertile', Mother blessed a plant 'The New World' by touching it. She was smiling happily with a tender touch. * * * 16.10.72 Offerings. Letters and admissions disposed of. Regarding the marriage of A and N, Mother... Mother's replies: Everybody has to progress and to become more sincere. Auroville has been created not for the satisfaction of the egos and their greeds, but for the creation of a new world, the supramental, expressing the Divine perfection. Everybody is imperfect and has to progress. Keep firm and confident. Blessings. George wishes to work on tree plantation and ...
... simple perfection of our best qualities in these beings, and shall err in regard to them. But they will be prepared for this. Then, seeing them born from us and multiplying and fostering a truly new world, we shall pass from incomprehension to wonder. And without putting forward our habitual feelings and thoughts, no longer bound to our traditions, we shall abandon ourselves to their vision and allow... telepathically linked among themselves without knowing each other) and who accept physical or psychological torture in order to transform it by giving themselves without reserve to the Force which, if a new world is to ever be born from ours, is presently in the process of shaping it in us. It is thus that the messengers of the future age take on the obscurity which devours us—not from sublime heights where... 81 and, finally, to enlighten it, will necessarily be reproduced on the scale of the body of humanity. For the present, the dream ends here. Immense perspectives open before us. A new world is in the process of embodiment which, tomorrow, will provide the blueprint for heretofore unseen societies and yet unimagined arts and sciences, for still inconceivable morphological and psychological ...
... no, it is not like that. You will see there what you have not yet seen; come along.” Saying so, they caught a finger of Kamalaben and made her rise, and she rose smilingly. We then entered a new world. One child went on explaining all. “Here we have children from various countries and we all live together. Now come and stand here, please.” Then, they made us stand at a place, but we saw that... regions. At present it is not possible to have them settled here, but a time will come when all aspiring souls will find a place here. It is only a question of time.” I saw that it was quite a new world. As we went higher, we saw elderly people who were busy doing their work cheerfully. In this way we saw many a world and the atmosphere of each succeeding world was of a superior character. Little... atmosphere around there came a loud sound piercing the eardrums, a sound the like of which we had never heard before, and both of us entered into them. My eyes opened and I felt that I was in quite a new world. I saw Sri Aurobindo's cot by my side, I felt it with my hand and when I looked around I found that I was in the same place as before. I looked at the clock and it was 3.10 a.m. In only one hour I ...
... 12. The Vision of Adolf Hitler Hitler and his God A New World The influence of Oswald Spengler and his Decline of the West was widespread, and the Nazi intellectuals did their best to make him openly chose their side. Their attempt was not very logical considering Spengler’s pessimistic view of the destiny of the West and of humanity as a whole, while... NSDAP was still small in numbers. Hitler was the prophet of a new ideology based on faith which implied, to his mind, the overthrow of all existing ideologies and faiths, and which would create a new world. The rank and file of the NSDAP perceived only the external shell of Hitler’s Messianic world view; rare exceptions had an inkling of the more profound meaning ; and nobody knew the core of Hitler’s... advancement of a community of physically and psychically homogeneous creatures”. 784 “ A revolutionary conception of the world and human existence will achieve decisive success only when the new world vision has been taught to a whole people, or subsequently forced upon them if necessary , and when, on the other hand, the control organization, the movement itself, is in the hands of only those ...
... considered an advanced yogini in her own right. Through her meetings with Eastern and Western masters, she had in fact discovered that a new synthesis was necessary which could lead to the advent of a new world. Her vision had much in common with what Paul Richard told her about the ideas of Sri Aurobindo. Having married Richard, she consented to accompany him to Pondicherry on the second lap of his adventures... however, was not conceived as a closed community, witness the presence of women on an equal footing with the men, and later of children. It was meant to be the seedbed of an integral life creative of a new world, and therefore had to remain open to the world, of which it had to accept the problems and try to find their solutions. It was symbolically situated in the middle of the town. Mirra was now “the... not of politics but of the perceptible world. The Mother continued the yoga in the body and announced in 1956 that the descent of the Supermind in the earth atmosphere had finally taken place. “A new world is born”, she said. From conversations with disciples we can gather an idea of the work she then took up: the essay at transformation of the human body into the body of a new species. She reported ...
... looked a little puzzled,” remembered Sethna, “she added: ‘You know that Brahma is said to create by his Word. In the same way whatever I would express could take place. I had willed to express a whole new world of superhuman reality. Everything was prepared in the subtle dimension and was waiting to be precipitated upon earth.” 11 In 1958, the last year of her talks at the Ashram Playground, the Mother... But it is a creation of the overmind. And it is not the success that we want: we want to establish the Supermind upon earth. One must know how to renounce immediate success in order to create the new world, the supramental world in its integrality.’ With my inner consciousness I understood at once,” said the Mother. “A few hours later the creation did not exist any more, and from that moment we started... Sri Aurobindo’s supreme intervention at the root of things must have been successful, for only six years later, on 29 February 1956, the Supermind manifested in the atmosphere of planet Earth. A new world was born. Its infant growth is causing the evolutionary acceleration expressed in the confusing phenomena of the present, perceptible for those who, as recommended by the Mother, have developed the ...
... sapiens will, according to Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, evolve into transitional forms of overmen, who in their turn will render the appearance of the divine species of supramental beings and a new world order possible. “All life for the achieved spiritual or gnostic consciousness must be the manifestation of the realised truth of Spirit; only what can transform itself and find its own spiritual self... some – who will make the transition possible.” 14 Another quotation from the Mother worth repeating in order to imprint it into the memory of all those “who look in the same direction” of a new World, is the following from 1958, when she had accomplished the realisation of the overman: “All those who make an effort to overcome their ordinary nature, all those who try to realise materially the... their view, their conclusions and their predictions concur on all points with the facts of the last century and of the present situation. Prolonging these lines, then, may very well lead towards the New World they stood and stand for. The present darkness would then only be apparent, for, according to them, the Light behind and within is already there. “This is the problem that is put to us now: with ...
... at the seams. This was the beginning of the great Turning Point, of the ‘supramental catastrophe’ as the Mother called the momentous transition necessary for the birth of a New Era, a New Order, a New World. The readers of this book are knowledgeable about the true cause of the two World Wars and know where the elements of the new fermentation have to be looked for, namely in the Power operating behind... hordes of the People’s Army descending from the ‘roof of the world.’ India lay wide-open before them. The tantric yogi who had been Satprem’s guru, Panditji, wrote to the Mother to announce that a new world war and a global catastrophe had been revealed to him. The Mother knew that the Asura of Falsehood, alias the Lord of the Nations, was doing his utmost to bring about an apocalyptic destruction... apparently old, ravaged and very ill (her heart had been heavily battered), but at the same time the eye of the cyclone, the battlefield where all forces were fighting each other in the struggle for the new world against the masters of the old one. No, this could not possibly have been a repetition of 1962, as has been written, not after six years of that Yoga, not in the Yoga of the Mother. ‘I never hold ...
... to allow this, the Asura of Falsehood, the Lord of the existing Order, would not stand it and launch his legions to hold on to his empire. Without a powerful occult protection the ‘cradle of the New World’ would never be able to exist; very soon it would become another Tell-el-Amarna, a hill of sand in the desert. How many hills of this kind dot the road of the long march of humanity? From 1965... n of human unity based on the teaching of Sri Aurobindo 91 . ’ 12 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... it will be finished the better’ for the young city. The Matrimandir only makes sense when it represents something on the level of the forces which have to contribute towards the coming of the New World. It must be a kind of spiritual power plant creating a field with a transforming power which acts upon all who enter into it, upon those who live in its vicinity, and upon the Earth out of whose body ...
... other people close to him. She named Purani, and Amrita, and the amazing Mridu. The explanation of their presence there is not difficult. We remember that, after her experience of the ship of the New World, the Mother had said that some people on Earth were supramentalized in part of their personality, even without their surface consciousness being aware of it. After death we carry with us what we are... boundless difficulties for me, for you, for the Ashram, for India and for the whole world. There will be such a crisis that people will even lose faith in the Divine. But of this mess and chaos a New World will emerge that will be the victory of the Divine. What difference does it make in the present circumstances whether you undergo suffering and difficulties here in Pondicherry or in Africa?’ Laljibhai... and say: you’re now dead.”’ 33 (One of the persons the Mother often met there was Nolini Kanta Gupta, who was then still very much alive.) The dwelling of Sri Aurobindo, the ship from the New World, the living and the dead existing together – all that was located in what the Mother called ‘the subtle physical.’ At this point it is necessary to explain that she started using this term in a special ...
... took reasonable care of my body I would "participate in the realisation of the New World". But we must remember that this was said before she retired from all of us and went through the terrible crisis of May to November 1973. With her own withdrawal from embodiment, who can usher within calculable time the New World in the realisation of which one may aspire to participate? As the Mother... Mother established the Supramental Light, Consciousness and Force on a universal scale in the earth's subtle-physical layer in 1956, the evolution of the New World in the future by the Supermind's entrance into the gross-material is certain. But evolution is a slow, zigzag, back-and-forth, up-and-down process, and human nature is difficult to change without the Incarnate Divine's pioneering ...
... morphology. Rijuta’s psychic being had the same colour as the hibiscus the Mother had chosen as the symbol of Auroville, orange. (Those who from the supramental ship went on land to help found the New World also had this colour. Everything there, the one substance, had this colour.) ‘Then you understand that. You understand it: the psychic being materializes and this gives a continuity to the evolution... an idea of the process of transformation the Mother was undergoing? Who saw, behind or beyond the theory of what Sri Aurobindo’s yoga was supposed to be, the fantastic event of the unfolding of a New World, through her, in her? She talked about ‘the general yoga’ (le yoga général), the Yoga of the Earth. ‘It is the miracle of the whole Earth.’ 35 This too was a line of development which had... to comprehend this — the divine Action would be little more than a kind of divine comedy. This applies also to the world as a whole: it has to reach the impossible point if the transition to the New World must become possible. But such a transition then happens all of a sudden, just like a child after a long, hidden growth in the womb of its mother reaches the point of impossible further gestation ...
... else. ( silence ) It might rather be part of the announcement (not the Annunciation!), the heralding of the new world—of a new world. The Holy Spirit would then be the world that will descend after the human world. I say this because Théon always announced the coming of the "new world." He didn't speak of "Supermind," he said: "There shall be new heavens and a new earth." That was his explanation ...
... 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 new Power; it is possible, and it is, and will be more and more manifest BECAUSE it is the new world, because it has never been before. It will be because it has never been before. ( silence ) It's lovely: it will... new—things are NO LONGER what they were. All our common sense, our human logic, our practical sense—collapsed, finished! No longer effective. No longer realistic. They are no longer relevant. A new world, really. ( silence ) And in the body, whatever has trouble adjusting to this new Power creates difficulties, disorders and illnesses. Yet in a flash you sense that if you were totally receptive ...
... the following statement of the Mother herself: "What has happened [after the manifestation of Super-mind in 1956], the really new thing is that a new world is born, born, born. It is not the old one transforming itself, it is a new world which is born. And we are right in the midst of this period of transition where the two are entangled -where the other still persists all-powerful and... growing - until it is strong enough to assert itself visibly, ... "Meanwhile we are in a very special situation, extremely special, without precedent. We are now witnessing the birth of a new world; it is very young, very weak - not in its essence but in its outer manifestation - not yet recognised, not even felt, denied by the majority. But it is here, making an effort to grow, absolutely ...
... coupled with the dreams of the new world, since the present world neither gives sufficient illustration of the ideal of truth nor a response to the aspiration for perfection. Children are naturally future-oriented; they have voluntary optimism; and they are builders of dreams. Profiting from this psychology, teachers can present to the children visions of the new world where truth alone will prevail... experience, gain fresh inspiration to discover new knowledge in all fields. For then only, they will be able to know what is the real role of India and how that role can be fulfilled in building up a new world order of ever-ascending cultural spiral. But all this implies for sincere teachers a great deal of work when they want to prepare themselves for content enrichment. Page 171 ...
... manifestation in physical life; c)The new world of the future will cultivate material life so as to make it prosperous and rich and it will replace poverty wherever it exists by elimination of drudgery, exploitation and slavery and encourage nobility, dignity and continuous empowerment. The children's university will lead the children of today to build a new world of friendliness, mutuality and harmony... synthesis of science and spirituality; Synthesis of the East and the West, of the ancient and the modern, by means of intense studies of the lessons of history directed towards the task of building a new world of knowledge, freedom and prosperity that are denied to none. 36 Objectives of Children's University 1.Objectives of the university would be formulated in the light ...
... it is this that will serve as the basis of the new creation and give it its law and constitution. A new world built out of knowledge and vision and luminous power is destined to come, for man is no longer in love with his ignorance, but a divine afflatus is possessing him. The new world has to be based on new foundations. The old world was built from outside with superficial cheap elements... supplied by mind's ideas and notions under the directive and compulsion of the ego, the sense Page 79 or consciousness of one's separate individual existence as against others. The new world will start from the soul, the luminous divine element in man which is one with all and grow from within outward. It is as if the foundations are laid not below, but above—the tree of existence would ...
... that will serve as the basis of the new creation and give it its law and constitution. A new world built out of knowledge and vision and luminous power is destined to come, for man is no longer in love with his ignorance, but a divine afflatus is possessing him. The new world has to be based on new foundations. The old world was built from outside with superficial cheap elements... arranged according to a plan supplied by mind's ideas and notions under the directive and compulsion of the ego, the sense or consciousness of one's separate individual existence as against others. The new world will start from the soul, the luminous divine element in man which is one with all and grow from within outward. It is as if the foundations are laid not below, but above – the tree of existence would ...
... night; and I had not consulted father to seek his advice before arriving at a decision. I was carried away by enthusiasm. Since the arrival of Naveen Chandra three days ago, I had begun to live in new world of freedom and joy. And I must confess that I had lost some balance. What to do now? This was the question that occupied me. I became more determined than ever that I must leave home and leave... quiet he drew me towards him and embraced me. He fixed his eyes on mine and Page 295 said, "How very old I am! Can I not change? Why do I still want to live in the old world, even when the new world is opening its gates on me and my children? All of you are right, I alone am wrong," "You are not wrong father! You are like Shiva, drinking the poison of the old world, and I am sure that like... Page 296 Exactly at 11.45 a.m., Mira locked the main door of the house and we all set out for the railway station. The old world vanished from our life, and we were ready to enter into a new world! Page 297 ...
... "Tell Arup that the tree is symbolic of the past. It is he past! Now it is waiting for the advent of the new world. He has to create a new style of painting that can reflect the new world - what the earth is waiting for, its imminent arrival." I asked, "Mother, how can one know about this new world.? We mow absolutely nothing,sweet Mother!"The Mother replied ,"You must remember it all the time, you have ...
... world without seeing it, and to... to ignore all that, to be absolutely unconcerned with the results. 2 The "result" is the map. And sometimes we wonder if charting the map will not make the new world emerge. A kind of magic. If only one being could manage to open his eyes, see the outline, connect the lines and put the coordinates on the contour lines and join the streams to the river and this... eternity. That was the beginning of my downfall.... Mother was waiting for me at the bottom. But the day I understood, then I understood totally, and I loved Mother totally. And I began to enter the new world. And up to Mother's last day I lived in a total faith that was totally obvious, and I threw all my negation of the world into a negation of death. Because it was not really the world I was rejecting... laid trap. And I did not understand very well why She was telling me all that—so many lost treasures, never noted down, I did not have the least idea that it was the beginning of the story of the new world. 200 In any case, it was very "interesting"! And so I went there week after week, without quite realizing to what extent She was uprooting me with her thousand stories that seemed like nothing: ...
... experiences as a sort of gospel of the new world, heaven forbid! She would shudder, She who shuddered at nothing. Those experiences, of which we can select only a few here, indicate rather the general direction of the development, its process; and most likely, the new species will perfect, adapt and diversify the instrument. This is only the first stammering of the new world. Hundreds of bizarre or comical... because... it seems as if the body has to die in order to pass to the other side." Bodily Oneness It is difficult to describe logically what a newborn baby sees and feels when an entirely new world rushes at it from every side—there are thousands of phenomena that the readers of the Agenda will not finish discovering—not even having begun, in this strange forest of Mother's. From the very ...
... the other defending itself. That is only an outward aspect, and not the whole even of the outward aspect. For the Germans and Italians believe that they are establishing a new civilisation and a new world-order. The English believe that they are defending not only their empire but their very existence as a free nation and the freedom also of other nations conquered by Germany or threatened by the push... the international idea and its realisation are something that is becoming equally insistent, necessary and Page 459 inevitable. If the totalitarian Powers win, there will indeed be a new world-order,—it may be in the end, a unification; but it will be a new order of naked brute Force, repression and exploitation, and for the people of Asia and Africa a subjection worse than anything they ...
... power to determine her own destiny, it behoves us in French India to consider our situation and make decisions for our own future which will enable us to live in harmony with the new India and the new world around us. At this juncture, we of the Socialist Party wish to define our own policy and the future prospects of the French Settlements as we envisage them. 1 For a long time past we in these... step in the movement towards the removal of the old separatism, oppositions and incompatibilities which are the undesirable side of nationalism and towards international unity and the growth of a new world and one world which is the future of humanity. We are of the opinion that if this programme is properly carried out with the approval of public opinion, it will assure our future evolution and ...
... remember too that the new world whose coming we envisage is not to be made of the same texture as the old and different only in pattern and that it must come by other means, from within and not from without—so the best way is not to be too much preoccupied with the lamentable things that are happening outside, but themselves to grow within so that they may be ready for the new world whatever form it may ...
... must find a handful of earth for it to grow..." 31.5.1969 (silence) * 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... peace, and meanwhile they are arming themselves. Only a transparent sincerity in man and among nations can usher in a transformed world. Auroville is the first attempt in this experiment. A new world will be born; if men are willing to make an effort for transformation, to seek sincerity, it is possible. From animal to man, thousands of years were needed; today, with his mind, man can will and ...
... cultural and spiritual death in its train____ Either India will be rationalised and industrialised out of all recognition and she will be no longer India or else she will be the leader in a new world-phase, aid by her example and cultural infiltration the new tendencies of the West and spiritualise the human race. That is the one radical and poignant question at issue. Will the spiritual motive... to be stuck on as a sentiment or a bit of colouring matter. Our whole principle is different. August, 1920 Our call is to young India. It is the young who must be the builders of the new world,—not those who accept the competitive individualism, the capitalism or the materialistic communism of the West as India's future ideal, not those who are enslaved to old religious formulas and cannot ...
... create a possibility of a general kind, it is no longer a "descent", it is a "manifestation". What I call a descent is the individual movement, in an individual consciousness. And when it is a new world manifesting in an old world―just as, for a comparison, when mind spread upon the earth―I call that a manifestation. You may call it whatever you like, it's all the same to me, but we should understand... Mother announced the Supramental Manifestation of February 29 in two messages published in the Bulletin of April 1956: "Lord, Thou hast willed and I execute, A new light breaks upon the earth, A new world is born. The things that were promised are fulfilled." "The manifestation of the Supramental upon earth is no more a promise but a living fact, a reality. "It is at work here, and one day will ...
... here, in this brain, finds it difficult to adapt itself. Because for two days (two days continuously, I mean) there was all the while an aspiration: "How will this new world be when it becomes material here? How will this new world be?" And then that put me so much "within" that I was... I was not distant, but there was a kind of a thick blanket of haze between me and the world as it is. It was there ...
... something, but overshadowed and partly coerced by a few great Powers, the great Powers working out the inevitable complication of their allied, divided and contrary interests by whatever means the new world-system provided and using for that purpose whatever support of classes, ideas, tendencies, institutions they could find. There would be questions of Asiatic, African, American fiefs and markets; struggles... tendency has reached its acme in the emergence of Communism and it now seems probable that the future will belong to a struggle between Communism and a surviving capitalistic Industrialism in the New World or even between Communism and a more moderate system of social democracy in the two continents of the Old World. But generally speaking, speculations noted down in this chapter at a time when the ...
... decisive departure of the human mind from its old moorings and pointed the direction in which it is being piloted on a momentous voyage of discovery, the discovery of a new world within which must eventually bring about the creation of a new world without in life and society. Art and literature seem definitely to have taken a turn towards a subjective search into what may be called the hidden inside of things ...
... working of the subtle physical, or the relationship between the subtle physical and the material physical. For instance, you say that Sri Aurobindo is in the subtle physical, working to prepare the new world... Yes. ...and that we too, at night, through a part of our being, often work there to prepare... what is to come. How?... Listen, your question comes at the right moment. Last night,... active—very active. But on the level of the earth, how do things take place? For instance, you say that Sri Aurobindo, yourself and a number of us are working in this subtle physical to prepare the new world: how is the permeation of this subtle physical made? Page 153 But in that way. In the same way? In that way. THAT is the work—the permeation. But is it taking place terrestrially ...
... houses and to plant their own potatoes if they wanted to eat; they should have done everything by themselves. Yes, exactly. And I told them, "How can you possibly build a New World with coolies? One does not make a new world with hired labor!" I think a whole group of those people should go. Yes, that's my feeling. ( silence ) To one of them I said, "If I went over there, I'd go with ...
... reversal of consciousness takes place which for us is the proof that we have entered the spiritual life; well, yet another occurs when we enter the supramental world. And probably each time a new world opens up, there will again be a new reversal. This is why even our spiritual life, which is such a total reversal compared to ordinary life, seems something still so ... so totally different when... and of all our present consciousness that appears so warm, so full, so wonderful, so luminous to the ordinary consciousness, well, all this splendor seems poor in comparison to the splendor of the new world. I can explain the phenomenon like this: successive reversals such that an EVER NEW richness of creation will take place from stage to stage, making whatever came before seem so poor in comparison ...
... Visions of Champaklal Visions of Champaklal A Journey to the New World 1979-11-14 The vision is about a book on a journey to the New World. Many people are trying to undertake this journey or seek the truth. The huge tent might mean the ascending consciousness in transit or under transformation. Many people are bunched together in that state in their ...
... Champaklal Visions of Champaklal A Magnificent Mystic Darshan 1984-07-13 In this experience, Champaklal already finds himself with the Mother in the new world (“Futuristic place”) which received the light of the Supramental Consciousness (“golden light”) and from where Sri Aurobindo also could be seen in his, new supramentalised body. A number of persons... “Brahman”—which appears to bring down the golden light of the higher consciousness. This person ultimately seems to expand and merge into the gross universe. The Mother now leads Champaklal in the new world, towards the Divine Truth symbolised by the golden sun. The saviour touch of the Divine (the Mother) brings coolness to Champaklal's body and does not allow the intense heat to burn it to ashes. A ...
... not his essential message, the inner path of the soul, however much he may have been fascinated by it, but his greatness and fame, still alive among millions, and his key role as the initiator of a new world at a decisive turning point of the times. What also intrigued him was that Christ was directly inspired by God, that he was the missioned “Son of God” to execute a task which Hitler indubitably saw... represents the “mystic” Hitler: the visionary who saw the world as an apocalyptic clash between two Chosen Peoples, who pronounced that the time for this decisive confrontation and the birth of a new world for a new man was now, and who was convinced that the main protagonist in that drama of worldwide dimensions was he himself, chosen or sent by Providence. Hitler was able, thanks to his special powers ...
... found the key to the impossible and cured the source of darkness at the bottom of things, we know from the fact that hardly six years later the Supermind manifested in the Earth atmosphere, and a new world was born. Triumph There is no known person who at the time of Sri Aurobindo’s passing had the slightest inkling of what was happening. “You wouldn’t understand,” he had said. We have seen... active since 1956; the Consciousness of the Overman, active since 1 January 1969 27 ; Sri Aurobindo’s presence; and the Mother’s presence. For Sri Aurobindo’s and the Mother’s Work of building the New World cannot have been limited to their years of incarnation in a physical body. Helpers of the progress of the Earth and humanity during the whole of the past, they are undoubtedly there to help them now ...
... irrevocable.’ These are her words. Where had she come by now? As we have seen, the bridge between the already existing supramental world and this, our world, had to be built. The ship from the New World played an important role in the construction. ‘This was the significance of the experience of 3 February 1958: the establishing of a link between the two worlds. For both worlds are there all right... have come to change the Law! In that case: pay the price.’ 46 These are the Mother’s words. And she has paid the price. The domain of the cells in her was the interface where the Old and the New World met. There the transmutation had to take place. There the Unity-Consciousness had to be infused into Matter, from above or from outside, to connect and unite with the Unity-Consciousness that always ...
... the world. The future structure of the world depends on India,’ 4 wrote the Mother, and also: ‘India must be saved for the good of the world since India alone can lead the world to peace and a new world order.’ 5 Statements of this kind — and there are many more — will strike some as exaggerated, to put it mildly. But one should not forget that Sri Aurobindo and the Mother advocated a ‘spiritual... subjective period — not of egocentrism in the psychological sense as the term may easily be misunderstood, but of discovery of the subjective truths and realities which will result in the advent of a new world in which authenticity, reality and Truth will again be the bases of experience. Sri Aurobindo had formulated the principle of world-unity; he now formulated the norm of individual freedom in the ...
... Creation. When I looked a little puzzled she added: “You know that Brahma 92 is said to create by his Word. In the same way whatever I would express could take place. I willed to express a whole new world of superhuman reality. Everything was prepared in subtle dimensions and was waiting to be precipitated upon earth.”’ 27 Elsewhere the same author writes: ‘The nine or ten months after the ... success. But it is a creation of the Overmind. And what we want is not success: we want to establish the Supermind on the Earth. One must be capable of renouncing an immediate success to create the new world, the supramental world in its integrality.” With my inner consciousness I understood immediately — a few hours later, the creation did not exist anymore … And from that moment onwards we have started ...
... Enlightenment was a period of heroism, fully aware that the negation of an old intellectual and religious paradigm and the construction of a new one would result in revolt as the precondition of a new world. Few people of the present day realize how much they owe to the activist thinkers of centuries not that long past. It was against this 17th century background that the scientific revolution took... their turn, could then examine and try to repeat them. The experiment is at the heart of the “scientific method.” It was the experiment, supported by novel scientific instruments, that opened a whole new world first in cosmology and physics, then in biology. The intellectual adventure of the Renaissance evolving into the Enlightenment, also called “the Age of Reason,” is one of the great episodes in ...
... to it was not traced out in every single detail, but the guidelines for the permanent struggle of the ‘movement’, to be waged over centuries, were laid down. Hitler saw himself as the founder of a new world epoch in which the German claims at absolute world mastery would be realized … The will to absolute dominion is inextricably bound up with the phenomenon Hitler. At the high tide of his victories... aware that to himself he could accord no more than the founder’s role of one who launched a new Weltanschauung and to whom the concrete foundations of the Greater German Reich, incorporating this new world vision or religion, were to be the monuments he planned in proportions becoming of the world’s masters. From 1937 onwards Hitler had hypochondriac fears about his health and constantly drove his ...
... thing since the beginning of creation, the miracle has happened. And that is the only thing that concerns us most intimately and the only thing we should be concerned with. A new world, yes, a completely new world, is born and is here." (op. cit. p. 18.) 2 Bulletin of Physical Education, Vol. IX, No. 2, p. 83. 3 A. W. Momerie, Immortality, pp. 19-20. Page 356 ...
... offered by the ‘global village,’ for East and West to meet and to fulfil the human potential in an effort that will make the world effectively one, and carry the human species beyond itself into a New World. Five ‘Dreams’ A new spirit of oneness will take hold of the human race. 18 – Sri Aurobindo The Trichinopoly station of All India Radio had asked Sri Aurobindo for a message... Aurobindo and the Mother’s experience. Of two things they did not and could not have the experience: physical death and its mysteries, and ‘the epilogue,’ which should have pictured the advent of the New World, the accomplishment of their avataric endeavour – something possible only in the future, but not yet defined in time and still less worked out in its concrete materialization. Savitri was regarded ...
... humankind from its beginnings and so often repeated but never made true. Therefore, understandably, humankind has grown weary of promises and utopias, but not so the mature souls who know that a new world is in the making because they have chosen to descend and collaborate in its realization, even though they could have chosen otherwise and remained in the Bliss of their soul-world or Origin. ... reverberate through the rest of her earthly life, the ‘Thou’ here representing the incarnated Great Mother: The Lord has willed and Thou dost execute: A new light shall break upon the earth. A new world shall be born, And the things that were promised shall be fulfilled. 36 In Savitri , the spiritual biography of the Mother and himself, Sri Aurobindo has worded this memorable event as follows: ...
... Creation. When I looked a little puzzled she added: “You know that Brahma is said to create by his Word. In the same way whatever I would express could take place. I had willed to express a whole new world of superhuman reality. Everything was prepared in the subtle dimension and was waiting to be precipitated upon Earth.”’ 20 The Mother herself narrates the events as follows: ‘Sri Aurobindo... success. But it is a creation of the Overmind. And it is not success that we want, we want to establish the Supermind upon Earth. One must know how to renounce immediate success in order to create the new world, the supramental world in its integrality.” With my inner consciousness I understood at once: a few hours later the creation didn’t exist any more, and from that moment we started anew on other f ...
... There is also what Theon and Madame Theon used to say. They never spoke of 'Supermind,' but they said the same thing as the Vedas, that the world of Truth must incarnate on earth and create a new world. They even picked up the old phrase from the Gospels, 'new heavens and a new earth,' 1 which is the same thing the Vedas speak of. Madame Theon had this experience and she gave me the indication... very bottom of the Inconscient, most hard and rigid and narrow and stifling, I struck upon an almighty spring that cast me up forthwith into a formless, limitless Vast, vibrating with the seeds of a new world.' × Seconds that could last for half an hour! ...
... place which is for us the proof that we have entered the spiritual life; well, another reversal of consciousness occurs when one enters the supramental world. Besides, perhaps each time that a new world opens up, there will again be a new reversal of this kind. Thus even our spiritual life—which is such a total reversal in relation to ordinary life—is and appears to be, in relation to the supramental... and our present consciousness, which appears so warm, so full, so wonderful, so sparkling to the ordinary consciousness, well, all this splendour appears poor in relation to the splendour of the new world. Page 368 The phenomenon can be very well explained in this way: a series of reversals bringing about, step by step, an ever new richness of creation so that whatever has preceded it appears ...
... Page 18 ( Message for the book Sri Aurobindo—A Garland of Tributes) Sri Aurobindo is an emanation of the Supreme who came on earth to announce the manifestation of a new race and a new world: the Supramental. Let us prepare for it in all sincerity and eagerness. 20 June 1972 Sri Aurobindo has given us the spiritual teaching which teaches us to come in direct contact with... Sri Aurobindo's message is an immortal sunlight radiating over the future. 15 August 1972 Sri Aurobindo came on earth from the Supreme to announce the manifestation of a new race and the new world, the Supramental. Let us prepare for it in all sincerity and eagerness. 15 August 1972 Man is the creation of yesterday. Sri Aurobindo came to announce the creation of tomorrow: the ...
... hast willed, and Thou dost execute; A new Light shall break upon the earth. A new world shall be born. And the things that were promised shall be fulfilled. and rewrites it as follows in her own hand: 29 February—29 March Lord, Thou hast willed, and I execute: A new light breaks upon the earth, A new world is born. The things that were promised are fulfilled. 1 Page 74 ...
... outside yourself. There is a detachment from the mundane routine, and there is a lack of interest in common affairs and a pull only towards Nature's beauty and the beauty of the new world the Mother is striving to manifest - a new world whose rhythm of being is caught in the mystic depth and magic movement of her music. A little more inward development and you will cross from the stance of non-interestedness ...
... comfortable! Thought, here in this brain, has difficulty adapting. Because for two days (I mean two days without stop), there was a constant aspiration: "How will this new world be when it becomes material here? How will this new world be?..." And that put me so deep "inside" that I was... I wasn't far away, but there was that blanket of fog between me and the world as it is. It was still here today ...
... one more sentence in this Prayer before the grand conclusion, which is: The Lord has willed and Thou dost execute: A new light shall break upon the earth, A new world shall be born. The things that were promised shall be fulfilled. Page 74 These words look forward to the Supramental Manifestation for which Sri Aurobindo and... the fortnightly had grown a monthly: henceforth it appeared in the new form: Lord, Thou hast willed and I execute: A new light breaks upon the earth, A new world is born. The things that were promised are fulfilled. It was indeed very gratifying to me on a back-look that I should have selected a sentence from that particular Prayer ...
... the Word of Creation — just as the God Brahma is supposed to have created the universe by his Word. Now a Power came to the Mother to create as it were a new world by the mere Word: whatever she would say would come true. And a whole new World of Light was ready for precipitation: she had just to say the Word and that World would come and take possession of the earth. So she went to Sri Aurobindo ...
... desire, what does she tell her amazed, awakened husband? Only this: 15 Ibid., p. 424. 16 Ibid., p. 435. 17 Ibid., pp. 696-97. Page 265 Let us go through this new world that is the same. For it is given back, but it is known, A playing-ground and dwelling-house of God Who hides himself in bird and beast and man Sweetly to find himself again by... impulse. On the contrary, it brings in a new tone and range, characteristic of the author. While his earlier works would be considered as accomplished and promising, the later poetry opens up a new world and a new language. True, the philosophic strain is too pervasive to disappear at once or wholly but in the main it is vision rather than reflection that is the mark of the later yogic and mystical ...
... us a whole world of experience, but it is altogether a Page 486 new world in which the life of man — in fact the whole view of the cosmos — undergoes a radical change. Savitri is a vision of the world in terms of current laws of human evolution as seen by the ideal mind. It opens up a new world of consciousness for mankind. It is concerned with the revelation of the divine life ...
... truth. In it we notice the seeds of a brighter world taking birth. This birth of a bright world may not be in the immediate context, but it is bound to occur in the evolutionary future. It is a new world whose birth is helped and supported by Yama, the true Yama as a possessor of gracious kindness. In it the authentic meaning, the actual significance of mrityuloka , becomes clearer. Yama shall... Metre. We have in them all, and variously, the entrancing sweetness of her Love alone. In her dynamic action is established the supreme Truth on earth. The birth of Savitri means the birth of a new world. This she brings about by meeting the luminous Presence behind Death and obtaining the boon of a divine life upon earth. Page 85 There is no doubt that the ancient tale of Savitri ...
... But the Ashram which they founded is aware of their presence all the time. The Samadhi in the courtyard of the main Ashram-building—holding the physical remains of both these mighty pioneers of a new world—is a living power. All who have stood before it have known a Light and a Love ready to respond to their prayers and aspirations. A giant Grace breathes out from this simple flower-laden incense-haunted... forward in general to an occult method of birth for human beings. This method was expected to come into force after the Mother had sufficiently divinised her body and established herself firmly for the new world she was building up, the world in which Sri Aurobindo was to come in the first supramental body built in the supramental way. But, with the evolutionary alteration of her course on November 17, releasing ...
... and grace, no occasion to express her identification and solicitude. The other day I found this piece of Mother's writing: “To my beloved child and faithful companion in the building up of the New World.” Though no name was there, I knew immediately to whom she had written it. It could only be to Pranab. I showed it to him and asked if it was for him. In a low voice, humbly, he said: “Yes.” ... she used to add or change things. The next day Pranab gave me the complete message given to him on his birthday: 18.10.1957 To my beloved child and faithful companion in the building up of the New World. With my love, my trust and my blessings for ever. The Mother ...
... Marathi and whatever little was there was essentially Sanskritic and metaphysical. But Jnaneshwari , the magnum opus of the Yogi-Poet, gave birth to a new language, offering to the creative spirit a new world of delight. In it, to use a phrase from the magnum opus itself, the ineffable and the effable, Para and Vaikhari, the supreme and the spoken tongues join together; Page 2 in it the... Through it directly the voice of the Lord reached the devotee-heart and it felt blessed. They did not know Sanskrit and until then they were deprived of this blessedness, but with Jnaneshwari a whole new world of devotional life opened out for them. The first Marathi poet combined in himself the lyrical mysticism of Valmiki and the spiritual classicism of Vyasa to build the foundation of a larger collective ...
... on,Commerce, Industry, and Technology. He is enthused by the ideals of Liberty, Equality,Fraternity. But he is troubled by the gulf between Ideals and Actualities. He cries out for the New World and the New Man. But this requires New Education. Page 17 The Contemporary Youth looks with fresh eyes at the Expanding Universe. Page 18 He dreams... 21 He is enthused by the ideals of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. But he is troubled by the gulf between ideals and Actualities Page 22 He cries out for the New World and the New Man. Page 23 ...
... to Truth, Page 299 provides an insight into various aims of life and their limitations. Towards the end of the play she indicates the secret of an integral aim of life and of the new world. In 1958, eight years after Sri Aurobindo' s departure, she in turn withdrew to her room to come to terms with the problem of evolution. From 1958 to 1973, she slowly uncovered the "Great... Prologue: In the Artist's studio, preliminary meeting. Seven stages of the ascent, of which the seventh is at the summit. Epilogue: the new world. Page 301 Prologue ---------------------------------------------In the Artist's studio------------------------------------------- Evening, at nightfall; the end of a meeting ...
... of the United Nations Organisation and its international agencies owes much to the endeavours of this uplifting force. It feels greatly committed to the human destiny, and endeavours to create a new world order in which this destiny, conceived in terms of higher individual and social welfare, can find increasing fulfilment. It wants to impel science to utilise itself for purposes of international... against the obstinate obstacles of the old world. This can be done through stories, plays, short poems and activities of drawing, painting, music, which embody a drive towards the building of the new world. Visions of the unity of humanity, messages of freedom and harmony need to be underlined. 3. Emphasis on progress Children normally like to grow and develop and measure their progress ...
... next stride and the new Dawn will be heralded. They have not trumpeted their mission, for in the Mother's inimitable words: "The greatest victories are the least noisy. The manifestation of a new world is not proclaimed by beat of drum." It was in 1932 that Sri Aurobindo wrote the afore-mentioned letter expressing his sense of certainty as regards the Supramental Descent occurring in our... consciousness of the majority of men it is quite imperceptible. And still it is working, growing — till the moment it will be strong enough to assert itself visibly.... We are present at the birth of a new world, quite young, quite weak — not in its essence but in its outer manifestation — not yet recognised, not even felt, denied by the majority. But it is there, making an effort to grow up, quite sure ...
... the other defending itself. That is only an outward aspect, and not the whole even of the outward aspect. For the Germans and Italians believe that they are establishing a new civilization and a new world-order. The English believe that they are defending not only their empire but their very existence as a free nation and the freedom also of other nations conquered by Germany or threatened by the push... but recognize also that the international idea and its realization are something that is becoming equally insistent, necessary and inevitable. If the totalitarian Powers win, there will indeed be a new world-order,—it may be in the end, a unification; but it will be a new order of naked brute Force, repression and exploitation, and for the people of Asia and Africa a subjection worse than anything they ...
... thing since the beginning of creation, the miracle has happened. And that is the only thing that concerns us most intimately and the only thing we should be concerned with. A new world, yes a completely new world, is born and is here. Nothing can be more momentous. And yet, do you know, feel or perceive it? Unless things give a physical knock upon your nose, you do not believe in its reality ...
... 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.” January 1969 ... Then starts the inner life. You plunge within yourself, to the very depths, — moreover there is no end, — to discover, to feel, to absorb, to realise and to rejoice in finding an inconceivable new world which cannot be expressed by your language or your mode of expression, or which cannot be labelled by your sense of values or your so-called attitude, but it can be lived, and which is the truth of ...
... India's creative spirit which lay in torpor felt the Page 32 pressure of a superimposed European culture. And the reawakening became necessary. A giant Shakti awakened into a new world. For long the eyes were not clear. For long the Indian mind was misled by an alien education, view and influence. But now the new mind of India was returning to a sound and true idea of its past... among them were unable or unwilling to expand their horizons. Page 170 "I remember an artist with whom I had talked of the possibility of immortality, who had asked me what the new world would be like. I told him that, for example, things would be self-luminous and there wouldn't be any more this kind of reflected light which comes here, on the earth, from the sun. And as I went on ...
... Sri Aurobindo And The New World 1872 Born at 4.50 A.M. on August I5, in Calcutta at the house of his father's friend Monmohan Ghose, a barrister and a public man of the time. Father, Dr. K.D. Ghose, I.M.S., belonged to the well-known Ghoses of Konnagar, Dist. Hooghly, Bengal. Mother, Srimati Swarnalata, daughter of Rishi Rajnarayan Basu, 'the grandfather... next year, after which would dawn brighter days. 1955 December 3I: Mother's New Year (I956) Message: 'The greatest victories are the least noisy. The manifestation of a new world is not proclaimed by beat of drum.' 1956 April 24: Mother's historic declaration that Page 31 the Supramental manifestation was no more ...
... that is being played, and is yet to be concluded. Now Aswapati "grew into his larger self... (and) saw a greater world". 1 He sees beyond reason and mind, and sees the soul—a whole new world in the spaces of the soul. He establishes occult contact with other beings and other planes—-the Many of the phenomenal world— and thus achieves an apparently endless extension of experience, leading... Aswapati achieves his "soul's release from ignorance", and his mind and body experience their "first spiritual change". A wide God-knowledge poured down from above, A new world-knowledge broadened from within:... 7 He is a new man, poised for the achievement of greater things still, of immeasurable import to him and the world. Page 74 ...
... As filled with friendship, love complete, the Elder Brother found, The Younger melts in fondness in his arms". — Leaves of Grass. In addition to the work of innovator of the new world here is an example from A. E. the Irish poet, inheritor of the old Irish culture: "Dusk wraps the village in its dim caress; Each chimney's vapour, like a thin grey rod, Mounting aloft... "New children must be born of gods in A deathless land",—and they must have "No flaw in mind or flesh". His presaging of the age of perfection gives us a glimpse of that vast new world which is native to Sāvitrī George Herbert expresses the organic unity of mankind in a striking and illuminating analogy which not only includes the whole of mankind but exterds out to the whole ...
... world-saviour may come even now. There are indications to show that many souls have taken birth now with a special mission to participate in the great work of building a new world. Savitri is one of the master-builders of this new world. She is ready and deter- mined to take up her mission which requires her to oppose Death. Narad exhorts the queen not to interfere in the execution of Savitri's will because ...
... such a day, in such and such circumstances, at 95° Fahrenheit (it is always hot in Pondicherry), this is what I saw; others may put any logic they like on it, I have only the Philistine eyes of the New World, or rather the little mischievous eyes of Mother's body. How strange that even Mother's cells were humorous. But since I was the Philistine, She tried to explain to me as best She could: Just try... less senseless than that; perhaps it invents itself at every second, perhaps it discovers itself at every second, perhaps it is new at every second—perhaps we are going to enter the era of an ever-new world, like those Pulsations without effect or consequences. A new discovery at each instant. So one lives forever because there is always something to discover. It was what Mother said: Things always ...
... supremely difficult Work—provided she understands her true role of creator and inspirer, which has no longer anything to do with the old small literary, aesthetic or conjugal stories, but with a new world and a new body difficult to give birth to, difficult to know, difficult to conquer—for it must be conquered step by step in the most humble Matter and most obscure gestures, every minute of the day... them. We must really have the courage to walk in nothing and not let ourselves be shut up by anything, not even by the supreme splendors, or what we take to be supreme splendors. To use a truism, a new world is a world that DOES NOT exist, or exists only out there, in the future, once the map is completed; and yet, we are walking in it all the time, it is what guides our every footstep in its invisible ...
... over the world. We can stick labels on it, but it laughs at all labels. It was a formidable Fact. On that November 18, something happened. Perhaps the first terrestrial wave of the joy of the new world. So all that wailing there, those admirable close disciples who cried so much after having shoved her into death, those faces draped in their dignity, with questions of money behind, questions... the impossibilities that we conceived of. And there is no need to believe: we have only to go there , to that level. We have to touch that. And the marvel is that, when we touch that, it is the new world that starts to build itself on its own , without our needing to want, seek or understand: it does it by itself, spontaneously, automatically. It develops on its own. It changes the movement without ...
... all of Mother’s enterprise is a challenge, Sri Aurobindo’s silence was surely very wise, but what? I am trying. This is my own challenge and I have not finished looking into that stammering of a new world, I struggle with Mother’s forest just as She fought and struggled with the unknown. All the secrets are there, but unnamed⎯what formula will ever imprison the Amazon?⎯but one can walk there, lose... any line of that Agenda : there is no need to understand, perhaps it is not even necessary, but to grasp hold of that straight little vibration which goes through all appearances and opens up the new world like a sudden cascade of laugh among hopeless trivialities and most obscure contradictions. We do not know how to read what is here, right here. Mother is really the One who un-covers. She grasped ...
... and Madame Theon converging on that of the Veda —the world of Truth which must incarnate on this earth and create a new world. "They even picked up the old phrase from the Gospels, 'New heavens and a new earth.' "Because Theon also knew about it. He knew and called it 'the new world,' I think, or 'the new creation upon the earth and the glorified body.' But anyway, he knew the Supramental existence ...
... of a Europeanised if not a European concert; otherwise Europe may become culturally a province of Asia, Asiaticised by the dominant influence of wealthy, enormous, powerful Asiatic peoples in the new world-system. The motive of Mr. Archer's attack is frankly a political Page 60 motive. This is the burden of all his song that the reconstruction of the world must take place in the forms and... situation there can be only one out of two issues. Either India will be rationalised and industrialised out of all recognition and she will be no longer India or else she will be the leader in a new world-phase, aid by her example and cultural Page 65 infiltration the new tendencies of the West and spiritualise the human race. That is the one radical and poignant question at issue. Will ...
... sense-mind. The sense delivers out of itself the sense-mind and a new rhythm bursts open in the animal world. All from the crawling insect to the full-fledged bird and the quadruped comes under this new world — a world where the rhythm is in a straight line. This straight and linear rhythm makes possible for the animal a constant prying into the well-covered store-house of memory:— it is a straight onward... a pronounced rebellion against the laws of the world of matter. Under the pressure of the upward aspiration of the secret will-in-things the veil that lies over the sense-mind is lifted and a new world, a world where mind is the principal factor, peopled with human beings, emerges with its own characteristic laws quite different from those of the worlds of matter, sense and sense-mind. A new law ...
... sense-mind. The sense delivers out of itself the sense-mind and a new rhythm bursts open in the animal world. All from the crawling insect to the full-fledged bird and the quadruped comes under this new world — a world where the rhythm is in a straight line. This straight and linear rhythm makes possible for the animal a constant prying into the well-covered store-house of memory:— it is a straight onward... pronounced rebellion against the laws of the world of matter. Under the pressure of the upward aspiration of the secret will-in-things the veil that lies over the sense-mind is lifted and a new world, a world where mind is the principal factor, peopled with human beings, emerges with its own characteristic laws quite different from those of the worlds of matter, sense and sense-mind. A new law ...
... they together have to accomplish. She says that this work is their sacred charge. But what is this work they together can do? Can not Savitri do it alone? The work obviously is the making of a new world where man can rise to his full spiritual stature. In this great work the masculine and the feminine aspects of consciousness must work together; for, then alone it can lead to the integration of... well as death. Savitri's strength had defeated Death — but her Love must still create the miracle of Death's transformation. Only then can she go back to earth with Satyavan and together create a new world where man shall move as an immortal being. ROHIT MEHTA Page 466 ...
... possibilities that can bring the gods down. If out of Matter and Life emerged Mind, so can a being with diviner faculties arrive here. To mould humanity in God's shape or discover a new world or create a new world are present as three alternatives and Savitri becomes the centre for the action. In the last alternative the creation established by Aswapati in the House of the Spirit shall become ...
... smiling grove. Music trailed in the cadence of the stream And the note of love gave wings to the singing bird, King and queen strolled in the moonlit garden, As if by a magic wand came a new world Into birth to heal the wounds of the past. A warm air urged the traveller on his way, The chariot wheels setting into motion Swift rhythms that trace the orbits for the suns. In its... yogin-traveller Took him to the temple-palace of Sophia, Self-luminous and divine, creation's heart. His will burned in the will of the bright goddess, The builder of the worlds to build a new world. Her almighty power he must house in his soul's deep — Not for himself but to change the lot of man, Bring immortal happiness to this deathful life. 11 May 2002 ...
... is man-handling. About this episode, the Mother exploding and then saying “ok”, there is a lesson to be learnt from the Mother herself, the way she did something wonderful. When she had created a new world, when she was bringing down the gods after the landmark 1926 Siddhi, Sri Aurobindo told her, this is not what we want, it will delay our real work. Here is the account in her own words: Sri Aurobindo... great success. But it is an Overmind creation. And it is not success that we want; we want to establish the Supermind on earth. One must know how to renounce immediate success in order to create the new world, the supramental world in its integrality.” With my inner consciousness I understood immediately: a few hours later the creation was gone…and from that moment we started anew on other bases. ...
... by a feeling that a new world, a new golden age was in the making. At the “historical juncture”, the Zeitbruch around 1880, the idea, not to say the need, of a new human being can be found everywhere in the expectations of thinkers, poets and artists receptive to the ambience of the times. The anticipation of a higher being with the capacities to create new values and a new world is one of the most ...
... that, if God was something more than a simulacrum residing above the clouds, then the earth and the life of the human being must have a meaning. These were bewildering times of change, in which a new world and a new, higher human being were expected. The Enlightenment had asked all the questions, but it had given very few dependable answers. The tectonic plates of the religious and philosophical certainties... reformation], everything is still to be done.” 734 This evaluation encompassed more than Protestantism: it expressed the general feeling of bankruptcy of the established religions, and the longing for a new world and a new man which at last would be the justification and the wholly satisfying fulfilment of God’s creation of life on earth. That Germany did not need “oriental religious symbols and the belief ...
... “God-like – Christian – German” is the antithesis of “devilish – Jewish – anti-German”. 1003 Fundamentally, Eckart saw himself as the champion of a new spirituality which would lead to a new man and a new world, as opposed to the materialistic world, which was how he (and the whole völkisch movement) experienced the world around him. The worthy champions of the new spirituality were the Germans; the selfishly... has been thoroughly read and its margins scored repeatedly. I found a particularly thick pencil line beside the passage ‘He who does not carry demonic seeds within him will never give birth to a new world’ … “In the Fichte volumes given to him by [Leni] Riefenstahl”, continues Ryback, “I encountered a veritable blizzard of underlines, question marks, exclamation points and marginal strikes that ...
... play or Lila but in grim earnest, all the obstruction, difficulty, opposition, baffled and hampered and only slowly victorious labour which are possible on the Path.’ 16 Their discovery of the New World was the consequence of an integral knowledge and experience of the old one. They could only build on an integral synthesis of what existed to work out the profound significance of the evolution in... Supramental Yoga. If the comprehension as well as the power and the effects of the totally new Event on Earth surpass the human being, and if the human being wants to collaborate in the coming of a New World, then it can only try and open itself to the Divine Action in the hope that this Action will permeate and transform its physical, vital and mental limitations. ‘The first word of the supramental ...
... my surprise when he said that this very lady had desired to see me! … I met her as a brother and a friend and was privileged to be her fellow-worker … She and her friends dreamed of a new Asia, a new world … We lived together for a year. We sat together in meditation every night for an hour. I practised Zen and they practised Yoga.’ 9 So Okawa was quoted by V.K. Gokak after he met him in 1957. By... had already come though not registered in the calendar of the statesmen.’ 35 ‘In all nations there are men, lost in the crowd,’ writes Richard, ‘who bear in themselves this consciousness of a new world. They belong no more to the departing century. They seem to come from the future.’ Again, no Aurobindonian would disagree with this, but the perspective in which it has to be read is very different ...
... too that the new world whose coming we envisage is not to be made of the same texture as the old and different only in pattern, and that it must come by other means – from within and not from without – so the best way is not to be too much preoccupied with the lamentable things that are happening outside, but themselves to grow within so that they may be ready for the new world, whatever form ...
... however great he is, however eternal his consciousness and origin, can alone by himself change and realise—change the world, change the creation as it is, and realise this Higher Truth that will be a new world—a world more true, if not absolutely true. It seems a certain number of individuals (till now it appears to be rather in time as a succession, but it may be also in space, a collectivity) is indispensable... does not rule out a total personal transformation. The Mother actually speaks of an individual showing "the way by himself realising it". Of course, his realisation cannot change the creation into a new world, but it can change his own physical existence into a new being. The full supramentalisation of others is not indispensable for it and an individual's change into a new being is suggested also when ...
... remember too that the new world whose coming we envisage is not to be made of the same texture as the old and different only in pattern, and that it must come by other means—from within and not from without; so the best way is not to be too much preoccupied with the lamentable things that are happening outside, but themselves to grow within so that they may be ready for the new world, whatever form it ...
... to gain admittance. 10 November 1969 ( Written for a UNESCO 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... change. 7 December 1972 Everybody has to progress and become more sincere. Auroville has been created not for the satisfaction of the egos and their greeds, but for the creation of a new world, the supramental, expressing the divine perfection. 12 December 1972 Auroville has been created for a superhumanity, for those who want to surmount their ego and renounce all desire, to ...
... plant their own potatoes if they wanted to eat; they should have done everything by themselves. Yes, exactly. And I told them, "How can you possibly build a New World with coolies? One does not make a new world with hired labor!" I think a whole group of those people should go. Yes, that's my feeling. (silence) To one of them I said, "If I went over ...
... capacity and energy, we are conscious of that capacity and energy reviving in us. * * * Page 56 August 7, 1909 The future belongs to the young. It is a young and new world which is now under process of development and it is the young who must create it. But it is also a world of truth, courage, justice, lofty aspiration and straightforward fulfilment which we seek to... by a full evocation of her immense stores of moral and spiritual strength that be accomplished for India which Mazzini could not accomplish for Italy, to place her in the head and forefront of the new world whose birth-throes are now beginning to convulse the Earth. * * * Page 57 August 28, 1909 Strength attracts strength; firm and clear-minded courage commands success ...
... new change in her message for January 1, 1959 : instead of 'an almighty spring that cast me up forthwith into a formless, limitless Vast, generator of the new world,' Mother puts 'a formless, limitless Vast vibrating with the seeds of a new world' ) The objectification of the experience came progressively, as always happens to me. When I have the experience, I am absolutely 'blank,' like a newborn ...
... wonderful world of delight" the same as the Supramental New World that was born on 29 February 1956, or is it different? Since You have spoken of it as the "world of delight" it cannot be merely the Delight or Ananda of the Supramental World already born. Does it mean that, after the manifestation of the Supramental World, now one more new world is "waiting at our gates for our call" to manifest on earth ...
... us put ourselves deliberately and exclusively on the side of the Divine, and the Victory is ultimately certain. 1956 The greatest victories are the least noisy. The manifestation of a new world is not proclaimed by beat of drum. Page 171 1957 A Power greater than that of Evil can alone win the victory. It is not a crucified but a glorified body that will save the... very bottom of the inconscience most hard and rigid and narrow and stifling I struck upon an almighty spring that cast me up forthwith into a formless limitless Vast vibrating with the seeds of a new world. 1960 To know is good, to live is better, to be, that is perfect. 1961 This wonderful world of delight waiting at our gates for our call, to come down upon earth... 1962 We ...
... which Satprem feels a very powerful creative force. ) I often think of another creation which would serve this new world a little. What creation? Well, I don't know... The aspiration to bring down something—in writing since I have nothing else—cwhich would help this new world. Yes, that would be good. But what? I don't know. Oh, if you could crystallize... (how should I put it ...
... reversal of consciousness takes place which for us is the proof that we have entered the spiritual life; well, yet another one occurs when we enter the supramental world. "And in fact each time a new world opens up, there will perhaps be a new reversal of this kind. "It's as if our entire spiritual life were made of silver, whereas the supramental life is made of gold—as if our entire spiritual life... and of all our present consciousness, which seems so warm, so full, so wonderful, so luminous to the ordinary consciousness, well, all this splendor seems poor in comparison to the splendor of the new world. "I can explain the phenomenon like this: successive reversals will bring about such an EVER-NEW richness of creation from stage to stage, that it will make whatever came before seem very poor ...
... ss 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 "one," symbolically, in order for the New World to see the light of day.... Yes. Consequently Pakistan has to disappear. 6 But of course! There's no doubt about that. So this must be the ...
... that Mother had given to Satprem. The original text is included afterwards. ) "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... of giving a concrete form to Sri Aurobindo's vision has been given to the 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 ...
... 1946. Then his "real life began." It is there that he started putting in music, paintings and words his deepest spiritual experiences, his most touching feelings and his visions of a new world of Beauty. The Mother united him with a French disciple Amita as they shared the same aspiration and could work together; they were married in 1967. After the passing away of the Mother... the highest peaks of mind Which no man can climb, deeper than the deepest abyss of life, Which no diving whale can fathom, further than the Fancy's utmost extended Range waits the New World of million-toned Harmony. My keel is on the uncharted Ocean, You have thrown all useless cargo overboard. Heaven's blessings, the pouring rains have cleansed my deck Of the petrified ...
... Thine too the Victory, the laurel and the crown, The Realisation, the glory of the marvelous New Creation. 68 - 69 The Entrance of the New World O Mother, who shall ever sound the mystery of Your fathomless Love? If only the blind and the lame and the mutilated and the profane Knew the omnipotence they harbor in their... ardent prayer rising to the Supreme Mother and at the same time Her sweet powerful response, Her Love and Blessings. This prayer is most often for the Manifestation of the new world of Peace, unity, beauty and harmony for the Descent of the Mother Divine In hundreds and thousands of souls. It is a prayer of the man of the earth to the Divine Mother ...
... Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 1 New World-Conditions IT is a trite saying that one must change with the changing times. But how many can really do so or know even how to do so? In politics, as in life generally (politics is a part of life, the "precipitated" part, one may say in chemical language), the principle is well-known, though often in a ... machine. With this perspective in view, keeping always in front the probable shape of things to come, one must learn to consider the present, look for those forces that make for the new world and thus help the course of evolution and progress. Nature does not care for her past formations, she is not bound to them; she is always throwing up chances and opportunities-variations-for new ...
... SATYENDRA: To keep a historical record that he was a peace-loving man. (Laughter) He is creating a New World Order and becoming a protector of small nations, taking them under protection without any loss of their honour and prestige. SRI AUROBINDO: They are rather being kicked into the New World Order. SATYENDRA: Anyhow our India is joining the international federation. The Women's Mission is ...
... above and here in this world, I mean inner forces. I myself had wished for its destruction; but at that time I did not know such forces would arise. These forces are working for the evolution of a new world-order which would come following upon the liquidation of the Empire. But, for the advent of this new arrangement, the Empire needn't be destroyed. The new arrangement can be achieved more quietly... quietly by a change in the balance of forces, without much destruction. Had it not been for Hitler, I wouldn't have cared what power remained or went down. Now the question is whether the new world-order is to come after much suffering and destruction or with as little of it as possible. Destruction of England would mean victory for Hitler and in that case, perhaps after a great deal of suffering and oppression ...
... the higher worlds. Now I think of expressing them in painting by various colours—blues, golds, pinks and whites—with certain vibrations of Light—all in harmony forming the New World. I wish to bring down upon earth this New World Since I have no time physically, I will paint through you. The world of Supreme Beauty exists. I shall take you there, you will see the things, remember them and then ...
... the highest degree of vitality, courage, sensitivity and intelligence that education can produce would be very different from anything hitherto existing. "Education, " he said, "is the key to the new world. " Russell wrote another extremely important book on education entitled Education and the Social Order, first published in 1932. It is a very readable book in which he presents a comprehensive... possible to us, who still have to struggle with the superstitious fears that lie in wait for us below the level of consciousness. Not we, but the free men and women whom we shall create, must see the new world, first in their hopes, and then at last in the full splendour of reality. The way is clear. Do we love our children enough to take it? Or shall we let them suffer as we have suffered? Shall we ...
... marvellous thing since the beginning of creation, the miracle has happened. And that is the only thing that concerns us most intimately and the only thing we should be concerned with. A new world, yes a completely new world, is born and is here. Nothing can be more momentous. And yet, do you know, feel or perceive it? Unless things give a physical knock upon your nose, you do not believe in its reality ...
... evolution of the manifested universe moving towards this final destruction or dissolution? Page 290 Or else is the new world to be conceived as something belonging to the supra-physical? But the supra-physical world too has its planes, and this new world may be the field of a spiritual realisation somewhere among these planes beyond life, mind and the above-mind. The Vedantins speak ...
... and embleming the way of redemption, the saints and sages in our own epoch who have visioned the ideal of human unity in a divine humanity, even secular leaders who labour for "one world", "a brave new world"-all point to the other line of growth and development that man can follow and must and shall follow. The choice has to be made and the right direction given. In India today, there are these two voices... seeks to be the steel frame supporting or supported by the Government. We ask: is this a nucleus, a seed bed for the new life to take birth and grow, the new life that would go to the making of the new world and humanity? And we have to ask India too, has she found her nucleus or nuclei, on her side, that would generate and foster the power of her soul and spirit? The high policy of a government remains ...
... completeness of being; secondly, there has to develop the perfection of the spiritual and pragmatic relation of the individual with all around him; and thirdly there has to be a movement towards a new world, a change in the total life of humanity. These three preparations and perfections have been briefly summarized by Sri Aurobindo in the following words: "It is, then, this spiritual fulfilment... universality and oneness with all life upon earth which is the other concomitant result of an evolution into the gnostic consciousness and nature. But there still remains the third desideratum, a new world, a change in the total life of Page 8 humanity or, at the least, a new perfected collective life in the earth-nature. This calls for the appearance not only of isolated evolved individuals ...
... Towards A New Society NEW WORLD-CONDITIONS It is a trite saying that one must change with the changing times. But how many can really do so or know even how to do so? In politics, as in life generally (politics is a part of life, the " precipitated " part, one may say in chemical language), the principle is well-known, though often in a pejorative sense,... the mere machine. With this perspective in view, keeping always in front the probable shape of things to come, one must learn to consider the present, look for those forces that make for the new world and thus help the course of evolution and progress. Nature does not care for her past formations, she is not bound to them; she is always throwing up chances and opportunities—variations—for new ...
... the future, and doubts are rising whether humanity will have the foresight, the wisdom and the strength to avoid them. The vision of the future that emerges is depicted in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World, George Orwell's Nineteen-Eighty-Four and by many minor writers in fiction. The whole picture is frightful; it is a nightmare. In the same line of thought, we may mention the appearance of philosophies... life. This very possibility has inspired the mind and inflamed the heart of man with a stupendous fervour and energy. When we see to what sacrifices people have been moved by this ideal of a New World to come, what sufferings - humiliation, exile, torture, prison, death - have been endured by rebels and revolutionaries so that future generations may see "The Day", we realize how powerful the ...
... which earned him world-recognition, the course of English literature has been more and more influenced—especially after the two world wars—by other cultural currents, from the East and from the new world of America. Today the result is that Englishmen can no longer claim English as the exclusive language of British Islanders. In the words of an eminent Englishman, Ronald Nixon, alias, Sri Krishna... the midst of life human. The supreme Mother in her infinite grace gives Aswapathy a boon that a human manifestation of her Grace would be born on earth. "A new light shall break upon the earth, a new world shall be born, things that were promised shall be fulfilled." (The Mother.) Thus, Savitri was born in answer to Aswapathy's intense aspiration for the Divine's help in creating divine perfection ...
... intellectual awakening. A sort of miniature Renascence was in process. An ardent and imaginative race, long bound in the fetters of a single tradition, had had suddenly put into its hand the key to a new world thronged with the beautiful or profound creations of Art and Learning. From this meeting of a foreign Art and civilisation with a temperament differing from the temperament which created them, there... one or two necessities, an ideal to live and die for and the strength to live and die for it. This was all he did, but it was enough.... His eyes were always fixed on 142. "Heralds of a new world, we must found a moral unity, the Catholicism of Humanity." — Mazzini 143. "We come in the name of God and of Humanity." — Mazzini Page 113 the mind and heart of the nation ...
... God, The link of the finite with the Infinite. But now the goldlink comes to me with thy feet "For now another realm draws near with thee" Page 287 "A strange new world swims to me in thy gaze Approaching like a star from unknown heavens". Everything is changed now—even "air, soil and stream", a "sun- light grows a shadow of thy hue". Satyavan then... And all her separate self was lost in his." Thus they were both "lost awhile" in each other, "then drawing back from their long ecstasy's trance", they "Came into a new self and a new world" "The world" henceforth, "was but their twin self-finding's scene", "Or their own wedded being's vaster frame". Satyavan and Savitri "The united Two began a greater age". Then "one human ...
... history more profound than the dated apocalypses of his contemporaries, he saw a new world emerging from a new man, a new level of religious living begetting a new social order, and, so intense had his sunrise to eternity been for him, he gave himself Page 20 a place in creating this new world." 36 Sri Aurobindo is that kind and order of prophet, in a sense even more absolute ...
... ugliness, inertia, darkness, perversity, misery. Mend this earth how one may, it but seems to get worse and worse; a revolution, a breakthrough, is necessary. The old world must die, so that a new world may be born: Thou hast said that the earth would die, and it will die to its old ignorance. Thou hast said that the earth would live, and it will live in the renewal of Thy power. 16... rebirth. The wartime world - the whole world - was engaged in enacting the drama of Winter preceding the dawn of Spring. It was an intestine struggle, it was an embrace of death. The birth of a new world. like the birth of a child, is attended with pain, uncertainty, almost a death! But there are the joys of parturition as well, the anticipation of motherhood, the leap of a new life-adventure. ...
... outside world with a divine equanimity. As though she had the European crisis in mind, she writes on 22 July: O divine Master, let Thy light fall into this chaos and bring forth from it a new world. 13 Then the very next day: Do not abandon us to impotence and darkness; break every limit, shatter every chain, dispel every illusion. On 31 July, she refers to certain experiences... physical world, and Thy constant presence in our midst is a token of Thy active collaboration. The Lord has willed and Thou dost execute: A new Light shall break upon the earth. A new world shall be born, And the things that were promised shall be fulfilled. 31 VII While Mirra's reactions to the outbreak of the War and its rake's progress in several directions ...
... But the true consciousness is at the centre, at the heart of reality and has the direct vision of the origin of all movements.... Something opens within you and all at once you find yourself in a new world." But, she cautions, "what is needed is to express it gradually in the details of practical life". 9 Wonders are many, there have been great discoveries, but nothing is more wonderful, or is a... the frontiers of form a new force can be evoked, a power of consciousness which is as yet unexpressed and which, by its emergence, will be able to change the course of things and give birth to a new world. For the true solution to the problem of suffering, ignorance and death is not an individual escape from earthly miseries by self-annihilation into the unmanifest, nor a problematical collective ...
... the reader believes I want to “demonstrate” anything at all, he or she is mistaken. I would only like to understand this garden, I do not even know where it leads, or what it is. It is perhaps the new world. But in the meanwhile, it is very bizarre. One morning in 1970, Mother simply remarked: My own impression is that there is a part that tries to take form in the body, that is, a way of being of... know! 58 That was in April 1970. The mystery of the unknown. Something the cells don't quite understand yet, but they know, they sense. They feel as if they were thrust forcibly into a new world. 59 It is Matter that finds the key to Matter. The exit from the mineral, vegetal, animal reign. The beginning of the supramental being. The exit from the second web. ...
... itself for the first time— bodies do not need to know, they walk: it is our heads that need to know, that is to say, to have a map in front of their eyes. But the map is of no use to the body. The new world is only that step; the map is just that aspiration. And all the bodies that want to set out on the path need but that aspiration alone—for truly it is the only path since the protoplasm: an aspiration... see—they would still see the old appearance. The two may be simultaneous. 94 It is obvious that if even a few hundred or thousand of humans were “included” in the new vision, the contagion of the new world, this would have incalculable repercussions on the rest which could not but be “affected” by this other human “species” whose superior qualities and superior joy, superior harmony, would come to pose ...
... There are also luminous, golden clouds, but dense, not transparent, and in those clouds are small dots of iridescent light. I felt it was the materiality brought by the trip. The materiality of the new world. And it seems that across the years, imperceptibly, the small iridescent scintillation has come closer, layer after layer, to the pure body, to pure Matter, as if truly we were separated from our... accident, it can cancel the consequences of an absolutely material event—it is stronger than Matter. Things are no longer what they were. It’s truly something new, it is NO LONGER what it was. A new world, really. We can call it “supramental” to avoid confusion, because as soon as you say “Divine,” people start thinking of a God, and that spoils everything. It isn’t like that. Not that, it is the descent ...
... l awakening. A sort of miniature Renascence was in process. An ardent and imaginative race, long bound down in the fetters of a single tradition, had had suddenly put into its hands the key to a new world thronged with the beautiful or profound creations of Art and Learning. From this meeting of a foreign Art and civilisation with a temperament differing from the temperament which created them, there ...
... leader is master of Fate, medium of her mysteries. We have made the mind a cypher, we have strangled Thought with a cord; Dead now are pity and honour, strength only is Nature's lord. We build a new world-order; our bombs shout Wotan's peace. "We are the javelins of Destiny, we are the children of Wotan, We are the human Titans, the supermen dreamed by the sage. A cross of the beast and demoniac ...
... their old carefully sheltered arena of mimic political strife and safe, cheap, and profitable patriotism. But the walls of the arena have been washed away, its very ground is being obliterated, and a new world of stern reality and unsparing struggle is rapidly taking its place. In the fierce heat of that conflict all shams must wither away and all empty dreams be dissolved. The issue has been fairly put ...
... India had given up her spiritual separation and undergone the much needed intellectual and moral change that would at last entitle her to enter into the comity of modern peoples. And since in the new world-comity there would enter an increasing spiritual and subjective element and much perhaps of India's own religious and philosophical thought would be appropriated by its culture, the disappearance ...
... for example, or to open a crèche for little children. These are all works of goodwill that men understand. But if they are told that we want to change the human consciousness, we want to create a new world, oh! the first thing they say is: "Pardon me! Do not speak of God, for if it is God who is doing the work, well, it is God who will give you the means for it and you have no need of our help." I have ...
... the frontiers of form a new force can be evoked, a power of consciousness which is as yet unexpressed and which, by its emergence, will be able to change the course of things and give birth to a new world." Is the force you are speaking about the Divine? What do you call the Divine? Give me your definition of the Divine. We have already dealt with this here once. All that is upon earth is the ...
... any obstacle and without any effort, everybody would reach the goal, and when one has come to the end, the situation would be the same as when one started, there would be no change. That is, the new world would be exactly what the old has been. It is truly not worth the trouble! Evidently a process of elimination is necessary so that only what is capable of manifesting the new life remains. This is ...
... Prayers and Meditations The Mother with Letters on the Mother September 25, 1914 A new light shall break upon the earth, A new world shall be born, And the things that were promised shall be fulfilled. ...
... the frontiers of form, a new force can be evoked, a power of consciousness which has not yet manifested and which, by its emergence, will be able to change the course of things and bring to birth a new world, For the true solution of the problem of suAering, ignorance and death is not the individual escape by self-annihilation from earthly miseries into the nonmanifest, nor a problematical collective ...
... Sri Aurobindo, is already secretly at work here for ushering in the manifestation of what he terms the Supermind — the Truth-Consciousness beyond the level of Mind — thus preparing the dawn of a new world and the appearance of a new race of supramental beings. Therefore, though man in his ordinary state is depicted here as a creature who is more or less entirely moved and moulded by forces beyond his ...
... world. Every hour, every moment could only bring them nearer to the brightness of the day that God had decreed. * The future belongs to the young. It is a young and new world which is now under process of development and it is the young who Page 12 must create it. But it is also a world of truth, courage, justice, lofty aspiration and straightforward ...
... stage. But when he is on the stage, he has to appear as if he did not know anything; he has to feel and act as if he were experiencing all these things for the first time, as if it was an entirely new world with all its chance events and surprises that was unrolling before his eyes. Is there then no real freedom? Is everything absolutely determined, even your freedom, and is fatalism the highest ...
... a matter of ameliorating the world. There are people who clamour for change of government, social reform and philanthropic work, believing that they can thereby make the world better. We want a new world, a true world, an expression of the Truth-Consciousness. And it will be, it must be—and the sooner the better! It should not, however, be just a subjective change. The whole physical life must ...
... merely a matter of ameliorating the world. There are people who clamour for change of government, social reform and philanthropic work, believing that they can thereby make the world better. We want a new world, a true world, an expression of the Truth Consciousness. And it will be, it must be—and the sooner the better! It should not, however, be just a subjective change. The whole physical life must ...
... that one's habitual world, the accepted norms and standards of living, thinking and being, however high and noble they may seem, arc about to be shattered. Fascination, at the first glimpse of a new world, a luminous bubble, which had encased so far unseen, unfelt, the charade and masquerade of the familiar and mundane. The selection in this anthology has been made in the hope that though the ...
... that perhaps half-way they would say, "Ah, no, the price is too much." I remember a painter with whom I had a talk about the possibility of immortality and Page 69 who asked me what a new world would be like. I told him things would be, for instance, luminous in themselves and there would no longer be this kind of reflected light which comes here upon earth from the sun. And as I was speaking ...
... another aspect of the divine grace, the aspect of progress which will be victorious over all obstacles, the aspect which will propel humanity to a new realisation, which will open the doors of a new world and make it possible not only for a chosen few to benefit by the divine realisation but for their influence, their example, their power to bring to the rest of mankind new and better conditions. ...
... the supramental race. So we could call supermen those who, in their origin, still belong to the old method of generation but in their achievement are in conscious and active contact with the new world of supramental realisation. It seems—it is even certain—that the very substance which will constitute this intermediate world that is already being built up, is richer, more powerful, more luminous ...
... Page 13 × The New Year Message of 1956 : "The greatest victories are the least noisy. The manifestation of a new world is not proclaimed by beat of drum." ...
... , you will have to pass through in order to find what is behind. Page 244 But if you want to transform your nature and your being, and if you want to participate in the creation of a new world, then this aspiration, this sharp and linear point is no longer enough. One must include everything and contain everything in one's consciousness. Naturally, that is much more difficult. Mother ...
... world as it is and the supramental world as it is. This zone remains to be built, both in the individual consciousness and the objective world, and it is being built. When I used to speak of the new world which is being created, it was of this intermediary zone that I was speaking. And similarly, when I am on this side, that is, in the field of the physical consciousness, and I see the supramental ...
... more collective action. For the moment the spirit plays the part of a helper and guide, but it is not the all-powerful master of the material manifestation; when the Supermind is organised into a new world, Page 429 the spirit will become the master and govern Nature in a clear and visible way. What is called "new birth" is the birth into the spiritual life, the spiritual consciousness; ...
... individual, however great, however eternal his consciousness and origin, can on his own change and realise—change the world, change the creation as it is and realise this higher Truth which will be a new world, a world more true, if not absolutely true. It would seem that a certain number of individuals—until now it seems to have been more in time, as a succession, but it could also be in space, a coll ...
... to prepare a man to succeed in life and society, but to increase his perfectibility to its utmost. Do not aim at success. Our aim is perfection. Remember you are on the threshold of it a new world , participating in its birth and instrumental in its creation. There is nothing more important than the transformation. There is no interest more worth-while. In a general way, education, culture ...
... psychic and other kingdoms behind it are wearing thin and voices and presences are beginning to break through and reveal their impact on our world. This too must widen our conception of life and make a new world and atmosphere for poetry which may justify as perhaps never before the poet's refusal to regard as unreal Page 250 what to the normal mind was only romance, illusion or dream. A larger ...
... internally free and equal position in a commonwealth of peoples for a dominating Empire. Yet these results, however imperfect, prepared the greater fulfilments which we now see accomplished as part of a new world of free peoples. × The League was eventually formed with America outside it and as an instrument ...
... moral principle which belongs to the future, Page 533 while government of other nations by force belongs to the past and present and is radically inconsistent with the founding of the new world-arrangement on the basis of free choice and free status. It must therefore be considered in itself apart from any application now received, which must necessarily be curbed and imperfect. The ...
... utterance. But still theirs was the dawn of whose light we shall find the noon in the age now opening before us if it fulfils all its intimations. Blake, Shelley, Wordsworth were first explorers of a new world of poetry other than that of the ancients or of the intermediate poets, which may be the familiar realm of the aesthetic faculty in the future, must be in fact if we are not continually to describe ...
... vivid sense of inspiration or illumination, much sensation of light and joy, an impression of widening and power. The sadhak feels himself freed from the normal limits, projected into a wonderful new world of experience, filled and enlarged and exalted: what comes associates itself, besides, with his aspirations, ambitions, notions of spiritual fulfilment and Yogic siddhi; it is represented even as ...
... the physical world and lapsing into a quite different substance of which the forms and motions were much more vague, subtle, elastic and volatile than any of which the physical world is aware. This new world of matter they called subtle matter and analysed the subtle as they had analysed the gross until by a similar procession from denser to subtler they came to a finest condition of all which they described ...
... the solution of the economic problem founded not on any Western model but on the communal principle native to India. Our call is to young India. It is the young who must be the builders of the new world,—not those who accept the competitive individualism, the capitalism or the materialistic communism of the West as India's future ideal, nor those who are enslaved to old religious formulas and cannot ...
... their outward appearance. But it may too be called to a work which will not only alter the forms and sphere of its own external life but, leaving nothing around it unchanged or unaffected, create a new world or a new order. A prevalent idea would persuade us that the sole aim of liberation is to secure for the individual soul freedom from physical rebirth in the unstable life of the universe. If ...
... clearer and clearer ( Mother draws a sort of picture in front of her ), clear, luminous. My perceptions are getting clearer and clearer, more and more luminous—vaster and vaster. It's really like a new world that wants to manifest itself. In silence, I am comfortable. ( Mother goes into contemplation. After a few moments, a blissful smile spreads over her face. ) ...
... half-occult glimpse; the other by its juxtaposition of lilies and panthers, by the luminous epithet for the latter and by combining their drinking with the bathing of humans conjures up a "brave new world" of delicacy wedded Page 66 to strength, power to happiness and safety, in one fluent yet diversified glow. Not openly pictorial of such a world but as felicitous in disclosure ...
... recounted to the present writer. She received one day what she has called the Word of Creation. Just as the God Brahma is said to have brought forth the world with his Word of Creation, the fiat of a new world that could be marvellously built lay ready with the Mother. A superhuman world was on the verge of being materialised. Page 81 With this power the Mother went ...
... the man proved too rigid for the transforming pressure Sri Aurobindo was putting on all his disciples. Something refused to change and Chattopadhyaya, instead of humbly withdrawing from the "brave, new world" emerging in the Ashram, rose in revolt, flung away the luminous power that was lifting his poetic genius to its climax and plunged back into the melee of common life. He could have kept sweet his ...
... by a full evocation of her immense stores of moral and spiritual strength that be accomplished for India which Mazzini could not accomplish for Italy, to place her in the head and forefront of the new world whose birth-throes are now beginning to convulse the Earth. OTHER WRITINGS BY SRI AUROBINDO IN THIS ISSUE The Katha Upanishad II.2 Anandamath I (continued) Page 188 ...
... Life-Force with its many and always more complex movements are manifested in what seemed once to be inert and inanimate substance. Life souls, life minds, animal existences are born and evolve; a new world appears that is born and contained in this world of Matter and yet surpasses it in its own dynamic nature. 64 At each capital step of Nature's ascent there is a reversal of consciousness ...
... fullness of moving in dream vision; [absolute] 1 perfection, colour, reality[,] intensity of scenes, objects, people, living creatures in an ordered succession as if seen by one moving through a new world,–the pranic worlds or else the Page 1152 bhuswargas. Afterwards again dream of the ordinary kind, though always with a certain kind of coherence. 31 July 1919 The ideality is now ...
... and is stirred by a will to new formation and new creation. The change does not always amount to a renascence. But the impact in which we live at the present hour is nothing less than that of a new world. It is not merely the pressure of the whole Western civilisation upon the ancient spirit of the East or of modernism on a great traditional civilisation, but it is a great worldwide change, an approaching ...
... Can't eat. ( Then Satprem reads the third chapter of Supermanhood: "The Sunlit Path." Afterwards, Mother remains looking at him for a long time, with a charming smile. ) You've entered a new world.... For those who can follow you, it will be good! Oh, it's quite new.... ( Smiling and approving ) It's extraordinary, you understand, it's... The impression that a new door has opened. The ...
... transformation. There are all the Christian, Buddhist theories, Shankara, all those who declare that the world is an "unreal Falsehood" and that it must disappear and give place to a "heaven" (a "new world" and a "heaven"). And this is among the most "aspiring" elements of mankind, those who aren't content with the world as it is, who don't say, "Oh, as long as I am here and alive, things are fine; ...
... there have been other details.... Three days earlier, Kali was in a fury because things weren't as they ought to be on the earth, and especially among the people whose mission it is to prepare the new world. She was... she really was in a fury. She saw all the blunders everywhere, and it made such a powerful vibration in the atmosphere, as though she wanted to begin her Dance; as for me, I kept telling ...
... world as it exists. This zone has yet to be built, both in the individual consciousness and in the objective world, and it is being built. When Page 137 formerly I used to speak of the new world that is being created, I was speaking of this intermediate zone. And similarly, when I am on 'this' side—that is, in the realm of the physical consciousness—and I see the supramental power, the s ...
... appeared so absolutely insoluble. The vanishing of the manageress and her key was an obvious sign that she was altogether incapable of leading what could be called 'the creative consciousness of the new world' to its true place. I knew this, but I did not have a vision of the solution, which means it has yet to manifest; this 'thing' had not yet manifested in the building, this fantastic construction ...
... 1965 Page 61 ( Message for the Sri Aurobindo Birth Centenary set of photographs and messages, issued by the Sri Aurobindo Society and sent to the embassies of many nations ) A new world, based on Truth and refusing the old slavery to falsehood, wants to take birth. In all countries there are people who know it, at least feel it. To them we call: "Will you collaborate?" ...
... old rotting world, and are more and more convinced of the necessity of founding, somewhere out of the well-trodden tracks, a new centre of life in which a new and truer light can be manifested, a new world no more based on selfish competitions and egoistic strife but on general and eager endeavours to promote the welfare, knowledge and progress of all—a society based on spiritual aspiration instead ...
... not a human person. No, of course not! It's a supramental person. Something the cells don't quite understand yet, but they know, they sense. They feel as if they were thrust forcibly into a new world. That's what is now pressing all the time like this ( gesture of pressure and descent ). In spite of an apparent weakness (which is purely illusory), there's a... tremendous Force here. Yes ...
... about to leave, Mother hands him a note she has just written in English: ) Sri Aurobindo is an emanation of the Supreme who came on earth to announce the manifestation of a new race and the new world, the Supramental. Let us prepare for it in all sincerity and eagerness. Page 210 ...
... understanding of the kind of poetry he wrote and the plane from which He did so. Whereas, my friend’s comments were lacking in sympathetic understanding. Savitri struck me as opening up an entirely new world not only of experiences but of literary expression. It was a great help to me because I was eager to write from what Sri Aurobindo called the overhead planes. Of course I aspired to participate in ...
... 1 The first American name to fly about in the Ashram's air was one that significantly had a plural ring: McPheeters. It was two Americans who jointly started the flow of the New World to the Newer World which Sri Aurobindo and the Mother had begun to build in the Old. They were husband and wife: Vaun and Janet McPheeters. They were here already before I stepped into Pondicherry ...
... ary individuals: its call is to the whole of humanity, declaring to all the divine destiny awaiting them. It is a collective and not a merely individual Yoga and it promises a perfect society, a new world of complex harmony moving from adventure to blissful adventure of Truth-discovery and Truth-dynamism. All modern thought which has a global vision and stresses the ideal of "One World" is in profound ...
... disapproval did not deter the Nazis from hailing him as a spiritual precursor and trying to co-opt him, much as they did Nietzsche.” 721 Resurgence and greatness of a new German Reich, leading to a new world and a new man; the fulfilment of the Führer expectation; the redress of alleged injustices by the morally and culturally inferior victors of 1918; ostentation of strength and will power; rituals and ...
... repeatable. This is the starting point of the last four centuries in the history of humanity, when science has been such a powerful support for the realizations of the technology which shaped an amazing new world. However – and this is a resounding ‘however’ – that life differs from matter, and that organisms cannot live without this different element, is also a fact. A dead bird does not move, a living ...
... do not even suspect the existence because we cannot possibly imagine them, in the events on the unifying planet Earth, and visibly in that fast growing community in Pondicherry, ‘the cradle of the new world.’ 9 No, this was not an ashram in the ordinary meaning of the word which she was building: it was a testing ground, an experiment in accelerated evolution, a laboratory to work out the species ...
... that point and to mould it into a system. Theirs was an open vision, and they have employed everything in their power to build up, literally every minute of their life, as much as possible of a new world on Earth. The starting point of Sri Aurobindo’s thoughts is known in India as Vedanta, with the idea of the Brahman at its centre. ‘Brahman is the Alpha and the Omega. Brahman is the One besides ...
... was to bring the Supramental into the lowest gradation of existence, into terrestrial matter that is, and to establish it permanently on the Earth. The result of such an establishment would be a new world-order, the Kingdom of God on Earth. We have got some idea of the ‘Herculean labour’ (Sri Aurobindo’s term) which this demanded. To make the decisive step forward he literally had to go through ...
... and severely criticise the old imperialisms; it is to be hoped that they will practise what they now preach when they themselves become strong and rich and powerful. But the best will be if a new world-order evolves which will make the old things Page 102 impossible – a difficult task, but not, with God’s grace, absolutely impracticable. The Divine takes men as they ...
... the Mother’s attention and even their occult interventions to ensure that the descent would remain possible, that the anti-evolutionary forces would not carry the day and postpone the advent of the New World for centuries if not for millennia. According to Sri Aurobindo the global situation remained critical after the war, even more dangerous than during the worldwide conflagration. Commenting on the ...
... is master of Fate, medium of her mysteries. We have made the mind a cipher, we have strangled Thought with a cord; Dead now are pity and honour, strength only is Nature’s lord. We build a new world-order; our bombs shout Wotan’s peace. “We are the javelins of Destiny, we are the children of Wotan, We are the human Titans, the supermen dreamed by the sage. A cross of the beast and demoniac ...
... vivid sense of inspiration or illumination, much sensation of light and joy, an impression of widening and power. The sadhaka feels himself freed from the normal limits, projected into a wonderful new world of experience, filled and enlarged and exalted; what comes associates itself, besides, with his aspirations, ambitions, notions of spiritual fulfilment and yogic siddhi; it has represented itself ...
... Vedas, the Upanishads, the Gita, Social Progress, Human Unity, Future Poetry, a New Philosophy of life and existence and a new Yogic Path for the realization of the new personality needed for a new world. This literature has recreated Indian culture for the present and the future, as also created for the world its true future possibility. The deepest perceptions of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother ...
... a people as long as its principles have not yet become the rallying point of a militant movement”. 175 From the beginning this man was convinced that he was bringing a new “Weltanschauung”, a new world vision, and still more a new Faith to Germany and the world; he had seen at once that the insignificant DAP might be used as the seed-bed of a mass party to dominate all of society; and he knew that ...
... Enlightenment was the cause and justification. Nazism as a völkisch movement was part of the general European reaction, born out of disorientation, insecurity and fear, against the coming into being of a new world. How does one become an anti-Semite? The concrete reason or occasion in Eckart’s case is unknown, as it is in the case of many others. There was a poison in the air, a germ in the mental nourishment ...
... again after several years, and suddenly the gate swings open and for the first time one puts a step into the garden beyond the printed characters — a garden extending far, far ahead, as it is a whole new world. Satprem phrased it thus: ‘I tell you that every sentence of Sri Aurobindo’s is the expression or the translation of an exact experience, and that it not only contains as it were a whole world ...
... consciousness of animals and culminate in supramental consciousness—its ultimate goal in terrestrial life. From a world of ignorance, sorrow and suffering, full of strife and discord, we shall enter a new world of peace, harmony, bliss and love. The Divine omniscience and omnipotence will reign in the transformed human beings, the supermen in the new creation and the whole world order will be one of peace ...
... take the next leap and the new Dawn will be heralded. They have not trumpeted their mission, for in the Mother's inimitable words: "The greatest victories are the least noisy. The manifestation of a new world is not proclaimed by beat of drum." It was in 1932 that Sri Aurobindo wrote the letter quoted above. The Mother declared in 1956 that what he and she had worked to manifest is not any more ...
... successful work in a medium that has eluded English poets: quantitative metre. Sri Aurobindo has solved once for all the problem of quantity in English — a feat which gives the language "a brave new world' of consciousness. Quantitative metre is the second tier in Sri Aurobindo's poetic crown. The third is not merely a revelation of strange rhythm-moulds, but also the laying bare of a rhythmic life ...
... The Spirit of Auroville I never stopped dreaming about the New World—especially The Mother's Shrine. I knew that the Supreme Truth was going to be invoked there, and I must prepare myself. I asked the Mother what virtue I should possess in order to be worthy of being a guardian of the Mother's Shrine. She replied: Very dear little child Huta ...
... away on 7th February. He was noble and kind. His death is a great loss to the Ashram." She nodded and said: "Yes." After that I talked to her about the Falsehood in the world and about the New World of which the Mother had spoken to me. I also told her what the Mother had revealed of the higher worlds in connection with the paintings of Savitri . She listened to me attentively and I found her ...
... Supramental world as it is. It is this zone that remains to be built, simultaneously in the individual consciousness and the objective world, and is being built. When I used to speak formerly of the new world which is being created, it was of this intermediary zone that I was speaking. And in the same way when I am on this side, that is, in the field of the physical consciousness, and see the Supramental ...
... In the old days, when I was taking a walk near Sri Aurobindo's room, Krishna used to walk with me. I know that these Gods and Goddesses will help human beings in the New Creation, the New World of the Supermind. .. The Mother has explained in Vol. 4, [pp. 395-396] about Overmind and Supermind: I believe I have already told you once that these are the original beings in their higher ...
... The Spirit of Auroville Sweet dreams of the New World kept coming endlessly, I sincerely aspired to serve the Supreme Truth and the Supreme Love. But I felt strongly that some people might not appreciate the idea of my being the guardian of the Truth Pavilion. I expressed my feeling to the Mother. She answered: My very dear little child Huta, ...
... Education The Mother told me several times: Child, our work is the work of tomorrow—the work of the Future. We are preparing it for the younger generations who will be the builders of the New World . ...
... together with the Matrimandir. We all are awaiting your visit on the 21st February. We will surely come to see you before that. With our best wishes and love and aspiration for the realization of the New World. In the Mother's light and love Yours, Gloria and Piero ...
... old and belongs to the past. The Matrimandir is not just another Roman, Greek or Indian temple. It is the Centre of the Truth-Consciousness, Force and Light. The Mother always emphasised the New World, the New Creation. Certainly these ancient things are not in keeping with the Mother's "Dream" for the Luminous Future. Sri Aurobindo has written: The highest aim of the aesthetic being ...
... for understanding it. Nobody here except myself can explain Savitri. One day I hope to explain it in its true sense. As we went on, the Mother uncovered Sri Aurobindo's Visions and Hers of the New World expressing the Supramental Light, Consciousness, 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 ...
... want peace, and meanwhile they are arming themselves. Only a transparent sincerity in man and among nations can usher in a transformed world. Auroville is the first attempt in this experiment. A new world will be born; if men are willing to make an effort for transformation, to seek for sincerity, it is possible. From animal to man, thousands of years were needed; today, with his mind, man can will ...
... What? ( the disciple repeats his question ) Oh! You can always try! The world is recreated from minute to minute. If you knew how—I mean if you could change your nature—you could recreate a new world this very minute! I didn't say She HAD gone. I said She was CONTEMPLATING it ... at times, now and then. But Mother, if She came down, She must have seen a possibility! She came down because ...
... in it, or rather, more precisely, when we are not personally concerned with it. Whenever a god has donned a body, it was always with the intention of transforming the earth and creating a new world. Yet until now, he always had to give up his body without being able to complete his work; and it has always been said that the earth was not ready, that mankind did not fulfill the conditions necessary ...
... that they realized it. What's more, had they realized it, it seems to me that we would certainly have found some traces—but no traces remain. Theon knew something about it, and he called it 'the new world' or 'the new creation on earth and the glorified body' (I don't remember his exact terminology); but he knew of the Supermind's existence—it had been revealed to him and he announced its coming. He ...
... and strengthens. Have faith and He will do everything for you. Page 189 1956 29 February—29 March Lord, Thou hast willed, and I execute: A new light breaks upon the earth, A new world is born. The things that were promised are fulfilled. 1958 When you are in need of an external change, it means that you do not progress internally. For he who progresses internally can live ...
... There is yet another aspect to the divine grace, the aspect of progress that will be victorious over all obstacles, the aspect that will propel humanity into a new realization, open the doors unto a new world, enable not only a select few to benefit from the divine realization, but through their influence, their example and their power, bring a new and better condition to the rest of humanity. It opens ...
... in me a very great insincerity for such a thing to happen. To say the truth, I do not ask myself the question. In all, all who are known, all who have taken the position of revelators of the new world or realisers of the new life, every one of them possesses a certain percentage of unconsciousness very much greater than mine, then... But this is all that is known publicly. Is there a being somewhere ...
... case, I must have a really great insincerity somewhere. To tell the truth, it's not a question I ask myself. In all those who are known, all those who have taken the stand of "revealers of the new world" or "realizers of the new life," in all of them the proportion of inconscient is still far larger than mine, so ... But that's only what is publicly known: is there somewhere a being unknown to all ...
... Even if one person could put himself faithfully at the disposal of the Truth, he could change the country and the world." 12) The Mother said that Auroville is the only hope for preventing a new world war. Tensions are growing and the situation is becoming very critical. But only the Idea of Auroville, if it can become more widespread, can prevent world war. 13) The children who are born at ...
... it run as a Message referring back to February 29 when the Supramental Manifestation had taken place: Lord, Thou hast willed and I execute: A new light breaks upon the earth, A new world is born. The things that were promised are fulfilled. I speak of a consummation in general because on the evening of February 29 certain aspects of the Supermind became in the inner or ...
... especially sent; and also a certain receptivity—everywhere, even in the Chinese (I don't mean locally: it's all over the world). Is it because, materially, there's some anxiety at the idea of...? If a new world war starts, it's obviously going to be something unspeakable, frightful, frightful—whole civilizations will be swallowed up. It will put a stop to life on earth in a terrible way. Is that what made ...
... truly interesting. Last, there is the fact that Kennedy is Catholic. And also, that all this is happening just now, I mean when AT LEAST (I don't say at best, I say at least) the foundation of the new world is being prepared.... The foundations are being prepared. We shall see. ( Mother looks at the "Time" magazine photo again: ) With these photos it's very interesting, I have intriguing ex ...
... the message in English read: "To celebrate the manifestation of the eternal Consciousness can be done at every moment of the universal history." "But to celebrate the advent of a new world, the Supramental, is a marvellous and exceptional privilege." Evidently, the Mother was pulling us beyond the disciples' devoted urge to make overmuch of the annually returning single ...
... on on February 29, 1956, in the earth's subtle-physical layer, what she called the earth's "atmosphere". Lord, Thou hast willed, and I execute, A new light breaks upon the earth, A new world is born. The things that were promised are fulfilled. This Message is reproduced on the imprint-page of Mother India every month. Mother India's motto from the very start has been: "Great ...
... touch and bless us with the same tender compulsion as before towards a perfect future. All the wonderful hours we had spent with her in the past relived — not as merely revived memories but as a new world of strange sensations filled with the warm creative beatitude that was the Mother with whom we used to have daily contact. With implications undreamt-of by him whom Sri Aurobindo called ...
... perception the sense of infinity which can give meaning to our daily occupations. Any one of these can become our foundational engagement; in fact it has thus already opened out an altogether new world of creative action for us. Based on Savitri we already have Sunil Bhattacharya's music and Huta Hindocha's paintings under the direct guidance of the Mother. These are examples of the new art ...
... he returns to the outer consciousness after this baptism in the waters of transcendence, he has won "his soul's release from Ignorance": A wide God-knowledge poured down from above, A new world-knowledge broadened from within... A genius heightened in his body's cells That knew the meaning of his fate-hedged works. 28 His body's cells have themselves grown conscious of ...
... works where they are left unchanged. 22 Supplement , SABCL, Vol. 27, p. 154. 23 Ibid ., p. 99. 24 Ibid ., p. 106. Page 445 He found in Sanskrit literature a new world of form and content and submitted to its winning influence. But before him there was a tremendous problem: How could this influence be assimilated in English, a language so different from Sanskrit ...
... all the Samskaras put to flame. The Princess's sufferings were therefore poignantly characteristic of the great upheavals that shake up a society on the eve of a coming Era. In it a new Yuga, a new world-order was ushered in. Rishi Markandeya holds the same promise, perhaps even a more splendid promise, in the Savitri-example he prefers to give to Yudhishthira. The Princess of Madra ...
... Elizabethan, but Sri Aurobindo's poetry, epic in range, is almost entirely Greek. Sanskrit literature, the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Ramayana, the Mahabharata, Kalidasa, Bhavabhuti, may have opened a new world of vision and taste and supplied him with new subject-matter to transmute and make his own, but in flawless power and self-sufficiency, specially of the later and greater works, his poetry is comparable ...
... calm the deep sense of its songs; A memory awoke of the past, And crumbled the embodied wrongs. From it an authentic voice surged, — Like a great wave on a shoreless sea; A new world is born, it proclaimed, A world of love which is death-free. Through the ages someone toiled, To claim the flames of the sky, There was the God's sacrifice Willing the Will of ...
... the heart and all along the blood - we shall never rise to the golden top of our bent and we shall waste the magnificent possibilities that seers like Sri Aurobindo bring us today of initiating a new world-order inspired and illumined by the divinity hidden within man. Mention of Sri Aurobindo lays here a further shade of the right significance we should attach to secularity. One meaning of ...
... peace and, on the other hand, arm themselves. Only transparent sincerity in men and among nations will permit the advent of a transformed world. Auroville is the first attempt of the experiment. A new world will be born if men are willing to make the effort of a transformation and of a quest for sincerity; it is possible. From animal to man thousands of years were necessary; today man, thanks to his ...
... The text has been further revised and amended at a few places in this reprint. Lord, Thou hast willed, and I execute, A new light breaks upon the earth, A new world is born. The things that were promised are fulfilled. THE MOTHER ...
... profound significance. The Mother received one day what she has called the Word of Creation. Just as the God Brahma is said to have brought forth the world with his Word of Creation, the fiat of a new world that could be marvellously built lay ready with the Mother. A superhuman world was on the verge of being materialised. With this power the Mother went to Sri Aurobindo's room Page 11 ...
... one suggested by Milton in reference to world-creation. When the starry universe is created with the race of Man at its centre, the multitudes of Heaven sing the Creator's praise and pitting the new World against the so-called loss of worshippers which Satan's defection has caused to Heaven they declare: Who seeks To lessen them, against his purpose, serves To manifest the more thy ...
... upon in different parts of the world and to consider not only the implications of these innovations but also to visualise what kind of education is required to meet the highest needs of building a new world order. He said that the tasks that are normally given to educational committees and Com missions are limited to the immediate concerns. He added that the situation has, however, become so acutely ...
... the deification of the State that crushes variety and individuality. He is looking for a better solution. In his quest, at the level of his deepest thoughts, he begins to perceive that the new world demands a new man. And, he turns more deeply within himself. The message of this inner quest is clear: 'You cannot effect any change in others unless you have effected the change in yourself. You ...
... and of standard bearers. India invites all her children to turn to her soul and power and to generate a new dynamo of action that would transform the entire world of confusion and disorder into a new world of clarity of wisdom and ideal order of harmony. Page 59 ...
... the consequences; Truth in Thought; Truth in feeling; Truth in Action; Truth alone succeeds; ii. Aspiration for Perfection: Whatever you do, do it as perfectly as you can; Hi. Dream of the New World: Where truth alone prevails, where beauty and goodness pervade; iv.Healthy mind in a healthy body; v.To see the invisible and to hear the inaudible; vi.The body as a temple of the Spirit; ...
... Aurobindo did for the liberation of India was evidently a part of his larger work for the entire humanity and indeed for the whole earth. For him, the liberation of India was an indispensable part of the new world- order. Moreover, the practice of Yoga, which he had started in 1902, led him, even while in the thick of intense political and literary activity, to major realisations of the Bramhic Silence, Nirvana ...
... Aurobindo did for the liberation of India was evidently a part of his larger work for the entire humanity and for the whole earth. For him, the liberation of India was an indispensable part of the new world-order. Moreover, the practice of Yoga, which he had started in 1902, led him, even while in the thick of intense political and literary activity, to major realizations of the Brahmic Silence, Nirvana ...
... the knowledge of man and the knowledge of nature, of the aesthetic and the ethical, of the technology of matter and the technology of spirit. Against the forces that resist the birth of the new world, there is, let us affirm, a great quest, a deep yearning to discover or to invent the key to transform the divided world into a happy family of man. This is the universal thrust towards the future ...
... clock Jesse once again at 11 seconds! Page 343 Then in 1928 Owens set his first two of innumerable records: 6 feet in the high jump, and 22 feet, 11 3/4 inches in the long jump. Both were new world marks for junior high school athletes. Yet quick results were not Riley's main concern. His motto, "Train for four years from next Friday," meant patient work for the sake of long-range goals. "Where ...
... illustrate the following themes: The ideal of truth: To speak the truth, whatever the consequences. Aspiration for perfection: whatever you do, do it as perfectly as you can. Dreams of the new world: Where truth alone prevails, where beauty and goodness pervade. Special exhibitions on the above themes. Teachers may recommend the following exercises and help each child to practise ...
... the hidden worlds And glowed and teemed with marvellous shapes and hues" (29) (5)"Ever his consciousness and vision grew; They took an ampler sweep, a loftier flight" (31) (6)"A new world-knowledge broadened from within" (44) (7)"He grew one with a covert universe.... Forms he descried our mortal eyes see not. His wide eyes bodied viewless entities, He saw the cosmic ...
... themes: 1. The ideal of truth: To speak the truth, whatever the consequences. 2. Aspiration for perfection: Whatever you do, do it as perfectly as you can. 3. Dreams of the new world: Where truth alone prevails, where beauty and goodness pervade. II. Special exhibitions on the above themes. III. Teachers may recommend the following exercises and help each child ...
... of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity; (b) Contemporary Crisis and the Future; (c) International Sports; (d) Contemporary interdisciplinary studies; (e) Prospect of a New World Culture; (f) New Movements in Health and Healing; (g)UNO and international agencies their origin, their significance and their role; (h) Commercial Geography and ICT; ...
... LXXXIII. The Child and Parents LXXXIV. Value of Friendship and Childhood LXXXV. The Child and Teamwork LXXXVI. The Child as the Builder of the New World LXXXVII. Adolescence and problems of Nutrition and physical education LXXXVIII. Psychological problems of adolescence LXXXIX. Adolescence of girls ...
... individual, however great, however eternal his consciousness and origin, can on his own change and realise - change the world, change the creation as it is and realise this higher Truth which will be a new world more true, if not absolutely true. It would seem that a certain number of individuals - until now it seems to have been more in time, as a succession, but it could also be in space, a collectivity ...
... endeavour." (The Life Divine, p. 1060) Sri Aurobindo Ashram is, on the Page 8 contrary, "an effort to create a new life-formation which will exceed the ordinary human society and create a new world-order." (Ibid.) The Ashram is not an agglomeration of a certain number of psychologically isolated individual sadhaks and sadhikas; for the command of the Spirit is unity. The genuine spiritual ...
... was necessary because certain possibilities had to emerge and be got rid f if a new and better world was at all to come into being; it would not have done to postpone them for a later time... the new world whose coming we envisage is not to be made of the same texture as the old and different only in pattern... it must come by other means—from within and not from without....¹ *** The Indian ...
... that there can be infinite and valid varieties of spiritual experiences is the important step in the solution. It is not by insisting on religion that India and the world can be reconstructed. The new world will transcend religions and will insist on the purity of spiritual experience. Instead of taking religions in their outward forms, which are precisely dogmas and intellectual conceptions ...
... the world. In that short interval she had made the discovery for which all her previous life had formed a preparation. It is really no exaggeration to say that, like Columbus, she had discovered a new world. The world which Columbus discovered was a world without; Montessori discovered a world within — within the soul of the child. Let us make no mistake about it; it was a genuine discovery of something ...
... convinced that there is some other phenomenon that governs their life. Perhaps it has not yet spread in the masses, but those few who have been seized by it are charged by an ecstasy to blossom into a new world. They feel something new coursing through their muscles, nerves and cells, which gives them the energy and the force, the courage and the endurance to surpass all the physical laws and absorb a ...
... and it becomes long, and, it is naturally frightening for those who are not used to it. And we shall be able to do things like that, (Mother laughs) by the plasticity of our bodies. And in this new world we shall all be conscious and it will be something that none could ever imagine. We can be master of everything. But not with this body, it is not yet fully conscious, and it is more or less guided ...
... varieties of spiritual Page 119 experiences is the important step in the solution. It is not by insisting on religion that India and the world can be reconstructed. The new world will transcend religions and will insist on the purity of spiritual experience. Instead of taking religions in their outward forms, which are precisely dogmas and intellectual conceptions ...
... cross. It is for the same purpose Shiva had to drink the poison from the sea. To save mankind, God dons a mortal garb, undergoes human suffering and ultimately even 'dies' to give birth to a brave new world. The saviour's situation is terrible indeed. The very people whom he has sought to save turn against him, mock at him, and do their best to wreck his hard-wrought handiwork. This is because there ...
... mighty Mother has made her, .. .the centre of a wide-drawn scheme,... To mould humanity into God's own shape And lead this great blind struggling world to light Or a new world discover or create. 275 But for this to be accomplished, the heavenly psyche hidden in Savitri should come out into the open and "liberate the god imprisoned in the visionless mortal man" ...
... there and must not be there. A new conception of the Spirit and 'a new conception of Matter are gaining ground more and more, moving towards a true synthesis of the two, making for the creation of a new world and a new human type. The East is no longer the traditional East of the poet who viewed it as eternally static and meditative, drowned in an "eyeless muse" away and aloof from earth and world ...
... the central lesson of Pasternak's autobiography. That is why even when Pasternak speaks of social progress, a better humanity, we are not sure. For what matters is the present. A brave new world in the offing, yes. But how to take life in the meanwhile? Evidently, it is the life of the cross, you have to choose that or it is imposed upon you. The Kingdom of Heaven is within you and in ...
... These "dates in their sequence are significant in that they indicate or represent some occult phenomena, some happenings in the inner world, each marking a step forward in the manifestation of the New World of the Supramental. To come back. Among the characteristics of the Soviet Gymnasts, also the major lessons that one can learn from Page 473 them, are: first, difficult and ...
... unexpected and the wonderful. And one could hope for the most splendid, the most delightful things from this Will, sovereignly free, playing eternally with the elements, ceaselessly bringing forth a new world that would have logically nothing to do with the world that went before. Don't you think it would be the happiest of things? We have had enough of the world as it is. All this I am telling ...
... frontiers of form, a new force can be evoked, a power of consciousness which has not yet manifested and which, by its emergence, will be able to change the course of things and bring to birth a new world. For the true solution of the problem of suffering, ignorance and death is not the individual escape by self-annihilation from earthly miseries into the non-manifest, nor a problematical collective ...
... editorial notes and comments contributed to the Advent Acknowledgement is due to All-India Radio, Delhi, from where the first essay, in an abridged form was broadcast on December 4, 1942. 'New World-Conditions' was published in the Hindusthan Quarterly Calcutta. (1945 ), .'The Basis of Unity' in the Prabuddha Bharata (1943, May), the papers 'On Social Reconstruction' in the Sri Aurobindo ...
... particularly familiar to the East. The Indian term for Right is also the term for Duty— adhik ā ra means both. In Europe too, in more recent times, when after the frustration of the dream of the new world envisaged by the French Revolution, man was called upon again to rise and hope, it was Mazzini who brought forward the new or discarded principle as a mantra replacing the other more dangerous one ...
... photos of special movements and positions of Mother's hands (mudras). Let me tell you about this. One day Udar's sister, Millie, wrote to Mother: "Mother, the hands you've used to build a new world should be photographed. Please ask Pranab to take some photos." It was 1972, the year the Government of India issued a special stamp on Sri Aurobindo. Mother was to accept the first day cover ...
... firm on its pristine foundations. May the universe dissolve, may it vanish Even like a dream - And thou alone appear, thou alone abide One in thy multitudinous reality; I shall find a new world in Thee, a world made of Thee; Therein each limb of mine shall realise its fullness of union with Thee And shall taste utter felicity. May 28, 1933 Page 317 XVIII ...
... knowledge and expression. The old-world method was, as I said, intuitive, experiential, empirical, dogmatic. Also the atmosphere of that world, the stress of the consciousness was theocratic; what the new world brought in was what is called humanistic. We say then that it was a necessity: it was a necessity that the rational, logical, ratiocinative, analytic mentality should be brought out and given ...
... 26 JUNE 1940 PURANI: Hitler has presented a plan for the federation of continental Europe from which England and Russia will be barred. This man is full of ideas. SRI AUROBINDO: His New World Order? PURANI: Yes, Europe will be divided into three blocks: they will have no armies. SRI AUROBINDO: Wait a minute. How will the blocks be formed? PURANI: One block in the Balkans, one ...
... control of the Dardanelles also, an entry into Asia Minor. The position will then be that except for Russia and Britain everybody will be under Hitler. Spain is practically under his thumb. That is the New World Order. I suppose. Only North Africa will be out of it, since it is being guarded by the British navy. PURANI: I suppose Turkey will consult Russia before yielding. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes. Everybody ...
... Brahman or un-mitigated Absolute of the Mayavadin or the Zero, Shunyam of the Buddhist not excluded. Since it is there that the true foundations of creation lie hidden and it is from there that a new world has to be recreated, a new humanity reshaped. The very stuff of human nature has to be changed, not only what is considered as bad in it but what is valued as good also. For beyond good and evil is ...
... gave a very decided turn to the slowly advancing humanity. It brought with it something that meant in the march of evolution a saltum, a leap wide and clear; it landed man all of a sudden into a new world, a new state of consciousness. It is this state of consciousness, the fundamental way of being, inculcated by the scientific spirit that is of capital importance and possesses a survival value. It ...
... Aurobindo's revised edition of 'The Ideal of Human Unity' At the time when this book was being brought to its close, the first attempt at the foundation of some initial hesitating beginning of the new world-order, which both governments and peoples had begun to envisage as a permanent necessity if there was to be any order in the world at all, was under debate and consideration but had not yet been given ...
... particularly familiar to the East. The Indian term for Right is also the term for duty-adhikara means both. In Europe too, in more recent times, when after the frustration of the dream of a new world envisaged by the French Revolution, man was called upon again to rise and hope, it was Mazzini who brought forward the new or discarded principle as a mantra replacing the other more ...
... definitive norm of things. It wishes to discover and establish other norms, it strives to bring about changes in the nature and condition of things, envisage the shape of things to come, work for a brave new world. The poet of today, in spite of all his effort to remain a pure poet, in spite of Housman's advocacy of nonsense and not-sense being the essence of true Art, is almost invariably at heart an incorrigible ...
... adverse forces. It is ignorance which has pushed man into this state. But do not worry. One who has been given the charge, One who is responsible, works to bring man towards the frontiers of a New World; He uproots the difficulties and the obstacles incessantly, guiding man towards a luminous future. He alone can cure this malady, because he is the Master of our existence. Have confidence and all ...
... Egypt. Anilkumar seems to be naive. NIRODBARAN: He doesn't read the papers. PURANI: This man Sumer is saying that though Spain is quiet now, it doesn't mean that Spain has no interest in the New World Order in Europe. When the time comes, Spain will take her share. He has gone to Germany. Perhaps Hitler may persuade or force him to join him. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes. Siam is also claiming from the ...
... steps of a flight of stairs, and would seem lost in thought. They were all on the threshold of a unique experience (if the regular sadhaks were to be believed), they felt projected into a strange new world - and they wondered what priceless revelation (or what dismal disappointment) was waiting for them round the corner. The queue would be formed at last by about two in the afternoon - usually ...
... he returns to the outer consciousness after this baptism in the waters of transcendence, he has won "his soul's release from Ignorance"; A wide God-knowledge poured down from above, A new world-knowledge broadened from within:... A genius heightened in his body's cells That knew the meaning of his fate-hedged works... 36 His body's cells have themselves grown conscious of ...
... demand made upon us. She asks of us, ‘How many will live for me? How many will die for me?’ and awaits our answer. * Our call is to young India. It is the young who must be the builders of the new world,… who are free in mind and heart to accept a completer truth and labour for a greater ideal…. It is with a confident trust in the spirit that inspires us that we take our place among the standard ...
... very bottom of the inconscience most hard and rigid and narrow and stifling I struck upon an almighty spring that cast me up forthwith into a formless limitless Vast vibrating with the seeds of a new world.' - Nov 26 Takes her last Wednesday class at the Playground. Describes the role of the spirit in the present and in the supramental world, and the nature of the soul. - Dec 5 Says in her ...
... till the vision is reached, realised and reinstalled in all the beauty of its first appearance. 8 In the "Hour of God", compact of challenge, peril, promise and fulfilment, the Vision of a New World sustained the nameless numberless votaries who had dared everything, sacrificed everything. God had led them. God had (it seemed to many) taken a human form to vivify in his own life, in the flaming ...
... matched by a new flowering of consciousness, a sovereign Truth-Consciousness future-oriented although with its roots in the living past, there was every hope that the Abyss would be avoided and a new world established, the world of the Next Future. In one of his letters, Sri Aurobindo had announced many years earlier: "The supramental consciousness will enter into a phase of realising power in 1967 ...
... 5:273 13. Roses :4 14. Bull Feb-56:96 15. MO 13:14 16. MO 8:11,13 17. MO 8:311 18. MO 9:113 19. MO 8:187 20. MO 8:236 21. Savitri :277-78 45. A New World is Born 1. MO 8:21 2. MO 8:27,28 3. MO 8:42 4. MO 8:159 5. MO 8:66-68 6. SA 20:98 7. MO 8:76,79 8. MI Mar-75:197 9. MO 15:102 10. MI Mar-60:2 11. MI Mar-60:3; cf ...
... Sri Aurobindo And The New World Acknowledgement For valuable materials supplied and for reading the manuscripts throught, the author is indebted to Sri Nolinikanta Gupta whose association with Sri Aurobindo began as a revolutionary, continued as under-trial in jail and ever since all through the long years of the Master's spiritual work as Secretary of the ...
... Sri Aurobindo And The New World ...
... otherwise — I was already past twenty —I said, 'Oh, really? Is that so?'" Mother laughed. "And then when he told me all about Théon's teachings and the 'Cosmic Life' and about the inner God and a new world that would be a world of beauty and, at least, of peace and light . . . well, I rushed into it headlong." After a moment she went on, "But even at the time I was told: 'It depends upon YOU alone ...
... bow to her in gratitude. Merging into the folds of Savitri one can feel spirituality as a tangible experience for the epic never fails us. Every reading opens yet another brave new world! I was a teenager when I used to accompany my father in his daily walks, and listened to him reciting 'The Symbol Dawn'while we watched the sun rise above the Bay of Bengal: The ...
... spot for everything to be fine again. And Mother added: The body is unable to know things in the way it did formerly. 5 To sum up, the body had to forget a whole world in order to learn the new world. So there is a period when you are in suspense: no longer this, not yet that [No longer the fish, not yet the bird.], just in between. It's a difficult period when you have to be very quiet, very ...
... awoke and they wholly saw, all behind and wide around them, then, indeed, they held the ecstasy that is enjoyed in heaven” (IV. 1.18). "Mortal, they achieved immortality" (1.110.4). This is the new world Sri Aurobindo would call the supramental. It is the turiyam svid of the Vedic Rishis, a "certain fourth," which is perhaps a fourth state of Matter—the next state. A state in which Matter does ...
... body? Why did Mother leave? Where are they, and what is happening? Could there be already here, on earth, another "milieu” trying to pierce through our layers of mud and to propel us by force into a new world? ...
... give you good health steadily. With my love and blessings. 8 To Pranab Bhattacharya she wrote on 18 October: To my beloved child and faithful companion in the building up of the New World. With my love, my trust and my blessings for ever. 9 To Huta, the Mother wrote every few days, and they were words of comfort or courage, of admonition or appreciation, of hope or benediction: ...
... were coming in pairs to bring earth from their native lands, pouring or sprinkling it into the marble urn; before our eyes the lands became One Earth.... And there... presiding over the crescent new world of the future... was the Mother as she gave Darshan from the balcony of her Ashram quarters in 1968. Such an infinite tenderness radiated from the face and figure moving slowly along the balcony rail ...
... and in an illumined work. 15 IV The Mother's New Year message for 1956 was a warning doubled with a promise: The greatest victories are the least noisy. The manifestation of a new world is not proclaimed by beat of drum. Explaining its genesis to the children at the Playground on 4 January, the Mother said that when, towards the close of the previous year, she was asked for the ...
... "Never boast about anything, let your acts speak for you." For 1956 which was to be the year of the supramental manifestation, "The greatest victories are the least noisy. The manifestation of a new world is not proclaimed by beat of drum." In 1967, when "the transforming evolution of the world" had taken "a hastened and intensified movement", 2 the choice for humanity was imperative: "Truth or ...
... of this work.... The divine force is with you - feel its presence more and more and be careful never to betray it. Feel, wish, act, that you may be new beings for the realisation of a new world and for this my blessings shall always be with you. 11 The Mother's message on the forty-first anniversary of her final coming was in the words of Sri Aurobindo himself: An inner (soul) relation ...
... man-making" and earth-transformation. The Arya had been launched on 15 August 1914, partly because Sri Aurobindo had already won his way to certain spiritual realisations that could sustain a new world-view, and partly because the Richards had wanted him to share his visions of future possibility with thinking people all over the world. But Richard had to go, and Mirra, freeing herself however ...
... It was as though the divine and the anti-divine forces were invisibly caught in an intestine conflict which was also reflected in the life of the sensitive Ashram community. The nucleus of a New World was being fashioned in the Ashram, and the forces of the Old World were up in arms against it! Anilbaran Roy has recorded how one night (12 December 1926) he had a fierce nightmarish attack by ...
... conflicting forces act at cross-purposes and precipitate what we call chances. But this flawed old world-order must change, and is changing, and we are witnessing the throes of the birth of a new world-order: It is the struggle between the old and the new that forms the crux of the Yoga; but if you are bent on being faithful to the supreme Law and Order revealed to you, the parts of your ...
... 21.3.1936: FIDELITY Twenty minutes at the feet of the Mother. Two minutes' meditation. The Mother said: 1. The cross is the symbol of transformation. The circle represents the New World. 2. The Light of the Mother: it is not all that see it. Those in whom the inner sense is developed see it.. .. 3. The sense of wideness means that you get out of the ego into wider world ...
... world was there the Self was forgotten. But now His gold sun has shone on me from thy face. And now another realm draws near with thee And now diviner voices fill my ear, A strange new world swims to me in thy gaze Approaching like a star from unknown heavens; A cry of spheres comes with thee and a song Of flaming Gods. I draw a wealthier breath And in a fierier march ...
... lonely live ' Adored he walks in mighty solitude; Vain is his labour to create his kins, His only comrade is the Strength within." "0 sunlight moulded like a golden maid ! A strange new world swims to me in thy gaze Approaching like a star from unknown heavens;" "All with thy coming fills Air, Soil and Stream wear bridal raiment to be fit for thee." "Narada the heavenly ...
... Mother has been striving to establish in the earth-consciousness, the Light about which she wrote decades ago in her Prayers and Meditations: "A new Light shall break upon the earth, a new world shall be born : the things that were promised shall be fulfilled.” Addressing the children of the Centre of Education, she said in 1951 : Page 385 "There is an ascending evolution ...
... not have minded any result to the British Empire, if its destruction did not mean victory for Hitler. But that changes the whole aspect. Disciple : Is this not all due to the necessity of a new world order? Sri Aurobindo : Yes, evidently. Question is what is going to be the world-order and how is it to be brought about? Page 285 Sri Aurobindo then spoke of the psychic ...
... Mother has been striving to establish in the earth-consciousness, the Light about which she wrote decades ago in her Prayers and Meditations: "A new Light shall break upon the earth, a new world shall be bom: the things that were promised shall be fulfilled." Addressing the children of the University, she said in 1951: "There is an ascending evolution in nature which goes from ...
... all-reconciling comprehensive outlook, the happy fusion of the ideals of the East and the West, and, above all, the authentic, divine dynamism, capable of transforming human nature and creating a new world order, which alone can lift mankind from the morass of degeneracy into which it has sunk. May humanity turn more and more to the delivering Light! 3rd December, 1959 RISHABHCHAND ...
... merely a matter of ameliorating the world. There are people who clomour for change of government, social reform and philanthropic work, believing that they can thereby make the world better. We want a new world, a true world, an expression of the Truth-Consciousness. And it will be, it must be—and the sooner the better. It should not, however, be just a subjective change. The whole physical life must be ...
... deathless moment had been found, —A pearl within eternity's white shell". Then her mind arose out of that ocean and the three moved onward in the soul-scene. They were the only travellers in this new world "where souls were not," "but only living moods." Everything in this country was weired including a "road which like fear hastening towards that of which it has most terror" passed through rocks and ...
... young! What enthusiasm they put into their marching and exercise! Enjoying themselves just like kids! The Mother had wiped out the notion of age from all of us. All began breathing the air of the New World in the Playground. I feel like saying: Meditation forget, leave flowers aside! Let clothes tear, on dust-clouds let’s ride! In Her karmayoga let us join all, What if from our bodies ...
... forest; and it was the reply, like an orange outburst: something else, something else, another man, another life on earth! It sang that morning, it resounded in my heart like the clarion of the new world, like a tocsin of the end of an age: something else, something else, another being who will be born from our fire, another earth which will be born from our cry of truth, something we do not know ...
... the world and perhaps the death of the world. It will be another Matter... and yet the same. It will be the real body, as it is. It will be the end of the mind's magic. There is not a new world to be created: there is a magic spell to undo. And Sri Aurobindo said it three times in Savitri: A spell is laid upon [our] glorious strengths 30 The body's tissues thrill apotheosised ...
... world. A Harmony—the physical world seems appalling in comparison. But that doesn't last. My perceptions are getting clearer and clearer, more and more luminous—vaster and vaster. It's really like a new world that wants to manifest itself. 11 And I am obliged to say that I do not understand⎯the end, yes, one can understand; the other side, one can imagine. But the transition, that which creates ...
... hides behind? Perhaps we do not know it as yet. It may be similar to the time of the man who linked the trajectories of a few stars and built an entire world⎯but these are other stars and this is a new world. And the former prepared the latter, which prepare what? I am not very sure that that “cellular time” has all the meaning that we try to decipher. Step by step, this was how it appeared to Mother ...
... Part One: The Cell Without Code Mother or The Mutation Of Death - III 6: The Cellular Winding It is a whole new world that reveals itself at the cellular level, a very unexpected and amazing world, which seems to correspond only distantly to the knowledge of the microscope and the biologist’s rigid laws! It is almost like the difference between a bird’s ...
... had crashed down on the rocks of the Isle of Wight while walking in trance along the cliffs. An "accident” that was no accident; she had probably seen that Theon was not destined to bring down the new world—therefore she no longer had any raison d’etre. Having lost her, Theon had lost his base. He was suddenly no more than an old Atlantean from an outdated world, and despite everything, he was too great ...
... where we are and we knock at doors like the blind; we are the sons of a new race, the adventurers of a truer life, and even if our rags betray us, they are truer than ourselves! We are the sons of a new world in the twilight of the intellect and the machine—the sannyasis of a “nothing known”—and we are knocking in the dark, we do not know the way, we do not even know our words or our meaning, but we are ...
... within all things.... Extremely sensitive to all the movements of those around me. And She once again remarked: The relationship with external things is no longer the same. 40 It was a whole new world that was tracing itself, or a new way of being in the world. “But what do you do ?” I asked, as I was hopelessly fixated on the practical side of things— When I go off like that, “within,” she ...
... Dancing to Sunil-da's music was quite an extraordinary experience. Absolutely unforgettable. The music he had composed for the aspiration dance was perhaps the harbinger of the future music of the new world, what became subsequently so clear, what the Mother called the 'Music of Tomorrow, the Music of the Future' . The 1 st December programme of 1964 was a dance-drama based on Sri Aurobindo's The Hour ...
... into the depth of his being. He looked up to the skies - a distant look in his eyes - oblivious of his immediate surroundings." 54 A wide God-knowledge poured down from above, A new world-knowledge broadened from within... The human in him paced with the divine. 55 Page 331 ...
... only they would be able to bear the impact of the new Light and bring to fruition the stupendous programme of change and transformation: It is the young who must be the builders of the new world - not those who accept the competitive individualism, the capitalism or the materialistic communism of the West.... They will need to consecrate their lives to an exceeding of their lower self, ...
... Advaitic gospel of the great Shankara. What if all that grandeur be now "dwarfed or turned to bitter loss and maim"? We have not forgotten yet "the ideal of those splendid days of gold"; and the "new world of our vision" shall surely rise indeed and give back to us our lost heritage! Love of Nature, like love of Motherland, can also be elevated to breathless oration akin to religious devotion ...
... physical world, and Thy constant presence in our midst is a token of Thy active collaboration. The Lord has willed and Thou dost execute: A new Light shall break upon the earth. A new world shall be born, And the things that were promised shall be fulfilled. 27 While the outer gloom cast by the war was to continue for some years, the inner mist raised by the invasion ...
... brim with passion. A sort of miniature Renascence was in the process. An ardent and imaginative race, long bound in the fetters of a single tradition, had had suddenly put into its hand the key to a new world thronged with the beautiful or profound creations of Art and Learning.... The first impulse was gigantic in its proportions and produced men of an almost gigantic originality. Rammohan Ray arose with ...
... on that his penetrating gaze had divined the burden imposed on the earth by 'an obstinately Asuric humanity' on the one side, and on the other, his eye of knowledge had looked beyond and seen the New World that was being created. "So much depends on Time and God's immediate purpose that it is more important to seek out His purpose than to attach ourselves to our own nostrums. The Kala Purusha, Zeitgeist ...
... went on an exploratory mission to the east coast of India. So far we have barely mentioned France, which too was a great colonial power. It held vast territories in the African continent, the New World, the Far-East, and was looking at India: a rich new land of opportunities. All types of adventurers were attracted to this new El Dorado. The earlier ones were more concerned with promoting French ...
... vanish and the whole earth heave a sigh of relief that that type at least is gone forever. But to the young men of Bengal we have a word to say. The future belongs to the young. It is a young and new world which is now under process of development and it is the young who must create it. But it is also a world of truth, courage, justice, lofty aspiration and straightforward fulfilment which we seek to ...
... with looking forth at mortalities and seemings through those doors of the mind and sense which the Self-existent has made to open outward upon a world of forms; it is driven to gaze inward into a new world of realities. Here in the world that man knows, he possesses something which, however imperfect and insecure, he yet values. For he aims at and to some extent he procures enlarged being, increasing ...
... the individual consciousness which gave them forth or outlast it. Of the latter kind poetical creation is a salient example. At a certain time in a certain country one named Shakespeare created a new world by the force of his Avidya, his faculty of imagining what is not. That world is as real and unreal today as it was when Shakespeare created it or in more accurate Vedantic language asrijata , loosed ...
... 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 shackled in all her limbs by a multitude of gross or minute bonds, bonds self-woven by her past, bonds recently imposed from outside, and is struggling ...
... God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein." A particular inner attitude or state of receptivity, a happy harmonious within, appears to be implied as a prerequisite of the Christ-centred new world which has to take shape. Page 70 Perhaps here I cannot do better than bring in Sri Aurobindo, whom the title of your article couples with the Kingdom of God. I shall draw upon ...
... gave me on 17 April 1951 a paradoxical-sounding thought-provoking message on the situation. It said: "We are sorry to say that the dismissal of MacArthur may well be one more big step towards a new world-wide war." Page 149 ...
... composed the music for the 1st of December, Anu’s dance-drama. Because you alone can do it the way it should be done. Your music is, according to me, the music of the future and it opens the ways to the new world. Blessings. 13.8.65 My child, Yesterday, at a quarter past twelve and (again) today, at the same time, I have heard your music with deep emotion and I can tell you that I have never heard ...
... achieved that for which she has placed her trust in me.” [Some comments made by the Mother on Sunil’s music: “Your music is, according to me, the music of the future and it opens the way to the New World.” (13.8.65) Again later she wrote: “My child, yesterday at a quarter past twelve and again today, at the same time, I have heard your music with deep emotion and I can tell you that I have never ...
... telepathically linked among themselves without knowing each other) and who accept physical or psychological torture in order to transform it by giving themselves without reserve to the Force which, if a new world is to ever be born from ours, is presently in the process of shaping it in us. It is thus that the messengers of the future age take on the obscurity which devours us—not from sublime heights where ...
... there was a bright light of blue colour. And there I saw, far from us, flashes of golden lightning all around and above continuously. I was standing in front of the tree and admiring this beautiful new world. Just then in front of me I saw the Mother and Sri Aurobindo sitting. But, on what they were sitting and where they were resting their feet I could not see at all. I could only see their golden luminous ...
... instrument. The Mother's voice was extremely sweet and melodious and evoked spontaneous concentration. It was a peaceful, exhilarating and elevating atmosphere. I was all along aware of being in a grand new world. This continued for quite some time. Then I saw something marvellous! The Mother and Sri Aurobindo, two together in one body, were seen in front of each and every one at the same time, in a be ...
... indicate the activity of the psychic being. It is by this activity that one can go without moving physically (indicated by the earth itself moving) into higher and more beautiful regions. In this new world, all arrangements are perfectly done by the Father and the Mother, the “two who are one.” Having once reached the higher domains of consciousness, one lives less in the physical consciousness as indicated ...
... altogether strange place and he loses even his own individual identity. This new place or the “hall” is not the common type with doors, windows, etc., seen in the physical world. It is a place in the new world, filled with the golden light of the Supramental Truth and it can he-reached only through a higher consciousness that transcends all earthly consciousness. Here, “Self's vast spiritual silence” is ...
... Shall flee, like mist from a tempest's might... And our singing shall build In the Void's loose field A world for the Spirit of Wisdom to wield; We will take our plan From the new world of man And the work shall be called the Promethean: Demagomgon reappears and addresses all basic existences — the Earth, the Moon, the Sun, and the Stars, the elemental genii, the beasts ...
... Life Divine, SABCL. Vol. 18, p. 47. × Eckhart khan Tolle, Stillness Speak,, Novato, CA: New World Library. 2003. p. 66. × The Mother. Questions and Answers '50-'51. CWM Vol. 4, p. 35 ...
... and all the Sanskaras put to flame. The Princess's sufferings were therefore poignantly characteristic of the great upheavals that shake up a society on the eve of a coming Era. In it a new Yuga, a new world-order was ushered in. Rishi Markandeya holds the same promise, perhaps even a more splendid promise, in the Savitri-example he prefers to give to Yudhishthira. The Princess of Madra King Aswapati's ...
... (Correspondence with Debou) Debou's Correspondence with The Mother 4 January 1958 Open yourself to the new world and with it you will grow towards the future. 4 January 1958 ...
... g the radiant Energy, the perfect Light and the unchanging Bliss. There and not in the mind or the higher vital is all the difficulty, but there too must be the victory and the foundation of the new world. I do not wish to disguise from you the difficulty of this great and tremendous change or the possibility that you may have a long and hard work before you, but are you really unwilling to face it ...
... hope you are not referring to the whole colossal mass of the Synthesis – though that too may be ready for publication before the next world war (?) or after the beginning of the Satya Yuga (new World Order?). If you mean the Yoga of Works, I am writing or trying to write four or five additional chapters for it. I hope they will be ready in a reasonable time; but my daily time is short and ...
... In Defiance of Reason The rejection of reason as the guiding light of man, of the revolutionary changes the Enlightenment had brought about, and of the new world and the civilization it attempted to realize, are characteristic of all trends within the völkisch movement. The völkisch experience derived in a straight line from the great romanticist period which ...
... organization, the DAP, and to the astonishing fact that Hitler entered politics fully prepared to use the irrelevant political circle as the springboard for a mass movement based on a revolutionary new world view. He entered the DAP with a prepared mind, the intention to hijack it, and the awareness that his entrance on the political scene was “a decision that would be for good, with no turning back” ...
... servitude and a cringing existence. But my glorious young ones – is there a more beautiful youth in the whole world? Have a look at these young men and boys! What a material! With them I can build a new world!” 814 “My pedagogic principles are tough”, continued Hitler. “The weak parts must be hammered away. In my Ordensburgen a youth will grow up that will startle the world. I want a violent, aut ...
... perceptible signs of the continuation of the process? Any overmen or overwomen? Any events brought about by those new, supposedly very powerful forces? After all, one may assume that the coming of a New World is much more than a new social, scientific or religious paradigm: it means the change from a very troublesome, not to say absurd, human condition to a fully harmonious supramental, i.e. divine world ...
... disposal. Ahead now lay the formation of the prototype, of the archetype of the supramental body. Once those embryos were formed in the womb of Mother Nature, all the elements for the elaboration of the New World would be present and the Avatar would have realized more than the full purpose of her incarnation. 91 This too the Mother has brought to a good end: she has formed the archetype of the supramental ...
... ‘the thinker and toiler’, the one ‘in front of the immemorial quest’, ‘the traveller of the worlds’ is Sri Aurobindo himself ‘the first of time-born men who had the knowledge’ which will lead to a new world-order. ‘Savitri is the record of a seeing, of an experience which is not of the common kind and is often very far from what the general human mind sees and experiences. You must not expect ...
... that was ‘God’. The rationally thinking people in the West can no longer accept this kind of projection, but they have enclosed themselves in their own mind, proud of their rationality and of the new world it has produced, and hanging on to matter as to a raft on a stormy sea. God, the Divine, ‘That’ has to be something more, essential, worthwhile, great. The patient people of the East discovered ...
... the scientific revolution in the seventeenth century, the Enlightenment, the Great Wars, the globalization, and the present confusion, presumably the end of the long process and a transition into a new world. Darwin, midwife of the theory of evolution as understood in the common mind, has contributed to a change in the understanding of the world and humanity. “It was Darwin the symbol, Darwin the name ...
... Chinese emperor, a child, was overthrown in 1911 by the revolutionaries led by Sun Yat-sen (1866-1925). ‘That,’ the Asura said, ‘will be the beginning, the first terrestrial movement heralding … the new world upon Earth.’ But then, who was Théon? The Mother has said repeatedly that he was an emanation of the Asura of Death. This explains his great powers, his fearlessness, and his combative character ...
... experience may take me a little time to write, because I want to explain to you not only the experience itself, but what lies behind it. Otherwise you will be quite at sea, as your letter shows, in the new world you are exploring. August 16, 1931 The Mother will see Bhavashankar tomorrow. The idea of the refrigerator is, she says, an excellent one; she has long wanted it, but a big "frigidaire" ...
... are outstanding examples of the care spent on their upkeep. But in her was always a dream – or a memory seeking its permanent concretization? – of constructing, materially, visibly, a kernel of the new world she and Sri Aurobindo were trying to bring down on the Earth. In 1937, the first step towards a much larger undertaking, which would ultimately lead to Auroville (and the Aurovilles to come), took ...
... of humanity, even if they were not aware of this themselves. Nonetheless, neither she nor Sri Aurobindo has ever alleged that the souls, which incarnated with the aim of helping to prepare the New World, were exclusively to be found on a single spot in the world: the Sri Aurobindo Ashram at Pondicherry. The Ashram, as we have seen, played a primary role in initiating the conditions of the material ...
... namely, the break-up of Pakistan and the cry for reunion — was thus set at nought by the political myopia of our own country two decades ago. How could the great marriage, whose child would be a new world of the Spirit, take place if the bridegroom refused the bride? A God-given opportunity went in vain. We may add that Pakistan's recovery, its wooing of Red China and the growth of the latter's ...
... by means of that subtle method, the incongruity of shape, colour, association — as though some touch of Titian's rich gaiety crept into a sombre strangeness a la Rembrandt. Figures from a "brave new world" have brought their hues into the mournful mystery and quiet round an old order declining to its grave. What has a young vulture, in the eager force and novelty of its flight through unobstructed ...
... he has carried the spiritual life and made it the fount of a dynamism and creativity in the world. Others too have written on the same theme and I may refer you to the article entitled Towards a New World by "Synergist" in the series The World Crisis and India in the fortnightly I am editing, Mother India. 1 The article appeared in the Special Number of August 15, 1949. August 15, by the way, is ...
... literary language I may be said to be reminded of the poet Vaughan's line - Rapt above earth by power of one fair face - together with the dramatist Shakespeare's phrase: O brave new world That has such wondrous creatures in it! Page 274 Perhaps you will express surprise at this exclamation, for the actual world is rather a huge medley. What I mean is that ...
... renovate everything in the future so as to evoke from some super-Shakespearian Miranda the cry: . O wonder! How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! O brave new world That has such people in't! (13.5.1991) Page 194 ...
... final decision - the word from the depths, telling you whether for the nonce you should stay in the West or soon pack up your present concerns and make for the Samadhi-centred silence waiting for a new world to be bom. Of course, even where you are, you can hold that silence within you - the advantage of the Ashram is that one does not only hold the Divine but also feels the Divine enveloping One from ...
... the newly created stellar universe, the Sun full-blazing at noon-day. Here they are: O thou that, with surpassing glory crowned, Look'st from thy sole dominion like the god Of this new World - at whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads - to thee I call, OSun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams, That bring to my remembrance from what state Ifell, how glorious ...
... successful work in a medium that has eluded English poets: quantitative metre. Sri Aurobindo has solved once for all the problem of quantity in English — a feat which gives the language "a brave new world" of poetic effects, a revelation of strange rhythm-moulds of the inspired consciousness. Quantitative metre is the second tier in Sri Aurobindo's poetic crown. The third is not merely a revelation ...
... ocean a tiny island. So Beelzebub, when his strategy is accepted and his plan of entering Earth endorsed, raises the great question: "But, first, whom shall we send In search of this new world? Whom shall we find Sufficient? Who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark, unbottomed, infinite Abyss, And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way, or spread his aery ...
... successful work in a medium that has eluded English poets: quantitative metre. Sri Aurobindo has solved once for all the problem of quantity in English - a feat which gives the language 'a brave new world' of consciousness. Quantitative metre is the second tier in Sri Aurobindo's poetic crown. The third is not merely a revelation of strange rhythm-moulds, but also the laying bare of a rhythmic life ...
... existence here on earth as, to find God, one has to become God. The New Year Message of 2000 in the Mother's words was: "O divine Master, let Thy light fall into this chaos and bring forth from it a new world. Accomplishing what is now in preparation and create a new humanity which may be the perfect expression of Thy new and sublime Law." Among us, a few have dedicated their soul, life, work ...
... his place in the Walhalla of the great. “One thing is certain”, he declared, “our world is facing a great revolution”. 307 According to Jäckel, “Hitler considered himself to be the prophet of a new world vision.” 308 This is true but perhaps stated too mildly. In any case, Hitler himself repeatedly wrote that he stood for “a new and great idea”, “a novel missionary idea”. “Political parties are prone ...
... political party and with political objectives: it was a fundamental and therefore religious creed, intended to use the German nation as an instrument for conquest of the world and the establishment of a new world order. Hitler as a human being may have been petty and in some ways ridiculous, but the vision which had taken hold of him was world-encompassing and did cause global upheaval. “Do you now understand ...
... emanating from the book’s pages. But behind all that there is a vision by which Adolf Hitler had been and would continue to be driven, which was unprecedented and revolutionary, and which aimed at a new world and a new man. “He who writes this sees himself in his prison cell like Johannes in his cave on Patmos and is in his solitude open for inspiration”, writes Karin Wilhelm. “While writing Hitler too ...
... revolution, which will lead to a new order in the world.” 452 Here again Hitler sees race as an abstraction, a “concept”, without any necessary foundation in reality, but to be used as a tool to build a new world-order out of the remnants of the nations. Who were those “pedantic intellectuals” whom Rauschning did not name? They may have been the linguists who pointed out the wrongful reasoning which extended ...
... not a perfection in accordance with the human standards. We are endeavouring for something else which belongs to the future. The Ashram has been founded and is meant to be the cradle of the new world. The inspiration is from above, the guiding force is from above, the creative power is from above, at work for the descent of the new realisation. It is only by its shortcomings, its de ...
... always have good will towards everybody and pray for the whole of humanity. We all are pearls set in one string—the string is the Mother. I feel that it is our duty to carry out Her wish of the New World. There is no difference between the Ashram and Auroville. For She has written: The Ashram is the central consciousness. Auroville is one of the outward expressions. In both places equally the ...
... to quote what I read in the book, Reincarnation : The Phoenix Fire Mystery , Compiled and Edited by Joseph Head and S.L. Cranston: "... The evolutionary ascent must some day recommence in a new world, reborn from the old, but at a low stage of human development. Out of such or similar considerations, Eastern thought joins Western religious teaching in placing supreme importance upon the NOW. NOW ...
... hostility towards each other. When the New Year begins there will be an endless collaboration between them. There will be plenitude, joy, glory and magnificence. There will be the promise of the New World, because Mother Nature—the Material Mother—has said that she would collaborate. So everyone should love her. She wrote under my report: Yes, it is the essence of what I told you yesterday ...
... The Spirit of Auroville There were quite a number of people who were not convinced about the Mother's Vision—about the New World. I wrote to the Mother in this regard. She answered: Truth does not depend on any exterior form, and will manifest in spite of all bad will and opposition. The Mother has explained about Truth: Truth is not ...
... with a touch of our Mother's loveliness. I feel that the Matrimandir in Auroville is the final temple the Mother wanted on earth to fulfil her vision of the Supreme Truth and Love in her New World. In 1952, on our way to England, one of my brothers and his wife and I stayed in Cairo for two or three days. It was the night of the 23rd July, when King Farouk went into exile after General Mohammed ...
... and harmony. With blessings . This is the Text about Sri Aurobindo's 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 ...
... must find the Truth of this Sanctuary of Truth, how greatly we must give up our egos, burn them in the fire of Mother's love—how far we who are here have to go, how greatly we must strive for the new world, never to be contented in this terrible lack of love and a mixture of so many contending parts of our being. It would seem so simple—seems so very simple in words—Let the psychic come to the front ...
... immoral or amoral superman, all that flawed romanticism, passionate sentimentalism, insatiable satiety of sensualism, cynicism, realism which are the chaotic fermentation of an old world dying and a new world in process of becoming,—a century and a half's still unfinished process,—caught hold of his mood and unrolled itself before the dazzled, astonished and delighted eyes of his contemporaries in the ...
... different sea. These relics of a buried war, Empty as shape and cold as rhyme, Gaze now on fabulous wars to be. So well the storm must have fulfilled Its work of perfect overthrow That this new world to them must seem Irrecognizably the same, And looking from the flag and shield They see the selfsame road they know. Here now heraldic watch them ride This path far up the mountainside And ...
... effectively changing the basis of the world-order; for none of them have in their mental or vital Page 996 play the divine power to replace this dark original principle and organise a totally new world-order. A transformation of human nature can only be achieved when the substance of the being is so steeped in the spiritual principle that all its movements are a spontaneous dynamism and a harmonised ...
... them because they are not essential to this liberation. They indeed rather hamper it, because to live on them brings new attractive psychical experiences, psychical enjoyments, psychical powers, a new world of phenomenal knowledge the pursuit of which creates stumbling-blocks in the way of its one object, immergence in Brahman, and brings a succession of innumerable way-side snares on the road which ...
... that hesitates not over its steps, that overbears and does not spend time in going round obstacles, that enlarges swiftly its means and moves over great spaces in short periods, can alone create the new world that is seeking to be born.———— The forces that stand against you are great in appearance, but only in appearance; great no doubt still in material means, but smitten with the spirit of death in ...
... of culture such a state of ignorance is certainly an unholy state of sin; but in this immoral and imperfect world even sin has sometimes its rewards, and I get that now in the joy and light of a new world opening to me all in one view while I stand, Cortez-like, on the peak of the large impression created for me by Mr. Cousins' book. For the light we get from a vital and illuminative criticism from ...
... A Postscript Chapter At the time when this book was being brought to its close, the first attempt at the foundation of some initial hesitating beginning of the new world-order, which both governments and peoples had begun to envisage as a permanent necessity if there was to be any order in the world at all, was under debate and consideration but had not yet been given ...
... a new opening with endless possibilities in a new principle of metrical rhythm. Two men may be cousins or brothers or near relatives, but one a conservative, the other a revolutionary creating a new world and a new order. All this is no part of my final formed opinion in the matter. I have not yet gone through either Anilbaran's writing or Prabodh Sen's letter. It is only to put down my present ...
... g the radiant Energy, the perfect Light and the unchanging Bliss. There and not in the mind or the higher vital is all the difficulty, but there too must be the victory and the foundation of the new world. I do not wish to disguise from you the difficulty of this great and tremendous change or the possibility that you may have a long and hard work before you; but are you really unwilling to face it ...
... I hope you are not referring to the whole colossal mass of the Synthesis ,—though that too may be ready for publication before the next world war (?) or after the beginning of the Satya Yuga (new World Order?). If you mean the Yoga of Works, I am writing or trying to write four or five additional chapters for it. I hope they will be ready in a reasonable time,—but my daily time is short and chapters ...
... Dharma and severely criticise the old imperialisms; it is to be hoped that they will practise what they now preach when they themselves become strong and rich and powerful. But the best will be if a new world-order evolves, even if at first stumblingly or incompletely, which will make the old things impossible—a difficult task, but not absolutely impossible. The Divine takes men as they are and uses ...
... Dharma and severely criticise the old imperialisms; it is to be hoped that they will practise what they now preach when they themselves become strong and rich and powerful. But the best will be if a new world-order evolves which will make the old things impossible,—a difficult task, but not, with God's grace, absolutely impracticable. The Divine takes men as they are and uses them as his instruments ...
... of his companions, he persisted in his will to reach a new land; in spite of delays and difficulties, he would not give up until he had reached the first American islands. Thus he discovered the New World. What did he ask of his companions? He asked them only to have patience, for they had simply to rely on him and quietly allow him to lead them. But what did he himself need to reach his goal? He ...
... prayer has never risen in vain to Thee; always in Thy munificence Thou answerest every call and Thy mercy is infinite. O divine Master, let Thy light fall into this chaos and bring forth from it a new world. Accomplish what is now in preparation and create a new humanity which may be the perfect expression of Thy new and sublime Law. Nothing will stop our impetus; nothing will tire our effort; and ...
... unexpected, the marvellous; and one could hope for the most splendid, the most delightful things from this sovereignly free Will, playing eternally with all the elements and creating unceasingly a new world which logically would have absolutely nothing to do with the preceding one. Don't you think it would be charming? We have had enough of the world as it is! Why not let it become at least what we ...
... absolutely insoluble. The disappearance of the manager and her key was a clear indication that she was quite incapable of leading to its true place what could be called the creative consciousness of the new world. I knew it but I didn't have the vision of the solution, which means that this is something which is yet to be manifested; this was not yet manifested in that building—that fantastic structure—and ...
... If one has not succeeded, Mother, one can try? What? If one hasn't succeeded so far, one can try? Oh, one can always try... The world is recreated at every moment. You can recreate a new world this very moment if you know how to create it, that is, if you are capable of changing your nature. I have not said that she has gone away. I said that she thinks of going away, sometimes, from ...
... speak of yoga. It is not yoga you are doing. You believe you are doing something great, that's all, and it is for your personal satisfaction. It is said that the Rishi Vishvamitra also created a new world. What did he do? Tell me. He was not happy with this world and created another, did he? Where is this world? Naturally, the first idea is to be greater than the one who has created the world ...
... with the old rotting world, and are more and more convinced of the necessity of founding, somewhere out of the well tracks, a new centre of life in which a new and truer light can be manifested, a new world no more based on selfish competitions and egoistic strife but on general and eager endeavours to promote the welfare, knowledge and progress of all-a society based on spiritual aspiration instead ...
... p. 169 * Page 116 Thus came his soul's release from Ignorance, His mind and body's first spiritual change. A wide God-knowledge poured down from above, A new world-knowledge broadened from within: His daily thoughts looked up to the True and One, His commonest doings welled from an inner Light. Awakened to the lines that Nature hides. Attuned ...
... vivid sense of inspiration or illumination, much sensation of light and joy, an impression of widening and power. The sadhak feels himself freed from the normal limits, projected into a wonderful new world of experience, filled and enlarged and exalted; what comes associates itself, besides, with his aspirations, ambitions, notions of spiritual fulfilment and yogic siddhi; it is represented even as ...
... 1.12.1972 * Everybody has to progress and become more sincere. Auroville has been created not for the satisfaction of the egos and their greeds, but for the creation of a new world, the supramental, expressing the divine perfection. 12.12.1972* * Auroville has been created for a superhumanity, for those who want to surmount their ego and renounce all desire ...
... Auroville? A confident certitude in the inevitable future can break this resistance. 17.5.1968* * What is the role of the United States with regard to the building of the new world? The work of the U.S.A. is to provide the financial help needed to prepare the earth for the new creation. What must the people of the United States do in order to begin to be able ...
... Sunlit Path The Call The Great Adventure ... we are in a very special situation, extremely special, without precedent. We are now witnessing the birth of a new world; it is very young, very weak—not in its essence but in its outer manifestation—not yet recognised, not even felt, denied by the majority. But it is here. It is here, making an effort to grow, absolutely ...
... stage, but when he is on the stage, he has to appear as if he did not know anything; he has to feel and act as if he were experiencing all these things for the first time, as if it was an entirely new world with ail its chance events and surprises that was unrolling before his eyes. Page 11 Is there then no real freedom? Is everything absolutely determined , even you freedom ,and ...
... yearning for perfection which will, in spite of all difficulties, lead us to our Goal. Blessings. 21 August 1963 Athletics Competition 1964 We are here to lay the foundations of a new world. All the virtues and skills required to succeed in athletics are exactly those the physical man must have to be fit for receiving and manifesting the new force. I expect that with this knowledge ...
... accomplishment will give you. The divine force is with you—feel its presence more and more and be careful never to betray it. Feel, wish, act, that you may be new beings for the realisation of a new world and for this my blessings shall always be with you. 24 April 1961 Page 272 ...
... the frontiers of form a new force can be evoked, a power of consciousness which is as yet unexpressed and which, by its emergence, will be able to change the course of things and give birth to a new world. For the true solution to the problem of suffering, ignorance and death is not Page 37 an individual escape from earthly miseries by self-annihilation into the unmanifest, nor a problematical ...
... said. But I do not think that the time has come yet, I mean "come" for the realisation; the time has come to say it, but not for the realisation. "The child"... perhaps it is the child of the new world—with a smile, he will bring the whole thing tumbling down. Yes, it is possible—it is possible. ( Silence ) There is a terrifying power in it... something tremendous. You cannot imagine the ...
... Seated within and above, it knows the source, the cause and effect of all things and forces. I repeat, this reversal is sudden. Something opens within you and all at once you find yourself in a new world. The change may not be final and definitive to begin with; it sometimes requires time to settle permanently and become your normal nature. But once the change has taken place, it is there, in principle ...
... STUDENTS TWO LOVERS THE ASCETIC TWO ASPIRANTS Prologue: In the Artist's studio, preliminary meeting. Seven stages of the ascent, of which the seventh is at the summit. Epilogue: The new world. Page 497 ...
... is not a perfection in accordance with the human standards. We are endeavouring for something else which belongs to the future. The Ashram has been founded and is meant to be the cradle of the new world. The inspiration is from above, the guiding force is from above, the creative power is from above, at work for the descent of the new realisation. It is only by its shortcomings, its deficiencies ...
... future with the help and blessings of her living soul. 23 August 1951 Page 352 India must be saved for the good of the world since India alone can lead the world to peace and a new world order. 1 February 1954 Divine Power alone can help India. If you can build faith and cohesion in the country it is much more powerful than any man-made power. 2 February 1954 ...
... because of that many useful things are not done. So, if you could find one person or more who might be interested in the enterprise, rather the adventure―for it is nothing short of the creation of a new world―and if they were ready to help financially, by gift or loan it would enable us to move more promptly and completely in our endeavour. This is the situation in brief. If you want more details, they ...
... It is not this kind of people who can give to Auroville what it needs. 17 May 1968 Divine Mother, Firstly, what is the role of the United States with regard to the building of the new world? The work of U.S.A. is to provide the financial help needed to prepare the earth for the new creation. Secondly, what must the people of the United States do in order to begin to be able to ...
... es of the physical world, and Thy constant presence in our midst is a token of Thy active collaboration. The Lord has willed and Thou dost execute: A new Light shall break upon the earth. A new world shall be born, And the things that were promised shall be fulfilled. Page 252 ...
... coming—it was delightful! I passed it on to you but ( laughing ) I am not sure you received it. Something done with a very light touch, with no importance attached to it, but coming from a new world—oh, nowadays I constantly make a distinction between (what shall I say?)... the straight-line, right-angle life and the undulating life. One life I might describe like this ( Mother makes chopping ...
... otherwise (I was already past twenty), I said, "Oh, really? Is that so?" ( Mother laughs ) And then when he told me all about Théon's teachings and The Cosmic Life and about the inner God and a new world that would be a world of beauty and (at least) of peace and light... well, I rushed into it headlong. But even then I was told: "It depends on YOU alone, not on circumstances—above all, don't blame ...
... matter how eternal his consciousness and origin, can all by himself change and realize.... Change the world, change the creation as it is, and realize that higher Truth, the Truth that will be a new world—a truer, if not absolutely true, world. A certain number of individuals (until now they seem to have come in succession, in time, but they might also come as a collectivity, in space) would seem ...
... he left. "And that," he continued, "will be the beginning, the first terrestrial movement heralding the transformation of...." (Theon didn't use the word "supramental"; he used to talk about "the new world on earth.") 2 But I did note that down. I had forgotten the whole story, because I now live constantly in the Becoming. But it came back to me. And all the disbelief in the world can't ...
... to allow a more general possibility to emerge, it is no longer a 'descent' but a 'manifestation.' What I call a 'descent' is the individual movement in an individual consciousness. But when a new world is manifesting in an old world—as when similarly the mind spread over the earth—I call it a manifestation. You may call it whatever you like, it makes no difference to me, but we must understand ...
... Page 299 Sweet Mother, When a stranger asks us what the Sri Aurobindo Ashram is, how can we give him a reply that is both short and correct? The Ashram is the cradle of a new world, of the creation of tomorrow. And if other questions are put to you, the only reply to be made is: you must read the books and study the teaching. 29 July 1964 Sweet Mother, Are ...
... time, the cells themselves have felt that they are free, that they have the power to decide. When the new vibrations came and combined with the old ones, I felt it at once and it showed me that a new world was really taking birth. In its normal state, the body always feels that it is not its own master: illnesses invade it without its really being able to resist them—a thousand factors impose themselves ...
... how many... HOW MANY consciousnesses must there be, what quantity, if we may say (intensity, there is: off and on it shines like stars), what is the mass of consciousnesses necessary to enable this new world to come down on earth?... Otherwise, what would happen to it? It would be swallowed up. Like in '60, when I saw the supramental forces descend (mon petit, what a sight it was! They were descending ...
... of the shallowness and inefficiency of human ways, it is time to start climbing on the steep way leading to the true goal, transformation. Transformation: the goal of creation. The new world: the result of transformation. Three Conditions A work that has terrestrial progress as its goal cannot be started unless it has the sanction and help of the Divine. It cannot endure ...
... Supramental Words of the Mother - III The New Creation Action is a narrowing of the consciousness in order to achieve a particular object. The creation of a new world is no exception to this rule. Realisation of the new creation: it is for this that we must prepare ourselves. Anything and everything can be an instrument for the Supreme Wisdom to prepare ...
... body can satisfy some faithful feelings. To celebrate the manifestation of the eternal Consciousness can be done at every moment of the universal history. But to celebrate the advent of a new world, the supramental world, is a marvellous and exceptional privilege. 24 April 1958 There are two complementary aspects of the liberating action of the Divine Grace upon earth among men. These ...
... from each one that in his thoughts, his feelings, his sensations and his actions he should express nothing but the central truth of his being. 1951 A new Light shall break upon the earth, a new world shall be born: the things that were promised shall be fulfilled. 1958 The descending triangle represents Sat-Chit-Ananda. The ascending triangle represents the aspiring answer from ...
... more exactly, when we are not personally concerned with it. April 1954 Every time a god has taken a body, it has always been with the intention of transforming the earth and creating a new world. But till today, he has always had to give up his body without completing his work. And it has always been said that the earth was not ready and that men had not fulfilled the conditions necessary ...
... always wanted to believe that Tantrism would be converted. Nothing of the sort. It is attempting to take Mother's place and lead astray those who are not sincere enough to want ONE SINGLE THING: the new world. X has left. I saw him twice (yesterday for the second time), and I wanted to wait till I had seen him the second time before telling you the story. Here is what happened: I do my usual ...
... A. has a scientific background. × Pralaya : the end of a world, followed by a new world or a new era. × One night, a disciple, who usually was a very good clairvoyant, heard a voice, whose ...
... and on the other hand arm themselves. A transparent sincerity in man and between nations will alone permit the coming of a transformed world. Auroville is the first attempt in the experiment. A new world will Page 69 be born if men consent to strive for transformation and the search for sincerity—it can be done. It took millennia to evolve from animal to man; today man, thanks to his mind ...
... We aspire for the time when it will no longer be necessary for Sri 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 ...
... before. Everything takes on a... a new appearance, I don't know—a new contact. It's interesting. So I have another six times to go! I wait for it with... It's really like a new creation, like a new world brought into contact with here. ( silence ) And it's beyond persons. There is no ego. Page 375 Yes. It's beyond persons. There is something else—something else. ( Mother ...
... necessity of drastic action even if it leads to war." For the battle of India is the battle of the world. This is where the world's tragic destiny is brewing, or its last-minute burst of hope into a new world of Truth and Light, for it is said that the deepest darkness lies nearest the most luminous light. The last Asura must die at the feet of the Eternal Mother. A lover of India ...
... Théon and Sri Aurobindo didn't know each other, you see, they never met each other, they didn't even know of each other's existence. Yet Théon proclaimed... (I don't remember what he called the new world) what Sri Aurobindo calls the "Supramental." What's remarkable—interesting, you know, strikingly interesting—is that without knowing each other, with totally different approaches, they reached the ...
... where I go. No. At night, I go there, and sometimes some things happen that are as if reflected on all that goes on during the [following] day. Page 363 It's very strong, it's really a new world under preparation. It's very strong. ( silence ) I'll be very interested to see the end, your last chapter. ( Mother remains "gazing" for a long time ) Page 364 ...
... 1970 November 4, 1970 ( Satprem reads the second part of the sixth chapter of On the Way to Supermanhood: "The Tearing of Limits." ) It's a whole new world. ( silence ) As for me, I could keep listening like that without moving for hours! It's very restful. I don't know how to explain.... It's very restful. It's strange.... You no longer feel ...
... first time ten or fifteen years ago. And here's what Y.L. writes to me: "...Malraux again and again! In your last letter, at the end of December, you wrote, 'He could be the herald of the new world.' Invited by Nixon, he obeyed the outward call. Now remains the return journey via India and Bangladesh. This morning I received a copy of your speech on the Delhi radio. I immediately sent it to ...
... SHOULD be said. But I don't think the time has come yet—I mean "come" for the realization; the time has come to say it but not for its realization. "A child..." maybe it's the child of the New World?... with a smile, he'll bring it all down. Yes, quite possible—quite possible. ( silence ) It contains a frightening power.... Something staggering. You can't imagine the power contained ...
... it just won't do.' Well, you don't seem to remember one of the most memorable passages in English epic poetry, those lines of Milton's: But first whom shall we send In search of this new world, whom shall we find Sufficient? Who shall tempt with wandering feet The dark unbottomed infinite Abyss And through the palpable obscure find out His uncouth way, or spread his ...
... of parties the right destiny of India is forgotten ." For nearly five years Mother India has carried on its work of throwing light on the true Indian spirit and its role in the creation of a new world, From the material standpoint the work has been one of unique tenacity, for Mother India is the only contemporary journal which has intellectually and spiritually gone from strength to strength ...
... difficulties belong to an old world that is really dead. But, although the sense of being a part of your life and of your work is often strong, I seem to be lingering just within the borders of the new world instead of penetrating right to its centre. I want so much to be wholly yours. Won't you do something to absorb me into yourself? What should I do on my side?" When the Mother came out from her ...
... by a Knowledge drawn from above and within. What pours down from the overhead planes is called "a wide self-knowledge" and what broadens out from the subliminal and the psychic depths is termed "a new world-knowledge". With a combination of both, Aswa-pati faces the objective and subjective Nature that constitutes our common habitual experience, our life of Ignorance, the physical and psychological field ...
... involved Supermind going to emerge? The answer is that it is no longer a question of when in the future, it is already an established fact. The divine Supermind has descended in the year 1956 and a new world is already born, although not yet manifest to the gross physical consciousness of man. The Mother who along with Sri Aurobindo has 'luminously laboured' for decades for the descent of the Supermind ...
... The Life Divine, p. 968. 2 The Supramental Manifestation upon Earth, p. 74. 3 Sri Aurobindo, The Mother, p. 48. 4 Ibid., p. 49. Page 266 A new world is born. The things that were promised are fulfilled." Now, as regards some of the most significant results already attained of this manifestation, the Mother says: "There are ...
... About Savitri on 18th 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 ...
... feeling, action in me is Hers and then immediately giving it, offering it to Her. And all this She is doing in me, She Herself. I feel like smiling at everything and everybody, as if I were living in a new world and I aspire for my birthright to be realised - realised fully - and to become Herself in all my being. And as it is She who aspires in me, it will become a reality.... Let me know if you have ...
... ) was one of the greatest Indian Yogis of the modern times. He was a revolutionary, a philosopher, a poet and a visionary of evolution. He was an explorer of consciousness and the architect of a new world. "Man is a transitional being" and therefore a possibility of a Divine life on earth, not only in mind and life force but also in the physical body, was a discovery he made through his intensive ...
... soundless sea, The profound and solemn call of a face unseen Opens veils of unfathomable mystery, And the fire-bosomed visions of eternity lean To the nude and flaming beauty of a new world; Time’s charioteer wheels on with wordless force. A myriad virgin fancies have flowered and pearled In the poet, — the moment-moulder; the crystal source Of the Creator flows ...
... nt mind. PURANI: Moore has reviewed the second volume of The Life Divine. SRI AUROBINDO: Yes, but he hasn't understood it. He wants me to go back to politics for the establishment of the New World Order, while I have said that it is not through politics that it will come. NIRODBARAN: He seems to have said that England will form the nucleus of the New Order. SRI AUROBINDO: If France had ...
... he answered, "How could I after Sri Aurobindo himself said that he would not like me to do so." A asked him what his reading was. His answer was: "In 1947 his philosophy will become the basis of a new world civilisation and culture. Nothing can stop that." He added that he had read thousands of horoscopes but had never seen the same time of birth as yours. He said it has all the signs of a unique greatness ...
... (and extensively too) getting familiar with all the drawbacks and lacunae that are there so that we can remedy them – and discover new latent forces too, – and re-create and possess a truly "brave new world". That is how the spirit of progress and evolution has worked and advanced in the European world. And one can take it as the pattern of human growth generally; but in the scheme described ...
... there and must not be there. A new conception of the Spirit and a new conception of Matter are gaining ground more and more, moving towards a true synthesis of the two, making for the creation of a new world and a new human type. The East is no longer the traditional East of the poet who viewed it as eternally static and meditative, drowned in an "eyeless muse" away and aloof from earth and world ...
... without leaving a trace. Madame Theon was dashed upon the rocks on the Isle of Wight while walking along the cliffs in trance. Perhaps, she had realised that Theon was not destined to bring down the 'new world' that he had spoken of, and she had no more reason to live. In her death, Theon lost his base, and there is no record to show what happened to him thereafter. Later, speaking of Theon, Sri Aurobindo ...
... We can put labels on it, but it does not care a damn about labels. It was a formidable Fact. Something happened on that 18th of November. Perhaps the first terrestrial wave of the joy of the new world.¹ On November 20, at 8.15 a.m., Mother's body was laid into the box. Then the box was taken to the Samadhi of Sri Aurobindo, and on the upper chamber of the Samadhi, Mother's body was lowered ...
... Aurobindo did for the liberation of India was evidently a part of his larger work for the entire humanity and for the whole earth. For him, the liberation of India was an indispensable part of the new world-order. Moreover, the practice of Yoga, which he had started in 1902, led him, even while in the thick of intense political and literary activity, to major realisations of the Brahmic Silence, Nirvana ...
... well. You have achieved something. I am happy. You can do beautiful things. Now everything will come to you naturally without any effort. The Lord wants you to paint the creation of the New World. Tears of gratitude welled up in my eyes. I could not say anything except: Your Grace, Mother. Then after a pause I said: Mother, I am feeling very sorry—all the paintings are gone from ...
... who Herself announced to the world in the month of March 1956 after the descent of the Supermind: "Lord, Thou hast willed, and I execute: A new Light breaks upon the earth, A new world is born. The things that were promisded are fulfilled." Now, as regards some of the most significant results already attained of this supramental manifestation upon earth, the Mother ...
... The Ashram is an epitome of this mystery; so any attempt to unravel it by the human mind is bound to be unfruitful. The only thing to hold on is this faith: "The Ashram is the cradle of the new world." Many thanks for showing me your note - Kishor) So, such is the genesis of this manuscript and I fervently pray from the depths of my heart: "O Mother, O Sri Aurobindo, let ...
... divine perfection inherent in every individual, strove to give to the youth of modern India the lessons of man-making education so as to cast them in the image of heroic builders of new India and new world. Mahatma Gandhi conceived, even when he was in South Africa, a scheme of ashram education and developed it further in India at Sabarmati Ashram and at Wardha into what came to be called "Nai ...
... surely was. For, Sethna, through his editorial articles spreading over a period of years, sought in a sustained manner “to throw light on the true Indian spirit and its role in the creation of a new world”. The articles touched all that constitutes man’s man dimensioned life. And “in every field of activity the aim was to criticise whatever militated against humanity’s instinct of an evolving divinity ...
... The ideal of truth: To speak the truth, whatever the consequences. 2. Aspiration for perfection: Whatever you do, do it as perfectly as you can. 3. Dreams of the new world: Where truth alone prevails, where beauty and goodness pervade. II. Special exhibitions on the above themes. III. Teachers may recommend the following exercises and help each ...
... but to increase his perfectibility to its utmost. Here are some of her words addressed to the students: "Do not aim at success. Our aim is perfection. Remember you are on the threshold of a new world, participating in its birth and instrumental in its creation. There is nothing more important than the transformation. There Page 28 is no interest more worthwhile." (CWM, Vol ...
... a man to succeed in life and society, but to increase his perfectibility to its utmost." (Ibid.) (8)"Do not aim at success. Our aim is perfection. Remember you are on the threshold of a new world, participating in its birth and instrumental in its creation. There is nothing more important than the transformation. There is no interest more worthwhile." (Ibid.) (9)Not a religious ...
... astonishing, till near dark without any sensible abatement; and then began to think and examine what I had seen; and felt sweetly composed in my mind all the evening following. I felt myself in a new world, and everything about me appeared with a different aspect from what it was wont to do. At this time, the way of salvation opened to me with such infinite wisdom, suitableness, and Page 114 ...
... phenomena need to be understood in their inner implications. For internationalism seems to oppose the truth and force of nationalism, and this opposition can be fatal to a harmonious transition to a new world of harmony. There is today a sentiment helped and stimulated by the trend of forces that favours the creation of an international world organisation that may ultimately result in a possible form of ...
... delivering to humanity would become irresistible in its impact and in the production of results which would secure, not only for India, but also for the entire earth, unshakeable foundations for a new world of freedom and unity. The life and work of Sri Aurobindo are a living testimony of his victorious opening of the gates of a new power, and by means of summarising in himself the luminous results ...
... Yoga and Medical Sciences, Yoga and Technology Yoga, Religion and Morality, Yoga and Collective Life, Yoga and change in the world-conditions: the idea of Cosmic Yoga, Yoga and the New World of Truth, Harmony and Liberty Books recommended: The Principal Upanishads Yoga Sutra Collected Works of Swami Vivekananda The Bhagavadgita The Synthesis of Yoga by Sri ...
... Aurobindo did for the liberation of India was evidently a part of his larger work for the entire humanity and for the whole earth. For him, the liberation of India was an indispensable part of the new world order. Moreover, the practice of Yoga, which he had started in 1902, led him, even while in the thick of intense political and literary activity, to major realisations of the Brahmic Silence, Nirvana ...
... 1950, she established International University Centre in the name of Sri Aurobindo, and in 1968, she founded Auroville. From 1958 to 1973, she discovered the Great Path to a new species and to a new world in the life of Matter. Her works, numbering more than 30 volumes, include 13 volumes of "Mother's Agenda." Page 73 ...
... which would be enough to eradicate poverty and restore human dignity to the hundreds of millions of inhabitants of the developing countries, runs directly to counter the efforts made to establish a new world of justice, equality and unity. More than ever, there is a felt need to build urgently and imperatively the defences of peace in the minds and hearts of men. And, it is increasingly realized that ...
... matter how eternal his consciousness and origin, can all by himself change and realize.... Change the world, change the creation as it is, and realize that higher Truth, the Truth that will be a new world — a truer, if not absolutely true, world. A certain number of individuals (until now they seem to have come in succession, in time, but they might also come as a collectivity, in space) would seem ...
... concerns of those researchers who want direction of science to be centered on the highest human welfare and who feel that spirituality can best sub-serve the highest aspirations for durable peace and new world-order of Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. The problems and concerns are, indeed, deeper. In this context Integral Yoga can be looked upon as a process by which the synthesis of science and spirituality ...
... topsy-turvy.... It will be a great success.... And it is not success we want; we want to establish the Supermind on earth. One must know how to renounce immediate success in order to create the new world, the supramental world in its integrality.' So the Mother discontinued the experiment. There was another factor which influenced the decision. Many of the sadhaks could not bear the pressure of the ...
... experiences in the Jail for you to realise how profound were the changes they brought about in him. They remind me of these lines from Savitri: A wide God-knowledge poured down from above, A new world-knowledge broadened from within ... The human in him paced with the divine. ...
... On life's horizon of dim shadows made. Now the stars' fragrant breath runs in the veins And lightning-tremors murmuringly flow: One with the astral body's lambent glow, My flaming sight a new world-vision gains, Where all creation is a Godward cry In a vast plenitude of ecstasy. Page 4 ...
... Dharma and severely criticise the old imperialisms; it is to be hoped that they will practise what they now preach when they themselves become strong and rich and powerful. But the best will be if a new world-order evolves, even if at first stumblingly or incompletely, which will make the old things impossible—a difficult task, but not absolutely impossible. The Divine takes men as ...
... which the Mother was the President and he was the Director. The message was: "Sri Aurobindo is an emanation of the Supreme who came on earth to announce the manifestation of a new race and a new world: the Supramental. Let us prepare for it in sincerity and eagerness." A sadhak asked Arabinda about the phrase "an emanation of the Lord", "Was not Sri Aurobindo the Lord himself?" Arabinda ...
... drifting kite. My eyes were turned upwards to the sky and my heart lay with this traveller who came gliding slowly, rolling towards a fall, like a restless soul coming out of heaven to inhabit a new world. A whole army of children was surging towards it to welcome it, armed with sticks and bamboos. Nobody was aware of his surroundings. Everyone was, as it were, flying with that kite up in the sky, ...
... or until I see that my attitudes have changed? Or if my interest wanes and something I read or something you speak of in class awakens an urge in me in another direction—such as remembering the New World, stepping back, controlling my thoughts, etc.—should I drop what I’m working on now and take up the new direction? The best is to keep all these aspirations living in your heart simultaneously ...
... 15 March 1963 Mother, How can I keep on? I can't live in the old world—it gets more difficult all the time—and there is no way for me to live in the new world yet. Sometimes quietness comes and I can work happily, but then I feel guilty to keep on calling You, thinking I should just trust You instead. I have tried that for months at a time, tried to ...
... sed by a miracle. It is not possible. Because of me the things are done a bit faster. I only give an impetus, but it is He who does all, I help a little in His work. It is because of me that the New World is born. I have compressed the work of many centuries. I help a bit. I also follow a determined curve. I can hasten the descent following the curve. But I cannot jump to the highest consciousness ...
... y (and extensively too) getting familiar with all the drawbacks and lacunae that are there so that we can remedy them—and discover new latent forces too,—and re-create and possess a truly "brave new world". That is how the spirit of progress and evolution has worked and advanced in the European world. And one can take it as the pattern of human growth generally; but in the scheme described above ...
... today and miraculous successes have been and are being achieved in the physical field Page 16 in such a quick and revolutionary manner. The Mother has plainly declared that the new world is already there built and ready and is pressing down upon the material cover and sooner rather than later will force it open and manifest itself. Page 17 ...
... phenomenal discoveries of today and miraculous successes have been and are being achieved in the physical field in such a quick and revolutionary manner. The Mother has plainly declared that the new world is already there built and ready and is pressing down upon the material cover and sooner rather than later will force it open and manifest itself. Page 245 ...
... suppose, the central lesson of Pasternak's autobiography. That is why even when Pasternak speaks of social progress, a better humanity, we are not sure. For what matters is the present. A brave new world in the offing, yes. But how to take life in the meanwhile? Evidently, it is the life of the cross, you have to choose that or it is imposed upon you. The Kingdom of Heaven is within you and in spite ...
... and go on baffling and overcoming them and in place of their ways and doings we have gradually to establish the ways and doings of Truth, Light and God. Thus will be possible the creation of a new world; it will have its beginnings just when into the old vitiated, disintegrating forms, centres of the new have found their way and made for themselves a place within and have started putting gradual ...
... phenomenal discoveries of today and miraculous successes have been and are being achieved in the physical field in such a quick and revolutionary manner. The Mother has plainly declared that the new world is already there built and ready and is pressing down upon the material cover and sooner rather than later will force it open and manifest itself. Page 317 ...
... unexpected and the wonderful. And one could hope for the most splendid, the most delightful things from this Will, sovereignly free, playing eternally with the elements, ceaselessly bringing forth a new world that would have logically nothing to do with the world that went before. Don't you think it would be the happiest of things? We have had enough of the world as it is. All this I am telling you ...
... solar light but the light of the supreme Spirit. This is the force which Sri Aurobindo has disclosed and put at the disposal of mankind. This is the force he has set free that is creating a new world,–reorganising and remoulding, through a great travail indeed, our ancient sphere that will cradle the earth of the golden age. II In Sri Aurobindo particularly the ...
... elimination – of destruction and dissolution – to clear the path of Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati, – the infinite, love and compassion of Maheshwari sanctions and supports it. The new creation, the new world that Mother built and is still building with so much love and care is ready – ready to manifest, to reveal itself in the material field, waiting for materialising on earth, but earth is not yet ready ...
... individual with all around him. This will imply a complete universality and oneness with all life upon the earth. But there is also a third perfection to be attained. This will mean the development of a new world, a change in the total life of humanity, or, to begin with, a new perfected collective life in the earth-nature. Integral yoga is an evolving yoga, and in order to lead this yoga to its farthest ...
... living beings are related, than it is of how parts of a machine interact. Bohm discusses the relationship of matter and consciousness on the basis of some common ground and propounds an idea of a new world- view based on the concept of unbroken wholeness. He states: 'To obtain an understanding of the relationship of matter and consciousness has, however, thus far proved to be extremely difficult ...
... and of standard bearers. India invites all her children to turn to her soul and power and to generate a new dynamo of action that would transform the entire world of confusion and disorder into a new world of clarity of wisdom and ideal order of harmony. Page 215 ...
... uplifted to his next stage of evolutionary mutation. It is in this context that India views the great social-political upheavals of the recent times as a sign and a promise of the coming of the New World. It views modem man's concern for the collective life as something unprecedented. The experiments that have been heralded by the great revolutions have contributed to the re-making of the collective ...
... of elimination, of destruction and dissolution, to clear the path for Mahalakshmi and Mahasaraswati; the infinite love and compassion of Maheshwari sanctions and supports it. The new creation, the new world that Mother built and is still building Page 56 with so much love and care is ready, ready to manifest, to reveal itself in the material field, waiting to materialise itself on earth ...
... intelligent, progressive, honest, dutiful and capable people, dedicating their lives for the cause, and be living examples of what they say and teach; and they must exert their influence to create a new world order. Conclusion Truth is active, and whether we want it or not, it will go on doing its work and will establish itself. If we follow the evolutionary process, we would see that ...
... She became my little sister in the flash of a moment. With this family of 'dadas' and 'didis' life's a joy, To serve the Mother always all my energies I employ. The clarion-call of the New World the Mother announced, Her great Work is underway, the obstacles are trounced. Becoming divine is the first need of our life, Then the world purified be and rid of every strife. May ...
... (To Pranab with all my love and confidence. He shall be victorious.) Page 160 (To my beloved child and faithful companion in the building up of the New World. With my love, my trust and my blessings for ever.) Page 161 (To Pranab Bonne Fête! Forward, ever forward towards the Victory... of the new creation.) Page 162 ...
... insight into the eternal core of Hinduism, the part it played in the evolution of Indian culture, and its mission in the creation of the future in which the East and the West shall meet to build a new world of unity and harmony, shines out in all his utterances of this period. And his spiritual experiences in the jail invest his words with an accent of radiant authority which convinces and conquers ...
... firm on its pristine foundations. May the universe dissolve, may it vanish Even like a dream - And thou alone appear, thou alone abide One in thy multitudinous reality; I shall find a new world in Thee, a world made of Thee; Therein each limb of mine shall realise its fullness of union with Thee And shall taste utter felicity. May 28, 1933 XVIII LORD, thou ...
... Situated within and above, it knows the source, the cause and the effect of all things and forces. I repeat, this reversal is abrupt. Something opens up in you and you find yourself all at once in a new world. The change may not be final and definitive from its inception. It requires time to settle permanently and become your normal nature. But once the change has been made, it is. there, in principle ...
... These dates in their sequence are significant in that they indicate or represent some occult phenomena, some happenings in the inner world, each marking a step forward in the manifestation of the New World of the Supramental. To come back. Among the characteristics of the Soviet Gymnasts, also the major lessons that one can learn from them, are: first, difficult and complicated body movements ...
... indispensable to the forward movement. The word "progress" assumes a new significance. It is not simply an increase in the technological development and material well-being. It is the opening of a new world, the dawning of a New Age, the beginning of a new life. And the faith of man's unlimited perfectibility, the fundamental optimism of man's heart and mind are completely justified. Biological ...
... and increase the sum of human progress. " " Either India will be rationalised and industrialised out of all recognition and she will be no longer India or else she will be the leader in a new world phase, aid by her example and cultural infiltration the new tendencies of the West and spiritualise the human race. That is the one radical and poignant question at issue. Will the spiritual motive ...
... Aurobindo and Mother say, that you are not alone when you have kindled the flame in your heart, the Fire of aspiration for perfection. Then you will be supported and you will help in creating here a new world based on Truth, based on the Light. Then Life will move around, not money but Truth, around Perfection, which is necessary and very badly needed. That is the one thing that is lacking in the whole ...
... in the sky foreboding a disruption of the very bases of materialistic civilisation. Deep down in the heart of suffering humanity, there was a prayer for a change, for the birth of a new age, a new world-order. Sri Aurobindo was born in Calcutta. His father's name was Krishna Dhan Ghosh, who came of noble parents be- longing to the distinguished Ghosh family of Konnagar, a small village in ...
... higher realms were realms of lucent mind which were quite different from the realms of the vital. The rays of these realms "Parting Life's sentient flow from Thought's self-poise" created a world—a new world—"On a ground reserved for doubt and reasoned guess". It was a meeting-ground of knowledge and ignorance. This mind "only sensed itself and outward things". From the realm of the half conscient animal ...
... Goddess moved in her cosmic house "Sporting with God as a Mother with her child: To him the universe was her bosom of love, His toys were the immortal verities." It was a new world in which there was no opposition between thought and will, between eternity and time. Life was an unwearied sport. The supreme Divine Mother Page 237 Untired of sameness and untired ...
... above; "He calls the Godhead into his mortal life". Savitri's inmost soul had achieved all this behind her surface consciousness and she found that she came to mankind to discover or create "a new world". "Earth must transform herself, and equal Heaven" or "Heaven descend into earth's mortal state". That is the destiny of man on earth. "But for such vast spiritual change to be, The ...
... depths, touched with her fingers "the horror of the inconscience”, invoked from there a descent of the Divine, and come out to announce to humanity: "A new light shall break upon the earth, a new world shall be born.” It is said that one day a young man came to Vivekananda and took his seat in the room where he was discoursing on spiritual matters to a spell-bound audience. When the discourse ...
... the thither shore. But Savitri's very appearance is like a cure for all Satyavan's earlier frustrations. From his heart's depths comes the cry: Page 145 A strange new world swims to me in thy gaze Approaching like a star from unknown heavens; A cry of spheres comes with thee and a song Of flaming gods... Come nearer to me from ...
... preliminary for the 'struggle' with Death and her ultimate victory (described in Part III); and the 'Epilogue' describes the return of Savitri and Satyavan to the earth, where they are now to build a new world, and live the Life Divine. Aswapati, on behalf of mankind and the earth, yearns for Light, Truth, Freedom, Immortality; Savitri first prepares and arms herself for the coming struggle with Darkness ...
... mysteries. We have made the mind a cipher, we have strangled Thought with a cord; Dead now are pity and honour, strength only is Nature's lord. We build a new world-order; our bombs shout Wotan's peace. "That strain...was of a higher mood", but happily there are more enjoyable strains as well. One such is the sonnet, A Dream of Surreal Science: ...
... of The Adventure of Consciousness . It is addressed to students, to those who want to bring about the revolution of the future by the means of the future. For indeed, if we want to build a new world, it is not by the means of the past that we shall succeed — neither by violence nor by non violence. But by something else. This is the time of the Great Sense. We look to the right or ...
... imagination, the force of vision that has gone into the making of the programme. You know, when you identify yourself with the director in this way, you see everything differently. (silence) In the new world this identification will happen quite effortlessly. Then, any programme will be approached in this way by people who have developed this power of receptivity. The completeness of technical perfection ...
... follow the inner direction so that he might gain perfect control over the instruments of purposive action that were lodged deep and veiled within. Rishi Vishvamitra is said to have created a whole new world so that King Trishuncou could sing his Hymn of Triumph: I shall not die. Although this body, when the spirit tires Of its cramped residence, shall feed the fires, ...
... read Sri Aurobindo, listened to Mother, I had for some twenty years been the witness, as she groped in the night of the future, of her stammerings, her blazings forth, her moans of giving birth to a new world – the witness of her solitude in the midst of the spiritual horde around her that was hurriedly preparing to start a new religion. I, the survivor, the outlaw, carried a terrifying responsibility ...
... that I had taken charge 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 ...
... of Fate, medium of his mysteries. We have made the mind a cipher, we have strangled Thought with a cord; Dead now are pity and honour, strength only is Nature's Lord.. We build a new world-order; our bombs shout Wotan's peace. We are the javelins of Destiny, we are the children of Wotan, We are the human Titans, the supermen dreamed by the sage. A cross of the beast and ...
... to the Bulletin of April and August 1954 respectively. Surely, the Divine had come down in various incarnations in the past, always with the intention of "transforming the earth and creating a new world". What is the balance-sheet of these divine endeavours? But till today, he has always had to give up his body without completing his work. And it has always been said that the earth was not ready ...
... may be grappled with and thrown out or to emerge from latency in the depths for the same purificatory purpose. 5 The night was very dark indeed, but the coming of dawn was inevitable, and the new world struggling to be born would be made of a different texture which would come from within and not without. One must hold on, one must master the art of endurance - and one must open oneself to the force ...
... very bottom of the inconscience most hard and rigid and narrow and stifling I struck upon an almighty spring that cast me up forthwith into a formless limitless Vast vibrating with the seeds of a new world. Like many other New Year messages, this too had a history of its own. On 5 November 1958, at the time of the meditation in the Playground, the Mother had had the experience of going down into ...
... of the 'apparently mad' is increasing considerably." Page 719 The Hippies in America, for example! The cracking of the cosmic egg was perhaps, the necessary prelude to the birth of a new world. But the real problem was to sensitise the most material consciousness, which needed repeated whippings to change its tamas into sensibility, and to awaken in it the conviction that "behind ...
... was necessary because certain possibilities had to emerge and be got rid of if a new and better world was at all to come into being; it would not have done to postpone them for a later time.... The new world whose coming we envisage is not made of the same texture as the old and different only in pattern.... It must come by other means—from within and not from without. 69 1949 First Russian atomic ...
... way of perceiving itself or of being perceived by us and enter into another way. This new way would be the means of the transition. In a way, it is the new perception that opens up the road to the new world. The supramental Amazon is there, concretely, in its entirety, but as we walk through it, it takes on visible contours, relief, rivers and small birds that were always present. Walking through it ...
... It seems one is done for, it is all over, and then... it is something else. A Paradoxical State I am quite aware that I am struggling with awkward words and poor analogies to describe this new world, but what can I do? How could we skillfully describe something that does not yet exist, we who do not have the language of the next world! Anyway.... The basic difficulty in all those physiological ...
... faint—but I don't faint, I remain fully conscious. So obviously this creates a sort of... bizarre disorganization. 5 That was when they wanted to give her a dose of Coramine to cure her of the new world. In the end, when She could no longer fight, She swallowed the Coramine anyway, because it made them happy. With disastrous results to her consciousness. A drug means of course an instantaneous ...
... because all these worlds and planes still do not embrace the totality of existence; there is something else, something very mysterious, and very simple, which is perhaps the world's next revolution. A new world within a little cell. That which is our base— this body—is also our ultimate mystery. That which is our failure—death—is also the key to a supreme victory. There perhaps lies the utility of our " ...
... lines” of that new evolution. Perhaps we will then rediscover what we have forgotten since a certain revolution which changed the face of Europe and which was really the first faraway chimes of the new world. For it might after all be appropriate that the country of clear intellect be the first to be clear enough to dethrone the obsolete king of the Mind and wage the revolution of consciousness. And ...
... merely a keyboard for something else. The Mind began to degenerate when it composed incredible arpeggios, like Franz Liszt, for nothing other than a grand piano. And that is where the school of the new world, as we might call it, the school of the next evolution makes an imperceptible detour—imperceptible to everyone, Sri Aurobindo's yoga is the invisible yoga par excellence, like the air we breathe, ...
... turn inwards towards that small miraculous twinkling and smile with her eyes closed. A breath of sweetness. And then it would all begin again. When I was silently next to her, groping around in the new world, I could feel her stretching out into this immense tranquil sweetness, so formidably powerful, and if by chance for one second in a moment of weakening, a thought would approach me, simply on the ...
... Why did Mother leave? Where are they, and what is happening? Could there be already here, on earth, another "milieu" trying to pierce throughout layers of mud and to propel us by force into a new world? ...
... rl. She looked me straight in the eyes without blinking. Then she disappeared towards the dunes with her tray of offerings in her hands. And that look flowed into me like the first smile of a new world... Et ce regard a coulé en moi comme le premier sourire d'un nouveau monde . × Mantra : ritualistic, sound-formula ...
... towards the solution of the economic problem founded not on any western model but on the communal principle native to India. Our call is to young India. It is the young who must be the builders of the new world - not those who accept the competitive individualism, the capitalism or the materialistic communism of the West as India's future ideal, nor those who are enslaved to old religious formulas and cannot ...
... 'And that,' he said, 'will be the beginning, the first terrestrial movement heralding the transformation of . . .'" She elucidated, "Theon didn't use the word supramental, he used to say 'the new world on earth.'" This episode had remained embedded in her mind, half-forgotten perhaps after a gap of fifty-six years. For she said again, "But I did note that down. I had forgotten the whole story ...
... found it finally. By the seashore on the Coromandel coast. Our Pondicherry. It is their hut I had seen. Rishi Agastya and his consort Lopamudra were in deep meditation for the creation of a new world. A new Veda. 1 Majumdar, op. cit. Page 84 HOME ...
... merely a matter of ameliorating the world. There are people who clamour for change of government, social reform and philanthropic work, believing that they can thereby make the world better: We want a new world, a true world, and expression of the Truth-Consciousness. And it will be, it must be,—and the sooner the better! It should not, however, be just a subjective change. The whole physical life must ...
... By entering into contact with it and giving a more or less precise meaning to what I feel. Blessings. 10 November 1971 * * * Sweet Mother, What will be the role of flowers in the new world? Verbally: We shall see! 10 November 1971 * * * Sweet Mother, Why have you chosen the Hibiscus as the flower of Auroville? Verbally: There was a definite reason, but I ...
... XII 'The Heavens of the Ideal' The tireless traveller of the worlds, Aswapati continues the ascent, looking out for new worlds still: At each pace of the journey marvellous A new degree of wonder and of bliss, A new rung formed in Being's mighty stair, A great wide step trembling with jewelled fire. 115 ... 119 If the Rose guides the aspirant through world after coloured and ecstatic world towards "some far unseen epiphany", the Flame likewise guides him through "a pale-sapphire ether of God-mind/ Towards some gold Infinite's apocalypse." 120 Aswapati is rather at home in both the kingdoms of the Ideal— the worlds of the Rose and the Flame. They offered ...
... 'The House of the Spirit and the New Creation' Intent on achieving the conditions that will make possible world-transformation and a new creation, Aswapati retreats to the stillness of the soul and sits, ...like an incarnate hope Motionless on a pedestal of prayer. 143 He will not lose his links with the world, not even with the Inconscience; the... he has received a fresh accession of strength and a new extension of vision. He clearly catches glimpses of the great Possibility of world transformation: There was no sob of suffering anywhere; Experience ran from point to point of joy: Bliss was the pure undying truth of things... In these new worlds projected he became A portion of the universal... emergence here of a new creation. But the negations shall be themselves denied: A new creation from the old shall rise, A Knowledge inarticulate find speech, Beauty suppressed burst into paradise bloom, Pleasure and pain dive into absolute bliss. 147 Himself emancipated, Aswapati is nevertheless the bearer of the burden of the world's desire that climbs ...
... conscious in new realms, immense ranges of life, the "far-extending existence" of the next verse, which are screened off from our ordinary physical consciousness. Trita is the god or Rishi of the third plane, full of luminous mental kingdoms unknown to the physical mind. × In these new worlds of life the... all the life's fifty steeds of swiftness; Agni is there as the light and flame of its far-extended existence which has broken the limitations of the material being and he is full of the joys of this new and rich supra-physical life. Now the third state, the free mental being, is to be perfected by a richly varied and luminous play of thought and word ending in the manifestation of the highest reach... in whom is rich light of the thought and they keep the words of our utterance in their mouth; 4 the fullness of the soul has been spread as a seat of sacrifice in the power 5 of the luminous world and all its inspirations are set round about. ये मे पञ्चाशतं ददुरश्वानां सधस्तुति । द्युमदग्ने महि श्रवो बृहत् कृधि मघोनां नृवदमृत नृणाम् ॥५॥ Page 447 5) They who have given me ...
... appearance of the Supermind emerging from the inconscience; but there is nothing to indicate that after this appearance there will be no others... for the Supreme is inexhaustible and will always create new worlds. That is my story. Page 208 × Sri Aurobindo tells us that evolution is the result of an involution.... separation and disorder. The result is the world as we see it. It was made progressively, stage by stage, and it would truly take a little too long to tell you all that, but finally, the consummation is Matter—obscure, inconscient, miserable.... The creative Force which Page 207 had emanated these four Beings, essentially for the creation of the world, witnessed what was happening, and turning... gospel! Take it rather... as a story. When the Supreme decided to exteriorise Himself in order to be able to see Himself, the first thing in Himself which He exteriorised was the Knowledge of the world and the Power to create it. This Knowledge-Consciousness and Force began its work; and in the supreme Will there was a plan, and the first Page 206 principle of this plan was the expression ...
... beauty, love and joy are comrades; a play which widens and makes you progress. Krishna's play in the physical: the rule of the Avatar upon earth, that is to say, the realisation of the new divine world. Page 14 Can you tell me whether Radha actually existed? Volumes are being written to prove that she did not. Surely she has lived and is still living. Radha's con... constitutes the manifested world. And do you want to know why he is always represented as a child? It is because he is in constant progression. To the extent that the world is perfected, his play is also perfected—what was the play of yesterday will no longer be the play of tomorrow; his play will become more and more harmonious, benign and joyful to the extent that the world becomes capable of responding ...
... 'brave new worlds' in the manner of the rishi Viswamitra who called up the special world of 'Trisankuswarga' mid-way between earth and heaven. That is, Shakespeare's drama does not content itself with 'hold(ing) the mirror up to nature' or with being 'a just representation of general nature' alone. The overplus of Shakespearian creative poetic energy goes far beyond in that it conjures up new worlds... for Mr. Garrick at the Inauguration of his Drury Lane Theatre' Page 103 .. .immortal Shakespeare rose, Each change of many-colour'd life he drew, Exhausts worlds, and then imagined new; Existence saw him spur in her bounded reign, And parting Time toiled after him in vain. Sethna acutely points out that Sri Aurobindo recognised not only the limits which... of reading Shakespeare without offering 'readings' in the New Critical or other fashion, or, for that matter, 'interpretation', has been broached as the basis of their practice by two major critics, Helen Vendler writing on the Sonnets of Shakespeare and Stephen Booth on the plays [Russ McDonald, ed. Shakespeare Reread : The Texts in New Contexts (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, ...
... defeated hearts God's strength survives And victory's star still lights our desperate road; Our death is made a passage to new worlds. At all events, those whose hearts are set aflame by his call of Fire must believe what he proclaimed as a pledge of the New Sunrise and prescribed as the Way to the gleaming Goal. It is the least they can do. Whether others will follow suit, in the ... pains to present today. I want also to help others to see in him — as the world is beginning to recognise — greatest seer-poet of our time and the holiest Herald of a New Sunrise of the Spirit. This being my chief reason for republishing these Page xxvi reminiscences about Gurudev, I have added a few more new revealing letters and incidents and omitted a few redundant chapters so that... Donnelly and published subsequently in Sri Aurobindo Circle Annual, 1951. Page xxi But even the warmest tributes cause me, personally, a pang along with a thrill. For I know that the world cannot possibly have any adequate vision, at the present stage of its evolution, of the almost unbelievable greatness of one who came to us incognito and departed unrecognised by all except a handful ...
... consciousness which is psychologically translated by a relation with new worlds or new "dimensions". For example, it is said that for a certain period the terrestrial world was ruled by "overmental" forces and that this rule is going to be transcended, that the world will be governed by supramental forces; well, each time new forces descend upon earth, a change is produced and a change of consciousness... express themselves physically. Then what is going to happen? Will they find new words? New words must be found for them.... It is difficult, for if new words are found, they have to be explained! After all, the ancient initiatory systems were good in a way, in the sense that they revealed the Knowledge only to those who had reached a stage where they could receive it directly without the help of words... experiences of another world are always full of paradoxes. They say, "It is like this, it is like that", in an attempt to give you a suppleness which will allow you to understand—but even so you do not understand. The truth is that these experiences can be communicated only in silence. And yet, it has been said (and it is a true fact) that these worlds, like the supramental world, are going to express ...
... delight In the seraglios of Ignorance. 26 Aswapati is, however, cheered by the thought that man can still work out his destiny, "recreate himself and all around/And fashion new the world in which he lives." 27 A cleansing retreat is called for, and Aswapati resolutely withdraws into a void, an absolute condition of silence of the mind. Sri Aurobindo is here evidently... There is verily an occult world that rules and sustains the phenomenal world of the senses. The movements in the occult world are revealed when we pore within, penetrate into the subliminal consciousness, and establish communication with the innermost truth and power. Nothing then would be beyond our purview or sovereign control. This occult world stands finally revealed to Aswapati's... of parallel stairs in the phenomenal world, and invite Aswapati to roam and explore. It is like a vast inverted cone, and there is a steep descent from Spirit's immaculate peaks to the abyss of time, inconscience and ignorance, and there is the complementary ascent Page 80 back to the peaks; and between the two stairs all the worlds meet and .ill abide. Aswapati is intrigued ...
... experienced actuality, vivid and inspiring and alive. It is said that Rishi Visvamitra, created by the power of his tapasya a new heaven, the Tri ś ahku Swarga; and the wizard that the poet is creates likewise whole new worlds with the power of his aesthesis. In his own way a supreme lord of language, Sri Aurobindo summons the rhythmic word to his aid, charges it with semantic... ly, the result being that there is a gradual heightening of expectancy and a mounting up of the rhythmic tension: A combatant in silent dreadful lists, The world unknowing, for the world she stood: No helper had she save the Strength within; There was no witness of terrestrial eyes; The Gods above and Nature sole below Were the... Savitri demands concentrated attention from the reader. Where it is most articulate it is charged with the overhead afflatus, and the apparent unconventionality may itself be the gateway to the new audience-chambers of revelation. Imagery is frequently resorted to and the idea is often presented in symbolic terms. Fire, lights, sun, moon, sky, stars, colours, sounds of bells, sea, dawn, gold ...
... working continued for some time; then it came to a halt, and we had only meditations. The Mother's endeavour at that time was for a new creation, the creation here of a new inner world of the Divine Consciousness. She had brought down the Higher Forces, the Gods, into the earth atmosphere, into our inner being and consciousness. A central feature of that endeavour was that she had placed each of us... distance, the Mother could see that the new creation, even if it came about, would be something narrow and confined to a limited circle, and for the most part effective only for an inner action. But that has not been her aim. The new creation must embrace the entire human race, a new race of men must be created and not merely a small select group. And in that new creation must be included not only the... form part of the world, we are united with it and inseparable. We are an image of the entire world, its symbol and representative. We have to share in its work and suffer its deeds. Even Sri Aurobindo and the Mother have not spared themselves this, but that is another matter. Whatever changes we succeed in effectuating in ourselves here will initiate similar changes all the world over. Therefore, ...
... What Bottrall means is this in plain language: we reject the old-world myths and metaphors, figures and legends, wornout ornaments – moon and star and flower and colour and music – we must have a new set of symbols commensurate with our present-day mentality and environment – stone and steel and teas and talkies; yes, we must go in for new and modern terms, we have certainly to find out a menu appropriate... It is a simple truth that we state and it is precisely this that we have missed in the present age. Chaucer created a new poetic world, Shakespeare created another, Milton yet a third, the Romantics – Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats and Byron – each of them has a whole world to his credit. But this they achieved, not because of any theory they held or did not hold, but because each of them delved... is seeking a new path, a new organisation, a "new order", as it were, in the poetic realm: the past forms and formulae do not encompass or satisfy its present inner urge. But solution of the problem does not lie in a sort of mechanical fabrication of novelties. A new creation is new, that is to say, fresh and living, not because of skilful manipulation of externals, but because of a new, a fresh and ...
... some Marlovian "mighty line" with any of Sri Aurobindo's, of which one may feel that here Page 250 The wide world-rhythms wove their stupendous chant, or a commentator may justly measure the accent of a Tennysonian novelty against some song-thrill of new discovery in Sri Aurobindo, A bow-twang's hum of young experiment. But surface-affinities discoverable here... Gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rest unburnish'd, not to shine in use! As tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains; but every hour is saved From the eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and vile it... The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be ...
... juxtapose some Marlovian "mighty line" with any of Sri Aurobindo's, of which one may feel that here The wide world-rhythms wove their stupendous chant, [p. 30] or a commentator may justly measure the accent of a Tennysonian novelty against some song-thrill of new discovery in Sri Aurobindo, A bow-twang's hum of young experiment. [Ibid.] But surface-affinities... untravelled world whose margin fades For ever and for ever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rest unburnish'd, not to shine in use! As tho' to breathe were life. Life piled on life Were all too little, and of one to me Little remains; but every hour is saved From the eternal silence, something more, A bringer of new things; and... The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices. Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows; for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. ...
... multiplying new sects limited within the narrower and inferior ideas of religion imported from the West or by creating organisations for the perpetuation of the mere dress and body of Hinduism we can recover our spiritual health, energy and greatness. The world moves through an indispensable interregnum of free thought and materialism to a new synthesis of religious thought and experience, a new religious... 19-June-1909 A nation is building in India today before the eyes of the world so swiftly, so palpably that all can watch the process and those who have sympathy and intuition distinguish the forces at work, the materials in use, the lines of the divine architecture. This nation is not a new race raw from the workshop of Nature or created by modern circumstances. One of the oldest... throughout its long history, it will now make under entirely new circumstances. A keen observer would predict its success because the only important obstacles have been or are in the process of being removed. But we go farther and believe that it is sure to succeed because the freedom, unity and greatness of India have now become necessary to the world. This is the faith in which the Karmayogin puts its ...
... multiplying new sects limited within the narrower and inferior ideas of religion imported from the West or by creating organisations for the perpetuation of the mere dress and body of Hinduism we can recover our spiritual health, energy and greatness. The world moves through an indispensable interregnum of free thought and materialism to a new synthesis of religious thought and experience, a new religious... Ideal of the Karmayogin A nation is building in India today before the eyes of the world so swiftly, so palpably that all can watch the process and those who have sympathy and intuition distinguish the forces at work, the materials in use, the lines of the divine architecture. This nation is not a new race raw from the workshop of Nature or created by modern circumstances. One of the oldest... throughout its long history, it will now make under entirely new circumstances. A keen observer would predict its success because the only important obstacles have been or are in the process of being removed. But we go farther and believe that it is sure to succeed because the freedom, unity and greatness of India have now become necessary to the world. This is the faith in which the Karmayogin puts its ...
... and their outpouring of the divine waters amounts to the revelation to man of new worlds or new states of existence is clearly told us in the next verse, II.24.5, sanā tā kā cid bhuvanā bhavītvā, mādbhiḥ śaradbhir duro varanta vaḥ; ayatantā carato anyad anyad id, yā cakāra vayunā brahmaṇaspatiḥ , "Certain eternal worlds (states of existence) are these which have to come into being, their doors are... becoming universal, embracing the births in all the worlds, brought into being a fourth world or fourfold world, which must be the supramental beyond the three lower sessions, Dyaus, Antariksha and Prithivi, that wide world which, according to Kanwa son of Ghora, men reach or create by crossing beyond the two Rodasi after killing Vritra. This fourth world must be therefore Swar. The seven-headed thought... be the Ananda or divine beatitude of the supreme threefold world of bliss, the Satya, Tapas and Jana worlds of the Puranic system based upon the three supreme principles, Sat, Chit-Tapas and Ananda; their base is Swar of the Veda, Mahar of the Upanishads and Puranas, the world of Truth. 4 These four together make the fourfold fourth world and are described in the Rig Veda as the four supreme and ...
... himself, new worlds open to his life and his vision and become the field of his experience and the home of his spirit. He lives in contact and union with their powers and godheads and remoulds himself in their image. Each ascent is thus a new birth of the soul, and the Veda calls the worlds "births" as well as seats and dwelling-places. For as the Gods have built the series of the cosmic worlds, even... Puranic worlds correspond to them with sufficient precision, thus:— Principle World 1) Pure Existence—Sat World of the highest truth of being (Satyaloka) 2) Pure Consciousness—Chit World of infinite Will or conscious force (Tapoloka) 3) Pure Bliss—Ananda World of creative delight of existence (Janaloka) 4) Knowledge or Truth—Vijnana World of the... triple world below,—Heaven, Earth and the intervening mid-region; a triple world between, the shining heavens of the Sun; a triple world above, the supreme and rapturous abodes of the Godhead. But other principles intervene and make the order of the worlds yet more complex. These principles are psychological; for since all creation is a formation of the Spirit, every external system of worlds must ...
... "timeless Angel" mean the transcendent? There must be a mistake in the copy. There is a full stop at "timeless". "Angel" begins a new sentence and is addressed to the bird. It is the Bird who went out to reach the Timeless Divine and comes late (while the Sadhak and the world have been long struggling and waiting in vain) with the gift. Purani thinks that the "Bird of Fire" represents aspiration.... don't quite understand Tagore's objection. I myself do not take many things as true in poetry—e.g. Dante's Hell etc.—of which I yet feel the emotion. It is surely part of the power of poetry to open new worlds to us as well as to give a supreme voice to our own ideas, experiences and feelings. The Life Heavens may not do that for its readers, but, if so, it is a fault of execution, not of principle.... surrounding the world which is not at all what I either said or meant. The lines: Revealed it wakens when God's stillness Heavens the ocean of moveless Nature express an exact spiritual experience with a visible symbol which is not a mere ornamental metaphor but corresponds to exact and concrete spiritual experience, an immense oceanic expanse of Nature-consciousness (not the world) in oneself ...
... can be reconciled. Pestalozzi was the first to acknowledge the heritage he had received from Page 275 Rousseau — the man who had been "the turning point between the old and the new worlds of education". It was Rousseau who had condemned contemporary educational methods as "unnatural": Powerfully gripped by all-powerful nature, realizing as no other the separation of his fellow-men... therefore Pestalozzi did not concern himself whether any idea was new or original nor whether it could logically be fitted into existing theories, as long as it proved to be beneficial to the child. A reputation can be a dangerous thing to have, and that of Pestalozzi's "method" was such that people came to imagine that it was some entirely new magic formula. Yet on examination many of the theories seemed... were not original, and deeming this a fault. In fact, Pestalozzi had never claimed that his theories were entirely new, nor did he regard originality for its own sake as a virtue: Page 274 It is in no way my intention to stress any one of my points of view because it is new; I hold fast to my system because I believe it consistent with human nature, and I am convinced that educational theory ...
... ... to discover A new mind and body in the city of God And enshrine the Immortal in his glory's house And make the finite one with Infinity. 43 What adventure can be more daring, more perilous and yet more satisfying and joyous than the his symbolic quest into the unknown for a new mind and body in the city of God? Symbol of the World-Stair: The spiritual evolution... voyager upon etemitys seas," exploring the ocean of time in his tiny boat of "corporeal birth." Voyaging in his "fragile craft" the soul of man attempts adventures in the realm of consciousness seeking new worlds, "to reach unknown harbour lights in distant climes," carrying with him the burdensome attachments of life—"rich bales, carved statuettes, hued canvases and jewelled toys." At each stage of... Time-eternity continuum. Compare this with the following lines: That the eyes of the Timeless might look out from Time And the world manifest the unveiled Divine. 24 A million lotuses swaying on one stem, World after coloured and ecstatic world Climbs towards some far unseen epiphany. 25 This is an intuitive revelation of the manifestation of all the planes of consciousness ...
... Sat-Purusha? The Purusha? What is it in the being? Knowledge. The conscious being. What is this true supramental creation? True creation means the new supramental creation, the one we want to realise here. When we speak of a new transformed world, it is the supramental creation. Page 327 What does "rajasic eagerness" mean? "Eagerness"? It is vehemence, it is violence. It is an excessive... time an empty quietude; the consciousness is often like a vessel which has to be emptied of its mixed or undesirable contents; it has to be kept vacant for a while till it can be filled with things new and true, right and pure." ...
... result of this new deepening, a new widening. How would I understand this new widening? I would say that it modifies the whole aspect of your future movements to distant places. I am sure that you did not go on travelling here and there merelv because you needed an outing. There was an Page 171 inner call to meet the outside world for the sake of that world's good. Now, according... Mother's light, whatever work falls to our lot is more creative in terms of the spirituality Sri Aurobindo has revealed, for this spirituality aims at a radical change of the outer being and at a new wakeful world of interrelations. At first we may not remember the Mother all the time, but a self-consecration at the start of a work and a self-consecration at the end are sufficient in the early stages of... idealist but also an ardent reformist. He yearned to liberate the world from the obscurantism of priests and the despotism of kings. Mind and body clear of shackles - such was the visionary drive behind his great lyrical drama, Prometheus Unbound. From that "something afar" where there is freedom from our sorrowful sphere he longed to bring a new light, love and liberty to that sphere. For what was initially ...
... it: it brings about a vast enlargement of the field of physical actuality by the actualisation of our unrealised possibilities, but also a constant demand for more and always more, a quest for new worlds to conquer, an incessant drive towards an exceeding of the bounds of circumstance and a self-exceeding. To add to this cause of unrest and incertitude there comes in a thinking Page 55 ... bonds, the seeker of new horizons, the disturber of the past and present in the interest of the future. He has a mental life which is often enslaved to the vital force and its desires and passions, and it is these he seeks to satisfy through the mind: but when he interests himself strongly in mental things, he can become the mental adventurer, the opener of the way to new mind-formations or the... the thinker, the sage, less kinetic and immediately effective than the vital man, who is the man of action and outer swift life-fulfilment, but as powerful and eventually even more powerful to open new vistas to the race, is the normal summit of Nature's evolutionary formation on the human plane. These three degrees of mentality, clear in themselves, but most often mixed in our composition, are to ...
... give it: it brings about a vast enlargement of the field of physical actuality by the actualisation of our unrealised possibilities, but also a constant demand for more and always more, a quest for new worlds to conquer, an incessant drive towards an exceeding of the bounds of circumstance and a self-exceeding. To add to this cause of unrest and incertitude there comes in a thinking Page 430 ... this transient and unhappy world, turn to Me. Gita. (IX. 33.) This Self is a self of Knowledge, an inner light in the heart; he is the conscious being common to all the states of being and moves in both worlds. He becomes a dream-self and passes beyond this world and its forms of death.... There are two planes of this conscious being, this and the other worlds; a third state is their... their place of joining, the state of dream, and when he stands in this place of their joining, he sees both planes of his existence, this world and the other world. When he sleeps, he takes the substance of this world in which all is and himself undoes and himself builds by his own illumination, his own light; when this conscious being sleeps, he becomes luminous with his self-light.... There are no roads ...
... decadence, unless this period turns out to be an interval before the new art-world is found. As it is, it seems to be a period of decadence trying hard to become interesting. Or, to put it differently, the mind of the modernist artist seems to be trying to become original by extravagance. Page 19 After the first world-war the modern mind has become very restless, hysterical, interested... by trying to arrive at a new plane—a plane of colour of each object. Q. Who set about achieving these aims ? Was it Courbet or Monet ? A. Courbet was a half naturalist, but he gave up the idea of imitation of Nature as the sole aim of art. Monet who followed him stood for Nature, not as she is in the studio, but as she is in the open. He introduced the new way of treating light—the... contrasts of tones and colours. Both of them may be said to have begun the departure. But it was the genius of Cezanne, the great pioneer that ushered in the new era. He effected a complete break with the art tradition of his times. In fact the need for a new departure in plastic arts was being felt since the end of the 18th century. For inslance, nobody before these artists would think of painting the "peasants" ...
... first time in history, the richest spirit of all ages attempted a poetic utterance of his highest realizations and experiences, in all their heights, breadths and depths - something altogether new in world literature. We need to mark here a crucial distinction between, on the one hand, the mass of beautiful poetry in all languages which is our precious heritage from the richest vital... church made him formulate his insights ambiguously, and look for support from traditional texts and teachers of the past, whereas, in fact, he was speaking from a present world-view of science and evolution in an hour which was new and unprecedented. Amal finds Sri Aurobindo also relating to the past - to the Vedas, the Upanishads, the Gita and the Tantra - but, in his case, to corroborate... that the world at large has failed to appreciate the kind of poetry written by Sri Aurobindo. Mother knew why. She once remarked: Three quarters of humanity is obsolete. And those who are already obsolete or on their way to obsolescence cannot reasonably be expected to resonate to supernal sound values and significances. Similarly, one can imagine the once largely simian world being totally ...
... details. Heaven opened wide Her ever-during gates, harmonious sounds On golden hinges moving, to let forth The king of Glory, in his powerful Word. And Spirit coming to create new worlds. Whatever detail is here is inevitable. A lesser poet would have used a more voluminous expression. But Milton is content with "King of Glory" without any amplifying adjectives. With just... same — but the new words do not call down that atmosphere. This proves that no thought-substance alone creates great poetry. It also proves the inevitability of the words; when we get the right ones, the greatest poetry is created. Here again: He seemed the wideness of a boundless sky, He seemed the passion of a sorrowless earth, He seemed the burning of a world-wide sun. Two... forgets the larger form or paragraph pattern. This too aids the removal of monotony, because we find something new in each verse, something which is in one line but not there in another, something which reveals itself more and more, a new mood, a new thought, a new perception, a new feeling: all these give variety and enrich the blank verse. Milton on the other hand does not have this variety ...
... analysts, do not. To return into the world of Mallarme through your guidance has been a delight. I am a great Francophil, you know (or perhaps you did not) and have long been in contact with the school of the Imaginal' in France. For the Imagination, born in England with Blake and Coleridge and Shelley, and restored in the Irish renaissance of this century, has taken a new life in France, long deemed the... for your letter of Dec. 11 . I am replying immediately to catch you around Jan. 1 and wish you a happy new year on time. Your appreciation of The Obscure and the Page 133 Mysterious is both sensitive and deep, responding as it does not only to my perception of the in-world from which Mallarme" drew his symbolism but also to my reading of the interplay of image and word and rhythm... the Horatian maxim about art lying in concealing art, would fall under your mentor's ban. Does he not spurn economy of words when he tells us of Christ going forth with his attendants "to create new worlds"? - They viewed the vast immeasurable Abyss Outrageous as a sea, dark, wasteful, wild, Up from the bottom turned by furious winds And surging waves, as mountains to assault ...
... in interpretation between the Western and Eastern world view and idea of Reality. Constructions erected on the shaky foundations of the Western philosophical premises had to collapse sooner or later. That it collapses now makes its timing perfectly synchronous with the moment when the world is taking its momentous turn towards a new, divine world order. And not only is the collapse happening at this... to be unreliable, misleading and even false; the “certainties” transmitted by the “modern” to the present world turn out to be no longer applicable; postmodern man and woman, therefore, do not possess the intellectual standards to interpret and understand the overwhelming newness of the world that is theirs. The fundamental problem, however, is that the “modern” period represented “the triumph of... ion of mankind must of necessity put all certainties into question and do away with most of them to make place for new ones that cannot be imagined. This period of transition the Mother once called, only partly in jest, “the supramental catastrophe”. Humanity, and through it the world, is undergoing a sea change. That reason lost its moorings is one of the consequences, only explainable from the A ...
... hurters of the soul. The Path is a constant making and building of new truth, new powers, higher realisations, new worlds. All heights to which we can climb from the basis of our physical existence are described in symbolic figure as mountain summits upon the earth and Varuna of the vision holds them all in himself. World after world is reached as level and ever higher level of a great mountain; the... Surya in us beholds with a comprehensive vision all the Page 480 worlds, all the births as herds of the divine Light, bodies of the infinite Aditi; and this new-seeing of all things, this new-moulding of thought, act, feeling, will, consciousness in the terms of the Truth, the Bliss, the Right, the Infinity is a new creation. It is the coming into us of "that greater existence which is beyond... bodies, and this new birth and self-building is the true nature of the Page 492 sacrifice,—the sacrifice through which there is the awakening of our consciousness to immortality. 4 The sons of the Infinite have a twofold birth. They are born above in the divine Truth as creators of the worlds and guardians of the divine Law; they are born also here in the world itself and in man ...
... image — intense, beautiful, deepening into distances — but also a strange rhythm imparting an emotion that seems to come with a holy force as if to remake one's life and, through the new subjectivity, a new objective world: this is the general impression Miss Chadwick's best work leaves on me. That is why she must be read not with the eye alone. The sounds must get their full value and be physically heard... make her and them part of some new emergent Zeitgeist one in fundamental drive behind renascent India's rediscovery of "inwardness" and modernist Europe's "heritage of Symbolism". There is hardly a poem in Miss Chadwick's booklet without the suggestion in it of the leap upward of a Godhead secret within the human or the leap outward of a Godhead waiting in world-nature or the leap downward... its own beauty which is an exquisiteness no travail can exhaust or mar, and moves out of the world's sight to a repose that has no ears for the struggle and the agony of the world. This last shade of meaning is brought out clearly in the next three lines which carry in perfect language the pathos of a world derelict of the light and abandoned to the loneliness of its own self, all its movement and growth ...
... and auspicious new beginning could not be hoped for. This league now in the last throes of formation has not been a spontaneous creation of a peaceful, equal and well-combined will towards unity of all the world's peoples. It comes into being overshadowed by the legacy of hatreds, reprisals, apprehensions, ambitions of a murderous world war chequered by revolutions which have opened a new and alarming... order; it is likely to be a necessity of this new system for regulating chaos. This creation is a realistic practical construction with a very minimum concession to the new idealism: it has been erected by statesmen who have been concerned to legalise the actual facts and organise the actual forces which have emerged from the world-war; a few inconveniently new-born and of a menacing significance have... reasons for breaking asunder for some years to come, and time may perhaps, provided no new revolutions sweep across the world, confirm the habit of united action. We may assume that here we have in Page 641 fact, though not yet in name, the beginnings of a council or an imperfect federation of the world's peoples. But the constitution of this Council and the conditions under which the variously ...
... the same ground as what you typed but contains also much more that is new. The small passage about Aswapati and the other worlds has been replaced by a new book, the Book of the Traveller of the Worlds, in fourteen cantos with many thousand lines. There is also a third sufficiently long book, the Book of the Divine Mother. In the new plan of the poem there is a second part consisting of five books: two... Virgil to insert a needed new line: And griefless countries under purple suns. [ p. 120 ] 17 November 1936 Here too the gracious mighty Angel poured Her splendour and her swiftness and her thrill, Hoping to fill this new fair world with her joy, [ cf. p. 130 ] Would not "pours" be better? No, that would take away all meaning from " new fair world" Page 300 —it... which a considerable amount of new matter has to be written. 10 July 1948 I am afraid I am too much preoccupied with the constant clashes with the world and the devil to write anything at length even about your new poems: a few lines must suffice. In fact as I had to explain the other day to Dilip, my only other regular correspondent, my push to write letters or to new literary production has dwindled ...
... himself! The imperious Grace from "overhead" is typically the Supermind's largesse. The converse of this integrating of sincere yet in some respects hopelessly weak souls into the scheme of the new Truth-world in the making is, of course, the throwing out with a vehement definitiveness of those who, though carrying on some sort of Yoga, lack central sincerity. The hour of final choice strikes with... characteristic poise and again, by another such change, to the supramental. This new kind of ascent will be an accompaniment and a help to the greater descent, a descent not only into the physical mind but also into the physical vitality and the physical proper. As Sri Aurobindo puts it, "there would be a new mental being", "a liberated mind... aware of its affiliation to Supermind, a natural... mortality. It reveals itself as an extreme measure freely adopted, for reasons of his own, in significant yet never dominant mortal detail by one who, after having ascended in consciousness to a new and hitherto unmanifested power of the Divine Reality, sought to effect a descent of it for earth's complete perfection, including a transformation of the very body of man. The spiritual perfectionist ...
... longer the faith they once Page 41 had that Sri Aurobindo was going to inaugurate a new era of creation in this world of fact." Just think of Tagore saying this in his similesque way! I feel Tagore has come to this conclusion after reading your "Riddle of this World" which must have appeared to him more of a riddle than of an explanation. For formerly he wrote to... trouble- some and defective outer shell of oneself and in the outer world also. November 22, 1934 There is no doubt that a new kind of flow seems to have opened in the poetry you are now writing—there is a greater ease and spontaneity and the rhythm seems to come more of itself. I have not yet been able to read the new version carefully and throughout, but only glanced at it reading here... myself, it is only to have a sufficient counter-weight in Page 129 that amorphous chaos, the public mind, to balance the hostility that is always aroused by the presence of a new dynamic Truth in this world of ignorance. But the utility ends there and too much advertisement would defeat that object. I am perfectly "rational", I assure you, in my methods and I do not proceed on a mere personal ...
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