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... the definitions that succeed that it is not the physical body alone which is the field, but all too that the body supports, the working of nature, the mentality, the natural action of the objectivity and subjectivity of our being. 1 This wider body too is only the individual field; there is a larger, a universal, a world-body, a world-field of the same Knower. For in each embodied creature there is ...

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... make an individual cage. But this is not the truth of Matter, this is false matter. This is the material, experimental conclusion Mother was coming to: The notion of time and space, objectivity and subjectivity—whether things are concrete or not—all that seems to have been... devices for preparing the consciousness for a new way of being. 37 It is like... death, food and money: this Consciousness ...

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... .. because it's not natural anymore. ( silence ) And then, the way of perceiving time and space is becoming very different. It's completely changing. The notion of time and space, objectivity and subjectivity—whether things are concrete or not—all that seems to have been... devices for preparing the consciousness for a new way of being. The functioning of the consciousness is beginning to ...

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... highest that we can attain to is approximation and probability. But if objectivity is real and can be so known by the percipient, the subject, then it is reasonable to suppose that objectivity and subjectivity are not opposed to each other; and since the object presents itself before the subject and can be known only by the subject, and since the subject can know, that is to say, enter into the ...

... fact that they enter into activity successively. It is, moreover, because of this successive activity that they can gradually become aware of themselves as a result of their experiences, both objective and subjective (which are really one and the same), that is, discover Thee in their unfathomable essence. The subconscient is the intermediate zone between precise perception and ignorance, total darkness; ...

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... slip into committing the second folly which we can charge to Mencken: the folly of believing that poetry should aim at giving an objective truth or a subjective truth such as every reflective adult can recognise. Mind you, I am not saying that every objective or subjective truth is bypassed by poetry on purpose. I have mentioned Mencken's "reflective adult". This phrase stands for the average grown-up... outward or inward. It plunges farther than the objective or subjective surface of being — without really rejecting this surface. It sees the surface as constituting symbols of a hidden reality and, at its intensest, it lays a hand however lightly on the body of that reality itself. In various ways it uses the surface of being, objective or subjective, as pointers, peep-holes, glimmerings of a secret... the information you need by opening at random the nearest book of verse. The ideas you will find in it may be divided into two main divisions. The first consists of denials of objective facts; the second, of denials of subjective facts. Specimen of the first sort: God's in His heaven — All's right with the world. Specimen of the second: I am the master of my fate; I am the captain ...

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... 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 of our works. These works are changed and surpassed by Aswapati's soul-release ...

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... of despair, the objective reality of the scientific field stands, it is asserted, although somewhat changed. Now, there are four positions possible with regard to the world and reality, depending on the relation between the observer and the observed, the subject and the object. They are: (I) subjective, (2) objective, (3) subjective objective and (4) objective subjective. The first two are... difference. First, the subjective objective in which the subject assumes the preponderant position, not denying or minimising the reality of the object. The external world, in this view, is a movement in and of the consciousness of a universal subject. It is subjective in the sense that it is essentially a function of the subject and does not exist apart from it or outside it; it is objective in the sense that... conclusion of Leibnitz (to which Russell draws our attention): space is subjective to the view of each monad (subject unit) separately, it is objective when it consists of the assemblage of the view-points of all the monads. The scientific outlook was a protest against the extreme subjective view: it started with the extreme objective standpoint and that remained the fundamental note till the other ...

... of despair, the objective reality of the scientific field stands, it is asserted, although somewhat changed. Now, there are four positions possible with regard to the world and reality, depending on the relation between the observer and the observed, the subject and the object. They are: (1) subjective, (2) objective, (3) subjective objective and (4) objective subjective. The first two... difference. First, the subjective objective in which the subject assumes the preponderant position, not denying or minimising the reality of the object. The external world, in this view, is a movement in and of the consciousness of a universal subject. It is subjective in the sense that it is essentially a function of the subject and does not exist apart from it or outside it; it is objective in the sense that... conclusion of Leibnitz (to which Russell draws our attention): space is subjective to the view of each monad (subject unit) separately, it is objective when it consists of the assemblage of the view-points of all the monads. The scientific outlook was a protest against the extreme subjective view: it started with the extreme objective stand-point and that remained the fundamental note till the other ...

... of choice. For, the outer objective factors remaining the same, if the sadhaka can somehow change his subjective disposition, a new resultant of the assembly of factors will be created and the divine Wisdom, taking cognisance of this altered situation, will decide upon a new shortest path to the final Goal. Now a few of the possible subjective factors by whose judicious handling... development of our being and consciousness." (Letters on Yoga, Part Four, p. 1628) Page 346 We now come to the fifth proposition. Given the totality' of the factors, both objective and subjective, which are operative in a sadhaka' s life and consciousness at a given moment of his spiritual journey, the divine Guidance, through the exercise of a prescient supreme Wisdom, chooses the ...

... disciplined quest of genuine secrecies; for the depths and heights of some Mystery beyond the intellect, by an exquisite or forceful metamorphosing of both the objective world and the subjective as usually known". This objective and subjective really is seen reflected in his career as Professor. That is, two clear-cut worlds 1. It is unfortunate that somehow these got left out from the ...

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... outward or inward. It plunges farther than the objective or subjective surface of being - without really rejecting this surface. It sees the surface as constituting symbols of a hidden reality and, as its intensest, it lays a hand however lightly on the body of that reality itself. In various ways it uses the surface of being, objective or subjective, as pointers, peep-holes, glimmerings of... of a secret Splendour or a magnificent Mystery." (p 14) The poet may not always fly away from objective facts but he does not stay locked up in them. On the other hand, he uses them as symbols to drive home to our souls his sense of that reality. Many great critics including Johnson, Coleridge, Matthew Arnold, T.S. Eliot and F.R. Leavis at times committed ridiculous blunders in their... the objects or events he depicts." (p. 25) Given his eclectic theory of poem and his acquaintance with diverse types of writings in more than one literature, he may be expected to be objective and dispassionate in his estimate of any literary form or poet or period in the history of English literature. Not many critics who have undertaken to compare Shelley and Keats have been absolutely ...

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... style. The modern distinction is that the poet appeals to the imagination and not to the intellect. But there are many kinds of imagination; the objective imagination which visualises strongly the outward aspects of life and things; the subjective imagination which visualises strongly the mental and emotional impressions they have the power to start in the mind; the imagination which deals in the... poetical language of a merely intellectual, vital or emotional force, but instead or in addition a genuinely imaginative style, with a certain, often a great beauty of vision in it, whether objective or subjective, or with a certain, often a great but indefinite soul-power bearing up its movement of word and rhythm. It varies in intensity: for the lower intensity we can get plenty of examples from Chaucer ...

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... vision of reality: in the world of physics, the under standing of what reality is has changed radically. Some researchers in advanced physics wonder whether the objective reality is not grounded in subjectivity or whether objective and subjective are not simultaneous aspects of the same reality. It is also becoming more and more apparent that, to understand the concept of health, one needs to realize that ...

... The Human Cycle The Human Cycle The Human Cycle Chapter VI The Objective and Subjective Views of Life The principle of individualism is the liberty of the human being regarded as a separate existence to develop himself and fulfil his life, satisfy his mental tendencies, emotional and vital needs and physical being according to his own desire governed... real abiding-place; and here subjectivism has to deal with the same factors as the objective view of life and existence. We may concentrate on the individual life and consciousness as the self and regard its power, freedom, increasing light and satisfaction and joy as the object of living and thus arrive at a subjective individualism. We may, on the other hand, lay stress on the group consciousness,... tendency, sense of need, desire for self-satisfaction of the collectivity. But also we may enlarge the idea of the self and, as objective Science sees a universal force of Nature which is the one reality and of which everything is the process, we may come subjectively to the realisation of a universal Being or Existence which fulfils itself in the world and the individual and the group with an impartial ...

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... is merely a full emergence into a gross external and objective sense of reality of the apparently stable but yet transient structures of the physical consciousness. According to a powerful and well-established line of spiritual Sadhana, the real and true waking should signify no less than a total "withdrawal from both objective and subjective consciousness...into the superconscience superior to ...

... planes" which existed both in us and outside us, objectively and subjectively. Objectively, the world was — and still is! — composed of a series of cosmic planes of consciousness (the mind being one of them, rather low on this ascending scale) ; each plane had its own gods and beings, and those cosmic planes were connected to our individual, subjective being through a certain number of inner meeting... vrika , his meaning could be the tearer, the divider, the dualizer, and incidentally, a wolf ; the root go could mean a cow as well as a ray of light. Words could thus be used in their objective or their subjective meaning, and it is on that double—and often triple—meaning that the Veda was erected. Triple meaning, because what the Rishis were trying to convey was not ideas, but experiences, illuminations... the Gods that are set within. The all-knowing Gods have taken the Infant of a year and they have woven about him seven threads to make this weft" (I.164.5). The gods are thus not merely outer, objective powers, but also inner powers, for every time we are "born" to another world, it means, first of all, that we have given birth in us to the god corresponding to that world, or, as we would now say ...

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... ess. Especially difficult was he when he insisted on discussing philosophy even when suffering from a roaring cold. He would keep chattering of "omjective" and "sum-jective" — which are "objective" and "subjective" spoken when Page 226 the nose is completely blocked with mucous matter. He would also be somewhat of an embarrassment when you were in a hurry. Charles Lamb was once on ...

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... events are not imaginary constructions having no corresponding truth in the objective universe; for we see now that Causality is a fundamental character of the Truth of existence and that Page 185 our mental category is a reflection of that objective Truth - the subjective idea corresponding to the objective fact. The causal laws are, we might say, that Timeless Will working in different ...

... where spiritual education enters into the field, one has to be more scientific than the current sciences demand of the scientist; for current sciences deal with objective facts, whereas spiritual processes involve both objective and subjective facts. This is the reason why spiritual education should constantly be surcharged with relentless patience, perseverance and unfailing discrimination between... inmost being that is capable of intense sympathy, Page 132 compassion, spiritual love and harmony; secondly, of concentration and contemplation of internal communion with the subjective and the objective forces of unity and diversity, and thirdly, of internal union with the highest possible source or sources of love, joy and beauty. Sainthood consists of effortless inspiration to be engaged... abolition of the sense of egoistic doership of action, and third, of the mastery that arises from the discovery and the operation of the impersonal and universal will without any hindrance from our subjective egoism or preferences. The third power of the spirit flowers in sainthood. The state of consciousness that constitutes sainthood is marked by universal goodwill, sympathy and friendliness ...

... the supramental Truth. The soul supports the nature in its evolution through these grades, but is itself not any of these things. The lower Nature, aparā prakṛti , is this external objective and superficial subjective apparent Nature which manifests all these minds, lives and bodies. The supreme Nature, parā prakṛti , concealed behind it is the very nature of the Divine—a supreme Consciousness-Force ...

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... where spiritual education enters into the field, one has to be more scientific than the current sciences demand of the scientist; for current sciences deal with objective facts, whereas spiritual processes involve both objective and subjective facts. This is the reason why spiritual education should constantly be surcharged with relentless patience, perseverance and unfailing discrimination between ... the awakening of our inmost being that is capable of intense sympathy, compassion, spiritual love and harmony, secondly, of concentration and contemplation of internal communion with the subjective and the objective forces of unity and diversity, and thirdly, of internal union with the highest possible source or sources of love, joy and beauty. Sainthood consists of effortless inspiration to be engaged... abolition of the sense of egoistic doership of action, and third, of the mastery that arises from the discovery and the operation of the impersonal and universal will without any hindrance from our subjective egoism or preferences. The third- power of the spirit flowers in sainthood. The state of consciousness that constitutes sainthood is marked by universal goodwill, sympathy and friendliness ...

... led from the visible to the invisible, from objective 'realities' to subjective 'essence', from the heard vibrations of speech intimating seer-wisdoms to the deeper silences with their plenitudes of Grace. But Sri Aurobindo's Yoga asked for an integral - not a partial - realisation, which meant that the outer and the inner, the objective and the subjective, the words of wisdom and the trances of silence... theories, all principles, all methods are more or less good according to their capacity to express that Truth [the living and real Truth seeking Page 656 to express itself in an objective universe]; and as one goes forward on this path, if one goes beyond all the limits of the Ignorance, one becomes aware that the totality of this manifestation, its wholeness, its integrality is... being, on this bank, and she had a supramental existence on that bank; what had been lacking was a bridge, an intermediate zone. It was this zone "both in the individual consciousness and the objective world" - that had to be built, and was in fact being built. Of her experience of the 3rd February afternoon, the Page 657 Mother reminisces as follows: I was on a huge boat which ...

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... self-concentration (brooding) of Spirit. From these transcendental subjective determinants the constituents of objective experience are projected. Continuing, the description proceeds to reverse the scheme by speaking of the creation of the human being in the image of the Purusha and of the entry of objective and subjective constituents into the human being. 21 A profound experiential equivalence... consequences for art since, though Kant stationed himself firmly on the irreducible finitude of human cognition, the assumption of universality in the conditions of knowing pointed to an "objective" subjectivism and opened up a variety of German Transcendentalist variants, one of which—Schelling's Transcendental Absolutism— succeeded in establishing once more a Romantic bridge between Mind ...

... here in the material world itself behind its action and objects. There are two main orders of experience in our contact with them; one is purely subjective, though in its subjectivity sufficiently vivid and palpable, the other is more objective. In the subjective order, we find that what shapes it self to us as a life-intention, life-impulse, life-formulation here, already exists in a larger, more subtle... insistent supraterrestrial character. But the contacts do not stop here: for there is also an opening of our mind and life parts to a great range of subjective-objective experiences in which these planes present themselves no longer as extensions of subjective being and consciousness, but as worlds; for the experiences there are organised as they are in our own world, but on a different plan, with a different... contact with the supraphysical is possible, a contact can also take place subjective or objective—or at least objectivised—between our own consciousness and the consciousness of other once embodied beings who have passed into a supraphysical status in these other regions of existence. It is possible also to pass beyond a subjective contact or a subtle-sense perception and, in certain subliminal states ...

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... stuff of matter by the method of objective analysis, the physicist reaches a point of great and incredible 'sensitivity'. We use this word, in place of another, because how else to describe the progressive disappearance of a line of demarcation between the objective and the subjective! Matter appears to shed its own objectivity and reveals itself in its utter subjectivity - even to the physicist!  ... the 'substance of the Spirit'.   *   Through a perfection of 'form' and an organisation of 'forms' - which is the great achievement of our times - it has pierced the veil of its own 'objectivity', that kept it from knowing itself in its true state. Its very perfection has fine-tuned it to 'turn within'... matter 'turning within' itself to know what lies hidden in its core. And, it discovers... habitual way of dealing with matter, of working with it, is to see it from the 'outside' - to handle it 'organisationally'. To see its bits and pieces and to organise them in spatial relations in an objective sense of dimension.   But to be 'inside' matter and to reach out to it from the core of one's conscious being is to discover matter in an entirely different way. It is supple, malleable, offers ...

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... that we have no means of knowing the objective universe except 1 Gita, 4.33 Page 252 by our subjective consciousness of which the physical senses themselves are instruments; as the world appears not only to that but in that, so it is to us. If we deny reality to the evidence of this universal witness for subjective or for supraphysical objectivities, there is no sufficient reason to... of the highest and integral Knowledge is obviously its ultimate aim. Validity of Yogic Knowledge The knowledge that yoga affirms is a self-revelation in consciousness where subjectivity and objectivity are discovered to be not independent realities, but as inter- dependent; they are the Being, through consciousness, looking at itself as subject on the object and the same Being offering... to concede reality to its evidence for physical objectivities; if the inner or the supraphysical objects of consciousness are unreal, the objective physical universe has also every chance of being unreal. It is true that in each case understanding, discrimination, verification are necessary; but the subjective and the supraphysical must have another method of verification than that which we apply ...

... of one's organs of action, karmendriyāni. No; every activation of energy, be it objective or subjective, is deemed to be a karma and is bound to produce its effect which will boomerang on its doer. Thus, if I indulge in a mood of anger or irritation against somebody and wish him evil, or even merely subjectively dwell in some sinful imagination and thought, these too will not allow me to escape... and confront me one day with their unpleasant consequential experiences. Besides, we should not forget that before a deed is objectivised in the outside field, its first sprouting is in the subjective consciousness of the doer, "karmabījaṁ manaḥ-spandaḥ." (Yogavasistha, III. 6.11) The writer Humphreys has given us a significant quotation in his book, Buddhism, which indicates the succession ...

... rude and powerful hand Page 40 precipitated its subjectivity into form and action at too early a stage; a longer period of incubation might have produced results less disastrous to itself, if less violently stimulative to humanity. The real source of this great subjective force which has been so much disfigured in its objective action, was not in Germany's statesmen and soldiers—for the... Certainly, there is always a vague sense of this subjective existence at work even on the surface of the communal mentality. But so far as this vague sense becomes at all definite, it concerns itself mostly with details and unessentials, national idiosyncrasies, habits, prejudices, marked mental tendencies. It is, so to speak, an objective sense of subjectivity. As man has been accustomed to look on himself... organic. When it does succeed in getting out of the stage of vaguely conscious self-formation, its first definite self-consciousness is objective much more than subjective. And so far as it is subjective, it is apt to be superficial or loose and vague. This objectiveness comes out very strongly in the ordinary emotional conception of the nation which centres round its geographical, its most outward and ...

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... what we see to exist. And the purest, freest form of insight into existence as it is shows us nothing but movement. Two things alone exist, movement in Space, movement in Time, the former objective, the latter subjective. Extension is real, duration is real, Space and Time are Page 108 real. Even if we can go behind extension in Space and perceive it as a psychological phenomenon, as an attempt ...

... what we see to exist. And the purest, freest form of insight into existence as it is shows us nothing but movement. Two things alone exist, movement in Space, movement in Time, the former objective, the latter subjective. Extension is real, duration is real, Space and Time are real. Even if we can go behind extension in Space and perceive it as a psychological phenomenon, as an attempt of the mind to make ...

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... Scripture it is represented as Prana and the cause of things. Consequently it is by elimination of this idea of the seed that it is designated by such phrases as "He is the unborn in whom the objective & subjective are One", "From whom words return baffled", "He is not this nor that nor anything we can call him", and the rest. Our author will speak separately of this seedless condition of the Same Self ...

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... Especially difficult was he when he insisted on discussing philosophy even when suffering from a roaring cold. He would keep chattering of 'omjective' and 'sumjective' — which are, of course, 'objective' and 'subjective' spoken when the nose is completely blocked with mucous matter. He would also be somewhat of an embarrassment when you were in a hurry. "Charles Lamb was once on his way to his office ...

... s the quality of each. But Horizontal Harmony is more than Inter-object Symbolism or Inter-object Correspondence. It is also a harmony between Nature's scenes and man's moods, as if the objective and the subjective were two sides of the same ex-perience and all Nature were a condition of the poet's conscious being. Nature may thus be entered by a sort of empathy, in-feeling, and its shapes and hues ...

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... the supramental Truth. The soul supports the nature in its evolution through these grades, but is itself not any of these things. The lower Nature, Apara Prakriti, is this external objective and superficial subjective apparent Nature which manifests all these minds, lives and bodies. The supreme Nature, Para Prakriti, concealed behind it is the very nature of the Divine—a supreme Consciousness-Force ...

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... soul in its return to integral self-knowledge. First there is that Brahman, tad brahma; adhyātma , second, the principle of the self in Nature; adhibhūta and adhidaiva next, the objective phenomenon and subjective phenomenon of being; adhiyajña last, the secret of the cosmic principle of works and sacrifice. I, the Purushottama ( māṁ viduḥ ), says in effect Krishna, I who am above all these things... living, the importance of our then state of consciousness becomes evident. But it is not a deathbed remembrance at variance with or insufficiently prepared by the whole tenor of our life and our past subjectivity that can have this saving power. The thought of the Gita here is not on a par with the indulgences and facilities of popular religion; it has nothing in common with the crude fancies that make the... the cosmic becoming of existences in Prakriti. By adhibhūta is to be understood all the result of mutable becoming, kṣaro bhāvaḥ . By adhidaiva is intended the Purusha, the soul in Nature, the subjective being who observes and enjoys as the object of his consciousness all that is this mutable becoming of his essential existence worked out here by Karma in Nature. By adhiyajña , the Lord of works ...

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... say, or sat luminous to itself. I began to see first the thing-in-itself Page 77 in the Brahman (whether thing objective or thing subjective) and as part of that vision idea or truth of the thing self-manifest. The obstacles of vijnana-siddhi and of all subjective siddhi are no longer in myself but in the circumambient annamaya prakriti, not that attached to myself as an atmosphere by... articulate thought had established its free activity regardless of all doubt & opposition in the mind, but it had not decisively proved its truth & vijnanamaya nature by unvarying result in the objective & subjective happenings of Yoga & life; but this movement of proof has now powerfully commenced. Drishti is also preparing a decisive movement both in lipi & in crude rupa. The lipi "After dinner the... & continuous coherent record established in the dream form, of speech, & communication with others on the plane of the Imagination, in the kalpanamayi prakriti of which are the heavens & hells of subjective Page 102 experience objectivised in sensation (to the sukshma indriyas) but not in annam. 24 July 1912 A day of reaction in the body, suspension of health in the stomach, activity ...

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... describes: the poetry has an objective three-dimensional air as if the Spirit were neither an abstraction nor a far-floating haze but something to be seen and touched. The peculiarity, however, is that the universe in which Sri Aurobindo sees and touches reality Page 48 is held in a wideness of being that is his own self—the objective and the subjective are a single strangeness. The... monotony, the pitfall to avoid is insincerity and rhetoric—the hollow Hugoesque shout. In poetry that is deeply felt, these so-called abstractions live in the inner being, they create a sort of powerful subjective space—for vision to fill and illuminate. Vision—the seizing of actual presences and their interplay, the contacting of the shape and tint of hidden realities —turns Sri Aurobindo's work into a revelatory ...

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... in the logistis. Thought-perception has now the same freedom and almost the same assured power as the speech. Thought of T² is assuming the same freedom and potency; but, especially in the objective subjectivity it is limited by the large element of persistent telepathic incertitude. Nevertheless the certitudes are constantly progressing up the plane of increase. K.A in sleep in the morning almost... There is an increasing revival of the force of K.A. The two first chatusthayas depressed by tamas and laxity are recovering their completeness of the siddhi. This time the relapse tendency in the subjectivity has lasted seven days; the ordinary minimum formerly was a fortnight. T² has emerged from the confusion and is now exiling all inferior suggestions. The telepathy of the seer logistis is still... work of progress should be done from the highest attained siddhi, the high lifting up the low, not the low working towards the higher siddhi. This has indeed begun and is even established in the subjectivity but not with a pure and perfect action 15 August 1919 Hermetic logistic ideality took preliminary possession of the T². This action at once brought to bear effective gnostic tapas on the body ...

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... like. Mind in its established human workings is a profound ignorance trying to acquire knowledge and the very knowledge it acquires is of appearances, of nature's surface activity, objective or subjective, rather than of nature's depth and of the under-lying ultimate reality. Further, both in its practical knowledge and in the theoretical constructs it makes to correlate observations it... With the direct action initiated in our midst of embodied Supermind, we may well inquire by what extraordinary signs its operative presence is accompanied. Among those that can be objectively gauged we may mention at least four. First, the most general, a many-sidedness of spiritual action: one single outflow of Yogic energy produces a far-flung network of vibrant victorious co ...

... be in tune with it and to experience it in its fullness. But the way to that understanding seems to me essentially the way of science, the way of objective approach, though I realise that there can be no such thing as true objectiveness. If the subjective element is unavoidable and inevitable, it should be conditioned as far as possible by the scientific method. What the mysterious is I do not... certain psychic experiences seem to belong to a different order of things and to elude the objective methods of science. Let us, therefore, not rule out intuition and other methods of sensing truth and reality. They are necessary even for the purposes of science. But always we must hold to our anchor of precise objective knowledge tested by reason, and even more so by experiment and practice, and always we... ultimate reality may be, and whether we can ever grasp it in whole or in part, there certainly appear to be vast possibilities of increasing human knowledge, even though this may be partly or largely subjective, and of applying this to the advancement and betterment of human living and social organisation. There has been in the past, and there is to a lesser extent even today among some people, an ...

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... beyond it. And if Stenger wants to disprove the existence of God (in God – The Failed Hypothesis ), he should at least have read something or other about the difference between subjective and objective reality. “Subjective reality cannot be referred to the evidence of the external senses; it has its own standards of seeing and its inner method of verification: so also supraphysical realities by their... different orders of reality; the objective and physical is only one order. It is convincing to the physical or externalizing mind because it is directly obvious to the senses, while of the subjective and the supraphysical that mind has no means of knowledge except from fragmentary signs and data and inferences which are at every step liable to error. Our subjective movements and inner experiences are... reality of “empirical facts” are in the eyes of scientific materialism two utterly different realms, of which the former is a priori censured by the latter . Empiricism recognizes what it calls ‘objective’ facts perceived through the senses. Sri Aurobindo notes that “science cannot dictate its conclusions to metaphysics any more than metaphysics can impose its conclusions on science.” 17 That matter ...

... each with its subjective reason for existence and objective case & form of existence. Is ideal knowledge then the subjective principle of mahat? If so, vijnanam and the Vedic mahas are likely to be terms identical in Page 40 their philosophical content and psychological significance. We turn to the Upanishads and find mention made more than once of a certain subjective state of the soul... universe the replica of himself. Unless therefore the Vedic Rishis had no thought of their subjective being, no perception of intellectual and moral forces within themselves, it is a psychological impossibility that they should have detected divine forces behind the objective world but none behind the subjective. These are negative and a priori considerations, but they are supported by more positive... designed & coordinated to signify the subjective facts of the internal Yajna, aids the spiritual aspirant by moulding his material sheath into harmony with his internal life & by mastering his external surroundings so that there too the conditions & forces may be all favourable to his growth. (11) The Yajna has two parts, mantra & tantra—subjective & objective; in the outer sacrifice the mantra is ...

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... darkness. That darkness itself is described as a quietude which gives it a subjective spiritual character and brings out the thing symbolised, but the double epithet 'inert black' gives it the needed concreteness so that the quietude ceases to be something abstract and becomes something concrete, objective but still spiritually subjective. Every word must be the right word, with the right atmosphere, the right... Similarly he has "lit by the rich skies" — a Page 309 happy description of the many-coloured multi-lustred day in action, but it works a different charm altogether from the objective-subjective presence of void Nature and vague Supernature in   The impassive skies were neutral, waste and still.   Finally, take the neo-romantic "wandering loveliness" generalising "the... richness or vehemence, forcing language to its utmost power of expression. That has to be done still more in this kind of mystic Page 308 poetry. I cannot bring out the spiritual objectivity if I have to be miserly about epithets, images, or deny myself the use of all available resources of sound-significance. The double epithets are indispensable here and in the exact order in which ...

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... morning physical tamas, some relapse into the old intuivity. This is now being corrected, but it is noticeable that the obstruction is being concentrated in the physical system. Opposition in the objective subjectivity is half-hearted; the opposition has lost faith and self-confidence. The remnants of the habit of intellectual judgment and recipiency are now being raised and extruded from the system; the ...

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... ss its subjective and its objective cosmic experience. But the waking state is not a true waking from this original and causal sleep; it is only a full emergence into a gross external and objective sense of the positive reality of objects of consciousness as opposed to the subtle subjective dream-awareness of those objects: the true waking is a withdrawal from both objective and subjective consciousness... reality, are yet qualified by a building and seeing of subjective self-constructions which are not the Real. The One Self sees itself as many, but this multiple existence is subjective; it has a multiplicity of its states of consciousness, but this multiplicity also is subjective; there is a reality of subjective experience of a real Being, but no objective universe. It may be noted, however, that nowhere... false images and happenings. This solution is logically untenable. The other solution, the idea of a purely subjective unreal reality, starts from the distinction made by the mind in physical Nature between its subjective and objective experiences; for it is Page 460 the objective alone of which it is sure as entirely and solidly real. But such a distinction could hardly exist in Brahman ...

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... greater "inwardness" seems to be the drive of the creative spirit. A greater subjectivity I than has yet found expression in poetry is becoming dominant. The subjectivity of the nineteenth century was an individual subjectivity but what seems to be coming after the appearance of Whitman is a I universal subjectivity, that is to say, we see the rise of creators in the field of poetry who... turn of expression, a more subjective attitude and a new way of sounding the possibilities of the language. There are many among the modern writers who under the stress of life have given evidence of a capacity to Page 70 rise to intuitive perception or inspired expression or psychic insight in their creation. There is the perception of the universal subjectivity on their part and it gives... inspired utterance in which the spirit and the word expressive of it come fused together under the white heat of poetic alchemy. The expression "cratered present" transfers the bombing from the objective to the subjective world, and the poet's hope that the words expressing his sorrow would gleam—like the splinters of the bomb —into the future does the same. A fine affirmation of the poet's faith in his mission ...

... and subjective phantasy into the realm of knowledge. But error and delusion and the introduction of personality and one's own subjectivity into the pursuit of knowledge are always present, and the physical or objective standards and methods do not exclude them. The probability of error is no reason for refusing to attempt discovery, and subjective discovery must be pursued by a subjective method... the objective universe except by our subjective consciousness of which the physical senses themselves are instruments; as the world appears not only to that but in that, so it is to us. If we deny reality to the evidence of this universal witness for subjective or for supraphysical objectivities, there is no sufficient reason to concede reality to its evidence for physical objectivities; if the... illegitimate transference from the limited truth of the physical field to the much more complex and plastic field of life and mind and spirit. The Life Divine, pp. 886-87 In fact, subjectivity and objectivity are not independent realities, they depend upon each other; they are the Being, through consciousness, looking at itself as subject on the object and the Page 191 same Being ...

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... supraphysical object of consciousness has as much right to acceptance as the physical objectivity; it cannot be a priori set aside as a subjective delusion or hallucination. In fact, subjectivity and objectivity are not independent realities, they depend upon each other; they are the Being, through consciousness, looking at itself as subject on the object and the same Being offering itself to its own... truth and subjective phantasy into the realm of knowledge. But error and delusion and the introduction of personality and one's own subjectivity into the pursuit of knowledge are always present, and the physical or objective standards and methods do not exclude them. The probability of error is no reason for refusing to attempt discovery, and subjective discovery must be pursued by a subjective method... interpretative knowledge, its subjective construction of the universe; our mind is primarily a percipient and interpreter, secondarily and derivatively a creator. This indeed is the value of all mental subjectivity that it reflects in it some truth of the Being which exists independently of the reflection,—whether that independence presents itself as a physical objectivity or a supraphysical reality perceived ...

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... experiences which would recommend themselves to the newly awakened and virgin observation of mankind; viz sound, contact or touch, (form), light, (taste), smell, motion & action, sensation objective & subjective. From the da family form & taste seem to be absent; either they have lost it or never applied themselves to these provinces of human observation. But we cannot yet say this precisely; for ...

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... here in the material world itself behind its action and objects. There are two main orders of experience in our contact with them; one is purely subjective, though in its subjectivity sufficiently vivid and palpable, the other is more objective. In the subjective order, we find that what shapes it self to us as a life-intention, life-impulse, life-formulation here, already exists in a larger, more subtle... the physical mind and its objective methods and standards, and such liability to error cannot be a reason for shutting out a large and important domain of experience; it is a reason rather for scrutinising it and finding out in it its own true standards and its characteristic, appropriate and valid means of verification. Our subjective being is the basis of our objective experience, and it is not probable... character. But the contacts do not stop here: for there is also an Page 805 opening of our mind and life parts to a great range of subjective-objective experiences in which these planes present themselves no longer as extensions of subjective being and consciousness, but as worlds; for the experiences there are organised as they are in our own world, but on a different plan, with a different ...

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... circumstance, but there is nothing but the result to distinguish the true from the false, because the vivek is clouded. Power works in preparing the subjective state of others & the world steadily but slowly & against a dull & heavy resistance; in objective result it is as yet poor & uncertain except in isolated details. A number of prayogas are fulfilled with exactness, some partially, others not at... from this morning's action with regard to Page 127 the Veda, that this is about to be fulfilled, or its fulfilment is being prepared. Sraddha is increasing in the rapidity of the subjective-objective Yogasiddhi, but not yet, with stability, in that of the Adesh siddhi, except in literature. Today's news show a perfect action of the Shakti in detail on events of magnitude at a distance... the Chhayamayi vision in Patala; but since then it has been discontinued. Finally, there must be the actual leaving of the body in trance, wholly or partially. There is a better & swifter subjective-objective response in others now to the vyapti & shakti prayoga; but it is still in its infant stages. Power is also telling on the bodies of others a little, eg. Bakhtyar’s sores heal almost at once; ...

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... 'jahannam', 'behest' and 'doze', 'paradise' and 'purgatory', etc. By the way, these regions ('loka', 'bhuvana') exist at the same time both subjectively and objectively; subjectively, as the planes of consciousness of an individual being, and objectively as independently existing worlds of manifestation. There is one other essential point we have to note in this connection: these supraphysical... that he has already died. We are not contesting their observations and conclusions. But what we are now seeking to know is whether the dying person retains some sort of subjective consciousness even when there is no trace of its objective manifestation outside and the patient has totally lost all control over his limbs and organs and their physiological functionings. Has not the Mother spoken about the... s are real; all other experience purporting to be real must be either a hallucination or an imposture or a subjective result of superstitious credulity and imagination or else, if a fact, then explicable by a physical cause; no evidence could be accepted of such a fact unless it is objective and physical in its character; even if the fact be very apparently supraphysical, it cannot be accepted as such ...

... Asiddhi is for the present stronger in the objectivity than the Siddhi. Ananda Sahaituka Kama in its acute form reached a great extension of prolongation. Ahaituka continuity has reached its lowest ebb and is unable for the present to reassert itself. The other physical anandas are also less powerful in frequency of recurrence. Subjective Ananda has been subjected to a revival of Asamata... Activity of Vijnana. Page 729 3) Progress to fulfilment of Trikaldrishti. 4) Growth of Rupa & Samadhi 5) Growth of Power of Arogya 6) Growth of the consolidated Ananda objective & subjective 7) Growth of utthapana 8) Weak beginnings of Saundarya. Utthapana 2 hours 52 minutes—interrupted. Defect of Anima felt. Some fatigue in the muscles. Greater reaction than yesterday... development of Tivra & raudra.. 4) The period for the physical siddhi begins from today and extends to the end of the month. 5) Karmachatusthaya in its subjective parts will be perfectly established in the same period. In its objective parts it will begin to emerge during the fortnight. Utthapana Left leg horizontal ten minutes. In the left leg as in the left arm defect of anima is ...

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... verifiable and, therefore more objective, than the joy in Beethoven's last quartets; but that is a lessening of the world, not an enrichment. Actually, this is a false opposition. Subjectivity is really an advanced or preparatory stage for objectivity; once everyone verifies the reality of cosmic consciousness, or simply the joy in Beethoven's quartets, we may attain an objectively less barbarous universe... might suppose this cosmic consciousness to be a kind of poetic and mystical superimagination, something purely subjective and without any practical bearing. But first, we could try to clarify what we mean by "objective" and "subjective," because if we insist on using so-called objectively as the sole criterion for truth, then this entire world is likely to escape us altogether – as our art, our painting... force; it all depends on their inner disposition, on their form of aspiration, on their religious, spiritual, or even cultural background. This is where subjectivity begins, and with it the possibility of confusion and superstition. But subjectivity should not undermine the experience itself; it is merely a sign that the same thing can be viewed and transcribed differently depending on our nature – ...