... voices. Naturally, they are not the realisations but only a step on the way and one has not to get shut up in them or take all as of value. Page 238 People who have the occult faculty always tend to give too large a place to it. I suppose this capacity for visions and voices is by no means a sign of progress in itself. What do you mean by progress... in the development of the consciousness, though it may not carry with it any spiritualisation of the nature. I do not know what you mean by practical sadhana. If one develops the occult faculty and the occult experience and knowledge, these things can be of great use, therefore practical. In themselves they are a part of opening of the inner consciousness and also help to open it further... them and indulged them as if they were divine things (Y) or very high and noble ideas (X). So what is the difference? Page 239 I see now that my ideas about the occult faculty are elementary. But if it has such good uses, then why did Sri Raman Maharshi discourage his disciples from having any dealings with it? He discouraged his disciples because his aim ...
... progress in the development of the consciousness though it may not carry with it any spiritualisation of the nature. I do not know what you mean by practical sadhana. If one develops the occult faculty and the occult experience and knowledge, these things can be of great use, therefore practical. In themselves they are a proof of opening of the inner consciousness and also help to open it fa... that they are being misled or in danger of being misled by false visions and false voices. That does not mean that visions and voices have no value. Page 566 People who have the occult faculty always tend to give too large a place to it. Spiritism About spiritism I think I can say this much for the present. It is quite possible for the dead or rather the departed—for they are not ...
... smells or touches. I was told that each occult opening helps one, but none of them has helped me in my practical sadhana. I do not know what you mean by practical sadhana. If one develops the occult faculty and the occult experience and knowledge, these things can be of great use, therefore practical. In themselves they are a proof of opening of the inner consciousness and also help to open it fa ...
... it can be omitted though important for the patient. Yes, you can insist on his forking out that, if he is unwilling. Luck for the guinea-pig! If seeing the Divine depended on developed occult faculty, how do you explain people's seeing Ram, Krishna, Shiva, etc., in you at Darshan?—I mean by people who have apparently no such faculty. We've read about Krishna presenting himself before small ...
... matter —her central will acted upon matter anywhere since she was THERE." Sri Aurobindo explains further. "Obviously a layman cannot do these things, unless he has a native 'psychic' (that is, occult) faculty and even then he will have to learn the law of the thing before he can use it at will." Madame Theon, who had 'a native psychic Page 134 faculty,' had thoroughly learned ...
... or even heard of Yoga; but in such cases it proves that there is some kind of occult vision there very near to the surface. 25 February 1932 If seeing the Divine depended on the developed occult faculty, how do you explain people's seeing Ram, Krishna, Shiva, etc. in you at Darshan?—I mean by people who have apparently no such faculty. We've heard about Krishna presenting himself before small ...
... gaseous (the Vedic trinity of Agni) is the agent in producing liquid and solid forms of what is called matter. Obviously a layman can't do these things, unless he has a native "psychic" (that is, occult) faculty and even then he will have to learn the law of the thing before he can use it at will. It is al ways possible to use spiritual force or mind-power or will-power or a certain kind of vital energy ...
... trinity of Agni) is the agent in producing liquid and solid forms of what is called matter. Page 386 Obviously a layman can't do these things, unless he has a native "psychic" (that is, occult) faculty and even then he will have to learn the law of the thing before he can use it at will. It is always possible to use spiritual force or mind-power or will power or a certain kind of vital energy ...
... making herself felt to her friends, she picks up a pen and writes with it. Also moves up and down a train in her vital body. But 'having satisfied herself that it was possible' does not develop this occult faculty any further. Meets Paul Antoine Richard (1874-1967), a theologian and socialist, then a member of Théon's group. Later describes him as a 'Vibhuti' of the Lord of Falsehood, one of the four ...
... You have called Maharshi a great man and once you said that he lives always in the light. So he must be in the Truth-Consciousness. How then could he be mistaken in discouraging his disciples' occult faculties even when they were not misusing them but were making spiritual progress through them? * The incident referred to may be this: Once Sri Raman Maharshi was much displeased... He discouraged his disciples because his aim was the realisation of the inner Self and intuition — in other words the fullness of the spiritual Mind —visions and voices belong to the inner occult sense, therefore he did not want them to lay stress on it. I also discourage some from having any dealing with visions and voices because I see that they are being misled or in danger of being misled ...
... kidney’ and had to stay in bed for five months. During these months she read, according to her own report, hundreds of books and developed out of sheer boredom her occult faculties. One of her exercises consisted in extending her occult body in such a way that she could perceive what was going on in adjacent rooms. In this way she even managed to be invisibly present in the studio. Little André... by ‘families of souls’ incarnated to that end. ‘There are large families of beings who work at the same task, who have gathered in a certain number and who come in groups as it were.’ 8 ‘From an occult point of view it is almost always the same forces and the same beings who incarnate during all the ages of artistic beauty upon earth … It is the same forces which are at work, and they are grouped ...
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