... The difficulty is because the inner mind is not yet sufficiently habituated to act and see the inside things and therefore the ordinary outer mind interferes and tries to arrange them; but the outer mind is unable to see the meaning of inner things. When the outer mind is left outside altogether, Page 221 the things inside begin to be seen vividly and clearly, but the inner mind not being... the values of different experiences differ greatly, but it is real with the reality of the inner self and the inner planes. It is a mistake to think that we live physically only or only with the outer mind and life. We are all the time living and acting on other planes of consciousness, meeting others there and acting upon Page 217 them, and what we do and feel and think there, the forces... emergence. Once the barrier breaks by the one movement or the other, you begin to find that all the processes and movements necessary to the Yoga are within your reach and not as it seems in the outer mind difficult or impossible. The inmost psychic self in you has already in it the Yogin and the bhakta and if it can fully emerge and take the lead, the spiritual turn of your outer life is predestined ...
... the inner subtle physical can also be in direct touch with the cosmic forces of the physical universe. But the exterior being is not in direct touch with the universal or cosmic—only through the outer mind and senses. It is the outer nature that is obscure and when it is at ease, feels no necessity of remembering the Mother—when the difficulty comes, then it feels the necessity and remembers... purpose that one should become conscious in these inner regions, for if they are not awake, then the psychic being has no proper and sufficient instrumentation for its activities; it has then only the outer mind, outer vital and body for its means and these are too small and narrow and obscure. You as yet have been able only to enter the outskirts of the inner vital and are still insufficiently conscious... supports them all—they are the inner, this the inmost being. I do not know what you mean by its [ the inner being's ] being "around" the psychic. It is obviously nearer to the psychic than the outer mind, vital or physical, but that does not ensure its being open to the psychic only and not to other universal forces. The psychic can have peace behind it—but the inner mind, vital and physical ...
... of external things but of inner things only. Your inner consciousness was busy doing what your outer mind had been trying to do, that is to work upon the thoughts and suggestions that bring restlessness and to put them right; it can be done much more easily by the inner consciousness than by the outer mind. As for the things that are necessary to be done, they can be done much more easily by the... comes, it is not to be avoided, as Yogic realisation can take place in this condition as well as in the waking state. It is a state of inner immobile silence that one gets in Samadhi when the outer mind is stilled and there is only some inner or some higher consciousness which may itself be either in silent concentration or else experiencing some state of Knowledge or Ananda or Peace. Going... inside. In samadhi it is the inner mental, vital, physical which are separated from the outer, no longer covered by it—therefore they Page 249 can freely have inner experiences. The outer mind is either quiescent or in some way reflects or shares the experience. As for the central consciousness being separated from all mind that would mean a complete trance without any recorded experiences ...
... necessity because it is by this inward self-finding that the second—the cosmic self-finding—can become entirely possible: we have to go into our inner being and learn to live in it and from it; the outer mind and life and body must become for us only an antechamber. All that we are on the outside is indeed conditioned by what is within, occult, in our inner depths and recesses; it is thence that come... image forms also of powers or potentialities in universal Nature; there is nothing that it cannot image or visualise or turn into sensory formations. It is the subliminal in reality and not the outer mind that possesses the powers of telepathy, clairvoyance, second sight and other supernormal faculties whose occurrence in the surface consciousness is due to openings or rifts in the wall erected by... our being. Page 555 It should be noted, however, that owing to this complexity the action of the subliminal sense can be confusing or misleading, especially if it is interpreted by the outer mind to which the secret of its operations is unknown and its principles of sign construction and symbolic figure-languages foreign; a greater inner power of intuition, tact, discrimination is needed ...
... our ordinary awareness they are all mixed up. Each plane of our being — mental, vital, physical — has its own consciousness, separate though interconnected and interacting; but to our outer mind and sense, in our waking experience, they are all confused together. The body, for instance, has its own consciousness and acts from it, even without any mental will of our own or even against... part of us is below the surface. Or, more accurately, it is behind the frontal consciousness, behind the veil, occult and known only by an occult knowledge.... What we call our mind is only an outer mind, a surface mental action, instrumental for the partial expression of a larger mind behind of which we are not ordinarily aware and can know only by going inside ourselves. So too what we know... much wider in its receptiveness, much more open and plastic and free. 14 Whereas the outer being "receives consciously only the outer touches and knows things indirectly through the outer mind and senses", 15 the inner being is "directly aware of the universal consciousness and the universal forces that play through us and around us." 16 For the inner mind is directly in touch with ...
... imposes attention like that it is better to write about it. Page 230 I am told that in sadhana the outer mind can be developed directly from above. At present I see many changes in my inner being, particularly in 'the inner mind. But the outer mind seems to have remained as ignorant and unchanged as before! The change there can only come when the higher consciousness... What is the place of intellect with regard to the inner being and the outer being? Intellectual activities are not part of the inner being, the intellect is the outer mind. When does the intellect become an obstacle to the higher realisation? When it wants to judge things for itself instead of submitting to a higher light. ... to put aside the pressure. The pressure goes on during the mental activity. So much the better. The reading must learn to accommodate itself to the pressure — that is, be done by the outer mind while the inner being remains in concentration. Do people learn philosophy to teach others? Not always. Some learn in order that the mind may look in a complete and ...
... stuff. Even work of the outer mind such as Milton's is poetic precisely by the inner stuff, and it differs from Shelleyan poetry not by its lacking that stuff but merely by its getting it translated accurately into terms of the outer mind rather than appearing with some hues and harmonies of its own — and Milton's work is at times even greater than Shelley's despite the outer mind because of this mind's... he turns to music belong, for all their imaginative quality, to the outer mind sove-reignly inspired and he has complete grasp over the things he visualises: practically nowhere do we feel that he is in the midst of elusive presences — presences, of course, that are no less concrete for being elusive but that leave our outer mind incapable of enter-ing masterfully into the mood musicalised. It is quite ...
... answer "I want", "I like", "I dislike", "I feel like that". Each plane of our being—mental, vital, physical—has its own consciousness, separate though interconnected and interacting; but to our outer mind and sense, in our waking experience, they are all confused together. The body, for instance, has its own consciousness and acts from it, even without any conscious Page 201 mental will... is subconscient, lower than our waking consciousness; part of it is on a level with it but behind and much larger than it; part is above and superconscient to us. What we call our mind is only an outer mind, a surface mental action, instrumental for the partial expression of a larger mind behind of which we are not ordinarily aware and can only know by going inside ourselves. So too what we know of... this inner being and inner nature. For then alone can we break the limitations of the ignorant external self which receives consciously only the outer touches and knows things indirectly through the outer mind and senses, and become directly aware of the universal consciousness and the universal forces that play through us and around us. And Page 204 then only too can we hope to be directly ...
... occasionally touched by a shadow of positive asraddha and even that now takes the shape of a strong incertitude. Vijnana is based in the total ideality, but still besieged by the outer mind. All suggestions from the outer mind are now of the nature of intuitive mentality turned in entrance or almost turned Page 1201 into ideality, full at least of the vijnana stuff and manner, which seems... fragmentary occasional fashion so long as the defect of mentality in the Shakti has persisted in the physical consciousness; it did not belong to the system, but was imposed on it, so long as the outer mind could shoot in its arrows of suggestion or break in for a time and possess the surface. There is still a persistence of vague relics which are being steadily idealised out of existence. This is due ...
... semi-occult dream-vision mixing with Milton's outer mind which was used to a blind man's blurred contact with shape and colour, we have a positive quality. When, however, the inspiration seizes mostly on the outer mind, it shows up a defect by the conventionalism of the descriptions. A man not blind might have provided to the inspiration an outer mind sufficiently pricked with sensitive observation ...
... from the body. In samadhi it is the inner mental, vital, physical which are separated from the outer, no longer covered by it - therefore they can freely have inner experiences. The outer mind is either quiescent or in some way reflects or shares the experience. As for the central consciousness being separated from all mind that would mean a complete trance without any recorded experiences... My inner being does not like this questioning business. It often gets tired of it since it is all mental. But what to do when the intuition is not available? So long as the outer mind is not quiet, it is impossible for intuition to develop. So if you want to go on asking intellectual questions about what is beyond the intellect until the intuition develops in spite of this activity... attitude. Is it only in this Yoga that difficulties must be rejected by all the parts of our being? Is it true that your Force alone cannot work them out, even if our inner being and outer mind are there to help the Force? It is not a question of "can" or "cannot" - it is a question of what is necessary for the true transformation. Theoretically the Force can transform you ...
... faculties and invisible forces that far exceed the possibilities of our outer being and can do for us things that we are normally incapable of doing: One had to have the passage clear between the outer mind and something in the inner being... for they (the Yogic consciousness and its powers) are already there within you, 32 and the best way of "clearing" the passage is to silence the mind. We do... expression. It is the traveller of the worlds, 52 the explorer of the planes of consciousness; it connects our various modes of being together, from waking to sleep to death, when the small outer mind is no longer there to inform or guide us; it pervades the entire range of universal existence and communicates everywhere. In other words, we have discovered consciousness . We have isolated... This was the answer he received: Understand that these experiences are not mere imaginations or dreams but actual happenings.... It is a mistake to think that we live physically only, with the outer mind and life. We are all the time living and acting on other planes of consciousness, meeting others there and acting upon them, and what we do and feel and think there, the forces we gather, the results ...
... at first view and nothing more. But knowledge only begins when we get away from the surface phenomena and look behind them for their true operations and causes. To the superficial view of the outer mind and senses the sun is a little fiery ball circling in mid air round the earth and the stars twinkling little things stuck in the sky for our benefit at night. Scientific enquiry Page 68 ... last but not least, you have to develop the power and the habit of taking refuge in the protection of the Mother and myself. It is for this reason that the habit of criticising and judging by the outer mind or cherishing its preconceived ideas and formations must disappear. You should repeat always to yourself when it tries to rise, "Sri Aurobindo and the Mother know better than myself—they have the... his own mind. But there is nothing extraordinary, much less improbable in seeing one whom one has never seen—you are thinking as if the inner mind and sense, the inner vision, were limited by the outer mind and sense, the outer vision, or were a mere reflection of that. There would be not much use in an inner mind and sense and vision if they were only that and nothing more. This faculty is one of the ...
... __ 1. This poem is Tamisrāya meaning "In the darkness," in Anāmī. [Dilip's note.] Page 67 constant contact or indwelling of the Divine, and this comes naturally not to the outer mind or vital but to the inner soul or psychic being. Therefore one who wants his Yoga to be a path of peace or joy must be prepared to dwell in his soul rather than in his outer mental and emotional... can do it, as things are,—not even one in a million; for poetry and music come from the inner being and to write or to compose true and great things one has to have the passage clear between the outer mind and something in the inner being. That is why you got the poetic power as soon as you began Yoga,—yogic force made the passage clear. It is the same with yogic consciousness and its powers; the thing... in your dream about the Mother was real, but real on the vital plane, an experience of things that take place in the inner domains. It is a mistake to think that we live physically only with the outer mind and life. We are all the time living and acting on other planes of consciousness, meeting others there and acting upon them, and what we do and feel and think there, the force we gather, the results ...
... conscious effort. Unfortunately, this kind of verse has very little of harmony in it — either of vision or rhythm. It is chaotic, a throw-up of the Subconscious. Although it is a breath from beyond the outer mind of the poet, it is a spasmodic and foul breath, it is in no sense "divine", it is neither from mysterious deeps nor from magnificent heights, it has no intuitive substance and no felicitous expression... be going on, whose figures and gestures are seen before us but not wholly, for they are projections from mysteries whose Page 108 presence we intuit yet do not grasp with the outer mind. In this respect the poem has the atmosphere of certain works of Blake that have an occult vision conveying to us the emotion of that vision without any definite intellectual key to its symbols.... rose light of the deer and the red fire of the lion — and then there will be the Beatitude one with the Omnipotence. The poem imprints on us its intuition with a varying imagery that may puzzle the outer mind — thunder and lightning, sun and star, wine and honey — but the ultimate suggestion is single. And what an "intriguing" art bears home that suggestion! The expression has a finish, yet with ...
... duḥkhena guruṇāpi vicālyate . This inner soul of calm regards the trouble of the outer mind with a detached superiority or a passing uninvolved indulgence such as might be given to the trivial joys and griefs of a child, it does not regard them as its own or as reposing on any permanent reality. And, finally, the outer mind too accepts by degrees this calm and indifferent serenity; it ceases to be attracted... impacts, suggestions of this phenomenal Nature that besieges us on every side without being overborne by them and compelled to bear their emotional, sensational, dynamic, intellectual reactions. The outer mind in the lower nature has not this Page 709 strength. Its strength is that of a limited force of consciousness which has to do the best it can with all that comes in upon it or besieges ...
... interpose himself as a shield against them. The identification of the guru with the Divine is a common rule, not peculiar to the Vaishnava bhakti. Ordinarily, so far as the outer mind is concerned, it is a firm belief; the outer mind can believe, can by its faith have some feeling of it, can with the help of the heart worship, adore, serve with humility and fidelity; ordinarily, this is enough and it ...
... formations. When the calmness is there all sorts of things may rise on the surface—they have not to be accepted, but simply looked at. In time the calmness will be so developed as to quell the vital and outer mind also and in that complete quietude the true perceptions will come. The Mind and the Psychic Most people begin with the power [ of Yoga ] working in the Page 7 mind—it is only when... In the West the physical mind is too dominant, so that the psychic does not so easily get a chance—except of course in exceptional people. Page 8 It is the thoughts of the outer mind that have to be refused, the suggestions and ideas that end by disturbing the sadhana. There are also a number of thoughts of all kinds that have no interest, but which the mind is accustomed to ...
... the creative vital and uses the outer mind and other external instruments for transmission only." In all poetry, the creative vital is necessary, for else there can be no manifestation on earth. The creative vital is required even for the manifestation of the Super-mind in the world. And to let the work of the creative vital come into the physical plane, the outer mind and other instruments enter the ...
... image-forms also of powers or potentialities in universal Nature; there is nothing that it cannot image or visualise or turn into sensory formations. It is the subliminal in reality and not the outer mind that possesses the powers of telepathy, clairvoyance, second sight and other supernormal faculties whose occurrence in the surface consciousness is due to openings or rifts in the wall erected... inner domain of our being. It should be noted, however, that owing to this complexity the action of the subliminal sense can be confusing or misleading, especially if it is interpreted by the outer mind to which the secret of its operations is unknown and its principles of sign-construction and symbolic figure-languages foreign; a greater inner power of intuition, tact, discrimination is needed ...
... us at first view and nothing more. But knowledge only begins when we get away from the surface phenomena and look behind them for their true operations and causes. To the superficial view of the outer mind and senses the sun is a little fiery ball circling in mid air round the earth and the stars twinkling little things stuck in the sky for our benefit at night. Page 173 Scientific enquiry... is due to its ignorance and its belief that only physical things are real. Yes, it [ the physical mind ] reasons, but on the basis of external data mostly—on things as they appear to the outer mind and senses or the habitual ideas to which it is accustomed or to a purely external knowledge. That part of the being [ the physical mind ] has no reason except its whims, its habits or an ...
... reactions that make it difficult—and the chief cause of these reactions is the readiness with which your outer mind listens to the suggestions and accepts the reasonings and obeys the movements of the obscure ignorant physical Nature. That is why I want you to get rid of this habit of the outer mind and to recognise that it is the inner being which is the real truth of yourself and not this outer con ...
... is subconscient, lower than our waking consciousness; part of it is on a level with it but behind and much larger than it; part is above and superconscient to us. What we call our mind is only an outer mind, a surface mental action, instrumental for the partial expression of a larger mind behind of which we are not ordinarily aware and can only know by going inside ourselves. So too what we know of... this inner being and inner nature. For then alone can we break the limitations of the ignorant external self which receives consciously only the outer touches and knows things indirectly through the outer mind and senses, and become directly aware of the universal consciousness and the universal forces that play through us and around us. And then only too can we hope to be directly aware of the Divine ...
... to music belong, for all their imaginative quality, to the outer mind sovereignly inspired and he has complete grasp over the thing to which he responds audio-visually: practically nowhere do we feel that he is in the midst of elusive presences—presences, of course, that are no less concrete for being elusive but that leave our outer mind incapable of entering with certitude into the mood musicalised ...
... the little bit of personal mind. In this part of our being, we receive consciously only the outer touches, know things in ourselves and in our surroundings only or mainly by the intellect and the outer mind and senses, and 1 The Life Divine, p. 555. Page 169 become aware of the cosmic forces and movements, ceaselessly playing through and around us, primarily by their... of occult experience that all that we 'become and do and bear' in the physical life is prepared behind the veil within us. For it is a mistake to imagine that we live physically only, with the outer mind and life alone. As a matter of fact, "we are all the time living and acting on other planes of consciousness, meeting others there and acting upon them, and what we do and feel and think there ...
... at first view and nothing more. But knowledge only begins when we get away from the surface phenomena and look behind them for their true operations and causes. To the superficial view of the outer mind and senses the sun is a little fiery ball circling in mid air round the earth and the stars twinkling little things stuck in the sky for our benefit at night. Scientific enquiry comes and knocks... subconscient lower than our waking consciousness, part of it is on a level with it but behind and much larger than it; part is above and superconscient to us. What we call our mind is only an outer mind, a surface mental action, instrumental for a partial expression of a larger mind behind of which we are not ordinarily aware and can only know by going inside ourselves. So" too what we know of ...
... What a beautiful world! Then I saw the Mother slowly descend into their midst; she had ten arms and a bright white complexion. Suddenly I woke up. But lying quietly on the bed, I realised that my outer mind, life and body were moving inside the Mother's circle. In this condition I looked at my body and saw that my gross body had a beautiful golden colour. All this time I kept calling the Mother quietly ...
... are,—not even one in a million; for poetry and music come from the inner Page 227 being and to write or to compose true and great things one has to have the passage clear between the outer mind and something in the inner being. That is why you got the poetic power as soon as you began Yoga—Yoga-force made the passage clear. It is the same with Yogic consciousness and its powers; the thing ...
... of the day's experiences are signs of the true consciousness coming. The Mother's consciousness with the wideness of the light, the white light in the vital, the golden light in the silence of the outer mind, the change in the vital, the quiet and natural trust and confidence are all signs and circumstances of this opening to the true consciousness. As you say, there must be established Page 284 ...
... even the mind and the physical have a good deal of love for her? Only my love for the Mother is not outwardly expressed because it wants to take a psychic form, not a vital one. But as long as the outer mind and vital are not psychicised, it is not possible to have a psychic expression in the outer being all the time, but only for a few limited moments. Is this correct? Yes, but the vital's test ...
... giving up all it is and has and does? It wants and it does not want something that it has not got. All that the supramental could give, the inner mind of the world would like to have, but its outer mind, its vital and physical do not like to pay the price. But after all I am not trying to change the world all at once but only to bring down centrally something into it it has not yet, a new consciousness ...
... own mind. But there is nothing extraordinary, much less impossible in seeing a person whom one has never seen—you are thinking as if the inner mind and sense, the inner vision were limited by the outer mind and sense, the outer vision, or were a mere reflection of that. There would be not much use in an inner mind and sense and vision if they were only that and nothing more. This faculty is one of the ...
... life-forces, and the inner physical with the universal physical forces around us. Thus whereas the outer being knows things only indirectly from their outer touches as perceived though the senses and the outer mind, the inner being is directly aware of the surrounding universal forces that act through us. Environmental Consciousness (The Circumconscient) The inner or subliminal being receives the contacts ...
... modern or European mentality which so easily confuses the mentalised vital or life being with the soul and the idealising mind with spirituality. The poet imaging mental or physical beauty is for the outer mind something more spiritual than the seer or the God-lover experiencing the eternal peace or the ineffable ecstasy. Yet the Rishi or Yogi can drink of a deeper draught of Beauty and Delight than the ...
... that are already turned towards the Light. To call in the light of the divine consciousness, bring the psychic being to the front and kindle a flame of aspiration which will awaken spiritually the outer mind and set on fire the vital being, is the way out. It is usually a psychic awakening or a series of strong experiences by which the sadhak comes out of this intermediary no man's land of the quiescent ...
... (going into a sort of samadhi); but what should happen during work is a going inside in a wakeful condition and becoming aware of the psychic within as you used to do under the pressure while the outer mind does the work. This is the condition that must eventually come. The stress of the Power is all right, but there is really nothing incompatible between the inner silence and action. It is to ...
... cognitive and the higher more directly spiritual centres. And in each part of our being it exercises a secret intuitive initiation of our activities which is received and represented imperfectly by our outer mind and converted into the movements of the ignorance in the external action of these parts of our nature. The heart or emotional centre of the thinking desire mind is the strongest in the ordinary man ...
... to bring about such a modification of the ideas and sentiments of the common mind of mankind as would make these institutions practicable; it has worked at the machinery of human life and on the outer mind much more than upon the soul of the race. It has laboured to establish a political, social and legal liberty, equality and mutual help in an equal association. But though these aims are of great ...
... has sent me your remarks about his Forgiveness and Reverie ... Forgiveness seems to suffer by an omission of a line or two which might give its psychic perception a force even in the domain of the outer mind. Harin perhaps tried to give this force in the "clod"—"God" conclusion, but the words there are not only bathetic but also insufficiently suggestive—they do not suggest however crudely that it is ...
... intuition from above, that is not necessary—it is sufficient to have the sense of the One everywhere and to get into contact with things and people through the inner mind and senses more than with the outer mind and senses—for the latter meet only the surface of things and are not intuitive. The intuitive "mind" does not get the touch direct from the supramental. Above it is the Overmind—in which ...
... mental, sometimes the inner vital, sometimes, it may be, the inner or subtle physical Purusha. The inner being—inner mind, inner vital, inner or subtle physical—knows much that is unknown to the outer mind, the outer vital, the outer physical, for it is in a more direct contact with the secret forces of Nature. The psychic is the inmost being of all; a perception of truth which is inherent in the deepest ...
... already turned towards the Light. To call in the light of the Divine Consciousness from above, to bring the psychic being to the front and kindle a flame of aspiration which will awaken spiritually the outer mind and set on fire the vital being, is the way out. What you see and know at present is not the whole of what exists. You do not see your mind and you know only a little part of it—yet your mind ...
... can do it, as things are,—not even one in a million; for poetry and music come from the inner being and to write or to compose true and great things one has to have the passage clear between the outer mind and something in the inner being. That is why you got the poetic power as soon as you began Yoga—Yoga-force made the passage clear. It is the same with Yogic consciousness and its powers; the thing ...
... मतिभिस्तारिषीमहि sasnina = preserving पप्रिणा = satisfying In the morning the vijnana was held back & the intellect in the external swabhava allowed a free play; it is still able to occupy the outer mind (शासां मन्यमानो जिघांसति) but not with intensity or with any great or exultant power of pervasion (ugra, viduharshin); still it seeks with unillumined mind to seize on knowledge & power. (अदेवेन ...
... occupation does not interfere with the presence or activity of the higher consciousness. The reading must learn to accommodate itself to the pressure [ of sadhana ]—that is, be done by the outer mind while the inner being remains in concentration. That is good. Reading ought not to absorb the consciousness—there ought to be the larger part behind detached and conscious in a larger way ...
... small voice from within getting itself heard and pushing out these louder clamorous voices and movements from outside. It is the light from within that you have to make room for; the light of the outer mind is quite insufficient for the discovery of the inner values or to judge the truth of spiritual experience. Detaching Oneself from Difficulties Not to be touched or disturbed by the difficulties ...
... The inertia is there because there was always in your outer being a great force of tamas and it is this that is being used by the resistance. There was also a deficiency of steady will-power in the outer mind which makes it more difficult for the Force to come down than for the Knowledge. When you are entirely open the Force can act on the sciatica and it lessens or disappears, but with the consciousness ...
... mental space or ether either as mind-waves or waves of mind-force that carry a significance which takes shape in our personal mind or as thought-formations ready-made which we adopt and call ours. Our outer mind is blind to this process of Nature; but by the awakening of the inner mind we can become aware of it. What you saw was the receding of this constant mental invasion and the retreat of the thought-forms ...
... activities of the ordinary kind that it is difficult to pass through it to the inner or the inmost being. The walls with the spaces between indicate the different parts of the being to which the outer mind has no access—possibly, the inner vital (the women may be the occult vital nature), emotional etc. The ceiling (yellow) may be the intellect or thinking mind which walls one in and prevents from ...
... last but not least, you have to develop the power and the habit of taking refuge in the protection of the Mother and myself. It is for this reason that the habit of criticising and judging by the outer mind or cherishing its preconceived ideas and formations must disappear. You should repeat always to yourself when it tries to rise, "Sri Aurobindo and the Mother know better than myself—they have the ...
... trifles. From morning to night it is in an unhappy condition. I have my doubts whether it can be changed. I know that it is not in my power to do the work; the Mother's Grace alone can do it. My outer mind needs some rays of hope. It is to be assumed that you are capable of the change since you are here in the presence and under the protection of the Mother. The pressure and help of the Mother's ...
... the pains of the vital problem, whatever the external result, the inferior issue. This higher mind holds its pure and complete sway only on a few high souls, in others it acts upon the lower and outer mind but amidst much misprision, confusion and distortion of thought and will and perverting or abating mixture; on the mass of men governed by the lower egoistic, vital and conventional standards of ...
... unmoved, udāsīna , the strife of the gunas in the natural being and regards as an impassive witness the pleasure and pain of the mind and body. Or it is able to impose its indifference even on the outer mind and watches with the impartial calm or the impartial joy of the detached spectator the universal action in which it has no longer an active inner participation. The end of this movement is the rejection ...
... and sensation a key to or a vessel of the divine and infinite Ananda. Page 866 The supramental sense can act in its own power and is independent of the body and the physical life and outer mind and it is above too the inner mind and its experiences. It can be aware of all things in whatever world, on whatever plane, in whatever formation of universal consciousness. It can be aware of the ...
... Aurobindo's birth, and flash out the essence, as it were, of the work undertaken by him. Christianity does have subtle connections with the aim of the Integral Yoga but they are either lost to the outer mind or taken off the track. The old Indian Yogas also have them in other ways and there too the real sense is not grasped. The reason is that the true Supermind as understood and experienced by Sri Aurobindo ...
... Page 182 has a different quality and appeal. Here too is a natural felicity, a flowerlike process, yet we feel at once that this flower with the mystical aroma has not risen from the outer mind sown with seeds of the inner divinity. It is a growth in another region of consciousness than Shaper Shaped, a region where the inward is expressed not in an outward language but in a language that ...
... spirit, what will happen when a time of trial comes? Will you have courage? Will you face it? You will see that is merely an intellectual conviction that you have, that is merely a reason which your outer mind suggests to you. Well, when it comes to be put to the test, what will your mind say to you? What will your intellect say to you? It will tell you, It is all very well to work for the country, but ...
... surface and replaces our absent and inattentive mind. We start writing and finish the writing without knowing what we have written. We are walking with our mind aware and guiding our course,—the [?outer] mind,—but we continue to walk and find ourselves after a time farther on the intended way or beyond the intended goal or turn and have to retrace our steps. In an unconscious or half conscious moment ...
... is it." That's what happened with the English note: "Now this is it." Good, so I write it down. I never had that before. Everything had to fall silent (I mean even the most active and material outer mind), I had to get into the habit, when my experience comes, of not stirring—not stirring, nothing stirring, everything like this ( gesture in suspense ), waiting. Even visually, it almost looks like ...
... " Sri Aurobindo's Comment "Poetry, or at any rate a truly poetic poetry, comes always from some Page 56 subtle plane through the creative vital and uses the outer mind and other external instruments for transmission only. There are three elements in the production of poetry; there is the original source of inspiration, there is the vital force of creative beauty ...
... intenser and more perdurable form, brings forth images and archetypes out of spheres of consciousness that are a finer harmony of shape and significance than the data of experience offered us by the outer mind. The Spirit is more substantial, more concrete than Matter which is one of its aspects and all that is in the so-called real world is but a poor reflection of what is dynamic in the Spirit, waiting ...
... the promise of the new being that is to be formed. It depends on the nature of the symbolic vision whether it is merely representative, presenting to the inner vision and nature (even though the outer mind has not the understanding, the inner can receive its effect) the thing symbolised in its figure or whether it is dynamic. The Sun symbol, for instance, is usually dynamic. Again, among the dynamic ...
... From a humbug you can acquire nothing but humbuggery. The guru must have something in him which makes the contact with the Divine possible, something which works even if he is not himself in his outer mind quite conscious of its action. If there is nothing at all spiritual in him, he is not a guru – only a pseudo. Undoubtedly, there can be considerable differences of spiritual realisation between ...
... me on November 24, 1950. Why had she not done the same either on August 15, 1947 or any of the two other occasions before the last Darshan? All actions of the Divine Incarnate have, whether the outer mind is allowed to know it or not, a truth-impulsion. Always at the right moment the right thing for Page 40 the soul is done. On the present occasion, as never before, Sri Aurobindo ...
... is a personality formed by the old ignorant nature. If not identified one can change it so as to express the true inner personality of the Light. Letters on Yoga, p. 311 They [the outer mind, vital and body] are small, but not unimportant in spite of their apparent insignificance — because they are a necessary passage of transmission between the soul and the outer world. Letters ...
... mental space or ether either as mind-waves or waves of mind-force that carry a significance which takes shape in our personal mind or as thought-formations ready-made which we adopt and call ours. Our outer mind is blind to this process of Nature; but by the awakening of the inner mind we can become aware of it. 144 Page 139 For him [the Yogi] the image of the factory of thoughts ...
... lack of such a distinction, Sri Aurobindo writes: "Each plane of our being - mental, vital, physical - has its own consciousness, separate though interconnected and interacting; but to the outer mind and sense, in our waking experience, they are all confused together." 11 From the viewpoint of Sri Aurobindo's yoga psychology, Freud and Jung, who could not make the distinctions pointed out ...
... examination, before he joins the F.A. in Madras, he will come to stay with me for two or three months"— these thoughts my mother cherished in herself and these she expressed as they were clear to her outer mind. During the one year of my preparation for the Matriculation I was reducing the number of my visits to Bharati's house and increasing the time of my stay in Sri Aurobindo's, with the result that ...
... , before he joins the F.A. in Madras, he will come to stay with me for two or three months"— these thoughts my mother cherished in herself and these she expressed as they were clear to her outer mind. During the one year of my preparation for the Matriculation I was reducing the number of my visits to Bharati's house and increasing the time of my stay in Sri Aurobindo's, with the ...
... or higher consciousness. ...knowledge only begins when we get away from the surface phenomena and look behind them for their true operations and causes. To the superficial view of the outer mind and senses the sun is a little fiery ball circling in mid air round the earth and the stars twinkling little things stuck in the sky for our benefit at night. Scientific enquiry comes and knocks ...
... subconscient, lower than our waking consciousness, part of it is on a level with it but behind and much larger than it; part is above and superconscient to us. What we call our mind is only an outer mind, a surface mental action, instrumental for the partial expression of a larger mind behind of which we are not ordinarily aware and can only know by going inside ourselves. So too what we know of ...
... Eckhart's teachings, the mind refers always to the ordinary mind. Sri Aurobindo, however, makes these distinctions: 1. Different distinguishable parts of the ordinary mind 2. The ordinary outer mind and the inner or subliminal mind 3. Various levels of spiritual mind above the ordinary mind Page 94 ...
... of things point to the same inner power or inner working. It is what we mean when we speak of the word, knowledge or activity coming out of the silence, of a working behind the veil of which the outer mind is unconscious but which one day bears its results, of the inner manifesting itself in the outer. It makes at once true and practical what sounds only a theory to the uninitiated—the strong distinction ...
... on the outer and of the outer on the subliminal are complex. Owing to this complexity, the action of the sub-liminal sense can be confusing or mis-leading, especially if it is interpreted by the outer mind to which the secret of its operations is unknown and its principle of sign construction Page 20 and symbolic figure languages is foreign. Advanced occultists and wise mystics, therefore ...
... Then what is the nature of genuine faith which the sadhaka is asked to cultivate? It is a deep and quiet illumined feeling of conviction arising from the depths of the consciousness when the outer mind and heart are stilled and made pure of all admixture of egoistic desires and expectations. True faith is never misled by the adverse appearances of the moment. It can pierce through the darkening ...
... the little bit of personal mind. In this part of our being, we receive consciously only the outer touches and know things in ourselves and in our surroundings only or mainly by the Intellect and outer mind and senses. The ordinary man is aware only of this surface self and is quite unaware of all that functions from behind the surface. The 'subconscient' part of our being represents an ...
... s experiences. In this process of inward withdrawal or upward ascension, the consciousness first enters the 'dream-state' and then proceeds to the 'sleep-state'. While in the dream-state, the outer mind of the Sadhaka becomes quiescent and his inner mind, separated from the outer and no longer covered up by it, ranges through a wonderful world of rich and variegated inner experiences. ...
... Formerly it was always because I didn't smile but remained grim, aloof and supra-mental. I secured one happy darshan by smiling at everybody with a Herculean labour of persistence. But that only set his outer mind seeking for some new excuse for being unhappy with the Darshan and he found it that way—and then the usual gloom and horror of darkness and frantic letters of departure—of course going back to the ...
... the Force from above into the physical — otherwise to remain perfectly quiet and, undisturbed, expect its coming. Due to the excess of inertia, I am not able to live even in the outer mind. I cannot think, write or read anything spiritual or intellectual. The inertia is felt within as well as all around me. It is as if the inertia has replaced the ether itself! It means ...
... calling your attention to a defect in the inner movement — Page 66 to the attachments that were there. You once said about an action: "Because you did it from the outer mind and vital instead of from within." How am I to receive the necessary guidance from within ? You have to be conscious of your inner being. I would very much like to bring ...
... there. And I say also that you will never lose it, whatever happens in your outer life. It will lead you ultimately to the supreme realisation, to an immorral life on earth. It may be clouded for the outer mind, but it is always there behind. I come back now to the point from which I started. The mottoes, the writings displayed on the wall are also to be displayed as living entities in your being—in ...
... right to act, and his deeds alone achieve fulfilment, who has been chosen and authorised by God. The spiritual practice of Sri Ramakrishna laid great stress on Yogic trance. It signifies that the outer mind should be withdrawn from all sense-attraction, not going out in all directions but focussed on the pure spiritual truth, like an arrow shot into its target. What absurd ideas do we not cherish ...
... consciousness. A peaceful and calm light descended which filled all the upper part of the body, without it being possible to tell exactly whence it emanated. And a work of calming went on in the outer mind. The lowest centre was also active —in short, the entire outer consciousness. In this case I make no effort to concentrate within myself. Mother : Yes, naturally it is necessary to follow ...
... Aurobindo saw them; in his vision they were living things, living realities, and you should also see and feel them as such. And that is possible only if you fulfil two conditions: first, the outer mind must be calm and still, and second, when you read you must be in a state of consciousness which is the highest and best in you. Fulfil these conditions and then you will truly understand and know ...
... is there. And I say also, you will never lose it, whatever happens to your outer life. That will lead you ultimately to the Supreme Realisation, Immortal Life on Earth. It may be clouded for the outer mind, but it is always there behind. Exactly so, I come back to the point from where I started. The mottoes – the writings displayed on the wall – are also to be displayed as living entities in ...
... the spirit of man through meaningful images, and only the media vary in the different arts, the poet's being the word that is charged with power and purpose. Most people are content to live in the outer mind and senses, but the aim of art and especially of poetry is to help us to live in the soul, to enable us to see into the utter truth of things. And the poet has to find the words and the rhythm that ...
... inwardly becomes.³ You have to develop the power and the habit of taking refuge in the protection of the Mother and myself. It is for this reason that the habit of criticising and judging by the outer mind or cherishing its preconceived ideas and formations must disappear. You should repeat always to yourself when it tries to rise, "Sri Aurobindo and the Mother know better than myself – they have the ...
... active philosophy of life which does not necessarily explain the why and wherefore of the cosmos, but supplies a code of conduct, a value of life by which he can live satisfactorily so far as his outer mind is concerned. But is the will to live the first impulse, and is it mere self-preservation ? In this chapter we are trying to see into the cause of the will to live. Secondly, this chapter ...
... some blissful voice or beauty's touch recalls the strength and sweetness which are not to be found in their purity on this plane, yet exist somewhere on a higher plane of being. Even though the outer mind of this vital force has forgotten the. purpose for which it exists, still, "Her depths remember what she came to do". It was to effect a total transformation, "To create her Creator here was her ...
... Power. This attitude is never difficult for the psychic, it is its natural position and feeling, and whenever your psychic was in front you had it in your central consciousness. But there was the outer mind, vital and physical that brought in their mixture of desire and ego and there could be no effective liberation in life and action till these were liberated. The thinking mind and higher vital can ...
... abysmal silences Made vocal, clothed with form? These things at birth The Kinnarie, Vidyadhur and Gundhurva Around me crowding on Himaloy dumb Gave to the silent god that lived in me Before my outer mind held thought. All these Page 679 I can make thine. VASAVADUTTA Vuthsa, I take all these, All thy life's ornaments that thou wearst, for mine And am not satisfied. VUTHSA ...
... that which God intends fully & frankly and only seeks the best way to fulfil God in this existence which he occupies on the way to another. For he knows that bondage and freedom are states of the outer mind, not of the inner spirit; for there is none free & none bound, none panting after liberation Page 383 & none fleeing from bondage, but only the Eternal rejoicing secretly or manifestly ...
... examination, before he joins the F.A. in Madras, he will come to stay with me for two or three months” — these thoughts my mother cherished in herself and these she expressed as they were clear to her outer mind. ...
... other images and vibrations of things beyond the restricted range of the physical senses or belonging to other planes or spheres of existence...It is the subliminal in reality and not the outer mind that possesses the powers of telepathy, clairvoyance, second sight and other supernatural faculties whose occurrence in the surface consciousness is due to openings or rifts in the wall erected by ...
... activities of the ordinary kind that it is difficult to pass through it to the inner or the inmost being. The walls with the spaces between indicate the different parts of the being to which the outer mind has no access,—possibly, the inner vital (the woman may be the occult vital nature), emotional etc. The ceiling (yellow) may be the intellect or thinking mind which walls one in and prevents from ...
... activities of the ordinary kind that it is difficult to pass through it to the inner or the inmost being. The walls with the spaces between indicate the different parts of the being to which the outer mind has no access,—possibly, the inner vital (the woman may be the occult vital nature), emotional etc. The ceiling (yellow) may be the intellect or thinking mind which walls one in and prevents [one] ...
... says, "When the calmness is there, all sorts of things may rise on the surface—they have not to be accepted, but simply looked at. In time the calmness will be so developed as to quell the vital and outer mind also and in that complete quietude the true perceptions will come." 7 Yet another related insight-—something that I have for long intellectually known but have not realized deeply enough—is ...
... nothing more. But knowledge only begins when we get away from the surface phenomena and look behind them for their true operations and Page 289 causes. To the superficial view of the outer mind and senses the sun is a little fiery ball circling in mid air round the earth and the stars twinkling little things stuck in the sky for our benefit at night. Scientific enquiry comes and knocks ...
... that mind to which they are exceptional, abnormal or supernormal, and therefore comparatively rare, difficult, incomplete in their occurrence. It is only if we can open up the wall between the outer mind and the inner consciousness to which such phenomena are normal, or if we can enter freely within or dwell there, that this realm of knowledge can be truly explained and annexed to our total co ...
... sometimes the inner vital, sometimes, it may be, the inner or subtle physical Purusha. The inner being — inner mind, inner vital, inner or subtle physical — knows much that is unknown to the outer mind, the outer vital, the outer physical, for it is in a more direct contact with the secret forces of Nature. The psychic is the inmost being of all; a perception of truth which is inherent in the ...
... and vital consciousness. As Sri Aurobindo explains: "Each plane of our being - mental, vital, physical - has its own consciousness, separate though interconnected and interacting; but to our outer mind and sense, in our waking experience, they are all confused together. The body, for instance, has its own consciousness and acts from it, even without any mental will of our own or even against that ...
... do it, as things are, — not even one in a million: for poetry and music come from the inner being and to write or to compose true and great things one has to have the passage clear between the outer mind and something in the inner being. That is why you got the poetic power as soon as you began Yoga — Yogic force made the passage clear. It is the same with the Yogic consciousness and its powers; ...
... exactly the basis of the divine transformation of all things human which they wanted to bring about. We can therefore conclude with K.D. Sethna: ‘All actions of the Divine incarnate have, whether the outer mind is allowed to know it or not, a truth-impulsion’ 47 — an impulse of the Truth-Consciousness that is an essential quality of the Divine, also of the Incarnated Divine. Disciples I do not ...
... small voice from within getting itself heard and pushing out these louder clamorous voices and movements from outside. It is the light from within that you have to make room for; the light of the outer mind is quite insufficient for the discovery of the inner values or to judge the truth of spiritual experience. Page 281 December 18 1932 In the typed letter 1 I have tried to explain ...
... (2.6.1990) 1 am extremely happy that your brother's problem has been solved by the Divine Grace through an impossible-seeming event. He is a good man with true faith but sometimes the outer mind gets troubled and clouded. The Divine looks always deep inside and does not judge by surface realities. There is also the fact that your brother has the good luck of having for his sister one who ...
... more. And it is not always through success and prosperity and apparent fulfilment that the soul is served. Her blessings are ever benevolent but they may not in every instance bring about what our outer mind desires. Quite often this mind does not know what is good for it. The blessings may give it just the opposite of what it has prayed for. It must learn to receive with gratitude their action, no matter ...
... so much ignorance, so much preoccupation with sheer Matter. But you have sufficient strength inside you not to let this darkness sweep over you. It can never put out the light within, but even the outer mind need not get depressed because of the encroachment of these shadows. Really they are shadows and not substances, however solid they may look. And if you glow with the conviction that the Mother's ...
... starlike moments of His peace." SRI AUROBINDO'S COMMENT "Poetry, or at any rate a truly poetic poetry, comes always from some subtle plane through the creative vital and uses the outer mind and other external instruments for trans- Page 121 mission only. There are three elements in the production of poetry; there is the original source of inspiration, there is the ...
... Coleridge for its abstract vagueness whose appeal to the imagination has a subtle force which concrete, clearly defined imagery would lack altogether. But the depths in us are not directly shaken: the outer mind shudders and transmits some shadow of its feeling to the depths. The same thing happens when we read of Satan and Death ready to fight: So frowned the mighty combatants that Hell Grew ...
... the ordinary mind and the higher consciousness above. If the ajnachakra also is open, then it is possible to have a clear communication between the higher consciousness and the inner mind and the outer mind (throat centre) also. That is the condition for the realisation of knowledge and the mental illumination and transformation. The heart centre commands the psychic and vital—that opening enables the ...
... it on the earth life. It [ the world ] wants and it does not want something that it has not got. All that the supramental could give, the inner mind of the world would like to have, but its outer mind, its vital and physical do not like to pay the price. But after all I am not trying to change the world all at once but only to bring down centrally something into it has not yet, a new consciousness ...
... of things point to the same inner power or inner working. It is what we mean when we speak of the word, knowledge or activity coming out of the silence, of a working behind the veil of which the outer mind is unconscious but which one day bears its results, of the inner manifesting itself in the outer. It makes at once true and practical what sounds only a theory to the uninitiated,—the strong distinction ...
... or reasoned out by you in the twentieth century. I repeat however that this is my view of Shakespeare's meaning and does not affect any possibility of reading into it something that Shakespeare's outer mind did not receive or else did not express. 10 March 1935 Milton And they bowed down to the Gods of their wives... 1 Burnt after them to the bottomless pit ... Certainly ...
... Spirit, our Self must be greater than its Karma. There is Law, but there is also spiritual freedom. Law and Process are one side of our existence Page 839 and their reign is over our outer mind, life and body, for these are mostly subject to the mechanism of Nature. But even here their mechanical power is absolute only over body and matter; for Law becomes more complex and less rigid, Process ...
... Poetic Creation Three Elements of Poetic Creation Poetry, or at any rate a truly poetic poetry, comes always from some subtle plane through the creative vital and uses the outer mind and other external instruments for transmission only. There are three elements in the production of poetry; there is the original source of inspiration, there is the vital force of creative beauty ...
... or be included in it, but sight is the primary consequence and power of poetic speech. For the poet has to make us live in the soul and in the inner mind and heart what is ordinarily lived in the outer mind and the senses, and for that he must first make us see by the soul, in its light and with its deeper vision, what we ordinarily see in a more limited and halting fashion by the senses and the in ...
... occupies the waters. But this is to suppose that poetry can only repeat what it has done in the past and can accomplish no new and great thing and that a clear, strong or brilliant dealing with the outer mind and world is its last word and the one condition of its healthy creativeness. There is much that is morbid, perverse or unsound in some recent poetry; but this comes from an artificial prolongation ...
... It does not matter if the higher feelings, devotion etc. seem to you sometimes like an influence or colouring. It looks like that when you feel yourself in the external physical or outer vital or outer mind. These feelings really are those of your inmost self, your soul, the psychic in you and when you are in the psychic consciousness, they become normal and natural. But when your consciousness shifts ...
... never difficult for the psychic, it is its natural position and feeling, and whenever your psychic was in front, you had Page 229 it in your central consciousness. But there were the outer mind, vital and physical that brought in their mixture of desire and ego and there could be no effective liberation in life and action till these were liberated. The thinking mind and higher vital can ...
... thoughts and indifferent to them. If there is absolute silence within it is quite natural that the thoughts on entering and touching it should fall off. It is the way in which silence of the outer mind usually comes. In the entirely silent mind there is usually the static sense of the Divine without any active movement. But there can come into it all higher thought and aspiration and movements ...
... Meanwhile, peace and joy can be there permanently, but the condition of this permanence is that one should have the constant contact or indwelling of the Divine, and this comes naturally not to the outer mind or vital but to the inner soul or psychic being. Therefore one who wants his Yoga to be a path of peace or joy, must be prepared to dwell in his soul rather than in his outer mental and emotional ...
... growth in the consciousness itself that you can get some direct perception of these things. But for that the mind must be quiet and a direct feeling and intuition take its place. So long as the outer mind is not quiet, it is impossible for intuition to develop. So if you want to go on asking intellectual questions about what is beyond the intellect until the intuition develops in spite of this activity ...
... Limitations of the Intellect Intellect is part of Mind and an instrument of half-truth like the rest of the Mind. Intellectual activities are not part of the inner being—the intellect is the outer mind. Its [ the intellect's ] function is to reason from the perceptions of the mind and senses, to form conclusions and to put things in logical relation with each other. A well-trained intellect ...
... and appreciated by the Mother, as indeed it is,—for your work has been very good and helpful to her. Let the psychic movement express itself simply and spontaneously in action without allowing the outer mind to interfere; that would very likely release the tension and then your sadhana could proceed in a quiet cheerfulness, confident of its own truth and the Mother's loving acceptance. 6 December ...
... does not help. 8 March 1936 That is what must be done. Trust in the Mother and will only to be open to her always and as quietly confident as may be. The work to be done is too great for the outer mind to understand how it is to be done; it is only by growing light and experience that one day it begins to understand—it is also too great and difficult for it to do by itself,—it can only help the ...
... to change. But now you are approaching the Mother with your soul and that brings with it the true feeling and true relation it has always had with the Mother. Besides, your mind and vital—even the outer mind and vital—are now open and willing and glad to share in the true psychic feeling and relation. The heaviness in the head due to the pressure is pleasant and not harmful because it is due to the ...
... know of your divinity only after the supermind has descended? 10 There is no necessity of the supermind for that. It is the inner consciousness that has to recognise—it is impossible for the outer mind to know it by its own reasonings. Page 432 The Divine Incarnate? I have a strong faith that you are the Divine Incarnate in bhāgavatī tanu. Am I right? Follow your faith—it is ...
... From a humbug you can acquire nothing but humbuggery. The guru must have something in him which makes the contact with the Divine possible, something which works even if he is not himself in his outer mind quite conscious of its action. If there is nothing at all spiritual in him he is not a guru—only a pseudo. Undoubtedly, there can be considerable differences of spiritual realisation between one ...
... inner things. Representative and Dynamic Visions It depends on the nature of the symbolic vision whether it is merely representative, offering to the inner vision and nature (even though the outer mind has not the understanding, the inner can receive its effect) the thing symbolised in its figure or whether it is dynamic. The Sun symbol, for instance, is usually dynamic. Again among the dynamic ...
... profound svapna samādhi or else into a suṣupta trance— Page 16 the latter being what the word trance usually means in English, but it can be extended to the svapna kind also. To the outer mind this deep loss of the surface consciousness seems like a swoon, though it is really nothing of the kind—hence the impression. Many sadhaks here get at times or sometimes for a long period this deeper ...
... If the medico can be revealed from within, why could it not be revealed from without and tell me what to do? Damn it, man! Intuition and revelation are inner things—they don't belong to the outer mind. If you or Mother can't guide me concretely, how will the guidance come later on, I wonder? Do you imagine that I tell you inwardly or outwardly what expressions to use in your Bengali poems ...
... Selves The Physical Each plane of our being—mental, vital, physical—has its own consciousness, separate though interconnected and interacting; but to our outer mind and sense, in our waking experience, they are all confused together… There is the universal physical consciousness of Nature and there is our own which is a part of it, moved by it, and used by ...
... already turned towards the Light. To call in the light of the Divine Consciousness from above, to bring the psychic being to the front and kindle a flame of aspiration which will awaken spiritually the outer mind and set on fire the vital being, is the way out. * Yoga means union with the Divine - a union either transcendental (above the universe) or cosmic (universal) or individual or, as ...
... mental, sometimes the inner vital, sometimes, it may be, the inner or subtle physical Purusha. The inner being — inner mind, inner vital, inner or subtle physical — knows much that is unknown to the outer mind, the outer vital, the outer physical, for it is in a more direct contact with the secret forces of Nature. The psychic is the inmost being of all; a perception of truth which is inherent in the deepest ...
... Hidden Forces of Life The Subconscient, the Subliminal and the Superconscient It is a mistake to think that we live physically only or only with the outer mind and life. We are all the time living and acting on other planes of consciousness, meeting others there and acting upon them, and what we do and feel and think there, the forces we gather, the results ...
... shifts fields.... One can very well imagine Page 190 that only material things please the purely material being; and the interest of all those who live in the emotional being and the outer mind is turned towards... for example, things of beauty, like those who need to live surrounded with beautiful things, who want to use lovely things. Now, that seems to be the height of humanity, but ...
... threshold between the waking intelligence and the dream-state. When the poet is genuinely inspired, a part of him is as though hypnotised by ideas, images, words into an absorbed aloofness from the outer mind; he becomes self-withdrawn, he wears a look of surrender to the incalculable. Even when he tries forcibly to get the right effect it is a frantic cry to the Muse to come and conquer him, a flinging ...
... within. False rhetoric is what attempts to swell out something which is not intrinsically great or something which though great has yet come forth not in its original form but in an imitation by the outer mind. Both the manifestations we find in the French poet Victor Hugo. Hugo had a remarkable capacity for powerful expression in Page 40 which the imagination could soar high without ...
... night-sky's indifference- and it does this with a suggestion of the inscrutable, the unseizable, because Latin words have an abstract atmosphere in English, something we cannot catch and examine with the outer mind. "Everlasting", with its Page 106 greater nearness to our understanding, renders the taciturnity intimate to us so that, strangely enough, we come intimately to know how very indifferent ...
... concentration of the being moves to a different domain.... The purely material being, quite conceivably, finds only material things pleasing; with all those who live in the emotive being and the outer mind, the interest of the being is turned to... for instance, things of beauty, as with those who want to live surrounded by beautiful things, who want to use nice things. Now that appears to be the human ...
... it into tune with contemporary modern needs. Surely, it cannot be said that even India has completely found the secret of life's transformation. An immense inner enlightenment is not enough: the outer mind has to be more than merely purified and made plastic to the inner truth, the outer vitality has to be more than merely inspired by the inner dynamism, the outer physicality has to be more than made ...
... Illumination Page 124 and Righteousness. Yes, Righteousness too, an "inner light" which guides and elevates and shows the highest "duty" not through mere dry precept framed by the outer mind but through a soul-intuition bringing "vital feelings of delight" and largening the individual conscience to the secret power of a controlling law felt operative from behind all appearances of Nature ...
... came thronged with an ardent crowd Who sped brilliant, fire-footed, sunlight-eyed, Pressing to reach the world's mysterious wall, And pass through masked doorways into outer mind Where the Light comes not nor the mystic voice, Messengers from our subliminal greatnesses, Guests from the cavern of the secret soul. Into dim spiritual ...
... possibilities in formation, suggestions, thoughts, ideas, intentions of other beings, image-forms also of powers or potentialities in universal Nature. It is the subliminal in reality and not the outer mind that possesses the powers of telepathy, clairvoyance, second sight and other supernormal faculties. The operations of this subliminal sense add immensely to our possible scope of knowledge and widen ...
... large luminous realm of interior consciousness, that corresponds to the subtler life-plane and mind-plane and even a subtle physical plane of our being. Indeed, behind our outer existence, our outer mind and life and body, Our larger being sits behind cryptic walls: There are greatnesses hidden in our unseen parts That wait their hour to step into life's front: Our inner ...
... this supraphysical occult sight, the conditions that have to be fulfilled are: (i) the quietening and the purification of the surface mind and vital; (ii) the opening up of the wall separating the outer mind and the inner consciousness; and, preferably, (iii) the capacity to enter freely within and dwell there at will. In this connection we may read with profit the following letter of Sri Aurobindo addressed ...
... the large luminous realm of interior consciousness, that corresponds to the subtler life-plane and mind-plane and even subtle physical plane of our being. Indeed, behind our outer existence, our outer mind and life and body, "Our larger being sits behind cryptic walls: There are greatnesses hidden in our unseen parts That wait their hour to step into life's front... Our inner ...
... anti-dys. serum to that baby, which I hear, has been administered and found to be effective. SRI AUROBINDO: Damn it, man! Intuition and revelation are inner things—they don't belong to the outer mind. Page 96 MYSELF: Shall I adopt the surrealist method? i.e. keep quiet for a moment and whatever strikes first, go ahead with it; only be careful in case of poisons! You remember ...
... and tell me to give antidys. serum to K's baby, which I hear has been administered and found to be effective? Damn it, man! Intuition and revelation are inner things—they don't belong to the outer mind. If you or Mother can't guide me concretely, how will the guidance come later on, I wonder. Do you imagine that I tell you inwardly or outwardly what expressions to use in your Bengali poems ...
... it. There seems to be some possibility of the passive resistance becoming active. Is the subconscient also involved in this trouble? I have explained to you already that the being (outer mind, vital etc.) is still capable of responding to the suggestions that rise from the subconscient. If it were not so the suggestions would be felt as perfectly foreign to you and there would be no question ...
... possessed by them — and become dark and revolted, stop eating, threaten suicide etc. Which are the parts that accept those suggestions? Page 164 The outer mind and vital that were accustomed to think and act according to the ideas and feelings of the Ignorance. The hostile Force says: "All your sadhana is useless since the Mother does ...
... different parts of the being. That aided by the psychic development and aiding it changes the external nature. In spite of the massive difficulties not only my inner being but even the outer mind are sure of a final victory. Yes, of course. The obstruction can be only a temporary phase. You might have noticed that during the last two days the higher consciousness ...
... centre) where the collar of the coat closes in. Any meaning? An indication of its coming in the heart. I think this can't be a mere accident as it appears to the outer mind. There must be the Mothers hand in it. Yes. Again I saw some very big and beautiful flowers, signifying 'Divine Love' in a dream. It is a suggestion of what ...
... There is aspiration during the whole day. Now I feel that it is not my mind alone that aspires but also some being from within joins with it! What is more is that it aspires more constantly than the outer mind. What is that being? It may be the inner being or part of it — may be the psychic. Page 77 What should be our preparation to bring out the psychic from its ...
... If there is absolute silence within it is quite natural Page 133 that the thoughts on entering and touching it should fall off. It is the way in which the silence of the outer mind usually comes. The peace has to spread in all the parts. In the peace one must become conscious of the Mother's Force descended and working in all the being. You always seem to ...
... observed at the same time the contradiction between the inner passivity, and the mechanical working of the outer nature, the intense activity of the Force working, and the insistent thinking of the outer mind. All this is rather perplexing! Not at all. It often happens, even usually at this stage. You have to go on till the many parts are quieted down. Usually I have to make ...
... Guidance from Sri Aurobindo - Volume 1 THE SELF-REALISATION The year 1934 During certain periods, there is neither inner nor outer mind but a quiet blank! It is a very favourable condition for the higher workings. You have written of the spirit becoming self-aware. Is there any distinction between spirit ...
... possibilities in formation, suggestions, thoughts, ideas, intentions of other beings, image-forms also of powers of potentialities in universal Nature ... It is the subliminal in reality and not the outer mind that possesses the powers of telepathy, clairvoyance, second sight and other supernormal faculties ..." "But more important is power of the subliminal to enter into a direct contact of consciousness ...
... being shifts fields.... One can very well imagine that only material things please the purely material being; and Page 29 the interest of all those who live in the emotional being and the outer mind is turned towards... for example, things of beauty, like those who need to live surrounded with beautiful things, who want to use lovely things. Now, that seems to be the height of humanity, but ...
... examination, before he joins the F. A. in Madras, he will come to stay with me for two or three months"—these thoughts my mother cherished in herself and these she expressed as they were clear to her outer mind. During the one year of my preparation for the Matriculation I was reducing the number of my visits to Bharati's house and increasing the time of my stay in Sri Aurobindo's, with the result ...
... do it, as things are, - not even one in a million; for poetry and music come from the inner being and to write or to compose true and great things one has to have the passage clear between the outer mind and something in the inner being.... "You ask me whether you have to give up your predilection for testing before accepting and to accept everything in Yoga a priori - and by testing you ...
... You can see that time and space both are not the same for man every time. When your mind travels from Calcutta to London it is not in the material space and not in the time that you feel with the outer mind. It is in the mind itself that you move. Space also is a movement of the Brahman inasmuch as it is an extension, but there is a difference as far as time is concerned. Disciple : ...
... external parts of the natural form. Such a change or transformation to be real and effective must be organic. This work of transformation has to be done by the inner being of the artist—not by his outer mind—or by his intellectual theory about forms, i or his erratic unregulated fancy, or his subconscious. So, while we do accept the right of the artist—as the ancients in the East and the West ...
... has been painful and precipitous. An illumination in the depths of his being with a twilight in the parts of his nature will not satisfy him any longer. His inmost aspiration, obscure even to his outer mind today, is for an integral fulfilment in life, for the possession of a divine consciousness, freely expressing itself in a divine body. It is for the definitive conquest of all that has opposed his ...
... Eckhart Tolle and Sri Aurobindo - Some Comparisons Eckhart Tolle and Sri Aurobindo The Outer (Ordinary) Mind and the Inner (Subliminal) Mind The inner mind has also been previously alluded to (Chapter 5, pp. 91, 92) in connection with mind and the witness consciousness. ...
... words set up in some region deeper than the mind." Sri Aurobindo agrees here that no formulable meaning could be offered by way of justice to the intention running through these stanzas. Of course no formulable meaning is ever totally adequate to any poetry; but some satisfying a peu pres is mostly possible. Here the expression comes, without the outer mind's touch on it, from an occult dimension of... sense but from a depth of our being where the thinking mind loses its grip. By an inner soul-perception, an intuitive consciousness, the passage is to be apprehended. To the outer consciousness it must appear to be what Housman calls it: "poetry with so little meaning that nothing except poetic emotion is perceived and matters." In relation to the outer consciousness he is also right when he remarks: "The... referring to lovely women. A European similarly placed with regard to matters Indian will equally be at a loss in front of Sri Aurobindo. Lovelinesses of some sort will be all that can come home to the mind from the word-texture and the succession of separate words. But perhaps even here some slight significant clue is supplied: each is shown to be like its associates, all of them representing similar ...
... an amount of individuality, originality and uniqueness to be Page 162 achieved by others. Also, he accepts limitations in the domain of brain-knowledge — he does not know in the outer mind's manner all the details of what is written or done: he has to read McTaggart's books to ascertain precisely what that thinker is driving at and he has to read newspapers to get informed of events... "above the mind" and does not coincide simply with what other seers have discovered to be divine levels of being, above the mind yet lower than the "Ultimate Transcendent Reality". The Latin word "super", as used by Sri Aurobindo, has a particular significance which emerges with unique force once we look at his table of what is above the mind. He speaks of the Higher Mind, the Illumined Mind, the Intuition... those who serve Sri Krishna. As for the foreseeing by "supermind" — if it were intelligible to the mind it would not be supramental. I don't think I can have said, "Mind, evolution and supermind are not important at all." If I did, it was a slip. I should have said, "Theories and views about mind, etc., are not important." If you surrender to God you will come to Page 152 know ...
... necessary. It means that the outer physical mind has a certain obscurity in it which impedes the knowledge from coming out. This obscurity Page 34 is universal in the external physical mind—you feel it more just now because it is in the physical consciousness that the opposition is now centred. It will pass as soon as the Force can descend through the mind and vital and act directly on... and itself gets interest, faith and insight in the inner truth of things instead of seeing only their outer aspects and following false inferences and appearances. It also helps it to get rid of the narrowness and doubt which are the chief defects of the physical mind. When the physical mind is disturbed by the vital, it is not easily convinced because its reasoning is supplied to it by the vital... Sadhana on the Level of the Mind Sadhana on the Level of the Mind The Mind and Sadhana Letters on Yoga - IV Chapter IV The Physical Mind and Sadhana The Activity of the Physical Mind Activity of the physical mind is not a new thing that needs to take root. It has been there very well rooted since you began your human evolution in the primaeval forests ...
... (You're walking along the road) The outer questioning mind says: "O ù allons-nous aussi? (Does all this get us anywhere?) "C'est moi qui le demande" (I am asking you) I think: "Je suis seul sur La Terre" (I am alone on Earth) The other r person says: "Je suis La pres de vous" ( I am here beside you) The outer person says "Peut-on ê tre si... vois votre visage” (I can see your face) "Nul ne m'a jamais VU" (No one has ever seen mine). ‘I see you but nobody has seen me’ ― that is the inner personality. These outer personalities ― there is not one, there are many ― you consider this body of yours as your only form, but you have many. Each level has its own individual form and a recognisable one. Each one has... important, the most original form is your psychic being ― your true being ― that which we must strive to realise and attain. As the Mother says: It is the Divine personality in each one of us. Your outer personality is sometimes only a caricature, but still it tries to reflect, though with difficulty, something of the needs and urges of this inmost reality of yours. Someone has asked me: "How to find ...
... (You're walking along the road) The outer questioning mind says: "Où allons-nous aussi? (Does all this get us anywhere?) "C'est moi qui Ie demande" (I am asking you) I think: "Je suis seui sur la Terre" (I am alone on Earth) The other person says: "Je suis là près de vous" (I am here beside you) The outer person says: "Peut-on être si seui?" ... "Je vois votre visage" (I can see your face) "Nul ne m'a jamais VU" (No one has ever seen mine). 'I see you but nobody has seen me' — that is the inner personality. These outer personalities — there is not one, there are many — you consider this body of yours as your only form, but you have many. Each level has its own individual form and a recognisable one. Each one has special... important, the most original form is your psychic being — your true being — that which we must strive to realise and attain. As the Mother says: It is the Divine personality in each one of us. Your outer personality is sometimes only a caricature, but still it tries to reflect, though with difficulty, something of the needs and urges of this inmost reality of yours. Someone has asked me: "How to find ...
... is that of a master craftsman, a goldsmith, silversmith, jeweller of speech and substance with much of the decorative painter in his turn.. .The spirit is not filled, but the outer aesthetic mind is caught and for a time held captive.. .His art suffers from the excess of value of form over value of content.. .He has left his stamp on the language and has given start... his anger flashed up for an instant, and he broke out into a curse—but the curse took a rhythmic form. The shock of tragedy and the welling up of pity had produced a sudden tension in Valmiki's mind which sought natural release in the form of the verse which was presently to provide the metrical norm—the ś loka or the anustup —for his great epic, the Ramayana. 148 The ... considerable, mediocre or no worth, is yet given a greater than its intrinsic value by a power of speech which without any such remarkable or astonishing energy as would excite or exalt the mind or disturb it from a safe acquiescence and a luxurious ease of reception, has always a sufficient felicity, curiously worked even when it affects simplicity, but with a chastened ...
... place and compels admiration. The spirit is not filled and satisfied, much less uplifted, but the outer aesthetic mind is caught and for a time held captive. But it is doubtful whether the future will attach to Tennyson's poetry anything at all near to the value it assumed for the contemporary English mind. When we try to estimate the substance and see what it permanently gives or what new thing it... any such remarkable or astonishing energy as would excite or exalt the mind or disturb it from a safe acquiescence and a luxurious ease of reception, has always a sufficient felicity, curiously worked even when it affects simplicity, but with a chastened if not quite chaste curiosity. The turn of phrase almost always hits the mind with a certain, sometimes easy, sometimes elaborate poetic device. It... personalities and minds and characters and turn his eye on every age and period of history and many countries and all possible scenes and extract from them their meaning and their interest for the satisfaction of his universal curiosity and his living and inexhaustible interest in the vividness and abundance of the life of earth and man. He has an equal interest in the human mind and its turns of thinking ...
... es, but for illness and outer pressure of unfavourable circumstances. But for that a certain attitude is necessary—either a strong faith in the mind and vital or a habit of reception and response in the inner being. Where this habit has been established, I have seen it to be almost unfailingly effective, even when the faith was uncertain or the outer expression in the mind vague, ignorant or in its... January 1934 It is better to write what is in one's mind. Some people simply write about their experiences (dreams, visions, descents of force), Page 462 but nothing precise about the movements of their mind and vital with the result that these remain pretty much as they were and there is no harmony between the inner and the outer being and as a result the inner also does not get its... with sufficient force to put an end to the attack. Hence they continue. 25 February 1935 I find great difficulty in understanding what is the difference between the inner mind and the vital, physical and outer minds. Also I want to know what is the physical consciousness and what are the different places of these things. If these things have forms but are not material, how am I to get the idea ...
... enlightens my consciousness with their essential form and substance. * I believe that this fragmentary method of inspiration is due to insufficient liaison between the outer transmitting mind and the elemental poetic enthousiasmos . It is not correct to say that "born" poets encounter no difficulties; there is indeed a supreme class of poets who could never have done Page... wonder how so weak and unoriginal a versifier could almost at a leap become a feeder on honey-dew and a drinker of paradisal milk. The fact was that in some way a connection got established between the outer and the inner, the man and the Muse that was the soul of his soul. How unspeakably important it is for the man who feels the seed of song in him to get the sun and rain that shall awake its... in the mind or in the passionate nature, but in something beyond them — an amor Dei not merely intellectual or inclined to see in a rosy haze the common feelings and bodily excitements, but aching for the Spiritual, the Eternal in its unadulterated form, a straight nisus towards deity. The trouble, however, for those whose poetic inspiration must be drawn from beyond the normal mind in order ...
... truths as well. For many ages man cherished beliefs that implied a force behind which acted on principles unknown to the physical mind and beyond the witness of the outward reason and the senses. Science came in with a method of knowledge which extended the evidence of this outer field of consciousness and thought that by this method all existence would become explicable. It swept away at once without ... order to realise it. So too the rigid distinction of One against Many, a One that cannot be many or of an All that is made up by addition and not self existent are crude mental notions of the outer finite mind that cannot be applied to the Infinite. If the All were of this material and unspiritual character, tied down to a primary arithmetic and geometry, the realisation of the universe in oneself,... experience itself, it is doubted by the physical mind because it is subjective, not objective. But has the distinction much value? Is not all knowledge and experience subjective at bottom? Objective external physical things are seen very much in the same way by human beings because of the construction of the mind and senses; with another construction of mind and sense quite another account of the physical ...
... expression the view of the mind and of all mental activities from the chamber of the Self,—the inner chamber of the psychic being. To the Self the mind is only an "outer court"; mind is not the inmost chamber, the inmost sanctuary. This "court" of the mind is not only "outer" but "many-frescoed". Man goes on painting pictures on the walls of his mental consciousness. Thus the outer court of the "Imperishable... "In the enormous spaces of the self The body now seemed only a wandering shell, His mind the many-frescoed outer court Of an imperishable Inhabitant." Sāvitrī, Book I, Canto 5. Here we have the experience of the Self described wherein the physical body seems only the outer shell wandering from place to place in the enormous, unlimited spaces of the consciousness of Self... the Divine. There is, thus seen, an enormous thought-content: the relation of self and the body, the self and the mind, the outer court and the inmost being, in those four lines which can go on releasing various lines of thought along many directions when it is allowed to sink into the mind. We can take almost any line without reference to the context and we shall find that the power of Truth gives ...
... feature of our way of life. So there is no peace, which is nothing but the natural state of harmony. We have divided existence into the inner and outer. But the outer, the society needs to be fleshed out with individuals who carry an inner conditioned mind. In itself the society is a mere abstraction from real relationships between real people. In concrete it is an ensamble of individuals in dynamic... which should also reflect in actions. That there should be no difference or contradiction between man's action and intention, between his inner and outer selves or that his actions must be in full harmony and agreement with what he has in his heart and mind. Such a man has been called Sadiq (singular of Sadiqun) in the Holy Quran. (49:15; 59: 8) 4.Justice: Justice, Adl or Mizan, occupies a... thought-provoking question, the students are led to discover their own awareness behind every activity and to take responsibility for the use of this awareness as it expresses itself in the outer personality (mind, life, body.) To give a concrete example let us take the activities which are done using a simple tin plate and stick. Please refer to page six in the accompanying brochure where this ...
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