... what is not the true law and upholds it as the law, persists in the thing which ought not to be done and holds it up to us as the one right thing to be done. Its ignorance is invincible and its persistence of will is a persistence in the satisfaction and dull pride of its ignorance. That is on its side of blind action; but it is pursued also by a heavy stress of inertia and impotence, a persistence in ...
... elements into other lives. This principle of constant fusion and interchange is the law of Life and extends into vital and mental existence as well as the physical. The two principles of individual persistence and mutual fusion have to be harmonised and this can only be done by the emergence and full development of mind which alone is subtle enough to persist in individual consciousness beyond all fusion... Here the union and harmony of the persistent individual and the persistent aggregate life become possible.—Love is the power by which this union and harmony are worked out; for love exists by the persistence of the individual and his conscious acceptance of the necessity and desire of interchange and self-giving. Its growth means the emergence of Mind imposing its law on the material existence, for Mind ...
... Book Two Book Two Bande Mataram under the Editorship of Sri Aurobindo 28.May-22.Dec.1907 Bande Mataram A Malicious Persistence 21-August-1907 The persistence of the Englishman 's attack on Justice Mitter in connection with the Bloomfield Murder Case is worthy of the traditions of Hare Street. The Englishman is perhaps the only Anglo-Indian paper ...
... difficulty will be to find somebody whom they will agree to take inside the work. I do not want fresh quarrels. If you have anybody to suggest, I shall very willingly arrange. With patience and persistence everything will become all right. With love and blessings 26 April 1934 ...
... Mother and Sri Aurobindo 20 September 1934 Yes, this is the time when you have to persist till you are quite settled in the inner consciousness and the persistence of the silence and peace is a sign that it is now possible. When one feels this kind of silence, peace and wideness, one may be sure that that is of the true being, the real self, penetrating into ...
... constant answer. And now, O Lord, Thou must create in this being a constant aspiration, uninterrupted, intense, passionate, in an immutable serenity. Silence, peace are there: there must also be the persistence of the intensity. Oh, Thy heart sings a halleluiah of gladness as if what Thou willest were on the way to its fulfilment.... Destroy all these elements, that from their ashes may emerge new elements ...
... Pradyot's Correspondence Pradyot's Correspondence with The Mother 2 July 1967 Take this persistence in the trouble as a test for your faith, answer by a confident smile—and it will be all right. With love and blessings 2 July 1967 ...
... 19 September 1966 Love among humans is based on remembrance, isn’t it? In the material world, love expresses itself through the need to be close, to unite, to become one. The persistence of remembrance is rather the effect of love and not its basis. 19 September 1966 ...
... Elements of Yoga Elements of Yoga Will and Perseverance Words of the Mother - II Persistence Do not worry, be patient and persistent in your aspiration. Persist in your aspiration and it will be fulfilled. 12 September 1934 Page 161 Persist in your aspiration and your effort and you will succeed. 12 June 1971 Continuity: ...
... Mother and Sri Aurobindo 28 September 1936 Your attitude towards the change needed and new life is the right one. A quiet vigilant but undistressed persistence is the best way to get it done. For the intimacy within to be reestablished the quietude must deepen so that the psychic may come out in the physical as it has done in the higher parts. (28 ...
... keep alternating. SRI AUROBINDO: All these things are in fact things that had been left in the outer being, in the physical consciousness, though some were rejected by the higher parts and their persistence there or their remnants made the progress incomplete. Now they are rising up for dispersal and have to be thrown out from these parts also. As for unwillingness to work, if the sleep comes fully ...
... 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 to persistence of tamas element in the physical being and is part of laxity or physical depression. It is disappearing in proportion as the ideal Shakti fixes itself... in the more physical part of the being something of its old inertia and darkness, not entirely changed into passivity with involved or quiescent prakasha and tapas. This tamas is the cause of the persistence of the physical and other asiddhi. And simultaneously the lower vijnana which represents the intellect in the forms of the ideal mind was developing its greater powers and finally turned into... has had to sacrifice Page 1202 the continuity once gained in order to change from the mental to the ideal form. The change is almost, but not quite or firmly complete. There is still persistence of old fragments of roga and the two or three chronic maladies. Sometimes two of them seem on the point of disappearing, but are then able to reassert their action. Primary utthapana fluctuates, ...
... kind; no despondency or despair, no saying “What have I gained by seeking the Divine,” no anger, revolt, abhiman , wish to go away — such as you describe here — but an absolute confidence, and a persistence in clinging to the Divine under all conditions. That is what I wanted you to have; it is the only basis on which one is free from troubles and reactions and goes steadily forward. (21.6.33) ...
... the relapse of sleep. In the afternoon there is only at most a shadow. In the morning there is a dull struggle of sleep to keep at bay the samadhi, and when the latter occurs there is a certain persistence of incoherence especially in the settled sthira lipi. This is being diminished, but it recovers its force repeatedly. Page 1096 Ananda and secondary utthapana are for the time in... Passivity of the mind has now served its purpose, the mind has become a silent channel; only the obstruction of the physical brain atmosphere preserves the dull habit of this passivity, a tamasic persistence in an inert misrepresentation of the old ҫanti . The only progress in the physical siddhi is a commencement of the idealising of the Ananda. Today the insistence on K.A. [Kama Ananda] is renewed;... readily to a far past in which the future was prefigured. Pain and discomfort are being strongly taken up by the Ananda. Today all pain and discomfort, the former even very acute and of some little persistence, the latter massive and oppressive, were permeated with Ananda. Only violent and very oppressive yantrana or discomfort has still to be taken up. Samadhi is recovering force and coherent ideality ...
... Spirit May 5, 1932 Certainly; one can act and cure it. Only it is not always easy as there is much resistance in matter, a resistance of inertia. Much persistence is necessary; gradually the control of the body or of a particular illness becomes stronger. Again, to cure an illness, is comparatively easy, to make the body immune from it in future is more difficult ...
... and karma is qualified only by the doubt as to the prolongation of the life and the extent of the karma . The first is only a strong external suggestion getting its strength from the abnormal persistence of the digestive roga; the second is a real restriction of the ҫraddha, but it is rather questioning now than negative. The ishwaribhava is still qualified in intensity and fullness. Vijnana... revives in gandha, but there is still the obstruction. Sharira Ananda . Continuity is growing, but still subject to the old causes of discontinuance. These however have much less reality of persistence than on the last occasion. Tivra shows a tendency to fix itself and is now vijnanamaya with an idealised intuitive mental undertone. Vishayananda is revelatory vijnanamaya. Raudra also is vijnanamaya... analogous to the past movements but on a higher scale, that is to say, Page 1236 greater developments are being foreshadowed and initiated which have to be gradually attained against the [persistence] 2 of old lesser sufficiencies and insufficiencies. Seven new movements are indicated of which four have begun to realise themselves in an initial action. Thought is manifesting a highest ...
... . They [ patience and peace ] go together. By having patience under all kinds of pressure you lay the foundations of peace. Persistence Your attitude towards the change needed and new life is the right one. A quiet, vigilant but undistressed persistence is the best way to get it done. For the intimacy within to be reestablished the quietude must deepen so that the psychic may come out... the path of sadhana—one must persist however long it takes, so only one can achieve. Page 114 What I want of you besides aspiring for faith? Well, just a little thoroughness and persistence in the method! Don't aspire for two days and then sink into the dumps, evolving a gospel of earthquake and Schopenhauer plus the jackal and all the rest of it. Give the Divine a full sporting chance... conclude—drive out dark despair and go bravely on with your poetry, your novels—and your Yoga. As the darkness disappears, the inner doors too will open. Perseverance Whatever method is used, persistence and perseverance are essential. For whatever method is used, the complexity of the natural resistance will be there to combat it. One who fears monotony and wants something new would not be ...
... triumph of meaning and value against the resistance of limitations and obstacles by means of courage, battle and adventure. There are degrees and heights of heroism determined by the intensity, persistence and vastness of sacrifice. Page 8 Yama ( detail of a painting by Naqndal Bose) Page 9 Heroism attains the highest states of greatness and refinement when it is... knowledge, the most secret knowledge and the most precious knowledge, the possession of which leads to the highest fulfillment, namely, realisation of immortality. What is still more important is his persistence in seeking this knowledge even when his teacher, Yama, offers him an alternative that is full of ordinary lures and pleasures; he declines this alternative. In other words, he was able to Page ...
... the plants and hear Your voice through them—otherwise I do not see any way to their improvement. With much hesitation I am writing to You about roses. Suggestions of incapacity and egoistic persistence on my part have been coming now and then. If, due to my present state of non-receptivity in service to You, it is better that I hand over the charge of roses to X or anybody else, I shall gladly ...
... exercise of his authority serve his party. The rowdiness of which the Moderates complain is simply the clamorous persistence which is the sole means left to the other party to compel justice and a hearing. All this the Nationalists have again and again endured in the hope that by sheer persistence they might get their existence recognised and such rules formulated as would permit of differences being au ...
... produces by its action for the good or ill of others a necessity of happiness or sorrow for ourselves in another birth. It produces, moreover, a tendency to persistence of that habit of thought or feeling in future lives, which involves the persistence of the good fortune or evil fortune, happiness or sorrow. Or, acting on different lines, it produces a revolt or reaction and replacement by opposite habits ...
... to find the true way of doing sadhana. It is only by constantly aspiring to the Mother's light and force that you can make true and steady progress. It is only by the constant repetition and persistence of the Mother's light and force that the habit of disturbance and lack of organisation can diminish and finally disappear. Only so can the lower being be prepared and the decisive descent of the ...
... straight. In Ia siddhi came easily; the attempt to enforce [an]anima, though recurrent, failed in persistence and in violence; self-existent utthapana, free from defect of anima, was established and remained. In Ib there was violent opposition, but it failed in the right arm, but succeeded in the left by persistence of pain of ananima aided afterwards by pressure of downward garima from above,–not gravitation... normal. The main defect lies now in the downward gravitation which prevents the thought from being of the highest elevation possible, the stuff of intellect mixed in the ideation and vak by the persistence of a background of intellectual demand and pursuit of the thought by a vague intellectual observation and judgment, which though not often explicit hampers the ideality, and the continuance of external... left arm raised half way for an hour, lying on the right side, and neck, C b, in the same position. In all mahima and laghima triumphant. In B II the sharp defect of anima has lost its power of persistence and also of persistent recurrence; it occurred once or [twice] 1 for a moment in the first half hour, once or twice with a more prolonged but with no very intense recurrence in the second. In ...
... of Aswapati's ascent as a typical representative of the race. He has realised all for himself, and he has seen the Possibility open to the race. He has reached after endless trials and heroic persistence the shining tablelands of the Kingdom of the Greater Knowledge. He has been thrilled by the mighty currents in the "kingdom of the Spirit's power and light", and his inviews of Reality and outviews ...
... The Yoga of Sri Aurobindo - Part 6 THE INTEGRAL REALISATION Endless are the ways to the Divine. Each one followed with sincerity and earnestness and persistence to the end leads to the same goal. Now, if the end were solely to reach the highest summit, the point beyond, the transcendent God and settle there, any one line would be quite sufficient for the ...
... love in all things and everywhere, ever more widely, ever more intensely, and the whole world will become at the same time thy work and thy wealth, thy field of action and thy conquest. Fight with persistence to break down the last limits which are only frail barriers before the expansion of the being, to vanquish the last obscurities already being lit up by the Illuminating Power. Fight in order to conquer ...
... intellect be not so much convinced as forced to admit his presence by experience -- just as when a man sees what he has denied and can no longer deny it. But for that the means must be accepted and the persistence in the will and patience in the labour. September 10, 1933 Page 27 ...
... gradually. One learns to discern among one’s ordinary, external movements and the different gradations of the movements of one’s inner consciousness. And if one continues to do this with a certain persistence, one realises what it is that puts this highest part of one’s being into motion, which represents the ideal of the being. There is no other way. Sometimes this awake through reading something, sometimes ...
... as we are assured, the movement is upward, then we may persist in absolute confidence, sure that reverses in details are only meant to prepare and point the true way to victory. Persistence does not imply persistence in methods that have proved to be infructuous or from which, though temporarily fruitful, God has withdrawn His sanction. We must remember that we are a nation not yet trained in the ...
... no shade of this meaning. It is the root यज् with the suffix न adjectival, as explained under अग्नी. यज् is a primary derivative from the initial root य which had a sense of control, restraint, persistence, preservation. This we find in its derivatives यम् to order, control, regulate; यत् to use force upon, strive, practise; यक्ष् the habituative, to keep carefully from which यक्ष the guardians of... रि were used interchangeably like ळ and ड. The root ऋ conveyed the idea of fixity, constancy, ऋत् or रित् is the old verbal noun forming the roots ऋत् and रित् and conveys the ideas [of] fixity, persistence, constancy, truth, steadfastness, wisdom, धैर्य, सत्यं. From the same root is formed ऋषिः, the root ऋष् being a habituative form of ऋ and meaning to be constant, wise, true, steadfast, calm and still ...
... Even among those who have made the most progress or been always the closest to the Mother, this or similar feelings still recur. It is not that they have not to be overcome, but to argue from their persistence that one is unfit to stay here is to make a large conclusion on a very small basis. This is again the kind of suggestion that comes in from the surrounding physical Ignorance. Things like these last ...
... seconds in the aspiration that the food you will take brings to your body the substance necessary to serve as a solid basis for your effort towards the great discovery, and gives it the energy of persistence and perseverance in the effort. Before you go to bed, concentrate a few seconds in the aspiration that the sleep may restore your fatigued nerves, bring to your brain calmness and quietness... the great discovery should be always there soaring over you, above what you do and what you are, like a huge bird of light dominating all the movements of your being. Before the untiring persistence of your effort, an inner door will open suddenly and you will come out into a dazzling splendour that will bring to you the certitude of im- Page 126 mortality, the concrete experience... is more perfect than that of a total self surrender to the highest point your conception can reach: for some it is the notion of God, for others that of Perfection. If this surrender is made with persistence and ardour, a moment comes when you go beyond the concept and arrive at an experience that escapes all description, but which is almost always identical in its eFects. As your surrender becomes more ...
... this: first, human thinking is in a great confusion over what concerns this particular subject; secondly, the enterprise is very difficult and to be successful in it one must have endurance, endless persistence and an inflexible will. Indeed, the vital in man's nature is a despotic and exacting tyrant. Moreover, since it holds within itself power, energy, enthusiasm, effective dynamism, many have... is the example shown constantly and sincerely that is the most powerful means. Once the resolution is firmly established, there is nothing more to do than to proceed with strictness and persistence, never to accept defeat as final. If you are to avoid all weakening and withdrawing, there is one important point you must know and never forget: the will can be cultivated and developed even like ...
... it: first, human thinking is in a great confusion over what concerns this particular subject, secondly, the enterprise is very difficult and to be successful in it one must have endurance, endless persistence and an inflexible will. Indeed, the vital, in man's nature, is a despotic and exacting tyrant. Moreover, since it holds within itself power, energy, enthusiasm, effective dynamism many have a... it is the example shown constantly and sincerely that is the most powerful means. Once the resolution is firmly established, there is nothing more to do than to proceed with strictness and persistence, .never to accept defeat as final. If you are to avoid all weakening and withdrawing, there is one important point you must know and never forget; the will can be cultivated and developed even like ...
... of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol. 3 The Integral Realisation ENDLESS are the ways to the Divine. Each one followed with sincerity and earnestness and persistence to the end leads to the same goal. Now, if the end were solely to reach the highest summit, the point beyond, the transcendent God and settle there, anyone line would be quite sufficient for the ...
... becoming. Earth is the field or it is one of the temporary fields; man is the highest possible form or only one of the temporary forms of the Becoming. Humanity and its welfare and progress during its persistence on earth provide the largest field and the natural limits for the terrestrial aim of life. ...
... popular rights, their strength and vitality as a political force might have been established, even if their effectiveness had been disproved. The Reforms have shown that nothing can be expected from persistence in Moderate politics except retrogression, disappointment and humiliation. The experience of the last year has shown that, without the Nationalists at their back, the Moderates are im-potent for... Nationalist feeling in the country, wilfully shutting its doors to popularity and strength by the formation of electorates as close and limited as those of the Reformed Councils, self-doomed to persistence in a policy which has led to signal disaster, the Convention is destined to perish of inanition and popular indifference, dislike and opposition. If the Nationalists stand back any longer, either ...
... potentialities in me to lead this path? This is not the question, the question is whether you have the necessary aspiration, determination and perseverance and whether you can by the intensity and persistence of your aspiration make all the parts of your being answer to the call and become one in the consecration. 2) How should I continue my practice (sadhana) after returning home ? Quiet yourself ...
... in the aspiration that the food you are about to eat may bring your body the substance it needs to serve as a solid basis for your effort towards the great discovery, and give it the energy for persistence and perseverance in the effort. Before you go to sleep, concentrate a few seconds in the aspiration that the sleep may restore your fatigued nerves, bring calm and quietness to your brain so that... The will for the great discovery should be always there above you, above what you do and what you are, like a huge bird of light dominating all the movements of your being. Before the untiring persistence of your effort, an inner door will suddenly open and you will emerge into a dazzling splendour that will bring you the certitude of immortality, the concrete experience that you have always lived... is more perfect than the joy of a total self-giving to whatever is the summit of your conception: for some it is the notion of God, for others that of Perfection. If this self-giving is made with persistence and ardour, a moment comes when you pass beyond the concept and arrive at an experience that escapes all description, but which is almost always identical in its effects. And as your self-giving ...
... I am so grateful for your letter, for your touch, and for the warm, sweet feeling that I belong to you again. I'm sorry to bother you again, but I'm still con fused about the matter of persistence; the question has troubled me for so long that I feel I must get it straight this time. Here is an example of what 1 mean: Just now I'm interested in concentrating in the heart; I also feel ...
... of gnosis. There is also the movement towards the changing of the idealised revelatory mentality in the physical system to the true gnosis. T² is still a difficulty. The main difficulty is the persistence of the recurring tendency to take strong actual possibility for final actuality. This defect is absent when there is no attempt to get the absolute decision; then all is actual possibility relieved... certain therefore of the moment, but with a background of still greater unperceived possibility which may reverse the natural effect of the decision. K.A is now stronger in force of spontaneous persistence; but the spontaneity is not perfect, nor proof against oblivion by strong absorption or by a wandering of the lax mind to other interests. But it is seeking to get rid of this obstacle by tapas.... sthula or just sthula touches, but the full and free materialisation is still obstructed; this part of the old barrier, its last strong fencing has not yet fallen. Sravana comes with strength or persistence only in the old symbolic sounds, cricket, ticking, bells, thunder etc; the rest has failed to materialise. Drishya is limited to an occasional elementary vision of the pranic akasha and its simplest ...
... profound than in Europe, fall into the shade and are apt to be overlooked; besides, this unobtrusiveness is increased by their want of relief, the slow subtlety of their process and the instinctive persistence and reverence with which old names and formulas have been preserved while the thing itself was profoundly modified until its original sense remained only as a pious fiction. Thus Japan kept its ... principle has its advantages even as rapid progress has its vices and its perils. It helps towards the preservation of a fundamental continuity which makes for the longevity of civilisations and the persistence of what was valuable in humanity's past. So, in India, if religion has changed immensely its form and temperament, the religious spirit has been really eternal, the principle of spiritual discipline ...
... should not, Sweet Mother. That means one must not try to do it, because it does not obey this kind of movement. These people try to progress through violence. They have no patience, they have no persistence; and when a desire arises in them they must realise it immediately. Now, they want to have something—let us say a change in Page 420 their character or a change in the circumstances or... to discern among one's ordinary, external movements and the different gradations of the Page 421 movements of one's inner consciousness. And if one continues to do this with a certain persistence, one realises what it is that puts this highest part of one's being into motion, which represents the ideal of the being. There is no other way. Sometimes this awake through reading something, sometimes ...
... in the aspiration that the food you are about to eat may bring your body the substance it needs to serve as a solid basis for your effort towards the great discovery, and give it the energy for persistence and perseverance in the effort. Before you go to sleep, concentrate a few seconds in the aspiration that the sleep may restore your fatigued nerves, bring calm and quietness to your brain so that... The will for the great discovery should be always there above you, above what you do and what you are, like a huge bird of light dominating all the movements of your being. Before the untiring persistence of your effort, an inner door will suddenly open and you will emerge into a dazzling splendour that will bring you the certitude of immortality, the concrete experience that you have always lived ...
... the readers, grateful beneficiaries of this magnificent gift, thanks to Amal, who could draw out from Sri Aurobindo the great wealth of innumerable rarest gems of this mystic poetry by his dogged persistence and pointed intellectual questionings. It is a greater delight to read the mantric chant of Savitri , filling us with its splendour and glory revealed by Sri Aurobindo, the Master to his co ...
... immediately disintegrates and merges into the general forces of Nature. It is only in man where there is a mental being to organise the vitality into some sort of an individualised form that the persistence of that form is. possible after the dissolution of the body. Page 38 ...
... immediately disintegrates and merges into the general forces of Nature. It is only in man where there is a mental being to organise the vitality into some sort of an individualised form that the persistence of that form is possible after the dissolution of the body. ¹ A disciple of Sri Aurobindo and the Mother Page 29 ...
... of the Lord in life and works is the law of our being and the object of our world-existence. THE QUIESCENCE AND THE MOVEMENT 4) What then of the Quiescence of the Supreme Being and how is persistence in the Movement compatible with that Quiescence which is generally recognised as an essential condition of the supreme Bliss? The Quiescence and the Movement are equally one Brahman and the d... proper course and not to remain for ever in the chain of birth and death, nor to flee from birth into a pure non-becoming. The bondage does not consist in the physical act of becoming, but in the persistence of the ignorant sense of the separate ego. The Mind creates the chain and not the body. WORKS AND KNOWLEDGE 9) The opposition between works and knowledge exists as long as works and knowledge ...
... differences as far as the concentration is concerned, and it's endless! You feel it takes half an hour to get done. If it occurred just once, you'd say, "Never mind," but it takes place with persistence and regularity, as when someone is trying to teach you something. A sort of insistence and regular repetition as if someone wanted to teach me something. Also, I spend a part of my nights in a... someone stupid like me to show me the difference in consciousness between being in this body and being without a body. It seems to me to be that. But then, down to the last details and with persistence—you know, like when you have to teach something to an animal or to a very small child (!), that's how it is, by repetition. The other day, for example, the day before yesterday (not last night ...
... has an inner desire to learn and to grow, Page 16 but the most important characteristic of the good pupil is his zeal or enthusiasm. This zeal is what determines the persistence of his effort, and such persistence is indispensable to achieve higher and higher levels of excellence. A good pupil is a seeker of knowledge and, motivated by curiosity and a growing sense of wonder, seeks knowledge ...
... triumph of meaning and value against the resistance of limitations and obstacles by means of courage, battle and adventure. There are degrees and heights of heroism deter- mined by the intensity, persistence and vastness of sacrifice. Heroism attains the highest states of greatness and refinement when it is guided by the highest wisdom and inspired by the sense of service to the ends of justice and ...
... great spiritual conception, and fidelity to it is the very principle of her existence. For by its virtue alone she has been one of the immortal nations; this alone has been the secret of her amazing persistence and perpetual force of survival and revival. Page 184 ...
... triumph of meaning and value against the resistance of limitations and obstacles by means of courage, battle and adventure. There are degrees and heights of heroism determined by the intensity, persistence and vastness of sacrifice. Heroism attains the highest states of greatness and refinement when it is guided by the highest wisdom and inspired by the sense of service to the ends of justice and harmony ...
... need but the need of his soul to grow, to develop, to reach higher and higher was always a necessary yearning of his being and still at the age of a hundred, the climb up with determination and persistence has not diminished. Age is no bar when the spirit is immersed in the Sadhana of Sri Aurobindo and The Mother. At a very early age an attack of Polio deformed one leg and here too he is a ...
... I'm the Soul of India." One experience of this sort (identification of consciousness) is worth a hundred books - if you're interested in books. I don't say you'll get it immediately but by persistence you can. She has given you all the ideal conditions for it, you have only to do it. *** As regards trees, you're not allowed to cut down trees in the Ashram without Mother's permission ...
... raga and dwesha; it is not supported by the Purusha or the personal Prakriti, but has been able to produce asamata in the outward physical mentality. These things are still possible because of the persistence of intuitive mentality in the stuff of the physical consciousness; that can only be secure against mental suggestions by a partial personal siddhi cut off from the external Nature or by complete... Finally the highest ideality took final possession of the perception, speech, lipi and to a certain extent of the T². In deeper and deepest nidra also ideality was exceedingly strong, but with some persistence of the dream character and occasional incoherence. Nevertheless coherence in the lipi even here was stronger than before. Rupa etc are now taking on the character of actuality, though as yet only... etc. K.A afflicted, but not discontinued in its recurrence. Some attempt at enlargement of drishya and vishaya generally, as of rupa, but very uncertain and infirm though tending to largeness. Persistence of attack of roga and replying tapas. Generally an embarrassed but still successful progress, preparing a greater siddhi. 23 July 1919 A day of partial recovery and advance. T² is acting ...
... that next time it will be better. So, in conclusion, we shall say that in order to know things as they are you must first unite with your soul and to unite with your soul you must want it with persistence and perseverance. Only the degree of concentration on the goal can shorten the way. The Mother On Thoughts and Aphorisms: Aphorism - 9 ...
... and value against the resistance of limitations and obstacles by means of courage, battle Page 8 and adventure. There are degrees and heights of heroism deter mined by the intensity, persistence and vastness of sacrifice. Heroism attains the highest states of greatness and refinement when it is guided by the highest wisdom and inspired by the sense of service to the ends of justice and harmony ...
... value against the resistance of limitations and obstacles by means of courage, battle and adventure. There are degrees and heights of heroism determined Page 11 by the intensity, persistence and vastness of sacrifice. Heroism attains the highest states of greatness and refinement when it is guided by the highest wisdom and inspired by the sense of service to the ends of justice and harmony ...
... triumph of meaning and value against the resistance of limitations and obstacles by means of courage, battle and adventure. There are degrees and heights of heroism determined by the intensity, persistence and vastness of sacrifice. Page 8 Heroism attains the highest states of greatness and refinement when it is guided by the highest wisdom and inspired by the sense of service to the ...
... nature, bringing down more and more of its supramental omnipotence. THE THREE STEPS OF PURIFICATION The beginning of the movement of purification is generally marked by a defiant persistence of the principal impurities, Page 217 as if they seemed to doubt the sincerity and stead- fastness of our will. They persist out of a dogged reluctance of the intransigent vital... impurities, and no indulgence or latitude is given them, they begin to take us seriously and prepare for a fight. The second step is characterized by their resistance to our will. An unheeding persistence gives place to a determined resistance, sometimes aggressive and sometimes defensive. It implies an alertness and a resentful violence on the part of prakṛti , who begins to perceive that the ... is one of a firm poise in the inalienable purity and freedom of the puruṣa . Once this untrembling attitude of the detached puruṣa is resolutely taken and adhered to in the teeth of all persistence and recurrence of the natural impurities, purification will put on the appearance of an automatic catharsis, a spontaneous working out of the wrong movements and erring energies, and a gradual cleansing ...
... result may not be very encouraging at the beginning, for, the physical nature may repel the advances of the higher consciousness and refuse to be disturbed in its complacent darkness. But a quiet persistence is sure to prevail in making it open to the Mother's Light. "The opening of the physical and the subconscient takes a long time as it is a thing of habits and constant repetition of the old... Force works in the parts of the being which are veiled from it, but the central will, once kindled and concentrated upon a thing, can never fail of its objective. The will, exercised with a quiet persistence, calls down the Mother's Force, which begins to act on the inconscient and the subconscient for their purification and illumination. Mental knowledge does not count for much in spiritual life; more ...
... But the leaders seem to have accepted the plea with alacrity as a good excuse for avoiding a repetition of Barisal. "For such another field they dreaded worse than death." The incident shows the persistence of that want of backbone which is still the curse of our politics. In any other country the very fact that the delegates had been assaulted at one Conference for asserting a right, would have been ...
... liberates from egoism and the pride of the mind and of the vital, the pride that imposes its own reasonings on the ways of the spirit and the pride that refuses or is unable to surrender, sustained persistence in the call within and reliance on the Grace above. Meditation, japa, prayer or aspiration from the heart can all succeed, if they are attended by these or even some of these things. But I do not ...
... value against the resistance Page 9 of limitations and obstacles by means of courage, battle and adventure. There are degrees and heights of heroism determined by the intensity, persistence and vastness of sacrifice. Heroism attains the highest states of greatness and refinement when. it is guided by the highest wisdom and inspired by the sense of service to the ends of justice and ...
... attacked carries on a heroic struggle with the bureaucracy with what stray assistance, individual generosity or patriotism may offer it. But organised Page 630 resistance, organised persistence even there is none. This unsatisfactory condition of things is traceable to one main cause. All Bengal is heartily agreed in Swadeshi and professedly all are agreed on the necessity of industrial ...
... triumph of meaning and value against the resistance of limitations and obstacles by means of courage, battle and adventure. There are degrees and heights of heroism determined by the intensity, persistence and vastness of sacrifice. Heroism attains the highest states of greatness and refinement when it is guided by the highest wisdom and inspired by the sense of service to the ends of justice and ...
... and value against the resistance of limitations and obstacles by means of courage, Page 8 battle and adventure. There are degrees and heights of heroism determined by the intensity, persistence and vastness of sacrifice. Heroism attains the highest states of greatness and refinement when it is guided by the highest wisdom and inspired by the sense of service to the ends of justice and harmony ...
... triumphant, for the enemy returns to the charge and clouds the siddhi with the anritam, but in the siddhi now there is fixity &, though not perfect continuity, yet a prevailing persistence. The enemy cannot prevent the persistence. The condition of success appears to be perfect passivity. If there is any arambha, any setting about to know, mental activity with its tangled web of error starts again; Truth... happening (mangalam & amangalam). There are a few recesses of environing material mind in which sensitiveness to the apriyam survives feebly, but Page 82 these touches have only a brief persistence. The second chatusthaya is preparing its liberation in the defective points (kalyanasraddha, faith in the adesha, ishwarabhava, etc), but as yet only the sraddha in the yoga siddhi is decisively... notable lipis (1) Fullest satisfaction of the heart next after the fulfilment of the laughter (hasyam). It is notable that the fulfilment of hasyasiddhi has recently been predicted with great persistence by the lipi "laughter", which I could not then understand. Cf the old lipi, "Safety" (2) Ekas tisthati viras tisthati. (3) Sadi Carnot. (4) Disorder—at once; yes. The last script had ...
... yet preserves a certain continuity, a certain sameness or identity of vibration in the midst of all flux. It is almost like a river which is never the same and yet has a certain definiteness and persistence of its own. Your normal self is merely a shadow of your true individuality which you will realise only when this normal individual which is differently poised at different times, now in the mental ...
... yet preserves a certain continuity, a certain sameness or identity of vibration in the midst of all flux. It is almost like a river which is never the same and yet has a certain definiteness and persistence of its own. Your normal self is merely a shadow of your true individuality Page 29 which you will realise only when this normal individual which is differently poised at different ...
... and triumph of meaning and value against resistance of limitations and obstacles by means of courage battle and adventure. There are degrees and heights of heroism determined by the intensity, persistence and vastness of sacrifice. Heroism attains the highest states of greatness and refinement when it is guided by the highest wisdom and inspired by the sense of service to the ends of justice and ...
... wallow in suffering and relish suffering disfigure the aspect of the world and should therefore be relentlessly mowed out of existence. By being pitiful to them we give our tacit assent to their persistence. And it is precisely because of this that Nietzsche has a horror of Christianity. For compassion gives indulgence to all the ugliness of the world and thus renders that ugliness a necessary and ...
... for despair or giving up. You are taking too black a view of things, the usual result of your giving way to depression. You used to have this before and you got over it by persistence. Now also by persistence it will go. To make radical decisions under the influence of depression is not good. To brace yourself up and, however persistent the difficulties are, to stick it out, is always the ...
... meaning and value against the resistance of limitations and obstacles by means of courage battle and adventure. There are degrees and heights of heroism Page 8 determined by the intensity, persistence and vastness of sacrifice. Heroism attains the highest states of greatness and refinement when it is guided by the highest wisdom and inspired by the sense of service to the ends of justice and harmony ...
... advanced beyond the stage arrived at long ago when these experiences were discontinued. Rasa subsequently manifested great intensity and persistence in the bitter and bitter sour; the other tastes appear from time to time but without intensity or persistence, usually imperfectly materialised. Madhura is still involved in the sthula touches. The siddhi descended again to the intellectuality to... arising from their essential causes, is also being exposed, the first effect being to remove the last remaining obstacles to faultless subjective persistence in the tapas even when it fails & is or seems hopeless of its purpose (the objective persistence is limited by physical fatigue or incapacity), and, secondly, to the ugrata of the tapas. It was formerly the mind's habit to take failure Page... fixed in the body as of frequent daily occurrence, but only sometimes (on some days, that is to say) continuous or intense in its frequency. Ahaituka tivrananda has acquired a great intensity & some persistence; raudra has intensity. Vishaya & still more vaidyuta are only occasional & still imperfectly developed. Health is strongly combated, utthapana likewise; but both have now begun a settled movement ...
... that next time it will be better. So, in conclusion, we shall say that in order to know things as they are you must first unite with your soul and to unite with your soul you must want it with persistence and perseverance. Page 25 Only the degree of concentration on the goal can shorten the way. 14 November 1958 ...
... discipline. But, if difficult, the thing is not impossible. In the matter of physical feats, for example, a particular development may seem for the moment beyond your reach; but with practice and persistence, stubborn will and wise guidance, you can not only arrive at your immediate end but do much more. The story of many who have broken Olympic records is revealing in this respect. In the same way ...
... Nothing is more remarkable in the Veda than the absolute indifference & even confusion with which the singular and plural are used by the Singer, as if "I" & "we" were identical in meaning, and the persistence with which the Rishi regards himself as a representative soul, as it were, of the vishám devayatínám , the peoples in their seeking after the Godhead. We find the same transition in the Isha from ...
... his students, near. He had in him what made a great teacher. He knew so much about so many subjects. He had much to give. As he could smile so could he growl. All this backed with patience and persistence made him into this “instant success”. Of course, his reputation as a “Knockout King” helped. He was an ideal teacher for a group of growing, strong and strong-headed boys. Birenda was already ...
... the sadhana. 26 October 1936 How long will it take for all the parts of my being to turn to and surrender to the Mother? It depends on yourself—if there is a strong aspiration and quiet persistence, it can be done soon. ...
... and value against the resistance of limitations and obstacles by means of courage, battle Page 10 and adventure. There are degrees and heights of heroism determined by the intensity, persistence and vastness of sacrifice. Heroism attains the highest states of greatness and refinement when it is guided by the highest wisdom and inspired by the sense of service to the ends of justice and harmony ...
... themselves and the habit of coming. To face them with equanimity - if one cannot manage a cheerful persistence against them of confident and resolute will - diminishes, on the Page 122 contrary, their importance and effect and in the end, though not at once, gets rid of their persistence and recurrence. It is therefore a principle in yoga to recognise the determining power of what is ...
... the prakasha of the revelatory vijnana (drishti) is beginning to pour itself. The ahaituka tivrananda is recurring after a long interval of rarity. It is now pervasive, more prolonged in persistence, occurs in all the members. Lipi is enforcing itself in the eightfold qualities against the old etheric obstruction. Page 1036 Ishwaradarshana has taken possession of the ...
... Nature. ( XXII.340 ) It corresponds exactly to my own experience. It is this mind of the cells which seizes upon a mantra or a japa and eventually repeats it automatically, and with what persistence! That is to say, CONTINUALLY. That's what Sri Aurobindo means when he says it can be a help: it keeps at things indefinitely ( Mother clenches her fist in an unwavering gesture ). A few days ago ...
... questions in the notebooks he used to send to his Guru every night. And my * Mother India, July 1997 . Page 66 constant impression of him was of a spontaneous persistence in the act of both standing back and remembering to offer all one's being to the secret Supreme. It is also worth observing that while there is in the Ashram no prohibition of sadhaks and sadhikas ...
... thought and action that the political leaders and more particularly the religious heads of these two communities should stress. If this is done with sincerity Page 186 and persistence, it should be possible to create the conditions for the emergence of a great synthesis of all the religions and thus open the way for a true spiritual flowering of India and eventually of the world ...
... will dissolve, itself also will cease to exist. Or if it becomes conscious of the current of persistence of mental personality, it thinks of itself as a mental soul occupying the body whether Page 337 once or repeatedly and returning from earthly living to mental worlds beyond; the persistence of this mental being mentally enjoying or suffering sometimes in the body, sometimes on the mental ...
... stage? The state of complete surrender of the ego. Am I right in thinking "the whole present trouble lies in the ego and is due to the ego alone"? It is due to the persistence of the lower nature of which the ego is the chief motive force. I heard that the Mother put her Force on some sadhak because he wanted to change his vital. Well, I too wish intensely... Not tall and pre-eminent or flourishingly settled in self-fullness. Roundish =plenty of it all the same. Grey=tamasic in tendency, therefore not aggressive, but obstinate in persistence. But these are not symbols, they are the temperamental figures of the ego. Are there many egos here which are "flourishingly settled in self-fullness"? ...
... Page 44 essentially of the same class as our continuing unintentionally to write the date of the last year even in this year's letters. In one case it is the revival, in the other the persistence of an old habit. What has this to do with the phenomena of automatic writing which are of an entirely different class and not attended by absent-mindedness at all? Mr. Maskelyne makes no attempt ...
... and value against the Page 10 resistance of limitations and obstacles by means of courage, battle and adventure. There are degrees and heights of heroism determined by the intensity, persistence and vastness of sacrifice. Heroism attains the highest states of greatness and refinement when it is guided by the highest wisdom and inspired by the sense of service to the ends of justice and harmony ...
... Buddhism saw and accepted a world of misery; therefore it knew how to touch the human heart, open up the doors in human consciousness to sympathy and compassion and love. Life it envisaged as an unreal persistence and therefore awakened and installed there the fiery urge towards withdrawal, ascension and transcendence. It was Buddhism that canonised the way of asceticism, laid out the path of the Everlasting ...
... oppression of the ancient free city-life of Italy before it had realised its full potentialities and, secondly, to its survival in seed both by the prolonged civil life of Rome itself and by the persistence in the Italian municipia of a sense of separate life, oppressed but never quite ground out of existence as was the separate clan-life of Gaul and Spain or the separate city-life of Greece. Thus... life of England. But in England the necessary variation and richness of the ultimate organism was otherwise provided for by the great difference of the races that formed the new nation and by the persistence of Wales, Ireland and Scotland as separate cultural units with a subordinate self-consciousness of their own in the larger unity. The European cycle of nation-building differs therefore from the ...
... others is afflicted throughout with a sentence of illusion, vanity and nullity. It ceases to admit them because by admitting them it becomes dependent on them; it ceases to admit its own persistence, because the persistence of ego means the admission of that which it tries to exclude as not-self, of the cosmos and other beings. The self-annihilation of the Buddhist is in its nature absolute exclusion of ...
... unrest to cease, but their action seems to be carefully calculated to prolong it. No more irritating action could have been taken in the present state of the public mind Page 320 than the persistence in sedition-hunting which is being practised on a large scale in the Punjab. There is not the least sign of trouble or violence or even widespread agitation of any kind in that province. The causes ...
... Karmayogin No. 25, 25 December 1909 Karmayogin No. 25, 25 December 1909 Karmayogin Facts and Opinions The United Congress Negotiations The persistence of the Bengalee in shielding Moderate obstinacy under cover of an appeal to the wholly inconclusive proceedings of the private Conference in the Amrita Bazar Office last year shows both the paucity ...
... never have done what we have done during the last three years. No lesser hope, no ideal of inferior grandeur could have nerved us to the tremendous efforts, the great sacrifices, the indomitable persistence in the face of persecution which has made these three years ever memorable as the birth-time of a nation. Who could have borne what we have borne for the sake of some petty object? No good can result ...
... out and to follow that intelligently is the natural law and best rule of human life. Humanity and its welfare and progress during its persistence on earth provide the largest field and the natural limits for the terrestrial aim of our being; the superior persistence of the race and the greatness and importance of the collective life should determine the nature and scope of our ideals. But if the progress... the seed-state of its Energy: but the principle of Becoming is eternal—or at least as eternal as anything can be in the obscure ambiguity of existence. It is indeed possible to suppose a persistence of man the individual as a psychic entity in Time, a continuous terrestrial or cosmic ensouling or reincarnation without any after-life or other-life elsewhere: in that case one may either suppose... But in an extreme terrestrial view this is with difficulty tenable. Certain speculations of human thought have tended in this direction, but they have not taken a substantial body. A perpetual persistence in the Becoming is usually associated with the acceptance of a greater supraterrestrial existence. In the ordinary view of a sole terrestrial life or a restricted transient passage in the material ...
... absorbed by the calm ocean of Indian spiritual life, recalling the great image in the Gita,—even as the waters flow into the great tranquil and immeasurable ocean, and the ocean is not perturbed;—the persistence with which peculiar and original forms of society, religion and philosophical thought were protected from disintegration up till the destined moment;—the deferring of that disintegration until the ...
... political but as these were the gifts which then commanded success in the political arena, he ought to have stood forward far ahead of the mass of his contemporaries. It was the lack of steadiness and persistence common enough in men of brilliant gifts, which kept him back in the race. His brother Mr. Manmohan Ghose, a much less variously and richly gifted intellect but a stronger character, commanded by ...
... failed to crush the papers for which the martyrs offered themselves as a sacrifice, the cry was raised that they were being sacrificed by designing men who kept themselves in the background. The persistence of the same tone and the same writings showed that those who maintained the spirit of the paper were untouched, and it was obvious that only by putting them under lock and key, could the journal ...
... been from the beginning, there would be no terrestrial problem, no anguish of growth, no baffled seeking out of mind and will and life and body towards knowledge and force and joy and an immortal persistence. But this Godhead, whether within us or outside in things and forces and creatures, started from an involution in inconscience of Page 161 Nature and began by the manifestation of its ...
... cosmic commodities we have for the universal gold be fixed and in a way unchanging? What is the explanation, how comes about this eternity of principles and elements and kinds of combination and this persistence and recurrence of the same forms which we observe in the cosmos? Why in this constant cosmic flux should everything after all remain the same? Why should the sun, though always new, be yet for all ...
... value against the resistance of limitations and obstacles by means of courage, battle and adventure. There are degrees and heights of heroism determined Page 8 by the intensity, persistence and vastness of sacrifice. Heroism attains the highest states of greatness and refinement when it is guided by the highest wisdom and inspired by the sense of service to the ends of justice and harmony ...
... soul, it can never irretrievably lose what it has once held. The experience is inevitably renewed and must become more frequent till it is constant; when and how soon depends on the devotion and persistence with which we insist on the path and besiege by our will or our love the hidden Deity. This inner vision is one form of psychological experience; but the inner experience is not confined to that ...
... potentialities in me to follow this path? This is not the question, the question is whether you have the necessary aspiration, determination and perseverance and whether you can by the intensity and persistence of your aspiration make all the parts of your being answer to the call and become one in the consecration. 2) How should I continue my practice (sadhana) after returning home? Quiet yourself ...
... 27 NOVEMBER 1939 DR. MANILAL (after doing pranam) : Bump on the head again, Sir, for the third time! SRI AUROBINDO: Even if you have not got patience, you have persistence. DR. MANILAL (explaining to the Mother who had just come in) : The frontage is rather low. Perhaps Mahakali is smiting me? THE MOTHER: No, no. SRI AUROBINDO(looking at the Mother) : It is ...
... highest expression of the nation-building tendencies in India. One cause perhaps more than any other contributed to the failure of the centripetal tendency to attain self-fulfilment, and that was the persistence of the village community which prevented the people, the real nation, from taking any part in the great struggles out of which a nation should have emerged. In other countries the people had to take ...
... August, especially in the first movements of a great national resurgence. A time may come when the living meaning may pass out of a solemnity or anniversary and leave it a dead form which only the persistence of habit preserves, but that cannot happen until the underlying idea is realised and the imaginative impulse towards creation has victoriously justified itself and exhausted its sources of satisfaction ...
... that too shall surely spring forth immortal from the remains of his corpse. 1 But metaphorical or analogical arguments cannot have much evidential value in support of the doctrine of persistence of one's 'spiritual existence' even beyond the grave. Hence man has sought to adduce some additional arguments to establish the fact that the physical death does not denote the total annulment ...
... as open as possible to the higher Power, not allowing any really adverse condition to get hold of you. If there is no adverse wave, then the rest is only a persistence of imperfections which all have in abundance; that imperfection and persistence the Force must work out and eliminate, but for the elimination time is needed. There is no mentally definite and rigidly effective reason for the thing ...
... confidence in themselves and the habit of coming. To face them with equanimity—if one cannot manage a cheerful persistence against them of confident and resolute will—diminishes on the contrary their importance and effect and in the end, though not at once, gets rid of their persistence and recurrence. It is therefore a principle in Yoga to recognise the determining power of what is within us—for ...
... in the aspiration that the food you are about to eat may bring your body the substance it needs to serve as a solid basis for your effort towards the great discovery, and give it the energy for persistence and perseverance in the effort. "Before you go to sleep, concentrate a few seconds in the aspiration that the sleep may restore your fatigued nerves, bring calm and quietness to your brain... ; and thus the collaboration of the life-force in self-fulfilment is eliminated. The right training of the vital then is much more subtle and much more difficult, needing endurance, endless persistence and an inflexible will. For what is to be aimed at is not the negation of life but the fulfillment of life by its transformation. Page 38 First, the powers of the senses have to be developed ...
... Many find it difficult at the outset to make the right movement even in the matter of physical exercises. What is needed is will and persistence. More difficult, much more difficult it is to make the right inner movement, there also what is needed is will and persistence. Sometimes in the matter of inner discipline which means doing the right thing, you say, "If I know the right thing to do, then I can ...
... Many find it difficult at the outset to make the right movement even in the matter of physical exercises. What is n6eded is will and persistence. More difficult, much more difficult it is to make the right inner movement, there also what is needed is will and persistence. Sometimes in the matter of inner discipline which means doing the right thing, you say, "If I know the right thing to do, then I can ...
... preferable Page 96 to the Divine Beloved! But I refused. He said Yoga was a great folly. It was a folly I wholeheartedly committed and, on the strength of its persistence even now, I can qualify by Oscar Wilde's standard to address you. In the days of Sri Krishna, the kind of folly I committed took the form of leaving everything the worldly-wise would ...
... Divine Call. It is the vital crisis, the test, the ordeal for you as for others—a test and ordeal which we would willingly spare to those who are with us but which they call on themselves by persistence in some wrong line of movement or some falsification of the inner attitude. If you reject entirely the falsehood that this force casts upon the sadhaka, if you remain faithful to the Light that called... the false Idea and can even be vitally ascetic and appear to men as great Tapaswis. All the same there is a stern and violent vital as the effective instrument of their nature. Steadiness and Persistence The one thing wrong [ when attacked by hostile forces ] would be to allow yourself to be overcome by them. If you remain steady in yourself, you can repel the attack or else it will exhaust itself... obstinate even in defeat; but one has only to be as stiff to them as possible and their action will get more and more tired until it stops altogether. They [ the hostile forces ] hope by persistence to tire you out or to get in by sheer obstinacy—or at least to delay the realisation by their attacks. That is always their method. If they can shake the faith, the peace and samatā , they think ...
... as complete as we can make it. But it is evident that if, for instance, the power of imposing protective duties were given to a popular and elective body, no serious political party would prefer persistence in commercial boycott to the use of the powers conceded. Or if education were similarly Page 157 made free of official control and entrusted to a popular body, as Lord Reay once thought... unity seems at all feasible. This then is the situation as it presents itself to me. The policy I suggest to the Nationalist party may briefly be summed up as follows:— Page 159 1) Persistence with a strict regard to law in a peaceful policy of self-help and passive resistance. 2) The regulation of our attitude towards the Government by the principle of "No control, no co-operation ...
... unable either to supply the moral force that would sustain the forward march of the nation or the brain-power to grapple with national problems. In Swadeshi the force of sentiment supplied, and the persistence of the great mass of silent nationalism in resisting any attempt to draw back from boycott has preserved, the movement to prefer indigenous and boycott foreign goods, but the withdrawal of active ...
... condition of a material immortality. We are in an age, full of the throes of travail, when all forms of thought and activity that have in themselves any strong power of utility or any secret virtue of persistence are being subjected to a supreme test and given their opportunity of rebirth. The world today presents the aspect of a huge cauldron of Medea in which all things are being cast, shredded into pieces ...
... grouping together and manipulating the recorded experiences from outside objects. The very nature of mind is, according to them, a creation of past material experience transmitted by heredity with such persistence that we have grown steadily from the savage with his rudimentary mind to the civilised man of the twentieth century. As a natural result of these materialistic theories, science has found it difficult ...
... orientation in one's aspiration and a living will for progress. As a general rule, and so that the experience may have its full benefit, when one has undertaken something one must do it with persistence, without caring for obstacles and difficulties, until an absolutely irrefutable event indicates that one no longer has to do it. This happens very rarely. Usually, things follow their own curve and ...
... curtain of skin (the obscurity of the physical nature). It is this (it is not thick any longer but still effective to veil her from you) which has to go so that she may awake. It is a matter of persistence in the will and the endeavour—the response from within, the awaking of the Mother in the heart will come. It is probably a symbol of three stages or developments or planes of spiritualised ...
... impression is created, and the various phases and nuances of the poem's mood are driven together and its manifold of pang and poise and profundity is crystallised into oneness'' through the persistence of a single alliteration. Sethna's translations enhance the merit of Mallarmé for us. Though he admits having taken the help of Roger Fry's almost literal unrhymed version, Sethna takes ...
... to accomplish." Will Monarchy replace Democracy? The seal of the night is upon Monarchy "The monarchical idea itself is beginning to pass away after a brief and fallacious attempt at persistence and revival. Almost it seems to be nearing its final agony; the seal of the night is upon it." "The social aggregates have ripened into self-conscious maturity and no longer stand in need of ...
... great spiritual conception, and fidelity to it is the very principle of her existence. For by its virtue alone she has been one of the immortal nations; this alone has been the secret of her amazing persistence and perpetual force of survival and revival.' 1 'Even as the individual has a soul which is its true self, governing more or less openly his destiny, each nation too has its soul which is ...
... that first informs and then illumines the Energy in its works; there is a faculty of that consciousness by which the Energy holds together the relations of objects; there is too a continuity, a persistence of the subjective and objective relations of our consciousness with its objects. These are the necessary powers of the field; all these are common and universal powers at once of the mental, vital... immutable, the All that is the One. In his highest supracosmic status Brahman is a transcendent Eternity without origin or change far above the phenomenal oppositions of existence and non-existence, persistence and transience between which the outward world moves. But once seen in the substance and light of this eternity, the world also becomes other than it seems to the mind and senses; for then we see ...
... Whatever stands in the way of spiritual progress, must be a falsehood whatever reasons it gives in its own favour. The best thing is not to listen to its reasons. There is no issue out in such persistence in a wrong mood and a false attitude. It is the old foolish idea that the ignorance is the truth for you because you are still ignorant in your external consciousness and that if the divine Light... they can return when pushed by the hostile forces. It is in these two ways that the hostiles try to recover their hold. But the rising from the subconscient is not so important except for its long persistence—it comes up in dream or it is, in the waking consciousness, fragmentary. But when it comes from the environmental consciousness then it can be a strong attack and it is evidently that which is taking ...
... discourage anybody is wrong, but to give false encouragement or encouragement of anything wrong is not right. Severity has sometimes to be used (though not overused), when without it an obstinate persistence in what is wrong cannot be set right. Very often, if an inner communication has been established, a silent pressure is more effective than anything else. No absolute rule can be laid down; one has... The Power that acts in you will see to it at its own time. These two habits of the mind belong to a past functioning that the transforming Force is pressing to remove and the physical mind's persistence in them is the cause of your strain and fatigue. If you can remember to let your mind work only when its action is needed, the strain will lessen and disappear. This is indeed the transitional movement ...
... reason for despair or giving up. You are taking too bleak a view of things, the usual result of your giving way to depression. You used to have this before and you got over it by persistence. Now also by persistence it will go. To make radical decisions under the influence of depression is not good. To brace yourself up and, however persistent the difficulties are, to stick it out, is always the ...
... even worse, for it is continually trying to bring the police, who are Page 405 an indispensable part of the Government established by law, into contempt and hatred, and the incorrigible persistence of its efforts is sufficient proof of motive, if not of conspiracy. Now one of the charges against a Punjab accused is that he wrote impugning the character of the subordinate police service—just ...
... changes and develops, you will begin yourself to understand the meaning and working of these things. 21 August 1936 Something is growing in you, but it is all inside—still if there is the steady persistence it is bound to come out. For instance, this white dazzling light with currents, it is a sure sign of the Force (the Mother's) entering and working in the ādhāra , but it came to you in sleep—that ...
... conditions for its appearance. But if it is something already realised many times upon earth and not too radical a transformation, then you can have it quickly provided you follow the line with persistence. And if to that now you add the ardour of faith and trust in the Divine Grace and that self-giving to the Grace which makes you await everything from the Divine, then it becomes a formidable ...
... action. When you have to use the will for the sadhana, you have not the same persistence, the mind finds reasons for Page 716 not going on with the effort, as soon as the difficulty becomes strong it is dropped, there is no continuity, no keeping of the will fixed on its object. There can be no persistence or insistence without will. By development it [ the will ] becomes fit ...
... But this is precisely what all life is driven to feel and seek from the first, its insecurity and the need and struggle for persistence, for self-preservation; it awakes in the end to the limitation of its existence and begins to feel the impulsion towards largeness and persistence, towards the infinite and the eternal. And when in man life becomes wholly self-conscious, this unavoidable struggle and ...
... because the divine consciousness knows everything. Indeed, there are many means of attaining this unity. It may be done through aspiration, or surrender, or some other method. Each followed with persistence and sincerity leads to it. Aspiration is the dynamic push of your whole nature behind the resolution to reach the Divine. Surrender, on the other hand, may be defined as the giving up of the limits ...
... to the rumour, but we presume that at least a proposal has been made. If we are not mistaken, this will make the third time that the deportation of the Nationalist leader has been proposed by the persistence of the police. The third time is supposed to be lucky, and let us hope it will be the last. The Government ought to make up its mind one way or the other, and the country should know, whether they ...
... innumerable formations of this kind and naturally they clash and contradict one another; hence the strongest and the most persistent will have the best of it. Now, what is it that gives strength and persistence to mental formations?―It is emotion and will. If you know how to add to your mental formation an emotion, affection, tenderness, love, and an intensity of will, a dynamism, it will have a much greater ...
... this: first, the human mind is in a state of great confusion about this particular subject; secondly, the undertaking is very difficult and to be successful in it one must have endless endurance and persistence and a will that no failure can weaken. Indeed, the vital in man's nature is a despotic and exacting tyrant. Moreover, since it is the vital which holds power, energy, enthusiasm, effective dynamism ...
... Then gradually the old habits, wrong turns of the mind, creep in. Again, transformation does not happen by a miracle in a day. It must be gained by constant aspiration, patient perseverance and persistence. Just now I received P's telegram. I am sure you will give him permission, won't you? The permission may be given—but does he want to stay in the Asram? If so, does he know the ways of life ...
... circumstances had been equally favourable. For Japan lives centrally in her temperament and in her aesthetic sense, and therefore she has always been rapidly assimilative; her strong temperamental persistence has been enough to preserve her national stamp and her artistic vision a sufficient power to keep her soul alive. But India lives centrally in the spirit, with less buoyancy and vivacity and therefore ...
... substantiate these allegations have been able to destroy the illusion. The open Page 441 espionage, menace and detective machinations to which we are subjected, are sufficient proof of its persistence. Nevertheless, it is due to the Government that we should speak the truth and it is open to them to consider or reject it at their pleasure. The one, the only remedy for the difficulties which beset ...
... So you must both use your will aided by the Mother's force to get rid of these things, and go on with your inner psychic experiences—it is by the two together that all will be done. The persistence or the obstinate return of the old Adam is a common experience: it is only when there is a sufficient mass of experience and a certain progression of consciousness in the higher parts of the being ...
... be difficult for you to get over this attack and settle down to a self-development of your undoubted possibilities on the right line. It would be a pity if you threw away the chance by obstinate persistence in the result of a moment's pique. I prefer not to give any decision till after the 15th. You will do well to wait till then and see if your present feelings do not change. August 4, 1929 ...
... to me for dealing with my human nature. Which of them do you find best for me? Whatever method is used, persistence and perseverance are essential. For whatever method is used, the complexity of the Nature-resistance will be there to combat it. There can be no persistence or insistence without will. Page 12 Insist on the effort till it becomes persistent.... satisfied etc. etc. till the desire is satisfied. All that is the evidence of a will in action. When you have to use the will for the sadhana, you have not the Page 14 same persistence, the mind finds reasons for not getting on with the effort, as soon as the difficulty becomes strong it is dropped; there is no continuity, no keeping of the will fixed on its object. ...
... he has the capacity for Yoga experience and that there is a call of the Divine on his inner being. But capacity is not enough; there must be also the will to seek after the Divine and courage and persistence in following the path. Fear is the first thing that must be thrown away and, secondly, the inertia of the outer being which has prevented him from responding to the call. The Light is the light... European can the path of Yoga be smooth and easy; their common human nature is there to see to that. To each his own difficulties seem enormous and radical and even incurable by their continuity and persistence and induce long periods of despondency and crises of despair. To have faith enough or enough psychic sight to react at once or almost at once and prevent these attacks is given hardly to two or three ...
... into the non-manifestation, yet Form in itself, World in itself are eternal. From the non-manifestation they return inevitably into manifestation; they have an eternal recurrence if not an eternal persistence, an eternal immutability in sum and foundation along with an eternal mutability in aspect and apparition. Nor have we any surety that there ever was or ever will be a period in Time when no form... universal forces, the use and office of suffering diminishes, its raison d'être must finally cease to be and it can only continue as an atavism of Nature, a habit that has survived its use, a persistence of the lower in the as yet imperfect organisation of the higher. Its eventual elimination must be an essential point in the destined conquest of the soul over subjection to Matter and egoistic limitation ...
... of grief, vexation, revolt, defeat, failure etc. 2) Finality, so far as can be seen, of dasya, tejas & activity,—although this is entirely manifest, only today. Here again the obstacle is the persistence of physical weakness & depression. The fourfold dharma of virya is at work, subject to ineffective physical touches of their opposites, but not yet energetically active. With the same qualification... knowledge both seemed to have retrograded & the first to be almost annulled; in the evening aishwarya reemerged with an increased force and effectiveness, fulfilling with an unprecedented frequency & persistence. (2) Ananda overcomes the obstacle. Intense ananda continuous for long periods has commenced today to be the rule of the body, but it is varied by long periods Page 282 of subdued ...
... into the non-manifestation, yet Form in itself, World in itself are eternal. From the non-manifestation they return inevitably into manifestation; they have an eternal recurrence if not an eternal persistence, an eternal immutability in sum and foundation along with an eternal mutability in aspect and apparition. Nor have we any surety that there ever was or ever will be a period in Time when no form... universal forces, the use and office of suffering diminishes, its raison d'etre must finally cease to be and it can only continue as an atavism of Nature, a habit that has survived its use, a persistence of the lower in the as yet imperfect organisation of the higher. Its eventual elimination must be an essential point in the destined conquest of the soul over subjection to Matter and egoistic limitation ...
... therefore thrive; but the select have an easily jaded appetite, the multitude are fickle and novelties have their hour. Therefore even the favourite palls. But these people have a great tamasic persistence of habit and a certain loyalty to established names; much that they read is from habit rather than enjoyment. Otherwise there would be no stability in this chaos of striking worthlessness and this ...
... felicities, but when these return, they will no longer be fitful, uncertainly held & willed as formerly, but natural, spontaneous and a permanent possession. The rupas are principally embarrassed by the persistence of a few dominant images which shut out the others or replace them when they attempt to manifest. Another difficulty is the resistance obstinately offered to the emergence from the prana akasha of ...
... long and requires an unshakable patience, for it is as if you wanted to build up in you a being, a body; and for that you require first of all the necessary knowledge, but also such a prolonged persistence and perseverance as would discourage Page 61 many. But it is altogether indispensable if you want to take part in the knowledge of your higher being. Is it useful to note down one's ...
... the divine consciousness knows everything. Indeed, there are many means of attaining this unity. It may be done through aspiration, or surrender, or some other method. Each followed with persistence and sincerity leads to it. Aspiration is the dynamic push of your whole nature behind the resolution to reach the Divine. Surrender, on the other hand, may be defined as the giving up of the limits ...
... perseverance in the will of the sadhak. It is a steady flame that must burn, as steady as the obstruction is obstinate. Do not therefore be discouraged by the persistence of the obstruction of the ignorance. Page 397 The persistence of your own will to conquer with the Mother's force supporting it will come to the end of the resistance. I don't know of any effective outward means of... concentration or trance, till there is the full consciousness in the body. Restlessness Yes, this is the time when you have to persist till you are quite settled in the inner consciousness and the persistence of the silence and peace is a sign that it is now possible. When one feels this kind of silence, peace and wideness, one may be sure that it is that of the true being, the real self, penetrating ...
... indication which will come to you from there. Persist in doing so even if you do not succeed at once, and surely you will receive a certitude in one form or another. The precision grows with the persistence. 3.2.1969 When Your Presence becomes concrete, O Divine Mother, the existence becomes quite different! This must become a constant fact because the presence is constant. 5... step in the Yoga of the body? Perfect adherence to the Higher Will. 17.5.1969 Page 89 Once the aspiration is awakened in the body, will the body show for it the same persistence that we see in its physical movements ? For that the body is marvellous. As soon as the cells aspire consciously for union with the Divine, this aspiration becomes constant, and if this ... of the ego my true life with You does not begin. The best way to make it disappear is to enlarge it to the dimension of the universe. You can do it without violence but with a tranquil persistence. I am with you in your effort. 22.8.1969 The mind seems to recognise the need to yield to the higher light. Yes, it is visible; there are good reasons to hope that its tra ...
... beauty, love, truth and power on his lower parts. He has to take this other difficult truth into account that life and Matter have absolutes of their own armed with an equal right to formulation and persistence and he has to find some light, some truth, some spiritual and supramental power that can take up these imperatives also no less than the mind's imperatives and harmonise all in a grand and integral ...
... what?... Yes, it is difficult. ( Laughter ) It is a great task. Well, it is always the same thing; first of all you must understand what is meant by being clear. And then you must aspire, and with persistence; and each time something comes to obstruct you, you must brush it aside, push it back, not accept it. The mind and vital have a very bad habit: when one has succeeded through aspiration in having ...
... young deity,—as if that godhead could pass from the world with its work undone. This is the second period, of emergence, of the struggle of the idea to live, of furious persecution, of miraculous persistence and survival, when the old world looks with alarm and horror on this new and portentous force, and in the midst of wild worship and enthusiasm, of fierce hatred and frantic persecution, of bitter ...
... faculty is concerned, there can also be no rigid ruling about the texture of language any more than about the movement of it. The intuitive faculty recognises indeed a norm which persists, but the persistence is in the thick of diversities and never clings to a monotonous or single-track method. Many shades and grades of words must be permitted: The vocabulary of Donne need not be cast out by Milton's ...
... always in everybody some things in the more external being that resist obstinately until that is clear. They are small things and a small part of the nature. You need not be discouraged by their persistence. They will go in the end by observation and vigilance with regard to..... 1 Sri Aurobindo Yes, you are becoming more conscious; but don't make jokes like that about these things, for ...
... Aurobindo Ashram Trust, the Publication Department, SABDA and the Archives for their support. My special thanks goes to all those at Sri Aurobindo Ashram Press who have collaborated with patience, persistence and goodwill in printing the book. Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Roshan Pondicherry - 605 002 1929: The Mother setting out for an evening drive Sri Ramakrishna with the image ...
... violent results in the contradiction of the samata, but a clouding of the faith, confusion of the vijnana & return of the old forms of external intellectuality. Kamananda is recovering strength of persistence. A day of arrestation & confusions. Only at night there was a slight resumption of half-veiled progress. Dreams again presented the phenomenon of recurrence to a single subject. 18 April 1914... usually obstructed from manifesting except in the swapna samadhi & sometimes in the chitra. In the afternoon fever again got the upper hand & remained with less pronounced [symptoms] 2 but more persistence all night. Karmasiddhi is now resisted & baffled in its masses & only successful in isolated & inconclusive movements. B's [Bijoy's] spasmodic utthapana occurred for the second time. Page... vital force in the body maintaining itself & contradicted only when the tamas gets the upper hand or by a more rapid exhaustion than usual, but even that exhaustion is speedily repaired with a novel persistence & swiftness. There is no disposition in the pranakosha to yield to the fever & take to the bed. Rapid effectiveness in isolated aishwarya or vashita is becoming more frequent. The trikaldrishti ...
... fun-shine. (27.10.1986) You are right in thinking that continuing on the path of Yoga is itself a progress even if no markedly impressive development may have been there. Not only is the persistence a sign of progress but the Force at work is such that we are bound to go further and further, however subtly and imperceptibly, just as we can't help being carried on in the earth's rotation ...
... can be done in the space of a single life, but the same conquest by the race involves the development of ages. It is conceivable, however, that the practice of Yoga by a great number of men and persistence in the practice by their descendants might bring about profound changes in human psychology and, by stamping these changes into body and brain through heredity, evolve a superior race which would ...
... comes from above. Well, this may come very soon or one may have to wait perhaps a long time—that depends upon one's previous preparation, upon many things. Till then you must will and will with persistence, and above all never lose patience or courage. If necessary, repeat the same thing a thousand times, knowing that perhaps the thousandth time you will realise the result. You are not all of a ...
... quite a strict teaching according to what has been preserved or is believed to have been preserved of the words of the Buddha. You know the Buddha used to say that there was no God, there was no persistence of the ego, there were no beings of higher worlds who could incarnate here, there were no... He Page 257 denied almost every possible thing. The religion of the South is like that, it ...
... they had to make a kind of imaginative formation which consisted in thinking themselves cured or in any case on the way to being cured, and in repeating this formation to themselves with sufficient persistence for it to have its effect. He had very remarkable results. He cured lots of people; only, he failed also, and perhaps these were not very lasting cures, I don't know this. But in any case, this made ...
... a room or a cave or something, and from there, if they go on they may come to another door and again stop, and with an effort the door opens and they go farther. And if this is done with enough persistence and one can continue the experience, there comes a time when one finds oneself in front of a door which has... a special kind of solidity or solemnity, and with a great effort of concentration the ...
... Page 128 But if it is something already realised many times upon earth and not too radical a transformation, then you can have it quickly, provided you follow the line with persistence. And if to that now you add the ardour of faith and trust in the Divine Grace and that self-giving to the Grace which makes you wait upon the Divine for everything, then it becomes a formidable ...
... the self-giving of the mind and heart to the Divine. The inertia, ignorance and inconscience of one's physical consciousness, its attachment to fixed habits of thought and feeling and action, its persistence in the old grooves may come badly in the way of the needed change. In such circumstances the Divine may have to bide his Page 687 time; but if there is real hunger in the heart, all that... by "the certitude of victory" ] is the certitude of the eventual victory which is a matter of faith and an inner reliance upon the Divine. The peace born of this certitude carries one through all persistence or return of difficulties. Whatever resistance there is in the outer being will go, only it takes time. It is always best to take one's foundation on that certitude and remain quiet and steadfast ...
... seconds in the aspiration that the food you will take brings to your body the substance necessary to serve as a solid basis for your effort towards the great discovery, and gives it the energy of persistence and perseverance in the effort. Before you go to bed, concentrate a few seconds in the aspiration that the sleep may restore your fatigued nerves, bring to your brain calmness and quietness,... for the great discovery should be always there soaring over you, above what you do and what you are, like a huge bird of light dominating all the movements of your being. Before the untiring persistence of your effort, an inner door will open suddenly and you will come out into a dazzling splendour that will bring to you the certitude of immortality, the concrete experience that you have lived always ...
... January 1912 Yesterday's promises have had a very meagre fulfilment, for they were made merely to whip into life the dying expectation of progress & finality. There has been only an increased persistence in the few drishtis that present themselves perfectly, the rest being mere blurs & smutches,—a revival of consecutive fluency in the lipi,—a deepening of the conscious samadhi,—an activity of the... regard to the adesha. Exercise of utthapana from 2.25 to 3.55 and from 6 to 7.30. The defect of anima gives trouble still after rest, but, although constantly recurrent, is deprived of continuous persistence. Sleep seven hours Time of completion of cooking fixed at 8.45,—actually completed 8.47. Arrival of most of the four fixed at 7 to 7.20. Three arrived, two at 7.8, another about 7.15. Page... first chatusthaya was denied. Advantage was taken with regard to an error by which the imperfect harmony of pravritti & prakash tending to an imperfect harmony of pravritti & shama was mistaken for persistence of sattwa, rajas & tamas. This error produced strong asraddha and a return of attack by the triguna. The attack came clearly from outside & did not arise in the adhara but was admitted into it by ...
... To be full of peace, the heart quiet, not troubled by grief, not excited by joy is a very good condition. As for Ananda, it can come not only with its fullest intensity but with a more enduring persistence when the mind is at peace and the heart delivered from ordinary joy and sorrow. If the mind and heart are restless, changeful, unquiet, Ananda of a kind may come, but it is mixed with vital excitement ...
... family, perhaps because both are preeminently light in a material & in a very tangible substance of fire or heat. The family of अन्नः, sun with अन्नम्, food, earth, is perhaps significant of this persistence of the idea of substantiality. (अन्नम् is generally derived from अद्, to eat, but cf अनस्, food, rice; it is doubtful whether Sandhi was observed originally in the formation of Aryan nouns.) ...
... ( The Indian Patriot ) who invited him to give up politics and become a Sannyasi. This anxiety for his spiritual welfare somewhat surprised him at the time, but he was yet more surprised by the persistence of his friend's anxiety. One reason for suggesting inactivity to him was that he was imperilling his safety. That was a very singular reason to put before a public man for shirking his duty. Another ...
... one should not in that case play the traitor in order to assist the progress of the tendency. The gibe shows up the absurdity not of our faith but of his argument. Our selfish or sinful acts, our persistence in ignorance or perversity are for the best in this obvious sense that God makes out of them excellent material for the work He is about, which always tends to the good of humanity. The persecution ...
... divine memory or steadfast consciousness of itself and its self-knowledge and its equal vision of the truth of things. Therefore desire and its brood are incompatible with skill in works and their persistence is the sign of an imperfect Yoga. Not only must the will and fundamental knowledge-view of things change, but a new combination of faculties take the place of the old. For if the intellect is ...
... person that I was a year ago, not even the same person that I was a moment ago, any more than the water flowing past yonder ghaut is the same water that flowed past it a few seconds ago; it is the persistence of the flow in the same channel that preserves the false appearance of identity. Obviously, then, there is no soul that reincarnates, but only Karma that persists in flowing continuously down an ...
... small pieces, except when induced to think it was not the same." Imagine! He even exerted his will on an ant! He willed it to give up its object and go back ... and he succeeded "after a short persistence." Constant practice made the Power more effective. By December 1912 he could already note that in isolated cases the Power fulfilled itself frequently in small things: "A bird in its flight, an ant ...
... they had sacrificed their ease and expended their best and highest energies, felt themselves pushed from misery to misery and broke out again in a wild storm of rebellion. But to maintain a stark persistence in unreason, to repose an unmoved confidence in the bounded potency of a mechanic formula, proved ineffectual by the cogent logic of hard experience, they had no thought, or if they had the thought ...
... nation once distinguished for its superior beauty and grandeur of conception and for the extent to which it suffused the whole of life with the forces of the intellect and the spirit. He laments the persistence of a servile imitation of English ideas, English methods, English machinery and production even in the new Nationalism. And he reminds his readers that nations cannot be made by politics and economics ...
... notable developments. How, then, can a band of Aryans, linguistically and religiously Rigvedic, a colonizing stream from India, appear in Mesopotamia in so late a period? To understand the persistence of the Rigvedic language in spite of the Rigveda's having been left far behind in time and in spite of Sanskrit's having changed considerably as a result, we may consider two analogies. How ...
... often together. Possibly; but more often united—I don't see him—Also—That is a thing which most of us don't like to reveal—Not on earth—Yes—Rather, the sign of a constant connection with earth, a persistence in the life of the earth—Sometimes a great, sometimes little according Page 1405 to the particular case— 1 It is difficult to say; the mentality is sometimes strongly reproduced, the ...
... Certainly, one can act from within on an illness and cure it. Only it is not always easy as there is much resistance in Matter, Page 579 a resistance of inertia. An untiring persistence is necessary; at first one may fail altogether or the symptoms increase, but gradually the control of the body or of a particular illness becomes stronger. Again, to cure an occasional attack of ...
... consciousness from which the ascent took place falls back to what it was, with only the addition of an unkept or a remembered but no longer dynamic experience." 2 It is because of this persistence of the disabilities of the waking mentality even after attainment of Samadhi that it is sometimes asserted that an absolute eradication of Ignorance or a complete ascension of consciousness from ...
... remained firm and sought to reincarnate. The musical being was originally organised and fashioned around the psychic consciousness and therefore it acquired its peculiar power and its force of persistence, almost an immortality. Such formations, though not themselves the psychic being, have a psychic quality, are independent beings, possess their own life and seek their fulfilment by manifesting ...
... remained firm and sought to reincarnate. The musical being was originally organised and fashioned around the psychic consciousness and therefore it acquired its peculiar power and its force of persistence, almost an immortality. Such formations, though not themselves the psychic being, have a psychic quality, are independent beings, possess their own life and seek their fulfilment by manifesting and ...
... the national energy it has created has been gigantic and puissant; wherever the religious movement has been narrow or incomplete, the national movement has been broken, imperfect or temporary. The persistence of this phenomenon is proof that it is ingrained in the temperament of the race. If you try other and foreign methods we shall either gain our end with tedious slowness, painfully and imperfectly ...
... remarkable—I should have said, unique - in the history of spiritual lives. For about one whole year, day in and day out, the Mother used to have it at the same hour and in the same invariable way. This persistence of the vision with its details unchanged and its full realization in the Mother's subsequent life, challenges the complacent theories of psycho- analysis and proves that the vision was not a conditioned... this love in everything and everywhere, ever more widely, ever more intensely, and the whole world will become at once thy work and thy estate, thy field of action and thy conquest. Strive with persistence to throw down the last limits which are but frail barriers before the expansion of the being, to conquer the last obscurities which the illumining power is already lighting up. ¹ Prayers ...
... chequered movement. Afterwards, there came the lipi "First God & liberty, then telepathy." The mind turned towards the perception of the Jnanam Anandam Brahma which has been increasing in force & persistence & perceived very powerfully the delight of Brahman in Avidya, limitation & suffering & the last knot of attachment to liberation was removed from the buddhi & the temperament. This liberation from... suggestions confusing, by falsity of stress, the ritam & the anritam. Nevertheless the faith in the vijnana perceptions not immediately justified by the physical actualities grows in force and persistence. The power of the aishwarya over immediate results in the body increases; but is still deficient in the rapidity of final results, though more effective than of old. 14 September 1913 (written ...
... the thought which the Rakshasa still tries to limit to the stumbling movements of the intellect. Telepathy is now strong and spontaneous in its satyam, but the ritam is imperfect because of the persistence of the intellectual overstress, false choice, false valuation, false interpretation. Trikaldrishti is gradually strengthening itself, but is still occasional and uncertain because usually rendered... relative stability—frequency and greater firmness of continuous drishya: perfect combination of rupa, shabda, sparsha—the speech as well as sound proceeding from rupa and not merely associated with it. Persistence of continuous event with vague or shadowy rupa,—eg. cutting meat etc. This is even in antardarshi. Substantial progress in antardarshi; fixity of progress made in crude rupa in bahirdarshi. Physical... every touch short of those which break, cut, rack or crush the body All the fundamental tastes are established, the bitter, sour, astringent in strength, spontaneity & solidity, frequency & persistence, the sweet rare & less strong except in one touch, the rest intense, but less solid & spontaneous, fairly frequent but not persistent. Tratak brought the old forms in the pranic air[,] dark & ...
... England may cherish the signs of their separate existence; but the attraction of the greater living unity of the Spanish, the French, the British nation has been too powerful to be injured by these persistences. The nation in modern times is practically indestructible, unless it dies from within. Poland, torn asunder and crushed under the heel of three powerful empires, ceased to exist; the Polish nation ...
... essential being; for all essential existence is Brahman without end or beginning. Forms and names are also Brahman and eternal; but, in world, theirs is an eternity of recurrence, not of unbroken persistence. Every form & every idea that has once been, exists still and can again recur; every form or idea that is to be, already exists and was from the beginning. Time is a convention of movement, not a ...
... against her. That is the usual vital movement in ordinary man and in ordinary life, and it has no true place in Yoga. It was just the introduction of this attitude into Yoga by the sadhaks and its persistence which has at last made it necessary for the Mother to draw back as she has done. What you have to do is to get these lower parts to understand Page 46 that they exist not for themselves ...
... because in Time the Many seem not to be eternal but to manifest out of the One and return into it as their essence that their reality is denied; but it might equally be reasoned that the eternal persistence or, if you will, the eternal recurrence of the manifestation in Time is a proof that the divine multiplicity is an eternal fact of the Supreme beyond Time no less than the divine unity; otherwise ...
... mainstay of the sadhaka because it is the only way, apart from complete quiescence and indifference to all action,—and that has to be avoided,—by which the absolute calm and peace can come. The persistence of trouble, aśānti , the length of time taken for this purification and perfection, itself must not be allowed to become a reason for discouragement and impatience. It comes because there is still ...
... feel any soul-movement like love, bhakti or joy in my heart and inner vital. I think this is the worst possible phase of the sadhana. The uprising of the inertia and the persistence of the vital have to be fought out by constant rejection until there is the descent of the Force in such a way as to make one with the peace and silence — these being so strong that nothing will ...
... "It is an impossibility, but since you have done it I will try to do it." "Yes", the Elder-one said, "I too did not succeed in one day or in one attempt. It takes some time, even a long time. But persistence, perseverance and faith undiscouraged will bring you the victory." "Here I give you the ultimate, the supreme secret," the Elder continued, "the inner core of the teaching. This body, this substance ...
... confront us, it may seem cantankerous to suggest that the concluding four lines merely pack up the poem in an impressive manner instead of impressively completing it. The sower's rich generosity and persistence, the crow's sinister pursuit and attack appear to lead us on to some disclosure of the depth of their continual drama. A phrase like "Your patient track", in a poem whose style is simple yet pregnant ...
... deadly white and twenty minutes had passed before she could recover. Why did she keep pleading after this nearly disastrous experience? Did she lose her poise and her common sense? The reason for her persistence is evidently the fear she had expressed to her attendants—that her limbs might get paralysed by disuse and prove unresponsive to her demand on them to be fighting-fit. In a state of exceeding feebleness ...
... guard and concentrated all the time to prevent irremediable catastrophes and have still to be so and when, besides, the major movement of the inner spiritual work needs an equal concentration and persistence, it is not possible for me to abandon my rule. (Moreover, even for the individual sadhak it is in his interest that this major spiritual work should be done, for its success would create conditions ...
... of a much higher kind. 25 May 1966 * Page 22 Sweet Mother, How can one get out of this mental laziness and inertia? By wanting to do so, with persistence and obstinacy. By doing every day a mental exercise of reading, organisation and development. This should alternate in the course of the day with exercises of mental silence and concentration ...
... cat prolonged in leaping on table by persistence of sukshma image, pail of water about to be thrown on a table with books etc) Ananda Kamananda afflicted with frequent discontinuity. Raudra touch anandamaya even when intolerable (extreme heat of terrace floor to the feet). Page 963 Rupa. First, refusal of images, then persistence of blur unable to take shape, then inconstancy... the ideal mind's perception of what the lipi is going to write or intends in its sense, but has not yet written. K.A. Kamananda is not so vivid as yesterday, but has a greater natural persistence in trying to manifest itself uninterruptedly. In this it does not yet succeed. Arogya The battle of the arogya still continues; the force of health increases and the tapas for health ...
... until all the parts are free, none is quite free and because they use a multitude Page 136 of movements which have to be changed or enlightened,—and moreover there is a great habit of persistence and resistance in the habitual movements of the nature. One therefore easily thinks that one has made no progress,—but all sincere and sustained effort of purification has its result and after a... is due to the obstinacy of the material consciousness always repeating the old movement in the old groove at the least touch from the old habitual forces. It is a question of faith, patience and persistence. One must be more obstinate than the obstinate material nature and persevere until the light and truth can take permanent hold of the parts which are still responsive to the old movements. There ...
... that says "I" permanently, what it is that can trace a curve in the movement of the being, if one seeks carefully enough, it leads you quite far. Naturally if one seeks far enough and with enough persistence, one reaches the psychic. It is the path to lead you to the psychic; and so this is the experience, it is the first experience. When one has the contact with the permanent part of one's immortal ...
... remedy; but it is not by itself absolutely effective. For the ego, though it supports itself by this ego idea, aham-buddhi , finds its most powerful means for a certain obstinacy or passion of persistence in the normal action of the sense-mind, the prana and the body. To cast out of us the ego idea is not entirely possible or not entirely effective until these instruments have undergone purification; ...
... morning with less difficulty than on the previous days of its interruption. The new attack on the health seems to have been repulsed, but old fragments of roga still prevail by a dull obstinacy of persistence. Utthapana of the right leg, medial position, for half an hour; some difficulty owing to artificial pressure from above taking advantage of insufficient laghima & mahima; of the left, horizontal ...
... or insufficiently satisfied as merely some high occasional or added derivatory experience, the result of the action of mind in its exceptional aspects or dependent upon mind for its presence and persistence. It can Page 619 become a high aim when it seeks to develop the loftier and the larger reaches of our mentality, but yet not sufficiently high, because it does not aspire beyond mind ...
... be clearly distinguished from a spirit of haughty rashness, come the virtues of patience and persistence which stand almost on the opposite poles but are equally indispensable for the smooth pursuit of sadhana. We propose now to speak a few words about these humble virtues. (8) Patience and Persistence They say, Rome was not built in a day; the goal of the Integral Yoga too cannot be ...
... tuation of the Spirit in the world is the truth on which we take our foundation, a great, a long self-weaving in time. Rebirth is the continuity of that self-effectuation in the individual, the persistence of the thread; Karma is the process, a force, a work of energy and consequence in the material world, an inner and an outer will, an action and mental, moral, dynamic consequence in the soul evolution ...
... in order that they might be near! You have taken the thing by the wrong end—not for the first time. You are mistaken in thinking that you are the only one to Page 491 ask with such persistence—there are others. Each one calls it a need, but when their "need" is freely given to them, they cease to value it—as happened with the soup and the pranam. And this shows that it is not a need, but ...
... supporting clues in the Avesta 82-83 10. The time-gap to be bridged between the Rigveda's age and that of the Mitanni documents 84 Causes for persistence of archaic language 84-85 Explanation of the Maryanni's Rigvedic speech-forms in c 1360 B.C. 85 Page 140 Confirmation from ...
... 40) The dog Yogini or one just like it licking the mouth of a[n] upright soda water bottle. Siddhis Feb 9ᵗʰ 1) Aishwaryam on ant to give up its object and go back, done after a short persistence in the forward movement. 2) Ishita and aishwaryam for lessening of Saurin's diarrhoea, fulfilled as soon as made. 3) Aishwaryam for rapid restoration of health and strength, repeated and fulfilled ...
... only in poetry and legend and may even be regarded as myths; but it is quite immaterial whether we regard them as myths or historical facts, because their permanent truth and value lie in their persistence as a spiritual form, presence, influence in the inner consciousness of the race and the life of the human soul. Avatarhood is a fact of divine life and consciousness which may realise itself in an ...
... descent of the divine Truth cannot last for ever. Every one must come down finally on one side or the other, on the side of the Truth or against it. The supramental realisation cannot coexist with the persistence of the lower Ignorance; it is incompatible with continued satisfaction in a double nature." Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga , pp. 1310-11 If the lower nature is completely ignorant, ...
... from the environment, and stand in the way of spiritual progress. One must discern these influences, suggestions, impulses, and systematically refuse them without ever getting discouraged by their persistence and ever yielding to their will. One must, at the same time, observe clearly in one's being all its different elements, obscure, egoistic, unconscious, or even ill-willed, which consciously or otherwise ...
... quietude of mind, with all the necessary force and required consciousness in the body. This indeed was the case of that man himself. He had so terrific a will that without a whip, simply by the persistence of his will, he made them do all that he wanted. But he knew very well that it was a dangerous profession. He had no illusions about it. He told me that he had learnt this work with a cat—a cat! ...
... goes on inducing an automatic current? It is not exactly automatic. It can be easily spoilt or left to sink into the subconscient or otherwise wasted. But with simple and steady practice and persistence it has the effect the Maharshi speaks of—he assumes, I suppose, such a practice. I am afraid your meditation is hardly simple or steady—too much kasrat and fighting with yourself. Ramana Maharshi... 'Who Am I?' The mind must centre itself upon this single question, pressing deeply inward in the effort to discover the elusive inhabitant of the body. If the concentration is complete and the persistence undiminished; if the inquiry is conducted in the correct manner; if the person is really sincere; then an extraordinary thing will happen. The mental current of self-questioning, the attempt to ferret ...
... upon the slaying of all desires as a pre-condition to the state of Brahmisthiti, a stable abiding in Brahman. Its insistence is categoric and uncompromising, for it knows that the persistence of desire is the persistence of the ego, and that the ego is the greatest hindrance to spiritual freedom. It prescribes self-knowledge as the preliminary Page 145 step¹and a detailed surrender of ...
... imperfect digestive assimilation, eruption, headache and defect of the chakra. All the symptoms are slight and fragmentary, but in some of them there is a strong persistence. 4) In the primary utthapana there is still the persistence of a vague defect of anima which sometimes grows in force for a while, but cannot hold the body, although it encourages the adhogati. Secondary utthapana is emerging... [Physical Activity] nearly 9 hours. Sleep 7 hours. A little more force in the swapnasamadhi. Aishwarya entirely obstructed .. Trikaldrishti victorious in spite of opposition 5 January 1913 The persistence of tapas is now assured in spite of opposition; the action proceeds in the face of difficulties, disappointments & errors of method without flagging for more than a moment and is itself tejaswi even... feelings, thoughts & motives of people in the past is becoming normally active. It has been suggested that Aishwarya should be renounced in the physical siddhi except saundarya; but owing to the persistence of physical asiddhi,–tejas in the assimilative process, virulent jalavisrishti, inhibition of kamananda (except in the form of madira and sukshma sahaituka kamananda), etc,–the mental shakti & its ...
... full practical self-consecration from the first, still the mind has taken its bent and persists and returns with an ever-increasing effect upon its leading preoccupation. There is an ineluctable persistence of the inner being, and against it circumstances are in the end powerless, and no weakness in the nature can for long be an obstacle. But this is not always the manner of the commencement. The... corollary, this constant rejection, throwing out, katharsis , of all that is not the true Truth of the Divine. An entire consecration of all that we are, think, feel and do will be the result of this persistence. This consecration in its turn must culminate in an integral self-giving to the Highest; for its crown and sign of completion is the whole nature's all-comprehending absolute surrender. In the second ...
... The element of discomfort must be extruded, not suffered—nirananda must become ananda, then intense ananda of bhoga. It is discomfort alone that survives. Reason has to disappear in truth. The persistence of the Ananda is now perfect; its continuity is assured but not perfect. The continuity has to become perfect. Afterwards the intensity will of itself increase. This is not indriya. It is manas in... 1300 Script - V Record— No interference here, entire passivity. 1st rule.—No interference anywhere, entire passivity 2d rule.—Disregard of the probable consequences 3d rule.—Persistence in will according to knowledge. 4th rule.—Application of jnana & trikaldrishti to all things, small or great, near or remote, knowable or apparently unknowable. 5th rule.—Interpretation of ...
... slight suggestion is all that is needed to set thought spinning in the old grooves. But the physical inheritance is not sufficient in itself, nor is it even the only subconscious instrument in the persistence of human and national mentality. As psychology progresses, I think it will be more and more clearly recognised that just as men live in one physical atmosphere and are affected in their physical... they may, they even tend to reconstitute themselves, to reappear. In India such returns upon our past are more common than in any other country, partly from certain external causes, from the persistence of certain external suggestions, but much more because of the constant practice of Yoga by a large number of typical and central souls who act, overtly or silently, upon the general mass of Indian ...
... descent of the divine Truth cannot last for ever. Every one must come down finally on one side or the other, on the side of the Truth or against it. The supramental realisation cannot coexist with the persistence of the lower Ignorance; it is incompatible with continued satisfaction in a double nature. The Lower Vital Not Reasonable The lower vital is not a part that listens to reason. There is no ... doubts, sex-thoughts, the whole undesirable baggage,—and have in its place the one true movement, the call for the true consciousness and the presence of the Divine. It may be that behind this persistence of the lower vital demand for satisfaction there was something not quite clear—in the obscurer part of the physical mind—in your mental attitude towards the Yoga. You seem to regard this demand for ...
... to have a private interview, that will should be accepted and you should not go on insisting on her calling you. 17 June 1935 But why does the Mother not see me? Do I lack the effort and persistence necessary? Am I not sufficiently sincere and constant? I will be glad if Sri Aurobindo answers me. I have already answered often enough that you must not persist in these ideas—you must leave ...
... world's intellectuals and the empirical opportunism of the world's statesmen and politicians, it is likely to be done by a succession of confused experiments, recoils and returns, resistances and persistences; it will progress in spite of human unreason in the midst of a clamour of rival ideas and interests, stumble through a war of principles, advance by a clash of vehement parties ending in more or ...
... whatever dreams may in the past have entered into the minds of powerful nations or their Czars and Kaisers. The monarchical idea itself is beginning to pass away after a brief and fallacious attempt at persistence and revival. Almost it seems to be nearing its final agony; the seal of the night is upon it. Contemporary appearances are often enough deceptive, but they are less likely to be so in the present ...
... the nature; but once the psychic consciousness governs or the higher consciousness descends then it is much easier for these to go. You must not therefore be discouraged by these recurrences or persistences, but try always to stand back in an inner quietude and if they come let them pass away like a cloud across the light. In time these things will be finally dealt with by the Force. Page 267 ...
... experience. The first attempt of the possessing entity is to separate the person from his psychic, and it is that that creates the struggle. All Page 801 depends on the extent and persistence of the possession—how much of the being it occupies and whether it is constant or not. That is very interesting—for it agrees with the Mother's constant insistence that to feel sympathy or ...
... the dissolution of the individual and the dispersal of its elements into the universality. The nature of physical Life forbids the idea of an individual form possessing the same inherent power of persistence and therefore of continued individual existence as the atoms of which it is composed. Only a mental being, supported by the psychic nodus within which expresses or begins to express the secret soul ...
... our home in eternity, our immortal des-tiny. But Sri Aurobindo would not read any such connotation into the lines and would regard such an interpretation as against the grain, in spite of Sethna's persistence in his argument. Similarly in the later chapters, Sethna presents as good examples of Sri Aurobindo's delicately poised and nuanced judgment as literary critic his contrastive comparison between ...
... 15.Innovations will be sought to be developed which will encourage participatory processes of learning, project work, field work, manual work, and works that stimulate discipline, diligence, persistence, and needed patience and needed speed; 16.The Commission will provide financial assistance to educational and research institutions devoted to the Page 11 development of educational ...
... of Golconde. Times were different. Attitudes were different. Means were less but meanings were more. The sadhaks, therefore, achieved much with very little. Their assets were faith, devotion and persistence or perseverance. Yogananda was Poornananda’s friend. Both were very good workers, working in B.S. — Building Service. Yogananda was to allot work to Poornananda. The latter pestered the former ...
... falsehoods that have overgrown and perverted our nature; by renunciation we seize upon the falsehoods, pluck up their roots and cast them out of our way so that they shall no longer hamper by their persistence, their resistance or their recurrence the happy and harmonious growth of our divine living. Renunciation is an indispensable instrument of our perfection. How far shall this renunciation go? what ...
... But in that case, mental activity is replaced by an intuitive activity of a much higher kind. 25 May 1966 How can one get out of this mental laziness and inertia? By wanting to, with persistence and obstinacy. By doing daily a mental exercise of reading, organisation and development. This must alternate in the course of the day with exercises of mental silence in concentration. 1 ...
... not this. Plainly and clearly, it comes from the subconscient and the inconscient (wherever there is consciousness, all is well); it's rising up all the time, all the time, and with—oh, disgusting persistence! And then of course it's accompanied by all the usual suggestions (but that's nothing, it comes from a domain which is easily controlled). Suggestions of this type: 'Well, but Sri Aurobindo himself ...
... described by Bichat as 'the sum of the functions which resist death', but this is a one-sided emphasis. For, while it is characteristic of organisms that they are continually at work in securing the persistence of their specific organization, it is equally characteristic that they spend themselves in securing the continuance of their kind. Instead of seeking to avoid death, to speak metaphorically, ...
... the basic aim of his Yoga is a dynamic union with the Divine in life, in every movement of life, in the whole being, in the entire nature and in all its thoughts and feelings and actions; and a persistence of the obscure habits of the physical nature and the subconscient scum is absolutely incompatible with it. So long as a man is on earth, the terrestrial life is his field of achievement, and all ...
... is notable that the first impulse of the object or often the first movement of the object is to obey; but sooner or later resistance is applied which has varying degrees of persistence & effectuality. At present the persistence is common & strong. Invariability of obedience, unresisting obedience & finality of obedience are the three wanting requisites. All depend on the Page 544 removal... vijnana of Knowledge & Power is the crux. So long as it is not entirely justified, the perfect finality of Samata & Shakti in the adhar & its environment is not possible. For Error & Defect mean persistence of the vrana in the active Brahman & where there is a wound there will be suffering. The only other escape is into the shantam Brahma in Mind where activity ceases in a silent & impartial Delight... & night & of partial suspension by other absorbing Page 524 activities have to be deprived of their power of recurrence. As yet there is no definite forward activity only the persistence in manifestation, in spite of persistent assault, of the gains of yesterday. Karma. Final draft of Synthesis of Yoga begun. Veda IV. 1 completed & IV. 2. partly translated. Vijnana ...
... being either modified or mixed vowels. The primary root of यज् is य, which means Page 476 essentially to go quietly and persistently, to act or apply oneself quietly and with force and persistence, to master (knowledge or any thing or person) by steady application, to come or bring into contact with gently or lovingly and effectively, to form or express clearly etc. The first sense appears... the lower functions in the body, prana, mind and vijnana are all borne up by the impartial strength of Agni and the delight, रत्न, which it generates. Ananda is the condition of all existence and persistence,—को ह्वोवान्यात् कः प्राण्यात् यदेष आकाश आनन्दो न स्यात् ॥ Tapas is the stay, the supporter of ananda.Therefore Agni bears up the gods. एह । From root इह्, an adverb meaning forcefully, with ...
... largely by a process of interchange. The undesirability of total rejection, even if it were entirely possible, arises from the fact that interchange with the environment is necessary to a healthy persistence and growth; the living organism which rejects all such interchange, would speedily languish and die of lethargy and inanition. Mentally, vitally and physically I do not grow by a pure self-development ...
... excessive uniformity and centralisation tends to the disappearance of necessary variations and indispensable liberties, a vigorous diversity and strong group-individualism may lead to an incurable persistence or constant return of the old separatism which will prevent human unity from reaching completeness or even will not allow it to take firm root. For it will not be enough for the constituent groups ...
... slipped into that groove. As his luck would have it, there came a Telugu gentleman named Subodh Krishna who considered Dara a Mahapurush! The man was endowed with a great amount of patience and persistence. He, one day, went too far — he prostrated himself full length in front of Dara — who was dismayed, annoyed and avoided the gentleman, and declared: “E admi pagal hai” (This man is mad). One day ...
... nevertheless suffer ill any delay or hindrance to their work. Man has not perhaps the even tenor, the steadiness of their movement, even though intense and fast flowing; but what man possesses is persistence through ups and downs-his path is rugged with rise and fall, as the poet says. The steadiness or the staying power of the gods contains something of the nature of indifference, something hard in ...
... dismissed and deprived of their right to persistence, they have still the right of recurrence, from outside, from their prevalence in universal Mind, or they may retire downwards into the vital, physical or subconscient parts and from thence resurge at the least opportunity to repossess their lost domain: for evolutionary Nature has to give this right of persistence to things once established by her in... the higher Idea descending into the developed mental intelligence has even there to overcome the barrage of a mass or system of formed ideas which belong to the Knowledge-Ignorance and the will to persistence and self-realisation of Page 976 these ideas; for all ideas are forces and have a formative or self-effective faculty greater or less according to the conditions,—even reducible to nil... circumconscient universal Nature or in our own lower levels or in a seed-state in the subconscient and from there Page 977 have the power of new invasion or resurgence. This power of persistence, recurrence, resistance of established things in Nature is always the great obstacle which the evolutionary Force has to meet, which it has indeed itself created in order to prevent a too rapid ...
... pupil. Every child has an inner desire to learn and to grow, but the most important characteristic of the good pupil is his zeal or enthusiasm. This zeal is that determines the persistence of his effort, and such persistence is indispensable to achieve higher and higher levels of excellence. A good pupil is a seeker of knowledge and, motivated by curiosity and a growing sense of wonder, seeks knowledge... triumph of meaning and value against the resistance of limitations and obstacles by means of courage, battle and adventure. There are degrees and heights of heroism determined by the intensity, persistence and vastness of sacrifice. Heroism attains the highest states of greatness and refinement when it is guided by the highest wisdom and inspired by the sense of service to the ends of justice and harmony ...
... the national energy it has created has been gigantic and puissant; wherever the religious movement has been narrow or incomplete, the national movement has been broken, imperfect or temporary. The persistence of this phenomenon is proof that it is ingrained in the temperament of the race. If you try other and foreign methods, Page 86 we shall either gain our end with tedious slowness, painfully ...
... judgment it can fear and found upon that fear its fidelity to virtue. When we grow into spirituality, this motive can no longer remain except by the lingering on of some confusion in the mind, some persistence of the old mentality. Moreover, the ethical aim in Yoga is different from that of the external idea of virtue. Ordinarily, ethics is regarded as a sort of machinery of right action, the act is everything ...
... especially in initial continuity of scenic action and coherence & intelligibility of lipi. Akasharupa is not yet able to confirm itself in the Akasha, but it manifests with an imperfect & fragmentary persistence. The frequency of vivid lipi is much obstructed. The attempt in the Brahmabodha to unify the upalabdhi of the Atman & of the Ishwara with the upalabdhi of the Brahman has begun, but is not yet ...
... ultimate stage of one of the many paths of individual progress. Long before achieving this full consciousness, it is possible to make powerful formations. Any person whose thought has any strength and persistence is constantly making formations without being aware of it. If you keep in mind that these formations are living entities always acting in the direction imparted to them by the thoughts which have ...
... the immanence of the Divine in us, even given our individual consciousness as a vehicle of progressive evolutionary manifestation, the individual is in any sense eternal or that there can be any persistence of individuality after liberation has been attained by unity and self-knowledge. This is a difficulty of the logical reason and must be met by a larger and more catholic enlightening reason. Or... always secret behind their surface appearances, this is the hidden intention, the ultimate significance of the divine play, the Lila. But it is in themselves, in their transformation but also their persistence and perfect relations, not in their self annihilation that that must be unfolded. Otherwise there would be no reason for their ever having existed; the possibility of the Divine's unfolding in the ...
... higher knowledge falsehood cannot enter and that which intellect contributes by attaching itself to this or that opinion, cannot be got rid of by mere questioning, but will fall away of itself by persistence in realisation. Whatever incompleteness there is in the knowledge attained, it must be got rid of, not by questioning in its roots what has already been realised, but by proceeding to further and ...
... the dasya, tejas and general sraddha, (tapas, tejas, prakasha), but the uncertainty of the trikaldrishti continues and prevents assured sraddha in details of time, place & circumstance Strong persistence of fever, mainly in the sukshmadeha, but with fluctuating effects on the sthula, was the principal feature of the day. No change was made as to food, bathing etc, nor was physical exertion altogether ...
... many causes. I used to walk about for hours with my head going round or going up in a most exhilarating way. It gave me a perverse Ananda but did not inconvenience me otherwise. 17 March 1935 Persistence of Dreams from the Subconscient For the last few days I am having frequent dreams of eating. Does it indicate greed for food or a need in the body, or is it a sign of coming illness as they believe ...
... absolutely rested, refreshed, fortified, as though you had slept for hours! This is something one can learn to do. I don't say it can be done overnight, a little work is necessary and also some persistence, but still... this one must learn to do; and when you are very anxious, very tired, very... for instance, when you have just undergone violent attacks from hostile forces in one form or another and ...
... immanence of the Divine, even granting our individual consciousness as a vehicle of progressive evolutionary manifestation, the individual cannot be accepted as eternal or that there can be any persistence of individuality after the individual has attained liberation from the bondage to ignorance by means of Self-knowledge and unity with the Supreme. If the difficulty is presented in the context... other similar statements in Upanishads and Bhagavad-Gita in which the individual's liberation from bondage has been described, and there is this agreement that in the supramental vision of Reality, persistence of individuality and the eternity of individual stand affirmed. However, in all the statements of supramental experiences, a distinction is made between the individual and ego, and it is pointed... of the supramental consciousness in Matter and at the total transformation of matter and material life to which the name of the divine life is given, Page 102 is to be found in the persistence of the individual even after liberation is attained by unity and self-knowledge. For the normal Reason, difficulties arise in several ways. First of all, we have to use the word individual and ...
... as a whole in spite [of the] transience of its parts, unity as a whole in spite of the multiplicity of its parts, immutability as a whole in spite of the mutability of its parts. Without It the persistence of the Universe would be inexplicable, but itself is not visible, nameable or definable except as Sacchidanandam, absolute and therefore unnameable and indefinable self-existence, self-awareness ...
... deficiencies, must not by a parity of reasoning this extraordinary vitality be due to some great force in her, some enduring virtue of truth in her spirit? A mere lie and insanity cannot live; its persistence is a disease which must before long lead to death; it cannot be the source of an unslayable life. There must be some heart of soundness, some saving truth which has kept this people alive and still ...
... full attainment of the spiritual life being left as a supreme aim to the effort of the individual—was as far as her ancient system could advance. This much endeavour, however, she did make with persistence and patience and it gave a peculiar type to her social polity. It is perhaps for a future India, taking up and enlarging with a more complete aim, a more comprehensive experience, a more certain ...
... union and by constant repetition of the experience, that highest spirit grows upon the being and takes permanent possession of the nature. Is this also found too difficult because of the power and persistence of the outward-going movement of the mind? Then the way is simple, to do all actions for the sake of the Lord of the action, so that every outward-going movement of the mind shall be associated with ...
... whole godhead, the perfect Man. In ordinary Nature they have each their own characteristic and governing impulse. The characteristic energy of bodily Life is not so much in progress as in persistence, not so much in individual self-enlargement as in self-repetition. There is, indeed, in physical Nature a progression from type to type, from the vegetable to the animal, from the animal to man; ...
... feels their impacts with a subtle sensitiveness, makes them its own; not only so, but the difficulties of others are added to our own and the forces which oppose the perfection act with a greater persistence, because they feel this movement to be an attack upon and an attempt to conquer their universal kingdom and not merely the escape of an isolated soul from their empire. But finally, we find too that ...
... the supreme Self and Brahman, its individuality an illusion; the putting off of individual existence is the only true release. Other systems assert, in flat contradiction of this view, the eternal persistence of the human soul; a basis of multiple consciousness in the One or else a dependent but still separate entity, it is constant, real, imperishable. Amidst these various and conflicting opinions ...
... of inconscience to life and is always limited by form, always dependent on the body, always separated by it from the rest of Life and from other living beings, always hampered in its development, persistence, self-perfectioning by the laws of the Inconscience and the limitations of bodily living. Equally, his consciousness is a mentality emerging in a body and in a sharply individualised life; it is ...
... not actually indeed for him in the place of God. This idea too is crumbling into the dust, though its remnants still cling to life by many strong tentacles of old legislation, continued instinct, persistence of traditional ideas; the fiat has gone out against it in the claim of woman to be regarded, she too, as a free individual being. The right of property of the rulers in the ruled has perished by ...
... everybody opening to the Cosmic Divine will have these or similar experiences. Observe and go forward. There is no doubt that you will succeed in your endeavour—all that is needed is firm persistence till the success is complete. What you saw in the vision was the wide and luminous infinite of what is called the universal Self or spirit. It is that which is one of the fundamental things into ...
... sense of the difficulties impedes the recovery, prolongs the difficulties, helps the obstructions to recur with force instead of progressively diminishing in their incidence. It is an attitude whose persistence or recurrence you must resolutely throw aside if you want to get over the obstruction which you feel so much—which the depressed attitude only makes, while it lasts, more acute. You should ...
... Jeffrey shook his head and passed the damning sentence: "This will never do." But neither Coleridge nor Wordsworth was chicken-hearted. They went on in their Romanticism, and Wordsworth by sheer persistence created the new taste by which he and Coleridge subsequently came to be enjoyed. Many, however, were the battles the enemies waged, and one of the fiercest was against the young John Keats. Keats's ...
... reposes less on the will, though will is always necessary, than on the knowledge." (The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 684) If the sadhaka continues in the sadhana of this method, with sincerity and persistence, he will soon be blessed with three beneficial results. First, he will come to realise that much of his sorrow and suffering and unease arising out of the adverse impacts of life, is self-imposed ...
... some flame of soul, a first evident vibration of the spirit. All the known circumstances and results of birth presuppose an unknown before, and there is a suggestion of universality, a will of persistence of life, an inconclusiveness in death which seem to point to an unknown hereafter. What were we before birth and what are we after death, are the questions, the answer of the one depending upon that... sum of what we call Life in the physical world is a progress of the soul and proceeds by birth into the body and has that for its fulcrum, its condition of action and its condition of evolutionary persistence. Birth then is a necessity of the manifestation of the Purusha on the physical plane; but his birth, whether the human or any other, cannot be in this world-order an isolated accident or a sudden ...
... strong; of maternal production, motherhood, to bear, produce, give birth to. It has also the primary senses of motion, to go, move, cast, strike; and by a development from the sense of clinging or persistence in a given place, the opposite idea of motionlessness, rest,—to rest still, lie, sleep. Its derivates are इला meaning mother and applied to the earth, a cow, Speech; इलिका, earth; इली, a short sword... energy." वर्धमानम् । Rt वृध्, secondary root from वृ to be, extend, cover, be in force, excel, be in activity, act, operate etc. The sound ध् always adds the idea of solid or heavy strength and persistence,—to spread, increase, be exalted. स्वे । Own. स with the suffix व conveying the idea possession, makes either स्व (Lat. suus) or सव (Greek ἑóς) as in तव. दमे । दम् to conquer entirely ...
... contrary, union by Yoga with the Purushottama means the knowledge and enjoyment of our oneness with him in our self-existent being and of a certain differentiation in our active being. It is the persistence of the latter in a play of divine works which are urged by the motive power of divine love and constituted by a perfected divine Nature, it is the vision of the Divine in the world harmonised with ...
... linked Necessity; some secret self-knowledge and wisdom there must be which guides the Energy of Karma in its idea and has appointed for her the paths she must hew in Time. It is because of their persistence of principle in all the transiences of particular form that things have such a hold on our mind and will. It is because the world is so real that we feel so potently its grasp on us and our spirits ...
... . At night wakefulness with intervals of swapna samadhi good of its kind; only towards morning nidra. Today strong attack of besieging intuivity on all ideal members. In lipi this results in persistence of intuitive ideal lipi representing the intuitive mentality in the ideality, but not itself mental in kind. An insufficient speech and suggestion is its limitation; it is true in itself, but so ...
... ceases to be an isolated accident or an abrupt interlude, it gets the justification of a fulfilling future as well as a creating past for its otherwise haphazard actions and relations. But simple persistence, mechanical continuity is not enough; that is not all our psychical being signifies, not the whole luminous meaning of survival and continuity; without ascension, without expansion, without some ...
... objective events, the life-force's quest for endless happiness and irresistible power and unlimited conquest in Nature's realm, the physical form's seeking for stability and health and perpetual organic persistence within an ever-growing harmonious society. The true psyche represents the whole drive of earthly evolution. When it rises to the Supreme, there goes with it the entire universe's agelong ache for ...
... stupidities of the 'lower nature' were to be effectively countered, she wrote that one needed the will to change in sheer defiance of the excuses and intimations of what was low or false within, a persistence in the will in spite of every fall, and an unshakable faith in the help received from the Guru. A sadhika wrote that, whenever she heard about the Mother's ill-health, she felt as if broken herself; ...
... Spirit have always cherished an undisguised contempt for the body and its consciousness and tried to live as far as possible in the depths of their being or on its heights. This inert, mechanical persistence of the ego in the physical consciousness is considerably due to its roots being in the obscure regions of the subconscient, where the light of the higher consciousness does not reach and act.... to eliminate this ego is not, therefore, an aversion to action and a retreat into the depths, but a constant and conscious Page 320 offering of all action to the Divine with a persistence as dogged, as uncompromising and as relentless as that of the physical ego itself. The attitude of surrender and offering has to be rubbed into the physical being till it oozes down into the s ...
... segments, to follow one line or another and leave altogether or leave till later on the achievement of its own totality. This hampering, this obstacle of the mind, life and body,—the heavy inertia and persistence of the body, the turbid passions of the life-part, the obscurity and doubting incertitudes, denials, other-formulations of the mind,—is an impediment so great and intolerable that the spiritual urge... an expansion and not a disruption of the wiser ancient harmony, to a greater synthesis of the principle of concentration and the principle of diffusion. In India, we have seen, there has been a persistence of the original intuition and total movement of evolutionary Nature. For religion in India limited itself by no one creed or dogma; it not only admitted a vast number of Page 904 different... kind of element, may have numerous consequences which might be objected to by the purist, but its great justifying result has been an unexampled multitudinous richness and a more than millennial persistence and impregnable durability, generality, universality, height, subtlety and many-sided wideness of spiritual attainment and seeking and endeavour. It is indeed only by such a catholicity and plasticity ...
... great spiritual conception, and fidelity to it is the very principle of her existence. For by its virtue alone she has been one of the immortal nations; this alone has been the secret of her amazing persistence and perpetual force of survival and revival. The principle of struggle has assumed the large historical aspect of an agelong clash and pressure of conflict between Asia and Europe. This clash ...
... said, “We are coming from afar and will leave soon. Please call him.” The man went in and knocked on the pooja-room door. Kameshwar opened, somewhat annoyed. When told about the couple and their persistence, Kameshwar said, “Ask them their names and tell them to return later.” The man did just that, Kameshwar returned to his meditation and the couple waited some more time and left giving their names ...
... dissolved but that she must go down fighting. As to the results of her heroic fall, what she said in 1969 is that if, with "the work becoming more and more exciting", the body, in spite of her persistence, did not "hold on", she would be constrained to let the transformation "be for another time". 4 But in March 1972, a Supramental Body waiting on the subtle-physical plane and pressing upon the ...
... Supramental even the vital external nature is bound to change and therefore there will be no chance of any feelings of this character. You should not allow yourself to be discouraged by any persistence of the movements of the lower nature. There are some that tend always to persist and return until the whole physical nature is changed by the transformation of the most material consciousness; till ...
... feels to be true. This cannot, of course, be done all at once. It takes time to establish this attitude of separateness, still more time to establish the control. But it can be done by practice and persistence. It is obvious that things which are a long habit cannot go at once. Especially the speech is a thing which in most people is largely automatic and not under their control. It is the vigilance ...
... the Meditation House leaks so much. It is not like that anywhere else in Pondicherry, and I do not know if it is so elsewhere. Even X seems to be quite tired of Y's fad of using tectine, and his persistence in using it in spite of repeated failures. People even say that there is some crack in Y's brain which prevents him from dealing with the point correctly. The thing is so glaringly offensive to ...
... instruments to give this life force a conscious orientation and a conscious method. Life normally finds its own centre in our vital and physical being, in its cravings and its needs, in its demand for persistence, growth, expansion, enjoyment, in its reachings after all kinds of power and possession and activity and splendour and largeness. The first self-direction of this Life-Force, its first orderings ...
... great path, -of this question I need thy answer. This boon takes us into the secret that is hidden from us, no boon other than that boon is chosen by Nachiketas." Yama had felt happy with the persistence of Nachiketas; he had seen that when all pleasant things were offered to him, he had rejected them and he had remained firm in choosing that which was really good as distinguished from that which ...
... absolutely unambiguous in the following words: "... by renunciation we seize upon the falsehoods, pluck up their roots and cast them out of our way so that they shall no longer hamper by their persistence, their resistance or their recurrence the happy and harmonious growth of our divine living. Renunciation is an indispensable instrument of our perfection." (The Synthesis of Yoga, p. 311) ...
... on the physical plane, she was led to call 'Krishna', the Bhagawan of the Gita, although at that time she knew little of the Indian philosophies and religions. But the being appeared with such persistence, such regularity, such clarity of outline and aura of divinity, that she knew it was only a question of time and that she would one day be led up to him and enabled to collaborate with him in ...
... soul was moved to seek the Divine. That some part of your vital has strong attachments to the people you left behind, is a fact, but it does not make your soul's seeking unreal. If the presence and persistence of vital difficulties were to prove that a sadhak is "unfit" and has no chance, then only one or two in the Asram—and perhaps not even they—would survive the test. The feeling of dryness and not... tall and preeminent or flourishingly settled in self-fullness—roundish = plenty of it all the same Grey = tamasic in tendency, therefore not aggressive, but Page 662 obstinate in persistence. But these are not symbols, they are the temperamental figure of the ego. 5 November 1935 Nowadays I find ego in every little act or feeling. Formerly I saw it only when I acted with desire ...
... adore." If it were really impossible to love God unless you first experience him, how could this be? In fact your mind seems to be putting the cart before the horse. One seeks after God first, with persistence or with passion, one finds him afterwards, some sooner than others, but most after a long seeking. One does not find him first, then seek after him. Even a glimpse only comes after long or fervent... reconciles itself to the prospect the better for it and for all the other personalities in you. Your alleged or inferred unfitness is a delusion, an imagination of this vital part; it doesn't exist. If persistence of difficulties is a proof of unfitness, then there is nobody in this Asram who is fit for the Yoga. We would all have to pack up our belongings or give them away and start either to get back to ...
... development of the Page 1376 Yoga. There are three laws which oppose—the law of persistence, the law of resistance and the law of recurrence: there are three laws which assist—the law of gradual processes, the law of concentrated processes and the law of involved processes. The law of persistence is this, that a rule, habit or tendency once established has a right to survive, a natural ...
... the whole ensemble, are in their essential build and character transmutations and extensions of the original vision and first spiritual experience and never an unconnected departure. There is a persistence, a continuity of the Indian mind in its literary creation in spite of great changes as consistent as that which we find in painting and sculpture. Page 318 The Veda is the creation of ...
... intention, a greater spirit, a more consistent skill of achievement. Inferior work there is, work that fails or succeeds Page 286 only partially, but take it in its whole, in the long persistence of its excellence, in the number of its masterpieces, in the power with which it renders the soul and the mind of a people, and we shall be tempted to go further and claim for it a first place. The ...
... would have no objection. But I do not see the slightest evidence of her actually envisaging an alternative to herself. In 1969 Bulletin, April, p. 89) she says that if her body, in spite of her persistence, did not "hold on", she would be constrained to let the transformation "be for another time". In a later talk {Bulletin, August 1972, p. 81), while referring to the new glorious body in which she ...
... the moment we enter on the supramental level. The universal and infinite consciousness can always seize on and surround the mind and it is when it does so with a certain continuity, frequency or persistence that the mind can most easily transform itself into the intuitive mentality and that again into the supramental movement. Only as we rise we grow more intimately and integrally into the infinite ...
... subjective principle of Nature in our being, the liberating intelligence, through which man returning beyond his restless mobile mental to his calm eternal spiritual self is at last free from the persistence of birth and the long chain of action, of Karma. This self in its highest status, paraṁ dhāma , is an unmanifest beyond even the unmanifest principle of the original cosmic Prakriti, Avyakta, and ...
... after the deleterious effects have shown themselves and even after all real pleasure in it has ceased because of this artificial need (it is not real). The will has to get hold of this subconscient persistence and dissolve it. Page 435 Smoking is only a morbid craving of physical desire—there is no other reason for people doing it. Smoking is tamasic and prevents control of mind. ...
... There are some difficulties in the nature that fall away rapidly by the repeated touch of the inner Force, but those which are obstinately recurrent, especially in the physical field, need an equal persistence in the rejection before they will consent to fall away from the nature. Control of One's Thoughts To reject doubts means control of one's thoughts—very certainly so. But the control of one's ...
... be difficult for you to get over this attack and settle down to a self-development of your undoubted possibilities on the right line. It would be a pity if you threw away the chance by obstinate persistence in the result of a moment's pique. I prefer not to give any decision till after the 15th. You will do well to wait till then and see if your present feelings do not change. 4 August 1929 ... Divine Call. It is the vital crisis, the test, the ordeal for you as for others—a test and ordeal which we would willingly spare to those who are with us but which they call on themselves by persistence in some wrong line of movement or some falsification of the inner attitude. If you reject entirely the falsehood that this force casts upon the sadhak, if you remain faithful to the Light that called... liberates from egoism and the pride of the mind and of the vital, the pride that imposes its own reasonings on the ways of the spirit and the pride that refuses or is unable to surrender, sustained persistence in the call within and reliance on the Grace above. These things come by the inner discipline which you had begun to practise some time ago, but did not continue. Meditation, japa, prayer or aspiration ...
... going to happen and interferes to prevent it, either by waking in time or by stopping the dream or prohibiting the discharge. All this is perfectly possible, it is a matter of habit and a little persistence. It is also often found very effective to put a will or force upon the body consciousness before going to sleep that it should not happen—especially when you feel the predisposing condition of... ly after a time if done regularly, it has an effect. A calm general pressure of Will or Force on the physical subconscient is to be put. The subconscient may be often obstinate in its continual persistence, but it can and does accommodate itself quickly or slowly to the will of the conscious being. The pressure from the kidneys or the intestines causing dream of sex-tendency or imagination is... taken refuge in the subconscient, somewhere probably in the lower vital physical and the most physical consciousness where there are some regions not yet open to the aspiration and the light. The persistence in sleep of things rejected in the waking consciousness is a quite common occurrence in the course of the sadhana. The remedy is (1) to get the higher consciousness, its light and the workings ...
... be difficult for you to get over this attack and settle down to a self-development of your undoubted possibilities on the right line. It would be a pity if you threw away the chance by obstinate persistence in the result of a moment's pique. I prefer not to give any decision till after the 15th. You will do well to wait till and see if your present feelings do not change. 4 August 1929 Sri ...
... ; and thus the collaboration of the life-force in self-fulfilment is eliminated. The right training of the vital then is much more subtle and much more difficult, needing endurance, endless persistence and an inflexible will. For what is to be aimed at is not the negation of life but the fulfilment of life by its transformation. First, the powers of the senses have to be developed, subtilised ...
... sw. sm. 7) Repeated Kamananda in swapnasamadhi. 8) Persistence of the same scene in sw. sm. rupa with changing figures in the scene, separated by intervals of non-sight. (eclipse of rupa) 9) Continuous organised action, firmly held in alternate swapna & waking; rupa first seen by chakshu, then only by manasa vision. 10) Persistence of the same scene recurrent with continuous action, more... and chest, this movement has not succeeded. But the body's sensitiveness to cold is persistent. The remnants of skin-irritation tendency remain in recurrence, but are reduced in force of persistence, volume & extent; even in effective acuteness. Kriti. Kriti in one direction shows a certain positive mass of effectuality, but it is not yet decisive and cannot yet be pronounced final even... condition. Its force increases and its pressure. But it is not in possession and is unable to expel the recurrent habitualities of Roga. The latter rely on tamasic dhriti of habit for their long persistence, though they are no longer sure of ultimate survival. The bhava of the Mechanist, Yantri, has now become humanised to the consciousness and is taking its place as the rule of the play; the ...
... disappear with the advent of this supreme knowledge & is it possible to busy ourselves with the phenomenal when its attraction & apparent necessity are removed? Is not persistence in life caused by ignorance and possible only if there is persistence in ignorance? Must we not abandon the world, if we would possess God? forsake Maya if we would become one in the Atman? For who can serve at the same time two masters... on themselves by an obstinate persistence in self-will & ignorance. In either case the intention of the Sage is evident from the later passages of this Upanishad. Whether we follow exclusively after Avidya or exclusively after Vidya, we go equally astray, exclusiveness means ignorance, exclusiveness means confusion & division of the indivisible Brahman, & persistence in such error is an obstinacy fatal ...
... emotional movements and vital reactions, never close one's eyes with indulgence to one's own weaknesses, and catch oneself each time one makes a mistake, even a small one. If one continues with persistence, this becomes very interesting and gets easier and easier. 20 May 1964 Sweet Mother, What is the difference between pleasure, joy, happiness, ecstasy and Ananda? Can we find one in... experience. Is it possible to achieve it by aspiration alone, or is there a method or discipline to be followed? Everything is possible. All paths lead to the goal provided they are followed with persistence and sincerity. Page 321 It is best for each person to find his own path, but for this the aspiration must be ardent, the will unshakable, the patience unfailing. 30 June 1965 ... the Truth? Must it first of all be lived? To serve It, you must live it. To live it, you must necessarily serve it. Page 330 And for both, you must want it with sincerity and persistence. 5 January 1966 Sweet Mother, There is a tendency among most of us here to conduct our lives and programmes according to the customs of society. We say: "We must also think of the ...
... millenniums of Indian culture. Life thenceforward was too much depreciated as an unreality or Page 127 a relative phenomenon, in the end not worth living, not worth our assent to it and persistence in its motives. But this dogma was not universally accepted, nor admitted without a struggle; Shankara was even denounced by his adversaries as a masked Buddhist. The later Indian mind has been ...
... of laws of successive formulation,—rhythms of the spirit, forms, turns, habits of the nature, and these endure the mutations of the ages, yugadharma . The race must obey this double principle of persistence and mutation or bear the penalty of a decay and deterioration that may attaint even its living centre. Certainly we must repel with vigour every disintegrating or injurious attack; but it is much ...
... Divine Call. It is the vital crisis, the test, the ordeal for you as for others — a test and ordeal which we would willingly spare to those who are with us but which they call on themselves by persistence in some wrong line of movement or some falsification of the inner attitude. If you reject entirely the falsehood that this force casts upon the sadhak, if you remain faithful to the Light that called ...
... change—the Mother has been doing that daily; nor is the trouble she has contracted one for which we are in any way responsible—it is not imposed as an ordeal or anything else. If there is so obstinate a persistence of her attachment and the demands it makes, it is because there is in her own vital a resistance to the Force that would remove it. If there were the complete consent in the being for giving it up ...
... recurrence or dominance of certain measures, not laid down or fixed, but easy and natural,—which gives an underlying unity to the whole passage. In the instance taken from Shakespeare a remarkable persistence of four-foot measures, with occasional shorter ones intervening, builds up a grave and massive rhythmic feeling and imparts even a poetic motion to the unified whole. In free verse the difference ...
... and concentrated all the time to prevent irremediable catastrophes and have still to be so, and when, besides, the major movement of the inner spiritual work needs an equal concentration and persistence, it is not possible for me to abandon my rule. (Moreover, even for the individual sadhak it is in his interest that this major spiritual work should be done, for its success would create conditions ...
... always secret behind their surface appearances, this is the secret intention, the ultimate significance of the divine play, the Lila. But it is in themselves, in their transformation but also their persistence and perfect relations, not in their self-annihilation that that must be unfolded. Otherwise there would be no reason for their ever having existed; the possibility of the Divine's unfolding in the ...
... s. And yet, it is Page 29 precisely this field of direct spiritual experience to which we are obliged to turn, if we are earnest in our inquiry and if we have patience to endure the persistence that is demanded by the inescapability of our need to know and our need to apply our knowledge to the problems of practical life in the midst of which we find ourselves poised uncomfortably and even ...
... joy of unity. Of course, the Ananda would vary, that is to say, the poise enjoying it would vary. The Many would depend on the One and the Eternal would depend on the Many—there would be eternal persistence, eternal recurrence of the Many. This is difficult for the mind to grasp; in its exclusive concentration it creates mutually destructive philosophical schools. But we who seek the integral ...
... world we are living in - We are in an age, full of the throes of travail, when all forms of thought and activity that have in themselves any strong power of utility or any secret virtue of persistence are being subjected to a supreme test and given their opportunity of rebirth. The world to-day presents the aspect of a huge cauldron of Medea in which all things are being cast, shredded into pieces... the gods of the Aitareya Upanishad thought! - and man could therefore be the mould for the further divine perfection to come. The distinctive feature of bodily life is not so much progress as persistence through the perpetuation of the species. In mental life, the keynote is continual enlargement, improvement and the pull towards endless change and variability. In spiritual life or divine existence ...
... for the great discovery should be always there soaring over you, above what you do and what you are, like a huge bird of light dominating all the movements of your being. Before the untiring persistence of your effort, an inner door will open suddenly and you will come out into a dazzling splendour that will bring to you the certitude of immortality, the concrete experience that you have lived always... total self-surrender to the highest point your conception can reach: for some it is the notion of God, for others that of Perfection. If this surrender is made Page 76 with persistence and ardour, a moment comes when you go beyond the concept and arrive at an experience that escapes all description, but which is almost always identical in its effect on the being. As your surrender ...
... illumining, the intelligence searching and arriving and helping the lower life to absorb the intuitions of the spirit, did its part in giving Indian spirituality a wonderful intensity, security and persistence not exampled in any other people. It is indeed largely the work of these philosophers who were at the same time Yogins that Page 371 saved the soul of India alive through the gathering ...
... despondency or despair, no saying, "What have I gained by seeking the Divine?", no anger, revolt, abhiman, wish to go away—such as you describe Page 74 here—but an absolute confidence and a persistence in clinging to the Divine under all conditions. That is what I wanted you to have; it is the only basis in which one is free from troubles and reactions and goes steadily forward. Not to impose ...
... wholly sincere, the indication always comes. And precisely, with the method of the Buddhist discipline, if you follow up within yourself the causes of your way of being, you always find out that persistence in error comes from desire. It is because you have the preference, the desire to feel, to act, to think in a particular way, that you make the mistake. It is not simply because you do not know what ...
... nature. But surely they must have satisfied some essential conditions for gaining the experiences. Yes, of course. But it varies with different people. It may be faith, it may be earnestness and persistence. It may be love for the Divine. There are many other things it may be. Like the Mahomedan with his tuft, you must give a handle somewhere for the Angel of the Lord to catch hold of you and lift you ...
... "Our thoughts covet the everlasting Light, Our strength derives from an omnipotent Force, "Our very senses blindly seek for bliss." When man has aspired with sufficient force and persistence, then, the Higher Self from above begins to come down like a sea "To fill this image of our transience". Wave after wave of the Higher Consciousness descends upon our mind, our life, and senses ...
... Tarried my heart, and I walked in your meadows, your chaplets I plaited, Played in your gardens of ease and, careless of blasts in the distance, Paced, pursued by the winds, your orchard of autumn's persistence, Saw on the dance of a ripple your lotus that slumbers and quivers, Heard your nightingales warbling in covert by moon-gilded rivers. Page 495 But I relinquished your streams and I ...
... things, his spirit adheres to an unshaken and untrembling, an unvacillating Yoga of union with the eternal and spiritual in the universe. He watches through it all Page 352 the divine persistence of the Master of the Yoga and acts out of a tranquil universality and oneness with all things and creatures. And this close contact with all things implies no involution of soul and mind in the ...
... inability to see him. Gandhi wrote to Govindbhai and from his letter it seemed as if he were still expecting to see the Mother and the Asram or at least expecting an answer. In view of this persistence we sent Govindbhai to explain to him that it was impossible for the Mother to receive his visit. 23 February 1934 It is curious that mosquitoes do not bite me. Perhaps they do not like my ...
... maníshinah, just as we find elsewhere ghritaprishthá manoyujah, just as we find in the passage from which we started dhiyam ghritáchím sádhantá. Have we not, then, a right considering this remarkable persistence & considering the rest of the context to suggest & even to infer that the sacrificial seat anointed with the shining ghee is in symbol the fullness of the mind clarified & purified, continuously ...
... change, reversal, new base. Matter is bound in an involved consciousness which is in practice an inconscience; life in the plant in a still involved consciousness struggling for growth, expansion, persistence, seeking after movement and sensation and conscious living without yet reaching them; life in the animal in a vital consciousness possessed of these things, already emotional, possessed of a mind ...
... Page 6 well. But in what form did they come up, these lower forces? What is the intention of the forces in their continued inroads? They hope by persistence to tire you out or to get in by sheer obstinacy — or at least to delay the realisation by their attacks. That is always their method. If they can shake the faith, the peace and samata (equality) ...
... and honour. A stronger permanent element in the Indian communal system, one that grew up in the frame of the four orders—in the end even replacing it—and acquired an extraordinary vitality, persistence and predominant importance was the historic and still tenacious though decadent institution of caste, jāti . Originally this rose from subdivisions of the four orders that grew up in each order ...
... life-force in self-fulfilment is eliminated. Experiments at the Centre have shown that right training of the vital is much more subtle and much more difficult, needing endurance, endless persistence and an inflexible will. But many of the methods that are designed to deal with the vital tendencies are found centred upon the mastery over the vital, which the teachers attain with their own vital ...
... the spiritual elements of a living culture. The external forms must go on changing and adapting themselves to changing historical conditions. The inner elements remain the same. It is the persistence of these inner elements that gives permanency and maintains the individuality of a culture and makes it grow. An example would make the point clear. Let us consider the forms which the " will to ...
... principles of constant and complex variation that found both the permanent dharma of each and its temporary dharmas. These fix for it the law of its being in becoming, the curve of its birth and persistence and change, the force of its self-preservation and self-increasing, the lines of its stable and evolving self-expression and self-finding, the rules of its relations to all the rest of the expression ...
... supreme Self and Brahman, its individuality an illusion; the putting off of individual existence is the only true release. Other systems assert, in flat contradiction of this view, the eternal persistence of the human soul; a basis of multiple consciousness in the One or else a dependent but still separate entity, it is constant, real, imperishable. Amidst these various and conflicting opinions ...
... head mason, has been having headache and vomiting for last 2 years, seems to be due to dietetic indiscretion, but queer that it persists so long. Page 21 SRI AUROBINDO: Probably persistence due to want of dieting. Most impossible to diet a Tamilian—too many spices and things. Sir, couldn't finish what I began with your other book, so kept it. Will see tonight if Time and the Gods ...
... any near, but of a distantly watching, rather than environing mentality. Tapas is now very strong; in the field of exercise the obstacle has no longer a genuine power of resistance, but only of persistence and this again persists only by a persistent recurrence which gives it after much difficulty the power for a time to reestablish itself rather than by a right of its own in the environment. This... first instance of combined reading and lipi (Indian News .. nerv. [ . . . ]); also a first instance of strong, though partial legibility in persistent mass lipi, with however the defect that its persistence did not amount to legible stability. Kavya developed remarkably, eg "What swoon has brought The key of many immortalities?" But the farther progress was hampered by the after effects of the intellectual ...
... and either change the values or react with only the reaction of delight in the mind. The mind is elastic. The difficulty comes only in the body and the nervous system. There is an obstinate persistence in the original reading or value of the sensations which it receives. But in the mind the conversion of pleasure and pain becomes not at all difficult because the mind is elastic. The body and nervous ...
... self-giving of the mind and heart to the Divine. The inertia, ignorance and incon-science of one’s physical consciousness, its attachment to fixed habits of thought and feeling and action, its persistence in the old grooves may come badly in the way of the needed change. In such circumstances the Divine may have to bide his time; but if there is real hunger in the heart, all that cannot prevent ...
... great spiritual conception, and fidelity to it is the very principle of her existence. For by its virtue alone she has been one of the immortal nations; this alone has been the secret of her amazing persistence and perpetual force of survival and revival". 2 "A Nation is a living personality; it has a soul, even like the human individual. The soul of a nation is a conscious being, a formation out ...
... the Divine and the human soul. This rapture is implied but not felt in the Sâyujya of the Adwaitin, in which the individual consciousness is abolished in the supreme Consciousness, and there is no persistence of the relation of the knower and the object of knowledge to admit of a human enjoyment of the bliss of the perfect union. But this bliss is the highest experience of the embodied soul, the acme ...
... this boon which enters in into the secret that is hidden from is, no other chooses Nachiketas." The singleness of the purpose, unequalled intensity of he enquiry, and unrelenting persistence,—all this illustrated by Nachiketas may be regarded as an indispensable condition for the pursuit of the yoga and yogic knowledge that we find in the Upanishads. Other Prerequisites: ... Nachiketas and Yama took place after Nachiketas was offered to Death and in the abode of the knower and keeper of the cosmic Law to whom the soul rises after the death, and to whom he had, with persistence, put the question. His question was, therefore, profounder, the answer of which was debated even by the gods. The question was about the one who exists, if that exists at all, since there was a debate ...
... perforce cease to exist with the dissolution of the physical body. The survival of man in any form after death is untenable. Since our personal existence is entirely dependent upon the persistence of the body and bodily life alone, we must regard — so runs the argument of the Charvakas — the carnal pleasures as the only desirable things of which we can be sure and certain. Also, simply ...
... reconciles itself to the prospect the better for it and for all the other personalities in you. Your alleged or inferred unfitness is a delusion, an imagination of the vital part; it doesn't exist. If persistence of difficulties be a proof of unfitness, then there is nobody in this Ashram who is fit for the Yoga. We would have to pack up our belongings or give them away and start either to get back to the ...
... superficial being, his most apparent self. One step is to know that this life is not all, to get at the conception of his own temporal eternity, to realise, to become concretely aware of that subjective persistence which is called the immortality of the soul. When he knows that there are states beyond the material and lives behind and before him, at any rate a pre-existence and a subsequent existence, he is ...
... obstructing and mixing with the new formation or, even in moments of large illumination, at once a boundary wall and a strong substratum, and it imposes its incapacities and errors. And to remedy this persistence the first necessity would seem to be the development of the power of a luminous intuitive intelligence seeing the truth of time and its happenings as well as all other truth by intuitive thought ...
... overcome the obstacle, but the obstacle is not destroyed. The destruction will be the main work of today. It is obvious that the perfect freedom of the rupa is not yet intended, but neither is the persistence of an entirely successful obstruction intended . Asraddha is not always a vehicle of true trikaldrishti. Ananda will again possess the body today & utthapana advance;—the latter not now, but ...
... continuity, a certain sameness or identity of Page 16 vibration in the midst of all flux. It is almost like a river which is never the same and yet has a certain definiteness and persistence of its own. Your normal self is merely a shadow of your true individuality which you will realise only when this normal individual which is differently poised at different times, now in the mental ...
... hypnotism. This method revealed to him that the experiences of past conflicts and frustrations continue to persist in man. He therefore posited the sub-conscious as a fact in order to explain this persistence of past experiences. He was soon led to think that the subconscious is relatively the larger part of man's personality, in fact, as he later chose to put it, the nine-tenths of human personality ...
... the world as one with us in the consciousness of our true self, thus cancelling our division from it by the separative idea and life of ego; the knowledge of our psychic entity and its immortal persistence in Time beyond death and earth-existence; the knowledge of our greater and inner existence behind the surface; the knowledge of our mind, life and body in its true relation to the self within and ...
... limiting insistence; the pursuit of a disinterested impersonal action is converted into a greater authority and apparent high sanction for our personal will's interested selections and blind arbitrary persistences. On the other hand an absolute impersonality would seem to impose an equally absolute quietism, and this would mean that all action is bound to the machinery of the ego and the three gunas and to ...
... also I know by experience. For I knew people who could be cured in five minutes, even of a disease considered very serious, and I knew people who had no fatal illness, but cherished it with such persistence that it did become fatal. It was impossible to persuade their body to let go their illness. And it is here that one must be very careful and look at oneself with great discrimination to discover ...
... of yogic disciplines. Catholicity of the Veda and the Upanishads has permitted remarkable changes in the forms of Indian religion and spiritual culture, even while maintaining the persistence of their spirit. And if we examine the changes that have occurred, we shall find in them a meaningful process of evolution and a certain Page 32 kind of logic. Right from the Vedic ...
... as her ancient system could advance. The full attainment of the spiritual life being was left as a supreme aim to the effort of the individual. However, she did make that endeavour with persistence and patience. There was a constant reminder of the spiritual aim even in the political and social life; and this effort by itself Page 170 gave a peculiar type to her ...
... in all things and everywhere, ever more widely, ever more intensely, and the whole world will become at the same time thy work and thy wealth, thy field of action and thy conquest. Fight with persistence to break down the last limits .... Fight in order to conquer and triumph; fight to overcome everything that was till today, to make the new Light spring forth, the new Example the world needs ...
... truth that man belongs to one world and men in their mutability to another or that in seeing the changes and variations of the species tiger we are seeing the world in one way and when we see the persistence of type of the species we are knowing it in a different way. These artificial problems are the result of looking at words and concepts instead of things; we concentrate on the words and concepts ...
... age of the Earth as accepted at present is 4.57 billion years. Another problem, still alive today, was that the mechanism of inheritance remained unknown. And a third problem was the apparent persistence of gaps or discontinuities in the fossil record. It was this last fact that gave rise to saltation theories. Now associated with the names of Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge, saltation theories ...
... his Synthesis with the words: ‘We are in an age, full of the throes of travail, when all forms of thought and activity that have in themselves any strong power of utility or any secret virtue of persistence are being subjected to the supreme test and given their opportunity of rebirth. The world to-day presents the aspect of a huge cauldron of Medea in which all things are being cast, shredded into ...
... the prophetess, and when she refused to officiate and explained that the law forbade her to do so, he went up himself and tried to drag her by force to the shrine. At last, as if overcome by his persistence, she exclaimed, "You are invincible, my son!" and when Alexander heard this, he declared that he wanted no other prophecy, but had obtained from her the oracle he was seeking. When the time came ...
... determinative factor in a war. S the head mason is having a headache and vomiting for the last two years. Seems to be due to dietetic indiscretion, but queer that it persists so long... Probably persistence due to want of dieting. But impossible to diet a Tamilian—too many spices and things. If you advise any treatment here, we can try to cure his constipation by a mild laxative, and liver by. Lithinée ...
... statement of the synthesis of yogic disciplines. Catholicity of the Veda and the Upanishads has remarkable changes in the forms of Indian religion and spiritual culture, even while maintaining the persistence of their spirit. And if we examine the changes that have occurred we shall find in them a meaningful process of evolution and a certain kind of logic. Right from the Vedic times, there was a tendency ...
... These are, however, very rapidly cast off.. The secondary & tertiary utthapanas are not now in action. In Arogya there is still the dominant recurrence of the habitual fragments of roga and the persistence of the two that are yet unbroken. Cold is attempting to return. Saundarya is still unable to break its shell. Karma & Kama await the growth of the Aishwarya & the Sharira. The life & its... while walking. A great advance in certainty of trikaldrishti and some in Aishwarya. The basis of perfect organisation of the knowledge has been laid. Arogya is still affected by the persistence of the attack. Karma is also suffering. Page 871 In the Vijnana it is evident that Will & Thought are drawing towards each other preparatory to union. At times they coincide ...
... districts, the multitude of old wells that still exist round about Muslim capitals; above all, the immense system of artificial reservoirs in the Madras Presidency, bear testimony to the steady persistence of this old tradition of administrative benevolence. In the Southern Presidency there are over 6000 tanks mainly of native origin, the magnitude of which will be best remembered when it is understood ...
... that next time it will be better. So, in conclusion, we shall say that in order to know things as they are you must first unite with your soul and to unite with your soul you must want it with persistence and perseverance. Only the degree of concentration on the goal can shorten the way. The Mother On Thoughts and Aphorisms: Aphorism - 9 Sweet Mother, with the human mind is it possible ...
... aspiration, as in a calm and resigned attitude, one plunges once again and perceives something like a glimmer, the spark that scintillates in the obscurity of our inner being. Then, more and more, with persistence and a constant effort, we begin to see by an inner transmutation that it is a flame, no longer a spark, but a flame that bums but does not scorch, which is gentle, tranquilly peaceful, not insisting ...
... yet of dissatisfaction still assail the Adhara even though Paramatman has been realised, owing to the Brahman being identified with the ego-world in the environmental intellect. This is due to the persistence of Avidya, there, that is of the sense life & the imperfect activity of the Vijnana.. Conscious[ness] reflected in the sense life is subject to ignorance & unrest which may become grief. This sortilege... [Bhuvarmaya] 8 Tapas and its attempt to profit by the vijnana instead of allowing the Swarvati Shakti to illumine itself in a pure desirelessness from the Mahas. Lipsa has been the excuse for this persistence & its distinction from Kama. But the lipsa must be a samalipsa ready entirely to take defeat as well as success and not choosing its will but leaving that to a higher Shakti than the Bhuvarmayi or ...
... dhraji , a gliding, persistent motion; dhrāji , impulse, storm or wind. It is evident that here there is a great stress not on the force of the motion, though this sometimes emerges, but on its persistence. Page 546 ...
... but in reality there is no such thing; there is only a Force experimenting in a random action of infinitesimals which build up in their general results different determinations by a repetitive persistence operative in the sum of their action; thus we go back from Necessity to Chance as the basis of our existence. But what then is this Mind, this Consciousness which differs so radically from the Energy ...
... intellect be not so much convinced as forced to admit his presence by experience—just as when a man sees what he has denied and can no longer deny it. But for that the means must be accepted and the persistence in the will and patience in the labour. I cannot very well answer the strictures of Russell or Vivekananda (in one of his moods), for the conception of the Divine as an external omnipotent ...
... goes on inducing an automatic current? It is not exactly automatic. It can be easily spoilt or left to sink into the subconscient or otherwise wasted. But with simple and steady practice and persistence it has the effect the Maharshi speaks of—he assumes, I suppose, such a practice. I am afraid your meditation is hardly simple or steady—too much kasrat[76] and fighting with yourself. Raman Maharshi ...
... engine of integral action. When that fails to happen, the process of decadence must start and gather increasing momentum from the shock of every successive challenge. Such times are marked by the persistence of 'forms' but the ignoration of the spirit behind them, the preoccupation with intellectual debate, personal advancement and egoistic assertion, and the loss of the wider vision and the inattention ...
... free again, she remains in the enjoyment of that companionship." But where shall we look for the most perfect illustrations of the true psychic poise, the true psychic attitude, the mysterious persistence of the rapturous relation of the psychic love and devotion in the midst of a rapt ¹There is always a mental or vital alloy in such a one-sided seeking. Page 177 divine union, ...
... from the lower levels of the physical being. To deal with them is a work of great patience. The physico-vital and the physical being do not accept the Higher Law and persist. They justify their persistence and their play by intellectual and other justifications and thus they try to deceive the sadhaka under various guises. Generally, the vital being is very impatient and wants to get things done ...
... perfect; but in one or two directions, eg ordure, massed sores & one or two kinds of events, jugupsa still comes in from the outside world & touches the external psychic nerves. There is also a persistence of hostile perception of ugliness which tries to take advantage of this or that object in order to deny the shuddhananda. Afternoon. The Power is now in small things fulfilling itself in exact... a survival of manomaya suggestions representing themselves as vani & seeking to lay down the action, but as these are always falsified & the Jiva does not insist on them, they have no force of persistence. Health is undergoing a very serious assault. The sore-throat was flung off, but after a long struggle cough materialised for a very short time at night, & strenuous efforts are made to bring ...
... mobile Prakriti, but something else which is eternally stable. Eternal mutability, likewise, can lead to nothing but eternal unrest and disorder. What is it that imposes an unchanging law of persistence and orderly development on this mass of infinitely shifting, unquiet and impermanent parts and combines into one harmony this confused strife of changing and interchanging Page 260 phenomena... the desire to outlast death and become "immortal" by whatever way, by a book, a song, a picture, a statue, a discovery, an invention, an immortal act or remembered career no less than by psychical persistence of personality after the death of the body, and it culminates spiritually in the Will to surmount both death and life and persist eternally and transcendentally. The second characteristic of con ...
... Divine call. "It is the vital crisis, the test, the ordeal for you as for others — a test and ordeal which we would willingly spare those who are with us but which they call on themselves by persistence in some wrong line of movement or some falsification of the inner attitude. If you reject entirely the falsehood that this force casts upon the sadhaka, if you remain faithful to the Light that ...
... The first thing is to have the right inner attitude—you have that; the rest is the will to transform oneself and the vigilance to perceive and reject all that belongs to the ego and the tamasic persistence of the lower nature. Finally, to keep oneself always open to the Mother in every part of the being so that the process of transformation may find no hindrance. Yes, even in ordinary life there ...
... for my chronic despair and impatience? Sri Aurobindo: Now look here, ... if I can be patient with you and your despairs, why can't you be patient with the forces? ...Now, sir, if my yuga-like persistence could work a miracle ... with such a one [as X], why can't you expect an earlier result with you? Stand and answer. 17 5. DK: O Guru, I send you a Bengali poem of mine entitled Akuti which ...
... translation, The Dialogues of Plato (New York: Random House, 1937), vol. II, p. 628. 2.Sarikara defines the Brahman as follows: "Brahman is the omniscient and omnipotent cause of the origin, persistence and passing away of the world." Śankara's Brahma-sūtrabhāsya, Bibliotheca Indica, p. 90, 1. 3. Cf. Deussen, System of the Vedânta, p. 123. 3. Brahmasutra II, 3, 9. 4. Chand ...
... the practicability of any such large collection under the present not very favourable circumstances, the conditions of your proposed attempt etc. But if you are not sure of yourself (as to the persistence of your intention in the future), how can you be sure that it is your mission or a true inspiration and not the imagination or the strong impulse of a moment? In another letter you had said you could ...
... carry on his life or his mind into larger life-worlds or mind-worlds and would be compelled to accept an immediate transmigration from one earthly body to another as his only present possibility of persistence. The necessity for an interregnum between birth and birth and a passage to other worlds arises from a double cause: there is an attraction of the other planes for the mental and the vital being ...
... bothered him about his houses! 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 d ...
... broken down, vast oceanic wideness inside her, love, peace etc. rushing in or pressing to rush; can't understand what on earth all this is or what to do—writes for guidance. Now, sir, if my yugalike persistence could work a miracle like that with such a one, why can't you expect an earlier result with you, O Nirod of little faith and less patience? Stand and answer. 117 September 13, 1935 ...
... Sri Aurobindo saw it, there was room for compromise on all questions without a surrender of the basic principles of the Nationalist party. In conclusion, he outlined this six-point programme: persistence, with a strict regard to law, in a peaceful policy of self-help and passive resistance; "No control, no co-operation" with the Government; a rapprochement with the Moderates wherever possible, ...
... dryness, then the dryness won't be there always : it is the upheavals (of the wrong kind) that are to be avoided. Something is growing in you, but it is all inside—still if there is the steady persistence it is bound to come out. For instance, this white dazzling light with currents, it is a sure sign of the Force (the Mother's) entering and working in the ā dh ā r [receptacle]/ but it came to ...
... great spiritual conception, and fidelity to it is the very principle of her existence. For by its virtue alone she has been one of the immortal nations; this alone has been the secret of her amazing persistence and perpetual force of survival and revival.’ 12 And the Mother would say: ‘India is not the Earth, rivers and mountains of this land, neither is it a collective name for the inhabitants of this ...
... not to listen to them at all; they serve merely as disturbing factors. If the reasons alleged were sufficient to be a just ground for failure, all Yoga would be impossible for you or anybody. The persistence or the obstinate return of the old Adam is a common experience: it is only when there is a sufficient mass of experience and a certain progression of consciousness in the higher parts of the being... intellect be not so much convinced as forced to admit his presence by experience—just as when a man sees what he has denied and can no longer deny it. But for that the means must be accepted and the persistence in the will and patience in the labour. As for the Divine and the human, that also is a mind-made trouble. The Divine is there in the human, and the human fulfilling and exceeding its highest ...
... Poupart's affairs, how can it be done without measuring? T's temperature shot up suddenly to 103.4°, and has remained so. Don't know why. Maybe constipation. ? Merely with constipation this persistence of high fever? His urinary symptoms are better. How far? and in what way? No pain? no albumen or very little? Y says he felt a descent of Power producing an indescribable sensation in ...
... world, because he could not help it, because it was in his nature and must out. But Kalidasa's dramatic gift, always suave and keen, had not this godlike abundance; it is therefore well to note the persistence of this feature of high art in all his dramas. In the Urvasie the noble figure of Queen Aushinarie is the most striking evidence of his fine artistry, but even slight sketches like the Opsaras are ...
... faculty is called mahi,—just as it is called prithivi, dhara, medini, dharani, etc. In various forms, the root itself, mahi, mahitwam, maha, magha, etc, it recurs with remarkable profusion and persistence throughout the Veda. Evidently it expressed some leading thought of the Rishis, was some term of the highest importance in their system of psychology. Turning to the Purana we find the term mahat ...
... down, vast oceanic wideness inside her, love, peace etc. rushing in or pressing to rush; can't understand what on earth all this is or what to do -writes for guidance. Now, sir, if my yugalike persistence could work a miracle like that with such a one, why can't you expect an earlier result with you, O Nirod of little faith and less patience? Stand and answer. 36 (14) About the 'deportees' from ...
... the method we have to use is this concentration of the whole being on the Divine that it seeks…. An entire consecration of all that we are, think, feel and do will be the result of this persistence. This consecration in its turn must culminate in an integral self-giving to the Highest; for its crown and sign of completion is the whole nature’s all-comprehending absolute surrender. In ...
... guard and concentrated all the time to prevent irremediable catastrophes and have still to be so, and when, besides, the major movement of the inner spiritual work needs an equal concentration and persistence, it is not possible for me to abandon my rule. (Moreover, even for the individual Sadhak it is in his interest that this major spiritual work should be done, for its success would create conditions ...
... World-renowned Asoca Who dominated half our kingly East, Sprang from a mongrel root. VISALDEO Rana, you'll wed Your daughter to Prince Toraman? CURRAN I'm troubled By Ajmere's strong persistence. He controls Our Rajpoot world and it were madly done To offend him. VISALDEO That's soon avoided. Send your daughter out To your strong fort among the wooded hills, Dongurh; there while ...
... Come as the waters of heaven to the thirsting soul that desires its streams. (2) Thinkers with your weapons of sound and your lances that seek, bows of firmness, arrows of impulsion, quivers of persistence, perfect are your horses, perfect your chariots, perfect your weapons. O Thought-powers, sons of the many-hued Mother, so you journey to the Bliss. (3) You pour out earth and heaven as his wealth ...
... Is this the Yoga? No Asanas, no Pranayama ! Sri Aurobindo : It is not so simple as it appears. If there is sincerity in the offering then the help comes from Above. You must also have persistence. G : It might require the learning which, I am afraid, I have not got. Sri Aurobindo : Learning is not indispensable. The yoga is done by the Shakti only. You do not know it because ...
... If it were really impossible to love God unless you first experience him, how could this be ? In fact, your mind seems to be putting the cart before the horse. One seeks after God first, with persistence or with passion, one finds him afterwards, some sooner than others, but most after a long seeking. One does not find him first, then seek after him. Even a glimpse often only comes after long or... liberates from egoism and the pride of the mind and of the vital, the pride that imposes its own reasonings on the ways of the spirit and the pride that refuses or is unable to surrender, sustained persistence in the call within and reliance on the Grace above. These things come by the inner discipline which you had begun to practise some time ago but did not continue. Meditation, japa, prayer or aspiration... not impossible to follow.) June 14,1936 (Re. the poem "Ashru”) Very beautiful. Never mind the heroic way—there is not one but many ways to the Divine. The sincerity and persistence of the call is everything. June 17,1936 Passed a bad day—depressing, etc. Repelled bad suggestions. Resolved not to complain and be truly manly. Waitons. I am ...
... holding the field so long, are bound to resist. Even after the process did its work, I still feel the lower resistance. You cannot expect to get rid of it in a single day. Persistence is needed. There is an attempt to keep a part of my human consciousness on the higher plane, so that at least half of myself stays exclusively in the Mother's Consciousness and so ...
... main thing. An inexhaustible original fecundity is a thing you have to wait for—when you are more spiritually experienced and mature. 7 September 1938 Page 591 Dissatisfaction and Persistence If one could express the Divine through poetry, it would have some value. Otherwise why should one bother? There is a general tendency in the vital to get dissatisfied with everything. It ...
... substratum could not be, what observation showed it to be, subject, namely, to fixed laws & evidently invariable in its sum and substance. On the other hand Purushas were testified to by the eternal persistence of the sense of individuality and identity whether during life or after death 3 and by the necessity of a perceiving cause for the activity of Prakriti; they were the receptive and contemplative ...
... hint of "forms that divinise the sight" and "music that can immortalise the mind" (as Savitri somewhere puts it). Your mention of the Mahabharata prompts me to compliment you on your power of persistence and endurance face to face with the whole text of it translated by some totally unpoetic American. Even otherwise the total Mahabharata is not what its traditional author Vyasa actually composed ...
... time it will be better. So, in conclusion, we shall say that in order to know things as they are you must first unite with your soul and to unite with your soul you must want it with persistence and perseverance. Only the degree of concentration on the goal can shorten the way. But now her spirit's flame of conscient force Retiring from a sweetness without fruit ...
... national energy it has created has been gigantic and puissant; wherever the religious movement has been narrow or incomplete; the national movement has been broken, imperfect or temporary. The persistence of this phenomenon is proof that it is ingrained in the temperament of the race. If you try other and foreign methods we shall either gain our end with tedious slowness, painfully and imperfectly ...
... religion and philosophy have had to sanction it.... This idea too is crumbling into the dust, though its remnants still cling to life by many strong tentacles of old legislation, continued instinct, persistence of traditional ideas; the fiat has gone out against it in the claim of woman to be regarded, she too, as a free individual being. 68 November, 1918 We are sometimes asked what on earth ...
... pupil. Every child has an inner desire to learn and to grow, but the most important characteristic of the good pupil is his zeal or enthusiasm. This zeal is what determines the persistence of his effort, and such persistence is indispensable to achieve higher and higher levels of excellence. A good pupil is a seeker of knowledge and, motivated by curiosity and a growing sense of wonder, seeks knowledge... its own words, "There is today, as never before, an upsurge in favour of national integration and adherence of certain national values and concerns." "If implemented with sensitivity, vigour and persistence, the proposals contained in the Programme of Action... will enable the educational system to move towards the democratic and socialist ideals enshrined in the Constitution." The fundamental ...
... Full of affection for us all. She sang till the end. Page 63 place the one true movement, the call for the consciousness and the presence of the Divine. It may be that behind this persistence of the lower vital demand for satisfaction there was something not quite clear —in the obscurer part of the physical mind—in your mental attitude towards the Yoga. You seem to regard this demand ...
... potentialities in me to lead this path? This is not the question, the question is whether you have the necessary aspiration, determination and perseverence and whether you can by the intensity and persistence of your aspiration make all the parts of your being answer to the call and become one in the consecration. 2) How should I continue my practice (sadhana) after returning home? Quiet yourself ...
... Why should now a recrudescence of certain movements which you yourself say was slight or the sense of the difficulty of overcoming egoism (which everybody feels and not only yourself) lead to such persistence in despair and a turning away from help and light? “I hope you will gather yourself together, make an effort and get out of this groove quickly into the joy and love of the Divine which you had ...
... existence or contact r झ the same with a greater lightness r ट hardness, force, crudity—rajasic r ठ the same with a greater impetuosity—d[itt]o r द dulness, persistence, obstinacy—rajaso-tamasic r ढ obstinacy, tenacity s त touch, impact,—lighter than c s&r थ the same with greater force s&r द hard forcible impact or action ...
... consciousness, little by little, little by little. I did this day after day, doing the exercise regularly at a set hour." She created for herself an exact image of the studio, and practised. Her persistence paid off. "After some time, I sensed physically, distinctly, that my vision was moving: I followed it and saw things going on downstairs of which I knew absolutely nothing. Later I would verify; ...
... ignorance come up from the lower levels of the physical being. This is a work of great patience. The physico-vital and the physical being do not accept the higher Law and persist. They justify their persistence and their play by intellectual and other justifications and thus try to deceive the sadhaka under various guises. "Generally, the vital being is very impatient and wants to get things done quickly ...
... Krsna accordingly. The Joyful Response of the Wives of the Brāhmanas (13-23) 13. Śrī Krsna, the Lord of the universe, laughed at this, and in order to demonstrate the worldly wisdom of persistence even when their prayer had been turned down once, said to them: 14. "Go and inform the wives of those Brāhmanas that I and my brother have arrived near their place. They have got great love for me ...
... so they draw the consciousness towards that. 10 December 1934 O Mother, my sweet Mother, when shall I become one with You, when shall I live in You and for You? You must will with persistence, but not get impatient. Through calm determination you will achieve it more quickly. By getting restless, one wastes more time than one saves. 13 December 1934 Mother, is it good to go ...
... Church has always taken them as inalienable components of its creed. Not before our own time have Catholic theologians felt scruples about virginitas in partu and virginitas post partum. The very persistence of the description "Virgin Birth" would seem to assume the in-partu doctrine of the unbroken hymen, though in general discussion we do not realise it. In your postscript you clarify - in... something "on which we can agree". Yours very sincerely, K. D. SETHNA Page 207 March 13th 1984 Dear Mr. Sethna, Thank you for your letter. I admire your persistence in pursuing this subject. Yet I am surprised that you attach so much importance to this kind of critical analysis. I can see that it has its importance and should not be neglected, but it can lead ...
... reconciles itself to the prospect the better for it and for all the other personalities in you. Your alleged or inferred unfitness is a delusion, an imagination of this vital part; it doesn't exist. If persistence of difficulties is a proof of unfitness, then there is nobody in this Ashram who is fit for the Yoga. We would all have to pack to the ordinary world or en route for the Himalayas. You describe ...
... disagreeable e.g. in the absence of a smile and my very disagreeable intention behind the refusal to smile. It is the old recurrent vital suggestion and fixed movement which used to happen with so much persistence and which by a psychic step forward you had got rid of. To allow it to return would be to go back from the psychic road to the old troubled vital movement. You should not revert to that on any ground ...
... the two passages that, while the Church is gravely wanting in the Teilhardian religion, this religion is its own true unsuspected and concealed message which will come through (owing to Teilhard's persistence). But surely, whether he is right or 1.Lettres Intimes..., p. 463: "...ce re sont pas seulement des apotres d'un nouveau type qu'il nous faut: mais bien (a 1'usage de ces apotres) un Evangile ...
... shadow of foundation whatever and which you yet persist in indulging each time you get out of wits—spiritually. What I want of you besides aspiring for faith? Well, just a little thoroughness and persistence in the method! Don't aspire for two days and then sulk into the dumps, evolving a gospel of earthquake and Schopenhauer plus the jackal and all the rest of it. Give the Divine a full sporting chance ...
... to the rumour, but we presume that at least a proposal has been made. If we are not mistaken, this will make the third time that the deportation of the Nationalist leader has been proposed by the persistence of the police. The third is supposed to be lucky, and let us hope it will be the last. The Government ought to make up its mind one way or the other, and the country should know whether they will ...
... another, first on one detail, then spreading out and becoming generalized. 63.36 It is this mind of the cells that seizes upon a mantra and eventually repeats it automatically, and with what persistence! I heard the cells repeat my mantra! It was like a choir in which each cell was repeating automatically. As if there were lots of little voices, innumerable little voices repeating and repeating ...
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